containing race guarding to have rotation

Athlete

Backgrounds Mythic Odysseys of Theros

: Vehicles (land) Languages: One of your choice Equipment: A bronze discus or leather ball, a lucky charm or past trophy, a set of traveler’s clothes, and a pouch containing 10 gp Favored Event

excel. Favored Event d8 Favored Event 1 Marathon 2 Long-distance running 3 Wrestling 4 Boxing 5 Chariot or horse race 6 Pankration (mixed

Arasta

Monsters Mythic Odysseys of Theros

touching her webs. Each creature restrained by a web or Arasta’s Web of Hair must make a DC 21 Intelligence saving throw. On a failed save, Arasta gains knowledge of a creature’s name, race

The region containing Arasta’s lair is warped by her presence, which creates one or more of the following effects: Spiders and insects within 1 mile of Arasta’s lair serve as her eyes

Archaeologist

Backgrounds Tomb of Annihilation

: A wooden case containing a map to a ruin or dungeon, a bullseye lantern, a miner’s pick, a set of traveler’s clothes, a shovel, a two-person tent, a trinket recovered from a dig site

, and a pouch containing 25 gp Dust Digger Prior to becoming an adventurer, you spent most of your young life crawling around in the dust, pilfering relics of questionable value from crypts

Far Traveler

Backgrounds Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide

piece of jewelry worth 10 gp in the style of your homeland’s craftsmanship, and a pouch containing 5 gp Why Are You Here? A far traveler might have set out on a journey for one of a

subterranean cities or settlements, you are probably a member of the race that occupies the place—but you might also have grown up there after being captured and brought below when you were a child

Anthropologist

Backgrounds Tomb of Annihilation

: Two of your choiceEquipment: A leather-bound diary, a bottle of ink, an ink pen, a set of traveler’s clothes, one trinket of special significance, and a pouch containing 10 gp

and the ways of their people, who eventually treated you as one of their own. One culture had more of an influence on you than any other, shaping your beliefs and customs. Choose a race whose culture

Human Legacy

Species Basic Rules (2014)

single elf or dwarf might take on the responsibility of guarding a special location or a powerful secret, humans found sacred orders and institutions for such purposes. While dwarf clans and halfling

seek adventure are the most daring and ambitious members of a daring and ambitious race. They seek to earn glory in the eyes of their fellows by amassing power, wealth, and fame. More than other people

Couatls

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

Couatls Couatls are a celestial race born from Siberys at the dawn of time. Along with the dragons, they battled the fiendish overlords of Khorvaire and Sarlona. Ultimately, the couatls sacrificed

on Eberron are devoted servants of the light. They are most often found guarding the prison of the ancient fiendish overlords, and individuals sometimes act directly to aid adventurers who fight the forces of darkness.

Ghaash'kala Characters

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

Ghaash’kala Characters The Ghaash’kala are primarily orcs, but their numbers include a few half-orcs and members of other races. They devote their lives to guarding the Labyrinth and containing the

Adventure Background

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries

ancient nation of Anauria with guarding the priceless scroll. The sapphires allowed both Hamukai and the golem (whether together or separate) to unlock a magically sealed vault that held the Nether

, but she blasted the golem with eldritch magic that damaged its memory and hurled it to a far corner of Faerûn. Thinking his golem destroyed, Hamukai put a shield around the vault containing the scroll

X5a. God of Secrets

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd

. “Heinrich” feigns confusion. If the characters ask him why he attacked, he claims that he was guarding the temple. If the arcanaloth loses more than half of its hit points, it teleports to the temple

arcanaloth carries a spellbook containing the wizard spells it has prepared (see its stat block in the Monster Manual). It wears small gold spectacles with pink crystal lenses (worth 250 gp) and a robe

Darklake Creature Encounters

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

fungi (see “Fungi of the Underdark” in chapter 2) 20 A locked iron chest containing 3d6 × 100 gp and a random magic item (roll once on Magic Item Table B in chapter 7 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide

Keelboat Cargo d20 Cargo 1–15 None 16–17 1d4 nets; each net has a 50 percent chance of containing 3d6 dead, edible quippers 18–19 1d4 nets; each net has a 50 percent chance of containing 1d4 living

Vault Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault

that unlocks this door. T3: Gem Room This room contains open crates of gems sorted by color and type. Most are neatly faceted, though a few remain uncut. Guards. This room is part of the guard rotation

hold rolled-up sheets of parchment. Guards. This room is part of the guard rotation. Roll to determine if a guard is present (as described in “Interior Security”). Shelves of Potions. The four

L12. Textile Mill

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

L12. Textile Mill Two 3-foot-tall tin soldiers patrol the balcony outside this room, guarding against outside intruders. Each one is a Small suit of animated armor with 27 (6d6 + 6) hit points. Both

’ mintage is unfamiliar to the characters) A small, leather-bound book containing delicate sketches and watercolor paintings of pixies, sprites, and other Fey (50 gp)

Orc Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

warriors are commanded to scour the surrounding landscape for any opportunity to spill blood and bring glory to their gods. Often, bands of warriors work on a rotation, with one group heading out on a

react to them. As a race, orcs have no noteworthy universal social traits, but some commonality does exist in the crude written communication that all orcs employ and in the way that they use

14. Sepulchers

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

11, rested here while he meditated.) The southern sarcophagus contains the bones and tattered robe of a long-dead mind flayer. 14b. Northern Crypt The door to this room is identical to the one guarding

area 14a, except for a triangular hole at the bottom. Behind the door is a dusty, 10-foot-high crypt containing the following features: Skeletons and Sarcophagi. Twelve dwarf skeletons mill aimlessly

Chamber Purpose

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

important treasures, accessible only by locked or secret door (75 percent chance of being trapped) 12–14 Room containing a puzzle that must be solved to bypass a trap or monster 15–19 Trap designed to

summoning creatures used to investigate or defend the portal 40–41 Crypt where the remains of those that died guarding the portal are kept 42–47 Dining room 48–50 Divination room used to investigate

Kyorbblivvin

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

this section). In addition to the eggs, characters find a 1d4 − 1 man-shaped cocoons containing the exsanguinated corpses of escaped slaves (of any race). Gricks Drow nobles unleash these creatures in

Other Groups

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

the Shadowlands (detailed in “Other Domains of Dread”) in search of evil to vanquish. Bold and proud, many members of the Circle inadvertently race toward dramatic tragedies. The more successful

calamities by containing them within hidden, heavily warded, vault-like monasteries. Over generations, these sites have become repositories of incredible secrets and great evil that members of the order

Random Encounters

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse

discovers a homestead. Roll a d6 to determine the race of the people there: 1–3, Tethyrian human; 4, Illuskan human; 5–6, halfling. A homestead consists of 1d6 adult commoners and 1d6 − 1 noncombatant

bandit captain). Shepherds. A group of shepherds watch over herd animals. Roll a d6 to determine the shepherds’ race: 1–4, human; 5–6, halfling. The group consists of 1d4 commoners and 1d2 leaders

2. Feasting Hall

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder

six goblins guarding the room. If the characters get this far without raising the alarm and present themselves to Guh, she initially doesn’t know what to make of them. Are they servants sent by one of

small wooden chest containing a disguise kit (worth 25 gp); a wooden coffer containing six vials of holy water (worth 25 gp each); a life-size wooden statue of a grinning halfling smoking a golden

5. Duergar Enclave

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

illuminated by six nightlight mushrooms (see “Fungi of the Underdark” in chapter 2). A tunnel in the south wall leads to a set of double stone doors. Guarding the fungi grove are four invisible

warehouse are unlocked and open to reveal a 40-foot-high, rough-hewn chamber containing thirty duergar merchants and twelve male steeders (see appendix C) used as pack animals. These duergar aren’t

Automata

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands

Cycle, the time it takes for the largest gear in Mechanus to complete a single rotation. However, on at least one occasion, the march came early, and legions of modrons wreaked widespread havoc as

they trampled across the planes and their unsuspecting residents. Regional Effects The region containing Automata’s planar gate is influenced by the magic of Mechanus, creating one or more of the

Tomb Inhabitants

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation

: a beholder guarding a treasure vault (area 44) and an aboleth lurking in an underground lake (area 65). These creatures can’t use lair actions within the tomb, and the regional effects of each

enter an area containing a skeleton key, it might be standing in the middle of the room, standing in a corner, walking across the ceiling, or clinging to a wall. A skeleton key’s primary goal is to avoid

Where Do Monsters Dwell?

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)

following: A mind flayer prison or asylum, filled with mindless thralls and tormented captives A lost dwarven necropolis containing row after row of dusty tombs waiting to be plundered A fortified outpost

bristling with armaments, guarding the way to a magnificent drow city A subterranean rift filled with giant fungi and ruled by a megalomaniacal beholder or fomorian king A chain of rocky islands on a

The Dark Dominion

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

have transformed into spore servants. They silently observe the party but don’t attack the characters unless threatened. Escaped Slaves A group of 1d4 commoners (of any race) attempts to hide from the

hidden cave containing 1d4 mind flayers 5–6 A hidden cave in which the party can rest without having to worry about random encounters 7–8 A hidden cave containing 4d8 goblins and a goblin boss, who will

N9. Vistani Camp

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd

exhausted their supply of wine and are eager to obtain more. Characters who help them with either problem earn the Vistani’s respect. Dusk Elves. The dusk elf race is all but forgotten, and the few

back from the dead. Treasure. Kasimir wears a ring of warmth and has a leather-bound spellbook containing all the spells he has prepared (see appendix D) plus the following spells: arcane lock

Orc Lairs

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

and one that is wholly or partly underground, an orc chieftain typically opts for the latter. If the surface location happens to be a ruin left behind by another race, orcs are more likely to use it

their elders by guarding the stronghold’s vulnerable spot. Off to one side of the chamber, away from where the warriors are quartered, is the fighting pit, a sunken and fenced-off area where orcs settle

Adventure Hooks

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse

that he stays near Aerisi. The character earns inspiration for reaching the air temple and again for defeating Windharrow. Dangerous Information It’s a race against time — the character overheard

, as does obtaining a flying mount. Feathergale Rebel The character has been sent to retrieve a Waterdhavian noblewoman. Savra Belabranta is currently guarding the front gate of Feathergale Spire. The

Areas of the Fire Temple

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse

containing 20 gp and a pair of polished bloodstones worth 50 gp each. Development If the characters defeat these hobgoblins and then leave this part of the dungeon, the guards are replaced by the

7), second in command of the fire cult. He is responsible for guarding the northern half of the complex. Roleplaying Bastian. Bastian is suspicious of anyone he doesn’t already know and assumes any

Walking Castle Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel

radishes—a favorite of Zaythir’s. W4: Bedrooms The following bedrooms surround the main room: W4a. This room has a single bed, a desk, and a cabinet containing loose robes. W4b. This room has two beds, a

this simple room. Ladders descend to the floor below and rise to the level above. An incubus named Arcis, who serves Thlaarsh, waits in this room, guarding the prisoner on the floor above. If he heard

Halflings

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

multiverse. One such hypothesis cites a legend that speaks of a document containing ancient elven writings — a series of essays spanning centuries. Among the many arcane and mundane topics addressed in

this tome, the elves set down thoughts regarding the power of innocence. They recounted how they had long observed the halfling race, watching as the chaos of the world swept around them and left

E6: Passenger Car

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault

the privy at one end of the train car. Characters who search the cabin find Quintus’s satchel, which contains two spare traveler’s outfits, a set of cartographer’s tools, and a map case containing

speak to the deva guarding the Jail Car and convince the angel to revive the dead aasimar. The characters are free to keep the wand of magic missiles, since Ignatius doesn’t need it to make a case

NPCs by Guild

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica

represents a typical member of the rank and file, though weaponry and armor can vary. Soldier Medium humanoid (any race), any alignment Armor Class 18 (chain mail, shield) Hit Points 16 (3d8

vedalken are lawmages. Lawmage Medium humanoid (any race), lawful neutral Armor Class 15 (breastplate) Hit Points 84 (13d8 + 26) Speed 30 ft. STR 13(+1) DEX 12(+1) CON

Guildhouse Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault

loft, supposedly guarding against horse thieves. He has nodded off but wakes if characters disturb the horses, make too much noise in the barn, or start a fire. In the event of trouble, Needly bangs a

wooden trunk at the foot of Laris’s bed contains folded clothing and personal effects. Treasure. On a nightstand, next to a set of keys to the stables, is a coin pouch containing 5 gp, 13 sp, and 25 cp

Arasta of the Endless Web

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros

creature restrained by a web or Arasta’s Web of Hair must make a DC 21 Intelligence saving throw. On a failed save, Arasta gains knowledge of a creature’s name, race, where they consider home, and what

brought them to her web. Arasta casts the giant insect spell (spiders only). It lasts until she uses this lair action again or until she dies. Regional Effects. The region containing Arasta’s lair is

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