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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Opportunity Attacks Infernal war machines provoke opportunity attacks as normal. When an infernal war machine provokes an opportunity attack, the attacker can target the vehicle or any creature riding on or inside it that doesn’t have total cover and is within reach.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
few ox skulls cover the stable floor. Other than riding harnesses for the wyverns, there is no treasure here. WYVERN RIDING AND CASTLE CATCHING
The wyverns in the stable (area 3) are trained to
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Developments The characters can try to equip the wyverns with harnesses and ride them as aerial mounts; see the “Wyvern Riding and Castle Catching” sidebar for details. If they steal one or both wyverns from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
few ox skulls cover the stable floor. Other than riding harnesses for the wyverns, there is no treasure here. Wyvern Riding and Castle Catching
The wyverns in the stable (area 3) are trained to carry
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Developments The characters can try to equip the wyverns with harnesses and ride them as aerial mounts; see the “Wyvern Riding and Castle Catching” sidebar for details. If they steal one or both wyverns from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
horses behind after a rock punched through the stable house roof. Fortunately, none of the horses were harmed. 7a. Barn The barn has a dirt floor. Five draft horses and five riding horses are confined
in the barn, Derp takes cover behind a haystack and shoots arrows at enemies below, drawing his scimitar only when forced into melee combat. Treasure. Derp carries a coin pouch that holds 1 cp and a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
location are five creatures riding disks of crackling green energy. Each creature is a lanky humanoid covered in fur, with the head of a hyena. They cackle maniacally, nock arrows, and take aim at you with
frustrated and close to melee range if the characters take advantage of cover and the gnolls’ ranged attacks prove ineffective. Once three gnolls are disposed of, the remainder flee on their disks or on foot.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
ones, and one traveler’s quickness is matched by another traveler’s endurance. A character bestride a phantom steed, soaring through the air on a carpet of flying, or riding a sailboat or a steam
character can also cover 20, 30, or 40 miles in an hour. The spell lasts for 8 hours, allowing the character to travel 160, 240, or 320 miles in a day. Similarly, a phantom steed spell creates a magical
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
whole elephants, whales, or wagons in their talons. They then carry their prey back to their remote nests, journeys that can take days and cover hundreds of miles. Rocs nest amid remote heights. Their
... 1 The burial litter of a lost hero. 2 A caravan wagon full of trade goods. 3 A live elephant. 4 1d4 eggs larger than adult humans. 5 Someone marooned in the nest. 6 A statue of a knight riding a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
encounter 11–14 Drow patrol A 15–17 Drow patrol B 18–19 Drow patrol C 20 Drow patrol D Drow Patrol A The standard patrol consists of two drow scouts mounted on giant riding lizards (use the statistics at
thorough search and a successful DC 20 Wisdom (Perception) check. Arrow slits on each floor allow the drow to cast spells and make ranged attacks in every direction while enjoying three-quarters cover
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
cover against anyone attacking from the other side. They draw shortswords if the characters close for melee. If three of the bounty hunters fall, the survivors quickly retreat to their nearby riding
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Larch. On a barren hilltop a few miles from Red Larch, you find four freshly dug shallow graves. The earth scraped out for the holes is piled nearby, although hastily gathered stones cover the graves
asked, Larmon identifies the tower in the distance as Feathergale Spire. All he knows about the place is that “knights out of Waterdeep come up here sometimes, riding on flying monsters.” He adds, “They keep to themselves.”
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
check fails by 5 or more, the Devil’s Ride and all creatures riding it immediately fall prone as the bike wipes out and comes to a dead stop.
Action Stations
Helm (Requires 1 Crew and Grants Half
Cover). Drive and steer the Devil’s Ride.
Reactions
Juke. If the Devil’s Ride is able to move, the driver can use its reaction to grant the Devil’s Ride advantage on a Dexterity saving throw.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
(areas X11 and X23), the areas beneath them, or anywhere behind or directly above the statue. The eyeholes grant the arcanaloth three-quarters cover against attacks that originate outside the head. Neferon
of useful items with the following eight patches remaining: Bag of 100 gp Iron door Wooden ladder Riding horse Pit Rowboat Spell scroll (moonbeam) Mastiffs See the robe’s description in the Dungeon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
the drow dispatch a well-armed defense force to destroy the surface dwellers. Racing ahead of this drow force is a high elf from Silverymoon named Khalessa Draga. A deep cover agent of the Lords
drow, and she wears a piwafwi (see appendix B). Khalessa urges the characters to turn back. If they don’t, she fears that the drow force will overwhelm them. Having blown her cover to warn the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
adventure, the characters are asked to report to Marshal Vendri. She plans to have her troops take to the field, providing cover for the characters to reach the dragonnels. Consult the “Warriors of
” section, each dragonnel a character is riding has advantage on the first attack roll or ability check it makes. Characters gain no benefit for a loss.
At the end of the scenario, skip the “Over Enemy
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Setessa’s Surroundings Beyond the city’s encircling trees, the territory of Setessa extends to cover about a third of the Nessian Wood and a wide swath of the open chaparral. In contrast to Meletis
Setessan society. Experts train the renowned falcons of Setessa here, along with horses for riding and for combat. More unusual animals are found here as well: trainers work with pegasi, wolves, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
third day of your journey, you spot nine very thin and lightly armored humans riding giant vultures. They land atop the cloud, whereupon the humans dismount. All the riders wear steel helms that cover
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
during the chase requires the creature to succeed on a DC 10 Constitution check at the end of its turn or gain 1 level of exhaustion. Unless it can move in some other manner, like riding a carpet of
rules for cover, terrain, and so on to the attacks and spells. Chase participants can’t normally make opportunity attacks against each other, since they are all assumed to be moving in the same direction
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
-riding lessons and then use the griffons to fly to Svardborg. When the characters are ready to leave, Dasharra leads the way on Screecher, her personal griffon mount. Dasharra’s griffons fly at a speed
tailwind, the return trip is shorter, with the griffons able to cover roughly 80 miles a day. Dasharra expects characters to provide their own cold weather survival gear, supplies, and rations. When the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
. Four goblins dressed in cold weather clothing stand guard atop each tower. The rampart battlements grant them half cover against attacks from outside the fort. They are supposed to be looking outward
. The goblin riding the worg is Snubsuk, the courtyard warden. His job is to lock and unlock the main gate at area K2. The worg charges toward intruders, causing Snubsuk to tumble off the worg’s back and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
dragonnels with people riding them, and he’s fascinated. He’s happy to point the characters toward many landmarks in the Northern Wastes (see “Heart’s Hollow Quests” for suggestions). Clystran scavenges for
characters can ignore difficult terrain during travel, allowing them to cover double the distance listed on the Northern Wastes Land Travel table earlier in this chapter. While with the characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
supply of colored inks. It’s a Rental At rank 1, at the start of any mission, you can requisition a second-hand draft horse and cart (barely functional), riding horses and ponies (typically well aged
the mud. And the wolves.
8 You suffer from the nagging feeling of never knowing why you’ve come into a room, and you need the professional flourish that lets you cover for that.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
giants chasing silver dragons while riding rocs and golden sky-chariots drawn by griffons. Marble bleachers hug the walls near the entrance, across from which stands an ornate alabaster throne inlaid
to stay hidden. Three ballistae face arrow slits in the outer wall, and two iron grates cover 10-foot-square holes in the floor. The grates are held in place with stone and cement. A Small character
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
find a +1 longsword, a mithral breastplate, and a Kagonesti forest shroud (see appendix A). R4: Hall of Steeds Mosaics of knights riding armored stallions cover the walls of this room and are limned
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
various ethnicities) mounted on riding horses are watching the Surbrin Trail. They intercept characters walking or riding north toward Nesmé, threatening to kill them unless they turn back immediately. If
). The Zhents’ riding horses are tethered to some ruins across town. The fire giant, Gundahella, and her retinue of twenty hobgoblins approach from the north and enter the meeting area through a gash
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
wall has no parapets and provides no cover to those atop it. A pile of gardening tools lies at the base of the east stairs, next to wooden buckets used to carry water from the cistern in area 3 to the
them discovers a handwritten poem scrawled into the open cover of a book. The fragment was composed by Oloran, the chaplain of the garrison, the morning after Tammeraut sank. It was intended as a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
. Only seven are stabled there now (two riding horses and five unarmored warhorses). The stable master is Thaeven the Bald (N male Tethyrian human commoner with Animal Handling +4). He takes excellent
. For every severed ghoul head the characters bring her, she’ll pay them 20 gp. (She has enough money to cover the reward for up to eleven severed ghoul heads.)
Shilku Reconnaissance. Portyr asks the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
-black riding horse, named Maladar. A sliding wooden door bars access to the street and has a padlock on the outside that holds it shut. Picking the lock requires a successful DC 20 Dexterity check using
Gralhund and trade him for the Stone of Golorr. If he is accosted before reaching Lord Gralhund, Urstul tries to flee the villa and uses any other surviving Zhents to cover his escape. He knows the same
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
hearing what the “small folk” have to say. Watching the visitors are two storm giants wearing helms. If Mirran and Nym are attacked, these royal guards rush to the princesses’ defense and cover their
, Hellenhild, and Braxow wait to attack them (see “Dealing with the Giant Lords”). The storm giant guards cover Mirran’s escape to area 15. Mirran and Nym do everything possible to avoid getting
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
bandits joyride on riding horses stolen from a corral
4 2d4 Flaming Fist guards, off-duty or headed elsewhere, ignore obvious crimes
5 1d4 patriars (human nobles) and 2d8 guards
6 1d4
engineered the death of the slaughterhouse’s former owner so that he could take over, figuring that constant blood, offal, and animal screams would provide a suitable cover for the cult’s murderous
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
Whitkeep Hostel throw tomatoes at passersby who flaunt their wealth 3 1d4 bandits joyride on riding horses stolen from a corral 4 2d4 Flaming Fist guards, off-duty or headed elsewhere, ignore obvious
would provide a suitable cover for the cult’s murderous activities. Since then, he’s been slowly laying off existing workers and replacing them with cultists loyal to the group’s mission. Assisting him
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
banking business, one for public appearances, and one for private use. They also own six horses: four draft horses to pull carriages and two riding horses. The horses are kept in stalls that are cleaned
grimoire with a red leather cover sits on a desk carved from dark oak. A ladder leads up to a trapdoor in the ceiling. Bookshelves. The books on the shelves include works of fiction and nonfiction
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
cover the construction costs. To earn this reward, the characters must go to Ironslag and return to Felbarr with proof that the fire giants are no longer a threat. (Duke Zalto’s head or the word of
, Nelkin offers them the following benefits: Free room and board at the River Shining Tavern and Inn, paid for by the Zhentarim One free riding horse or pony for each party member, with stable fees in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
only under the cover of night. Stone Stand (see map 3.12) is situated upon a lonely hill north of the High Forest. Atop this hill, the Blue Bears built a mound upon which they planted a branch of the
ranchers named Albie Grizlow and Leshonna Daar (CE male and female Tethyrian human commoners) mounted on riding horses intercept the characters as they approach within five miles of Uluvin. The teenagers