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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Intro to Stormwreck Isle
protect them. Recently, your resolve has been shaken by corruption in the city guard and ruling aristocrats. Personal Goal: Rejuvenating Pilgrimage. Seeking to reinvigorate your resolve, you learned of a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
, consideration, and attempts to engage in actions that don’t involve combat. The lizardfolk’s greatest fear is the sahuagin, and the sooner the characters realize this fact, the better. The lizardfolk population
corridors of their lair routinely. Unless the characters are extremely stealthy and careful, they are bound to encounter a patrol at some point. A guard patrol consists of two lizardfolk, one of which
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Underworld Crossing The Tartyx River is dotted with ruined temples of Athreos on either side of its banks that serve as crossing points between the mortal world and the Underworld. Souls of the dead
to keep the living out of the realm of the dead and the dead from returning to the land of the living. Underworld Crossing Adventures Adventures in Underworld crossings usually involve the characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
Moving on the Train To reach the Stranger, the characters must make their way from the Caboose (area E1) to the Jail Car (area E8). Crossing between Cars Creatures can safely move from one car to
and deposit them into an empty cell in the Jail Car (area E8). Guard Patrols Hostile modrons patrol the rooftops of the cars, attacking anyone they see who isn’t supposed to be there. Whenever one or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
spectators can’t decide which of them should guard the meteorite, and they are anxious for someone to help resolve their dispute. The gazers were drawn to the cavern by the spectators’ argument but lack the
much deeper in the mountain and doesn’t appear in this adventure. It doesn’t take the beholderkin long to realize that intruders have arrived. After a brief telepathic conference, the spectators use
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
vault, and if the characters do something particularly loud, a guard might investigate at your discretion. Exterior Security Characters who learned the guard rotation in the “Preparation” section know two
guards are posted on the balcony and one guard patrols around the outside of the building at ground level. A character can avoid the notice of the exterior guards with a successful DC 12 Dexterity
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
Calishite inhabitants fiercely guard their home from the Guild and the rest of Baldur’s Gate. Little Calimshan is further detailed in "Little Calimshan". Norchapel. The quietest of the Outer City
folk and price out the resident radicals, if not for its odoriferous tanneries. Wyrm’s Crossing. This massive bridge crosses the Chionthar River. Shops and homes gird the bridge’s edges. See "Wyrm’s Crossing" for more information.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Once you’re done describing the situation, ask the players what their characters want to do. Note what the players say, and identify how to resolve their actions. Ask them for more information if you
bookshelf. Outside combat, the characters don’t need to take turns, but you need to give each player a chance to tell you what their character is doing so you can decide how to resolve everyone’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
situation, ask the players what their characters want to do. Note what the players say, and identify how to resolve their actions. Ask them for more information if you need it. Sometimes the players
characters don’t need to take turns, but you need to give each player a chance to tell you what their character is doing so you can decide how to resolve everyone’s actions. In combat, everyone takes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Calishite inhabitants fiercely guard their home from the Guild and the rest of Baldur’s Gate. Little Calimshan is further detailed in "Little Calimshan". Norchapel. The quietest of the Outer City
and price out the resident radicals, if not for its odoriferous tanneries. Wyrm’s Crossing. This massive bridge crosses the Chionthar River. Shops and homes gird the bridge’s edges. See "Wyrm’s Crossing" for more information.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
realize the truth—whatever it may be—in their own time. When asked directly if the young lovers are Caerwyn and Porphura reborn, the Gardener is slyly evasive with a twinkle in their eye. After
, depositing the characters unceremoniously outside the Cave of Echoes. The fey crossing to the Eternal Garden never functions for them again. Should the characters return to the garden by other means, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Moral Quandaries If you want to give the characters a crisis that no amount of spellcasting or swordplay can resolve, add a moral quandary to the adventure. A moral quandary is a problem of
essential mission. Honor Quandary. A character is forced to choose between victory and a personal oath or code of honor. A paladin who has sworn an oath of virtue might realize that the clearest path to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Final Conflict Depending on the characters’ alliances, they might guard the platform or try to free Afsoun. Whether the characters are standing guard, attempting to free Afsoun, or scheming otherwise
, soon after they’re in position or their plan is in motion, they realize they’re no longer alone. Read or paraphrase the following text: Twilight covers the land as the moon fills the sky. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
LaVerne and Charmayne Daymore, and a guard captain named Naevys Tharesso. Jhaeros’s rule was compassionate, just, and kind. Over the last year, however, Naevys watched with growing concern as Jhaeros
anyone born in Ghalasine from entering or leaving the city. As she came to realize the people of Ghalasine didn’t love her as they did the king, Charmayne became filled with rage. She used magic to tear
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
, and immunity to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from nonmagical weapons that aren’t made of adamantine. Destroying the arch all but dooms the project, since Zox lacks the resolve to start
. Kurlog will accept reasonable aid to complete this mission. In particular, he could use help taking down the arbalests that guard the Simulacrux. 2c. Detritus Wreckage. This section of cavern is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
The Dispute By the time the characters reach Ialos, they should have met the pilgrims and the Cyran veterans. Both sides might ask the characters to intervene and resolve their dispute. Here is a
discussion, Mercy also offers the characters the Ring of Feather Falling in the storeroom. Kalyth doesn’t realize that the pilgrims’ have valuable art objects or a magic ring. If told about these treasures
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
, the city can count on the other members of the Lords’ Alliance to come to its defense. This arrangement infuriates Amn, which is not prepared to test the alliance’s resolve. To the east, the nations of
found in the whisper-markets of Baldur’s Gate, then Candlekeep becomes a logical next stop. Adventurers are sometimes hired to guard a desperate traveler on the road south, or to guard the outrageously
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
, the city can count on the other members of the Lords’ Alliance to come to its defense. This arrangement infuriates Amn, which is not prepared to test the alliance’s resolve. To the east, the nations of
found in the whisper-markets of Baldur’s Gate, then Candlekeep becomes a logical next stop. Adventurers are sometimes hired to guard a desperate traveler on the road south, or to guard the outrageously
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
’ initiative count, they move toward the characters. If they get close enough, they make melee attacks. The zombies’ stat block contains the information you need to resolve these attacks. If all the
the cleric’s sacred flame cantrip), you might describe the creature howling in agony. This can help the players realize that radiant damage is a way to get around Undead Fortitude. If the players ask
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Intro to Stormwreck Isle
count, they move toward the characters. If they get close enough, they make melee attacks. The zombies’ stat block contains the information you need to resolve these attacks. On each character’s
players realize that radiant damage is a way to get around Undead Fortitude. If the players ask whether their characters know anything about fighting zombies, have them make DC 10 Intelligence checks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
food. Building traps deters intruders. Training guard animals helps protect the lair. Mining provides gems and ore for bribing enemies to leave them alone. Carving tunnels and rooms creates spaces for
thing to do, but they are smart enough to realize that the strategic death of an individual can buy valuable time for the rest of the tribe, and each individual reluctantly accepts this need for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
mystery and beauty on the Material Plane that have a near-perfect mirror in the Feywild, creating a portal where the two planes touch. A traveler passes through a fey crossing by entering a clearing, wading
and gone the next. Like other portals between planes, most fey crossings open infrequently. A crossing might open only during a full moon, on the dawn of a particular day, or for someone carrying a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
. A ferry crossing allows traffic from Greyhawk and regions to the south to cross the Selintan River at its first major bend. The lord mayor of Greyhawk built Ford Keep here to protect the crossing
chapter 3) encompasses most of the ruin, and monsters guard whatever secrets the ancient castle and its dungeons might hold. Two Ford. The small village of Two Ford relies on river trade to supply its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
roads are flanked by paved sidewalks that give pedestrians plenty of space, and most of the widest roads have raised dividers that allow an individual crossing a street a safe space to step out of the
, roughly a dozen feet above ground. The name of the road you travel on will be on the wall nearest, while the name of the crossing road will be around the corner. Simply ingenious! Landmarks Proud
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
leaves twelve guards behind. One travels with each wagon, acting as a guard and assistant to the teamster. The other nine are cloaked as private travelers in two distinct groups, seeking company and
monsters from miles around. Crossing this territory takes several days, during which everyone will be edgy and on watch.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
leaves twelve guards behind. One travels with each wagon, acting as a guard and assistant to the teamster. The other nine are cloaked as private travelers in two distinct groups, seeking company and
monsters from miles around. Crossing this territory takes several days, during which everyone will be edgy and on watch.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Nessian Wood from the east. Ancient Setessans carved an impenetrable fortress into the mountains to guard the pass. Bassara patrols from Setessa still check in on the fortress regularly, and they occupy
, grim Returned, or worse. Hunter’s Crossing. Setessa once extended its claim over more of the Nessian Wood, establishing military outposts like those of Akros. At the western end of the forest, along
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Kaius II was newly seated on the steel throne and lacked the resolve to bring the dwarf lords to heel. Now we see the harvest we have sown, and it is horrifying. Without the firm hand of Karrnath to
, and it seemed to pulse with its own heartbeat. A guard present at the event said that Soldorak’s axe moaned when the blade came close to him, as if the weapon hungered for human blood.
This is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Worshiping Kruphix Many pray to Kruphix when they need to find something lost, but few dedicate themselves to his worship. Cults devoted to Kruphix fiercely guard their secrets, and their initiates
crossing the horizon. Then the blindfolds are removed as the faithful intone a paean to Kruphix. The hope is that Kruphix will choose to reveal himself at the climax of the ritual, whether by the appearance
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Boareskyr Bridge Boareskyr Bridge stands on the Trade Way and is the only consistently safe crossing over the Winding Water for more than a hundred miles in either direction. This alone makes it
camp at Fort Tamal never seemed to need such a robust guard before. Even the relative nearness of Najara seems to provide little reason for so many of Elturgard’s mightiest defenders to be squandered
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
some unresolved task from its life. It might seek to avenge its own death, fulfill an oath, or relay a message to a loved one. A ghost might not realize that it has died and continue the everyday
is to resolve its unfinished business. A ghost can be destroyed more easily by invoking a weakness tied to its former life. The ghost of a person tortured to death might be killed again by the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
realize what the party is up to, they immediately suspect the characters are out to make them look bad. In that case, they become surly and tight-lipped. All the militia guards have been assured by
trying to stir up dissent. Constable Jute Constable Jute (LG female human guard) is a rarity in the militia — an honorable and honest public servant. She is noticeably nervous and reticent when first asked
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
a champion to those who are overlooked by the institutions that exist to protect them. Recently, your resolve has been shaken by corruption in the city guard and ruling aristocrats. Personal Goal
: Rejuvenating Pilgrimage. Seeking to reinvigorate your resolve, you learned of a remote cloister, Dragon’s Rest, on a tiny island. The cloister holds a temple to the dragon god Bahamut. You feel drawn to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
, Qunbraxel studies the obelisk fragment to determine how to best help the mind flayer fanatics. G24: Guard Room Lily Abdullina Qunbraxel, leader of the grimlocks in Gibbet Crossing, sits on a throne The east
Gibbet Crossing Locations The following locations are keyed to map 6.5. Mike Schley Map 6.5: Gibbet Crossing View Player Version G1: Surface Entrance A few lumps of old slag and tumbled stone are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
behavior is interfering with everyone else’s enjoyment, everyone has a stake in helping to resolve the issue. Setting Expectations Before you assemble a group around a game table, pitch the
gesture (such as crossing the arms in an X or raising a palm in a “stop” gesture), a code word or phrase, touching or lifting a designated object, or anything else your group agrees on. Players should