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Human
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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
naming traditions of their ancestors.
The material culture and physical characteristics of humans can change wildly from region to region. In the Forgotten Realms, for example, the clothing, architecture
Tortle
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The Tortle Package
dozen) in a fortified compound enclosed by stone walls that are easily defensible. If no such compound exists, they build one. The parents spend the remainder of their lives guarding the compound
related to a god and choose to worship that deity. In the Forgotten Realms, tortles are especially fond of Eldath, Gond, Lathander, Savras, Selûne, and Tymora. In the Greyhawk setting, they
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Holding high a gnarled staff wreathed with holly, an elf summons the fury of the storm and calls down explosive bolts of lightning to smite the torch-carrying orcs who threaten her forest.
Crouching
; territory.
Druids are often found guarding sacred sites or watching over regions of unspoiled nature. But when a significant danger arises, threatening nature’s balance or the lands they protect
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes’ Feast: Saving the Children’s Menu
Heroes’ Feast: Saving the Children’s Menu Heroes’ Feast: Saving the Children’s Menu is a fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons adventure for four to six 10th-level characters, set in the Forgotten Realms
. This adventure is written for experienced DMs. The information presented here is for the DM’s eyes only. If you’re planning to play through the adventure with someone else as your DM, stop reading now! Irina Nordsol
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
Introduction: Beginning of the End Ranging from the planar metropolis of Sigil to the fringes of the Outlands, this Dungeons & Dragons adventure takes characters on a tour of remarkable realms, where
adventure with someone else as your DM, stop reading now. Before running this adventure, review Sigil and the Outlands, which provides overviews of this adventure’s settings. This adventure assumes
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
Master’s Guide for more information on each patch. Fortunes of Ravenloft If your card reading reveals that a treasure is here, it’s lying on the floor inside the statue’s head.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
Reading Ahead As the players familiarize themselves with the character options and adventuring gear described in the Basic Rules, take advantage of the opportunity to read ahead. “The Adventure
statistics are presented in a format called a stat block. You’ll find the stat blocks needed for this adventure in the “Creatures” section.
Tenday. In the Forgotten Realms, a week is ten days long and called a tenday. Each month consists of three tendays — thirty days total.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
heals wounds to something much more rare and impressive, such as a levitating tower or a stone golem guarding the gates of a city. Beyond the realms of civilization are caches of magic items guarded
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
necessary for trade. Given that such trade is now a rare occurrence, most of the human realms see Sundabar as jealously guarding its wealth and cravenly hiding beneath the surface, while the rest of the
, with the Silver Marches dissolving, Sundabar wasted no time withdrawing from the Lords’ Alliance as well, officially severing formal ties with the human realms of the North except for those
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
they aren’t disturbed. Mordenkainen is familiar with worlds beyond his own. For example, if the characters come from the Forgotten Realms and mention this fact to Mordenkainen, he asks them if they
know his old friend Elminster of Shadowdale. If Mordenkainen isn’t the party’s ally as foretold in Madam Eva’s card reading (see chapter 1), he declines to join them if asked. With his wits restored, he
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
dragon is able to awaken psionic potential in others, and many of the greatest psi warriors in history were the dragon’s students.
4 After centuries guarding the world against incursions from
Forgotten Realms are unclear about whether or not the ancient amethyst dragon Eldenser still lives, largely because of the behavior that earned him the epithets “the Lurker” and “the Worm Who Hides in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
secret power behind the throne in an aggressively colonizing realm, using this position to learn about neighboring realms without regard for the consequences.
3 A brass dragon is the most likely
Connections d6 Connected Creatures
1 A young brass dragon and a young blue dragon fight over territory.
2 A young brass dragon frequently visits a couatl who is charged with guarding an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Shreeve was protecting the group by guarding the door.
3 Worth Rolling with or without Proficiency. You usually have a chance of success on an ability check even if you don’t have proficiency in a
book written in Common called On the Habitations of the Divine in the Celestial and Infernal Realms.
Russell: Did you just make that up?
Jared: I’ll never tell. As you flip through the book, you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
rambling thicket of twisted roots, thorny vines, and sinuous creepers. This vegetation weaves together to form long tunnels, grand hallways, and enormous domes. Yarnspinner loves reading stories to
day, with fluttering butterflies and a riot of colorful flowers, the lands of the Summer Court mimic the trappings of courtly life in some realms of the Material Plane. The residents of this court wear
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
door can be forced open with a successful DC 20 Strength check, but doing so alerts the Ashen Heir veteran guarding the door in area A2. If the characters knock on the door or otherwise make
Baadi and the samovar are also present. If Baadi is here, read the following text after reading the initial boxed text: Several feet above the room’s other occupants, an 8-foot-tall man with blue skin
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
character can notice a slight gap beneath the secret door with a successful DC 18 Wisdom (Perception) check. C4. Reading Room This reading nook has the following features: Light pours into this room
the northern wall has a butterfly-shaped, stained-glass peephole. If Victoro Cassalanter (see appendix B) is here, he’s reading a historical text titled The Rise and Fall of Hellgate Keep and taking
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Encounters d12† Encounter
1 2d4 gargoyles (attitude: 1d8) keeping watch, crouching utterly still
2 2 galeb duhrs (attitude: 1d10) singing a rumbling bass duet to an audience of boulders
3
11 1 fire elemental myrmidon† guarding 1 azer (attitude for both: 1d6 + 2) that is gathering metal or other raw material
12 1 phoenix† (attitude: 1d8 + 3) traveling to or from a site of great
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
guarding nobility, to investigating a ruin or rumor of monsters anywhere in the North. Though it has stood for hundreds of years, Waterdeep is only now returning to its status of a century and a half ago
. The recent disruptions began when the gods walked the Realms and slew each other before the eyes of mortals, until they walked back to their divine domains through the very streets of Waterdeep itself
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
successful DC 15 Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) check using thieves’ tools or wrench apart the bars with a successful DC 20 Strength (Athletics) check. Two hook horrors reside within, guarding the kagu
adventure, but the expansive realms below and their subterranean threats could be crafted by the DM for future adventures.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
out on the peninsula where Candlekeep stands. The Great Library Candlekeep is the largest repository of lore and writings in all the Realms (although my scholarly kin in Evereska don’t like being
court-facing towers in the north wall, called the “necessariums” by the monks, are the main places in which visitors interact with the treasures of Candlekeep. They are honeycombed with reading rooms
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
characters use the “Rime of the Frostmaiden” to cut a path to the dungeon. Reading the poem creates an opening in the ice wall that’s 100 feet high, 30 feet wide, and 20 feet deep. A tunnel at the back
scores of real icicles that festoon the ceiling. The ice mephits are tasked with guarding the cave but do not enter melee combat willingly. An ice mephit’s preferred tactic is to use its action to fly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
destroyed. Nevervault For Characters of 8th–10th Level Robson Michel The crypts of the Nevervault imprison deathless threats with a tenacious grip on the realms of the living In this encounter
overtake the Heralds of Dust exorcist (see the appendix) tasked with guarding this vault. If the characters don’t intervene, the Undead might destabilize the vault’s magic and release other creatures
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
serves as an adviser and mediator to scattered groups of giants, traveling extensively to visit far-flung communities. In some places, priests of Annam are great kings who rule over realms comprising
maintaining the community, tending to agriculture, and educating children. Others patrol the wilderness surrounding the enclave, guarding against threats to the community. Iallanis Born about the same
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
halfling gods are viewed as folk heroes — mortal beings who ascended to divinity, rather than divine entities who descend from their realms to influence the world. Because of this outlook, halflings
training, scouting, and guarding public officials. Cyrrollalee Cyrrollalee embodies the spirit of friendship and hospitality that is part of every halfling’s makeup and is represented by one’s home and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sleeping Dragon’s Wake
slightly in the middle. A creature that moves the mat disturbs the swarm of poisonous snakes guarding the poisons. In addition to the snakes, the pit contains three vials of serpent venom, two vials of
. Claugiyliamatar has a crystal ball, a crystal ball of mind reading, a crystal ball of telepathy, and a crystal ball of true seeing. Each is mounted on a 10-foot-high brass pedestal. The green dragon placed a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
as Waterdeep seduced by the air cult’s promises of power. From the backs of hippogriffs or giant vultures, they survey the land around Feathergale Spire, guarding the entrance to the air cult’s hidden
women who can make hard choices for the good of their realms. In reality, they are bound to Yan-C-Bin and are blind to their own corruption and decadence. Despite their refined manners and social
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
. They refuse to leave their woods, guarding relics and ruins of ages past, and they want nothing to do with the world beyond their borders. Arn Forest This stretch of pine trees and muskeg bogs lies on
yawning exit are two gigantic stone statues of crouching griffons, and beyond them lies one of the great wonders and mysteries of the North: Ascore. This ruined dwarven city once overlooked a sea. Now it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
unlocking the tome’s secret lore and believed it could be interpreted in this chamber. Alas, the magical nature of this room doesn’t enhance reading comprehension. Undaunted, Klaudel summoned Jomlus to read
carries on Klaudel’s work, reading and rereading the text the spectator doesn’t understand and repeating its words with a slightly different pronunciation each time. Klaudel’s obsession has become Jomlus’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
. Two fire giants guard the king at all times; their positions are indicated by the circled numbers 1 and 2. Each giant has a carved stone to throw. Crouching at positions 3 and 4 are a pair of hell
and two gems (worth 100 gp each). The disguised chest holds a jeweled scepter worth 1,000 gp, three potions (superior healing, mind reading, and invulnerability), and five spell scrolls (zone of