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Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
conception of the Izzet League is based on mad inventions, dangerous experiments, and explosive blasts. Much of that perception is accurate, but the league is also involved with mundane tasks of
basic knowledge of the structure of buildings, including the stuff behind the walls. You can also find blueprints of a specific building in order to learn the details of its construction. Such
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
court of the Queen of Air and Darkness, one of the Feywild’s archfey. Goblins thrived in her dangerous domain thanks to a special boon from her—a supernatural knack for finding the weak
, consult the Random Height and Weight table in the Player’s Handbook, and choose the row in the table that best represents the build you imagine for your character.
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
dangerous those dragons can be and help others defend against draconic destruction.
Whatever their relationship to dragons, kobold scales tend to be rust colored, although the occasional kobold sports
that humans have in our world. If you’d like to determine your character’s height or weight randomly, consult the Random Height and Weight table in the Player’s Handbook, and choose the row in the table that best represents the build you imagine for your character.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Triton Ah, the tritons. Imagine if the elves spent a few centuries far beneath the sea, where their arrogance and pretension could grow undisturbed. At least the tritons spent that time fighting
elemental planes, and other dangerous spots far from the eyes of land-bound folk. Long-established guardians of the deep ocean floor, in recent years the noble tritons have become increasingly active in the world above.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Adventure Premise One way to start brainstorming an adventure is to imagine a situation that might pique the characters’ interest. For some D&D players, a rumor of a dungeon filled with treasure is
enough of a premise to launch an adventure. A brewing war between two small nations, the death of a leader and the accession of a new one, a migration of dangerous monsters, the appearance of a comet
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Layout of the District Map 8.1 shows the layout of the district and the locations of important buildings and land features. The islands that support the buildings are almost all artificial. Some were
trips cost 1 cp, but a skiff ride to a dangerous section of town usually brings 1 gp or more. Map 8.1: The Styes View Player Version Low Quarter Also known as Flotsam, the northwest section of the Styes
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
Ah, the tritons. Imagine if the elves spent a few centuries far beneath the sea, where their arrogance and pretension could grow undisturbed. At least the tritons spent that time fighting sahuagin
elemental planes, and other dangerous spots far from the eyes of land-bound folk. Long-established guardians of the deep ocean floor, in recent years the noble tritons have become increasingly active in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
exterminators rid buildings of cranium rats, curses, and dangerous afflictions. Clandestine agencies offer escape from infernal debt collectors or other looming perils by killing their clients, keeping the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
mutated the local vegetation into new and dangerous forms. Few people dare to venture into the ruined village now, and those who do so seldom stay long—with two notable exceptions. The druid Reidoth (see
area 7). As the party approaches the ruins, read the following: Gradually, the trail becomes an old, overgrown lane winding between dilapidated buildings choked in vines and brush. Ahead of you, in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Monstrous Tactics Monsters, just like player characters, can try anything you can imagine in combat, including the full range of combat options described in the Player’s Handbook. Monsters can use
known for a tactic they call “feasting”: they grapple their enemies and then make unarmed attacks to bite their faces. These attacks aren’t terribly dangerous (a hobgoblin’s unarmed strike deals only
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
dangerous forms. Few people dare to venture into the ruined village now, and those who do so seldom stay long—with two notable exceptions. The druid Reidoth (see area U4) visits Thundertree from time
ruined settlement, read the following: Gradually, the trail becomes an old, overgrown lane winding between dilapidated buildings choked with vines and brush. In the middle of the settlement rises a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
demonic power. Nomadic Destroyers. Gnolls are dangerous because they strike at random. They emerge from the wilderness, plunder and slaughter, then move elsewhere. They attack like a plague of locusts
, pillaging settlements and leaving little behind but razed buildings, gnawed corpses, and befouled land. Gnolls choose easy targets for their raids. Armored warriors holed up in a fortified castle
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
path that winds through the central campus buildings, giving the path its name: Opus Walk. Some famous pieces of magical art have been displayed along Opus Walk for centuries, while other transient
dangerous, it also provides a source of wild inspiration, and it remains a popular spot for students who want to duel without being interrupted by faculty.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
and dangerous to both the bearer and the people around them. Someone with such a mark can kill with a touch or control minds with a glance. Aberrant marks often appear when people from different
from scar tissue while another is traced on the skin in lines of cold fire. While aberrant dragonmarks can be disturbing, on the surface an aberrant mark seems no more dangerous or threatening than
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Noteworthy Sites Godsbreath is bounded by the treacherous waters of Nightwater Cove and the dangerous expanse of the Rattle. The Nightwater Isles The Nightwater Isles rise from the waters of the
Godsbreath knows why. Residents of this land have been migrating into the fertile but dangerous lands of the Rattle. But Rattle farmers are threatened by oversized coyotes, bulettes, and other threats. Farmers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
large new buildings and repairing older edifices. Red Larch is also a center for stonecutters quarrying slate on the fringes of the Sumber Hills. While Red Larch remains prosperous, dark omens are
appearing. The heart of the Sumber Hills has become far more dangerous, with monsters lurking seemingly everywhere (no one goes into the hills berry-picking or hare-hunting these days, though Red Larcher
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
the sort one commonly sees in the wake of trebuchet blows that miss their mark. Farther in from the perimeter of this blasted land lies a scattered mess of buildings, some relatively intact, others
, Daerismun was not so fortunate. As we approached, this ruined cityscape seemed uninhabited. Its expanse is fairly limited, and consists almost entirely of a mess of destroyed buildings and massive
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
service, lingering near civic buildings, municipal hubs, and marketplaces. A typical sedan chair ride costs 1 sp per passenger and can carry two Medium or smaller creatures to a destination in Sigil
umber hulks. These deluxe chairs cost more, a minimum of 1 gp per passenger, and those who carry them might be willing to travel to dangerous areas of the city for an extra fee. Touts Touts are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
provides. In most other towns and cities, you’ll start with an early-morning stumble on the stairs as you carry your night soil down to deposit it outside. But in Waterdeep, many buildings are connected
. With public fountains and wells all about the city, clean water is plentiful. Many buildings have pumps of their own to draw water from the local supply, and some even possess taps that pour out water
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Dragon’s Roost Mike Schley Map 16.2: Dragon’s Roost View Player Version The summit of the hill was once crowded with buildings. All but a few were destroyed in the siege of the abbey centuries ago
dangerous part of the ruins by far. A hidden stair—steep, long abandoned, and choked with rubble and undergrowth—leads up the western side of the hill. This secret staircase can be found with 1 hour of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
dangerous environment where the giants benefit from greater numbers. In these situations, two or three family groups might dwell together in some kind of stronghold, often accompanied by companion
experience, nearly every steading or larger settlement of giants has a leader who imagines their tiny cluster of giants is an echo of a glorious fallen empire. Even the giants struggle to imagine the grandeur of what they once had and have now lost.
—Diancastra
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
battlefield.
The sulfurous smoke that moves across the battlefield never dissipates. It lightly obscures the details of the buildings and the denizens within them. The wails of soldiers in pain can
be heard everywhere on the battlefield, but they have no source. Crumbling buildings, bare trees, blast craters, and jumbles of bones around spears and swords indicate an immense battle. None of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
Gruul Creatures Many dangerous creatures haunt the rubblebelts and other places the Gruul Clans inhabit. Beasts Gruul territory is full of beasts of all sizes. Herds of giant boars (see the Monster
Manual) called batterboars roam the rubblebelts; each batterboar can grow to be the size of a mammoth (as in the Monster Manual), and the passage of a herd can shake the ground and topple buildings
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
available for leaders, they have been known to literally stand on top of prostrate underlings.) However, leaders tend to dwell on the lowest levels of buildings because these are considered the safest
religious obsessions as anything other than “dangerous illusions,” combined with his preference for nonviolent solutions.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
social encounter like this one is to imagine a scale from 1 to 10, with 1 representing the worst possible outcome and 10 the best. The characters start at 5, and as they progress through the scene
, and dangerous world of Mad Maggie and the Knucklebones. Let the characters’ decisions, insights, knowledge, roleplaying, successes, and failures move the slider up or down the scale as you see fit.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
partially collapsed buildings and walled-off alleys, atop which newer buildings and boardwalks have been built. The entire place is damp, reeks of mildew, and is loud with the creaking and groaning of
surrounding buildings. The floors, walls, and ceilings of the temple are old wood, too damp to burn and rotten enough to be almost spongy to the touch. No cultists dwell inside the temple. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
levels of the buildings, as well as the main level’s two courtyards — one to the north and one to the south. Other features are summarized below.
Animal Pens. The pens extend east from the south yard
and are divided by wooden fences. They hold two dozen chickens and a rooster, six pigs, and four goats. The animals are well treated and not dangerous.
Ceilings. Interior ceilings are 9 feet high and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
Adventure Background As the settlers of Leilon bend their backs to the arduous task of creating a defensible settlement in the dangerous wilds of the Sword Coast, even larger threats loom all around
than a few ramshackle buildings and foundations. The people and locations of Leilon can be altered or wholly created anew by you, the DM, based on the interests of the adventurers.
For example, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
sinister site. The overall sense of the place — as evidenced in the alien geometries of its buildings and its exposed technology — should be one of a brooding, otherworldly environ where nothing
originally used to undertake repairs on the outside of the craft, handle dangerous substances at a distance, and so forth.
When a creature passes an arm or other appendage into one ring, that appendage
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
moderate, dangerous, or deadly threat to characters in its level range. A moderate trap is unlikely to kill a character. A dangerous trap typically deals enough damage that a character hit by one is eager
. Trap Save DCs and Attack Bonuses Trap Danger Save/Check DC Attack Bonus Moderate 10 +5 Dangerous 15 +8 Deadly 20 +12 Damage Severity by Level Character Level Moderate Dangerous Deadly 1–4 5 (1d10
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
individuals who rise early and spend their days in meetings and negotiations. They fund expeditions into dangerous locales and hire explorers to map uncharted territories. Other patriars manipulate
patriars and was instrumental in building the city’s original walls.
Tillerturn owns and leases out many buildings in the city.
Vammas controls the majority of trade from Chult.
Vannath fled the city
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
gift of the diviner, able to tap into the flow of time to read portents of the future. Your divinations help negate the risks for your franchise, whether in business deals or dangerous treasure
great in the dungeon, and sometimes even at outdoor social events that don’t feature a lot of flammable buildings nearby. In the boardroom or the council chamber, your skills are likely in less demand
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
individuals who rise early and spend their days in meetings and negotiations. They fund expeditions into dangerous locales and hire explorers to map uncharted territories. Other patriars manipulate
patriars and was instrumental in building the city’s original walls.
Tillerturn owns and leases out many buildings in the city.
Vammas controls the majority of trade from Chult.
Vannath fled the city
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
he can rake in more and more gold in a given span of time. Mammon’s obsession with wealth and efficiency make him a dangerous entity to entreat. He enters any bargain with the goal of making a profit
depart and merchants haggle over their wares. Buildings rest haphazardly atop the ruins of those that have sloughed into the muck. The roads are little more than huge stones sunk into the swamp, needing constant replacement as they slowly submerge until the mud consumes them.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
-south and east-to-west that meet in the center of town in a crossroads marketplace. Many buildings structured for larger folk line these streets, for taller folk tend to prefer the comfortable
familiarity they provide, but the rest of the town is made up of a series of narrow paths between the smaller-proportioned buildings that are the homes of the city’s gnomes. The first time I walked along these