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Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
whatever genie empire rises from the wreckage.
Personality
Biha Babir’s demeanor is like the ocean: seemingly placid on the surface, but dangerous and fierce deep below. Her amiable attitude hides
punished.Acid, Cold, LightningFluid Form. Biha Babir Shape-Shifting;shape-shifts into a form resembling a Beast or Humanoid that is Medium or smaller, while retaining her game statistics (other than her size), or returns to her true marid form.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
offerings nurture criminal activity. The alleys of Torchfire are notoriously dangerous, especially for intoxicated revelers. The Burning Ring, an illegal operation that puts on gladiatorial combats at
shifting locations throughout Lower Menthis (most often in the Firelight district), has ties to Daask. But betting on the Burning Ring’s fights is big business for many of Sharn’s major criminal organizations, and fight rigging is rampant. Gangs also commonly use fights as a cover for assassinations.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
modrons are caught in the shifting realm of Gzemnid, a beholder god of deception, gases, and obscurement. Shemeshka discovered the modrons in Tyrant’s Spiral, an ever-shifting part of Gzemnid’s Realm
accessible alley in Sigil 2 The headquarters of a faction, like the Mortuary 3 In a dangerous area, like the Hive or Undersigil 4 An extreme location, like outside Sigil’s ring or in one of the Lady
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
blurred. This can be dangerous, with dark forces creeping in from the plane known as the Endless Night. But it’s also allowed the elves to perform feats of necromancy unmatched in Eberron. Among the Aereni
the shifting balance of the planes and the path of the Draconic Prophecy. While necromancy is a pillar of Aereni society, it isn’t the dark force you’re used to. The deathless undead of Aerenal are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
. The pair’s adventures—including several deadly encounters with the Kargat—eventually led them to relocate to Port-a-Lucine in Dementlieu. A mystery involving a shape-shifting serial killer resulted in
.” Bond. “I have the perspective to see depravities others can’t. I use my insight to reveal wickedness and make the world a better place.” Flaw. “Most people are dangerous, manipulative liars and not
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
. Dangerous, dark forces creep in from the plane known as the Endless Night, but that planar resonance also enables the elves to perform feats of necromancy unmatched elsewhere in Eberron. Among the
study the shifting balance of the planes and the path of the Draconic Prophecy. Necromancy is a pillar of Aereni society, distinct from the sinister power most adventurers encounter. Positive energy
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
, these noxious manipulators appear as ever-shifting masses of dripping tentacles and toxic flesh crowned by a single baleful eye. More often, though, yochlols take the form of spiders or zealous cultists
. They use manipulative magic and dangerous rhetoric to spread demonic cults, corrupt the righteous, and further the plots of their fiendish overlords. They relish coercing the unwitting into furthering
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Artavazda among them. Artavazda has four narrow wings whose gradually shifting colors are reminiscent of a sunset. The pari’s smooth, curly black hair is mostly hidden beneath a pointed gold helmet that
Brightguard until the festival ends a few days from now, protecting the people from dramatic displays that turn dangerous. Artavazda goes on to explain the following points: Though the angels who serve
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
intellect brilliantly fruitful, and widens its speculation into a search for connections between wildly disparate objects or concepts. It is manic in its expressions of creative energy, shifting from careful
Niv-Mizzet, urges him to push his guild’s research toward increasingly dangerous and volatile experimentation. For the rest of the guild members, the search for bigger and better weapons is mainly an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
, enveloping and devouring their victims. While it feeds, a cloaker uses its swift, whiplike tail for defense, although it rarely takes a stand against dangerous foes or groups of creatures. As an added
its actions, shifting position so as to make it impossible to track which cloaker is the real one. If the cloaker is ever in an area of bright light, the duplicates disappear.
Whenever any creature
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
abilities of fledgling adventurers. These characters navigate dangerous terrain and explore haunted crypts, where they might fight ferocious wolves, giant spiders, evil cultists, flesh-eating ghouls
captured by monsters living there. 8 An innocent person is being framed for the crimes of a shape-shifting monster. 9 Ghouls are venturing out of the catacombs at night. 10 A notorious criminal hides
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
symbolize the decadence and corruption of civilization, and mages are the classic villains of these settings. Magic items are therefore rare and often dangerous. Consider conflicts like these to drive the
friends.
Shape-Shifting Assassins. A secret association of doppelgangers or other shape-shifters slowly assassinates prominent figures one by one.
To Catch a Thief. An extraordinary thief steals
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
ever-shifting mud of the toppled tower strangely fascinating. Greedy Mate. Zoklork’s rockmate found and ate all the amethysts, even though Zoklork was clear about wanting a share. Gutted. The rockmate
word can be used to shrink it; the command word is “petrification” in Terran. Withdrawn. Zoklork isn’t willing to scout for the characters because dangerous creatures lurk nearby. If the characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
Sensation pays well for sensations not contained in its extensive collection. Sensates reward adventurers for delivering sensory stones that contain coveted yet dangerous experiences, such as the thrill
material, its surface shifting like a puddle of oil. The structure has no visible doors or windows save for eight balconies that jut from its twisting frame. Although the tower’s surfaces are impenetrable
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
music here a few days ago. The music and shifting shadows fade after a few more hours. The characters can’t physically interact with the shadows, but a silence spell or similar effect causes the shadows
without any real information about it. The site has proven far more dangerous than they expected. Their entry from the Far Realm is now closed, and they don’t know why. The githyanki make short, careful
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
, searching for a dangerous blue slaad that stole a mote of primordial chaos from the Face of Gith tavern (see the “Lower Ward Locations” section). 8 A soot-stained goblin mage uses fire magic to repair a
Athar accept custody of dangerous magic items, especially those created by other faiths, and they reward any who relinquish the relics. Mind’s Eye. The endless heat, smoke, and arcane embers of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
shifting light, endless sky, changing climate, and eroding wind, represents a dream state, an unreality where nothing lasts and therefore nothing has significance. Ordning of Artistry Among stone giants
sometimes hire agents that they dispatch to investigate portents and to retrieve items the giants need for their oracles. It’s dangerous work, for two reasons. The obvious one is that the task involves
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
temporary glow or shifting pattern—but some designs function as spell scrolls that burn away once used, singeing hair, fur, or scales in the process. As a devotee of Aoskar and longtime resident of
menaces. The largest of these is the Us, a hyperintelligent hivemind based in Undersigil (detailed later in this chapter). When cranium rat populations grow to dangerous sizes, the Parakks step in to cull
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
Ascendant Factions Factions wax and wane, shifting the balance of power in Sigil. The most influential factions are known as ascendant factions, widely recognized groups that oversee aspects of daily
animosity. They have bad blood with the Harmonium, who view the Fated as wrongheaded and dangerous, and Factol Darkwood and Factol Montgomery of the Society of Sensation are bitter rivals. Fraternity of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
paraphrase the following text: Floating in space is a pulsing rift of iridescent energy, like a jagged scar in the fabric of reality. The light dims for a second, revealing faint shadows shifting deep
shard solitaire is too dangerous to keep in Paliset Hall and does everything in her power to make sure the characters leave with it. She also suggests the characters place it inside a bag of holding or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
for money, peeling off prophecies only according to the unspoken whims of the tree, or in exchange for bizarre and dangerous favors. Jopalin’s After taking over from his father, a neutral evil male half
squad smashed its way into the building. Only two of its members emerged, babbling about shifting rooms and blood-soaked abattoirs filled with writhing hooks and chains. With no laborers willing to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
the tree, or in exchange for bizarre and dangerous favors. Jopalin’s After taking over from his father, a neutral evil male half-elf thug named Jopalin transitioned this building from a seedy dockside
emerged. After a handful of such disappearances, a Flaming Fist squad smashed its way into the building. Only two of its members emerged, babbling about shifting rooms and blood-soaked abattoirs