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of its turns.
Inspire (1/day). While taking a short rest, the tabaxi can spend 1 minute singing, playing an instrument, telling a story, or reciting a poem to soothe and inspire creatures other than
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Singing Sands Adventures Here are sample adventure hooks to bring characters to the Singing Sands or to give them missions to pursue there. Desert Dreams Goliath giant-kin escort a nervous stone
Encounters tables in chapter 3 manifest from the sand and attack. Lingering Ties A flock of giant vultures follows the Singing Sands through the day, circling over creatures who investigate it. After
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Cult Adventures The Cult Adventure Hooks table offers suggestions for story opportunities involving the cults. Cult Adventure Hooks d8 Adventure Hook 1 Children throughout town begin reciting
exquisite portrait painted. Every other person portrayed by the same artist has also died in a similar fashion. 4 In a remote village, the local herbalist is condemned for practicing dark magic against
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
rest, the tabaxi can spend 1 minute singing, playing an instrument, telling a story, or reciting a poem to soothe and inspire creatures other than itself. Up to five creatures of the tabaxi’s choice
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
elemental’s home plane Fey d4 Desired Offering 1 The memory of your first kiss 2 The color of your eyes 3 An object of deep sentimental value to you 4 Reciting a sublime poem Fiends d4
item of great importance to their culture 2 Challenging them to a type of friendly contest, such as dancing, singing, or drinking 3 Recovering something they’ve lost 4 Information on a foe’s secrets
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
succeed on a DC 14 Wisdom saving throw or be frightened of her until the song ends. A frightened creature takes 7 (2d6) psychic damage at the start of its turn while Aphemia is singing. A frightened
immune to Aphemia’s Discordant Song for the next 24 hours. Aphemia must take a bonus action on her subsequent turns to continue singing. She can stop singing at any time. The song ends if Aphemia is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
prosperity, sharing their good fortune with friends and strangers alike. Vistani resolve disagreements through contests that end with reconciliatory singing, dancing, and storytelling. Vistani families can
Domains of Dread, where creatures born in darkness dwell. This “gift” was thrust upon them by mysterious entities called the Dark Powers, as a boon for their kindness toward strangers. The Vistani
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
giant forge master is close to creating their greatest work, a runic colossus (see chapter 6), but they lack a crucial component. If the characters find the Singing Sands (in this chapter), evade or
begs the characters for help. Other azers at the Star Forge are forced to work for an aboleth that claims to be a scion of a living star, Hadar the Dark Hunger. The azers’ work supplies the aboleth’s minions from the Fomorian Encounters table (see chapter 3) with formidable weapons and armor.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
at 3rd level, you can charge your performance with seductive, fey magic. If you perform for at least 1 minute, you can attempt to inspire wonder in your audience by singing, reciting a poem, or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
singing a rhyme. One of them holds up a glittering gold statuette as it leads this mad parade. The eight mongrelfolk sing the following rhyme: The devil dwells in his dark house, Upon the misty pillar
bones are all that remain of mongrelfolk who perished and were eaten. The survivors beg for food. S15f. Singing and Dancing Mongrelfolk Eight mongrels caper about the wreckage of this bedchamber while
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
own performing career. The Dark Powers don’t torment Akriel as they do her father, and her reputation steadily grows—much to her father’s resentment. Akriel is a human and isn’t a lycanthrope. Casimir
carvings of youths dragged off by wolves. 4 A fountain depicting dancing wolves. 5 Lupine paw prints in a tavern or theater. 6 A songbird singing until its heart stops.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Rage of Demons Once the dark heart talisman is placed and the characters signal Vizeran, there’s no turning back. The waiting is the hard part. Time seems to drag as you remain alert, weapons drawn
, every nerve singing with the tension in the air all around you.
Finally, a swirling light begins to flare in the darkness. A barely audible humming shakes you to the core, rising and falling like a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
vegetables and other foodstuffs line the walls of this unfinished cellar. The south wall has partially collapsed, revealing a dark, narrow tunnel. The smell the characters noticed above is worse here
, issuing from the tunnel. Character who have a passive Wisdom (Perception) score of 15 or higher hear the faint sound of a woman singing farther down the tunnel. Characters who proceed 40 feet into the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
. As if on cue, one of the lumps closest to the characters bubbles up and bursts. A dense cloud of spores and dark, reeking fluid explodes outward, even as the characters hear a piercing scream of
, surrounded by spiraling balconies where her growing number of bridesmaids attend her, singing as they weave her bridal gown to prepare for the fateful wedding day. If the adventurers enter Yggmorgus
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
acting strangely. Read or paraphrase the following: As part of the crowd begins another verse of the Awakening Song, four people wearing the garb of farm folk wander into their midst. Rather than singing
in dark water while being grasped at by hands beneath the surface. Aunt Dellie Aunt Delanore “Dellie” Godsen (neutral good, human commoner) is a savvy operator with an honest reputation, a soft heart
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
College of Whispers Most folk are happy to welcome a bard into their midst. Bards of the College of Whispers use this to their advantage. They appear to be like other bards, sharing news, singing
capture another one with it until you finish a short or long rest. Shadow Lore At 14th level, you gain the ability to weave dark magic into your words and tap into a creature’s deepest fears. As an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
dark, sloping tunnel.
This tunnel slopes down to area N6. A branching tunnel leads to area N5. N2: South Entrance This area is identical to the east entrance (area N1), except the tunnel slopes
kobold has a Pouch that contains 1d12 CP. N7: Molting Cave This cave lies hidden behind a secret door (see “Lair Features”). This dark cave has no other exits. Scattered over the floor are molted
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
they met their doom. U2. Dire Wolf Den A hungry dire wolf haunts this dark cave, the uneven floor of which is strewn with animal and humanoid bones. Unless the characters offer it fresh meat, the dire
these caves. Shortly after discovering the hot spring, I heard what sounded like a granny singing. When the song ended with a shrill laugh, dread sunk its teeth in me. Ye gods, that horrible cackle! I
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
suspended inside 1 gelatinous cube (attitude: 1d4 + 1)
9 1 fomorian warlock of the dark* (attitude: 1d8 + 2) seeking omens in the twisting slither of 1 neothelid† (attitude: 1d8)
10 1
to reassemble a small stone building it accidentally demolished
6 1d4 otyughs (attitude: 1d10) in a waste pit where hill giants dispose of feast remnants
7 1 hill giant singing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
on balconies or rooftops after dark. Her dealings are polite, though, and she pays fair coin. She never confides in anyone or talks about her own doings — and if anyone but she has ever seen the
, and to occasionally attack folk in the darkness, strangling them or tripping them into fatal falls. Most often, though, it takes no notice of those who don’t bother or follow it, eerily singing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
horizon. The patio leads to a grand, two-story palace, its walls as white as fresh-fallen snow. The dark roof shimmers with the colors of an aurora. Crystal snowflakes decorate the windows, and music
reciting the rhyme, “Neither gleaming sword nor magic tome can soothe the soul like hearth and home.” This rhyme is known to Zorhanna, Eliphas, the winter wolves, and Paliset Hall’s staff. The fey
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
dark clouds churns below. A marble tower rising from the maelstrom is encircled by seven turrets. Four stone staircases extend from the outer areas of the palace to the tower, each one part of a
has no reason to trust the characters, refuses to emerge from his hiding place. A character can earn the butler’s trust and coax him out by reciting Demitasse’s rhyme (see area P19) and then sharing a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
to immediately wink out. They don’t return, even if the silence effect ends. Danger of Making Music. The characters can create their own musical echoes here by playing an instrument or singing, but
closes on its own after 1 hour, harmlessly pushing aside anything in the way. B19: Lore Halls Dark ichor and three mind flayer corpses are spread around this area. Dozens of crystals set into the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
can remember. Luskanite raiders have plundered and razed the island’s settlements more than once, but the natives keep rebuilding their villages and their ships while singing songs of bloody
towering shadowtop trees lies in the High Forest. The dark canopies of the trees form a high roof that permits only hints of sunlight to touch the ground beneath. Shadowtop Cathedral is an important meeting
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
against the south wall features a wooden bowl of fruit. A wooden bench is against the north wall, and in the center of the room a wooden chair faces the bench.
Three lizardfolk in robes are reciting a
lair, this area is not illuminated. If the characters use a light source or have some other way of seeing in the dark, read: The room smells of decay. Scattered on the floor are broken and rusted weapons