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Curse of Strahd
more important, he believes that the Amber Temple holds the secret to bringing the ancient dead back to life.
With the characters' help, Kasimir thinks he might be able to find out how to restore
is to become as powerful a vampire as Strahd.
Kasimir Velikov's Traits
Ideal. “I failed my people and my sister, and now I must atone or be damned.”
Bond. “I seek to return my long-dead sister, Patrina
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
fire clears dead wood, replenishes the soil, and allows the forest to regrow even healthier than before. To this end, topaz dragons use their power to reduce crumbling structures and diseased plants to
Creatures
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Moved by pity, a giant eagle continues bringing food to an abandoned topaz dragon wyrmling, despite the wyrmling’s attempts to eat the eagle.
2
A pseudodragon who is
Lizardfolk
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
. For example, humans confronted by an angry troll experience fear on a basic level. Their limbs shake, their thinking becomes panicked and jumbled, and they react by instinct. The emotion of fear takes
utility and importance. Nowhere does this come through as strongly as when lizardfolk deal with the dead. To a lizardfolk, a comrade who dies becomes a potential source of food. That companion might have
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
a frivolous lark. You’ve maintained a solitary vigil outside the cavern entrance ever since.
2
You crossed the Guild in a bad way. Fortunately, its members think you’re dead. Less
contradictions, fills your hours.
4
You tend to some part of the city’s forgotten history: the unmarked graves in Cliffside Cemetery, the crumbling remains of dead patriar families’ manors, or
Backgrounds
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
only when everything is acting in harmony, whether it wants to or not.
Heralds of Dust. Everyone is already dead; the entirety of the multiverse is an afterlife. Undeath holds the key to the next
the multiverse, one must act on instinct alone.
Feature: Conviction
You gain the Scion of the Outer Planes feat. In addition, members of your organization provide you free, modest lodging and food at any of their holdings or the homes of other faction members.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
collective spirits within the house brood amid bitter dreams. Yet when strangers enter the domain, the spirits gradually wake, energizing the one instinct they share: to add to the number of souls bound
of Lament closes the borders of its domain, a powerful thunderstorm surrounds it, bringing with it strong wind and heavy precipitation (detailed in the Dungeon Master’s Guide). Anyone who braves the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
Markos Dies If Markos dies, the characters can return his body to his family. The Delphi family gives each character 150 gp for bringing Markos home and pays to have Markos raised from the dead.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Fields of the Dead The expanse known as the Fields of the Dead has been the battleground for myriad wars and skirmishes over the centuries. It is said that the hills that dot the countryside here all
hold the dead, and there is some measure of truth to that — many of the hillocks are indeed barrows, raised to house the fallen dead of one faction or nation on either side of a war. I have seen more
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
to one another, so thri-kreen characters understand what they say as they attack. The creatures mockingly praise the characters for bringing a spelljamming helm onto the tyrant ship, so the horrors can take command of the vessel once the characters are all dead.
and parts from dead autognomes to construct a fourth clockwork horror, which is only half assembled. Once these creatures notice the characters, read or paraphrase the following: The insectile
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
befell those who came near Cradlelace Lake, as if the buried dead sought to add to their number. Among those lost was a young man named Culley, who vanished into the water in front of his friend
seed of its being. It also remembered the last living person Culley ever saw, his dear friend Kianna. Driven by instinct, shattered memories, and the discordant urges of dozens of tiny Undead, the soul shaker grew in power, then sought out its old friend.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
missing enough stones that they appear pockmarked. The sky is corpse gray, and the breeze blows cold and humid, bringing a chill to the skin.
The city’s living residents include necromancers, corrupt
bulk of the population consists of the shambling dead. Zombies, wights, vampires, and other undead make the city their home, all under the watchful eyes of the ruling caste: intelligent, flesh-eating ghouls.
Rumors abound that this foul place mirrors one city on every world.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
, bringing the conflict to the city. 6 Dozens of dead factions unite in Undersigil. They mount an uprising on the surface and attempt to oust several factions. 7 The Lady of Pain locks the Cage without
Orc
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raid just as another group returns, laden with severed heads, sacks of loot, and armfuls of food. Warriors also serve as scouts, bringing back detailed reports about the surrounding area so that the
until my enemies are dead, no matter the cost.
4
I understand the value of civilization and the order that society brings.
5
I don’t trust anyone.
6
I believe in living to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
.
2 You crossed the Guild in a bad way. Fortunately, its members think you’re dead. Less fortunately, maintaining that deception might require you to stay in hiding until you actually are.
3
Cemetery, the crumbling remains of dead patriar families’ manors, or a collection of religious texts stuffed into an attic and forgotten when a believer’s patron deity died. In this solitary work
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
Factol: Unknown Headquarters: Tower Sorcerous Aligned Plane: Astral Plane Members: Mages, lore seekers, scribes Epithet: Incantifers The Incanterium was a faction thought dead when its headquarters, the
once stood, bringing with it the return of the Incantifers. Members of the Incanterium siphon magic from items, spells, and those who wield them to lengthen their own lifespans. They believe that by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
crossed the Guild in a bad way. Fortunately, its members think you’re dead. Less fortunately, maintaining that deception might require you to stay in hiding until you actually are. 3 You study the
remains of dead patriar families’ manors, or a collection of religious texts stuffed into an attic and forgotten when a believer’s patron deity died. In this solitary work, you’ve learned secrets no
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Locathah Rising
Shatterkeel arranged the corpses into orderly lines, so that he might prepare them for transition into one of the living dead. He completed a ritual using a small amount of blood he had obtained from a kraken
, animating a handful of these creatures. Since then, he’s managed to dupe a pair of kraken priests into bringing a young kraken into the coral mountain, where they might “nurture it into maturity in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
more than create life—she could defeat death! She wished to breathe sentience into dead flesh and produce sturdier shells than the bodies of fragile, temporary mortals. She added corpse theft to her
. Mordenheim desperately hastened her experiments, employing anyone who would bring her bodies—both newly dead and still living. On her operating table, victims were killed, returned to life, and died again
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
loyalty, Nidalia won’t betray her allies.
Restitution Even if the motives of the Amberdune Pack are revealed, the party might not excuse the jackalweres for their actions. If characters insist on bringing
jackalweres, but they can’t revive Nidalia if they’re all dead. If the jackalweres are slain in this battle, and the characters don’t know where to find the vault, see “Bloodbath” for assistance
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Locathah Rising
2. What Is Dead May Never Die As the characters descend into the lower decks of this ship, read or paraphrase the following boxed text: As you proceed belowdecks, it becomes much easier to swim as
the hull protects you from the the strong currents outside. Many boxes and barrels are present here, somewhat waterlogged but largely intact.
This ship served as a tender vessel, bringing supplies to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
are in the process of bringing in their equipment for what they expect to be multiple days of exploration and study. They’ve identified the parlor (area 3) as the base for their investigation. If the
complete. If asked, they’ll share that the house was last owned by the Halvhrest family, it’s abandoned, and it has a reputation for attracting the dead. They offer each party member 20 gp per day to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Athreos’s Champions Athreos expects his champions to maintain the balance between the living and the dead, just as he does. Beyond this, his servants take it upon themselves to maintain funerary
, curtailing its growth or bringing it to ruin.
3 Seek out a lampad nymph who has fallen in love with a soul he was supposed to lead to the Underworld.
4 Hunt down a rampaging cerberus and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
important, he believes that the Amber Temple holds the secret to bringing the ancient dead back to life. With the characters’ help, Kasimir thinks he might be able to find out how to restore Patrina to
damned.” Bond. “I seek to return my long-dead sister, Patrina, to life—even at the cost of my own life.” Flaw. “I believe my sister can be redeemed.”
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
forces, the characters can still salvage the mission by bringing Coal’s corpse to Sergeant Vilroy, who calls in a favor and gets a member of the Blackened Book to cast a speak with dead spell on Coal’s corpse.
information, Coal encourages the characters to question Alden d’Orien. The warforged then leaves Sharn, believing she is no longer safe in the city. Dead Coal If Coal dies at the hands of Daask
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
offered for bringing her in alive for questioning. A killer is stalking the streets of the North Ward, murdering people in broad daylight. The victims’ feet are chopped off, as if by a powerful blow
performance several days ago. Her adoring fans fear she is dead. Towering forms in black cloaks have been seen around the City of the Dead at night. A number of witnesses swear that those cloaks and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
death Myrkul, and his followers are raising an army of undead to lay siege to the city of Neverwinter. The spirit of the dead black dragon Chardansearavitriol, also known as Ebondeath, aids Ularan
animals and monstrous beasts lairing in the Mere of Dead Men. As the adventurers interact with the villagers, helping them rebuild and fighting off the immediate dangers, the specters of these two
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Favor table offers several suggestions for the nature of your connection to the god. Athreos’s Favor d6 Circumstance
1 A family member died bringing you into the world.
2 You don’t
stands for. (Any)
2 Tradition. Honor the dead through rites of respect and by continuing their ways. (Lawful)
3 Dread. Mortals put their fear out of mind, but through me, they will remember the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
any creature that isn’t a drow.
Drow. Four male drow elite warriors hide in the dead-end tunnels to the south. Any character who has a passive Wisdom (Perception) score of 20 or higher spots these
carry signal horns that sound an alarm loud enough to be heard in areas 10 through 19. They raise the alarm at the first sign of intruders, bringing reinforcements from areas 12a, 12c, and 12d. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Locathah Rising
. Gar casts heal on himself, bringing him back to his hit point maximum, and begins the process of drawing blood from the kraken, storing it in massive five-gallon bladders he brought along for this
purpose.
Shoalar Quadril-Ally. If the characters met Shoalar and allied with the devotee of Olhydra, Shoalar accompanies them from his lair to area 13, bringing the two water elemental myrmidons with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
and only touched in dreams. Dolurrh: The Realm of the Dead. When a mortal soul dies, it is drawn to Dolurrh. It is a place defined by despair and apathy; over time, memories are leached out of the
cycle of life in a new form. Nonetheless, Dolurrh is a gloomy plane filled with the lingering traces of the dead. When Dolurrh is remote it is impossible to resurrect the dead. When it’s coterminous
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
. Inside were hundreds of well-preserved corpses suffused with a latent necromantic power that Mazirek activated, bringing the corpses back to a shambling semblance of life. This new race of undead is
farms. Shriekers serve as sentries in Golgari tunnels, and violet fungus sprouts from the corpses of intruders. Amorphous masses of dead and decaying matter can develop into shambling mounds in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
bringing the Queen of Dragons into the world is the ultimate goal. The Cult of the Dragon has a secret weapon for dealing with chromatic dragons, in the form of the five dragon masks. Even with a dragon
high enough level to have allies raised from the dead when those allies fall to a draconic foe. If the characters can’t do so themselves, their allies in the Order of the Gauntlet or the Harpers should
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
bringing the Queen of Dragons into the world is the ultimate goal. The Cult of the Dragon has a secret weapon for dealing with chromatic dragons, in the form of the five dragon masks. Even with a dragon
high enough level to have allies raised from the dead when those allies fall to a draconic foe. If the characters can’t do so themselves, their allies in the Order of the Gauntlet or the Harpers should
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
bringing the Queen of Dragons into the world is the ultimate goal. The Cult of the Dragon has a secret weapon for dealing with chromatic dragons, in the form of the five dragon masks. Even with a dragon
high enough level to have allies raised from the dead when those allies fall to a draconic foe. If the characters can’t do so themselves, their allies in the Order of the Gauntlet or the Harpers should
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
. Mortal elves cannot know if it is the soul of someone recently dead or someone who died millennia ago. They cannot even be certain it is an elf of the same world. The only assurance they have is that it
Arvandor into the world, bringing them down from the heavens to begin their mortal lives anew. A decade in which many elves are born across the world is thought to be a harbinger of danger that great






