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Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
collecting knowledge and magic dealing with the nature of the planes of existence, cosmic forces, and distant worlds. They prize treasures drawn from different worlds of the Material Plane, especially
inspire your portrayal of distinctive amethyst dragon characters.
Amethyst Dragon Personality Traits
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I am
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
allies can be found in the strangest places.
Hoarded Arcana
In addition to material wealth, amethyst dragons delight in collecting knowledge and magic dealing with the nature of the planes of
’s hoard.
Creating an Amethyst Dragon
Use the Amethyst Dragon Personality Traits and Amethyst Dragon Ideals tables to inspire your portrayal of distinctive amethyst dragon characters.
Amethyst
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
, preferring to assess intruders first in order to devise the most advantageous approach to dealing with them.
Sapphire dragons watch for signs of Aberrations and other creatures corrupted by the Far Realm
Dragon Ideals tables to inspire your portrayal of distinctive sapphire dragon characters.
Sapphire Dragon Personality Traits
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Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
advantageous approach to dealing with them.
Sapphire dragons watch for signs of Aberrations and other creatures corrupted by the Far Realm. They frequently ally with emerald dragons, drawing on their kin
, which can contain ancient relics of immense power.
Creating a Sapphire Dragon
Use the Sapphire Dragon Personality Traits and Sapphire Dragon Ideals tables to inspire your portrayal of distinctive
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
magic dealing with the nature of the planes of existence, cosmic forces, and distant worlds. They prize treasures drawn from different worlds of the Material Plane, especially magic items and artworks
multiverse form the centerpiece of an amethyst dragon’s hoard.
Creating an Amethyst Dragon
Use the Amethyst Dragon Personality Traits and Amethyst Dragon Ideals tables to inspire your portrayal of
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
ability to maneuver underground. A sapphire dragon often refrains from striking immediately, preferring to assess intruders first in order to devise the most advantageous approach to dealing with them
immense power.
Creating a Sapphire Dragon
Use the Sapphire Dragon Personality Traits and Sapphire Dragon Ideals tables to inspire your portrayal of distinctive sapphire dragon characters.
Sapphire
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
in collecting knowledge and magic dealing with the nature of the planes of existence, cosmic forces, and distant worlds. They prize treasures drawn from different worlds of the Material Plane
tables to inspire your portrayal of distinctive amethyst dragon characters.
Amethyst Dragon Personality Traits
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Trait
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Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
sapphire dragon often refrains from striking immediately, preferring to assess intruders first in order to devise the most advantageous approach to dealing with them.
Sapphire dragons watch for signs of
the Sapphire Dragon Personality Traits and Sapphire Dragon Ideals tables to inspire your portrayal of distinctive sapphire dragon characters.
Sapphire Dragon Personality Traits
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Species
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
veins making it clear that they’ve been touched by death. Other reborn are marvels of magic or science, being stitched together from disparate beings or bearing mysterious minds in manufactured
Memories table to inspire its details.
Lost Memories
d6
Memory
1
You recall a physically painful moment. What mark or scar on your body does it relate to?
2
A memory brings
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Pegasus Elusive Winged Steed Habitat: Forest, Grassland, Hill, Planar (Upper Planes); Treasure: None Alejandro Pacheco Winged, sapient horses of noble bearing, pegasi are as majestic as they are
strangers on sight. Roll on or choose a result from the Pegasus Offerings table to inspire how one might show their good intentions to a wary pegasus. Pegasus Offerings 1d4 A Pegasus Won’t Flee
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
symbolic meaning to inspire a choice or challenge the characters will face that day. The card could represent a site the characters come across on their journey, like a ruined tower or a fork in the
ability checks (though another character can help, at your discretion). Whatever choice or challenge you decide the top card represents, the characters’ success or failure while dealing with that situation determines how you read the bottom card.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
position, and its commercial importance all have a bearing on its overall atmosphere. A city nestled against the edge of a jungle has a very different feel than one on the edge of a desert. Elf and dwarf
an early system of democracy might boast an open-air market where philosophical ideas are traded as freely as produce. All the possible combinations of these factors can inspire endless variety in the settlements of your campaign world.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
. Roll on or choose a result from the Stone Golem Orders table to inspire the commands a stone golem follows.
Stone Golem Orders 1d6 The Stone Golem Follows Orders To...
1 Allow only those
wearing ritual garb to pass.
2 Cast Slow on and aid in apprehending anyone who touches a city’s prized relic.
3 Destroy a dam or bridge at the command of one bearing a ruler’s medallion
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
black puddings into being. Roll on or choose a result from the Black Pudding Sources table to inspire a pudding’s origins.
Black Pudding Sources 1d6 The Black Pudding Formed From...
1
pudding with a melee attack roll takes 4 (1d8) Acid damage. Nonmagical ammunition is destroyed immediately after hitting the pudding and dealing any damage. Any nonmagical weapon takes a cumulative −1
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Lorinda’s Powers and Dominion Lorinda is a green hag of extreme age. In her true form, she carries her darling family—three grim dolls she calls Laveeda, Leticia, and Laoirse. When dealing with the
figure wearing a cloak of moth wings and bearing a branch burning with torches. Using her control of the land as Tepest’s Darklord, Mother brings bounty to fields and flocks, or curses farms with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
detritus sometimes floats within a gelatinous cube, hinting at its past meals. Roll on or choose a result from the Gelatinous Cube Debris table to inspire a gelatinous cube’s contents. Gelatinous
need of repair. 5 Skeleton belonging to a famous adventurer. 6 Tablet bearing a mysterious message. Gelatinous Cube Large Ooze, Unaligned
AC 6 Initiative −4 (6)
HP 63 (6d10 + 30)
Speed 15 ft
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
? The characters’ pasts don’t have any bearing on the rest of this adventure, but use these details to inspire where the campaign leads next. Heroic Equipment Trapped with each incarnation in the House
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
Something Fishy in Town After dealing with the members of the Cult of Talos, the characters should be in a hurry to get to Leilon and see what is happening. Approaching the Town. By following the
. At the center of the ruins, a tall tower, mostly collapsed, rests atop a bluff. The only intact stone building sits at the bottom of the bluff, its white façade bearing the mark of Lathander
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
are meant to help organize, and even inspire, the action of a D&D campaign. The rules are a tool, and we want our tools to be as effective as possible. No matter how good those tools might be, they
running. There are times, though, when the design intent of a rule isn’t clear or when one rule seems to contradict another. Dealing with those situations is where Sage Advice comes in. This column
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata
help organize, and even inspire, the action of a D&D campaign. The rules are a tool, and we want our tools to be as effective as possible. No matter how good those tools might be, they need a group of
, though, when the design intent of a rule isn’t clear or when one rule seems to contradict another. Dealing with those situations is where Sage Advice comes in. It doesn’t replace a DM’s adjudication
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
victims of these monsters’ wrath. Goristros resemble hunched, primeval minotaurs bearing the scars of Abyssal wars or wounds from mighty war machines. Their appearance reflects that of their creator
without expending extra movement to do so.
Corrosive Form. Nonmagical ammunition is destroyed immediately after hitting the ooze and dealing any damage. Any nonmagical weapon takes a cumulative −1 penalty
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
trees, dealing 2 (1d4) bludgeoning damage. Arboreal fungus releases a cloud of toxic spores in the area. The character must succeed on a DC 12 Constitution saving throw or take 3 (1d6) poison damage
be patrolling the area around the hag’s cottage, and will invite the characters to meet Banrion in gratitude for them dealing with the hag threat.
Offer of Help At some point, Mother Stag arrives on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
in direct conflict with the other two factions, but that doesn’t always inspire cooperation. For example, the Chromatic Circle might focus on self-aggrandizement, as each member of the faction tries
to the point of joining a war against a different overlord. Or they could remain independent, traveling from one dragon’s domain to another and dealing with the complex and sometimes violent political
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
characters seek (see “Dealing with Tarina”). E8. Private Dining Room This room is called the Umber Hulk Room after the mounted head of an umber hulk hanging on the east wall. E9. Fancy Guest Suite This
dining room. E10. Private Dining Room The mounted head of a displacer beast hangs on the east wall near a small armoire to inspire this area’s name: the Displacer Beast Room. E11. Large Guest Room
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
the fray, arriving just as the characters finish dealing with Commander Vael’s flagship: Seven dragons with multicolored scales and gaseous wings slither through Wildspace with their mouths agape like
brandishes Xedalli’s ring of shooting stars; the dragons have been trained since birth not to harm anyone bearing such a ring.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
the past in the course of the adventure. In general, let the world’s history be evident in the present situation. Instead of dealing with what happened in the past, an adventure should focus on
that have been made freely available for use, as well as floor plans of real-world buildings and images that can inspire your mapmaking. You can also use software to help put your maps together.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
use the proficiency bonus in later steps, so jot it down now or remember it. Step 7. Armor Class A monster’s Armor Class has a direct bearing on its challenge rating, and vice versa. You can
A monster’s hit points have a direct bearing on its challenge rating, and vice versa. You can determine your monster’s hit points in one of two ways. Use the Table. You can start with the monster’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
project image when dealing with her agents. Personality Trait. “Others need to know only what’s necessary to accomplish my goals.” Ideal. “Peace, efficiency, and the smooth running of the imperial machine
historian. Secretary Wei also presents a scroll bearing a contract for the characters to sign. The contract calls for an initial payment of 1,000 gp per character, plus an additional 1,000 gp per character
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
, quarrying Forge* A miner’s pick
Valkauna LN Oaths, birth, aging, death Grave,* Life A silver ewer
Vergadain N Luck, wealth Trickery Gold coin bearing a dwarf’s face
*Appears
is the only advocate for change within the dwarven pantheon. He can inspire dwarves to seek shortcuts, normally frowned upon, but sometimes those methods turn out to be efficient techniques that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
at area H7. H2. Entry Hall The hall is strewn with rubble. Puddles of muddy rainwater pool over the floor and starlings’ nest in the eaves of the arched ceiling. There is a large banquet table bearing
most of his waking hours in here, attempting to decipher Thalivar’s coded research notes (see area H6). See “Dealing with Gallio Elibro” for advice on roleplaying the wizard if he’s present when the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
if its hunting companion is killed, or a mistreated toady might be eager to surrender and betray its boss in return for its life. You can use the Monster Relationships table to inspire such
DC 10 Wisdom saving throw. On a successful save, the creature either investigates or lays an ambush; on a failed save, it hides or fortifies its location. When dealing with a group of creatures, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
chandeliers fill a huge open chamber with brilliant light. The floors are carpeted, the walls decorated with scrollwork and painted with images of golden coins bearing the letter L. Dark wooden beams
center of the room stands a large glass globe on a stone pedestal. A brilliant ball of light pulses within the globe, which roils with dark energy bearing a disturbing resemblance to a map of the world
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Areas of the Vault The following locations are keyed to map 4.9. View Player Version V1. Vault Door A 20-foot-high, 20-foot-wide stone corridor ends before an adamantine double door bearing Dwarvish
ring must succeed on a DC 18 Dexterity saving throw or be struck by rays of magical fire that spring from the statue’s eyes, dealing 22 (4d10) fire damage. The trap doesn’t trigger if the target has
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Fortune-Telling A silver-colored tent stands near the market’s center, marked with a banner bearing a colorful jester’s hat surrounded by the words “Oddlewin’s Tent of Many Fortunes.” When the
the Disengage or Hide action.
Reactions
Reversal of Fortune. In response to another creature dealing damage to Oddlewin, Oddlewin reduces the damage to 0 and regains 9 (2d8) hit points.
Throne
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
and effects. Described below are a few of the general purposes a trap might have. Use them to inspire the creation of your own traps. Alarm. An alarm trap is designed to alert an area’s occupants of
. In addition to dealing damage, a restraining trap also renders a creature unable to move. Making a subsequent successful Strength check (using the trap’s saving throw DC) or dealing damage against the






