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Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
them take on a ghastly appearance and disappear, as well as twist shadow into terrifying bolts of energy that drain the vigor of their victims.
Death Giants
Long ago, a large band of cloud giants
god of death and memory who dwells on that plane. Accounts of that bet and its outcome vary: some say the Raven Queen answered every riddle the giants posed until the giants collapsed from exhaustion
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Death Rune. The giant has a death rune inscribed on a giant’s skull in its possession. While holding or wearing the skull bearing the rune, the giant can use its Reaping Scythe action and
Shroud of Souls bonus action.
The skull bearing the death rune has AC 18; 35 hit points; and immunity to necrotic, poison, and psychic damage. The skull regains all its hit points at the end of every turn
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
the servant to make one Destructive Fist attack against that creature.
While there are no attuned creatures inside the servant, it is an inert object.
Ghost in the Machine. Upon his death, the
sight of the servant, starting with those threatening the artifact— preferably using the servant, if possible.
Self-Destruct. By inputting a specific series of lever pulls and button presses
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
Character Death Epic threats and stakes can result in epic deaths. The Dungeon Master’s Guide has advice on how to handle character death in your game, but epic adventures pose unique challenges
campaign become an unrelenting endurance test. Even in low-difficulty and medium-difficulty encounters, a character can die from a series of bad rolls. But epic heroes deserve meaningful deaths, so
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
Officer Ryeback? Do they use the sending stone to contact Boatswain Tarto with news of Miken’s treachery and Petty Officer Ryeback’s death? If the characters use the sending stone to contact Tarto, she
commands them to wait for backup. If the characters heed this command, Tarto arrives a day later aboard the Flighty Foundling. The Spelljammer Academy adventure series concludes in Behold… H’Catha!
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
discuss how they might reunite and restore Sardior, the Ruby Dragon.
2
A horde of revenant;revenants led by a death knight has one goal—destroying the ancient sapphire dragon who defeated
sapphire dragon lair shown in map 5.12 is a series of natural tunnels and chambers the dragon has adapted to serve as a lair. The lair has few natural entrances, so whole sections are inaccessible
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hold Back The Dead
encroaching monsters and internal spies, or the region will fall to Szass Tam’s tide of death. “Hold Back the Dead” is part of a yearlong celebration of Dungeons & Dragons and its 50th anniversary. The
adventure is designed for four to six level 4 characters. Accompanying the adventure are character sheets for the six protagonists of the beloved 1980s Dungeons & Dragons animated series: Bobby, Diana
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
Mortuary Campaigns The Mortuary’s size and the multiversal scope of its operations make it well suited to longer adventures, especially those surrounding life, death, and the planes. Use this section
many planar portals, the Path of Graves connects
the Mortuary to places of death across the multiverse The Path of Graves is a hub of portals to and from morbid sites across the planes. Characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
. Longstanding and remarkable buildings of staggering scale, megastructures are often the headquarters of a faction and sites of untold adventures. The Mortuary is divided into a series of towers, each
elegies, and weeping with remorse. The stench of embalming fluids and rotting flesh wafts from its numerous morgues to stuffy undercrofts and dusty libraries filled with death certificates, funerary tomes, and grimoires bound in still-living flesh.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Astral Adventurer’s Guide
among them a few merchants and entrepreneurs set up shop. Even in a climate of lawlessness, the place evolved into something resembling a settlement of citizens. After Captain Bral’s death, the
there. One of the pirate captains, Cozar, sensed that times were changing on the Rock—that the days of lawlessness were coming to an end. Through a series of strategic alliances and shrewd business
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Death Giants Long ago, a large band of cloud giants traveled to the Shadowfell in search of a way to preserve their collapsing empire. Desperate to save themselves and their way of life, they
collectively made a bet with the Raven Queen, a mysterious god of death and memory who dwells on that plane. Accounts of that bet and its outcome vary: some say the Raven Queen answered every riddle the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
-to-the-death situation, the standard combat rules apply to that sort of activity. Resources. Engaging in this activity requires one workweek of effort from a character. Resolution. The character must
make a series of checks, with a DC determined at random based on the quality of the opposition that the character runs into. A big part of the challenge in pit fighting lies in the unknown nature of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
Door.” After delivery, corpses pass through a series of metal chutes that sort them by size and deposit them in the corpse-receiving-and-shipping department (detailed later in this supplement
). Creatures that convincingly play dead long enough—such as with a feign death spell—can inconspicuously enter the bowels of the Mortuary through Death’s Door. Front Gate. The most obvious path into the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
increasingly aggressive dragon activity. The characters are asked to investigate a devastating series of raids in the Misty Forest, leading to Neronvain in “Chapters 11 and 12: Death to the Wyrmspeakers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
increasingly aggressive dragon activity. The characters are asked to investigate a devastating series of raids in the Misty Forest, leading to Neronvain in “Chapters 11 and 12: Death to the Wyrmspeakers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
is watched over by two invisible nycaloths.
To flatter Netherskull, Halaster assigned a would-be apprentice to chronicle the death tyrant’s history in a series of journals. This biographer is a
spellbook, though Kavil is unaware of this.) As Netherskull’s appointed biographer, Kavil is expected to earn the death tyrant’s trust, but Netherskull trusts no wizard, and has been reluctant to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Death House Hauntings Martin Mottet If the characters fall in Death House, Strahd will happily claim the piece of the Rod of Seven Parts therein The characters enter the following haunted zones in
side of you. At the parlor’s far end, a pale man at a harpsichord slowly plinks out a haunting elegy. The ghostly figures listen to the song with rapt attention.
This zone resembles Death House’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
and the surface have strange angles 30 feet below the surface. There, gravity changes, and creatures descending into the depths start climbing into the Inverse. Eventually they reach a series of
. 4 A chaotic neutral duodrone carries a sign that reads “Glitch Is Nigh!” It entreats a character to prepare for the great multiversal realignment. Inverse Hideout Beltha’s lair is a series of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
carving in the manor reads: “The Death of Ravens Shalt Thou Abhor, Lest the Crawford Line Be Nevermore.” Glaston The residents of the village of Glaston cleave to druidic traditions. Rumors say ancient
Manor, once home to an eccentric inventor. Locustbranch Hospital Locustbranch was once a renowned hospital, but it was abandoned after a series of mysterious deaths. Now, ghostly patients pack its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
The Last War For hundreds of years the continent of Khorvaire was united under the Kingdom of Galifar. This came to an end with the death of King Jarot in 894 YK, just over a century ago. Conflict
questionable if any one nation can impose its will upon them.
Karrnathi Undead. When a series of famines and plagues crippled the nation of Karrnath, it embraced the Blood of Vol and introduced undead
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
holds the Horned King’s enormous ziggurat palace. A confusing jumble of crooked hallways and myriad chambers, the palace is surrounded by a mile-wide moat concealing a maddening series of submerged stairs
without a trace in its mazelike cities and in forests whose trees have serpents for branches. Death Dells. Yeenoghu rules a layer of ravines known as Death Dells. Here, creatures must hunt to survive
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
solve a riddle. The riddle he loudly expounds has no answer; it is simply a series of words that contains a hidden code. “What is NEW when it is made old, brings TROUBLE when first seen by its MAKERS
that there’s a problem before casting dimension door to arrive in the concealing underbrush near Valsyx’s clearing. Charnyz then attacks from hiding, and Valsyx joins her. The nagas fight to the death
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
a series of conflicts that came to be known as the Manshoon Wars.
A Flying Snake of the Zhentarim
Now the original Manshoon is dead, and it’s widely believed that all his clones were destroyed
as well. In fact, at least three are still alive. The one presently in Waterdeep escaped death by hiding out in Undermountain, where he eventually ran afoul of Halaster Blackcloak. After a brief spell
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
threatens the world. And the stories of these campaigns often include an element of romance: tragic affairs between star-crossed lovers, passion that transcends even death, and chaste adoration between
of a mythic fantasy campaign: Divine Trials. Seeking a gift or favor from the gods, the adventurers undertake a series of trials that lead them to the realms of the gods, where the adventurers can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
the following questions: Collective Misfortune. Do the characters gather to mourn the death of a loved one? Does fate bring them together as the survivors of a disaster, such as a shipwreck or
questions about topics likely to occur during a series of adventures: Allies and Sanctuaries. Is it ever appropriate to harm characters’ allies or destroy places they consider safe? Is doing so worth
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
222, a fetid realm of ooze and fungi, obeys the whims of Juiblex and Zuggtmoy. The Death Dells Yeenoghu and his gnoll servants prowl layer 422—a cruel, desolate realm. The Endless Maze Layer 600’s
, Orcus yearns to make the multiverse a place of death and despair, forever unchanging except by his will, and to turn all creatures into Undead under his control. Orcus’s realm of Thanatos is a land of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Halflings I don’t have enough fingers and toes to count the times I saw our little rogue cheat death, but I remember them all. Let’s see … there was the enraged roper, the flaming lava stream, the
catapulted gelatinous cubes, the Ten Tilting Corridors of Death, the exploding toad trap, the Hall of the Spinning Scimitars …
— Magnificus, wizard extraordinaire
Anyone who has spent time around
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
elevated chamber carved into the cliffs of a small island abutting the beach (in the center right of the map) serves as a larder in case of a siege. It also houses a clever series of mirrors arranged
kender named Tasslehoff Burrfoot to capture Highmaster Bakaris. Later, in the Blue Lady’s War, Tasslehoff foresaw Fireflash’s demise at the hands of the death knight Lord Soth—and was thus able to avert
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
of mighty constructs. Fellik quickly leads you through a series of trash canyons.
Curst Escape Features Curst’s dump has the following features: Garbage Heaps. Trash heaps are 20 feet tall. Garbage
Mercykillers fight to the death. A character who succeeds on a DC 20 Charisma (Deception) check convinces the Mercykillers that Valder is dead or not in Curst. Tunnel. The tunnel to the north winds for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
anvil on a diamond. Such a mark is your only warning, and those ignorant of its meaning court death at the hands of dwarf patrols that will attack any interlopers. Some innocents have been spared and
great Shaengarne river rushes through a deep canyon of rock and ice in a series of cascades and waterfalls, throwing up freezing froth as it bashes against massive spires of rock that rise from the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
stronghold, typically a series of chambers dug out beneath a mountain or inside a hill. The stronghold is a haven from the chaos of the outside world, allowing the dwarves to toil in peace. The first
victim to outside forces, such an event is often the clan’s death knell. A Living Monument The masons and stone carvers in a clan consider the stronghold to be their greatest work. In a typical stronghold
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
frog to croak the book’s title in Elvish. This book is volume 3 of an eleven-book series titled Tales from the Gloaming Court. Endelyn stole this book and its companion (in area M17) from her sister
, Skabatha, is cursed to forget the first creature she sees when she wakes each morning. In the event of Endelyn’s death, she wants this secret to be known, so Endelyn wrote it on a scrap of invisible
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
, all its answers support Awa’s story from the “Death in the Mines” section. Multiple Paths. Awa wasn’t sure which of the southern tunnels he fled through. Characters who search the area and succeed on
follow any other tunnel, they reach a dead end after 10 minutes and have a 50 percent chance of encountering two aurumvoraxes gnawing on a seam of gold ore. These aurumvoraxes fight to the death and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
a period of struggle or turmoil. Sometimes it’s a war or uprising; other times it’s an election, the death of a tyrant, a prophecy fulfilled, or the appointment of a hero. Conversely, the new leader
becomes the prevailing trait that defines the era, the characteristic for which it is remembered. Name the person (or people) whose death, defeat, or loss opened the door for this leader to take power
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Darklord Slaying a villain isn’t in itself a heroic goal, but the death of a villain generally means an end to its evil and its ability to affect others. Such isn’t true of Darklords. Typically, when
their grip on their domain is undermined. Such a defeat might involve a climactic battle following a series of heroic accomplishments. If you plan a climactic confrontation with a Darklord—after which