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Animate Dead Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

This spell creates an undead servant. Choose a pile of bones or a corpse of a Medium or Small humanoid within range. Your spell imbues the target with a foul mimicry of life, raising it as an undead

command to each one). You decide what action the creature will take and where it will move during its next turn, or you can issue a general command, such as to guard a particular chamber or corridor. If you

Scenario 2: Waves of Undead

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh

when the current fight is over, or subsequent waves will move through it freely. Alternatively, you might decide that a door is too damaged to be repaired. Wave 1 Six drowned blades rush to assault

drowned blades and two drowned ascetics assault the hermitage. The drowned blades arrive at the door that leads into area 11 and attempt to enter. The drowned ascetics enter through any previously opened

Where Next?

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus

negotiate for his release if the characters capture him. He suggests that it would be most unwise to oppose a duke of Baldur’s Gate without leverage. If the characters decide to attack Vanthampur Villa

-level characters). Four fists of Bane, three night blades, and two necromites of Myrkul try to capture one or more city residents, in the hopes of torturing or ransoming them. Murder Squad (for 4th

Animate Dead

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)

undead servant. Choose a pile of bones or a corpse of a Medium or Small humanoid within range. Your spell imbues the target with a foul mimicry of life, raising it as an undead creature. The target

decide what action the creature will take and where it will move during its next turn, or you can issue a general command, such as to guard a particular chamber or corridor. If you issue no commands, the

Animate Dead

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)

undead servant. Choose a pile of bones or a corpse of a Medium or Small humanoid within range. Your spell imbues the target with a foul mimicry of life, raising it as an undead creature. The target

decide what action the creature will take and where it will move during its next turn, or you can issue a general command, such as to guard a particular chamber or corridor. If you issue no commands, the

Random Encounters

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

adornment’s sake is something duergar society frowns upon, the guards’ violent response was unnatural — a hint of the growing madness festering inside the City of Blades. Deep Gnome Merchant A female

for was recently arrested and executed for selling stolen jewelry. You can decide whether Ariana’s interest in the characters attracts the attention of a duergar patrol. Subsequent occurrences of this

Example Simple Traps

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything

the dungeon, the portcullis closes off the dungeon entrance, which is hundreds of feet away, meaning that adventurers don’t know they are trapped until they decide to head for the exit. Trigger. A

moving blades that sweep down through a chamber, threatening anyone nearby. Typically, a scything blade trap is activated by manipulating a lever or some other simple device. Kobolds especially like

Possible Visions

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

King As much as the characters learned from fighting the Pudding King in Blingdenstone, they might decide to seek more knowledge of the mad svirfneblin or his fiendish master, Juiblex the Faceless

that cast them out and devour it all! Sundered Blades The corruption in Gracklstugh slowly rots duergar society from within, leading it toward a brutal fate. You see a circle of small hooded figures

Skytower Shelter Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

stone, set with a crude gate made of thick lumber and festooned with metal blades. Gaps in the gate allow you to see an unusually tall figure in hide armor standing ten feet behind it and clutching a

wooden bars seal the gate. The blades affixed to the gate and the surrounding barricade make climbing impossible. The goliaths attack anyone who bypasses the gate without Arn’s consent. Nine goliath

Wedding Itinerary

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

damage a creature. (You can decide whether to allow Tannus to fight to protect himself or others, but should encourage the player running him to think about creative nonattack ways to influence the fight

shaping a massive mosaic. Not far from the dwarves is a large metallic construct with a terrifying number of appendages ending in blades and saws. It is thankfully unmoving. A female dwarf with sharp

Super-Secret Basement

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

until destroyed. Buzz Saw of Doom. The cylindrical object in the room’s center looks like two barrels placed atop one another, with sharp, circular blades jutting out in various directions. When the

wants desperately to return to Mechanus. You can decide whether the characters can help Stevie with this plight as a side trek or a downtime activity. Alternatively, the modron might have been

The Seldarine

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

followers will straighten things up, bring fresh flowers, and refresh offerings of food, water, and wine. Especially vigilant individuals might even decide to clean up after others who carelessly spill a

weapons and gear used by her followers, such as silver arrowheads, knife blades, and wooden shields, are often decorated with a stylized image of Sehanine’s eye with rays coming out of it — a warning to

Maelstrom Level 2

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder

to make sure they don’t wander. Meanwhile, after a private discussion, Mirran and Nym decide that the adventurers must be eliminated. Nym goes to inform Serissa that assassins have breached

whalebone blades lined with shark teeth. The shields and the weapons aren’t particularly valuable, especially given their weight. A concave wall to the south has a giant-sized secret door set into it. It

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