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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
their coastal territories overlap, and they can nurture an inexplicably intense hatred of these metallic dragons. They can also draw the ire of druids and other nature protectors who don’t
to ask for help getting home.
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A topaz dragon is building a tableau of desiccated creatures and has grown obsessed with catching one treasure hunter who escaped the dragon’s clutches
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
conflict with bronze dragons when their coastal territories overlap, and they can nurture an inexplicably intense hatred of these metallic dragons. They can also draw the ire of druids and other nature
, but the dragon is too proud to ask for help getting home.
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A topaz dragon is building a tableau of desiccated creatures and has grown obsessed with catching one treasure hunter who escaped the
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
come into conflict with bronze dragons when their coastal territories overlap, and they can nurture an inexplicably intense hatred of these metallic dragons. They can also draw the ire of druids and
from the sea, but the dragon is too proud to ask for help getting home.
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A topaz dragon is building a tableau of desiccated creatures and has grown obsessed with catching one treasure hunter
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
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Topaz dragons often come into conflict with bronze dragons when their coastal territories overlap, and they can nurture an inexplicably intense hatred of these metallic dragons. They can also draw
injured and stranded far from the sea, but the dragon is too proud to ask for help getting home.
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A topaz dragon is building a tableau of desiccated creatures and has grown obsessed with catching
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Scions of Elemental Evil
Conclusion Once the characters defeat Ulsedra Vox, any cultists remaining inside the temple flee when told their leader is gone. The characters can easily leave the building. On the temple’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
atmosphere of building dread, created through careful pacing and evocative description. Your players contribute too; they have to be willing to embrace the mood you’re trying to evoke. Whether you want to run
a full-fledged dark-fantasy campaign or a single creepy adventure, you should discuss your plans with the players ahead of time to make sure they’re on board. Horror can be intense and personal, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
exploration of the building. As the party initially surveys the house, it manifests subtle hauntings. The characters are then invited to participate in the first of several séances, allowing them to commune
ultimately wake the collective spirits and sinister forces lurking in the manor, trapping the characters inside the house. Escape requires the party to defeat an ageless evil. If they don’t, they’ll become another group of lost spirits imprisoned within the House of Lament.
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
cruel in victory, goblins are fawning and servile in defeat, just as in their own society lower castes must scrape before those of greater status and as goblin tribes bow before other goblinoids
goblin tribe has to nobility is the caste of lashers — families of goblins trained in the ways of battle, and also possessed of key skills such as strategy, trap-building, beast taming, mining
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Challenge A monster’s challenge rating tells you how great a threat the monster is, according to the encounter-building guidelines in chapter 3 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide. Those guidelines specify
the numbers of adventurers of a certain level that should be able to defeat a monster of a particular challenge rating without suffering any deaths. An appropriately equipped and well-rested party of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
: Forges. Intense heat and thick smoke billow from five forges protruding from the cavern walls, their fires illuminating the cave. An azer smith stands at each forge.
Scrap Pile. A 20-foot-high pile of
. The azers understand the purpose of the Simulacrux (to replicate scaladar) but are under the false impression that Zox is building it at Trobriand’s behest, not for his own ends. The azers are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
had risen again, becoming an evil god of secrets and magic on Oerth. Vecna’s defeat of Kas grates on the warlord’s ego. Kas aches to annihilate Vecna. Meanwhile, Vecna has been building his power, though the lich yearns to finally destroy his former lieutenant.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
effects of your spells often sound like amplified echoes of your own voice speaking the spells’ verbal components—even amid the crash of lightning or a fiery eruption. Building a Silverquill Character Many
, highlighting the diversity of the student body. Suggested Characteristics. With the college’s intense standards looming over them, Silverquill students range from cocky and cutthroat to overwhelmed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
horde soon begins overwhelming defenses nearby. Once the characters defeat a few zombies, roll 1d6 and consult the Zombie Siege Encounters table. The event rolled unfolds within sight of one of the
siege weapon to fire into the city or start a conflagration.
9 Fighting breaks out at a building Talon priests use to treat the wounded.
10 Zombies break through a gate and begin scaling
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
somewhere influenced by intense planar forces or a portal to another plane of existence, such as one of the gate-towns in the Outlands. You’re accustomed to experiences that would leave others reeling in
(presented later in this chapter). In addition, you know where to find free, modest lodging and food in the community you grew up in. Building a Gate Warden Character Those who dwell for an extended time
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
-high ceiling of this cavern is a forest of icicles, some of which have grown to a length of five feet or more. Embedded in the south wall is a cylindrical, domed building made of seamless black stone
and decorated with faintly glowing constellations. Rime-covered statues of human wizards stand in front of this building, gazing outward from atop three-foot-high stone pedestals. The building and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
besieged by 2d6 zombies and 2d6 skeletons led by a ghoul. If the characters defeat the undead, the temple rewards them with 5 gallons of tej and a potion of healing. 7 Shouts of “Look out!” give a character
a brief warning as a water barrel, building stone, or other heavy weight crashes down. The character must succeed on a DC 12 Dexterity saving throw or be struck, taking 14 (4d6) bludgeoning damage
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Step 3: Determine Numbers and Challenge Ratings The process for building fights that feature only one legendary monster is simple. The Solo Monster Challenge Rating table shows you which challenge
. If you want to create an easier encounter that will challenge characters but not threaten to defeat them, you can treat the party as if it were roughly one-third smaller than it is. For example, to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Giants of the Star Forge
takes 42 (12d6) acid damage. 3: Iron Shelter This massive iron dwelling sports large doors, furniture, and fixtures. The building is divided into two chambers: a long bedchamber to the north and a
workshop to the south. A simple furnace—its light and heat humble compared to the Star Forge—fills one wall of the southern chamber. Heaped in a pile near the furnace are metal building materials, gigantic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
dragon is building a tableau of desiccated creatures and has grown obsessed with catching one treasure hunter who escaped the dragon’s clutches.
7 A topaz dragon has developed a taste for merfolk
rarely go out of their way to fight other creatures, however, with the exception of bronze dragons, for whom they bear an inexplicably intense hatred. Topaz Dragon Wyrmling Connections d6 Connected
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
multicolored gas. An intense, flickering light emanates from the moon’s core, creating a sort of celestial beacon. Lesk. The largest of the nine moons of En is a dark desert. Here, clans of ssurran (see
Menagerie) that abides no solicitors. Yort. This cold, swampy moon is strewn with the petrified skeletons of kindori (see Boo’s Astral Menagerie). Humanoid evacuees from Fyreen have taken to building
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
building has sleeping quarters for rent on the upper floor, usually sufficient to accommodate the slow stream of travelers making their way through Saltmarsh on the way to somewhere else. Those who seek an
noble family, this building was purchased by the crown and serves as the dwarven mining company’s headquarters in Saltmarsh. Manistrad Copperlocks stays here when she must do business in town
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
Inside the Inn The cultists of Talos are performing a ritual inside the Wayside Inn. The doors and windows to the building are locked but can be opened with a successful DC 15 Dexterity check using
terror. If the adventurers free her, she joins the battle to help the party defeat the threat. Although she’s now a respectable innkeeper, Martisha is a former bandit captain whose weapons are close at hand.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
19. Obo’laka’s Shrine A pair of needlelike columns mark the entrance to a walled ruin. In the courtyard beyond, banyan roots envelop a squat building. The stone doors that seal the entrance are
who would deny him the cube. Voj takes orders from Zagmira and knows the legend of Obo’laka and I’jin. If the characters defeat him, they find some valuables on his person (see “Treasure” below) that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
the world-building is done for you. However, this means your players might know as much about the setting as you do. You can get around this by changing key aspects of the setting to better serve
-forgotten empires. Greyhawk As tensions rise among warring nations, heroes plunder dungeons to gain the magic and might they need to defeat the growing forces of evil. Planescape Sigil, the City of Doors
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
reclusive orders, but these outposts serve Elemental Evil. When the characters infiltrate or defeat these disguised groups of cultists, they discover that each Haunted Keep guards a passage leading to a huge
dungeon beneath the Sumber Hills, the new Temple of Elemental Evil. Here, the elemental cults have established themselves in the ruins of an ancient dwarven stronghold. They are building up their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
admittance.” Enclosed are tickets for the entire party to The Fall of Tiamat, an opera sung in Giant describing the evil dragon queen’s defeat at the Well of Dragons. Mirt If any of the characters join the
the appearances of Davil Starsong and Yagra Stonefist. Reward: Each Harper character gains 1 renown. 3rd “Uza Solizeph is an old woman who sells books out of a narrow three-story building on Sorn
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
characters defeat a group of blights, a new wave appears; repeat the die roll to see how many more blights arrive. With the appearance of each new wave, it should become increasingly obvious to the
the “Trouble at the Docks” encounter when they arrive. Hole Up. If the characters try to barricade themselves in a building or find somewhere else in the settlement to hide, the increasingly violent
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
rumors, and building a bad reputation around town. As a rule of thumb, a character has a 10 percent chance of triggering a complication for each workweek of carousing. Lower-Class Carousing Complications
some quest on behalf of a temple or a guild. 3 A social gaffe has made you the talk of the town.* 4 A particularly obnoxious person has taken an intense romantic interest in you.* 5 You have made a foe
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
third séance (see the following “Séances” section). Use ambient haunts and the atmosphere-building tips from earlier in this chapter to drive the adventure toward a dramatic scene where it feels
character experiencing the nightmare, embellishing them or presenting them as intense but half-remembered visions. Characters might witness any of the following events: A warlord in a skull-shaped helmet
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
the main doors hang open. No sign of any other creatures in or around the building can be seen.
Characters can easily force their way into the chapel through any of its broken stained-glass windows
if either of those creatures survived. Gideon doesn’t accompany the characters, wanting to guard the chapel against demon attacks. G5. Gideon’s Quarters This small building was Gideon Lightward’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
magic spell or similar effect, the Soulmonger radiates an intense aura of necromantic magic. Destroying the Soulmonger not only ends the effects of the death curse (see the introduction to the
. Acererak’s Defeat If Acererak drops below 100 hit points, he casts teleport on his next turn and flees. As he departs, read: “We’ll meet again, fools!” says the lich. “And on that day, you will die!” With
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
the party risks defeat. XP Thresholds by Character Level Character
Level
----- Encounter Difficulty -----
Easy Medium Hard Deadly 1st 25 50 75 100 2nd 50 100 150 200 3rd 75 150 225 400 4th
the sum of its parts. Building Encounters on a Budget You can build an encounter if you know its desired difficulty. The party’s XP thresholds give you an XP budget that you can spend on monsters to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
armor is clearly decorative, though the helmet and the sword are genuine items of good quality. Above the armor is a trapdoor that opens upward into an attic that runs the length of the building. The
. If the characters defeat the animated chained library, one of its books breaks free with a length of chain still attached and functions as a +1 flail. The book is entitled Martial Attack Techniques
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
cast a sickly pall over the area.
R3: Dryad’s Tree A redwood towers above, its trunk as wide as a building and its bark peeling like dry skin. A few feet above the ground, a figure with green skin
Hostile toward all who approach. As an Influence action, a character can try to convince Armin that the characters are strong enough to defeat Sunset-Is-Nigh. The character makes a DC 13 Charisma
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
investigate the fallen manor and the dungeons beneath it. Once a small but elegant estate, the ruined building sits upon a hill overlooking Phandalin. Years of neglect had already done considerable
might defeat her. She orders her jackals to cover her retreat, but they follow her lead the next round. She surrenders if she faces death with no way to escape. Development. Hamebi works for the Six