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Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Frost.First Form
In her first form, Auril appears as a hunched, 7-foot-tall biped with the head of a snowy owl, black talons, cloven hooves, and grayish-white wolf fur covering her body from the neck down
demystifying her in the eyes of your players. Let her actions, not her words, define her.
Lesser gods in the D&D multiverse are extremely powerful and arrogant, but also fallible and blind to their
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
part of them expressed to an extreme. To define a persona, feel free to choose characteristics from other backgrounds, particularly folk hero, hermit, or noble. For the person behind the persona, the
, sometimes needing to recuperate for a day or more.
5
I think far ahead, a detachedness often mistaken for daydreaming.
6
I see morality entirely in black and white.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Noteworthy Sites Dayawlongon is a tropical archipelago whose waters hold massive whirlpools that make boat travel between the islands challenging. Winding rivers, deep jungles, and mountains define
invaders burned the great tree and razed Bathalang Puno, killing untold people and spirits alike. In the aftermath, Lambakluha became a cursed place, where spirits seethe in the land, spreading
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
(small), Kothar (demon), Litrix (armor), Mirik (song), Othokent (smart), Sauriv (eye), Throden (many), Thurkear (night), Usk (iron), Valignat (burn), Vargach (battle), Verthica (mountain), Vutha (black
Common words.
Lizardfolk use active verbs to describe the world. A lizardfolk in cold weather might say, “This wind brings cold” rather than “I feel cold.”
Lizardfolk tend to define things in terms of actions, rather than effects.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
effectively in its frozen lands. The Green and Black Dragon Armies focus on their occupied lands abroad. In Neraka, zealots and black-robed mages devise magical plans to empower Dragon Army forces. One such
warriors cause misery, exploding in gouts of acid or plumes of gas. Be careful.
Even if we survive the invaders, we don’t have enough to eat, and little planting is being done in the surrounding
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
fought side by side for many years, expanding their domain and then defending it against adventurers and other invaders. By this time, Umbraxakar had stopped caring about anything except his friendship
encounter magical projections of Umbraxakar. These shadowy images take the form of harmless, dragon-shaped clouds of black fog. A projection that is targeted by a dispel magic spell or touched by an antimagic field is destroyed instantly. It otherwise cannot be harmed.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
might hail from any corner of Krynn. Below are just a few of the distinct human nations of Ansalon. You might be a member of any of these societies, or you can choose another home to define as you
at the trade hub of Khuri-Khan, opposes the invaders. Nordmaar. Most humans of Nordmaar live either in rugged coastal communities to the north or among the nomadic tribes of the south. Both proud groups have strong ties with the people of Solamnia.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Llanos of Atagua, thereafter invading the neighboring region of San Citlán. But after three centuries of occupation, the mixed descendants of the Flood People who first settled Atagua and former invaders
Flood People, the descendants of invaders who rebelled against their leaders and settled here, and a steady stream of new immigrants and adventurers drawn to the freedom and challenges of life on the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
-and-black veins visibly show through her pale skin. While this discoloration is unignorable, the toxins grant her immunity to poison damage and being poisoned. Her genius and ambition define her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
served as an important city hub for years. The fall of Cynidicea began when workers digging under the ziggurat discovered a gnarled, jet-black horn jutting from a mysterious obelisk. Unknown to the
their fellow citizens as sacrifices to a new and voracious god, gradually forming a strange cult to Zargon. Choked by Zargon’s slime and assailed by opportunistic invaders, the Cynidiceans fled
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
that define the environment the characters are exploring. For example, an encounter table filled with bats, wraiths, giant spiders, and zombies creates a sense of horror and suggests the possibility of
invaders, lone messengers riding for the front lines, enemy war parties, and so on. A Life of Its Own. Sometimes a random encounter that starts off incidental can become important to the story. A random
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Master’s Guide). 29b. Underbrew in Chains Affixed to the back wall of the western alcove is a stone-framed painting of a scarred male dwarf wearing black plate armor. He is bound by heavy iron chains
vowed to serve the Mad Mage as an enforcer, ridding the dungeon of other invaders. Unwilling to face his own mortal end, Underbrew made this vow and convinced himself over time that the executions he
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
, Mayor Raven, Jeyev, and a few other locals. Read or paraphrase the following as the characters leave Vogler behind: Vogler is in flames. Amid the columns of smoke rising from the village, invaders
loot what remains. The villagers traveling with you don’t look away, watching until their home is nothing more than a red-black smear along the river’s edge. The evacuation boats carry all that remains
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
, engulfed the temple in black fire, and burned it to the ground. The invaders also acquired enough treasure from the temple vaults to fund Lord Vanrak’s personal quest for immortality. Within a few years
The Dark Fate of Lord Vanrak Moonstar Adherents of Shar have been active in the shadow of Mount Waterdeep ever since a disastrous expedition to the Black Jungles mounted in the Year of the Dark Dawn
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
: “Dragon!”
Then it comes into view. Pitching this way and that, its scales clanking like steel plates, a black beast draws near the wharf, flanked by reptilian invaders. Flames crackle from the beast’s
brute in black scale armor emerges from the inn. Holding a barrel of fish under one arm, the hulking figure fills her mouth with a fistful of wriggling fish.
From behind her, two reptilian soldiers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
hero or extraordinary person they are every day. That’s all a facade, though, or a part of them expressed to an extreme. To define a persona, feel free to choose characteristics from other backgrounds
no sense of humor. Laughing is uncomfortable and embarrassing. 4 I overexert myself, sometimes needing to recuperate for a day or more. 5 I think far ahead, a detachedness often mistaken for daydreaming. 6 I see morality entirely in black and white.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Characteristics A faceless character usually plays their persona — the hero or extraordinary person they are every day. That’s all a facade, though, or a part of them expressed to an extreme. To define a
unflinchingly.
3 I have no sense of humor. Laughing is uncomfortable and embarrassing.
4 I overexert myself, sometimes needing to recuperate for a day or more.
5 I think far ahead, a detachedness often mistaken for daydreaming.
6 I see morality entirely in black and white.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
include the heads of local militias, gangs, and other martial organizations. At the broadest scale, a criminal or underworld leader wields power through a network of spies, bribes, and black-market trade
might be a tyrant, a fiend, or black-hearted villain, and the era that just ended could have been one of peace, tranquility, and justice. A new leader shakes the foundations of your campaign world and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
and later animated by Ogrémoch’s Bane (see “Settlers, Squatters, and Invaders” later in this chapter). They have the statistics of animated armor, except they are elementals instead of constructs
Blingdenstone. Roll a d4 and consult the Roaming Ooze table to determine what appears. d4 Encounter 1 1 black pudding 2 1 gelatinous cube 3 1d4 + 1 gray oozes, one of which is a psychic gray ooze variant (as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
one corner of the town square stands the Great Shalarn, a black stone statue of a famous war stallion bred in Amphail long ago. Gelded by a prankster, the rearing stone horse is often painted in
is now a desert. Northernmost Anauroch is a cold land of frost-rimed rock and the black glacier known as the High Ice. Farther south lies the waterless Plain of Standing Stones, where winds scour
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
City Locations The locations detailed here can serve as a good starting point for your campaign. Use them as examples when fleshing out new locations for your game. Black Dragon Inn This three-story
, slightly run-down inn is situated in the heart of the city. A sign carved to resemble the grinning visage of a black dragon hangs over the front door. A stable is located behind the inn.
The Black
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
postern entrance from the grotto, allowing the garrison to fire arrows or hurl rocks at invaders. It remains an excellent defensive position. The door from the open battlement into the corridor that
uncomfortable-looking stools stand around them. One of the ink pots has been overturned, resulting in a large black stain on one tabletop.
This chamber served as the officers’ quarters for the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Settlers, Squatters, and Invaders The current citizens of Blingdenstone are a different breed than their forebears. They aren’t simply hard workers and resourceful miners, but also settlers
, eventually subjugating a black pudding he calls “Princess Ebonmire” and a gray ooze he calls “Prince Livid.” When the demon lords arrived in the Underdark, he followed the oozes drawn by Juiblex’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
-foot-high towers that stand along them are fashioned from smooth black stone. The tops of the walls are tapered and lined with 5-foot-tall stone spikes spaced 10 feet apart. The spikes have sticky webs
drow in the courtyard, invaders must contend with the drow in the guard towers, who can target creatures both inside and outside the courtyard. Each of the guard towers (areas 18a through 18d) is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Chromatic Dragons The black, blue, green, red, and white dragons represent the evil side of dragonkind. Aggressive, gluttonous, and vain, chromatic dragons are dark sages and powerful tyrants feared
security for its hoard. Most chromatic dragon lairs are hidden in dangerous and remote locations to prevent all but the most audacious mortals from reaching them. A black dragon might lair in the heart of a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
. Characters with a passive Wisdom (Perception) score of 18 or higher notice hints of figures wearing red-and-black clothing among the tree branches ahead in area P2. These are Dragon Army soldiers
guardian of Onyari’s gardens. The treant endured both the city’s fall and the Cataclysm here. Recently, invaders have been trying to fell Duskwalker’s trees for wood. The treant has killed—and will
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Gods of the Orcs Orcs believe their gods to be invincible. They see the principles that define them and their deities at work every day in the world around them — nature rewards the strong and
. Luthic’s devoted also grow their claws long and paint them black to mimic the fearsome talons of their goddess. Luthic rewards them by making their claws as strong and tough as iron. Holding the Fort
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sleeping Dragon’s Wake
-year old human prefers the company of animals to people and often speaks of her desire to help beasts conquer Faerûn.
Zuri Kimyak. Zuri is a short woman in her twenties with wild black hair dyed
owlbear to stop attacking. The owlbear resumes its attack if it is damaged, threatened, or commanded to do so by Claugiyliamatar or a Gnawbones druid. C3. Gnawbones Camp A small black iron cauldron
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
ability to rally in the face of certain death, inspiring other kobolds to follow it in a charge against the invaders of their warren. Kobold Dragonshield
Small humanoid (kobold), lawful evil
Armor
resistance to a type of damage based on the color of dragon that invested it with power (choose or roll a d10): 1–2, acid (black); 3–4, cold (white); 5–6, fire (red); 7–8, lightning (blue); 9–10, poison (green
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
killed by drow invaders less than a tenday ago. The tomb tapper chased the drow to this point before they finally killed it. (The characters might have encountered the drow already in chapter 6.) The
. Chain Lightning Stadium The air around this amphitheater is charged with static. Cracked steps descend to the stadium floor, where a tiny glittering object rests on a pedestal of black stone. Three
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
invaders could scale the outer wall and enter the compound undetected if they were lucky enough to avoid the notice of the guards. G3. Earth Mother’s Bounty The first thing visitors to Goldenfields see as
clothing, as it were. His assignment is to determine how easy it would be for the Black Network to gain control of Goldenfields, and report his findings to Nalaskur Thaelond in Bargewright Inn. Shalvus
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a1
niche, which holds a pallet of matted furs, a wide wooden board on which a variety of weapons are affixed, and a great cloak of patchy black fur hung on a slender pole. To the edge of the niche are
yelling in a language other than Goblin, the use of flashy magical effects, or similar noticeable elements alerts Belak in area 56 to the approach of invaders. 56. The Gulthias Tree A walled clearing is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a2
successful DC 12 Strength or Dexterity saving throws to avoid losing their grip and falling if they aren’t otherwise secured. Development. If the orcs destroy the bridge but repel the invaders in doing
black robe looks up from her work, her face twisted in an expression of rage.
Creatures. Burdug the shaman, an orc Eye of Gruumsh, has commandeered a chamber as her private domain. She lives here with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
area.
Dozens of sahuagin here are gathered in small groups or floating in the seaweed beds.
Although the sahuagin are not anticipating invaders, if the characters enter the room without taking
fortress.
41. Banquet Hall The corridor leads to a great hall, its floor tiled in black, the walls in coral pink, and the ceiling in white. Black-tiled pillars are regularly placed in a line
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
you have of unintentionally demystifying her in the eyes of your players. Let her actions, not her words, define her. Lesser gods in the D&D multiverse are extremely powerful and arrogant, but also
with the head of a snowy owl, black talons, cloven hooves, and grayish-white wolf fur covering her body from the neck down. Protruding from her feathery owl’s head is a pair of curved goat horns. A