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Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures
Knightly Virtue. The knight has one of the following traits, depending on the court it serves:
Courage (Embereth). The knight has advantage on Wisdom checks and Wisdom saving throws.
Knowledge
: the wildest parts of Eldraine. To that end, they patrol the forests along the Boundary Lands, turning back loggers and hunters—by force if necessary.
Though they’ve renounced their
Magic Items
Princes of the Apocalypse
reaches the edge of the area of effect; at that point, the water flows downhill (and possibly recedes back to its origin). Light structures collapse and wash away. Any Large or smaller creature caught in
the flood’s path is swept away. The flooding destroys crops and might trigger mudslides, depending on the terrain.
magic-items
While inactive, the mobility wonder resembles a metal turtle shell with straps. It is designed to be worn on your back or flank, depending on your anatomy. Once wound, the mobility wonder transforms
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Mobility Wonder (Common). While inactive, the mobility wonder resembles a metal turtle shell with straps. It is designed to be worn on your back or flank, depending on your anatomy. Once wound, the
A Mechanical Wonder is a semi-autonomous object imbued with magical power. Mechanical Wonders vary greatly in size and form depending on their function.
A Mechanical Wonder is a dormant object until
Gladiator
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Backgrounds
Player’s Handbook (2014)
a place, you receive free lodging and food of a modest or comfortable standard (depending on the quality of the establishment), as long as you perform each night. In addition, your performance makes
I love.
2
Someone stole my precious instrument, and someday I’ll get it back.
3
I want to be famous, whatever it takes.
4
I idolize a hero of the old tales and measure my deeds
Entertainer
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Backgrounds
Player’s Handbook (2014)
but possibly with a circus, at a theater, or even in a noble’s court. At such a place, you receive free lodging and food of a modest or comfortable standard (depending on the quality of the
)
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Bond
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My instrument is my most treasured possession, and it reminds me of someone I love.
2
Someone stole my precious instrument, and someday I’ll get it back
magic-items
resembles a metal turtle shell with straps. It is designed to be worn on your back or flank, depending on your anatomy. Once wound, the mobility wonder transforms into a personal transport device and
A Mechanical Wonder is a semi-autonomous object imbued with magical power. Mechanical Wonders vary greatly in size and form depending on their function.
A Mechanical Wonder is a dormant object until
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
creatures, such as the veteran, can have any alignment. In other words, you choose the creature’s alignment. Depending on the creature, its alignment entry might indicate a tendency or aversion toward
law, chaos, good, or evil. Unaligned. Many creatures of low intelligence have no comprehension of law or chaos, good or evil. They don’t make moral or ethical choices, but rather act on instinct. These creatures are unaligned, which means they don’t have an alignment.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
commoner, can have any alignment. In other words, you choose the creature’s alignment. Depending on the creature, its alignment entry might indicate a tendency or aversion toward law, chaos, good, or evil
. Unaligned. Many creatures of low intelligence have no comprehension of law or chaos, good or evil. They don’t make moral or ethical choices, but rather act on instinct. These creatures are unaligned, which means they don’t have an alignment.
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
court. At such a place, you receive free lodging and food of a modest or comfortable standard (depending on the quality of the establishment), as long as you perform each night. In addition, your
me of someone I love.
2
Someone stole my precious instrument, and someday I’ll get it back.
3
I want to be famous, whatever it takes.
4
I idolize a hero of the old tales and
Magic Items
Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
metal bosses adorn the armor in seemingly random fashion. On the back of the armor’s left gauntlet is a rectangular metal box, from which projects a short rod tipped with a cone-shaped red
. It is found with one energy cell attached, containing 2d10 charges.
POWERED ARMOR OPTIONS
Depending on where and how it appears in the adventure, you might wish to modify the features of Kwalish
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
trip back to Dougan’s Hole can be uneventful, or you can roll for a random encounter using the Wilderness Encounters rules (see "Wilderness Encounters"). If the winter wolves are still alive, they
attack the party as soon as the random encounter ends, before the characters have a chance to rest. Killing one wolf triggers the self-preservation instinct in its brother, causing it to flee.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Conclusion The journey back to the Tinjhorna River is uneventful. The riverine Tinjhorna is enthusiastic to hear about the characters’ journey and thanks them for investigating. When the characters
return to Sagorpur with Amanisha and the Riverine’s Shankha, they receive a hero’s welcome, along with the rewards Plabon and the other trial judges promised. Depending on Adirohit’s fate, only time will tell how the riverine could change the waters of the swamp forest or whether he is lost forever.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Back to the Material Plane Characters can use the shadow crossing to return to Chalet Brantifax’s graveyard, but only in the gloomy hours of the morning. Given the chance, however, members of the
Scarlet Sash take the time to fill in Sylphene’s grave, holding no hope of the characters’ return. In a darkly humorous turn of events, characters who use the shadow crossing to try to get back to Chalet
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Yellow Musk Creeper and Zombies The characters pass close to a ruin inhabited by 3d6 yellow musk zombies (see appendix D). The zombies might be spread across the area or bunched together, depending
emerge from a nearby ruin to attack the camp and attempt to knock characters unconscious. They then drag those characters back to the yellow musk creeper.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Locathah Rising
species is pushed to the point of open conflict. As elemental forces threaten the safety of the nearby locathah communities, heroes rise from among their number to strike back and defend their homes and
families. Locathah Rising is a DUNGEONS & DRAGONS adventure designed for 9th-level characters. You can run this adventure for as few as three or as many as six players. Depending on your play style
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
flooded, drowning the house in brackish muck. Tales say the house’s residents struggled to escape the pit, but the farm’s owner—desperate to keep her family with her—dragged them back into the sinking
seed of its being. It also remembered the last living person Culley ever saw, his dear friend Kianna. Driven by instinct, shattered memories, and the discordant urges of dozens of tiny Undead, the soul shaker grew in power, then sought out its old friend.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
), but they’re more likely to warn intruders to leave the ruins than to immediately attack. They readily threaten violence and back up their threats with combat if necessary. As an action, a character
can try to convince a hostile kobold to have a conversation or to allow the characters to explore the area, doing so on a successful DC 15 Charisma check. Depending on the character’s approach, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Nyx. Where they appear, these weapons change the tide of wars and the course of history. Typically a deity bestows their weapon only on a favored champion or devotee. Depending on the champion’s piety
harmed by its creator’s wrath.
2 Recover a god’s weapon that has been stolen by another god’s champion in an attempt to frame the weapon’s owner for cruel acts.
3 Wrest back a god’s weapon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Borderlands Quest: Goblin Trouble
The Prize Taras Susak When the characters enter the room, adjust this text depending on whether the goblins are surprised. If they’re surprised, they are standing around the bowl and not looking at
adjust the last sentences of the first and second paragraphs so the goblins are ready to fight. These two connected rooms have an open door between them and a makeshift forge in the back of the second
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
pinned, face down, by rocks placed atop his arms, legs, and back. He is barefoot and wears ragged clothes.
Depending on what has happened in area T3, Grund (male half-orc thug) might be standing by
the characters release Braelen, he tries to go back to the surface through the tunnel in area T1. Chains. Fastened to iron bars here are chains to the cages in area T3. Characters can raise a fallen
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
information he can out of them before attempting to ransom them back to Mad Maggie. The night hag may or may not pay for them, depending on her disposition toward the characters when they left Fort
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Giants of the Star Forge
discretion, the dragon might arrive at the Star Forge just in time to complicate (or simplify, depending on how things go) the party’s encounter with Brimskarda. To avoid only the fire giants’ notice, the
are with the party, the wrestlers rush off to distract the giants, and the characters automatically succeed on their group Dexterity (Stealth) check. “We’ll hold them off,” one wrestler yells back
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
from a satchel and places it on the conference room’s oak table. “You know the town of Phandalin? Just off the Triboar Trail? A few months back, we awarded a group a franchise there. We received word
. If you find the franchise in poor standing or otherwise in distress, I want a full report. And depending on how badly the last group botched things, I might look to you to take over. A failed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
” section below. The Sing-Off The sing-off takes place in two phases. Phase 1. During the first phase, the opposing team creates a group performance centered around a song. Depending on the students
-talking! Phase 2. During the second phase, the characters are in the spotlight, and they need to create a killer performance to win back the crowd. At least one character must sing, rap, chant, or otherwise
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
, they can find a portal to the city near the closest gate-town. This portal opens within sight of the Mortuary. Back in Sigil, the characters might seek out any of the following parties. Farrow or
. The ally also knows of useful portals, including those to Material Plane worlds the characters might hail from. Use this ally to lead the characters to future adventures. R04M Depending on how the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
residents before retreating back into the jungles. Khalar d’Tharashk has announced a plan to track the perpetrators and exact retribution under the sponsorship of King Sebastes.
Armory. You can purchase
. Salary. Each member of your group is paid a regular salary. The amount varies depending on your organization and your position within it, but at minimum you enjoy a modest lifestyle. You might receive a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
14. Main Laboratory (North) Depending on how they move through this area, the characters might see into area 16 at the same time. See that area for additional details. A massive L-shaped laboratory
guide spend 1 charge in this area causes the lizardfolk renders on the tables to devolve back into standard lizardfolk.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Gauntlgrym Gauntlgrym has a complex and contradictory history, the gist of it depending on who’s doing the telling. Humans have one story, of what they know from recent years, but for us dwarves
living dwarves to seek out the city. And some did — or tried to, anyway. Shortly thereafter, the orc wars began anew, and nearly every dwarf’s attention turned back to the existing dwarfholds and the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
hoard for Tiamat—then lost a portion of that hoard when Skyreach Castle fell. All the while, the cult kept secret its goal of bringing back Tiamat and its alliance with an exiled group of Red Wizards of
good-aligned adventurers and the people of the Sword Coast are aware of the threat posed by the cult. What’s unclear is how to deal with it. Depending on the nature of the characters and their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
below—a distance of some 50 to 150 feet depending on position. Every hour the party moves along the icy terrain, randomly choose one character to make a DC 10 Dexterity (Acrobatics) check. If the check
characters must learn for themselves what lies in store. If the adventurers decide to fall back between forays into the rift, they can use their hidden cave as a base if they have seen to its provisioning.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
at least one orrery component (perhaps more, depending on events in episode 5), and its agents now attempt to use those components to open a portal to the Far Realm. After a suitable amount of questing
, the characters discover the members of the “C” Team fallen in combat and must fight the horrid Far Realm creature that slew them. Doing so brings those NPC heroes back to life. Once the Keymaster has
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
hoard for Tiamat—then lost a portion of that hoard when Skyreach Castle fell. All the while, the cult kept secret its goal of bringing back Tiamat and its alliance with an exiled group of Red Wizards of
good-aligned adventurers and the people of the Sword Coast are aware of the threat posed by the cult. What’s unclear is how to deal with it. Depending on the nature of the characters and their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
number of meenlocks in the village, depending on the number of characters and their abilities. As the party makes its way through the village, the meenlocks try to remain unseen as they begin to
meenlocks try to divide the party using their ability to create hallucinations. Their aim is to isolate and paralyze one character, then drag that character back to their nest to be tortured and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
hoard for Tiamat—then lost a portion of that hoard when Skyreach Castle fell. All the while, the cult kept secret its goal of bringing back Tiamat and its alliance with an exiled group of Red Wizards of
good-aligned adventurers and the people of the Sword Coast are aware of the threat posed by the cult. What’s unclear is how to deal with it. Depending on the nature of the characters and their