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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Desert Encounters (Levels 1–4) d100 Encounter 01 3d8 scorpions 02 2d4 vultures 03 1 abandoned mule 04 2d6 commoners with 2d4 camels bound for a distant city 05 1d6 flying snakes 06 2d6 hyenas or
2d6 jackals 07 1d6 guards escorting a noble to the edge of the desert, all of them astride camels 08 1d6 cats 09 1 pseudodragon 10 1d4 poisonous snakes 11–13 2d4 stirges 14–15 1d6 + 2 giant wolf
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Desert Encounters If the players are restless or spoiling for a fight, use the following encounters. Pesh and Shamir avoid combat and try their best to stay out of harm’s way. Wandering Monsters The
. Stone Androsphinx The characters find a sandstone sphinx crouched atop a granite pedestal. Bleached humanoid bones lie half-buried in the sand around the pedestal. Any character who touches the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Divine Contention
Emberlost, which is bound into the cursed bones that comprise the vessel. Emberlost’s mournful spirit yearns for Anauria, a city long since swallowed up by the Anauroch Desert, and it gladly serves
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a4
immune to being charmed, frightened, and paralyzed. (The copper band is worthless as a treasure, for the magic is keyed to this crab.) It has an improved claw attack: Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to
intelligently attack intruders, being careful not to bump the protective skin walls. The crab is experienced in fighting in this manner, as is evidenced by the bones scattered about, but the characters are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
3. Serpents of the Sands Two rows of sandstone pillars support the ceiling of this vast chamber. Before Iymrith claimed it as her own, this room was once a secret temple belonging to a sect of desert
glares down at a 20-foot-diameter hole in the sandstone floor. The hole represents the top of an 800-foot-deep shaft, the bottom quarter of which is filled with sand and old bones (previous sacrifices to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Tarikh, the Tomb of the Faceless stands alone in the desert. A site of ritual pilgrimage and worship, the tomb is a large golden dome without an entrance that holds the Prophet’s bones. The Prophet was a
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
shelters among the bones. Shattered Sphere Smoky gray shards of crystal, each one a mile thick and hundreds of miles long, float in the outermost regions of Doomspace. These shards are all that remain of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
the candle. Aarakocra Bones. The aarakocra skeleton embedded in the wall has hollow bones containing stale yet breathable air — each one essentially a tube sealed with wax. A character with a dagger
The walls of this stone cell are covered with reliefs showing desert sands swallowing the ruins of civilization. A bas-relief of a robed medusa dominates one wall. It wears a stone necklace with an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
–16 Beneath a graveyard 17–22 Beneath a ruined castle 23–26 Beneath a ruined city 27–30 Beneath a temple 31–34 In a chasm 35–38 In a cliff face 39–42 In a desert 43–46 In a forest 47–50 In a glacier
control the dungeon and conduct their rites there. Tomb. Tombs are magnets for treasure hunters, as well as monsters that hunger for the bones of the dead. Treasure Vault. Built to protect powerful
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
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
jagged rocks amid a sea of gravel. Anauroch’s most southerly part is the Sword — a hot, sandy desert. Use the Desert Monsters table in appendix B of the Dungeon Master’s Guide to inspire encounter ideas
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
through the charred bones and ashes finds an amulet of health that Macreadus used as a holy symbol. It shows no signs of damage, hinting at its magical nature. The amulet’s pendant and chain are made of
snow, or on a section of wall or floor using ash from a nearby fireplace. Macreadus’s spirit can finally rest after it witnesses the activation of the new and improved Summer Star. As it departs, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
. Still others simply enjoy teaching or believe the world is improved by having an educated populace. Monks who follow the Way of the Ascendant Dragon (see chapter 1) might follow a dragon teacher or could
criminal enterprise. (Crime boss)
7 A small nation is worried about the aggressive expansion of a dragon-ruled empire on the opposite side of a desert, ocean, or mountain range. Its leaders seek aid
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Ahghairon turned the fortunes of war against the “everlasting ones,” which were destroyed or scattered. Ahghairon improved slowly in skill and power with the passage of the years, until he became a
floating bones of the last person who tried to defy them. The name of this poor soul has been lost to time, but the miscreant was likely a wizard who sought to steal the magic treasures that had been
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
dragon bones juts from the head, neck, back, and tail of the mound. Enormous cairns encircle the mound out to a range of a quarter mile. Beneath them lie the bones of revered Thunderbeast tribal
. Skulls, bones, rusted armor, and broken weapons are all that remain of those killed by orc axes and the dragon’s icy breath. Suggested Encounter Eight Zhentarim thugs (LE male and female humans of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
gory feast. Vaprak’s Blessing. After devouring the troll sent by Vaprak, bones and all, a frost giant becomes an everlasting one, gaining tremendous strength, an ill temper, and a troll’s regenerative
path across the desert of Anauroch, but there’s a stretch that passes near the sand-swallowed ruins of a once-great arch–a portal built by giants, some say. a sandstorm rages all around it, and in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
dwarves’ battle against Tinder, including the scattered and charred bones of those who died. The dwarves left three ore carts in the mine, all in working order or repairable. The cart track circling the
cabinets are covered with creepers, bird droppings, and the bones of small animals. Stools collapse if any weight is put on them. There’s no information and nothing of use here. 2. Supply Shed This
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
. B47: Treasure Room A subterranean breeze stirs in this room. A large, padlocked chest sits near the north wall. Behind it hangs a tapestry of a desert scene.
The tapestry behind the chest is a hostile
pit, taking 3 (1d6) bludgeoning damage from the fall and landing with the prone condition on a pile of brittle bones. B52: Abandoned Clerical Quarters This damp room’s interior shimmers faintly, as if
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
claimed a Netherese ruin in Anauroch as her lair. The ruin lies half-buried in the desert northeast of Ascore. See chapter 12, “Doom of the Desert,” for more information on this location. Jalanthar The
crushed or charred bones of powerful adventurers and entire orc hordes that dared to enter the valley. “Old Snarl,” as Klauth is also known, likes to lie on a ledge high on one of the valley walls
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
littered with the acid-pitted bones of previous victims and the fly-ridden carcasses of fresh kills, watched over by crumbling statues. Centipedes, scorpions, and snakes infest the lair, which is filled
desert sands. As the dragon ages, its scales become thicker and harder, and its hide hums and crackles with static electricity. These effects intensify when the dragon is angry or about to attack
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a2
The Mountain Door The uppermost level of Khundrukar, called the Mountain Door, is a natural cavern that was expanded and improved upon by Durgeddin’s folk, who created a series of halls and guard
that descends a flight of stairs into a small chamber. Light from outside slants into the room through a series of narrow embrasures.
The area is littered with well-gnawed bones, cobwebs, and rat
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
talk about the founding of Secomber and the ancient kingdom of Athalantar, on whose bones the town was built. Despite their intimidating size, the giants (who are neutral good in alignment) mean no
Luruar, this region of the North is hemmed in by the Ice Spires to the north, the Rauvin River to the south, the Frost Hills to the west, and the desert of Anauroch to the east. Mineral-rich mountain
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
quenched their thirst. If the characters improved the cub’s attitude, she gladly agrees to lead the characters to the fountain. G9: Fountain All Heal Tomas Duchek The enchanting waters of the
bones, and shells. Stairs ascend to a loft with a nest and four playful baby giant otters (weasels with a swimming speed of 30 feet). G20: The Gardener’s Rest A ten-foot-wide tunnel in a steep rise is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
is seen from ground level. Buried under the cairns are the bones of the Elk tribe’s greatest warriors. On the higher ground of the ring outside the basin, placed outward from the altar along the
(healthy and mature ones) growing out of it. Buried beneath the outermost ring are the moldy bones of long-dead Uthgardt, most of them from the Tree Ghost tribe. Tree Ghosts patrol the woods