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than my own, for no one else can compete with me.
2
If my offspring can’t care for themselves, I’m not sure they’re worthy of my attention.
3
The sea is beautiful and I
.
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It takes true artistry to maintain a warm, desert-like dwelling under the water.
7
I soothe myself to sleep by imagining the perfect insults for bronze dragons; while I wait to meet one, I
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no company other than my own, for no one else can compete with me.
2
If my offspring can’t care for themselves, I’m not sure they’re worthy of my attention.
3
The sea is
unpredictability.
6
It takes true artistry to maintain a warm, desert-like dwelling under the water.
7
I soothe myself to sleep by imagining the perfect insults for bronze dragons; while I wait
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
else can compete with me.
2
If my offspring can’t care for themselves, I’m not sure they’re worthy of my attention.
3
The sea is beautiful and I love gazing upon it, but I
artistry to maintain a warm, desert-like dwelling under the water.
7
I soothe myself to sleep by imagining the perfect insults for bronze dragons; while I wait to meet one, I hone them on other
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
attention.
3
The sea is beautiful and I love gazing upon it, but I abhor being wet.
4
Why should I risk damaging my splendid physique when I can fight with the power of my mind?
5
I am
predictable only in my unpredictability.
6
It takes true artistry to maintain a warm, desert-like dwelling under the water.
7
I soothe myself to sleep by imagining the perfect insults for
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, or a member of a desert tribe, is an auspicious event. Most Athasians believe a given genasi is destined for greatness—or infamy.
Those living on the frontier, though, have a much harder
concentration of them hailing from the regions surrounding the Sea of Fallen Stars.
The distant land of Zakhara is known only in legends to most inhabitants of Faerûn. There, genies and
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
about Mulhorand is alien to someone from the Sword Coast. You likely experienced the same sort of culture shock when you left your desert home and traveled to the unfamiliar climes of northern Faerû
because you have made too many enemies among the desert communities of your home.
Sossal. Few have heard of your homeland, but many have questions about it upon seeing you. Humans from Sossal seem
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Starting the Adventure Read or paraphrase the following text to begin: The gray mounds of the desert roll toward the horizon. Not one stone shows through the powdery sand, nor does a single insect
scurry across its surface. All around you, the burning silence of the sea of sand is unnaturally oppressive and foreboding. Ash and dust billow around your feet and choke your parched throats. There are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
in the Plane of Fire is comparable to a hot desert on the Material Plane, and poses a similar threat to travelers (see “Extreme Heat” in chapter 5, “Adventure Environments”). The deeper one goes into
desert — remnants of forgotten civilizations. A great range of volcanic mountains called the Fountains of Creation is home to azers. These rocky peaks curl from the edge of the Plane of Earth around
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Sphinxes Collectors and Keepers of Secrets Habitat: Desert, Planar (Upper Planes); Treasure: Arcana Hazem Ameen Sphinxes protect the secrets of the multiverse. Formed from the spirits of sages and
Lords
Jewel on black velvet, pearl in the sea
Unchanged but e’er changing eternally
—Riddle of White Plume Mountain
Answer to the riddle of White Plume Mountain The Moon.
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sleeping Dragon’s Wake
Location Overview The dread cultist Ularan Mortus carried his acolytes over the sea in a cursed galleon imbued with the soul of a death knight. South of Neverwinter, the vessel was spotted by a local
, to capture the vessel. After a terrible sea battle, Ularan Mortus was forced to dive overboard and flee to shore. Unable to steer the dreadnaught, Fheralai crashed it onto the rocks. Once beached, she
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
direction, but not through total cover. Your aura has an effect that activates when you enter your rage, and you can activate the effect again on each of your turns as a bonus action. Choose desert
, sea, or tundra. Your aura’s effect depends on that chosen environment, as detailed below. You can change your environment choice whenever you gain a level in this class. If your aura’s effects require
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
the check after the party spends 1d6 hours trying to get back on course. Wilderness Navigation Terrain DC Forest, jungle, swamp, mountains, or open sea with overcast skies and no land in sight 15 Arctic, desert, hills, or open sea with clear skies and no land in sight 10 Grassland, meadow, farmland 5
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
a hot desert on the Material Plane and poses a similar threat to travelers (see “Environmental Effects” in chapter 3). Sources of water are rare, so travelers must carry their own supplies or produce
. Roving bands of salamanders battle each other, raid azer outposts, and avoid patrols from the City of Brass. Obsidian ruins dot the desert—remnants of forgotten civilizations. City of Brass Perhaps the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a7
to turn up just about anywhere. Those possibilities are as follows:
Inside the highest hill on the Plains of Iuz
On an island (unmapped) in the Nyr Dyv
In the Bright Desert
At the western
border of the Duchy of Geoff
Somewhere in the Vast Swamp south of Sunndi
On an island beyond the realm of the Sea Barons Other settings offer choices that are just as varied.
Dragonlance. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Arvandor Towering trees, colorful wildflowers, abundant grain, and delicious fruit create a lush environment. Aquallor An eternal ocean fed by the River Oceanus is home to teeming sea life and mighty storms
. Mithardir A desert of white sand is abandoned by whatever powers once lived there. Arborea Adventures Arborea is a larger-than-life place of violent moods and deep affections, of whim backed by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
The Ruin of Bakar Tooba Rezaei A Door to the Pharaoh’s Pyramid Long ago, the kingdom of Bakar spanned what is now known as the Desert of Desolation. Though the land was already a desert, the mighty
should ever kill him, the River Athis would cease its life-giving flow. Suddenly, from the sea of upraised fists sped a single spear, piercing the pharaoh’s heart; as Amun Sa died, so too did the river
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
the bottom of the Sea of Swords.Fheralai’s failure to capture Leilon and defeat Ularan Mortus has also angered Talos, and the Stormlord means to punish them.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
sea is beautiful and I love gazing upon it, but I abhor being wet.
4 Why should I risk damaging my splendid physique when I can fight with the power of my mind?
5 I am predictable only in my
unpredictability.
6 It takes true artistry to maintain a warm, desert-like dwelling under the water.
7 I soothe myself to sleep by imagining the perfect insults for bronze dragons; while
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
strongholds, ancient burial mounds, and the ruins of many forgotten empires dot this vast landscape. Bounded by the Sea of Swords to the west and the desert of Anauroch to the east, the Savage Frontier
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Frozen Shipwreck The Dark Duchess is hundreds of yards from shore, trapped in thick ice. When the characters get close enough to see it, read: The Sea of Moving Ice stretches out before you, a
featureless, frozen desert. Ahead, the smooth white surface is interrupted by a towering ship, its exterior covered in frost.
The hull, rigging, and masts of the ship are covered in a layer of ice. From
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
, submerged underwater, or entombed in desert sands 10–12 Built as a fortress guarding a mountain pass 13–15 Built as a maze, either to protect treasure from intruders or as a gauntlet where prisoners
something that led to the downfall of its creators or inhabitants 56–58 Dug as a burrow by a monster that might still live inside 59–61 Entrance concealed behind a waterfall 62–64 Floating on the sea 65
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
when placing a dragon’s lair in or near such a feature. Lair Location d10 Unusual Feature
1 The area is a climate anomaly—a cool and lush oasis in a hot desert, a balmy spring within a
frozen tundra, a drifting iceberg in a warm sea, a barren waste in the midst of a verdant forest, or the like.
2 The area is a wild magic zone. Whenever a creature casts a spell of 1st level or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
the god-kings who rule over these lands, nearly everything about Mulhorand is alien to someone from the Sword Coast. You likely experienced the same sort of culture shock when you left your desert
the strangeness this wet land has to offer, or because you have made too many enemies among the desert communities of your home. Sossal. Few have heard of your homeland, but many have questions about it
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
51–54 In a gorge 55–58 In a jungle 59–62 In a mountain pass 63–66 In a swamp 67–70 Beneath or on top of a mesa 71–74 In sea caves 75–78 In several connected mesas 79–82 On a mountain peak 83–86 On a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
stretched from the western edge of what was then the Narrow Sea (later, the Great Desert of Anauroch) west almost to present-day Silverymoon, and from the Ice Mountains to the Nether Mountains. Citadels
along the Sword Coast, then fell quickly and mysteriously some fifteen hundred years later. Some records suggest that many of the citizens, driven mad by the sea, sailed westward and never returned. Mark
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
the Suloise lands to ashes, creating the Sea of Dust. In retaliation, Suloise survivors invoked their own magic to devastate the Baklunish lands. What magic was responsible for the Rain of Colorless
pleasant and rich, roamed by Baklunish nomads. The former Suloise capital, by contrast, in the heart of the Sea of Dust, is beset by howling winds, terrible dust storms, and rains of volcanic ash and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
, returned from a nearly two-thousand-year-long excursion in the Shadowfell, to hover above the Anauroch desert. The shadow-touched nobles of the city almost immediately began hunting for ancient Netherese
, strange calamities began to occur throughout Faerûn. An earthquake struck Iriaebor. A plague of locusts afflicted Amn. Droughts gripped the southern lands as the sea steadily receded in places. Amid
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
spider — 1/4 Pteranodon Fly 1 Giant eagle Fly 1 Giant toad Swim 2 Plesiosaurus Swim Desert CR Beast Fly/Swim 0 Cat — 0 Hyena — 0 Jackal — 0 Scorpion — 0 Vulture Fly 1/8 Camel — 1/8 Flying snake Fly
Giant spider — 1 Giant toad Swim 2 Giant constrictor snake Swim 2 Polar bear (cave bear) Swim Underwater CR Beast Fly/Swim 0 Quipper Swim 1/4 Constrictor snake Swim 1/2 Giant sea horse Swim 1/2
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Faerûn The vast central continent of Toril, Faerûn is a land mass divided by a great sea known as the Inner Sea, or the Sea of Fallen Stars. The lands beyond the North can be roughly divided into
in mainland markets. Ruined Mezro stands across the sea from Calimshan, waiting for explorers and its displaced people to cleanse the city of its undead inhabitants and uncover the treasures that lie
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fated Flight of the Recluse
manifest zone linked to Fernia, the Sea of Fire, the area is Lightly Obscured by clouds choked with ash, and fire behaves oddly (see the “Fernia Manifest Zone” sidebar). Fernia Manifest Zone
Fernia
Brynshal’duun, a young blue dragon whose lair lies in the upper reaches of the Blade Desert. The dragon, having learned what Kreffik has been trafficking to Karnath, has chosen to waylay the airship above the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Dark-skinned and dark-haired, the Bedine were warriors and nomads in southern Anauroch. Once divided into over a hundred tribes, the clannish Bedine mostly kept to their desert lands and interacted
, Erdene, Naran Ulutiun The Ulutiuns are short, dark-haired, golden-skinned people who originated in northern Kara-Tur and migrated westward to Icewind Dale and other cold lands near the Endless Ice Sea
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
unnecessary in your game. Even if the characters are in a desert, you can assume that a character with proficiency in the Survival skill can find enough food and water to sustain the party. Make sure you
way: Branching passages underground Horizon-obscuring terrain, such as dense forest Obscuring weather, such as heavy rain or fog Traveling at night Traveling at sea while unable to see the sky or any
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
toad, harpy 1 (200 XP) Bandit captain, berserker, druid, griffon, ogre, merrow, plesiosaurus, sahuagin priestess, sea hag 2 (450 XP) Manticore, veteran 3 (700 XP) Banshee 4 (1,100 XP) Sahuagin baron
(13,000 XP) Adult blue dragon 16 (15,000 XP) Dragon turtle 17 (18,000 XP) Ancient bronze dragon 22 (30,000 XP) Ancient blue dragon 23 (32,500 XP) Desert Monsters Monsters Challenge Rating (XP) Cat
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
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
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->Storm King's Thunder
Locations I - L Ice Peak The frozen island that lies southeast of the Sea of Moving Ice is named for the snow-capped promontory that dominates its northern half. Most of the inhabitants live in a few
the Reghed Glacier rise up in the east like prison walls. The towering, snow-capped peaks of the Spine of the World loom to the south. To the north and west, the Sea of Moving Ice churns bergs and floes