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Eberron: Rising from the Last War
“Pierce was built by design, while you were built by accident,” Lakashtai said. “The soul is what matters, not the shape of the vessel.”
“What makes you think he has
their muscles, wrapped around a framework of steel, darkwood, or stone. Armored plates form a protective outer shell and reinforce joints. Warforged share a common facial design, with a hinged jaw
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
figure of Vistani legend, Luba’s Tarokka of Souls shaped the destiny of countless heroes. The prophecies of this deck of cards also revealed great evils and guided its creator into the path of
vanishes and the deck becomes a normal tarokka deck, with no special properties, but it includes a new card of the DM’s design.
Mother Luba and the Vistani
The creator of the Tarokka of Souls
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
K39. Hall of Webs This ancient hall is choked with spider webs broken by a single clear path down its center. The hall has an arched ceiling 20 feet overhead, hidden behind thick webbing. At the
eastern end are a pair of arched bronze doors of ornate design. These doors can be pulled open to reveal area K40 beyond. Most of the hall is full of giant spider webs (see “Dungeon Hazards” in chapter 5
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Romeo and Juliet. It was a departure from the more expected adventure design of the time in that violent solutions to problems aren’t an automatic path to victory—inquisitive minds and compassionate
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Astral Adventurer’s Guide
Shrike Ship This swift vessel is a relatively recent design, quickly gaining popularity with merchants and pirates. A shrike ship’s legs enable it to land safely on the ground. The ship can float
stop. Miss: The attack deals no damage, the target moves into the nearest unoccupied space that isn’t in the shrike ship’s path, and the shrike ship can continue moving if it has any movement left.
Shrike Ship Deck PlansView Unlabeled Version
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
Background In centuries long past, a common scholar named Kwalish took an unlikely path to becoming one of the most powerful arcane inventors of all time, after his discovery of strange magic in the
Barrier Peaks. His studies of an ancient, crashed planar craft set him on a path that might have seen him rival Ioun and Heward — until his experiments overtook him, and he became lost to the ages
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
, most folk know of Kwalish’s most famous realized design, the apparatus that bears his name. But sages and arcanists know of other designs he drafted, including one for a mechanical container that could
unstable. The city of Daoine Gloine was destroyed in an earthquake, and so was Kwalish’s expedition. There’s no path now to find the place, unless you fancy a trip to the Elemental Plane of Earth and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
entrance gates are similar in design, for ease of maintenance and the training of guards. The ground at your feet has been getting smoother and flatter, a welcome respite from the uneven passages to
which you have grown wearily accustomed. Eventually, stone tiles become more noticeable, turning the path into a proper road. You can see spots of light in the distance, blue-white and too regularly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
possessions behind. 1a. Northwest Entrance Characters guided by representatives of the Zhentarim arrive at Mantol-Derith via this route — a subterranean rift with a rough-hewn path carved into one wall
. This entrance is also used by svirfneblin from Blingdenstone and drow from Menzoberranzan. The switchback path ends at the secret door whose password is “im’yat,” a svirfneblin word meaning “darkness
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Asmodeus I literally sit beneath eight tiers of scheming, ambitious entities that represent primal law suffused with evil. The path from this realm leads to an infinite pit of chaos and evil. Now
angel. His supposed daughter, Glasya, is thought by some sages to be a godlike entity of unknown origin. Lord of Nessus Asmodeus resides in Nessus, the bottommost layer of the Nine Hells. By design, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
this deck of cards also revealed great evils and guided its creator into the path of nefarious forces. Untold times the deck’s creator, Mother Luba, narrowly escaped doom, spared only by her keen
souls are defeated. If this ancient entity is destroyed, the Nether card vanishes and the deck becomes a normal tarokka deck, with no special properties, but it includes a new card of the DM’s design
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
object, akin to a dowsing rod or a lodestone, that resonates with the unique nature of the domain where it originates, allowing the creature holding it to find a path through the Mists to that domain. By
domains detailed in this chapter suggest Mist talismans that can be used to reach them, but these aren’t exhaustive lists. Use them as inspiration for Mist talismans of your own design.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
Meeting the Inhabitants Read this text when the characters first climb the path to Dragon’s Rest: Your arrival quickly draws the attention of the entire population of the place—which consists mostly
beard that is mostly gray, and gray-blue eyes. Faded tattoos in an abstract design peek up the side of his neck from beneath his dirt-stained robes. An avid botanist, Tarak tends the cloister’s garden
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
particularly mindful of how their behavior there will have altered what is described here. Use the parameters given to design your own epic. Be disinterested, and be just. This is a very difficult scenario
slag indicated on the characters’ map as the site of the hall. A wide, well-trod path winds its way across the barren land up to two great slabs of black stone—the obsidian portals that give access to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Dwarvish runes worked into its design. It might be associated with a clan that would like to see it returned to their ancestral halls. 7 Elemental Air. The item is half the normal weight and feels hollow
has no magnetic north. 4 Delver. While underground, you always know the item’s depth below the surface and the direction to the nearest staircase, ramp, or other path leading upward. 5–6 Guardian
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
. The Egyptian cosmology is defined by the daily path of the sun — across the sky of the Material Plane, down to the fair Offering Fields in the west, where the souls of the righteous live in eternal
myth have a similar Spirit World. INVENTING YOUR OWN PLANES
Each of the planes described in this chapter has at least one significant effect on travelers who venture there. When you design your own
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
only a short time, it was a terrifying feeling to my human mind, but in a way it was also comforting to feel myself a part of a much greater design. What I felt was not the hunger of one beast, but
quickly killed by guards or other authorities. A few escape into the wilderness and continue to rampage on their own, perhaps eventually falling in league with a gnoll war band. Trying to talk to a gnoll is the quickest path to its stomach.
— Volo
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
the vision was an amulet. The amulet bears a design they might not recognize, but is the symbol of the god the character’s player chose during character creation. The echoes of battle don’t mean
anything in particular to the characters but feel like a bad omen. Lost and Found Prior to the vision, the characters were traveling to Vogler and had stopped to camp or rest near a forested path. After
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Black Cabin Locations The following locations are keyed to map 2.3. B1. Outhouse This wooden outhouse is half-buried in snow. Characters who clear a path to the door and peer inside find a stack of
) can use them to gain advantage on the check. Step 2: Analyze the Problem. The device has a design flaw, obviously. Macreadus has concluded that the device’s rings are unable to contain the magical
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
of danger posed by the trap. A spell is a great foundation to use as the design of a trap, whether the trap duplicates the spell (a mirror that casts charm person on whoever looks into it) or uses its
intended effect. Spells are a good starting point because they are compact pieces of game design that deliver specific effects. If you are using a spell as a starting point, check to see if you need to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
is durable and has Dwarven runes worked into its design. It might be associated with a clan that would like to see it returned to their ancestral halls. 10 Elemental Air. The item is half the normal
, the bearer of this item always knows the item’s depth below the surface and the direction to the nearest staircase, ramp, or other path leading upward. 5 Gleaming. This item never gets dirty. 6
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Hither. It crawls through the swamp on fleshy legs and has a walking speed of 30 feet. Its movement is not reduced by swampy terrain or water up to 10 feet deep. It crosses the characters’ path as they
are clearly of elven design, their helmets shaped like stylized owl heads. Both suits are 20 feet away from the party at the start of the encounter. Each suit of animated armor mimics the movements of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
sacred grove. Upper Dura Overlook Overlook is noteworthy for its kalashtar community, which maintains a community center, a shrine devoted to the Path of Light, and a few restaurants serving Sarlonan
tied to a royal decree. In fact, when the Tains built their mansion on Skyway, they ordered the architects to design a banquet hall that would seat sixty families and their servants. The original Sixty
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
giantess, wears a gilded coral coronet with an anchor-like design (worth 750 gp). Vaal, the cloud giant, wears a diamond-studded platinum earring (worth 7,500 gp) and a vest with platinum embroidery (worth
from their pens, attacking any creatures other than storm giants that cross their path. The storm giants keep the sharks for defense, releasing them into the sinkhole in the event of a major attack
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
different points. Most side passages are blocked by rubble, making the path of the two Waterdeep City Watch guards easy to follow. The next area of interest on the adventurers’ journey is a chamber
. Clearing a Path. The trail leads to an area where a cave-in occurred sometime after Teeshe and Boot passed through. To clear the cave-in, the characters work together to move the debris and secure
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
can lead the characters to a sunken treasure (of your design) a few miles south of the fortress. Shern knows the layout of the two lowest levels of the fortress, including areas where large number of
of the coffer. Creatures caught in the blade’s path must make a successful DC 16 Dexterity saving throw, taking 18 (4d8) slashing damage on a failed save or half the damage on a successful one. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
(Athletics) check. If the characters fasten ropes to the boulder, the centaurs offer to help haul it down for them (no check required). Freeing the boulder clears a path through the rubble. Climbing Out
sigils of Iggwilv’s design. The bronze scrolls are inscribed with the following warning: Iggwilv’s treasure rests within,
Her curse on any who disturbs it.
Seek no further to steal it or
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