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Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
bodies. Whatever their origins, reborn know a new life and seek experiences and answers all their own.
Faded Memories
Reborn suffer from some manner of discontinuity, an interruption of their lives or
alongside complex designs for clockwork organs.
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You were released after being petrified for generations. Your memories have faded, though, and your body isn’t what it once was.
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Your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
Seekers of New Lore Nothing excites an artificer quite like uncovering a new metal or discovering a source of elemental energy. In artificer circles, new inventions and strange discoveries create the
most excitement. Artificers who wish to make their mark must innovate, creating something fresh, rather than iterating on familiar designs. This drive for novelty pushes artificers to become
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Seekers of New Lore Nothing excites an artificer quite like uncovering a new metal or discovering a source of elemental energy. In artificer circles, new inventions and strange discoveries create the
most excitement. Artificers who wish to make their mark must innovate, creating something fresh, rather than iterating on familiar designs. This drive for novelty pushes artificers to become
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Elemental Evil Player's Companion
upright, aarakocra might reach 5 feet tall, and they have long, narrow legs that taper to sharp talons.
Feathers cover their bodies. Their plumage typically denotes membership in a tribe. Males are
homes, they appear alert, with eyes moving and bodies ready to take flight.
Homelands
Most aarakocra live on the Elemental Plane of Air. Aarakocra can be drawn into the Material Plane, sometimes to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
destruction across the city. After stopping the threat, the characters learn that it was built based on a Kwalish design, and that other such designs might be used to build great engines of destruction. The
secrets to overcoming such inventions can be found only in Kwalish’s lab. As a more integral part of a Waterdeep: Dragon Heist campaign, characters who successfully discover the location of the Vault
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
dangerous, she doesn’t build them with violence in mind. She’s particularly interested in devices for long-distance communication and inventions that mechanize the work of farm animals. Personality Trait
. “The faster I talk, think, and invent, the faster I can improve my designs.” Ideal. “Not only can I make that, I can make it better!” Bond. “Through invention, we make a more interesting world.” Flaw
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
number of designs focused on threats integral to the Tyranny of Dragons campaign. This includes explorations of well-known Forgotten Realms villains, like the Cult of the Dragon and the Red Wizards of Thay
, driving home the impact of the campaign’s most climatic moments. Whether this gallery serves as a game aide or inspires your own designs, use it as you please, further detailing the existing adventures or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
bearing a design of two ki-rins stands in one wall. Dozens of alcoves holding jade statues of soldiers line the rest of the chamber’s perimeter. Bodies are scattered around the room—some clothed in finery
little they know about her plans or Dragon’s Blessing. Any investigation of the bodies in the room reveals them to be humans and dwarves, some only a few months deceased. A character who succeeds on a DC
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
characters react to this scrutiny or as the characters prepare to leave the gate. An official wearing a red and blue outfit embroidered with phoenix designs approaches. “I apologize for my impertinence
monsters have slain people in the fog. Those who’ve witnessed the tragedies are shocked anew by the sight of bodies when the fog dissipates. The deaths are always considered accidents or bizarre but
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
. As a result, she remains wary of his designs. Nylea is disappointed in Karametra, precisely because of the overlap in their spheres of influence. Karametra insists on transforming nature into a
. Nylea acknowledges death as a crucial part of the life cycle, but scorns Erebos’s obsession with the afterlife. What matters is that nature takes nourishment from the bodies of the deceased, not from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Influence 1 Grand Designs. You are working on plans and schematics for a new, very fast ship. You must examine as many different kinds of vessels as possible to help ensure the success of your design. 2
craftsmanship. 3 Though I am an excellent crafter, my work tends to look as though it belongs on a ship. 4 I am so obsessed with sketching my ideas for elaborate inventions that I sometimes forget
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
. After the green dragon killed the cultists of Malar, Wyllow stripped the corpses of their metal gear, piled the offensive material here as a warning of sorts, and dragged the bodies to area 7 to rot
serpents retreated into the woods and died long ago.)
Altar. Against the northwest wall stands a bloodstained wooden altar decorated with silver and bronze designs of claws, fangs, beaks, and eyes. Piled
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
Gloine Nathair-Nathair, using the bodies of those poor victims as the city’s statuary. 96–00 Kwalish’s grand experiment? I’ve heard tell of a suit of armor as powerful as it is cursed. Whoever dons the suit channels powerful magic, but must fuel its capabilities with their own body’s vitality.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
science or inventions such as firearms (see the Dungeon Master’s Guide), feel free to do so. Regardless of a domain’s culture and innovations, the Mists prevent knowledge of them from spreading. Even if an
nightmare realms remain just so. Currency Many domains mint their own gold, silver, and copper coins. Though these currencies bear different markings, merchants aren’t particular about the designs stamped
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
, and quiet crafts and wild inventions. Tradegate’s citizens are upright, productive, and optimistic. Dwarves and gnomes abound in the star-shaped town, acting as builders, merchants, and tinkerers who
around a pentagonal plaza of shops called the Everything Emporium. Creativity shines in the open-air marketplace, a break from the unfussy designs and gray-stone warehouses that make up much of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
every surface is caked in decades of grime and soot. A few more gnome bodies lie face-down in the grit.
Smoldertown, with its many workshops and smithies, is the industrial heart of Little Lockford
jewelry box worth 250 gp. The box is unlocked and holds the following items: Zircon ring (60 gp) Three amethysts (100 gp each) The security key to the fail-safe device in area L9a (the key is 8 inches long, made of brass, and decorated with clockwork designs)
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
morally suspect, such as corpse collectors, opportunistic scavengers who scrape out a living by gathering bodies throughout the ward and delivering them to the Mortuary for meager payouts. Rain is more
the next stage of death undeterred. The bulk of the faction’s workforce consists of skeletons, zombies, and other dull-minded Undead whose bodies were donated to the Mortuary by their owners in life
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
of this long hallway. The north wall has three doors, and the south wall bears an elaborate carving of a procession of dwarf priests carrying wrapped bodies.
There is a crypt haunting in this
bodies and stitched up any wounds. The basin is empty except for a few pumice stones. Center Room. Attendants here placed a sanctified gemstone within the corpse’s chest. The basin once held dozens
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
service here at the monastery. But will that service be with the strength of your bodies or the strength of your minds?”
The Grand Master. As the characters draw closer to the Grand Master, anyone
discovered Kwalish’s war machine designs and managed to construct it using the bone devil’s exoskeleton. The tiny fiend has kept up this pretense for years, piloting this exoskeleton in the guise of the Grand
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
happens only once. P36: West Chamber Four leather sacks sit on the floor of this 20-foot-long hallway. Each of the sacks contains 100 gp. P37: East Chamber The slain bodies of two wights, defeated by Uma
former high priest, Nafik, the hieroglyphs also tell the story of Nafik’s evil designs. If translated (see the “Pyramid Features” section), the hieroglyphs on the ceiling read as follows: “Above our
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
dwarf and the human were part of Elmo’s adventuring party; their bodies have been stripped of gear. A character who makes a successful DC 14 Intelligence (Investigation) or Wisdom (Medicine) check
while examining the adventurers’ bodies deduces that the organs of the pair were carefully removed. A further successful DC 14 Intelligence (History) or Intelligence (Arcana) check reveals that sahuagin
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
inset with dark stones that reflect the chamber’s dim blue light.
If the characters look into the chamber without interrupting the ritual taking place, read: Glowing symbols and strange designs are
not attack the characters, even if it becomes aware of them. Interrupting the ritual, however, has dire consequences for everyone in the temple. Glowing Symbols. The wall designs glow with dim
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Hrakhamar. To defend their trove, the dwarves stockpiled weapons and armor in this chamber. The firenewts haven’t bothered most of it; they prefer their own weapons over heavier dwarven designs, and
interested in attacking adventurers directly, but they’ll gleefully loot the bodies of anyone who collapses in the smoke. If cornered, they beg for mercy. They offer to trade information for their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
by mysterious magic on the Day of Mourning. The Mournland’s magic has preserved their bodies, which a character can determine by examining the corpses and succeeding on a DC 15 Intelligence (Arcana
graymatter engine still churns with arcane power. Crafted from experimental designs based on unfamiliar technology, the graymatter engine converts the power of the third Rod of Seven Parts piece into magical
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Divination The walls of this thin tower are etched with intricate designs of hands and eyes. Silver light flickers from a high window, above which a large, carved eye animates and blinks. Part of the
bodies and minds melded into a single monstrosity. Iriolarthas imprisoned the thing in this empty well so that its latent telepathic powers could be tapped by the city’s elite. A short obituary is
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
Pursuing a personal vendetta, an Ochran assassin is targeting members of a certain guild and trying to ensure that their bodies are never found.
8 A kraul death priest (see chapter 6 for the stat
an Izzet laboratory that will cause a disaster if it isn’t returned.
Izzet League Adventures involving the Izzet League typically concern magical mishaps, dangerous inventions, and feats of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
-changing sky and the setting sun can be seen and contemplated. Along with the setting sun, images of clouds are a major motif for followers of Labelas, who often tattoo such designs on their bodies or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
made of a silvery metal with sharp serrations and elaborate designs. Anyone examining the greatsword who succeeds on a DC 14 Intelligence (Arcana or History) check realizes that it’s one of the
all killed one another in a gruesome fight, but a character who succeeds on a DC 14 Intelligence (Investigation) check realizes that the bodies were staged to look this way; most were killed with