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Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
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A memory brings with it the voice of someone once close to you. How do they advise you?
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You recall enjoying something that you can’t stand doing now. What is it? Why don’t
resurrected, but something went wrong.
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Stitches bind your body’s mismatched pieces, and your memories come from multiple different lives.
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After clawing free from your grave, you
Aarakocra
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brightly colored, with feathers of red, orange, or yellow. Females have more subdued colors, usually brown or gray. Their heads complete the avian appearance, being something like a parrot or eagle with
pursue enemies or thwart their foes’ designs there. Accident might also send a nest of aarakocra tumbling into a world on that plane. A few find their way to such a world through portals on
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
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->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
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->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Origins d8 Origins
1 You were magically resurrected, but something went wrong.
2 Stitches bind your body’s mismatched pieces, and your memories come from multiple different lives
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5 You awoke in an abandoned laboratory alongside complex designs for clockwork organs.
6 You were released after being petrified for generations. Your memories have faded, though, and your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
approaches the characters and gives them something he found amid the rubble of the flying citadel. If there is a good cleric or paladin among the characters, this item is a talisman of pure good in
the shape of their god’s holy symbol. If there’s not, it’s an ancient +3 shield bearing Solamnic knotwork designs and the symbol of Paladine. Characters gain no reward for a loss.
At the end of the scenario, proceed with “Kalaman Victorious.”
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Individual Designs A gnome artisan values an individualized clockwork more highly than a perfectly functioning one that copies too much from another creation. For that reason, even clockworks that
fit established designs, such as those described here, are seldom identical. A clockwork can be customized by adding one of the following enhancements and one potential malfunction to its stat block
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
Essential Ingredients The work camp is exactly what it appears to be: a supply depot for the road builders. It is also something more, however: a transit point for the cult’s contraband coming up
was recruited to the Cult of the Dragon years ago. The only outward sign of this is the scabbard of his ever-present shortsword, which is decorated with a dragon resembling the designs on the scabbards
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
Essential Ingredients Map 5.1: Carnath RoadhouseView Player Version The work camp is exactly what it appears to be: a supply depot for the road builders. It is also something more, however: a
dragon resembling the designs on the scabbards characters saw in the dragon hatchery (and possibly have with them still; see area 12 in that section). When cult wagons arrive, their road-building
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
attacks. This soldier is identical, except that the designs on its armor are slightly different. Each time one of the stone soldiers is destroyed, another activates in its alcove and attacks at the start
(Perception) score of 14 or higher notice that different animal designs decorate each of the statues. Bronze Gate. Magic seals this bronze double door. It opens only if the ki-rin symbol on one of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
, once again abdicating the leadership in Mithral Hall. There are some who think that King Bruenor has designs on a great, restored empire of Delzoun, with the dwarves of all the North — from Ironmaster to
Canticle of Gauntlgrym is now something of an anthem for the reclaimed city. It is often sung on the road by dwarven travelers on their way to make a life in Bruenor’s halls.
Silver halls and mithral doors
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
favor of new designs. Within the dream, the people don’t sleep, eat, or need to attend to any other concerns. They know only their work and the glory of Tsien Chiang. In the waking world, the truth of
jiangshi and the hungry ghosts? Did you find or lose something during your wandering? Do you bear a mark or scar from the experience?
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
shall adorn my hearth. Shipwright Flaws d6 Flaw 1 I don’t know when to throw something away. You never know when it might be useful again. 2 I get frustrated to the point of distraction by shoddy
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
tiniest movements of your somatic components. When your magic creates or alters creatures, it might briefly surround the targets with shimmering fractal designs or tessellated patterns. A Quandrix
to achieve something mathematically impossible. I must leave a legacy! Quandrix Trinkets. When you make your character, you may roll once on the Quandrix Trinkets table, instead of on the Trinkets
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
rugs of many styles and designs. A brown-skinned halfling smiles and hops down from atop a stack of folded carpets beside the shop’s wide-open doors. “Welcome! Does anything catch your eye?”
From
seek out the room, the sound of something shattering inside reveals the room before they leave. Two of the Ashen Heir mages who shook down local merchants earlier in the day have returned. When the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Dinosaur Racing The city is famous for its weekly dinosaur races through the streets. Dinosaurs are painted in bright designs, and their riders try to steer them along a course that winds around the
. Losing bets cost the full amount of the wager. Winning bets pay out according to the table. Bets can be for a dinosaur to win, place, show, or do something specific during the race (like attack another
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Mirabar more advantageous relationships with Waterdeep and Baldur’s Gate, something which has not gone unappreciated by the council. The city’s guard, the Axe of Mirabar, exists primarily to deter
incorporate ancient techniques of melding dwarven, human, and elven designs together in their work, in the manner of old Phalorm. Mirabarren (or to some, just Mierren) dwarves like to cultivate long, wide (as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
using a stick of charcoal to sketch something on a piece of parchment at unbelievable speed. A wispy bulb of light flutters next to him.
“Charmay” Stage props and backdrops are crafted here
contraptions, and his sketches can be found on scores of loose sheets of parchment. He uses his Time Lapse action as often as possible to produce his designs quickly. Skylla. Skylla was treated to a puppet
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
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
mysterious Raven Queen, or something else entirely is for you to decide. Whatever the case, Ezra’s followers, traditions, alignment, and the domains she grants her clerics vary widely. Collaborate with
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
look for signs in the stars, in the patterns of flocks of birds in flight, in the shapes of clouds, in the organs of sacrificed animals, in the sounds of thunder, in the designs left by waves on sand
. Omens should communicate important messages from the gods, something meaningful enough that deities have deigned to interfere in mortal efforts. The gods don’t provide omens to address unimportant
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
the street. A metal-reinforced prison cart sits in the northwest corner, occasionally shaking as something growls inside.
This carriage house serves as the base’s prison. Draconians. Three kapak
. Although most of the crates are made of rough wood, a metal one is etched with designs of blue dragons.
Crates and weapon racks fill this room. Trapped Chest. The metal chest, which belongs to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
determine what your archfey looks like, roll on the Archfey’s Presentation table. Archfey’s Presentation d8 Presentation 1 Adorable. The archfey has taken on the form of something adorable, such as an
elaborate lacework. 3 Bizarre. This archfey looks like something from the realm of dreams. They could take on the appearance of a scintillating ball of light, a floating mask, or a whispering shadow. 4
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
flooded pit. The dark water ripples and splashes strangely, as though something lurks deep within it.
The collapse that occurred here long ago disturbed an underground wellspring, flooding the whole
common in Dumathoin’s holy places. Rivibiddel hasn’t discovered any in the crypt yet. Lever. The lever here in this crypt probably has something to do with revealing the crypt’s hidden sanctum, but
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
. Flowing designs decorate the walls. Lounging against the south wall are two mind flayers, their face tentacles periodically gesticulating.
Two mind flayers named Shalghast and Ulthundul guard this room
expendable minions present in case the grells beyond the rift get too curious. The goblins erroneously believe the mind flayers have left something of value here, so they’ve been ransacking this room
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
middle of the hall. The walls are painted in green and blue, decorated with tattered banners showing nautical designs.
Jolliver Grimjaw conducts most of his business here. He is a wereboar, although he
as long as needed, giving them bunks in area K8. If the party seems to know something but appears weak or dangerous, Grimjaw orders the cultists to attack. If the party seems to know something and
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
in it where something large smashed through.
Three galvan magen, three demos magen, and one hypnos magen stand guard outside the observatory with orders to prevent strangers from entering it (see
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
request something more substantial as a reward, she offers them 250 gp worth of choice pieces from her private treasury (see area 5). Although the aarakocra treat her well, Mwaxanaré is lonely; the only
recognize it as a depiction of Ubtao as a tabaxi. This realization is automatic if someone already figured it out in the monastery. The walls of the chamber bear faded frescoes of floral designs and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a2
origin.
Something scrapes and hisses in the dark, and you hear the soft padding of scaly feet on rock.
Characters who are being stealthy might catch the troglodytes unawares. If the characters are
steep bluff; the ceiling here is half the height of the rest of the chamber.
A couple dozen large stone sepulchers line the cavern walls, each carved with intricate reliefs and designs and marked with
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
of iron, copper, gold, and silver, crudely hammered together into a form suggesting something vaguely humanoid but also fiery. Four firenewts worship before it.
The worshipers are two firenewt
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Descent into the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth
examining clues in the boat’s intricate designs and succeeding on a DC 16 Intelligence (Arcana) check—can command the boat to row itself in a particular direction at a speed of 30 feet or to hold its
something else catches their attention. Bright light draws the chuuls to the water’s edge, as does any magic in the lake or near its surface, such as the boat from area L12. If drawn to the surface
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
designs. Xendros sometimes has need for adventurers. She is particularly interested in tracking down an apparatus of Kwalish. If news of one reaches her, she offers magic items to those willing to
little more than memorial stones laid for those who died at sea. Krag (NG male half-orc commoner) is the town gravedigger, as well as something of a town historian and local loremaster. He has
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
casting the Identify spell on the boat or by examining clues in the boat’s intricate designs and succeeding on a DC 16 Intelligence (Arcana) check—can command the boat to row itself in a particular
the lightless depths and prey on cave fish unless something else catches their attention. Bright light draws the chuuls to the water’s edge, as does any magic in the lake or near its surface, such as
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
Rods. The two rods here create an electric circuit that activates something in the Briny Maze when connected. Lowarnizel believes it to be a doorway; Gossa worries that it’s an alarm. Endless Void. The