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Vecna: Eve of Ruin
annihilation.
Desperate to save themselves and their allies, powerful elemental beings called the Wind Dukes of Aaqa rose against Miska. Committed to the concept of law, the Wind Dukes descended from a
people called the vaati, who once ruled many worlds. Seven Wind Dukes wove their power into an artifact called the Rod of Law. The dukes used the rod to imprison Miska on the plane of Pandemonium. As a
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
the effect ends on a successful one.An enormous golem of bronze and iron overlooks the path leading to the polis of Akros. Though it is rarely called on to defend the polis, the sight of its towering
form is enough to ease the minds of the populace. In truly desperate times, priests of Purphoros work their magic to call the colossus to life, whereupon the earth rumbles as it steps down from its twin
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
","rollType":"recharge","rollAction":"Create Lornlings"}. Bavlorna creates one or two 1-foot-tall duplicates of herself, called lornlings (use the Quickling stat block in appendix C). Each lornling appears
Endelyn, Bavlorna is called Slack-jawed Lorna because her wide mouth is prone to hang agape. Flies flit in and out of it. She is the hag of the present, the here and now, the moment to moment. Those
monsters
, and the plant has no qualms about sacrificing podlings or using them as shields in battle. While bodytaker plants can communicate telepathically, most do so only in desperate cases, preferring to speak
, the plant creates eerie vegetative duplicates of the world’s inhabitants called bodytaker podlings. Podlings serve the bodytaker plants’ will, infiltrating societies and replacing the
monsters
, and the plant has no qualms about sacrificing podlings or using them as shields in battle. While bodytaker plants can communicate telepathically, most do so only in desperate cases, preferring to speak
, the plant creates eerie vegetative duplicates of the world’s inhabitants called bodytaker podlings. Podlings serve the bodytaker plants’ will, infiltrating societies and replacing the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
besieged. Empty countryside surrounds ruined or crumbling cities. Only a few desperate pockets of civilization survive, carrying on not out of hope, but out of fear of the land’s merciless soldiers
. Led by General Vladeska Drakov, Falkovnia’s military organizes a desperate and occasionally effective defense against an implacable foe: the ever-growing armies of the dead. Every moon, a new zombie
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
unneeded luxury. New people called the district home: poor, desperate folk crowded beneath fallen gables in hovels tattooed by mildew and damp rot. On their heels came folk whose trade was scorned elsewhere
. Alchemists fouled the air and water with poisonous concoctions from failed experiments. Sweat-shop manufactories set up in the Styes and all but enslaved their desperate workers. Tanners and millers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
read at the Tower of the Heavens. Whether the prophecies are real remains to be seen, but the characters are curious or desperate enough to pay a visit. The characters might also be researching
visible wounds. The characters are hired by a mourning family to investigate these deaths and put a stop to them. The characters’ encounter with the cause of these deaths—a strange predator called a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Day of Mourning. Here, the characters must search for the next piece of the rod. Curtains of thick, gray mist blanket the Mournland. Sentient constructs, desperate adventurers, and ravenous mutated
monsters roam the blasted landscape. The characters must navigate this wasteland in search of the rod piece, ultimately discovering that the piece is located inside the remains of an enormous, highly advanced, bipedal war machine called a colossus.
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
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A wealthy and well-known artist’s muse—a moonstone dragon—has stopped appearing in their dreams. The artist is desperate to hire adventurers to
moonstone dragon is called upon to discipline a group of moonstone dragon wyrmling;moonstone dragon wyrmlings that rampaged through a Fey noble’s territory.
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An adult moonstone dragon has amassed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Netheril’s Fall: Tales of Terror, Treasure, and Time Travel
stretches today, lived magic-obsessed creatures called phaerimm. The Netherese’s weakening of the Weave also weakened the phaerimm, even limiting their lifespans, and the phaerimm hated the empire as a
who weren’t their own. The phaerimm’s assaults on Netheril chipped away at the empire’s already crumbling facade, and the Netherese mages became desperate.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Vladeska Drakov In the world of her birth, Vladeska Drakov was known as the Crimson Falcon, leader of a peerless mercenary army called the Falcon’s Talons. She and her troops executed a thousand
the first alarms were raised. The First Siege of Lekar raged for four days. Drakov’s strategies, both brilliant and desperate, eventually turned back the zombie horde, but at the cost of most of her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
the unignorable, burning eye called Klorr. Thirteen stars orbit this sun-like sphere, one winking out every hour. Each time one of the stars dies, one of the domain’s ruined islands is drawn into Klorr
lost and failed domains—among them, a tower like a blackened rose and a city of skulls—as well as timeless echoes of domains that yet exist. Those cast away amid this orderly apocalypse grow ever more desperate to defy the doomsday clock and the will of a hidden Darklord, the obsessed clockmaker named Klorr.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
—along with unexpected challenges, deadly threats, and the fallen kingdom’s desperate inhabitants. Forsaken by the outside world, the Cynidiceans don elaborate masks and vie against each other in
factions devoted to ancient gods. Meanwhile, an ageless evil of unknown origin lurks in the bowels of the dilapidated ziggurat. Called Zargon the Returner, the tentacled, one-eyed creature preys on the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
that ends at the unignorable, burning eye called Klorr. Thirteen stars orbit this sunlike sphere, one winking out every hour. Each time one of the stars dies, one of the domain’s ruined islands is
exist elsewhere in the Domains of Dread also drift here, including at least one duplicate of Castle Ravenloft. Those cast away amid this orderly apocalypse grow ever more desperate to defy the doomsday clock and the will of a hidden Darklord, the obsessed clockmaker named Klorr.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Drakov’s Tale In the world of her birth, Vladeska Drakov was known as the Crimson Falcon, leader of a peerless mercenary army called the Falcon’s Talons. In a land of bitterly feuding royal families
, the dead rose against Drakov, claws scraping against Lekar’s walls before alarms could be raised. Drakov’s brilliant and desperate strategies eventually turned back the zombies during the days-long
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Para-elemental Planes The regions where the Elemental Planes collide and their elemental substances overlap are called Para-elemental Planes. Plane of Ash On the Plane of Ash, also called the Great
a few dozen feet, and the battering winds make travel difficult. Here and there, ash clusters into floating realms where outlaws and fugitives take shelter. Plane of Ice The Plane of Ice, also called
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
highest mountains. Most visitors to the plane arrive by way of caves and caverns that honeycomb the mountains. The largest cavern beneath the mountains, called the Great Dismal Delve or the Sevenfold
nearest the Fountains of Creation (on the Plane of Fire) are called the Furnaces. Lava seeps through their caverns, and the air reeks of sulfur. The dao have great forges and smelting furnaces here to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Fractured Soul An evil Undead called a soul shaker (detailed at the end of this adventure) manipulates many of the events in this story. Its origin and objectives are tied to one of the most infamous
flooded, drowning the house in brackish muck. Tales say the house’s residents struggled to escape the pit, but the farm’s owner—desperate to keep her family with her—dragged them back into the sinking
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Sacrifices to Auril The desperate people of Ten-Towns, hoping to appease Auril so that summer can return to Icewind Dale, make sacrifices to the Frostmaiden on nights of the new moon. This is a new
interests at meetings of the Council of Speakers, which are infrequent and take place at the Council Hall in Bryn Shander. These meetings are called to discuss matters of shared interest and to settle disputes between towns.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
-called “cultists,” rather than being true volunteers, are unfortunates duped into honoring him because they listened to his lies. Fraz-Urb’luu might appear to a desperate paladin and claim to be a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
characters for aid.
2 A desperate rogue seeks the characters’ aid when the rest of her band is trapped within the abandoned Fiox Estate by a haywire security system.
3 A band of students plot a
revolution against Jacqueline Renier in the valley called Assassin’s Echo. They’re convinced one among them is a traitor but don’t realize there’s a wererat in their midst.
4 A constable
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
the soldiers claim—because time is short and the dead are coming. Falkovnia is a land besieged. Empty countryside surrounds ruined or crumbling cities. A few desperate pockets of civilization survive
, carrying on not out of hope, but out of fear of the land’s merciless soldiers. Led by General Vladeska Drakov, Falkovnia’s military organizes a desperate and occasionally effective defense against
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
murder to keep order among their ranks and remove threats to their organization. So-called “snuff streets” hold the bodies of the dead, dumped by their murderers in piles along the lane. The most
desperate of Outer City residents prowl the snuff streets, hoping to find a missed copper piece or a salvageable boot to pawn. They strip the teeth from bodies, cut off hair that might fetch a coin, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Void card, the House of Cards is called into existence in its own demiplane. The character’s soul is transported there, trapped inside a porcelain mask in the lair of a breath drinker, a monster
for the player to continue playing their original character on a desperate quest to rescue their own soul.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
at a secret sanctuary in the Isles of Agony called Hope’s Heart. Here, she shelters other victims and creations of Viktra, showing them the esteem their creator denies them. Those in Elise’s care have
shows little respect for the lives of more fragile beings. Moreover, Adam is fascinated by Mordenheim’s work and quietly seeks ways to create life that will serve him. Bastien Grivet A desperate crew of Ludendorf whalers runs afoul of Rahab, a fleshless leviathan that hunts the Sea of Secrets
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
rich silver deposits but are haunted by Banshees—the souls of failed performers. The Catacombs Violent goblins lurk amid mazelike canyons called the Catacombs. Here, the goblin gladiator Nym Pymplee
never wrong. Cortton A plague has taken root in Cortton. The town’s residents cake heavy makeup and garish blush on their faces, desperate to convince themselves and others that they’re uninfected
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Bavlorna Blightstraw Younger than Skabatha and older than Endelyn, Bavlorna is called Slack-jawed Lorna because her wide mouth is prone to hang agape. Flies flit in and out of it. She is the hag of
the present, the here and now, the moment to moment. Those desperate individuals who seek her out do so to find a remedy for a nagging problem or anxiety. Though she despises unannounced visitors, a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Colossus of Akros An enormous golem of bronze and iron overlooks the path leading to the polis of Akros. Though it is rarely called on to defend the polis, the sight of its towering form is enough to
ease the minds of the populace. In truly desperate times, priests of Purphoros work their magic to call the colossus to life, whereupon the earth rumbles as it steps down from its twin plinths to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
and the future uncertain, the High King of Thorbardin sealed the gates of the kingdom to all outsiders, including the Neidar. Betrayed and hungry, these surface dwarves allied with other desperate
refugees and unsuccessfully attempted to take Thorbardin by force. The conflict that came to be called the Dwarfgate War caused deep enmity between the dwarven communities of the surface and those that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
You’ve seen few colors, instead primarily experiencing the world in shades of black and white. 2 Your eyes lack pigment and appear translucent. 3 You vaguely recall a phenomenon called “rain,” during which
fresh water fell from above. 4 Your ears are used to the echo of empty caverns, and the bustling noises of the surface are distracting for you. 5 The idea of a space with no ceiling terrifies you. 6 You’re desperate to touch a cloud. You don’t know what it will feel like, but you hope it’s fluffy.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
annihilation. Desperate to save themselves and their allies, powerful elemental beings called the Wind Dukes of Aaqa rose against Miska. Committed to the concept of law, the Wind Dukes descended from
a people called the vaati, who once ruled many worlds. Seven Wind Dukes wove their power into an artifact called the Rod of Law. The dukes used the rod to imprison Miska on the plane of Pandemonium
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
murder to keep order among their ranks and remove threats to their organization. So-called “snuff streets” hold the bodies of the dead, dumped by their murderers in piles along the lane. The most
desperate of Outer City residents prowl the snuff streets, hoping to find a missed copper piece or a salvageable boot to pawn. They strip the teeth from bodies, cut off hair that might fetch a coin, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
expertise, peddling empty assurances from the center of a web of credit, gossip, and desperate debtors. Castle Avernus,
frozen at the moment of its destruction Bubbly and fantastically vain, Madame
restoring Il Aluk’s grandeur. During this event, she encourages her guests to drink a cordial called the Spirit of Nobility. This magic elixir grants the drinker the effect of a greater invisibility spell
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
they force their targets to desperate limits, night hags claim their victims’ tormented spirits, capturing them in sinister traps called soul bags. The hags then slip between planes of existence to