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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
, making the darkened path through the woods ideal for banditry.
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A moonstone dragon hosts a storytelling competition in the Feywild, and the winner gets to claim any one item on display in the
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
of eel favored by a local topaz dragon is “haunted,” and shipments of the eel vanish every time the ghost appears.
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Legends claim that a gauntlet imbued with divine power rests in a
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A topaz dragon has developed a taste for merfolk, and the merfolk community near the dragon’s lair is desperate for help.
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A topaz dragon is intent on destroying the homes of all
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
that specializes in a type of eel favored by a local topaz dragon is “haunted,” and shipments of the eel vanish every time the ghost appears.
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Legends claim that a gauntlet imbued
dragon’s clutches.
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A topaz dragon has developed a taste for merfolk, and the merfolk community near the dragon’s lair is desperate for help.
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A topaz dragon is intent on
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
concentrates the spoils at the top of the hierarchy. As a functionary in that system, your best hope is to claim as much as possible of the money that passes through your hands on its way up, so that
priests.
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A Gruul druid hates me but would never dare to touch me.
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I know an Izzet engineer who is desperate to pay off a debt accrued by a deceased relative.
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Roll an additional
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
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A fishery that specializes in a type of eel favored by a local topaz dragon is “haunted,” and shipments of the eel vanish every time the ghost appears.
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Legends claim that a
who escaped the dragon’s clutches.
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A topaz dragon has developed a taste for merfolk, and the merfolk community near the dragon’s lair is desperate for help.
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A topaz dragon is
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
wealthy and well-known artist’s muse—a moonstone dragon—has stopped appearing in their dreams. The artist is desperate to hire adventurers to find the dragon.
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A clutch of moonstone
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A moonstone dragon hosts a storytelling competition in the Feywild, and the winner gets to claim any one item on display in the dragon’s lair.
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A moonstone dragon, offended by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Domain Features Kalakeri is known for the following features: Factions in Conflict. Two factions claim Kalakeri’s Sapphire Throne: the soldiers and loyalists of Maharani Ramya Vasavadan, and the
battlefield where factions struggle to claim or hold it as a symbol of rule. The Backwaters. Rare creatures and extraordinary magical plants flourish in the Backwaters, the collective name for the
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
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Adventure Hook
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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
darkened path through the woods ideal for banditry.
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A moonstone dragon hosts a storytelling competition in the Feywild, and the winner gets to claim any one item on display in the dragon’s
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Legends claim that a gauntlet imbued with divine power rests in a temple beneath the waves. Unfortunately, that temple is now the lair of an especially tricky topaz dragon.
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A topaz dragon is
one treasure hunter who escaped the dragon’s clutches.
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A topaz dragon has developed a taste for merfolk, and the merfolk community near the dragon’s lair is desperate for help
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Underdark settlements are about to go to war, having been carefully manipulated by a deep dragon. A desperate ruler offers a reward to anyone who can uncover the true cause of the hostility.
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An adult deep dragon craves the knowledge stored in an aboleth;aboleth's nearby lair.
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A spirit naga desperately wants to claim the key to a mysterious underground door from the hoard
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
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Adventure Hook
1
A wealthy and well-known artist’s muse—a moonstone dragon—has stopped appearing in their dreams. The artist is desperate
forest, making the darkened path through the woods ideal for banditry.
5
A moonstone dragon hosts a storytelling competition in the Feywild, and the winner gets to claim any one item on display in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
off several attempts to wrest Hiatea’s Hearth away. In studying the hall’s history, the efreeti realized the truth of the hall’s curse. She is desperate to escape her fate and offers a handsome reward
Necropolis Encounters table (see chapter 3), refuse to rest in peace. Head to Head to Head Two rival factions of giant kin vie to claim the throne. An ettin and a fensir skirmisher (see chapter 6
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
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
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
them. The merchant found with his throat cut and pockets emptied, the husband murdered so his wife can marry her young mistress, the tyrannical shop owner stabbed by a desperate underling — residents
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
wounded and one near death, and both desperate to be freed. They are periodically taken out for interrogation in area 9, and are aware that experiments performed on them have created clones of
themselves. They vehemently claim to be the real thieves. The two join the characters if allowed, seeking to rescue and rejoin the other thieves to complete their original mission. Their evil nature inspires
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
contract that sealed Elturel’s doom is hidden. This is a lie, the claim a desperate ploy to buy time and, hopefully, a chance to escape.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
driven mad by the ghosts of those who died when the tower fell. Others claim that House Vadalis has been trying to magebreed super-soldiers, and the Ravers are the result of failed experiments. Only
the most desperate people live here, and the forces of the law won’t come near it. As a result, the district has a lot of space available for any cult or secret society that needs a lair. The followers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
indestructible, but the tomes claim encasing them in crystal can neutralize them. According to Dr. Dannell’s research, the Murkmire Stone is due to hatch in a matter of days. She frantically presented
her findings to the university’s administrators, who deemed her work pseudoscience and refused to interfere with the museum’s upcoming exhibition of the Murkmire Stone. Desperate, Dr. Dannell snuck
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
is “haunted,” and shipments of the eel vanish every time the ghost appears.
4 Legends claim that a gauntlet imbued with divine power rests in a temple beneath the waves. Unfortunately, that
, and the merfolk community near the dragon’s lair is desperate for help.
8 A topaz dragon is intent on destroying the homes of all intelligent creatures in the dragon’s territory, and desperate
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
exhibiting remarkable resistance to illness and poisons.
Dragon Balm. Some texts of Pharika claim that within the chemical makeup of each individual dragon lies the cure to one specific disease or
venom. Those desperate for a cure to a rare affliction often pray to the goddess to reveal the monster that embodies the malady tormenting them. Such insight, though, rarely decreases the danger of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
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
them. The merchant found with his throat cut and pockets emptied, the husband murdered so his wife can marry her young mistress, the tyrannical shop owner stabbed by a desperate underling — residents
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
to lay claim to Falkovnia—perhaps a forgotten human culture or relentless giants. Falkovnia is one of the few domains where the characters and the land’s Darklord theoretically represent the same
characters learn of downtrodden citizens in Lekar plotting to escape into the Mists following the next zombie siege. Are the citizens desperate noncombatants, or are they Talon agents seeking to draw out
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
supplies rests a box made from tightly grown pink coral. Inside is a necklace of adaptation and 4 potions of healing. 19. Hall The sahuagin mount a desperate defense here, determined to protect their leaders
swiftly retreat. The bulk of Saltmarsh’s troops take up pursuit, with a few remaining to escort the characters away. The party has done enough. It’s time for them to claim their reward.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
on their properties and claim it’s being spread by strange fungus-covered bipeds (myconids).
2 A hermit who once lived in the abandoned fortress on Cas Island hires the party to retrieve an
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8 Two young lovers go missing from Viktal. One is found days later, unable to remember anything, aged fifty years, and desperate for help to find their partner.
9 A character’s reflection on
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
civic and moral leadership. 2 Young Noble. An ambitious noble eagerly seeks to reform society to align with a personal vision. 3 Shipwrecked Governor. A desperate leader struggles to keep people alive
Rival. You seek to weaken or remove a rival to the regent’s rule—perhaps a general, an archdruid, or a noble with a claim to the throne. 3 Expel Corruption. You help the sovereign reform their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
living in such a dangerous city. As a result, few desperate elders seek the blessing of the Lord of Bones. Those who do, though, tend to be both cagey and wealthy, which means that although Myrkul’s
either Bhaal or one of his future chosen. Some claim that Bhaal himself regularly visits the temple, his presence contributing to the city’s high murder rate. While the Dead Three occupy a prominent
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
1 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 find the dragon.
2 A clutch of
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5 A moonstone dragon hosts a storytelling competition in the Feywild, and the winner gets to claim any one item on display in the dragon’s lair.
6 A moonstone dragon, offended by gifts of gold
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
both leaders to discover which has the worthier claim.
8 A bronze dragon fears that a remote library-fortress is no longer the best place to safeguard an infamous tome called the Antitheorem
fought together in the mage’s youth often visit each other to share stories.
7 An adult bronze dragon attempting to raise a clutch of wyrmlings alone is in desperate need of tutors and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
arrive. A drow house stands alone and forlorn with its back against the west wall of Menzoberranzan’s great vault. Its towers are dark, its walls crumbling and in desperate need of repair. The old
choose a different battleground, warning them that Bregan D’aerthe will oppose any effort to visit further destruction upon the city. If the characters claim to be looking for a safe way into Sorcere
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
claim dominion over Phlegethos as partners and rivals. Fierna’s charisma, equaled only by that of Asmodeus, makes her a brilliant manipulator capable of filling mortal and immortal hearts with
who are desperate to attain positions of power and status entreat her, as do those who — for whatever reason — need to be loved, feared, or respected. Fierna takes a direct interest in the soul trade
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Domains of Dread. They don’t always claim their victims bodily, though. Rather, the Mists might steal characters’ minds, placing them into survivors involved in specific terrifying scenarios. Perhaps
desperate choices powerful characters can avoid. Tools for Terror Survivors allow you to control how players will engage with a horror adventure. The stat blocks in the following section are designed to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
living in such a dangerous city. As a result, few desperate elders seek the blessing of the Lord of Bones. Those who do, though, tend to be both cagey and wealthy, which means that although Myrkul’s
either Bhaal or one of his future chosen. Some claim that Bhaal himself regularly visits the temple, his presence contributing to the city’s high murder rate. While the Dead Three occupy a prominent
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
invited the mystics here to contact their demon-god, hoping it might provide guidance on how to crush her enemies. Because she has become desperate, Iymrith is willing to trust the mystics
understands Abyssal can translate the demonic whispers: Wrack and ruin, flash and thunder,
Let them claim the dragon’s plunder;
Death is close! Her doom has come!
To blade and spell she will succumb