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Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
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Sammaster’s travels brought him into contact with people who revered dragons as icons of primeval might. Masquerading his desire to dominate dragonkind as devotion, Sammaster established himself
clever wizard returns each time to steer the Cult of the Dragon into more desperate and sinister plots.Necrotic, PoisonAcid, Cold, Lightning
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
megalomaniacal.
Sammaster’s travels brought him into contact with people who revered dragons as icons of primeval might. Masquerading his desire to dominate dragonkind as devotion, Sammaster
past, but the clever wizard returns each time to steer the Cult of the Dragon into more desperate and sinister plots.Acid, Necrotic, Poison
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Amphibious. The grung can breathe air and water.
Poisonous Skin. Any creature that grapples the grung or otherwise comes into direct contact with the grung’s skin must succeed on a DC 12
Constitution saving throw or become poisoned for 1 minute. A poisoned creature no longer in direct contact with the grung can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Amphibious. The grung can breathe air and water.
Poisonous Skin. Any creature that grapples the grung or otherwise comes into direct contact with the grung’s skin must succeed on a DC 12
Constitution saving throw or become poisoned for 1 minute. A poisoned creature no longer in direct contact with the grung can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Amphibious. The grung can breathe air and water.
Poisonous Skin. Any creature that grapples the grung or otherwise comes into direct contact with the grung’s skin must succeed on a DC 12
Constitution saving throw or become poisoned for 1 minute. A poisoned creature no longer in direct contact with the grung can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
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Orzhov Contacts
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Contact
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The spirit of an ancestor has taken an interest in me.
2
An older cousin has the ear of a powerful oligarch.
3
I know a knight who is
Contact
1
An Azorius arrester is always snooping into my family’s business transactions.
2
A Boros paladin saved my life, to my everlasting shame.
3
I know a shopkeeper who is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Newspaper Contacts Usually, your primary contact—the person who gives you assignments for the newspaper—is an editor of some kind, who takes the stories you write and makes them suitable for the
. Consult the Newspaper Contact table to learn about the editor or other newspaper figure you’re responsible to. Newspaper Contact d8 Primary Contact 1 A tough-as-nails senior editor who holds you to
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
. Whenever a creature that can understand a language sleeps or enters a state of trance or reverie within 6 miles of the dragon’s lair, the dragon can establish telepathic contact with that creature
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
trance or reverie within 6 miles of the dragon’s lair, the dragon can establish telepathic contact with that creature and converse with it in its dreams. The creature remembers its conversation
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
their way. These sorrowsworn appear as desperate and panicked things. The Lost try to embrace any creatures they can reach, attempting to find solace in the contact. Aside from the horror of being
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
increases or decreases depending on the sovereign’s nature, the type of work you perform, and the length of your employment. Sovereign Contact You might benefit from direct contact with your group patron
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Dark Bargains Characters who don’t have a Dark Gift might gain one in the course of their adventures. At the DM’s discretion, sinister forces might contact a character and offer them a Dark Gift in
. Typically, only one character is aware of a bargain, its terms, and whether or not it was accepted. The DM might have a mysterious force intervene and offer a Dark Gift whenever a desperate or thematic
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
saintly figure, or contact a wizard while in the guise of a wise sage. He tells these folk whatever stories and promises they want to hear, playing to their needs and slowly drawing them into his circle of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
flesh, or is it a supernatural force that warps what it comes in contact with? Wounded. When it’s wounded, how does it react? What does its blood look like? What is inside it instead of flesh and blood
? When it becomes desperate, how does it react? Let Players Fill Gaps Invite players to turn their imaginations against themselves. Leave details intentionally blank, describing just enough to reveal
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
DM decides if the guild has tutors available for a given subject. Guild Contact Even as a member in good standing of the guild, you can’t simply stroll up to the guild master and demand their attention
. Your superiors within the guild manage work contracts, request the use of guild resources, and facilitate getting your group in contact with the right people to assist their interests. Roll or pick
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
flying, it can’t take any actions or reactions unless it lands.
Orange Grung. The poisoned creature is frightened of its allies.
Purple Grung. The poisoned creature feels a desperate need to soak
Challenge 1/4 (50 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2
Amphibious. The grung can breathe air and water.
Poisonous Skin. Any creature that grapples the grung or otherwise comes into direct contact with the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
proficiency in the Religion skill, if the character doesn’t already have it. Religious Order Contact Your established order enjoys a robust following. It might be a cloister of priestly scholars who use
entity you worship or through an earthly agent, such as a high priest or an archdruid. Roll or pick from the Religious Order Contact table to determine who relays messages to and from your order’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
. The poisoned creature must shout loudly or otherwise make a loud noise at the start and end of its turn.
Purple. The poisoned creature feels a desperate need to soak itself in liquid or mud. It can’t
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Amphibious. The grung can breathe air and water.
Poisonous Skin. Any creature that grapples the grung or otherwise comes into direct contact with the grung’s skin must succeed on a DC 12 Constitution
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
nearest knight investigates, but every knight has the magical means to contact the Solar Bastion’s headquarters and request help. Even so, it’s rare for knights to work together outside their
take in orphaned children and people in similarly desperate situations. These people might become squires to the knights, accompanying them on adventures and learning the order’s ways, although Hilarion
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
named Garra. The letter has since been destroyed. The criminals have no other useful information to share with the characters. They don’t know Garra is a half-ogre, and they don’t know how to contact her
, due to the fact that many businesses are reluctant to hire warforged foreigners. The pair became desperate for money. A month ago, Razor told Coal she had a job working on a long-term secret mission
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
to desperate castaways, from monstrous predators to the last beings of their kind, might make their home in a hidden island sanctuary. The Island Inhabitants table offers just a few suggestions for
humans—make their home on the island.
2 First Contact. A prosperous civilization, unconnected to the great poleis, thrives on the island.
3 Strangers. A species not usually connected to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Fierna have a quota of souls they must meet. Belial largely leaves this task to Fierna, even turning over to her the mortals that directly contact him. Fierna offers her supplicants the gift of personal
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->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
Contact The easiest approach is to have Kwalish in area O7 when the characters arrive — an elderly gnome arcane inventor (use the evoker stat block from Volo’s Guide to Monsters) working on his latest
by the sphinx, and of how he buried Daoine Gloine in ooze only after discovering its inhabitants to be depraved cultists. In both cases, the inventor deemed his desperate actions as necessary
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
personal anecdotes, and a desperate need to make himself or herself the subject of every conversation. Using Your Voice Most of what you say during a session will be at a consistent level. For dramatic
the NPC in question is a family member or a contact of a particular adventurer and talks only to that character. An NPC of a certain race or class might listen only to characters he or she feels a
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
. West of it is a contact stone.
Creatures. Six Thayan apprentices and eight Thayan warriors (see appendix B for both stat blocks) are resting here, watched over by a wight. Half the warriors and
. Throne Swarm Trap. The 20-foot-tall white throne is a magic trap that the Thayans might use if desperate. When any non-undead creature climbs onto it, a swarm of stinging insects pours out of the back of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
elves, I’d wager) looked beyond the world to create one. These High Mages gathered together to perform a mighty work of magic that would bring Toril into contact with Arvandor — that’s right, the mad
, Evermeet took my breath way. Coiled in the basket like a snake, with cramps in every limb, I was desperate not to give myself away, yet I could feel the magic of Evermeet seep through my body, soothing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
enough. She uses a sending spell to contact Manshoon as soon as the characters arrive. Manshoon sends his simulacrum (see appendix B) to unlock the door to area E2 and greet the new arrivals. It takes 1
again for another 24 hours. Agorn knows this feature of the brazier, and he uses it in combat if the situation is desperate. E9. Library Alabaster shelves line every wall and jut out into the center
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
art installation. Desperate, Kwalish constructed another planar gateway while imprisoned in the temple, then opened a portal to the 222nd layer of the Abyss — Juiblex’s Slime Pits. A flood of ooze
any creature within 10 feet of its surface, or an Engulf attack against any creature in contact with its surface. Alternatively, it can replace any of its pseudopod attacks with attempts to shove a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
to pay for Zhentarim mercenaries to patrol the lands north of Daggerford. Pencheska has forged a promising alliance with the Black Network, and her primary Zhentarim contact in town is a plump
dragon named Zirazylym in polymorphed form. Zira is fond of the Hardcheese family and doesn’t meddle in their business. She avoids contact with the characters unless events involving the Black Network
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
(worth 500 gp each) in another small coffer In addition, a large growth of yellow mold seems to cover the southwest corner of the room. Making physical contact with this image reveals its illusory nature
configured, it can transport up to one giant or six human-sized persons standing in each loop of the figure-8 to the glacial rift, if one of their number is holding the map. (Nosnra uses this method of escaping if he finds himself in desperate straits.)