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Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
ship is built for such travel. The ship in question must weigh 1 ton or more.
The sensation of being attuned to a spelljamming helm is akin to the pins-and-needles effect one experiences after one
;mercanes (both described in Boo’s Astral Menagerie), typically sell a spelljamming helm for substantially more than it cost to make. How much more depends on the market, but 7,500 gp would be a reasonable demand. A desperate buyer in a seller’s market might pay 10,000 gp or more.
Equipment
isn’t built for traveling on water and sinks quickly in rough seas.
Standard weaponry on a shrike ship includes three ballistae—one on the forecastle, one in the middle of the top deck
, and one on the sterncastle. In a desperate situation, the ship’s reinforced bow can be used as a piercing ram.
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
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Contacts
The Orzhov Syndicate operates according to a strict hierarchy built on a network of connections among old, wealthy families. Your family might provide important contacts, while your family’s
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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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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with whom they have alliances or enmities. Their lairs are highly individual. Some are woven from networks of living fungus. Others are built upon the ruins of ancient cities or carved into caves near
Ancient Deep Dragon
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Two 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
alliances or enmities. Their lairs are highly individual. Some are woven from networks of living fungus. Others are built upon the ruins of ancient cities or carved into caves near underground lakes.
Deep
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
, with new construction built atop old and hastily thrown together shanties lining the inside of its walls. Mortigny is quickly quarantined during surges of plague, but anyone is allowed to enter the
new treatments for the Gnaws, but ultimately their work does little to curb the disease. Many desperate practitioners have turned to unconventional methods to halt the plague’s spread.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
? 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
these: What does the way it moves remind you of? It emits the worst smell—what is it? Something falls free and, for an instant, what are you certain it is? Players’ responses don’t need to control the narrative; it’s up to you whether they’re true or just one perception.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Life Off the Lakes Most of the ten towns except Bryn Shander are built on the shores of three big lakes. The largest population of knucklehead trout is in Maer Dualdon, the deepest of the lakes
dedicated or desperate cut holes in the ice and dangle their lines down in hopes of tempting hungry trout. FUEL SOURCES
The folk of Ten-Towns don’t have a lot of options when it comes to keeping warm
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
warfare and slaughter, he settled in the remote valley of Barovia and built a castle on a towering pinnacle. His brother Sergei came to live with him in Castle Ravenloft, becoming Strahd’s adviser and
she pledged to marry. In a desperate attempt to regain Tatyana’s love, Strahd forged a pact with dark powers that made him immortal. Strahd confronted his brother at Sergei and Tatyana’s wedding and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Astral Adventurer’s Guide
but isn’t built for traveling on water and sinks quickly in rough seas. Standard weaponry on a shrike ship includes three ballistae—one on the forecastle, one in the middle of the top deck, and one on
the sterncastle. In a desperate situation, the ship’s reinforced bow can be used as a piercing ram. Shrike Ship Summary Armor Class: 15 (wood) Cargo: 20 tons Hit Points: 250 Crew: 11 Damage Threshold
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
. But desperate contenders might also find unlikely allies who oppose Chakuna and her horrific hunts. Valachan has villages but contains no cities or towns, since the forest doesn’t allow them to be
built. Every shivering leaf and every creature’s eyes hold an eerie awareness. The forests watch, and they whisper what they see to Chakuna. A mystery that ties the Darklord to her domain could shatter
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
of their vessels. Both sides are desperate and offer rewards to the characters for their help. Far-Flung Invaders Creatures from another world appear in the circle during a stellar conjunction, then
built the circle. She demands tribute in the form of magical metal treasure to allow the characters to access the circle. She also accepts a fragment from the core of a supposedly inert runic colossus (see chapter 6).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
built around a large marketplace. The finest artisans live and work here, and the city’s trade guilds are headquartered here. Clerkburg. Clerkburg is the university district of Greyhawk, with dozens
hub of trade, it’s the most diverse, multicultural part of the city. Slum Quarter. The Slum Quarter is the poorest, most desperate region within Greyhawk’s walls, full of crime-ridden apartments
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Chult’s crown. Built over rich mineral veins, the city garnered wealth in abundance. Omuan jewelry was coveted far and wide, and the city’s merchants prospered immensely. To enter Omu, it was said, was to
Omuans. They disguised themselves as jungle creatures and promised great power in return for devotion. Desperate for redemption, the Omuans tore down their temple to Ubtao and raised shrines to these
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
the swamp, so houses built on poles eventually sink down into it. It is said that any object cast into the Swamp of Oblivion can’t be found again for at least a century. Now and then, a desperate soul
settlements here consist of wooden structures suspended above the muck. Most are built on platforms between trees, but a few stand on stilts driven deep into the muck. No solid earth underlies the mud of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
Adventure Background Dr. Cassee Dannell, a brilliant academic, long ago learned to hide her interest in the occult. She instead built a career gaining expertise in the peoples and cultures of the
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->Keys from the Golden Vault
mountain crumbled and volcanic rifts threatened to engulf those he loved, Xeluan lifted the sanctuary above his shoulders and made a final, desperate sacrifice. He wove his life energy into the magic
. They found his petrified body buried beneath the citadel, still holding it aloft. When all efforts to restore him failed, the heroes built a mausoleum around Xeluan’s body to honor his sacrifice. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
Story Overview Krenko is the boss of a notorious goblin mob, and he has made his fortune and built his reputation by mostly staying out of the guilds’ way. He has managed to cause no end of trouble
Krenko’s freedom, and are desperate to make him pay. GUILDLESS VILLAINS
Not every villain in a Ravnica campaign is a member of a guild, and not every scheme originates in the guildhalls. As you build
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
M6. Prison Cells This area is lined with boxlike metal cells, all built of the same strange materials seen elsewhere in the monastery. Most of the cells are empty, but shouts and a sound of creatures
monastery. If the engines are set to fail, all the prisoners will be desperate to escape the monastery before its fall. If freed in any event, they can steal a skiff and follow the marked trails out of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
. When ancient peoples came upon these gems, their greed led them to gather as many as possible, and to build a temple at the site to honor Moloch. They built an ornate statue to the exiled archdevil
Thessalar’s experiments, but were captured. The gemsmith Seodra is now forced to labor for Thessalar, while the thieves are the subjects of dark experiments. All are desperate to escape.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
buildings become unlivable, new ones are built atop them, and the tangle of structures is four or five stories deep in some places. Many of the lower structures are completely walled off from the
that snake through the reeking expanse of mud. Still, it’s common to see desperate scavengers wallowing in the filth, scrounging for anything of value that a distracted alchemist might have carelessly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
Halfway Isle (Area L3) Halfway Isle used to be a giant stalagmite until the gnomes sheared off the top of it to create a plateau, atop which they built the Abbey of the Deep Brother (area L3
and a potion of giant strength (hill). Kavoda doesn’t want to stay in Little Lockford any longer. Desperate and hungry, he begs the characters to escort him safely to Little Lockford’s outer gates
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
strength, he settled in the remote valley of Barovia and built a castle on a towering pinnacle, from which he could survey his lands. His brother Sergei came to live with him in Castle Ravenloft
relationship, eventually turning into hatred. Strahd’s beloved, Tatyana, spurned him for Sergei, whom she pledged to marry.
In a desperate attempt to win Tatyana’s heart, Strahd forged a pact with dark
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
centuries afterward, the region was shunned. When our modern city was built, the cursed ruins were sealed away. But one never knows when the darkness could rise up again. On the Lady’s Day, we remember the
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->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Astral Adventurer’s Guide
can also propel and maneuver a ship on water or underwater, provided the ship is built for such travel. The ship in question must weigh 1 ton or more. Three Examples of a Spelljamming Helm The
more than it cost to make. How much more depends on the market, but 7,500 gp would be a reasonable demand. A desperate buyer in a seller’s market might pay 10,000 gp or more.
Wildspace Orrery
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
outside districts where you get the open air, built on the bridges and platforms that connect the core towers together. You’ve got the little turrets, built on the core tower walls and the bridges
the desperate… refugees who’ve lost everything in the war, orphans and urchins who never had anything to begin with. Modest services can be found, but overall the lower districts are squalid and poor; a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
of slowly sinking into the soggy seabed, it might end up consumed by shanties and other buildings built atop its corpse. 3. Marketplace This large, open space serves as the primary market for the Styes
building (detailed in the following section, “Murder Mystery”) is the last remnant of a more optimistic time, when the desperate and doomed of the Styes were cared for and watched over.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
magically enhanced demilich skull built into the lab’s instrumentation panels is used to channel a character’s soul energy once the bargain is struck. A character who has a portion of their soul
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->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
or dangerous figure from legend is imprisoned on this island.
6 Tyrant. A powerful individual built a fortress on the island, and all other residents revere them.
7 Fanatics. The island’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Secret of the Black Cabin The Black Cabin was built by a ranger of the Far North long before the founding of Ten-Towns. When he moved on, the lodge became a refuge for others seeking sanctuary from
Summer Star so he could end the Everlasting Rime, becoming more and more desperate to see it through. He had hoped to make a name for himself and win Lathander’s praise—is that so wrong? If the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
. Later, cultists erected this statue and built the metal base to support it. The only adornment on the base is a 4-foot-wide, humanlike grin affixed to one side to represent Ablinash’s mutation. The
comes from the captives inside the base signaling for help. They are desperate to get free but lack any means of escape. The four townspeople are all commoners with an Intelligence of 16: a pair of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
rise 5 Medium Contented 6 Medium In a state of decline 7 Low Despairing after years of steady decline 8 Low Desperate to improve 9 Low Resigned to that status 10 Outcast Shunned by giant society
looking for the sword. 4 When the characters’ enemies take refuge in a giant-built ruin, an ambitious fire giant offers to help the characters get inside in return for a share of the treasure. 5 A fire
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
business and residences for those who support the garrisons. Upper Dura Highhold A district built by dwarves for dwarves, Highhold has strong Mror influences in its architecture. It’s a good place to
district, Tumbledown has experienced recent incursions from Daask. Middle Dura Underlook The center of Sharn’s nightlife before Menthis Plateau was built, Underlook is a collection of poor taverns and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Draconic: “You built your degenerate throne on our graves and used our ancestors to fuel your ambition. But your gods abandoned you, and we struck you down. You return... and so do we.”
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using the scrying spell to monitor the characters and has judged they might be useful in ridding the ruins of the Dragon Army invaders. The gem Demelin breaks is an elemental gem. An instant later, an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
of the people of Bakar. The Tears of Athis arrived at the pyramid two days ago. They seek to restore the River Athis. Amun Sa built his tomb at the river’s source, so it stands to reason the secret
path into our chosen afterlife. I watched as my father built a tomb for himself, to guard against bandits who might plunder his tomb, robbing him of his refuge in the beyond. Yet, only a few years