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The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
harengon brigands, who stole its head, which the scarecrow describes as a most glorious stag skull. It desperately wants its head back, and it’s a bit self-conscious about its replacement head: a
nervous or sense tension in the air.”
Ideal. “I prefer to keep moving from place to place.”
Bond. “My original head. It was perfect every way. I hope to get it back one day
Magic Items
The Book of Many Things
cards you intend to draw and then draw them randomly. Unless a card allows you to draw additional cards, any cards drawn exceeding this number have no effect.
As soon as you draw a card, its magic
, while leaving your hands free.
Celestial. You sprout a pair of softly luminescent, feathered wings from your back and gain a flying speed of 30 feet.
Construct. A homunculus appears in an
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
ruins. You are part of a savage society that clings desperately to the Old Ways — attuned to nature, full of primal rage, and given short shrift by a world consumed with continuing civilization
Personality Trait
1
Unlike people, the beasts of the wild are friends who won’t stab me in the back.
2
Go ahead and insult me — I dare you.
3
I scorn those who can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
encircling groups of guards, but they haven’t organized an attack. Nighthill thinks the raiders don’t intend to attack the keep; they seem interested only in loot. The real danger is to the town and to those
people who didn’t make it into the keep before it was cut off. Nighthill wants the characters to slip back into the town and help people who are cut off or harass the raiders. A stealthy group can make it out of the keep and back in again without drawing the raiders’ attention.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
encircling groups of guards, but they haven’t organized an attack. Nighthill thinks the raiders don’t intend to attack the keep; they seem interested only in loot. The real danger is to the town and to those
people who didn’t make it into the keep before it was cut off. Nighthill wants the characters to slip back into the town and help people who are cut off or harass the raiders. A stealthy group can make it out of the keep and back in again without drawing the raiders’ attention.
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
some other convenient way (or, in a cannibalistic tribe, eaten). Kobolds believe that if they die in service to their tribe, Kurtulmak immediately sends each of them back to life as the next egg laid in
.
A kobold’s cautious nature doesn’t mean it can’t get angry. The blood of dragons flows in its veins, and like a raging drake, a kobold that is pushed too far or has its back
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
mind flayers work desperately to reconcile their god’s demented whims even as they struggle to delay its demise. To those ends, their tentacles slip through the Mists to drag unwitting souls back to
Bluetspur for all manner of experiments. Many abductees are returned with only psychic scars, while others are never seen again. An unlucky few find themselves set upon strange routes leading back to the alien realm, arriving only to realize they’ve visited Bluetspur before.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes’ Feast: Saving the Children’s Menu
bodies were found floating down the river. Concerned, Kaga pleads with the characters to find out what has happened to the homestead and its proprietor, Arthur Holrow, and to bring back the ingredients
cruel villain. CHILDREN IN PERIL
Before running this adventure, check with each player to see if they’re open to playing in an adventure where children are in danger (though the villains intend to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
paths forward blocked by the mist, which disorients them and sends them back the way they came. Those who try to fly above the mist never get where they intend to go, their destination always
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
only way to free him is for Zikran to end the enchantment willingly or for Zikran to be killed. Repeatedly and desperately, yet still with a noble manner, Gazre-Azam asks for the characters’ aid. In
leave Candlekeep with it, on the condition that the book is returned to them once the djinni is freed. (The Avowed are in no rush to get the book back.)
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
wagons they find, loading them with loot. They take the families as slaves and force them to tow the conveyances back to the Iceshield lodges. Some independent-minded squads of orcs decided that the
tending the livestock, but they intend to stay until the food runs out, then move on to the next settlement. The homesteaders, in conjunction with members of the Emerald Enclave and the Order of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
achieve such a summoning, though I am sure he didn’t intend this result. Imbecile!
“I can save you months of research — time we clearly don’t have. The information I found here has confirmed my
theories, and I know how to banish the demon lords back to the Abyss. We can do this only if we work together, if you are willing and daring enough to directly challenge the demon lords. Or perhaps
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Reporting Back When the characters return to where Vogler’s survivors are camped, Mayor Raven meets them. If the characters gained the city’s support, she thanks them profusely. If they didn’t, she’s
eager to brainstorm ways to do so. After hearing that Darrett—and likely some of the characters—agreed to aid Kalaman’s military, Raven says she and the survivors of Vogler’s militia intend to offer
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
recognize any stir caused by the adventurers’ arrival.) The cultists don’t know the adventurers’ plans, but with the Blue Dragon Mask on hand, they don’t intend to take chances. Their preparations
over his shoulder as another figure suddenly dashes out onto the balcony. A flash of blades and spell-fire erupts. Then the figure who spoke pitches his attacker over the railing before dashing back inside.
Map 15.1: Xonthal’s Tower
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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
recognize any stir caused by the adventurers’ arrival.) The cultists don’t know the adventurers’ plans, but with the Blue Dragon Mask on hand, they don’t intend to take chances. Their preparations
over his shoulder as another figure suddenly dashes out onto the balcony. A flash of blades and spell-fire erupts. Then the figure who spoke pitches his attacker over the railing before dashing back inside.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
, who are desperately trying to escape. The kraken is positioned along the easternmost portion of the 100-foot-deep water shown on map 7.1. The archaeologists are scattered throughout the 2-foot-deep
longer a threat, the leader of the archaeologists approaches the characters. A stout human woman with bronze skin and curly dark hair held back with a colorful scarf runs toward you. Her expression is a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Where to Go? The players’ first question upon escaping from Velkynvelve is likely, “Where do we go next?” The adventurers must find a way out of the Underdark and back to the surface world. Their
Stool back to its home. Ront is unfamiliar with the Underdark and can’t navigate. He’s willing to stick with the adventurers as long as they seek a destination that gets him back to the surface world
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
stayed behind to guard the white dragon eggs and watch over the Northlanders and yetis. Also present in Svardborg are Isendraug, a female adult white dragon who desperately wants her eggs back, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
are desperately lonely or eager to find a settlement where they can live among their own kind. The Recluses table offers adventure hooks you can use to launch an adventure with a reclusive giant
. Recluses d6 Adventure Hook 1 Adventurers stumble upon a giants’ enclave where a deadly plague wiped out most of the inhabitants. One survivor remains, tending the site and trying to hold back the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
, read or paraphrase the following: Thunderous footsteps shake the ground as you approach a horned, red-furred demon over twenty feet tall. Two winged shapes flank its towering form. On its back is a
with powerful infernal war leaders. The unicorn desperately wishes to be freed and says as much in Celestial and Elvish. Characters who try to convince the erinyes to release the unicorn must make a DC
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Ramya’s Powers and Dominion Reborn as a death knight, Ramya desperately tries to hold on to or retake the Sapphire Throne in a cycle of victory and loss with her equally uncompromising siblings
her subjects. She and her soldiers kill anyone who she considers a traitor, a status extended not only to those who back Arijani and Reeva, but even to those who don’t support her vociferously enough
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
wearing tattered gray robes over black pants sits on a 2-foot-tall toadstool. Her long black hair is tied back with a swatch of gray cloth that matches her robe. A quasit in toad form sits on her knee
characters approach her in a calm manner, Darribeth smiles and says to the toad on her knee, “Look, Teeha! I told you they’re not demons. I wonder if Urgala sent them.” Darribeth desperately wants to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
population to make a lair in the ruins of what was once a great city or stronghold. The people displaced want their home back, so the dragon must be removed. Killing the dragon is not necessarily the
goal, but it’s certainly one way to solve the problem. Acquire the Dragon’s Treasure. The dragon’s hoard contains unimaginable wealth—or perhaps one powerful artifact the characters desperately need
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Reckless Hate When the characters defeat a second elemental temple, the offended cult strikes back. Through divinations, spy reports, or visions bestowed by the Elder Elemental Eye, the cultists
, trouble arrives on their doorstep. If the characters make camp outside of town, this encounter occurs when the characters spot the cultist group traveling to a settlement they intend to attack. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
Common, and has an Intelligence score of 10; he otherwise uses the zombie stat block. Bard’s Quest Frody didn’t intend to frighten away the cabin’s proper owners, but his appearance can’t be helped
imparts the following information: Grave Theft. Two halflings dug up his grave in the dead of night and stole his Canaith mandolin (an instrument of the bards). Frody wants it back. (“It was a gift
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
, and they intend to keep it. Ghald waits and watches to see if the adventurers can be scared away. When he decides conflict is likely, he attacks without warning. This act forces the others to join the
battle. Unferth hangs back and uses his spells to support his allies. If the characters accepted Nareen’s offer to guide them here, and she is uninjured from Haliyra’s attack, she and one of her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
heavily on his bandaged left leg. “I hear that you intend to follow the raiders and see where they’ve gone. I’d like nothing better than to come with you, but in this condition, I’d slow you down. In the
we fought a particularly savage battle against raiders. A few others and I fought our way to the keep, barely. Leosin didn’t make it at all. We went back this morning to look for him, but all we
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
heavily on his bandaged left leg. “I hear that you intend to follow the raiders and see where they’ve gone. I’d like nothing better than to come with you, but in this condition, I’d slow you down. In the
, after we fought a particularly savage battle against raiders. A few others and I fought our way to the keep, barely. Leosin didn’t make it at all. We went back this morning to look for him, but all we
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
water cascading down its back and shoulders. Upon reaching its full height, the great demon throws back both its heads and roars!
The kuo-toa offerings and the fervor of his worshipers in the Darklake
decide how they intend to escape. Escape by Land. Fleeing by land requires dodging terrified kuo-toa, and even fighting fish-folk driven to a killing frenzy against the characters for having drawn this
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
door is a jittery bullywug with a spear, and behind this guard is a wooden crate with hunting gear piled atop it. Huddled in the back of the hut are four more bullywugs. Tension hangs heavy in the
, the bullywugs attack the characters to prevent them from betraying Illig to Gullop XIX. If one or more characters force their way inside, Illig’s allies try to hold the intruders back long enough for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
above all else, even if it doesn’t benefit anyone.
Horror Character Bonds d12 Bond
1 I desperately need to get back to someone or someplace, but I lost them in the Mists.
2
within me. I will fight against it and the world’s other evils for as long as I can.
9 I’m desperately seeking a cure to an affliction or a curse, either for someone close to me for myself
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
intend to conquer. A colony usually adopts one of three approaches to dealing with its neighbors. Control. A colony that desperately needs to increase its population concentrates on capturing humanoids
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
demiplane, nothing exists except what is described in each entry. When a character passes through a haunted doorway, that haunted doorway turns back to a normal doorway after 1 minute. Exiting a Haunted
(area D18), draped in sheets. 3 The characters kneel at the side of the cultists’ well (area D25), desperately parched. 4 The characters are slumped over the furniture in the storage room (area D18
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
, how the mighty have fallen!
“This shield has the power to corrupt everything around it. The Hhune family of Baldur’s Gate has kept it for years now. Doubtless they’ll want it back, but this shield
you faithfully as both a guide and an advisor.”
Gargauth’s offer is genuine, for the fiend desperately wants the shield taken to the Nine Hells. It believes (incorrectly) that it will be able to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Sword Wraith When a glory-obsessed warrior dies in battle without earning the honor it desperately sought, its valor-hungry spirit might haunt the battlefield as a sword wraith. Brooding Spirits. The
most likely spots for encountering sword wraiths are scenes of ancient ambushes, battlefields where soldiers were felled by magic with no chance to fight back, and sites where enemies were hemmed in