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until the start of its next turn.Also known as myrmeriks, angels of slaughter serve gods of death (such as Myrkul in the Forgotten Realms setting or Nerull in the Greyhawk setting). Only three angels of
of slaughter to destroy their quarry. Angels of slaughter often employ other creatures to assist in their slaughter, and they sometimes use weather events or plagues as cover for their atrocities
Acolyte
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Basic Rules (2014)
, from the Forgotten Realms setting. Were you a lesser functionary in a temple, raised from childhood to assist the priests in the sacred rites? Or were you a high priest who suddenly experienced a call
is for the common people.
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I will do anything to protect the temple where I served.
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I seek to preserve a sacred text that my enemies consider heretical and seek to destroy.
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Lady Illmarrow is no folk tale. She is the greatest necromancer in Eberron, and after centuries of silence, she is setting ancient plots into motion at last. She is the power behind the Order of the
child born of dragon and elf could become a godlike avatar of death.
Illmarrow Rises. Even as dragons and elves fought to destroy the line of Vol, a child was born to the house: Erandis. A scion of elf
Demilich (Variant)
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Monster Manual (2014)
evolution. The lich Acererak — a powerful wizard and demonologist and the infamous master of the Tomb of Horrors — anticipated his own transformation, preparing for it by setting enchanted
their quest for power beyond the mortal world. As their patron did, they secure their remains within well-guarded vaults, using soul gems to maintain their phylacteries and destroy the adventurers who
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Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
religious service. The Gods of the Multiverse section contains a sample pantheon, from the Forgotten Realms setting. Were you a lesser functionary in a temple, raised from childhood to assist the priests in
temple where I served.
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I seek to preserve a sacred text that my enemies consider heretical and seek to destroy.
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Flaw
1
I judge others harshly, and myself even more
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Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
from many walks of life, setting them to tasks that serve the goals of the Black Network but aren’t necessarily criminal in nature. Agents of the Black Network must often work in secret, and are
and seek to destroy.
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Flaw
1
I judge others harshly, and myself even more severely.
2
I put too much trust in those who wield power within my temple’s hierarchy
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
Waterdeep. In her grief, Remi Haventree has sworn to destroy the cult and the threat it presents to the Sword Coast. She has been instrumental in bringing the factions together for this Council of Waterdeep, setting up the potential for alliances that the adventurers must now complete.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
Waterdeep. In her grief, Remi Haventree has sworn to destroy the cult and the threat it presents to the Sword Coast. She has been instrumental in bringing the factions together for this Council of Waterdeep, setting up the potential for alliances that the adventurers must now complete.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Adventures in Darkon Darkon presents a dystopian fantasy setting perfect for exploring the darker sides of familiar magic and monsters. Creatures such as dragons and beholders that might be ill
Adventures d6 Adventure
1 The party learns how to destroy the Heart of the Abyss, a relic held by the Order of the Guardians and hunted by a demon called the Whistling Fiend.
2 The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
, the ritual can be performed in any location in the Underdark imbued with faerzress. Vizeran has kept this information from the adventurers only because he sees the ritual as his chance to destroy
Menzoberranzan and take his revenge on the drow who cast him out. A player character spellcaster might be able to reproduce Vizeran’s work to create and perform the ritual, setting up the scenario in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
the Dessarin Valley, the setting for this adventure (and many others, if you wish). The Dessarin River, one of the mighty waterways of the North, runs through a barely settled frontier region a few days
Elemental Planes have established a foothold in the world. Within each node, a portal to one of those planes grows in intensity. The characters must destroy the cults there before the Princes of Elemental
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
a means to the end. Mogis is incapable of loyalty and should be expected to break any pact or agreement once it has outlived its usefulness. Erebos appreciates Mogis’s single-minded desire to destroy
abiding disrespect, verging on hatred, for Ephara and Karametra. Ephara’s neat, orderly cities are a delight to destroy, especially given her fussy, precise adherence to rules. Likewise, Ephara’s close
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
threatened. Before setting out to destroy interlopers, she rallies the green dragon and the werebats, using them to soften up her adversaries. She can also summon six awakened trees from the forest with a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
domain’s strange science. In the latter case, Lamordia’s sinister steampunk veneer offers a perfect setting for a grotesque flavor of gothic horror, focusing on lives enslaved to machines, the worth of flesh
daughter and sole surviving heir, Varissa Schaller, wants to avenge her brother’s murder and begs the party to help destroy her father.
7 Prospectors seeking rare gas pockets discover numerous
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
alliance to destroy a nearby town for more living space.
5 The acidic bile of a black dragon is the only substance able to melt the lock of a despot’s vault.
6 A potent artifact is rumored
types of blights to spread prodigiously and upset nature’s balance.
4 A black dragon wyrmling is setting cunning traps along local roadways, hoping to injure horses and draft animals for easy
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
create a new Domain of Dread and Darklord following the methods in chapter 4? Setting Mysteries The Domains of Dread function in unique ways, but if and how that matters is up to you. “Ravenloft
Setting Models” later in this chapter details ways to shape the setting to suit your adventures. Review that section and the following questions as you consider how the nature of the Domains of Dread might
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
, but it can easily be transplanted — the site and the story alike — into another setting.
Dragonlance. On Krynn, the Doomvault is likely to be the work of renegade wizards, perhaps of more than one
the desire to destroy the accursed Scorpion Crown and return Sulm to its fertile state. Since his betrayal of the Circle of Eight and the subjugation of the people of the Bright Desert, Rary has made
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
dragon family demands tribute from desert communities in exchange for protection.
2 Enraged at the loss of a wyrmling, a blue dragon is causing lightning storms to destroy coastal settlements and
another in protecting it.
3 Feeling unappreciated and disrespected in one family, an adult blue dragon offers allegiance to a rival dragon family, setting off a blood feud.
4 A pair of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
nearby stone surfaces
18 Manifests small signs of the breath weapon, such as exhaling smoke rings, setting arc lightning dancing over teeth, or blowing acid bubbles
19 Sighs restlessly, giving
I am devoted to Bahamut or Tiamat and put their interests ahead of my own.
6 I’m determined to destroy the adventurers who slew my parent—and everyone connected to them.
7 I’m obsessed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Greyhawk Conflicts Although Greyhawk lends itself well to any D&D adventure you might want to run, the default setting features conflicts with three major villainous groups: chromatic dragons
, raiding poorly defended settlements and stealing cattle; demand tribute in the form of food or treasure; and destroy territorial rivals (draconic or otherwise). A Chromatic Dragon Arc. The conflict
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
dungeon’s monstrous inhabitants from raiding the surface world. 2 Foil a villain’s evil scheme. 3 Destroy a magical threat inside the dungeon. 4 Acquire treasure. 5 Find a particular item for a specific
tables that can help you establish the important elements of a dungeon, wilderness area, or urban setting. 4. Find the Ideal Introduction An adventure can begin with a social interaction encounter in which
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
own transformation, preparing for it by setting enchanted gemstones into his skull’s eye sockets and teeth. Each of these soul gems possessed the power to capture the souls on which his phylactery
their phylacteries and destroy the adventurers who disturb their lairs.
Acererak or another demilich like him has a challenge rating of 21 (33,000 XP), or 23 (50,000 XP) in its lair, and gains the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
. Destroying the Rod. The only way to destroy the Rod of Seven Parts is to immerse the assembled rod in lava in the Abyss. It must remain in the lava for fifty years before it finally is consumed. A piece of
Place Setting Location
First 2 Underdark, Toril Forgotten Realms A covert base of Lolth worshipers
Second 3 Astral Sea Spelljammer Near the wreckage of a spelljamming ship
Third
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
gave her nimblewright a map showing where to take the Stone of Golorr, but she forgot to tell it to destroy the map once the stone was delivered. Characters who search the nimblewright’s remains find
the folded-up map, which depicts one of Waterdeep’s wards. Written on the map is an X with a name next to it. This map points the characters to where they need to be, setting off a sequence of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
additional encounter also provides a sense of the wider scope of the setting. Monstrous Uprising A charismatic half-red dragon veteran leads a band of 21 kobolds and 7 lizardfolk, taking advantage of
. Using telepathy, Lord Volmer tells the adventurers about the so-called “Thayan Resurrection” (the attempt by Thayan exiles to supplant Szass Tam), as well as the fact that Szass Tam intends to destroy
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
additional encounter also provides a sense of the wider scope of the setting. Monstrous Uprising A charismatic half-red dragon veteran leads a band of 21 kobolds and 7 lizardfolk, taking advantage of
. Using telepathy, Lord Volmer tells the adventurers about the so-called “Thayan Resurrection” (the attempt by Thayan exiles to supplant Szass Tam), as well as the fact that Szass Tam intends to destroy
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
additional encounter also provides a sense of the wider scope of the setting. Monstrous Uprising A charismatic half-red dragon veteran leads a band of 21 kobolds and 7 lizardfolk, taking advantage of
. Using telepathy, Lord Volmer tells the adventurers about the so-called “Thayan Resurrection” (the attempt by Thayan exiles to supplant Szass Tam), as well as the fact that Szass Tam intends to destroy
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
they see. 5 Has lost the ability to feel physical sensation. 6 Can be seen only in reflective surfaces. 7 Is bound within a building; leaving would permanently destroy them. 8 Turns to ash in sunlight. 9
rise to seek vengeance for a mass crime. Adventure Settings Ghost stories are intensely personal, and adventures within this genre take place in a setting dripping with tragic history. Choose from or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
constantly being refined for greater authenticity. Within “Alterdeep,” the ulitharid takes on various personas and quietly observes how creatures that are projected into the setting by the psipods interact
might release them if, in exchange, they promise to destroy the githyanki that are threatening the mind flayer colony. You can roleplay these interactions or have the characters make ability checks to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
passes on to the Keeper and Dolurrh. But Lady Illmarrow is no folk tale. She is the greatest necromancer in Eberron, and after centuries of silence, she is setting ancient plots into motion at last. She
born of dragon and elf could become a godlike avatar of death. Illmarrow Rises. Even as dragons and elves fought to destroy the line of Vol, a child was born to the house: Erandis. A scion of elf and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
activities befitting their evil nature. Slarkrethel was old when the giants and dragons waged war against each other forty thousand years ago, and the kraken aims to rekindle that war and destroy the
prying eyes. TENDAYS AND THE ROLL OF YEARS
In the Forgotten Realms setting, a week is ten days long and is referred to as a tenday. There are three tendays per month, and twelve months in a year. For
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
. 6 After being insulted by a giant sovereign, a noble giant schemes to open a portal to the Abyss and summon a demon lord to destroy the sovereign’s settlement. The site becomes a festering sinkhole of
the Magic: The Gathering setting of Kaldheim, all moving among the branches of a vast World Tree. Wintry Surtland is a realm of constant turmoil. Volcanoes burst through snow and ice to form new
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Netheril’s Fall: Tales of Terror, Treasure, and Time Travel
Eileanar Locations The locations detailed here are among some of Eileanar’s most famous landmarks. Use these locations when setting adventures in the city. Eileanar is shown on Map: Eileanar. Arcane
used to empower the city’s magic, and another just outside Karsus’s sanctum, which keeps the city aloft. Adventurers might seek to harness the power of—or destroy—either mythallar. Karsus’s Game
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
, famine, fire, plague, flood — disasters on a grand scale can eradicate whole civilizations without warning. Natural (or magical) catastrophes redraw maps, destroy economies, and alter worlds. Sometimes the
randomly determine a disaster that conflicts with your setting, you can reroll, but the challenge of justifying the catastrophe can produce interesting results. With two exceptions, the disasters on the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Weapon (Any Bow), Very Rare (Requires Attunement) This bow has multiple strings and resembles a lyre or small harp. By strumming the strings while setting an arrow to the bow, you imbue the arrow with
Weapon Weapon (Any Weapon that Deals Bludgeoning Damage), Very Rare You gain a +2 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. This weapon was crafted to destroy structures made of