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. It now forces its will on those around it.
Some brains in jars are the result of strange experiments, bizarre punishments, or the aberrant preservation methods of creatures and mi-go (detailed in
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At Will: Charm Person, Detect Thoughts, Mage Hand
1/Day Each: Compulsion, Hold Person (level 3 version)A brain in a jar is the gray matter of one who cheated death through magic or strange surgeries
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
their own reasons unrelated to the characters’ strange experience. Prior the party’s arrival at the house, choose which pair of investigators meets them. Unless otherwise noted, these characters are
Ez d’Avenir. These adventurers want to learn what made the House of Lament what it is and free the spirits that haunt it. Ireena Kolyana is a reincarnation of the fateful spirit named Tatyana detailed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
and other travelers are bewildered by the strange weather but do their best to ignore it or joke to hide their insecurity. If asked about the fog, locals say they’ve never seen anything like this. The
characters have no way of knowing it, but this fog is created by Won Ha’s gwishin (detailed in the “Gwishin of Dae Won-Ha” section).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
. It now forces its will on those around it. Some brains in jars are the result of strange experiments, bizarre punishments, or the aberrant preservation methods of creatures and mi-go (detailed later
Brain in a Jar Disembodied, Manipulative Mastermind Habitat: Urban; Treasure: Arcana Andrey Kuzinskiy A brain in a jar is the gray matter of one who cheated death through magic or strange surgeries
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
this rare service only to group members and their allies. Keeper ravens as a means of correspondence is detailed in “Life in the Domains of Dread” earlier in this chapter. Keeper Adventures The Keeper
Adventures table offers ideas for strange events that can touch off stories involving the Keepers of the Feather. Keeper Adventures d6 Adventure Hook
1 Keepers invite the characters to a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
, free of charge for as long as they please. They encourage new arrivals to linger and participate in their upcoming festival, called the Tithe (detailed later in this section). Mother’s Children
strange disasters plague Tepest. Lorinda’s children take varied forms. To create such a monster, choose a stat block appropriate to challenge your characters, then consider how that creature might
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
, and the shadow-bereft soon sicken and die. A local leader claims that the strange plague’s cure lies among the hidden isles known as the Ashram of Niranjan (detailed in “Other Domains of Dread
who currently controls the Sapphire Throne—Ramya or Arijani and Reeva. Either faction is likely to notice the party and court them as potential allies. The characters then walk the fine line detailed in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Calishite inhabitants fiercely guard their home from the Guild and the rest of Baldur’s Gate. Little Calimshan is further detailed in "Little Calimshan". Norchapel. The quietest of the Outer City
to its river access. Sow’s Foot. Here, expatriates from dozens of far-flung nations mingle with races ranging from lizardfolk to svirfneblin among the scents of exotic food and the calls of strange
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Locathah Rising
study the maps on the wall, and who makes a successful DC 13 Intelligence (Investigation) check, determines that they show detailed plans for a massive assault on key locations along the Turmish coastline
. A character who exceeds the DC by 5 or more can tell from the strange markings and notes along the edges of the maps that someone intends to use the blood of a kraken to animate the legion of corpses inside the coral mountain.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
created innumerable unique plants, as well as plant creatures with strange abilities and unflagging loyalty to her. Tyrant Maker. Ivana’s ambition drives her to take on any challenge. She reflexively
she does close Borca’s borders, the Mists rise as a wall of acrid chemicals that affect creatures as detailed in “The Mists” section at the start of this chapter.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
students are Lorehold apprentices (see chapter 7) who were ambushed by Dean Tullus. The dean used Murgaxor’s orb to curse them with Visions of Terror (as detailed at the start of the adventure). Dean
. All three students say Dean Tullus requested they assist her with an errand at Archaeo Memorial Hall, but along the way a strange headache left them dazed. One of them reached out to the dean for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
opponents but one have collapsed. Although there’s no way for the characters to know this yet, the collapsed opponents have been rendered unconscious by the curse from Murgaxor’s orb (detailed at the start
. A character who casts detect magic on the unconscious students discovers an aura of enchantment magic surrounding each of them, along with some strange element they can’t quite place. This is an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
mysteries or tragedies led them to adventure. The abandoned estates of Mordent also make fine places to use the rules for Haunted Bastions, detailed in chapter 3. Ghosts of Mordent Ghost stories often
. Van Richten’s Herbalist Shop Rudolph van Richten (see chapter 5) is the foremost scholar of monsters and strange occurrences in the Domains of Dread. He lives and works from the Mordentshire herbalist
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
mangrove trees. Twenty feet away, a young man with green skin walks atop the water, speaking softly while slowly circling two churning pillars of glowing green foam.
Tinjhorna the riverine (detailed at
the end of this adventure) is speaking in Aquan and trying to calm a pair of water elementals corrupted by the strange magic afflicting his river. Characters who succeed on a DC 12 Intelligence
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
that the daily life and traditions of the villagers conceal horrible secrets. What starts as glimpses of strange behaviors or rustic decorations culminates in learning the village’s secrets firsthand
lovingly carved door or mural depicts a woman’s face made of moth wings, watching over an explicitly detailed scene of butchery or surgery.
8 Villagers sing and dance in a circle around someone undergoing a ritual to have their left eye removed.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
, political maneuverings, and character interaction. A whole game session might pass without a single attack roll. In this style of game, the NPCs are as complex and richly detailed as the adventurers
hidden object, investigating a strange feature of a dungeon, deciphering clues, solving puzzles, and bypassing or disabling traps can all be part of exploration.
Sometimes exploration is an incidental
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
Calishite inhabitants fiercely guard their home from the Guild and the rest of Baldur’s Gate. Little Calimshan is further detailed in "Little Calimshan". Norchapel. The quietest of the Outer City
strange animals, banding together against a city that views them as outsiders. Stonyeyes. Just outside the Basilisk Gate that gives it its name, this neighborhood is full of stables and stockyards
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
their fellow citizens as sacrifices to a new and voracious god, gradually forming a strange cult to Zargon. Choked by Zargon’s slime and assailed by opportunistic invaders, the Cynidiceans fled
was lost in the vastness of the desert. Using the Infinite Staircase If you’re using Nafas as a patron, he summons the characters to the Censer of Dreams (detailed in chapter 1), where he recounts the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
traditions, many Vistani travel between domains, learning much of hidden lands, the many faces of evil, and the strange wonders of the Mists. A people unto themselves, Vistani refuse to be captives of a
-telling cards called tarokka decks. With their experience navigating the Mists, many Vistani understand how to employ Mist talismans (detailed at the start of this chapter) to reach specific domains, or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
first floor.
Mirabel (Medium Ghast Gravecaller) stalks the second floor with her two Ghoul servants.
Sorvina (Unspeakable Horror; see chapter 5) conducts strange rituals in the basement.
Taproom
locals. If the characters have visited the tavern before, their activities are detailed. A trapdoor descends to an area beneath the tavern. Private Dining Room. The dining room in the southeast corner of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
traditions, sacrifices to strange gods or placations to lurking monsters are everyday events. For outsiders, though, these practices reveal the subjectivity of normalcy and societal truth. Examples
include Midsommar and The Wicker Man. Folk Horror Principles Consider the following principles when creating Darklords and domains with folk horror themes: Isolation Begets Weirdness. Strange and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
impression of a dream belonging to someone from Atagua. Egg Sucker. A moment after the characters arrive, a whistler (detailed at the end of this adventure) enters the chamber from area D2, moves to
failed check, the creature lands 5 feet away from its intended spot and is suspended in the area’s strange gravity. Suspended creatures are restrained until they use an action to pull themselves onto a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
blocks). On the walls near the characters are three ballistae (detailed in the “Siege Equipment” section of the Dungeon Master’s Guide) and six Kalaman soldiers (see appendix B). The Dragon Army
outside, possibly on Kalaman’s walls or the city streets. The character with the highest passive Wisdom (Perception) score sees a strange violet light in the sky. After they react, read the following
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
living beings, duplications of souls, and strange manipulations of the Mists. At any time, Godefroy’s servants are working to perfect the Apparatus somewhere in Mordent. The Living and the Dead. Lord
Player’s Handbook). Characters who reach the domain’s borders through this fog are affected as detailed in “The Mists” at the start of this chapter.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
carved with strange, otherworldly scenes.
The left-hand colossus is a bearded human male wearing exotic clothes, but its face is smashed beyond recognition. It holds a balance in its right hand and a
detailed in the areas to which they apply. Any response other than “knowledge” or “wisdom” that is not in some way flattering to Diderius — including questions for clarification — results in the statues
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
carved with strange, otherworldly scenes.
The left-hand colossus is a bearded human male wearing exotic clothes, but its face is smashed beyond recognition. It holds a balance in its right hand and a
detailed in the areas to which they apply. Any response other than “knowledge” or “wisdom” that is not in some way flattering to Diderius—including questions for clarification—results in the statues
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
. These priests are detailed further in chapter 5. Ulmist Inquisition Goal: Destroy the evil that dwells in wicked hearts
Adventure Themes: Ends justifying the means, hunting evil, psionic interrogation
test the virtue of their allies’ souls. These inquisitors are detailed further in chapter 5. Vistani Goal: Find a way home, preserve age-old traditions, predict and avoid dangers in the Mists
Adventure
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
. Be vague. Cosmic horror emerges through imagination and the indescribable, not through details. Iconography. Cults, forbidden books, and strange symbols form the cornerstones of cosmic horror
slowly being consumed by an obsidian sea. 10 A decrepit lighthouse whose light flickers on at strange intervals. Cosmic Horror Monsters Monsters in cosmic horror adventures are often strange beings that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Life in the Domains of Dread The realities of the Domains of Dread seem strange or impossible to individuals from other worlds, but for those who live among the Mists, they’re facts of life. With no
between domains are essentially impossible. Rare individuals do travel between the domains, such as adventurers or roving Vistani families (detailed at the end of this chapter). Others who wish to travel
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
of the keep. It was once the site of strange rituals. Some say it still is.” (True)
Elandra the Adviser The castellan’s trusted adviser, an elf woman named Elandra, operates in one of the
characters return to this location at level 3, having fulfilled all three keep officials’ quests (detailed in the previous sections), they receive a heroes’ welcome. That evening, Castellan Winvarle throws a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
area P1. These staff carry no treasure, but they can pay out a character’s winnings at booths similar to that in area P1. The Platinum Rooms attract a diverse crowd of strange and powerful players
plane. The features here affect the areas on map 14.1 and 50 feet beyond that area. Beyond that, the plane functions as detailed in the Dungeon Master’s Guide.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
the following text: Waves crash against jagged rocks along the shore. Beyond, red-hued canyons carve their way through a harsh landscape. In the distance, mountainous crags and strange formations jut
unload the ships and set up their first camp as detailed in the “Kalaman’s Army Camp” section earlier in this chapter.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
specifically hunting shards of dark stone that display strange properties. (This clue can be found either by successfully interrogating a captured goblin, or by talking to Wheel-of-Fortune or Halia about
Gwyn for help, she can then tell them the location. When the characters are ready, they can follow Gwyn’s directions and set out for Zorzula’s Rest. The layout of outpost is detailed later in this chapter (see the “Zorzula’s Rest” section).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
detailed records of Lorehold’s staff, students, and curriculum going back centuries. A character who spends 10 minutes going through the records and succeeds on a DC 14 Intelligence (Investigation) check
doesn’t originate from the badlands inhabitants. More modern? Magic is strange.” “Departing expedition early. Frustrated with team. Eager to investigate orb at Strixhaven’s facilities.” “Home again, home
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
one day emerge to conquer the surrounding area. Sahuagin Fortress This rocky outcropping sits atop a submerged fortress occupied by the fearsome sahuagin. This place is fully detailed in The Final
with strange symbols and wrapped in silver chains. An explorer tried to open the door, but a jolt of lightning from the door’s runes nearly killed her. Shortly afterward, strange spirits and capering