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Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
laboratories. The Izzet are obsessive, brilliant, inspired, and an unpredictable force of chaos in Ravnica, and you epitomize all of those qualities.
Skill Proficiencies: Arcana, Investigation
basic knowledge of the structure of buildings, including the stuff behind the walls. You can also find blueprints of a specific building in order to learn the details of its construction. Such
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
more, as a member of an Uthgardt tribe.
Your people have always tried to hold to the old ways. Tradition and taboo have kept the Uthgardt strong while the kingdoms of others have collapsed into chaos
abandoned the soft ways of civilization.
BARBARIAN TRIBES OF FAERÛN
Though this section details the Uthgardt specifically, either it or the outlander background from the Player
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Chapter 10: Sun This chapter details the Solar Bastion, a benevolent organization that protects the multiverse from the chaos wrought by the Deck of Many Things. The chapter includes a description of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
insignificance within an indifferent universe. In addition, consider the following genre tropes when creating your cosmic horror domain: There is no good or evil, no law or chaos. Be vague. Cosmic horror
emerges through imagination and the indescribable, not details. At its best, cosmic horror makes characters feel gradually unmoored from their familiar reality. Cosmic horror is about ineffable forces
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
any matter in the same way. If you haven’t yet thought about the details of your character’s worldview, consider putting a finer point on things by summarizing that viewpoint in a short statement (such
their own. 2 The advancement of civilization is the best way to thwart chaos, but its reach must be monitored. 3 Towns and cities are a necessary evil, but once the wilderness is purged of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Borderlands Quest: Dagger Danger!
Basic Rules under “Equipment.”
Could we find out more about the Caves of Chaos?
The caves are near the keep, and dangerous creatures are known to dwell there. No one the characters could have talked
to knows about the Kobold Cave specifically.
Do we know anything about Quintanna Zorn?
The characters don’t know Zorn personally, and the people they ask about her say she is a trustworthy, seasoned adventurer. You can make up the other details or change them to fit a story you want to tell.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Scions of Elemental Evil
Falling Ash is known to us. This cult has long plotted to sow chaos in Celene; an undercover cult member recently failed to poison me. I have no doubt the other cults are equally dangerous.
“My spies
believe these cult leaders work as we speak to bring about the cataclysm this page predicts. The details aren’t clear. However, we believe the cultists plan to use a chamber underneath the temple to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
collapsed into chaos and ruin. But for the last few generations, some bands among the tribes were tempted to settle, make peace, trade, and even to build towns. Perhaps this is why Uthgar chose to
“Uthgardt Lands” section of chapter 2 for details on each tribe’s territory and its activities that will help you choose your affiliation. Skill Proficiencies: Athletics, Survival Tool Proficiencies: One type
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Chapter 17: Donjon This chapter, intended for DMs, details a dungeon called the Donjon Sphere. You can use this dungeon to describe the fate of a character who draws the Donjon card from a Deck of
brought by a Deck of Many Things, the anarchy means it’s never been easier to wriggle free of the dungeon’s crumbling wards and traps. However, this same chaos still makes banishment to the sphere extremely perilous.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
to those without firsthand experience of a sector. Creatures inside a sector are likely to know more specific details, especially about their neighboring zones; the DM is encouraged to provide
appropriate details wherever creatures are noted to have lore to offer. In the Abyssal Prisons, the maze of undoing (area 15) has no easy exit, but fiends that can climb are said to have somehow escaped the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
, creating multiversal anomalies. Shemeshka planned to eventually release the modrons to Mechanus, where they would skew the workings of that plane. She would then take advantage of the chaos. R04M wants
the characters to go to Gzemnid’s Realm; find the group’s leader, the hexton modron called X01; and help the modrons escape. R04M can also reiterate any details he provided in chapter 13. While the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Before the Cataclysm Krynn’s earliest centuries have passed into mythohistory. The story begins in the Age of Starbirth when the gods forged the world from primordial chaos. This period’s records are
mere legends and scriptures, and few credit their details as fact. Next came the Age of Dreams, a time when heroes battled the forces of evil. Many modern cultures and institutions saw their origins
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
embodying a concept. Their final work was the Material Plane, where all ideas would become manifest: a realm that could know war and peace, life and death, order and chaos. But cruel Khyber sought ultimate
alliance of dragons and celestials—eventually defeated the Overlords. But these fiends couldn’t be destroyed; instead, their immortal essences were bound in Khyber. Whatever the true details of this tale
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
is the inverted town of the Inverse. There, gravity pulls toward the surface, allowing rebels and outcasts to create a warped mirror of Automata where chaos reigns. Stairs leading between the Inverse
Inverse has the following features: Chaotic Essence. At a point 30 feet below the surface of Automata and lower, the Inverse is saturated with the essence of chaos. Due to disorientation and headaches
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
city populated by the Nightsea chil-liren, an aquatic people descended from the people of Djaynai. Atiba-Pa can also share this information and details about Janya from the “Djaynai and Janya
mutters, “If the Night Revelers don’t drag us into chaos first.”
Characters who succeed on a DC 14 Intelligence (History or Religion) check know the Night Revelers are local philosopher-hedonists who
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
, and you will see reality through new eyes. The Korranberg
Chronicle
Raid Reveals Cult Chaos
The people of Fairhaven were shocked by the revelation of bizarre cult activity in the center of one of
. However, your character could be a member of a relatively benign cult. You might have been raised in a cult but broke free from its influence. If your character was or is part of a cult, work with your DM to develop the details of your sect.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
section for details). A yochlol demon in drow form — Lolth’s messenger to Gromph — is imprisoned within the magic circle. It pretends to be a drow priestess named Y’lara for as long as the disguise is
Lolth stands to gain from Gromph casting the ritual, the demon replies, “Chaos.” If the yochlol is killed, a character who investigates the grimoire can confirm beyond doubt that Gromph was responsible
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
aim is for the characters to sow chaos before the temple’s guards invariably deliver them back into his custody. Stolos uses the warlock of the Great Old One stat block with the following changes: He is
area causes Stolos to leave and check on the cells in area 10. If Andras and Stolos are both at this location, spending 3 charges results in both transforming back into their original forms. See area 9 for details.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
she holds a finger in the air to indicate silence. A moment later, the room erupts into chaos as three tattooed figures dart from the shadows.
Three priests of Osybus (see appendix A) attack
. Sarusanda witnessed him commit a terrible act in the cult’s name, though she doesn’t give details, and the inquisitor admits she didn’t arrest her father. Sarusanda considers this her greatest failing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Netheril’s Fall: Tales of Terror, Treasure, and Time Travel
Attack of the Phaerimm Adventure for Level 3 Characters SAMUEL PERIN Phaerimm attacks on Conch were brutal and unanticipated,
leading to a constant state of fear and chaos in the city Situation. A
days to experiment, and encourages the characters to explore the city. Tyvern readily provides the details about Conch found in chapter 1. If Tyvern isn’t present, a character proficient in Arcana can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
crumbling, lighthouse-like spire pierces the surface and marks the location of the ruins below. Shard of Chaos When Dragon Army scouts discovered the ruins of the Sunward Fortress, the black-robed wizard
. D4: Barricaded Room The entrance to this room is barricaded by heavy mining equipment. Inside are two Dragon Army captives who escaped the initial slaadi attack and Virruza (see area D5 for details
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
concerns, and he believes that the secrets of the technology found in the Barrier Peaks hold a vast potential to advance knowledge. If questioned, he proudly details his experiments (including with
. He then turns on the monitor and ducks down to stay out of the medusa’s field of view. During the subsequent chaos, the gnome attempts to don the powered armor, then wreak havoc.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
: To cause chaos and strife by undermining what little faith in law enforcement exists in Sharn—turning the forces of law and order against one another, fueling the feuds between criminal organizations
handle the danger. The conflict could play out according to this outline. Levels 1–4. Early in their adventures, the inquisitives have vivid dreams that reveal key details about cases they’re working on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Divine Contention
death but is terrified of failing Talos: if the characters enter her cabin, she chooses to drunkenly unload the details of her plight rather than fight them. Did she not honor her god with chaos and
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
. Inscrutable Forces. Cosmic horror is about alien forces driven by motivations humans can’t understand. There is no good or evil, no law or chaos. Marginalization Isn’t Horror. The genre has a history of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
to Monsters.) Two Dry Cloaks is a wild card, placed in the adventure to help the characters gain information. She can share details about the vaults in general, where vault records are stored, and the
altar. The guests have a good laugh at the couple forgetting the ceremony details, chalking it all up to the pair being nervous. Once at the altar, Jormun asks for the couple’s vows. This is a fun
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Desperate commoner 19 Embattled merchant 20 Villain posing as a patron 3. Flesh Out the Location Details Chapter 5 offers suggestions for creating and fleshing out an adventure location, including
adventurers face the main villain, who attempts to escape in the chaos. 10 A threat more powerful than the adventurers appears, destroys the main villain, and then turns its attention on the characters. 11 The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
from his Deck of Many Things and pull a card from the deck. Oddlewin secretly enjoys seeing the chaos creatures bring about by drawing from the deck. He allows each character to draw one card. If
Mustardseed and bring him back, Oddlewin will let each of them draw a card from his Deck of Many Things. Mustardseed has wandered through a nearby fey crossing into the Feywild, but the details of his
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
many silver rings Malyk CE Chaos, rebellion, wild magic Tempest, Trickery A flame in a tear or a multihued vortex Lolth CE Primary god of drow, spiders Trickery, War Spider Selvetarm CE Warriors
of Kiaransalee don’t trouble themselves greatly over these details, because all the stories could be true: the Revenancer is believed to have returned from death over and over again. Vengeance is the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
to serve. If the characters run out of platinum chips, he offers them one in exchange for a valuable secret, such as details about the attacks on Rigus from chapter 10 or anything the Scholar in
light exits the orb.
The Supertemporal Arena drifts at the edge of the Elemental Chaos in an infinity of dissipating energies. Time in the Arena. The arena moves rapidly through time. Every minute
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
pass by. If pressed for more details, he says she was “see-through.”
2 A priest from the Church of the Last Hope entreats the party to help find a patient who’s wandered off.
3 An
increases the chaos, as bodies get exhumed and reburied wherever it’s convenient. Most significantly, a major landslide decades ago dropped a large portion of the cemetery’s cliff into the river below
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
details, he says she was “see-through.” 2 A priest from the Church of the Last Hope entreats the party to help find a patient who’s wandered off. 3 An obviously magical axe menaces passersby as it floats
brigands and necromancy-obsessed followers of Myrkul only increases the chaos, as bodies get exhumed and reburied wherever it’s convenient. Most significantly, a major landslide decades ago dropped a large
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
Rift. The rift tearing reality apart hovers a few feet above the mesa and pulses with eldritch power. A character who reaches the top can see more details behind the Far Realm friends and the army of
This final fight is a complex battle with a lot going on. Whether you want to simplify the encounter or dial up the chaos, you can tweak the elements of the fight as needed to create an exciting
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
STAND
Goblinoids are indoctrinated from a young age to consider all gods but their own as lesser, false entities. Maglubiyet is the only true deity, they learn, and the world will be wracked by chaos
toward it while a member of a host, and when the host disbands, those grudges again come to the forefront. Hobgoblins have a code of honor. Its details vary from legion to legion, but it’s always
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
, allowing manipulation of gates within the attuned areas. For example, a glyph key attuned to the Temple of Chaos (areas 4 through 7) allows its user to use a functional black gate to open a portal to
temples. Common Features This section details further generalities about the Doomvault. Descriptions in specific areas take precedence over this overview. Atmosphere. Abjuration magic keeps the dungeon