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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
6. Outhouse Half embedded in the ice is an empty wooden building with an open doorway. A 5-foot-wide hole in the middle of the wooden floor leads into a 40-foot-deep, 30-foot diameter cistern carved out of the ice, its floor covered with frozen waste.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
that the game is a fun experience for everyone involved. Often a session zero includes building characters together. As the DM, you can help players during the character creation process by advising them to select options that will serve the adventure or campaign that awaits.
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
conception of the Izzet League is based on mad inventions, dangerous experiments, and explosive blasts. Much of that perception is accurate, but the league is also involved with mundane tasks of
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
far more interested in the darker side of the house. At the moment you’re building your skills and reputation as an observer and investigator, but once you prove yourself you hope you’ll get to be a
talents. The house has helped with your career, and they’ve dropped hints to see if you want to get involved in the other side of the house, but at the moment you’re just in this for the music.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
Timeline of Events Here’s a timeline of what has happened since Krenko escaped and what happens in the future, absent interference. As soon as the adventurers get involved, events might change
drastically, but the following timeline can still help you determine how the various NPCs involved in the story will react to the player characters’ actions. Early Morning, Day 1: Krenko escapes.
Late
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
agreement with a clan of surly dwarves, or successfully navigate the Chasm of Doom, you might decide that they deserve an XP reward.
As a starting point, use the rules for building combat encounters in
chapter 3 to gauge the difficulty of the challenge. Then award the characters XP as if it had been a combat encounter of the same difficulty, but only if the encounter involved a meaningful risk of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Horizon’s Edge Features Dyson Logos Map 4.10: Horizon’s Edge Map 4.10 depicts Horizon’s Edge, including the following features: Building Platforms. Massive plates made of meticulously fitted stones
they came from. Transport Disks. Inlaid near one edge of each platform is a distinct 20-foot-diameter magical disk of intricately woven copper, iron, and silver. A creature standing on one of these disks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
The Yawning Portal The Yawning Portal is a famous inn and tavern located in the Castle Ward of Waterdeep. Adventurers can meet all sorts of colorful characters here. The place is a stone building
with a slate roof and several chimneys. Most of the ground floor is taken up by the tavern’s common room, which contains a 40-foot-diameter open well (actually the outer shell of a sunken stone tower
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
people from expressing themselves.
2 A guard imprisons people who worship gods opposed to Ephara, such as Phenax and Nylea.
3 A noble is building a new development directly in a forest, where
work that they deem antithetical to proper society.
Ephara’s Monsters Ephara isn’t often associated with monsters. Even so, a few monsters common in urban settings might be involved with the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
side is a fifteen-foot-diameter hole in the floor that seems to be the upper end of a tunnel.
The ice slide descends to area H23. H23. Remorhaz Nest This bulbous cavern has walls as smooth as glass
and sinks toward a fifteen-foot-diameter hole in the floor that seems to be the upper end of a tunnel.
The ice slide descends to area H36. H27. West Observation Platform Clinging to the thirty-foot
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
of wood and mud bricks has been turned into a prison where the evil yuan-ti are holding some of the followers of the Scaled Mother. The hemispherical building, 20 feet high and 50 feet in diameter, is
if they remain undamaged, the characters could use them for transport when they decide to leave this place behind. Pond Mother’s Home The religious center of the village, this enormous building made
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
importance. Building an event-based adventure is more work than building a location-based one, but the process can be simplified by following a number of straightforward steps. Several steps include tables
steps the villain takes to achieve its goals. Create a timeline showing what the villain does and when, assuming no interference from the adventurers.
Building on the previous example, you might
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Greenfast Locations The following locations are keyed to the map of Greenfast. Map 9.1: greenfast View Player Version G1. Mayor’s House The largest building in the village is the home of Mayor Kara
sister, Yaeda, fell under Viallis’s sway and went to what Kara calls the noble’s “new estate” (the cult’s temple). She believes that Yaeda is working for or romantically involved with Viallis, not
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
the ally. This can be a great way to keep more players involved if the party splits; when any player’s usual character isn’t present in a scene, they play the ally instead. It’s helpful to give the
characters. While an overly powerful ally is fine on rare occasion, the players should still feel like their characters are the true heroes of the story. If you’re building the ally as if it were a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
designed to move cargo and can be up to 30 feet in diameter. Most lifts have rails but aren’t fully enclosed; when fighting on a lift, pushing someone off the edge is always a possibility. Should this happen
ward involved. The most common form of flight is the skycoach, but many flying mounts can also be encountered in Sharn: hippogriffs, griffons, glidewings (a small Talentan pteranodon), and giant owls
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Stonecutters, Masons, Potters, and Tile-makers This meeting is a formality. As the new owner, Esvele is required by law to bring the building up to code. She is gathering cost estimates from the guilds
involved but has no intention of proceeding with repairs. The arrival of the characters provides her with a welcome distraction. Characters will have a tough time convincing Esvele that they have come for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
involved in the fashion show as well, coaxing characters into the event. Let the players know the ways in which their characters can participate in the fashion show, and allow them to do so as much as
they’re interested, building toward the event at a date you set. These activities can happen in the background as characters focus on other goals or as the events in the “Party Preparations” section
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
-foot-wide column in the middle of a 75-foot-diameter cavern. Both the cavern and the outpost are unlit. A secret door in the column’s base leads to the tower interior, but finding it requires a
demon, with the drow elite warrior and 1d4 − 1 drow surviving the encounter. If the characters get involved, the encounter becomes a three-way fight, as neither the drow nor the demon are interested in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
the world-building is done for you. However, this means your players might know as much about the setting as you do. You can get around this by changing key aspects of the setting to better serve
fabric of the setting. What organizations or societal groups play an important part in your setting? Which ones might be involved in the lives of player characters as patrons, allies, or enemies? What
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
the town guard. Rumor has it she was involved with Rilago romantically.” Leandro’s Secret Leandro knows that Aminta is a member of the Onyx Scar, a criminal syndicate with operatives scattered
shares an Oztocan fable about a band of heroes who defended their homeland with the help of a giant. When the giant died, the heroes honored their mighty companion by building a tomb around his
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
likely involved the polis you call home. The Ephara’s Favor table provides just a few possibilities. Ephara’s Favor d6 Circumstance
1 You grew up in a polis like Meletis and never feel safe
outside one.
2 You grew up in a home that was next to a wall or a building with Ephara’s face on it, and you felt like she was always looking after you.
3 You were part of a revolution to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
, and discuss house rules, with the goal of ensuring the game is a fun experience for everyone involved. The “Ensuring Fun for All” section in chapter 1 covers some of the most important groundwork you
need to establish at the start of a new campaign. Often session zero includes building characters together. As the DM, you can help players during character creation by advising them on which options
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal
Features of the Yawning Portal The Yawning Portal’s taproom fills the first floor of the building. The 40-foot-diameter well that provides access to Undermountain dominates the space. The “well” is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
its name points to its founder’s vision for building the gang into a larger movement. Most members have no higher aspirations than using their aberrant dragonmarks to profit from a criminal lifestyle
might follow this broad outline. Levels 1–4. A patron asks the characters to get involved in a criminal investigation into a rash of murders in Sharn because all the victims have dragonmarks. Both the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
run off if the characters reduce one or both of them to 13 or fewer hit points. S4. South Research Shed One of two small research sheds on the central islet, this building holds supplies and equipment
notes that Murgaxor’s last step in this scheme involved the Rose Stage Festival, so it’s clear he has no more immediate plans to threaten campus. However, this isn’t the end of his villainy—the true
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
carrying tomes or mysterious-looking magic devices, bustle about the immense compound. The largest building is patterned with inscribed eyes. A larger, more detailed eye is carved above the building’s
main doorway.
The large building is the compound’s main temple, home to the priests and oracles of Savras. Despite its elaborate exterior, the interior of the temple is simple, containing only an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a7
25. Pillared Throne Room You look upon an enormous chamber colored in pastels. A forest of massive, many-hued columns support the ceiling.
Aura. Each of the 3-foot-diameter pillars radiates an
detecting character will get the vague feeling that the wish spell is involved in the gem’s magic. The gem is actually a cursed magic item. If any character touches it and attempts to cast a wish spell using
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
.
Linnacker collects income from gem mines in Tethyr.
Miyar supplies and repairs wagons and caravans, and has membership in the Merchants’ League.
Nurthammas invests in businesses involved in
patriars and was instrumental in building the city’s original walls.
Tillerturn owns and leases out many buildings in the city.
Vammas controls the majority of trade from Chult.
Vannath fled the city
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
. If pressed about the scorpions, Kedjou insists the characters leave, not wanting to reveal that he was involved in summoning the creatures and the aurumvoraxes in the Goldwarren—as the characters
later discover. If the characters refuse to leave when Kedjou requests, he summons his guards, who escort the party out of the building. Support for Prince Simbon After leaving the library, if a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
.
Linnacker collects income from gem mines in Tethyr.
Miyar supplies and repairs wagons and caravans, and has membership in the Merchants’ League.
Nurthammas invests in businesses involved in
patriars and was instrumental in building the city’s original walls.
Tillerturn owns and leases out many buildings in the city.
Vammas controls the majority of trade from Chult.
Vannath fled the city
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
dark, icicle-festooned roof of the great ice cavern beyond.
Silver light emanates from a three-foot-diameter glass orb situated atop a two-foot-high cylindrical stone plinth in the center of a thirty
-foot-diameter, rubble-strewn circular chamber. Eyeballs drift inside the orb, like fish in a bowl. Some have cataracts, while others are bloodshot or pus-filled, but all turn and gaze at you as you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
of Waterdeep. The Blackstaff fears that some evil faction might have been involved in the earthquake, and she has tasked Otis with watching the area in disguise to see who comes to investigate. Otis
earthquake two days ago. The partially collapsed building has been deemed structurally sound, so it shouldn’t fall into the fissure unless someone inside does something foolish, such as knock down a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
underestimate the subtle influence of House Ghallanda. The House of Hospitality has spent centuries building connections in all the cities of the Five Nations. A Ghallanda concierge knows ways to get
reckoned with, both houses call on them for help, trying to force the characters to choose sides. Levels 11–16. As the conflict between the two houses rages on, a third group gets involved, hoping to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
without changing their racial traits at all. Creating a New Subrace Creating a new subrace is more involved than making some minor tweaks to existing racial features, but it does have the advantage of
subrace has history in the D&D multiverse, so you already have some stories to draw on when building its traits. Example Subrace: Eladrin Creatures of magic with strong ties to nature, eladrin live in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
investigate the fallen manor and the dungeons beneath it. Once a small but elegant estate, the ruined building sits upon a hill overlooking Phandalin. Years of neglect had already done considerable
destruction.
As the characters draw closer, a successful DC 15 Intelligence (Arcana or Investigation) check reveals that the fire damage isn’t natural, and that magic was likely involved. The same