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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
Contraband One of the cult wagons overturns on a difficult corner or when a wheel breaks on a rock. Of the crates that tumble free, one smashes open, revealing dozens of beautiful items of jewelry
members are angry that people saw the contents of their spilled cargo. Their instructions, direct from Wyrmspeaker Rezmir, were to keep the material secure and secret. Witnesses who show much interest
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
Contraband One of the cult wagons overturns on a difficult corner or when a wheel breaks on a rock. Of the crates that tumble free, one smashes open, revealing dozens of beautiful items of jewelry
members are angry that people saw the contents of their spilled cargo. Their instructions, direct from Wyrmspeaker Rezmir, were to keep the material secure and secret. Witnesses who show much interest
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Underdark are rarely direct, and the characters must follow available passages and their various twists and turns, climbs and descents. Creatures that can burrow through solid rock (such as purple worms
foraging Normal 6 — Slow 4 Improved foraging, or able to use Stealth A fast pace makes it harder to spot ambushes or items of interest and prevents the characters from foraging, while a slow pace allows
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
Franchise Tasks and Downtime As talked about in the Player’s Handbook and the Dungeon Master’s Guide, downtime activities allow players and DMs to make the breaks between adventures into a compelling
characters’ goals through research, crafting, social encounters, and so forth. This lets the players direct behind-the-scenes activities even as the characters focus on the more rarefied pursuits of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
, stealing from the rich, freeing captives, and flouting hollow traditions. They prefer subterfuge, pranks, deception, and theft rather than direct confrontation. Trickery Domain Spells Cleric Level
level, the extra damage increases to 2d8. Improved Duplicity At 17th level, you can create up to four duplicates of yourself, instead of one, when you use Invoke Duplicity. As a bonus action on your turn, you can move any number of them up to 30 feet, to a maximum range of 120 feet.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
interfere elsewhere without direct orders from Rezmir, and she won’t give such an order unless it is the direst of emergencies. A character who inspects the contents of the observatory recognizes the
information. If the Dexterity check result is 5 or less, a key part of the farseer breaks off, rendering the item inoperable. When characters find it, the farseer is focused on Waervaerendor’s lair. This
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
interfere elsewhere without direct orders from Rezmir, and she won’t give such an order unless it is the direst of emergencies. A character who inspects the contents of the observatory recognizes the
information. If the Dexterity check result is 5 or less, a key part of the farseer breaks off, rendering the item inoperable. When characters find it, the farseer is focused on Waervaerendor’s lair
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
-thick wall or hedge of razorvine has AC 11, 25 hit points, and immunity to bludgeoning, piercing, and psychic damage. When a creature comes into direct contact with razorvine for the first time on a
-square area. Whenever the total weight on an area of thin ice exceeds its tolerance, the ice in that area breaks. All creatures on broken ice fall through.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
, except when the booming reverberation of a Harpell-crafted spell breaks the silence. The family is constantly researching magic both old and new, and twisting spells and rituals into interesting (to them
serves as the local slaughterer and butcher for folk wishing to take meat, rather than live animals, away from Longsaddle. Rumor holds that the sausages have much improved down the years but buyers are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
. Otherwise, she continues on her way. Arrival in Westbridge When the adventurers reach Westbridge, their reception depends on the manner of their arrival. Direct Approach. Characters who come into
. Some beg the characters not to interfere, while others take the adventurers’ arrival as reason to stand up to the cult. If fighting breaks out here, most of the commoners scatter, but six aid the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Current hit points Total class levels (if any) Fighter class levels (if any) Improved Combat Superiority At 10th level, your superiority dice turn into d10s. At 18th level, they turn into d12s
Strike. When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can forgo one of your attacks and use a bonus action to direct one of your companions to strike. When you do so, choose a friendly creature who
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
). You regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest. Level 6: Improved Warding Flare You regain all expended uses of your Warding Flare when you finish a Short or Long Rest. In addition, whenever
pranks to direct confrontation. POLAR ENGINE Trickery Domain Subclass
Gods of trickery are mischief-makers and instigators who stand as a constant challenge to the accepted order among both gods
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
the control room of area M8). They readily direct characters toward the Grand Master in the central abbey (area M3). If the monks are harassed, or if the characters spend too much time exploring on
their own, Lean Meimbaol from area M1 arrives to personally escort them to the abbey. If combat breaks out, the monks all reveal their true natures, and attempt to overwhelm and capture the characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Shot, Magic Arrow, Arcane Shot (3 options) 10th Arcane Shot (4 options) 15th Ever-Ready Shot, Arcane Shot (5 options) 18th Arcane Shot (6 options, improved shots) Arcane Archer Lore At 3rd level, you
7th level, you learn how to direct an errant arrow toward a new target. When you make an attack roll with a magic arrow and miss, you can use a bonus action to reroll the attack roll against a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
finish a Long Rest. You can also restore a use of the feature by expending one Superiority Die (no action required). Level 10: Improved Combat Superiority Your Superiority Die becomes a d10. Level 15
replace one of your attacks to direct one of your companions to strike. When you do so, choose a willing creature who can see or hear you and expend one Superiority Die. That creature can immediately use
Magic Items
Infernal Machine Rebuild
bones. You have vulnerability to radiant damage, and you have disadvantage on attack rolls while in direct sunlight.
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You summon a unicorn that obeys your commands. If you give a command that
times. When you do, you must begin and end your teleportation in an area of shadow.
While in direct sunlight, you have disadvantage on attack rolls as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
nothing more than to add this “sky-stone” to their collection. The gnomes are brief and direct in their negotiations. In return for the star, kagu-svirfneblin agree to give the characters the contents of
as much. If combat breaks out, the deep gnomes fight defensively and attempt to defuse the situation. They try to incapacitate the characters rather than kill them, hoping to resume peaceful
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
possessions through the planes. Someone who dares to steal from a morkoth, or breaks a deal with one, will know no rest until the morkoth is slain or all promises are kept. Collectors of everything odd
to move toward the morkoth’s location (the target doesn’t realize it’s heading toward a creature). The target moves toward the morkoth by the most direct route. As soon as it can see the morkoth, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
than to others of their own kind. On occasion, their hobgoblin leaders will see fit to equip the bugbear force with improved equipment, such as metal-tipped javelins in place of stone-tipped ones, or
on each head that direct the beast by controlling the view of its blinkered eyes. Former slaves, often soldiers who once fought against the host, who now fight alongside the host to gain better
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
a more direct meaning beyond simply “weal” or “woe.” You can use omens to nudge the characters to an adventure location, to lead them to an oracle who lives far from the polis, or to hint at the true
Swirling smoke forms macabre shapes.
Omens of Heliod d8 d100 Omen of Heliod
1 21 A brilliant pattern appears around the sun.
2 22 A shaft of sunlight breaks through cloud
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
breaks out here, characters standing in front of the gate are exposed to fire from the arrow slit in area K3 and the parapet on the wall. If the bandits in area K2 can’t line up shots at the intruders
commands. If a fight breaks out here, Drosnin defends the chapel to the death. Once she falls, any surviving reavers retreat to area K14 or K16 to raise the alarm. K16. Great Hall The great hall becomes a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
(thugs) approach the characters to ask their business, and to direct them to Birsk Chumwell in area D2 if they ask odd questions or seem suspicious. If they see anyone trying to enter the loft (area D3
cunning and clever. If combat breaks out here, he remains hidden in the water while the skum do the fighting. He makes a Dexterity (Stealth) check in an attempt to hide. As long as he remains unnoticed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
higher can take control of the globe by succeeding on a DC 10 Intelligence check. As part of its movement and with a successful DC 10 Intelligence check, the controller can direct the globe to move
transformed magic item in the victim’s hand temporarily ends the coma. Thereafter, the character must continue to hold the object in hand or fall into a coma again. If the character breaks contact with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
favor, Zira does her best to help them, though she will not cause direct harm to others or violate local laws. She tries to hide the fact that she’s a dragon, but if the characters need swift
attract new clients, and while the Happy Cow breaks even, it’s not a big moneymaker, and right now the Hardcheese moneylending business is on the ropes. The Black Network has agents in Daggerford handing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
Intelligence check, the controller can direct the globe to move with it, remaining within 5 feet of the controller. A globe’s controller can enter and leave the globe at will. The controller can maintain control
to area 77 is locked. Curse Glyph. Ihanvas wants to block direct access to her lair from area 77, so a magic glyph has been placed in the area marked on the map. Any creature that enters the marked
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
of the statue: the head, the wings, the body, or the tail. Once all four sections are improved, the kobolds are satisfied, praise the characters’ artistic abilities, and become Friendly. Treasure. Each
against her, she breaks through the roof and orders the wyrmlings to flee by that route while she covers their escape. Impressing Nakari. As an Influence action, a character can recite the lyrics to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
can easily convince Mainwaring to give them the benefit of the doubt, and she agrees to overlook the characters’ activities as they seek answers in the tower. If combat breaks out in this room, the
, Cipolla and Porro silently direct the hands to attack. Meanwhile, the sages flee toward Piyarz in the scholars’ hall (area T17), where they can more freely use their magic. Once there, Cipolla or Porro
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
appendix B) guard the apprentices. All the Thayans attack as soon as they notice intruders. Each round of combat, the Thayans direct one giant spider and one giant centipede to join the fight
eggs of various colors and textures.
Creatures. A Red Wizard enchanter (see appendix B), one dread warrior (see appendix B), and six skeletons oversee the eggs. If combat breaks out, the wizard sends
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
wagon. A successful DC 10 Dexterity check using thieves’ tools unlocks the box, inside which are five vials of holy water and five vials of antitoxin. Smashing the box open works automatically but breaks
no direct involvement from the characters — at least not to start.
These kinds of side ventures can easily expand to become adventures of their own. For example, one of the franchise NPCs handling
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a2
The Mountain Door The uppermost level of Khundrukar, called the Mountain Door, is a natural cavern that was expanded and improved upon by Durgeddin’s folk, who created a series of halls and guard
Dexterity (Acrobatics) check to move along the bridge had failed by 5 or more. If an intruder gets at least two-thirds of the way across the bridge, one orc breaks cover to move through the double doors into
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
challenges the characters, demanding in Draconic that they retreat. The other guards join him immediately. Development. If a fight breaks out, one of the guards tries to run back to the barracks (area 3
is meditating. He is roused by the sound of combat or any direct attempts to contact him. Unless cornered, he flees to area 20 and returns with the occupants of that room. If they are gone or slain
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
quenched their thirst. If the characters improved the cub’s attitude, she gladly agrees to lead the characters to the fountain. G9: Fountain All Heal Tomas Duchek The enchanting waters of the
at its starting point. Groups that enter the maze together make this check as a group check. A creature can create a more direct route by pushing through the walls, but it risks running afoul of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a1
gutter. He doesn’t react to anything short of loud noise or direct prodding. If he is disturbed, Meepo is frightened but willing to talk. He is weepy. His numerous obvious scars are souvenirs of his
characters try to talk and the interaction is successful, the kobolds direct the characters to head toward “Yusdrayl on her dragon throne,” giving them simple directions to area 21 and warning them to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
know how many pieces of the obelisk exist. The mind flayers direct characters who express interest in worship to the adjacent feeding room (area X11). The mind flayers don’t prolong the discussion, and
target can use an action on its turn to attempt to break the link, doing so with a successful DC 17 Charisma check. If the target breaks the link this way, the target takes 10 (3d6) psychic damage
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
servers work shifts at the Helm; most nights, two cover the ground floor and one waits on guests on the upper floor. The staff at the Helm don’t gossip, but they direct anyone who questions them to
) answer. He isn’t a very good businessman and barely breaks even, but he doesn’t seem to care. 14. Mhandyvver’s Poultry This wooden building grew haphazardly for many years, shooting out single-story






