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Dungeon Master’s Guide
’s Feather Tokens table. The type of token determines its rarity.
Anchor (Uncommon). You can take a Magic action to touch the token to a boat or ship. For the next 24 hours, the vessel can&rsquo
after flying its maximum distance for a day or if it drops to 0 Hit Points. You can dismiss the bird as a Magic action.
Fan (Uncommon). If you are on a boat or ship, you can take a Magic action to
Feather Token
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Token (Tree);Tree
91-00
Feather Token (Whip);Whip
Feather Token (Anchor);Anchor. You can use an action to touch the token to a boat or ship. For the next 24 hours, the vessel can't be
flying its maximum distance for a day or if it drops to 0 hit points. You can dismiss the bird as an action.
Feather Token (Fan);Fan. If you are on a boat or ship, you can use an action to toss the
Quaal's Feather Token
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Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Token (Tree);Tree
91-00
Feather Token (Whip);Whip
Feather Token (Anchor);Anchor. You can use an action to touch the token to a boat or ship. For the next 24 hours, the vessel can't be
flying its maximum distance for a day or if it drops to 0 hit points. You can dismiss the bird as an action.
Feather Token (Fan);Fan. If you are on a boat or ship, you can use an action to toss the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
nearest creatures. Roll a d20 for the shadows’ initiative, again with no modifier. Alternative Scenarios Some characters might want to resort to options other than direct ship-to-ship combat when the
Running the Encounter Use the following guidance for running and resolving the encounter between the characters’ hammerhead and the githyanki ship. The Battle Begins Using the side initiative variant
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
quality. On a 10 or less, the crew’s quality decreases by 1, and 1d6 members of the crew are killed. Illusion A storm brimming with illusions poses little direct harm to a ship, but experienced
Magical Storms Even worse than the threat of storms is the menace of weather imbued with magic. When a ship enters a storm, roll a d20. On a 20, the storm churns with magical energy. Pick or randomly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Boarding the Sea Ghost How long it takes the characters to reach the ship depends on what arrangements they have made beforehand. If, for example, it is arranged that the guard members, once they
have seen the ship, row ashore and pick the characters up (say in the cave below the haunted house), that takes 15 or 20 minutes. The characters then board the fishing boat, which is rowed out toward the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
experts to direct a crew’s efforts. Other roles focus on keeping the crew’s health and morale in order. The roles are meant to provide a sense of the types of ability checks useful to managing a ship
Types of Officers If you’d like to explore running a ship, it needs officers to oversee its operations — officers who fill six different roles. Some roles aboard a ship reflect the need for trained
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
a sandbar. 4 The ship is sinking. Help with Purpose Ship crews looking for help with their purpose approach the characters asking for direct aid in a task. For instance, mercenaries ask for help
threatened and otherwise try to avoid contact, and hostile ones seek to attack and seize the characters’ ship. First, roll or choose an attitude on the Ship Attitude table, then roll on the appropriate
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Divine Contention
ship captain looks at you and says, “Direct the siege weapons!”
Throatcutter has the following crew and weapons: Six officers: a captain, a first mate, a bosun, a quartermaster, a surgeon, and a
experience the following encounters. Invisible Assassins The Talos priest Galas Windrage sends invisible stalkers to the ship the characters are traveling on, to kill the captains and officers before
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
for the adventurers to come to the city has paid for their ship’s passage, as well as for rooms at a fine inn on arrival. Read or paraphrase the following text: The ship passes through swirling fog
. Each is given a private room, and delicious meals are prepared and served in the common room. Anadoua is happy to share details from the “Djaynai and Janya Gazetteer” section or direct the characters toward the market for any mundane items they require.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
beyond any fines imposed) from anyone convicted by a magister, per conviction 1 dragon per conveyance leaving the city, empty or full 5 dragons per ship that touches dock in Waterdeep (except for city
ships and diplomatic vessels), collected from the captain and covering a stay of up to fourteen days (a ship that leaves the harbor and returns during that time pays the tax upon reentry) In times of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Divine Contention
Icingdeath Locations The following locations are keyed to the map of Icingdeath. I1. Icingdeath Main Deck A rowboat on this deck of the ship covers a hatch used for loading and unloading large cargo
creature on the main deck speaks the statue’s command word (“Artemis”), the statue animates and obeys the creature who animated it. As a bonus action, the creature can direct the statue to move up to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
36–50 Fan Uncommon 51–65 Swan boat Rare 66–90 Tree Uncommon 91–00 Whip Rare Anchor (Uncommon) You can take a Magic action to touch the token to a boat or ship. For the next 24 hours, the vessel
flying its maximum distance for a day or if it drops to 0 Hit Points. You can dismiss the bird as a Magic action. Fan (Uncommon) If you are on a boat or ship, you can take a Magic action to toss the token
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
36–50 Fan Uncommon 51–65 Swan boat Rare 66–90 Tree Uncommon 91–00 Whip Rare Anchor (Uncommon) You can take a Magic action to touch the token to a boat or ship. For the next 24 hours, the vessel
flying its maximum distance for a day or if it drops to 0 Hit Points. You can dismiss the bird as a Magic action. Fan (Uncommon) If you are on a boat or ship, you can take a Magic action to toss the token
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
determines it randomly. d100 Feather Token d100 Feather Token 01–20 Anchor 51–65 Swan boat 21–35 Bird 66–90 Tree 36–50 Fan 91–00 Whip Anchor. You can use an action to touch the token to a boat or ship
at half that speed. The bird disappears after flying its maximum distance for a day or if it drops to 0 hit points. You can dismiss the bird as an action. Fan. If you are on a boat or ship, you can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
touch the token to a boat or ship. For the next 24 hours, the vessel can’t be moved by any means. Touching the token to the vessel again ends the effect. When the effect ends, the token disappears
.
Top to Bottom: Fan Token,
Tree Token, Whip Token
Fan. If you are on a boat or ship, you can use an action to toss the token up to 10 feet in the air. The token disappears, and a giant flapping fan
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
firing the onboard weapons. The cultists’ orders are to steer the ship as the characters direct and help the characters defend it. They don’t assist the characters otherwise and avoid putting themselves
the players when the airship appears. A strange vehicle hangs in the sky overhead, slowly drifting closer. It looks like a small ship with sleigh runners, held aloft by a giant red balloon.
The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
questions to help narrow down options. As an example, consider a group of characters whose franchise headquarters is a submersible ship, and whose staff are largely former pirates. While the characters head
out for a mission on the mainland, they direct the ship’s staff-member captain to surprise other vessels and liberate goods from them. The DM decides that such acts of piracy fit the shady business
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
, its limbs rusted and bent. Dangling from it is the dripping hulk of a ship, hanging some fifty feet above the greasy mud.
During the day, the warehouse bustles with workers who load and unload
protected against intruders by monstrous guardians. Dory lives in the suspended ship. Reaching the ship without magic requires climbing the crane, which takes a successful DC 20 Strength (Athletics) check
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
, roll a d8. Alternatively, you can allow the characters to reach the headquarters ship (see “On Board The Maverick” below) any time after they’ve returned from three other destinations. With the
. If a character opens this door, read: As the portal opens, a pulse of magic draws you forward. The door vanishes and you stand within an impossible scene. The deck of a ship opens up around you, but
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
the Lords’ Alliance, offers to trade a sailing ship for an accurate map of Chult that shows the exact location of the ruins of Nangalore and Orolunga. Lerek represents wealthy Waterdhavian interests
genuine, Lerek arranges to have the promised ship arrive in 10 days. Hunt Pirates. The harbormaster, Zindar (see area 13 and appendix D), is a secret member of the Ytepka Society. He knows that three
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Attempts to salvage a sunken merchant ship are being thwarted by a bronze dragon who claims “finder’s rights.”
2 Betrayed by corrupt city officials, a bronze dragon is punishing the city by
magically bound to the service of a marid, and the dragon is unable to take direct action to get free of the genie.
5 A young bronze dragon runs a prestigious military academy, training paladins
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
, a beat-up fishing boat, a dilapidated store or farm, or any similar structure or site. The DM might direct the characters toward a single ideal location, or might provide a range of options for
better served by having the franchise change headquarters at different stages. Characters might start out in a ship, then move to a castle, then take possession of a unique magical headquarters in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Abyss,” or “the Wildspace system of Realmspace”—thinking about a place makes the creature aware of the most direct route to that location. The creature doesn’t know how long the journey will take or
enables creatures to use spells such as Teleport to travel from Wildspace to a nearby world, or vice versa. A creature or ship traveling from one Wildspace system to another must cross the Astral Plane
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
remains above the water while the aft tentacles trail behind underwater. The Morkoth has the statistics of a sailing ship (see the Airborne and Waterborne Vehicles table in chapter 5 of the Dungeon
raves on and on about the spells the kraken has promised to teach him. Morale aboard the ship is understandably low. Half of the cultists are on duty at any given time, while the rest are asleep in their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
suppliers. The minions of Iuz have only rarely come into direct conflict with Keoland, and its ongoing war with Keoland’s rivals makes the nation an acceptable trade partner in the eyes of the king. The
Tendrils harvested from a shambling mound 6 Deck planks stolen from a pirate ship 7 Log taken from the Hool Marshes, transported in swamp water 8 Wood from a shipwreck 24. Crabber’s Cove Just east of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
. There is a 50 percent chance that they’re heading home with 2d6 animal pelts worth 5 gp each. They know the wilderness well and can direct or guide characters to the nearest settlement. If the
, sinking them before a group of wizards emerged from the Hosttower of the Arcane and set the ship ablaze with a flurry of fireball spells. The wizards have since returned to their monstrous tower, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
whirlpool to drag down a ship. A table stands in the center, a small bench to either side. Seaweed beds sway in the northeast and southeast corners. Two coffers, their lids closed, stand against the
wandering patrol, which arrives in 1d6 + 1 rounds. A direct attack is likely to wipe out a party that tries to kill the entire royal group; the characters’ mission was designed as a reconnaissance effort