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Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Dimensionally Bound. Nafas can’t leave the Infinite Staircase or be trapped within a container (such as an Iron Flask). Attempts to transport Nafas to another plane are wasted.
Last Wish. When
to their service with Iron Flask;Iron Flasks or other magic provoke his tempestuous ire.
When Nafas is provoked, the scope of his retribution is limited only by his imagination. Though the genie
Lizardfolk
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
emotion and empathy. The same label serves as an apt depiction of lizardfolk.
Lacking any internal emotional reactions, lizardfolk behave in a distant manner. They don’t mourn fallen comrades or
(secret), Jhank (hammer), Kepesk (storm), Kethend (gem), Korth (danger), Kosj (small), Kothar (demon), Litrix (armor), Mirik (song), Othokent (smart), Sauriv (eye), Throden (many), Thurkear (night), Usk (iron), Valignat (burn), Vargach (battle), Verthica (mountain), Vutha (black), Vyth (steel)
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Start Small When you first start building your campaign, start small. The characters need to know only about the city, town, or village where they start the game, and perhaps the nearby dungeon. You
might decide that the barony is at war with a nearby duchy, or that a distant forest is crawling with ettercaps and giant spiders, and you should note these things. But at the start of the game, the local area is enough to get the campaign off the ground. Follow these steps to create that local area:
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
2. Ore-Filled Cart This 20-foot-high cavern has tracks running through it. A mine cart laden with iron ore has chocks holding it in place. If these wooden blocks are removed, the cart rolls down the tracks toward area 1, building up speed as it goes (see “Mine Tracks and Carts”).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
12. Gate to the Keep Set into the motte’s curtain wall are two windowless stone gatehouses with wood-shingled, high-pitched rooftops. Between them stands a set of oak doors with iron hinges. The
are set aside as guard barracks. The east building contains six bunk beds (twelve beds in all) and a dozen footlockers containing worthless personal effects. The west building was similarly furnished
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
18. Abandoned Priory This long, windowless stone building contains several apartments formerly occupied by high-ranking priests of Malar, god of the hunt. Stone doors throughout are fitted with locks
, though they’re unlocked at present. The building has various amenities (see the “Lighting and Plumbing”sidebar). Heaped around the building are broken swords, dented helms, and torn metal armor
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Random Buildings Pulse-pounding chases and harrowing escapes within the confines of a town or city can sometimes force characters to dash into buildings. When you need to flesh out a building quickly
, roll on the Building Type table. Then roll on the table corresponding to that building to add further detail. If a roll makes no sense considering where the characters are (such as a lavish mansion
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
14: Fortress The castellan governs the keep from its fortress, a stone stronghold solidly built to withstand assault. Multiple towers rise above the main building, which is 30 feet tall. The fortress
fortress, read the following boxed text aloud: Two round towers with pointed roofs flank this tiered stronghold. Archers march along its stone parapets, watching for signs of trouble. Two guards stand outside the fortress’s iron doors; they acknowledge passersby with stern nods.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
. Attached to the main building is a blocky tower of gray stone, its high roof lined with battlements. Other structures include a two-story stable house and a gatehouse whose flat roof is enclosed by iron
a narrow river. A ten-foot-high log palisade surrounds the compound, whose main building is a two-story stone-and-wood affair with a high-pitched roof, gables, window shutters, and a stone chimney
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
24. Animal Cloisters The cultists of Malar kept various beasts here under lock and key. None of the building’s stone doors is currently locked, however. The building has lighting and plumbing (see
rusty iron fixtures.
24b. Aviary A permanent silence spell suppresses all noise in this room. A successful dispel magic spell (DC 16) ends the effect. Hanging from rods mounted to the walls are a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
for 1 minute. L4. Infirmary A stone sign depicting a crutch hangs above the entrance to this one-story building. The double door below the sign is ajar, revealing a hallway beyond.
Beyond the double
. Characters who loot the storage rooms find six healer’s kits and six potions of healing. L5: Jail This fortified, two-story stone edifice has a heavy iron door that hangs open. In front of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
21. Abandoned Barracks Cult warriors slept and trained here. Stone doors throughout are fitted with locks, though all doors are unlocked at present. The building has both lighting and plumbing (see
, broken dishware, and rusty weapons lie scattered about. Bathroom. This chamber has three sinks, a toilet, and a bathtub, crafted from polished stone with rusty iron fixtures, all in working order.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
20. Malar’s Tabernacle This building is taller than the others, with a peaked roof 30 feet high. Iron spikes line the peak, while carvings of basilisks, chimeras, dragons, and manticores snarl from
where they perch on the outer walls. The cult of Malar would gather to worship here. The building’s stone doors are fitted with locks, though they are unlocked at present. The building consists of one
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
booty through the clerics, who shipped the goods to distant temples where they could be sold without being recognized as stolen merchandise. The Abbey Isle clerics often cheated the pirates on these
suffering considerable losses against the undead, they proved to be in such a vengeful mood that they set fire to the abbey. With the structure aflame, they didn’t bother looting the building or searching
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
19. Looted Cloisters This windowless stone building contains apartments formerly used by rank-and-file Malar cultists. Stone doors throughout are fitted with locks, though the doors are unlocked at
present. The building also has the features detailed in the “Lighting and Plumbing” sidebar. 19a. Ransacked Quarters The walls of this room are carved to look like natural rock, giving the chamber a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
23. Desecrated Sanctuary This windowless stone building was set aside for cult initiates. The building has lighting and plumbing (see the “Lighting and Plumbing” sidebar). 23a. Hall of Prayer Boars
splintered wood, the remains of shelves where cult initiates once stored personal belongings.
Bathroom. The small room to the south contains a working sink, toilet, and bathtub, all crafted from polished stone with rusty iron fixtures.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
that parts to reveal distant cliffs. A port emerges from the mist, nestled among mangroves. Elaborate mud-brick buildings in chalky pastel colors line the shore. A grand mud-brick castle bristling with
House, a well-appointed, two-story, mud-brick building painted pale blue. The characters have a full day to rest and explore Djaynai before they meet with the official who arranged their journey at
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
stinking swamp of blood. The domed top of an alabaster temple pokes through the scab. Many black iron chains of Avernus converge on the building, attaching within the grotesque mound.
The exposed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
independence and suspicious of the houses. Your ties to the Marches might be distant because you were born to a family that left years ago. Do you want to rediscover your ancestral roots? Madness and
, building towns and working with steel. If you were raised in one of the clans, the ways of civilization aren’t that strange to you; you’ve seen the city of Zarash’ak and worked with House Tharashk. By
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Golems Golems are made from humble materials — clay, flesh and bones, iron, or stone — but they possess astonishing power and durability. A golem has no ambitions, needs no sustenance, feels no pain
ending before a towering stone throne, upon which sat an iron statue taller and wider than two men. In one hand it clutched an iron sword, in the other, a feather whip. We should have turned back then
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
the River Styx. The iron spikes that anchor the city have dragged it nearly to the river’s banks. Within a few hours, Elturel will sink into the Styx.
Hordes of distant demons fly around the city like
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
17. Lost Dwarven Horn Fog. The room is lightly obscured by fog.
Hooks and Horn. The walls are lined with small iron hooks upon which pictures were once hung. Hanging from a hook on the east wall is
been wiped out by orcs more than a century ago in the distant Sunset Mountains. Dwarf characters have advantage on the check. The horn is worth 2,500 gp as an art object but can be sold for 7,500 gp to a buyer who appreciates its status as a historical relic.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Elves Skilled in both magic and warfare, the Tel’Quessir — “the People,” as they call themselves — came to Faerûn ages ago, building vast and powerful empires long before the rise of humans. The days
the land in a terrible cataclysm at the same time that it caused the distant isle of Evermeet to rise from beneath the sea. Then came the Crown Wars, a series of conflicts between the great elven
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
armor 6 shields 6 hand crossbows 20 cases of hand crossbow bolts, each case containing 20 bolts 6 shortswords and 10 daggers 6 bags of caltrops (20 caltrops per bag) 4 100-foot-long coils of silk rope 2 building hammers (not usable as weapons) 2 bags of iron spikes (10 spikes per bag)
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
3: Private Apartments Residents and long-term visitors rent apartments in this tenement building. The complex’s most notable resident is also its landlord, a crotchety jeweler who invests in
gemstones and other valuables.
When the characters arrive at the apartments, read the following boxed text aloud:
A wooden jeweler’s sign hangs over an open door in the front of this two-story building
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->Out of the Abyss
chainmail 1d6 suits of splint mail 1d6 suits of plate mail An iron safe stands in a corner of the storage building. The safe weighs 1,000 pounds, is locked, and contains 1d4 magic items (determined by
frothy Darklake Stout ale. 5a. Duergar Fungi Grove An iron-wrought fence encloses this fungal grove, through which the duergar have carved narrow aisles. The grove contains a host of edible fungi and is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
requires a successful DC 15 Strength (Athletics) check to force open. Piled behind the doors are broken chairs, shattered benches, and empty chests. Inside the building, characters find the following: Arch
the room. An iron chandelier with melted wax candles is suspended from a rafter above it by a rope tied off to a hook near the northern door.
Dead Halfling. Tucked behind an iron stove in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
door. A sturdy wooden pallet wrapped with rope hangs beneath the building on an iron chain, lying flat against the cliff face.
Inside the building is a winch that allows the pallet to be lowered
sixth cells are strung with hammocks, offering space for the other eight kobolds to sleep. A2: Winch House A small, free-standing building halfway up the path has a peaked roof and a weathered wooden
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
22. Mess Hall The cultists cooked meals and ate here before a hunt. The werebats have thoroughly looted the building, leaving its stone doors ajar. This structure has lighting and plumbing (see the
equipped with a long wooden trestle table, a pair of iron stoves, and stone shelves. The werebats have ransacked the kitchen, breaking most of the dishware in the process. The floor is covered with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
the siege with zombies approaching Lekar’s walls. The characters might pick off distant zombies or enact plans to destroy dozens at a time. The characters’ strategies are likely successful, but the
siege weapon to fire into the city or start a conflagration.
9 Fighting breaks out at a building Talon priests use to treat the wounded.
10 Zombies break through a gate and begin scaling
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
building. A forge sits dormant in the far corner, a blacksmith’s anvil and an empty quenching trough beside it. On the opposite side of the room are two workbenches with stools.
Tormun and Blenyss left
shape of winding serpents (50 gp), two matching shortswords with platinum filigree on the hilt and pommel in a similar serpent motif (25 gp each), and a stack of ten iron bars, each weighing 10
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Approaching the Winery If the characters continue toward the winery, read: Situated in the midst of the vineyard, the winery is an old, two-story stone building with multiple entrances, thick ivy
covering every wall, and iron fencing along its roofline. The trail ends at an open loading dock on the ground floor.
A wooden stable of more recent construction is attached to the east side of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Monastery Features Most of the Sacred Stone Monastery appears to be in good shape except for the eastern end of the building (areas M16 and area M17), with its crumbling walls and heaps of rubble
doors are made of wood. It takes a successful DC 10 Strength check to force open a locked door. Exterior doors are reinforced with iron bands and usually locked. Such a door requires a successful DC 15
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
that tries to frighten them away with haunting moans. L10: Miners’ Guildhall Hanging above the open doorway of this large, gem-studded building is a stone sign depicting a pick and a hammer.
The
sundry equipment scattered about. Guildmaster Deepdelve. A thorough search of the building reveals the corpse of a robed deep gnome named Schnella Deepdelve, the master of the town’s miners’ guild