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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Draw Players’ Attention Good narration invites the players to examine details of the environment that lead to encounters or important information. Anything you describe with extra, subtle details
draws the players’ attention. Give them just enough to invite further exploration, but don’t create the equivalent of a flashing neon sign reading “This way to adventure!” When using narration to guide
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
plucked the best ones. Characters who thoroughly examine the remaining ones can find a couple of interest that are salvageable: Ajamar’s Guide to the Phantastic. This breezy, lighthearted treatise on
illusion magic was required reading in many Netherese classrooms. It describes clever ways to use common illusion spells. The Unfettered Mind. This lunatic text discusses how one might exist solely as a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
halberds flank a large stone door bereft of handles, hinges, or decoration.
Characters who examine the rusty suits of armor discover that each one has the inanimate skeleton of a goblin propped up
, reading a book while sipping wine from a thin crystal goblet. Other items in the cell include a crystal decanter of wine and a bowl of figs on a small table, a gold-embroidered wall tapestry
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
, cloaked figures who are reading while seated in overstuffed armchairs.
The three goblins (neutral) are unarmed noncombatants who keep this library clean and organized. The cloaked figures seated
and are initially indifferent toward them. That indifference turns to hostility if the characters attack the elders. Tales from the Gloaming Court, Vol. 3. Characters who examine the bookshelves spot
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Legends of Greyhawk: Secrets of the Free City
the walls of the Great Library and, in doing so, gain Advantage on one D20 Test during this adventure. As a Study action, a character can examine the library’s defenses and make a DC 12 Intelligence
one day affording a Scholar’s Pass and attending one of the city’s colleges. They quickly excuse themselves, insisting it is time to stop chasing such fantasies. Reading Materials: Mundane and Arcane
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
curtains in the corner and examine the south wall, they automatically notice the hidden door that leads to the Winding Way. The abbey residents do not tamper with the curtains, seeing them as sacred
bookkeeping documents. One set of five books, bound in sky-blue leather and trimmed in copper, is of a more sinister nature. These five tomes have old, fragile pages; if the characters examine them, they
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
fight ensues and the draconians are losing, Drayan uses the dimension door spell to flee to area S18, where she prepares to ambush the characters. Statue. If the characters examine the statue of
Takhisis, they notice depressions spaced along its base and a plaque reading, “Yield to Her Will.” A character who inspects the depressions and succeeds on a DC 14 Intelligence (Investigation) check
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Night of the Eye, magic flares to life to test would-be mages. Rovina also answers any questions the characters have about the Mages of High Sorcery (as detailed in chapter 1). Characters who examine the
carvings learns their meaning by succeeding on a DC 14 Intelligence (Arcana) check or by spending an hour studying them. The runes are an arcane cipher for the knock spell. Reading the spell from the wall
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
of the armory. T8: Vault The door from the armory (area T7) is secured with a complex lock. If the characters examine it, read the following: This ancient vault door has three locks, each housed
have used this kitchen recently are the drow explorers camped in the reading room (area T14). Treasure. One drow explorer left a backpack here. It contains 100 feet of silk rope, three daggers, a blank
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
frame and the door itself. The word “DANGER” is scrawled on that door in the Common tongue using chalk.
The left door, leading to area 22, is unlocked. Barred Door. Characters who examine the bar
variety of other items that, even in the dim light, shine with the warmth of pure gold. One of these objects looks like a human skull.
Book. Before the alchemist died, he was reading the book that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
has the word “CANDESCA” inscribed above it (see area H4). Treasure. The tea service is fragile but can be sold for 150 gp if it is safely transported out of the ruins. H4. Reading Room Decaying desks
comes from an iron wand embedded in the north wall (see “Fresco” below). Fresco. Characters who examine the fresco that spans the north wall notice the following: The dragon is as big as one would
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Maze View Player Version B1: Maze Entry Wrinkled, pinkish-gray tunnels lead from the rift to the left and right in swooping, organic passages.
Characters who examine the area and succeed on a DC 15
unlocking the tome’s secret lore and believed it could be interpreted in this chamber. Alas, the magical nature of this room doesn’t enhance reading comprehension. Undaunted, Klaudel summoned Jomlus to read
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
Display Case. A tiefling security guard (use the thug stat block) stands next to the display case and allows guests to examine the statuette without touching the case. The display case is 2 feet wide
who spends 1 minute reading the ledger can verify that the casino’s vault contains roughly 5,000 gp in coinage. A16: Security Office Employee-Only Area Five desks face the west wall, which is covered
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
value—the seventeenth, twenty-fourth, fortieth, fifty-ninth, and seventy-seventh items that the characters examine are worth 200 gp each. 5. Queen’s Chamber The floors and walls in the chamber north of
twelfth chests that the characters examine are locked; they contain bottles of wine and spirits. 12A. Obmi’s Study The door to this study appears to be locked from the outside, suggesting that the place
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
other side. An arrow slit in the southern wall of the passage provides defenders a way to fire on intruders who get this far.
Characters who specifically examine the ceiling notice the murder holes
end of the room, near a small desk, a wooden chair, and a chest. The floor looks wet.
This room was once the library and parlor of the keep’s lord, but Grimjaw has no particular interest in reading