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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
ages passed, githzerai explorers ranged out to other planes and worlds of the multiverse.
Githzerai are generally slender, with speckled skin in shades of yellow, green, or brown. Eons of cultivating
those suggestions or ignore them, but you can’t raise any of your scores above 20.
Languages
Your character can speak, read, and write Common and one other language that you and your DM agree
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Borderlands Quest: Dagger Danger!
A4: The Treasure Fights Back Dario Jelusic When the characters first see this room, read or paraphrase the following: This area contains sleeping mats and piles of junk. Four shiny, spotless swords
don’t emerge. The next explorers find them instead!
Luca Bancone Adjusting Encounter Difficulty
This adventure accommodates four or five players, each playing a character included with the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
mouths and their respective elements. Share that map with your players. To begin, read the following boxed text aloud: You pass through a dense forest of gnarled trees with grasping roots, the woods
walls at varying heights. The air is stale and quiet.
Among the rocks and dead wood that litter the ravine’s floor are the bones of animals and explorers, picked clean by scavengers. Vultures leer at
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
well as treasure with which to reward characters for their assistance. When you’re ready for the characters to meet with Syndra, read: You have been invited to the home of Syndra Silvane, a retired
explorers’ journals, I assembled everything known about the current state of Chult into one map. I’ll provide it to you if you undertake my mission.” “When you’re ready to depart, I will teleport us all to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
This gruff scribe prefers the company of books over people.
Bookworm. Dwern has read more books than anyone else in the keep.
Curmudgeonly. Dwern is ill-tempered toward younger people—which, to
more than mere mercenaries or vagabond explorers—you are heroes of the highest caliber. You have done an incredible service to the citizens of this keep, ensuring they can prosper in peace.
As a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
. In any case, the characters arrive in the dungeon’s gatehouse by teleportation. To start the adventure, read: You arrive in a shadowy hall with glowing teleportation circles etched into the floor
fashioned the vast complex based on his research. The purpose of the dungeon was to lure explorers to their deaths and harvest their souls to fuel Gul’s phylactery. As Thay became more hostile to outsiders
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
When Elves Attack The characters have time to take a short rest before trouble catches up to them and Captain Sartell presses them into service. At the end of the characters’ short rest, read: The
Jalin (lawful evil), and Lieutenant Zanth (lawful neutral)—as well as a neutral evil astral elf star priest named Altura (the ship’s spelljammer), and nine plasmoid explorers of various alignments (see
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
the most exquisite creatures she can transform into statues. She likes the carvings here and has been gradually capturing bandits and explorers to force them into kneeling poses before petrifying them
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
ways that make creative use of the natural shape of the rock. When the characters reach the top of the steps, read: The stone steps emerge onto the top of the plateau beneath a once grand, but now
debris, indicating this was more than just a simple village. Nanny Pu’pu If the characters explore the ruins of Mbala, read: The only structure still intact is a lone hut about a thousand yards
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
mine, read the following text: The mine’s entrance leads into a large cavern supported by wooden beams. At the chamber’s center, a derelict wooden elevator rattles in the wind that rushes from the
. Hidden Entrance. The people of Hollow sealed a tunnel leading to the mine’s lower levels on the northwest wall after a number of explorers got lost in the mine. With a successful DC 12 Wisdom (Perception
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
of the island might speak, read, and write a language all their own. Alien Island Leader d4 Leader 1 Aboleth 2 Beholder 3 Death slaad 4 Kraken Alien Island Inhabitants d6 Inhabitants 1 1d6
treants 19 1 roc 20 1d4 veteran explorers Wild Island Story Hooks d4 Story Hook 1 The island hides a spring that restores life to anyone washed in it, as per the raise dead spell. A creature
Magic Items
Infernal Machine Rebuild
known today. However, its true origins derive from a planar craft that crashed in the Barrier Peaks, for the Infernal Machine once functioned as this craft’s central command console.
Explorers who
attack or cast a spell, you become visible if you move into bright light. You can use this property three times.
While in bright light, you have disadvantage on initiative rolls.
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You can read
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
balance it upright, the writing can be read as the cylinder goes around. The message wraps around the pillar like the threads of a screw, but in two alternating spirals. The first is read from top to
bottom as the cylinder rotates; then the cylinder must be flipped over to reveal the second line of script, also read from top to bottom. Speaking stones are sized to match the length of the message they
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
Intelligence (Arcana) check made to read the portal’s magic reveals that the way forward is blocked except to those with experience using the portal network. The characters must pass through three other
. 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->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
that Warwyck’s mere presence raises Krux’s spirits, filling the commodore with hope and optimism. Vocath’s Base When the characters arrive at Vocath’s base, read: Floating above the luminous green
starhorrors, and one aartuk elder (see Boo’s Astral Menagerie for their stat blocks). Dock 4. The Tarrasque, a space galleon, is crewed by four hadozee explorers, fifteen hadozee warriors (see Boo’s Astral
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
explorers and fortune hunters. It is the home base of the Clifftop Adventurer’s Guild. Upper Dura Daggerwatch Daggerwatch holds garrisons for both the Sharn Watch and the Brelish army, along with
the 60 Families
If you’ve read more than two issues of the Sharn Inquisitive, you’ve seen at least two stories about the ir’Tain family. King Boranel might rule Breland, and the Lord Mayor might be
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
chasm floor. Most are dwarves and orcs in badly rusted armor. B2. North Chasm This cavernous area is 100 feet high from floor to ceiling. If the characters enter from the east (via area B1), read the
smiths still work in area B15, hammering and clattering chains can be heard coming from there. Characters close to that end of the chasm also see a ruddy red glow playing on the walls nearby. Explorers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Areas of the Water Temple C1. Lake Landing If the characters arrive by boat from the stream, read the following text: Firelight shines from a large cavern ahead. The stream opens into a large
, a twenty-foot wide canal leads north from the large lake. The lake stretches westward into darkness.
If the characters find their way here from other parts of the dungeon, read the following text
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
: Passage of Death Four duergar corpses are strewn about this curved passage.
Six duergar explorers—two mages and four warriors—came to the Briny Maze a few months ago. The mages were disciples of
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->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
corpses include dead explorers, troglodytes, and cave-dwelling creatures. A wicked spirit of hunger (use the wraith stat block) resides here, a sliver of the lesser god Laogzed’s power. The troglodytes
eyes, which are worth 250 gp each. G19: Vestibules Six nearly identical areas lead from the tunnels into Iggwilv’s inner sanctum (area G21). When the characters approach one of the outer doors, read
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
. When the characters enter or peer inside a kitchen, read or paraphrase the following text: The floor of this futuristic kitchen is stained with the grimy outlines of equipment removed from the area
a pleasant tone:
“Greetings, explorers! Do not be alarmed. I am Aphelion 3000, this vessel’s onboard computing system; you may call me ‘Alphie.’ Please identify yourselves.”
The machine is a