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seeing the deepest places in the ocean.
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I find I rather enjoy the company of people—as long as they remain unaware of my true nature.
Deep Dragon Ideals
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A young deep dragon has organized a society of hobgoblin explorers, whose members seek out new places in the Underdark for the dragon to visit.
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A doppelganger mimics a young deep
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
nearest prey, grabbing a fallen creature with its tentacles and dragging it off to eat alone. Roving Ambushers. Gricks remain in an area until the food supply dwindles, often because sentient creatures
intelligent prey, and expert guides know to look out for these telltale signs. Underdark explorers sometimes seal off the routes leading to and from a grick lair to starve them, then claim the wealth of the foul creatures’ victims.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
treasure seekers to these ruins, but the reward for their boldness is death. Whatever riches that the explorers bring with them adds to the hoard guarded by the chuuls. Chuuls can sense magic at a distance
. This sense couples with an innate drive that leads them to slay explorers, take their gear, and bury it in secret locales aboleths dictated eons ago. Waiting Servants. Although the aboleths’ ancient
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Borderlands Quest: Dagger Danger!
lie on the floor. Several lanterns light the area.
This room contains discarded junk from previous residents. Animated Swords. The four Animated Flying Swords remain motionless on the floor until a
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->Rise of Tiamat
marks the resting place of one of the many explorers to have fallen in the Serpent Hills. At your discretion, an unmarked grave at night could become an encounter with a ghost or other restless undead
all that remain of the many lost settlements of the Serpent Hills. Lizardfolk Lizardfolk regularly hunt and gather food for their yuan-ti masters, grabbing humanoid settlers along the fringes of the hills when they can.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
Age of Demons The Age of Demons is shrouded in myth, and explorers rarely find ruins from that ancient era. But a few sites remain, particularly in the Demon Wastes and Q’barra, kept relatively
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
rocks marks the resting place of one of the many explorers to have fallen in the Serpent Hills. At your discretion, an unmarked grave at night could become an encounter with a ghost or other restless
dry wells are all that remain of the many lost settlements of the Serpent Hills. Lizardfolk. Lizardfolk regularly hunt and gather food for their yuan-ti masters, grabbing humanoid settlers along the fringes of the hills when they can.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
Xen’drik Expeditions to Xen’drik remain the core of Morgrave University’s archaeological work and the foundation of its reputation—for both good and ill. The school’s founder, Lord Lareth ir’Morgrave
, was one of the first explorers from Khorvaire to penetrate the interior of Xen’drik and discover ruins from an ancient giant civilization there. Despite the great distance involved, multiple
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
remain rare, because the soarwood required for their construction is exceedingly scarce and tightly controlled. Soarwood is a form of buoyant timber found only on the island of Aerenal, and the elves who
employed by explorers and by wealthy travelers who demand luxury — clients who have a need to move quickly to places that might not be served by the lightning rail. Suppression. Although the elemental
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Basilisk Travelers sometimes find objects that look like pieces of remarkably lifelike stone carvings of wildlife. Missing parts appear to have been bitten off. Seasoned explorers regard such relics
return petrified creatures to flesh and life. Unfortunately for such a victim, any parts lost in stone form remain absent if the creature revives. Revivification using the oil is impossible if a vital part
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
Rumors and Legends Countless legends have arisen regarding the mysterious Barrier Peaks, and those tales circulate constantly among adventurers, explorers, and bards. Rumors specific to Kwalish and
surround the foothills of the Barrier Peaks. A dryad queen once ruled there, and her grave is now hidden among the trees. Beware, for those trees remain guarded by sprites that still honor her. 31–45 Aye
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
in Old Omuan and reads, “Moa teaches us that secrets hide the truth.” Explorers must heed this message to find the shrine’s puzzle cube. The arrow slits are 6 inches wide, 2 feet tall, and 1 foot deep
covered pits are spaced along the corridor in the positions marked X on the shrine map. Their covers remain locked until the puzzle cube is moved from the pedestal in area 6C. Thereafter, a creature
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
the Beastlands. Now the town must start anew, reestablished by stragglers, newcomers, and sapient animals who were away when their home disappeared. Old Faunel’s ancient ruins remain, rejected by the
where foragers, explorers, and merchants mingle with awakened wildlife. Meanwhile, a despicable group of hunters, the Vile Hunt, hacks through the jungle in search of rare animal hides. Led by a gold
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
, explorers, and — above all — survivors. Leaders of Blingdenstone By deep gnome tradition, Blingdenstone is governed jointly by a king and queen, but the svirfneblin have had no true sovereigns while living as
. Chief Dorbo oversees rebuilding industry, opening mines, and organizing patrols to explore parts of the ruined city that remain uninhabited by the svirfneblin. He is also responsible for rebuilding
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
resisting them only when the most powerful omens from Yeenoghu compel them to do so. They cooperate to gang up on each of the individuals in a group of explorers or adventurers, or if the prey is more
devastated before the wider world becomes aware of a gnoll threat. ON DEFEATING GNOLLS
An excerpt from One Hundred Years of War, a famous manual of dwarven battle tactics:
Gnolls remain a threat
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Island of Death in an Ocean of Tears. Explorers arrive on an island littered with bones. It takes them years to realize they’re all dead. Endelyn Moongrave (see appendix B for her stat block) is not
before Endelyn and says to her, “Your guests have arrived.” The hag doesn’t waste time with pleasantries (see “Bargaining with Endelyn” earlier in the chapter) and prefers to remain on her balcony. If
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
Cartophile’s hirelings join the expedition. Or, instead of front-loading hirelings at the start, these NPCs can be set up as independent explorers not connected to the Cartophile. You can stagger their
tiefling first appears, or he could be found in the monastery’s control room. The modron might choose to remain at the monastery, integrating with its control room to become the site’s new integrated mind
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
decrepit wooden gateway. The gates that sealed this entrance are rotted away; only their rusted iron hinges and reinforcing bands remain. In their place are heaps of human skulls. Picked clean of all
flesh and bleached white by the sun, they grin up at you from the roadway and down from atop towering mounds.
The skulls are all that remain of Mbala’s former residents. The citizens were devoured by a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
remains on the sea. The crown does its best to make sure the roads are safe, but otherwise it is generally content to leave the monsters and vicious tribes of the wilds alone as long as they remain in
the denizens of the deeper forest at bay if they try to encroach here. Owlbears, wolves, and a few bandit gangs that elude the notice of the patrols represent the most common threats to explorers or
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
dull metal kitchen implements hangs from the ceiling.
This kitchen has a few enchantments that remain active. The sink replenishes itself with fresh water every hour using create or destroy water
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
in mainland markets. Ruined Mezro stands across the sea from Calimshan, waiting for explorers and its displaced people to cleanse the city of its undead inhabitants and uncover the treasures that lie
explorers is likely to be killed outright. Food is sparse in this region, with the forests long since vanished, and as a result the elves of Elfharrow fiercely protect the herds of animals they have
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
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
Flinch remain aboard the ship while the characters handle the negotiations with Vocath. Warwyck offers to join the characters and will fight alongside them in Vocath’s arena if they ask him to. Princess
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Stone Giants Stone giants — reclusive, reflective, and inscrutable — take pains to remain apart from the world of sunlight and sky. Only when they’re surrounded by stone do they consider themselves
inducement for all but the lowest of stone giants. If offered such enticements, one or two giants might come forward to negotiate while others remain at rock-throwing range. To unfamiliar eyes, stone
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
all that remain in this large room. Words are carved into a double door that leads south. Doors also exit to the east and west; the one to the west bears a large “X” in dark red.
The tunnel from the
Dwarvish. Previous explorers have taken everything of value from this room. The painted red mark is intended to indicate a safe exit door, although the characters might interpret it differently. G2
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
against this chamber’s wide, rounded wall. They merge seamlessly with the wrinkled, gray walls and floor as though melted into them. Only their upper torsos and heads remain free, and each lifeless face
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
the area. Deep in the Starmetal Hills, a group of dwarves devoted to Marthammor Duin (the dwarven god of explorers, travelers, and outcasts) established the village of Twilight Tor, on the shores of a
mound a haunted place best avoided. In truth, the Blue Bears prowl the High Forest and the eastern Delimbiyr Vale, doing their best to remain hidden. Their members visit Stone Stand infrequently, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
few hints of murals remain, showing dwarves working in fields and tending hop vines. Three new, backpack-sized glass tanks with carrying harnesses are stacked neatly at the end of the row of vats. Doors
shore. They are far newer than the rest of the dungeon, having been left here less than a hundred years ago by a previous band of explorers. One is in good enough shape that it could be repaired with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
everything not bolted down. Only empty counter space, unused food trays, and the equipment built into each room’s design remain. Temperature Prep Cubes. The boxes along the wall were used to chill and warm
unsmiling, with a head topped by a wide-brimmed fungal cap. The elder is attended by four vegepygmy scavengers and four vegepygmy thorny hunters. These vegepygmies remain here to protect their leader
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
specific order. A character who opens a door and succeeds on a DC 15 Intelligence (Arcana) check discerns the nature of the lock and the number of doors that remain. The doors can’t be bypassed through