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Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
prone condition, the cat can make a Bite attack against it as a bonus action.
Fade Away. The grinning cat magically becomes invisible for 1 hour or until it attacks, gradually fading away over the
them their name.
Grinning cats often dwell in or near giants’ enclaves. They spend much of their time invisible, lounging on tree branches until prey—or a potential conversation partner
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
Into the Astral Sea As the characters leave Wildspace and enter the Astral Sea, read: The colors of Wildspace grow more muted, fading into a deepening silver haze. Soon your ship is immersed in the
the ante. The rules are as follows: Each player chooses any number of d6s and shakes them in a cup. Everyone rolls and reveals their dice at the same time. The player with the highest total wins, but
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
winter winds begin to approach, the Feast of the Moon is the time when people celebrate their ancestors and their honored dead. During festivals on this day, people gather to share stories and legends
Claw of Sunsets 4 Tarsahk The Claw of Storms Annual Holiday: Greengrass 5 Mirtul The Melting 6 Kythorn The Time of Flowers 7 Flamerule Summertide Annual Holiday: Midsummer Quadrennial Holiday
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Astral Projection 9th-level necromancy Casting Time: 1 hour Range: 10 feet Components: V, S, M (for each creature you affect with this spell, you must provide one jacinth worth at least 1,000 gp and
extends from between your shoulder blades and trails behind you, fading to invisibility after 1 foot. This cord is your tether to your material body. As long as the tether remains intact, you can find
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
his influence between them. Myrkul became the god of death and the dead, and ruled over the City of the Dead for centuries until he, in turn, was slain. In time Myrkul returned, for can death itself
the god of the ending of things and hopelessness, as much as Lathander is the god of beginnings and hope. Folk don’t pray to Myrkul so much as dread him and blame him for aching bones and fading vision
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
someone is writing it, word by word. As this text unfurls, read: “Our story starts during the time leading up to the winter solstice on the final night of Uktar in the year 374 DR. A nearly full moon rises
behind wispy clouds, as a star-speckled sky darkens against a fading horizon. It seems silent and still, here in the heart of the forest. But to anyone who knows the forest well, that silence can be
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Astral Projection 9th-level necromancy Casting Time: 1 hour Range: 10 feet Components: V, S, M (for each creature you affect with this spell, you must provide one jacinth worth at least 1,000 gp and
extends from between your shoulder blades and trails behind you, fading to invisibility after 1 foot. This cord is your tether to your material body. As long as the tether remains intact, you can find
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Mysterious Manifestations Once the whistlers are defeated, the threat isn’t past. The mill’s burning roof threatens to collapse. The characters have time to escape with the workers, but the structure
can see you, but I can’t get through!”
The figure is Yarana, an Ataguan warrior lost to time. She stands on the far side of an unstable planar rift between the Material Plane and the Ghost Orchid
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
wide, toothy smiles that give them their name. Grinning cats often dwell in or near giants’ enclaves. They spend much of their time invisible, lounging on tree branches until prey—or a potential
target has the prone condition, the cat can make a Bite attack against it as a bonus action.
Fade Away. The grinning cat magically becomes invisible for 1 hour or until it attacks, gradually fading away
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
The Time of Flowers
7 Flamerule Summertide
Annual holiday: Midsummer
Quadrennial holiday: Shieldmeet
8 Eleasias Highsun
9 Eleint The Fading
Annual holiday
Tracking Time A calendar lets you record the passage of time in the campaign. More importantly, it lets you plan ahead for the critical events that shake up the world. For simple time tracking, use a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
eaten alive. A behir’s monstrous form resembles a combination of centipede and crocodile. Its scaled hide ranges from ultramarine to deep blue in color, fading to pale blue on its underside. Cavern
behir’s turns. A behir can have only one creature swallowed at a time.
If the behir takes 30 damage or more on a single turn from the swallowed creature, the behir must succeed on a DC 14
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
the players to leap into action—in the first moments after an accident, time is of the essence! Anyone who rushes to the horse and succeeds on a DC 10 Wisdom (Animal Handling or Medicine) check can tell
the horse’s bridle reveals the horse’s name: Photina. Characters more interested in the rider find that he’s dead. In fact, he’s been dead for some time. The figure’s skin is gray, and his wounds weep
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
, but they can’t be relied on to make wise decisions or hold up their end in battle. Wallflower Warrior. A wallflower warrior NPC is good at fading into the background, doesn’t usually chat or engage
NPC party members stick around for no more than a few game sessions or a single adventure before making their exit. NPCs can benefit from time away from the characters now and then. Helder Almeida
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
of Fortune, hidden in the foothills of the Greypeak Mountains near the desert of Anauroch. Though dusk is upon you, even in the fading light, you can see that the town was never very big to begin with
provides no mechanical benefits. It shrinks away to nothing after 1 hour. Gambling Fever After the characters have had time to look around, or if they make for the cavern straight away, read: A murmur of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
leader is Yantha Coaxrock, a young female mage who splits her time and energy between conducting magical research in Blingdenstone, aiding the svirfneblin enclave in Mantol-Derith (see chapter 9), and
during their flight from Blingdenstone to Mithral Hall. Only the memory of their valiant effort remains today — and even that is fading due to the deep gnomes’ penchant for forgetting their own history
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
the Hunting Axe have frustrated Drannin for a long time, but he now has a plan to dupe his cousin Gargosh into finding the axe for him (see the “Halls of the Hunting Axe” side trek in chapter 6
.
Oreioth A lean, black-bearded young noble from Baldur’s Gate, Oreioth is more at home among the dead than the living. He was cruel almost from the time he could talk, catching small creatures and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
options are inferior). When the time comes to design the game elements of the race, such as its traits, take a look at the game’s existing races and let them inspire you. Cosmetic Alterations A simple
twilight realm of the Feywild. Their cities sometimes cross over to the Material Plane, appearing briefly in mountain valleys or deep forest glades before fading back into the Feywild. The elf
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
death. As his life was fading, the spirit of a frost druid beholden to Auril possessed him. The winter spirit cannibalized Sephek’s spirit and is using him as a living vessel to do the Frostmaiden’s work
work, the spirit inside Sephek doesn’t care about getting caught, and he isn’t shy about admitting his guilt. He considers surrendering only because it buys time for him to escape and commit more
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
profuse thanks the next time they return to Redwood Watch. R5: Muddy Bog A pale redwood rises from the middle of a muddy bog. To the southwest, a trickling stream separates the mud from the solid
, ghostly images of dead elf warriors wielding tall spears appear, fading in and out of existence, some uttering cryptic warnings in Common and Elvish. Foremost among the images is Ethvarn, an androgynous
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
. Tainted by foul Far Realm energies, the coiled, 40-foot-long anaconda is unconscious. A character who has a passive Wisdom (Perception) score of 14 or higher sees that Chimagua is incorporeal, fading in and
character approaches this area, Yarana urges them to come quickly, saying that Chimagua is dying and needs assistance. As soon as the first character reaches this area, she attacks. Any time Yarana takes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
the closest table is growing, as are the floor boards beneath your feet. The entire inn is expanding — or maybe you’re shrinking. Assuming the rest of the inn is its usual size, by the time the effect
objects in it continue to move as if manipulated by creatures. Allow the characters some time to explore their new environment. They can use ropes to climb tables or chairs, avoid chunks of discarded food
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, it must succeed on a DC 16 Dexterity saving throw or take 22 (4d10) lightning damage from lightning arcing between the columns. If a character
time a column in the room takes damage, a 10-foot-square panel opens in the floor near the door leading to area T5, releasing a hostile Istarian drone (see appendix B). T5: Drone Monitoring Stone columns
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
artifacts that could rewind time (see the “Secret of the Obelisks” sidebar). It was damaged during Ythryn’s fall and, despite Iriolarthas’s best efforts, the demilich could not repair it. Characters who
to chronomancy, the art of magically manipulating time. Activating the Obelisk. If the characters retrieved Iriolarthas’s staff of power and Veneranda is with them, she insists that the staff be used
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
are hundreds of years old, dating from the time of the mind flayers’ domination of the Underdark. When grasped, a crystal replays a short psychic scene in its reflective interior. A crystal takes 10
incapacitated condition. Treasure. One pod hasn’t been used in a long time and its goo has a thin crust. Just visible beneath this crust is a distant mind crystal (see appendix B). Recovering the crystal from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
approaches the characters and warns them that this realm is fading; they should return to their own world before Prismeer disappears entirely. Winterbow reveals that the other members of his clan galloped
hope of ending hostilities. On a successful check, the character convinces Meadowleaf (and, by extension, the shrubs) not to attack on their next turn, giving the characters a brief time in which to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Divine Contention
successfully completed the “Icingdeath and Twinkle” quest). After this time, allied reinforcements rally to secure the palisade in this section and drive back the undead. The party holds the line
. From beyond, you hear the roaring of barbarians.
The anchorites of Talos are using a battering ram to demolish the burning gate. Each time they spot a defender on the wall, the barbarians hurl
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
clamber through the moat with more time and effort. No check is required, but it’s a grisly detour, and the moat is difficult terrain. Portcullis. The portcullis is up, and nothing prevents entry to
than granting their request and letting them read the book, Gremorly killed them and trapped them as ghosts with a ritual. Patrin remembers little—his memory is fading due to his Undead status—but he
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
lizardfolk commoners (see appendix C) fight only if they are cornered. Otherwise, they escape to the nearest barracks (area 9), whose occupants return to the kitchen in the shortest possible time. If the
they are cornered. Otherwise, they escape to the nearest barracks (area 29), whose occupants return to the banquet hall in the shortest possible time. The cupboards contain extra mugs, platters, bowls
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
for the first time, read or paraphrase the following text: A corridor with walls of red marble leads to an ebony door with silver hinges, studs, and a pull ring. The arched ceiling is made of black
night sky at the top and fading to the pale blue of a twilight horizon at the ledge. The lower half of the room is serpentine, gradually darkening from pale green near the equator to a deep, forest