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Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
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dominate person
Your magic often takes the form of blue or golden runes floating and glowing in the air in circular patterns or of shimmering azure barriers of magical energy. If you
best at everything in my legal training, and now I work with the person who was always just a little bit better.
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A good friend was promoted into work they can’t tell me about.
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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
Travelers The characters encounter one or more travelers (use the commoner stat block) with a tale to tell: Forest: 1d6 hunters or trappers who heard something big moving through the forest and ran
crew and passengers who saw a cloud giant castle or a frost giant greatship, or 1d4 survivors floating on debris after their ship was sunk by a frost giant greatship
Tundra: 1d4 hunters or trappers who narrowly escaped from a fire giant or a frost giant but were forced to leave a companion behind
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
Travelers The characters encounter one or more travelers (use the commoner stat block) with a tale to tell: Forest: 1d6 hunters or trappers who heard something big moving through the forest and ran
crew and passengers who saw a cloud giant castle or a frost giant greatship, or 1d4 survivors floating on debris after their ship was sunk by a frost giant greatship
Tundra: 1d4 hunters or trappers who narrowly escaped from a fire giant or a frost giant but were forced to leave a companion behind
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
time, they see one of Halaster’s scrying eyes floating in the middle of the cavern (see “Halaster’s Lair”). It studies the characters for a minute or two before disappearing.
Blood. The floor is
.
The engravings on the altar, written in Gith, tell the story of how the githyanki freed themselves from the yoke of their illithid masters, shattered the mind flayer empires across the multiverse
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
time, they see one of Halaster’s scrying eyes floating in the middle of the cavern (see “Halaster’s Lair”). It studies the characters for a minute or two before disappearing.
Blood. The floor is
.
The engravings on the altar, written in Gith, tell the story of how the githyanki freed themselves from the yoke of their illithid masters, shattered the mind flayer empires across the multiverse
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
to a calm night. Then shouts ring out, shattering the peace. Someone’s calling for help!
The characters can tell the shouts are coming from the inn’s common room. Following the sound, the
characters find the common room lightly obscured, filled with swirling mist. The haze makes the area feel like it’s full of fog and floating on a stormy sea. Staff and other patrons who’ve stumbled out of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
to a calm night. Then shouts ring out, shattering the peace. Someone’s calling for help!
The characters can tell the shouts are coming from the inn’s common room. Following the sound, the
characters find the common room lightly obscured, filled with swirling mist. The haze makes the area feel like it’s full of fog and floating on a stormy sea. Staff and other patrons who’ve stumbled out of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
in its bow.
The containers in the boat are canopic jars. Magic Mural. This magic mural is a portal. A character who inspects the mural and succeeds on a DC 14 Intelligence (Arcana) check can tell
desert landscape, as if through a window in the sky. P67: Floating Boat When the characters first look through the mural in area P66, read or paraphrase the following text: You peer from a hazy
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
in its bow.
The containers in the boat are canopic jars. Magic Mural. This magic mural is a portal. A character who inspects the mural and succeeds on a DC 14 Intelligence (Arcana) check can tell
desert landscape, as if through a window in the sky. P67: Floating Boat When the characters first look through the mural in area P66, read or paraphrase the following text: You peer from a hazy
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
boxed text to the players: Spiky chains lash a fifteen-foot-diameter, floating blob of quivering flesh to a 20-foot-tall wrought-iron scaffold. Two fiends wrapped in chains stand atop the scaffold
Warp Creature power. Fetchtatter uses its speaking horn to address the sibriex, treating it like an idiot child. The arcanaloth’s declarations typically begin with, “Tell me everything you know about
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
boxed text to the players: Spiky chains lash a fifteen-foot-diameter, floating blob of quivering flesh to a 20-foot-tall wrought-iron scaffold. Two fiends wrapped in chains stand atop the scaffold
Warp Creature power. Fetchtatter uses its speaking horn to address the sibriex, treating it like an idiot child. The arcanaloth’s declarations typically begin with, “Tell me everything you know about
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Morte’s Planar Parade
Foundry, manifesting useful tools from nothing. CoupleofKooks “Want to know all there is to know about a faction? Just take a look at their factol. You can always tell which ones have grand visions
. The matter smith conjures a floating, spectral shield that grants the matter smith a +5 bonus to its AC until the shield disappears at the start of the matter smith’s next turn. The first time a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Morte’s Planar Parade
Foundry, manifesting useful tools from nothing. CoupleofKooks “Want to know all there is to know about a faction? Just take a look at their factol. You can always tell which ones have grand visions
. The matter smith conjures a floating, spectral shield that grants the matter smith a +5 bonus to its AC until the shield disappears at the start of the matter smith’s next turn. The first time a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
center of the cavern, floating 10 feet above a smooth, 80-foot-tall mithral spindle that erupts from the floor, is Maddgoth’s castle. The stone castle is more than 60 feet away from the ledges, putting
. Characters who enter the sphere can tell something has happened when Maddgoth’s castle suddenly looms twelve times larger in their vision. A shrunken creature or object reverts to its normal size
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
C2. Enhanced Sphinx Sitting regally on the metallic dock, this Enhanced Sphinx protects the approach to the monastery. It intervenes in any attempt to fly or otherwise cross to the floating island
question. This might be something inherent to their characters’ own knowledge, or something completely outside the context of the game. If this is a question pertaining to the real world, you might tell
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
feet down, the sinkhole is filled with murky green water. Hundreds of frogs hop from one floating plant to another.
The massive rib cage and fine wing bones of a dragon rise above the murk. Vines
(Investigation) or DC 15 Wisdom (Medicine) check can tell that the plants were killed by poison. Needle opened the secret door by breathing poison gas on it; smearing or spraying poison on the door also
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
C2. Enhanced Sphinx Sitting regally on the metallic dock, this Enhanced Sphinx protects the approach to the monastery. It intervenes in any attempt to fly or otherwise cross to the floating island
question. This might be something inherent to their characters’ own knowledge, or something completely outside the context of the game. If this is a question pertaining to the real world, you might tell
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Morte’s Planar Parade
, hey! Zip it there, bud! I don’t know who got you a defective mimir, Chief, but I’ll tell you what’s what from here out.”
–Morte
Planar travelers often find mimirs invaluable in learning about
Creatures from every corner of the multiverse crowd Sigil’s busy streets Morte, however, isn’t a mimir. A floating skull with a penchant for speaking his mind and claiming expertise, Morte is one of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
center of the cavern, floating 10 feet above a smooth, 80-foot-tall mithral spindle that erupts from the floor, is Maddgoth’s castle. The stone castle is more than 60 feet away from the ledges, putting
. Characters who enter the sphere can tell something has happened when Maddgoth’s castle suddenly looms twelve times larger in their vision. A shrunken creature or object reverts to its normal size
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
feet down, the sinkhole is filled with murky green water. Hundreds of frogs hop from one floating plant to another.
The massive rib cage and fine wing bones of a dragon rise above the murk. Vines
(Investigation) or DC 15 Wisdom (Medicine) check can tell that the plants were killed by poison. Needle opened the secret door by breathing poison gas on it; smearing or spraying poison on the door also
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Morte’s Planar Parade
, hey! Zip it there, bud! I don’t know who got you a defective mimir, Chief, but I’ll tell you what’s what from here out.”
–Morte
Planar travelers often find mimirs invaluable in learning about
Creatures from every corner of the multiverse crowd Sigil’s busy streets Morte, however, isn’t a mimir. A floating skull with a penchant for speaking his mind and claiming expertise, Morte is one of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
(Arcana) check can tell that these are figures used for creating homunculi. Treasure. Several of the reagents here are quite valuable. By searching the room, the characters can gather 50 gp of
. Inside each vessel is the body of a creature floating in clear liquid. One four-foot-tall container is missing its lid and has no occupant.
Fistandia considered herself to be a knowledgeable natural
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
(Arcana) check can tell that these are figures used for creating homunculi. Treasure. Several of the reagents here are quite valuable. By searching the room, the characters can gather 50 gp of
. Inside each vessel is the body of a creature floating in clear liquid. One four-foot-tall container is missing its lid and has no occupant.
Fistandia considered herself to be a knowledgeable natural
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
small boats to corral floating masses of logs, creating several large rafts capable of holding two hundred more villagers. With the help of locals, this simple plan takes three hours to complete
box is under her bed in Thornwall Keep. She doesn’t tell them what it holds but asks the characters to fetch the box and give it to Darrett once he safely escapes town. The characters can easily
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Cities and Sites Aundair intersperses pastoral farmlands between densely populated cities. Arcanix Arcanix This farming village on Lake Galifar provides food for the nearby floating towers of
defeat Aundairian champions.
Only time will tell if the Nine can bring us together as it once did, or if it will drive us further apart.
The Eldeen Reaches seceded from Aundair halfway through the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
are illiterate or nearly so — particularly hill, frost, and fire giants, which place little value on learning. Instead of writing stories with words, they typically tell their tales with pictograms
paintings. Often they employ aspects of legends about the giant pantheon. For example, Memnor’s face or head floating above the shoulders of another giant indicates that the giant was a liar or a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
tell lies, even at the risk of harming herself and others. The duergar have dressed her in a robe sewn with gemstones (see “Treasure” below) and suspended her above the mouth of Ghuldur’s “pet” — a
spells prepared:
Cantrips (at will): dancing lights, friends, mending, prestidigitation
1st level (4 slots): comprehend languages, detect magic, Tenser’s floating disk
2nd level (3 slots
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
. Floating in the center of it is a dwarven skull sheathed in glass. Any character who succeeds on a DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check can tell that the skull is suspended in an enormous gelatinous cube, not
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
tell lies, even at the risk of harming herself and others. The duergar have dressed her in a robe sewn with gemstones (see “Treasure” below) and suspended her above the mouth of Ghuldur’s “pet” — a
spells prepared:
Cantrips (at will): dancing lights, friends, mending, prestidigitation
1st level (4 slots): comprehend languages, detect magic, Tenser’s floating disk
2nd level (3 slots
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
are illiterate or nearly so — particularly hill, frost, and fire giants, which place little value on learning. Instead of writing stories with words, they typically tell their tales with pictograms
paintings. Often they employ aspects of legends about the giant pantheon. For example, Memnor’s face or head floating above the shoulders of another giant indicates that the giant was a liar or a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
. This culminates with a grand contest of champions at the Cornerstone in Middle Tavick’s Landing. Crystalfall (9 Olarune). During the Last War, saboteurs caused a floating tower to fall into Lower Dura
, this day is especially important for Cyran survivors. It is a time when Cyrans come together to remember their lost kingdom. Some tell stories or sing traditional songs, ensuring their culture isn’t
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
and attractions each month, and an up-and-coming entertainer or a renowned folk hero might catch her notice. Crystalfall (9 Olarune) During the Last War, saboteurs caused a floating tower to fall into
tell stories or sing traditional songs, ensuring that their culture isn’t forgotten. Other survivors still seethe with anger at the enemies who brought Cyre down, and thus far the holiday has been marked
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
. Floating in the center of it is a dwarven skull sheathed in glass. Any character who succeeds on a DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check can tell that the skull is suspended in an enormous gelatinous cube, not
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
. This culminates with a grand contest of champions at the Cornerstone in Middle Tavick’s Landing. Crystalfall (9 Olarune). During the Last War, saboteurs caused a floating tower to fall into Lower Dura
, this day is especially important for Cyran survivors. It is a time when Cyrans come together to remember their lost kingdom. Some tell stories or sing traditional songs, ensuring their culture isn’t
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Cities and Sites Aundair intersperses pastoral farmlands between densely populated cities. Arcanix Arcanix This farming village on Lake Galifar provides food for the nearby floating towers of
defeat Aundairian champions.
Only time will tell if the Nine can bring us together as it once did, or if it will drive us further apart.
The Eldeen Reaches seceded from Aundair halfway through the