goals confers location

Strahd von Zarovich

Monsters Curse of Strahd

, “Into the Mists”, to understand his personality and goals. Although Strahd can be encountered almost anywhere in his domain, the vampire is always encountered in the place indicated by the

against other members of the adventuring party. The Vampire’s Minions Whenever Strahd appears in a location other than his tomb or the place indicated by the card reading, roll a d20 and consult

Faction Agent

Backgrounds Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide

operated openly or secretly, depending on the faction and its goals, as well as how those goals mesh with your own. Becoming an adventurer doesn’t necessarily require you to relinquish membership

from many walks of life, setting them to tasks that serve the goals of the Black Network but aren’t necessarily criminal in nature. Agents of the Black Network must often work in secret, and are

Tabaxi Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

tables to customize your character in addition to the trait, ideal, bond, and flaw from your background. The Tabaxi Obsession table can help hone your character’s goals. For extra fun, roll a new

2 A monster 3 A lost civilization 4 A wizard’s secrets 5 A mundane item 6 A magic item 7 A location 8 A legend or tale Tabaxi Quirks

Adventure Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros

Adventure Locations Each god’s section includes a map of an iconic location often associated with a specific god. The description of each location includes tables that list possible goals for an adventure based there and villains the characters might face there.

Membership

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things

headquarters. Recruitment As they travel across the multiverse, knights of the Solar Bastion frequently encounter other individuals whose goals and interests align with their own. These encounters offer

as their goals align. Often, the adventurers in these arrangements have no knowledge of the knight’s true allegiance, and the knight rarely explains the Solar Bastion’s purpose unless that information

Adventure Types

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

for an adventure focused on outdoor exploration. The Other Goals table suggests location-based adventures that don’t fit neatly into the first two categories. Dungeon Goals d20 Goal 1 Stop the

Protect a wilderness site from attackers. 20 Roll twice, ignoring results of 20. Other Goals d12 Goal 1 Seize control of a fortified location such as a fortress, town, or ship. 2 Defend a location

Adventure Structure

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd

Adventure Structure Much of the adventure’s action is driven by the clash between the adventurers’ decisions and Strahd’s goals, and the adventurers and the vampire are all caught in strands of fate

that are represented by a special card reading detailed in chapter 1, “Into the Mists.” Before you run the adventure, you need to conduct that reading to determine the location of several items that

Types of Crime

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

Acquisitions and Retrieval. Your job is to acquire assets for the syndicate. You might steal important documents or clear out a location for use as a hideout. 2 Heists. You plan and execute elaborate

your territory. 4 Internal Affairs. Your task is to keep all the corrupt, headstrong, and avaricious members of your syndicate in line with the goals and rules of the group. 5 Assassination. Your work

Cult of Levistus

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

Cult of Levistus Goals: Survival and eventual revenge against those who wrong them Typical Cultist: Assassin, bandit captain, cult fanatic, cultist, mage, noble, spy, thug Signature Spells: Blade

the form of the Path of Levistus trait. Path of Levistus. This creature magically teleports to a location of Levistus’s choice within 1 mile of its location. Using this ability also restores all of the

Four Councils

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons

new council, the various factions measure the party’s actions and achievements, comparing those actions to their own goals. Characters who further the goals of a faction will find that faction willing

to—and appeasement of—the delegates to gather the strongest force possible to confront Tiamat. Though it isn’t ideal for all attendees, the Lords’ Palace in Waterdeep is the designated location of the

Quest Goals

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath

Quest Goals To complete the Foul Weather at Wayside quest (see “Leilon Quests”), the adventurers must defeat the cultists of Talos at the Wayside Inn, destroy the shrine of Talos before it is fully

activated, rescue the sacrifices, and find clues to the location of the cultists’ hideout at the Thunder Cliffs. THE POWER OF THE ECHO In a D&D adventure, as in any narrative enterprise, repetition

Four Councils

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat

new council, the various factions measure the party’s actions and achievements, comparing those actions to their own goals. Characters who further the goals of a faction will find that faction willing

to—and appeasement of—the delegates to gather the strongest force possible to confront Tiamat. Though it isn’t ideal for all attendees, the Lords’ Palace in Waterdeep is the designated location of the

Gaining Access

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

navigate it. These two goals should serve as tools to help motivate the players throughout the earlier chapters of the adventure. As a reward in one chapter, the characters might learn of the existence of

a potential route out, leading them to another location in the Underdark where it is supposed to be. Then they need to find a map or guide for the potential route, which could involve them in what is

Dragon as Monster

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

of the fantasy genre revolve around dealing with a dragon who has become too monstrous and putting an end to the danger the dragon poses to peoples and civilizations. Three basic goals can provide the

only solution is to slay the dragon An adventure featuring a dragon in a monster’s role lends itself to a location-based structure. That location is likely the dragon’s lair, since it’s difficult to pin

Noncombat Challenges

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

examples: Accomplishing one in a series of goals necessary to complete the adventure. Discovering a hidden location or piece of information relevant to the adventure. Reaching an important destination

Dragon as Schemer

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

practice, many of a schemer dragon’s goals might be the same as a monstrous dragon’s: acquiring food, securing a lair, and adding to a hoard. But other plots might revolve around acquiring minions

an event-based adventure, as described in the Dungeon Master’s Guide. Whether the dragon is the villain, a patron, or an interested bystander, flesh out the dragon’s personality, goals, and other

Campaign Characters

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide

from a character’s backstory. As characters continue to adventure, they’ll find different goals to pursue, such as finding a lost relic, honoring an ancestor, avenging a fallen mentor, or defeating a

settle a grudge. A sneaky character puts their skills to the test by leading the rest of the party to conduct a heist. A character learns the location of a magic item needed to save their hometown. A

Event-Based Adventures

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

importance. Building an event-based adventure is more work than building a location-based one, but the process can be simplified by following a number of straightforward steps. Several steps include tables

from which you can choose adventure elements or roll randomly for inspiration. As with location-based adventures, you don’t necessarily have to follow these steps in order. Vampire Villain 1

The God-Brain's Powers and Dominion

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

The God-Brain’s Powers and Dominion The God-Brain is more akin to a physical location or massive object than a creature. Its droves of servants are more direct threats than the inscrutable Darklord

knows anything that they know. The God-Brain delegates broad goals to its most effective servants, encouraging them to indulge all manner of radical experiments. Mist Vibrations. Through the awesome

Tabaxi Personality

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

to the trait, ideal, bond, and flaw from your background. The Tabaxi Obsession table can help hone your character’s goals. For extra fun, roll a new result every few days that pass in the campaign to

distant land. Tabaxi Obsessions d8 My curiosity is currently fixed on … 1 A god or planar entity 2 A monster 3 A lost civilization 4 A wizard’s secrets 5 A mundane item 6 A magic item 7 A location 8

Awarding XP

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide

: Accomplishing one in a series of goals necessary to complete the adventure. Discovering a hidden location or piece of information relevant to the adventure. Reaching an important destination. When awarding

Adventure Setting

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide

Yourself When you’re preparing an adventure to run for your friends, you don’t need to write hundreds of pages describing each location in exhaustive detail. You can run a game with no more written

notes than you’ll find in one of the short adventures at the end of this chapter. Adventure Maps An adventure location almost always benefits from a map, and the more thoughtfully constructed the

Special NPCs

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder

begins, make photocopies of the six NPCs corresponding to the location you’ve chosen. These NPCs are gathered in appendix D. Each NPC comes with a brief description, personality traits (a bond, an

to your character, each of you has received a special nonplayer character with ties to the location where the adventure begins. Take a moment to review your NPC’s personality traits and statistics

Goals

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things

Goals The Solar Bastion monitors the Deck of Many Things in all its manifestations throughout the multiverse, warns and protects those who find it, and minimizes the damage it causes when found

welcomes assistance from adventurers sympathetic to its goals. Monitor the Deck Most of the Solar Bastion’s activity revolves around monitoring Decks of Many Things. The knights strive for the

Life Span

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

effects. Adult blue dragon Adult Dragon Goals d6 Goal 1 Find a good location for an additional lair 2 Acquire an artifact or a powerful magic item for the hoard 3 Establish a

level, so do dragons as they age. The tables in this section suggest possible goals that reflect the priorities of dragons at different ages. Of course, a dragon’s goals are shaped by many additional

Introducing the Adventure

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Borderlands Quest: Goblin Trouble

, or conflict that “hooks” the players into an adventure, motivating them to pursue it. It introduces the characters to the adventure: what’s happening, where they are, what their goals are, and so on

. This adventure hook starts the characters at the point where they have already done some of the work in finding the location, and they are ready to jump into the main part of the adventure. When you

Evil Inchoate

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

status, and they typically don’t set impossible goals — a lesser demon, for instance, might simply run amok when unleashed into the world, its only desire to spread chaos, but a marilith or other

lays claim to such an item can command the demon to do as they wish. For this reason, demon lords hide their amulets away and trust no one, not even their followers, with knowledge of the location

Cry Havoc!

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

Cry Havoc! When the characters feel that they have attained their goals and secured their resources, the battle for Blingdenstone can begin. Earth elementals under the control of the Stoneheart

certain tasks in Blingdenstone can provide the characters with benefits and allies in the final battle. If the characters find Entémoch’s Boon and share its location with the svirfneblin, or if they

Quentin Togglepocket

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault

couldn’t have accomplished his goals alone. To make his casino a reality, he sold his soul to Mammon, the archdevil of Minauros (the third layer of the Nine Hells). In turn, one of Mammon’s

how brilliant he is otherwise? Quentin’s Location You decide where Quentin is at any given time. If he’s not chatting with patrons or boosting staff morale on the casino floor, he’s usually in his

The Master Plan

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh

accept this assignment. Lay of the Land Assuming the lizardfolk, Garurt and Vyth, are present at the meeting, they produce a crude map that identifies the location of the sahuagin stronghold. It

explored the area without attracting any attention from the sahuagin. Mission Goals The objectives of the mission, which must be accomplished if the reward is to be gained, are fourfold: Determine the

Boromar Clan Campaign Themes

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

adventurers, as described in chapter 1. The Boromar Clan Assignments table provides goals for adventurers who are working with the clan, and the ”Crime Syndicate” section of chapter 1 includes

bank records of a city councilor. 4 Convince a Sharn Watch captain to aggressively root out Daask operatives. 5 Retrieve a package of dreamlily that has gone astray. 6 Discover the location of a Daask

Group Debriefing

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen

the City of Lost Names in the Northern Wastes, the marshal knows nothing about the location and notes that the Northern Wastes is nothing but a deadly wasteland. If Soth is heading there, she believes

understand Lord Soth’s cryptic goals, he believes the characters’ discoveries are important. The marshal feels otherwise, believing Kalaman’s military should focus on fighting nearby Dragon Army forces

Fourth Edition

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things

these goals were rewarded with favorable cards, while those who thwarted the deck were forced to draw multiple cards and keep the worst. A new origin for the deck was put forward but not confirmed in

the identity of their patron, the location of each card, and the scene of the adventure’s denouement. To facilitate this, the adventure included another re-creation of the deck, with art by William

Licensed Region

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

to that location. You may not use the Acquisitions Incorporated brand outside your licensed region without written, documancer-generated permission, since those areas might belong to other licensees

granted the rights to engage in sea trade within that region. You can ship goods (over land, water, or air) to one city or other settlement outside your region. (The DM approves this location, and

6. Goblin Den

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver

Spider sent word that the dwarf was to be brought to him. Sildar doesn’t know who or what the Black Spider is. Gundren had a map showing the secret location of Wave Echo Cave, but the goblins took it

someone in Phandalin might know. (It doesn’t occur to Sildar immediately, but a captured goblin might also be persuaded to divulge the castle’s location. See the “What the Goblins Know” sidebar above

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