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Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
conquered by mind flayers, and the goblins there were exposed to the illithidsâ strange powers, leading a subset of the goblins to develop unusual psionic powers. The mind flayers eventually left
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
through their lairs in multiple ways and set traps leading to yawning chasms or pools and flows of lava.
Emerald dragons take great pains to hide the chambers that house their hoards and collected lore
over a century ago when an upwelling from the lake at the calderaâs center collapsed a portion of the vaults and flooded their halls with boiling water and noxious fumes. The stairwell leading
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
intruders. They dig additional tunnels that allow them to move through their lairs in multiple ways and set traps leading to yawning chasms or pools and flows of lava.
Emerald dragons take great pains
halls with boiling water and noxious fumes. The stairwell leading up to the city was sealed to prevent the fumes from spilling into the streets above. Decades later, once the volcanoâs activity
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
into the realm of dreams to communicate with the creatures that sleep near their lairs. In this way, they inspire artists and poets, encourage great thinkers, and spur adventurers to heroic deeds
in even the simplest things if you look hard enough. (Good)
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Inspiration. Great are historyâs artists and creators. But greater still are those who inspire them. (Any)
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Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
volcanic gases wash over a dragon as it sleeps.
With its hoard well protected deep within the lair, a red dragon spends as much of its time outside the mountain as in it. For a red dragon, the great
dragonâs power, telling the grim story of its life, the enemies it has slain, and the nations it has conquered.
Lair Actions
On initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), the dragon takes a
Ancient Red Dragon
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Basic Rules (2014)
much of its time outside the mountain as in it. For a red dragon, the great heights of the world are the throne from which it can look out to survey all it controlsâand the wider world it seeks to
control.
Throughout the lair complex, servants erect monuments to the dragonâs power, telling the grim story of its life, the enemies it has slain, and the nations it has conquered.
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Adult Red Dragon
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Basic Rules (2014)
time outside the mountain as in it. For a red dragon, the great heights of the world are the throne from which it can look out to survey all it controlsâand the wider world it seeks to control
.
Throughout the lair complex, servants erect monuments to the dragonâs power, telling the grim story of its life, the enemies it has slain, and the nations it has conquered.
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Adult Red Dracolich
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Monster Manual (2014)
dracolich as it sleeps.
With its hoard well protected deep within the lair, a red dracolich spends as much of its time outside the mountain as in it. For a red dracolich, the great heights of the world
, telling the grim story of its life, the enemies it has slain, and the nations it has conquered.
Lair Actions
On initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), the dracolich takes a lair action to cause
Yuan-ti Pureblood
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
people who became yuan-ti were one of the original human civilizations. Their society built great temples of stone and forged metal into armor, tools, and weapons. In their ceremonies they paid homage to
cluster of allied city-states. Conquered neighbors were allowed to keep their leaders and culture so long as they paid tribute, swore allegiance to the victors, and incorporated their conquerors
Orc
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
great unknown.
NISHREK AND THE ETERNAL WAR
Orcs believe that if they die with honor, their spirits go to the plane of Acheron, the Infinite Battlefield â specifically the layer of Nishrek
herself and claw Maglubiyetâs beady eyes from his face to prevent him from taking them from her. The cosmic battle between the two pantheons has raged for eons without resolution, leading those
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
about Barovia and Barovians: Strahd conquered this land centuries ago and named it after his father, King Barov. Strahd uses wolves, bats, and other creatures to spy on all of his realm. Barovians are
great Vistani fortune-tellers, none compares to Madam Eva. If knowledge of the future is what you seek, Madam Eva will tell you your fate. A prescient Vistana canât see her own future or the future of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
artifacts, especially relics with historical significance. They place great importance on an itemâs provenance, which can make it difficult to gauge how they might value any particular object
at the harvest festival of Riksdell before that settlement fell to a plague
10 Rusty chains used to bind the orc master thief Korjus before she escaped and conquered half the lands of the south
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
. Centuries ago, the outpost was conquered by mind flayers, and the goblins there were exposed to the illithidsâ strange powers, leading a subset of the goblins to develop unusual psionic powers. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
, however, quickly realize that there is no happiness here, only false hopeâwhich Strahd himself cultivates. Vallaki was founded not long after Strahdâs armies conquered the valley by an ancestor of
leading up to the festival, Baron Vallakovich has begun arresting local malcontents and throwing them in the stocks so that his efforts arenât ruined by âthose of little hope or faith.â There is no light in the eyes of the men that feed off this land. They are as dead as the dead.
âStrahd von Zarovich
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
4. Giant Doors A 40-foot-long flight of steps leading east ascends 20 feet to a landing, next to which stands a pair of 30-foot-tall granite doors carved with images of giant gods locked in battle
). Knock spells and similar magic are likewise ineffective until the ice is removed. Pushing on the doors are six berserkers (CE male and female Uthgardt humans) of the Great Worm tribe. Overseeing them
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rrakkma
their journey until they arrived here, at the opening to a massive cavern housing a great fungal forest. The cavern is roughly circular and a half-mile in diameter, with a dozen tunnels (including the
one used by the adventurers) leading out of it. About 100 feet ahead, amidst a tall stand of zurkhwood mushrooms, is an elaborate, glowing portal, 50-foot tall, and half as wide at its base. Lighting Some of the fungus in the forest is phosphorescent in nature, casting a dim light throughout.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Masterâs Guide
Aerdi tribe of humans that conquered the region and established the Great Kingdom almost 800 years ago. The Aerdi valued common sense, hard work, and knowing oneâs place in a strict social order
Eastern Flanaess Once a powerful force for order and good, the Great Kingdom of Aerdy has declined over the last century to a state of utter decadence. The reigning overkingâIvid V, patriarch of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
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
. However, meeting a group of wandering myconids in the city reveals that the myconids of Neverlight Grove know a great deal about the hidden ways of the Underdark. Clues and leads should become more
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
. (Inaccurate; the Dragon Armies widely employ these creatures.) 6 The nation of Khur has been united under a powerful warlord who seeks to conquer the world. (Inaccurate; Khur has been conquered by
the Dragon Armies.) 7 A great fleet of elven ships was sighted heading west. The elves are retreating to their secret homeland. (Inaccurate; the Silvanesti elves have fled their homeland for Southern
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
fumes. The stairwell leading up to the city was sealed to prevent the fumes from spilling into the streets above. Decades later, once the volcanoâs activity had subsided, the dragon moved in. The lair
has the following features: Lava Tubes. When the volcano is quiet, the dragon uses the lava tubes to come and go from the lair. Great Hall. The emerald dragon resides in a grand rectangular hall near
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Maglubiyetâs Will Be Done When Maglubiyet conquered the goblinsâ gods, he taught the goblins to fear his cruelty. They bowed in sniveling obeisance to him and then turned their impotent wrath upon
others, becoming petty tyrants. When Maglubiyet conquered the bugbearsâ gods, he taught the bugbears the practicality of cold brutality. When Maglubiyet conquered the hobgoblinsâ gods, he knew he had to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
balcony are old, empty barrels with âThe Wizard of Winesâ burned into their sides. The balcony climbs another five feet as it continues along the west and east walls, ending at doors leading to the
watch you with great interest. Four swarms of ravens perch on the rafters but donât attack the characters under any circumstances. Unless they have been drawn outside, twenty-four twig blights and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
the air.
Secretary Wei has ordered a court mage to magically collapse the stairwell leading from area Y1 to the surface. When the characters enter area Y1 again, read the following description: The
result of the tremor is now clearâa great pile of rubble fills the space where the stairway once stood.
A character who searches the rubble and succeeds on a DC 16 Wisdom (Survival) check sees no
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
raiders who pillage and destroy any caravan or homestead they come across. The Uthgardt take their name from Uthgar Gardolfsson, a great hero-chief who battled giants and conquered much of the North before
clans, each with its own chieftain and tribal shaman. The chieftains of a particular tribe choose one among them to become the great chief of the tribe, with power comparable to a monarch. The Uthgardt
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
rounds to aid them. Great Forge Encounters d8 Encounter 1â14 No encounter 15 1d4 + 1 doppelgangers disguised as shield dwarves 16 1d2 fire elementals and 3d6 magmins 17 1 salamander and 1d4 + 1 fire snakes 18 1 spirit naga 19 3d6 troglodytes 20 1 wraith leading 1d6 + 1 specter
The Great Forge The Great Forge is a cavernous chamber divided into smaller sections housing furnaces and anvils. Some areas of the cavern are raised on daises of stone, while others stand in shallow
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
the sole gate leading to the harbor, itâs still the primary route by which the cityâs wealth flows from port to patriar. Basilisk Gate. Piercing the cityâs eastern wall, this statue-lined gate connects
the Lower City to the great Coast Way, stretching through the majority of the Outer City and then southeast toward Amn, Tethyr, and Calimshan. Cliffgate. This foggy minor gate grants access to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Thadrah Through the high priestess, Sekolahâs will is done in the fortress. She is a tested disciple who recently performed the great ritual that lowered the seabed under the fortress. She and her
priestesses have summoned an avatar of their god, who swims inside the temple. Blademaster Makaht Makaht is a hulking brute responsible for leading the sahuagin army in the impending campaign. He takes orders directly from the baroness and the baron, though he prefers the former over the latter.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
centuries ago, long after the construction of the main library. The great elven scholar and Strixhaven alumnus Arick Quenthorne donated the collectionâs initial materials. He went on to become a
powerful director at Strixhaven. Director Quenthorne was a leading occult scholar who specialized in studying the esoteric power inherent in physical objects, especially written words and symbols. Later in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
a blemish on the face of the Spindle where something mustâve struck it at great speed, shattering the rock and leaving a huge indentation. Whatever struck the mountainside tumbled down toward the
who search the area find a single set of tracks leading from the place where the meteorite came to rest to a 15-foot-wide, 20-foot-high cave mouth at the base of the Spindle, about 250 feet away. Any
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldurâs Gate Gazetteer
the sole gate leading to the harbor, itâs still the primary route by which the cityâs wealth flows from port to patriar. Basilisk Gate. Piercing the cityâs eastern wall, this statue-lined gate connects
the Lower City to the great Coast Way, stretching through the majority of the Outer City and then southeast toward Amn, Tethyr, and Calimshan. Cliffgate. This foggy minor gate grants access to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurerâs Guide
Uthgardt, Hartsvale was conquered by the hero Hartkiller. He was a giant who had ventured into the lands to the south and learned of their ways. When he came to Hartsvale, he rallied the human tribes
-steads that surround it. Nonetheless, a certain strong breed of merchant travels the narrow mountain passes leading into Hartsvale. The dwarves of Citadel Adbar jestingly refer to these people as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurerâs Guide
, Laumee Harr, Moq Qo Harr, Woraw Tarak Tuigan A nomadic horde from the vast plains between Faerûn and Kara-Tur, the Tuigans once nearly conquered Faerûn under the great leader Yamun Khahan before being
revere the moon goddess. Gur communities live a nomadic existence wandering the Western Heartlands, leading others to refer to them as âthe people of the highway.â Gur Names: (Male) Boriv, Gardar
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
attend the first gatheringâboth so the council can thank them for their great deeds and to advise the council about the Cult of the Dragon. Four meetings of the council occur at critical points
increasingly aggressive dragon activity. The characters are asked to investigate a devastating series of raids in the Misty Forest, leading to Neronvain in âChapters 11 and 12: Death to the Wyrmspeakers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Araj: Vizeranâs Tower Vizeranâs tower is a enormous stalagmite, carved with a spiraling series of chambers leading up to its peak. The center of the stone spike is hollowed out to form an open
vertical shaft. A stone staircase spirals around the shaft, with landings leading to chambers on the upper levels: Level 1 has a broad antechamber and audience hall.
Level 2 contains kitchens, storage
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Annamâs Cradle Adventures Here are sample adventure hooks to bring characters to Annamâs Cradle or to give them missions to pursue within the cavern. Dreams in Stone A great pillar of rock reaching
the petrified form to terrorize the inhabitants of the cavern below. Or they could climb to the surface at Dreamerâs Reach, leading the characters into Annamâs Cradle to find their source. The