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Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
pestle, you can use your action to say the name of any nonmagical plant, mineral, or fluid and an amount of the material worth 10 gp or less. The mortar instantly fills with the desired amount of
, you can command the pestle to grind. For the next minute, or until you use your action to verbally command it to stop, the pestle moves on its own, grinding the contents of the mortar into a mush or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
highly intelligent and can help the characters arrive at a solution. You, as the DM, can use them to keep the adventure from grinding to a halt. Both Vellynne and Avarice will do almost anything to
obtain Iriolarthas’s spellbook, and they are only slightly less determined when it comes time to choose who gets Iriolarthas’s staff of power, the scroll of the comet, and the scroll of tarrasque
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
suffer the cyclone’s effect. Roll a d20 and consult the Ether Cyclone table to determine the effect on all creatures in the vicinity. Ether Cyclone d20 Effect 1–12 Extended journey 13–19 Blown to
. Less often, a group is blown into the Border Ethereal of a random plane. Rarely, the cyclone tears a hole in the fabric of the plane and hurls the party into the Astral Plane.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
, consult the Interim Events table below. Choose your favorite result or roll randomly as you see fit. Interim Events d6 Event 1 Determined to find answers about what happened to them, the
. Adventure became less of a priority as they settled into domestic life. 5 Obsessed with the concept of the multiverse, the characters studied the realms that make up existence, traveling between
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
imperfections in his disguise. When he was offered a bone to gnaw on, his mechanical goblin mouth malfunctioned and wouldn’t stop grinding its teeth. Thus, Spellix Romwod came to be known as Yarb-Gnock
the tribe was becoming increasingly frustrated. The goblins felt like they were working harder for less, and a few are beginning to suspect that Chief Yarb-Gnock is a fraud. Cooped up in the cold with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
contentment seep into the bones and souls of those who enter Elysium. The longer a visitor remains on the plane, the less reason they find to ever leave. An adventure in Elysium can challenge
-millennium task of forestalling a prophesied disaster, characters might consult with the valorous knight who accomplished the deed a thousand years ago.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
d6 and consult the Crypt Hauntings table to determine the nature of the ghostly image or effect encountered there (or choose one that seems evocative). A haunting can’t leave the location where it’s
requires quelling all the crypt hauntings and defeating the ghosts. When this happens, a sigh like grinding stone echoes through the crypt, and each room momentarily flickers with light. No more crypt
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
left to you to choose, depending on the story you want to tell. Consult the Secrets of Phenax table, which presents several options for what divine secret Varyas’s eidolon might relate. The veracity
palace’s ruler is nothing less than Phenax’s eidolon.
3 Phenax has triplet offspring, three souls that the god of deception abandoned in the Underworld. Erebos hides these souls, valuing them as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
of the Land Spells Whenever you finish a Long Rest, choose one type of land: arid, polar, temperate, or tropical. Consult the table below that corresponds to the chosen type; you have the spells
choose expended spell slots to recover. The spell slots can have a combined level that is equal to or less than half your Druid level (round up), and none of them can be level 6+. For example, if
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
own flour. Heckling a member of the Jesters’ Guild will result in the offending party being jeered at in public by no less than four guild members for a period of four days. Any ship that unloads its
. To learn the peculiarities of any guild’s rules, consult someone on duty at the guild headquarters or ask a senior guild member. All that said, working at a guild-related profession without being a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
its cost.”
As time passed, your heart became less heavy, and you gave less and less thought to those childhood events. Now, for reasons you can’t explain, the longing to retrieve that which you have
character in the adventuring party, roll a d8 and consult the Lost Things table to determine what was stolen from that character. If a player doesn’t like their result, let them choose an option they prefer
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
daily at dawn. Perfect Tools. While holding the mortar and pestle, you can use your action to say the name of any nonmagical plant, mineral, or fluid and an amount of the material worth 10 gp or less
own, grinding the contents of the mortar into a mush or fine powder that’s equally useful for cooking or alchemy. At the start of each of your turns, whatever is in the mortar takes 4d10 force damage
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Chult. Business begins before the sun comes up, and dealing doesn’t stop until well after darkness edges across the city. It’s a noisy, jostling, aroma-rich circus. Guards are numerous, but less
is to express disbelief that the death curse has anything to do with Chult. If characters give a compelling argument or make a donation to the church of at least 25 gp, Zitembe agrees to “consult the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
notable leaders of the great houses and their honored heroes were cast into the lake, dressed in full regalia and weighed down with stone spars. Many less important drow have been sent by rivals to
sparsely populated, the area is so vital to the city’s survival that drow patrols are common here. Roll for random encounters as the characters cross this district. You can roll a d20 and consult the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
who seeks to unite the disparate tribes. She leads the Caerilcarn, the “Council of the Wood,” which periodically gathers many tribal leaders together to share information, consult, and deliberate. Her
smaller pair of mountains called the Lost Peaks. Far less idyllic are the cursed ruins of Karse. Here are the remains of the great heresy of the Netherese wizard Karsus, who sought to claim godhood
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
sitting in meditation and communing with nature. During a short rest, you choose expended spell slots to recover. The spell slots can have a combined level that is equal to or less than half your
Underdark — and consult the associated list of spells. Once you gain access to a circle spell, you always have it prepared, and it doesn’t count against the number of spells you can prepare each day. If
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
. The crate has a cracked corner seam that oozes a tar-like substance into the filthy water.
Characters who examine the crate from a distance of 5 feet or less can, with a successful DC 15
wood. D4. Confused Constructs The ground here is spongy and carpeted in soft green grasses. Heavy footfalls and shrieks of grinding metal emanate from the mists. A muddy steel crate rests amid the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
total is 20 or higher, the group’s journey passes safely. Otherwise, if more of the party’s check totals are less than 10 than greater than 10, the party accidentally stumbles across and awakens a stand
chance of each); roll a d20 again and consult the table. Drowned Forest Random Encounters d20 Encounter 1–3 1d4 awakened trees 4–5 2d6 zombies 6–7 1d3 shambling mounds 8–9 2d4 myconid adults and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
any new option you add should be compared to existing options to make sure it’s no more or less powerful, yet remains distinctive in flavor. Like anything in class design, be prepared to playtest your
expend a number of spell points to create a spell slot of a given level, and then use that slot to cast a spell. You can’t reduce your spell point total to less than 0, and you regain all spent spell
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
sitting in meditation and communing with nature. During a short rest, you choose expended spell slots to recover. The spell slots can have a combined level that is equal to or less than half your
Underdark — and consult the associated list of spells. Once you gain access to a circle spell, you always have it prepared, and it doesn’t count against the number of spells you can prepare each day. If
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
, polar, temperate, or tropical. Consult the table below that corresponds to the chosen type; you have the spells listed for your Druid level and lower prepared.
Arid Land Druid Level Circle
, when you finish a Short Rest, you can choose expended spell slots to recover. The spell slots can have a combined level that is equal to or less than half your Druid level (round up), and none of them
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
you can add to the villains in this chapter, giving them more or less good reasons to perform their evil deeds. Morally Ambiguous Villains d4 Villain 1 The villain is targeting people with
villains in this category are numbered among the driving forces described later in this chapter. You can use the Villain You Don’t Understand table to choose one of these forces, then consult the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
audience with Manistrad can find her here when she’s not working at the mine. She sometimes has need for adventurers to help keep the mining operation secure. Roll a d6 and consult the table below to
for smuggled wares. He also recruits local toughs and sailors for Gellan’s ventures, but he prefers those who are business-minded and less likely to cause trouble. 9. Green Market A strip of open land
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
valuable than it truly is. Only the giver and the receiver will ever know a gift’s true value, and neither of them would ever reveal that a gift is worth less than it appears to be, because to do so would
reduce the status of both. Wealth also changes hands between cloud giants when they indulge their obsession for gambling and wagering. Cloud giants don’t engage in betting for enjoyment; it is less a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
location marked on the map of Thither or when they first arrive at a particular landmark. To determine what the characters encounter, roll a d8 and consult the Random Encounters in Thither table. Several
invisible when the characters first arrive. The pixies share their twig houses with three families of squirrels. Less than an hour ago, three redcaps emerged from the woods and started throwing rocks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
shown on map 5.1. Characters who can withstand the frigid water might want to explore these sunken wrecks. For each site searched, roll a d20 and consult the Shipwreck Discoveries table to determine
isn’t concerned about the intrusion, since this place is much less important to her than her ice statues are. If the characters loiter in the garden, the ice troll attacks and fights to the death
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
score of 10 and the ability to speak Common or Druidic. The druids use these awakened beasts as spies and messengers. Roll a d8 and consult the Awakened Beast Encounter table to determine what kind of
characters and tries to steal little objects weighing 1 pound or less from them. (Stolen items are then hidden in the snow and probably lost.) Whenever it tries to steal something from a character, a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
the treasure is less than what might be expected. White Gate. A white gate stands at the junction in the corridor to the west, leading to the Augmentation Chambers and to the Spawn Pools. Flesh Golem
touch the glyphs and subdue the pillars with a successful DC 10 Intelligence (Arcana) check or deactivate them with a successful DC 15 Intelligence (Arcana) check. Subdued pillars shine less intensely
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
minute of effort, though a knock spell or similar magic opens it with ease. Pulling a lever in area Z2 causes the doors to swing inward, stone grinding against stone. Arrow Slits. Two goblin psi
offers to aid the characters. However, a character who succeeds on a DC 13 Wisdom (Insight) check intuits that while his offer of help is earnest, Hjoldak knows less than he claims. The jar is sealed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Random Encounters in Yon A random encounter in Yon occurs whenever you want it to. To determine what the characters encounter, roll a d8 and consult the Random Encounters in Yon table. If you get the
them are swept away by the tornado. If less than half of them succeed on the saving throw, the tornado whisks the group to a location determined by rolling on the Tornado Destinations table. Each party
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
, you hear the grinding of enormous gears hidden deep below the stone floor.
Two Howling Hatred priests (see chapter 7) supervise as five commoners slowly turn the westernmost wheel (see “Stone
the hurricane’s hand.
Casks. The gigantic casks once held fine dwarven ale, but they have been dry for centuries. A14. Living Quarters These buildings are more or less intact, although the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
canals. Check for a random encounter once every per hour while the party is swimming or moving by boat anywhere on a canal. Roll a d20 and consult the following table: d20 Encounter 1 1d4 + 1 ghouls
gives him the right to impose his will on anyone weaker or less willful than himself. He especially resents the fact that a mere druid was chosen to serve as the Prophet of Water, and that an ugly monster
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
killed by drow invaders less than a tenday ago. The tomb tapper chased the drow to this point before they finally killed it. (The characters might have encountered the drow already in chapter 6.) The
“Supernatural Gifts” in the Dungeon Master’s Guide). Roll a d8 and consult the Magic Goblet Charms table to determine which charm is bestowed. Each charm grants its recipient the power to cast a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
his fee is paid, Lurg announces he must consult the stars for the answers the visitors seek. Of course, Lurg can’t access the Books of Prophecy, since Shalfey still has them locked away in his sanctum
guard.
This library contains the less important books of the tower. Sage pupils Porro (lawful evil, halfling tower sage) and Cipolla (lawful evil, silver dragonborn tower sage) research in this room
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
contents of the chest, consult chapter 7 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide. Roll four times on Magic Item Table A, two times on Table B, two times on Table C, once on Table D, and once on Table E. Any result
beyond contain furnishings of various sizes. The smallest of them are a table, a plush chair with a footstool, and a couch. Other items are more or less human-sized, including a long table, two benches