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Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Material Plane, a ki-rin chooses a similar location for its lair, such as atop a tall pinnacle or within a cloud solidified by the ki-rin’s magic. The chosen location is almost always hard to
pledging service to the creature. They study under its tutelage in its lair and serve as its agents in the world. These followers might travel incognito across the land, seeking news of growing evil and
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
, oddities, and castoffs of the multiverse in a massive, ever-growing collection.
The first morkoths arose in the Astral Plane when the petrified body of a deity of greed and strife collided with a
failed save, the creature feels an intense urge to use its movement on each of its turns to enter the lair and to move toward the morkoth’s location (the target doesn’t realize it’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
get into position and onto the larger creature, the smaller creature uses its action to make a Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics) check contested by the target’s Dexterity (Acrobatics
smaller creature depends on the smaller creature’s location, and is left to your discretion. The larger creature can dislodge the smaller creature as an action—knocking it off, scraping it against a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Exploring This Level All location descriptions for this level are keyed to map 12. View Player Version A 2-foot-thick layer of fog covers the floor in many of the Maze Level’s tunnels and caves
; the area within the fog is heavily obscured. The fog can be cleared away by a gust of wind spell or similar magic. Fog that is cleared away returns in 1 minute. The stench of death pervades the entire level, growing stronger as the characters get closer to area 8a.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
, Goldenfields, or Triboar by having a representative of that faction give them a quest. With the growing threat of giants in the North, the quest might be as straightforward as protecting the location against a possible giant attack.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
description of the different locations throughout the outpost as a guide to opportunities. Taking something without being noticed requires a successful Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) check contested by the
equipment (normally in Ilvara’s quarters) in an alternate location if the characters are intent on escaping without exploring all of the outpost, such as the elite drow barracks (area 4) or the armory (area 10).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Following the Map The character’s destination is Chalet Brantifax, which you can replace with some other tantalizing adventure location of your own creation. Little remains of the trail that once led
pine trees growing atop it, a river, a bridge, and a hill scorched by dragon fire. Flesh out the journey to the chalet as you see fit, adding one or more combat encounters appropriate for the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
session gets underway, most groups can accomplish at least three things during one hour of play, where each “thing” might be any of the following:
Explore a location such as a chamber in a castle
combat encounter might count as two or three things, and a tense negotiation can use most or all of an hour of play on its own.
Dawn Carlos Like Zuggtmoy, the Demon Queen of Fungi,
cultivates her fungal gardens, you can carefully
cultivate a vibrantly growing campaign!
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sleeping Dragon’s Wake
Location Overview Iniarv’s Tower is a ruined stone keep. Iniarv, a mage who became a lich, first occupied the fortress over eight hundred years ago. When a war between a kingdom of goodly peoples and
occupies the lair. Ularan Mortus pays the criminals to guard a growing horde of undead that the necromancer stores in the towers for an imminent attack on Phandalin. The bandits have also decided to make
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Constitution saving throw or be stunned until the end of its next turn. A character disguised as Halaster can make a Charisma (Deception) check contested by the golem’s Wisdom (Insight) check, with
hands cupped in front of her. Part of the statue’s head has broken off, and spongy white toadstools are growing out from the broken stone. The statue is a Medium object with AC 17, 30 hit points, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
revealing her location. Any character who peers up through the hole in the ceiling can spot Kella lurking in the shadows with a successful Wisdom (Perception) check contested by Kella’s Dexterity
the goblins, whom she believes have nothing to do with the giants. Characters can see through her ruse with a successful Wisdom (Insight) check contested by Kella’s Charisma (Deception) check. Any
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
willful coastal neighbors.
2 Phenax has learned the location of a sunken treasure in a flooded cave. Retrieve the treasure before his fortune-hunters can steal it from Thassa.
3 Smuggle a
the schemes of other gods’ minions who resent their growing influence over the community. Thassa knows nothing is permanent, including her champions’ service. If they fail to uphold her wishes, she
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
full rapport with the characters and their myconid allies. The entity reveals that Zuggtmoy has already infected its mind with her demonic influence, which Araumycos can feel growing in strength. It’s
a successful DC 15 Intelligence saving throw to avoid the mental effect of a psychic wind (see “The Astral Plane” in chapter 2 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide). This psychic wind has no location effect
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
carved crystal that stands twenty feet tall. A ten-foot-high berm hugging the circle’s eastern edge has evergreens growing around and atop it, sheltering what looks like a sarcophagus buried under snow
granite pillars.
If the characters watch the location for an hour or more from a safe distance away, they see the awakened white moose (see the accompanying stat block) emerge from under the hillside
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
Castle Naerytar Over a century ago, a half-elf wizard built a castle at the edge of the Mere of Dead Men. He lived there a relatively short time before the growing swamp flowed past the castle on all
sides and made the location too remote for even his taste. After the structure sat abandoned for years, a group of astrologers called the Academy of Stargazers claimed it. They built an observatory
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
svirfneblin come to trade with each other and with surface-dwellers interested in conducting business with the deep places. Its location is kept secret — I only know that it is fairly close to the
, certain fungi only they are capable of growing, and salt, which much of the Underdark has little ready supply of. The surface folk bring wines, ales, and spirits, cloth, wood, paper, and a great many
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
Castle Naerytar Over a century ago, a half-elf wizard built a castle at the edge of the Mere of Dead Men. He lived there a relatively short time before the growing swamp flowed past the castle on all
sides and made the location too remote for even his taste. After the structure sat abandoned for years, a group of astrologers called the Academy of Stargazers claimed it. They built an observatory
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
characters 25 gp each now and another 50 gp each if they bring in Coal. If the characters consent to meet with Coal, Germaine provides the location of the Cog Carnival, a bar in High Walls frequented by
for Coal as her reason for hiring the characters, but a character who succeeds on a Wisdom (Insight) check contested by the Germaine’s Charisma (Deception) check can sense that she’s holding
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
outmaneuver you. It seldom happens. Keep growing your business, and the Acq Inc license will expand to help you find more customers and increase your brand presence. Within your licensed region, you have the
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
characters embark on a journey to a location, go to the section of this book that describes that location in detail. For example, if the players choose to undertake the Umbrage Hill Quest, go to the “Umbrage
Hill” section. Each location includes an overview that briefly describes what characters can expect to find there. This overview is followed by information you’ll need to run the encounters at that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
seemingly obliterated in a battle (perhaps to be reborn in another location). For this reason, imposing a sense of order on the relationship between the Abyss’s layers is a fool’s errand. All that can be
determined at any given time is which lord holds sway over which parts of the Abyss, and which areas are being contested by two or more lords. And as soon as such a fact becomes known, it might already
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
presence begins to erode the barriers between their location and the Abyss. It can take a few years for weaker demons to warp their environment, while changes begin to occur around the location of a
demon prince in about a month. To bring about these changes, the invaders must remain in the same location for some time, usually an area no more than six miles on a side, to combine their influence
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
to support their growing realm, and Saltmarsh suffered heavily. The memories of those times loom heavily over the area, and the locals’ hatred of the Sea Princes runs deep. In time, Keoland’s victories
the village’s port and make it a prime location for trade with the world beyond. In another recent development, a band of dwarves — bearing a decree from the king himself — have arrived and begun to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
hidden from the rest of the world until the end of time. Unfortunately for the wizards, even the will of a god couldn’t prevent other evil creatures from learning the temple’s location. The wizards
then took it upon himself to watch over the temple, not to hoard its evil secrets but to share them openly. Meanwhile, the evils within the temple fed on each other, growing in power. EXTREME COLD
The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
chamber just below the street serves as the gathering place for all the Speakers, as well as a location where non-Simic visitors can meet with the Prime Speaker or other combine emissaries. Goals of the
time, a growing faction within the Simic believes that an all-out war among the guilds is inevitable, given the growing unrest in the city. These members, the Adaptationists, believe that the guilds
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
pieces. Young dragons keep their hoards safe in the same central location where they sleep. Such dragons typically do not yet impose regional effects, but these effects might begin to manifest as the
losing an entire hoard in a single burglary if that hoard is spread across multiple locations—and partly to extend the dragon’s magical influence across a growing territory. The treasure cache stored
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Brandath family is an old one. Lord Dagult Neverember married into it for its wealth, and Lady Brandath gave birth to his son, Renaer. It’s a dark irony that Neverember entrusted the location of his
, sheltering it as best they can with their leafless boughs. Guardian Treant The largest tree growing in front of the entrance is a treant. It awakens when one or more creatures approach the entrance and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Mythals Mythals are some of the most powerful magic in the world of Toril, constructs that bind and shape the Weave in a particular location, sometimes so powerfully that the rules of magic or even
reality can be bent or rewritten. A mythal is a permanent field of overlapping magical wards and effects tied to a specific location. In its original usage, this term applied to the works of High Magic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
their case while he asks questions. A character who tries to deceive Zastro must make a Charisma (Deception) check contested by the magister’s Wisdom (Insight) check. A character who loses this contest
If a character becomes attuned to the Stone of Golorr, it reveals the location of the Vault of Dragons, beneath an old tower in the Sea Ward, and the three keys needed to enter it. When the characters are ready to visit the location, proceed with encounter 7, “Old Tower.”
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
among them, of course — in all the world. Although your eye will be drawn to its ornate towers, brilliant mosaics, and magical displays, look also for the humble violets growing amid the ostentation
figures important to the city’s history. I hesitate to mention a last location in the Sea Ward, and I will not reveal where to find it, for reasons that will soon become apparent. There is a house in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
throughout the Underdark, channeling faerzress. By tapping into this growing presence, the myconid sovereign can rapport over great distances to ask the characters for their help. Zuggtmoy, the demon
slip away and meet them before that, and it recommends that the characters avoid contact with other myconids on their travels. Basidia can use the extended rapport link to fix on the characters’ location, and promises to find them when they are near the center of Araumycos. The vision then ends.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
die. It is the embodiment of goodness, a spiritual realm where evil can’t abide. It is as much a state of being and of mind as it is a physical location. When discussing anything to do with deities
other lawful planes might feel their ties of loyalty to each other growing stronger, while those who visit Limbo and other chaotic planes might become temporarily more independent or self-absorbed. These
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
provided: guild locations, guild villains, character objectives, and adventure hooks.
Guild Locations Each guild’s entry in this chapter includes a map of an iconic location associated with the
guild. Any of these sites can serve as the location for an adventure.
The description of each guild location includes a table that lists possible goals for an adventure based there. You can choose an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
fungi, five of which have useful (and in some cases magical) properties. Roll 3d8 to determine how many of each mushroom can be harvested from this location. A character who examines a certain kind of
effect as drinking antitoxin. Pricklenoggin. Each of these mushrooms has short, prickly spines growing out of its red cap. Hats made from pricklenoggin caps are popular in the fey courts and considered