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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
connections and opportunities. Depict the public’s interest in the characters by using the renown system presented in the Dungeon Master’s Guide. Start the characters with high renown scores, but let their
lavish social events. As their novelty fades, though, they’ll find passersby snickering behind their backs and social circles closing to them. There are ways to alter the characters’ social trajectory, though, such as embracing a relationship with Harkon Lukas.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons With the publication of the first Dungeon Master’s Guide in 1979, the most recognizable aspects of the Deck of Many Things were established. Here, the names of the cards
deck also has twenty-two named cards known as the major arcana. The Dungeon Master’s Guide also introduced the idea that there was more than one version of the deck; there was also a more common and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
, the cult bolsters the red dragons with a handful of cultists, half-dragons, and Red Wizards (mages) who are members of Rath Modar’s splinter sect. The cultists and Red Wizards arrive on the backs of
the red dragons. Make this a deadly encounter — and not just by the numbers prescribed in the Dungeon Master’s Guide. By now, the cult knows how the characters fight, and so do you. Sometimes players
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
challenge to escape into the Underdark with little more than the clothes on their backs. For others (including spellcasters who need spellbooks or components), consider placing the party’s captured
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
, the cult bolsters the red dragons with a handful of cultists, half-dragons, and Red Wizards (mages) who are members of Rath Modar’s splinter sect. The cultists and Red Wizards arrive on the backs of
the red dragons. Make this a deadly encounter—and not just by the numbers prescribed in the Dungeon Master’s Guide. By now, the cult knows how the characters fight, and so do you. Sometimes players
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
the griffons’ backs. Via Angajuk the Sperm Whale The characters can get directions to the pier where Angajuk can be summoned and befriended. Vellynne Harpell knows the location of Angajuk’s pier; if
route to Auril’s island, resulting in a three-day journey. The whale is submerged for most of the trip, allowing the characters to see what life is like in the frigid depths. Like a tour guide, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
Dragon mount 8 192 Sailing ship 2 48 To create a more realistic journey, you can use the Weather table in chapter 5 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide to determine the prevailing weather on a given day
islands so distant, characters won’t be able to reach the Morkoth on the backs of griffons, hippogriffs, or similar creatures, since the mounts have nowhere to land and rest when they tire. Dragons don’t
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
) sprouts from a nearby corpse. 2 Putrice, a night hag, cackles as she fishes a wriggling larva (see the Dungeon Master’s Guide) from a vent underneath a fiend-owned restaurant. 3 Two cranium rat squeakers
perpetually clogged with some amount of planar refuse, but sewage rarely backs up enough to flood well-to-do wards. Kuo-toa, troglodytes, and other aquatic folk live in the Drowned Nations, as do land
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
carry the cult’s contraband on their backs along this portion of the trail, and their tracks can be plainly seen where the path crosses wet ground. Much of the path is through mucky, cold, knee-deep
circumstance. Day 2 From the campsite on, the trip to Castle Naerytar must be made by canoe. Snapjaw can guide the characters. A guide isn’t really necessary, because the course is marked with symbols scratched into tree trunks and totems hung from branches.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
, standing at the edge of the pool are six wolf-like humanoids, their backs to the characters. With faces raised up in supplication, they chant ominously. Read: You have come upon the Pool of Eternal Spring
determined form of short-term madness (see “Madness” in the Dungeon Master’s Guide). Corrupted Avatar of Lurue Large monstrosity
Armor Class 14 (natural armor)
Hit Points 90 (12d10 + 24)
Speed 50 ft
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Madness table in the Dungeon Master’s Guide. The ice wall has AC 13, vulnerability to fire damage, and immunity to cold, poison, and psychic damage. If the wall takes 50 points of damage or more, large
the benefit of a special charm (see “Supernatural Gifts” in the Dungeon Master’s Guide). Determine the charm randomly by rolling a d20 and consulting the Purple Pear Charms table. This charm must
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
holding five applications of drow poison (see “Poisons” in chapter 8 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide). Rilna wears a platinum helm shaped like a spider with eight jet orbs for eyes (2,500 gp) and a spider
manacles in this room.)
Both prisoners have been strung up to face the wall, their bare backs covered in blood from the cuts inflicted by Erelal Freth’s scourge. One of the prisoners is Hatchrin Alet’taz
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
. Eight chairs, their backs adorned with sculpted elk horns, surround the table. Arched windows made of a latticework of iron and glass look out onto the small, fog-swept estate. If the characters aim to
“Sample Traps” in chapter 5, “Adventure Environments,” of the Dungeon Master’s Guide). A creature that triggers the trap and fails the saving throw against the needle’s poison falls unconscious for 1 hour
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
that the characters can give the letter of recommendation to Dral in exchange for one favor from the Zoars (see the “Marks of Prestige” section in chapter 7 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide). When the
Master’s Guide. Flint Rock The spirit mound of the Elk tribe (see the “Uthgardt” section earlier in this chapter) is situated in the midst of the Evermoors atop a gnarly knob of flinty stone that’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
Master’s Guide). Secomber This town of farmers, fishers, brewers, and stonecutters is perched on three hills located near the confluence of the Unicorn Run and the Delimbiyr River. Beneath these hills
member of the Lords’ Alliance, however. For more information on Silverymoon, see the Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide. Silverymoon Pass A road traverses the hills northeast of Silverymoon, providing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Wyrmheart Mine A clan of shield dwarves operated this iron mine (map 2.14) up until forty years ago, when it was conquered by a young red dragon named Tzindelor. Hew Hackinstone (see “Finding a Guide
incinerated their barricades and then burned them out with her breath. The entire area from the bottom of the steps to the backs of the chambers is scorched and black. A dozen or more (it’s difficult to sort
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
. D11b: Markos’s Office This room contains a black wooden desk with a cushioned, high-backed chair behind it. Two smaller chairs face the desk with their backs to the door. A niche in the northeast corner
, a vial containing oil of slipperiness, and a vial with one dose of assassin’s blood poison (see the Dungeon Master’s Guide). D14: Meditation Room A fetid stench permeates this room, which is empty
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
from cards of various sizes from the Deck of Many Things. Some show their intricately patterned backs, while others show their faces. Four large cards that serve as doors lead from the chamber: Rogue
Master’s Guide for the avatar’s stat block). The first creature that replies to the avatar, attacks it, or tries to open or damage the Sage door becomes bound to the avatar, and the avatar attacks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Master’s Guide).
36. High Priestess’s Quarters The floor and walls of this room are tiled in gray, the ceiling in white. In the center of the room stands a white stone table, the top surface covered in
at the foot of the dais, three adult sahuagin float with their backs to you. Two float with bodies held rigid, while the third pleads before the throne.
The sahuagin speaking to the baron is