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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
. Two lifeless scarecrows with stuffed gullets and sackcloth heads hang from wooden crosses pounded into the cold, hard earth. If the characters haven’t cleared out the east wing, add: The abbey’s east
locked. Fortunes of Ravenloft If your card reading reveals that a treasure is here, the item is hidden in the straw-filled gullet of the southernmost scarecrow. If the treasure is removed from the scarecrow, seven wights erupt from the gardens and attack. They wear tattered livery of Strahd’s house.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
Adventuring Is there a hard limit on how many short rests characters can take in a day, or is this purely up to the DM to decide? The only hard limit on the number of short rests you can take is the
interrupt the rest? Yes. Spellcasting is more strenuous than the activities listed on page 186 of the Player’s Handbook: “eating, drinking, reading, and tending to wounds.”
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
in Waterdeep, you’ll always find a pot to piss in. Also notice how clean the streets are kept. This upkeep is due in large part to the hard work of the Dungsweepers’ Guild. Dungsweepers can be seen
offer free instruction in reading to all who desire it, and the city has over thirty publishers of broadsheets in addition to chapbook printers and book publishers. Large paper advertisements are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
bowed outer wall is an upside-down fireplace. Along that same wall is a window with nothing but hard-packed earth beyond it.
The members of the previous expedition searched through the books and
illusion magic was required reading in many Netherese classrooms. It describes clever ways to use common illusion spells. The Unfettered Mind. This lunatic text discusses how one might exist solely as a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
for the wicked, so there shouldn’t be rest for heroes either. (Logically then, wicked heroes would need to work twice as hard. Budget the time.) Familiarize yourself with the new activities presented
adventure as a player, stop reading now! Unless you want to keep going, that is. Because seriously, it’s not like anyone’s going to stop you. After all, information is power — in an Acquisitions Incorporated
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
each expression is the number of characters of the given level. The second number tells how many monsters of the listed challenge rating those characters are equivalent to. For example, reading the row
say you have a party of four 3rd-level characters. Using the table, you can see that one CR 2 foe is a good match for the entire party, but that the characters will likely have a hard time handling a CR
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
OK for them to invalidate the hard work you’ve done preparing the adventure by willfully going in a different direction. If you feel like you’re keeping up your end of the bargain but your players
assume that everyone reading and interpreting the rules has the interests of the group’s fun at heart and is reading the rules in that light. Outlining these principles can help hold players’ exploits
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
. It’s OK for your players to give you some pushback on why their characters should want to do what you’re asking them to do, but it’s not OK for them to invalidate the hard work you’ve done preparing the
helpless creatures to activate those rules. Rules Rely on Good-Faith Interpretation. The rules assume that everyone reading and interpreting the rules has the interests of the group’s fun at heart and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
villa can be determined randomly: d100 Victoro’s Location 01–70 He’s in his office (area C6). 71–90 He’s in the reading room (area C4). 91–00 He’s with Ammalia at one of the three locations
mentioned above. CASSALANTER LORE
A successful DC 15 Intelligence (History) check reveals the following information about Cassalanter Villa and its in habitants:
The Cassalanters fell on hard times a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
cooked up with cheese are delicious.
— Jim Darkmagic
The Hard Way The characters are free to engage Raah in battle. It has a lot of pent-up rage these days, and is happy to have someone to direct
Intelligence (Investigation) or Wisdom (Perception) check to quickly assess Raah’s reading material determines that the ancient deep crow is highlighting everything, no matter how good or bad the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
has the word “CANDESCA” inscribed above it (see area H4). Treasure. The tea service is fragile but can be sold for 150 gp if it is safely transported out of the ruins. H4. Reading Room Decaying desks
. You can adjust the number of mummies depending on whether the characters are having too easy or too hard a time, with more mummies appearing intermittently until all three key runes are touched to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
afterward, rather than continue the search on his own. When he’s not straining at some feat of athleticism, he’s reading books of poetry.
Alignment. Neutral good.
Personality Trait. “I treat my
become sullen and moody.”
Hurly the Bugbear
CHAPTER 4: YON
Hurly’s brusque nature and short temper made life in the Witchlight Carnival hard for him. His prickly demeanor stems from the fact
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
afterward, rather than continue the search on his own. When he’s not straining at some feat of athleticism, he’s reading books of poetry.
Alignment. Neutral good.
Personality Trait. “I treat my
become sullen and moody.”
Hurly the Bugbear
CHAPTER 4: YON
Hurly’s brusque nature and short temper made life in the Witchlight Carnival hard for him. His prickly demeanor stems from the fact
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
appendix A). The intellect snare lurks in an alcove behind the stack of metal chests. It amplifies the psychic echoes in this room to show a scene of a wailing mind flayer atop the table, struck so hard
have used this kitchen recently are the drow explorers camped in the reading room (area T14). Treasure. One drow explorer left a backpack here. It contains 100 feet of silk rope, three daggers, a blank
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Legends of Greyhawk
him. Quizlit Leitlink. She’s always helping people. No one is that nice for no reason. She must want something. Spugnoir. He’s got a secret book he’s always reading from. He won’t let anyone else look
moathouse while serving in the militia. She knows this job won’t last forever, and she’s looking for something more.
Spunky Gal. Edyth is a spirited woman who enjoys giving her customers a hard
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
west and plunges into the gorge, taking 49 (14d6) bludgeoning damage from the hard fall and landing prone. B3. Workshop Frost covers every surface of this abandoned workshop.
The workshop contains a
letter that Macreadus angrily threw into the hearth after reading it. Copper’s Letter. The scroll is stained with soot but remains intact, since Macreadus never got around to burning it. Characters who
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
(Athletics) check to shove the door hard enough to break the bar. Qunbraxel rightly believes a passage to Talhundereth is behind the door, so the mind flayer sent grimlocks to investigate. The door
the south.
The fissure at the north end of this room leads to area T1 in Talhundereth (see map 6.3). The svirfneblin worked hard to limit this access to Talhundereth and kept watch here. They weren’t
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Eliander uses this cell to conduct meetings that require the utmost secrecy. The jail is used to hold prisoners with sentences of up to a year, but those facing longer terms or sentenced to hard labor are
have fallen on hard times, sharing their wealth with others until they can recover. The sprawling, mazelike interior of the Oweland house has spawned rumors of hidden passages and secret chambers within
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
pursues intruders beyond the room, returning here only after the trespassers leave the villa or are hacked to pieces. Bookcases. Duke Vanthampur abhors reading but keeps a modest library of fine
Vanthampurs a hard time. Once Duke Vanthampur is satisfied that no one important will miss him, she plans to kill Kaejil and feed his remains to the rats in the city sewers. If freed, Kaejil plans to leave Baldur’s Gate and never return.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
!” Talking to Shalfi. Conversations with Shalfi tend to be one-sided and hard to follow. Jitterjaws looms protectively above Shalfi but doesn’t attack unless Shalfi is in danger. Shalfi doesn’t remember his
unlocking the tome’s secret lore and believed it could be interpreted in this chamber. Alas, the magical nature of this room doesn’t enhance reading comprehension. Undaunted, Klaudel summoned Jomlus to read
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
end of the room, near a small desk, a wooden chair, and a chest. The floor looks wet.
This room was once the library and parlor of the keep’s lord, but Grimjaw has no particular interest in reading
out over the countryside outside the castle walls. The room’s furnishings are very plain, including a hard-looking bunk, a small wooden table, and a couple of simple chairs. Several large chests occupy
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
item, heaps of hard bread, is everywhere. 17. Guest Chamber The doors to this room are closed on the outside by a great bar, because King Snurre does not fully trust his guest, a rakshasa, that
and two gems (worth 100 gp each). The disguised chest holds a jeweled scepter worth 1,000 gp, three potions (superior healing, mind reading, and invulnerability), and five spell scrolls (zone of