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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Epilogue Strahd is a deadly challenge for the characters. If they confront the vampire too soon, without the benefit of magic items such as the Holy Symbol of Ravenkind and the Sunsword, they will
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
when he became the first Returned, and uses it to force Phenax to serve his whims.
2 Erebos unleashes a deadly plague. The cure grows only in the peaceful Underworld realm of Ilysia. Mortal
, Erebos sends his followers to claim the stone, which Heliod’s worshipers have claimed as a holy relic.
4 With the aid of Pharika, Erebos creates a poison capable of killing a god. Learning of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
nine trickster gods. The new deities were divisive and often cruel. Too weak to grant miracles to every follower, they concocted elaborate trials to winnow the clergy. On holy days, the mettle of
aspirant priests was tested in their nine shrines, with deadly consequences for failure. The trials provided entertainment for the degenerate Omuans and fed their weakling gods with much-needed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
and permanently laying them to rest. 2 Devout Scholars. This federation prizes knowledge and texts pertaining to their god. They collect rare holy books and record the life stories of miracle-working
prophets. 3 Relic Collectors. This order of archaeologist-monks seeks to fill their museum-like temple with storied holy relics. 4 Charitable Missionaries. Adhering to the belief that religion
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Whispering Wood, a circular copse of trees around a natural spring, where the Feywild’s magic is strongest. In addition to the Whispering Wood, the Feygrove holds an ancient holy well called the Font
many other dangers. The overgrown trees are the den of countless giant spiders and several phase spiders. Among these are deadly ruin spiders (see chapter 21 for this stat block), creatures altered
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Character Levels The adventure is meant for characters of levels 1–10 and includes threats for those levels and beyond. Strahd can be an especially deadly challenge at these levels. It is assumed
Artifacts. The characters gain a level when they obtain the Tome of Strahd, the Sunsword, or the Holy Symbol of Ravenkind. Defeating Villains. The characters gain a level when they defeat the featured
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
assassins kill for a reason, perhaps hiring themselves out to wealthy patrons or slaying for an unscrupulous cause. They use poisons and other deadly tools, and they might carry equipment to help them
hollow furnishings. 3 Leaving behind a signature item, such as a calling card, flower, seashell, or tooth. 4 Posing as celebrities, holy people, or servants. 5 Taking trophies from their victims. 6 Using
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
platinum bracers (250 gp each) and a spider-shaped obsidian pendant magically animated so that its legs twitch (50 gp). This amulet doubles as a holy symbol of Lolth. Zress Orlezziir A deadly warrior from a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
. Thute’s jackal-masked followers seek to sacrifice all strangers. Path of the Asp Deadly serpents inhabit the canyon known as the Path of the Asp. The spirits of those slain by these snakes can appear to
and the dead. White Oasis The White Oasis is considered holy. A nearby abandoned quarry called River’s Shelter houses numerous cursed and dying hermits who seek to cleanse themselves in the oasis.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
. While this temple exemplifies one of Kruphix’s more elaborate (and potentially deadly) holy sites, no two of the god’s temples are alike. Map 4.9: Temple of Mystery View Player Version Temple of Mystery
knowledge and treasures are protected by the most difficult and deadly challenges. For a few bold—or foolish—investigators, the rewards are worth the risk. Temple of Mystery Adventures Exploring a temple of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
giants, drow now dwell in the homes of their former masters, guarding the relics and holy sites that fate has entrusted to them. With a culture based on rebellion, magic, and combat prowess, drow are
deadly enemies to any who would attempt to steal or debase the history of Xen’drik. Most drow of Xen’drik worship a fierce scorpion-god called Vulkoor. Some theologians of the Sovereign Host and the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
dwell, and they travel the countryside gathering information for isolated groves and fastnesses. They don’t ever seek to provoke violence, but are quite deadly when defending themselves, their charges, and their holy sites.
natural thing in the world, from their perspective, and to expire in service to its principle is one of the most profoundly holy experiences a living being can hope to enjoy. It is for this reason
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
mangrove swamp or brave a trap-filled boggy ruin, the experience promises to be a deadly affair. Map 5.2: black dragon lair View Player Version Black Dragon Lair Features The black dragon lair
ribs from the chapel’s exposed floor, as if in mockery of the sanctity of this once-holy place. Underground. Twin staircases in the main hall descend to a partially flooded crypt. Five trapped stone
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3
creature believes that it is in deadly combat with a feathered warrior that has emerged from the mirror. This effect is like that of a phantasmal force spell, with the character battling a warrior that
holy water on the glyph, touches it with a holy symbol, or casts a divine spell on it, the wall of force disappears. Aftermath. When the characters claim the potion bottle, the couatl becomes visible
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
entryway to the inner sanctum delivers a fiery rebuke to intruders. Trigger. Anyone who steps on the mosaic causes fire to erupt from it. Those who openly wear holy symbols of Pyremius don’t trigger this
, you fall down!
And you get hurt! That’s the best part.
Poison Needle Simple trap (level 1–4, deadly threat) A tiny, poisoned needle hidden in a lock is a good way to discourage thieves from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
thin their numbers. The grungs worship Nangnang and view her shrine as holy ground for their chieftain and his elite guards. Yorb, the grung chieftain, craves vengeance against Ras Nsi but hasn’t yet
, and the characters could trick the vegepygmies to unify against a common enemy. Kobolds Nine deadly shrines hold the secret to entering the Tomb of the Nine Gods. To maintain the shrines’ traps
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
holiday is named in honor of Lathander’s first prophet, Rhyester, a young blind boy who was cured of that blindness by the dawn’s light on this day more than seven centuries ago. That holy event occurred in
honors the Lady of Joy with dances and balls throughout the city. Pink beverages, ranging from healthy juices to deadly strong intoxicants, are imbibed. The boom and crackle of smokepowder explosions go
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Treasure Locations The cards of the common deck determine the locations of the Tome of Strahd (card 1), the Holy Symbol of Ravenkind (card 2), and the Sunsword (card 3). Swords (Spades) 1 of Swords
lies on the top floor of Van Richten’s Tower (chapter 11, area V7). Coins (Diamonds) 1 of Coins—Swashbuckler I see the skeleton of a deadly warrior, lying on a bed of stone flanked by gargoyles.
The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
count as difficult terrain. Amid the muck and gravel on the northern bank hides a deadly predator, an amphisbaena (see chapter 6). The serpent has concealed itself as it watches for prey, the mud
black were destined to one day follow the Path of Phenax, coming back from death as Returned. After Orestes’s death, his tomb was consecrated as a holy site by Phenax’s followers, in part due to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
. After he triggered a deadly crossbow trap in the corridor, his fellow expeditioners stripped him of equipment and proceeded into the monument. A character who examines the area and succeeds on a DC
of Gorm. On the desk lies a wooden holy symbol shaped like a lightning bolt. The hobgoblin is an explorer who died weeks ago after the bees in area B5 swarmed her. A character who examines the body and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
and embody the Darklord’s will in that region. Individual allies can occupy multiple roles. Jane Katsubo The Holy Symbol of Ravenkind
is one example of a relic used
to defeat a Darklord Defeating a
dissolves in an unsettling or thematically appropriate effect. Deadly in Defeat. With the Darklord’s defeat, what contingencies take effect? Perhaps the Darklord left a letter or a gift to be delivered on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
information about the Crypt of the Talhund from his own scouting and from He of the Hidden Gemstone: Blessed Site. Talhundereth was once a significant holy site for followers of Dumathoin. Generations of their
. Rivibiddel believes the entire crypt is filled with deadly dangers. Emerald. The massive emerald Rivibiddel seeks is likely hidden in an inner sanctum, as befits Dumathoin’s lore. Secret doors are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
plaques and rotting wooden holy symbols of the poor. Natural cavern systems have been expanded and shored up to create extensive crypts, yet over generations maps have been lost or poorly updated, and
flames, the cult slices the corpses across the wrists and inflicts a heart-piercing wound, giving rise to rumors that the murders are the result of a supernaturally deadly serial killer. Pasque Enrial
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
organization nearly impossible for outsiders to discern as the multi-chamber ossuaries of rich merchants and pirate lords loom over the simple plaques and rotting wooden holy symbols of the poor. Natural
inflicts a heart-piercing wound, giving rise to rumors that the murders are the result of a supernaturally deadly serial killer. Pasque Enrial, a black gauntlet of Bane, is the cult’s mastermind. He
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
that section). The Black Earth cultists claimed the old temple’s main hall as their own, and now this shrine serves as a holy place for the cult members who garrison this outpost — and a proving
small collection that Marlos Urnrayle assembled during his life as a human aristocrat. The tomes include academic texts on the elemental planes, holy texts that refer to earth deities or elemental powers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
party known as Fate’s Devout. Wielding divine magic, they traveled across the realm to carry out Istus’s will. They came to this keep because they heard it was holy to Istus, but Gremorly killed them. The
addition, a Potion of Growth has rolled under the bed. Domenico Cava Harrowhall hides more than one deadly secret 9: Throne Room and Study Huge stained-glass windows grace the walls of this room
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
displeased their god. When they rouse themselves from this despondency, they take up the master’s whip with renewed zeal and seek out more creatures upon which they can wield it.
Khurgorbaeyag’s holy symbol
little amount of farming of which goblins are capable and are charged with checking traps for captured people or beasts. Gatherers aren’t usually armed with weapons more deadly than a sling or a knife
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
missing out on future contracts. Harborside Hospital Generations ago, an outbreak of extremely contagious dancing croup — a deadly plague that caused those afflicted to cough themselves to death even
only holy-ground burial the city’s poor can afford, and Brother Hodges does his best to bring quiet dignity to the practice. However, a fertile carrion crawler has recently slithered up from the sewers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
) packed in beds of straw Dirty wooden coffin containing the moldy corpse of a human priest wearing a copper holy symbol shaped like the sun (25 gp), a sun-shaped death mask made of gold (250 gp), and a
cluttered desk find sketches and descriptions of deadly mechanical traps, including a rough sketch of the trap in this room (see “Trap” below). Constantori’s Portrait. The painting that hangs in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
outbreak of extremely contagious dancing croup — a deadly plague that caused those afflicted to cough themselves to death even as their limbs thrashed uncontrollably — caused many Baldurians to
rats flood in to eat the flesh, leaving (mostly) clean bones to be interred in the attached ossuary by Ilmater’s faithful. While a somewhat ignoble end, it’s often the only holy-ground burial the city’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Aberrations, fiends, and undead in the region have disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks for the next 24 hours. 19–24 Each creature carrying the holy symbol of a deity from a non-evil plane while
worlds, the biomass of insects radically outweighs that of higher organisms. Mass migrations and deadly insect species can imperil larger creatures, but most insects remain nothing more than an annoyance
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
represents the visage of Bhaal and has no magical properties. The humanoid entrails were left on the altar as an offering to the god of murder. Pouring a vial of holy water on the entrails causes them
(see chapter 5 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide) clings to the back of the tapestry and releases its deadly spores if the tapestry is disturbed. D9. The Dead Three Doors This chamber is empty but not
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a1
. If combat erupts here, the result is likely to be deadly for the party. Any kobolds remaining in the areas nearby enter the room as reinforcements. Yusdrayl and her two guards arrive from area 21 at
kobolds in this place? “Kobolds are heir to dragons. As the mightiest among my people, I have led a brave few to this ancient holy site, where dragons were worshiped long ago.” Yusdrayl knows nothing