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Eberron: Rising from the Last War
court of vampires and ghosts in her palace of ice. Other tales claim that when anyone dies in Lhazaar, Illmarrow chooses whether to take their soul before it passes on to the Keeper and Dolurrh.
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island domain.
Long ago, it was revealed that the elven line of Vol — a house that practiced the art of necromancy and bore the Dragonmark of Death — was engaged in secret blood rites
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Bugbears feature in the nightmare tales of many races — great, hairy beasts that creep through the shadows as quiet as cats. If you walk alone in the woods, a bugbear will reach out
of the bushes and strangle you. If you stray too far from the house at night, bugbears will scoop you up to devour you in their den. If a bugbear cuts off your head, your soul stays trapped inside
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Hidden Hoard For years, the tales of the haunted house near Saltmarsh have circulated through the region. Though most of the stories are rightfully taken as warnings to avoid the place, rumors
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
call Baron Esravash d’Lyrandar a mere figurehead, holding court in the house headquarters of Stormhome (in Aundair). Such tales hold that true control of the house lies in the hands of a cult of the
House Lyrandar The kraken, it is said, lurks beneath even the fairest seas—and none know how far its tentacles reach. The same is said of House Lyrandar, which uses the kraken as its emblem. Anyone
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
Vadalis has stirred up more than its fair share of controversy. Tales say that during the War of the Mark, House Vadalis bred arcane beasts so horrifying they were later banned and destroyed. During
House Vadalis House Vadalis has a carefully cultivated reputation as the most innocuous of the dragonmarked houses. Its leader, Dalin d’Vadalis, disdains use of a title and governs the house from a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Dragonmarked House Adventure Hooks The Dragonmarked House Adventure Hooks table presents a few ways to pull characters into tales concerning the houses. Dragonmarked House Adventure Hooks d12
Adventure Hook 1 A House Cannith artificer hires adventurers to steal secrets from a forge associated with a rival branch of the house. 2 House Deneith is recruiting adventurers to oppose a sudden rise
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
secret hoard of alchemical gold) all returned with naught save grim tales of decaying chambers presided over by monstrous perils. Indeed, such is the reputation of the house that the fields around it
Chapter 2: The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh Four miles east of Saltmarsh, just inland of the old coast road, stands a haunted house. Until twenty years ago, it had been the residence of an aged
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Chapter 5: Tomb of the Nine Gods Acererak built the Tomb of the Nine Gods not only to house the remains of Omu’s trickster gods, but also to slay interlopers. However, few today even know the tomb
exists, and thus it remains an enigma. Rare are the tavern tales that lure adventurers to its gates, and its horrors remain undocumented in the libraries of Candlekeep. The reason for this is simple: not one person who has entered the tomb has lived to tell the tale.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Tall Tales in Ten-Towns By the time the characters reach 3rd level, they have garnered enough of a reputation that NPCs in Ten-Towns will share tall tales with them. When the player characters are
ready to explore more of Icewind Dale, use the Tall Tales in Ten-Towns table to entice them. You can either choose which tales to share with the players, or you can ask each player to roll once on the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Halvhrests lived peacefully in their new home for several years before mysteriously vanishing. Those who investigated found no trace of the family but were deeply unsettled by the house. Grim tales rapidly
resurfaced, providing the roots for all manner of ghastly tales and a new name for the structure: the House of Lament.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
flooded, drowning the house in brackish muck. Tales say the house’s residents struggled to escape the pit, but the farm’s owner—desperate to keep her family with her—dragged them back into the sinking
house. In the aftermath, when neighbors arrived at the sinkhole’s edge, they found six pairs of severed, Undead hands struggling to escape the muddy water. In the years that followed, more tragedies
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
. Domains Are Cages. Those who run afoul of a Darklord might find that the Mists prevent them from leaving the villain’s domain. Like a haunted house that conveniently seals its doors or summons a deadly
storm, so do domains create inescapable spaces where horror adventures unfold. Domains Are Themed. Each domain reflects its Darklord and facilitates horror tales related to that villain. Just as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
of Saltmarsh and begin to hear tales of the haunted house, after which they might seek more information about the house and its current state. If you decide so, they can speak to the poacher mentioned
Adventure Summary The adventure is divided into two parts, “The Haunted House” and “The Sea Ghost.” “The Haunted House” likely plays out in the following sequence. The characters arrive in the town
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
house twenty thousand souls, but although it’s Richemulot’s most populous city, fewer than half that number live here. Still, Pont-a-Museau’s casual sophistication hints at a cosmopolitan past. Indeed
, the sprawling, foreign architecture gives rise to one of Richemulot’s most widespread folk tales—that the people living here now aren’t the land’s first inhabitants. The citizens of Pont-a-Museau share
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
families prevented their union begin exacting revenge on the living.
4 A pair of rival fiends, Athos and Diche, break loose from idols in the collection at Heather House. Members of the Weathermay
family call for aid.
5 The citizens of the village of Crawford spread tales of a gigantic raven. Sheriff Perkins hires the characters to hunt down the creature, which is actually a wereraven
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
navigate the anxious social scene of Port-a-Lucine, they play out echoes of familiar tales. The green hags who live in the Three Odd Gables serve as “fairy godmothers” to any character who wants to
the Dementlieu Adventures table. Dementlieu Adventures d6 Adventure
1 A shrieky soprano is starring in the new production at the Port-a-Lucine Opera House. Jealous divas hire the party to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
. Aside from the mill, the village consists of a handful of granaries and a larger handful of cottages, several of which house tiny local shops. According to old tales, the village was known as Ironford
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
, the subjects of tales used to frighten children. Eleven years ago they laid claim to the lands west of the Graywall Mountains and founded the nation of Droaam. While these barren lands were claimed
works closely with House Tharashk, selling the services of monstrous soldiers and laborers and bysehk ore, a form of metal with magical properties. Beyond that, it is a frontier nation that is still
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
animals or planting new trees as atonement. (CHRIS RAHN) MYTHS OF NYLEA
Most of the myths about Nylea are cautionary tales about the fate of mortals who profane her sacred forests.
The First Hunt
games, and frolicking that has little to do with Nylea except that it celebrates the full flowering of spring. Tales tell of Nylea being passingly bitter about the celebration and, annually, visiting
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
mythical romance, and the city has an active literary community with many book clubs. Port Nyanzaru’s most successful novelists and playwrights concoct stirring tales about legendary heroes who pursue their
huge tyrannosaurus, although monstrous tyrannosauruses make regular appearances in these tales, too. A character who spends a few hours sifting through the formulaic fiction and succeeds on a DC 15
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lorwyn: First Light
that form the village. Deep within Caer Flur is the Eluvian, an enormous tree elves use as a gathering place. The elves have lovingly carved structures into the tree that house beautiful objects of all
several elves who manage the Eluvian, Blossomseeker Miryn (Medium, Chaotic Neutral Performer Maestro) stands out as an exuberant teller of tales and seeker of beauty. When it’s in Lorwyn, Caer Flur is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
council holds its meetings here. Castle Kalaman also serves as the headquarters of Kalaman’s military, and its barracks can house hundreds of troops. Extensive catacombs run beneath Castle Kalaman
into port here, its crew eager to sell unique wares and tell tales of danger on the sea. Meulara’s Oddities Meulara’s Oddities is a small shop piled with trinkets. Its shopkeeper, Meulara (chaotic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
discipline and techniques that allowed their ancestors to dominate the continent. Their weaponsmiths are superior even to the artificers of House Cannith, and they are experts in the working of adamantine
, or druids. Their focus is on martial excellence, and their spiritual leaders are bards, who tell tales of past glory. Among the Dhakaan, goblinoids work together. Hobgoblins are the strategists and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
: Byeshk ore, monstrous mercenaries Droaam is a nation of monsters ruled by the Daughters of Sora Kell. Each of these three hags is a legend in her own right, the subjects of tales used to frighten
the monstrous nation can’t last—that even the Daughters can’t hold the disparate alliance together—but Droaam is currently thriving and stronger than ever. Droaam works closely with House Tharashk
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Horror in Your Game Ominous shadows rise beyond the campfire’s light. Steps echo through the halls of a supposedly empty house. Something whispers from under the stairs. Such details fill horror
tales, but what place do they have in your D&D game? As a DM, you determine what place horror has in your adventures. Consider the following topics and how this book can aid you in determining the role of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
animals. A group of druids wants the wyrmling captured and relocated, rather than killed.
4 A ruined manor house being reclaimed by a newly titled noble is the lair of a copper dragon wyrmling
tendencies.
2 The head of a local thieves’ guild is a young copper dragon who delights in tales of daring thefts and skims the best stolen art objects as tribute.
3 A young copper dragon needs aid
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
strife; when they weren’t fighting with Galifar or Zilargo, the tribes usually turned on one another. This came to an end with the Last War. House Deneith hired Ghaal’dar mercenaries, and this gave
even to the artificers of House Cannith, and they are experts in the working of adamantine and other exotic metals. Anyone who takes goblinoids for granted should be surprised by the skills of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Bugbears Bugbears feature in the nightmare tales of many races — great, hairy beasts that creep through the shadows as quiet as cats. If you walk alone in the woods, a bugbear will reach out of the
bushes and strangle you. If you stray too far from the house at night, bugbears will scoop you up to devour you in their den. If a bugbear cuts off your head, your soul stays trapped inside, and the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
legion of undead and that she maintains a court of vampires and ghosts in her palace of ice. Other tales claim that when anyone dies in Lhazaar, Illmarrow chooses whether to take their soul before it
extend far beyond her island domain. Long ago, it was revealed that the elven line of Vol—a house that practiced the art of necromancy and bore the Dragonmark of Death—was engaged in secret blood
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
raid on the surface, the matron of a rival house being struck down by an inexplicable illness, or an heiress to the house being born under propitious omens. DROW TRANCE: ENTERING THE VOID
Drow enter
once presumed was theirs.
— Tezzeryn, Head Consort of House Bhaerynden, instructing his son
The ideal of what a male drow can become, Keptolo is handsome, stylish, witty, hedonistic, an outrageous
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
, many of Vogler’s fishers gather at the Fishbowl to tell tales, quench their thirst, and indulge in baked fish pies. The cramped but well-kept tavern is known for its savory baked goods more than its
-bone puppets she designs in the shapes of animals and sea serpents. Mayor’s Home Vogler’s down-to-earth mayor, Raven Uth Vogler (neutral good, human scout), lives in a two-story house on the village
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
alphabetical order. These locations are also marked on the map of Baldur’s Gate (map 6.2). Bormul House Situated in the Manorborn neighborhood, Bormul House is an elegant three-story townhouse of yellow
granite and slate with cream-colored roses climbing its garden walls. Last spring, a distant uncle came for a holiday visit, bringing a large load of baggage. The house servants acted strangely during his
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
alphabetical order. These locations are also marked on the map of Baldur’s Gate (map 6.2). Bormul House Situated in the Manorborn neighborhood, Bormul House is an elegant three-story townhouse of yellow
granite and slate with cream-colored roses climbing its garden walls. Last spring, a distant uncle came for a holiday visit, bringing a large load of baggage. The house servants acted strangely during his
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Boggle Boggles are the little bogeys of fairy tales. They lurk in the fringes of the Feywild and are also found on the Material Plane, where they hide under beds and in closets, waiting to frighten
isolated or abandoned. For example, a forsaken child might unintentionally conjure a boggle and see it as a sort of imaginary friend. A boggle might also appear in the attic of a lonely widower’s house or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
amounts of stone became available for building. The laborers also took the time to build a tavern, the Miner’s Respite, and spend their off hours there drinking, swapping tales, and gambling. The game
House This abandoned house is the center of the action in The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh. Use the description from that adventure for this place. The haunted house can be a useful location for