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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
happen: The characters (or local scouts) return with news of an armed camp. Cudgel Ironsmile returns with information from the mercenary camp.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Scout Scouts are keen archers and acutely aware of their surroundings. They often know several regions particularly well and are familiar with local creatures, landmarks, and perils. Riccardo
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Character Hooks Consider the following ways to involve characters in this adventure: Ancestor’s Invitation. A character’s relative or associate is a local official who lives in Djaynai. This contact
their ancestor’s message. Defending the Land. Djaynai’s leaders often employ experienced adventurers to exchange knowledge and magic with Djaynaian scouts and defenders. Based on the characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
of successful operation, have through these tactics frightened away all local attempts at investigating their hideout. It is paramount that the characters are given no obvious clues that would lead
), two hobgoblins, four bandits, and four scouts. All the bandits and scouts are humans of neutral evil alignment. Before being alerted to the characters’ incursion the smugglers are dispersed in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Dealing with Tarina Tarina is a chaotic evil human bandit with a conniving mind. She plays regular games of Baldur’s Bones (see the “Taverns in Baldur’s Gate” sidebar) with a coterie of local dimwits
been spent in recent years, though Tarina has enough squirreled away to ensure she never goes hungry. She’s also in good standing with Nine-Fingers, guildmaster of the local thieves’ guild, who gives
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
, the other cheerful.
The boat is a beden-safar, a common vessel in Djaynai. The figures on board are Lightsea Lancers, skilled local scouts and sailors. They wear their hair in natural locs and have
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
traveling across the region, Paloma saw many injustices. She has recently allied with local revolutionaries opposing exploitation and corruption in the region, and she is already considered one of the
. Lope’s research suggested killing the fiend will end the curse for all those suffering from sereno. Scouts have seen owls and strange figures going in and out of a mine near the supposedly abandoned
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Blades, a local warmonger who conscripts warforged to his bloody cause of wiping out anyone who opposes him. If the characters offer to help the pilgrims, Mercy suggests they meet at the pilgrims
. Blade Scouting Party As they pass between scorched thickets, the characters are ambushed by violent followers of a bloodthirsty warmonger called the Lord of Blades. These scouts have orders to search
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Flame Tongue sword of their choice; this process takes 1d4 days. The giant doesn’t know the location of the Lost Caverns but suspects other local inhabitants might. Gnome Vale A small track branches off
mountain-dwelling gnomes. The gnomes raise goats and sheep in the valley and mine metals in the surrounding bluffs. Five guards (lawful neutral, gnome scouts) watch the canyon entrance at all hours. If
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Skullport. (Characters who make discreet inquiries in Skullport can learn that a large contingent of duergar from Clan Ironeye resupplied in Skullport and drank ale at a local tavern called the Black
bugbears and five goblins as bodyguards and scouts. Unknown to Lurkana, two of the goblins have intellect devourers in their skulls and act as secret spies for Xanathar. The bugbears and other
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
occupies. He can share any of the local names for Northern Wastes regions, like “Wormgut” and “Giant’s Spine,” shown on map 5.1. He also considers himself an expert on the fauna of the Northern Wastes
friends. Their den is at location H on map 5.1. If the characters help him, Clystran will work for the characters as a scout (see “Heart’s Hollow Scouts”). Heart’s Hollow Scouts The characters might
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Hills have become filled with marauders and monsters. While the Wegwiur battle Iuz’s forces in the Howling Hills, scouts and troops from Furyondy join forces with Highfolk’s defenders to drive out the
proximity. These peoples, by and large, share the Great Kingdom’s practical, hardworking values, and they rely on the family and local community, rather than the might of nations and armies. They have
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
male and female humans of mixed ethnicity), a hired mage (N male or female Illuskan human), ten scouts (N male and female humans of various ethnicities) hidden behind arrow slits, and thirty well
defense of Goldenfields. Stationed at each post are thirty scouts (NG males and females of various races and ethnicities) two-thirds of whom are on duty at any given time. The rest are asleep in their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
inscriptions written in the local language, Tletlahtolli, that include the following details: Leuchis. At the north of the room, this white stone statue depicts a tiefling offering a sculpted ring to the
a seed.” A character who succeeds on a DC 12 Intelligence (History or Religion) check recognizes these statues as devout figures from local legends who earned the favor of the gods. If Ollin is with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
puts the characters in the role of investigators, perhaps traveling from town to town to crack tough cases that local authorities can’t handle. Such a campaign emphasizes puzzles and problem-solving
the enemy’s flank to reach a demonic commander. The party might also support the larger army by holding a strategic location until reinforcements arrive, killing enemy scouts, or cutting off supply
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
might be present during this time. Wolf Hunters. Szoldar Szoldarovich and Yevgeni Krushkin (N male human scouts) are local hunters who frequent the Blue Water Inn. They kill wolves and sell the meat
mention that his cantankerous father, Davian Martikov, owns the local winery and vineyard, the Wizard of Wines (chapter 12). There’s bad blood between Urwin and his father (whom Urwin and Danika refer
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
(elk) 16–17 Ten-Towners (scouts) 18–19 1d6 yeti 20 1 young remorhaz Ancient White Dragon. Arveiaturace, better known to Northfolk as Iceclaws, claims Icewind Dale as part of her domain. The characters
. Use the elk statistics to represent the reindeer. The reindeer are nonthreatening. Ten-Towners. The characters chance upon 1d4 + 1 scouts (trappers) from one of the small settlements of Ten-Towns
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
children (noncombatants) of various ethnicities. T1. Market Square and Tower The center of Triboar, where the Long Road meets the Evermoor Way, is a huge open space used as a market by local farmers and
Tezrin (see appendix D), as well as a hidden vault containing their wealth. Alaestra and Narth run a successful business even in the face of local insults and mild harassment. They have an agreement with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
octopus, hides in the darkness of the gorge at a depth of 1,000 feet. Talnad and Valas have the statistics of scouts, with the following changes: Their alignment is chaotic evil. They have a walking speed
been caused, but rumors about these incidents have spread wildly and the local fishing crews are spooked. Keledek the Unspoken (see location 6 in chapter 1) promises the characters a cap of water
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
safer location than most other places in Ten-Towns. Companions. Avarice has a pair of loyal gargoyles named Gargle and Gurgle who serve her as bodyguards and scouts. Avarice uses her Rary’s telepathic
with whom they had spoken. After turning the tower into his secret base, Dzaan visited Easthaven to gather supplies. Although he took the precaution of adopting a magical disguise, members of the local
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
Gilded Eye, Zara shares the following information: Scouts from Helm’s Hold have spotted frost giants wandering the lands to the south. The frost giants have attacked and plundered several homesteads
the wearying trip back. Many of the dwarves and gnomes here spend their days excavating tunnels, mining ore, or smelting and smithing the local iron and tin. (Adventurers who venture down into these