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Vecna: Eve of Ruin
-Spider is a legendary demon lord and master of battlefield strategy. He has the lower body of a massive armored spider, four arms, and two enormous wolf heads that drip poison. Yet Miska’s greatest
strength is his cunning mind.
History
Ages ago, Miska led the hordes of Chaos against the forces of Law at the behest of his patron, the enigmatic Queen of Chaos. It seemed Miska’s domination
Magic Items
Princes of the Apocalypse
Dungeon Master’s Guide.
Earth Orb. When this orb detonates, it subjects the area to the effects of the earthquake spell for 1 minute (spell save DC 18). For the purpose of the spell’s
apply, as detailed in chapter 5 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide. At the end of each hour, there is a ten percent chance that the heat wave starts a wildfire in a random location within the area of
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
watch how they respond.
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An emerald dragon has been spying for a villainous cabal, ensuring the villains remain one step ahead of the adventurers.
Connected Creatures
Emerald dragons
residence in a nearby cave, attacking the clan’s herd of giant goat;giant goats.
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An assassin and a young emerald dragon train together to master the art of stealth.
Fire, Psychic
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
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Adventure Hook
1
A towering palace of ice and quartz that was once the abode of an ancient crystal dragon is found deserted, with no clue as to whether its master will return or whether some other
ancient crystal dragon;ancient crystal dragon's lair. The dwarves mine the area aggressively, unaware that the dragon is spying on them—and intends to demand recompense at some point in the
Prerequisite: You must have beaten a master at Master Tellu and Scale’s Sword School
Having trained with the masters of the valley sword school, you have learned the usefulness of quickly
allow you to regain ground even when your enemy advances. Once before the start of your next turn when you’re missed by a melee attack from a creature within your reach, the attacker takes
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
determine your inheritance from among the possibilities in the table below. Work with your Dungeon Master to come up with details: Why is your inheritance so important, and what is its full story? You might
prefer for the DM to invent these details as part of the game, allowing you to learn more about your inheritance as your character does.
The Dungeon Master is free to use your inheritance as a story
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
. You scoured manuscripts, studied scrolls, and listened to the greatest experts on the subjects that interest you. Your efforts have made you a master in your fields of study.
Skill
published in Baldur’s Mouth, you can surmise a great deal about Baldurians’ secrets — who’s practicing necromancy, who’s involved in spying or smuggling, who would purchase or
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
6
Noise musician
7
Nightmare clown
8
Master of ceremonies
Feature: Fearsome Reputation
People recognize you as a member of the Cult of Rakdos, and they’re careful not
law-abiding citizens of Ravnica.
Personality Traits
d8
Personality Trait
1
I revel in mayhem, the more destructive the better.
2
When violence breaks out, I lose myself in
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
knowledge, rather than brute force. Harper agents are often proficient in Investigation, enabling them to be adept at snooping and spying. They often seek aid from other Harpers, sympathetic bards and
in the shadows. Order agents tend to be proficient in Religion, and frequently seek aid from law enforcement friendly to the order’s ideals, and the clergy of the order’s patron gods.
The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Way of the Drunken Master The Way of the Drunken Master teaches its students to move with the jerky, unpredictable movements of a drunkard. A drunken master sways, tottering on unsteady feet, to
present what seems like an incompetent combatant who proves frustrating to engage. The drunken master’s erratic stumbles conceal a carefully executed dance of blocks, parries, advances, attacks, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Creating a Rogue As you create your rogue character, consider the character’s relationship to the law. Do you have a criminal past — or present? Are you on the run from the law or from an angry
thieves’ guild master? Or did you leave your guild in search of bigger risks and bigger rewards? Is it greed that drives you in your adventures, or some other desire or ideal? What was the trigger that led
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
law to register with the Watchful Order of Magists and Protectors, so that they can be called on to defend the city with their magic in times of need. Waterdeep’s most prominent guilds appear on the
Guilds of Waterdeep list. By law, there are no active thieves’ guilds in Waterdeep, and the Xanathar Guild isn’t an actual guild but a faction (see “Factions in Waterdeep,” below). To join a guild, one
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Phenax’s Villains Servants of Phenax dot the world, largely staying hidden until they are needed to help spin the web of lies that advances his plots. His servants prefer to confront foes using guile
1 Returned sentry MOoT
3 Leucrotta VGtM
3 Slithering tracker VGtM
4 Returned palamnite MOoT
5 Ghostblade eidolon MOoT
5 Master thief VGtM
8 Assassin MM
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Creating a Rogue As you create your rogue character, consider the character’s relationship to the law. Do you have a criminal past — or present? Are you on the run from the law or from an angry
thieves’ guild master? Or did you leave your guild in search of bigger risks and bigger rewards? Is it greed that drives you in your adventures, or some other desire or ideal? What was the trigger that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
but for the summoner’s entire house. A demon is the highest form of slave a drow house can own. There’s no better display of a house’s power than a demon kept shackled as it serves its master, and few
actually yochlols in disguise, spying for Lolth. The higher a drow’s standing, the more worrisome this prospect becomes. After all, Lolth has little reason to care about those at the bottom of society
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
). The master of the Augury is an elf named Kestia. She has ties to a number of angels of Syrania, and if she chooses she can perform commune. However, as this requires her to call in a celestial favor
addition to the speaking stone, this outpost specializes in translating exotic texts and providing legal services to adventurers in trouble with the law. Josilian Tarli d’Sivis is one of the best
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
W17. Master Bedroom This bedroom normally belongs to Davian Martikov but is currently being used by his daughter, Stefania, and son-in-law, Dag, while they raise their baby daughter. This room
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Paladine Paladine is known as the Father of Good, the Master of Law, the Platinum Dragon, and—on other worlds of the multiverse—Bahamut. He leads the gods of good and watches over the world with an eye
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
feels quite right. Over long years, the monastery has drawn hundreds of dark recruits to its hidden location, through both whispered rumor and dark outreach to criminals seeking refuge from the law
. Though the vast majority of those recruits have perished or been imprisoned at the hands of the Grand Master, twenty-five monks — all a motley assemblage of evil humanoids — currently occupy various areas
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
1 A towering palace of ice and quartz that was once the abode of an ancient crystal dragon is found deserted, with no clue as to whether its master will return or whether some other creature has
the area aggressively, unaware that the dragon is spying on them—and intends to demand recompense at some point in the future.
2 An ancient crystal dragon is stalked by a villainous ranger who has
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
(scouts). The Watchful Knight. Once, this helmed horror stood watch in the common room of the Inn of the Watchful Knight in Beliard. It chooses one character at random, advances to within 5 feet, then
studies the target for several seconds. If attacked, it fights back, retreating after it loses half its hit points. Otherwise, it follows the chosen character for 1d3 days, guarding its temporary master
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
. The derro cultists plan to offer the entire city to their newly arrived master.
Many duergar NPCs the characters interact with are showing the first signs of infection. Though their madness has not
Gracklstugh. Law and Order Minor crime is relatively rare in Gracklstugh. The duergar live by a strict code of honor, and their laws are few, simple, and practical. Both guards and regular citizens can be
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Realms, scholarly monks preside over the fortress-library of Candlekeep, overseen by a master of lore called the Keeper. Militocracy. Military leaders run the nation under martial law, using the army
campaign setting, falls into this category. Monarchy. A single hereditary sovereign wears the crown. Unlike the autocrat, the monarch’s powers are limited by law, and the ruler serves as the head of a
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
Chapter 4: Creating Adventures
VIKTOR TITOV
This chapter provides a toolbox to help the Dungeon Master create adventures featuring the guilds of Ravnica. The tensions among the guilds, a
with the law.
8 Recruit someone to join the guild.
Adventure Hooks Each guild section includes a table of adventure hooks — events that might drive adventures but don’t necessarily involve
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
reputation as a cold-blooded killer, and goes out of his way to slay people when doing so might add to his notoriety or attract the attention of the law. He might claim that it isn’t personal, but it
into more positive outlets. They didn’t know they had apprenticed the young Oreioth to a necromancer in need of an assistant for his researches. When Oreioth’s master decided he had no more use for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
from the law in an old ruin or abandoned mine. 11 A contagion in a forest is causing spiders to grow massive and become aggressive. 12 To take revenge against a village for an imagined slight, a
people from the surface to turn those people into new minions. 5 A monster (perhaps a devil, slaad, or hag) is impersonating a prominent noble to throw the realm into civil war. 6 A master thief plans
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
manifest zones linked to that plane. Daanvi, the Perfect Order Daanvi embodies absolute order, along with the ideals of law and discipline and their impact on civilization. The perfectly ordered, immaculate
districts of the plane represent different aspects of law: precisely maintained fields, legalistic tribunals, and hordes of modrons compiling archives of every rule or regulation ever created. Some
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
thick beard, a wild mane of hair, and a forceful manner. Rarely seen without his hand around a glass of strong spirits, he is a master manipulator and looks and behaves as a king should. Strong and
tact, but he possesses an unwavering commitment to the law. More comfortable working with soldiers than adventurers, Ravengard is used to giving orders and having them obeyed without question. Though
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
discover that Tolmara isn’t shy about spying on them through keyholes and listening at doors while chuckling to herself. Locked in the Six Windows’ attic are the bones of Tolmara’s dead husband, Mirak, of
this wood will receive prophetic dreams. In truth, Gwaeron never visits those who come seeking him, though he appears unexpectedly in the grove on rare occasions. To avoid angering Gwaeron, the law in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
-eyed “Senior Sword” and master of the militia. The largest inn, the Old Bargewright, was recently rebuilt as a substantial stone structure with thick walls and private chambers hidden behind secret
settlers to the region, giving rise to a small village whose citizens pay monthly “tithes” for Tamalin’s protection. Still spry at sixty, Tamalin is “the law” in Calling Horns — an irony that never ceases to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
always a few inmates rotting in these cells, ranging from petty criminals to political prisoners locked away on trumped-up charges. Characters who run seriously afoul of the law in Baldur’s Gate might wind
both its spying and its weird oracular abilities, and might be willing to sell them for the right price. Sewer Keep Like many port cities, Baldur’s Gate has traditionally dumped its sewage downstream
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
, nails, harpoons, knives, fishing weights, and much more all day. Their master smith is an elderly, dark-skinned woman named Mafera (LG female human commoner); her son, Jasker (LG male human commoner
netted him enough loot to open a business. The increased presence of law enforcement in Saltmarsh has him on edge, and he is concerned that his involvement in the heist will emerge. In the meantime, he