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Candlekeep Mysteries
cheekbone down to his jaw. If asked about the scar, he explains that he got it years ago when the man who burned down his home village slashed his face with a dagger. It serves as a constant reminder of his
spent alone with his thoughts in Wisteria Vale has led him to suspect that the Harpers were never going to find a cure, and that they were simply biding their time until he became complacent enough
Gray Dwarf (Duergar)
Legacy
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Species
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
grim, ashen-skinned dwarves now take slaves of their own and are as tyrannical as their former masters.
Physically similar to other dwarves in some ways, duergar are wiry and lean, with black eyes and
of Moradin and his false promises. Their period of enslavement and the revolt against the mind flayers led by their god, Laduguer, purged the influence of the other dwarven gods from their souls and
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
number of personal choices or ill-fated circumstances might have led you to turn away from society. You may, if you wish, choose or roll an origin event from the Hermit Origins table.
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Life
of Seclusion
1
You led an ill-fated expedition into the Riverveins. Your friends were swept away by flooding, and you’ve never been able to shake the guilt of causing their deaths over
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
Shown the Door When the characters are ready to enter Little Lockford, they’re led to the town’s fortified entrance by Sergeant Yombad Cragknuckle (neutral good deep gnome), the highest ranked of the
Gnomish, Terran, and Undercommon, but not Common. If asked for advice on the mission, the sergeant offers the following information and guidance: Friendly Advice. The sergeant urges the characters to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
where to go in the Lower City and Outer City for anonymity. In these slums and alley camps, you can get a damp bed and a bad meal, but also a degree of privacy and no questions asked. Living here
isn’t comfortable, but it’s unlikely anyone will find you — and you can stay as long as you want. Hermit Origins Any number of personal choices or ill-fated circumstances might have led you to turn away
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Bands table offers hooks you can use to build an adventure around a band of giants.
Bands d6 Adventure Hook
1 A band of giants is spotted near a town, and the adventurers are asked to
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3 A giant-led cult devoted to a demon lord or Elemental Evil wreaks destruction across the countryside.
4 A band of nature-revering giants seeks adventurers’ help dealing with a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
equally bereft survivors, you must navigate a new life that you never asked for. 4 You were captured by kidnappers and taken far from your home. The Knights of the Unicorn freed you and brought you
here, but now you’re on your own. 5 Some great threat or calamity forced your family to flee its homeland and seek out a new, safe place to live. You led your family to Baldur’s Gate after hearing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
Purple”—the lords, leaders, and cult masters of particular locales. The cult is ruled by a secretive inner group led by Severin and four other wyrmspeakers—a term of respect given to those whose bond with
different interpretation, believing that “naught will be left save shattered thrones, with no rulers but the dead. Dragons shall rule the world entire . . .” Severin’s quest to reshape the cult led
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
worshipers of Dendar are led by nightmare speakers, malison warlocks that honor their deity through acts of terror and receive magical power in return. Rather than killing enemies, these followers of
to consciousness lasts only a short time. The leaders of Merrshaulk’s worshipers, called pit masters, are malison warlocks that uphold and advance the age-old yuan-ti traditions. They sense that it has
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
. Pharika’s followers include members of several small mystery cults, which embrace varying aspects of her divine nature. The most infamous of these is the Cult of Frozen Faith, led by a medusa. Initiates
champion asked to taste the nectar of pure joy, and the god obliged. But when Aestraste took a sip, passion took hold of her, and she quaffed the entire elixir. Overwhelmed with ecstasy, the champion
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
carts and learning to pick out the best ore samples from a lode. Slowly but surely, a dwarf masters every aspect of a task or an occupation from start to finish. Leadership and Government A clan is
led by a king or a queen who sits at the head of a noble family. Dwarf nobles are members of families that claim direct ancestry to the first dwarves crafted by Moradin. To the dwarves, leadership is a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
compulsion to travel to Greenest. Perhaps the answer to the riddle of your dreams awaits you there. 4 Ontharr Frume, a crusading warrior and champion of good, is your friend and mentor. He has asked you to
cultists. Your investigations into the cult have led you to the town of Greenest. You must save her! 6 Being the grandchild of a renowned dragon slayer is usually a good way to impress people, but just
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
compulsion to travel to Greenest. Perhaps the answer to the riddle of your dreams awaits you there. 4 Ontharr Frume, a crusading warrior and champion of good, is your friend and mentor. He has asked you to
cultists. Your investigations into the cult have led you to the town of Greenest. You must save her! 6 Being the grandchild of a renowned dragon slayer is usually a good way to impress people, but just
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
The Day’s Catch When the adventurers come within an hour’s travel of Sloobludop, they encounter a party of eight kuo-toa led by a kuo-toa monitor. The fish-folk immediately attack, but their tactics
encounter, the characters run into another kuo-toa patrol, this one made up of six kuo-toa and two kuo-toa monitors, led by the kuo-toa archpriest Ploopploopeen. If the characters are prisoners of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
reveals that girl in the pig mask asked him if he had any regrets, and said that if he did, she knew someone who could help him—he just had to follow her. If the characters fail to find Rubin after 3
. Also note if Rubin was led away by Sowpig, as the characters might encounter him again in chapter 3 (see area L13). If the characters reunite the halfling couple, Ween accepts Rubin’s proposal, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
or masters to be obeyed. The Sign of the Crushing Wave. Water cultists use a simple hand sign to identify one another when a token of recognition is required: crossing the forefingers and overlapping
examples of human flotsam and teach them about the power of the sea. Gar’s visions led him to the secret waters beneath the Sumber Hills. He found a hidden cavern temple, on whose altar lay a powerful
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
her superiors to Commander Niles Breakbone at Camp Vengeance. Undril was led to believe she could simply buy a horse in the city and ride to the camp, but now that she sees the terrain and conditions
provided the characters agree to kill a man named Shago within the next 10 days — no questions asked — and speak of the deed to no one. Kwayothé tells them that Shago works as a guide out of Fort
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
, Vlaakith led them to safety on the Astral Plane inside the floating corpse of a six-armed deity. This being’s body long ago calcified into a great slab of rock, its lower half smashed by some ancient
those they slay. When captives are no longer useful, their masters might end their lives, or they might simply stop caring about their possessions and leave the creatures to fend for themselves
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
contains a wooden stool, two white robes hanging on hooks, and a large wooden trunk with a lock.
If the characters pay to enter the baths or want to enjoy any of the other facilities, they are asked to
asked of them. Both are disguised scarecrows (see “Coven Minions” earlier in the adventure). The music is a permanent auditory illusion. During the day, the hag Dread Morgan is often here in the guise of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
teeth typical of that town’s inbred stock. Pekoe says that the duergar abducted him and asked him a lot of questions about his town’s defenses. The doppelganger knows the settlements of Ten-Towns well
.
The unarmed and unarmored duergar shackled to the chair is Nefrun, the former captain of the guard. She has 7 hit points remaining. Her torturers are two duergar mind masters (see appendix C) wearing
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Netheril’s Fall: Tales of Terror, Treasure, and Time Travel
by mages are frigid cracks in reality leading to the Plane of Ice, Stygia (the frozen fifth layer of the Nine Hells), Limbo, and other distant planes. Adventurers might be asked to deal with monsters
the slip. Adventurers might evade capture amid the hubbub or be led here by those they’re chasing. Investigation. Adventurers might be hired to investigate a crime perpetrated at one of the shops or investigate a shop’s sabotage at the hands of a competitor.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
hope, as tenacious civilizations and peoples rebuild, reclaim, and create anew. Amn. A nation led by the representatives of five noble families, Amn is a place where the wealthy rule, openly and without
battleground for warring genies. After years of struggling beneath their genasi masters, human slaves arose to follow a Chosen of Ilmater, at first using nonviolent resistance, and then erupting in full
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
time they return to Port Nyanzaru, the tabaxi report what they’ve seen and learned to their Zhent masters unless they’re incentivized not to. Salida Yuan-ti spy (Port Nyanzaru) When the characters
although he presents himself as an independent operator, he’s in league with the Flaming Fist. Shago has led many Flaming Fist expeditions into the jungle to clear out undead, despite having a great
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
the seeking of treasure or ale, that they forgot how to live in any other way but in pursuit of it. That’s what stone giants do.
— Elminster
Speaking Stones Although they are unsurpassed masters of
were seen as no fault of Skoraeus. If Surtur had instead asked Skoraeus for advice about Memnor’s words, the legend would have ended differently.
Skoraeus is considered the most knowledgeable of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
.
In a long-ago age, as one version of the story goes, the kobolds were used as slaves by evil dragons, much as they are today — forced to scrub the scales of their masters, clean their lairs, and
led them into the Underdark and taught them how to survive, but all gnomes see him as the embodiment of the drive to know more, to examine everything more minutely — and thereby make great
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
allow the ghosts to move on, but it won’t. Moira can teach the consecration ritual to anyone who speaks Dwarvish, but she offers only if asked. Teaching the ritual takes an hour. See area 11 for more on
characters take dramatic action to gain their attention. Kilea Ondren, the ghost of the tiefling woman who led the Gloved Hand, explains the group’s predicament. (Her subordinates blame each other for
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
examples of missions that the guild might send its members on. These missions can also serve as side quests that a character is asked to fulfill while engaged in a larger task that involves the whole party
fortress is about to crash, threatening to devastate the neighborhood below.
House Dimir Masters of misdirection, infiltration, and espionage, Dimir spies and assassins pursue their objectives
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
travelers to avoid Luskan should they wish. Caravan masters have many other names for the road, none of them flattering: Auril’s Ride, the Stygian Road, Ol’ Frozenfinger, and the Dead Yeti Highway, to
by the War of the Silver Marches, which drew away many of Adbar’s greatest warriors, including its long-ruling king, Harbromm. King Harbromm led his knights into battle against the orc hordes invading
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
day in the garden and eventually led them to the Fountain All Heal (area G9) to quench their thirst. Treasure. Hidden in the fairies’ burrow are a Potion of Clairvoyance and a gold ring (250 gp) set
present in the domain. If asked either where the lovers are now or how to leave the garden, the Gardener encourages the characters to solve the hedge maze (area G21) to find what they’re looking for. Key
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a1
prodding. If he is disturbed, Meepo is frightened but willing to talk. He is weepy. His numerous obvious scars are souvenirs of his job as Keeper of Dragons. If he is asked about the cage or queried
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