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Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Campus Knowledge. While at Strixhaven, the guide can’t become lost by magical or nonmagical means. The guide also has advantage on ability checks made to locate creatures or objects at
campus guides lead gaggles of prospective students on tours. The guides’ gold and silver chassis are built in shapes reminiscent of the star arches surrounding Strixhaven. Embedded in their
Firbolg
Legacy
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
the group’s needs, but the effect each action will have on the forest and the rest of the natural world. Firbolg tribes would rather go hungry than strain the land during a famine.
Hidden
an unappealing place to explore by temporarily diverting springs, driving away game, stealing critical tools, and altering trails to leave hunting or lumber parties hopelessly lost. The firbolgs
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
unsure how to begin.
3
War, plague, famine, or a marauding monster ravaged your home, forcing you to flee for your life. You don’t even know how many of your people survived or where to find
Knights of the Unicorn freed you and brought you here, but now you’re on your own.
5
You were exiled for breaking a trivial-seeming taboo. For this seemingly minor transgression, you lost
Bard
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Basic Rules (2014)
and some measure of natural talent that most troubadours and jongleurs lack. It can be hard to spot the difference between these performers and true bards, though. A bard’s life is spent
beyond the horizon—makes an adventuring career a natural calling. Every adventure is an opportunity to learn, practice a variety of skills, enter long-forgotten tombs, discover lost works of magic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Snarls and Star Arches As described in the Player’s Handbook, magic suffuses all existence in the worlds of D&D. In the Forgotten Realms, scholars describe the fabric of magic as a Weave that allows
university’s monumental library, the Biblioplex. Similarly, gravity-defying arch shapes appear throughout the world of Arcavios and, in particular, tower over the Biblioplex. These star arches are made from
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
(Costs 2 Actions). Strahd makes one bite attack.With his mind sharp and his heart dark, Strahd von Zarovich is a formidable foe. Courage and lives beyond measure have been lost to him. Reread chapter 1
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
The Flying Citadel When the end came for the City of Lost Names, it came for everyone in equal measure except the followers of Chemosh, god of undeath. Chemosh’s servants thrived in the ruins of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
After the Cataclysm The Cataclysm ushered in a period of chaos. During the next three centuries, known as the Time of Darkness, cultures and ecologies were radically altered, causing famine, plague
. Nations of hobgoblins and ogres spread, capitalizing on humanity’s decline and claiming whole regions. Much that survived the Cataclysm was lost in darkness. At length, the worst effects of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
.
3 War, plague, famine, or a marauding monster ravaged your home, forcing you to flee for your life. You don’t even know how many of your people survived or where to find them. Alone or
freed you and brought you here, but now you’re on your own.
5 You were exiled for breaking a trivial-seeming taboo. For this seemingly minor transgression, you lost your friends, family, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
piece is the standard unit of measure for wealth, even if the coin itself is not commonly used. When merchants discuss deals that involve goods or services worth hundreds or thousands of gold pieces
, the transactions don’t usually involve the exchange of individual coins. Rather, the gold piece is a standard measure of value, and the actual exchange is in gold bars, letters of credit, or valuable
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
hard study and some measure of natural talent that most troubadours and jongleurs lack. It can be hard to spot the difference between these performers and true bards, though. A bard’s life is spent
beyond the horizon — makes an adventuring career a natural calling. Every adventure is an opportunity to learn, practice a variety of skills, enter long-forgotten tombs, discover lost works of magic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
hard study and some measure of natural talent that most troubadours and jongleurs lack. It can be hard to spot the difference between these performers and true bards, though. A bard’s life is spent
beyond the horizon — makes an adventuring career a natural calling. Every adventure is an opportunity to learn, practice a variety of skills, enter long-forgotten tombs, discover lost works of magic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
piece is the standard unit of measure for wealth, even if the coin itself is not commonly used. When merchants discuss deals that involve goods or services worth hundreds or thousands of gold pieces, the
transactions don't usually involve the exchange of individual coins. Rather, the gold piece is a standard measure of value, and the actual exchange is in gold bars, letters of credit, or valuable
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
apparatus of Kwalish, are unique. The game assumes that the secrets of creating the most powerful items arose centuries ago and were then gradually lost as a result of wars, cataclysms, and mishaps. Even
uncommon items can’t be easily created. Thus, many magic items are well-preserved antiquities. Rarity provides a rough measure of an item’s power relative to other magic items. Each rarity corresponds
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Shankhabhumi hold equal measure of beauty and danger The journey through the Forest of Hands lasts 3 hours. Roll for or choose an encounter from the Forest of Hands Encounters table after every hour of
or a character who succeeds on a DC 14 Intelligence (History) check knows these phantoms are travelers who were lost when Manivarsha was ruined. The spirits are unnerving but harmless. 3 Fog rises and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
built in shapes reminiscent of the star arches surrounding Strixhaven. Embedded in their chests are holographic maps of the university’s campuses, which the guides use to provide directions. However
become lost by magical or nonmagical means. The guide also has advantage on ability checks made to locate creatures or objects at Strixhaven.
Univocal Speech. When the guide speaks, any creature
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
intelligent humanoids to nourish themselves and allow for slow but steady growth. Once a colony is secure, it focuses on the Grand Design — the mind flayers’ plan to rebuild their lost empire. The illithids
methods to bring about famine and other natural disasters. A mind flayer colony using this strategy collects and feeds on humanoids mainly to use the knowledge they gain to understand their victims
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
charging him with his impossible task. They also offered him a measure of hope. The gods cast Athreos’s offerings back into the mortal world in the form of five coins. They promised Athreos that, once
five lost coins, called the Athrean Obols. It’s said that any who bring the River Guide one of the coins will be rewarded with a wish for anything Athreos can grant—even exception from death.
Death’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
hold the dead, and there is some measure of truth to that — many of the hillocks are indeed barrows, raised to house the fallen dead of one faction or nation on either side of a war. I have seen more
than one such barrow, either broken open from the outside by those seeking lost treasures, or somehow broken from within. The Fields of the Dead is a vast, rolling plain of windswept grasses that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
has complex feelings about this, seeing Adirohit as a tie to her ancient people and one who could restore a measure of what was lost, but also a tempestuous being who destroyed her ancestors. She will
information: The voice says he is Adirohit, the riverine of the lost Adirohit River, which once nourished the great city of Manivarsha. Adirohit has been locked away for hundreds of years beneath a mighty
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
to dwelling in the libraries inside his iron palace. He employs a network of spies and informants to watch over anyone that might threaten him, a measure of his deep paranoia. Dispater has created an
search of any lost lore that could help to turn a soul to Dispater’s service. Such a secret could be a lost spell sought by a mighty archmage, who pledges fealty to Dispater in return for the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
punching and kicking. And maybe a head-butt for good measure. Monks in an Acquisitions Incorporated campaign find a way to integrate a typical ascetic life with the grandeur, majesty, and over-the-top
. Commercial Monasteries d10 Monastery
1 Monastery of the Eternal Spirits (legendary distillers)
2 House of the Upright Arches (creators of quality footwear)
3 Dome of the Curious Quill
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
and their underlings constantly vie with one another for power and influence, and this competition frequently sends Red Wizards far from Thay to seek new spells, recover lost artifacts, and create
wealth that can flow back to Thay. The power the Red Wizards hold in Thay gives them a measure of diplomatic legitimacy in the lands of the Sword Coast and the North, but their presence is rarely welcome
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
spraying an alchemical defoliant on local farmland to push people living in the area away from the dragon’s lair. The resulting famine is devastating the countryside.
3 Rival realms are
avatar of their deity. The dragon now uses the cult to destabilize the local sovereign’s rule.
3 Ruins rumored to hold the treasury of a lost empire are guarded by an elaborate network of ooze-based
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
pawn in a position of power 3 Magic (d6) 1 Obtain an ancient artifact 2 Build a construct or magical device 3 Carry out a deity’s wishes 4 Offer sacrifices to a deity 5 Contact a lost deity or power
wealth 3 Plunder ancient ruins 4 Steal land, goods, or money Villain’s Methods d20 Methods 1 Agricultural devastation (d4) 1 Blight 2 Crop failure 3 Drought 4 Famine 2 Assault or beatings 3
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
measure from their psionic abilities, the leadership of the Deepking, and their influence over Themberchaud. They lost face when the Gray Ghosts stole the valuable red dragon egg that would hatch
Themberchaud’s replacement, and they have been waging war on the thieves’ guild ever since. But with the egg still lost and their control over Themberchaud waning, the Keepers are exploring all options in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
. This might be a military defeat, the overthrow of old ideas, a cultural rebirth, or something else. Who died, lost, or was defeated? What weren’t they willing to compromise? Was the new leader complicit
, famine, fire, plague, flood — disasters on a grand scale can eradicate whole civilizations without warning. Natural (or magical) catastrophes redraw maps, destroy economies, and alter worlds. Sometimes the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Map The forest shrine shown in map 4.11 is a clearing surrounded by a grove of wild olive trees. A pond at the center is fed by streams coming from the north and south. Arches of grapevines grow up from
the path of a hydra on a destructive rampage.
4 A druid who lost her spouse in a hunting accident attacks any hunters who come to the shrine.
5 A giant boar affected by the awaken spell
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
of Aristocrats From the heads of scheming merchant families to immortal sorcerer-queens, each member of the aristocracy holds a measure of wealth and power—and they desire more. The rulers of a barony
professional ventures. 4 Lost Lineage. You seek evidence of a lost branch of a noble family or proof that individuals don’t possess a noble pedigree. 5 Origin of Nobility. You reveal the secret reason why
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
.
4 I’ve lost so much to gambling that I refuse to spend money on anything anymore.
5 Nothing is certain. Planning is a coward’s act.
6 I can’t be sure who I’ve swindled, cheated, or
measure of a person. In the end, the only thing that matters is the scoreboard. (Evil)
d6 Bond
1 One person in particular owes me a lot of money, and I need to keep them alive if I want to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
the king. Bruenor leads these processions not only to show off the city and its sheer size, but also to take measure of his guests’ endurance and patience in matters of spirit. All Roads Lead Here As
. Laid out according to patterns or traditions now lost to time, the tombs contain thousands of Gauntlgrym’s honored dead. Some crypts are simple biers; others are intricate sarcophagi. All include
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
integral part of life in the giants’ fortresses and underground realms of smoke and ash. The fire giants’ songs are odes of battles lost and won, while their dances are martial formations of pounding
armor, then forge the swords that can pierce it. Such work requires brawn and brains in equal measure, and fire giants high in the ordning tend to be the smartest and strongest of their kind.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Deep Ethereal is unlike physical travel. Distance is meaningless, so although travelers feel as if they can move by a simple act of will, it’s impossible to measure speed and hard to track the passage
. Abandoned and lost for ages, the Radiant Citadel was resurrected from its slumber and reclaimed by descendants of those societies. The Radiant Citadel is a nexus of diplomacy and trade, a repository of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
band may measure your prowess. It doesn’t greatly matter if you win or lose, though. Simply express a desire or a willingness to compete, and you will earn some measure of respect. If you win the
they will respond with quick violence. LOST TRIBES OF THE UTHGARDT
Some Uthgardt tribes are seen by others as lost to the world. They are considered anathema, and even speaking of them outside certain
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
arches. At the room’s center stands a raised stone dais bearing an ominous statue. A double door, a smaller door, and a stairwell stand at the east end of the room.
A fissure has opened in the wall
pieces of a mirror. The bones belong to Madar, one of Cithcillion’s companions. Madar’s bones were thrown from the marble slab when the City of Lost Names fell from the sky. The bones are now scattered