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Out of the Abyss
’, is a soulless mockery of mortal life and its many facets.
Zuggtmoy’s cultists often follow her unwittingly. Most are fungi-infected to some degree, whether through inhaling her mind
within 6 miles of the lair, even where they would normally find no purchase.
Plant life within 1 mile of the lair becomes infested with parasitic fungi, slowly mutating as it is overwhelmed.
If a
Backgrounds
Ghosts of Saltmarsh
You have spent your life aboard fishing vessels or combing the shallows for the bounty of the ocean. Perhaps you were born into a family of fisher folk, working with your kin to feed your village
. Maybe the job was a means to an end — a way out of an undesirable circumstance that forced you to take up life aboard a ship. Regardless of how you began, you soon fell in love with the sea, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Arborea Arborea is a plane of extremes: stupendously craggy mountains; unbelievably deep gorges; forests of monstrously huge trees; and vast stretches of wheat fields, orchards, and arbors. Wild
Arvandor Towering trees, colorful wildflowers, abundant grain, and delicious fruit create a lush environment. Aquallor An eternal ocean fed by the River Oceanus is home to teeming sea life and mighty storms
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
the World, a range of skyscraping, snow-covered peaks. These extend toward the Sword Coast, which forms the western edge of the great continent of Faerûn and stretches southward for thousands of miles
destroyed by the eruption of Mount Hotenow. Waterdeep, the City of Splendors, is a seaside metropolis where people from all walks of life gather behind high walls.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Manticore A monster in every sense of the word, a manticore has a vaguely humanoid head, the body of a lion, and the wings of a dragon. A bristling mane stretches down the creature’s back, and its
converse. In the course of attacking, it denigrates its foes and offers to kill them swiftly if they beg for their lives. If a manticore sees an advantage to be gained by sparing a creature’s life, it does
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
to seek out the wisdom of the gods from prophets or seers. Warnings leave fear and uncertainty in their wake. An individual might take desperate measures to persuade others to take such a warning
evil ways, turn aside from their self-destructive course, or send heroes to destroy the source of the disaster, the apocalypse is averted, and life can return to normal. Sometimes the coming disaster
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Fisher You have spent your life aboard fishing vessels or combing the shallows for the bounty of the ocean. Perhaps you were born into a family of fisher folk, working with your kin to feed your
village. Maybe the job was a means to an end — a way out of an undesirable circumstance that forced you to take up life aboard a ship. Regardless of how you began, you soon fell in love with the sea, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
score, you can use Charisma for Honor and Wisdom for Sanity. Honor Score If your campaign involves cultures where a rigid code of honor is part of daily life, consider using the Honor score as a means
of measuring a character’s devotion to that code. The Honor ability is useful in any campaign that revolves around orders of knights or other warriors who adhere to a formal code. Honor measures not
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
measures to advance his research. Sphinx’s Curse If the characters engage Kwalish successfully, or as an added reward if they rescue him, the inventor can use his skill to remove the curse imposed by the
unkindly to Kwalish’s cavalier attitude toward life, they might decide to confront and attack him. Kwalish first creates a distraction by releasing the mephits and the mind flayer in his lab as an action
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Types of Hauntings The Spirit of
Lady Theodora Halvhrest When the party enters the house, few menaces initially present themselves. As characters explore, though, spirits gradually stir to life
through a wall or character.
10–11 Only a portion of the spirit appears—such as a hand, eye, heart, nervous system, or skull.
12–13 The spirit uses the room as they might have in life. If the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
gains. If the characters agree, the lizardfolk are appreciative. They board the walking castle and take to sunning themselves and doing light stretches on the terrace. The lizardfolk are polite
realm of the lizardfolk deity, Semuanya Contests in Semuanya’s Bog Life is good but not easy in Semuanya’s Bog. The spirits of lizardfolk champions engage in endless competition here. If the characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3
about three feet off the floor. Each niche contains a diorama depicting some aspect of tribal life. The six-inch-tall figures in all of the displays appear to be made of stucco, realistically and
floor. There is no visible lock or handle on it, although a slight gap stretches across the top of the door. Eight holes seem to have been bored into the door; they are about an inch in diameter, but
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
searching tirelessly for a long-lost path to divine ascendancy. In the meantime, its stretches its tentacles across Faerûn, laying low powers that might one day threaten it. Worship of Slarkrethel began
to their villages years later as adults, albeit with piscine deformities. When they reach the end of their natural life span, they return to the sea and their fearsome master. The inhabitants of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
C: Blue Phoenix Shrine Carved into a labyrinthine gorge is the Blue Phoenix Shrine, an ancient shrine to Habbakuk—god of the seas and animal life. The entrance to the shrine is completely engulfed by
her spiritual mission, he’s eager for their help. Personality Trait. “Embrace the world’s wonders, but be wary of its dangers.” Ideal. “Life and nature are marvels that must be protected at all costs
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
spice up the journey, to help bring the trip to life, and to give characters people to like and protect, or dislike and quarrel with, along the way. Achreny Ulyeltin (Male Human Merchant). Ulyeltin is
inexplicably breaks into merry songs and short stretches of joke-telling. His voice is a fine tenor and his jokes are hilarious. But these gregarious moods are always short. The rest of the time, he is silent
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
wall is a candy contraption that magically stretches its contents into saltwater taffy. Any creature that starts its turn in the space occupied by the taffy puller’s arms must succeed on a DC 15
fight Uncle Nibblecheek, he claps his hands and commands the dragon wyrmling to defend him (see “Briochebane” below). The hag then fights until Bloodied, at which point he bargains for his life (see
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
open by a character who makes a successful DC 18 Strength (Athletics) check. 13. Slave Pen If the characters look into this room from the other side of the gate, read: A long, narrow room stretches
.
Elmo’s mind is as clouded in death as it was in life, and any attempts to communicate with him magically reveal nothing new. SLAVES OF THE SAHUAGIN
The slaves are all unarmed and in a weakened state
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
about ancient plant life.
One guard patrols this area. Hallways to the north and south connect to area V4. Alarms. The short hallways that connect this area to the grand entrance (area V1) have
Cultures Exhibit Glass display cases boast objects related to life in ancient Varkenbluff. Clay pots, stone tools, and scraps of leather clothes are interspersed with informational placards about their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
pave the way for reconstruction and renewal. In the Hive, however, Wreaker activity sometimes compounds the miseries of everyday life when their fires—vain attempts to garner attention from the movers
the next stage of death undeterred. The bulk of the faction’s workforce consists of skeletons, zombies, and other dull-minded Undead whose bodies were donated to the Mortuary by their owners in life
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
earlier dangles from a taut rope that stretches southward across the shaft and is connected to another wooden platform 15 feet away.
Looking down, the characters see nothing but darkness. Characters
characters agree to take the kobolds in the mine back to Termalaine, the kobolds act as their allies. Trex Janth’s Ghost. In life, Janth Alowar was a neutral human sage who devoted himself by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
old comrade of Eliander. He is a stickler for the rules, and Eliander trusts him with his life. The jail in the cellar consists of two sections. A single large chamber holds drunks, brawling fishers
that is the place for everything that isn’t fish, salt, or nautical wares, this market stretches among a dozen stalls down to the bridge. A few goats, eggs, cloth, marsh plants, and pots are available
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
or with a lot of friends — preferably both. The place takes its name from the life-sized wooden mermaid hanging above the incongruous reception desk, a dozen blackened and withered hands nailed to its
losses, including those of life and limb. Instead, its plethora of back rooms and antechambers act as de facto offices for the menagerie of shady characters who spend their days drinking here. Ostensibly
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
Rakdos
Guild versus Guild Interguild conflict is such a fundamental aspect of life on Ravnica that the player characters’ guild membership is an easy starting point for choosing an adventure villain
of the campaign might force them to take more extreme measures to curb the legion’s excesses.
Boros Character Goals The Boros Legion sends individuals or small parties on small-scale military
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
to life and attack the harpsichord’s assailants. Each piece of wreckage is treated as a Tiny object under the effect of an animate objects spell that lasts for 1 minute. P33. Glass Statues The floor
Oerth) The Many Masques of Mith (a bizarre account of life as a servant to an archwizard named Mith, who hosted masques for honored guests from across the multiverse) Nadir of Nessus (all about the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Oak Tree A tremendous oak tree stretches hundreds of feet into the air, rising high above the surrounding canopy. Easily fifty feet wide at the base, its trunk is gnarled, covered with creeping
near the cave in the back of the ravine. He watches newcomers from afar and reveals himself only if they damage any plant life or approach his cave. When Gnarlroot emerges, he grumpily tells the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a1
crenellated battlement. The buried citadel has sunk so far into the earth that the battlement is now level with the surrounding floor. That floor stretches away to the north and south, composed of a layer of
have been a cathedral is now a goblin lair, thick with the filth of years of goblin life. Scores of wall- and floor-mounted sconces filled with violet-glowing fungi provide illumination. Dozens of