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Astral Drifter

Backgrounds Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

have camped on the petrified hulks of dead gods and narrowly escaped the psychic winds that sweep across the Astral Sea while also avoiding prolonged contact with the plane’s most dangerous

lasting impression on you. This deity saw fit to share one secret or obscure bit of cosmic lore with you. Work with your DM to determine the details of this knowledge and its impact on the campaign. Roll

Special Delivery

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild

invitation to come to the manor to discuss the results of their expedition. If the characters have the intent of avoiding the agent, the agent comes to find them in short order, and arranges for their mechanical guide to teleport everyone back to the manor.

Special Delivery Whichever agent the characters are working for, their mechanical guide is programmed to teleport them back to the agent’s manor. If the characters somehow obtained both mechanical

Waterdeep Dangers

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

to power up once more, and not even the Blackstaff can shut them down. Old histories suggest that Kwalish’s lore might hold the secrets of doing so, and the characters are sent to seek that lore out

before the great magical statues can run amok. Alternatively, the grand parade of the Day of Wonders turns to deadly chaos when one of its inventive mechanical floats goes berserk and unleashes

5. Control Room

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild

balor. Manipulating Time Having a mechanical guide spend 1 charge in this area drains more energy from the balor, causing him to fall unconscious in area 6. Who’s Who The wizard Tuerny was the creator

of the long-lost artifact called the Iron Flask of Tuerny the Merciless, used to trap demons, devils, and other creatures. This artifact later became the model for the lesser-but-still-legendary magic of the iron flask. According to lore, Tuerny became a nalfeshnee demon before vanishing from history.

The Enhanced Sphinx

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

question they truly need to know the answer to, perhaps from some other mystery in your campaign. The sphinx always answers truly, and so can be used to provide rare knowledge or lore if the characters are

toll. Restoring Old Debts. If the sphinx is slain, the mechanical items that circle around her (functioning as Ioun stones) might all be released. The life force they contain (in the form of

Character Classes

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules

Lore to collect knowledge and magical secrets. Cleric. Invoke divine magic to heal, bolster, and smite. Then harness the Life Domain to be a master of healing. Druid. Channel nature magic to heal

versatility. Rogue. Launch deadly Sneak Attacks while avoiding harm through stealth. Then embody the Thief to master infiltration and treasure hunting. Sorcerer. Wield magic innate to your being

Chapter 3: Character Classes (Continued)

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook

battle. Glamour to weave beguiling Feywild magic. Lore to collect knowledge and magical secrets. Valor to wield weapons with spells. Cleric. Invoke divine magic to heal, bolster, and smite

while avoiding harm through stealth. Then embody the... Arcane Trickster to enhance stealth with spells. Assassin to deliver ambushes and poison. Soulknife to strike foes with psi blades. Thief

Brains in Jars

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

Brains in Jars Depending on your campaign, you might wish to identify some or all of the monastery’s brains with other figures from D&D lore. Perhaps the monastery has long been home to obscure or

, or a mechanical entity such as Ctenmiir’s coffin or Gearbox. This process requires a successful DC 14 Wisdom (Medicine) check or Dexterity check with thieves’ tools or tinker’s tools. However, on a

Astral Drifter

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Astral Adventurer’s Guide

you arrived here. In your travels, you have camped on the petrified hulks of dead gods and narrowly escaped the psychic winds that sweep across the Astral Sea while also avoiding prolonged contact with

a lasting impression on you. This deity saw fit to share one secret or obscure bit of cosmic lore with you. Work with your DM to determine the details of this knowledge and its impact on the campaign

Chapter 3: Character Classes

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook

. Perform spells that inspire and heal allies or beguile foes. Then join the College of... Dance to harness agility in battle. Glamour to weave beguiling Feywild magic. Lore to collect knowledge

foes that lurk in darkness. Hunter to protect nature with martial versatility. Rogue. Launch deadly Sneak Attacks while avoiding harm through stealth. Then embody the... Arcane Trickster to

New Ability Scores: Honor and Sanity

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

you want to determine whether a character might inadvertently do something dishonorable. You might call for an Honor saving throw in the following situations: Avoiding an accidental breach of honor or

Checks. You might ask characters to make a Sanity check in place of an Intelligence check to recall lore about alien creatures featured in your campaign, to decipher the incomprehensible scrawlings of

1. Office of the Artificer

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild

are the details of the overland journey. If you don’t want to play out that journey, the characters’ mechanical guide can use its teleportation ability to take them to the temple. If the characters

the tomb is he who plans its construction.” Characters who have a chance to look around this area can also find calligrapher’s supplies; a forgery kit; spell scrolls of arcane lock, glyph of warding, and legend lore; a wand of secrets; and a strongbox containing 30 pp.

M8. Control Room

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

-mechanical components once here have been stripped out. These were worked into Kwalish’s original experiments or otherwise repurposed. Creatures. These horrid undead are the monastery’s so-called

as members of Kwalish’s original expedition, while others are wizards and other spellcasters enslaved by the monks. Lore and Information. With respectful discussion and a successful DC 12 Charisma

Upper Level Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves

is an oval plate of dark glass. A blocky creature clutches a small ceramic card in one of its mechanical hands as it waits nervously by the console. The creature next to the console, a Modron

short message (up to twenty-five words) that is broadcast in every location throughout Starglass Waypoint. The message can be in your own voice or delivered by a mechanical voice that translates your

City Celebrations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

this world and the faerie realm of the Feywild is thought to be weak on this day. Though this phenomenon provokes caution in rural areas (with folk avoiding woodlands, putting offerings of food on

inventions of the Gondar are revealed on this day and paraded through the city. These devices range from something as humble as new cabinet hinges to massive mechanical constructs that walk or roll about

Designing Simple Traps

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything

be hidden to be effective. Otherwise, avoiding the trap is usually easy. A trigger requires a Wisdom (Perception) check if simply spotting it reveals its nature. The characters can foil a pit trap

purpose. A Dexterity check using thieves’ tools can apply to any trap that has a mechanical element. Thieves’ tools can be used to disable a trip wire or a pressure plate, disassemble a poison needle

Barn Door Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries

, clairvoyance, detect magic, dispel magic, fabricate, fireball, flesh to stone, fly, globe of invulnerability, glyph of warding, grease, knock, legend lore, levitate, locate creature, locate object

contraptions. Characters who compare those drawings with Stonky’s skitterwidgets can tell where the gnome got the inspiration for his mechanical creations. Navigation Notes. A slip of paper tucked into

Talhundereth Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

Talhundereth were protective of their library and unwilling to share its lore with most visitors. Typically, knowledge seekers would speak with the temple’s librarian and wait here while the librarian

laborers their whole lives. The drow are quick to fight Aberrations that intrude in their camp, but they cautiously greet other creatures (including the characters) in the hope of avoiding violence

Lower City Gazetteer

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer

— teaching many of them to read in the process — and then selling the notes directly. Today, Needle prints his broadsheets by the cartload, aided by mechanical scribes purchased from the Hall of Wonders and

customers and ensures that only those who seem vulnerable get the “special” tea, avoiding suspicion from any who might decide to fight back if the truth were to come out. Jopalin also runs a more

Lower City Gazetteer

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus

— teaching many of them to read in the process — and then selling the notes directly. Today, Needle prints his broadsheets by the cartload, aided by mechanical scribes purchased from the Hall of Wonders and

with no choice but to keep coming back. Jopalin personally watches over the customers and ensures that only those who seem vulnerable get the “special” tea, avoiding suspicion from any who might decide

Neverdeath Catacomb Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin

hit points or if the characters insist that they aren’t with the cult. Shanzezim’s Lore. If the characters talk to the marid and reassure Shanzezim they’re not part of the cult, Shanzezim offers the

characters a gold-colored flywheel from the disassembled clock. The marid is chatty and can share the following pieces of information: Clock Assembly. Shanzezim decided to reassemble a mechanical clock

Locations I - L

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder

island boasts a large yeti population. They feed on mountain goats, avoiding Northlanders unless food is scarce. Ice Mountains and Ice Spires The Ice Mountains and the Ice Spires are reckoned by some

, invisibility 1/day each: blight, legend lore (cast as 1 action), locate creature, pass without trace, protection from energy, true seeing Leilon Leilon was a small town near the High Road

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