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Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
Autognomes are mechanical beings built by rock gnomes. Sometimes, because of a malfunction or a unique circumstance, an autognome becomes separated from its creator and strikes out on its own.
An
live for centuries, typically up to 500 years.
Autognome History
d6
Story
1
Your creator gave you autonomy and urged you to follow your dreams.
2
Your creator died, leaving you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
Hollow Deck Havoc Describe the Hollow Deck as follows: This deck is one large, bowl-shaped chamber containing several large piles of mechanical parts, with many more parts strewn across the floor
automatons menace you with rotating saws that extend from their forelimbs. They appear to speak to each other using clicking noises that seem oddly familiar.
The clockwork horrors are speaking Thri-kreen
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Astral Adventurer’s Guide
Autognome Autognomes are mechanical beings built by rock gnomes. Sometimes, because of a malfunction or a unique circumstance, an autognome becomes separated from its creator and strikes out on its
live for centuries, typically up to 500 years. Autognome History d6 Story 1 Your creator gave you autonomy and urged you to follow your dreams. 2 Your creator died, leaving you to fend for yourself
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
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
tales of its many wonders. 6 A peddler once brought something astonishing to your homeland — a Gondan clockwork, shimmering cloth of gold, a trained speaking bird, or some other small wonder — and told
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
Discoveries table to determine what a character discovers, or as inspiration for unusual discoveries of your own. Manipulating Time Having a mechanical guide spend 1 or more charges in this area has a 20
no sign of either item’s missing mate unless you want to have it found elsewhere in the adventure.
26–35 A live parrot in a wicker cage (captured by Barbatos and stashed here pending use in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
he wants to learn as much about his rival’s machinations as he can. See appendix B for his stat block.
Thessalar
Grand Experiments If the characters poke around the room while speaking with
, the characters’ mechanical guide can use its teleportation ability to take them to the tomb. If the characters have already caused trouble in the temple, or if Thessalar suspects they will, he might
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
their full sentences. Because of this, residents tend to live by their own creeds, carving out some semblance of order from a settlement in eternal flux. Either way, locals humor their leader—be they a
. Robson Michel Three modrons prepare to enter the Cube, a mechanical outpost corrupted by the disorder of Xaos Gate The gate to Limbo shifts with the town, changing shape and location at indeterminate
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
each of barn owls, horned owls, screech owls, and snowy owls. Against one wall, a huge cage holds a giant owl. In addition, several terrariums hold live mice, lizards, and small snakes used as food
first provides advantage on this check. Manipulating Time Having a mechanical guide spend 1 charge in this area causes all the cage doors to rust with age and weaken, allowing the owls to break free
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
nickname “Sir Vecken of the Broken Horn,” after his horned helmet was nearly cloven in two during the fight. A year ago, he returned to Waterdeep to live with his father, Yacken, and has since retired
death of his beloved Sarah, and he becomes noticeably distraught when speaking of her. Personality Trait. “We all have a moral obligation to protect the weak and the innocent, and I will do so at any cost
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
named Breena Bafflestone monitors the machinery at all times. Nearby is a copper speaking tube, which enables her to communicate with the control room command center (area U7b). Drawers in the walls
the lid causes panels in the front and sides to open, releasing a swarm of mechanical spiders that attacks anyone other than Jarlaxle. This swarm has the statistics of a swarm of insects (spiders), with
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
incorporate runic letterforms, for example). Stone giants also make extensive use of the carved word through “speaking stones.” A speaking stone is an upright stone cylinder into which writing is carved
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
fascinated — some say obsessed — with building mechanical wonders. Though they employed magic from time to time, the whole island smelled like sawdust, grease, and freshly scraped metal, as shop after shop
themselves, or mechanical arms that copy what a scribe is writing onto a second sheet of parchment. During my past visits there, I’d seen all of those and more with my own eyes. Were these gewgaws and trifles
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
of obstacles in the way of an adventuring party. Mechanical and magical traps, wards against divination, and protective magic items are just a few of the security measures available to a resourceful
more powerful as well. There are three ways you can approach this issue: Mechanical Improvement. Use the guidelines in chapter 9 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide to add class levels or Hit Dice to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
will cause the abbey’s bell to ring, so that dinner will be served. They are speaking nonmagical gibberish. S15d. Hungry Mongrelfolk Nine mongrel creatures stand in the middle of this room, starting at
room contains a fort made out of piled bits of shattered furniture and torn draperies. From within the fort, you hear a mischievous cackle. Two mongrelfolk live in the “fort” but refuse to come out unless baited with food. While hidden under the wreckage, they have three-quarters cover.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
station, giving reporters at the office the ready ability to communicate with the home office (at discounted rates). Employees. The Chronicle sends reporters across Khorvaire. Most of them live in
main office and the field offices, as well as between reporters and their editors. The house bills the Chronicle directly for communications using speaking stones or sending spells directed to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
hunting boat. One is their community’s leader, a red-haired human woman named Aspen. Speaking with the Hunters. Aspen and the other hunters are neutral good. While the hunters are wary of outsiders, if the
wooden frames.
The hunters of Therno Lake live in this camp. Eight hunters (scouts) and twenty commoners, all in thick leather clothes, make up the community. They are wary of outsiders but otherwise
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
in the citadel. Enclosed by high walls, the facility is built around a gigantic orrery of Xaryxispace. This magical and mechanical contraption features levitating models of the system’s planets and
merchants and crafters live and work in the trade quarter. Much of the citadel’s commerce takes place here, making it the liveliest area of the city. Well-appointed lodgings are also available for visitors with coin to spare.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
a life-size mechanical unicorn ridden by a mechanical drow ranger waving two scimitars (when a lever under the float is pulled, the unicorn farts a 15-foot cone of confetti, which it can do twice
before needing to be refilled) A float topped with two mechanical goblins that repeatedly punch each other when wound up A float bearing a mechanical armored knight battling a mechanical pit fiend (when
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
encounter with Uthgardt. I’m grateful to my friend Gyrt for teaching me so much about her people, for it has allowed me and many fellow travelers to see Uthgardt and live to tell the tale. Over the
view of the world and their place in it, their traditions and the laws they live by. I came to realize, as I came across other Uthgardt tribes in my travels, that much of what is true for the Elk tribe
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
rescued by merfolk who live in the harbor. Armed with this knowledge, a character can examine the hull for signs of foul play and, with a successful DC 15 Intelligence (Investigation) check, discover a
, a line, and a reel. Speaking the command word again changes the fishing pole back into a normal 10-foot pole.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
for themselves. Only the greatest among them will live to become her consorts. Goals of Chromatic Dragons. Fortify their lairs to safeguard their treasure hoards; strike out across Eastern Oerik
chapter 4, NPCs speaking to the characters might assume the trouble in the mine is related to these toughs and their bullying.
Levels 5–10. You might use the adventure “Horns of the Beast” from chapter
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
implies that most franchise staff are itinerant or live elsewhere in whatever settlement is the boat’s primary port of call. I don’t have rivals. I have partners who simply don’t know it yet.
— Omin
headquarters features a magical-mechanical locomotive that lays down its own track. Mechanical arms at the front of the locomotive set down crossbars and rails in front of the headquarters at
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
mottled with patches of brilliant blue, and matching blue eyes.
Quote: “Academy accounts payable, Sor’kur speaking, please hold.”
Bridge Quarters Security Level: Gold (Bridge Rank) Only These opulent
helms—ornate, high-backed chairs mounted onto mechanical gimbals that encircle a thirty-foot-high orrery depicting Realmspace. Those who train here are overseen by Saerthe Abizjn, a training officer
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
several years older and wiser than they look. The magic of the Feywild has kept them young. Speaking to the Getaway Gang about Loomlurch yields the following information: A squad of tin soldiers defends
mill (area L12) to free the captives there. Once the children are set free, everyone will run back to Little Oak. Will’s plan is sketchy, but he likes to live by the seat of his pants. Regardless of how
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
speaking Draconic can try to convince the dragon they mean no harm by making a DC 18 Charisma (Persuasion) check. On a successful check, the brass dragon nods and disappears. On a failed check or if a
This worked stone room is full of laboratory equipment: vials of colorful liquids, glass lenses, and live mice in cages. Books crowd shelves and overflow into the floor.
Demelin (currently in area
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
, music, and singing birds Values ceremony and refinement (for example, proper ways of speaking, formal etiquette, and extravagant dinner parties) Favors elaborate, manufactured costuming with
sufficient incentive to move elsewhere, or the two archfey learn to live with each other (and other denizens of the region must answer to both). An archfey whose Domain of Delight doesn’t overlap with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
possessed. Now, he delights in jumping from body to body, using and disposing of the living as he pleases. Personality Trait. “I might be dead, but there’s no reason I can’t live it up a little.” Ideal
Caradoc was the name of an obscure knight of the Order of the Rose who died during the Cataclysm. Blood Trail. While speaking with Caradoc or after defeating him, the character with the highest passive
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
themselves worthy of speaking with its occupant. Many who seek a ki-rin’s guidance end up pledging service to the creature. They study as monks under its tutelage and serve as its agents in the world. The
creatures are rarely aggressive toward others that aren’t normally prey. Evil creatures can’t tolerate the holy atmosphere within the same distance, and usually choose to live much farther from the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
characters make the climb invisibly, at night, or during a rainstorm, it’s impossible to reach the monastery without the aarakocra knowing they’re coming. Fifty-six aarakocra live in Kir Sabal, in
twelve “nests” or extended family groups. About a third of the aarakocra population are juveniles; the rest are adults split evenly between males and females. They live primarily by hunting in the jungle
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
room with the statue, read: Inside this room, you can hear loud mechanical noises that seem to come from behind the south wall.
Standing in the middle of the room, facing the double door to the north
appendix C) is here, he is kneeling before the statue and calling on Deep Duerra (speaking in Dwarvish) to grant him the power to conquer his foes. Describe him as a soot-stained, gray-bearded duergar
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
skulk in the shadows. Rejected by Yurtrus as too unsuitable to serve as custodians of the dead, these orcs live even deeper inside the lair, close to where the entrance to Shargaas’s realm is located
or combat, then drag them into Shargaas’s dark caverns to be ritually murdered and devoured. This culling of the weak and the unworthy is accepted as necessary by the tribe, but speaking about it is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
and several chests near the bunks are strewn with clothes and other personal effects.
Crew members live in these shanties when not at sea. Their clothes and personal effects fill the chests and
to those who defy the dragon’s rule. Speaking with Brandle. If a character casts Speak with Dead, the gruff-voiced skull of Captain Brandle answers questions as best it can. Brandle knows that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
is as stormy as the skies of Yon, and I hurl boulders when I’m angry.”
Ideal. “Bitter End is a raving tyrant. I live in hope that one day we’ll be free of that hag.”
Bond. “I have sworn to
power to conquer all.”
Bond. “My true love, Palasha, means everything to me. I’d live my life’s misfortunes a hundred times over if I knew the path that would lead me back to her.”
Flaw. “I’m
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
mood is as stormy as the skies of Yon, and I hurl boulders when I’m angry.”
Ideal. “Bitter End is a raving tyrant. I live in hope that one day we’ll be free of that hag.”
Bond. “I have sworn to
the power to conquer all.”
Bond. “My true love, Palasha, means everything to me. I’d live my life’s misfortunes a hundred times over if I knew the path that would lead me back to her.”
Flaw. “I’m
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
from the Garynmor Menagerie 8 1d6 stirges 9 1d4 jackalweres that live in Little Calimshan 10 Dead Three squad (4 fists of Bane, 3 night blades, and 2 necromites of Myrkul) trying to capture one or more
people from across the city can buy and sell secrets with Guild agents and each other, speaking through the barriers so as to maintain anonymity. Also popular are schools like the Lamp of Learning and the