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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
K12. Turret Post A high, domed ceiling caps the thirty-foot-wide octagonal room before you. Frescoes faded with age adorn the ceiling, but their images are impossible to make out. Tall, thin arrow slits look out over the courtyard. Each arrow slit is 2½ feet tall and 4 inches wide.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
11. Dining Room Chairs and candelabras covered in dusty sheets attend this hall’s broad dining room table. Still life paintings depicting multiple grand feasts hang on the walls, their faded oils
making the food look rotten.
Several doors open into the dining room, including a sliding door that connects this space and the music room (area 12). A sideboard is filled with cracked dishware and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
welcoming arms. The interior of the hall is roomy, with an open floor plan that allows occupants of the upper story to look out over the lower one. Bullywug courtiers crowd into the space, filling it
with their guttural croaks. Their clothing is faded and stained with mud.
The palace has two levels: Upper Level. The upper level is built around the trunk of a tree. Gathered here at any given time
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
, one of the stained-glass windows on the stage cracks. The fractures look like the character as if they were trapped within the glass. Forsake Lady Silvra or Silence. Those who say they’ll abandon Lady
belligerence. Closet. At the rear of the room is a closet filled with withered decorations from past celebrations. A faded banner depicts numerous winged seahorses and the words “Happy Birthday Regan and Vastion!”
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
flesh out your encounter in these ways, go right ahead and finish your creation. Otherwise, take a look at the following sections for some basic advice on adding flavor elements to the simple mechanics
details to an encounter area at random, look to the tables in appendix A of the Dungeon Master’s Guide to determine room and area features, potential hazards, obstacles, traps, and more. Random Events
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
space, causing distractions to fade and making it look unfamiliar. If the lighting’s easy to control, you might adjust it to suggest a setting’s light level. More elaborate techniques might involve
. Furniture, whether by its arrangement or removal, can suggest a specific location. Props can even represent game mechanics, such as tracking hit points with crimson flat glass marbles in clear goblets
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
begin, look at the existing options and see what class features they provide. It’s perfectly acceptable for two class options to have similar features, and it’s also fine to look at other classes for
examples of mechanics you can draw on for inspiration. As you design each class feature, ask the following questions: How does the class feature reinforce the story or theme of the class option? Is there
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
. This motion is inexorable but takes several weeks; it was a while before the slaadi even noticed it. Although the walls, floor, and ceilings look like tough skin, they are as dense as stone and rot
rune in the alcove is too faded for the characters to determine its original shape. The fuzzy orb hanging from the rune is palm sized and bears a mouth with sharp teeth. If plucked, it animates as a gnawble as described in the “Gnawbles” section earlier in this chapter.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Hopene’er Asylum Hopene’er Asylum lies on Lamplicker’s Way in the High Quarter. The building is an old prison with bare walls and barred windows. A faded sign bearing the words “Welcome Home” hangs
locked door, at which she offers a word of caution. “This wing is where the worst of our cases are kept. I beg you not to look into any of the other cells. We’ve given succor to many folk over the years
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
village, for characters who take the time to look. If any characters are left behind in a room on their own, or if the party splits up to search the house, that’s an ideal time for a meenlock encounter
platinum ore from the mine (25 gp). H3. Meeting Room A round table with four chairs stands in the center of this room. Windows look out into the back yard. The fireplace in the corner is filled with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
what remains of that structure doesn’t look safe.
Two iron cages hang from beams that extend southeast off the lower bridge. One of the cages twirls on its heavy iron chain as a flurry of black
-shaped head. This humanoid contraption is attached to an arrangement of ropes and pulleys that make it look like a giant marionette.
When announcements or rallying cries need to be made, the top of this
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
faint rune on the ceiling.
The fanatics put their rune here, in an out-of-the-way passage that Golcuus can’t easily reach. Bolstering Rune. The rune in the alcove is too faded for the characters to
. Characters who search the debris in the alcoves discover a set of jeweler’s tools, three rubies carved to look like eyeballs worth 300 gp each, and a statuette of a beholder with emeralds at the ends of the eyestalks and a huge diamond for a central eye. The statuette is worth 5,500 gp.
Magic Items
Infernal Machine Rebuild
DM’s determination.
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Flowers turn to face you as you pass them.
Mundane animals can’t look at you.
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Each time you finish a short rest, you suddenly sprout a covering of
this property once.
Your senses diminish as if the world were faded around you, imposing disadvantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks.
54
While you take a short rest, the area within 50 feet of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
some of the people portrayed look very much alike. Tucked in the northeast corner of the foyer is a vestibule packed with fine cloaks, coats, and boots. N3b. Parlor This parlor contains a fine array of
comfortable, high-backed chairs. They wear faded clothes, drink tea, and devour cake while a ninth woman, well dressed and very pleased with herself, circles the table and talks excitedly about decorations
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
lost has resurfaced, as though an old spell has faded away, allowing you to feel the loss as sharply as if it happened yesterday.
The Witchlight Carnival has returned, and you find yourself standing
near a ticket booth by the entrance at twilight, just as the carnival is about to open. There you meet others who look as troubled as you. Without knowing how or why, you sense that each of them has
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sleeping Dragon’s Wake
dragon’s followers have left the shrine or died of old age, leaving only a few guardians, mostly older humans and a few dwarves and elves. Members of the Scaly Eye wear faded blue tabards displaying a
chamber is immune to the effect of the stairs for 24 hours. B8. Lhammaruntosz’s Chamber Read the following boxed text aloud to describe this area: Two great circular windows in this chamber look out on the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
to me. I look out for them.”
Flaw. “Sometimes I forget my own strength and accidentally break things. Especially fragile things.”
Chucklehead the Goblin
CHAPTER 3: THITHER
Chucklehead’s
. “I get angry when people make fun of my head.”
Ideal. “Not all goblins are the same. I mean, look at me.”
Bond. “Mishka is like my little sister. I don’t like how Granny Nightshade treats her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
a pile of bones. 2. Antechamber The scent of warm, humid rot smothers this dismal chamber. Mosaics cover the walls, their colors faded and images scrambled by lost tiles. A thick layer of mud covers
), a cloak clasp (worth 35 gp), and a broad armband bearing green tourmalines etched to look like serpentine eyes (worth 150 gp). Additionally, Orestes’s clay burial mask is sculpted with a look of wide
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
nice to me. I look out for them.”
Flaw. “Sometimes I forget my own strength and accidentally break things. Especially fragile things.”
Chucklehead the Goblin
CHAPTER 3: THITHER
Chucklehead’s
Trait. “I get angry when people make fun of my head.”
Ideal. “Not all goblins are the same. I mean, look at me.”
Bond. “Mishka is like my little sister. I don’t like how Granny Nightshade treats her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
. Y3: Hall This hallway is empty, and its walls are decorated with smeared drawings of wolf heads.
Y4: Vault The door to this room bears faded markings. A character who examines the door and succeeds
to indicate specific numbers or types of foes. A careful look shows that brown and red dots are Miska’s, while green and gray dots are Lolth’s. A character who succeeds on a DC 18 Intelligence
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
the blights from up to 10 feet away. Alternatively, a character within 10 feet of the doorway can look for signs of danger and make a DC 13 Wisdom (Perception) check, spotting the blights on a
Cottages These ruined, side-by-side cottages look as though they might have been the homes of prosperous shopkeepers or well-off farmers in their time. All that remains are collapsed walls and piles of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
the drowned ones as they departed the island). Within a few minutes of arriving on the island, the characters are attacked by the monstrous peryton, Rasp. See the “Look Out Above” section for more
balcony to connect the upper floor of the watchtower with the inside of the main building. The balcony’s construction is shabby, and the wooden poles that precariously support it look unsafe. It can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
, two wraiths that look like spectral Knights of Solamnia emerge from crypts and attack. The wraiths vanish if a character returns any stolen goods and makes an earnest apology. Broken Passage. Lord
Violet flames engulf this room, dancing across walls with faded mosaics of blacksmiths forging gleaming weapons. Bars seal off alcoves to the north and south. To the west, weapons hang on the walls. A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
. Grenade Palms. The trees are grenade palms, bearing explosive fruits that look like pineapples. The palms evolved this way so they could scatter their seeds far and wide. A character who examines the trees
priests of Amun Sa ran out of food. Ceiling Passageway. Characters who look closely at the cracks in the ceiling see a rough-hewn tunnel rising from one of the larger cracks. The tunnel winds its way to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
look for opportunities to push characters off the bridge. If two gargoyles are defeated, the third retreats, flying to area B2 to hide. Chasm Floor. Several skeletons lie broken or half-buried on the
spiky maces where his fists should be.
The interior of the chamber can be described as follows: Large stone statues carved to look like scowling dwarf warriors line the walls of this large chamber
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
with a couch, chairs, and cabinets. Two helmed horrors—one in the southeast corner and one in the southwest— stand guard in the throne room. While motionless, they look like ordinary suits of armor, but
calls out. “And they are alive.” Before long, five other ghosts pass through the walls of the room, dressed in similar attire. They look at you curiously.
In life, the six ghosts were a group of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
former contents. These ruined, side-by-side cottages look as though they might have been the homes of prosperous shopkeepers or well-off farmers in their time. All that remains are collapsed walls and
door of this large building shows the faded image of a workhorse holding a flagon of ale. The building is sagging and dilapidated, but it is more intact than the ruins across the road.
Four ash zombies
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
area S7. S3: Dining Hall Large windows on the west wall of this opulent dining hall look toward the ashen city. Fourteen plush chairs surround a dark walnut table. Three seats at the head of the table
him all that he sought.
The next match would give him a soul bright and stark,
Three matches to go, while the world faded dark.
Charmayne drew upon this tale for inspiration while plotting the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a1
two sapphires (worth 50 gp each). 46. Old Shrine The stone door at the end of the corridor is closed and stuck, requiring someone to make a successful DC 15 Strength check to pull it open. Faded mosaic
Chamber. One goblin and two goblin commoners monitor the health of a diseased giant rat, which is strapped spread-eagled onto a wooden bench. The rat suffers from horrible tumors that look woody and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
imp is perched on the southeast fountain. If the characters look as though they intend to cause trouble, the imp observes them quietly until they enter the bathhouse, then flies to Vanthampur Villa in
terrain thereafter. Regular doors are made of soft, rotting wood. Each door is a Medium object with AC 15, 5 hit points, and immunity to poison and psychic damage. Secret doors are carved to look like
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
) “brigands” lurking around Red Larch at night, not to mention monsters ranging from snake-headed rats to ghostly dragons that faded away when approached. (If you’re looking for NPCs to deliver more fanciful
chapter 6) and went to look for himself. He saw a goblin near the spot, and figured that a gang of the creatures had moved in and rigged a “haunt” to scare off intruders. He tells any Zhentarim
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
through four tall bay windows that look out on the butterfly garden (area C25). Furnishings include a luxurious armchair and a small side table where an empty wine glass sits atop a small book. A door in
door. The servants rarely spend much time here, since the cellar is unlit and cold. Characters feel a strange sense of foreboding here. Secret Door. A faded holy symbol of Siamorphe, a silver chalice
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
creature must prove its value to the dragon daily or die.
“I see an ancient elf king, his majesty long since faded, slumped and half asleep in his throne. A green dragon whispers in the king’s ear
heights of the world are the throne from which it can look out to survey all it controls — and the wider world it seeks to control.
Throughout the lair complex, servants erect monuments to the dragon’s