mechanics sorry with only are from for like

Splugoth the Returned

Monsters Acquisitions Incorporated

you get taken prisoner by a group of sociopathic adventurers who end up letting you die after you save their sorry lives. One minute, you’re a dead goblin named Splug. And then you’re alive

again, and it seems like a really good idea to play up the drama of resurrection with a cool new name — and a master plan for cold, cold revenge against those who betrayed you. Every once in a

Grung

Species One Grung Above

THIS IS NONCORE D&D MATERIAL These game mechanics are usable in your campaign if your DM allows them but not refined by final game design and editing. Grungs are aggressive froglike

lookout for creatures they can capture and enslave. Grungs use slaves for all manner of menial tasks, but mostly they just like bossing them around. Slaves are fed mildly poisoned food to keep them

Verdan

Species Acquisitions Incorporated

, and the Verdan emerged. I’m sorry, was that the question? — K’thriss Drow’b Created by Chaos When the power of That-Which-Endures mutated the verdan, their skin was

spontaneous alterations over their lifetime, from the typical range of point and peak seen among the elves, to huge ears that sweep back from the head like wings, and which are often pierced behind

Never Alone

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

patrolling the laboratory section (areas 1 to 23). On a 3–4, it patrols the temple section (areas 24 to 39). There are no fixed mechanics for encounters with the thessalhydra, but feel free to have

thessalheart construct is a strange magical-mechanical device that struts about like a chicken, and which features a human heart beating madly behind its glass front. The construct always wanders the zone

Ice Gate Level

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

bits of metal, is a half-finished exoskeletal construct like the ones you encountered in the room you came from. This room contains two duergar mechanics (one male, one female), both of whom turn

The Long View

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

lives. It’s a rare elf who forms strong relationships with people of other races, particularly those whose life spans are much shorter. Humans like to believe that elves don’t form close bonds with

way for a year or even a decade is a small price to pay to avoid bloodshed — because elves, after all, have all the time in the world. The elves of Oerth are a sorry sort, abused by their past

A Night to Remember

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

the gloom like elves slipping through a forest. Where they came from and where they’re going, you don’t know. The shadowy figures are the three drow gunslingers Fel’rekt Lafeen, Krebbyg Masq’il’yr, and

fair city is purely recreational — though if fortune smiles upon me, this visit could benefit us both. Your predecessor left the City of Splendors in a sorry state, but you have done wonders to lift

Hall of Illusions

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

his voice was snatched by Kettlesteam. If questioned, Candlefoot tries to explain his sorry circumstances through mime and asks the characters to help him recover his voice from Kettlesteam so he can

head while holding a hand up to one ear. He might bob his head and flap his arms like a bird to indicate that Kettlesteam is the culprit. He doesn’t know where the kenku is, but he knows she has been

Exploration Example

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

secret door behind the fireplace later in the example, they come together again to examine it, and Gareth figures out how to bypass the fire. It might seem like Russell’s character wasn’t doing much, but

being aware of light sources—like the leaping flames in the fireplace and Shreeve’s glowing sword—as well as obscuring factors like smoke and fog. See “Vision and Light” earlier in this chapter for more

Amidor and Gleam

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

crossed paths with Gleam, and, after hearing the elf’s sorry tale, Amidor resolved to help her. Endelyn Moongrave snipped off Gleam’s shadow using a pair of magic scissors and has imprisoned her twin

quite unhappy with how things played out. Now he is forced to perform in her morbid theater. Like Gleam, Hurly used to work for Mister Witch and Mister Light, though Gleam and her sibling had already

Nib's Cave

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

detect magic spell. Appendix D has additional roleplaying notes for Nib. If the characters inquire about Nib’s predicament, he recounts his sorry tale: “I’ve led a cruel and heartless existence. I earned

protection 6 Gloves of thievery 7 Wand of secrets 8 Tiny hourglass that functions like an elemental gem of the blue sapphire (air elemental) variety Nib’s Haunts As Nib works, characters who have a

Wanted Posters

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

as a reward. If you get the same result as a previous discovery, either roll again or choose an unused entry from the table. Wanted Posters d8 Offer Reward 1 “This sorry wretch has stolen from me

accept the reward at that point is up to them, but offering the reward is enough to free Granny Nightshade from her obligation. Granny Nightshade has no sympathy for characters who don’t like the rewards she bestows, and she offers no way of undoing the rewards’ magical effects.

Rival Intern

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

making money if you can’t enjoy the finer things in life? (Any) 6 Power. Money is fine, but real power means never having to say you’re sorry. (Evil) d6 Bond 1 I have a family member

goes wrong, it must be someone else’s fault. Let me explain that in detail. 5 There’s right and there’s wrong, and there’s no gray area in between. 6 Our superiors might not like what you’re doing. I’m going to have to put that in my report.

Journal of Rudolph van Richten

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd

monsters began, I felt the weight of time on my weary shoulders. Today I am a man who has simply lived too long. Like a regretful lich, I find myself inexorably bound to an existence I sought out of

certain cause of many deaths, and the loss of many good friends. Mistake me not! I do not merely feel sorry for myself. Rather, I come to grips with a devastating realization: I now see that I am the object

Modifying a Class

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

faith, making them proficient with the quarterstaff and nothing else. You could give them a benefit to make up for the loss of proficiencies—something like the monk’s Unarmored Defense class feature, but

their masters, drawn from the sorcerer or wizard lists. Suddenly, the paladin feels like a different class. Be cautious when changing the warlock spell list. Since warlocks regain their spell slots

Dimensional Caverns

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

while the characters traverse the tunnel. The tunnel continues for what feels like forever before the ceiling suddenly begins to rise. The walls frame an impossibly tall canyon that slowly widens, the

air becoming hot and heavy with the scent of sulfur. Glowing vents of magma fill a huge cavern with a dull red glow. From somewhere ahead, you hear a deep, echoing caw, sounding like the call of some

Orrery Vault

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

Anauroch. The town of Fortune was built recently and quickly destroyed by Lottie for daring to challenge her authority. “Lottie would not like our telling you too much about her. She’s very powerful, is a

determination that got you this far in search of the wheel of stars! And sorry that your reward has been denied you. The wheel has been with me always, and even as this ruse is ended, I promise it shall

Dock Ward

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

than he looks. A successful DC 15 Wisdom (Insight) check tips the characters off that the adult gnome is disguised to look like a youngster. Jerr hopes to join the Zhentarim one day, but he needs a

mugging the next group of distracted strangers to wander down the wrong street seems like just the ticket. The four bandit members of the crew are run-of-the-mill criminals looking to get ahead in the

Areas of the Air Temple

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse

, creating giant wheels. Two robed figures whip five sorry-looking humans into pushing against the crossbeams of the westernmost wheel with all their might. As the wheel turns slowly counterclockwise

cultists stop playing. Frustrated with the mediocre initiates, Windharrow asks if the characters are skilled musicians and if they would like to audition for the band. If a bard character or a character

Lottie's Palace

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

the far wall features another set of double doors. The clientele here all look a lot like the duergar you saw in the town of Fortune. All are gambling in a frenzy, arguing with one another over tokens

any game for a cost of 3 tokens (available from the cashier). You can use any combination of checks and roleplaying you like to represent a character’s attempts to gamble, but each game should involve

Locations on the Entrance Level

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6

bandy legs. His teeth are tusk-like and protruding, his side whiskers and beard bright orange and full. Snurre is clad in black iron plate armor, and he wields a huge greatsword that displays flames

!). Queen Frupy, who resides here, is a veritable harridan, a sly and cunning fire giant. She is, if anything, uglier than Snurre. Topped by a huge mass of yellow-orange hair that looks like a fright

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