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Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
mouths. These blank surfaces they cover with distinctive golden masks.
Returned reenter the world blank and undead. No longer possessing the ability to form long-term memories, they generally can
such cursed relics or with those who try to traffic in them. Finding an unscrupulous merchant willing to trade for Returned masks is rare, as the items are effectively another sapient being’s face
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
surfaces with empty eye sockets and gaping mouths. These blank surfaces they cover with distinctive golden masks.
Returned reenter the world blank and undead. No longer possessing the ability to form
Returned and want nothing to do with such cursed relics or with those who try to traffic in them. Finding an unscrupulous merchant willing to trade for Returned masks is rare, as the items are
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
mouths. These blank surfaces they cover with distinctive golden masks.
Returned reenter the world blank and undead. No longer possessing the ability to form long-term memories, they generally can
such cursed relics or with those who try to traffic in them. Finding an unscrupulous merchant willing to trade for Returned masks is rare, as the items are effectively another sapient being’s face
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
they cover with distinctive golden masks.
Returned reenter the world blank and undead. No longer possessing the ability to form long-term memories, they generally can’t build meaningful
who try to traffic in them. Finding an unscrupulous merchant willing to trade for Returned masks is rare, as the items are effectively another sapient being’s face. Convincing a merchant to buy
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
independently, constantly scanning her surroundings. Stained and moldering patchwork garments hide much of the leathery, mummified flesh that stretches over Bavlorna’s compact frame and
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Bavlorna can have only one creature swallowed at a time. If Bavlorna dies, a swallowed creature is no longer restrained and can escape from the corpse using 5 feet of movement, exiting prone.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
has to offer. They look prosperous, they’re filled with exciting tales, and they strike up a bond with a merchant who employs one or more of the characters. The next morning, that merchant informs
the characters that their services are no longer needed because he has hired more experienced guards. The newcomers are a troop of actors trying to pay their way to the next town. They are gambling that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
has to offer. They look prosperous, they’re filled with exciting tales, and they strike up a bond with a merchant who employs one or more of the characters. The next morning, that merchant informs
the characters that their services are no longer needed because he has hired more experienced guards. The newcomers are a troop of actors trying to pay their way to the next town. They are gambling that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
and into the basins, but no longer. Both basins are dry, and the dwarves’ stone beards are stained and discolored.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
, including one of the city’s current merchant princes. (Ekene-Afa gained fame and fortune as a gladiator before retiring from the arena to become a trader and politician.) Events are held on most afternoons
Hill. The chief priest of Waukeen in Port Nyanzaru is Sibonseni, Mother of Prosperity (LN female Chultan priest). She is one of the city’s most influential residents after the merchant princes, and she
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
muscles as the glow softens to reveal the interior of a sun-kissed cathedral. How light passes through the scab and into the stained glass windows is a mystery only magic can answer.
Pillars line a
, “The hero who becomes one with this blade exists no longer.” The characters can’t claim the sword until they complete the Idyllglen memory (see “Idyllglen” below).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
the sole guests within a crimson-stained castle. Passing judgment on each noble for abandoning her family, Mara bricked them into her castle’s walls. Rumors swiftly spread of Mara’s vengeance and the
castle whose walls cried. Mara was never seen again, and Castle Laventz came to be called the Castle of Lament. Centuries passed, and Castle Laventz fell to ruins. Eventually, the successful merchant
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
as a “Duergar Patrol” encounter instead. Random Encounters in Gracklstugh d20 Encounter 1–2 Abusive duergar guards 3–4 deep gnome (svirfneblin) merchant* 5–7 derro rioters* 8–9 drow emissary* 10–12
merchant and shouting accusations of heresy. Any Underdark native accompanying the party urges the characters not to intervene on the merchant’s behalf, telling them this isn’t their business and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
K15. Chapel Dim, colored light filters through tall, broken, and boarded-up windows of stained glass, illuminating the ancient chapel of Ravenloft. A few bats flutter about near the top of the ninety
damage on a successful one. The statuette is safe for all creatures to handle once it is no longer in contact with the altar. Gustav’s corpse wears a handsome, fur-lined black cloak embroidered with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
that bore the red-stained coffin of Harkon Lukas at its head. As the rebel forces neared the walls of the royal palace, they were met by a contrite monarch, who gave a heartfelt speech, begging
of fans. But before the reign of the wolf could begin, the Mists rose amid the assembled throng and closed around their champion. When they cleared, the sovereign-wolf was no longer a step away from rule, but a stranger in an unfamiliar provincial land called Kartakass.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Syndra Silvane’s Curse The party’s benefactor is a retired adventurer named Syndra Silvane. Being a wizard and merchant of no small repute, she has magic to expedite the party’s journey to Chult as
adventurer and merchant. A uniformed attendant leads you up a grand staircase to the third floor, then ushers you into a wood-paneled room with a fireplace, comfortable chairs, and a heavy table bearing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
closed.
The wardrobe contains two items: a pair of old, cracked leather boots with no value or special properties, and a ragged, stained cloak hanging on a peg. The cloak is tooled with a design of
-ridden, and the curtains that once screened the bed are torn and stained. There is no bed linen, but the bed is mostly intact.
While some smugglers have slipped away to nap here in recent months, there
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
of Aristocrats From the heads of scheming merchant families to immortal sorcerer-queens, each member of the aristocracy holds a measure of wealth and power—and they desire more. The rulers of a barony
that power and prestige lie just around the corner, this minor lordling grasps for every opportunity to climb the ranks. 2 Merchant Mastermind. Reputation, wealth, and power are one and the same for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
, read the following to set the scene: The city’s descent into Avernus has taken its toll on this once beautiful chapel. Nearly all the stained glass windows along the outside walls have been smashed, and
the main doors hang open. No sign of any other creatures in or around the building can be seen.
Characters can easily force their way into the chapel through any of its broken stained-glass windows
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
own crew in a direct attempt to control and protect its neighborhood. Such is the case with the Bloomridge Dandies, wealthy merchant scions who loudly proclaim that the Flaming Fist isn’t doing enough
stained on a piece of bark. He tells the party that the Drawing Tree in Insight Park sent it as a message.
8 The city’s sketchiest tea enthusiast invites the party into Jopalin’s for a free cup of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
and undead. No longer possessing the ability to form long-term memories, they generally can’t build meaningful relationships or establish new lives. Instead, most experience fleeting emotions and
. Most people on Theros know the tales of the Returned and want nothing to do with such cursed relics or with those who try to traffic in them. Finding an unscrupulous merchant willing to trade for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
own crew in a direct attempt to control and protect its neighborhood. Such is the case with the Bloomridge Dandies, wealthy merchant scions who loudly proclaim that the Flaming Fist isn’t doing enough
witnessed a bunch of rats feeding on a corpse in an alley. 7 The druid Torimesh offers one party member a strange symbol stained on a piece of bark. He tells the party that the Drawing Tree in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
, constantly scanning her surroundings. Stained and moldering patchwork garments hide much of the leathery, mummified flesh that stretches over Bavlorna’s compact frame and extraordinarily long, spindly
only one creature swallowed at a time. If Bavlorna dies, a swallowed creature is no longer restrained and can escape from the corpse using 5 feet of movement, exiting prone.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
remains reveals that he was killed by wounds from axes and crossbow bolts. Devlin’s ink-stained robes contain a journal that hints at the tomb’s mysteries (see “Devlin’s Journal” below). A search of the
parallel reality. Characters who walk the length of the circular corridor notice that Devlin’s body is no longer present — nor are any companions who waited behind for them. If they step back through the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
removing evidence of mind flayer activity); these methods are listed in the relevant areas. Putting the haunt to rest means the haunting no longer occurs there. Any character who worships Dumathoin knows
elderly dwarf in priestly vestments wanders around as though in shock, gripping a battleaxe stained with purple ichor. 3 Each character gains a nagging suspicion that mind flayers are currently
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
demiplane generates a traveling merchant who passes through Wisteria Vale to sell food, fabric, and other goods from “outside” the village, to further enhance the illusion that Wisteria Vale is a
real village. Three traveling merchants visit regularly. Each of these constructed commoners never stays longer than a day, and one appears only once every few weeks to break up the monotony of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Mithral Hall will be part of the alliance for much longer, but until rulership of the dwarven city is more firmly established, it remains a member. It is impossible to ascribe an overall character to
threats they must — to further that goal. In the end, though, a merchant of Waterdeep and one of Baldur’s Gate are concerned mainly for their own purses and the welfare of their home cities, and are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Attempts to salvage a sunken merchant ship are being thwarted by a bronze dragon who claims “finder’s rights.”
2 Betrayed by corrupt city officials, a bronze dragon is punishing the city by
both leaders to discover which has the worthier claim.
8 A bronze dragon fears that a remote library-fortress is no longer the best place to safeguard an infamous tome called the Antitheorem
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
desk are ink pots and ink-stained quills. Dangling from a rafter near the desk is a rusty cage that holds three folded paper birds flitting about like moths.
Endelyn writes her correspondence on
-foot-long rope that hangs down to the floor once the false ceiling is no longer an obstacle. A verse engraved on the bell in Elvish reads: Toll the bell within this spire
To journey to your heart’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
. Though at one time a wealthy merchant or powerful adventurer might hope to advance to the ranks of the patriars, there is no longer room, physically or otherwise, for the class of the Upper City to grow
, vandalism, or violence. Where merchants in other cities might hope to one day join the nobility, in Baldur’s Gate the best one can hope for is to become an absurdly wealthy and influential merchant
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Sea of Moving Ice, which has grown more tempestuous and difficult to navigate in recent months. Helka Jaggerath (half-elf commoner), a whale oil merchant in Bryn Shander, hires the characters to serve
Targos who complains about everything Telvaster Hangingbell, a 25-year-old man from a well-off merchant family in Neverwinter, looking to escape his responsibilities Kaska Lang, a 30-year-old author
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
The Sea Characters can row a boat for 8 hours per day, or can row longer at the risk of exhaustion (as per the rules for a forced march in chapter 8 of the Player’s Handbook). A fully crewed sailing
hostile) 7–8 Pirate ship (hostile) 9–10 Passing merchant ship (galley or sailing ship) 11–12 Killer whale sighting 13–14 Floating debris 15 Longship crewed by hostile berserkers 16 Hostile griffons or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
, farmhands, guides, or other unskilled laborers. For the most part, those who attend this fair are brutes, bandits, freeholders whose lands can no longer sustain them, or Uthgardt who wish to be among
merchant trying to get the upper hand on a rival, either through damage of goods, intimidation of workers, or theft of patrons and customers. To curb and control rowdiness, the Waterbaron employs the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
city-states of the coast and the rivalries of the Northlander isles. Any ship — be it pirate, privateer, or merchant vessel — could dock at Mintarn and find a warm welcome. Many treaties were struck
Dagult. Mintarn had been playing the game well, but now it finds itself backed into a corner with few moves left to make. The coin is no longer flowing into its harbors, and many of its best and brightest
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
roof. West of the double door are two unused merchant stalls with torn canopies. Tucked under some icy stairs in the northwest corner is a slender wooden hut with a crescent moon carved into its flimsy
layout of all levels of the castle but can’t be coerced or bribed into helping the characters until Kadroth is no longer a concern. Mere can move about the castle without drawing too much suspicion but
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
remains of this tome except ashes and a badly burned spine, upon which characters can discern the letters ETHER. It’s obvious that these letters were part of a much longer title, which happens to be
, a few blank sheets of parchment, and a set of calligrapher’s supplies. Next to the bookcase is a soot-stained hearth, wherein a scroll lies amid the ashes.
Macreadus had a rock gnome assistant named