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Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
, Wall of Force
1/Day Each: Befuddlement, Clone, Finger of Death, Mind Blank (cast before combat), SimulacrumProtective Magic. Manshoon casts Counterspell or Shield in response to the spell’s
ûn. Manshoon subtly cultivates this belief to keep his true forces hidden.
Manshoon seems to be a young man, but he is significantly older than he appears, and his mind harbors the skills and
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
for the Black Network in Waterdeep, setting up a cover in the Trades Ward in the form of a cramped little shop called Weirdbottle's Concoctions. Most of his potions and elixirs are nonmagical, but he
crafts magical ones for his Zhent friends.
Skeemo can add “sellout” to his credentials, his services having been bought by House Gralhund and the Black Network operatives loyal to Manshoon. The rock gnome uses paper bird;paper birds to send messages both to his new friends and his old ones.
Monsters
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
devouring its brain.
Mind Blast (Recharge 5–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Mind Blast"}. Qunbraxel magically emits psychic energy in a 60-foot cone. Each creature in that
area must succeed on a DC 16 Intelligence saving throw or take 26 (5d8 + 4);{"diceNotation":"5d8+4", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Mind Blast", "rollDamageType":"psychic"} psychic damage and
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
weapon.The lady of House Gralhund is no fool. She has a keen mind and the wisdom to discern friend from foe. She also has a husband who worships her (see “Orond Gralhund”) and a house that has the
government that will ensure House Gralhund's prosperity for generations to come.
Yalah shares the services of a half-orc bodyguard with her husband, although Hrabbaz is more loyal to her than to him. She also
Monsters
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
Elturel's fall. He died during the destruction wrought as the city was drawn to Avernus, but the priest rose as an undead creature. Even as an undead, Gideon remains his mistress's most loyal servant in
Elturel. He sees his cause as a noble one — fighting the demons whose chaos marks the end of all things. But his mind is broken and filled with hatred for those who refuse to follow his commands.Necrotic, PoisonBludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical AttacksRadiant
Young Deep Dragon
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Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
instill fear and scar the mind.
Deep dragons’ black-and-gray hide is smooth like a salamander’s, and their eyes are pale. As they age, their spore breath causes fungi to bloom across their
things in life by bringing me delicacies like clams or aboleth flesh.
6
I might be willing to exert myself to take out a mind flayer. Those disgusting creatures must be stopped.
7
I dream of
Demilich (Variant)
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Monsters
Monster Manual (2014)
evolution. The lich Acererak — a powerful wizard and demonologist and the infamous master of the Tomb of Horrors — anticipated his own transformation, preparing for it by setting enchanted
it to retreat into its ancient tomb and forget to feed on souls. The spells it once knew fade from its mind, and it no longer channels the arcane energy it wielded as a lich. However, even as a mere
Soldier
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Basic Rules (2014)
bearer
8
Support staff (cook, blacksmith, or the like)
FEATURE: MILITARY RANK
You have a military rank from your career as a soldier. Soldiers loyal to your former military
hatred.
d8
Personality Trait
1
I’m always polite and respectful.
2
I’m haunted by memories of war. I can’t get the images of violence out of my mind.
3
I
Classes
Xanathar's Guide to Everything
the influence of dark forces that drives them to evil. By setting the proper example, and working to heal the wounds of a deeply flawed world, you can set anyone on a righteous path.
Patience.
after day to allow that seed to survive and flourish.
Wisdom. Your heart and mind must stay clear, for eventually you will be forced to admit defeat. While every creature can be redeemed, some are
Classes
Xanathar's Guide to Everything
the influence of dark forces that drives them to evil. By setting the proper example, and working to heal the wounds of a deeply flawed world, you can set anyone on a righteous path.
Patience.
after day to allow that seed to survive and flourish.
Wisdom. Your heart and mind must stay clear, for eventually you will be forced to admit defeat. While every creature can be redeemed, some are
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Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
journals or hidden away in someone’s mind. Even you might not be aware of all the reasons behind the missions you carry out. Sometimes a mission’s sole purpose is to conceal the
facade. I want its secrets!
5
I’m utterly loyal to my superior in the guild, more than to the guild or its guildmaster.
6
Someone has discovered my true identity.
Flaws
Bard
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Humming as she traces her fingers over an ancient monument in a long-forgotten ruin, a half-elf in rugged leathers finds knowledge springing into her mind, conjured forth by the magic of her song
—knowledge of the people who constructed the monument and the mythic saga it depicts. A stern human warrior bangs his sword rhythmically against his scale mail, setting the tempo for his war chant
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Campaign Start With your campaign journal in hand and the basic premise of your campaign (characters, conflicts, and setting) in mind, it’s time to consider how to begin the campaign.
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Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
, blacksmith, or the like)
FEATURE: MILITARY RANK
You have a military rank from your career as a soldier. Soldiers loyal to your former military organization still recognize your authority and
respectful.
2
I’m haunted by memories of war. I can’t get the images of violence out of my mind.
3
I’ve lost too many friends, and I’m slow to make new ones.
4
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
chapter, a loyal grimlock servant of Qunbraxel (an ally of the mind flayer fanatics that’s described later in this adventure) traveled to Zorzula’s Rest to retrieve the shards before the adventurers
The Map Hex Sharpe The Sawplee Goblins’ Map The characters learned in chapter 5 about four obelisk shards around Phandalin that the Sawplee goblins gathered. The mind flayer fanatics possess these
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
region. After retrieving the remaining fragments, the fanatics plan to infuse the reconstructed obelisk with Ilvaash’s unholy energy and turn Phandalin’s population into mind flayers loyal to their evil
Threats from Below Unbeknowst to any townsfolk, three mind flayer fanatics lurk deep underneath the town and plot a chilling course. The fanatics worship Ilvaash, a godlet in the Far Realm, who is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Nihiloor The illithid Nihiloor works for Xanathar, spending its days creating intellect devourers and setting them loose in the sewers of Waterdeep. Each intellect devourer attacks the first
. Nihiloor has an alien mind, and it considers itself Xanathar’s equal. It has no interest in supplanting the beholder, however, preferring to operate in the shadows and pursue its own fell schemes. Game Statistics Nihiloor is a mind flayer.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Environmental Hazards When your earliest memories are of growing up in the Feywild, things like time-warping mushrooms, mind-bending fruit, and giant tabby cats seem far less whimsical and way more
bring an adventure’s setting to life. When a creature’s name appears in bold in a table herein, that indicates that you can find the creature’s stat block in the Monster Manual.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Final Breath A deity’s favored servant lies dying and calls down divine wrath. Pronouncement. The dying creature declares to the killer, “May your mind grow dim in battle until the sun sets forever
.” Burden. The character has disadvantage on attack rolls brought on by brief, sporadic bouts of confusion. Resolution. To lift the curse, the character must cause a symbolic setting of the sun or an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Chapter 5: Creating Campaigns Noor Rahman The arrival of a mind flayer nautiloid means trouble for
any world—and adventure for that world’s heroes! If encounters are the building blocks of a D&D
adventure, then adventures are the building blocks of a D&D campaign, for a campaign is what you get when you string two or more adventures together. A campaign setting is the world in which those
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
other hand, it’s just as easy to say that the gith of Eberron are tied to the setting and have no traffic with the broader multiverse. The gith are a race enslaved by the mind flayers, who overthrew these
cruel masters and raised fortresses in the planes. This story holds true in Eberron, with one twist. It was the daelkyr who invaded the world of the gith. The daelkyr created the first mind flayers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Basidia’s Aid As the characters approach the center of Araumycos’s great cavern complex, Basidia meets them with a small detachment of loyal myconids. The myconid sovereign explains that it can
Araumycos. Basidia’s rapport spores help facilitate the process, but Araumycos’s sleeping mind isn’t in full control of the defenses of its body, and might interpret the characters’ presence as an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Bard Humming as she traces her fingers over an ancient monument in a long-forgotten ruin, a half-elf in rugged leathers finds knowledge springing into her mind, conjured forth by the magic of her
song — knowledge of the people who constructed the monument and the mythic saga it depicts. A stern human warrior bangs his sword rhythmically against his scale mail, setting the tempo for his war chant
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Bard Humming as she traces her fingers over an ancient monument in a long-forgotten ruin, a half-elf in rugged leathers finds knowledge springing into her mind, conjured forth by the magic of her
song — knowledge of the people who constructed the monument and the mythic saga it depicts. A stern human warrior bangs his sword rhythmically against his scale mail, setting the tempo for his war chant
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Mind Flayer Fanatics The three most ruthless, domineering, and cunning mind flayers in Illithinoch spent their early lives scheming against one another. A few decades ago, they each realized the
potential in working together and swiftly dominated Illithinoch’s other mind flayers. Once they became masters of the stronghold, these three mind flayers engaged in increasingly bizarre and esoteric
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
reflect the character you have in mind. TIKA AND ARTEMIS: CONTRASTING CHARACTERS
The details in this chapter make a big difference in setting your character apart from every other character. Consider
the following two human fighters.
Hailing from the Dragonlance setting, Tika Waylan was a brash teenager who had a rough childhood. The daughter of a thief, she ran away from home and practiced her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
reflect the character you have in mind. TIKA AND ARTEMIS: CONTRASTING CHARACTERS
The details in this section make a big difference in setting your character apart from every other character. Consider
the following two human fighters.
Hailing from the Dragonlance setting, Tika Waylan was a brash teenager who had a rough childhood. The daughter of a thief, she ran away from home and practiced her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
don’t record a collectively remembered past, fictions spawn terrible facts, and sheltered villagers remain stubbornly ignorant about the world beyond. Ravenloft is a setting designed to cultivate
. This flexibility provides a powerful tool to upend assumptions of safety and tailor your characters’ struggles. It also encourages layers of mysteries about the nature of the setting. Is each domain
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
most loyal vassal, an ulitharid called Extremiton, to establish a splinter colony somewhere safe from githyanki incursions. Extremiton made its way to Undermountain with a group of mind flayers, laid
Mind Flayers Deep in the Underdark, a githyanki vanguard force attacked a large colony of mind flayers controlled by an elder brain. Fearing the colony’s destruction, the elder brain instructed its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
doing so they somehow compromised Corellon’s mutability as well. Whether or not Lolth tricked the primal elves, to Corellon’s mind, is beside the point. They chose to follow her lead, which precipitated
the schism between Corellon and Lolth, even if many of them ultimately remained loyal to Corellon. Now the elves of the world must forever live and die and live again, suffering the consequences of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
Andras and Stolos One of Thessalar’s most loyal assistants, Andrastolos was the subject of many of the artificer’s early magical trials. In a grand experiment, Andrastolos’s body and mind were split
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
is a vast fungus colony with a single mind, which fills the caverns and tunnels of the Underdark in an area the size of the High Forest. Araumycos is so interwoven with the fabric of the world that
discerned and sometimes even felt. Characters who ask the myconids about it receive mixed responses. Sovereign Phylo and those loyal to it enter a state of near bliss when they speak about Yggmorgus, as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
horrifying elements inform a fantasy tale. Evil dominates a dark fantasy setting, with depravity being commonplace and life holding little value. How dark you want to make your fantasy is up to you, but
keep in mind the role of heroes and ensure places for light in your dark fantasy domain. If a domain holds no place for hope, there’s also little call for resistance and meaningful plots. In addition
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
, pledgemages, and professors from the different colleges. SETTING UP SEDGEMOOR
The characters will have heard about Sedgemoor during their first year at Strixhaven, but they have likely had no reason
Sedgemoor for her spells. Set up this assignment in the course of preparing for this event, so that the characters have the task already in mind when they learn of the connections between Sedgemoor and the strange magic plaguing the campus.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
might not have the strength to win the fight alone, and that’s where adventurers come in. Gatekeepers can serve as patrons or advisors, providing crucial information or setting the adventurers on the
proper path. They can also come to the rescue of adventurers who are close to being overwhelmed by mind flayers or dolgaunts. At certain points in a campaign, the Gatekeepers might seem to be