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Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
themselves like brigands, robbing people they come across in the wild. If food is scarce, they kill those same people and eat them. They prefer to dwell in forlorn places, often sharing territory with
hill giants and ogres. It's not unusual to find a gang of hill giants and ogres led by a verbeeg, since verbeeg are much smarter than their brutish cousins. Verbeeg also enjoy the company of
Elf
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high cliff over the fabled city of Qualinost.
Four slender spires rose from the city’s corners like glistening spindles, their brilliant white stone marbled with shining silver. Graceful
arches, swooping from spire to spire, soared through the air. Crafted by ancient dwarven metalsmiths, they were strong enough to hold the weight of an army, yet they appeared so delicate that a bird
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
shaft into area 3b. Muiral’s Gauntlet has architectural features commonly found in drow fortresses. Its 20-foot-wide, 30-foot-high corridors have arched ceilings bridged at regular intervals by web-like
latticework arches serving as buttresses and rafters. Many of these “web arches” are cracked and broken. Shattered pieces of these arches lie scattered across the floor, as well as the remains of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
a high cliff over the fabled city of Qualinost.
Four slender spires rose from the city’s corners like glistening spindles, their brilliant white stone marbled with shining silver. Graceful arches
on them might overthrow the balance. These glistening arches were the city’s only boundaries; there was no wall around Qualinost. The elven city opened its arms lovingly to the wilderness
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
over the fabled city of Qualinost.
Four slender spires rose from the city’s corners like glistening spindles, their brilliant white stone marbled with shining silver. Graceful arches, swooping from
overthrow the balance. These glistening arches were the city’s only boundaries; there was no wall around Qualinost. The elven city opened its arms lovingly to the wilderness.
— Margaret Weis & Tracy
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
has been cracked open like an egg, with a fissure extending down one side of the building. Wooden scaffolds have been recently erected along this flank and work is clearly apace to rebuild the
structure. At the foot of the tower, two ruined arches open into the interior.
The tower is unguarded, and the only person present is the wizard Gallio Elibro. Refer to “Dealing with Gallio Elibro” if the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
, each one containing a standing suit of armor covered with dark stains. Each suit of armor clutches a mace, the “business end” of which is shaped like a dragon’s head. Words engraved on the arches above
K19. Grand Landing Massive stairs rise to a landing twenty feet wide by forty feet long. Stone arches support a ceiling covered with frescoes twenty feet overhead. The frescoes depict armored knights
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
sky, anchored in ends so distant she couldn’t perceive them, their middle parts revolving angrily like pieces of string rolled between a child’s fingertips. She glanced down, wondering what supported
great silvery sea, the same above and below, with swirling wisps of white and gray streaking among motes of light like distant stars. Most of the Astral Sea is a vast, empty expanse. Visitors occasionally
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Q3. Dragon’s Foyer This room feels like a king’s tomb. A grand staircase leads up to stone balconies held aloft by stone pillars and arches. A tall, faded tapestry depicting a nobleman in silver
fourth bust and its pedestal have been knocked over, and their shattered remains lie strewn across the mosaic floor. Two chandeliers of wrought iron hang from the ceiling like monstrous black spiders
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
deal that sounds too good to be true or is confusing, they’re likely to pause negotiations while they ask smarter devils for their opinions on the deal. The following ability checks can be made
character’s check result is higher than the devil’s, the character sees through the devil’s deception. Devils like to slip extra clauses into the fine print of a contract. When this happens, a character who can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
track of your rations, that’s really a personal failing.
3 I’m much smarter than I look, and if you can’t say the same, this is going to be a short conversation.
4 Elf, dwarf, horse—you
just means they need more of it!
8 I like to earn people’s trust, then lead them into dangerous situations and make off with their treasure while they’re distracted.
Faerie Dragon Ideals
Goblin
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Beast Masters and Slave Drivers
Goblins know they are a weak, unsophisticated race that can be easily dominated by bigger, smarter, more organized, more ferocious, or more magical creatures. Their god
out while still getting decent performance out of the slaves. But humanoids and monsters that are especially capable or that provide unusual services find themselves treated like favored (though
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
carvings almost beyond recognition and to create tentacle-like protrusions that weren’t part of the original design. These tentacles writhe as creatures pass by them — a harmless effect created by the
Mad Mage. 23b. Hall of Dead Dragons Ceiling. The 30-foot-high vaulted ceiling of this room is supported every 20 feet or so by thick stone arches.
Skeletal Displays. Standing in the hall are the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3
. Unsafe Stonework. In some places, the corbel arches that hold up the ceiling aren’t structurally sound. As a result, some spells might have disastrous effects. A spell like fireball (an explosion
The Ruins: General Features The walls inside the ruins are constructed of blocks of unmortared stone covered by stucco. The ceilings are of the same material, supported by corbel arches. Ceilings
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Orog Orogs are orcs blessed with a surprisingly keen intellect that ordinary orcs believe is a gift from the orc goddess Luthic. Like Luthic, orogs prefer to live underground, although the scarcity
of food often brings them to the surface to hunt. Orcs respect an orog’s strength and cunning, and a lone orog might command an orc war band. Stronger and Smarter. An orog uses its strength to bully
Yuan-ti Pureblood
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cannibalizing their victims, and then performed a sorcerous ritual while writhing in pools filled with living snakes that enabled them to mix their flesh with that of serpents, becoming like the gods in
agents infiltrate enemy governments to discover weaknesses that their leaders can exploit. The yuan-ti look forward to the day when their empire rises again and spreads across the world like venom through
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
. At the heart of the library is a snarl, a tangle in the fabric of magic, that glows like a miniature sun in the grand Hall of Oracles. A star arch called the Dawnbow curves across the sky above the
library, marking its location as a center of mystic learning. Arches welcome inquisitive minds into the library. Inside, almost every surface from the floor to the high ceiling is jammed with stacks of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
fabulous “treasure” taken from their victims. This might include a collection of battered helmets, a moldy wheel of cheese, a rough patch of animal fur fastened like a cloak, or a squealing, mud
-spattered pig. Ogres also delight in the gleam of gold and silver, and they will fight one another over small handfuls of coins. Smarter creatures can earn an ogre’s trust by offering it gold or a weapon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
cling to rocky cliffs and mountains, or roost on ledges in underground caves. They haunt city rooftops, perching vulture-like among the high stone arches and buttresses of castles and cathedrals, and
deliberately, but they are a physical manifestation of his evil. Gargoyles are mockeries of the elemental air that Ogrémoch despises. They are heavy creatures of living stone, yet capable of flight. Like
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
buildings in a city usually have four sides and a sloped or staggered pyramid-like exterior. It is customary for stone buildings to have a series of tiles or carvings of snakes encircling the ground level
paved. Fountains, gardens, and carved, freestanding columns are common elements. Six-foot-high walls high divide the community into city blocks or districts, with open arches allowing traffic to pass
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
. They prefer thrown spears above all other weapons, and a verbeeg usually has several spears for that purpose. Marauders. Verbeeg conduct themselves like brigands, robbing people they come across in
giants and ogres led by a verbeeg, since verbeeg are much smarter than their brutish cousins. Verbeeg also enjoy the company of mammalian beasts and allow bears, wolves, worgs, and other predators to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
visited and studied countless bizarre magical phenomena, from snarls to star arches to ancient shrines. She loves to share her wild theories with anyone who will listen. Kianne believes in using
are thrilling sights on campus. Ruxa, Patient Professor Ruxa (neutral good Quandrix professor of substance) looks like a bipedal brown bear and knows that wild new theories, though exciting, are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
stone arches beneath a 30-foot-high domed ceiling.
Frescoes. Stone panels set into the walls bear frescoes and Dwarvish runes.
The frescoes chronicle the birth of Melair, a common shield dwarf
orbs of light arranged like the eyes of a beholder appear in the middle of the room. This spectral display is one of Halaster’s harmless regional effects (see “Halaster’s Lair”) and lasts for 1 minute.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
metal platters, carry-bowls, and tureens. Its ceiling is a magnificent series of vaulted arches that crisscross to hold up a stone block ceiling, pierced in many places by the hanging roots of trees
growing above.
The air shimmers, and a female drow appears in the center of the chamber. The drow is an illusory projection, like a major image spell, that Nurvureem uses to speak with interlopers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
lives, like busybodies with cruel intentions. Any time a hag agrees to help someone, the bargain includes a price to be paid, plus a hidden plan by which she sets the mortal up to fail, or a way that
offering so she can examine it more closely, even if this makes it obvious she is interested. If she doesn’t have anything else like it, or can think of a use for it, or if having it means a rival
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
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6 My superiors are smarter and wiser than I am. I do what I’m told.
7 Never pass up the opportunity to make an easy bit of coin. That’s my motto.
8 I’m beginning to feel like the
your side, you can use complex terms like ex injuria jus non oritur and cogitationis poenam nemo patitur to frighten people into thinking you know what you’re talking about. With common folks who don’t
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
wide entryway, framed by slowly undulating tentacles. The arches over this area form a high ceiling. Chains dangle from the ceiling and hold glowing, violet orbs.
Four or Five Fragments. If the
supreme healing. A3: Disciples’ Chamber Six long, stone slabs protrude from the walls of this room like crude beds or benches. On the opposite side of the room, an altar bears a three-foot-wide, five
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
numerous. As clever as it is cruel, a leucrotta loves to deceive, torture, and kill. Because leucrottas are smarter and tougher than most gnolls, one could occupy an elevated position within a gnoll
into better and longer sport. Gnolls enjoy watching a leucrotta work almost as much as they like doing their own killing. Foulness Embodied. The leucrotta is so loathsome that only gnolls and others
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
on the floor near the center of the room. An odd array of stone monoliths — some upright standing stones, and others arranged in three-stone arches — stand around the chamber. Six low stone slabs are
beams, and loose rock to make it look like it has collapsed. A Medium or smaller creature can carefully pick a way through the debris. If someone uses an action to yank out a shoring timber, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
the love of money. So if you just like money — you know, as a friend — then it’s all good! Many Acq Inc franchises actively try to recruit monks into entrepreneurship, knowing of their reputation for
. Commercial Monasteries d10 Monastery
1 Monastery of the Eternal Spirits (legendary distillers)
2 House of the Upright Arches (creators of quality footwear)
3 Dome of the Curious Quill
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Giants of the Star Forge
Star Forge Locations These locations are keyed to the map. Dyson Logos Map: Star Forge View Player Version 1: Broken Bridge Crumbling piers and shattered bits of arches are all that remain of this
wear one of these rings like a bangle. Also within the pile is a stone medallion the size of a dinner plate, inscribed with the fire rune. A character can repair the cracked runestone in area 5 by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
at rank 1, you are given use of an Acquisitions Incorporated sending stone, an uncommon magic item that resembles a gemstone in a bold setting. It functions like a normal sending stone, except that
DC 15). The spell ends prematurely if the character loses the business card. Why Be a Secretarian? d8 Reason
1 You believe that people shouldn’t work harder; they should work smarter. And
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
hall has a row of pillars on either side, supporting elegant arches and framing colorful frescoes on the east and west walls. Rubble from the remains of immense stone doors lies to the north. A smaller
the ceiling, forming a cylindrical corridor fifteen feet in diameter. The surfaces are inky black but studded with tiny lights like stars in the night sky.
The “stars” embedded in the surfaces of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
know they are a weak, unsophisticated race that can be easily dominated by bigger, smarter, more organized, more ferocious, or more magical creatures. Their god was conquered by Maglubiyet, after all
the slaves. But humanoids and monsters that are especially capable or that provide unusual services find themselves treated like favored (though occasionally abused) pets. Virtually any kind of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Middle Level (M1-M9) M1. Foyer and Hallway The characters emerge from the portal in the grand foyer of the mansion. On this side, the portal looks like a double door. The ceiling arches to fifteen
Candlekeep for study. Matreous explains that he would dearly like to continue to explore the mansion’s mysteries himself, but he could be much more useful back in Candlekeep. Thanks to the research he






