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Basic Rules (2014)
communities travel as a way of life, driving wagons or guiding boats from place to place and maintaining no permanent home.
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Halflings try to get along with everyone else and are
;s going on behind their smiling faces—surely more than they ever let on.”
Humans. “Humans are a lot like us, really. At least some of them are. Step out of the castles and keeps
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Dreams of Perfection Anyone who sleeps in I’Cath enters Tsien Chiang’s dream of a bustling, beautiful city filled with smiling people. But the forced smiles hide desperation from the watchful eyes of
statistics they do in waking life. If a creature dies in the dream, it takes 3d6 psychic damage, returns to the waking world, and does not receive any benefit from the rest that just ended. The Nightingale
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
a way of life in this forested domain, with everyone from the bards of Skald to the actors of Emherst pursuing dazzling dreams. Here, the people live by a simple rule: never let an audience grow bored
. To outsiders, life feels staged and surreal in Kartakass, as every plant and beast, every peasant and performer strives to prove their greatness. Trees and flowers burst into bloom and then wither
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
other paths to power. Cloud Giant Smiling One Cloud giants aren’t, on the whole, religious. They tolerate many conflicting ideas about their patron deity, Memnor. The smiling ones strain that tolerance
. Smiling ones are cloud giants who honor and emulate Memnor’s craftiness and deceit above all else. They are tricksters supreme who use sleight of hand, deception, misdirection, and magic in their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
halflings’ hard work and loyal outlook offer them abundant rewards and creature comforts. Some halfling communities travel as a way of life, driving wagons or guiding boats from place to place and
faces, their music, their grace and all. It’s like they stepped out of a wonderful dream. But there’s no telling what’s going on behind their smiling faces — surely more than they ever let on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
and Humanoid townsfolk go about their business in peaceful harmony, moving between lush gardens and crisply clean shops and homes. Shortly after the characters arrive, a smiling lantern archon (see
Morte’s Planar Parade) approaches, welcomes the characters to Excelsior, and politely offers them directions to destinations in town. CoupleOfKooks “Excelsior isn’t just a home; it’s a way of life. We
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
orb hanging from a chain above the sarcophagus is made of hammered gold to resemble a smiling sun.
After Acererak slew the trickster gods of Omu and enslaved the city, Napaka, the city’s elderly
queen, chose not to flee, and instead offered herself as a sacrifice in exchange for the release of her people. Acererak was impressed by the queen’s courage — not enough to spare her life or honor her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
during the Hiring Fair or the Shieldmeet festival, each summer at least one adventuring band seems to get its start in Yartar. Most fall into obscurity, but the Smiling Company — the still-active
elected for life. The current Waterbaron is Nestra Ruthiol, a hot-tempered woman who is wickedly calculating; though she is free with her words and her insults, she seldom takes action against rivals
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
the water. Every creature in the room witnesses a silent, smiling reflection of the Mountain Cloud Empress appear in the water as the garden springs to life. Trees and flowers erupt from the stony
and long life. Four of them have the following contents: rotted documents, a suit of adamantine splint mail, slippers of spider climbing, and ancient coins worth 5,000 gp. The fifth cabinet radiates
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
, located belowdecks, looks like an antique chair with golden upholstery and arms sculpted to look like smiling dolphins. The right arm is loose and falls off easily (which has no effect on the item’s
’ problems to be fleeting affairs and takes a much longer view of life. Within Starbough’s reach are ten mangonel stones, which the treant can throw like rocks.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
the floor, as well as stairs that descend to the east. A stone slab blocks the way to the north.
The mosaics here once depicted the feats of Orestes, a scoundrel-hero who devoted his life to Phenax
. Doing so provides no special insight but reveals a few details of the life of the legendary character who lies interred within these halls. If a worshiper of Phenax enters the room, though, that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
alcove, across from which is a simple work desk covered in papers and books. Mounted on the back wall is the sculpted bust of a smiling red dragon.
The desk is covered with notes about magical constructs
piece to bring the image to life. Secret Entrance. The bust on the wall projects an illusion that conceals the entrance to the Ruby Sanctum (area N5). A See Invisibility spell or similar magic reveals
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
deck. N’ghathrod carries a rapier as an affectation but it not proficient with the weapon.
Before it turned to a life of space piracy, N’ghathrod lived in a mind flayer colony on the ringed planet of
be poisoned for 24 hours. Crate 4 contains 60 days of edible dry rations. Crate 5 is stamped with the symbol of a smiling gnome face encircled with the words “KRICKENHOF’S KRAFTWERKS” in carnival
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
-foot-deep frozen pool at the back of a dark cave. Trapped beneath the pool’s ice is a stone statue of a smiling young man, naked except for a well-placed oak leaf, with his face turned toward the sky
tries to flee for its life. The bear’s niche contains the gnawed skull and bones of a shield dwarf named Artin Glanhig (see area V3). Statue of Silvanus. The statue in the frozen pool, crafted using
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
rampage after running away from its giant owner
11 1d4 + 1 vampiric mists† (attitude: 1d4 + 1) lurking in a fog bank
12 1 cloud giant smiling one† (attitude: 1d10) seeking the Misty Vale
despair, sites where giants delved too deeply into necromantic magic, or areas where the Negative Plane’s life-consuming influence seeps into the world.
Death Giant Encounters d10† Encounter
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Religion. Of Annam’s many sons, none is greater than my patron deity. (Any) Giant Bonds d6 Bond 1 My clan is the most important influence on my life; our collective place in the ordning depends on
unit of cloud giant life is the family — a mated pair, their offspring (if any), and perhaps a couple of close relatives. Cloud giants prefer not to congregate in great numbers in any one place, to avoid
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
smiling figure with its hands held out, as if ready to accept an offering.
In contrast to the beatific pillars, alcoves around the room contain statues of four-armed gargoyles.
Advance Notice
ritual that uses this area’s magic to return soul-bound undead characters to life. If she is allowed to do so, Phaia flees the Doomvault. Aura. A detect magic spell reveals an aura of necromancy on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
ghastly sight awaits those who peer into the room: Across from the door, a fire sputters and struggles for life in the hearth, above which hangs a framed family portrait: a noble father and mother
, their two young sons, and a baby daughter in the father’s arms. The sons are smiling in a way that suggests mischief. The parents look like uncrowned royalty.
Wood paneling covers the walls of the room
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
they pass through the gatehouse is a 20-foot-tall wooden statue of Chauntea, depicted as a plump, smiling woman standing with her hands on her hips in a garden of golden wheat, surrounded by a dirt
smoke issue from its many chimneys on rainy days and cold nights. Life-size statues of rearing horses flank the double doors that lead to the common room. Above these doors hangs a wooden sign that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
fragments sits on Edino’s desk. The other three fragments are in a desk drawer. Any character who examines a fragment and succeeds on a DC 15 Intelligence (Arcana) check senses there’s a life force trapped
at various stages of his life. A hallway leads east, and in the center of the room, stairs descend to the lower level.
The murals in this room depict Xeluan’s legend (see the “Adventure Background
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
prison, he moved to Triboar to start a new life. T3. West Caravan Campground This campground is similar to area T2. A 30-foot-deep stone well in the middle of the yard provides fresh water for guests
tiefling commoner), a savvy businessman with a wicked smile. He likes to lean against the taproom doorway, drying and polishing a mug while nodding and smiling at passersby. His prices are reasonable, his
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
recently painted, include the following: A somber young Victoro with his beaming human father A wedding portrait, showing Victoro and Ammalia smiling and carefree Twelve-year-old Osvaldo holding a
, the room is cluttered with dozens of toys. In the morning, the toys are returned to their toy boxes by a housemaid. A life-sized stuffed unicorn stands in one corner. If Terenzio and Elzerina are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
.” The top shelf holds a stuffed cat that shambles to life when the cabinet is opened. The cat formerly belonged to Bavlorna’s sister, Endelyn. (She suspects Bavlorna stole the cat, but she has no proof
cages hang from wooden beams that extend out from this balcony over the lake below. Trapped inside one of the cages is a smiling satyr. “Hello there!” he says.
These iron cages are used to store soon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
manicured shrubbery. The yard is decorated with white marble benches and stone fountains, each in the form of a smiling nymph tipping a jug that spills water into a circular stone basin.
An invisible
assassins conspired with my brothers to kill me. If you hadn’t come along, I’d be dead. I owe you my life.” “My family is paying the Dead Three cultists to murder people in the city. Our goal is to prove
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
enter the cavern, the spirit and specters attack, eager to feed off the characters’ life force. Treasure. Scattered on the floor at the far end of the chamber are 480 gp, 800 sp, twenty assorted gems
the characters enter also contains a framed painting of a narrow boat on turbulent seas. A pale, raven-haired woman stands at the tiller, smiling under a stormy night sky. Teleportation Lock. As the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
much of the troubles, but she tells Eldras and their children none of it. Life is better undarkened by such matters, she figures. 10. Drouth Fine Poultry This largest of the two Red Larch poultry
says “Bethendur’s Storage/Rent Space by tenday, month, or year,” a tall, smiling man emerges to meet them. This is Aerego Bethendur (male Tethyrian human noble). He is assisted by three burly clerks and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
chapter). High-Backed Chairs. One of the chairs has a smiling quasit carved into its back, near the top. If anyone other than Zybilna sits in this chair, the quasit magically shouts “This is not your
characters while Warduke is on the party’s side. In the face of certain defeat, Kelek begs for mercy and offers to reveal a secret about Zybilna in exchange for his life and freedom. If the party agrees, Kelek
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
creature if the creature takes damage or someone uses an action to wake it.
Boldly Talkative. A brass dragon engages in conversations with thousands of creatures throughout its long life
carvings of the dragon’s smiling visage can be seen worked into stone terrain and objects within 6 miles of the dragon’s lair. Tiny beasts such as rodents and birds that are normally unable to speak gain