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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
looks. When characters arrive, most of the flames come from haystacks and barns, not from homes or shops. The Stream. The stream that flows past Greenest is shallow (seldom more than 3 feet deep) with a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Blingdenstone, omitting the second paragraph if they arrive unescorted. You leave the dark tunnel behind and step into what looks like another world. These aren’t sinister drow caverns or harsh, bare stone
, the true character of the settlement is revealed. Warm, cozy, and welcoming, Blingdenstone is a rarity in the Underdark. Read the following boxed text when the characters first arrive in Inner
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
. The inside of the keep is brightly illuminated. Fires. The cultists tried to set buildings ablaze as they moved through town, but thatch isn’t as flammable as it looks. When characters arrive, most of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Arrival Once the characters arrive at the gates of Gauntlgrym, they are welcomed as the king’s guests and escorted into the underground city, through the Vault of Kings (see below), and shown to
also have one or two of the faction representatives described under “Forging an Alliance” pass the characters in the corridors of the city, giving them curious looks — and perhaps even making a brief introduction — before moving on.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Arrival at the Wreck When the characters arrive at the wreck, read or paraphrase the following boxed text to the players: A towering wreck rises from the scorched hellscape. It looks like a giant
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
characters arrive, read the following: The landscape around you bears the scars of a purple worm’s habitation, a complex of caves that collapsed as the worm created its rubble-filled tunnels. You see
a crack in the face of a cliff that looks like an entrance to an undamaged cave. Around it, a few fifteen-foot-diameter, rubble-filled holes provide clear evidence of a purple worm’s passage. Vultures
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
lasts for as long as the aboleth maintains concentration, as if concentrating on a spell. Although the projection is intangible, it looks, sounds, and moves like the aboleth. Illuun can sense, speak
the characters from the west, trapping them in the tunnel. As soon as the chuuls and the troglodytes arrive and begin their attack, the aboleth projection disappears.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
Mosaic Mimir might draw odd looks, but no challenges. Curst’s Walls A 30-foot-tall wall of rusted metal and razorvine surrounds Curst. It’s patrolled by a ruthless cadre of guards called the Wall
gates. If attacked, these guards call on additional maelephants, which arrive in 2 rounds. The Watch also uses a flight of four trained wyverns to prevent flying creatures from escaping. If the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
the guards behave when they arrive. Gate Interactions d8 Interaction 1 The guards thoroughly search packs and vehicles, questioning everything and everyone. 2 The guards force a line of travelers
conducted by the book. 8 The guards are spoiling for a fight and attack anyone who looks like they might be guilty. Watch Reactions d8 Reaction 1 The guards immediately arrest the poorest
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
the guards behave when they arrive. Gate Interactions d8 Interaction
1 The guards thoroughly search packs and vehicles, questioning everything and everyone.
2 The guards force a line
arrested and who goes free.
7 An officer arrives with the group, insuring that any arrests are conducted by the book.
8 The guards are spoiling for a fight and attack anyone who looks like
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
devil disguised as a human. A disguised devil looks like a muscular, bearded male human in house livery. A creature that observes one closely can, with a successful DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check
servants who work at the villa live in dingy homes in the Dock Ward or the Field Ward and travel across the city in the wee hours of the morning to arrive before the Cassalanters awake. With the exception
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Stranger Things
The Proud Princess With a blast of lightning and thunder, the Proud Princess appears on a hill near the characters. She is strong and proud, a warrior princess, who looks at the characters and
damage and spilling a small amount of blood. If the group spills a total of 3 hp worth of blood, the demogorgon will arrive 1d6 minutes later, leaping from the darkness and attacking the group. If the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
passage connecting the keep to the dungeon levels. Shortly after sunrise the day after you arrive in town, you hear a commotion outside. Someone shouts, “Hey, stop that!” A moment later voices break into a
low, strange chanting.
When the characters investigate, add the following information. Several strangely dressed people stand in the street. One who looks like a priest chants as the others open a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
Meeting the Captains Within a few days, the two captains arrive via rowboat through the marsh to talk to the party. Their vessels are anchored out at sea, awaiting the party if they are selected as
ship on the sea that the Dancing Delight can’t outmaneuver or outrun on the open ocean. Kristoffen looks at Stands in Tar with a mixture of disgust and horror, shaking his head in disbelief that anyone
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
. Steadings d6 Adventure Hook 1 A young giant looks for adventurers’ help turning the rest of the steading, including the young giant’s family, away from the worship of a demon lord. 2 The only possible
against the conqueror. Adventurers are asked to make sure no alliance is made. 5 A dozen people arrive in a small town after escaping from captivity in a giant steading. Their fierce habits disrupt the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
10: Guild House This guild house offers membership to merchants and artisans, who enjoy benefits such as workshop space, library access, and armed escorts.
When the characters arrive at the guild
Guild Master
Stat Block: Noble
This guild master helps fellow artisans get a good deal for their wares and services.
Judgmental. Toryn looks down on artisans who refuse to join the guild
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
26. Vampire Boss If the characters haven’t already encountered and defeated Keresta Delvingstone, she’s here when they arrive (see “Keresta Delvingstone”). The vampire is not alone. The room’s
by a 2-foot-deep blanket of fog. Nine vampire spawn crawl under the fog and try to remain hidden until Keresta commands them to attack.
Keresta Delvingstone. Keresta looks like a pale woman with a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
’ superior is directed to Major Kalar, who has a command tent nearby. Meeting Major Kalar If the characters follow the guards’ directions, they arrive at a field covered in simple command tents. It takes 15
looks up from a desk covered in neat stacks of papers and folded envelopes. Her brow furrows. “This isn’t the welcome center, slates. March on.”
Major Nirra Kalar (lawful neutral, hobgoblin gladiator
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Rose and Thorn The characters are pulled into Strahd’s domain by the mists of Ravenloft. Forced to follow a lonely road (area A), they eventually arrive at the village of Barovia (area E). Once they
children learn the following information: The children don’t know what the “monster” looks like, but they’ve heard its terrible howls. Their parents (Gustav and Elisabeth Durst) keep the monster
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
are well oiled, the drapes and wallpaper haven’t faded, and the furniture looks new. No effort has been made to preserve the contents of the third floor or the attic. These areas are dusty and drafty
-high ceilings, the third floor has 8-foot-high ceilings, and the attic has 13-foot-high ceilings.
None of the rooms in the house are lit when the characters arrive, although most areas contain
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
the door.
Illithids. Two mind flayers are present. One stands behind the grimlock, feasting on its brain while telepathically communicating the experience to the second mind flayer, which looks on
outnumbered. They try to stun as many characters as possible, then gather reinforcements from area 12h. Most of the grimlock’s brain is consumed by the time the characters arrive. Short of a raise dead
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
displacer beast that looks after stray children until they can be reunited with their parents. The keg fastened to its collar is filled with toffee apple juice and fitted with a spigot for easy
pouring. The juice never fails to console an upset child. When the characters arrive, the displacer beast is minding two boys named Viro and Allowin while their mother fetches food and drink. The displacer
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
beautiful young woman with auburn hair. Strahd commissioned the painting over four centuries ago to impress his beloved. The fact that Ireena Kolyana looks exactly like Tatyana is proof to Strahd that
Theological text Teleport Destination Characters who teleport to this location from area K78 arrive in front of the painting of Tatyana. Fortunes of Ravenloft If your card reading reveals that a treasure is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
they aren’t awake when the characters arrive (see below). Characters who succeed on a DC 12 Dexterity (Stealth) check can climb over the low outer wall without waking them. If one or more characters
feet, 9 inches tall and squats instead of standing upright. He looks like a beardless dwarf with patches of donkey flesh covering his face and body. He has one human ear and one wolf’s ear, and a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
the level of the ground. It looks larger than the hole and extends into darkness on all sides. A heap of loose earth is piled in the middle. The children who first fell in are sitting on the mound of
down in the pit as more onlookers arrive. It’s clearly time for a rescue mission. Rescuing those who’ve fallen is a matter of lowering a rescuer down with a rope, tying it around a victim, and having
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
magic. They can’t be targeted by such magic or perceived through magical scrying sensors. No doors or passages lead to or from the room. The characters arrive here by way of the teleportation archway in
, illuminating a giant corpse lying on the floor beneath a shroud of frost in the middle of the room. The corpse looks like it has been here for some time, preserved by the cold. Next to the body rests a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
family’s heels and fan out around the woman, who looks determined to delay the creatures for as long as possible.
The woman is Linan Swift, and her husband is Cuth. Linan is a commoner but with 8
keep, characters earn a bonus of 50 XP per nonplayer character (NPC) brought alive into the keep. Divide this bonus equally among the party members. Alternatively, if you are using the milestone experience rule, the characters reach 2nd level once they arrive at the keep.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
family’s heels and fan out around the woman, who looks determined to delay the creatures for as long as possible. The woman is Linan Swift, and her husband is Cuth. Linan is a commoner but with 8 hit
. Alternatively, if you are using the milestone experience rule, the characters reach 2nd level once they arrive at the keep.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
courtyards paved with silver bricks, and the secret desires of the multiverse. Foyer Nafas receives visitors in the foyer—a wide, windowed reception hall that looks out on the Infinite Staircase. As one
arrive at the Censer of Dreams, Nafas’s palace on the Infinite Staircase Well of Destiny The voices of the multiverse cry out in the Well of Destiny. A sanctum located within the silvery dome that rises
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
looks just like Chishinix’s. The mind flayer’s psychic powers are tied to this severed head, which Chishinix must keep by her side. The severed head, in turn, reads Chishinix’s thoughts, ensuring she
to hover above the eye level of anyone else, unfurling her wings to emphasize her intimidating and otherworldly nature. Pursuing the Fanatics The fanatics aren’t present when the characters arrive
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Gash the Gnoll Minutes after the characters arrive, they hear the sounds of footsteps approaching. A few moments later, a gnoll slinks from the tunnel ahead. A gnoll creeps out of the shadows
, glancing cautiously at the piles of heads to either side of it. Its filthy body is bent and covered with tatters of clothing and scraps of blood-crusted armor. The creature looks you over with one good eye
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
ceiling of area F1. As they do, read the description of area F1 to the players. When they arrive, they find the elderly elf Varnyr precariously balanced on a ladder while arranging a few of the
voice from below.
“Oh?” The elf looks down and seems surprised at your presence. Then she says, indicating the room around her, “Ah. Visitors. I’m Scribe Varnyr. Sorry for the state of things. As
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
at a slight angle over the trees. It looks like something is burning just over the next ridge.
The burning farm is within five minutes’ travel. Once the characters approach within sight, read the
in the wagon among the cargo. Saving Selwyn Selwyn is just returning to consciousness in the house’s front room when the characters arrive. The fire was set at the back side of the building and is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
come back from foraging. They arrive in the middle of combat. When the fighting begins, read: Stroking his well-kept white beard, the old man begins to mock you as his students take up fighting
.”
Bak Mei doesn’t hesitate to kill. He attacks ferociously and chides the characters for their lack of martial refinement. When he’s near death and victory for his order looks unlikely, he begs for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
lazy, sleep-deprived apprentice named Flewen Aldhark (NG male Chondathan human mage) to mind the circle at night. If the characters arrive while Flewen is on duty, there is a 90 percent chance he’s
nearby festhalls. There is a 50 percent chance that Revil is absent when the characters arrive, in which case he returns after 1d4 hours. The stairs leads up to a secret door that opens inside a large