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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
, though some dragon turtles prefer coastal lairs with easier access to settlements they can trade with—or prey upon. Particularly reclusive dragon turtles seek lairs in even more remote locales
mile of the dragon turtle’s lair form two-way portals to the Elemental Plane of Water, allowing creatures of elemental water into the world to dwell nearby.
Hot Water. Geothermal vents heat the
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
legendary emerald dragon are terrorizing a nearby halfling settlement. One solution is to get rid of the dragon.
6
An emerald dragon is the headmaster in absentia of a bardic college and must be
a constant battle against deep gnome miners, who scour the tunnels of the dragon’s lair in search of emeralds.
2
An adult silver dragon tries to befriend and draw out a reclusive adult
Monsters
Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
. Their song has a strange magical current to it, causing those who hear it to suffer a stomach-churning vertigo that makes it impossible to move at speed or climb cave walls. Spellcasters suffer as their
inevitably emerge on the surface, the dire corbies’ voracious appetites cause them to quickly strip their new environment—including any nearby settlements—of life.Thunder
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
settling nearby. The former keep has been reborn as the Sacred Stone Monastery, now home to a reclusive order of mysterious monks (actually earth cultists in disguise) who spend their days in meditation
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
abandoned. Some wander the world, hoping to learn as much of its ways as they can; others are hermits who seek spiritual enlightenment in solitude. Some reclusive giants enjoy their solitude, while others
are desperately lonely or eager to find a settlement where they can live among their own kind. The Recluses table offers adventure hooks you can use to launch an adventure with a reclusive giant
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Intro to Stormwreck Isle
an arcane observatory built on a nearby island by wizards long gone, and it hinted at powerful magic hidden there. A small cloister known as Dragon’s Rest also resides on the island. The caretaker of
the cloister’s temple to the dragon god Bahamut, who is a patron of heroes and a champion of justice, must have information regarding the observatory. This Elder Runara can set you on the path to discovering the knowledge your friend never found. View Character Sheet Downloadable PDF
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Intro to Stormwreck Isle
Elf Fighter Shawn Wood Your parents lived in the prosperous village of Thundertree, east of the city of Neverwinter and at the edge of the Neverwinter Wood. But when nearby Mount Hotenow erupted
justice. Maybe Elder Runara can help you determine exactly what your heroic destiny is and set you on the right path to fulfill it, so you can become the hero you know you’re meant to be. View Character Sheet Downloadable PDF
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
a champion of justice. Someone at the cloister may hold the key to the impending doom your deity wishes you to avert. View Character Sheet Downloadable PDF Elf Fighter Shawn Wood Your parents lived
in the prosperous village of Thundertree, east of the city of Neverwinter and at the edge of the Neverwinter Wood. But when nearby Mount Hotenow erupted thirty years ago, your parents fled, perhaps
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
gold and platinum in the nearby foothills, you came to Phandalin as well, not to earn a living, but to prey on those who struck it rich. You joined a gang calling itself the Redbrands and made some
world a better place. But you have no interest in causing suffering or making things worse than they already are. View Character Sheet Downloadable PDF
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Uthgardt barbarians nearby, and the equivalent of a menacing orc horde that’s more distant. A big city that’s at least a few days’ travel away, preferably reachable by both river and road. There
to replace them with the following (with the understanding that they aren’t perfect matches): Syrania, the Azure Sky (air) Kythri, the Churning Chaos (earth) Fernia, the Sea of Fire (fire) Lamannia, the Twilight Forest (water)
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
alliances with their human and dwarf neighbors as needs warrant. Reclusive and secretive, the gnomes craft minor magic items and useful, nonmagical inventions to pass the time. In these endeavors, their
Gnomengarde echo with the roar of the nearby waterfall. The sound is so loud that gnomes and visitors must shout to be heard unless there’s a closed door between them and the waterfall.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
into view. As these creatures travel, they hoot, chirp, and howl in maddening cacophony. Their song has a strange magical current to it, causing those who hear it to suffer a stomach-churning vertigo
monstrous inhabitants to flee for safer lairs. When they inevitably emerge on the surface, the dire corbies’ voracious appetites cause them to quickly strip their new environment—including any nearby
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
nearby land. Giant Trinket. While exploring your home, you discovered some trivial remnant of the ancient inhabitants, as determined by rolling on the Giant Trinkets table. The items in parentheses are the
. In any case, your time spent among these elemental forces deeply affected you. The Material Plane feels mundane and controlled, especially when you have experienced firsthand the churning chaos of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
monsters and kidnap travelers and isolated miners to work as slaves in their mines, but they’re careful to eliminate witnesses. So far no one suspects that “those reclusive monks” are behind the troubles. In
raise the alarm. However, the cultists do respond aggressively to the sounds of fighting. When a fight begins in an area, check adjacent areas to see if any other monsters or villains are nearby. Then
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
nearby. Then, of course, there’s the small force of bugbears guarding the pen and the gnolls surrounding the inn. That doesn’t look right at all.
The amount of time the characters spend skulking
around town is up to them. Each time they investigate a feature noted below, roll a d10. On a roll of 1, a patrol of two nothics working for the Six attempts to ambush the party from the cover of nearby
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
legendary emerald dragon are terrorizing a nearby halfling settlement. One solution is to get rid of the dragon.
6 An emerald dragon is the headmaster in absentia of a bardic college and must be
dragon attempts to drive off a clan of cyclopes who have taken up residence in a nearby cave, attacking the clan’s herd of giant goats.
6 An assassin and a young emerald dragon train together to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
buried in a rock slide, badly injured and unable to recall what happened—or the location of the dragon’s lair.
4 A reclusive, eccentric noble who sometimes employs adventurers turns out to be a
trying to engineer peace for two nearby domains by facilitating a romance between the heirs of those lands’ rulers.
8 A hobgoblin warlord scarred by a copper dragon in youth has raised an army to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
coastal lairs with easier access to settlements they can trade with—or prey upon. Particularly reclusive dragon turtles seek lairs in even more remote locales, including deep-sea trenches or
portals to the Elemental Plane of Water, allowing creatures of elemental water into the world to dwell nearby. Hot Water. Geothermal vents heat the water within 6 miles of the dragon turtle’s lair to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
storm giants, the reclusive storm giants rarely engage with the rest of giantkind. As a result, many cloud giants see themselves as having the highest status and power among the giant races. They order
brutes and combat fodder — sometimes fighting for the cloud giants’ amusement. A cloud giant might order hill or frost giants to steal from nearby humanoid lands, which it considers to be a fair tax
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
lifetime, the isle of Gwynneth has become ever more fey and mysterious, home to the elven realm of Sarifal, under the rule of High Lady Ordalf. Sarifal shares the island with the reclusive mountain
Northlanders, who herd sheep, fish the nearby waters, and occasionally go raiding or pirating. Dozens of separate settlements are their own mini-kingdoms with little that unifies them besides a shared
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
at the Loggers’ Camp might be able to escape from the burrowing monsters by jumping in the nearby river. Similarly, characters who are willing to negotiate with the wererats in the Mountain’s Toe Gold
Harbin Wester to collect a reward of 50 gp.” If the characters undertake this quest, see “Dwarven Excavation.” Gnomengarde Quest. “A clan of reclusive rock gnomes resides in a small network of caves in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
. The magic churning in the obelisk fragment proved to be their doom, however, as it activated the nearby mudslick tower, blocking the vault’s only exit. Unable to batter through the stone tower, the
into one wall.
A grick alpha recently moved into this area and is coiled around one of the eastern stalactites, where it can easily slither down the nearby wall to snag prey. A character who succeeds
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Map a new land. 9 Find a place to establish a colony. 10 Find a natural resource. 11 Hunt a specific monster. 12 Return home from a distant place. 13 Obtain information from a reclusive hermit. 14 Find
traveling on a road, the characters are attacked by monsters that flee into the nearby adventure location. 4 The adventurers find a map on a dead body. In addition to the map setting up the adventure
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Stone Giants Stone giants — reclusive, reflective, and inscrutable — take pains to remain apart from the world of sunlight and sky. Only when they’re surrounded by stone do they consider themselves
politely. A creature’s first sign that it has intruded into stone giant territory might be a boulder, thrown seemingly from nowhere and exploding into shards against a nearby rock. Those who know
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
associate of Gellan Primewater. He uses his magic to help a gang of smugglers based out of the nearby Tower of Zenopus in exchange for rare spell components and magic items. 7. Faithful Quartermasters
brick building contains the offices of the town council and the chamber where they meet to discuss the town business. The hall is built from sturdy stone from the nearby cliffs and a variety of hardwood
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
remain in the roost are Indifferent and fight only if the characters make a lot of noise nearby or ascend to the wyverns’ roost. If the characters get in a fight here, the hunting wyverns return to
minute, spreading from the churning water toppling down the cliffs. A character must succeed on a DC 15 Strength (Athletics) check to climb up or down the slippery cliffs. On a failure, the character
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
newly returned tower (see the “Tower Sorcerous” section). Rumor has it Duke Rowan Darkwood pays handsomely for information about his reclusive neighbors and their fortress. Society of Sensation
, blue-domed repository of knowledge that serves as Sigil’s de facto welcome center. Sedan chair drivers, touts, and translators loiter nearby, hollering their services at pedestrians. Public notices and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
often winter in Beorunna’s Well, and many of its hunters and trappers use the settlement as a place to sell the leather and furs they acquire in nearby forests.
Sky Pony. In a part of the
World Mountains just north of the Evermoors, is the site of Great Worm Cavern, the ancestral mound of the Great Worm tribe. These Uthgardt are notoriously reclusive; it has been twenty years since the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Falls The dull roar of splashing, churning mud fills this cavern, the walls and ceiling of which are streaked with glittering veins of glowing violet crystal. A stream of mud pours through a gash in the
small cave is filled by a nest made of broken shards of rock. Nearby, a bedroll is laid out on the ground with an odd saddle sitting in place of a pillow.
If the party didn’t encounter Rorgrin in area
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
on the inner walls bear ropes, tackle, leather harnesses, wheels, and leatherworking tools. Shoved into a corner is a crate filled with horseshoes. Nearby, shelves hold smaller boxes filled with
more ravens watch from the rafters.
The man is an oni named Gwish. Guildmaster Dusk is the only other guild member who knows Gwish’s true nature. Gwish is reclusive and rarely interacts with the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
large contingent of its City Guard here, using a nearby barracks as the base for outriders who infrequently patrol the road north as far as Amphail and south to Waterdeep. Yondral Horn (N male shield
reclusive and secretive, yet they are interested to hear what’s afoot in Waterdeep, for they suspect the Margaster family is plotting to attack the fortress and reclaim its ancestral holding. Travelers are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
a storm of churning elements. Cradle of the Storm Scion Gargantuan Elemental, Typically Chaotic Good
Armor Class 19 (natural armor)
Hit Points 682 (35d20 + 315)
Speed 40 ft., fly 60 ft. (hover
condition.
Slam. Melee Weapon Attack: +18 to hit, reach 20 ft., one target. Hit: 36 (4d12 + 10) force damage.
Bonus Actions
Vengeful Storm (Recharge 6). The scion conjures a churning storm cloud in a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
veins of copper and silver ore. In the years that followed, miners settled nearby, giving rise to the town of Fireshear. The miners work for a consortium of three allied merchant companies: Hammaver
spots them from a nearby hilltop. The friendly dragon offers greetings and warns the party that stone giants are laying waste to farms, homesteads, and ruins throughout Grayvale. She has spent the






