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Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
investigate the bones for valuables becomes the trapper’s next meal.
A trapper needs to eat a halfling-sized meal once per week to remain sated. Given a steady supply of food, trappers are content to
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
who died a century ago, after a long and nefarious career. Esvele Rosznar, a brash young noble, has recently adopted the Black Viper's persona to lead a secret life of crime. Like many other nobles
. When she throws back her cloak to reveal the costume she has put together, most folk toss their purses and flee. If that doesn't work, she usually needs only to draw her dagger. Of course, some of the
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
until recently performed amazing acts of balance and agility at the Witchlight Carnival. Together, they are known as the Selenelion twins. (A selenelion is a celestial event during a lunar eclipse in
twins, alongside Gleam, her shy twin. Glister is content to remain Endelyn’s “guest” in Motherhorn if it means her sibling is safe from the hag’s wickedness.
Alignment
Monsters
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
other. To keep Bel busy and out of her sight, Zariel tasks him with forging weapons, armor, and gruesome demon-slaying machines.
To replenish her legions, Zariel needs the souls of mortals to create
.
Matalotok. Zariel recently defeated the demon lord Kostchtchie and took his hammer, Matalotok, which grants Zariel immunity to cold damage. Without this hammer, Zariel has resistance to cold damage
Monsters
Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
version of himself that wanders his domain. In this form, he can talk to strangers and steer them one direction or another without fear of being harmed. If a visitor needs a safe haven, Yarnspinner is
Delight called Prismeer. Yarnspinner only recently arrived in Thither and is unaware that he is intruding upon another archfey’s territory (see The Wild Beyond the Witchlight for more information about Prismeer and its archfey ruler).
Monsters
Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
Limited Amphibiousness. The crab folk can breathe air and water, but it needs to be submerged once every 24 hours to avoid suffocating.Multiattack. The crab folk makes two claw attacks.
Claw. Melee
are content to lead peaceful lives as hunters and gatherers, the magic that created the crab folk sometimes compels them to lash out in fearsome raids when the conditions are right.
Aquatic Vassals
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
, which orcs sacked five centuries ago. Clearly, what Phandalin needs now is a civilizing influence—someone to take the reins and bring law and order. Someone like you. You’re not the only one with such
ideas. A knight named Sildar Hallwinter recently set out for Phandalin in the company of a dwarf named Gundren Rockseeker. They plan to reclaim an ancient mine and restore Phandalin to a civilized
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
the expense of the people they’re supposed to protect. Recently you’ve had dreams of a shadow creeping across the sea like a shroud, swallowing an island in darkness. Though you dismissed the dreams at
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
zero.” Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything outlines how to run session zero discussions, but in general, use this session to discuss the game’s content, social contract, and house rules, and to create
content goes. Chapter 1 provides guidance for players participating in horror adventures. Make sure you and the players are aware of this and use it to inform character creation and play. Establish
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Stolen Shards The goblins have committed the following crimes to retrieve the obelisk shards. All these events happened in the last few days. You can tailor the specific timeline to your campaign’s needs, but each of these crimes should have happened recently while the characters were away from town.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Intro to Stormwreck Isle
watch. Over time, you grew disillusioned with many of your fellow soldiers. They seemed to enjoy their authority at the expense of the people they’re supposed to protect. Recently you’ve had dreams
far from Neverwinter. A remote cloister there holds a temple to the dragon god Bahamut, who is a patron of heroes and 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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Intro to Stormwreck Isle
evocation. After graduating from your apprenticeship, you and your peers went your separate ways to focus on your own studies. Recently, you received a letter from one of your colleagues, pointing you
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
went cold in Neverwinter, but recently you’ve learned of a remote island cloister called Dragon’s Rest. The cloister holds a temple to the dragon god Bahamut, who is a patron of heroes and a champion of
justice. There is also a community of hermits who live there now, the perfect place to hide for someone wishing to escape their past. If that treasure’s there, you’ll find it. View Character Sheet Downloadable PDF
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Intro to Stormwreck Isle
protect them. Recently, your resolve has been shaken by corruption in the city guard and ruling aristocrats. Personal Goal: Rejuvenating Pilgrimage. Seeking to reinvigorate your resolve, you learned of a
remote cloister, Dragon’s Rest, on a tiny island. The cloister holds a temple to the dragon god Bahamut. You feel drawn to contemplate your place in the world there. View Character Sheet Downloadable PDF
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
fellow soldiers, who seem to enjoy their authority at the expense of the people they’re supposed to protect. Everything came to a head recently, when you disobeyed an order and followed your conscience
the right thing. Power is meant to be used for the benefit of all, not to oppress the weak. View Character Sheet Downloadable PDF
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Horror Content Survey Take advantage of the time before your first game session to learn about your players’ thoughts related to horror adventures. To do this, create a brief list of questions
use them to guide what sort of adventures you’ll create. Content and Themes Questions Start your survey by listing common story and horror elements to determine your players’ comfort with them. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Klothys’s Influence Klothys is the embodiment and enforcer of destiny. Largely forgotten after ages spent in the Underworld, Klothys has only recently emerged, brimming with silent frustration at the
escape and destroy the order she had established. Due to this undertaking, she is also the god of secrets best kept quiet and powers best untouched. Klothys’s Goals Once content to oversee and preserve
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
. Instead of a debate, thank the person for being honest about their needs and move on. Make it clear to players that if a person doesn’t feel comfortable using a content tool, they can wait for a break to
characters worry might happen? Do you want to update any content boundaries? Is there anything that would make the game more enjoyable for you? Ask Permission Players put considerable thought and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
11: Temple The temple meets the spiritual needs of the keep. The curate, a human man named Fazzir, guides the temple’s daily activities, which include conducting ceremonies, healing injured soldiers
air. Rows of benches face an altar at the end of a spacious worship hall. Above the altar is an enormous stained-glass window of a sunrise.
Until recently, the temple’s head priest was a human woman
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
conversations about content to be embraced and avoided. You don’t need to reveal the major plot points or twists in your story, but share the themes you’re interested in exploring, the kinds of stories you’re
seriously, and make sure they take yours just as seriously. Ideally, you’ll find a style of play that suits everyone. Downloadable PDF Using the Game Expectations Sheet
The Game Expectations tracking
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
conversations about content to be embraced and avoided. You don’t need to reveal the major plot points or twists in your story, but share the themes you’re interested in exploring, the kinds of stories you’re
take yours just as seriously. Ideally, you’ll find a style of play that suits everyone. Downloadable PDF Using the Game Expectations Sheet
The Game Expectations tracking sheet is a tool you can use
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
to strike bargains with characters who have other needs. In exchange for one thing in her possession that a character has lost, Skabatha demands the characters complete one of the following quests
says her sister Bavlorna recently lost. Maybe Prismeer’s native denizens can help the characters find it. Spoil a Play. Sabotage a theatrical performance in Motherhorn, Endelyn Moongrave’s castle in Yon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
. Xanathar is aware that something is off with Nar’l, and recently assigned him a grell bodyguard. The grell has instructions to dispose of Nar’l at the first sign of disloyalty. Game Statistics Nar’l
Xibrindas is a drow mage. He prepares and casts the sending spell whenever he needs to communicate with his brother. In addition to his other gear, Nar’l carries a vial containing three doses of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Dangerous Knowledge When the characters are ready to search for the tome Professor Blackstone needs—or if they’re eager to investigate the strange occurrences they’ve experienced recently—they can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
ruckus. 3 The domain’s archfey ruler recently turned down an invitation to the Gloaming Court, offending the Queen of Air and Darkness, whose spies are now sowing discord throughout the domain. 4 The
spreading. The domain’s archfey needs help finding the cause of the sickness. 6 Part of the domain overlaps the domain of another archfey, and the Fey living in that region are tired of answering to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
dangerous times as opportunities. When a merchant caravan needs an escort, a noble needs bodyguards, or a city needs trained soldiers, the Zhentarim provides the best-trained fighting forces money can
buy. Zhentarim agents traveling to and from Mantol-Derith have recently passed on information and rumors concerning demonic activity in the Underdark. The organization’s members have yet to realize the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
space you’ll be playing in, review any accessibility needs communicated in the content survey. Accommodate what you can; communicate what you can’t as early as possible. Enlist players for help
Horror Atmosphere Atmosphere is the overall mood of your game. It’s the sense of levity, excitement, or dread that stems from a story’s content and players’ perception of it. Atmosphere can be
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
tandem — Gnerkli and Korboz. Korboz recently lost his mind and is keeping Gnerkli as his prisoner. Their subjects don’t understand the nature of Korboz’s affliction, and are at a loss as to what to do
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Borderlands Quest: Goblin Trouble
was damaged on its way to the keep and needs repair, but it was stolen overnight by thieves.
On the promise of a reward of 20 gold pieces for each of you, you’ve followed the trail of the thieves
walked in and out of this entrance recently. All clues point you into the darkness of this cave.
What do you do?
The Adventure Hook
An adventure hook is the challenge, opportunity, situation
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
companion.
3 A faerie dragon needs help ending a curse that has begun corrupting local plants and animals in the dragon’s forest.
4 A faerie dragon has been harassing local miners who are
stolen a dangerous magic item from a wizard’s workshop, without any idea of what it actually does.
7 A faerie dragon has stumbled upon the recently dead corpse of a centaur messenger bearing a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
the Flaming Fist disbands, paving the way for the city’s descent into Avernus. To accomplish this last goal, Thalamra needs an artifact called the Shield of the Hidden Lord, imprisoned in which is a
pit fiend named Gargauth. Until recently, the shield was sealed in a tomb under the city, but Thalamra’s sons recently stole it and transported it to the dungeon below their villa. So corrupt is the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
Harper’s leading delegate to the Council of Waterdeep. She is quiet, speaking only after others have had their turn, and is content to let events unfold until she feels a need to offer intervention and
to commit to fighting the Cult of the Dragon. She understands their hesitation, however. The Harpers’ have only recently been reformed, and the cause of their near-destruction was the decision to act
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
yuan-ti content themselves with maintaining these ancient places rather than building new ones for their needs. Although these sites are hundreds or even thousands of years old, they don’t look or feel
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
characters hear or see them as they skulk about. Not every encounter with a wandering monster or patrol needs to end in combat, but knowing that they don’t have free run of the dungeon will help keep the
. Accustomed to inspiring fear, and having grown somewhat lazy in its guardian role, it is usually content to let foes flee from it rather than pursuing. Each time the characters finish a long rest in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Giants of the Star Forge
one of the monastery’s best giant wrestlers. She still considers herself an adventurer, though, and has recently begun to feel the itch of wanderlust. The characters’ quest to rid the Star Forge of evil
giants might just be the impetus Diasma needs to leave the monastery and continue her adventuring career. Diasma’s Challenge Diasma questions whether the characters have what it takes to compete with