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Curse of Strahd
":"piercing"} piercing damage.Kasimir, a mutiliated and grief-stricken dusk elf, has been trapped in Barovia for centuries. His people were on the verge of being annihilated by Strahd's armies when they
descendants. Unfortunately, in his view, these modern Vistani are neither as noble nor as enlightened as their forebears. Not one to press the issue, Kasimir hopes to outlive the present leadership and see
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
minute or until the target takes damage. Belashyrra can issue telepathic commands to the charmed creature (no action required), which it does its best to obey.
3. Mind-Weakening Ray. The target must
“I perceive certain types of people — vocations or entire societies — as hideous monsters.”
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“Someone is watching everything I do.”
4
“When I
Orb of Dragonkind
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work toward the evil ends it desires. The dragon essence within the orb might want many things: the annihilation of a particular people, freedom from the orb, to spread suffering in the world, to
the detect magic spell from the orb without using any charges.
Call Dragons
While you control the orb, you can use an action to cause the artifact to issue a telepathic call that extends in all
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
yourself to deliver your speeches in boardrooms and guildhalls. It’s all about convincing people to see your side of an issue — then motivating them to do exactly what you want. College of Lore Some
your wheelhouse. Being able to make friends and influence people is the bread and butter of your profession. Rather than ply this trade in public squares and seedy alehouses, however, you have trained
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
A Minor Issue Darmo Mazlu, a human boy, stands on a box and yells out the latest news to passersby, most of whom ignore him: A boy wrapped in heavy winter clothes shouts the news of the day as people
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Lord of Blades Campaign Themes The Voice of
THRANE
Do They Know the War Is Over?
Against all logic and reason, people in Breland continue to argue that the warforged — creations of House
Cannith, lest we forget — are living people with souls, deserving of the same rights as the rest of us. And yet, while philosophical debates rage and street protests grow heated, warforged who inhabit the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
— the facing off of hunter and prey, forcing the issue of who lives and who dies. People believe that Malar can’t be propitiated and knows no mercy, so he receives prayers only from those engaging in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
intercommunity and regional disputes settled at the annual Meet. Held in Promise during the Awakening Festival, this public forum between community leaders seeks majority consensus on each issue raised
make amends come through groups known as sevens—assemblies of the seven people who are closest at hand when an accusation of criminal behavior is made, but who have no direct stake in the outcome. For
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
prefer to let the DM make a call and continue playing. If you gloss over a rules issue in play, make a note of it and return to the issue later. Some players like to use the rules to argue against
. Encourage the player to keep that knowledge separate from their character’s knowledge and allow the other players to discover it through play. Antisocial Behavior People often play D&D because it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Library behind a locked or secret door. Research: Helpful Lore. When you issue the Research order to this facility, you commission the facility’s hireling to search the Archive for helpful lore. The work
, legendary people, ancient kingdoms, past disputes, wars, and lost civilizations. Investigations of the Inquisitive. You have Advantage on any Intelligence (Investigation) check you make when you take the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
gloss over a rules issue in play, make a note of it and return to the issue later. Some players like to use the rules to argue against your decisions. While such players can be helpful when you’re stuck
character’s knowledge and allow the other players to discover it through play. Antisocial Behavior People often play D&D because it lets them, through their characters, do things they can’t do in real
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Kasimir Velikov Kasimir, a mutiliated and grief-stricken dusk elf, has been trapped in Barovia for centuries. His people were on the verge of being annihilated by Strahd’s armies when they
. Unfortunately, in his view, these modern Vistani are neither as noble nor as enlightened as their forebears. Not one to press the issue, Kasimir hopes to outlive the present leadership and see a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
protection. Frume has contacts among the many merchants of the region and is certain he can arrange a job. Timing is an issue. The tracks leaving the cultists’ camp and the map from Mondath’s chamber both
at dawn the next morning. They are also provided with 50 gp each to cover expenses on the trip. If the characters turn down this mission, Frume makes some remarks about how they aren’t the people he
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Talbridge’s terrifying account, pick up the latest issue of the Sharn Inquisitive!
Dar Jin This port city is the only legal point of entry for foreigners who wish to enter the Empire of Riedra. All
outsiders or the Inspired. It is the de facto capital of Adar and the abode of the Keeper of the Word, who guides the kalashtar people. High in the mountains, the monastery is reached by winches and lifts
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
many things: the annihilation of a particular people, freedom from the orb, to spread suffering in the world, to advance the worship of Takhisis (Tiamat’s name on Krynn), or something else the DM
Dragons. While you control the orb, you can use an action to cause the artifact to issue a telepathic call that extends in all directions for 40 miles. Evil dragons in range feel compelled to come to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
protection. Frume has contacts among the many merchants of the region and is certain he can arrange a job. Timing is an issue. The tracks leaving the cultists’ camp and the map from Mondath’s chamber both
dawn the next morning. They are also provided with 50 gp each to cover expenses on the trip. If the characters turn down this mission, Frume makes some remarks about how they aren’t the people he
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
Stat Block: Guard Captain
This captain is strong, stern, and just.
Perfect Posture. Andrella is as strict with her posture as she is with the law.
Role Model. Many of the keep’s young people
service:
Requisition Uniforms. Characters who pledge to defend the keep can requisition uniforms from Andrella free of charge. Give those players one Borderlands Tabard each.
Alejandro Pacheco A Rack of Standard-Issue Spears
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
twelve people. The magic persists as long as the table remains in this room and there is dishware capable of containing the bounty. Midna Tauberth. Midna isn’t interested in sharing her newfound lair
servant from another, meaning that when she utters a command, all the servants follow that command. She can’t issue orders to a single servant without the others performing the same task. Treasure
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Healing Pools Healing pools are naturally occurring springs and tidal pools said to have magical curative properties because Pharika has blessed them. Sick or injured people come to the pools and
the pools.
4 Capture people and creatures for the priests to use in their experiments.
5 Cure the pools of a contamination.
6 Create a poison based on notes provided to you by one of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
more powerful as well. There are three ways you can approach this issue: Mechanical Improvement. Use the guidelines in chapter 9 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide to add class levels or Hit Dice to the
and evil. Even adventure villains are more often driven by human motives than by cosmic concepts of good and evil. People sometimes do evil things for good reasons. Exercise some caution when
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
during the war and holds it to this day. Most of the people of Aundair remain furious about the occupation of Thaliost, but the city has become a haven for Aundairians who revere the Silver Flame
should be reuniting Aundair and the Eldeen Reaches, whether through diplomacy or force. Others consider Thaliost to be the pressing issue. And still others support Queen Aurala’s claim to the throne of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
The Zhentarim The Zhentarim—also known as the Black Network—is a loose affiliation of merchants, mercenaries, and malefactors. Common folk know the Zhentarim as the people to talk to when you need
Ideals: Logic, greed (“I’m certain we can come to an agreement that all parties will favor. But if not, we have other means of settling the issue.”) Interaction Traits: Polite, mercantile, ruthless
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
The Zhentarim The Zhentarim—also known as the Black Network—is a loose affiliation of merchants, mercenaries, and malefactors. Common folk know the Zhentarim as the people to talk to when you need
Ideals: Logic, greed (“I’m certain we can come to an agreement that all parties will favor. But if not, we have other means of settling the issue.”) Interaction Traits: Polite, mercantile, ruthless
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
weight around, to the detriment of anyone nearby without enough coin or a grand enough title to stand up to them. I find that these common folk are ideal sources of information about the very people
who might be permanently harmed by any improprieties. They also believe there is no one of note nearby to hear these hotheaded youngsters issue their boasts and proclaim their schemes — I have more
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
The Zhentarim The Zhentarim—also known as the Black Network—is a loose affiliation of merchants, mercenaries, and malefactors. Common folk know the Zhentarim as the people to talk to when you need
Ideals: Logic, greed (“I’m certain we can come to an agreement that all parties will favor. But if not, we have other means of settling the issue.”) Interaction Traits: Polite, mercantile, ruthless
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Merchant Princes Seven merchant princes rule Port Nyanzaru, each one with an equal vote in matters of state. All are Chultan. Their single qualification is that they’re the seven richest people in
Jessamine (N female Chultan human assassin, her hit point maximum reduced to 58) doesn’t speak often. When the council finds itself divided on an issue, however, Jessamine usually casts the deciding vote
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
plans to award the dwarves rulership of Saltmarsh as compensation. 11–12 The Brotherhood blackmails Ingo the Drover and Keledek the Unspoken, two people in town with dark pasts, into their service
issue. 20 Skerrin, growing bored and overconfident, assassinates a prominent member of a faction and tries to frame the Sea Princes for the deed.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
reason horses are kept at the fort is for jousting. Tournaments are held once a month, and lesser bouts occur when enough people have time off or when two Flaming Fist members have an issue to settle
of beach with a few log buildings above the tide line. Ships anchor a half-mile offshore, and people and supplies are ferried back and forth on rowboats. Six Flaming Fist guards defend this station
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
slaughterhouse and begun murdering people across the city, leaving the victims in an alley behind the Smilin’ Boar in Bloomridge. To further fan the flames, the cult slices the corpses across the wrists and
the south came sailing into Gray Harbor. Rather than opening their doors to the foreigners, the people of Baldur’s Gate quickly hustled them out of the city, forcing them out the Basilisk Gate in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
chaos, cultists of the Dead Three have infiltrated the slaughterhouse and begun murdering people across the city, leaving the victims in an alley behind the Smilin’ Boar in Bloomridge. To further fan the
Generations ago, a fleet of Calishite refugees fleeing war in the south came sailing into Gray Harbor. Rather than opening their doors to the foreigners, the people of Baldur’s Gate quickly hustled them
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
lovestruck king who seeks to woo the goddess Nangnang. Charismatic but unstable, Groak can swing from friendly to homicidal in the span of a few seconds. Because of this, his people dare not even
dutiful and dangerous grung warrior, dedicated to his king. Roark thinks all this goddess-summoning nonsense is distracting from the real issue at hand: defending Dungrunglung from the undead. Secretly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
, driven by visions from the daelkyr, can be found working with the Cults of the Dragon Below or fighting alongside aberrations in Khyber. Others operate alone. Lycanthropes Many people believe that
places, deep within the woods of the Eldeen Reaches and Droaam. The common people of Khorvaire still see lycanthropes as a dire threat. Most folks don’t understand that good-aligned lycanthropes exist
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
skitterwidgets (see the end of the adventure for their stat block). They are programmed to attack intruders on sight. A character attuned to Stonky’s ring (see area U5) can issue commands to these
the books he has collected. In his warped mind, a few deaths are a small price to pay for success.
Personality Trait. “I don’t like most people, which is why I relish the thought of spending the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
than they do people. The Hands of Havoc convene in secret and mobilize as one—a wildfire that burns away crumbling structures and systems alike to create sanctuaries for those in need. Alix Branwyn No
steel, Sarin is a decisive factol who promotes honor, dignity, and peace in word and deed. Faction Attire. Most Hardheads wear the faction’s standard-issue armor, a distinctive suit of red plate with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
hundred people, face inward toward a central plaza, with the abbey of Chauntea off to the southeast. Each longhouse is a work of art, its beams sculpted with images of a particular animal, thereby
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