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Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
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Ironbound Pursuit. The madcap moves up to its speed to a creature it can see and kicks with its iron boots. The target must succeed on a DC 14 Dexterity saving throw or take 20 (3d10 + 4);{"diceNotation
":"3d10+4","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Ironbound Pursuit","rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage and be knocked prone.A redcap is a homicidal fey creature born of blood lust
Monsters
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the mind flayer fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. The mind flayer has advantage on saving throws against spells and other
see.In pursuit of reconstructing their lost empire, a few mind flayers have turned to their home plane, the Far Realm, for answers. A mind flayer clairvoyant has peered into that realm’s
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
creature’s turn. The champion regains spent legendary actions at the start of its turn.
Attack. The champion makes one Blight Staff or Plague Bolt attack.
Furious Pursuit. The champion moves up to
Spellcasting.Aleron was once a tiefling adventurer, but unlike so many victims of the Deck of Many Things, he never drew the Skull card. Instead, when one of his allies drew the card and faced the avatar of death
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
instead.
Transport Inhibitor. The zodar can’t be teleported or sent to any plane of existence against its will.
Unusual Nature. The zodar doesn’t require air, food, drink, or
each zodar has a specific mission and is relentless in its pursuit of the goal, but it reacts oddly to situations that don’t involve its mission because it doesn’t know what else to do
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 2: Dragonlance Creatures
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Legendary Resistance (5/Day). If Ember fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.
Special Equipment. In battle, Ember dons magical plate armor custom-forged for his use. While wearing the armor
one legendary action can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature’s turn. Ember regains spent legendary actions at the start of his turn.
Pursuit. Ember moves up to 40 feet in a
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the archon fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. The archon has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical
following spells, using Charisma as the spellcasting ability:
1/day each: daylight, lesser restorationThe archon can take up to three reactions per round but only one per turn.
Archon’s Pursuit
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The Book of Many Things
regains spent legendary actions at the start of its turn.
Furious Pursuit. The champion moves up to its speed or commands its mount to move up to its speed. This movement doesn’t provoke
incapacitated condition, the target instead takes 11 (2d10);{"diceNotation":"2d10", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Induce Violence", "rollDamageType":"psychic"} psychic damage.
Menace (Costs 2 Actions
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
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Fearsome Pursuit. The champion moves up to its speed or commands its mount to move up to its speed. This movement doesn’t provoke opportunity attack;opportunity attacks.
Nullify (Costs 2
draconic beast with pale, leathery wings and emaciated skin; this mount uses the wyvern stat block, but it is an Undead instead of a Dragon. An eerie, hollow silence heralds the champion’s arrival
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Chromatic Wrath (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). If the aspect would be reduced to 0 hit points, her current hit point total instead resets to 500 hit points, she recharges her Chromatic
for power and wealth often swear fealty to Tiamat in pursuit of those goals. Many of her followers have attempted to break her out of Avernus—and failed—but even while she remains in the
Monsters
Vecna: Eve of Ruin
frightened condition.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Kas fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.
Regeneration. Kas regains 20 hit points at the start of his turn if he has at least 1
well-muscled, raven-haired, human man in his thirties, though he is far older. His fangs reveal his vampiric nature.
Personality
Kas is cruel, spiteful, and unrelenting in his pursuit of vengeance
Yuan-ti Pureblood
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
the blood, as it once did.
Because their population is so small, the yuan-ti are aware they are vulnerable in open warfare. Instead, their current plans assume they will never rule outwardly in
that the yuan-ti have prepared a special ambush at the end of the pursuit.
Capture, Not Kill
The objective of the yuan-ti as a race is to conquer and enslave others; they don’t espouse the sort
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
gagged. The drow march them back to Velkynvelve unless Menzoberranzan is closer, in which case Ilvara takes them there instead. The characters will need to come up with a new plan of escape, ideally
before Ilvara has the opportunity to torture them or sell them into slavery in the City of Spiders. If they escape her clutches again, the drow priestess continues her pursuit until she is dead or the party leaves the Underdark (see chapter 7).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
pursuit of the characters if their allies don’t return within a few minutes. Arrow Slit An arrow slit opens up in a gap in the stairwell stones, and provides a view of any creatures descending the stairs
mechanical guide spend 1 charge in this area causes the guards to change shifts, leaving here for the barracks (area 6). Spending 2 charges causes them to instead head into the temple complex to search
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Harrow. Wreathed in searing fire, Wynemar embodies the havoc of violence and war. She rides a flaming steed that uses the nightmare stat block but is an Undead instead of a Fiend. Grim Champion of
Common
Challenge 20 (25,000 XP) Proficiency Bonus +6
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the champion fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Actions
Multiattack. The champion makes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
Cimber’s drop of blood in a rune magic ritual to turn a giant diamond into a blod stone (see appendix B). Unfortunately for the jarl, the item can’t find Artus Cimber specifically; instead, it
catch wind of the characters’ attempts to locate Artus and the ring, they try to discourage any such pursuit. Artus Cimber and the Ring of Winter have roles to play in another adventure.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
ensuring your characters develop strong personal reasons to continue to adventure, even if they begin their adventuring careers in the pursuit of wealth. Perhaps they want revenge on a despicable
its inhabitants, improving a neighborhood or the whole settlement can quickly expend their new wealth. But an ally shouldn’t simply approach characters and ask for money; instead, make the ally’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
lowborn turned instead toward non-wererats. Her first major act consisted of conferring the gift of lycanthropy upon her family. Only her twin, Louise, resisted, for which Jacqueline disfigured her and cast
her out. Next, she bent her wererat allies to her vicious pursuit of control, unifying the country’s verminous hordes. Within the sewers of Pont-a-Museau, the wererats concocted a roiling pestilence
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Mind Flayer Clairvoyant In pursuit of reconstructing their lost empire, a few mind flayers have turned to their home plane, the Far Realm, for answers. A mind flayer clairvoyant has peered into that
realm’s starless depths and been subsequently rewarded with extraordinary powers. Instead of heeding an elder brain, a mind flayer clairvoyant listens to the whispers and whims of the voices of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Champion of Desolation rides a malevolent draconic beast with pale, leathery wings and emaciated skin; this mount uses the wyvern stat block, but it is an Undead instead of a Dragon. An eerie, hollow
throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Actions
Multiattack. The champion makes two Leeching Blade attacks and uses Hollow Void.
Leeching Blade. Melee Weapon Attack: +14 to hit, reach 5 ft
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Grim Champion of Pestilence Aleron was once a tiefling adventurer, but unlike so many victims of the Deck of Many Things, he never drew the Skull card. Instead, when one of his allies drew the card
choose to succeed instead.
Actions
Multiattack. The champion makes two Blight Staff attacks, two Plague Bolt attacks, or one of each.
Blight Staff. Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 5 ft., one
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Tasha are likely injured in the fight and therefore disinclined to join the characters in their pursuit of Vecna. However, Alustriel and Tasha urge the characters to take the Rod of Seven Parts to aid
their fight against the lich-god. At your discretion, Alustriel and Tasha might join the characters on the journey to Pandesmos, but they focus on neutralizing Kas’s powerful remaining forces instead
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the dragon fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Shift Perception (1/Day). The dragon can cast hallucinatory terrain, requiring no spell components
, or crumbling ruins designed to disorient intruders. Circuitous routes within the lair provide the dragon with numerous ways to evade pursuit, while strategically designed choke points allow them to
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the dragon fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Tunneler. The dragon can burrow through solid rock at half its burrowing speed and can leave a 20
pursuit, while strategically designed choke points allow them to harry enemies with repeated ambushes. Emerald dragons frequently lay traps and alarms at the entrance points to their lairs, with older
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
encounters instead of using the tables in chapter 2. Once every hour, roll a d20 and consult the table to determine what, if anything, the party encounters. Drow Defenses d20 Encounter 1–10 No
(leaving the mage and eight drow to staff the outpost). Use the drow pursuit rules in chapter 2, and assume a pursuit level of 4. Drow Patrol B The characters encounter a drow elite warrior and 1d8
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
toward the pursuit of the common good. At the same time, the guild’s connection with the natural world gives the conclave a fervent appreciation for the interconnectedness of all things. Selesnya doesn’t
tolerate selfishness or ambition, instead urging its members to put the needs of others ahead of their own desires and to use the power of nature — including nature’s wrath — to drive away those whose
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
with its wicked sickle.
Wicked Sickle. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 9 (2d4 + 2) slashing damage.
Ironbound Pursuit. The redcap moves up to its speed to a creature it
redcap that soaks its hat in demon ichor instead of blood. Contact with demon ichor makes the creature even more psychotic, causing it to brood over irrational hatreds. A group of madcaps will sometimes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
lich is using that power to keep the vault hidden, warp the magic fueling the Doomvault, and power his pursuit of godhood. PLACING THE ADVENTURE
This adventure takes place in the Forgotten Realms
dragonmarked scions instead of Chosen. Alternatively, the Doomvault could be the Blood of Vol’s headquarters in Khorvaire. Vol uses the dungeon to harvest the power of dragonmarks so she can become
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
documents and items from crafty villains. 5 The character studies and preserves nonmagical historical artifacts and has traveled widely in pursuit of rare items of deep significance. While securing items for
an adult black dragon. The fight wasn’t going well, and nothingness enveloped the character as the character was about to die. Instead of dying, the character woke up in Neverwinter outside Lord
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Adventures in Falkovnia Falkovnia provides the perfect setting for disaster horror, particularly of the zombie apocalypse variety. Characters might be harried by zombie pursuit across the empty
“traitors”?
10 On the night of the new moon, no zombie horde appears at Lekar’s walls. Instead, a undead messenger arrives with a missive for General Drakov.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
, though they might instead seek out their maker to enjoy proximity to a kindred spirit. Although redcaps don’t usually operate in groups, an individual responsible for the creation of multiple redcaps at
Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 9 (2d4 + 4) slashing damage.
Ironbound Pursuit. The redcap moves up to its speed to a creature it can see and kicks with its iron boots. The target must succeed on a DC 14 Dexterity saving throw or take 20 (3d10 + 4) bludgeoning damage and be knocked prone.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
the map. Four Dragon Army soldiers (see appendix B) on warhorses gallop in pursuit along the road at the north of the map. The Dragon Army soldiers ride to the edge of the northern stream, throwing
javelins at the retreating Kalaman soldiers. The Dragon Army soldiers shift their attention to the characters if attacked. The Kalaman soldiers continue their retreat south instead of engaging. They move
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monstrous Compendium Volume Four
) Proficiency Bonus +5
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the archon fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. The archon has advantage on saving throws against spells
/day each: daylight, lesser restoration
Reactions
The archon can take up to three reactions per round but only one per turn.
Archon’s Pursuit. When a creature marked by the archon’s Radiant Lance
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
shrewdness. He loves the hunt and the sense of impending doom that comes over prey that can’t escape his pursuit. His fondness for labyrinths, instilled in the minotaurs he created, reflects this aspect of
away with powerful magic. Because it is in the demons’ nature to spread and destroy, they rampage in their new environs instead of seeking revenge on Lolth. Lolth, in turn, delights in filling the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
wealth often swear fealty to Tiamat in pursuit of those goals. Many of her followers have attempted to break her out of Avernus—and failed—but even while she remains in the Nine Hells, Tiamat can send
be reduced to 0 hit points, her current hit point total instead resets to 500 hit points, she recharges her Chromatic Flames, and she regains any expended uses of Legendary Resistance. Additionally
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
spell. Instead of choosing one of the normal options of the spell, the lich uses the spell to magically trap the target’s body and soul inside its phylactery. The phylactery must be on the same plane
be stirred from its single-minded pursuit of power to take an interest in the world around it, most often when some great event reminds it of the life it once led. It otherwise lives in isolation