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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
, eager to build a place where they could openly practice their vile rites. Others were brutal thugs, power-hungry dabblers in forbidden magic, or fanatics lured by the call of evil. At first the
cultists valued secrecy above all else, but as their numbers grew and they established their strongholds, they turned their attention to expanding their hold on the Dessarin Valley. The presence of so
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
dealt it, or determine the weakest point in a tunnel that could cause it to collapse. Poring through ancient scrolls in search of a hidden fragment of knowledge might also call for an Intelligence
) check measures your ability to recall lore about deities, rites and prayers, religious hierarchies, holy symbols, and the practices of secret cults. Other Intelligence Checks. The DM might call for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
it, or determine the weakest point in a tunnel that could cause it to collapse. Poring through ancient scrolls in search of a hidden fragment of knowledge might also call for an Intelligence
) check measures your ability to recall lore about deities, rites and prayers, religious hierarchies, holy symbols, and the practices of secret cults. Other Intelligence Checks The DM might call for an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
Cult” above for information Eleith can share. Alcoves. Each alcove contains 4d10 + 20 barely legible books and scrolls, all of them brittle and flammable. A character who takes the Study action and
succeeds on a DC 15 Intelligence (Religion) check discerns that these materials describe various rites practiced by Orcus worshipers. Ghostly Librarian. The spectral figure in the alcove is the Ghost of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
(+2)
INT
18 (+4)
WIS
14 (+2)
CHA
10 (+0)
Saving Throws Int +7, Wis +5
Skills Arcana +7, Deception +3, Insight +5, Stealth +6
Senses passive Perception 12
Languages Common, Draconic, Infernal, Primordial, Thayan
Challenge 6 (2,300 XP)
Special Equipment. Rath has a staff of fire and three spell scrolls: dimension door, feather fall, and fireball
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
14 (+2)
INT
18 (+4)
WIS
14 (+2)
CHA
10 (+0)
Saving Throws Int +7, Wis +5
Skills Arcana +7, Deception +3, Insight +5, Stealth +6
Senses passive Perception 12
Languages
Common, Draconic, Infernal, Primordial, Thayan
Challenge 6 (2,300 XP)
Special Equipment. Rath has a staff of fire, and three spell scrolls of dimension door, feather fall, and fireball
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
14 (+2)
INT
18 (+4)
WIS
14 (+2)
CHA
10 (+0)
Saving Throws Int +7, Wis +5
Skills Arcana +7, Deception +3, Insight +5, Stealth +6
Senses passive Perception 12
Languages
Common, Draconic, Infernal, Primordial, Thayan
Challenge 6 (2,300 XP)
Special Equipment. Rath has a staff of fire, and three spell scrolls of dimension door, feather fall, and fireball
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Archive Level 13 Bastion Facility Prerequisite: None
Space: Roomy
Hirelings: 1
Order: Research
An Archive is a repository of valuable books, maps, and scrolls. It is usually attached to a
(Religion) check you make when you take the Study action to recall lore about deities, rites and prayers, hierarchies, holy symbols, and the practices of secret cults. Enlarging the Facility. You can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
(+2)
INT
16 (+3)
WIS
13 (+1)
CHA
11 (+0)
Saving Throws Int +5, Wis +3
Skills Arcana +5, Deception +2, Insight +3, Stealth +5
Senses passive Perception 11
Languages Common, Draconic, Infernal, Primordial, Thayan
Challenge 4 (1,100 XP)
Special Equipment. Azbara has two spell scrolls of mage armor.
Potent Cantrips. When Azbara casts an evocation cantrip and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
14 (+2)
INT
16 (+3)
WIS
13 (+1)
CHA
11 (+0)
Saving Throws Int +5, Wis +3
Skills Arcana +5, Deception +2, Insight +3, Stealth +5
Senses passive Perception 11
Languages
Common, Draconic, Infernal, Primordial, Thayan
Challenge 4 (1,100)
Special Equipment. Azbara has two spell scrolls of mage armor.
Potent Cantrips. When Azbara casts an evocation cantrip and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
14 (+2)
INT
16 (+3)
WIS
13 (+1)
CHA
11 (+0)
Saving Throws Int +5, Wis +3
Skills Arcana +5, Deception +2, Insight +3, Stealth +5
Senses passive Perception 11
Languages
Common, Draconic, Infernal, Primordial, Thayan
Challenge 4 (1,100)
Special Equipment. Azbara has two spell scrolls of mage armor.
Potent Cantrips. When Azbara casts an evocation cantrip and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
modrons are caught in the shifting realm of Gzemnid, a beholder god of deception, gases, and obscurement. Shemeshka discovered the modrons in Tyrant’s Spiral, an ever-shifting part of Gzemnid’s Realm
is customary in such dealings, he has compensation for the characters: a bag of gemstones the modron had stashed in the Outlands, valued at 15,013 gp. He will give the characters the bag if they help
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
, and at work. Her followers generally pray at midday, with the sounds of the city forming an appropriate backdrop to their rites, as industry itself is sacred to Ephara. Many aspects of city life and
science. As the scholars in her cities obtain or derive new knowledge, Ephara’s magic scrolls grow ever longer. Finally, art is of critical importance to a thriving city. Ephara particularly supports
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
the affairs of the universe. People gather in public shrines to worship gods of life and wisdom, or meet in hidden places to venerate gods of deception or destruction. Each deity in a pantheon has a
religious rites and festivals. Priests at such sites relate stories of the gods, teach the ethics of their patron deities, offer advice and blessings, perform religious rites, and provide training in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
meditation and study room before the abbey burned. The clerics still perform what few rites and ceremonies they can, given the circumstances. The furnishings were salvaged from the rubble. A character
contents. Bayleaf has hidden his personal wealth and collection of scrolls under a loose stone in the floor. A character who makes a successful DC 14 Wisdom (Perception) check while searching the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
days equal to his or her current renown multiplied by 10, the character’s renown increases by 1. Performing Sacred Rites A pious character can spend time between adventures performing sacred rites in
a temple affiliated with a god he or she reveres. Between rites, the character spends time in meditation and prayer. A character who is a priest in the temple can lead these rites, which might
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
)
Skills Arcana +5, Deception +4, Persuasion +4
Senses passive Perception 10
Languages Common, Draconic, Infernal, Orc
Challenge 1 (200 XP)
Spellcasting. Prisoner 237 is a 5th-level
Nether Scrolls. Netherese magic was far more powerful than present-day magic—so much so that it made even the gods tremble. Evil, subterranean creatures known as phaerimm were instrumental in Netheril’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
+ 16)
Speed 30 ft.
STR
12 (+1)
DEX
15 (+2)
CON
14 (+2)
INT
10 (+0)
WIS
11 (+0)
CHA
16 (+3)
Skills Deception +5, Intimidation +5, Religion +2
Elemental Fire, through a series of painful rites. A flamewrath’s skin is burned and scarred. Inured to pain, the flamewrath revels in battle, using an array of fire spells to incinerate enemies who would
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
adventurers might need to purloin one of the many spellbooks kept in the library, necessitating a carefully planned heist.
Spell Scrolls. Adventurers can commission the scribes to create a Spell Scroll
morning rites, as well as all-day observances every Godsday. Sarana, the temple’s Archpriest (Neutral Good), is a middle-aged, human woman wearing a sun-shaped headdress and yellow-and-gold robes. She is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
their worldly goods to the cult’s coffers and the hardiness of their bodies to the cult’s emaciating rites. Cultists that survive their initiation usually gain all the things the cult promised — at the
cost of their free will. The Cult of the Howling Hatred relies upon deception and trickery both to recruit its members and defeat its enemies. Even so, those that underestimate the air cult for their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
lower level. The eastern half of the cavern is a private audience hall, with pelts and skins on the walls and floor, a table, and four chairs. Some worthless scrolls are on the table, and on the walls
abjuration magic about it A suit of +1 plate armor sized for an elf Three elaborate tapestries (one worth 400 gp, another valued at 100 gp, and one that is worthless) Trapped Shield. If the magic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
ward, moving constantly to evade Sigil’s enforcers. Heralds of Dust. The Heralds of Dust are Sigil’s undertakers. They conduct funerary rites for creatures from all places, ensuring their souls pass to
temporary glow or shifting pattern—but some designs function as spell scrolls that burn away once used, singeing hair, fur, or scales in the process. As a devotee of Aoskar and longtime resident of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
the fiendish magic coursing through the webs here. Krell and the other cultists spent many hours here sanctifying the webs and offering rites to Lolth, and the goddess has rewarded them with these
wooden box along the port wall. The box contains spell scrolls of gust of wind and protection from poison, a potion of heroism, a potion of water breathing, a cloak of protection, 507 gp, and 199 sp. 11
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
that holds seven spell scrolls (two each of detect magic, identify, and lesser restoration, and one of remove curse). Glyph Key. Ihanvas carries a glyph key attuned to this zone, the Warrior Pools, the
succeeds on a DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check while searching the debris discovers five potions of water breathing and two spell scrolls of water walk. Glyph Key. Tanjus has a glyph key attuned to this zone
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
perform rites designed to sink ships, cause terrible floods, or summon destructive rainstorms, seeking to make all who live nearby bow to the power of elemental water. Cult lairs usually feature great pools
)
CHA
16 (+3)
Skills Deception +5, Religion +2, Stealth +2
Senses passive Perception 10
Languages Aquan, Common
Challenge 2 (450 XP)
Spellcasting. The priest is a 5th-level
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
the dragon not to attack by making a DC 12 Charisma check and applying the Deception, Intimidation, or Persuasion skill as appropriate. A character who succeeds on the check stops Sparkrender from
access the library’s interior. Stale air heavy with the smell of old parchment floods your nostrils. The walls are lined with shelves stuffed full of old tomes and yellowing scrolls. Glass cases, toppled
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
allowed them to pass, but with demons now coming from that area, Gideon angrily assumes that the humans are in league with the demons. A successful DC 12 Charisma (Deception or Persuasion) check
fallen guards turns up three wet but usable spell scrolls (mass healing word, remove curse, and tongues). In addition to the Helm of Torm’s Sight, Ravengard wears a bloodied suit of plate armor
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
something. If the characters push the issue, a successful DC 10 Charisma (Deception or Persuasion) check causes Squid to dish up information. Any Charisma (Intimidation) check inspires him to first
first floor also contains books and scrolls of common value, as well as public documents moved here from Castle Never. The second floor holds sleeping quarters and private work areas for staff and clergy
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
(Arcana) check recognizes Figaro’s glassy gaze as a telltale sign of memory-tampering magic. Restoring Figaro’s true memories causes Figaro to immediately recall Ilren’s deception. If the characters
form. But when Cirit confronted Ilren about the deception, the death slaad overpowered her. Believing Cirit to be an ordinary halfling spellcaster, Ilren hoped to use her to create a green slaad and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
, regardless of how uncomfortable it makes them. Spells for Sale. Kesto maintains a vast collection of scrolls and spellbooks. He allows wizards to copy spells from them at the cost listed in the Spells for
released when the Athar carry out rites to destroy magic items created by priests of those they consider false gods. The divine energy concentrates within the tree and its fruit, which are the source of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
identifying who wrote a script of a magical nature. History. This tool proficiency can augment the benefit of successful checks made to analyze or investigate ancient writings, scrolls, or other texts
includes cosmetics, hair dye, small props, and a few pieces of clothing. Deception. In certain cases, a disguise can improve your ability to weave convincing lies. Intimidation. The right disguise can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
death cries and the ruptured wall. Though Varakkta was reluctant to leave her valued greatsword behind, she elected for discretion and retreated to rejoin her followers. Greatsword. The greatsword is
focus your inner mind when you finish a long rest.
Treasure. Jomlus keeps Klaudel’s belongings in a tidy pile. They include a pair of well-made spectacles worth 100 gp, two spell scrolls of comprehend
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
; the character must either talk their way out of trouble with a successful DC 18 Charisma (Deception or Persuasion) check or be attacked. Barred Door. Two iron bars seal the double door to the south
dusty tomes. Eight bookshelves stand against the walls. Half of them have collapsed on themselves, while the remaining four bookshelves are packed with crumbling scrolls and books.
The room’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
bolted to the wall across from some sort of large glass device hints at the horrid rites that must once have taken place here.
The wall murals can be deciphered with a successful DC 12 Wisdom
gp each). A thorough search of the levels of the temple above the ooze also turns up the following: Spell scrolls of animate dead, flock of familiars (see appendix E), and greater restoration. One of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
area is sealed with a hart crown lock (see “Crown Locks” earlier in the chapter). The walls of this room are lined with square compartments holding bundles of rolled paper scrolls. In the middle of the
, infiltrated Zybilna’s court by pretending to be an emissary of the Summer Queen. Zybilna saw through the deception, ascertained the incubus’s true allegiance to the demon lord Graz’zt (her former lover), and