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Returning 29 results for 'second grave'.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata
Shallow Graves (p. 43) In the second block of boxed text, “Perhaps two miles to the north” is now “Several miles to the north.” In the “Grave Occupants” subsection, “red surcoat with a black axe” is now “black surcoat with a red axe.”
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
returning to his grave. His words bring tears as well as cheers.
A local carpenter named Lewth Fulchre (the father of local rabblerouser Ebbin Fulchre) offers to repair Frody’s coffin, which shouldn’t
characters, Frody suggests they perform together as a duet. If the character agrees, award them inspiration. Everyone in Toadhop attends Frody’s second funeral, which you can summarize as follows: After
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Your association with death has become so close that you gain the following benefits: When you use your Wails from the Grave, you can deal the necrotic damage to both the first and the second creature
otherwise be lost to the grave. How did you discover this grim power? Did you sleep in a graveyard and awaken to your new abilities? Or did you cultivate them in a temple or thieves’ guild dedicated
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
block this hall. The second one is painted to look like a raging sea, and the third looks like a moonlit graveyard. When a creature moves within 5 feet of a backdrop, it swings back against the wall
it opens must succeed on a DC 12 Dexterity saving throw or fall into the pit, which is 20 feet deep but filled to a depth of 10 feet with grave dirt. After falling 10 feet, a creature lands prone in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
second floor, and several dusty sheets lie in a small heap nearby.
The harp and the table, though obviously valuable, are heavy and awkward to transport. The wereravens removed the sheets that covered
exhumed, Syphene’s skeleton shows signs of hideous deformities. Brorn, the baron’s mastiff, died of old age shortly before the death of its master. Characters who stand on Baron Brantifax’s grave feel a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
guarding pose, but doesn’t move or respond. Another earth elemental then emerges from the wall of the chamber and attacks, when it is destroyed, a second stoic galeb duhr appears. This summoning
. The galeb duhr then animate and acknowledge the characters with a grave nod, before settling down in their boulder guise around the menhir. Gurnik delivers his promised blessings when the characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
with the second wave of villagers. With their livelihood drying up before their eyes and the hidden danger lurking in the village, the couple made the regretful decision to abandon their shop, buying
be carved at the same time, the stonemason was unable to complete all the work before she was taken by the meenlocks. Characters who look for Lorna Grosvenor’s grave can find it in the section at the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Spies” sidebar). Daytime Random Encounters in Barovia d12 + d8 Encounter 2 3d6 Barovian commoners 3 1d6 Barovian scouts 4 Hunting trap 5 Grave 6 False trail 7 1d4 + 1 Vistani bandits 8 Skeletal
form 17 1 druid with 2d6 twig blights 18 2d4 needle blights 19 1d6 scarecrows 20 1 revenant Nighttime Random Encounters in Barovia d12 + d8 Encounter 2 1 ghost 3 Hunting trap 4 Grave 5 Trinket 6
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
my crewmates, not to ideals. (Neutral) 6 Aspiration. Someday I’ll own my own ship and chart my own destiny. (Any) d6 Bond 1 I’m loyal to my captain first, everything else second. 2 The ship is most
briny grave. Fear and bloodshed are no strangers to you, and you’ve garnered a somewhat unsavory reputation in many a port town. If you decide that your sailing career involved piracy, you can choose
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
the party’s wizard with grave suspicion. However you roleplay a character or monster, the classic advice for writers holds true: show, don’t tell. For example, rather than describe an NPC as shallow
. The second approach works better for players who need encouragement to engage in a roleplaying scenario.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
and among those who practice the custom of writing the name of the deceased on a sheet of parchment and placing it in the corpse’s mouth. This rite is common in places where an individual’s grave or
strife at my whim, and all will bow down before me while in my kingdom.”
Myrkul, who had won second place, declared, “But I choose the dead, and by doing so I truly win, because all that you are lord
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
! You’ve been enlisted in regiment 231. Take this mop and report to the second ring for latrine duty. Then, you’re headed to the front lines. Casualties are high, but so are the opportunities for
death brings, others refuse to rest, joining a shadowy cabal of Undead warriors. Reborn as ghosts, liches, and mummy lords, they guide the Crown Generals from beyond the grave. The most feared and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
common nuisance, as pox-ridden corpses regularly return to confront their oppressors. CoupleOfKooks “The knife of betrayal is best twisted twice–once in the back and again in the grave. Trust no one
bloodthirsty demons roam its luxurious halls in service to Archlector Bex. Bex’s second-in-command is the sniveling Alorio Nightriddle (chaotic evil, human mage). Alorio acts as Bex’s distrusted adviser
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
family’s folk Were in danger of their lives.
In that moment of grave peril, Fishskipper caught a bream And hurled it by its silvery tail Across the glassy stream.
Ten times the bream did swiftly skip
tune on a second-hand mandolin. Serious Business. The oldest members of a halfling community are its leaders, although that role has a special application. A clan’s elders aren’t authority figures in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
smelly, vulgar, and utterly without manners. His second wagon driver and two laborers, on the other hand, are perfectly pleasant. Aldor Urnpoleshurst (Male Human Lawyer). A lawyer by training but a skunk
as the grave, staring sullenly at the road ahead, barely moving on the seat of his wagon, seeming hardly to breathe. No one knows what he transports in his wagon, but it is guarded by a brooding
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
smelly, vulgar, and utterly without manners. His second wagon driver and two laborers, on the other hand, are perfectly pleasant. Aldor Urnpoleshurst (Male Human Lawyer). A lawyer by training but a
silent as the grave, staring sullenly at the road ahead, barely moving on the seat of his wagon, seeming hardly to breathe. No one knows what he transports in his wagon, but it is guarded by a brooding
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
been ruined by fire. Her eyes burn with a furious white light that can cause creatures looking upon her to burst into flame. Dis. Dis, the second layer of the Nine Hells, is a labyrinth of canyons wedged
between sheer mountains rich with iron ore. Iron roads span and wend through the canyons, watched over by the garrisons of iron fortresses perched atop jagged pinnacles. The second layer takes its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
.
Bhaal and His Followers Bhaal is a god of murder who lends power to those whose killings invoke fear and dread. The act of murder is only half the equation. The second half is the suspicion, paranoia
, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 4 (1d8) bludgeoning damage.
Claws of the Grave. Ranged Spell Attack: +5 to hit, range 90 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (2d4 + 3) necrotic damage.
Skull Lasher of Myrkul
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
Locations on the Second Level The following locations are identified on map 6.6. 1. Hall of the Dead This dark hall contains twenty huge sarcophagi standing upright against the walls, and four even
reveal that each of these burial vaults contains only the remains of a king or a queen, moldering garments, a few corroded weapons, and similar worthless items (wererat grave robbers stole anything of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
characters exiting the maze on the pyramid’s second floor. Water of Athis. An aqueduct fills half the corridor, carrying the water of Athis (see the “Pyramid Features” section) toward area P29. P31: Long Hall
gift with us.
“He cannot die, for he has sequestered his life elsewhere. Nafik is now second only to the gods themselves. He alone has claim on the rule of Bakar.”
P45: North Priesthood Cells
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3
rounds, while his flesh knits and swells out with the apparent vigor of the living. He gains 27 hit points in the first round and 28 hit points in the second round, and he has his normal AC of 17 but
drink blood, Tloques must first drain it into a receptacle and then drink it, which can reduce the target’s hit point maximum as a normal vampire spawn bite does. Tloques will not pursue fleeing grave
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Earth, death Death, Grave,* Knowledge Silhouette of a dog’s head
Yondalla LG Primary goddess of halflings Life Cornucopia
*Appears in Xanathar’s Guide to Everything
Yondalla The
into the landscape so that most travelers would pass by without a second glance. To the halflings, Yondalla is responsible for the spring in their step and the bubbly excitement they feel from knowing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
skeletons instead kneel, each pledging a silent vow to defend the characters for the next 1d4 hours or until the skeletons earn their second death (whichever comes sooner). After these vows are fulfilled
Alendria’s grave, weeping over the dead monarch centuries after his passing. Characters who saw the frescoes in area B38 recognize the wailing spirit as Queen Zanobis’s lady-in-waiting, Therisina. She
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
striking the wood of a coffin where no coffin should be, or tumbling through into a forgotten stretch of tunnel. Rampant grave robbery by brigands and necromancy-obsessed followers of Myrkul only
, causing the remaining bone-houses and markers to shift and lean, while also exposing numerous crypts and tomb-tunnels to the air, prompting a fresh rush of grave robbing. Though Baldurians rarely bury their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
it’s not uncommon for a gravedigger to find themselves striking the wood of a coffin where no coffin should be, or tumbling through into a forgotten stretch of tunnel. Rampant grave robbery by
rush of grave robbing. Though Baldurians rarely bury their dead with valuables anymore, and many of the easier pickings have been taken, it’s common wisdom that some of the greatest treasures of past
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
villain who defiled their master’s grave. When the characters enter combat with one mummy, roll 1d6 to determine how many more mummies arrive on the scene at the start of the second round of combat. The
throw. On a failed save, the creature begins to turn to crystal, has the Restrained condition, and repeats the save at the end of its next turn. On a second failed save, the creature has the Petrified
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
disturbs the bones on the slab, one of the gargoyles awakens and attacks. If the gargoyle is reduced to 0 hit points, Endorovich’s spirit moves to the second gargoyle, which then awakens and attacks
. Both gargoyles have maximum hit points (77). Once the second gargoyle is destroyed, Endorovich’s spirit is laid to rest. Fortunes of Ravenloft If your card reading reveals that a treasure is here, it is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
7), second in command of the fire cult. He is responsible for guarding the northern half of the complex. Roleplaying Bastian. Bastian is suspicious of anyone he doesn’t already know and assumes any
emanates from this dark place, which holds the chill of the grave. Strange mounds run the length of the room and look like furrows for planting.
The mounds are the decayed remains of bookshelves and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
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Four drop tubes allow passage to the lower levels. It’s a 20-foot drop to the floor of the ship’s second level below. Aphelion normally keeps the antigravity in each tube turned off to prevent
toward them. Key Card Access. The door to each drop tube is locked. To access the second level of the ship or return to this level, the characters require a blue key card. Aphelion can override the