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Basic Rules (2014)
sold the secrets you uncovered to the highest bidder.
Suggested Characteristics
Criminals might seem like villains on the surface, and many of them are villainous to the core. But some have an
I can’t do it.
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I blow up at the slightest insult.
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Ideal
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Honor. I don’t steal from others in the trade. (Lawful)
2
Freedom. Chains are meant to
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
different context: as an espionage agent. You might have been an officially sanctioned agent of the crown, or perhaps you sold the secrets you uncovered to the highest bidder.
Suggested
Ideal
1
Honor. I don’t steal from others in the trade. (Lawful)
2
Freedom. Chains are meant to be broken, as are those who would forge them. (Chaotic)
3
Charity. I steal
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Sibriex A breeder of horrors and a hoarder of secrets, a sibriex is said to be as old as the Abyss. — The Cartographer When the characters arrive at this location, read or paraphrase the following
boxed text to the players: Spiky chains lash a fifteen-foot-diameter, floating blob of quivering flesh to a 20-foot-tall wrought-iron scaffold. Two fiends wrapped in chains stand atop the scaffold
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
metal to coerce prisoners into betraying themselves. Many serve powerful devils, wrenching secrets from imprisoned souls using deadly, animate chains. Left to their own devices, chain devils
Roll: +7, reach 10 ft. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4) Slashing damage. If the target is a Large or smaller creature, it has the Grappled condition (escape DC 14) from one of two chains, and it has the Restrained
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
for humanoid sacrifice — sometimes an inductee that tried to escape the cult after learning its secrets. These labyrinths become blood-soaked halls of slaughter, echoing to the cultists’ savagery
fervent supplicants that plead for strength and power. Others come to the cult seeking a life free from authority’s chains — and are liberated of their humanity instead as Baphomet transforms them
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
. Beneath their placid veneer, however, some prisoners seek to cause ruin and strife, such as the conniving burgomaster, who shelters secrets of his own. Others just want to be left alone. CoupleOfKooks
, and melted-down manacles and chains. A cranium rat genius broods within the junk piles. Called the Node, the hairless rat claims to have escaped the Lady of Pain’s Mazes—a feat that bestowed it a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
. (Lawful) 2 Freedom. Chains are meant to be broken, as are those who would forge them. (Chaotic) 3 Charity. I steal from the wealthy so that I can help people in need. (Good) 4 Greed. I will do
very different context: as an espionage agent. You might have been an officially sanctioned agent of the crown, or perhaps you sold the secrets you uncovered to the highest bidder.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
. (Lawful) 2 Freedom. Chains are meant to be broken, as are those who would forge them. (Chaotic) 3 Charity. I steal from the wealthy so that I can help people in need. (Good) 4 Greed. I will do
very different context: as an espionage agent. You might have been an officially sanctioned agent of the crown, or perhaps you sold the secrets you uncovered to the highest bidder.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
leading to a stone portico. Oil lamps hang from the portico ceiling by chains, flanking an oaken double door.
The double door opens into an empty antechamber. On the south wall is a shield emblazoned with
likeness of a gaunt, pale-faced man wearing a black cloak.
The statue depicts Strahd, to whom the cultists make sacrifices in the vain hope that he will reveal his secrets to them. Encounter. Roll on the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
. Bewitching Whispers Prerequisite: 7th level You can cast compulsion once using a warlock spell slot. You can’t do so again until you finish a long rest. Book of Ancient Secrets Prerequisite: Pact of
spell. For each level of the spell, the transcription process takes 2 hours and costs 50 gp for the rare inks needed to inscribe it. Chains of Carceri Prerequisite: 15th level, Pact of the Chain
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
of rattling chains. The unfeeling tyrant’s laws change by the day, but her disdain for color and emotion are constant. This joyless executioner compounds the sorrow of her subjects. Some doubt the High
spreads joy. 4 A baernaloth (see Morte’s Planar Parade) whispers to the characters through the Wishless Well, offering to trade ancient secrets for the Maiden of Misery’s true identity.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
secret about Lord Neverember. A scrawl in the margin of a note claims that “her secrets will make a worthy sacrifice.” (The characters can learn more by examining Jerot’s papers in area C25
. Learning of Sarcelle’s vision counts as a secret for the purposes of the Power of Secrets rules found in this book’s introduction. C6: Supply Room Stone shelves in this room contain boxes and bags. A few
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
guile, and are always looking for ways to expand their influence. SECRETS OF GRACKLSTUGH
Wary outsiders visiting Gracklstugh quickly learn the most important details of life in the city.
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Uniting War against the Deepkingdom, but were swiftly crushed, and the survivors brought back to Gracklstugh in chains. Though their status as slaves was eventually set aside, the derro have always been
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
with strange symbols and wrapped in silver chains. An explorer tried to open the door, but a jolt of lightning from the door’s runes nearly killed her. Shortly afterward, strange spirits and capering
stronghold, but he can’t shake the idea of following the deeper passages for the chance of unearthing Zenopus’s lost secrets. If the characters earn his trust, he might take them into his confidence. The details of the deep dungeons are left to the DM’s invention.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
lanterns hang above each desk from chains anchored to the ceiling.
Manager. A hobgoblin wearing cracked half-moon spectacles sits behind a stone lectern and greets all those who enter, directing each new
visiting Skullport, claiming that it’s not safe for adventurers. It also tells them an Undermountain secret, hoping they’ll be lured away by the mystery. Draw a card from the Secrets Deck (see
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
fault, and he’s glad that no one else was captured in the assault. Regardless of the characters’ reaction to this revelation, learning it counts as a secret for the purposes of the Power of Secrets
allows a creature to view the chamber below (area V34). A black moonlight mirror is suspended from three iron chains connected to the sides of the opening. The mirror can be safely detached from one iron
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
straw lines the floors of those cells, the hinged doors of which are secured by chains and padlocks. A pair of human women are held in the cell to the south, while a human boy is confined to the north
columns and watches them, attempting to use its Weird Insight to discern the intruders’ secrets. Ssarnak communicates via telepathy. If detected, it prefers to negotiate and will betray the Redbrands
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
spouses or gossipy wags. Unlike Merilyn, the Reveler’s Union — the city-spanning crew of night-workers — isn’t averse to selling secrets teased from the bathhouse’s clients, and those looking to
filled with writhing hooks and chains. With no laborers willing to tear the place down, the Council of Four boarded up the doors but left the mansion standing. For decades now, no one has been observed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
secrets teased from the bathhouse’s clients, and those looking to purchase such information need only whisper in the right ear here. Though this dichotomy keeps Merilyn herself from officially
squad smashed its way into the building. Only two of its members emerged, babbling about shifting rooms and blood-soaked abattoirs filled with writhing hooks and chains. With no laborers willing to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
courtyard here, creating the sense of a monastic sanctuary. Each of the glowing silver pillars that support the ceiling has a set of chains and manacles fastened to it. Thayans hang from four of the
she can to save herself from death, including using Szass Tam’s secrets. She can reveal two pieces of lore and is willing to share her glyph key’s attunements. Further, she can teach the characters the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
all divine power. Faction Attire. Defiers wear geometric, starry fabrics that hint at their astral ties. They adorn their outfits with silver chains and broken holy symbols. Role in Sigil. The Athar
prize. With brutal efficiency, he exploits the financial stranglehold his faction has over Sigil, richly rewarding informants for secrets that might give the Fated leverage over the other factions
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Swinging Sword. The inn is a three-story stone structure, crowned by a steep slate roof that bristles with many chimneys. A signboard juts out over the door, hanging from chains. It’s a ten-foot-long
local farms. Key NPC. The thin, energetic proprietor, Mangobarl Lorren (male Chondathan human thug), thrives on gossip and can spin many wild tales. Few are true, and none of the secrets are his own. He
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
the servants’ quarters (area P15), and that he’s slow to trust others. If the characters haven’t already earned Thinnings’s trust, Demitasse advises them to share one or more secrets with the timid
five iron levers protrudes from the wall above the ledge on the far side of the room. Five feet below the ledge is the surface of a pool of reeking sludge. Five slender, gilded cages dangle from chains