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others.
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There’s nothing I like more than a good mystery.
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I’m willing to listen to every side of an argument before I make my own judgment.
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I … speak &hellip
work to preserve a library, university, scriptorium, or monastery.
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My life’s work is a series of tomes related to a specific field of lore.
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I’ve been searching my whole
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Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
mystery.
5
I’m willing to listen to every side of an argument before I make my own judgment.
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I . . . speak . . . slowly . . . when talking . . . to idiots, . . . which . . . almost
work is a series of tomes related to a specific field of lore.
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I’ve been searching my whole life for the answer to a certain question.
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I sold my soul for knowledge. I hope to do
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
0 hit points by this attack.
Spellcasting. The giant casts one of the following spells, using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability:
At will: detect magic, mage armor
3/day each: speak with dead
: some say the Raven Queen answered every riddle the giants posed until the giants collapsed from exhaustion, while others describe a series of increasingly improbable events favoring the Raven Queen in
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
side of an argument before I make my own judgment.
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I … speak … slowly … when talking … to idiots, … which … almost … everyone … is
ancient text that holds terrible secrets that must not fall into the wrong hands.
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I work to preserve a library, university, scriptorium, or monastery.
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My life’s work is a series of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
can’t be lured from it. When the deva encounters the characters, read the following: The angel unfurls its wings, releasing a flurry of glowing embers, and says, “Speak your business, trespassers, and
speak it truthfully.”
The characters need not resort to violence to obtain the deva’s mace-key. Here are some alternate approaches: Clever Deception. The characters can pose as emissaries of a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
, but negotiates for passage if the characters speak to it. The gynosphinx appears to have suffered ancient injuries to its head, which have healed and been replaced by mechanical components. Both the
surrounded by a series of mechanical devices that function as Ioun stones, which add to its vast knowledge. The enhanced sphinx is a gynosphinx, with these changes: Its Intelligence score is 24 (+7). It
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
explain anything and everything to others. 4 There’s nothing I like more than a good mystery. 5 I’m willing to listen to every side of an argument before I make my own judgment. 6 I...speak...slowly...when
not fall into the wrong hands. 3 I work to preserve a library, university, scriptorium, or monastery. 4 My life’s work is a series of tomes related to a specific field of lore. 5 I’ve been searching my
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
listen to every side of an argument before I make my own judgment.
6 I . . . speak . . . slowly . . . when talking . . . to idiots, . . . which . . . almost . . . everyone . . . is . . . compared
not fall into the wrong hands.
3 I work to preserve a library, university, scriptorium, or monastery.
4 My life’s work is a series of tomes related to a specific field of lore.
5
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
approach, a series of rickety towers can be seen, lashed together by rope and plank bridges set in haphazard patterns. Even above ground, the kuo-toa build in line with their three-dimensional aquatic
difficult terrain.
Language. None of the inhabitants of Sloobludop speak Common or any surface-world language, which might present a challenge for the characters. The fish-folk speak Undercommon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
people who want to speak with her. A successful DC 15 Charisma (Persuasion) check, or polite and persistent questioning, convinces her to talk to the characters, if only to get them to leave her
presence sooner. Valor can share the following information: Thirteen days ago, she arrived at Candlekeep with The Dark Hunger, a series of nearly incomprehensible notes about Hadar, a powerful yet
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
series of experiments that expand his understanding of arcane magic and of the planes of existence. Mephistopheles keeps his realm churning with punishing storms. He doesn’t entertain visitors, and
hope of surviving. The foremost wizard in the Hells, Mephistopheles suffers nothing that would compromise his intellectual focus. He hates distractions and allows only particular devils to speak to him
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
metal platters, carry-bowls, and tureens. Its ceiling is a magnificent series of vaulted arches that crisscross to hold up a stone block ceiling, pierced in many places by the hanging roots of trees
growing above.
The air shimmers, and a female drow appears in the center of the chamber. The drow is an illusory projection, like a major image spell, that Nurvureem uses to speak with interlopers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
rite takes place overnight. The aspirants, who are sleep deprived, hungry, and thirsty, are led through a series of experiences that narrate the group’s version of the history of the multiverse
participate in the rites together speak of themselves as a single “brood” and remain especially close-knit. This brood is the only family that remains to initiates. Broods are numbered in the group’s annals
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
blocks. If the characters don’t speak up, Xedalli tries to mount her own defense, accusing her brother of trying to get rid of her and then fabricating the story of her sedition. It is obvious her words
refute their arguments. You can run this scenario as a tense series of verbal thrusts and parries, with Xedalli prompting the characters as needed to recount the various episodes of their mission and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
of mighty constructs. Fellik quickly leads you through a series of trash canyons.
Curst Escape Features Curst’s dump has the following features: Garbage Heaps. Trash heaps are 20 feet tall. Garbage
startled and attack. Should the characters try to communicate, the otyughs speak in Otyugh and insist to know what the characters are doing. If characters reveal they’re trying to escape, or if
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
, Lord Bakaris or Bakaris the Younger might speak out and try to undermine the mayor and the characters. If so, the villagers reject the evacuation plans until a character counters Bakaris by roleplaying
more people. Repurposed Ferry. A character who succeeds on a DC 12 Intelligence (Investigation) check notices the ferry crossing on the Vingaard River has a series of rafts and small boats on a pulley
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Uni and the Hunt for the Lost Horn
northwest edge of the clearing. Her friend Knock, another Sprite, is near the southeast edge of the clearing. Uni is no longer the youngster of the animated series; she is a fully grown unicorn. Just
block, except she’s a Lawful Good Celestial and can speak Common, Elvish, and Sylvan. Uni is frantically struggling to escape the Net, but she’s too tangled in it to do so alone. As an action, a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Nettlebee Ranch Nettlebee Ranch sprawls over a series of low, rolling hills where the forest has been cleared away for crops of oats and barley. The Nettlebees’ prize livestock — sheep, ponies, and
of the way unless he is called upon to speak. Then, he makes a blustering speech about how confident he is the characters can make the fire witch pay for what she has done. Jayne, Darrow, Elisa, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Astral Adventurer’s Guide
Juggler’s Folk. Fronted by a modest tavern, the Red Masks Guildhouse is located within a series of linked cellars beneath the streets. The tavern has no sign that bears its name, though a placard
admitted to the Red Masks’ secret sanctum before they are permitted to speak freely with the group’s leaders. Mages’ Guildhall A sturdy three-story tower, the Mages’ Guildhall is the headquarters and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
frog to croak the book’s title in Elvish. This book is volume 3 of an eleven-book series titled Tales from the Gloaming Court. Endelyn stole this book and its companion (in area M17) from her sister
are arranged on the shelves in the order in which Endelyn has written them. No book mentions the characters or anyone closely associated with them; most of the accounts speak of individuals who are long
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
) check, a character can convince her to speak openly. Kara knows that Viallis is creating some sort of following, having attracted many admirers who now live in and around the village. She doesn’t know
for opening up and rebuilding a series of subterranean chambers, which now constitute the cult’s temple. With the temple completed, Lord Viallis has ordered the cult’s activities to be stepped up. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
hill are awakened trees that speak Common in low, rumbling voices. Telemy Hill uses the trees to communicate, rather than speaking itself. As the characters move up the hill, 1d4 + 1 awakened trees
. He wears a bright blue scarf and moves as fast as lightning. Characters who head toward Brigands’ Tollway might encounter him there. Brigands’ Tollway is a series of old wooden catwalks that circle a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Dragon Characters The Dungeon Master’s Guide includes a series of tables and guidelines designed to help you craft NPCs. This section presents alternatives to those tables, helping you transform a
1 Rotates head from side to side when listening or speaking
2 Tail writhes constantly in a snakelike fashion
3 Slowly and constantly fans wings
4 Lowers head to speak eye-to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
unattuned creatures within sight of the servant, starting with those threatening the artifact—preferably using the servant, if possible. Self-Destruct. By inputting a specific series of lever pulls and
Immunities all conditions but invisible and prone
Senses blindsight 120 ft., passive Perception 19
Languages understands the languages of creatures attuned to it but can’t speak
Challenge
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
giants posed until the giants collapsed from exhaustion, while others describe a series of increasingly improbable events favoring the Raven Queen in every wager. What is certain is that the giants
Intelligence as the spellcasting ability:
At will: detect magic, mage armor
3/day each: speak with dead, Tenser’s floating disk
Bonus Actions
Frightening Teleport (Recharge 4–6). The giant magically
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Gala at the Cerulean Lyceum Xoese-Addae leads the characters to the Cerulean Lyceum, a series of vaulted, crystalline halls set around a broad quadrangle. When the characters arrive, the quad is
interrupts and orders all the characters to introduce themselves rather than first sharing her own name. If the characters speak about the ghost ship, Zisatta tensely reports that sightings of a ghostly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
jowls, and its trunk is raised in a roar. Inscriptions coil around the statue’s body, and murals on the walls show a Chultan warrior riding a living mastodon through a series of hellish landscapes. In
, and reforms in his tomb somewhere in the distant jungle. Ch’gakare does not speak but holds up the chalice in a manner that suggests he’s offering it as a gift. If the chalice is taken from his hand
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
summons such creatures. Miner Body. The body on the ground is that of a missing miner named Enwa, who was killed by an aurumvorax attack. If a character casts the speak with dead spell on the corpse
commoner stat block. Suspicious Runes. Characters who investigate the area where the survivors were hiding can make a DC 14 Intelligence (Investigation) check. If they succeed, they find a series of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 13):
At will: guidance, light
2/day each: comprehend languages, locate object
1/day each: mage armor, speak with dead, stone shape
breaks that are to their advantage. Whether those breaks are in a series of events, in obstacles, or in enemies depends on the needs in the moment. They crush enemies’ plans under the weight of time and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
of manacles, and a blue pearl worth 150 gp. D3: Lower Chambers The stairs descend into an space surrounded by a series of halls and cramped rooms. A thick, rotten smell permeates the air. Digging
). A character can unblock the door by succeeding on a DC 17 Strength check, but doing so alerts the hybrid draconians in area D3. If the characters try to speak through the crates, Yearkal answers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
clay pots suggest this long chamber was once a series of sleeping quarters and storage spaces. Stray yellowed bones litter the dirt floor.
A character who examines the rodent-gnawed bones and
none of the characters speak Xingyu. Once she is given a moment to take everything in, Lio Gong shares the following information: The ruined palace was once Lio Gong’s home. She was the favorite spouse
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
new form, the dragon retains its alignment, hit points, Hit Dice, ability to speak, proficiencies, Legendary Resistance, lair actions, and Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores, as well as this
choice).
In a new form, the dragon retains its alignment, hit points, Hit Dice, ability to speak, proficiencies, Legendary Resistance, lair actions, and Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores, as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
they open their eyes and move. To cross the bridge without rousing the galeb duhrs, someone among the passersby must speak the cult’s pass phrase: “We walk in the shadow of Ogrémoch!” Otherwise, the
horrors hide in crevices along the walls, communicating with one another using a series of indecipherable clicks and clacks. The hook horrors attack any creature that tries to cross their territory
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a2
The Glitterhame Below the Mountain Door lies the Glitterhame, a large series of natural caverns in the heart of the Stone Tooth. The caverns are beautiful: the walls sparkle and glisten with flecks
a troglodyte with the following changes, which increase his challenge rating to 2 (450 XP): His AC is 13 (natural armor). He has 39 (6d8 + 12) hit points. His Charisma is 15 (+2). He can speak
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
priceless library of war-related texts, and more. Rumors also speak of the Fist’s treasury, kept in a lead-lined vault somewhere beneath the Officers’ Tower and surrounded by yards of solid stone, the
series of three towers built into the walls at the western end of the Seatower neighborhood, the facility was intended to treat the sewage just before it enters the river, using vast enclosed holding tanks