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Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
portfolios revolve around fair commerce. Standing 12 feet tall, they are lanky blue beings who dress in elegant robes and have elongated heads and long, spindly fingers.
Mercanes conduct most of their
business in Wildspace and the Astral Sea. To a mercane, commerce can take many forms, from the trading of goods and services to the trading of ideas and information. Mercanes are best known, however
Guild Artisan / Guild Merchant
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Player’s Handbook (2014)
in your proficiency with a certain kind of artisan’s tools), as well as the principles of trade and good business practices. The question now is whether you abandon your trade for adventure, or
you if a good case can be made for your innocence or the crime is justifiable. You can also gain access to powerful political figures through the guild, if you are a member in good standing. Such
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
birdfolk. Only when they roost on a branch or walk across the ground is their Humanoid nature clear. Standing upright, aarakocra are typically about 5 feet tall, and they have long, narrow legs that
violent end on an adventure. Members of some races, such as dwarves and elves, can live for centuries. If typical members of a race can live longer than a century, that fact is mentioned in the race
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
artisan’s tools), as well as the principles of trade and good business practices. The question now is whether you abandon your trade for adventure, or take on the extra effort to weave
innocence or the crime is justifiable. You can also gain access to powerful political figures through the guild, if you are a member in good standing. Such connections might require the donation of
Elf
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Basic Rules (2014)
minstrels, artists, or sages. Human nobles compete for the services of elf instructors to teach swordplay or magic to their children.
Exploration and Adventure
Elves take up adventuring out of wanderlust
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
an ally, a patron, or even an enemy as the adventure unfolds. When the adventurers hire an NPC for long-term work, add the cost of that NPC’s services to the characters’ lifestyle expenses. See the “Additional Expenses” section of chapter 6, "Between Adventures," for more information.
Hirelings Adventurers can pay NPCs to provide services in a variety of circumstances. Information on hirelings appears in chapter 5, "Equipment" of the Player’s Handbook. Hireling NPCs rarely become
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
transitioning from another published adventure to this one. Nightstone is a fortified settlement located a few miles south of the Ardeep Forest, in the untamed hills between Waterdeep and Daggerford. A
lonely wooden signpost, standing where the trail to Nightstone meets the High Road, points the way to the settlement. Nightstone’s closest neighbors are the elves of the Ardeep Forest. Hunters from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata
creations of one or more deities whose portfolios revolve around fair commerce. Standing 12 feet tall, they are lanky blue beings who dress in elegant robes and have elongated heads and long, spindly
fingers.
Mercanes conduct most of their business in Wildspace and the Astral Sea. To a mercane, commerce can take many forms, from the trading of goods and services to the trading of ideas and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Waterdeep and its citizens. Services Trench can discover any secret in Waterdeep, for a fee. Use your judgment when pricing its services; 50 gp is sufficient for most investigations, but if the characters
want to learn secrets relating to the major antagonists of this adventure, the rakshasa might require a service in payment, such as slaying enemies that are hunting it, posting advertisements for its business in their tavern, or keeping tabs on someone Vincent has been hired to spy on.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Variety Series Some groups don’t want a long campaign with sweeping plotlines; they prefer short, unconnected adventures. With that style of game, different players might take turns as DM for one to three sessions at a time, with each adventure standing as a self-contained story.
Aarakocra
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Elemental Evil Player's Companion
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Beak and Feather
From below, aarakocra look much like large birds. Only when they descend to roost on a branch or walk across the ground does their humanoid appearance reveal itself. Standing
, a mission of vengeance, or a catastrophe typically lies at the heart of the aarakocra adventurer’s chosen path.
Two other circumstances might call an aarakocra to adventure. First, aarakocra
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Coinage As should be expected of any city of standing, Waterdeep mints its own coins. All taxes, fines, and guild fees must be paid either in Waterdavian coin or the currency of any member
settlement of the Lords’ Alliance. Though no law requires you to pay for goods or services in Waterdavian coin, the drudgery of weighing foreign currency and checking its purity prompts many retailers and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
different monsters can work together in unusual ways and how their special abilities could be used outside combat. Droaam offers a way to introduce monsters into any adventure, and for characters to
bent could appear anywhere in Khorvaire. House Tharashk brokers the services of Droaamish monsters across the continent. Some of these monsters can appear in traditionally aggressive roles, as mercenary
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Giants of the Star Forge
of the Star Forge” draws on the ideas, maps, stat blocks, and other details in the pages of that book, standing as an example of how to put all those pieces together. You can use Glory of the Giants to
help inspire alterations or expansions to this adventure, and of course to help you create your own adventures and even whole campaigns with giants in prominent roles.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
. You wouldn’t be standing around in this cold otherwise.”
The speaker is Dannika Graysteel (lawful neutral half-elf acolyte), a scholar who thinks that wee elemental spirits known as chwingas might be
one up close. For the characters’ services, Dannika is offering the group 25 gp as well as a lantern of tracking (elementals) that can help locate chwingas. She says she’ll be at the local tavern each
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
along a mostly regular grid, making it easy for characters to find their way among standing statues and funerary niches. If the characters come here following rumors of ghosts, it’s only a matter of
chapters of the adventure, or they should be kept busy with other commitments and quests before returning to the surface world. These quests could come either from the deep gnomes or from earlier chapters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
merchant has far-reaching contacts across the region. Traveling merchants pass on gossip and adventure hooks to the characters as they conduct their business. Since merchants make their living
attention of adventurers. These merchants can’t provide the services normally found in a city. For instance, when the characters are in need of a library or a dedicated sage, a trainer who can handle
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
A Beautiful Mine The characters can pick up this quest if they start the adventure in Termalaine or shortly after they arrive in town. As they trudge through the streets, they see a young boy
standing on a box, yelling about various local happenings, including the recent evacuation of workers from a nearby mine that has been overrun by kobolds. A reward of 50 gp is offered to anyone who can rid
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
finally come. With the help of a tiefling scout named Mettle (see the Gala Guests table earlier in the adventure), the hags have been able to spy on the gala. Disguised as three elf nobles from the Feywild
present stolen invitations to the winter wolves standing guard outside, then waltz into Paliset Hall, cackling with delight at how well their plan is unfolding.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Renown Renown is an optional rule you can use to track characters’ standing, individually or as a party, within a particular group, such as a faction, an organization, or a community. A character’s
with another, based on the character’s interaction with each group. You can use renown over the course of an entire campaign or within a single adventure. At a campaign scale, you might set up factions
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
following events in the adventure, employing scrying magic, or methodically searching the Sumber Hills. Some or all of the player characters might begin the adventure already in possession of useful
information because of the adventure hooks in chapter 1. Key clues from these hooks include the following: Best Served Cold: The character hears from tavern patrons in Red Larch that a band of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
the characters visit Bel’s forge later in the adventure (see “Bel’s Forge”), they find it under siege from Shummrath’s hastily mustered forces. The attackers are quickly overwhelmed, forcing
. Rigorath the cambion tells them that Ubbalux must swear fealty to Mephistopheles to escape the standing stones. If Ubbalux does as Rigorath suggests, swearing its undying fealty to Mephistopheles, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
, a bedroom, and a storage area.
Rain Barrel. A large barrel near the building holds clean water for washing dishes and clothes.
Apartments Services The apartments offer the following services
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Buy Gems. Lenk can buy gems the characters find in their adventures. Lenk exchanges gems at this location for their value in gold. All the gems in this adventure are worth 100 GP; this rate includes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Boo’s Astral Menagerie
Mercane Mercanes are the mysterious, magical creations of one or more deities whose portfolios revolve around fair commerce. Standing 12 feet tall, they are lanky blue beings who dress in elegant
and services to the trading of ideas and information. Mercanes are best known, however, for procuring and selling magic items, including artifacts and spelljamming helms. It’s rare to see more than one
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Giants of the Star Forge
Adventure Background For pious giants, position in the ordning is everything. Brimskarda, a legendary fire giant smith, is discovering what it means to fall in the ordning’s ranks. Various missteps
in recent years have imperiled her lofty station. To resecure her standing in the ordning and prove that she is still the greatest smith among giants, Brimskarda has reclaimed the legendary Star Forge
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
More Monastery The original Expedition to the Barrier Peaks mapped out six levels of the adventure’s crashed ship: “a large exploration-colonization expedition of human origin.” This adventure
focuses on only a cursory exploration of a similarly crashed planar craft, but you can easily expand the adventure by allowing characters to discover portals in the monastery that lead to lower levels of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation Supplement
Adventure Hooks Here are some hooks you can use to lure characters to the Snout of Omgar: While traveling by ship around the Chultan peninsula, the characters are caught in a storm and washed ashore
payment for its services, requests their help in ridding the palace of monsters.
The merchant princes of Port Nyanzaru are worried about the growing number of yuan-ti spies in their city and fear that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
A Call for Heroes When the adventure begins, the characters know the general history of Redwood Watch and its plight involving missing villagers. As soon as the characters enter the village, council
members Selenar Woodwise and Gwenhumara Goldmoss approach them to provide more information about Redwood Watch’s call for heroes. Read or paraphrase the following: Standing before you are two wood
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
magical gate to Castle Naerytar sits between a pair of moss-covered standing stones visible from all the front rooms of the lodge. Three other portals near the lodge stand between similar stones, and
, and one leads to the desert of Mulhorand, near a blue dragon’s lair. These additional portals should not be a major part of the adventure, but they can introduce cultist nonplayer characters coming
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
magical gate to Castle Naerytar sits between a pair of moss-covered standing stones visible from all the front rooms of the lodge. Three other portals near the lodge stand between similar stones, and the
, and one leads to the desert of Mulhorand, near a blue dragon lair. These additional portals should not be a major part of the adventure, but they can introduce cultist nonplayer characters coming to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
sealing an alliance. The characters begin the adventure with 0 points. That score is adjusted every time they interact with lizardfolk, but the results only become apparent when the characters meet the
irrevocably hostile if the characters’ total number of points drops to 0 or lower even after the queen offers them chances at diplomacy and ways to improve their standing. If this happens, after the lizardfolk give them a second chance, the characters’ mission ends in failure.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
New Characters Players might create a 10th-level character from scratch for this adventure. For ease of introduction, the character might be from Neverwinter or somewhere else nearby. If one or more
lair. While examining the items, the character stumbled upon a Cubic Gate that sent them to Neverwinter. The character agreed to work for Lord Neverember in exchange for the spellcasting services they
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Meeting the Queen The point system starts working when the adventure begins, but its ramifications aren’t apparent until the PCs meet the queen for the first time. This most likely occurs after they
) and perhaps tipping the scales by offering the queen some of their valuables or the use of their services. Initial Attitude Characters Have… Penalty or Benefit Killed lizardfolk adults -1 per
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rrakkma
Section 1. Call to Action The characters begin the adventure standing about one-hundred feet from a gate to Pandemonium. They’re underground, two days travel and far beneath the Sha’sal Khou redoubt
CHASE!
The initial purpose here is to set the scene and put the adventurers directly into the action. There is no point to creating an extra decision point at the beginning of the adventure when we know they’re going.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
serve as a giant steading, and you can use the tables in chapter 3 to help you populate the site. The Steadings table suggests adventure hooks you might use to bring characters to such a place
. Steadings d6 Adventure Hook 1 A young giant looks for adventurers’ help turning the rest of the steading, including the young giant’s family, away from the worship of a demon lord. 2 The only possible