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Eberron: Rising from the Last War
can’t fully change shape, they can temporarily enhance their animalistic features — a state they call shifting. Each shifter walks on the knife’s edge between the wilds and the
of their inner nature, something that emerges as the shifter’s personality takes shape. The beast within is a pool of powerful instincts, and its influence is revealed by a shifter’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
encounter by shifting focus right before a character makes an ability check or opens a chest, leaving everyone eager to hear what happens next. Ability Checks in Exploration When a character tries to do
something during exploration, you decide whether that action requires an ability check to determine success (as described in the earlier “Resolving Outcomes” section). Certain situations might call
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
the adventurers try to persuade an indifferent creature to do something. A hostile creature opposes the adventurers and their goals but doesn’t necessarily attack them on sight. For example, a
the creature cares about. They can guess, but doing so runs the risk of shifting the creature’s attitude in the wrong direction if they guess badly. After interacting with a creature long enough to get
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
crescent moon, seasons, or momentous events. Weretigers often view their abilities as a blessing or a family honor, and they use their shape-shifting abilities to defend something with historic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
waters of Pernault Bay and Lucine Bay, as well as shifting scraps of fog-shrouded suburban areas around the city. Port-a-Lucine is a festering mire of rot and decay hidden beneath a glittering facade of
to be something they’re not. Your family pretended to greater wealth and status than their means. Is the rest of your life a lie? How much of it do you feel is a lie? Do you suspect you are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
adopted their appearances — male, female, or something else — but just as often kept their company in the form of a rose blossom or a delicate doe. Corellon’s flamboyant, mercurial personality showed
example of Corellon’s wild, ever-shifting ways. As these primal reflections of Corellon changed their nature and defined themselves, they came to see Corellon and Lolth in new lights. They now viewed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
kill something to obtain what you need, but you’ll surely have to overcome a challenge. The Magic Item Ingredients table suggests how difficult that challenge could be. Magic Item Ingredients Item
component.
4 The shifting balance of the planes interferes with your work; you must wait for the current planar alignment to change.
5 Your efforts draw the attention of one of the conspiracies
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
the tables and see if the result sparks your imagination or read the entries on the tables until you find something that grabs you. Levels 1–4: Local Heroes The fate of a village might depend on the
captured by monsters living there. 8 An innocent person is being framed for the crimes of a shape-shifting monster. 9 Ghouls are venturing out of the catacombs at night. 10 A notorious criminal hides
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
about. This leaves the uninfected confused but happy that something joyous is about to happen. Beyond the mud and mushrooms that spread across the cavern, a large, clear pool sits in the midst of the
) protect the mound and obey either of the sovereigns. Sovereign Phylo. The sovereign towers above the other myconids, its multiple caps swaying with the sinuous shifting of its thick stalk as it moves
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
the pantry’s floor opens to reveal a 10-foot-tall ladder descending into a darkened cold-storage cellar. The stench of something rotting rises from below. F7: Cellar and Tunnel Shelves bearing root
and manner shifting erratically. Use the following points to guide the conversation: Kianna confirms she’s the person the party seeks. She’s saddened at any talk of Aunt Dellie having sent the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
mine, an ancient ruin, a magical pool, a hag’s cottage, or some other feature. The Search DC column of the Travel Terrain table suggests DCs for Wisdom (Perception) checks made to find something in
Wisdom (Survival) check. You might require trackers to make a new check in any of the following circumstances: Resting. The trackers resume tracking after finishing a Short or Long Rest. Shifting Weather
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
, along with anyone else with calloused hands or a passion for crafting. Locals are hardworking folk who can churn ingots from ore, press diamonds from coal, and turn a lump of nothing into something
Tattershade, King of the Rats. His territory is arranged entirely for defense, a tangle of tunnels adjacent to the Ditch that are big enough only for rats and shifting shadows. Tattershade is a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
isn’t a limit you can work around easily. Similarly, character death is something that happens from time to time, though the game has ways to counteract or avoid it. Communicating Limits. Make sure
the group every few sessions to make sure everyone’s comfortable with how the game is developing, updating the group’s limits as needed. Shifting Limits. Encourage players to bring any additional
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
example, taking damage isn’t a limit you can work around easily. Similarly, character death is something that happens from time to time, though the game has ways to counteract or avoid it (see “Death
make sure everyone’s comfortable with how the game is developing, updating the group’s limits as needed. Shifting Limits. Encourage players to bring any additional limits to you, privately or in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
food.
The two sprites are named Sysie and Val. Any character who converses with them and succeeds on a DC 10 Wisdom (Insight) check notices they are both uneasy. They sense something is amiss with
safely to area P11 if they ask to see the bathroom turret, and he will help them defeat the golem that guards it.) Weird Anomalies. “Something strange is happening. I’ve seen walls, windows, and doors
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
Ascendant Factions Factions wax and wane, shifting the balance of power in Sigil. The most influential factions are known as ascendant factions, widely recognized groups that oversee aspects of daily
entirely natural, something to be fostered in its own time. They don’t recklessly hasten destruction or oppose creation. Instead, they see that every act of creation is intrinsically tied to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
shifting light, endless sky, changing climate, and eroding wind, represents a dream state, an unreality where nothing lasts and therefore nothing has significance. Ordning of Artistry Among stone giants
would rather not do or that they’re unable to perform, such as chasing kobolds out of a narrow cave or retrieving something from deep within a lake. (Stone giants are poor swimmers; they dislike
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
breath and clearly hiding something on their person, a teenage tiefling spy begs the characters to help them avoid two oncoming Harmonium peacekeepers (see Morte’s Planar Parade). 4 A drunk elf
material, its surface shifting like a puddle of oil. The structure has no visible doors or windows save for eight balconies that jut from its twisting frame. Although the tower’s surfaces are impenetrable
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
staircase railing. Framed portraits and mirrors festoon the walls, surrounding you with judging looks and dark reflections. You hear something scratching at one of the many doors. The scratching noise
desk, a chair, a table, and a wine cabinet. The room has an irregular shape, and none of its angles seem quite right, as though the shifting of the house has set the whole place on edge. Eight cats
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
freely partake of the apples. Characters who wish to avoid a fight can obtain apples through a variety of clever means: By shape-shifting into a woodland animal By freeing Asger, a child trapped in
over the wyrmling. At the DM’s discretion, the characters might be able to offer something else in the dentures’ place, such as a secret family recipe, one of Fill’s delectable cinnamon rolls, or Uncle
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
in their bases, which open into shafts that ascend to the dome. The shafts are 60 feet long and lit from above by the shifting auroral light of the dome’s interior. A character who steps inside a
Transmuter Metaltra used a true polymorph spell to transform herself into something she thought would survive the city’s destruction: an adamantine statue. An hour later, when the spell should have ended
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
spontaneously arising undead, unethical or experimental treatments by priests of non-good faiths, or excessive withdrawals from the stores of painkilling narcotics. It perhaps says something about Baldur’s Gate
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->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
-good faiths, or excessive withdrawals from the stores of painkilling narcotics. It perhaps says something about Baldur’s Gate that city officials decided to build the hospital right next to Cliffgate
emerged. After a handful of such disappearances, a Flaming Fist squad smashed its way into the building. Only two of its members emerged, babbling about shifting rooms and blood-soaked abattoirs
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
. Distances and dimensions are tricky to determine in the shifting light of rusty purple motes and lavender rays. Globs of mauve and violet seem to seep and slide around. The ceiling of the temple is
drawn into the altar, the altar returns to its dormant state, and atop it will be the thing most wished for by the party—or something that will enable the characters to attain the end or state they most
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
music here a few days ago. The music and shifting shadows fade after a few more hours. The characters can’t physically interact with the shadows, but a silence spell or similar effect causes the shadows
Rods. The two rods here create an electric circuit that activates something in the Briny Maze when connected. Lowarnizel believes it to be a doorway; Gossa worries that it’s an alarm. Endless Void. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
, the trees resemble looming figures with crooked fingers. A singularly gnarled and ancient oak rises from the center of the grove. Clusters of mistletoe grow all over its branches, and something
the walls are solid; an opening in the western wall leads into a maze of hedgerow corridors.
This shifting hedge maze surrounds the means to enter the Palace of Spires: a magic sundial. Maze. Each