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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Optimizing Players who enjoy optimizing their characters’ capabilities like to fine-tune their characters for peak combat performance by gaining levels, new features, and magic items. They welcome
. including encounters that let their characters shine. providing quantifiable rewards, like experience points, for noncombat encounters.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Optimizing Players who enjoy optimizing their characters’ capabilities like to fine-tune their characters for peak combat performance by gaining levels, new features, and magic items. They welcome
. including encounters that let their characters shine. providing quantifiable rewards, like experience points, for noncombat encounters.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
tight-knit from the start. Similarly, ask your players to consider creating characters suited to undertaking heists. Combat prowess is less important when sneaking through a guarded complex, for
example, whereas stealth, skill with locks, social skills, clever problem-solving, and versatile character abilities will shine. Well-outfitted characters are also more likely to succeed at these
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
tight-knit from the start. Similarly, ask your players to consider creating characters suited to undertaking heists. Combat prowess is less important when sneaking through a guarded complex, for
example, whereas stealth, skill with locks, social skills, clever problem-solving, and versatile character abilities will shine. Well-outfitted characters are also more likely to succeed at these
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
creature uses an action to shake them awake. Living Unseen Servants Attacking a servant, snatching its feather duster, or otherwise disturbing the contents of this room triggers combat. On their first turn
making a hasty escape.
If the characters get rid of Maddgoth’s homunculus, the faerie dragon takes a shine to them and offers to pay them 50 gp for each trinket they deliver to it. Otto collects trinkets and has a secret stash of coins (see area 43b).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
creature uses an action to shake them awake. Living Unseen Servants Attacking a servant, snatching its feather duster, or otherwise disturbing the contents of this room triggers combat. On their first turn
making a hasty escape.
If the characters get rid of Maddgoth’s homunculus, the faerie dragon takes a shine to them and offers to pay them 50 gp for each trinket they deliver to it. Otto collects trinkets and has a secret stash of coins (see area 43b).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
(2d10) poison damage.
Fel’rekt Lafeen Fel’rekt is a male drow who was born female. Unhappy with the treatment of males in his society, he petitioned to join Bregan D’aerthe. Jarlaxle took a shine to
combat with verve. Fel’rekt and Krebbyg Masq’il’yr are close friends and work as a team, trading banter and jokes at their enemies’ expense. Fel’rekt lacks the cruelty common to most drow, and he won’t
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
opportunities for subtlety or skulduggery, while a Barbarian player likely craves combat. Take note of what encounters players are enthusiastic about, and seek ways to help the players’ characters
shine. Character Arcs Like most protagonists in film and literature, D&D adventurers face challenges and change through the experience of overcoming them. By incorporating each character’s motivations
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
opportunities for subtlety or skulduggery, while a Barbarian player likely craves combat. Take note of what encounters players are enthusiastic about, and seek ways to help the players’ characters
shine. Character Arcs Like most protagonists in film and literature, D&D adventurers face challenges and change through the experience of overcoming them. By incorporating each character’s motivations
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
(2d10) poison damage.
Fel’rekt Lafeen Fel’rekt is a male drow who was born female. Unhappy with the treatment of males in his society, he petitioned to join Bregan D’aerthe. Jarlaxle took a shine to
combat with verve. Fel’rekt and Krebbyg Masq’il’yr are close friends and work as a team, trading banter and jokes at their enemies’ expense. Fel’rekt lacks the cruelty common to most drow, and he won’t
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
clear. In fact, the stars shine down with an almost fierce light. Anyone who explores the room discovers that this effect is an illusion and can determine the size and shape of the actual space. If
Languages —
Challenge Rating 1 (200 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2
False Object. If the library is motionless at the start of combat, it has advantage on its initiative roll. Moreover, if a creature hasn’t
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
clear. In fact, the stars shine down with an almost fierce light. Anyone who explores the room discovers that this effect is an illusion and can determine the size and shape of the actual space. If
Languages —
Challenge Rating 1 (200 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2
False Object. If the library is motionless at the start of combat, it has advantage on its initiative roll. Moreover, if a creature hasn’t
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
servant of nature, Duskwalker uses their Animate Trees action to ambush the characters, then follows the trees into battle. During combat, Duskwalker slowly bellows, “Each defiler you send to my gardens
, but their platinum inlays of dragons still shine.
A hostile marid named Jamir has taken up residence in this area. Once bound by the kingpriest’s wizards to power the city’s plumbing, Jamir has
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
speed. They usually have coats of a single color, often with a shine that can look metallic in bright light. Pheres band centaurs typically have long, nimble legs and lean bodies, and are often marked
both hunting and combat. Often a band is led by the strongest and most dominant warrior, called the charger. However, some bands elevate a tactician or strategist to this venerated position. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
servant of nature, Duskwalker uses their Animate Trees action to ambush the characters, then follows the trees into battle. During combat, Duskwalker slowly bellows, “Each defiler you send to my gardens
, but their platinum inlays of dragons still shine.
A hostile marid named Jamir has taken up residence in this area. Once bound by the kingpriest’s wizards to power the city’s plumbing, Jamir has
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
speed. They usually have coats of a single color, often with a shine that can look metallic in bright light. Pheres band centaurs typically have long, nimble legs and lean bodies, and are often marked
both hunting and combat. Often a band is led by the strongest and most dominant warrior, called the charger. However, some bands elevate a tactician or strategist to this venerated position. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
are not surprised by the crag cats. If one crag cat dies, the other one disengages from melee combat and tries to flee down the mountain on its next turn. Development. Assuming he survives the encounter
Frozen Cave A character with the Littlest Yeti secret (see appendix B) can really shine in this encounter. Up ahead on your left is a fifteen-foot-high, ten-foot-wide cave mouth. There’s blood on the snow
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
are not surprised by the crag cats. If one crag cat dies, the other one disengages from melee combat and tries to flee down the mountain on its next turn. Development. Assuming he survives the encounter
Frozen Cave A character with the Littlest Yeti secret (see appendix B) can really shine in this encounter. Up ahead on your left is a fifteen-foot-high, ten-foot-wide cave mouth. There’s blood on the snow
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
likely to hear the characters if they engage in combat in this area or are otherwise noisy. Unless the characters are purposefully quiet and stealthy, the single smuggler beyond the northern secret
variety of other items that, even in the dim light, shine with the warmth of pure gold. One of these objects looks like a human skull.
Book. Before the alchemist died, he was reading the book that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
likely to hear the characters if they engage in combat in this area or are otherwise noisy. Unless the characters are purposefully quiet and stealthy, the single smuggler beyond the northern secret
variety of other items that, even in the dim light, shine with the warmth of pure gold. One of these objects looks like a human skull.
Book. Before the alchemist died, he was reading the book that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
channel is stained and traces of a brown liquid shine wetly.
To your left, along the west wall, dozens of manacles hang from the wall at waist height.
The slaves that have been toiling to enlarge
slaves. The sahuagin attack any intruders on sight. Development. If the sahuagin here are alerted by the sounds of combat in area 12, they gather the slaves and chain them to the pillars in this room
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
turn to the party, revealing ghostly, screaming skulls instead of faces. The soldiers are three hostile wights. Three will-o’-wisps, previously invisible, appear at the start of combat and fight
is bare except for a large, wooden chest. The ostentatious chest’s dark walnut planks shine, and its iron straps are gilded with a thick sheet of gold leaf. An iron padlock crafted in the shape of a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
turn to the party, revealing ghostly, screaming skulls instead of faces. The soldiers are three hostile wights. Three will-o’-wisps, previously invisible, appear at the start of combat and fight
is bare except for a large, wooden chest. The ostentatious chest’s dark walnut planks shine, and its iron straps are gilded with a thick sheet of gold leaf. An iron padlock crafted in the shape of a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
to combat, and which backs away from most fights. Kofutacti is the dragon who hunted Dabshabah in episode 1, which could be interesting if the brass wyrmling is with the party, or if the green dragon
the characters, Carkuss asks the following riddle: I stand aloof, alone as a savior. I shine my oily smile across the rippling vastness. I, with this beaming, attract and repel. Ignore me, and you are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
channel is stained and traces of a brown liquid shine wetly.
To your left, along the west wall, dozens of manacles hang from the wall at waist height.
The slaves that have been toiling to enlarge
slaves. The sahuagin attack any intruders on sight. Development. If the sahuagin here are alerted by the sounds of combat in area 12, they gather the slaves and chain them to the pillars in this room
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
to combat, and which backs away from most fights. Kofutacti is the dragon who hunted Dabshabah in episode 1, which could be interesting if the brass wyrmling is with the party, or if the green dragon
the characters, Carkuss asks the following riddle: I stand aloof, alone as a savior. I shine my oily smile across the rippling vastness. I, with this beaming, attract and repel. Ignore me, and you are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
touch the glyphs and subdue the pillars with a successful DC 10 Intelligence (Arcana) check or deactivate them with a successful DC 15 Intelligence (Arcana) check. Subdued pillars shine less intensely
the thick of combat, she can become lost in her thirst for vengeance on the current owners of the Doomvault. Lumalia was lawful good when she was imprisoned, but she is now chaotic good. Dungeon State
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
touch the glyphs and subdue the pillars with a successful DC 10 Intelligence (Arcana) check or deactivate them with a successful DC 15 Intelligence (Arcana) check. Subdued pillars shine less intensely
the thick of combat, she can become lost in her thirst for vengeance on the current owners of the Doomvault. Lumalia was lawful good when she was imprisoned, but she is now chaotic good. Dungeon State