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Winter Wolf Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

large as a dire wolf but has snow-white fur and pale blue eyes. Frost giants use these evil creatures as guards and hunting companions, putting the wolves' deadly breath weapon to use against their foes

. Winter wolves communicate with one another using growls and barks, but they speak Common and Giant well enough to follow simple conversations.Cold

Mind Domain

classes

often associated with the Path of Light or the Riedran Path of Inspiration, followers of the daelkyr can also master this power. Visions of Xoriat can drive a priest to madness, but they can also reveal deadly secrets of the mind.

Drowned Assassin

Monsters Ghosts of Saltmarsh

deadly precision. Hidden behind a simple driftwood mask, this creature’s face causes terror in mortal hearts when exposed.Poison

Aasimar Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

;provides guidance to the aasimar, though this connection functions only in dreams. As such, the guidance is not a direct command or a simple spoken word. Instead, the aasimar receives visions, prophecies

receives visions and guidance from celestial entities via dreams. These dreams help shape an aasimar, granting a sense of destiny and a desire for righteousness. Each aasimar can count a specific

Carrionette Legacy

monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

possesses a silver needle that pins its soul to its body. By posing as simple toys or hiding their desires, a carrionette gets close to an unsuspecting victim. It then uses its needle to swap souls

porcelain dolls are the most common, all manner of deadly stuffed animals, crawling jack-in-the-boxes, bloodthirsty poppets, murderous jewelry box ballerinas, and so forth might be carrionettes. These

Yuan-ti Malison (Type 3) Legacy

Monsters Monster Manual (2014)

calculated poise, and its deadly strike. Their advanced philosophy taught the virtue of detachment from emotion and of clear, focused thought. Yuan-ti culture was among the richest in the mortal

or were defeated by those who fought against their cannibalism and slavery, and the serpent folk were left in the ruins of their great capitals, far removed from other races. Cold of Heart. Humanoid

Noteworthy Features

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

Noteworthy Features Those few people who glimpse Bluetspur know it only as a nameless realm from their impossible dreams. These visions share the following facts: The land’s surface is a lethal

, alien place, scattered with the ruins of long-extinct civilizations. A mountain—massive beyond all words—looms as a constant presence and thrums with a soundless pulse that nonetheless demands attention

Adventures in Innsmouth

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within

Adventures in Innsmouth Adventures in Innsmouth involve cults, degenerate rituals, nightmarish visions, and aberrant transformations. Use this section to develop horror adventures in this domain. David Frasheski Nightmarish monuments and reality-defying ruins cover the island called Innsmouth

Domain Features

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within

Domain Features Innsmouth is known for the following features: Cosmic Horror Visions. Cthulhu’s dreams draw aberrant beings and shape Innsmouth as an amalgamation of cosmic horrors, from disparate

ruins on the surface to stranger realms in the depths. Cult Haven. Evil cults devoted to the entities Cthulhu, Dagon, Olhydra, and Zhudun struggle to control the domain. These cults view strangers as

Riddles

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things

Riddles A riddle is a verbal puzzle. Riddles can be simple or complex, brief or protracted, and low stakes or deadly. This section includes basic guidance for DMs who want to design and use riddles in adventures.

Feygrove

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things

of Ioun, once sacred to the knights who dwelled here. Those who drank directly from the font received visions of the past and future from this god of knowledge. Good characters who drink from the font

might receive a vision; roll on the Visions of Ioun table below. Visions of Ioun 1d6 Vision 1 Minotaurs dig beneath the hill and build a temple to Bahamut and other gods. 2 Minotaurs clad in the

Pantara Lodge

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within

reanimates as a Zombie the following night, shambles away, and collapses in a quieter resting place. Starving Water Skeleton-covered ruins jut from the center of the Starving Water. The deadly waters

Pantara Lodge The Pantara Lodge is a series of thatched structures strung together high in the forest canopy, suspended above the overgrown ruins of a burned castle. This is Chakuna’s home. Its

Ranger

classes Player’s Handbook

: Animal Handling, Athletics, Insight, Investigation, Nature, Perception, Stealth, or Survival Weapon Proficiencies Simple and Martial weapons Armor Training Light and Medium armor and

wilderness. A Ranger’s talents and magic are honed with deadly focus to protect the world from the ravages of monsters and tyrants. Becoming a Ranger... As a Level 1 Character Gain all the

Wizard

classes Player’s Handbook

, History, Insight, Investigation, Medicine, Nature, or Religion Weapon Proficiencies Simple weapons Armor Training None Starting Equipment Choose A or B: (A) 2 Dagger;Daggers, Staff

pursue lives of crime or domination. But the lure of knowledge calls even the most unadventurous Wizards from the safety of their libraries and laboratories and into crumbling ruins and lost cities. Most

Yuan-ti Pureblood Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

yuan-ti know they can’t resort to direct attacks in order to reclaim their rightful place in the world. Operating out of the subterranean ruins of their buildings in foreign lands, yuan-ti

royal family could poison a meal and declare it “safe” after taking a bite. There are legends of certain yuan-ti infiltrating human cities and forming deadly covert societies that sell

Learning about the Wastes

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen

, deadly region prone to flash floods. If a character succeeds on a DC 14 Intelligence (History) check, they also learn that grand ruins predating the Cataclysm litter the region, though few explorers survive attempts to seek them.

Ancient Deep Dragon Legacy

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

once every hundred years, when they choose targets for a deadly hunting spree. 3 Two ancient deep dragon;ancient deep dragons fight over territory. Unwilling to move against each other directly

alliances or enmities. Their lairs are highly individual. Some are woven from networks of living fungus. Others are built upon the ruins of ancient cities or carved into caves near underground lakes. Deep

A Reckoning in Ruins

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

A Reckoning in Ruins As the fourth and final year of the characters’ academic career at Strixhaven dawns, the university faces a crisis. In this adventure, the characters come face-to-face with an

their studies and stop him at all costs. When the characters discover Murgaxor’s deadly plan, they must spring into action

Y5. Wall of Fog

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd

be real. The image tantalizes him. Any creature that enters the deadly fog is subject to its effects (see the “Mists of Ravenloft” section in chapter 2). If the characters ask an NPC spellcaster about

this part of the wall of fog, that person might relate an ancient legend about it. According to the mountain folk of Barovia, there was always a wall of mist near Yester Hill, even before the deadly

Domain Features

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within

Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen. Cataclysmic Fire. Accursed flames blaze amid prominent ruins and turn shadows into monsters drawn from Lord Soth’s past. Living Shadows. Shadows in Sithicus move on

their own. Most are harmless, but some are deadly creatures such a Shadows or Shadow Demons. Soth’s Traitor. Lord Soth’s undead soldiers hunt for the ghostly knight Caradoc, whom Soth blames for his imprisonment in Sithicus.

Wizard

classes Basic Rules (2014)

, muttering a few words of power over them. Closing his eyes to see the visions more clearly, he nods slowly, then opens his eyes and points down the passage to his left. Wizards are supreme magic-users

knowledge and power calls even the most unadventurous wizards out of the safety of their libraries and laboratories and into crumbling ruins and lost cities. Most wizards believe that their counterparts

Sailing the Sea

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros

. 6 Relocate settlers trying to colonize an inhabited isle. 7 Discover a safe route through deadly waters. 8 Retrace the path of a hero lost at sea. 9 Find a whirlpool that is a

passage to the Underworld. 10 Sail from the edge of the world into Nyx. Getting Lost Many adventures at sea start with a simple premise: get home. Whether the tale starts with characters getting

Welcome to Phandalin

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak

, which consists of forty or fifty simple log buildings. Crumbling stone ruins surround the newer houses and shops, showing how this must have been a much larger town in centuries past. Phandalin’s

Welcome to Phandalin The frontier town of Phandalin is built on the ruins of a much older settlement. Hundreds of years ago, the old Phandalin was a thriving human town whose people were firmly

Adventure Background

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse

dwarves discovered the ancient drow hold and its temple below their own delvings. They lacked the strength to clean out the ruins, so they abandoned their deeper excavations. Trolls and giants soon

adventurers called the Knights of the Silver Horn found the place and commenced an exploration of the ruins. The adventurers came back to Tyar-Besil again and again, and when they decided to establish

Tomb of Diderius

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons

entrances dot the bluffs, marking former residences and simple tombs. None of the ruins hold anything of value or interest, but the caves offer safe places for the party to rest. Knowledge of the settlement

mystical divination pool, the complex was converted to a crypt only after his death. The crypt looks down over the ruins of the town that grew up around the magic pool to cater to those who came seeking

Tomb of Diderius

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat

entrances dot the bluffs, marking former residences and simple tombs. None of the ruins hold anything of value or interest, but the caves offer safe places for the party to rest. Knowledge of the settlement

mystical divination pool, the complex was converted to a crypt only after his death. The crypt looks down over the ruins of the town that grew up around the magic pool to cater to those who came seeking

Grasslands of Oreskos

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros

Grasslands of Oreskos Unspoiled by roads or buildings, Oreskos is a land of striking natural beauty, where the plains and sky appear to go on forever. Craggy stone formations and ancient ruins dot

reflects the sunlight so brightly that it’s difficult to look at. Those who approach the lake and gaze into its waters usually see their own reflections, but on rare occasions, they see visions of places

Simple Traps

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything

moderate, dangerous, or deadly threat, based on its particular details. Trigger. A simple trap activates when an event occurs that triggers it. This entry in a trap’s description gives the location of

Simple Traps A simple trap activates and is thereafter harmless or easily avoided. A hidden pit dug at the entrance of a goblin lair, a poison needle that pops from a lock, and a crossbow rigged to

Current Events

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse

. Every now and then reckless or unlucky adventurers manage to stir up some ancient curse in the ruins scattered around the area. Constables of valley settlements are usually up to the task of restoring

the peace. Six months ago, an insidious new threat began to grow in the area, unsuspected by the locals or any passing adventurers. Dreams and visions drew four elemental prophets, one by one, to the

Westwood

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse

for a season or a few months at a time by bandits, and a few overgrown ruins of the ancient elven kingdom of Rilithar. Recently, a roving band of Elk tribe barbarians (see “The Uthgardt Tribes” below

Hills well and can provide simple, landmark-based directions to two cult strongholds: Rivergard Keep and Scarlet Moon Hall (though they don’t know the names of these locations).

Xen'drik

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

, was one of the first explorers from Khorvaire to penetrate the interior of Xen’drik and discover ruins from an ancient giant civilization there. Despite the great distance involved, multiple

university-sponsored expeditions operate across Xen’drik at any time. The Age of Giants left numerous ruins strewn across Xen’drik’s landscape. But the continent hides its secrets from explorers, as if the

Warlock

classes Basic Rules (2014)

are comfortable in light armor and know how to use simple weapons. Delvers into Secrets Warlocks are driven by an insatiable need for knowledge and power, which compels them into their pacts and

their patrons in dreams or waking visions, or deal only with intermediaries. QUICK BUILD You can make a warlock quickly by following these suggestions. First, Charisma should be your highest ability

The Forgotten Realms

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak

against the terrifying powers that threaten the land. Wizards plunder the ruins of the fallen Netherese empire, delving into secrets too dark for the light of day. Bards sing of kings, queens, heroes

never safe. Fell magic and deadly monsters are the perils one faces when traveling in the Realms. Even farms and freeholds within a day’s walk of a city can fall prey to monsters, and no place is safe from the sudden wrath of a dragon.

Sites and Ruins

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

Sites and Ruins Of all the bizarre and horrific spectacles of the Mournland, perhaps the greatest tragedy is represented by the ruins of the once-glittering cities of Cyre. Some have been reduced to

eager to get their hands on such spoils for a wide variety of reasons. Battlefields and the Field of Ruins Cyre was the site of incessant battles during the Last War, from the first extended campaign

Introduction

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh

Introduction Welcome to Ghosts of Saltmarsh. This book collects seven D&D adventures, each famous for their unique challenges, for their deadly threats, and for embracing the danger and wonder of

have been updated for the current edition of the game, revealing deadly shores for brave crews to explore anew. Along with these adventures returns one of D&D’s most famous seaside settings: the port

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