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Player’s Handbook (2014)
Master will determine how long it takes to get where you need to go. In return for your free passage, you and your companions are expected to assist the crew during the voyage.
Variant Sailor: Pirate
You spent your youth under the sway of a dread pirate, a ruthless cutthroat who taught you how to survive in a world of sharks and savages. You’ve indulged in larceny on the high seas and sent
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
that will meet your every need. Your Dungeon Master will determine how long it takes to get where you need to go. In return for your free passage, you and your companions are expected to assist the crew
the Gray Wavers—the Flaming Fist harbor guards—and have a sense of how to operate the city’s mechanized cranes.
Variant Sailor: Pirate
You spent your youth under the sway of a
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demeanor. However, his true form was that of a moldering lich, eyes ablaze with blasphemous energy.
Since arriving in the Domains of Dread, Azalin has been unable to learn new magic. For a wizard who
Domains of Dread. For generations, Azalin struggled to escape Darkon. His magical atrocities reshaped Darkon and the Domains of Dread time and again. However, these struggles gave Azalin only a glimpse of
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originate from the alien domain of Bluetspur (see “Other Domains of Dread”). In seeking a cure for their degenerating elder brain, the illithids of that realm tried radical experiments. The
, vampire mind flayers return to Bluetspur and are reabsorbed by the elder brain, releasing stolen psionic essences amid a hormone brine.
Vampire mind flayers are bestial creatures that lack control over
Monsters
Candlekeep Mysteries
with her.Three Green Hag (Coven Variant);green hags named Dread Morgan, Vile Sazha, and Auntie Greenbones were once rivals who dwelled in an area of the Feywild coterminous with the High Forest. A
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Vecna: Eve of Ruin
", "rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage.In the Domains of Dread, practitioners of foul magic perform a profane ritual that turns living creatures into fiendish killers. This ritual necessitates the use of a
impaler is bound to the creature that wielded the ceremonial stake in the ritual that birthed it. As long as the original stake remains lodged in the heart of the ritual victim, the impaler can return
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
explicitly include dragon turtles in the variant rules for making a dragon a spellcaster, you can apply those rules to these aquatic dragons.)
Dragon Turtle Personality Traits
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visitors the vastness of my domain, so they appreciate how insignificant they are.
5
I attack anyone I notice taking from the sea’s bounty without offering something in return.
6
I think
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
characters, and use the Dragon Turtle Spellcasting table to help select spells for a spellcasting dragon. (Though the Monster Manual doesn’t explicitly include dragon turtles in the variant rules for
insignificant they are.
5
I attack anyone I notice taking from the sea’s bounty without offering something in return.
6
I think of sailors’ songs as their “water speech&rdquo
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
sibriexes can graft on new body parts to give the demons greater strength, vision, or stamina. Sibriexes never give aid freely, though; they demand a service or a treasure in return for the flesh
-shaping they provide.
Variant: Flesh Warping
Creatures that encounter a sibriex can be twisted beyond recognition. Whenever a creature fails a saving throw against the sibriex’s Warp Creature
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to become mist (no action required). If he can’t use Shape-Shift, he is destroyed. While Strahd has 0 Hit Points in mist form, he can’t return to his vampire form, and he must reach his
. During his unnaturally long existence, he has learned many occult secrets and mysteries of the Domains of Dread. Strahd’s dignified bearing crumbles when someone breaks his laws or denies him what
classes
Basic Rules (2014)
training. Many entered the monastery as children, sent to live there when their parents died, when food couldn’t be found to support them, or in return for some kindness that the monks had performed
important mission beyond the cloister? Perhaps you were cast out because of some violation of the community’s rules. Did you dread leaving, or were you happy to go? Is there something you hope to
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Dragonlance and Ravenloft campaign settings. If you want to give Soth a unique relationship to the Domains of Dread, consider these possibilities:
The nature of Soth’s curse creates aspects of
torpor in his fortress in Sithicus.
Soth traveled from Krynn to Sithicus and is destined to return. If he leaves Sithicus, the domain might be destroyed, or a villain like Inza Kulchevich might take
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
return home. Death and Rebirth The spirits of those who die in the Domains of Dread or the Mists don’t travel to the afterlife. Those magically returned to life after being dead for at least 24 hours
return with the grim realization that they’re trapped within the Mists. The souls of those who die and aren’t returned to life are trapped within the Domains of Dread. The Dark Powers might eventually
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
leave and return to the Doomvault, Syranna can use the circles in the gatehouse to send the party just about anywhere (except the Temples of Extraction or the Phylactery Vault). She can also allow
the characters to return by giving them spell scrolls of teleportation circle keyed to the circles in the gatehouse. If you allow the characters to leave the Doomvault through the gatehouse, the
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
table to help select spells for a spellcasting dragon. (Though the Monster Manual doesn’t explicitly include dragon turtles in the variant rules for making a dragon a spellcaster, you can apply
notice taking from the sea’s bounty without offering something in return.
6
I think of sailors’ songs as their “water speech” and try to converse with them by humming
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
the “Royal Oozes” sidebar). Since his return, the Pudding King has been using the power granted him by Juiblex to summon and command every ooze in the region. ROYAL OOZES
Princess Ebonmire is a
as the black pudding’s Pseudopod attack.
Prince Livid is a gray ooze with 30 hit points (use the psychic gray ooze variant).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Escaping Ravenloft The Domains of Dread are as escapable as you please. The Mists might claim characters for a single adventure, then return them home. The characters might be residents of the Lands
possible to escape the Domains of Dread against the will of the Dark Powers? Experts. Who might have knowledge regarding the nature of Ravenloft? What might the characters do to convince them to share
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Mabaran Resonator Storm Spire
This dread device draws on the power of Mabar, infusing the dead with the malign energy of the Endless Night. While it is active, any humanoid that dies within 2
consumes the magical energy around it. Conversely, a spell sink created by a mad artificer might be a massive vessel composed of dragonshards and exotic metals.
A variant device called the spell siphon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
. Whether the Mists ever return what they claim depends on the whims of the Dark Powers. Domain Borders. The Mists surround and isolate every Domain of Dread, preventing easy or predictable travel between
following roles: Dark Clutches. The Mists serve the Dark Powers. They might steal residents of other worlds or entire locations from elsewhere in the multiverse and trap them in the Domains of Dread
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Method
1 Find or restore Azalin and return him to Darkon.
2 Present the Dark Powers a worthy new Darklord.
3 Bestow a symbol of rule upon a new Darklord.
4 Free Darkon from the
5 The Apparatus (see “Mordent” in this chapter)
6 The blood of Strahd von Zarovich, fundamental to the nature of the Domains of Dread
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Supply Camp The characters find the Kalaman ships at Dread Wolf Cove. If the characters didn’t already venture here in chapter 5, they find it as detailed there. The shore near the vessels is guarded
here for Darrett and his troops. If Clystran is with the characters, he bids the characters a fond farewell. He tells them he intends to return to Heart’s Hollow, but he promises to send word if he
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
some violation of the community’s rules. Did you dread leaving, or were you happy to go? Is there something you hope to accomplish outside the monastery? Are you eager to return to your home? As a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Darklords Helge C. Balzer Every domain torments a Darklord, a villain whose depravity attracted the attention of the Dark Powers and led to their imprisonment in the Domains of Dread. A Darklord
terrors. Darklords Are Prisoners. Darklords can’t leave their domains. If a Darklord enters the Mists or uses another method to attempt escape, the Dark Powers return them to their domain. Even death
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
adventure, the first time a character dies, invite all the players to create two variant versions of their character using the guidance in this section, then continue the adventure. Prepared Incarnations
from the one who just died, but each incarnation doesn’t need to be played before a particular incarnation reappears. Work the incarnation’s return into the adventure, following the guidance in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
that followed, Chakuna burned Castle Pantara and took the former Darklord’s head. Valachan is no mundane land, though. A Domain of Dread demands a Darklord, and Valachan will be ruled only by its
greatest hunter. Refusing to let von Kharkov return, Chakuna made a pact with the domain itself. Within the depths of the mazelike Yaguara Mountains, Chakuna ripped her own heart from her chest and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Returning to the Garden When the characters leave the Palace of Spires and return to the garden, the Gardener is waiting for them in the center of the maze. How they greet the party depends on how
engulfs the creature and gracefully transports it to the mouth of the Cave of Echoes. The Gardener allows the characters, as well as Juliana and Orlando, to return to the Material Plane with their memories
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
rules from chapter 6 of the Player’s Handbook, your Dungeon Master might allow you to take a feat as a variant supernatural gift. You gain one feat of your choice. This list suggests twelve feats from
language and trace the patterns of Nyx in the written word. (Linguist)
The gods smile on me, but I dread the day when they withdraw their favor and my luck runs out. (Lucky)
As a child, I used to run
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
go. In return for your free passage, you and your companions are expected to assist the crew during the voyage. Suggested Characteristics Sailors can be a rough lot, but the responsibilities of life on
, it’s hard for me to stop. 5 I can’t help but pocket loose coins and other trinkets I come across. 6 My pride will probably lead to my destruction. Variant Sailor: Pirate You spent your youth under the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
drawn into Klorr and consumed by flames. Afterward, each other island wrenches ahead, then halts, one hour closer to the same doom. When all thirteen stars have winked out, they return hourly to the sky
exist elsewhere in the Domains of Dread also drift here, including at least one duplicate of Castle Ravenloft. Those cast away amid this orderly apocalypse grow ever more desperate to defy the doomsday clock and the will of a hidden Darklord, the obsessed clockmaker named Klorr.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Travelers in the Mists Adventures in the Domains of Dread often indulge in a single domain’s distinctly frightful themes. But if you plan to run whole campaigns set in the Land of the Mists, creating
horror stories. While it’s true that most residents of the Domains of Dread never leave their home domains and wisely don’t fixate on what lies beyond the Mists, some daring souls do. Many such
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
-kai transformed into fun-loving free spirits who secretly dread the day when the two carnivals cross paths again. They have no desire to return to their gloomy old carnival, which is described in more
rooting for Zybilna’s return. They know Zybilna’s true identity but dare not reveal it. Appendix D contains additional roleplaying notes for Mister Witch and Mister Light.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Divine Contention
, and then return to Neverwinter to collect a reward of 8,000 gp.” If the characters undertake this quest, see “Storm Lord’s Hideout.” Ebondeath’s Mausoleum Quest “The dread mage Ularan Mortus, leader
the town council. The council members are unable to provide context beyond what is written on the board. When the characters return to the fishery after completing a quest, the council pays the reward
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
grows cold, and a powerful feeling of dread grips you. A cold, pale light flickers in the air, rapidly taking on the form of a female elf, her hair and robes waving in a spectral wind. She might have
, disrespectful, or threatening, Agatha scowls and disappears. She does not attack them, nor does she return if the characters call out to her.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Azalin Rex Darklord Who Won’t Be Caged Guilherme Motta “It is customary to kneel before your dread lord.”
—Azalin Rex
In Darkon, Azalin was a tyrannical wizard-king obeyed by the living and the
was that of a moldering lich, eyes ablaze with blasphemous energy. Since arriving in the Domains of Dread, Azalin has been unable to learn new magic. For a wizard who forsook his mortality to pursue
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Spellcasting table to help select spells for a spellcasting dragon. (Though the Monster Manual doesn’t explicitly include dragon turtles in the variant rules for making a dragon a spellcaster, you can apply
I like to show visitors the vastness of my domain, so they appreciate how insignificant they are.
5 I attack anyone I notice taking from the sea’s bounty without offering something in return