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intrigues of interest in the group are.
Suggested Characteristics
Use the tables for the guild artisan background in the Player’s Handbook as the basis for your traits and motivations
from guild coffers.
4
I’m never satisfied with what I have—I always want more.
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I would kill to acquire a noble title.
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I’m horribly jealous of anyone who can outshine my handiwork. Everywhere I go, I’m surrounded by rivals.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Dice Rolling Establish expectations about rolling dice. Rolling in full view of everyone is a good starting point. If you see a player rolling and scooping the dice up before anyone else can see
, encourage that player to be less secretive. When a die falls on the floor, do you count it or reroll it? When it lands cocked against a book, do you pull the book away and see where it lands, or reroll
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Flee, Mortals! Rule Primer
player characters—they’re heroes who can always kill a minion in one hit. Overkill Damage Illustrated
Imagine a fighter is making a melee attack with a shortsword against a lackey, and two more
Optional Rule: Tough Minions Minions of a higher challenge rating, such as fire giants, make for powerful foes. Consequently, it could break the game’s verisimilitude for an NPC commoner to kill such
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
them. As another unusual feature of this adventure, the villains aren’t meant to be killed, nor are they out to kill the player characters. The villains are after a treasure hoard, and the adventurers
several of the encounters in chapter 4. The villain you choose opposes the player characters, while the villains you don’t choose become part of the backdrop and could help the characters or hinder
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
next game (assuming the participant wants to keep playing). Life and Death Life and death is a dice game played between the house (represented by a dealer) and a player. While up to five players can
sit at a table, their only opponent is the house. To play, each player places a bet; once bets have been placed, the house and the players each roll a d20. If a player rolls lower than the dealer, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Low-Level Followers Your campaign might allow player characters to take on lower-level NPCs as followers. For example, a paladin might have a 1st-level paladin as a squire, a wizard might accept a
monsters that are an appropriate challenge for higher-level characters can deal enough damage to instantly kill or incapacitate a low-level follower. The adventurers should expect to spend effort and resources protecting lower-level NPC party members and to provide healing when this protection fails.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
gather the Northlanders and the yetis and search Svardborg for intruders to kill. The Svardborg Roster table specifies the locations of the occupants and indicates how those creatures behave when the
warriors go to the jarl’s lodge (area 1). The other creatures go to the drydock lodge (area 3). 9 2 frost giants (one per ship) The giants head to area 2A if the warning horn in area 2C sounds. Map 7.1: Svardborg View Player Version Map 7.2: Svardborg Lodges View Player Version
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
words echo in your memory, even as you plot your escape.
Assume that each player character has been a prisoner in Velkynvelve for 1d10 days. (Roll separately for each character.) The characters
between the drow, the player characters, and the other prisoners. This is an opportunity to reveal who the characters are and to flesh out their backgrounds and personalities through roleplaying, even as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Dropping to 0 Hit Points When you drop to 0 hit points, you either die outright or fall unconscious, as explained in the following sections. Instant Death Massive damage can kill you instantly. When
Unconscious If damage reduces you to 0 hit points and fails to kill you, you fall unconscious. This unconsciousness ends if you regain any hit points. DESCRIBING THE EFFECTS OF DAMAGE
Dungeon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Dropping to 0 Hit Points When you drop to 0 hit points, you either die outright or fall unconscious, as explained in the following sections. Instant Death Massive damage can kill you instantly. When
Unconscious If damage reduces you to 0 hit points and fails to kill you, you fall unconscious. This unconsciousness ends if you regain any hit points. Death Saving Throws Whenever you start your turn
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
for battle. Map 4.3: Ruined Dhakaani Fort View Player Version Ruined Dhakaani Fort Adventures The Ruined Fort Adventures table offers some ideas for drawing a party to the location. Ruined Fort
one is making sure the giants lairing in the fort don’t kill the party; step two is persuading them to work for humans. 4 The characters must rescue prisoners being held by the monsters in the ruins
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
about to do so again. Rallying despite his injuries, he manages to kill the two inattentive Gralhund guards who were watching over him and alert the other Zhents on the estate, who begin dispatching the
). Urstul’s plans — unbeknownst to him — are dashed when Lady Gralhund orders her nimblewright to take the Stone of Golorr elsewhere. Amid the chaos, the nimblewright flees the estate. View Player Version
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
the ancient secrets hidden inside.
3 Retrieve the remains of a dead humanoid from the temple.
4 Kill monsters infesting the temple.
5 Find a replacement for the temple’s current
ancient room with scrying pools filled with blood that has barely a trace of dust. A sturdy iron door protects the temple’s vault. Map 4.8: Abandoned Temple View Player Version Abandoned Temple
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
farthest from the characters. Map 5.1: parade routeView Player Version Azra Nir. Azra uses the acolyte stat block and is surprised during the first round of combat. He seeks only to escape the chaos
, giving her AC 16. She keeps her distance from the poisoned guards as she tries to kill Azra Nir using produce flame and thunderwave. She has three more doses of biza’s breath, but they are prepared for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Adventures d10 Adventure Goal
1 Heal yourself or a diseased or injured party member in the pools.
2 Escort a sick or injured person to the pools.
3 Kill monsters taking up residence in
due to the priest’s experiments.
9 Kill or capture an escaped beast monstrously transformed by the priest’s experiments.
10 Retrieve materials needed to create a cure for a disease and
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Netheril’s Fall: Tales of Terror, Treasure, and Time Travel
and confronting the killer before finding a way home. Encounters MIKE SCHLEY Map: Conch AlleywaysView Player Version The adventure consists of the following encounters and uses Map: Conch Alleyways
Invisible Stalker Yorg taunts the gnomes for their foolishness before it moves to kill them. If the characters interrupt, Yorg drops the gnomes and fights the characters to the death. Conclusion. If the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
threats. Map 4.11: Forest Shrine View Player Version Forest Shrine Villains Villains in a forest shrine are likely either trying to destroy nature or using the power of the natural world to harm others
shrine in order to punish the druids for failing to protect the trees.
2 Poachers (scouts) kill the shrine’s defenders and set their traps in the surrounding forest.
3 The shrine stands in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
. When the adventurers kill a monster, it stays dead, unless someone raises it. When they remove treasure from a room, it doesn’t reappear the next time they enter — assuming it hasn’t been stolen from
they’re engaged in. If the characters have a ship or stronghold, record its name and whereabouts, as well as any hirelings in the characters’ employ. Player Handouts. Keep a copy of all handouts you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
instincts for self-preservation outweigh any natural animosity he feels toward his enemies or his prey. Characters can negotiate with Hark and avoid unnecessary bloodshed (see area 9), or they can kill Hark
Smaller Space” section in chapter 9 of the Player’s Handbook).
Walls. The walls are damp and slick, but thanks to an abundance of handholds and footholds, they can be climbed with a successful DC 10 Strength (Athletics) check.
Map 1.2: Dripping Caves View Player Version
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
something to do during a roleplaying-heavy game session, consider one or more of the following approaches. Appeal to Player Preferences. There are in-game activities that players enjoy more than others, as
those players embrace roleplaying. Still, creating combat connections to an extended interaction (such as a corrupt vizier sending assassins to kill the adventurers) is often the best way to keep action
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
(in chapter 9 of the Player’s Handbook) and underwater movement (in chapter 5 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide). Map 8.4: Landgrave’s Folly View Player Version The characters have three means of entry
to kill the creature in the pit or enslave it. If the aboleths have been alerted to the approaching characters (including if the glyph in area L1 was set off), they retreat to opposite corners of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
.
Distrustful. Xanthe doesn’t trust strangers.
Rumors
“A spy named Jacko prowls the fens. Be wary if you meet him. He’ll do anything for coin—even kill.” (True)
“The temple’s head priest is a
restraint. A player character reduced to 0 Hit Points by a sprite has the Unconscious condition and is Stable. The sprites expect similar treatment by the characters.
If all the sprites are defeated
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Other Things Characters Can Do Characters who can’t harm the dragon (or choose not to) can find plenty of other things to distract them during the dragon’s attack. If a player is having trouble
Unrecognizable figures in cold weather clothing advance until they form a line twenty feet away from you. Each one clutches a handaxe threateningly. One of them points a gloved finger at you and shouts, “Kill
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
necrotic resonator that will kill half of Sharn, they need to be stopped. But a good Eberron story challenges you to think about your actions, and the simplest solution may not be the best one. Human
villains, but there’s a lot of middle ground in between. Everyone Has Regrets. Player characters are remarkable people, but that doesn’t mean they’re perfect. 5E already encourages you to pick a flaw
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
time when Kubazan helped a group of Omuan hunters kill a giant crocodile that was threatening the city: A frog-like behemoth wraps its tentacles around a giant crocodile as Omuan hunters stab the
will crush the undying one!”
If the spirit successfully inhabits the character, give the player Kubazan’s card (see appendix F). If the attempt fails, the spirit returns to the bracers and waits for another character to touch one of them.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
that Bryn Shander’s militia is dealing with the other threats. Give each player one of the following NPCs to play during this encounter: Augrek Brighthelm, a sheriff’s deputy (starts at area B1
has either the Ring of Winter or knowledge of its exact whereabouts, so characters will probably have to kill her. Once the characters defeat the frost giants, they gain special quests and rewards based on which NPCs survived the battle.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
, shattering it. The nycaloth then tries to kill all other creatures in the room, pursuing fleeing enemies. It ignores creatures inside the globe but attacks any creature that exits it. When this nycaloth
Athas, Victorian London on Earth, or the sun. 06–15 The creature sitting in the armillary chair is touched by an unknown entity and suffers a radical personality change. Work with the player to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
following locations are keyed to map 7.4. Mike Schley Map 7.4: Spawn Hollow View Player Version S1: Entry Cavern The walls, floor, and ceiling of this chamber are soft but rough, like warty skin. Two
work and has disadvantage on its initiative check. Once it’s aware of intruders, however, the slaad is quick to attack. It does its best to kill all but one character so it can experiment with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
years or decades to develop a particular schema; the fact that you can accomplish this in weeks reflects the idea that player characters are innovators. However, it is always up to the DM to decide if
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
. While this temple exemplifies one of Kruphix’s more elaborate (and potentially deadly) holy sites, no two of the god’s temples are alike. Map 4.9: Temple of Mystery View Player Version Temple of Mystery
waits in the temple’s entrance and demands treasure from anyone leaving.
4 The priest caring for the temple gets jealous whenever adventurers solve a puzzle he couldn’t and tries to kill them
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Lightning is a game in which two teams of six players compete against each other. To win, a team must eliminate the other team’s players by hitting them with a 3-inch-diameter iron ball. A player struck by
on a hit.
To simulate a game of Chain Lightning, follow these steps:
Step 1. Every player makes a Dexterity (Athletics) check. The individual with the highest roll gets the ball, and that person’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
(cast from a scroll) and invites the player characters to come up. If they have many porters or NPC warriors, she asks that only the “key figures” come up, explaining that her home doesn’t have room for
point is left to your imagination. Map 2.8: Heart of Ubtao View Player Version 1. Petrified Tree A swarm of bats inhabits this hollow, petrified tree. The bats emerge each evening to feast and attack
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
have already eaten their sled dogs. Now, Gunvald has decided that desperate times require desperate measures. He plans to kill four of the tribe’s eldest members and cook them to feed the rest of the
, as befits emissaries of the Frostmaiden. He has the four elders lined up outside his tent and entreats the characters to kill them or leave the camp at once. To pass the Test of Cruelty, a character
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Detention Bog Locations The following sections are keyed to map 6.1. The characters begin on the island in the southeast corner of the map. Map 6.1: the detention bog View Player Version D1. The
possessive of the crate and attack any who come near it. Retrieving the Crate. To retrieve the crate, the characters must distract, kill, or incapacitate the brackish trudges. Due to their euphoria, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
remains in control of the player characters or was returned to the giants. Cult Assets Severin. The head of the cult remains in the temple sanctuary (area 13), wearing the Mask of the Dragon Queen
Enclave answer the call to arms by bringing their treant and griffon allies from the forests and mountains of the Sword Coast. Zhentarim Assassins. These silent killers stalk and kill enemy leaders and