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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Season
1
Autumn: peace and goodwill, when summerâs harvest is shared with all
2
Winter: contemplation and dolor, when the vibrant energy of the world slumbers
3
Spring
: cheerfulness and celebration, marked by merriment and hope as winterâs sorrow passes
4
Summer: boldness and aggression, a time of unfettered energy and calls to action
Creating Your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a1
Time of Year If you would like the characters to have the opportunity to find a fruit, begin the adventure a few weeks before either the summer or winter solstice. Apart from making a piece of fruit
available on the Gulthias Tree, choosing a season provides you with additional details to set the scene, which enhances the adventure. If you choose summer, the hills are lush with growth, though the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
characters rather than murder them. Victoro and Ammalia rely on their noble status to protect them, and the last thing they want is the City Watch on their doorstep. If you choose the Cassalanters as the villains, the adventure takes place in the summer.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Character Advancement You can track experience points or simply allow characters to level up when they reach certain points in the adventure. Ideally, the characters should fall within the desired
. Fireball 3rd 4. Dragon Season 3rdâ4th 5. Spring Madness 5th or higher 6. Hell of a Summer 5th or higher 7. Maestroâs Fall 5th or higher 8. Winter Wizardry 5th or higher If you decide to track
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Grolantorâs Larder Adventures Here are sample adventure hooks to bring characters to Grolantorâs Larder or to give them missions to pursue there. Ashes of War A war-torn countryâs farmland was razed
from disaster. The survivors are exhausted and starving when they stumble upon the grove. The unicorn who watches the grove and her centaur subjects will shelter the refugees if the characters agree
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a1
questing knightsâ
Yet how the wind revives us here!
âArthur Rimbaud
This adventure concerns a once-proud fortress that fell into the earth in an age long past. Now known as the Sunless Citadel, its
Tree, which sprouted from a wooden stake that was used to slay an ancient vampire. A perfect, ruby-red apple ripens on the Gulthias Tree at the summer solstice, and the tree produces a single albino
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Summer Is Coming Slaying Auril or her roc prevents the Frostmaiden from casting her nightly spell, ending her everlasting winter. The characters can also counteract the Frostmaidenâs everlasting
mantle of speaker in one or more communities, replacing leaders who were killed during the adventure. If he survived, Speaker Naerth Maxildanarr of Targos opposes the charactersâ political ascendance
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Cold Open Before beginning the adventure, give your players a chance to decide how their characters wound up in Icewind Dale, what their relationships are to one another, and what circumstances
, not even in what should be the height of summer. In this frozen tundra, darkness and bitter cold reign as king and queen. Most dale residents blame Auril the Frostmaiden, the god of winterâs wrath. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
magic opens it, however. THE CALAMITOUS FLIGHT OF SIR TALAVAR AND WIGGLEWOG
Prior to the events of this adventure, Sir Talavar, a noble faerie dragon and emissary of Titania the Summer Queen
them off. The voice belongs to Sir Talavar, who quietly explains his predicament: âIâm in a bit of a bind, as you can observe. I, Sir Talavar, as one of the Summer Queenâs loyal servants, ask that you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
White Dragon Adventures The White Dragon Adventure Hooks table offers suggestions for stories and adventures involving white dragons. White Dragon Adventure Hooks d8 Adventure Hook
1 A
white dragon has been starving out a fortified settlement by decimating the local caribou herds.
2 The words of a ritual to propitiate a vengeful spirit are tattooed on the flesh of a frost giant
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Brass Dragon Adventures The Brass Dragon Adventure Hooks table offers suggestions for stories and adventures involving brass dragons. Brass Dragon Adventure Hooks d8 Adventure Hook
1 A
dragon has adopted a blue dragon wyrmling found starving in the desert.
Ancient Brass Dragon Connections d4 Connected Creatures
1 An ancient brass dragon once ruled a temple-state through
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Lovers; Most Prominent in Early Summer Tempers and passions flare under the Flames, also known as the Lovers. The stars that form the constellation suggest embracing figures or, in more chaste
artists, counselors, and religious figures. Knight The Dragon Slayer; Most Prominent in Midsummer The Knight soars overhead during high summerâthe final month of the Righteous Quartet. The prominence
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
âThe Orrery of the Wandererâ makes use of an adventure trope as old as D&D itself â working up a totally high-powered artifact, then dropping it into the hands of low-level characters just to see
adventure when the tiefling Talanatha uses the timepiece of travel to escape from the attack on Tresendar Manor, only to have the timepiece stay behind (see later on in this episode for details).
By making
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Witchlight hand background can roll on this table instead of the Trinkets table in the Playerâs Handbook to determine what trinkets their characters possess. The adventure includes a few encounters that
duskwood coffin containing the ashes of a troll 21 Old invitation to a banquet in the Summer Court, written in ink on vellum in Sylvan 22 Gossamer shawl that glows faintly in moonlight 23 Ball-and-cup
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
features a number of less populous associations, such as those described below. Adventurerâs Guilds Sharn is a magnet for those who seek adventure and opportunity. Forgotten treasures are hidden in
and investigations. If you and your friends are searching for adventure, youâve come to the right place, and you donât have to do it alone. Sharn is home to two organizations that provide adventurers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
to secure them elsewhere, ask about that location and their security measures. For the purpose of the adventure, itâs best if the characters keep the orrery components with them, rather than leaving
, nervousness, and lack of musical skill have not helped his efforts. An impressionable (and starving) teenager, he faithfully serves anyone who takes him under their wing, and can provide comic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
adventure.
H26. Egg-Shaped Cave This cave might contain a psychic haunting (see âPsychic Hauntingsâ). This chamber rises to a height of forty feet and is shaped like an egg. The floor is slightly concave
and engraved with the symbol of House Dalambra (25 gp), and a half-empty bottle of Elverquisst (a rare, ruby-colored elven liquor distilled from sunshine and rare summer fruits). Professor Skant
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
transformed (see the âTelepathic Tormentâ sidebar at the end of the adventure). Any remaining meenlocks attack when the party reaches the center of this room. Dynamite Trap. The miners-turned
when summer melts the snow. When the full moon hangs in the night sky, the lake becomes a fey crossing. Anyone who completely submerges in the icy waters during this time surfaces in the Feywild.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroesâ Feast: Saving the Childrenâs Menu
earlier in the adventure). Holrow Family Scrapbook. On a small table lies an album with âHolrowâ written across the front in Common; this is the Holrow family scrapbook. The scrapbook recounts the
in the adventure for inspiration. Flauma is pleased to see new playthings, and as long as the characters appease her, she doesnât cry. If they ignore her, hurt her, or make her angry, she sobs and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Gunvald died earlier in the adventure, replace him with another Bear Tribe chieftain named Svilbrekhild Forennal (a female human gladiator in hide armor who speaks Common and has Survival +5). See âReghed
must perform a cruel act, such as slaying the defenseless elders as King Gunvald commands. The characters can also pass the test by walking away from the camp and leaving the starving nomads at the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
be disrupted simultaneously (as described at the beginning of this adventure). Once that is accomplished, any glyph key can be used on any of the black gates in the Temples of Extraction, and the user
you plan to use this adventure in a continuing campaign, killing a helpless Chosen can later bring the characters into conflict with other agents of that Chosenâs deity. The magic of the Doomvault
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
roof; and the Helm at Highsun, a ramshackle yet lively tavern. A map of Red Larch and a detailed description of the village and its inhabitants can be found in the adventure Princes of the Apocalypse
iceberg. Arauthatorâs iceberg, Oyaviggaton, has Northfolk living on it and is described in the adventure Tyranny of Dragons. Arveiaturace is known to hunt in Icewind Dale and might be encountered there
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
in the north wall. (See âSample Trapsâ in chapter 5, âAdventure Environments,â of the Dungeon Masterâs Guide for the rules on how this trap functions.) The trap resets when the weight is lifted and
the coldest hell you can imagine. Every surface inside the crypt is covered with thick, brownish mold. A patch of brown mold (see âDungeon Hazardsâ in chapter 5, âAdventure Environments,â of the Dungeon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
!
Overcoming the jabberwock in area P22 is one of the main challenges of this chapter and, indeed, the whole adventure. The characters are unlikely to survive a head-on fight with the creature, but there
, infiltrated Zybilnaâs court by pretending to be an emissary of the Summer Queen. Zybilna saw through the deception, ascertained the incubusâs true allegiance to the demon lord Grazâzt (her former lover), and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
year. Ramps carved into the cliffs lead down to the shore, where stone docks protrude into a shallow bay that freezes by late fall and doesnât thaw until early summer. Fireshear imports most of its food
fire primordial known as Maegera the Dawn Titan. For more information on Gauntlgrym and its inhabitants, see the Sword Coast Adventurerâs Guide and the adventure Out of the Abyss. Suggested Encounter