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Scalefruit are fist-sized fruits that are covered by a thick, scaly rind. Although the outside of a scalefruit is rather unappetizing, the
trees are found along the coastline as they love sandy soil. Many seaside villages have their own creative versions of scalefruit drinks that they proudly serve to travelers.
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Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
memories aren’t real, but rather idealized versions of those occurrences. Nearby observers can glimpse flashes of these memories if looking indirectly at the mirror.
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
overheard her master talking to another wizard about a covert expedition to Icewind Dale being undertaken to seek out long-lost magic from a bygone empire. Rather than carry out her original plan, Nass
its 2nd-level spell slots to cast upgraded versions of the thunderwave spell.
Spellbook. The wooden covers of Nass’s spellbook are bound in nothic hide, and silver clasps hold the book shut
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
they are more interested in grabbing plunder and food rather than in wanton slaughter. The elderly, children, and any who seem weak or meek enough might escape death. If they leave the population more
ward off diseases if they are worn.
Don’t stand inside a ring of stones, mushrooms, or any other kind of circle.
Seeing a shooting star before a battle is bad luck. To ward it off, you must
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Resolving the Mystery The characters’ interactions with the Amberdune Pack affect the resolution of this section, but they can discover what happened to the real books and find the original versions
Digressions and see the book safely back to Candlekeep, if they so desire. NIDALIA
The true leader of the Amberdune Pack, Nidalia is a lamia who delights in hoarding books rather than in corruption and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
versions of your own design—perhaps with signature cosmetic effects. Monsters. Monsters can serve as threats but also agents of noble houses. Shape-shifting creatures such as Imps and Wererats excel at
the same with a magic item such as a Cloak of the Bat, a Hag Eye, or Sending Stones. Characters should earn rewards for using their own magic in clever ways.
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
“Running Glitch Characters” section. Let players discover that dead characters return in new incarnations during play rather than revealing this outright. When an incarnation appears, they are attuned to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
check, a character makes no progress and dislodges loose stones that clatter down the crevasse into the magma. If the check fails by 5 or more, the climber falls into the magma. Any creature that
nalfeshnee named Slaughtertusk to watch over the crevasse and prevent any creature from approaching the device. Slaughtertusk would rather be helping the Horned King track down and kill Yeenoghu. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
builders need only take a pick to any wall to find their building materials. Rather, this cavern provides the small army of earth elementals aiding the settlers, and its magical stone is used in the
creation of items such as earth elemental gems, rings of earth elemental command, and stones of controlling earth elementals. Elementals entering into the Material Plane here, whether by spell or other
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
Zilargo Capital: Korranberg Noted for Gnomes, alchemy, education, elemental binding, entertainment, precious stones Zilargo is the homeland of the gnomes, and at first glance it appears to be a
gnome charlatan to connive another gnome out of a jewel mine—as long as this is accomplished through cunning, negotiation, or deception rather than violence or outright theft, and as long as the mine
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Zilargo Capital: Trolanport Hallmarks: Alchemy, education, elemental binding, entertainment, gnomes, precious stones At first glance, the homeland of the gnomes appears to be a paradise. City streets
gnome—as long as the charlatan accomplishes the deed through cunning, negotiation, or deception rather than violence or outright theft, and as long as the mine stays in Zil hands. The same applies to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
presence, becoming twisted versions of their former selves (in a dark fey sort of way), but still recognizable as what they once were. She might alter them with magic, making them tireless, resistant
considers beneath her personal attention. Hags prefer to employ clever, cruel creatures rather than dumb oafs. Servants d8 Servant(s) * See chapter 3 of this book for statistics. 1 1d4 flameskulls 2 1d2
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
recognition of a human saving his life during the fight, the Forgemaster permitted the refugees to settle on the surface, rather than forcing them to depart once the battle was done. The partnership that grew
surface. A dragon dropped great stones on many of the buildings above, and a good portion of the city’s outer wall was destroyed. Most of Sundabar’s military leadership was wiped out when the building they
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
, rather than being hidden away. Semiprecious stones line many of the streets in Mirabar, and gorgeous inlays mark important corners and intersections, some so new that one can still smell the jeweler’s
increase. Mirabar is ruled by its hereditary marchion, Selin Raurym, who issues edicts fed to him by the Council of Sparkling Stones. The council is a group of dwarves and some few humans elected to make
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Works A standard airship (at least as far as standards have been defined for this relatively new creation) looks similar to an oceangoing ship but is rigged with control fins and rudders rather than
controls the vessel. The helm is typically situated near the rear of the ship, inside the shelter of a wheelhouse. Controlling the vessel (without the benefit of something like the conductor stones that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Cthulhu’s Vault. Map of the Eclipse Hollows in a series of standing stones depict the progression of a crumbling constellation. Cultists believe that a force capable of moving the stars left this
mountain. Night Light A tower blazing with a vaporous orange flame resembles a lighthouse, but the island’s cultists say the Night Light is meant to draw something close rather than warn viewers away. Phase
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
with precious stones and metals. In truth, Lynx is an active agent of Zariel but is no longer among the living. Rather, she’s a lawful evil undead tiefling, with her skeleton specially crafted to retain
manor library. If the characters accept Lynx’s invitation, she meets them while strolling the long hallways of her manor, the walls of which are filled with fine paintings. Rather than noting their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
. The room’s west end contains a jumble of stones stacked to create a vertical ring about five feet in diameter. A sleek staff—the Rod of Seven Parts—is jammed between two encircling stones like a
, chitin, and gnashing teeth presses against the stones from the other side.
The circle of stones shudders, and you realize the monstrous thing contained on the other side is expanding the circle
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
the others might be neutral or good; conflicts with those rivals might be social or political, rather than manifesting as direct attacks. The best rivals have a connection with their adversaries on a
plans to fruition, and jot down three or four kinds of actions the rival might undertake. Some of these might be versions of the downtime activities described later in this section, but these are more
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
types, which have no rules of their own. Aberrations are utterly alien beings. Many of them have innate magical abilities drawn from the creature's alien mind rather than the mystical forces of the world
and lack any society or language. Beasts include all varieties of ordinary animals, dinosaurs, and giant versions of animals. Celestials are creatures native to the Upper Planes. Many of them are the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
propel the flying vessels that the illithids used to travel between worlds. Now, the githyanki scour the worlds of the Material Plane in their versions of those craft. Their astral ships are ideal for
of an organized defense. Because the githyanki strike to plunder rather than conquer, raiders linger over their target for no more than a few hours. By daybreak the attackers are gone, purposely
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
make areas of effect tactile and fun. To use this method, grab some dice or other tokens, which you’re going to use to represent your areas of effect. Rather than faithfully representing the shapes of
the different areas of effect, this method gives you a way to create square-edged versions of them on a grid easily, as described in the following subsections. Using Tokens. Every 5-foot square of an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
, characters in the maze can see giant, distorted versions of any creatures standing within 10 feet of the wall carving, but they can’t hear anything outside the maze. The configuration of the maze
this charm lasts, you can use an action to pinpoint, by scent, the location of precious metals and stones, such as coins and gems, within 30 feet of you. The effect lasts for 3 days, after which the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
, cowslips, and hyacinths suffuse this vast garden. Ahead, a ring of standing stones rises from the flower beds. Glittering streams divide the garden and connect with a large pond shaded by willows. The garden
branch, a golden or silver fruit spoils after 10 minutes and loses its magical property. Streams. Two streams flow into the pool at area P8—or, rather, they used to flow before they were frozen in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
party to join him. Around the boulder, the floor of the pagoda is not wood, but rather is a rock garden of decorative stones and brushed sand. A charcoal pit smolders beside the boulder where the man
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
when he’s good and ready. Until then, he’d rather not be disturbed. If the characters ask for help in destroying Halaster, the lich shares what he knows about the Mad Mage but declines to aid them in
“Jhesiyra Kestellharp”). The lich describes how Jhesiyra was imprisoned by her master, only to escape during the Spellplague. She then used a wish spell to imbue herself into the stones of Undermountain
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
main office and the field offices, as well as between reporters and their editors. The house bills the Chronicle directly for communications using speaking stones or sending spells directed to the
reporting the truth, and such an attitude is always certain to arouse the ire of those who would rather keep their secrets hidden. The following represents just a fraction of the enemies the newspaper
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
partially collapsed chamber most easily accessed by way of a shaft in the ceiling. (A narrow gap in the fallen stones filling an old passageway might allow a Small or nimble character to squeeze in or out
everything any other one is aware of.
Aasterinian encourages all dragons to think for themselves rather than relying on the ideas or opinions of others. She cherishes learning and invention and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
, which have no rules of their own. Aberrations are utterly alien beings. Many of them have innate magical abilities drawn from the creature’s alien mind rather than the mystical forces of the world
most are unintelligent and lack any society or language. Beasts include all varieties of ordinary animals, dinosaurs, and giant versions of animals. Celestials are creatures native to the Upper Planes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
party to join him. Around the boulder, the floor of the pagoda is not wood, but rather is a rock garden of decorative stones and brushed sand. A charcoal pit smolders beside the boulder where the man
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
notorious captain, Agdon Longscarf, whom the characters might encounter later in the chapter. The harengons’ song is as follows: With sticks and stones, we’ll break your nose;
We’ll beat you blind and steal
(Intimidation) group check. If the group check succeeds, the brigands are cowed by the characters’ resolve and retreat into the swamp rather than risk getting whomped by the party. On a failed check, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
The Nematode The Nematode is unique among the floating nodules; it is an animate if lethargic creature, akin to a brain parasite on a massive scale, rather than an inert nodule. It is mostly inert
moist tentacles. At the same time, blunt stones like teeth emerge from all sides of the cave entrance, and its opening slams shut like a mouth closing.
Anyone in the cavern when the teeth emerge and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
swaying reeds, There rose a hairy villain, A troll called Snobble Sweed.
He came to gobble children, To line his lair with bones, And pick his teeth with talons, And grind their flesh with stones
closer to their goal. Rangers who have encountered halflings or lived among them know of this effect, and they learn to trust their other senses and their instincts rather than relying on sight. A typical
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
ballista arrows are stacked and secured near each. Mangonels. Two mangonels (DMG, ch. 8) are attached to the aft of the deck. Ten mangonel stones are stacked and secured near each catapult. Naval Ram
10)
The galley has advantage on all saving throws relating to crashing when it crashes into a creature or an object. Any damage it takes from the crash is applied to the naval ram rather than to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
rest of the village. Headstones sit at odd angles, some toppled completely. Small cairns, rather than inscribed headstones, mark the graves toward the back.
Characters who take time to read the
inscriptions notice that the headstones near the cairns bear the same death date, which is also the date of the mine collapse. The cairns were intended to be temporary, but with so many stones needing to