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head on the ceiling—good food and good stories in front of a nice, warm fire. If halflings had a shred of ambition, they might really amount to something.”
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These were the stories of a restless people who long ago took to the seas and rivers in longboats, first to pillage and terrorize, then to settle. Yet there was an energy, a love of adventure, that
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Adventure Hooks table offers suggestions for stories and adventures involving deep dragons.
Deep Dragon Adventure Hooks
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that allow them to escape or ambush visitors if the need arises. A well-cultivated lair abounds with Underdark fungi and plants, with the floor, walls, and ceiling covered in carpets of mold and moss
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Amethyst Dragon Adventure Hooks
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the air is cool and slightly damp.
Glowing Crystals. Large clusters of glowing amethyst crystals grow out from the walls and ceiling, casting dim light in a 30-foot radius.
Chimneys. Two chimneys
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or ambush visitors if the need arises. A well-cultivated lair abounds with Underdark fungi and plants, with the floor, walls, and ceiling covered in carpets of mold and moss, or featuring larger
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suggestions for stories and adventures involving amethyst dragons.
Amethyst Dragon Adventure Hooks
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ceiling, casting dim light in a 30-foot radius.
Chimneys. Two chimneys connect the main caves to the three chambers above. Each chimney appears to continue up through the ceiling of the upper level and
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Dragon Adventures
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for driving away a topaz dragon attempting to claim the sea devils’ territory.
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A pirate captain tells stories of an adult topaz dragon;adult topaz dragon's legendary hoard while
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
to beat a meal in a halfling home, as long as you don’t crack your head on the ceiling—good food and good stories in front of a nice, warm fire. If halflings had a shred of ambition, they might really amount to something.”
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Topaz Dragon Adventures
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from the ceiling, giving the place a warm, cozy glow. (The lanterns might be magical or maintained by minions.) The floors are covered with plush sand-colored carpets.
Hoard Chamber. A small chamber in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
to beat a meal in a halfling home, as long as you don’t crack your head on the ceiling—good food and good stories in front of a nice, warm fire. If halflings had a shred of ambition, they might really amount to something.”
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Revel’s End Locations (R9-R16) R9. Guard Towers Each of these four triangular towers is two stories tall. A tower’s interior chamber is empty except for a wooden ladder that climbs to an iron hatch
prison staff on sight. It won’t leave the room and attacks anyone it doesn’t recognize. Hatch. A wooden ladder leads to an iron hatch in the ceiling. An arcane lock spell seals the hatch (see “Prison
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
time (see “Vlonwelv’s Pulpit”). Chandelier. The room has a 30-foot-high flat ceiling, hanging from which is a wrought iron chandelier shaped vaguely like a giant spider and anchored to the ceiling by a
intrigue in the city of Menzoberranzan, written in Elvish by an unknown author), and Demonic Infestations (a collection of stories about demonic possession, written in Common). None of the books are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
storyteller’s sanctuary. In the carpeted hall, Nafas weaves a never-ending tapestry of tales from the wishes he has heard. An immense, jeweled censer hangs from the ceiling on a golden chain. Whenever a
within the hall. Nafas delights in hearing the stories of his visitors, especially tales of adventures beyond the Infinite Staircase. Easily moved, the djinni disarms audiences with his booming laugh and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
and armor to would-be heroes like you. I had heard reports of foolhardy adventurers falling victim to brigands and monsters. I shrugged those stories off for a time.
“Last winter, the castellan’s
wilderness.
When the characters arrive at the shop, read the following boxed text aloud:
Dusty rays of sunlight stream into this general store through small windows near the ceiling. Barrels
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
room. The polished walls gleam in the light of hanging lamps shaped like celestial bodies, and the ceiling is painted with constellations. On the east wall is a long stage with red velvet curtains
takes up two floors, with a 50-foot-high ceiling and a balcony that is accessible from the upper floor. If the characters arrive here during Quill’s party, see “Quill’s Party” later in the adventure for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
master’s home, so they have advantage on skill checks and saving throws against attempts to distract, bamboozle, or charm them. The ceiling of the entryway is two stories tall. In some homes, it’s open
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
nourishes all she touches and gives strength and health to her children. In my youth, my father, the pharaoh, would sit with me beside the spring and tell me stories of the river’s wonderful power
leads to area P7. P3: West Offering Temple A twenty-foot-tall statue of Amun Sa stands before the north wall of this square room, which rises to a domed ceiling. A few tidy cots lie along the floor
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes’ Feast: Saving the Children’s Menu
Holrow Homestead The homestead’s large farmhouse has two stories and is well maintained, but all the windows have been boarded up. Unless otherwise noted, areas in the homestead share these features
). Above the library is a loft with an improvised railing made from wood and wire that reaches partway to the ceiling. This is Ignis’s nursery (area 5).
Sean Macdonald Map: Holrow Homestead View
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
, pillars, columns, walls, or floors. For example, an earthquake spell would not trigger a ceiling collapse or create fissures in Undermountain. Doors and furnishings, however, are not protected in this way
adventurers coming down the well to pester him and steal his valuable belongings. To that end, his goal is to terrify adventurers and send them screaming back to Waterdeep with horror stories that discourage
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Silver Dragon Adventures The Silver Dragon Adventure Hooks table offers suggestions for stories and adventures involving silver dragons. Silver Dragon Adventure Hooks d8 Adventure Hook
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be painters and vie for the commission to paint the ceiling of a huge cathedral.
6 An adult silver dragon leads a group of warriors, changing identities every generation.
7 Having lost
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
by the name Rictavio—a false identity adopted by the legendary vampire hunter Rudolph van Richten (see appendix D). He regales tavern patrons with stories so outrageous as to be hardly believable, yet
musical talent but manages to entertain locals nonetheless with his stories of faraway places. Twice each day, at dawn and again at dusk, he leaves the inn with a couple of apples and a cooked wolf
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
. A massive chain, tethered to the floor and held stiff by a thick layer of muddy ice, extends up into the howling portal set within the chamber’s vaulted ceiling. Power Vacuum Bedlam was nearly
citizens in the Bleakheights and using Bumblewing’s machines for vandalism, robbery, and violence. Adventures in Bedlam The Bedlam Adventures table offers suggestions for encounters and stories in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a4
does make the cave very uncomfortable, like a hot sauna bath interrupted by blasts of cold air. The ceiling and walls of the cave are slick with the condensed steam that runs down them. The floor is
. Seeing this, the populace did not put up much resistance to paying the wizard's heavy taxes and tithes, especially when stories were circulated of what happened to those who balked. Any nobles who
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
where carved or painted stars cover the ceiling of a cave. On the planes that have hosted one of these rare events, elf priests consecrate and maintain temples devoted to the Mysteries. Often these
sacred sites are natural spaces that have intrinsic magical properties. Stories about the Mysteries are preached by many theologians as examples of Corellon’s abiding love for his wayward children. Some
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
ruined jumble of buildings.
Unless the characters want to swim in, clamber down the side of several stories of buildings, or use magic, this bridge (known locally as the Milden Span for its long
oppressive hallway reeks of mildew and rotting fish. The walls are severely stained, and the ceiling sags where pockets of water and fungus weigh it down. The sounds of creaking wood and dripping water
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
sizes and heights, but the upper stories are all in varying states of collapse. A short flight of steps ascends to a terrace in front of the main entryway. Past the wreckage of a pair of sundered
the ceiling.
If the goblin sentries in area C3 raised the alarm, then the goblins and hobgoblins in areas C4 and area C6 run through the north and south doors at the same time. They attack from both
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
-square section of wall, ceiling, or floor of the ship has AC 10, 10 hit points, and immunity to poison and psychic damage. Wreck Areas The following areas are keyed to map A.6. Map A.6: Wreck of the
altar in area M4. M9. Cave of Lost Souls This sea cave has the following features: Algae. The sea cave is covered in phosphorescent algae, which fills the cave with dim green light. Ceiling. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
different sizes and heights, but the upper stories are all in varying states of collapse. A short flight of steps leads up to a terrace in front of the main entryway. Past the wreckage of a pair of
southern hall. To the east, a broad corridor ends in two more doors leading south and east. The corridor is cluttered with dusty rubble and fallen plaster from a partial collapse of the ceiling overhead
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
extradimensional magic created by worshipers of Gond (god of craft). An intricate clockwork device is suspended in a two-foot-diameter, faintly glowing crystal orb embedded in the ceiling over the bar. The Avowed
wall hangings. These adornments vary from deity to deity, but generally include beautiful tapestries telling key stories of the relevant deity or framed, illuminated scriptures discussing and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
, and seagull loaf). 4. Ogmund’s Quarters This chamber reeks of wine. Small kegs are scattered everywhere. A floor-to-ceiling wine rack filled with bottles dominates the southern wall. A crudely made
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Bayleaf (bard) is in this room exchanging war stories with one of the guards (veteran) unless they hear a disturbance outside. This former armory of the clerics and the abbey guards is now devoid of such
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
side room—not heated, unlike the rest of the prison—is used for cold storage. The smallest side room is a well-stocked pantry. R9: Guard Towers Each of these four triangular towers is two stories tall
weapons as treasure. It knows every member of the prison staff on sight. It won’t leave the room and attacks anyone it doesn’t recognize. Hatch. A wooden ladder leads to an iron hatch in the ceiling. An
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
other side. An arrow slit in the southern wall of the passage provides defenders a way to fire on intruders who get this far.
Characters who specifically examine the ceiling notice the murder holes
bluff. From the base of the bluff, a subterranean river empties into the boat basin. The river is close to thirty feet wide, and the cave ceiling is about six feet above the water level in the middle. An
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Prisoner 13
side room—not heated, unlike the rest of the prison—is used for cold storage. The smallest side room is a well-stocked pantry. R9: Guard Towers Each of these four triangular towers is two stories tall
weapons as treasure. It knows every member of the prison staff on sight. It won’t leave the room and attacks anyone it doesn’t recognize. Hatch. A wooden ladder leads to an iron hatch in the ceiling. An
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
sufficient bedding for four frost giants here. Two Neutral Frost Giants, Ardrandal and Forstrorri, recount stories of long-dead heroes while they maintain the camp here. Both are loyal to Ralvald but grow
amulet’s wearer can command the bound guardian to cast the Fireball spell stored within the Construct. D8: Icicle Cave Rows of thick icicles—some long enough to connect the icy floor and ceiling—hang in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
characters, they lift their heads and begin singing more loudly, shaking the ground and making bits of gravel fall from the ceiling as they try to entertain their unexpected audience. When the characters
Nakari has left waiting far too long, Lashlo hoped to trade stories and songs with Nakari, but her patience is nearly at an end. She is Hostile to the characters, whom she considers rivals for Nakari’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
tantalizing rumors or uncover valuable information.
Information Source. If the adventurers let Miklos tell stories of his past exploits or agree to help him play a prank on his rivals, he can steer
Lock spells seal these doors, beyond which are repositories for the library’s most valuable or scandalous works. Next to each scribe’s desk is a pull cord hanging through a hole in the ceiling. A tug