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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
guarding its young.
A catoblepas’s stink, like the stench of death mixed with swamp gas and skunk musk, gives it away as being much more ghastly than its appearance suggests. When it is on the
the creature has such a feared reputation that stories about it are ingrained in the popular culture. Any rumor of a catoblepas taking up residence nearby is taken to be a bad omen, even if the rumor is
Dullahan
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Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
a specific location their battlefield. This gives rise to stories of haunted battlegrounds, ruins, roads, river crossings and other strategic locations where a dullahan continues a terrifying
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
. Having knowledge and power gives one a responsibility to those who have less of either. (Lawful)
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Noble Obligation. My superior experience, intellect, and insight give me a duty to mediate
table offers suggestions for stories and adventures involving amethyst dragons.
Amethyst Dragon Adventure Hooks
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Young Deep Dragon
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
in the depths of the Underdark, deep dragons are nightmarish cousins of chromatic dragons. The warped magical energy of their subterranean realm gives them the ability to exhale magical spores that
Deep Dragon Adventures
The Deep Dragon Adventure Hooks table offers suggestions for stories and adventures involving deep dragons.
Deep Dragon Adventure Hooks
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Deep Dragon Wyrmling
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
nightmarish cousins of chromatic dragons. The warped magical energy of their subterranean realm gives them the ability to exhale magical spores that instill fear and scar the mind.
Deep dragons&rsquo
Dragon Adventures
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Deep Dragon Adventure Hooks
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Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
, and I constantly polish and refine my many facets to make the whole that much more perfect. (Any)
4
Responsibility. Having knowledge and power gives one a responsibility to those who have less
used, and I use it. Your concerns are irrelevant. (Evil)
Amethyst Dragon Adventures
The Amethyst Dragon Adventure Hooks table offers suggestions for stories and adventures involving amethyst
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
power gives one a responsibility to those who have less of either. (Lawful)
5
Noble Obligation. My superior experience, intellect, and insight give me a duty to mediate disputes when I can. (Good
suggestions for stories and adventures involving amethyst dragons.
Amethyst Dragon Adventure Hooks
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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Newspaper Contacts Usually, your primary contact—the person who gives you assignments for the newspaper—is an editor of some kind, who takes the stories you write and makes them suitable for the
printed page. Depending on the editor, you might not even recognize the stories when they’re printed, and your editor’s personality and goals can have a tremendous impact on your work for the paper
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Responsibility. Having knowledge and power gives one a responsibility to those who have less of either. (Lawful)
5
Noble Obligation. My superior experience, intellect, and insight give me a duty to
Adventure Hooks table offers suggestions for stories and adventures involving amethyst dragons.
Amethyst Dragon Adventure Hooks
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Ancient Deep Dragon
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
cousins of chromatic dragons. The warped magical energy of their subterranean realm gives them the ability to exhale magical spores that instill fear and scar the mind.
Deep dragons’ black-and
Deep Dragon Adventure Hooks table offers suggestions for stories and adventures involving deep dragons.
Deep Dragon Adventure Hooks
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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Denouement In most stories, there’s a period after the climax, in which loose plot threads are tied up and everything is explained. An adventure might also include this kind of denouement: time to
discover what treasure is in the dragon’s hoard, an award ceremony where the queen gives medals to the victorious heroes, or even a time to mourn adventuring companions who didn’t survive the battle
Adult Deep Dragon
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nightmarish cousins of chromatic dragons. The warped magical energy of their subterranean realm gives them the ability to exhale magical spores that instill fear and scar the mind.
Deep dragons’ black
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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
which the rooms are excavated. It’s dark, cramped, and uncomfortable, but safe and defensible. Rumor Mill The inn’s dining hall gives characters a chance to mingle with non-duergar who are visiting
Underdark are all riled up about something. Among the tales told by the travelers, second-hand stories about demons attacking isolated settlements are common.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
ghost’s life to figure out how to put the spirit to rest. This gives any ghost story characteristics similar to a mystery. Be generous in planting clues to the ghost’s history throughout the adventure
few people who knew them in life are still alive.
4 The ghost died a generation ago; folks remember rumors or stories told about the person’s life.
5 The ghost died multiple generations ago
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
campaign whenever your story reaches its natural conclusion. Make sure you allow space and time near the end of your campaign for the characters to finish up any personal goals. Their own stories need
characters’ actions as the basis of legends gives them immediate investment in the new setting. Let the new characters experience how the world has changed because of their old characters. In the end
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Invitation to a Funeral Ispin Greenshield wished to have his life celebrated in a simple way, with friends from the lands he traveled joining for festivities and sharing stories. Upon Ispin’s death
(detailed in chapter 4) and then travel by road to Vogler. The characters’ travels are largely uneventful until the final leg of their journey (see the “Preludes” section). Chapter 3 gives characters who
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation Supplement
to her. She arranges for a ship to transport them to Ahoyhoy.
The characters hire a tortle guide in Port Nyanzaru or Fort Beluarian. The tortle tells them stories about the Typhoon Palace and, as
. Zhanthi offers a 1,000 gp reward to adventurers who are willing to visit each of the island’s landmarks and report back to her with news of their discoveries. Zhanthi gives them the map and arranges for a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
) check to notice that the goats are getting restless. This gives those on guard three rounds to wake up any sleepers and take precautions. After three rounds, the ogres, numbering three plus one per
of Phandalin. If that is the case, then they have their own stories and their own relationships with the people of Phandalin. The town and the NPCs, as they are presented here, should be seen as just
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
death mixed with swamp gas and skunk musk, gives it away as being much more ghastly than its appearance suggests. When it is on the attack, a catoblepas reveals the extent of its horrific nature. The
those seeking to avoid notice. Catoblepases in Folklore Ordinary folk rarely see a catoblepas, but the creature has such a feared reputation that stories about it are ingrained in the popular culture
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Morte’s Planar Parade
inhabitants of the planes. This book contains useful data gleaned from Morte’s stories and ramblings. Still, the planes are vast and varied, and what Morte experienced as true might not match all
of the Monster Manual before proceeding. That book explains stat block terminology and gives rules for various monster traits—information that isn’t repeated here.
The Stat Blocks by Challenge Rating
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
not fit the descriptions of contacts on this table. Contacts d12 Contact 1 A friendly law-enforcement officer sends clients your way and gives you inside information about the workings of the
former client can get you into high-society parties and put you in touch with other rich people. 7 A nosy journalist always wants to write stories about your cases, but also helps lead you to new work
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
how long will that remain certain? The answers are for you to decide. THIS BOOK GIVES CHARACTERS NIGHTMARES
Ravenloft is a setting designed to bring nightmares to life—for characters, not for
genre in all its myriad forms is explored—from moody gothic horror and ghost stories to visceral body horror and mind-bending cosmic horror. Chapter 2 explores how to choose the horror themes that are right for your game, but read on at your discretion.
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
always knows exactly where to find just what he’s looking for.
Rumors
“I hear goblins throw wild parties.” (Oh Yeah!)
“Lenk the jeweler gives a fair price for gems and precious stones. He lives
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
their magic to drive others to do the opposite of what they desire. All the book’s writing is backward. Pity He’s an Elf is a collection of illustrated short stories about an elf adventurer named Aethyn
’ equally famous designers. Tales from the Gloaming Court is a set of eleven hefty, green-covered, illustrated books filled with stories and illustrations of Feywild intrigue that shed light on the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
gives way moments after they leave. The mill’s workers can only watch as the building is consumed by flames. After the characters escape, another strange event occurs. Read the following description
) check recognize references to the Ghost Orchid Tepui, along with any of the stories from the “Legends of Atagua” section at the end of this adventure. The macaw that passed through the rift squawks
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
: They wear studded leather armor that gives them AC 13. Replace the Heavy Crossbow action with the action below. Longbow. Ranged Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, ranged 150/600 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d8 + 1
team succeed. Personality Trait. “Everything I do and say has a purpose. I’ve no time for frivolities.” Ideal. “I want to be a living example of a true Dayawlongo: one who gives everything for family
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
. Especially if it’s guarding its young, a catoblepas attacks anyone that moves too close. Stench of Death. A catoblepas’s stink, like that of death mixed with swamp gas and skunk musk, gives it away as being
those seeking to avoid notice. Sinister Folklore. Ordinary folk rarely see a catoblepas, but the creature has such a feared reputation that stories about it are ingrained in the popular culture. Any
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
to collapse under our weight?
Unlike a game of make-believe, D&D gives structure to the stories, a way of determining the consequences of the adventurers’ action. Players roll dice to resolve
gives way? Or cast a spell to carry them over the chasm? Then the DM determines the results of the adventurers’ actions and narrates what they experience. Because the DM can improvise to react to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
of mist and branches suddenly gives way to black clouds boiling far above. There is a clearing here, next to a river that widens to form a small lake several hundred feet across. Five colorful round
fire, telling stories and guzzling wine. They are intoxicated and have disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks. Three sober Vistani (male and female human bandit captains) are resting in three of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
to collapse under our weight?
Unlike a game of make-believe, D&D gives structure to the stories, a way of determining the consequences of the adventurers’ action. Players roll dice to resolve whether
they want their adventurers to do. Will they walk across the dangerously weathered drawbridge? Tie themselves together with rope to minimize the chance that someone will fall if the drawbridge gives
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
religious rites and festivals. Priests at such sites relate stories of the gods, teach the ethics of their patron deities, offer advice and blessings, perform religious rites, and provide training in
, and War. You can invent names and personalities for these deities, or borrow deities from other pantheons. This approach gives you a small pantheon that covers the most significant aspects of existence
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
travelers. Strangely, the shadows they cast resemble humanoid silhouettes. This supernatural oddity lends credence to stories that perytons are cursed humans or elves, or that they arise from carrion birds
that feed on the corpses of villains. Perytons tear out the hearts of those they slay, carrying the organs back to grisly lairs. This gives rise to numerous superstitions surrounding perytons. Roll on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
a specific location their battlefield. This gives rise to stories of haunted battlegrounds, ruins, roads, river crossings and other strategic locations where a dullahan continues a terrifying
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
rambling thicket of twisted roots, thorny vines, and sinuous creepers. This vegetation weaves together to form long tunnels, grand hallways, and enormous domes. Yarnspinner loves reading stories to
become years Feywild Adventures The Feywild gives physical expression to powerful emotion and excels at metaphor. When characters venture into the Feywild, they might find themselves robbed of a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
successfully nurtures them. Timid for a third-year student, Urzmaktok convinced the lonely Melwythorne to accompany him to the grounds, both so Melwythorne might tell stories about his grove and so
, hanging moss flank the northern edges of this large clearing. Movement in the foliage to the north gives the area a sense of being alive.
When a character ventures toward the north end of this