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Returning 21 results for 'storm spies'.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation Supplement
Adventure Hooks Here are some hooks you can use to lure characters to the Snout of Omgar: While traveling by ship around the Chultan peninsula, the characters are caught in a storm and washed ashore
payment for its services, requests their help in ridding the palace of monsters.
The merchant princes of Port Nyanzaru are worried about the growing number of yuan-ti spies in their city and fear that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
The Attack
Map 4: Backlot in Town View Player Version
When the characters are packing up to take the supplies back to Leilon at the end of their visit, the spies from both the Cult of Talos
and the followers of Myrkul independently decide they are too big a threat to let live. (If the characters have already dealt with both spies, this encounter doesn’t happen.) Use the Backlot Map to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Death Giant Encounters
3 Fire Giant Encounters
4 Fomorian Encounters
5 Frost Giant Encounters
6 Hill Giant Encounters
7 Stone Giant Encounters
8 Storm Giant
with 1 mage (attitude: 1d12)
5 1d4 doppelganger spies (attitude: 1d8 + 1) posing as servants while they try to glean secrets
6 2 cloud giants (attitude: 1d10 + 2; roll separately for each
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
, Mirran and Nym. Mirran is singing, while Nym provides instrumental accompaniment by tapping on the crab’s shell with a pair of whalebone mallets. Mirran and Nym have the statistics of a storm giant, with
hearing what the “small folk” have to say. Watching the visitors are two storm giants wearing helms. If Mirran and Nym are attacked, these royal guards rush to the princesses’ defense and cover their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
to steal royal regalia. 7 A golem intended to serve as a protector has gone berserk and captured its creator. 8 A conspiracy of spies, assassins, and necromancers schemes to overthrow a ruler. 9 After
one shape-shifting monster also attends. 15 A ship carrying a valuable treasure or an evil Artifact sinks in a storm or monster attack. 16 A natural disaster was actually caused by magic gone awry or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
are justly concerned, and some have important roles to play in events yet to unfold. The Harpers The Harpers are spellcasters and spies who covertly oppose the abuse of power, magical or otherwise
Zhentarim are free to profit as they see fit, either by helping or hindering the giants. The Black Network has spies and operatives in every major northern settlement, and it doesn’t wish to see its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
, treant 11 Behir, roc 12 Archmage 13 Jabberwock (WW), storm giant 17 Dragon turtle AWAKENED BEASTS
Awakened Beasts (Beasts that have received the benefits of an awaken spell) are common in the Feywild
, where they often serve as spies and companions.
Domain Visitors As they explore a domain, the characters might encounter other visitors, including friends and foes of the domain’s archfey, planar
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
allows the house a free rein in governing the isle. It is the finest resort and vacation spot in Khorvaire. Spies, charlatans, sailors, and house agents all have a place in Stormhome. Even though the
bleak and storm-blasted location into a temperate island getaway.
Aftermath of the Last War Aundair and Thrane were bitter rivals during the Last War. Thrane seized the ancient city of Thaliost
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
among diplomats and spies. Intrigue Conflicts. Conflicts like these are ripe for an intrigue campaign: Feuding Fiefs. Two fiefs or settlements have been feuding for years. The characters are drawn into
these for a mystery campaign:
Criminal Syndicate. A many-headed criminal syndicate seeks economic and political power. The syndicate has spies everywhere, including among the adventurers’ families or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Encounter. If this encounter takes place during a blizzard, the dragon is buried under heavy snow, waiting out the storm with her outstretched wings lying flat at her sides. Her rider is visible above the
unoccupied space on the ground within 5 feet of her. The blizzard’s wind keeps her from flying, so the characters’ best hope of survival is to run away and lose themselves in the storm. If this encounter
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
possessions and livestock with them. If he’s alive and present when the dragon attacks, Speaker Waylen is killed when six duergar storm the Town Hall and confiscate any chardalyn they find there. Dragon
. Bremen’s militia puts up a good fight, reducing the dragon’s hit points by 5. Target 9: Targos Speaker Maxildanarr’s network of spies throughout Ten-Towns alerted him to the dragon shortly after its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Harper spies. Davil Starsong Within the Waterdeep division of the Black Network, Davil is accorded the title of Master of Opportunities and Negotiations because he’s good at sniffing out lucrative
, suggestion
3rd level (3 slots): counterspell, fireball, fly
4th level (3 slots): greater invisibility, ice storm
5th level (1 slot): cone of cold
Actions
Dagger. Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
slots): sleet storm
Actions
Quarterstaff. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d8 + 2) bludgeoning damage.
Crushing Wave Reaver The foot soldiers of the Crushing Wave
many of the resistances elemental creatures possess, as well as the ability to grapple and crush their enemies with their watery bodies. Fathomers often serve as spies, infiltrators, and assassins for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sleeping Dragon’s Wake
Baldur’s Gate. Alusair Nacacia Obarskyr is a human wearing plate armor and carrying a shield emblazoned with the image of a dragon. She was a brave knight who served as the regent of Cormyr. Storm
room to keep track of her various humanoid spies along the Sword Coast. She has a separate map for Waterdeep, where most of her machinations take place. A character who has been to Waterdeep or who
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
headdress. In Shemeshka’s eyes, the establishment’s profits pale in comparison to its true spoils: secrets gleaned by her web of spies, both those employed in the casino and others enacting her far
inmates appear in the Prison Inmates table. Prison Inmates d12 Inmate 1 A chaotic evil storm giant conquerer who darkened Sigil’s skies with storm clouds 2 A disheveled wizard named Gifad (chaotic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Humanoids for five days. The five guardians each wear a brass mask of Gorm worth 10 gp. B12: Grand Master of Gorm Irina Nordsol The Guardians of Gorm drum up a musical storm in honor of Gorm, their stern
(see appendix B) conduct a storm ceremony under the supervision of Kanadius (lawful good, human champion of Gorm; see appendix B), the Grand Master of Gorm. Kanadius—who wears a Helm of Telepathy— is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
, crowded streets are full of spies. Waterdhavian noble families and guilds hold tremendous political and economic sway up and down the Sword Coast, but within the city itself, true power lies with the
small islands known as the Whalebones, so called because of the whale skeletons that litter the islands’ beaches. Several of the larger islands are home to rocs that the storm giants of Maelstrom use
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
include the heads of local militias, gangs, and other martial organizations. At the broadest scale, a criminal or underworld leader wields power through a network of spies, bribes, and black-market trade
Cataclysmic Disaster 1 Earthquake 2 Famine/drought 3 Fire 4 Flood 5 Plague/disease 6 Rain of fire (meteoric impact) 7 Storm (hurricane, tornado, tsunami) 8 Volcanic eruption 9 Magic gone awry or a planar warp
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
, yearning to seize power while destroying any creatures that oppose them. Wielding a flaming whip and a longsword that channels the power of the storm, a balor’s battle prowess is fueled by hatred and
Planes. Physically weak, they keep to the shadows to plot mischief and wickedness. More powerful demons use quasits as spies and messengers when they aren’t devouring them or pulling them apart to pass
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
expedite their travels across the North (see the “Airship of a Cult” section in chapter 4, “The Chosen Path”). Suggested Encounter Klauth spies on trespassers from afar. If the characters harm his
languages, detect magic, mage hand, minor illusion, prestidigitation
2/day each: darkness, detect thoughts, ice storm
1/day each: banishment, cloudkill, disintegrate, etherealness, find the path (cast as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
leader of Valor’s Call. It’s obvious to anyone who can see him that the knight will plunge into the vortex if the time-freezing effect on him is ended. Storm Vortex. The vortex that churns below the
central spire is not part of the palace and wasn’t frozen in time. Although the storm is magical, it can’t be dispelled, and the area it occupies is heavily obscured. Any creature that falls into the