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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Variant Rules A shared campaign might use some variant rules to handle certain aspects of the game. The Adventurers League, for instance, has variant systems for gaining levels and acquiring treasure
. These “house rules,” presented below, serve as a sort of common language, ensuring that the rewards all characters receive are equivalent no matter what kind of adventure a character experienced.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Rewards Adventures in a shared campaign that uses variant rules for gaining levels and acquiring treasure (such as those described below) don’t include experience point awards or specific amounts and kinds of treasure.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rrakkma
drawers is not locked, nor is it trapped. Inside the chest of drawers are several items useful to a priest. A corroded silver aspergillum that looks like a strange horned skull with small rubies for eyes
winds of Pandemonium raged throughout his chamber. He was quite insane, as were all the clergy of this temple, before it collapsed into decay and ruin. Treasure & Rewards The characters find the following treasure. Silver aspergillum (500 gp) Two vials of holy water One vial of acid
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Army Engineers (see below) 5 A curious death slaad wants to eat one of each type of draconian. If the characters help it hunt all five, it rewards them with a ring of feather falling. 6 Monster
a 25-foot-wide bridge spanning a 60-foot drop into a rocky fissure. They are quick to investigate any nearby noise or strange sights. Dragon Army Engineers One Dragon Army officer and three sivak
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
character’s gift. These supernatural gifts are intended for starting characters, but some might be bestowed by gods as rewards for remarkable deeds. HEROIC FEATS
If your campaign uses the optional feat
rules from chapter 6 of the Player’s Handbook, your Dungeon Master might allow you to take a feat as a variant supernatural gift. You gain one feat of your choice. This list suggests twelve feats from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Locathah Rising
in her head and pull her tentacles up into the shell protectively, like a strange hermit crab. Whymsee (Kraken Priest Variant)
Medium humanoid (human), neutral evil
Armor Class 17 (natural armor
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sleeping Dragon’s Wake
temple called the Tower of Storms. Now a strange boat or dead creature seems to be beached near the tower. Investigate this strange occurrence, kill or rout any cultists that might be there, then return
to post the quest. If the characters complete this quest, the town council denies having posted the message but thinks the information is valuable and rewards the characters all the same. Bronze Shrine
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
what or who is behind the strange alliance of many different types of giants. Surely here in the stronghold of the fire giants will be encountered the evil genius or geniuses controlling the uprising and
sobering thought indeed! Surely the rewards for success cannot fail to be greater, for the fire giants—and their masters, perhaps?—have more loot for the taking. If the party (or one or more members
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
reinforce conventions of a certain genre. When Do You Award Inspiration? Consider the timing of your inspiration rewards. Some DMs like to award inspiration in response to an action. Other DMs like to
others feel that heroism, roleplaying, and other parts of the game are their own rewards that don’t need incentives like inspiration. If you choose to ignore inspiration, you’re telling the players that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
someone else to do it. d6 Ideal 1 Respect. The thing that keeps a ship together is mutual respect between captain and crew. (Good) 2 Fairness. We all do the work, so we all share in the rewards
, it’s hard for me to stop. 5 I can’t help but pocket loose coins and other trinkets I come across. 6 My pride will probably lead to my destruction. Variant Sailor: Pirate You spent your youth under the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
first floor.
Mirabel (Medium Ghast Gravecaller) stalks the second floor with her two Ghoul servants.
Sorvina (Unspeakable Horror; see chapter 5) conducts strange rituals in the basement.
Taproom
information: First Entry. Mirabel’s sister Sorvina discovered a hollow hidden under the tavern. Strange ruins lie amid the dirt walls. Sorvina wants to excavate them, hoping to find a tomb filed with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
an action. Applying an oil might take longer, as specified in its description. Once used, a potion takes effect immediately, and it is used up. VARIANT: MIXING POTIONS
A character might drink one
potion while still under the effects of another, or pour several potions into a single container. The strange ingredients used in creating potions can result in unpredictable interactions.
When a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
. Schnella refused to leave and died fending off Tockworth’s clockwork defenders. Her restless soul lurks in this building, manifesting as a troublesome specter known as a poltergeist (see the “Variant
the warehouse is a strange metal vehicle with treads. Quartz gemstones embedded in the hull shine light in all directions. Mounted to the front of this contraption is a large, cone-shaped drill. At
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
asked, you receive handsome rewards. 3 You’ve inherited a plot of land in Q’barra. If you don’t visit within a year, you’ll lose the claim. 4 Due to an unusual twist of Triumvirate law, you share the
same name with a number of other Zil, and you’re all legally considered to be the same person. 5 You’ve acquired a spellshard (described in chapter 5) that contains a vast amount of text in a strange
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
. He’s looking for someone to head east on the Triboar Trail, where marauders have attacked several caravans near Wyvern Tor. The most recent victims reported that at least one strange goblin accompanied
Iarno’s fate, Sildar rewards the party with 200 gp for eliminating the Redbrand threat. Joining the Lords’ Alliance
If the party eliminates the threat from Cragmaw Castle or uncovers Iarno’s treachery
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Ancient Being Any time an unfathomably powerful entity sweeps in and offers godlike rewards in return for just a few teensy favors, it’s a scam. Unless it’s me. I’d never lie to you, reader dearest
perhaps you work as its direct agents, enacting its will. Whether you chose this arrangement or were tricked into it, you can count on the strange resources of your benefactor as long as you serve its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
the ordning (and from the notion of a cosmic order more generally), and exactly the kind of power their ordning rewards. Of the countless rulers of the infinite Abyss, four have particular influence
chapter 6 is an example of a frost giant whose devotion to the demon lord has brought great and terrible rewards. (Kostchtchie is described in Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus.) Yeenoghu. Gnolls, ghouls
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
of the keep. It was once the site of strange rituals. Some say it still is.” (True)
Elandra the Adviser The castellan’s trusted adviser, an elf woman named Elandra, operates in one of the
acquired an item of arcane significance. Assist me in this effort, and the item is yours.”
If the characters complete three quests within the keep and report back to Elandra, she rewards them with one
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
privilege. Any creature that serves a cult of Elder Evil, including a star spawn, can be given one of these rewards — usually as compensation for faithful service, but sometimes as a chance for a creature
plane or world, or held in check somehow by wandering stars, imprisoned in the vastness of the night sky.
The names given to these terrible entities include such strange descriptions as Ityak-Ortheel
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
noble works. As bonds fray, the dragons reap rewards of greater wealth and control. Eventually the ambitions of ancient green dragons stretch beyond their territories as they seek control over
often spirit their victims back to surreal lairs where they hold captives prisoner or cook them into monstrous meals.
Green hags frequently know strange magic or forgotten secrets, such as the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
corner. These docile reptiles are used as mounts by the drow scouts in area 25b and have the Spider Climb trait (see the “Variant: Giant Lizard Traits” sidebar in appendix A of the Monster Manual
. Durnan is pleased to have the halflings perform for his patrons and rewards the characters with a round of drinks. If the heroes plan to return to Undermountain, Durnan also pulls a few strings to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
Daoine Gloine The city of Daoine Gloine has long been thought of as mere legend — just another strange tale from the already-strange Barrier Peaks. Occasionally, travelers would return from the
dangerous-looking walkways extending between the ruins. The rooftops and upper levels of the towers are strewn with vines and foliage. But a strange gleam extends across the lower reaches of the city
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
equal to 5 gp per Hit Die for any aberration, elemental, or outlaw slain in the region. She keeps a bounty board just outside Burle’s gates, which occasionally offers larger rewards for the capture
with strange symbols and wrapped in silver chains. An explorer tried to open the door, but a jolt of lightning from the door’s runes nearly killed her. Shortly afterward, strange spirits and capering
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
competing interests or priorities while they pursue the same goals.
Adventurer organizations are also a great source of special rewards beyond Experience Points and treasure. Increased standing in
except the strange powers of the old hermit living in the nearby woods, which they regard with suspicion and mention only in whispers. By contrast, magic is common enough in the Free City of Greyhawk
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
. Bioluminescent fungi trace strange constellations along the cavern’s ceiling and walls, showing the darkness of the ravine and a mist-shrouded smaller cavern beyond.
Inner Circle The central mound is the base
one large diamond (500 gp). If the characters kill the grick alpha, the umber hulk, or the shambling mound in the Fungal Wilds and bring the carcasses to Basidia, the sovereign rewards each character
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
know where the characters came from and—if the Kalaman forces are nearby—why their whole village is with them. He doesn’t know about the Red Dragon Army in the region, but he has seen strange
, she rewards them with a suit of bronze dragon scale mail made from her own scales. She won’t interfere in the conflict with the Dragon Army, though. Dragonnel Feeding Clystran frequently takes dried
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
. You can pay a fine of 10 gp to avoid jail time, or you can try to resist arrest. 11–20 You regain consciousness in a strange place with no memory of how you got there, and you have been robbed of 3d6
a variant rule, you can require characters to spend downtime training or studying before they gain the benefits of a new level. If you choose this option, once a character has earned enough
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
warmest due to the heat generated in the forge. X16. Northwest Cavern This cavern is unlit and has a jagged, 30-foot-high ceiling.
A strange sight confronts you as four duergar, two of them much larger
spore servants. When the myconid sovereign became uncooperative, Krob tore off one of its arms. Thonot Krob uses the quaggoth stat block with the modifications noted in the “Variant: Quaggoth Thonot
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
of each variety) blend in with the strange and vibrant plants throughout the area. The horrid plants are hostile toward the characters. S54: Climate Control Room (Green) A sleek machine, vaguely desk
, otherworldly garden. A second wall encircles a smaller botanical sanctuary within.
Strange trees abloom with bizarre flowers climb toward an artificial light source high above. The calls of unknown
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
discussing the tower in Terran. Toppled Tower. The strange tower is a variant of Daern’s instant fortress called a mudslick tower (see appendix B). Svirfneblin scouts liberated the mudslick tower from
know about the strange effect in the adjacent receiving room (area G12). Once one roper is defeated, the other one retreats just inside the doorway of the receiving room to gain the protection that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
giants. If the characters stay at the Calling Horns Inn for a night, they and Tamalin are awakened in the wee hours by a strange racket. Two trolls are trying to claw their way into the inn’s stable to
off completing their quest. If the characters have already cleared out Ironslag, the king expresses his surprise and gratitude and urges them to rest in Adbar while he gathers their rewards. For more
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
a military uniform sits behind an oblong desk in this respectable office. A strange metal box with a glowing glass screen and dials is affixed to the desk, facing the skeleton. It buzzes softly. At
clean up the ship in exchange for technological rewards and the supercomputer’s assistance during their exploration. It explains that with its core systems damaged by the crash and few robots remaining
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
mistrustful of anyone unwilling to sacrifice for the common good, but those who put in good work — whether in defense or labor — are accepted as equals, entitled to share in the rewards from their toil. The
demonstrate strange quirks in speech or behavior. The people of Thesk trade readily with any folk, even nearby orcs and goblins that are willing to treat with them peacefully. They aren’t fools, however, and