strangely standing adventure

Amethyst Dragon Wyrmling

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

fierce opponents of the Far Realm and any creatures warped by its touch. Strangely, though, they are intrigued by and fond of flumph;flumphs. These Aberrations, which oppose the depredations of mind

disputes when I can. (Good) 6 Power. Knowledge is power, power must be used, and I use it. Your concerns are irrelevant. (Evil) Amethyst Dragon Adventures The Amethyst Dragon Adventure Hooks

Young Amethyst Dragon

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

. Strangely, though, they are intrigued by and fond of flumph;flumphs. These Aberrations, which oppose the depredations of mind flayer;mind flayers and other wicked Aberrations, remind amethyst dragons that

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

Ancient Amethyst Dragon

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

Realm and any creatures warped by its touch. Strangely, though, they are intrigued by and fond of flumph;flumphs. These Aberrations, which oppose the depredations of mind flayer;mind flayers and

) 6 Power. Knowledge is power, power must be used, and I use it. Your concerns are irrelevant. (Evil) Amethyst Dragon Adventures The Amethyst Dragon Adventure Hooks table offers

Adult Amethyst Dragon

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

them fierce opponents of the Far Realm and any creatures warped by its touch. Strangely, though, they are intrigued by and fond of flumph;flumphs. These Aberrations, which oppose the depredations of

Adventure Hooks table offers suggestions for stories and adventures involving amethyst dragons. Amethyst Dragon Adventure Hooks d8;{"diceNotation":"1d8","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Adventure

Guild Artisan / Guild Merchant Legacy

Backgrounds Player’s Handbook (2014)

in your proficiency with a certain kind of artisan’s tools), as well as the principles of trade and good business practices. The question now is whether you abandon your trade for adventure, or

you if a good case can be made for your innocence or the crime is justifiable. You can also gain access to powerful political figures through the guild, if you are a member in good standing. Such

Aarakocra

Species Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

birdfolk. Only when they roost on a branch or walk across the ground is their Humanoid nature clear. Standing upright, aarakocra are typically about 5 feet tall, and they have long, narrow legs that

violent end on an adventure. Members of some races, such as dwarves and elves, can live for centuries. If typical members of a race can live longer than a century, that fact is mentioned in the race

Guild Artisan - Baldur's Gate

Backgrounds Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus

artisan’s tools), as well as the principles of trade and good business practices. The question now is whether you abandon your trade for adventure, or take on the extra effort to weave

innocence or the crime is justifiable. You can also gain access to powerful political figures through the guild, if you are a member in good standing. Such connections might require the donation of

The Magister's Masquerade

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

them reputations as some of the most remarkable student-mages on campus. In this adventure, the characters are invited to the Magister’s Masquerade, one of the most elaborate annual events on campus

faculty member begins to act strangely, and a menacing shadow falls over all of Strixhaven. The annual Magister’s Masquerade is a night of magic and fun that third-year students will never forget

Dragonmarked House Adventure Hooks

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

Dragonmarked House Adventure Hooks The Dragonmarked House Adventure Hooks table presents a few ways to pull characters into tales concerning the houses. Dragonmarked House Adventure Hooks d12

Adventure Hook 1 A House Cannith artificer hires adventurers to steal secrets from a forge associated with a rival branch of the house. 2 House Deneith is recruiting adventurers to oppose a sudden rise

Delvers into Secrets

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)

strangely beautiful tower, meets its fey lord or lady, and stumbles into a pact without being fully aware of it. And sometimes, while poring over tomes of forbidden lore, a brilliant student’s mind

goals, which typically means some kind of adventuring. Furthermore, the demands of their patrons drive warlocks toward adventure.

Delvers into Secrets

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)

strangely beautiful tower, meets its fey lord or lady, and stumbles into a pact without being fully aware of it. And sometimes, while poring over tomes of forbidden lore, a brilliant but crazed

of their goals, which typically means some kind of adventuring. Furthermore, the demands of their patrons drive warlocks toward adventure.

Variety Series

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide

Variety Series Some groups don’t want a long campaign with sweeping plotlines; they prefer short, unconnected adventures. With that style of game, different players might take turns as DM for one to three sessions at a time, with each adventure standing as a self-contained story.

Aarakocra Legacy

Species Elemental Evil Player's Companion

. Beak and Feather From below, aarakocra look much like large birds. Only when they descend to roost on a branch or walk across the ground does their humanoid appearance reveal itself. Standing

, a mission of vengeance, or a catastrophe typically lies at the heart of the aarakocra adventurer’s chosen path. Two other circumstances might call an aarakocra to adventure. First, aarakocra

Giants of the Star Forge

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Giants of the Star Forge

of the Star Forge” draws on the ideas, maps, stat blocks, and other details in the pages of that book, standing as an example of how to put all those pieces together. You can use Glory of the Giants to

help inspire alterations or expansions to this adventure, and of course to help you create your own adventures and even whole campaigns with giants in prominent roles.

4. Armory

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation

phrase while standing within 5 feet of the door suppresses its magic for 1 minute, during which time the door can be opened normally. The door can also be forced open with a knock spell or a successful DC

naga uses a bonus action to speak a magic command word that causes two minotaur skeletons to rise from the bones on the floor. The skeletons obey the naga. Ukurlahmu speaks strangely. When it asks a

Yeenoghu's Hunt

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

many hours. Sometimes the sounds get closer or fade away, echoing strangely through the surrounding tunnels. Eventually, the characters enter a smaller tunnel leading upward. As they move forward, they

gnolls and hyenas surrounds a demon standing nearly twenty feet tall, with massive arms, clawed hands, cloven hooves, and the head of a bull. This is a goristro, whose heart Vizeran DeVir has instructed

A Beautiful Mine

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

A Beautiful Mine The characters can pick up this quest if they start the adventure in Termalaine or shortly after they arrive in town. As they trudge through the streets, they see a young boy

standing on a box, yelling about various local happenings, including the recent evacuation of workers from a nearby mine that has been overrun by kobolds. A reward of 50 gp is offered to anyone who can rid

The Crestfall Coven

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault

finally come. With the help of a tiefling scout named Mettle (see the Gala Guests table earlier in the adventure), the hags have been able to spy on the gala. Disguised as three elf nobles from the Feywild

present stolen invitations to the winter wolves standing guard outside, then waltz into Paliset Hall, cackling with delight at how well their plan is unfolding.

Renown

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide

Renown Renown is an optional rule you can use to track characters’ standing, individually or as a party, within a particular group, such as a faction, an organization, or a community. A character’s

with another, based on the character’s interaction with each group. You can use renown over the course of an entire campaign or within a single adventure. At a campaign scale, you might set up factions

Early Investigations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse

following events in the adventure, employing scrying magic, or methodically searching the Sumber Hills. Some or all of the player characters might begin the adventure already in possession of useful

information because of the adventure hooks in chapter 1. Key clues from these hooks include the following: Best Served Cold: The character hears from tavern patrons in Red Larch that a band of

Damming the Styx

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus

the characters visit Bel’s forge later in the adventure (see “Bel’s Forge”), they find it under siege from Shummrath’s hastily mustered forces. The attackers are quickly overwhelmed, forcing

. Rigorath the cambion tells them that Ubbalux must swear fealty to Mephistopheles to escape the standing stones. If Ubbalux does as Rigorath suggests, swearing its undying fealty to Mephistopheles, the

Adventure Background

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Giants of the Star Forge

Adventure Background For pious giants, position in the ordning is everything. Brimskarda, a legendary fire giant smith, is discovering what it means to fall in the ordning’s ranks. Various missteps

in recent years have imperiled her lofty station. To resecure her standing in the ordning and prove that she is still the greatest smith among giants, Brimskarda has reclaimed the legendary Star Forge

More Monastery

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

More Monastery The original Expedition to the Barrier Peaks mapped out six levels of the adventure’s crashed ship: “a large exploration-colonization expedition of human origin.” This adventure

focuses on only a cursory exploration of a similarly crashed planar craft, but you can easily expand the adventure by allowing characters to discover portals in the monastery that lead to lower levels of

Mysterious Magic

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

), remains in the dean’s possession throughout the adventure and allows her to spread the curse that afflicts Strixhaven’s students. The adventure tells you when cursed students behave strangely during

Chapter 1: A Great Upheaval

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder

transitioning from another published adventure to this one. Nightstone is a fortified settlement located a few miles south of the Ardeep Forest, in the untamed hills between Waterdeep and Daggerford. A

lonely wooden signpost, standing where the trail to Nightstone meets the High Road, points the way to the settlement. Nightstone’s closest neighbors are the elves of the Ardeep Forest. Hunters from

A Call for Heroes

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves

A Call for Heroes When the adventure begins, the characters know the general history of Redwood Watch and its plight involving missing villagers. As soon as the characters enter the village, council

members Selenar Woodwise and Gwenhumara Goldmoss approach them to provide more information about Redwood Watch’s call for heroes. Read or paraphrase the following: Standing before you are two wood

1. Portal Stones

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons

magical gate to Castle Naerytar sits between a pair of moss-covered standing stones visible from all the front rooms of the lodge. Three other portals near the lodge stand between similar stones, and

, and one leads to the desert of Mulhorand, near a blue dragon’s lair. These additional portals should not be a major part of the adventure, but they can introduce cultist nonplayer characters coming

1. Portal Stones

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen

magical gate to Castle Naerytar sits between a pair of moss-covered standing stones visible from all the front rooms of the lodge. Three other portals near the lodge stand between similar stones, and the

, and one leads to the desert of Mulhorand, near a blue dragon lair. These additional portals should not be a major part of the adventure, but they can introduce cultist nonplayer characters coming to

Procedure

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh

sealing an alliance. The characters begin the adventure with 0 points. That score is adjusted every time they interact with lizardfolk, but the results only become apparent when the characters meet the

irrevocably hostile if the characters’ total number of points drops to 0 or lower even after the queen offers them chances at diplomacy and ways to improve their standing. If this happens, after the lizardfolk give them a second chance, the characters’ mission ends in failure.

Section 1. Call to Action

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rrakkma

Section 1. Call to Action The characters begin the adventure standing about one-hundred feet from a gate to Pandemonium. They’re underground, two days travel and far beneath the Sha’sal Khou redoubt

CHASE! The initial purpose here is to set the scene and put the adventurers directly into the action. There is no point to creating an extra decision point at the beginning of the adventure when we know they’re going.

Steading

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

serve as a giant steading, and you can use the tables in chapter 3 to help you populate the site. The Steadings table suggests adventure hooks you might use to bring characters to such a place

. Steadings d6 Adventure Hook 1 A young giant looks for adventurers’ help turning the rest of the steading, including the young giant’s family, away from the worship of a demon lord. 2 The only possible

43. The Smoking Mirrors

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3

43. The Smoking Mirrors An amber haze drifts in this room, which is unoccupied. Strangely shaped and colored mirrors hang on the walls, and a large, oblong stone basin stands in the middle of the

next to its own reflection. This mirror falsely predicts the viewer’s death. The ghostly image takes on the appearance of a monster or a trap from this adventure. The image then assaults and kills the

Thornwell's Offer

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh

Thornwell’s Offer If the characters are less likely to get involved in the adventure out of altruism, they can be approached by a mysterious, handsome, well-groomed human female dressed in black-and

. Thornwell has wanted to be rid of Dory ever since she came to believe that her fellow councillor was responsible for the death of one of her allies. But she doesn’t want to jeopardize her standing on

Character Advancement

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

in this chapter. Even so, completing more than the required number of quests can improve their standing in Ten-Towns (see “Reputation in Ten-Towns” below), and they still collect the other rewards for

. They also learn about new adventure opportunities outside Ten-Towns, as described in chapter 2. The Frostmaiden’s aurora sweeps across the night sky over Easthaven

Rival Vendors

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel

Rival Vendors Dyn Singh Night Market vendors Lamai Tyenmo and Kusa Xungoon inherited a long-standing rivalry between their families, but they want to move past it. Circumstances and family grudges

conspire to exacerbate their enmity. In the course of the adventure, the characters are drawn into their conflict. Lamai Tyenmo Lamai Tyenmo (lawful good, gnome commoner) has dark, wild hair and a wide

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