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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
flaring with anger.
Art of War
The warlike sapphire dragons devise strategies and ambushes based on their ability to maneuver underground. A sapphire dragon often refrains from striking immediately
treasures are the guests who stop by to see it. (Good)
Sapphire Dragon Adventures
The Sapphire Dragon Adventure Hooks table offers suggestions for stories and adventures involving sapphire dragons
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
strategies and ambushes based on their ability to maneuver underground. A sapphire dragon often refrains from striking immediately, preferring to assess intruders first in order to devise the most
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Sapphire Dragon Adventures
The Sapphire Dragon Adventure Hooks table offers suggestions for stories and adventures involving sapphire dragons.
Sapphire Dragon Adventure Hooks
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Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
ability to maneuver underground. A sapphire dragon often refrains from striking immediately, preferring to assess intruders first in order to devise the most advantageous approach to dealing with them
Dragon Adventure Hooks table offers suggestions for stories and adventures involving sapphire dragons.
Sapphire Dragon Adventure Hooks
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Out of the Abyss
Dark Prince is a warning that not all beautiful things are good. Standing nearly nine feet tall, Graz’zt strikes the perfect figure of untamed desire, every plane and curve of his body, every
the finest of things and the most attractive of servants, and he adorns himself in silks and leathers both striking and disturbing in their workmanship. His lair, and those of his cultists, are
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
sapphire dragon often refrains from striking immediately, preferring to assess intruders first in order to devise the most advantageous approach to dealing with them.
Sapphire dragons watch for signs of
, my hoard brings me great joy. But the real treasures are the guests who stop by to see it. (Good)
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Guild Artisan / Guild Merchant
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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
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
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sleeping Dragon’s Wake
who can cast spells to harm your foes or heal you and your friends Warrior, a martial companion who specializes in striking your foes or defending you and your allies You can tell the players which
type of sidekick to use or let the players choose. It’s up to you and the players to decide who controls the sidekick in play. If the characters have already played through Storm Lord’s Wrath, they can use the same sidekicks from that adventure. This appendix can also help you level up those sidekicks.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Graz’zt The appearance of the Dark Prince is a warning that not all beautiful things are good. Standing nearly nine feet tall, Graz’zt strikes the perfect figure of untamed desire, every plane and
himself with the finest of things and the most attractive of servants, and he adorns himself in silks and leathers both striking and disturbing in their workmanship. His lair, and those of his cultists
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
who can cast spells to harm your foes or heal you and your friends Warrior, a martial companion who specializes in striking your foes or defending you and your allies You can tell the players which
can use the same sidekicks from that adventure. This appendix can also help you level up those sidekicks.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Divine Contention
who can cast spells to harm your foes or heal you and your friends Warrior, a martial companion who specializes in striking your foes or defending you and your allies You can tell the players which
Dragon’s Wake, they can use the same sidekicks from that adventure. This appendix can also help you level up those sidekicks.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Graz’zt The appearance of the Dark Prince is a warning that not all beautiful things are good. Standing nearly nine feet tall, Graz’zt strikes the perfect figure of untamed desire, every plane and
himself with the finest of things and the most attractive of servants, and he adorns himself in silks and leathers both striking and disturbing in their workmanship. His lair, and those of his cultists
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.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Chapter 2: The Land of Chult When the adventurers mount their expedition into the heart of Chult, they have the option of striking out from any of several locations. Port Nyanzaru is the most
Turtle Bay. Chult is a land of adventure, and this chapter aims to make the characters’ wilderness journey a memorable one. By design, the adventure locations are not tailored to characters of a specific
Aarakocra
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Elemental Evil Player's Companion
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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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
returns to slumber in its menhir when there are no more enemies in sight. Standing Gate The crystal menhirs are indestructible and form one of Halaster’s magic gates (see “Gates”). Striking either
7. Standing Gate to Level 21 Rubble. The floor of this 20-foot-high cave is strewn with stony rubble that acts as difficult terrain.
Fake Beholder. A gas spore, easily mistaken for a beholder
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.
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
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.
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
block later in the adventure). At the center of the chamber is an artificial pool filled with water and covered with floating lilies. The stolen pages from The Book of Inner Alchemy rest on an
his most trusted subordinates. Bak Mei is joined by four Immortal Lotus monks (see their stat block earlier in the adventure). To increase the difficulty of this encounter, add more monks who have just
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
structure as well as a metaphorical one: the Pyrgnos is a glowing stone tower standing near the coast. It is literally formed from the collected learnings of the polis, recorded on carved stone tablets and
defeating his armies and striking the archon down. From their victory rose the polis of Meletis and the use of magic among mortals.
Agnomakhos’s fall remains a point of honor in the minds of Meletis’s people, a moment immortalized in relief upon countless civic buildings throughout the polis.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Travel-Montage Approach Sometimes the destination is more important than the journey. If the purpose of a wilderness trek is to get the characters to where the real adventure happens, gloss over the
(in fact, that’s a good phrase to search for) both real and fantastical. As striking as real-world scenery can be, wilderness travel can be used to remind the players that their characters are in a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
throwing something toward the cart. An instant later, a cloud of pink ashes bursts from a sachet, striking the two guards. Kala’s Attack The parade route appears on map 5.1. The characters are either at
. Guards. The two guards are affected by the poison biza’s breath (detailed in a sidebar earlier in this adventure). They automatically fail their saving throws to end the poison’s effect. The guards
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.