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Dabble With Dread Powers
In your darkest hour, you pleaded for the strength to take what you wanted from the world and a dread power took notice. At first, you may have relished the cathartic rush
that came with channeling your eldritch might to claim what you felt you deserved, but this pact came with strings attached. In times of distress you hear the entity whispering in the back of your mind, urging you to indulge your most base impulses.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
restrained and can’t use its Grabby Hands action or take reactions. A character who spends 1 minute trying to untangle its strings can make a DC 14 Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) check, freeing the
see a wooden marionette carved and painted to look like a human skeleton. It appears to be tangled in its own strings. “I seem to have gotten myself in a wee fix.”
The wooden marionette is Break-a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
Buried Again If Golden Axe is returned to Frody Dartwild, read: Froderic Dartwild plucks the strings of the mandolin and plays a happy tune. Meanwhile, the news of your return spreads through Toadhop
take more than a few hours. While Frody waits, he performs his favorite music to an enrapt crowd outside My Left Boot. If there’s a bard or another musically inclined individual among the player
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
. Uncertainty, paranoia, and blurred lines between reality and fiction also shape psychological horror stories. In your adventures, this might take the form of unreliable information. Characters might experience
paranoia, an actual conspiracy, or both? Who or what could pull the strings of such a plot? How can the environment change to undermine characters’ sense of reality? The Mists already play into this, as could structures with no doors or stairs with no end, but what else might?
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
though something is yanking on them with invisible strings.
Crinkle and Gailby flee to Crinkle’s room (area F11) when this event begins. Choose half of the remaining characters, including NPCs
0 hit points. A charmed creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. If a creature succeeds on the saving throw or the effect ends on it, Shemshime can’t take control of that creature again for 24 hours. Scenes in the Opened Book
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
table; roll a d10, or choose a location of interest. Bazaar Merchants d10 Merchant 1 Secondhand Strings. A must-stop shop for the bard on a budget, with a variety of gently used instruments. 2
, legal and otherwise. Many people make their homes in Middle Dura, even if their jobs take them elsewhere. Rattlestone and Tumbledown are mostly poor tenements. Stormhold contains crumbling manors
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal
and take the long ride down. Oddities on Display A staggering variety of curios and oddities adorn the taproom. Traditionally, adventurers who recover a strange relic from Undermountain present it to
strings 8 A bloodstained map 9 An iron gauntlet that is hot to the touch 10 A gold coin stamped with a worn, hawk-wing helm crest 11 A troll finger, still wriggling 12 A silver coin that makes no noise
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
cupcake in about 3 seconds and safely eat as many cupcakes as 3 + its Constitution modifier; for each additional cake eaten, the contestant must succeed on a DC 10 Constitution saving throw or take
first arrive. She sits on a swing that hangs from the branch of a pear tree, plucking the strings on her lute while eyeing the characters. If the characters happen to mention their free tickets, she
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
with a successful DC 10 Wisdom (Perception) check. If the characters take the groom figurine out of the room, read the following if they return to the room at a later time: Billowing drapes draw your
, weighs close to 300 pounds, and is fashioned of dark, stained wood carved with images of harts and roses. Its taut strings are made of gut. A character who plays the harp and succeeds on a DC 15
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
cloaked man take something from the body of a dead gnome, then start limping away. He was badly burned and casting glances over his shoulder, like he was afraid someone might be following him. He was
, when she witnessed the following: “I tell you, it was not a man. More like a puppet shaped like a man. A puppet without strings. It was on the rooftop. It hurled something into the crowd below that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
dangling from taut strings that crisscross the walls. Hundreds of other keys lie strewn across the dirt floor.
As you take in the scene, you hear the sound of keys jingling as a goblin emerges from
. If the characters harm Jingle Jangle, Telemy Hill commands 1d4 awakened trees to attack the characters as they emerge from the goblin’s den. Whenever a tree is felled, another arrives to take its place until ten trees are killed, at which point Telemy Hill gives up the fight.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
made of metal), reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 9 (2d8) lightning damage, and the target can’t take reactions until the start of its next turn.
Roleplaying Vaelish Gant Vaelish Gant is a mage who
their way, no one else will be able to use magic.”) About Nass Lantomir, Gant says: “She’s a nobody.” About Vellynne Harpell, Gant says: “Had powerful members of her family not pulled strings to get her into the Brotherhood, that old scarecrow would still be reanimating dead cats in Longsaddle.”
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
whatever a client needs. But the house also knows about the other houses’ rivalries and schemes. It tugs on these strings more than other houses realize. Kundarak and Thuranni. The enmity between House
. The conflict between the two rival houses erupts into a trade war, a concerted effort to take over business from each other, or even violent conflict. With the characters now emerging as a force to be
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
, Stealth +5
Senses darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 13
Languages Common
Challenge 1 (200 XP)
Shadow Stealth. While in dim light or darkness, the meazel can take the Hide action as a bonus
magic-users, they can bring to bear an array of spells to make agents of other creatures, influencing their decisions in subtle ways and pulling on strings to make them into unwitting accomplices in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
wearing this armor, you can take a bonus action to make the armor emit poisonous spores, which fill a 10-foot-radius sphere centered on yourself. Each creature in that area must succeed on a DC 15
Weapon (Any Bow), Very Rare (Requires Attunement) This bow has multiple strings and resembles a lyre or small harp. By strumming the strings while setting an arrow to the bow, you imbue the arrow with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
eyes darken as his body hangs limp like a puppet cut from its strings. After a moment, Arkhan stands up straight, his eyes glowing with prismatic light. A hungry smile crosses his face, and five voices
Nine Hells, and she is unable to take physical form for a time.
Innate Spellcasting (3/Day). Tiamat can innately cast divine word (spell save DC 26). Her spellcasting ability is Charisma.
Legendary
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
adventurers goes badly. Any villain likely has at least one fallback plan. Take Hostages. Most adventurers wouldn’t be willing to attack the villain if they fear that the villains’ lackeys are about to
often some combination of these factors). These villains typically lurk in the shadows, pulling the strings of minions and partners while rarely making an appearance themselves. These villains are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
rings (worth 25 GP each) Fifty sheets of music (worth 1 GP each) Dump Pile Five Books of poetry (worth 25 GP each) Drum that’s battered and worn (worth 1 GP) Lute with two broken strings (worth 15
clasps an Instrument of the Bards (Ollamh harp), which she acquired in her youth. Taking the harp, plucking one of its strings, or removing the glass key from around Yemi’s neck ends the Sequester spell
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
way in, the workers flee, hollering that they intend to summon the militia. Fortunately for the characters, they have an unknown ally pulling strings for them behind the scenes. Another of the local
would take a successful DC 30 Strength check, prolonged heating, or half a dozen shatter spells. Such attempts also likely attract the attention of nearby skum. D7. Bow Pool The air in this
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
area if it hears any creature coming up the steps toward its lair. The creature is very vicious, as the king beats it and torments it for fun, and it hopes to take revenge on virtually any other
groups that display one of these items are safe from attacks by the giants or the giants’ allies as long as they take no aggressive action. 13B. South Alcove Four extra chairs for the council table are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
simple stone rooms at the back of the temple. They bring their own vestments and holy items and take them away again when their duties end. Key NPCs. Right now, Imdarr Relvaunder (male Damaran human priest
openly take power. If bothered by nosy adventurers, Dornan tells them he’s heard stories of a lost treasure and mysterious villains lurking in Tricklerock Cave (see the “Bloody Treasure” encounter in