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Lorwyn-Shadowmoor Elf

Species Lorwyn: First Light

fallen empire to support their claims. These elves blame the fall of their empire on outside threats, especially the Phyrexian invasion (see Lorwyn: First Light). Though the invasion was the empire

Lizardfolk Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

emotion and empathy. The same label serves as an apt depiction of lizardfolk. Lacking any internal emotional reactions, lizardfolk behave in a distant manner. They don’t mourn fallen comrades or

lizardfolk doesn’t share those feelings, but instead assesses them in the same clinical manner. Yes, the fallen dwarf might be most useful as a meal, but hacking the body into steaks provokes aggression

The Road to Vermeillon

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries

The Road to Vermeillon Vermeillon lies nestled in the snowy mountain peaks north of Maerin, three days’ ride by horse. The road from Maerin technically still exists, though it has fallen into

disrepair and lacks guards or patrols. Place whatever obstacles or threats you feel necessary to engage the characters: they might face rampaging wildlife, marauding bandits, and weather and terrain challenges on the road to Vermeillon.

Chapter 2: The Lost City

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase

—along with unexpected challenges, deadly threats, and the fallen kingdom’s desperate inhabitants. Forsaken by the outside world, the Cynidiceans don elaborate masks and vie against each other in

Adventures in Falkovnia

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

countryside or asked to defend the last holdout of civilization against a relentless horde. The zombies could serve as direct threats or motivate others to monstrous deeds, with the ends supposedly

of your group and what threats you want to represent. The “Zombie” entry in chapter 5 presents a variety of zombie types to complement the shambling zombie of the Monster Manual, posing greater

Death from the Deep

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

, you lose sight of the intruder in the deepening darkness. When the spray clears, the figure is gone. Night has fallen. The undead assault against the hermitage can be played out in two broad

. REST AND RESOURCES Having explored the hermitage and taken on its varied threats, the characters have had a busy day. Thanks to the hags, rats, giant snakes, and the monstrous peryton, their resources

Marked for Death

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries

set up an ambush in a remote location. All are fanatically loyal to the queen and fight to the end. If the characters capture and subdue one or more of these assailants, threats and intimidation do

after her exile, but they do not know that her prison is the book. The characters might also use the speak with dead spell to learn some of the above information from fallen enemies. Treasure Each wizard wears a ring of gleaming black glass (worth 10 gp) on the third finger of their left hand.

Notable Locations

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

region, haunted and cursed. Dark secrets and great treasures remain in the vast war labyrinths of Ohr Kaluun, but fiends, wards, and far deadlier threats linger in this fallen kingdom.

to revisit them now only in the hopes that in so doing, I can prevent any fools from following in our footsteps and sharing the fate of my fallen friends. We’d made camp in the upper floor of the

Using an Overarching Story

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

to explore and map an uncharted region, forging alliances where they can and overcoming threats they encounter along the way. Their goal might be to find the ancient capital of a fallen empire, which

Drakov's Tale

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within

for each one, certain of her ultimate victory but doubtful of her troops’ mettle. With threats and public impalings, she keeps her people more terrified of her than of the undead. And with every new

moon, she faces an unconquerable foe, never revealing a secret only she knows: that each zombie bears the face of an innocent her soldiers once put to the sword. Miro Petrov Custodian’s Hall rises over the few remaining wards of Lekar that haven’t fallen to the zombie hordes

Ravine

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a1

straight, but most lean atop sloped earth. Others are broken, and several have apparently fallen into the dark depths. A few similar pillars are visible on the opposite side of the ravine. A sturdy

translating the letters from Dwarvish) recognize the inscriptions as warnings and threats against potential trespassers. A successful DC 10 Intelligence (Investigation) or Wisdom (Survival) check

Medusa

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual

sites of fallen glory. They often dwell beyond the fringes of civilization or travel in disguise, leaving trails of petrified victims. Some medusas dominate groups of monsters or criminals, controlling

them with threats of petrified doom, while others recruit servants that are immune to being petrified, such as gargoyles and gorgons. Medusas are born or created through preternatural circumstances

Elves

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lorwyn: First Light

other peoples, using their fallen empire to support their claims. These elves blame the fall of their empire on outside threats, especially the Phyrexian invasion (see “Lorwyn-Shadowmoor’s History” in the

Fields of the Dead

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide

hold the dead, and there is some measure of truth to that — many of the hillocks are indeed barrows, raised to house the fallen dead of one faction or nation on either side of a war. I have seen more

camp within the shelter of the low stone walls that surround their steadings. They are a good and honest people, by and large. Away from the vicinity of these settlements, there are threats aplenty

Hag Lairs

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

, and within a ring of fallen standing stones that still resonate with ancient power. In order to facilitate bargaining with mortals, the home must be near enough to a populated area that it attracts

get away. Most hags have three plans prepared: one for general threats and two others for specific likely scenarios, such as “They’ve set the house on fire” or “A necromancer with undead are attacking

Xen'drik

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

vast desert. Tens of thousands of years have passed, yet no civilization has risen to the heights of the fallen giants; some believe that Aureon’s and Boldrei’s curses ensure that any city that grows too

Xen’drik, but these creatures have never regained the glory of their ancestors. Tribes of drow—said to be the shadow-assassins created by the Emperor Cul’sir—linger in the darkness. These represent just a few of the threats in this vast land.

Elves

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen

what few in Ansalon do: the home of the elves has fallen. During the Dragon Armies’ invasion of Silvanesti, you might have been separated from your people or even taken captive before escaping the

relationships with people other than your kin. Qualinesti High Elves In Qualinesti, a scout warns of threats encroaching on the elven city’s borders Long ago, a group of high elves left Silvanesti, desiring

Zariel

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

gather to invade the Abyss. Anyone hoping to reach the lower layers must first contend with the darkness of this layer and the myriad threats it houses. Zariel manages it all and has the ultimate say

fallen angel. Fallen angels survive the fall. How many other souls did Zariel bring down with her? Zariel Large fiend (devil), lawful evil Armor Class 21 (natural armor) Hit Points 580 (40d10

High Moor

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide

threats sometimes seed the High Moor with traps, but are normally occupied with fighting and killing their prey and each other. There is something of a cycle to the hunts of the High Moor: wolves are killed

attention or ire. Travelers who leave the inhabitants of the Misty Forest alone, and who build their campfires small and solely of fallen branches, are usually permitted to pass, so long as the folk of the

Locations in the Styes

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

thugs). Tak is profoundly lazy, and as long as merchants and fishers pay their dues without complaining, she doesn’t interfere with business on the water. She reacts only to obvious threats such as

nothing more than a sad Flotsam landmark. When the last caretaker died in a loud argument at a nearby tavern, no one took up her mantle, and the light has fallen into disrepair. After a few more decades

Dark Fantasy

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within

floating and fallen ruins of a magical megastructure. 2 A blood-soaked swamp. 3 A tower that pierces a magical ley line, draining its power. 4 A criminal consortium’s lavish academy. 5 A forest where

Fantasy Monsters Any monster can find a place in a dark fantasy plot. D&D’s most iconic threats—such as dragons and beholders—are particularly appropriate to horror-tinged tales, as are any other

Organizations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within

aided by these wereravens aren’t ever aware of their assistance. In other realms, mysteries and talismans of the Keepers of the Feather have fallen into the hands of socialites and spiritualists. In

characters who employ dangerous magic to be threats. Priests of Osybus Goal: Release Strahd von Zarovich Adventure Themes: Cult rituals, necromancy, secrets of the Domains of Dread The Priests of

Werewolves in the Mist

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd

have fallen prey to a pack of werewolves that spills out of the Misty Forest on nights of the full moon, cloaked in crawling mist that seems to follow them wherever they go. The beasts spread death and

Emerald Enclave. This widespread group of wilderness survivalists preserves the natural order while rooting out unnatural threats. Druids, rangers, and barbarians make up most of its membership. Branches of

The Present Age

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide

, while the Dalelands became a war zone. As if to offset the drought in the south, in the autumn of 1485 the Great Rain began to fall around the Sea of Fallen Stars and continued unceasingly. While

its forces, turning inward to address issues of rebuilding. Late in 1486, the Great Rain finally abated, but this event didn’t signify an end to the chaos. The Sea of Fallen Stars had grown

The Greyhawk Setting

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

Furyondy, Veluna, and Highfolk against the threats of bandits and hostile neighbors. These nations have little centralized authority or military power, so the knights have historically served as a first

line of defense against these varied threats. In recent years, they have mobilized against the rising threats of Iuz and Elemental Evil, forcing them to broaden the scope of their operations into

E: Wakenreth

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen

character who removes a coin from this room becomes cursed as noted above. E2: Second Level Heaps of rubble have fallen from this chamber’s partially collapsed ceiling. The room holds two stone crypts

yellowed bones fallen from burial niches and scattered across the floor. If the characters defeated the wraiths in the previous level, the elf spirit is here. Regretful Spirit. The woman’s spirit

Bastion of Takhisis

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen

of Reflected Pasts S25: Lord Soth’s Throne Room Read or paraphrase the following text when the characters enter this room: Sections of this chamber’s walls have fallen, revealing both the open

characters until they address him. Soth is a terrifying figure, and his armored corpse crackles with cinders. Once confronted, he speaks little, preferring concise threats like “Submit” or “Die.” If

Thundertree Areas

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver

) skulking around. However, he is currently most concerned by the fact that a green dragon has moved into the tower (area 7) since the last time he was here. He warns the characters of all these threats

Enclave, a widespread group of wilderness survivalists who preserve the natural order while rooting out troublesome threats. The enclave works to restore and preserve the natural order by keeping the

Locations E - H

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

great numbers. Settlements that stand on the edge of the Evermoors face constant threats from these and other monsters. Floating a mile above the Evermoors is Lyn Armaal, Countess Sansuri’s cloud

information on this location. Fallen Lands Countless ruins dot this rugged, barren land, where ancient cities once stood and great battles once raged. Strange witchlights float around the ruins at night

Locations M - P

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

. Countless adventurers have perished in the Mere, drawn by true tales of ruined castles half-sunk in the mire. These once noble estates are now home to lizardfolk, undead, and worse. The greatest threats to

small and solely of fallen branches, are usually not disturbed. Mithral Hall The ancestral home of the Battlehammer clan of shield dwarves is a nigh-impregnable vault beneath the Frost Hills, with

City Celebrations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

prayers in thanks for the lives they have under their gods. The Griffon Cavalry sets up an immense bonfire at the peak of Mount Waterdeep, honoring the fallen and the risen gods Myrkul, Cyric, Kelemvor

Malar, members of the City Guard leave the city in groups on this day to hunt down known threats to farmers and travelers, including brigands, wolves, owlbears, ogres, and trolls that haunt the roads and

Murder Among Thieves

compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Legends of Greyhawk: Secrets of the Free City

threats and warnings and may return to cause trouble later in the adventure. Law and Violence in the City While Greyhawk lacks an omnipresent constabulary to enforce swift justice, street violence is

time to keep an ear out for a break-in. Breaking in and obtaining Rory’s record book requires overcoming the following challenges. If the characters leave and return, Rory has fallen asleep

Silent Sound Lighthouse

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

regain hit points but has died within the last minute returns to life with 1 hit point. (This includes any creatures that have fallen from the lighthouse.) Arms and Armaments. The arrows that fuel the

railing can redirect one of the magazines toward any threats. Each creature in a 15-foot cone directly in front of the magazine must make a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw, taking 11 (3d6) piercing damage

Tyrant's Spiral

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel

saving throw, or the eye emits a ray that moves the character up to 30 feet in any direction—typically into pits, the path of the marching modrons, or other threats. The character has the restrained

. Four septon modrons carry their fallen leader, the hexton modron X01 (see Morte’s Planar Parade for both stat blocks). Three septons attack any non-modron that comes within 10 feet of them and any

Observatory Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle

. Though most of the books have fallen apart, one tome—a small black journal with an ornate lock—remains intact. A character who examines the book and succeeds on a DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check notices

. Waking the Dragon. If awakened, Sparkrender is hostile toward the characters, growling and barking threats in Draconic. Characters who speak Draconic (the paladin and the wizard) can try to convince

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