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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
holes in the ice to catch knucklehead trout, which they depend on for survival. Visitors to Dougan’s Hole are often struck by the eeriness of dark, humanoid shapes out on the ice, remaining silent and still as the wind howls around them.
Dougan’s Hole Dougan’s Hole is the smallest and most insular of the ten towns. Its residents aren’t fond of visitors, and inbreeding has caused the population to dwindle in recent years. It also has
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
without his protection and survival skills. Falcon abhors city life, preferring a rustic existence and simple pleasures. His lodge has all the creature comforts he requires, though he never turns down
. In addition to the main house, the hunting lodge grounds include a guest house for visitors, a conjoined stable house and smithy, an outhouse, and pens to hold Falcon’s livestock. Accustomed to long
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
Semuanya’s Bog The domain of the lizardfolk deity Semuanya is a challenging paradise for hunters and others who embrace the god’s philosophies of athleticism, survival, and self-improvement
lethal natural hazards. Along with the servants of Semuanya—who eagerly encourage visitors and one another to strive toward ever-greater goals—all manner of giant Beasts and swamp monsters inhabit the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
fighting; they’re following rumors of well-paying mercenary work. 3 The characters see a small, burned farmhouse. A character who investigates and succeeds on a DC 14 Wisdom (Survival) check finds no
evidence of visitors, but the fire clearly started on the roof. 4 A kender skirmisher (see appendix B) named Trapspringer approaches and asks if the characters have seen any dragons. He’s heard rumors about dragons near Kalaman but hasn’t seen any.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal
enchantment laid on her by the demilich prevents her from telling visitors how to accomplish that task. If anyone succeeds in freeing her, she vows to be a lifelong friend. Siren Medium fey, chaotic good
+3, Stealth +6, Survival +4
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 12
Languages Common, Elvish, Sylvan
Challenge 3 (700 XP)
Amphibious. Siren can breathe air and water.
Innate
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
. Optional Rule: Hunter’s Paradise Visitors to the Beastlands find their hunting and stalking capabilities improved, and characters have advantage on Wisdom (Animal Handling), Wisdom (Perception), and
Wisdom (Survival) checks while there. Optional Rule: Beast Transformation Whenever a visitor slays a beast native to the plane, the slayer must succeed on a DC 10 Charisma saving throw or become
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
for halflings, with a few big chairs for visitors of taller stock. Four halfling children scamper from room to room and climb a ladder up to the loft, chasing one another with wooden swords, while a
it. We depend on the forest for our survival. I wouldn’t be a very good town speaker if I let a dumb moose get the better of us. Will you help?”
If the characters demand more than tasty treats as an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Morte’s Planar Parade
home plane, the Outlands, and the Great Wheel beyond. These bariaur wanderers often serve as guides in the Outlands, assisting visitors by eagerly suggesting gate-town attractions and other points of
.
STR
18 (+4)
DEX
14 (+2)
CON
15 (+2)
INT
11 (+0)
WIS
15 (+2)
CHA
10 (+0)
Saving Throws Str +6, Dex +4
Skills Athletics +6, Perception +4, Stealth +4, Survival +6
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
owner, the establishment has struggled in recent years. It stays open in the winter for its own survival, but the theater is wickedly cold this time of year. Brizzenbright’s Ghost Malkolm Brizzenbright
, a ghost, greets all visitors in the lobby (area P1). Dressed in a suit, his hair unkempt, he floats in plain sight most of the time, waving his hands about in gestures of greeting and salutation
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Ice, home to yetis, remorhazes, white dragons, and other creatures of cold. The inhabitants of the plane engage in a never-ending battle to prove their strength and ensure their survival. The
. Visitors to the plane have sometimes tried elevating houses on poles stuck in the mud, but since no solid earth underlies the muck, even such structures eventually sink. It is said that any object cast into
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
, Stealth +4, Survival +5
Senses passive Perception 13
Languages Draconic
Challenge 1/2 (100 XP)
Hold Breath. The lizardfolk can hold its breath for 15 minutes.
Actions
Multiattack. The
territorial, they use camouflaged scouts to guard the perimeter of their domain. When unwelcome visitors are detected, a tribe sends a hunting band to harass or drive the trespassers off, or tricks them into
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
visitors, inquire about their business, and keep an eye out for any clearly hostile intruders. T2: Hostel Visitors stay in this small hostel while they wait to be called for their answering ceremony
Areas. The hostel has the following areas: T2a: Courtyard. Stairs from the jetty lead up to this open-air courtyard. T2b: Dining Room. The tower’s visitors eat here. There are two large tables, four long
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
, the characters must succeed on a DC 15 group Wisdom (Survival) check. On a success, the characters locate Red Ruth’s lair at the heart of the woodland (area B3). If they fail, they blunder into one
hang around her neck and chatter nursery rhymes incessantly (and in different languages) as she talks. Evil visitors from all over the multiverse travel to Avernus to hear Red Ruth’s divinations and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
chamber just below the street serves as the gathering place for all the Speakers, as well as a location where non-Simic visitors can meet with the Prime Speaker or other combine emissaries. Goals of the
change in order to survive, and slow, small steps in pursuit of an ideal vision aren’t enough. The future of the guild is in imminent danger, and the Simic need to focus on survival. Adaptationists
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
outsiders. The gray dwarves constantly try to manipulate contracts to take advantage of foreign merchants, looking for any excuse to enslave random visitors who appear weak or vulnerable — including
is tightly woven into their everyday life. Deities worshiped in Gracklstugh include the following. Laduguer. The patron of the duergar is a god of self-reliance, defense, and survival. His clerics have
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
delights in greeting first-time visitors to town. In fact, she has a well-rehearsed speech that makes some of the other guards at the gate roll their eyes: “Well met, travelers! Keep yer fingers and
parents gave him up as a baby; he was raised in an orphanage and learned his survival skills as a teenager living on the streets of Suzail. He traveled west with a caravan to Baldur’s Gate, then sailed up
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
). The character deduces the wagon was ambushed by bandits.
DC 13 Wisdom (Survival). The character discovers a striking bootprint left by Pral. The heel is mongrammed with the letter P.
DC 13 Wisdom
looking for trouble. The lizardfolk there don’t like visitors.” (True)
“My uncle Umbrusk runs the tavern in the keep. He hears all kinds of gossip in the taproom.” (True)
Mallyn, a Friendly wanderer
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
plagues all elvenkind.”
— Nelar Autumnwell,
elf cleric of Corellon Larethian
A drow city is a sprawling metropolis enclosed by high walls. Non-drow visitors must conduct their business outside
19.
Cutthroat Politics. Drow politics are cutthroat and rife with intrigue. When drow work together, it is typically to destroy a common foe and ensure their own survival, and such alliances are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
. Visitors aren’t welcome inside without an escort. Unwelcome to Dendradis When the characters approach Dendradis, read or paraphrase the following text: Ahead rises the Spire, the infinitely tall
around Dendradis for signs of R04M can make a DC 20 Wisdom (Survival) check. If they succeed, they find the tracks of a lone monodrone leading into a narrow cave. The cave runs for nearly a mile, then
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
, steers a flight of birds in the gate-town’s dense, heliotropic canopy. Faunel attracts its share of non-Beast visitors who seek the fruits of nature. Travelers gather in Camp Greenbriar, a tented outpost
has an Intelligence of 10 and can speak and understand Common. Tropical Paradise. Frequent rainfall yields fruit and water in abundance. Wisdom (Survival) checks to forage in Faunel are made with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
visitors, even if Razak is with them. He converses only if a character succeeds on a DC 16 Charisma (Intimidation or Persuasion) check or brings him a gift of fresh yak meat. Characters might purchase yak
site takes 2 hours. Unless a character succeeds on a DC 14 Wisdom (Survival) check, they follow a winding route that takes twice as long. On reaching Watcher’s Talon, the characters find a petrified
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
crossbow bolts.
Roleplaying Information
Sheriff’s deputy Augrek guards the southwest gate of Bryn Shander and welcomes visitors to town. She has a good heart.
Ideal: “You’ll get farther in life with a
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CHA
16 (+3)
Skills Athletics +4, Insight +3, Survival +3
Senses passive Perception 11
Languages Common, Orc
Actions
Shortsword. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Hells. Optional Rule: Pervasive Evil Evil pervades the Nine Hells, and visitors to this plane feel its influence. At the end of each long rest taken on this plane, a visitor that isn’t evil must make a
layer of Avernus is the arrival point for visitors to the plane. Avernus is a rocky wasteland with rivers of blood and clouds of biting flies. Fiery comets occasionally fall from the darkened sky and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
rivers. Stygia Levistus’s prison is a frigid hellscape of jagged ice and cold fire. Malbolge An ever-crumbling mountain threatens to bury visitors. Maladomini Swarms of hungry flies plague dead cities
, Avernus, is the arrival point for visitors, a rocky wasteland with rivers of blood and clouds of biting flies. Fiery comets occasionally fall from the darkened sky and carve out fuming impact craters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
something under the surface.
At high tide, the tunnel is flooded, so visitors must approach by boat or swim. At low tide, walkways formed by the tops of stone columns line the sides of the tunnel, leading
searching this chamber for useful fungi and succeeds on a DC 12 Intelligence (Nature) or Wisdom (Survival) check finds 1d6 of these reddish mushrooms, which bear an unsettling resemblance to human hearts
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
their burdens. Visitors must surrender their weapons before entering the gymnasium, and spellcasting is allowed only in sanctioned areas. Sigil’s factions regard the Great Gymnasium as neutral ground
, and numerous treaties have been penned within. Jared Blando Map 2.5: Grounds of the Great Gymnasium Training Grounds. The gymnasium’s training grounds welcome visitors to hone their strength, agility
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
.” Ideal. “Patience is the key to survival. She who laughs last laughs longest.” Bond. “My beloved dog, Morty, is my world. Were anyone to harm him, I would hunt that person across all the planes if
, maintaining their disguises. There, they meet with visitors and seek out potential new clients to manipulate. At night, they retreat to the tower and torment their current victims before resting. If any
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
but fun loving, and all are genuinely delighted to see new visitors—mostly because they have new people to tease, as the rest of the garden’s inhabitants have long grown weary of their antics
toward the garden’s denizens and peaceful visitors. Gorguth is a chimera with the following changes: His alignment is chaotic neutral. He speaks Common and Draconic. Gorguth enjoys flying over the garden
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
. If they failed to find the tracks earlier, they can pick up the trail here with a successful DC 10 Intelligence (Investigation) or Wisdom (Survival) check. The secret door can be discovered by someone
off other visitors. The corpse is infested with two swarms of rot grubs (see appendix C). Any creature that touches the body comes under attack by the swarms as they spill out of gaps in the armor
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
the survival of their legion than they do for others of their own kind. Two legions might battle over territory, resources, or power, or out of simple pride. Such a feud can continue over generations
where they can hide their numbers and keep their presence secret. Such an arrangement isn’t desirable, because space is usually at a premium. Permanent Visitors. If a hobgoblin legion is looking for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
inside the wall of ice and partially within some distant, horrific demiplane. As this otherworldly entity peers into the cavern, visitors risk losing their sanity to its influence. Any creature that
pear trees was enchanted by Netherese arcanists to endure high altitude and harsh weather. That magic has enabled the trees to thrive even in these icy caverns. Essential to the grove’s survival is a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
bozak draconian (see appendix B) named Orm, serve Lohezet and have been assigned to guard this level of the tower. Orm demands visitors state their business. A character must succeed on a DC 12
as the city flies, accurately depicting the landscape for many miles around the city. A character who succeeds on a DC 14 Wisdom (Survival) check recognizes the map depicts the Northern Wastes, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
sounds of battle draw his attention, Ozymandias (priest) is in this room discussing survival tactics with a guard (veteran). The room serves as Ozymandias’s bedroom, office, and storeroom. If the
is a pallet of several blankets.
Odium (cult fanatic) now lives in this storage area and is plotting his escape. He emerges hoping that the visitors will provide an opportunity. Statues. The small
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
visitors only because it depends on trade for its survival. What the Northfolk can’t buy, they plunder. Visitors typically stay at the Dragon Turtle Inn, a salt-encrusted stone edifice near the docks
. Soldiers of the city’s army make a show of patrolling the walls, to reassure citizens and visitors as well as to discourage attackers. The buildings of Everlund are stately and well maintained, with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
approach and paw at the visitors, sniffing them for gold to eat. If the characters give an aurumvorax 1 gp or more, it becomes friendly toward them and rolls on its back, exposing its belly for the
shambling mounds lurk among the thick growth near the path to catch the unwary. After dispatching the mounds, a character who surveys the area and succeeds on a DC 14 Wisdom (Survival) check finds a