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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
, this level of the tower was bricked over. The pit descends 30 feet to area 31 below. Echoes from the Pit. As characters approach the pit, they hear their voices echo down the hole. Randomly determine
one character whose voice doesn’t echo. Instead, a pale amber light ignites in the dark below and something whispers the character’s name from the pit.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
into a long-extinct being or something from the far-flung future.
3 The Darklord sees multiple dimensions at once and is going blind from their incandescence.
4 The Darklord is haunted by
otherworldly masters that whisper from reflective surfaces.
5 The Darklord incubates something within them, an entity that slowly eats through their skin.
6 The Darklord is emptying of their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Spirits’ Plea When the wraith is defeated, any surviving haints remain, lingering in the center of the common room. If both haints were destroyed, their voices emerge from silhouettes drifting in the
their families and taken from their homes in Djaynai long ago. The ship they were on, the Girscamen, sank, and they were lost to the sea, along with important tomes they were protecting. Something wicked
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
effect, be ready to shout out a battle cry or speak in a conspiratorial whisper. Also, characters and monsters with distinctive voices are memorable. If you’re not a natural mimic or actor, borrowing
distinctive speech patterns from real life, the movies, or television is a good place to start. Practice different voices and impersonations of famous people, then use those voices to bring your NPCs to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
, flutter your eyelashes, pout, cross your eyes, rub your hands together—whatever it takes to make your NPCs come to life. Try different voices. Borrow distinctive speech patterns from real life, movies
, and television. Adjust the volume as appropriate. An NPC can be loud, soft-spoken, or something in between. Keep the game moving. Let the players steer the interactions with the NPCs. The characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
are my people!” Kirina interrupts. “I value the friendship of the Aurum Guild, and I stand with my friends in their time of need. But don’t worry, Prince Simbon. We can find something safe for you to
do while we bring our missing family home.”
Voices in the crowd rise as they declare support for one prince or the other. Most of the folk wearing the grimy tunics of miners are impressed when Kirina
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
, a solitary stone archway, provides a frame for the portal you just passed through. Glittering, deep-blue sand spreads before you in all directions. Great impact divots mark the passage of something
another direction. CoupleOfKooks “I am a mimir, a magical device designed to provide information. I can be, be, be–” Cacophonous gibberish and overlapping voices ensue. “Infinite unlikelihood error: data not found.”
–The Mosaic Mimir
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
dance to any tune.
— Volo
To feel the thunder of orcish war drums outside the gate and to hear a chorus of voices growling, “Gruumsh!” is the nightmare of every civilized place in
subsist on this sort of prey and booty for quite some time.
War Wagons
Orcs pillage and scavenge wherever they go — everything is loot, and loot is always something to be proud of. In order to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
kicked out of your village for experimenting with powers no mortal should dare trifle with? Acquisitions Incorporated has a place for you on its team. Those pesky, gibbering voices that plague your
operations epitomizes the all-inclusive nature of an Acq Inc campaign. No matter what your favorite type of character, there’s something for you in this chapter. Or, if you like, you can engage with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
another as allies. You can roll on the Cult of the Dragon Below table to get a quick description of a cult, or you can create something entirely new. Whatever purpose cultists find or create for themselves
Kyrzin, the daelkyr Prince of Slime, keeps a gibbering mouther in the basement and feeds their elders to this creature, believing their voices can still be heard in the whispers of the beast. 4 A cult of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Ambush at the Archway As the characters reach the archway entrance to the village, the character who has the highest passive Wisdom (Perception) score is the first to notice something is wrong
welcome is contradicted by angry voices and cries of pain coming from behind a building.
The bounty hunters have attacked several villagers who questioned their intentions. The other locals have
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
your head and chin high conveys confidence. Use Voices. Changing the volume of your voice and borrowing speech patterns from real life, movies, or television can make NPCs distinctive. Engaging the
distraction that allows a character to get close enough to the NPC to steal something from the NPC’s pockets. Intelligence. An NPC’s speech is so full of obscure references to a particular area of knowledge
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
thousand chanting voices. Great sculptures in honor of a multitude of gods gazed across an array of shrines and altars. Priests stood ready by night and day to tend to the spiritual needs of their people
upon the characters to be on their guard, or to take guards with them, if they visit. From time to time, the sound of combat rings through the tabernacle hallways, a contrast to the chanting voices of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
buzzing noise, the masked figures’ voices emanate from the contraptions, amplified over the cacophony of the crowd: “Down with tyrants! Let the embers light the way!”
Five masked anarchists (use the
. A character who succeeds on a subsequent DC 14 Intelligence (Nature) check realizes something is burrowing under the square.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Random Encounters (T-Z) Trinket One random character finds a lost trinket. Read the following text to the player of that character: You kick something—a trinket buried in the dust. To determine what
until destroyed. Vistani Thugs You hear voices with thick accents. A small group of Vistani (NE male and female human thugs) claim that they were the vampire’s captives, only recently escaped from the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Quirk
1 Whenever my weapon strikes something, the weapon gives off a shower of starry sparks.
2 My hair moves as if in a perpetual breeze.
3 My anger smells like burning autumn
leaves.
4 When the sun shines on me just so, I glimmer with many colors.
5 My laughter causes nearby birds to erupt in song.
6 People who sleep near me always dream of the sea.
Oracles hear the voices of the gods, a rare gift and sometimes a curse
(ERIC DESCHAMPS)
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
perfect recall of everything they experience. Certain liminal spaces—cave mouths, shorelines, crossroads, forest edges, and so on—enable mortal voices to reach the gods as well, though most gods have
into a physical form that doesn’t fill the sky (perhaps something similar to an empyrean or the tarrasque), which could enable adventurers to battle the god, especially if they have access to a divine
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
voices rises above the droning of insects. Several carts fitted with sled rails are being pulled by giant snails with thick appendages protruding from their heads. Most of the carts carry lizardfolk
lizardfolk next to him to go off into the swamp, scout for enemies, and bring back something to cook. The eight humans inside the two cages include the four soldiers from Leilon, one of whom is Private
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
tear through the silence. Something is happening downstairs. Deep, wicked-sounding laughter echoes through the sanctum, along with familiar voices shouting, “You monster!” and “We trusted you!”
When
admits she began suspecting something wasn’t right shortly after Mordenkainen arrived in the sanctum. Malaina noticed that Mordenkainen muttered to himself in an unexpectedly cruel tone when he thought no
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Random Encounters (A-C) Barovian Commoners A loud clamor fills the unhallowed halls of Ravenloft. Cries of “Kill the vampire!” are mixed with bold voices shouting, “Never again!” and “To the crypts
encountered only if the characters are moving about the castle (not resting); otherwise, treat this result as no encounter. You find a discarded toy—something no child could love. The toy has a slogan
Magic Items
Infernal Machine Rebuild
full use of the Infernal Machine’s powers, with their effects centered around the user. If the wire is cut—something that can happen only when an effect specifically states that it can
make an Intelligence check or use divination magic to learn something about a creature, that knowledge comes with added trivia of the DM’s devising.
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You emanate a weak magnetic aura
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
squeaks, pings, and whistles. Against this backdrop, the halls echo with the voices of rock gnome inventors jabbering at near unintelligible speed about their latest ideas, and the hubbub is occasionally
goal was to make something explode. CELESTIAL TOYMAKERS
A handful of master artificers exist among the rock gnomes who take the magic of their craft to new heights. These legendary gnomes usually
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal
Undermountain to younger folk. Yet one day, something drew him back. Days of waiting for his triumphant return from the dungeon turned to months and then years. For nearly a century, citizens of Waterdeep
-filled. Patrons talk in low voices, and anyone attempting to strike up a conversation without making a clear intent to pay can expect a cold reception. Paranoia and suspicion run rampant here, as befits
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
who have been experiencing a recurring vision that comes to them in times of great turmoil or doubt. This vision might be a recent occurrence or something they’ve been experiencing for a long time
fallen clutches something against their chest. You’re not sure what it is, but you feel the urge to reach for it. Before you can, the object glows and then flashes with intense light.
Kiri-Jolith, God
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
the voices of merchants proclaiming the wonders of heady spices, fresh produce, and sun-themed Shabe Taabaan souvenirs.
Anything made or grown in Akharin Sangar eventually finds its way to the Ruz
seek out the room, the sound of something shattering inside reveals the room before they leave. Two of the Ashen Heir mages who shook down local merchants earlier in the day have returned. When the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
gurgle churns up from a cell to the right, and is quickly joined by other voices.
Trantor ignores the din as she hurries to the far end of the hall, where she ushers you through an open cell door
that they are multiple depictions of a tentacled creature something like a squid or octopus, but determining further details is difficult. With a successful DC 13 Intelligence check, a character
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
, including voices. A creature that hears the sounds can tell they are imitations only with a successful DC 13 Wisdom (Insight) check.
Actions
Multiattack. Kettlesteam makes two Dagger attacks
, Kettlesteam has become convinced something is amiss with her patron. As a warlock, she senses that Zybilna is no longer in touch with her—a very disconcerting thought! Kettlesteam wants to question the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
particular colony’s elder brain is something of a bully, and has been known to destroy illithids that outwit it in discussions. Guardrooms Chambers on the perimeter of the lair are continually
illithid’s quarters might contain musical instruments and thralls with melodious voices; another might have cages of specimens that teem with a variety of diseases the mind flayers are studying. Library
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
permanent damage but has been convalescing in her den since the attack. Telemy Hill is worried for its friend and hopes the characters can cheer up the goblin, perhaps by bringing her something to eat or
hill are awakened trees that speak Common in low, rumbling voices. Telemy Hill uses the trees to communicate, rather than speaking itself. As the characters move up the hill, 1d4 + 1 awakened trees
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
wagon worker and Whiskey the carpenter are talking and laughing in loud voices at their table, plates heaped with food before them. At their table, Luna and Thalen are taking turns prestidigitating
fight is done, the characters hear noise from the kitchen. As the battle ends, you hear a muffled thumping sound, as if something is striking wood. The sound comes from the kitchen.
The characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
beacon, though, something is seriously wrong. Its top is hazy and indistinct, as if a fog was obscuring the lantern room. Also, for a place that’s an occupied headquarters, there’s a lot of scaffolding
is the first mate, and voices her appreciation for the characters’ rescue. If they seem like honorable sorts, Belle takes a risk and further asks them for assistance. She admits that she and her crew
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
this claim is true or not, but he states it as a way of persuading the characters to accompany him to the temple; his main objective, he says, is to find something there that he can use to bring Patrina
N9i). If the characters ask something of the Vistani but have not earned Luvash’s goodwill, he agrees to do business with them if they accomplish one of two tasks: either find his missing daughter or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
(Insight) check intuits that something weighs heavily on Nargis’s mind, though the tavern keeper won’t say what (see “Nargis’s Confession” below). If asked about the attempt on Zenia’s life, Nargis
know who the woman is, though, and can’t name her. Attack of the Divas While the characters talk with Zenia, they hear raucous voices at the door. Performers in bright feathers and shimmering silk flood
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
is silent save for the sounds of music and voices coming from a colorful pavilion by the front gate.
This garden encompasses several other locations (areas P3 through area P8) and is lush with
music and voices come from inside the place. If one or more characters look inside, read: Seven guests—one of them a talking bear—lounge around a picnic table covered with an emerald-green cloth and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
deal. “See, you must know that I’m all about business — something Omin and Jim were too blind to see. This, between you and me? It’s not personal. It’s commerce. I can make you a deal. You give me
them), or when his deal is refused. The goblin whistles loudly a moment before he teleports away, followed by the heavy footsteps of something enormous and furry approaching from behind the bar. Onyx






