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Chapter 5: Magic Items. The Red Wizards and the vremyonni of Rashemen are famed crafters of magic items. This chapter presents new items forged by the people of the East. Chapter 6: Monsters of the East. This chapter presents a number of monsters native to lands of the East, or common in nearby areas, including the shapechanging uthraki, the fearsome bheur hag, the ice troll, and the alien nilshai. Chapter 7: Adventuring in the East. In this chapter you’ll find useful information on running adventures in the Unapproachable East, including encounter charts and descriptions of some of the more notorious dungeons in the vicinity. Chapter 8: Aglarond. This chapter describes the realm of the Simbul, detailing Aglarond’s history, people, cities, and notable sites. Chapter 9: The Great Dale. This chapter explores the Great Dale, including the great forests that flank it: the Forest of Lethyr and the Rawlinswood. Chapter 10: Rashemen: The Witches of Rashemen and their mysterious land are described in this chapter, including the vast reaches of the North Country. Chapter 11: Thay: The realm of the Red Wizards is covered in this chapter, including its history, people, government, and sites of interest. Chapter 12: Thesk: This chapter describes the crossroads of the Unapproachable East, Thesk. Chapter 13: The Border Areas: Many realms and features of interest surround the Unapproachable East, including the Endless Waste, the Icerim Mountains, and the waters of the Sea of Fallen Stars. What You Need to Play This sourcebook assumes that you own the three core rulebooks of the DUNGEONS & DRAGONS ® game: the Player’s Handbook, the DUNGEON MASTER’s Guide, and the Monster Manual. In addition, material in this book frequently refers to the FORGOTTEN REALMS Campaign Setting. Spells or other items drawn from this source have the notation “(FRCS).” In the revised D&D core rulebooks, three skills and one feat are renamed. In order to be consistent with the core rulebooks in this regard, this book uses the new names given below. Old Name New Name Alchemy Craft (alchemy) Pick Pocket Sleight of Hand Wilderness Lore Survival Sunder Improved Sunder INTRODUCTION Skill and feat Changes 6 We also recommend Monster Compendium: Monsters of Faerûn. A number of the creatures described in this sourcebook can be found there, listed below. If you do not have Monsters of Faerûn, substitute the appropriate monster from the Monster Manual (listed in parentheses). Aballin (gray ooze) Abishai (devil, barbazu) Alaghi (ogre with chaotic good alignment) Banedead (ghoul) Baneguard (ghast) Banelar (dark naga) Beast of Malar (fiendish dire tiger) Chosen one (bugbear) Crawling claw (Tiny skeleton) Curst (vampire) Darkenbeast (wight) Death kiss beholderkin (hydra, twelve heads) Deep bat, night hunter (dire bat) Deep bat, sinister (fiendish dire bat) Dragon, brown (white dragon) Dragon, fang (green dragon) Dragon, song (blue dragon) Dragonkin (gargoyle) Dwarf, arctic (dwarf with cold subtype) Gibberling (goblin) Green warder (treant) Gulguthydra (hydra, thirteen heads) Hybsil (centaur) Ice serpent (Large air elemental with cold subtype) Leucrotta (fiendish dire wolf) Meazel (bugbear Rog1) Myrlochar (fiendish Large monstrous spider) Nishruu (ghost) Nyth (will-o’-wisp) Peryton (fiendish giant eagle) Shalarin (triton) Spectral panther (fiendish leopard) Surface rothé (bison) Tressym (celestial cat) Unicorn, black (fiendish unicorn) Werebat (werewolf) Also, minor changes have been made to the way two feats work. Two-Weapon Fighting no longer has Ambidexterity as a prerequisite. Weapon Finesse no longer must be applied to a particular weapon when it is taken—a single acquisition of the feat allows its possessor to use the feat whenever that individual is wielding any of the weapons to which the feat applies.
Notes on Monsters Creatures described in Chapter 6: Monsters of the East reflect some changes in the revised core rulebooks. These revisions are summarized below. Types: The beast and shapechanger types no longer exist. Beasts with an Intelligence score of 3 or above are magical beasts; those with lower Intelligence are animals. Shapechanger is now a subtype (see below). Subtypes: This book introduces or revises the following subtypes. Cold Subtype: A creature with the cold subtype is immune to cold damage. It takes half again as much (+50%) damage as normal from fire, regardless of whether a saving throw is allowed, or if the save is a success or failure. Fire Subtype: A creature with the fire subtype is immune to fire damage. It takes half again as much (+50%) damage as normal from cold, regardless of whether a saving throw is allowed, or if the save is a success or failure. Native Subtype: This subtype applies only to outsiders. These creatures have mortal ancestors or a connection to the Material Plane and can be raised, reincarnated, or resurrected just as other living creatures can. Shapechanger Subtype: A shapechanger has the supernatural ability to assume one or more alternate forms. Many magical effects allow some kind of shapeshifting, and not every creature that can change shapes is a shapechanger. Base Attack/Grapple: The number before the slash in this entry is the creature’s base attack bonus, which is its attack bonus before any modifiers are applied. A creature’s base attack bonus depends on its type, Hit Dice, and class level (if any). You usually will not need this number, but it can be handy to have sometimes, especially if the creature has the Power Attack or Expertise feat. The number after the slash is the creature’s grapple bonus, which is used when the creature makes a grapple attack or when someone tries to grapple the creature. The grapple bonus includes all modifiers that apply to the creature’s grapple checks (base attack bonus, Strength modifier, special size modifier, and any other applicable modifier, such as a racial bonus on grapple checks). Attack: This entry provides the single physical attack the creature uses with an attack action (in most cases, this is also the attack the creature uses during an attack of opportunity). The entry shows the weapon, attack bonus, and form of attack (melee or ranged). The attack bonus includes modifications for size and Strength (for melee attacks) or Dexterity (for ranged attacks). A creature with the Weapon Finesse feat can use its Dexterity modifier on melee attacks. If the creature uses natural weapons, the natural weapon given here is the creature’s primary natural weapon. If the creature has several different weapons at its disposal, the alternatives are shown as well. A creature can use one of its secondary natural weapons with the attack action if it chooses, but if it does, it takes an attack penalty, as noted in the Full Attack section (below). INTRODUCTION 7 Full Attack: This entry gives all the physical attacks the creature can make when it uses the full attack action. It provides the number of attacks along with the weapon, attack bonus, and form of attack (melee or ranged). The first listing is for the creature’s primary weapon, with an attack bonus including modifications for size and Strength (for melee attacks) or Dexterity (for ranged attacks). A creature with the Weapon Finesse feat can use its Dexterity modifier on melee attacks. The remaining weapons are secondary and have a –5 penalty on their attack bonus, no matter how many there are. Creatures with the Multiattack feat (see Feats, below) take only a –2 penalty on secondary attacks. Skills: This part of a description lists all the creature’s skills alphabetically along with each skill’s modifier, which includes adjustments for ability scores and any bonuses from feats or racial traits. All listed skills are class skills, unless the creature has a character class (noted in the entry). A creature’s type and Intelligence score determine the number of skill points it has. If it lacks an Intelligence score, it doesn’t have any skill points. The Skills section of the creature’s descriptive text recaps racial bonuses and other adjustments to skill checks for the sake of clarity; these adjustments have already been accounted for in the statistics block. An asterisk (*) following a skill modifier in the statistics block indicates a conditional adjustment, which is explained in the Skills section. Conditional adjustments are not accounted for in the statistics block. Skill Synergy: Certain skills provide a bonus to the use of related skills when a character has 5 or more ranks in that skill. For instance, having 5 or more ranks in Escape Artist provides a +2 bonus on Use Rope checks to escape from bindings. This is expressed in a creature’s statistics block by a parenthetical note following the base skill modifier, such as Use Rope +2 (+4 bindings). Feats: This part of a description lists the creature’s feats alphabetically. The creature’s descriptive text may contain additional information if a feat works differently from how it is described in Chapter 5: Feats of the Player’s Handbook or in the Monster Manual. Sometimes, a creature has one or more bonus feats, indicated by B following the name. It is not necessary for a creature to meet the feat’s prerequisites in order to have and use a bonus feat. If you wish to customize the creature with new feats, you can replace its regular feats, but not its bonus feats. The creature cannot have a regular feat unless it meets all the feat’s prerequisites.
Page 2 and 3: Contents Introduction . . . . . . .
Page 4 and 5: Across the wide lands of Faerûn, b
Page 8 and 9: Races The races commonly found in o
Page 10 and 11: Star Elf Racial Traits Star elves h
Page 12 and 13: of adventuring party. At best, a gn
Page 14 and 15: ability, regardless of actual level
Page 16 and 17: Alignment: Volodnis are not activel
Page 18 and 19: The Unapproachable East is home to
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Page 22 and 23: CLASS FEATURES All the following ar
Page 24 and 25: Telthor Companion: Beginning at 3rd
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Page 30 and 31: CLASS FEATURES All the following ar
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Page 44 and 45: Great Stag Berserker REGIONS AND FE
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Page 48 and 49: other monsters or beings of the sha
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Caster Level: 9th; Prerequisites: C
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The following spell powers drain on
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all respects. Animated trees lose t
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Dread Warrior Dread Warrior Human W
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MONSTERS OF THE EAST Shrieking Hag
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Hagspawn have the following abiliti
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divide at the end into stubby, stro
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work normally. Orglashes can be rai
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Spirit folk are the descendants of
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• +4 Strength, +2 Constitution, -
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Thomil A thomil is an animate piece
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COMBAT A fell troll’s tactics are
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Skills: Bluff +9, Diplomacy +5, Dis
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Artifacts of terrible power lie ent
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A Shadowmaster at work ADVENTURING
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Dungeons in the Unapproachable East
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that are stopped or camped normally
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16-17 14-15 Blooded one (UE) 1d3+1
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TABLE 7-9: LAKE ASHANE (COLD RIVER/
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TABLE 7-15: UMBER MARSHES (TEMPERAT
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Major Geographic Features From its
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The Fang The Fang is the part of th
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The Wizards’ Reach is not part of
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with the half-elves left for the we
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History of Aglarond The past of Agl
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Government “Loose” is a generou
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(47); Militia: War1 (241), Com1 (65
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NOTABLE BUSINESSES There are two ex
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inflamed the anger of the society
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Major Geographic Features The two d
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A ghost of the Great Barrow THE GRE
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the Dalesfolk and shield them from
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While the Dalesfolk don’t like ou
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-970 The Nentyarch of Tharos builds
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the only other settlements that mig
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Mettledale and Spearsmouth Dale Alo
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Foreigners view Rashemen as a myste
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with earthquakes, freakish storms,
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wealth. The water is glacial runoff
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others believe it is a gift from th
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People of Rashemen The people of Ra
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and are the face of the Rashemi peo
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THE VREMYONNI While the wychlaran s
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Rashemen’s forces except the Witc
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efore reaching the keep, and the go
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Mulsantir (LARGE TOWN) At Mulsantir
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Best known for the crimson-robed Re
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more than 17,000 feet high. In the
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Thayan bombards (see Chapter 5: Mag
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into the rock, highlighting the dif
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those on foot. As well, the lands a
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Tyraturos The tharch of Tyraturos i
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nobles, and his sergeants are Rashe
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The most successful soldier-breedin
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The zulkirs appoint tharchions, or
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Aglarondan spy who keeps an eye on
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too juicy a target for the Shadowma
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This has built up some resentment o
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Thesk is most famous for the Golden
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potential to be the most fertile la
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slaves of the Tuigan Horde or refug
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disciplined mercenary companies. Th
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Today, the Shadowmasters control or
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on supplies. Orc miners take over P
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his prodigious fortune and business
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hands just outside its walls. The 3
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The Wizards’ Reach Between the Th
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sinister past, concerned as they ar
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An Unapproachable East FORGOTTEN RE
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20 ft.; AC 16, touch 12, flat-foote
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usiness. Use the statistics below,
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from the next encounter called The
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