Introduction

The Sunless Temple is a Star Wars 5th Edition conversion of the Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition adventure The Sunless Citadel, which is itself an adaptation of the Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition adventure of the same name.

The adapted version of this adventure was released in the 5e sourcebook Tales from the Yawning Portal, which included a collection of adventures from previous D&D editions adapted into 5e's format. Other conversions of adventures from this sourcebook into SW5e can be found in the Tales from the Yawning Maw document.

Much like the original module, this adventure takes players through a subterranean fortress inhabited by a mixture of violent beasts, otherwordly hazards and dangerous tribes - this time, with a distinctly-Star Wars flavour. Much of the content has been adjusted to match the official SW5e rules, but much of the adventure remains a flavourful conversion with minimal changes to the overall progression and difficulty.

This adventure is the first of the series outlined in Tales from the Yawning Maw. It is followed by Forge of the Nightscales; a map leading to the Nightscale's fortress can be found in this adventure, leading the players directly from Dathomir to Blasyndel after they have received level 3.

Opening Crawl

For Game Masters who wish to have an opening crawl before their adventure, consider using the read-aloud text below. You may edit it as necessary to fit the context of your party:

Setup

This adventure concerns a once-proud fortified temple that fell beneath Dathomir's surface in an age long past. Now known as the Sunless Temple, its echoing, broken halls house malign creatures. Evil has taken root at the temple's core, which is deep within a subterranean garden of blighted foliage. Here a terrible tree and its dark shepherd plot in darkness.

The tree, called the Tree of Domir, is shepherded by a twisted dathomirian witch, Belaak the Outcast, who was exiled from her original witch clan for indulging in darkness. She was drawn to the buried temple twelve years ago, following stories of oddly enchanted fruit to their source.

The witch found an old temple that had been swallowed up by the earth in some sort of unnaturally invoked devastation. With the previous inhabitants long dispersed, vile and opportunistic creatures common to lightless caverns infested the subterranean ruins. At the core of the old temple, Belaak stumbled upon the Twilight Grove. She discovered at the grove's heart the Tree of Domir, which sprouted from the corpse of an ancient Nightmother murdered by a rival clan.

A perfect, ruby-red fruit resembling an apple (which Belaak dubbed a 'domir fruit' in reference to Dathomir's red sun) ripens on the Tree of Domir at the summer solstice, and the tree produces a single albino domir fruit at the winter solstice. The midsummer fruit grants vigor, health, and life, while the midwinter fruit steals the same. In the years since Belaak's arrival, the mystical fruit has been widely dispersed through the surrounding lands, promoting good and ill. The seeds of either fruit, if allowed to sprout, grow into small, sentient plant creatures called ichor blights.

The witch controls the male-centric Durbuluk clan - a tribe populated by the dregs of Dathomirian tribal society, cast out of their old clans for weakness and cowardice. With the aid of these dathomirians spreading the Tree of Domir's seeds on the surface, Belaak plans to have the sprouts eventually overwhelm the other witch clans through sheer numbers of followers and ichor blights, allowing her to rule Dathomir uncontested as the Tree of Domir's regent.

Placing the Adventure

The Sunless Temple is intended to be era-agnostic in relation to the wider Star Wars timeline. Here are some suggestions for existing eras in which to place this setting:

• The Old Republic: An era where Sith and Jedi fight for the equally matched powers of the Galactic Republic and Sith Empire, battling in a seemingly endless war between light and dark.
• The High Republic: By this time in history, the once-great Sith threat is very nearly eradicated, and the Republic and Jedi Order are at the height of their power, prioritizing expansion and exploration.
• Fall of the Jedi: Since their peak, the Republic and Jedi Order have fallen into decline, allowing corruption of both political and moral nature to seep into their midst as the galaxy launches into a civil war between clone and droid armies.

Key Event. The Nightsister witch clan under Mother Talzin makes an enemy of Count Dooku after assisting his former apprentice in multiple assassination attempts. They are attacked and driven to near-extinction by Dooku's droid forces.

• The Empire: By the end of the Clone Wars, the Republic has been reorganized into an Empire and the Jedi outlawed by the machinations of the insidious Emperor Palpatine, opposed only by the steady unification of resistance cells into the Rebel Alliance.

Key Event. The fallen Jedi Taron Malicos takes control of the Nightbrother clan, only to be defeated by the combined efforts of Cal Kestis and Nightsister Merrin.

• The New Republic: After the defeat of the Empire at the hands of the Rebel Alliance, many efforts are taken to recover knowledge lost under the reign of the Empire and to combat the outlying Imperial remnants.
• Rise of the First Order: The fledgling New Republic faces a resurgence of Emperor Palpatine's forces under the banner of the First Order, once again throwing the galaxy into turmoil and forcing the formation of a Resistance to oppose them.
  

Mapping

It can be difficult to keep track of all the corridors, turns, areas, and other features of a dungeon setting, and the player characters could soon get turned around without a map. Ask for a volunteer to be the party mapper. It's the mapper's job to listen carefully to your description of each area, noting its size and exits, and to record that information by sketching on a sheet of paper.

Season

If you would like the characters to have the opportunity to find a domir fruit, begin the adventure a few weeks before either the summer or winter solstice. Apart from making a piece of fruit available on the Tree of Domir, choosing a season provides you with additional details to set the scene, which enhances the adventure.

If you choose summer, the rocky terrain of Dathomir sprouts flourishing plant life through its cracks, though the heat sometimes grows oppressive. If the characters embark in the winter, temperatures hover just above freezing during the day and plunge below it at night.

Progression

The level progression of the characters in this adventure assumes you will be using XP progression. If you would prefer to use milestone progression to level the characters up after key events or major victories, consider the following areas as points to level up the characters (to a maximum of 3rd level):

• Defeating the mutated Nightsister in area 12.
• Meeting Yyusdral in area 21 and agreeing to assist them against the Durbuluk tribe.
• Retrieving the juvenile rancor Calcruk in area 37 and returning it to the jawas.
• Defeating Durnn and his Nightbrother exiles in area 41.
• Defeating the undead Nightsister's shadow in area 50.

Variant Rules

While variant rules are, by nature, optional and not required to run most adventures, this adventure in particular makes use of an enhanced item that is intended to destroy weaponry near the end of the adventure. There are two options presented for running this item as intended:

• Implementing the "Weapon Sundering" Variant Rule from the start of the adventure. If you choose to do so, make sure your players understand that they can use the Sundering action if you choose to do so and provide the option of taking the associated Fighting Style and Mastery provided with the rule.
• Making use of the alternative version of the item and its wielder provided in appendix C, which limits Weapon Sundering to being a feature of the item itself.

Adventure Hooks

Adventurers can find the Sunless Temple within a remote and lonely ravine. The characters can be drawn to the dungeon for any of the following reasons. Relate the information below to the players as necessary to get them interested in journeying to the dungeon site.

Key Locations

Significant locations in Okurr Station, and the people to be found within them, include the following:

Rumors Heard in Okurr Station

Player characters can discover the following additional information while spending time in the local bar, or through asking the right questions of the locals.

• No one knows for sure what the Sunless Temple once was, but legends hint that it served as the retreat of an ancient branch of the Nightsister clan.
• A hiking path on Dathomir known as the 'Old Road' skirts the Ashen Plain, a lifeless area. A character who succeeds on a DC 15 Intelligence (History) check knows that the desolation is attributed to the long-ago rampage of an enormous bull rancor named Ashardalon (translated to Basic as 'God of Beasts' from ancient Dathomiri). A few Okurr Station locals also know this fact.
• Plantery explorers and archaeologists don't venture too far afield on Dathomir these days. They're frightened by stories of new monsters that maraud by night. From time to time, people who have explored Dathomir's terrain alone at night have been found dead the next day, bearing dozens of needle-like wounds. No one has seen the creatures that cause this mayhem, nor do they leave a discernible trail.
• The missing adventurers include a fighter (Talgen Hucrele), an engineer (Sharwyn Hucrele), a man calling himself a 'Jedi' (Berath Vord), and a scout (Kar Arkas). Berath Vord was not a local, and he had an enhanced lightsaber called Shatterpoint. The party set off for Dathomir's surface one month ago on one of the Hucrele family's small cargo ships.
• Sometimes the dathomirians offer a different domir fruit at midwinter. This fruit is corpse-white and poisonous, even to the touch. No samples of either fruit are to be had.
• Garon, the barkeep of the Ol' Gamorrean Cantina, remembers the last time anyone, aside from Talgen and Sharwyn, asked questions about the Sunless Temple. About thirteen standard years ago, a grim dathomirian named Belaak stopped by, and she had a small water tank containing something resembling an oversized tadpole.

Approaching the Temple

When the players decide they are ready to search for the Sunless Temple, have the spaceport attendants direct the party toward a landing site identified as the safest nearby point for expeditions, and which was used by the last party to set off for the temple.

When the party arrive at this landing site, they can spot the Hurcele cargo ship used by the previous party, lying untouched for the past month. It is fully capable of operation in case of emergency.

Wilderness Encounters

If the characters are anywhere between the landing site and the Sunless Temple at night, four ichor blights attack the party. The blights attack stealthily from out of nearby foliage and over the undersides of rocky ledges.

Ravine

The ravine runs for several miles in either direction, with an average depth and width of 30 feet. At the point where it most closely intersects the Old Road, it widens to 40 feet.

A sandy ledge overlooks a subterranean gulf of darkness to the west. The ledge is wide but rough. Sand, rocky debris, and the bones of small animals cover it. A rough-hewn stairwell zigs and zags down the side of the ledge, descending into darkness.

Creatures

Drawn by the occasional animal that accidentally falls into the ravine, three pig rodents lurk in the rubble. They try to hide if they become aware of the characters, and they ambush the first character who arrives on the ledge without being quiet about it.

Investigating

A successful DC 10 Wisdom (Survival) check reveals humanoid footprints, as well as rodent tracks of unusually large size. The footprints lead down the stairs.

Among the rubble is an old ring of stones that contains (and is covered by) the accumulated ash of hundreds of fires, though no fire has been lit here for a few years. Inside the ash pile are a few rough-hewn spear tips of dathomirian manufacture and small animal bones.

A temple emerges from the darkness. The subterranean temple, though impressive, seems long forgotten - if the lightless windows, cracked crenellations and leaning towers are any indication. All is quiet, though a cold breeze blows up from below, bringing with it the scent of dust and a faint trace of rot.

The narrow stairs empty into a small courtyard, apparently the top of what was once a crenellated battlement. The buried temple has sunk so far into the earth that the battlement is now level with the surrounding floor. That floor stretches away to the north and south, composed of a layer of treacherous, crumbled masonry, which reaches to an unknown depth. To the west looms the surviving structure of what must be the Sunless Temple. A tower stands on the west side of the courtyard.

Masonry Debris

An expanse of crumbled masonry surrounds the entire temple. Those attempting to cross it immediately note its unsteadiness. The rubble is difficult terrain. Anyone who moves across the debris must make a DC 10 Dexterity (Acrobatics) check for each 10 feet traversed. On a failed check, the character is unable to move. If the check fails by 5 or more, a slab of masonry below the character shifts, dumping the character into a debris-lined cavity. Climbing back out requires a successful DC 10 Strength (Athletics) check; on a failed check, the victim drops back into the cavity.

Creatures

Each time a creature falls into a cavity, the noise is 10 percent likely to draw 1d4 pig rodents from the dozens that infest the rubble field. Attracted rodents move carefully and stealthily through the rubble to attack.

Hidden Pit

The map shows the location of a concealed trapdoor that covers a 10-foot-square, 10-foot-deep pit. A 2-foot-wide catwalk on the west edge allows access to the door that leads to area 4. It takes a successful DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check to note the trapdoor's unmortared edge. Then, a successful DC 10 Intelligence (Investigation) check lets a character deduce the location of the catwalk and how the pit operates.

If a creature steps on the trapdoor, the lid flips open, dumping the creature into the pit. With a successful DC 15 Dexterity check, a creature can use a security kit to jam the lid shut. A mechanism resets the trap 1 minute after the door opens, pushing it back into the closed position. The mechanism is in the pit wall under the catwalk. A creature can jam it in the open position with a successful DC 15 Dexterity check using a security kit. If this check succeeds by 5 or more, the mechanism can be permanently disabled if desired.

Creature

The pit contains two sets of bones belonging to dathomirians, one dathomirian that has been dead for about a day, and one live pig rodent. The rodent, which slipped into the pit to feed on the fresh dathomirian but was caught when the trap reset, attacks creatures inside the pit or climbs out to attack those nearby.

Treasure

The dathomirian corpse has a tribal blade and a medium physical shield, as well as 63 credits in a belt pouch.

This circular area is cobbled with cracked granite, upon which sprawl the bodies of four dathomirians, apparently slain in combat. One corpse lies slumps with its back against the western wall, its broken neck lolling to the side. Three wooden doors lead from this area. A hollow tower of loose masonry reaches thirty feet into the air, but the intervening floors and stairs are gone, except for a couple of crumbled ledges.

Bodies

Investigation reveals that the four dathomirian hunters have been dead for quite a while, and rodents have gnawed at them. The bodies have been looted. If someone moves the dathomirian leaning against the wall, the body slumps to reveal ancient Dathomiri runes on the wall behind it. Those who know the Dathomiri language can read the runes as "Ashardalon."

Secret Door

A trapped secret door leads to area 5. Finding the door requires a successful DC 20 Wisdom (Perception) check. The door opens by way of a masonry block that also serves as a lever, which can be pushed in on the left side or pulled out from the right.

Needle Trap

If the lever is pulled out, that movement sets off a needle trap. The needle extends 3 inches out of the opening, dealing 1 kinetic damage to whoever pulled the lever. Someone who carefully and slowly pulls the lever open can easily see the needle before it strikes. Disabling the needle requires a security kit and a successful DC 15 Dexterity check. If the check fails by 5 or more, the trap goes off, stabbing the character unless the character succeeds on a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw.

This pocket chamber is damp and cold. The skeletons of three long-dead archers, still holding their energy bows, slump against rubble-filled arrow slits along the east and south wall.

Treasure

Each skeleton has five power cells, 2d10 x 10 credits, and one enhanced power cell (average) in a special pocket on their armor. Because the skeletons are mindless, they don't use the enhanced power cell.

The masonry walls of this twenty-foot-wide hall are in poor repair. The far end has collapsed, filling the southern section with rubble. The western wall is in much better shape than the other walls, and it holds a stone door with a rearing rancor carved in relief on it. The door has a single keyhole, situated in the rearing rancor's open mouth.

Rancor Door

The door that is carved to look like a rancor has a mechanical lock as well as a lock tech power cast on it. The Strength (Athletics) check to defeat the lock power is DC 30, and the Dexterity check to bypass the enhanced lock using a security kit is DC 25. Casting a release tech power on the door suppresses the lock power for 10 minutes, lowering the DCs by 10 during that time. The mechanical lock remains intact if the lock power is bypassed, requiring another release power or the use of the key. The key, which bypasses the lock power as well as the mechanical lock, is in area 21.

Creature

One pig rodent hides in the rubble. The rodent attacks anyone who moves to within 5 feet of the edge of the rubble or anyone left alone in this area.

As the door opens, a hissing noise and a puff of dust around the door indicate that the chamber beyond has been sealed for ages. Dust, long undisturbed, covers every surface in this large gallery. The air here is stale.

Three alcoves are on the north wall, and one is on the south wall. Each alcove contains a dust-covered stone pedestal with a fist-sized crystalline globe resting on it. The globes in the northern alcoves are cracked and dark, but the globe in the southern alcove glows with a soft blue light. Faint tinkling notes issue from it.

The air is stale in this twenty-foot-long corridor, which leads to another closed stone door.

Bolt Trap

Each time any weight is placed on any part of the center 10-foot-square section of the corridor, a mechanical pressure plate is activated, triggering a trap. An iron bolt fires from above the western door at the creature who triggered the trap: +5 to hit, 5 (1d10) kinetic damage.

With a successful DC 15 Intelligence (Investigation) check, a character can deduce the presence of the pressure plate from variations in the mortar and stone around it, compared to the surrounding floor. Wedging a plasteel spike or some other similarly sized and sturdy object under the pressure plate prevents it from activating.

Rancor Sculpture

If a creature moves within 5 feet of the rancor statue, an implant message tech power causes the rancor to utter a riddle in Galactic Basic, with rudimentary mechanics causing its jaws to move up and down as if speaking. The rancor's riddle is as follows:

The answer to this riddle is 'stars', and must be spoken aloud in either Basic or Dathomiri to be registered by the statue.

Dust cloaks the contents of this twenty-foot-wide hall. Six alcoves line the walls, three to the north and three to the south. Each alcove except the southwest one holds a humanoid figure carved of red-veined white marble. The figures resemble dathomirians in ceremonial armor. A stone archway at the west end of the hall opens into a wide room from which greenish light glows. A dark pit is situated before the archway.

Southwest Alcove

A successful DC 10 Wisdom (Perception) check reveals that the dust in the room is disturbed by tracks that start in the southwest alcove, though the tracks are filled in enough that the disturbance must have occurred dozens of years ago. A successful DC 10 Wisdom (Survival) check enables a character to determine that the tracks were made by a half-a-dozen tiny stalk-like appendages. They begin in the center of the alcove, move west toward the pit, and then disappear into the pit. A character who enters the pit to follow the tracks must make another successful DC 10 Wisdom (Survival) check to pick up the trail again.

Spiked Pit

The pit is 10 feet deep, and its bottom is filled with spikes that deal 11 (2d10) kinetic damage to a creature that falls in, as well as falling damage. The walls of the pit are rough, and they offer handholds to climbers. Area 12 begins on its far side.

Creature

A Tiny ancient assassin droid named J-07 ('Jot') was bound in the southwestern alcove an age ago to guard the contents of the sarcophagus in area 12. It was in power-saving mode until a few decades ago, and it now waits on the other side of the arch just out of sight in area 12.

Jot is alerted by any light source the characters have, so it can prepare for them. (If the characters have no light source and are stealthy, Jot might not become aware of them.) The droid darts out of its hiding place and attacks the first creature that climbs out of the pit on the western side.

Development

Jot doesn't fight to the death. If it takes any damage, or if more than one character attacks it, Jot laughs and says, "You've bypassed my protocols. My watch over the witch is over!" It uses its next action to cloak itself and become invisible. It then activates its flight mode and flies along the 10-foot-high ceiling across the pit.

If Jot escapes, the characters might see it again. Having spent possible millenia in hibernation, its personality circuits have degraded significantly, driving it to near-madness. This degredation has also eroded any programming to fight to the death, so it prefers to harass the characters while they are otherwise engaged, laughing and mocking as it does so.

Secret Door

Finding the door on the southern wall requires a successful DC 20 Wisdom (Perception) check. The door opens with a simple push inward.

Dust coats the contents of this tiny chamber, obscuring runes inscribed on the southern wall.

Inscription

If the southern wall is cleared of dust, the runes are revealed to be a message in Dathomiri. Someone who can read the language understands it as "A sister entombed alive for the safety of the clan still retains the honor of her position."

Secret Door

A secret trapdoor in the floor requires a successful DC 20 Wisdom (Perception) check to find. The door opens by pulling it upward. It leads to a 3-foot-by-3-foot crawl space that connects to a similar trapdoor in area 12.

Violet marble tiles cover the floor and walls, though all are cracked or broken, revealing rough-hewn stone beneath. Sconces are attached to the walls at each corner. One holds a torch that burns with greenish fire. A marble sarcophagus, easily nine feet long, lies in the room's center. The coffin is carved with Nightsister imagery, and the head of the sarcophagus resembles a rancor's head. Rusting iron clasps firmly lock down the lid.

Torch

The greenish fire is the product of Nightsister alchemy, burning as bright as a normal torch while generating no heat and using no oxygen. This flame can be covered or hidden, but not smothered or quenched.

Sarcophagus

Six rusted iron latches hold down the sarcophagus lid. Opening a single latch requires a successful DC 15 Strength check. If the six latches are opened, the lid can be removed with a successful DC 15 Strength check or by the effort of any combination of characters whose combined Strength is 30 or higher.

Inside, a Nightsister lies imprisoned, kept alive by virtue of a carbonite tech power that is dispelled with a flash of green light when the sarcophagus is opened. If the characters look inside, read:

This Nightsister delved into transformative magick without caution — she permanently transformed herself from a dathomirian into a nydak. For this failure, the clan entombed her alive, though the honor of her station remained. The Nightsister attacks her rescuers, her mind all but transformed to that of a nydak over the ages of her burial. She had a name, but she has forgotten it, although she has not forgotten how to speak Basic and Dathomiri.

Creature

In her current state, the Nightsister is slower and weaker than a normal nydak. Use the nydak statistics, but adhere to the rules outlined in the 'Weakened Nydak' addendum.

Development

The Nightsister won't pursue fleeing characters. Instead, she continues to repose in her tomb until hunger finally draws her forth to hunt five days later. By that time, she uses the regular nydak statistics, retaining her additional languages.

Treasure

The Nightsister has an ornate ceremonial dagger (worth 1,250 credits), two silver rings (150 credits each), and a silver amulet (150 credits). Scattered across the bottom of the sarcophagus are 720 credits and four ciphers: a pair of tech ciphers (a signal override remote (execute command) and an overclocked single-shot blaster pistol (2nd-level tracer bolt)), and a pair of force ciphers (weathered scrolls inscribed with the Dathomiri words for 'Give' (2nd-level heal) and 'Take' (2nd-level wound) respectively).

This ruined chamber stands empty of all but a litter of rocky debris.

The stone relief-carved door sealing this chamber portrays a crocodile-like beast swimming.

This ten-foot-square chamber is hewn from stone. It contains an upright keg fashioned of rusted iron. Rusted pipes lead from the keg into the floor.

Creatures

If the keg is breached, the frost effigy and smoke effigy confined within it are released. The effigies attack anyone who has disturbed the keg.

Treasure

Within the keg are five small gems, with four representing each of the basic elements (fire, earth, water and air) and one representing ichor (worth 100 credits each). These were used to summon the elemental power bound to the effigies long ago.

Crudely executed symbols and glyphs, scribed in bright green dye, decorate this large and irregularly shaped crumbling chamber. A large pit in the center shows evidence of a recent fire, with a heap of scorched scrap metal piled next to it. A metallic cage in the middle of the southern wall contains a gaping hole and stands empty. A small wooden bench draped with green cloth is next to the cage, and several small objects rest on it. A cot lies near the wooden bench, and the sound of whimpering comes from inside it.

Creature

Meepo, the jawa guard who was the rancor's tamer, is now the sole occupant of the chamber. He is heartsick at the loss of the rancor and spends much of his time nowadays in nightmare-ridden sleep in his cot. With the loss of his charge, Meepo's status is in the gutter. He doesn't react to anything short of loud noise or direct prodding.

If he is disturbed, Meepo is frightened but willing to talk - as a jawa, however, he and other jawas in the area are incapable of speaking Galactic Basic. If no-one in the party speaks Jawaese or has a means of translating effectively, Meepo will quickly realize this and pull a handheld personal translator out from his clothing, handing it to the party. The translator has Galactic Basic, Jawaese and Huttese loaded onto it, and automatically translates the speech of any nearby jawas while the activation button is held.

Meepo is weepy during conversation, and the numerous obvious tears in his robes are souvenirs of his job as the rancor's tamer. If he is asked about the cage or queried in any way that mentions a rancor, he says, "Our rancor... we lost it. The wretched Durbuluk stole Calcruk, our rancor!"

To all other questions, Meepo responds by saying, "Meepo don't know, but Yyusdral does. Meepo take you to meet Yyusdral, our leader, if you make nice. You get safe passage, if you promise to make nice. Maybe if you promise to rescue rancor, Yyusdral make nice to you, answer questions."

Meepo perks up as he senses the possibility of getting the rancor back. True to his word, he guides the characters to area 21. Along the way, he shouts out "Wass-Oko!" (meaning "Hot-Cold!" in Jawaese) from time to time, explaining that it's a password that tells other jawa guards and their scrap droids the characters are friendly. If the characters leave Meepo behind, or if they are antagonistic toward him, the characters don't learn the password, and all other jawas are hostile toward the party.

Development

If combat occurs in this chamber, the jawa guards and scrap droids in the nearby area 16 are alerted, and they rush out to meet enemies.

Investigating

The symbols on the walls are crudely formed in Galactic Basic using the Jawaese language and read, "For the Glory of Ashardalon." The metallic cage is all but destroyed and can't be used to restrain captives. A search of the cage reveals claw marks that someone who has proficiency in Nature or Survival can determine to be from a violent beast. A successful DC 15 check using either skill identifies the markings as those of a juvenile rancor. The firepit, if its ashes are sifted, is found to hold charred bits of jawa bones and clothing. Checking the pile of scorched metal reveals it to be parts of destroyed battle droids.

Treasure

The bench serves as a sort of tiny altar. Resting on it are containers of green dye, a paintbrush made of jawa-hair bristles, and four tiny jade figurines of rancors (worth 150 credits each). A thorough search of the firepit and a successful DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check reveals another jade figurine.

Door Trap

The door leading to the room is trapped with a tripwire that the jawas connect after shutting the door. Hitting this tripwire, 2 inches off the ground stretched between opposite door frames and running up the frame, causes the trap to trigger. A character who succeeds on a DC 10 Wisdom (Perception) check spots the wire. If a character then succeeds on a DC 10 Dexterity check using a security kit, the tripwire is cut without triggering the trap. A character can attempt this check using any edged weapon or edged tool in place of a security kit, but does so with disadvantage.

On a failed Dexterity check, the trap triggers, tipping over a clay pot of offal, garbage, and rancor droppings that falls on any creature in the doorway and splatters in a 5-foot radius. A creature hit by the stuff must succeed on a DC 10 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned for 1 minute. An affected creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a successful save.

The jawa guards release the tension on the tripwire when they exit, meaning that any guardroom that has been vacated can be entered safely.

Creatures

The room serves as a barracks and guard post for the jawa guards and scavenged battle droids. Two jawa guards and one scrap droid stand guard inside, unless they have already come forth to reinforce other guards.

If the characters try to talk and the interaction is successful, the jawa guards direct the characters to head toward "Yyusdral on her rancor throne," giving them simple directions to area 21 and warning them to avoid rousing the ire of Yyusdral's elite guards.

Scrap droids can speak Basic, but will only defer to any present jawa guards for direction or offer condolences if there are none nearby.

Tiny rodents fill the room, trapped among their own waste. A small half-barrier prevents the rodents from easily escaping when the door is open.

Creatures

The rodents are used as food for the juvenile rancor that was once stabled in area 15. Since the abduction of the rancor, the jawas have neglected the rodents, and in the meantime the rodents have chewed away the fastenings of the barrier. One round after someone opens the door, the rodents knock the barrier over and rush out, attacking as a swarm of rodents for 1 round, after which they disperse into the dungeon.

Four horned humanoids are shackled by thick, rusted chains attached to a large plasteel spike set in the floor. Several broken weapons and sundered shields lie in one corner.

Creatures

Four dathomirian hunters are chained here, taken prisoner during the course of several skirmishes. Every so often, the jawas remove a dathomirian hunter from the room and ransom it back to the tribe (for a price of 2d10 credits). Those who can't be ransomed are bound for the jawa cook pot. The dathomirians snarl and make a show of pulling at their bindings if any characters enter the room. A character who succeeds on a DC 15 Dexterity check using a security kit can open the lock on the chains, or the chains can be broken (Strength DC 20) or sundered (AC 15, 60 hit points).

The dathomirian hunters promise anything and everything in exchange for their release, including safe passage for the characters to their chief. They have no power to guarantee their promises, however. In addition, if the dathomirians are released, any understanding the characters have with the jawas is voided. Freed dathomirian hunters flee at the first hint of trouble, and they double-cross their rescuers if threatened by other dathomirians.

A double row of relief-carved marble columns march the length of this long, large hall. The worn carvings depict entwining Rancors.

Creatures

An elite squad of three scrap droids patrols the hall, considering the duty an honor. The droids pay particular attention to the door that leads to area 24, which is along the route traditionally used by dathomirian raiders. These droids react to the character's presence in the same way as the ordinary ones described in area 16. If the characters head for area 21 without causing hostilities, these guards follow the characters into Yyusdral's presence.

Development

If combat erupts here, the result is likely to be deadly for the party. Any jawa guards and scrap droids remaining in the areas nearby enter the room as reinforcements. Yyusdral and her two guards arrive from area 21 at the start of the second round of combat. At the start of the fifth round, the guards in the area 16 to the southwest of this room come on the scene. At the start of the eighth round, the guards from area 23 enter the fray. (Guards that leave their original area and are slain here should be noted for possible future reference.)

Several small but smoky fires light this wide and high chamber. Cooking grills, workbenches, and other implements of a scavenger culture are visible through the haze. Several small figures busily work and play within the chamber.

A short throne stands near the west wall, constructed of fallen bits of masonry stacked against an old altar. On the top of the altar sit a variety of small items. The portion of the altar that serves as the throne's back features a carving of a rearing rancor. A metallic key is held firmly in the rancor's open jaws.

Creatures

Normally sitting on the throne is the jawas' leader, Yyusdral. Two elite scrap droids guard her. Those who come to Yyusdral's chamber can talk to her; she is hostile only if she knows that the characters have slain other jawas or scrap droids. Characters who antagonize her while talking earn the leader's ire and a savage attack.

Yyusdral can speak to the following questions:

The odor of rotting meat permeates this chamber. Most of the rusty iron hooks in the ceiling are empty, but a few hold the skinned carcasses of large vermin, huge fungoid stalks, and several massive insect carapaces. On a small, battered bench along the south wall are pieces of nearly useless cutlery and rusting vibrodaggers.

The floor is partially collapsed on the east side of this room, revealing a tunnel. The passage is unworked, and it fluctuates widely in width, height, and direction as natural tunnels do. Within the room, hunting gear is racked on the wall, and several pallets lie nearby.

Creatures

If they have not come forth as reinforcements, a jawa guard and two scrap droids camp here, serving as hunters and guardians of the tunnel. They react as described in area 16.

At the other end of a twenty-foot-long corridor is another closed door.

This empty chamber is home only to rodent droppings, crumbled flagstone, and stains.

Investigating

A character who succeeds on a DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check notices tracks in the dust. Some tracks were made by rodents and some by humanoids. A character who then succeeds on a DC 15 Wisdom (Survival) check ascertains that the rodent tracks are very recent, maybe a day old, and that the humanoid tracks are almost a month old and were made by three or four Medium-sized humanoids moving across the area to the north.

Trap

The door that connects the northernmost empty chamber with area 31 contains a trap. See area 31 for more details.

Dust and odd bits of stony debris and rubble lie scattered on the floor. An ornate fountain is built into the eastern wall. Though cracked and stained, the fountain's overarching carving of a diving chirodactyl retains its beauty. A relief-carved stone door stands on the western wall.

Investigating

The debris and dust covering the floor display the same tracks described in area 25.

Five dusty sarcophagi, three to the north and two to the south, stand on end in this silent chamber. Each of the carved stone coffins resembles a noble, zabrak-like humanoid in ceremonial robes. An altar, with images of rancors carved into its black obsidian, is set in the center of the west wall. A single candle burns brightly on the altar. Next to the candle are a small flute and a crystal flask.

Creatures

Five dathomirian skeletons emerge en masse from the sarcophagi to attack those who disturb the altar or open any sarcophagus. These creatures pursue characters who flee.

Treasure

The candle emits a perpetual greenish flame like the one in area 12. In the flask is a potion of fire resistance. The flute, also made of crystal, has the name Night Caller inscribed on it in Dathomiri. A secret compartment in the shrine, requiring a successful DC 20 Wisdom (Perception) check to find, holds a coffer containing six peridot gems carved to resemble various Dathomiri runes (worth 100 credits each).

This section of hallway contains six doors, all slightly ajar. The area smells musky.

Creatures

The two southernmost cells and the one to the northeast contain abandoned pig rodent nests. One pig rodent lives in each of the other cells. Any noise or light in the area attracts all three creatures.

Investigating

A character who succeeds on a DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check notices tracks in the dust here. Some tracks were made by rodents and some by humanoids. A character who then succeeds on a DC 15 Wisdom (Survival) check ascertains that the rodent tracks are recent, perhaps a few minutes old, and the humanoid tracks are almost a month old and were made by four Medium-sized individuals moving across the area to the north. Only three of those individuals returned south.

Treasure

The occupied rodent nests contain shiny bits collected by their current owners. Poking through each nest turns up 3d6-1 x 10 credits and 1d4−1 gems (worth 50 credits each).

The cobblestone floor contains two trapdoors blocked open by iron spikes. The north wall holds a dry fountain carved with an overarching diving chirodactyl. A faint rotten stench pervades the room.

Investigating

The two marked areas on the map are traps that were jammed open by the lost adventuring party. Examining each one reveals a 20-foot-deep pit containing only rodent bones, rusted scrap metal, and filth.

Chances to find or follow the trail noted in area 28 are similar here. The trail of the missing adventuring party skirts around the traps and leads to the western wooden door.

Development

Those who spend more than 3 rounds in the chamber conversing in normal tones, or otherwise making noise, draw the attention of the inhabitants of area 30, who hide to ready an ambush.

Trapped Fountain

The dry fountain on the northern wall looks remarkably like the one described in area 26. Under the scrutiny of a detect enhancement tech power or a sense force force power, the fountain emits a faint aura of enhancement. A successful DC 20 Wisdom (Perception) check reveals suspicious metallic tubes in the carved chirodactyl's mouth, as well as a small, rusted iron canister. A character who makes a successful DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check notices a mostly worn-away inscription in Dathomiri on the front of the basin. It reads, "Let there be death."

Anyone who speaks this phrase aloud in Dathomiri triggers the trap. A poison mist sprays forth from the chirodactyl's mouth, filling a 20-foot cube and expending the canister's last charge. Those in the area must make a DC 10 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes 5 (1d10) poison damage and becomes poisoned for 10 minutes. On a successful save, the creature takes only half the poison damage and is poisoned for 1 minute.

Western Door

A character who approaches the western door can smell the stench of rotten meat coming from the other side.

An oppressive smell suffuses the air, rising from chewed carcasses of cave rodents, smaller vermin, and a few humanoid-looking creatures. The bodies lie upon a floor of filth, old bones, hair, and fur that combine to make a particularly large and vile nest.

Investigating

The humanoid corpses in the chamber include two dathomirian hunters, a jawa guard, and one Duros male — a member of the lost adventuring party (Kar Arkas the scout).

Creatures

Three pig rodents occupy the area, along with a monstrously swollen female diseased pig rodent that the dathomirians call Guthash (Bloated One). The pig rodents that hunt in the Sunless Temple all descend from her. These creatures attack and attempt to eat all trespassers.

Treasure

Poking through the refuse over a period of 10 minutes uncovers 1,192 credits and 3 gems (worth 250 credits each). On and around the scout's corpse are several items: fiber armor, five vibrodaggers, a blaster rifle, a backpack (containing a canteen, one day's field rations, a bedroll, a commlink, and three glowrods), two power cells, a wristpad, a medpac, and a pouch that holds 170 credits. A gold ring (worth 100 credits) on Kar's finger is engraved (in Basic) with his name.

The ten-foot-wide hall is liberally strewn with sharp caltrops. On the northern wall, passage to the room beyond is partially blocked by a roughly mortared, three-foot-high wall, complete with crenellations.

Caltrops

The floor in the hallway is visibly strewn with caltrops. Any creature that steps on the hallway's floor must make a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw or take 1 kinetic damage and have their speed reduced to 0 until the start of their next turn. Additionally, until the creature regains 1 hit point or takes an action to remove the caltrops from their feet, their movement speed is reduced by 10 feet. A creature moving at half speed through the hall does not have to make this saving throw.

Creatures

Two dathomirian hunters in area 32 pop up over the wall if they are alerted to the characters' presence. The creatures use ranged attacks as the characters move through the hall.

Treasure

About two hundred caltrops are strewn on the floor; if collected, a bag of 20 intact caltrops is worth 10 credits.

The filth on the floor, stains on the walls, shabby hides, and firepit attest to the years of use this room has seen at the hands of the Durbuluk clan. On the eastern side of the southern wall is a crudely mortared half-wall, complete with crenellations.

Creatures

Two dathomirian hunters are stationed behind the rough, 3-foot-high wall. They are hostile to intruders, but unwilling to die facing a superior force. If captured, these hunters know the same information that Eryc Tim'Bars in area 34 does.

Development

If one of the hunters gets away, it warns the dathomirian hunters in area 33. The alerted dathomirian hunters prepare an ambush for intruders in that area.

Investigating

A search of the room turns up putrid chirodactyl jerky, vinegary mushling wine in roughly-hewn water skins, and other worthless bits of clutter.

Dozens of scorch marks mar the cracked cobblestone floor and walls, and a few are visible on three crudely sewn, human-sized targets hung along the center of the south wall. The northern third of the room is separated from the south by a crudely mortared and crenellated half-wall. A permanent camp of sorts lies north of the wall, complete with a fire ring and several small iron cook pots.

Creatures

The three hunters assigned to watch the room spend some of their time shooting at the hair-and-grass-filled burlap dummies that look vaguely like humans. The rest of the time, they drink too much mushling wine.

When fighting, the hunters try to use the 3-foot-high wall for cover while shooting their foes.

Treasure

One hunter has a silver flask of Core World make (worth 500 credits) filled with vile mushling wine. Another hunter has a key to open the locked door to area 34.

Development

If things go badly for the hunters, one of them attempts to warn the dathomirian hunters in area 39.

Squalor reigns in this low-ceilinged room. A large plasteel spike is driven into the floor near the door, and a small iron cage is set farther back. Several sets of corroded manacles are connected to the walls, and some still bind a few crumbling skeletons.

Creatures

Three jawa guards are bound with crude rope to the plasteel. A battered bothan lies in the cage, which is almost too small for him. It's easy to untie the jawa. Freeing the caged bothan requires either a successful DC 15 Strength check to bend the bars or a successful DC 15 Dexterity check using a security kit to open the cage lock.

The jawa guards are aware that the dathomirians might try to ransom them back to the other jawas. Uncertain of their chances with the characters, the jawas are unhelpful and reluctant to be set free. If they are released and shown a clear line of retreat, the jawa guards flee. They know very little, but they react positively to Meepo's presence or if they are told that the characters intend to free Calcruk.

The bothan is named Eryc Tim'Bars, a doctor with 17 (5d6) hit points who knows Basic, Huttese, Bothanese, and Dathomiri. He has access to a weak form of dathomirian witch magick after being forced to imbibe ichor as part of Belaak's experiments, though he has not revealed this to his captors.

If he is released, he helpfully answers questions. He knows the following information:

Development

If the characters fail to suggest it, Eryc Tim'Bars asks to join the party as a temporary member. The bothan serves as a loyal friend. Currently, though, he has no gear - he is considered to have the same weapon and armor proficiencies as a player character of the engineer class. Those who free Eryc gain XP as if they defeated him in combat.

Manacles

The rusted iron restraints can bind a Small or Medium creature. If the characters are taken prisoner (see area 36) and bound here, escaping from the manacles requires a successful DC 20 Dexterity check. A set of manacles can be broken with a successful DC 20 Strength check, or a character proficient with a security kit can pick the lock on a set of manacles with a successful DC 15 Dexterity check. Manacles have AC 15 and 15 hit points.

35. Trapped Corridor

36. Durbuluk Hunters

Three rooms in the northern part of the temple serve as living quarters for dathomirian hunters. All have the same characteristics.

37. Trophy Room

Both of the wooden doors that offer access to the trophy room are closed and locked. Either door can be opened by a character who succeeds on a DC 15 Dexterity check using a security kit.

The north and south walls of this chamber are stacked halfway to the ceiling with ill-made barrels, boxes, and crates. A clear path allows easy access between the west and east doors.

Several torches mounted in crude sconces burn fitfully around this chamber, filling the air with a haze. A double row of marble columns carved with entwining snakes runs the length of the hall.

What might once have been a cathedral is now a Durbuluk lair, thick with the filth of years of Durbuluk life. Scores of wall- and floor-mounted sconces filled with violet-glowing fungi provide illumination. Dozens of dathomirians go about their daily business, which involves a lot of rudeness and violence. Along the southern wall is a heaping pile of assorted items, including scrap plating, broken armor and rusted arms, wicker-weave chests, small statues, antique urns and tattooing materials.

Creatures

Thirty-four dathomirians are at home when the characters arrive, but only four of the dathomirians are effective warriors. Ten of the other dathomirians are commoners, while he other twenty creatures are noncombatants, too feeble or too fearful to defend themselves; they try to flee through the northernmost or the eastern exit. This stampede should dominate the first moments of battle, and even the dathomirians capable of fighting refuse to stick around just to lose their lives. Noncombatants are worth no XP.

These dathomirians know the same information, in cruder form, that Eryc in area 34 knows.

Development

An attack on the dathomirians brings reinforcements from area 36 and warns the dathomirian chief in area 41 that something is amiss. Grenyyl, the elderly dathomirian witch in area 41, might emerge to protect the tribe.

Investigating

The dathomirians collect the phosphorescent fungi from the grove below. They need its light for close work, such as reading, and the fungus is edible. Crude equipment for cooking, skinning game, tanning hides, and other basic gear fills the area. Food is usually collected from the underground caverns through area 43.

Treasure

Among the tribal equipment, near the witch's bedding, is a traumakit and a poisoner's kit.

The pile along the southern wall contains the clan's loot, mixed in with lots of other stuff taken from the dathomiri' victims. The characters can find almost any piece of mundane gear that has a value of 50 credits or lower. Two items of considerable value can be unearthed by separate successful DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) checks: a rare collectable holo-statue of the Core World idol Coral Larettz (worth 300 credits) and a Medium mesh armor.

A circular shaft pierces the floor of this forty-foot-diameter domed chamber. Dim violet light shines out of the shaft, revealing sickly white and gray vines that coat the walls of the shaft. The light is supplemented by four lit wall torches set equidistant around the periphery of the chamber. A crudely fashioned stone throne sits against the curve of the northwestern wall. A large iron chest serves as the throne's footstool. A sapling grows in a wide stone pot next to the throne.

Creatures

The chief of the Durbuluk tribe is Durnn, a Nightbrother exile. When not in combat, Durnn sits on the throne, and three other Nightbrother exiles stand nearby or lounge on stone benches. The elderly dathomirian witch Grenyyl (a variant of the dathomirian hunter) advises the chief.

An ichor blight, a gift from Belaak the Outcast and a pet of Durnn's, is in the stone pot, and dathomirians from area 40 occasionally enter the chamber to see to the needs of the clan's elite that languish here.

Development

Durnn has a medpac and two antitoxkits. Grenyyl has two tech ciphers: a bag of luminescent glowing fungi (gleaming outline) and an injector of adrenaline (expeditious retreat).

The dathomirians in area 40 don't join the battle if they hear sounds of violence coming from the north. If the fight turns against the chief, however, he might open the door to area 40 and call for aid, or withdraw to area 40 to continue the fight.

Durnn can't surrender for fear of losing face. He won't give up if the opposition includes jawas. Otherwise, he might call for parley if doing so allows him to avoid death. But he must still look strong while negotiating, so he's unwilling to capitulate in an arrangement that makes him look weak.

Because Durnn and his Nightbrother exiles usurped control of the Durbuluk tribe, Grenyyl hates them. She also wants to protect her tribe, so she is willing to negotiate a truce if Durnn falls. Grenyyl also hates and envies Belaak, and she wants her gone from the temple so she can control the Tree of Domir.

If captured and interrogated, the dathomirians here know what Eryc in area 34 knows, with the following addition: Belaak wanted all the living human prisoners sent down to her, but in a fit of anger, Durnn slew Talgen - his body has since been taken apart and used for compost, though Durnn still wears his ring. Thus, Durnn sent only Sharwyn and Berath down to the Twilight Grove.

Shaft

The shaft has a 2-foot wall around it, much like the upper end of a well. Because of the wall, a creature pushed toward the shaft can avoid going over the edge by falling prone and succeeding on a DC 10 Dexterity saving throw. Thick, pale vines line the shaft. The vines are as good as knotted rope or cable for the purpose of climbing.

A creature that falls into the shaft can make a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw to catch the vines. On a failed save, the creature falls 80 feet to the floor of area 42.

Trapped Chest

Durnn's iron chest rests in front of the throne. It is locked (Dexterity DC 15 using a security kit) and trapped with a poisoned needle. A character who succeeds on a DC 15 Intelligence (Investigation) check deduces the trap's presence from alterations made to the lock. A character can then remove the needle from the lock by succeeding on a DC 15 Dexterity check using a security kit. On a failed Dexterity check, the trap is triggered.

When the trap is triggered, the needle extends 3 inches straight out from the lock. A creature within striking distance takes 1 kinetic damage and must succeed on a DC 10 Constitution saving throw or take 3 (1d6) poison damage.

Treasure

In addition to the valuables mentioned in the "Development" section, Durnn wears Talgen's gold signet ring (worth 200 credits) and assault armor, which is identifiable by the Hucrele family crest worked into the chest piece. The chief also has the key to his iron chest. Grenyyl has keys to areas 34 and 37. One of the other Nightbrother exiles wears silver earrings set with moonstone gems (200 credits each), and another wears a matching necklace (500 credits).

Inside Durnn's iron chest are 2,310 credits and two onyx gems (300 credits each).

42. Central Garden

43. The Great Hunter's Abode

Creature

Balsag the dathomirian champion and his two pig rodent "hounds," named Grip and Fang, reside in a natural stone chamber when they're not hunting (25 percent chance of being absent when characters arrive). The champion's natural crown of horns is far larger than that of the average zabrak, enhancing his frightening appearance.

A rift opens here, its debris-strewn floor two feet below that of the corridor. No phosphorescent fungus grows in the rift. The corridor continues past the rift, though the opening of the rift has caused it to shift 10 feet to the west. A number of two-foot-diameter holes riddle the floor of the rift. The smell of burnt earth hangs in the air.

The rift widens, creating a cavern-like chamber. Small, two-foot-diameter holes riddle the node. A dim fiery glow shines out of one such hole.

Creature

In the glowing hall rests a viper of flame - a fiery elemental being formed of ichor. Belak used magick to call the elemental forth and hopes to train it to be a loyal servant.

Treasure

Belaak has already appealed to the viper's need for kindling. In its cave, the adventurers finds the charred corpse of a jawa and two gems (representing fire and ichor) used to summon it (worth 500 credits each).

Faded mosaic tiles still decorate parts of the wall, but most have fallen to the dust-covered floor and shattered. Situated at the center of the chamber stands a slim pedestal of rusted iron shaped like an upright rancor. In the rancor's mouth rests an empty tray.

Two rows of rancor-carved marble columns march the length of the hall, most completely covered in luminescent fungus. The cobbled floor is cracked and stained, and on it sit many small wooden tables. The contents on the tables include mortars and pestles, small tools, bowls filled with crushed leaves, chopped fungus stalks, and other plant specimens. The many doors leading off this hall are all partly open.

Investigating

The containers on the small tables in the main area hold mashed leaves, fungus, bark, and powdered roots. A character who makes a successful DC 10 Intelligence (Nature) check identifies many dathomirian varieties of tree, shrub, and fungus, although all have a pronounced pallor, as if sun-starved.

Treasure

One pile of herbs and supplies in the main chamber contains the ingredients of a low-tech traumakit. An assortment of tools and herbs can be salvaged to make up a herbalism kit and a set of alchemist's supplies.

Northwest Chamber

Snores are audible from the room to the northwest, which is a rough barracks. Sixteen small pallets of matted fur cover the floor. Two pallets currently hold a sleeping dathomirian hunter and two dathomirian commoners (like those in area 40).

Southwest Chamber

The dathomirians use a crude mashing, straining, and casking facility to create mushling wine, which they and Belaak are quite fond of. Two dathomirian commoners currently stand barefoot in the mashing-tun, squashing mushling pods into pulp. A dirty straining bin stands nearby, as well as ten 2-gallon casks of the end product.

North Central Chamber

Two dathomirian commoners currently repair damaged dathomirian armor with cord, iron needles, leather patches, and other crude implements of tailoring.

South Central Chamber

One dathomirian hunter and two dathomirian commoners monitor the health of a diseased pig rodent, which is strapped spread-eagled onto a wooden bench. The rodent suffers from horrible tumors that look woody and fruit-like. Its tumors stem from an elixir Belaak created to infuse ichor blight traits into pig rodents.

Nodules of luminescent fungus hang from the ceiling and walls and grow in clumps on the flagstone floor. The light illuminates portions of grand bas-relief carvings on the stone walls that aren't covered with the fungus. The carvings depict rancors and chirodactyls in various stages of attacking terrified people. Soil and compost cover half the chamber's floor, which allows a variety of feeble plants to grow. A bench containing simple gardening implements stands along the west wall.

Creature

An enthralled dathomirian champion gardener roams both galleries, tending the grasses for Belaak. He is armed with a tribal scythe and has a visible layer of grey bark covering his skin, causing him to resemble a walking tree.

Treasure

The champion carries a medpac.

Development

The neighboring arboretums (area 49) contain additional monsters. The closed doors and stone walls prevent sound from entering these four areas. The creatures within join the battle here at your discretion.

If the Tree of Domir is destroyed before the champion dies, the champion stops doing Belaak's bidding and instead attacks anyone he sees until he is killed or dies after 24 hours have passed.

Luminescent mist blurs the edges of this octagonal chamber. Nodules of glowing fungus dot the stone walls and ceiling, as well as the caps of toadstools and mushrooms, small polyps, puffballs, and lichen. The humid air reeks with rot.

Southern Arboretum

A dathomirian hunter and three dathomirian commoners gather fungus for use in area 47.

Southeast Arboretum

Several growths in the chamber are withered and dead. Fungus shrouds holes similar to those found in area 45, and a viper of flame lurks inside one of these openings. It emerges if anyone pokes into or closely examines the holes. If the viper comes out, a character who reaches into the viper's burrow can recover a bundle of 500 credits, recovered by the viper from its victims.

Northeast Arboretum

Three dathomirian skeletons, wielding shovels and rakes, are at work clearing withered plants. One ichor blight, which is hostile to the adventurers, is with them. The dathomirians attack anything the twig blight attacks.

Fungus shrouds holes similar to those in area 45.

Northern Arboretum

The northern room contains only its plants.

Rancor-carved granite blocks line this chamber's walls and ceiling, though many are crumbled and broken, leaving stony debris on the floor. A huge marble statue of a rearing rancor stands in the curve of the western wall. The eye sockets of the rancor are empty, but a red glow lingers there, providing reddish light throughout the chamber. The radiance casts an inky shadow behind the statue's spread arms. A five-foot-diameter, circular tile of dark stone is set in the floor in front of the rancor statue. Runes are carved around the circular tile's inner edge.

Investigating

Viewed in white light, the circular tile is red. A detect enhancement tech power or a sense force force power can reveal that the tile and statue give off an aura of enhancement. The runes on the tile's inner edge read, in Dathomiri, "Let the beast's power illuminate my spirit." If anyone speaks this sentence aloud while standing on the tile, a puff of spectral flame harmlessly envelops the speaker, granting the target advantage on Charisma checks for 24 hours. Once the tile is activated, it is dormant for 24 hours.

Creature

A shadowy Nightsister spirit (called a witch shadow) hides in the gloom behind the rancor statue. It attacks only those who spot it or who attempt to investigate the circular tile or claim the treasure. The creature doesn't pursue those who flee.

Treasure

A loose stone is in the wall behind the statue, requiring a successful DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check to find. Inside are 340 credits and two flasks of ichor that act as low-tech incendiary grenades.

Treasure

Rooting around in the wreckage, separate successful DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) checks uncover two ciphers in the form of Nightsister dart guns: one fires a burst of three electrified darts (shocking ray), and another fires a clay ball filled with acid (acid dart). It will also uncover a tome of nightsister lore bound in rancor hide and written in Dathomiri (worth 1,500 credits).

Damp and crumbled steps descend sharply.

A layer of soil covers the floor. Rough wooden shelves, filled with a scattering of tomes and scrolls, line the north and east walls, and a rough-hewn desk stands in the center of the chamber. Fungus on the ceiling provides light, apparently in sufficient quantity to nourish several small bushes and pale saplings that grow in the soil.

Investigating

In her study, Belaak stores seasonal records of growth, precipitation, harvests, and similar notes for the surrounding lands for the last dozen years. One interesting tome titled (in Dathomiri) Treasures of the Sith has a fabricate trap tech power with an explosive trap effect on it, in the form of an ichor emitter. The trap is on the second page, and it's triggered when someone opens to that page. Otherwise, the book is blank.

If the trap is triggered, it erupts with enhanced ichorous energy in a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on the book. The sphere spreads around corners. Each creature in the area must make a DC 12 Dexterity saving throw. A creature takes 22 (5d8) necrotic damage on a failed saving throw, or half as much damage on a successful one. The necrotic power doesn't damage the other works here.

Development

If any obvious disturbance occurs here, the dathomirians in area 54 set an ambush for intruders. They wait at least 10 minutes before coming to investigate.

Treasure

Separate successful DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) checks uncover a force cipher (a plant-growth formula (plant growth (see appendix A))) and a tech cipher (a herbal antitoxin (toxin purge)), and a tome on Nightsister theories regarding the role of ichor in reincarnation (worth 1,500 credits). Cubbyholes in the desk hold 3,650 credits and four agate gems (200 credits each).

Twigs and roots are piled on the floor of this sagging chamber. The collapsed southern wall opens into a vast cavern. Luminescent fungus on the rough walls and the high roof loom over a twilight grove of sickly briars, bushes, saplings, and other woody plants. Ruined walls and hollow towers protrude from the briars.

Creatures

Four dathomirian hunters sort the specimens for Belaak. They are hostile to intruders. If things go badly for them, they cry out in Dathomiri, saying, "Aid us, Sister of the Twilight Grove!"

Development

Sometimes the ichor blights in area 55 attack the dathomirians out of sheer malice. Thus, a call from the dathomirians doesn't bring all the forces of the cavern down on the characters. But if the dathomirians do call, four ichor blights arrive from area 55 and attack.

Investigating

Any character who gazes into area 55 and succeeds on a DC 10 Wisdom (Perception) check spots the blackened top of the Tree of Domir in the distance. If the check succeeds by 3 or more, the character also spots the ichor blights creeping around in area 55.

Pale, spindly briars press close, casting twisted shadows on the earth floor in the violet light.

Briars

The most successful aboveground plants that Belaak has transplanted in the Twilight Grove are the briars, though they appear sickly and pale, with blighted leaves. Other common plants and bushes are also represented, though they are equally afflicted.

The briars don't hinder Small and smaller creatures. Larger creatures must either spend 2 feet of movement for every 1 foot moved or make a DC 10 Constitution saving throw for every 10 feet moved. On a failed save, the creature takes 1 kinetic damage from the briars.

A 5-foot-by-5-foot area of briars can be cleared if it takes 20 damage of any type other than psychic.

A walled clearing is here among the briars. The walls are about twenty feet high, which is less than half the height of the cavern's ceiling. Several varieties of plants grow around the perimeter of the clearing, including a few suspicious-looking saplings, but their importance pales before that which stands at the courtyard's center. Beneath the fungal light grows an evil tree. Its blackened, twisted limbs reach upward, like a skeletal hand clawing its way out of the earth. Before it stand a few ichor blights; a robed and heavily armored human male with a lightsaber; a blonde, young human woman in an expensive-looking explorer's outfit; and a middle-aged, pale dathomirian female wearing a hooded brown robe and armed with a staff and sickle. The humans have black eyes and gray skin with the texture of bark.

The Tree of Domir

A Gargantuan plant, the Tree of Domir has AC 10 and 35 hit points. It is immune to necrotic, poison, psychic damage, and it has resistance to kinetic damage. The tree has vulnerability to fire damage.

Fruit. Two enhanced fruits ripen on the tree each year. Each fruit resembles an apple, but it slowly extrudes from the tree like a cyst. Up to a week before the summer solstice, a ruby red fruit grows. Someone other than a droid who eats a quarter or more of it regains 70 hit points. In addition, any blindness, deafness, and diseases affecting the eater end. Up to a week before the winter solstice, a sickly white fruit grows. Someone who eats a quarter or more of it takes 70 necrotic damage. Each fruit has 1d4 seeds that, if planted, grow leafless woody shrubs that animate as ichor blights after one year.

Tree Thralls. If a humanoid is bound to the bole of the Tree of Domir, over the next 24 hours the victim is sucked completely into the tree. Once the victim is completely absorbed into the tree, it becomes the tree's thrall, and is expelled over the course of 1 hour. The Tree of Domir can have only four thralls at any one time. A victim's skin is rough, gray, and bark-like. A thrall is totally corrupted, becoming neutral dark. Such a creature exists only to serve the Tree of Domir and those who tend it (such as Belaak). It possesses all of its former abilities and gains the following traits:

• Barkskin. The thrall's AC can't be lower than 16.
• Tree Thrall. If the Tree of Domir dies, the thrall dies 24 hours later.

Creatures

Belaak the Outcast spends much of her time studying the Tree of Domir, but she is well aware when the characters are approaching. She is a dathomirians witch, and possess the power of the Force through ichor magick.

Standing with Belaak are Berath Vord and Sharwyn Hucrele (both described in appendix B). Belaak's juvenile oggdo, Kulket, lurks stealthily in the branches of the Tree of Domir. A character who has a passive Perception score of 15 or higher or succeeds on a DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check spots the juvenile oggdo. If combat breaks out, the juvenile oggdo jumps down and joins the fight in the second round. Three ichor blights are here, too.

Interaction

When the characters arrive, Belaak says loudly, "Hold a moment, you know not what you do!" If the characters engage her in conversation, she can share the following information:

Combat

If a fight breaks out (which will happen unless the characters actually submit to Belaak), the ichor blights, the juvenile oggdo, and Berath Vord attack the characters physically. Berath uses Shatterpoint to degrade his foe's weapons and armor during the fight.

Belaak casts barkskin on herself, possibly before melee occurs. She also makes early use of her talisman of plant growth, attempting to hold the transgressors in place. If Berath looks like he needs healing, Belaak casts healing force powers on him, as well. Sharwyn uses her repertoire of tech powers to best advantage, resorting to her blaster pistol only in desperation.

Development

During a battle, if any ichor blights remain in area 55, 1d4−1 of them (minimum 0) enter this area each round.

Targeting the Tree

A successful DC 15 Wisdom (Insight) check or Intelligence (Arcana or Nature) check allows a character to deduce that destroying the tree might have an effect on Berath Vord, Sharwyn, and the ichor blights. If anyone attacks the Tree of Domir, Belaak and the ichor blights try to kill the aggressor. If the Tree of Domir dies, Belaak loses her influence over the ichor blights, Sharwyn, and Berath Vord. These monsters turn on Belaak before targeting the characters again.

Walls

The courtyard's walls stand 20 feet tall, and the cavern's stalactite-dotted ceiling is 50 feet up.

Treasure

Belaak has a key (to area 53), three medpacs, two antitoxkits, and her talisman of plant growth. Sharwyn wears her gold Hucrele signet ring (worth 200 credits) and a wristpad (fine). Berath has the blade Shatterpoint.

As the greenhouse workers begin the process of destroying the saplings, the mayor turns to you with a frank expression. "You realize that our actions have set loose several of these abominations upon the galaxy. Who knows what these twisted plants are doing now?"

Next Tale From the Yawning Maw

If you would like to continue from this adventure to Forge of the Nightscales, the party will also discover a map on a datapad alongside the Mandalorian message in area 37. This map directs to a mountainous crag on the surface of the forest moon Blasyndel, above which is written 'Choruk'Ed' in Mando'a script.

Further research can reveal that that the caverns beneath this mountain were used as an old Mandalorian stronghold, which is said to hold powerful weaponry forged from beskar. This should prove as sufficient incentive and an obvious adventure hook for most players.

Saving Berath and Sharwyn

Although the circumstances for saving Berath and Sharwyn before they die seems impossible given their state, at least one clear option presents itself in this adventure. If Berath or Sharwyn are fed a quarter of a red domir fruit from the Tree of Domir (before or after it is destroyed), they may receive the benefits of the fruit's healing power and be restored to normal - in this way, players can receive a greater reward from the Hurcule matriarch for returning their daughter safely, though Berath is not actually a Jedi and cannot give them much reward save for his lightsaber.

For greater stakes, however, you may rule that a tree thrall needs to consume a whole fruit in order to be saved. In doing so, you may present your party with a choice to save either Berath Vord (who they may believe is a Jedi) or Sharwyn Hurcule from certain death. Whether the final decision comes easily or not, doing so can present one final moral challenge for the party before the adventure ends.

A collection of enhanced items found across the adventure.

It is recommended to make use of the "Weapon Sundering" Variant Rule when making use of this item in its intended manner.

In addition, an alternative version of Shatterpoint and its wielder are provided in appendix C under "Alternative Berath Vord and Shatterpoint", intended to simplify the usage of both this weapon and Berath himself.

Plant Growth (1st-level light side power)

Casting Time: 1 action

Range: 90 feet

Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

Grasping weeds and vines sprout from the ground in a 20-foot square starting from a point within range. For the duration, these plants turn the ground in the area into difficult terrain.

A creature in the area when you cast the power must succeed on a Strength saving throw or be restrained by the entangling plants until the power ends. A creature restrained by the plants can use its action to make a Strength check against your force save DC. On a success, it frees itself.

When the power ends, the plants wilt away.

Commoner

The standard template for most Galactic citizens.

Noble

A higher-class citizen with minor combat training.

Security Guard

Small or medium humanoid (any race), any alignment

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• Armor Class 15 (mesh armor, medium physical shield)
• Hit Points 11 (2d8+2)
• Speed 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
13 (+1)	12 (+1)	12 (+1)	10 (+0)	11 (+0)	10 (+0)

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• Skills Perception +2
• Senses passive Perception 12
• Languages any one language (usually Basic)
• Challenge 1/8 (25 XP), PB +2

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Actions

Blaster Pistol. Ranged Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, range 50/200 ft., one target. Hit: 4 (1d6+1) energy damage.

Shield Bash. Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 3 (1d4+1) kinetic damage.

Appears in: Okurr Station

Pilot

Small or medium humanoid (any race), any alignment

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• Armor Class 13 (combat suit)
• Hit Points 9 (2d8)
• Speed 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
8 (-1)	14 (+2)	10 (+0)	14 (+2)	12 (+1)	11 (+0)

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• Skills Perception +3, Piloting +4
• Senses passive Perception 13
• Languages any one language (usually Basic)
• Challenge 1/8 (700 XP), PB +2

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Bad Feeling. When the pilot rolls for initiative, it can move up to its speed. This movement happens before the initiative order is determined.

Actions

Light Pistol. Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, range 40/160 ft., one target. Hit: 4 (1d4+2) energy damage.

Appears in: Okurr Station

Veteran

Small or medium humanoid (any race), any alignment

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• Armor Class 17 (assault armor)
• Hit Points 58 (9d8+18)
• Speed 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
15 (+2)	14 (+2)	14 (+2)	10 (+0)	11 (+0)	10 (+0)

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• Skills Athletics +4, Perception +2
• Senses passive Perception 12
• Languages any one language (usually Basic)
• Challenge 3 (700 XP), PB +2

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Actions

Multiattack. The veteran makes two heavy blaster rifle attacks or two vibroblade attacks.

Heavy Blaster Rifle. Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, range 100/400 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (2d4+2) energy damage.

Vibroblade. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d8+2) kinetic damage, or 7 (1d10+2) kinetic damage if used with two hands.

Appears in: Okurr Station

Physician

Small or medium humanoid (any race), any alignment

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• Armor Class 13 (mesh armor)
• Hit Points 27 (5d8+5)
• Speed 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
10 (+0)	10 (+0)	12 (+1)	16 (+3)	14 (+2)	12 (+1)

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• Skills Medicine +6, Persuasion +3, Lore +5
• Senses passive Perception 12
• Languages any four languages
• Challenge 2 (450 XP), PB +2

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Weaponized Defibrillator. As a bonus action, the physician can expend 2 tech points to cause its melee weapon attacks to deal an extra 10 (3d6) enhanced electrical damage to a target on a hit. This benefit lasts until the end of the turn. If the physician expends additional tech points, the extra damage increases by 1d6 for each point above 2.

Techcasting. The physician is a 5th-level techcaster (tech save DC 13, +5 to hit with power attacks, 20 tech points). The doctor knows the following powers:
At-will: minor defribrillation, mobile lights, production values
1st-level: kolto pack, toxin scan, tracer bolt
2nd-level: kolto dispenser, toxin purge
3rd-level: diminish tech, slow-release medpac

Actions

Blaster Pistol. Ranged Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, range 50/200 ft., one target. Hit: 4 (1d6+1) energy damage.

Vibroscalpel. Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 3 (1d4+1) kinetic damage.

Appears in: Okurr Station

Eryc Tim'Bars

Medium humanoid (bothan), neutral light

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• Armor Class 10
• Hit Points 17 (5d6)
• Speed 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
10 (+0)	10 (+0)	10 (+0)	14 (+2)	10 (+0)	11 (+0)

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• Skills Medicine +2, Lore +4
• Senses passive Perception 12
• Languages Basic, Bothanese, Dathomirian, Huttese
• Challenge 1/4 (50 XP), PB +2

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Ichor Infusion. Eryc's body is infused with and empowered by dathomirian ichor. If Eryc takes 5 damage or less that would reduce him to 0 hit points, he is reduced to 1 hit point instead.

Techcasting. Eryc Tim'Bars is a 1st-level techcaster (tech save DC 12, +4 to hit with power attacks, 4 tech points). The doctor knows the following powers:
At-will: minor defribrillation, mobile lights, production values
1st-level: kolto pack, stack the deck, toxin scan

Actions

Improvised Weapon. Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 20/60 ft., one target. Hit: 2 (1d4) kinetic damage.

Ichor Lightning. Ranged Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, range 30/90 ft., one target. Hit: 3 (1d6) necrotic damage.

Appears in: Area 34

J-07 ("Jot")

Tiny droid (tracker), chaotic dark

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• Armor Class 13
• Hit Points 7 (3d4)
• Speed 40 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
5 (-3)	17 (+3)	10 (+0)	12 (+0)	10 (+0)	7 (-2)

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• Skills Stealth +5
• Damage Vulnerabilities ion
• Damage Resistances necrotic, poison, psychic; kinetic, ion or energy damage from unenhanced attacks
• Condition Immunities poisoned, diseased
• Senses darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 10
• Languages Galactic Basic, Dathomiri, Binary
• Challenge 1 (200 XP), PB +2

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Adaptive Form. The droid can use its action to enter one of four modes: flight mode (speed 10 ft., fly 40 ft.), scaling mode (speed 40 ft., climb 40 ft.), aquatic mode (speed 40 ft., swim 40 ft.), or back to its default mode. Its statistics are the same in each form, except for the speed changes noted.

Unusual Circuitry. The droid has advantage on saving throws against tech powers and other enhanced effects, but disadvantage on saving throws against effects that would deal ion or lightning damage.

Actions

Poisoned Needle. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d4 + 3) kinetic damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 10 Constitution saving throw or take 5 (2d4) poison damage and become poisoned for 1 minute. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Scare (1/Day). One creature of the droid's choice within 20 feet of it must succeed on a DC 10 Wisdom saving throw or be frightened for 1 minute. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, with disadvantage if the droid is within line of sight, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Cloaking Tech. The droid becomes invisible, until it attacks or uses Scare, or until its concentration ends (as if concentrating on a power). Any equipment the droid carries is invisible with it.

Appears in: Area 10

Pig Rodent

Native vermin of Dathomir, pig rodents are scavengers and plague-spreaders that are a common source of nourishment for native rancors.

Swarm of Rodents

Though less dangerous than their larger counterparts, tiny rodents of Dathomir can still pose a danger in swarms.

Nydak

Large beast, unaligned

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• Armor Class 15 (natural armor)
• Hit Points 89 (9d10+36)
• Speed 40 ft., climb 40 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
18 (+4)	16 (+3)	18 (+4)	5 (-3)	12 (+1)	10 (+0)

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• Skills Athletics +6, Perception +3
• Condition Immunities frightened
• Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 13
• Languages -
• Challenge 4 (1,100 XP), PB +2

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Leap Attack. If the nydak jumps at least 10 feet as part of its movement next creature and then hits it with a claw attack on the same turn, that target must succeed on a DC 14 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone and be stunned until the end of its next turn. If the target is prone and stunned, the nydak can make one bite attack against it as a bonus action.

Actions

Multiattack. The nydak makes one claw and one bite attack.

Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 10 ft., one creature. Hit: 13 (2d8+4) kinetic damage.

Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5ft., one target. Hit: 15 (2d10+4) kinetic damage.

Weakened Nydak

While weakened, the nydak starts combat with only 44 hit points, has both its speeds reduced by 10 feet each, and can't use Multiattack. If defeated in this state, the nydak is worth 450 XP.

Appears in: Area 12

Rancor, Juvenile

Medium beast, unaligned

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• Armor Class 13 (natural armor)
• Hit Points 95 (10d8+50)
• Speed 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
19 (+4)	11 (+0)	20 (+5)	3 (-4)	9 (-1)	6 (-2)

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• Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 9
• Languages -
• Challenge 2 (450 XP), PB +2

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Siege Monster. The rancor deals double damage to objects and structures.

Actions

Multiattack. The rancor makes two attacks: one with its claws and one with its bite.

Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (1d8+4) kinetic damage.

Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 10 ft., one creature. Hit: 6 (1d4+4) kinetic damage.

Appears in: Area 37

Jawa Guard

Small humanoid (jawa), chaotic balanced

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• Armor Class 12
• Hit Points 5 (2d6-2)
• Speed 25 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
7 (-2)	15 (+2)	9 (-1)	12 (+1)	7 (-2)	8 (-1)

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• Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 8
• Languages Jawaese, understands Basic but cannot speak it
• Challenge 1/8 (25 XP), PB +2

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Nimble Escape. The jawa can take the Disengage or Hide action as a bonus action on each of its turns.

Actions

Ion Carbine. Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 4 (1d4+2) ion damage.

Appears in: Random Encounters, Area 15, Area 16, Area 18, Area 19, Area 20, Area 21, Area 23, Area 24, Area 32

Yyusdral

Small humanoid (jawa), chaotic balanced

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• Armor Class 13 (combat suit, 15 with tactical barrier)
• Hit Points 16 (3d6+6)
• Speed 25 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
8 (-1)	15 (+2)	14 (+2)	16 (+3)	10 (+0)	12 (+2)

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• Skills Technology +5, Insight +2, Stealth +4
• Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10
• Languages Jawaese, understands Basic but cannot speak it
• Challenge 1 (100 XP), PB +2

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Nimble Escape. Yyusdral can take the Disengage or Hide action as a bonus action on each of its turns.

Techcasting. Yyusdral is a 2nd-level techcaster (tech save DC 13, +5 to hit with power attacks, 8 tech points). Yyusdral knows the following powers:
At-will: electroshock, minor hologram, on/off, spectrum ray
1st-level: flame sweep, spectrum bolt, tactical barrier

Actions

Ion Carbine. Ranged Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 4 (1d4+2) ion damage.

Appears in: Area 21

Scrap Droid

Medium droid (class IV), unaligned

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• Armor Class 12 (scrap armor)
• Hit Points 7 (2d8-2)
• Speed 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
9 (-1)	13 (+1)	9 (-1)	12 (+1)	10 (+0)	7 (-2)

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• Damage Vulnerabilities ion
• Damage Resistances necrotic, poison, psychic
• Condition Immunities poisoned, diseased
• Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10
• Languages Binary, Galactic Basic, Jawaese
• Challenge 1/8 (25 XP), PB +2

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Scrap Droid Swarm. When an ally of the scrap droid hits a hostile creature that it can see with a weapon attack, the scrap droid can use its reaction to make one weapon attack, with disadvantage, against that creature.

Circuitry. The droid has disadvantage on saving throws against effects that would deal ion or lightning damage.

Actions

Blaster Rifle. Ranged Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, range 100/400 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d8+1) energy damage.

Stock Strike. Melee Weapon Attack: +1 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 1 (1d4-1) kinetic damage.

Elite Scrap Droids

Elite scrap droids (found guarding Yyusdral and the Hall of Rancors) are more robustly constructed, causing the following changes:

Hit Points. 9 (2d8)

Ability Scores. CON 10 (+0)

Appears in: Random Encounters, Area 15, Area 16, Area 19, Area 21, Area 23

Dathomirian Zombie

Medium undead (dathomirian), unaligned

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• Armor Class 8
• Hit Points 22 (3d8+9)
• Speed 20 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
13 (+1)	6 (-2)	16 (+3)	3 (-4)	6 (-2)	5 (-3)

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• Saving Throws Wis +0
• Damage Immunities poison
• Condition Immunities poisoned
• Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 8
• Languages understands Dathomiri but cannot speak it
• Challenge 1/4 (50 XP), PB +2

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Undead Fortitude. If damage reduces the zombie to 0 hit points, it must make a Constitution saving throw with a DC of 5 + the damage taken, unless the damage is from a light force power or a critical hit. On a success, the zombie drops to 1 hit point instead.

Actions

Slam. Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 4 (1d6+1) kinetic damage.

Dathomirian Skeleton

Medium undead (dathomirian), unaligned

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• Armor Class 13 (armor scraps)
• Hit Points 13 (2d8 + 4)
• Speed 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
10 (+0)	14 (+2)	15 (+2)	6 (-2)	8 (-1)	5 (-3)

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• Damage Vulnerabilities kinetic
• Damage Immunities poison
• Condition Immunities exhaustion, poisoned
• Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 9
• Languages understands Dathomiri but cannot speak it
• Challenge 1/4 (50 XP), PB +2

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Actions

Tribal Blade. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d6+2) kinetic damage.

Energy Bow. Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, range 80/320 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d6+2) energy damage.

Servants of Belaak

Dathomirian skeletons that serve Belaak have their armor class reduced to 12 and have their listed actions replaced with the following action:

Gardening Tool. Melee Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 3 (1d6) kinetic damage.

Appears in: Area 5, Random Encounters, Area 27, Area 42, Area 49

Dathomirian Hunter

Medium humanoid (dathomirian), neutral dark

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• Armor Class 15 (tribal furs, medium physical shield)
• Hit Points 9 (2d8)
• Speed 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
10 (+0)	14 (+2)	10 (+0)	10 (+0)	8 (-1)	8 (-1)

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• Senses passive Perception 8
• Languages Dathomiri, Basic
• Challenge 1/4 (50 XP), PB +2

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Second Heart (1/Short Rest). If the hunter takes 3 damage or less that would reduce it to 0 hit points, it is reduced to 1 hit point instead.

Actions

Tribal Blade. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d6+2) kinetic damage.

Energy Bow. Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, range 80/320 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d6+2) energy damage.

Appears in: Area 4, Random Encounters, Area 18, Area 30, Area 31, Area 32, Area 33, Area 35, Area 36, Area 47, Area 49*

Variant: Dathomirian Witch

Female dathomirians often train in the use of magick. These dathomirians have the following changes:

Armor Class 13 (tribal furs)

Ability Scores STR 8 (-1), DEX 12 (+1), WIS 11 (+0), CHA 13 (+1)

They also gain the following trait:

Forcecasting. The witch is a 1st-level forcecaster (force save DC 11, +3 to hit with power attacks, 4 force points). The witch knows the following powers:
At-will: enfeeble, sound trick
1st-level: curse, wound

Tribal Weaponry

Though the dathomirians frequently use low-tech gear, imbued witch magick allows it be as effective as standard-issue equipment from the wider galaxy. If collected by PCs, the dathomirian armor and weaponry translate as follows:

Nightbrother Exile

Medium humanoid (dathomirian), neutral dark

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• Armor Class 17 (tribal leather, light physical shield)
• Hit Points 11 (2d8+2)
• Speed 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
14 (+2)	12 (+1)	12 (+1)	10 (+0)	10 (+0)	9 (-1)

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• Senses passive Perception 8
• Languages Dathomiri, Basic
• Challenge 1/2 (100 XP), PB +2

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Martial Advantage. Once per turn, the exile can deal an extra 7 (2d6) damage to a creature it hits with a weapon attack if that creature is within 5 feet of an ally of the exile that isn't incapacitated.

Second Heart (1/Short Rest). If the exile takes 5 damage or less that would reduce it to 0 hit points, it is reduced to 1 hit point instead.

Actions

Tribal Sword. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d8+2) kinetic damage, or 7 (1d10+2) kinetic damage if used with two hands.

Plasma Bow. Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, range 105/420 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d8+2) energy damage.

Appears in: Area 41

Durnn

Leader of the Nightbrother exiles, Durnn is a Nightbrother exile with the following changes:

Armor Class 18 (assault armor, light shield)

Hit Points: 19 (3d8+6)

Ability Scores: STR 16 (+3), CON 14 (+2)

Challenge Rating: 1 (200 XP)

Plasma Bows

The high-power energy bows wielded by the Nightbrother exiles do not have an official SW5e equivalent, being more direct conversions of the 5e longbow. If you permit your players to wield these weapons, a player version of the weapon is provided below:

Name	Type	Cost	Weight	Damage	Properties
Plasma Bow	Martial Blaster	525 credits	6.5	1d8 energy	Power Cell (105/420), Mighty, Reload 2, Two-Handed

Dathomirian Champion

Medium humanoid (dathomirian), neutral dark

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• Armor Class 16 (tribal hide, light physical shield)
• Hit Points 27 (5d8+5)
• Speed 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
15 (+2)	14 (+2)	13 (+1)	8 (-1)	11 (+0)	9 (-1)

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• Skills Stealth +6, Survival +2
• Senses passive Perception 8
• Languages Dathomiri, Basic
• Challenge 1 (200 XP), PB +2

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Brute. A melee weapon deals one extra die of its damage when the champion hits with it (included in the attack).

Second Heart (1/Short Rest). If the champion takes 7 damage or less that would reduce it to 0 hit points, it is reduced to 1 hit point instead.

Surprise Attack. If the champion surprises a creature and hits it with an attack during the first round of combat, the target takes an extra 7 (2d6) damage from the attack.

Actions

Tribal Mace. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 13 (2d10+2) kinetic damage.

Tribal Axe. Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, range 25/75 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (2d6+2) kinetic damage.

Appears in: Area 43, Area 48

Champion Gardener

Turned into a mindless thrall of the Tree of Domir, the champion gardener gains the following trait:

Barkskin. The champion's AC can't be lower than 16.

In addition, all the champion's actions are removed and replaced with the following attack:

Tribal Scythe. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 13 (2d10+2) kinetic damage. If the attack roll is a critical hit, the champion deals an additional 5 (1d10) damage in addition to the normal critical hit damage.

Witch Shadow

Medium undead (dathomirian), neutral dark

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• Armor Class 12
• Hit Points 16 (3d8+3)
• Speed 40 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
6 (-2)	14 (+2)	13 (+1)	6 (-2)	10 (+0)	8 (-1)

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• Skills Stealth +4
• Damage Vulnerabilities force
• Damage Resistances acid, cold, fire, lightning, thunder; kinetic, ion or energy damage from unenhanced attacks
• Damage Immunities necrotic, poison
• Condition Immunities exhaustion, frightened, grappled, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained
• Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10
• Languages -
• Challenge 1/2 (100 XP), PB +2

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Amorphous. The shadow can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing.

Shadow Stealth. While in dim light or darkness, the shadow can take the Hide action as a bonus action. Its stealth bonus is also improved to +6.

Sunlight Weakness. While in sunlight, the shadow has disadvantage on attack rolls, ability checks, and saving throws.

Actions

Strength Drain. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 9 (2d6 + 2) necrotic damage, and the target's Strength score is reduced by 1d4. The target dies if this reduces its Strength to 0. Otherwise, the reduction lasts until the target finishes a short or long rest.

If a non-dark humanoid dies from this attack, a new shadow rises from the corpse 1d4 hours later.

Appears in: Area 50

Belaak the Outcast

Medium humanoid (dathomirian), neutral dark

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• Armor Class 11 (16 with barkskin)
• Hit Points 27 (5d8)
• Speed 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
10 (+0)	12 (+1)	13 (+1)	12 (+1)	11 (+0)	15 (+2)

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• Senses passive Perception 10
• Languages Dathomiri, Basic
• Challenge 2 (450 XP), PB +2

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False Barkskin (1/Long Rest). Belaak's skin gains a bark-like appearance, increasing her AC to 16 for 1 hour. While False Barkskin is active, she is considered to be concentrating as though using a power (though she can use other concentration force powers), and the effect ends if this concentration is broken.

Forcecasting. Belaak is a 4th-level forcecaster (force save DC 12, +4 to hit with power attacks, 16 force points). Belaak knows the following powers:
At-will: enfeeble, force imbuement, nature trick
1st-level: force propel, heal, plant growth
2nd-level: kinetite (fire damage)

Second Heart (1/Short Rest). If Belaak takes 8 damage or less that would reduce her to 0 hit points, she is reduced to 1 hit point instead.

Special Equipment. Belaak holds a talisman of plant growth with 7 charges. As an action, she can expend 1 charge to cast plant growth (DC 13).

Actions

Tribal Staff. Melee Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 3 (1d6) kinetic damage, or 5 (2d4) if wielded with two hands.

Tribal Staff (Force Imbuement). Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d8+2) kinetic damage.

Appears in: Area 56

Magick Powers

Through the power of ichor, witches like Belaak can wield manipulate and wield powers similar to, yet unlike those of the Jedi and Sith. When casting the kinetite force power, the sphere deals fire damage instead of lightning.

She also knows the following Expanded Force Powers (courtesy of HugeHuman) and they are treated as universal powers for her:

Nature Trick (at-will light side power)

Casting Time: 1 action

Range: 30 feet

Duration: Instantaneous

Drawing on a connection to nature through the Force, you create one of the following effects within range:

• You immediately gain knowledge of what the weather will be at your location for the next 24 hours.
• You instantly make a flower blossom, a seed pod open, or a leaf bud bloom.
• You create an instantaneous, harmless sensory effect, such as falling leaves, a puff of wind, the sound of a small animal, or the faint odor of eopie droppings. The effect must fit in a 5-foot cube.
• You instantly light or snuff out a candle, a torch, or a small campfire.

Plant Growth (1st-level light side power)

Casting Time: 1 action

Range: 90 feet

Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

Grasping weeds and vines sprout from the ground in a 20-foot square starting from a point within range. For the duration, these plants turn the ground in the area into difficult terrain.

A creature in the area when you cast the power must succeed on a Strength saving throw or be restrained by the entangling plants until the power ends. A creature restrained by the plants can use its action to make a Strength check against your force save DC. On a success, it frees itself.

When the power ends, the plants wilt away.

You may choose whether to allow your players to be able to learn these powers if they have forcecasting capability. If so, consider including a journal with Belaak's possessions that goes into detail about these powers.

Ichor Blight

Small plant, neutral dark

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• Armor Class 13 (natural armor)
• Hit Points 4 (1d6+1)
• Speed 20 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
6 (-2)	13 (+1)	12 (+1)	4 (-3)	8 (-1)	3 (-4)

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• Skills Stealth +3
• Damage Vulnerabilities fire
• Condition Immunities blinded, deafened
• Senses blindsight 60 ft. (blind beyond this radius), passive Perception 9
• Languages understands Basic but cannot speak it
• Challenge 1/8 (25 XP), PB +2

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False Appearance. While the blight remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from a dead shrub.

Actions

Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 3 (1d4+1) kinetic damage.

Appears in: Ravine, Random Encounters, Area 41, Area 42, Area 49, Area 55, Area 56

Viper of Flame

Medium elemental, neutral dark

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• Armor Class 14 (natural armor)
• Hit Points 22 (5d8)
• Speed 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
12 (+1)	14 (+2)	11 (+0)	7 (-2)	10 (+0)	8 (-1)

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• Damage Vulnerabilities cold
• Damage Resistances kinetic, ion or energy damage from unenhanced attacks
• Damage Immunities fire
• Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10
• Languages understands Dathomiri but can't speak
• Challenge 1 (200 XP), PB +2

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Heated Body. A creature that touches the viper or hits it with a melee attack while within 5 feet of it takes 3 (1d6) fire damage.

Actions

Multiattack. The viper makes two bite attacks.

Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 3 (1d4+1) kinetic damage plus 3 (1d6) fire damage.

Appears in: Area 45, Area 49

Oggdo, Juvenile

Medium beast, unaligned

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• Armor Class 11
• Hit Points 18 (4d8)
• Speed 30 ft., swim 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
12 (+1)	13 (+1)	11 (+0)	2 (-4)	10 (+0)	3 (-4)

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• Skills Perception +2, Stealth +3
• Senses darkvision 30 ft., passive Perception 12
• Languages -
• Challenge 1/4 (50 XP), PB +2

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Amphibious. The oggdo can breathe air and water.

Standing Leap. The oggdo's long jump is up to 20 feet and its high jump is up to 10 feet, with or without a running start.

Actions

Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 4 (1d6 + 1) kinetic damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 11). Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained, and the oggdo can't bite another target.

Swallow. The oggdo makes one bite attack against a Small or smaller target it is grappling. If the attack hits, the target is swallowed, and the grapple ends. The swallowed target is blinded and restrained, it has total cover against attacks and other effects outside the oggdo, and it takes 5 (2d4) acid damage at the start of each of the oggdo's turns. The oggdo can have only one target swallowed at a time. If the oggdo dies, a swallowed creature is no longer restrained by it and can escape from the corpse using 5 feet of movement, exiting prone.

Appears in: Area 56

Sharwyn Hucrele

Medium humanoid (human), neutral dark

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• Armor Class 16 (barkskin)
• Hit Points 13 (2d8+4)
• Speed 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
11 (+0)	13 (+1)	14 (+2)	16 (+3)	14 (+2)	9 (-1)

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• Skills Technology +5, Insight +4, Persuasion +1
• Senses passive Perception 12
• Languages Basic, Dathomirian, Huttese
• Challenge 1/2 (100 XP), PB +2

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Special Equipment. Sharwyn uses a wristpad (fine) to cast her tech powers (included in her techcasting trait).

Barkskin. Sharwyn's AC can't be lower than 16.

Techcasting. Sharwyn is a 1st-level techcaster (tech save DC 13, +6 to hit with power attacks, 4 tech points). Sharwyn knows the following powers:
At-will: light, minor hologram, spectrum ray
1st-level: energy shield, flash, homing rockets, tranquilizer

Tree Thrall. If the Tree of Domir dies, Sharwyn dies 24 hours later.

Actions

Blaster Pistol. Ranged Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, range 50/200 ft., one target. Hit: 4 (1d6+1) energy damage.

Appears in: Area 56

Berath Vord

Medium humanoid (human), neutral dark

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• Armor Class 18 (assault armor, light physical shield)
• Hit Points 19 (3d8 + 6)
• Speed 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
16 (+3)	9 (-1)	14 (+2)	10 (+0)	14 (+2)	13 (+1)

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• Skills Athletics +5, Perception +3
• Senses passive Perception 13
• Languages Basic
• Challenge 1/2 (100 XP), PB +2

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Special Equipment. Berath wields Shatterpoint, an enhanced martial lightsaber that grants a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with it (included in his attack). Damage from unenhanced sources cannot harm the weapon.

Barkskin. Berath's AC can't be lower than 16.

Formation Style. Berath can take the Guard action as a bonus action.

Tree Thrall. If the Tree of Domir dies, Berath dies 24 hours later.

Actions

Shatterpoint. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d8+3) energy damage, or 8 (1d10+3) energy damage if wielded with two hands. If this attack targets and hits an object, it is an automatic critical hit and can deal either kinetic or energy damage.

Appears in: Area 56

It is recommended to make use of the "Weapon Sundering" Variant Rule when making use of Berath's Shatterpoint action in its intended manner.

In addition, an alternative version of Berath Vord and his weapon are provided in appendix C under "Alternative Berath Vord and Shatterpoint", intended to simplify the usage of both this creature and Shatterpoint itself.

Object Hit Points and Armor Classes

While the D&D 5e Dungeon Master's Guide provides expected armor classes for most materials, many locations in the Star Wars universe, even ancient strongholds, are liable to make use of more advanced compound materials than simple iron or wood. This is particularly important to consider with the addition of the Shatterpoint weapon in this adventure, which actively encourages object destruction.

As such, here is an updated version of the DMG's Object Armor Class table for use with this adventure, alongside an accompanying hit point table:

Refer to the "Objects" section in part 4 of the D&D Basic Rules for further guidance on running attacks against objects and dealing with Huge and Gargantuan objects.

Why Not Both?

The main reason for these alternative versions is to prevent GM's from being forced to implement a group-wide variant rule solely because of this item's intended use. Limiting the effects of Weapon Sundering to Shatterpoint makes the item valuable enough that automatic critical hits are not required, unless you choose to implement this variant rule for all weaponry.

If you would like to keep the 'automatic critical hits against objects' aspect of the original weapon as well as keeping its Sundering properties unique, you may freely combine these versions - just keep in mind how these combined benefits may affect the item's rarity and consider increasing it as appropriate.

WEAPON HIT DICE AND HIT POINTS

A weapon’s hit points are presented both as Hit Dice and hit points. A weapon has a number of Hit Dice equal to twice its damage dice. For instance, a blaster rifle has a 1d8 damage die, so it has 2 Hit Dice, which are d8s. A weapon’s hit points are determined by taking the average of its hit dice. For instance, a blaster has 2 Hit Dice, which are d8s, so it has 9 hit points on average, as shown in the Hit Dice Average table below.

At the GM’s discretion, some weapons might be resistant, immune, or even vulnerable to certain types of damage. Enhanced weapons are resistant, or even immune, to damage from unenhanced weapons.

REPAIRING DAMAGED/BROKEN WEAPONS

A weapon is destroyed when it drops to 0 hit points. As long as a weapon has 1 or more hit points remaining, a character can attempt to perform minor repairs by spending one or more of the weapon’s Hit Dice at the end of a short rest, up to the weapon’s maximum number of Hit Dice. To restore hit dice, the player must first make an Intelligence (Technology) check.

If a weapon has at least 1 HP remaining, you can attempt to make minor repairs to it during a Short Rest. To attempt to restore HD, a character must make an Intelligence (Technology) roll. The DC is 8 + the amount of damage the weapon has taken. The player has advantage on the roll if they know the mending tech power or are proficient with the appropriate artisan’s tools (armstech’s tools for blasters and vibroweapons, artificer’s tools for lightweapons). On a failure, the Hit Die is expended and no hit points are restored. On a success, the player can spend the weapon’s Hit Dice to restore hit points. The player can decide to spend an additional Hit Die after each roll.

A weapon regains Hit Dice when serviced by a professional with the appropriate artisan’s tools, who can repair the weapon over a number of hours equal to the size of the weapon’s damage dice. For instance, a blaster rifle has a 1d8 damage die, so it would take 8 hours to repair. This service costs half the value of the weapon.

A player can choose to specialize their character with the following Fighting Style and Fighting Mastery:

Fighting Style: SUNDER FIGHTING

You are skilled at striking in order to damage, and potentially destroy, your enemies’ weapons. While you are wielding a melee weapon with which you are proficient, you gain the following benefits:

• You no longer have disadvantage on Sundering attack rolls.
• When a foe hits you with a Sundering attack, you can use your reaction to add a +5 to your armor class vs the triggering attack. If this causes the attack to miss, your weapon does not take any damage.

Fighting Mastery: SUNDERING MASTERY

You have mastered rending your foes’ weapons, leaving them impotent and vulnerable to your follow up attacks. While you are wielding a melee weapon with which you are proficient, you gain the following benefits:

• Before you make a Sundering attack with weapon that you are proficient with, you can choose to forgo your proficiency bonus. If the attack hits, you add double your proficiency bonus to the attack’s damage.
• On your turn, when you score a critical hit with a Sundering attack or reduce a weapon to 0 hit points with one, you can make one melee weapon attack as a bonus action.

Content

The Sunless Citadel (5e) - Tales from the Yawning Portal, Wizards of the Coast, 2017.

Official SW5e Content - Steev and all other contributors

Nydak Statistics - Nusaka, 'Assorted Statblocks'

Juvenile Rancor Statistics - Steev, 'Scum & Villany'

Scrap Droid Statistics - Steev, 'Scum & Villany' (adaptation of the B1 Battle droid)

Power Ciphers Enhanced Item - Aziz, 'Power Ciphers'

Images

Dathomir Temple Concept Art (Cover/pg 1) - https://grushing.artstation.com/projects/lV288V

Sunless Citadel Maps (pg 9 & 24) - Tales from the Yawning Portal, Wizards of the Coast, 2017.