Campaign Overview Hoard of the Dragon Queen Background Overview The Rise of Tiamat Background Overview Outline Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3 Stage 4 Advancement Adventure Hooks Additional Encounters Running the Adventure Campaign Villains The Cult of the Dragon Red Wizards of Thay Hosts of the Nine Hells Chromatic Dragons Giants Campaign Allies The Harpers The Order of the Gauntlet The Emerald Enclave The Lords' Alliance The Zhentarim Metallic Dragons Giants
Chapter 1: Greenest in Flames Character Hooks The Approach General Features Important Characters Wandering Encounters Seek the Keep Missions The Old Tunnel The Sally Port Dragon Attack Prisoners Save the Mill Sanctuary Half-Dragon Champion
Chapter 2: Raiders' Camp Tracking the Raiders Cult of the Dragon Ranks Stragglers Rearguard The Camp General Features Camp Alertness Exploring the Camp Leosin Erlanthar Rewards
Chapter 3: Dragon Hatchery Abandoned Camp Dragon Hatchery General Features Wandering Monsters 1. Cave Entrance 2. Concealed Passage 3. Fungus Garden 4. Stirge Lair 5. Troglodyte Incursion 6. Meat Locker 7. Drake Nursery 8. Kobold Barracks 9. Dragon Shrine 10. Dragon Hatchery 11. Frulam Mondath’s Chamber 12. Guard Barracks 13. Treasure Storage Rewards
Chapter 4: On the Road Elturel The Order of the Gauntlet The Mission Baldur’s Gate Hiring Out Fellow Travelers Key Nonplayer Characters Other Nonplayer Characters Life on the Road Random Road Events Adventuring Life Animal Abuse Bane of the Mountains Contraband Everything Has a Price Fungus Humongous The Golden Stag Payback No Room at the Inn Roadside Hospitality Spider Woods Stranded Planned Road Events Recognized! Unwanted Attention Who’s Your Friend? Murder Most Foul
Chapter 5: Construction Ahead Waterdeep Northbound, Again Encounters North of Waterdeep Carnath Roadhouse Essential Ingredients 1. Courtyard 2. Stables 3. Warehouse 4. Strong Room 5. Rooms 6. Bog Luck’s Room 7. Ardred Briferhew’s Room 8. Kitchen Tracking the Load Grudge Match
Chapter 6: Castle Naerytar Traveling to the Castle Mere of Dead Men Random Encounters Castle Naerytar Factions Squaring Off Against the Cult of the Dragon Approaching Castle Naerytar Outside Castle Naerytar 1. Landing 2. Animal Stockade 3. Longhouses 4. Huts 5. Moat 6. Main Gate Inside Castle Naerytar Ground Floor 1A. Barbican 1B. Causeway 1C. Outer Ward 1D. Inner Ward 1E. Northwest Tower 1F. Stables 1G. Lower Barracks 1H. Forge and Armory 1I. Lizardfolk Ready Room 1J. Lizardfolk Sleeping Room 1K. Lizardfolk Sleeping Room 1L. Chapel 1M. Storeroom 1N. Rectory 1O. Archer’s Gallery 1P. Kitchen 1Q. Great Hall 1R. Southwest Tower Antechamber 1S. Subterranean Entrance 1T. Unused Chamber 1U. Keep Entrance 1V. West Guest Rooms Second Floor 2A. Upper Barbican 2E. Rotted Floor 2F. Stables Loft 2G. Upper Barracks 2H. Arsenal 2I, J, K. Vacant Rooms 2L. Outer Library 2M. Reading Room 2N. Library 2P. Kitchen Storage 2R. Cultists' Sleeping Chamber 2T. Cultists' Sleeping Chamber 2U. Dralmorrer Borngray’s Common Room 2V, W. Borngray’s Sleeping and Dressing Rooms Third Floor 3E. Specters' Sanctum 3G. Unused Chamber 3H, I, J. Spiders' Lair 3L. Rezmir’s Office 3M. Rezmir’s Sitting Room 3N. Rezmir’s Sleeping Chamber 3O. Rezmir’s Sanctuary 3P. Kitchen Storage 3R. Cultists' Sleeping Chamber 3S. Unused Room 3T. Cultists' Study 3U. Observatory Beneath the Castle General Features of the Cave 1. Entry Cavern 2. Gray Ooze Lair 3. Mud Room 4. Centipede Lair 5. Empty Chamber 6. Frog Lake 7. Frog Landing 8. Tadpole Hatchery 9. Crane 10. Misty Room 11. Frog Shrine 12. Pharblex’s Sanctum 13. To the Graypeak Mountains Rewards
Chapter 7: Hunting Lodge General Features Important Nonplayer Characters Talis Rezmir Trepsin the Troll Through the Gate Outside the Lodge Outdoor Patrol Troll Pursuit 1. Portal Stones 2. Hunting Kennel 3. Stables and Well Lodge Ground Floor 4. Cloak Room and Guard Post 5. Small Hall 6. Three Hounds Parlor 7. Kitchen 8. Pantry 9. Basement 10. Guest Chamber 11. White Stag Parlor 12. Kobold Servants 13. Human Servants 14. Bath 15. Linens Lodge Upper Floor 16. Talis’s Hall 17. Armory 18. Talis’s Bedchamber 19. Bodyguards' Chamber 20. Queen of Dragons Chamber 21. Trophy Room 22. Peryton Roost Traveling to Parnast
Chapter 8: Castle in the Clouds Parnast 1. Village of Parnast Rumors and Information 2. The Golden Tankard 3. The Stable 4. Shrine of Axes 5. Village Well and Square Skyreach Castle General Features Important Nonplayer Characters Areas of the Castle (6-15) 6. Main Gate 7. Lower Courtyard 8. Stables 9. Cultist Barracks 10. Stone Giants' Chamber 11. Rezmir’s Chamber 12. Red Wizards' Room 13. Storeroom 14. Guest Chamber 15. Kitchen Areas of the Castle (16-25) 16. Upper Courtyard 17. High Blue Tower 18. Crumbling Tower 19. Steering Tower 20. Ogre Barracks 21. Esclarotta’s Tomb 22. Cloud Giant Tower 23. Giant Guest Chambers 24. Servant Barracks 25. Main Vault Concluding the Adventure
Appendix B: Council Scorecard First Council (Hoard of the Dragon Queen) Second Council Third Council Fourth Council Final Tally
Appendix E: Concept Gallery Invasion of Icewind Dale Attack on Luskan Siege of Neverwinter Assassination in Waterdeep Battle at Tiamat’s Temple Coup at Dragonspear Castle Factions Red Wizards of Thay The Black Network Dread Warriors Cult of the Dragon Dragon Masks Cult of the Dragon - Cultist Stronghold Dragon Cultists Areas of Faerûn Temple of Tiamat Icewind Dale Waterdeep People of the Sword Coast Dragons Red Dragons Blue Dragons Green Dragons Black Dragons White Dragons