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第四章:构建艾伯伦战役——巨龙Dragons
« 于: 2020-01-23, 周四 01:12:38 »
巨龙
  艾伯伦的龙不只是怪物。冒险者也很少会闯入龙的巢穴中寻找宝藏。这个世界的巨龙要么是超然,冷漠且无法接近的,要么是充满好奇心且善于操纵的:在幕后推动事态发展,或试图以奥术的方式影响世界。
  大多数龙生活在神秘莫测的阿贡尼森大陆上,避免与那些被视为低等生物的存在接触。巨龙们沉迷于与其说是清晰预测更像是可能未来蓝图的巨龙预言。它的踪迹在位面与月球的移动,龙纹家族的活动和其他数十种更微妙的表现中得以揭示。活跃在科瓦雷的大多数巨龙都是被称为密阁的阴谋集团的一部分。
  在科瓦雷,不属于密阁的一条巨龙可能是出于某些罪责而被驱逐出阿贡尼森的流放者,或是寻求独立研究的学者。一些孤儿龙会在科瓦雷长大并且不会与阿贡尼森产生任何联系,还有一些龙被异变魔扭曲或被邪魔腐蚀。如果您要进行的冒险需要残暴的巨龙,那么其中任何一个都可以成为对手。
  艾伯伦的巨龙并不受阵营限制,善良的红龙和邪恶的金龙同样常见,但大多数龙倾向于中立。但即使是那些善良阵营的巨龙,也常常不考虑自己的行为对低等生物的影响:如果一条密阁巨龙必须摧毁一个人类村庄以挫败恶魔的计划,它将毫不犹豫地这样做。


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Dragons
The dragons of Eberron are much more than mere monsters; adventurers will rarely barge into a dragon's lair in search of its treasure horde. Dragons in the world are either aloof and unapproachable, or they are curious and manipulative, pulling strings behind the scenes or trying to influence the world in arcane ways.
Most dragons live on the mystery-shrouded continent of Argonnessen and avoid contact with those they see as lesser creatures. They are obsessed with the Draconic Prophecy, which is a map of possible futures rather than a clear -cut prediction. Its paths are revealed in the motion of planes and moons, in the actions of the dragonmarked houses, and in dozens of other more subtle manifestations. Most dragons that are active in Khorvaire are part of a cabal known as the Chamber.
A dragon in Khorvaire that isn't part of the Chamber could be an exile driven from Argonnessen for some crime or a scholar pursuing independent research. Some orphaned dragons grow up in Khorvaire without contact with Argonnessen, and some dragons have been twisted by the daelkyr or corrupted by fiends; any of these could be an antagonist if the adventure you're crafting calls for a cruel dragon.
The dragons of Eberron aren't restricted in alignment-good red dragons and evil gold dragons are equally common. Most dragons tend toward neutrality. Even those with good alignments often don't consider the impact of their actions on lesser beings; if a Chamber dragon must destroy a human village to foil the plans of a demon, it will do so without hesitation.

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Re: 第四章:构建艾伯伦战役——巨龙Dragons
« 回帖 #1 于: 2020-01-23, 周四 01:17:11 »
密阁
  阴谋论者坚持认为一个巨龙的网络正潜藏在科瓦雷之中,这些强大的生物利用非凡的魔法和类人生物密探在整个大陆乃至更远的地方实现自己的意志。他们的主张通常被认为充满了疯狂疯狂,但实际上是正确的。密阁是一个监视了科瓦雷数千年的龙类集团,并在古时将类人生物们当作自己的爪牙
  首先,密阁的巨龙是观察者,他们收集有关预言的新信息并与他们在阿贡尼森的长辈们分享。他们还将制止任何试图将预言用于一己私利的生物视为己任。这项职责使他们站在了砂主的对立面:砂主必须操纵预言以释放他们的邪恶主宰。这也导致他们会去招募或清除任何对预言了解过多的类人生物。
  密阁的组织架构松散。每条龙都监视着自己的一亩三分地并维护着类人生物的密探网络。尽管密阁的任务仅仅是观察,但每个单独的巨龙通常都有着自己的小算盘。有些会试图亲自操纵预言,将未来引往特定的道路。其他的会对龙纹类人生物进行实验并试图了解这些生物与预言之间的联系。此外还有一些沉迷于砂主的巨龙会与他们的邪魔对手进行跨世纪的猫鼠游戏。总的来说,密阁寻求维持现状并遏制魔鬼,因此密阁的密探通常可以成为有用的盟友或支持者。但说到底类人生物只是巨龙眼中的棋子与爪牙,他们会随时牺牲任何棋子以确保预言的神圣性和砂主的落败。


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The Chamber
Conspiracy theorists insist that a network of dragons is hidden in Khorvaire, and these mighty creatures use powerful magic and humanoid agents to work their will across the continent and beyond. These claims are usually dismissed as madness, but they are in fact correct. The Chamber is a cabal of dragons that have monitored Khorvaire for thousands of years, treating humanoids as pawns in an ancient game.
First and foremost, the dragons of the Chamber are observers, gathering information about new aspects of the Prophecy and sharing it with their elders in Argonnessen. They are also charged with stopping any creature that seeks to use the Prophecy for its own ends. This responsibility sets them against the Lords of Dust, who must manipulate the Prophecy in order to release their fiendish overlords. It also leads them to recruit or eliminate any humanoid who learns too much about the Prophecy.
The Chamber is loosely organized. Each dragon monitors its own small corner of the world and maintains a network of humanoid agents. Although the mission of the Chamber is one of observation, individual dragons often have their own agendas. Some seek to manipulate the Prophecy personally, directing the future along a particular path. Others conduct experiments on dragonmarked humanoids, trying to understand the connection between these creatures and the Prophecy. Still others are obsessed with the Lords of Dust engage in century-spanning games of cat-and-mouse with their fiendish counterparts. In general, the Chamber seeks to maintain the status quo and opposes demons, so agents of the Chamber can often be useful allies or patrons. But ultimately humanoids are just pawns in the dragons' eyes, and they readily sacrifice any of those pawns to ensure the sanctity of the Prophecy and the defeat of the Lords of Dust.
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Re: 第四章:构建艾伯伦战役——巨龙Dragons
« 回帖 #2 于: 2020-01-23, 周四 01:18:36 »
密阁与战争
  类人生物的性命及其国家的福祉对古老的巨龙来说没有太大意义。一个目前看起来友善的巨龙可能是战争的元凶并造成了恐怖的邪恶后果,同时他引导着战争的关键事件,以确保小规模的冲突或不合时宜的暗杀不会使预言的关键阶段脱轨。更为令人不安是,作为对抗砂主的斗争的一部分或甚是对巨龙预言命令的之间响应,哀悼事件有可能是由密阁精心策划的。
  不管真相如何,从大局来看,终末争对密阁的影响很小。多处位面观测台受到损伤,类人生物仆人成群死去,军队间的冲突破坏了短期计划。但即使是百年的战争,也对跨数个大陆和千年的计划的来说显得无关紧要。



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THE CHAMBER AND THE WAR
The lives of humanoids and the welfare of their nations mean little to the ancient dragons. A member of the Chamber who is friendly now might turn out to be little more than a war criminal, responsible for horrible atrocities while directing critical events of the war to ensure that a skirmish or an untimely assassination didn't derail some crucial stanza of the Prophecy. An even more disturbing prospect is that the Mourning might have been orchestrated by the Chamber, either as part of its struggle against the Lords of Dust or even directly in response to the dictates of the Prophecy.
Whatever the truth, the Last War's impact on the Chamber was small in the grand scheme of things. Planar observatories were damaged here and there, humanoid servants died in droves, and the clash of armies derailed short-term plans. But even the effects of a hundred years of war are minor in the context of plans that span continents and millennia.
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Re: 第四章:构建艾伯伦战役——巨龙Dragons
« 回帖 #3 于: 2020-01-23, 周四 01:22:13 »
位面观测台
  位面观测台,是密阁探寻巨龙预言寓意的核心建筑。位面观测台是由一大堆晶体和金属制成的大房间所构成的,并排列配置着巨大的日分仪以追踪和配对位面与希波里斯之环。

位面观测台特征
  地图4.2展示了位面观测台的外观。这些宏伟的建筑是由龙,也是为龙所建造的。环绕在中央的日分仪被用于追踪当位面靠近或远离艾伯伦时的行动轨迹。而观测台的核心则是三种巨大的龙晶(艾伯伦,凯博尔和希波里斯)。
  每个观测台必须建立在希波里斯和凯博尔之间的平衡位置,而找到这样的地点可能得花费数年的仔细研究和调查,并且这些地点通常都很偏僻。阿贡尼森有几个这样的地点,而那些在科瓦雷的通常都被发现于连绵的高山和隐匿的树林里。由于艾伯伦月亮的移动通常被认为与位面之间的转移关系一一对应,因此许多观测台都配有水晶屋顶,或能借助强大机械装置而打开以一览无余夜空的穹顶。



位面观测台冒险
  角色可能会以不知情的密阁观察员的手下身分进入到位面观测台,或者观测台是他们与砂主的仆从战斗的目的地,甚至是偶然到达。位面观测台冒险表罗列了一些可能的情况。

位面观测台冒险表
d8 冒险目标

1.一位伪装的龙请求协助以修复观测台内受损的日分仪。
2.角色的联系人之一是密阁龙类观察者的隐秘仆人。当联系人失踪时,他们的笔记指向了山上一个隐藏的“图书馆”。
3.位面观测台可能提供一种方法来预防或至少预测即将遭受毁灭性打击的地区。
4.一个观测台已被魔鬼信徒所占领,角色必须在信徒利用设施之前将其收回或销毁。
5.一个龙纹角色时常做噩梦,而这些梦将他们引向了观测台。
6.一个小偷或刺客一直在使用废弃的观测台作为藏身处,并偶尔出售一些来自观测台的龙晶和装置。
7.一位学者聘请了角色来协助研究并恢复一座重见天日的观测台。
8.如果将横跨某个地区的数个天文台同时按照一种特定的形式排列则会产生巨大的影响。

密阁NPC
  密阁之龙通常使用魔法来掩饰其本质,并在类人生物社会中低调行动。尽管他们获取知识和反对砂主的目标可以使这些龙成为合适的盟友,但是他们对长期利益的热忠会使他们对行动的短期影响视而不见。

密阁NPC表
d6 NPC

1.一个密阁的法师代理人企图消除所有过去有过合作关系的人来掩盖他们的踪迹并确保密阁的隐秘性
2.预言要求毁灭一个类人生物的城市,一个谨慎精明的银龙正伪装在城市中,并让它变得不安定继而毁灭它
3.一个当地的图书管理员其实是一个伪装的金龙,他引导角色们踏上对预言而言至关重要的道路
4.一个巨龙坚信龙纹家族正在腐化预言。他可能正紧盯着一个龙纹家族的继承人,或者发起一个企图毁灭这个家族的群众运动
5.一个隐秘地为密阁工作地皇家幕僚或者显赫贵族把角色们引入对预言至关重要但对地区而言是毁灭性的方向。
6.一个伪装的巨龙确信一位冒险者在预言中扮演着至关重要的角色,但砂主的成员却想将他引入歧途。


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Planar Observatory
A planar observatory is a structure at the heart of the Chamber’s efforts to divine the meaning of the draconic Prophecy. The observatory consists of great chambers of crystal and metal, lined with huge orreries that track and align with the planes and the Ring of Siberys.

Planar Observatory Features
Map 4.2 shows what a planar observatory might look like. These immense locations are constructed by and for dragons. The orreries that surround the central space track the courses of the planes as they shift toward and away from Eberron. All about the observatory are enormous dragonshards of all three kinds (Eberron, Khyber, and Siberys).

Each observatory must be built in a location that is balanced between Siberys and Khyber; finding such a site might take years of careful study and surveying, and these places are typically remote. Several are located in Argonnessen; those in Khorvaire are usually found in mountain ranges and hidden forest clearings. Many have crystal roofs, or domes that open with the aid of great mechanisms to allow an unobstructed view of the night sky, since the movements of Eberron’s moons are thought to correspond to the shifting relationships among the planes.

Planar Observatory Adventures
The characters might find their way to a planar observatory as unwitting minions of a Chamber observer, as a destination in their struggles against servants of the Lords of Dust, or even accidentally. The Planar Observatory Adventures table presents some possibilities.

Planar Observatory Adventures
d8 Adventure Goal
1 A disguised dragon requests assistance repairing a damaged orrery within the observatory.
2 One of the character's contacts is secretly the servant of a Chamber dragon observer. When the contact goes missing, their notes point toward a hidden" library" in the mountains.
3 The planar observatory might offer a way to prevent or at least predict what seems to be an epidemic of destructive manifest zones.
4 An observatory has been taken over by demonic cultists, and the characters must reclaim the facility or destroy it before the cult makes use of it.
5 A d ragonmarked character has recurring nightmares that lead them to the observatory.
6 A thief or assassin has been using a derelict observatory as a hideout, occasionally selling bits of the observatory's dragonshards and equipment.
7 A scholar hires the characters to assist with studying and restoring a rediscovered observatory.
8 Several observatories across the region will produce a powerful effect if each is brought into a specific, simultaneous alignment.

CHAMBER NPCs
The dragons of the Chamber typically use magic to disguise their true nature and move unseen among humanoids. Although their goals of acquiring knowledge and opposing the Lords of Dust can make the dragons suitable as allies, their devotion to their long-term interests can blind them to the short-term impact of their actions.

Chamber NPCs
d6   NPC
1   A wizard agent of the Chamber seeks to eliminate all the people they worked with in the past to cover their tracks and preserve the Chamber’s secrecy.
2   The Prophecy requires the eventual destruction of a humanoid city. A disguised silver dragon, cunning and subtle, works to destabilize the city and bring about its ruin.
3   A local librarian is a disguised gold dragon in the service of the Chamber, who provides useful leads to send the characters down paths vital to the Prophecy.
4   A dragon becomes convinced that the dragonmarked houses are corrupting the Prophecy. It might specifically target dragonmarked heirs, or start a popular movement that seeks to destroy the houses.
5   A royal advisor or prominent noble, secretly a servant of the Chamber, guides the leader in a direction vital to the Prophecy but disastrous to the region.
6   A disguised dragon is convinced that an adventurer has a critical role to play in the Prophecy, but an agent of the Lords of Dust is determined to drive them down a different path.
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Re: 第四章:构建艾伯伦战役——巨龙Dragons
« 回帖 #4 于: 2020-01-23, 周四 01:26:56 »
密阁战役主题
  在以密阁为特点的战役中,冒险者们最初可能会代表伪装的巨龙或密阁的秘密特工执行简单的任务,不一定要做任何肮脏的勾当,而是将棋子放在适当的位置以发挥其预定的作用。随着战役的进行,密阁的巨龙可能会向冒险者们揭露他们有自己独特的价值,尤其是其中的龙纹党派的成员。密阁开始干涉角色的活动,无论是好是坏,而砂主也可能参与其中。不幸的是,对于冒险者们来说,巨龙并不一定比砂主更关心他们的福祉,并且为了逃避龙的魔掌,角色可能不得不与魔鬼同流合污。
  在整个战役期间,密阁的目标可能并不明显。之前描述的位面观测台之类的地点可能会使冒险者对他们所卷入的预言有了一些实质性的了解,而先知和智者可能能够进一步提供关于魔鬼与龙对预言的解读的不同之处的洞悉。归根结底,冒险者可能会不得不在对他们不利但在长期内对世界有利的结果,和短期的胜利但为遥远的未来埋下巨大祸根(或没有太遥远的未来)的结果中之间做出选择。
  另一个可能的情形是冒险者与密阁公开合作以收集有关预言的信息并共同对抗砂主。在这种情况下,密阁可以被视为一个组织;详见第1章的“不朽者”部分


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CHAMBER CAMPAIGN THEMES
In a campaign featuring the Chamber, the adventurers might initially carry out simple tasks on behalf of a disguised dragon or secret Chamber agent, not necessarily doing anything shady or villainous, but maneuvering pieces into position so they can play their designated parts. As the campaign unfolds, the dragons of the Chamber might reveal that the adventurers have their own part to play-in particular, perhaps, any member of the party who bears a dragonmark. The Chamber begins interfering in the characters' activities, for good and for ill, and the Lords of Dust might also get involved. Unfortunately for the adventurers, the dragons are not necessarily any more concerned for their well-being than the Lords of Dust are, and the characters might have to consort or cooperate with demons in order to escape the clutches of the dragons.
Throughout the campaign, the goals of the Chamber might not be readily apparent. Locations such as the planar observatory described here might be able to give the adventurers some insight into the substance of the Prophecy they have become tangled up in, and seers and sages might be able to offer further insight into the different ways that the demons and the dragons could be interpreting those words. Ultimately, the adventurers might be in the position of having to choose between an outcome that is bad for them but good for the world in the long term, or a short-term triumph that carries tremendous risk for the world in the distant (or not too distant) future.
Another possibility is that the adventurers are openly working with the Chamber to gather information on the Prophecy and fight the Lords of Dust. In this case, the Chamber could act as a group patron; see the "Immortal Being" section of chapter 1
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密阁任务 
  密阁任务表列出几种可能的冒险者被要求(知情或不知情地)推进密阁的计划的方式,而密阁冒险表则提供了一些密阁的行动如何触发冒险的更多情形。

密阁任务表
d6 任务

1.收集崭新的龙晶来扩建或修复观测台。
2.寻找一群必须被消灭的人来实现预言中的一节。
3.追寻是谁杀死了角色的巨龙上头的另一个下属。
4.保护密阁安全屋免受敌对巨龙的攻击
5.盗取地方学者的研究成果以防他们发现密阁的行踪
6.重建一个能让一段预言重见天日的古老仪式。


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Chamber Missions
The Chamber Missions table suggests several ways that adventurers might (knowingly or unknowingly) be asked to advance the Chamber’s agenda, while the Chamber Adventures table offers a few more ways in which the activities of the Chamber could lead to an adventure.

Chamber Missions
d6   Mission
1   Gather pristine dragonshards to expand or repair an observatory.
2   Seek out a group of people who must be eliminated in order to bring about the fulfillment of a stanza of Prophecy.
3   Discover who killed another minion of the characters’ dragon patron.
4   Defend a Chamber safe house against a rival draconic attack.
5   Steal a local sage’s research to prevent them from discovering the Chamber’s activities.
6   Recreate an ancient ritual that will bring a new piece of the Prophecy to light.

我不知道是什么毛病,书和dndb里面并没有密阁冒险表这个东西,我怀疑是漏印了
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« 回帖 #6 于: 2020-01-23, 周四 01:34:25 »
翻译+润色完了,拖了这么久实在不好意思,有什么问题和补充的欢迎指出