Weapon (snaerispear), legendary (requires attunement) Tordalfr was a storm giantkin born to a human mother in a small village. After years of jibes and taunts from the children of local warriors, he snapped. Brael, son of the village headman, and a pompous, aspiring warrior, called Tordalfr out in public, proclaiming to his assembled cronies that there was irrefutable evidence that Tordalfr was…

Weapon (longsword), legendary (requires attunement) Thogar Giant- Hewer earned great renown through unwavering bravery but not intellectual brilliance. His unmatched courage often forged far ahead of his reason. As a youth, he could not prevent marauding giants and trolls from destroying his village and murdering his family. Left alone on the blood-soaked snow, a fire kindled deep in Thogar’s…

Spells Prepared. You determine what spells you can prepare for each class individually, as if you were a single-classed member of that class. If you are a level 4 Ranger / level 3 Sorcerer, for example, you can prepare five level 1 Ranger spells, and you can prepare six Sorcerer spells of level 1 or 2 (as well as four Sorcerer cantrips). Each spell you prepare is associated with one of your…

Magic Items for Starting Characters If you’re starting a campaign for characters above level 1, the Player’s Handbook offers suggestions for how many magic items such characters should start with and the rarity of those items. Consider these approaches to determining the items each character receives: DM Choice: Choose items for each character using your own judgment. Player Choice: Let the…

Medium Fey (Goblinoid), Lawful Evil AC 18 Initiative +3 (13) HP 16 (3d8+2) Speed 30 ft.

Weapon (trident), very rare (requires attunement) You gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. Life Stealing. The weapon has 1d8 + 1 charges. When you attack a creature that has fewer than 100 Hit Points with this weapon and roll a 20 on the d20 for the attack roll, the creature must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or be slain instantly as the…

Weapon (dart), very rare (requires attunement) You gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. Life Stealing. The weapon has 1d8 + 1 charges. When you attack a creature that has fewer than 100 Hit Points with this weapon and roll a 20 on the d20 for the attack roll, the creature must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or be slain instantly as the sword…

Bone Devil, 1000+ (Bone Devil) An insidious being made from wretched bones; it relishes making an example out of trespassers.

Bolong is one of the most basal members of the Hadrosauroidea, the group that includes the duck-billed dinosaurs, and is a relatively small member of it. Design Philosophy Life is diverse. We find that the current 5.5e system of normal, proficiency, and expertise for saves/skills/attacks/etc. calculations based on one chosen stat is insufficient to express that diversity. To give us more…

Weapon (halberd), very rare (requires attunement) You gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. Life Stealing. The weapon has 1d8 + 1 charges. When you attack a creature that has fewer than 100 Hit Points with this weapon and roll a 20 on the d20 for the attack roll, the creature must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or be slain instantly as the…

Weapon (dart), very rare You have a +3 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. Proficiency with a Dart allows you to add your proficiency bonus to the attack roll for any attack you make with it. This weapon has the following mastery property. To use this property, you must have a feature that lets you use it. Vex. If you hit a creature with this weapon and deal damage to…

Medium Monstrosity (Lycanthrope), Neutral Evil AC 14 Initiative +2 (12) HP 77 (14d8 + 14) Speed 30 ft., 40 ft. (wolf form only)

Sally Whitemane was young when the plague of undeath swept through Lordaeron, and she was forced to raise a blade against her family—mother, father, brothers, sisters—as they turned into the Lich King’s mindless pawns. She doesn’t hold the ideals of the Crusade, but she swore to support her childhood friend Renault Mograine’s quest to destroy undead at any cost.

Weapon (warhammer), very rare (requires attunement) You gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. Life Stealing. The weapon has 1d8 + 1 charges. When you attack a creature that has fewer than 100 Hit Points with this weapon and roll a 20 on the d20 for the attack roll, the creature must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or be slain instantly as the…

The shelves of this room contain several old books and various odds and ends. In the center of the room is a dusty mechanism of copper and silver. It’s missing its lenses, but otherwise looks like the framework of a lantern that belongs in the top of a lighthouse. The dust in this room has been recently disturbed. This is Belcorra’s most protected vault, holding her treasures and secrets of her…

Small Dragon, typically neutral good AC 13 (natural armor) Initiative +2 (12) HP 45 (10d6 + 10) Speed 30 ft., fly 40 ft.

Medium Undead, Neutral Evil AC 16 Initiative +6 (16) HP HP 60 (8d8 + 24) Speed Speed 30 ft., Fly 60 ft. (hover)

Medium Humanoid (Caligni), Chaotic Neutral AC 16 Initiative +3 (13) HP 55 (10d8 + 10) Speed 30 ft.

Serum brutes are descended from giants who suffered an enduring curse when they failed to take over a Fey domain. They have third eyes, usually in their foreheads, which channel the giants’ curse into the world around them. All three of their eyes are sewn or otherwise sealed shut to contain the curse. Serum brutes are further enhanced with—and get their name from—a series of alchemical…

Beyond the fringes of the Elemental Planes, primordial forces endlessly clash amid the Elemental Chaos. Within the vastness and violence of this realm rage elemental cataclysms, entities spawned from the raw forces of the multiverse and awash in dissonant elemental powers. These beings of primal conflict annihilate nearly all they encounter and seed the ruins left in their wake with the potential…

Medium Humanoid (Goblinoid), Lawful Evil AC 16 Initiative +1 (11) HP 11 (2d8 + 2) Speed 30 ft.

This ratling stands head-and-shoulders over the others and has black-brown fur and a wicked grin; some of his frontmost teeth are delerium crystals. He wears scavenged bits of light armor, tattered dark blue rags, and a gold crown, which is slightly too small for his head. This fearsome ratling ringleader has self-styled himself as the Rat Prince. Dwelling amongst the Rat’s Nest Tavern burrow,…

A mitflit with the ingenuity to both bully others and cajole loyalty rises to the boss of a mitflit gang.

Prince Tortheldrin presents a genteel facade to his guests. Confident in his near invulnerability, the Highborne fears no threats and dismisses even accusations of mass murder as twaddle. He whiles away his days telling tales to his Shen’dralar sycophants but is eager for new sagas. Thus, he treats adventurers who display even a modicum of sophistication as honored guests. When Immol’thar is…

Medium Human Male, chaotic neutral AC 14 Initiative +1 (11) HP 90 (12d8 + 36) Speed 40 ft.

Crooked effigies are servants of a twisted archfey known as the Crooked Queen. They are made of gnarled wood and show some bipedal and feminine features in their queen’s image. Crooked effigies impale their enemies with their branch-like arms and drag foes in close, where the thorns on their bodies carry the sting of a victim’s own corruption. Secret. Crooked effigies are bound to the Old Ways,…