Lurkers in the dark are wicked Fey creatures who prey upon the fearful, vulnerable, and alone. They resemble nightmarishly distorted people with gray skin, lank hair, and three-fingered, clawed hands. Their limbs move in impossible ways, allowing them to slip through and hide within spaces that seem far too small. They delight in stoking their victimโs fears by whispering from spaces a personโฆ
โ Use Minimum Hit Points and Damage Rolls for this creature.
The adventure uses map 2.9 and consists of these encounters. Dressed to Kill. Attendees at the Grand Masquerade are expected to sport lavish costumes featuring fanciful masks. Any character not wearing an appropriate Costume, a mask, and at least 100 GP worth of jewelry (or appropriate magical alternatives) has Disadvantage on Charisma checks made during this adventure. Armor canโt be worn withโฆ
Dreaming Dark Infiltrators are spies sent to gather intelligence. They plant psychic seeds in their minds of their foes that enhance the infiltratorsโ combat prowess against those enemies.
Armor (ring mail), very rare You have a +2 bonus to AC while wearing this armor. This armor is leather armor with heavy rings sewn into it. The rings help reinforce the armor against blows from swords and axes. Ring mail is inferior to chain mail, and it's usually worn only by those who can't afford better armor.
If exposed to light or otherwise disturbed, mushroomlike shriekers emit a high-pitched noise that gives them their name. This wailing might alert other creatures or attract predators. Fungi The dank, sunless Underdark is a fertile breeding ground for weird and dangerous fungi.
Shrill Mushroom If exposed to light or otherwise disturbed, mushroomlike shriekers emit a high-pitched noise that gives them their name. This wailing might alert other creatures or attract predators.
Armor (ring mail), legendary You have a +3 bonus to AC while wearing this armor. This armor is leather armor with heavy rings sewn into it. The rings help reinforce the armor against blows from swords and axes. Ring mail is inferior to chain mail, and it's usually worn only by those who can't afford better armor.
A demilich is a skull harboring the remnants of a lichโs wicked essence. If the burden of immortality overwhelms a lich, its consciousness turns inward as its body rots away. But if its remains are disturbed, a demilich rises. Demiliches usually appear as skulls adorned with gems or arcane sigils.
The landscape around you becomes waterlogged and boggy, with tall, gnarled trees rising up from the fen, draped in hanging moss. The stone path cuts through the swampy terrain and splits into long lanes flanked on either side by tightly packed mausoleums. The modestly sized vaults are overgrown with creeping vines and ivy, while murky water pools in the cracks between the square stone tiles ofโฆ
This itinerant explorer knows the caves around the Keep on the Borderlands better than anyone else. Vinx frequently delves these caves in search of treasure. Recently, Vinx got caught in a bind while pursuing a stolen family heirloom. When she gets loose, those goblins wonโt know what hit them!
Tiny Beast, Unaligned AC 13 Initiative +3 (13) HP 1 (1d4 โ 1) Speed 30 ft., Climb 30 ft.
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The dancing, twisting flickerwisp is a less powerful but no less malevolent type of will-oโ-wisp. Like their more dangerous kin, flickerwisps prefer to haunt lonely swamps or stretches of lonely rivers or creeks, particularly near the shorelines where they can pass themselves off as nothing more than a small gathering of fireflies. A flickerwispโs body is a 3-foot-long length of hair-like fibersโฆ
Sleeping stone wolf, chained. Four carved pillars. Foes! The huge statue of a sleeping wolf is curled up in the middle of this chamber, bound with golden chains connecting to four pillars arrayed around it. On the northern wall, the mural now shows a titanic wolf with broken chains around it laying waste to a celestial city. Two cult Bandits hide, rolling dice against the western side of the wolfโฆ
You have delved into the forces that animate all lifeโ even those that counterfeit life, such as Constructs and Undead. Many of these studies concentrate on the nature of blood and its power to sustain life and transmit vital essence, binding the soul to the flesh. You might have apprenticed under a sly-hearted mentor or a secret cabal focused on understanding or even manipulating life and death.โฆ
Water Breathing. The seahorse can breathe only underwater. Actions Bubble Dash. While underwater, the seahorse moves up to its Swim Speed without provoking Opportunity Attacks.
Vespons are plump, insect-like creatures with six stubby limbs on their thorax. Their backs are protected by a chitinous exoskeleton, and a tough underbelly encases their vital organs. When vespons beat their wings quickly they produce a continuous buzzing sound. A vespon can sustain this buzz for about an hour. The pair of antennae on a vesponโs head are sensitive and allow it to smell floweringโฆ
Amphibious. The frog can breathe air and water. Standing Leap. The frogโs Long Jump is up to 10 feet and its High Jump is up to 5 feet with or without a running start. Actions Bite. Melee Attack Roll: +3, reach 5 ft. Hit: 1 Piercing damage.
Widely considered to be the perfect familiar, requiring no food or water and possessing extremely high natural defenses, a pet rock can be conjured by most spellcasters. Though it does not act with any agility (indeed, it does not move at all), it can make a formidable weapon when thrown.
A brain in a jar is the gray matter of one who cheated death through magic or strange surgeries. It now forces its will on those around it. Some brains in jars are the result of strange experiments, bizarre punishments, or the aberrant preservation methods of creatures and mi-go (detailed in Ravenloft: The Horrors Within). A brain in a jarโs container might be an alien contraption, ostentatiousโฆ
From a distance, will-oโ-wisps look like lanterns bobbing in the dark. Through the windows of abandoned structures or around the bends of treacherous paths, these spirits tempt the curious into peril. Once their prey is vulnerable, will-oโ-wisps feed on the life force of those they lay low. Roll on or choose a result from the Will-oโ-Wisp Ambushes table to inspire how a will-oโ-wisp imperils itsโฆ
This mark of prestige is granted to any character that completes the Queenโs Test in Part 2.
Slow but mobile, violet fungi rot any flesh they touch with their lashing tendrils. Fungi The dank, sunless Underdark is a fertile breeding ground for weird and dangerous fungi.
Predatory Polyp Slow but mobile, violet fungi rot any flesh they touch with their lashing tendrils.
Characters earn an advancement toward their next level. If they decline the advancement, they do not earn any treasure but remain eligible to earn marks of prestige or other non-treasure rewards.
Alexander appears like a normal toad but has an Intelligence score of 12, speaks Common, and can cast the Knock spell once per day. Alexander has a habit of urinating on whomever holds him but is otherwise a pleasant enough traveling companion. Alexander appears like a normal toad, using the Frog stat block, but has an Intelligence score of 12, and speaks Common. While Alexander is alive andโฆ
This monster is part of the The Crooked Moon Part Two: Monsters & Adventure Campaign. You can unlock it by purchasing the book in our marketplace.
