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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Alien Artifacts The mind flayers of Bluetspur might leave evidence of their bizarre plots behind in other domains. Use the artifacts on the Aberrant Evidence table to provoke investigations, trigger
lost memories, or even serve as Mist talismans. Aberrant Evidence d6 Evidence
1 A needle-like device buried under someone’s skin
2 An inexplicable crater or circle of scorched crops
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Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
. 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 jar’s container might be an alien contraption, ostentatious glassware, or a mundane canister.
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Aberrant Restoration. If destroyed, the emissary revives with all its Hit Points in 1 day in the space of a Gibbering Mouther that was within 300 feet of the emissary when the emissary was destroyed
emissary has ever mimicked. Only once this greater form is destroyed is the emissary defeated.
Star Spawn Emissaries
Star spawn emissaries are the fingers of alien realms, digits that tip the scales of
Feats
Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Dark Gift Feat (Prerequisite: Ravenloft Campaign)
Exposure to alien horrors like those of the Far Realm has warped your physical form in supernatural ways. You gain the following features
Blindsight with a range of 15 feet.
Warping Flesh. Immediately after you make a D20 Test and roll a 1 on the d20, the aberrant influence infecting your form flares, wrenching control of your flesh. Make a
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
that amount.When a gem dragon kills an aberrant creature from the Far Realm, the dragon sometimes reshapes the alien corpse into a gem stalker—a cunning predator capable of traversing the
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Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
An alien influence has wrapped its tendrils around your mind, giving you psionic power. You can now touch other minds with that power and alter the world around you by using it to control the magical
manifestations of your might?
As an Aberrant Mind sorcerer, you decide how you acquired your powers. Were you born with them? Or did an event later in life leave you shining with psionic awareness? Consult the
classes
The Oath of the Eldritch Hunt is sworn to the eradication of the unnatural, the aberrant, and the alien. These hunters tread a fine line, enhancing themselves with their prey’s powers whilst
frequently among Paladins of the Radiant Order. Erroneously nicknamed grey templars, witch hunters, and knights aberrant, these oft-deformed warriors devote themselves to obliterating the Scourge and its
Lesser Star Spawn Emissary
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Aberrant Rejuvenation. When the emissary drops to 0 hit points, its body melts away. A greater star spawn emissary instantly appears in an unoccupied space within 60 feet of where the lesser emissary
, self-cannibalizing alien orifices, and appendages suggestive of forms it has previously assumed.
Star Spawn Emissary
Few understand the full hungry hostility of the multiverse. Star spawn
Unspeakable Horror (Aberrant Armor)
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Unspeakable Horror (Aberrant Armor);Aberrant Armor. The horror’s body is armored in petrified wood, alien crystal, rusted mechanisms, sculpted stone, or an exoskeleton.
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Formed by the Mists. When created, the horror’s body composition takes one of four forms: Aberrant Armor, Loathsome Limbs, Malleable Mass, or Oozing Organs. This form determines certain traits
Unspeakable Horror (Malleable Mass)
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Formed by the Mists. When created, the horror’s body composition takes one of four forms: Aberrant Armor, Loathsome Limbs, Malleable Mass, or Oozing Organs. This form determines certain traits
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Unspeakable Horror (Aberrant Armor);Aberrant Armor. The horror’s
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Formed by the Mists. When created, the horror’s body composition takes one of four forms: Aberrant Armor, Loathsome Limbs, Malleable Mass, or Oozing Organs. This form determines certain traits
Unspeakable Horror (Loathsome Limbs)
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Formed by the Mists. When created, the horror’s body composition takes one of four forms: Aberrant Armor, Loathsome Limbs, Malleable Mass, or Oozing Organs. This form determines certain traits
Unspeakable Horror (Oozing Organs)
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Unspeakable Horror (Aberrant Armor);Aberrant Armor. The horror’s body is armored in petrified wood, alien crystal, rusted mechanisms, sculpted stone, or an
Formed by the Mists. When created, the horror’s body composition takes one of four forms: Aberrant Armor, Loathsome Limbs, Malleable Mass, or Oozing Organs. This form determines certain traits
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
alien influence before it spreads.
People who dwell or delve deep beneath the earth can easily find themselves at odds with a sapphire dragon if they cross into the dragon’s territory. But
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I often fixate on specific historical battles or wars and won’t rest until my hoard contains that conflict’s most significant artifacts.
2
I am constantly aware of a
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Alien Mind. If a creature tries to read Dyrrn’s thoughts or deals psychic damage to it, that creature must succeed on a DC 23 Intelligence saving throw or be stunned for 1 minute. The stunned
flesh twists in alien ways. The creature has disadvantage on attack rolls, its speed is reduced by half, and if it tries to cast a spell, it must first succeed on a DC 15 Intelligence check or the spell
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’s knowledge of occult phenomena to track the influence of the Far Realm. Armed with that knowledge, sapphire dragons stamp out alien influence before it spreads.
People who dwell or delve deep
or wars and won’t rest until my hoard contains that conflict’s most significant artifacts.
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I am constantly aware of a call from beyond this world. I must prepare to answer that call
Zuggtmoy
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Out of the Abyss
attack against a target that she designates.The Demon Queen of Fungi, Lady of Rot and Decay, Zuggtmoy is an alien creature whose only desire is to infect the living with spores, transforming them into her
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“I see an altered version of reality, with my mind convincing itself that things are true even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.”
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Magic Items
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Stone of Golorr has the following properties, determined by rolling on the tables in the “Artifacts” section in chapter 7 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide:
1 minor beneficial property
Items” in chapter 7 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide).
Personality. The Stone of Golorr has an alien intellect that is both domineering and hungry for knowledge. It thinks of itself as an
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track the influence of the Far Realm. Armed with that knowledge, sapphire dragons stamp out alien influence before it spreads.
People who dwell or delve deep beneath the earth can easily find
hoard contains that conflict’s most significant artifacts.
2
I am constantly aware of a call from beyond this world. I must prepare to answer that call by amassing powerful arms and armor
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata
The Lucent Edict (p. 16) In the paragraph that follows the boxed text, in the third sentence, “Alien Mind trait” has been changed to “Aberrant Mind trait.”
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Otherworldly Relics The monsters noted in the “Cosmic Horror” section of chapter 4 make appropriate inhabitants of the ruins and vaults of Innsmouth. These beings often possess evidence of alien
technologies and cultures. Innsmouth’s cults covet such relics. Roll on or choose a result from the Alien Relics table to inspire what otherworldly beings might possess. Alien Relics 1d6 The Alien
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Vault of Reflection Features Alien Growth The beholder’s aberrant influence permeates the stonework across this level of the tomb, causing purple mold to sprout from the floors, walls, and ceilings
. The mold smells like rotting corpses and occasionally releases clouds of harmless spores. As characters move through areas with alien growth, tiny eyeballs emerge from the mold to scrutinize them
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Innsmouth Domain of the Imprisoned Apocalyptic
Darklord: Cthulhu
Genre: Cosmic horror
Hallmarks: Cosmic horror creatures, invasive alien dreams, surreal locations, warring cults
Mist
suggestive of forgotten peoples, others alien in form and purpose. Massive statues of crimson-flecked bloodstone loom over sheer cliffs, each a towering effigy of some profane monstrosity or alien god
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Aboleth Ageless Alien Mastermind Habitat: Underdark, Underwater; Treasure: Relics Kev Walker A gnome cultist consults an all-knowing aboleth In aquatic abysses, aboleths dream of dead empires and
orchestrate plots that unfold across ages. These elusive, amphibious immortals physically and mentally overwhelm their victims and transform creatures with a slimy, aberrant infection, reshaping other
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
, alien place, scattered with the ruins of long-extinct civilizations. A mountain—massive beyond all words—looms as a constant presence and thrums with a soundless pulse that nonetheless demands attention
. Misshapen shadows crawl among its fissures. Those who dream of events in this land often bear inexplicable scars, marks lending impossible evidence to their visions.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Aberrant Mind Tentacles, psychic powers, beings from beyond the stars—one person’s bad dream is another person’s good time.
Tasha
An alien influence has wrapped its tendrils around your mind
hopeful beacon to others? Or will you be a source of terror to those who feel the stab of your mind and witness the strange manifestations of your might? As an Aberrant Mind sorcerer, you decide how you
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
A cult devoted to a Great Old One of the Far Realm seeks an alien monolith that can summon its master, but the site is guarded by an amethyst dragon.
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An amethyst dragon wyrmling is actually
Realm, an ancient amethyst dragon has been corrupted by aberrant influences and now leads a cult the dragon once opposed.
Amethyst Dragon Lairs
Amethyst dragons prefer lairs near water
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
House Tarkanan House Tarkanan is a criminal gang in Sharn, founded when Thora Tavin assembled the survivors of a suicide squad of Brelish spies who bore aberrant dragonmarks. She adopted the surname
of Lord Halas Tarkanan, who used his aberrant dragonmark to wreak havoc in Sharn during the War of the Mark, and fashioned this group of thieves and assassins into a mockery of the dragonmarked houses
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
so genuinely beyond our comprehension that we can’t fathom their simplest motivations. To see them is to become lost in their magnitude and the evidence that we have never and could never matter to
. Inscrutable Forces. Cosmic horror is about alien forces driven by motivations humans can’t understand. There is no good or evil, no law or chaos. Marginalization Isn’t Horror. The genre has a history of
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. Armed with that knowledge, sapphire dragons stamp out alien influence before it spreads.
People who dwell or delve deep beneath the earth can easily find themselves at odds with a sapphire dragon if
significant artifacts.
2
I am constantly aware of a call from beyond this world. I must prepare to answer that call by amassing powerful arms and armor.
3
I secretly look forward to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
—such as petrifying creatures, disintegrating them, slaying them outright, or other effects. Beholders possess utterly alien minds. Most exhibit paranoid, narcissistic, and megalomaniacal tendencies, and
and intellectual pinnacle of its species. To them, all other beholders are aberrant rivals to be dominated or destroyed. Conflicts between beholders can last for decades and lay waste to vast
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
on other domains. Taking inspiration from sci-fi horror and tales of alien abduction, adventures involving Bluetspur’s mind flayers might begin anywhere with bad dreams or a stranger’s impossible
, trapping them in caves overrun with vampiric mind flayers (see chapter 5).
3 A strange message leads characters to a silvery vessel full of alien mysteries wrecked on Bluetspur’s surface. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
entirely separate universe with its own physical and magical laws. Where stray energies from the Far Realm leak onto another plane, matter is warped into alien shapes that defy understandable geometry
and biology. Aberrations such as mind flayers and beholders are either from this plane or shaped by its strange influence. The entities that abide in the Far Realm are too alien for mortal minds to
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Masters: Arcana Unleashed Play-Along Pack
Dawn Faction
The Bringers of Cosmic Dawn are a secretive faction of transmuters who perform dangerous experiments on creatures, landscapes, and even themselves in hopes of attracting alien
intelligences and ushering in an “ascended age of existence” shaped by aberrant transmutations.
More information about the Bringers of Cosmic Dawn and 8 other magical factions is included in Chapter 4 of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
criminal with an aberrant dragonmark. The criminal is waiting on a bridge for his House Tarkanan escort to arrive. 2 Obtain a satchel of evidence obtained by a goblin who has infiltrated Daask. The goblin