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Submerged amid a sea of legal terms on this scroll of human skin, this deed declares that the bearer of this document is the rightful Lord of Addlecove Castle. An ancient fortress, Addlecove Castle has sat abandoned and haunted since Emperor Gaius VIII murdered the last Lord Addlecove.
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
vessels and feeding on the life energy of those unlucky enough to cross their path.
A vampirate appears as a gaunt figure with milky-white eyes and skin as dry as parchment. A vampirate has fangs like a
coffin and sleep amid their cargo. When they’re not sleeping or marauding, a crew of vampirates whiles away the hours by drinking rum and singing grim chanteys.
A ship crewed by vampirates usually
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monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
regains hit points equal to the amount of necrotic damage dealt. A creature reduced to 0 hit points from this attack dies and leaves nothing behind except its skin and its equipment.
Ravenous Children (1
compelled to drain living victims. Others, though, embrace their new forms and mimic vampires. These would-be bloodsucker aristocrats create stirge courts amid scabrous husk-decorated villas and drain the life from any who balk at their grotesque gentility.Necrotic
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
ships, plundering unsuspecting vessels and feeding on the life energy of those unlucky enough to cross their path.
A vampirate appears as a gaunt figure with milky-white eyes and skin as dry as
ship’s hold as one big coffin and sleep amid their cargo. When they’re not sleeping or marauding, a crew of vampirates whiles away the hours by drinking rum and singing grim chanteys.
A ship
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
energy of those unlucky enough to cross their path.
A vampirate appears as a gaunt figure with milky-white eyes and skin as dry as parchment. A vampirate has fangs like a vampire’s but doesn’t
because they must. They rest in wooden coffins or crates full of grave dirt. In the absence of such containers, they can treat their ship’s hold as one big coffin and sleep amid their cargo. When
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
nature was altered by constant regeneration and rebirth amid the energy of Ysgard, slowly changed into entirely new creatures: fensirs.
Fensirs’ troll ancestry is hardly apparent in their appearance
. They retain prominent noses and a hint of green in their skin but otherwise resemble relatively small frost or stone giants. They use armor and weapons similar to what other combatants on Ysgard use
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
nature was altered by constant regeneration and rebirth amid the energy of Ysgard, slowly changed into entirely new creatures: fensirs.
Fensirs’ troll ancestry is hardly apparent in their
appearance. They retain prominent noses and a hint of green in their skin but otherwise resemble relatively small frost or stone giants. They use armor and weapons similar to what other combatants on Ysgard
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
and reforming without purpose or direction, until a creature exerts deliberate will to stabilize it. Through their potent psionic power, githzerai carved a home for themselves amid the chaos. As the
ages passed, githzerai explorers ranged out to other planes and worlds of the multiverse.
Githzerai are generally slender, with speckled skin in shades of yellow, green, or brown. Eons of cultivating
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
, collapsing and reforming without purpose or direction, until a creature exerts deliberate will to stabilize it. Through their potent psionic power, githzerai carved a home for themselves amid the chaos
. As the ages passed, githzerai explorers ranged out to other planes and worlds of the multiverse. Githzerai are generally slender, with speckled skin in shades of yellow, green, or brown. Eons of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Boo’s Astral Menagerie
life energy of those unlucky enough to cross their path. A vampirate appears as a gaunt figure with milky-white eyes and skin as dry as parchment. A vampirate has fangs like a vampire’s but doesn’t
because they must. They rest in wooden coffins or crates full of grave dirt. In the absence of such containers, they can treat their ship’s hold as one big coffin and sleep amid their cargo. When they’re
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
humans with hair ranging from silver to blue and with skin in cloudlike shades from stark white to twilight hues. Curved canines grow in their upper jaws, extending past their lower lips. In battle, they
attack with weapons wreathed in storm clouds and throw roaring thunderheads. Most cloud giants inhabit citadels crowning tremendous mountains or magical palaces that drift amid the clouds. Many of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Darklord’s evil. Monstrous Transformations d10 Transformation
1 The Darklord loses their voice; their words now carve themselves on their skin as lingering scars.
2 Something the Darklord
, in the mouths of serpents, or on metallic cables.
4 The Darklord’s most painful memories visually repeat in reflections around them or amid illusory projections.
5 The Darklord gains an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
living creatures it sees. A crawling claw wearing an obsidian ring on one stubby finger (see “Treasure”) lurks amid the offal mounds. These mounds are difficult terrain to Small and Medium creatures
Faerzress has transformed Pelek’s obsidian ring into a single-use magic item. When a living creature puts it on, the ring disappears, and the creature’s skin becomes as hard as obsidian for the next
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Stone Giant Giant of the Earth Habitat: Mountain, Underdark; Treasure: Armaments Robson Michel In cavernous depths and amid mountain canyons, stone giants contemplate the strength and persistence of
the earth. Stone giants have rugged features and skin with patterns and hues similar to the rock common near their homes. This makes them adept at blending in with their stony surroundings despite
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
bodies match their vile souls. Ever since, fomorians have dwelled in the Underdark amid the ruins of their magical cities. The archfey’s curse afflicts them still, tormenting them with wandering cankers
pustules. 2 Excessive sweating of rainbow-hued fluids. 3 Patches of wriggling hair. 4 Veins that bulge and lurch under the skin. Fomorian Huge Giant, Chaotic Evil
AC 14 Initiative +0 (10)
HP 172 (15d12
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
provides various locales to tie to your character’s backstory. Ancient Giant Ruins You grew up amid the ruins of one of the giants’ civilizations. Perhaps the history of your home settlement is well-known
Mark 1 Small, benign motes of elemental energy, like pebbles or water droplets, float around your head. 2 Your skin harmlessly feels blazing hot or freezing cold (your choice). 3 You have a faint
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
drain living victims. Others, though, embrace their new forms and mimic vampires. These would-be bloodsucker aristocrats create stirge courts amid scabrous husk-decorated villas and drain the life from
its skin and its equipment.
Ravenous Children (1/Day). The strigoi magically summons 1d4 + 2 stirges (see their entry in the Monster Manual) in unoccupied spaces it can see within 30 feet of it. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
the Sundering, the Crown Wars, the descent of the drow, and other calamities as the result of acts of arrogance on the part of their ancestors. Living around and amid the reminders of this arrogance
variety of folk. Wood elves in Faerûn have the racial traits of wood elves in the Player’s Handbook. They have tan or coppery skin, with hair of wood brown, golden blond, black, or a shining metallic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
characters approach the Sunward Fortress: Amid the natural stone formations of the Northern Wastes, a broken, hundred-foot spire lies half buried. The massive spire’s base and toppled pinnacle would be easy to
red and black colors of the Red Dragon Army. Dozens of empty or shattered crates are scattered amid the camp. Nearby, an earthen ramp cuts through the clay and leads to an opening into the ruined
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
keep intruders out. As you crest a low ridge, you spy the crumbling ruins of an old watchtower standing amid the rugged hills. The place is so old that the walls are only mounds of rubble enclosing a
erupts, Hamun Kost, the evil mage, emerges from his tent and asks, “What is the meaning of this?” Kost is a stout, red-robed figure with sallow skin, a shaved scalp, and a black tattoo on his forehead. A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
to the first generation of elves. Some could pass for high elves, but most are distinctly eladrin in appearance: very slender, with hair and skin color determined by the season with which they feel
weaker creatures. Some eladrin trade haughtiness for a tender kindness toward their elf cousins, knowing that many elves have never felt the ecstasies of a life amid the fey and of years spent near the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
information: First Entry. Mirabel’s sister Sorvina discovered a hollow hidden under the tavern. Strange ruins lie amid the dirt walls. Sorvina wants to excavate them, hoping to find a tomb filed with
ancient curse. Doing so destroys the skeleton and grants the character the Second Skin Dark Gift (see chapter 1). A character who already has a Dark Gift can’t accept the curse. Returning to Urwin. If the
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Legends of Greyhawk
the golden bounty of ripe wheat – food enough to keep Verbobonc fed through the coming winter.
Nestled amid those fields is the village of Hommlet. Cottages and gardens line its lanes, and a small
. Zerah
LG female (she/her) tiefling (abyssal)
Zerah is an 8-year-old with orange and yellow coloration to her skin and hair. Her horns resemble shelf mushrooms. She wears a fancy dress with a blue sash
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
, the giants’ incursion became a part of the eternal battle that rages across the plane. The trolls, whose fundamental nature was altered by constant regeneration and rebirth amid the energy of Ysgard
, slowly changed into entirely new creatures: fensirs. Fensirs’ troll ancestry is hardly apparent in their appearance. They retain prominent noses and a hint of green in their skin but otherwise
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
, ten-foot-high cave filled with a putrid stench. The mostly broken bones of humanoids and animals lay scattered on the icy floor amid bits of metal and torn strips of leather.
The gnolls gather here
male human in hide armor paces back and forth. His murderous eyes lock onto any sort of movement he notices, and he clutches a javelin made of a black, crystalline substance. The skin on his hands
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
, tapered column at the heart of the Outlands. While its height is lost amid clouds and the boundaries of sight, its lower reaches spread in wild foothills.
As you approach the base of the Spire, a narrow
, a Rilmani Community in the Spire A third rilmani strides from the gate. This figure is leaner than the others, with a copper cast to their skin. They’re reading a scroll intently, but they look up
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
forces, the subsequent effects range from whimsical to deadly. Eldritch Storm Eldritch Storms When magical currents become trapped amid winds and clouds, eldritch storms can result. Flaywind
. 4 Bathing in the spring grants a creature the benefits of the greater restoration spell. As a side effect, the creature’s skin, hair, and eyes become a shimmering golden color for 1d4 days. 5
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Wisdom (Perception) check finds a catapult munition roughly the size and weight of a cannonball amid the wreckage. A successful DC 13 Intelligence (Arcana) check reveals that the munition is powerful
glistening muscle, ashen skin, and yellowed bone. Oily vapor issues from six mouths on the surface of the sphere, which sits pulsing on the ground.
A character who examines the sphere and succeeds on a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
variety of spa services. Light spa amenities (body, foot, and hand treatments, massage therapy, skin care, general grooming and bathing) are included along with the standard dining menu at no additional
though by a word of recall spell. This explains why Burney simply seems to appear amid the fully deployed marketplace each morning it is active to provide service and tell stories. Once each day, when
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
: Marthungrim’s Home View Player Version Three encephalon gemmules (see appendix A) linger amid the rubble of the collapsed stairs. If attacked from above, they retreat into the surrounding rooms. Marthungrim’s
the source of the glow. Tentacles occasionally slither from Daisy’s body, flail about, and retreat into her skin without leaving a mark. Daisy’s Consumption. Before the characters can head to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
the throne on the floor is the skin of a huge polar bear. Three ivory stools are off to one side of the throne; these are the seats of the jarl’s lieutenants. Treasure. The gems that decorate the
, and utensils are scattered about in all the nooks that lead away from the firepit. Amid heaps of foodstuffs to the north are four human captives (commoners) in a cage, being saved for a feast. They
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
investigate any sounds of intruders. G6: Prison Two spiked cages are jammed with old bones and bits of decaying flesh. A woman with red skin wrapped in loose chains sits on the floor.
Duergar
once performed here. Clots of repulsive mucus jam the crevasses. A narrow door is wedged into the back of the mine.
Six gricks lair here amid the nests they’ve made from their own mucus. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
survivors live in secret places such as this. They have dark skin and hair, but otherwise they are similar to wood elves (as described in the Player’s Handbook). One of Strahd’s old brides, Patrina
) Fortunes of Ravenloft If your card reading reveals that a treasure is here, it is lying amid the other items in the wagon.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
lamp oil, pickaxes, shovels, and other gear. Amid the supplies, you see the body of a dwarf, dead for at least a week.
The northeastern section of the cavern has collapsed, forming a ten-foot-wide
on its skin. Any inspection of the body, which is dressed in filthy rags, reveals that it is not a Cragmaw goblin. The characters can’t learn anything further now, but this is the body of a psionic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
who search the hut find, amid the clutter, a basket containing 250 gp in mixed coinage, four pieces of fancy bead jewelry (worth 25 gp each), and one magic item, determined by rolling on Magic Item
. Two rock gnomes (commoners) clean the hut during the day and are confined in an iron cage outside at night. Treasure. Characters who search the hut find, amid the clutter, a basket containing ten