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stone cracks and turns to powder if the book rests on it long enough.
Whenever a creature that isn’t a Fiend or an Undead attunes to the Book of Vile Darkness, that creature makes a DC 17
damage unless the creature is a Fiend or an Undead.
Destroying the Book. The Book of Vile Darkness allows pages to be torn from it, but any evil lore contained on those pages finds its way back into the
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
. Where they travel, cracks in the mortar seal shut, stray bricks float back into place, and ruined city blocks are restored. These are dabus, the silent caretakers of Sigil and loyal servants of the
Monsters
Princes of the Apocalypse
freezing cold; thunder rolls and lightning cracks; powerful gales bear heavy creatures and objects aloft and hurl them with incredible force; cyclones touch down randomly, obliterating whatever they
(Athletics) check.
Thunderstorms erupt in a 5-mile radius centered on Yan-C-Bin’s lair, creating deafening cracks of thunder and constant lightning. Every ten minutes the storm rages, creatures standing
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
fall unconscious. Instead, the damage creates cracks in its carapace, revealing its hearts. Tromokratis has four hearts: two on its chest, one on its back, and one at the base of its tail. A heart has an
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The titanic monster’s carapace cracks, revealing a pulsing, red-purple heart buried amid heaps of blubber and muscle. Fissures run across the beast’s ancient shell, revealing three
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
staff; when the ulitharid is ready to give up its life, it attaches the staff to the back of its head, and the staff cracks open its skull, enabling its brain to be extracted. The brain and the staff
Book of Vile Darkness
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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
abide the book’s presence. Ordinary plants wither in its presence, animals are unwilling to approach it, and the book gradually destroys whatever it touches. Even stone cracks and turns to
the Book. The Book of Vile Darkness allows pages to be torn from it, but any evil lore contained on those pages finds its way back into the book eventually, usually when a new author adds pages to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
is safe again. How the Casques Silencieux know is a mystery, but their judgment always proves correct. And so the cycle goes, from ruin to relief and back again, with de facto ruler Mademoiselle
silent, heavily armored guards of the Casques Silencieux watch over calm promenades and markets. But a day or a week or a month later, the first telltale cough cracks amid the crowd. As people evacuate
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hold Back The Dead
Ironspine Keep The Lord’s Alliance reclaimed the fortress only a few days ago and didn’t expect such an immediate and overwhelming attack, so it’s still in disrepair. Old cracks mar the stonework and
to trim these back, and the high brush conceals the horde’s movements. Map 1.1 shows the critical north end of Ironspine Keep, which faces the invading horde; the keep extends off the map to the south. Damien Mammoliti Map 1.1: Ironspine Keep View Unlabeled Version
Magic Items
Keys from the Golden Vault
abide the book’s presence. Ordinary plants wither in its presence, animals are unwilling to approach it, and the book gradually destroys whatever it touches. Even stone cracks and turns to
Vile Darkness allows pages to be torn from it, but any evil lore contained on those pages finds its way back into the book eventually, usually when a new author adds pages to the tome.
If a solar tears
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Lords of the Nine From his throne at the bottom of the Nine Hells, Asmodeus commands a sprawling bureaucracy tied to a massive war apparatus dedicated to turning back the demons that invade the
be said that the true ruler of the Nine Hells is the immense body of rules and regulations that dictate how all devils, even Asmodeus, must conduct themselves. Layers and Rulers of the Nine Hells
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
the talking.
Standoffish. Kalista is curt toward people she doesn’t know, especially adventurers.
Stern. Kalista never cracks a smile.
Rumors
“Every now and then, adventurers return from the
Caves of Chaos with magic weapons, but most of the time they don’t come back at all.” (True)
“Mind your equipment around oozes. Their touch can corrode even the sturdiest of metals.” (True
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Stranger Things
The Whole Story The characters have been summoned by Sir Tristan, the ruler of a small domain in a lonely stretch of mountains. A terrible monster called a thessalhydra has been attacking his realm
her own quest and wants nothing to do with the characters. She shows them the way out of the Upside Down and into the thessalhydra’s lair. If the characters can beat the thessalhydra and bring its heads back to Sir Tristan, they have successfully finished this adventure.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Dark Fantasy Plots Adventures in dark fantasy domains involve unlikely or reluctant heroes (or rival villains) striking back against the evil at work in the land. This might involve taking on a world
it’s revealed the beloved ruler is a lich.
7 Banish a spirit haunting the moon.
8 Uncover the identity of an otherworldly coward who’s hiding among mortals, avoiding the destructive search of the immortals they fled.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
-embrace as you make your presence known. At the back of the stage, musicians stare in shock but continue playing.
The audience area beyond is a profusion of colorful parasols held by people wearing
emperor. They order the characters to lay down their weapons and submit themselves for arrest. If a character addresses the emperor, the ruler raises his hand and the guards pause. If no character does
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
its northeast edges looking out over area 2. Neronvain and Chuth brought a dozen elves back from their raids in the Misty Forest as prisoners—8 commoners, 3 nobles with whom Neronvain converses on
of the cavern, showing a young female human holding a basin. A successful DC 15 Intelligence (Religion) check recognizes the shrine of Eldath, goddess of waterfalls. Water flows from cracks in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
its northeast edges looking out over area 2. Neronvain and Chuth brought a dozen elves back from their raids in the Misty Forest as prisoners — 8 commoners, 3 nobles with whom Neronvain converses on
corner of the cavern, showing a young female human holding a basin. A successful DC 15 Intelligence (Religion) check recognizes the shrine of Eldath, goddess of waterfalls. Water flows from cracks in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
characters 200 feet away from the derelict.) When it hears noise from the characters’ fight against the ghouls in area 12, the creature comes back for another attack. (For best dramatic effect, you
outside, its timbers snapping and water pouring through the widening cracks in the hull. Within moments, the characters can see the octopus’s arms snaking through breaches in the hull, grasping for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
streets, quarreling for no apparent reason. Beyond the city’s walls, undead raiders strike out, menacing the lands of Akros, Meletis, and Phoberos. These raids are led by the city’s de facto ruler
. Those who would strike back against Odunos’s raiders must venture through mires corrupted by sucking bogs and necromatic horrors. Those who survive to reach the city find it heavily guarded, its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
into water elementals, aqueous beings with the might of surging waves. Water elementals are as mutable as liquid, allowing them to crash into foes and seep through narrow cracks. They can crush foes
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—Kalbari, Mother of Foam, ruler of marids
Water Elemental Large Elemental, Neutral
AC 14 Initiative +2 (12)
HP 114 (12d10 + 48)
Speed 30 ft., Swim 90 ft.
Ability Score Mod Save Str 18
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
Curst Gate Destination: Tarterian Depths of Carceri Primary Citizens: Exiled Humanoids Ruler: Burgomaster Villigus Bazengar Curst is a menagerie of exiles and outcasts. Fugitives, traitors, and
and weathered stone. Light ekes through glass windows, clouded and spiderwebbed with cracks, illuminating charmless abodes honeycombed with glorified prison cells. Burgomaster’s Estate The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
Glorium Gate Destination: Heroic Domains of Ysgard Primary Citizens: Giants and Humanoids Ruler: Tyrza Bonebreaker Blaring horns rally Glorium’s residents to battle. Warriors are forged in the gate
through feats of strength. Glorium’s leader is Tyrza Bonebreaker (chaotic good, human gladiator wearing a belt of giant strength [frost giant]), the daughter of the gate-town’s previous ruler, Flatnose
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Morte’s Planar Parade
Dabus Among the bustling throngs of Sigil’s streets float gray-skinned, vaguely humanlike figures with curled horns. Where they travel, cracks in the mortar seal shut, stray bricks float back into
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
Xaos Gate Destination: Ever-Changing Chaos of Limbo Primary Citizens: Githzerai Ruler: Varies Chaos reigns supreme in Xaos, a gate-town tethered to the ever-turbulent plane of Limbo, where reality is
how to pronounce the town’s name. Xaos has no consistent ruler. The town’s sovereign fluctuates, chosen at random by a diadem of shifting crystals that appears atop the current ruler’s head. The crystal
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
whose shaved head is covered with eye-shaped tattoos. Four other humans stand behind him, ready to jump into the fray. The half-orc cracks her knuckles, roars, and leaps at the tattooed figure — but
in this scene. If he survives, the characters might meet him again in one of the Xanathar Guild’s sewer hideouts (see area Q5). Hanging Back If the characters don’t interfere in the brawl, Yagra
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
an unfamiliar land, Drakov and her troops wasted little time subjugating it. The realm fell quickly, even easily, and upon taking the city of Lekar, Drakov prepared to name herself ruler of her new
the first alarms were raised. The First Siege of Lekar raged for four days. Drakov’s strategies, both brilliant and desperate, eventually turned back the zombie horde, but at the cost of most of her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
minutes (two minutes per side). Group C consists of four cultists and four kobolds clustered tightly around the temple’s back door. Their meager fire produces little flame, instead creating prodigious
clouds of thick smoke that engulf the back of the temple and blanket the surrounding 30 feet of ground. Everything in the smoke is lightly obscured, and objects or creatures that are seen through more
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
minutes (two minutes per side). Group C consists of four cultists and four kobolds clustered tightly around the temple’s back door. Their meager fire produces little flame, instead creating prodigious
clouds of thick smoke that engulf the back of the temple and blanket the surrounding 30 feet of ground. Everything in the smoke is lightly obscured, and objects or creatures that are seen through more
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
, but here we are. Neverwinter has cracks between our world and the Shadowfell—Crevices of Dusk, they’re called. Planar travelers sometimes slip through.
“We’re in a nasty city called Evernight. It’s
surprise me that it’s gone; stable crevices are rarer than spontaneous ones. But we need a stable one to get back to Neverwinter.
“We shouldn’t spend a lot of time traipsing through an undead
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
Bedlam Gate Destination: Windswept Depths of Pandemonium Primary Citizens: Humanoids Ruler: Gatekeeper Cirrus Nestled in a yawning crater wracked by howling winds, Bedlam is a bowl of runaways and
gatekeeper, Bedlam’s distant ruler. Day and night, shrieking winds erupt from six arched pores at the tower’s base—the blastgates—which render conversation impossible in the town’s lowest district. Bedlam’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
the githyanki. She is their ruler in every sphere of activity and, as such, demands and receives utter obedience. During the war with the illithids, Vlaakith urged Gith to seek out allies from among
permanent stronghold on the Astral Plane. From there, she began making plans to strike back at both the hated mind flayers and the traitorous githzerai. The Grand Proclamation Vlaakith cemented her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
more than 120 feet from the tree, or until the treant takes a bonus action to turn it back into an inanimate tree. The tree then takes root if possible.
Dragonfly Riding Riding a dragonfly costs 1
nearby lily pad. A giant dragonfly has just taken off prematurely with a patron on its back: a middle-aged dwarf with a bright blue beard sits unfastened in his harness. Kettlesteam, a kenku warlock
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
(see Morte’s Planar Parade) gnaw on the bones of a skeleton, which reaches out toward the characters for help. 4 Two dabus (see Morte’s Planar Parade) prune back a mass of razorvine that has spread
the Realm Below. They are bound to serve their ruler until either he’s killed or he wastes into oblivion—leaving his seat available for its next ruler. Drowned Nations Sigil’s sewers converge on the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
wealth that can flow back to Thay. The power the Red Wizards hold in Thay gives them a measure of diplomatic legitimacy in the lands of the Sword Coast and the North, but their presence is rarely welcome
and is universally viewed with suspicion. War Wizards The potential for wizards to influence the outcome of battle is something no ruler in Faerûn can afford to ignore, and most great armies seek to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
cascade down either side of the sanctum’s entrance, casting eerie light on the vaulted ceiling. At the opposite end of the sanctum looms a towering statue of a dwarven woman. Cracks race along her arms
Ruxithid’s eyes roll back into his head as he speaks: a telling sign that the goblin is having a second conversation within his mind, and that the words he speaks aren’t entirely his own. Ruxithid the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
becomes clear, however, that Lulu has a personal connection to Zariel, dating back to the archdevil’s former angelic existence. After scouring Elturel for survivors and clashing with the denizens of
characters are willing to cut deals with Avernus’s most evil denizens. The characters might broker a deal with the deposed archdevil Bel, who longs to supplant Zariel and regain his title as ruler of