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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
Chapter 13: The Cult Strikes Back During the course of this adventure, the heroes undertake various activities to thwart the plots of the Cult of the Dragon. The cult’s awareness of the characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
Chapter 13: The Cult Strikes Back During the course of this adventure, the heroes undertake various activities to thwart the plots of the Cult of the Dragon. The cult’s awareness of the characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
Chapter 13: The Cult Strikes Back During the course of this adventure, the heroes undertake various activities to thwart the plots of the Cult of the Dragon. The cult’s awareness of the characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
Chapter 13: The Cult Strikes Back During the course of this adventure, the heroes undertake various activities to thwart the plots of the Cult of the Dragon. The cult’s awareness of the characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
Chapter 13: The Cult Strikes Back During the course of this adventure, the heroes undertake various activities to thwart the plots of the Cult of the Dragon. The cult’s awareness of the characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
Chapter 13: The Cult Strikes Back During the course of this adventure, the heroes undertake various activities to thwart the plots of the Cult of the Dragon. The cult’s awareness of the characters
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
creature encounters a solid object (such as a ceiling) in this fall, it strikes the object just as it would during a downward fall. If the creature reaches the top of the area without striking anything
tangle, the answer they seek is revealed.
In truth, archaics are the reincarnated souls of the oracles of Strixhaven. When an oracle dies, their soul travels back through time to the explosion of magic
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
creature still moves and attacks with teeth and claws as ever—but now the troll strikes at victims’ minds.
Trolls
Trolls that are nearly obliterated but survive and regenerate from mere
this god devours the souls of those who have been cooked or digested (slain by fire or acid). Otherwise, the god spits the soul back into the world to regenerate a new body.Acid, Cold, Fire; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks
races
Acquisitions Incorporated
.
Reality is a descent into chaos punctuated by brief flashes of order, whence we arose and so imagine it to be the norm rather than a distant outlier. That-Which-Endures held entropy back for a mere instant
spontaneous alterations over their lifetime, from the typical range of point and peak seen among the elves, to huge ears that sweep back from the head like wings, and which are often pierced behind
Tabaxi
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races
Volo's Guide to Monsters
We had a tabaxi come through once, a few winters back. She kept the taproom packed each night with her stories and spent most days napping in a chair in front of the fireplace. We thought she was
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Fleeting Fancies
Wandering tabaxi are mercurial creatures, trading one obsession or passion for the next as the whim strikes. A tabaxi’s desire burns bright, but once met it disappears to be
feats
like a humanoid you’ve seen before (GM’s choice).
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Natural Weapon. You grow a natural weapon of your choice (e.g. claws, fangs, horns). Your unarmed strikes deal 1d8 bludgeoning
Empowered Strikes. Your unarmed strikes are magical and have a bonus to attack and damage rolls equal to half your proficiency bonus, rounded down.
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Shimmerskin**. Your skin shimmers in a
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like a humanoid you’ve seen before (GM’s choice).
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Natural Weapon. You grow a natural weapon of your choice (e.g. claws, fangs, horns). Your unarmed strikes deal 1d8 bludgeoning
Empowered Strikes. Your unarmed strikes are magical and have a bonus to attack and damage rolls equal to half your proficiency bonus, rounded down.
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Shimmerskin**. Your skin shimmers in a
feats
like a humanoid you’ve seen before (GM’s choice).
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Natural Weapon. You grow a natural weapon of your choice (e.g. claws, fangs, horns). Your unarmed strikes deal 1d8 bludgeoning
Empowered Strikes. Your unarmed strikes are magical and have a bonus to attack and damage rolls equal to half your proficiency bonus, rounded down.
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Shimmerskin**. Your skin shimmers in a
Graz'zt
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Monsters
Out of the Abyss
Shapechanger. Graz’zt can use his action to polymorph into a form that resembles a Medium humanoid, or back into his true form. Aside from his size, his statistics are the same in each form
Dark Prince is a warning that not all beautiful things are good. Standing nearly nine feet tall, Graz’zt strikes the perfect figure of untamed desire, every plane and curve of his body, every
Monsters
Princes of the Apocalypse
elemental node in which Imix is present becomes vulnerable to the influence of fire. This creates the following effects:
A dry, baking heat wave strikes the region within 10 miles of Imix’s
form intermittent portals to the Elemental Plane of Fire, allowing elemental creatures into the mortal world to dwell near those points.
If Imix is destroyed or banished back to his home plane
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
Wyrmspeakers (Varram) Chapter 10: The Sea of Moving Ice Chapter 13: The Cult Strikes Back (First Attack) Chapter 12: Death to the Wyrmspeakers (Neronvain) Chapter 13: The Cult Strikes Back (Second
Attack) Chapter 15: Xonthal’s Tower Chapter 16: Mission to Thay (level gain at DM’s option) Chapter 13: The Cult Strikes Back (Third Attack) Leveling up after seven milestones should bring the characters to 14th or 15th level in time for the final battle at the Well of Dragons.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
Wyrmspeakers (Varram) Chapter 10: The Sea of Moving Ice Chapter 13: The Cult Strikes Back (First Attack) Chapter 12: Death to the Wyrmspeakers (Neronvain) Chapter 13: The Cult Strikes Back (Second
Attack) Chapter 15: Xonthal’s Tower Chapter 16: Mission to Thay (level gain at DM’s option) Chapter 13: The Cult Strikes Back (Third Attack) Leveling up after seven milestones should bring the characters to 14th or 15th level in time for the final battle at the Well of Dragons.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
Wyrmspeakers (Varram) Chapter 10: The Sea of Moving Ice Chapter 13: The Cult Strikes Back (First Attack) Chapter 12: Death to the Wyrmspeakers (Neronvain) Chapter 13: The Cult Strikes Back (Second
Attack) Chapter 15: Xonthal’s Tower Chapter 16: Mission to Thay (level gain at DM’s option) Chapter 13: The Cult Strikes Back (Third Attack) Leveling up after seven milestones should bring the characters to 14th or 15th level in time for the final battle at the Well of Dragons.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
Wyrmspeakers (Varram) Chapter 10: The Sea of Moving Ice Chapter 13: The Cult Strikes Back (First Attack) Chapter 12: Death to the Wyrmspeakers (Neronvain) Chapter 13: The Cult Strikes Back (Second
Attack) Chapter 15: Xonthal’s Tower Chapter 16: Mission to Thay (level gain at DM’s option) Chapter 13: The Cult Strikes Back (Third Attack) Leveling up after seven milestones should bring the characters to 14th or 15th level in time for the final battle at the Well of Dragons.
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strikes deal 1d8 bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage, as appropriate to the natural weapon you chose.
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Amphibisprings. With enhanced muscles and a ratcheting mechanism in your tendons, your
instead of once.
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Empowered Strikes. Your unarmed strikes are magical and have a bonus to attack and damage rolls equal to half your proficiency bonus, rounded down.
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Shimmerskin
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
Wyrmspeakers (Varram) Chapter 10: The Sea of Moving Ice Chapter 13: The Cult Strikes Back (First Attack) Chapter 12: Death to the Wyrmspeakers (Neronvain) Chapter 13: The Cult Strikes Back (Second
Attack) Chapter 15: Xonthal’s Tower Chapter 16: Mission to Thay (level gain at DM’s option) Chapter 13: The Cult Strikes Back (Third Attack) Leveling up after seven milestones should bring the characters to 14th or 15th level in time for the final battle at the Well of Dragons.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
Wyrmspeakers (Varram) Chapter 10: The Sea of Moving Ice Chapter 13: The Cult Strikes Back (First Attack) Chapter 12: Death to the Wyrmspeakers (Neronvain) Chapter 13: The Cult Strikes Back (Second
Attack) Chapter 15: Xonthal’s Tower Chapter 16: Mission to Thay (level gain at DM’s option) Chapter 13: The Cult Strikes Back (Third Attack) Leveling up after seven milestones should bring the characters to 14th or 15th level in time for the final battle at the Well of Dragons.
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
at a time. If a third creature tries to attune to it, nothing happens.
The servant’s controls are accessed by a hatch in its upper back, which is easily opened while there are no creatures
destroyed in two ways. After it has self-destructed, its disconnected pieces can be melted down in one of the forge-temples of its ancient Olman creators. Alternatively, if the servant strikes the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
: The Sea of Moving Ice Chapter 13: The Cult Strikes Back (First Attack) Chapter 12: Death to the Wyrmspeakers (Neronvain) Chapter 13: The Cult Strikes Back (Second Attack) Chapter 15: Xonthal’s Tower
Chapter 16: Mission to Thay (level gain at DM’s option) Chapter 13: The Cult Strikes Back (Third Attack) Leveling up after seven milestones should bring the characters to 14th or 15th level in time for the final battle at the Well of Dragons.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
: The Sea of Moving Ice Chapter 13: The Cult Strikes Back (First Attack) Chapter 12: Death to the Wyrmspeakers (Neronvain) Chapter 13: The Cult Strikes Back (Second Attack) Chapter 15: Xonthal’s Tower
Chapter 16: Mission to Thay (level gain at DM’s option) Chapter 13: The Cult Strikes Back (Third Attack) Leveling up after seven milestones should bring the characters to 14th or 15th level in time for the final battle at the Well of Dragons.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
Plan of Attack The cultists try to attack with surprise, using one of two different plans outlined below. Feel free to adapt one of these plans or devise a plan of your own. Assume that the cultists
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
Location and Timing Place this encounter at a point when the characters are not at their strongest or most well prepared. Wait until they are scattered, their spells and features are depleted by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
Cult Forces Enough chromatic dragons have responded to the Draakhorn's call that a full flight of young red dragons can be dispatched to deal with the heroes once and for all. For this final assault
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
Conclusion Great heroes rebound from losses to fight even harder for the cause they believe in. Thanks to raise dead, a lost battle is a setback, not a defeat. It’s a wake-up call to any players who
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
Location and Timing This attack can occur anywhere. The cult has no concern for innocent bystanders, but the encounter will be easier for you to run without a panicking crowd to deal with. This combat
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
Developments Don’t be afraid to engage in some triumphal monologuing by the dragonsoul cultist leading the attack. Whether the attackers are winning or losing, the cultist fights with cries of “The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
Cult Forces Enough chromatic dragons have responded to the Draakhorn's call that a full flight of young red dragons can be dispatched to deal with the heroes once and for all. For this final assault
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
Developments This battle will likely be a challenge to run. It is designed to create an emotional low spot in the adventure, during which overall defeat for the forces of good looks like a real
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
Location and Timing This attack can occur anywhere. The cult has no concern for innocent bystanders, but the encounter will be easier for you to run without a panicking crowd to deal with. This combat
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
Cult Forces Enough chromatic dragons have responded to the Draakhorn’s call that a full flight of young red dragons can be dispatched to deal with the heroes once and for all. For this final assault