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Monk

Classes Player’s Handbook

Core Monk Traits Primary Ability Dexterity and Wisdom Hit Point Die D8 per Monk level Saving Throw Proficiencies Strength and Dexterity Skill Proficiencies Choose 2

slaying monsters and plundering treasure; they strive to turn themselves into living weapons. Becoming a Monk... As a Level 1 Character Gain all the traits in the Core Monk Traits table. Gain

Banneret

Classes Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn

borders. A Banneret relies on judgment, bravery, and fidelity to the code of chivalry to guide them in defeating evildoers. A lone Banneret is a skilled warrior, but when leading a band of allies one of these warriors can transform even a poorly equipped militia into a ferocious war band.

Incarnation of Vibrance

Monsters Lorwyn: First Light

/DeafnessThe incarnations of vibrance each resemble a titanic canine with a body of colorful foliage and horns like the branches of a blossoming cherry tree. When vibrance incarnations are in Lorwyn

that wanders from Lorwyn to Shadowmoor or vice versa retains its core identity but might transform physically. An incarnation of hope in Lorwyn, for example, might resemble a giant dove with a lizard

Galvanice Weird

Monsters Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

willingly, with cheerful stupidity, as guardians and laborers in Izzet workshops. They combine a rigid body of elemental ice with a core of lightning that animates them. If a galvanice weird is

Caradoc

Monsters Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen

then disappears, and the target is incapacitated and loses control of its body. Caradoc now controls the body but doesn’t deprive the target of awareness. Caradoc can’t be targeted by any

action. He otherwise uses the possessed target’s statistics but doesn’t gain access to the target’s knowledge, class features, or proficiencies. The possession lasts until the body

Aartuk Elder

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

Wildspace, including aboard spelljamming ships whose former crews were either murdered or forcibly ejected by a band of aartuks. An aartuk’s body is shaped like a five-pointed star and is

center of its body so that it can batter them with its powerful branches. It can also spit pellets of radiant energy. The Aartuk language is made up of rustling sounds, snaps, pops, and hisses. It has no

Aartuk Weedling

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

. Aartuk cells can be found throughout Wildspace, including aboard spelljamming ships whose former crews were either murdered or forcibly ejected by a band of aartuks. An aartuk’s body is shaped

use it to drag enemies toward the center of its body so that it can batter them with its powerful branches. It can also spit pellets of radiant energy. The Aartuk language is made up of rustling

Gnome Squidling

Monsters Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

, the result is a gnome squidling—a deformed mind flayer with weak, spindly limbs and oversized tentacles. It relies on levitation to keep its body aloft and uses its tentacles like legs, to

Leucrotta

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

leucrotta is what you would get if you took the head of a giant badger, the legs of a deer, and the body of a large hyena, then put them together and reanimated them with demon ichor without bothering to

venerate Yeenoghu—particularly his gnoll followers—view leucrottas with great respect. Although a leucrotta is unlikely to lead a gnoll war band, it can influence the leader and might

Frost Giant Everlasting One

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

out magic that will aid them, but enchanted objects can be taken or lost. True greatness relies on personal prowess. Faced with this truth, a frost giant might seek a supernatural gift from Vaprak the

troll upon a sacred quest to find the frost giant and meet the giant in secret. The troll offers up its own body to be devoured in Vaprak’s name. Only the boldest and most determined frost giants

Aartuk Starhorror

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

found throughout Wildspace, including aboard spelljamming ships whose former crews were either murdered or forcibly ejected by a band of aartuks. An aartuk’s body is shaped like a five-pointed

toward the center of its body so that it can batter them with its powerful branches. It can also spit pellets of radiant energy. The Aartuk language is made up of rustling sounds, snaps, pops, and

Flesh Meld

Monsters Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

hunger, a flesh meld is a hulking amalgamation of teeth, blood, and body parts. Sinuous appendages of gore, each ending in a gnashing mouth, bite at prey before yanking the piteous creatures into the

flesh meld’s core. The stench of death surrounds a flesh meld. When a creature is consumed by a flesh meld, the creature’s mind is merged into the flesh meld’s consciousness. More

Adult Solar Dragon

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

time outside its lair between patrolling its territory and hunting for food. The dragon has a serpentine body, a pair of ventral limbs ending in long fins, nebulous wings that give off light, and

solar dragon customarily lairs in a star’s radiant core or nests in a gigantic, hollowed-out rock engulfed by the star’s blinding radiance. A star in which a solar dragon makes its lair

Ancient Solar Dragon

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

time outside its lair between patrolling its territory and hunting for food. The dragon has a serpentine body, a pair of ventral limbs ending in long fins, nebulous wings that give off light, and

A solar dragon customarily lairs in a star’s radiant core or nests in a gigantic, hollowed-out rock engulfed by the star’s blinding radiance. A star in which a solar dragon makes its lair

Nafas

Monsters Quests from the Infinite Staircase

Nafas drops to 0 hit points, his body disintegrates into a whirl of multiversal dust that surrounds one creature responsible for his demise. That creature then hears Nafas’s last wish: for the

retains its name, alignment, and personality. The creature also inherits Nafas’s palace and all it contains. If the creature refuses, Nafas gains a new body in 1d10;{"diceNotation":"1d10", "rollType

Lizardfolk Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

once been a warrior or hunter, but now the body is just freshly killed meat. A lizardfolk who lives among other humanoids can, over time, learn to respect other creatures’ emotions. The

lizardfolk doesn’t share those feelings, but instead assesses them in the same clinical manner. Yes, the fallen dwarf might be most useful as a meal, but hacking the body into steaks provokes aggression

Aurnozci

Monsters The Book of Many Things

that’s both its fiefdom and its prison. It lairs within a grotesque hive dangling from a mountain-size tree of tar and flame called Gorewood. Aurnozci relies on demonic proxies and mortal

intruders in sight with reckless abandon. Cultists of Aurnozci Aurnozci grants its cultists the following trait: Burning Corpse. When the creature dies, its body is reduced to a pile of smoldering

Shifter Legacy

Species Eberron: Rising from the Last War

Geth’s ancient heritage rose up from deep within him, spreading out from the core of his being. Some shifters manifested terrible claws, others massive fangs, still others astounding speed or

body and mind. Some shifters believe that these spirits are independent entities, and they may speak of Bear or Wolf as ancestors or guides. Most just see the beast within as a formidable expression

b'Ang'r'Ang

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->One Grung Above

place in the grung hierarchy, b’Ang’r’Ang is responsible for working with the brothers to execute on “plans” developed by d’Ahten’khan, who relies upon b’Ang’r’Ang to communicate instructions to the

much-lower caste green grung. After a recent batiri goblin ambush where the band of grung scattered to the four winds, the whereabouts of b’Lip, b’Loop, and b’Lahp remain unknown.

Morkoth

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

, oddities, and castoffs of the multiverse in a massive, ever-growing collection. The first morkoths arose in the Astral Plane when the petrified body of a deity of greed and strife collided with a

fragments that make up the island’s core are also located. Sections of the lair and its center might be kept dry to better protect and preserve collected objects and creatures, but most of the lair

d'Ahten'khan

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->One Grung Above

, d’Ahten’khan relied heavily on c’Ahbülos for relevant information and lore, prior to the red grung’s untimely demise at the hands of the batiri. d’Ahten’khan now relies on b’Ang’r’Ang, whom she trusts

with this lower caste grung. As the leader of a previously successful band of grung, d’Ahten’khan developed aspirations of nobility, and finds it difficult to not overly communicate these to any worthy grung who will listen.

Adventure Summary

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase

of the spacecraft’s core systems, including its arsenal of robots. Depending on how the characters respond, the computer can be a useful temporary ally or a dangerous enemy. Eventually, the party

, the computer relies on the characters to clear the way. Once the characters deal with the behemoth, they must contend with Aphelion to safeguard the scientist from the supercomputer’s mechanical clutches.

Orc Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

while learning to fight, to survive in the wild, and to fear the gods. The children that can’t endure the rigors of a life of combat are culled from the main body of the tribe, taken into the

or less intact, the orcs leave themselves the option of returning to raid the community over and over. When orcs fight elves, all of that changes. The enmity between the two races cuts to the core

The Shape of the District

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron

driven here by war, even a small band of warforged. Westbridge is as safe as Callestan gets, while anything goes in Eastbridge. Westbridge has a significant halfling population. In Eastbridge, a group of

here. Callestan is an inner district, which means that it’s largely enclosed in one of the massive core towers of Dura Quarter. However, it’s large enough that it extends out to the walls of the tower. Many people live in or on the walls, in tenements or shops carved into the thick stone.

Anatomy of a War Band

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

gnoll. No war band contains more than one flind, and such a creature is always the leader of its band. A flind wields a weapon that carries Yeenoghu’s blessing: a magical flail that saps the body and the

Anatomy of a War Band A gnoll war band is likely to contain a variety of gnolls and other creatures, and no two of these groups have the same composition. The gnolls that make up the rank and file

Choker

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal

this attack is a critical hit, the target also can’t breathe or speak until the grapple ends. The choker (from Dead in Thay) is a malevolent, otherworldly creature that relies on stealth and

strangulation to put down its enemies. Two long arms extend from its scrawny body, functioning like tentacles that enable the choker to strike from a distance. The creature’s primary tactic is to grab a target around the throat and hold on until its prey is dead.

Domains of Ravenloft

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

sampling of the terrifying domains, dreaded Darklords, and daring wanderers trapped in the Dark Powers’ clutches. Dr. Viktra Mordenheim, Darklord of Lamordia, crafts the perfect body for her newest band of golem-hunting mercenaries

Kobold Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

races have little good to say about kobolds, but they do admit that the little reptilians do respectable tunnel work using simple tools. If a band of kobolds is enslaved by more powerful creatures

lay up to six eggs per year, and an egg matures for two to three months before it hatches. Kobolds don’t engage in funeral ceremonies; a dead kobold’s body is burned or disposed of in

Aartuks

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Boo’s Astral Menagerie

throughout Wildspace, including aboard spelljamming ships whose former crews were either murdered or forcibly ejected by a band of aartuks. An aartuk’s body is shaped like a five-pointed star and is

organs, including a long tongue that the creature uses as a weapon. An aartuk’s preferred method of attack is to shoot forth its gooey tongue and use it to drag enemies toward the center of its body

Conclusion

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel

save Pangil ng Buwan, Nimuel and Lungtian accept their report of the corruption that destroyed the bakunawa, assigns them no blame, and pays them as promised. If Paolo’s band slays the bakunawa and the

characters leave them with its body, a week later the characters receive a parcel from Paolo with 150 gp and a bakunawa tooth for each character—their cut for assisting the dragon hunters or not standing in their way.

Entering the Village

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel

ran afoul of the law years ago when she was falsely accused of a crime. Paloma and her band were recently attacked by someone or something on the road. Most of the band were killed, but Paloma’s body wasn’t found.

Rufina or the other villagers: Paloma is seen as a hero by the poor. Her band raids the estates and caravans of corrupt landowners and shares the captured wealth with folk who need it. She initially

The D20

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)

avoid the main blast of a fireball, or does he or she take full damage from the blaze? In cases where the outcome of an action is uncertain, the Dungeons & Dragons game relies on rolls of a 20-sided

the core of the rules of the game. All three follow these simple steps. Roll the die and add a modifier. Roll a d20 and add the relevant modifier. This is typically the modifier derived from one of

Galvanice Weird

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica

body of elemental ice with a core of lightning that animates them. If a galvanice weird is destroyed, the ice shatters and lightning crackles outward in a dangerous explosion. Still, most Izzet

Symbiotic Being

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

Symbiotic Being A second being resides within your body along with you. It manifests physically somewhere on you and relies on you for its survival. At the same time, it offers you knowledge and

your body Entwined Existence. Your symbiote is a separate entity with its own physical form bound to yours. It isn’t a separate creature and relies on you to survive. It has Intelligence, Wisdom

5. Fenthaza's Quarters

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation

next to a stone urn covered with snake carvings. A creature with the head and upper body of a dark-skinned woman and the lower body of a serpent coils in the middle of the room. Fenthaza, a yuan-ti

nightmare speaker (see appendix D), lairs here. If an alarm is raised, Fenthaza relies on her guards to protect her while she releases the creature trapped in the stone urn (see below). Fenthaza tries

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