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Dungeon Master’s Guide
The definitive treatise on all that is good in the multiverse, the Book of Exalted Deeds figures prominently in many religions. Rather than being a scripture devoted to a particular faith, the book
benefits.
Other creatures that peruse the book’s open pages can read the text but glean no deeper meaning and reap no benefits. A Fiend, an Undead, or a servant of a god from the Lower Planes
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Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
gifts and promises of power to turn them into loyal vassals.
Cruel Tyrants. Whenever Bane’s followers gain power, they institute draconian measures to ensure that their rule is unquestioned. They
Tactical Discipline. The fist of Bane has advantage on all ability checks and saving throws made during combat.Mace. Melee Weapon Attack: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5","rollType":"to hit"} to hit
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Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
immediately use its reaction to make one melee attack.Bane’s devoted followers are warriors who seek to rule through martial strength and intimidation, cruel tyrants who use threats and gifts as
needed to ensure loyalty. They enslave those too weak to resist them and shower the strong with gifts and promises of power to turn them into loyal vassals.
Cruel Tyrants. Whenever Bane’s
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
along well with dryads and other creatures devoted to protecting the wilderness.
Roll or choose a result from the Swanmay’s Charge table as inspiration for what a swanmay protects.
Swanmay
’s Charge
1d6
The Swanmay Is Devoted to Protecting …
1
A hidden spring.
2
A lakeshore recently ravaged by a forest fire.
3
The conjunction of three rivers
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
Aura of Dread. Creatures in a 10-foot Emanation originating from the Zhentilar have their Speeds halved while in the Emanation. The Zhentilar can designate creatures to be unaffected by the
;s most-respected commanders and sergeants tend to be spellswords or holy warriors who worship nefarious higher powers, such as Bane.
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Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
patriarch Fzoul Chembryl, House Chembryl and its descendants were scattered across Faerûn. Some members have dutifully continued the family’s dedication to Bane, while others have sought to
free themselves from that god’s malignant shadow. However, none have embraced the Chembryls’ tyrannical legacy more than Karas Chembryl, a ruthless assassin whose devotion to the gods Bane
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Sammaster fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.
Life Suppression. Creatures within 60 feet of Sammaster can’t regain Hit Points.
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rule Faerûn. His Cult of the Dragon devotes itself to helping evil dragons become dracoliches to bring this evil new age to fruition.
Sammaster was killed in battle, but had prepared contingencies
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Sammaster fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.
Life Suppression. Creatures within 60 feet of Sammaster can’t regain Hit Points.
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as leader of these disparate zealots, whom he named the Cult of the Dragon. He perverted their fascination with his necromantic lore, revealing that dracoliches were destined to rule Faerûn
Magic Items
Acquisitions Incorporated
use this feature of the far gear, it cannot be used again until the next dawn.
Unnatural Bane. You can cast the bane spell (save DC 15), which affects any number of creatures within range for 1
Monsters
Tales from the Yawning Portal
, thaumaturgy
1st level (2 slots): bane, inflict woundsScimitar. Melee Weapon Attack: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Scimitar"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d6 + 2
small, black-hearted humanoids that lair in despoiled dungeons and other dismal settings. Individually weak, they gather in large numbers to torment other creatures.
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Ethereal Awareness. The shadow mastiff can see ethereal creatures and objects.
Sunlight Weakness. While in bright light created by sunlight, the shadow mastiff has disadvantage on attack rolls
sunlight, these hounds are usually met as a pack. Some faiths devoted to deities of gloom and night, such as that of Shar in the Forgotten Realms, perform unholy rites to summon shadow mastiffs to work
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
spiderlike creatures originally created to serve Lolth. They rule colonies of chitine;chitines and lead them into battle in Lolth’s war against her enemies.
When devotees of Lolth created the first
, thaumaturgy
1/day each: bane, hold person
Web (Recharge 5–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Web"}. Ranged Weapon Attack: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5", "rollType":"to hit
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Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
Aura of Terror. When a hostile creature within 5 feet of the black gauntlet makes an attack roll or a saving throw, it has disadvantage on the roll. Creatures that are immune to the frightened
","rollAction":"Spellcasting"} to hit with spell attacks). It has the following cleric spells prepared:
Cantrips (at will): guidance, sacred flame, thaumaturgy
1st level (4 slots): bane, bless, cure wounds
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Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
sword against that devil.
Infernal Recall. As an action, you can use the sword to cast word of recall. Creatures transported by this spell appear in an unoccupied space within 30 feet of the current
ruler of Avernus, or a sanctuary you designate if you rule Avernus.
Destroying the Sword. The sword can be destroyed by casting it into the River Styx or melting it down in the forge that created it.
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
creatures to his most devoted followers so they could mimic his works and invent new forms at their own forges.
Some anvilwroughts are vigilant guardians at holy shrines, others serve as familiars and
messengers, and a few were created to emulate beauty found among the animals of the mortal world. Each exhibits abilities suited to its role, with some behaving like companionable creatures or stoic
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
material components and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 16):
At will: arcane eye, mage armor, minor illusion, prestidigitation, speak with dead
1/day each: arcane gate, bane
deity. They are rumored to be able to coax worldly events along tragic paths for her amusement. The Raven Queen is famously cryptic even to her most devoted followers, however; their efforts are rewarded
Magic Items
Curse of Strahd
must succeed on a DC 12 Wisdom saving throw or be afflicted with short-term madness (see “Madness” in chapter 8 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide).
Blight Bane. While you are attuned
to the staff, blights and other evil plant creatures don’t regard you as hostile unless you harm them.
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
waters of the Abyss and other bodies of water contaminated by that plane’s fell influence, wastriliths establish themselves as lords of the deep and rule their dominions with cruelty.
A wastrilith
, responds to the wastrilith’s commands—perhaps hardening to prevent foes from escaping or erupting in a surge that drags victims into its reach.
Creatures that ingest water corrupted by a
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Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
You have made a pact with one of the rarest kinds of genie, a noble genie. Such entities rule vast fiefs on the Elemental Planes and have great influence over lesser genies and elemental creatures
Classes
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
You have made a pact with one of the rarest kinds of genie, a noble genie. Such entities rule vast fiefs on the Elemental Planes and have great influence over lesser genies and elemental creatures
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
been used as nimble scouts, always on alert for danger.
The first anvilwroughts were created by the god of the forge, Purphoros. He gave the secret of breathing life into these metal creatures to his
most devoted followers so they could mimic his works and invent new forms at their own forges.
Some anvilwroughts are vigilant guardians at holy shrines, others serve as familiars and messengers, and a
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures
damage.
Spellcasting. The faerie casts one of the following spells, requiring no material components and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 12):
2/day each: bane, grease
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Eldraine are winged, elfin creatures similar to sprites or pixies. Unpredictable, unreliable, and amoral, they lurk in the wilds and harass travelers they perceive as intruders.
OUPHES
Ouphes are
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Mythic Odysseys of Theros
metal creatures to his most devoted followers so they could mimic his works and invent new forms at their own forges.
Some anvilwroughts are vigilant guardians at holy shrines, others serve as familiars
and messengers, and a few were created to emulate beauty found among the animals of the mortal world. Each exhibits abilities suited to its role, with some behaving like companionable creatures or
Troglodyte
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Monster Manual (2014)
secretions, and the debris of their foul feasting.
Single-Minded Brutes. Troglodytes are devoted almost entirely to procuring food. They rarely plan more than a few days into the future, instead
relying on constant raids and hunting to survive. They take sadistic pleasure in hunting intelligent creatures weaker than themselves and show no mercy toward those they capture and drag back to their
Book of Exalted Deeds
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Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
The definitive treatise on all that is good in the multiverse, the fabled Book of Exalted Deeds figures prominently in many religions. Rather than being a scripture devoted to a particular faith, the
digest its contents and gain its benefits. Other creatures that peruse the book’s open pages can read the text but glean no deeper meaning and reap no benefits. An evil creature that tries to read
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
follows its creator like a devoted, aggressive puppy, and sometimes small packs of these creatures patrol their master’s lair for vermin to kill and lone creatures to harass.
A gazer can’t
beholders with wizard minions insist they take a gazer as a familiar because the beholders can see through the eyes of these creatures.
A wild gazer (one living separately from a beholder) is
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Mythic Odysseys of Theros
, Purphoros. He gave the secret of breathing life into these metal creatures to his most devoted followers so they could mimic his works and invent new forms at their own forges.
Some anvilwroughts are
role, with some behaving like companionable creatures or stoic guardians.
A few extremely rare and valuable anvilwroughts were crafted by the hand of Purphoros himself. A number of these magnificent
Baphomet
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Out of the Abyss
natures, for Baphomet envisions a world without restraint, where creatures live out their most savage desires.
Cults devoted to Baphomet use mazes and complex knots as their emblems, creating secret
cultists become tainted by his influence, gaining bloodshot eyes and coarse, thickening hair. Small horns eventually sprout from the forehead. In time, a devoted cultist might transform entirely into a
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
the perils of the Underdark. Equal parts fearful and vicious, bands of these dwarf-kin prey on those weaker than themselves, while giving simpering obeisance to any creatures they deem more powerful. A
some duergar, derro are descended from a dwarven community that was left behind when the others escaped the rule of mind flayers. These remnants were so distorted by the mind flayers’ psionic
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
want to break the confines of civility and unleash their bestial natures, for Baphomet envisions a world without restraint, where creatures live out their most bloodthirsty desires.
Cults devoted to
cultist’s forehead. In time, a devoted cultist might transform entirely into a minotaur, which is considered the greatest gift of the Prince of Beasts.
Baphomet appears as a fearsome, 20-foot-tall
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Storm King's Thunder
":"spell", "rollAction":"Spellcasting"} to hit with spell attacks):
At will: light, sacred flame, thaumaturgy
1/day each: augury (cast as 1 action), bane, banishment, bestow curse, command, cure wounds
, and the yakfolk foster that image until the strangers can be disarmed and taken prisoner.
In their seemingly idyllic hideaways, the yakfolk rule with iron fists, and for all their learning and
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Maglubiyet, who marshaled them as soldiers, but the fey realm left its mark; wherever they are in the multiverse, they continue to channel an aspect of the Feywild’s rule of reciprocity, which
hobgoblin legions have emerged, with ranks of devoted soldiers famed for their unity.
Hobgoblins are generally taller than their goblin cousins but not quite as big as bugbears. They have curved
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Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
). The killmoulis targets up to eight creatures within 100 feet of it that it can see. The next time a target finishes a long rest, it regains all spent Hit Dice and gains 10 temporary hit points.
Curse
of Poor Hospitality (1/day). The killmoulis targets up to eight creatures within 100 feet of it that it can see. The next time a target completes a long rest, it does not regain spent Hit Dice.A
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Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
other storm giants to its master’s service, while others gather devoted cults of lesser creatures to serve the monsters of the deep.Lightning, ThunderCold, Psychic
", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Psychic Wave"}. The herald unleashes a blast of psionic energy into the minds of up to three creatures it can see within 90 feet of itself. Each target must make a DC
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Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Xoriat to conquer Khorvaire, they captured and transformed that land's indigenous creatures to create armies of hideous warriors. Dyrrn the Corruptor shaped dolgaunts from hobgoblin stock, turning them
their bodies into living weapons dedicated to the missions given them by those masters. Dolgaunts are often found commanding squads of dolgrims, and can also be found working with the Cults of the Dragon Below — particularly those devoted to Dyrrn the Corruptor.