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Eberron: Rising from the Last War
legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature’s turn. Dyrrn regains spent legendary actions at the
start of its turn.
Tentacle Whip. Dyrrn makes one attack with its Tentacle Whip.
Spawn Aberration (Costs 2 Actions). Dyrrn regurgitates an intellect devourer in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of
Monsters
Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
equipment it is wearing or carrying, up to 120 feet to an unoccupied space it can see.Ygorl can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. It can take only one legendary action at a
inscribed across the blade, which can reduce living creatures to ash. The lord of entropy also bears a set of obsidian tablets slung about its waist, upon which it inscribes destructive runes. Living
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
).Halaster can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature’s turn. Halaster regains spent
casting elder runes on them. Halaster’s gates connect the different levels of Undermountain, thus enabling him to bring new monsters into the dungeon to replenish those that die or escape. Even as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Find the Path Level 6 Divination (Bard, Cleric, Druid) Casting Time: 1 minute
Range: Self
Components: V, S, M (a set of divination tools—such as cards or runes—worth 100+ GP)
Duration
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Thousand Teeth the Devourer Thousand Teeth is an ancient crocodilian nightmare that has served as the apex predator in the swamps near Saltmarsh for as long as anyone can remember. This monster
Thousand Teeth can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature’s turn. Thousand Teeth
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Find the Path Level 6 Divination (Bard, Cleric, Druid) Casting Time: 1 minute
Range: Self
Components: V, S, M (a set of divination tools—such as cards or runes—worth 100+ GP)
Duration
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Barghest
Devourer
Draegloth
Maw demon
Shoosuva
Tanarukk
Vargouille
Giants Cloud giant smiling one
Fire giant dreadnought
Frost giant everlasting one
Mouth of Grolantor
Stone giant
dreamwalker
Storm giant quintessent
Humanoids Abjurer
Apprentice wizard
Archdruid
Archer
Bard
Blackguard
Champion
Conjurer
Deep scion
Diviner
Enchanter
Evoker
Firenewt warrior
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
sorcerer
Maw demon
Nilbog
Quickling
Sea spawn
Thorny
Vargouille
Xvart warlock of Raxivort
Challenge 2 (450 XP) Aurochs
Bard
Darkling elder
Grung elite warrior
Guard drake
)
Warlord
Yuan-ti anathema
Challenge 13 (10,000 XP) Devourer
Neothelid
Challenge 14 (11,500 XP) Elder brain
Fire giant dreadnought
Challenge 16 (15,000 XP) Storm giant quintessent
Challenge 22 (41,000 XP) Mind flayer lich (Illithilich)
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Likes... Primary Ability Complexity Barbarian Battle Strength Average Bard Performing Charisma High Cleric Gods Wisdom Average Druid Nature Wisdom High Fighter Weapons Strength or Dexterity Low
the game, but more importantly, they bring a balanced mix of capabilities to adventures. You’re welcome to use that party setup or modify it using these guidelines:
Cleric: Replace with Bard or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
... Primary Ability Complexity Barbarian Battle Strength Average Bard Performing Charisma High Cleric Gods Wisdom Average Druid Nature Wisdom High Fighter Weapons Strength or Dexterity Low Monk Unarmed
, but more importantly, they bring a balanced mix of capabilities to adventures. You’re welcome to use that party setup or modify it using these guidelines:
Cleric: Replace with Bard or Druid
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Halaster. The runes grant the behir the ability to use the following legendary actions. Legendary Actions
The behir can take three legendary actions, choosing from the options below. It can take only one
. Behir The behir lies in wait in this 50-foot-high cavern, its muscled, serpentine body woven through the stalagmites. Scars are carved into its hide in the form of arcane runes, placed there by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Teleportation Circle Level 5 Conjuration (Bard, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard) Casting Time: 1 minute
Range: 10 feet
Components: V, M (rare inks worth 50+ GP, which the spell consumes)
Duration: 1
teleportation circles. Each circle includes a unique sigil sequence—a string of runes arranged in a particular pattern. When you first gain the ability to cast this spell, you learn the sigil sequences for two
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Teleportation Circle Level 5 Conjuration (Bard, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard) Casting Time: 1 minute
Range: 10 feet
Components: V, M (rare inks worth 50+ GP, which the spell consumes)
Duration: 1
teleportation circles. Each circle includes a unique sigil sequence—a string of runes arranged in a particular pattern. When you first gain the ability to cast this spell, you learn the sigil sequences for two
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
has an intellect devourer in its skull, which is controlling it like a puppeteer. Because of the intellect devourer’s Detect Sentience trait, the bugbears can’t be surprised by the adventurers. When
the intellect devourer’s host drops to 0 hit points, the intellect devourer teleports away to seek a new host. 39c. Goblin Hall Goblins. Nineteen loud, mean, starving goblins bicker and fight over
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
whether the Dark Powers of Ravenloft have exerted their influence upon you, granting you a double-edged supernatural gift. Subclass Options. Consider choosing the College of Spirits bard or the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
Character Options Each player has options when it comes to choosing a character race, class, and background. These options are summarized in the Character Options table. If there are multiple players
play an all-dwarf party or a troupe of adventuring entertainers. Character Options Races Classes Backgrounds Dwarf Bard Acolyte Elf Cleric Criminal Halfling Fighter Entertainer Human Rogue Sage
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
archway is 40 feet wide and 40 feet tall. Six different runes are carved into it, each one inlaid with mithral, and a glowing mist fills the arch. Niches in the walls on either side of it contain empty
weight of each weapon and the archway rune associated with each weapon (see “Archway and Runes”). Each statue has AC 20, a damage threshold of 10, and immunity to poison and psychic damage. The statue of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
single dragon of your choosing. Metallic dragons are exceedingly wise, but they sometimes have difficulty distinguishing individual humanoids from each other. As such, an individual dragon’s initial
cleric. Or perhaps Tazmikella’s stolen magic item is not something currently possessed by one of the adventurers, but she recognizes an ancestor of a party member as the sweet-talking bard who stole
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
motivation, but it also might explain some of your class features or magic. A bard of the College of Lore might focus on the study of giants, a Rune Knight fighter (from Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
) might use the magic of Giant runes, or a paladin’s Sacred Oath could involve allegiance to the tenets of a philosophy or organization of giants (such as those described in chapter 2). Giant-Made
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
thieves’ tools. Also, the doors and windows have an AC of 12 and break with 25 points of damage. Magical runes, as per the glyph of warding spell, protect the cloak room and barn doors. If the party
opens the doors without first removing or disabling the runes, they take thunder damage as per the spell. A window at the back of the inn on the second floor is open (see “The Upstairs” below). A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
audience. 19–20 A destitute bard plays the harp with mediocre skill while asking for donations. 21–22 A deaf couple communicate with each other by sign language, but suddenly stop when they notice they are
faces of the guests. Not all of them are amused. 31–32 A shifter glowers in a corner booth, looking angry at the world. 33–34 A warforged bard uses its body as a percussion instrument to entertain the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
spellbooks that Arcturia has accumulated over the years. They contain most of the wizard spells in the Player’s Handbook, plus any others of your choosing. All the 8th-level and 9th-level spells that
arcane runes and phrases. The book is titled Arcturia’s Arcane Esoterica: Vol. IX, and it contains the following spells: antimagic field, astral projection, dominate monster, feeblemind, gate, incendiary
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
doesn’t rejoin the battle. It might reappear later to exact its revenge on those who harmed it, in a place and form of your choosing. 9b. Shapes in the Fog As the characters move through this 10-foot
higher to pass through this gate (see “Jhesiyra Kestellharp”). The first creature to pass through the gate triggers an elder rune (see “Elder Runes”). A creature that passes through the gate appears in area 34a on level 6, in the closest unoccupied space next to the identical gate located there.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
spells the warlock knows. Does the Eyes of the Rune Keeper invocation work on magical runes? Eyes of the Rune Keeper lets you read any form of writing, including the linguistic meaning of a rune, if any
you create a melee weapon out of nothing. Whenever you do so, you determine the weapon’s form, choosing from the melee weapon options in the Weapons table in the Player’s Handbook. For example, you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Silverquill
Gargantuan Dragon (Bard), Neutral
Armor Class 21 (natural armor)
Hit Points 363 (22d20 + 132)
Speed 40 ft., fly 80 ft.
STR
25 (+7)
DEX
14 (+2)
CON
23 (+6
Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 23):
1/day each: darkness, daylight, hypnotic pattern, sending, suggestion
Legendary Actions
Shadrix can take 3 legendary actions, choosing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
give an initial focus to the campaign—setting a tone and giving players an initial investment in the story. The player characters may be meeting in a tavern—but it’s their favorite tavern. The bard
services are in demand. Morgrave University is in Upper Menthis Plateau. This is a college for adventurers, and an opportunity to add a little levity to your story. Choosing and developing a starting point
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Proficiencies by Class Class Ability Check Barbarian Strength, Dexterity, or Wisdom Bard Any one Cleric Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma Druid Intelligence or Wisdom Fighter Strength, Dexterity, or
Charisma Warlock Intelligence or Charisma Wizard Intelligence or Wisdom The Expertise feature works differently than normal under this rule. At 1st level, instead of choosing two skill proficiencies, a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
wizards. His expertise with magic gates allows him to travel far and wide to engage in magical research. He spends much of his time creating gates, moving them around, and casting elder runes on them
legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature’s turn. Halaster regains spent legendary actions at the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
(Insight) check discerns only that Windfall is concealing information. Windfall Medium Humanoid (Tiefling, Bard), Chaotic Evil
Armor Class 19 (studded leather armor)
Hit Points 323 (34d8 + 170
see her must succeed on a DC 23 Constitution saving throw or have the stunned condition until the start of Windfall’s next turn.
Legendary Actions
Windfall can take 3 legendary actions, choosing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
you’ll take that risk. If you had to choose between entering a battle without your favorite combat gear or without the party’s bard, Singy McLuteface can sit this one out. You and your equipment have
with images of the phases of the moon
11 A dagger with a handle made of bone, etched with worn and unreadable runes
12 A backpack made from the leather and fur of a skunk
Victory Is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
are complete, he tries to eliminate the characters, choosing a moment when they appear weakest to betray them. Sornnozz (see area 13) and Tazirahc are loyal to Xarann and follow his lead. Xarann is a
.
Examination of the altar reveals Elvish runes worked into the harp. Any character who understands Elvish can translate the words as “The hymn is the key.” A character who succeeds on a DC 20 Intelligence
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
runes. Living creatures wither and rot within the entropic energy emanated by Ygorl’s magic.
After the fifth artist dispatched to record Ygorl ’s appearance failed to return, I let the matter rest
teleports, along with any equipment it is wearing or carrying, up to 120 feet to an unoccupied space it can see.
Legendary Actions
Ygorl can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
(attitude: 1d8 + 1) searching for a creature it killed whose soul escaped the Raven Queen’s clutches (the creature is now a revenant)
9 1 death giant shrouded one* (attitude: 1d6) debating 1 devourer
storm giant oracle who is an ancient enemy
11 1 kraken priest† and 3 deep scions† (attitude for all: 1d4 + 1) studying storm giant runes
12 1 storm giant quintessent† (attitude: 1d12) reading
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
pass by 6 A bugbear with an intellect devourer in its skull that tries to lure characters to area 21f 7 Preeta Kreepa (see area 21m) 8–10 Three hobgoblins and a hobgoblin captain keeping the peace and
.
Goblinoids. Attending the warlord are two bugbears, four hobgoblins, and six goblins. One of the bugbears has an intellect devourer hidden in its skull and acts as a spy for Xanathar while feigning
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Belashyrra can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature’s turn. Belashyrra regains spent
and devouring its brain.
Legendary Actions
Dyrrn can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at the end of






