bards back drives continuous roiling

Planar Incarnate (Fiend Form)

Monsters Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse

. These expressions of a plane’s power are called planar incarnates, and they appear as roiling energies with features distinct to the plane that created it. They protect their home from destructive

or otherwise antithetical forces, then merge back into their plane of origin. Planar incarnates are akin to natural disasters that work to protect and further the virtues and vices of the planes

Planar Incarnate (Celestial Form)

Monsters Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse

expressions of a plane’s power are called planar incarnates, and they appear as roiling energies with features distinct to the plane that created it. They protect their home from destructive or

otherwise antithetical forces, then merge back into their plane of origin. Planar incarnates are akin to natural disasters that work to protect and further the virtues and vices of the planes they

Yeth Hound

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

hunting dogs. They race in pursuit of their prey, running it down until it’s too exhausted to fight back. Only the threat of dawn drives the pack back into hiding. A pack of yeth hounds can be

run and torment them before closing in for the kill. Those that fight back discover that mundane weapons partially pass through yeth hounds as if they were made of fog, but magic weapons and silvered

Prisoner 13

Monsters Keys from the Golden Vault

in Dwarvish script on her neck and across her shoulder blades reads, “Endless dreams entombed in stone.” Flames. A roiling storm of brilliant flames covers her back and ribs. Shroud

tattoo across her back, filling a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on her. Each other creature in that area must make a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the creature takes 13 (3d8

Elder Brain Dragon

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

away when a colony manages to capture a dragon. Teams of mind flayers bind the dragon, which is subject to a gruesome transformation as the elder brain latches onto the dragon’s back and digs its

. Even the elder brain dragon’s breath weapon mutates during its transformation, becoming a stream of briny liquid roiling with illithid tadpoles. These tadpoles can swiftly slay victims and transform them into mind flayers, allowing the elder brain dragon to grow its own roving colony.Psychic

Crab Folk

Monsters Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1

spell gave the crab folk an insatiable love for silver. When they see it, all crab folk feel an irresistible urge to seize it and carry it back to their lairs. If necessary, they resort to violence to

crab folk have little sense of what drives them, but they understand that the effigy represents a mother and creator who must be obeyed. Legend holds that the green hag preferred to travel in the

Gauth

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

can survive on meat but prefers to sustain itself with power drained from magic objects. If starved of magic for several weeks, it is forced back to its home plane, so it constantly seeks new items

magic items it is expected to guard. A beholder (see the Monster Manual) usually drives away or kills any gauths that enter its territory, but it might choose to force them to serve it as lieutenants

Crystal Dragon Wyrmling

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

their bodies and the spines and horns that hover close to their heads and backs. These horns shift with the dragon’s mood: bristling with anger, lying back with fear or suspicion, and rippling

rain from the sky in a beautiful but dangerous display. Rumors quickly spread that a crystal dragon is responsible. 3 A crystal dragon invites the greatest bards and philosophers to partake in

Rak Tulkhesh

Monsters Eberron: Rising from the Last War

Tulkhesh magically polymorphs into a humanoid, beast, or giant that has a challenge rating no higher than his own, or back into his true form. He reverts to his true form if he dies. Any equipment he

impulses that drives many mortals to battle. Fear, greed, hatred — these are seeds that the Rage of War sows in the hopes of producing a bloody harvest. Rak Tulkhesh typically takes the form of a vaguely

Young Crystal Dragon

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

starlight between their bodies and the spines and horns that hover close to their heads and backs. These horns shift with the dragon’s mood: bristling with anger, lying back with fear or

Prismatic shards rain from the sky in a beautiful but dangerous display. Rumors quickly spread that a crystal dragon is responsible. 3 A crystal dragon invites the greatest bards and philosophers

Tabaxi Legacy

Species 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

its secrets and nature have been laid bare. Tinkers and Minstrels Curiosity drives most of the tabaxi found outside their homeland, but not all of them become adventurers. Tabaxi who seek a safer

Claugiyliamatar

Monsters Storm King's Thunder

with a mangled corpse hanging from her mouth. Other dragons rarely remain in Kryptgarden Forest for long, because Claugiyliamatar drives them out. Claugiyliamatar rarely meddles in the affairs of small

of wall has AC 5, 15 hit points, vulnerability to fire damage, resistance to bludgeoning and piercing damage, and immunity to psychic damage. The wall sinks back into the ground when the dragon uses

Claugiyliamatar (possessed)

Monsters Divine Contention

Claugiyliamatar drives them out. Claugiyliamatar rarely meddles in the affairs of small folk. Even so, her collection of crystal balls allows her to stay abreast of events happening in the world. Ebondeath

, resistance to bludgeoning and piercing damage, and immunity to psychic damage. The wall sinks back into the ground when the dragon uses this lair action again or when the dragon dies. Magical fog billows

Chapter 4: Escape From the Past

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Netheril’s Fall: Tales of Terror, Treasure, and Time Travel

Chapter 4: Escape From the Past Chapter 4 Escape From the Past SAMUEL PERIN The cosmos-shaking magic of Karsus’s Folly drives a caldron magen into a violent frenzy Experimentation with temporal

period in the Forgotten Realms or beyond into ancient Netheril, where they can adventure before discovering a way back home.

Adult Crystal Dragon

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

; scales. It glows like starlight between their bodies and the spines and horns that hover close to their heads and backs. These horns shift with the dragon’s mood: bristling with anger, lying back

bards and philosophers to partake in “the Great Dialogue” in the dragon’s mountaintop lair. But only the dragon knows that the Great Dialogue has no end, and no one can leave the lair

Ancient Crystal Dragon

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

anger, lying back with fear or suspicion, and rippling in side-to-side waves with amusement or joy. Visions in Starlight Many crystal dragons study the stars, recording their observations of the night

the greatest bards and philosophers to partake in “the Great Dialogue” in the dragon’s mountaintop lair. But only the dragon knows that the Great Dialogue has no end, and no one can

Chapter 4: Escape From the Past

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Netheril’s Fall: Tales of Terror, Treasure, and Time Travel

Chapter 4: Escape From the Past Chapter 4 Escape From the Past SAMUEL PERIN The cosmos-shaking magic of Karsus’s Folly drives a caldron magen into a violent frenzy Experimentation with temporal

period in the Forgotten Realms or beyond into ancient Netheril, where they can adventure before discovering a way back home.

Chapter 4: Escape From the Past

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Netheril’s Fall: Tales of Terror, Treasure, and Time Travel

Chapter 4: Escape From the Past Chapter 4 Escape From the Past SAMUEL PERIN The cosmos-shaking magic of Karsus’s Folly drives a caldron magen into a violent frenzy Experimentation with temporal

period in the Forgotten Realms or beyond into ancient Netheril, where they can adventure before discovering a way back home.

Gnomes

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

Gnomes And then the whole thing exploded into a million jillion pieces! [gasp] I never saw anything like it in my life! — Griballix, gnome of Sigil Love of discovery is the force that drives the

life of a gnome, whether one is investigating the nature of magic or trying to invent a better back scratcher. Questions about the world fill a gnome’s head: how an insect flies, a fish swims, or a

Gnomes

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

Gnomes And then the whole thing exploded into a million jillion pieces! [gasp] I never saw anything like it in my life! — Griballix, gnome of Sigil Love of discovery is the force that drives the

life of a gnome, whether one is investigating the nature of magic or trying to invent a better back scratcher. Questions about the world fill a gnome’s head: how an insect flies, a fish swims, or a

Bardic Colleges

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide

Bardic Colleges In addition to the tradition of apprenticing with a master bard, the Sword Coast has some bardic colleges where masters teach students the bardic arts. They hark back to the great

the bards, each of which is named after one of the colleges. See chapter 7 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide for the game statistics of these magic instruments. Long ago, bards who sought the rank of

Bardic Colleges

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide

Bardic Colleges In addition to the tradition of apprenticing with a master bard, the Sword Coast has some bardic colleges where masters teach students the bardic arts. They hark back to the great

the bards, each of which is named after one of the colleges. See chapter 7 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide for the game statistics of these magic instruments. Long ago, bards who sought the rank of

Gnomes

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

Gnomes And then the whole thing exploded into a million jillion pieces! [gasp] I never saw anything like it in my life! — Griballix, gnome of Sigil Love of discovery is the force that drives the

life of a gnome, whether one is investigating the nature of magic or trying to invent a better back scratcher. Questions about the world fill a gnome’s head: how an insect flies, a fish swims, or a

Aftermath

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild

the party down to demand a duel by combat. He explains what the characters have really done, and offers to lead the characters back to the woods to right their wrongs if they can be persuaded to. If

the characters defeat the hags, Banrion returns to prominence and drives the rest of the wicked fey out of the woods. Before the characters depart, she asks them to once more use the panel at the clock

Bardic Colleges

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide

Bardic Colleges In addition to the tradition of apprenticing with a master bard, the Sword Coast has some bardic colleges where masters teach students the bardic arts. They hark back to the great

the bards, each of which is named after one of the colleges. See chapter 7 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide for the game statistics of these magic instruments. Long ago, bards who sought the rank of

Aftermath

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild

the party down to demand a duel by combat. He explains what the characters have really done, and offers to lead the characters back to the woods to right their wrongs if they can be persuaded to. If

the characters defeat the hags, Banrion returns to prominence and drives the rest of the wicked fey out of the woods. Before the characters depart, she asks them to once more use the panel at the clock

Aftermath

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild

the party down to demand a duel by combat. He explains what the characters have really done, and offers to lead the characters back to the woods to right their wrongs if they can be persuaded to. If

the characters defeat the hags, Banrion returns to prominence and drives the rest of the wicked fey out of the woods. Before the characters depart, she asks them to once more use the panel at the clock

Farewell

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus

Knucklebone without Mad Maggie’s consent, the night hag organizes a posse to run them down and get back what’s hers, plus “interest.” Mad Maggie chases after them in her Scavenger, with Mickey in the passenger

seat behind her while she drives. Barnabas the flameskull operates the Grappling Claw with his mage hand spell, Chukka and Clonk operate the Harpoon Flingers, and six madcaps cling to the outside

Farewell

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus

Knucklebone without Mad Maggie’s consent, the night hag organizes a posse to run them down and get back what’s hers, plus “interest.” Mad Maggie chases after them in her Scavenger, with Mickey in the passenger

seat behind her while she drives. Barnabas the flameskull operates the Grappling Claw with his mage hand spell, Chukka and Clonk operate the Harpoon Flingers, and six madcaps cling to the outside

Planar Incarnate

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary