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Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Spirit Gem"} days if her spirit gem is intact, reviving with all her Hit Points. The new body appears in an unoccupied space within her lair.Multiattack. Valindra makes
disastrous confrontations with enemies of her temporary allies, she’s elected to keep her personal lair secret. Deep within her lair is a hidden reading room where she usually keeps her spirit gem
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
":"damage","rollAction":"Charge","rollDamageType":"fire"} fire damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 13 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone.
Heated Body. A creature that touches
the hart or hits it with a melee attack while within 5 feet of it takes 5 (1d10);{"diceNotation":"1d10","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Heated Body","rollDamageType":"fire"} fire damage.
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Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
the decaton dies, its body disintegrates into dust, leaving behind anything it was carrying.Multiattack. The decaton makes three Tentacle attacks.
Tentacle. Melee Weapon Attack: +7;{"diceNotation
electricity from each of its ten eyes, synchronizing them to deadly effect.
Modrons
Constructed on the plane of Mechanus, modrons are partially mechanical beings that belong to a strict hierarchy
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
beneath its feet. Iron golems wield enormous blades to extend their reach, and all can belch clouds of deadly poison.
An iron golem's body is smelted with rare tinctures and admixtures. Though other
grasp of language beyond that understanding, and can't be reasoned with or tricked with words.
Constructed Nature. A golem doesn't require air, food, drink, or sleep.Fire, Poison, Psychic; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks that aren't Adamantine
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
the septon dies, its body disintegrates into dust, leaving behind anything it was carrying.Multiattack. The septon makes four Tentacle attacks and uses Lightning Network or Spellcasting.
Tentacle
identified by their seven flexible limbs.
Modrons
Constructed on the plane of Mechanus, modrons are partially mechanical beings that belong to a strict hierarchy. Each modron dutifully obeys commands
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
the nonaton dies, its body disintegrates into dust, leaving behind anything it was carrying.Multiattack. The nonaton makes three Arm attacks and uses Pillar of Truth or Spellcasting.
Arm. Melee Weapon
have wormlike bodies studded with nine mechanical arms.
Modrons
Constructed on the plane of Mechanus, modrons are partially mechanical beings that belong to a strict hierarchy. Each modron
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
octon dies, its body disintegrates into dust, leaving behind anything it was carrying.Multiattack. The octon makes three Tentacle attacks.
Tentacle. Melee Weapon Attack: +8;{"diceNotation":"1d20+8
themselves, spinning them in a bludgeoning whirlwind.
Modrons
Constructed on the plane of Mechanus, modrons are partially mechanical beings that belong to a strict hierarchy. Each modron dutifully
Bard
Legacy
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Classes
Basic Rules (2014)
—knowledge of the people who constructed the monument and the mythic saga it depicts. A stern human warrior bangs his sword rhythmically against his scale mail, setting the tempo for his war chant
of song, speech, and the magic they contain. Bards say that the multiverse was spoken into existence, that the words of the gods gave it shape, and that echoes of these primordial Words of Creation
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
hexton dies, its body disintegrates into dust, leaving behind anything it was carrying.
Legendary Resistance (4/Day). If the hexton fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.Multiattack
which end in powerful pincers.
Modrons
Constructed on the plane of Mechanus, modrons are partially mechanical beings that belong to a strict hierarchy. Each modron dutifully obeys commands from the
Half-Elf
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Basic Rules (2014)
marked by an easy grace—an elvish grace, Flint would have said; yet the man’s body had the thickness and tight muscles of a human, while the facial hair was definitely humankind’s. All
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EXCELLENT AMBASSADORS
Many half-elves learn at an early age to get along with everyone, defusing hostility and finding common ground. As a race, they have elven grace without elven aloofness and
Magic Items
Acquisitions Incorporated
finish a long rest.
Ways to Read the Kill
d6
Reading
1
Using a tiny bellows to pump one last breath into a corpse.
2
Reading the entrails with special reading-the-entrails
glasses.
3
Burning a small piece of the body and looking for shapes in the smoke.
4
A cautious, reasoned, professional guesstimate.
5
Careful measurements. The distance between nostrils
Magic Items
Keys from the Golden Vault
powder if the book rests on it long enough.
A creature attuned to the book must spend 80 hours reading and studying it to digest its contents and reap its benefits. The creature can then freely modify
book, the spirit tries to leave the book and enter your body. If you fail a DC 20 Charisma saving throw, it succeeds, and you become an NPC under the DM’s control until the intruding spirit is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
critical factor, of course; the best ones make the best music, and some bards are continually on the lookout for an improvement. Perhaps just as important, though, is the instrument’s own entertainment
value; those that are bizarrely constructed or made of exotic materials are likely to leave a lasting impression on an audience. You might have an “off the rack” instrument, perhaps because it’s all you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
is sleeping in his casket. Treasure Sergei’s embalmed body is clothed in shining +2 plate armor. Fortunes of Ravenloft If your card reading reveals that a treasure is here, it is inside the coffin
next to Sergei’s body. If your card reading indicates an encounter with Strahd in this area, he is lying across Sergei’s coffin, weeping.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
, green, gray, and death slaadi requires a successful DC 12 Intelligence (Arcana) check. Defusing Slaad Confrontations. Writing short essays about commonly accepted ways to keep slaadi calm during
can use a gland under one of their claws to implant an egg into a Humanoid. The egg eventually becomes a tadpole that bursts from the host’s body and transforms into a full-grown blue slaad, or a green
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Construct. In the center of the room is a Huge scorpion constructed from metal. (This is an incomplete scaladar that is not active.)
11b. Scaladar Guards. Two scaladar (see appendix A) guard this room and
. Trobriand’s Body The body of a frail man in dark robes lies atop a stone slab near the south wall. The man has long, wavy hair and a thick beard the color of iron, and he wears a metal ring on the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
bones that hangs from the ceiling above a long table constructed of bones in the center of the room. Ten chairs made of bones and festooned with decorative skulls surround the table, resting atop which
Castle Ravenloft. The skull weighs 250 pounds. Fortunes of Ravenloft If your card reading reveals that a treasure is here, it is lying on the bone table. If your card reading indicates an encounter
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
, and bards and rogues certainly have a place on the plains. Outlander is a logical background, but you could easily be a bold folk hero, a dashing entertainer, or a clever charlatan. You could even be an
. Hermit and Outlander are sound backgrounds, but you could be an acolyte or a sage who consults with spirits instead of reading books. Warriors and shamans alike often wear masks in order to present a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Lamordia Domain of Snow and Stitched Flesh Darklord: Viktra Mordenheim Genres: Body horror and gothic horror Hallmarks: Amoral science, bizarre constructs, frigid wilderness, mutagenic radiation Mist
chemical accidents and the proper formulas. Golems, homunculi, and other constructed beings groan to life to support a populace desperate to survive in this frigid realm. Frozen bogs and glacial expanses
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Lorehold Student You have spent your youth preparing to be a student of Lorehold College, reading every book on the college’s recommended reading list for prospective students. Your academic passions
Lorehold. Bards thrive in Lorehold, and wizards (particularly those of the School of Divination) are numerous among its students. Clerics (often with the Knowledge or Light domains) are also quite common
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
bodies and use it to replenish the strength of their star. Xaryxispace is a small Wildspace system, consisting only of its central star and three natural satellites, plus a floating citadel constructed
Structure Type Distance to Outer Edge of System Vaerduran Irregular earth body 300 million miles (3 days’ travel) Rivus Spherical earth body 200 million miles (2 days’ travel) Xaryndar Spherical earth
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
of its body, requiring great command of the craft of sculpting, stonecutting, ironworking, or surgery. Sometimes a golem’s creator is the master of the art, but often the individual who desires a
golem must enlist master artisans to do the work. After constructing the body from clay, flesh, iron, or stone, the golem’s creator infuses it with a spirit from the Elemental Plane of Earth. This tiny
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Chapter 3: The Darklake Though its name might evoke images of a single subterranean body of water, the Darklake is a network of underground rivers, natural tunnels, and canals that connect
engineers extended and widened many of the interconnecting passages of the Darklake. They also constructed locks for raising and lowering watercraft to different levels within it, opening up large
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
large meeting rooms, and a small concert hall. Rumors say that this is an outpost of the secret Circle of Song, a society of bards and entertainers spread across Khorvaire; others swear that House
students. Honors. The counterbalance to Detention, Honors is both bar, bookstore, and reading room. Many of the more respectable faculty members take their meals in Honors, and it’s a good place to find a debate on the cosmology of Eberron or the morality of the Last War.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
. Constructed Resilience. You were created to have remarkable fortitude, represented by the following benefits: You have advantage on saving throws against being poisoned, and you have resistance to
Protection. Your body has built-in defensive layers, which can be enhanced with armor: You gain a +1 bonus to Armor Class. You can don only armor with which you have proficiency. To don armor, you must
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
, but whether it was built as a temple to the god or whether it was constructed by Savras when he was still a mortal, not even Valin has been able to determine. The former temple is built entirely of
as the rite of reclamation involves claiming some of the dust of Valin’s body after she has been reduced to 0 hit points. The ritual describes a process for mixing the dust with wax to create a magic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Homunculi A homunculus is a construct servant created for certain tasks. Artificers and wizards are responsible for most of the homunculi in existence. Each kind of homunculus has a body constructed
an extended magical ritual. Constructed Nature. A homunculus doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep. Expeditious Messenger An expeditious messenger is a speedy flier, designed to quickly carry
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
about the card reading. Ireena won’t accompany the characters, however, until Kolyan Indirovich’s body is laid to rest in the cemetery. A. Marionette (Jack of Hearts) What horror is this? I see a man made
Strahd’s Enemy Drawn from the high deck, the fourth card in the card reading determines the location of an NPC who can improve the characters’ chances of defeating Strahd. (Some cards offer two
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
4 A vaguely human-shaped creature made of slime
5 A fey-like shape, either brooding or passionate
6 A body constructed of metal, stone, or machinery
Transformation. You can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
mixed the herbal concoction poorly. The dragon’s body and everything nearby rapidly aged and decayed, killing her benefactor and destroying a hoard filled with ages of treasures and wisdom. Chiang’s
home had been destroyed again, but a single golden scale remained. Using the scale, Chiang constructed the Nightingale Bell and dragged it into her occupied city. Tolling it, she wished for a city
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
present giants as patrons, rivals, or adversaries, or suggest reasons why characters might venture to locations constructed or occupied by giants. The adventure hooks are spread throughout these three
chapters because they’re intended to complement the information presented in each chapter. For example, if you get excited as you’re reading about the giant pantheon and decide you want to build an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
M10. Treasury This solitary building is set atop a small floating islet within an area of open space punched down through the main body of the monastery’s island. It is held aloft on its own
drawn into the jar, where it remains desperate to be reunited with its body. As with the other brains in jars, this brain can be negotiated with. If a character succeeds on a DC 15 Charisma (Deception
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
. But when the devil Strahd fell upon him, the wizard’s magic couldn’t save him. I saw him thrown a thousand feet to his death. I climbed down to the river to search for the wizard’s body, to see if
in chapter 1. (If the characters don’t want a reading of their fates, continue play using the card reading you performed before starting the adventure.) Madam Eva might seem mad, but she is, in fact
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
or poison killed a creature, or explain what that dead body is doing under your bed at the inn. The Occultant Franchise Rank Features
1 Proficiencies and Starting Equipment, Read the Kill
enemy of every enterprise.
Ways to Read the Kill d6 Reading
1 Using a tiny bellows to pump one last breath into a corpse.
2 Reading the entrails with special reading-the-entrails
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
new area, the illusory flames create figures of violet flame, play out a scene, then harmlessly fade. After reading the description of each room, paraphrase the next scene from the following list
knight burns as well, but he doesn’t fall. His armor fuses with his body; his eyes blaze with flames; and he becomes a terrifying, deathless figure. If the characters enter a room after all these