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Astarion's Book of Hungers
Diabolical Restoration. If the devil dies outside the Nine Hells, its body disappears in sulfurous smoke, and it gains a new body instantly, reviving with all its Hit Points somewhere in the Nine
. These devils record the secrets they uncover in Mephistar, Mephistopheles’s vast library in Cania. While greedy to uncover other creatures’ secrets, speaker devils diligently redact any
Berbalang
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Monsters
Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
. Berbalangs prefer to speak only to dead things, and specifically only to the spirits they call forth in the hope of learning secrets. They record their stories on the bones that once belonged to
places where the gods and their servants gather. When a berbalang is perceiving its environment through its duplicate, its actual body is unconscious and can’t protect or nourish itself. Thus, a
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
life.
Berbalangs prefer to speak only to dead things, and specifically only to the spirits they call forth in the hope of learning secrets. They record their stories on the bones that once belonged
the gods and their servants gather. When a berbalang is perceiving its environment through its duplicate, its actual body is unconscious and can’t protect itself. Thus, a berbalang typically
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
, naiads gather to revel in nature’s might. Individual naiads often grow fixated with a single type or body of water, potentially preferring a deep sea trench, coastline, or river system above
hidden system of currents and arteries, a ship might reach any destination in record time, be it across the sea or along a river a hundred miles inland. Naiads do nothing to dissuade sailors from this
Lich
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Basic Rules (2014)
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the lich fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Rejuvenation. If it has a phylactery, a destroyed lich gains a new body in 1d10;{"diceNotation
":"1d10","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Days"} days, regaining all its hit points and becoming active again. The new body appears within 5 feet of the phylactery.
Spellcasting. The lich is an 18th-level
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Exethanter fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.
Rejuvenation. If it has a phylactery, a destroyed lich gains a new body in 1d10;{"diceNotation
":"1d10","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Rejuvenation"} days, regaining all its hit points and becoming active again. The new body appears within 5 feet of the phylactery.
Spellcasting. Exethanter is an
Monsters
Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
call home. Iridescent scales crackling with lightning cover a bakunawa’s fearsome serpentine body, and the sharp movements of its mighty wings echo with thunderous winds. Known for their mercilessness in battle, bakunawa swallow whole any who challenge them.Lightning, Thunder
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the lich fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Rejuvenation. If it has a phylactery, a destroyed lich gains a new body in 1d10;{"diceNotation
":"1d10","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Rejuvenation"} days, regaining all its hit points and becoming active again. The new body appears within 5 feet of the phylactery.
Spellcasting. The lich is an 18th
Valindra Shadowmantle
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Tomb of Annihilation
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Valindra fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Rejuvenation. If she still has a phylactery and is destroyed, Valindra gains a new body in 1d10
;{"diceNotation":"1d10","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Rejuvenation"} days, regaining all its hit points and becoming active again. The new body appears within 5 feet of the phylactery.
Spellcasting
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
? Ah, then what manner of music they would bring to this world!
— Fletcher Danairia, master bard
Bards bring levity during grave times; they impart wisdom to offset ignorance; and they make the
ridiculous seem sublime. Bards are preservers of ancient history, their songs and tales perpetuating the memory of great events down through time — knowledge so important that it is memorized and passed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
fatality among the student body, that year dozens of students perished. No available record notes how the students died. Characters who, in chapter 4, learned about the student expelled for practicing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
seethe with wrath, their rage erupting in waves of fire and as a pair of vicious weapons: a sword of crackling lightning and a whip of lashing flames. A balor’s fury persists until the moment of its
dies outside the Abyss, it gains a new body instantly, reviving with all its Hit Points somewhere in the Abyss.
Fire Aura. At the end of each of the balor’s turns, each creature in a 5-foot Emanation
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
appendix for more on exorcists. Extractors. Whereas the corpse collectors scoop up any old body lying around the Hive Ward, extractors are tasked with retrieving and safeguarding the bodies of
, cremate, dissect, embalm, inter, sort, and record the dead that enter the Mortuary. Necrologists. Necrologists are archivists, scholars, and poets who honor the dead. They celebrate the lives of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Astarion's Book of Hungers
logokrons.
Many speaker devils are loyal to the archdevil Mephistopheles. These devils record the secrets they uncover in Mephistar, Mephistopheles’s vast library in Cania. While greedy to uncover
Darkness); Passive Perception 18
Languages Infernal; telepathy 120 ft.
CR 12 (XP 8,400; PB +4)
Traits
Diabolical Restoration. If the devil dies outside the Nine Hells, its body disappears in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
the stalactites.
Lightning Flashes. If the behir is in area 17c, sporadic flashes of blue-white light appear in the tunnel leading to that area, accompanied by a crackling noise.
17b. Crushed
. 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->Basic Rules (2014)
origin for an area of effect (described below). Unless a spell has a perceptible effect, a creature might not know it was targeted by a spell at all. An effect like crackling lightning is obvious, but a
magic depends on the Weave, though different kinds of magic access it in a variety of ways. The spells of wizards, warlocks, sorcerers, and bards are commonly called arcane magic. These spells rely on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
the hope of learning secrets. They record their stories on the bones that once belonged to these creatures, thus preserving the information they gain. Pursuit of knowledge drives everything berbalangs
the duplicate out to gather information on other planes by watching places where the gods and their servants gather. When a berbalang is perceiving its environment through its duplicate, its actual body
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
features. Chris Cold
Fire Elemental Compositions 1d8 The Fire Elemental’s Body Features...
1 Colorful, superheated gases.
2 A column of diabolical or divine flame.
3
Crackling shapes that look like animals, fiends, skeletons, sprites, or other beings.
4 Flames that are predominantly white, blue, or a more unusual color.
5 The form of a calm or tormented
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Bard: College of Spirits Bards of the College of Spirits seek tales with inherent power—be they legends, histories, or fictions—and bring their subjects to life. Using occult trappings, these bards
number on both dice, you can ignore the number and choose any effect on the table. SPIRIT TALES
Storytellers, like bards of the College of Spirits, often give voice to tales inspired by some greater
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
flame, or a crackling bolt of lightning. On nothing more than a whim, Corellon’s body could become a school of fish, a swarm of bees, or a flock of birds. When consorting with other gods, Corellon often
creator’s disappointment. Then the soul emerges from Arvandor, to be reborn into a lissome, graceful body that lives for an incredibly long time — evidence that their creator holds a love for them that, deep down, is boundless.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
bards find a home in Silverquill, putting the power of their voices to use with Silverquill magic. Wizards (especially those who study the Schools of Illusion and Enchantment) are common in
, highlighting the diversity of the student body. Suggested Characteristics. With the college’s intense standards looming over them, Silverquill students range from cocky and cutthroat to overwhelmed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
takes it back to its nest to be devoured.
The peryton is a bizarre creature that blends the body and wings of a bird of prey with the head of a stag. Its strangest feature is its shadow, which appears
humanoid rather than reflecting the creature’s physical form. Sages postulate that the first perytons were humans transformed by a hideous curse or magical experiment, but bards tell a different tale
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
they call forth in the hope of learning secrets. They record their stories on the bones that once belonged to these creatures, thus preserving the information they gain. Spectral Spy. The pursuit of
environment through its duplicate, its actual body is unconscious and can’t protect or nourish itself. Thus, a berbalang typically uses its duplicate for only a short time before returning its consciousness to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
don’t record a collectively remembered past, fictions spawn terrible facts, and sheltered villagers remain stubbornly ignorant about the world beyond. Ravenloft is a setting designed to cultivate
genre in all its myriad forms is explored—from moody gothic horror and ghost stories to visceral body horror and mind-bending cosmic horror. Chapter 2 explores how to choose the horror themes that are right for your game, but read on at your discretion.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
. Fiend’s Ante. A crackling crimson portal leads to area P4. Shemeshka’s Portal. An unopened, golden portal stands in an empty alcove to the north. This portal leads to Shemeshka’s refuge. This portal can’t
are unaware they’re being watched. Roll on the Dungeon Scenes table to determine what scene a crystal is depicting at any given time. Dungeon Scenes d4 Scene 1 A beast with the body of a turtle and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
. So gifted a musician was he that an admiring wizard gave Frody an instrument of the bards—a famous Canaith mandolin called Golden Axe. The mandolin’s magic served Frody well during his many
body was returned to Toadhop and laid to rest in the earth next to his mother, Veena, and his sister, Marigold. Golden Axe was buried with him. Shortly after Frody was interred, a tiefling named
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
bloody bodies of Kalaman’s council members slump in high-backed chairs and across the room’s large table. At a position of honor opposite the door, Governor Calof Miat’s body is transfixed to his chair
, a gleaming longsword piercing his chest.
Next to the governor’s body, a man in Solamnic armor rocks back in a chair. He props his booted feet on the table as he balances a scroll on one finger
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
languages or proficiency with certain kinds of tools. Record this information, along with the personality information you develop, on your character sheet.
Your Character's Abilities Take your
smart character with low Strength.
For example, high Strength usually corresponds with a burly or athletic body, while a character with low Strength might be scrawny or plump.
A character with high
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
, but their instructions are precise and tediously step-by-step. To record an entry for the Mosaic Mimir, the characters need to visit the gate to Mechanus. Gate to Mechanus With its size and persistent
”). Accessing the Gate Creatures seeking to use the gate or get close enough to record data using the Mosaic Mimir must obtain an access permit at the Gate Travel Administration building nearby. This monument to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
Spiritor Danai, a spirit of revelry who is inhabiting the body of a willing host, a satyr named Kallista. Danai is chaotic good, friendly, and unflappably optimistic. As she approaches, each character
following scene: An eighteen-foot-tall, humanlike woman with marble skin and eyes crackling with lightning crouches to agitatedly argue with a calm, silver-haired elf. Beyond the elf is a rollicking
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Barrow Mound Long ago, Uthgardt barbarians built the barrow mound to hold the body of a chieftain, now forgotten. When Wiggan Nettlebee joined the Cult of the Black Earth, he looted the barrow
. The Chieftain’s Return After the characters have a minute to look around, read the following: The temperature drops further, and with a crackling sound, frost coats the entire chamber. Flames on the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
believe that their appearance derives from the primal fear inspired by fiendish creatures, while bards assert that panic, being such a repulsive emotion, is embodied by an equally ugly creature
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
metal-coated skull of a half-elf (Trenzia) floats around the room, giving off crackling sounds as it electrifies the floor with rays of lightning (see “Trenzia” below).
Golem. A flesh golem stands in
. Notably absent is the half-elf’s skull. (The bones and clothing belonged to Trenzia. Halaster fed her body to the ghasts.) 7e. Copper Vein Copper Vein. An exposed bit of stonework has a thick vein of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
monastic tradition that they believe has its roots in the ancient empire of Netheril. In their philosophy, living things harbor a fragment of the sun’s mystic essence within them. Just as the body has a
should strive to make the body beautiful. Fitness, cleanliness, and well-honed physicality create a clearer window through which the light can shine. Seek spiritual virtue. Recognize the light in others
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
heaped around Shagambi’s bones: 200 gp, five moonstones (50 gp each), the fine music box activated by the trap (250 gp), and an instrument of the bards (Canaith mandolin). The instrument turns to dust and
Nine Trickster Gods"). When Shagambi’s spirit manifests, read: Six shadowy serpents slither out of the mandolin and coil around your body. You hear a purring voice in your mind say, “I am not your






