beast before direct concept relative

Grung Elite Warrior Legacy

Monsters Volo's Guide to Monsters

Amphibious. The grung can breathe air and water. Poisonous Skin. Any creature that grapples the grung or otherwise comes into direct contact with the grung’s skin must succeed on a DC 12

Constitution saving throw or become poisoned for 1 minute. A poisoned creature no longer in direct contact with the grung can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on

Myconid Sovereign Legacy

Monsters Monster Manual (2014)

rolls, and saving throws. The myconid dies if it spends more than 1 hour in direct sunlight.Multiattack. The myconid uses either its Hallucination Spores or its Pacifying Spores, then makes a fist

/Day). The myconid targets one corpse of a humanoid or a Large or smaller beast within 5 feet of it and releases spores at the corpse. In 24 hours, the corpse rises as a spore servant. The corpse

Grung Elite Warrior

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Amphibious. The grung can breathe air and water. Poisonous Skin. Any creature that grapples the grung or otherwise comes into direct contact with the grung’s skin must succeed on a DC 12

Constitution saving throw or become poisoned for 1 minute. A poisoned creature no longer in direct contact with the grung can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on

Kelpie

Monsters Tales from the Yawning Portal

Amphibious. The kelpie can breathe air and water. Seaweed Shape. The kelpie can use its action to reshape its body into the form of a humanoid or beast that is Small, Medium, or Large. Its

immediately runs out of breath, unless it can breathe water. If the charmed target is more than 5 feet away from the kelpie, the target must move on its turn toward the kelpie by the most direct route

Gruul Anarch

Backgrounds Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

Equipment: A Gruul insignia, a hunting trap, an herbalism kit, the skull of a boar, a beast-hide cloak, a set of traveler’s clothes, and a belt pouch containing 10 gp (Azorius 1-zino coins

Spell Level Spells Cantrip fire bolt, produce flame 1st compelled duel, speak with animals, thunderwave 2nd beast sense, shatter 3rd conjure animals

Air Genasi

Species Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Planes, each genasi can tap into the power of one of the elements. Air, earth, fire, and water—these are the four pillars of the Material Plane and the four types of genasi. Some genasi are direct

your character’s creature type is. Here’s a list of the game’s creature types in alphabetical order: Aberration, Beast, Celestial, Construct, Dragon, Elemental, Fey, Fiend, Giant

Water Genasi

Species Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

the power of one of the elements. Air, earth, fire, and water—these are the four pillars of the Material Plane and the four types of genasi. Some genasi are direct descendants of a genie, while

type is. Here’s a list of the game’s creature types in alphabetical order: Aberration, Beast, Celestial, Construct, Dragon, Elemental, Fey, Fiend, Giant, Humanoid, Monstrosity, Ooze

Firbolg Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

tactics fail, the firbolgs take more direct action. Their observations of a settlement determine what happens next. If the outsiders seem peaceful, the firbolgs approach and gently ask them to leave, even

adopt elven names when they must deal with outsiders, although the concept of names strikes them as strange. They know the animals and plants of the forest without formal names, and instead identify the

Earth Genasi

Species Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

power of one of the elements. Air, earth, fire, and water—these are the four pillars of the Material Plane and the four types of genasi. Some genasi are direct descendants of a genie, while others

is. Here’s a list of the game’s creature types in alphabetical order: Aberration, Beast, Celestial, Construct, Dragon, Elemental, Fey, Fiend, Giant, Humanoid, Monstrosity, Ooze, Plant

Fire Genasi

Species Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

the power of one of the elements. Air, earth, fire, and water—these are the four pillars of the Material Plane and the four types of genasi. Some genasi are direct descendants of a genie, while

creature type is. Here’s a list of the game’s creature types in alphabetical order: Aberration, Beast, Celestial, Construct, Dragon, Elemental, Fey, Fiend, Giant, Humanoid, Monstrosity, Ooze

Quetzalcoatlus

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation

Quetzalcoatlus This giant relative of the pteranodon has a wingspan exceeding 30 feet. Although it can move on the ground like a quadruped, it is more comfortable in the air. Quetzalcoatlus Huge

beast, unaligned Armor Class 13 (natural armor) Hit Points 30 (4d12 + 4) Speed 10 ft., fly 80 ft. STR 15 (+2) DEX 13 (+1) CON 13 (+1) INT 2 (–4) WIS 10

Head of State Contacts

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

Head of State Contacts Often, your connection to your patron is quite direct—the head of state summons you, grants you an audience, and gives you an assignment or hears your report. Heads of state

are the best path to the head of state’s good graces 3 A wide-eyed bureaucrat who dreams of living a life as exciting and dangerous as yours 4 A scheming relative of the head of state who sees you as a

Credits

compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

, Cory Trego-Erdner, Brian Valeza, Anna Veltkamp, Magali Villeneuve, Richard Whitters, Mark Winters, Shawn Wood, Zuzanna Wuzyk, Kieran Yanner, Trish Yochum Concept Art Director: Shawn Wood Concept

Communications Manager: Greg Tito Community Manager: Brandy Camel ON THE COVER The Witchlight Carnival has come to town! On the back cover, a displacer beast finds 8-year-old Tyler Jacobson and leads

Tall Tales

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

the work of some ancient giant sculptor or rampaging titanic beast—or is itself a sleeping giant. You seek to discover the truth of the land’s origin. 5 A relative once returned home claiming to have

Gnoll Fang of Yeenoghu

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual

Gnoll Fang of Yeenoghu Gnolls possessed by demonic vestiges of the demon lord Yeenoghu, fangs of Yeenoghu direct the chaos of gnoll packs. Along the way, these fanatics seek grisly omens from

. Yeenoghu claims gnolls not as his brood but as maggots purposefully released to infest a despised carcass. They are a pernicious rot the Beast of Butchery spreads across mortal worlds. Whatever they once were, they were remade and are now his. —Iggwilv, Demonomicon of Iggwilv

Dinosaurs

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

relative of the pteranodon has a wingspan exceeding 30 feet. Although it can move on the ground like a quadruped, it is more comfortable in the air. Quetzalcoatlus Huge beast, unaligned Armor Class 13

leave it alone. Its deadly tail can drive away or kill smaller threats. Brontosaurus Gargantuan beast, unaligned Armor Class 15 (natural armor) Hit Points 121 (9d20 + 27) Speed 30 ft. STR 21

Talenta Halflings

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron

. 6 You don’t understand the concept of “truth.” To you, everything is a story and it’s all about how you tell it. 7 You are annoyed by buildings and tools designed without consideration for

fighting styles based on different dinosaurs. Likewise, in playing a Beast Totem barbarian or Circle of the Shepherd druid, consider replacing the traditional totems with the following. Bear: Hammertail

Dinosaurs

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse

leave it alone. Its deadly tail can drive away or kill smaller threats. Brontosaurus Gargantuan Beast (Dinosaur), Unaligned Armor Class 15 (natural armor) Hit Points 121 (9d20 + 27) Speed 30 ft

by gripping its target with its claws and feeding. Deinonychus Medium Beast (Dinosaur), Unaligned Armor Class 13 (natural armor) Hit Points 26 (4d8 + 8) Speed 40 ft. STR 15 (+2

The Deck as Narrative

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things

the warrior’s loyalty. A character who draws the Gem card might find a rich store of jewels in their next treasure hoard, or they might inherit great wealth when a relative dies. Many of the chapters

predicting those events or causing them? If a character draws the Flames card, and soon after, minions of Aurnozci (see chapter 20) try to capture them, is this a direct result of drawing the card, or would

Grungs

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation

Challenge 1/4 (50 XP) Amphibious. The grung can breathe air and water. Poisonous Skin. Any creature that grapples the grung or otherwise comes into direct contact with the grung’s skin must succeed on a

DC 12 Constitution saving throw or become poisoned for 1 minute. A poisoned creature no longer in direct contact with the grung can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the

Adventures in Lamordia

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

the party, asking them to recover the body of a “relative” from the Haifisch, a shipwreck impaled on a spire of ice. 9 The Sleeping Beast is experiencing an increasing number of earthquakes

, icy Fey spirits, or the Sleeping Beast—feel about the land’s exploitation? The monsters that roam Lamordia are lab-crafted horrors or mutated beasts, but use the statistics of creatures from the

Grungs

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse

Challenge 1/4 (50 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2 Amphibious. The grung can breathe air and water. Poisonous Skin. Any creature that grapples the grung or otherwise comes into direct contact with the

grung’s skin must succeed on a DC 12 Constitution saving throw or become poisoned for 1 minute. A poisoned creature no longer in direct contact with the grung can repeat the saving throw at the end of

Myconid Sovereign

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

sunlight, the myconid has disadvantage on ability checks, attack rolls, and saving throws. The myconid dies if it spends more than 1 hour in direct sunlight. Actions Multiattack. The myconid uses either

damage. Animating Spores (3/Day). The myconid targets one corpse of a humanoid or a Large or smaller beast within 5 feet of it and releases spores at the corpse. In 24 hours, the corpse rises as a

Traits

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide

rolls. Beast Whisperer. The creature can communicate with Beasts as if they shared a common language. Death Jinx. When the creature dies, one random creature within 10 feet of the dead creature is

suppress this light or cause it to return. The light winks out if the creature dies. Mimicry. The creature can mimic Beast sounds and Humanoid voices. A creature that hears the sounds can tell they are

Introduction

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1

you receive a cancer diagnosis or a similar health news, you probably appreciate that concept a little more than other people. Watching someone you love waste away is a terrible thing. You want a

for Extra Life, whether through a product like this or direct donations, slowly fills the XP bar that gets us to the next breakthrough. That day is coming, if we just keep going. Thanks for your

Myconid Sovereign

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)

if it spends more than 1 hour in direct sunlight. Actions Multiattack. The myconid uses either its Hallucination Spores or its Pacifying Spores, then makes a fist attack. Fist. Melee Weapon

beast within 5 feet of it and releases spores at the corpse. In 24 hours, the corpse rises as a spore servant. The corpse stays animated for 1d4 + 1 weeks or until destroyed, and it can’t be animated

Kobold Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

roles that protect and sustain the tribe. The strongest kobolds are trained to be hunters and warriors, the most clever are crafters and strategists, the toughest are miners and beast-wranglers, and so

lack of emotional bonding means they have no concept of marriage or permanent family relationships. Their eggs are placed in a common tribal hatchery with no effort to keep track of who each one

Hill Giant

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)

attempt to enter. In conversation, hill giants are blunt and direct, and they have little concept of deception. A hill giant might be fooled into running from another giant if a number of

. Direct and Deadly. Hill giants’ ability to digest nearly anything has allowed them to survive for eons without needing to adapt and change. With no culture of their own, hill giants ape the

All for One: The Clan

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

All for One: The Clan So the barman isn’t a relative, and you don’t even know the names of any of the folk here? How can you possibly sleep peacefully in this inn, surrounded by strangers? We’ll be

dwarf’s direct descendants — beloved sons, daughters, and grandchildren — are often the ones who inherit the inanimate works their ancestor leaves behind. Marriage is a sacred rite among the dwarves

Solitary but Social

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

receive relatively cordial treatment from those other hags instead. Every hag has a particular status relative to others of her kind and to hags of all sorts, based on age, abilities, influence

superstition and adapted it to their own uses, although some among the oldest hags claim to have invented the concept or at least named it. Alternative Coven Spells Some covens gather for a specific

Grungs

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

) Amphibious. The grung can breathe air and water. Poisonous Skin. Any creature that grapples the grung or otherwise comes into direct contact with the grung’s skin must succeed on a DC 12 Constitution

saving throw or become poisoned for 1 minute. A poisoned creature no longer in direct contact with the grung can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on

Kelpie

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal

kelpie can use its action to reshape its body into the form of a humanoid or beast that is Small, Medium, or Large. Its statistics are otherwise unchanged. The disguise is convincing, unless the kelpie is

breath, unless it can breathe water. If the charmed target is more than 5 feet away from the kelpie, the target must move on its turn toward the kelpie by the most direct route, trying to get within 5

The Revered Queen

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

played a critical role in ensuring that the githyanki under her rule were protected from an immediate, direct assault by their kin. Using her mastery of arcane magic, she helped the githyanki establish a

innermost court — the wondrous realm that Gith discovered in her journeys, and where she awaits those who have proven themselves worthy. Imagine you lack any concept of family. You’re constantly told that

Ability Checks

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide

topics and about research methods in general can tell the other characters the most likely places to direct their search. If the group check is successful, the characters find enough different

occasionally you need a passive measure of how good a character is at doing a thing. Passive Perception is the most common example. (See “Perception” later in this chapter.) You can extend the concept

The Infernal Machine of Lum the Mad

Magic Items Infernal Machine Rebuild

bones. You have vulnerability to radiant damage, and you have disadvantage on attack rolls while in direct sunlight. 09 You summon a unicorn that obeys your commands. If you give a command that

random Huge beast appears next to you (chosen by the DM) as if with the conjure animals spell. You have a telepathic link to this beast, such that you can give it commands even if it can’t hear

D&D Beyond

Search Results