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Dungeon Master’s Guide
, foul rites that allow one to transform into a death knight or lich, or long-lost spells crafted by beings so evil their names ought never to be spoken aloud.
Vile Speech. While the book is on your
Monsters
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
linger at the margins of the undercity but now increasingly making their buzzing voices heard in the subterranean Golgari guildhall. These six-legged, insectile beings are hard-headed and literal-minded
, with little grasp of metaphor or nuance.
The death priests occupy the highest roles in kraul society. They lead the buzzing chants of the kraul rites. Their inscrutable clicks and buzzing can summon
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
’s goal is to tap into vast energy sources and perform the dire rites that will extend a bridge between the Material Plane and the squirming chaos of an Elder Evil’s realm.
An entity that
even a moment’s contact is enough to break a mortal’s mind. Yet beings do exist that are native to these realms: entities that are ever hungering, searching, warring, and sometimes
feats
Studying funeral rites and tending the dead’s rest has made you a conduit between the worlds of the living and the dead. You gain the following benefits.
Divine Channel. You gain one use of
the Channel Divinity feature from the Cleric class, and you can create the Turn Undead effect with it. If you already have Channel Divinity, you add this use to the feature from one class of your choice
Genasi
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Elemental Evil Player's Companion
Those who think of other planes at all consider them remote, distant realms, but planar influence can be felt throughout the world. It sometimes manifests in beings who, through an accident of birth
flowing through their veins manifests differently in each genasi, often as magical power.
Seen in silhouette, a genasi can usually pass for human. Those of earth or water descent tend to be heavier
Species
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
veins making it clear that they’ve been touched by death. Other reborn are marvels of magic or science, being stitched together from disparate beings or bearing mysterious minds in manufactured
of Dread (detailed in chapter 3):
Har’Akir. You died and endured the burial rites of this desert realm, yet somehow a soul—yours or another’s—has taken refuge in your
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Yuan-ti were originally humans who transformed themselves into serpent folk through ancient rituals. Most yuan-ti were corrupted into monsters by those rites, but some yuan-ti instead became a new
by 1. Follow this rule regardless of the method you use to determine the scores, such as rolling or point buy. The “Quick Build” section for your character’s class offers
Species
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
Giff are tall, broad-shouldered folk with hippo-like features. Some have smooth skin, while others have short bristles on their faces and the tops of their heads. As beings of impressive size and
divine beings who created giff have likewise been forgotten. Their titanic petrified bodies drift on the Astral Sea, isolated and unrecognizable in their current forms.
Although they don’t realize
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
cultivated over eons in the Astral Plane. Now all githyanki can use their psychic bond with that plane to access splinters of knowledge left behind by beings who travel, live, and die among the silver
;Quick Build” section for your character’s class offers suggestions on which scores to increase. You can follow those suggestions or ignore them, but you can’t raise any of your scores
Species
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
branch.
Today, hadozees are sapient, bipedal beings eager to leave behind the fearsome predators of their home world and explore other worlds.
In addition to being natural climbers, hadozees have feet
use to determine the scores, such as rolling or point buy.
The “Quick Build” section for your character’s class offers suggestions on which scores to increase. You’re free to
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
A winged people who originated on the Elemental Plane of Air, aarakocra soar through the sky wherever they wander. The first aarakocra served the Wind Dukes of Aaqa—mighty beings of air&mdash
regardless of the method you use to determine the scores, such as rolling or point buy. The “Quick Build” section for your character’s class offers suggestions on which scores to
Deck of Many Things
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Basic Rules (2014)
own avatar of death. A creature slain by an avatar of death can't be restored to life.
Avatar of Death
Medium undead, neutral evil
Armor Class 20 Hit Points half the hit point maximum of its
apply it.
The Void. This black card spells disaster. Your soul is drawn from your body and contained in an object in a place of the GM's choice. One or more powerful beings guard the place. While your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
the hand and lead it to the proper afterlife. Kelemvor’s priests teach that those who revere the gods according to the rites of their religion have done their proper service and will be offered the
rites for those who can’t afford the lavish ceremonies of their faith. The tenets of Kelemvor’s faithful compel them to forestall or prevent untimely deaths whenever possible. Different sects and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Mummies Deathless Ancients with Ageless Ambitions Habitat: Desert, Swamp; Treasure: Relics Mysterious rites and mighty faith can tie spirits to their corpses, binding them to their remains for all
time. Should their resting places be violated, these beings, known as mummies, reanimate their deteriorating bodies to restore the sanctity of their tombs and punish those who disturbed their rest
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Underdark near the lairs of the earliest dragons. In some lands, kobolds serve chromatic or metallic dragons—even worshiping them as divine beings. In other places, kobolds know too well how
character’s class offers suggestions on which scores to increase. You can follow those suggestions or ignore them, but you can’t raise any of your scores above 20.
Languages
Your character
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
descent tend to be heavier, while those of air or fire tend to be lighter. A given genasi might have some features reminiscent of the mortal parent (pointed ears from an elf, a stockier frame and thick
, or assuming leadership of savage humanoids and weird cults in untamed lands. Others gain positions of great influence, especially where elemental beings are revered. A few genasi leave the Material Plane to find refuge in the households of their genie parents.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
, when they piously observe the god’s rites and sacrifices, and when they devoutly trust in the god’s divine might, the god becomes more powerful. The competition for mortal devotion isn’t necessarily
beings—heroes and monsters alike—often become unwitting pawns in the contests of the gods. Having a powerful champion is an indication of a god’s power—and can potentially increase the god’s own power. A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
dragons. Kobolds willingly serve chromatic dragons and worship them as if they were demigods — mighty beings of divine descent. This isn’t a casual sort of worship or lip service; kobolds are awed in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Creature Type Each monster has a tag that identifies the type of creature it is. Certain spells, magic items, class features, and other effects in the game interact in special ways with creatures of
a particular type. The game includes the following creature types, which have no rules of their own: Aberrations are utterly alien beings, such as aboleths, beholders, flumphs, and mind flayers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Creature Type Each monster has a tag that identifies the type of creature it is. Certain spells, magic items, class features, and other effects in the game interact in special ways with creatures of
beings, such as aboleths, beholders, flumphs, and mind flayers. Beasts are non-Humanoid natural creatures, like horses and wolves, as well as most giant animals. Celestials are magical creatures, such
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Boo’s Astral Menagerie
Hadozee Shipmate Hadozee shipmates make up much of the crew aboard some spelljamming ships. Hadozee Shipmate
Medium Humanoid, Any Alignment
Armor Class 12
Hit Points 9 (2d8)
Speed 30 ft
+ 2) piercing damage.
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Safe Descent. When it would take damage from a fall, the hadozee extends its skin membranes to reduce the fall’s damage to 0, provided it isn’t wearing heavy armor.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Gods and Divine Magic Divine magic—which includes the spells cast by Clerics, Druids, Paladins, and Rangers—is mediated through beings and forces that are categorized as divine. These can include
universe. These beings and forces grant characters the power to wield the magic of their planar domains. For game purposes, wielding divine power isn’t dependent on the gods’ ongoing approval or the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
, his ka—the vital essence that inspires all living beings. Ankhtepot reawakened, trapped and paralyzed within his corpse as he was mummified along with his treacherous followers. The murderous priest
gods he once served. Immediately he set to wiping out that religion, replacing it with new gods of his own imagining, false divinities for whom he alone spoke. Using blasphemous rites, Ankhtepot
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Emerald Claw. The Odakyr Rites. The nation of Karrnath has a proud martial heritage, and its soldiers are unmatched in discipline. But in the early years of the Last War, Karrnath was crippled by famine and
as cannon fodder. Over decades, a high priest named Malevanor worked with the necromancers of the Blood of Vol to develop the Odakyr Rites, which grant Karrnathi undead the ability to make tactical
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Boo’s Astral Menagerie
worthy of further exploration. Hadozee Explorer
Medium Humanoid, Any Alignment
Armor Class 15 (studded leather)
Hit Points 49 (9d8 + 9)
Speed 30 ft., climb 30 ft.
STR
11 (+0)
DEX
the Disengage or Hide action.
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Safe Descent. When it would take damage from a fall, the hadozee extends its skin membranes to reduce the fall’s damage to 0, provided it isn’t wearing heavy armor.
Goblin
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
traps, snares, and nets to catch the unwary, and when their hunting patrols encounter other beings, they always look for ways to capture their foes instead of killing them. Goblins that run up against
the tribe. If the creature is dimwitted, like a troll or ogre, the lower-class goblins give it obeisance, but before long the upper-class goblins begin to think that whoever can bend the ear of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Boo’s Astral Menagerie
’ Wingbats, and the Night Howlers. Hadozee Warrior
Medium Humanoid, Any Alignment
Armor Class 16 (breastplate)
Hit Points 16 (3d8 + 3)
Speed 30 ft., climb 30 ft.
STR
11 (+0)
DEX
16 (+3
) piercing damage.
Light Crossbow. Ranged Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, range 80/320 ft., one target. Hit: 12 (2d8 + 3) piercing damage.
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Safe Descent. When it would take damage from a fall
Kobold
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
they were demigods — mighty beings of divine descent. This isn’t a casual sort of worship or lip service; kobolds are awed in the presence of a dragon, as if an actual avatar of a deity
Species
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
Autognomes are mechanical beings built by rock gnomes. Sometimes, because of a malfunction or a unique circumstance, an autognome becomes separated from its creator and strikes out on its own.
An
, such as rolling or point buy.
The “Quick Build” section for your character’s class offers suggestions on which scores to increase. You’re free to follow those suggestions or
Species
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
Plasmoids are amorphous beings with no typical shape. In the presence of other folk, they often adopt a similar shape, but there’s little chance of mistaking a plasmoid for anything else. They
; section for your character’s class offers suggestions on which scores to increase. You’re free to follow those suggestions or to ignore them. Whichever scores you decide to increase, none of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
the multiverse is above such monstrous beings as demon lords, elemental evils, and gods who are not Annam’s children, so it is upside-down for a giant to serve these entities. Giants who follow
chapter 6 is an example of a frost giant whose devotion to the demon lord has brought great and terrible rewards. (Kostchtchie is described in Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus.) Yeenoghu. Gnolls, ghouls
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Morte’s Planar Parade
judges the needs of planar beings seeking uniquely binding terms and forges ironclad agreements. Those who break these contracts are pursued by maruts (detailed in Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the
questions have been satisfied, they report back to their creator, allowing the Kolyarut to impose accurate judgments. Kolyaruts are four-armed beings of magic and machinery. Like maruts, they are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
might work openly under a tyrant, or they might be the leaders of religious sects hidden in the shadows of good society, overseeing depraved rites. A priest typically has one or more acolytes to help
with religious ceremonies and other sacred duties. Priest
Medium humanoid (any race), any alignment
Armor Class 13 (chain shirt)
Hit Points 27 (5d8 + 5)
Speed 30 ft.
STR
10 (+0)
DEX
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Akroan society are the lektoi, the large warrior class of Akros. Members of this class claim descent from the seven warriors who first established the Kolophon after the fall of the archons. Though the
ornamentation, and some lektoi even wear their hair braided into stylized ram horns. Although the lektoi claim descent from heroes, membership in this noble class isn’t strictly hereditary. Anyone can earn
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
portents impact the earth, they carve great craters, yet miraculously, none who live in the impact zone are harmed. These beings of light then assume Humanoid forms to blend in with the inhabitants of the
world. Living portents seek out beings who will play a part in the prophecies they serve, and as the living portents search, they relate fragments of the prophecies to those they encounter. Variant