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Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
Resistance. The kolyarut has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.Multiattack. The kolyarut makes four Unerring Blade attacks.
Unerring Blade. Melee Weapon Attack
: automatic hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 24 force damage plus one of the following effects (choose one or roll a d6;{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Unerring Blade"}):
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Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
can also cause the blade to gleam with holy light. If he does so, the target is blinded until the start of Strongheart’s next turn.
Revivify (Recharges at the Next Dawn). While holding Steel
, Strongheart can use his reaction to impose disadvantage on the attack roll, provided he is carrying a shield.Strongheart is a fearless seeker of justice, risking his life to ensure that good triumphs over
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
nature’s call away from the mushrooms, and I lingered long enough in a side tunnel to force my watcher to come and find me. I took the first lash he offered me with his whip, then grabbed the weapon and
pulled the skinny fool toward me before he could sound an alarm or get his blade out. It took me but a second to get both hands around his throat. When he lay dead at my feet, I took his sword and ran
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
Animated Flying Sword Mundane Object Come to Life Animated flying swords move as if wielded by unseen warriors. Whether an animated blade is newly forged or a constellation of broken fragments, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Morte’s Planar Parade
Multiverse) and punished in brutally decisive fashion. In cases where the terms of a contract or a foundational truth of an agreement come into question, the Kolyarut sends a component part of itself
Multiattack. The kolyarut makes four Unerring Blade attacks.
Unerring Blade. Melee Weapon Attack: automatic hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 24 force damage plus one of the following effects
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3
. From within the largest pile of trash, where most of the beetles are clustered, come glints of something shiny.
Creatures. The garbage-infested room is home to thirteen giant fire beetles. They
(worth 20 gp each), and a +1 dagger that looks like junk. When it is used, its grip frays, its blade chips, and it flakes rust. If a character wielding this weapon gets a natural 1 on an attack roll, the dagger breaks and becomes nonmagical.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
make the players and the characters feel as though the island teems with undead. An epic battle ensues, and if that battle is won, no further attacks come. When the undead arrive, they attempt to
guidelines. Area Creatures 4 5 zombies, 3 drowned blades, 1 drowned ascetic 11 5 zombies, 2 drowned blades, 1 drowned ascetic 12 1 drowned ascetic 17 1 drowned assassin 21 1 drowned blade The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
Tracking the Lizards When the party arrives at the area where the map shows the start of the patrol route, they come upon a worrisome scene. Use the read-aloud text below to describe the area: The
dug up by battle, and bloodstains dot the ground.
An examination of the area finds a broken cart half-buried in the mud, a broken sword blade, and some buttons from a jacket worn by Leilon soldiers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
to transform him into a shadow dragon to better serve Vanrak in the battles to come. Thereafter, Glyster became known as Umbraxakar (“shadowborn” in Draconic). The death knight and the shadow dragon
with Vanrak. The friendship finally ended when Vanrak destroyed himself with a sun blade, leaving Umbraxakar and the remnants of Shar’s wicked cult to fend for themselves. Visions of Umbraxakar As
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
. Some of these are the children of Valenar elves, but most are immigrants who’ve come from elsewhere in Khorvaire in search of opportunity. Cyran humans still occupying the region fall below them in
rank. Once citizens of Cyre, now they’re citizens of Valenar. Little has changed for the commoners, most of whom don’t care who wears the crown. The harsh sands of the Blade Desert cover northern
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Feeder Trenches Locations Grells throughout the Far Realm come to the Feeder Trenches for the strange and delicious (to them) fluid prepared by a grell named Feedkeeper Naruv. Naruv’s newest offering
is a sweet, purple sludge flowing through shallow troughs from which grells sup. Cautious of risking the wrath of an unknown number of grells deprived of their gastronomic satisfaction, the mind
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
blade. Presenting the Sword To redeem Zariel, the characters must possess the Sword of Zariel. Bringing the sword within 10 feet of Zariel causes the weapon to glow brighter, then levitate to hover
this blade once more in its service.”
The archdevil’s words hang in the air for a silent moment, and she glances upward in agonized uncertainty. Then Zariel is bathed in a brilliant wash of radiant
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
teleportation given to her by King Hekaton. She is carving questions into the Steinfang, a giant stalactite. The answers to her questions will come to her during the next new moon. Kayalithica believes that
reach of the orb can pry it free with a blade or similar tool. Stone giants who witness the theft do their utmost to kill the thief and recover the orb.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
that something has happened to the bariaurs. Bkol shares his concern with the characters and asks them to come with him to meet Tyrza Bonebreaker, Glorium’s leader. Hero among Heroes Read the following
when the characters find Tyrza: You come across Tyrza Bonebreaker shot-putting a laughing halfling into the air. The halfling fellow soars over twenty feet, nearly overshooting bales of wool in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
massive pair of cathedral doors open onto a long nave. Rows of balconies line the walls, occupied by a couple of dozen hooded monks seemingly come to watch the audience about to take place.
At the far
Master welcomes the characters. The bone devil is an arrogant bully, and assumes that the characters have come to join its cult. However, it also comes across as whiny and petulant, reliant on the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
of a dwarven king. Each new would-be hero hopes to have adventures that merit exciting stories of their own, to inspire and delight new generations for years to come. Of course, not every journey
into the world involves risking one’s life or claiming great riches. An adventure for a halfling could mean traveling with a caravan, sneaking on board a tall ship, serving as a messenger for a lord, or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
make predictions based on rainfall, wind, thunder, and other weather measurements. In some communities, oracles actively strive to be struck by lightning, risking their lives to receive mighty messages
from their god. Oracular Conflux Adventures The player characters could come to an oracular shrine for the same reason that most other people do: to receive a prediction about the future. They also
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
back Gauntlgrym. Lost half my foot to an orc’s blade, and slew every damned one that got in my way marching home. If I want to sit and enjoy my old age now that we finally drove the orcs back, I’ll do
just that, and courtesy be damned. I’ve earned my rest. Your little lordling don’t like it, let him come and tell me himself. I’m not getting up until I finish my ale.
— Drorn Waranvil, to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
the blade of a shortsword poking out its back. (If the frog is cut open, the partially digested body of a halfling is found inside.) 14 A tabaxi spread-eagled on the ground, but with its limbs and head
legs dangling downward. (A note pressed between the body and the branch explains that the elf climbed the tree to get away from a prowling allosaurus and was too terrified to come down.) 19 The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
with. Who knew a bakery could be so dangerous? 2 Revenge will come for the sadistic Nysene Eomane eventually. You thought you’d have a hand in it — you exacted your plan perfectly. But your snare
. Murder: Character Roles d4 Character’s Role 1 Murderer. Via a blade, a shove, or deliberate inaction, you took a life. 2 Bystander. You could have prevented a death. You chose not to. 3 Instigator
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sleeping Dragon’s Wake
character who searches her body, making a successful DC 10 Wisdom (Medicine) check finds the tip of a blade made of bone in a fatal wound in Manda’s stomach, and with a successful DC 18 Intelligence
, Marciano ordered everyone in Leilon Point to remain inside until further notice and wait for help to come from Leilon. Marciano describes the raiders as green-scaled monsters with finned heads. After
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
or cuts something. The name “Reszur” is graven on the dagger’s pommel. If the wielder speaks the name, the blade gives off a faint, cold glow, shedding dim light in a 10-foot radius until the wielder
encounter is hard for a party that is only 1st level.) When the Bringers of Woe meet the adventurers, the bandits grimly and confidently say, “We are the Bringers of Woe. We have come to reward your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
dealt with. Who knew a bakery could be so dangerous?
2 Revenge will come for the sadistic Nysene Eomane eventually. You thought you’d have a hand in it — you exacted your plan perfectly. But
choosing an appropriate entry. Murder: Character Roles d4 Character’s Role
1 Murderer. Via a blade, a shove, or deliberate inaction, you took a life.
2 Bystander. You could have
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
distance. If they investigate, they come to an o’-well that is 10 feet tall and 5 feet in diameter. A steady geyser of water shoots from the well, rising to a height of 30 feet above the well. Characters
make their way through the swamp. Every mile, the inn stops for 10 minutes and lowers itself so that guests can enter or exit without risking injury. The inn follows an unpredictable course through the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
fortress where warforged from all over Khorvaire can come and feel a sense of belonging. No one knows what the Lord of Blades plans for his followers, but many fear that he intends to build a legion of
cast him as a newer warforged, perhaps the last to come out of the Cannith creation forges before the Thronehold Accords led to their dismantling. One story claims the Lord of Blades caused the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
the Girscamen. Read the following description as the characters come within sight of the wreck: Midnight-colored coral covers the trench’s sheer walls. As the bottom of the trench comes into view, you
call, three flameskulls—the remains of the hateful crew of the Girscamen—come to the aboleth’s defense via the passage to area T2. As the flameskulls enter the area, a familiar haint, Violette, appears
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
and deal 8 (1d6 + 5) slashing damage on a hit. Viln carries four daggers coated with purple worm poison (see “Poisons” in chapter 8 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide). The poison on a dagger’s blade is
answers arouse suspicion or come across as insolent, the drow attack. Slave Abuse The characters see a drow noble flogging one of a handful of slaves (commoners of any race) while 1d4 bugbear
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
. Commoners and green recruits come in as privates, the lowest designation in the gate-town save for prisoners of war. Their arms tire from saluting their superiors and thankless, menial work. Citizens
General Braahg to implement an outdated strategy. Risking treason, the hobgoblin hires the characters to lay his superior to rest. 4 The ghost of a fallen warrior asks the party to investigate why
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
room has become the den of an ankheg, drawn to the tomb complex to feast on giant rodents and Cynidiceans who come to pay their respects. A character who examines the dead rat and succeeds on a DC 13
burial chambers of King Alendria and Queen Zanobis. The annex contains several obstacles designed to deter tomb robbers and other would-be plunderers. Blade Traps. Three swinging blades are hidden in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
missions, but they come from Tashlyn Yafeera (see appendix B). Characters first become aware of this change when they receive their next mission briefing, since it’s written in a different hand. If the
in the Dock Ward — three dead so far, each one decapitated by a blade in the dead of night. Look into it, will you? Methinks the City Watch could use a little help.” Characters who spend three
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
the space of any creature that is of a larger size, but it can’t stop there.
Actions
Multiattack. The underboss makes three attacks, using Poisoned Blade or Arcane Firearm in any combination
.
Poisoned Blade. Melee Attack Roll: +7, reach 5 ft. Hit: 13 (2d8 + 4) Slashing damage plus 7 (2d6) Poison damage, and the target has the Poisoned condition until the start of the underboss’s next turn
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
stand open, and the guards assigned to the gatehouses say and do nothing as people come and go. When Bryn Shander is threatened, however, the guards close and bar the gates, refusing to open them
the Sword Coast to Neverwinter. He came to Icewind Dale three months ago to try his hand at knucklehead trout fishing, and ended up befriending Dellvon Ludwig. Sirac has since come to appreciate Torm’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
reason not to remain in one place for too long. 4 I have seen what happens when the monsters come out from the dark. I took it upon myself to become the first line of defense against the evils that lie
I want through sneakiness rather than direct confrontation. 6 I’m a sucker for a shiny bauble or a sack of coins, as long as I can get my hands on it without risking life and limb. Sorcerer d6 I
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
Ice Cave This bone-strewn cave is the den of two adult winter wolves and their three half-grown pups (use the dire wolf statistics). If the young are harmed, the parents fight recklessly, risking
and a gem worth 100 gp. 8. South Cavern Ogre mercenaries that serve Jarl Grugnur dwell here. There are currently six ogres here. All fight fiercely when ordered to do so, or when they come upon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Welcome to the City of Blades Entering the city is the first major hurdle the characters must surmount in Gracklstugh. Unless they heed Buppido’s advice to arrive by way of the Darklake (or come up
come closer.
Firelight illuminates massive columns with structures built around their bases. The cold air of the Underdark is becoming warmer even at this distance, and you can now see a variety of