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Mythic Odysseys of Theros
can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:
At will: fire bolt (see “Actions” below)
3/day: burning hands
1/day each: hellish rebuke (see “Reactions” below), scorching
Rebuke (2nd-Level Spell; 1/Day). When the oread is damaged by a creature within 60 feet of the oread that it can see, the creature that damaged the oread must make a DC 14 Dexterity saving throw, taking 16
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
their back on me.”
Ideal. “Power is what I crave. One can never have too much of it.”
Bond. “Baba Yaga is my patron, and she has taught me to be self-reliant. Nevertheless, I
effective melee combatant. She is more dangerous when she can use magic from a safe distance. She can also use her faerie fire spell to make foes easier for her allies to hit.
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Monsters
Volo's Guide to Monsters
Shapechanger. The yuan-ti can use its action to polymorph into a Medium snake or back into its true form. Its statistics are the same in each form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn't
rebuke, invisibility, misty step, unseen servant, vampiric touchMultiattack (Yuan-ti Form Only). The yuan-ti makes two bite attacks using its snake arms.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +5;{"diceNotation
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
it is immune to poison and psychic damage. It has 15 hit points, but it regains all its hit points at the end of every combatant’s turn.Multiattack. The priest attacks twice.
Soul Blade. Melee
can turn back into a tattoo as an action, reappearing on the priest’s flesh and regaining all its hit points.
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
it regains all its hit points at the end of every combatant’s turn.Multiattack. The priest attacks twice.
Soul Blade. Melee Weapon Attack: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5","rollType":"to hit
mental commands (no action required) and takes its turn immediately after the priest. If the creature is within 5 feet of the priest, it can turn back into a tattoo as an action, reappearing on the priest’s flesh and regaining all its hit points.
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
and psychic damage. It has 15 hit points, but it regains all its hit points at the end of every combatant’s turn.Multiattack. The priest attacks twice.
Soul Blade. Melee Weapon Attack: +5
within 5 feet of the priest, it can turn back into a tattoo as an action, reappearing on the priest’s flesh and regaining all its hit points.
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
15, and it is immune to poison and psychic damage. It has 15 hit points, but it regains all its hit points at the end of every combatant’s turn.Multiattack. The priest attacks twice.
Soul Blade
the creature is within 5 feet of the priest, it can turn back into a tattoo as an action, reappearing on the priest’s flesh and regaining all its hit points.
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
points, but it regains all its hit points at the end of every combatant’s turn.Multiattack. The priest attacks twice.
Soul Blade. Melee Weapon Attack: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5","rollType":"to
’s mental commands (no action required) and takes its turn immediately after the priest. If the creature is within 5 feet of the priest, it can turn back into a tattoo as an action, reappearing on the priest’s flesh and regaining all its hit points.
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
point. The tattoo is otherwise an object with AC 15, and it is immune to poison and psychic damage. It has 15 hit points, but it regains all its hit points at the end of every combatant’s
action required) and takes its turn immediately after the priest. If the creature is within 5 feet of the priest, it can turn back into a tattoo as an action, reappearing on the priest’s flesh and regaining all its hit points.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
respond by putting things back to the way they were before. For example, if a character takes the Disengage action to move away from a group of monsters, don’t respond by having those same monsters
. See “Fight or Flight” later in this chapter for more suggestions. Add a Combatant To add excitement to a battle, consider adding a combatant. Maybe a monstrous predator wanders onto the scene where the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Firenewt Warlock of Imix Firenewt warlocks of Imix command firenewt warriors to prove their worth by going on raids to bring back treasure and captives. The warlocks take the choicest loot as a tithe
knows the following warlock spells:
Cantrips (at will): fire bolt, guidance, light, mage hand, prestidigitation
1st–2nd level (2 2nd-level slots): burning hands, flaming sphere, hellish rebuke
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
. Personality Trait. “Only a fool would turn their back on me.” Ideal. “Power is what I crave. One can never have too much of it.” Bond. “Baba Yaga is my patron, and she has taught me to be self-reliant
melee combatant. She is more dangerous when she can use magic from a safe distance. She can also use her faerie fire spell to make foes easier for her allies to hit. Skylla
Medium Humanoid (Human
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
be quite sudden—or to give them a way to continue engaging in the quest while their companions attempt to bring them back to life. These interludes can be played as brief scenes where the player of
symbolic or direct examples of their past failings and rebuke their old vices in a final, crystallizing act of growth. Funerary masks help the newly dead resist the erosion of memory and identity in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
such, whispers among the servants of other gods claim that there might be a way to piece the fractured god back together. Doing so would require an incredible feat, though, likely involving the
and so proved itself truly worthy of his esteem.
Origin of the Minotaur. In ages past, a warrior of tremendous strength stalked the battlefield. As a lone combatant, he was unbeatable, but he suffered
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
collect along the Tartyx River and reclaiming wayward souls that try to slip back to the mortal world. This means lampads are most often spotted in graveyards, crumbling crypts, and tunnels that bore
, groups of oreads might race ahead of the destruction, dancing, singing, and doing what they can to maximize the impending devastation. Honor Among Fey. Hearkening back to some ages-old conflict, oreads
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
might fear the same fate and turn back. The dead Ice Hunters tried to flee from the iceberg but were hunted and killed by Arauthator, who forced their kin to add them to the horrid display. Layout The
of Moving Ice. Beneath the planks in a back corner is an entrance to the ice caves under the village, which lead to Arauthator’s grotto. A long coil of rope hangs on the wall near that corner, and a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
, a firenewt warrior in combat can become “touched by the Fire Lord,” entering a nearly unstoppable battle rage. Warlocks of Imix command warriors to prove their worth by going on raids to bring back
rebuke, scorching ray
Imix’s Blessing. When the firenewt reduces an enemy to 0 hit points, the firenewt gains 5 temporary hit points.
Actions
Morningstar. Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d8 + 1) piercing damage.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
might fear the same fate and turn back. The dead Ice Hunters tried to flee from the iceberg but were hunted and killed by Arauthator, who forced their kin to add them to the horrid display. Layout The
Sea of Moving Ice. Beneath the planks in a back corner is an entrance to the ice caves under the village, which lead to Arauthator’s grotto. A long coil of rope hangs on the wall near that corner, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
person, detect magic, dispel magic, hellish rebuke, invisibility, major image, speak with dead, suggestion
1/day each: banishment, demiplane, dominate person, fly, forcecage, geas, plane shift
, in turn, delivered her back to Zariel. Mahadi is surprised to see Lulu again but tries not to show it. He initially suspects that the hollyphant has come seeking revenge for the memory loss he
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
hadozee then shudders as a horned ghost vacates his body, cackles, and disappears. Flinch blinks his eyes back into focus, then says in his normal voice, “Do I smell smoke?”
Flinch remembers nothing of
what has transpired. Agony the ghost took possession of him long enough to deliver its rebuke, then vanished and took refuge in the Last Breath’s cargo hold. Gargenhale encourages the characters to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
. Military Force Envoy Roles Role Backgrounds Combatant Criminal, Folk Hero, Outlander, Sailor, Soldier Tactician Acolyte, Folk Hero, Noble, Outlander, Sage, Soldier Medic Acolyte, Folk Hero, Hermit
both power and subtlety. Your missions could run the risk of shattering a fragile peace recently established with a rival nation and plunging multiple nations back into war. Or perhaps your group’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
of bystanders while the giant deals with (or holds back) the greater threat. The Clash of Titans table provides a sampling of adventure hooks you can use to build an adventure along these lines
there serve them while they recover. 2 A dragon and a giant, in the middle of a fierce battle, suddenly fall from the sky into a town square. Neither combatant is concerned about protecting the people
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
entryway to the inner sanctum delivers a fiery rebuke to intruders. Trigger. Anyone who steps on the mosaic causes fire to erupt from it. Those who openly wear holy symbols of Pyremius don’t trigger this
pit’s edge or instinctively steps back. On a failed save, the creature falls into the pit and takes 3 (1d6) bludgeoning damage from the fall. Countermeasures. A successful DC 10 Wisdom (Perception
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
and is destroyed.
Reactions
Banishing Rebuke (Recharges after a Long Rest). When Avarice is damaged by a creature that she can see within 60 feet of her, she can banish that creature to a frigid
order to get it back. Spellcasting. As a ghost, Nass can cast the spells she prepared prior to her death—except that the ghost can’t cast spells that require material components, which limits its options
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a2
, the path opens onto a wide ledge and then doubles back sharply into the mountainside.
Two bestial humanoids in hide armor stand watch on the ledge. They appear inattentive and bored.
Creatures
bridge, or at those who hang back to cast spells or make ranged attacks. A character on the bridge who is hit by an attack must make a saving throw to avoid a fall, just as if the character’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
stabbing people in the back while keeping a fake grin on his face. He is cunning in the ways of business, knowing exactly who to bribe or threaten to get what he wants, but he’s careful to keep most
to the idea. Sharna is a formidable combatant compared to most folk in Phandalin. She also keeps four bodyguards (thugs) on hand to guard the exchange, travel to the mines, rough up “uncooperative
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a1
is unable to move. If the check fails by 5 or more, a slab of masonry below the character shifts, dumping the character into a debris-lined cavity. Climbing back out requires a successful DC 10
Strength (Athletics) check; on a failed check, the victim drops back into the cavity. Creatures. Each time a creature falls into a cavity, the noise is 10 percent likely to draw 1d4 giant rats from the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
extend back from its nostrils to line its brow, and cluster on its jutting lower jaw. A blue dragon’s scales vary in color from an iridescent azure to a deep indigo, polished to a glossy finish by the
great pleasure in lording its power over humanoids and other lesser creatures. A blue dragon is a patient and methodical combatant. When fighting on its own terms, it turns combat into an extended affair






