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Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Death isn’t always the end. The reborn exemplify this, being individuals who have died yet, somehow, still live. Some reborn exhibit the scars of fatal ends, their ashen flesh or bloodless
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
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
of carrion, and wallowing in mire. A catoblepas might be found with the one mate it chooses for life and, on occasion, with a calf. A catoblepas attacks anyone that moves too close, especially if
the creature has such a feared reputation that stories about it are ingrained in the popular culture. Any rumor of a catoblepas taking up residence nearby is taken to be a bad omen, even if the rumor is
Monsters
Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
claim the metal.
Brutal Raiders. Each year, when the warm summer gives way to the chill of autumn, the crab folk look to the sky for omens. In ancient days, the green hag kept close watch on the fishing
bad luck a gull might happen to land near a crab folk lair and utter the right combination of cries to summon up this ancient compulsion. Driven to action, the crab folk rampage along the coast
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
, empathetic, and generally peaceful — unless roused to action. Their flaws and bonds alike grow naturally from their close ties to the community.
Personality Traits
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Personality Trait
conclave has a deeper connection to the Worldsoul than I do.
6
I’m trying to atone for the life of crime I led before I joined the Selesnya, but I find it hard to give up my bad habits
Orc
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
serve as a battering ram if a settlement dares to close its gates, blocking the way to the treasures and tasty food that lie within.
A heavily laden wagon that requires the strongest orcs to return it to
everywhere in the world around them, and the priests of a tribe are entrusted with the responsibility of identifying these signs and omens — both good and bad — and deciding how the tribe should
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Faded Memories A reborn with a phantom limb takes aim. Reborn suffer from some manner of discontinuity, an interruption of their lives or physical state that their minds are ill equipped to deal
. Rather than sleeping, reborn regularly sit and dwell on the past, hoping for some revelation of what came before. Most of the time, these are dark, silent stretches. Occasionally, though, in a moment of
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
Guild. If either of them ever finds out, your life as you know it will be over.
6
A close friend or relative joined the Guild and vanished mysteriously. You’ve worked your way into the lower
tail and run when things look bad.
6
An innocent person is in prison for a crime that I committed. I’m okay with that.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Star Forge Adventures Here are sample adventure hooks to bring characters to the Star Forge or to give them missions to pursue there. A Star Is Reborn Thieves damaged the Giant runes stabilizing the
giant forge master is close to creating their greatest work, a runic colossus (see chapter 6), but they lack a crucial component. If the characters find the Singing Sands (in this chapter), evade or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
the priests and the pharaoh search for Ankhtepot’s lost treasure in hopes of gaining leverage over the ruler.
3 The sphinxes of Har’Akir know that Ankhtepot is close to finding his lost ka. They
characters die, Pharaoh Ankhtepot resurrects them (perhaps as reborn; see chapter 1). Their continued existence is contingent on searching for and finding his ka.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
one or more of the characters close to within reach of the Pudding King, he laughs madly as he tears away his humanoid guise and transforms into an ooze. When he reaches 0 hit points, he shrieks as he
dissolves into a dense puddle of goo. Read the following boxed text as he expires: “You haven’t won! No! We will rise from our children! We will be reborn from the Faceless Lord! Juiblex will consume
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Ramya’s Powers and Dominion Reborn as a death knight, Ramya desperately tries to hold on to or retake the Sapphire Throne in a cycle of victory and loss with her equally uncompromising siblings
with her siblings Arijani and Reeva. She constantly struggles to quell the rebellion they lead, as detailed in “Treachery in Kalakeri” later in this domain. Closing the Borders. Ramya can close or open
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
around them, and the priests of a tribe are entrusted with the responsibility of identifying these signs and omens — both good and bad — and deciding how the tribe should react to them. As a race, orcs
stones, mushrooms, or any other kind of circle. Seeing a shooting star before a battle is bad luck. To ward it off, you must swallow a stone. A tribute of elf ears brings favor from Gruumsh. If you bury
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Epilogue: Croc Hunt Either as a way of apologizing for making a bad first impression on the lizardfolk, or to provide some extra excitement for combat-loving characters, this encounter pits the party
marsh, killing and eating many. Because the crocodile’s lair lies close to a possible route of approach of a sahuagin attack, the lizardfolk dare not leave the area unpatrolled. There would be no
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a4
shoots, he then warns his lover, the wizard Snarla, to close and lock the shutter over the arrow slit and move to defend the door that adjoins the corridor. They stand ready to engage anyone that
Snarla finds herself in a bad situation, she changes into werewolf form and attacks with desperate savagery, giving her advantage on all her attack rolls. If she is captured alive and made to talk, she
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Hatred. Cult warriors watch the surrounding area but leave travelers close to the spire alone. They want to avoid drawing attention to their activities for now. Sacred Stone Monastery This “keep” is
actually an old stone temple built in a rocky vale at the southern edge of the Sumber Hills. It was recently reborn as the Sacred Stone Monastery, home to reclusive monks dedicated to a mysterious “Way
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
. No door remains unopened in my presence.
5 I let people underestimate me, revealing my full competency only to those close to me.
6 I compulsively seek to collect trophies of my travels and
within me. I will fight against it and the world’s other evils for as long as I can.
9 I’m desperately seeking a cure to an affliction or a curse, either for someone close to me for myself
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
notice anyone who approaches the pool. Under the pretense of being dream interpreters, the harpies call out and flap close to visitors, encouraging them to drink from the supposedly magical pool so the
sisters can interpret their visions. One of the harpies, Jhamp, is a particularly bad liar, snickering and casting obvious glances while her sisters attempt to dupe strangers. If someone drinks from the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Astral Adventurer’s Guide
is humid and smells bad. Any creature that breathes foul air becomes poisoned until it breathes fresh air again. The air aboard a ship with a normal crew complement degrades from fresh to foul on day
). Overlapping Air Envelopes When two bodies come close enough to each other, their air envelopes merge, and the quality of the air around the smaller body changes to match that of the larger body. When
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
expression. “Bad things have been happening at the carnival for a while. People and things have been going missing. My bosses know more than they’re telling, but their hands are tied somehow. You’re the first
” later in the chapter for details of the coronation. It’s up to the characters to come up with a plan to get close enough to Mister Witch to steal his pocket watch. Any allies they’ve gained go along
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a4
approach it closely, as it is reputed to be the haunt of various demons and devils. The occasional disappearance of those who stray too close to the Plume reinforces this belief. Thirteen hundred
, and discovered the system of old lava-tubes that riddle the cone and the underlying strata. With a little alteration, he thought, these would be perfect for his purposes. The area already had a bad
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
living and the dead Position Proficiency: In addition to the proficiencies noted below, you can add your proficiency bonus to an ability check to intimidate a creature close to death, assess what disease
balance, but hate the idea that “balance” means good and bad things can both happen to you. Good things happening to you and bad things happening to other people seems perfectly reasonable.
2 You
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
fidgeting with her clutch all night. Has she gotten some sort of bad news? Maybe she’s about to fire someone! 2 Sometimes the museum keeps displays hidden in the basement at night. The curator must think
Alda Arkin (neutral evil, elf noble), the museum’s curator. During the gala, the curator is unarmed and unarmored. A retired university professor, Alda is responsible for the museum’s close ties to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
the divine powers, but Corellon blithely took no heed of him. Perhaps it was this seeming hauteur that enabled Gruumsh to get close enough to wound Corellon, igniting the legendary conflict that cost
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->Monsters of the Multiverse
found with the one mate it chooses for life and, on occasion, with a calf. A catoblepas attacks anyone that moves too close, especially if guarding its young. A catoblepas’s stink, like the stench of
. Any rumor of a catoblepas taking up residence nearby is taken to be a bad omen, even if the rumor is proven false. In some lands, the silhouette of a catoblepas, with its tail extended over its body
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Membership The Heralds of the Comet is a small, close-knit community. Through the process of severing their ties to the doomed world, members become entirely dependent on the group and its leaders
bad things in the world are proof that the world is unraveling—and most importantly, none of it is your fault. Those drawn to this message are called aspirants. Each aspirant meets regularly with an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
king very well. If he wants a reborn Delzoun, may Moradin and his children grant him the wisdom to do it right, and the fortitude to see it through. It’s a throne I wouldn’t wish on anyone. The rise of
a dwarven city so close to the coastal powers of Neverwinter and Waterdeep brings about its own special opportunities and concerns. Surely, once they get their forges going properly, the dwarves will
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
turned an unseen and wrathful eye upon you. Perhaps you think this fanciful. Well, go and try it yourself! On the opposite end of the mountain, close to the Naval Harbor, stands Mirt’s Mansion. Once a
parted ways. Mirt kept on with a life of adventure, while Durnan built the tavern called the Yawning Portal over the Well and now, almost two centuries later, charges coin to descend into it. Not a bad
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
to the sky for omens. In ancient days, the green hag kept close watch on the fishing villages and towns near her domain. If those settlements grew too strong, she sent her familiar, a cruel seagull
, to harangue the crab folk with its cries and drive them to war. Today, by a stroke of bad luck a gull might happen to land near a crab folk lair and utter the right combination of cries to summon up
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
. Especially if it’s guarding its young, a catoblepas attacks anyone that moves too close. Stench of Death. A catoblepas’s stink, like that of death mixed with swamp gas and skunk musk, gives it away as being
rumor of a catoblepas taking up residence nearby is taken to be a bad omen, even if the rumor is proven false. The silhouette of a catoblepas, with its tail extended over its body and its head held low
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Aberrant Mind Tentacles, psychic powers, beings from beyond the stars—one person’s bad dream is another person’s good time.
Tasha
An alien influence has wrapped its tendrils around your mind
the space you left, ending in an unoccupied space as close to your former space as possible. On a successful save, the creature takes half as much damage and isn’t pulled. Once you use this feature, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest, unless you spend 5 sorcery points to use it again.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
home in their carnival. Diana greets patrons with good humor, but there’s a sadness behind her eyes. She’s quick to correct anyone who calls her a centaur, saying that she’s “a human who made a bad
names of all eight unicorns. Diana gives one of the characters a clay pot of gold paint and some paintbrushes. She says she can close the carousel for a short time while it undergoes some “essential
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
first indication of new turmoil came in 1482 DR, when Bhaal, the long-dead god of murder, was reborn in Baldur’s Gate amid chaos and bloodshed, leaving two of the city’s dukes and many of its citizens
capital of Netheril was brought crashing down on Myth Drannor, resulting in the cataclysmic destruction of both. As the year drew to a close, there were nights when the heavens seemed to hang motionless
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
floor that can be rented out by the day or tenday. Old Fargo’s Suspicions. Old Fargo has long distrusted Lord Viallis, instinctively seeing him as a bad sort, but he keeps his thoughts to himself unless
close attention to Faerl’s house (area G4) and to any strangers in the village. If the characters ask them any questions about Viallis, the cultists respond by attacking. If they see the previously
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
might use such vast mountains of coin as Mirabar possesses on shows of prosperity, Mirabarrens use it for more functional goals, making sure that the city’s defenses are new, that its gates close
, since no one in Mirabar wishes to see the surface city wiped out. It would simply be bad for business. Mirabar spares no expense in defending its wealth, and hires as many mages and adventurers as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
and therefore more dangerous when disappointed or angered by a deal gone bad. Fey are also long-lived and thus have more time to retaliate against the hag, whereas most humanoids die within a few
always secretive about her motivations, the reasons for the payments she requires, or how these things benefit her. A hag that spends a long time in close proximity to a human settlement often