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Dungeon Master’s Guide
you draw the card or at any other time before you die.
Flames. A powerful devil becomes your enemy. The devil seeks your ruin and torments you, savoring your suffering before attempting to slay you
die. If an ally of yours deals damage to the avatar, that ally summons another Avatar of Death. The new avatar appears in an unoccupied space as close to that ally as possible and targets only that
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
disappears, your Attunement to it ends immediately, and you lose all benefits granted by it. If you die while attuned to the book, an entity of great evil claims your soul. You can’t be restored to life
damage unless the creature is a Fiend or an Undead.
Destroying the Book. The Book of Vile Darkness allows pages to be torn from it, but any evil lore contained on those pages finds its way back into the
Magic Items
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
If you are reduced to zero hit points while attuned to a band of loyalty, you instantly die. These rings are favored by spies who can’t afford to fall into enemy hands.
Monsters
Candlekeep Mysteries
. Ogruhl was the prisoner of a cruel Netherese wizard. When the city around the tortoise was abandoned, Ogruhl was left to die. A band of chwinga;chwingas found the tortoise and brought it food and
Triton
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
readily sacrifice themselves for the common good. They will fight and die for humans, merfolk, and other creatures without question. Their self-absorbed nature makes them overlook the history of other
. The tritons’ limited view of the world leaves them ignorant of the kingdoms, wars, and other struggles of the surface world. Tritons readily see such concerns as minor events, a sideshow to
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
important than the gear and fighting style of its members, and so most of these orders aren’t limited to fighting types, but are open to all sorts of folk who are willing to battle and die for the
their completion, and everyone should be praised for their strengths and comforted in their weaknesses.
Knights of Myth Drannor. Long ago, the Knights of Myth Drannor were a famous adventuring band
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
and just as readily appear as people, animals, or other creatures—the more unassuming, the better. Should it reveal its true form, an emissary appears as a roughly bipedal mass of agitated organs
slurry. It then instantly returns in its greater form. Only if the emissary is defeated in its greater form does the star spawn die.
After finishing a long rest, a greater star spawn emissary regains
Book of Vile Darkness
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Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
the book’s contents, provided that those modifications advance evil and expand the lore already contained within.
Whenever a non-evil creature attunes to the Book of Vile Darkness, that creature
in the world. If you fail to perform at least one evil act within the span of 10 days, or if you willingly perform a good act, the book disappears. If you die while attuned to the book, an entity of
Deck of Many Things
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Basic Rules (2014)
spins anew, allowing you to avoid or erase one event as if it never happened. You can use the card's magic as soon as you draw the card or at any other time before you die.
Flames. A powerful devil
you, warning all others that you must win the battle alone. The avatar fights until you die or it drops to 0 hit points, whereupon it disappears. If anyone tries to help you, the helper summons its
Magic Items
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
cherished memories of Idyllglen, though I’ve only seen this bucolic town in dreams.
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I would die for those who fight beside me, regardless of their faults.
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I seek to honor the angel
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I am too quick to judge others.
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I offer forgiveness too readily.
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I will sacrifice innocent lives for the greater good.
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Flaw? What flaw? I am flawless. Utter perfection
Magic Items
Keys from the Golden Vault
the book’s contents, provided that those modifications advance evil and expand the lore already contained within.
Whenever a non-evil creature attunes to the Book of Vile Darkness, that creature
in the world. If you fail to perform at least one evil act within the span of 10 days, or if you willingly perform a good act, the book disappears. If you die while attuned to the book, an entity of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
Band of Loyalty Ring, common (requires attunement) If you are reduced to 0 hit points while attuned to a band of loyalty, you instantly die. These rings are favored by spies who can’t afford to fall into enemy hands.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Roleplaying Harkon Harkon Lukas thrives on compliments and control. The lycanthrope skillfully reads other people, anticipates their ambitions and desires, and readily exploits them. He has a talent
deeds are power, and my aspirations will change the world.” Ideal. “Everyone wants to love me. I’ll make them realize that.” Bond. “I share my passions broadly and intensely, but everyone understands that the most dazzling flames die fastest.” Flaw. “Anyone who spurns my love will know my hunger.”
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
mortally ill members, the group’s leader, Irena Radanavich, ordered her band to kidnap Rudolph’s son and then sold the young man to the vampire Baron Metus. Rudolph pursued the Radanaviches, shattered
their criminal operation, and brought Irena to justice, but not before suffering her curse: “Live you always among monsters, and see everyone you love die beneath their claws.” In the weeks that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
pirate fleets prowl the waves or a kraken awakens from its slumber, they are among the first to take up arms to protect others. Tritons readily sacrifice themselves for the common good. They will fight
and die for humans, merfolk, and other creatures without question. Their self-absorbed nature makes them overlook the history of other creatures, but they also endure a sense of guilt over allowing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
) 6 Leadership. I am not part of the pack. I am above it. (Chaotic) Gnoll/Cultist Bonds d6 Bond 1 I would die before betraying the Lord of Savagery. 2 I would follow the leader of our war band
anywhere and gladly sacrifice myself to protect him or her. 3 I cull the weak from our war band, so that we remain strong. 4 Yeenoghu’s omens guide my every choice. 5 If I die in battle, I was simply too
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
absence of their goblinoid kin, bugbears form loose war bands, each one led by its fiercest member. Bugbears believe that when they die, their spirits have a chance to fight at Hruggek’s side. They try
when outmatched. They are dependable mercenaries as long as they are supplied food, drink, and treasure, but a bugbear forgets any bond when its life is on the line. A wounded member of a bugbear band
Kobold
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
races have little good to say about kobolds, but they do admit that the little reptilians do respectable tunnel work using simple tools. If a band of kobolds is enslaved by more powerful creatures
, sorcerer, miner, or crafter is as likely to be female as male.
Grow Fast, Die Early
Kobolds grow and mature much more swiftly than members of other humanoid races. At 6 years old a kobold is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
that has become suffused with demonic magic can warp a creature’s mind, causing madness that usually fades away once the contact is broken.
Chardalyn is cold to the touch and readily accepts
choose to aid or oppose these wizards is up to them, but one thing is certain: the Arcane Brotherhood won’t let a band of adventurers stand between them and the magic that waits to be found in the doomed, sepulchral ruin.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Bandit Attack Bandits watch for an opportunity to waylay caravans. When the characters stop for their first night, a large gang of outlaws closes in to try its luck. The band is made up of sixteen
. They use the light of the burning wagon to target individuals. The bandits prefer to harry the caravan from cover and mount an attack once the defenders are weakened. None of the bandits is willing to die. They retreat so they can attack the caravan again later.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
close to the temporary lair of a band of bullywugs. Bullywug scouts patrol the area and, unless spotted, return to the larger group after identifying the adventurers to organize an ambush. Bullywug
Transients. The bullywugs are a roving band but they have set up a defensive camp here because they have happened upon a considerable treasure. Rather than risk traveling through the swamp with their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
killed him. Tatyana fled and flung herself from Ravenloft’s walls. Guards shot Strahd with arrows, but he didn’t die. He became a vampire—the first vampire, according to many sages. In the centuries
Sea of Swords. It’s a narrow band of territory dominated by several major city-states, from Neverwinter in the north to Baldur’s Gate in the south, with Waterdeep in between.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
. Koletras are said to bring good luck to a band, but are also usually fated to die in defense of their family. Not every guros has a koletra of its own, and guri share their best warriors among each other
the far-traveling Lagonna band and the proud raiders of the Pheres band. These bands occupy territories situated between the three major human poleis, making them common sights to those who travel human
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
weakling to die in training than to undertake a mission and imperil a war band. Final Test of Loyalty By the time a group of githyanki come of age, they have heard years of stories of Vlaakith and her
Born to Serve Under the illithids, we and the githyanki fought and died across a thousand worlds for implacable masters. Under Vlaakith, our kin fight and die across a thousand words for an
Orc
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
great unknown.
NISHREK AND THE ETERNAL WAR
Orcs believe that if they die with honor, their spirits go to the plane of Acheron, the Infinite Battlefield — specifically the layer of Nishrek
rival orcs first and foremost as competitors for food and victims.
On some occasions, though, tribes that have a common concern band together. The result is an orc horde — a sea of slavering
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
black dragon recently took control of a band of pirates and their backwater hideout. Emboldened, the pirates have started raiding nearby shipping lanes.
2 A conflict-averse black dragon is secretly
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2 A band of troglodytes is cowed into serving a black dragon wyrmling as bodyguards.
3 The recent appearance of a black dragon wyrmling has altered the local ecosystem, allowing various
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Harmony with the Cosmos Bards of the College of Dance know that the Words of Creation can’t be contained within speech or song; the words are uttered by the movements of celestial bodies and flow
with an Unarmed Strike, you can deal Bludgeoning damage equal to a roll of your Bardic Inspiration die plus your Dexterity modifier, instead of the strike’s normal damage. This roll doesn’t expend the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
the tortoise was abandoned, Ogruhl was left to die. A band of chwingas found the tortoise and brought it food and water little by little to keep it alive. Over time, the chwingas and Ogruhl developed a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
many must die before balance is restored?
3 Karametra’s civilizing influence infringes on the territory and freedom of other nature gods, and so Nylea and Pharika band together to reduce her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a7
studied all the way from the entrance to where the path forks toward areas 5 and 6, the individual with such perseverance will be rewarded by suddenly understanding that a message is contained in barely
and keyed.
The iron men of visage grim do more than meets the viewer’s eye.
You’ve left and left and found my tomb, and now your souls will die.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
contents and reap its benefits. The creature can then freely modify the book’s contents, provided that those modifications advance evil and expand the lore already contained within. Whenever a non-evil
you die while attuned to the book, an entity of great evil claims your soul. You can’t be restored to life by any means while your soul remains imprisoned. Random Properties. The Book of Vile Darkness
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
. The shaft leads up to area X6. Characters who touch the amber sarcophagi are offered dark gifts by the evil vestiges contained within them (see the “Amber Sarcophagi” sidebar). West Sarcophagus. The
sarcophagi are offered dark gifts by the evil vestiges contained within them (see the “Amber Sarcophagi” sidebar). North Sarcophagus. The vestige within this sarcophagus offers the dark gift of Savnok
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
around the room
50 An infinite inkwell
51 A band embroidered with the symbol of the Six
52 A squishy cactus
53 A velvet blindfold
54 A dirty figurine of a triceratops that
can’t be cleaned
55 A used (and thus nonmagical) noble knife from the Noble Knife
56 A quill that rotates through all the colors of the rainbow
57 A twenty-sided die that only rolls
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
stretches meditating in the region around an ancient dragon’s lair, absorbing that lair’s ambient magic.
5 You found a scroll written in Draconic that contained inspiring new techniques.
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two rolls of your Martial Arts die on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. At 11th level, the damage of this feature increases to three rolls of your Martial Arts die. You can use
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
miles, you hear the ringing of a bell. The sound grows louder as Nightstone comes into view. A river flows around the settlement, forming a moat. The village itself is contained within a wooden palisade
, and sent a band of goblins to plunder the abandoned village. Characters who capture and interrogate these goblins can learn where the villagers are located. The following warning signs indicate that