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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
’s curse. If the curse is allowed to run its course, an abyssal spirit invades the person’s body, causing a gruesome transformation. Over a period of hours, the victim’s head takes on
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Abyssal Curse
Monsters
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
curse takes effect whenever the target takes a short or long rest, filling the target’s thoughts with horrible images and dreams. The cursed target gains no benefit from finishing a short or long
rest. The curse lasts until it is lifted by a remove curse spell or similar magic.
Summon Erinyes (1/Day). Mahadi summons Ilzabet, an erinyes bound to him by an infernal contract. The erinyes appears
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
within 10 feet of Bavlorna uses at least 10 feet of movement to run in place counterclockwise, Bavlorna is overcome by a fit of sneezing and can’t cast spells until the end of her next turn. In
as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 14):
At will: detect magic
2/day each: create food and water, polymorph, remove curse
1/day: plane shift (self only)Younger than Skabatha and older than
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Basic Rules (2014)
friends and loved ones age while time barely touches them. Others live with the elves, growing restless as they reach adulthood in the timeless elven realms, while their peers continue to live as
.
EXCELLENT AMBASSADORS
Many half-elves learn at an early age to get along with everyone, defusing hostility and finding common ground. As a race, they have elven grace without elven aloofness and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Dealing with Uldrak Uldrak is a bitter creature who barely remembers his past. Long ago, he learned how to remove his curse, but the solution was so beyond him that he consigned himself to failure
success, they hypothesize that the blood must be drawn from his titan form to break the dao’s curse. Thankfully, Uldrak has a plan (see “Development” below). Treasure. The sphere set into the pommel of
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
intelligently and do everything you can to make him a terrifying and cunning adversary for the player characters.
When you run an encounter with Strahd, keep the following facts in mind:
Strahd
curse spell cast on the target restores its natural shadow, but only if its undead shadow has been destroyed.
Necrotic; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
, read or paraphrase the following text: Amid the vast desert, a great pyramid rises from the sands, barely touched by time. Stairs ascend from the sand to an opening in the pyramid.
Near the base of
source of the River Athis. In Bakar’s heyday, cool water sprang from the fountain, teleported to it from magical silos within the pyramid. The Fountain of Athis dried up the night of Amun Sa’s death. Only by breaking the pharaoh’s curse can the basin resume its flow and the land thrive once more.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Tarokka Deck In both 1983’s adventure Ravenloft and 2016’s adventure Curse of Strahd, the plot changes in accordance with cards drawn from a tarokka deck. A tarokka deck contains fifty-four tarot
aggression and violence. Tarokka decks allow you run encounters where fortune-tellers predict characters’ fates. Once you’re familiar with the cards and their meanings, you can interpret them in ways that tie
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
characters’ progress. If the check is 14 or higher, or if any character with a passive Wisdom (Perception) score of 14 studies the fey after they’ve been spotted, the fey appear mean and grubby. The fey run off if they are noticed, shouting with barely disguised menace to “enjoy our sunny woods.”
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
Material Plane are a dire threat to all creatures. Their awful shrieking can paralyze other creatures with fear, which also makes the creatures susceptible to the vargouille’s curse. If the curse is allowed
to run its course, an abyssal spirit invades the person’s body, causing a gruesome transformation. Over a period of hours, the victim’s head takes on fiendish aspects, such as fangs, tentacles, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
in bandit or monster activity in a nearby forest. 3 A hostel run by House Ghallanda has gained a reputation for being haunted, and the disturbances are growing more dangerous. 4 People healed at a
local Jorasco enclave suddenly manifest strange abilities they never could before — and soon thereafter, a strange curse as well. 5 The Kundarak Bank needs brave adventurers to test their new wards by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
widespread magical curse that is causing people to waste away while also preventing the dead from being raised. An expeditionary force is headed to Chult to find the origin of the curse, and you’ve
and criminal gangs. You were about to make a run for it when you heard a rumor that a merchant named Syndra Silvane is offering good pay for an assignment far from home. Cloistered Scholar Sword
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Appendix B: Death House You can run Curse of Strahd for 1st-level characters with the help of this optional mini-adventure, which is designed to advance characters to 3rd level. Players creating 1st
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
scolds any characters who participated in the desecration of the tomb, barely resisting resorting to violence. With a final curse, the Gardener waves a hand, and an icy gale rips through the area
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Steelshadow V, the cultists plan to inflict a curse on the stone giants of Clan Cairngorm that causes them to grow second heads, driving them insane. WHORLSTONE TUNNELS: GENERAL FEATURES
The following
barely 2 feet wide at their widest points. A Tiny creature can move through these tunnels unimpeded, while a Small creature must squeeze to pass through them. Medium and larger creatures can’t fit
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Death Curse Understanding how Acererak’s death curse works is vital to running the adventure smoothly. The Soulmonger was activated 20 days ago and remains active until it is destroyed. While the
spells or similar magic. The death curse has no effect on preexisting ghosts or spirits. Meat Grinder Tomb of Annihilation can be played as written, or you can make it even more difficult by running it as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
kiss. The kiss of a vargouille infects a humanoid with a fiendish curse. If allowed to run its course, the curse brings about a gruesome transformation as an abyssal spirit invades the person’s body
takes on fiendish aspects. The curse doesn’t advance while the target is in sunlight or the area of a daylight spell; don’t count that time. When the cursed target’s Charisma becomes 2, it dies, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
physical difference? Do you carry a curse or blessing? How do you feel about your differences?
Do you perform? Have you devised a way to profit from your circumstances? Are you proud of your performances
? Do you have a show mentor or partner? Or do you earn your way in the Carnival as a laborer, as a vendor, or in another role?
How did you join the Carnival? Did you run away to join? Were you an outcast who found a home with the Carnival? Did Isolde or a trouper save you from danger?
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
. If you want your campaign to move at a quick pace, run only these encounters. In doing so, you don’t have to worry about random encounters and setting up details of the journey such as who keeps
party. When using the Random Encounter table below, roll once for travel during the day and once while the characters are resting at night. Or if you see an encounter that tickles your fancy, just run it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
d8 Personality Trait 1 I don’t run from evil. Evil runs from me. 2 I like to read and memorize poetry. It keeps me calm and brings me fleeting moments of happiness. 3 I spend money freely and live
life to the fullest, knowing that tomorrow I might die. 4 I live for the thrill of the hunt. 5 I don’t talk about the thing that torments me. I’d rather not burden others with my curse. 6 I expect
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
curse gave quicklings their amazing speed but also accelerated their passage through life — no quickling lives longer than fifteen years. They race themselves to death, and scheme as fast as they run
again. Mischief, Not Murder. Quicklings have a capricious nature that goes well with their energy level: they think as fast as they run, and they are always up to something. A quickling spends most of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Adventures in Kartakass The desires and secrets of Kartakass’s people run in parallel with those of the lycanthropes that flourish here. The domain’s residents consider lycanthropes to be legendary
threats, but in truth any resident who gives in to their vices might be consumed by the beast within. Numerous types of lycanthropes might flourish in Kartakass, or the curse of lycanthropy could
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
line. She pours her family’s wealth into supporting art in Levkarest and endlessly building her estate both taller and deeper. Ivliskova. The Ivliskovas run dozens of orphanages and the elite Ivliskova
and hide their family’s lycanthropic curse. Nuikin. Every member of this competitive family is expected to become a genius in their respective field. Numerous libraries, museums, and theaters advertise
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
status, and they typically don’t set impossible goals — a lesser demon, for instance, might simply run amok when unleashed into the world, its only desire to spread chaos, but a marilith or other
powerful demon usually has an intent that goes beyond merely causing carnage, and a plan to achieve it. DEMONIC AMULETS: BLESSING AND CURSE
Some demon lords have a way of cheating death, but this great
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Getting the Quest The town sits quietly at the foot of Kelvin’s Cairn. A few bundled-up people shuffle between snow-battered houses, keeping their heads down, barely bothering to give you a look as
dragon in humanoid form. If the characters ask about the missing lantern, he offers to take them to the local inn so they can talk to the Shorard sisters, who run the establishment. He seems less
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
ancient room with scrying pools filled with blood that has barely a trace of dust. A sturdy iron door protects the temple’s vault. Map 4.8: Abandoned Temple View Player Version Abandoned Temple
Villains Monsters who plot alone and criminals on the run or who engage in taboo behavior are often found in abandoned temples. Examples of such villains appear on the Abandoned Temple Villains table
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
present. What I do now, this very moment, is all that matters.” Bond. “I’m safe in my cottage. Why should I leave it when I can make others come to me?” Flaw. “Watching someone run widdershins makes me
Bavlorna is allergic to the sight of creatures running counterclockwise in circles, a motion known as “running widdershins.” Creatures that run widdershins within 10 feet of Bavlorna cause her to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
. Sylvarie’s Curse. Sylvarie Silversong was a devoted priest of Sune who shared her knowledge and uplifted others to help them realize their own worth. Sadly, her devotion to others masked the moon elf’s own
true nature, they enticed the priest into a dark bargain—and a terrible curse. After a year, the painting created of Sylvarie that had boosted her esteem transformed her into a medusa. When she tried
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
sylvan creatures of all types lived among the trees. Even today the High Forest has barely known the tread and touch of humans, and old growth dominates its flora. Elven communities in the forest are
the centaurs who make the High Forest their home, claiming the plateaus near the head of the Unicorn Run. For decades, the centaurs have been growing in number, enough so that they may soon divide
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
children until the hag’s sisters placed a curse on him that warmed his heart, changing his alignment from lawful evil to chaotic good. He now strives to help children escape from Skabatha’s clutches
. Skabatha assumes that Mugan simply left her employment; she is unaware of the curse her sisters placed on the oni and doesn’t know that Will of the Feywild is not a human boy. Appendix D has additional
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
capabilities. Some become indentured servants, working at Infernal Rapture. If they possess a talent for sales, they might eventually obtain a business to run within the Wandering Emporium. If adventurers
) slashing damage, and the target is cursed if it’s a creature. The curse takes effect whenever the target takes a short or long rest, filling the target’s thoughts with horrible images and dreams
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
to see that Gleam casts no shadow. While she has no shadow, Gleam is cursed (see the “Shadowless” sidebar). SHADOWLESS
A shadowless creature is one that carries the curse of having no shadow—a fact
evident only when the creature is in bright or dim light. A remove curse spell or similar magic ends the curse on a shadowless creature, reuniting it with its shadow instantly.
Creatures native to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
and teach them to mind her will, the queen sped up their internal clocks and shrank them. Her curse gave quicklings amazing speed but also accelerated their passage through life—no quickling lives
. Quicklings have a capricious nature that goes well with their energy level: they think as fast as they run, and they are always up to something. They spend most of their time perpetrating acts of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Running the Adventure Curse of Strahd is a story of gothic horror, presented here as Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game adventure for a party of four to six adventurers of levels 1–10. A balance of
meant for you, the Dungeon Master, alone. We recommend you read the entire adventure before attempting to run it. It assumes that you have the fifth edition Player’s Handbook, Dungeon Master’s Guide, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
containers are suspended over the warehouse floor by chains, which run up and through a winch before descending to a mechanical control console atop the catwalk. Two doors near the console lead to other
afflicting him and reverts to his natural form, that of a human. He maintains this form for 1 minute, during which he begs the characters to find a way to end the curse afflicting him. After doing so