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Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
rule Faerûn. His Cult of the Dragon devotes itself to helping evil dragons become dracoliches to bring this evil new age to fruition.
Sammaster was killed in battle, but had prepared contingencies
dragonkind.
Personality
Sammaster presents a charming and handsome facade, but he can’t conceal his morbid fascination with undead dragonkind for long. His only true allies are the inner
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
. His Cult of the Dragon devotes itself to helping evil dragons become dracoliches to bring this evil new age to fruition.
Sammaster was killed in battle, but had prepared contingencies for his demise
.
Personality
Sammaster presents a charming and handsome facade, but he can’t conceal his morbid fascination with undead dragonkind for long. His only true allies are the inner circle of the Cult of
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
inspires works of grand but melancholic beauty, while in others, it manifests as rage.
Like many who dwell in the Underdark, duergar must constantly be on guard against the raids and plots of their
neighbors. To this end, duergar warriors fulfill a variety of combat roles, often marrying their fury in battle with their psionic abilities or training dangerous Underdark creatures as mounts.
Denigrated by
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
many who dwell in the Underdark, duergar must constantly be on guard against the raids and plots of their neighbors. To this end, duergar warriors fulfill a variety of combat roles, often marrying
their fury in battle with their psionic abilities or training dangerous Underdark creatures as mounts.
Denigrated by some as joyless, duergar are in fact deeply passionate in all that they do—even
Classes
Xanathar's Guide to Everything
incompetent combatant who proves frustrating to engage. The drunken master’s erratic stumbles conceal a carefully executed dance of blocks, parries, advances, attacks, and retreats.
A drunken
master often enjoys playing the fool to bring gladness to the despondent or to demonstrate humility to the arrogant, but when battle is joined, the drunken master can be a maddening, masterful foe.
Way
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Underdark, duergar must constantly be on guard against the raids and plots of their neighbors. To this end, duergar warriors fulfill a variety of combat roles, often marrying their fury in battle with
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
guard against the raids and plots of their neighbors. To this end, duergar warriors fulfill a variety of combat roles, often marrying their fury in battle with their psionic abilities or training
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
many who dwell in the Underdark, duergar must constantly be on guard against the raids and plots of their neighbors. To this end, duergar warriors fulfill a variety of combat roles, often marrying their
fury in battle with their psionic abilities or training dangerous Underdark creatures as mounts.
Denigrated by some as joyless, duergar are in fact deeply passionate in all that they do—even if
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
, inspiring, and merciless in equal parts. A skilled leader in battle, the warlord can use spikes of psionic energy to compel the warriors they command to fight harder.
Duergar
Duergar are dwarves of
dwell in the Underdark, duergar must constantly be on guard against the raids and plots of their neighbors. To this end, duergar warriors fulfill a variety of combat roles, often marrying their fury in
Classes
Xanathar's Guide to Everything
incompetent combatant who proves frustrating to engage. The drunken master’s erratic stumbles conceal a carefully executed dance of blocks, parries, advances, attacks, and retreats.
A drunken
master often enjoys playing the fool to bring gladness to the despondent or to demonstrate humility to the arrogant, but when battle is joined, the drunken master can be a maddening, masterful foe.
Way
Backgrounds
Ghosts of Saltmarsh
You were trained for battle on sandy beaches and rocky shores. You have launched midnight raids from swift ships whose names evoke terror in the hearts of your adversaries. The water is your second
home, the rain your shelter, and the crashing waves your battle cry.
Skill Proficiencies: Athletics, Survival
Tool Proficiencies: Vehicles (water, land)
Equipment: A dagger that
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
works of grand but melancholic beauty, while in others, it manifests as rage.
Like many who dwell in the Underdark, duergar must constantly be on guard against the raids and plots of their neighbors. To
this end, duergar warriors fulfill a variety of combat roles, often marrying their fury in battle with their psionic abilities or training dangerous Underdark creatures as mounts.
Denigrated by some
Hobgoblin
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
little to conceal an underlying brutality that hobgoblins practice on each other and perfect upon other races. Punishment for infractions of hobgoblin law are swift and merciless. Beauty is something
greatest respect is reserved for those who earn their glory in battle. In theory, the fortunes of war can elevate the lowest-ranking banner in a legion to the highest status. In practice, warlords are
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
create illusions, allowing them to better conceal their treasures from prying eyes and divinations.
Creating an Emerald Dragon
Use the Emerald Dragon Personality Traits and Emerald Dragon Ideals
witness to a murder but doesn’t want to be found or identified.
2
An emerald dragon seeks heroes to participate in a dramatic reenactment of a legendary battle involving dragon riders
Orc
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warriors go on their raids are weaker than their tribe mates or otherwise not suited for a life of battle. Worshipers of Luthic fall into this category, as do some of those that revere Yurtrus or Shargaas
the plane of Acheron. It is there in the afterlife where the chosen ones will join Gruumsh and his armies in their endless extraplanar battle for supremacy.
Gods of the Orcs
Orcs believe their gods
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
spells that create illusions, allowing them to better conceal their treasures from prying eyes and divinations.
Creating an Emerald Dragon
Use the Emerald Dragon Personality Traits and Emerald Dragon
the only witness to a murder but doesn’t want to be found or identified.
2
An emerald dragon seeks heroes to participate in a dramatic reenactment of a legendary battle involving dragon
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
illusions, allowing them to better conceal their treasures from prying eyes and divinations.
Creating an Emerald Dragon
Use the Emerald Dragon Personality Traits and Emerald Dragon Ideals tables to
a murder but doesn’t want to be found or identified.
2
An emerald dragon seeks heroes to participate in a dramatic reenactment of a legendary battle involving dragon riders.
3
An
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
, allowing them to better conceal their treasures from prying eyes and divinations.
Creating an Emerald Dragon
Use the Emerald Dragon Personality Traits and Emerald Dragon Ideals tables to inspire your
doesn’t want to be found or identified.
2
An emerald dragon seeks heroes to participate in a dramatic reenactment of a legendary battle involving dragon riders.
3
An emerald dragon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
the overall plan of battle. Moreover, if they can be brought into the alliance represented by the Council of Waterdeep, they can help defend humanoid territories from the cult’s devastating raids. This is covered in greater detail in chapter 14.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
the overall plan of battle. Moreover, if they can be brought into the alliance represented by the Council of Waterdeep, they can help defend humanoid territories from the cult’s devastating raids. This is covered in greater detail in chapter 14.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
the overall plan of battle. Moreover, if they can be brought into the alliance represented by the Council of Waterdeep, they can help defend humanoid territories from the cult’s devastating raids. This is covered in greater detail in chapter 14.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
are asked to track the raiders to their lair and prevent any further raids. 2 After a devastating storm, a lost giant child wanders into a settlement, looking for help getting home. 3 A giant begs
fugitive to a giant family’s home, where the villain hides from both the giants and the characters. 6 Characters seeking a mighty magical artifact learn it was lost during a battle against giants, and magical divination reveals it’s now an heirloom treasured by a family of giants.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a2
battle, various creatures have occupied the stronghold and used the place as a base for their raids. At other times, the caverns have lain empty except for the mindless and bloodthirsty monsters that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
found himself face to face with Neronvain in the thick of battle and begged for his life, offering anything in return. Neronvain took the warden up on his offer, agreeing to spare Galin and leave
Altand intact in exchange for information on other settlements that would become the targets of the cult’s next round of raids. Galin does not know the identity of the green wyrmspeaker, or the location
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
, he found himself face to face with Neronvain in the thick of battle and begged for his life, offering anything in return. Neronvain took the warden up on his offer, agreeing to spare Galin and leave
Altand intact in exchange for information on other settlements that would become the targets of the cult’s next round of raids. Galin does not know the identity of the green wyrmspeaker, or the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
7. Library and Scriptorium Dwarves only rarely commit words to paper, making this dwarven library a rare find. Characters who make no effort to conceal their approach are detected by the creatures in
visitors, the duergar instinctively enlarge themselves and attack. If two duergar fall in battle, the survivors turn invisible and flee to area 12 while the cloaker covers their escape. The holy texts
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Frost Giant Gigantic reavers from the freezing lands beyond civilization, frost giants are fierce, hardy warriors that survive on the spoils of their raids and pillaging. They respect only brute
strength and skill in battle, demonstrating both with their scars and the grisly trophies they take from their enemies. Hearts of Ice. Frost giants are creatures of ice and snow. Their hair and beards
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
conflict is a great war of attrition — the combatants don’t often gain or lose territory as the result of battle. But on a personal scale, combat is brutal, with no quarter given or expected. The duergar
fight a persistent guerrilla war of sudden raids and brutal attacks against isolated groups of dwarves. Duergar often begin an attack by burrowing into a dwarf settlement from below, then bursting out
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
.
— Battle hymn of the githyanki knights
Githyanki knights are warriors, spellcasters, and scouts of exceptional ability devoted to the unflagging service of Vlaakith. Knights report directly to the queen
. THE SPOILS OF WAR
An individual githyanki’s weapons and armor are ornate and decorated with trophies taken on raids. With each new victory, a warrior brings home a token to serve as a memento
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
muster for war, rather than merely staging occasional raids, they take no prisoners. Their goal is nothing less than the annihilation of their foes — and they reserve their greatest animosity for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
carrying troops and the spoils of their raids. Their wizards’ divination magic seeks out great treasures. Under the guidance of Vlaakith, the supreme leaders organize raiding parties and dispatch them to
attacks from the air. Red dragons ridden by knights accompany the vessels, serving as outriders and shock trips to pave the way for the githyanki warriors to descend en masse. In battle, the githyanki use
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
present what seems like an incompetent combatant who proves frustrating to engage. The drunken master’s erratic stumbles conceal a carefully executed dance of blocks, parries, advances, attacks, and
retreats. A drunken master often enjoys playing the fool to bring gladness to the despondent or to demonstrate humility to the arrogant, but when battle is joined, the drunken master can be a maddening
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
, in the solitude of the inky deep, the aboleth made a second astounding discovery: a juvenile kraken with an unlikely, circular scar on its head, a wound earned in battle against a giant shark years
enslavement and telepathy, Sgothgah forged an alliance with the cultists, always taking care to conceal its true identity. The cultists knew Sgothgah only as “the Whisperer,” and they quickly came to regard their hidden ally as a powerful messenger of Tharizdun. To this day, only Mr. Dory suspects the truth.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
force. Indoctrinated by the priestesses of Luthic, they see to it that Luthic’s followers are protected from the more aggressive members of the tribe. Most orogs don’t go on raids, because their main
by the schism. At the other extreme, an orog might accept a role in battle or leadership under special circumstances. If a tribe finds itself up against formidable or unexpected resistance, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
host, and they receive obedience and deference from many quarters. Their ability to lay waste to entire formations with a single use of magic allows them to gain far more glory in battle than a single
that other folk study, making them skilled in battle but relatively illiterate on the finer points of how and why their magic works. The Academy of Devastation believes that an academic approach to