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Shifter Legacy

Species Eberron: Rising from the Last War

body and mind. Some shifters believe that these spirits are independent entities, and they may speak of Bear or Wolf as ancestors or guides. Most just see the beast within as a formidable expression

bear or boar: stoic, stubborn, and thick-skinned. Longtooth shifters typically have lupine traits and prefer to run with a pack. Swiftstride are often predatory and feline, but a swiftstride could

Ancient Crystal Dragon

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

something new. (Chaotic) 2 Empathy. It’s a gift to share in another’s joy, even if sometimes you must bear their pain, too. (Good) 3 Hospitality. We all live beautiful lives—it

future. 2 An ancient crystal dragon is stalked by a villainous ranger who has already claimed a dozen draconic trophies. 3 An ancient crystal dragon follows a pod of whales from one sea to

Speak with Animals

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook

Speak with Animals Level 1 Divination (Bard, Druid, Ranger, Warlock) Casting Time: Action or Ritual Range: Self Components: V, S Duration: 10 minutes For the duration, you can comprehend and

, but at minimum, a Beast can give you information about nearby locations and monsters, including whatever it has perceived within the past day. JESPER EJSING A human Druid uses Speak with Animals to chat with his best bear friend

13. Bear Laboratory

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild

13. Bear Laboratory Whenever anyone enters this area, a low growling rises from the animals kept here. A number of large, sturdy cages house one pair each of black bears, brown bears, and polar bears

on a DC 14 Wisdom (Animal Handling) check can successfully quiet them. Barbatos The ranger Barbatos is either here or in area 12 (a 50 percent chance for either), accompanied by his hell hound

Sworn Enemy

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything

Sworn Enemy Every ranger begins with a favored enemy (or two). The determination of a favored enemy might be tied to a specific event in the character’s early life, or it might be entirely a matter

revenge on nature’s behalf for the great transgressions your foe has committed. 2 Your forebears or predecessors fought these creatures, and so shall you. 3 You bear no enmity toward your foe. You stalk

Carapace Ridge

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin

ichor oozing from holes in its carapace. A war between thousands of demonic combatants rages throughout the ridge. The forces organized around the tower include driders and monstrous spiders, which

bear banners featuring a spider with a woman’s head. The forces surging from the redoubt are enormous spiders with the heads of wolves. The spider-wolves carry banners with snarling wolf heads. Four

Mortals and Minions

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

Mortals and Minions Devils and demons are far from the only combatants in the Blood War. Both sides exploit the Material Plane’s most abundant resource — mortal creatures, whose bodies and souls are

the forces of good, but the combatants in the Blood War have no regard for collateral damage — and on the Material Plane, they can cause a lot of it. If agents of Asmodeus discover a thriving demon cult

Domain Denizens

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory

Ape, black bear, cockatrice, crocodile, darkling (WW), giant dragonfly (WW), giant goat, giant sea horse, giant wasp, hobgoblin, myconid adult, satyr, scout, swarm of insects, vine blight, warhorse

, worg 1 Animated armor, brown bear, bugbear, dryad, faerie dragon (young), giant eagle, giant hyena, giant octopus, giant spider, giant toad, giant vulture, goblin boss, half-ogre, harpy, hippogriff, lion

Fighter

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

combatants enter a fight not knowing whether their boots have come untied. 6 You have a belt pouch specially made to release ball bearings or caltrops in the thick of the fight, forcing your

whose heads bear the mark of a lightning bolt, and which give a distinctive whistle when fired 2 A shield made from the shell of a giant turtle 3 A matching shortsword and dagger, decorated

Locations V - Z

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder

ranger who knows the forest pretty well and has friends among the wood elves who live there. Weathercote Forest For reasons unknown, no divination spell or scrying sensor can penetrate the dry patch of

; see the “Bargewright Inn” section for more information on this creature. Xantharl’s Keep Xantharl was a well-known ranger and explorer of the North. The fortified village that bears his name stands in

Landro Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin

yet, Glaive and one of her blade scout companions attack the characters from both ends of this narrow tunnel. After all combatants have taken a turn, the attackers flee into Landro and hide for another

beast that resembles a bear with three long, fleshy tentacles sprouting from its skull. Each tentacle is topped with a glowing, knobby lump of flesh. The monster dwelling here is a blazebear (see

Darkhold

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide

of the fortress. These aren’t the only forces Darkhold can bring to bear, however. The years when a contingent of giants lived in Darkhold are long gone, but in their place is an aerie of wyverns

, bred and trained to defend Darkhold and to obey the Pereghost. Their trainer is a ranger named Grigarr, whose body is pocked with myriad scars from wyvern stings. The man is a greedy wretch who claims he

Gibbet Crossing Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

combatants. While Qunbraxel fights, the mind flayer telepathically berates the characters with dire warnings and predictions such as the following: “The ritual will devastate Phandalin! You bear witness to

and lathes line the walls of this large workshop. Four eerie figures toil before a dark forge, striking metal that isn’t there. Several stone tables bear old tools and metal rods adorned with spikes

Hive Ward

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands

bloodstained amphitheater where spectators place bets and combatants test their mettle. The current heavyweight champion is a bloodthirsty cyclops named Akra. In addition to the typical variety of cheap

Hive like a corpse from the grave. The Mortuary’s towers bear low, gloomy domes with buttresses bristling with blades and windowless vaults clustered around the structure’s base. Its dark, mournful

Locations I - L

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder

. The characters come upon a Reghed berserker leading a band of 2d4 + 2 tribal warriors, or their encampment. Determine their tribe randomly by rolling a d4: 1, Bear; 2, Elk; 3, Tiger; 4, Wolf. If the

nomads belong to the Bear tribe or the Elk tribe, they give the party a wide berth and attack only if threatened. (Anyone who approaches them with weapons drawn is considered a threat.) Nomads

Areas of the Ships

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

a life-size mechanical unicorn ridden by a mechanical drow ranger waving two scimitars (when a lever under the float is pulled, the unicorn farts a 15-foot cone of confetti, which it can do twice

hippogriff One tiger One axe beak One allosaurus Two death dogs Two panthers One giant vulture One owlbear One polar bear The death dogs and the giant vulture are evil, and the giant vulture can

Areas of the Lair

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

vases and purple tapestries that bear Xanathar’s symbol. Jutting from the curved roof of the alcove is a spectral eyestalk (scrying sensor). A secret door is hidden in the south wall. If Xanathar is

releases arena combatants from area X7. Ten human bandits and five bugbears (all members of the Xanathar Guild) guzzle ale and heckle combatants from the bleachers, while two goblins serve up salted rat

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