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Monsters
Monster Manual
within the mummy’s lair. The heart is a Tiny object that has AC 17, HP 10, and Immunity to all damage except Fire.Multiattack. The mummy makes one Rotting Fist or Channel Negative Energy attack, and
it uses Dreadful Glare.
Rotting Fist. Melee Attack Roll: +9;{"diceNotation":"1d20+9", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Rotting Fist"}, reach 5 ft. Hit: 15 (2d10 + 4);{"diceNotation":"2d10+4
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
As a Magic action, you can throw this staff so that it lands in an unoccupied space within 10 feet of you, causing the staff to become a Giant Constrictor Snake in that space. The snake is under your
’t have the Incapacitated condition. You decide what action the snake takes and where it moves during its turn, or you can issue it a general command, such as to attack your enemies or guard a
Delayed Blast Fireball
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
concentration is broken or because you decide to end it, the bead blossoms with a low roar into an explosion of flame that spreads around corners. Each creature in a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on that
Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the spell ends immediately, causing the bead to erupt in flame. On a successful save, the creature can throw the bead up to 40 feet. When it strikes a creature or a
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
animate dead, plant growth
4th
giant insect, grasping vine
5th
cloudkill, insect plague
Golgari magic is often accompanied by a sickly green glow and a rotting
.
4
Roll an additional Golgari contact; you can decide if the contact is an ally or a rival.
5
I joined the Gruul in a battle against the Boros once, and the chief of that small clan thanks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Vault of Reflection Features Alien Growth The beholder’s aberrant influence permeates the stonework across this level of the tomb, causing purple mold to sprout from the floors, walls, and ceilings
. The mold smells like rotting corpses and occasionally releases clouds of harmless spores. As characters move through areas with alien growth, tiny eyeballs emerge from the mold to scrutinize them
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Zabou Zabou mushrooms feed on offal and the rotting wood of dead trees. If handled carefully, a zabou can be picked or uprooted without causing it to release its spores. If crushed or struck, a zabou
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Staff of the Python Staff, Uncommon (Requires Attunement) As a Magic action, you can throw this staff so that it lands in an unoccupied space within 10 feet of you, causing the staff to become a
action required) if it is within 60 feet of you and you don’t have the Incapacitated condition. You decide what action the snake takes and where it moves during its turn, or you can issue it a general
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
, Poisoned
Senses Darkvision 60 ft.; Passive Perception 11
Languages Common plus two other languages
CR 3 (XP 700; PB +2)
Actions
Multiattack. The mummy makes two Rotting Fist attacks and uses
Dreadful Glare.
Rotting Fist. Melee Attack Roll: +5, reach 5 ft. Hit: 8 (1d10 + 3) Bludgeoning damage plus 10 (3d6) Necrotic damage. If the target is a creature, it is cursed. While cursed, the target
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Staff of the Python Staff, Uncommon (Requires Attunement) As a Magic action, you can throw this staff so that it lands in an unoccupied space within 10 feet of you, causing the staff to become a
action required) if it is within 60 feet of you and you don’t have the Incapacitated condition. You decide what action the snake takes and where it moves during its turn, or you can issue it a general
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
murky water flowing through the endless swamp to the mildewed vines and the rotting roots of swollen mangrove and banyan trees.
The Weeping Paths is a treacherous quagmire home to malicious spirits
, causing creatures to have disadvantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight. Threats lurk amid the wilds. For every 3 miles the party travels, roll on the Weeping Paths Encounters table
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Redbrand Ruffians Zoltan Boros A group of criminals who wear scarlet cloaks has
been causing trouble in Phandalin for a while now Within a day or so of the adventurers’ arrival in Phandalin, a
confrontation with the Redbrands becomes inevitable. This can happen in several different ways: Confront the Redbrands. After speaking with a few NPCs in town, the characters decide to confront the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
because you decide to end it, the bead blossoms with a low roar into an explosion of flame that spreads around corners. Each creature in a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on that point must make a
failed save, the spell ends immediately, causing the bead to erupt in flame. On a successful save, the creature can throw the bead up to 40 feet. When it strikes a creature or a solid object, the spell
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
because you decide to end it, the bead blossoms with a low roar into an explosion of flame that spreads around corners. Each creature in a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on that point must make a
failed save, the spell ends immediately, causing the bead to erupt in flame. On a successful save, the creature can throw the bead up to 40 feet. When it strikes a creature or a solid object, the spell
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
sentries play a dice game, or it might be a pair of iron golems backed up by spellcasters hiding in balconies overhead. When you design a guard post, decide how many guards are on duty, note their
Passive Perception scores, and decide what they do when they notice intruders (see “Monster Behavior” in chapter 4). Some will rush headlong into a fight, while others will negotiate, sound an alarm, or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
three street urchins (see “The Three Urchins”) steal the stone, either by pickpocketing it from the doppelganger or by shooting a toy arrow at the raven and causing it to drop the stone. Once they have
into the tunnel can hear the sounds of splashing water and children’s voices in the distance and might decide to follow them. (The children are holding hands in the dark and being guided by Squiddly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
story for themself without being allowed to know that story ahead of time. With this narrative approach to the Deck of Many Things, you decide how to weave the events triggered by cards into your
predicting those events or causing them? If a character draws the Flames card, and soon after, minions of Aurnozci (see chapter 20) try to capture them, is this a direct result of drawing the card, or would
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
space within the mummy’s lair. The heart is a Tiny object that has AC 17, HP 10, and Immunity to all damage except Fire.
Actions
Multiattack. The mummy makes one Rotting Fist or Channel Negative
Energy attack, and it uses Dreadful Glare.
Rotting Fist. Melee Attack Roll: +9, reach 5 ft. Hit: 15 (2d10 + 4) Bludgeoning damage plus 10 (3d6) Necrotic damage. If the target is a creature, it is cursed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
bag, making sure that whatever is inside it is dead. Body Bag The leather body bag can be cut open to reveal an unconscious prisoner, whose identity is yours to decide. It might be Artus Cimber
using their horrid Rotting Gaze. If the characters unshackle them, the nothics loiter in the chapel and leave the party alone. They also provide the following helpful information if their liberators
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
the drawbridge creak in the wind, their rust-eaten iron straining with the weight. From atop the high strong walls, stone gargoyles stare at you from hollow sockets and grin hideously. A rotting wooden
and referee. The DM creates adventures for the characters, who navigate its hazards and decide which paths to explore. The DM might describe the entrance to Castle Ravenloft, and the players decide what
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
the drawbridge creak in the wind, their rust-eaten iron straining with the weight. From atop the high strong walls, stone gargoyles stare at you from hollow sockets and grin hideously. A rotting wooden
storyteller and referee. The DM creates adventures for the characters, who navigate its hazards and decide which paths to explore. The DM might describe the entrance to Castle Ravenloft, and the players decide
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
feet on a side rests in a corner. A crank protrudes from one side of it, causing it to resemble an oversized jack-in-the-box.
If Bavlorna Blightstraw retreated to Loomlurch after fleeing her home in
; characters reduced to 0 hit points by the mimics are stable rather than dying, giving the hag a chance to decide what to do with the unconscious victims. Dragon-in-the-Box. The wooden box with the crank is one
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
can feel the life in the cavern rotting away, bursting with infection. A mushroom grows in the center of the cave, ever larger and taller, pustules forming and seeping as its stem thickens and its cap
King As much as the characters learned from fighting the Pudding King in Blingdenstone, they might decide to seek more knowledge of the mad svirfneblin or his fiendish master, Juiblex the Faceless
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
The front door of the stonemason’s home and workshop gapes open, with the remains of the door lying several feet away and covered in long brown grass. The roof has caved in, and remnants of rotting
source of the disappearances, stop them, and rescue anyone she could. As it happened, she was the last villager taken by the meenlocks. If the characters decide to explore the house, see “Mayor
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
: All the heads belong to former monarchs who were deposed and killed by usurpers. Many of the former monarchs were betrayed by others whose rotting heads now also sit on spikes. The current monarch is
, and it’s a bit self-conscious about its replacement head: a hollow gourd that now sits askew on its shoulders. Eight copper coins are sealed inside the gourd, causing the head to rattle whenever
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
much food (in pounds) the character finds per day of the journey stage, then repeat the roll for water (in gallons). Do Players Need to Track Rations?
You might decide that tracking Rations is
course. You decide what this looks like: they might follow the wrong branch of a river, orient themselves to the wrong mountain peak on the horizon, or get turned around in the forest. As a baseline
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
. Thunderwing was Xanthoria’s friend until the druid’s mind became twisted by the influence of Zuggtmoy, causing Xanthoria to conduct grisly experiments on living creatures. Thunderwing is one of
. Alchemist’s Alcove Spiderwebs and mold cover everything inside this room. A rotting wood table and a set of shelves stand along the far wall. Glass jars, a mortar and pestle, and various other alchemical
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
and claws of giant crabs feature heavily in the architecture.
If the characters get to shore without causing a conflict with the yuan-ti, they can move freely (if carefully) around the village. (The
if they remain undamaged, the characters could use them for transport when they decide to leave this place behind. Pond Mother’s Home The religious center of the village, this enormous building made
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
, that knot is undone, sometimes resulting in a surge of magical energy. You can use the Dragon Death Throes table to help you decide what happens when a dragon dies. Characters who slay a dragon are often
surge of life energy erupts from the dragon, causing each creature within 120 feet of the body to gain the benefit of finishing a long rest.
6 The body is drawn through a portal to the lair of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Parry. Trigger: The noble is hit by a melee attack roll while holding a weapon. Response: The noble adds 2 to its AC against that attack, possibly causing it to miss.
Nothic Medium Aberration
(XP 450; PB +2)
Actions
Multiattack. The nothic makes two Claw attacks.
Claw. Melee Attack Roll: +5, reach 5 ft. Hit: 8 (1d10 + 3) Slashing damage.
Rotting Gaze. Constitution Saving Throw: DC
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
tangle of rigging and tattered canvas trailing down to the rocks and dragon bones below. A rusted and rotting ballista stands near the broken mast.
The ballista no longer works. There’s nothing of
waterlogged and disintegrating books and scrolls. The polished wood desk leans awkwardly on three legs; it has an ornate compass set in its center. The bed is covered in rotting bedding and sags in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
swooping over the fishing ships. A few lazy snowflakes fall from a cloudy sky as you approach the tavern’s front entrance — and a sign decorated with an actual rotting fish nailed to a board bearing the
characters decide to enter, Zurb opens the door for them. If the characters have befriended him, Zurb announces them as “really nice people that talked a lot.” This causes Fryer to shake her head in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
Security” and “Curator Alda Arkin”). Encountering Museum Guards As long as the characters aren’t caught entering a restricted area or causing a public incident, the museum’s guards ignore them during
flank the front desk in area V1 and the statue next to the stairs in area V12 can animate after hours to attack intruders. These statues use the animated armor stat block. Causing a statue to animate
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Divine Contention
, altering reality so that any consequences of that action are erased. For example, a creature could undo the killing blow that they dealt to an enemy, causing that enemy to return to life in the position
for their own evil ends. If your players decide to claim it themselves, it’s up to you to determine what calamities befall them!
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
visitor likely had to approach the hag in secret for fear of causing an uproar in town, and is probably eager to return home before being missed, which adds time pressure to the process and tips the
local leaders won’t allow any outsiders to act against her (which includes sabotaging adventurers who might decide to confront her).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
spontaneously manifested rather than being dug out, there are no scratch marks or signs of excavation on the walls, floor, or ceiling here. The moss muffles all sound, causing a lack of echoes and creating a
piles are worthless after rotting in the damp and dark for years. A thorough search reveals 50 gp, an ivory drinking horn with platinum filigree (120 gp), and a set of goggles of night. PASSAGE INTO