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Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
door, dispel magic, fly, invisibilityThough deathlocks exist to serve their patrons, they retain some freedom when it comes to devising tactics and carrying out plans. Powerful deathlocks recruit
lesser creatures to help them carry out their missions, becoming the masterminds behind vast conspiracies and intrigues that culminate in the accomplishment of great acts of evil.
Deathlocks
The
Spells
Xanathar's Guide to Everything
target loses the ability to distinguish friend from foe, regarding all creatures it can see as enemies until the spell ends. Each time the target takes damage, it can repeat the saving throw, ending the
effect on itself on a success.
Whenever the affected creature chooses another creature as a target, it must choose the target at random from among the creatures it can see within range of the attack
Monsters
Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
of druids (possibly in service to Malar or Talos) who cultivated the first of these creatures. However, it remains unknown whether their intent was to create a benign means of breaking down monstrous
corpses or a more insidious means of ridding the wilderness of growing humanoid populations. Little information survives regarding this sect, but the assassin bugs' unsettling humanoid-like limbs and
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
primal evil power before other yugoloths or that they come from an epoch before the current manifestation of the planes. Baernaloths refuse to say, but most obsess over secrets and obscene lore regarding
planes. It’s said the first demodands of Carceri were created by baernaloths.
Baernaloths spread discord and despair among any creatures they meet. They use their breath, thick with the gloom of
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Aberrations and other creatures corrupted by the Far Realm. They frequently ally with emerald dragons, drawing on their kin’s knowledge of occult phenomena to track the influence of the Far Realm
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Solitude. A stranger is just an intruder I haven’t dealt with yet. (Neutral)
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Preservation. Most creatures cannot be trusted to properly safeguard historically
Magic Items
Infernal Machine Rebuild
make an Intelligence check or use divination magic to learn something about a creature, that knowledge comes with added trivia of the DM’s devising.
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You emanate a weak magnetic aura
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You can cast the speak with animals spell at will, but can use it to communicate only with insects.
Disturbing whispers on the edge of hearing haunt all creatures within 30 feet of you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
learns a number of things regarding the monastery’s darker nature. Graffiti scratched into the walls in thieves’ cant and Infernal reveals dire sentiments regarding how the doubtful are punished, and
). Creatures. If the check result is 14 or higher, a character catches sight or warning of magically animated leather faces (from area M7, the leather works) lurking around the most shadowy corners of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
to make an Intelligence saving throw. A creature automatically succeeds if it is immune to being frightened. On a failed save, the target loses the ability to distinguish friend from foe, regarding all
creatures it can see as enemies until the spell ends. Each time the target takes damage, it can repeat the saving throw, ending the effect on itself on a success. Whenever the affected creature
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
(see “Dhargun Ironworks” below), he can relay that information as well. Flabbergast can also provide or reinforce the backstory regarding Acquisitions Incorporated’s well-known incursion of the
devising, or having NPCs conveniently turn out to be a source of some components. The Splintfig sisters from episode 2 are good candidates, as is Hoobur Gran’Shoop if the party stayed on good terms
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
Petrifying Gaze trait turns creatures into metal, wood, or porcelain (the medusa’s choice) rather than stone. If this adventure is played as a sequel to Lost Laboratory of Kwalish, the enhanced medusa might
seek revenge for what befell its ancestor Gloine Nathair-Nathair, or could be appeased with information regarding that medusa’s whereabouts. WHO’S WHO
While little is known of Daoud, his lanthorn was
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
result is an entity that is capable of devising and enacting the most clever strategies, paranoid at all times about threats to his rule (which certainly exist in the chaos of the Abyss), and
creatures, even his cultists. Free from any prospect of being betrayed or insulted, he can finally rest in a perfectly peaceful cosmos. According to one hypothesis, if Demogorgon were ever to achieve
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
to add a special trait. You can add a special trait of your own devising or pick up a special trait from one of the many creatures in the Monster Manual. For example, you can create a goblin-spider
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
worlds throughout the infinite multiverse. The Grim Harrow seeks any information regarding decks, those who’ve had a deck, and those who know the decks’ secrets. These foul menaces are wary of agents of
, including powerful magic items, rare spells, and depositories of ancient lore. Since making the Gardens of Decay their home, the creatures of the Grim Harrow can leave it only for limited periods (see
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rrakkma
detail regarding potentially hostile creatures. You can always go back after the fight is over, or after it has been established that a fight won’t be happening and elaborate on your description of the
Appendix 3. Dungeon Master Tips PREPARATORY NOTES. As you’re reading through and/or running this adventure, pay special attention to areas that include creatures, noting whether or not the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
aren’t aware of the Dragon Armies’ threat beyond vague rumors. Roll or choose a result from the Wartime Rumors table whenever characters hear a rumor regarding the Dragon Armies or strange happenings
who will fight for them, promising wealth and glory not seen since before the Cataclysm. (True) 5 A deadly band of mercenaries has trained flying, dragon-like creatures called dragonnels to serve them
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
area 10) are devising a means of escape using a set of superior mason’s tools hidden there, and that these tools can also weaken the eidolon in the Temple of Moloch (see area 25 in chapter 4). They also
small tasks whenever they sleep.
Creatures Under the command of Phenex (area 14), the girallon has been ordered to obey the sculptors as they work, but to not allow them to leave the tomb. The creature
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Testing Phase On the day of the Exam, each character makes two ability checks related to parts of the test: Owlbear Disposition and Habits. Choosing the correct multiple choice answers regarding
-biologists believe they quell the creatures’ rumbling acid reflux.
Owlbears respond best to training that mimics exactly what their trainer wishes them to do. Crawling on one’s hands and knees is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Deathlock Mastermind Though deathlocks exist to serve their patrons, they retain some freedom when it comes to devising particular tactics and carrying out their plans. Powerful deathlocks recruit
lesser creatures to help them carry out their missions and, in this capacity, become the masterminds behind vast conspiracies and intrigues that culminate in the accomplishment of great acts of evil
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
adventurers, the giant promises peace between the giant clan and nearby settlements.
Connected Creatures Savage and territorial by nature, white dragons seldom set out to make alliances, though some
come to understand the utility of doing so as they age. More often, white dragons encountered in the company of other creatures have been forced into an uneasy accommodation or a resentful servitude
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
ranks before eventually taking over the temple as a working laboratory. Most of his experiments have involved the pursuit of new forms of life, resulting in such creatures as the thessalhydra and the
accompanying them to work, but the temple still remains on alert against intruders. See appendix B for Thessalar’s stat block. Who’s Who
Little is known regarding Xagy—except as a partial anagram for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
you suffer some brush with the creatures of the night?
What superstitions do you cleave to? Is there something you do or say every morning or at night? Do animals—particularly bats, ravens, or
wolves—feature in your superstitions? What superstitions do you have regarding coins, doorways, meals, or wounds?
Do you have recurring dreams or visions of unfamiliar experiences or past lives? Who
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Plane, so that when it dies, it doesn’t return to the Plane of Earth. It has an excellent memory and is more than happy to share information regarding its environment with creatures it doesn’t regard as
greater intelligence than most elementals, allowing it to better assess threats and to communicate with creatures entering its guarded area. Stone Guardian. A galeb duhr doesn’t age or require
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
locations along the Sword Coast might make an interesting stop for the characters. Each location offers the potential to gain information regarding sites known for planar disturbances or strange magic, or to
appeared recently in Neverwinter and were rumored to have been researching the magic of the Chasm. Tracking down any agents who remain might allow the characters to gain hints regarding the ritual’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
of the spectrum, even a hag without lofty status is likely to have strange, single-use items that don’t emulate common spells or even follow the normal rules of magic. For inspiration in devising the
ornate hand mirror, producing a cloud of glass shards that damages creatures like cloud of daggers (a 2nd-level spell). She might instead uncork a bottle of wasps that surround her and stitch up her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
that usurped the dragon’s lair.
4 Powerful infernal creatures have opened a portal in the middle of a city square. The key to closing the portal is a mythical holy weapon that happens to be the
to the test.
Connected Creatures Sapphire dragons are generally solitary creatures. On the rare occasion that one forms nonhostile relationships with other beings, it is almost always to bolster
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
Office for help can provide details regarding someone named Lottie with a penchant for creating clockwork creatures. Though the characters are unable to claim the final orrery component at this time
guests, two clockwork dragons are on guard here. If the characters are themselves, they face five of the creatures. The clockwork dragons take no action until a character moves toward the globe of light
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
with a knock spell. The mouth isn’t programmed to say anything else, but its words (and the crab shells underfoot) provide the characters with a clue regarding how to open the door. If the mouth is
teleported to area 57. Diving Cage A rusty iron gate on the side of the cage provides ingress for two Medium or smaller creatures. The cage radiates transmutation magic to a detect magic spell or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
otherworldly creatures are tearing the inn apart and attempting to eat everything they can get their hands on — including the characters. Fighting the patrons is difficult (use the dire wolf stat block for
regarding poor service. The patrons begin to hurl food at the characters: +4 to hit, 4 (1d8) bludgeoning damage. The patrons are immune to damage from any of the characters’ normal attacks and spells
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
, “seedling realities” formed when the First World was sundered in some unexplained catastrophe. The story told in “Elegy for the First World” suggests a number of truths regarding the nature of dragons
are creatures of a dual nature—part material and part spiritual, made of the essence of both the Material Plane and the otherworldly Outer Planes. But dragons, at least in the view of “Elegy for the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
of druids (possibly in service to Malar or Talos) who cultivated the first of these creatures. However, it remains unknown whether their intent was to create a benign means of breaking down monstrous
corpses or a more insidious means of ridding the wilderness of growing humanoid populations. Little information survives regarding this sect, but the assassin bugs’ unsettling humanoid-like limbs and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
. Fresh as I was from Evereska, I’d never heard the warnings of the wise regarding this site. I am either extraordinarily beloved of Solonor, or stupidly lucky, to have made it back out alive. Tragically
sojourn into this place, I identified several creatures that likely began their lives as griffons, owlbears, trolls, and even a beholder, but they had become twisted and nearly unrecognizable. What it is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
. See appendix C for Garret’s stat block. Value to the Party. Garret can draw the maps requested by the Cartophile. He also knows several rumors (both true and false) regarding the Barrier Peaks, and
her potions. Mary strikes an eerie, witch-like figure, surrounded always by swirling magical-mechanical trinkets of her own devising. She is often seen shuffling a deck of several things, and will try
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
, Elemental Evil cults, and Iuz and his followers. You can replace one or more of these conflicts with ones of your devising or with ones from the “Flavors of Fantasy” section earlier in this chapter. If you
use these conflicts, look for opportunities in your adventures to introduce creatures in service to the three villainous groups. Give goals to these villains that bring their operatives into conflict
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
with any creatures still inside it. The journal can be safely opened by the brain in a jar, or with a successful DC 18 Dexterity check using thieves’ tools. Its pages detail how Kwalish continued his
exploration of the mountains, building an ambulatory craft capable of crawling up and down mountainous slopes to travel farther into the Barrier Peaks, and other tasks of your devising. Completing any such
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
opposing elements, with the purpose of creating creatures called weirds. Izzet laboratories function in a constant state of high energy that propels researchers from one experiment to the next. Some
unrestrained enthusiasm for their endeavors. They epitomize the recklessness of Izzet mages, and some participate as subjects in hazardous experiments—even ones of their own devising. More often