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Monsters
Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 12). While grappled in this way, a creature's speed isn't reduced, but it can move only in directions that bring it closer to the oaken bolter. A creature
, the oaken bolter can pull a creature grappled by it 20 feet closer. The oaken bolter can grapple only one creature at a time.
Explosive Bolt (Recharge 5–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType":"recharge
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
;t reduced, but it can move only in directions that bring it closer to the clockwork. A creature takes 5 (1d10);{"diceNotation":"1d10", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Harpoon", "rollDamageType
, the clockwork is incapacitated until the end of its turn.
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Rusty Gears. The clockwork has disadvantage on initiative rolls, and its speed decreases by 10 feet.
PoisonReel In. The clockwork pulls the creature grappled by its Harpoon up to 20 feet closer.
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
":"4d8","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Briar Vine","rollDamageType":"poison"} poison damage. If the target is a Large or smaller creature, the apprentice can pull it up to 10 feet closer to itself
if it isn’t wearing armor or wielding a shield, and it has advantage on attack rolls against any creature missing hit points. This form lasts for 1 minute or until the pledgemage is reduced to 0 hit points.
Monsters
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
creature, it has the grappled condition (escape DC 14), and the horrid plant can pull the target up to 25 feet closer to itself. Until the grapple ends, the target has the restrained condition, and the
":"Vampiric Tendril", "rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one. The target’s hit point maximum is reduced by an amount equal to the
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
","rollDamageType":"cold"} cold damage, and its speed is reduced to 0 until the end of its next turn. On a successful save, the creature takes half as much damage, and its speed isn’t
(dragon’s choice) the closer one gets to the lair. The moan is audible 6 miles from the lair if the dragon is ancient, or 3 miles if the dragon is an adult.
Moon Devils. Swirling funnels of
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
Breath","rollDamageType":"cold"} cold damage, and its speed is reduced to 0 until the end of its next turn. On a successful save, the creature takes half as much damage, and its speed isn’t
louder or fainter (dragon’s choice) the closer one gets to the lair. The moan is audible 6 miles from the lair if the dragon is ancient, or 3 miles if the dragon is an adult.
Moon Devils.
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
; Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). If Hythonia is reduced to 0 hit points, she doesn’t die or fall unconscious. Instead, she sheds her skin, regains 199 hit points, and moves up to her speed
","rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage, and Hythonia can pull the target up to 5 feet closer to her if it is a Large or smaller creature.Hythonia can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Plan Encounters Encounters are the individual scenes in the larger story of your adventure. Reduced to fundamentals, an encounter is an objective with an obstacle. It accomplishes one or more of the
following: Moving characters closer to achieving a goal Frustrating the characters’ progress toward a goal Revealing new information
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
creature’s speed isn’t reduced, but it can move only in directions that bring it closer to the oaken bolter. A creature takes 5 (1d10) slashing damage if it escapes from the grapple or if it tries and
fails. As a bonus action, the oaken bolter can pull a creature grappled by it 20 feet closer. The oaken bolter can grapple only one creature at a time.
Explosive Bolt (Recharge 5–6). The oaken bolter
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
distance such that characters who move toward the castle seem to get farther away from it. However, if all the characters move toward the hanging sun, the castle seems to move closer to them. Only by moving
the castle, read the following: Aside from a few antechambers, this once-impressive castle has been reduced to scorched rubble. Two hulking, bipedal creatures covered in spikes and smeared with blood stalk the castle’s bailey.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
vials of various solid and liquid substances, but nothing valuable or dangerous.
The puppet responds to any movement within 20 feet of it and threatens any creature that comes closer, shouting in
psychic damage, and ability scores of 10. It can’t be charmed or frightened, and it is not subject to exhaustion. It speaks and understands Common, has no attacks, and falls to pieces if reduced to 0 hit
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
charmed by the harpy’s Luring Song thinks it’s the most beautiful sound they have ever heard. It’s easy to imagine how a ship might be lured off course to get closer to the source of this music. Talking
: If the characters have already reduced the harpy to fewer than half its hit points, it might flee. If the characters claimed the treasure from the crow’s nest while the harpy was absent, it might
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
the mouth shuts must make a DC 20 Dexterity saving throw. A creature is pushed 5 feet closer to the throat on a failed save. A creature caught between the teeth that succeeds on this saving throw can
membrane is reduced to 0 hit points, it tears open with a violent shudder. The Nematode reacts with regurgitation. This forces its digestive juices upward and into its mouth, which opens. When the membrane
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Bloodheart Stake. The impaler is magically bound to the ceremonial stake and the sacrificed corpse the ritual caster used to create it. If the impaler is reduced to 0 hit points, it disappears, then
re-forms 1d8 hours later in the nearest unoccupied space to the stake and regains all its hit points. The impaler dies only if it is reduced to 0 hit points while either the ceremonial stake is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
currently has 6 hit points. If she takes 18 damage from an attack, she is reduced to 0 hit points, but 12 damage remains. Because the remaining damage equals her hit point maximum, the cleric dies. Falling
unconscious.
Death Saving Throws Whenever you start your turn with 0 hit points, you must make a special saving throw, called a death saving throw, to determine whether you creep closer to death or hang
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
currently has 6 hit points. If she takes 18 damage from an attack, she is reduced to 0 hit points, but 12 damage remains. Because the remaining damage equals her hit point maximum, the cleric dies. Falling
with 0 hit points, you must make a special saving throw, called a death saving throw, to determine whether you creep closer to death or hang onto life. Unlike other saving throws, this one isn't tied
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
condition (escape DC 14), and the horrid plant can pull the target up to 25 feet closer to itself. Until the grapple ends, the target has the restrained condition, and the horrid plant can’t use the same
point maximum is reduced by an amount equal to the damage taken, and the horrid plant regains hit points equal to that amount. This reduction lasts until the target finishes a long rest. The target dies if this effect reduces its hit point maximum to 0.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
. Closer to the door is a toy chest with windmills painted on its sides and a dollhouse that’s a perfect replica of the dreary edifice in which you stand. These furnishings are draped in cobwebs. Lying in
dungeon below it. Both ghosts can be intimidated into leaving their hosts with a successful DC 11 Charisma (Intimidation) check made as an action. A ghost reduced to 0 hit points can reform at dawn
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
. The spindle is impervious to damage, and it generates a magical repulsion field that prevents creatures from approaching any closer to it than 5 feet. When Halaster created the mithral spindle, he
creature that is reduced to one-twelfth its normal size falls from the castle, it will travel over 600 relative feet before hitting the cavern floor due to the reducing effect around the castle, which
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
covers the ground, which kills all ordinary plants growing within 3 miles of the lair. Haunting Moan. A haunting sound gets louder or fainter (dragon’s choice) the closer one gets to the lair. The moan is
, and its speed is reduced to 0 until the end of its next turn. On a successful save, the creature takes half as much damage only.
Bonus Actions
Phase (3/Day). The dragon becomes partially incorporeal
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
conjured dreamscape, characters can take psychic damage from hostile dream-creatures and other effects. A character reduced to 0 hit points by this psychic damage is unconscious but stable, and unable
standing in defense of Lulu and the angel, facing outward as six small, spine-covered devils creep closer. In the distance, a formation of battered and retreating human warriors disappears through a portal
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
Beast Dens Bones are piled against the western walls of this cavern, forming low mounds.
Creatures. Two adult displacer beasts dwell here with three reduced-threat displacer beasts (see “Reduced
four reduced-threat perytons (see “Reduced-Threat Monsters” above) that roost here have grown tired of their pork diet. If the characters don’t appear to be Thayans, or if they fail to offer food within
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
matching red goggles. An oversized birdcage dangles from her broom.”
The dragon is Renesnuprah, now a time dragon wyrmling (see Morte’s Planar Parade) reduced to 10 hit points. The dragon quickly spots
and departs. If the characters attack Trikante, she is a formidable foe. She fights until she’s allowed to reclaim the wyrmling or she’s reduced to 50 or fewer hit points, at which point she flees on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
. Grasp of Hadar Prerequisite: eldritch blast cantrip Once on each of your turns when you hit a creature with your eldritch blast, you can move that creature in a straight line 10 feet closer to you
possible. Immediately after you take the damage, you gain vulnerability to fire damage, your speed is reduced to 0, and you are incapacitated. These effects, including any remaining temporary hit points
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
individual components mysteriously fail until they are all installed in the orrery housing once more.
The Ruins When the characters reach the top of the hill and get a closer look at the ruins of
destruction.
As the characters draw closer, a successful DC 15 Intelligence (Arcana or Investigation) check reveals that the fire damage isn’t natural, and that magic was likely involved. The same
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
, and the target is grappled (escape DC 12). While grappled in this way, a creature’s speed isn’t reduced, but it can move only in directions that bring it closer to the clockwork. A creature takes 5
save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
Bonus Actions
Reel In. The clockwork pulls the creature grappled by its Harpoon up to 20 feet closer.
Stone Defender The thick plates of stone
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
disappear when they reach the edge of the map. Garoknul stops its chase to battle the characters. If reduced to 50 hit points or fewer, Garoknul uses its next action to teleport away. Next Event. When
in the distance beyond the hazy border. Next Event. As this event approaches its end, the characters hear cackling laughter far off in the distance. This laughter gets closer and louder, heralding the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
opens up inside the temple is hundreds of feet deep and pitch black below the uppermost 20 feet. But the creature that lurks within is much closer than that. The juvenile kraken (see appendix C
cooperating with anyone. Its only fear is dying before it becomes monarch of the sea, so if it is reduced to 40 hit points or fewer, it stops fighting and focuses on escape. Writhing Sigils. The glowing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
forms the perimeter of a large hole, while east of the building is a larger wooden structure covered with creeping vines.
As you come a bit closer, the sound of voices suddenly emerges from the shack
Hanah’s side and minister to her. Hanah has been reduced to 0 hit points from the hag’s rough treatment, but she is stable. If the characters don’t administer healing of their own, one of the other dryads
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
speed reduced by 5 feet. Extradimensional Prison. Creatures can’t leave Curst using teleportation or by extradimensional or interplanar means other than the town’s gate to Carceri. Any attempt to do so
ever closer to the carceral pit from whence he came. The Dump Items lost across the multiverse sometimes find their way to Curst’s dump, a sprawling junkyard managed by a crotchety green hag named
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fated Flight of the Recluse
Above the Ashen Spires Drawing ever closer to their journey’s end, the Recluse eventually passes over the Ashen Spires, a cluster of mountains 250 miles to the east of Korth. Long suspected to be a
complications. Ending the Chase. Brynshal’duun abandons the chase if it is reduced to 50 Hit Points or fewer or if it starts its turn more than 250 feet away from the Recluse. Dragon Chase Complications 1d12
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
light, the Glass Arboretum sits at the heart of the Gardens of Decay. At first it appears to be a lush conservatory filled with vivid flowers and verdant trees, but closer inspection reveals that the
Undead finishes a long rest within the Mothwing Grove, that creature must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or have its hit point maximum reduced by 5. This reduction lasts until ended by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
attack the characters unless attacked first. He disappears if reduced to 0 hit points, but the magic that binds him to this place causes him to re-form at full health after 1 minute with no knowledge
, the first stone golem and one more mummy per character emerge from stasis. When the first stone golem is reduced to 0 hit points, its key rune pops out of its crumbling form and the second stone golem
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
; Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). If Hythonia is reduced to 0 hit points, she doesn’t die or fall unconscious. Instead, she sheds her skin, regains 199 hit points, and moves up to her speed without
constrict another target.
Snaky Hair. Melee Weapon Attack: +11 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 31 (4d12 + 5) bludgeoning damage, and Hythonia can pull the target up to 5 feet closer to her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
the rune, and it must immediately use its reaction to move its speed in the direction of the pillars. The frightened creature can’t move closer to the far end of the hallway until it uses its action
, damage their components, or discern how to avoid them. The blades are disabled if their attack bonus is reduced to −8. Ways to reduce it are described below. Intelligence (Investigation), DC 15. As