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Storm King's Thunder
increases by 1d6;{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Divine Eminence"} for each level above 1st.
Gnome Cunning. He has advantage on all Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma saving
the leaders of religious sects hidden in the shadows of good society, overseeing depraved rites. A priest typically has one or more acolytes to help with religious ceremonies and other sacred duties.
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures
their enormous size, supernatural strength, wicked cunning, and ability to speak.
Deep in the bowels of towns and cities, sewer kings reign over underground vermin, dreaming of the day when rats will
lives deep in the ancient dwarven ruins beneath the town of Edgewall, situated in the lands between the realm and the wilds of Eldraine. Deep within these ruins, a human minstrel named Totentanz
Monsters
Vecna: Eve of Ruin
sprouting beneath their wolf heads. They are resentful and suspicious of all other creatures, which makes them useful for corralling kakkuu spyder-fiend;kakkuus or standing guard.
Phisarazus can
into a hierarchy based on might and cunning, with higher-ranked spyder-fiends dominating lower ranks. Spyder-fiends of equivalent rank scheme against each other for advancement and eagerly turn against
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Under the Villa
Map 1.6: Under the Villa View Player Version As the minister responsible for the city’s sewer system, Thalamra Vanthampur cordoned off the sewers beneath her villa, creating a
private dungeon complex where she could conduct religious ceremonies and harbor guests who share her devotion to the archdevil Zariel.
Kobold
Legacy
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
network of passages beneath the streets, connecting them to a nearby waterway and greatly improving the town’s sanitation. If the kobolds like the area and aren’t mistreated by the humans
hidden that the surface-dwelling citizens in the area often don’t know what lies beneath them.
Because the kobolds make sure they stay out of the way of anyone more dangerous than themselves, grow
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
citizens deeply indebted to the syndicate’s banks and loan sharks, Orzhov’s elaborate hierarchy of syndics, priests, and oligarchs exists for the single purpose of funneling wealth to the top. Beneath the
twin facades of religious hierarchy and banking operation, Orzhov is an organized crime syndicate with its fingers in businesses across the city. The Orzhov’s original function was both religious and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
do not worship her, so the chapel is seldom used for anything that could be considered a religious observance or mass. Instead, individual cultists or small groups sometimes retire here for quiet
reflection on how the world will suffer when the Queen of Dragons rises. Treasure A hidden compartment beneath Tiamat’s black dragon head contains a dagger of venom. It can be found with a successful DC 15
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
do not worship her, so the chapel is seldom used for anything that could be considered a religious observance or mass. Instead, individual cultists or small groups sometimes retire here for quiet
reflection on how the world will suffer when the Queen of Dragons rises. Treasure A hidden compartment beneath Tiamat’s black dragon head contains a dagger of venom. It can be found with a successful DC 15
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
dungeon. You can roll on the table or choose an entry that inspires you. Dungeon Location d100 Location 01–04 A building in a city 05–08 Catacombs or sewers beneath a city 09–12 Beneath a farmhouse 13
–16 Beneath a graveyard 17–22 Beneath a ruined castle 23–26 Beneath a ruined city 27–30 Beneath a temple 31–34 In a chasm 35–38 In a cliff face 39–42 In a desert 43–46 In a forest 47–50 In a glacier
Goblin
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appreciation for the finer things!
— Volo
Goblins occupy an uneasy place in a dangerous world, and they react by lashing out at any creatures they believe they can bully. Cunning in battle and
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Gatherers, and the pariahs beneath them, greatly fear for their lives in battle, believing that the lashers and the hunters have special knowledge of how to survive. It is the members of the lower
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
manifestations of the gods. The more religious members of the Stoneheart Enclave cast augury and commune spells within the circle, interpreting the responses to their entreaties through subtle changes
interest in the Speaking Stones (use the priest statistics in the Monster Manual, but also give Gurnik the Stone Camouflage, Gnome Cunning, and Innate Spellcasting features of a deep gnome). He asks them
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
, settlements and settlers must contend with these aggressive humanoids, whose thirst for conquest is never satisfied. They break before our shields,
They fall beneath our blades;
Their home is ours to
-brown to dark gray. Yellow or dark brown eyes peer out beneath their beetling brows, and their wide mouths sport sharp and yellowed teeth. A male hobgoblin might have a large blue or red nose, which
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
":"damage", "rollAction":"Emerald Embers", "rollDamageType":"fire"} fire damage.Emerald dragons are the most curious, cunning, and manipulative of the gem dragons, wielding psionic power to weave illusions to
defenses.
Emerald Dragon Lair Features
The emerald dragon lair shown in map 5.8 is a series of ancient vaults situated beneath a city built in the caldera of a dormant volcano. The vaults fell into disuse
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
":"Emerald Embers", "rollDamageType":"fire"} fire damage.Emerald dragons are the most curious, cunning, and manipulative of the gem dragons, wielding psionic power to weave illusions to deceive and
(and more paranoid) dragons employing several layers of such defenses.
Emerald Dragon Lair Features
The emerald dragon lair shown in map 5.8 is a series of ancient vaults situated beneath a city
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
world. These massive, many-tentacled horrors combine overwhelming physical might with formidable cunning. Their powerful limbs shatter ships and topple spires, and they use their control over storms
have vanished beneath the waves to slumber until the gods call on them again. Some krakens serve divine masters still, protecting deep sea treasures or entire oceans. Others have forsaken their divine
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
, exposing corruption, the clandestine activities of a dark cult — and the alien presence whose evil lurks beneath it all. The Styes is an adventure designed for four to six 11th-level characters. ABOUT THE
treated to perhaps the most memorable depiction of both a cunning aboleth plot and a sinister cult of Tharizdun. Many adventures are set aboard a ship at sea. Can you name another that challenges you to infiltrate a moldering ship held aloft by a crane, above the streets of a slowly dying city?
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
interests in intrigue and magic intensified when she discovered a hidden library beneath the Cerulean Citadel—a repository of insidious magic hearkening back to the rule of certain tyrannical Vasavadan
destruction. Reeva is a cunning plotter, strategist, and manipulator. She applies these talents to her magic, entreating fiends for aid and using them to hasten the day when no one will underestimate her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Tieflings "The Chieftain Who Leads them," Thuel asked, "what do we know of him?"
“His name is Kathrik Mel. He inspires tremendous loyalty in the barbarians, an almost religious fervor.”
“He’s a
at the fringes of civilization. Many tieflings are born to the Carrion Tribes, the barbarians who live in the Demon Wastes. Such tieflings are touched by the fiendish forces bound beneath the Wastes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
hold a social position similar to that of religious hermits or tribal shamans of other worlds. Common Athasians, especially those who live outside the walls of the city-states, revere elemental
Elemental Eye begins to stir beneath the dark sun and seeks new servants, the ancient weapons awake from their slumber and find their way into ready hands.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Religious Institutions Those who serve as priests of a god aren’t necessarily clerics. Indeed, the power invested in clerics and other divine spellcasters by the gods is given out only rarely (see
priesthood depends on the tenets of that god: the cunning rogues who venerate Mask have little in common with the upright law-keepers of Tyr, and the delightful revelers who revere Lliira are different from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Built beneath a city in catacombs or sewers 27–29 Built beneath or on top of a mesa or several connected mesas 30–32 Built by a religious group to serve as a temple and linked to the energy of other
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
Dragon, and can be counted on to be present at the Well of Dragons when Tiamat makes her triumphant return from the Nine Hells. Arauthator’s chief lair is beneath a remote peak known as Lonefang
tribes known as the Ice Hunters, because of the many enemies Arauthator has frozen into the icy walls of the berg’s hollowed interior. In addition to his size, cunning, and ferocity, Arauthator wields
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
walls in the lair can conceal cunning hidden passages or might be stone or clay thin enough for the dragon to burst through them. The narrowest tunnels in a copper dragon’s lair are just barely wide
View Player Version Copper Dragon Lair Features The copper dragon lair shown in map 5.6 is a network of tunnels and large chambers dug beneath dry, rocky hills. The dragon’s acid breath has left the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
magic there. In the Far Realm Cysts, the creatures of chaos keep intruders away from a powerful shrine. In the Forests of Slaughter, the most cunning hunters seek to steal glyph keys. In the Forests of
channeling the souls of the Chosen into the phylacteries of his underlings, which are stored in the Phylactery Vault beneath the Doomvault. Disrupting the flow of soul energy into the phylacteries should
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
disbanding on a monthly basis. None can possibly keep track of all the cultural conventions or the dangerous — sometimes outright evil — religious practices observed in the Outer City. As a result, Baldur’s
, the explorer Balduran. The symbol originated as a pirate emblem, though, and its components hold a double meaning today.
Originally, the alternating bands of water beneath the ship indicated the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Wererat Wererats are cunning lycanthropes with sly, avaricious personalities. They are wiry and twitchy in humanoid form, with thin hair and darting eyes. In their humanoid and hybrid forms
in the sewers beneath major cities, viewing those subterranean areas as their hunting grounds. Rats and giant rats are commonly found living among wererats.
Wererat
Medium humanoid (human
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monstrous Compendium Volume Four
, monstrous rats empowered by fiendish blood. This unholy influence gives sewer kings their enormous size, supernatural strength, wicked cunning, and ability to speak. Deep in the bowels of towns and cities
rat’s beck and call. LORD SKITTER OF EDGEWALL
Lord Skitter is a sewer king who lives deep in the ancient dwarven ruins beneath the town of Edgewall, situated in the lands between the realm and the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
Dragon, and can be counted on to be present at the Well of Dragons when Tiamat makes her triumphant return from the Nine Hells. Arauthator’s chief lair is beneath a remote peak known as Lonefang
tribes known as the Ice Hunters, because of the many enemies Arauthator has frozen into the icy walls of the berg’s hollowed interior. In addition to his size, cunning, and ferocity, Arauthator wields
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
monthly basis. None can possibly keep track of all the foreign traditions or the dangerous — sometimes outright evil — religious practices observed in the Outer City. As a result, Baldur’s Gate has widely
Balduran. The symbol originated as a pirate emblem, though, and its components hold a double meaning today.
Originally, the alternating bands of water beneath the ship indicated the turbulent dangers of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
merchants gather here in makeshift stalls amid the stone stalks to hawk their wares and barter with one another. Arriving caravans lower their cargo to warehouses carved out beneath the grotto. Kazook
paths until they are destroyed. The trapped svirfneblin is named Mev Flintknapper (use the veteran statistics in the Monster Manual, but also give Mev the Stone Camouflage, Gnome Cunning, and Innate
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Cunning, and Innate Spellcasting features of a deep gnome). Despite the desecration of the drow invasion and the decades of scavenging and raiding in its aftermath, the old city’s honored dead still rest
securely in the catacombs beneath the temple. A passage on the east side of the cavern leads down into this network of small linked caverns accessible only through the temple. The catacombs are built
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
cunning. The rest are prey, creatures to be hunted and slaughtered. His aim is to transform the cosmos into his personal hunting ground. Baphomet is a savage entity, but he tempers his ferocity with
who combine a hatred of outsiders with bloodthirstiness. Typically, a cult builds a maze beneath a castle, a guild hall, or some other place it controls. The cultists drug their victims, strip them of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Reaching the Bottom The swamp beneath the Queen’s Way is presently at a low water level (see “Fluctuating Swamp Waters” earlier in the chapter). As the last character reaches the marshy ground, a
the giant crane flies off, read the following boxed text aloud: Sticky mud squelches beneath your feet. Tangled mangroves grow out of pools of rippling water, half hidden by the thick fog, and purple
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Eternal Flame cult. Beneath her refined exterior is a steel edge of scorned pride. And underneath her hard pride lies a desire for murder and mayhem. Vanifer harbors a fierce hatred for all who think
with only her cunning intelligence. In her youth, she learned to dance for coin and slowly worked her way up from the wine sinks of the laborers’ districts to the elegant chambers of the city’s nobles
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
destructive potential of the tarrasque is so vast that some cultures incorporate the monster into religious doctrine, weaving its sporadic appearance into stories of divine judgment and wrath
. Legends tell how the tarrasque slumbers in its secret lair beneath the earth, remaining in a dormant state for decades or centuries. When it awakens in answer to some inscrutable cosmic call, it rises from