before beyond delivered composed reflection

Goose Mother

Monsters Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures

turn, unless it has taken poison damage since its last turn. The Goose Mother regains 10 hit points for each head when it regrows. Reactive Heads. For each head the Goose Mother has beyond one, it gets

Goose Mother is real. Centuries ago, an enterprising witch created a frothy stew composed of hydra’s blood and goose feathers. It is from this noxious slurry that the Goose Mother was born. Within

Zodar

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

. Underneath its armored exterior, a zodar’s body is composed of tightly knit muscle fibers that make it incredibly strong and heavy. A zodar weighs 1,500 pounds. No one knows how many zodars

exist or where they came from, but the most popular hypothesis is that they are the creations of some long-forgotten god. Zodars interact with other sapient creatures in a manner that goes beyond mere

Healthy Competition

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

characters agree to work for both agents, both agents might still send out second redundant expeditions as insurance.) These expeditions are composed of five cultist servants, led either by the

missing components, whether they steal them out from under the characters or take them directly in combat. Any stolen components will be delivered to their respective agents before the characters return from the past.

43. The Smoking Mirrors

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3

floor. The basin is about ten feet long, five feet wide, and three feet tall. It is filled with a steaming golden liquid. The red mirror on the eastern wall seems to be composed of fiery glass and

next to its own reflection. This mirror falsely predicts the viewer’s death. The ghostly image takes on the appearance of a monster or a trap from this adventure. The image then assaults and kills the

Vecna's Grasp Features

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

one of Vecna’s demiplanar unrealities or the Cave of Shattered Reflection. Walls and Floors Vecna’s Grasp is composed of magically reinforced obsidian. Each 5-foot-square section of obsidian has AC 20, a damage threshold of 30, 60 hit points, and immunity to poison and psychic damage.

Conclusion

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault

area G24), Adrisa offers to buy it for 500 gp. If the characters deciphered the coded message delivered by Gwish’s raven (see area G21) and share the message with Adrisa, she suspects one of Guildmaster

Dusk’s spies has infiltrated the Cognoscenti Esoterica. She thanks the characters for the information and gives them a pair of sending stones as an added reward. Identifying the spy is beyond the scope of this adventure but a good hook for a future one.

No Competition

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

and planned expansion across the multiverse, Acquisitions Incorporated shows no signs of slowing down. (Because that would likely require self-reflection and measured responses that are historically

off-brand.) And that expansion means new franchises. The first step was Ravnica, a city run by guilds and simply overflowing at the practicability of acquisition for hire. But beyond that? Infinite

Palace of Spires

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase

herself and Caerwyn, her beloved. The palace once stood where the hedge maze (area G21) now does, facing the lake in the garden. Composed of striking purple-red porphyry stone, the palace remains a

let the magic that preserved her own life beyond its natural span end. The Gardener said their final farewell to Caerwyn and Porphura, sealed the tomb, and left the palace forever. Out of respect for their late friends, the Gardener won’t enter the Palace of Spires for any reason.

Independent Realms

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

assume that all of the lands in and between those places are tamed. Travel a short way beyond most civilized places, and one finds oneself in the midst of wilderness haunted by creatures deadly and

foul. The information below is excerpted from Far from the Misty Hills, a treatise on far-flung places in the North, composed by one Aedyn Graymantle, a moon elf ranger who hails from Evereska. In her years of braving the wilds, Aedyn has acted as guide, caravan guard, bodyguard, and trailblazer.

1. False Entrance Tunnel

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a7

cobwebs. The ceiling overhead is obscured by hanging strands of webbing. Casual observation will not reveal that the ceiling, 20 feet overhead, is composed of badly fitting stones. The cobwebs must be

a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw, taking 27 (5d10) bludgeoning damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. The trap mechanism is beyond the doors and inside the ceiling, so it can’t be disabled from outside.

Githyanki and Githzerai

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron

Eberron and the wider multiverse, Tu’narath can lie between Eberron and the planes that lie beyond; an incursion by the githyanki could be the first sign of contact with the outer multiverse. On the

from gith stock and turned these monsters against their own people. So it was the mind flayers who destroyed the gith—but worse still, the mind flayers are themselves a twisted reflection of the gith

Strahd's Vistani Servants

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd

Strahd back to health but also delivered him safely home. As a reward for their generosity, Strahd declared that all Vistani had the right to come and go from his land as they please, and this privilege

events occurring in lands beyond his reach. These Vistani will lie to protect the vampire, and they fear the consequences of disobeying him. When it comes to sharing information about their dark

Listening Post

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves

recognize Proclaimer Tungsten Ward. Slight of stature and neatly dressed in scholar’s garb of purple and gold, Proclaimer Ward greets you in a soft voice and says, “The gods have delivered you safely. For

SONG Nakari came to me one day As lovely as a smile “A copper for a song,” she said Without a hint of guile. We walked beyond the mortal land And walked for several miles. She led me to a

Heralds of Dust Roles

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary

Herald of Dust pays a pittance for every corpse delivered to the Mortuary. Some contemptible folk make corpse collecting their vocation. These aptly named corpse collectors are a common sight in the Hive

deceased archmages, dignitaries, and other important figures who die in Sigil and the planes beyond. Morticians. The bulk of Dusters fall into this role. Morticians prepare the way for the dead. They bury

Gathered Whispers

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

know it, and require no components to cast it. When you cast the spell, the messages are delivered by one of your whispering spirits rather than you or the target’s voice. Your spellcasting ability for

to miss, you can’t use the trait again until you finish a long rest. Voices from Beyond. Immediately after you make an attack roll, an ability check, or a saving throw and roll a 1 on the d20, the

Getting to Avernus

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus

me a favor. I can have you delivered safely to his tower, and he can use a plane shift spell to take you straight to Elturel. Even more importantly, Traxigor is looking after an old friend of mine

, rocky islands pass below you, and beyond them lies the open sea. After a long journey, you see a windowless, doorless stone tower — which somehow floats in the sky ahead. The griffons pass through

Medusa

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual

sites of fallen glory. They often dwell beyond the fringes of civilization or travel in disguise, leaving trails of petrified victims. Some medusas dominate groups of monsters or criminals, controlling

13, each creature in a 30-foot Cone. If the medusa sees its reflection in the Cone, the medusa must make this save. First Failure: The target has the Restrained condition and repeats the save at the

Ez d'Avenir

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

different sort of family than the one she knew. When Erasmus’s father, Rudolph van Richten, tracked her family down and delivered her mother to justice, Ez didn’t stop him. In the years that followed, Ez

reconnect with Erasmus, now a ghost. She and the spirit renewed their friendship and ultimately discovered paths beyond Rudolph van Richten’s obsession. Rather than let her relationship with the

5. Temple

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

sit on. The room is mostly empty otherwise. Standing against the back wall is a wooden pulpit with steps leading up to it. The floor of the temple is composed of dirt. Set into the west wall, north

of the pulpit, is a half-open door, beyond which lies area 5b. 5b. Bedroom and Steeple This back room contains a plain wooden bed where Hiral Mystrum, the village’s acolyte of Lathander, slept. The

Background

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase

underground. Led by the Cult of Zargon, the Cynidiceans began to rebuild, constructing a miserable reflection of their former kingdom in the darkness. Above, drifting sands covered the city, and Cynidicea

their kingdom’s lost glory. I must know whether they are beyond saving. Return to me with their story.” Nafas then teleports the characters to a door along the Infinite Staircase that opens into a

Undersigil

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel

rat has the incapacitated and prone conditions and is indifferent to the party. If the characters leave the defenseless rat in peace, it gives them a cryptic warning about the tunnels beyond: “Beware

cake are cursed. Over 1d4 hours, a cursed creature’s head takes on fiendish aspects. At the end of this time, the creature dies, and its head tears from its body as a hostile vargouille reflection

Fractine

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monstrous Compendium Volume One: Spelljammer Creatures

damage as it passes through them. A fractine can also imprison a creature inside a demiplane contained within its two-dimensional form, the prisoner’s distorted reflection visible in the fractine’s

toward some unknown destination, with a beholder’s distorted reflection in its surface. Initially, I feared it was some kind of vessel. Now I believe the beholder was the mirror’s prisoner. As the

Adventures in Tepest

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

the characters view the villagers as victims or monsters? The following section, “Viktal and the Tithe,” explores how to draw characters into the village’s eerie traditions. Beyond Viktal, the

. 8 Two young lovers go missing from Viktal. One is found days later, unable to remember anything, aged fifty years, and desperate for help to find their partner. 9 A character’s reflection on

Undersigil

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

Planar Parade). The Lady of Pain pays little attention to what goes down in Undersigil, though nothing in or under the City of Doors is beyond her reach. Dead factions, banished from the city above

, cling to life in the darkness, searching the underground for secrets that could lead to their ascension. Undersigil Encounters d6 Encounter 1 A vargouille reflection (see Morte’s Planar Parade

Other Groups

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

would-be heroes. The Kargat and the Kargatane Darkon’s secret police, the Kargat, is composed of vampires and others supernaturally disposed toward intrigue. Since Azalin’s disappearance (see “Darkon

immortality. Agents of both groups wander Darkon and beyond, creating shadowy conspiracies to gain magical power and control by any means possible. Order of the Guardians This network of scholars and

Tomb Tapper

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

warriors stands 15 to 21 feet tall and possesses a lust for magic, an inherited memory (composed of recollections from the souls sacrificed in their creation), and an insane hatred for nonhuman

Resistances lightning Damage Immunities cold, fire Condition Immunities charmed, frightened Senses blindsight 240 ft. (blind beyond this radius), passive Perception 16 Languages understands Common

Nightmare Haunt

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monstrous Compendium Volume Four

virtuous court with one composed of sleepwalkers and dreamers guarded by nightmare haunts. Nightmare Haunt Medium Aberration, Typically Neutral Evil Armor Class 13 Hit Points 44 (8d8 + 8) Speed 30

, frightened Senses blindsight 120 ft. (can’t see beyond this radius), passive Perception 11 Languages Deep Speech, telepathy 120 ft. Challenge 5 (1,800 XP) Proficiency Bonus +3 Magic Resistance

8. Operation: Eat Them All

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

western wall to a maximum height of 20 feet. At the back of this ledge are two tunnels leading to area 8b. Food in the form of humanoids is delivered to the neothelid through a stone door set into the

east wall, beyond which is a smoothly carved tunnel leading to area 16a. The door is sealed with a Qualith lock (see “Qualith Door Locks”). The neothelid is always hungry and tries to devour any

Wedding Rehearsal

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

. Echoes spill from the misty cavern beyond, a cacophony of wheezing voices that wrap together like some kind of discordant music. The remaining heads planted in the Garden of Welcome begin to croak and

Zuggtmoy! Joined together, heart to heart, Becoming one ’til death do part! Hail! Hail! Hail! The entourage is composed of twelve bridesmaids of Zuggtmoy and six chamberlains of Zuggtmoy(see

3. Junkyard

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

beyond repair, lay strewn across the floor. Hidden amidthe wreckage are a couple discarded magic items (see “Treasure” below). Rust Monsters. Three rust monsters gorge on the piles of scrap and are

composed of notched bronze rings, which can be turned so that the notches line up. Aligning the notches requires an action, and doing so causes the orb to gong loudly until the notches are no longer aligned. The sounds are spaced 6 seconds apart and can be heard out to a range of 600 feet.

Legion of Azrok

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

the place of grimlocks and troglodytes that dwelled there. He sired an heir, ensuring that his legacy would last beyond his lifetime. His son, Azrokkog, chafed at his father’s sedentary nature and left

6.) If the characters accept her quest, Lurkana suggests they search Skullport first and points them in the right direction (beyond area 23). She also suggests that they speak with Skullport’s

Mages of High Sorcery

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen

Mages of High Sorcery Many magic-users on Krynn are members of an ancient organization known as the Mages of High Sorcery. Predominantly composed of wizards—with a lesser number of sorcerers

, creativity, and control. Every test requires a mage to use the most advanced magic they’ve learned—and, sometimes, to push beyond it. Test of Character. The mages of the Conclave need to know the

Manor Locations (C11-C20)

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

, each dragon head has blindsight out to a range of 30 feet and is blind beyond that distance. On initiative count 20, the black dragon head exhales a glob of acid while the red dragon exhales a fiery

be found by any character who searches the area. Beyond the door is a secondary storage area holding boxes with personal items that faculty members have stashed away from prying eyes. Any character

Upper Northedge

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

Northedge. Its population is largely composed of elves, and it is a bastion of Aereni culture and traditions. The heart of Shae Lias is the Gates of Passage, a grand structure that is both the Aereni

playwright of the Diamond Theater responsible for these stirring stories? Her name is Luca Syara, but beyond that, she’s an enigma. There’s no such person on the rolls of the bardic colleges of Breland

Doomspace in a Nutshell

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis

) and other smaller life forms live in the forests that grow atop Aruun’s rocky pillars and plateaus, beyond the reach of the tarrasques. G’vek. This moon is dotted with sheer mountains that have become

vents and inhabited by braxats,* gaj,* megapedes,* remorhazes, ssurran,* and thri-kreen. (Creatures marked with an asterisk are described in Boo’s Astral Menagerie.) Vocath. This moon, composed

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