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Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
silt and lying in wait, lurking in dark caves, or perching on natural stone ledges, where they blend in with their surroundings. Gaj have no language, but they have the magical ability to understand the
finger-like appendages hang over its mouth. A gaj can try to read the thoughts of another creature by wrapping its antennae around the creature’s head. Regardless of whether the attempt succeeds, this mental probe is painful and takes a toll on the victim’s well-being.
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
, allowing the wyrmlings to blend in to rocky terrain in the face of danger. As they age, their scales turn snow white, then slowly fade to transparency. The oldest crystal dragons have scales of perfect
. They read these signs as omens, giving them glimpses of what is to come, and they eagerly examine the potential futures of any creatures who come to them in peace.
Crystal dragons’ connection to
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
skin is often shades of blue or green, sometimes a blend of the two. If they have a human skin tone, there is a glistening texture that catches the light, like water droplets or nearly invisible fish
suggestions or ignore them, but you can’t raise any of your scores above 20.
Languages
Your character can speak, read, and write Common and one other language that you and your DM agree is
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
have documentation, established acquaintances, and disguises that allow you to assume that persona and fit into the secondary guild.
Whenever you choose, you can drop this identity and blend into the
) into a thought strand that others can potentially read, share, or steal. These thought strands are treated as valuable currency among the Dimir.
Suggested Characteristics
Skilled at infiltration
Species
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
Thri-kreen have insectile features and two pairs of arms. Their bodies are encased in protective chitin. They can alter the coloration of this carapace to blend in with their natural surroundings
increase. You’re free to follow those suggestions or to ignore them. Whichever scores you decide to increase, none of the scores can be raised above 20.
Languages
Your character can speak, read
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Created by the Cat Lord—a divine being of the Upper Planes—to blend the qualities of humanoids and cats, tabaxi are a varied people in both attitude and appearance. In some lands, tabaxi
can’t raise any of your scores above 20.
Languages
Your character can speak, read, and write Common and one other language that you and your DM agree is appropriate for the character. The
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
the Crystal Dragon Wyrmling;wyrmlings to blend in to rocky terrain in the face of danger. As they age, their scales turn snow white, then slowly fade to transparency. The oldest crystal dragons have
in starlight. They read these signs as omens, giving them glimpses of what is to come, and they eagerly examine the potential futures of any creatures who come to them in peace.
Crystal dragons&rsquo
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
hands become bulky, flipper-like appendages able to grasp the seer’s strange staff formed of a blend of flesh, bone, and star stuff.
A star spawn seer is almost always accompanied by one or more
often in the wake of a comet—or perhaps this phenomenon merely signals that star spawn are in the vicinity and available for communication. When the signs are right, cultists gather together, read
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
points, allowing the Crystal Dragon Wyrmling;wyrmlings to blend in to rocky terrain in the face of danger. As they age, their scales turn snow white, then slowly fade to transparency. The oldest
the signs written in starlight. They read these signs as omens, giving them glimpses of what is to come, and they eagerly examine the potential futures of any creatures who come to them in peace
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
clear crystalline points, allowing the Crystal Dragon Wyrmling;wyrmlings to blend in to rocky terrain in the face of danger. As they age, their scales turn snow white, then slowly fade to transparency
sky and tracking the signs written in starlight. They read these signs as omens, giving them glimpses of what is to come, and they eagerly examine the potential futures of any creatures who come to
Species
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
internal organs of the usual sort. Their bodies are composed of cells, fibers, plasma-like ooze, and clusters of nerves. These nerves enable a plasmoid to detect light, heat, texture, sound, pain, and
the scores can be raised above 20.
Languages
Your character can speak, read, and write Common and one other language that you and your DM agree is appropriate for the character. The Player’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
this scene—ideally a student the characters have interacted with, or you may choose another student from the “Fellow Students” section. When you’re ready to begin this event, read or paraphrase the
following, altering the text to incorporate the student’s name or other details: Murmurs of excited curiosity ripple through the clusters of students around you, and another student suddenly barrels
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
resides. Their bodies remain unconscious in suspended animation while they are projected into the Astral Plane. Read the following aloud to the players. You are floating, weightless, adrift. A gray
Fungi in all her terrible splendor.
Zuggtmoy is draped and veiled in molds and fruiting mushrooms woven into a grotesque gown. Vaguely humanoid figures set with clusters of luminescent lichen and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
, allowing you to more easily blend in with humans and elves. Hidden Step. As a bonus action, you can magically turn invisible until the start of your next turn or until you attack, make a damage roll, or
words, though you have no special ability to understand them in return. You have advantage on all Charisma checks you make to influence them. Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common, Elvish, and Giant.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
high; those in rooms are 30 feet high. Doors and Secret Doors. Doors throughout the pyramid are made of wood and banded with bronze; they have no locks. Secret doors blend in with their surroundings
in different instances of boxed text require separate checks to translate. A creature under the effect of a Comprehend Languages spell can read hieroglyphs instantly (no check required). Lighting. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Tavern Brawl As the characters are relaxing in the taproom of the Yawning Portal, a fistfight breaks out. Read the following to set the scene: You sit around a sturdy wooden table lit by a brightly
before you can see if blood is drawn, a crowd of spectators clusters around the brawl. What do you do?
The human combatants are five members of the Xanathar Guild (CE human bandits). The one with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
form allows it to blend into almost any group or community, but its transformation doesn’t impart languages, mannerisms, memory, or personality. Doppelgangers often follow or capture creatures they
intend to impersonate, studying them and probing their minds for secrets. A doppelganger can read a creature’s surface thoughts, allowing it to glean that creature’s name, desires, and fears, along with a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Boo’s Astral Menagerie
under sand or silt and lying in wait, lurking in dark caves, or perching on natural stone ledges, where they blend in with their surroundings. Gaj have no language, but they have the magical ability to
six finger-like appendages hang over its mouth. A gaj can try to read the thoughts of another creature by wrapping its antennae around the creature’s head. Regardless of whether the attempt succeeds
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Wedding Rehearsal After the confrontation with Yestabrod, the characters can hear sound and movement from the cavern to the northeast. Read the following boxed text if the characters investigate
groan, joining the horrible song.
Through the mist that shrouds the smaller cavern, you see the parade of creatures responsible for the melody. Their bodies are only vaguely humanoid, with clusters of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Lazy Bat, where they meet an agent who serves the Margrave of the March of Bissel. Read or paraphrase to begin the adventure: An unassuming human sits across from you at a corner table in the Lazy
Bat, a dimly lit roadside inn. They’re dressed to blend with the surrounding patrons. “I’m glad you came,” the agent says in a low voice. “My employer will be most grateful.”
Their voice quiets to a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Locathah Rising
characters enter the chamber, read or paraphrase the following boxed text: Seated on a rough throne made of an odd arrangement of coral, bones, and barnacles, is a man whose right arm has been replaced
entirely with a large metal claw, much like a crab’s.
His body is covered with clusters of barnacles, and in his left hand he idly grasps the haft of an exquisite trident, engraved with images of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
Dendradis Beings of absolute neutrality, rilmani originate from the Outlands, and their few communities cling to the Spire. These crystalline cloisters rise in clusters of crooked towers or fill
. Visitors aren’t welcome inside without an escort. Unwelcome to Dendradis When the characters approach Dendradis, read or paraphrase the following text: Ahead rises the Spire, the infinitely tall
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
spikes affixed to the bottom. The opening is covered by a wooden trapdoor painted to blend into the stone of the tunnel. A character who has a passive Perception score of 16 or higher notices the trapdoor
, and each wields a massive, rusted axe.
A knot of corpse-like figures clusters around a door in the eastern wall. Pain and terror twists each creature's hollow visage.
Unless a character in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
toward the myconids, one violet fungus attacks them, extending long tendrils that cause immediate rot when they touch living flesh. Read this text: As you advance into the cave, a sickly looking mushroom
Six clusters of giant mushrooms are arranged in a rough circle around this cavern. Several human-sized mushroom folk stand in a circle in the center of the cave. The smell of sulfur is stronger here
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
the tunnel in the Well of Questions (area P18), read or paraphrase: You surface in a tumbling, turbulent pool of water within a ten-foot-square shaft that ascends forty feet from the surface of the
the pool.
If the party enters this area from the hall (areas P30–P31), read or paraphrase the following text: The corridor ends in an archway followed by a steep drop. The water falls over the edge
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
, read: This long, narrow area contains no furniture, but clusters of what look like large fish eggs float against the walls, five or six feet above the floor.
Two sahuagin wearing coral-colored
) Forty harnesses with silver buckles (10 gp each) 25. Hatchery The characters might be able to enter this area undetected by the occupants of area 24. If they do so, read: This long, narrow area
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
2.1: Buried Ziggurat, Tiers 1-3 View Player Version B1: Statue Room When the characters ascend the monument, read or paraphrase the following text: Near the ziggurat’s peak, a once-secret entrance
13 Intelligence (Investigation) check spots a tripped pressure plate on the floor and an empty crossbow in the wall. When the characters enter the chamber, read or paraphrase the following text: The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
. D4. Surgeon’s Cabin In this narrow cabin, shelves and containers are scattered on the floor amid piles of dirty bandages. Small clusters of dried leaves have frozen to the floor in places. A
labels that read “Sweetberry Summer Wine.” The bottles’ corks are not to be seen (though the characters can find them inside the captain’s treasure chest). Captain’s Journal. Bluemoon’s journal
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
The Lucent Edict The vessel is the Lucent Edict, a nautiloid. After the characters sight the craft, read: As the nautilus-shaped vessel drifts closer, Captain Sartell lets out a sigh of relief. “It’s
splintered remains of a mangonel lie on this forward deck, strewn around piles of ammunition.
Amid several stacks of ballista bolts are a few clusters of mangonel stones. If the characters are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
drink at the bar.
Bartender. The skeleton bartender uses clockwork devices to shake rum drinks, peel fruit, blend fruit juices, and create souvenir flattened tokens (at a cost of 3 tokens). A door
. When the door is opened, read the following: The walls of this room are covered in conduits and glowing panels, many of which leak green fluid that flows toward a grated drain on the floor. In the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
. To get the message in sequence, it should be read from the south end of the concourse to the tyrannosaurus spout while alternating from the left (west) side to the right (east). Face 1 (lower west) has
six yellow musk zombies (see appendix D) lurking among the trees and plants. The zombies blend in with their surroundings, and any character with a passive Wisdom (Perception) score lower than 12 is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
characters come across the same areas multiple times to reinforce the space’s surreal nature. Jared Blando Map 15.1: Tyrant’s Spiral View Player Version T1: Lair of the Eye Read or paraphrase the
clusters grow in ten-foot-tall stalks crowned by gigantic eyes. Below, rows of spear-length teeth bristle within the ravine, forming a gigantic, monstrous maw. Gases billow in and out of the crag in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a2
characters from getting across the bridge. If any of the party members have darkvision or a means of illuminating the far side, read: Two brutish humanoids stand watch on the other side of the crevasse
. Secret Doors. The passage to the south branches in a Y shape. The southwest branch connects to area 5, and the southeast one leads to a secret door cleverly constructed to blend into the natural rock
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
communication. When the signs are right, cultists gather together, read aloud their blasphemous texts, and conduct the mind-searing rituals that guide star spawn into the world. Elder Evil Blessings
grasp the seer’s strange staff formed of a blend of flesh, bone, and star stuff. A star spawn seer is almost always accompanied by one or more star spawn hulks (also in this book). Not only is a hulk a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
throw, taking 50 necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. When the characters reach the north end of the grove, read: The tunnel leads to a dead-end cave supported
grove and laboratory. She has called a nalfeshnee named Danjak to her service. Danjak is an emissary of Zuggtmoy, and the demon’s form is crusted and interwoven with a riotous blend of molds, lichen