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Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
, or when the strigoi dismisses them (no action required).The first strigoi were created by spellcasters who subjected swarms of stirges to transmutation spells. Other strigoi have emerged as the
instinctual hunger that drives it to undertake bloodthirsty rampages along with swarms of emboldened, bloodsucking pests.
Strigoi drain the blood, marrow, and soft tissues from their victims, leaving behind
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
hunting dogs. They race in pursuit of their prey, running it down until it’s too exhausted to fight back. Only the threat of dawn drives the pack back into hiding.
A pack of yeth hounds can be
created by powerful Fey such as the Queen of Air and Darkness. Each pack’s master can telepathically communicate with their yeth hounds to give the pack commands from afar. If a pack’s
Monsters
Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
are content to lead peaceful lives as hunters and gatherers, the magic that created the crab folk sometimes compels them to lash out in fearsome raids when the conditions are right.
Aquatic Vassals
crab folk have little sense of what drives them, but they understand that the effigy represents a mother and creator who must be obeyed. Legend holds that the green hag preferred to travel in the
Species
Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
During the mythical origins of Krynn, Reorx, god of craft, indulged in an age of unfettered creation. Many peoples sprang from his divine forge, but not all among them remained as the god created
diminutive Humanoids who look like humans with pointed ears and diverse appearances. Kender have a supernatural curiosity that drives them to adventure. Due to this inquisitiveness, many kender find
Spells
Xanathar's Guide to Everything
subtract the number rolled from the d20 roll.
In addition, the sensors created by divination spells can’t appear inside the temple, and creatures within can’t be targeted by divination spells
).
The temple is made from opaque magical force that extends into the Ethereal Plane, thus blocking ethereal travel into the temple’s interior. Nothing can physically pass through the temple’s
Tabaxi
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its secrets and nature have been laid bare.
Tinkers and Minstrels
Curiosity drives most of the tabaxi found outside their homeland, but not all of them become adventurers. Tabaxi who seek a safer
on a particularly interesting item when an owner refuses to sell or trade it.
Tabaxi Names
Each tabaxi has a single name, determined by clan and based on a complex formula that involves astrology
Monsters
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
retains its name, alignment, and personality. The creature also inherits Nafas’s palace and all it contains.
If the creature refuses, Nafas gains a new body in 1d10;{"diceNotation":"1d10", "rollType
to the extradimensional realm that created him. From the steps of the staircase, Nafas hears the wishes of creatures across the multiverse but cannot act on them. Moved by their stories but barred by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Tinkers and Minstrels Curiosity drives most of the tabaxi found outside their homeland, but not all of them become adventurers. Tabaxi who seek a safer path to satisfy their obsessions become
refuses to sell or trade it. THE CAT LORD
The deity of the tabaxi is a fickle entity, as befits the patron of cats. The tabaxi believe that the Cat Lord wanders the world, watching over them and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Adventures An adventure might be created by the Dungeon Master or purchased (the examples of play in this chapter are inspired by a published adventure, Curse of Strahd). In either case, an adventure
a villain whose agenda drives much of an adventure’s action. During an adventure, the adventurers explore environments, events, and creatures presented by the DM. Battles, traps, negotiations
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
, merciless, and resilient, and their dead flesh can carry on even after suffering grievous wounds. While they can follow simple orders, they rely on primal drives rather than thought. They fulfill
commands by working tirelessly or battering through foes, but they are easily stymied by barriers or unexpected circumstances. Zombies are usually created from Humanoid corpses, but the remains of other
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Adventures An adventure might be created by the Dungeon Master or purchased. In either case, an adventure features a fantastic setting, such as an underground dungeon, a wondrous wilderness, or a
magic-filled city. It includes a cast of nonplayer characters controlled by the DM. Often one of the NPCs is a villain whose agenda drives much of an adventure’s action. During an adventure, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
refuses its requests, the computer becomes punitive—silently turning off lights, opening doors to rooms with hostile creatures, refusing to disarm hostile robots, and employing worker robots to place
has also been reorganized to place some of its most memorable encounters in areas the characters are more likely to visit.
Additionally, the supercomputer Aphelion 3000 was created to provide a narrative structure and encourage characters to explore more of the spaceship.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
heart of the game, a story with a beginning, a middle, and an end. An adventure might be created by the Dungeon Master or purchased off the shelf, tweaked and modified to suit the DM’s needs and
characters: the adventurers created and played by the other players at the table, as well as nonplayer characters (NPCs). Those characters might be patrons, allies, enemies, hirelings, or just background
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
created by the lunar dragon Orinix. These crystals are components for Teremini’s ritual, but they have no value or special properties. When the characters arrive, these daises are surrounded by barriers
minutes. Solid moonlight also extends into the Ethereal Plane, blocking ethereal travel through it. The ritual is powered by the rod piece and is therefore unaffected by the Antimagic Field spell.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
created by divination spells can’t appear inside the temple, and creatures within can’t be targeted by divination spells. Finally, whenever any creature in the temple regains hit points from a spell of
, thus blocking ethereal travel into the temple’s interior. Nothing can physically pass through the temple’s exterior. It can’t be dispelled by dispel magic, and antimagic field has no effect on it. A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Strigoi The first strigoi were created by spellcasters who subjected swarms of stirges to transmutation spells. Other strigoi have emerged as the results of similar spellcraft, as the byproducts of
outlandish scientific experiments, and from stirges draining well-fed vampires. When a strigoi arises, the unnatural creature is overwhelmed by instinctual hunger that drives it to undertake
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
from his divine forge, but not all among them remained as the god created them. Altered by unbridled magic, a group of gnomes were transformed and given almost supernatural curiosity and fearlessness
drives them to adventure. Due to this inquisitiveness, many kender find themselves falling through portals to other planes and worlds. Kender sometimes amass impressive collections of curiosities
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
created innumerable unique plants, as well as plant creatures with strange abilities and unflagging loyalty to her. Tyrant Maker. Ivana’s ambition drives her to take on any challenge. She reflexively
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
people in their nation, or reviled by the people they served? Grim Inspiration Something the villain saw or experienced during the war made a lasting impression that still drives them today. Perhaps
in this chapter to give them and their schemes a tie to the Last War. War-Torn Villains d6 Villain 1 The villain doesn’t know (or refuses to believe) that the war has ended. 2 The villain
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
placed to be phosphorescent mushrooms.
The lights are proper lamps flanking two massive stone gates blocking the tunnel. Before you get a chance to examine the intricate carvings on the gates
check succeeds, and refuses them entrance if it fails. If the check fails by 5 or more, the guard gives the order to arrest the characters, announcing that they are now slaves of the duergar (see
Kobold
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owner, they are often willing to take the chance of revealing themselves because the potential reward is worth the risk.
Dragon Servitors
Kobolds believe that they were created by Tiamat from the blood
responsible for blocking tunnels to deter pursuit.
Kobolds feel a cool affinity or something like kinship for other members of their tribe, but they are rarely affectionate with each other. Two kobolds
Orc
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
created the orcs and continues to direct their destiny. He is aided and abetted by the other warrior deities, Bahgtru and Ilneval, who bring strength and cunning to the battlefield. The followers of all
serve as a battering ram if a settlement dares to close its gates, blocking the way to the treasures and tasty food that lie within.
A heavily laden wagon that requires the strongest orcs to return it to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
wizard, you’ve studied the spells created by your ancestor. If you’re a warrior, you’ve practiced their specific martial techniques. When you trance, you relive their greatest battles. But these
want is to let your ancestors live again, and that means you need to perform deeds worthy of champions. That drives you now: seeking out adventures that will add to the legends of your patron. You and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
fight back. Only the threat of dawn drives the pack back into hiding. A pack of yeth hounds can be created by powerful Fey such as the Queen of Air and Darkness. Each pack’s master can telepathically
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw, taking 31 (7d8) fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
Chimeras were created
sky and engulfing prey with its fiery breath before landing.
Conflicted Creature. A chimera combines the worst aspects of its three parts. Its dragon head drives it to raid, plunder, and accumulate
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
. He drives his subordinates to catalog every foot of the Northern Wastes in search of the barest scrap of Silvanesti magic. Personality Trait. “I know what’s best for my people, and I lead with logic
’ progress. He tells the characters he and the rest of the elves are conducting research, but he refuses to elaborate. A character who speaks to Zhelsuel in Elvish or succeeds on a DC 16 Charisma
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
. Ozymandius drives the negotiation. He settles for nothing less than passage to the mainland for him and two of the veterans so that he can get help to fortify the island and rebuild. He offers the characters a
place of honor in the cult. The characters might try to trick the survivors into splitting their numbers. Ozymandius refuses to abandon the island, because doing so is deserving of a death sentence
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
represent uniform strains virtually identical to each other. Other demons (such as manes) are created from mortal souls shunned or cursed by the gods, or which are otherwise trapped in the Abyss
its choosing. Obtaining a demonic amulet is a dangerous enterprise, and simply seeking such a device risks drawing the attention of the demon that created it. A creature possessing a demonic amulet can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
. Before the myconid leader lapsed into unconsciousness, it created this guardian to keep outsiders away. As described on the previous page, the water level here varies by up to 10 feet with the tides. At
Elemental Plane of Fire—another dimension of reality that is the cosmic source of fiery energy. The Plane of Fire is the origin of both the orange crystal blocking the vent (which is actually an egg case
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
to fight back. Only the threat of dawn drives the pack back into hiding. Minions of a Dark Master. A pack of yeth hounds can be created by powerful fey such as the Queen of Air and Darkness. Once it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
chaotic neutral astral elf aristocrat. If Xedalli died previously, the figure standing here is a clone (created using a clone spell). Also present is Andavier, a lawful neutral astral elf star priest
the characters. If the characters are captured, Xeleth promises to have them executed as soon as the coronation is over. In the unlikely event that the party defeats Xeleth or drives him off, skip
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
those original creations, with most living in small, isolated clutches. Though they are content to lead peaceful lives as hunters and gatherers, the magic that created the crab folk sometimes compels
hag creator, made from driftwood and other scrap and kept in their communal lair. The crab folk have little sense of what drives them, but they understand that the effigy represents a mother and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
of good or evil, law or chaos. According to myth, the gods who created these folk gave them free will to choose their moral paths.
Alignment is an essential part of the nature of celestials and
Describe one ideal that drives your character. Your ideals are the things that you believe in most strongly, the fundamental moral and ethical principles that compel you to act as you do. Ideals
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
bound by any contract emerge from the River Styx as lemures. Roving bands of soul-mongers patrol the river’s banks, harvesting the newly created devils. On its arrival, each soul passes through the
, upkeep, and replacement. Time and again, structures built on this layer are left untended and are eventually drawn into the bottomless muck of the swamp. Mammon refuses to spend any more coin than
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
refuses to stop until someone delivers the adventurer responsible.
3 A prosperous-looking city appears among the desert dunes, drawing explorers and treasure hunters aplenty, but it’s an
illusion created by a blue dragon.
4 A blue dragon promises great wealth to anyone who offers worthy treasures—but eats anyone who misses the mark.
5 A blue dragon recently acquired trunks full