before blood duplicate churning replicas

Thri-kreen Gladiator

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

carapaces with the blood of their enemies. Thri-kreen Thri-kreen are carnivores with insectile features and two pairs of arms. Because their bodies are encased in protective chitin, they tend to

communication difficult to interpret and impossible to duplicate. To interact with creatures of other sapient species, thri-kreen rely on a form of telepathy. Thri-kreen often use weapons of their own design

Kenku Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

copy existing items with exceptional skill, allowing them to become excellent artisans and scribes. They can copy books, make replicas of objects, and otherwise thrive in situations where they can

might sound like fun, but it can prove distracting and could slow down the game. Kenku Names Given that kenku can duplicate any sound, their names are drawn from a staggering variety of

Empty Bridge

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

the churning river, which is 30 feet deep. An aboleth lurks in the water along with a water elemental minion. Trapped in the Far Realm long ago, the aboleth sequestered itself in this river to study

the strange environment. Both creatures are concealed by the dark, churning water and make attacks against anyone who gets close, particularly creatures affected by the magical symbol on the bridge

Vaeve's Offer

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

looks ready to tip over because it is; only the webbing inside the tower’s base keeps it from falling over. Miska’s Location. Miska is down in the citadel by the weird ocean of churning energy. Miska was

recently freed from imprisonment, but he hasn’t left the citadel yet—Vaeve doesn’t know why. Miska’s forces are varied spyder-fiends as well as flying demons that drip deadly blood. Vampire’s

Weird Magic

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

blackness equivalent to darkness (a 2nd-level spell). A hag carefully shepherds her use of weird magic because the items in her repertoire are often impossible to duplicate or replace. To reflect this fact

how to invoke the razor wind, or the runestone containing the three syllables for crystallizing blood, it is better to use such things than to risk death by not doing so.

The Infernal Machine of Lum the Mad

Magic Items Infernal Machine Rebuild

+1 bonus to initiative rolls. You are unable to hear any speech louder than a whisper. 17 An exact duplicate of you appears next to you, dressed as you but lacking any gear. The duplicate

functions as a familiar and has the statistics of a cat. An exact duplicate of you appears next to you, dressed as you but lacking any gear. It loudly tries to convince all other creatures that it is you

Levistus

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

, Levistus, both occupy strange positions in the hierarchy. Stygia is a frozen wasteland of mysterious origin, a churning, murky sea covered in a thick layer of ice. Where the ice gives way to open water

in the Blood War engage in constant skirmishes across the ice, and yugoloths and other mercenaries from across the planes play a key role in the struggle. Both sides sometimes employ adventurers to

9. Torture Chamber

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

(Insight) check or a speak with animals spell, but the torturer speaks to the characters only in bold threats. In combat, Andras uses weapons coated in blood of the lycanthrope poison (see appendix C

of one of Thessalar’s sadistic experiments, conducted by Andras. His lycanthropic blood is being drained for study by Thessalar, who has already discovered ways in which it might be weaponized (see

13. The Scavenger

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

lair actions. On initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), N’ghathrod can take one lair action to cause one of the following effects: N’ghathrod creates a magical duplicate of itself anywhere

aboard the ship. Formed out of psionic energy, this duplicate lasts until it is reduced to 0 hit points, until it is dispelled (DC 15), or until N’ghathrod takes another lair action. The duplicate has

Birth of a Beholder

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

a new, fully formed beholder springs forth unbidden, seemingly having appeared out of thin air in a nearby space. This “offspring” might be a duplicate of the beholder that dreamed it into existence

. That’s where the similarity ends. Chapter 3 of this book introduces several new types of beholder-kin. A death kiss is usually the result of a nightmare about blood, such as what a beholder might

Supernatural Regions

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

this way, the creature focuses on copying the blasphemous designs that appear in its mind using whatever medium it has available (ink, charcoal, mud, or its own blood). Unless restrained, the creature

hours, whenever any creature is wounded, its blood (or similar fluid) spreads to form a short message or grisly tableau. 66–70 A spirit inhabits one character’s simple or martial weapon, making it a

Mournland Environment

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

Mishann. Our reporters are still sifting through accounts of what has happened, but it is clear at this point that beautiful Cyre, the jewel of Galifar’s vast holdings, has disappeared behind a churning

spring is marked by the Crimson Water, a stagnant lake of blood-colored liquid. The shores of the Crimson Water are littered with the remains of animals and travelers that have strayed into the

Howling Caves Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse

. Between them, a churning thundercloud thrashes with lightning. Thunder cracks, and cascades of tiny rocks tumble from above. Beneath the thunderhead stands a raised area splattered with the blood of many

and cycles beneath the shaft like a red cyclone. Everywhere it moves, it spatters the walls with blood, bone, and viscera. The corpses are sacrifices to Yan-C-Bin, hurled down the shaft by air cultists

Lady's Ward

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

interested parties. The dapper efreeti knows every weapon in the Sinker catalog and its price, from delicate jeweled daggers to massive siege weapons. Items small enough to display—or their replicas if too

verdigris common throughout the city, blood trickles down the temple’s rusted spikes. The temple’s interior is a gloomy sanctuary of stained altars, menacing iron chandeliers, and sputtering black candles

Abyssal Prisons

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5

attuned to this zone. He is willing to share the key’s attunement in return for a taste of fresh blood. Any character who agrees to this bargain suffers the effects of Issem’s bite attack. Development

prisms must make a DC 13 Wisdom saving throw at the start each of his or her turns. The first time each character fails the save, a wraith that looks like a shadowy duplicate of that character erupts

Tour of the Planes

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

. Kythri, the Churning Chaos The plane of chaos and change, Kythri is a realm in constant flux. The elements collide in fantastic explosions of unbridled power, motes of earth careen erratically through

deals one additional die of damage. 2 Blood spilled here never washes away. Any Charisma checks made in the zone to avoid hostility are made with disadvantage; Charisma checks made to encourage

Dungeon Locations

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

her tireless effort to win the Blood War. When the characters enter the room, set the scene by reading aloud the following boxed text: Two rows of tall wrought-iron candlesticks light this vaulted

unlit, half-melted red candles surround the circle. The cultists use this chamber to perform diabolical rituals that duplicate the effect of a divination spell, except that the spell’s contact is a

Lower City Gazetteer

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

squad smashed its way into the building. Only two of its members emerged, babbling about shifting rooms and blood-soaked abattoirs filled with writhing hooks and chains. With no laborers willing to

facility running and control the crew’s several guardian beasts, including a number of sweet-smelling shambling mounds that live in the tanks, churning them as part of the purification process

Lower City Gazetteer

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer

emerged. After a handful of such disappearances, a Flaming Fist squad smashed its way into the building. Only two of its members emerged, babbling about shifting rooms and blood-soaked abattoirs

shambling mounds that live in the tanks, churning them as part of the purification process. Mortlock Vanthampur (for more information on Mortlock Vanthampur, see chapter 1 of Baldur’s Gate: Descent

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