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Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
surfaces substituting for the mirror needed to cast certain divination spells. While being used in this way, the fractine siphons magical energy from the spellcaster—not enough to cause harm
. 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 glassy surface
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Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Reflection. Muddied water always clears in time. (Any)
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Hope. The horizon at sea holds the greatest promise. (Any)
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BOND
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I must visit all the oceans
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I repair broken things to redeem what’s broken in myself.
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I will craft a boat capable of sailing through the most dangerous of storms.
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A kraken destroyed my masterpiece; its
Morkoth
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
hours.Spell Reflection. If the morkoth makes a successful saving throw against a spell, or a spell attack misses it, the morkoth can choose another creature (including the spellcaster) it can see
to take lair actions. On initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), the morkoth takes a lair action to cause one of the effects described below:
The morkoth uses its Hypnosis action, originating
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
organization or a cause, and thus might already travel under a banner of some sort. If that’s not the case, consider devising a heraldic sign that symbolizes an aspect of your nature or speaks to what you
Heraldic Sign Fighters typically do battle for a cause. Some fight on behalf of kingdoms besieged by monsters, while others quest only for personal glory. In either case, a fighter often displays a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
result is an entity that is capable of devising and enacting the most clever strategies, paranoid at all times about threats to his rule (which certainly exist in the chaos of the Abyss), and
thought that, by looking at it through a mirror, I might avoid its effects. If anything, viewing its reflection made its effect more potent and more subtle. It was Rary who saved me, and I thought he had
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3
incarnation. The image says, in Olman, “Command me to answer, and I shall.” The image of a long-dead Olman is superimposed on the character’s reflection. A command spell can cause the spirit to answer
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monstrous Compendium Volume One: Spelljammer Creatures
spellcaster—not enough to cause harm, but enough to make the caster take notice. A fractine needs light and magical energy to survive. It can draw sustenance from a nearby light source, spellcaster
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
could be one of the three described here, or one of your own devising. Nature. You feel a kinship with the natural world, and its beauty and mystery inspire you. For you, a tree is deeply symbolic
cause others to gravitate toward darkness and fall under the sway of evil. You strive to experience or witness all forms of conflict, great and small, so as to study this eternal aspect of life and immortalize it in your words and music.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
, and to accepting ourselves.” Mirror Magic When any creature holds The Price of Beauty and gazes into the mirror, the image of Sune replaces their own reflection and speaks in a soft voice, saying
correctly that it was the cause of Falthrax’s disappearance. She fears the powerful magic involved and is apprehensive about what might have happened to her friend. If the characters aren’t inclined to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
lacking is the greatest disappointment. (Evil) 5 Reflection. Muddied water always clears in time. (Any) 6 Hope. The horizon at sea holds the greatest promise. (Any) Shipwright Bonds d6 Bond 1 I
qualities. 4 I repair broken things to redeem what’s broken in myself. 5 I will craft a boat capable of sailing through the most dangerous of storms. 6 A kraken destroyed my masterpiece; its teeth
Magic Items
Infernal Machine Rebuild
preventing it from restoring itself if it is attacked. Alternatively, other combinations of controls might cause the Infernal Machine to teleport its most critical components to some hiding place deep in space
make an Intelligence check or use divination magic to learn something about a creature, that knowledge comes with added trivia of the DM’s devising.
05
You emanate a weak magnetic aura
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
the Sea of Moving Ice. There’s a mighty strange whale with a boat on its back that swims in those frigid waters. I bet it knows where the island is! You can catch the whale at Angajuk’s Bell, an old
wreck it.” (See “Karkolohk”)
15–16 “Did you hear what happened to that evil wizard in Easthaven? They tied him to a stake and lit him on fire! Why? ’Cause he hired some Ten-Towners to help him
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
, 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
dwellers who navigate the sewers by boat. Denizens of the Plane of Water don’t take kindly to Sigil polluting their home. Grat the Glass-Jawed, a sahuagin baron whose gums are jammed with sharpened gems
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
body of a dead whale being pulled behind a fishing boat. When you delivered the goods, the corpse suddenly exploded, sending whale meat and whiskey bottles for half a mile. 2 Cart and Sword. You drove a
tricked by a fellow smuggler who stole something precious from me. I will find that thief. 6 I give most of my profits to a charitable cause, and I don’t like to brag about it. Smuggler Flaws d6
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
the casino floor, and a sixth stands next to the display case containing the erinyes statuette (in area A9). If the characters cause a ruckus, the nearest guard moves toward them and tries to quell the
1d3 security guards (use the thug stat block) to the holding cells (area A17). The cheater is released the next dawn, escorted by security to a boat, advised never to return, and sent upriver.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Areas of the Water Temple C1. Lake Landing If the characters arrive by boat from the stream, read the following text: Firelight shines from a large cavern ahead. The stream opens into a large
on the edge of the quay or on a boat, reavers attempt to use the “Shoving a Creature” special attack to push a character into the water. (The water is 15 feet deep near the quay.) Eyon prefers to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
and fears the Second Wind might accidentally smash it to flinders or rip it off its moorings. For this reason, he orders Flinch to deploy a jolly boat while the Second Wind remains 100 feet away, its
the Second Wind. Characters can use the six oars aboard the jolly boat to propel it to the docks while Krux stands proudly in the bow, pointing to the dock as if the destination were not obvious
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
do so, if only to prove himself right. The Scarlet Brotherhood in Play The Scarlet Brotherhood is an opportunistic faction. It seeks to cause the maximum amount of disruption with the least amount of
slips evidence of smuggling to the guard, causing several popular fishing boat owners to be arrested. 7–10 The Brotherhood’s agents spread rumors that the mine is on the verge of failure and the crown
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
something under the surface.
At high tide, the tunnel is flooded, so visitors must approach by boat or swim. At low tide, walkways formed by the tops of stone columns line the sides of the tunnel, leading
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
DM’s choice Hostile Island Leader Motivations d4 Motivation 1 The leader wants to commandeer a boat to conquer other islands. 2 The leader takes all treasure gained by its followers, growing rich
island never gets visitors. The characters’ arrival is cause for a peculiar but earnest celebration. 4 The island’s leader is a long-lost relative or friend of a character’s family. Wild Island
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
appears as a hunched figure with one muscular and one withered arm. She has catlike eyes, and rust-red hair covers her head, back, and arms. Her sharp fangs cause her to slur when she speaks, and she
milky-white, seemingly blind eyes sees a reflection of their own face made decrepit and withered by age. The hag’s disguise is that of Greensong, a cheerful, rosy-cheeked wood elf who feigns
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
creature’s saving throw is successful or the effect ends for it, the creature has advantage on saving throws against the morkoth’s Hypnosis for 24 hours.
Reactions
Spell Reflection. If the morkoth
initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), the morkoth takes a lair action to cause one of the effects described below: The morkoth uses its Hypnosis action, originating at a point within 120 feet of itself
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Netheril’s Fall: Tales of Terror, Treasure, and Time Travel
reflection, the Court of Fountains is also Eileanar’s most beautiful locale. The elf Aurivyl (Medium, Neutral Good Archpriest), a descendant of the Eaerlanni elves who taught the Netherese magic, is in
intellectual offerings, the Last Academies are dangerous places full of unstable magic and unchecked egos. Here, wild experiments cause frequent chaos and destruction, covered up by administrations
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
) checks made against those creatures have disadvantage, and the creatures have disadvantage on Charisma (Persuasion) checks made against anyone who notices their lack of reflection. When they leave the
that cause extra damage. Any creature, other than a construct or an undead, hit by an attack that deals piercing or slashing damage begins to bleed, losing 1d4 hit points at the start of each of its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
servants, the butler and his wife’s lady-in-waiting, have vanished without a trace in the past week, so he has good cause to be worried. The baron believes that everyone else is beneath him, and those
gilded frame. A door in one corner leads to a garderobe. The baroness used to while away long hours in this room, fondling her perfume collection and searching for solace in her own reflection. Since
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
, a beat-up fishing boat, a dilapidated store or farm, or any similar structure or site. The DM might direct the characters toward a single ideal location, or might provide a range of options for
that cool light up top, and the oversized storage cellar. Docks close by are perfect for a starter franchise that comes into possession of a boat, and are also a sign of the lighthouse’s importance to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
the well that supplies the water has stopped working. Characters who peer into the well can see that it is filled with calm water almost to the brim. Bavlorna doesn’t know it, but the cause of the
, rendering it mildly acidic—not enough to cause damage, but enough to make one’s skin tingle uncomfortably. A character who experiences this tingling can, with a successful DC 15 Intelligence (Nature) check
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
center, forward of the mast, a jolly boat is lashed to the deck with ropes.
Aft of the mast is a hatch to the belowdecks area and a rope ladder climbing to a crow’s nest above.
Two human figures
the base of the mast.
As you move your light back and forth, you catch a yellow reflection in one of the garbage piles.
A number of rats eke out a precarious existence here, but they are of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
waterfall and descending into the water-filled basin. Where the stairs meet the water’s surface, an iron post juts at an angle, and a flat boat is tied to it. Tunnels to the northeast and northwest
punt is moored here. The punt is a long, flat-bottomed boat equipped with a pole for navigation through the water node. This punt can accommodate up to seven Medium creatures. As part of its movement
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
the river’s tributaries floods right up to the garden gate (area 1), making the site easy to reach by boat. Traveling to Nangalore by foot is a nightmare, since the land within 1 mile is nothing but
it reads, “And may the gods themselves marvel at this humble reflection of her beauty.” 2. Terraces Untamed overgrowth can’t hide the fact that this garden is a haven for exotic plants that don’t grow
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
accumulated their own followings among the Cults of the Dragon Below. A few have abandoned the path of aggression in favor of solitary philosophy and reflection. A beholder philosopher might manipulate events
abilities of changelings to develop doppelgangers, while implanting a desire to cause chaos in the communities around them.—even when there’s no benefit in it for the doppelganger. Some doppelgangers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
glides closer until it is near enough to board safely. The boat can carry up to eight Medium creatures. One creature can steer the boat using the tiller, and the boat has a speed of 20 feet. Dark Water
could see the objects of their heart’s desire reflected in it. Any creature that stares into the mirror for 1 minute sees its own reflection fade away, to be replaced by an image of the thing it wants
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
!”
Ideal. “The pursuit of true love compels me! Never shall I wilt if I have such a cause to champion.”
Bond. “The beautiful Pollenella—a vision in stripes.”
Flaw. “I cannot resist a pretty face
afraid of my own reflection and avoid looking into mirrors. The Hall of Illusions terrifies me.”
Clapperclaw the Scarecrow
CHAPTER 2: HITHER
Despite the loss of its original head, this child
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
breeze!”
Ideal. “The pursuit of true love compels me! Never shall I wilt if I have such a cause to champion.”
Bond. “The beautiful Pollenella—a vision in stripes.”
Flaw. “I cannot resist a pretty
afraid of my own reflection and avoid looking into mirrors. The Hall of Illusions terrifies me.”
Clapperclaw the Scarecrow
CHAPTER 2: HITHER
Despite the loss of its original head, this child
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
bribing (or blackmailing) Yartar’s most corruptible officials, and by hosting extravagant parties aboard his private, splendidly decorated riverboat. For more information on Lord Drylund and his boat
. Soldiers patrolling the Rauvin Road on horseback are welcome to use the keep as a place where they can rest as well as obtain food, drink, and lodging for their horses. Characters who take up Urgala Meltimer’s quest (see chapter 2) might have cause to pay a visit to Zymorven Hall.