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Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures
unconscious creature remains asleep until it is no longer in the area with tendrils, takes any damage, or is targeted by a remove curse spell or similar magic.Nightmare haunts are terrors from the
curse. Even with the Phyrexians defeated, the curse remains and spreads unchecked through Eldraine due to interference from the planeswalker Ashiok and Eriette, one of the witches who helped create the
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
, requiring no material components and using Wisdom as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 14):
At will: Bless, Guidance, Silent Image
1/day each: Bane, Bestow Curse, Divination, Scrying (as an
is reduced to 0 until the end of its next turn.
Destiny Curse (Costs 2 Actions). The hag magically curses a creature it can see within 60 feet of itself. The creature must make a DC 14 Wisdom saving
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures
halls as its inhabitants transform into ruthless werefoxes.
Unlike other forms of lycanthropy, the werefox curse isn’t contagious and is limited to the elves of Redtooth Keep. Legends say that
their bodies would forever transform to match their hearts’ selfish and bestial natures.
“My people are both bloom and thorn. Our ferocious impulses are as much a part of us as our
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
frostbite to ravage the exposed parts of their bodies, with only their faith in the Frostmaiden keeping them alive.
Chardalyn Weapons. A chardalyn berserker wields one or more weapons made wholly or
by any magic that ends a curse, but after ten days, it can be reversed only by a wish spell or divine intervention.
A creature wounded by one of these chardalyn weapons can feel a sudden sickness
Demilich (Variant)
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Monsters
Monster Manual (2014)
with the greater restoration spell or similar magic.
Vile Curse (Costs 3 Actions). The demilich targets one creature it can see within 30 feet of it. The target must succeed on a DC 16 Wisdom saving
throw or be magically cursed. Until the curse ends, the target has disadvantage on attack rolls and saving throws. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
an end to the restriction.
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An amethyst dragon recruits a group of adventurers to psychically trade bodies with adventurers from another world, so that each can carry out certain tasks before
hope to ascend to godhood, perhaps recreating or replacing Sardior.
Connected Creatures
Amethyst dragons are generally aloof creatures, dwelling in isolation for long periods of time and
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
adventurers to psychically trade bodies with adventurers from another world, so that each can carry out certain tasks before swapping back.
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A cult devoted to a Great Old One of the Far Realm
the world during a rare celestial alignment.
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An amethyst dragon is fusing with their echoes on other worlds. They all hope to ascend to godhood, perhaps recreating or replacing Sardior
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
":"spell", "rollAction":"Spellcasting"} to hit with spell attacks):
At will: light, sacred flame, thaumaturgy
1/day each: augury (cast as 1 action), bane, banishment, bestow curse, command, cure wounds
” in their language), are ogre-sized bipeds with curved horns and dour expressions. Their hulking bodies are coated with thick fur and hair, and many outsiders can’t tell the males and females
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
restriction.
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An amethyst dragon recruits a group of adventurers to psychically trade bodies with adventurers from another world, so that each can carry out certain tasks before swapping back.
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godhood, perhaps recreating or replacing Sardior.
Connected Creatures
Amethyst dragons are generally aloof creatures, dwelling in isolation for long periods of time and rarely cultivating
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
worshipers to enact its will beyond the Abyss. The exact nature of the curse that binds Aurnozci to Xulregg is its cult’s most closely guarded secret, fully known only to the faith’s enigmatic
oppressively muggy realm known for the following regional effects:
Boiling Water. Bodies of water on Xulregg perpetually boil, and even bottled liquids steam when exposed to the layer’s
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
negotiate an end to the restriction.
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An amethyst dragon recruits a group of adventurers to psychically trade bodies with adventurers from another world, so that each can carry out certain tasks
. They all hope to ascend to godhood, perhaps recreating or replacing Sardior.
Connected Creatures
Amethyst dragons are generally aloof creatures, dwelling in isolation for long periods of time
Kenku
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
reputation that is not wholly unearned, but they can prove to be valuable allies.
An Ancient Curse
The kenku once served a mysterious, powerful entity on another plane of existence. Some believe they
enact it. Enraged, the entity imposed three dreadful curses upon them. First, the kenku’s beloved wings withered and fell away from their bodies, leaving them bound to the earth. Second, because
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
hearts. Those who escape a mummy’s grasp might find themselves subject to a terrible curse. Victims of a mummy’s curse gradually wither, their bodies rotting away until they’re reduced to dust. This
time. Should their resting places be violated, these beings, known as mummies, reanimate their deteriorating bodies to restore the sanctity of their tombs and punish those who disturbed their rest
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monstrous Compendium Volume Four
witch sisters performed a grand ritual to create a sleeping curse. Even with the Phyrexians defeated, the curse remains and spreads unchecked through Eldraine due to interference from the planeswalker
Ashiok and Eriette, one of the witches who helped create the curse. The Wicked Slumber affects rich and poor alike, causing them to fall into an endless sleep or roam as sleepwalkers. Animals are also
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
make minor tweaks, such as replacing the quaggoth’s language, Undercommon, with one that’s more appropriate, such as Elvish or Sylvan. Need a fiery phoenix? Take the giant eagle or roc, give it immunity
to add a special trait. You can add a special trait of your own devising or pick up a special trait from one of the many creatures in the Monster Manual. For example, you can create a goblin-spider
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
monster’s challenge rating. As another option, you can switch any of the damaging eye rays in the Monster Manual to an effect with a different damage type, such as replacing the enervation ray with a
combustion ray that deals fire damage instead of necrotic damage. Unless otherwise indicated, an alternative ability has the same range as the eye ray it is replacing, and it affects only one creature per
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- 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
, dedicated ever after to a life of lurking in the shadows, lashing out against unsuspecting victims and striking fear into those who discover the bodies left behind. I studied Demogorgon’s symbol. I
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Orcus The bloated Demon Prince of the Undead seeks to end all life in the cosmos, replacing the living with immortal, undead creatures that answer only to him. In this grim future, the many suns of
cause are admitted to the cult. Those who have second thoughts and attempt to decline are destroyed, their souls condemned to the Outer Planes while their bodies are animated as skeletons and zombies.
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Recovery. Both the mind flayers of Bluetspur and the Mists surrounding the domain employ methods similar to the modify memory spell to obscure victims’ memories of their abduction, replacing them with
hazy events or gaps of missing time. A character’s true memories can be restored by a remove curse or greater restoration spell. A victim of the mind flayers might have endured dozens of memory
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Deathlock Mastermind Though deathlocks exist to serve their patrons, they retain some freedom when it comes to devising particular tactics and carrying out their plans. Powerful deathlocks recruit
You can customize a deathlock by replacing some or all of the spells in its Spellcasting trait with spells specific to its patron. Here are examples.
Deathlock
Archfey patron: blink, faerie fire
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
bodies match their vile souls. Ever since, fomorians have dwelled in the Underdark amid the ruins of their magical cities. The archfey’s curse afflicts them still, tormenting them with wandering cankers
Fomorian Cursed Giant of the Dark Habitat: Underdark; Treasure: Any DAARKEN Once infamous for their magical aptitude, fomorians are giants afflicted with a fey curse. In their pride, they were
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Revenant Revenants possess the bodies they had in life, using them to hunt down their killers. If their bodies are destroyed, they take control of new bodies that gradually change to resemble the
creature it can see within 30 feet of itself. The revenant knows the distance to and direction of the cursed target, even if it is on a different plane of existence. The curse ends on the target if the revenant uses this Bonus Action on a different creature.
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
state, leaving their bodies safely behind while their souls temporarily possess other bodies. Flabbergast explains that the ritual’s creator died long ago, and its components are now unknown. But if
devising, or having NPCs conveniently turn out to be a source of some components. The Splintfig sisters from episode 2 are good candidates, as is Hoobur Gran’Shoop if the party stayed on good terms
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Adventurer’s Guide A widespread magical curse threatens to devour the bodies and souls of the living. The Harpers have learned that its source lies somewhere in Chult. You volunteered to join the expedition
widespread magical curse that is causing people to waste away while also preventing the dead from being raised. An expeditionary force is headed to Chult to find the origin of the curse, and you’ve
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
over uncounted years. Even though they are transformed into stone statues, the fallen angels remain very much alive, their petrified bodies having become prisons for their minds and souls. They remember
torment of their fate have driven them mad. No spell can undo the angels’ curse or free them from their petrified state.
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Fomorian The most hideous and wicked of all giantkind are the godless fomorians, whose deformed bodies reflect their vile demeanors. Some have facial features randomly distributed around their
, however, for the fomorians brought their doom upon themselves with the evil that rules their hearts and minds. Fey Curse. The elves remember when the fomorians were among the most handsome of races
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
An Ancient Curse The kenku once served a mysterious, powerful entity on another plane of existence. Some believe they were minions of Grazz’t, while others say that they were scouts and explorers for
kenku’s beloved wings withered and fell away from their bodies, leaving them bound to the earth. Second, because their ingenuity and skill had turned toward scheming against their patron, the spark of
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
curse spell from a priest of the Stoneheart Enclave. Otherwise, the elemental summoned by the gem is always hostile toward its summoner. The characters can also harvest samples from the bodies of the
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
if their bodies were prepared with specific funerary rites and then entombed with their wealth, they could ascend to their chosen afterlife. Amun Sa, the last pharaoh of Bakar, took this tradition
into destitution. A Curse on the Land Downtrodden and impoverished, the citizens of Bakar revolted against Amun Sa to take back their kingdom. During a riot at the capital, Amun Sa appeared before his
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
divinations; they delight in such glimpses and are compelled to speak of what they see. Those who dare harm a fate hag find silvery threads of destiny winding around their bodies, tightening and
spellcasting ability (spell save DC 14):
At will: Bless, Guidance, Silent Image
1/day each: Bane, Bestow Curse, Divination, Scrying (as an action)
Legendary Actions
The hag can take 3
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
ancestors, who suffered under the same curse.
8 Someone has rebuilt the infamous Apparatus and is using it to transpose vicious souls into the bodies of mild-mannered citizens of Mordentshire.
(see chapter 5) protecting the community from a greater threat.
6 A curse has afflicted Westcote Manor for a hundred years. The surrounding bog encroaches on the house, and howling bog hounds draw
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
doctor turn sour, Ez departed Mordentshire to hunt evil and find a family on her own terms. Since then, Ez has changed much, learning the ways of the Mists and replacing her leg with a splendid prosthetic
. “I go where angels fear to tread.” Adventures with Ez d’Avenir Use the statistics of an assassin to represent Ez, or you can use her stat block from Curse of Strahd. Consider the following plots
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
bodies of these former scholars are warped into otherworldly shapes, each with a head dominated by a gigantic, unblinking eye. Nothics remember nothing of their past lives and care only for their
enemies, and steal the secrets of those who interrupt their investigations. Some nothics seek to end the curse that warped them into their bizarre forms, but many are unaware of—or uninterested in—their
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
long ago in the Nine Hells, when powerful devils created a dark ritual to free their essence from their fiendish bodies in order to escape the Lower Planes. A rakshasa enters the Material Plane to feed
+ 2) slashing damage, and the target is cursed if it is a creature. The magical curse takes effect whenever the target takes a short or long rest, filling the target’s thoughts with horrible images
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
the towns of other species. From such enclaves, they quietly ply their trade as thieves and assassins.
Darkling The Summer Queen’s curse causes a darkling’s body to absorb light, which wizens the
creature, much like the effect of rapid aging. For this reason, darklings cover their entire bodies with clothing when exposure to light is a risk. The light darklings absorb over the course of their






