before bodies diffusing crafting reflective

Dragonblood Ooze

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

incorporated parts of dragons’ bodies into magic items, crafting dragon hide into armor and forging weapons from claws and teeth. Alchemists have found beneficial uses for dragon blood, but ill-advised

Troll Mutate

Monsters Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

troll undergoes strange mutations. Among the most common mutations are wings, stretchable bodies, resistance to magic, and a strange reflective psychic property. Many troll mutates also have small

Duergar Despot

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

will: mage hand, minor illusion 1/day: stinking cloudDuergar despots replace parts of their bodies with mechanical devices that they control through their psionic abilities. Duergar Duergar are

crafting bold new works. The bonds of friendship and kinship are strong, though navigating the inevitable outbursts of frustration and despair is not always easy. Similarly, duergar tend to be very

Bugbear Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

. Shiftless, Savage Layabouts When they’re not in battle, bugbears spend much of their time resting or dozing. They don’t engage in crafting or agriculture to any great extent, or

indolence offers no clue to how vicious the creatures are. Bugbears are capable of bouts of incredible ferocity, using their muscular bodies to exact swift and ruthless violence. At their core

Frost Giant

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)

most often saved for trading opportunities with other giants more adept at crafting metal weapons and armor. Rulers by Might. Frost giants respect brute strength above all else, and a frost giant’s

place in the ordning depends on evidence of physical might, such as superior musculature, scars from battles of renown, or trophies fashioned from the bodies of slain enemies. Tasks such as hunting

Esoteric Martial Arts

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries

techniques tells how the physical and spiritual aspects of one’s being can be joined to achieve immortality. The book offers detailed descriptions of pressure points that all the bodies of humanoid

attachment. Following the sections on spiritual and medicinal wisdom is one on the crafting of magic items that augment the user’s martial abilities, with grisly details of how the authors obtained such

Kenku Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

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

. Flock leaders enforce discipline and minimize conflicts, but they fail at effective planning or crafting long-term schemes. Although unable to speak in their own voices, kenku can perfectly mimic any

Studies and Philosophy

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

reflective, and aspires to mastery. Its mages tend to use elemental forces of cold, water, and wind. The perspective of expression instead emphasizes the portrayal of personal emotional truths. Its mages value

creative fire into personal strength Expression 6 Ice sculptor, crafting ice and cold into immersive experiences Perfection 7 Mistmage, shaping cloud, fog, and mist into lasting sculptures Perfection 8

Dragonblood Ooze

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

perhaps I shall simply say, “You ooze, you lose.” -Fizban Magic-minded artisans have long incorporated parts of dragons’ bodies into magic items, crafting dragon hide into armor and forging weapons

Salamander

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)

Elemental Plane of Fire like desert nomads, raiding other communities for treasure. Living Forges. Salamanders generate intense heat, and when they fight, their weapons glow red and sear the bodies of

, but others enlist the salamanders for their crafting skills, or bind them to forges and ovens to generate limitless heat. Salamander Large elemental, neutral evil Armor Class 15 (natural armor

Bugbears

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

, Savage Layabouts When they’re not in battle, bugbears spend much of their time resting or dozing. They don’t engage in crafting or agriculture to any great extent, or otherwise produce anything of value

vicious the creatures are. Bugbears are capable of bouts of incredible ferocity, using their muscular bodies to exact swift and ruthless violence. At their core, bugbears are ambush predators

M10. Treasury

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

the characters. These include instructions and raw materials for crafting artificial bodies for the brains in jars, constructing a flying craft useful for escaping the monastery and further

The Path to Perfection

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

see the many centuries afforded to them as too short a time to risk wasting even a single day in indolence. Moradin crafted the dwarves’ sturdy bodies, giving them the strength to work for long periods

. Dwarves pursue perfection. This chase is foolish. There is no one pure truth of anything. Minds as Rigid as Stone Although the dwarves’ obsessive pursuit of perfection in the arts of crafting leads them

Trolls

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

, stretchable bodies, resistance to magic, and a strange reflective psychic property. Many troll mutates also have small additional limbs and eyes, externalized organs, and other variations. Troll

Dendradis

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel

gray figures with armored bodies and bladed limbs flank the gate. Two ferrumach rilmani (see Morte’s Planar Parade) guard the entrance to Dendradis. They’re indifferent to the characters but refuse

(Persuasion) check. A character gains advantage on this check if the plumach is offered 250 gp worth of a rare material useful for crafting or the characters promise that after this conversation, no

Roleplaying a Giant

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

weight of the stone above them and enable the giants to harness the heat of rivers of magma to power their forges. A fire giant’s prowess in the occupations of crafting determines its place in the ordning

place in the ordning not to their crafting ability but to their extraordinary physical prowess. They take on a lot of the work of guarding the forges and keeping them stoked — effort without which

Vault Locations

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

fifteen-foot-diameter sphere made of shimmering silver floats above a hexagonal dais on the west side of this thirty-foot-high chamber. The sphere is as reflective as a mirror, and it appears smooth

ascends to area V20. V20: Ruined Shrine Ornate pillars bearing countless impressions of celestial bodies encircle this ruined chamber. The floor tiles are cracked and loose, and part of the wall has caved

Ooze Grottos

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

from bodies destroyed in attempts to infuse oozes with humanoid intelligence. The piles are 3 feet high. It costs 15 feet of movement to move 5 feet across a pile. A creature that enters or starts its

white pillar at the center of this cavern, a pool of mottled black liquid gleams. Light. The white pillar fills this area with bright light. Pool. Silvery calm water forms this highly reflective, 1-foot

Duergar

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse

, or crafting bold new works. The bonds of friendship and kinship are strong, though navigating the inevitable outbursts of frustration and despair is not always easy. Similarly, duergar tend to be very

parts of their bodies with mechanical devices that they control through their psionic abilities. Duergar Despot Medium Humanoid (Dwarf), Any Alignment Armor Class 21 (natural armor) Hit Points

Lower Ward

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

, along with anyone else with calloused hands or a passion for crafting. Locals are hardworking folk who can churn ingots from ore, press diamonds from coal, and turn a lump of nothing into something

Ward and the Hive, a prime ground for dumping bodies. Creatures cast into the acrid lake wash up on its shore a few hours later completely unrecognizable, their physical features smoothed over like those

Tour of the Planes

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

notwithstanding, Dolurrh is a gloomy plane filled with the lingering traces of the dead. Dolurrh Manifest Zone Features d4 Feature 1 Bodies buried here reanimate in 1d4 days, possessed by restless spirits

space as gravity constantly shifts, and a riot of colors blazes through the ever-shifting sky. Still, stoic githzerai monks exert their will over the elements, crafting monasteries on islands of earth

Hrakhamar

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation

. Firenewts moved in and put the forge to work crafting armor and weapons for themselves. A small group of albino dwarves lurks in the jungle nearby and keeps watch on the forge, but their numbers are too

interested in attacking adventurers directly, but they’ll gleefully loot the bodies of anyone who collapses in the smoke. If cornered, they beg for mercy. They offer to trade information for their

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