before body diffusing closing revered

Bodak

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

a successful one.A bodak is the undying remains of someone who revered Orcus. Devoid of life and soul, it exists only to cause death. A worshiper of Orcus can take ritual vows while carving the demon

lord’s symbol on their chest over the heart. Orcus’s power flays body, mind, and soul, leaving behind a sentient husk that consumes life energy near it. Most bodaks come into being in

Lunar Sorcery (SotDQ)

Classes Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen

On many worlds, the moon is a revered celestial body with magical properties. On Krynn, the gods of magic are associated with the world’s three moons. On the world of Toril, the god Selû

Beholder Legacy

Monsters Monster Manual (2014)

or take 45 (10d8);{"diceNotation":"10d8","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Disintegration Ray","rollDamageType":"force"} force damage. If this damage reduces the creature to 0 hit points, its body

closing to melee range. A beholder encountered in its lair has a challenge rating of 14 (11,500 XP). Lair Actions When fighting inside its lair, a beholder can invoke the ambient magic to take lair

Lunar Sorcery

Classes Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen

On many worlds, the moon is a revered celestial body with magical properties. On Krynn, the gods of magic are associated with the world’s three moons. On the world of Toril, the god Selû

Mordenheim's Powers and Dominion

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

. Mordenheim can place a creature’s brain or head into another body, moving it from a donor to a recipient. The process requires the donor to have a brain and either be incapacitated or to have been dead for

less than 24 hours. In an operation that takes 1 hour, the doctor transfers the donor’s brain or head from their body to the incapacitated or dead corporeal body of a creature without a brain. The

Para-elemental Queen

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Scions of Elemental Evil

the entity as if it were next to her. Though she initially revered only Chlimbia, Prince of Magma, Vox now worships all Para-elements. Vox decorates her body with sigils written in ash, and fire and frostbite scar her limbs.

The Gates

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

close. While being seen hurrying toward the gates is an obvious embarrassment, being caught and escorted out would be far more bruising — both to one’s ego and body. The nightly closing of the gates

ostensibly keeps the patriars safe. Closing off the Upper City pushes street crime into poorer neighborhoods, or out of the city altogether. In the Upper City, patriars can walk down alleys with

The Gates

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

close. While being seen hurrying toward the gates is an obvious embarrassment, being caught and escorted out would be far more bruising — both to one’s ego and body. The nightly closing of the gates

ostensibly keeps the patriars safe. Closing off the Upper City pushes street crime into poorer neighborhoods, or out of the city altogether. In the Upper City, patriars can walk down alleys with

The Griffon Cavalry

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

actually leap off their mounts into the open air! For a breath-stealing moment, they fall like stones, closing in on their targets at incredible speed. Their opponents rarely see the death blow, distracted

they regain their saddles. Working in concert with one another in this fashion, members of the Griffon Cavalry can rapidly eliminate any threat to the city — and even catch the body of the offender

Getting the Quest

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

fell down the central shaft, which is deep enough that his body would never be found. One piece of information that Oarus fails to mention is that he ordered the town militia to clear out the mine

town speaker and replace him with one of their own in a special election. They’re convinced that the closing of the mine and the resulting economic woes will turn Masthew’s political supporters against him.

Arekanz's Donjon Locations

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

center of this shrine depicts a cobalt-blue biped with a humanlike body, avian features, and vestments decorated with phoenix iconography. Embedded in the statue’s sternum is a blue phoenix feather

emblazoned with the glowing symbol of Vecna. The statue reflects Habbakuk, a god of animals and druids revered widely on the world of Krynn.

Bodak

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

Bodak A bodak is the undying remains of someone who revered Orcus (appears in this book). Devoid of life and soul, it exists only to cause death. A worshiper of Orcus can take ritual vows while

carving the demon lord’s symbol on their chest over the heart. Orcus’s power flays body, mind, and soul, leaving behind a sentient husk that consumes life energy near it. Most bodaks come into being in

Stewards of the Eternal Throne

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

giants, but also the gods revered by these other folk. Each chapter of the Stewards of the Eternal Throne has a stronghold that is intended as a living embodiment of its central principles. These

asks adventurers for help closing a planar portal that is allowing demons to spill across the countryside. 3 A Fiend or Undead hunted by a knight of the stewards poses as human and tells adventurers

A Race Divided

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

flame, or a crackling bolt of lightning. On nothing more than a whim, Corellon’s body could become a school of fish, a swarm of bees, or a flock of birds. When consorting with other gods, Corellon often

elves would be mortal, fixed in the forms they had adopted in defiance of Corellon’s will. The elves who most revered Lolth became drow, and the others divided themselves into a multitude of surface

Froghemoth

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

leaving it behind in indifference. A newborn froghemoth grows to full size over a period of months by indiscriminately preying on other creatures in its swampy domain. It learns to hide its enormous body

several targets at once, keeping them at bay while it wraps its tongue around another one and pulls it in to be devoured. Revered by Bullywugs. If a bullywug tribe comes across a froghemoth, the

Bodak

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

Bodak A bodak is the undead remains of someone who revered Orcus. Devoid of life and soul, it exists only to cause death. Marked by Orcus. A worshiper of Orcus can take ritual vows while carving the

demon lord’s symbol on its chest over the heart. Orcus’s power flays body, mind, and soul, leaving behind a sentient husk that sucks in all life energy near it. Most bodaks come into being in this way

A Titanic Problem

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

Spiritor Danai, a spirit of revelry who is inhabiting the body of a willing host, a satyr named Kallista. Danai is chaotic good, friendly, and unflappably optimistic. As she approaches, each character

should be god of? How characters react to these confessions affects how Kopoha’s visit to Sylvania ends (see the “Closing Time” section).

Beholder

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

. Disintegration Ray. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 16 Dexterity saving throw or take 45 (10d8) force damage. If this damage reduces the creature to 0 hit points, its body becomes a

is typically a large, spacious cavern with high ceilings, where it can attack without fear of closing to melee range. A beholder encountered in its lair has a challenge rating of 14 (11,500 XP). Lair

Sovereign

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

patron is the head of a country or other national body, they could oversee a powerful private division, a cult of personality, or an elaborate expedition. Also, consider the scale of your patron’s

in a wilderness they’re not prepared to endure. 4 Ruler Returned. A tribe’s revered leader has returned from the dead and seeks to resurrect their past glories. 5 Hidden Power. A mysterious figure

Gods of the Orcs

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

orc that has been chosen by Gruumsh must gouge out one of its eyes as a sign of devotion, sacrificing half of its mortal vision in return for divine power. These god-touched orcs are revered as living

symbolize their connection to the power of Yurtrus. The necromancy practiced by the shamans of Yurtrus is a force considered taboo by orcs, which makes them both revered and feared by the rest of the

Gnome Gods

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

gnomes believe that their ability to speak with burrowing animals comes from Segojan. All gnomes see Segojan as a healer of the sick and a protector of the hearth. He is also revered in his role as a

guide for gnomish souls after death, as long as the body is buried before worms claim it. If a gnome’s body isn’t entrusted to Segojan by interring it, the soul is forced to find its own way to the

Giants

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

upon a sacred quest to find the frost giant and meet it in secret. The troll offers up its own body to be devoured in Vaprak’s name. Only the boldest and most determined frost giants can finish such a

Vaprak’s visions, injuries the frost giant sustains heal wrong, often resulting in discolored skin, warty scars, and vestigial body parts, such as extra digits, limbs, and even extra heads. The touch

Other Religious Systems

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

planes. Some lesser deities live in the Material Plane, as does the unicorn-goddess Lurue of the Forgotten Realms and the titanic shark-god Sekolah revered by the sahuagin. Others live on the Outer

, matter and spirit, body and mind, health and illness, purity and defilement, positive energy and negative energy — the D&D universe is full of polar opposites that could serve as the foundation for a

Greater Caverns Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase

Checkpoint. When an automaton is destroyed, its armored body crumbles to the floor as individual components. This includes its intact helmet, whose interior glows with a similar copper light to the flare that

portal. One Pixel Brush Within the Lost Caverns, Iggwilv penned her fabled treatise on demons. The tome disappeared when she did Closing the Portal. The portal remains open for 1 hour or until six

Exploring the Cemetery

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

Torm’s Sight to Lannish Fogel, a revered hero of Elturel’s past and a dedicated paladin of Torm. The helm pictured in the stained glass is the relic Grand Duke Ravengard came to the chapel in search of

. Whenever Gideon directs his minions to toss a dead body into the pit, an undead creature crawls forth one hour later. Newly created undead patiently wander the cemetery grounds until Gideon gives them

Golem Laboratories

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

stench of preservatives with a hint of rot. Flesh golems in their first gruesome stages of assembly are on a few of the tables. Other tables contain only prepared body parts and bones. A contact stone

the room’s double doors prevents them from fully closing. Within, rusted black iron cages hang by heavy chains from the ceiling of this dark-walled chamber. In the northeast corner is a black gate

Crypt of the Talhund Locations

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

gnome’s body, and he’s now hovering on death’s door. Weakened and scared, Rivibiddel retreated here. Halfway There. He has copied the entirety of He of the Hidden Gemstone, but the last half of his copy

of the Talhund The seven carvings are no mere decorations; each covers a burial niche in which a miner-turned-priest was put to rest. These miner-priests were among the most revered of the Talhund

Locations on the Fortress Level

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a1

quite a while, and rats have gnawed at them. The bodies have been looted. If someone removes the spear pinning the goblin to the wall, the body slumps to reveal Draconic runes on the wall behind it

is opened. If the characters look inside, read: In the coffin is a troll! It’s dressed in rotted finery, but its jewelry and rings adorned with tiny silver dragons still sparkle. The creature’s body

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