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Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
beneath its feet. Iron golems wield enormous blades to extend their reach, and all can belch clouds of deadly poison.
An iron golem's body is smelted with rare tinctures and admixtures. Though other
. If the golem is left without instructions or is incapacitated, it continues to follow its last orders to the best of its ability. When it can't fulfill its orders, a golem might react violently — or
Lizardfolk
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. For example, humans confronted by an angry troll experience fear on a basic level. Their limbs shake, their thinking becomes panicked and jumbled, and they react by instinct. The emotion of fear takes
’t scared of a troll; instead, they understand that a troll is a fearsome, dangerous creature and react accordingly.
Lizardfolk never become angry in the way others do, but they act with
Warforged
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Eberron: Rising from the Last War
deeper meaning.
The typical warforged has a sexless body shape. Some warforged ignore the concept of gender entirely, while others adopt a gender identity.
The more a warforged develops its
individuality, the more likely it is to modify its body, seeking out an artificer to customize the look of its face, limbs, and plating.
Quirks
Warforged often display an odd personality trait or two, given
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
dragon ages. Eventually, the scales become translucent and shimmer in the light, rippling as the dragon moves. The dragon’s horns and spines hover above the body, moving and shifting along the back
. They usually know of places of power near their lairs and keep detailed records of how phenomena connected to those sites react to outside influences. They also avidly collect magic items and spells that
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
the dragon ages. Eventually, the scales become translucent and shimmer in the light, rippling as the dragon moves. The dragon’s horns and spines hover above the body, moving and shifting along
individuals. They usually know of places of power near their lairs and keep detailed records of how phenomena connected to those sites react to outside influences. They also avidly collect magic items and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
terrors: Before It Arrives. Foreshadow the horror’s approach. How do the environment, nearby animals, the weather and nature, and the light and shadows react? Approaches. What sounds does it make as it
stand? When it reaches out to grab a character, what does it feel like? Attacks. How does it attack? Does it have weapons, or does it use its body to fight? Does it have sharp claws that rake across
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
has a muscular, sexless body shape. Some warforged ignore the concept of gender entirely, while others adopt a gender identity in emulation of creatures around them.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
deeper meaning. The typical warforged has a sexless body shape. Some warforged ignore the concept of gender entirely, while others adopt a gender identity. The more a warforged develops its
individuality, the more likely it is to modify its body, seeking out an artificer to customize the look of its face, limbs, and plating.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
, lizardfolk behave in a distant manner. They don’t mourn fallen comrades or rage against their enemies. They simply observe and react as a situation warrants. Lizardfolk lack meaningful emotional ties
comrade who dies becomes a potential source of food. That companion might have once been a warrior or hunter, but now the body is just freshly killed meat. A lizardfolk who lives among other humanoids can
Kobold
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lack of emotional bonding means they have no concept of marriage or permanent family relationships. Their eggs are placed in a common tribal hatchery with no effort to keep track of who each one
lay up to six eggs per year, and an egg matures for two to three months before it hatches.
Kobolds don’t engage in funeral ceremonies; a dead kobold’s body is burned or disposed of in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
that it’s time to get one’s affairs in order. How much time an elf’s body has left is never certain. Whether hours or years, the period is marked by both intense joy and great sadness. Most mortal elves
accept their upcoming fate with optimism or resignation, but some react by throwing themselves back into the labors of life with a frenzy other elves consider unbecoming. Elves who die of old age
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
of its body, requiring great command of the craft of sculpting, stonecutting, ironworking, or surgery. Sometimes a golem’s creator is the master of the art, but often the individual who desires a
golem must enlist master artisans to do the work. After constructing the body from clay, flesh, iron, or stone, the golem’s creator infuses it with a spirit from the Elemental Plane of Earth. This tiny
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
idealized form, though it’s made of an inorganic material or others react as if it were terrifying.
6 The Darklord’s body disintegrates, leaving only an animate heart, hand, gory ooze, or nervous
stole or used in a terrible crime becomes part of their body—perhaps a sizable jewel, emblem of rulership, or suit of armor.
3 The Darklord’s eyes distend from their sockets like a slug’s tentacles
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
react as the city fell. Iriolarthas conjured a doorway to a magical demiplane and stepped through it just in time. As Ythryn settled into its icy grave, all magic in the city became undone for a brief
lich’s skeletal body turned to dust. FATE OF NETHERIL
The Empire of Netheril arose more than five thousand years ago. Those who follow the Dalereckoning calendar would place the date of Netheril’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
souls into its phylactery, and Iriolarthas’s phylactery has been empty for nearly two thousand years, buried under the rubble of Ythryn far from the demilich’s reach. Having lost its body and its
Wisdom (Insight) check can ascertain that the demilich is watching them closely to see how they react to their surroundings. If the demilich concludes, based on its observations, that the characters
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
. Eventually, the scales become translucent and shimmer in the light, rippling as the dragon moves. The dragon’s horns and spines hover above the body, moving and shifting along the back and tail
know of places of power near their lairs and keep detailed records of how phenomena connected to those sites react to outside influences. They also avidly collect magic items and spells that create
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
scales become translucent and shimmer in the light, rippling as the dragon moves. The dragon’s horns and spines hover above the body, moving and shifting along the back and tail to mirror the
of power near their lairs and keep detailed records of how phenomena connected to those sites react to outside influences. They also avidly collect magic items and spells that create illusions
Orc
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while learning to fight, to survive in the wild, and to fear the gods.
The children that can’t endure the rigors of a life of combat are culled from the main body of the tribe, taken into the
react to them.
As a race, orcs have no noteworthy universal social traits, but some commonality does exist in the crude written communication that all orcs employ and in the way that they use
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
professor of expression) is the current Dean of Expression. Nazzari always want to see art that is bigger, more radical in concept, and more emotionally powerful. For their final project as a mage
-student, Nassari famously “turned in” an earthquake, which almost destroyed three campus buildings. The piece received a standing ovation from the mage-student body—and a grumpy thumbs down from the campus
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
mask. The rider barely manages to stay in the saddle, his body bristling with cruel black arrows.
Blind with panic, the horse plows on, threatening to trample travelers in its path. Before it can
, though, the beast’s legs give way. Both mount and rider topple, crashing into the dust with a piercing whinny and a sound like snapping branches.
Give the characters a moment to react, encouraging
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
that’s a more precise fit for your character concept.
A background gives your character a background feature (a general benefit) and proficiency in two skills, and it might also give you additional
smart character with low Strength.
For example, high Strength usually corresponds with a burly or athletic body, while a character with low Strength might be scrawny or plump.
A character with high
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
, they react with groveling obeisance, each member of the tribe eager to show the barghest that it isn’t worthy of being devoured. SOUL FEEDING
A barghest can feed on the corpse of a humanoid that
it killed that has been dead for less than 10 minutes, devouring both flesh and soul in doing so. This feeding takes at least 1 minute, and it destroys the victim’s body. The victim’s soul is trapped
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
pain. The tiefling can share the following news, assuming the characters don’t react with violence: Aberrant Mind and Body. Something that feels like a magical presence is affecting Wheel-of-Fortune
. They can feel it intruding on their thoughts as well as changing their body. Goblins Again. Several days ago, Wheel-of-Fortune found goblins in the cellar of the Sleeping Giant. Wheel-of-Fortune also
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).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
blows over their differences. Kobolds choose mates primarily for convenience. Their lack of emotional bonding means they have no concept of marriage or permanent family relationships. Their eggs are
body is burned or disposed of in some other convenient way (or, in a cannibalistic tribe, eaten). Kobolds believe that if they die in service to their tribe, Kurtulmak immediately sends each of them
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
, use each nonplayer character’s NPC Card to determine how they react to the character’s words and actions.
Active Roleplaying. In active roleplaying, you speak with a character’s voice and might echo
their body language, like an actor taking on a role. You still need to describe things that can’t reasonably be acted out.
An active approach to roleplaying Bartho, an inexperienced guard prone to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
order, and his body lies atop a floor tile bearing the “foot” hieroglyph. A search of the body yields some valuables (see “Treasure” below). Four torches light the room. As long as they remain in
character steps on a hieroglyph out of order, the statues react as described in “Sphinx Statues.” Stepping on the wrong tile does not reset the sequence. When the final tile in the sequence is stepped on, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
questions they have. The sovereign describes this entity in favorable terms, using “she” and “her” as it does so. Because myconids have no concept of gender, this unusual speech is further indication of
and “her” wedding to the Great Body, and how every myconid is invited, bringing joy to all in the world below and above. Chuul Spore Servants. Behind the myconid breeding grounds is a narrow path
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Manual guide you. Once you have a monster concept in mind, follow the steps below. Step 1. Name A monster’s name should be given as much consideration as any other aspect of the monster, if not more. Your
Player’s Handbook. Step 3. Type A monster’s type provides insight into its origins and nature. The Monster Manual describes each monster type. Choose the type that best fits your concept for the monster
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
marketplace, increasing the horror and the body count each time. Growing Corruption. As time passes, the villain’s power and influence grow, affecting more victims across a larger area. This might take the
from those actions, think about how the adventurers are likely to react. If they can prevent an action or hamper its success, what effect does that have on the villain’s overall plan? What can the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
) and braids its tentacles together into a handlebar mustache. If Szorrulax kills anyone, it immediately drops a black business card set with unintelligible symbols onto the body as a calling card
the boat and the docks react badly to the party’s appearance, and the characters must sneak, talk, or fight their way to safety. Once away from the docks, the characters can lie low for as long as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
creature moves within 10 feet of the pillar, the creature feels its body soften. Whenever a creature starts its turn within 10 feet of the pillar, the creature must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving
pig carcasses toward the arch and heave them through, while blades scythe across the opening and reduce each body to a heap of blood, flesh, and bone that collects on the far side. Two skeletons then
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
characters have lost the element of surprise). Near the base of the spire, characters find the body of an elf lying in the mud. Most of his limbs are broken, the ribcage is crushed, and broken twigs
death. Not far away, the characters find another body, and a third, and so on as they scan around the base of the tower. This same fate awaits any character captured by the pterafolk. The rope-and-wood
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
importance of the goal to the body they inhabit means that they are compelled to try to accomplish this goal. Players can share their secret goal with other individual players once they learn it, as long
consciousness departs its normal body and enters that of a named caravan NPC. Go down the list of caravan NPCs in the order presented in the “Wedding Guests” section above, assigning each guest to a random
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
authority. Through the writings of the wizard who penned it, the illithid perceives the workings of a highly intelligent mind. Most mind flayers who find a spellbook react with abhorrence or
. Arcanist deviants that taste freedom from the colony react in a variety of ways. Some prize their privacy, others seek to commune with similar minds, and still others seek to dominate a colony