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Troglodyte
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Monster Manual (2014)
in the shallow depths of the Underdark in a constant state of war against their neighbors and one another. They mark the borders of their territories with cracked bones and skulls, or with
have such items. A troglodyte tribe might be torn apart by battles over a single longsword.
Devotees of Laogzed. Some troglodytes venerate Laogzed, a demonic, monstrously fat toad-lizard that slumbers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Spell Modifications Drenched in the eldritch energy of the Nine Hells, Avernus warps magic used within its borders. At your discretion, a spell can be cosmetically modified to demonstrate the
corruption of Avernus; these modifications don’t change the spell’s mechanical effects. The following are some examples: Hunter’s Mark. A spectral crown of spiked iron encircles the target’s head. Mage Hand
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lorwyn: First Light
Traversing Lorwyn-Shadowmoor The borders of Lorwyn and Shadowmoor are mostly set. However, they can change for myriad unexpected reasons. Sometimes, boundary shifts are caused by notable births or
Yuan-ti Pureblood
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
body, thought, and emotion. Freed from the limitations of their human bodies, the yuan-ti used their new abilities to conquer new lands and expand their borders.
One Race, Many Forms
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serpent gods taught the humans how to take on aspects of the snake, but the cost of the change was high, requiring many sacrifices for each person to be transformed. Entire households of slaves in
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->One-Shot Wonders: Holiday Adventure Pack
Small Settlements Buaza - This remote village borders a former battlefield, bringing pride and sorrow to its history. Meander - A tranquil resting point for those travelling north, offering multiple
. Greystone - Energy from nearby volcanoes powers the creations of generations of tinkerers. Rylgan - Regularly used by those travelling to and from the desert as a place to change steeds. Jacaranda
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
god should never guarantee success or victory, nor should a god’s interference portend immediate defeat. Gods can act to change the balance of an encounter or offer an avenue of escape, but they count
. Miracles. As the simplest form of miracle, a god can produce the effect of any spell that devotees of that god might cast (typically Cleric or Druid spells). But a god’s direct intervention can take any form you choose, often reflecting the god’s nature.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
monstrous guardians, could be clockwork devices or stuffed toys. This doesn’t change the creatures’ statistics and is revealed only in dramatic moments. Individuals the characters have known for years
. Those unable to escape are eventually forced to don the ludicrous livery of the Dilisnya household staff and become Ivan’s new servants. Closing the Borders. Ivan can close or open Borca’s borders
Kobold
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
, designed to collapse under the weight of any creature heavier than a kobold. On occasion, the route through a kobold lair runs along a ledge that borders a cavern or a crevasse, and the kobolds might
, kobold females aren’t exempted from war or work. Furthermore, kobolds can slowly change sex. If most males or females of a tribe are killed, some survivors change over several months until the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Valachan. Losers rot where they fall in the jungle. Violations of the rules are punishable by death. Chakuna closes her domain’s borders while the trial is underway and can change the hunt’s rules on a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata
the rise of evil dragons and their attempt to free Tiamat from the Nine Hells. If you use Tyranny of Dragons as a springboard into this adventure, you must change the timing of events so that the
patrol Goldenfields’ borders. If the characters take the bait, Goldenfields becomes the starting point for this adventure (see chapter 2). Although you forgo most of Tyranny of Dragons in favor of this
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Troglodyte Violent and ever-hungry, troglodytes squat in the shallow depths of the Underdark in a constant state of war against their neighbors and one another. They mark the borders of their
armor, and fight among one another for the right to have such items. A troglodyte tribe might be torn apart by battles over a single longsword. Devotees of Laogzed. Some troglodytes venerate Laogzed, a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Harkon’s Powers and Dominion A born liar and shape-shifter, Harkon Lukas orchestrates elaborate manipulations. He has statistics similar to a loup garou (see chapter 5) but is never forced to change
. Those who come here seeking him must first talk their way past the taverna’s heavily tattooed head bouncer and mixologist, the werewolf Haldrake Moonbaun. Closing the Borders. When Harkon chooses to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
It’s Your World In creating your campaign world, it helps to start with the core assumptions and consider how your setting might change them. The subsequent sections of this chapter address each
the “Here there be dragons” notations? What if great empires cover huge stretches of countryside, with clearly defined borders between them? The Five Nations of the Eberron setting were once part of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
must change the timing of events so that the Tyranny of Dragons story and the events that precipitate Storm King’s Thunder happen concurrently, with Annam the All-Father breaking the ordning to stir
Emerald Enclave is looking for adventurers to help patrol Goldenfields’ borders. If the characters take the bait, Goldenfields becomes the starting point for this adventure (see chapter 2). Although you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Plane of Air The essential nature of air is movement, animation, and inspiration. Air is the breath of life, the winds of change, the fresh breeze that clears away the fog of ignorance and the
make travel difficult. Here and there, ash clusters into floating realms where outlaws and fugitives take shelter. At the other end of the plane, near the Frostfell (the plane of ice that borders the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
. Keranos’s devotees hatch their grand designs always with an eye on the darkening sky. As a follower of Keranos, consider the ideals on the Keranos’s Ideals table as alternatives to those suggested for
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5 Impatience. Whatever it takes to reach an epiphany, I will do it. (Chaotic)
6 Change. There are no constants in this life. If we don’t innovate and adapt, we are doomed. (Chaotic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
consequences. The Power of Worship. Genies acknowledge the gods as powerful entities but have no desire to court or worship them. They find the endless fawning and mewling of religious devotees tiresome — except
polymorph spell one to three times per day, possibly with a longer duration than normal. Such genies can change only their own shape, but a rare few can use the spell on other creatures and objects
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
tribes of wood elves — and a few moon elf tribes — still roam the wood protecting these ruins, the monuments to their golden age. Few beyond the borders of the High Forest know much about these elves, who
of safe passage might not be honored by the next band of elves. One elf is leading the effort to change this situation. Known as the Red Lady, or simply the Lady of the Wood, Morgwais is a wood elf
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
the gods and so prove impossible to map.
As a result, Map 3.1 serves largely as a vaguely agreed upon arrangement of locations, fuzzy borders, and general distances. While the scale and placement
of sites are true by mortal standards, details might change as the gods please. As such, journeying between places is most reliably conducted by employing guides or maps specific to a single
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
invisibility
Teleport. Graz’zt teleports, along with any equipment he is wearing or carrying, up to 120 feet to an unoccupied space he can see.
Bonus Actions
Change Shape. Graz’zt transforms into a
adorned with finery and decorations so decadent that even the wealthiest of mortals would blush at the excess. Within Graz’zt’s lairs, devotees and subjects alike are forced to slake Graz’zt’s thirst
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
situation to change. Harpers are eager to recruit adventurers to help them combat the giant threat. The Lords’ Alliance Various settlements of the North have banded together to form the Lords
cities of the Sword Coast in the process. When Iymrith reached out to its agents for assistance, Slarkrethel instructed its devotees to humor the dragon by capturing Hekaton, the storm giant king, after
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
of Five are fairly unified and tight-fisted in their control of Amn, but their ability to affect events outside their own borders is limited because they can’t agree enough on major matters of foreign
place Aglarond will be in a generation’s time, except that its potential for great change will be realized. REGIONS OF THE REALMS
Just as “the North” describes an area that includes a number of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
beyond civilization’s borders. 5 I met a grizzled ranger who taught me woodcraft and the secrets of the wild lands. 6 I served in an army, learning the precepts of my profession while blazing trails
spoke of my ancestors, and when I asked, they would change the subject. It wasn’t until I started displaying strange talents that the full truth of my heritage came out. 4 When a monster threatened one of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
happily sunning itself on the rock’s surface. Time and distance in the Feywild are mutable, as is the plane’s geography. Roads are uncommon, and those that exist are as likely to change as the land around
weather spirits. Domain Borders As an archfey’s power waxes or wanes, their Domain of Delight can grow or shrink. If their domain grows big enough to abut or overlap another archfey’s domain, a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
, gardens, the harvest Life, Nature Acorn
Erevan Ilesere CN Mischief, change Trickery Asymmetrical starburst
Fenmarel Mestarine CN Solitude, outcasts Nature, Trickery Two peering elven
of the god’s love and of the primal elves’ original fluid state of being. Many of Corellon’s chief priests bear this blessing.
The rarest of these blessed elves can change their sex whenever they
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
, to serve as guards on the tribe’s most distant borders or as hunters that wander beyond those borders. As such, the stone giants that are first encountered by outsiders are almost always the least
’ social order and initiating a new age. Some would welcome such a change; others would oppose it bitterly and do all they could to stop it, possibly resorting to all-out war. Out for Themselves In the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
change and the struggles for power that result that humans often stray from the righteous path. Perhaps the light of the Companion will show them the way. Elturel’s Guard Sometimes called the Kingdom
note are located within the borders of Elturgard. I describe three of them briefly here. Berdusk. A large population of artisans drives the activity in the city of Berdusk. Its native nobility, the so
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
it was; the entire land is a scar left by the catastrophe of the Mourning. Mist Wall. The borders of the Mournland are defined by a wall of thick, gray mist that rises thousands of feet into the air
by how much, or you can simply increase it by 1 or 2 as you see fit. Many Mournland creatures have mutations that are purely cosmetic and don’t change their stat blocks. For example, one might have
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
or lakes, where devotees use water-breathing magic to immerse themselves in the element they worship. Crushing Wave cultists embrace a philosophy of elusiveness, patience, and opportunism. They are
, or back into its true form. Anything the fathomer is wearing or carrying is subsumed into the serpent form during the change, inaccessible until the fathomer returns to its true form. The fathomer
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
asks them to go back the way they came. The faction doesn’t allow nonmembers to enter their treasure room or ceremonial chamber. Kanadius holds no grudges if the characters later change their minds
, but the Grinning God’s expectations of his devotees are high. Characters who wish to join the faction must prove their worth (see the “Joining the Mages” section). If the characters attack, the