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whips around a feline face, revealing piercing blue eyes that can freeze foes with a single glance. Compared to its desert-dwelling cousins, this sphinx is far less likely to be defeated with reason or
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
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Star Spawn Emissary
Few understand the full hungry hostility of the multiverse. Star spawn emissaries are the fingers of alien realms, digits that tip the scales of reality toward terror. Heralded by
in its lesser form. When this form is destroyed, the emissary’s body collapses into a gory slurry. It then instantly returns in its greater form. Only if the emissary is defeated in its greater
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
emissaries are the fingers of alien realms, digits that tip the scales of reality toward terror. Heralded by ominous astrological events, these ravenous invaders make worlds ready for unimaginable masters or
slurry. It then instantly returns in its greater form. Only if the emissary is defeated in its greater form does the star spawn die.
After finishing a long rest, a greater star spawn emissary regains
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
personnel and bureaucracy, and you know how to navigate those connections with some ease.
Additionally, you are likely to gain preferential treatment at other libraries across the Realms, as
. . . everyone . . . is . . . compared . . . to me.
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I am horribly, horribly awkward in social situations.
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I’m convinced that people are always trying to steal my secrets
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Species
Basic Rules (2014)
xenophobic, in general their societies are inclusive. Human lands welcome large numbers of nonhumans compared to the proportion of humans who live in nonhuman lands.
Exemplars of Ambition
Humans who
naming traditions of their ancestors.
The material culture and physical characteristics of humans can change wildly from region to region. In the Forgotten Realms, for example, the clothing, architecture
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
sooner had the gith defeated their sworn enemies than they were plunged into a bitter civil war. In the ensuing conflict, Zerthimon was killed and his followers, naming themselves githzerai
their revenge on the mind flayers. Through forays into the Material Plane and other realms, they provide stiff opposition to their enemies’ plans for world domination.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Age Giants are long-lived compared to humans, though not as much as their semidivine ancestors. Their life spans generally correspond with their place in the ordning, with hill giants living about
comically out of touch with happenings in the wider world, keeping a store of knowledge about Humanoid realms and peoples that was already outdated when they learned it as children. The Ancient
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
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— Troy Denning, Death of the Dragon
Whether doughty warriors, idealistic young soldiers, or hard-bitten mercenaries, fighters are found everywhere in the Forgotten Realms. Even the most peaceful
lands have militia for protection against their enemies, and many great rulers in the Realms’ past were fighters of some sort. There are always opportunities for those who know how to handle themselves
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
subterranean realms. Beholders are a particular threat to adventurers because both gravitate toward mysterious ruins and sites of great magic. Many beholders collect the magic items and petrified bodies of heroes they’ve defeated, displaying them as trophies.
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->One-Shot Wonders: Holiday Adventure Pack
single glance. Compared to its desert-dwelling cousins, this sphinx is far less likely to be defeated with reason or logic. Although a snow sphinx can speak, it generally greets its prey with claws and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
vault in which he stored his phylactery. Eventually, Szass Tam and his followers defeated and enslaved Gul. They changed the Doomvault into a monstrous menagerie and arcane laboratory. Although the
Szass Tam is siphoning the power of members of the Chosen, mortals who have been invested with the power of the gods so as to help shape the Realms to match the will of their divine benefactors. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
pursuits, such as creating the perfect mortal form and visiting dream realms within an individual’s psyche. As Hazlik advanced in power, he developed rivalries with his fellow Red Wizards. Through
, sought to undermine them before they became threats. Moreover, they deemed Hazlik’s transformation of Indreficus an abomination. As punishment, they ruled that every rival Hazlik had defeated could exact
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
object or knowledge it guards vanishes. Even if a sphinx is attacked and defeated, a quester will still fail to gain the secret it sought — and will make an enemy of the god that placed the sphinx as a
access extraplanar realms. A conversation with a sphinx that begins between tumbled stone walls might suddenly shift to an alien locale, such as a life-sized game board or a daunting cliff that must be
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
killed, while the face of Faerûn was reshaped by waves and veils of mystic blue fire. Entire nations were displaced or exchanged with realms from other worlds, and parts of the earth were torn free to
to be mystified as to why they would be singled out. In 1485, in Icewind Dale, the Chosen of Auril foments war with Ten-Towns and was defeated. In Anauroch, seeing that Netherese forces were spread
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Phantom Collecting the souls of your defeated foes in everyday objects—what a good idea. Though, I’d probably need an encyclopedia to hold all my anti-admirers.
Tasha
Many rogues walk a fine line
Shadowfell are masters of these macabre techniques, and some are willing to teach this path. In places like Thay in the Forgotten Realms and Karrnath in Eberron, where many necromancers practice their craft, a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
they are found guilty they are dispatched to Malbolge to endure years of torment. That Glasya is both prison warden and the Nine Hells’ most notorious criminal is evidence that in the infernal realms
Material Plane. They have one critical advantage compared to their mortal contemporaries: Glasya’s knowledge of the law. She knew that in many cases, procedures that devils observed and obeyed as laws
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Star Spawn Emissary Greater Star Spawn Emissary
Few understand the full hungry hostility of the multiverse. Star spawn emissaries are the fingers of alien realms, digits that tip the scales of
encountered in its lesser form. When this form is destroyed, the emissary’s body collapses into a gory slurry. It then instantly returns in its greater form. Only if the emissary is defeated in its greater
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
defeated and Helm’s Hold at last cleansed. Order of the Gilded Eye Among those stalwarts who saved Helm’s Hold was a member of the Order of the Gauntlet. This man was Javen Tarmikos, and seeing the
in the shadows, growing stronger until they attack. This seemed particularly true of otherworldly threats, such as portals to fiendish realms, evil spirits that seek to possess the living, and the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
largely by how they perceive outsiders and how much of a threat those outsiders might pose. Hill Dwarves. Most of the dwarves on Oerth are hill dwarves. Compared to the mountain dwarves, they have a
painfully naive optimists who risk losing their precious works because of their overexposure to the outside world. Dwarves of the Forgotten Realms In an age long since passed into myth, the dwarves of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
they aren’t disturbed. Mordenkainen is familiar with worlds beyond his own. For example, if the characters come from the Forgotten Realms and mention this fact to Mordenkainen, he asks them if they
Symbol of Ravenkind, the Tome of Strahd, and the Sunsword, he insists that these items be recovered before he and the party confront Strahd. If Strahd is defeated and Mordenkainen survives, the archmage gladly accompanies the characters back to their world if they invite him, if only not to disappoint them.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
demonstrating just how superior a giant’s strength is compared to smaller creatures. Such a boss might run a protection racket, a group of highway robbers, or a kidnapping ring. A giant boss might even take to
a life of piracy, following in the enormous footsteps of Huzza, a hill giant in the world of the Forgotten Realms. The Boss Assignments table suggests the kinds of missions a giant boss might send
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
nations, a tremendous, forbidding jungle, and all manner of lands destroyed or transformed by magical cataclysms and upheavals. Amid the ruin and the distress in these realms are signs of renewal and
good works disappear within a generation or two. In some cases, one of these realms is fortunate to be saved from its inevitable decline by another group of successful adventurers, who inject enough
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
destroyed. Nevervault For Characters of 8th–10th Level Robson Michel The crypts of the Nevervault imprison deathless threats with a tenacious grip on the realms of the living In this encounter
and attacks the characters. Skall aids the characters in combat against the spirit but withholds his more potent abilities unless the characters are about to be defeated. If the spirit is reduced to 0
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
as well as) the stirges, the kobolds fight back. Otherwise, the kobolds hang back, trying to stay out of the way until the fight is over. Once the stirges have been defeated, if the kobolds survive
used for research in centuries past. The sculpture depicts the planet of Toril (the world of the Forgotten Realms), its moon (called Selûne), the sun, and seven other planets, as well as one comet with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
pantheon, pushes his children to increase their numbers so they may be his instrument of revenge against the realms of elves, humans, and dwarves. In order to spite the gods who spurned him, Gruumsh leads
be broken and defeated by superior strength. Competing in Cruelty. Most young orcs that an explorer or an adventurer might encounters are followers of Bahgtru. Orcs of Bahgtru continually try to prove
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
serves as an adviser and mediator to scattered groups of giants, traveling extensively to visit far-flung communities. In some places, priests of Annam are great kings who rule over realms comprising
of the worlds. In this tale, Annam defeated Memnor but was left so weakened by the contest that Annam fled to his private sanctum, leaving his children to govern the affairs of the giants. Memnor is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
during the battle or after the demons are defeated. He speaks to the characters, thanking them for any assistance in defeating the demonic intruders. He makes it clear that his singular focus is stopping
against their incursions, and expounding that the demonic threat must be defeated at all costs. It praises the devils that stoically stand against the unending demonic tide, while chastising Helm, Torm
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
work with the locals before adventurers defeated the bandits and cleared their hideout in the dungeon of Tresendar Manor. He served a sentence on a work gang for his involvement with the bandits, but
to the idea. Sharna is a formidable combatant compared to most folk in Phandalin. She also keeps four bodyguards (thugs) on hand to guard the exchange, travel to the mines, rough up “uncooperative
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
happens only once. P36: West Chamber Four leather sacks sit on the floor of this 20-foot-long hallway. Each of the sacks contains 100 gp. P37: East Chamber The slain bodies of two wights, defeated by Uma
thoughts the pharaoh sleeps,
In dreamy realms and sky so deep.
The high priest worked a wonder great,
And sealed him up into his fate.
Great Nafik, the priest most high,
Studies tomes that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a1
Intelligence (Investigation) check, a character can deduce the presence of the pressure plate from variations in the mortar and stone around it, compared to the surrounding floor. Wedging an iron spike
(up to normal for a troll), and can’t use Multiattack. If he is defeated in this state, the dragonpriest is worth 450 XP. Development. The dragonpriest won’t pursue fleeing characters. Instead, he
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
, so that by the time it is old, it is mottled by patches of pale blue and light gray. This patterning helps the dragon blend into the realms of ice and stone in which it hunts, and to fade from view
defeated by a frost giant often becomes its servant, accepting the mastery of a superior creature in exchange for asserting its own domination over the other creatures that serve or oppose the giant