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Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
past, but the clever wizard returns each time to steer the Cult of the Dragon into more desperate and sinister plots.Acid, Necrotic, Poison
rule Faerûn. His Cult of the Dragon devotes itself to helping evil dragons become dracoliches to bring this evil new age to fruition.
Sammaster was killed in battle, but had prepared contingencies
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
clever wizard returns each time to steer the Cult of the Dragon into more desperate and sinister plots.Necrotic, PoisonAcid, Cold, Lightning
. His Cult of the Dragon devotes itself to helping evil dragons become dracoliches to bring this evil new age to fruition.
Sammaster was killed in battle, but had prepared contingencies for his demise
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
condition until the end of its next turn. Hit or Miss: The boomerang magically returns to the giant’s hand immediately after the attack.
Spellcasting. The giant casts one of the following spells
. As if that weren’t enough, cloud giants often bring tremendous wealth with them, swelling the cult’s coffers to finance more far-reaching operations.
A cloud giant dedicated to Evil Air
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
ally, using it to defend their people or enact Thassa’s wishes. While dire threats from the land might bring them to coastal shallows, most masters of waves keep to the ocean’s depths
offerings to Thassa might defuse the tritons’ ire—that is, if they survive the deadly winds and waves that typically herald these sea guardians’ appearance.
Clever, far-ranging people
Species
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
ground and faced your ancestors, and twenty fell before his singing blades. You are no Dhakaani of old, and a mere twenty of you will bring no honor to the Taeri.”
The warlord hissed in fury, and
into the eyes of the stunned onlookers. She smiled behind her spirit veil, counting the blades arrayed against her.
“But forty will.”
Elven culture began on the distant continent of Xen
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
horrors are colossal, malevolent entities that occasionally slip the bonds of the Far Realm and find themselves adrift on the Astral Plane. Drawn to the light of distant stars, these creatures invade
Wildspace systems and lay waste to worlds. After feeding on the minds and bodies of a world’s inhabitants until it is sated, a cosmic horror usually returns to the void, where it falls into a deep
Species
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
ground and faced your ancestors, and twenty fell before his singing blades. You are no Dhakaani of old, and a mere twenty of you will bring no honor to the Taeri.”
The warlord hissed in fury, and
into the eyes of the stunned onlookers. She smiled behind her spirit veil, counting the blades arrayed against her.
“But forty will.”
Elven culture began on the distant continent of Xen
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
bring cosmic wrath upon the characters.The Rogue’s Lair
This villain resides in a place of power and safety, whether that’s a hidden thieves’ guildhall or a lavish manse. The lair is
filled with clever defenses to disorient, weaken, and kill intruders.
The villain’s challenge rating increases while the villain is in this lair:
Veiled Presence. Challenge 22 (41,000 XP
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
Order of the Silver Dragon at a young age and quickly earned the friendship of its founder, the silver dragon Argynvost. When he became a knight of the order, he traveled to distant lands to wage war
Barovia would fade, allowing the spirits of Vladimir and his knights to enter the afterlife. Nevertheless, Vladimir would rather savor Strahd's torment than bring peace to his fallen order or peace
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
ominous astrological events, these ravenous invaders make worlds ready for unimaginable masters or distant, greater manifestations of themselves. Employing their malleable forms, emissaries work to
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
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
target has disadvantage on saving throws until the end of the shadar-kai’s next turn. Hit or Miss: The dagger magically returns to the shadar-kai’s hand immediately after a ranged attack
metaphoric representation of some story—great or small—that was saturated with raw emotion.
Shadar-kai encountered outside the Shadowfell are often on quests to find the most sorrow-touched items they can find to bring back to their queen’s gloomy castle.Necrotic, Psychic
Species
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
ground and faced your ancestors, and twenty fell before his singing blades. You are no Dhakaani of old, and a mere twenty of you will bring no honor to the Taeri.”
The warlord hissed in fury, and
into the eyes of the stunned onlookers. She smiled behind her spirit veil, counting the blades arrayed against her.
“But forty will.”
Elven culture began on the distant continent of Xen
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
distant, greater manifestations of themselves. Employing their malleable forms, emissaries work to undermine perceptions of order, trust, and reality on global scales, readying worlds for sanity
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
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
casting elder runes on them. Halaster’s gates connect the different levels of Undermountain, thus enabling him to bring new monsters into the dungeon to replenish those that die or escape. Even as
effect is triggered, as though Halaster had cast minor illusion in an area. Common illusions include the echo of rattling chains, the distant sound of explosive spells being cast, a dusty cloak or a rusty
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
"} necrotic damage. Hit or Miss: The spear magically returns to the shadar-kai’s hand immediately after a ranged attack.
Spellcasting. The shadar-kai casts one of the following spells, requiring no
saturated with raw emotion.
Shadar-kai encountered outside the Shadowfell are often on quests to find the most sorrow-touched items they can find to bring back to their queen’s gloomy castle.Necrotic
Monsters
Tomb of Annihilation
returns to normal at a rate of 10 degrees per minute.
Artus can cast one of the following spells from the ring (spell save DC 17) by expending the necessary number of charges: Bigby's hand (2
city of Mezro during the Spellplague. No longer content to wait for Alisanda and Mezro to return on their own, Artus has been seeking the means to bring them back. He believes that Saja N’baza, an
Species
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
ground and faced your ancestors, and twenty fell before his singing blades. You are no Dhakaani of old, and a mere twenty of you will bring no honor to the Taeri.”
The warlord hissed in fury, and
into the eyes of the stunned onlookers. She smiled behind her spirit veil, counting the blades arrayed against her.
“But forty will.”
Elven culture began on the distant continent of Xen
Gnome
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Species
Basic Rules (2014)
whenever they can. Their homes are well hidden by both clever construction and simple illusions. Welcome visitors are quickly ushered into the bright, warm burrows. Those who are not welcome are
over time. Gnome names are typically variants on the names of ancestors or distant relatives, though some are purely new inventions. When dealing with humans and others who are “stuffy” about
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
North. The Lords’ Alliance represents one of the greatest threats to dragons in Faerûn, so Iymrith is keen to bring about its end.Blue dragons make their lairs in barren places, using
that lair is invaded. The dragon then burrows out, leaving its attackers to be crushed and suffocated. When it returns later, it collects its possessions — along with the wealth of the dead
Orc
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
hatred of the civilized races of the world and their need to satisfy the demands of their deities, the orcs know that if they fight well and bring glory to their tribe, Gruumsh will call them home to
infirm. Orcs don’t revere their gods as much as they fear them; every tribe has superstitions about how to avert their wrath or bring their favor. This deep-seated uncertainty and fear comes forth
Magic Items
Tomb of Annihilation
Guide). If it succeeds, the ring compels its wearer to cause undue harm to everyone and everything around it, in a cold-hearted attempt to incur the wrath of enemies and bring about the wearer&rsquo
point the temperature in the area returns to normal at a rate of 10 degrees per minute.
You can cast one of the following spells from the ring (spell save DC 17) by expending the necessary number of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
do they hail from distant lands? How long have the characters known each other? What might bring them to Phandalin?
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes’ Feast: Saving the Children’s Menu
Invido Returns Lord Invido’s agents lost track of Ignis and her children at Arthur’s farm. When they returned to Invido’s stronghold and admitted their failure, Invido sent a new search party to kill
Ignis and bring back her children. You can have Invido’s agents arrive when the characters are gathering the final ingredient they need or when they’ve reached an accord with Ignis.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
at peace. If the characters bring back any relics from Haskasori, Eldemere directs them to buyers. Regardless of what or how much the party returns with, these antiquarians pay an amount equal to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
. This section also presents other playable races that have performed important roles in the world’s evolution: Changelings are clever shapechangers who can disguise themselves as other people
-threatening evils for centuries. Shifters draw on their distant lycanthropic heritage to manifest bestial traits for short periods of time. Warforged are artificial lifeforms built to fight in the Last War. Created as tools of battle, they now seek a place and purpose beyond war.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
nervously defer to Korvala. If she’s in the hideout, the jackalweres bring the characters to her office. If Korvala is not present, they ask the characters to wait in area A1 until she returns.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Jalester Silvermane An earnest man in his mid-twenties, Jalester hails from the distant land of Cormyr, where he earned his spurs working for a mercenary company called the Steel Shadows. A few years
government, but Faerrel was killed while helping bring the perpetrators to justice. Jalester remained in Waterdeep afterward, becoming one of Laeral’s field operatives in the service of Waterdeep and the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
, shields leap from the walls to protect him (see “Flying Shields” below). During waking hours, Ras Nsi returns here only if he’s in danger. If the characters defeat Ras Nsi and question him, he reveals the
following information to save his skin: Ras Nsi is slowly rotting to death. He doesn’t know the cause of his affliction and has no way to cure it. Before he dies, Ras Nsi wants to bring forth Dendar
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
fifty feet outside the gates. An intangible ward forces creatures that can fly naturally to either land or circumnavigate Candlekeep altogether. Ordinary birds are unaffected by this ward, and a clever
collection is magically protected against theft. Any such work that is removed from the keep disappears and immediately returns to its proper place in the library. This ward also has a flaw that the Avowed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
a clasp in the form of a dragon’s skull. His bearing is upright and stern, with a clipped, brusque way of speaking. Particularly clever plans and observations bring a hint of a smile to his face
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
’ questions, the mist filling the common room swirls faster, and the characters hear the distant sound of howling wind and pounding waves. The spirits cry out, “Something terrible threatens our precious lore
. Please help us, or our people’s secrets will be lost forever!” Then the mist roils away to nothing and the haints vanish. The common room returns to normal, but where the spirits vanished, two
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
travels there alone because he likes to flirt with a bartender named Karyssa (neutral, human commoner). Elix usually leaves the guildhouse at sundown and returns by midnight. Characters can approach
Guildmaster Dusk’s private quarters). Clever characters can steal Elix’s identity as well as his key. If Elix is either detained or disposed of, a character can use magic (for example, alter self or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
be at least partially blinded by dark emotions, a state that might make them easy to manipulate by the followers of clever deities. The servants of the god of slaughter aren’t all mindless brutes
, though, and many allow themselves to be underestimated as a ploy to bring ruin upon their foes. The Mogis’s Villains table suggests a variety of foes that might arise from among the god’s followers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Random Encounters Random encounters can bring the region to life. An encounter might occur while the characters are traveling from one location to another or whenever the DM feels appropriate. To
gp in a coin pouch. 5 Ten giant bats swoop in and attack the characters. The bats focus their attacks on the character who makes the most noise. 6 The characters hear distant howls. Two dire wolves and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Iyana are separated, and Iyana lives in distant Fairhaven with her sister. Alden is terse with the characters and wants them to leave him alone. The moment they bring up Daask, the Sharn Watch, or Coal