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Eater of Knowledge

Monsters Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse

that god’s followers, eaters of knowledge are lumbering, bipedal masses of squelching muscles and exposed brain matter. These rugose hulks collect information from others by devouring brains

tentacles crack free their victims’ brains. Consuming brains fuels these brutes’ psionic power, making eaters of knowledge deadlier with each brain devoured.Psychic

Eater of Knowledge

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Morte’s Planar Parade

squelching muscles and exposed brain matter. These rugose hulks collect information from others by devouring brains before returning to their masters with delicious secrets. Unlike illithids, which

overwhelm their foes with psionic power, eaters of knowledge use their physical strength to hold prey while burly feeding tentacles crack free their victims’ brains. Consuming brains fuels these brutes

Gruul Creatures

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica

literally give new life to the ruin of the city. These elementals are intensely destructive, but they last only as long as the magic used to summon them persists. Giants Nearly all the Gruul Clans include

hill giants, stone giants, cyclopes, ogres, ettins, and fomorians among their number, and one clan — the Bolrac clan — is composed entirely of such brutes. Hydras Once a hydra chooses a lair and

Mogis's Villains

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

Hidden Rune

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

Hidden Rune Irina Nordsol Giants of the Hidden Rune explore a ruin with help from smaller assistants To the giants of the Hidden Rune, the children of Annam are in a temporary state of decline, a

pause between two great moments in their history. The mission of this scholarly order is to collect the accumulated learning of the past and preserve it so a future giant civilization can build upon

Shadowfell

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

left, but distorted and often sinister. A mountain on the Material Plane might be replaced in the Shadowfell by a skull-shaped rock outcropping, a heap of rubble, or the crumbling ruin of a once

multiverse, mysterious entities known as the Dark Powers collect the most wicked beings from across ages and worlds within inescapable, mist-shrouded demiplanes. In these shadowy prisons, the

Ankheg

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual

easy prey for these monsters. Many ankhegs hunt alone, but those in places with ample food might collect in nests of several dozen and threaten whole towns. Ankheg nests can be challenging to wipe out

Underdark. 2 A buried ruin or grave exposed by the tunnel. 3 A cluster of 1d4 fresh ankheg eggs that can be broken and used as vials of Acid. 4 A dead ankheg and evidence of a deadlier subterranean predator

Waterdeep

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide

, all while merchants dance between them to collect their coins and continue profiting as best they can. Waterdeep’s shops and merchants offer goods of every sort from every corner of Toril, and even

guarding nobility, to investigating a ruin or rumor of monsters anywhere in the North. Though it has stood for hundreds of years, Waterdeep is only now returning to its status of a century and a half ago

Fey Contracts

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory

collect something intangible, such as a creature’s singing voice or the color in its eyes, a Fey must tap into the magic of the Feywild. In other words, it’s the magic of the Feywild, not the Fey

of three quests, each of which you must agree to before the contract is formed 4 Your everlasting fealty 5 The ruin or demise of the Fey’s sworn enemy 6 A precious object (such as a rare, very rare, or

E: Wakenreth

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen

Plane, the ruin is locked in a perpetual state of frozen dissolution. Although the upper levels are crumbling, the shattered stone walls are still bound tightly enough to prevent creatures from slipping

ability checks and saving throws. Stairs. The stairs here climb up to area E2. Treasure. There are 451 silver coins in this room, which a character can collect by spending ten minutes. However, a

Nine Hells

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

deals with night hags, rakshasas, incubi, succubi, and other Fiends. Contracts signed on his layer contain special provisions that allow Dispater to collect a cut of the deal. Dispater is one of

displease her. Maladomini The seventh layer, Maladomini, is ruin-covered wasteland. Dead cities form a desolate urban landscape, and between them are empty quarries, crumbling roads, slag heaps, the hollow

Giants

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

thinner. What the lazy brutes don’t comprehend are the things that make them sick. They consume spoiled food and diseased carcasses with as much enthusiasm as children eating dessert. Fortunately for

close. Believing that they’re living in a dream and that their actions have no real consequences, dreamwalkers act as they please, becoming forces of chaos. As they travel the world, they collect

Locations V - Z

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder

. The giant intends to collect on the 5,000 gp reward being offered for the dwarf’s capture and is using the goblinoids and ogres as a distraction to help him bag the dwarf. While the garrison is

him as they search the ruin. Orok is a nine-year-old human boy armed with a rusty dagger and a homemade sling. He is covered head to toe with soot and grime, and he has sticks woven into his flea

Areas of the Earth Temple

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse

magnificent hall with a soaring ceiling, marble floors, and intricate carvings of prosperous farmlands decorating the walls. It has since fallen to ruin. Deep cracks mar the walls, sections of the

their efforts against the fire cult. Miraj isn’t above offering a bribe to entice enemies, then reneging on the deal if they come back to collect. Miraj calls himself a “mud sorcerer” because he

Metallic Dragons

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

treasure as do their evil chromatic kin, but they aren’t driven as much by greed in their pursuit of wealth. Rather, metallic dragons are driven to investigate and collect, taking unclaimed relics and

have no need for maps. Adventurers and wanderers should be wary if they happen across a chest hidden in an oasis or a treasure cache tucked away in a half-buried desert ruin, for these might be parts

Chromatic Dragons

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

Dragon The most evil-tempered and vile of the chromatic dragons, black dragons collect the wreckage and treasures of fallen peoples. These dragons loathe seeing the weak prosper and revel in the

civilization. A black dragon’s lair is a dismal cave, grotto, or ruin that is at least partially flooded, providing pools where the dragon rests, and where its victims can ferment. The lair is

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