being barely devoid caste rule

Yuan-ti Malison (Type 3) Legacy

Monsters Monster Manual (2014)

types are possible. Malisons form the middle caste of yuan-ti society and hunt with arrows tipped with their own venom. They use their magical powers of suggestion to force their enemies&rsquo

impossible to manipulate, influence, or control by nonmagical means, even as it seeks to control other creatures through terror, pleasure, and awe. Yuan-ti know that the world they hope to rule can

Choldrith

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

spiderlike creatures originally created to serve Lolth. They rule colonies of chitine;chitines and lead them into battle in Lolth’s war against her enemies. When devotees of Lolth created the first

connection to Lolth, which gives them divine magic. They also make up the ruling caste of most chitine colonies. A colony can support numerous choldriths, who serve as commanders, priests, and

Yuan-ti Pureblood Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

with that of snakes, producing a caste-based society of hybrids in which the most snakelike are the leaders and the most humanlike are spies and agents in foreign lands. Humans Transformed The

caste system based on how complete a person’s transformation was. The vast majority of yuan-ti fall into three categories — abominations, malisons, and purebloods — while the mutated

Goblin Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

-tiered caste system made up of lashers, hunters, gatherers, and pariahs. The status of every family in the tribe is based on its importance to the tribe’s survival. Families that belong to the

goblin tribe has to nobility is the caste of lashers — families of goblins trained in the ways of battle, and also possessed of key skills such as strategy, trap-building, beast taming, mining

Changeling

Species Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

, their features almost devoid of detail. It is rare to see a changeling in that form, for a typical changeling changes their shape the way others might change clothes. A casual shape—one created

Score Increases When determining your character’s ability scores, increase one score by 2 and increase a different score by 1, or increase three different scores by 1. Follow this rule regardless

The Role of Rules

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium

things they don’t. In a typical D&D session, a DM makes numerous rules decisions—some barely noticeable and others quite obvious. Players also interpret the rules, and the whole group keeps the game

running. There are times, though, when the design intent of a rule isn’t clear or when one rule seems to contradict another. Dealing with those situations is where Sage Advice comes in. This column

The Role of Rules

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata

typical D&D session, a DM makes numerous rules decisions—some barely noticeable and others quite obvious. Players also interpret the rules, and the whole group keeps the game running. There are times

, though, when the design intent of a rule isn’t clear or when one rule seems to contradict another. Dealing with those situations is where Sage Advice comes in. It doesn’t replace a DM’s adjudication

Mount Celestia

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

Mount Celestia The single sacred mountain of Mount Celestia rises from a shining Silver Sea to heights barely visible and utterly incomprehensible, with seven plateaus marking its seven heavenly

the purest souls can. Gazing toward that peak fills even the most jaded of travelers with awe. Optional Rule: Blessed Beneficence In contrast to the dissonance experienced by evil creatures here, good

Emotionless Evil

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

understand emotional connections in a detached, intellectual way, and recognize that these feelings in others can be exploited through bribes, favors, or threats. As creatures devoid of emotion, yuan-ti

well enough to know that they can get away with this casual disregard for life almost anytime. Furthermore, in the yuan-ti caste system, a greater yuan-ti’s life is worth far more than a lesser one’s

Goblins

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

is a yellow-and-red striped whip made of leather. This mark of his authority is used by its wielder against goblins of a lower caste as well as on slaves and enemies. The knowledge of how to make

such a whip is enough to elevate a goblin to the master caste of lashers. Often the secret is guarded by one family in a tribe, which enjoys prestige and influence because it controls the supply of whips

Harkon Lukas

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

the lycanthropes to turn on him. The would-be leader murdered dozens but barely escaped alive, fleeing into a nation of humans. In the years that followed, Harkon learned how to blend in with other

peoples, how to manipulate those he considered his inferiors, and how to turn adoration into a weapon. He decided that if rule over a nation of hunters wasn’t possible, he would force an empire of sheep

Humans Transformed

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

quickly coalesced into a caste system based on how complete a person’s transformation was. The vast majority of yuan-ti fall into three categories — abominations, malisons, and purebloods — while the

interest of maintaining the strength of their personal bloodline. The yuan-ti have abandoned their humanity and consider non-serpentine humanoids to be lesser creatures, barely more civilized than

The Ordning

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

The Ordning Giant society (such as it is) is defined in large part by the ordning, a caste system imposed upon the giants by their gods, chief among them Annam the All-Father. The ordning determines

rule. Dragons are the ancient enemies of giants. Thousands of years ago, the last great empire of giants — Ostoria — fell after a long and brutal conflict with dragons. Little of Ostoria remains in

Asmodeus

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

mortals to evil, but he and his minions never breached a contract and explained the terms clearly. Had they not obeyed the rule of law in doing so? Was it not mortal ambition, rather than infernal deception

but unleashes an inescapable punishment upon any devil that breaches such a contract. He Who Would Rule Asmodeus wants to rule the cosmos. Under his watch, he believes, the universe would take on a

Sora Kell, the Queen of the Night

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

. Tales of Sora Kell claim she is the first night hag, born from Khyber in the first age of the world alongside the ancient rakshasas. Some even claim that her daughters—the hags who rule Droaam—are

vicious monster Sora Maenya—rule the nation of Droaam, either to facilitate their own scheming or at their mother’s command. Adventurers who enjoy the patronage of Sora Kell can impose on her

Mephit Lair Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands

and barely fulfilling its duties. The mephit is Indifferent but defends itself in combat. If the mephit sees the characters enter the cave, it peers at them through the arrow slit and whistles like a

Cells Four cold cells line one wall of this chamber. Floor-to-ceiling iron bars partition the cells, which are unlocked and devoid of valuables. Two of the cells contain unidentifiable skeletal remains

Choldrith

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse

Choldrith Choldriths are monstrous spiderlike creatures originally created to serve Lolth. They rule colonies of chitines (in this book) and lead them into battle in Lolth’s war against her enemies

born with a mystical connection to Lolth, which gives them divine magic. They also make up the ruling caste of most chitine colonies. A colony can support numerous choldriths, who serve as commanders

Solitary but Social

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

mundane messengers such as birds. In most cases, these relationships with her sisters, though devoid of emotion, are the closest a hag comes to having friends. When a hag is attacked or killed, other hags

on rare magic to the hag’s daughter. THE RULE OF THREE They say that things come in threes. Good things. Bad things. Strange things. Hags and purveyors of witchcraft embrace the Rule of Three, as it

Yuan-ti

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

Yuan-ti Yuan-ti are devious serpent folk devoid of compassion. From remote temples in jungles, swamps, and deserts, the yuan-ti plot to supplant and dominate all other races and to make themselves

it seeks to control other creatures through terror, pleasure, and awe. Yuan-ti know that the world they hope to rule can’t be bound for long by brute force, and that many creatures will refuse to serve

Ribcage

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands

Nine Hells and its rigid hierarchy of backstabbing Fiends, Ribcage obeys a strict but mobile caste system. Stratified by morality, residents climb the rungs of society through guile, treachery, and

accomplishment. Alfven Ato Devils rule the brimstone skies above Ribcage, a treacherous town chained to the Nine Hells of Baator Gate A column of roaring red flame swirls within the Citadel of Cinders, a walled

Daggerford

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

within a few generations. Phalorm. Dwarf, elf, and human monarchs all shared the rule of Phalorm, also known as the Realm of Three Crowns, which was founded nearly a thousand years ago in the High

Moor. Phalorm lasted barely a century before repeated orc and goblin attacks overcame it. Kingdom of Man. When Phalorm fell, the surviving humans of the kingdom established the Kingdom of Man

Cobblehook Cove Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves

room’s eastern wall between shelves of cooking supplies. A stressed-looking human barely out of his youth, with blue skin and disheveled white hair, stirs a cauldron over a small fire. On either side of

feather rests on the skeleton’s head. Scratched into the rock nearby are the following words in Common: “Here lies a weakling unfit to rule.” This skeleton is all that remains of Captain Edgard Brandle

Mournland Environment

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

and forms a canopy that hides the ruined realm even from above. The area covered by the mist is a shadowy, muffled region devoid of life, sunlight, and sound. The wall of mist ranges in thickness from

living creatures. The devastation caused localized alterations in the way magic functions. In some places, magic barely functions, or certain magical functions are warped. In other places, spells persist

Faerûn

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

hope, as tenacious civilizations and peoples rebuild, reclaim, and create anew. Amn. A nation led by the representatives of five noble families, Amn is a place where the wealthy rule, openly and without

revere Silvanus, Malar, and occasionally Selûne. Given the Dambrathans’ history of domination by the Crinti, a ruling caste of half-drow, it is no surprise that they reserve their greatest hatred for

Hive Ward

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands

in the Hive Ward: Bleak Cabal. Within the Gatehouse, members of the Bleak Cabal reject the philosophies of other factions, believing the multiverse is devoid of meaning. Bleakers combat their

-o’-wisps: devils pawning stolen souls to rule-bending angels, interplanar fences selling stolen modron parts, demodands advertising jars of their liquefied cohorts as instant bodyguards, and the like

Black Earth Cultists

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

remake the world and rule over all. The Black Earth priests form a cabal of leaders whose fanaticism and magical power serve as the backbone of the cult. Individuals of unusual power hold higher rank

weakness in any form. Therefore, she hates just about everybody, and barely tolerates the other Black Earth cultists. Hellenrae Medium humanoid (human), lawful evil Armor Class 16 Hit Points 78

Cave Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

goblin. This goblin was part of a small scouting group that stumbled across the mine. Finding the cave devoid of obelisk shards, the rest of the goblins left the area, leaving their companion’s corpse

lake. W17: Old Streambed This passageway is barely four feet high and is obstructed by rounded boulders and pebbles. It looks as though it might have been a streambed, though no water flows here now

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