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Hederans are living embodiments of alpine trees, sentient beings of bark and leaf whose bodies host moss, holly and fungi. Their outer skin is made of thick bark that toughens with age, and beneath
the lands they live in.
Hederans have extraordinary lifespans, with some reaching over a thousand years of age. Every two centuries or so, a hederan enters a rare blooming phase when the flowers on
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
cultivated over eons in the Astral Plane. Now all githyanki can use their psychic bond with that plane to access splinters of knowledge left behind by beings who travel, live, and die among the silver
the same ranges of height and weight that humans have in our world. If you’d like to determine your character’s height or weight randomly, consult the Random Height and Weight table in the
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Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
branch.
Today, hadozees are sapient, bipedal beings eager to leave behind the fearsome predators of their home world and explore other worlds.
In addition to being natural climbers, hadozees have feet
randomly, consult the Random Height and Weight table in the Player’s Handbook, and choose the row in the table that best represents the build you imagine for your character.
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
A winged people who originated on the Elemental Plane of Air, aarakocra soar through the sky wherever they wander. The first aarakocra served the Wind Dukes of Aaqa—mighty beings of air&mdash
your character’s height or weight randomly, consult the Random Height and Weight table in the Player’s Handbook, and choose the row in the table that best represents the build you imagine for your character.
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Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
veins making it clear that they’ve been touched by death. Other reborn are marvels of magic or science, being stitched together from disparate beings or bearing mysterious minds in manufactured
itchy straw stuffing inside you.
Reborn in the Domains of Dread
When creating a reborn, consult with your DM to see if it’s appropriate to tie your origins to one of the following Domains
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Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
Giff are tall, broad-shouldered folk with hippo-like features. Some have smooth skin, while others have short bristles on their faces and the tops of their heads. As beings of impressive size and
divine beings who created giff have likewise been forgotten. Their titanic petrified bodies drift on the Astral Sea, isolated and unrecognizable in their current forms.
Although they don’t realize
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
cases, Mother Luba managed to ensnare beings of pure evil amid the strands of fate, imprisoning them within her tarokka deck. There these foul spirits dwell still, trapped within a nether-realm hidden
property, there is a chance that one of the souls trapped in the deck escapes. Roll d100 and consult the Souls of the Tarokka table. If you roll one of the high cards, the soul associated with it escapes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Intellect Devourer Brain-Eating Body Thief Habitat: Underdark; Treasure: None Intellect devourers serve their mind flayer creators by consuming other creatures’ brains and puppetizing the mindless
bodies. These quadrupedal brains seek to ambush sapient beings, then drain their thoughts until they’re mindless. Then, if their victims are Humanoids, they enter the creatures’ skulls. With access to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
continuous slope. The entire journey takes about 14 hours if the characters walk at normal speed. Random Encounters After each hour the characters spend in the tunnel, roll 1d20 and consult the Tunnel
ambush or otherwise prepare for the fight. Tunnel Encounters d20 Encounter 1–2 1d4 grells hunt for food. 3 1d6 gibbering mouthers lie in wait for prey. 4 An intellect devourer inhabits a quaggoth
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
Conclusion The chapter concludes when the characters escape Curst. Once they do, consult the “Advancing in Level” section of chapter 4 and let the party determine their next destination. If Fellik is
with the characters, he tells them he plans to head to Excelsior. If the characters offer to escort him, he welcomes the help but can’t reward them. On reaching the gate-town, Fellik thanks the characters before departing to Mount Celestia.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Opening a Path Reaching the Drought Elder in the Far Realm is no easy task. While spells like plane shift can convey characters to the Far Realm, reaching the unfathomable entity requires a more
precise method of travel. But Yarana has a plan: “A relic of Atagua’s past holds the key to reaching the Drought Elder,” Yarana says. “The Hammock of Worlds once allowed people to visit Chimagua, using
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Xanathar Guild Nine bugbears (five of them under the control of intellect devourers) represent the Xanathar Guild on this level. They’re charged with keeping adventurers from reaching the lower
to kidnap one of the leaders of the Undertakers and take that person back to Skullport to have an intellect devourer implanted in their skull, so that Xanathar can take control of the bandit gang. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Nyxborn Creatures Just as the gods are born of Nyx, so are many creatures. Nyxborn creatures are beings of legend, some the subjects of hopeful dreams and others the product of nightmares. They come
never were and repeat legends that glorify historic individuals, Nyxborn creatures of those stories might arise. Whether monsters, manifestations of long-dead mortals, or other beings, Nyxborn creatures
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Underdark near the lairs of the earliest dragons. In some lands, kobolds serve chromatic or metallic dragons—even worshiping them as divine beings. In other places, kobolds know too well how
that humans have in our world. If you’d like to determine your character’s height or weight randomly, consult the Random Height and Weight table in the Player’s Handbook, and choose the row in the table that best represents the build you imagine for your character.
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->One-Shot Wonders: Holiday Adventure Pack
Hederan Rafa Teruel Hederans are living embodiments of alpine trees, sentient beings of bark and leaf whose bodies host moss, holly and fungi. Their outer skin is made of thick bark that toughens
, and are as diverse as the lands they live in. Hederans have extraordinary lifespans, with some reaching over a thousand years of age. Every two centuries or so, a hederan enters a rare blooming phase
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Immortal Contacts Immortal beings sometimes use mortal intermediaries to contact their agents, but most of them possess magic powerful enough to communicate with you directly, even over impossible
distances. Consult the Immortal Communication table to determine what mysterious method your patron uses to direct your party. Immortal Communication d10 Means of Contact 1 A party member speaks to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
To the Coast The journey to Dread Wolf Cove takes five days—fewer if the characters have Clystran’s guidance or other methods of conveyance. Consult the “Movement in the Wastes” section in chapter 5
from chapter 5 during the journey. Shortly before the characters reach the cove, run the following encounter. Dragonnel Down When the characters are about a day from reaching the Kalaman ships at the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
canyon and convince them to attack a gang of undead about to pass through on their way to attack a village.
4 Consult a hermit who lives in a hidden part of the canyon.
5 Retrieve an item
cling to the canyon’s sides. Reaching some of these natural platforms requires a dangerous climb over jagged rocks. The top of the canyon has a few scrubby plants, but is otherwise barren. Flying monsters
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Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
Autognomes are mechanical beings built by rock gnomes. Sometimes, because of a malfunction or a unique circumstance, an autognome becomes separated from its creator and strikes out on its own.
An
, regardless of race, typically fall into the same ranges of height and weight that humans have in our world. If you’d like to determine your character’s height or weight randomly, consult the
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Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
Plasmoids are amorphous beings with no typical shape. In the presence of other folk, they often adopt a similar shape, but there’s little chance of mistaking a plasmoid for anything else. They
weight that humans have in our world. If you’d like to determine your character’s height or weight randomly, consult the Random Height and Weight table in the Player’s Handbook, and choose the row in the table that best represents the build you imagine for your character.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Magma, which is wedged between the Elemental Planes of Earth and Fire. Within volcanic caverns, lava children form communities, serving primordial beings out of fear or worshiping gods of earth and fire
of spirits of earth and fire. Upon reaching adulthood, a lava child gains the ability to procreate by itself. An adult lava child lays several eggs in its lifetime, which is roughly fifty years
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Brilliance 18 Spore servants 19–20 Traders Ambushers One or more creatures attempt to ambush the party as it makes its way through the Underdark. Roll a d20 and consult the table to determine what the
a chance that characters searching the area find something of interest or value. Roll a d20 and consult the table below to see what, if anything, they find. Ambusher Lair Discoveries d20 Discovery
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
find allies or meet an untimely end. Roll for random encounters as the characters explore this district. You can roll a d20 and consult the Encounters in the Braeryn table, or choose an encounter that
the empty air. If a character engages the dwarf in battle or conversation, the dwarf attacks. Svirfneblin Lure A homeless deep gnome serves as host to an intellect devourer. It tries to lure one or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
. The philosophy of the Blood of Vol teaches that divinity lies within all mortal beings and reveres the undead who have secured that immortality. Various cults are devoted to the demons and horrors
Olladra, goddess of good fortune NG Life, Trickery Domino Onatar, god of craft NG Knowledge Crossed hammer and tongs The Dark Six
Alignment
Suggested Domains
Symbol
The Devourer, god of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
martial weapon or a natural weapon, if it has one. The next creature hit by the touched weapon must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or experience short-term madness for 10 minutes. Consult the
have any awareness of these beings, and no one can claim to know them all.
Some Elder Evils are called gods, primordials, or fiends. Yet some scholars versed in esoteric mysteries insist they are none
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
. These paths lie beyond lands controlled by the poleis and other civilized beings. Dark caves with tunnels leading down into darkness and rivers quietly lapping at fog-shrouded gravel shores give way
such a momentous quest. Once characters enter the Underworld and attain their goal, they still face their most daunting challenge: escape. Consult the following “Paths of Escape” section for ideas on how the living might ultimately make their way back out of the Underworld.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
at each individual fragment of the Prophecy as a self-contained challenge, and they explore how a certain series of actions might fulfill the Prophecy. The immortal beings who are truly invested in
line, with notable scions arising from a family in decline; their “reaching to the sky” could reflect their lofty aspirations or their literal piloting of an airship. “Embers spring to life.” Hope
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
-great castle. The forests of the Shadowfell hold sinister-looking trees, their branches reaching out to snare travelers’ cloaks, and their roots coiling to trip those who pass by. Shadow dragons and
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Undying The undying are undead creatures sustained by positive energy or the devotion of mortal beings. Where strong negative emotions can trap a spirit as a ghost or wraith, the undying are spirits
from their physical forms, existing as beings of pure light. This state is the ultimate goal of the elves of Aerenal, and such beings are known as ascendant councilors. Bound by Love and Light. Undying
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
collective consciousness, the illithids hatch plots as far-reaching and evil as their fathomless minds can conceive. Since the fall of their empires, illithid collectives on the Material Plane have
fears. Mind flayers will sometimes harvest a brain rather than devour it, using it as part of some alien experiment or transforming it into an intellect devourer. QUALITH
On the rare occasion that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
to advise and tutor them for long after the Descent. The Great Old One Beyond the planes known to great wizards and sages lies the Far Realm of the Great Old Ones, beings outside time, space, and
following: Dendar the Night Serpent, Eater of the World, is said to be the spawn of the first nightmare, devourer of foul visions, and harbinger of the end of the world. Her warlocks frequently dream
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
take part in the snail racing, as the experience might prove useful in chapter 2 (see “Reaching the Bottom”). If at least half the characters participate in a snail race, the carnival’s mood rises by
start of each round after the first, roll a d8 and consult the Snail Race Surprises table to determine if something unexpected happens that round. When a surprise occurs, determine which snail is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
who seeks to unite the disparate tribes. She leads the Caerilcarn, the “Council of the Wood,” which periodically gathers many tribal leaders together to share information, consult, and deliberate. Her
, well worth the challenge of reaching them. Mist shrouds the Sisters, and feeds the vegetation on the small plateaus of the area. To the north, the headwaters of the Dessarin River flow down from a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
on what they know about a dead gold dragon’s lost hoard.
Connected Creatures Green dragons see other living beings as objects to subjugate, torment, or eat. Solitary by nature, they seldom
unicorns.
2 An ancient green dragon prevents would-be rescuers from reaching a cursed realm whose people are magically asleep and hidden behind a forest of thorns.
3 A once-peaceful land
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
, opens into the dank stone tower, which stands empty except for a chipped staircase that climbs to a second floor and then ends in midair before reaching the crumbling third level. Mold-covered friezes
of knights kneeling before angelic beings line the stairwell. Tower Top. The dragon’s true hoard is kept safely at the top of the crumbling tower, where the dragon enjoys perching and staring out into






