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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
summon these creatures to serve as guards and assassins, two roles at which they excel.
Star Spawn
The Material Plane represents only one small part of the multiverse. Beyond the best-known planes
Disciples of certain Elder Evils can bestow supernatural gifts on those who serve that cult, including star spawn. The following powers are unique to specific cults; typically a creature has only one
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
assume roles of greater responsibility and prominence. You might be one of Candlekeep’s own, dedicated to the curatorship of what is likely the most complete body of lore and history in all the
work is a series of tomes related to a specific field of lore.
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I’ve been searching my whole life for the answer to a certain question.
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I sold my soul for knowledge. I hope to do
Species
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
Hadozees’ progenitors were mammals no bigger than house cats. Hunted by larger natural predators, they took to the trees and evolved wing-like flaps that enabled them to glide from branch to
game affect creatures of certain types in different ways. For example, the text of the cure wounds spell specifies that the spell doesn’t work on a creature that has the Construct type. (The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
removing a few opponents from combat encounters. If the group is bigger, add opponents to the fights. Consider altering encounters for smaller groups to avoid overly tough battles. Character
Advancement. This adventure uses the milestone experience rule. Under this rule, completing certain events in the campaign causes the characters to level up. See “Advancement” later in this introduction.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
removing a few opponents from combat encounters. If the group is bigger, add opponents to the fights. Consider altering encounters for smaller groups to avoid overly tough battles. Character
Advancement. This adventure uses the milestone experience rule. Under this rule, completing certain events in the campaign causes the characters to level up. See “Advancement” later in this introduction.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
removing a few opponents from combat encounters. If the group is bigger, add opponents to the fights. Consider altering encounters for smaller groups to avoid overly tough battles. Character
Advancement. This adventure uses the milestone experience rule. Under this rule, completing certain events in the campaign causes the characters to level up. See “Advancement” later in this introduction.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Creature Type Each monster has a tag that identifies the type of creature it is. Certain spells, magic items, class features, and other effects in the game interact in special ways with creatures of
people defined by their roles and professions, such as mages, pirates, and warriors. They include members of varied species. Monstrosities are unnatural creatures with strange origins, such as mimics
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Creature Type Each monster has a tag that identifies the type of creature it is. Certain spells, magic items, class features, and other effects in the game interact in special ways with creatures of
as balors and hell hounds. Giants are towering beings with humanlike shapes, like cyclopes, fire giants, and trolls. Humanoids are people defined by their roles and professions, such as mages, pirates
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
; they might have been chosen to fulfill the words of a prophecy, because they were born at auspicious times and places, or because they happened to be in a particular place at a certain time. Individual
characters in your group might have different relationships with your patron, though; consider some or all of these roles for your characters: Agent. The Agent doesn’t receive direct communications
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
path of the cleric. They serve their faiths in other roles, such as priests, scholars, or artisans, while some go on to vocations that have nothing to do with religion. A few souls who are denied the
homebodies who serve a particular community of the faithful, but adventuring clerics tend to have a certain crusading zeal to do their deity’s work in the wider world. This work may include ministering to far-flung communities, as well as seeking out and defeating threats to the civilized world.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
the animals and make them impossible to control. The mushrooms are growing so fast on the rain-soaked ground that a person can almost see them getting bigger. They were the size of champagne corks when
first noticed; within an hour, they grow six inches tall, and a foot tall an hour later. Their growth slows down after that, but by then, most people in the caravan are certain that all is doomed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
as you’re planning adventures. If your adventure relies on certain events, plan for multiple ways they might come about, or be prepared for clever players to prevent those events from happening as
adventure possibilities available to them at the same time. If the characters have two or three things they can investigate or pursue, they have a meaningful choice. And if whatever threads they don’t investigate turn into bigger problems, you’ve clearly demonstrated that their decisions matter.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
the animals and make them impossible to control. The mushrooms are growing so fast on the rain-soaked ground that a person can almost see them getting bigger. They were the size of champagne corks when
first noticed; within an hour, they grow six inches tall, and a foot tall an hour later. Their growth slows down after that, but by then, most people in the caravan are certain that all is doomed
Goblin
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
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Beast Masters and Slave Drivers
Goblins know they are a weak, unsophisticated race that can be easily dominated by bigger, smarter, more organized, more ferocious, or more magical creatures. Their god
stone
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Special breed of rat kept as pet
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Teeth pulled out in certain places
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Owlbear-feather cloaks
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Scars from lashings
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Orc-tusk lip piercings
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Umbrellas
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
exempted certain creatures and objects from its shrinking effect. The spindle itself is unaffected, as is Maddgoth’s homunculus. Faerie dragons are also immune to the shrinking effect, and there might
turns every foot of actual distance into 12 feet of relative distance. From its perspective, the creature would seem to fall several hundred feet before suddenly growing twelve times bigger in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
unworthy of their status and are desperate to prove themselves deserving of it. But they also have the ability to rally in the face of certain death, inspiring others to follow them into battle
always something bigger than you.
—Mordenkainen
Kobold Dragonshield
Small Dragon, Any Alignment
Armor Class 15 (leather, shield)
Hit Points 44 (8d6 + 16)
Speed 20 ft.
STR
12 (+1
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
family leaders. Regardless of your skills or social standing, aristocratic patrons with enough foresight and imagination find a use for agents from any background. The Aristocrat Retainer Roles table
suggests a variety of parts you might play in an aristocrat’s agenda and the backgrounds frequently associated with each role. Aristocrat Retainer Roles Role Backgrounds Advisor Acolyte
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
comes from House Tharashk’s Finders Guild or House Medani’s Warning Guild, promises a certain standard of quality and professional ethics. However, that guarantee comes at a price: most guild-sponsored
flesh out more details about their agency, including allies, enemies, contacts, roles for each character in the agency, type of work, a signature case, and clientele.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
. The Boromars recruit ex-soldiers as muscle, trained sages for research, sailors to crew smuggling vessels, and charlatans and urchins for their unique talents. Consider some or all of these roles for
certain types of theft, such as housebreaking or picking pockets. Besides characters with the criminal background, young urchins often find a place in criminal syndicates by filling this role. Rogues
Orc
Legacy
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
relieved of their other roles and taken to the lair’s whelping pens, where they are tended to by Luthic’s followers.
Orcs don’t take mates, and no pair-bonding occurs in a tribe
the gods has no clear explanation, the priests might have to meditate for hours or days to get a vision of its meaning.
Every group of orcs has particular superstitions and recognizes certain omens
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
houses of commerce derive their power from dragonmarks—hereditary arcane sigils that manifest on certain individuals within the family, granting them limited but useful magical abilities associated
place you expect. Eberron has a unique spot in the D&D multiverse, and many familiar elements of the game play different roles in the world. In particular, mortal creatures are products of culture and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
(some members’ identities remain secret) who serve as Niv-Mizzet’s closest advisors. The Izzet League is organized into units designated as laboratories that specialize in certain fields of research
Niv-Mizzet, urges him to push his guild’s research toward increasingly dangerous and volatile experimentation. For the rest of the guild members, the search for bigger and better weapons is mainly an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Detailed NPCs Flesh out NPCs who play prominent roles in your adventures. You can use the accompanying NPC Tracker to record information as you determine these six elements of your NPC: Name You’ll
crime. 3 The NPC (or their family) has been threatened with harm unless the NPC does something. 4 The NPC is under a magical compulsion (perhaps a Geas spell or some kind of curse) to behave in a certain
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
to them that certain targets are to be avoided, the Little Fingers do so. In return, the Boromars ensure that the Sharn Watch in Middle Dura largely leaves the Fingers alone. So although the Boromar
information about them that’s more or less common knowledge in Sharn. This section explores the roles that each one could play in a Sharn-based campaign. Although the powerful organizations in Sharn have a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
appendix B), which once belonged to Jorlan and is used to capture and restrain prisoners. Jorlan Duskryn Jorlan turned a talent for inflicting pain into skill as a warrior, and a certain roguish charm
benefits that came with both roles. Jorlan thought that Lolth favored him, or at least that his charms had deflected her malice, until he had the misfortune of a run-in with a black pudding on an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monstrous Compendium Volume Two
Ember. The beast is terrifying, both in might and cunning, but it undermines my every design and terrorizes my forces. It’s too canny to be caught, but I’m certain some portion of the troops we’ve lost
has taken on many roles at her behest—including that of a black-robed human member of the Mages of High Sorcery—but he is best known as the adviser of Dragon Highlord Verminaard, leader of the Red
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
has access to certain magic items. You can purchase common magic items from your patron contact. The DM determines the available stock or can call for a group Intelligence (Investigation) check to
unwittingly fell into the patron’s service. The Ancient Being Operative Roles table suggests a variety of parts you can play within an ancient being’s schemes and the backgrounds frequently associated with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
, and other perks. Rank. Characters can earn promotions as their renown increases. You can establish certain thresholds of renown that serve as prerequisites (though not necessarily the only
within an organization comes with certain benefits, as defined by you. A character of low rank might gain access to a reliable contact and adventure leads, a safe house, or a trader willing to offer a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
. Spellcasting Focus. You can use a Holy Symbol as a Spellcasting Focus for your Cleric spells. Level 1: Divine Order You have dedicated yourself to one of the following sacred roles of your choice. Protector
uses when you finish a Short Rest, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest. You gain additional uses when you reach certain Cleric levels, as shown in the Channel Divinity column of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
. Spellcasting Focus. You can use a Holy Symbol as a Spellcasting Focus for your Cleric spells. Level 1: Divine Order You have dedicated yourself to one of the following sacred roles of your choice. Protector
uses when you finish a Short Rest, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest. You gain additional uses when you reach certain Cleric levels, as shown in the Channel Divinity column
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
following sacred roles of your choice. Magician. You know one extra cantrip from the Druid spell list. In addition, your mystical connection to nature gives you a bonus to your Intelligence (Arcana or
. You can use Wild Shape twice. You regain one expended use when you finish a Short Rest, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest. You gain additional uses when you reach certain
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
following sacred roles of your choice. Magician. You know one extra cantrip from the Druid spell list. In addition, your mystical connection to nature gives you a bonus to your Intelligence (Arcana or
. You can use Wild Shape twice. You regain one expended use when you finish a Short Rest, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest. You gain additional uses when you reach certain
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
bureaucratic empire, or a remote realm ruled by an iron-fisted tyrant. Consider how your settlement fits into the bigger picture of your world or region — who rules its ruler, and what other
landowners or certain classes can vote could be considered a republic. Satrapy. Conquerors and representatives of another government wield power, ruling the settlement or region as part of a larger empire
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
Riders on the Storm As the characters travel to the Greypeaks, they encounter unusual weather, followed by an ambush by the Six. How well the characters negotiate the weather determines certain
really large party can use the Help action to aid one of the characters taking a role above, or can come up with their own strategy (such as casting an appropriate spell). Any roles not filled by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
sent off to find other jobs or becoming the dragon’s next meal. Depending on the size of the commercial enterprise, the dragon might have subordinates who are responsible for certain aspects of the
of “ancient being,” as described in that chapter, but depending on their roles and personalities, they might act more like another kind of patron. Teacher The oldest dragons are deep wellsprings of