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Dungeon Master’s Guide
wielder doesn’t share this goal.
Destroying Whelm. Whelm can be dissolved in the acidic bile of a recently slain ancient black dragon. It can also be melted down in the forges of the Mightyhammer dwarf clan, but only by the rightful leader of that clan.
. Whelm has ties to the dwarf clan that created it, called the Dankil or the Mightyhammer clan. It longs to be returned to that clan. Whelm’s purpose is to protect dwarves. Conflict arises if the
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
is Master of Arms and Mercenaries for the Waterdeep Zhentarim. In this role, she provides armor, weapons, and training to sellswords on the Black Network's payroll.
Tashlyn has established a useful
cover by serving as a bodyguard to Vorondar Levelstone, a dwarf magister stationed at the South Gate. She likes the dwarf and has earned his confidence, allowing her to reach the rank of captain in the
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
metals and stones, such as coins and gems, within 60 feet of her.Istrid is regarded as the Black Network's Master of Trade and Coin in Waterdeep. The shield dwarf operates an illegal lending operation
Gray Dwarf (Duergar)
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Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
grim, ashen-skinned dwarves now take slaves of their own and are as tyrannical as their former masters.
Physically similar to other dwarves in some ways, duergar are wiry and lean, with black eyes and
with your Dungeon Master to see if you can play a gray dwarf character.
Duergar see themselves as the true manifestation of dwarven ideals, clever enough not to be taken in by the treacherous deceptions
Monsters
Keys from the Golden Vault
opportunity attack;opportunity attacks.Prisoner 13 is a dwarf named Korda Glintstone. Prior to her incarceration years ago, Korda was an ally and agent of Clan Axebreaker, a moderately influential dwarf
. Black and gray smoke and shadows coil down her left arm, ending in runes on the fingers of her left hand.
Knotwork. Purple and blue knotwork and runes run down her right arm, across the back of her right
Human
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Basic Rules (2014)
. Human skin shades range from nearly black to very pale, and hair colors from black to blond (curly, kinky, or straight); males might sport facial hair that is sparse or thick. A lot of humans have a
single elf or dwarf might take on the responsibility of guarding a special location or a powerful secret, humans found sacred orders and institutions for such purposes. While dwarf clans and halfling
Dwarf
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friend. In spite of the added discomfort, the dwarf’s long, pointed, often-broken nose and gray-streaked though still-fiery red beard came as a welcome sight to Drizzt. “Knew I’d find
common shades are light brown or deep tan, like certain tones of earth. Their hair, worn long but in simple styles, is usually black, gray, or brown, though paler dwarves often have red hair. Male
Lizardfolk
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
freshly grilled steak.
— Tordek, dwarf fighter and adventurer
Only a fool looks at the lizardfolk and sees nothing more than scaly humanoids. Their physical shape notwithstanding, lizardfolk
lizardfolk doesn’t share those feelings, but instead assesses them in the same clinical manner. Yes, the fallen dwarf might be most useful as a meal, but hacking the body into steaks provokes aggression
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
following stat blocks in the Monster Manual or on D&D Beyond: Black Pudding Commoner Crawling Claws, Swarm of Cultist Fanatic Flameskull Ghast Gravecaller Ghost Ghoul Mummy Silver Dragon Wyrmling
) T1 Eleith Brittlebones Deluded dwarf cultist Cultist Fanatic (Medium, Chaotic Evil) T6 Melindra Vox Cult librarian Ghost (Chaotic Evil) T6 Oriann Solaris Aasimar innkeeper and quest giver Commoner
Paladin
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shines from her hands, the man’s wounds knit closed, and his eyes open wide with amazement.
A dwarf crouches behind an outcrop, his black cloak making him nearly invisible in the night, and watches
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
gleaming black alloy of unknown origin, the servant is often described as a combination of a disproportioned dwarf and an oversized beetle. The servant contains enough space for 1 ton of cargo and a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Castle Ravenloft d12 + d8 Encounter 2 Ezmerelda d’Avenir (see appendix D) 3 Rahadin (see appendix D) 4 1 black cat 5 1 broom of animated attack (see appendix D) 6 1d4 + 1 flying swords 7 Blinsky
toy 8 Unseen servant 9 1d4 Barovian commoners 10 2d6 crawling claws 11 1d6 shadows 12 1d6 swarms of bats 13 1 crawling Strahd zombie (see appendix D) 14 1d4 + 1 Vistani thugs 15 1d4 wights 16 Trinket 17
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
. Crawling Claws A mob of severed hands, their mummified flesh black with soot, skitters out of the darkness across the dusty floor. The crawling claws gang up on one party member. During the confusion
! Grizzlegut, where are you? A pox on you, you mangy cat!” Through the darkness comes a crone wearing a pointed black hat and a burlap gown stained with soot.
Characters can try to hide from the witch
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
Najkir Monastery Joshua Raphael The Island Najkir The island Najkir is a rugged, egg-shaped island 6 miles wide and 10 miles long. Persistent fog shrouds much of the island, which has a black pebble
entering the cave and climbing to the monastery’s entrance. A pier allows small boats to dock near the entrance. The monastery has long been a retreat for folk seeking enlightenment. The monks who reside here are peaceful.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
honored dead. People. The inhabitants of San Citlán typically have skin of light to medium brown, black hair, and dark eyes. Humans and dwarves are the most common folk in the city. A small number of
intelligent Undead known as olvidados (detailed below) also reside here and are fully accepted as citizens. Languages. The language of San Citlán is Citlanés, which is related to Tletlahtolli (the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Aurinax Aurinax is a male adult gold dragon who can freely ignore Ahghairon’s dragonward (see “Ahghairon’s Dragonward,” in the Introduction) and reside in the city. Maaril, the archmage who last
left in Waterdeep who knows about Aurinax or the whereabouts of the dragonstaff. Game Statistics Aurinax is an adult gold dragon. He often assumes the form of an elderly gold dwarf named Barok Clanghammer, who uses the dragonstaff as a walking stick.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
outside the doors. Crawling around their feet are four swarms of rats.
Purple Flames. Mounted on the back walls of four wide alcoves are rusty iron sconces, each holding a torch coated in black wax
dragon wings on the right door. Above the double door is a 3-foot-diameter disk painted black with a purple metal rim (the symbol of Shar).
Cultists and Rats. Twelve human cultists of Shar are chanting
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
-bearded dwarf in a custodial uniform carrying a heavy, square tome bound in black leather. The weight of the book causes the old dwarf to wheeze, squint, and clench his teeth. Before he can utter a word
, his knees buckle and he collapses with the book pressed underneath him.
The dwarf, Buron Sternmettle, is dead—the victim of a sudden heart attack. Because his soul doesn’t want to return, spells
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
adventurers and left here. Anyone who inspects the corpse discovers that the basilisk died from wounds consistent with weapon attacks and destructive spells. Two centipedes reside in the corpse. If the
, remains intact and appears to be made of glistening black stone. (The sheen is due to a black pudding that coats the statue.)
The black pudding has 120 hit points and is held in stasis by Halaster’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
vampire spawn 26–27 3d6 minotaurs 28–30 A 30-foot-tall inverted black pyramid floating 1 inch above the floor in a large cave 31–32 1d10 beholder zombies 33–34 1d4 mind flayer arcanists 35–36 1d6 + 2
salamanders 50–51 2d4 umber hulks 52–53 1d10 xorn 54–56 1 young red shadow dragon 57–59 2d4 fomorians 60–62 1d8 + 1 driders 63–65 1d20 + 20 spiders crawling on the walls of a web-filled cave 66–68 1d4 fire
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
the middle of the room.
If the party enters from the west, add: Across the room is another door, this one blocked by a barricade made from the remains of a wooden table.
Five bugbears reside in
this chamber. They are loyal minions of Nezznar. This room marks the front line in the Black Spider’s assault on Wave Echo Cave, and the bugbears are here to prevent ghouls, zombies, or other undead from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
reclamation and praise Bruenor’s leadership at any opportunity. This is where the characters reside as Bruenor’s guests, and where the representatives of the five factions are likely to be found. Here
, residents and guests alike enjoy access to well-lit passages, comfortable quarters, and substantial amounts of food and drink. The Vault of Kings is heavily patrolled and guarded by shield dwarf veterans
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
supplies, you see the body of a dwarf miner, dead for at least a week.
The northeastern section of the cavern has collapsed, forming a ten-foot-wide, twenty-foot-deep pit. A sturdy hemp rope is tied off
around a nearby stalagmite and dangles down the side of the pit, at the bottom of which is a rough-hewn tunnel heading northwest and east.
This was the campsite of the Rockseekers. The dead dwarf is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
latch keeping it closed. The box contains a dozen crawling claws. If the lid is opened, the crawling claws quickly skitter out. A character who immediately tries to close the lid can make a DC 15
Dexterity check; if the check succeeds, 1d6 crawling claws escape before the lid shuts; the others are trapped in the box, unable to escape until it is opened again. On their first turn in combat, crawling
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
are twenty feet away from the tree trunk and pushing a wheelbarrow filled with bodies toward it.
Two black puddings reside within the hollow, petrified tree. Bak Mei uses these oozes to dispose of
your nose. Just off the path is a hollow, petrified tree trunk filled with a viscous black ooze. Black tendrils extrude from the ooze, reaching toward two figures clad in white robes. These figures
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Work Read the following text aloud: A team of dwarves is hard at work, pounding on the stone behind the altar with stout tools. Watching them intently is another dwarf wearing black leather armor. Next
to him, tapping its foot impatiently, is a blue-skinned ogre.
Grumink the Renegade The leather-clad dwarf is Grumink the Renegade (see “Other Villains” in chapter 7), and the “blue-skinned ogre” is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
messenger told him that someone named the Black Spider was paying the Cragmaws to watch out for the dwarf Gundren Rockseeker, capture him, and send him and anything he was carrying back to King Grol
. Klarg followed his orders. Gundren was ambushed and taken along with his personal effects, including a map.
The dwarf and his map were delivered to King Grol, as instructed. The dwarf’s human companion is being held in the “eating cave” (area 6).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
T7. Dwarf Statue This fifty-foot-square chamber is hewn out of rock. The floor is rough but flat, the walls show the chisel-marks of the original builders, and the ceiling is about ten feet high
. Identical stone doors with iron pull-ring handles stand in the middle of the east, north, and west walls.
In the center of the room stands a life-sized and lifelike statue of a dwarf warrior wearing a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
searching for the ring and knew about its recent history. He suggested the formation of an alliance between Jarl Storvald and the Black Network, sweetening the deal by offering the frost giant jarl exactly
what he needed: information on the ring’s current wearer, Artus Cimber, and a drop of Cimber’s blood (which the Black Network had in its possession). Nilraun is now waiting for the frost giants to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
37. Showers and Sauna Temple workers came here to shower and bathe. 37a. Showers Benches. Black marble benches stand in the middle of this marble-tiled room.
Showers. Alcoves in the west and east
protrudes from the wall just inside the door.
Benches. Black marble benches hug the wall.
When cold water from an underground river is fed into the tank through the pipe, the fire elemental turns
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Black Dragon Treasures Black dragons appreciate objects of cultural, magical, or scientific significance that originated from lost cultures. Knowing a relic they possess is coveted by others because
it presents a link to a lost past is what gives that relic its value. Black dragons also love conventional treasures such as gems (particularly opals), precious metals that don’t corrode easily, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
15. Temple of Dumathoin This huge chamber has been sculpted to resemble a cavern with a 30-foot-high vaulted ceiling. 15a. Nave Monsters. Eight duergar plus their leader, a half-shield dwarf, half
the nave support the roof.
Dais. At the south end of the temple, stone steps climb 10 feet to a golden marble dais (area 15b).
Although her mother was a shield dwarf, Skella has the statistics of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
Boareskyr Bridge Boareskyr Bridge bears the name of a now-vanished realm north and east of the Trade Way. The bridge spans the Winding Water and is a major landmark. Constructed of black granite, it
Varram, they are directed to Bolo’s and its female halfling proprietor. “A dwarf in purple robes? Oh, I saw him. He was asking about escorts into the hills, when this hooded fellow starts asking him his
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
Boareskyr Bridge Boareskyr Bridge bears the name of a now-vanished realm north and east of the Trade Way. The bridge spans the Winding Water and is a major landmark. Constructed of black granite, it
Varram, they are directed to Bolo’s and its female halfling proprietor. “A dwarf in purple robes? Oh, I saw him. He was asking about escorts into the hills, when this hooded fellow starts asking him his
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
12. Candlelit Halls The walls of these 10-foot-high corridors and chambers are lined with shallow niches holding black wax candles that burn with a purple light. If the characters have had an easy
areas 12c and 12d by crawling along the walls. 12a. Bat Roosts The bare walls and floors of these connected chambers are covered with bat guano, and the 10-foot-high ceiling is made of rough stone. Four