blade before devices constructs refugee

Keg Robot

Monsters Acquisitions Incorporated

a body. These constructs are another achievement of the Heuristic Arcane Research and Development (HARD) department of Acquisitions Incorporated. These devices have a number of practical purposes

mostly safe flavor. These constructs have a rudimentary intellect that allows them to operate independently and discern friend from foe — and which sometimes causes them to operate with a crass sense of

Clockwork Bronze Scout

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

. If detected, it sends electrical shocks through the ground toward pursuers while it retreats. Clockworks Gnomes’ tinkering with magic and mechanical devices has produced many failed

Constructs but also has resulted in genuine advances, such as clockworks. The methods used to craft clockworks have been shared between gnome communities over many generations. Individual Designs Gnome

Clockwork Iron Cobra

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

clockwork with alchemical concoctions that can paralyze creatures and cloud the mind. Clockworks Gnomes’ tinkering with magic and mechanical devices has produced many failed Constructs but

Clockwork Oaken Bolter

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

traps or melee-oriented clockworks—and at shorter ranges, burst with explosive force. Clockworks Gnomes’ tinkering with magic and mechanical devices has produced many failed Constructs

Clockwork Stone Defender

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

attacker.The thick plates of stone riveted onto a stone defender give it substantial protection. Its chief role is as a bodyguard. Clockworks Gnomes’ tinkering with magic and mechanical devices has

produced many failed Constructs but also has resulted in genuine advances, such as clockworks. The methods used to craft clockworks have been shared between gnome communities over many generations

Clockworks

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

Clockworks The gnomes’ efforts to invent and tinker with magic and mechanical devices produce many failed constructs, but also result in genuine advances, such as clockworks. Since their discovery

Skitterwidget Problem

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries

Skitterwidget Problem If any of Stonky’s skitterwidgets or their kiddywidget offspring were left to their own devices after the characters’ excursion into the Barn Door, those constructs might become

tiny constructs soon grow to be as big as their parents, and they can make kiddywidgets of their own in turn. If the construct population isn’t culled, Candlekeep might one day be overrun by the

Appendix C: Creatures

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

BEASTS Fox Giant walrus Hare Knucklehead trout Mountain goat Seal Sperm whale Walrus CONSTRUCTS Chardalyn dragon Demos magen Duergar hammerer Dzaan’s simulacrum Galvan

magen Hypnos magen Living Bigby’s hand Living blade of disaster Living demiplane Snow golem Tomb tapper ELEMENTALS Auril (second form) Auril (third form) Chwinga FIEND Chardalyn

What Next?

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries

arcane devices called rockets. With the help of several constructs, Stonky has spent months secretly repairing the Barn Door with the goal of launching it into space. The gnome plans to take a choice

Rock Gnomes

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

lean toward the creation of mechanical devices. Every warren has members of each persuasion, and they are all bound by mutual respect for what they do despite their different perspectives. Practical

Makes Perfect Rock gnomes who take a more scientific approach to inventing are the ones responsible for creating technological devices that make life easier. Even an invention as simple as a new kind

M3. Central Abbey

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

devil’s claws. If removed, the shards lose their magical powers. Local teleportation-field bracelets encircle the devil’s arms and tail. These devices allow the Grand Master to make its claw and

these changes: East Wind is armed with a longsword that is a polymorph blade (see appendix D), granting him the following attack: Polymorph Blade. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target

Headquarters

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things

believed that Hilarion is the only being who knows how to access the vault, but knights of the Solar Bastion suspect traps, other angels, or perhaps heavenly Constructs protect the vault as well

. Towers of Day Seven tall watchtowers ring the edge of the Solar Bastion. In addition to offering a clear view of the entire fortress, the towers are equipped with magical devices that give their sentries

Appendix D: Magic

compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

turns bright green. The lantern doesn’t pinpoint the creature’s exact location, however. Lantern of Tracking d10 Creature Type 1 Aberrations 2 Celestials 3 Constructs 4

word stun 9th level: blade of disaster,* power word kill *Described in this chapter. Wizard Spells Characters who obtain The Codicil of White from Auril’s abode or The Incantations of Iriolarthas

Spaceship Locations, Level 2

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase

of handles. Eight binocular-like viewing devices are bolted along the walkway, allowing creatures to observe the garden (areas S56–S60) below. Objects viewed through these devices are magnified to

, glowing silver screen that buzzes with static. Below the screen is a makeshift workstation formed from cargo containers and strewn with technological devices. Two bipedal creatures in rubbery

Gnome Gods

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

gods are thought to be all male or all female; in some they are animals, or constructs made by Garl Glittergold. Some gnomes say Garl has five allies, while others tally eleven. A consensus of sorts

, but also of fire and glass-work and alchemy. Rock gnomes attribute their knack for crafting devices and alchemical objects to Flandal’s superlative skills in those areas. Gaerdal Ironhand The Shield

Clockworks

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

Clockworks Gnomes’ tinkering with magic and mechanical devices has produced many failed Constructs but also has resulted in genuine advances, such as clockworks. The methods used to craft clockworks

Daoine Gloine

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

clockwork kraken at the apparatus garage (area O5). The construct’s tentacles are outfitted with local teleportation-field devices (see the earlier sidebar), allowing them to move throughout the city

does not control it. If still active, the kraken’s tentacles work to defend its engine. Kwalish developed a process of using living and undead creatures as a control module for powerful constructs

Landro Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin

yet, Glaive and one of her blade scout companions attack the characters from both ends of this narrow tunnel. After all combatants have taken a turn, the attackers flee into Landro and hide for another

the items in this room with 1 minute of work. Repair Paste. The steel vat contains magical paste specially formulated for strengthening Constructs. Turning the knob on the attached faucet releases a

Barn Door Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries

preparations before launch. A secret door hidden in a library bookcase (see area B1) conceals the only route to the tower’s underlevel. The Barn Door will be launched into space by arcane devices

hefty tome, written by the wizard Trobriand of Undermountain, describes the processes by which he creates animated metal constructs. The book is filled with the wizard’s ravings and drawings of his

Tresendar Manor Dungeon

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

archmage Hoobur Gran’Shoop. The constructs remain motionless until the adventurers move close or attack. These scarecrows can cut the rope holding them with their claws, but they prefer to remain hanging

) bludgeoning damage from the fall. Climbing the rough walls requires a successful DC 10 Strength (Athletics) check. Development. If the characters defeat the scarecrows and search the constructs, large

A Long History (in Brief)

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

all who sought to lay hands on him, Raurlor struck at the mage with his own sword. Ahghairon then rose into the air, just out of reach, and used his magic to transmute Raurlor’s blade into a hissing

only in times of great peril. Many in the city doubted that such massive, sapient constructs were even real, let alone that they guarded the city invisibly. The Spellplague confirmed their existence for

Spire of Iriolarthas (Y19i-Y19hq)

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

Strength check. A living blade of disaster is a powerful, annihilating spell given a will of its own. Y19k. Dome The following boxed text assumes that the characters arrive by moving up the shaft from

-radius dome of translucent ice encloses the area around the shaft from which you emerge. At the far end of the hall, two blade-shaped patches of pitch darkness hover in the air to either side of a

Ship Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh

Dexterity check using thieves’ tools. The chest is trapped with a swinging blade trap. Noticing the trap requires a successful DC 12 Intelligence (Investigation) check. A successful DC 12 Dexterity check

is required to disarm the trap. Opening the chest without disarming the trap, or failing to disarm it, triggers the trap. When triggered, the trap swings a short scything blade from its bottom

City Celebrations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

inventions of the Gondar are revealed on this day and paraded through the city. These devices range from something as humble as new cabinet hinges to massive mechanical constructs that walk or roll about

Lady's Ward

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

, they plead with the characters to represent them in court. 5 When the coast is clear, a shady-looking Doomguard rot blade (see Morte’s Planar Parade) opens their long overcoat in front of the characters

Concordance. Elsewhere within the High Courts lies the Hall of Concordance, an embassy of law where contracts are forged under the unblinking eyes of the inevitables, constructs created by the modron deity

Areas of the Earth Temple

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

second in command of the Cult of the Black Earth. The statues were once animated constructs, though the magic that powered them faded long ago. Miraj managed to reactivate two of the stone warriors. One

create elemental devices. The master of the forge is a dao named Xharva Deem. Two duergar assist her. Roleplaying the Dao. Xharva Deem has no interest in fighting, because her bargain with Marlos

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