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Returning 35 results for 'blood barriers diffusing conceal release'.
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
hours.When a gnoll’s ravenous hunger is so great that it craves flesh and blood even after death, it can rise as a vampire to continue its feeding frenzy.
A gnoll vampire is a savage predator
that feeds on the blood of the living. It cackles maniacally when it catches the scent of its prey and quickly moves in for the kill, tearing away flesh with its claws, gorging on meat and blood, and
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
feet of it and can use an action to pinpoint the location of any creature, object, or area in that range that bears magic. This sense penetrates barriers but is blocked by a thin sheet of lead.
Tunneler
with their jaws to extract mineral sustenance. They can also digest iron from blood and marrow, if mineral-rich rock is unavailable.
The Netherese sent the thaluud into the Underdark to exterminate
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
create illusions, allowing them to better conceal their treasures from prying eyes and divinations.
Creating an Emerald Dragon
Use the Emerald Dragon Personality Traits and Emerald Dragon Ideals
with the folk of the world.
Emerald Dragon Wyrmling Connections
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Connected Creatures
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Blood hawk;Blood
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
for instigating the stoning. He wears a cowl to conceal his mutilation.
Kasimir's feeling of loss is tinged with simmering rage. Patrina now speaks to her brother in dreams, telling him how years of
Patrina to flesh and blood, whereupon he can travel to Castle Ravenloft and end his sister's torment. Kasimir has no inkling that Patrina is using him for exactly that purpose, and that her ultimate goal
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
, the only solution is to venture to the Outer Planes to find the person’s spirit and either release it from some prison or convince the person to return to life. 2 People who venture into the woods keep
. 5 A devil has tricked an angel into meddling in the Blood War, and the angel seeks mortal aid. 6 A ancestor of one of the characters must be convinced to bless the character before the full power of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
conceal my contempt for others.
8 I truly regret the things I have done and will do whatever I can to atone.
Shadow Dragon Ideals d6 Ideal
1 Merciless. Life doesn’t offer second
chances, and neither do I. (Lawful)
2 Hedonism. The multiverse is painful enough. Seek pleasure wherever you can find it. (Chaotic)
3 Cruelty. The only release for my pain is to visit it upon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
area involves creating a two-headed owlbear by infusing an owlbear—a classic creation of Thessalar’s—with ettin’s blood. Creatures Four lizardfolk shamans work here as lab managers, overseeing the
release the owlbears and the two-headed owlbear to take on the characters, then flee to alert the rest of the laboratory section of the temple (areas 1 through 23). If the owlbears or their two-headed kin
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
talking to Sylgar, its pet fish, in area X19. 51–75 Xanathar is delivering a rambling sermon to minions in the audience chamber (area X18). 76–90 Xanathar is watching a fight in the Pit of Blood and
character makes. On a failure, Xanathar demands that the character release Sylgar at once or be disintegrated (and makes good on its threat).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
shown on the Immortal Missions table. Immortal Missions d8 Mission 1 While in the tower of Mordain the Fleshweaver, spill blood on the stairs between the third and fourth floors. 2 As you pursue
imprisoned rakshasa—and that will, unknown to the inventor, lead to the rakshasa’s release. 8 Protect a kalashtar monk who is being targeted by Dreaming Dark assassins as she studies a path that might eventually prevent the quori from projecting themselves into the Material Plane.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
— to fight face-to-face against the demon hordes in the Blood War. But the burden is a heavy one, and if given the chance, Zariel could be convinced to set it aside, release Elturel, and return to the
ship and instills fear in her legions. Retribution against those who attempt to betray her is swift and terrible. War for Souls Souls are the most prized commodities in the Nine Hells. The Blood War
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
. The fog swirls through this cavern, agitated by the dancing of eleven chanting minotaurs.
Offal Pile. Low stone barriers constrain a massive pile of rotting, dismembered body parts.
Altar. Behind
saving throw or be cursed with blood lust. While cursed in this way, the creature is hostile toward all other creatures it can see and must use its action each turn to attack the creature closest to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
can free the city from its chains and return it to the Material Plane. Relinquishing the Sword If the characters try to bargain for Elturel’s release without the Sword of Zariel, Zariel considers
their offer and produces a contract stating that she will release the city in exchange for the sword, delivered without any complications or deceit. Lulu rankles at the idea of the characters forging any
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
effectively speaking thoughts at each other. This effect doesn’t allow any creature to probe invasively into another creature’s mind. But it transcends language barriers, and you can play around with the kind
Spores When myconids take damage, they release spores that alert all other myconids within 240 feet of them. All myconids in the cave are in range of each other’s Distress Spores. Myconids in areas B2 and area B3 move to area B4 if they detect Distress Spores.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
following boxed text to the players: An iron tower rises atop an island on a lake of boiling blood. No windows penetrate the tower’s walls, and its only visible door opens onto a high balcony. Red lightning
opportunity to kidnap one or more characters and deliver them to Zariel. If they succeed, Zariel invites the rest of the group to her flying fortress to negotiate terms for their comrades’ release (see “Zariel’s Flying Fortress”).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
circle is praying over a rotting minotaur head but stands when he sees you. He’s a thin human, and his face and arms are streaked with dry blood.
“Friends,” he says, “I have heard the call and I hope
cultists who have died and risen as undead are kept. If battle erupts, the cultists open the door and release six ghouls. The ghouls ignore the cultists as long as there are other creatures to feed on.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
three days, a trireme crewed by minotaur pirates had been chasing Ispin’s ship across the Blood Sea of Istar, when finally... 2 Ispin spent the night in a roc’s nest high in the Vingaard Mountains
locked in the dungeons of the mountain dwarf nation of Kayolin, but he secured his release by promising to... 5 One night, Ispin shared a campfire with a befuddled old man who disappeared before dawn
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
their jaws to extract mineral sustenance. They can also digest iron from blood and marrow, if mineral-rich rock is unavailable. The Netherese sent the thaluud into the Underdark to exterminate their
magic. This sense penetrates barriers but is blocked by a thin sheet of lead.
Tunneler. The tomb tapper can burrow through solid rock at half its burrowing speed and leaves a 10-foot-wide, 20-foot-tall
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
, winds its way across ashen plains, and eventually plunges through a yawning pit into the eight levels of the Hells below. All the rivers of Avernus feed into the Styx, each one flowing red with blood
who expended tremendous amounts of magical power to breach the barriers that separate the Nine Hells from other planes. Using Devils Devils aren’t numerous in The Rise of Tiamat until the final
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Gnoll Vampire When a gnoll’s ravenous hunger is so great that it craves flesh and blood even after death, it can rise as a vampire to continue its feeding frenzy. A gnoll vampire is a savage predator
that feeds on the blood of the living. It cackles maniacally when it catches the scent of its prey and quickly moves in for the kill, tearing away flesh with its claws, gorging on meat and blood, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
, winds its way across ashen plains, and eventually plunges through a yawning pit into the eight levels of the Hells below. All the rivers of Avernus feed into the Styx, each one flowing red with blood
, and though Asmodeus can bend these laws, he seldom does. Most devils in the Material Plane were summoned there by mortal mages who expended tremendous amounts of magical power to breach the barriers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
, winds its way across ashen plains, and eventually plunges through a yawning pit into the eight levels of the Hells below. All the rivers of Avernus feed into the Styx, each one flowing red with blood
who expended tremendous amounts of magical power to breach the barriers that separate the Nine Hells from other planes. Using Devils Devils aren’t numerous in The Rise of Tiamat until the final
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
instigating the stoning. He wears a cowl to conceal his mutilation. Kasimir’s feeling of loss is tinged with simmering rage. Patrina now speaks to her brother in dreams, telling him how years of guilt and
flesh and blood, whereupon he can travel to Castle Ravenloft and end his sister’s torment. Kasimir has no inkling that Patrina is using him for exactly that purpose, and that her ultimate goal is to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
someone who lacks a moral compass. Mogis demands that blood be spilled in his service, preferably the blood of Iroas’s followers. Would-be champions should realize, though, that the god of slaughter
heart and gives me power. (Any)
4 Fury. My only release from life’s endless grind is surrendering to my inner beast. (Evil)
5 Ruthlessness. The ends justify the means and victory is to be
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
the many battles of the Blood War, leaving him with terrible scars and a brain injury that has turned his alignment to chaotic good. Krikendolt’s comrades learned that he pities the abyssal chickens
character can convince them to parley with a successful DC 12 Charisma (Persuasion) check. The devils won’t forgive their comrade for his compassion, but the characters could persuade them to release
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
river of gold until they reach the castle in the sky. Sadly, their path will be filled with hardship and blood. To aid them, it offers the character a +1 longbow. The bow appears on the ground before
believes that a wizard somewhere can release him from the curse, but wherever he goes, people try to kill him for his golden coat. If the characters allow him to accompany them and protect him, he
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
river of gold until they reach the castle in the sky. Sadly, their path will be filled with hardship and blood. To aid them, it offers the character a +1 longbow. The bow appears on the ground before
. He believes that a wizard somewhere can release him from the curse, but wherever he goes, people try to kill him for his golden coat. If the characters allow him to accompany them and protect him, he
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
transformed myconid can release the spores in a cloud that fills a 10-foot-radius sphere centered on it, and the cloud lingers for 1 minute. Any flesh-and-blood creature in the cloud when it appears, or that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
2 Lizardfolk Swamp 3 Spy’s Campsite 4 Sword Ferns Flock of Stirges Your journey halts at a narrow creek bed stained with blood. Near the shore, a giant river rat lies dead in the mud. The carcass
scent of blood. Lizardfolk Swamp Ignatius Budi Deeper into the fens, mounds of mud rise above the fetid water and reeds. You spot a glint of gold amid the mud.
The fen’s territorial lizardfolk
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
the devil. The character grows horns, a tail, or some other devilish features that can’t be removed by any means short of divine intervention (though illusions or disguises can conceal them). As long
voices (in Infernal) and spew blood when they are hugged. To enter the contract, the devil and the character making the deal must each hug a doll. When the contract is finalized, the devil keeps one
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
Fighter The best thing about blood money is that it spends just as readily as any other kind of money. Some fight to slake bloodlust. Others fight for the thrill of besting an enemy. Some fight for a
combatants enter a fight not knowing whether their boots have come untied.
6 You have a belt pouch specially made to release ball bearings or caltrops in the thick of the fight, forcing your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
passageways and cocoonlike chambers. Structures, ships, and other objects are caught in the webbing. The webs conceal random portals that snare objects from demiplanes and Material Plane worlds that
: Thanatos Known as the Demon Prince of Undeath and the Blood Lord, the demon lord Orcus is worshiped by Undead and by living creatures that channel the power of undeath. A brooding and nihilistic entity
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Lord of Waterdeep to secure Fenerus’s release. Mirt has personally lost coin to the Blood Hawk Posse, so helping Fenerus squirm out of jail stings him deeply. A character who has at least 4 renown in
until someone tipped off the City Watch; he suspects that another member of the Blood Hawk Posse gave him up. The timing is unfortunate for him, since he was planning to earn a small fortune by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
) and the overlook (area O3) run down to release the ogre zombie from its cage and attack intruders who breach this hall. The zombie sides with the duergar in any fight. Duergar that fall below half
he moves the lever to trigger a trap. Trap. When the lever is pulled, iron spikes spring out from the floor and ceiling to form barriers across each doorway. A creature in either opening must succeed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation Supplement
, crates, and other containers. Everything is covered with dust, but not enough to conceal the broken bones and weapons lying on the hallway floor.
The remains on the floor belong to a pair of long-dead
flasks of alchemist’s fire Chest 5 (rotted) A suit of scale mail (50 gp) and a steel helm with an electrum fish mounted atop it (50 gp) Chest 6 (stained with blood) A diplomat’s pack (see the “Equipment
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
mildewed notebook containing instructions for concocting a potion of longevity out of fungi and a pint of blood from an archfey, all harvested within the past 24 hours. The handwriting in this
something else entirely. Both Konrad and Rugga are in constant agony. They can communicate telepathically out to a range of 60 feet. Their communications consist of pleas to release them from their torment