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Astarion's Book of Hungers
together. The Undead drank your blood more times than you can count. You might have served willingly, perhaps with aspirations of one day becoming a vampire yourself. Or you might have been magically charmed
and retain only a few muddled memories of your time as a vampire familiar. In either case, your time in the vampire den is over.
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
door, dispel magic, fly, invisibilityThough deathlocks exist to serve their patrons, they retain some freedom when it comes to devising tactics and carrying out plans. Powerful deathlocks recruit
lesser creatures to help them carry out their missions, becoming the masterminds behind vast conspiracies and intrigues that culminate in the accomplishment of great acts of evil.
Deathlocks
The
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
whose ancestors underwent, horrific magical transformations, to the extent that they retain only a fraction of their original being. Their humanoid bodies incorporate the features of various beasts. For
original forms. Mongrelfolk that are born are true mongrelfolk and not the subjects of a spell or an effect that can be undone.
Mongrelfolk can breed with other humanoids, but nearly all children born to
Monsters
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
as smooth as a salamander’s.
Some intelligent Humanoid mutates retain their personalities from before they were exposed to the Far Realm. Some, driven by the allure of otherworldly powers, seek
mutates exist. The individuals with stat blocks presented in this section are found in the preceding adventure, although other mutates exist. Some creatures are more prone to becoming Far Realm mutates
Backgrounds
Curse of Strahd: Character Options
, common;set of common clothes, and 1 sp.
Harrowing Event
Prior to becoming an adventurer, your path in life was defined by one dark moment, one fateful decision, or one tragedy. Now you feel a darkness
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A monster that slaughtered dozens of innocent people spared your life, and you don’t know why.
2
You were born under a dark star. You can feel it watching you, coldly and distantly
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures
’s virtue. In some courts, the final step to becoming a knight involves being judged by that court’s relic. Each court believes the virtue associated with its own relic is paramount, though
former oaths, the knights of the Verdant Order retain their focus on the five virtues of the courts, so their Knightly Virtue trait remains unchanged.
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
","rollAction":"Rejuvenation"} days, regaining all her hit points and becoming active again. The new body appears within two hundred miles of the location at which she was destroyed.
Spellcasting. Illmarrow
child born of dragon and elf could become a godlike avatar of death.
Illmarrow Rises. Even as dragons and elves fought to destroy the line of Vol, a child was born to the house: Erandis. A scion of elf
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
others were born to non-genasi parents who lived near a place suffused by a genie’s magic.
A typical genasi has a life span of 120 years.
Creating Your Character
At 1st level, you choose
Construct or an Undead.
Life Span
The typical life span of a player character in the D&D multiverse is about a century, assuming the character doesn’t meet a violent end on an adventure
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
descendants of a genie, while others were born to non-genasi parents who lived near a place suffused by a genie’s magic.
A typical genasi has a life span of 120 years.
Creating Your Character
spell doesn’t work on a Construct or an Undead.
Life Span
The typical life span of a player character in the D&D multiverse is about a century, assuming the character doesn’t meet a
Backgrounds
Tomb of Annihilation
, and a pouch containing 25 gp
Dust Digger
Prior to becoming an adventurer, you spent most of your young life crawling around in the dust, pilfering relics of questionable value from crypts
century old.
Suggested Characteristics
Few archaeologists can resist the lure of an unexplored ruin or dungeon, particularly if such a site is the source of legends or is rumored to contain
Yuan-ti Pureblood
Legacy
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
cannibalizing their victims, and then performed a sorcerous ritual while writhing in pools filled with living snakes that enabled them to mix their flesh with that of serpents, becoming like the gods in
— yuan-ti make perfect courtiers. And, worse for the rest of us, rulers.
— Elminster
The physical and magical prowess of the yuan-ti empire allowed the former humans to retain their
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
were born to non-genasi parents who lived near a place suffused by a genie’s magic.
A typical genasi has a life span of 120 years.
Creating Your Character
At 1st level, you choose whether
Construct or an Undead.
Life Span
The typical life span of a player character in the D&D multiverse is about a century, assuming the character doesn’t meet a violent end on an adventure. Members
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
others were born to non-genasi parents who lived near a place suffused by a genie’s magic.
A typical genasi has a life span of 120 years.
Creating Your Character
At 1st level, you choose
Construct or an Undead.
Life Span
The typical life span of a player character in the D&D multiverse is about a century, assuming the character doesn’t meet a violent end on an adventure
Backgrounds
Tomb of Annihilation
;
Cultural Chameleon
Before becoming an adventurer, you spent much of your adult life away from your homeland, living among people different from your kin. You came to understand these foreign cultures
;
Suggested Characteristics
Anthropologists leave behind the societies into which they were born to discover what life is like in other parts of the world. They seek to see how other races and civilizations
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Astarion's Book of Hungers
lairing together. The Undead drank your blood more times than you can count. You might have served willingly, perhaps with aspirations of one day becoming a vampire yourself. Or you might have been
magically charmed and retain only a few muddled memories of your time as a vampire familiar. In either case, your time in the vampire den is over.
Druid
Legacy
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Classes
Basic Rules (2014)
nature, coming face to face with a giant eagle or dire wolf and surviving the experience. Maybe your character was born during an epic storm or a volcanic eruption, which was interpreted as a sign that
becoming a druid was part of your character’s destiny.
Have you always been an adventurer as part of your druidic calling, or did you first spend time as a caretaker of a sacred grove or spring
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Shadow Dragon Template Only a true dragon can transform into a shadow dragon, and only if it is born in the Shadowfell or remains there for several years. A dracolich can’t be turned into a shadow
dragon, since it loses its draconic nature when it becomes undead. When a dragon becomes a shadow dragon, it retains its statistics except as described below. The shadow dragon might retain or lose any
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
a dracolich, it retains its statistics except as described below. The dragon loses any trait, such as Amphibious, that assumes a living physiology. The dracolich might retain or lose any or all of
dracolich has resistance to necrotic damage.
Damage Immunities. The dracolich has immunity to poison. It also retains any immunities it had prior to becoming a dracolich.
Condition Immunities. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
experience. Maybe your character was born during an epic storm or a volcanic eruption, which was interpreted as a sign that becoming a druid was part of your character’s destiny. Have you always been
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
life spans comparable to humans. They enter adulthood in their late teens and usually live less than a century. Size. Goliaths stand between 7 and 8 feet tall and weigh between 280 and 340 pounds
until you finish a short or long rest. Powerful Build. You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift. Mountain Born. You have
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
, all half-dragons have similar features and appearance, gaining special senses, resistance to destructive energy, and a breath weapon. Draconic Nature. Half-dragons are incapable of having natural born
typical half-dragon’s life expectancy is twice that of its nondraconic line, so that a half-dragon human might live more than a century and a half. Half-dragons inherit personality traits common to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Chapter 2: Khorvaire Gazetteer Just one century ago, the Kingdom of Galifar spanned most of Khorvaire. Of course, we never tamed the lands beyond the Graywall Mountains or the jungles of the east
largely unified under the Kingdom of Galifar, today Khorvaire is split into many nations—some old, others newly born from the crucible of war. This chapter provides an overview of Khorvaire, a glimpse of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
out of infernal politics. Since the ritual that spread the curse of Asmodeus a century ago, tieflings have been born on Faerûn that belong to other infernal bloodlines, but those that bear the mark of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
is an elf of their own kind, for when the primal elves went against Corellon and took permanent shapes, they chose this fate for themselves. How many elves are born to which parents or in any given
Arvandor into the world, bringing them down from the heavens to begin their mortal lives anew. A decade in which many elves are born across the world is thought to be a harbinger of danger that great
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Warfare After a century of war, magic plays an ever-increasing role on the battlefield. Massive magical siege staffs fill the role of artillery. Semi-sentient warforged titans can scatter squads of
, are becoming ever more common. The nations of Khorvaire all employed different forms of battle magic during the war. Aundair fielded the greatest number of wizards, while Breland produced floating
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
, but their ire isn’t born from evil. The Lord of Blades’ greatest desire is to ensure that his people have a future, but his methods are colored by his anger at the injustices the warforged have
apprentice warforged becomes obsessed with the Lord of Blades’ message, disrupting house operations in the hope of becoming a warrior in the Mournland. 2 A warforged druid devises diseases and poisons that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Zodiac Signs A zodiac sign is a mythological entity associated with a constellation in a zodiac. For the Sky of Many Things, a creature is said to be “born under” a zodiac sign if its birthday occurs
description of the sign’s constellation, common myths and beliefs about it, and omens associated with creatures born under that sign. The signs are presented in their order within the zodiac. Skull The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Harrowing Event Prior to becoming an adventurer, your path in life was defined by one dark moment, one fateful decision, or one tragedy. Now you feel a darkness threatening to consume you, and you
people spared your life, and you don’t know why. 2 You were born under a dark star. You can feel it watching you, coldly and distantly. Sometimes it beckons you in the dead of night. 3 An apparition that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Harrowing Event Prior to becoming an adventurer, your path in life was defined by one dark moment, one fateful decision, or one tragedy. Now you feel a darkness threatening to consume you, and you
innocent people spared your life, and you don’t know why.
2 You were born under a dark star. You can feel it watching you, coldly and distantly. Sometimes it beckons you in the dead of night.
3
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
Mortuary once every century. The characters are charged with exhuming a series of influential Undead entombed on other planes and escorting them to the Mortuary. Some of the council members are especially
cranky when awoken. 3 When a godling is born on the Upper Planes, a wave of positive energy sweeps over the Mortuary through its myriad portals, restoring hundreds of long-dead creatures to life. 4
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
subsequently abandoned and has remained that way for more than a century. The first action the soldiery of Neverwinter took in Leilon was to destroy the planar beacon inside the House of Thalivar
adventurers called the Swords of Leilon. When the House of Thalivar released its monsters, the Swords fought to cover the escape of the townsfolk. They died, becoming ghosts bound to Leilon’s ruins
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
spellcasting power that makes him a particularly dangerous foe. More than a century ago, during one of the cyclical periods of draconic violence known as the Rage of Dragons, Arauthator joined with a
the Cult of the Dragon. When the proud, ambitious Maccath the Crimson arrived in Arauthator’s lair, the dragon enticed her with the prospect of becoming Arveiaturace’s master and rider.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Jacqueline RenierJacqueline Renier A century ago, Richemulot was a lively place. In those days, not a building stood vacant as merchants from both ends of the Musarde set up shop along the broad
, wiping out the nation’s royal dynasty and leaving power vacuums filled and then quickly emptied by ailing nobles. Only the Reniers proved immune, and eventually Jacqueline stood as the highest-born noble
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Mongrelfolk Mongrelfolk are humanoids that have undergone, or whose ancestors underwent, horrific magical transformations, to the extent that they retain only a fraction of their original being
original forms. Mongrelfolk that are born are true mongrelfolk and not the subjects of a spell or an effect that can be undone. Mongrelfolk can breed with other humanoids, but nearly all children
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Redcap A redcap is a homicidal fey creature born of blood lust. Redcaps, although small, have formidable strength, which they use to hunt and kill without hesitation or regret. Blood Lust Personified
born, its hat is coated with wet blood, and it knows that if the blood isn’t replenished at least once every three days, the redcap vanishes as if it had never been. A redcap’s desire to slay is rooted