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Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
corpse serves to entice other curious folk—explorers from the surface world, drow, duergar, or the choker’s favorite prey, goblins—to come within reach.
When a target presents itself
Balhannoth
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Monsters
Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
well-traveled roads and paths, snatching people who come along. A balhannoth that has been captured and exploited by drow might lair in caves near Underdark passages and guard the ways in and out of a
drow enclave.
Lair Actions
When fighting inside its lair, a balhannoth can use lair actions. On initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), a balhannoth can take one lair action to cause one of
races
Player’s Handbook
to shape-shift at will, the elves retreated to the Feywild, where their sorrow was deepened by that plane’s influence. Over time, curiosity led many of them to explore other planes of existence
more, and it grants them certain kinds of magic. Drow, high elves, and wood elves are examples of elves who have been transformed thus.
Drow
Drow typically dwell in the Underdark and have been
Monsters
Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
can come in tiny packages. Their tiny, foot-tall forms can barely contain the cruelty and malevolence that courses through them. Deep in the Underdark, the jermlaine lurk among the tunnels, dungeons
odds are in their favor, they strike with a vicious determination that can overwhelm even a heavily armed drow patrol or duergar war party.
Hateful Ambushers. Jermlaine hate and resent all larger
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
their enemies, most notably the magic-devouring, funnel-shaped creatures known as phaerimm. Other creatures targeted by the thaluud include mind flayers, derro, drow, and duergar. Tomb tappers
are in awe of earth elementals, believing that they come directly from this source, and are reluctant to attack them.Cold, FireLightning
Barbarian
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Classes
Basic Rules (2014)
of his drow foe, then turns to drive his armored elbow into the gut of another.
These barbarians, different as they might be, are defined by their rage: unbridled, unquenchable, and unthinking fury
by walls and crowds. They thrive in the wilds of their homelands: the tundra, jungle, or grasslands where their tribes live and hunt.
Barbarians come alive in the chaos of combat. They can enter a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Dark Elves (Drow) The drow are descended from the dark elves who retreated into the Underdark after the Crown Wars. They are infamous for their cruelty, evilness, and drive to dominate. For much of
Handbook. Drow characters can come from any background, though most have a history that links to one of the drow city-states of the Underdark. Inherent magical abilities and a preference for dark places
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
forces of Lolth marshal; and to the cliffside redoubt, where Kas retreated to plan. Along the way, they encounter Vaeve, a drow mage who is loyal to neither Lolth nor Kas, and who offers the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
retreated into cavernous trenches and Underdark seas. In these hidden realms, kuo-toa brood over all they’ve lost and forgotten, nursing plots to avenge themselves for slights that might never have
weapons. Drow, dwarves, and gnomes dwelling in the Underdark, as well as surface communities near submerged subterranean passages, are frequent targets for kuo-toa raids and other plots. Kuo-toa
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Rockblight When the drow attacked Blingdenstone, Ogrémoch’s Bane retreated to the far corners of the ruined city, waiting for the time to reemerge and seek out earth elementals to corrupt. The
malevolent entity didn’t have to wait long, as the drow sent teams of scavengers to loot the treasures the deep gnomes left behind, bringing their own elemental creatures with them.
Map 6.4: Rockblight
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
-shift at will, the elves retreated to the Feywild, where their sorrow was deepened by that plane’s influence. Over time, curiosity led many of them to explore other planes of existence, including
them certain kinds of magic. Drow, high elves, and wood elves are examples of elves who have been transformed thus. Drow Drow typically dwell in the Underdark and have been shaped by it. Some drow
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
able to shape-shift at will, the elves retreated to the Feywild, where their sorrow was deepened by that plane’s influence. Over time, curiosity led many of them to explore other planes of existence
it grants them certain kinds of magic. Drow, high elves, and wood elves are examples of elves who have been transformed thus. Drow Drow typically dwell in the Underdark and have been shaped by it. Some
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
drow, the worst may be yet to come if the renegade drow archmage Vizeran DeVir won the adventurers’ support for his plan to use a powerful ritual to draw the demon lords and their fiendish servants out
Chapter 15: The City of Spiders The center of the chaos and madness now spreading throughout the Underdark is the great drow city of Menzoberranzan. Few of the city’s drow residents know that the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Lolth” sidebar). If they come under attack, the acolytes withdraw to Arach-Tinilith while the priestess stands her ground. Drow Mages The characters encounter 1d3 drow mages out for a walk. There is a
Tier Breche The Great Stair of Tier Breche rises from the floor of Menzoberranzan to the cavern housing the three branches of the Academy: Melee-Magthere, a pyramid-shaped edifice where drow warriors
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
archpriest, Noolgaloop, creates an idol of a new god. The archpriest hopes the god will come to life and destroy the aboleth. Noolgaloop is using random items and the body parts of various creatures
to craft the idol. The kuo-toa don’t trust drow and attack them on sight, but they tolerate non-drow adventurers who agree to help bring Noolgaloop’s vile god to life or are willing to face the aboleth in battle.
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
former lover is now the supervisor of a prominent clade.
6
My sibling has become an almost unrecognizable mutant.
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An old friend has retreated into a secluded life as an ascetic deepsage
very different.
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I borrowed a lot of money from an Orzhov syndic to help finance my research.
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A Rakdos ringmaster has taken an interest in my research which, come to think of it, might
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Old Tower: Autumn The characters come to this crumbling tower in the Dock Ward looking for the Stone of Golorr. Members of Bregan D’aerthe follow them invisibly. Superstitious locals think the tower
cauldron that hangs in the fireplace on the upper level (area O3). But it’s not there anymore. Before the characters reach area O3, three drow gunslingers (see appendix B) under the effect of potions of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
answers arouse suspicion or come across as insolent, the drow attack. Slave Abuse The characters see a drow noble flogging one of a handful of slaves (commoners of any race) while 1d4 bugbear
random encounters in West Wall by succeeding on a DC 13 Dexterity (Stealth) group check. West Wall Encounters d20 Encounter 1–3 Bandersnatches 4–7 Bregan D’aerthe spy 8–14 Drow foot patrol 15–17 Slave
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
gagged. The drow march them back to Velkynvelve unless Menzoberranzan is closer, in which case Ilvara takes them there instead. The characters will need to come up with a new plan of escape, ideally
Capture The drow try to capture the escaped prisoners if at all possible, since Ilvara wants the pleasure of teaching them a lesson about disobedience. If the dark elves reduce any characters to 0
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
if the characters have come this far without engaging in any combat or sounding any alarm, or if he and Neronvain have retreated to the lair. If Chuth is encountered here, he uses his breath weapon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Chapter 5: Auril’s Abode The fortress of Grimskalle, built by frost giants, now serves as the abode of Auril the Frostmaiden. Auril the Frostmaiden has retreated to a floating island of ice and snow
for more information). The characters come to the island on their own, hoping to put an end to Icewind Dale’s everlasting winter. The fortress of Grimskalle, built by frost giants, now serves as the abode of Auril the Frostmaiden
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
if the characters have come this far without engaging in any combat or sounding any alarm, or if he and Neronvain have retreated to the lair. If Chuth is encountered here, he uses his breath weapon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
28. Hospital and Armory Drow in the service of House Auvryndar come here to equip themselves for battle and to have their wounds treated. 28a. Hospital This chamber contains two dozen wooden cots in
rows. Resting in six of them are wounded drow (three females and three males), each with 1d12 hit points remaining. They are still clad in armor, and they keep their weapons within arm’s reach
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Wars and cursed the dark elves so that they might never dwell comfortably under the sun. Now finding themselves pained by exposure to daylight, the drow — in a mere two months’ time — retreated from
destruction that followed, elf priests and high mages fervently prayed to Corellon Larethian and the gods of the elven pantheon for salvation. The Descent of the Drow Corellon interceded in the Crown
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
“watch orcs till our waste.” If the orcs come under attack, the drow rush in to protect them. The Way of Lolth Menzoberranzan’s principle law is the Way of Lolth. Its tenets are as follows:
There
notable leaders of the great houses and their honored heroes were cast into the lake, dressed in full regalia and weighed down with stone spars. Many less important drow have been sent by rivals to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
patrol confronts the party and starts asking questions. If any of the answers arouse suspicion or come across as insolent, the drow attack. If combat erupts, reinforcements arrive every 1d4 rounds
small inns, taprooms, and pleasure houses catering to locals, visitors, and high-status drow seeking distraction. Parts of Duthcloim were damaged or destroyed after Demogorgon emerged from the Clawrift
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Pursuit Level The closeness of the drow pursuit is measured by a pursuit level. It begins at 4, with the drow not far behind the characters. If the pursuit level reaches 5, the drow forward scouts
catch up to them, and the drow leaders arrive not long thereafter (see “Catching Up”). If the pursuit level drops to 0, the party has eluded the drow until circumstances bring both factions into contact
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
3. Glabbagool This area contains the skeletal remains of a drow, along with a dark metal mace and a scattering of coins. However, the characters are quick to notice that these items appear to hover
, instead asking who they are, where they come from, and why they have come to the temple. Other oozes won’t attack Glabbagool, so it can block a passageway to help the adventurers fend them off. However
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Darklake. The drow sell weapons, armor, magic scrolls and potions, and fine works of art. The duergar trade mainly in fine steel, and demand high prices to do so. Deep gnomes come to market with gems
typically not permitted to go there. Once in the cavern, I had to remain near my employer, but by keeping my eyes and ears open, I learned a lot about this place. Mantol-Derith is where duergar, drow, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
halfling 2 1d4 darkmantles 3 1d4 drow and 1d4 quaggoth slaves 4–8 2d4 giant spiders 9 1 mimic 10 1 spectator 11–12 Web break Cocooned Halfling The characters find a still-living lightfoot halfling
and attack the party. Drow and Quaggoth Slaves These hateful drow and their murderous quaggoth slaves are navigating the Silken Paths on their way through the Underdark. If Derendil is with the party
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Gibbet Crossing Gibbet Crossing is a forlorn place. It was once a crossroads of the Underdark where drow, duergar, and svirfneblin communities lived in uneasy peace. The duergar had a lucrative
business making collapsible cages (their well-crafted hanging cages gave the crossroads its name), and the duergar came to rely on mithral that the svirfneblin supplied. The drow provided the duergar with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
priestesses come out. If you aren’t a drow in the City of Spiders, you aren’t worth a name. All manner of surface-dwellers — orcs and elves, humans and halflings — are brought here to serve as slaves to the
in the City of Spiders, the drow aren’t so extravagant that they do away with every captive they take. At the same time, they are masters of punishment — it is fear of pain, not fear of death, that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
drow compound overlooking the Clawrift. (The compound was once House Oblodra, a powerful drow house that was destroyed by Lolth over one hundred years ago during the Time of Troubles.) Mistrift This
the falls, diverting it to an underground cistern that the drow can tap into. Westrift The newest of the city’s large clefts, Westrift swallowed up three drow houses and a score of lesser dwellings
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
destroyed drow house, Zress was adopted by Vlonwelv Auvryndar and is ready to die in the service of her savior. Vlonwelv has come to trust Zress more than she does her own children, keeping her
House Auvryndar House Auvryndar uses Muiral’s Gauntlet as a staging ground for raids into other levels and as a base from which to launch attacks against House Freth, a rival drow house that has a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Reflections of Lolth From the time they’re old enough to understand, drow are taught that they’re superior to all other creatures, for they remain steadfast in their devotion to Lolth despite the
hardships of their existence. Any creature that isn’t a drow is useful only as a sacrifice to Lolth, as a slave, or as fodder for the giant spiders that the drow train to patrol their cities and tunnels