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Monsters
The Book of Many Things
the living portents impact the earth, they carve great craters, yet miraculously, none who live in the impact zone are harmed. These beings of light then assume Humanoid forms to blend in with the
inhabitants of the world.
Living portents seek out beings who will play a part in the prophecies they serve, and as the living portents search, they relate fragments of the prophecies to those they
Genasi
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Elemental Evil Player's Companion
Those who think of other planes at all consider them remote, distant realms, but planar influence can be felt throughout the world. It sometimes manifests in beings who, through an accident of birth
Genasi inherit something from both sides of their dual nature. They resemble humans but have unusual skin color (red, green, blue, or gray), and there is something odd about them. The elemental blood
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
chooses a point within 150 feet of himself, and a 20-foot radius sphere centered on that point fills with a burst of searing, blood-red mist. Each creature of Murgaxor’s choice that he can see in
the following to give them context about this evil spellcaster:
Murgaxor is a bullywug who attended Strixhaven 200 years ago. He was a member of Witherbloom College, though there are no records of
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
A winged people who originated on the Elemental Plane of Air, aarakocra soar through the sky wherever they wander. The first aarakocra served the Wind Dukes of Aaqa—mighty beings of air&mdash
taper to sharp talons. Feathers cover their bodies—usually red, orange, yellow, brown, or gray. Their heads are also avian, often resembling those of parrots or eagles.
Creating Your Character
Human
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Basic Rules (2014)
tall and have green or brown eyes, but these traits are hardly universal. Humans of Chondathan descent dominate the central lands of Faerûn, around the Inner Sea.
Chondathan Names: (Male) Darvin
raven-black hair, but those who inhabit the extreme northwest have blond, red, or light brown hair.
Illuskan Names: (Male) Ander, Blath, Bran, Frath, Geth, Lander, Luth, Malcer, Stor, Taman, Urth
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Heirs to Elemental Power Genasi inherit something from both sides of their dual nature. They resemble humans but have unusual skin color (red, green, blue, or gray), and there is something odd about
descent tend to be heavier, while those of air or fire tend to be lighter. A given genasi might have some features reminiscent of the mortal parent (pointed ears from an elf, a stockier frame and thick
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
dragon are terrorizing a nearby halfling settlement. One solution is to get rid of the dragon.
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An emerald dragon is the headmaster in absentia of a bardic college and must be convinced to defend
the school in a contest against a rival college.
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An emerald dragon invisibly tails a party of adventurers, causing trouble for the heroes so the dragon can watch how they respond.
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An
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
legendary emerald dragon are terrorizing a nearby halfling settlement. One solution is to get rid of the dragon.
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An emerald dragon is the headmaster in absentia of a bardic college and must be
convinced to defend the school in a contest against a rival college.
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An emerald dragon invisibly tails a party of adventurers, causing trouble for the heroes so the dragon can watch how they respond
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
8. Library The master of the house used to spend many hours here before his descent into madness. Red velvet drapes cover the windows of this room. An exquisite mahogany desk and a matching high-back
, and a letter kit containing a red wax candle, four blank sheets of parchment, and a wooden seal bearing the Durst family’s insignia (a windmill). The desk drawer is empty except for an iron key
Kobold
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
they were demigods — mighty beings of divine descent. This isn’t a casual sort of worship or lip service; kobolds are awed in the presence of a dragon, as if an actual avatar of a deity
, or typical behavior. For example, “Red Foot,” “White Claw,” and “Scurry” are Common translations of often-used names. A kobold might change its name when it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
as angels and pegasi, with ties to the Upper Planes. Constructs are magically created creatures such as homunculi, modrons, and shield guardians. Dragons are scaly beings of ancient origin, such as red
beings, such as aboleths, beholders, flumphs, and mind flayers. Beasts are non-Humanoid natural creatures, like horses and wolves, as well as most giant animals. Celestials are magical creatures, such
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
magically created creatures such as homunculi, modrons, and shield guardians. Dragons are scaly beings of ancient origin, such as red dragons and wyverns. Elementals are beings from the Elemental
a particular type. The game includes the following creature types, which have no rules of their own: Aberrations are utterly alien beings, such as aboleths, beholders, flumphs, and mind flayers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
dragons. Kobolds willingly serve chromatic dragons and worship them as if they were demigods — mighty beings of divine descent. This isn’t a casual sort of worship or lip service; kobolds are awed in the
Ancient Deep Dragon
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Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
dragons, but we are superior beings and should not lower ourselves to direct conflict.
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I have no interest in going to the surface world. It’s where one sends one’s servants.
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has taken on a young red shadow dragon as a protégé.
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Two ancient dragon lovers—one ancient deep dragon;deep and one ancient white dragon;white—see each other only
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Red Dragon Lairs Red dragons lair in mountain badlands and high, isolated peaks and hills, preferring warm caverns in the rocky depths beneath those landscapes. Lairs with natural geothermal or lava
vents are highly sought after, as these features create an environment ideally suited to the dragons’ taste. Minions often attend red dragons in their lairs. These servants keep the place swept clean
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Rainbow storms assail the heights of a mountain so tall it seems to curve over you. You’re floating over a red wasteland, just one in a line of hovering beings. What do you see ahead?
5 You
lowered into a pool, where pale, slug-like beings set upon them. You float forward. Why are you deemed unacceptable?
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
human corpses. One of the corpses is being torn apart by a pack of wild dogs.
The Red Wizards seized this compound as their base of operations in Omu, but yuan-ti attacked and nearly wiped them out
. Thirty corpses are scattered across the compound — the remains of three Red Wizards, twenty human mercenaries, and seven bearers hired in Port Nyanzaru. The yuan-ti looted all the supplies they found and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
Aarakocra A winged people who originated on the Elemental Plane of Air, aarakocra soar through the sky wherever they wander. The first aarakocra served the Wind Dukes of Aaqa—mighty beings of air—and
sharp talons. Feathers cover their bodies—usually red, orange, yellow, brown, or gray. Their heads are also avian, often resembling those of parrots or eagles.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Random Encounters Chult is home to an immense variety of plants, beasts, monsters, and intelligent beings. Random encounters with the local wildlife are inevitable and help to make the party’s
-bones icons are likely to have random encounters with undead. The likelihood of an undead encounter increases in territories marked with red skull-and-bones icons. Most guides know these territories
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
, you’ll have to deal with me—Steel Crane!”
As Steel Crane presses his attack, the monks use the steles for cover and leap between them to engage the characters in close-quarters combat. Red Key. Steel
Crane carries a red wooden key that unlocks the door to area L3. Steel Crane Medium humanoid (human)
Armor Class 17 (Unarmored Defense)
Hit Points 76 (9d8 + 36)
Speed 40 ft.
STR
13 (+1
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Ancient Red Dragon Ancient red dragons number among the most feared and destructive beings in the multiverse. Few can withstand the wrath of an ancient red dragon that turns its mind toward
other planes of existence, bringing servants from the Elemental Plane of Fire or the Lower Planes into their service. Joshua Raphael Even the bravest souls flee the onslaught of an ancient red dragon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Lorehold Student You have spent your youth preparing to be a student of Lorehold College, reading every book on the college’s recommended reading list for prospective students. Your academic passions
Lorehold college. The Lorehold Personality Traits table suggests a variety of traits you might adopt for your character. Lorehold Personality Traits d6 Personality Trait 1 I thrive on esoteric lore
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
hierarchy, he is allowed to wear the red and green robes of a master. Of course, when he wears these robes, his occupation is easily identified by those who know of the cabal. This recognition could be a
for organizations presented earlier in this chapter. A player character necromancer might cultivate renown within the Cabal of Thar-Zad, while a bard seeks increasing renown within the College of Mac-Fuirmidh.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Slaadi Chaos-Spawned Hordes of Limbo Habitat: Planar (Limbo); Treasure: Any Néstor Ossandón leal A red slaad and blue slaad, along
with several slaad tadpoles, burst
from a portal on the plane
of Limbo
Unpredictable slaadi devour and multiply across the Ever-Changing Chaos of Limbo. These toad-like, extraplanar beings embody the endless potentiality of their home plane of existence
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
portents impact the earth, they carve great craters, yet miraculously, none who live in the impact zone are harmed. These beings of light then assume Humanoid forms to blend in with the inhabitants of the
world. Living portents seek out beings who will play a part in the prophecies they serve, and as the living portents search, they relate fragments of the prophecies to those they encounter. Variant
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
to advise and tutor them for long after the Descent. The Great Old One Beyond the planes known to great wizards and sages lies the Far Realm of the Great Old Ones, beings outside time, space, and
allied Red Wizards, but its ambitions in the region remain. Belaphoss is a demon that serves Demogorgon. It considers itself the greatest servitor of the Prince of Demons and thus a rival for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
legendary emerald dragon are terrorizing a nearby halfling settlement. One solution is to get rid of the dragon.
6 An emerald dragon is the headmaster in absentia of a bardic college and must be
convinced to defend the school in a contest against a rival college.
7 An emerald dragon invisibly tails a party of adventurers, causing trouble for the heroes so the dragon can watch how they
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
. Their brother, Xerrion, came to possess the tablet and used it to contact otherworldly beings in an attempt to destroy his family’s business rivals and political enemies. This contact drove Xerrion
darkness.” The family’s crest is a lit torch with three embers rising from the flame, set against a purple background. In the wake of the family’s descent into Undermountain and madness, this crest has
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
dragon. The dragons of Eberron aren’t restricted in alignment — good red dragons and evil gold dragons are equally common. Most dragons tend toward neutrality. Even those with good alignments often
don’t consider the impact of their actions on lesser beings; if a Chamber dragon must destroy a human village to foil the plans of a demon, it will do so without hesitation.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Living Descent Sometimes the answer to a riddle is lost beyond the inky waters of the Tartyx River. When spells and sages fail to recover some crucial bit of information, how far might heroes go to
. These paths lie beyond lands controlled by the poleis and other civilized beings. Dark caves with tunnels leading down into darkness and rivers quietly lapping at fog-shrouded gravel shores give way
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
, burning cinders, and heated smoke. These beings are tangible despite largely being made of flames and particles, and they can uses their vague limbs to ignite foes and flammable materials. Fire elementals
typically burn in shades of orange and red, but other colors are possible. Most on the Material Plane are summoned by magical means, or they might appear near rifts amid desert depths, volcanoes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
, their wide-set eyes glowing red as the mezzoloths bear down on their foes. Violence and reward are the fundamental drives of a mezzoloth, and powerful beings that promise one or the other can easily
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sleeping Dragon’s Wake
Zombie Escape Set the scene by reading the following boxed text aloud: Groans fill the air as moaning humanoid figures covered in dried bird droppings sprint toward you on the road. As these beings
near, their grayish rotting flesh becomes apparent. A pair of red-faced women in heavy armor run behind the undead crying, “Stop those zombies!”
Greater zombies (see appendix A) that escaped from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
crew of scavengers. Read or paraphrase the following: Out of the red dust clouds barrels an angular metal vehicle, ten feet tall, with spiked tires and hellfire roaring in its engine. Tortured screams
focus on the goristro while they take out the soldiers on its back. Nykaia knows about the Red Belvedere but refuses to provide any more information until the characters help with the goristro. If
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Draconic Bloodline Your innate magic comes from draconic magic that was mingled with your blood or that of your ancestors. Most often, sorcerers with this origin trace their descent back to a mighty
type associated with each dragon is used by features you gain later. Draconic Ancestry Dragon Damage Type Black Acid Blue Lightning Brass Fire Bronze Lightning Copper Acid Gold Fire Green Poison Red