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Aarakocra
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Elemental Evil Player's Companion
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Beak and Feather
From below, aarakocra look much like large birds. Only when they descend to roost on a branch or walk across the ground does their humanoid appearance reveal itself. Standing
aarakocra. To be grounded, trapped underground, or imprisoned by the cold, unyielding earth is a torment few aarakocra can withstand. Even when perched on a high branch or at rest in their mountaintop
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Mount Ghakis. A third branch heads west toward the Wizard of Wines winery and vineyard (area W), dipping south as it changes from a road into a gravel trail. Standing at the intersection of the Old
R. Raven River Crossroads Always check for a random encounter whenever the characters reach area R. This stretch of the Old Svalich Road has multiple branches. One branch heads north, quickly turning
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Elturel. As a sign of favor, she bestows a charm upon each character (see “Archdevil Charms”). Characters who die in Zariel’s service are reborn as lemures from the River Styx. They lose all memories of
their previous lives, and their alignment changes to lawful evil. If a character pleased Zariel with their loyalty in life, she might allow them to keep their memories as she promotes them to an NPC
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
energies to harnessing the astonishing natural resources of their mountain home. The dwarves were then reborn as merchant lords. In the early days of the Last War, Mror miners made an astonishing
challenge the explorers. For decades, the Mror lords have been fighting a battle in the depths, struggling to drive the darkness from their ancestral halls. Many dwarves revile anything to do with the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
, others can provide the above information. Sarith resists plans to travel to the city at first, conscious of the low regard the duergar have for drow. He changes his mind quickly, however, as
Zuggtmoy’s spores drive him to seek a densely populated area where he can spread his contagion. It’s also possible the party arrives at Gracklstugh involuntarily. Duergar slavers scour the Underdark in search
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
—law, religion, economics, education, social class, and so on—and how those structures drive historical events. Order focuses on systemic changes and the actions of people collectively. The perspective
fundamental conflict at the heart of Lorehold’s philosophy. This conflict revolves around the forces that underlie and drive history. Is the course of time driving toward a well-ordered ideal state or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
are under the effect of a spider climb spell) can move through the tunnels at a normal pace. A thin layer of frost coats the walls, floor, and ceiling throughout. The westernmost tunnel branch opens
easternmost tunnel branch opens into the back wall of a giant dormitory (area 8). Tunnel Intersections. The first time one or more party members reach a tunnel intersection, four ice spiders come
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
believes they are deadly poisonous (they aren’t). The merchants are terrified of the things and refuse to drive through them, fearing that they may be poisonous or worse. Besides that, the sounds spook
. Anyone can literally sweep a path through the mushrooms with a heavy broom, a scythe, or a tree branch. The noise is distressing. Everyone involved in this process must make a DC 10 Constitution saving
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
believes they are deadly poisonous (they aren’t). The merchants are terrified of the things and refuse to drive through them, fearing that they may be poisonous or worse. Besides that, the sounds spook
. Anyone can literally sweep a path through the mushrooms with a heavy broom, a scythe, or a tree branch. The noise is distressing. Everyone involved in this process must make a DC 10 Constitution saving
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
your piety score. As you increase that score, you gain blessings from your god. Piety has nothing to do with faith or belief, except insofar as a person’s thoughts and ideals drive them to action in
, but a single deed typically changes your piety score by only 1 point in either direction unless your action is very significant.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
bidding, masking their intentions behind layers of deception. They lure victims to them by mimicking voices calling out for help, or drive unwanted visitors away by imitating the cries of fierce beasts
magical illusion that makes her look like another creature of her general size and humanoid shape. The illusion ends if the hag takes a bonus action to end it or if she dies.
The changes wrought by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
accumulates changes to its form due to interaction with the energies of the Abyss. These long-lived demons often become demon lords, beings of such power that they can hold sway over entire realms within the
best serves the lord’s desires. Of course, keeping control of a layer involves fighting off other demons that are looking to expand their domains. From time to time, a layer changes hands or is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Entering Derro Territory The derro are automatically hostile toward anyone entering their warrens, especially surfacers. As you pass through the gates, the stench in the air changes from acrid and
mob meant to drive away invisible duergar patrols. Derro make active Wisdom (Perception) checks contested by the characters’ Dexterity (Stealth) checks if a ward is activated. Characters using detect
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
creature engulfed at a time.
Spawned by Lightning. A shambling mound results from a phenomenon in which lightning or fey magic invigorates an otherwise ordinary swamp plant. As the plant is reborn
shambling mound’s body shrugs off the effects of cold and fire. Lightning reinvigorates the root-stem, strengthening the shambling mound and bolstering its consumptive drive.
Despite its monstrous form
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
, King Bruenor Battlehammer of Mithral Hall promised to lead the dwarves to Gauntlgrym and reclaim it for the dwarves of the North. It took fierce fighting to drive out the creatures that had claimed
king very well. If he wants a reborn Delzoun, may Moradin and his children grant him the wisdom to do it right, and the fortitude to see it through. It’s a throne I wouldn’t wish on anyone. The rise of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
spins its cocoon, each leaf and branch upon which a bright butterfly rests its tired wings.
In a unicorn’s forest, a sense of calm pervades. From wolves and foxes to birds, squirrels, and tiny insects
stays by the champion, its horn shining brightly to drive back the night. However, if the gods’ champion falls from grace or turns from the cause of righteousness and good, the unicorn departs, never to return.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
thoughtful leader of his people, devoted to the vision that he and his wife share of a Blingdenstone rebuilt and reborn. Quartermaster Senni takes the count and measure of everything, ensuring her
svirfneblin hiding in Blingdenstone after the drow armies abandoned the city managed to kill or drive off the wererats, but many of the deep gnomes became infected with lycanthropy. Today, deep gnome
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
to the smaller races. Its members are all enormous, lumbering brutes, primarily cyclopes, ogres, and giants. The clan’s leadership changes frequently — sometimes daily, since battles for supremacy are
live their lives unimpeded, and they lash out when something tries to stand in their way. Emotion and impulsiveness drive them as they seek to do what they want, take what they want, and smash what they want.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
, or drive off any creature unfortunate enough to trigger them. A trap's description specifies what happens when it is triggered. The attack bonus of a trap, the save DC to resist its effects, and the
might make successive attacks against intruders, create an effect that changes over time, or otherwise produce a dynamic challenge. Otherwise, the complex trap can be detected and disabled or bypassed in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
, contain, or drive off any creature unfortunate enough to trigger them. A trap’s description specifies what happens when it is triggered. The attack bonus of a trap, the save DC to resist its effects, and
. It might make successive attacks against intruders, create an effect that changes over time, or otherwise produce a dynamic challenge. Otherwise, the complex trap can be detected and disabled or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
forfeit when the character dies (that is, the character is reborn in the Nine Hells as a lemure). The character loses all monetary wealth and property, or a powerful magic item (determined by the DM), to
with this flaw has disadvantage on all attack rolls, ability checks, and saving throws until the behavior changes to match the flaw. Voiding a Contract Voiding an infernal contract releases all
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
bidding, masking their intentions behind layers of deception. They lure victims to them by mimicking voices calling out for help, or drive unwanted visitors away by imitating the cries of fierce beasts
to end it or if she dies.
The changes wrought by this effect fail to hold up to physical inspection. For example, the hag could appear to have smooth skin, but someone touching her would feel her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
their magic to drive others to do the opposite of what they desire. All the book’s writing is backward. Pity He’s an Elf is a collection of illustrated short stories about an elf adventurer named Aethyn
color of fresh blood until it dries, whereupon its color changes to sepia. A Tiny clockwork toad with AC 5 and 1 hit point. If a creature places the toad on the ground, it hops 5 feet across the ground
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
machine used by the miners of Little Lockford to burrow new tunnels. The vehicle has the properties of an apparatus of Kwalish, with these changes: Treads. Instead of legs and a tail, it has treads that
Ignus plus one other passenger. If a character asks Ignus to allow the party to drive the contraption, he adamantly refuses to part with his prized invention. Questioning Ignus. Ignus knows the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
course. You decide what this looks like: they might follow the wrong branch of a river, orient themselves to the wrong mountain peak on the horizon, or get turned around in the forest. As a baseline
or Terrain. The weather or terrain changes in a way that makes tracking harder. Terrain Obstacle. The trail crosses a river or similar obstacle that allows no tracks. The DC for the check depends on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
memories and personality, and the victim gains the skills and talents it needs to perform its intended function. The process that creates a thrall changes almost everything about the victim. The
fool of fools. Illithid brains are poisonous, and drive humans insane with a flood of memories at every bite. Er, ask me not how I know this.
— Elminster
Duergar Mind flayers have hated duergar
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
directs at least one attack each round at such a character.
4 The dragon tries to drive the characters off by emotionally hurting or humiliating them—threatening something they obviously care about
better.
10 When the dragon is agitated, the regional effects that alter the terrain around the lair create visible changes around the dragon each round.
11 Factions and grudges within the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Corruption. Demons carry the stain of abyssal corruption with them, and their mere presence changes the world for the worse. Plants wither and die in areas where abyssal breaches and demons appear. Animals
, the possession lasts until powerful magic is used to drive the demonic spirit out of its host. DEMON TRUE NAMES
Though demons all have common names, every demon lord and every demon of type 1
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
innate power over them. He plays with them as if they were children, chasing them through the gloomy depths.
Something changes, and the oozes flow away. The deep gnome runs after them, fearful of
out by the powerful wards of Gravenhollow echoes in your mind as the vision is suddenly torn away to darkness.
This vision offers a glimpse of Lolth’s plan to drive her rivals out of the Abyss and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
. On the smallest scale, these are local gang bosses, pirate captains, and brigands. A leader in art or culture is a virtuoso whose work reflects the spirit of the age and changes the way people think
their fallen leader shifts subtly at first and then changes dramatically as they look back or reminisce about the time before. The fallen leader might have been a benevolent ruler, an influential citizen
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
statistics, with the following changes: The young cloud giants have an Intelligence score of 10 (+0) and Wisdom and Charisma scores of 12 (+1). They have the following skills: Insight +4, Perception +4. They
statistics of a bandit captain with the following changes: The Weevil is neutral evil. His speed is 25 feet. He has advantage on saving throws against poison and resistance to poison damage. He has
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a2
, occupying three caves that branch off the warren’s central area to the northwest, southwest, and southeast. The passage opens into a long, low cavern that has three narrow, twisting passages leading off into
a troglodyte with the following changes, which increase his challenge rating to 2 (450 XP): His AC is 13 (natural armor). He has 39 (6d8 + 12) hit points. His Charisma is 15 (+2). He can speak
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
townspeople from the larger group. The side passage splits after several feet. One branch leads steeply upward while the other abruptly ends at a chasm (area J2). J2: Tunnel Chasm This passage drops
. The behir is hungry but cautious. If the characters don’t attack, the behir asks them in Draconic to drive the gricks out of the adjoining cave. If a fight breaks out, the behir tries to maneuver into
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
dead within an area.
2 14 A gold coin hangs like a piece of fruit from the branch of a dead tree.
3 15 The sun’s light does not penetrate an area.
4 16 A character is stung as if
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3 67 The weather suddenly changes radically.
4 68 A colored arrow strikes nearby, arching from an impossible direction.
5 69 Plants sprout and grow to maturity instantly.
6 70
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
in areas K2 and K7, who investigate. Manafret is a lightfoot halfling mage, with these changes: Manafret is neutral evil and has 31 (9d6) hit points. He has these racial traits: He is Small, and his
author with an added note that reads, in Common: “For Yorn. I hope you find the orc chapter illuminating!” Yorn is a half-orc thug, with these changes: Yorn is neutral evil. He has these racial traits