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Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
. The gadabout enters the space of a willing Medium or Small creature within 5 feet of itself and gently wraps its branches around the target. The target is grappled (escape DC 0). Any attempt by the
Wildspace. A gadabout wraps its branches around a Humanoid creature, spreads its butterfly wings, and allows its wearer to fly through space in a continuously refreshed air envelope. The gadabout
Monsters
The Tortle Package
legs come out of a small opening in the bottom of its shell. A geonid can draw its limbs into its shell and close the opening. When it does so, the creature looks like a small boulder. In this state, the
. Geonids can attune to stone in a way that lets them discern what other creatures have been in the area recently. Geonids use this ability to track prey and to determine whether other creatures have
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The sacred water from the Opu Opu Spring has always been famous for its healing properties. Villagers would come from all around and make the
long trek up into the mountains to collect the spring water, but recently a large troll has moved into the area and the villagers have been too afraid to travel there. Because of this, supplies of the spring water are now at an all-time low.
Magic Items
Tales from the Yawning Portal
Waythe is a unique greatsword most recently in the possession of a high-ranking cloud giant ambassador.
You gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. When you hit a
only 1 minute for a good-aligned character to gain attunement with the sword.) Waythe is courageous to the point of foolhardiness, however, and vocally urges bold action. It is likely to come into conflict with an evil or a timid wielder.
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
"} poison damage.Grandolpha Muzgardt, the grand dame of the Muzgardt duergar clan, has recently arrived at the fortress after being invited here by Xardorok Sunblight;Xardorok. The Muzgardts are based
admiration for Grandolpha to foresee her treachery.
Before entering combat, Grandolpha casts stoneskin on herself. Once her duergar;guards come to her rescue, she withdraws from combat and uses her
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
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
forests and jungles, seem to attract girallons. They see a city’s buildings as a superior sort of forest whose uppermost “branches” can safely support them. The creatures can easily
ravines or shallow caves, or hide in ruined sites while waiting for prey to come near. A girallon is surprisingly stealthy, considering its size and its lack of camouflage.
Girallons form loose bands
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
Tree, yggdrasti look like gigantic, dead trees covered with barnacles. They fly through Wildspace and the Astral Sea with their topmost branches leading the way and their withered roots trailing behind
inside its trunk in which Medium or smaller creatures can lurk.
Yggdrasti attack any settlements or spelljamming ships they come across without provocation. By using a speak with plants spell or
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
Knight
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Backgrounds
Player’s Handbook (2014)
landowner who cares deeply about the people who live and work on your land, keenly aware of your responsibility to them.
Work with your DM to come up with an appropriate title and determine how much
you need to determine your noble title, but you should also work with the DM to describe your family and their influence on you.
Is your family old and established, or was your title only recently
Noble
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Backgrounds
Basic Rules (2014)
landowner who cares deeply about the people who live and work on your land, keenly aware of your responsibility to them.
Work with your DM to come up with an appropriate title and determine how much
you need to determine your noble title, but you should also work with the DM to describe your family and their influence on you.
Is your family old and established, or was your title only recently
Elf
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Basic Rules (2014)
insults with vengeance.
Like the branches of a young tree, elves are flexible in the face of danger. They trust in diplomacy and compromise to resolve differences before they escalate to violence. They
(Moonbrook), Xiloscient (Goldpetal)
Subrace
Ancient divides among the elven people resulted in three main subraces: high elves, wood elves, and dark elves, who are commonly called drow. Choose one of
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
Though you might have only recently arrived in civilized lands, you are no stranger to the values of cooperation and group effort when striving for supremacy. You learned these principles, and much
abandoned that path, you find yourself adrift. Or you might come from a segment of the Uthgardt that adheres to tradition, but you seek to bring glory to your tribe by achieving great things as a
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->Out of the Abyss
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
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
have recently abated, in the wake of devastating losses on both sides. Drivvin Freth, a drow archmage, hopes to use this respite to his house’s advantage by summoning a goristro demon that will force the minotaurs to submit to House Freth’s control.
What Dwells Here? This level is a battleground between drow of House Freth and a tribe of minotaurs. The minotaurs hold sway over a maze of tunnels riddled with magical effects and traps, while the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
or choose entries from the Temple Guests table, or use those guests as inspiration for your own NPCs. Temple Guests d8 Guest(s)
1 A drow poses as Jarlaxle Baenre, the leader of a famous
Flaming Fist, a ruthless mercenary company based in the city of Baldur’s Gate, has come to the temple to recover from a leg injury. The treatments and physical therapy are helping, but the mercenary is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
the dungeon under Muiral’s control are pale shadows of their former glory, having fallen into disrepair and neglect. Under the leadership of a priestess named Vlonwelv Auvryndar, the drow have recently
What Dwells Here? Muiral the Misshapen, one of Halaster’s apprentices, claimed this drow-built level as his private hunting grounds after the dark elves were forced to abandon it long ago. Areas of
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
landowner who cares deeply about the people who live and work on your land, keenly aware of your responsibility to them.
Work with your DM to come up with an appropriate title and determine how much
you need to determine your noble title, but you should also work with the DM to describe your family and their influence on you.
Is your family old and established, or was your title only recently
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
12. Bat Cave The drow and their quaggoths recently expanded into this cavern, which is home to hundreds of bats. 12a. Drow Sentinels Sloped Roof. The ceiling here is 50 feet high but slopes down to
30 feet high toward the southeast.
Drow. Natural shelves and narrow ledges line the walls, ranging in height from 10 to 30 feet. Hiding in the shadows atop 10-foot-high ledges are two male drow elite
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
private hunting domain. Drow warriors patrol the forest, alert for poachers and intruders. Check for random encounters in Kyorbblivvin once every hour. Roll a d20 and consult the Kyorbblivvin Encounters
d20 Encounter 1–10 No encounter 11 1 black pudding 12 3d6 drow spore servants (see appendix C) 13 Elite drow foot patrol 14 Exotic fungi 15 1d4 giant spiders 16 1d4 gricks 17 Hunting party 18 1
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
recently taken back from the drow, stands as a beacon of resurgent dwarven strength in the North. Stoneshaft Hold and Ironmaster are lonely settlements continually girding themselves for threats real and
the orcs and goblinoids of the region, and having to fight off assaults from below by duergar and drow, the shield dwarves have stood fast, determined to hold their halls against all threats — and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Mantol-Derith Population: Approximately 140 (drow, duergar, humans, and svirfneblin)
Government: Informal council comprised of four chief negotiators (one per enclave), recently dissolved
Defense
: Private guards
Commerce: Rare and exotic goods; see each enclave for information on the goods traded by the duergar, the drow, the svirfneblin, and the Zhentarim
Organizations: The drow, duergar
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
What the Prisoners Know Allow the characters to freely mingle and interact with their fellow prisoners or even the drow guards, although the guards rarely talk to the “surface-dweller scum.” Of all
way the adventure unfolds. The characters can learn the following things from talking with their fellow prisoners, some of who have been captives of the drow for a tenday or two: There are nineteen
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
26. Bent Hallway This 10-foot-high, 20-foot-wide hall is marred by an ancient excavation. At one point, drow sought to expand this level of the dungeon and set slaves to the task of hewing new
passageways. The project was abandoned when Halaster and his apprentices pushed the drow out. 26a. Slamming Doors The first time the characters reach the midpoint of this hall, they hear a double door slam
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Erelal Freth, a drow priestess of Lolth. Her older brother Drivvin works at her side. Erelal has communed with Lolth and believes that the key to securing the Troglodyte Warrens begins with the
capitulation of the minotaurs on the Maze Level. Once the minotaurs are subservient to House Freth, the drow will use them to clear out and secure the warrens. To this end, Drivvin is devising a ritual to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Encounters d20 Encounter 1–10 No encounter 11 1 drider 12 Drow hunting party 13 3d6 dwarf commoners 14 1d6 ettins 15 3d6 flumphs 16 Grick nest 17 1 purple worm 18 2d6 troglodytes 19 1d4 trolls 20 1 umber
the Monster Manual). The drider flees if reduced to 30 or fewer hit points. Drow Hunting Party A drow mage of House Melarn leads a group of 1d6 drow and 2d6 bugbear slaves through the tunnels in search
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
deeper into the trees. Heavy vines and thick layers of moss drape the branches, and the air is noticeably colder than it was in the ruined village. After rounding a bend in the trail, you come upon a
domed shelter made from the warped, bowing branches of nearby trees. A low doorway leads inside.
This 10-foot-by-10-foot shelter is the lair of Agatha the banshee. If the characters exercise caution
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
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
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
top. The Archmage of Menzoberranzan, Gromph Baenre, has fled the city in the wake of Demogorgon’s attack, leaving the task of lighting Narbondel to a host of other wizards. Drow Ruling Houses of
Menzoberranzan Rank House Matron Mother Notes 1 Baenre Quenthel Baenre Controls all three branches of the Academy (see “Tier Breche”) 2 Barrison Del’Armgo Mez’Barris Armgo Has the largest number of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
. House Xorlarrin once held Gauntlgrym, but King Bruenor Battlehammer and his dwarves recently drove out the dark elves. They know its layout well, however. Duke Zalto has given the drow an iron flask
alliance with the drow of House Xorlarrin: he promises to help them destroy their enemies if the drow help him steal Maegera, the fire primordial trapped within the underground dwarven city of Gauntlgrym
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Nar’l Xibrindas Nar'l Xibrindas and Grell Bodyguard Xanathar’s advisor is a nervous and conniving male drow named Nar’l Xibrindas. Nar’l’s house was wiped out long ago, but he and his elder brother
loyalty, though, and Nar’l has become increasingly worried about his future. If forced to decide between himself and Bregan D’aerthe, he’ll choose the former and betray his drow allies to save his own skin