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The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
are captivated by music, though they can’t distinguish a well-played performance from a bad one. If anyone plays an instrument or sings in the campestris’ vicinity, the little creatures will
a song or a piece of music three or four times, the creature remembers it forever.
Campestris vary widely in color, from white to tan to dark brown, but they always have red or purple caps and
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
distinguish a well-played performance from a bad one. If anyone plays an instrument or sings in the campestris’ vicinity, the little creatures will happily sing along, each in an obnoxiously nasal
creature remembers it forever.
Campestris vary widely in color, from white to tan to dark brown, but they always have red or purple caps and speckles. A campestri moves by manipulating the mycelium that
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
patch of brown mold (see the Dungeon Master’s Guide). This effect lasts until the heart is destroyed.
A creature proficient with alchemist's supplies can squeeze enough residual fluid out of the
heart to mix with other alchemical ingredients, creating one potion of cold resistance;potion of resistance (cold). It takes 1 hour to create this potion.
Cold
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Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
;t a native, your reason for leaving “home” probably has something to do with getting away from a bad situation.
Feature: All Eyes on You
Your accent, mannerisms, figures of
provided. The following section, discussing possible homelands, includes some suggested reasons that are appropriate for each location.
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Reason
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Reason
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Emissary
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Pilgrim
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
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Personality Trait. “When dealing with outsiders, I present myself as a kindly old grandmother.”
Ideal. “Children are better off working for me than picking up lots of bad habits
hag will occasionally visit another to plot against the third sister, creating a vicious circle in which Bavlorna and Endelyn plot against Skabatha, Endelyn and Skabatha conspire against Bavlorna, and
races
travelling, observing and creating maps that guide others along safe paths.
All tarandus possess antlers that rise roughly a foot above their heads. Their dark-red noses can emit a gentle glow
, often used for reading maps in dim light or signalling danger to their allies. Tarandus fur ranges from deep brown to pure white, shifting with age, climate or diet. They usually wear simple outfits
Aarakocra
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Elemental Evil Player's Companion
brightly colored, with feathers of red, orange, or yellow. Females have more subdued colors, usually brown or gray. Their heads complete the avian appearance, being something like a parrot or eagle with
changes in the prevailing winds that they regarded as a bad omen.
Unlike the aarakocra of other worlds on the Material Plane, the aarakocra of the Realms rarely travel to the Elemental Plane of Air
Zuggtmoy
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Monsters
Out of the Abyss
mushrooms of pale yellow and rancid brown. These massive fungi are some of the largest in existence. They are surrounded by a field of acidic puffballs and poisonous vapors. The mushrooms themselves are all
lair, instead of on herself.
Regional Effects
The region containing Zuggtmoy’s lair is warped by her magic, creating one or more of the following effects:
Molds and fungi grow on surfaces
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
brown. These massive fungi are some of the largest in existence. They are surrounded by a field of acidic puffballs and poisonous vapors. The mushrooms are interconnected by bridges of shelf fungus, and
herself.
Regional Effects
The region containing Zuggtmoy’s lair is warped by her magic, creating one or more of the following effects:
Corrupted Nature. Within 6 miles of the lair, all Wisdom
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Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
a frivolous lark. You’ve maintained a solitary vigil outside the cavern entrance ever since.
2
You crossed the Guild in a bad way. Fortunately, its members think you’re dead. Less
past that could rewrite history. It might be information that would be damaging to the people who consigned you to exile, and hence the reason for your return to society.
Work with your DM to
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
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
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
ages passed, githzerai explorers ranged out to other planes and worlds of the multiverse.
Githzerai are generally slender, with speckled skin in shades of yellow, green, or brown. Eons of cultivating
their mental powers within the endless chaos of Limbo have imbued githzerai with the ability to shape psionic energy to protect themselves and probe minds.
Creating Your Character
At 1st level, you
Kobold
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
creatures wouldn’t feel safe.
Kobolds take advantage of their size by creating small-diameter tunnels that they can easily pass through, but that require larger creatures to hunch over or even
undetected and don’t give their targets reason to harm them. For example, a group of city kobolds might sneak into a cobbler’s house at night to loot it of knives, leather bits, nails, and
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is home to treants of gigantic size, stags with antlers as wide across as a wagon, brown bears bigger than large sheds, owlbears, wolves, and unicorns. Woodcutters and even outlaws on the run dare
trees that is an important meeting-place for the Emerald Enclave. Foes of the enclave have to fight to reach it, but members can readily find aid, healing, and advice in the grove. Reason to Visit
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chapter 8 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide), the characters gain a level for completing this adventure. ABOUT THE ORIGINAL
Dave J. Brown and Don Turnbull bring the Saltmarsh trilogy to a conclusion in this
1983 adventure. As befits TSR UK’s talent for creating unique scenarios, The Final Enemy challenges players to plan and carry out reconnaissance on a dangerous sahuagin lair.
We’ve added an epic
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Creating a Monster The Monster Manual contains hundreds of ready-to-play monsters, but it doesn’t include every monster that you can imagine. Part of the D&D experience is the simple joy of creating
new monsters and customizing existing ones, if for no other reason than to surprise and delight your players with something they’ve never faced before. The first step in the process is coming up with
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their lives are best spent travelling, observing and creating maps that guide others along safe paths. All tarandus possess antlers that rise roughly a foot above their heads. Their dark-red noses can
emit a gentle glow, often used for reading maps in dim light or signalling danger to their allies. Tarandus fur ranges from deep brown to pure white, shifting with age, climate or diet. They usually wear
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
adventure hooks that might attract characters to the enclave or give them a reason to draw on its magic. The adventure hooks also suggest specific creatures or encounter tables appearing in the “Encounters
” section in chapter 3. And several of these hooks point to other enclaves, creating paths to string locations together into larger adventures. When developing these enclaves into adventure sites, let
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
suspense and mystery with familiar features of D&D, creating gloom so your heroes’ light shines all the brighter. Genres of Horror. Horror comes in broad varieties. You and your players decide what
how to bring it to life through your adventures. Creating Atmosphere. Threatening traps and monsters alone don’t create exciting D&D adventures. This book provides techniques to help you build
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Chapter 1: Group Patrons When creating characters for an Eberron campaign, consider choosing a patron for your adventuring party. This section describes general categories of patrons and also
adventuring group that has a powerful backer as a patron has a clear place in the world, access to additional resources, and a reason to work together in pursuit of a common cause.
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
deal with than the average member of the city watch. If your character’s backstory doesn’t already include a personage of this sort, you could work with your DM to come up with a reason why an
1 The pirate captain on whose ship you once served; what you call moving on, the captain calls mutiny 2 A master spy to whom you unwittingly fed bad information, which led to the assassination of
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
outlaws and monsters) and are eager for news. Homesteaders can usually point the way to the nearest town or neighboring homesteads (there is usually another homestead within one or two hexes). Reason to
Visit. If the characters speak with homesteaders in the area east of the Sumber Hills, they learn that raiders in brown cloaks sacked a few farms and dragged off their inhabitants. (These captives
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
, consider the following genre tropes when creating your dark fantasy domain: Good does not always win. Evil individuals with great power and unopposed schemes might be the norm. The lines between good
and evil are blurred. Choices involve deciding which outcome is least bad. Corruption and suspicion flourish among organizations and individuals. Magic and magic items might be rarer or require a
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
prepared to end its threat. Of course, there are ways to create threats distinct to this genre, such as when villains view detectives as rivals or targets. When creating an occult detective adventure
brilliant in the course of running your adventures. When creating adventures inspired by occult detective stories, ask yourself the following questions: What criminal or supernatural force is at large
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Zuggtmoy’s Lair Zuggtmoy’s principal lair is her palace on Shedaklah. It consists of two dozen mushrooms of pale yellow and rancid brown. These massive fungi are some of the largest in existence
, centered on a mushroom or other fungus within her lair, instead of on herself. Regional Effects The region containing Zuggtmoy’s lair is warped by her magic, creating one or more of the following
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enjoy making an unexciting aspect of life more enjoyable, such as inventing a shovel that whistles a tune to lighten the toil of digging, or creating a telescoping fork that can reach across the table
are recurring obstacles on the path to discovery, gnomes revel in the search. They savor the acquisition of new knowledge, realizing it might come at a cost, and even a series of bad results in experiments doesn’t dissuade a gnome from following their chosen path.
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some respects this area has never truly deserved its bad reputation. Yes, aside from the Field Ward, this is the area where most of Waterdeep’s poor reside. Yes, it is home to some of the least
often have no sign at all. You either know where you are going and have reason to be there — or you are lost, and a likely mark for pickpockets or worse. Streetlamps don’t fare well in the Dock Ward
Kenku
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. The kenku lack the talent to improvise or alter a plan, but a wise Master sets multiple plans in motion at once, confident that underlings can follow orders to the letter.
For this reason, many
tapping a stone to show how bored he is. He plays with his dagger and studies the Lords’ Alliance agent sitting at the bar.” Creating a vocabulary of noises for the other players to decode
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
upon Lekar’s walls. The people might want to abandon their homes, but Vladeska Drakov will not know defeat. FALKOVNIAN CHARACTERS
Characters from Falkovnia have good reason to be in other domains
, having fled their homeland’s zombie plague. Such individuals have likely seen horrors and know tragedy. Falkovnia’s residents often have brown hair and varied skin tones with warm undertones. Their names
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
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The Race of Eight Winds Begins!
Banners are flying across Dura today, and the streets are full of color. Walk through Oldkeep wearing brown and red, and
race is fair.
The beasts of Middle Dura are versatile. The Eagle represents Broken Arch and Stormhold in Middle Dura, and its supporters wear brown and gold. The clever Owl flies for Rattlestone and
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
a native, your reason for leaving “home” probably has something to do with getting away from a bad situation.
Where Are You From? The most important decision in creating a far traveler background is determining your homeland. The places discussed here are all sufficiently distant from the North and the Sword
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
itself to give its fellows time to collapse a nearby tunnel and prevent invaders from getting to the rest of the tribe. All kobolds know that fleeing from danger, especially against bad odds, is the smart
sacrifice when it presents itself. This practice contributes to the reason why most common folk (and adventurers) think kobolds are stupid as well as weak; they’ve seen or heard of a lone kobold trying to
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
. “Not a bad place to die,” the mage says with mild amusement. The doppelganger posing as Gargosh doesn’t take part in the fight, remaining on the fringes of the battle and rooting for the characters to
to make haste and catch up with him!”
Characters who have reason to suspect Gargosh might be lying or holding back information can make a DC 16 Wisdom (Insight) check. A character who succeeds on
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uses magic on fields near the border of the forest, creating animated plants to drive off farmers.
5 A scout has taken to hunting and eating sapient beings. What could have caused this gruesome
1 Dryad MM
1 Nyxborn brown bear* MM
2 Nyxborn saber-toothed tiger* MM
2 Satyr thornbearer MOoT
3 Archer VGtM
5 Shambling mound MM
5 Unicorn* MM
9
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
fight in the war, how and why did they remain on the sidelines? Did they oppose the war? Did they do something to avoid conscription, or was there a reason they were considered unsuitable for service
of Cyre, or do they have other ideas for the nation’s future? For example, when an Aundairan player character meets a group of Eldeen druids, it’s an opportunity to exploit the bad blood between






