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Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
became lost in the Shadowfell, wandering its gray wastes until they lost all sense of self. They are so devoid of identity that they have become permanently invisible. Only children can see a skulk
a vague likeness of its master.
Cruel and chaotic, skulks carry out their orders in the most violent manner possible. A summoned skulk can’t return to the Shadowfell until it dies, so many
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
at their heads and ears.
Despite the ominous murals and the devil face carving, this hall is devoid of traps. Any character who searches the devil face finds a lizard hiding in the carving’s
it to the tomb thinking it might be useful for setting off traps. The lizard escaped and wound up here. It doesn’t know what became of its captors and helps the characters any way it can if they promise to return it to Omu.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
opening appears devoid of life: The entrance to the gem mine is an open tunnel in a hillside. Empty carts are parked near the entrance, next to which a crude wooden sign has been propped up. Written on
like dragon!” “Trex smart! He speaks like human who knows a lot. He don’t speak Dragon no more.” “Trex says miners want their mine back. Trex wants something better in return.” “Trex says we be safer in town. There’s food in town!”
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
the cave’s center. Both are talking while apparently ignoring each other. In the cages, three hulking brown bears appear to be resting.
The two derro (see appendix C) are cultists. One of them is
appearances to the contrary. Characters hoping to sneak past them must succeed on Dexterity (Stealth) checks contested by the bears’ passive Wisdom (Perception) score of 13. On their first turn, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Carnival Owners The owners of the Witchlight Carnival are a pair of shadar-kai (elves native to the Shadowfell) named Mister Witch and Mister Light. Witch is matter-of-fact and devoid of pretense
-kai transformed into fun-loving free spirits who secretly dread the day when the two carnivals cross paths again. They have no desire to return to their gloomy old carnival, which is described in more
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Skulk Skulks are the soulless shells of travelers who became lost in the Shadowfell, wandering its gray wastes until they lost all sense of self. They are so devoid of identity that they have become
the most violent manner possible. A summoned skulk can’t return to the Shadowfell until it dies, so it has every motivation to throw itself into creating bloodshed and mayhem. Hollow Lives. After
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moves its tribe to another area, ceding the contested territory to its more successful neighbors.
As demonstrated by their hatred of gnomes, kobolds have a persecution complex and easily take offense
protection from invaders and in return providing services such as excavating new living spaces and disposing of trash. If it’s unlucky, the tribe is enslaved by the other humanoids, and the kobolds
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
area K9. The wide staircase leads up to area K19. If the characters are here by invitation, add the following: An elf with brown skin and long black hair descends the wide staircase, quiet as a cat. He
Tower Stair (area K21). Development After all the characters leave this room, the eight gargoyles attack any character who dares to return. The gargoyles also swoop down to fight if they are attacked
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
Skulk Skulks are the soulless shells of travelers who became lost in the Shadowfell, wandering its gray wastes until they lost all sense of self. They are so devoid of identity that they have become
deduce who summoned it, because the skulk assumes a vague likeness of its master. Cruel and chaotic, skulks carry out their orders in the most violent manner possible. A summoned skulk can’t return to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
Boros Legion AARON MILLER A brown-bearded, broad-chested man clad in massive-shouldered plate armor led a battalion of soldiers, the symbol of the Boros Legion emblazoned on white cloth draped over
Boros armor floated in protective positions over its animate flame.
— Doug Beyer, Return to Ravnica: The Secretist
Clad in shining armor and fueled by righteous zeal, the soldiers of the Boros
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Number of Feathers Characters who try to identify the hecklers can spot Kettlesteam in her current guise with a successful Wisdom (Perception) check contested by the kenku’s Charisma (Deception) check. See
Illusions. To coax her back to the lake, the characters must perform an act of gallantry, such as helping Candlefoot find his lost voice. If the characters persuade Palasha to return to the lake and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
alongside the characters as a sign of gratitude. Kharbek is a mountain dwarf explorer with brown skin, brown eyes, and jet-black hair. They stand just over 4 feet tall and have an athletic build
. Personality Trait. “I am a zealous worshiper of Moradin and take it upon myself to protect those in need.” Ideal. “Honesty is the best policy.” Bond. “When someone helps me, I’m bound by my honor to return the favor.” Flaw. “I am far too trusting and have a difficult time discerning a lie.”
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Bodak A bodak is the undead remains of someone who revered Orcus. Devoid of life and soul, it exists only to cause death. Orcus can recall anything a bodak sees or hears. If he so chooses, he can
damaged that it is unfit for most forms of magical resurrection. Only a wish spell or similar magic can return a bodak to its former life. Undead Nature. A bodak doesn’t require air, food, drink, or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal
all that remains of Halaster’s tower, and now, devoid of the stairways and floors that formed subterranean levels, it drops as an open shaft for 140 feet. Stirges, spiders, and worse have been known to
to “ride the rope”) must pay a gold piece to be lowered down. The return trip also costs a piece of gold, sent up in a bucket in advance. Once the initial payment is made, a few stairs takes one to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
, one of Candlekeep’s sages and the foremost expert on Xanthoria—both the book and its mysterious author: Your guide does not return. Instead, you are greeted by a robed wood elf with brown hair and a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
those who try to control the slaad. If the characters obtain the gem and return it to the Alchemist, it cheers, turns invisible, and flees with the gem. If the characters seem interested in knowing
pilfer one with a successful Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) check contested by the slaad’s Wisdom (Perception) check. Potion of Comprehension. When you drink this potion, you gain the effect of a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
imprisoned means that Levistus can focus his full attention on such matters, which allows him to excel at what he does. A Contested Realm Levistus was not always the lord of Stygia. The archdevil Geryon
agents, offering them superior strength and great physical prowess in return for their allegiance. A Frozen Wasteland Every other layer of the Nine Hells has a function related to warfare, industry
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
contested by the character’s Charisma (Deception) check to see through the deception. A character who is caught lying to the dragon can never win back its trust. If the dragon is incapacitated, a
. It craves gemstones and seeks out better ones with which to adorn itself. Most of all, it longs to return to the forests around Myth Drannor, where it was created. If its wielder’s goals run counter
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
house’s wrath. If the characters side with the house that wins, the leader of the victorious drow parleys with them to find out what they expect in return (see below). If the characters end up on the
escapes, Spirreth tries to hide and rest in area 13. The hezrou has 72 hit points remaining at the end of the fight, and Shindreer has cast none of her spells. She uses her healing magic to return the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
easily manipulated mayor of Oztocan. In his forties, Tavio has brown skin and sports short black hair, a scruffy beard, and simple clothes. Although he is smart, he has an aversion to conflict and is
, Tavio urges them to return the shard to its proper place in the tomb. He also asks them to beware his sister, whose allegiance to the Onyx Scar is absolute.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
out elsewhere amid the chaos of war. Glowing Signal. The kakkuus immediately return if they see the glyph glowing on the door to area Y2. Y2: Guard Hall The exterior door has an invisible glyph
, she knows that powerful spyder-fiends can spot her. Naxa asks the characters to help her escape the citadel and return to her sister. Naxa’s Secret. When the characters talk at length with Naxa, they
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
rubble, while others are eerily preserved, devoid of life but otherwise unharmed. In some of them, treasures left behind by the former inhabitants await discovery, and many people across Khorvaire are
was once the capital of Cyre. Now it lies empty, seemingly waiting along the Cyre River for its people to return. Parts of Metrol have been shattered, their buildings crushed and tumbled by whatever
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Bodak A bodak is the undead remains of someone who revered Orcus. Devoid of life and soul, it exists only to cause death. Marked by Orcus. A worshiper of Orcus can take ritual vows while carving the
that becomes a bodak is so damaged that it is unfit for most forms of magical resurrection. Only a wish or similar magic can return a bodak to its former life. Undead Nature. A bodak doesn’t require air
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
, and it pains them. When night falls, they leave their final resting places in search of living creatures to slay, knowing that few weapons can harm them in return. At the first light of dawn, they
it. A creature must be Medium or smaller to be affected by this magic, and an object can weigh up to 150 pounds.
If the target is a creature, the poltergeist makes a Charisma check contested by the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
the Hammock of Worlds. D2: Dead End This short tunnel ends in a wall of pallid meat, devoid of the thick chitin covering the other walls.
If a creature approaches what appears to be the tunnel’s
, they must still return to Atagua. The Drought Elder does nothing to physically impede the characters, but it telepathically urges the creatures inhabiting its massive corpse to attack the intruders
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
islands and driving ships down to the reefs. Any land that rises above the surface of the sea is hotly contested by the few air breathers that live on the plane. Fleets of rafts and ships lashed together
of Evil Water believe the seas and deep waters are eager to reclaim the water trapped in the bodies of living creatures, and think it’s their duty to return others to the primal waters by drowning them or shedding their blood.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
characters’ lives if they lend a helping hand. Someone who makes a successful Wisdom (Insight) check contested by the dragon’s Charisma (Deception) check discerns that she has no intention of keeping
of sight, which is 60 feet. Tinjong worships Silvanus (god of nature) and has no agenda. She tries to be helpful while asking for nothing in return, and she carries nothing of value. Although she has
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
space on one of the last merchant carts out. They took what they could fit on their backs, and they left their other possessions behind and hid their valuables in order to return and claim them later
The front door of the stonemason’s home and workshop gapes open, with the remains of the door lying several feet away and covered in long brown grass. The roof has caved in, and remnants of rotting
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
to leave. They dress in drab, monotonous garments devoid of color or fashion, trudging listlessly down the gate-town’s single, curling avenue like sewage to a drain. Too despondent to muster emotion
to return to their faces, making them prime targets for the high cardinal’s watchful servants. Gallows When townsfolk suspected of crimes aren’t disintegrated on the spot, High Cardinal Thingol
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
into view, descending gracefully from the upper part of the cloister. She’s an elderly human woman with weathered brown skin, white hair in tight braids, and kindly hazel eyes, dressed in a simple white
adventure, Dragon’s Rest serves as a home base for the characters. All the places they’ll explore on the island are within a few miles of the cloister, and they can return here whenever they wish to rest
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
the stone. After searching Fenerus’s home and finding nothing, they were waiting for Fenerus to return when the drow showed up. The drow barely got away with their lives. THE THREE URCHINS
Three
with a successful Wisdom (Insight) check contested by Jarlaxle’s Charisma (Deception) check. If the characters somehow penetrate Jarlaxle’s disguise, he smiles and offers them 10,000 gp if they
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a2
complex, or that it’s possible to enter through the chimney. The orcs defending the Mountain Door refuse to negotiate for their return. The characters might disguise themselves as orcs using captured gear
. Doing so can let them try to bluff their way past sentries in the dungeon, using Charisma (Deception) checks contested by the orcs’ Wisdom (Insight) checks. Treasure. Each orc carries a sack of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
(Deception) check contested by the guards’ Wisdom (Insight) checks; if all the characters succeed, the guards are fooled and allow them to pass. If combat erupts here, two earth elementals burst up
interaction immediately reveals the illusion. G5. Underdark Entrance A hole in the back of this cave forms the mouth of a tunnel that plunges deeper into the earth. The tunnel is devoid of the luminous
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
remain open, so the characters can explore the rooms beyond when they return from whatever stage is triggered by opening the door. Any treasure or other objects claimed in a stage stay with the characters
the characters. When Propha is asked any questions, characters can attempt a Wisdom (Insight) check contested by the doppelganger’s Charisma (Deception) check, which is usually made with advantage
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
a facsimile takes weeks or even months for large tomes, so those who desire such a work must commission it in writing, provide payment in advance, and then return to the front gates to pick up the
these towers. Seekers at the Pillars must rely on their Avowed guides to retrieve or return specific works from the Great Library to assist with their research. Most seekers never pass through the