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Dungeon Master’s Guide
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Call Undead. While holding the wand, you can take a Magic action to conjure 15 Skeleton;Skeletons and 15 Zombie;Zombies. These Undead magically rise up from the ground or otherwise form in
unoccupied spaces within 300 feet of you and obey your commands until they are destroyed or until the next dawn, when they collapse into inanimate piles of bones and rotting corpses. Once you use this
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
wander the Material Plane for centuries, collecting corpses while searching for a way to return home.
Cadaver collectors respond to a summons from a mortal only when they are called to the scene of a
great battle—either where one is in progress, where one is imminent, or where one once took place. They encase themselves in the armor and weapons of fallen warriors and impale the corpses of those
Cadaver Collector
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Monsters
Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
back to Acheron, but if a summoner comes to a bad end, a cadaver collector might wander the Material Plane for centuries, collecting corpses while searching for a way to return home.
Sweeping the Dead
. They encase themselves in the armor and weapons of fallen warriors and impale the corpses of those warriors on the lances and other weapons embedded in their salvaged armor.
Conjured Berserkers. Corpses
Jiangshi
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monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
afflicts the limbs of jiangshi, causing them to hold their arms rigidly and to walk with a stiff gait. This, along with their flight, lead many to call them hopping vampires.
By day, jiangshi lurk
them greater powers. Humanoids killed by a jiangshi rise as life-hungry corpses and might turn into jiangshi themselves if they feed upon the living.
Wand of Orcus
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Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
spells using 2 fewer charges (minimum of 0).
Call Undead. While you are holding the wand, you can use an action to conjure skeleton;skeletons and zombie;zombies, calling forth as many of them as you
until they are destroyed or until dawn of the next day, when they collapse into inanimate piles of bones and rotting corpses. Once you use this property of the wand, you can’t use it again
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Tammeraut’s Secret The sinking of Tammeraut did not spell the end for Syrgaul and his band of pirates. As his ship plunged into the sea, he called out to his fiendish patron. Orcus heeded his call
seabed to Firewatch Island. They overran the garrison and carried the remains back to their wrecked ship. There, with Orcus’s instruction, they began the laborious process of opening the Pit of Hatred, a rift to the Abyss that can transform corpses into drowned ones.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
Upper Northedge Upper Northedge is a quiet, largely residential ward with little overt crime. Some of Sharn’s wealthiest citizens call it home; many of them have dedicated their lives to increasing
their personal power at any cost. Inquisitives might unearth the skeletons in the closets of such individuals—the corpses of those trampled on the road to riches. Or inquisitives might take lucrative
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
she suspects of investigating her past. The resulting life-drained bodies are attributed to a notorious figure locals call the Red Death. Using the Red Death. While Port-a-Lucine’s residents ignore the
Red Death’s victims—potentially chiding corpses for their laziness or public drunkenness—the characters are unlikely to overlook bodies so clearly drained of life. Use such corpses to remind the group that the lies of Dementlieu’s people are dangerous denials of reality.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Material Plane for centuries, collecting corpses while searching for a way to return home. A cadaver collector responds to a summons from a mortal only if it is called to the scene of a great battle
—either where one is in progress, where one is imminent, or where one once took place. The collector encases itself in the armor and weapons of fallen warriors, and it impales the corpses of those
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
might wander the Material Plane for centuries, collecting corpses while searching for a way to return home. Sweeping the Dead. Cadaver collectors respond to a summons from a mortal only when they are
impale the corpses of those warriors on the lances and other weapons embedded in their salvaged armor. Conjured Berserkers. Corpses that accumulate on the construct’s shell aren’t just grisly battle
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Material Plane for centuries, collecting corpses while searching for a way to return home. Cadaver collectors respond to a summons from a mortal only when they are called to the scene of a great battle
—either where one is in progress, where one is imminent, or where one once took place. They encase themselves in the armor and weapons of fallen warriors and impale the corpses of those warriors on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
the Relentless, but death couldn’t keep Pietra. She awoke in the Sea of Sorrows, water in her lungs and sea creatures making their homes in her flesh. Her crew stirred with her, now fish-eaten corpses
Sorrows, while others call these mysterious waters by other names. Those who venture into the Mists by ship might enter the sea’s endless debris-choked expanse of eerie beasts and shifting islands
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
Door.” After delivery, corpses pass through a series of metal chutes that sort them by size and deposit them in the corpse-receiving-and-shipping department (detailed later in this supplement
pervades this solemn monument. Its cold stone walls are reminiscent of a crypt. The halls are dimly lit and uncomfortably silent, save for the occasional distant groan of undead or the plaintive call of a wailing spirit. The acrid sting of chemical odors hangs in the air.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Borderlands Quest: Goblin Trouble
corpses. Treasure. If the characters actively search the caverns, they find the desiccated husk of a former adventurer who was eaten by the spiders. Next to the body is a torn backpack. The backpack holds
lower roll.
As the DM, you decide when a creature is in a situation that calls for Advantage or Disadvantage. Certain places in the text or on the character sheets might also call out when Advantage or Disadvantage applies.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
corpses. When Pietra sought to speak with them, her voice emerged from their mouths. The Relentless sails a domain that can overlap any body of water in any other domain. Some domains border the Sea of
that the light doesn’t call out to the sea, but down to what lurks in the pit hidden within. Vigilant’s Bluff. An undead paladin holds vigil atop this drowned island. Weary travelers can find refuge
Kobold
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
older and more respectable.
Most kobold tribes avoid eating what they call “talking meat” — intelligent creatures — because such behavior prompts retaliation. The fear of
populated areas, practice cannibalism, believing it is foolish to waste good meat.
In any case, kobolds that eat humanoids don’t simply start consuming corpses or prisoners right after a battle
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
their arms rigidly and to walk with a stiff gait. This, along with their flight, lead many to call them hopping vampires. By day, jiangshi lurk within their tombs and hidden ruins to avoid the attention
rise as life-hungry corpses and might turn into jiangshi themselves if they feed upon the living. Jiangshi
Medium Undead
Armor Class 16 (natural armor)
Hit Points 119 (14d8 + 56)
Speed 20 ft
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
(minimum of 0). Call Undead. While holding the wand, you can take a Magic action to conjure 15 Skeletons and 15 Zombies. These Undead magically rise up from the ground or otherwise form in unoccupied spaces
within 300 feet of you and obey your commands until they are destroyed or until the next dawn, when they collapse into inanimate piles of bones and rotting corpses. Once you use this property, you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
continue to pursue his horrid, apocalyptic vision of a world transformed into a barren, empty ruin, with only the decaying corpses of the last few surviving gnolls left to mark its passing. As creatures
to devour what they have killed, and to fashion crude weapons and armor from their victims’ corpses. A gnoll war band exemplifies Yeenoghu’s plans for the world. He wants to transform it into a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
corpses should be treated differently. 6 You blinked. Once. Last week. Shadow Magic Features Sorcerer Level Feature 1st Eyes of the Dark, Strength of the Grave 3rd Eyes of the Dark (darkness) 6th
points by radiant damage or by a critical hit. After the saving throw succeeds, you can’t use this feature again until you finish a long rest. Hound of Ill Omen At 6th level, you gain the ability to call
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
over a watchtower and conducts experiments on the soldiers she captures.
3 Sirens (see the harpies entry in chapter 6) call soldiers to the top of the watchtower, then entice them over the edge so
they can feast on the corpses.
4 A flight of griffons attacks a watchtower after soldiers steal the creatures’ eggs to train the hatchlings to serve as mounts.
5 A cyclops attacks a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
ancient ghost. 7 A treant who demands corpses to replace trees cleared by a town’s construction. 8 A mysterious robed figure who wears a horned mask and leads a silent cult. 9 A bloodthirsty forest
a demonic force to combat a greater evil. 3 The townspeople protect a violent hag, whom they call “grandmother.” 4 After an estate party, the residents adopt the characters, refusing to let them
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
boiling water. A creature that enters the water for the first time on its turn or starts its turn there takes 7 (2d6) fire damage. In addition, steam renders the cave lightly obscured. Floating Corpses
. The bodies are the boiled remains of svirfneblin that lived in area N5. N3. Oubliette Gore spatters the floor and walls of this windy cave, and the floor is strewn with dismembered humanoid corpses. A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
fortress wall. The pier is in good shape, with wooden pilings raising it well above the high tide line of the rocky beach. The area is deserted, with no other boats or people in sight. The call of gulls, the
by the slaughter are skulking in this room. Because the drowned ones removed the corpses, the rat swarms have found little to eat. They stream from beneath broken furniture and from behind partitions
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
seem older and more respectable. Most kobold tribes avoid eating what they call “talking meat” — intelligent creatures — because such behavior prompts retaliation. The fear of starvation can make them
, practice cannibalism, believing it is foolish to waste good meat. In any case, kobolds that eat humanoids don’t simply start consuming corpses or prisoners right after a battle; they’re more inclined
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
and turn invisible to avoid capture or death. L2. Forecastle This deck is littered with the corpses of 1d4 dead seagulls (see area L1 for more information). Hanging off the end of the ship’s bow is
greets newcomers with a rehearsed speech: “Well met! My name is Laraelra Thundreth, but folks around here call me the Captain. If you’re thirsting for a beverage or looking to gamble, you’ve come to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
that separates this area from the Pools of Devotion. 78. Undead Pool The stench of death is overwhelming here. The pool at the center of this chamber is a blackened sea of floating corpses. Three
enormous globes of blue liquid are suspended in the air to the east.
West of the pool, just south of a set of double doors, is a contact stone.
Creatures. Eight ghouls here float like corpses in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
and disarming when they wish, but in combat their true, bloodthirsty nature comes to the fore. Bloodletters. All cultists of Bhaal learn to call upon their god’s power to leave their victims
bleeding. Killers from the Shadows. Bhaal’s followers are cunning murderers who kill to strike fear and thrive on sowing terror in the cities they inhabit. They can call upon their god’s power to blend
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Darklord’s attention? Do they avoid strangers or spy on them for the Darklord? Titles. What is the Darklord’s title? Is it a royal or religious title, or is it an epithet the domain’s inhabitants call them
make it clear that the characters now have the Darklord’s full attention. No Remains. Darklords don’t usually leave corpses. When a Darklord is defeated, the Mists claim their body, or the corpse
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
characters search the room or call out for Naxa, she reveals herself. Naxa is Vaeve’s twin sister. She doesn’t want to fight and is looking for a safe exit from the citadel. As Vaeve feared, Naxa snuck into
spider with a woman’s head. The mounds of webbing contain a few corpses of people and driders, savagely torn apart by spyder-fiends and tossed here. If the characters want to disguise themselves to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Message. A surviving hermit named Aaron spotted the characters approaching the island and ran here to ring the bell and call for aid. Unfortunately for him, the ringing bell attracted Rasp back to the
them. More than a dozen corpses remain to be salvaged from the grotto, waiting for the undead to return. At dawn, Aaron went up and out to search for survivors. Finding none, he remained outside to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
and her companions (see area P47), lie sprawled on the floor of this long chamber. A character who inspects the wights notices marks left by swords and arrows on the corpses. P38: West Hall Two
call, fends off a horde of ghasts P48: Priest Catacombs A giant block of black stone lined with twelve upright sarcophagi sits in the center of this huge room. The faces that were carved into the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
-out-of-order lavatory for big and tall creatures. Gabel, a retired pit fiend judge, guards the entrance, but most entrants respectfully call him “Your Honor.” On the other side of the door lies a
the Mortuary’s research area known as the Hall of Vigils, Dusters study deceased wayfarers from across the planes, preparing the corpses in accordance with an ever-widening archive of funeral rites
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
hostilities with the drow have prompted Azrok to call on her for help. Preeta understands the threat posed by the drow and is using animate dead spells to raise drow corpses, creating forces that Azrok can
call upon to bolster his defenses. She keeps these undead warriors locked in area 21q. Preeta is a mage, with these changes: Preeta is chaotic neutral. She has darkvision out to a range of 120 feet, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
of sacred gemstones, but the mind flayers took the gems when they vanquished this place’s defenders. The basin is now empty. West Room. Attendants here dressed and armored the prepared corpses. The
fragment that taints the crypt with its magic, these are the only Talhund to remain at rest. Treasure. Each of the fourteen dwarf corpses has a gem worth 100 gp in its ribcage. Any character who steals a