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shaker is reduced to 0 hit points, it explodes into 7 (1d4 + 5);{"diceNotation":"1d4+5","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Reconstruction"} crawling claw;crawling claws. After 6 (1d12;{"diceNotation":"1d12
","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Reconstruction"}) days, if at least two of those crawling claw;crawling claws are alive, they teleport to the location of the soul shaker’s death and merge
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Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
target is a Medium or smaller creature, it is grappled (escape DC 15). Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained. The dragon has two claws, each of which can grapple one target.
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unleash in a horrific mockery of the breath weapon it possessed in life. The breath snuffs out life force and infuses undeath into corpses it touches. These zombie;zombies burn with Cataclysmic fire
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
6. Back Tunnel Corpses. Lying against the walls of this 20-foot-high tunnel are the mutilated corpses of ten hobgoblins.
Scaladar. Three scaladar (see appendix A) patrol the tunnel.
The scaladar
hunt as a trio and have orders from Zox to kill any humanoids they see. Ideally, the characters should encounter the scaladar after they have had time to inspect the hobgoblin corpses. The hobgoblins
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Ghouls Eaters of the Dead Habitat: Swamp, Underdark, Urban; Treasure: Any Packs of ghouls haunt the rotten corners of the world, ravenously hunting for corpses and those soon to be corpses. These
gaunt, animate cadavers with unnaturally long tongues dwell in catacombs and ruins where they devour the contents of graves and paralyze foes with vicious claws. On a plain of teeth, in a temple of filth
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
3. Hungry Gnome Corpses. Eight drow corpses are splayed like rag dolls across the floor of this 10-foot-high cavern.
Troll in Gnome Form. A naked, hairless, gray-skinned deep gnome is gnawing on
one of the corpses. (The gnome is really a troll named Xlorp, transformed by the runes in area 11b.)
In its current form, the troll has the statistics of an unarmored (AC 12), chaotic evil deep gnome
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
, corpses in space, monoliths, whirling stars
Cult of the Scaly Abyss: Dagon’s Claws, deep-sea predators, sharks eating sharks, undersea ruins
Cthulhu’s Vault: The Cleft of Dreams, the Drowned
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Merrow Merrow haunt coastal waters, preying on fisherfolk, merfolk, and any other edible creature that crosses their path. These savage monsters snatch and devour unwary prey, hauling drowned corpses
undersea caves filled with treasures and trophies, taken from their victims and sunken ships. They tie the rotting corpses of dead enemies and drowned sailors to strands of kelp to mark the borders of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
and claws off a dead chuul. The other two are feasting on the corpse of a dead kuo-toa (a former companion).
Troglodyte Corpses. Lying about the cave are the reeking carcasses of five dead
whips stand perplexed.
Rotting Corpses. Mutilated monster carcasses piled around the room’s perimeter exude a putrid stench.
Noolgaloop is unwaveringly committed to reclaiming its holy shrine
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
living creatures and attempt to make corpses of them. Ghoul
Medium undead, chaotic evil
Armor Class 12
Hit Points 22 (5d8)
Speed 30 ft.
STR
13 (+1)
DEX
15 (+2)
CON
10
Languages Common
Challenge 1 (200 XP)
Actions
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 9 (2d6 + 2) piercing damage.
Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
can’t feed on the dead, it pursues living creatures and attempts to make corpses of them. Though they gain no nourishment from the corpses they devour, ghouls are driven by an unending hunger that
Perception 10
Languages Common
Challenge 1 (200 XP)
Actions
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 9 (2d6 + 2) piercing damage.
Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
near the passage serve as tables for human corpses. Severed body parts sit in baskets by the corpses, covered in dry gore. A figure in a dark hood stands by the third table, its back to you. Matted
the west.
The hooded figure is a zombie, and five crawling claws hide among the other body parts in the baskets. If intruders do anything other than turn back, the monsters attack. The “Lord of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
T1: Temple Entry As the characters descend the staircase leading to this room, read or paraphrase the following: The stairs end at a wide chamber. Two gaunt creatures with sharp claws and long
characters. Broken Tiles. Until recently, the floor had a painted tile mosaic set into it. The mosaic depicted Orcus slaying a legion of human knights and reanimating their corpses. Xia ordered her
Kobold
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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
against the wall can become a miniature storm of fangs and claws as it desperately tries to defend its life. Likewise, kinship to their own tribe can prompt kobolds to battle another kobold tribe for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
howling blizzard. When that storm clears, villages and steadings lay in ruins, ravens descending to feed on the corpses of any creatures foolish or unlucky enough to stand in the giants’ path.
Inns
sword blades to wooden hafts to make giant-sized spears. The greatest battle trophies come from conquered dragons, and the greatest frost giant jarls wear armor of dragon scales or wield picks and mauls made of a dragon’s teeth or claws.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
. After the green dragon killed the cultists of Malar, Wyllow stripped the corpses of their metal gear, piled the offensive material here as a warning of sorts, and dragged the bodies to area 7 to rot
serpents retreated into the woods and died long ago.)
Altar. Against the northwest wall stands a bloodstained wooden altar decorated with silver and bronze designs of claws, fangs, beaks, and eyes. Piled
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
troglodytes were felled by drow weapons, while the drow were torn to pieces by the troglodytes’ teeth and claws. Some of the drow corpses are half eaten. 7c. Wounded Troglodytes Four adult troglodytes
littered with the corpses of twenty-one troglodytes and nine drow, all surrounded by pools of sticky blood and in different stages of decay (suggesting that more than one battle occurred here). The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
, this trait doesn’t function at the start of the vegepygmy’s next turn. The vegepygmy dies only if it starts its turn with 0 hit points and doesn’t regenerate.
Actions
Claws. Melee Weapon Attack
instead of a humanoid-shaped vegepygmy. Thornies are less intelligent than vegepygmies, but have greater size and ferocity, as well as a thorn-covered body. Corpses of those slain by russet mold grow
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Spawn of Kyuss Kyuss was a high priest of Orcus who plundered corpses from necropolises to create the first spawn of Kyuss. Even centuries after Kyuss’s death, his mad disciples continue performing
makes two attacks with its claws and uses Burrowing Worm.
Burrowing Worm. A worm launches from the spawn of Kyuss at one humanoid that the spawn can see within 10 feet of it. The worm latches onto
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
sharp teeth that wields what looks like a three-headed flail. Packs of hyenas feed on the corpses in its wake. A small fire crackles near the south wall, filling the cave with smoke. Cooking above the
spear leaning against the south wall is nonmagical but has a silvered tip stained red with blood. Though the spear has its uses, Chyzka prefers to attack with its claws and teeth. Treasure. Next to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
, 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
can’t get angry. The blood of dragons flows in its veins, and like a raging drake, a kobold that is pushed too far or has its back against the wall can become a miniature storm of fangs and claws as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
archmage Hoobur Gran’Shoop. The constructs remain motionless until the adventurers move close or attack. These scarecrows can cut the rope holding them with their claws, but they prefer to remain hanging
desiccated and skeletal humanoid corpses litter the floor of this small chamber. The stone of the north wall has been etched with intricate runes, but the pattern ends abruptly.
Bodies and Runes. A closer
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
unleash in a horrific mockery of the breath weapon it possessed in life. The breath snuffs out life force and infuses undeath into corpses it touches. These zombies burn with Cataclysmic fire and serve
Medium or smaller creature, it is grappled (escape DC 15). Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained. The dragon has two claws, each of which can grapple one target.
Cataclysmic Breath (Recharge
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->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
meat is destined for her stew. Heaped around this block are rusty hatchets and the flayed corpses of the four fishers from Easthaven. The will-o’-wisp is normally invisible when its light is extinguished
contains 600 gp. Buried under the gold coins are four crawling claws that leap out and attack if the gold is removed, dumped, or otherwise disturbed.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
opportunity attacks and ganging up to kill quickly. 5. Ice Caverns In a chamber southeast of the wolves’ lair, the giants have preserved eight corpses of mutilated victims, standing them upright and
enclosing them in blocks of transparent ice. These exhibits are meant to frighten off any trespassers. The bodies are obviously hacked and very dead, not merely frozen whole. Treasure. Each of these corpses
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
characters can see into this area, read the following: The floor of this chamber is slick with blood. Two of three tables have growling corpses strapped to them. A frenzied woman brandishes a knife as she
, as if some powerful creature dragged its claws across the stone.
Itzmin set up these living quarters for Serapio, hoping to entice him away from his mother and make the mine feel homier. Serapio is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
+ 1) capering around a blasphemous idol
2 1 arcanaloth (attitude: 1d12) searching for a tempting bit of lost lore
3 2 chain devils (attitude: 1d6) suspending corpses on spiked chains
4
1 fury of Kostchtchie* performing a rite with 2 trolls (attitude for all: 1d6)
5 1 echo of Demogorgon* (attitude: 1d4 + 1) building a two-headed effigy from corpses
6 1 stalker of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
ceiling, filling a large pool that covers the floor of this chamber. A hunk of scab floats in the blood.
Three invisible barlguras cling to the walls of this chamber, their claws digging into the soft
with mutilated devil corpses and gnawed bones. A hole in the floor reveals another dark cavern below this one.
Close examination of the mutilated corpses reveals that they include three bearded devils
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
, preferably with his pet. D15: Frozen Corpses Most of this cave is filled with ice. Five human corpses are dimly visible, each frozen deep within an icy pillar. Each corpse has a weapon raised and wears a
they could do more than raise their weapons. Their restless spirits linger here as five Ghosts. The spirits are Chaotic Neutral. They emerge from their frozen corpses if the pillars entombing them are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
other corpses are scattered on the floor. Some have been picked down to bone, their clothing and armor discarded nearby, while others have hardly been touched.
The walls are uneven, with small ledges
floor. The first 40 feet of the climb require a DC 10 Strength (Athletics) checks, but after that, the DC is 15. Corpses. The bodies on the floor include a water cultist (the figure with the crab-shell
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
battlefield, capable of annihilating whole armies with her five breath weapons, her formidable spellcasting, and her fearsome claws. Tiamat’s most hated enemy is Bahamut the Platinum Dragon, with whom
. It then makes three attacks: one with its bite and two with its claws.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +15 to hit, reach 15 ft., one target. Hit: 19 (2d10 + 8) piercing damage plus 9 (2d8) acid damage
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
stormed the area, slew the rebels, and added their corpses to the ship’s larder. All that’s left now of all the rebels are scraps, as the lone survivor (Krell) has consumed the last of them. Trapdoor. A
creature paralyzed by a ghast’s claws holds its breath automatically if it collapses into the water, but is at risk of drowning unless it is pulled out again. See “Suffocating” in chapter 8 of the
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
. P47: West Cell of the High Priest The din of battle rises from this room. A heavily armored woman armed with a gleaming sword valiantly battles a horde of gaunt, gray creatures with sharp claws and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 4 (1d8) bludgeoning damage.
Claws of the Grave. Ranged Spell Attack: +5 to hit, range 90 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (2d4 + 3) necrotic damage.
Skull Lasher of Myrkul
(2d6) fire damage per ray.
Myrkul and His Followers Myrkul is the Lord of Bones, claiming power over corpses and souls. His cultists are those who seek to claim lore, power, and even fealty from the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
long, rusted knives for claws. If more than one scarecrow is present, the others are close by. If none of the characters has a passive Wisdom (Perception) score of 11 or higher, the scarecrows catch
these wolves attack. They heed the will of Strahd and can’t be charmed or frightened. Zombies The ungodly stench of rotting flesh hangs in the air. Up ahead, the walking, moaning corpses of dead men