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Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
adult;Adult myconids live and work together in colonies and practice a form of communal meditation called a meld, in which they seek to transcend mundane reality through shared hallucination.
Myconid leaders like Sinensa use their Hallucination Spores to help myconids create melds.
Monsters
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
chambers and passages. The hellwasps use these nests as communal shelters and food storage. A typical nest is large enough to support a commune of 1d10 + 10;{"diceNotation":"1d10+10","rollType":"roll
","rollAction":"Nests"} hellwasps, with each hellwasp having an equal voice and role in the society.
Hellwasp Telepathy. Hellwasps communicate with one another via a form of telepathy perceptible only to their kind.FireCold
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
Forgotten God. Yakfolk are the creations of a malevolent deity they call the Forgotten God. The worship of this nameless deity directs their lives. The deity takes the form of a male Yikaria, but its
communal creches once they are weaned, never to recognize them again. Yakfolk feel no loyalty to their families—only to their god and race.
Skin Crawlers. A yakfolk’s most frightening
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
apart.
Servants of the Forgotten God. Yakfolk are the creations of a malevolent deity they call the Forgotten God. The worship of this nameless deity directs their lives. The deity takes the form of
parents pack children off to communal creches once they are weaned, never to recognize them again. Yakfolk feel no loyalty to their families—only to their god and race.
Skin Crawlers. A yakfolk
Monsters
Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
silver is done, crab folk gather the treasures they have won and place them at the feet of a simple effigy of their hag creator, made from driftwood and other scrap and kept in their communal lair. The
guise of a regal hobgoblin queen. If the crab folk ever encounter someone who bears a strong resemblance to that form, their magical compulsion might force them to worship that creature, obeying their every command.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
myconids that work, live, and meld together. A meld is a form of communal meditation that allows myconids to transcend their dull subterranean existence. The myconids’ rapport spores bind the participants
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
telepathic familial bond. When the myconids of a circle gather to meld, they share their individual insights, fears, hopes, and dreams. Through the melding, all myconids join together to form the heart and
, and beautiful transcendent dreams to be shared in a never-ending communal melding — all offered to the grove’s folk as generous and wondrous gifts from the Lady of Decay. Everyday melding has now
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
and Cania). Nests. Hellwasps spew a golden bile similar to amber, which they use to craft enormous nests riddled with chambers and passages. The hellwasps use these nests as communal shelters and food
another via a form of telepathy perceptible only to their kind. Hellwasp
Large fiend, lawful evil
Armor Class 19 (natural armor)
Hit Points 52 (8d10 + 8)
Speed 10 ft., fly 60 ft. (hover
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata
form of a male Yikaria, but its face is worn smooth into a featureless mask. The deity is appeased by sacrifice, which its followers carry out by capturing Humanoids and putting them to death by fire
knowledge that might serve to corrupt or dominate others. Knowledge that the yakfolk can’t gain or use is to be destroyed. Unsentimental by nature, yakfolk parents pack children off to communal creches
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
’s mother is. This practice and the communal raising of the hatchlings mean that the tribe operates like a group of cousins.
Because they lay eggs, and the eggs don’t require much tending
unnoticed by their larger rivals. If it’s lucky, a tribe of kobolds that is discovered by a group of larger humanoids might form a mutually beneficial arrangement, relying on the humanoids for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
Myconids Myconids are intelligent, mobile fungi that live in caves, seek enlightenment, and dislike violence. Adult myconids live and work together in colonies and practice a form of communal
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
hag creator, made from driftwood and other scrap and kept in their communal lair. The crab folk have little sense of what drives them, but they understand that the effigy represents a mother and
creator who must be obeyed. Legend holds that the green hag preferred to travel in the guise of a regal hobgoblin queen. If the crab folk ever encounter someone who bears a strong resemblance to that form
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
that was more spider than elf, resembling Lolth in her spider form, and more cunning than a chitine, that the drow dubbed a choldrith. At first, the drow were unaware that the new creatures were signs
their goddess. Choldriths also believe and teach that Lolth’s spider form, much like that of a choldrith, is her truest shape. Any idol to Lolth in a chitine colony depicts Lolth in this way. As
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
, a bronze dragon who has lived in hiding in the region for centuries. The first residents of Heart’s Hollow were wanderers she rescued while disguised in human form. Over time, others lost in the
commoner), End’s Odds sells “slightly used” goods and equipment found in the wastes. The Fort. Secrecy is Heart’s Hollow’s greatest defense, but the town also maintains the Fort, a communal warehouse and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
the characters have done nothing that would turn the goliaths against them. S10. Communal Cave Blankets and bedrolls made from hides lie in a rough circle around a smoldering fire. In an alcove to the
in the northern end of this chamber. The goliaths have little use for valuables, except for clan members who want to visit Ten-Towns or other more distant settlements and need some form of currency to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
material around one of the characters. 2 Two wererats in human form approach the characters, offering to sell them various junkyard baubles, while a third wererat uses the distraction to pick a character’s
Ward, this philanthropic faction now gathers in the Lower Ward, where it provides charity to industrious folk in communal spaces, factories, and warehouses. Sam Keiser Home of the Athar, the Shattered
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Descent into the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth
pechs might be willing to help fight the clay golem or use their Communal Spellcasting action to restore petrified characters. Carvings. The carvings on the walls depict cave-dwelling creatures, such
strewn on the floor. A large, flat rock supports massive stone goblets and the carcass of a giant toad, picked clean and buzzing with flies. Two piles of filthy hides and skins form beds at the far end
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
the pechs at least 500 gp of gems or a unique carving or sculpture, especially one made of stone. Friendly pechs might be willing to help fight the clay golem or use their Communal Spellcasting to
. Two piles of filthy hides and skins form beds at the far end of the cave.
Two hideous giants squat near a circle of hefty stones enclosing a crackling fire. Above the roaring flames, a charred giant
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
resides herein. Naturally, most adventurers will assume a creature thus imprisoned might become a trusted associate—an attitude the rakshasa will encourage by taking some benign form (such as that of a
of silver jewelry worth 100 gp. 20. Communal Quarters Three fire giant servants (use the hill giant statistics, plus immunity to fire damage) care for six young fire giants (use the ogre statistics