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Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
previous existence.
For reasons unknown, ceremorphosis can go awry when an illithid tadpole is implanted in the brain of a gnome. This deviation might be due to the quasi-magical nature of gnomes, or
simply a facet of how their minds work. When the process is warped only slightly, the mind flayer remains gnome-sized and is called a gnome ceremorph. It retains its knowledge of the Gnomish language
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
silence then vanishes into shadow and infamy. Fixated on a specific individual or type of victim, it pursues its target with single-minded obsession.
Relentless killers are hateful, revenge-obsessed
fear into innocents across lands and over ages.
Creating a Relentless Killer
Relentless killers come into being and undertake their terrifying sprees for a spectrum of reasons. When creating a
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
a certain area its territory and visits destruction upon all trespassers.
Relentless killers are hateful, revenge-obsessed creatures that enter into pacts with fiends or other nefarious entities
Relentless killers come into being and undertake their terrifying sprees for a spectrum of reasons. When creating a relentless killer, consider what circumstances led to their transformation and
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
much damage on a successful one.No ordinary ballista, an oaken bolter is a Construct capable of striking at long distances. The bolts it launches can rend flesh, destroy armor, or drag enemies toward
but also has resulted in genuine advances, such as clockworks. The methods used to craft clockworks have been shared between gnome communities over many generations.
Individual Designs
Gnome artisans
Species
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
. Their reasons are often deeply personal. Some seek danger, imagining monsters as personifications of their own hungers. Others pursue revenge against whatever turned them into a dhampir. And still
restraint. In any case, temptation haunts dhampirs, and circumstances conspire to give them endless reasons to indulge.
While many dhampirs thirst for blood, your character might otherwise gain
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
journals or hidden away in someone’s mind. Even you might not be aware of all the reasons behind the missions you carry out. Sometimes a mission’s sole purpose is to conceal the
people’s nightmares.
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Combat is meant to be quick, clean, and one-sided.
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I like to stick to the shadows.
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I never show my anger. I just plot my revenge.
Ideals
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
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Suggested Characteristics
Charlatans are colorful characters who conceal their true selves behind the masks they construct. They reflect what people want to see, what they want to believe
title from those who stole them from me.
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A powerful person killed someone I love. Some day soon, I’ll have my revenge.
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I swindled and ruined a person who didn’t deserve it. I
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
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A revenant persuades an adult crystal dragon to help get revenge on the frost giant;frost giants who murdered her.
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An adult crystal dragon teaches astronomy to students of a renowned
take in the breathtaking view.A Crystal Dragon’s Lair
Crystal dragons dwell in cold regions, where they construct ice and snow structures reminiscent of castles but open to the sky. Glittering
Magic Items
The Book of Many Things
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Balance*
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Beast
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Book
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Bridge
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Campfire
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Cavern
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Celestial
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Comet*
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Construct
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Corpse
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Crossroads
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, while leaving your hands free.
Celestial. You sprout a pair of softly luminescent, feathered wings from your back and gain a flying speed of 30 feet.
Construct. A homunculus appears in an
Monsters
Infernal Machine Rebuild
with controlling a construct for all time as punishment.
If this adventure is played as a sequel to Lost Laboratory of Kwalish, this creature began as the Brain in a jar;brains in jars encountered in the
Barrier Peaks. After constructing a new collective body from spare parts, the brains escaped (and now seek revenge against the characters if they did not aid the brains sufficiently during that
Charlatan
Legacy
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Backgrounds
Player’s Handbook (2014)
Characteristics
Charlatans are colorful characters who conceal their true selves behind the masks they construct. They reflect what people want to see, what they want to believe, and how they see the
stole them from me.
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A powerful person killed someone I love. Some day soon, I’ll have my revenge.
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I swindled and ruined a person who didn’t deserve it. I seek to atone for my
Kobold
Legacy
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
improvised traps they use to protect their warrens.
KURTULMAK: GOD OF KOBOLDS
The god of kobolds was a vassal of Tiamat. When the gnome god Garl Glittergold stole a treasure from Tiamat’s hoard, she
dominated by his emotions—intelligent, but not wise. Arrogant and prone to gloating, he carries grudges, has a huge chip on his shoulder, and spends a lot of time fashioning elaborate revenge scenarios
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
. Their reasons are often deeply personal. Some seek danger, imagining monsters as personifications of their own hungers. Others pursue revenge against whatever turned them into a dhampir. And still
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Gnome Adventurers I don’t know how many times I’ve seen a gnome
turn a dead end into a wonderful opportunity.
— Delaan Winterhound
When a gnome leaves the burrow, the force behind that decision
experiment. A rock gnome alchemist who discovers a new form of fungus growing in a nearby cavern might wander farther afield from the burrow, looking for knowledge about other fungi in the world. A forest
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
great construct of their own. The hobgoblins raid in small bands, using trained rust monsters to distract Zox’s constructs. These raiders are naturally violent but can be parlayed with by clever
adventurers. The hobgoblins recently figured out how Zox controls the scaladar, and now they aim to kill the gnome and take his control ring. So far, Zox has managed to elude all the hobgoblins sent to murder him.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
construct for all time as punishment. A brain in iron uses the brain in a jar stat block with the following changes: It is lawful neutral. It has the construct type. Its size is Large. It has Armor Class
constructing a new collective body from spare parts, the brains escaped (and now seek revenge against the characters if they did not aid the brains sufficiently during that adventure). The brains
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
was the intended target? They can investigate the incident on behalf of a guild or a faction, or they can become involved for reasons of their own. One casualty of the fireball is in fact its intended
target: Lord Neverember’s spy, Dalakhar. Whoever killed the gnome now has the Stone of Golorr, the key to finding the lost cache of dragons. One way or another, depending on the alliances — and the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
, stone melting compound, stirge repellent, and glow-in-the-dark paint. Artificers Rock gnome artificers construct exquisitely tooled and enameled pieces of machinery, often weaving magical properties
Rock Gnomes A visitor’s first steps into a rock gnome warren are accompanied by the sounds of industry — hammers rapping on metal, chisels chewing wood, cauldrons bubbling, and a host of assorted
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
leading to the observatory. Creatures from the Giant Construct Encounters table in chapter 3, fueled by magical lightning, deny entrance to the turret when the characters escort the gnome there to study.
. Creatures from the Frost Giant Encounters and Elemental Air Encounters tables (see chapter 3) defend the observatory. History Lesson A rock gnome mage has pieced together accounts from ancient sites
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Thassa’s Villains Thassa can take on a villainous role as much through indifference as through malice. Thassa takes revenge on those who wrong her, and she doesn’t particularly care who else is
harmed. Thassa’s followers might become villains for a vast range of reasons. Some become obsessed with recovering or keeping hidden the secrets of the deep. Others come to worship the ocean itself, with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
host. After about seven days in its new home, the tadpole transforms its host into a mind flayer. The new creation typically retains no memory of its previous existence. Gnome Ceremorph For reasons
unknown, ceremorphosis can go awry when an illithid tadpole is implanted in the brain of a gnome. This deviation might be due to the quasi-magical nature of gnomes, or simply a facet of how their minds
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
ensuring your characters develop strong personal reasons to continue to adventure, even if they begin their adventuring careers in the pursuit of wealth. Perhaps they want revenge on a despicable
campaign. If an item still proves to be too powerful, you don’t have to provide access to it again. Spread the Wealth Wealth can transform people’s lives; you just have to give the characters good reasons
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Rock Gnome As a rock gnome, you have a natural inventiveness and hardiness beyond that of other gnomes. Most gnomes in the worlds of D&D are rock gnomes, including the tinker gnomes of the
can spend 1 hour and 10 gp worth of materials to construct a Tiny clockwork device (AC 5, 1 hp). The device ceases to function after 24 hours (unless you spend 1 hour repairing it to keep the device
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
. They also can’t trust the moronic squidlings to accomplish such a delicate task. For these reasons, the gnome ceremorphs need help. They have built a device that can detect the presence of psi
blizzard. The ship’s cocaptains, Vorryn Q’uuol and Dredavex Sinfiz, are chaotic neutral gnome ceremorphs, which are smaller-than-normal mind flayers spawned from gnome hosts. Their crew consists of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Rock Gnome As a rock gnome, you have a natural inventiveness and hardiness beyond that of other gnomes. Most gnomes in the worlds of D&D are rock gnomes, including the tinker gnomes of the
can spend 1 hour and 10 gp worth of materials to construct a Tiny clockwork device (AC 5, 1 hp). The device ceases to function after 24 hours (unless you spend 1 hour repairing it to keep the device
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
build specialized workshops for those purposes. Arcane Workshop Adventures Characters might find their way to an arcane workshop for a variety of reasons. Some possibilities are outlined in the Arcane
artificers finish making the item. 2 Petition the ranking artificer for access to the workshop’s specialized library. 3 Use the workshop to create a crucial magic item. 4 Locate a stolen construct that has
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
last commands, seeks revenge for its creator’s death, or destroys itself. Construct Nature. A scarecrow doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep. Scarecrow
Medium construct, chaotic evil
Armor
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Meeting Rookledust Once the characters defeat the goblinoids, the gnome—Tatina Rookledust—appears through an aperture above her workshop’s door. She asks the characters who they are, what they want
Rookledust (neutral good rock gnome) moved to Nightlund decades ago from the distant gnome homeland of Mount Nevermind. She uses the acolyte stat block, but the effects of her Spellcasting manifest from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
a vassal of Tiamat. When the gnome god Garl Glittergold stole a treasure from Tiamat’s hoard, she sent Kurtulmak to retrieve it. Garl lured his pursuer into a maze-like cavern, then collapsed the
, has a huge chip on his shoulder, and spends a lot of time fashioning elaborate revenge scenarios against those who have disrespected him.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
Fey Curses Curses are common punishments among archfey and other powerful Fey creatures. An adventurer might be cursed for any number of reasons, a few of which are listed below: Offending a powerful
looks like you. Your statistics are the same, but you are a Construct with vulnerability to fire damage, and you don’t require air, food, or drink. Items worn or carried by you are unaffected. 8
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Floxin the slip, this agent hurled one of the beads from the necklace to stop the gnome in his tracks. The Gralhunds’ assassin is a nimblewright (see appendix B) that escaped from the House of
Inspired Hands, the temple of Gond in the Sea Ward, a month ago. The construct hitched a ride on House Gralhund’s coach. Yalah Gralhund befriended it, offered it shelter, and used it as a servant until she
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
provides) and takes an action. The clock keeps excellent time. Characters who visit Elister’s shop in Loudwater discover that he has a gnome-sized clockwork companion. The construct, Tick Tock, has the
golem. She animates the giant that stands closest to the character or characters she considers the most threatening, then orders the construct to attack them. The golem obeys Kayalithica’s commands; it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
their own reasons to stray from the truth at times, and thus, they also find small ways to seek Phenax’s favor as they go about their daily lives. Formal services to Phenax are conducted at night
time, the god concocted plot after plot to have his revenge on Nylea. Some tales claim that this embarrassment directly led to tragedy for Nylea’s favorite dryad companion, while others warn that Phenax’s revenge has only just begun.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
odd-looking construct with an even more oddly placed spigot at the base of its barrel-shaped body. A gnome dressed in garishly colorful clothes sits on a stool nearby, his eyes blank. Another gnome
construct was originally a servant of the lighthouse franchise.) Wizzy (NG male gnome mage) is also under Hoobur’s power, and acts as the archmage’s unwitting ally. In his current state, Wizzy can cast only
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Boo’s Astral Menagerie
Autognome An autognome is a mechanical gnome that resembles the rock gnome who created it, though it could never be mistaken for a gnome. Regardless of what its insides are made of, it has a metallic
battling a lunar dragon wyrmling, for instance, it would come to the wyrmling’s defense. Autognome
Small Construct, Any Alignment
Armor Class 16 (natural armor)
Hit Points 39 (6d6 + 18)
Speed 20