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Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
transforms into a Medium owl, while retaining its game statistics (other than its size). This transformation ends if the tlacatecolo is reduced to 0 hit points or if it uses its action to end it.
Plague
mortals. These fiends spread an affliction that leaches heat and life from the living, dispersing it upon winds that rattle like a gasp from a frozen body. Sunlight staves off the disease, but those affected rarely survive the dark of night.Cold, Poison
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
or a dretch, fears vargouilles only if they appear in great numbers. In the Lower Planes, vargouilles rarely get the chance to eat live prey other than vermin. More often, they lap up the ichor left
behind when one Fiend kills another.
Because of their hunger for living prey, vargouilles are eager to escape the Lower Planes. On rare occasions, summoning a demon to another plane can bring a
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
multiverse form the centerpiece of an amethyst dragon’s hoard.
Creating an Amethyst Dragon
Use the Amethyst Dragon Personality Traits and Amethyst Dragon Ideals tables to inspire your portrayal of
An amethyst dragon seeks a rare type of crystal found in the domain of a territorial stone giant clan.
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A coven of hags seeks to reclaim its hag eye, which rests within an amethyst dragon
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the nature of the multiverse form the centerpiece of an amethyst dragon’s hoard.
Creating an Amethyst Dragon
Use the Amethyst Dragon Personality Traits and Amethyst Dragon Ideals tables to
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An amethyst dragon seeks a rare type of crystal found in the domain of a territorial stone giant clan.
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A coven of hags seeks to reclaim its hag eye, which rests within
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without the help of a mirror or a special candle. On the rare occasions when a skulk is visible, it appears as a drab, featureless, hairless biped.
A skulk can be summoned from the Shadowfell by
throw themselves into creating bloodshed and mayhem with no regard for their own lives.
After killing a person on the Material Plane, some skulks take up a silent imitation of that person’s life
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Mythic Odysseys of Theros
lives are rarely what they expected—not that they remember what it was they expected. As a result of having followed the Path of Phenax (see chapter 4), the Returned lose their identities
such cursed relics or with those who try to traffic in them. Finding an unscrupulous merchant willing to trade for Returned masks is rare, as the items are effectively another sapient being’s face
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
examining the nature of the multiverse form the centerpiece of an amethyst dragon’s hoard.
Creating an Amethyst Dragon
Use the Amethyst Dragon Personality Traits and Amethyst Dragon Ideals
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An amethyst dragon seeks a rare type of crystal found in the domain of a territorial stone giant clan.
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A coven of hags seeks to reclaim its hag eye, which
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on a successful one.Trolls kill and eat almost anything—including, in rare cases, other trolls. This cannibalism has the effect of causing a troll to grow to an unusually large size. The
shaped by the ritual magic of evil spellcasters or by trolls’ own practices, as is the case for dire trolls.
Vaprak the Destroyer
Although trolls are rarely devout and seldom ponder spiritual
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Vecna: Eve of Ruin
one another if treachery can improve their position.
Spyder-fiends loyally serve their general, Miska the Wolf-Spider. While they were rarely seen during Miska’s imprisonment in Pandemonium
transforms into a crab, drider, or giant crab, or returns to its true form. Its game statistics, except for its size, are the same in each form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn’t transformed.
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Mythic Odysseys of Theros
the living once more, but their second lives are rarely what they expected—not that they remember what it was they expected. As a result of having followed the Path of Phenax (see chapter 4
Returned and want nothing to do with such cursed relics or with those who try to traffic in them. Finding an unscrupulous merchant willing to trade for Returned masks is rare, as the items are
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Mythic Odysseys of Theros
second lives are rarely what they expected—not that they remember what it was they expected. As a result of having followed the Path of Phenax (see chapter 4), the Returned lose their identities
such cursed relics or with those who try to traffic in them. Finding an unscrupulous merchant willing to trade for Returned masks is rare, as the items are effectively another sapient being’s face
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’s hoard.
Creating an Amethyst Dragon
Use the Amethyst Dragon Personality Traits and Amethyst Dragon Ideals tables to inspire your portrayal of distinctive amethyst dragon characters.
Amethyst
dragons.
Amethyst Dragon Adventure Hooks
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An amethyst dragon seeks a rare type of crystal
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
. The dragon magically transforms into any creature that is Medium or Small, while retaining its game statistics (other than its size). This transformation ends if the dragon is reduced to 0 hit points
. Deep dragons look down on any creature that isn’t useful to them, though they are willing to bargain for knowledge they lack.
Creating a Deep Dragon
Use the Deep Dragon Personality Traits and
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points. While possessing the corpse, the dybbuk adopts the corpse’s size and can’t use Incorporeal Movement. Its game statistics otherwise remain the same.
The possession lasts until the
, dybbuks appear as translucent flying jellyfish, trailing long tentacles as they move through the air. They rarely travel in this fashion, however. Instead, a dybbuk possesses a suitable corpse as a
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
.
Change Shape. The dragon magically transforms into any creature that is Medium or Small, while retaining its game statistics (other than its size). This transformation ends if the dragon is reduced to 0
. Deep dragons look down on any creature that isn’t useful to them, though they are willing to bargain for knowledge they lack.
Creating a Deep Dragon
Use the Deep Dragon Personality Traits and
Genasi
Legacy
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Elemental Evil Player's Companion
ties to two worlds, yet belonging to neither. Some genasi are born of mortal–genie unions, others have two genasi as parents, and a rare few have a genie further up their family tree, manifesting
the households of their genie parents.
Wild and Confident
Genasi rarely lack confidence, seeing themselves as equal to almost any challenge in their path. This certainty might manifest as graceful
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
combat. Deep dragons look down on any creature that isn’t useful to them, though they are willing to bargain for knowledge they lack.
Creating a Deep Dragon
Use the Deep Dragon Personality
serve.
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Svirfneblin hire the characters to deliver tribute to their deep dragon neighbor.
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A disguised deep dragon offers access to rare artifacts—to a party who is willing to
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
.
Creating a Deep Dragon
Use the Deep Dragon Personality Traits and Deep Dragon Ideals tables to inspire your portrayal of distinctive deep dragon characters, and use the Deep Dragon Spellcasting table to
they serve.
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Svirfneblin hire the characters to deliver tribute to their deep dragon neighbor.
3
A disguised deep dragon offers access to rare artifacts—to a party who is willing to
Goliath
Legacy
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the responsibility to earn a place in the tribe or die trying.
Driven Competitors
Every day brings a new challenge to a goliath. Food, water, and shelter are rare in the uppermost mountain reaches. A
goliaths. If a king lacks the intelligence or leadership to lead, then clearly the most talented person in the kingdom should take his place. Goliaths rarely keep such opinions to themselves, and
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positive energy for healing and nurturing.
Creating a Crystal Dragon
Use the Crystal Dragon Personality Traits and Crystal Dragon Ideals tables to inspire your portrayal of distinctive crystal
crystal dragon has ripped open holes to the Elemental Planes of Air and Water, creating flash glaciation that encroaches upon inhabited lands.
Connected Creatures
Crystal dragons are among the
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light, or channel positive energy for healing and nurturing.
Creating a Crystal Dragon
Use the Crystal Dragon Personality Traits and Crystal Dragon Ideals tables to inspire your portrayal of
.
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A crystal dragon has ripped open holes to the Elemental Planes of Air and Water, creating flash glaciation that encroaches upon inhabited lands.
Connected Creatures
Crystal dragons
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Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
sight, and allows him to see invisible creatures and objects, as well as into the Ethereal Plane, out to a range of 120 feet.
Halaster wields a blast scepter (a very rare magic item that requires
(save DC 16) without expending a spell slot.
Halaster also wears a horned ring (a very rare magic item that requires attunement), which allows an attuned wearer to ignore Undermountain’s magical
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immense power.
Creating a Sapphire Dragon
Use the Sapphire Dragon Personality Traits and Sapphire Dragon Ideals tables to inspire your portrayal of distinctive sapphire dragon characters.
Sapphire
cannot resist a game of dragonchess—which, I will have you know, my ancestors probably invented.
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The sight of blood makes me queasy.
Sapphire Dragon Ideals
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The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
hag will occasionally visit another to plot against the third sister, creating a vicious circle in which Bavlorna and Endelyn plot against Skabatha, Endelyn and Skabatha conspire against Bavlorna, and
Skabatha and Bavlorna bedevil Endelyn. Nothing much ever comes of these petty plots and squabbles, however.
SHARED SPELLS OF THE HOURGLASS COVEN
On the rare occasions when all three hags of the
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Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
, rasping to himself. Skall appears as little more than a floating, disembodied head and two hands, his tattered cloak fluttering behind them. Notorious among the factols of Sigil but rarely seen in the
flesh, Skall often delegates his bureaucratic responsibilities to Undead proxies or—on rare occasions—appears as an illusory duplicate. Subtle social cues are lost on the factol, whose
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Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
blossom into hard feelings, loud arguments, and head-butting contests, but they rarely escalate beyond that.
Creating Your Character
When you create your D&D character, you decide whether your
character is a member of the human race or one of the game’s fantastical races. If you create a character using a race option presented here, follow these additional rules during character creation
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Mythic Odysseys of Theros
, where they serve the vicious will of Tymaret the Murder King (see chapter 3).
Returned have escaped the Underworld and dwell among the living once more, but their second lives are rarely what they
who try to traffic in them. Finding an unscrupulous merchant willing to trade for Returned masks is rare, as the items are effectively another sapient being’s face. Convincing a merchant to buy
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
could lay eggs that birthed more chitines (and the rare choldrith) and could direct the chitines in their work. But the devotees soon realized their mistake—choldriths belonged to Lolth, body
supervisors. The choldriths continually jockey for position, although they rarely confront one another in a way that puts the colony at risk. The colony is ruled by a sovereign, who determines which colony
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
Coming to Baldur’s Gate might seem like a good idea for a spectrum of reasons. Profit, excitement, and cosmopolitan opportunities all present tempting prospects, but rarely does one start on
features around you. In addition, you can find food and fresh water for yourself and up to five other people each day, provided that the land offers berries, small game, water, and so forth.
Baldur’s
Magic Items
The Book of Many Things
collectively as the Deck of Many More Things. (More information on creating new cards for this deck appears in chapter 2.)
Like the Deck of Many Things, the Deck of Many More Things manifests differently on
feet.
Beast. You immediately transform into a random Beast with a CR of 5 or lower. Your game statistics—including your ability scores, hit points, and possible actions—are replaced by the
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hoard is usually a cataloged, orderly collection of war gear, which can contain ancient relics of immense power.
Creating a Sapphire Dragon
Use the Sapphire Dragon Personality Traits and Sapphire
that can hold their own against me must teach me how—whether they want to or not.
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I cannot resist a game of dragonchess—which, I will have you know, my ancestors probably invented
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, which can contain ancient relics of immense power.
Creating a Sapphire Dragon
Use the Sapphire Dragon Personality Traits and Sapphire Dragon Ideals tables to inspire your portrayal of distinctive
;whether they want to or not.
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I cannot resist a game of dragonchess—which, I will have you know, my ancestors probably invented.
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The sight of blood makes me queasy.
Sapphire
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The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
visit another to plot against the third sister, creating a vicious circle in which Bavlorna and Endelyn plot against Skabatha, Endelyn and Skabatha conspire against Bavlorna, and Skabatha and Bavlorna
bedevil Endelyn. Nothing much ever comes of these petty plots and squabbles, however.
SHARED SPELLS OF THE HOURGLASS COVEN
On the rare occasions when all three hags of the Hourglass Coven are
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The Book of Many Things
a villain’s lair is warped by their presence, creating one or more of the following effects:
Corruption Abounds. While within 3 miles of the lair, creatures that aren’t members of the
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Divine Contention
earned her nickname from her habit of gnawing on old kills, and is often seen with a mangled corpse hanging from her mouth. Other dragons rarely remain in Kryptgarden Forest for long, because
Claugiyliamatar drives them out.
Claugiyliamatar rarely meddles in the affairs of small folk. Even so, her collection of crystal balls allows her to stay abreast of events happening in the world.
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