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that lightly dampens creatures and objects in a 5-foot Cube. Alternatively, you create 1 cup of clean water either in an open container or on a surface, and the water evaporates in 1 minute.
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Element. You cause dirt, sand, fire, smoke, mist, or water that can fit in a 1-foot Cube to assume a crude shape (such as that of a creature) for 1 hour.
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.Tlincallis, also called scorpion folk, are chitin-covered creatures with a humanlike upper body
and the lower body of an enormous scorpion, complete with a stinger at the end of a long tail. These desert creatures range across arid lands, hunting at dawn and dusk. In the hours between, they wait
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
, orcs breed prodigiously (and they aren’t choosy about what they breed with, which is why such creatures as half-orcs and ogrillons are found in the world). Females that are about to give birth are
fraught with tests of strength, fierce competition and nothing in the way of maternal or paternal love. From the time a child can wield a stick or a crude knife, it asserts itself and defends itself
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
paraphernalia left behind by adventurers.
Druidic Totems. Eerie totems hang from the trees. Made from twigs, feathers, and tattered bits of cloth, they look like crude dolls. (Each one is modeled
after a humanoid Wyllow has killed.)
General features of the forest are summarized in the “Forest Features” sidebar. Characters who engage in wanton destruction are accosted by several creatures
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
creatures that offend them and delight in luring humanoids to an unexpected death. Eblis also like to collect treasure, which they sometimes use to reward those who serve them. They build crude huts and
eggs as mundane birds do. They can manipulate objects with their beaks and feet. Eblis try to sway other creatures into doing their bidding, and their plots are self-serving. They live to destroy
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Smoke Mephit Smoke mephits are crude, lazy creatures of air and fire that billow smoke constantly. They rarely speak the truth and love to mock and mislead other creatures. Smoke Mephit
Small
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
, and they attack creatures that enter the hall with weapons drawn. Treasure The freestanding suits of elven armor are warded with freezing runes that can be detected with a successful DC 20 Wisdom
crude wooden stand vaguely shaped like a headless elf. A freezing rune can be remove with dispel magic (DC 15), whereupon the armor becomes nonmagical.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Huge creatures. The same is true of some accessory items, including treasure, as noted in the text. Ice and Mist. All surfaces (floors, ceilings, walls, and so forth) are made of smooth, opaque, chiseled
means of seeing in the dark. Doors. A door is a 25-foot-high, 8-foot-wide, 2½-foot-thick slab of chiseled ice with crude handles. In place of hinges, a door has thick, cylindrical pins of ice that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
inviting them to a meeting. The council hopes to hire them to investigate the lizardfolk lair and learn why the creatures are arming themselves. The council’s main priority in the context of this
adventure is to keep the town safe from a possible lizardfolk attack. Judging from a crude map found aboard the smugglers’ vessel and from information provided by the sea elf Oceanus, it seems likely that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
6. Barracks This cluttered chamber serves as a barracks for Thessalar’s lizardfolk servants. Crude sleeping pallets line the walls, and the place has a foul smell. Creatures Eight lizardfolk are off
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
light candles, torches, or lamps in that area. The smoke’s scent lingers for 1 minute. Beckon Water. You create a spray of cool mist that lightly dampens creatures and objects in a 5-foot Cube
. Alternatively, you create 1 cup of clean water either in an open container or on a surface, and the water evaporates in 1 minute. Sculpt Element. You cause dirt, sand, fire, smoke, mist, or water that can fit in a 1-foot Cube to assume a crude shape (such as that of a creature) for 1 hour.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Mud Mephit A combination of earth and water, mud mephits are crude, disgusting creatures. They take every opportunity to ruin objects and pollute food with muck. Mud Mephit Small Elemental, Neutral
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
, and they attack creatures that enter the hall with weapons drawn. Treasure The freestanding suits of elven armor are warded with freezing runes that can be detected with a successful DC 20 Wisdom
a crude wooden stand vaguely shaped like a headless elf. A freezing rune can be remove with dispel magic (DC 15), whereupon the armor becomes nonmagical.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
resent them for their brilliance and magical power, even as they dismiss those creatures as crude and disgusting. Beholders always suspect others of plotting against them, even when no other creatures
Beholders One glance at a beholder is enough to assess its foul and otherworldly nature. Aggressive, hateful, and greedy, these aberrations dismiss all other creatures as lesser beings, toying with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
14. Abattoir Pigs are slaughtered here, as are unwanted trespassers. The river has punched a hole in the north wall, creating a stream that runs through the place. A crude log bridge spans the
climbs to a 20-foot-wide hole in the ceiling (leading up to area 6). The rungs of the ladder are spaced 3 feet apart. For Medium and smaller creatures, every 3 feet climbed on it costs 1 extra foot of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
embers can light candles, torches, or lamps in that area. The smoke’s scent lingers for 1 minute. Beckon Water. You create a spray of cool mist that lightly dampens creatures and objects in a 5-foot
Cube. Alternatively, you create 1 cup of clean water either in an open container or on a surface, and the water evaporates in 1 minute. Sculpt Element. You cause dirt, sand, fire, smoke, mist, or water that can fit in a 1-foot Cube to assume a crude shape (such as that of a creature) for 1 hour.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
certain creatures with special regard, either because the creature is tied to the order’s history or because it serves as an example of a quality the monks seek to emulate. If your character’s monastery
had a special icon, you might wear a crude image of the creature somewhere inconspicuous on your clothing to serve as an identifying mark. Or perhaps your order’s icon does not have a physical form
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Orcus The bloated Demon Prince of the Undead seeks to end all life in the cosmos, replacing the living with immortal, undead creatures that answer only to him. In this grim future, the many suns of
the activity of life as noisy, crude, and maddening. It rakes at his senses like the claws of a rat scratch across a hard floor. In his view, the universe can know peace only when life’s incessant hum
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Swarm of Dretches Swarms of dretches sometimes escape the Abyss onto other planes of existence, or they might be part of a demonic invasion. Without direction, these crude demons rampage and despoil
60 ft. (works only with creatures that understand Abyssal)
CR 4 (1,100 XP; PB +2)
Traits
Fetid Aura. Constitution Saving Throw: DC 12, any creature that starts its turn in a 10-foot Emanation
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
1d4 The Grimlock Serves Mind Flayers By... 1 Carving caves to serve as illithid outposts. 2 Hiding the threat of mind flayers beneath fake, purposefully crude dwellings. 3 Pretending to be helpful
and luring travelers into false senses of security. 4 Raiding surface communities and tempting other creatures to pursue it into illithid traps. Grimlock Medium Aberration, Neutral Evil
AC 11
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Divine Contention
Arrival Uthtower is buried deep beneath the bog. Using undead as laborers, Ularan Mortus excavated a deep shaft into the mud, shored up with wooden beams. Crude iron rungs were hammered into the
tomb have collapsed over the centuries. Areas of loose rubble count as difficult terrain and grant half cover to creatures hiding there.
Wards. The mausoleum is under the permanent effect of a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a1
descent into the earth. With the cultists dead, goblins and other creatures moved in, and they have survived here for hundreds of years.
The goblins, which belong to the Durbuluk tribe (“Dominator” in
fall back to take a long rest before dealing with the leaders of an attacked community allow the creatures time to make preparations. Alerted monsters reinforce cleared rooms with forces previously
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
from these crude barricades, the room contains the following: Automaton. An animated, life-size puppet of Halaster Blackcloak is hard at work on an experiment. The puppet is made primarily of wood and
fire. The breaking flask does no harm to nearby creatures. If the puppet is destroyed, Halaster’s voice magically calls out, “Auugh! Now who will find the cure to filth fever?!” before trailing off into silence.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
citadel, now a tumbled-down ruin. A tunnel has been opened at the base of the ruined citadel. Crude, torchlit steps descend into the earth.
The ten veterans guarding the tunnel entrance are loyal to
and creating an opening big enough for Medium or smaller creatures to pass through. Ironbed Grotto Rilago’s map mentions Ironbed Grotto—a name Leandro and Tavio recognize as a cavern network east of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
. Much of the cave is taken up with crude shanties. Most of them stand empty, their inhabitants either exiled or dead. Grisha (see appendix C) can recount the history of Filthriddens and how Yeenoghu
cultists who have died and risen as undead are kept. If battle erupts, the cultists open the door and release six ghouls. The ghouls ignore the cultists as long as there are other creatures to feed on.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
Tlincalli Tlincallis, also called scorpion folk, are chitin-covered creatures with a humanlike upper body and the lower body of an enormous scorpion, complete with a stinger at the end of a long tail
. These desert creatures range across arid lands, hunting at dawn and dusk. In the hours between, they wait out the day’s heat or the night’s cold by burying themselves in loose sand or earth or, if
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Lipsiege Pulling the rope requires an action. When the rope is pulled, a tremendously loud gong sounds. One or more creatures arrive 1d6 rounds later, attacking any characters still in the room. Determine
the creatures randomly by rolling a d4: d4 Creature 1 1d6 shadows 2 1d4 vampire spawn 3 1d4 wights 4 1 wraith and 1d4 + 1 specters Lief was pressed into service by Strahd many years ago. He keeps
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
17. Main Entrance There isn’t a stoop or other surface to stand on outside this castle entrance, but hanging on the front door is a crude wooden sign inscribed with the words “Otto’s Castle” in
when it forms must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or become poisoned for 8 hours. Creatures poisoned in this way fall unconscious, but they wake up if they take damage or if another
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Hill Giant Hill giants are selfish brutes that hunt, forage, and raid in constant search of food. They blunder through hills and forests devouring what they can, bullying smaller creatures into
sun. Their weapons are uprooted trees and rocks pulled from the earth. The sweat of their bodies adds to the reek of the crude animal skins they wear, poorly stitched together with hair and leather
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
construction and repairs. Goblin Mindset Chief Yarb-Gnock has taught the goblins to seize their destiny and stop at nothing to get what they want. Opportunistic creatures that they are, they take any sign of
Karkolohk. Moreover, the goblins who live here detest non-goblins, especially gnomes. Were the goblins just a little smarter, they would see through Chief Yarb-Gnock’s crude disguise and the magic he uses to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Satyr Revelmaster Satyr revelmasters use magical music to change the moods of other creatures. They do so to keep their celebrations exciting and to ward off foes. Satyr Revelmaster Medium Fey
Servant of Superstition
Habitat: Grassland; Treasure: None
Spirits of vengeance bound to crude frames, scarecrows arise from folk magic, the prayers of desperate commoners, or possession by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Tlincalli Tlincallis, also called scorpion folk, are chitin-covered creatures, humanoid from the waist up with the lower body of an enormous scorpion, complete with a stinger at the end of a long
need or want. They do, however, know how to melt down scavenged metal to forge crude weapons and tools. The shells of tlincalli have a poisonous coating that can be boiled off without losing its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation Supplement
level. If the characters encounter hostile creatures beyond their ability to defeat, give them opportunities to run, hide, negotiate, or otherwise avoid certain death. You can also have other
creatures arrive and provide a distraction that the characters can use to make their escape. For example, if a character needs to make a crucial ability check or saving throw, a chwinga (see Tomb of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a2
toward an underground river far below.
The Glitterhame is now home to a band of troglodytes, dangerous reptilian creatures that haunt underground places. The troglodytes and Great Ulfe’s tribe
safely. If the check fails by 5 or more, the character falls, tumbling 20 feet downhill and taking 3 (1d6) bludgeoning damage. 15a. Stirge Colony Creatures. Stirges have made their nest in a small cave
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
that sprang up in the wake of a demon lord, gnolls are creatures of savage blood lust, incapable of understanding or acting on any other impulse. They are extensions of Yeenoghu’s will. They pause only