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Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
on a DC 15 Charisma saving throw or be charmed by the vampire for 1 minute. While charmed in this way, the target is infatuated with the vampire.
The target's hit point maximum is reduced by an amount
they remain capable of experiencing all the delights of their corporeal forms. In contrast to Orzhov spirits, they also retain their personalities, which are almost uniformly cruel.
Blood Bond
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
condition (escape DC 16). While the target is grappled this way, its speed isn’t reduced, but it can’t move farther from the giant. The target takes 5 (1d10);{"diceNotation":"1d10
Ordning to embrace Elemental Evil are more likely to serve Olhydra, the Princess of Evil Water. To these giants, water is a cruel and destructive force that finds its ultimate expression in ice
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
", "rollAction":"Gorging Charge", "rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage and have the grappled condition (escape DC 16); if a creature is already grappled this way, it has the prone condition. Until this
grapple ends, the target has the restrained condition. The maw can have only one creature grappled in this way at a time.Fanged Rebuke. In response to taking damage, the maw makes one Bite attack
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
can’t make attacks while grappling a creature in this way.
Spellcasting. The hag casts one of the following spells, using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 13):
3/day each
especially cruel, the hag adopts the appearance of a kindly elder, approaches a child in a remote place, and gives them an iron token (described below), through which the child can magically confide in the
Monsters
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
the creature is farther than 30 feet away from him. On a successful save, the creature becomes immune to Rakdos’s Captivating Presence for 24 hours.
Cruel Entertainment. When a creature Rakdos
creature within 10 feet of him. The target must succeed on a DC 25 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned for 1 minute. While poisoned in this way, the creature can’t maintain concentration on a
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
meazel can’t make weapon attacks while grappling a creature in this way.
Shortsword. Melee Weapon Attack: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Shortsword"} to hit, reach 5
mortal existence and contemplate their misery. There the shadows transformed them, and their bitterness made them twisted and cruel. Now hate burns in their hearts, and they resent any intrusion into
Monsters
Tomb of Annihilation
wants to “imprison” the Soulmonger; that way, its unique magic can be studied while it’s safely quarantined from the world. She argues that destroying it should be a last resort
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Hourglass Coven. Better known as Granny Nightshade, she offers her assistance to those who are haunted by regret. Her deals often result in cruel twists; for example, a petitioner who asks to be reunited
adopted daughter, surpassed them in power and carved out a Feywild domain for herself in the guise of an archfey named Zybilna. The hags wormed their way into Iggwilv’s good graces, biding their time
Monsters
Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
life. In battle, they are deadly foes, channeling the Cataclysmic fire that limns their bones and fuels their breath. They take cruel delight in snatching foes in their jaws, rushing into the air, then
magic. Rarely, death dragons arise when a dragon meets its end in a way that torments its soul and consumes it with a need for vengeance. Regardless of how it arose, a death dragon retains a shadow
Monsters
Vecna: Eve of Ruin
points equal to that amount. The reduction lasts until the target finishes a long rest. The target dies if its hit point maximum is reduced to 0. A Humanoid slain in this way and then buried rises the
well-muscled, raven-haired, human man in his thirties, though he is far older. His fangs reveal his vampiric nature.
Personality
Kas is cruel, spiteful, and unrelenting in his pursuit of vengeance
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Not all lingering spirits are tragic souls, lost on their way to the hereafter. Some languish as prisoners, souls so wicked mortals dare not free them upon an unsuspecting afterlife.
Created by a
, ability checks, and saving throws for the next hour.
The deck can be used in this way twice, and you regain all expended uses at the next dawn.
Prisoners of Fate. Whenever you use the Twist of Fate
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
minotaur with six iron horns. A fiendish light burns in his red eyes. Although he is filled with bestial blood lust, there lies within him a cruel and cunning intellect devoted to subverting all
action to land on a ceiling to attack targets flying near it.
Seal the Way. Baphomet seals one doorway or other entryway within the lair. The opening must be unoccupied. It is filled with solid stone
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
after regaining hit points, and is paralyzed while poisoned in this way.
Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +14;{"diceNotation":"1d20+14","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Claws"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one
features made monstrous by cruel magic and ages of hatred. Webs fill her lair deep in the Nessian Wood, sticky strands made not of silk but of her own endless hair. In her darkened realm, Arasta broods on
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
cultists eagerly offered themselves up to the medusa’s petrifying gaze in hopes of gaining Pharika’s favor. Seeing herself surrounded by willing devotees, Hythonia formulated a cruel plan
);{"diceNotation":"2d4","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Spectral Snakes","rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage and become poisoned until the end of its next turn. While poisoned in this way, the
Aarakocra
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Elemental Evil Player's Companion
pursue enemies or thwart their foes’ designs there. Accident might also send a nest of aarakocra tumbling into a world on that plane. A few find their way to such a world through portals on
Dessarin Valley, were ever a secretive and guarded people, only spotted during their flights over the High Forest. A cruel and rapacious green dragon nearly wiped out the population and scattered the
Monsters
Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
spell gave the crab folk an insatiable love for silver. When they see it, all crab folk feel an irresistible urge to seize it and carry it back to their lairs. If necessary, they resort to violence to
claim the metal.
Brutal Raiders. Each year, when the warm summer gives way to the chill of autumn, the crab folk look to the sky for omens. In ancient days, the green hag kept close watch on the fishing
Lizardfolk
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
basic principles than those of warm-blooded creatures. Their dismal swamp homes might lie hundreds of miles from the nearest human settlement, but the gap between their way of thinking and that of the
’t scared of a troll; instead, they understand that a troll is a fearsome, dangerous creature and react accordingly.
Lizardfolk never become angry in the way others do, but they act with
Yuan-ti Pureblood
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
yuan-ti know they can’t resort to direct attacks in order to reclaim their rightful place in the world. Operating out of the subterranean ruins of their buildings in foreign lands, yuan-ti
their human emotions. Now they view the world from a pragmatic and dispassionate perspective. They understand emotional connections in a detached, intellectual way, and recognize that these feelings in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Monk The Way of the Long Death captures the cruel and sinister nature of monks devoted to the Mockery. In contrast, the Way of the Sun Soul is the perfect option for monks dedicated to the Silver Flame, especially those who also take levels in the paladin class.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
drow quietly make their way up the mountainside, into the yakfolk village, and down into the fire giant forge by way of the elevator (area 9). The yakfolk have been warned that the drow are coming and
leave them alone. If the elevator is nonfunctional and they can’t get it working, the drow resort to descending through the mines (see area 10). Exactly when they arrive is up to you, but here are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
nightly quest to hold the sun at bay stems from a need to preserve the beauty of things by freezing them. There is no way to reason with a being so bereft of compassion as Auril, but in her weakened
state, she can be defeated or forced to reckon with her cruel indifference toward life. Anyone who hopes to reach the Netherese city buried in the ice must first visit Auril’s island and obtain The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
their way. These chromatic dragons endlessly desire more—more magic, territory, treasure, or whatever else inflames their cruel ambitions. Red dragons make their lairs amid perilous cliffs and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
lives, like busybodies with cruel intentions. Any time a hag agrees to help someone, the bargain includes a price to be paid, plus a hidden plan by which she sets the mortal up to fail, or a way that
their enemy is asleep). Although a hag can always resort to attacking with her claws, if it comes to that then something has gone very wrong with her plans. Hag Personality Traits d8 Personality Trait
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
offers the highest-priced services in the city. The Dragon’s Hoard is a Ghallanda resort, where travelers can enjoy the utmost in luxury if they can afford the most expensive amenities. The Celestial
to do that. No bridges or lifts connect Skyway to the rest of the city, so the usual way to reach the floating district is by taking a skycoach or hiring a flying mount.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
any other way must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or take 11 (2d10) force damage. Manipulating Time Having a mechanical guide spend 1 charge in this area causes the door to intone: “The master does not resort to feeble manipulations of a clock to open this door. You are not the master.”
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
influence. They have access to minions and resources in the higher levels of society. They prefer to pursue schemes of coercion and conspiracy, putting their money and influence to work, than resort to
blatant violence in any form. Aurum NPCs d4 NPC 1 An aging dwarf — a retired general and an Aurum Concordian — collects unusual constructs, hoping to find a way to transfer his mind into a superior
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
. Harpers act openly only as a last resort.
Act I In the first act, the protagonist, Vargan, lives out a peaceful childhood in the village of Wisteria Vale. Vargan is a boy with a penchant for
adulthood, the cruel Lord Ephraim Rathmore visits Wisteria Vale, demanding drink, food, and a place for him and his retinue to stay. When the hospitality isn’t to his liking, he burns down the village. Lord
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Princeps Kovik This particularly cruel chain devil commanded the Nine Hells’ 8th Infantry Legion, “Terror Incarnate,” which was crushed on the banks of the River Styx by the demon lord Kostchtchie
. The Eighth Remnant The Eighth Remnant chases down any potential source of soul coins. Targets who give up their soul coins freely are allowed to continue on their way without further harassment
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Earth Genasi As an earth genasi, you are descended from the cruel and greedy dao, though you are not necessarily evil. You have inherited some measure of control over earth, reveling in superior
the ability to cast it this way when you finish a long rest. Constitution is your spellcasting ability for this spell.
Goblin
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
cruel in victory, goblins are fawning and servile in defeat, just as in their own society lower castes must scrape before those of greater status and as goblin tribes bow before other goblinoids
serving as the tribe’s boss, a fiend that has made its way into the world, or an undying lord such as a lich or a vampire. (For more information on undying lord patrons, see the Sword Coast
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
deal with these soft creatures. You could be the orphan child of an unusual pairing, forced to find your own way in the world. But the greatest concentration of half-orcs is in the Shadow Marches
aren’t inherently EVIL. People may be afraid of you because they think you’re a dangerous bounty hunter, but there’s no immediate assumption that you’re cruel or bloodthirsty... Most of the time.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
colossus. Cyre or House Cannith—whoever was responsible for such a nightmare—deserves whatever evil fate comes their way. 5 Mercenaries. A band of traitorous mercenaries who switched sides, turning the
battle against you. 6 Champion. One mighty hero fought on the enemy side, wielding powerful magic and cruel strategies against the rank-and-file soldiers on your side.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
seize it and carry it back to their lairs. If necessary, they resort to violence to claim the metal. Brutal Raiders. Each year, when the warm summer gives way to the chill of autumn, the crab folk look
to the sky for omens. In ancient days, the green hag kept close watch on the fishing villages and towns near her domain. If those settlements grew too strong, she sent her familiar, a cruel seagull
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
manipulated her way into the Boritsi family while Boris prepared his son Ivan to be the new head of a united Boritsi–Dilisnya line. Despite abundant opportunities to excel, Ivan grew to embody childish vice and
, Ivan learned of his parents’ intention to send Kristina to a prestigious boarding school. Screams, cruel cackling, and clockwork screeching filled the Dilisnya estate that night. When it ended, Ivan was
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
the Material Plane, hell hounds typically serve cruel masters—such as fire giants and cultists—who appreciate their viciousness, obedience, and fiery characteristics. Hell hounds serve other creatures
trackers and work together well in packs, often employing tricks and ambushes. Hell hounds enjoy hearing prey scream in their scorching jaws and fiery breath. They often go out of their way to draw out the