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Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
who seek to rule through martial strength and intimidation, cruel tyrants who use threats and gifts as needed to ensure loyalty. They enslave those too weak to resist them and shower the strong with
gifts and promises of power to turn them into loyal vassals.
Cruel Tyrants. Whenever Bane’s followers gain power, they institute draconian measures to ensure that their rule is unquestioned. They
Monsters
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
immediately use its reaction to make one melee attack.Bane’s devoted followers are warriors who seek to rule through martial strength and intimidation, cruel tyrants who use threats and gifts as
needed to ensure loyalty. They enslave those too weak to resist them and shower the strong with gifts and promises of power to turn them into loyal vassals.
Cruel Tyrants. Whenever Bane’s
Monsters
Keys from the Golden Vault
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Shroud Tattoo. Prisoner 13 can’t be targeted by divination spells or any feature that would read her thoughts, and she can’t be perceived through magical scrying sensors. She can&rsquo
her triumph onto her skin. Using ancient rituals, Korda infused many of these artful etchings with the magic of Gauntlgrym’s forges, granting her wondrous gifts.
Korda grew too ambitious for
Classes
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
battle.
TENETS OF THE WATCHERS
A paladin who assumes the Oath of the Watchers swears to safeguard mortal realms from otherworldly threats.
Vigilance. The threats you face are cunning, powerful, and
subversive. Be ever alert for their corruption.
Loyalty. Never accept gifts or favors from fiends or those who truck with them. Stay true to your order, your comrades, and your duty.
Discipline. You
Classes
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
battle.
TENETS OF THE WATCHERS
A paladin who assumes the Oath of the Watchers swears to safeguard mortal realms from otherworldly threats.
Vigilance. The threats you face are cunning, powerful, and
subversive. Be ever alert for their corruption.
Loyalty. Never accept gifts or favors from fiends or those who truck with them. Stay true to your order, your comrades, and your duty.
Discipline. You
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
communication. When the signs are right, cultists gather together, read aloud their blasphemous texts, and conduct the mind-searing rituals that guide star spawn into the world.
Elder Evil Blessings
Disciples of certain Elder Evils can bestow supernatural gifts on those who serve that cult, including star spawn. The following powers are unique to specific cults; typically a creature has only one
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
of a comet—or perhaps this phenomenon merely signals that star spawn are in the vicinity and available for communication. When the signs are right, cultists gather together, read aloud their
blasphemous texts, and conduct the mind-searing rituals that guide star spawn into the world.
Elder Evil Blessings
Disciples of certain Elder Evils can bestow supernatural gifts on those who serve
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
can’t be targeted by divination magic or features that would read its mind or determine its creature type.Multiattack. The infiltrator makes two Poison Blade attacks and can use Beguiling
actions at the start of its turn.
Cunning. The infiltrator escapes nonmagical restraints and ends the grappled condition on itself, then moves up to its speed without provoking opportunity attack
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
available for communication. When the signs are right, cultists gather together, read aloud their blasphemous texts, and conduct the mind-searing rituals that guide star spawn into the world.
Elder Evil
Blessings
Disciples of certain Elder Evils can bestow supernatural gifts on those who serve that cult, including star spawn. The following powers are unique to specific cults; typically a creature has
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
Alien Mind. Magic and other features can’t determine the corrupter’s creature type. If a creature tries to read the corrupter’s thoughts, that creature must succeed on a DC 20
. The corrupter regains all spent legendary actions at the start of its turn.
Cunning. The corrupter escapes nonmagical restraints and ends the grappled and restrained conditions on itself, then moves
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
available for communication. When the signs are right, cultists gather together, read aloud their blasphemous texts, and conduct the mind-searing rituals that guide star spawn into the world.
Elder Evil
Blessings
Disciples of certain Elder Evils can bestow supernatural gifts on those who serve that cult, including star spawn. The following powers are unique to specific cults; typically a creature has
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
often in the wake of a comet—or perhaps this phenomenon merely signals that star spawn are in the vicinity and available for communication. When the signs are right, cultists gather together, read
aloud their blasphemous texts, and conduct the mind-searing rituals that guide star spawn into the world.
Elder Evil Blessings
Disciples of certain Elder Evils can bestow supernatural gifts on those
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
reborn as an arcanaloth, a state that horrifies her. When frustrated, she vents her rage by instructing her servants to abduct someone she considers beautiful and then overseeing that beauty’s
destruction. Reeva is a cunning plotter, strategist, and manipulator. She applies these talents to her magic, entreating fiends for aid and using them to hasten the day when no one will underestimate her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Baphomet Ability Score Adjustment: Up to a +4 bonus to Strength, Wisdom, or both Signature Spells: Hunter’s mark (1st level), beast sense (2nd level), slow (3rd level) Baphomet grants the gifts of
cunning and physical power. He grants his rank-and-file followers the Unerring Tracker trait, and cult leaders gain the Incite the Hunters trait. All of his devotees also gain the Labyrinthine Recall
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
dissolves into a dense puddle of goo. Read the following boxed text as he expires: “You haven’t won! No! We will rise from our children! We will be reborn from the Faceless Lord! Juiblex will consume
The Pudding King The mad svirfneblin waits for the characters in his disgusting throne room. If the characters haven’t seen the throne room before, read the boxed text description of the room (see
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
of Lurue is an enchanted storybook—one that, if read, could bestow upon its reader gifts and blessings. The moment the characters open the book, they are transported to a demiplane in the heart of a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray. Gnome Cunning. You have advantage on all Intelligence, Wisdom, and
Charisma saving throws against magic. Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Gnomish. The Gnomish language, which uses the Dwarvish script, is renowned for its technical treatises and its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
adherence to Feywild rules affords it tremendous luck, but this fortune comes at a cost. These same magical strictures compel leprechauns to use their powers on behalf of those who offer them gifts
gifts the target a measure of luck. The creature gains the leprechaun’s Astonishing Luck reaction. The creature can use the reaction three times, after which this gift goes away. The leprechaun can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
the situation calls for, Phenax is a consummate actor. His incisive wit and cunning enable him to read the desires of his marks, adjusting his approach to suit the moment. In his rare moments of candor
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray. Gnome Cunning. You have advantage on all Intelligence, Wisdom, and
Charisma saving throws against magic. Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Gnomish. The Gnomish language, which uses the Dwarvish script, is renowned for its technical treatises and its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Timed Events The following events occur at specific times throughout the evening. Hour 1: Welcome Gifts Shortly after the carnival opens for business, read: A twelve-foot-tall walking tree garlanded
the Welcome Gifts table. A creature that receives one of these gifts can’t gain another one for 24 hours. Dandelion Seeds. A character can make a wish while blowing their dandelion’s seeds into the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
from the wagon’s tongue.
The wagon is home to a chwinga (see appendix D). The vegepygmies in the area are afraid of the chwinga and bring it gifts of flowers to appease its wrath. In truth, the
characters into shrines or dungeons. Queen’s Decree If the characters look under the wagon, read: A moss-covered stone disk lies half-buried in the mud underneath the wagon. Concentric rings of inscriptions
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
With the Red Dragon Army on its way, Becklin Uth Viharin summons the characters to Cudgel’s command tent at the village’s edge. When they arrive, read the introduction to scenario 1 in Dragonlance
gifts them one of the community’s few treasures: a folded paper kingfisher that functions as a Quaal’s feather token (bird). Characters gain no rewards for a loss.
At the end of the scenario
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
to their hidden memories, doled out as you deem appropriate. This might take the form of allowing the character to navigate an alien installation, operate an inscrutable device, or read an otherworldly
language. Don’t explain why the character gains these benefits, though, and let them make their own explanations to other characters. Lost memories might also take the form of Dark Gifts (see chapter 1).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
Using the Brazen Egg A character holding the cracked-open Brazen Egg while within 60 feet of Anthradusk can take a Magic action to unleash Cozmioko’s lingering power. If they do so, read the
, described below. See “Supernatural Gifts” in the Dungeon Master’s Guide for more information. Weakened Dragon. Anthradusk’s Hit Points are reduced by 200. For the next 24 hours, replace Anthradusk’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Nib’s Cave A miser toils inside a cave, spinning his gold into gifts for those who visit him. When the characters happen upon Nib’s cave, read: Cozy torchlight radiates from a cave in the wooded
invite them inside the cave. If they enter, read: Inside the cave, a wizened old man wearing a blindfold sits at a spinning wheel, surrounded by piles of gold. As he spins, he reaches down and grasps
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
mysterious faerie market described in chapter 14 is home to a nilbog fortune teller named Oddlewin who uses a Deck of Many Things to read the future of his customers. This might be the first time that
directly, but where might is insufficient, guile and cunning can prevail. Finally, the characters might simply be given a deck by someone who wants them to have it. Rifflers, mischievous fey
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
monster often toys with its prey, breaking off an attack prematurely and leaving a creature wounded and terrified before returning to finish it off.
Servant of Evil. Though chimeras are far from cunning
, their draconic ego makes them susceptible to flattery and gifts. If offered food and treasure, a chimera might spare a traveler. A villain can lure a chimera into service by keeping it well fed and its treasure hoard well stocked.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
deal piercing damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike. Cunning Artisan. As part of a short rest, you can harvest bone and hide from a
damage, and you gain temporary hit points (minimum of 1) equal to your Constitution modifier, and you can’t use this trait again until you finish a short or long rest. Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Draconic.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
inform Mahadi (and by extension Asmodeus) about Arkhan’s possession of the Hand of Vecna, Mahadi does everything he can to strike a deal with them, offering any of the gifts listed under “Mahadi’s Deals
darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 19
Languages Common, Infernal; can read all writing
Challenge 14 (11,500 XP)
Limited Magic Immunity. Mahadi can’t be affected or detected by spells of 6th level
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Sanctum Showdown If the characters show no sign of joining Ruxithid, or if any of them threaten violence, Ruxithid becomes hostile. Read or paraphrase the following: Green light pulses from
Disturbing Truth Revealed If Ruxithid is slain, read the following: Ruxithid falls to the ground, and his crystalline brain splits asunder. The sanctum fills with a cacophony, like thousands of voices crying
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
half-eaten cake that looks like it was dropped.
These goblin gifts include a bag of assorted teeth, a moist wad of thoughtfully pre-chewed jerky, and a foul-smelling mushroom. The cake appears
notice the characters, they stop dancing. Read or paraphrase the following text: The goblin on the throne leaps to her feet and barks, “BREE-YARK! This is my party, and I don’t remember inviting you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
pulses from the four open bedroom doors above the bar.
This version of the Test Market is empty except for the rooms rented by the “C” Team. When the characters make their way to the second floor, read
gifts a pair of slippers of spider climbing to the party. The characters then feel themselves being pulled away, back to the default inn of stage 1. After Stage Four The “C” Team members do not accompany
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
deal on capybara jerky (only 1 gp per pound), he gifts them his gythka (detailed in the “Thri-kreen” section of the Monster Manual) and a bag of beans with three beans remaining.
Termite Mounds Nene
guides the characters across the eastern extent of the Llanos, growing more excited as he recognizes familiar terrain. Read the following description when the characters reach the plains near the bend
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
first time the characters visit the Traders’ Grotto without an escort, a clanging bell sounds near the main entrance. When this happens, read the following boxed text to the players. The deep gnomes
paths until they are destroyed. The trapped svirfneblin is named Mev Flintknapper (use the veteran statistics in the Monster Manual, but also give Mev the Stone Camouflage, Gnome Cunning, and Innate