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—H.P. Lovecraft, The Shadow Out of Time
The great race of Yith are creatures of the distant past, existing in a strange era before the gods forged the
terminated in an irregular yellowish globe some two feet in diameter and having three great dark eyes ranged along its central circumference... Surmounting this head were four slender grey stalks bearing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
A Great Frog Race Characters following the student who invited them to the frog race are led to the fireside lounge (area F5) of Firejolt Café. As in the scene above, the student speaking in this
chalk to mark lanes on the floor, and multiple students are trying to corral the frogs into a starting position.
A student notices the characters and shouts, “You’re just in time! Want to race these
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
A Great Frog Race Characters following the student who invited them to the frog race are led to the fireside lounge (area F5) of Firejolt Café. As in the scene above, the student speaking in this
chalk to mark lanes on the floor, and multiple students are trying to corral the frogs into a starting position.
A student notices the characters and shouts, “You’re just in time! Want to race these
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Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
Cunning Action. On each of its turns, the thought spy can use a bonus action to take the Dash, Disengage, or Hide action.
Innate Spellcasting (Psionics). The thought spy's innate spellcasting ability
infiltration, tactics that they supplement with rigorously developed mental abilities. To ensure that no secrets slip through Dimir's fingers, they infiltrate rival guilds. In addition to traditional means of gathering intelligence, thought spies use their magic to spy on the thoughts of their targets.
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Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Brave. The great warrior has advantage on saving throws against being frightened.
Brute. A melee weapon deals one extra die of its damage when the great warrior hits with it (included in the attack
).Multiattack. The great warrior makes three melee attacks or two ranged attacks.
Spear. Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +7;{"diceNotation":"1d20+7","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Spear"} to hit
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Mythic Odysseys of Theros
use a combination of cunning, faith, and magic to defend their coastal home. Most of these skilled soldiers serve in the Reverent Army, the defenders of Meletis, which uses an array of proven strategies
typically work in groups and use coordinated tactics to win victories.
The three Hoplite Unit Names tables present the sorts of titles used by hoplite contingents hailing from Theros's great poleis. Consider
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Tomb of Annihilation
and ruins. Though you managed to sell a few of your discoveries and earn enough coin to buy proper adventuring gear, you have held onto an item that has great emotional value to you. Roll on the
original purpose and determine its builders, whether those were dwarves, elves, humans, yuan-ti, or some other known race. In addition, you can determine the monetary value of art objects more than a
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
fallen civilizations and great calamities.
Nagpas still fear the Raven Queen and do their best to avoid her and her agents. When it’s impossible to do so, they become cringing, fawning things, eager
to please and thereby escape further attention from her cold gaze. All the original thirteen remain alive, thanks to their cunning and their willingness to do whatever is necessary to survive
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
protect that creature. Great strength and a ferocious nature make gray renders fierce guardians, but they lack a shred of cunning.
Gray renders reproduce by forming nodules on their bodies that, on
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Storm King's Thunder
), water (drowning), or air (throwing the victims off a great height). Sacrifices ensure the Forgotten God’s benevolence.
The Forgotten God enabled the yakfolk to enslave dao for a time. It is
communal creches once they are weaned, never to recognize them again. Yakfolk feel no loyalty to their families—only to their god and race.
Skin Crawlers. A yakfolk’s most frightening
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Storm King's Thunder
(immolation), earth (live burial), water (drowning), or air (throwing the victims off a great height). Sacrifices ensure the Forgotten God’s benevolence.
The Forgotten God enabled the yakfolk to
parents pack children off to communal creches once they are weaned, never to recognize them again. Yakfolk feel no loyalty to their families—only to their god and race.
Skin Crawlers. A yakfolk
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hundreds of miles of the Great Glacier and the Great Ice Sea. No one from your nation makes the effort to cross such colossal barriers without a convincing reason. You must fear something truly
locations discussed here, it is far more unnatural. You hail from one of the settlements in the Underdark, each of which has its own strange customs and laws. If you are a native of one of the great
Baphomet
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Out of the Abyss
. Although filled with bestial bloodlust, there lies within a cruel and cunning intellect devoted to subverting all of civilization.
Baphomet wields a great glaive called Heartcleaver. He sometimes
minotaur—considered the greatest gift of the Prince of Beasts.
Baphomet himself appears as a great, black-furred minotaur, 20 feet tall with six iron horns. An infernal light burns in his red eyes
Shifter
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weretouched, as many believe they are the descendants of humans and lycanthropes. Whatever their origins, shifters have evolved into a unique race. They are humanoids with a bestial aspect; while they
also be a cunning rat who darts through the shadows.
Wildhunt shifters are born from any creature that tracks its prey.
While the beast within certainly has a physical impact on a shifter, it has a
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
spellcasting ability (spell save DC 12):
At will: mage hand (the hand is invisible), minor illusionEmerald dragons are the most curious, cunning, and manipulative of the gem dragons, wielding
must be convinced to defend the school in a contest against a rival college.
7
An emerald dragon invisibly tails a party of adventurers, causing trouble for the heroes so the dragon can watch how
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
travels farther than the sprawling city that lies outside his palace.
Dispater is correct to fear, but the true threat comes not from without. The lord’s great error was allowing himself to be
archdevils, he compensates with cunning. A shrewd politician, he has clawed his way up through the ranks to become the second-most powerful devil in Dis, entirely by saying the right thing at the right time
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
":"damage", "rollAction":"Emerald Embers", "rollDamageType":"fire"} fire damage.Emerald dragons are the most curious, cunning, and manipulative of the gem dragons, wielding psionic power to weave illusions to
convinced to defend the school in a contest against a rival college.
7
An emerald dragon invisibly tails a party of adventurers, causing trouble for the heroes so the dragon can watch how they respond
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
":"Emerald Embers", "rollDamageType":"fire"} fire damage.Emerald dragons are the most curious, cunning, and manipulative of the gem dragons, wielding psionic power to weave illusions to deceive and
the school in a contest against a rival college.
7
An emerald dragon invisibly tails a party of adventurers, causing trouble for the heroes so the dragon can watch how they respond.
8
An
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Eberron: Rising from the Last War
attack on House Vol was nothing more than an excuse to eliminate a political rival. But others believe that what the Undying Court truly feared was a path shown in the Draconic Prophecy — that a
is destroyed. Thus, even Erandis herself doesn’t know the location or form of her phylactery.
Restoring the Mark. Though she takes great pleasure in fighting the dragons and elves who destroyed
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
great thinkers, and spur adventurers to heroic deeds. They sometimes give guidance to those in need or request help from adventurers to encourage them to greatness.
As a rule, moonstone dragons are
? (Chaotic)
4
Beauty. There is beauty to be found in even the simplest things if you look hard enough. (Good)
5
Inspiration. Great are history’s artists and creators. But greater still are
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suspension.
7
Great ideas are fine, but great results are what counts.
8
If you can guess what I’m about to do, that means I’ve run out of imagination.
Ideals
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research, often at the expense of my own health and safety.
5
I’m convinced there’s not a soul in Ravnica, except maybe the great Niv-Mizzet, who can match my boundless intellect.
6
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convinced that everyone I know is plotting against me.
3
I’ll brave any risk if the monetary reward is great enough.
4
I am convinced that I am far more important than anyone else is
activities in crime, banking, or debt collection could tie you to members of other guilds.
Roll twice on the Orzhov Contacts table (for an ally and a rival) and once on the Non-Orzhov Contacts table
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
trick, every ounce of demonic cunning, to manipulate his enemies—mortal and Fiend alike—to do his will. Fraz-Urb’luu can create dreamlands and mind-bending fantasies able to deceive the
staff of power taken from him by those who imprisoned him and commands his servants to do likewise.
The Prince of Deception’s true form is like that of a great gargoyle, some 12 feet tall, with
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elements, and endured sickness without the advantage of medicine or a place to recuperate. You’ve survived despite all odds, and did so through cunning, strength, speed, or some combination of each
their torch-based code. From the lighting, placement, and type of torch arranged on or near a structure, you can gather a great deal of information about those who live or do business there, particularly
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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
civilization.
Baphomet wields a great glaive called Heartcleaver. He also charges his enemies and gores them with his horns, trampling his foes into the earth and rending them with his teeth like a
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The Book of Many Things
Planes as a tyrannical marauder.
Roleplaying Malaxxix
Malaxxix is a being of great cunning, terrible rage, and insatiable bloodlust who regards any opportunity to inflict misery on others as
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
hand is invisible), minor illusion
1/day each: detect thoughts, invisibility, silent imageEmerald dragons are the most curious, cunning, and manipulative of the gem dragons, wielding psionic power to
and must be convinced to defend the school in a contest against a rival college.
7
An emerald dragon invisibly tails a party of adventurers, causing trouble for the heroes so the dragon can
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areas to help you succeed.
You might be a cunning thief-catcher, prowling the rooftops to catch one of the myriad burglars of the city. Perhaps you are someone who has your ear to the street, aware of
prey on the rich, whether pickpockets or con artists. The community where you plied your trade might have been one of Faerûn’s great metropolises, such as Waterdeep or Baldur’s Gate
Fraz-Urb'luu
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Deception and Demon Lord of Illusions. He uses every trick, every ounce of demonic cunning, to manipulate his enemies—mortal and fiend alike—to do his will. Fraz-Urb’luu can create
that of a great gargoyle, some 12 feet tall, with an extended, muscular neck and a smiling face framed by long, pointed ears and lank, dark hair, and bat-like wings are furled against his powerful
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Storm King's Thunder
might rival him in power, in a fighting style marked by sudden attacks and just as sudden disappearances.
Klauth spends many waking hours scrying Faerûn with his spells, and he probably knows more
volcanic gases wash over a dragon as it sleeps.
With its hoard well protected deep within the lair, a red dragon spends as much of its time outside the mountain as in it. For a red dragon, the great
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Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
unforgettable appearance, giff are noticed wherever they go. Giff put their great size to use in all sorts of ways, from lifting heavy loads and tying tight knots to opening stuck doors and seeing over
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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.]
3
I’m as stubborn as a batterboar.
4
I’m so convinced of my superiority over soft, civilized people that I’ll take great risks to prove it.
5
I’m easily
encounters with members of other guilds are more often violent than friendly, but occasional bonds do form.
Roll twice on the Gruul Contacts table (for an ally and a rival) and once on the Non-Gruul
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affairs of other guilds is a great way to get squashed like a bug. (Neutral)
Bonds
d6
Bond
1
I cherish the finger of a family member who was petrified by a
meaningful connections with others.
Roll twice on the Golgari Contacts table (for an ally and a rival) and once on the Non-Golgari Contacts table.
Golgari Contacts
d8
Contact
1
One
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-Lashtavar.
—Lakashtai, servant of the light
The kalashtar are a compound race created from the union of humanity and renegade spirits from the plane of dreams — spirits called quori
. Kalashtar are often seen as wise, spiritual people with great compassion for others. But there is an unmistakable alien quality to the kalashtar, as they are haunted by the conflicts of their otherworldly
Yuan-ti Malison (Type 3)
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their race, allowing them to shed their frail humanity like dead skin. Those that did not transform eventually became slaves or food for the blessed of the serpent gods. The yuan-ti empires withered
or were defeated by those who fought against their cannibalism and slavery, and the serpent folk were left in the ruins of their great capitals, far removed from other races.
Cold of Heart. Humanoid