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Curse of Strahd
light weapons. They are reluctant to make bite attacks in raven form for fear of spreading their curse to those who don’t deserve it or who would abuse it.
A Kindness of Wereravens. Wereravens
refer to their tightly knit groups as kindnesses. A kindness of wereravens usually numbers between seven and twelve individuals. Not surprisingly, wereravens get along well with ravens and often hide
Monsters
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
itself back where it entered the border, returning to the garden.
Eternal Summer. The climate in the garden is a perpetual, lovely summer, but weather conditions reflect the emotional tone of creatures in
or the Palace of Spires. On a successful save, the creature’s memories remain intact, but they’re hazy and dreamlike. A Remove Curse or Greater Restoration spell restores the creature
Species
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
jolted her.
“What is it they say?” he asked. “One’s a curiosity, two’s a conspiracy—”
“Three’s a curse,” she finished. “You think I
reflect their fiendish heritage. And some younger tieflings, striving to find a place in the world, adopt a name that signifies a virtue or other concept and then try to embody that concept. For some
races
of the other typical senses of “curse” in the game. Rather, accursed reflects the grim sense of how most other folk in the campaign will view such a character, especially those who don
the accursed heritage to reflect the form and capabilities of a lizardfolk— a heritage that doesn’t canonically exist in Grim Hollow. Whether that accursed character represents a wanderer
Tiefling
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Basic Rules (2014)
jolted her.
“What is it they say?” he asked. “One’s a curiosity, two’s a conspiracy—”
“Three’s a curse,” she finished. “You think I
reflect their fiendish heritage. And some younger tieflings, striving to find a place in the world, adopt a name that signifies a virtue or other concept and then try to embody that concept. For some
Kenku
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
reputation that is not wholly unearned, but they can prove to be valuable allies.
An Ancient Curse
The kenku once served a mysterious, powerful entity on another plane of existence. Some believe they
groups called flocks. A flock is led by the oldest and most experienced kenku with the widest store of knowledge to draw on, often called Master.
Although kenku can’t create new things, they have
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Incarnations of Tatyana The curse that engulfs Barovia means that the soul of Tatyana, the subject of Strahd’s obsession, perpetually reincarnates into new physical forms. No matter what form she
incarnation allows you to give your own distinct spin to Ravenloft’s classic tale. Characters and groups marked with an asterisk on the following tables are further detailed in the “Travelers in the Mist” section at the end of in this chapter.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
travelers have shared experiences. You can find a place to hide, rest, or recuperate among sympathetic trading caravans, itinerant families, or displaced groups, so long as you don’t present yourself
as a danger. Such groups will hide you from the law or anyone searching for you, though they won’t risk their lives for you. Additionally, you can tell whether an object you can see and touch is from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Fomorian The most hideous and wicked of all giantkind are the godless fomorians, whose deformed bodies reflect their vile demeanors. Some have facial features randomly distributed around their
, however, for the fomorians brought their doom upon themselves with the evil that rules their hearts and minds. Fey Curse. The elves remember when the fomorians were among the most handsome of races
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
the Plane of Faerie, and that the memories of their visit are hazy. You can use these optional rules to reflect the strange magic that suffuses the plane. Memory Loss A creature that leaves the Feywild
throw remembers nothing from its time spent in the Feywild. On a successful save, the creature’s memories remain intact but are a little hazy. Any spell that can end a curse can restore the creature’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
summer, but weather conditions reflect the emotional tone of creatures in the garden. In times of danger, thunderstorms shake the sky. During times of melancholy or mourning, chill rain patters
Palace of Spires. On a successful save, the creature’s memories remain intact, but they’re hazy and dreamlike. A Remove Curse or Greater Restoration spell restores the creature’s memories. Time. Time
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
curse, the more savage and bestial they become. Wereboars live in small family groups in remote forest areas, building ramshackle huts or dwelling in caves. They are suspicious of strangers but
or animal form, they gain a devastating goring attack through which their curse is spread. A wereboar infects other creatures indiscriminately, relishing the fact that the more its victims resist the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
can transform voluntarily, but some are magically compelled to shape-shift when exposed to complete darkness or during nights of a new moon. Often, wererats’ nature results from a divine curse
—punishment for their deceitful natures or the crimes of their treacherous families. Wererats frequently work in groups, forming bandit gangs or thieves’ guilds. Wererat Medium or Small Monstrosity
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
: Common Foes. The Heralds of the Comet (see chapter 12) identify both the characters and the Solar Bastion as threats and begin stirring up public sentiment against both groups. A knight of the Solar
, a knight of the Solar Bastion, who has been trying to break the curse upon the place. Theira asks the adventurers for help, as a Deck of Many Things has been spotted at a traveling market many days
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
, twelve ghouls hiding in open graves converge on the characters in four groups of three, each group approaching from a different cardinal direction. They hunger for flesh. A wight named Drovath Harrn
a curse prevents them from leaving the place. Characters who defeat these creatures are free to continue their exploration of the Shadowfell, having survived their first brush with death in this ghastly realm.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
sites of fallen glory. They often dwell beyond the fringes of civilization or travel in disguise, leaving trails of petrified victims. Some medusas dominate groups of monsters or criminals, controlling
. Roll on or choose a result from the Medusa Fates table to inspire what led to a medusa’s creation.
Medusa Fates 1d6 The Medusa Was...
1 Born a medusa and lives unaware of whatever curse
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Dungeons Some dungeons are old strongholds abandoned by the folk who built them. Others are natural caves or lairs carved out by monsters. Dungeons attract cults, groups of monsters, and reclusive
on the table reflect the characteristics of a dungeon’s creator, its intended purpose, its location, or some (often catastrophic) event in its history. You can use a single quirk or combine quirks as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
humanoid rather than reflecting the creature’s physical form. Sages postulate that the first perytons were humans transformed by a hideous curse or magical experiment, but bards tell a different tale
consumes a heart, its shadow changes for a brief time to reflect its true monstrous form.
When attacking a humanoid, a peryton is single-minded and relentless, fighting until it or its prey dies. If a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
club make it a formidable threat in combat, and its eyes reflect the absolute evil of its soul.
Divine Curse. Long ago, an elf wandering a forest heard birdsong so pure and wholesome that she was
her into the first harpy. The curse worked its magic on the elf’s spirit as well as her body, turning her desire for love into a hunger for flesh, even as her beautiful song continued to draw
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
told of how those powers would increase if a magic orrery’s missing components were collected and placed within it. Unfortunately, Caerhan also never learned about the curse the orrery carried — and
orrery housing have ended up scattered across the Sword Coast, falling into the hands of different adventuring groups. One of those groups is the evil faction known as the Six, whose members have
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
. Weretigers grow to enormous size in animal and hybrid form, but they fight in their more refined humanoid form when they can. They don’t like to pass on their curse, because every new weretiger means
groups. Weretiger
Medium humanoid (human, shapechanger), neutral
Armor Class 12
Hit Points 120 (16d8 + 48)
Speed 30 ft. (40 ft. in tiger form)
STR
17 (+3)
DEX
15 (+2)
CON
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
she. She has no way to prove this hypothesis, but she nevertheless opposes groups like the Grim Harrow (see chapter 19) that seek to destroy the Deck of Many Things. Adventure Hooks Asteria knows more
decks from their many dangers—especially from the curse imposed by the Euryale card, which Asteria resents as a defamation of her devoted friend. For this and many other reasons, Asteria tracks down
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
villain and improve its challenge rating to make it relevant to the higher-level characters. NPC Stat Blocks. Some of the stat blocks in the Monster Manual can reflect the same character at different
exploring these noir themes in the stories you develop. It can be fun for some people to wrestle with moral quandaries in adventures, but it doesn’t work for all play groups. In particular, if there’s no
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Hags Hags represent all that is evil and cruel. Though they resemble withered crones, there is nothing mortal about these monstrous creatures, whose forms reflect only the wickedness in their hearts
affinity for spellcasting. They can alter their forms or curse their foes, and their arrogance inspires them to view their magic as a challenge to the magic of the gods, whom they blaspheme at every
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
to turn them into thralls and illithids. Operating individually or in small groups, its members use stealth and deception to infiltrate the humanoid community while keeping their presence secret
topics pursued by a colony reflect the ambitions and priorities of the elder brain that controls it. Each one has particular ideas about how best to contribute to the ultimate success of the Grand Design
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
under “Creating a Creature” in this chapter to better reflect the NPC you have in mind. Alignment Choose the NPC’s alignment, which can help you sketch the outlines of an NPC’s behavior and
crime. 3 The NPC (or their family) has been threatened with harm unless the NPC does something. 4 The NPC is under a magical compulsion (perhaps a Geas spell or some kind of curse) to behave in a certain
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Shelter and Wyrmdoom Crag are two mountain strongholds inhabited by goliaths. The former is home to the Skytower (Akannathi) clan, the latter to the Wyrmdoom (Thuunlakalaga) clan. The two groups refuse
smiles and tests their mettle. Those who impress her with their fighting skills are bitten and become goliath werebears themselves—goliaths who carry Oyaminartok’s curse of lycanthropy. Contrary to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
, which the rakshasa is loath to disclose: Curse. As long as you wear this item, you are cursed. The item can’t be removed until you are targeted by a Remove Curse spell or similar magic. While cursed
musings of the Dragon Queen?”
The facets of the sanctum’s walls reflect images of Tiamat’s eyes as she talks. Windfall regains 300 hit points but has the paralyzed condition due to Tiamat’s magic as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
the memories of their visit are hazy. You can use these optional rules to reflect the strange magic that suffuses the plane. Memory Loss. A creature that leaves the Feywild makes a DC 10 Wisdom saving
the Feywild. On a successful save, the creature’s memories remain intact but are a little hazy. Any spell that can end a curse can restore the creature’s lost memories. Time Warp. While time seems to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
heroes of pulp adventure are often able to overcome seemingly impossible odds. One way to reflect this is to use the optional hero points rule from chapter 9 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide. This is
? This isn’t something every group will enjoy, and you never want players to feel as though they can’t succeed. But for some groups, this sort of collaboration can produce a compelling story and a sense of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
track how much damage each monster takes. Most DMs track damage in secret so their players don’t know how many Hit Points a monster has remaining. It helps to have a system to track damage for groups of
Many rules and features in the game apply conditions to creatures. You can also apply conditions on the fly when it makes sense to do so. For example, the Poisoned condition can reflect a variety of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
approach them, stopping when the two groups are 10 feet apart. One of them welcomes the characters to Telemy Hill and asks how long they plan to stay. If asked about Jingle Jangle, the awakened trees
what she thought was a terrible curse: wherever Jingle Jangle went, she felt a tormenting fear of being caught on the wrong side of a locked door. When she appealed to Bavlorna for aid, the hag
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
Curse. A crew member named Incindorita (CN tiefling acolyte) claims that the ship has been cursed. They insist that one of the newcomers to the ship must offer up a prayer to calm the storm. There is no
curse, but a character who succeeds on a DC 11 Intelligence (Arcana or Religion) check can go through the motions to calm Incindorita and inspire the crew. Spot the Rocks. Captain Nuxoll needs someone
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Curse” in chapter 4. The characters likely have many questions about Leedara herself: why she’s here, how she knows so much about Soth, and so forth. If questioned, Leedara reveals her true, ghostly
live as a ghost—but she’s also a curse on Soth and works to stymie his ambitions. She can’t stand against Soth alone and earnestly seeks to aid the characters. After sharing the information here and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
. Different groups of orcs exist within a tribe, the actions of each dictated by the deity they pay homage to. To complement the various kinds of warriors that spill forth to ravage the countryside, each
the tribe, and most are skilled in the healing arts. The most powerful among Luthic’s disciples are the claws of Luthic, which can use the Cave Mother’s magic to heal, protect, and curse. Orc Claw of