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Monsters
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
Blood Witch Dance. The witch can use a bonus action to control the movement of one creature cursed by its hex spell that it can see within 30 feet of it. The creature must succeed on a DC 15 Charisma
saving throw or use its reaction to move up to 30 feet in a direction of the witch's choice.
Devil's Sight. Magical darkness doesn't impede the witch's darkvision.
Innate Spellcasting. The witch's
Monsters
Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Knight of Solamnia, Caradoc burned when Dargaard Keep was consumed in the fires of the Cataclysm. As with many of Soth’s retainers, Caradoc was cursed with undeath. Being duplicitous and cowardly
himself. The target must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw, or the target must immediately use its reaction to make a melee attack against another creature of Caradoc’s choice (wasting its reaction if there are no other creatures within reach).
Monsters
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
ft., one target. Hit: 9 (2d6 + 2);{"diceNotation":"2d6+2","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Claw","rollDamageType":"slashing"} slashing damage, and the target is cursed if it’s a creature. The
curse takes effect whenever the target takes a short or long rest, filling the target’s thoughts with horrible images and dreams. The cursed target gains no benefit from finishing a short or long
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
. The target must succeed on a DC 17 Wisdom saving throw or be cursed. While cursed, the target is blinded and deafened. The curse lasts until ended with a greater restoration spell, a remove curse
through her veins.
Mother Night. Over four hundred years ago, Katarina came to Barovia and insinuated herself into Strahd’s court, working as a maid in Castle Ravenloft. She came to know the
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Intelligence saving throw or it can’t take a reaction until the end of its next turn. Moreover, on its next turn, the target must choose whether it gets a move, an action, or a bonus action; it gets only
minds or petrify the bodies of its victims.
Death’s Head Tree
In cursed wilds grow death’s head trees, awakened tree;awakened trees from which 2d6;{"diceNotation":"2d6","rollType":"roll
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Jiangshi Weaknesses. The jiangshi has the following flaws:
Fear of Its Own Reflection. If the jiangshi sees its own reflection, it immediately uses its reaction, if available, to move as far away
their descendants and the communities they knew in life, sowing terror and taking retribution for the slights or neglected burial rites that led to their cursed resurrections. Rigor mortis notoriously
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
action and Poisoning Rebuke reaction.
The object bearing the blood rune has AC 15; 30 hit points; and immunity to necrotic, poison, and psychic damage. The object regains all its hit points at the end
", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Corrupting Hex", "rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage and become cursed for 24 hours. While cursed this way, the target’s speed is reduced by half, and
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
, conversation.
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A moonstone dragon wyrmling has convinced a lost white dragon wyrmling that the latter is also a moonstone dragon, cursed by an archfey of winter. The two travel together, causing
volunteered to be a spy in a conflict between a group of pixie;pixies and a group of quickling;quicklings. Both sides believe the wyrmling is working exclusively for them.
Magic Items
The Book of Many Things
the next 8 hours, whenever you or a creature within 60 feet of you is about to roll a d20 with advantage or disadvantage, you can use your reaction to prevent the roll from being affected by advantage
draws.
Monster. This card’s monstrous visage curses you. While cursed in this way, whenever you make a saving throw, you must roll 1d4 and subtract the number rolled from the total. The curse lasts
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Plane to her inscrutable ends. Hexblade. What a cool name! So is your sword evil or cursed or something? But you’re evil, right? … Okay, now I don’t like the name. Names aren’t cool if they don’t make
cursed for 1 minute. The curse ends early if the target dies, you die, or you are incapacitated. Until the curse ends, you gain the following benefits: You gain a bonus to damage rolls against the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Marilith Demon of Cruelty and Viciousness Habitat: Planar (Abyss); Treasure: Armaments Mariliths are six-armed, serpentlike demons that wield lethal, Abyss-forged blades. With these cursed weapons
with all its Hit Points somewhere in the Abyss.
Magic Resistance. The marilith has Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Reactive. The marilith can take one Reaction
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
be able to see the cursed target. Shroud of Shadow Prerequisite: 15th level You can cast invisibility at will, without expending a spell slot. Tomb of Levistus Prerequisite: 5th level As a reaction
the end of your next turn. Maddening Hex Prerequisite: 5th level, hex spell or a warlock feature that curses As a bonus action, you cause a psychic disturbance around the target cursed by your hex spell
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
items found in the adventure. Because of their power and rarity, the items in this section (or at least those that aren’t cursed) are best suited for characters in a high-magic campaign. Alternatively
. Some of these items might be experiments that Kwalish is working on, which can be made available to the characters if they return to the Barrier Peaks. Alternatively, if you’d like to make full use of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
frigid cold ever since. In the event of an encounter, a squad of 3d6 kobolds is working in or passing through the area. If the characters are dressed as Ice Hunter villagers or are wearing some other
working in this area or passing along the corridor. Disguises are ineffective against the ice toads, which know what creatures live in Oyaviggaton at any given time. If they see anything unexpected
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
. They don’t know it by name, and though they all hum it perfectly, they’re not entirely certain they knew it before today. Unknown to the characters, the cursed tune spread to them when Gailby
, K’Tulah, and Crinkle inside the Firefly Cellar. As she descends the spiral staircase to area F2, she hums the cursed tune in a soft voice. With effort, Varnyr suppresses her humming and shares the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
frigid cold ever since. In the event of an encounter, a squad of 3d6 kobolds is working in or passing through the area. If the characters are dressed as Ice Hunter villagers or are wearing some other
for statistics) is working in this area or passing along the corridor. Disguises are ineffective against the ice toads, which know what creatures live in Oyaviggaton at any given time. If they see
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
after the table to determine related details and story hooks. Island Theme d6 Theme 1 Alien 2 Cursed 3 Hostile 4 Sanctum 5 Welcoming 6 Wild Alien Alien islands are inhabited by isolated creatures
hunters (see appendix C) and 3d10 locathah (see appendix C) Alien Inhabitant Reactions d6 Reaction 1 The inhabitants try to force the characters to serve their leader. 2 The inhabitants demand the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
. The witch can use a bonus action to control the movement of one creature cursed by its hex spell that it can see within 30 feet of it. The creature must succeed on a DC 15 Charisma saving throw or use
its reaction to move up to 30 feet in a direction of the witch’s choice.
Devil’s Sight. Magical darkness doesn’t impede the witch’s darkvision.
Innate Spellcasting. The witch’s innate spellcasting
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Caradoc Seneschal of Lord Soth and a former Knight of Solamnia, Caradoc burned when Dargaard Keep was consumed in the fires of the Cataclysm. As with many of Soth’s retainers, Caradoc was cursed with
Divisive Whispers. Caradoc magically whispers to one creature within 60 feet of himself. The target must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw, or the target must immediately use its reaction to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
. Goliaths are hulking wanderers who dwell at the highest mountain reaches. Kenku are cursed bird folk, who still pay the price for an ancient betrayal. Dwelling in human cities, they have a sinister
reputation for working as criminals. Lizardfolk sometimes venture from their swamp homes in search of treasure and glory. Inscrutable to their mammalian companions, they prove to be stout allies. Tabaxi
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
target must succeed on a DC 10 Intelligence saving throw or it can’t take a reaction until the end of its next turn. Moreover, on its next turn, the target must choose whether it gets a move, an action
a failure, the target is petrified for 10 minutes.
Death’s Head Tree In cursed wilds grow death’s head trees, awakened trees from which 2d6 death’s heads dangle like foul fruit. The heads detach to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
has no chance of working. But the sacrifices performed in this area have saturated the cave with evil power, such that any humanoid that makes a weapon attack in this area must succeed on a DC 18 Wisdom
saving throw or be cursed with blood lust. While cursed in this way, the creature is hostile toward all other creatures it can see and must use its action each turn to attack the creature closest to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
? You might quickly recognize that most bear little resemblance to the terrors described in your people’s legends, or you might have an almost instinctive reaction of distrust. You might have overcome
your initial prejudices by the time the campaign begins, or perhaps you’re working to build trust with another elf member of your adventuring party.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Jalester Silvermane An earnest man in his mid-twenties, Jalester hails from the distant land of Cormyr, where he earned his spurs working for a mercenary company called the Steel Shadows. A few years
.
Reactions
Riposte. When a creature that Jalester can see misses him with a melee attack, he can use his reaction to make a melee weapon attack against that creature. On a hit, the target takes an extra 4 damage from the weapon.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
cursed immortality that binds their minds and spirits within a desiccated corpse. Freed from mortal concerns, these mummy lords pursue their obsessions across ages. Most mummy lords linger amid the ruins
: Cursed Fate. Whenever a creature other than the mummy or one of its allies casts a Divination spell while within 1 mile of the lair, the creature makes a DC 15 Constitution saving throw. On a failed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
victims to isolated spots and then leave the hapless souls to the designs of whatever horrors lurk there. Creatures that are drawn through the shadows by meazels are cursed by the meazels’ baleful magic
.
Any other creature the meazel teleports becomes cursed by shadow for 1 hour. Until this curse ends, every undead and every creature native to the Shadowfell within 300 feet of the cursed creature can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
take 31 (7d8) psychic damage, have the prone condition, and become cursed for 1 hour. While cursed this way, the target can't stand up and end the prone condition on itself.
Christopher Burdett
I have met are so utterly unrepentant and so unmoved by the plight of their cursed kindred that I struggle to embrace them as my cousins.
—Diancastra
Fomorian Noble Huge Giant (Wizard), Typically
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
and drain the blood of nonbelievers in his name.
3 A merchant working for a mysterious patron hires the party to recover the bones of Tatsaul Eris, a noble buried in the catacombs of Castle
Ravenloft.
4 The Martikovs, owners of the Wizard of Wines winery, seek aid recovering a shipment of cursed wine that turns drinkers into vine blights.
5 A dying wereraven (see chapter 5) gives
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
herself into Strahd’s court, working as a maid in Castle Ravenloft. She came to know the castle like the back of her hand, and she was present for the wedding of Sergei and Tatyana. After Strahd went mad
targets one creature that she can see within 30 feet of her. The target must succeed on a DC 17 Wisdom saving throw or be cursed. While cursed, the target is blinded and deafened. The curse lasts until
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
. If you cast a spell with a spell slot of 1st level or higher and target an ally with the spell, that ally can use their reaction immediately after the spell to make one weapon attack against a
you and your allies. If you deal your Divine Strike damage to a creature on your turn, you can curse that creature until the start of your next turn. The next time one of your allies hits the cursed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
, sowing terror and taking retribution for the slights or neglected burial rites that led to their cursed resurrections. Rigor mortis notoriously afflicts the limbs of jiangshi, causing them to hold
Weaknesses. The jiangshi has the following flaws:
Fear of Its Own Reflection. If the jiangshi sees its own reflection, it immediately uses its reaction, if available, to move as far away from the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
repurposing cursed or dangerous items as elements of traps or obstacles in its lair, especially if such an item emits an ongoing effect that it can suppress as needed with its antimagic cone. A trophy
is a treasure that a beholder cherishes as evidence of its power, or serves as a remembrance of victory over its enemies, or evokes another sort of positive reaction from it. The preserved corpse of a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
make Charisma checks to gauge their reaction. Characters can learn the following information through observation and questioning. They need to be careful, however, not to attract attention for asking
recognizes them from Greenest. This is a camp of the Cult of the Dragon—praise Tiamat’s glory! Not everyone here is a full-fledged member of the cult. Many are new initiates working toward full acceptance
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
make Charisma checks to gauge their reaction. Characters can learn the following information through observation and questioning. They need to be careful, however, not to attract attention for asking
recognizes them from Greenest. This is a camp of the Cult of the Dragon — praise Tiamat’s glory! Not everyone here is a full-fledged member of the cult. Many are new initiates working toward full acceptance
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
, and the players might rue thoughtless actions, but do not allow this reaction to temper what you have before you. Likewise, do not set about to entrap the characters in a hopeless situation—allow
strikes and then retires, the attack will be assessed and countermeasures taken. Even when the party first enters the hall, you will have to gauge the reaction of the giants if and when they learn that