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Returning 35 results for 'dance strange rites'.
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
’s goal is to tap into vast energy sources and perform the dire rites that will extend a bridge between the Material Plane and the squirming chaos of an Elder Evil’s realm.
An entity that
, transforming it into a star spawn seer. Whoever the mortal once was largely vanishes beneath the mass of tumorous skin than builds up in strange whorls all over the seer’s body. The mortal’s
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
beaked snout vents smoke at all times, and its eyes dance with flame when it is angry.
Klauthen Vale is a narrow, winding valley in the mountains west of Mirabar. Thanks to ancient and powerful magic, the
about the deeds and whereabouts of surface-world creatures in the North and along the Sword Coast than any other being alive today. Old Snarl obeys strange whims that prompt him to perform acts of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Netheril’s Fall: Tales of Terror, Treasure, and Time Travel
, strange ferns grow from the rock, and brightly colored songbirds feed on jeweled dragonflies. Flickers of magical light dance harmlessly at the edges of one’s vision.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
up on Innsmouth island and shelter in the village. They experience strange dreams. Soon after, they encounter cultists who seek to initiate them and others who seek to sacrifice them. The characters
characters’ dreams and suggests ways to escape the island. After proving their worth, a character receives the cult’s Dark Gift (see “Cult Rites”). Levels 6–16. Led by their dreams and duplicitous cult
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
rites passed down for generations. It isn’t quite a civic organization, despite the fact that some of the wealthiest and most powerful people in Red Larch are members. The members of the Believers use
the town. The Believers formed years ago when local miners discovered a secret underground chamber beneath the town. Strange things happened in the chamber, such as heavy stones levitating and moving
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
. Accessing the Cave In order to access this cave, a creature must swim through a submerged tunnel teeming with scary-looking fish. The fish have strange glowing eyes and large teeth, but they are just normal
Neverwinter. Nana Pocktuss likes to dance. If any of the characters can play music or dance themselves, Nana Pocktuss appreciates a grand old hoedown to shake the rust (and maggots) out of her old joints
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
strange, ritualistic dance. Unless the characters intervene, the vegepygmies roll their captive off the edge of the cliff. A couple of vegepygmies leap off after him, caught in the throes of devotion
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
orcs and other foul creatures, practicing strange rites by the light of the moons. While flawed, this vision isn’t entirely inaccurate. The Shadow Marches are a desolate land of swamps and moors. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
approaches peacefully and shares the following warnings: “Strange witchlights hover over Dragon Barrow at night. The hill is haunted by the restless spirits of the dead.” “Neverwinter Wood has become
overrun with orcs in league with half-orc spellcasters. Deep in the forest, atop a cave-riddled hill, is a circle of standing stones where the evil half-orcs perform their dark rites.” Xanth avoids
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
with orcs and other foul creatures, practicing strange rites by the light of the moons. While flawed, this vision isn’t entirely inaccurate. The Shadow Marches are a desolate land of swamps and moors
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Cult Rites The cults of Innsmouth seek initiates to aid in their unfathomable works. Those who prove themselves reliable devotees gain access to the transformative power of strange gods. Cult Renown
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
suffused with immortal magic and memory. Ages later, the Dakra Isles—also called the Isles of Enchantment—harbor strange sights and fierce monsters. Thassa’s power makes it impossible to keep an
island shifted to the mortal realm. Skathos The island of Skathos was once a sacred meeting place for a secret cult of Pharika whose rites revolved around consuming a magical flower native to the island. The island is now home to the medusa queen, Hythonia (described in chapter 6). (CHRIS RAHN)
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
that the daily life and traditions of the villagers conceal horrible secrets. What starts as glimpses of strange behaviors or rustic decorations culminates in learning the village’s secrets firsthand
lovingly carved door or mural depicts a woman’s face made of moth wings, watching over an explicitly detailed scene of butchery or surgery.
8 Villagers sing and dance in a circle around someone undergoing a ritual to have their left eye removed.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Monsters’ Desires Aberrations d4 Desired Offering 1 The brain or other organs of a rare creature 2 Flattery and obsequiousness 3 Secrets or lore it doesn’t already know 4 Accepting a strange
Desired Offering 1 A gem worth at least 50 gp, which the creature eats 2 An exceedingly pure sample of a favored element 3 A way to return the elemental to its home plane 4 Performing a dance from the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
their traditions. This section presents the College of Dance, College of Glamour, College of Lore, and College of Valor subclasses. College of Dance KATERINA LADON College of Dance Subclass Move in
Harmony with the Cosmos Bards of the College of Dance know that the Words of Creation can’t be contained within speech or song; the words are uttered by the movements of celestial bodies and flow
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
corpulent bulk of tumorous skin than builds up in strange whorls all over the seer’s body. Hands become bulky, flipper-like appendages capable of grasping their strange staffs — formed of some blend of
expands to assault other creatures. The seer’s goal is to tap the energy sources and master the rites that will enable it to extend a bridge between the vulnerable sanity of the Material Plane and the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
dance, ball games are a common pastime, ranging from ancient variations played with the hip to more contemporary kicking games. Wrestling evolved into its own form of theatrical entertainment: La
splendid and anticipated is the Night of the Remembered, a celebration that evolved from ancient funerary rites and draws on the magic of the city. During this night, people can be visited by deceased
Equipment
faint vision of the creature being killed by that attack appears.
15–16
Discordant music fills the mind of all creatures within 30 feet, who are affected by Otto's Irresistible Dance
;Irresistible Dance (spell save DC 15).
17–18
A section of stone, water, air, or energy becomes an appropriate contaminated elemental that is hostile to all nearby creatures.
19–20
An
Equipment
, a faint vision of the creature being killed by that attack appears.
15–16
Discordant music fills the mind of all creatures within 30 feet, who are affected by Otto's Irresistible Dance
;Irresistible Dance (spell save DC 15).
17–18
A section of stone, water, air, or energy becomes an appropriate contaminated elemental that is hostile to all nearby creatures.
19–20
Equipment
, a faint vision of the creature being killed by that attack appears.
15–16
Discordant music fills the mind of all creatures within 30 feet, who are affected by Otto's Irresistible Dance
;Irresistible Dance (spell save DC 15).
17–18
A section of stone, water, air, or energy becomes an appropriate contaminated elemental that is hostile to all nearby creatures.
19–20
Equipment
faint vision of the creature being killed by that attack appears.
15–16
Discordant music fills the mind of all creatures within 30 feet, who are affected by Otto's Irresistible Dance
;Irresistible Dance (spell save DC 15).
17–18
A section of stone, water, air, or energy becomes an appropriate contaminated elemental that is hostile to all nearby creatures.
19–20
An
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
traditions, sacrifices to strange gods or placations to lurking monsters are everyday events. For outsiders, though, these practices reveal the subjectivity of normalcy and societal truth. Examples
include Midsommar and The Wicker Man. Folk Horror Principles Consider the following principles when creating Darklords and domains with folk horror themes: Isolation Begets Weirdness. Strange and
Equipment
faint vision of the creature being killed by that attack appears.
15–16
Discordant music fills the mind of all creatures within 30 feet, who are affected by Otto's Irresistible Dance
;Irresistible Dance (spell save DC 15).
17–18
A section of stone, water, air, or energy becomes an appropriate contaminated elemental that is hostile to all nearby creatures.
19–20
Equipment
Dance;Irresistible Dance (spell save DC 15).
17–18
A section of stone, water, air, or energy becomes an appropriate contaminated elemental that is hostile to all nearby creatures.
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teleported to the nearest unoccupied space in that direction equal to the result times five feet. (e.g. 35 feet for a result of 7 on 2d6).
53–54
Strange glowing fungus sprouts in a 20-foot
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
. With constant upheaval, no one has performed the rites necessary to placate what dwells in the deep.
4 Dozens of servants were hired to help host a grand gala thrown by Arijani. The event was
, and the shadow-bereft soon sicken and die. A local leader claims that the strange plague’s cure lies among the hidden isles known as the Ashram of Niranjan (detailed in “Other Domains of Dread
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
knowledge she gleans from unholy rites. If Teocín is captured, she says nothing to the characters, but they can learn of her goals, Orencio, and Pazuzu by looking through her notes—dozens of filthy
have crashed to the floor below if the characters tried to use it. This sizable cavern’s ceiling is thirty feet high, and strange symbols are scrawled across its walls. The skeletons of two huge
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
line the walls, as do mounted collections of insects and reptiles. Three pteranodons form the room’s centerpiece—all of them magically immobile in midair, positioned as if engaging in a strange dance
Captain Dapplewing’s time. On the northern wall, a plaque holds the heads of a black and a red dragon, each clearly constructed from metallic crafting supplies. This device is a strange magic curiosity
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
toadstool rose,
From chaos dark, her love She shows.
Wish! Yearn! Laugh!
The Lady will be wed!
Crave! Hunger! Dance!
Her joyous spores will spread!
Youth is gone, beauty rots,
Araumycos and
giant mistress. They croon a strange, soothing song as they weave the substance of the giant figure into delicate lichen veils and a long, mycelium train like a bridal gown.
The vision ends when the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
night for joy.
Strange bedfellows, these ones.
See, ’twas I all along!
I have a wicked thought, if you will hear it.
Here’s some gristle to chew upon.
Well, here is a serpent!
I feel like a
this wound I shall not recover. You have slain me.
This truly is the worst outcome.
Let us dance in the whistling wind!
Tomorrow, at sunrise, I shall no longer be here.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
for joy.
Strange bedfellows, these ones.
See, ’twas I all along!
I have a wicked thought, if you will hear it.
Here’s some gristle to chew upon.
Well, here is a serpent!
I feel like a
this wound I shall not recover. You have slain me.
This truly is the worst outcome.
Let us dance in the whistling wind!
Tomorrow, at sunrise, I shall no longer be here.
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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Tree to tap into cosmic vitality.
Zealot to rage in union with a god.
Bard. Perform spells that inspire and heal allies or beguile foes. Then join the College of...
Dance to harness agility in
to master infiltration and treasure hunting.
Sorcerer. Wield magic innate to your being, shaping the power to your will. Then channel...
Aberrant Sorcery to use strange psionic magic.
Clockwork
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
. Perform spells that inspire and heal allies or beguile foes. Then join the College of...
Dance to harness agility in battle.
Glamour to weave beguiling Feywild magic.
Lore to collect knowledge
your being, shaping the power to your will. Then channel...
Aberrant Sorcery to use strange psionic magic.
Clockwork Sorcery to harness cosmic forces of order.
Draconic Sorcery to breathe the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
. You can pay a fine of 10 gp to avoid jail time, or you can try to resist arrest. 11–20 You regain consciousness in a strange place with no memory of how you got there, and you have been robbed of 3d6
days equal to his or her current renown multiplied by 10, the character’s renown increases by 1. Performing Sacred Rites A pious character can spend time between adventures performing sacred rites in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
disappeared in the area. 11 Slay a dragon or some other challenging monster. 12 Discover the nature and origin of a strange location or phenomenon. 13 Pursue fleeing foes taking refuge in the dungeon. 14
of strange occurrences in a haunted house or other location. 11 Interfere with the operation of a business. 12 Rescue a character, monster, or object from a natural or unnatural disaster. 2. Identify
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
the phases of the moon (or moons)? Do strange and magical effects occur at the same time as these phenomena? Religious Observances Sprinkle holy days throughout your calendar. Each significant deity in
grand scale. Other holy days are important only to people particularly devoted to a single deity. Still others are observed by priests, who perform private rites and sacrifices inside their temples on