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Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
, dispel magic
4th level (3 slots): stone shape, guardian of faith
5th level (2 slots): contagion, insect plague
6th level (1 slot): harmMultiattack. The mummy can use its Dreadful Glare and makes one
following ways by the creature’s dark presence:
Food instantly molders and water instantly evaporates when brought into the lair. Other nonmagical drinks are spoiled — wine turning to
Monsters
Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
, built for a specific purpose. Some are fortresses, designed to keep wanderers from the material world away. Others are far more sinister, dark realms where evil dreams take root and become ghastly
be a cross between a lizard and insect. They emerge from the Ethereal Plane to fall upon their victims with their vicious claws, but their aim is no to kill. Instead, a xill injects its victim with a
Mummy Lord
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Monsters
Basic Rules (2014)
, dispel magic
4th level (3 slots): divination, guardian of faith
5th level (2 slots): contagion, insect plague
6th level (1 slot): harmMultiattack. The mummy can use its Dreadful Glare and makes one
.
Regional Effects
A mummy lord’s temple or tomb is warped in any of the following ways by the creature’s dark presence:
Food instantly molders and water instantly evaporates when brought
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
, rot, and rebirth. You have spent your life in the slow churn of that ecosystem, in the dark places of the city where the messy parts of existence are on display. There is little squeamishness among the
animate dead, plant growth
4th
giant insect, grasping vine
5th
cloudkill, insect plague
Golgari magic is often accompanied by a sickly green glow and a rotting
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
law-abiding citizens of Ravnica.
Personality Traits
d8
Personality Trait
1
I revel in mayhem, the more destructive the better.
2
When violence breaks out, I lose myself in
very amusing dark side.
2
A Boros captain really wants to “redeem” me.
3
I think a member of my troupe is a Dimir agent.
4
I once convinced a Golgari medusa to participate
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
undercut that success in some small way. For example, the character’s belt might snap, or a hellish insect might sting the character on the neck and leave a welt. If a character rolls a natural 1 on an attack roll made with a nonmagical weapon, you can decide that the weapon breaks.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
a Dark Gift or some other peril as a result. A character breaks a vow or suffers a curse (see chapter 4), gaining a Dark Gift as a result. A character touches a mysterious amber sarcophagus, and a force within entreats them to accept its influence in the form of a Dark Gift.
Dark Bargains Characters who don’t have a Dark Gift might gain one in the course of their adventures. At the DM’s discretion, sinister forces might contact a character and offer them a Dark Gift in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Voice in the Dark After dealing with or avoiding the troglodytes, the adventurers can continue on toward the purple worm nursery. However, within six miles of the nursery they come across an
unexpected presence in the darkness. The remnants of a rockfall have opened up a small vaulted cavern along the passageway. Apart from the occasional glowing insect scuttling along the walls, the cavern is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
16, 17, 18. Prisoner Pens Prisoners captured by the cult have been held in these dark, filthy chambers pending the day of the ritual and their eventual sacrifice. Two groups of guards patrol these
begun to move prisoners from area 17 up to the temple. Additionally, a dragonfang, 5 dragonclaws, and 2 guard drakes working nearby arrive within 2 rounds if a disturbance breaks out. (See appendix D for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
16, 17, 18. Prisoner Pens Prisoners captured by the cult have been held in these dark, filthy chambers pending the day of the ritual and their eventual sacrifice. Two groups of guards patrol these
to move prisoners from area 17 up to the temple. Additionally, a dragonfang, 5 dragonclaws, and 2 guard drakes working nearby arrive within 2 rounds if a disturbance breaks out. (See appendix D for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
terrain
9th
insect plague, wall of stone
Forest Druid Level Spells 3rd
barkskin, spider climb
5th
call lightning, plant growth
7th
divination, freedom of movement
9th
commune
with nature, tree stride
Grassland Druid Level Spells 3rd
invisibility, pass without trace
5th
daylight, haste
7th
divination, freedom of movement
9th
dream, insect plague
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
described in area 5a. If the party doesn’t release him, he breaks free himself after an hour. Dranzorg torments the party and rampages through the house, calling for Mara to face him. Once freed, he
by Mara might carry a piece of her spirit with them, potentially in the form of a Dark Gift (see chapter 1). The evil beneath the House of Lament adds to its prison of souls.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
of the banshee Agatha. From the ruins of Conyberry, an old trail leads northwest into Neverwinter Wood. Agatha’s lair is a few miles outside town. The forest grows dark and still as the trail winds
and remember what they’ve come here for, they won’t have to fight her. As such, no map is provided. If a fight breaks out, any forest map with a small structure will do. When the characters enter the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Shadow Shadows are undead that resemble dark exaggerations of humanoid shadows. Dark Disposition. From the darkness, the shadow reaches out to feed on living creatures’ vitality. They can consume any
darkness where the shadows hunger. As a shadow drains its victim’s strength and physical form, the victim’s shadow darkens and begins to move of its own volition. In death, the creature’s shadow breaks free
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Burning Hands, Command, Scorching Ray, Suggestion 5 Fireball, Stinking Cloud 7 Fire Shield, Wall of Fire 9 Geas, Insect Plague Level 6: Dark One’s Own Luck You can call on your fiendish patron to
the extent to which you strive against those aims. Level 3: Dark One’s Blessing When you reduce an enemy to 0 Hit Points, you gain Temporary Hit Points equal to your Charisma modifier plus your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
uncovered. Wherever a passage to Khyber appears, monsters and dark powers can rise up to threaten the world above. Cults of the Dragon Below often have ties to Khyber. Some serve aberrations or fight
dark iron 4 A small journal with leathery pages; any words you write in it slowly disappear 5 A four-sided die carved with strange markings 6 A cameo with the silhouette of an unknown species 7 A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
covered in dark, foul-smelling moss. A successful DC 12 Intelligence (Arcana or Nature) check identifies the bark as magically tainted. Dealing damage to Garalel harms her but also breaks off large
also use an action to throw water from the pool onto Garalel. Each time she is splashed so, it helps cleanse the dark magic binding her and increases the hit point total at which she regains her senses
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Drow Arachnomancer Drow spellcasters who seek to devote themselves wholly to the Spider Queen sometimes walk the dark path of the arachnomancer. By offering up body and soul to Lolth, they gain
hand, poison spray
1st–5th level (3 5th-level slots): conjure animals (spiders only), crown of madness, dimension door, dispel magic, fear, fly, giant insect, hold monster, insect plague
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
fiddles with or occasionally breaks Tiny, nonmagical objects.
6 There’s a slight but noticeable delay between my movements and those of my shadow.
Grasping Shadow. You learn the mage hand
Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma (your choice when you gain this Dark Gift). Shadow Strike. When you make a melee attack roll, you can increase your reach for that attack by 10 feet. Your shadow
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
for a specific purpose. Some are fortresses, designed to keep wanderers from the material world away. Others are far more sinister, dark realms where evil dreams take root and become ghastly realities
a cross between a lizard and insect. They emerge from the Ethereal Plane to fall upon their victims with their vicious claws, but their aim is no to kill. Instead, a xill injects its victim with a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
): bestow curse, dispel magic, magic circle
4th level (3 slots): banishment, divination, freedom of movement
5th level (2 slots): contagion, dispel evil and good, insect plague
6th level (1 slot
maximum is reduced by an amount equal to the necrotic damage it takes. This reduction lasts until the target finishes a long rest. The target dies if its hit point maximum is reduced to 0.
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Many creatures enjoy torture, but the dark elves have made it into an exquisite art.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
arm with a mind of its own 03–04 Wearable blanket with sleeves and a hood 05–06 Small, rectangular device that can record and play back audio of up to 1 minute in length 07–08 Glow-in-the-dark ink
tree 75–76 Otherworldly insect preserved in amber 77–78 Syringe filled with a viscous, yellow serum 79–80 Tiny brass orrery 81–82 Log of passenger names 83–84 Gas mask with a hole in it 85–86 Small
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
Sire of Insanity Rakdos nightclubs, where visitors can indulge any dark desire and revel in sadistic spectacle, are the favored haunts of the demons known as sires of insanity. Lurking in an
— true to its name — the sire of insanity breaks the new cultist’s mind. A sire of insanity is a bloated demon resembling a bipedal lizard. It stands some thirty feet tall and weighs many thousands of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
“Arveiaturace”, for more information). The dragon is out hunting when the characters first arrive at the Dark Duchess, but she checks on the ship regularly to make sure her hoard is undisturbed. At the end of
each hour the characters spend in the Dark Duchess, there is a 20 percent chance that Arveiaturace returns to the ship. Because she can see only out to a range of 60 feet, the dragon must get close to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
have no idea what’s happening on the barge, or vice versa, and the River Styx is so dark that visibility in the water is reduced to 10 feet. Any character left on the barge can take control of the
one of its pincers to try to snip through the bathysphere’s rusty chain, doing so with a successful DC 20 Strength check. If the chain breaks, the bathysphere falls to the bottom of the River Styx
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
window. Choose the one you think is creepier: Strahd smashes the cake and breaks the window to make the characters think something terrible has escaped and is now stalking them. Strahd’s hate assumes
, weighs close to 300 pounds, and is fashioned of dark, stained wood carved with images of harts and roses. Its taut strings are made of gut. A character who plays the harp and succeeds on a DC 15
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
rocky shore of the waters of a broad cavern lake, with high fences of woven netting to the north and south of the village boundaries.
Light. Sloobludop’s cavern is almost entirely dark except for a
d6. On a roll of 1, a bridge flips or breaks to drop characters to the platform below, or a platform tilts to tip the characters into the water. These areas can be navigated safely by treating them as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
16. Werebat Caves These dark, rough-hewn caves have rubble-strewn floors and 30-foot-high ceilings. In total, nineteen goblin werebats (see appendix A) dwell here. If combat breaks out anywhere in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Demon Lords The chaotic power of the Abyss rewards demons of particular ruthlessness and ingenuity with a dark blessing, transforming them into unique fiends whose power can rival the gods. These
into the Abyss for betraying elvenkind. Sages claim that the Dark Prince Graz’zt originated on some other plane before stealing his abyssal title from another long-forgotten demon lord. Power and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
dark lord of Nessus, strives to subjugate the cosmos to satisfy his thirst for power. To do so, he must continually expand his infernal armies, sending his servants to the mortal realm to corrupt the
ever sample true power, which they crave like the sweetest ambrosia. Dark Dealers and Soul Mongers. Devils are confined to the Lower Planes, but they can travel beyond those planes by way of portals
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
without alerting them overhear them talking (in Gith) about the mind flayer prisoners in area 29c. Aruut and Yangol are looking forward to the prisoners’ executions. If a fight breaks out here, the
dark until the door closes. This is true regardless of which of a cell’s two doors is opened. When Aruut and Yangol see a crystal go dark, they enter the cell to make sure nothing is amiss. Treasure. Each githyanki gish carries a Stardock rod (see “Stardock Rods”).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
her sisters are kindred souls, like the members of a dark sorority or sisterhood. Even though hags don’t like each other, they share knowledge and trade secrets, helping them to keep abreast of worldly
such a connection, and a young hag born of a grandmother begins her existence already benefiting from a greater measure of respect and status. Want to know a dark secret? Ask a hag. The trick lies in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
devils, using the Creed Resolute to bind all Elturel to his dark deal.
“I wish to prove my theory, and I believe the evidence is locked inside the puzzle box.”
Sylvira is an expert on magic puzzle
boxes, having made and sold a few herself. If the characters give her the infernal puzzle box, she examines it, asks Jezebel to fetch her a flask of dark liquid, and pours a small amount into the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Mummy Lord In the tombs of the ancients, tyrannical monarchs and the high priests of dark gods lie in dreamless rest, waiting for the time when they might reclaim their thrones and reforge their
magic that once controlled a terrified populace, and the dark gods reward dead priest-kings’ prayers by imparting divine spells. Heart of the Mummy Lord. As part of the ritual that creates a mummy lord
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Abyss, demons search for portals to the other planes. They crave the chance to slip free of their native realm and spread their dark influence across the multiverse, undoing the works of the gods
and a day. Demonic Cults. Despite the dark risks involved in dealing with fiends, the mortal realm is filled with creatures that covet demonic power. Demon lords manipulate these mortal servants into






