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Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Petrified Death. A tomb tapper reduced to 0 hit points turns into a lifeless stone statue. Anything it's wearing or carrying is not transformed.
Sense Magic. The tomb tapper senses magic within 30
feet of it and can use an action to pinpoint the location of any creature, object, or area in that range that bears magic. This sense penetrates barriers but is blocked by a thin sheet of lead.
Tunneler
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
pursue arcane magic are exiled as deviants, and for them no everlasting communion with an elder brain is possible. The road to lichdom offers an alternative way to escape the permanency of death, but
that path is long and fraught with barriers. Alhoons are mind flayers who have used a shortcut to attain a lichlike state.
Elder brains forbid mind flayers from pursuing magic power aside from psionics
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Astral Projection Traveling through the Astral Plane by means of the astral projection spell involves projecting one’s consciousness there, usually in search of a gateway to an Outer Plane to visit
a dream. A character’s death — either in the Astral Plane or on the destination plane — causes no actual harm. Only the severing of a character’s silver cord while on the Astral Plane (or the death
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
unity of two polar principles: life and death, order and chaos, reason and emotion, and so on. The five Founder Dragons are thought to embody the coexistence of these principles, while the ten deans of
the colleges stand for the individual principles distinguished from their opposites. A student’s course of learning at Strixhaven involves exploring the tension between these opposing principles, which
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
History Because elements of a ghost’s mortal life define and foreshadow the course of their death and undeath, a common aspect of a ghost-story adventure involves piecing together the history of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
the underpinnings of existence. Correcting any imbalance in the cycle of life and death likely involves the assistance of other gods. If Athreos ever truly abandons his duties, it might be necessary
Athreos as Campaign Villain Athreos sees his responsibilities as necessary, but doesn’t cherish them. Were there a more efficient way to maintain the cycle of life and death, or to create some sort
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
mortality, whether embodied in undead monsters or expressed through the death of loved ones. A campaign revolving around an insidious evil, whether dark gods, monstrous races such as the yuan-ti, or
ghost accept death and move on, or one of the adventurers might even become a ghost! Variations on a Theme Mixing things up once in a while allows your players to enjoy a variety of adventures. Even a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Death of a Dragon When I go, I dream of passing my spirit into that with which I have had the most profound experiences. The first thing that comes to mind is a caramel treacle from the Foxy Duck
Tavern. Yum!
-Fizban
Dragons are intimately bound up with the fabric of magic that undergirds the Material Plane. As a result, the death of any dragon is an event of tremendous significance—and those
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
them to the Shadowfell, where they are resurrected to serve her yet again. Thus, they consider death to be a temporary condition, and many shadar-kai care little for the physical shell they currently
lead them to where the barriers are weakest so they can then slip across planes to their destination. Once at their destination, the shadar-kai watch and wait, looking for the tragedies their queen
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
as the rite of reclamation involves claiming some of the dust of Valin’s body after she has been reduced to 0 hit points. The ritual describes a process for mixing the dust with wax to create a magic
within 1 hour of its death at the same time Valin’s organ is destroyed, the creature returns to life immediately as if targeted by a resurrection spell. A character who removes one of Valin’s organs
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
fundamental ways, controlling magic, the nature of life and death, and the means of escaping from their nightmare realms. Mysterious Magic In some domains, magic is an everyday part of life, while in
every creature claimed by the Mists dwells outside the natural order of the multiverse. Even death doesn’t afford an escape from the Dark Powers, which hoard every soul that falls into their clutches
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
hoard damaging secrets and powerful magic. Acquiring these coveted items always involves duplicity and theft, and sometimes murder. To Phenax, the ends justify the means. Upsetting the order of things
Returned. If he succeeds, the balance of life and death will be shattered.
3 Phenax vanishes. For a time, it’s believe the god has been killed or grew bored and left Theros. In fact, though, Phenax
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Minions and Pets Beholders often make use of minions. Establishing control over these creatures usually involves the use of its eye rays, but eventually the minions come to understand that the
war chiefs 57–59 6d6 quaggoths 60–65 10d10 + 50 troglodytes 66–00 Roll twice, ignoring results above 65 * For death tyrant lairs, use this table, but replace approximately half of its humanoid minions
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
and Undercommon but doesn’t speak, telepathy 60 ft.
Challenge 10 (5,900 XP)
Petrified Death. A tomb tapper reduced to 0 hit points turns into a lifeless stone statue. Anything it’s wearing or
magic. This sense penetrates barriers but is blocked by a thin sheet of lead.
Tunneler. The tomb tapper can burrow through solid rock at half its burrowing speed and leaves a 10-foot-wide, 20-foot-tall
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
; they have no rules of their own, although some rules refer to the schools.
Abjuration spells are protective in nature, though some of them have aggressive uses. They create magical barriers, negate
and death. Such spells can grant an extra reserve of life force, drain the life energy from another creature, create the undead, or even bring the dead back to life.
Creating the undead through the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
their lairs inside the hulls of wrecked or abandoned ships. Best of Both Worlds Many hags settle in places where the barriers between the mortal world and the Feywild are thin, making it easy for
them to interact and bargain with creatures of both realms. Other popular choices are a place where the ambient energy augments certain kinds of magic, a site related to death such as a burial ground
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
making an attack, but you can’t make such an attack without first casting the spell that delivers it. In other words, just because something involves an attack doesn’t mean the Attack action is being
melee spell attack count as a melee attack for Touch of Death? A melee spell attack is, indeed, a melee attack and can qualify for the Death cleric’s Touch of Death feature.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
are likely to hear about it. If the victim was friendly with other hags, those responsible for her death might find themselves the target of retaliation. If the victim died while owing favors to
members intend to keep the group from dissolving, they immediately attempt to recruit a replacement. This process involves each prospective member committing cruel acts with the aim of impressing the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
adventure involves social interaction and exploration, rather than combat, your work will probably be easier if you use milestone awards. Appropriate milestone awards include the following: Finding
Argynvostholt (chapter 7), thwarting the druids’ ritual atop Yester Hill (chapter 14), or forging an alliance with Ezmerelda d’Avenir (appendix D). Appendix B, “Death House,” uses milestone awards by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
stench of death that permeates the dungeon is strongest here. As the characters approach this 50-foot-high cave, they hear minotaurs chanting and stomping. This area contains the following: Minotaurs
. The fog swirls through this cavern, agitated by the dancing of eleven chanting minotaurs.
Offal Pile. Low stone barriers constrain a massive pile of rotting, dismembered body parts.
Altar. Behind
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
, although some rules refer to the schools.
Abjuration spells are protective in nature, though some of them have aggressive uses. They create magical barriers, negate harmful effects, harm
images that any creature can see, but the most insidious illusions plant an image directly in the mind of a creature.
Necromancy spells manipulate the energies of life and death. Such spells can grant
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
alternative way to escape the permanency of death, but that path is long and fraught with barriers. Alhoons are mind flayers who have used a shortcut to attain a lich-like state. Elder brains forbid mind
—deviant minds are never accepted as part of the collective. For them, death means oblivion. Lichdom offers salvation and the prospect of being able to pursue knowledge indefinitely. Yet learning the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
wyrmling to learn from the wyrmling’s strategies.
3 Two sapphire dragon wyrmlings vie for the same territory. Their primary battle tactic involves luring grells into each other’s lairs.
4 A
gem dragons to discuss how they might reunite and restore Sardior, the Ruby Dragon.
2 A horde of revenants led by a death knight has one goal—destroying the ancient sapphire dragon who defeated
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
person was alive or were caused by scavengers after death.
The statue is, in fact, a stone golem created to defend the bridge against ancient invaders. It attacks anyone who desecrates it (including
trying to remove its eye gems, which are purely decorative and worthless), who damages the bridge, or who passes the shrine without making the proper obeisance to Ubtao. The required homage involves
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Soulmonger’s death curse. She covers her rotting flesh with scarves and bandage wrappings, and she is predisposed to help any adventurers actively trying to end the death curse. Jobal Deals in guides
that’s vaguely menacing. She worships the fire god Kossuth (pronounced kaw-SOOTH) and likes torturing others, particularly if it involves fire and hot coals. Kwayothé has two consorts — a succubus
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
initiation ritual. The foundation myth of a mystery cult is usually simple and often involves a god’s death and rising, or a journey to the underworld and a return. Mystery cults often revere sun and
footsteps in order to share the god’s ultimate fate. In the case of dying and rising gods, the symbolic death of the initiate represents the idea of death to the old life and rebirth into a transformed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
The Assault Because of the characters’ familiarity with the sahuagin fortress and their obvious skill at staying alive, the Saltmarsh council involves them in the their battle plans. The Plan The
table to determine what sahuagin forces linger there. The sahuagin throughout the fortress fight to the death, though the last surviving sahuagin of every group will attempt to escape to raise the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
1d6 for a predatory monster, 1d6 + 3 for ordinary travelers, or 1d6 + 6 for kindhearted individuals. Monster Personality If an encounter involves a significant individual, use the guidance in the
interesting if rivalries, hatreds, or attachments exist among the monsters in the group. The death of a much-revered leader might throw its followers into a frenzy. On the other hand, a monster might flee
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Long Rest. BILLY CHRISTIAN Assassin Practice the Grim Art of Death An Assassin’s training focuses on using stealth, poison, and disguise to eliminate foes with deadly efficiency. While some Rogues who
damage ignores Resistance to Poison damage. Level 17: Death Strike When you hit with your Sneak Attack on the first round of a combat, the target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw (DC 8
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
involves battle lines, waving banners, trumpets, and supply trains, but this war of ambush and creeping through the jungle only mystifies and frustrates him. He spends most of his time in his command
, they’ll be marked for death by the Order of the Gauntlet wherever they go in Chult (and potentially elsewhere in the Realms). If characters escorted Undril Silvertusk to the camp and gained her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Thieves’ Guild. A disparate convocation of thieves, spies, smugglers, and other scoundrels controls criminal activity in a region of a city. 2 Assassin Society. The network’s livelihood is death
Acolyte, Charlatan, Guild Artisan, Noble, Soldier Mastermind Acolyte, Criminal, Folk Hero, Noble, Sage Mole Any Criminal Syndicate Quests Your work as a syndicate member involves more than simple street
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
. Level 18: Survivor You attain the pinnacle of resilience in battle, giving you these benefits. Defy Death. You have Advantage on Death Saving Throws. Moreover, when you roll 18–20 on a Death Saving
Power Psi Warriors awaken the power of their minds to augment their physical might. They harness this psionic power to infuse their weapon strikes, lash out with telekinetic energy, and create barriers of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
endless loop. The modrons are indifferent to other creatures and ignore creatures they trample or creatures that try to communicate. If faced with barriers, the modrons create simple structures (like
the rocks. The beholders fight to the death while arguing between themselves whether to devour or to petrify the interlopers. Pit. The pit is bottomless. Any creature that falls into it plummets for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
discovered hiding in area G17. If the characters attack either, both retaliate in kind. The xorn flees once it has fewer than 20 hit points, but Keltar fights to the death. Roleplaying Keltar. Keltar
offerings that he ignores the appearance of passersby and the usual pass phrase. When he notices the characters, he asks, “Do you bring an offering?” Making an offering involves throwing precious metals or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
magic comes from the gift of a dragon. Perhaps an ancient dragon facing death bequeathed some of its magical power to you or your ancestor. You might have absorbed magic from a site infused with
table instead of rolling on that table. You can choose any effect in the table except for the final row, and if the chosen effect involves a roll, you must make it. Once you use this feature, you can’t