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);{"diceNotation":"2d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Entropic Blade", "rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage. A creature killed by this attack has its body and everything it is wearing or carrying
damage plus 13 (2d12);{"diceNotation":"2d12", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Entropic Javelin", "rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage. A creature killed by this attack has its body and
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
malevolent bent and despises the living.
With or without corpses nested in its body, a corpse flower exudes a stench of decay that can overwhelm the senses of nearby creatures, causing them to become
of the earth and begins scavenging Humanoid corpses from battlefields and graveyards. Using its fibrous tentacles, it stuffs the remains into its body to sustain and repair itself. The plant has a
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
tail is a club that can rattle body and soul if it strikes true, leaving a victim unable to act while the catoblepas feasts on its body.
Blighted Territory
A catoblepas’s nature as a creature of
disease and decay brings out similar characteristics in the creature’s swampy habitat. Such a wetland becomes gloomy, tangled, and more fetid than it was before. Beneficial qualities of the
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
must succeed on a DC 18 Constitution saving throw or have the incapacitated condition until the start of its next turn, as the insects ravage its body.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the champion
Undead in the Grim Harrow, considering himself better than all of them and unjustly condemned to the Gardens of Decay for an act of altruism.
Though the weakest of the Harrow’s three leaders
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Queen of Fungi, Lady of Rot and Decay, Zuggtmoy is an alien creature whose only desire is to infect the living with spores, transforming them into her mindless servants and, eventually, into
, but it quickly consumes them, body and soul.Zuggtmoy’s Lair
Zuggtmoy’s principal lair is her palace on Shedaklah. It consists of two dozen immense mushrooms of pale yellow and rancid
Zuggtmoy
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Out of the Abyss
every 24 hours, ending the infection on a success. On a failure, the infected creature’s body is slowly taken over by fungal growth, and after three such failed saves, the creature dies and is
attack against a target that she designates.The Demon Queen of Fungi, Lady of Rot and Decay, Zuggtmoy is an alien creature whose only desire is to infect the living with spores, transforming them into her
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
the dragon’s mood.
Embodiment of Decay
While generally not malicious, topaz dragons embody decay. They view destruction as a natural means of clearing the way for new creation and growth
an action, the dragon can cast the clairvoyance spell, requiring no spell components and targeting any body of water in that region.
If the dragon dies, the population of giant squid in the region
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
, dancing and shifting with the dragon’s mood.
Embodiment of Decay
While generally not malicious, topaz dragons embody decay. They view destruction as a natural means of clearing the way for new
’s psionic presence. As an action, the dragon can cast the clairvoyance spell, requiring no spell components and targeting any body of water in that region.
If the dragon dies, the population of
Death Tyrant
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Monster Manual (2014)
place in the initiative order and animates at the start of its next turn, provided that its body hasn’t been completely destroyed.Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5
creature to 0 hit points, its body becomes a pile of fine gray dust.
If the target is a Large or smaller nonmagical object or creation of magical force, it is disintegrated without a saving throw. If
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
specific victims. In rare cases, a crawling claw wreaks mayhem while the rest of its body still lives, with the original creature potentially unaware of its severed hand’s crimes.
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possible for any creature, any living being, to be inherently evil? Such an assertion may itself facilitate the committing of evil acts. By defining a person as evil, we give them free rein to behave as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Morte’s Planar Parade
Doomguard Rot Blade Rot blades are the entropic levers through which the Doomguard quickens the natural decay of the multiverse. These members wield weapons immersed in necrotic energy, which can
hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 9 (1d10 + 4) slashing damage plus 7 (2d6) necrotic damage. A creature killed by this attack has its body and everything it is wearing or carrying, except for magic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
for 24 hours, and any creature that is immune to disease succeeds on the save automatically. After a failed save, a creature experiences the first symptoms—body aches, nausea, slurred speech, and
sprout from its head, body, and limbs. It feels an overriding urge to be around groups of uninfected creatures so that it can spread the contagion. This is the time when infected humanoids begin speaking
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Zuggtmoy The Demon Queen of Fungi, Lady of Rot and Decay, Zuggtmoy is an alien creature whose only desire is to infect the living with spores, transforming them into her mindless servants and
point where flesh and fungus become one. Such cultists are fungal extensions of the Demon Queen’s will. Their devotion might begin with the seemingly harmless promises offered by exotic spores and mushrooms, but quickly consumes them, body and soul.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
touching my stuff, though.
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Druids of the Circle of Spores find beauty in decay. They see within mold and other fungi the ability to transform lifeless material into abundant, albeit somewhat
life shift into a new form. Druids of this circle have a complex relationship with the undead. They see nothing inherently wrong with undeath, which they consider to be a companion to life and death
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
into its body and feeds on carrion to repair itself. The plant has a malevolent bent and despises the living. Horrible Odor. With or without humanoid corpses nested in its body, a corpse flower exudes
a stench of decay that can overwhelm the senses of nearby creatures, causing them to become nauseated. The stench, which serves as a defense mechanism, fades 2d4 days after the corpse flower dies
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Hag Lairs No matter what form it takes, a hag’s home is a manifestation of her basic nature. It is ugly, eerie, or unnerving in some way, often incorporating some aspect of decay, such as a dead tree
items, caged creatures, oddities, objects that hint of a magical purpose, preserved specimens, scraps of lore, and curiosities that have a supernatural origin but aren’t inherently magical. For a
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
remains into its body to sustain and repair itself. The plant has a malevolent bent and despises the living. With or without corpses nested in its body, a corpse flower exudes a stench of decay that
corpse is wearing or carrying.
Bonus Actions
Digest. The corpse flower digests one corpse in its body and instantly regains 11 (2d10) hit points. Nothing of the digested corpse remains. Any
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
a victim unable to act while the catoblepas feasts on its body. Blighted Territory A catoblepas’s nature as a creature of disease and decay brings out similar characteristics in the creature’s swampy
creature’s serpentine neck has trouble lifting its head, but one glare from its bloodshot eyes can rot flesh. At the end of its tail is a club that can rattle body and soul if it strikes true, leaving
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
, and the nature of domains and Darklords all claim part of the answer, but ultimately they reflect aspects of the same cause: nightmare logic. Ravenloft is inherently a vast nightmare. Most of those
genre in all its myriad forms is explored—from moody gothic horror and ghost stories to visceral body horror and mind-bending cosmic horror. Chapter 2 explores how to choose the horror themes that are right for your game, but read on at your discretion.
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
take years, decades, or centuries to come to fruition. A lich is a gaunt and skeletal humanoid with withered flesh stretched tight across its bones. Its eyes succumbed to decay long ago, but points of
phylactery, where it forever remains. Soul Sacrifices. A lich must periodically feed souls to its phylactery to sustain the magic preserving its body and consciousness. It does this using the imprisonment
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
luminous, wispy forms that vaguely recall their mortal features. A banshee’s face is wreathed in a wild tangle of hair, its body clad in wispy rags that flutter and stream around it. Divine Wrath
by the banshee’s curse experience no gladness, feeling only distress in the presence of the living. As the curse takes its toll, their minds and bodies decay, until death completes their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
villages, concealed by the lamia’s magic as they attack. A lamia has a beautiful humanoid upper body that merges into a powerful four-legged leonine form. Its vicious black claws speak to its
their lairs, masking decay with illusion. A lair’s breathtaking gardens, finely decorated apartments, and numerous thralls seem at odds with its remoteness and state of ruin.
Using its intoxicating
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Zuggtmoy The Demon Queen of Fungi, Lady of Rot and Decay, Zuggtmoy is an alien creature whose only desire is to infect the living with spores, transforming them into her mindless servants and
mushrooms, but quickly consumes them, body and soul. Sharing a layer of the Abyss with Juiblex, plus their mutual insatiable hunger, has made the two demon lords mortal enemies, each devoted to destroying
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
windows and the presence of holy symbols in every room. The burgomaster is in a side drawing room on the floor—lying in a simple wooden coffin surrounded by wilting flowers and a faint odor of decay
brave enough to help Ismark take Kolyan Indirovich to the cemetery for proper burial. Ireena asks the characters if they would be so kind as to help Ismark deliver her father’s body safely to Donavich
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
. Aleron resents his fellow Undead in the Grim Harrow, considering himself better than all of them and unjustly condemned to the Gardens of Decay for an act of altruism. Though the weakest of the
Constitution saving throw or have the incapacitated condition until the start of its next turn, as the insects ravage its body.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the champion fails a saving throw, it can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
. Next to this table is a wooden barrel that holds humanoid body parts in various stages of decay.
Hanging Corpses. Four mostly intact human corpses are hanging from hooks mounted to the south wall
Karstis. The doll on the floor represents Yarek, the student recently killed by the bone devil in area 48. Each doll incorporates bits of the student’s hair or some other sample from its body (foul
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
falls away, opening into a void filled with floating chunks of insectile parts. Hundreds of feet away, a similar opening gapes in the other half of the massive body. That segment ends at a wide, cave-like
mouth.
Part of the Drought Elder’s body has been shattered, reduced to a mass of broken chitin islands floating between the two halves of its body. Shattered Path. Five-foot-square chunks of chitin
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
glare from its bloodshot eyes can rot flesh. At the end of its tail is a club that can rattle body and soul if it strikes true, leaving a victim unable to act. If the target of its attacks dies, the
catoblepas feasts on the fresh remains. Blighted Territory. A catoblepas’s nature as a creature of disease and decay brings out similar characteristics in the creature’s swampy habitat. Such a wetland
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
memories, their personalities, and especially their ambition. They also retain the grace and stature of living elves, but their bodies are in a constant state of slow decay. Various forms of fungus grow in
and over the rotting flesh to hold the body together. Undead Nature. The lich doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep. STORREV
Storrev is a lich and a leader of the Erstwhile. She is adept at
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
… she’s here … the Lady of Decay … Zuggtmoy …”
The drow is Xinaya, a young acolyte of Lolth. She was leading a routine scouting patrol out of Velkynvelve before Ilvara contacted her with a sending
wedding rehearsal? Friends of the bride or her intended? No matter! Let the love of the Great Seeder embrace you as you become one with her chosen, the Great Body!”
As the garden comes alive with screams
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
rest atop tables, along with several loose scraps of parchment with notes that include terms such as “rate of decay” and “accumulation of charge.” Log Entry. A thorough search of the room yields a
. Notably absent is the half-elf’s skull. (The bones and clothing belonged to Trenzia. Halaster fed her body to the ghasts.) 7e. Copper Vein Copper Vein. An exposed bit of stonework has a thick vein of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
, drink, sleep, or breathe. The character’s hit point maximum is reduced by 1d4 at dawn each day, representing the physical decay of the body. No spell or effect can halt or counteract this decay. If the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
, provided that its body hasn’t been completely destroyed.
Actions
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 14 (4d6) piercing damage.
Eye Rays. The death tyrant shoots three of
damage. If this damage reduces the creature to 0 hit points, its body becomes a pile of fine gray dust.
If the target is a Large or smaller nonmagical object or creation of magical force, it is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
Celebrate Destruction and Decay Factol: Pentar Headquarters: Armory Aligned Plane: Elemental Chaos Members: Entropists, soldiers, weaponsmiths Epithet: Sinkers The Doomguard understands the purpose of
everything is to crumble. Existence inevitably falls into ruin—nothing lasts forever, not even the gods. Sinkers don’t stand in the way of the multiverse’s destruction. They see decay and entropy as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
encounter, characters seeking a missing body must find their quarry among the other dead, whether for themselves, another faction, or an interested party in Sigil. During the characters’ search, the
corpses throughout this area. As an action, a character can inspect a corpse within 10 feet of them, identifying the body with a successful DC 13 Wisdom (Medicine) check. It’s up to you where in the