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Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
bipedal entity whose body is encased in an obsidian exoskeleton. It has no facial features aside from two narrow, vertical slits that resemble eyes, and its countenance betrays no hint of pain or emotion
. Underneath its armored exterior, a zodar’s body is composed of tightly knit muscle fibers that make it incredibly strong and heavy. A zodar weighs 1,500 pounds.
No one knows how many zodars
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
(310,000 XP total) for defeating the aspect of Tiamat after her Chromatic Wrath activates.
Legendary Resistance (5/Day). If the aspect fails a saving throw, she can choose to succeed instead.Multiattack
the dragon queen on a world.
The aspect of Tiamat has the body of a titanic dragon with five heads, each the shape and hue of a different chromatic dragon. Each head might speak separately and have
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
addition, Arasta’s children immediately swarm over her body to protect her, granting her 100 temporary hit points.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Arasta fails a saving throw, she can choose to
encounter is equivalent to taking on two challenge rating 21 creatures in one encounter. Award a party 66,000 XP for defeating Arasta after she uses Armor of Spiders.Arasta’s Lair
Arasta lives
Magic Items
Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
possessed by the armor. While possessed, the user is incapacitated and loses control of its body but retains its awareness. The armor uses the possessed user’s statistics (as adjusted by the armor
), but doesn’t gain access to the user’s knowledge, features, or proficiencies.
Freeing a creature trapped inside the armor first requires defeating the armor’s automatic defenses
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
(Perception) checks. However, they draw carrion to their roots, so characters might smell a dead body nearby. Because assassin vines can move, an encounter in the evening or at night might involve the vines creeping into the characters’ camp and strangling them as they sleep.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Defeating Skabatha In dire circumstances, Skabatha flees Loomlurch on her flying rocking horse mount (see area L6) and retreats to Motherhorn, the lair of her youngest sister, Endelyn (see chapter 4
: “Endelyn fears eclipses, not just real ones but symbolic ones as well. If you want to kill her, best do it during an eclipse, or her body will re-form.”
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
found their place in the world and have begun to involve themselves in the dangers that surround them. Dedicated spellcasters learn 3rd-level spells at the start of this tier. Suddenly characters can fly
they confront brutal giants, ferocious hydras, fearless golems, evil yuan-ti, scheming devils, bloodthirsty demons, crafty mind flayers, and drow assassins. They might have a chance of defeating a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Survivors Terror doesn’t come just for the brave and prepared—often quite the opposite. Some of the most harrowing horror stories involve the least likely heroes, individuals who find their simple
-power adventures, immersive retellings of tragic events, out-of-body experiences, or other unique tales, consider providing players with temporary, stand-in characters called survivors. This section
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Hall of Rainbows. After defeating the worm, they discover clues that lead to the ruined city of Azumar. They must navigate the ruins and find the vault where the golem’s master, Prince Hamukai, now
rests. In the final showdown, the party must defeat a dracolich named Zikzokrishka and then command the golem to open the vault and complete its mission—to deliver the prince’s body to Elysium.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
for defeating the aboleth and ask the characters to return the tomes to their rightful owners, the people of Djaynai. They don’t elaborate on what group that might mean and know nothing of Janya. If
Blackmist Way and Blackthrone Arts that ease the distinction between body and soul, this charm allows you to cast the gaseous form spell as an action, with no spell components required. Once used three times, the charm goes away.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Ephara’s Quests table suggests a few adventures the god’s champions might involve themselves in. Ephara’s Quests d6 Adventure Goal
1 Oust the corrupt leader of a town or a city.
2 Reclaim a
improvements to a city or defeating a major threat. Foes in an Ephara campaign could be deadly monsters, corrupt politicians, or even impending natural disasters. The reappearance of figures from a city’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
Kwalish’s Plans Kwalish has long yearned to help the members of his former expedition trapped as brains in jars in the Monastery of the Distressed Body. Knowing that they still survive, he might
to return the vitrified statues of the city to flesh. (If the characters haven’t destroyed the undead medusa yet, such means might involve a side quest where they bring Kwalish her severed head
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
, or other body parts. A few spells also involve melee attacks. Reach A creature has a 5-foot reach and can thus attack targets within 5 feet when making a melee attack. Certain creatures have melee
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
, or other body parts. A few spells also involve melee attacks. Reach A creature has a 5-foot reach and can thus attack targets within 5 feet when making a melee attack. Certain creatures have melee
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
Cavern Encounters The caverns and tunnels of the Barrier Peaks are a treacherous maze that has claimed more than one adventurer. This challenging route might involve cavern encounters that can help
flesh out the characters’ journey to the Monastery of the Distressed Body. Cavern Encounters d10 Encounter 1 A xorn and an umber hulk hunt as a team, with the umber hulk working to herd characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
. The basic services provided by Jorasco involve use of the Medicine skill and herbal remedies. The next tier of treatment is lesser restoration, offering immediate recovery from disease for those
after death. Opening a channel to Dolurrh can potentially result in a malevolent spirit taking possession of the body; in a general release of hostile ghosts; or even a marut inevitable manifesting and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
the cavern. It can’t pursue creatures beyond the cavern, because it’s too big to fit through the exit. The characters earn 11,500 XP for disabling or defeating it. Shockerstomper is a Gargantuan
construct with immunity to poison and psychic damage, as well as the blinded, deafened, charmed, frightened, paralyzed, and poisoned conditions. It has a walking speed of 40 feet. Its main body (saucer and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
33. Ghohlbrorn’s Grave The Dwarvish word for bulette is “ghohlbrorn,” and one of King Melair’s greatest battles was fought against such a creature. After defeating the bulette, the king had its body
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Quests table suggests a few adventures the god’s champions might involve themselves in. Kruphix’s Quests d6 Adventure Goal
1 Seize a powerful magic item from those who would misuse it, study
a dangerous secret, such as the location of a fountain of immortality, by any means necessary.
4 Bring proof of a powerful conspiracy to the leaders of a human polis while evading or defeating
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
consequential, and not just a waste of time. One of four basic approaches can help you do that: A real monster inhabits a character’s dreams and poses a real threat to that character’s mind or body. The
back to the Material Plane when the characters awaken. 3 Rescue a character who is suffering from debilitating recurring nightmares by defeating the quori inhabiting the character’s mind. 4 Stop the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
there. These hauntings are disturbing, and the fifth and sixth options on the table below involve body horror. Check your players’ comfort level before including these hauntings in your game; you can
requires quelling all the crypt hauntings and defeating the ghosts. When this happens, a sigh like grinding stone echoes through the crypt, and each room momentarily flickers with light. No more crypt
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
rites among the Felhide minotaurs involve devouring those who fell in battle, to remove their shame from memory and fuel the survivors’ revenge. Should another scavenger reach a fallen Felhide before the
rest of the band can eat the dead minotaur’s remains, the minotaurs mobilize to track down as much of their dead comrade’s body as possible. Ragegore Minotaurs Ragegore minotaurs are the most
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
by a remove curse spell cast by an 18th-level spellcaster, by defeating Kwalish and reversing the process using his machines, or by completing a separate task for the inventor. Just a Bit of Trouble
assume that negotiations are automatically successful and only one character needs to offer up a piece of their soul. Kwalish Who? Kwalish is missing, his physical body having been caught up within
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
dies, one or more eggs form in the dragon’s decomposing body. These eggs might grow like fungus as the body rots away, they could appear among the ashes after the body is consumed by fire, or they might
) are transformed into dragon eggs when they die, when they experience profound enlightenment, or when they undergo a ritual that might involve bathing in dragon blood or being devoured by a dragon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
on an enormous scale. They often seem to be walking across the dome of the sky, with their feet disappearing just below the horizon. Any part of a god’s body that isn’t directly lit takes on the
weapon like the artifacts detailed in chapter 5. But defeating the god in that form would merely weaken the deity, allowing other members of the pantheon to capture, bind, or punish them.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
. Trained in supernatural techniques to overcome such monsters, slayers are experts at unearthing and defeating mighty, mystical foes. Monster Slayer Features Ranger Level Feature 3rd Monster
7th level, you gain extra resilience against your prey’s assaults on your mind and body. Whenever the target of your Slayer’s Prey forces you to make a saving throw and whenever you make an ability
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
anywhere and anytime she can’t. The Nylea’s Quests table suggests a few adventures the god’s champions might involve themselves in. Nylea’s Quests d6 Adventure Goal
1 Free a hydra that has
Find and punish an unknown perpetrator who killed a unicorn, cut off its horn, and left its body to rot, and retrieve the horn.
5 Hunt a dangerous creature for a sacred feast.
6 Defeat a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
from a character’s backstory. As characters continue to adventure, they’ll find different goals to pursue, such as finding a lost relic, honoring an ancestor, avenging a fallen mentor, or defeating a
characters buy a tavern using the treasure they’ve amassed, you can adjust the campaign so that the tavern has a role in future adventures. One adventure might involve a competitor trying to put the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
, Vlaakith led them to safety on the Astral Plane inside the floating corpse of a six-armed deity. This being’s body long ago calcified into a great slab of rock, its lower half smashed by some ancient
disaster. A trail of debris, some of the stones larger than a castle, extends from the corpse’s lower end. The city of Tu’narath is built on and in the corpse’s upper body, with a central district in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
tutelage of giants—as Annam intended. Eternal Throne Adventures The Eternal Throne Adventures table offers hooks you can use to involve characters in the business of these giant knights. Many people
adventurers discover a bastion of the stewards. 6 After defeating a terrible evil, the adventurers receive an invitation to a stronghold of the stewards, where they are welcomed warmly and offered a peaceful life in the bastion if they agree to help protect it.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
harm. The townspeople promise to keep the infected villagers safe until some cure can be found. (They don’t know that the only cure is defeating the mind flayer fanatics.) Once the chaos from the
pain. The tiefling can share the following news, assuming the characters don’t react with violence: Aberrant Mind and Body. Something that feels like a magical presence is affecting Wheel-of-Fortune
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
bloody bodies of Kalaman’s council members slump in high-backed chairs and across the room’s large table. At a position of honor opposite the door, Governor Calof Miat’s body is transfixed to his chair
, a gleaming longsword piercing his chest.
Next to the governor’s body, a man in Solamnic armor rocks back in a chair. He props his booted feet on the table as he balances a scroll on one finger
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
. 10 Huge Feet. The demon suffers disadvantage on Stealth, Athletics, and Acrobatics checks when they involve moving its feet. 11 Translucent Skin. The demon’s skin is slimy and translucent. It has
Body. The demon can float at will as if under the effect of the levitate spell (no concentration required). While it has half its hit points or less, it loses this ability. 17 Immaterial. The demon has
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Strahd’s Enemy Drawn from the high deck, the fourth card in the card reading determines the location of an NPC who can improve the characters’ chances of defeating Strahd. (Some cards offer two
Vistani assassin Arrigal (see chapter 5, area N9c). If the characters mention this card reading to him, he accepts his fate and accompanies them. If the characters succeed in defeating Strahd, Arrigal
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
their body language, like an actor taking on a role. You still need to describe things that can’t reasonably be acted out.
An active approach to roleplaying Bartho, an inexperienced guard prone to
daydreaming, might involve you pretending to yawn mid-sentence or getting distracted by a butterfly. Perhaps he confides with the characters that he’d rather be doing something else.
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