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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
dangerous those dragons can be and help others defend against draconic destruction.
Whatever their relationship to dragons, kobold scales tend to be rust colored, although the occasional kobold sports
, their cry resonates with draconic power.
Creating Your Character
At 1st level, you choose whether your character is a member of the human race or of a fantastical race. If you select a fantastical
Kalashtar
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Eberron: Rising from the Last War
-Lashtavar.
—Lakashtai, servant of the light
The kalashtar are a compound race created from the union of humanity and renegade spirits from the plane of dreams — spirits called quori
manipulate the folk of Khorvaire to eliminate kalashtar whenever possible.
Many kalashtar defend themselves from the Dreaming Dark by focusing on devotion to the Path of Light. Others, though, seek
Halfling
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Basic Rules (2014)
, even by the standards of his diminutive race, with the fluff of his curly brown locks barely cresting the three-foot mark, but his belly was amply thickened by his love of a good meal, or several, as
protecting their own lands, they protect us as well.”
Exploring Opportunities
Halflings usually set out on the adventurer’s path to defend their communities, support their friends, or explore a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
to defeat or destroy creatures of a particular kind, such as fiends, shapechangers, trolls, or wizards. 3 Protector: The item seeks to defend a particular race or kind of creature, such as elves or
druids. 4 Crusader: The item seeks to defeat, weaken, or destroy the servants of a particular deity. 5 Templar: The item seeks to defend the servants and interests of a particular deity. 6 Destroyer: The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Creating a Race or Subrace This section teaches you how to modify existing races, as well as create new ones. The most important step in customizing or designing races for your campaign is to start
with the story behind the race or subrace you wish to create. Having a firm idea of a race’s story in your campaign will help you make decisions during the creation process. Ask yourself several
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
. On the world of Krynn, kender are a race of Humanoid creatures with pointed ears. They are similar to halflings on other worlds and about the same size. For more information about kender, see
failed to defend her charge. The tree turned fetid without the artifact, and Gazaia became angry, vengeful, and grief-stricken. Gazaia’s Anger. If the characters refuse Gazaia’s offer and fail to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
owe their existence — and their plight — to the Queen of Air and Darkness, the dread ruler of the Gloaming Court. Once a race of lazy and egotistical fey, the creatures that would become the
curse gave quicklings their amazing speed but also accelerated their passage through life — no quickling lives longer than fifteen years. They race themselves to death, and scheme as fast as they run
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
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Sharn Inquisitive
The Race of Eight Winds Begins!
Banners are flying across Dura today, and the streets are full of color. Walk through Oldkeep wearing brown and red, and
you’ll be invited to raise a glass to the Griffon; if you’re dressed in white and gold, the colors of the Hippogriff, you’d best be prepared to defend yourself.
If you’re new to Sharn, you might
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
include druids and paladins who fight to defend the world from demons and aberrations. The Valenar elves are fierce warriors, and the Talenta halflings are brave nomads who cross the plains on dinosaur
plane of dreams, imbued with wisdom and telepathic talent. Shifters draw on their distant lycanthropic heritage to manifest bestial traits for short periods of time. A diverse race shaped by the beasts
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
attacks anyone who isn’t a member of his family. The grick and the gray slaad defend him. If reduced to 20 hit points or fewer, Cassiok uses his next action to break his staff of power in a retributive
inside it. Without significantly changing its mass, the statue shifts form every few seconds, becoming various members of the Shadowdusk family and, every so often, depicting Halaster Blackcloak or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
crescent moon, seasons, or momentous events. Weretigers often view their abilities as a blessing or a family honor, and they use their shape-shifting abilities to defend something with historic
end of this movement, the weretiger can take the Hide action.
Shape-Shift. The weretiger shape-shifts into a Large tiger-humanoid hybrid or a Large tiger, or it returns to its true humanoid form
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
, trolls, or wizards. 3 Protector: The item seeks to defend a particular race or kind of creature, such as elves or druids. 4 Crusader: The item seeks to defeat, weaken, or destroy the servants of a
particular deity. 5 Templar: The item seeks to defend the servants and interests of a particular deity. 6 Destroyer: The item craves destruction and goads its user to fight arbitrarily. 7 Glory Seeker
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
. Extremiton is also gathering thralls of every race to help defend the colony if the neothelid is destroyed or fails in its task. City of the Mind Extremiton can sense intelligent creatures within 2 miles of it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
, war has come to Silvanesti. When the Dragon Armies besieged the realm, the leader Lorac Caladon, Speaker of the Stars, ordered his people to evacuate. Lorac then attempted to defend the kingdom with
possible to find individual members—or even small enclaves—of folk like dragonborn, halflings, tieflings, or any other race in Ansalon. Perhaps such individuals stepped through a portal and found
Kobold
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
against the wall can become a miniature storm of fangs and claws as it desperately tries to defend its life. Likewise, kinship to their own tribe can prompt kobolds to battle another kobold tribe for
at the actions or deeds of other races. They aren’t forgiving of other races, and they enjoy nursing their hatred until they get a chance to wreak revenge on a creature or a race that has wronged
Orc
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
react to them.
As a race, orcs have no noteworthy universal social traits, but some commonality does exist in the crude written communication that all orcs employ and in the way that they use
goals of the tribe don’t concern me. Personal glory is what I crave. (Chaotic)
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Savagery. I will not be controlled. (Chaotic)
Orc Bonds
d6
Bond
1
I will defend my
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
of the lizardfolk soon shifts to either the walking castle or any visible character. They energetically wave and ask the characters to stop for a minute. Lizardfolk Competitors The twelve lizardfolk
Ability Check 1 Acrobatic performances 15 Dexterity (Acrobatics) 2 Deimatic displays 16 Charisma (Intimidation) 3 Reptile trivia 14 Intelligence (Nature) 4 Swimming race or weightlifting 17 Strength
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
in such a place. Oracular Conflux Adventures d12 Adventure Goal
1 Race an air elemental to an oracular conflux in order to receive a prediction of the future before the elemental’s
whirlwind obliterates all evidence of the reading.
2 Defend the shrine from a worshiper who is angry with an oracle for an incorrect prediction.
3 Convince an oracle to give a worshiper a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
conquer the Feywild and enslave its inhabitants, claiming those creatures’ magic for themselves. When the fey united to defend their realm, the fomorians fought them and were subjected to a terrible curse
deformed, gaining a glimpse into the pain and malice that has consumed this evil race.
Fomorian
Huge giant, chaotic evil
Armor Class 14 (natural armor)
Hit Points 149 (13d12 + 65)
Speed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
their fallen leader shifts subtly at first and then changes dramatically as they look back or reminisce about the time before. The fallen leader might have been a benevolent ruler, an influential citizen
. The lost resource might be a precious metal, a species of plant or animal that held an important place in the local ecology, or an entire race or culture of people. Its absence causes a chain
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
. Robson Michel Three modrons prepare to enter the Cube, a mechanical outpost corrupted by the disorder of Xaos Gate The gate to Limbo shifts with the town, changing shape and location at indeterminate
Planar Parade), recruits the characters to defend the embassy from an approaching githyanki warship. 3 A merciless githyanki knight arrives in Xaos on the back of a young red dragon. He asks the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
each square, 30-foot-tall tower connect the ground floor to the roof. Arrow slits in the tower walls and roof battlements help archers defend the keep.
Features. Some features about a location
return to complete it at a later time. Each quest’s reward is stated at the end of its section.
Bartho’s Reward The guards here have orders to help out around the keep between shifts, but Bartho
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
it desperately tries to defend its life. Likewise, kinship to their own tribe can prompt kobolds to battle another kobold tribe for resources or territory. Such conflicts aren’t common, because two
races, and they enjoy nursing their hatred until they get a chance to wreak revenge on a creature or a race that has wronged them. URDS: WINGED KOBOLDS
Winged kobolds, known as urds, hatch seemingly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
, your alignment shifts one step toward evil (if it’s not evil already), and you start the game with an additional 1d20 + 50 gp. 16–20 You woke up one morning miles from your home, with no idea how you got
for 1d6 years. 4 A dragon held you as a prisoner for 1d4 months until adventurers killed it. 5 You were taken captive by a race of evil humanoids such as drow, kuo-toa, or quaggoths. You lived as a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
represents a typical member of the rank and file, though weaponry and armor can vary.
Soldier
Medium humanoid (any race), any alignment
Armor Class 18 (chain mail, shield)
Hit Points 16 (3d8
vedalken are lawmages.
Lawmage
Medium humanoid (any race), lawful neutral
Armor Class 15 (breastplate)
Hit Points 84 (13d8 + 26)
Speed 30 ft.
STR
13(+1)
DEX
12(+1)
CON
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Protect a wilderness site from attackers. 20 Roll twice, ignoring results of 20. Other Goals d12 Goal 1 Seize control of a fortified location such as a fortress, town, or ship. 2 Defend a location
a cataclysmic event that the adventurers must escape. 4 The adventurers race to the site where the villain is bringing a master plan to its conclusion, arriving just as that plan is about to be
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
aarakocra are alert but remain perfectly still; they do nothing other than defend themselves and obey Sansuri’s commands. Any creature that jumps or falls into the hole plummets to the ground far below unless
day, these guards and the ones on active duty operate on alternating shifts. When the castellan decides that a shift is done, he rousts these guards from their slumber and orders them to replace the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
percent chance that the temperature shifts dramatically. When the temperature shifts, read the following: Suddenly, the air grows very warm. Water rains from above. The ice cracks, and thick waves of steam
) defend this cave. If Aerisi is here but isn’t the only prophet still alive, use the “Encounter with Aerisi” section. Use the “Encounter with Yan-C-Bin” section if Aerisi is the only remaining prophet
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
go with her and her companions to the chapel and defend them from the evil magic there while they attempt to reconsecrate it. She hopes reconsecrating the chapel to Istus will break the ritual and
spirit confuses them. If the characters defeat Gremorly and these helmed horrors have not yet been destroyed, they become allies to the characters and defend this room on their behalf. Treasure. If a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
hallway. Loose piles of stone form barricades at the front of each alcove, angled to defend against intrusion from the west. A path between the barricades leads to a wide, descending staircase to the east
. If they do, one of the razerblasts escorts the party. If a fight breaks out, one of the razerblasts shouts, “Imix defend us!” When this happens, read the following text aloud: The obsidian columns
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Hrakhamar. To defend their trove, the dwarves stockpiled weapons and armor in this chamber. The firenewts haven’t bothered most of it; they prefer their own weapons over heavier dwarven designs, and
other padded material that the firenewts sleep on in shifts. The smell in this area is horrid, like burning hair mixed with burning rubber. A disturbance in any of the chambers awakens and draws in all
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
even the Queen of Spiders is sometimes tricked when Zinzerena shifts blame for her actions onto others. Not many female drow devote their lives to the study of magic, because it’s held to be a low-status
unknown, as is Corellon, yet elves called “dark” exist in this world. These are elves whom others believe have betrayed their people, but to the eye, they bear none of the physical hallmarks of drow. I wonder if, with so mutable a race as elves, that state is permanent.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
minions to defend his property and himself. D1. Main Storehouse The interior of the warehouse is piled high with crates, boxes, and packages, most marked with alchemists’ personal symbols and “FRAGILE” or
chains, all of which creak and groan ominously as the ship shifts in the wind. The only apparent access to the vessel’s interior is near the bow on the port side. A grate in the hull there belches
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
the party. If the commoners also fail, the baron summons the twelve remaining guards to defend his mansion, giving characters the run of the town. If the characters get on his good side, he insists
shifts to neutral evil. If a character touches the mirror and speaks Strahd’s name, there is a 50 percent chance that Strahd takes notice and appears on the mirror’s surface. In this form, the vampire
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
eight-hour shifts, with one corporal (gauntlet) and eighteen privates (fists) on duty during each shift. Unknown to her boss, Liara is in league with pirates based out of Jahaka Anchorage and earns a tidy
of beach with a few log buildings above the tide line. Ships anchor a half-mile offshore, and people and supplies are ferried back and forth on rowboats. Six Flaming Fist guards defend this station