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The Book of Many Things
’s a hidden thieves’ guildhall or a lavish manse. The lair is filled with clever defenses to disorient, weaken, and kill intruders.
The villain’s challenge rating increases while the
on the Insight, Perception, and Persuasion skills.
Potent Toxins. When members of the villain’s organization deal poison damage while within 3 miles of the lair, they ignore the target’s
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
Lair
This villain resides in a place of power and safety, whether that’s a hidden thieves’ guildhall or a lavish manse. The lair is filled with clever defenses to disorient, weaken, and
villain’s organization have disadvantage on ability checks that rely on the Insight, Perception, and Persuasion skills.
Potent Toxins. When members of the villain’s organization deal poison
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
;s a hidden thieves’ guildhall or a lavish manse. The lair is filled with clever defenses to disorient, weaken, and kill intruders.
The villain’s challenge rating increases while the
Insight, Perception, and Persuasion skills.
Potent Toxins. When members of the villain’s organization deal poison damage while within 3 miles of the lair, they ignore the target’s resistance
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
filled with clever defenses to disorient, weaken, and kill intruders.
The villain’s challenge rating increases while the villain is in this lair:
Veiled Presence. Challenge 22 (41,000 XP
lair, creatures that aren’t members of the villain’s organization have disadvantage on ability checks that rely on the Insight, Perception, and Persuasion skills.
Potent Toxins. When
True Strike
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
You point a finger at a target in range. Your magic grants you a brief insight into the target's defenses. On your next turn, you gain advantage on your first attack roll against the target, provided that this spell hasn't ended.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
insight into the target’s defenses. On your next turn, you gain advantage on your first attack roll against the target, provided that this spell hasn’t ended.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
insight into the target’s defenses. On your next turn, you gain advantage on your first attack roll against the target, provided that this spell hasn’t ended.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
bugbears have been spying on the bandits and will shortly begin testing their defenses. They are frightened by the flesh golem, though, and will offer to grant safe passage to any adventurers who
promise to dispose of it. The bugbears don’t keep their end of the bargain, but the goblins readily will do so out of self-preservation if all the bugbears and intellect devourers are dead.
Goblin
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
the fringes of a society first test its defenses by stealing objects, and if these crimes go unpunished, they begin stealing people.
Enslaved creatures receive the worst treatment the goblins can dish
know a goblin is unlikely to be able to uphold its end of any bargain.
Even when a goblin is born with the ability to become a spellcaster, the knowledge and talent necessary to carry on the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Lamia Accursed Bargainer and Ruin Raider Habitat: Desert; Treasure: Arcana Viko Menezes Legends say the first lamia was an ambitious ruler who made a sinister bargain with the demon lord Graz’zt for
sometimes work with bandits to abduct travelers, releasing captives only if they accept a dangerous bargain. Roll on or choose a result from the Lamia Pacts table to inspire a lamia’s desires. Lamia
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
immediately but pretends not to. He hasn’t decided whether he wants it to aid his people or for his own studies. A character who succeeds on a DC 17 Wisdom (Insight) check realizes Dalamar recognizes the
shard. If pressed, Dalamar reveals the shard’s nature and his intention to have it. Dalamar won’t attack the characters for the shard, but he will bargain for it now or concoct a way to steal it later
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
celebration of Founders’ Day. Ammalia is well mannered, well read, well traveled, and exceptionally shrewd. She is known for driving a hard bargain. Her hobby is lepidopterology, and her estate has the most
+6, History +6, Insight +4, Persuasion +5
Damage Immunities poison
Condition Immunities poisoned
Senses passive Perception 11
Languages Common, Draconic, Elvish, Infernal
Challenge 5 (1,800
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Adventures in Bluetspur While Bluetspur’s otherworldly hazards and the mind flayers’ defenses can challenge even the highest-level heroes, the domain’s menace proves most pernicious when it intrudes
taken over by an intellect devourer.
6 An inventor requests the characters’ insight into a pill-sized device she extracted from her own body. As the characters examine it, the device projects a map
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Deep Scion Deep scions began life as people who were stolen from shore or saved from sinking ships and offered a terrible bargain by an undersea power: surrender, body and soul, or drown. Those who
Skills Deception +6, Insight +3, Sleight of Hand +3, Stealth +3
Senses darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 11
Languages Aquan, Common, thieves’ cant
Challenge 3 (700 XP)
Shapechanger. The deep
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
to bargain with such supplicants for treasure or service. Gynosphinx
Large monstrosity, lawful neutral
Armor Class 17 (natural armor)
Hit Points 136 (16d10 + 48)
Speed 40 ft., fly 60 ft
(Insight) checks made to ascertain the sphinx’s intentions or sincerity have disadvantage.
Magic Weapons. The sphinx’s weapon attacks are magical.
Spellcasting. The sphinx is a 9th-level spellcaster
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
. At first, she orders the characters to release her. If they refuse, she tries to bargain with them (see “Roleplaying the Dao” below). While trapped inside the bottle, Keshma can’t attack or cast spells
feels insulted, she attacks the characters and attempts to enslave them. The dao could become a thorn in the characters’ side or a difficult ally. Her ignorance of the tomb’s defenses confines her to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
experiments. Though surprised by visitors, Kwalish listens to the characters and might even be willing to bargain for whatever help they need to complete their quest. In exchange, he requires only a
magically enhanced demilich skull built into the lab’s instrumentation panels is used to channel a character’s soul energy once the bargain is struck. A character who has a portion of their soul
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal
who discover his quarters are set upon by the lich and his dread warrior guards, but if Var is brought to the brink of death, he might bargain for a chance to escape the dungeon. Undead Nature. A lich
16 (+3)
INT
19 (+4)
WIS
14 (+2)
CHA
16 (+3)
Saving Throws Con +8, Int +9, Wis +7
Skills Arcana +9, History +9, Insight +7, Perception +7
Damage Resistances cold, lightning
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
enjoy causing strife to those who bargain with them, and find ways to twist and turn promises to their own advantage. The Dusk Hag Prophecies table provides examples of the sort of dreams dusk hags might
)
WIS
16 (+3)
CHA
18 (+4)
Saving Throws Int +6, Wis +6
Skills Deception +7, Insight +6, Perception +6
Condition Immunities blinded, charmed, frightened
Senses blindsight 60 ft
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
father’s.” Gareth, make a Wisdom (Insight) check.
Phillip: Gareth got 18.
Jared: You notice that Ismark is trying to conceal his terror. He’s afraid to even touch the letter’s seal.
Phillip: I ask him
what’s frightening him.
1 Ability Checks. Phillip’s character, Gareth, makes a Wisdom (Insight) check to determine whether he reads Ismark’s unspoken cues. Wisdom is the ability that measures
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
venom. Those desperate for a cure to a rare affliction often pray to the goddess to reveal the monster that embodies the malady tormenting them. Such insight, though, rarely decreases the danger of
mortal realm. Selfishly, the medusas each kept secrets for themselves, using these as currency to bargain with mortals. Angered that her children would hoard any of her secrets, Pharika cursed them, so that they could never after behold their own reflections without risking death.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
require combating a rival organization’s disinformation attempts one day, then besting a castle’s defenses the next. The day after that, some poor sap named Bob might need to be disposed of. And no matter
Proficiencies and Starting Equipment, Read the Opposition
2 Alchemist’s Insight, Obviator’s Lenses
3 Advanced Preparations, Travel Alchemical Kit
4 Enhanced Lenses, Obviate the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
aren’t doing so (or if they are able to negotiate an end to any initial hostilities), the drow are willing to bargain with them. They explain that a behir has been rampaging through this level
the behir’s hoard. He also promises to spare the troglodyte children. A successful DC 15 Wisdom (Insight) check confirms that both assurances are false. Treasure. Each drow wears an obsidian scarab
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
abandoned village ripe for conquest while leaving its defenses more or less intact. Kella isn’t alone. The morning after the cloud giants attacked, a flying snake carrying a message from her Zhent
the goblins, whom she believes have nothing to do with the giants. Characters can see through her ruse with a successful Wisdom (Insight) check contested by Kella’s Charisma (Deception) check. Any
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
, lured by a faint magical effect emanating from the crevasse, was occupying the area when the Redbrands moved in. Iarno managed to strike a bargain with the monster, convincing it to help guard the
cave, it hides behind one of the large stone columns and watches them, attempting to use its Weird Insight (see the creature’s stat block) to discern the characters’ secrets. The nothic communicates
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
local defenses. Mayor Raven asks for the characters’ and Darrett’s help organizing the evacuation, tasking them with the following: Help her inform the villagers of the situation by collecting everyone
past the Ironclad Regiment, the villagers have protection. Becklin’s Request During the conversation about battle plans, the character with the highest passive Wisdom (Insight) score realizes Becklin
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
insight to build a detector that can sense portals or planar disturbances. A portalometer, if you will. The research or scrutineering activities can help the characters uncover the necessary information or
to be resolved, with those complications revealing useful information concerning the Six’s plots, the ritual site’s possible location, and the defenses around the site.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
charges before his accusers. The angels, although shocked at his impudence, accepted his petition and agreed to hear the bargain he proposed. Both sides, he suggested, would present their case to
least as Asmodeus views such a thing. Of course, as he sees it, Asmodeus is the only being with the charisma, strength, and insight necessary to shepherd in this ideal future. His rivals are inferiors
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
Deep Scion Deep scions began life as people who were stolen from shore or saved from sinking ships and offered a terrible bargain by an undersea power: surrender, body and soul, or drown. Those who
18 (+4)
DEX
13 (+1)
CON
16 (+3)
INT
10 (+0)
WIS
12 (+1)
CHA
14 (+2)
Saving Throws Wis +3, Cha +4
Skills Deception +6, Insight +3, Sleight of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
began life as people who were stolen from shore or saved from sinking ships and offered a terrible bargain by an undersea power: surrender, body and soul, or drown. Those who submit are subjected to an
Deception +6, Insight +3, Sleight of Hand +3, Stealth +3
Senses darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 11
Languages Aquan, Common, thieves’ cant
Challenge 3 (700 XP)
Shapechanger. The deep scion
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
, and mortals end up worse for dealing with her, because she holds all the cards. A bargain with Zariel is eternal; there is little hope of wriggling out of it. However, she does expect the best from
walls reinforced with high turrets. Devils of all kinds crawl over the structure, ensuring that no intruders breach their defenses. Lair Actions. On initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), Zariel
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a2
Mountain Door, the orc army burrowed into the hillside to circumvent the dwarven defenses. The tunnel is still passable, but its entrance is choked with brush and debris. If the characters enter this area
reinforce the defenses in the complex (see area 5 and area 14). Captured orcs can describe in some detail the general arrangement of the Mountain Door. They don’t know anything about the rest of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
bargain with the witch Proud Edun to magically cultivate the jeli flower, Nargis convinced the other Kings of Coin they could save their firstborn children by murdering the witch. For five years
(Insight) check intuits that something weighs heavily on Nargis’s mind, though the tavern keeper won’t say what (see “Nargis’s Confession” below). If asked about the attempt on Zenia’s life, Nargis
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
and succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom (Insight) check realize Mickey’s plight. They can then attempt to remove the bone fragment without permanently inhibiting Mickey’s stride. A successful DC 15 Wisdom
lie, telling the characters that a madcap named Wazzik is planning to kill Lulu and urging them to take care of this threat first. A successful DC 14 Wisdom (Insight) check reveals that the imps are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
, Fiend Patron, and Great Old One Patron subclasses. Archfey Patron Bargain with Whimsical Fey Your pact draws on the power of the Feywild. When you choose this subclass, you might make a deal with an
succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC or take 2d10 Psychic damage. Level 10: Beguiling Defenses Your patron teaches you how to guard your mind and body. You are immune to the