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Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Magic Resistance. Sion has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects if he is in dim light or darkness.
Shadesight. Magical darkness doesn’t impede Sion’s
darkvision.
Shadowy Demise. If Sion dies, his body melts into shadow, leaving behind only equipment he was wearing or carrying.
Sunlight Weakness. While in sunlight, Sion has disadvantage on attack rolls
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Awakening of the Scion. The cradle is a container for the scion of Surtur. When the cradle drops to 0 hit points, its body hardens and crumbles to ash. The scion instantly appears in the space the
;s volcano, or misguided fire cultists offer sacrifices meant to appease or awaken the volcano, and the awakened cradle defies all their expectations. Like a living volcano, the cradle hurls balls of
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Devil’s Sight. Magical darkness doesn’t impede the neogi’s darkvision.
Mental Fortitude. The neogi has advantage on saving throws against being charmed or frightened, and magic can
Hadar—resemble stars and embody the essence of evil.
Neogi
A neogi looks like an outsize spider with an eel’s neck and head. It can poison the body and the mind of its targets and can
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
Devil’s Sight. Magical darkness doesn’t impede the neogi’s darkvision.
Mental Fortitude. The neogi has advantage on saving throws against being charmed or frightened, and magic can
with an eel’s neck and head. It can poison the body and the mind of its targets and can subjugate even beings that are physically superior.
Neogi usually dwell in far-flung locations on the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
unfathomable forces of apathy, desiccation, and planar dissolution, it doesn’t actively impede the characters or attempt to communicate with them. It can feed information to any of the various aberrations infesting its body, though.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
, gender, and sexual behavior. For example, a male drow cleric defies the traditional gender divisions of drow society, which could be a reason for your character to leave that society and come to the
Corellon’s image. You could also play a female character who presents herself as a man, a man who feels trapped in a female body, or a bearded female dwarf who hates being mistaken for a male. Likewise, your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
, soldier for the Mark of Sentinel, sage for the Mark of Scribing, and so on. Excoriate. When a dragonmarked heir defies their house, they might be cut off from their family. In the past, your mark would be
flayed from your body. Although this mutilation is no longer practiced, such exiles are still called excoriates. If you’re an excoriate, consider what you did to deserve this punishment. Were you a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
, sailor for the Mark of Storms, soldier for the Mark of Sentinel, sage for the Mark of Scribing, and so on. Excoriate. When a dragonmarked heir defies their house, they may be cut off from it. In the past
, your mark would be flayed from your body. Although this mutilation is no longer practiced, such exiles are still called excoriates. If you’re an excoriate, consider what you did to deserve this
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Chain Devil (Kyton) This ominous fiend wears chains like a shroud. Driving lesser creatures before it with its fearsome gaze, a chain devil animates the chains that cover its body as well as
Immunities poisoned
Senses darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 11
Languages Infernal, telepathy 120 ft.
Challenge 8 (3,900 XP)
Devil’s Sight. Magical darkness doesn’t impede the devil’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
spies for greater devils and archdevils. They are the eyes and ears of the Nine Hells, and even fiends that despise a spined devil’s weakness treat it with a modicum of respect. A spined devil’s body and
)
Devil’s Sight. Magical darkness doesn’t impede the devil’s darkvision.
Flyby. The devil doesn’t provoke an opportunity attack when it flies out of an enemy’s reach.
Limited Spines. The devil
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
saving throws against spells and other magical effects if he is in dim light or darkness.
Shadesight. Magical darkness doesn’t impede Sion’s darkvision.
Shadowy Demise. If Sion dies, his body
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
. 14b. Heart in a Box Acid. The room’s domed ceiling is 15 feet high at the edges and 30 feet high in the middle. The dome is filled with sizzling acid that defies gravity as it floats 15 feet above the
heart, while an identify spell or similar magic reveals its magical properties. A creature that has a heart in its own body can attune to the withered heart as though it were a magic item. When it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
about, “That damned thumb-screwer, Andras.”
Stolos The result of the same experiment that produced Andras (area 9), Stolos has the head of a male human atop the body of a giant snowy owl. He
, owing to a mutual disgust for their split nature. Stolos offers to work with the characters if they harm or impede Andras (most easily by freeing the prisoners being tortured in area 9). His only real
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->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
Customizing a Horror Horrors share some common body types but vary wildly in other characteristics. A particular horror’s form might incorporate elements that resemble fiendish, insectile, or
on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight, sound, or smell. 4 Mind Sight. Magical darkness doesn’t impede the horror’s darkvision. Shadow Horror
Large aberration, neutral evil
Armor Class
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
Neogi A neogi looks like an outsize spider with an eel’s neck and head. It can poison the body and the mind of its targets and can subjugate even beings that are physically superior. Neogi usually
darkness doesn’t impede the neogi’s darkvision.
Mental Fortitude. The neogi has advantage on saving throws against being charmed or frightened, and magic can’t put the neogi to sleep.
Spider Climb. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 14
Languages the languages it knew in life
Challenge 8 (3,900 XP) Proficiency Bonus +3
Devil’s Sight. Magical darkness doesn’t impede the deathlock’s
control, unless the Humanoid is restored to life or its body is destroyed. The deathlock can have no more than twelve zombies under its control at one time.
Grave Bolt. Ranged Spell Attack: +5 to hit
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
existence defies mortal understanding; the being simply is. It could be a primordial force of nature awakened to self-awareness that now inhabits the landscape or an alien intellect that whispers through
ordinary person. You patron might posses the body of a stranger or a party member to converse with you. Ancient Being Operatives Consider the overarching goals of your group’s ancient being patron
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
workers load a corpse into the coffin, which ferries it to a chute in the east wall. The workers are hostile toward those who impede their work. The characters must discern their quarry from the litany of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
., passive Perception 12
Languages Infernal, telepathy 120 ft.
Challenge 9 (5,000 XP)
Devil’s Sight. Magical darkness doesn’t impede the devil’s darkvision.
Magic Resistance. The devil has advantage
Medium creature, moves independently on the construct’s turn, and has a flying speed of 40 feet. The clockwork kraken’s senses operate through its tentacles as well as its main body. Each tentacle can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
impede the character’s ability to cast spells that have verbal components. 4–5 Hiccupping Gas. The character experiences a most annoying case of the hiccups. To cast a spell that has a verbal component
body. The warts are unattractive but have no harmful effect. 8 Bittertongue Gas. A foul taste fills the character’s mouth, and everything the character eats or drinks tastes awful. Slugs appear to be
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
concentration on these spells for as long as possible while attacking with their mauls on later turns. When a dao dies, its body disintegrates into crystalline powder. A slain dao leaves behind its maul and
and destroying it, rather than submit to the oracle’s dark will. Turning the body over reveals the horrible abdominal wound that killed Mayastan. Any character who has proficiency in the Medicine skill
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
, Oath of the Ancients, and Oath of Vengeance subclasses. Each of these subclasses represents a body of oaths that a Paladin begins taking upon joining the class. The final oath, taken at level 3, is
slaughter helpless villagers, when a tyrant defies the will of the gods, when a thieves’ guild grows too violent, when a dragon rampages through the countryside—at times like these, paladins arise and swear
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
young black dragon Dunwater River The Dunwater River meanders its way into the Azure Sea. It is a broad, slow-moving body of water, choked with reeds and too shallow in many spots to allow boats other
make their way along its length. Some gangs stretch chains across the water to impede the path of a boat or raft, leaving it vulnerable to an attack. Somewhere along the river (accounts vary as to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
insidious suggestions fail to take hold, an elder brain asserts its dominance more directly. It seizes control of a resistant mind and controls the creature’s body as it would a puppet. Against the rare
, strong-willed stalwart that defies it or attacks it, an elder brain sends a blast of overwhelming psychic force to crush the upstart’s mind, rendering the creature a thoughtless, drooling shell
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Bonus +7
Awakening of the Scion. The cradle is a container for the scion of Grolantor. When the cradle drops to 0 hit points, its body crumbles to dirt and moss. The scion instantly appears in the
, Primordial
Challenge 26 (90,000 XP) Proficiency Bonus +8
Awakening of the Scion. The cradle is a container for the scion of Memnor. When the cradle drops to 0 hit points, its body dissipates into
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
as the trunks of trees. Still others shed a faint light, eerily illuminating a sloped passage leading down to the shore of a placid body of water that also glows dimly. Beneath whispering gusts of air
are four thin figures in billowing cult robes. The wind doesn’t seem to impede them at all.
Four emaciated Howling Hatred priests (see chapter 7) — Aerisi’s most devout cultists — guard this area






