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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
and the lower body of an enormous scorpion, complete with a stinger at the end of a long tail. These desert creatures range across arid lands, hunting at dawn and dusk. In the hours between, they wait
tlincalli parents come to investigate.
Tlincallis eat what they kill, whether their hunt nets desert animals or a caravan, but when they have new mouths to feed, they are careful to take some of their prey
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
dreams dusk hags might share with unsuspecting sleepers.
Dusk Hag Prophecies
d10
Prophecy
1
âA red hat approaches with ill intent. Be wary.â
2
âA ship comes on a sea of bones, but treasure
the golden key.â
6
âBeware the black horse.â
7
âThe fish is your friend.â
8
âThe stairs downward lead to that which you seek.â
9
âLook for two crossed swords. There your goal lies.â
10
âIf you see two crows, turn back. Beyond is death.â
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
spines that run in a ridge from the crown of the head to the tip of the tail. These spines hover above a living topaz dragonâs back, dancing and shifting with the dragonâs mood.
Embodiment of
artistry to maintain a warm, desert-like dwelling under the water.
7
I soothe myself to sleep by imagining the perfect insults for bronze dragons; while I wait to meet one, I hone them on other
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
visibly in the gem-like spines that run in a ridge from the crown of the head to the tip of the tail. These spines hover above a living topaz dragonâs back, dancing and shifting with the dragon
.
6
It takes true artistry to maintain a warm, desert-like dwelling under the water.
7
I soothe myself to sleep by imagining the perfect insults for bronze dragons; while I wait to meet one, I
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
starlight between their bodies and the spines and horns that hover close to their heads and backs. These horns shift with the dragonâs mood: bristling with anger, lying back with fear or
.
4
A crystal dragon intent on exploring a new world of the Material Plane has acquired a magic ship for the journey and now just needs a brave crew.
5
A crystal dragon who has guarded a
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
their bodies and the spines and horns that hover close to their heads and backs. These horns shift with the dragonâs mood: bristling with anger, lying back with fear or suspicion, and rippling
dragon intent on exploring a new world of the Material Plane has acquired a magic ship for the journey and now just needs a brave crew.
5
A crystal dragon who has guarded a mountain pass for
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
power manifests visibly in the gem-like spines that run in a ridge from the crown of the head to the tip of the tail. These spines hover above a living topaz dragonâs back, dancing and shifting with
unpredictability.
6
It takes true artistry to maintain a warm, desert-like dwelling under the water.
7
I soothe myself to sleep by imagining the perfect insults for bronze dragons; while I wait
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
dragonâs psionic power manifests visibly in the gem-like spines that run in a ridge from the crown of the head to the tip of the tail. These spines hover above a living topaz dragonâs back
predictable only in my unpredictability.
6
It takes true artistry to maintain a warm, desert-like dwelling under the water.
7
I soothe myself to sleep by imagining the perfect insults for
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
; scales. It glows like starlight between their bodies and the spines and horns that hover close to their heads and backs. These horns shift with the dragonâs mood: bristling with anger, lying back
once it has begun.
4
A crystal dragon intent on exploring a new world of the Material Plane has acquired a magic ship for the journey and now just needs a brave crew.
5
A crystal dragon who
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
anger, lying back with fear or suspicion, and rippling in side-to-side waves with amusement or joy.
Visions in Starlight
Many crystal dragons study the stars, recording their observations of the night
leave the lair once it has begun.
4
A crystal dragon intent on exploring a new world of the Material Plane has acquired a magic ship for the journey and now just needs a brave crew.
5
A
Ancient Brass Dragon
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Monsters
Basic Rules (2014)
damage or someone uses an action to wake it.
Change Shape. The dragon magically polymorphs into a humanoid or beast that has a challenge rating no higher than its own, or back into its true form. It
speed.A Brass Dragonâs Lair
A brass dragonâs desert lair is typically a ruin, canyon, or cave network with ceiling holes to allow for sunlight.
Lair Actions
On initiative count 20 (losing
Urchin
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Backgrounds
Playerâs Handbook (2014)
of questions.
3
I like to squeeze into small places where no one else can get to me.
4
I sleep with my back to a wall or tree, with everything I own wrapped in a bundle in my arms.
5
I eat like a pig and have bad manners.
6
I think anyone whoâs nice to me is hiding evil intent.
7
I donât like to bathe.
8
I bluntly say what other people are hinting at
Species
Van Richtenâs Guide to Ravenloft
sensations or visions of the past to come rushing back.
Rather than sleeping, reborn regularly sit and dwell on the past, hoping for some revelation of what came before. Most of the time, these are dark
of Dread (detailed in chapter 3):
HarâAkir. You died and endured the burial rites of this desert realm, yet somehow a soulâyours or anotherâsâhas taken refuge in your
Backgrounds
Baldurâs Gate: Descent into Avernus
.
3
I like to squeeze into small places where no one else can get to me.
4
I sleep with my back to a wall or tree, with everything I own wrapped in a bundle in my arms.
5
I eat like
a pig and have bad manners.
6
I think anyone whoâs nice to me is hiding evil intent.
7
I donât like to bathe.
8
I bluntly say what other people are hinting at or hiding
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
sand. Intent on their investigation of the golem, they donât notice your arrival.
The two desert nomads (use the bandit stat block) and a camel they call Old Stink (for good reason) hail from a Bedine
Arriving in Anauroch Created by fearsome magic, the ancient desert of Anauroch hides ruined cities under its sands. The most famous include the lost cities of Netheril, an empire of wizards doomed by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
headed toward the nearest landmark, intent on exploring it.
6. The explorers are healthy and heading back to Port Nyanzaru for rest and supplies.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
the Younger. If the characters ask around, a villager who reached the shore before them mentions that Lord Bakaris and his son headed to Kalaman hours ago, intent on addressing the cityâs leaders, but
no oneâs heard back from them since. If the characters donât head to Kalaman to investigate, Mayor Raven asks them and Darrett to do so, giving them authority to make whatever arrangements are necessary to secure the safety of Voglerâs people.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
invitation to come to the manor to discuss the results of their expedition. If the characters have the intent of avoiding the agent, the agent comes to find them in short order, and arranges for their mechanical guide to teleport everyone back to the manor.
Special Delivery Whichever agent the characters are working for, their mechanical guide is programmed to teleport them back to the agentâs manor. If the characters somehow obtained both mechanical
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
of Kled. The buried city does not have to change much at all; a 5,000-year old dwarven stronghold forgotten beneath the desert sands might easily date back to the Green Age, a time when the world of
-Besil lies. Rivergard Keep is admittedly a little problematic in a desert world, but the solution is simple: It lies on the dusty banks of a river long dried up. The Crushing Wave cultists occupying
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
sands of the desert, steals the eggs, and brings them back to her lair. When the eggs hatch, she confines the wormlings here and feeds them a healthy diet of meat so that they grow up big and strong
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
running. There are times, though, when the design intent of a rule isnât clear or when one rule seems to contradict another. Dealing with those situations is where Sage Advice comes in. This column
perspectives. RAW. âRules as writtenââthatâs what RAW stands for. When I dwell on the RAW interpretation of a rule, Iâm studying what the text says in context, without regard to the designersâ intent. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata
, though, when the design intent of a rule isnât clear or when one rule seems to contradict another. Dealing with those situations is where Sage Advice comes in. It doesnât replace a DMâs adjudication
. RAW âRules as writtenââthatâs what RAW stands for. When we dwell on the RAW interpretation of a rule, weâre studying what the text says in context, without regard to the designersâ intent. The text is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
during a prison transfer, and itâs urgent that the characters locate him and bring him back to justice as soon as possible and with discretion. The characters can retrace the route of the transfer
Shattergang Brothers, a rival gang intent on murdering Krenko. Members of that gang will trail the party throughout the city in an attempt to find the goblin mob bossâs location. Eventually, the adventurers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
characters encounter creatures able to give them directions or intent on capturing them. Such creatures can include kuo-toa from Sloobludop, duergar slavers or merchants from Gracklstugh, the goblins from the Silken Paths encounter, or even their drow pursuers intent on dragging them back to Velkynvelve.
Where to Go? The playersâ first question upon escaping from Velkynvelve is likely, âWhere do we go next?â The adventurers must find a way out of the Underdark and back to the surface world. Their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
The Bedine The Bedine are a group of disparate nomadic tribes that interact with one another in the desert of Anauroch. Bedine tribes differ in how friendly or hostile they are to outsiders. But all
Bedine obey a code of hospitality and honor, and they provide shelter, food (goat cheese and dates), and drink (strong tea or water) to anyone who visits the desert unless the visitors prove unworthy
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a7
where the lichâs crypt lies, their actions along the way will have caused his soul to be called back to the Material Plane and alerted Acererak, now a demilich, that interlopers have invaded his resting
to turn up just about anywhere. Those possibilities are as follows:
Inside the highest hill on the Plains of Iuz
On an island (unmapped) in the Nyr Dyv
In the Bright Desert
At the western
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Locathah Rising
ballistae traps hidden behind the fish in the back of this chamber. Thin tripwires have been strung up throughout the area, with the intent of protecting the stores from the nearby undead creatures
that is their charge. They dutifully maintain the stores here while they work to carve a passage through the coral, which is turning out to be more difficult than originally thought. The intent is to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
, the gold dragon Karavarix refused to hold back. He led a contingent of metallic dragons to the soaring city, intent on forcing it to land. The god Paladine tasked the Knight of Solamnia Zanas Sarlamir
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hold Back The Dead
around the fortress, obscuring everything more than a few dozen yards from the walls.
Shouts of confusion echo through the fortress, as no one can see the hordeâs movements. Soon, the hordeâs intent is
clear. Undead lurch from the mist toward the fortress.
Eight Skeletons and two Ogre Zombies emerge from the dark fog. Each zombie has a 20-foot-tall metal ladder affixed to its back with hooks sunk
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
, however, the vengeful drow pursuing the adventurers catch up to them, intent on dragging them back to their domain of perpetual darkness. If they survive this final confrontation, the characters reach the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Harpers are worried about the threat posed by the Dark Lady of Rundreth Manor. They are also intent on protecting the treasures hidden in the Halls of the Hunting Axe. The Lordsâ Alliance sees the
Hunting Axe, to be brought back into the light of day. The Order of the Gauntlet is worried about the Iceshield orc raids. They also want to make sure the hidden shrine in the Vale of Dancing Waters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
initially assume, Javenesh is a friendly sort. To make ends meet, he works at Bowâs End Tavern, managing servers and keeping the peace, relying on his rough appearance to dissuade those intent on making
reputation as a tough guy follows you. If peers would be aggressive toward you, they quickly back down.
Bond Bane: The servers at Bowâs End Tavern know you are no friend to Javenesh. At the slightest sign of trouble, they blame you and ask you to leave.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Masterâs Guide (2014)
the check after the party spends 1d6 hours trying to get back on course. Wilderness Navigation Terrain DC Forest, jungle, swamp, mountains, or open sea with overcast skies and no land in sight 15 Arctic, desert, hills, or open sea with clear skies and no land in sight 10 Grassland, meadow, farmland 5
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
The Ruin of Bakar Tooba Rezaei A Door to the Pharaohâs Pyramid Long ago, the kingdom of Bakar spanned what is now known as the Desert of Desolation. Though the land was already a desert, the mighty
into destitution. A Curse on the Land Downtrodden and impoverished, the citizens of Bakar revolted against Amun Sa to take back their kingdom. During a riot at the capital, Amun Sa appeared before his
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
, tried to explain that his people had been lured into a trap by the mind flayers, but his assertions fell on deaf ears. Thus, with no other apparent choice, the lost clan fled back to the Underdark
followers swore that they wouldnât rest until the father of the dwarves lay dead and Laduguer sat upon his throne. Of course, by declaring his intent to destroy Moradin, Laduguer created a state of war






