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Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
laughterThrough rituals combining alchemy, necromancy, and grim surgical precision, the brain of a mortal being is encased in a glass jar filled with preserving fluids and the liquefied goop of their body&rsquo
wrought masterwork, depending on its creator. Still other brains desire nothing more than to regain a body. This might be the brain’s original body, another frame they covet, or some more
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
shrug off spells cast against them.
Customizing a Chimera
The Theran chimera stat block presents one possible chimera configuration. You may customize these statistics to design your own unique chimera
. To do so, simply roll once on one or all of the following tables. Results from the Body Composition table adjust the Theran chimera as described, while results on the Breath Weapons, Head Attacks
Magic Items
Keys from the Golden Vault
book, the spirit tries to leave the book and enter your body. If you fail a DC 20 Charisma saving throw, it succeeds, and you become an NPC under the DM’s control until the intruding spirit is
. Several spells of horrific evil of the DM’s design and choosing could be in the book. Spells could impose dreadful curses, disfigure others, require human sacrifice, afflict creatures with crippling pain, spread vile plagues, and so on.
Species
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
“Pierce was built by design, while you were built by accident,” Lakashtai said. “The soul is what matters, not the shape of the vessel.”
“What makes you think he has
their muscles, wrapped around a framework of steel, darkwood, or stone. Armored plates form a protective outer shell and reinforce joints. Warforged share a common facial design, with a hinged jaw
Yuan-ti Malison (Type 3)
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Monsters
Monster Manual (2014)
spells and other magical effects.
Malison Type. The yuan-ti malison (type 3) has a Human head and upper body with a serpentine lower body instead of legs.Multiattack (Yuan-ti Form Only). The yuan-ti makes
, humanoid cultures make the fatal mistake of trusting the yuan-ti. They forget that a yuan-ti that acts honorably or lends aid in a time of trouble does so only as part of a grander design.
Yuan-ti leaders
Magic Items
Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
Stored in a leather pouch, this unique deck contains twenty-two colored cards made of some strong but unknown metal, each of which features a design printed as a mosaic of raised dots. Before you
effect.
Donjon. You are instantly teleported to and confined within the prison of the Monastery of the Distressed Body (area M6). Everything you were wearing and carrying stays behind in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
if it’s wielded in a way contrary to its design; if you use a Ranged weapon to make a melee attack or throw a Melee weapon that lacks the Thrown property, the weapon counts as an improvised weapon. An
Improvised Weapons An improvised weapon is an object wielded as a makeshift weapon, such as broken glass, a table leg, or a frying pan. A Simple or Martial weapon also counts as an improvised weapon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
if it’s wielded in a way contrary to its design; if you use a Ranged weapon to make a melee attack or throw a Melee weapon that lacks the Thrown property, the weapon counts as an improvised weapon. An
Improvised Weapons An improvised weapon is an object wielded as a makeshift weapon, such as broken glass, a table leg, or a frying pan. A Simple or Martial weapon also counts as an improvised weapon
Kobold
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
improvised traps they use to protect their warrens.
KURTULMAK: GOD OF KOBOLDS
The god of kobolds was a vassal of Tiamat. When the gnome god Garl Glittergold stole a treasure from Tiamat’s hoard, she
lay up to six eggs per year, and an egg matures for two to three months before it hatches.
Kobolds don’t engage in funeral ceremonies; a dead kobold’s body is burned or disposed of in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
, darkwood or stone. Armored plates form a protective outer shell and reinforce joints. All warforged share a common facial design, with a hinged jaw and crystal eyes embedded beneath a reinforced
brow ridge. A sigil is engraved into the center of the forehead; this is unique to each warforged. Beyond these common elements of warforged design, the precise materials and build of a warforged vary
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Dragonmark Appearance A dragonmark appears on the skin. There are twelve known dragonmarks, each unique in design and power. A dragonmark can appear on any part of the body. One half-elf could have
another part of the bearer’s body. All dragonmarks share a similar initial appearance, but a dragonmark can grow in size and complexity as a character gains levels and uses it to cast more powerful magic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
longsword of some legendary being was cast unceremoniously onto the ground here, creating an improvised crossing over the valley.
Three eye mongers (see appendix A) swallowed by Arekanz lurk below the
center of this shrine depicts a cobalt-blue biped with a humanlike body, avian features, and vestments decorated with phoenix iconography. Embedded in the statue’s sternum is a blue phoenix feather
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
participants work the random props, set pieces, and sound effects the Playactors Drama Guild has strewn about the stage area to augment the improvised events. Members of the crowd might play kazoos to
(lawful neutral human first-year student; see the “Fellow Students” section). The festival’s improvised play continues until all volunteer performers have exhausted their prompts. More frequently
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
The Role of Rules Why even have a column like Sage Advice when a DM can just make a ruling? Rules are a big part of what makes D&D a game, rather than simply improvised storytelling. The game’s rules
running. There are times, though, when the design intent of a rule isn’t clear or when one rule seems to contradict another. Dealing with those situations is where Sage Advice comes in. This column
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata
The Role of Rules Why even have Sage Advice when a DM can just make a ruling? Rules are a big part of what makes D&D a game, rather than simply improvised storytelling. The game’s rules are meant to
, though, when the design intent of a rule isn’t clear or when one rule seems to contradict another. Dealing with those situations is where Sage Advice comes in. It doesn’t replace a DM’s adjudication
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
this way. While you live, your armor can’t be removed from your body against your will. Specialized Design. You gain one skill proficiency and one tool proficiency of your choice. Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and one other language of your choice.
Protection. Your body has built-in defensive layers, which can be enhanced with armor: You gain a +1 bonus to Armor Class. You can don only armor with which you have proficiency. To don armor, you must
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
rope as an improvised ranged weapon. Alternatively, a character within reach of a kindori can to try to climb onto its body as an action, doing so with a successful DC 15 Strength (Athletics) check
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
Dragonmark Appearance A dragonmark appears on the skin. There are twelve known dragonmarks, each unique in design and power. A dragonmark can appear on any part of the body. One half-elf could have
another part of the bearer’s body. All dragonmarks share a similar initial appearance, but a dragonmark can grow in size and complexity as a character gains levels and uses it to cast more powerful magic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
the red axe design as the emblem of Mirabar. Non-native characters recognize it with a successful DC 10 Intelligence (History) check. A successful DC 15 Intelligence (Arcana) check identifies the
bugbears. They are dressed in black leather armor with a strange triangular symbol on it (the earth cult symbol). The small cairn contains the body of a human woman in monk’s robes, with a strange
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
. Behir The behir lies in wait in this 50-foot-high cavern, its muscled, serpentine body woven through the stalagmites. Scars are carved into its hide in the form of arcane runes, placed there by
behir’s hoard includes 6,700 gp, 4,100 sp, a gold-and-onyx scorpion brooch (250 gp), a silver music box of elven design (1,000 gp), and a dread helm. A common wondrous item, the dread helm is a fearsome steel helm that makes its wearer’s eyes glow red.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
. Macreadus’s device was similar in design to a mythallar (see appendix D), but much smaller. Unfortunately for him, it had a serious design flaw. When Macreadus tried to use it three days ago, it malfunctioned
characters try to finish his work, Macreadus helps as much as his bodiless form allows. To lay his spirit to rest, the characters must fix his creation’s design flaw and then activate it, all within the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Purphoros turns to Mogis to enhance his craft, engaging in bloody rituals to produce exquisite cursed weapons.
2 An aging veteran seeks to replace her body with living bronze and enlists a genius
conflict he’s certain Purphoros will win.
4 A gladiator of Purphoros partakes of the fumes at Mount Velus then goes on what seems to be a rampage that contributes to a mysterious design.
5
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
elegantly wrought masterwork, depending on its creator. Still other brains desire nothing more than to regain a body. This might be the brain’s original body, another frame they covet, or some more elaborate
design of their own diabolical creation. While disembodied, a brain in a jar weighs roughly 125 pounds. Brain in a Jar
Small Undead
Armor Class 11 (natural armor)
Hit Points 55 (10d6 + 20
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
Deck of Several Things Wondrous item, legendary Stored in a leather pouch, this unique deck contains twenty-two colored cards made of some strong but unknown metal, each of which features a design
Body (area M6). Everything you were wearing and carrying stays behind in the space you occupied when you disappeared. You draw no more cards. Euryale. The card’s medusa-like visage curses you. You
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
center of the body is a large eye that stares at you.
“Hello,” says a thick, burbling voice inside your head.
Spectator
The monster that guards this room is a spectator. One of the human
motif worked into its design. Created for a human hero of Neverwinter named Tergon, it grants its wearer advantage on saving throws against the breath weapons of creatures that have the dragon type.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
hoard, the DM could offer them a physical deck to draw from. Barr also detailed the backs of the cards for the first time. No design on the backs of the cards had ever been mentioned before, but here
single card from the deck. This quickly became a resource-management puzzle: when the players knew one of their number would be imprisoned by the Donjon card, for example, or have their soul separated from their body by the Void card, how did they proceed?
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
one.
Customizing a Chimera The Theran chimera stat block presents one possible chimera configuration. You may customize these statistics to design your own unique chimera. To do so, simply roll once
on one or all of the following tables. Results from the Body Composition table adjust the Theran chimera as described, while results on the Breath Weapons, Head Attacks, and Tail Attacks tables
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
similar tool. Any creature weighing more than 50 pounds that stands on the cube falls into it as the plaster gives way underfoot. The cube contains a chipped alabaster throne of elven design, sturdy in
body has not yet been carved A half-finished stone door carved with the image of a heavily armored dwarf clashing axes with a minotaur A mostly uncarved block of stone from which the features of an ornate stone brazier are emerging
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monstrous Compendium Volume Two
Ember. The beast is terrifying, both in might and cunning, but it undermines my every design and terrorizes my forces. It’s too canny to be caught, but I’m certain some portion of the troops we’ve lost
reduced to 0 hit points by this effect, the creature immediately dies, and its body is reduced to ash.
Bonus Action
Alter Shape. Ember magically transforms into a vulture or a mage and retains his
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
I’Cath Domain Trapped in a Dream Darklord: Tsien Chiang Genres: Body horror and cosmic horror Hallmarks: Endlessly changing labyrinth, deadly jiangshi, inescapable dreamworld Mist Talismans: Scrap of
I’Cath, Darklord Tsien Chiang rules a golden vision of the city—a place of ultimate beauty and efficiency where all things move according to her design. For her, it is near perfection. For her people
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Divine Contention
disintegrates.
E5. Ritual Room These ancient barracks have been cleared for use as a ritual room. A huge circle of ash has been laid out over the floor, surrounding a skull design painted in human blood
to protect its resting place. If Ebondeath left the “Leilon Besieged” quest in Claugiyliamatar’s body, the party is now in trouble. Ebondeath has the statistics of Claugiyliamatar, except his breath
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
you. You can use the arcane armor as a spellcasting focus for your artificer spells. The armor attaches to you and can’t be removed against your will. It also expands to cover your entire body, although
rest, provided you have smith’s tools in hand. Guardian. You design your armor to be in the front line of conflict. It has the following features: Thunder Gauntlets. Each of the armor’s gauntlets
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
end of the nave, a throne resembling a twisted metal captain’s chair rises from a metallic dais backed by an ornate arch. There sits the Grand Master of the Distressed Body — a bone devil flanked by
advanced ruse — a war machine of Kwalish’s design, piloted by a particularly ingenious quasit named Whazzit. The original bone devil met its demise after Kwalish’s exile, when it was drawn into the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
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
detach from their body, move across the walls of the house, and crawl through an open window. 5 A satyr whistles to himself as he reclines in a metal cage that dangles off the end of a boom over a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
lamp oil, pickaxes, shovels, and other gear. Amid the supplies, you see the body of a dwarf, dead for at least a week.
The northeastern section of the cavern has collapsed, forming a ten-foot-wide
at the bottom of the pit leads northwest toward area W2 and east toward area W3. Goblin Body. Slumped at the bottom of the pit is the body of a strange goblin with an elongated skull and green streaks






