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Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Platforms. The warforged titan has two platforms built into its chassis. One Medium or smaller creature can ride on each platform without squeezing. To make a melee attack against a target within 5
":"3d8+6","rollType":"damage","rollDamageType":"slashing"} slashing damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.Warforged titans are hulking constructs built to wreak paths of
Monsters
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Design Specialization. When the android is created, it gains one of six possible designs suited for its role (choose or roll a d6;{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Design
android must see the attacker.Androids are synthetic humanoids built to assist their creators with highly specialized tasks. They are designed to be compliant and typically have friendly demeanors.
Every
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
or value to anyone.
Baba Lysaga built a hut atop the rotting stump of a giant tree that was felled long ago. It was only after she embedded a magic gemstone in the hut that the whole thing was imbued
perverted its magic, using it instead to animate her wooden hut.
Removing the gem from the hut renders the hut incapacitated. That task is easier said than done, however. The glowing green gem is
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Rejuvenation. When it drops to 0 hit points, the shard disappears and leaves a Tiny cracked gemstone in its space. The gemstone matches the kind
them to fulfill the dragon’s designs.
A draconic shard is difficult to destroy. Destroying the shard’s spectral form or an object the shard inhabits forces the spirit into the form of a
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Immutable Form. The colossus is immune to any spell or effect that would alter its form.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the colossus fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
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is built to carry wizards, artificers, magewrights, and elite troops. For this reason, these constructs are largely hollow on the inside, with tunnels, ladders, storage areas, and observation decks
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
, instead of a bipedal vegepygmy. Thornies are less intelligent than other vegepygmies, but they are larger and more ferocious and have thorn-covered bodies.
Vegepygmies
Vegepygmies are fungus creatures
. Among themselves, vegepygmies communicate by hissing, gestures, and tapping. Vegepygmies build and craft little; any gear they have is acquired from other creatures or built by copying simple
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the dragon fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Shift Perception (1/Day). The dragon can cast hallucinatory terrain, requiring no spell components
wary eye on the efreeti;efreet who have built a tower near the dragon’s lair, and indirectly aids any who oppose the efreet.
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An iron golem ferries visitors across the lava moat
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the dragon fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Tunneler. The dragon can burrow through solid rock at half its burrowing speed and can leave a 20
built in the caldera of a dormant volcano. The vaults fell into disuse over a century ago when an upwelling from the lake at the caldera’s center collapsed a portion of the vaults and flooded their
Monsters
Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
damage.Deep within the Ethereal Plane are the demiplanes, miniatures worlds built by powerful archmages and other mighty entities to serve as a private domain. Each demiplane is a designed realm
, built for a specific purpose. Some are fortresses, designed to keep wanderers from the material world away. Others are far more sinister, dark realms where evil dreams take root and become ghastly
Half-Elf
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Basic Rules (2014)
leather, carefully tooled in the intricate designs the elves loved. But no elf in the world of Krynn could grow a beard . . . no elf, but . . .
“Tanis?” said Flint hesitantly as the man
-Elf Variants
Some half-elves in Faerûn have a racial trait in place of the Skill Versatility trait. If your DM allows it, your half-elf character can forgo Skill Versatility and instead take the elf trait Keen Senses or a trait based on your elf parentage:
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
Baldur’s Gate was founded by sailors, and its harbor is still the city’s beating heart. Several patriars are descended from captains of yore, the commerce of the Lower City is built on
background, you may select this background feature instead of Ship’s Passage.
No matter where you go, people are afraid of you due to your reputation. When you are in a settlement, you can get away with
Bugbear
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
, bugbears are ambush predators accustomed to long periods of inactivity broken by short bursts of murderous energy. Ferocious though they may be, bugbears aren’t built for extended periods of exertion
instead of killing them, he showed mercy and even honored them in a way by setting them free — under his control — so that bugbears could continue to employ their talents against his enemies
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
assistant administering the test, cheating on this Exam is a relatively easy matter; the DCs of the two checks is only 12. Costume Designs A character who showed Dean Tullus their plans for a historical
masquerade costume adjusts their Exam results as follows: If the character failed the Exam, they pass instead. If the character passed the Exam, they ace it instead. If the character aced the Exam, they receive three Student Dice, instead of two.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
destruction across the city. After stopping the threat, the characters learn that it was built based on a Kwalish design, and that other such designs might be used to build great engines of destruction. The
Yuan-ti Pureblood
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
people who became yuan-ti were one of the original human civilizations. Their society built great temples of stone and forged metal into armor, tools, and weapons. In their ceremonies they paid homage to
the blood, as it once did.
Because their population is so small, the yuan-ti are aware they are vulnerable in open warfare. Instead, their current plans assume they will never rule outwardly in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Warforged Titan Warforged titans are hulking constructs built to wreak paths of destruction through enemy armies. Some of the most feared combatants of the Last War, warforged titans are barely
sentient, with just enough intelligence to follow commands. Legacy of Giants. In the Age of Giants, giant artificers built mindless war golems to aid them in their war against the quori. Millennia later
Adult Deep Dragon
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
with whom they have alliances or enmities. Their lairs are highly individual. Some are woven from networks of living fungus. Others are built upon the ruins of ancient cities or carved into caves near
A deep dragon lair might share the same basic structure as the sapphire dragon lair shown on map 5.12, but instead of being formed from stone, it might consist of chambers hollowed out within a fungus
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
-Besil. Unbeknown to the dwarves, the settlement was built less than a mile from the location of one such Chaos node. After the Kinslayer Wars, the dwarves retreated south of Pax Tharkas and into
their cultist followers and began to work to further the mysterious designs of the Elder Elemental Eye. The campaign starts off with an investigation into a missing delegation. In the Dragonlance setting
Ancient Deep Dragon
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
alliances or enmities. Their lairs are highly individual. Some are woven from networks of living fungus. Others are built upon the ruins of ancient cities or carved into caves near underground lakes.
Deep
share the same basic structure as the sapphire dragon lair shown on map 5.12, but instead of being formed from stone, it might consist of chambers hollowed out within a fungus network growing near an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Individual Designs A gnome artisan values an individualized clockwork more highly than a perfectly functioning one that copies too much from another creation. For that reason, even clockworks that
fit established designs, such as those described here, are seldom identical. A clockwork can be customized by adding one of the following enhancements and one potential malfunction to its stat block
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
the cave mouths. Characters who need to take a long rest can easily find a secure cave in which to hide. Guard Towers. The cultists have built two guard towers at the camp, one at the entrance to the
mouth of the hollow (level 1 on the map) are crudely built and decorated with animal skulls. These are occupied by kobolds. Cultists occupy the huts on level 2, which are sturdier, cleaner, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
A29. Secret Vault Against the south wall of this otherwise empty room rests a 80-pound iron chest with clawed feet. Its built-in lock bears a tiny circular indentation instead of a traditional
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
words. A successful DC 16 Intelligence (Investigation) check detects this illusion. The hags’ cottage is built from three trees entwined together. These trees might contain the three true dryads whose
free the dryads to set the woods back to order. Instead of the hags being disguised as goodly dryads, you might instead choose to reverse the scenario. The Three Mothers might really be dryads in need
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
valley and built a tower for himself on a small island on Lake Baratok. With the help of some engineers and laborers, he also built an earth-and-gravel causeway connecting the island with the nearby
later, after Strahd became a vampire, Khazan paid a visit to Castle Ravenloft with the notion of challenging Strahd for rulership of Barovia. Instead, much to Khazan’s surprise, Strahd persuaded him to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Android Androids are synthetic humanoids built to assist their creators with highly specialized tasks. They are designed to be compliant and typically have friendly demeanors. Every android has one
designs suited for its role (choose or roll a d6): 1, aerialist; 2, diplomat; 3, diver; 4, duelist; 5, medic; 6, sentry. This design determines certain traits in this stat block.
Lightning Overload. When
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
or brush conveniently conceals many of the cave mouths. Characters who need to take a long rest can easily find a secure cave in which to hide. Guard Towers. The cultists have built two guard towers
represent clusters of tents.) Those in the mouth of the hollow (level 1 on the map) are crudely built and decorated with animal skulls. These are occupied by kobolds. Cultists occupy the huts on level
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
replaced by the eastern portion of the Kron Hills and the western border of the Gnarley Forest. Instead of Red Larch, the starting town of the adventure is Hommlet. The adventure content described in
corner of the Flanaess. In the classic Greyhawk adventure, the temple wasn’t built on top of dwarven ruins. Omit any mention of the ancient realm of Besilmer and the underground ruins of Tyar-Besil
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
O’Connor. (O’Connor’s designs also appeared when Magic: The Gathering drew on the Deck of Many Things for a set inspired by the Forgotten Realms.) Like “House of Cards,” Madness at Gardmore Abbey forced
characters to interact with the Deck of Many Things, but it rewarded them with new powers instead of punishing them and blocking all efforts to escape the deck.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
four shambling mounds made entirely of skulls and bones, with these changes: The shambling mounds are undead. Instead of immunity to lightning damage, they have immunity to necrotic and poison damage
. They are also immune to the poisoned condition. They have Necrotic Absorption instead of Lightning Absorption. The new trait is functionally identical to the old one, except that it affects necrotic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
the mountain rather than built from fitted stonework.
Two dwarf guards stand watch atop this stony shelf. Instead of spears and shields, they carry warhammers that they wield with two hands (1d10 + 1
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Netheril’s Fall: Tales of Terror, Treasure, and Time Travel
magical objects that have Immunity to all damage. A time gate might have a literal doorway built around its portal, or a time gate’s portal might be at the bottom of a pit or open through a shimmering
of the portal need not look the same. Such a portal commonly looks like a shimmery blue mirror. Instead of a reflection, however, the portal usually shows a faraway image of the place the time gate leads to.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
. “The faster I talk, think, and invent, the faster I can improve my designs.” Ideal. “Not only can I make that, I can make it better!” Bond. “Through invention, we make a more interesting world.” Flaw
was the boilerdrak used in Vogler.) The stranger also hired her to design another device, which he was supposed to pick up today. Instead, the goblinoids showed up and demanded she turn over “the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
1F. Stables The fittest, most ferocious of the giant lizards are housed here instead of in the open stockade (area 2), to protect them against the biting and clawing that goes on in the common
enclosure. These lizards are used as riding mounts by lizardfolk on long patrols. The stalls, originally built for horses, have been enlarged to accommodate the beasts (eight giant lizards). The normally
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Netheril’s Fall: Tales of Terror, Treasure, and Time Travel
built enclaves in similarly dramatic locations protected by magic, such as atop waterfalls, in caverns, on isolated mountain peaks, or in calderas of volcanoes. Magic Dependence High Netherese regarded
sword, or start a fire without magic. Some couldn’t write or read altogether, relying on enchanted quills and speaking parchment instead. Society High Netherese society was full of beautiful people
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
component. Even a blast of fire in your hands is a sculpted work of art; elemental forces make grand designs as you hurl spells. These forces might linger on your body or in your clothes as decorative
beset with such an overwhelming sense of ennui regarding my art. Nothing quite captures my attention anymore. 6 Instead of confronting my negative emotions, I channel them into explosive artistic