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Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
treasure plundered fall to the bottom of the ordning, becoming outcasts known as fog giants. Cut off from their proper place in society, they become raiders and marauders who seek to reclaim their
treasure or start a new hoard—by any means possible.
Beleaguered Moguls. Though they live as ruthless raiders, fog giants remain tasteful and refined in their desires. They remember their former
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Satyrs have a well-earned reputation for their good spirits, gregarious personalities, and love of revels. Most satyrs are driven by simple desires, to see the world and to sample its every pleasure
jolly dance.
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Sometimes talking to a plant really helps.
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If stumped, I smoke a pipe. And if I’m going to smoke a pipe, it’s going to be a splendid pipe.
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I imagine
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
humanity can’t imagine? Or are you driven solely by your personal desires, or the goals of your family or warlord? How Does Your Background Shape You? The diverse creatures of Droaam could include a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
things humanity can’t even imagine. Or you might ignore this big picture and be driven solely by your personal desires or the goals of your family or warlord. Backgrounds. The creatures of Droaam are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Dragon as Power In some places, dragons are more than monsters or masterminds. They are movers and shakers whose desires shape the course of history. A powerful dragon’s schemes impact the characters
significance of a dragon’s schemes to make those plots fit the dragon’s stature in the world. Imagine the dragon’s hoard on the scale of a national treasury. Think of the dragon’s minions as the entire
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Sinister Reflections A Darklord’s memories, desires, mistakes, and evil deeds shape the domain’s twisted lands, inhabitants, and features. You need not create these in a vacuum, though. When creating
are now. Exaggerated Reflections. For each favored personal characteristic, imagine and write down a version twisted to its extreme. For example, transform “I idolize a particular hero of my faith, and
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
relocate, nor can they imagine living anywhere else. Life is as it’s always been and could never be better, but it’s constantly threatened with becoming worse.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
desires, draining hope and optimism from formerly fiery spirits. An adventure in Hades can challenge characters to find an answer to the ever-present question that hangs over this plane: why bother? As
. Adventurers might pursue a hag, a lich, or another evil spellcaster who comes to Hades to collect larvae for vile purposes. Once they are in the Three Glooms, the adventurers risk becoming trapped by the overwhelming despair of the place.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
imagine the perceptible part of the Outer Planes as a sort of border region, while extensive spiritual regions lie beyond ordinary sensory experience. Even in those perceptible regions, appearances
Outer Planes. The desires of the mighty forces that dwell on these planes can remake them completely, effectively erasing and rebuilding existence itself to better fulfill their own needs. Distance is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
characters could use, including infernal war machines, provisions, temporary shelter, and information. The characters have something Mad Maggie desires greatly: Lulu’s memories. One way to run a complex
social encounter like this one is to imagine a scale from 1 to 10, with 1 representing the worst possible outcome and 10 the best. The characters start at 5, and as they progress through the scene
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
? How does this threat connect to the Darklord seeking their desires? Consider who might need the characters’ aid and might guide them to deeper mysteries. Detail Key Locations. Briefly describe distinct
Connections table provides examples of such connections. Interactions with the Darklord. Imagine situations that allow the players’ characters and the Darklord to socialize without the encounter
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
footsteps, and birds fill the sky with their pleasing songs. Evil Empyreans. A few empyreans have turned to evil after venturing to the Lower Planes and becoming corrupted, or as the result of being cursed
. Empyreans don’t age but can be slain. Because few empyreans can imagine their own demise, they fight fearlessly when drawn into battle, refusing to believe that the end is upon them even when
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
have their treasure plundered fall to the bottom of the ordning, becoming outcasts known as fog giants. Cut off from their proper place in society, they become raiders and marauders who seek to
reclaim their treasure or start a new hoard—by any means possible. Beleaguered Moguls. Though they live as ruthless raiders, fog giants remain tasteful and refined in their desires. They remember their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
living keeps to the darkness and far from reflective surfaces. Dark Desires. Whether or not a vampire retains any memories from its former life, its emotional attachments wither as once-pure
, becoming Strahd’s adviser and constant companion.
In his brother, Strahd saw everything he had lost. Sergei was handsome and young, while Strahd had become old and scarred. Resentment colored their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
carries it might have severely burned or even killed a loved one. Imagine having the power to cast charm person but being unable to control it and having people you care about suddenly becoming slavishly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
. From the moment it awakens, a redcap desires only murder and carnage, and it sets out to satisfy these cravings. Redcaps lack subtlety. They live for direct confrontation and the mayhem of mortal
redcap demands to be paid in victims. A patron who tries to stifle a redcap’s natural and necessary urge for blood risks becoming the redcap’s next target. Redcap
Small Fey, Chaotic Evil
Armor Class
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
of the surrounding area. Often, it plunders its neighbors’ homes for knowledge and treasure. After the beholder secures the spoils it desires from its enemies, it allows its minions to divide the
. Death Tyrants As a beholder ages, it spends more and more time worrying about its mortality. The dreams of such a death-fearing beholder might reach into strange corners of reality and imagine
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
home village slashed his face with a dagger. It serves as a constant reminder of his past. Although outwardly friendly, Quill is driven by three selfish desires: to preserve his well-being, to
have been drafted to serve as waiters during the party in the ballroom (see “Quill’s Party” later in the adventure). Renekor’s presence is slowly warping the demiplane, causing these servants to shift allegiance, becoming loyal and obedient to the beholder rather than to Quill or the Harpers.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
— and the madly ambitious might even seek out the means of becoming a demon lord. Ever-Changing Layers The physical nature of the Abyss is something that few mortal minds can understand. Those who
best serves the lord’s desires. Of course, keeping control of a layer involves fighting off other demons that are looking to expand their domains. From time to time, a layer changes hands or is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Satyr Satyrs have a well-earned reputation for their good spirits, gregarious personalities, and love of revels. Most satyrs are driven by simple desires, to see the world and to sample its every
.
5 If stumped, I smoke a pipe. And if I’m going to smoke a pipe, it’s going to be a splendid pipe.
6 I imagine that my clothes are my glorious soul on display for all the world to behold
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
danger of becoming extinct anytime soon. Titanic Nature. Although it eats and sleeps if it so desires, an astral dreadnought doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep. Astral dreadnoughts exist for one
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
scarcely imagine the reward Jarl Rault or High King Derid would offer to the adventurers who reclaimed the ruins of Iron Keep, once home to the isle’s rulers. Snowdown The little isle of Snowdown, south
Erliza and her soldiers have ruthlessly put down several rebellions, and the Ffolk here refer to her as “Bloody Erliza.” Some Amnians believe the isle is becoming more trouble to hold on to than its
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
. Any goals and ambitions it had in life that don’t please its patron fall away as its master’s desires become the purpose that drives it. The deathlock immediately resumes work on its patron’s behalf
devising tactics and carrying out plans. Powerful deathlocks recruit lesser creatures to help them carry out their missions, becoming the masterminds behind vast conspiracies and intrigues that culminate
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
contempt for mortals (or any other denizens of the Material Plane) and desires nothing more than to crush and subjugate whomever he encounters. What he can’t crush, he endures and outlasts. Ogrémoch
Dexterity saving throw (target’s choice) or be knocked prone. Regional Effects The region containing an elemental node in which Ogrémoch is present is seriously affected, becoming geologically
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
” section earlier in this chapter can help you describe your game to others.) Telling players what to expect prepares them as they imagine what sorts of characters they could create and launches
before play begins. Being clear about your expectations and making sure you understand your players’ expectations in return can help ensure a smooth game. Take your players’ opinions and desires
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
” section earlier in this chapter can help you describe your game to others.) Telling players what to expect prepares them as they imagine what sorts of characters they could create and launches
clear about your expectations and making sure you understand your players’ expectations in return can help ensure a smooth game. Take your players’ opinions and desires seriously, and make sure they
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
. Spawned by a God. Long ago, a deity of greed and strife perished in the battles among the immortals. Its body drifted through the Astral Plane, eventually becoming a petrified husk. This corpse
something specific the morkoth has or knows. The creature shows no mercy to those that try to steal from it, but it can be bargained with by a visitor that offers the morkoth something it desires. No
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
an illusion by making a successful DC 15 Intelligence (Investigation) check. On a successful check, the illusions fade for that character, becoming transparent enough to see through. Beyond the
devour 1d4 more creatures within the minute, but entity does not grant any additional desires. 2 Entity strikes everyone present permanently blind and does not grant any additional desires. 3 Entity
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
before spinning the creature a tailor-made robe. As the robe is being fashioned, Mixyll urges its guest to “imagine any image your heart desires.” The spiders can, in the 10 minutes it takes to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
sector’s magic to collect the divine essence of the Chosen of various deities. The Thayan regent believes that this essence may be the key to becoming a god. Locations in the Temples of Extraction are
-worshiping communities who seek alternative routes to power. Ghaunadaur is a malignant and unknowable deity that desires living sacrifice and destruction due to monstrous causes, particularly oozes. If
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
is prosperous and becoming increasingly crowded. Some of its old buildings have been torn down and taller ones built — four stories high, in some cases. Because the city is a major river port
mark what used to be the village of Zelbross. The abandoned site has a lovely view of the Southwood across the river, so it’s easy to imagine why settlers chose this spot, but there’s no evidence of what
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
sea. Imagine, if you can, the top of this crag hemmed in entirely by a tall wall. This wall is interrupted by several towers all the way around, and it encloses a large space from which even more of
scriptoria to facilitate the copying of books becoming worn, binderies to repair the same, and even magical storage that preserve rare books from any further decay or damage. I’ve never made a detailed study
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
pursue knowledge indefinitely. Having feasted on the brains of people when alive, a mind flayer has no compunction about feeding souls to a phylactery. The only hindrance to a mind flayer becoming a
were the digit of a hand.
Ego Unhindered. Each elder brain considers itself and its desires the most important things in the multiverse, the mind flayers in its colony nothing more than extensions of
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
adventures to please different kinds of players. The guild or guilds your players choose will also help you understand your players’ desires. It’s a safe bet that a player who creates a Rakdos character is
the ranks of the senate as well, becoming a minister and eventually the arbiter who dictates law enforcement policy for the entire guild. Along the way, this villain uses every available means to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
subtle creature, a green dragon bends other creatures to its will by assessing and playing off their deepest desires. Any creature foolish enough to attempt to subdue a green dragon eventually realizes
bright glossy scarlet, turning a dull, deeper red and becoming as thick and strong as metal as the dragon ages. Its pupils also fade as it ages, and the oldest red dragons have eyes that resemble molten






