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Bheur Hag

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

’t read, and speaks only in gibberish. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. If a creature’s saving throw is

starve. Bheurs use their ability to manipulate weather to batter villages with freezing cold, hoping to instill a despair that turns folk against each other. In combat, a bheur hag also strives to

Gem Dragonborn

Species Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

echo of discovery—but also the desiccation of despair. Creating Your Character When you create your D&D character, you decide whether your character is a member of the human race or one of

those suggestions or to ignore them. Whichever scores you decide to increase, none of the scores can be raised above 20. Languages Your character can speak, read, and write Common and one other

Symbol Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

target is overwhelmed with despair for 1 minute. During this time, it can't attack or target any creature with harmful abilities, spells, or other magical effects. Insanity. Each target must make an

Intelligence saving throw. On a failed save, the target is driven insane for 1 minute. An insane creature can't take actions, can't understand what other creatures say, can't read, and speaks only in

Vistani Lore

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries

Vistani Lore Characters who read the Book of the Raven learn the following information about the Vistani: The Vistani are planar travelers often encountered in the Shadowfell, and they seem to be

immune to the despair that besets all other visitors to that plane. They travel in horse-drawn, barrel-shaped wagons and have no permanent home. The Vistani display their wealth openly as a sign of

K27. King's Hall

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd

K27. King’s Hall This twenty-foot-high hall has a dark, vaulted ceiling draped with cobwebs. A low moan seems to travel the length of the corridor as it rises and falls, intoning sadness and despair

characters reach the midpoint of the hall from either direction, read: You hear a scraping sound of stone against stone, followed by the squeaking of a bat. In the direction of the noise, you see the

D14. Toadstool Patch

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

D14. Toadstool Patch Your heart suddenly feels cold, filling you with a sense of loneliness that borders on despair. A haunting, melancholy tune played on a flute reaches out to you from somewhere

within a field of oversized toadstools. If the characters follow the music to its source, read: A slender elf with pale blue skin and black hair sits curled in the shadow of a gray, six-foot-tall

Bheur Hag

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

others starve. Bheurs use their ability to manipulate weather to batter villages with freezing cold, hoping to instill a despair that turns folk against each other. In combat, a bheur hag also strives to

incapacitated, can’t understand what others say, can’t read, and speaks only in gibberish. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. If

Symbol

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)

saving throw. On a failed save, the target is overwhelmed with despair for 1 minute. During this time, it can’t attack or target any creature with harmful abilities, spells, or other magical effects

, can’t read, and speaks only in gibberish. The DM controls its movement, which is erratic. Pain. Each target must make a Constitution saving throw and becomes incapacitated with excruciating pain for

K10. Dining Hall

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd

K10. Dining Hall The first time the characters enter this room, read: Three enormous crystal chandeliers brilliantly illuminate this magnificent chamber. Pillars of stone stand against dull white

its tone of greatness and despair. Seated at the organ, facing away from you, a single caped figure pounds the keys in raptured ecstasy. The figure suddenly stops, and as a deep silence falls over the

Introduction

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1

despair, to let a disease break your spirit as it tries to kill everyone it touches. Well, f*** that. We might not have the magic bullet that puts cancer away for good, but we’re getting there. Your support

thus worthy of cautious respect, if not fear. Read on and learn that perhaps the derision leveled at these fiends reflects only the fear and trepidation of those who would mock them. And perhaps if

The Draconic Prophecy

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

kindling in the midst of despair is one obvious reading of these words. However, the reference to fires earlier in the verse doesn’t require that the embers here be positive—this could refer to a new

, destructive fire raging to life after long lying dormant, or perhaps even the hatching of a red dragon’s egg. “Five shall rise to cause a dragon’s fall.” The best way to read this line is as a reference

Encounter 3: In Pieces

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Shadows of Sithicus

Encounter 3: In Pieces Give the characters one minute to collect themselves, check on rescued townspeople, heal themselves, and so forth. When that minute passes, read or paraphrase the following

Chittering Disturbance The group must fight two Swarms of Infesting Insects. The other groups’ characters gain Heroic Inspiration. 2 Cry of Despair The group must fight two Harpies. The other groups

Ilvaash's Refraction

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

ascend to the surface of the Briny Pool in area B22, read or paraphrase the following: The large chamber holding the impossibly deep pool of cerebral fluid is no longer empty. An enormous, floating

characters into despair. If the characters haven’t yet defeated the purple worm in the Briny Pool, it joins the fight against the characters at the beginning of the third round of combat. Refraction

11. Eye of Annam

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder

through the archway, read: Beyond the thundering archway lies a hexagonal chamber whose walls rise 50 feet before tapering to a 90-foot-high apex. Standing in each corner of the room is a life-size statue

was overcome with despair and envy. A terrible fight between father and son ensued, in which Blagothkus slew Eigeron. Blagothkus then retired to his castle to mourn. Eigeron manifests as the spirit

Roots of Bathalang Puno

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel

punoView Player Version Map 10.2 represents Pangil ng Buwan’s lair. When the characters arrive, read the following description: Charred roots the size of buildings surround an open clearing with a

python. The End of Despair If Pangil ng Buwan is cleansed of the spirit blisters’ corruption, the bakunawa thanks the party for saving it and shares the following information: Pangil ng Buwan recounts the

Fey Beacons

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

beacons.” The simple goal of lighting the beacons has been repeatedly thwarted by the perytons, who revel in Alagarthas’s despair. Each time he lights a beacon, the perytons snuff it out, yet

open flame. If Alagarthas is allowed to light all eight beacons by himself, read: Beneath the light of all the beacons, you see reflected in the mirror-like surface of the lake a forest of ancient trees

Sigil Encounters

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel

(noncombatant) holding a broken toy. A character can brighten the child’s spirits with a successful DC 15 Charisma (Performance) check or by repairing their toy. On a failed check, the characters record despair

witnessed the characters’ spontaneous resurrection. The Guvners deploy a cadre of Harmonium officers to place the characters under arrest. When you’re ready to end the exploration, read or paraphrase the

Hags

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

villages with snow and freezing cold, hoping to instill despair that turns the villagers against each other. A bheur hag loves watching unprepared people suffer and die for their mistakes during the

frightened of her for 1 minute. While frightened in this way, a creature is incapacitated, can’t understand what others say, can’t read, and speaks only in gibberish; the DM controls the creature’s

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