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Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
, undead hunters, nosferatu possess the endless thirst of vampire;vampires but none of their grace. For them, existence is nothing more than an everlasting string of cold, desperate nights punctuated
capable of considering more than their next meal. In these instants, nosferatu recollect glimpses of what they once were, beings who knew pride, intention, and a world beyond the shadows. They might even
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
the necrotic energy of the Negative Plane that suffuses them. Their psionic power manifests the fundamental entropic principle that mortal beings and their creations are ultimately doomed to death and
creatures.
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I secretly enjoy conversing with lesser beings, although I usually do so only to find their weaknesses.
Topaz Dragon Ideals
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Vecna: Eve of Ruin
annihilation.
Desperate to save themselves and their allies, powerful elemental beings called the Wind Dukes of Aaqa rose against Miska. Committed to the concept of law, the Wind Dukes descended from a
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
the nature of topaz dragons, thanks to the necrotic energy of the Negative Plane that suffuses them. Their psionic power manifests the fundamental entropic principle that mortal beings and their
hone them on other creatures.
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I secretly enjoy conversing with lesser beings, although I usually do so only to find their weaknesses.
Topaz Dragon Ideals
d6;{"diceNotation
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
the nature of topaz dragons, thanks to the necrotic energy of the Negative Plane that suffuses them. Their psionic power manifests the fundamental entropic principle that mortal beings and their
to meet one, I hone them on other creatures.
8
I secretly enjoy conversing with lesser beings, although I usually do so only to find their weaknesses.
Topaz Dragon Ideals
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Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
beings and their creations are ultimately doomed to death and decomposition, and the dragons’ demeanor is typically morbid and curmudgeonly as a result.
Gleaming Gold
Upon hatching, topaz
bronze dragons; while I wait to meet one, I hone them on other creatures.
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I secretly enjoy conversing with lesser beings, although I usually do so only to find their weaknesses.
Topaz
Young Deep Dragon
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
labyrinth of my thoughts.
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I might disagree with other dragons, but we are superior beings and should not lower ourselves to direct conflict.
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I have no interest in going to the surface world
adventurers to investigate.
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Two Underdark settlements are about to go to war, having been carefully manipulated by a deep dragon. A desperate ruler offers a reward to anyone who can uncover the
Deep Dragon Wyrmling
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
other dragons, but we are superior beings and should not lower ourselves to direct conflict.
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I have no interest in going to the surface world. It’s where one sends one’s servants
adventurers to investigate.
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Two Underdark settlements are about to go to war, having been carefully manipulated by a deep dragon. A desperate ruler offers a reward to anyone who can uncover the true
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
chemical accidents and the proper formulas. Golems, homunculi, and other constructed beings groan to life to support a populace desperate to survive in this frigid realm. Frozen bogs and glacial expanses
Lamordia a crucible of desperate innovations. Claiming to work for the greater good, innovators and scholars push beyond the limits of morality. Their scalpels turn scientific pursuits into butchery
Ancient Deep Dragon
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dragons, but we are superior beings and should not lower ourselves to direct conflict.
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I have no interest in going to the surface world. It’s where one sends one’s servants.
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Two Underdark settlements are about to go to war, having been carefully manipulated by a deep dragon. A desperate ruler offers a reward to anyone who can uncover the true cause of the hostility
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
? When it becomes desperate, how does it react? Let Players Fill Gaps Invite players to turn their imaginations against themselves. Leave details intentionally blank, describing just enough to reveal
these: What does the way it moves remind you of? It emits the worst smell—what is it? Something falls free and, for an instant, what are you certain it is? Players’ responses don’t need to control the narrative; it’s up to you whether they’re true or just one perception.
Adult Deep Dragon
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dragons, but we are superior beings and should not lower ourselves to direct conflict.
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I have no interest in going to the surface world. It’s where one sends one’s servants.
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Underdark settlements are about to go to war, having been carefully manipulated by a deep dragon. A desperate ruler offers a reward to anyone who can uncover the true cause of the hostility.
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A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
across two separate beings: Andras and Stolos. Although they both operate in the temple, their split nature and the memory of who they once were disturbs Andras and Stolos so much that they seek each
other’s ruin. The only thing that keeps both from killing the other is a desperate belief that their original natures might somehow be restored. Andras Andras is a neutral evil male human assassin
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
of such a bargain reflects the agenda of the being or beings offering the bargain, be it the Dark Powers, a Darklord, or a more mysterious force. The particulars of the Dark Gift and how it will
. Typically, only one character is aware of a bargain, its terms, and whether or not it was accepted. The DM might have a mysterious force intervene and offer a Dark Gift whenever a desperate or thematic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Zariel voids all the active contracts she has made with beings across the multiverse. This causes no small amount of cosmic chaos. The Fate of Thavius Kreeg If the characters killed Thavius Kreeg in
contract that sealed Elturel’s doom is hidden. This is a lie, the claim a desperate ploy to buy time and, hopefully, a chance to escape.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
moral qualms. She pursued medicine solely to satiate her burning intellectual curiosity, never to aid her patients. She perceived magic as stealing the powers of otherworldly beings and cheating the
as Mordenheim sought to glimpse the secrets hidden in the instant of death. One moonless night, Elise fell into a sleep from which she wouldn’t wake. Bringing Elise to her lab, Dr. Mordenheim worked
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Nosferatu Vicious, undead hunters, nosferatu possess the endless thirst of vampires but none of their grace. For them, existence is nothing more than an everlasting string of cold, desperate nights
of considering more than their next meal. In these instants, nosferatu recollect glimpses of what they once were, beings who knew pride, intention, and a world beyond the shadows. They might even
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
, Gibbeth, and Hadar—resemble stars and embody the essence of evil. Only the malevolent or the desperate do business with neogi. I generally advise against working with beings who view you as property
Neogi A neogi looks like an outsize spider with an eel’s neck and head. It can poison the body and the mind of its targets and can subjugate even beings that are physically superior. Neogi usually
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
to desperate castaways, from monstrous predators to the last beings of their kind, might make their home in a hidden island sanctuary. The Island Inhabitants table offers just a few suggestions for
might also be worlds unto themselves, where unlikely beings hold dominion or the gods have crafted a realm to their specific whims. Such mystical islands aren’t just stops on an ocean journey; they’re
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Codex—and has decided to prove it by attacking the site.
Connected Creatures Bronze dragons admire high-minded ambition and military prowess, seeking out those beings willing to risk their lives in
fought together in the mage’s youth often visit each other to share stories.
7 An adult bronze dragon attempting to raise a clutch of wyrmlings alone is in desperate need of tutors and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
annihilation. Desperate to save themselves and their allies, powerful elemental beings called the Wind Dukes of Aaqa rose against Miska. Committed to the concept of law, the Wind Dukes descended from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
rarely speaks, but he crackles and roars with terrible laughter as anything combustible within his grasp bursts into flame and feeds his hate. Mortal beings are mere objects of contempt to Imix, and he
. Anything combustible stokes his hunger, but he takes special delight in feeding on the handiwork and possessions of intelligent beings, such as crops, buildings, or goods. Imix doesn’t even spare his own
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
poison the body and the mind of its target, able to subjugate other beings that are otherwise physically superior. Alien Tyrants. Neogi usually dwell in far-flung locations on the Material Plane, as well
the emotional aspects of existence that humans and similar beings experience. To a neogi, hatred is as foreign a sensation as love, and showing loyalty in the absence of authority is foolishness. Damn
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
, transforming the house into a supernatural deathtrap. The haunting within the house has two states: Dormant. When living beings arrive at the house, the haunting is dormant. During this time, the
(Dranzorg) cackles as wicked soldiers brick a captive into a stone wall. A desperate knight (Mara) forces tired soldiers to march toward an ominous castle (Castle Laventz). A knight (Mara) howls her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
, foes whose rivalry with your order emulates the conflict between your respective gods. Some religious orders also hunt and destroy fiends, undead, or other beings they consider abominations, seeking to
Recovery. You seek a lost symbol of the order discovered in a dangerous place or in the hands of an enemy. 3 Cult Hunt. You hunt a cell of zealots dangerous to your order or mortals at large. 4 Desperate
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Halfling Gods and Myths Halflings see their gods more as extended family members than as divine beings. They don’t worship them in the same way as elves and dwarves revere their gods, because the
halfling gods are viewed as folk heroes — mortal beings who ascended to divinity, rather than divine entities who descend from their realms to influence the world. Because of this outlook, halflings
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
as much in conflict with himself as with other beings, the Prince of Demons inspires fear and hatred among other demons and demon lords. Demogorgon’s layer is a vast wilderness of brutality and
to resist the temptation to turn against allies in order to survive. Heroic characters might make a desperate last stand against endless hordes of demons here, or they might try to avoid detection
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata
spell Animate Dead harnesses magical energy to turn a corpse or a pile of bones into an Undead creature. That necromantic magic is present for an instant and is then gone. The resulting creature now
Antimagic Field! In contrast, a spell like Conjure Woodland Beings has a non-instantaneous duration, which means its effect can be ended by Dispel Magic and temporarily disappears within an Antimagic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
enjoy ambushing travelers, but there haven’t been many travelers recently. The ropers don’t know that gricks have been poaching their potential prey. They’re hungry and desperate for victims. The ropers
room provides. The long-ago collapse caused desperate times for the svirfneblin enclave. The tunnel once led to several other svirfneblin communities from which these svirfneblin acquired mithral, but
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
moldering streets, preying on the desperate and downtrodden. Pickpockets masquerade as touts, eager to pilfer coin from stumbling sots and newcomers. Professions not outwardly criminal in nature are often
from a desperate human commoner and flees into a nearby alley. The victim cries for help from the characters. 8 Two ettercaps hiss at the characters from an abandoned tenement building cocooned in thick
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
night, but were little more than a desperate mob whose tainted dreams brought them together. With the arrival of the aboleth Sgothgah in the Styes, the cult now has renewed vigor, and its members
of dealing with the characters honestly, since inferior beings don’t merit such treatment. Using its Probing Telepathy, it discerns each character’s greatest desire, then uses this information
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
swarms are groups of creatures. When you cast a spell like conjure woodland beings , does the spellcaster or the DM choose the creatures that are conjured? A number of spells in the game let you summon
creatures. Conjure animals, conjure celestial, conjure minor elementals, and conjure woodland beings are just a few examples. Some spells of this sort specify that the spellcaster chooses the creature
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
by drow. They revere a host of divine entities, which they refer to as the Dark Seldarine in mockery of the surface elves’ deities. The Dark Seldarine are mighty, immortal beings, survivors from the
lack status and are desperate to achieve it. A small sacrifice and a prayer to That Which Lurks might simply go unnoticed by Ghaunadaur, or it might punish the petitioner, but there is also a chance
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Strongheart (see appendix B), battled Kelek and Warduke in this study. Warduke used a horn of blasting to punch a hole in the wall and sent the knight hurtling through it. An instant later, the palace
lesser beings. P48b. Characters can reach this chamber by climbing a staircase from area P14b on the palace’s lower level. An enameled white coffer rests on a black basalt pedestal in the middle of the