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The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
, Clapperclaw runs out of stuffing and must spend 8 hours foraging for more before it can use this action again.Clapperclaw the scarecrow is 3 feet tall. Created by Granny Nightshade using a tormented
harengon brigands, who stole its head, which the scarecrow describes as a most glorious stag skull. It desperately wants its head back, and it’s a bit self-conscious about its replacement head: a
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its turns if it has at least 1 Hit Point. If the nosferatu takes Radiant damage, this trait doesn’t function on the nosferatu’s next turn.
Spider Climb. The nosferatu can climb difficult
creature can’t regain Hit Points for 1 minute. Success: Half damage only.Bloodthirsty Slash. Trigger: A Bloodied creature the nosferatu can see within 40 feet takes damage. Response: The nosferatu
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Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
", "rollAction":"Gorging Charge"}. The maw moves up to its speed without provoking opportunity attack;opportunity attacks and can move through the spaces of Large or smaller creatures. Each time the maw enters
grapple ends, the target has the restrained condition. The maw can have only one creature grappled in this way at a time.Fanged Rebuke. In response to taking damage, the maw makes one Bite attack
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, the target can’t speak or cast spells with a Verbal component. Success: Half damage only.Ramya Vasavadan desperately fights to claim and hold power over Kalakeri in a brutal cycle of victory
with all her Hit Points somewhere in Kalakeri.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day, or 4/Day in Domain). If Ramya fails a saving throw, she can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. Ramya has Advantage
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Vecna: Eve of Ruin
frightened condition.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Kas fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.
Regeneration. Kas regains 20 hit points at the start of his turn if he has at least 1
).
Spider Climb. Kas can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.
Strength of the Night. Kas doesn’t require a coffin, and he drinks
Magic Items
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
shield for the next 24 hours. Once the shield uses this power, it can’t use it again until the next dawn.
Gargauth’s Personality. Gargauth desperately seeks freedom but can’t escape
Intelligence of 22, a Wisdom of 18, and a Charisma of 24, as well as hearing and truesight out to a range of 120 feet.
The shield can speak, read, and understand Common and Infernal, and it can communicate
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
ruins. You are part of a savage society that clings desperately to the Old Ways — attuned to nature, full of primal rage, and given short shrift by a world consumed with continuing civilization
vast, sprawling rubblebelts of broken terrain that civilized folk have long abandoned. You can find a suitable place for you and your allies to hide or rest in these areas. In addition, you can find
Adult Deep Dragon
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Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the dragon fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.Multiattack. The dragon makes one Bite attack and two Claw attacks.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +9
", "rollDamageType":"psychic"} psychic damage, and it is frightened of the dragon for 1 minute. On a successful save, the creature takes half as much damage with no additional effects. A frightened creature can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
of other creatures. Cunning hunters, these pools of jelly stalk prey, searching for the memories they so desperately crave. When oblexes feed on those thoughts, sometimes killing their victims, they
can form weird copies of their prey, which help them to harvest even more victims for their dark masters. Memory Eaters. Oblexes feed on thoughts and memories. The sharper the mind, the better the meal
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
without provocation. Cht-Chak is desperately trying to find help. If pressed for details, Cht-Chak explains she’s never seen the Dawn Mother act like this. She’s willing to pay the characters to help her
band, though she can offer only a load of panela worth 200 gp. She can, however, lead the characters directly to the Dawn Mother.
Kobold
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
against the wall can become a miniature storm of fangs and claws as it desperately tries to defend its life. Likewise, kinship to their own tribe can prompt kobolds to battle another kobold tribe for
creatures wouldn’t feel safe.
Kobolds take advantage of their size by creating small-diameter tunnels that they can easily pass through, but that require larger creatures to hunch over or even
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
those in my care are my home, and I’ll risk my life to protect them.” Flaw. “I’ve seen terrors but have risen above them. I can triumph over any evil—except my past.” Adventures with Larissa Snowmane
wayfaring adventurers. Consider the following plots when featuring Larissa Snowmane in an adventure: River Dancer appears when the characters desperately need to escape a domain, but the Mists make their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
aarakocra know a secret method to stabilize the Labyrinth Funnel so it can be used safely as a portal. Ill Winds Blow Frost giant raiders are subverting the Labyrinth Funnel to connect to the Howling
, and she is using its power to drive other beings from her domain. Towns in the area desperately call for help as endless storms assail them and an onslaught of creatures from the Elemental Air
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Zhentarim The Black Network has an open recruitment policy. Anyone can join. Tenacity and loyalty are highly valued (but not essential) traits in new members. The Zhentarim is a shadow organization
oppose Manshoon want to expose and destroy him before they are themselves apprehended or driven out of the city by the local authorities. Adventurers can’t join Manshoon’s cause, but they can join and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
of the fantasy genre revolve around dealing with a dragon who has become too monstrous and putting an end to the danger the dragon poses to peoples and civilizations. Three basic goals can provide the
goal, but it’s certainly one way to solve the problem. Acquire the Dragon’s Treasure. The dragon’s hoard contains unimaginable wealth—or perhaps one powerful artifact the characters desperately need
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
among the threads. Web-covered areas count as difficult terrain, but they’re not strong enough to restrain anyone. A character can use an action to burn a 5-foot cube of web with a torch or to cast a
that one of the bundles is wriggling slightly. The bundle contains a goblin named Greech, who has been mutilated by spiders and drained of his blood. The goblin has 3 hit points left and is missing his tongue. He tries desperately to bargain for his life using grunts and frantic sign language.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
only way to free him is for Zikran to end the enchantment willingly or for Zikran to be killed. Repeatedly and desperately, yet still with a noble manner, Gazre-Azam asks for the characters’ aid. In
magical abilities, but he can speak freely to the party and provide valuable information. Once members of the Avowed learn that a creature is trapped in the tome, they will allow the characters to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
, oily spires twist in semi-organic contortions, caustic fumaroles yawn and snap shut hungrily, and above it all hangs a dying red orb. Little can survive this wasteland, which is why Bluetspur’s masters
mind flayers work desperately to reconcile their god’s demented whims even as they struggle to delay its demise. To those ends, their tentacles slip through the Mists to drag unwitting souls back to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
hue. A Dragon Army rider whips a net at their desperately fleeing quarry, and the unfortunate creature tumbles from the sky, crashing near you.
The injured wasteland dragonnel (see appendix B) crashes
dragonnels flee if their riders are defeated. Wasteland Dragonnel. The coppery dragonnel is entangled in a net. A character who warily approaches the dragonnel can remove the net by succeeding on a DC 10
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Ramya’s Powers and Dominion Reborn as a death knight, Ramya desperately tries to hold on to or retake the Sapphire Throne in a cycle of victory and loss with her equally uncompromising siblings
with her siblings Arijani and Reeva. She constantly struggles to quell the rebellion they lead, as detailed in “Treachery in Kalakeri” later in this domain. Closing the Borders. Ramya can close or open
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
are desperately lonely or eager to find a settlement where they can live among their own kind. The Recluses table offers adventure hooks you can use to launch an adventure with a reclusive giant
abandoned. Some wander the world, hoping to learn as much of its ways as they can; others are hermits who seek spiritual enlightenment in solitude. Some reclusive giants enjoy their solitude, while others
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
stayed behind to guard the white dragon eggs and watch over the Northlanders and yetis. Also present in Svardborg are Isendraug, a female adult white dragon who desperately wants her eggs back, and
Nilraun Dhaerlost, the evil Zhentarim mage who is plotting with Jarl Storvald to find the Ring of Winter. Characters who interrogate Nilraun can learn where Storvald is and what the frost giant jarl is up
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
NPC companions have destinations of their own in mind, and are the ones best able to navigate the subterranean realms. As such, the adventurers will be dependent on their guidance. The NPCs can offer
directions and suggestions as follows: Buppido knows how to reach Gracklstugh from the southern route out of Velkynvelve. He can also find a route to Gracklstugh from the Darklake. Buppido urges the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
within me. I will fight against it and the world’s other evils for as long as I can.
9 I’m desperately seeking a cure to an affliction or a curse, either for someone close to me for myself
above all else, even if it doesn’t benefit anyone.
Horror Character Bonds d12 Bond
1 I desperately need to get back to someone or someplace, but I lost them in the Mists.
2
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
. The shield can speak, read, and understand Common and Infernal, and it can communicate telepathically with any creature it can sense within 120 feet of it. Its voice is a deep, hollow whisper. The
shield has 3 charges. You can use an action to expend 1 charge to cast fireball or 2 charges to cast wall of fire from the shield (save DC 21 for each). The wall of fire spell lasts for 1 minute (no
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Haunted Zones Strahd can twist his domain to suit his whims. Starting when he makes his presence known, certain doorways in the house no longer connect to the rooms they did before. Instead
to the task necessary to exit the room. A character can also locate such an object by looking at the area and succeeding on a DC 15 Intelligence (Investigation) check. Leaving a Haunted Zone. A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Sword Wraith When a glory-obsessed warrior dies in battle without earning the honor it desperately sought, its valor-hungry spirit might haunt the battlefield as a sword wraith. Brooding Spirits. The
)
Martial Fury. As a bonus action, the sword wraith can make one weapon attack, which deals an extra 9 (2d8) necrotic damage on a hit. If it does so, attack rolls against it have advantage until the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
characters, unless they can determine that it’s suffering from a deep depression and desperately seeks a mate. Successfully playing the part of deep crow relationship counselor allows the characters to
inn. That otherwise quiet establishment has always possessed unusual magical qualities, but these have been warped by the slowly opening portal to the Far Realm. The characters can interact with the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
, heavyset man with enormous muttonchop sideburns steps forward and asks, “What can I get you travelers?” A visitor can buy a mug of beer for 3 cp or a mug of strong mead for 1 sp. There’s sausage on the
stalling tactic, though he’ll certainly take the money. Because the cultists are about to ship a castle full of treasure from the village, they desperately don’t want the characters to find anything
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
, heavyset man with enormous muttonchop sideburns steps forward and asks, “What can I get you travelers?”
A visitor can buy a mug of beer for 3 cp or a mug of strong mead for 1 sp. There’s sausage on the
, though he’ll certainly take the money. Because the cultists are about to ship a castle full of treasure from the village, they desperately don’t want the characters to find anything suspicious, such as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Maw of Yeenoghu Hill giants are known for their voracious appetites, which can attract the attention of the demon lord Yeenoghu, known as the Beast of Butchery. A cruel hill giant sometimes turns to
chew on anything within reach. Some maws desperately rip the teeth from their mouth for relief, but the teeth quickly regrow. Cunning maws use this phenomenon as a ready supply of weaponry, throwing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
details). Charm of the Black Rose Supernatural Gift (Charm) You can expend this charm to gain one of the following effects: You have Advantage on ability checks made to influence Lord Soth’s attitude for
characters can adjust his attitude to Indifferent by succeeding on a DC 20 Charisma (Deception or Persuasion) check. Soth might employ characters he deems worthy on quests, such as the hunt for the ghost
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Detailed NPCs Flesh out NPCs who play prominent roles in your adventures. You can use the accompanying NPC Tracker to record information as you determine these six elements of your NPC: Name You’ll
need a name for any NPC who plays a prominent role in your campaign. You can pick a given name and a surname from any of the accompanying tables; a name can include options from different tables. If
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
operates the carousel is named Diana Cloppington. Once a human, Diana sought the help of Granny Nightshade of the Hourglass Coven, desperately wishing to be reunited with her warhorse, which went missing
, can supply the characters with clues related to the hags (see “Riddle of the Carousel” below). Diana tells them that they must “speak to the unicorns,” but to earn their trust they must learn the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
. Even if they dispose of Manshoon, Corylus refuses to acknowledge that he owes them anything. Jelenn Urmbrusk Jelenn (N female Tethyrian human noble) is a proud woman in her fifties who desperately wants
meeting with anyone she doesn’t know. Characters can confront her as she comes or goes to and from her villa, but she never travels without sixteen guards who form a protective wall around her. If the