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Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
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
nervous or sense tension in the air.”
Ideal. “I prefer to keep moving from place to place.”
Bond. “My original head. It was perfect every way. I hope to get it back one day
Magic Items
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
thunder.
If you load no ammunition in the weapon, it produces its own, automatically creating one piece of magic ammunition when you pull back the string. The ammunition created by the bow vanishes the instant after it hits or misses a target.
Magic Items
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
rolls made with this weapon. If you load no ammunition in the weapon, it produces its own, automatically creating one magic arrow when you pull back the string. The arrow created by the bow vanishes the
instant after it hits or misses a target.
The bow has 8 charges for the following properties, which you can use while wielding the bow. The bow regains 1d4 + 1 charges daily at dawn.
Curative Arrow
Monsters
Princes of the Apocalypse
Imix for an instant. Each creature other than Imix in the area must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or take 1d8;{"diceNotation":"1d8","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Wave of Searing Heat
form intermittent portals to the Elemental Plane of Fire, allowing elemental creatures into the mortal world to dwell near those points.
If Imix is destroyed or banished back to his home plane
Half-Elf
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Species
Basic Rules (2014)
Flint squinted into the setting sun. He thought he saw the figure of a man striding up the path. Standing, Flint drew back into the shadow of a tall pine to see better. The man’s walk was
ground. The dwarf clasped his old friend close for a brief instant, then, remembering his dignity, squirmed and freed himself from the half-elf’s embrace.
— Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
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
Personality Trait
1
Unlike people, the beasts of the wild are friends who won’t stab me in the back.
2
Go ahead and insult me — I dare you.
3
I scorn those who can
Species
Acquisitions Incorporated
.
Reality is a descent into chaos punctuated by brief flashes of order, whence we arose and so imagine it to be the norm rather than a distant outlier. That-Which-Endures held entropy back for a mere instant
spontaneous alterations over their lifetime, from the typical range of point and peak seen among the elves, to huge ears that sweep back from the head like wings, and which are often pierced behind
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
, necrotic, poison, psychic, radiant, or thunder. If you load no ammunition in the weapon, it produces its own, automatically creating one piece of magic ammunition when you pull back the string. The ammunition created by the bow vanishes the instant after it hits or misses a target.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
. Reality is a descent into chaos punctuated by brief flashes of order, whence we arose and so imagine it to be the norm rather than a distant outlier. That-Which-Endures held entropy back for a mere instant, and the Verdan emerged. I’m sorry, was that the question?
— K’thriss Drow’b
Kobold
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
some other convenient way (or, in a cannibalistic tribe, eaten). Kobolds believe that if they die in service to their tribe, Kurtulmak immediately sends each of them back to life as the next egg laid in
.
A kobold’s cautious nature doesn’t mean it can’t get angry. The blood of dragons flows in its veins, and like a raging drake, a kobold that is pushed too far or has its back
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
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
Bluetspur for all manner of experiments. Many abductees are returned with only psychic scars, while others are never seen again. An unlucky few find themselves set upon strange routes leading back to the alien realm, arriving only to realize they’ve visited Bluetspur before.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
cries out, “Give it back, you little thief!”
“No, you’re the thief!” replies a youngster with a panicked squeak. An instant later, a frantic kobold bursts from the crowd clutching a sizable bunch of
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
leave Candlekeep with it, on the condition that the book is returned to them once the djinni is freed. (The Avowed are in no rush to get the book back.)
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
. Mordenheim desperately hastened her experiments, employing anyone who would bring her bodies—both newly dead and still living. On her operating table, victims were killed, returned to life, and died again
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->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Daern’s Instant Fortress Wondrous Item, Rare (Requires Attunement) As a Magic action, you can place this 1-inch adamantine statuette on the ground and, using a command word, cause it to grow rapidly
damage except that which is dealt by siege equipment; and Resistance to all other damage. Shrinking the tower back down to statuette form doesn’t repair damage to the tower. Only a Wish spell can repair
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
! Deliver him to me alive and unharmed, and I’ll give you back ten years of your youth.” Granny Nightshade gives the character a yellow rose. As long as this rose remains unwilted and in the
instant the ring disappears, the character becomes encased in a silver ingot (no saving throw allowed), with only the character’s head visible. The character is unable to move from the neck down while
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Half-Elf Flint squinted into the setting sun. He thought he saw the figure of a man striding up the path. Standing, Flint drew back into the shadow of a tall pine to see better. The man’s walk was
a brief instant, then, remembering his dignity, squirmed and freed himself from the half-elf’s embrace.
— Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman,
Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Walking in two worlds but
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Half-Elf Flint squinted into the setting sun. He thought he saw the figure of a man striding up the path. Standing, Flint drew back into the shadow of a tall pine to see better. The man’s walk was
a brief instant, then, remembering his dignity, squirmed and freed himself from the half-elf’s embrace.
— Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Walking in two worlds but
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Daern’s Instant Fortress Wondrous Item, Rare (Requires Attunement) As a Magic action, you can place this 1-inch adamantine statuette on the ground and, using a command word, cause it to grow rapidly
damage except that which is dealt by siege equipment; and Resistance to all other damage. Shrinking the tower back down to statuette form doesn’t repair damage to the tower. Only a Wish spell can repair
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
, who are desperately trying to escape. The kraken is positioned along the easternmost portion of the 100-foot-deep water shown on map 7.1. The archaeologists are scattered throughout the 2-foot-deep
longer a threat, the leader of the archaeologists approaches the characters. A stout human woman with bronze skin and curly dark hair held back with a colorful scarf runs toward you. Her expression is a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Where to Go? The players’ first question upon escaping from Velkynvelve is likely, “Where do we go next?” The adventurers must find a way out of the Underdark and back to the surface world. Their
Stool back to its home. Ront is unfamiliar with the Underdark and can’t navigate. He’s willing to stick with the adventurers as long as they seek a destination that gets him back to the surface world
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
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
. Recluses d6 Adventure Hook 1 Adventurers stumble upon a giants’ enclave where a deadly plague wiped out most of the inhabitants. One survivor remains, tending the site and trying to hold back the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
, read or paraphrase the following: Thunderous footsteps shake the ground as you approach a horned, red-furred demon over twenty feet tall. Two winged shapes flank its towering form. On its back is a
with powerful infernal war leaders. The unicorn desperately wishes to be freed and says as much in Celestial and Elvish. Characters who try to convince the erinyes to release the unicorn must make a DC
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
her subjects. She and her soldiers kill anyone who she considers a traitor, a status extended not only to those who back Arijani and Reeva, but even to those who don’t support her vociferously enough
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
wearing tattered gray robes over black pants sits on a 2-foot-tall toadstool. Her long black hair is tied back with a swatch of gray cloth that matches her robe. A quasit in toad form sits on her knee
characters approach her in a calm manner, Darribeth smiles and says to the toad on her knee, “Look, Teeha! I told you they’re not demons. I wonder if Urgala sent them.” Darribeth desperately wants to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
population to make a lair in the ruins of what was once a great city or stronghold. The people displaced want their home back, so the dragon must be removed. Killing the dragon is not necessarily 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->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
. Shouting her frustrations into the night, Mara was answered by a voice from the shadows. This sinister force would give her the power to take back her home and rule her lands, but she would never
leave Castle Laventz again. Without hesitation, Mara accepted the arrangement. In the same instant, Dranzorg’s troops swept in and took Mara and her knights captive. Within the castle, Dranzorg showed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
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
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
demiplane, nothing exists except what is described in each entry. When a character passes through a haunted doorway, that haunted doorway turns back to a normal doorway after 1 minute. Exiting a Haunted
(area D18), draped in sheets. 3 The characters kneel at the side of the cultists’ well (area D25), desperately parched. 4 The characters are slumped over the furniture in the storage room (area D18
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
most likely spots for encountering sword wraiths are scenes of ancient ambushes, battlefields where soldiers were felled by magic with no chance to fight back, and sites where enemies were hemmed in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
illegal activities. The characters are most likely to encounter Corylus as he travels through the city by coach, accompanied by six human guards who watch his back and keep the rabble at bay. Corylus
. 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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
, the characters discover the members of the “C” Team fallen in combat and must fight the horrid Far Realm creature that slew them. Doing so brings those NPC heroes back to life. Once the Keymaster has
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
finish his meal in peace. A successful dispel magic spell (DC 19) cast on Guffaw rids him of his unique magical malady. Treasure. The instant he is cured of his malady, Guffaw coughs up two diamonds
(5,000 gp each). He is just as surprised to see the gemstones as anyone else, and he offers them to the characters as a reward for “saving” him. He then seeks out a way back to the Underdark, wanting nothing more to do with Undermountain.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
a lever that juts from a wall. An instant later, golden lightning leaps between the spheres, catching the shackled goblin in its path. Before you can react, the goblin transforms into a wooden mask
, and immunity to poison and psychic damage. A mask that is reduced to 0 hit points is destroyed and can’t be transformed back into the creature it once was. Each copper rod is a Medium object with AC






