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Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
target is prone, the clawfoot can make one bite attack against it as a bonus action.Multiattack. The clawfoot makes two attacks: one with its bite and one with its claws.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack
when hunting in packs. Their instinct for pack structure has made these dinosaurs a traditional war mount for the halflings of the Talenta Plains, with clawfoots quickly and eagerly responding to training and control.
Monsters
Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Shape bonus action.Multiattack. Kas makes three Vengeful Sword attacks. He can replace one of these attacks with a Bite attack.
Vengeful Sword. Melee Weapon Attack: +15;{"diceNotation":"1d20+15
. It lasts for 1 hour, until Kas dies, or until Kas dismisses it as a bonus action. Kas can’t have more than two specters summoned at a time.The Betrayer, the Bloody Handed, the Destroyer&mdash
Magic Items
Acquisitions Incorporated
scattered the components that powered it, secreting them across the world. But the orrery’s instinct for survival is strong, and its components have a way of inexorably coming together over
within 30 feet of you, you gain a +1 bonus to AC.
Into the Void. With or without its components, the attuned orrery infuses your spirit with the tumultuous energy of the planes. Over time, your
Magic Items
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
shield’s appearance, so that its celestial motif and designs have become twisted into a fiendish face that subtly moves in disturbing ways.
While holding this shield, you gain a +2 bonus to AC and
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
You encountered something dreadful, a horrible creature or bizarre ritual that set you down the path to becoming an investigator of the strange. Your quick feet and instinct for survival carried you
through that day and are your best asset.
You gain the following benefits.
Instinct to Survive. When you take damage that would reduce you to 0 hit points, you can immediately regain hit points
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Barbarian Level
Proficiency
Bonus
Features
Rages
Rage
Damage
1st
+2
Rage, Unarmored Defense
2
+2
2nd
+2
Reckless Attack, Danger Sense
2
+2
3rd
+2
Primal Path
3
+2
4th
+2
Ability Score Improvement
3
+2
5th
+3
Extra Attack, Fast Movement
3
+2
6th
+3
Path Feature
4
+2
7th
+3
Feral Instinct
4
+2
8th
+3
Ability
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation Supplement
, however; it gives you a base AC of 17 (your Dexterity modifier doesn’t affect this number). You gain no benefit from wearing armor, but if you are using a shield, you can apply the shield’s bonus as normal
. Shell Defense. You can withdraw into your shell as an action. Until you emerge, you gain a +4 bonus to AC, and you have advantage on Strength and Constitution saving throws. While in your shell, you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
by territorial instinct and a predatory urge to hunt and devour living prey. They run on all fours and rear up onto their hind legs when they corner their quarry. When they strike, they wallop foes
Perception 16
Languages —
Challenge 9 (5,000 XP) Proficiency Bonus +4
Unusual Nature. The anhkolox doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.
Actions
Multiattack. The anhkolox makes two
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
. First, put your highest ability score in Strength, followed by Constitution. Second, choose the outlander background. Level
Proficiency
Bonus
Features
Rages
Rage
Damage
1st
, Fast Movement
3
+2
6th
+3
Path Feature
4
+2
7th
+3
Feral Instinct
4
+2
8th
+3
Ability Score Improvement
4
+2
9th
+4
Brutal Critical (1 die)
4
+3
10th
+4
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Barlgura Demon of Instinct and Primal Violence Habitat: Planar (Abyss); Treasure: Any IZZY Barlguras are demons that embody brutality and killer instincts. They ruthlessly hunt creatures that enter
DC 13):
2/Day Each: Disguise Self, Invisibility (self only)
1/Day Each: Entangle, Phantasmal Killer (level 6 version)
Bonus Actions
Leap. The barlgura jumps up to 40 feet by spending 10 feet of movement.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Boo’s Astral Menagerie
to guide it, an esthetic becomes a nearly mindless entity with an instinct for self-preservation. Reigar use their esthetics as spelljamming warships. When a hostile reigar in its esthetic encounters
300 ft. (blind beyond this radius), passive Perception 10
Languages —
Challenge 12 (8,400 XP) Proficiency Bonus +4
Bioluminescence. While it has at least 1 hit point, the esthetic sheds bright
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Features Level Proficiency Bonus Class Features Rages Rage Damage Weapon Mastery 1 +2 Rage, Unarmored Defense, Weapon Mastery 2 +2 2 2 +2 Danger Sense, Reckless Attack 2 +2 2 3 +2 Barbarian Subclass
, Primal Knowledge 3 +2 2 4 +2 Ability Score Improvement 3 +2 3 5 +3 Extra Attack, Fast Movement 3 +2 3 6 +3 Subclass feature 4 +2 3 7 +3 Feral Instinct, Instinctive Pounce 4 +2 3 8 +3 Ability Score
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
. Their instinct for pack structure has made these dinosaurs a traditional war mount for the halflings of the Talenta Plains, with clawfoots quickly and eagerly responding to training and control
claw attack on the same turn, that target must succeed on a DC 11 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone. If the target is prone, the clawfoot can make one bite attack against it as a bonus action
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
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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->Player’s Handbook
. Level 7: Feral Instinct Your instincts are so honed that you have Advantage on Initiative rolls. Level 7: Instinctive Pounce As part of the Bonus Action you take to enter your Rage, you can move up to
Features Level Proficiency Bonus Class Features Rages Rage Damage Weapon Mastery 1 +2 Rage, Unarmored Defense, Weapon Mastery 2 +2 2 2 +2 Danger Sense, Reckless Attack 2 +2 2 3 +2 Barbarian Subclass
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
steel predator slays its target and then voluntarily returns to Sigil, where it’s broken down into parts that can be used in another steel predator. Battle damage can cause this instinct to fail, however
., darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 17
Languages understands Modron and the language of its owner but can’t speak
Challenge 16 (15,000 XP) Proficiency Bonus +5
Magic Resistance. The steel
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
and a hoard. Driven by instinct to jealously defend its hoard, an eyedrake fights to the death if anything threatens even the smallest trinket it claims as its own. Eyedrake
Large Aberration
Deep Speech, Draconic
Challenge 8 (3,900 XP) Proficiency Bonus +3
Unusual Nature. The eyedrake doesn’t require food or drink.
Actions
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 10 ft., one
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
Far Realm. To prevent the orrery from ever being so used, Lottie scattered the components that powered it, secreting them across the world. But the orrery’s instinct for survival is strong, and its
. As long as the orrery is within 30 feet of you, you gain a +1 bonus to AC. Into the Void. With or without its components, the attuned orrery infuses your spirit with the tumultuous energy of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
ways.
Shield of the Hidden Lord
While holding this shield, you gain a +2 bonus to AC and resistance to fire damage. Sentience. The Shield of the Hidden Lord is sentient as long as it imprisons
Personality. Gargauth desperately seeks freedom but can’t escape on its own. The pit fiend won’t reveal its true nature, referring to itself only as the Hidden Lord. It drops hints and subtle
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
desperately wants the wizards to witness and acknowledge his strength. Kas the Betrayer Medium Undead (Vampire), Neutral Evil
Armor Class 18 (plate)
Hit Points 315 (30d8 + 180)
Speed 40 ft.
STR
., passive Perception 21
Languages Abyssal, Common, Draconic, Infernal
Challenge 23 (50,000 XP) Proficiency Bonus +7
Eager Betrayer. Kas adds 1d10 to his initiative rolls. He has advantage on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
unfamiliar with this region of the Underdark and can’t navigate, but she has a +5 bonus on Wisdom (Survival) checks and can help out in that regard. Jimjar can guide the party to Blingdenstone from
acquire boats. Shuushar wishes to return to his own people in hopes of guiding them to the enlightenment he has achieved. Stool can’t navigate and has no knowledge of the local area, but it desperately
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
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
Throws Con +9, Cha +4
Skills Perception +6
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 16
Languages Abyssal, Giant
Challenge 10 (5,900 XP) Proficiency Bonus +4
Magic Resistance. The maw has
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
fleeing Thither, Clapperclaw was waylaid by Agdon Longscarf and his harengon brigands, who stole its head, which the scarecrow describes as a most glorious stag skull. It desperately wants its head back
) Proficiency Bonus +2
Unusual Nature. Clapperclaw doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.
Actions
Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (2d4 + 2) slashing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
far end of the cable to a solid surface up to 50 feet away from it. As a bonus action, it can detach the other end of the cable from itself and attach it to a solid surface within 10 feet of it. Once it
creates 200 feet of web cable, the spider can’t produce any more cable until the next dawn. The iron spider exists solely to produce web cables. It has no attacks and no instinct for self
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
darkness, it sheds dim light in a 5-foot radius. A creature that is attuned to Radiance can use a bonus action while holding the mirror to cast the enhance ability spell, chosing itself and no other
, she desperately tries to make them leave so she doesn’t get into trouble. In the time she has spent at the temple, she has learned what happened to Sylvarie and knows the layout of the tower, but she
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Bonus +4
Magic Resistance. Oshundo has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Actions
Multiattack. Oshundo makes two Chilling Grasp or Arcane Bolt attacks
attack intruders, but Ahooshathan has a strong survival instinct. If both nothics are slain, or if Ahooshathan is badly injured and plainly outmatched, the mind flayer surrenders. Ahooshathan offers what
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
card table. Ten wealthy nobles are playing a high-stakes game of Three Dragon Ante. A character can play around by betting 5 gp and making a DC 15 Intelligence check, adding a proficiency bonus if the
door broke down a dam that had been holding back a madman’s screams. Osvaldo Cassalanter (see appendix B) shrieks and moans at all hours of the day. He is trying desperately to get someone to hear him
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
vortex takes 18 (4d8) force damage. In addition, its speed becomes 0 feet, it can’t benefit from any bonus to its speed, and it can’t be seen by others. The creature takes the damage again at the start
reaching desperately toward the cauldron, while the armored woman at her side is grasping a fine-looking quarterstaff.
A jabberwock (see appendix C) is coiled around the cauldron. Zybilna treated the






