Search Results
All Results
Characters
Compendium
Spells
Items
Monsters
Vehicles
Forums
Returning 35 results for 'despite imagine are beings'.
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
thrust into power. Unable to find her father and fearing that he might be dead, Serissa can imagine her political influence evaporating quickly. Several giant lords previously under her father’s
despite their size, they are capable of great feats of heroism. But Iymrith and Uthor have advised Serissa to steer clear of them. Uthor believes (incorrectly) that an alliance with the small folk
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures
prowess, moving with a speed and grace others can only imagine. Their tall stature, large wings, elaborate horns, and massive weapons give them a truly intimidating silhouette.
The most trusted high
, the Kindly Lord. Talion is as strange, ancient, and fickle as the wilds of Eldraine, and the Kindly Lord demands fealty and respect from their followers. But despite their austere demeanor, the Kindly
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
comatose. Over the course of hours, the creature is dissolved and its body repurposed into a podling duplicate.
Podlings are near-perfect mimics of the creatures they replace. Despite having the
knowledge of those they mimic, podlings frequently miss the nuances of interactions between sapient beings. These duplicates make excuses about their odd behavior, but those familiar with an individual
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
. Despite this, even the most languorous Returned defend themselves if threatened and might be pressed into the service of their more willful brethren.
Returned have escaped the Underworld and dwell among
), the Returned lose their identities, which manifest as separate beings known as eidolons. The experience of escaping the Underworld also causes them to lose their faces, which become expressionless
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures
attacker.The archons of Eldraine are enigmatic beings who fly over the perimeter where the realm meets the wilds, marking the boundary between safety (for the people of the realm) and danger. The sight of an
archon overhead is a clear signal that one is entering the wilds.
An archon appears as a hooded, spectral rider mounted on a winged elk with glowing antlers and gleaming eyes. Despite this
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
for new growth and construction.
Despite being competent swimmers and making their lairs on seacoasts and in brackish marshes, topaz dragons hate the water. Unfortunately, their favorite food is giant
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
dust, clearing the way for new growth and construction.
Despite being competent swimmers and making their lairs on seacoasts and in brackish marshes, topaz dragons hate the water. Unfortunately
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
diseased plants to dust, clearing the way for new growth and construction.
Despite being competent swimmers and making their lairs on seacoasts and in brackish marshes, topaz dragons hate the water
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
crumbling structures and diseased plants to dust, clearing the way for new growth and construction.
Despite being competent swimmers and making their lairs on seacoasts and in brackish marshes, topaz
Species
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
Giff are tall, broad-shouldered folk with hippo-like features. Some have smooth skin, while others have short bristles on their faces and the tops of their heads. As beings of impressive size and
divine beings who created giff have likewise been forgotten. Their titanic petrified bodies drift on the Astral Sea, isolated and unrecognizable in their current forms.
Although they don’t realize
Lizardfolk
Legacy
This doesn't reflect the latest rules and lore.
Learn More
Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
smooth-skins is far greater.
Despite their alien outlook, some lizardfolk make an effort to understand and, in their own manner, befriend people of other races. Such lizardfolk make faithful and
; Instead, aggressive, stronger creatures register to the lizardfolk as fearsome beings to be avoided if possible. If such creatures attack, lizardfolk flee, fighting only if cornered. Lizardfolk aren
Young Deep Dragon
Legacy
This doesn't reflect the latest rules and lore.
Learn More
monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
labyrinth of my thoughts.
3
I might disagree with other dragons, but we are superior beings and should not lower ourselves to direct conflict.
4
I have no interest in going to the surface world
dragon;young deep dragon's Humanoid form while committing a string of murders, hoping to turn local Underdark settlements against the dragon.
6
Despite repeated mind flayer attacks, a young
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
cultivated over eons in the Astral Plane. Now all githyanki can use their psychic bond with that plane to access splinters of knowledge left behind by beings who travel, live, and die among the silver
Player’s Handbook, and choose the row in the table that best represents the build you imagine for your character.
Species
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
branch.
Today, hadozees are sapient, bipedal beings eager to leave behind the fearsome predators of their home world and explore other worlds.
In addition to being natural climbers, hadozees have feet
randomly, consult the Random Height and Weight table in the Player’s Handbook, and choose the row in the table that best represents the build you imagine for your character.
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
A winged people who originated on the Elemental Plane of Air, aarakocra soar through the sky wherever they wander. The first aarakocra served the Wind Dukes of Aaqa—mighty beings of air&mdash
your character’s height or weight randomly, consult the Random Height and Weight table in the Player’s Handbook, and choose the row in the table that best represents the build you imagine for your character.
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
lurking just out of sight, and many of them have sneaked away from that god’s influence.
They are long of limb and covered in coarse hair, with wedge-shaped ears and pointed teeth. Despite their
randomly, consult the Random Height and Weight table in the Player’s Handbook, and choose the row in the table that best represents the build you imagine for your character.
Triton
Legacy
This doesn't reflect the latest rules and lore.
Learn More
Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
Ah, the tritons. Imagine if the elves spent a few centuries far beneath the sea, where their arrogance and pretension could grow undisturbed. At least the tritons spent that time fighting sahuagin
extended their stewardship over the sea floor from their initial settlements and built outposts to create trade with other races. Despite this expansion, few folk know of them. Their settlements are so
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
The saurian lizardfolk are thought by some sages to be distant cousins of dragonborn and kobolds. Despite their resemblance to those other scaled folk, however, lizardfolk are their own people and
character’s height or weight randomly, consult the Random Height and Weight table in the Player’s Handbook, and choose the row in the table that best represents the build you imagine for your character.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
development. The time of the first generation precedes the presence of what are commonly understood to be “gods.” Before mortals dreamed the gods into being, before they could even imagine beings as
titans or the other gods, and Klothys at least has existed for unknown ages despite being all but forgotten among mortal folk. Once mortals could imagine a world beyond the horizon and a course of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
power and determination, bend and shape the Abyss and its inhabitants to meet their every whim. These mighty beings imagine themselves at the center of the cosmos. Each demon prince believes that the
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Underdark near the lairs of the earliest dragons. In some lands, kobolds serve chromatic or metallic dragons—even worshiping them as divine beings. In other places, kobolds know too well how
that humans have in our world. If you’d like to determine your character’s height or weight randomly, consult the Random Height and Weight table in the Player’s Handbook, and choose the row in the table that best represents the build you imagine for your character.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
. Elusive, conniving, and egotistical, these chromatic dragons patiently prey on the fears of shorter-lived beings, corrupting and isolating them. Green dragons might lurk amid labyrinthine wildernesses
for centuries without revealing themselves; even their most devoted followers might know them only as the voice of the woodlands or a whisper in their dreams. Despite their might, most green dragons
Adult Deep Dragon
Legacy
This doesn't reflect the latest rules and lore.
Learn More
monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
dragons, but we are superior beings and should not lower ourselves to direct conflict.
4
I have no interest in going to the surface world. It’s where one sends one’s servants.
5
them from mind flayer;mind flayers, but the dragon is uninterested in meeting with them despite their repeated petitions.
4
A nest of vampire;vampires has developed a taste for deep dragon blood
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Paladin Clad in plate armor that gleams in the sunlight despite the dust and grime of long travel, a human lays down her sword and shield and places her hands on a mortally wounded man. Divine
glade before nature spirits and fey beings, or in a moment of desperation and grief with the dead as the only witness, a paladin’s oath is a powerful bond. It is a source of power that turns a devout warrior into a blessed champion.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Paladin Clad in plate armor that gleams in the sunlight despite the dust and grime of long travel, a human lays down her sword and shield and places her hands on a mortally wounded man. Divine
glade before nature spirits and fey beings, or in a moment of desperation and grief with the dead as the only witness, a paladin’s oath is a powerful bond. It is a source of power that turns a devout warrior into a blessed champion.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Ravenloft, but they are unknown to mortals and desire no worship. Despite the control the Dark Powers exert, these beings remain distant from the domains they manipulate. Although some of their names
The Dark Powers Unfathomable, hidden forces manipulate life, death, and reality within Ravenloft. These mysterious, deathless beings are the architects of the Domains of Dread, and have secreted
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
strange shapes and figures within. What happens to the lands claimed by the Shroud is a mystery, and none who enter it return. Despite facing gradual annihilation, Darkon’s living population largely ignores
the threat, dismissing reports of vanished regions as rumors and fearmongering. As the domain splits into crumbling islands, ambitious beings vie for Azalin’s power, each claiming to be the lost
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
in Planescape campaigns often focus on the following themes: Backstage of Reality. Planescape adventures provide glimpses of the daily lives of unfathomable beings—like gods, angels, and demons—and how
. Power and Possibility. The planes are home to beings of phenomenal power, yet the smallest things make a difference. Although adventurers might seem insignificant in the grand scheme of the multiverse
Species
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
Autognomes are mechanical beings built by rock gnomes. Sometimes, because of a malfunction or a unique circumstance, an autognome becomes separated from its creator and strikes out on its own.
An
Random Height and Weight table in the Player’s Handbook, and choose the row in the table that best represents the build you imagine for your character.
Species
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
Plasmoids are amorphous beings with no typical shape. In the presence of other folk, they often adopt a similar shape, but there’s little chance of mistaking a plasmoid for anything else. They
weight that humans have in our world. If you’d like to determine your character’s height or weight randomly, consult the Random Height and Weight table in the Player’s Handbook, and choose the row in the table that best represents the build you imagine for your character.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
been dead for over fifty years! This putrid priest says that there’s nothing unholy about his condition, swearing that his people revere all life. Despite the fact that the terrorists included priests
and suffering? The Blood of Vol teaches that we all have the potential to become divine beings—and that death is a curse, designed to kill you before you can unlock the divinity within you. The Blood
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
, burning cinders, and heated smoke. These beings are tangible despite largely being made of flames and particles, and they can uses their vague limbs to ignite foes and flammable materials. Fire elementals
Crackling shapes that look like animals, fiends, skeletons, sprites, or other beings.
4 Flames that are predominantly white, blue, or a more unusual color.
5 The form of a calm or tormented
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
remain bound to Zariel by the Creed Resolute. Killing Thavius. Characters hoping for a climactic battle against a worthy adversary won’t find one by fighting Thavius Kreeg. Despite the power he now
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monstrous Compendium Volume Four
Archon of Boundaries “A winged dawn dispels the terror of night.”
—Chulane, Teller of Tales
Chris Rahn The archons of Eldraine are enigmatic beings who fly over the perimeter where the realm
hooded, spectral rider mounted on a winged elk with glowing antlers and gleaming eyes. Despite this appearance, rider and mount are a single creature that can’t be separated. Tales say that archons are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
a child, and as a teen earned both a doctorate and an appointment as a preeminent researcher at a local university. Despite her genius, though, the young Dr. Mordenheim lacked empathy, compassion, and
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