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Ghosts of Saltmarsh
the damage is radiant or from a critical hit. On a success, the drowned ascetic drops to 1 hit point instead.Multiattack. The drowned ascetic makes three unarmed strikes.
Unarmed Strike. Melee Weapon
cloth, the drowned ascetic moves with alarming speed for an undead creature. This martial artist, rising from the ocean in Tammeraut's Fate, retains its fighting reflexes despite its rotting flesh.Poison
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
creature encounters a solid object (such as a ceiling) in this fall, it strikes the object just as it would during a downward fall. If the creature reaches the top of the area without striking anything
target ends.Archaics are towering, multi-armed creatures overflowing with magic. Despite their solitude, archaics carry vast understanding of magic and the world’s history, as well as the ability
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
, and hippopotamus parts. Despite its ungainly physiology, a catoblepas resembles a natural animal in its behavior, ambling through its marshy home, munching choice vegetation, eating the occasional bit
tail is a club that can rattle body and soul if it strikes true, leaving a victim unable to act while the catoblepas feasts on its body.
Blighted Territory
A catoblepas’s nature as a creature of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
type of melee weapon attack. The game often makes exceptions to general rules, and this is an important exception: that unarmed strikes count as melee weapon attacks despite not being weapons. When a
weapons and unarmed strikes into finesse weapons? No. The feature grants a benefit that is similar to the finesse property, but the feature doesn’t confer that property. When a monk using Deflect
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
the ocean in Tammeraut’s Fate, retains its fighting reflexes despite its rotting flesh. Drowned Ascetic
Medium undead, chaotic evil
Armor Class 13
Hit Points 75 (10d8 + 30)
Speed 30 ft.
STR
, the drowned ascetic drops to 1 hit point instead.
Actions
Multiattack. The drowned ascetic makes three unarmed strikes.
Unarmed Strike. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
shape, either by the moon or by other external factors. He prefers his human form, but explores different physical details as the mood strikes him. He’s rarely seen without his signature wide-brimmed
hat; wolf’s tooth necklace; and violin, which he calls Bleeding Heart. Hungry for Fame. Despite being Darklord, Harkon Lukas numbers among the least feared of Kartakass’s people. He ever seeks to win
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Catoblepas The catoblepas is as loathsome as the vile swamplands in which it lives, a conglomeration of bloated buffalo, dinosaur, warthog, and hippopotamus parts. Despite its ungainly physiology, a
creature’s serpentine neck has trouble lifting its head, but one glare from its bloodshot eyes can rot flesh. At the end of its tail is a club that can rattle body and soul if it strikes true, leaving
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
Celebrity Adventurer’s Scion Your family name strikes fear and admiration in the hearts of the common folk — but that’s got nothing to do with you. Songs and stories celebrating the adventuring
family.
3 Despite their absences, my famous parent was kind and generous. I love them and want to make them proud.
4 My parent once brought a cursed magic item home. It is my obsession
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
Gargenhale, to be heard. Gargenhale is a chaotic neutral vampirate captain (see Boo’s Astral Menagerie). He strikes a dramatic pose as he addresses Krux and the characters, toward whom he is friendly: The
. The rest fell prey to ships under the command of Vael, whom Gargenhale calls the scourge of pirates, raiders, and anyone else who refuses to bow to the might of Xaryxis. Despite these cautionary
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Archaic Archaics are towering, multi-armed creatures overflowing with magic. Despite their solitude, archaics carry vast understanding of magic and the world’s history, as well as the ability to warp
itself. The creature must succeed on a DC 22 Wisdom saving throw or fall 100 feet upward. If the falling creature encounters a solid object (such as a ceiling) in this fall, it strikes the object just as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
reduced to 0 hit points by this ray.
Animalistic Nature. Despite their ungainly physiology, catoblepases resemble natural beasts. A catoblepas behaves much like an animal, too, ambling through its
glare from its bloodshot eyes can rot flesh. At the end of its tail is a club that can rattle body and soul if it strikes true, leaving a victim unable to act. If the target of its attacks dies, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
result, some warlike triton communities respond with periodic strikes against sailors and fishing vessels. Others believe that turnabout is fair play and so venture onto land to hunt for meat, steal
supplies from coastal travelers, or raid dryfolk poleis for riches. Despite the tensions between tritons and the peoples of the surface, some tritons make their lives on land. Enchanted by the feeling
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
in the corners of the ring.
This gymnasium was used for athletic competitions and sparring matches. Three androids work here. Despite their friendly demeanors, the malfunctioning Constructs are
in its chest. Fencing Android. This android (duelist design) is a fencing instructor that channels its Force Strikes through a rusty epee. The android exclaims “on guard!” at the start of each of its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Dexterity saving throw or take 7 (2d6) acid damage.
Magic Missile (1st-Level Spell; Requires a Spell Slot). The simulacrum creates three darts of magical force. Each dart unerringly strikes one creature
. Despite her firm grasp of the dark arts, she would not have been admitted into the Arcane Brotherhood without her family connections—a fact that sticks in her craw. Vellynne brought a family
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a2
weapon—a freshly captured giant subterranean lizard (see appendix B). Although the lizard is chained, it can attack anyone who comes within its reach. It strikes with its tail first, hoping to knock a
long, 4 feet high, and 3 feet wide, with a heavy stone lid. Despite the warnings carved on the tombs, there is no danger here. Even if the characters disturb Borgol, Gharin, or Numik, all they find are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
mimic. Characters who have a passive Wisdom (Perception) score of 14 or higher notice that despite the breeze, the tapestry remains unnaturally still. As an action, a character can open the padlocked
. Near the table, an enormous snake coils around a bluish corpse wearing a wooden rabbit mask.
The giant constrictor snake strikes at any who interrupt its meal. The cupboards are empty, but the dead
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
. The watch posts are far enough apart that shouts of alarm are ineffective. If a watch post needs to sound an alarm, a guard runs to the pagoda and strikes the gong with a heavy mallet. The pagodas are
the afternoon to meet with the abbot and submit a daily report. Strog has a pleasant, easygoing demeanor, and the abbot likes him despite his obvious shortcomings. G10. Freshwater Spring Northwest of
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Legends of Greyhawk: Secrets of the Free City
your destination might be on the wharf. That’s where most people go to find fish.” What Are You Doing Here? Shaygala is here to have her fortune told, of course. Despite all her success, life has become
gives them a tour, talks about various parts of town, and rambles about anything unimportant that strikes her fancy. Friends? Laevella offhandedly notes if the characters have not already done so, they
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
size of their combined treasure hoard would attract an incessant stream of adventurers and other would-be thieves — a nuisance on the order of rats in the larder. Despite the distances that separate
calamity strikes nearby farms, families have been known to share their bounty to ease the humanoids’ food shortage. Such events are at the root of tales about magic beans and others about a human family
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
south hush beneath the rain’s noise as it strikes the water.
At the center of the cavern, the shattered hulks of sailing vessels lean upon their sides. Barnacles cling to the hulls. Humanoid
toward areas P19a and P19b. Despite the enormity of the cavern, the water here is only 5 feet deep. A hydra nests among the wrecks, and it attacks any intruder that isn’t Gar Shatterkeel. Wrecked Ships
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
flicker to life overhead as you enter, illuminating a pile of moldy bones.
A cloaker lurks above, waiting to ambush the characters. The creature strikes at an opportune moment. Artificial Assistance
within 20 feet of the android, it springs up and attacks, exulting about how it fooled them and “wasn’t really damaged at all,” despite the pipe in its head. Treasure. The android carries a paralysis