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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
away when a colony manages to capture a dragon. Teams of mind flayers bind the dragon, which is subject to a gruesome transformation as the elder brain latches onto the dragon’s back and digs its
tentacles into the dragon’s brain. An elder brain dragon is the nightmarish result.
Using the mobility of the dragon’s body, the elder brain can now serve as a powerful general to illithid
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Elder Brain Dragon One of the few consolations available to those who must contend with a mind flayer colony is the limit of its reach, which spreads only as far as the influence of the colony’s
elder brain. But this small solace withers away when a colony manages to capture a dragon. Teams of mind flayers bind the dragon, which is subject to a gruesome transformation as the elder brain latches
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
exceeds its own instinct of self-preservation. Thus, the dragon will destroy itself in pursuit of its master’s desires if necessary. The dragon likes to tear foes apart, as well as knock down
Immutable Form. The dragon is immune to any spell or effect that would alter its form.
Magic Resistance. The dragon has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Siege
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
;beholder's eye rays.
An eyedrake left to its own devices exhibits much of the stereotypical behavior of a young dragon, attempting to establish a lair and a hoard. Driven by instinct to jealously
"} necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. The target dies if the ray reduces it to 0 hit points.When a beholder contends with a dragon for power and wealth, its
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
abomination is the final stage of a grafter’s transformation—a hulking monster whose corrupted brain is ablaze with desire for treasure. Its abhorrent transformation erases the last
providing it with a caustic breath weapon. Its body is in a constant state of growth and change, allowing it to quickly heal from its wounds.
These creatures are most often found in abandoned dragon
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
. For example, humans confronted by an angry troll experience fear on a basic level. Their limbs shake, their thinking becomes panicked and jumbled, and they react by instinct. The emotion of fear takes
female in their naming conventions. Each example name includes its translation in parenthesis.
Lizardfolk Names: Achuak (green), Aryte (war), Baeshra (animal), Darastrix (dragon), Garurt (axe), Irhtos
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
sapphire dragon 22 Elder brain dragon 23 Ancient amethyst dragon 24 Ancient dragon turtle 26 Gem greatwyrm 27 Chromatic greatwyrm 28 Metallic greatwyrm 30 Aspect of Bahamut 30 Aspect of Tiamat
Challenge Ratings Creatures by Challenge Rating CR Creature 1/8 Hoard scarab 1/4 Metallic warbler 1/2 Draconian foot soldier 1 Deep dragon wyrmling 2 Crystal dragon wyrmling 2 Draconian mage 2
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
monster's alignment to suit the needs of your campaign. If you want a good-aligned green dragon or an evil storm giant, there's nothing stopping you. Some creatures can have any alignment. In other words
good, chaotic neutral, or chaotic evil), as befits its wild nature. Many creatures of low intelligence have no comprehension of law or chaos, good or evil. They don't make moral or ethical choices, but rather act on instinct. These creatures are unaligned, which means they don't have an alignment.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
moonlight lose control of their powers and succumb to raw, animalistic instinct, making it easier for Teremini to manipulate or trap them. Mage’s Ritual. Teremini learned her red moonlight magic from a
lunar dragon named Orinix. Orinix also taught Teremini a ritual to make the wall of transformative moonlight permanent and tasked her with completing this lengthy, taxing ritual. While she focuses on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
to become an elder brain dragon (described in chapter 6), so the elder brain can wreak ruin upon its rivals.
3 The decades-long machinations of an ancient black dragon and an evil archmage are
Black Dragon Adventures The Black Dragon Adventure Hooks table offers suggestions for stories and adventures involving black dragons. Black Dragon Adventure Hooks d8 Adventure Hook
1 A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
stat block is the default. Feel free to depart from it and change a monster’s alignment to suit the needs of your campaign. If you want a good-aligned green dragon or an evil storm giant, there’s
law or chaos, good or evil. They don’t make moral or ethical choices, but rather act on instinct. These creatures are unaligned, which means they don’t have an alignment.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
their efforts to helping the dragon inflict suffering on others. A chardalyn dragon serves the tyrannical will of its evil creator—a tireless drive devotion that exceeds its own instinct of self
Chardalyn Dragon This construct is fashioned from pieces of chardalyn (see the sidebar on Chardalyn) that have been assembled in the form of a dragon. The only parts of the dragon not forged from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Creating a Brass Dragon Use the Brass Dragon Personality Traits and Brass Dragon Ideals tables to inspire your portrayal of distinctive brass dragon characters, and use the Brass Dragon Spellcasting
table to help select spells for a spellcasting dragon. Brass Dragon Personality Traits d8 Trait
1 I don’t ask for much in a conversation partner—just smile, occasionally nod, and stay awake
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
. It opens as described in the “Illithinoch Features” section. Once the characters open this door and trigger its jarring mental pulse, the infected elder brain in area X15 takes notice of their
, holding a brain in each hand. The statue is made of one large piece of greenish stone, although the brains are covered with green mucus that drips from the statue’s hands into a puddle on the floor
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Morte’s Planar Parade
soother* Humanoid 3 Githzerai traveler Aberration 3 Harmonium peacekeeper* Humanoid 3 Society of Sensation muse* Humanoid 3 Transcendent Order instinct* Humanoid 4 Hands of Havoc fire starter* Humanoid 4
Heralds of Dust remnant* Humanoid 4 Hound archon Celestial 4 Mind’s Eye matter smith* Humanoid 5 Athar null* Humanoid 5 Cranium rat squeaker swarm Aberration 5 Fated shaker* Humanoid 5 Time dragon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Death of a Dragon When I go, I dream of passing my spirit into that with which I have had the most profound experiences. The first thing that comes to mind is a caramel treacle from the Foxy Duck
Tavern. Yum!
-Fizban
Dragons are intimately bound up with the fabric of magic that undergirds the Material Plane. As a result, the death of any dragon is an event of tremendous significance—and those
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Eyedrake When a beholder contends with a dragon for power and wealth, its thoughts of its dragon rival can become deeply obsessive, eventually pervading the beholder’s dreams. If the rivalry lasts
aspects of a dragon’s breath weapon attacks and a beholder’s eye rays. An eyedrake left to its own devices exhibits much of the stereotypical behavior of a young dragon, attempting to establish a lair
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
BEASTS
Fox
Giant walrus
Hare
Knucklehead trout
Mountain goat
Seal
Sperm whale
Walrus
CONSTRUCTS
Chardalyn dragon
Demos magen
Duergar hammerer
Dzaan’s simulacrum
Galvan
Brain in a jar
Coldlight walker
Frost giant skeleton
Gnoll vampire
Icewind kobold zombie
Kobold vampire spawn
Nass Lantomir’s ghost
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Dragonflesh Abomination A dragonflesh abomination is the final stage of a grafter’s transformation—a hulking monster whose corrupted brain is ablaze with desire for treasure. Its abhorrent
found in abandoned dragon lairs, temples to Tiamat, or other sites associated with the dragons they love. Dragonflesh Abomination
Huge Monstrosity, Typically Neutral Evil
Armor Class 15 (natural
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
themselves in need of assistance in Waterdeep or another alliance city. (For more information on the Lords’ Alliance and its role in Waterdeep, see Waterdeep: Dragon Heist.) Characters who belong to the Lords
played through Waterdeep: Dragon Heist, they probably know him already. Jalester is a secret agent of the Lords’ Alliance who reports to Lady Laeral Silverhand, the Open Lord of Waterdeep. Unbeknownst
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
and fuel truly whales, or perhaps dinosaurs, dragon turtles, or abominations created from people’s flesh? At the other extreme, how do Lamordia’s original inhabitants—the spirits of forgotten tribes
inherit his dying father’s factory in Ludendorf. Instead, Udo Schaller paid assassins to murder his son and had his brain transplanted into Ruprekt’s young body, with the help of Dr. Mordenheim. Udo’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Monsters’ Desires Aberrations d4 Desired Offering 1 The brain or other organs of a rare creature 2 Flattery and obsequiousness 3 Secrets or lore it doesn’t already know 4 Accepting a strange
d4 Desired Offering 1 Gold or gems 2 Anything from a draconic rival’s hoard 3 An antique passed down at least three generations 4 A flattering artistic depiction of the dragon Elementals d4
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
dragon Ephelomon brought news to the gith: Tiamat had pledged many of her red dragon servants to the gith cause. They would refrain from attacking gith and would provide support against the illithids
other races are inferior and that only faith in the Revered Queen preserves your people from the traitorous githzerai and the brain-eating illithids. You undergo years of hard labor and study and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
location.) Modron Caretakers. The githyanki abandoned the outpost years ago but left modrons behind to maintain it. Draconic Newcomer. A dragon with brass scales arrived at the outpost almost one year ago
and made itself at home. The modrons in the outpost have trouble communicating with the dragon but try to keep it happy. S6: Secured Supplies This almost octagonal room contains sealed crates with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
from the others with a wall of force spell. It then uses its Mind Blast to stun its prey as a prelude to extracting its brain.
If N’ghathrod is reduced to 55 hit points or fewer, its survival
instinct supersedes its hunger, prompting it to surrender telepathically. The mind flayer apologizes for its assault and proposes an end to hostilities. Given a chance, it recounts how the Scavenger was
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sleeping Dragon’s Wake
Common, Draconic, and Druidic and have 45 hit points each. The druids worship Claugiyliamatar as a god, and the dragon teaches them to cast spells.
The druids attack intruders on sight. A character
of Claugiyliamatar to the dragon (area C13). If the characters capture a druid and makes a successful DC 15 Charisma (Intimidation) check the druid leads them to the dragon.
Characters could
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
bell is Isendraug, a female adult white dragon. She is tormented by the theft of her eggs (which the giants keep in area 1G) and is wracking her brain for a plan to get them back and make the giants
can’t be opened. Two female frost giants stand guard here and watch over the dragon in area 4E. They are eager to spill blood and attack intruders on sight. They have instructions not to harm the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Blisteringly hot brass door Efreeti-run shop in the City of Brass on the Elemental Plane of Fire 95–98 Fossilized shark jaws preceded by coral steps Hut on the back of a dragon turtle on the Elemental
Plane of Water 99–00 Curtain of slime framed by writhing tentacles Puddle of brine within the folds of a giant brain in the Far Realm Irina Nordsol A cadre of marching modrons encounters a section of the Infinite Staircase engulfed by the Iron Shadow
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
of Ten-Towns and its environs. Mounted to the top of a thin iron stand on the table is a 6-inch-tall dragon figurine carved out of chardalyn—a miniature version of Xardorok’s chardalyn dragon, its
side of the table is pulled, the dragon figurine “flies” over Ten-Towns on its preset course. Any character who pays close attention can discern the flight path of Xardorok’s chardalyn dragon (see
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
, but they don’t share this with the characters.) Brain Monster. A hulking, brain-shaped creature roams the area on the other side of the Briny Maze, just past some dead duergar and spiderwebs. Maze
the dragon.” His bizarre certainty is, against all appearances, entirely correct. The amethyst dragon Lowarnizel currently lairs in the chamber below (area B17). By itself, Shalfi’s digging would be
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
accumulated their own followings among the Cults of the Dragon Below. A few have abandoned the path of aggression in favor of solitary philosophy and reflection. A beholder philosopher might manipulate events
, driven by visions from the daelkyr, can be found working with the Cults of the Dragon Below or fighting alongside aberrations in Khyber. Others operate alone. Lycanthropes Many people believe that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
Junk Wyrm, an eccentric adult copper dragon who reeks of garbage. The dump’s artistic guardian, Tudhog fashions three-dimensional pieces from once-magic blades, battle-damaged suits of shimmering armor
brain three times the size of its body and cost the rat its fur. The Node hovers above the ground, held aloft by its own intellect. The rat swears vengeance against the Lady of Pain, promising untold
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
red fungus that vaguely resembles a human brain and puff the spores around the leader’s head. The treatment is keeping the leader alive for now, but it is a losing battle. Sinensa’s only hope is for the
blocked by the enormous orange crystal, which is also the source of the light here. The heart of the problem is the tomb of the red dragon Sharruth, deep beneath the island. The presence of such a powerful
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
a breastplate sized for a Large creature
9 2d4 goliath giant-kin* (attitude: 1d8 + 2) hauling a load of ore from a mine
10 3 fire giants (attitude: 1d6 + 1) battling an adult red dragon
flayers (attitude: 1d4 + 1) telepathically discussing the finer points of a brain they just shared
8 1 fomorian (attitude: 1d8) contemplating a gemstone it thinks is floating but that is actually
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
and deal with the threat of an evil green dragon that nests there.
Alignment. Chaotic good.
Personality Trait. “I am an elf, and time is on my side. I refuse to give up—ever.”
Ideal. “The elves
of the Misty Forest will lose their homes and likely perish if that green dragon isn’t slain or driven off. I shall deal with the dragon before it visits great harm on the forest and my people. That