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Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
superior predator. It can exude an invisible aura of life-draining energy, or it can fix its gaze on one creature and implant a psychic bomb in that creature’s mind.
After a megapede lays eggs
, it attaches the eggs to its body using sticky saliva and carries them on its back until the eggs hatch. Newly hatched megapedes grow to full size within weeks by consuming as much as they can, possibly including one another if food is scarce.
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
scales become translucent and shimmer in the light, rippling as the dragon moves. The dragon’s horns and spines hover above the body, moving and shifting along the back and tail to mirror the
said back to them to make sure I have remembered it correctly.
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I might not like you, but I will endeavor to treat you with respect, if not kindness.
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I like to impress visitors by
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
. Eventually, the scales become translucent and shimmer in the light, rippling as the dragon moves. The dragon’s horns and spines hover above the body, moving and shifting along the back and tail
what others have said back to them to make sure I have remembered it correctly.
2
I might not like you, but I will endeavor to treat you with respect, if not kindness.
3
I like to impress
monsters
Monster Manual
attack and uses Charm or Draining Kiss.
Fiendish Touch. Melee Attack Roll: +7;{"diceNotation":"1d20+7", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Fiendish Touch"}, reach 5 ft. Hit: 16 (2d10 + 5
components and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 15).
Draining Kiss. Constitution Saving Throw: DC 15, one creature Charmed by the succubus within 5 feet. Failure: 13 (3d8
Incubus
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Monsters
Basic Rules (2014)
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Shapechanger. The fiend can use its action to polymorph into a Small or Medium humanoid, or back into its true form. Without wings, the fiend loses its flying speed. Other than its size and speed, its statistics
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Draining Kiss. The fiend kisses a creature charmed by it or a willing creature. The target must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw against this magic, taking 32 (5d10 + 5);{"diceNotation":"5d10+5
Succubus
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Monsters
Basic Rules (2014)
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Shapechanger. The fiend can use its action to polymorph into a Small or Medium humanoid, or back into its true form. Without wings, the fiend loses its flying speed. Other than its size and speed, its statistics
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Draining Kiss. The fiend kisses a creature charmed by it or a willing creature. The target must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw against this magic, taking 32 (5d10 + 5);{"diceNotation":"5d10+5
Magic Items
Infernal Machine Rebuild
discovered the crash site removed the command console and brought it back to civilization, not understanding its true purpose or powers. In later years, the console came into the possession of Baron
seriously, imposing disadvantage on Charisma (Deception and Persuasion) checks, and causing you to automatically fail Charisma (Intimidation) checks.
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You can cast the gaseous form spell on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Javenesh Stoutclaw Neutral Good Owlin Second Year (Lorehold)
Javenesh is an imposing and powerfully built owlin who looks permanently scruffy despite his best efforts. Contributing to his
reputation as a tough guy follows you. If peers would be aggressive toward you, they quickly back down.
Bond Bane: The servers at Bow’s End Tavern know you are no friend to Javenesh. At the slightest sign of trouble, they blame you and ask you to leave.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
through every chink and crack, every opening in the warmest furs, every tent flap, every roof and board of the strongest homes, draining away any hint of warmth. The sun, held down below the horizon by
mine for iron. Meanwhile, folk descended from foolhardy and treasure-mad immigrants eke out meager lives in Ten-Towns, which can barely hold back the wind, let alone marauding orcs, giants, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
33. Chamber of Opposition This chamber contains a stone font filled with a steaming green liquid. Beyond it, a shadowy figure stands at an open door on the far side of the room. The figure’s back is
perfectly matches the motions of the character who created it, always keeping its back to its creator as though it was a projected image 15 feet ahead. If the character who created the shadow
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Boo’s Astral Menagerie
cavernous underground chambers. A megapede’s bite is poisonous. In addition, the creature has magical abilities that make it a superior predator. It can exude an invisible aura of life-draining energy, or it
can fix its gaze on one creature and implant a psychic bomb in that creature’s mind. After a megapede lays eggs, it attaches the eggs to its body using sticky saliva and carries them on its back
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
escape the Underworld by sacrificing his identity to the memory-draining waters therein. He was able to cross the Rivers That Ring the World wrapped in a shred of Athreos’s cloak. Since he had no
identity, Athreos couldn’t detect him, and thus Erebos couldn’t use his great lash to pull Phenax back. When he emerged back into the realm of mortals, he did so as the first of the Returned. In time
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
question, selling them at a high markup. Travelers seeking a specific book also hire mercenaries or adventurers to venture into dungeons or ruins and bring back the prize. If information can’t be
territory in Elturgard’s eyes, Elturel has responded by imposing a heavy tax on shipments headed downriver. This sort of economic brinkmanship coupled with radically different religious viewpoints has
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
question, selling them at a high markup. Travelers seeking a specific book also hire mercenaries or adventurers to venture into dungeons or ruins and bring back the prize. If information can’t be
to seize too much territory in Elturgard’s eyes, Elturel has responded by imposing a heavy tax on shipments headed downriver. This sort of economic brinkmanship coupled with radically different
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
creature it has charmed. The two don’t even need to be on the same plane of existence.
Shapechanger. The fiend can use its action to polymorph into a Small or Medium humanoid, or back into its true
fiend’s Charm for the next 24 hours.
The fiend can have only one target charmed at a time. If it charms another, the effect on the previous target ends.
Draining Kiss. The fiend kisses a creature
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
takes the same damage again. The acid floods the room to a depth of 5 feet and flows 40 feet out into the hall leading back to area 14a before slowly draining out through tiny holes in the floor
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
magic weapons. Korvala Korvala Korvala is a 32-year-old jackalwere. A tall and imposing figure, she has been the leader of the pack since Nidalia died. She has an authoritative air that instills
live in peace.” Bond. “Nidalia, I owe everything to you. I will bring you back, mark my words.” Flaw. “If I can’t benefit from it, I’m not interested.”
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
damage. Outside combat, you could foil a cunning diplomat, for example, by casting the spell and imposing disadvantage on his or her Charisma checks. Does the bard’s Jack of All Trades feature apply to
attack roll? No. That check is an ability check, so game effects tied to attack rolls don’t apply to it. Going back to an earlier question, the hex spell could be used to diminish a grappler’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
imposing female gray dwarf. She is fully armored and bears an insignia you have not seen on any other duergar. She is flanked by two Stone Guards who remain bythe door.
“I am Captain Errde
characters to follow Droki, see what he does and where he goes, and report back. Or if they see an opportunity, seize him and either bring him in for questioning, or kill him and bring back evidence of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
notice it’s very academic, almost impenetrable.
Maeve: OK, I put that one back and pull out another.
Jared: Are Shreeve and Auro doing anything else?
4 Amy: I grab the poker and poke at
logs in the fire.
Jared: As soon as you lift the poker, you hear a grinding sound, and the back of the fireplace slides to the side, revealing a room behind it!
Amy: “Uh, folks? I found something
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
good orc gladiator) is a Strixhaven employee with a kind demeanor but no tolerance for misbehavior. Tulk’s nickname comes from his imposing physical presence at a burly, muscle-bound height of nearly
older student employee can be found working here as a server. E5. Back Exit These areas afford access to the small stalls that serve as privies for the tavern and each feature a door that leads to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Soulmonger is active, the following effects are in play: Any humanoid on the planet that has been brought back from the dead begins to waste away. Its hit point maximum is reduced by 20 (1 for each day
Soulmonger or by some other life-draining effect, such as the touch of a wight, wraith, or similar creature. If a humanoid dies anywhere on the planet, its soul becomes trapped inside the Soulmonger
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Spires. The river splits as it runs through the hilly lands, eventually draining into a series of lakes along the southern edge of the vale. Two small woods also grow in the vale, one along its northern
young ranger who has recently returned from a three-year journey to explore the North. He came back with a wife, the sorceress Ylienna of Silverymoon, and has begun to take on more of his father’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
-draining wails as follows: Charinidia wails on her first turn in combat. Grazthrae wails after taking damage for the first time in combat. T’riizlin wails after one of the other banshees is destroyed
flees. If they are left alone, the spiders crawl back into the altar and disappear after 1 hour, whereupon the trap resets. During his last visit to the nave, Muiral took any items of value from the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
the alarm and imposing one failure point. The alarm alerts all other guards on the docks, and can draw an endless supply of reinforcements from other ships over time. As such, the characters should
realize quickly that a stand-up fight will involve more foes than they can handle. The party can retreat and come back when the heat dies down, but this delay imposes another failure point. Or they can push past any threats to get to Dangerous Business and the portals within.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
, eating, and sleeping area in foul weather. 11. Royal Docks The term “royal” dates back to the age when Chult was ruled by true kings and queens instead of merchants. Now these docks are reserved for
hundreds of disputes, traffic jams, and other minor problems that crop up every day on a busy quayside. Zindar finds that his imposing personal presence gets issues resolved more quickly and more to his
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
the unhallowed brink of the Abyss. Rotting shacks, crumbling stone edifices, and derelict streets lie in the shadow of a silvery keep atop a gray hill. An imposing fortress of demonic construction
common nuisance, as pox-ridden corpses regularly return to confront their oppressors. CoupleOfKooks “The knife of betrayal is best twisted twice–once in the back and again in the grave. Trust no one
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
chapter 1 during play. If there’s an opportunity for a character to gain one of these options, ask that character’s player if they’d be comfortable with such an adjustment before imposing it. If the player
that just happened is off limits. The person touching the card can comment on what they want adjusted, or whoever’s narrating the scene can walk back what just happened, try something else, or leave the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Uniting War against the Deepkingdom, but were swiftly crushed, and the survivors brought back to Gracklstugh in chains. Though their status as slaves was eventually set aside, the derro have always been
imposing vastness, and even that is secondary to a building’s structural function. The only ornamentations found in Gracklstugh are iconic representations of rank and function within duergar society, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Drannor came to the aid of the Dalelands and helped push back Sembian forces. On the Sword Coast, the Hosttower of the Arcane rose again in Luskan, along with the Arcane Brotherhood. In Waterdeep and
enemies. The battle awakens what turns out to be a hive of the creatures, and they use the life and magic-draining power of the spire against the lands below. By 1489, many of the wars that began
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
the reservoir is drained. Draining the Reservoir. To drain the reservoir and flush the apparitions from Sigil, the characters must manually activate three of the machine’s pumps—convoluted-looking
hit points, it is sucked back into the orrery and sent back to the plane from whence it came. Necrotic Flares. The spirit’s presence causes Skall’s orrery to behave erratically. Until the spirit is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
rising back up to the ceiling in the next 50 feet, and a rune of fear in its final 30 feet. Whirling Blades (Initiative 20). The blades attack each creature in the first 80 feet of the hallway, with a
, imposing disadvantage on the blades’ attacks against the creature while it isn’t incapacitated. Attack. A creature in the area can ready an attack to strike at one of the blades as it goes by. The blade
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
with its food, slowly squeezing and draining the life out of a creature. Death Kiss
Large aberration, neutral evil
Armor Class 16 (natural armor)
Hit Points 161 (17d10 + 68)
Speed 0 ft., fly 30
for several weeks, it is forced back to its home plane, so it constantly seeks new items to drain. A gauth might employ creatures to serve it by bringing it items that provide it with sustenance
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Nest of the Eldritch Eye
Chamber Cacophonous whispers echo through this expansive cave. An imposing human cultist in a sweeping robe stands against the wall, chanting. His oily hair is slicked back, and his skin is gaunt and
(Perception) check sees the faint outline of a doorway at the back of the tomb. The door is unlocked, swings open with a gentle push, and leads to area N8. N7: Crawlspace The cramped passage is large enough
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
below. Three-foot-high barriers line the causeway’s edges, funneling travelers toward the gatehouse of Vrakir’s imposing fortress.
The bridge crosses the lava river at its narrowest point, spanning 300
platform. Each one can be described as follows: This imposing tower is buttressed by the stone cliffs of the stronghold’s upper level. Its battlements have a commanding view of the hold’s upper and