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Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Beak", "rollDamageType":"Piercing"} Piercing damage. If the target is a Large or smaller creature, it has the Prone condition.
Scimitar (Humanoid Form Only). Melee
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A dryad whose tree is recovering from illness.
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A Humanoid ignorant of the swanmay’s true nature.
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A handful of seeds bearing primal power.
Shape-Shift. The swanmay Shape
Dryad
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Monsters
Basic Rules (2014)
the target can see the dryad, it must succeed on a DC 14 Wisdom saving throw or be magically charmed. The charmed creature regards the dryad as a trusted friend to be heeded and protected. Although the
Innate Spellcasting. The dryad’s innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 14). The dryad can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:
At will
Monsters
Vecna: Eve of Ruin
target has the grappled condition (escape DC 16). Until the grapple ends, the target has the restrained condition, and the dryad can’t use the same vine on another target. A creature restrained
vine can be attacked (AC 20; 10 hit points; immunity to poison and psychic damage). Destroying a vine deals no damage to the dryad, but any creature grappled by that vine no longer has the grappled
Monsters
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
Innate Spellcasting. The dryad’s innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 17). The dryad can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:
At will
: druidcraft
3/day each: dispel magic, entangle, plant growth, spike growth
1/day each: moonbeam, grasping vine, wall of thorns
Magic Resistance. The dryad has advantage on saving throws against spells and
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
next turn.
Horrific Feast. The hag feeds on the corpse of one enemy within reach that died within the past minute. Each creature of the hag’s choice that is within 60 feet and able to see the
feeding must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or be frightened of the hag for 1 minute. While frightened in this way, a creature is incapacitated, can’t understand what others say, can
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The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
understand, even if the Feywild visitor can’t speak that language normally.
Feywild Visitor
d8
Visitor
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Awakened creature (a Beast or an ordinary plant that has had the awaken
spell cast on it)
2
Centaur
3
Dryad
4
Faerie dragon
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Pixie
6
Satyr
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Sprite
8
Unicorn
Conjure Woodland Beings
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, and more creatures appear: twice as many with a 6th-level slot and three times as many with an 8th-level slot.
Sample Creatures
CR
Creature
1/4
Blink Dog, Sprite
1/2
Satyr
1
Dryad
2
Sea Hag
You summon fey creatures that appear in unoccupied spaces that you can see within range. Choose one of the following options for what appears:
One fey creature of challenge rating 2 or lower
Two
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Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
or injury in any creature saddens me.
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I have much to be proud of, but I am still just one strand in the grand, interwoven tapestry of life.
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Nature offers rich and abundant metaphors
my former guild and joined the Selesnya along with a close friend.
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The dryad at the head of my enclave has taken an interest in my activities.
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A sibling is an instructor at the guild
Conjure Fey
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You summon a fey creature of challenge rating 6 or lower, or a fey spirit that takes the form of a beast of challenge rating 6 or lower. It appears in an unoccupied space that you can see within
range. The fey creature disappears when it drops to 0 hit points or when the spell ends.
The fey creature is friendly to you and your companions for the duration. Roll initiative for the creature, which
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
creature restrained in this way takes 13 (3d8) necrotic damage at the start of its turn.
The dryad has six vines. Each vine can be attacked (AC 20; 10 hit points; immunity to poison and psychic
damage). Destroying a vine deals no damage to the dryad, but any creature grappled by that vine no longer has the grappled condition. All vines immediately wither and disappear when the dryad is reduced
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
throw or be magically charmed. The charmed creature regards the dryad as a trusted friend to be heeded and protected. Although the target isn’t under the dryad’s control, it takes the dryad’s requests
Dryad Travelers entering a forest might catch a glimpse of a feminine form flitting through the trees. Warm laughter hangs on the air, drawing those who hear it deeper into the emerald shadows
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
stonemasons and woodshapers to create Selesnya enclaves. Summoned Mount. When leading its guild into battle, a dryad rides a magically summoned creature woven of living branches, vines, and grasses and
Conclave Dryad The lush forests that once grew on Ravnica are gone, but the dryads remain, striving to bring the sprawling city and the verdant green of nature into harmony. Dryads believe that their
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
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minute. Any creature that moves into the web or that starts its turn there must make a DC 21 Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the creature is restrained while in the web. A creature can use
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from him in a mighty blast of lightning.
Crouching behind a stalagmite, a halfling points a finger at a charging troglodyte. A blast of fire springs from her finger to strike the creature. She ducks
apparent flukes. Some sorcerers can’t name the origin of their power, while others trace it to strange events in their own lives. The touch of a demon, the blessing of a dryad at a baby’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
D&D book to select a character’s race, if the DM approves. For nonplayer characters, you’re as likely to meet a pixie, a dryad, a giant, a treant, or another fantastical creature on campus as you are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
guild’s goals and virtues. Members of the guild raise them from infancy, carefully protecting the foals from griffons, drakes, and other aerial predators. Selesnya Creatures Challenge Creature
Source 0 Small nature elemental (awakened shrub) MM 1/8 Twig blight MM 1/4 Axe beak MM 1/4 Needle blight MM 1/2 Scout MM 1/2 Soldier GGR 1/2 Vine blight MM 1 Dire wolf MM 1 Dryad MM 1 Horncaller GGR 2
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
Stat Blocks by Creature Type Here are the creatures in this bestiary, as well as in the subsequent NPC collection, sorted by creature type. Aberrations
Flying horror
Shadow horror
Skittering
Elementals
Arclight phoenix
Blistercoil weird
Fluxcharger
Galvanice weird
Fey
Conclave dryad
Trostani
Fiends
Cackler
Master of cruelties
Rakdos
Sire of insanity
Giants
Bloodfray
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
creature and the darkmantle had Advantage on the attack roll, it covers the target, which has the Blinded condition and is suffocating while the darkmantle is attached in this way.
While attached to a
target, the darkmantle can attack only the target but has Advantage on its attack rolls. Its Speed becomes 0, it can’t benefit from any bonus to its Speed, and it moves with the target.
A creature
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
traveler
2 Dryad spirits
3 Shambling mounds
4 Thorn trap
Dead Traveler. The corpse of a drow rests at the end of the path, her flesh impaled by hungry vines and her face twisted in
an expression of horror. The traveler wears a bag of devouring on a strap. Dryad Spirits. Three cursed dryad spirits (use the banshee stat block to represent them) approach the characters and demand
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
: The treant has the following action option: Pacifying Spores (3/Day). The treant ejects spores at one creature it can see within 5 feet of it. The target must succeed on a DC 17 Constitution saving
are not to be trusted, and characters (not to mention players) are often wise to be suspicious even at the best of times. You can adjust the encounters with the dryad-hags according to the players
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Buttered campestri 3 Centaur 4 Doomed dryad 5 Grandfather tree 6 Jabberwock’s trail 7 Owlbear and chariot 8 Pixies Blink Dogs The characters spot 1d6 + 2 blink dogs 60 feet ahead of them. Characters who
characters in the direction of Loomlurch if that’s where they aim to go. Doomed Dryad A hostile dryad and seven awakened shrubs emerge from the undergrowth and surround the characters. Any character
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
inside the wall of ice and partially within some distant, horrific demiplane. As this otherworldly entity peers into the cavern, visitors risk losing their sanity to its influence. Any creature that
comes within 20 feet of the wall of ice is targeted by a dominate monster spell (save DC 15). The entity can concentrate on up to ten such spells at once. Any creature that successfully saves against
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
. In ages long past, Nylea loved her dryad companion, Arasta, as a sister and the two spread wonders across Theros. One day, Phenax, envious of the pair and stung by some forgotten slight, transformed
Arasta into a terrible monster to prove that the goddess’s love was based on beauty, not true kinship. Seeing the unfamiliar creature, Nylea was horrified and drove her away. Shattered, Arasta
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
they are mounted.) 2 The path leads into a lonely grove that serves as the grave of a former dryad queen. If appropriate respects are paid, the characters have a 50 percent chance to receive a
golem finally overcome its foe. 4 A leprechaun (use quickling statistics from Volo’s Guide to Monsters) crosses the characters’ path. If successfully caught without being killed, the creature negotiates
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
set web snares to catch sprites and pixies, which they hungrily devour, and will encase a dryad’s tree in webbing in a vain attempt to trap the dryad. Otherwise timid fey will sometimes approach
ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.
Web Sense. While in contact with a web, the ettercap knows the exact location of any other creature in contact with the same web.
Web Walker. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
might turn any natural creature—from the rarest of exotic creatures to suddenly-bloodthirsty livestock—against those who offend her. Nylea’s Monsters Challenge Creature Source
1/2 Scout MM
1 Dryad MM
1 Nyxborn brown bear* MM
2 Nyxborn saber-toothed tiger* MM
2 Satyr thornbearer MOoT
3 Archer VGtM
5 Shambling mound MM
5 Unicorn* MM
9
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Monsters table presents a few foes likely to serve the god’s will. Karametra’s Monsters Challenge Creature Source
0 Awakened shrub MM
1 Alseid MOoT
1 Dryad MM
2 Awakened
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
bayou. Valentin is a kind of sangromancer—he receives visions from the blood he consumes, which he uses to learn things about a creature or place. He has no qualms about exploiting the bayou’s
, Arcano-Biologist Verelda Lang (chaotic neutral dryad) is a respected Witherbloom professor of growth who teaches introductory courses in magical physiologies, helping students in every college learn about
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Awakened creature (a Beast or an ordinary plant that has had the awaken spell cast on it) 2 Centaur 3 Dryad 4 Faerie dragon 5 Pixie 6 Satyr 7 Sprite 8 Unicorn Feature: Feywild Connection Your mannerisms
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
conceal herself as a dryad and invites the characters to the Feygrove, then returns to her coven and sets a trap for the characters. 7 Vegetation on the hillside has grown into a hedge maze due to the
hit, the target takes an extra 3 (1d6) piercing damage, and if the target is a Large or smaller creature, it must succeed on a DC 11 Strength saving throw or be pushed up to 10 feet from the minotaur
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
because a creature doesn’t appear on the Feywild Creatures table doesn’t mean that it can’t appear in a Domain of Delight. Any D&D creature can find its way to the Feywild, and sometimes it’s fun to
, worg 1 Animated armor, brown bear, bugbear, dryad, faerie dragon (young), giant eagle, giant hyena, giant octopus, giant spider, giant toad, giant vulture, goblin boss, half-ogre, harpy, hippogriff, lion
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Arasta of the Endless Web A victim of the gods’ petty rivalries, Arasta was once one of Nylea’s most beloved dryad companions. Phenax’s bitterness saw her transformed into an arachnid monstrosity and
spiderlike creature, her few humanoid features made monstrous by cruel magic and ages of hatred. Webs fill her lair deep in the Nessian Wood, sticky strands made not of silk but of her own endless hair. In
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
connects to a small grotto beneath the tree (area P4). With the boulder atop it, the hole is big enough for a Small or smaller creature to fit through. A creature can spend 1 minute digging to widen
point, Rosintar surrenders. What the Treant Knows. If the characters allow Rosintar to surrender, the treant tells the party that a cruel dryad named Gazaia dwells in the grotto beneath the tree
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
and hair made of leaves sits on an enormous shelf fungus like it’s a throne. He eyes you imperiously as you approach.
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This is Kaynen, a Dryad who made this tree his home just
, Kaynen becomes Friendly. He answers questions to the best of his ability and gladly allows the characters to harvest a tree bark sample.
The dryad has heard rumors that a dragon wyrmling lurks down
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
appease Bubba Wugga (see area C9). A large blob of unstretched, unwrapped taffy lies on the floor by the window on the west wall. A creature that enters a square shared by this blob of taffy for the
wall is a candy contraption that magically stretches its contents into saltwater taffy. Any creature that starts its turn in the space occupied by the taffy puller’s arms must succeed on a DC 15