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Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
carapaces with the blood of their enemies.
Thri-kreen
Thri-kreen are carnivores with insectile features and two pairs of arms. Because their bodies are encased in protective chitin, they tend to
communication difficult to interpret and impossible to duplicate. To interact with creatures of other sapient species, thri-kreen rely on a form of telepathy.
Thri-kreen often use weapons of their own design
Kenku
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
about your character’s intentions unless you’re deliberately aiming for inscrutable or mysterious.
You might say, “Snapper makes the noise of a hammer slowly and rhythmically
might sound like fun, but it can prove distracting and could slow down the game.
Kenku Names
Given that kenku can duplicate any sound, their names are drawn from a staggering variety of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
. Unfortunately, they have no means of assuring the slumbering fungal entity of their intentions, and the growing threat posed by Zuggtmoy and the demon lords has roused Araumycos’s defenses. The pastel
rise up and attack the characters. Created by Araumycos to perfectly duplicate the abilities, traits, and actions of otyughs, these creatures are plants rather than aberrations. They attack until slain
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
and slew the Zhentarim envoys who were present. When the Zhents retaliated by attacking Xanathar Guild outposts, Xanathar took their actions as confirmation of the Black Network’s vile intentions. Now
the bad blood between the Zhentarim and Xanathar has begun to spill into the streets, threatening peace throughout the city. Who actually stole the Stone of Golorr? The answer: a rock gnome named
Magic Items
Infernal Machine Rebuild
+1 bonus to initiative rolls.
You are unable to hear any speech louder than a whisper.
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An exact duplicate of you appears next to you, dressed as you but lacking any gear. The duplicate
functions as a familiar and has the statistics of a cat.
An exact duplicate of you appears next to you, dressed as you but lacking any gear. It loudly tries to convince all other creatures that it is you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
character has the incapacitated condition in Illithinoch, the infected elder brain establishes a Psychic Link with the character and determines the character’s intentions. The psychic link remains until
throughout Illithinoch. These are most often knots of tentacles, blood-soaked brains, and jagged lines reminiscent of jaws. These symbols all move slightly when viewed for more than a moment: tentacles
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
blackness equivalent to darkness (a 2nd-level spell). A hag carefully shepherds her use of weird magic because the items in her repertoire are often impossible to duplicate or replace. To reflect this fact
how to invoke the razor wind, or the runestone containing the three syllables for crystallizing blood, it is better to use such things than to risk death by not doing so.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
. Painted in blood on the kitchen wall is a circle with ten equidistant lines radiating outward from its circumference: the sign of Xanathar. A thorough search accompanied by a successful DC 12 Wisdom
(Perception) check reveals small pools of blood on the kitchen floor. A successful check also verifies that the blood on the floor and wall is fresh. Fenerus’s Story Fenerus Stormcastle was the founder of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
(Insight) check or a speak with animals spell, but the torturer speaks to the characters only in bold threats. In combat, Andras uses weapons coated in blood of the lycanthrope poison (see appendix C
of one of Thessalar’s sadistic experiments, conducted by Andras. His lycanthropic blood is being drained for study by Thessalar, who has already discovered ways in which it might be weaponized (see
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
lives, like busybodies with cruel intentions. Any time a hag agrees to help someone, the bargain includes a price to be paid, plus a hidden plan by which she sets the mortal up to fail, or a way that
exceedingly high. 7 I require all of my bargains to be put in writing and signed in the other party’s blood. 8 I am very superstitious, and I see omens in every event and action around me. Hag Ideals d6
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
their villages untouched. While orcs, dwarves, and humans struggled, fought, and spilled blood to expand their territory, the elves noted that the halflings dwelled in a state of placid disregard
fundamental character, and if the halflings are convinced of a creature’s good intentions, they respond well. Halflings would welcome an orc with a good heart into their company and treat it as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
.”
If the characters talk with Ploopploopeen, the archpriest explains his intentions as the kuo-toa escort the party to Sloobludop. If the characters refuse, the kuo-toa attempt to capture them, as
. “We are split in two,” Ploopploopeen explains, “fighting among ourselves.” The followers of the Deep Father have been making an increasing number of offerings on his altar — killing blood sacrifices
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
druid with Survival +4) and Hengar Aesnvaard (neutral good human gladiator with Survival +5). Mjenir waves at the characters to signal his peaceful intentions. If they are willing to speak, he directs
blood upon the snow. They will do everything in their power to keep you from finding what the Frostmaiden has preserved under the ice.”
Mjenir and his fellow Elk tribesfolk volunteer to escort the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
. “Volothamp Geddarm, chronicler, wizard, and celebrity, at your service. I trust you’ve noted the violence in our fair city these past tendays. I haven’t seen so much blood since my last visit to
prevail upon you in my hour of need?”
Volo gives each character a small pouch containing 10 gp simply for accepting his quest. Characters who want to discover his intentions must make a DC 10 Wisdom
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
lair actions. On initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), N’ghathrod can take one lair action to cause one of the following effects:
N’ghathrod creates a magical duplicate of itself anywhere
aboard the ship. Formed out of psionic energy, this duplicate lasts until it is reduced to 0 hit points, until it is dispelled (DC 15), or until N’ghathrod takes another lair action. The duplicate has
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
a new, fully formed beholder springs forth unbidden, seemingly having appeared out of thin air in a nearby space. This “offspring” might be a duplicate of the beholder that dreamed it into existence
. That’s where the similarity ends. Chapter 3 of this book introduces several new types of beholder-kin. A death kiss is usually the result of a nightmare about blood, such as what a beholder might
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Roleplaying Bel Bel oversees the manufacture of weapons and armor for the Blood War. Though Asmodeus has instructed Zariel to accept Bel as her advisor, Bel and Zariel loathe each other and invent
distractions to keep them apart. When Bel learns of the characters’ intentions, he decides to use them as pawns to tarnish and ultimately overthrow Zariel. Bel outwardly plays the role of Zariel’s loyal
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
. Mahadi and Zariel Zariel relies on Mahadi’s services to provide supplies, magic items, and other items of value necessary for continuing her campaign in the Blood War. Infernal Rapture has also been
inflicted upon her. Once he realizes that her intentions are benign, Mahadi pretends to be her friend once more.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
—Shreeve, Mirabella, Auro, and Gareth—have traveled to the Blood on the Vine tavern in the grim village of Barovia.
Jared (as DM): This tavern might have been finely appointed once, but it has
perceptiveness and intuition. Insight reflects a character’s skill at reading other people’s moods and intentions. The DM set the DC at 15, which Gareth beats. With a successful Wisdom (Insight) check
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
this way, the creature focuses on copying the blasphemous designs that appear in its mind using whatever medium it has available (ink, charcoal, mud, or its own blood). Unless restrained, the creature
hours, whenever any creature is wounded, its blood (or similar fluid) spreads to form a short message or grisly tableau. 66–70 A spirit inhabits one character’s simple or martial weapon, making it a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
adventurers to Karkolohk to that they can help him escape. As the DM, you get to determine Yarb-Gnock’s true intentions (see “Gnome Diplomacy” for more information). Hunt for the Red Yeti Lost Spire of
) has been scouring the tundra for the Red Yeti—a yeti so terrifying and cruel that its fur is stained red with the blood of its kills. One night at a tavern, Mylbor bets the characters 300 gp that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
counter any false notions the dryad might have about the party’s intentions and allegiances. If the characters make a sound argument in their defense, or if four or more shrubs are killed in the ensuing
characters, hoping to soak their hats in the characters’ blood. If the characters seem unable to deal with the redcaps on their own, the pixies use their magic to assist. Once the redcaps are no longer a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
attuned to this zone. He is willing to share the key’s attunement in return for a taste of fresh blood. Any character who agrees to this bargain suffers the effects of Issem’s bite attack. Development
prisms must make a DC 13 Wisdom saving throw at the start each of his or her turns. The first time each character fails the save, a wraith that looks like a shadowy duplicate of that character erupts
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
her tireless effort to win the Blood War. When the characters enter the room, set the scene by reading aloud the following boxed text: Two rows of tall wrought-iron candlesticks light this vaulted
unlit, half-melted red candles surround the circle.
The cultists use this chamber to perform diabolical rituals that duplicate the effect of a divination spell, except that the spell’s contact is a