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Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
has urged Elkhorn to retire, but the old dwarf stubbornly refuses to do so.
Alignment. Lawful good.
Personality Trait. “As long as I have the strength in my bones to fight evil, that is what I
dead.”
Combat Notes
Elkhorn’s challenge rating is based on him using Feint to improve his rather weak sword attack. Having been trained in his youth to fight ogres and trolls, he&rsquo
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
, including deep-sea trenches or underwater volcanoes.
Dragon turtles are largely unconcerned with the design of their lairs and seldom work to improve them. A dragon turtle’s primary concern when
neighbors take precedence.
Dragon Turtle Lair Features
The underwater caves inhabited by dragon turtles are structurally similar to the seaside caverns where bronze and topaz dragons lair. When
Human
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single elf or dwarf might take on the responsibility of guarding a special location or a powerful secret, humans found sacred orders and institutions for such purposes. While dwarf clans and halfling
powerful ethnic group in Kara-Tur, far to the east of Faerûn. They are yellowish-bronze in hue, with black hair and dark eyes. Shou surnames are usually presented before the given name.
Shou Names
Genasi
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Elemental Evil Player's Companion
, while those of air or fire tend to be lighter. A given genasi might have some features reminiscent of the mortal parent (pointed ears from an elf, a stockier frame and thick hair from a dwarf, small
chip away at even a genasi’s sense of self, so they constantly push themselves to improve, honing their talents and perfecting their craft.
Genasi Lands
As rare beings, genasi might go their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
civilizations. (And they pay me for it, too!)
Bronze Dragon Ideals d6 Ideal
1 Action. Passivity is shameful. We owe it to the world and ourselves to try to improve things, even if we can’t
Creating a Bronze Dragon Bronze dragons are the absolute worst at transforming themselves into human form. They always embellish with extra hair in all sorts of places. I applaud ingenuity, but in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
is 25 feet below the level above. The balcony is 5 feet wide. 7A. We Are Not Alone The first character to reach this point on the map glimpses a tomb dwarf on the level below: A hunched figure glares
, they can catch the tomb dwarf. The tomb dwarf uses the statistics of a wight, except that it wields a battleaxe and a light crossbow. If it is not caught, the creature moves silently through the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
called Fire Eyes and the Lord of the Bronze Mask, is the god of defense and vigilance, the protector of dwarves. Haela Brightaxe is the goddess of luck in battle, and the patron of dwarf fighters. Gods
Dwarf-father or All-Father, he is the god of the dwarf people as a whole, as well as the god of creation, “dwarf-crafts” (smithing and stonework), and protection. His wife is the Revered Mother
Orc
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
dwarfhold, the orcs will butcher any dwarf that stands against them, but it’s really all about the property—they would be just as happy if all the dwarves ran away.
Strength Respects
wereboars and ettins, both creatures that can markedly improve a tribe’s murderous efficiency. For a promise of sufficient food and loot, a troll might accompany a tribe temporarily.
A group of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
, gold dwarves tend to be more optimistic than their shield dwarf cousins, but they’re still standoffish and prideful as only a dwarf can be. They believe their race’s stable history is the result of their
artisans toil over items for years, getting their etchings and fine details just right before being satisfied with their efforts. That deliberate, perfectionist approach is a reflection of gold dwarf
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Bronze Dragon Lairs Bronze dragons typically dwell along rocky and inaccessible coastlines. Some make dry homes atop lonely sea stacks, while others favor completely submerged lairs in sunken ruins
. Many seek out strongholds straddling land and sea, with both dry and flooded chambers. When it comes to lairs, bronze dragons value function over form, and they study potential sites with a military
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
improve a clan’s capabilities. Berronar Truesilver The Matron of Home and Hearth is the patron of family, honor, and law. She lays out the rules for managing a dwarf clan. Berronar’s code establishes the
that they could almost duplicate Moradin’s level of skill. The Dwarf Deities table lists the members of the Morndinsamman. For each god, the table notes alignment, province (the god’s main areas of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
especially bright, so he fights with his heart rather than his wits. Age has drained much of the strength from Elkhorn’s body. Strongheart has urged Elkhorn to retire, but the old dwarf stubbornly
true menace to evildoers.” Flaw. “Retire? My goodness, no. I’ll retire when I’m dead.” Combat Notes Elkhorn’s challenge rating is based on him using Feint to improve his rather weak sword attack
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
until they no longer have need of it. An object animated by the animate objects spell also qualifies as this key. Beardless Dwarf Most female dwarves are beardless and thus meet the condition. A male
dwarf NPC can be persuaded to shave his beard, either as a consequence of losing a bet or upon receiving some sort of recompense. The characters can also shave a male dwarf they have captured or against
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Animated construct Beardless dwarf 2 Beholder eyestalk Bronze dragon scale Cask of dwarven ale 3 Drunken elf Gems worth at least 1,000 gp Gift from a queen 4 Invisible creature Painting of a dwarf miner
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
, but these works have been defaced and, in some cases, replaced with stony tentacles that protrude from the walls.
Dwarf-Guarded Doors. A 20-foot-tall double door stands closed at the west end of the
fills an alcove to the south.
This hall contains the posed, inanimate skeletons of five adult dragons — one each of brass, bronze, copper, gold, and silver. The gold dragon skeleton occupies the southern alcove, while the others are lined up in the main hall. The skeletons are harmless.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
GRASH-ah ME-ghan Dwarf matron of a reclusive clan Chapter 5 Ishvern ish-VERN Sea elf leader of a group of Dimernesti elves Chapter 5 Ispin Greenshield ISS-pin GREEN-shield Deceased storytelling human
Kender vampire Chapter 7 Nestra Vendri nez-TRA ven-DREE Human leader of Kalaman’s military Chapter 4 Nezrah NEZ-rah Leader of Heart’s Hollow, disguised bronze dragon Chapter 5 Onyari AWN-yar-ee
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Weapon Yes Demon armor Armor Yes Dragon scale mail Armor Yes Dwarven plate Armor No Dwarven thrower Weapon Yes (dwarf) Efreeti bottle Wondrous item No Figurine of wondrous power (obsidian steed) Wondrous
item No Frost brand Weapon Yes Helm of brilliance Wondrous item Yes Horn of Valhalla (bronze) Wondrous item No Instrument of the bards (Anstruth harp) Wondrous item Yes (bard) Ioun stone (absorption
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
dragonborn master sage of bronze dragon ancestry. Primary expertise: politics, military strategy, and significant battles of Toril. Daral Yashenti, a human master sage and poet. Primary expertise: music
the prophecies of Alaundo the Seer. The Endless Chant, as it is called, travels throughout the keep day and night. It’s led by either the Chanter or a hand-picked subordinate. In 1492 DR, the Chanter is a middle-aged shield dwarf priest of Milil (god of poetry and song) named Benedora Stoneforge.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
. Alternatively, a character can try to improve a person’s attitude with a different ability check. For example, a character can attempt a Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) check to impress Hurch with a coin trick
joking. ‘The Rattle is too evil a place for people to live,’ he used to tell me.” Kelra Ironweaver Kelra Ironweaver (Medium, Chaotic Neutral Commoner) is a local dwarf blacksmith who has outlived five
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Lower Central. Since taking her seat, she has fought to improve conditions for the lower classes of Sharn, and she has made many enemies on the council and beyond. 3 Thurik Davandi (gnome) represents
radical positions, including abolishing the monarchy after the death of King Boranel and recognizing Sharn as an independent province. 12 Nolan Toranak (dwarf), the councilor for the Cogs, is largely
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
a dead end with some old barrels. An exasperated dwarf is tied up beside them. “A little help here?” she asks as she squirms.
Zoltan Boros The captive is Vinx, a dwarf spelunker. Vinx came to this
offers the boss an impressive birthday present—such as 10 GP, a magic item, or one of the gifts from area D3—automatically succeeds on this check. On a successful check, the goblins’ attitudes improve to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
balls (worth 20 gp each) A bronze crown with tiny gem-eyed dragons for spires (worth 750 gp) A life-sized wooden pony (worth 25 gp) Six marble vases (worth 100 gp each and weighing 100 pounds apiece
tomes, all of them signed copies of a storybook called Snow Dwarf and the Seven Wights, by Nitch Rackmay. Fortunes of Ravenloft If your card reading reveals that a treasure is here, it’s buried in a random pile of treasure (roll a d6).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
raised platform bears a bronze throne decorated with carved dragons holding bronze orbs.
Portions of this audience chamber have crumbled, but hints of its former splendor remain. Dragon Throne. The
(Investigation) check notices that one of its bronze orbs is missing. This portion of the throne is in area Y6. If it is returned to the throne, the platform holding the throne slides aside, revealing a 10-foot
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a2
recesses, and dwarf-crafted traps still work perfectly well despite their age. In addition, a small number of duergar have come here to breathe life into Durgeddin’s old forges and decipher the secrets
, dusty blue tiles, and the walls are dressed with polished marble. Large doors of iron-bound oak exit to the northwest and northeast.
Three cast bronze statues, almost ten feet tall, stand by the west
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
with the names of the adventurers who retrieved his signet ring from Undermountain. The news inspires Joroth Brighthelm, a dwarf spy for the Lords’ Alliance, to visit the Yawning Portal. Joroth
approaches the characters in plain clothes and asks them to keep their eyes open for Falkir’s Fist, a band of four dwarf adventurers that disappeared in Undermountain over a year ago. The leader of the band
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
underwater volcanoes. Dragon turtles are largely unconcerned with the design of their lairs and seldom work to improve them. A dragon turtle’s primary concern when selecting a lair is ensuring that the site is
Features The underwater caves inhabited by dragon turtles are structurally similar to the seaside caverns where bronze and topaz dragons lair. When constructing a dragon turtle’s lair, you can simply
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
ceiling here is 10 feet high. The room contains the following features: Psipods. Resting in iron brackets along the curved walls are fifteen coffin-sized bronze cylinders with lids of transparent crystal
psipod is a byproduct of this connection. The residue is sticky and foul-smelling, but harmless. It dissolves after a few hours. Any creature that enters a psipod’s bronze cylinder must succeed on a DC
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
) Independent fiefdom; member of the Iron League Irongate (Free City) Mayor Unthera Selvich (appears as a dwarf) Thriving metropolis; member of the Iron League; the mayor is a disguised adult bronze dragon
power is rumored to come from pacts with archdevils Nyrond, the Kingdom of King Dunstan I (human) Center of resistance to the Great Kingdom Onnwal The Raven of Onnwal, Zyl Grayshadow (dwarf
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
concerned about a noted dwarf historian who was part of the delegation. The Emerald Enclave wants to know what happened to a pouch of magical seeds one of the delegation members was bringing to Goldenfields
. Even the Zhentarim are interested in trying to improve their relations with Mirabar by helping to solve the mystery. Whether the characters set out to search for the missing delegation or choose to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
, a bronze dragon who has lived in hiding in the region for centuries. The first residents of Heart’s Hollow were wanderers she rescued while disguised in human form. Over time, others lost in the
. Breakwater Landing serves as the town square and bartering place. A slate column marked with chalk serves as a community message board. End’s Odds. Run by Grandit “End” Pike (neutral good, hill dwarf
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
wall.
The skeleton of a dwarf sprawls on the floor east of the barge, clad in a tattered yellow turban and dusty chain mail, and clutching a bronze shield.
To unlock I’jin’s sarcophagus, eight floor
). The skeletal remains were once Bravus Boulderborn, a gold dwarf cleric of Moradin and former member of the Company of the Yellow Banner. Bravus died as a result of stepping on floor tiles in the wrong
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
-goat creature in robes sprawls ten feet to the north. It grips a staff tipped with a bronze goat’s head.
The curving corridor forms a perfect circle, imbued with magical gravity that keeps creatures
dwarf cleric of Moradin), Seward (a Chondathan human ranger), and Sephirius (a dragonborn paladin often referred to as “Seph”). Treasure A search of Devlin’s body also turns up an ink pot that never
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
dwarf-like human can live so deep below ground for only so long. Almost all of its citizens, regardless of race, honor Moradin and the dwarven gods, making Mirabar a dwarven city in spirit and ethics
armory of the North is at risk. ‘The miners, smelters, and smiths of Mirabar work ever harder to increase their output and improve their craft, while the jewelers and enamelers study ways to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
highest tier of the step pyramid holds a musty forty-foot-square chamber. Dust and sand coat its floor. Three bronze cylinders, each inset with a small door, span floor to ceiling in the middle of the
room are covered in patches of hazardous green slime (see the Dungeon Master’s Guide). A dwarf member of the Guardians of Gorm perished here weeks ago. The slime has been slowly digesting the body
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
. When the characters enter, read or paraphrase: The walls of this burial room display images of a priest performing ceremonies. On a raised dais in the middle of the room lies an open bronze coffin
the coffin lies the astrologer’s body. Treasure. A bronze tube in one of the brass jars contains a crudely drawn map of this tier of the ziggurat. Two stars on the map denote the locations of the