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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
digesting it. Only a scattering of bones, metal, treasure, and other indigestible bits is left behind.
A trapper’s ability to alter the color and texture of its outer side enables it to blend in with
investigate the bones for valuables becomes the trapper’s next meal.
A trapper needs to eat a halfling-sized meal once per week to remain sated. Given a steady supply of food, trappers are content to
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures
reactions.A rare variety of hydra native to the wilds of Eldraine, snapping hydras resemble giant, many-headed turtles. Snapping hydras dwell at the bottom of the wild’s largest lakes, or along
strong instincts of self-preservation. When a snapping hydra feels a battle's odds tipping out of its favor, the hydra lets out a raspy screech and retracts into its shell. In the wilds of Eldraine
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
escape a darkweaver should think twice about returning to the creature’s lair, though, as darkweavers prioritize their appetites over bargains.A Darkweaver’s Lair
Darkweavers dwell in
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Roll a die. If you roll an even number, the cocoon contains the bones of a Humanoid. If you roll an odd number, the
Monsters
Princes of the Apocalypse
dwell in swamps on the frayed edges of civilization. A black dragon’s lair is a dismal cave, grotto, or ruin that is at least partially flooded, providing pools where the dragon rests, and where
its victims can ferment. The lair is littered with the acid-pitted bones of previous victims and the fly-ridden carcasses of fresh kills, watched over by crumbling statues. Centipedes, scorpions, and
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
;s dread overlord, the red wyrm Klauth. Scattered here and there are the crushed or charred bones of powerful adventurers and entire orc hordes that dared to enter the valley.
“Old Snarl,&rdquo
of elemental fire into the world to dwell nearby.
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Troglodyte
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Monster Manual (2014)
in the shallow depths of the Underdark in a constant state of war against their neighbors and one another. They mark the borders of their territories with cracked bones and skulls, or with
pictographs painted in blood or dung.
Perhaps the most loathsome of all humanoids, troglodytes eat anything they can stomach. They dwell in filth. The walls of their cavern homes are smeared with grime, oily
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Eberron: Rising from the Last War
heightened senses. Geth’s gift from his lycanthrope ancestors was sheer toughness. Strength seeped into his bones and flooded his flesh. His skin hardened, and his hair became coarse like an
world around them. Do they embrace their primal instincts or the path of civilization?
The Beast Within
Early in childhood, a shifter forms a bond with a beast within, a totemic force that shapes their
Ancient Black Dragon
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Basic Rules (2014)
","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Wing Attack","rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage and be knocked prone. The dragon can then fly up to half its flying speed.Black dragons dwell in swamps
ferment. The lair is littered with the acid-pitted bones of previous victims and the fly-ridden carcasses of fresh kills, watched over by crumbling statues. Centipedes, scorpions, and snakes infest
Adult Black Dragon
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","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Wing Attack","rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage and be knocked prone. The dragon can then fly up to half its flying speed.Black dragons dwell in
can ferment. The lair is littered with the acid-pitted bones of previous victims and the fly-ridden carcasses of fresh kills, watched over by crumbling statues. Centipedes, scorpions, and snakes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
or heightened senses. Geth’s gift from his lycanthrope ancestors was sheer toughness. Strength seeped into his bones and flooded his flesh. His skin hardened, and his hair became coarse like an
features—a state they call shifting. Whatever their origins, shifters have evolved into a unique race. A shifter walks on the knife’s edge between the wilds and the world around them. Do they embrace their primal instincts or the path of civilization?
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
or heightened senses. Geth’s gift from his lycanthrope ancestors was sheer toughness. Strength seeped into his bones and flooded his flesh. His skin hardened, and his hair became coarse like an
change shape, they can temporarily enhance their animalistic features — a state they call shifting. Each shifter walks on the knife’s edge between the wilds and the world around them. Do they embrace their primal instincts or the path of civilization?
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
fearsome claws, crushing horns, and fiery breath, chimeras are tempests of ferocity, driven by their three heads’ conflicting instincts. Their heads agree on little but their desires to feed and to drive
, and claws. Owing to their draconic instincts, chimeras are greedy creatures that hoard treasures within cavernous lairs. They’re undiscerning about what they collect, gathering shiny objects
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
The Gurgyl Those who venture into the wilds on a moonlit night might see a massive shape silently lumbering through Tepest’s woods. The Gurgyl, a structure of thorns, wicker, and giants’ bones
, appears as a misshapen, towerlike nest balanced on three skeletal dragon legs. Lorinda and her daughter Laoirse dwell inside this mobile fortress, which holds Lorinda’s kitchen-laboratory, Laoirse’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
16. Manticore Den Manticores. Three manticores dwell here. They immediately attack anyone who isn’t Halaster or his “food troll” (see area 18).
Makeshift Beds. Three large piles of soiled, torn
tapestries and curtains, intermixed with humanoid bones and broken bits of stone, serve as beds for the manticores.
Scrying Eye. If the characters leave after killing the manticores and later return
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Githyanki Since winning their freedom from the mind flayers, the githyanki have become corrupt raiders and destroyers under the rulership of their dread lich-queen, Vlaakith. They dwell on the Astral
Whispers, which is located deep inside the floating city. She sits on her Throne of Bones, a mighty artifact fueled by the intellects of mind flayers and elder brains that were defeated by her minions
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
predatory arachnid instincts.
Driders also appear when whole communities are transformed by a wicked god’s wrath or other magical means, or driders might be part of a world’s natural population. Most dwell
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
barbarian fell against the giant horde. His bones are under that boulder over there.”
— Elder Zelane of Istivin, recounting the Giant Wars
Old as Legend. In remote regions of the world, the last
remaining plinths, monoliths, and statues of the great giant empires bow their heads in desolate obscurity. Where once those empires sprawled across all lands, now the giants dwell in isolated tribes and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monstrous Compendium Volume Four
Snapping Hydra A rare variety of hydra native to the wilds of Eldraine, snapping hydras resemble giant, many-headed turtles. Snapping hydras dwell at the bottom of the wild’s largest lakes or along
and strong instincts of self-preservation. When a snapping hydra feels a battle’s odds tipping out of its favor, the hydra lets out a raspy screech and retracts into its shell. In the wilds of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
verge of starvation might defy its instincts and begin creeping along, abandoning its old territory in search of better hunting. Beware of Leftovers. When its prey is dead, a trapper dissolves and
absorbs the fleshy parts, leaving a scattering of bones, metal, treasure, and other indigestible bits in the place where the creature had been. A trapper that lurks on the floor of its hunting grounds can
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Morte’s Planar Parade
A Darkweaver’s Lair Darkweavers dwell in lightless caverns, preferring locations touched by pitch-black planes, such as Pandemonium or the Shadowfell. Darkweavers tend to inhabit isolated sites where
masses. Darkweaver Cocoon Contents d6 Contents 1 Roll a die. If you roll an even number, the cocoon contains the bones of a Humanoid. If you roll an odd number, the cocoon contains the bones of a non
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
, it peels itself away from the surface and wraps around its prey, crushing, smothering, and then digesting it. Only a scattering of bones, metal, treasure, and other indigestible bits is left behind. A
a nearby wall or a ceiling, using the remnants as bait; any creature that stops to investigate the bones for valuables becomes the trapper’s next meal. A trapper needs to eat a halfling-sized meal
Orc
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
gather and celebrate, dwell the followers of Yurtrus, the god of disease and death, and Shargaas, the god of darkness and the unknown. Orcs too weak for battle (because of bodily weakness, malformation
corpse’s ears for three days to ward off any retribution, and then bury or burn them.
Three ravens is always a good sign.
It is good luck to spit where you are about to sleep.
Gnome bones can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
territories with cracked bones and skulls, or with pictographs painted in blood or dung. Perhaps the most loathsome of all humanoids, troglodytes eat anything they can stomach. They dwell in filth. The walls
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
village of Mbala. A powerful witch is rumored to dwell there. According to local legends, the witch forged a pact with the Lord of Bones, a god who granted her the power to create zombies that retain
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
are pale white or light blue, matted with frost and clattering with icicles. Their flesh is as blue as glacial ice.
Frost giants dwell in high peaks and glacial rifts where the sun hides its golden
and bones of beasts, and carve bone or ivory into jewelry and the handles of weapons and tools. They reuse the weapons and armor of their smaller foes, stringing shields into scale armor and lashing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
tower, for thousands of years of shifting sand had left that as the easiest point of entry. We were surrounded by cyclopean bones, and I found myself facing the empty gaze of a skull taller than I was
, Melanora might still be with us today. Instead she lies lost beneath the basalt towers, trapped in hideous service to the ancient powers that dwell in the darkness.
For the full text of Professor
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
dream, they could allow those caught within to escape. (See “The Dream of I’Cath” later in this domain for details.) Darklord Tsien Chiang and her daughters dwell at the heart of both these worlds
placate a hungry ghost. This has attracted dozens of other ghosts. The family seeks help placating the undead mouths they can’t feed.
8 Tsien Chiang’s library in the Palace of Bones holds secrets
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
Beast Dens Bones are piled against the western walls of this cavern, forming low mounds.
Creatures. Two adult displacer beasts dwell here with three reduced-threat displacer beasts (see “Reduced
waste of the creatures that dwell here. Pools. Each of the rocky pools in these caverns is 1 foot deep and magically filled with cool, clean water. A pool is difficult terrain. Forest of Illusion
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
6. Undertakers’ Watch Post Several members of the Undertakers gang dwell here in their vampire disguises. If the bandit keeping an eye on area 1 through the secret door retreats here with news of the
Waterdavian nobles clad in decorative plate armor.
Bones and Broken Staff. Lying at the base of the central statue are the bones of a long-dead hobgoblin and a white wooden staff broken in half.
Carved
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
webs. Others, the ettercap garrotes with strands of web or envenoms with its poisonous bite. Sylvan Despoilers. Though they dwell in the wilds, ettercaps have no desire to live in harmony with nature
a wood are soon lost in a maze of webs that dangle with the bones and lost treasures of the ettercaps’ victims. Enemies of the Fey. Ettercaps are natural enemies of fey creatures. The foul creatures
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
tomb (areas 27 and 28). Withers avoids contact with the characters when possible, confident that Acererak’s traps will defeat them. Legendary Monsters Two legendary monsters dwell in Acererak’s tomb
creature’s lair are localized to the levels where they dwell. Despite being the dungeon’s creator, Acererak doesn’t count the Tomb of the Nine Gods as his lair. Consequently, no lair actions or regional
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
where warriors gather and celebrate, dwell the followers of Yurtrus, the god of disease and death, and Shargaas, the god of darkness and the unknown. Orcs too weak for battle (because of bodily
their emotions and instincts rather than out of reason and logic. Only certain charismatic orcs, those who have been directly touched by the will and might of Gruumsh, have the capacity to control the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Followers of Yurtrus reside on the threshold of where the deep area of the cavern system begins. They are the keepers of the dead, and the entrance to their realm is festooned with piles of bones and
skulls. An altar to Yurtrus, made of stone with a hand painted in ash and tallow on it, stands in a cramped chamber apart from the main living area that is lined with skulls and bones. Caves for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
can direct the characters to the nearby wildernesses where these groups dwell. Heart Delta Heart Delta lies a few miles away from Camp Greenbriar. When the characters visit there, read or paraphrase
Faunel where sapient animals overcome their instincts and live communally. If the characters converse with her, she shares the following information: She’s saddened to hear about Oka’s death but
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
there, but because of the hundreds of stray bones that lie beneath the water—the remains of animals sacrificed to Phenax. More than the dead dwell in Orestes’s tomb, though. Lampads. Two unsettlingly
a pile of bones. 2. Antechamber The scent of warm, humid rot smothers this dismal chamber. Mosaics cover the walls, their colors faded and images scrambled by lost tiles. A thick layer of mud covers






