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Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Cargo Hauler. The bosun has advantage on Strength checks.
Sea Legs. The bosun has advantage on ability checks and saving throws to resist being knocked prone.Light Hammer. Melee or Ranged Weapon
target. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3);{"diceNotation":"1d8+3","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Hook","rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 13).
Backgrounds
Tomb of Annihilation
century old.
Suggested Characteristics
Few archaeologists can resist the lure of an unexplored ruin or dungeon, particularly if such a site is the source of legends or is rumored to contain
exhilarating than a narrow escape from the jaws of death. (Chaotic)
4
Dignity. The dead and their belongings deserve to be treated with respect. (Lawful)
5
Immortality. All my
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Boon of the Unfettered You have advantage on ability checks made to resist being grappled. In addition, you can use an action to automatically escape a grapple or free yourself of restraints of any kind.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
Rock and Ruin As an added element of danger and dilemma during the ceremony in the chapel (area 14), each time a character succeeds on a saving throw to resist the ceremony’s power, one of the
their superior mason’s tools. Alternatively, the sculptors might want to incorporate these magic rocks into an even more impressive golem, helping to ensure their escape. Likewise, if taken to the Temple of Moloch, these rocks might be highly prized for the crafting of statues and homunculi.
Kenku
Legacy
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
resist the lure of a beautiful sparkling treasure, the kenku plotted to steal the item and escape to the Material Plane.
Unfortunately for the kenku, their master discovered their plan before they could
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
the Wind Dukes of Aaqa. Whatever the truth, according to legend, the kenku betrayed their master. Unable to resist the lure of a beautiful sparkling treasure, the kenku plotted to steal the item and
escape to the Material Plane. Unfortunately for the kenku, their master discovered their plan before they could enact it. Enraged, the entity imposed three dreadful curses upon them. First, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
)
Challenge 1/2 (100 XP)
Cargo Hauler. The bosun has advantage on Strength checks.
Sea Legs. The bosun has advantage on ability checks and saving throws to resist being knocked prone.
Actions
Light
Hammer. Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 20/60 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d4 + 3) bludgeoning damage.
Hook. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3) piercing damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 13).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
set him free. He believes he can learn more, and he’s willing to take the risk. He’s too weak to resist, however, so characters can easily take him away against his will if that’s what they want to do
talk about it later. If characters are captured and imprisoned alongside Leosin and their attempts to escape fall through, he reveals that he has a small knife hidden in his boot. They can use it to cut
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
to set him free. He believes he can learn more, and he’s willing to take the risk. He’s too weak to resist, however, so characters can easily take him away against his will if that’s what they want to
to talk about it later. If characters are captured and imprisoned alongside Leosin and their attempts to escape fall through, he reveals that he has a small knife hidden in his boot. They can use it to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Madness at Gardmore Abbey: the deck was a gift from an archfey to a mighty emperor. As the archfey predicted, the emperor was unable to resist using the deck to cast his own future, and the deck
characters to interact with the Deck of Many Things, but it rewarded them with new powers instead of punishing them and blocking all efforts to escape the deck.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
, Krebbyg Masq’il’yr, and Soluun Xibrindas. Replace any that were killed earlier in the adventure with other drow gunslingers, and roll initiative for each drow. Soluun (or his replacement) can’t resist a
good fight and attacks the characters, buying time for the other drow to escape. Once they’re outside the tower, the fleeing drow become invisible again as they leap onto a nearby rooftop, but the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
when the true price of the deal is revealed. If a hag’s life is threatened, she will pretend to be weak and helpless if she thinks it will spare her life or buy her time to retaliate or escape. She’ll
destroy both of us simultaneously. 8 The ones who looted and burned my home will pay for their offense. Hag Flaws d6 Flaw 1 I am too eager for gossip. 2 I can’t resist flirting with a handsome man
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
innocent. But then, two tendays afterward, another group of yuan-ti came on the scene. These yuan-ti attacked the village, killed any frogfolk who tried to resist, and captured the grippli who weren’t
able to escape. She asks the characters for help, telling them that the yuan-ti have been eating their eggs and tormenting the few grippli who remain in the village. Nothing has been heard from the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
.
4 Escape. I believe there is something beyond the world I know, and I need to find it.
5 Legacy. I must do something great so that I’m remembered, and my time is running out.
6
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8 I need to find the best in everyone and everything, even when that means denying obvious malice.
9 I’ve seen the evil of a type of place—like forests, cities, or graveyards—and resist going
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
resistance against any invasion. Charm Ray It is common for a beholder to charm a hostile monster, lure the creature to the beholder’s lair, and confine it there so it can’t escape under its own power. In
minion that it doesn’t want to destroy outright. Fear Ray A beholder uses its fear ray to psychologically torture and interrogate a prisoner until the creature loses the will to resist. Slowing Ray A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
lap up the ichor left behind when one fiend kills another. The World Awaits. Because of their instinctive hunger for living prey, vargouilles are eager to escape the Lower Planes. On rare occasions
the Material Plane are a dire threat to all creatures, especially humanoids. Their awful shrieking can paralyze other creatures with fear, and such victims are helpless to resist a vargouille’s accursed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
explosions to good use), and occasionally the Boros (if they discover a well of discipline and courage within themselves, or find themselves unable to resist the shininess of Boros weapons and armor). Many
level. Once you use this trait, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest. Nimble Escape. You can take the Disengage or Hide action as a bonus action on each of your turns. Languages
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
their own only hope for survival. While characters might find allies or sanctuaries in a domain, the characters must look to themselves for solutions. Escape is rarely an option. Physical Isolation
these individuals are oppressed people or soulless pawns of the Dark Powers is up to you, but regardless, they don’t effectively resist the horror within their homes. Characters should feel like they’re
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
to which they’re attached. Any creature that touches one of these paintings is magically transported to its extradimensional space—a cube-shaped stone chamber 30 feet on a side. A creature can resist
a successful DC 19 Charisma (Deception or Persuasion) check convinces Quill that the characters are his allies and that they’ve come to help him escape Wisteria Vale. However, he insists that they
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
, robbery, assaulting a citizen, or murder. If they resist arrest, they are charged with hampering justice. See the Code Legal handout in appendix C for the penalties associated with such crimes. Characters
items of import on their behalf while they make good their escape. The doppelganger is hoping that the characters will entrust the Stone of Golorr to it for safekeeping. Failing that, it hopes to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
and are able to resist the call to violence, but a few cannot. For these rare individuals, the true lure of Yeenoghu’s promises lies not in the power they offer, but in the deep sense of belonging
quickly killed by guards or other authorities. A few escape into the wilderness and continue to rampage on their own, perhaps eventually falling in league with a gnoll war band. Trying to talk to a gnoll is the quickest path to its stomach.
— Volo
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
this layer the best way to escape the horrors of the Abyss. Iron fortresses dot the landscape, homes to petty lords and upstart demons that are as changeable as the Abyss itself. The portal leading to
to resist the temptation to turn against allies in order to survive. Heroic characters might make a desperate last stand against endless hordes of demons here, or they might try to avoid detection
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
damage, she can make a DC 14 Wisdom saving throw to escape the aboleths’ control. If freed, Yarana points to the water and warns that the true threat is there, prompting the aboleth Glol to emerge
death. If the creature is unaware of the pod’s effects or does not wish to be affected, it can resist the effect by succeeding on a DC 16 Constitution saving throw. Otherwise, it is considered to be a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Bludgeoning or Piercing damage (your choice when you summon the beast), and the target has the Grappled condition (escape DC equals your spell save DC).
Beast of the Sky Small Beast, Neutral
AC 13 plus
Darkvision. While entirely in Darkness, you have the Invisible condition to any creature that relies on Darkvision to see you in that Darkness. Level 7: Iron Mind You have honed your ability to resist
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
escape the crowds?” he asks with a thin smile. “I get that. You’re welcome to hide in here with me for as long as you like.”
Eliphas is a neutral good, human werebear who can adopt the form of a polar
(marked C on map 12.2). She is a chaotic good, elf archmage who speaks Auran, Common, Draconic, Elvish, and Sylvan. She has expended all her 6th-level and higher spell slots trying to escape from the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rrakkma
Challenge 2 (450 XP)
Duergar Resilience. The duergar has advantage on saving throws against poison, spells, and illusions, as well as to resist being charmed or paralyzed.
Phalanx Formation. The
duergar has advantage on saving throws against poison, spells, and illusions, as well as to resist being charmed or paralyzed.
Sunlight Sensitivity. While in sunlight, the duergar has disadvantage on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
of them.”
Flaw: “I can’t resist taking risks to feed my ambitions.”
Lifferlas Huge Plant, Unaligned
Armor Class 13 (natural armor)
Hit Points 59 (7d12 + 14)
Speed 20 ft.
STR
19 (+4
grappled (escape DC 13) and takes 5 (1d4 + 3) bludgeoning damage at the start of each of Miros’s turns until the grapple ends. Miros cannot make attacks while grappling a creature.
Club. Melee Weapon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
breeze!”
Ideal. “The pursuit of true love compels me! Never shall I wilt if I have such a cause to champion.”
Bond. “The beautiful Pollenella—a vision in stripes.”
Flaw. “I cannot resist a pretty
renounce her friend and companion, Wigglewog, with whom she conspired to help Sir Talavar escape Bavlorna’s clutches.
Alignment. Lawful good.
Personality Trait. “I spit whenever I hear a coward or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
!”
Ideal. “The pursuit of true love compels me! Never shall I wilt if I have such a cause to champion.”
Bond. “The beautiful Pollenella—a vision in stripes.”
Flaw. “I cannot resist a pretty face
renounce her friend and companion, Wigglewog, with whom she conspired to help Sir Talavar escape Bavlorna’s clutches.
Alignment. Lawful good.
Personality Trait. “I spit whenever I hear a coward or a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
lizardfolk commoners (see appendix C) fight only if they are cornered. Otherwise, they escape to the nearest barracks (area 9), whose occupants return to the kitchen in the shortest possible time. If the
they are cornered. Otherwise, they escape to the nearest barracks (area 29), whose occupants return to the banquet hall in the shortest possible time. The cupboards contain extra mugs, platters, bowls
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
throw Step 12. Save DCs A monster might have an attack or some other trait that requires a target to make a saving throw. The save DCs to resist such effects have a direct bearing on the monster’s
Weapons Balor — Martial Advantage Hobgoblin Increase the effective damage of one attack per round by the amount gained from this trait. Mimicry Kenku — Nimble Escape Goblin Increase the monster’s effective
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
the Fire Giants”), they can attempt to thwart the theft and keep the primordial out of Zalto’s hands. In this encounter, the characters confront the drow as they try to escape. The encounter begins
statues, beyond which is a 5-foot-wide, 7-foot-high, mile-long tunnel that the drow intend to use as their escape route. The secret door is between the two groups — 20 feet from the drow party and 40 feet
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
Aminta’s escape. The two veterans are confident in their combat prowess and fight to the death. Revolving Stone Door. Set into the west wall is a heavy stone door that revolves on a vertical axis. The
characters allow it, Rilago’s ghost uses Possession against a willing character, who forgoes the saving throw to resist the effect. Only then can the ghost leave the crypt and return the shard of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
gets its name from the thousands who died in the flood. Travelers on the High Road, which skirts the Mere to the east, must resist the urge to be lured into the swamp by bobbing will-o’-wisps
confirms that the Hunt Lords were human. As it happens, the rumors are true. The Hunt Lords played all sorts of terrible games at the expense of their wealthy employers. A century and a half ago, to escape