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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.A neogi lives about a century. When an individual is rendered weak by advanced age, the other neogi in the group overpower it and inject
another until only a few of the strongest newborns are left. The surviving neogi hatchlings begin their lives under the control of adult neogi. They must learn about their society and earn a place in it
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
throw themselves into creating bloodshed and mayhem with no regard for their own lives.
After killing a person on the Material Plane, some skulks take up a silent imitation of that person’s life
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
nurturing.
Creating a Crystal Dragon
Use the Crystal Dragon Personality Traits and Crystal Dragon Ideals tables to inspire your portrayal of distinctive crystal dragon characters.
Crystal Dragon
gift to share in another’s joy, even if sometimes you must bear their pain, too. (Good)
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Hospitality. We all live beautiful lives—it would be a shame not to share our lives with others
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Curse of Strahd
desired above all. She told him of a vault of forbidden lore called the Amber Temple, where the secret of gaining immortality was hidden. While Strahd was off exploring the temple, Rahadin handled
to put Tatyana out of his mind, Strahd lured more women to the castle, taking several of them as brides before draining their lives and turning them into vampire spawn. Rahadin would see to it that
Baphomet
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Out of the Abyss
natures, for Baphomet envisions a world without restraint, where creatures live out their most savage desires.
Cults devoted to Baphomet use mazes and complex knots as their emblems, creating secret
cultists become tainted by his influence, gaining bloodshot eyes and coarse, thickening hair. Small horns eventually sprout from the forehead. In time, a devoted cultist might transform entirely into a
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
the same time, a slithering tracker flows into places where a normal creature can’t go and brings its own brand of watery death down on its quarry.
The ritual for creating a slithering tracker
’s body, killing it. Yet the subject’s mind lives on in the puddle that issues forth from the remains, and so too does its insatiable need for retribution.
A slithering tracker tastes the
Monsters
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
Aura of Invulnerability. An invisible aura forms a 10-foot-radius sphere around the hollyphant for as long as it lives. Any spell of 5th level or lower cast from outside the barrier can't affect
, creating a trumpet sound that can be heard out to a range of 600 feet. The trumpet also creates a 30-foot cone of energy that has one of the following effects, chosen by the hollyphant:
Trumpet of Blasting
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
positive energy for healing and nurturing.
Creating a Crystal Dragon
Use the Crystal Dragon Personality Traits and Crystal Dragon Ideals tables to inspire your portrayal of distinctive crystal
. (Chaotic)
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Empathy. It’s a gift to share in another’s joy, even if sometimes you must bear their pain, too. (Good)
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Hospitality. We all live beautiful lives—it would be a
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
light, or channel positive energy for healing and nurturing.
Creating a Crystal Dragon
Use the Crystal Dragon Personality Traits and Crystal Dragon Ideals tables to inspire your portrayal of
something new. (Chaotic)
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Empathy. It’s a gift to share in another’s joy, even if sometimes you must bear their pain, too. (Good)
3
Hospitality. We all live beautiful lives—it
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
healing and nurturing.
Creating a Crystal Dragon
Use the Crystal Dragon Personality Traits and Crystal Dragon Ideals tables to inspire your portrayal of distinctive crystal dragon characters
. It’s a gift to share in another’s joy, even if sometimes you must bear their pain, too. (Good)
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Hospitality. We all live beautiful lives—it would be a shame not to share our
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Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
molten rock. Sometimes miners risk their lives to find rich veins of ore in a scion’s volcano, or misguided fire cultists offer sacrifices meant to appease or awaken the volcano, and the awakened
the giant’s magic, creating one or more of the following effects:
Abundant Ore. Veins of precious metals and ore are more common within 6 miles of the scion.
Desertification. Precipitation is
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Storm King's Thunder
cloud, which otherwise disappears at the end of the kraken's next turn.A Kraken’s Lair
A kraken lives in dark depths, usually a sunken rift or a cavern filled with detritus, treasure, and
creature’s blasphemous presence, creating the following magical effects:
The kraken can alter the weather at will in a 6-mile radius centered on its lair. The effect is identical to the control
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Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
rage.
If intruders disturb its resting place, the fire scion’s cradle rises as a bipedal juggernaut of molten rock. Sometimes miners risk their lives to find rich veins of ore in a scion&rsquo
, preferably at the head of a fire giant army.
Regional Effects
The region surrounding a scion of Surtur is altered by the giant’s magic, creating one or more of the following effects:
Abundant Ore
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
brass decorate their profane altars.
Over time, a cultist of Baphomet becomes tainted by his influence, gaining bloodshot eyes and coarse, thickening hair. Small horns eventually sprout from the
for 1 minute or until Baphomet takes this lair action again.
Regional Effects
The region containing Baphomet’s lair is warped by his magic, creating one or more of the following effects
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The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
them from taking certain courses of action in their lives. Her petitioners often learn of a dreadful fate that awaits them but find themselves unable to prevent it due to the cursed terms of their
visit another to plot against the third sister, creating a vicious circle in which Bavlorna and Endelyn plot against Skabatha, Endelyn and Skabatha conspire against Bavlorna, and Skabatha and Bavlorna
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Ghosts of Saltmarsh
dreams of freeing itself from its aboleth tenders and wreaking its own foul will upon the seas.A Kraken’s Lair
A kraken lives in dark depths, usually a sunken rift or a cavern filled with detritus
warped by the creature’s blasphemous presence, creating the following magical effects:
The kraken can alter the weather at will in a 6-mile radius centered on its lair. The effect is
Graz'zt
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Out of the Abyss
(Stealth) checks made to hide.
Regional Effects
The region containing Graz’zt’s lair is warped by his magic, creating one or more of the following effects:
Flat surfaces within 1 mile of
otherwise is intentionally misleading you.”
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“I will not rest until I have made someone else mine, and doing so is more important to me than my own life—or the lives
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
the nature of the multiverse form the centerpiece of an amethyst dragon’s hoard.
Creating an Amethyst Dragon
Use the Amethyst Dragon Personality Traits and Amethyst Dragon Ideals tables to
parent.
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A faerie dragon (older);violet faerie dragon is the playmate and guardian of an amethyst dragon wyrmling.
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An amethyst dragon wyrmling lives alone in a lair, cared for by a cadre
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The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
submerged. As the hours pass between each immersion, her movements become more ponderous and her skin audibly cracks as she moves.
Bavlorna lives like a hermit. She is frazzled, impatient, paranoid
company, but one hag will occasionally visit another to plot against the third sister, creating a vicious circle in which Bavlorna and Endelyn plot against Skabatha, Endelyn and Skabatha conspire
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Mythic Odysseys of Theros
the god Keranos sought to test Nylea’s favorite champion, Renata of Setessa, by creating a beast so deadly that even she would balk at trying to hunt it. When Renata slayed this lion-ram-dragon
especially resilient, gaining resistance to cold and fire damage.
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Coast Creature. The chimera’s body is that of a coastal or aquatic creature, such as a heron or a shark. The chimera
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
intrusion. The centerpiece of a sapphire dragon’s hoard is usually a cataloged, orderly collection of war gear, which can contain ancient relics of immense power.
Creating a Sapphire Dragon
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An adult sapphire dragon lives adjacent to active purple worm tunnels, hoping the threat of the worm will deter treasure hunters
Dream
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Basic Rules (2014)
messenger can also shape the environment of the dream, creating landscapes, objects, and other images. The messenger can emerge from the trance at any time, ending the effect of the spell early. The
target from gaining any benefit from that rest. In addition, when the target wakes up, it takes 3d6 psychic damage.
If you have a body part, lock of hair, clipping from a nail, or similar portion of the target's body, the target makes its saving throw with disadvantage.
Soldier
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combined with the rigid discipline of military service leave their mark on all soldiers, shaping their ideals, creating strong bonds, and often leaving them scarred and vulnerable to fear, shame, and
solution is the best path to success.
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Ideal
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Greater Good. Our lot is to lay down our lives in defense of others. (Good)
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Responsibility. I do what I must and obey just
Kraken
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current disperses the cloud, which otherwise disappears at the end of the kraken's next turn.A Kraken’s Lair
A kraken lives in dark depths, usually a sunken rift or a cavern filled with
is warped by the creature’s blasphemous presence, creating the following magical effects:
The kraken can alter the weather at will in a 6-mile radius centered on its lair. The effect is
Species
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
racial traits might remain after you gain a lineage, a possibility captured in the Ancestral Legacy trait. Keep this in mind when you explore the details of how you change after gaining a lineage
subsequent to character creation.
Creating Your Character
At 1st level, you choose whether your character is a member of the human race or of one of the game’s fantastical races. Alternatively, you
Elf
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they find careers that let them travel freely and set their own pace. Elves also enjoy exercising their martial prowess or gaining greater magical power, and adventuring allows them to do so. Some
. “All that haste, their ambition and drive to accomplish something before their brief lives pass away—human endeavors seem so futile sometimes. But then you look at what they have
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liches, creating an amalgamated form.
Zlan is the foremost mind among the liches and controls the body, The other liches rage and scheme about being subsidiary to someone they once considered both a
Devoured the souls of children to occupy their bodies
Vaeristhelph Rex
Seized power as a wizard-king, traded his throne for lichdom
Vlad Xil Haerven
Wallowed in greed and traded lives
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Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
soldiers, shaping their ideals, creating strong bonds, and often leaving them scarred and vulnerable to fear, shame, and hatred.
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Personality Trait
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I’m always polite and
Greater Good. Our lot is to lay down our lives in defense of others. (Good)
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Responsibility. I do what I must and obey just authority. (Lawful)
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Independence. When people follow orders
Species
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
bodies. Whatever their origins, reborn know a new life and seek experiences and answers all their own.
Faded Memories
Reborn suffer from some manner of discontinuity, an interruption of their lives or
resurrected, but something went wrong.
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Stitches bind your body’s mismatched pieces, and your memories come from multiple different lives.
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After clawing free from your grave, you realized
Species
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
before their birth. Many hexbloods turn to lives of adventure, seeking to discover the mysteries of their magic, to forge a connection with their fey natures, or to avoid a hag that obsesses over them
creating a hexblood, consult with your DM to see if it’s appropriate to tie your origins to one of the following Domains of Dread (detailed in chapter 3):
Hazlan. The bizarre magic of this crumbling
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Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
to share their hunger.
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You survived being attacked by a vampire but were forever changed.
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A parasite lives inside you. You indulge its hunger.
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Tragedy interrupted your
changed your body, making you reliant on others for vital fluids.
Dhampirs in the Domains of Dread
When creating a dhampir, ask your DM if it makes sense for your character to have ties to
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
Almost all of the common people and other folk that one might encounter along the Sword Coast or in the North have one thing in common: they live out their lives without ever traveling more than a
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Exile
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Sightseer
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Fugitive
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Wanderer
Where Are You From?
The most important decision in creating a far traveler background is determining your homeland. The places
Compendium
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of cirrhosis we might be facing, or if tumors bloom deep in parts of ourselves we hope never to see. When creating adventures involving body horror, use this lack of awareness. Focus on the
now. In addition, consider the following genre tropes when creating your body horror domain: Physical transformations are common and might affect more than bodies. Objects, architecture, and the
Compendium
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Chapter 4: Creating Nonplayer Characters A nonplayer character is any character controlled by the Dungeon Master. NPCs can be enemies or allies, regular folk or named monsters. They include the local
innkeeper, the old wizard who lives in the tower on the outskirts of town, the death knight out to destroy the kingdom, and the dragon counting gold in its cavernous lair. This chapter shows you how
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gaining greater magical power, and adventuring allows them to do so. Some might join with rebels fighting against oppression, and others might become champions of moral causes. HAUGHTY BUT GRACIOUS
seem when the need arises.”
Humans. “All that haste, their ambition and drive to accomplish something before their brief lives pass away—human endeavors seem so futile sometimes. But then you look at