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Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
the gremishka’s initiative.Gremishkas are the vicious products of mistakes made by novice spellcasters seeking to create life. The results are cat-sized, magically unstable creatures with
gave them life as they infest the walls of spellcasters’ homes or the surrounding lands.
Despite their feral appearances, gremishkas are cunning creatures. They might imitate the sounds of
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
by novice spellcasters seeking to create life. The results are cat-sized, magically unstable creatures with a taste for the trappings of magic—particularly spellbooks, spell components
, familiars, and the like. Gremishkas delight in tormenting magic-users, holding vicious grudges against those who gave them life as they infest the walls of spellcasters’ homes or the surrounding lands
Monsters
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
have tried to create armies of mutates to sweep through the Underdark. However, their efforts always proved fruitless, and eventually the mind flayers gave up their schemes.
Several common types of
Monsters
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
can bend the multiverse to his whims if he tries hard enough. He’s really quite insane.
One of Smiler’s favorite antics is to use a hallucinatory terrain spell to create a little bit of
companions abandoned him. He has spent the past seventy years roaming Avernus, making deals with fiends to survive. Smiler eventually sold his soul to a pit fiend, who gave him the means to topple a
Monsters
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
, though evil forces—such as the mind flayer empire of old—have conducted much research on the topic. For centuries, mind flayers have tried to create armies of mutates to sweep through
the Underdark. However, their efforts always proved fruitless, and eventually the mind flayers gave up their schemes.
Several common types of mutates exist. The individuals with stat blocks presented
Monsters
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
fails, though evil forces—such as the mind flayer empire of old—have conducted much research on the topic. For centuries, mind flayers have tried to create armies of mutates to sweep through
the Underdark. However, their efforts always proved fruitless, and eventually the mind flayers gave up their schemes.
Several common types of mutates exist. The individuals with stat blocks presented
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
":"4d4+4", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Club", "rollDamageType":"force"} force damage.A wood woad is a powerful bipedal Plant invested with the soul of someone who gave up life to become an
everlasting guardian.
The ritual to create a wood woad is a primeval secret passed down through generations of forest-dwelling societies and druid circles. Performing the ritual isn’t necessarily an
Magic Items
Storm King's Thunder
the aquatic elf tyrant Gantar Kraok and sold it to the storm giant Neri for a considerable fortune. Neri had the throne magically enlarged and gave it to her husband, King Hekaton, as a gift, along
the throne. The globe encloses both the creature and the throne.
As an action, the creature can expend 3 charges to create a spectral image of an ancient blue dragon that surrounds both it and the
Species
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
you like to identify what event set you on the path to adventure. If nothing on the table appeals to you, work with your DM to create an origin story for your character.
Like gnomes, autognomes can
live for centuries, typically up to 500 years.
Autognome History
d6
Story
1
Your creator gave you autonomy and urged you to follow your dreams.
2
Your creator died, leaving you
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
and eaten as part of the procedure.
Undercover Empire
The human civilization that gave rise to the yuan-ti was among the richest in the mortal world. It rapidly progressed in metalworking, using
one city-state were killed and eaten to create the first yuan-ti, and once the news of how to perform these rituals spread to other leaders, the call for slaves to fuel the process increased. As the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
boredom, the playwright was crestfallen. His supporters wanted blood, so he gave them what they craved. By the play’s end, Lemont had joined the play and viscerally murdered every member of the cast
while the crowd roared their approval. As the show ended, the playhouse broke from Dementlieu, and Scaena was formed. Comprising a single playhouse, the domain can create any reality Lemont desires upon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
teeth, manticores ambush travelers from above and devour them. Manticores crave the taste of humans, but lacking their favored prey, they eagerly consume other peoples and livestock. Manticores have
manticore might offer in exchange for a more tempting meal. Manticore Negotiations 1d8 The Manticore Agrees To... 1 Attack a particular foe. 2 Create a distraction. 3 Give up a captive or corpse. 4
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Creating a Rogue As you create your rogue character, consider the character’s relationship to the law. Do you have a criminal past — or present? Are you on the run from the law or from an angry
you away from your previous life? Did a great con or heist gone terribly wrong cause you to reevaluate your career? Maybe you were lucky and a successful robbery gave you the coin you needed to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Creating a Ranger As you create your ranger character, consider the nature of the training that gave you your particular capabilities. Did you train with a single mentor, wandering the wilds together
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
for assistance using the spell scroll of sending she gave the group doesn’t come up, Zhong Yin makes that suggestion if the scroll hasn’t already been used. If it has, Secretary Wei uses her crystal
—cave-ins are a known hazard of investigating the Old City. She says she’s already working with court mages to create a gateway to another section of the ruins through which the characters can escape
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Astral Adventurer’s Guide
you like to identify what event set you on the path to adventure. If nothing on the table appeals to you, work with your DM to create an origin story for your character. Like gnomes, autognomes can
live for centuries, typically up to 500 years. Autognome History d6 Story 1 Your creator gave you autonomy and urged you to follow your dreams. 2 Your creator died, leaving you to fend for yourself
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
conducted much research on the topic. For centuries, mind flayers have tried to create armies of mutates to sweep through the Underdark. However, their efforts always proved fruitless, and eventually the
mind flayers gave up their schemes. Several common types of mutates exist. The individuals with stat blocks presented in this section are found in the preceding adventure, although other mutates exist
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
god gave up his divinity to preserve the world from destruction and that his last exhalation as a god produced this mist. Within it were all his memories of the world and all his visions of its possible
futures, and with proper preparation, a seeker could go on a vision quest within it. Some students of the arcane contend that the Dark Powers took a bit of that fog and twisted it to create the mists of Barovia, and that perhaps Strahd’s domain is just a dark memory in the Whispering Wall.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Lizardfolk “In all my dealings with the lizardfolk, I was never able to tell what they were thinking. Their reptilian eyes belied no hint of their intentions. I gave them supplies. They gave me the
cooked and eaten by the tribe, or are sacrificed to Semuanya, the lizardfolk god.
Canny Crafters. Though they aren’t skilled artisans, lizardfolk craft tools and ornamental jewelry out of the bones of their kills, and they use the hides and shells of dead monsters to create shields.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
rigged with a trap.
The gear on the table can be assembled into one burglar’s pack and one explorer’s pack, lacking the rations. Treasure. Casting detect magic reveals an aura of abjuration magic
gemstones (create undead); a sliver of wychwood (dancing lights); a pouch of lime, a flask of water, and a pouch of earth (flesh to stone); a patch of wolf fur and a glass rod (lightning bolt); a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Creating a Ranger As you create your ranger character, consider the nature of the training that gave you your particular capabilities. Did you train with a single mentor, wandering the wilds together
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Creating a Rogue As you create your rogue character, consider the character’s relationship to the law. Do you have a criminal past — or present? Are you on the run from the law or from an angry
led you away from your previous life? Did a great con or heist gone terribly wrong cause you to reevaluate your career? Maybe you were lucky and a successful robbery gave you the coin you needed to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
characters might be tempted to visit the Palace of Heart’s Desire as well (see chapter 5), but they can avoid this location and still accomplish their goals. Setting the Stage After the players create their
its cost.”
As time passed, your heart became less heavy, and you gave less and less thought to those childhood events. Now, for reasons you can’t explain, the longing to retrieve that which you have
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
. Lacking the numbers or the ability to overwhelm and dominate the entire population, a colony turns its research toward more effective ways to exert control, such as finding a way to amplify an elder
society’s central authority, such as by inciting years of famine while driving the local nobility to bouts of madness through psionic assaults, they can create widespread unrest that the colony can use to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
to fishing, content to maintain a low profile and avoid governmental entanglements. Decades ago, the pirates who prowled the waters off Saltmarsh grew strong enough to create their own realm, a loose
in the north gave way to a string of defeats in which its neighbors pushed the kingdom back to its original boundaries. With the world closing in, King Kimbertos Skotti looked to the south and saw
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
. Fate gave you the opportunity. You’re a hero, but no one cheered.
Roles in the Murder Each character plays a role in the murder, determined by rolling on the Murder: Character Roles table or
. Determine the fallout of the characters’ murderous deeds by rolling on the Murder Consequences table, or allow the players to create their own ominous stakes. Murder Consequences d6 Murder
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
ghoul. 6 They should call it justice. Jedren Hiller, Bailiff of the Wide, had preyed on desperate business owners for years, growing fatter and richer every day. Fate gave you the opportunity. You’re
by rolling on the Murder Consequences table, or allow the players to create their own ominous stakes. Murder Consequences d6 Murder Consequences 1 You’re not sure who, but someone saw the murder
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Undercover Empire The human civilization that gave rise to the yuan-ti was among the richest in the mortal world. It rapidly progressed in metalworking, using keen intellect and magic to discover the
on aspects of the snake, but the cost of the change was high, requiring many sacrifices for each person to be transformed. Entire households of slaves in one city-state were killed and eaten to create
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Gremishka Gremishkas are the vicious products of mistakes made by novice spellcasters seeking to create life. The results are cat-sized, magically unstable creatures with a taste for the trappings of
magic—particularly spellbooks, spell components, familiars, and the like. Gremishkas delight in tormenting magic-users, holding vicious grudges against those who gave them life as they infest the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
in search of mighty heroes, to plead for their aid.
“In my time, I was pharaoh of this realm. It was green and beautiful, blessed by the gods with magical waters that gave life to our land and
nurtured our crops. But I was a foolish and cruel ruler. I should have protected my subjects; instead, I taxed them into poverty to create a wondrous tomb for my own self-preservation. When they rebelled, I
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
by the city’s ruler, Tsien Chiang. Within this shared dream they labor ceaselessly, ever striving to create the impossible, perfect city of a perfectionist mastermind. Within the dreaming domain of
range of sandy skin tones. Their names might take inspiration from Chinese names. When players create characters from I’Cath, consider asking them the following questions.
How did you escape I’Cath
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
virtue. They create intricate murals, paint sprawling murals across cavern walls, and indulge in a wide variety of other artistic disciplines. They esteem stone carving as the greatest of skills.
Stone
.
Stone giants lacking in athletic grace or artistic skill dwell at the fringes of their society, serving as the tribe’s outlying guardians and far-wandering hunters. When trespassers stray too far into the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Wood Woad A wood woad is a powerful plant in humanoid form invested with the soul of someone who gave up life to become an eternal guardian. Born of Sacrifice. The ritual to create a wood woad is a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
master docent — a true docent recovered from Xen’drik — the whole network fed information back to the operator. Several smaller “hubs” of the network gave other operators access to the relevant parts of
that information and enabled them to control parts of the colossus as well. The techniques and tools used to create docent nodes were lost in the Mourning. The various branches of House Cannith are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
than with moral or ethical perspectives. Bonds Create one bond for your character. Bonds represent a character’s connections to people, places, and events in the world. They tie you to things from your
inn’s proprietor gave her a new chance at life, and her friendship with her adventuring companions was forged during her time working there. Its destruction by the marauding dragonarmies gives Tika a