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Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
vengeance or at the whims of sinister masters. Slipping through cracks and under doors, these stealthy undead seek to adorn living frames once more, wrapping themselves around their victims and wringing
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Whether through accident or depraved genius, some villains use one corpse to create two separate undead. Boneless might adorn the frames of other undead, like skeletons or zombies. The sight of a
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
bonus action on her subsequent turns to continue singing. She can stop singing at any time. The song ends if Aphemia is incapacitated or dies.
Grave Calling Song. Aphemia intones a low, growling
travelers and settlements.
Cruel, corpse-eating creatures, harpies endlessly seek their next meal, careless of whether it comes from the living or the dead. With equal zeal, these vicious scavengers set
Wand of Orcus
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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
The ghastly Wand of Orcus rarely leaves Orcus’s side. The device, as evil as its creator, shares the demon lord’s aims to snuff out the lives of all living things and bind the Material
spells using 2 fewer charges (minimum of 0).
Call Undead. While you are holding the wand, you can use an action to conjure skeleton;skeletons and zombie;zombies, calling forth as many of them as you
Dwarf
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Species
Basic Rules (2014)
dwarves value their beards highly and groom them carefully.
Long Memory, Long Grudges
Dwarves can live to be more than 400 years old, so the oldest living dwarves often remember a very different world
. For example, some of the oldest dwarves living in Citadel Felbarr (in the world of the Forgotten Realms) can recall the day, more than three centuries ago, when orcs conquered the fortress and drove
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Markovia Darklord: Dr. Frantisek Markov Hallmarks: Depraved science, sapient animals Dr. Frantisek Markov is a genius—but less so than yesterday. His Markov Formula grants him unparalleled intellect
of his formula on the local fauna in hopes of recovering his waning genius. As a result of these tests, animals across Markovia now possess sapience and have been deluded into believing Markov is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
a child, and as a teen earned both a doctorate and an appointment as a preeminent researcher at a local university. Despite her genius, though, the young Dr. Mordenheim lacked empathy, compassion, and
. Mordenheim desperately hastened her experiments, employing anyone who would bring her bodies—both newly dead and still living. On her operating table, victims were killed, returned to life, and died again
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Independent Adventurers Though a ranger might make a living as a hunter, a guide, or a tracker, a ranger’s true calling is to defend the outskirts of civilization from the ravages of monsters that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
wandering across the land gathering lore, telling stories, and living on the gratitude of audiences, much like any other entertainer. But a depth of knowledge, a level of musical skill, and a touch of
beyond the horizon — makes an adventuring career a natural calling. Every adventure is an opportunity to learn, practice a variety of skills, enter long-forgotten tombs, discover lost works of magic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
wandering across the land gathering lore, telling stories, and living on the gratitude of audiences, much like any other entertainer. But a depth of knowledge, a level of musical skill, and a touch of
beyond the horizon — makes an adventuring career a natural calling. Every adventure is an opportunity to learn, practice a variety of skills, enter long-forgotten tombs, discover lost works of magic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Independent Adventurers Though a ranger might make a living as a hunter, a guide, or a tracker, a ranger’s true calling is to defend the outskirts of civilization from the ravages of monsters and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
one competitor Hazlik was unable to defeat: the Red Wizard Indreficus. Hazlik gradually came to fixate on Indreficus as his true rival. Indreficus shared Hazlik’s genius and arrogance, and they spent
captured Indreficus and subjected him to a nightmarish experiment that left him permanently transformed into a pain-wracked living portal. Hazlik presented his creation to the zulkirs, planning to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation Supplement
frescoes reveals that the snakes’ eye sockets once held precious gemstones. Xorn living in the mountain plucked out and ate all the gems, leaving behind empty, faceted indentations. Yuan-ti liked to
impale their sacrifices on the hook above the altar. The victims’ blood would pool in the altar’s stone bowl, and the yuan-ti would wash themselves in the blood while calling Merrshaulk’s name, hoping to rouse the god from his slumber.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Purphoros turns to Mogis to enhance his craft, engaging in bloody rituals to produce exquisite cursed weapons.
2 An aging veteran seeks to replace her body with living bronze and enlists a genius
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
gold and platinum in the nearby foothills, you came to Phandalin as well, not to earn a living, but to prey on those who struck it rich. You joined a gang calling itself the Redbrands and made some
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Age Giants are long-lived compared to humans, though not as much as their semidivine ancestors. Their life spans generally correspond with their place in the ordning, with hill giants living about
800 years Ancient Behaviors d8 Behavior 1 The giant addresses Humanoids as citizens of a fallen realm (equivalent to calling people in the real world “Babylonians”). 2 The giant burdens
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
stealthy undead seek to adorn living frames once more, wrapping themselves around their victims and wringing them to death in their full-body grip. Boneless arise in a variety of forms. While the
charnel concoctions. These origins don’t affect a boneless’s statistics but lend it distinct forms. Whether through accident or depraved genius, some villains use one corpse to create two separate undead
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
dripping water also fill the cave, in the center of which is a large spherical structure is held up off the floor by stone pillars. Around these pillars crawl dozens of living oozes, heaving forward
characters can return here and have a chance to triumph. If Glabbagool is with the party, it attempts to communicate with the other ooze creatures, telling the characters that others of its kind are calling
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
possible. Or so the stories go. Despite all the quests undertaken by adventurers down the centuries, none ever truly found the ancient city until the ghosts of Gauntlgrym’s former denizens began calling to
living dwarves to seek out the city. And some did — or tried to, anyway. Shortly thereafter, the orc wars began anew, and nearly every dwarf’s attention turned back to the existing dwarfholds and the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
-genius intellect, the extent of its knowledge is equivalent to the highest levels of scholarship attainable by humans. There are limits to a colony’s reach. An illithid can be part of its colony’s
also sees itself as a savior of the mind flayer race and a living memorial that preserves the memories of the mind flayers’ prey. By its twisted logic, humanoids whose brains are devoured by the colony
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
living realm of humans, even if their works have been forgotten by humans and dwarves alike. The greatest and most recent of these dwarven realms was Delzoun, also called the Northkingdom. It
the North reside in the halls of the dwarves. Now, when shield dwarves invoke the name of Delzoun, they are calling upon the glory of all their past accomplishments: every feat of architectural mastery
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
thronged by reporters, judge Haliss ir’Cronn took her seat for the first session in what some are calling the “trial of the century.”
Barath Drinn, a Karrn who has been living in Wroat since the end of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
one’s crew, and such “drowners” are universally shunned. The dozens of crews calling Baldur’s Gate home are as different in attitude and approach as the city’s residents. For instance, everyone in the
Gateguides. Made up primarily of teenage lantern bearers, the Gateguides earn a living hiring themselves out to newcomers to show them the ropes of the city, help make connections with other crews, and offer
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
Dolores who makes a living off the garbage and keeps it from spilling into the town. Dolores occasionally hires adventurers to clear her yard of dumpster divers and trespassers. Roaming packs of rust
, and melted-down manacles and chains. A cranium rat genius broods within the junk piles. Called the Node, the hairless rat claims to have escaped the Lady of Pain’s Mazes—a feat that bestowed it a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
his enemy is now his friend. Reaching into his hoardsperson living loot satchel, Bracus retrieves the chronolometer and the dimensional loop. He then offers both to the characters in exchange for them
. If Bracus is killed, Szorrulax flees with his living loot satchel and the orrery components at once. If the characters save Bracus, defeat the Six operatives, and force Szorrulax to flee, they gain
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Adventurer’s Guide A widespread magical curse threatens to devour the bodies and souls of the living. The Harpers have learned that its source lies somewhere in Chult. You volunteered to join the expedition
Player’s Handbook Your family owes a favor to a merchant named Syndra Silvane. She’s calling in the favor and asking for help. The family is counting on you to fulfill its promise, and you’ve heard rumors
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Harpies Cruel, corpse-eating creatures, harpies endlessly seek their next meal, careless of whether it comes from the living or the dead. With equal zeal, these vicious scavengers set upon travelers
incapacitated or dies.
Grave Calling Song. Aphemia intones a low, growling magical melody. Every undead within 300 feet of her must succeed on a DC 14 Wisdom saving throw or fall under her control
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
one’s crew, and such “drowners” are universally shunned. The dozens of crews calling Baldur’s Gate home are as different in attitude and approach as the city’s residents. For instance, everyone in the
. Made up primarily of teenage lantern bearers, the Gateguides earn a living hiring themselves out to newcomers to show them the ropes of the city, help make connections with other crews, and offer
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
orc that has been chosen by Gruumsh must gouge out one of its eyes as a sign of devotion, sacrificing half of its mortal vision in return for divine power. These god-touched orcs are revered as living
devises the strategies that allow the forces of Gruumsh to dominate the battle and fill their war wagons with plunder and severed heads. Ilneval stands with his bloody sword, calling to those who
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
strangely furnished living quarters include a bed, a chair, and a table. Sitting on the chair is a woman with a snake’s head and a human’s body. She strokes a snake coiled on her lap and grins at you
characters in Draconic, calling them weaklings and false heroes who will never defeat him. The wyrmling insists he is a mighty dragon who will conquer everything the characters hold dear. Sickening Miasma
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
its center. (Statistics for Narrak and the derro can be found in appendix C.) The cultists’ chanting is punctuated with Narrak calling out the name “Demogorgon!” Also atop the platform, resting
creature to sprout a second head, and another that allows the grafting of a severed head onto a living creature. The notes fail to mention that the ritual’s caster must be suffering from some form of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
near the gardens on Mount Glathek. Their initial attempts to explore the gardens were rebuffed by a red dragon living there. The dragon retaliated against this intrusion by igniting a cataclysmic
priests calling themselves the Burning Circle teach that the dragon is a force of nature to be respected, not destroyed. Just as controlled burns are necessary to keep forests healthy, they say, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
(see the “Ash Zombies” sidebar) lurk in the shadows in this building, slumped against the walls or under the bar. When living creatures enter, the zombies groan and stir, slowly climbing to their
years ago. They use the zombie stat block, with the following additional trait.
Ash Puff. The first time the zombie takes damage, any living creature within 5 feet of the zombie must succeed on a DC
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
. Thunderwing was Xanthoria’s friend until the druid’s mind became twisted by the influence of Zuggtmoy, causing Xanthoria to conduct grisly experiments on living creatures. Thunderwing is one of
a living phylactery for Xanthoria. Weapons and harmful effects pass through her as though she were a mere projection. Thunderwing accompanies the characters as they explore the Lykortha Expanse
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
they carry their living acts into the afterlife. A hero in death becomes a hero eternal. Young hobgoblins start soldiering when they can walk and heed the mustering call as soon as they can wield their
know the value of arcane magic in warfare. Where other cultures treat magic as an individual pursuit, a calling that only a select few can even attempt, hobgoblins practice mass indoctrination and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
” chase as long as she can see any living characters. Only if all the characters successfully hide from her does she eventually give up. The characters might determine another location to hide at your
advantage on the check. At their reduced size, the characters can easily slip through the mouse hole to escape Onyx. My mother must be getting new cats and just calling them Onyx. Otherwise, Onyx