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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
13. Giants’ Living Quarters This cluster of 30-foot-high caverns serves as the living quarters for the stone giant family. 13a. Obsidia and Rhodos Two stone giants named Obsidia and Rhodos have been
. Of all the giants in here, Obsidia and Rhodos are the least set in their ways and the most likely to tolerate small folk. Characters who bribe them with at least 500 gp worth of precious metals
Species
Player’s Handbook
stone and metal and for living underground. The god also made them resilient like the mountains, with a life span of about 350 years.
Squat and often bearded, the original dwarves carved cities and
strongholds into mountainsides and under the earth. Their oldest legends tell of conflicts with the monsters of mountaintops and the Underdark, whether those monsters were towering giants or
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Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
, sometimes turn to the worship of the demon lord Kostchtchie. In the myths of these giants, Kostchtchie was once a frost giant of such tremendous might that he slew a demon lord in single combat
+8", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Rock", "rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage.Frost giants who struggle to rise in their ordning, along with those who reject Annam and his children
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
them valuable guides, and their insights can help other stone giants grasp the dangers of living in a dream.
Dreamwalkers become divorced from reality by isolation, shame, and their unendingly alien
realm to stone giant;stone giants: fluctuating, temporary, exposed to gusting wind and sudden rain. It is as wildly changeable as a dream, and that’s how they regard it—as a dream. Nothing
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Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
combined their efforts to protect their ancient empire from a particularly vicious dragon. Stone and hill giants hewed a mighty form from living stone. Cloud and frost giants gathered rare metals, and
target must succeed on a DC 15 Intelligence saving throw or the spell fails and has no effect.According to The Saga of the Dragon Queller, told by giants on some worlds, a disparate group of giants
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Reactive. The giant can take one reaction on every turn in a combat.
Vigilant. The giant can't be surprised.Multiattack. The giant makes four longsword attacks or two rock attacks.
Longsword. Melee
of arms magically orbit the bodies of the titanic, nearly forgotten artisans known as hundred-handed ones. These giants often dwell in remote mountains and seaside cliffs, where they carve their
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Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
were hill giants who, living in isolation, ate everything within reach until they were forced to subsist on the earth itself. The giants’ elemental nature asserted itself and transformed them into
creatures of living mud.
A mud hulk vaguely resembles its ancestors, but its body consists of wet mud that constantly sloughs off around it, creating thick pools of the stuff everywhere the creature
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Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
, these giants can turn these crystals into scintillating works of art. In combat, rockspeakers can use this same magic to cause their crystals to emit brilliantly colored, intense beams of light than can sear flesh and inhibit enemies.
":"force"} force damage and has the incapacitated condition until the end of the giant’s next turn. On a successful save, the creature takes half as much damage only.Stone giants practice rune magic
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Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
these giants, eventually freeing them from the limitations of flesh.
A lightning hulk is essentially a living bolt of lightning, with the one lasting vestige of its former nature being a vague face
giants who retreated from the world in ages past. Over the course of centuries, the elemental nature of these giants—aided by infusions of energy from the Elemental Planes—grew to dominate
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Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
scion continues to pursue the art that ornamented its dreams, seeking to mold and shape stone into beautiful elegance. If it needs more raw materials, the scion can transform a living creature in its
stones and gems grow within 6 miles of the scion.
Edible Moss. Carpets of golden moss that stone giants find tasty grow on cavern walls within 6 miles of the scion.
Empowered Stone Giants. Stone
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Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
lava. As the scion dreams of battle—perhaps a battle to rouse Annam from seclusion by uniting the giants or a war to conquer all in Surtur’s name—the volcano rumbles and spews molten
;s volcano, or misguided fire cultists offer sacrifices meant to appease or awaken the volcano, and the awakened cradle defies all their expectations. Like a living volcano, the cradle hurls balls of
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Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
the blinded condition until the end of its next turn. On a successful save, the creature takes half as much damage only.Dust hulks are descended from enclaves of stone giants who lived in extreme
their bodies as living works of art. As they fly, coursing along wind currents or blowing through underground tunnels like living sandstorms, they create mesmerizing dances with their ever-shifting forms.Poison
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Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
, seeking to mold and shape stone into beautiful elegance. If it needs more raw materials, the scion can transform a living creature in its palm into stone.
Regional Effects
The region surrounding a scion
. Carpets of golden moss that stone giants find tasty grow on cavern walls within 6 miles of the scion.
Empowered Stone Giants. Stone giants within 1,000 feet of the scion gain a +7 bonus to attack and
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Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
plume of smoke to rise, sometimes lit from below by fiery bursts of lava. As the scion dreams of battle—perhaps a battle to rouse Annam from seclusion by uniting the giants or a war to conquer
cradle defies all their expectations. Like a living volcano, the cradle hurls balls of magma at intruders, exhales fiery gases, and causes molten stone to erupt from the ground around it.
If the
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Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
of 4 or lower, the fensir has no more boulders to throw.Some fensirs undergo a transformation after living in Ysgard for at least a thousand years. They grow rapidly to a height of 25 feet, fueled by
giants led trolls in a campaign to win Annam’s favor by conquering the outer plane of Ysgard. The campaign’s aspirations of conquest quickly failed, but the raiders discovered a key feature of
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
wriggle through the air, inklings serve as the mascots for Silverquill College. These living blobs of shadowy ink are often summoned by professors who require assistance in their writing workshops—the
inklings provide endless ink—or by lonely students hoping for company as they study. However, inklings can just as readily support mages in combat, disrupting opponents’ sight.PsychicShadow Stealth. While in dim light or darkness, the inkling takes the Hide action.
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures
False Appearance. If the wurm is motionless at the start of combat, it has advantage on its initiative roll. Moreover, if a creature hasn’t observed the wurm move or act, that creature must
’s skyscraping beanstalks. These beanstalk wurms sport leafy growths, sustaining themselves on a mixture of natural photosynthesis and a carnivorous diet.
Cloud-dwelling giants often use
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The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
False Appearance. If the doll is motionless at the start of combat, it has advantage on its initiative roll. Moreover, if a creature hasn’t observed the doll move or act, that creature must
of its turns until this grapple ends. The doll can grapple only one creature at a time.A living doll is easily mistaken for an inanimate doll or a stuffed animal until it moves. Trapped within each
Magic Items
Storm King's Thunder
This wooden gavel is small by giant reckoning but nearly the size of a warhammer in human hands. The venn (friend) rune is inscribed in mithral in the base of the haft. Among giants, this item is
used as part of rituals to resolve disputes. The gavel has the following properties.
Arbiter’s Shield. At the start of every combat, attack rolls against you have disadvantage before the start of
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Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
issue a combat challenge quickly find these giants’ magical prowess is nearly unmatched.
Destiny Gambler Spell Winnings
Destiny gamblers aren’t content with winning mere treasures
casting a spell of 4th level or higher, it must succeed on a DC 18 Intelligence saving throw, or the spell fails and has no effect.Cloud giants rise in the ordning by amassing valuable and beautiful
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Acquisitions Incorporated
incapacitated and the spy doesn't have disadvantage on the attack roll.
Feline Agility. When the tabaxi moves on its turn in combat, it can double its speed until the end of the turn. Once it uses this
ability, the tabaxi can’t use it again until it moves 0 feet on one of its turns.
That Thing You Need (3/Day). The hoardsperson pulls one item of its choice from the living loot satchel. This
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
with deadZargash worships Orcus, the Demon Prince of Undeath, who has promised to transform Zargash into a vampire after a lifetime of faithful service. For a living priest to worship Orcus is utter
folly, but Zargash is twisted beyond any hope of redemption. His hobbies include slaying the living and animating the dead.
Alignment. Chaotic evil.
Personality Trait. “I do not fear death
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
":"damage","rollAction":"Rock","rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage.To hold its place or rise within the ordning, a frost giant must routinely face mighty foes in single combat. Some seek
Destroyer.
Vaprak is a ferocious god of strength and hunger also worshiped by some ogres and trolls. He likes to tempt frost giants with dreams of glory followed by nightmares of bloody cannibalism
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Storm King's Thunder
talking. When he does speak outside of combat, he comes across as surprisingly calm and soft-spoken. While swinging his axe in battle, however, he bellows and laughs like a berserker.
Harshnag knows the
North well and has no chance of becoming lost in its wilderness. He’s sensitive to the fact that many small folk have a freshly rekindled fear of giants striding into their settlements.Cold
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Storm King's Thunder
runes. Unbeknown to Storvald, the runes are steering the frost giants not to Artus Cimber but to other, closer individuals who carry the Cimber bloodline — Artus’s living relatives, most of whom know nothing about the Ring of Winter’s whereabouts.Cold
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures
", "rollAction":"Lightning Call", "rollDamageType":"lightning"} lightning damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.Storm giant;Storm giants live high above Eldraine in a cloudy
enormous creatures dwell in these wilds, with the tempest hart being among the most majestic.
A colossal elk with antlers made of living lightning, a tempest hart has a long mane of fine hair that
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Cunning Opportunist. The stone cursed has advantage on the attack rolls of opportunity attack;opportunity attacks.
False Appearance. If the stone cursed is motionless at the start of combat, it has
, animating the statue and turning it into a useful guardian.
Stone cursed possess a malevolent drive to slay the living, yet they are utterly loyal to whoever performed the ritual to animate them, and
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
hadozee halves the damage that it takes from an attack that hits it, provided it can see the attacker.Hadozee warriors make their living as mercenaries, sometimes in the company of pirates. Squads of
. A hadozee accustomed to space travel knows how to use a ship’s gravity plane to its advantage in combat, by diving off one side of the ship, gliding under the keel, and appearing on the opposite side of the ship from where it leapt off.
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Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
successful save, a creature takes half as much damage only. The honk can be heard within 300 feet.Giants keep geese as livestock for eggs and because geese make excellent sentries, protecting the giants
contains a brooch of shielding.
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The egg contains a figurine of wondrous power (silver raven) that activates automatically as the egg is opened, releasing what appears to be a living bird.
8–12
The egg is empty.
Monsters
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
: expeditious retreat, fog cloud, misty step
Magic Resistance. The medusa has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Surprise Attack. During the first round of combat, the
cables, and its hands are scaly claws.
The gaze of a medusa's glowing eyes causes living tissue to petrify. The transformation is rapid, leaving the victim as a stone statue, usually frozen in a position
Monsters
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
memory web is motionless at the start of combat, it has advantage on its initiative roll. Moreover, if a creature hasn’t observed the memory web move or act, that creature must succeed on a DC
turns. The memory web can grapple only one creature at a time.A memory web is a living web that resembles an ordinary web spun by an ettercap, a giant spider, or another oversized arachnid. Memory
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Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
False Appearance. If the spider is motionless, has its eyes and mouth closed, and has its legs wrapped around its body at the start of combat, it has advantage on its initiative roll. Moreover, if a
living brain functions like a spelljamming helm, allowing the spider to travel through Wildspace without a ship. It often haunts asteroid belts, lurking among normal asteroids until a spelljamming ship
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Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
connected to one another.
False Appearance. If the yggdrasti is motionless and rooted in the ground at the start of combat, it looks just like a dead tree and has advantage on its initiative roll. Moreover
similar magic, someone might be able to convince an yggdrasti to break off its attack, but the monster’s innate hatred of other living things is extremely difficult for it to suppress.
Yggdrasti
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
visibly in the gem-like spines that run in a ridge from the crown of the head to the tip of the tail. These spines hover above a living topaz dragon’s back, dancing and shifting with the dragon
ocean. (Good)
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Code of Combat. I despise most other dragons, but I meet them face to face without resorting to the base trickery I use on lesser creatures. (Lawful)
Topaz Dragon
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
spines that run in a ridge from the crown of the head to the tip of the tail. These spines hover above a living topaz dragon’s back, dancing and shifting with the dragon’s mood.
Embodiment of
Combat. I despise most other dragons, but I meet them face to face without resorting to the base trickery I use on lesser creatures. (Lawful)
Topaz Dragon Adventures
The Topaz Dragon