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Aberrant Restoration. If destroyed, the emissary revives with all its Hit Points in 1 day in the space of a Gibbering Mouther that was within 300 feet of the emissary when the emissary was destroyed
within 120 feet. Failure: 54 (12d8);{"diceNotation":"12d8", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Unearthly Bile", "rollDamageType":"Acid"} Acid damage, and a Gibbering Mouther appears in an unoccupied
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
into a gibbering mouther that obeys the lich and uses the target’s initiative.
Psychic Whisper. The lich targets one creature it can see within 120 feet of itself. The target must succeed on a
One whispers promises of reality-defying knowledge and world-bending power. When a wizard or a warlock hears that whisper and listens too intently, they might set foot on the twisting path toward
Monsters
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
0 hit points by the acid damage dies and dissolves into a puddle of slime that rises as a gibbering mouther at the start of Zargon’s next turn. The creature obeys Zargon’s commands and
Asmodeus’ might. No matter what blistering wrath Asmodeus brought to bear on Zargon, the aberration continually re-formed from its horn. Finally, Asmodeus cast Zargon’s horn from the Nine
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Destroying Demogorgon If the characters reduce the Prince of Demons to 0 hit points, they disrupt and destroy his material form. Shrieking and gibbering, the Prince of Demons disintegrates as his
lord during the adventure (including Juiblex or Yeenoghu). Alternatively, one or more of the characters’ backgrounds might be tied to a particular demon lord.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Body Horror Monsters Any monster might be the focus of body horror plots. Know what your players are anticipating so you can distort those expectations. A poised elf revealed to be a husk puppeted by
creatures with unusual digestive systems or weird reproductive cycles. Body Horror Monsters Challenge Creature Source
1 Carrionette VGR
2 Gibbering mouther MM
3 Carrion stalker VGR
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
cultists are aware of the true nature of the beings they serve, but many are delusional; cultists might perceive their mind flayer master as a wise and gentle priest. Cult NPCs d8 NPC 1 A monstrous
aberration (such as a beholder, a mind flayer, or a gibbering mouther) lairs beneath a popular inn, from where it twists the thoughts and dreams of those sleeping above. 2 The headmaster of an exclusive
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
sprites might help the characters find the correct path and hurry them along. If assaulted in any way, fifteen sprites riding stirges attack. (The sprites’ invisibility extends to the stirges as well while
magically locked together during an ancient battle. Over the centuries since, fey gardeners have turned the two into a temple. Characters who explore the temple might inadvertently help the treant or the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
end, hundreds of saucer-sized eyes with fanged pupils open and begin repeating a random character’s name. The wall is a gibbering mouther controlled by the Drought Elder. It moves out of the way for any
Aberration, revealing a 5-foot-diameter gap in the wall, but it attacks any other creature. Destroying the gibbering mouther leaves the gap in the wall unguarded. D3: Void Striders The structure
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
the alien daelkyr. Some cults of the Dragon Below believe that paradise awaits them in the Vale of the Inner Sun, but such cultists also consider gibbering mouthers and mind flayers to be creatures of beauty. Wondrous treasures might wait in the worlds below amid hordes of demons and aberrations.
, Khyber spawns demons and monsters to plague the children of Eberron. This might be myth and metaphor, but it’s also a description of fact: there are worlds within the world, realms inhabited by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
, preparing us for transcendent immortality within the bowels of the gibbering mouther. The Lord of Eyes sees all secrets. Its gaze elevates the worthy and slays the unbeliever. Drive doubt from your heart
of a greater whole. Cults of the Dragon Below are based on madness or power. A cult that seeks power chooses to serve a dark force because of the gifts they receive from it. A cabal of scholars might
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
anywhere at all). A sapient monster might parley with the characters in an effort to get out of the situation alive. Suddenly a combat encounter turns into a social interaction as the monster and
characters negotiate an end to their hostilities. A nonsapient monster might play dead to try to get the characters to stop attacking it, only to get up and run away as soon as it has the opportunity
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
clear water bubbles lazily. A door on the cellar’s west wall is ajar.
Cistern. Operatives of the Six tainted the cistern here. The water might appear pure, but it’s teeming with a magical disease
half-elves return to Phandalin at a later date to give the party rare herbs worth 100 gp. Franchise Opportunity. If rescued and treated well, the Splintfig sisters might become franchise business
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
to describe any sect devoted to the daelkyr or the overlords. Each cult pursues its own mad schemes, tied to its dark patron. Even cults associated with the same master might not recognize one
Kyrzin, the daelkyr Prince of Slime, keeps a gibbering mouther in the basement and feeds their elders to this creature, believing their voices can still be heard in the whispers of the beast. 4 A cult of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
the chandelier appears to be Viari (met at the end of episode 2) — but he and the scout Tanas are actually two gibbering mouthers. Illusion magic cloaks their appearance, though anyone touching them or
succeeding on a DC 13 Intelligence (Investigation) check can see through the illusion. If the illusion is detected, all the characters see the gibbering mouthers in their true forms as both creatures
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
(see “Madness” in chapter 2). The kuo-toa become incapacitated for 1d10 minutes, crying out “Leemooggoogoon!” over and over again. Demogorgon wades toward Sloobludop, heads roaring and gibbering
creatures fleeing from him. The characters thus have a good chance of getting away if they act quickly. They might first need to deal with companions overcome by bouts of madness, however, and they need to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Body Horror Ivan Shavrin Body horror examines the fear of our failing anatomies. Tales in this genre explore the unpredictability of flesh—that robust health might be an illusion and that we might
Transformation. Physical transformations are common and might affect more than bodies. Objects, architecture, and the natural world might be also anthropomorphized. Flesh Aberrations. Characters suffer
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
21 (XP 33,000, or 41,000 in lair; PB +7)
Traits
Aberrant Restoration. If destroyed, the emissary revives with all its Hit Points in 1 day in the space of a Gibbering Mouther that was within 300
(Recharge 5–6). Dexterity Saving Throw: DC 23, each creature in a 30-foot-radius Sphere centered on a point the emissary can see within 120 feet. Failure: 54 (12d8) Acid damage, and a Gibbering Mouther
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
completely reasonable and plausible explanation. Singing songs and strumming lutes might be fine for most bards. Who doesn’t like a rousing shanty now and then? But standing in a crowded tavern playing for
to get done. Your tremendous array of skills and abilities mean that you’re often the first one called upon to do the hard jobs. And if you’re going to do something difficult, you might as well do it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
table) Far Realm Cysts* d4 Encounter 1 1 gibbering mouther 2 1 grell 3 1d4 gricks 4 1 otyugh Forests of Slaughter* d4 Encounter 1 1d2 hook horrors 2 1d4 cockatrices 3 1 displacer beast 4 1
roll this result while no special encounters exist, then the group has an encounter of your choice. Treasure The adventure has some treasure built in, but the characters might be able to find more
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monstrous Compendium Volume One: Spelljammer Creatures
, they might set foot on the twisting path toward becoming an eldritch lich. Like other liches, eldritch liches are spellcasters who have cheated death, but an eldritch lich does so by allowing a Great
, the target dies and dissolves into a gibbering mouther that obeys the lich and uses the target’s initiative.
Psychic Whisper. The lich targets one creature it can see within 120 feet of itself. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
facilitate the characters’ escape, or he can command the goblins to stand down and allow the characters to leave the fort unmolested. If Manafek (see area K6) is still alive, she might show up
or pay someone in Ten-Towns to cast the spell (see “Magic in Ten-Towns”). Unlocking the crate causes the gibbering mouther contained inside it to spill out. It attacks all other creatures indiscriminately. K13. Treasury This small room is empty.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
vegetation might be its work.
Kyrzin. The cults of the Prince of Slime are based in the Shadow Marches and are infamous for cultivating gibbering beasts. Kyrzin creates sentient slimes that can enter
reshaped the world in their image, sowing madness and creating monsters. They fused goblins together to create the gibbering dolgrims and crafted the blind dolgaunts from hobgoblin stock. The goblinoid
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
gibbering echoing through nearby passages, without any apparent origin. Each character must make a successful DC 11 Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the character’s madness level increases by 1
decreases by 1. Ruins The adventurers come across a small ruin hidden in the Underdark. This might be the creation of a subterranean race or a surface ruin that collapsed and sank long ago. If the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
characters of all levels, though unseasoned adventurers determined to face the Returner in combat are almost certainly doomed to fail. Characters killed by Zargon might be resurrected on the Infinite
still chanting at the end of round 2, the cultist on the altar (or closest to it) transforms into a gibbering mouther with all its hit points. Read or paraphrase the following text: “I have been
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
characters free passage through this area. While Thaxalia is free in the Doomvault, it prefers to attack Thayans. If encountered again, the beholder might help the characters, given incentives. The beholder
of the gibbering mouthers. A successful DC 10 Intelligence check confirms that the speech is gibberish in various languages. Ceiling. Although the cavern floor steps down to the east as shown on the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a2
hall, and center of authority. Its ceiling is 30 feet high, and the sconces are 10 feet above the floor. The throne is unremarkable: a short bench of stone that might have been decorated at some point
, then join the other duergar in area 39. In combat, Snurrevin might cast shocking grasp through his hidden familiar, and he might use silent image to confound enemies with realistic-seeming threats
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
enter the westernmost bedroom triggers a roll on the Eldritch Surges table. The easternmost bedroom contains a gibbering mouther. It attacks any character who opens the door and fights to the death. D10
transformation. If the characters explain that an evil entity is responsible for Esquire’s transformation or that Markos might be in danger from this entity, Esquire lets them live if they vow to save
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
, fauna, structures, and inhabitants might remain unaffected, the land’s innate character takes on new qualities. A supernatural region is permeated by a preternatural force in an area as large or small as
of writhing flesh, eyes, and fanged mouths. From an unoccupied space in the fleshy ground arise 1d4 + 5 gibbering mouthers that attack anyone in sight. 46–54 Unintelligible murmurings threaten to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
, and Holvan is a gibbering lunatic. A greater restoration spell or similar magic restores either man’s sanity. The men were hooded and brought here separately, so they know nothing of the dungeon’s
confine potential hosts for his brood of intellect devourers. Captured characters might find themselves incarcerated here until they can be made into hosts. The area contains the following features