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Behavior table to see how such swarms might manifest.
Swarm Behavior
d4
Behavior
1
Crawls on walls in a vaguely bipedal shape
2
Makes skittering noises that sound like
whispered chanting
3
Skeletal visages, giant eyes, or the faces of nearby creatures appear in relief amid its mass
4
Occupies and animates a corpse or other debris as if it were alive
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Monsters
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manifest.
Swarm Behavior
d4
Behavior
1
Crawls on walls in a vaguely bipedal shape
2
Makes skittering noises that sound like whispered chanting
3
Skeletal visages, giant
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
you may choose another student from the “Fellow Students” section in chapter 3. Read or paraphrase the following: You hear enthusiastic chanting and clapping. In the library’s main area, students ring
the eastern group of tables. Standing on them are familiar faces, who look like they’re about to burst into song.
One of the characters’ peers rushes from the study area and calls out to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
10. Great Hall of Spheres This area is being crafted into a second grand hall. Like the entrance hall, it is a busy and noisy work site. A number of artisans are plastering the walls and painting
section of the east wall has not yet been plastered or painted over, revealing the passageway to the chapel (area 14). The rhythmic chanting magically carried into area 3 grows louder still at the
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out while still getting decent performance out of the slaves. But humanoids and monsters that are especially capable or that provide unusual services find themselves treated like favored (though
the tribe. If the creature is dimwitted, like a troll or ogre, the lower-class goblins give it obeisance, but before long the upper-class goblins begin to think that whoever can bend the ear of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
14. Chapel of Evil The chanting heard throughout the tomb originates in this chapel, whose pews are filled with more than two dozen worshipers — and, oddly, with two large chunks of rough black stone
opalescent blue. The priest is missing his left eye and hand, but has a second set of arms grafted to his body. All three of his arms gesture as if directing the worshipers like a conductor. Two
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
Temple Layout The interior of the temple is a single open expanse. Though divided into distinct areas, the cathedral-like space has no interior walls or upper floors. Chapels are devoted to the five
, cathedral-like space that towers overhead. Five distinct vaults branch off the central gallery. Though the overwhelming color of the place is a lifeless, ashen gray, each of the side vaults shimmers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
Temple Layout The interior of the temple is a single open expanse. Though divided into distinct areas, the cathedral-like space has no interior walls or upper floors. Five chapels are devoted to one
eyes adjust to the stunning chaos of Tiamat’s Temple, you see that its interior is a single, cathedral-like space that towers far overhead. Five distinct vaults branch off the central gallery. Though
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
spellcaster can’t cast the spell. Verbal (V) A Verbal component is the chanting of esoteric words that sound like nonsense to the uninitiated. The words must be uttered in a normal speaking voice. The words
or in an area of magical silence can’t cast a spell with a Verbal component. Creating Verbal Components
If you’d like to say a spell’s Verbal component, you may make up the words. However you make
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
) components. If the spellcaster can’t provide one or more of a spell’s components, the spellcaster can’t cast the spell. Verbal (V) A Verbal component is the chanting of esoteric words that sound like
If you’d like to say a spell’s Verbal component, you may make up the words. However you make them, the goal is to create something that’s easy to say and that doesn’t mean anything in the real world
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
low, strange chanting.
When the characters investigate, add the following information. Several strangely dressed people stand in the street. One who looks like a priest chants as the others open a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
faint sound of chanting is audible coming from a corridor to the northwest. To the south are three cells with iron-banded wooden doors. A small, barred window is embedded in each door at the height of
using thieves’ tools. All three cells are currently empty. Chanting. The sound is that of a prayer to Asmodeus being recited by the cultists in area A7. A2. Balconies Two crumbling balconies with stone
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
stench of death that permeates the dungeon is strongest here. As the characters approach this 50-foot-high cave, they hear minotaurs chanting and stomping. This area contains the following: Minotaurs
. The fog swirls through this cavern, agitated by the dancing of eleven chanting minotaurs.
Offal Pile. Low stone barriers constrain a massive pile of rotting, dismembered body parts.
Altar. Behind
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
watches the dog nervously.
A green glow rises suddenly from a magic circle at the center of the platform, where a small humanoid statue is the focus of the chanting ritual. As you watch, a lump
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
thousand chanting voices. Great sculptures in honor of a multitude of gods gazed across an array of shrines and altars. Priests stood ready by night and day to tend to the spiritual needs of their people
, and hundreds of stone tablets trumpeted the holy words of Moradin. Like so much else of ancient Gauntlgrym, the Iron Tabernacle isn’t what it once was. The intricate patterns and knotwork have faded
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
skittering noises that sound like whispered chanting
3 Skeletal visages, giant eyes, or the faces of nearby creatures appear in relief amid its mass
4 Occupies and animates a corpse or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Knowledge Domain The gods of knowledge — including Oghma, Boccob, Gilean, Aureon, and Thoth — value learning and understanding above all. Some teach that knowledge is to be gathered and shared in
gods of knowledge promote the practical knowledge of craft and invention, including smith deities like Gond, Reorx, Onatar, Moradin, Hephaestus, and Goibhniu. Knowledge Domain Spells Cleric Level
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
spend combat actions doing things that are fundamentally creepy, like chanting to sinister gods or regurgitating their last meal. Use another creature as the opening act for the true threat. A
atmosphere for hours on end. Plan to take breaks during your game session, and encourage players to step away from the table if they need to. If you feel like the game has gotten intense or taken a turn
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
) components. If you can’t provide one or more of a spell’s components, you are unable to cast the spell. Verbal (V) Most spells require the chanting of mystic words. The words themselves aren’t the source of
others, influencing or controlling their behavior. Such spells can make enemies see the caster as a friend, force creatures to take a course of action, or even control another creature like a puppet
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
marks. S15c. Incanting Mongrelfolk Seven mongrels are seated in the middle of this room, forming a ring. They appear to be chanting a spell. These seven mongrelfolk are trying to cast a spell that
the doorway in silence with hungry looks in their eyes. These nine mongrelfolk haven’t been fed in days because Clovin doesn’t like them. They try to kill and devour any character who sets foot in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
, standing at the edge of the pool are six wolf-like humanoids, their backs to the characters. With faces raised up in supplication, they chant ominously. Read: You have come upon the Pool of Eternal Spring
leads five werewolves in chanting “Water into blood, earth into bones!”
In less troubling times, the Pool of Eternal Spring was a little slice of Mount Celestia on earth. Its crystal-clear waters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
cultists stop playing. Frustrated with the mediocre initiates, Windharrow asks if the characters are skilled musicians and if they would like to audition for the band. If a bard character or a character
doors without removing the spikes. If the characters open the doors, read the following text: Beyond the doors, the floor declines toward a great chasm. The tombs and crypts of dwarves sprawl like a city
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
looks like a hunter’s den. A stag’s head is mounted above the fireplace, and three stuffed wolves are positioned around the outskirts of the room.
Trapdoor. A character searching the southwest corner
tunnel stretches southward before branching east and west. Chanting. From the moment they arrive in the dungeon, the characters hear an eerie, incessant chant echoing throughout the chambers. It’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
, which requires 1 minute and a successful DC 14 Dexterity check. Treasure. The lockbox contains an amethyst cloak pin shaped like an eye (125 gp) and a ring of jumping. D16: Student Quarters These rooms
chamber. The statue has a roughly bipedal shape and is carved to look like it’s coming undone, like a frayed rope. Its form is covered with mouths and outstretched tongues.
Standing before the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
beside it. A closed coffer leans against the south wall, and a seaweed bed fills the southwest corner.
A small group of sahuagin in this room are vocalizing what seem like raucous sounds of merriment
contains no furniture, but clusters of what look like large fish eggs float against the walls, five or six feet above the floor.
The eggs are unhatched sahuagin. Disturbing the eggs in any way, including
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
to well-known organizations like the Harpers or Red Wizards of Thay, the symbols of those groups can be found among the corpses. Treasure. Gremorly left treasure on the bodies of his victims to lure
with a couch, chairs, and cabinets. Two helmed horrors—one in the southeast corner and one in the southwest— stand guard in the throne room. While motionless, they look like ordinary suits of armor, but
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
a thin, golden mask shaped like a devil’s face (and worth 25 gp to an interested buyer). The censers contain burning incense. A devil mask covers its wearer’s whole face except for the eyes, nostrils
leading to this room hears a half dozen humanoid voices chanting in Infernal. Characters who listen to the chants and understand that language can discern praise heaped upon the archdevil Zariel for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
enormous globes of blue liquid are suspended in the air to the east.
West of the pool, just south of a set of double doors, is a contact stone.
Creatures. Eight ghouls here float like corpses in the
its turns, ending the effect on itself on a successful save. Treasure. The baron wears +1 leather armor (shark skin and chitin) and a crown-like helm of ivory, coral, leather, and gold (worth 500 gp
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
as they kneel in worship, you know they are doomed. A voice sounds out within clouds of spores that fall like snow. The voice tells the myconids to prepare for a gift unlike any they have ever known
, their forms hunched and emaciated. Their gestures and movements are jerky, indicative of the madness possessing them. They are chanting, swaying to their own words. And then they stop as the glow of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
hundred chanting, swaying, convulsing zealots can add a large dose of eerie atmosphere to the characters’ investigations. Map 8.3: Temple of Tharizdun View Player Version T1. Milden Span A tangled wall of
ruined galley has buckled, and is cluttered with trash, driftwood, and other refuse washed up on the tide. To the east, the galley’s prow juts into the channel like a jagged fang, while the west side of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
the slaves. But humanoids and monsters that are especially capable or that provide unusual services find themselves treated like favored (though occasionally abused) pets. Virtually any kind of
the tribe. If the creature is dimwitted, like a troll or ogre, the lower-class goblins give it obeisance, but before long the upper-class goblins begin to think that whoever can bend the ear of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
Tyrant’s Spiral The realm of the beholder deity Gzemnid lies beneath the Outlands. Most entrances into these mysterious, gas-filled caverns are found near chaotically aligned gate-towns—like Bedlam
marks the course of the lost, marching modrons. Any creature that enters this area on foot is affected as described in the “Marching Modrons” section. Tyrant Fungus. Beholder-like fungi cover the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
apprentice wizards (see appendix B) stand outside the circle, chanting an incantation. A barlgura is slumped motionless within the circle. The three wizards here are Manshoon’s apprentices — Ered
that the three are reciting has quelled the barlgura and rendered it unconscious. If any of them stop chanting, the demon awakes and becomes enraged, though it remains bound within the circle. Whenever
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
wall, its top carved to look like pages of an open book. Engraved on the book’s pages is a name: Ayren Griffynstone.
Four chaotic evil cult fanatics are supervising two ghouls trying to reorganize
treasures with 10 minutes of dedicated searching. C18: Vacant Cell This room has a padlock outside like the other prisoner cells, but the lock hangs open. This squalid cell contains nothing but a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Nest of the Eldritch Eye
eyeball (like the one obtained from Delvin) tucked in one pocket. Being Sneaky. To move through these rooms without waking the cultists, a creature must succeed on a DC 14 Dexterity (Stealth) check. On a
Chamber Cacophonous whispers echo through this expansive cave. An imposing human cultist in a sweeping robe stands against the wall, chanting. His oily hair is slicked back, and his skin is gaunt and