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                                                    Player’s Handbook
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    Gnomes are magical folk created by gods of invention, illusions, and life underground. The earliest gnomes were seldom seen by other folk due to the gnomes’ secretive nature and their
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     propensity for living in forests and burrows. What they lacked in size, they made up for in cleverness. They confounded predators with traps and labyrinthine tunnels. They also learned magic from gods like
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     they can be trained to serve as mounts and beasts of burden. Gnomes have tried to build spelljamming ships powered by giant space hamster wheels, so far without success.
Space Hamsters
Space
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     hamsters resemble their terrestrial kin, both in their appearance and general demeanor, and they come in a variety of colors.
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    : defend gnomes who are being attacked by non-gnomes, defend yourself if you are attacked, and protect infants and youngsters from harm. The last directive arose from the best intentions, but it doesn't
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     distinguish between species; if an autognome sees a group of adults battling a lunar dragon wyrmling, for instance, it would come to the wyrmling's defense.Poison
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Candlekeep Mysteries
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    , normally stored in sacred canopic jars during mummification, can be magically preserved and transplanted into living humanoids. The transplant recipients come under the control of the mummy lord, either as living supplicants or mindless golems through which the mummy lord can see and speak.Poison
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    , living off droppings and discarded refuse. They can enter the air envelopes of these bodies, so that as their “host” moves (often at high speed), the scavvers keep pace. The lesser varieties
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    —brown and gray—rarely rise above the level of nuisances. The larger varieties are more formidable, in part because they often don’t wait for their meals to come to them.
A scavver
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Mythic Odysseys of Theros
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     slither through the Underworld seeking only to consume. Once the souls of mortal warlords and cruel tyrants, typhons come into being over ages of festering bitterness and rage. Over time, these souls
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     twist into eternally ravenous monstrosities, which rampage through the realm of the dead, consuming souls by the thousands. The Underworld remains their prison, though, and most would relish nothing more than to escape and slaughter the living once more.Acid, Necrotic
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     space, feeding on whatever they can fit in their mouths. Scavvers are not always aggressive; often they trail behind larger creatures as well as ships and asteroids, living off droppings and discarded
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    ;rarely rise above the level of nuisances. The larger varieties are more formidable, in part because they often don’t wait for their meals to come to them.
A scavver has a single large eye in the
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     always aggressive; often they trail behind larger creatures as well as ships and asteroids, living off droppings and discarded refuse. They can enter the air envelopes of these bodies, so that as
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     formidable, in part because they often don’t wait for their meals to come to them.
A scavver has a single large eye in the leading edge of its head. This eye glows while the creature is awake. Its
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     in their mouths. Scavvers are not always aggressive; often they trail behind larger creatures as well as ships and asteroids, living off droppings and discarded refuse. They can enter the air envelopes
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     larger varieties are more formidable, in part because they often don’t wait for their meals to come to them.
A scavver has a single large eye in the leading edge of its head. This eye glows
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Mythic Odysseys of Theros
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    ":"cold"} cold damage.Triton masters of waves sculpt storms and change the tides, bending the sea to their will. Drawing forth living currents and the icy cold of the deep, these mages make the ocean their
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     of the sea, tritons live rich lives unknown to most land-dwelling individuals. While the waves separate most tritons from land-dwellers, occasionally the inhabitants of the surface and the deep come
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     inside its trunk in which Medium or smaller creatures can lurk.
Yggdrasti attack any settlements or spelljamming ships they come across without provocation. By using a speak with plants spell or
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     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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                                                    Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     spying on the living to take knowledge from them as well. A berbalang can create a spectral duplicate of itself and send the duplicate out to gather information on other planes by watching places where
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     the planes. Berbalangs ignore petitioners, however, unless they come bearing a choice secret or the bones of a particularly interesting creature. Some githyanki have been able to strike deals with the
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Curse of Strahd
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     these women were lavished with jewels and fine clothes, and made comfortable during their stay in Ravenloft.
Executioner. Patrina Velikovna and her people were living among the Vistani when they heard of
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     never love her. Rahadin assumed that Patrina would suffer the same fate as those women who had come before her. He was proven wrong when Patrina's own people stoned her to death to keep Strahd from
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Backgrounds
                                                    Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    , Basket, Block and Tackle, Chain, Hunting Trap, Net, Pole, Rations (3 days’ worth), Traveler's Clothes, 32 GP; or (B) 50 GP
You come from a proud line of ice fishers out of Ten-Towns in Icewind
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     Dale. Catching knucklehead trout isn’t the most glorious trade in the North, but it’s an honest living. You’ve trained your senses for the slightest tug on the line, wrestled big
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     themselves at odds with a sapphire dragon if they cross into the dragon’s territory. But sapphire dragons sometimes forge peaceful relationships with rock gnomes or deep gnomes, relying on these folk
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     stone to come and go.
The challenge rating of a legendary sapphire dragon increases by 1 when it’s encountered in its lair.
Lair Actions
On initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), the
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     Celestial. If it hears words of Celestial spoken, the vampire must try to attack the source of those spoken words on its next turn. If these words come from multiple sources and from opposite directions, the
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     that feeds on the blood of the living. It cackles maniacally when it catches the scent of its prey and quickly moves in for the kill, tearing away flesh with its claws, gorging on meat and blood, and
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Candlekeep Mysteries
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     made for me. It has come to me. It is part of me.”
Flaw. “Each future that allows a chance for my failure to occur must be tracked, must be focused on, and must be destroyed.”Valin
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     effects; Valin can’t use the same effect two rounds in a row.
Each undead creature in the lair can pinpoint the location of each living creature within 120 feet of it until initiative count 20
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     moment, is all that matters.”
Bond. “I’m safe in my cottage. Why should I leave it when I can make others come to me?"
Flaw. “Watching someone run widdershins makes me sneeze
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     extraordinarily long, spindly limbs. She must submerge herself in a briny concoction for an hour each day, or her body will dry out until it locks up in a kind of living rictus, and she remains that way until
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     elder brain reaches out with tendrils of thought, compelling creatures to come to it so that it can feed on them.
When a mind flayer perishes, the elder brain’s servants feed its brain to their
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     are so-called among non-illithids because they act as the central communication hub for an entire mind flayer colony, just as a brain does for a living body. Linked to the elder brain, the colony acts
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     they cross into the dragon’s territory. But sapphire dragons sometimes forge peaceful relationships with rock gnomes or deep gnomes, relying on these folk to help protect the territory
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     other unseen by intruders. The most secure lairs might feature no accessible entrances or exits at all, with the dragon relying on tunneling or shaping stone to come and go.
The challenge rating of a
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Eberron: Rising from the Last War
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     Emerald Claw, but her motives for founding the order are buried in her past. Lady Illmarrow has no interest in ruling the living. Rather, she seeks to become Queen of the Dead.
The Mark of Death
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     Lady Illmarrow believe that she’s a champion of their faith, but they don’t worship or serve her. And the powers of priests of the Blood of Vol don’t come from Lady Illmarrow.
Necrotic, Poison; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical AttacksCold, Lightning
                                                
                                            
                                        
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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
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    , their favorite food is giant squid, so these dragons have ample opportunity to complain bitterly about being wet after diving deep into the ocean in search of prey.
Topaz dragons often come into
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    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
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     squid, so these dragons have ample opportunity to complain bitterly about being wet after diving deep into the ocean in search of prey.
Topaz dragons often come into conflict with bronze dragons when
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     storage. Occasionally, though, a whimsical moonstone dragon delights in shaking things up, insisting that visitors come to the Border Ethereal for a meeting or sleeping in the middle of a heavily
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    , a well maintained and above-water version of the black dragon lair’s tower (map 5.2) makes a great Feywild audience chamber, while a vibrant, living version of the green dragon lair’s
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     things up, insisting that visitors come to the Border Ethereal for a meeting or sleeping in the middle of a heavily trafficked forest on the Material Plane.
Moonstone dragons navigate their
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     tower (map 5.2) makes a great Feywild audience chamber, while a vibrant, living version of the green dragon lair’s enormous tree (map 5.10) makes for a very comfortable bedchamber in a grove on
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Magic Items
                                                    Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    , a skeleton, zombie, or ghoul also appears at a random location within 5 miles of you, searching for the living to kill. A humanoid killed by these undead rises as the same type of undead at the next
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     levels of exhaustion.
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Dahlver-Nar’s Tooth (dusty human molar)
1 priest
As an action you can call on a divine force to come to your aid. Describe the assistance you seek, and the DM
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     power manifests 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
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     come into conflict with bronze dragons when their coastal territories overlap, and they can nurture an inexplicably intense hatred of these metallic dragons. They can also draw the ire of druids and
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     dragon’s psionic power manifests 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
                                                
                                            
                                                
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Topaz dragons often come into conflict with bronze dragons when their coastal territories overlap, and they can nurture an inexplicably intense hatred of these metallic dragons. They can also draw
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                    Gnome
                                                    
    
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                                                    Basic Rules (2014)
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    ) risks and dreaming large.
Bright Burrows
Gnomes make their homes in hilly, wooded lands. They live underground but get more fresh air than dwarves do, enjoying the natural, living world on the surface
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     stare, then appeared to go back to sleep.
—  Richard Lee Byers, The Black Bouquet
A constant hum of busy activity pervades the warrens and neighborhoods where gnomes form their close-knit
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                    Cube of Force
                                                    
    
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                                                     number of charges, resetting the duration.
If your movement causes the barrier to come into contact with a solid object that can't pass through the cube, you can't move any closer to that object as
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    , and ceilings can pass through at your discretion.
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Living matter can't pass through the barrier.
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Spell effects can't pass through the barrier.
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Nothing can pass through
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                    Kobold
                                                    
    
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                                                    Volo's Guide to Monsters
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     all life except for kobolds. He especially hates Garl Glittergold, gnomes, and fey creatures that enjoy playing pranks. He taught the first kobolds how to mine, tunnel, hide, and ambush. He is
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    , the kobolds are usually put to work enlarging their masters’ living area and protecting vital areas of the lair with traps and other defenses.
Some human communities hire kobolds to dig their
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Eberron: Rising from the Last War
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     bears the mark can feel words as though they are living creatures, struggling to make their meaning known. The mark provides a range of gifts. It translates languages, but it also allows its bearer to
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     communicate with others at a distance.
House Sivis
Leader: Lysse Lyrriman d’Sivis
Headquarters: The Labyrinth (Korranberg, Zilargo)
Bearing the emblem of the cockatrice, the gnomes of House
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                    Berbalang
                                                    
    
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                                                    Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    ;t above spying on the living to take knowledge from them as well. A berbalang can create a spectral duplicate of itself and send the duplicate out to gather information on other planes by watching
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     information for powerful people traveling the planes. Berbalangs ignore petitioners, however, unless they come bearing a choice secret or the bones of a particularly interesting creature. Githyanki have
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Infernal Machine Rebuild
                                                    
                                                
                                            
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At one time, he was told that he was a statue of Demogorgon brought to life by Thessalar’s experiments. He has since come to believe that he is now the actual Demogorgon, with his two heads
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     stewards.
If the ettin is defeated, examining the pouches around his necks reveals a collection of eyeballs and still-beating dragon hearts. The silver wires connect those living tissues to the ettin
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     shades, long hair that regrows if cut, and an irremovable living crown. Along with these marks, hexbloods manifest hag-like traits, such as darkvision and a variety of magical methods to beguile the senses
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     unusual crown, often called an eldercross or a witch’s turn. This living, garland-like part of a hexblood’s body extends from their temples and wraps behind the head, serving as a visible
                                                
                                            
                                        






