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Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
weapon.A drow house captain leads the troops of an Underdark faction, whether defending a stronghold or leading forces against enemies. These officers make extensive study of strategy and tactics to become
subterranean world of that godâs malevolence.Battle Command. Choose one creature within 30 feet of the drow that the drow can see. If the chosen creature can see or hear the drow, that creature can use its reaction to make one melee attack or to take the Dodge or Hide action.
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
remnant of celestial matter imbued with life-giving magic. The collision released a storm of chaotic energy and sent countless islands spinning away into the void. Within some of them, bits of the god&rsquo
fragments that make up the islandâs core are also located. Sections of the lair and its center might be kept dry to better protect and preserve collected objects and creatures, but most of the lair
monsters
Explosive Core. When the spore is subjected to Fire damage, each creature in a 5-foot Emanation originating from the spore takes 7 (2d6);{"diceNotation":"2d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction
":"Explosive Core", "rollDamageType":"Fire"} Fire damage.
Rolling Mass. The spore doesnât need to expend extra movement to move through Difficult Terrain.Multiattack. The spore makes four Tendril
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Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
use by the factionâs operatives), haven keepers, and message drop minders, to name a few. At the core of every faction are those who donât merely fulfill a small function for that
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
gather and celebrate, dwell the followers of Yurtrus, the god of disease and death, and Shargaas, the god of darkness and the unknown. Orcs too weak for battle (because of bodily weakness, malformation
herself and claw Maglubiyetâs beady eyes from his face to prevent him from taking them from her. The cosmic battle between the two pantheons has raged for eons without resolution, leading those
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Donjon Core Locations Prisoners are kept in the Donjon core. The following locations are keyed to map 17.2. The area described in this map is spherical; hallways leading off one edge of the map connect to other hallways on the opposite side. Mike Schley Map 17.2: Donjon CoreView Player Version
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Masterâs Guide
Corellon At the dawn of the multiverse, Corellon (core-ELL-on or CORE-eh-lawn) danced from world to world and plane to plane. A being of consummate mutability and infinite grace, Corellon is a
every form the god adopts. Corellon loves wholeheartedly and takes pleasure from every encounter with other divine beings of the multiverse. According to legend, the first elves emerged from Corellonâs
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Masterâs Guide (2014)
Core Assumptions The rules of the game are based on the following core assumptions about the game world. Gods Oversee the World. The gods are real and embody a variety of beliefs, with each god
. The follower of a god serves as an agent of that god in the world. The agent seeks to further the ideals of that god and defeat its rivals. While some folk might refuse to honor the gods, none can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Abishais Each abishai was once a mortal who somehow won Tiamatâs favor before death. As a reward, the dragon god transformed the mortal into a draconic devil to serve at Tiamatâs pleasure in the Nine
as leading large groups, assassinating targets, and serving in armies. In all cases, abishais are fanatically loyal and ready to lay down their lives for Tiamat.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Masterâs Guide (2014)
body of a dead god. Celestials, fiends, and mortal explorers often scour the Astral Plane for color pools leading to desired destinations. Characters who linger for too long in the Astral might have
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
. As the gnolls raided the town, Solndor Brightstar, a cleric of Lathander, led the people in prayer to his god for aid. Lathander was moved by the peopleâs bravery and sent the angel Zariel to defeat
himself leading the war band. Zariel and the Hellriders came to the Idyllglenâs aid, but not before the town was mostly destroyed.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Rise of the Lich-God Regardless of the charactersâ activities after their Neverwinter adventure, key plots elements of this adventure progress in the background. While the characters live their lives
his cults have siphoned incredible amounts of power from individuals throughout the multiverse. Worse, Alustriel eventually stops detecting these activities, leading the archmage to believe that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
ruby in Ghazrimâs ring has a white, star-shaped core that guides its wearer along the safest, shortest route to Gravenhollow. Society of Brilliance If one or more members of the Society of Brilliance
comes within a dayâs travel of the library can make a DC 15 Intelligence check to find the passage leading to Gravenhollow. If its check fails, it can try again after 8 hours of searching and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richtenâs Guide to Ravenloft
Bluetspur Memories of Bluetspur prove as impossible
as they are inescapable Domain of Alien Memories Darklord: The God-Brain of Bluetspur Genre: Cosmic horror Hallmarks: Alien abductions
â numbers are few and their tentacles twitch with undisguised urgency. They toil to prevent the unthinkable: their primordial leader, the God-Brain of Bluetspur, is dying. Through these end times, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
a single being, the act of war personified. But the inherent tension between honor and brutality in combat led to a dichotomy of purpose too great for a single god to reconcile. Ripping himself apart
, the god split in two, and so did Mogis and Iroas come into existence, embodiments of the two aspects of war that are forever in conflict. Though no tales of either Mogis or Iroasâs faith speak of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
Location Overview Five miles south of Conyberry is a shrine dedicated to Savras, god of divination and fate. Many years ago, the shrineâs priest-seers foresaw a barbarian attack on Conyberry, giving
to the shrine, besieged it, and slaughtered everyone inside. In the days leading up to this final battle, the priest-seers helped the townsfolk hide their gold in plain sight. They melted down the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Krynn in the guise of Fizban, a befuddled old human mage in faded robes. Branchala Called the Bard King, Branchala is the god of music, poetry, and the inner beauty of all living things. Many elves
. Kiri-Jolith Kiri-Jolith is the god of righteous war. He blesses all who fight in the name of good and scorns those who delight in slaughter and lust for battle. He is particularly revered by the Knights
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
priestesses have summoned an avatar of their god, who swims inside the temple. Blademaster Makaht Makaht is a hulking brute responsible for leading the sahuagin army in the impending campaign. He takes orders directly from the baroness and the baron, though he prefers the former over the latter.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
time on a turn or starts its turn there takes 55 (10d10) fire damage. Outer Walls The holdâs 20-foot-thick curtain walls are faced with blocks of carved basalt and filled with a rubble core. The walls
, with stone stairs along the inside walls leading between floors. Tower doors shown on the map allow access from ground level. All towers also have doors that open onto the walkways of adjoining curtain walls, as well as trapdoors that open onto the towersâ roofs.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3
, lying somewhere within or beneath the ruins, is a hidden shrine said to be dedicated to Zotzilaha, the vampire god of the underworld. Adventurers who catch wind of the place are likely to find its lure
newly collapsed area, revealing a jagged hole with a debris-covered slide, leading down into darkness. PLACING THE ADVENTURE
In the original adventure, set in the world of Greyhawk, the Hidden Shrine is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
the roomâs iconography and orientation (the fact that it draws light from the east) can determine, with a successful DC 10 Intelligence (Religion) check, that the chapel is dedicated to a god of the
dawn. Anyone familiar with Barovian religion can conclude that the god in question is the Morninglord. The balcony (area Q24) is 20 feet high and can be reached by climbing either spiral staircase (area
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
The body of a servant or an ancestor. 3 The core of a dracolichâs melted hoard. 4 A corrupted dragon egg. 5 A dragon horn a hero took as a trophy. 6 A nationâs royal or religious treasure. 7 A powerful
magic item. 8 A source of magical wonders, such as a giant tree or mystical pool. 9 The vault of an archdevil, a wicked god, or another extraplanar villain. 10 The weapon that slew the dracolich.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
, every nerve singing with the tension in the air all around you.
Finally, a swirling light begins to flare in the darkness. A barely audible humming shakes you to the core, rising and falling like a
involving Jimjar, the deep gnome gambler they met in the drow slave pen in chapter 1 of the adventure.
âJimjarâ isnât at all who he appears. He is, in fact, a god or other great power in disguise â or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation Supplement
roof of the serpentâs mouth, which forms a canopy over a dark, ten-foot-wide tunnel leading into the mountain. The tunnel at the back of the serpentâs head is 200 feet long and corkscrews gently down
impale their sacrifices on the hook above the altar. The victimsâ blood would pool in the altarâs stone bowl, and the yuan-ti would wash themselves in the blood while calling Merrshaulkâs name, hoping to rouse the god from his slumber.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
the most stunning, haunting, mournful, and downright eerie statues ever crafted in marble or bronze. Nobles and wealthy merchants have competed to erect the grandest markers for their dead, leading to a
griffon rider spears a skeletal knight whose breastplate bears the symbol of Myrkul, god of the dead. But this statue is also a fountain, and the wounds on these combatants gush water! Donât try to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
the tunnels leading to area 5.
Carvings. Abstract carvings cover the walls, and chiseled bits of stone lie scattered across the floor.
If the characters catch him by surprise or greet him with
(Religion) check identifies Gravillokâs wall carving as a 30-foot-tall image of Skoraeus Stonebones, the stone giant god. Gravillok hopes that Skoraeus will be honored by the carving enough to help him
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
â rule. While most humans (and minotaurs) embraced that division, the god Karametra tried to teach people a new way of living in harmony with nature, leading to the founding of Setessa. The Slayer, and the Philosopher
(CHUCK LUKACS)
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurerâs Guide
Religious Institutions Those who serve as priests of a god arenât necessarily clerics. Indeed, the power invested in clerics and other divine spellcasters by the gods is given out only rarely (see
priesthood depends on the tenets of that god: the cunning rogues who venerate Mask have little in common with the upright law-keepers of Tyr, and the delightful revelers who revere Lliira are different from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
kept the earth warm and fertile. So, Purphoros quenched the worldâs core. For a year, a lifeless winter gripped the world, with neither the sun nor the seasons warming the corpse-chill earth
. Delighted with the innovation, Purphoros waited until Chersio completed and lit her substructure furnace. When she did, the god returned warmth to the entire world. Today, an autumnal festival called
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
, has sent operatives to Chult to steal the Soulmonger or, failing that, destroy it. Leading the Thayan expedition is Szass Tamâs devoted lieutenant, Valindra Shadowmantle. Valindra has been warned that
explore this multilevel dungeon, they encounter the spirits of Omuâs trickster gods and are potentially inhabited by them. Each god embodies a different alignment, and any character inhabited by one gains a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Slitherswamp until the nagas are destroyed. She provides characters with the layout of the level in exchange for promises to free her. But her information is always slanted toward leading the characters into
statue as a representation of the yuan-ti god Sseth. A character who searches through the mud around the statue and succeeds on a DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check discovers a rotting sack and also digs up
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
doorway leading into area 13. The arrows are carved of stone and their heads are in the shape of fangs, set with the symbol of a cobra with a crown above it. A DC 18 Intelligence (Religion) check
recognizes the symbol of the yuan-ti god Merrshaulk. If a character inspects the body, it is revealed that the cultist died not from arrows but from a dagger wound. A successful DC 15 Intelligence
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Masterâs Guide
flows between Carceri and its neighbors, the passage is extremely dangerous, and ferries leading out of Carceri are both rare and expensive. Carceri Adventures Carceri is a sunless plane of despair, of
physical and outright demonicâthat keep characters trapped or imprisoned there. Characters might help a prisoner escape, from an unjustly held spirit to some primeval god banished to oblivion here.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
doorway leading into area 13. The arrows are carved of stone and their heads are in the shape of fangs, set with the symbol of a cobra with a crown above it. A DC 18 Intelligence (Religion) check
recognizes the symbol of the yuan-ti god Merrshaulk. If a character inspects the body, it is revealed that the cultist died not from arrows but from a dagger wound. A successful DC 15 Intelligence
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
to one of these places. Settlements d6 Adventure Hook 1 Adventurers track marauding giants to a settlement where a cult of an interloper god dominates about half the steadings. The giants who
â territory. 3 Adventurers need to infiltrate a giantsâ settlement to discover who is leading its ruler on the path to war. 4 The death of a giant monarch is an opportunity for adventurers to help a giant who