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Curse of Strahd
soldier or knight who perished on the battlefield or died performing its sworn duty. It appears like a translucent version of its living self.
Task Driven. Although one is often mistaken for a ghost, a
master or because it believes it must perform a task to satisfy its honor or sense of duty. For example, a guard who dies defending a wall might return as a phantom warrior and continue guarding the
Monsters
Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
of their former selves, albeit twisted by their state of being. These greater death dragons scheme to achieve their ends, all the while amassing and jealously guarding treasure hoards as they did in
with Cataclysmic fire and serve the death dragon’s will, typically going on rampages to destroy all living creatures in sight.Necrotic, PoisonPiercing
Genasi
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the households of their genie parents.
Wild and Confident
Genasi rarely lack confidence, seeing themselves as equal to almost any challenge in their path. This certainty might manifest as graceful
self-assurance in one genasi and as arrogance in another. Such self- confidence can sometimes blind genasi to risk, and their great plans often get them and others into trouble.
Too much failure can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Living Iron Statue This squat, solid-looking statue, currently guarding the evil cult’s treasure in Isle of the Abbey, is made from pure iron. Its hands are shaped into deadly weapons. Living Iron
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
7. Minotaur Caves These caves form the main living area for the minotaurs of the Maze Level. A 2-foot-thick layer of fog covers the floor throughout. 7a. Southern Cave Ceiling. The ceiling ranges in
minotaurs lurk behind the stalagmites and rock columns.
The minotaurs are stationed throughout the cavern, guarding against a drow attack. They are famished, having been forced to sacrifice their food for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Principle 1 Bantermage, using incisive observation to pierce rivals’ confidence Shadow 2 Duskmage, conjuring inky voids of shadow magic Shadow 3 Inkcaster, summoning living inklings to service Shadow 4
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
residents, and carve out new living spaces for themselves and other minions — tasks that the beholder considers beneath its personal attention. Some even worship the beholder as an angry, capricious deity
, scouting, and guarding the lair. Greater Minions A beholder’s greater minions are formidable opponents. In the lair, they might be stationed where they can catch intruders in an ambush, or they could be a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Athreos’s Champions Athreos expects his champions to maintain the balance between the living and the dead, just as he does. Beyond this, his servants take it upon themselves to maintain funerary
return it to its place guarding the Underworld.
5 Reconsecrate a grand but neglected mausoleum, putting the unquiet spirits there to rest.
6 Defeat an agent of a god who seeks to free a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Medusa Snake-Haired Recluse with a Petrifying Gaze Habitat: Desert; Treasure: Any With their hair of living snakes and their infamous petrifying gazes, medusas are hubristic creatures that inhabit
or circumstances afflicted its ancestor.
2 Created by a god and tasked with guarding a treasure or secret.
3 A cultist who made a fiendish bargain and enjoyed rewards that have since
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
sacrifice every one of his companions to achive these ends.
Confidence Aplenty. Sanbalet’s success stems from confidence in his abilities. He delights in criminal behavior and considers himself a
watch here (guarding against an approach by sea) and joins the fray in area 27 if it hears sounds of combat. The bolts and casks have the same value and conditions as those found in area 27. 30. Sea
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
its living self. Task Driven. Although one is often mistaken for a ghost, a phantom warrior isn’t bound by a yearning to complete some unresolved goal. It can choose to end its undead existence at any
defending a wall might return as a phantom warrior and continue guarding the wall, then disappear forever once a new guard assumes its post or the wall is destroyed. The period between the time it died and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
creatures. Cruel Servants. Gargoyles are easily inspired by the cunning of an intelligent master. They enjoy simple tasks such as guarding a master’s home, torturing and killing interlopers, and anything
deliberately, but they are a physical manifestation of his evil. Gargoyles are mockeries of the elemental air that Ogrémoch despises. They are heavy creatures of living stone, yet capable of flight. Like
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
and killing whatever they can—all to placate a green dragon living in their territory.
3 A cult is capturing travelers to feed a newly hatched pair of green dragons.
4 A convicted murderer
on what they know about a dead gold dragon’s lost hoard.
Connected Creatures Green dragons see other living beings as objects to subjugate, torment, or eat. Solitary by nature, they seldom
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Luiren, adherents of the Hin Fist turn their people’s natural confidence into a spiritual path for mastering themselves and their potential. A few Hin Fist masters have established monasteries in lands
monastic tradition that they believe has its roots in the ancient empire of Netheril. In their philosophy, living things harbor a fragment of the sun’s mystic essence within them. Just as the body has a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
5 Confidence scams (d6) 1 Breach of contract 2 Cheating 3 Fast talking 4 Fine print 5 Fraud or swindling 6 Quackery or tricks 6 Defamation (d4) 1 Framing 2 Gossiping or slander 3 Humiliation 4 Libel
or insults 7 Dueling 8 Execution (d8) 1 Beheading 2 Burning at the stake 3 Burying alive 4 Crucifixion 5 Drawing and quartering 6 Hanging 7 Impalement 8 Sacrifice (living) 9 Impersonation or disguise
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
centuries, Vizeran now believes that time has come. Vizeran harbors a thirst for vengeance against his only living rival — Gromph Baenre, the drow Archmage of Menzoberranzan. As a follower of the Elder
battlefield for the demon lords, however, and he eventually betrays Vizeran’s confidence to the adventurers in an effort to prevent that outcome (see chapter 15, “The City of Spiders”).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
of uninvited guests, but quickly conceals her feelings with a welcoming smile. She attempts to gain the intruders’ confidence by pretending to believe that they are guests of Victoro’s and saying
was on the verge of bankruptcy. They have two surviving children, young twins named Terenzio and Elzerina. Lord Victoro Cassalanter is the only living heir of the late Caladorn Cassalanter, a former
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Flail Snail A flail snail is a creature of elemental earth that is prized for its multihued shell. Hunters might be lulled into a false sense of confidence upon sighting this ponderous, seemingly
form window panes of varying clearness. It can also be heated and spun into glass objects of other sorts. Some humanoids make a living from trailing flail snails to collect this glass. USING THE SHELL
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
folk who band together for mutual protection. Depending on the crew, this protection can range from taking someone’s side in a tavern brawl or guarding each other’s shops to price fixing or inter-crew
Gateguides. Made up primarily of teenage lantern bearers, the Gateguides earn a living hiring themselves out to newcomers to show them the ropes of the city, help make connections with other crews, and offer
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
their elders by guarding the stronghold’s vulnerable spot. Off to one side of the chamber, away from where the warriors are quartered, is the fighting pit, a sunken and fenced-off area where orcs settle
living space and do other menial tasks. Most of Luthic’s faithful reside in this area, close to the whelping pens where young orcs are kept until they grow old enough to contribute to the tribe. When
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Keelboat Cargo d20 Cargo 1–15 None 16–17 1d4 nets; each net has a 50 percent chance of containing 3d6 dead, edible quippers 18–19 1d4 nets; each net has a 50 percent chance of containing 1d4 living
Discoveries table to determine what the water weird is guarding. Weird Discoveries d6 Discovery 1–2 Sunken altar dedicated to a forgotten deity 3–4 Sunken statue with 500 gp black pearls for eyes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
11, rested here while he meditated.) The southern sarcophagus contains the bones and tattered robe of a long-dead mind flayer. 14b. Northern Crypt The door to this room is identical to the one guarding
teleport traps on this level using the wheel in area 12, but knows nothing of the living unseen servant that Halaster recently put there. Each sarcophagus sits atop a 1-foot-tall stone bier and is 7
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
folk who band together for mutual protection. Depending on the crew, this protection can range from taking someone’s side in a tavern brawl or guarding each other’s shops to price fixing or inter-crew
. Made up primarily of teenage lantern bearers, the Gateguides earn a living hiring themselves out to newcomers to show them the ropes of the city, help make connections with other crews, and offer
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
imitate a couatl mentor and is searching for a magical location worth guarding.
3 A gold dragon wyrmling is venerated by a tribe of lizardfolk—much to the consternation of the priest who used to rule
androsphinx, one of the few creatures able to successfully bluff the dragon.
5 An adult gold dragon living in a desert temple helps some elf oracles interpret visions bestowed by an artifact called the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
area. The lizardfolk are not only guarding their territory, they are protecting a young black dragon. It has ordered them to keep its existence secret while it seeks to build an army of followers and
stronghold, but he can’t shake the idea of following the deeper passages for the chance of unearthing Zenopus’s lost secrets. If the characters earn his trust, he might take them into his confidence. The details of the deep dungeons are left to the DM’s invention.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
the death dragon’s will, typically going on rampages to destroy all living creatures in sight. Greater Death Dragon Some death dragons manage to retain almost all of their former selves, albeit twisted
by their state of being. These greater death dragons scheme to achieve their ends, all the while amassing and jealously guarding treasure hoards as they did in life. In battle, they are deadly foes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
guarding nobility, to investigating a ruin or rumor of monsters anywhere in the North. Though it has stood for hundreds of years, Waterdeep is only now returning to its status of a century and a half ago
years in the settling. A plague chased most residents out of the Warrens and Downshadow, and living or digging below the city’s surface has been deemed illegal except by those authorized by the lords
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
trouble, but I managed to talk my way out of it every time. 4 I took up with a confidence artist, from whom I learned my craft. 5 After a charlatan fleeced my family, I decided to learn the trade so I
found me, I was forced to work for my passage. 5 Reavers attacked my community, so I found refuge on a ship until I could seek vengeance. 6 I had few prospects where I was living, so I left to find my
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
scrolls of gentle repose. P6: Rectory This small living area is flooded like the rest of the temple, with moldering vestments hanging in a wardrobe and a bed blanketed in fungus.
This apartment once
and everywhere comes a powerful voice that inspires confidence and awe.
“The last to wield this weapon was unworthy. His failure was a step along the path to the world’s destruction. But this new
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Waterdeep or south to Baldur’s Gate need escort or guarding, and can offer news of both of those cities (and the settlements between them). Several inns stand ready to accept visitors, except in the busiest
militia guards Daggerford. Militia service is mandatory for all able-bodied adults, and lasts for twenty years. All citizens living within the town receive instruction from the duchess’s own soldiers in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
which snow has accumulated.
Unless she has left the fortress to cast her nightly spell over Icewind Dale, the Frostmaiden lurks here in her first form, living in fear that her divine enemies will find
walrus as big as an elephant is having a grand old time rolling and sliding on the ice, paying you little heed.
The giant walrus (see appendix C), named Ukuma, is supposed to be guarding this room
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
thick, rich wool they shear from their sheep. Others make a living hawking the dandelion wine that Darkhold Vale has always produced, but only recently begun to sell abroad. The vale has a small militia
, technically under the command of the Pereghost, but which answers to a local captain named Sulvarn. To those who’ve come into conflict with the Zhentarim, living in a place so firmly in their power
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
by ghosts and wayward souls. Unable to cross over to the other side by conventional means, these spirits accumulate in Sigil and sometimes cause trouble for the city’s living residents. The Heralds
destroyed. Nevervault For Characters of 8th–10th Level Robson Michel The crypts of the Nevervault imprison deathless threats with a tenacious grip on the realms of the living In this encounter
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
generosity.”
Flaw. “My confidence is bound up in my scarf’s powers. I’m quite the coward without it.”
Amidor the Dandelion
CHAPTER 4: YON
This 3-foot-tall talking dandelion finds poetry
young guests of the Witchlight Carnival.”
Flaw. “I can’t forgive myself for the disappearance of my cub, Star.”
Glister the Elf Acrobat
CHAPTER 4: YON
Glister is blessed with confidence
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
generosity.”
Flaw. “My confidence is bound up in my scarf’s powers. I’m quite the coward without it.”
Amidor the Dandelion
CHAPTER 4: YON
This 3-foot-tall talking dandelion finds poetry in
young guests of the Witchlight Carnival.”
Flaw. “I can’t forgive myself for the disappearance of my cub, Star.”
Glister the Elf Acrobat
CHAPTER 4: YON
Glister is blessed with confidence, grace