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Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Limited Spell Immunity. The swarm automatically succeeds on saving throws against spells of 3rd level or lower, and the attack rolls of such spells always miss it.
Swarm. The swarm can occupy
another creature’s space and vice versa, and the swarm can move through any opening large enough for a Tiny gremishka. The swarm can’t regain hit points or gain temporary hit points.Bites. Melee
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
","rollType":"heal","rollAction":"Magic Allergy"} hit points.
5–6. The gremishka explodes and dies, and one swarm of gremishkas instantly appears in the space where this gremishka died. The swarm uses
the gremishka’s initiative.Gremishkas are the vicious products of mistakes made by novice spellcasters seeking to create life. The results are cat-sized, magically unstable creatures with
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
Shapechanger. Baba Lysaga can use an action to polymorph into a swarm of insects (flies), or back into her true form. While in swarm form, she has a walking speed of 5 feet and a flying speed of 30
). Baba Lysaga summons 1d4;{"diceNotation":"1d4","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Summon Swarms of Insects"} swarm of insects;swarms of insects. A summoned swarm appears in an unoccupied space within 60
Monsters
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
","rollAction":"Feed on Death"} temporary hit points.Golgari shamans are the spiritual leaders of the Golgari Swarm. They teach the guild's beliefs about the cycles of nature, using their necromantic magic to
show how life sprouts from death.
Golgari shamans paint their faces so they appear to have extra eyes on their cheeks and chins. They sometimes use magical moodmark paint (described in chapter 5) to
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
":"Storm of Crows"}. The abhorrent overlord conjures a swarm of spectral crows and harpies in a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on a point the overlord can see within 120 feet of it. The sphere remains for 1
continue to flock around the demon, offering fealty and squabbling for scraps.
Some foul souls can't let go of the miserable lives they had. Having been despicable in life, these spirits fester in death
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Return to Worms. When the mage is reduced to 0 hit points, it breaks apart into a swarm of insects (see the Monster Manual) in the same space. Unless the swarm is destroyed, the mage reforms from it
planes of existence lie realms alien to mortal life. Some are so hostile that even a moment’s contact is enough to break a mortal’s mind. Yet beings do exist that are native to these
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
the target, or takes a bonus action to end the effect.
Children of the Night (1/Day). Keresta magically calls 2d4;{"diceNotation":"2d4","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Children of the Night"} swarm
of bats;swarms of bats or swarm of rats;rats, provided that the sun isn't up. While outdoors, Keresta can call 3d6;{"diceNotation":"3d6","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Children of the Night"} giant
Magic Items
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
, attack rolls, and saving throws. The creature will reach the end of its natural life span in 3d8 days. Only a wish spell or divine intervention can reverse this aging effect on the creature.
Three hags
. The iron cauldron has the following properties:
You can use an action to scream into the empty cauldron, which magically summons a swarm of bats that flies out of the cauldron and acts immediately
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
You are a member of a teeming horde — one small part of a sprawling organism. Just as you are part of the swarm, the swarm is part of a larger ecosystem, a never-ending cycle of life, death
stronger than members of other guilds, isolated as they are from the realities of life and death.
RYAN PANCOAST
Contacts
To the extent that the Golgari Swarm acts like a single organism
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Gremishka Gremishkas are the vicious products of mistakes made by novice spellcasters seeking to create life. The results are cat-sized, magically unstable creatures with a taste for the trappings of
magic—particularly spellbooks, spell components, familiars, and the like. Gremishkas delight in tormenting magic-users, holding vicious grudges against those who gave them life as they infest the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
, and then new life springs from that rot. Time inevitably passes, bringing both destruction and new creation to all things. The original mandate of the Golgari Swarm under the leadership of Svogthir
Golgari Swarm MILIVOJ CERAN A small crowd of pale elves and humans stepped into the light. Bits of bone and detritus woven into their matted hair clicked lightly. Their chitinous armor swarmed with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
Inside the Swarm The leadership of the Golgari has undergone several major changes, but the nature of the swarm makes it easily adaptable to the churn of continuous cycles. Being alive isn’t a
Jarad’s sister, Savra, took control of the guild before him. Various groups of people and monsters coexist within the swarm, their relative power waxing and waning with the years, and through it all
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
and smooth roads and sturdy construction. No one needs to go hungry in Ravnica, because the Golgari Swarm provides a bare minimum of sustenance to anyone who can’t afford better food, though it is best
, sporting events held in vast arenas, throwaway popular novels, and great works of literature. These things are shared by the city’s diverse peoples, who enjoy a life adorned by a variety of species
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
Golgari Creatures The Devkarin elves (drow), deadly medusas, and insectile kraul are the three most important power groups among the Golgari Swarm, vying for control over a teeming horde of lesser
. Inside were hundreds of well-preserved corpses suffused with a latent necromantic power that Mazirek activated, bringing the corpses back to a shambling semblance of life. This new race of undead is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
, Lazav, wears many faces. Golgari Swarm. An elf lich named Jarad guides the Golgari Swarm’s masses as they lurk in the undercity, where they process the city’s waste and see to the new life that
leadership of Prime Speaker Zegana, the biomancers of the Simic Combine apply magic to the life sciences. Striving to create a harmonious future where creatures of all kinds are perfectly adapted to their ever
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Expeditious Retreat
False Life
Feather Fall
Fog Cloud
Jump
Mage Armor
Magic Missile
Ray of Sickness
Shield
Silent Image
Sleep
Thunderwave
Witch Bolt
2nd Level Alter Self
Etherealness
Finger of Death
Fire Storm
Plane Shift
Prismatic Spray
Reverse Gravity
Teleport
8th Level Dominate Monster
Earthquake
Incendiary Cloud
Power Word Stun
Sunburst
9th Level Gate
Meteor Swarm
Power Word Kill
Time Stop
Wish
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
characters to have their heads magically reattached and their life restored at the leather works, through the advice of the control room brains or Kwalish’s notes. Similarly, you might have notes and
Grand Master’s cloak fly apart into its various faces during battle, attacking as a swarm of bats. Throne Gate. The Grand Master might have long ago figured out how to activate this gate. If things go
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Shocking Grasp
True Strike
1st Level
Burning Hands
Charm Person
Color Spray
Comprehend Languages
Detect Magic
Disguise Self
Expeditious Retreat
False Life
Feather Fall
Fog
Etherealness
Finger of Death
Fire Storm
Plane Shift
Prismatic Spray
Reverse Gravity
Teleport
8th Level
Dominate Monster
Earthquake
Incendiary Cloud
Power Word Stun
Sunburst
9th Level
Gate
Meteor Swarm
Power Word Kill
Time Stop
Wish
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hold Back The Dead
.
Shortbow. Ranged Attack Roll: +5, range 80/320 ft. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3) Piercing damage.
Swarm of Crawling Claws Medium Swarm of Tiny Undead, Neutral Evil
AC 12 Initiative +2 (12)
HP 49 (11d8)
Speed 30
ft.; Passive Perception 10
Languages Understands Common but can’t speak
CR 3 (XP 700; PB +2)
Traits
Swarm. The swarm can occupy another creature’s space and vice versa, and the swarm can move
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 9
Languages understands all languages it knew in life but can’t speak
Challenge 1/4 (50 XP)
Actions
Shortsword. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit
its movement. It does so after it drains 10 hit points of blood from the target or the target dies. A creature, including the target, can use its action to detach the stirge.
Swarm of Bats
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Baba Lysaga Two women gave life to Strahd von Zarovich. The first was Queen Ravenovia van Roeyen, Strahd’s biological mother. The second was the queen’s midwife, a devout follower of Mother Night
she delivered into the world. Strahd is the only thing in her life that matters to her. Mother Nearest. During her exile, Baba Lysaga made countless sacrifices to Mother Night, pleading with the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
)
Maximilian’s earthen grasp (transmutation)
Mind spike (divination)
Pyrotechnics (transmutation)
Shadow blade (illusion)
Skywrite (transmutation, ritual)
Snilloc’s snowball swarm (evocation
)
Warding wind (evocation)
3rd Level
Catnap (enchantment)
Enemies abound (enchantment)
Erupting earth (transmutation)
Flame arrows (transmutation)
Life transference (necromancy)
Melf’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
throats the next. Pharika encourages her followers to seek balance in administering their “cures,” spreading afflictions to counteract excessive prosperity at least as often as they provide life
Villain
1 A druid seeds deadly herbs into a village’s fields, coaxing the plants to resemble farmers’ crops.
2 The life of a tyrant (knight) is central to one of Pharika’s experiments in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
, spiders, or snakes swarm in unimaginable numbers.
7 Earthquakes shake the ground with increasing frequency and strength.
8 A warning message in countless languages appears all over a
convey the same warning in unison.
Bruce Brenneise A bruised-purple sky and a
swarm of hornets herald
the coming apocalypse
Warnings could also be natural (or supernatural) indicators
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
life-sized stone monument carved in the likeness of a kneeling peasant girl clutching a rose. Although her features are gray and weatherworn, she bears a striking resemblance to Ireena Kolyana
them immunity to the charmed and frightened conditions. When a corpse is reduced to 0 hit points, it splits open, disgorging a swarm of poisonous snakes. The snakes are hungry and fight until slain. Characters can take the treasure and flee, easily outpacing the snake-swollen corpses.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Shocking Grasp
True Strike
1st Level
Alarm
Burning Hands
Charm Person
Color Spray
Comprehend Languages
Detect Magic
Disguise Self
Expeditious Retreat
False Life
Feather Fall
Projection
Foresight
Gate
Imprisonment
Meteor Swarm
Power Word Kill
Prismatic Wall
Shapechange
Time Stop
True Polymorph
Weird
Wish
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Beneath the Waves Schools of silvery fish swarm around the characters as they descend through the first few hundred feet of the Nightsea. Life in the sunlight zone begins to thin as the water changes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
duergar in a keelboat 4 1 green hag 5 1 grell 6–7 1d6 + 2 ixitxachitl (see appendix C) 8 1d4 kuo-toa in a keelboat 9 1d4 merrow 10 3d6 stirges 11 1 swarm of quippers 12 1 water weird Aquatic Troll An
). Green Hag Nanny Plunk is a green hag who likes to taunt and lead travelers astray. She might instead bargain with the characters with her knowledge of the Darklake, especially if her life or freedom is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
is permanent, but defacing any part of its inscribed length renders it nonmagical. 22b. Ezzat’s Spellbook Statue. A shallow alcove holds a 6-foot-tall painted statue of Ezzat as he appeared in life. A
, flesh to stone, geas, hold person, ice storm, imprisonment, knock, levitate, magic mouth, maze, meteor swarm, mislead, plane shift, prismatic wall, remove curse, telekinesis, true polymorph, unseen servant, wall of force, and web.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
the characters can collect spell components for Professor Lang. A swarm of poisonous snakes nests on this island. It attacks when a character sets foot on this islet, though the snakes disperse and
flee if the swarm is reduced to 5 hit points or fewer. S7. Underwater Spring A steady, burbling flow of water disturbs the surface of the swamp just to the north of this small islet.
An underground
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
spires of cathedrals and meditate in gardens and greenbelts. They are part of the city, contributing to its vibrant life and sprawling growth while ensuring it never strays too far from its roots in
sometimes called the elves of shadow. They are closely connected to the Golgari Swarm, and because they generally live underground, they share other dark elves’ sensitivity to sunlight. Unlike the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Giant Runes (Area J2) Dod (Death Rune)
Fjell (Mountain Rune)
Krig (War Rune)
Liv (Life Rune)
Vind (Wind Rune)
Wyrm (Dragon Rune)
J3. Curved Tunnel There is nothing remarkable
north wall, above the chest. Any creature that passes through this doorway is teleported to an unoccupied space within Jarlmoot’s circle of thrones. A swarm of ravens then descends upon that creature
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Evocation M Color Spray Illusion — Comprehend Languages Divination R Detect Magic Divination C, R Disguise Self Illusion — Expeditious Retreat Transmutation C False Life Necromancy – Feather Fall
Sorcerer Spells Spell School Special Gate Conjuration C, M Meteor Swarm Evocation — Power Word Kill Enchantment — Time Stop Transmutation — Wish Conjuration —
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Evocation M Color Spray Illusion — Comprehend Languages Divination R Detect Magic Divination C, R Disguise Self Illusion — Expeditious Retreat Transmutation C False Life Necromancy – Feather Fall
Sorcerer Spells Spell School Special Gate Conjuration C, M Meteor Swarm Evocation — Power Word Kill Enchantment — Time Stop Transmutation — Wish Conjuration —
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
kobold dragonshield is a champion of its race. Almost all dragonshields begin life as normal kobolds, then are chosen by a dragon and invested with great powers for the purpose of protecting the
small basket into a 5-foot-square space within 20 feet of it. A swarm of insects (centipedes) with 11 hit points emerges from the basket and rolls initiative. At the end of each of the swarm’s turns