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Eberron: Rising from the Last War
places where such creatures are willing to live side by side.
Some beholderkin serve Belashyrra as guards and agents, while others spend their lives in deep meditation, pursuing inner visions known only
madness. Each creature it can see within its lair must succeed on a DC 22 Wisdom saving throw or be charmed for 1 minute. While charmed in this way, a creature must use its action at the start of its turn
Graz'zt
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Out of the Abyss
spells, requiring no material components:
At will: charm person, crown of madness, detect magic, dispel magic, dissonant whispers
3/day each: counterspell, darkness, dominate person, sanctuary
reaction to move up to its speed as Graz’zt directs.
Sow Discord. Graz’zt casts crown of madness or dissonant whispers.
Teleport. Graz’zt uses his Teleport action.The appearance of the
Monsters
Acquisitions Incorporated
. Splugoth can take the Disengage or Hide action as a bonus action on each of his turns.
Touch of Madness. Splugoth has advantage on saving throws against being charmed or frightened.Multiattack. Splugoth
you get taken prisoner by a group of sociopathic adventurers who end up letting you die after you save their sorry lives. One minute, you’re a dead goblin named Splug. And then you’re alive
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
, crown of madness, suggestion
Insatiable Greed. The abhorrent overlord can sense the presence of gold within 1,000 feet of itself. It can determine which location has the greatest amount of gold and
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
Bugbear
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individuals in a group typically number fewer than a dozen, consisting of siblings and their mates as well as a handful of offspring and an elder or two. A gang lives in and around a small enclosure
in a cowardly fashion; a bugbear that knows or feels itself to be in mortal danger is affected by a form of madness and will do anything, including trying to flee, in order to stay alive. Bugbears
Monsters
Ghosts of Saltmarsh
the kraken’s next turn.Hidden in a deep, dark underwater pit near the Styes, this creature bears the mark of the dark god Tharizdun’s madness. Becoming more independent every day, it
dreams of freeing itself from its aboleth tenders and wreaking its own foul will upon the seas.A Kraken’s Lair
A kraken lives in dark depths, usually a sunken rift or a cavern filled with detritus
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
encounter is equivalent to taking on two challenge rating 21 creatures in one encounter. Award a party 66,000 XP for defeating Arasta after she uses Armor of Spiders.Arasta’s Lair
Arasta lives
beyond the branches of the tree and carpet the forest floor of her realm.
Path to the Underworld. Tales are told of forlorn souls who, because of grief or madness over the loss of a loved one, have
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
their previous lives, and their alignment changes to lawful evil. If a character pleased Zariel with their loyalty in life, she might allow them to keep their memories as she promotes them to an NPC
tragedy shatters the hollyphant’s mind, leaving Lulu insane. Roll or choose the specific effects of her madness from the Long-Term Madness table in chapter 8 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide, but this madness can be overcome only by a greater restoration spell or similar magic.
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
to madness and corruption, thus becoming the very evils they are sworn to fight. Gatekeeper NPCs d4 NPC 1 The spirit of a long-dead Gatekeeper lives on in the body of an ancient toad. It speaks
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Madness of Graz’zt If a creature goes mad in Graz’zt’s lair or within line of sight of the demon lord, roll on the Madness of Graz’zt table to determine the nature of the madness, which is a
character flaw that lasts until cured. See the Dungeon Master’s Guide for more on madness. d100 Flaw (lasts until cured) 01–20 “There is nothing in the world more important than me and my desires.” 21–40
Orc
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the world. For no matter how thick its walls, skilled its archers, or brave its knights, few settlements have ever withstood a full-scale onslaught of orcs.
Every soldier who lives through a fight
represents both life and the grave. It is her worshipers that raise young orcs to be warriors, and then, at the end of their lives, take them to Yurtrus and Shargaas to be carried into death and the
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Gatekeepers put the dragon’s teaching to the test, creating magical seals that bound the daelkyr in the depths of Khyber and protected Eberron against further incursion from the plane of madness
. Three prominent groups of orcs have survived into the present age: The Ghaash’kala are servants of the Silver Flame (which they call Kalok Shash, the “binding flame”), who devote their lives to battling
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Chapter 9: Mantol-Derith Mantol-Derith has endured for centuries as a neutral outpost where drow, duergar, svirfneblin, and surface dwellers can meet and trade without fearing for their lives
outpost’s various factions against one another. The characters must navigate and overcome the madness dominating Mantol-Derith in order to find their Zhentarim contact, Ghazrim DuLoc. He has the means
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
, experiencing little or no change in their lives until recently. Now their world is being altered faster than many of the fungus folk can keep up with — as is their world view, twisted by the chaotic
. Myconids don’t speak. They communicate telepathically by emitting their rapport spores. As a result, they live quiet lives. Strange music and singing echoes from the large cavern behind the grove, just loud
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
emotion and deep faith. The Ghaash’kala orcs of the Demon Wastes are servants of the Silver Flame who devote their lives to battling the fiends of the Wastes. The Gatekeeper druids of the Shadow
seals and fight aberrations. However, many orcs were corrupted by the daelkyr and embraced the madness of the Cults of the Dragon Below. These cultists also live in the Shadow Marches, and battles between
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
up residence in isolated towers or strongholds, exhibiting ever more eccentric behavior as time goes on. Some say this is a mark of madness brought on by delving too deeply into arcane lore, but they
never say it too loudly anywhere a wizard might overhear. The greatest wizards of the Realms find means of extending their lives far beyond the span of any race except the elves. Archwizards may be
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
dedication to evil. An elemental priest protects and guides the common people, using elemental magic to better their lives. An elemental cultist demands abasement, sacrifice, and obedience. The element
— at least until the cruelty and madness of its adherents make its true nature obvious to all. In an Athasian version of the Elemental Evil campaign, the prophets first appear as especially charismatic
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
their lives: the calassabrak, meaning “the flawed who aren’t to be trusted” in Dwarvish. They are shunned by other duergar, many eventually taking their lives rather than face an existence apart from
Empty-Scabbard Killers include a significant number of calassabrak, no longer bound by oath, honor, and duty. THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL
The madness of the demon lords has not reached Gracklstugh in full
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
with fang-filled mouths. Any creature that beholds the statue in any of its forms must succeed on a DC 14 Wisdom saving throw or gain a random form of short-term madness (determined by rolling on the
Short-Term Madness table in chapter 8 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide). Whether a creature succeeds or fails on the saving throw, it can’t be affected by the statue again. A character who sees the
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
to their king. Everyone who touched the idol became afflicted with madness, including the king, who decreed that a sacrificial ritual be performed to open a gateway to the Abyss. The ocean turned red
, fighting for their lives as the Abyss warped them completely, transforming them into hulking, evil monstrosities. Thus, the first merrow were born. Coastal Bullies. Whenever an opportunity presents
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
several days now, instead sending a representative (see “The Circle of Masters” in area 5). Times in Neverlight Grove are strange and worrisome indeed. ROLEPLAYING THE MYCONIDS
Myconids lead lives
and morality, their lives centered on living fully each day and worrying little about the future and nothing at all about the past. Despite the communal nature of their existence, they are individuals
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
rest of her family, but she can sense that her mind is slowly being eroded by contact with the Far Realm. Fearing that her descent into madness is inevitable, she lives in a state of self-imposed
whenever she leaves their suite, fearing that she will come to harm without his protection. He lives in constant fear that adventurers might invade Shadowdusk Hold and lay waste to it. Prolonged exposure
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Daelkyr The daelkyr are the lords of madness and the emissaries of Xoriat, who invaded Eberron with a host of mind flayers, beholders, and other foul aberrations. Wherever they walked, the daelkyr
reshaped the world in their image, sowing madness and creating monsters. They fused goblins together to create the gibbering dolgrims and crafted the blind dolgaunts from hobgoblin stock. The goblinoid
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
alarmed by this, his efforts to complete the spell growing more crazed as he realizes he’s lost control.
And then, madness! Rifts open in the web of energy around him. These cracks stretch and widen
, 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
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
beyond. These claims are usually dismissed as madness, but they are in fact correct. The Chamber is a cabal of dragons that have monitored Khorvaire for thousands of years, treating humanoids as
Prophecy and the defeat of the Lords of Dust. The Chamber and the War The lives of humanoids and the welfare of their nations mean little to the ancient dragons. A member of the Chamber who is friendly
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Master of Cruelties When a master of cruelties steps up as ringleader of a Rakdos show, the audience can be assured of a performance they will remember for the rest of their lives — however brief
no material components:
At will: charm person (as a 3rd-level spell), crown of madness
1/day: dominate person
Magic Resistance. The master has advantage on saving throws against spells and other
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
body, killing it. Yet the mind lives on in the puddle of liquid that issues forth from the remains, and so too does the subject’s insatiable need for retribution. Stealthy Assassins. A slithering
. Descent into Madness. Achieving revenge against its target doesn’t end a slithering tracker’s existence, nor its hunger for blood. Some slithering trackers remain aware of their purpose and extend
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
. Donjon (King of Clubs) Search for a troubled young man surrounded by wealth and madness. His home is his prison.
This card refers to Victor Vallakovich (see chapter 5, area N3t). Realizing that the
dead father’s house. Curing her madness is key to your success.
This card refers to Stella Wachter (see chapter 5, area N4n). She grants the party no benefit unless her madness is cured. With her wits
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Garoknul leaves the area or dies, proceed with event 3. Event 3. Madness Reigns This event begins as the previous one ends. Read the following boxed text to the players: Five guards wielding spears advance
energy. A guard’s madness can be cured with a dispel evil and good, greater restoration, or remove curse spell. Guards who are cured of their madness thank the characters and explain that they were
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
fewer than a dozen, consisting of siblings and their mates as well as a handful of offspring and an elder or two. A gang lives in and around a small enclosure, often a natural cave or an old bear den
danger is affected by a form of madness and will do anything, including trying to flee, in order to stay alive. Bugbears believe that this feeling of fear comes from being possessed by Skiggaret, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
of subdued madness in them with a successful DC 15 Wisdom (Insight) check. (The obelisk was created by Halaster and sounds just like him.) The obelisk’s “vision” refers to the secret passage at area
lives. 28d. Concealed Spiked Pit The 10-foot-square section of floor at the end of this tunnel doubles as the lid of a 30-foot-deep pit with stone spikes at the bottom. Any creature weighing 50 pounds
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Converted Windmill: Autumn This old stone windmill was converted into a residence over a century ago and has fallen into disrepair. An eccentric Waterdavian artist lives here, and she hasn’t been the
onset of madness. Now she locks herself away, content to let time erode the last of her conscience. She always saw Dagult and Waterdeep as one and the same, and now they are both her mortal enemies
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
lives, like busybodies with cruel intentions. Any time a hag agrees to help someone, the bargain includes a price to be paid, plus a hidden plan by which she sets the mortal up to fail, or a way that
Ideal 1 Change. I will metamorphose into every kind of hag and live a century as each, becoming something even greater in the end. (Chaotic) 2 Community. Loneliness is the path to madness. That is why
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
good side will help the party in the long term. In truth, he is attempting to deliver the adventurers to Zuggtmoy. Phylo goes on about how “the Great Seeder” who lives beyond the garden can answer any
Phylo’s madness. However, the sovereign dodges any question about who the Great Seeder actually is, saying it is important for the characters to experience her first hand. Sovereign Basidia. A
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
lives in an enormous, gnarled olive tree called Enorasi, which was planted millennia ago by Klothys. It is said that those who eat of its fruit can see glimpses of the future. Eating the fruit brings
beyond the branches of the tree and carpet the forest floor of her realm. Path to the Underworld. Tales are told of forlorn souls who, because of grief or madness over the loss of a loved one, have sought






