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Species
Player’s Handbook
, including worlds in the Material Plane.
Elves have pointed ears and lack facial and body hair. They live for around 750 years, and they don’t sleep but instead enter a trance when they need
magic of primeval forests within themselves. They are known by many other names, including wild elves, green elves, and forest elves. Grugach are reclusive wood elves of the Greyhawk setting, while
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
looks like an oversized, four-armed ape with grayish-tan skin and white fur. Its vicious fangs and claws reveal it to be a monstrous predator.
Girallons are most common in temperate or warm forest
forests and jungles, seem to attract girallons. They see a city’s buildings as a superior sort of forest whose uppermost “branches” can safely support them. The creatures can easily
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Decay
While generally not malicious, topaz dragons embody decay. They view destruction as a natural means of clearing the way for new creation and growth, much as a forest fire clears dead wood
, replenishes the soil, and allows the forest to regrow even healthier than before. To this end, topaz dragons use their power to reduce crumbling structures and diseased plants to dust, clearing the way
Elf
Legacy
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Species
Basic Rules (2014)
have been known to retreat from intrusions into their woodland homes, confident that they can simply wait the invaders out. But when the need arises, elves reveal a stern martial side, demonstrating
skill with sword, bow, and strategy.
Hidden Woodland Realms
Most elves dwell in small forest villages hidden among the trees. Elves hunt game, gather food, and grow vegetables, and their skill and
Firbolg
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
of friendship with them, as long as the outsiders vow to safeguard the forest. If the settlers clearly display evil intentions, however, the firbolgs martial their strength and magic for a single
We spent three months tracking the green dragon before locating the forest in which it sought refuge. On our second day in that place, we woke to find the dragon’s head placed in the center
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Weapon Proficiency Your race, class, and feats can grant you proficiency with certain weapons or categories of weapons. The two categories are simple and martial. Most people can use simple weapons
with proficiency. These weapons include clubs, maces, and other weapons often found in the hands of commoners. Martial weapons, including swords, axes, and polearms, require more specialized training
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Weapon Proficiency Your race, class, and feats can grant you proficiency with certain weapons or categories of weapons. The two categories are simple and martial. Most people can use simple weapons
with proficiency. These weapons include clubs, maces, and other weapons often found in the hands of commoners. Martial weapons, including swords, axes, and polearms, require more specialized training
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
can touch one weapon, focus your ki on it, and then count that weapon as a monk weapon until you use this feature again. The chosen weapon must meet these criteria: The weapon must be a simple or martial weapon. You must be proficient with it. It must lack the heavy and special properties.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
be the finest in Khorvaire, but they lack the magical support of Aundair or Thrane, which evened the odds during the Last War. Nonetheless, Karrns are proud of their martial history, and most are
Karrnath Capital: Korth Hallmarks: Ale, dairy, glass, livestock, lumber, martial discipline, paper, textiles, undead In a nation of storms and long winters, the grim and stoic Karrns are accustomed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Kobolds Tricksters and Servants to Chromatic Dragons Habitat: Arctic, Coastal, Desert, Forest, Hill, Mountain, Swamp, Underdark, Urban; Treasure: Armaments Cowardly cousins to chromatic dragons
dragons, what they lack in ferocity they make up for in zeal and ingenuity. They are especially adept at creating traps and setting ambushes. Kobolds’ scales resemble those of chromatic dragons that live
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
Karrnath Capital: Korth Noted for Ale, dairy, glass, livestock, lumber, paper, textiles; undead, martial discipline The people of Karrnath are stoic and grim. Karrnath is a nation of storms and long
Karrnath. While Karrnath’s soldiers may be the finest in the Five Nations, they lack the magical support of Aundair or Thrane, which evened the odds during the Last War. Nonetheless, Karrns are proud of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
of friendship with them, as long as the outsiders vow to safeguard the forest. If the settlers clearly display evil intentions, however, the firbolgs martial their strength and magic for a single overwhelming attack.
according to its own laws. Firbolgs use their magic to keep their presence in a forest secret. This approach allows them to avoid the politics and struggles of elves, humans, and orcs. Such events concern the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
Nightwood is a massive forest with a close tie to the Plane of Mabar. Monsters and undead sometimes slip out of the Nightwood to threaten the surrounding regions. The laws of Karrnath are harsher than those
of the other Five Nations, closer to a state of martial law. King Kaius III is a strong proponent of peace, but many of the local warlords are certain Karrnath could and should unite Galifar, and there are whispers of a coup.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
temperate or warm forest environments abundant with life. They share apes’ adeptness at climbing, although few trees can support the weight of these half-ton creatures. The ruins of cities, especially those
found in deep forests and jungles, seem to attract girallons. They see a city’s buildings as a superior sort of forest whose uppermost “branches” can safely support them. The creatures can easily
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
, which is regimented from day to day but constantly changing over decades, so they find careers that let them travel freely and set their own pace. Elves also enjoy exercising their martial prowess or
. “Dwarves are dull, clumsy oafs. But what they lack in humor, sophistication, and manners, they make up in valor. And I must admit, their best smiths produce art that approaches elven quality.”
Halflings
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
, which is regimented from day to day but constantly changing over decades, so they find careers that let them travel freely and set their own pace. Elves also enjoy exercising their martial prowess or
. “Dwarves are dull, clumsy oafs. But what they lack in humor, sophistication, and manners, they make up in valor. And I must admit, their best smiths produce art that approaches elven quality.”
Halflings
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
the might of Riedra: the mountain refuge of Adar, homeland of the kalashtar (see chapter 1). The Adarans lack the numbers to challenge Riedra, yet they hold their fortress monasteries against endless waves of Riedran assaults. The Adarans possess remarkable psychic and martial disciplines.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
Monk If a monk uses a staff or another versatile weapon two-handed, does it still count as a monk weapon? Yes. A monk weapon must lack the two-handed property, but nothing prevents a monk from
. Why is that? Starting equipment often lends versatility to a character. In this case, a monk’s darts provide a ranged attack option, not a Martial Arts option. Does the Martial Arts feature turn monk
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Hobgoblins Conquerors of Every Horizon Habitat: Desert, Forest, Grassland, Hill, Mountain, Planar (Acheron), Underdark; Treasure: Armaments, Individual Taras Susak A hobgoblin warlord oversees a
territories and plunder the wilds. In groups, they form hierarchical, martial societies bent on conquering lands and stripping them of resources to serve their expansionist zeal. Hobgoblins often
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
direction of the Cloakwood, an ancient forest located near the Coast Way that leads north to the city of Baldur’s Gate: A character who succeeds on a DC 14 Wisdom (Medicine) check can tell that the
Avowed acolytes slain during the attack were killed using martial arts. Their bruises and broken bones are evidence of powerful unarmed strikes. Speak with dead spells cast on the slain acolytes yield
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Goblins Wild Tricksters and Troublemakers Habitat: Forest, Grassland, Hill, Planar (Acheron, Feywild), Underdark; Treasure: Implements, Individual Taras Susak A goblin boss, a goblin hexer, and a
. Since then, hordes of these more martial-minded goblins have flourished, with some finding their ways to Material Plane worlds. These vicious invaders seek to sow ruin in preparation for their god’s conquest. Bree-yark!
—Approximate translation from Goblin to Common: “Hey, rube!”
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
., one target. Hit: 7 (1d6 + 4) slashing damage.
Forest Hunters. Girallons are most common in temperate or warm forest environments abundant with life. They share the ape’s adeptness at climbing
, although these half-ton creatures shy away from scaling trees that can’t support their bulk. Instead, they stalk the forest floor, lurk in narrow ravines or shallow caves, or hide in ruined sites while
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
forest gnomes, and rubies turned into the deep gnomes. Since the time of their creation, gnomes have settled in hidden places away from other races, concerned that their way of life couldn’t survive
as a people. Gnomes are regularly underestimated, and they use that lack of esteem as both a defense and an offense, when need be. Like dwarves, gnomes have long battled for territory with kobolds
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
laws of Karrnath are harsher than those in other treaty nations, approaching a state of martial law. Karrnathi Characters Karrns are somber folk and disapprove of extravagance or excessive shows of
for any character. Criminals and charlatans have a difficult time evading the harsh laws of Karrnath. The Martial Adept feat can give a character a strong sense of military experience.
Martial
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
the characters’ lack of diplomacy and does not aid them in future battles. However, if he doesn’t have to, he appreciates the characters’ respect for the creatures of the forest and aids the party in
Falls Clearing As the characters approach the series of waterfalls, read the following description: A gradually increasing roar drowns out the rain forest sounds long before the river turns
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
wild mages, even if your own powers are different. Key Your spellbook manifests as a deck of cards. Knight Your family of renowned warriors judges you on your martial talents (or lack thereof). Moon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
People of Akros For most of Akros’s neighbors, the term “Akroan” evokes legendary warriors, trained from birth in every martial discipline known to humankind. It brings to mind songs of tight-knit
martial bands, holding strong in the face of unbeatable odds. It sings of a great yearly competition that crowns the preeminent warrior-athlete in Akros, and—by extension—the world. The majority of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Sprite In secret groves and shaded glens, tiny sprites with dragonfly wings flutter. For all their fey splendor, however, sprites lack warmth and compassion. They are aggressive and hardy warriors
.”
— Tale of a half-orc ranger
Forest Protectors. Sprites build little villages in the boughs of trees and willing treants, in verdant glades brightened by moss, wild flowers, and toadstools. Wild
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
.”
Bak Mei doesn’t hesitate to kill. He attacks ferociously and chides the characters for their lack of martial refinement. When he’s near death and victory for his order looks unlikely, he begs for
L5. Jagged Sanctum This stone structure rises ominously above the rest of the temple complex. It resembles a giant stone flower growing in the heart of the forest. Stone steps draped with a long red
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
, warmongering fire giants and the merciless, predatory frost giants. Fire giants rank themselves by their forging skill, whereas frost giants rank themselves by their martial prowess. Near the bottom of the
, their ambitions have long been curtailed by their lack of cohesion and the imposition of good-aligned storm giants and cloud giants whose memories of ancient, glorious Ostoria have faded over time
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
evil Bone March, the — Fallen territory of the Great Kingdom, now held by armies from Almor and Nyrond Celadon Forest — Ancient forest protected by druidic circles and fey Flinty Hills and Gamboge Forest
. Having claimed their position of power through conquest, they put great emphasis on military power and martial skill. These values persist throughout the region, reinforced in the Great Kingdom by strict
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
worlds in the Material Plane. Elves have pointed ears and lack facial and body hair. They live for around 750 years, and they don’t sleep but instead enter a trance when they need to rest. In that state
themselves. They are known by many other names, including wild elves, green elves, and forest elves. Grugach are reclusive wood elves of the Greyhawk setting, while the Kagonesti and the Tairnadal are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
combat erupts, the entire den goes on alert. As a consequence, adventurers might find themselves fighting several encounters’ worth of creatures at once. Grudd Haug’s defenders lack a cohesive defense
shares of the spoils. The Iceshield orcs haunt the hills and grasslands north of Grudd Haug, near the western edge of the High Forest, and have forged a tenuous alliance with Guh. They are the least
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Guardian Naga Enduring Serpentine Lore Keeper Habitat: Desert, Forest, Planar (Upper Planes); Treasure: Relics Alejandro Pacheco Guardian nagas are immortal, serpentine scholars that possess perfect
Watch watches all.
—Volothamp Geddarm, legendary explorer
Guard Guards are perceptive, but most have little martial training. They might be bouncers, lookouts, members of a city watch, or other
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
lie within reach. In the wilderness, they dwell in stagnant swamps, scum-filled ponds, and damp forest dells. The scent of graveyards, city sewers, village middens, and manure-filled animal pens
attracts them to civilized areas.
Since otyughs lack concern for anything but food, their nests sometimes accumulate a variety of treasures shed from their victims and mixed among the junk.
Symbiotic