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Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
much damage on a successful one.No ordinary ballista, an oaken bolter is a Construct capable of striking at long distances. The bolts it launches can rend flesh, destroy armor, or drag enemies toward
traps or melee-oriented clockworks—and at shorter ranges, burst with explosive force.
Clockworks
Gnomes’ tinkering with magic and mechanical devices has produced many failed Constructs
Monsters
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
the first inhabitants of the Nine Hells, predating even the arrival of Asmodeus, the plane’s foremost ruler. Long-lived devils and occult sages theorize Zargon and its kind were invaders from
Hells in disgust, banishing the elder evil to the Material Plane. The horn was driven deep into the earth where it fell, entombing Zargon below.
Eventually a civilization arose above Zargon’s
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
, oddities, and castoffs of the multiverse in a massive, ever-growing collection.
The first morkoths arose in the Astral Plane when the petrified body of a deity of greed and strife collided with a
being watched, even when they aren’t.
Lost Possessions. Each time a creature that has been on the island for less than a year finishes a short or long rest, it must make a DC 10 Intelligence
Equipment
This large flail has a long shaft connected to a shorter piece of stout wood or metal that’s sometimes inlaid with spikes.
This weapon has the following mastery property. To use this
Human
Legacy
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Species
Basic Rules (2014)
These were the stories of a restless people who long ago took to the seas and rivers in longboats, first to pillage and terrorize, then to settle. Yet there was an energy, a love of adventure, that
sang from every page. Long into the night Liriel read, lighting candle after precious candle.
She’d never given much thought to humans, but these stories fascinated her. In these yellowed
monsters
minute, it succeeds automatically.Curious and self-confident, young spirit dragons can cause trouble for a region’s other denizens, by either unleashing long-buried evils or misusing scarcely
it arose. Spirit dragons share an innate intellectual curiosity, and many have a deep appreciation for the culture and art of humanoid societies.
Spirit dragons find even the most commonplace
Elf
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Species
Basic Rules (2014)
of many other races. They are slightly shorter than humans on average, ranging from well under 5 feet tall to just over 6 feet. They are more slender than humans, weighing only 100 to 145 pounds
enjoy simple yet lovely jewelry.
A Timeless Perspective
Elves can live well over 700 years, giving them a broad perspective on events that might trouble the shorter-lived races more deeply. They are
Dwarf
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Basic Rules (2014)
friend. In spite of the added discomfort, the dwarf’s long, pointed, often-broken nose and gray-streaked though still-fiery red beard came as a welcome sight to Drizzt. “Knew I’d find
common shades are light brown or deep tan, like certain tones of earth. Their hair, worn long but in simple styles, is usually black, gray, or brown, though paler dwarves often have red hair. Male
Bugbear
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
, bugbears are ambush predators accustomed to long periods of inactivity broken by short bursts of murderous energy. Ferocious though they may be, bugbears aren’t built for extended periods of exertion
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
Species
Acquisitions Incorporated
.
Reality is a descent into chaos punctuated by brief flashes of order, whence we arose and so imagine it to be the norm rather than a distant outlier. That-Which-Endures held entropy back for a mere instant
little interest in what people say about it.
Ongoing Mutations
Because the verdan have not dwelled long in the world, they are still discovering new things about themselves. Chief among these
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Island Size These rules are used to generate islands with areas roughly 1d6 miles long and 1d6 miles wide. Most islands aren’t perfect rectangles, and most coastlines aren’t perfectly straight, so feel free to make areas of the island shorter, longer, thinner, or wider as you see fit.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
themselves with worldly affairs. As most monastic orders in Faerûn arose from human nations, the majority of monks in those communities tend to be human. Monasteries have long been sanctuaries for foundlings and outcasts of various sorts, so nonhuman monks are not unheard of.
earliest monastic orders in Faerûn arose in the southern lands of Amn and Calimshan, their practices migrating north and east at the same time similar practices filtered westward from distant Kara-Tur
Orc
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
relieved of their other roles and taken to the lair’s whelping pens, where they are tended to by Luthic’s followers.
Orcs don’t take mates, and no pair-bonding occurs in a tribe
warriors go on their raids are weaker than their tribe mates or otherwise not suited for a life of battle. Worshipers of Luthic fall into this category, as do some of those that revere Yurtrus or Shargaas
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
been unable to find it due to an illusion placed by a long-dead mage. Vicious and hot-tempered, the gnolls have little patience for those who interrupt their search. You can add monsters to the cave
to make this scenario longer and more difficult. One or more Bugbear Warriors might have formed a tenuous alliance with the gnolls. Conversely, you can reduce the number of Gnoll Warriors to make the scenario easier and shorter.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
companion—for now. Cindertooth tolerates Oggdug so long as the ogre supplies him with gold and spoils for his growing hoard. Player characters might hire the ogre for a short time. You can add monsters
Wyrmling to make the scenario easier and shorter. Cindertooth might be away when the characters first explore this cave.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
how they go about it. Some of her mates form marauding gangs. Others set out on their own, pillaging the countryside for anything edible. Farmers who live downriver from Grudd Haug have suffered the
most from the giants’ depredations. The first inkling of trouble was a sudden drop in the river’s water level, caused by the dam-like structure of the hill giant den. Not long thereafter, Guh’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
within the last 8 hours, but everything that occurred before then is lost in a haze and soon forgotten. All their memories of the surface world and its inhabitants faded long ago. The stone giants are
, Gravillok and Speleosa, are mates. They have four adult children: two sons, Qurrok and Rhodos, and two daughters, Obsidia and Xorta.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Half-Dragon When a dragon in polymorphed form mates with another creature, the union sometimes produces half-dragon offspring. A creature might also transform into a half-dragon as a result of a mad
offspring. Those that wish to propagate must find other ways to do so, almost always involving magic. By way of compensation, half-dragons are blessed with long life. Barring unforeseen misfortune, a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
. Once you cast either spell, you can’t cast it again with this trait until you finish a short or long rest. When you use this version of disguise self, you can seem up to 3 feet shorter than normal
the fey, firbolg have long lifespans. A firbolg reaches adulthood around 30, and the oldest of them can live for 500 years. Size. Firbolg are between 7 and 8 feet tall and weigh between 240 and 300
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Long Memory, Long Grudges Dwarves can live to be more than 400 years old, so the oldest living dwarves often remember a very different world. For example, some of the oldest dwarves living in Citadel
longevity grants them a perspective on the world that shorter-lived races such as humans and halflings lack. Dwarves are solid and enduring like the mountains they love, weathering the passage of centuries
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Human These were the stories of a restless people who long ago took to the seas and rivers in longboats, first to pillage and terrorize, then to settle. Yet there was an energy, a love of adventure
, that sang from every page. Long into the night Liriel read, lighting candle after precious candle.
She’d never given much thought to humans, but these stories fascinated her. In these yellowed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Long Memory, Long Grudges Dwarves can live to be more than 400 years old, so the oldest living dwarves often remember a very different world. For example, some of the oldest dwarves living in Citadel
longevity grants them a perspective on the world that shorter-lived races such as humans and halflings lack. Dwarves are solid and enduring like the mountains they love, weathering the passage of centuries
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Human These were the stories of a restless people who long ago took to the seas and rivers in longboats, first to pillage and terrorize, then to settle. Yet there was an energy, a love of adventure
, that sang from every page. Long into the night Liriel read, lighting candle after precious candle.
She’d never given much thought to humans, but these stories fascinated her. In these yellowed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
detect magic and disguise self spells with this trait. When you use this version of disguise self, you can seem up to 3 feet shorter or taller. Once you cast either of these spells with this trait, you
can’t cast that spell with it again until you finish a long rest. You can also cast these spells using any spell slots you have. Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
Location Overview Axeholm is a dwarven fortress carved into the base of a mountain fifteen miles south of Phandalin. The site was abandoned and sealed up long years ago after being haunted by a
filling Axeholm’s halls with deathly wails, the dwarves abandoned their stronghold, but not before several dwarves slain by the banshee arose as ghouls to feed on their kin. Ghouls and other creatures
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
hellscape it is today, Spellix Romwod was traveling through the mountain pass with a small caravan when it was caught in an avalanche. The goblins who triggered the avalanche captured Spellix’s mates and
, which means “Ever-Gnawing” in Goblin. Spellix was repulsed by the goblins’ squalor and took pity on them. Abandoning all concern for his former mates, whom he didn’t particularly like anyway, Spellix
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
shorter-lived races. You might not be as concerned with history and tradition as the Aereni and Tairnadal; you could even live your life entirely in the moment, with no care for your family or your
that might affect you. Did you know the parents or grandparents of another member of your party? Are you trying to repay a debt or fulfill a promise to that long-dead friend, or are you trying to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
as with the child of a wealthy business owner or an heir to a noble throne, your lineage and breeding demand respect, and it’s your job to make sure your franchise mates understand that. Your success
element of unpredictability is the best means of keeping your franchise one step ahead of the competition — and nobody brings unpredictability like you do. Business plans and long-term strategies are all
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
into amorphous servants. No one knows Zargon’s true origin. The creature was one of the first inhabitants of the Nine Hells, predating even the arrival of Asmodeus, the plane’s foremost ruler. Long
. Eventually a civilization arose above Zargon’s prison. The elder evil whispered through dreams and nightmares to the people of Cynidicea, the realm’s capital, until one day, a crew of Cynidiceans
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
.
Filthriddens is contained within a cave roughly 100 feet long and 60 feet wide. The characters enter from a natural tunnel along one of the shorter walls, with another tunnel exiting on the opposite side
cultists who have died and risen as undead are kept. If battle erupts, the cultists open the door and release six ghouls. The ghouls ignore the cultists as long as there are other creatures to feed on.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Astral Adventurer’s Guide
enemies. Three possibilities are provided in the Starting Encounter Distance table. The shorter the distance, the less time crews have to load weapons and make other preparations. Starting Encounter
Distance Distance Notes 250 feet Long range for ballistae, mangonels, shortbows, longbows, light crossbows, and heavy crossbows 500 feet Long range for longbows and mangonels; beyond the range of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
age 15 and can live up to 200 years. Size. Tritons are slightly shorter than humans, averaging about 5 feet tall. Your size is Medium. Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet, and you have a swimming
5th level, you can also cast wall of water with it (see the spell below). Once you cast a spell with this trait, you can’t cast that spell with it again until you finish a long rest. Charisma is your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Oaken Bolter No ordinary ballista, an oaken bolter is a construct capable of striking at long distances. The bolts it launches can rend flesh, destroy armor, or drag enemies toward traps or melee
-oriented clockworks — and at shorter ranges, burst with explosive force. Oaken Bolter
Medium construct, unaligned
Armor Class 16 (natural armor)
Hit Points 58 (9d8 + 18)
Speed 30 ft.
STR
12
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Crimes and Punishment Consistent with their long perspective on the world and their knowledge of its history, elves have a special view of morality. They abide by the traditional definitions of good
theft are usually considered evidence of significant character flaws, because elves don’t value material goods as highly as shorter-lived races do. An item’s intrinsic value is secondary to its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
, hacked, and tunneled. The weakest among them fell dead from exhaustion, the rest pausing only long enough to push the corpses aside so they could continue the digging. Only the hardiest and most iron
time, a leader arose among the enslaved dwarves. Named Laduguer, he struck a deal with Asmodeus, pledging the assistance of clan Duergar against Lolth’s ambitions in the Underdark. With the help of the