measure some with only artistic flapping for like

Quaal's Feather Token

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

This object looks like a feather. Different types of feather tokens exist, each with a different single-use effect. The DM chooses the kind of token or determines it randomly by rolling on the Quaal

toss the token up to 10 feet in the air. The token disappears, and a giant flapping fan takes its place. The fan floats and creates a strong wind. This wind can fill the sails of one ship, increasing its

Reigar

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

duplicate that looks just like the reigar. The duplicate obeys the reigar’s commands and uses the reigar’s statistics, except it is an unaligned Construct that doesn’t have a talarith of its

land. When the endless battles there grew tiresome, some reigar ventured to the Astral Sea and Wildspace in search of glory. Many are driven by artistic pursuits, but each reigar has their own notion

Vargouille

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

all vargouilles for 1 hour.Shrieking, flapping, and hideous to behold—with a body like a severed head and wings in place of ears—vargouilles boil out of the Abyss to infest other planes

vargouille along for the ride, attached like a tick. The precautions a mortal takes to control a summoned demon rarely account for a stowaway, enabling the vargouille to escape into the world. Vargouilles

Jammer Leech

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

":"force"} force damage and be stunned until the end of its next turn.A jammer leech is a barnacle-like creature that begins life as a space-dwelling spore that attaches to the hull of a spelljamming ship

shell is affixed to the ship by a glue-like substance secreted by the leech. The shell grows until it’s about 1 foot in diameter. The leech inside is reddish-purple in color, with a body resembling

Death's Head

Monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

or animal swoops down to rip apart victims with its gnashing teeth. One with the head of monster like a nothic or medusa, though, retains a measure of the power it had in life and can befuddle the

","rollAction":"Death's Head Tree"} death’s heads dangle like foul fruit. The heads detach to protect the tree if it’s threatened. Should the tree be destroyed, the heads scatter and plant

Feather Token Legacy

Magic Items Basic Rules (2014)

This tiny object looks like a feather. Different types of feather tokens exist, each with a different single-use effect. The DM chooses the kind of token or determines it randomly. d100

token up to 10 feet in the air. The token disappears, and a giant flapping fan takes its place. The fan floats and creates a wind strong enough to fill the sails of one ship, increasing its speed by 5

Needle Lord

Monsters Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1

wrap around the corpse to animate it, causing it to rise and lurch about like a zombie. Invasive Species. When a great battle is fought in a fey woodland, the plants of the wood sometimes take on the

hobgoblins, kobolds, and other creatures willing to obey it, but it sees any alliance that casts it as a lesser partner as only a temporary measure. The needle lord betrays any allies at the first opportunity, as it believes that only one creature can claim dominion over a forest.

Earth Genasi Legacy

Species Elemental Evil Player's Companion

As an earth genasi, you are descended from the cruel and greedy dao, though you aren’t necessarily evil. You have inherited some measure of control over earth, reveling in superior strength and

tones of deep brown or black, eyes sparkling like agates. Earth genasi can also have smooth metallic flesh, dull iron skin spotted with rust, a pebbled and rough hide, or even a coating of tiny embedded crystals. The most arresting have fissures in their flesh, from which faint light shines.

Quaal's Feather Token Legacy

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

This tiny object looks like a feather. Different types of feather tokens exist, each with a different single-use effect. The DM chooses the kind of token or determines it randomly. d100

token up to 10 feet in the air. The token disappears, and a giant flapping fan takes its place. The fan floats and creates a wind strong enough to fill the sails of one ship, increasing its speed by 5

Gladiator Legacy

Backgrounds Player’s Handbook (2014)

Greed. I’m only in it for the money and fame. (Evil) 5 People. I like seeing the smiles on people’s faces when I perform. That’s all that matters. (Neutral) 6 Honesty

I love. 2 Someone stole my precious instrument, and someday I’ll get it back. 3 I want to be famous, whatever it takes. 4 I idolize a hero of the old tales and measure my deeds

Half-Elf Legacy

Species Basic Rules (2014)

, inventiveness, and ambition tempered by the refined senses, love of nature, and artistic tastes of the elves. Some half-elves live among humans, set apart by their emotional and physical differences, watching

like elves, and to elves, they look human. In height, they’re on par with both parents, though they’re neither as slender as elves nor as broad as humans. They range from under 5 feet to

Entertainer Legacy

Backgrounds Player’s Handbook (2014)

who we are. (Lawful) 3 Creativity. The world is in need of new ideas and bold action. (Chaotic) 4 Greed. I’m only in it for the money and fame. (Evil) 5 People. I like seeing the

. 3 I want to be famous, whatever it takes. 4 I idolize a hero of the old tales and measure my deeds against that person’s. 5 I will do anything to prove myself superior to my

Mark of Shadow Elf

Species Eberron: Rising from the Last War

assassins within House Phiarlan. Only special clients—nobles, merchant lords, and the like—have access to these spies. Toward the end of the Last War, a bitter feud broke out between the

foremost centers of the arts in the Five Nations, each focusing on a specific artistic tradition: the written word, movement arts, music, material arts, and the arts of illusion, puppetry, oratory, and

Changeling Legacy

Species Eberron: Rising from the Last War

changelings use this gift as a form of artistic and emotional expression. It’s also an invaluable tool for grifters, spies, and others who wish to deceive. This leads many people to treat

knowing another like themselves. Others are part of nomadic changeling clans spread across the Five Nations, families who keep their true nature hidden from the single-skins. Some clans maintain safe

Aarakocra

Species Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

;and were imbued with a measure of their masters’ power over winds. Their descendants still command echoes of that power. From below, aarakocra look like large birds and thus are sometimes called

’s description. Height and Weight Player characters, regardless of race, typically fall into the same ranges of height and weight that humans have in our world. If you’d like to determine

Loxodon

Species Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

, loxodons are true terrors—bellowing with rage, trumpeting and flapping their ears. Their serene wisdom, fierce loyalty, and unwavering conviction are tremendous assets to their guilds

, leathery skin. Each of their hands has four thick digits, and their feet are the flat-bottomed, oval-shaped feet of elephants. Like that of an elephant, a loxodon’s trunk is a useful

Shipwright

Backgrounds Ghosts of Saltmarsh

their hands and often perform feats of carpentry that others might deem miraculous. D8 PERSONALITY TRAIT 1 I love talking and being heard more than I like to listen. 2 I

. (Lawful) 3 Invention. Make what you need out of whatever is at hand. (Chaotic) 4 Perfection. To measure a being and find it lacking is the greatest disappointment. (Evil) 5

Entertainer - Baldur's Gate

Backgrounds Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus

’ve learned that most of the real business of entertainment (or any other venture) happens behind the scenes. It’s easy for you to case what sorts of audiences attend what venue — like

. (Chaotic) 4 Greed. I’m only in it for the money and fame. (Evil) 5 People. I like seeing the smiles on people’s faces when I perform. That’s all that matters. (Neutral) 6

Bard Legacy

Classes Basic Rules (2014)

and some measure of natural talent that most troubadours and jongleurs lack. It can be hard to spot the difference between these performers and true bards, though. A bard’s life is spent

wandering across the land gathering lore, telling stories, and living on the gratitude of audiences, much like any other entertainer. But a depth of knowledge, a level of musical skill, and a touch of magic

Hobgoblin Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

would prefer the position were filled by someone more like himself, but Bargrivyek was all he was left with after Maglubiyet’s conquest. Although both deities are ultimately beholden to

Maglubiyet, the greater god allows them to retain a measure of their influence over the hobgoblins because their philosophies are in line with his own. Hobgoblins don’t build temples to their gods, lest

Verdan

Species Acquisitions Incorporated

spontaneous alterations over their lifetime, from the typical range of point and peak seen among the elves, to huge ears that sweep back from the head like wings, and which are often pierced behind

the head with a single ring to keep them from flapping about. Changes in gender are also a known and accepted part of verdan life. These fluid aspects of form and identity are seen as blessings

Blue Dragons

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual

Blue Dragons Dragons of Tyranny and Tempests Habitat: Coastal, Desert; Treasure: Relics Arrogant and imperious, blue dragons are chromatic dragons that crave control and collect followers like other

, such as the abandoned fortresses of giants, the colossi of fallen empires, or monuments raised by their followers. Regalia of rulership and artistic masterpieces fill blue dragons’ hoards. These dragons

Ghastria

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

. D’Polarno’s artistic predations captured the attention of the Dark Powers, which drew his lands into the Mists. Now, Ghastria is a fertile island that, like its lord, lacks an essential vim except for once a season when vigor fleetingly returns.

3. Old Entrance

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver

brass lanterns stand in niches or on ledges around the cavern, but none are lit. Clinging to the ceiling like bats are ten stirges. The monsters find scant living prey in the mines, and they are

Wisdom (Perception) score is higher than the stirges’ Dexterity (Stealth) check total (roll once for all of them). Characters who aren’t surprised hear a flapping noise as the stirges descend to attack. The lanterns and the carvings of miners at work were meant as a welcome to newcomers.

Flying Creatures and Falling

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything

being held aloft by magic, such as the fly spell. If you’d like a flying creature to have a better chance of surviving a fall than a non-flying creature does, use this rule: subtract the creature’s

greater than 0 feet. The rule is designed to simulate the creature flapping its wings furiously or taking similar measures to slow the velocity of its fall. If you use the rule for rate of falling in the

Aarakocra

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse

were imbued with a measure of their masters’ power over winds. Their descendants still command echoes of that power. From below, aarakocra look like large birds and thus are sometimes called birdfolk

Fighters

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide

Fighters “Slow to learn, aren’t they?” a white-haired old knight who’d lost his helm in the last fray drawled. “This is getting to be like a proper romp in the Dragonjaws, it is! I’ll have to get my

minstrel to write a ballad about this…” “I hope he sings swiftly,” a Purple Dragon armsman growled. “Here they are!” The howling spilled over the bodies in another rushing tide of flapping leather

Hill Giant Bags

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

, while others collect artistic or scholarly materials that defy stereotypes attached to their kind. Hill giant bags are made from simple materials like burlap or linen. Most have a distinctive “snack

16. Arch Gate to Level 15

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

wall above the arch are the following words in Draconic: “Only a dragon can unlock this gate.” Fountains. Alcoves to the west and east contain stone fountains, each carved to look like a perched

artistic rendering of a dragon, such as a dragon-shaped figurine or a drawing of a dragon, also opens the gate. Characters must be 13th level or higher to pass through this gate (see “Jhesiyra

Ongoing Mutations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

typical range of point and peak seen among the elves, to huge ears that sweep back from the head like wings, and which are often pierced behind the head with a single ring to keep them from flapping

Q40. Argynvost's Study

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd

near a cavernous hearth. A picture above the mantel has been slashed, its lower half hanging down below the frame like a torn piece of flesh. An iron door set in the south corner of the west wall

against Strahd came from that empire — now lost beyond the mists. Journal Page As the characters cross the room, read: You hear the soft flapping sound of wings, but can’t discern its origin. A single

The Silver Sliver

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

fine. But if there’s no money changing hands, how do you measure the value of the work? The Silver Sliver exemplifies what goes wrong when good people fail to grasp the complexities of the world. They

won’t sometimes do a dishonest day’s work for an honest day’s wage. I feel like making your company’s name a tongue twister is a bold move in this marketplace. I wouldn’t have done that. I’ve told the

The Houses of Shadow

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

special clients—nobles, merchant lords, and the like—have access to these spies. Toward the end of the Last War, a bitter feud broke out between the major families of the house. Known as the Shadow

artistic tradition: the written word, movement arts, music, material arts, and the arts of illusion, puppetry, oratory, and acting. Baron Elvinor Elorrenthi leads the house from the last of those, the Demesne of Shadow, which is located in Sharn. The hydra serves as House Phiarlan’s emblem.

Forest of Hands

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel

Hands, read the following description: The scent of the swamp takes on the sweet stink of rotting flesh. Trees with drooping limbs stand amid the river, their branches like hundreds of gray hands and

their dangling leaves like long, leathery fingers. Characters who succeed on a DC 14 Intelligence (History or Nature) check recognize the region’s notorious angul trees, plants that stink of rotting

Earth Genasi

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse

Earth Genasi As an earth genasi, you are descended from the cruel and greedy dao, though you are not necessarily evil. You have inherited some measure of control over earth, reveling in superior

, with skin tones of deep brown or black, eyes sparkling like agates. Earth genasi can also have smooth metallic flesh, dull iron skin spotted with rust, a pebbled and rough hide, or even a coating of tiny

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