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Monstrous Compendium Vol. 2: Dragonlance Creatures
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Chattergrab. Parts of this gadget look like gnashing metal teeth. This gadget hurtles toward a creature the mastermind can see within 60 feet of itself. The creature must succeed on a DC 16 Dexterity saving
appendages, or both.
Nevermind Gnomes
Mount Nevermind is a hollow, dormant volcano on the island of Sancrist in Krynn. Within the mountain, a vibrant community of rock gnome tinkerers and other inventors relentlessly study various scientific pursuits to create mechanical marvels.
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
, part mechanical theater, the outfit makes her look frighteningly tall; without it, she is a hunched and withered bag of bones. She shrouds her wrinkled features behind a gauzy “theater curtain
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
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Ability Score Increases
When determining your character’s ability scores, increase one score by 2 and increase a different score by 1, or increase three different scores by 1. Follow this rule
Species
Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
diminutive Humanoids who look like humans with pointed ears and diverse appearances. Kender have a supernatural curiosity that drives them to adventure. Due to this inquisitiveness, many kender find
determining your character’s ability scores, increase one of those scores by 2 and increase a different score by 1, or increase three different scores by 1. Follow this rule regardless of the method you
Species
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
the passage of time. Some are prone to melancholy, while others might display an absence of feeling. Many look for creative ways to occupy themselves. Whether they choose to live in quiet
character’s ability scores, increase one of those scores by 2 and increase a different score by 1, or increase three different scores by 1. Follow this rule regardless of the method you use to
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Sylvan, and encounters with human visitors prompted many of them to learn Common as well.
Infused with the magic of the Feywild, most fairies look like Small elves with insectile wings, but each fairy has
Score Increases
When determining your character’s ability scores, increase one score by 2 and increase a different score by 1, or increase three different scores by 1. Follow this rule
Species
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
Autognomes are mechanical beings built by rock gnomes. Sometimes, because of a malfunction or a unique circumstance, an autognome becomes separated from its creator and strikes out on its own.
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ability scores, increase one of those scores by 2 and increase a different score by 1, or increase three different scores by 1. Follow this rule regardless of the method you use to determine the scores
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
time. And the members of the alternative expedition certainly look to sabotage or destroy the characters’ mechanical guide in order to strand them. These competitors might succeed in securing some of the
enhanced medusa for Lynx, or the brains in iron for Sir Ursas (see below for more information on both). Each expedition also has its own mechanical guide. You might use the members of the rival expedition
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
, but negotiates for passage if the characters speak to it. The gynosphinx appears to have suffered ancient injuries to its head, which have healed and been replaced by mechanical components. Both the
appear entirely ignorant, and I look forward to adding whatever small knowledge you might possess to my collection.”
Creature. Originally wounded in an encounter that nearly destroyed Kwalish’s
Magic Items
Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
Kwalish’s lab in Daoine Gloine (area O7), whichever comes later in the adventure.
Skull. You summon an avatar of death — a mechanical skeleton (use bone naga statistics) clad in a
. Increase one of your ability scores by 1 for the duration of the adventure. The score can exceed 20 but can’t exceed 24.
Sun. You gain proficiency in the skill of your choice for the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
3. Determine Ability Scores Much of what your character does in the game depends on his or her six abilities: Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma. Each ability has a
what qualities are measured by each ability, what races increases which abilities, and what classes consider each ability particularly important. You generate your character’s six ability scores randomly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
Mechanical Guides Each mechanical guide is programmed to teleport through space and time to the adventure’s set locations, effectively dropping the characters at the start of chapter 3 or chapter 4
its ability scores. Each guide has 6 charges, and regains 1d6 expended charges daily at dawn. Teleporting itself and the party to either adventure locale or back to its home manor costs a guide 1
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Step 3: Determine Ability Scores To determine your character’s ability scores, you first generate a set of six numbers using the instructions below and then assign them to your six abilities
. “Playing the Game” explains what each ability means. Generate Your Scores Determine your ability scores by using one of the following three methods. Your DM might prefer you to use a particular one. Standard
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
by 2), Bruenor’s ability scores and modifiers look like this: Strength 17 (+3), Dexterity 10 (+0), Constitution 16 (+3), Intelligence 8 (–1), Wisdom 13 (+1), Charisma 12 (+1).
Bob fills in Bruenor’s
3. Determine Ability Scores Much of what your character does in the game depends on his or her six abilities: Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma. Each ability has a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Step 3: Determine Ability Scores To determine your character’s ability scores, you first generate a set of six numbers using the instructions below and then assign them to your six abilities. Chapter
1 explains what each ability means. Generate Your Scores Determine your ability scores by using one of the following three methods. Your DM might prefer you to use a particular one. Standard Array
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
toll. Restoring Old Debts. If the sphinx is slain, the mechanical items that circle around her (functioning as Ioun stones) might all be released. The life force they contain (in the form of
decreases to ability scores) might then be usable by their original owners to reverse the decrease. If any of those owners are still alive, the stones might help guide the characters to them, allowing the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Sorcerer does so with Advantage. If the doppelganger rolls well, it might still act before the Sorcerer’s spell goes off, reflecting the monster’s ability to anticipate the spell. Using Initiative Scores
You can get to the action of combat more quickly by using Initiative scores instead of rolling. You might decide to use Initiative scores just for characters, just for monsters, or for both. Initiative
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Human Traits It’s hard to make generalizations about humans, but your human character has these traits. Ability Score Increase. Your ability scores each increase by 1. Age. Humans reach adulthood in
, halflings, and humans.
In the cosmopolitan cities of the D&D multiverse, most people hardly look twice at folk they interact with. But the small towns and villages that dot the countryside are different
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
’ passive Wisdom (Perception) scores to determine whether one or more of them spots it. Treasure Searching characters do see the glint of gems beneath the water at the east end of the chamber. Fishing
gems in the corner and collects them. The ooze won’t bother those who enter, look around, and leave. It fights back if attacked, and it attacks (probably with surprise) anyone who takes gems.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
which ability scores. Look for your class’s primary ability there. Ability Scores and Backgrounds Ability Backgrounds Strength Soldier Dexterity Criminal, Soldier Constitution Criminal, Sage
background you choose influences step 3, when you determine your character’s ability scores. If you’re having trouble choosing, the Ability Scores and Backgrounds table shows which backgrounds benefit
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
’ passive Wisdom (Perception) scores to determine whether one or more of them spots it. Treasure Searching characters do see the glint of gems beneath the water at the east end of the chamber. Fishing
gems in the corner and collects them. The ooze won’t bother those who enter, look around, and leave. It fights back if attacked, and it attacks (probably with surprise) anyone who takes gems.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
ability scores. Look for your class’s primary ability there. Ability Scores and Backgrounds Ability Backgrounds Strength Artisan, Entertainer, Farmer, Guard, Noble, Sailor, Soldier Dexterity Artisan
you choose influences step 3, when you determine your character’s ability scores. If you’re having trouble choosing, the Ability Scores and Backgrounds table shows which backgrounds benefit which
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
New Class Features. Look at your class features table in “Character Classes”, and note the features you gain at your new level in that class. Make any choices offered by a new feature. Adjust
increases, increase all the numbers on your character sheet that include your Proficiency Bonus. Adjust Ability Modifiers. If you choose a feat that increases one or more of your ability scores, your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Homesteads Scores of isolated homesteads are scattered across the Dessarin Valley, but only a few that are featured in the adventure’s side treks are shown on the regional map. Additional homesteads
livestock, a feed crib, and crops or pastures nearby. Most homesteaders are human or halfling commoners. They gladly welcome travelers (especially adventurers who look like they’re trying to chase away
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
New Class Features. Look at your class features table in chapter 3, and note the features you gain at your new level in that class. Make any choices offered by a new feature. Adjust Proficiency Bonus
the numbers on your character sheet that include your Proficiency Bonus. Adjust Ability Modifiers. If you choose a feat that increases one or more of your ability scores, your ability modifier also
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
. Approaching the Dock As Krux and the characters make their way to the dock, read: Scores of pelicans, mollymawks, and smaller birds nesting on the asteroid squawk as you approach the rickety dock. At the
sill) when the opening disappears is pushed out of the tower a split second before the window vanishes. Tour of the Tower Topolah gives the characters a quick look at each floor of her tower, showing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
occupied by a female genasi, her skin encrusted with patches of faceted crystals. The project she’s working on is a silver skull with jeweled teeth.
Not bothering to look at you, the genasi says, “Your
. Manipulating Time Having a mechanical guide spend 1 charge in this area taps into the ritual magic Seodra is using to craft the demilich’s skull, causing a random character to age by one year. This effect can be reversed by casting a remove curse spell using a 6th-level spell slot.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
no such bounds: it believes that it is superior to every other creature, even including other beholders. A human chess player becomes a master by honing the ability to look several moves ahead during
. Think ye weave cunning schemes and elaborate intrigues with fallback plans and positions? Beholders change, refine, discard, and spin anew scores of such plans, all the time. To the average beholder, human intrigues are the fumblings of babies.
— Elminster
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
quick recap of the state of the battle. How many foes are still standing, and how hurt do they look? What’s the most immediate threat to that character? Make Initiative Obvious. Display the Initiative
order to your players so they each know when their character’s turn is coming up and can think ahead about what their character will do on their next turn. Using Initiative scores (see “Running
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
in the northeastern alcove.
Shockerstomper consists of a 30-foot-diameter, saucer-shaped platform mounted atop seven mechanical legs. Crowning the platform are three spherical turrets, each with a
legs are disabled. Shockerstomper’s ability scores are as follows: Strength 23, Dexterity 10, Constitution 20, Intelligence 1, Wisdom 1, Charisma 1. Shockerstomper’s Traits Electrified Surface. A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
. 3 Home to a community of pixies or sprites. 4 The last lore keeper of lost druidic knowledge. 5 Rooted on a hero’s burial mound and animates trees that look like questing knights. 6 Scarred by a fire
). The treant magically animates up to two trees it can see within 60 feet of itself. Each tree uses the Treant stat block, except it has Intelligence and Charisma scores of 1, it can’t speak, and it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
clock faces built into it.
The Overlook’s clocks are mechanical wonders illuminated by magic. They keep perfect time. A hollowed-out central chamber in the Overlook contains Little Lockford’s
Old Lockford, Smoldertown, and Turbine Heights. L12: Security Center A large, rough-hewn cavern in the heart of the Overlook has a floor that rises toward the middle. Scores of lizards—a few of them big
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
impressive bits of technology from the crashed planar craft, teleportation-field devices consist of two matched magical-mechanical rings. Both rings channel the power of teleportation and flight, and were
and in Daoine Gloine (where Kwalish has used the magical-mechanical technology of the craft to set up his new lab). If the characters manage to secure a pair of such devices, you can let the players
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
opens, and a blast of musty, dust-choked air spills out from the room beyond. That dusty chamber holds three creatures that look like inverted pyramids with mechanical arms and legs, and another
mechanical creations to sit dormant. The hallways and rooms are dusty, showing few signs of life or movement. Except where otherwise noted, all areas of the super-secret basement have the following
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
elaborate costume. Part dress, part mechanical theater, the outfit makes her look frighteningly tall; without it, she is a hunched and withered bag of bones. She shrouds her wrinkled features behind a gauzy






