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Autognome

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. An

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

Customizing Your Origin

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

that can make it difficult to realize certain character concepts. The following subsections address that lack by adding choice to your character’s race, allowing you to customize your ability scores, languages, and certain proficiencies to fit the origin you have in mind for your character.

Customizing Your Origin At 1st level, you choose various aspects of your character, including ability scores, race, class, and background. Together these elements help paint a picture of your

Adult Deep Dragon Legacy

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

. Deep dragons look down on any creature that isn’t useful to them, though they are willing to bargain for knowledge they lack. Creating a Deep Dragon Use the Deep Dragon Personality Traits and

that allow them to escape or ambush visitors if the need arises. A well-cultivated lair abounds with Underdark fungi and plants, with the floor, walls, and ceiling covered in carpets of mold and moss

Yuan-ti Pureblood Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

others can be exploited through bribes, favors, or threats. As creatures devoid of emotion, yuan-ti exhibit behavior and use tactics that exemplify that outlook (or lack of one). Whether in combat

that the yuan-ti have prepared a special ambush at the end of the pursuit. Capture, Not Kill The objective of the yuan-ti as a race is to conquer and enslave others; they don’t espouse the sort

Ancient Deep Dragon Legacy

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

. Deep dragons look down on any creature that isn’t useful to them, though they are willing to bargain for knowledge they lack. Creating a Deep Dragon Use the Deep Dragon Personality Traits and

or ambush visitors if the need arises. A well-cultivated lair abounds with Underdark fungi and plants, with the floor, walls, and ceiling covered in carpets of mold and moss, or featuring larger

Deck of Several Things

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

Mechanical Guides

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

The Enhanced Sphinx

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

Approaching Castle Naerytar

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen

from the castle. If he is with the characters, he can prevent them from blundering into a trap or an ambush. He talks to the six lizardfolk guards if characters let him. What he tells them depends on

with the characters, they still have a chance to detect the guard outpost on their own. Characters with passive Wisdom (Perception) scores of 15 or higher catch whiffs of wood smoke. Also make a single

Kobold Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

all life except for kobolds. He especially hates Garl Glittergold, gnomes, and fey creatures that enjoy playing pranks. He taught the first kobolds how to mine, tunnel, hide, and ambush. He is

lack of emotional bonding means they have no concept of marriage or permanent family relationships. Their eggs are placed in a common tribal hatchery with no effort to keep track of who each one

Approaching Castle Naerytar

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons

from the castle. If he is with the characters, he can prevent them from blundering into a trap or an ambush. He talks to the six lizardfolk guards if characters let him. What he tells them depends on

with the characters, they still have a chance to detect the guard outpost on their own. Characters with passive Wisdom (Perception) scores of 15 or higher catch whiffs of wood smoke. Also make a single

Deck of Many More Things

Magic Items The Book of Many Things

feet. Beast. You immediately transform into a random Beast with a CR of 5 or lower. Your game statistics—including your ability scores, hit points, and possible actions—are replaced by the

stop drawing from the deck, regardless of how many cards you initially declared. Lance. All your ability scores increase by 1, to a maximum of 20. Mage. Your Intelligence score increases by 2, to a

Goblin Ambush

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

Goblin Ambush Read the following boxed text to start the encounter: You’ve been on the Triboar Trail for about half a day. As you come around a bend, you spot two dead horses sprawled about fifty

goblins: roll one d20 for all of them, add their Stealth skill modifier (+6) to the roll, and compare the total to the characters’ passive Wisdom (Perception) scores. A character whose score is lower

Workers' Camp

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild

dwarves split into two gangs. A surly, browbeaten lot, they have no interest in who the characters are or what their business at the tomb is. If talked to, they grumble about their poor food and lack of pay

wages for construction workers, signed by Moghadam. Manipulating Time Having a mechanical guide spend 1 charge in this area causes a number of the dwarves to erupt into squabbling, allowing the

Stat Block

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook

Initiative modifier is an Initiative score. Some creatures that are created by magic lack Hit Dice and Initiative information. Speed. Here the monster’s Speed is provided, along with any special speeds

. See also “Burrow Speed,” “Climb Speed,” “Fly Speed,” and “Swim Speed.” Ability Scores. A table provides the monster’s ability scores, modifiers, and saving throw modifiers, all of which are detailed

Stat Block

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules

. Following the Initiative modifier is an Initiative score. Some creatures that are created by magic lack Hit Dice and Initiative information. Speed. Here the monster’s Speed is provided, along with any special

speeds. See also “Burrow Speed,” “Climb Speed,” “Fly Speed,” and “Swim Speed.” Ability Scores. A table provides the monster’s ability scores, modifiers, and saving throw modifiers, all of which are

The Overlook (Area L12)

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

4. Pretty Big Hate Machine

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

Otyugh

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)

edible creature happens by, the otyugh’s tentacles erupt from the filth and grab hold of it. Otyughs make the most of any opportunity to ambush and devour prey. They use a limited form of telepathy

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

5. Choose Equipment

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)

Strength score times 15. "Using Ability Scores" has more information on carrying capacity. Armor Class Your Armor Class (AC) represents how well your character avoids being wounded in battle. Things

wearing armor or carrying a shield if you lack the required proficiency, as explained in the Equipment section. Some spells and class features give you a different way to calculate your AC. If you

Emotionless Evil

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

exhibit behavior and use tactics that exemplify that outlook (or lack of one). Whether in combat or in daily life, the following principles guide the yuan-ti in all they do. Other Lives Are Cheap Yuan

been encountered before, it is likely that the yuan-ti have prepared a special ambush at the end of the pursuit. Capture, Not Kill The objective of the yuan-ti as a race is to conquer and enslave

16. Old Dwarven Halls

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

approaching, the duergar turn invisible and enlarge themselves, then ambush anyone that enters the chamber. These duergar have had their minds broken by the mind flayers and fight to the death. 16c. Psionic

against the walls are scores of rusty iron anvils forged and abandoned long ago by the Melairkyn dwarves. (Each one weighs 500 pounds.) The crystal pedestal with the diamond levitating above it is a

Intellect Devourer

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

bodies. These quadrupedal brains seek to ambush sapient beings, then drain their thoughts until they’re mindless. Then, if their victims are Humanoids, they enter the creatures’ skulls. With access to

intellect devourer has Total Cover against attacks and other effects originating outside its host. The intellect devourer retains its Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores; its understanding of

Topolah's Tower

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

mechanical gnomes wearing harnesses tend to the plants. The harnesses are attached to ropes that loop around pulleys affixed to the ceiling, enabling the gnomes to hoist themselves into the air and move

Mind Flayer Thralls

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

creature retains its Hit Dice, hit points, racial traits (but not proficiencies granted by race), and all of its ability scores except for Intelligence. After the first stage of the process, the creature’s

to use humanoids as thralls, since they have a good balance of physical attributes and proper anatomy. Animals, in contrast, require a lot of direct oversight and lack the ability to use tools to help

Meeting Kwalish

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

— clockwork ants forming signals and signs, messages drawn by mechanical hands, consultation with the trapped mind flayer, and so on. As best he can, Kwalish tries to instruct characters in the methods that

enhanced sphinx (whose machinery he created). This restores to normal any ability scores decreased by the sphinx (see area C2). Laboratory Fight If negotiations break down, or if the characters take

West Wall

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

like to keep their dark schemes and vile indulgences behind closed doors. Amid the twisted streets and quiet mansions of West Wall stand scores of stone monuments dedicated to important figures and

Bandersnatches try to ambush the characters as they make their way out of Menzoberranzan. The hunting party consists of the gang’s leader, her quasit advisor, and thirty drow bandits. The leader of the

Platinum Mine

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries

chamber that holds worn picks, rusty shovels, and two hand carts filled with debris and rags. The tools were left behind by the workers in the wake of the disaster. Characters who look up see scores of

spontaneously manifested rather than being dug out, there are no scratch marks or signs of excavation on the walls, floor, or ceiling here. The moss muffles all sound, causing a lack of echoes and creating a

Random Urban Encounters

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

be a disguised criminal trying to lure the party into an ambush (use the thug statistics in the Monster Manual for the criminal and his or her cohorts). Drunk. A tipsy drunk staggers toward a random

random character. Characters whose passive Wisdom (Perception) scores are equal to or greater than the thief’s Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) check total catch the theft in progress. Procession. The

Encounters in the Crypt

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus

the characters elsewhere in the catacombs, they hide inside the large urn to the west. When the characters enter, they try to creep out silently and ambush them. Treasure. One of the mummies carries

(Perception) scores of 15 or higher spot a secret door within 5 feet of them. Otherwise, a secret door can be found by a character who examines the surrounding wall and succeeds on a DC 15 Wisdom

Dock Ward

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

counterfeit objects at your discretion. If the adventurers ask Jerr to be a guide, he happily takes the job for 1 gp. He then leads the characters straight into an ambush by a gang working for the

unusual skeleton with these changes: She has Intelligence and Charisma scores of 14 (+2). She can speak Common. Jelayne isn’t aware that she’s undead. Even though the last of her flesh is constantly

Alignment

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)

new—a transformation worthy of legend. Most creatures that lack the capacity for rational thought do not have alignments—they are unaligned. Such a creature is incapable of making a moral or ethical

dislikes or fears, your character’s self-attitude or mannerisms, or the influence of his or her ability scores. A useful place to start thinking about personality traits is to look at your highest and

Battle Balloon

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

power and detonate with formidable explosive force wherever they hit. VEHICLE RULES Battle balloons and mechanical beholders are vehicles, and as such, they have special rules associated with them

. Most pertinently, a vehicle has the six ability scores (Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma) and the corresponding modifiers. The Strength of a vehicle expresses its

Hank

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Uni and the Hunt for the Lost Horn

: Level 4+) Increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. This feat can’t increase an ability score above 20. (This is included above.) Repeatable

Thanks to your travels, you gain the following benefits. Expertise. Choose one of your skill proficiencies with which you lack Expertise. You gain Expertise in that skill. (This is included above

Deck of Several Things

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

adventure. Skull. You summon an avatar of death — a mechanical skeleton (use bone naga statistics) clad in a tattered black robe. It appears in a space of the DM’s choice within 10 feet of you and

own avatar of death. A creature slain by an avatar of death can’t be restored to life. Star. Increase one of your ability scores by 1 for the duration of the adventure. The score can exceed 20 but

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