mechanical some with only affect fallen for lack

Kenku Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

. They settle in places that accept them, usually bleak cities that have fallen on hard times and are overrun with crime. Dreams of Flight Above all else, kenku wish to regain their ability to fly

capable of flight, and similar objects provoke a great desire for the kenku to acquire the items for themselves. Despite their lack of wings, kenku love dwelling in towers and other tall structures

Lizardfolk Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

emotion and empathy. The same label serves as an apt depiction of lizardfolk. Lacking any internal emotional reactions, lizardfolk behave in a distant manner. They don’t mourn fallen comrades or

rage against their enemies. They simply observe and react as a situation warrants. Lizardfolk lack meaningful emotional ties to the past. They assess situations based on their current and future

Mechanical Guide

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

Mechanical Guide If the characters’ mechanical guide is lost or destroyed while they explore the Tomb of Horrors, you can make use of a number of options to keep the characters from remaining

maps showing the way to the Temple of Moloch.) Tarnhem might also be able to help restore a fallen guide using his powerful fiendish magic, but only if the characters are willing to make a deal with the demon and free him.

Genasi Legacy

Species Elemental Evil Player's Companion

the households of their genie parents. Wild and Confident Genasi rarely lack confidence, seeing themselves as equal to almost any challenge in their path. This certainty might manifest as graceful

concentration of them hailing from the regions surrounding the Sea of Fallen Stars. The distant land of Zakhara is known only in legends to most inhabitants of Faerûn. There, genies and

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

, Celestial, Construct, Dragon, Elemental, Fey, Fiend, Giant, Humanoid, Monstrosity, Ooze, Plant, Undead. These types don’t have rules themselves, but some rules in the game affect creatures of

Clock Tower Bridge

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

ruins of an ancient city. All that remains are worn flagstones covered in moss and lichen, toppled blocks of weathered stone, and a former tower fallen and now lying stretched across a fifty-foot-wide

of the chasm, the base of the fallen tower can be seen, reduced to a broken section of its former ground floor. Ruins This city once housed the Infernal Machine before Lum the Mad conquered those

Cold and Calculating

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

, lizardfolk behave in a distant manner. They don’t mourn fallen comrades or rage against their enemies. They simply observe and react as a situation warrants. Lizardfolk lack meaningful emotional ties

, over time, learn to respect other creatures’ emotions. The lizardfolk doesn’t share those feelings, but instead assesses them in the same clinical manner. Yes, the fallen dwarf might be most useful

Body Horror

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

of cirrhosis we might be facing, or if tumors bloom deep in parts of ourselves we hope never to see. When creating adventures involving body horror, use this lack of awareness. Focus on the

now. In addition, consider the following genre tropes when creating your body horror domain: Physical transformations are common and might affect more than bodies. Objects, architecture, and the

Optional Rules

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

Optional Rules Each of the Outer Planes has peculiar characteristics that make traveling through it a unique experience. A plane’s influence can affect visitors in various ways, such as causing them

. Incompatibility between lawful and chaotic alignments doesn’t have the same effect, so Mechanus and Limbo lack this quality.

V4: Ysgardian Wildfire

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves

fallen, spanning the river and spreading flames on both sides. The fire has spread through much of the valley. Characters must choose if they want to go around or through the fire. Going Around

fires rage throughout this region. If the characters choose a route that takes them into or near another wildfire, use the guidelines in area V4 to decide how the flames affect them.

Autognome Traits

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Astral Adventurer’s Guide

the roll plus your Constitution modifier (minimum of 1 hit point). In addition, your creator designed you to benefit from several spells that preserve life but that normally don’t affect Constructs

: cure wounds, healing word, mass cure wounds, mass healing word, and spare the dying. Mechanical Nature. You have resistance to poison damage and immunity to disease, and you have advantage on saving

Star Forge Adventures

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

Star Forge, and the fallen star at the forge’s heart is regaining its former magnitude. As the star’s power grows, frequent earthquakes release creatures from the Elemental Earth Encounters and

giant forge master is close to creating their greatest work, a runic colossus (see chapter 6), but they lack a crucial component. If the characters find the Singing Sands (in this chapter), evade or

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

Wilderness Encounters

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

creature has the undead type and cannot use its Animate Trees feature). The treant collects all such fallen branches to take to a hidden graveyard of treant remains, and it angrily attacks any characters

statistics from Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes) or a gibbering mouther with a mechanical skull housing its central brain. 8–10 The characters come across a group of roving outlaws (five to ten thugs led by a

12. Smelter Cavern

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

formulating a plan to get past the undead guardians in this area. A blast furnace and a mechanical bellows powered by a waterwheel dominate this large chamber. The furnace is cold and dark, but heaps of coal

. Floating above them is a skull engulfed in green flame. Eight of the fallen dwarf warriors are zombies. They rise and pursue any living creatures that enter the room, but they do not pursue creatures

Iroas's Villains

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros

retreat. If a great champion of Iroas loses their moral compass amid the horrors of war and commits atrocities in the name of victory, Iroas himself will send heroes to stop the fallen champion. The

retinue lack subtlety and excel in physical combat. Adventures that bring characters into conflict with Iroas’s agents might pit them against monsters such as these. The Iroas’s Monsters table presents

Kruphix's Influence

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros

the mortal realm and Nyx. He uses this power to safeguard the mortal world from reckless divine meddling and enforce the balance of power among the gods and their faithful. Because of his lack of

the Underworld, and he doesn’t know what her emergence portends. She is the only other god whose existence predates mortal belief, and though he is unlikely to draw her ire by manipulating destiny, he doesn’t know how her return will affect the pantheon.

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

’ feelings if doing so could adversely affect the yuan-ti’s plans, but they understand humanoid psychology well enough to know that they can get away with this casual disregard for life

The Braeryn

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

The Braeryn The Braeryn (also known as “the Stenchstreets”) is a shantytown of ramshackle structures overlooking garbage-choked alleyways, inhabited by the dregs of drow society. Fallen priestesses

Master’s Guide). The drow believes he or she is the true voice of Lolth, tasked by the Demon Queen of Spiders to admonish everyone for their lack of devotion, warning that “Demons will consume you all!” The

Empyrean

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

fits of serenity or rage. It can affect the environment around it by its mood. When an empyrean is unhappy, the clouds might cry tears of salt water, the wildflowers in surrounding meadows might wilt

standing at death’s door. When an empyrean dies, its spirit returns to its home plane. There, one of the fallen empyrean’s parents resurrects the empyrean unless he or she has a good reason not to. Empyrean

Silver Dragon Lairs

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

the dragon (usually in Humanoid guise) to meet with visitors. Cloud Bridge. From the antechamber, visitors travel upward along a path of clouds. The impressive route is not as dangerous as its lack of

intellect, and she has exposed the machinations of many chromatic dragons on Krynn. She is a romantic at heart, and it is said that she has fallen deeply for mortals more than once.

Crystal Dome

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

3rd level), which they cast when the spell could affect more than one character. Pinhole. This pinhole is the passage to and from the Briny Pool. A creature touching it is transferred to the bottom

number. Other Prisoners. The three mind flayers and their five prisoners flew to an island that had a big fallen statue on it. Rescue the Others. All the townspeople encourage the characters to locate

Interacting with Myconids

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle

fallen ill—and that a nasty smell pervades their caves. Adult myconids know that the “crystal cave” (area B6) is the source of the foul odor and that Sinensa fell ill after going into that cave to

. Encourage the players to think about how this might affect their characters. Does it make them feel closer to their friends? Does it ease any suspicions they might have had about each other? Distress

Bard

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

don’t know a beholder from a gas spore. 17 I suspected you’d fallen out of the idiot tree, but I didn’t know you were dragged through Stupid Forest afterward. 18 There’s nothing about your

3 A lesser noble who you double-crossed in a brilliant scheme 4 A fallen paladin who you tricked into breaking their oath 5 A leader of another adventuring party who blames you for

Warforged Colossus

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

docents found in Xen’drik (described in chapter 5), and though they lack the full sentience or functionality of a true docent, collectively they can guide and control a colossus. The network converged

sending adventurers into the Mournland in hopes of salvaging some or all of the network inside a fallen colossus. Colossus Power Core. The power source of a colossus is a Khyber dragonshard of

Hideout Locations

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

, including Mazfroth’s Mighty Digressions, The Dark Hunger, and Fallen Tethyamar. Development. If she is in the room and the characters are willing to hear her out, Korvala explains the Amberdune Pack’s

show up in Candlekeep. As reparations, she’s willing to surrender the original versions of Mazfroth’s Mighty Digressions, The Dark Hunger, and Fallen Tethyamar so that the characters can deliver them to

Super-Secret Basement

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

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

its center. The characters can easily note that the charged disks from any fallen modrons fit perfectly into the slots. If a charged disk is placed in each slot, it completes a circuit that

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

order to show her family the consequence of resistance. They might refrain from provoking others’ feelings if doing so could adversely affect the yuan-ti’s plans, but they understand humanoid psychology

Levistus

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

devotion of a wide variety of criminals, rascals, and ne’er-do-wells across a multitude of worlds. He continues to meet his quota of souls, both despite his lack of mobility and because of it. Being

over Geryon. The displaced lord still schemes to supplant Levistus as ruler of the realm, but he can’t directly affect his foe, since the ice that imprisons Levistus is impervious to harm. Violence

Life in Yongjing

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

Life in Yongjing Residents of Yongjing take great pride in their city and frequently boast about everything from its venerable age and historic architecture to its lack of unsavory elements—such as

complex familial structures helps to facilitate social harmony. Members of a clan keep close eyes on one another, because the deeds of an individual affect the social standing of the clan as a whole

9. Ice Spider Tunnels

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder

Dungeon Master’s Guide) except that they are brittle and thus lack immunity to bludgeoning damage. Characters who smash or burn their way through the webs can reach the cocoons, of which there are three

. The characters’ act of heroism could affect their dealings with the Great Worm tribe, to the extent that the tribe thinks twice about attacking them. If Wormblod learns of their deed, he gives them

Locations in the Styes

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh

nothing more than a sad Flotsam landmark. When the last caretaker died in a loud argument at a nearby tavern, no one took up her mantle, and the light has fallen into disrepair. After a few more decades

that the tower is haunted by devils and contains a portal to the Nine Hells. 10. Mortuary The lack of a strong religious presence in the Styes means that the task of dealing with the dead falls to the

Celebrations in Sylvania

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel

ring of standing stones surrounds a fallen menhir. The toppled rock is laden with an inviting but unattended feast. Any local or a character who succeeds on a DC 12 Intelligence (Arcana or History

Persuasion) check. If a character knows the legends about Widow’s Henge, this is abjectly not a good act and could affect the character’s alignment. If Kopoha eats from the feast, she vanishes the next

Mythals

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

that protected ancient elven cities. It has since been expanded to cover all manner of similar protections, from the immense floating cities of fallen Netheril to the wards of Silverymoon to the

MAGIC Certain spells allow casters to perceive or manipulate the effects of the Weave in particular ways. The Weave itself also has irregularities that affect spells. Detect Magic. Detect magic

Toppled Statue

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

Toppled Statue This location is presented on map 8.7. Mike Schley Map 8.7: Toppled Statue This metal statue, once eighty feet tall, has fallen from its large, cube-shaped metal base. The statue

comes from the captives inside the base signaling for help. They are desperate to get free but lack any means of escape. The four townspeople are all commoners with an Intelligence of 16: a pair of

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