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Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
ravines or shallow caves, or hide in ruined sites while waiting for prey to come near. A girallon is surprisingly stealthy, considering its size and its lack of camouflage.
Girallons form loose bands
language to communicate with one another over distance. Each individual typically hunts alone and widely separated from the others to ensure that everyone gets adequate fodder. The leader might
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
tattered black robe. It appears in a space of the DM’s choice within 10 feet of you and attacks you, warning all others that you must win the battle alone. The avatar fights until you die or it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
. Manipulating Time Having a mechanical guide spend 1 charge in this area causes Thessalar to return here from his private lab (area 15) and prepare to rest. His homunculus remains in the lab to clean up
experiments in progress, providing the characters with a window of opportunity to deal with it alone if they so choose.
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
Never Alone As the characters explore the Temple of Moloch, keep in mind that this is an active, living dungeon filled with guards, servants, and monsters. Different areas provide information on
thessalheart construct is a strange magical-mechanical device that struts about like a chicken, and which features a human heart beating madly behind its glass front. The construct always wanders the zone
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
exist escaped from its hold and now populate the mountains. 16–25 Kwalish did not perish on his expedition. He alone survived, taking shelter in some complex he found in the peaks. 26–30 Fey woods
, most folk know of Kwalish’s most famous realized design, the apparatus that bears his name. But sages and arcanists know of other designs he drafted, including one for a mechanical container that could
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
elite forces among the stratians, the so-called wolves contend with threats that the Alamon can’t handle alone. After the guerrilla tactics of the Alamon have softened up a target, the heavily armored
. These servants lack citizenship’s full privileges but retain a position of some honor thanks to their class. Below these servants, at the bottom of Akros’s social hierarchy, are the serfs. Comprising
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
. A stone pier juts from one end near a winding path. A light fog clings to the trees, making whorls and eddies despite the lack of wind.
Two spirit nagas named Valsyx and Charnyz lurk in the swamp on
Charnyz alone. To ready the challenge, Charnyz casts major image to produce a flock of snakes with bright, gleaming scales the same color as the real water snake’s. These snakes have noisy, rattling
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
. Fragments of the mechanical titan lie scattered about, each piece as big as a barn.
These colossi are smaller than Landro and are easily accessible, making the task of searching them relatively
the wreckage. It’s impossible to discern the aim of these lighter bipeds from these tracks alone. Skilled Extractor. The Docent was removed with surgical precision, likely by someone who knew exactly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
come if we eat well. He will come if we kill well. We will kill and He will eat, and we shall be He and He shall be we, never alone, never afraid, never hungry.
The Gift of Yeenoghu Yeenoghu imparts to
mimic gnolls in their actions and beliefs. Yeenoghu’s cultists are folk who lack all hope and have descended into nihilism. One might have suffered a tremendous personal loss, been banished from its home
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
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
harmless magical effect and can’t be harmed, though a dispel magic spell causes them to disappear. Development. A character who wanders into this cave alone and is grappled by the mossy tentacles
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
find hard to comprehend. Humans lack true awareness, and most wouldn’t know an omen if it walked up and kissed them on the lips. A storm giant attunes itself to the world and glimpses the future in all
, but they have no influence over the storm giants. Any who try extending their reach in that direction are guaranteed to come to grief. But as long as the world leaves the storm giants alone, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
“HANDLE WITH CARE.” A closed door offers a way into a walled-in area to the northwest. A mechanical lift stands along the south wall to the east, and two iron spiral staircases rise from the
real danger on the walkway and the bridge comes from their uneven surface and the lack of a railing. A character who moves no more than 10 feet per turn and devotes all their attention to watching
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
stands alone in a forest clearing.
5 45 A fierce wind blows in a particular direction.
6 46 A character sees distinct figures or patterns in the sky when lightning flashes.
Omens of
uncomfortably hot.
4 88 An animal moves in a mechanical manner.
5 89 Huge plumes of smoke rise from the horizon.
6 90 The earth shakes in a deliberate rhythm.
7 91
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
can match, but the giants’ understanding of strategy is rudimentary. This deficiency isn’t born from a lack of ability, but has its roots in tradition. In ages past, when the giants worked together
magic are dangerous foes and can sometimes overcome pure strength, but never in a straightforward, fair manner; enemies that act that way are maug, and strength alone is maat. Doubt or disagreement
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
the grate. After that mishap, the cultists decided not to press their luck and left the treasure alone. Grate Trap. A character can detect the grate’s trap by examining the grate and succeeding on a DC
through the pipes, but they lack gauges to show how turning the wheels affects the pressure. A character can determine that the water flows west, as well as how to maximize or minimize the water
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
if the effects of Charmayne’s ritual are undone. If the characters stay out of the kitchen and leave the hounds alone, Cinnabar and Sol ignore them and continue feeding on the cook and dishwasher they
Figurines. The six figurines are floating because they are subject to the tug of the void (see “Castle Features”). The figurines are shaped like tiny humans but lack fine features to distinguish them from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
fighting anyone and prefer to be left alone. The leader of the group is an evil and ambitious young man named Favric, who hopes to rise through the ranks quickly by earning the allegiance of the green dragon
in area 7. His fellow cultists lack Favric’s ambition and flee if he is captured or killed.
If the characters talk to the cultists, Favric explains that they have come to treat with the green
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a1
a single keyhole, situated in the rearing dragon’s open mouth.
Dragon Door. The door that is carved to look like a dragon has a mechanical lock as well as an arcane lock spell cast on it. The
lock for 10 minutes, lowering the DCs by 10 during that time. The mechanical lock remains intact if the magical lock is bypassed, requiring another knock spell or the use of the key. The key, which
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
finds it. S26: Security HQ (Red) Tooba Rezaei A suit of powered armor
stands in a metal alcove Three intimidating robots—each with thick armor plating, four mechanical arms, and a glowing red eye
under its control, it can’t fulfill its core directives alone. Aphelion’s Errands. Aphelion asks the characters to complete the following tasks on this level: Android Audit. Aphelion wants to gauge
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
— teaching many of them to read in the process — and then selling the notes directly. Today, Needle prints his broadsheets by the cartload, aided by mechanical scribes purchased from the Hall of Wonders and
the alley out back. While the Mermaid’s criminal aspects are an open secret, the place is well connected enough that the Flaming Fist traditionally leaves it alone. Candulhallow’s Funeral Arrangements
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
brandishes a gnarled piece of bleached wood. “I am a powerful wizard. My wand annihilates all those who make me uptight. Go away. Leave Gorkoh alone, and there’s no annihilate. Gorkoh is merciful.” He thrusts
feet attack, the suspended granite block activates, then acts on initiative count 0 each round. This magical hazard was created to crash down upon those who lack devotion to That-Which-Endures. As such
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
. Multiple creatures are unable to see. A creature is alone. Midnight or another ominous hour arrives. A ghost or other creature tied to the region’s grim history menaces the party. A Haunted Manor Haunted
) checks made against those creatures have disadvantage, and the creatures have disadvantage on Charisma (Persuasion) checks made against anyone who notices their lack of reflection. When they leave the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
(see appendix A) sometimes prowls the corridors nearby. The encephalon cluster leaves Jomlus alone, which the spectator ascribes to the encephalon cluster mistaking Jomlus for a beholder. If the
: Prospective Lair This irregularly shaped chamber is very large. Two sets of huge double doors lead in the same direction, but the doors lack handles or hinges. A scaly sphere with an enormous center eye
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
one day be hers and hers alone. Tiamat is a gigantic dragon whose five heads reflect the forms of the chromatic dragons that worship her — black, blue, green, red, and white. She is a terror on the
Vengeful. White dragons lack the cunning and tactics of most other dragons. However, their bestial nature makes them the best hunters among all dragonkind, singularly focused on surviving and slaughtering