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Returning 35 results for 'mechanical some with only are feared for look'.
Species
Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
Warforged are mechanical beings built as weapons to fight in the Last War. An unexpected breakthrough produced sentient beings made from wood and metal that nevertheless can feel pain and emotion
look of their face, limbs, and plating.
Warforged Traits
Creature Type: ConstructSize: Medium (about 6–8 feet tall) or Small (about 3–4 feet tall), chosen when you select this speciesSpeed: 30 feet
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 2: Dragonlance Creatures
):
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
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
’t think of anything to look forward to.
Ideals
d6
Ideal
1
Guild. My guild is all that really matters. (Any)
2
Wealth. I will do whatever it takes to
become as rich as the oligarchs. (Evil)
3
Power. One day, I will be the one giving orders. (Evil)
4
Prestige. I want to be admired, respected, feared, or even hated for my position
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 The gynosphinx appears to have suffered ancient injuries to its head, which have healed and been replaced by mechanical components.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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Clue in the Bayou At the end of the characters’ first Exam in Professor Lang’s class, she takes them aside with a grave look on her face. She waits for the other students to leave the room before she
addresses the characters: “It is as we feared. Murgaxor has been lurking around campus ever since he dared to manipulate Dean Tullus. We still don’t know his plans, but we’ve traced his most recent
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->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
Warforged Ignacio Bazan-Lazcano Warforged are mechanical beings built as weapons to fight in the Last War. An unexpected breakthrough produced sentient beings made from wood and metal that
an artificer to customize the look of their face, limbs, and plating. Warforged Traits Creature Type: Construct
Size: Medium (about 6–8 feet tall) or Small (about 3–4 feet tall), chosen when you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
and in its wake, artificers across Khorvaire made many magical and mechanical advances—but none quite as impressive as the elemental airship. With its intricately carved soarwood hull and distinctive
Lyrandar’s control of the skies, but for now, adventurers look to Lyrandar airships as the foremost means of transcontinental travel.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
7. Halls of Selvetarm The lesser deity Selvetarm serves Lolth. Also known as the Spider That Waits, Selvetarm is worshiped and feared by drow for his battle prowess and blood lust. These rooms are
dedicated to him. 7a. Cobbleskulls The floor of this 20-foot-high antechamber is sunken a few inches and covered wall-to-wall with humanoid skulls that are yellow and brittle with age. They look like
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->Tomb of Annihilation
this grotto as a lair but feared Batiri goblins had sniffed out its location and were getting ready to raid it. Needle was in the process of moving her treasure to other locations when the goblins
-foot-wide, 10-foot-high secret door in the northwest wall of the grotto conceals a 15-foot-deep alcove. The secret door is carved from natural rock and disguised to look like part of the wall, and all
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
meant to be the benefit you brought to the people under your stewardship, not this stone edifice. As you looked only to your death in life, so shall you look only to your life in death. “I am bound to
fulfill your curse, for you have called it down with power in my name. But I also curse you, Amun Sa, that you shall not voyage into the beyond until some mortal soul does as you so feared, removing
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->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->Infernal Machine Rebuild
eventual experimental subjects. They attempt to look like Mack Francache, Seodra the gemsmith, or anyone else they’ve seen pass through the cell area in order to escape. 10f. This cell is sealed off behind a
Impersonation trait to create copies of anyone approaching too closely. Manipulating Time Having a mechanical guide spend 1 charge in this area causes one of the cell doors (chosen at random
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
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
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
are the details of the overland journey. If you don’t want to play out that journey, the characters’ mechanical guide can use its teleportation ability to take them to the temple. If the characters
the tomb is he who plans its construction.” Characters who have a chance to look around this area can also find calligrapher’s supplies; a forgery kit; spell scrolls of arcane lock, glyph of warding, and legend lore; a wand of secrets; and a strongbox containing 30 pp.
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
hands formed from solid gold. A wooden flying machine has wings that flap when it becomes airborne. A miniature model of a mechanical dragon turtle has a brass plate affixed to its pedestal that reads
temple, Valetta identifies it as Nim, a nimblewright that was gifted to the temple by a Lantanese wizard. If they describe the incident involving the mechanical bird, Valetta sighs and leads them up a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
threatening the peace. Kingpins can often come to an agreement with the Watch, though, offering bribes so that Watch officers look the other way. Every month, the kingpin makes their payment to the
— provided doing so is profitable. Her methods are vicious when necessary, and she is as feared as she is respected. Keene has become increasingly intolerant of the populous tide turning against her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
her unconscious body far from the kingdom’s shore to a secret grotto in which the reclusive medusa Euryale lived alone. Despite Euryale’s anxiety (she was painfully aware that even kind folk feared her
sharing with Euryale all the esoteric interests she had pursued as a child. The two were sisters in all but blood, for Euryale didn’t pressure Asteria to conform to her ways or to look her in the eye
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
threatening the peace. Kingpins can often come to an agreement with the Watch, though, offering bribes so that Watch officers look the other way. Every month, the kingpin makes their payment to the
— provided doing so is profitable. Her methods are vicious when necessary, and she is as feared as she is respected. Keene has become increasingly intolerant of the populous tide turning against her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monstrous Compendium Volume Two
study various scientific pursuits to create mechanical marvels. Nevermind Gnome Inventor Brimming with innovative ideas and reckless enthusiasm, the inventors of Mount Nevermind love any chance to
mastermind quickly assembles a clockwork gadget, producing one of the following effects (the mastermind’s choice):
Chattergrab. Parts of this gadget look like gnashing metal teeth. This gadget hurtles
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
in a conventional way; you look as if you’re producing wonders using mundane items or outlandish inventions. Tools Required You produce your artificer spell effects through your tools. You must have
effect. If you cast cure wounds using alchemist’s supplies, you could be quickly producing a salve. If you cast it using tinker’s tools, you might have a miniature mechanical spider that binds wounds
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
mail, passing messages, asking requests for assistance via several sending stones, or handing out welcome packs to new recruits, her multiple arms make it all look easy. Sor’kur has white chitin
inspectors wear meticulously maintained uniforms and the most-feared white gloves in the academy. Both have walnut-colored skin and carefully groomed long black hair, kept in tidy buns. Kip is well known for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
above the middle of the floor. 17a. Temple of Ghaunadaur Ghaunadaur, a god of subterranean horrors, is respected and feared by many Underdark races, including drow. This temple contains the following
stone altar supports a harp-shaped sculpture. Worked into the harp’s design is a female elf carved to look like she is leaping into the air, carefree, with her head and arms thrown back
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
large windows that look out over the harbor. To one side of a central pillar rests a comfortable bed, its oak headboard carved to resemble a kraken. An oak dining table surrounded by six high-backed
a life-size mechanical unicorn ridden by a mechanical drow ranger waving two scimitars (when a lever under the float is pulled, the unicorn farts a 15-foot cone of confetti, which it can do twice
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
would never be fooled by such deception again. 6 I was poor or I feared becoming poor, so I learned the tricks I needed to keep myself out of poverty. Criminal d6 I became a criminal because … 1 I
caused me to leave my family to see the world. I look after myself. 2 I ran away from a bad situation at home and made my own way in the world. 3 Monsters wiped out my village, and I was the sole
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
dons short wooden stilts and heavy robes to look taller and more imperious. The rest of the tribe hunts for food, plundering crops and livestock from nearby farms if the hunt goes poorly. Xvarts
duplicate. These are the xvarts, creatures that not only look identical to Raxivort in appearance but also foil any magic used to track him down. Spells, rituals, and other effects that could reveal
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
effort, both in game and around the table. What should a headquarters look like initially? Do the characters prefer to travel by land or by sea, or to operate from a fixed location? Is a ruined keep
true, the orcs won’t come back (probably). This abandoned lighthouse headquarters is strong enough to stand against any storm (probably), and many of the leaks have been fixed already. And just look at
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
provides no mechanical benefits. It shrinks away to nothing after 1 hour. Gambling Fever After the characters have had time to look around, or if they make for the cavern straight away, read: A murmur of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
. Look for ways to raise the stakes of a scene, so players feel that every decision matters. This could be driven by the consequences of failure: through your actions, you’re protecting your friends
spread to his clothes.
Combat can feel very mechanical. I move 10 feet. I make an attack roll. I use a reaction. One way for the DM to encourage more cinematic action is to present a list of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
larger than normal and was crafted by giants for use by their smaller allies. 19 Gnome. The item is crafted to appear ordinary, and it might look worn. It could also incorporate gears and mechanical
on its other magical properties. For example, the wearer could make a red robe appear blue, or make a gold ring look like it’s made of ivory. The item reverts to its true appearance when no one is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
speed. They usually have coats of a single color, often with a shine that can look metallic in bright light. Pheres band centaurs typically have long, nimble legs and lean bodies, and are often marked
side, and can speak to animals to learn about the surrounding lands. Trompers are the most powerful and feared warriors of the herd. Centaur legends say that when the gods first fashioned humans from