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Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
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Whether through accident or depraved genius, some villains use one corpse to create two separate undead. Boneless might adorn the frames of other undead, like skeletons or zombies. The sight of a
vengeance or at the whims of sinister masters. Slipping through cracks and under doors, these stealthy undead seek to adorn living frames once more, wrapping themselves around their victims and wringing
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures
shards of broken glass.
Faerie borrowers often adorn themselves with purloined trophies: stolen keys and needles filed into swords, and buttons and scraps of paper fashioned into clothing. Though
’s faeries, the faeries treat them like distant (and somewhat embarrassing) cousins. Ouphes can be represented with the stat blocks for Pixie;pixies or Sprite;sprites.
Species
One Grung Above
THIS IS NONCORE D&D MATERIAL
These game mechanics are usable in your campaign if your DM allows them but not refined by final game design and editing.
Grungs are aggressive froglike
lookout for creatures they can capture and enslave. Grungs use slaves for all manner of menial tasks, but mostly they just like bossing them around. Slaves are fed mildly poisoned food to keep them
Backgrounds
Ghosts of Saltmarsh
their hands and often perform feats of carpentry that others might deem miraculous.
D8
PERSONALITY TRAIT
1
I love talking and being heard more than I like to listen.
2
I
teeth shall adorn my hearth.
D6
FLAW
1
I don’t know when to throw something away. You never know when it might be useful again.
2
I get frustrated to the
Magic Items
Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
Powered armor resembles a suit of unusual plate armor, with finely articulated joints connected by an oily, black, leather-like material. The armor has been worked to create the appearance of a
metal bosses adorn the armor in seemingly random fashion. On the back of the armor’s left gauntlet is a rectangular metal box, from which projects a short rod tipped with a cone-shaped red
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
and fingers curled like talons, as though ready to leap down and claw at anyone who stands before it (see “Halaster Statue” below).
Frescoes. Six 10-foot-square painted frescoes adorn the walls around
keystone is a sigil.
Statue. An alcove to the south contains a life-size, painted stone statue of Halaster perched atop a 4-foot-tall granite plinth like a vulture, squatting with arms outstretched
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
. Boneless might adorn the frames of other undead, like skeletons or zombies. The sight of a boneless peeling itself from its independently undead frame haunts the nightmares of many seasoned monster
stealthy undead seek to adorn living frames once more, wrapping themselves around their victims and wringing them to death in their full-body grip. Boneless arise in a variety of forms. While the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
city that has been overrun by creatures of the wild.
3 Help establish a new city in a sparsely populated area.
4 Find a treasure to adorn a major landmark of a city.
5 Hunt down a
campaigns less focused on combat and more on social encounters and intrigue. Lastly, a campaign focused on defending a city could present a range of threats, from external foes—like wild creatures or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
patrolling the laboratory section (areas 1 to 23). On a 3–4, it patrols the temple section (areas 24 to 39). There are no fixed mechanics for encounters with the thessalhydra, but feel free to have
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->Tomb of Annihilation
adorn the adjacent walls.
To unlock sarcophagus, the characters must perform a simple ritual at the shrine while wearing the frog masks. The wall frescoes reveal what must be done. Advice from the
the tomb, two on each side of the shrine. Fresco 1. This fresco shows a time when Kubazan used his tentacles to help the Omuans cast down a statue of the god Ubtao: A frog-like behemoth uses its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
crafting clothes to wear, and the latter will dress in elaborate robes. This phenomenon extends to all displays of culture, from modes of architecture to the decorations that adorn illithid funerary
brain jars. Ceremorphosis Mind flayers don’t reproduce in the traditional sense. Instead, they lay eggs from which hatch tadpole-like creatures that are used to make more of their kind through a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation Supplement
crashing waves is constant, day and night. Peeling murals adorn the plastered walls of this throne room, depicting tentacled sea monsters dragging stormtossed ships to their doom. Set into the plaster are
white coral branches and mosaics in the form of sharks made of decorative stones and shells. Pillars carved to look like thick strands of kelp support the cracked, thirty-foot-high domed ceiling. Two
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
bits of metal, is a half-finished exoskeletal construct like the ones you encountered in the room you came from.
This room contains two duergar mechanics (one male, one female), both of whom turn
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
styles and maneuvers after dinosaur attacks, or take inspiration from a glidewing (pteranodon) totem spirit. Or you could simply wear a dinosaur mask (as many Talenta halflings do), adorn yourself
with claws and teeth from past dinosaur companions, or adopt dinosaur-like mannerisms. Wherever you travel, your connection to the dinosaurs of your home remains strong. Finally, it can be helpful to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Shankha Trials, kept at the riverine temple in the current champion’s city until that city hosts the next trials. Smaller shankhas are rare and precious, and they are often worn like pendants by those who
can afford them. Shankha motifs decorate all riverine temples and adorn weaving, white-clay body art, jewelry, children’s toys, pastries, and more. Names The given names of people in Shankhabhumi tend
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
adorn the ceiling. The west wall bears a carving of a beautiful scene of a river and rolling hills inside a stone frame etched with symbols.
The carving of the river scene is a portal to Elysium that
the room slowly comes to life. The carved river begins to flow, and the flowering plants by the river take on color and start to wave in a gentle breeze. The stone frame looks like a portal to this
Orc
Legacy
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
. But even these orcs are trained in combat, and all of them are expected to act like warriors if the lair is attacked or threatened. Their numbers are augmented by any orogs in the tribe, which are
to all orcs, and they adorn their bodies, possessions, and lairs with pigments that produce those hues. Red ochre is used to represent blood, grayish-white ash to represent death, and charcoal to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
principles of honor, courage, and justice. They adorn their armor and clothing with images of growing things — leaves, antlers, or flowers — to reflect their commitment to preserving life and light in the
of an ancient force of nature, taking on an appearance you choose. For example, your skin might turn green or take on a bark-like texture, your hair might become leafy or moss-like, or you might
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
carpentry that others might deem miraculous. Shipwright Personality Traits d8 Personality Trait 1 I love talking and being heard more than I like to listen. 2 I’m extremely fond of puzzles. 3 I
shall adorn my hearth. Shipwright Flaws d6 Flaw 1 I don’t know when to throw something away. You never know when it might be useful again. 2 I get frustrated to the point of distraction by shoddy
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Almiraj Ring Toss “This almiraj is no mirage. Adorn its horn with two or three rings to win a prize!”
This game involves tossing rings over the horn of a wooden statuette of an almiraj (a cute
, bunny-like creature with a horn like a unicorn’s). The almiraj teleports around on a tabletop, making it hard to score a success. A participant gets three rings. Tossing a ring over the almiraj’s horn
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
and weighing 750 pounds) adorn the walls. Sansuri also has a freestanding mirror with an electrum frame (worth 1,500 gp and weighing 500 pounds) and a three-fold wooden privacy screen carved to look
like trees with blowing leaves made of thinly pressed gold and platinum (worth 2,500 gp and weighing 500 pounds). The full-sized Leomund’s secret chest is worth 5,000 gp. Its smaller replica is worth 50
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
while the characters traverse the tunnel. The tunnel continues for what feels like forever before the ceiling suddenly begins to rise. The walls frame an impossibly tall canyon that slowly widens, the
air becoming hot and heavy with the scent of sulfur. Glowing vents of magma fill a huge cavern with a dull red glow. From somewhere ahead, you hear a deep, echoing caw, sounding like the call of some
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
faith, making them proficient with the quarterstaff and nothing else. You could give them a benefit to make up for the loss of proficiencies—something like the monk’s Unarmored Defense class feature, but
their masters, drawn from the sorcerer or wizard lists. Suddenly, the paladin feels like a different class. Be cautious when changing the warlock spell list. Since warlocks regain their spell slots
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monstrous Compendium Volume Four
trees, mushrooms, and moss than most mortals. While ouphes are related to Eldraine’s faeries, the faeries treat them like distant (and somewhat embarrassing) cousins. Ouphes can be represented with
blue or blue-gray skin and wings resembling shards of broken glass. Eric Deschamps Faerie borrowers often adorn themselves with purloined trophies: stolen keys and needles filed into swords, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Dwarvish runes worked into its design. It might be associated with a clan that would like to see it returned to their ancestral halls. 7 Elemental Air. The item is half the normal weight and feels hollow
worked coral (as hard as any metal) replace metal portions. 11–12 Elf. The item is half the normal weight. It is adorned with symbols of nature: leaves, vines, stars, and the like. 13 Fey. The item is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
abhorrent ways. Arms and Armor. Drow craft weapons made of adamantine, a dark and supernaturally hard metal. Drow artisans adorn their weapons and armor with web-like filigree and spider motifs, and
. The drow like to hollow out enormous stalagmites and stalactites, creating populated spires that rise from the floors and ceilings.
Drow
Medium humanoid (elf), neutral evil
Armor Class 15
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
as a longsword, +1 or a suit of chain mail, +1, into a more remarkable discovery. The tables that follow can help you come up with answers. Roll on as many of these tables as you like. Some of the
is durable and has Dwarven runes worked into its design. It might be associated with a clan that would like to see it returned to their ancestral halls. 10 Elemental Air. The item is half the normal
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
tails. Minotaur priests often adorn themselves with sacred items, be they trophies from fallen foes, keepsakes from their homeland, or naturally occurring marks of their god’s favor. Ages of Darkness
into their lands. Epics like The Callapheia also describe multiple heroic minotaurs. As a result, a minotaur traveling in the company of other non-minotaurs is likely to be accepted in any polis. See
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
on the upper shelf. The razerblast sits near the jet of flame, treating it like a campfire. Hidden Exit. The passageway toward area W5 is hidden behind the basalt pillar and positioned high up along
, so they can be climbed like a ladder to the passage. Treasure The giant has a satchel made of chain mail. Inside are 600 gp, thirteen bloodstones worth 50 gp, and a potion of invisibility. W3. Causeway
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
the tomb stands an opaque crystal sarcophagus that is constantly changing color. Minotaur murals adorn the walls on the lower level of the tomb.
The walls of the tomb are lined with secret doors that
of scintillating colors (see "Spirits of the Nine Trickster Gods"). When Unkh’s spirit manifests, read: Slime pours from the folds of the scintillating robe to take the form of multiple flail-like
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
actually the cover of a pit. When a creature steps on the cover, it swings open like a trapdoor, causing the intruder to spill into the pit below. The pit is usually 10 or 20 feet deep but can be deeper
, murals, or frescoes that adorn the walls. The DC to spot them is 15. With a successful DC 15 Intelligence (Investigation) check, a character can deduce the presence of the pressure plate from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
checks made to influence the tower’s guards. The draconians ignore sounds inside the tower. T2: Entry Murals of idyllic life in the flying city adorn this grand foyer’s gray stone walls. One on the west
tower) and attack. Symbol. The symbol on the floor sheds dim orange light out to 5 feet. A character who sees the symbol and succeeds on a DC 16 Wisdom (Perception) check realizes it looks like an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
inside of her spherical home, they’ve said nothing publicly about it. The God Catcher looking in the background The Griffon The walking statue called the Griffon is shaped like the beast for which it is
feathers of its wings spreading like a bird’s, the Griffon now merely stands in a regal pose near Peaktop Aerie atop Mount Waterdeep, looking to the southeast over the Dock Ward. Newcomers sometimes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
knocker shaped like a sheep’s head. The door’s stone frame is decorated with carvings of flowers and small birds. Engraved above the door are the words “Enter in Peace” in Common.
Close inspection of the
, windswept cliff. Books and knickknacks adorn shelves and cabinets around the walls.
When he’s not elsewhere, Hierarch Anish (Medium, Lawful Neutral Commoner) oversees the affairs of the monastery
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
walls of every chamber. In both southern rooms, an obsidian sarcophagus stands upright against the south wall. Ornate carvings of the sarcophagi’s githyanki occupants adorn the lids.
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the ceiling, forming a cylindrical corridor fifteen feet in diameter. The surfaces are inky black but studded with tiny lights like stars in the night sky.
The “stars” embedded in the surfaces of the