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Monsters
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
. While vegepygmies can sustain themselves by absorbing nutrients from soil and other organic matter, they prefer a carnivorous diet achieved through hunting and scavenging. Vegepygmies can live
indefinitely so long as the climate remains hospitable to their fungal bodies.
To learn more about vegepygmies, see Monsters of the Multiverse.Lightning, PiercingNimble Escape. The vegepygmy takes the Disengage or Hide action.
Monsters
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
vegepygmies can sustain themselves by absorbing nutrients from soil and other organic matter, they prefer a carnivorous diet achieved through hunting and scavenging. Vegepygmies can live indefinitely so
long as the climate remains hospitable to their fungal bodies.
To learn more about vegepygmies, see Monsters of the Multiverse.Lightning, Piercing
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Chromatic Awakening (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). If the greatwyrm would be reduced to 0 hit points, its current hit point total instead resets to 425 hit points, it recharges its Breath
under their scales, and elemental forces rage around them when they exert their wrath. They no longer need to eat or drink, as their vast hoards magically sustain them. And their power can raze a city
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Chromatic Awakening (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). If the greatwyrm would be reduced to 0 hit points, its current hit point total instead resets to 425 hit points, it recharges its Breath
glows under their scales, and elemental forces rage around them when they exert their wrath. They no longer need to eat or drink, as their vast hoards magically sustain them. And their power can raze a
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
lethargic and compliant. A creature afflicted in this way over a long period of time becomes a shell of its former self and can be restored to normalcy only by magic.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Way of the Long Death Monks of the Way of the Long Death are obsessed with the meaning and mechanics of dying. They capture creatures and prepare elaborate experiments to capture, record, and
required) to have 1 hit point instead. Touch of the Long Death Starting at 17th level, your touch can channel the energy of death into a creature. As an action, you touch one creature within 5 feet of you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Boo’s Astral Menagerie
Space Guppy Space guppies are 2- to 3-foot-long, fish-like creatures that glide through Wildspace and the Astral Sea. Chwinga astronauts (described earlier in this book), sprites, and other Tiny
has at least 1 hit point, the guppy can generate an air envelope around itself when in a vacuum. This air envelope can sustain the guppy and one other Tiny creature in its space indefinitely.
Flyby
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
of a female gnome in leather armor. She speaks Common and Gnomish, and is surprised to see the characters. Halaster trapped her in the mirror so long ago that she has lost track of time. The gnome
immunity to poison and psychic damage. Breaking it or casting a successful dispel magic spell (DC 19) on the mirror frees the gnome. However, without the mirror’s magic to sustain her life, she instantly ages and dies, leaving nothing but dust, bones, and scraps of leather armor behind.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Background Grand Secretary Wei Feng Ying governs at the emperor’s command. For years, she has known that imperial alchemists sustain the emperor’s life using potions of longevity enhanced with an
search unearthed ancient court documents mentioning a secret cache belonging to the Mountain Cloud Empress, a mysterious figure of the long-fallen Yun dynasty. Secretary Wei gave orders to begin
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
provide the sparks that can ignite and sustain a campaign. The most common pitfall of serial stories without a set beginning, middle, and end is inertia. Like many television shows and comic-book series
, a D&D campaign runs the risk of retreading the same ground long after the enjoyment’s gone. Just as actors or writers drift away from those other mediums, so can players — the actors and writers of a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
effect of an enlarge/reduce spell. The effect lasts for 1 hour. Ten minutes before the effect ends, the creature feels a tingling sensation, at which point it can sustain its current size by eating
pygmywort is a mushroom with a one-inch-long stem and a stubby blue cap with white dots. A creature that eats one can choose to make a DC 12 Constitution saving throw to not be affected by the mushroom’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Fear and Horror The rules for fear and horror can help you sustain an atmosphere of dread in a dark fantasy campaign. Fear When adventurers confront threats they have no hope of overcoming, you can
characters to make a Charisma saving throw to resist the horror. Set the DC based on the magnitude of the horrific circumstances. On a failed save, a character gains a short-term or long-term form of madness that you choose or determine randomly, as detailed in chapter 8, "Running the Game.”
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
crate holds enough provisions to sustain twelve people for a month, as long as the supplies are supplemented with fish and fresh water from the camp. If the characters tell Barthen that they intend to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
great span of the world. You seek to act with the long-term interests of nature in mind. 4 The sea is a constant, churning cauldron of power and chaos. It reminds you that accepting change is necessary
to sustain yourself in the world. 5 The birds in the sky are evidence that even the smallest creatures can survive if they remain above the fray. 6 As demonstrated by the actions of the wolf, an individual’s strength is nothing compared to the power of the pack.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
Xaryxis The light of Xaryxis has nourished the Xaryxian Empire for millennia, serving as a wellspring for the magical power that the astral elves of Xaryxispace use to sustain their empire. A
leaving the host world a barren husk. Although Xaryxis shines brilliantly after each replenishment, it isn’t long before the light of Xaryxis begins to wane once more, presaging the doom of another
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
. Accustomed to inspiring fear, and having grown somewhat lazy in its guardian role, it is usually content to let foes flee from it rather than pursuing. Each time the characters finish a long rest in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
crime syndicate, while the others include the following groups: Voice of
BRELAND
Blood ADDICTS’ Dragon Drug
Imagine it: a long-lasting state of euphoria, a feeling of power and energy, a measurable
to establish your own headquarters and direct the activities of the 3d6 criminals who work for you. By claiming a 15 percent share of their take, you can rely on an income that will sustain you at a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
Immunities prone
Senses darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 16
Languages Deep Speech, Undercommon
Challenge 3 (700 XP)
Hover. The spectator hovers as long as it is alive.
Telepathy. The
spectator creates enough food and water to sustain itself for 24 hours.
Reactions
Spell Reflection. If the spectator makes a successful saving throw against a spell, or a spell misses it, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
seeps into the hall through cracks in the arched, 20-foot-high ceiling, spilling onto a 40-foot-long stone table surrounded by stone chairs as big as thrones.
Dishware. Shallow niches in the walls
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
. Furniture, whether by its arrangement or removal, can suggest a specific location. Props can even represent game mechanics, such as tracking hit points with crimson flat glass marbles in clear goblets
-game items are kept away from the play space. Perhaps phones and tablets are permitted as long as they are silenced and used away from the table. Additionally, not everyone is comfortable being
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Bugbears. Two bugbears stand guard at the east end of this long hall, where it narrows to a width of 10 feet.
Dart Traps. The northern wall conceals five poison dart traps, triggered by hidden
to the tender mercies of Commander Sundeth (see “Skullport”). Supplies. The barrels and crates here contain enough water and dry food to sustain a single person for 600 days or Shunn’s gang for 30
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
nine walking sticks, each lovingly carved from a different kind of wood. H3: Hall Six wooden posts support the roof of this simple hall. Sturdy benches of hardened clay line the walls, and a long
long chest. An alcove in the far wall displays a small statue of a leaping stag.
This is Derwyth’s private resting chamber. Treasure. The stag statue in the alcove is made of fine wood and worth
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
flesh out your encounter in these ways, go right ahead and finish your creation. Otherwise, take a look at the following sections for some basic advice on adding flavor elements to the simple mechanics
ground can go a long way toward spicing up an encounter. Consider setting your encounter in an area that would provide challenges even if a fight were not taking place there. What potential perils or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
? Does replacing the feature affect how long the party can continue adventuring in a day? Does the feature consume resources provided elsewhere in the class? Does the feature work all the time, or is it
regained after a short rest, a long rest, or some other length of time? Armed with answers to these questions, you can start designing new features that replace the ones you are removing. It’s fine if
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
, and elemental forces rage around them when they exert their wrath. They no longer need to eat or drink, as their vast hoards magically sustain them. And their power can raze a city to the ground
Long Rest). If the greatwyrm would be reduced to 0 hit points, its current hit point total instead resets to 425 hit points, it recharges its Breath Weapon, and it regains any expended uses of Legendary
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
star moth gets close enough to use its mangonel (at long range). Once that happens, Sartell orders her ship to turn about and close with the astral elves as quickly as possible to minimize the Dark
floor; this hexagon stabilizes the helm, allowing it to swivel while holding it in place. The Dark Star’s cargo hold contains enough food and water to sustain the ship’s crew for twenty days.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
where those affairs interfere with their own. They hunger for long-forgotten knowledge and the most terrible secrets. Because the shadow of death doesn’t hang over them, they can conceive plans that
take years, decades, or centuries to come to fruition. A lich is a gaunt and skeletal humanoid with withered flesh stretched tight across its bones. Its eyes succumbed to decay long ago, but points of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Life Domain focuses on the positive energy that helps sustain all life in the multiverse. Clerics who tap into this domain are masters of healing, using that life force to cure many hurts.
Existence
). You regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest. Level 6: Improved Warding Flare You regain all expended uses of your Warding Flare when you finish a Short or Long Rest. In addition, whenever
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
feet overhead, and long hallways stretch out on either side of the foyer. Standing in the middle of this area is a middle-aged man wearing gray robes.
Matreous, a neutral human sage (see the stat
characters can’t help Matreous until they find a way to reopen the portal.) Exits. The foyer gives way to a long hallway that runs the length of the extradimensional mansion, with several doors on the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Kiss A death kiss is a lesser beholder that might come into being when a beholder has a vivid nightmare about losing blood. Instead of magical eye rays, it has ten long tentacles, each ending in a
it uses to generate electrical energy inside its body. Paranoid about dying from starvation, it obsessively drains even little creatures such as rats in an effort to stave off this fate for as long as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
regularly hires adventurers as debt collectors. Incanterium. Long thought to have been banished to the Mazes by the Lady of Pain along with their base of operations, members of the Incanterium are slowly
trickling back into the Cage. Called “mage drinkers” by the few who remember them, the aged Incantifers siphon magic to sustain their ancient power. Disturbed residents murmur about the Incanterium’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
grow densely around a long central pool, and harsh bird cries pierce the air.
A Chimera dwells in this room, often lounging in the water or sunning itself in the southwest corner. The hags flatter
that spends the entirety of a Short or Long Rest in this chamber gains the following benefits at the end of the rest: All Exhaustion levels are removed from the creature. The Poisoned condition ends on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
spire’s foundation. This opening leads to area D1. Abandoned Gear. Characters who spend 10 minutes investigating the tents find enough dried meat to sustain one person for ten days, twelve dirty shovels
characters likely have no way of knowing the larger prints are slaadi tracks. Resting near Camp. If the characters take a long rest in the camp or within a mile of the Sunward Fortress, there is a 50
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
and crates of long-spoiled food.
The door to this storage room has remained closed for decades. The room contains nothing of value. B7: Fireworks Storeroom This bone-dry storeroom reeks of sulfur
pixies’ attention for long. The pixies entered the ziggurat two days ago through a crack in the stonework. They don’t know the history of Cynidicea or its fall, but they’ve glimpsed a few of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Areas. The hostel has the following areas: T2a: Courtyard. Stairs from the jetty lead up to this open-air courtyard. T2b: Dining Room. The tower’s visitors eat here. There are two large tables, four long
racks this storeroom, which holds food stores and equipment for the entire tower. Amid the provisions are two explorer’s packs, two scholar’s packs, and enough food and drink to sustain the tower’s