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Mythic Odysseys of Theros
from a thornbearer's bow might rain down like a volley from a whole army.
While most satyrs are known for their high spirits, love of revels, and gregarious personalities, these outgoing people are
tactics and methods of ending conflicts as swiftly as possible. This often means turning the same skills that make them famed celebrants toward battle, be it captivating performances or the aim developed
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
casts one of the following spells, requiring no material components and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 16):
1/day each: command, hold personAvorals are eagle-like bipeds
. Solitary scouts and skirmishers, avorals are nimble aerial combatants, able to swiftly dive at foes from the heavens and tear into them with razor-sharp talons.
Guardinals
Nomadic and peaceful
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
roots. After three days, a sprout emerges from the ground at the base of the tree and swiftly grows into a bipedal form.
This new body, armored in tough bark and bearing a gnarled club and shield, is
, and when not called on to take action, they root themselves in the earth and silently take sustenance from it.
Like trees, wood woads need only sunlight, air, and nutrients from the earth to go on
Monsters
Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
drops to 0 hit points, Caradoc ends it as a bonus action, or he is turned or forced out by an effect like the dispel evil and good spell. When the possession ends, Caradoc reappears in an unoccupied
’s swiftly pulled back if caught beyond its walls without a host.
Personality Trait. “I might be dead, but there’s no reason I can’t live it up a little.”
Ideal. &ldquo
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
portals and paths connected to goodly realms. They have powerfully built, bipedal bodies with the heads of great bears and eyes like pools of silvery light. When warden archons speak, glimmering
radiance shines from within their mouths, punctuating their deep, resonant voices.
A warden archon knows when a creature uses a portal the archon is tasked to guard, and it moves swiftly to interrogate
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
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
like a single organism, acting in concert as if each illithid were the digit of a hand.
An elder brain considers itself and its desires the most important things in the multiverse, and the mind
tempered by its relative immobility. Although its telepathic senses can reach for miles, moving anywhere is always a dangerous proposition. If forced outside its brine pool, an elder brain swiftly expires
Hobgoblin
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
would prefer the position were filled by someone more like himself, but Bargrivyek was all he was left with after Maglubiyet’s conquest. Although both deities are ultimately beholden to
; is often extended to other races the hobgoblins have dealings with, much to the outsiders’ surprise. When such respect isn’t reciprocated, though, relations can swiftly deteriorate.
Reward
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
days or weeks, as appropriate for your adventures. Alternatively, if you’d like to have the plague play out more randomly, roll a d20 each day. If you roll 2 or lower, the stage decreases by one. If you
for Jacqueline Renier to withdraw her infected rat swarms. The cities then repopulate swiftly, with new residents emerging from the Mists to little notice. This ensures that after a period of relative peace, the plague’s next wave is just as devastating as the last.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Fighters “Slow to learn, aren’t they?” a white-haired old knight who’d lost his helm in the last fray drawled. “This is getting to be like a proper romp in the Dragonjaws, it is! I’ll have to get my
minstrel to write a ballad about this…”
“I hope he sings swiftly,” a Purple Dragon armsman growled. “Here they are!”
The howling spilled over the bodies in another rushing tide of flapping leather
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Morte’s Planar Parade
Avoral Guardinal Avorals are eagle-like bipeds with winged arms and keen, golden eyes. Prone to wander, these avian Celestials leave Elysium more frequently than their counterparts, meandering across
the Outlands to wherever the winds might take them. Solitary scouts and skirmishers, avorals are nimble aerial combatants, able to swiftly dive at foes from the heavens and tear into them with razor
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
, which is secretly run by wereravens. They must not open the package and must get it out of Barovia swiftly.
6 A character glimpses a raven-like figure. When they investigate, they find only the mysterious talisman that it left behind.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
to yield. Moving swiftly, she organized her allies, met her brother in battle, and captured him. She intended to execute Arijani, but her sister Reeva counseled her to be merciful. Ultimately, Ramya
conflict swiftly turned vicious. Regretting her past mercy, Ramya captured enemy ranas and executed them using flame and ravenous tigers, while her loyalists put anyone suspected of treason to the sword
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->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
manner of tack, bridle, feed, and other goods necessary to keep up one’s horse. Most farms have farriers, or at least hands that can swiftly shoe a horse, and spare shoes all but litter the town
the nobility. Amphailans are by their nature suspicious of and quiet around folk who openly display wealth or status, having learned early in their lives that nobles are folk who like to throw their
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->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
is immortal and has been tested like no other.” Adventures with Firan Zal’honan Firan Zal’honan is an arrogant, pragmatic, amoral genius. Furthering his schemes or adopting him as a patron can draw a
quests if they’ll assist him in investigating an infamous ruin nearby. A thief stole Firan’s prized amulet—a chain bearing a tiny gold dragon skull. Uncharacteristically agitated, he offers the characters any knowledge he possesses if they retrieve the amulet swiftly.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
correct their failings. Finding like-minded souls took Renier years, but she finally became aware of the mysterious Trueblood Council, a secret society of Richemulot’s eldest and most esteemed
wererat forms. That night, she was inducted into their ranks. Renier swiftly accepted her new life as a wererat and her status as a member of Richemulot’s first inhabitants. Her spite toward the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
potential in working together and swiftly dominated Illithinoch’s other mind flayers. Once they became masters of the stronghold, these three mind flayers engaged in increasingly bizarre and esoteric
and alien whispers, Ilvaash invited the three mind flayers to join the godlet’s psyche—much like mind flayers normally join a hive mind—and leave behind any reliance on Illithinoch’s diseased elder
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Nycaloth The elite airborne shock troops of the yugoloths, nycaloths look like muscular gargoyles. Powerful bat wings bear them swiftly aloft in battle, and the razor-sharp claws of their hands and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
remains of past meals, which puts ettercaps in conflict with Fey. Spiteful ettercaps go out of their way to torment and feed on Fey; they prefer to menace those smaller than themselves, like pixies and
sprites. They rarely devour other sapient creatures swiftly, preferring to cocoon their captives and terrorize them for days. Ettercaps avoid fire, which can quickly burn through their webs and the dead
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
freed, and the following things happen: Lost and Found. Each freed incarnation appears and then swiftly vanishes, dropping one or more magic items (see the “Heroic Equipment” section). The associated
chapter). Feel free to also exclude unique magic items, like the sword Blackrazor, or items you find disruptive, like the deck of many things or a ring of three wishes.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
encourages the characters to recount the whirlwyrm attack. When he’s done reporting, Tyrza says the following: “Whirlwyrms! Lost villagers! Certain peril! Hear that, Glorium?” Tyrza booms. “It sounds like
first to find out what’s happening in Grakenok, and Bkol encourages the characters to act swiftly to keep up with them. Sytri and Tol set off immediately, using their carpet of flying and ship
Kobold
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sent Kurtulmak to retrieve it. Garl lured his pursuer into a maze-like cavern, then collapsed the exits behind him, trapping Kurtulmak for all eternity. Kurtulmak is a hateful deity, one who despises
network of passages beneath the streets, connecting them to a nearby waterway and greatly improving the town’s sanitation. If the kobolds like the area and aren’t mistreated by the humans
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
body of a Humanoid, but he’s swiftly pulled back if caught beyond its walls without a host. Left to Right: Caradoc the Spirit, Caradoc the Soldier, Caradoc the Knight Caradoc
Medium Undead
possession lasts until the body drops to 0 hit points, Caradoc ends it as a bonus action, or he is turned or forced out by an effect like the dispel evil and good spell. When the possession ends, Caradoc
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Morte’s Planar Parade
Warden Archon Warden archons are vigilant, ursine guardians of portals and paths connected to goodly realms. They have powerfully built, bipedal bodies with the heads of great bears and eyes like
archon is tasked to guard, and it moves swiftly to interrogate any who cross that planar boundary. If an invader enters the archon’s plane, the warden strikes with claw and tooth, using its powerful
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
into battle, attacking the largest character and cursing them in Sahuagin (calling them ichor-less tide pool dwellers and the like). If the party wishes to flee, the baron’s gargling guffaws follow them
swiftly retreat. The bulk of Saltmarsh’s troops take up pursuit, with a few remaining to escort the characters away. The party has done enough. It’s time for them to claim their reward.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
their belongings. 6 The guards clear the gate swiftly to let a patriar’s litter pass through. 7 The guards skip the search if a traveler pays 1 gp for “express gate” service. 8 The guards wave travelers
conducted by the book. 8 The guards are spoiling for a fight and attack anyone who looks like they might be guilty. Watch Reactions d8 Reaction 1 The guards immediately arrest the poorest
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
through without searching them or their belongings.
6 The guards clear the gate swiftly to let a patriar’s litter pass through.
7 The guards skip the search if a traveler pays 1 gp for “express
arrested and who goes free.
7 An officer arrives with the group, insuring that any arrests are conducted by the book.
8 The guards are spoiling for a fight and attack anyone who looks like
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
uses the stones in the chamber for cover, but he has no intention of fighting to the death. If this place has been discovered and he can’t swiftly and easily eliminate the intruders, Larrakh tries to
beams, and loose rock to make it look like it has collapsed. A Medium or smaller creature can carefully pick a way through the debris. If someone uses an action to yank out a shoring timber, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
through the darkness. Camouflaged Lurkers. Like a stingray, a cloaker’s body is composed of cartilage and muscle. With its tail and fins unfurled, it flies through darkness and lurks among the shadows
of caverns the same way a stingray glides through water and hides on the ocean floor. Parallel rows of round, black eyespots run along its back like buttons, and the ivory-colored claws on its cowl
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
immediate orders.” “Pay no heed to false reports of an attack on our stronghold above. Our forces under the command of T’rissa Auvryndar have taken Stromkuhldur. Skullport will swiftly follow. Praise
across the ceiling.
East Statue. This statue depicts Lolth in her drow form, kissing a scourge as stone spiders crawl across her body.
3b. Nave Altar. An altar of pale gray stone carved to look like a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
against intruders, and their plans always include knowing the best escape routes and who is responsible for blocking tunnels to deter pursuit. Kobolds feel a cool affinity or something like kinship for
placed in a common tribal hatchery with no effort to keep track of who each one’s mother is. This practice and the communal raising of the hatchlings mean that the tribe operates like a group of cousins
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