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Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
titanic sauropod often likened to a walking mountain, with craggy spines, patterns of elemental energy that glow in its hide like streams of lava, and eight massive legs the size of ancient trees. It
creates gullies where its tail drags along the ground. Clouds often seem to gather around its head, which can reach as high as 150 feet off the ground.
Dinosaurs
When Annam’s children first
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
the Dead. They guard the temples of the Undying Court and the mansions of the noble lines of Aerenal, and Aereni ambassadors are often accompanied by undead bodyguards. Undying soldiers wear heirloom
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Bear King cuts an impressive figure and is renowned for his size and strength. He tries to be honorable, but he is often merciless and doesn't change his mind easily. He has trouble relating to Ten
wives in six years, each of whom died while she was pregnant. His advisors fear that the gods have cursed Gunvald and the entire tribe. In truth, the king's doting shaman, Ulkora, lusts for him and
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
are most often encountered as spacefaring mercenaries. These troops are renowned for their martial training and love of explosives and are typically armed with gleaming firearms.
Every aspect of these
spacefaring giff’s society is organized along military lines. From birth until death, each has a military rank. Promotions don’t depend on time in service but are granted by superiors as
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
room: these burly folk are 7-foot-tall, hippopotamus-headed people. In Wildspace and its associated ports, giff are most often encountered as spacefaring mercenaries. These troops are renowned for
their martial training and love of explosives and are typically armed with gleaming firearms.
Every aspect of these spacefaring giff’s society is organized along military lines. From birth until
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
people. In Wildspace and the associated ports, giff are most often encountered as spacefaring mercenaries. These troops are renowned for their martial training, and love of explosives and are typically
armed with gleaming pistols and muskets. The stat block here represents one of those mercenaries.
Every aspect of these spacefaring giff’s society is organized along military lines. From birth
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
AC against that attack and potentially causing the attack to miss.The rarest and most powerful of the draconians are the masterminds—spellcasters and strategists who most often serve as military
commanders or as advisors to those who created them. They emerge from gold, red, or amethyst dragon eggs, wingless but possessed of an arsenal of eldritch power. Like their dragon progenitors
Species
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
. Medani advisors specialize in risk assessment and management, protecting clients from both physical and social threats. While Medani overlaps with the inquisitives of House Tharashk and the bodyguards of
between the other dragonmarked houses. Many Medani heirs are more interested in helping their communities than in raw profit, and Medani heirs often work with local law enforcement or help those who can’t afford their services.
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
people. In Wildspace and the associated ports, giff are most often encountered as spacefaring mercenaries. These troops are renowned for their martial training, and love of explosives and are typically
armed with gleaming pistols and muskets. The stat block here represents one of those mercenaries.
Every aspect of these spacefaring giff’s society is organized along military lines. From birth
Minotaur
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Species
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
from about 1 foot long to great, curling weapons easily three times that length. They often ornament their horns with metal rings or sheathe them in metal to protect them from damage.
Manes of shaggy
the most prominent, with thousands of members descended from an ancient hero who is said to have taught minotaurs the arts of war. Other important family lines include the Kharran line (primarily
Backgrounds
Ghosts of Saltmarsh
again until after it has been pulled ashore and fully repaired.
Suggested Characteristics
Shipwrights are resourceful carpenters and designers. They often have a dedicated spot at the local
their hands and often perform feats of carpentry that others might deem miraculous.
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PERSONALITY TRAIT
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I love talking and being heard more than I like to listen.
2
I
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Descended from efreet, the genies of the Elemental Plane of Fire, fire genasi channel the flamboyant and often destructive nature of flame. They show their heritage in their skin tones, which can
lines tracing over their bodies like cracks. Fire genasi hair can resemble threads of fire or sooty smoke.
Genasi
Tracing their ancestry to the genies of the Elemental Planes, each genasi can tap into
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Morte’s Planar Parade
influenced by Mechanus and composed of simple geometric shapes charges creatures that enter the angular canyons it inhabits. It moves only in straight lines and turns only at right angles. 3 Stirges drawn
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
eager to lead its followers directly to Mechanus, where they can make an unremarkable report. Inconsistent If the characters provided inconsistent details about the Outlands—several accurate and
reflect their bias for a particular philosophy or alignment, the modrons act in opposition. The Skewed Data Results table notes X01’s personality after being influenced by data skewed along the lines of
Sorcerer
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Classes
Basic Rules (2014)
unpredictable. Some draconic bloodlines produce exactly one sorcerer in every generation, but in other lines of descent every individual is a sorcerer. Most of the time, the talents of sorcery appear as
like to stay quiet. A sorcerer’s magic wants to be wielded, and it has a tendency to spill out in unpredictable ways if it isn’t called on. Sorcerers often have obscure or quixotic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
and inquisitives. Medani advisors specialize in risk assessment and management, protecting clients from both physical and social threats. While Medani overlaps with the inquisitives of House Tharashk
break out between the other dragonmarked houses. Many Medani heirs are more interested in helping their communities than in raw profit, and Medani heirs often work with local law enforcement or help those who can’t afford their services.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
Exploring Automata CoupleOfKooks “You think Automata’s straight streets and ticks and tocks are order?! Wake up! The powers of Mechanus don’t want what’s best for you. They want you predicable
. Don’t feed yourself to their machine!”
–Legis, former Council of Anarchy member before being imprisoned in Mechanus
As the characters approach Automata, read the following description: Rigid beings
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
House Medani The Warning Guild of House Medani brokers the services of bodyguards and inquisitives. Medani advisors specialize in risk assessment and management, protecting clients from both physical
more interested in helping their communities than in profit, and Medani heirs often work with law enforcement or help those who can’t afford their services.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
connect to. Each gate-town shares many of the characteristics of the plane where its gate leads. Planar emissaries often meet in these gate-towns, so it isn’t unusual to see strange interactions, such as
a Celestial and a Fiend arguing in a tavern while sharing a fine bottle of wine. Gate-Towns of the Outlands Town Gate Destination Automata Mechanus Bedlam Pandemonium Curst Carceri Ecstasy
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
observatories are built in the wilderness. Such locations are often isolated, and the staff that work in these remote locales are famous for eccentricities born out of extended loneliness and isolation
communicate with far-off individuals. Regional Effects Observatories are places of wonder that bridge the known world and the cosmos, so observatories and their environs are often affected by supernatural
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Pharika’s Champions The champions of Pharika are custodians of her experiments, keepers of her secrets, and practitioners of her esoteric arts. They serve as doctors, herbalists, and advisors as
often as they do assassins and poisoners. The Pharika’s Quests table suggests a few adventures the god’s champions might involve themselves in. Pharika’s Quests d6 Adventure Goal
1 Concoct the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Miniatures Often, players can rely on your descriptions to imagine where their characters are in relation to their surroundings and their enemies. Certain combat encounters, however, can benefit from
with a tape measure, string, rulers, or pipe cleaners cut to specific lengths. Another option is a play surface covered by 1-inch hexagons (often called hexes), which makes movement more flexible
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Boo’s Astral Menagerie
Giff It’s easy to spot giff in a room: these burly folk are 7-foot-tall, hippopotamus-headed people. In Wildspace and its associated ports, giff are most often encountered as spacefaring mercenaries
military lines. From birth until death, each has a military rank. Promotions don’t depend on time in service but are granted by superiors as rewards for valor. Muskets and grenades are the specialties of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Deep Gnomes Deep gnomes, or svirfneblin, are the pragmatic and often grumpy cousins of the gnome family, who live deep underground. The Underdark is full of danger, meaning that deep gnomes spend
is marked by smooth, curving shapes rather than straight lines and hard edges. Svirfneblin are intensely community-minded and have little concern about privacy among themselves. Thus, they don’t
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
render and describe, to write and to read, and to pass on information. In legend, Deneir is often portrayed as being a scribe in service to Oghma, and he is sometimes thought of as Oghma’s right hand
, to preserving written works, and also to experiencing them, for they say that Deneir himself is hidden within the lines, shapes, and passages of all written works. Priests of Deneir take an oath of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
streets to the harbor, often sweeping along unattended baskets, dead animals, and even clumsy or unlucky Chultans in its tow. Foot bridges of rope and bamboo hang above the ravine. Some of them are 200
feet long or longer and sway a hundred feet above ground, terrifying the faint of heart. Skilled thieves have been known to drop hooks on thin lines from the bridges and “fish” purses right off victims
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
lines or who miss cues. Backstage crew members fare better, as Quentillius regards them as crucial and often brings them and the director flowers or notes of thanks. While Quentillius is a powerful
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
campaign inspired by the works of H. P. Lovecraft or Clark Ashton Smith? Or do you envision a world of muscled barbarians and nimble thieves, along the lines of the classic sword-and-sorcery books by
selfish reasons. Technology and society are based on medieval norms, though the culture isn’t necessarily European. Campaigns often revolve around delving into ancient dungeons in search of treasure or in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Astral Adventurer’s Guide
rendering of a mysterious star chart that pulsates occasionally with scintillating colors. 7 The ship’s air envelope has a salty, briny smell. 8 Bulkheads throughout the ship have lines of poetry scrawled
on them. 9 Unattended tools often go missing, only to reappear 1d4 hours later in another part of the ship. 10 A creature seated in the ship’s spelljamming helm hears faint spacefaring chanteys in its mind except when the ship is under attack.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Using Miniatures In combat, players can often rely on your descriptions to visualize where their characters are in relation to their surroundings and their enemies. Some complex battles, however, are
hexagons (often called hexes), which combines the easy counting of a grid with the more flexible movement of using no grid. Dungeon corridors with straight walls and right angles don’t map easily onto hexes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Chaotic Good, Neutral Good Bytopia Lawful Good, Neutral Good Carceri Chaotic Evil, Neutral Evil Elysium Neutral Good Gehenna Lawful Evil, Neutral Evil Hades Neutral Evil Limbo Chaotic Neutral Mechanus
Celestials. The Lower Planes are the home of Fiends. The planes in between host their own unique denizens: for example, modrons are Constructs that inhabit Mechanus, and slaadi are Aberrations that thrive
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Psychological Horror Psychological horror stories create suspense by heightening or calling into question characters’ states of mind, emotions, and perceptions. They often highlight the difference
. Uncertainty, paranoia, and blurred lines between reality and fiction also shape psychological horror stories. In your adventures, this might take the form of unreliable information. Characters might experience
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
Fire Genasi Traits Descended from efreet, the genies of the Elemental Plane of Fire, fire genasi channel the flamboyant and often destructive nature of flame. They show their heritage in their skin
or glowing red lines tracing over their bodies like cracks. Fire genasi hair can resemble threads of fire or sooty smoke. As a fire genasi, you have the following traits. Creature Type. You are a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
appearances, griffons are often associated with royalty and are widely called the Masters of Animals. Countless tales surround griffons. Roll on or choose a result from the Griffon Tales table to inspire
stories about them. People think we flew high over the city to avoid weather vanes and laundry lines and whatnot. Truth is, if the griffons smelled how much horse meat trotted just below, folks would have
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
the footsteps of this ancestor, living as the patron did. In this way, the champion comes to embody their ancestor, allowing the dead to live on. The Tairnadal have three distinct lines: the Draleus
Tairn, the Silaes Tairn, and the Valaes Tairn. All three lines roam the northern plains of Aerenal, having left the forest long ago, but the Valaes Tairn now reside mostly in Valenar, being the