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Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
, a foul Undead driven to serve its otherworldly patron.
An powerful necromancer might also discover the wicked methods of creating a deathlock and then subjugate it, acting as the deathlock’s patron.PoisonNecrotic; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks that aren't Silvered
armor, mage hand
1/day each: dispel magic, hunger of Hadar, invisibility, spider climbAn overpowering urge to serve consumes the mind of a newly awakened deathlock. Any goals and ambitions it had in life
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
door, dispel magic, fly, invisibilityThough deathlocks exist to serve their patrons, they retain some freedom when it comes to devising tactics and carrying out plans. Powerful deathlocks recruit
to live up to a bargain with an evil patron runs the risk of rising from the dead as a deathlock, a foul Undead driven to serve its otherworldly patron.
An powerful necromancer might also discover
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
. Hit: 6 (1d8 + 2);{"diceNotation":"1d8+2","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Light Crossbow","rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage.Demos magen wear armor, wield weapons, and typically serve as
guards.
Magen are magical, humanlike beings created by a wizard spell (see the create magen spell in appendix D) or by other arcane methods.
Though magen look like humanoids with green skin, they
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
with an evil patron runs the risk of rising from the dead as a deathlock, a foul Undead driven to serve its otherworldly patron.
An powerful necromancer might also discover the wicked methods of
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
psychic damage dies.When the mind flayers of Bluetspur (see chapter 3) could find no cure for their overlord’s affliction, their degenerating elder brain turned to radical methods to stave off
dementia and death. The results were vampiric mind flayers, feral atrocities spawned from mind flayer tadpoles infected with vampirism. These specialized but flawed terrors serve a single purpose: to drain
Firbolg
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
heart of the world and monuments to the durability of life.
In their role as caretakers, firbolgs live off the land while striving to remain in balance with nature. Their methods reflect common
, typically those used to mask their presence, and many go on to master nature magic.
Firbolgs who become druids serve as stronghold leaders. With every action the tribe takes, the druids weigh not only
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
organization, but who serve as its hands, head, and heart.
As a prelude to your adventuring career (and in preparation for it), you served as an agent of a particular faction in Faerûn. You might have
agenda similar to that of the Harpers. Its methods are vastly different, however: bearers of the gauntlet are holy warriors on a righteous quest to crush evil and promote justice, and they never hide
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
To the Coast The journey to Dread Wolf Cove takes five days—fewer if the characters have Clystran’s guidance or other methods of conveyance. Consult the “Movement in the Wastes” section in chapter 5
blocks) land nearby. They approach the injured dragonnel, planning to capture it and train it to serve as a mount. If the characters interfere, the Dragon Army troops attack them. The Dragon Army
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
in the campaign, and a synopsis of the adventure. The four elemental cults, which serve as the primary foes of the campaign, are also described in this chapter. Although the cults are all linked by
their hunger for power and proclivity for destruction, each has its own leader and preferred methods. Further, this chapter offers guidelines for starting and running the adventure. Chapter 2 explores
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
beings to serve them beneath the waves. Aboleths possess terrifying intellects and have alien mindsets. These creatures possess perfect memories of proto-worlds and incomprehensible dominions from the
power. Aboleths’ alien goals and methods are often mysterious to other creatures. Roll on or choose a result from the Aboleth Schemes table to inspire an aboleth’s schemes. Aboleth Schemes 1d6 The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
owlbears’ hunting, eating, mating, fighting, and living habits requires a successful DC 12 Intelligence (Nature) check. Owlbear Companions. Writing short essays on common methods for taming, training, and
prey serve as their beds and playgrounds.
Owlbears attack with their razor-sharp beaks and claws.
Many scholars believe a kooky wizard created the first owlbear in a breeding experiment gone awry
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Way of Shadow Monks of the Way of Shadow follow a tradition that values stealth and subterfuge. These monks might be called ninjas or shadowdancers, and they serve as spies and assassins. Sometimes
, rich merchants, or anyone else who can pay their fees. Regardless of their methods, the heads of these monasteries expect the unquestioning obedience of their students. Shadow Arts Starting when you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
warlock who fails to live up to a bargain with an evil patron runs the risk of rising from the dead as a deathlock, a foul undead driven to serve its otherworldly patron from beyond the grave. An
extraordinarily powerful necromancer might also discover the dark methods of creating a deathlock and then bind it to service, acting in this respect as the deathlock’s patron. Obedient and Obsessed. An
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
-file monks. His trusted apprentices, Steel Crane and Jade Tigress, serve as secondary leaders who help instill in members the values Bak Mei deems most essential: obedience, discipline, and tenacity in
intellectual, physical, and spiritual training from dusk until dawn. Bak Mei’s teaching and training methods rely on extreme violence but are effective nevertheless. Those who persevere accomplish in weeks what others take months to learn.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
the soldiers are polite, they both have duties to perform and are watchful of the gate. Invaders’ Methods The invading Acheron forces serve a warlord named Thalir Heartbane, a goblin warlord favored
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
aligned with the Harpers’ ideals. The Order of the Gauntlet. One of the newest power groups in Faerûn, the Order of the Gauntlet has an agenda similar to that of the Harpers. Its methods are vastly
forces that threaten that balance is the twofold goal of the Emerald Enclave. Those who serve the faction are masters of survival and living off the land. They are often proficient in Nature, and can seek
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
exposed and rooted out. Although destruction is the unifying principle of Elemental Evil, beings that serve this dark force don’t necessarily adhere to that goal. Only the most unbalanced minds seek
. Despite these different goals and varying methods, the elemental cults are linked to each other by forces they don’t fully understand. From world to world and age to age, the cults of Elemental Evil
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
The Order of the Gauntlet The Order of the Gauntlet shares the Harpers’ dedication to justice and equality, but their methods and attitude are quite different. Bearers of the gauntlet are holy
that demonstrate heroism and divine providence—uniting the metallic dragons to fight Tiamat’s brood, for example. Slaying a wyrmspeaker will also serve the party well, while capturing and delivering
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
The Order of the Gauntlet The Order of the Gauntlet shares the Harpers’ dedication to justice and equality, but their methods and attitude are quite different. Bearers of the gauntlet are holy
that demonstrate heroism and divine providence—uniting the metallic dragons to fight Tiamat’s brood, for example. Slaying a wyrmspeaker will also serve the party well, while capturing and delivering
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Vampiric Mind Flayer When the mind flayers of Bluetspur (see chapter 3) could find no cure for their overlord’s affliction, their degenerating elder brain turned to radical methods to stave off
dementia and death. The results were vampiric mind flayers, feral atrocities spawned from mind flayer tadpoles infected with vampirism. These specialized but flawed terrors serve a single purpose: to drain
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
the same site could attract the entire group to serve as cohorts, emulating that individual’s murderous handiwork. Some hags and wicked mages know methods to call redcaps out of the Feywild and might
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
pursue methods of traveling between worlds and planes of existence. They sometimes slip onto star-faring vessels or enter portals heedless of their destination. Roll on or choose a result from the Grell
connected to ravenous alien beings and serve as their feeding appendages. 5 Vestiges of an ancient evil that will return if grells collectively consume enough creatures. 6 Without souls, but convinced
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
hags and dark mages that know methods to call redcaps out of the Feywild and put them to work as grisly servants. Also, some redcaps can sense the being whose murderous acts led to their birth. A redcap
creation of multiple redcaps at the same site could attract the entire group to serve as cohorts, emulating that creature’s murderous handiwork. In any case, if a redcap works with another being, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
The Order of the Gauntlet The Order of the Gauntlet shares the Harpers’ dedication to justice and equality, but their methods and attitude are quite different. Bearers of the gauntlet are holy
that demonstrate heroism and divine providence—uniting the metallic dragons to fight Tiamat’s brood, for example. Slaying a wyrmspeaker will also serve the party well, while capturing and delivering
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
also discover the wicked methods of creating a deathlock and then subjugate it, acting as the deathlock’s patron. Deathlock An overpowering urge to serve consumes the mind of a newly awakened deathlock
warlock who fails to live up to a bargain with an evil patron runs the risk of rising from the dead as a deathlock, a foul Undead driven to serve its otherworldly patron. An powerful necromancer might
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
the multiverse is above such monstrous beings as demon lords, elemental evils, and gods who are not Annam’s children, so it is upside-down for a giant to serve these entities. Giants who follow
, and some hill giants share two strange commonalities: insatiable hunger and a tendency to serve the demon lord Yeenoghu. Sometimes a hill giant who delights in senseless slaughter turns to the Beast
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
uses for psionic power or how to breed savage creatures to serve as foot soldiers. Others pursue more theoretical subjects. A mind flayer might study musical tones, for example, in hopes of finding a
methods to bring about famine and other natural disasters. A mind flayer colony using this strategy collects and feeds on humanoids mainly to use the knowledge they gain to understand their victims
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Oracular Conflux A few of Keranos’s most isolated temples serve a purpose beyond worship, being sites for the reading of worldly signs and recording of knowledge. These oracular confluxes provide
, telescopes, and other tools used to predict the weather and chart the course of celestial bodies. Each shrine has multiple methods of predicting the future that it might offer visitors—with reading the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Magen Magen are magical, humanlike beings created by a wizard spell (see the create magen spell in appendix D) or by other arcane methods. Though magen look like humanoids with green skin, they are
typically serve as guards. Demos Magen
Medium construct, unaligned
Armor Class 16 (chain mail)
Hit Points 51 (6d8 + 24)
Speed 30 ft.
STR
14 (+2)
DEX
14 (+2)
CON
18 (+4
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
mash the beans with the various cooking knives at the table (treat them as daggers), their own tools, or other methods. Each pile is a single Small object with AC 10; hp 15; and immunity to cold
participants complete both tasks, give up, or are defeated by the prawns. If the characters fail at either preparation, Sid’s assistants complete the preparations and then cook and serve the giant shrimp
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
. Entering the service of one or more gods seemed natural. 4 An impassioned sermon struck a chord deep in my soul and moved me to serve the faith. 5 I followed a childhood friend, a respected
. 3 I came to understand the darkness that lurks in the wilds, and I vowed to combat it. 4 My people lived on the edges of civilization, and I learned the methods of survival from my family. 5 After a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
that establishes a clear hierarchy from the top to the lowest underling. As long as a lieutenant’s operation runs smoothly, the Xanathar doesn’t object to methods or micromanage day-to-day activity. When
warden for its private prison. The individuals in these roles generally serve the Xanathar for months or years, because replacements that have the same specialized skills can be hard to come by. What
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
interest and responsibility), suggested domains for clerics who serve the god, and a common symbol of the god. Several of the gods in the table are described below. Avatar of Moradin Dwarf Deities (The
is the only advocate for change within the dwarven pantheon. He can inspire dwarves to seek shortcuts, normally frowned upon, but sometimes those methods turn out to be efficient techniques that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
-bitten ring of deserters who fight their homeland’s invaders. Roll or pick from the Syndicate Types table to determine what type of criminal organization you serve. Syndicate Types d6 Syndicate 1
security systems to circumvent. 6 Topple the Powerful. Your syndicate is criminal and your methods illegal, but your goals are righteous. You help people who are powerless against exploitation by the powerful.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
serve the guild’s interests well, it promises to take care of you. Guilds hate to waste valuable assets, after all—that’s just bad business. Types of Guild The guild structure covers a swath of business
them into permanent disgrace, or must you resort to more direct methods? 4 The Masterpiece. An exquisite work of art for an influential client, either created by your guild or acquired through agents