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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Step 4: Select Monsters After using the tables from the previous step to determine the challenge ratings of the monsters in your encounter, you’re ready to pick individual monsters. This process is
more of an art than a science. In addition to assessing monsters by challenge rating, it’s important to look at how certain monsters might stack up against your group. Hit points, attacks, and saving
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Dungeon Master’s Guide
effect.
Comet. The next time you enter combat against one or more Hostile creatures, you can select one of them as your foe when you roll Initiative. If you reduce your foe to 0 Hit Points during that
your choice of History, Insight, Intimidation, or Persuasion. In addition, you gain rightful ownership of a small keep somewhere in the world. However, the keep is currently home to one or more monsters
Sailor
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Backgrounds
Player’s Handbook (2014)
You sailed on a seagoing vessel for years. In that time, you faced down mighty storms, monsters of the deep, and those who wanted to sink your craft to the bottomless depths. Your first love is the
Reputation
If your character has a sailor background, you may select this background feature instead of Ship’s Passage.
No matter where you go, people are afraid of you due to your reputation. When
Species
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
. Their reasons are often deeply personal. Some seek danger, imagining monsters as personifications of their own hungers. Others pursue revenge against whatever turned them into a dhampir. And still
joined and advanced through their lesser ranks, known as the Kargatane, and were rewarded by being transformed into a dhampir.
I’Cath. At night, the starving city of I’Cath is overrun by
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
, characters with this background are common.
You sailed on a seagoing vessel for years. In that time, you faced down mighty storms, monsters of the deep, and those who wanted to sink your craft to
background, you may select this background feature instead of Ship’s Passage.
No matter where you go, people are afraid of you due to your reputation. When you are in a settlement, you can get away with
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Yuan-ti were originally humans who transformed themselves into serpent folk through ancient rituals. Most yuan-ti were corrupted into monsters by those rites, but some yuan-ti instead became a new
.
Creating Your Character
At 1st level, you choose whether your character is a member of the human race or of a fantastical race. If you select a fantastical race, follow these additional rules
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
remain there
Alien minerals and samples of rare ores line the shelves of this metallurgist’s laboratory. An advanced detention drone (use the shield guardian stat block) stands in the room’s
spell stored.
A secret door in an alcove in this room’s northeast corner leads to area 17.
Treasure. A set of smith’s tools can be assembled from the lab equipment. On the shelves is a total of 30
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
monsters roam the blasted landscape. The characters must navigate this wasteland in search of the rod piece, ultimately discovering that the piece is located inside the remains of an enormous, highly advanced, bipedal war machine called a colossus.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Background Axel Defois A door to the Barrier Peaks Hundreds of years ago, an advanced society of Humanoid peoples launched a mission to find a replacement for their distant, dying world in the wake
of a cataclysm of their own making. A select few set out for the stars in search of a new home for their people. They departed in comfort and style aboard a massive, self-sustaining starship with all
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
they don’t tell the whole story. You’ll make use of these additional character statistics when you select monsters for an encounter in step 4.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
, celestials, constructs, dragons, elementals, fey, fiends, giants, monstrosities, oozes, plants, or undead. Alternatively, you can select two races of humanoid (such as gnolls and orcs) as favored
language of your choice that is spoken by your favored enemies, if they speak one at all. You choose one additional favored enemy, as well as an associated language, at 6th and 14th level. As you gain levels, your choices should reflect the types of monsters you have encountered on your adventures.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
, celestials, constructs, dragons, elementals, fey, fiends, giants, monstrosities, oozes, plants, or undead. Alternatively, you can select two races of humanoid (such as gnolls and orcs) as favored
language of your choice that is spoken by your favored enemies, if they speak one at all. You choose one additional favored enemy, as well as an associated language, at 6th and 14th level. As you gain levels, your choices should reflect the types of monsters you have encountered on your adventures.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a2
come to the Stone Tooth in search of a reputed cache of Durgeddin’s superior blades and find the stronghold inhabited by dangerous monsters. The complex consists of the following five sections: The
largest level of Khundrukar, the Glitterhame is an expanse of beautiful natural caverns now infested by troglodytes and other cave-dwelling monsters. The Sinkhole. Streams in the Glitterhame descend to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
the monsters advance toward the characters, decrease their numbers. Adjust the Grid Scale. If you’re using a battle grid, take a section of that grid and use it to track position, changing the scale so
encounter begins at a range between 100 and 1,000 feet), or use one or more d20s to show how many 5-foot or 10-foot squares the creature has advanced.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Wave Echo Cave Once a thriving mine bustling with activity, Wave Echo Cave is now a dangerous place overrun with monsters. Whether the characters follow Gundren’s map or receive directions to Wave
Echo Cave from another source, their initial approach leads them to a narrow tunnel whose entrance is hidden within the Sword Mountain foothills (area W1).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Divine Contention
Into the Ethereal Assuming the characters agree to the quest, Gallio leads them upstairs to the planar beacon on the fourth floor (area B13), where he performs a ten-minute ritual to transport the
party to the Ethereal Plane. Before beginning his ritual, Gallio shows the characters the monsters held in his dimensional cells. He reveals that the planar beacon freezes any extraplanar beings caught
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
with the words: PUT IN FIRE FOR COOKING.
56–65 A small book is found, colorfully illustrated and offering a variety of rumors and advice regarding monsters and dungeons, information on various
items of specialized adventuring gear, and short pieces of fiction.
66–70 An empty sack is an uncommon magic item that spits out a random mundane object once per day. Select these items from the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
week after the characters’ second Advanced Arcane History Exam and are held on the Rose Stage on Silverquill College. Map 3.5 shows the layout of the Rose Stage, and a full description of it can be
who moves as naturally as a cloud. A recent Strixhaven graduate, Nivall leads the students through 4 hours of dance lessons. First, though, Nivall asks everyone to choose their first dance partner or allow Nivall to pair them off.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Chapter 1: Fool Harry Conway Welcome to The Book of Many Things, whose twenty-two chapters give you character options, magic items, spells, monsters, ready-to-play adventures, DM advice, and setting
of powerful fiends. But they’ve also gained vast wealth or a stronghold of their own, rewound time to reverse disaster, or suddenly advanced in level far beyond the other characters in the group. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Divine Contention
Hunting for Star Spawn Gallio leads the characters upstairs to the mysterious chamber at the top of the ethereal spire (area B14). As they approach the chamber, Gallio casts a greater invisibility
spell on himself and instructs the characters to lure the monsters within into the planar beacon. When the characters enter the room, the monsters emerge from the mists to attack them. Any interplanar
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
-spirited servant 5 Nervous apothecary 6 Cowardly noble 7 Foolish minstrel 8 Honorable knight risen from the dead Once all the characters have roles, Stagefright leads them to a prop storeroom (area M4a
) and says, “Find whatever you can make use of in this mess!” The characters are allowed 20 minutes to don costumes and select props appropriate for their assigned roles. When they’re ready
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
hurt, and true criminals are exiled from the Skola Vale for life. Satyrs quickly bury negative thoughts, though, and the loss of one friend merely leads them to redouble efforts to make more
. Sibyls warn the community when danger threatens the valley, select dawngreets, and oversee the “initiation rites” of the Cult of Horns. The oldest sibyl is a gray-furred satyr named Cresa. She insists that the more she drinks, the further she can see into the future.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
regions or cultures. The DM may change the languages assigned to a monster or NPC to reflect this.
Giant is the common tongue of Xen’drik. It is rarely encountered on Khorvaire. Monsters in Khorvaire
language granted by your race for a different standard language. Your DM must approve the language you select. This is a way to reflect a character with no ties to the culture of their race. Halfling is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
this effort by two cloakers from the conclave on level 5, which hope to turn this level into a hunting ground. After gaining entry through an umber hulk tunnel that leads down from level 5, the raiders
managed to loot several rooms. But a combination of traps and unexpected monsters has diminished their numbers and dimmed their enthusiasm. Skella is obsessed by artistry and beauty, in stark
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
. It is the route to the heart’s desire, an extradimensional staircase that leads to all places. Beyond its myriad portals lie enchanting Feywild gardens, sunken cities ruled by ancient evils, and
, iconic monsters, and unforgettable encounters—including one indelible brush with a cute little bunnyoid on a stump in a crashed spaceship—these stories have entertained players since their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
new insight to their studies. Both approaches are encouraged at the university. After Strixhaven A student’s course of study at Strixhaven lasts at least four years but allows for advanced study for
alumni return to Strixhaven, sooner or later, as instructors themselves, and a small, select number join the Dragonsguard, an elite force of mages who work with the Founder Dragons.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
largely indistinguishable from the faction’s detached, ghoulish living rank and file. Skall leads the Heralds of Dust as its factol, the highest-ranking position in the faction. A decrepit lich in an
advanced state of decay, he is the founder and oldest “living” member of the Heralds of Dust, a faction rumored to be as old as death itself. Skall generously lingers in this existence to guide souls
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Scions of Elemental Evil
first minions. The characters must defeat Vox and these monsters before the minions become an army. Ulsedra Vox, Para-elemental Queen
Ulsedra Vox leads the Primordial Alliance. Murderous and
500 feet underground. Vox excavated the nexus; now, she uses its power to summon evil elemental monsters to do her destructive bidding. By the time the characters confront her, Vox has called forth her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
system.
5 A group of mages who follow Ephara want to build a city on an island, heedless of the current residents.
6 An oracle (see chapter 6) leads a cadre of scholars secretly destroying
work that they deem antithetical to proper society.
Ephara’s Monsters Ephara isn’t often associated with monsters. Even so, a few monsters common in urban settings might be involved with the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
, both sets of doors are under attack by humanoid figures. They have already breached the smaller door, and they are starting to make cracks in the larger.
The smaller doorway leads into a cloak room
, and another door bars the way into the common room from there. The larger doors lead into the courtyard, where there are stables and a smithy. Monsters. The attacking creatures are comprised of 1
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
15th 20 19 18 16th 21 20 19 17th 22 21 20 18th 22 21 20 19th 23 22 21 20th 24 23 22 If your encounter features multiple monsters, balancing it takes a little more work. Refer to the Multiple Monsters
each expression is the number of characters of the given level. The second number tells how many monsters of the listed challenge rating those characters are equivalent to. For example, reading the row
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
waves, each increasing in difficulty. If the characters aren’t sufficiently challenged by a particular wave, add more monsters to that part of the fight in the form of late reinforcements to help make
the door into area 4. If they cannot break down the door within 3 rounds, any survivors of the characters’ defensive efforts switch their attention to the door that leads into area 21. Wave 2 Five
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Mogis as Campaign Villain Left unchecked, Mogis and his followers would destroy all of creation. This situation leads to plenty of campaign hooks and opportunities for the characters to act
d4 Scheme
1 A champion of Mogis unites the minotaur bands and cyclops tribes of Phoberos under her banner, creating a terrifying army. At Mogis’s command, she leads the army in an all-out
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
recently excavated tunnel leads to Xeluan’s tomb and is guarded at all times, as described below: Ten members of the town guard stand watch atop giant blocks of stone that were once part of a great
shaft leads to a corridor between areas X6 and area X7. The west ventilation shaft leads to a corridor between areas X12 and area X13. Each ventilation shaft ends at a grate made of corroded, vertical
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