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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
can step from one pool of darkness into another one, using this talent to ambush prey. Sometimes they snatch victims around the throat with their strangling cords and then step away; other times they
ferry their victims to isolated spots and then leave the hapless souls to the designs of whatever horrors lurk there.
Any creatures meazels draw through the shadows are cursed by the meazels&rsquo
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she disappears into the shadows as her fighter friend moves forward to kick the door open. A human lurks in the shadows of an alley while his accomplice prepares for her part in the ambush. When
an angry thieves’ guild master? Or did you leave your guild in search of bigger risks and bigger rewards? Is it greed that drives you in your adventures, or some other desire or ideal? What
Bugbear
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
, bugbears are ambush predators accustomed to long periods of inactivity broken by short bursts of murderous energy. Ferocious though they may be, bugbears aren’t built for extended periods of exertion
heads of defeated foes, cut away or stitch open the eyelids, and leave the mouths hanging open. The heads are then placed on spikes or hung from cords around a bugbear den. The heads themselves are
Adult Deep Dragon
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Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
searching out new environments and seeing new vistas, they usually leave their lairs protected by servitors, allies, magic, traps, or some combination of these protections.
Deep Dragon Lair Features
that allow them to escape or ambush visitors if the need arises. A well-cultivated lair abounds with Underdark fungi and plants, with the floor, walls, and ceiling covered in carpets of mold and moss
Ancient Deep Dragon
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
environments and seeing new vistas, they usually leave their lairs protected by servitors, allies, magic, traps, or some combination of these protections.
Deep Dragon Lair Features
A deep dragon lair might
or ambush visitors if the need arises. A well-cultivated lair abounds with Underdark fungi and plants, with the floor, walls, and ceiling covered in carpets of mold and moss, or featuring larger
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Goblin Ambush Several hours after the characters turn onto Triboar Trail (shown on the map in the introduction), they reach the area shown on map 1.1. Mike Schley Map 1.1: Goblin Ambush View Player
goblin trail (see below). Development In the unlikely event that the goblins triumph, they leave the characters unconscious, loot them and the wagon, then head to the Cragmaw hideout. The characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
. Otherwise, they might ambush the characters — see the next section. Tomb Passage Within the tomb passage, the stone door is open enough to allow a Small character to shimmy through. It opens inward
. If Geeraugh and Mougra hear the alarm, they sneak up to watch the tomb and ambush anyone who emerges. They prefer robbery to a fight. When the characters enter, read the following: Inside the door
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Astarion's Book of Hungers
to eliminate Astarion quietly without participating in the crime herself. Ambush. A hooded figure slips a note into Astarion’s hand. The note asks him to meet a friend upstairs. The courier, if
attempting to pass as decor and ambush the characters when they enter the area. If the characters don’t intend to go upstairs, the monsters head downstairs to fight them. Final Foe. Two Harvester Devils
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
under them. They plan to ambush the Red Dragon Army near a crossing of the Inkwater called Steel Springs, thirty miles west of Kalaman. The aide knows nothing more, but before the characters leave, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
Goblin Ambush Read the following boxed text to start the encounter: You’ve been on the Triboar Trail for about half a day. As you come around a bend, you spot two dead horses sprawled about fifty
event that the goblins defeat the adventurers, they leave them unconscious, loot them and the wagon, then head back to the Cragmaw hideout. The characters can continue on to Phandalin, buy new gear at
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
following: Attacking light sources to extinguish them, so the kobolds can use their darkvision to best advantage. Leaving one defender in a room to lure invaders into a trap or an ambush. Often this bait is
or swimming). Using poison, usually harvested from vermin such as centipedes and spiders. They might extract the poison and use it on their weapons, or leave a chest or a clay pot full of the vermin in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
food. Building traps deters intruders. Training guard animals helps protect the lair. Mining provides gems and ore for bribing enemies to leave them alone. Carving tunnels and rooms creates spaces for
into this role by its peers — is just hoping to slow down the invaders long enough to give the rest of the tribe time to prepare a lethal trap, an ambush, or a quick getaway. The tribe’s leader is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
bodies. These quadrupedal brains seek to ambush sapient beings, then drain their thoughts until they’re mindless. Then, if their victims are Humanoids, they enter the creatures’ skulls. With access to
dies, the intellect devourer must leave it. The intellect devourer is also forced out if the target regains its devoured brain by means of a Wish spell. By spending 5 feet of its movement, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
them with magical powers that allow them to move through shadows with ease. They can step from one pool of darkness into another one, using this talent to ambush prey. Sometimes they snatch victims
around the throat with their strangling cords and then step away; other times they ferry their victims to isolated spots and then leave the hapless souls to the designs of whatever horrors lurk there
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Kibbens, whose address is an old windmill in the Southern Ward. The key unlocks the door to his apartment, which he shares with another man named Urlaster Ghann. Xanathar Guild Ambush As the
characters leave the mausoleum, they are jumped by four duergar, members of the Xanathar Guild, who slipped past the cemetery guards using their invisibility. The leader, Gorath, accosts the characters in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Astarion's Book of Hungers
characters don’t enter a room, the devils attack after 1 minute. Angry Vampire. After the characters defeat the devils, they encounter Cazador (Medium Vampire Infernalist) when they try to leave Rat’s Run
among an ocean of criminals. Some might say these sailors have a death wish—one I’m more than happy to fulfill.
—ASTARION, GRIM NAVIGATOR
ANDREA PIPARO Astarion’s many enemies know he frequents Rat’s Run and might try to ambush him there
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
flowchart since each decision point (a branch in a corridor, a room with multiple exits) leads to new decision points. If the characters leave a room by the north door, you check your map and determine it
leads them into the great hall, lined with pillars, where the fire giant king holds court. If they leave by the secret door to the southeast, you check the map and follow the secret tunnel as it winds
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
their own locations or leave those locations to assist colleagues and expel the invaders. Take a copy of the adventure map, and pencil in the locations of all its inhabitants to give yourself a sense
’ presence. (Creatures that can’t hear might be alerted by vibrations or other sensory cues.) Once alerted, a creature has several options: Ambush. The creature leaves its current location and takes up a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
composed recounting of deeds, events, and important persons. Dwarves combine their runes into patterns, present pictorial histories in seemingly unconnected murals and images, and otherwise leave their
. Dwarves use a variety of approaches and devices in setting their defenses. The strongholds of many clans are honeycombed with secret passages designed to enable the dwarves to ambush and flank enemies
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
, point out that the player’s behavior is spoiling the fun for others, and ask the player to tone it down. If the player refuses to change this behavior, ask the player to leave the group. Some problems
encounters rather than anxiously anticipating an ambush. If these in-game techniques don’t have the desired effect, have a conversation outside the game with your players about which game elements are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
, point out that the player’s behavior is spoiling the fun for others, and ask the player to tone it down. If the player refuses to change this behavior, ask the player to leave the group. Some problems
encounters rather than anxiously anticipating an ambush. If these in-game techniques don’t have the desired effect, have a conversation outside the game with your players about which game elements are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
retaliation. The gang organizes a hunting party to find and kill one party member for every gang member slain. This hunting party is bold enough to leave the West Wall district, and you might have the
Bandersnatches try to ambush the characters as they make their way out of Menzoberranzan. The hunting party consists of the gang’s leader, her quasit advisor, and thirty drow bandits. The leader of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
make their way inside using any number of stratagems, including the following: The characters can ambush one or more cultists as they leave the castle on cult business, then use the cultists’ amulets
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
ambush the characters when they leave the dragon’s lair.
15 The dragon takes tremendous pleasure in adopting Humanoid form and pretending to be a minion, groveling and sniveling when intruders enter
fight and offers the characters a tiny amount of treasure if they’ll leave.
3 The dragon hates a certain type of character (sneaky rogues, healers, or heavily armored fighters, perhaps) and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
characters slay or capture Avarice, the gargoyles attack them as they leave the keep. Treasure. Avarice keeps her staff of frost within easy reach. When she’s not writing in her spellbook, she sticks it
entering the room, the servants come forward and plead with the characters to free them. Otherwise, the servants try to ambush the first character to enter the room. They roll initiative as a group
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
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After 1 minute, the lizardfolk appear and tersely command the characters to leave at once. If the characters refuse, the lizardfolk fight.
Detecting the Lizardfolk. As a Search action, a
the treasure (see below), the lizardfolk leap out and start combat. Characters who failed to detect the lizardfolk before the ambush have Disadvantage on their Initiative rolls. The lizardfolk fight
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
show that they are attempting to capture the characters. The kuo-toa leave any fallen opponents unconscious at 0 hit points, intending to bring them back to Sloobludop as live offerings to the Deep
first kuo-toa patrol, the newcomers ambush them and fight to free the characters. Otherwise (or after the fight), Ploopploopeen attempts to communicate in Undercommon, then casts tongues if none of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
around town is up to them. Each time they investigate a feature noted below, roll a d10. On a roll of 1, a patrol of two nothics working for the Six attempts to ambush the party from the cover of nearby
the characters could meet is Imdarr Relvaunder (LN male human priest). Imdarr is hiding with four other townsfolk (male and female commoners). He won’t leave the others, but he casts any of his useful
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
known for fear the pirates will return and finish them off. Even though the survivors desperately want to leave the island, their superiors would not approve of their abandoning the island to the
everyone with his constant griping. Odium and Ozymandias dislike each other intensely. If one gets into trouble, the other will do nothing to help. Odium desperately wants to leave the island and get on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
, neither subtle nor shrewd in its methods, often using natural camouflage to ambush its prey. A dragon that lairs nearby might be willing to leave a dwarven settlement unmolested if its appetite is sated
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Uni and the Hunt for the Lost Horn
basic details. If the characters are friendly to Nosey or promise to help him escape, he stays close to them and even fights alongside them. Bullywug Pursuers. Before the characters can leave or search
bullywugs by themselves. If the characters don’t leave this area immediately, the bullywugs see them. One runs to alert King Gurgle in area C4, while the other two attack. Otherwise, the bullywugs
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
vicious the creatures are. Bugbears are capable of bouts of incredible ferocity, using their muscular bodies to exact swift and ruthless violence. At their core, bugbears are ambush predators
an act of worship that also sometimes attracts favorable attention from their gods, bugbears sever the heads of defeated foes, cut away or stitch open the eyelids, and leave the mouths hanging open
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
ambush. When night falls, Salida uses a lantern to signal the yuan-ti attack. The attacking force consists of one type 3 yuan-ti malison and two yuan-ti purebloods per party member. Ras Nsi is keen to
tabaxi sometimes leave their families and venture into the jungle to claim a hunter’s death. A divine being known as the Cat Lord leads the bravest to Omu, where they spend their final days hunting
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
kamadans (see appendix D) use a cart at the back of the shrine as their lair. If they hear intruders approaching the shrine, the kamadans try to ambush them. The kamadans fight tooth and claw to
shrine but can’t leave it. When the shrine has no other creatures inside it, the gladiators return to their cells, and the portcullises drop behind them. 4D. Gladiatorial Pit This pit is 20 feet deep
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
to move to another one. They use this talent to ambush creatures, snatching them around the throat with their strangling cords and then stepping away. Meazels also use this ability to ferry their
victims to isolated spots and then leave the hapless souls to the designs of whatever horrors lurk there. Creatures that are drawn through the shadows by meazels are cursed by the meazels’ baleful magic