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Fire Genasi Legacy

Species Elemental Evil Player's Companion

under extreme emotion, while more exotic specimens sport actual flames dancing on their heads. Fire genasi voices might sound like crackling flames, and their eyes flare when angered. Some are accompanied by the faint scent of brimstone.

Simic Hybrid

Species Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

animals into humans, elves, and vedalken. The goal of the Guardian Project is to build a Simic army of soldiers perfectly adapted to a variety of combat situations. These hyper-evolved specimens are

retain their basic physical form. All are augmented with characteristics of animals, mostly aquatic, reptilian, or amphibian creatures. These include crab claws, squid tentacles, wings or fins like

Red Dragons

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen

appearance of molten orbs. An angry red may have flames licking up from eyes and nostrils—and an envelope of heat-shimmer around them. Their frill and wings are an ashy blue or purple grey toward the edges, becoming darker with ages—nearly black on older specimens. Reds smell like smoke and sulphur.

Red Dragons

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat

appearance of molten orbs. An angry red may have flames licking up from eyes and nostrils—and an envelope of heat-shimmer around them. Their frill and wings are an ashy blue or purple grey toward the edges, becoming darker with ages—nearly black on older specimens. Reds smell like smoke and sulphur.

Fire Genasi

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse

that writhes under extreme emotion, while more exotic specimens sport actual flames dancing on their heads. Fire genasi voices might sound like crackling flames, and their eyes flare when angered. Some

Hag Lairs

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

might be crafted to look like a coffin or a mausoleum, and that of a gluttonous one might look like a tavern or a gingerbread house. Because such places are convenient for them, sea hags often establish

items, caged creatures, oddities, objects that hint of a magical purpose, preserved specimens, scraps of lore, and curiosities that have a supernatural origin but aren’t inherently magical. For a

Xulregg

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things

itself, called the Firehive, resembles a gargantuan wasp nest with an open top. Aurnozci’s power causes the Firehive to throb like a beating heart, and the nest’s surface is hot to the touch. Halfway up

a time, Gorewood rebirths the recycled demons, excreting each into its own chrysalis-like pod made from the tree’s fleshy inner wood. The massive hollow chamber in Gorewood from which these

4. Fungi Thicket

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

your way, its tallest specimens growing some five feet high. Even as you assess the best way to pass through it, a hissing sound starts to rise — like uncounted tiny voices whispering in tongues you

Dragon Turtle

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)

open water, and a surfacing dragon turtle is sometimes mistaken for the reflection of the sun or moon on the waves. Dragons of the Deep. Like true dragons, dragon turtles collect treasure, first by

turtles sometimes find their way through sunken planar rifts to the Elemental Plane of Water. Those monstrous specimens can often be found in the service of marids, which strap magnificent coral

Simic Hybrid

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica

hyper-evolved specimens are called Simic hybrids, though they sometimes refer to themselves as guardians. Extensive Adaptation A hybrid’s biological enhancements can change its appearance drastically

, wings or fins like those of manta rays, translucent or camouflaged skin, or shark-like maws filled with sharp teeth. Hybrids are the product of Simic magic. It’s not impossible for a hybrid to leave the

Mind Flayer Lairs

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

battle. Elder Brain Resting Pool Usually centrally located, the lair’s resting pool is where the elder brain holds court in its brine pool, protected by a nearly impenetrable layer of a glass-like

illithid’s quarters might contain musical instruments and thralls with melodious voices; another might have cages of specimens that teem with a variety of diseases the mind flayers are studying. Library

Locations on the Grove Level

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a1

tunnel leads away, angling west and downward. The tunnel is like the one in area 23. Treasure. Two spears, six javelins, one longsword, one greatsword are affixed to the weapon rack. A box hidden under

widens, creating a cavern-like chamber. Small, two-foot-diameter holes riddle the node. A dim fiery glow shines out of one such hole. Creature. In the glowing hall rests a fire snake. Belak used magic to

Hag's Hovel

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries

. Dry Well The characters might correctly assume that this place is what it looks like: the site of a well (which is now abandoned). If they approach to within 5 feet of the stone wall, they can peer over

still barred). Ten of them hold single specimens of various animals—a baboon, a hyena, a boar, an ape, a vulture, a blood hawk, an eagle, a giant rat, a hawk, and an owl. All of them are weakened from

Magical Phenomena

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

. Supernaturally powerful winds—like those from planes such as Pandemonium or Minethys, the third layer of Carceri—can spawn flaywinds. A flaywind is an intense sandstorm, gathering large rocks and other debris in

crops withered and wells undrinkable for 1d4 days after its passing. Thrym’s Howl. These bone-chilling blizzards drive a wall of wind and snow like a living glacier. The storm projects extreme cold (see

Clockwork Dragon

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

) fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. [Tooltip Not Found] Deep Crow The only warning you’ll get is that fearsome, far-off caw, echoing from the darkness like

gargantuan specimens are elder deep crows grown to great size or some higher form that holds lesser deep crows in thrall remains to be determined. Ideally by someone else. Seriously, stay away from

Cottage Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

carcass of a basilisk. Worktable. Along with the tools and specimens, the table has a small box with drawers that contain glass eyes. One of the eyes is made of wood, and it belongs to Bavlorna’s sister

moldering linens. Most of the shadow boxes contain mummified pixies pinned to boards like a collection of butterflies. The glass on one of the shadow boxes has been broken, and its contents are missing. B9

Palace Garden Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

badger minstrels plays delicate chamber music. The guests gathered here are denizens of the Material Plane who regard Zybilna as a fairy godmother-like figure. After using various fey crossings to enter

white and black specimens among them. Glistening spiderwebs cover the rosebushes. The webs belong to three ettercaps that recently crawled up from the forest of Thither. They lurk under the soil

Tour of the Planes

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

. Animals born here are paragons of their species, infused with primal power that put even the finest specimens of House Vadalis to shame. Lamannia Manifest Zone Features d4 Feature 1 Spells that

throws against enchantment and illusion spells are made with disadvantage. Xoriat, the Realm of Madness Xoriat's bizarre geometry and unspeakable inhabitants seem like the product of an insane

Outer City Gazetteer

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer

. Always on the lookout for new attractions, he happily pays adventurers for healthy specimens of rare creatures, sometimes reselling the smaller and less dangerous species. While the menagerie is

. Little Calimshan is built like a traditional Calishite city in miniature, with its interior divided into multiple drudachs (neighborhoods). Each drudach is walled off and inhabited by a particular

Outer City Gazetteer

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus

adventurers for healthy specimens of rare creatures, sometimes reselling the smaller and less dangerous species. While the menagerie is popular with city folk who pay a few coppers to view the

feet tall, 5 feet thick, and topped with minarets in the classic Calishite style. These walls don’t simply surround the neighborhood, either. Little Calimshan is built like a traditional Calishite

Roleplaying a Giant

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

might be found in a cloud giant menagerie, with rare specimens treated more as status symbol than as companions. Benevolent Overlords Cloud giants are famous (or infamous) for demanding tribute from

creatures, either livestock or slaves. Kvit refers to material goods, the most prized being objects of steel, alcohol, and large gems. Frost giants like to grab gems for adorning their clothing, but

Locations on the Fortress Level

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a1

a single keyhole, situated in the rearing dragon’s open mouth. Dragon Door. The door that is carved to look like a dragon has a mechanical lock as well as an arcane lock spell cast on it. The

or some other similarly sized and sturdy object under the pressure plate prevents it from activating. 9. Dragon Riddle Dust fills this hall like a layer of gray snow. In the rounded northern end of

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