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Speak with Animals

Spells Player’s Handbook

that don’t pertain to survival or companionship, but at minimum, a Beast can give you information about nearby locations and monsters, including whatever it has perceived within the past day.

Speak with Animals Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

You gain the ability to comprehend and verbally communicate with beasts for the duration. The knowledge and awareness of many beasts is limited by their intelligence, but at minimum, beasts can give

you information about nearby locations and monsters, including whatever they can perceive or have perceived within the past day. You might be able to persuade a beast to perform a small favor for you, at the GM's discretion.

Bag of Tricks Legacy

Magic Items Basic Rules (2014)

bag's color. See the Monsters Listing for the creature's statistics. The creature vanishes at the next dawn or when it is reduced to 0 hit points. The creature is friendly to you and your companions

, and it acts on your turn. You can use a bonus action to command how the creature moves and what action it takes on its next turn, or to give it general orders, such as to attack your enemies. In the

Gray Render

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

its master.A curious impulse drives the gray render. Despite its hulking form and terrible appetite, it wants most of all to bond with an intelligent creature and, once bonded, to give its life to

ground 8 Attacks carts and wagons as if they were terrible monsters 9 Howls when it rains 10 Whines piteously in the dark 11 Buries treasure it finds 12 Chases birds, leaping into the air to catch them, heedless of the destruction it causes

Dhampir

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

restraint. In any case, temptation haunts dhampirs, and circumstances conspire to give them endless reasons to indulge. While many dhampirs thirst for blood, your character might otherwise gain

Dhampir Legacy

races

. 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

restraint. In any case, temptation haunts dhampirs, and circumstances conspire to give them endless reasons to indulge. While many dhampirs thirst for blood, your character might otherwise gain

Powered Armor

Magic Items Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

), but doesn’t gain access to the user’s knowledge, features, or proficiencies. Freeing a creature trapped inside the armor first requires defeating the armor’s automatic defenses

. Freeing the user first requires defeating the armor’s automatic defenses (as above). A creature in stasis does not make Charisma saving throws to break the armor’s control. Alternative

Goblin Legacy

races Volo's Guide to Monsters

out while still getting decent performance out of the slaves. But humanoids and monsters that are especially capable or that provide unusual services find themselves treated like favored (though

castes that give goblins their reputation for cowardice. Pariahs. Some goblin families are the lowest of the low, composed of the most dimwitted, least educated, and weakest goblins. They get the worst

Horror Monsters

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

precedes it. Describing Monsters. Give yourself permission to dwell on a monster’s description. Monstrous Tactics. Monsters that fight dirty—or in a particularly fearsome way—have more impact

Horror Monsters For adventurers who regularly face terrifying monsters, it’s easy for familiarity to sap the frightfulness from terrible foes. Restoring mystery and menace to even the most ordinary

Adjusting Difficulty

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide

defeat its kin (for noble or selfish reasons). A change of terrain can provide characters a chance to escape or give overmatched monsters an edge.

adjust it. Monsters might initiate negotiations when they’re winning, allowing overmatched characters a chance to surrender or retreat. One of the monsters might switch sides and help the characters

Character Advancement

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

achieving milestones rather than defeating monsters: Entering a Hag’s Realm. Whenever the characters enter a hag’s realm (Hither, Thither, or Yon) for the first time, everyone in the party receives enough

hag of the Hourglass Coven for the first time, everyone in the party who survives the encounter receives enough XP to advance 1 level. Freeing Zybilna. If the characters free Zybilna from temporal

Speak with Animals

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules

, but at minimum, a Beast can give you information about nearby locations and monsters, including whatever it has perceived within the past day.

Speak with Animals

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Uni and the Hunt for the Lost Horn

, but at minimum, a Beast can give you information about nearby locations and monsters, including whatever it has perceived within the past day.

Speak with Animals

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)

the duration. The knowledge and awareness of many beasts is limited by their intelligence, but at minimum, beasts can give you information about nearby locations and monsters, including whatever they

Tracking Initiative

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

up, and they can start planning their actions in advance. A visible list also removes any uncertainty about when the monsters will act in the fight. A variation on the visible list is to give one

record the current hit points of monsters, as well as other useful notes. A downside of this approach is that you have to remind the players round after round when their turns come up. Visible List You

Speak with Animals

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)

the duration. The knowledge and awareness of many beasts is limited by their intelligence, but at minimum, beasts can give you information about nearby locations and monsters, including whatever they

Death Must Be Fair

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide

the Monsters’ Favor. Rolling dice in front of the players when a situation is especially deadly is one way to communicate that you’re not cheating in the monsters’ favor or singling out a single

and as a fair arbiter of the rules. Provide Fair Warning. Let characters face the consequences of their foolish actions, but make sure you give enough cues for the players to recognize self-destructive

Running the Adventure

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a7

Running the Adventure As clever players will gather from the information in the “Legend of the Tomb,” this dungeon has more tricks and traps than it has monsters to fight. This is a thinking person’s

the intervening time resting and recovering until play again commences. Since there are no monsters to be randomly encountered within the tomb, the party might be able to encamp close to the entrance

Monsters as NPCs

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

Monsters as NPCs Named monsters that play a significant role in an adventure deserve the same attention you would give to a humanoid NPC, with mannerisms as well as ideals, bonds, flaws, and secrets

give it a bit of background, a distinctive quirk of appearance, and especially an ideal, a bond, and a flaw. As an example, consider the Xanathar, a beholder that runs extensive criminal operations in

Speak with Animals

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook

, but at minimum, a Beast can give you information about nearby locations and monsters, including whatever it has perceived within the past day. JESPER EJSING A human Druid uses Speak with Animals to chat with his best bear friend

Play Style

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

rules (discussed in part 3), and the type of game you want to run. Describe to the players how you envision the game experience and let them give you input. The game is theirs, too. Lay that groundwork

kick in the dungeon door, fight the monsters, and grab the treasure. This style of play is straightforward, fun, exciting, and action-oriented. The players spend relatively little time developing

Tracking Monsters' Hit Points

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide

Thod (ogre w/ helm): 71 Mur (ogre smeared w/ dirt): 59 If you use miniatures to represent monsters, one way to differentiate them is to give each one a unique miniature. If you use identical

Tracking Monsters’ Hit Points During a combat encounter, you or a player should track how much damage each monster takes. Most DMs track damage in secret so their players don’t know how many Hit

Adventure Background

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Intro to Stormwreck Isle

draws other dragons to the island, making it a recurring battlefield. The spiritual scars of dragons who have died there give rise to monsters and unpredictable magic—and this is where the adventure begins!

Beginning

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

involved in the adventure. Maybe the adventurers stumble onto something they’re not meant to see, monsters attack them on the road, an assassin makes an attempt on their lives, or a dragon shows up at the

to the next session, so give them a clear sense of where the story is headed, as well as something to look forward to.

Chapter 1: Monster Lore

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

Chapter 1: Monster Lore Volo has encountered many monsters in his day, few as odious or as ornery as the ones described herein. This chapter takes several iconic D&D monsters and provides additional

information about their origins, their dispositions and behaviors, and their lairs — above and beyond what is written in the Monster Manual. To give every monster such grand treatment would require

5. Numbered Golems

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a4

. Give the players an actual 60 seconds to figure it out. If the characters give the wrong answer, roll initiative. The golems lumber forward to confront the intruders, trying to prevent anyone from

moving through the door to the north. The monsters will pursue enemies that flee to the south, but they won’t climb the stairs that led to area 6. If the characters answer the riddle correctly, events

Volothamp “Volo” Geddarm

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation

a particular monster described in the book, give them useful tidbits from Volo’s Guide to Monsters. Do not impart game statistics, since such information would not be available in-world. If this reference is unavailable, use the information in appendix D.

copies of his new book, Volo’s Guide to Monsters, to the merchant princes (some of whom he knows well, and others he claims to know well), and to promote his latest work. Characters are most likely to

Gear

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules

Gear Monsters have proficiency with their equipment. If a monster has equipment that can be given away or retrieved, the items are listed in the Gear entry. The monster’s stat block might include

. Ammunition and Ranged Attacks A monster that requires ammunition to make ranged attacks carries the necessary ammunition. Equipping a Monster with Other Items You may equip monsters with additional gear

Tracking Monster Hit Points

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

/ scar): 59 Thod (ogre w/ helm): 59 Mur (ogre who smells like poo): 59 If you use miniatures to represent monsters, one easy way to differentiate them is to give each one a unique miniature. If you use

monster has remaining. Whether you choose to be secretive or not is up to you. What’s important is that every monster’s hit points be tracked individually. Tracking damage for one or two monsters isn’t

G: Shunned Caves

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands

G: Shunned Caves An owlbear—a frightening cross between a bear and a giant owl—lurks in this cave. Most other denizens of the valley give the cave a wide berth. This cave is connected to cave K, a

this one. The owlbear is unaware of the cultists’ presence. You can add monsters, such as Zombies, to the cave to make this scenario longer and more difficult, or you can reduce the number of Cultists or Gray Ooze Globs to make it easier and shorter.

Locations in Chult

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation

path, and give it a new name if necessary. For example, the goblin village of Yellyark doesn’t have to be in the location marked on your map. You can place it anywhere you want, or create another goblin

village that has a similar configuration. Many other locations described in this chapter are just as adaptable. In addition to relocating a site, you can add or remove monsters and traps to make it harder or easier.

Customizing the Puzzle

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

Customizing the Puzzle While spells and components make easy to associate lists, you might also consider creating your own version of this puzzle using paired sets of monsters and creature types

expertise, consider adding art to the room’s walls or on decorative book covers that reveal connections between the listed spells and components. These images might give away a few connections

Running the Adventure

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

meant to be read aloud or paraphrased for the players when their characters first arrive at a location or under a specific circumstance, as described in the text. Most of the monsters that appear in

this adventure are from the Monster Manual, along with new creatures and NPCs, and monsters from Volo’s Guide to Monsters and Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes. For easy reference, all the stat blocks for the

Running Combat

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules

represent monsters, one way to differentiate them is to give each one a unique miniature. If you use identical miniatures to represent multiple monsters, you can tag the miniatures with small stickers

Paladin friend and roll Initiative to regain expended uses of Rage. In any situation where a character’s actions initiate combat, you can give the acting character Advantage on their Initiative roll

Karametra's Villains

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros

Karametra’s Villains Karametra’s followers can embody the best or worst of civilization. Just as society can protect the vulnerable it can also reinforce injustice and give it the power of law. Too

work supporting the community. Karametra’s Monsters Karametra’s followers usually protect innocents from monsters, but in certain circumstances, they might oppose characters. The Karametra’s

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