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Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
experience as similar to fighting a living darkness. Every dim alcove and darkened nook is a place the lithe and acrobatic shadow dancers can emerge from to ambush their prey. Using this tactic, they attack
, particularly anything colorful and lively to gaze at after they return to the gloom of the Shadowfell.
Shadar-kai
In the gloom of the Shadowfell live shadar-kai, elves whose ancestors served the Raven Queen
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
creatures who live beneath this cloud often display superstitious and duplicitous behavior, almost unconsciously leaving gifts for “rain spirits” while playing mischievous pranks on each
made from magically dense clouds.
It tends to regard other creatures as toys rather than serious threats, and it uses its illusion magic to manipulate creatures into fighting each other. If seriously
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
a constantly overcast sky. Sapient creatures who live beneath this cloud often display superstitious and duplicitous behavior, almost unconsciously leaving gifts for “rain spirits” while
fighting each other. If seriously threatened, it wields thunder and wind to demolish its enemies.
Regional Effects
The region surrounding a scion of Memnor is altered by the giant’s magic
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
As a sell-sword who fought battles for coin, you’re well acquainted with risking life and limb for a chance at a share of treasure. Now, you look forward to fighting foes and reaping even
largely depends on your worldview and your motivation for fighting.
Soldier
d8
Personality Trait
1
I’m always polite and respectful.
2
I’m haunted by
Elf
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Basic Rules (2014)
.
— Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman, Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Elves are a magical people of otherworldly grace, living in the world but not entirely part of it. They live in places of
enjoy simple yet lovely jewelry.
A Timeless Perspective
Elves can live well over 700 years, giving them a broad perspective on events that might trouble the shorter-lived races more deeply. They are
Aarakocra
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Elemental Evil Player's Companion
people forced to live and toil on the ground.
Avian Mannerisms
The resemblance of aarakocra to birds isn’t limited to physical features. Aarakocra display many of the same mannerisms as
homes, they appear alert, with eyes moving and bodies ready to take flight.
Homelands
Most aarakocra live on the Elemental Plane of Air. Aarakocra can be drawn into the Material Plane, sometimes to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Archer Fighting Style: Archery Maneuvers: Disarming Attack, Distracting Strike, Precision Attack Feats: Piercer,* Sharpshooter You prefer to deal with your enemies from afar, trusting in a well
-placed arrow, javelin, or sling bullet to end a fight without a response. You rely on accuracy and probably subscribe to the axiom that “those who live by the sword die by the bow.”
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
interested in taking notes on monstrous anatomy than in fighting monsters.
3
Every social situation I’m in seems to lead to my asking rude personal questions.
4
I’m supremely
abundant connections among the Simic. The guild members live in watery sinkholes called zonots, and their isolation shelters them from much contact with outsiders. Nonetheless, a fair number of Simic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
can move when traveling (chapter 8, “Adventuring”) and fighting (chapter 9, “Combat”). Languages Your character can speak, read, and write certain languages. Chapter 4, “Personality and Background
. Relationships among subraces vary significantly from race to race and world to world. In the Dragonlance campaign setting, for example, mountain dwarves and hill dwarves live together as different
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Social Structures Though giants are not numerous on most worlds (at least compared to various Humanoid peoples), they are generally social creatures who prefer to live with others of their own kind
giants, you can use these models to help you decide how many giants are present in an area and what other creatures might live alongside them. You can use the various tables in “Giantkind Encounters” (in
Orc
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
special significance beyond that is imparted to it.
At 4 years old an orc is considered a juvenile, and by age 12 it is a fully functioning adult. Most orcs don’t live past the age of 25 due to
battle or illness, but an orc can live to about 40, remaining healthy almost up until the end. Luthic’s divine blessing can further extend an orc’s life, though Gruumsh is never happy when
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
memorize, such as the following:
Owlbears are aggressive and often ill-tempered carnivores. They are known to attack without provocation.
Owlbears most often live in caves or ruins. The bones of their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
berserker, they make a fighting retreat through the pastures to steal sheep and ponies. Nettlebees in Hiding. Once the barbarians make it to the ranch, Javor bursts into the house’s cellar. The Nettlebees
Wiggan’s guilt. Wiggan is even braver if Bertram is there to help him. Watson might try to stop an open battle, but he is unwilling to fight his relatives. If defeated but left alive, Wiggan can be coerced into telling the truth. The party has to promise to let him live to get him to talk.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
the imminent explosion, the characters must negotiate with or get through the fighting creatures to repair the control console. Escalation Goliath giant-kin (see chapter 6) who live on one of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
outcome of the war, but no one dares to continue fighting, since all believe that renewed full-scale conflict could result in utter destruction. That said, the general belief is that the mystery of the
a threat. Many people truly hope that the Last War will live up to its name forever. But others prepare for more war even as they pursue peace. First and foremost, every nation wants to unravel the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Zariel Keep wasting my time with your pointless words and die, or join my war band and live. Choose swiftly. I have a plane to conquer.
— Zariel addressing emissaries from Dis
Zariel was once an
to recover in the depths of Nessus, Asmodeus installed her on Avernus as his champion and new lord of that layer. A Fighting General When Zariel supplanted the pit fiend Bel as the ruler of Avernus
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
their criminal operation, and brought Irena to justice, but not before suffering her curse: “Live you always among monsters, and see everyone you love die beneath their claws.” In the weeks that
from my enemies.” Flaw. “I am cursed. I will never find peace.” Adventures with Rudolph van Richten Van Richten readily provides mentorship to characters devoted to fighting the creatures of the night
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Faerûn and often operate in isolation from the others. This existence teaches the Enclave’s members a fierce self-reliance and mastery of certain fighting and survival skills. A ranger of the Enclave
druids who live as hermits might appear from nowhere to help defend a town against marauding orcs. Members of the Emerald Enclave know how to survive and, more importantly, to help others do the same
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Upper Tavick’s Landing This ward is effectively a self-contained city catering to the nobles that live there. It has fine housing, skilled services, a luxurious mercantile district, and even an
unruly behavior—fighting, shouting in the streets, and the like—brings a fine of up to 5 gp and temporary expulsion from the ward.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
Upper Tavick’s Landing This ward is effectively a self-contained city catering to the nobles that live there. It has fine housing, skilled services, a luxurious mercantile district, and even an
unruly behavior—fighting, shouting in the streets, etc—earns a fine of up to 5 gp and temporary expulsion from the ward. For those willing to put up with these restrictions, Upper Tavick’s Landing has
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
family thriving, or were its members scattered or slain during the conflict? Refugees and Shortages Refugees live in every major city, including tens of thousands of exiles produced by Cyre’s
destruction. Cyrans are a people without a homeland, seeking shelter and sustenance in the lands of their former enemies. Many Cyran refugees are former soldiers who were fighting in enemy territory when the
Yuan-ti Pureblood
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
live births aren’t uncommon. A mating between yuan-ti of different types almost always produces eggs that hatch into yuan-ti of the weaker parent, so most choose partners of the same type in the
keen intellect and magic to discover the secrets of making steel. Its military shattered rival tribes and developed advanced tactics for fighting in forests and open plains.
The civilization grew into a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
combat erupts, the entire den goes on alert. As a consequence, adventurers might find themselves fighting several encounters’ worth of creatures at once. Grudd Haug’s defenders lack a cohesive defense
Haug Reinforcements d100 Creature(s) 01–50 None 51–60 1 male hill giant carrying a live pig, sheep, goat, cow, pony, or mule 61–70 2d4 bugbears, each carrying a basket of apples, carrots, or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
both useful to the cause. Devils constantly strive to recruit mortals into their ranks by offering them rewards in return for their service. While they live, these cultists carry out the wishes of
cultists dedicated to one of the demon lords exist all across the realms of the material world. For as long as these mortals do the bidding of their lord, they are allowed to live. From a demon’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
for statistics) is working in this area or passing along the corridor. Disguises are ineffective against the ice toads, which know what creatures live in Oyaviggaton at any given time. If they see
the ice trolls if threatened, fighting only if they must. The ice toads speak their own language, plus enough Draconic and Uluik to communicate with Arauthator, the kobolds, and the Ice Hunters. They
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
gods and transformed into a creature of darkness, damned to live in his castle and feed on blood. A female cellist and two male violinists provide musical accompaniment. The shivering audience
drama and fighting back tears while Amath pats his arm gently. Vevette takes a seat behind them and surreptitiously passes the Stone of Golorr to Agorn. Looking on from the back row is Remallia
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
, painted wooden statue of a saintly woman in robes. Five mongrelfolk are confined here. The four that are fighting aren’t trying to kill each other, but they are trying to assert dominance. They stop
fighting if a character separates them. The statue is a little over 5 feet tall and carved from a single piece of wood. It depicts Saint Markovia. Close inspection reveals that it is covered with bite
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
migrations, moving southwest in the winter and northeast in the summer. The barbarians live in large, round tents made of deerskin and supported by beams of wood or whalebone. In the past, the Reghed tribes
were known to raid Ten-Towns for supplies, but now the Tribe of the Elk is learning to live in peace with the more civilized people of Ten-Towns. The other three Reghed tribes — the Tribe of the Tiger
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
working in this area or passing along the corridor. Disguises are ineffective against the ice toads, which know what creatures live in Oyaviggaton at any given time. If they see anything unexpected
threatened, fighting only if they must. The ice toads speak their own language, plus enough Draconic and Uluik to communicate with Arauthator, the kobolds, and the Ice Hunters. They work for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
fortress-home, Castle Ravenloft. Strahd had spent his youth at war fighting alongside Ulmed, the founder of the Ulmist Inquisition, but as he reached his middle years he sought the comforts of family. He
invited his kin to live with him at Castle Ravenloft, and was eventually joined by his younger brother, Sergei. Sergei was everything Strahd wasn’t—youthful, empathic, and warm. Soon after he arrived
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
, uniting them into a fighting force capable of defeating the giants who tyrannized them, and they threw the giants down, claiming the vale between the mountains for their descendants. Giants aplenty still
dwell in Hartsvale’s mountains and forested hills, but they’ve reached an accord with the humans of the vale. So far as I know, they live peaceably distant from the human lands, and taboos exist among
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
Dragon’s Rest, the characters can interact with any of its residents. All the residents but Runara live in the small monastic cells cut into the cliff face (area A1 on the cloister map). Elder Runara
” in the Basic Rules). She becomes friendly as soon as the characters demonstrate that they care about the cloister’s safety, such as by fighting the zombies at the beach or undertaking any of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
the primal waters by drowning them or shedding their blood. The Crushing Wave cult appeals to those who live in or near bodies of water, as well as to those who appreciate subtlety and inevitability
at fighting in water, so they look for opportunities to surprise their enemies by using bodies of water to slip around or through defenses. Because the cultists see water as the wellspring of all life
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
a result, few goliaths live to see old age. Goliath Names Every goliath has three names: a birth name assigned by the newborn’s mother and father, a nickname assigned by the tribal chief, and a
enter adulthood in their late teens and usually live less than a century. Size. Goliaths stand between 7 and 8 feet tall and weigh between 280 and 340 pounds. Your size is Medium. Speed. Your base
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
this area, the rug attacks intruders. It stops fighting if one of the jackalweres commands it to. Development. Noise from fighting the rug of smothering causes Marliza, a jackalwere in hybrid form, to
“Amberdune Pack” above for more information on the pack members). False Storage Trunk. The top wooden trunk is actually a mimic that used to live in Nidalia’s lair, protecting her from intruders. The






