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Hundred-Handed One

Monsters Mythic Odysseys of Theros

' magic pursued them, cursing them with an endless will to create, but no one to create for and none who would ever appreciate or use the art and architecture they created. A spectrum of giants claims

territory across Theros, drawing strength from aspects of the world itself—from ancient stone and roiling flames to the depths of the seas and skies. Unlike many creatures of legend, most giants owe

Sahuagin Baron Legacy

Monsters Monster Manual (2014)

— none can say. The sahuagin put the malenti to good use as spies and assassins in aquatic elf cities and the societies of other creatures that pose a threat to sahuagin. The mere shadow of the

Sahuagin Priestess Legacy

Monsters Monster Manual (2014)

a result of the wars between the sahuagin and the aquatic elves — or whether it preceded or even began the conflict — none can say. The sahuagin put the malenti to good use as spies and assassins in

aquatic elf cities and the societies of other creatures that pose a threat to sahuagin. The mere shadow of the malenti threat incites paranoia and suspicion among aquatic elves, whose resilience is weakened as the prelude to an actual sahuagin invasion.

Peoples of the North

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder

stand for a short time, but none are destined to last. An orc horde or a flight of dragons could sweep them all away tomorrow, leaving nothing but mile upon unmapped mile of wilderness. The Savage

the Savage Frontier lie the ruins and dungeons of these and other “forgotten realms.” Cities such as Waterdeep, Mirabar, and Neverwinter would like to claim this wealth and knowledge for themselves

Darkon

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

Darkon Domain on the Brink of Destruction Darklord: None Genres: Dark fantasy and disaster horror Hallmarks: Fractured realm, magical ruins, ongoing supernatural catastrophe Mist Talismans: Ashes of

hungry. Once the prison of the lich Azalin Rex, Darkon stretched between two oceans, its lands filled with gothic cities and the monuments of forgotten wizard-tyrants. Largely ignoring his role as

Borca

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

thrills. Guile and apathy are virtues in Borca, and none embody them more than the domain’s two Darklords: the genius poisoner Ivana Boritsi and the childishly cruel stalker Ivan Dilisnya. Outside the

bejeweled playgrounds of the land’s elite, Borca’s common folk struggle against crime, poverty, and starvation. In scattered villages and tenement-filled cities, locals view nobles as celebrities, and

Sorcerer

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

, Insight, Intimidation, Persuasion, or Religion Weapon Proficiencies Simple weapons Armor Training None Starting Equipment Choose A or B: (A) Spear, 2 Daggers, Arcane Focus (crystal), Dungeoneer’s Pack

down through generations. Sorcerers don’t learn magic; the raw, roiling power of magic is part of them. The essential art of a Sorcerer is learning to harness and channel that innate magic, allowing the

Sorcerer

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

Charisma Skill Proficiencies Choose 2: Arcana, Deception, Insight, Intimidation, Persuasion, or Religion Weapon Proficiencies Simple weapons Armor Training None Starting Equipment Choose A or B:(A) Spear, 2

the Sorcerer, a churning magic that can be passed down through generations. Sorcerers don’t learn magic; the raw, roiling power of magic is part of them. The essential art of a Sorcerer is learning to

Cities without Sunlight

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

Cities without Sunlight The drow might have not chosen to live in the Underdark, but just the same they consider it their home, not a prison. Just as the sea elves adapted to their aquatic realm

prefer to visit the surface only at night. Even though they live underground, drow are much more than cave-dwellers. Their cities are as magnificent as anything built by surface elves, and their defenses

Gibbering Mouther

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual

Gibbering Mouther Ravenous Chorus of Unreality Habitat: Underdark; Treasure: None Helge C. balzer Gibbering mouthers endlessly feed on and regrow their own amoeboid bodies—amorphous heaps roiling

Con 16 +3 +3 Ability Score Mod Save Int 3 −4 −4 Wis 10 +0 +0 Cha 6 −2 −2 Immunities Prone Senses Darkvision 60 ft.; Passive Perception 10 Languages None CR 2 (XP 450; PB +2) Traits

How It Started

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

How It Started Acquisitions Incorporated began as most adventuring groups do, with the wholesale removal of irksome kobolds, scouting ruined towers, delving into dwarven necropolis-cities, and

recover the soul of said intern. (Clearly, none of those hells paid for him either.) The rogue Viari is one of Acquisitions Incorporated’s best internship success stories. In fact, he was so

Demon Wastes

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

Demon Wastes Capital: None Hallmarks: Fiends, pestilence Rivers of lava cut across plains of black sand and volcanic glass. The only vegetation consists of blood-red moss and a thick layer of

for some of the mightiest archfiends, home to cities of rakshasas and demons. Most of these foul entities perished or fled long ago, but a few still linger in this place even as new ones crawl up

The Demon Wastes

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron

The Demon Wastes Capital: None Noted for Fiends, pestilence, violence Rivers of lava cut across plains of black sand and volcanic glass. The only vegetation you can see is blood-red moss and a thick

years ago, fiends ruled Khorvaire. This region was the seat of power of some of the mightiest archfiends, holding cities of rakshasas and demons. These foul spirits were bound long ago, but their power

Efreeti

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual

Elementals. On many worlds, efreet dwell in sweltering deserts and volcanic regions. Those that make their homes on the Elemental Plane of Fire create incredible cities among seas of flame and molten

minerals. Eclipsing all of these is the storied City of Brass, a gleaming metropolis that is one of the most wondrous cities in the multiverse. Here, magic tempers the plane’s extreme heat, making the City

14. Guest Apartment

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

against the north wall. Fresco. A large fresco of an elven city covers the south wall. Before the drow were driven underground and into Lolth’s evil embrace, they lived in cities on the surface

alongside their elf kin. The fresco on the south wall depicts one of these ancient cities. Treasure. The cabinet contains a 10-pound box of silver flatware (250 gp) and a silver snuffbox (25 gp). 14b

Djinni

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual

the Elemental Plane of Air. In floating cities, djinn collect tales and experiences from across the planes of existence, sharing them in fabulous forums, libraries, and theaters. The greatest of these

cities is the Citadel of Ice and Steel, in which wind-sculpted towers contain a city-size trove of incredible knowledge and treasures that defy belief. Michael Broussard Djinni Large

Wizard

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

, Investigation, Medicine, Nature, or Religion Weapon Proficiencies Simple weapons Armor Training None Starting Equipment Choose A or B: (A) 2 Daggers, Arcane Focus (Quarterstaff), Robe, Spellbook

calls even the most unadventurous Wizards from the safety of their libraries and laboratories and into crumbling ruins and lost cities. Most Wizards believe that their counterparts in ancient

Worshiping Klothys

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

them, infecting them with a pernicious destiny that Klothys herself tore from the natural order. None can say what terrible destiny the Smoking Strand drives its possessor toward, but the ruins within

Kruphix and Klothys emerged from opposite sides of the roiling tangle of possibilities that eventually gave birth to Theros. At first the two battled for supremacy, but they soon realized their conflict

Fortress Cities

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

Fortress Cities The monasteries of the githzerai are massive outposts of stability that sail through the chaos of Limbo. Githzerai anarchs keep the fortresses stable and control their interior design

, opening portals to the outside only as needed. Most fortresses drift through Limbo at random, but none of them are ever isolated. When Menyar-Ag sends out a call to them, the anarchs of the other

Elemental Cataclysm

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual

Elemental Cataclysm The End and Beginning of Ages Habitat: Planar (Elemental Chaos); Treasure: None Johan Grenier Beyond the fringes of the Elemental Planes, primordial forces endlessly clash amid

, carelessly destroying cities and throwing whole nations into chaos. The rampages aren’t random. Elemental cataclysms abhor anything that visibly mars nature, be it mines or monuments, fortresses or

Wizard

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

Wisdom Skill Proficiencies Choose 2: Arcana, History, Insight, Investigation, Medicine, Nature, or Religion Weapon Proficiencies Simple weapons Armor Training None Starting Equipment Choose A or B: (A) 2

lives of crime or domination. But the lure of knowledge calls even the most unadventurous Wizards from the safety of their libraries and laboratories and into crumbling ruins and lost cities. Most Wizards

Displacer Beast

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual

Displacer Beast Deceptive Feline Stalker Habitat: Forest; Treasure: None Caio Monteiro A displacer beast resembles a gaunt, six-legged panther with a barbed tentacle sprouting from each of its

distances and even into cities or dungeons. More cunning than mere animals, these predators might set ambushes or lie hidden for days to bring down their prey. Displacer beasts sometimes pursue prey

Sahuagin

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

, but whether this rare phenomenon is a result of the wars between the sahuagin and the aquatic elves — or whether it preceded or even began the conflict — none can say. The sahuagin put the malenti to

good use as spies and assassins in aquatic elf cities and the societies of other creatures that pose a threat to sahuagin. The mere shadow of the malenti threat incites paranoia and suspicion among aquatic elves, whose resilience is weakened as the prelude to an actual sahuagin invasion.

Gauntlgrym

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide

possible. Or so the stories go. Despite all the quests undertaken by adventurers down the centuries, none ever truly found the ancient city until the ghosts of Gauntlgrym’s former denizens began calling to

dangers those places now faced. Gradually, as the orcs were pushed back and the dwarven cities secured anew, those delvers began to recall their promises to their ancestors. Further, when the war ended

Dao

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual

create cities that glitter with treasure. Among these realms is the labyrinthine expanse called the Great Dismal Delve or the Sevenfold Mazework, which protects the City of Jewels, the Iron Crucible

creature, the dao suffers none of the spell’s stress. Once the dao has cast it three times, the dao can’t do so again for 365 days. Actions Multiattack. The dao makes three Earthen Maul attacks or

Shadowfell

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

in darkness, closing as soon as they feel light’s kiss. Domains of Dread In a far-flung corner of the Shadowfell drifts a hidden expanse of roiling mist and vague semireality. At this eerie edge of the

childishly cruel stalker Ivan Dilisnya—pursue their obsessive schemes. Falkovnia Empty countryside surrounds ruined or crumbling cities, with only a few pockets of civilization fighting a losing battle

Low City

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Astral Adventurer’s Guide

groups. Since then, many of these neighborhoods came to overlap as they merged into the roiling expanse of the Low City, though the name and a bit of the character of each remains. Three of these

, flowers, charming gift baskets, and directions. Dwarven District. Many dwarf crafters live in this Middle City district, and their handiwork is second to none. Gifftown. Many of Bral’s giff

Evereska

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide

, when I followed a haunting song or a wisp of light among the roiling fogs of the Greycloaks, picked sweet berries in the hollows of the hills, and swam in the cold streams that flowed out of their

. Yet should such approach Evereska, its guardians mounted on giant eagles would ensure no ill befell the vale. Unlike cramped and crowded human cities, Evereska is composed of clusters of buildings

Goristro

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual

Goristro Demon of Disaster Habitat: Planar (Abyss); Treasure: Armaments Ben Wootten Terrifying in scale and overwhelming power, goristros are giant demons capable of bringing cities to ruin. These

Oozes Hungry Slimes and Magical Failures Habitat: Underdark; Treasure: None Gray oozes are predatory, corrosive slimes that blend in with stony surroundings. Gray Ooze Gray oozes appear in areas

A Culture of Fugitives

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

the gith discovered a weakness, none can say. What is known is that after centuries of domination, the mind flayer empire collapsed in less than a year. The gith rose up, slaughtered their masters, and

realms yet adrift in the Astral Plane. Though no one has discovered such a place, it is beyond dispute that an empire as vast as the illithids’ built great cities and other edifices. Most sages, however

Giants

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

Giants A spectrum of giants claims territory across Theros, drawing strength from aspects of the world itself—from ancient stone and roiling flames to the depths of the seas and skies. Unlike many

will to create, but no one to create for and none who would ever appreciate or use the art and architecture they created. Hundred-Handed One Huge giant, lawful neutral Armor Class 15 (natural

Travel

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

journey otherwise works the same as described in the rest of the “Travel” section. Downloadable PDF Weather During each stage of the characters’ journey, you can determine what the weather is like by

memorable. Weather 1d20 Temperature 1–14 Normal for the season 15–17 1d4 × 10 degrees Fahrenheit colder 18–20 1d4 × 10 degrees Fahrenheit hotter 1d20 Wind Precipitation 1–12 None None 13–17 Light

The Wards of Waterdeep

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

The Wards of Waterdeep Newcomers to the city of Waterdeep are often confused by the importance that Waterdavians give to wards. In other cities, such as Baldur’s Gate and Neverwinter, districts are

but undertake none of the other responsibilities of the throne, I am nothing. And if I do all these things in the name of the Watchful Order, I am less than nothing. Doth thy mirror crack?” These scornful words are remembered and used almost daily in Waterdeep even a century later.

Factions

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

Emerald Enclave, the Lords’ Alliance, and the Zhentarim. All five factions have their own reasons for opposing the spread of Elemental Evil. However, none fully comprehend the gravity of the threat at the

. Trade along rivers and roads links the cities of the Lords’ Alliance, so its operatives eliminate threats to that trade as soon as they appear. Located at the confluence of the Dessarin and Surbrin

Adventure Start

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

the mountain, but none of them are large enough to allow entry. Map 4.1 depicts a cross-section of the mountain, showing the lava pool and the shaft of the geyser. The numbers refer to key areas inside

barely managed to escape, accompanied only by his personal bodyguard company of fanatical evil gnomes. Keraptis fled to the cities of the south and west, but wherever he went, his reputation preceded him

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