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Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
success, the zombie drops to 1 hit point instead.
Unusual Nature. The zombie doesn't require air, food, drink, or sleep.Javelin. Melee Weapon Attack: +1;{"diceNotation":"1d20+1","rollType":"to hit
Vellynne Harpell has Icewind kobold guides in her employ, including a pair that died and were turned into zombies using animate dead spells. The cold climate helps to preserve their dead flesh.Poison
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
doesn’t function if Asteria has the incapacitated condition.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Asteria fails a saving throw, she can choose to succeed instead.
Special Equipment. Asteria wears
Winged Boots, which grant her a flying speed (included in her statistics). She also carries one half of a pair of Sending Stones; the other half of the pair is held by Euryale.Multiattack. Asteria
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
one. When the dragonborn uses this action, it can choose up to three creatures in the cone. These creatures take no damage from the radiance and instead regain 22 (4d10);{"diceNotation":"4d10
especially from evil dragons. A champion of Bahamut has a distinctive pair of platinum wings and a breath weapon suffused with radiant energy.
Dragonborn Champions
The connection between dragonborn
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
weather, detect thoughts, ice storm
Legendary Resistance (2/Day in This Form). If Auril fails a saving throw, she can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. Auril has advantage on saving throws
. Protruding from her feathery owl’s head is a pair of curved goat horns. A cloak and cowl made of pristine white snow conceals much of her tripartite form, which her worshipers refer to as the
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Euryale fails a saving throw, she can choose to succeed instead.
Special Equipment. Euryale carries one half of a pair of Sending Stones; the other half of the pair
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
Legendary Resistance (2/Day). If the beast fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Siege Monster. The beast deals double damage to objects and structures.Multiattack. The beast makes
nightmare beast’s legs end in claws, enabling it to climb well despite its size. Its skin is thick and tough, and its teeth are long and sharp. A pair of long, curved tusks jut from the sides of
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
choose to succeed instead.
Nebulous Thoughts. Magical attempts to read the dragon’s mind or glean its thoughts fail automatically.
Siege Monster. The dragon deals double damage to objects and
time outside its lair between patrolling its territory and hunting for food. The dragon has a serpentine body, a pair of ventral limbs ending in long fins, nebulous wings that give off light, and
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
with more respect than anyone else does, and the keep is a safer location than most other places in Ten-Towns.
Companions. Avarice has a pair of loyal gargoyle;gargoyles named Gargle and Gurgle who
the Monster Manual but is a fiend instead of a beast.
Spellbook. Avarice’s spellbook has white leather covers and vellum pages. The tiefling’s personal sigil is burned into the front cover
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
choose to succeed instead.
Nebulous Thoughts. Magical attempts to read the dragon’s mind or glean its thoughts fail automatically.
Siege Monster. The dragon deals double damage to objects and
time outside its lair between patrolling its territory and hunting for food. The dragon has a serpentine body, a pair of ventral limbs ending in long fins, nebulous wings that give off light, and
Monsters
Tomb of Annihilation
charges; the hand is made of ice, is immune to cold damage, and deals bludgeoning damage instead of force damage as a clenched fist), cone of cold (2 charges), flesh to ice (3 charges; as flesh to stone
divine its location and that of its wearer. On his fingers above the knuckles, Artus has tattooed the names of his dearly departed animal companions — a pair of talking wombats named Byrt and
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. The sibriex has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.Multiattack. The sibriex makes three Chain attacks, and it uses Squirt Bile
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The target’s eyes become beacons, filling a 15-foot cone with dim light when they are open.
26–30
A pair of wings, either feathered or leathery, sprout from the target’s
Magic Items
The Book of Many Things
, while leaving your hands free.
Celestial. You sprout a pair of softly luminescent, feathered wings from your back and gain a flying speed of 30 feet.
Construct. A homunculus appears in an
you are proficient with appears in your hands. The DM chooses the armor. If you lack proficiency with any armor, your base AC instead now equals 12 + your Dexterity modifier while you aren’t
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
. A ring placed on a tentacle might work, but a yuan-ti with a snakelike tail instead of legs has no way to wear magic boots. Multiple Items of the Same Kind Use common sense to determine whether more
than one of a given kind of magic item can be worn. A character can’t normally wear more than one pair of footwear, one pair of gloves or gauntlets, one pair of bracers, one suit of armor, one item of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
A29. Secret Vault Against the south wall of this otherwise empty room rests a 80-pound iron chest with clawed feet. Its built-in lock bears a tiny circular indentation instead of a traditional
using thieves’ tools, or by a knock spell or similar magic. Treasure. The chest contains a dread helm and a pair of gauntlets of ogre power.
Orc
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
, injury, or age) often join these cults instead of facing daily humiliation, exile, or death.
Serving as the bridge between the two parts of the tribe are the priestesses of Luthic, the orc goddess who
relieved of their other roles and taken to the lair’s whelping pens, where they are tended to by Luthic’s followers.
Orcs don’t take mates, and no pair-bonding occurs in a tribe
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
characters near the outpost, read or paraphrase the following: Slowly, the mountainous terrain begins to change. Gray gravel darkens to ash-black, and shrubbery becomes dry and sparse. Instead of the brisk
cold of most mountain peaks, the air starts to warm.
Ahead of you rises a tall cliff face, in which is set a pair of forbidding obsidian doors: the entrance to Zorzula’s Rest.
Zorzula’s Rest
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
-hardened hobgoblin warlord named High Graj Karkajuk. Bitter Breath drives a Tormentor that has an Infernal Screamer (see "Infernal Screamer") instead of a Harpoon Flinger. Hobgoblins round out the
Tormentor’s crew. High Graj Karkajuk drives a Devil’s Rideand commands a pair of Scavengers driven by hobgoblin captains and crewed by ordinary hobgoblins. See appendix B for the vehicles’ stat blocks.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
holy water from the vale, or might instead be honoring the characters with a visit to this sacred place. In any case, it should be made clear that the vale is usually off limits to non-dwarves. Once the
. Lastly, he or she explains that the side path to the Shrine of the Tender Oath is subtly marked with a pair of Dethek runes, the first letter of the dwarven words for “Tender” and “Oath.” The trip to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
of Bahamut has a distinctive pair of platinum wings and a breath weapon suffused with radiant energy. Dragonborn of Bahamut
Medium Humanoid, Typically Lawful Good
Armor Class 18 (half plate, shield
XP) Proficiency Bonus +3
Legendary Resistance (1/Day). If the dragonborn fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Actions
Multiattack. The dragonborn makes three Longsword
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
. Good examples include a pair of blue dragon wyrmlings in the air temple, a young black dragon near the water temple, or even a corrupted copper dragon somewhere near the earth node. (The Weeping
Colossus already contains a red dragon.) These dragons might be part of the dragon armies, or might instead be drawn to the elemental power of the Chaos node. They can be integrated within the elemental cults, or might be as much a threat to the cultists as they are to the adventurers.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
13. Bear Laboratory Whenever anyone enters this area, a low growling rises from the animals kept here. A number of large, sturdy cages house one pair each of black bears, brown bears, and polar bears
of themselves that attack anyone in the room until destroyed. Each skeletal, rotted bear uses the polar bear stat block with the following changes: It has the undead type instead of the beast type
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
but falls unconscious instead. The creature regains consciousness, and the reduction to its Strength score disappears, after it finishes a short or long rest. Moon Sphere. This dangling, 3-foot
-diameter sphere of white glass sheds bright light out to a range of 20 feet and dim light for an additional 20 feet. Casting dispel magic on the sphere automatically causes its light to go out. Treasure. Characters who search the shadow theater find a pair of opera glasses (250 gp) resting on one seat.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
beset with such an overwhelming sense of ennui regarding my art. Nothing quite captures my attention anymore. 6 Instead of confronting my negative emotions, I channel them into explosive artistic
displays. Prismari Trinkets. When you make your character, you may roll once on the Prismari Trinkets table, instead of on the Trinkets table in the Player’s Handbook, for your starting trinket. Prismari
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
Important Nonplayer Characters Skyreach Castle is home to the cloud giant Blagothkus, a pair of stone giants named Wiglof and Hulde (allies of the cloud giant), Wyrmspeaker Rezmir of the Cult of the
another and are unlikely to present a unified front against the characters. Instead, the giants fight to defend their home, and the cultists and dragon fight to defend their treasure. If the characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
enthusiastic morale liaison called Apricot Reese
4 A grumpy dwarf carriage driver nicknamed Bolt
5 A pair of identical twin circus performers called Stella and Bella
6 An elf bodyguard
other skilled warriors. Rather than worshiping Tempus or Bane, Gruumsh or Tyr, you instead bow down before the altar of your own superiority, channeling your ego to drive your franchise’s success
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
time needed to reach their destination by a day. Remove the last pair of cards from the spread. Treasure. The characters find treasure inspired by the card as they overcome the day’s challenges. If
the card doesn’t seem appropriate, use the treasure tables in the Dungeon Master’s Guide to determine the treasure instead. Ruins When determining ruins, the following effects are broadly appropriate
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
Important Nonplayer Characters Skyreach Castle is home to the cloud giant Blagothkus, a pair of stone giants named Wiglof and Hulde (allies of the cloud giant), Wyrmspeaker Rezmir of the Cult of the
another and are unlikely to present a unified front against the characters. Instead, the giants fight to defend their home, and the cultists and dragon fight to defend their treasure. If the characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
. The females are named Bralith and Sunmerva. The cave is strewn with old mining equipment: shovels, broken picks, rusty iron sleds for dragging ore, and so forth. A casual search also yields a pair of
veins of mithral. Instead, they found iron and poisonous gas. The room is empty, though characters can hear the miners working in areas 20b and 20c.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
seethe with wrath, their rage erupting in waves of fire and as a pair of vicious weapons: a sword of crackling lightning and a whip of lashing flames. A balor’s fury persists until the moment of its
originating from the balor takes 13 (3d8) Fire damage.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the balor fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. The balor has Advantage
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
. Multiples. You can also designate single cards to represent two, three, or four creatures instead of just one. This ensures weak creatures appear in numbers sufficient to challenge the party without
an encounter occurs, the twin creatures appear in the encounter. If you draw only one twin card, shuffle it back into the deck and form the encounter as normal. The twins could be a pair of displacer
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
costs 3 sp. Instead of paying money, a visitor can try to barter with the ticketer, Nikolas Midnight, a wrinkled goblin (see “Bartering for a Ticket” below). For more information on Nikolas Midnight
were purchased by Ellywick Tumblestrum, but Tumblestrum has asked Nikolas not to divulge this information. Instead, Nikolas claims that these tickets were paid for by “an anonymous benefactor.” After
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
about this tunnel. It ends at a pair of heavy stone doors. A character can use an action to push open either door with a successful DC 15 Strength (Athletics) check, allowing access to area J4. J4
also opens the chest. Exit Portal. Turning the gold key in the lock doesn’t unlock the chest but instead conjures a 10-foot-square doorway through which area J1 can be seen. The doorway appears on the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
are magically replaced by a pair of soft, fuzzy donkey ears. Moreover, when you try to speak, you instead bray. 2 You gain 1d3 levels of exhaustion. Until the curse ends, these levels of exhaustion
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
place expressly for the punishment of evil souls; instead, it represents a “next level” for evil souls after the end of their wicked lives as mortals. The Nine Hells allows souls to exist in a
archdevils seeking signs of weakness that they can exploit to further their dreams of power. Fort Knucklebone
For characters of level 7
The adventurers question Chukka and Clonk, a pair of kenku junk
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Witchlight vane instead of the Witchlight watch, Burly asserts that the watch is easier to steal because it’s smaller and often tucked in Mister Witch’s pocket, whereas Mister Light is rarely seen without
’ tools, a dagger, or a pair of scissors to snip or detach the chain securing the watch. If the characters rob Mister Witch of his timepiece, he and Light are desperate to get it back. They’d prefer not