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Returning 35 results for 'pawns'.
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
itself on a success.Champions of the dragon queen are often called Talons of Tiamat. They work tirelessly to free their master from her imprisonment in Avernus, and Tiamat grants these pawns immense
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
“speaker” of his imprisoned master, Rak Tulkhesh, and he seeks to free his lord by bathing the world in blood. Like a spider with multiple webs, he has agents and pawns (which he calls his “claws
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
pawns. They also ironically bear their hated founder’s name, for they know it is his original deathly gift that gives them their horrific powers.
Boons of Undeath
When a priest of Osybus drops
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
the mists, often using adventurers as their pawns. They also ironically bear their hated founder’s name, for they know it is his original deathly gift that gives them their horrific powers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rrakkma
Wrap Up This adventure has two possible endings. If the adventurers succeed, the Gith Capacitor has been destroyed. If they fail, the gith peoples are wiped of their racial psionic abilities and become willing pawns of the mind flayers once more.
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
; thus they were denied their reward of immortality.
To this day, the priests of Osybus seek to unleash Strahd from the mists, often using adventurers as their pawns. They also ironically bear their
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
their reward of immortality.
To this day, the priests of Osybus seek to unleash Strahd from the mists, often using adventurers as their pawns. They also ironically bear their hated founder’s
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
seek to unleash Strahd from the mists, often using adventurers as their pawns. They also ironically bear their hated founder’s name, for they know it is his original deathly gift that gives them
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Other Demons Demons of sufficient cunning and power can bestow boons, using the boons’ recipients as pawns. A demon can grant a special trait based on its type, as shown below. Balor Fiery Soul. This
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
pawns in an ancient game. First and foremost, the dragons of the Chamber are observers, gathering information about new aspects of the Prophecy and sharing it with their elders in Argonnessen. They are
agents of the Chamber can often be useful allies or patrons. But ultimately humanoids are just pawns in the dragons’ eyes, and they readily sacrifice any of those pawns to ensure the sanctity of the
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
reward of immortality.
To this day, the priests of Osybus seek to unleash Strahd from the mists, often using adventurers as their pawns. They also ironically bear their hated founder’s name, for
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
unleash Strahd from the mists, often using adventurers as their pawns. They also ironically bear their hated founder’s name, for they know it is his original deathly gift that gives them their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
ruins of the Old City beneath Yongjing. Political Pawns. An agent of the emperor or his family asks the characters to meet with Secretary Wei and aid her in any way they can—thereby drawing the characters into the city’s politics.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
beings—heroes and monsters alike—often become unwitting pawns in the contests of the gods. Having a powerful champion is an indication of a god’s power—and can potentially increase the god’s own power. A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
, Moloch — they are pawns. Even the lords of layers such as Zariel and Mammon are merely more powerful pieces. Archdevils may make dramatic moves, but it is Asmodeus who plays the game best.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
their idealized vision of noble life leads them to mimic the aristocrats’ callousness and appetite for empty fads. These starry-eyed innocents provide ready pawns for corruption. And those who don’t bend to the whims of Borca’s rulers face humiliation before they’re inevitably crushed.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
that wouldn’t be sufficient to bring about the desired end; somehow, they’ll have to trick the adventurer into doing it. Because the Lords of Dust so often work through pawns and minions, it might
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Green Dragon Wyrmling Green dragon wyrmlings often serve as pawns in older dragons’ schemes. By spying on those dragons’ agents, wyrmlings learn the art of manipulation. Once they’ve accumulated
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Dragonborn of Tiamat Champions of the dragon queen are often called Talons of Tiamat. They work tirelessly to free their master from her imprisonment in Avernus, and Tiamat grants these pawns immense
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Phenax’s Champions Phenax’s champions are pawns in his grand game of lying, cheating, and deception. He takes particular pleasure in tormenting Heliod and Iroas, whom he regards with special scorn
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
actually from the Outer Planes. These fiends generally work through a wide network of duped pawns and indebted servitors. Each overlord has a chief servant, and these leaders meet in the ruins of Ashtakala
Ancient Deep Dragon
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Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
, they use local settlements—and any competent visitors—as pawns in their struggle.
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An ancient deep dragon has put the folk of a city to work building the dragon a metropolis to rule
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
. Adventures set in Borca often involve characters participating in the machinations of the domain’s nobles, whether as involuntary pawns or as part of schemes to see them indebted to amoral patrons. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
you doing this? “Vengeance! Vengeance on a scale your feeble minds could never comprehend.” So it was you controlling the dean and sickening the students? “Bah! Manipulating those pawns was only the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
champion. Unwitting Pawns. The characters are recruited to search for a Deck of Many Things by a wealthy patron, Lord Verin Oakley, who claims descent from a famous knight who once owned this deck
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
than to sleep and dream upon my hoard with the warmth of a full belly. Let those who would disturb me beware!
4 Ah, if these foolish creatures only knew they were but pawns in the games I play
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
The Chamber The Chamber is a secretive network of dragons that have monitored the peoples of Khorvaire for thousands of years. These dragons consider people merely pawns in an ancient game that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
determine the path of the Prophecy, and player characters may be pawns in this great game. As one of the heroes of the age, you surely have a role in the Draconic Prophecy. Will you be a tool of one of these ancient forces, or will you master the game and determine your own destiny?
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
serves as the prakhutu or “speaker” of his imprisoned master, Rak Tulkhesh, and he seeks to free his lord by bathing the world in blood. Like a spider with multiple webs, he has agents and pawns
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
number among Sora Kell’s allies—not the least of which are her daughters’ three long-forgotten fathers. It isn’t for Sora Kell’s pawns to know which of the powerful villains are friendly to Sora Kell
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
orchestrate uprisings in towns and cities, gathering gangs of humanoids and lesser devils to serve it. Pawns of the Mighty. A cambion forced to serve its fiendish parent does so out of admiration and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
of being pawns and mocks their heroics. She occasionally speaks to an imaginary friend named Poots, saying things like, “We’ll show them, Poots!” and “No one can stop us!” If Tockworth is reduced to 0
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
negotiate peace with the settlement. 2 Characters must find a wise giant who has pursued specialized knowledge instead of excellence within the ordning. 3 A giant tries to use the characters as pawns in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
ancient deep dragons fight over territory. Unwilling to move against each other directly, they use local settlements—and any competent visitors—as pawns in their struggle.
4 An ancient deep dragon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
creatures as potential servants or pawns, valuable only as long as they fulfill the dragon’s needs. Many red dragons terrorize creatures into serving them—and sometimes into worshiping them as well. Others