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Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the incarnate fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. The incarnate has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical
Upper and Lower Planes are fundamental manifestations of good and evil, law and chaos. In the most dire and fateful circumstances, these planes can manifest primal embodiments of their might. These
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the incarnate fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. The incarnate has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical
see.The Upper and Lower Planes are fundamental manifestations of good and evil, law and chaos. In the most dire and fateful circumstances, these planes can manifest primal embodiments of their might
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
Legendary Resistance (4/Day). If the baernaloth fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. The baernaloth has advantage on saving throws against spells and other
primal evil power before other yugoloths or that they come from an epoch before the current manifestation of the planes. Baernaloths refuse to say, but most obsess over secrets and obscene lore regarding
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
herbalism kit, and a poisoner's kit. You have advantage on any check you make using the artifact as one of these tools.
Primal Parts. As an action while the pestle and the mortar is within 5 feet of you
command the mortar to travel, you can instead throw out the dust or paste of something ground by the mortar and name a location on a different plane of existence or a different world on the Material
monsters
choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. The beast has Advantage on saving throw;saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Regeneration. The beast regains 20 Hit Points at the
", "rollDamageType":"Slashing"} Slashing damage. If the target is Large or smaller, it has the Prone condition.Malar, god of the bestial hunt, sometimes manifests a spark of primal predation in physical form
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Beast Master Companions The Beast Master in the Player’s Handbook forms a mystical bond with an animal. As an alternative, a Beast Master can take the feature below to form a bond with a special primal beast instead.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
all agree that the first elves emerged from the blood that Corellon shed. These primal elves were much akin to Corellon, not nearly as powerful but just as changeable and audacious. Splendid fey
the realm of Arvandor. While enjoying the company of these primal elves, Corellon came to appreciate their ideas, which were both novel and familiar, and singled out those of great repute for special
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
among humans favor the goddess Mielikki. However, they consider the goddess too wild and primal for them to pray to directly. Instead, they pray to Gwaeron Windstrom to bring their words to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
frequently. The Drawing of the Veil is the name that elves give to the occasion when a young elf no longer experiences primal memories during trance but instead recalls only the events of its current mortal existence.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
, Primal Knowledge 3 +2 2 4 +2 Ability Score Improvement 3 +2 3 5 +3 Extra Attack, Fast Movement 3 +2 3 6 +3 Subclass feature 4 +2 3 7 +3 Feral Instinct, Instinctive Pounce 4 +2 3 8 +3 Ability Score
5 +3 4 15 +5 Persistent Rage 5 +3 4 16 +5 Ability Score Improvement 5 +4 4 17 +6 Improved Brutal Strike 6 +4 4 18 +6 Indomitable Might 6 +4 4 19 +6 Epic Boon 6 +4 4 20 +6 Primal Champion 6 +4 4 Level
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
, Primal Knowledge 3 +2 2 4 +2 Ability Score Improvement 3 +2 3 5 +3 Extra Attack, Fast Movement 3 +2 3 6 +3 Subclass feature 4 +2 3 7 +3 Feral Instinct, Instinctive Pounce 4 +2 3 8 +3 Ability Score
5 +3 4 15 +5 Persistent Rage 5 +3 4 16 +5 Ability Score Improvement 5 +4 4 17 +6 Improved Brutal Strike 6 +4 4 18 +6 Indomitable Might 6 +4 4 19 +6 Epic Boon 6 +4 4 20 +6 Primal Champion 6 +4 4 Level
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Stalker, and Hunter subclasses. Beast Master Bond with a Primal Beast A Beast Master forms a mystical bond with a special animal, drawing on primal magic and a deep connection to the natural world
. ALDITHA SIREGAR Beast Master Subclass
Level 3: Primal Companion You magically summon a primal beast, which draws strength from your bond with nature. Choose its stat block: Beast of the Land
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
Gorthok the Thunder Boar Gorthok is a primal nature spirit that takes the form of a boar as big as an elephant, with lightning that dances along its tusks. Gorthok serves the will of Talos, god of
6 (2,300 XP)
Relentless (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). If Gorthok takes 27 damage or less that would reduce it to 0 hit points, it is reduced to 1 hit point instead.
Actions
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
recently fought a number of lizardfolk and lost one of its teeth. Angered and hungry, it sulks in its lair, lost in primal dreams of rending and tearing. It is found in the deep marshes in Danger at
)
Hold Breath. Thousand Teeth can hold its breath for 30 minutes.
Legendary Resistance (2/Day). If Thousand Teeth fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Actions
Multiattack
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
Exploring Faunel CoupleOfKooks “Faunel’s one of the wildest places in the Outlands–most of the locals here are talking animals! But don’t let yourself go primal. The last time things got too wild
in Faunel (see the “The Three Packs” section later in this chapter) and instead works as a messenger between them. Gate to the Beastlands Nearly a mile from Camp Greenbriar stands the gate to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
grimy dungeons? Cathartic for sure. Hygienic? Not so much. Strength, endurance, and fighting don’t necessarily have to come from unresolved childhood issues or a brooding, roiling well of anger. Primal
instincts are valuable, but there are plenty of primal forces in the world — including the unrestrained drive for wealth, power, and everything that comes with it.
THE CORPORATE BARBARIAN
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
wearing a ceremonial animal mask. Within these bounded environments, cultists hunt, kill, and eat wild beasts, indulging their basest primal urges. In the end, however, sacrificial animals are exchanged
fervent supplicants that plead for strength and power. Others come to the cult seeking a life free from authority’s chains — and are liberated of their humanity instead as Baphomet transforms them
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
of bestial super soldiers. He works to perfect what he calls his “primal serum,” an elixir that inflicts those injected with a random form of lycanthropy. He seeks to use the characters as test
“traitors”?
10 On the night of the new moon, no zombie horde appears at Lekar’s walls. Instead, a undead messenger arrives with a missive for General Drakov.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
. For a more unusual take on a Lorehold student, you could consider playing a barbarian with a primal connection to the past (perhaps adopting the Path of the Ancestral Guardian from Xanathar’s Guide
falls apart someday. Lorehold Trinkets. When you make your character, you may roll once on the Lorehold Trinkets table, instead of on the Trinkets table in the Player’s Handbook, for your starting
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
is an elf of their own kind, for when the primal elves went against Corellon and took permanent shapes, they chose this fate for themselves. How many elves are born to which parents or in any given
. Because of the rarity of elf births, siblings might be separated in age by decades, or even a century or more. Thus, few elves grow up playing with brothers or sisters of similar age and instead
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
primal energy—such as flame, lightning, and the tides—and weaves them into spectacles both beautiful and deadly. Galazeth founded Prismari College to ensure that the study of magic wouldn’t ever be
Common, Draconic
Challenge 23 (50,000 XP) Proficiency Bonus +7
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Galazeth fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.
Actions
Multiattack. Galazeth
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Morte’s Planar Parade
Planar Incarnate The Upper and Lower Planes are fundamental manifestations of good and evil, law and chaos. In the most dire and fateful circumstances, these planes can manifest primal embodiments of
22 (41,000 XP) Proficiency Bonus +7
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the incarnate fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. The incarnate has advantage on saving
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
Planar Incarnate The Upper and Lower Planes are fundamental manifestations of good and evil, law and chaos. In the most dire and fateful circumstances, these planes can manifest primal embodiments of
22 (41,000 XP) Proficiency Bonus +7
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the incarnate fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. The incarnate has advantage on saving
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, the assassin instead takes no damage if it succeeds on the save and only half damage if it fails. It can’t use this trait if it has the Incapacitated
small plant, from forest bushes to clustered flowers. They often appear near awakened trees or in regions imbued with primal magic. Some have whimsical appearances or foliage resembling rudimentary
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
the environment grasp the target. If a target fails the save by 5 or more, it is restrained instead for that duration. The mimic colony uses the Help action, aiding a creature of its choice within 300
. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn’t transformed. It reverts to its true form if it dies.
Mimic Colony Primal Fruit In wild places brimming with nature’s power, gardens meticulously tended
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
need powerful magic dispelled, such as the effects of the more ruinous cards from a Deck of Many Things. Zoology and Herbology. As an archdruid, Euryale knows much regarding primal magic, nature gods
Challenge 18 (20,000 XP) Proficiency Bonus +6
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
alchemist’s supplies, brewer’s supplies, cook’s utensils, an herbalism kit, and a poisoner’s kit. You have advantage on any check you make using the artifact as one of these tools. Primal Parts. As an action
night, 1 minute later. Bones Know Their Home. When you command the mortar to travel, you can instead throw out the dust or paste of something ground by the mortar and name a location on a different
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Euryale’s story and unwavering conviction. These medusas are divinely empowered champions, drawing their power from a cosmic truth, the will of a deity, or the primal forces of nature. They gather and
). If the medusa fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Actions
Multiattack. The medusa makes one Constrict attack, one Final Blade attack, and one Snake Hair attack. Alternatively
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
beings of primal conflict annihilate nearly all they encounter and seed the ruins left in their wake with the potential for new creations. Elemental cataclysms rarely escape the Elemental Chaos. When they
a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Siege Monster. The cataclysm deals double damage to objects and structures.
Actions
Multiattack. The cataclysm makes two Elemental Burst
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
the language tables in chapter 2. Level 2: Fighting Style You gain a Fighting Style feat of your choice (see chapter 5). Instead of choosing one of those feats, you can choose the option below
Improvement feat (see chapter 5) or another feat of your choice for which you qualify. You gain this feature again at Ranger levels 8, 12, and 16. Level 5: Extra Attack You can attack twice instead of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
the language tables in “Creating a Character”. Level 2: Fighting Style You gain a Fighting Style feat of your choice (see “Feats”). Instead of choosing one of those feats, you can choose the option
feat of your choice for which you qualify. You gain this feature again at Ranger levels 8, 12, and 16. Level 5: Extra Attack You can attack twice instead of once whenever you take the Attack action on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
, you can strike terror into others with your menacing presence and primal power. When you do so, each creature of your choice in a 30-foot Emanation originating from you must make a Wisdom saving throw
Speaker You can cast the Beast Sense and Speak with Animals spells but only as Rituals. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for them. Level 3: Rage of the Wilds Your Rage taps into the primal power of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
primal beauty that is found nowhere else that I know of. Hartsvale is far in the windswept north, a fertile mountain valley where the Ice Spire Mountains abut the High Ice. The Clear Whirl River, easily
the river, is a small community of folk who work as farmers, fishers, herders, and artisans. These folk do a brisk business, as most outland merchants choose not to journey beyond Stagwick and instead
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Morte’s Planar Parade
posit that these enigmatic yugoloths were created by a primal evil power before other yugoloths or that they come from an epoch before the current manifestation of the planes. Baernaloths refuse to say
Resistance (4/Day). If the baernaloth fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. The baernaloth has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
, the foliage parts to reveal a tranquil grove where a natural spring burbles. Rays of sunlight create a silvery glow about the crystal-clear pool.
This sacred spring is infused with primal magic
, they quickly rouse themselves and commend the characters on their tactical prowess. If all the characters are defeated instead, the sprites wait for the characters to wake up—1 hour later and with 1 Hit