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Monsters
Monster Manual
"}. Failure or Success: The demilich can’t take this action again until the start of its next turn.
Grave-Dust Flight. The demilich flies up to its Fly Speed, shedding grave dust. Each creature
jealously guard their deathtrap-laden sanctums. The most notorious of these is the Tomb of Horrors, lair of the infamous Acererak.
The region containing a demilich’s lair is twisted by its
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guard against the horrors of the night.
Clerics who serve these deities—examples of which appear on the Twilight Deities table—bring comfort to those who seek rest and protect them by
Arrah
Eberron
Helm
Forgotten Realms
Ilmater
Forgotten Realms
Mishakal
Dragonlance
Selûne
Forgotten Realms
Yondalla
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Drow
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Player’s Handbook (2014)
As a drow, you are infused with the magic of the Underdark, an underground realm of wonders and horrors rarely seen on the surface above. You are at home in shadows and, thanks to your innate magic
drow cities, especially in the worlds of Oerth and Toril. Eberron, Krynn, and other realms have escaped the cult’s influence—for now. Wherever the cult lurks, drow heroes stand on the front lines in the war against it, seeking to sunder Lolth’s web.
classes
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
guard against the horrors of the night.
Clerics who serve these deities—examples of which appear on the Twilight Deities table—bring comfort to those who seek rest and protect them by
Arrah
Eberron
Helm
Forgotten Realms
Ilmater
Forgotten Realms
Mishakal
Dragonlance
Selûne
Forgotten Realms
Yondalla
Halfling
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
unique, misshapen bodies untethered from the laws of reason or reality. Such unspeakable horrors might continue to haunt the misty netherworld between the Domains of Dread, or they might slink forth into
other realms to slake unnameable hungers.
Customizing a Horror
An unspeakable horror has one of four body compositions, determined by rolling on the Body Composition table. You can roll on the Limbs
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
horrors might continue to haunt the misty netherworld between the Domains of Dread, or they might slink forth into other realms to slake unnameable hungers.
Customizing a Horror
An unspeakable horror
horror’s form and the interplay between its parts however you desire. The more discordant and unexpected a horror’s parts, the more unsettling it might be.
Mist Horrors
Some who wander into
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
into unique, misshapen bodies untethered from the laws of reason or reality. Such unspeakable horrors might continue to haunt the misty netherworld between the Domains of Dread, or they might slink
forth into other realms to slake unnameable hungers.
Customizing a Horror
An unspeakable horror has one of four body compositions, determined by rolling on the Body Composition table. You can roll on
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
eddies in the Mists sometimes gather such evils, forcing them into unique, misshapen bodies untethered from the laws of reason or reality. Such unspeakable horrors might continue to haunt the misty
netherworld between the Domains of Dread, or they might slink forth into other realms to slake unnameable hungers.
Customizing a Horror
An unspeakable horror has one of four body compositions
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
, forcing them into unique, misshapen bodies untethered from the laws of reason or reality. Such unspeakable horrors might continue to haunt the misty netherworld between the Domains of Dread, or they
might slink forth into other realms to slake unnameable hungers.
Customizing a Horror
An unspeakable horror has one of four body compositions, determined by rolling on the Body Composition table. You
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spies.
Many shadar-kai of the Shadowfell are masters of these macabre techniques, and some are willing to teach this path. In places like Thay in the Forgotten Realms and Karrnath in Eberron, where many
death and to recover knowledge that might otherwise be lost to the grave.
How did you discover this grim power? Did you sleep in a graveyard and awaken to your new abilities? Or did you cultivate them in a temple or thieves’ guild dedicated to a deity of death?
classes
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
spies.
Many shadar-kai of the Shadowfell are masters of these macabre techniques, and some are willing to teach this path. In places like Thay in the Forgotten Realms and Karrnath in Eberron, where many
death and to recover knowledge that might otherwise be lost to the grave.
How did you discover this grim power? Did you sleep in a graveyard and awaken to your new abilities? Or did you cultivate them in a temple or thieves’ guild dedicated to a deity of death?
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
death and become an undead creature, potentially cheating the grave over and over.
This unholy order of priests was founded centuries ago by Osybus, a mysterious figure of unfathomable ambition and evil
, Osybus gifted them with a trace of his power. Taking the form of a shadowy tattoo, this boon allows the priests to steal souls as their master did and to cheat death and become undead horrors.
The
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
. Using this soul power, each priest can defy death and become an undead creature, potentially cheating the grave over and over.
This unholy order of priests was founded centuries ago by Osybus, a
cheat death and become undead horrors.
The threat posed by Osybus and his disciples raised alarms far and wide. In response, the Ulmist Inquisition and the then-mortal Count Strahd von Zarovich
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
priests of Osybus steal the souls of others to fuel the priests’ malevolent magic. Using this soul power, each priest can defy death and become an undead creature, potentially cheating the grave over
shadowy tattoo, this boon allows the priests to steal souls as their master did and to cheat death and become undead horrors.
The threat posed by Osybus and his disciples raised alarms far and wide. In
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
; malevolent magic. Using this soul power, each priest can defy death and become an undead creature, potentially cheating the grave over and over.
This unholy order of priests was founded centuries ago
master did and to cheat death and become undead horrors.
The threat posed by Osybus and his disciples raised alarms far and wide. In response, the Ulmist Inquisition and the then-mortal Count Strahd
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
, potentially cheating the grave over and over.
This unholy order of priests was founded centuries ago by Osybus, a mysterious figure of unfathomable ambition and evil. Osybus sought to use others&rsquo
power. Taking the form of a shadowy tattoo, this boon allows the priests to steal souls as their master did and to cheat death and become undead horrors.
The threat posed by Osybus and his disciples
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
grave over and over.
This unholy order of priests was founded centuries ago by Osybus, a mysterious figure of unfathomable ambition and evil. Osybus sought to use others’ souls as springboards to
of a shadowy tattoo, this boon allows the priests to steal souls as their master did and to cheat death and become undead horrors.
The threat posed by Osybus and his disciples raised alarms far and
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
’ malevolent magic. Using this soul power, each priest can defy death and become an undead creature, potentially cheating the grave over and over.
This unholy order of priests was founded
as their master did and to cheat death and become undead horrors.
The threat posed by Osybus and his disciples raised alarms far and wide. In response, the Ulmist Inquisition and the then-mortal Count
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Wastes are riddled with portals to abyssal demiplanes, unearthly realms populated by fiends and other horrors. These inner realms include vast and twisted forests, living oceans, realms of rusted iron, and stranger places.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
. A blot of shadow in the corner of a dusty crypt might be a shadow crossing, as might an open grave. Shadow crossings form in gloomy places where spirits or the stench of death lingers, such as
battlefields, graveyards, and tombs. They manifest only in darkness, closing as soon as they feel light’s kiss. EVERNIGHT
The city of Neverwinter in the world of the Forgotten Realms has a dark reflection
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
The Forgotten Realms The world of the Forgotten Realms is one of high fantasy, populated by elves, dwarves, halflings, humans, and other folk. The Realms are full of valiant knights embarking upon
horrors. The accompanying map shows the Sword Coast region surrounding Phandalin. Several locations of interest are marked, including Underdark locations key to this adventure’s plot. Other parts of the map remain unlabeled, and the adventures that characters find there are yours to design!
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
mistake, and fully expects you to fail at every mission you undertake 2 A battle-scarred officer who experienced terrible horrors during the Last War and is barely capable of giving you orders through a
haze of intoxication 3 A grim officer who expects the Last War to reignite at any moment and intends to be ready 4 A cheerful officer with a dark sense of humor who merrily sends you into grave danger 5
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
suffer horrible deaths. The most famous of such dungeons is the Tomb of Horrors, hidden in the Vast Swamp in the Greyhawk setting (see “Greyhawk Gazetteer” in chapter 5); another lies under the lost city
of Omu in the jungles of Chult in the Forgotten Realms setting (described in the adventure Tomb of Annihilation).
Adamantine Adamantine is one of the hardest substances in existence, a dark metal
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata
Dark Elf (Drow) (p. 24) The first two paragraphs have been replaced with the following: As a drow, you are infused with the magic of the Underdark, an underground realm of wonders and horrors rarely
hues.
The cult of the god Lolth, Queen of Spiders, has corrupted some of the oldest drow cities, especially in the worlds of Oerth and Toril. Eberron, Krynn, and other realms have escaped the cult’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
“Your future is written in your blood. She’ll open your veins to paint the story hidden in your heart.”
Uldrak’s Grave
For characters of level 8
“A fallen titan or a wimp with delusions of
sulking in a volcano, eager to reclaim his stolen throne.”
Sibriex
For characters of level 10
“A breeder of horrors and a hoarder of secrets, a sibriex is said to be as old as the Abyss
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
to the archdevil Bel and his infernal legions. Many of Zariel’s warriors fought bravely, but for others, the horrors of the Nine Hells proved too great. They fled back through the portal, sealing it
behind them and never revealing their shameful retreat and betrayal. The Hellriders, as they were called, would wear this badge of shame to the grave.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
in the multiverse are as loathed and feared as these maniacal horrors. A beholder’s distinctive, globular body is dominated by an oversize maw and a gigantic central eye. Ten stalks ending in smaller
subterranean realms. Beholders are a particular threat to adventurers because both gravitate toward mysterious ruins and sites of great magic. Many beholders collect the magic items and petrified bodies of heroes they’ve defeated, displaying them as trophies.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Astarion's Book of Hungers
Introduction
Vampires Own the Night The elf vampire spawn Astarion Ancunín charmed his way into the hearts of Forgotten Realms fans in the video game Baldur’s Gate 3. In that game, Astarion is an
torments and the horrors of his undead life, Astarion armed himself with sardonic wit, flirtation, and a dark sense of humor. Decades of nocturnal hunts taught Astarion about all facets of vampiric life
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Cosmic Horror Plots Adventures in cosmic horror realms are bleak, desperate affairs where the best one can hope for is to survive relatively intact. There is no stopping the ultimate evil, but
sapient, unholy tome from reaching a group of cultists.
3 Save the inheritors of an ancient sect before they transform into horrors.
4 Stop the sacrifice of a young noble by those who
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a7
undead life force of Acererak began to wane, so for the next eight decades, the lich’s servants labored to create the Tomb of Horrors. Then Acererak destroyed all his servitors, magically hid the
place. PLACING THE ADVENTURE
In the original Tomb of Horrors, Gary Gygax suggested six possible, far-flung locations for the adventure in the Greyhawk setting—proof in itself that the tomb is liable
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Dark Elf (Drow) As a drow, you are infused with the magic of the Underdark, an underground realm of wonders and horrors rarely seen on the surface above. You are at home in shadows and, thanks to
of the oldest drow cities, especially in the worlds of Oerth and Toril. Eberron, Krynn, and other realms have escaped the cult’s influence—for now. Wherever the cult lurks, drow heroes stand on the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Shadowfell are masters of these macabre techniques, and some are willing to teach this path. In places like Thay in the Forgotten Realms and Karrnath in Eberron, where many necromancers practice their craft, a
otherwise be lost to the grave. How did you discover this grim power? Did you sleep in a graveyard and awaken to your new abilities? Or did you cultivate them in a temple or thieves’ guild dedicated
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
prowess and recruits them to lead an expedition to defeat giants that are despoiling realms in the western mountains. If the characters succeed, they become trusted allies of the crown. The Tomb of Horrors
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
characters worked as protection for gravediggers in Neverdeath Graveyard. They fought undead, grave robbers, and sometimes even devils who served evil cultists. 2 Hoping to put their Neverwinter experiences
. Adventure became less of a priority as they settled into domestic life. 5 Obsessed with the concept of the multiverse, the characters studied the realms that make up existence, traveling between
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
? No, you don’t. So close your mouth and open your eyes and ears, and dip your quill.
— Oshgir the half-orc, to Kimitar Thaeless,
glyphscribe of Deneir
Known by many as the Realms Below, the vast
captive to describe the horrors lurking below the surface. What follows are portions of the tale told by Oshgir, a half-orc warrior who was captured by a duergar raiding party, sold to a Zhentarim agent