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Storm King's Thunder
level or lower, the spell has no effect on the cat and instead targets the caster.Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Bite"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one
cry resembles a human scream of terror. It often elicits such sounds from its victims, for it prefers human flesh to all other fare.
Crag cats blend in with their surroundings. During winter, their fur
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
opportunity attack;opportunity attacks when it flies out of an enemy’s reach.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the tempest fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Living Storm. The
":"damage","rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage for every 10 feet it was thrown before impact. If the target would collide with another creature instead, that other creature must succeed on a
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
world.
Perhaps instead you were taken in by the scholars of the Vault of the Sages or the Map House in Silverymoon, and now you have struck out to increase your knowledge and to make yourself available
great deeds and win it back.
d6
Flaw
1
I am easily distracted by the promise of information.
2
Most people scream and run when they see a demon. I stop and take notes on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
X5d. Amber Reflections This arched hall rises to a height of twenty feet. You can see your reflections in the amber glaze. But the images don’t mirror your movements. Instead, they wave their arms
and scream silent warnings to you. The characters’ bizarre reflections are illusions meant to discourage them from exploring the temple. The illusions can be dispelled (DC 15). The east hall leads to area X32, the west hall to area X36.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
X5d. Amber Reflections This arched hall rises to a height of twenty feet. You can see your reflections in the amber glaze. But the images don’t mirror your movements. Instead, they wave their arms
and scream silent warnings to you. The characters’ bizarre reflections are illusions meant to discourage them from exploring the temple. The illusions can be dispelled (DC 15). The east hall leads to area X32, the west hall to area X36.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
following ways corresponding to their reaction: Join Lady Silvra or Belligerence. Characters who say they’ll join Lady Silvra or who taunt the voice hear the scream but aren’t affected by it. Instead
Channel Divinity disables the haunted trap, the scream that follows sounds distant and weak. The sound is harmless and thereafter the room is normal. If the haunted trap wouldn’t be disabled, treat this as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
following ways corresponding to their reaction: Join Lady Silvra or Belligerence. Characters who say they’ll join Lady Silvra or who taunt the voice hear the scream but aren’t affected by it. Instead
Channel Divinity disables the haunted trap, the scream that follows sounds distant and weak. The sound is harmless and thereafter the room is normal. If the haunted trap wouldn’t be disabled, treat this as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Cosmetic Spell Modifications At your discretion, a spell can be modified cosmetically to enhance the horrific atmosphere. Here are examples: Alarm: Instead of hearing a mental ping when the alarm is
triggered, the caster hears a scream.
Bigby’s hand: The conjured hand is skeletal.
Find familiar: The familiar is undead—not a celestial, fey, or fiend—and is immune to features that turn undead
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Cosmetic Spell Modifications At your discretion, a spell can be modified cosmetically to enhance the horrific atmosphere. Here are examples: Alarm: Instead of hearing a mental ping when the alarm is
triggered, the caster hears a scream.
Bigby’s hand: The conjured hand is skeletal.
Find familiar: The familiar is undead—not a celestial, fey, or fiend—and is immune to features that turn undead
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
death. When a bone whelk dies, it emits a scream that has a 50 percent chance of attracting the vrocks, which attack other creatures (including bone whelks) indiscriminately. Bone Whelk
Large
smaller creature that touches the bone whelk is grappled by it (escape DC 10).
Death Scream. When the bone whelk dies, it emits a blood-curdling shriek than can be heard out to a range of 120 feet. This
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
death. When a bone whelk dies, it emits a scream that has a 50 percent chance of attracting the vrocks, which attack other creatures (including bone whelks) indiscriminately. Bone Whelk
Large
smaller creature that touches the bone whelk is grappled by it (escape DC 10).
Death Scream. When the bone whelk dies, it emits a blood-curdling shriek than can be heard out to a range of 120 feet. This
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
cry resembles a human scream of terror. It often elicits such sounds from its victims, for it prefers human flesh to all other prey. Crag cats blend in with natural surroundings. During the winter
lower, the spell has no effect on the cat and instead targets the caster.
Actions
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (1d10 + 3) piercing damage.
Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3) slashing damage.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
mountains. Its cry resembles a human scream of terror. It often elicits such sounds from its victims, for it prefers human flesh to all other fare. Crag cats blend in with their surroundings. During
level or lower, the spell has no effect on the cat and instead targets the caster.
Actions
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (1d10 + 3) piercing damage.
Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3) slashing damage.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
cry resembles a human scream of terror. It often elicits such sounds from its victims, for it prefers human flesh to all other prey. Crag cats blend in with natural surroundings. During the winter
lower, the spell has no effect on the cat and instead targets the caster.
Actions
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (1d10 + 3) piercing damage.
Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3) slashing damage.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
mountains. Its cry resembles a human scream of terror. It often elicits such sounds from its victims, for it prefers human flesh to all other fare. Crag cats blend in with their surroundings. During
level or lower, the spell has no effect on the cat and instead targets the caster.
Actions
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (1d10 + 3) piercing damage.
Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3) slashing damage.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
through the sky. The tempest drowns the land beneath it with rain and stabs the earth with lances of lightning. Punishing winds scream around it as it flies, feeding the chaos it creates. Elder Tempest
out of an enemy’s reach.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the tempest fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Living Storm. The tempest is always at the center of a storm 1d6 + 4
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
through the sky. The tempest drowns the land beneath it with rain and stabs the earth with lances of lightning. Punishing winds scream around it as it flies, feeding the chaos it creates. Elder Tempest
out of an enemy’s reach.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the tempest fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Living Storm. The tempest is always at the center of a storm 1d6 + 4
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
abnormally across the floor to reach for them. Characters who view themselves in a reflection momentarily see the face of a lost loved one or a hated enemy instead of their own. The hair on their arms and
rubble, unable to scream or move. After finishing a long rest, each character must make a DC 13 Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the character gains 1 level of exhaustion.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
sky. They drown the land beneath them with rain and stab the earth with lances of lightning. Punishing winds scream around them as they fly, feeding the chaos they create. Elder Tempest
Gargantuan
opportunity attacks when it flies out of an enemy’s reach.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the tempest fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Living Storm. The tempest is always at
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
sky. They drown the land beneath them with rain and stab the earth with lances of lightning. Punishing winds scream around them as they fly, feeding the chaos they create. Elder Tempest
Gargantuan
opportunity attacks when it flies out of an enemy’s reach.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the tempest fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Living Storm. The tempest is always at
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
abnormally across the floor to reach for them. Characters who view themselves in a reflection momentarily see the face of a lost loved one or a hated enemy instead of their own. The hair on their arms and
rubble, unable to scream or move. After finishing a long rest, each character must make a DC 13 Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the character gains 1 level of exhaustion.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
repair or modify any infernal war machine that the characters currently use. See appendix B for possible weapon replacements, armor upgrades, and magic gadgetry. Instead of payment, the horned devil
coursing through the River Styx claw and scream at the bathysphere as they pass by. Once the bathysphere is lowered to the river bottom, characters inside it can use its siphoning tubes to suck up the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
repair or modify any infernal war machine that the characters currently use. See appendix B for possible weapon replacements, armor upgrades, and magic gadgetry. Instead of payment, the horned devil
coursing through the River Styx claw and scream at the bathysphere as they pass by. Once the bathysphere is lowered to the river bottom, characters inside it can use its siphoning tubes to suck up the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
an event occurs, the creature’s scream echoes through the Feywild. If it echoes at just the right angle between a rocky outcropping in the dead of night, the scream gains intensity and volume until
its turn within 15 feet of Ygorl takes 14 (4d6) necrotic damage.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Ygorl fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. Ygorl has
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
an event occurs, the creature’s scream echoes through the Feywild. If it echoes at just the right angle between a rocky outcropping in the dead of night, the scream gains intensity and volume until
its turn within 15 feet of Ygorl takes 14 (4d6) necrotic damage.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Ygorl fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. Ygorl has
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
, and through them come horrific fiends that scream, shriek, and howl as they are wrenched from the Abyss and cast into the Underdark.
A woman’s deep, dark laugh echoes in your mind as the drow wizard
merchant stalls, where the duergar hands the gem to a svirfneblin for appraisal. The gnome refuses to return the gem, instead giving it to one of her svirfneblin apprentices. The young apprentice skulks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
, and through them come horrific fiends that scream, shriek, and howl as they are wrenched from the Abyss and cast into the Underdark.
A woman’s deep, dark laugh echoes in your mind as the drow wizard
merchant stalls, where the duergar hands the gem to a svirfneblin for appraisal. The gnome refuses to return the gem, instead giving it to one of her svirfneblin apprentices. The young apprentice skulks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
scream again. Standing in the bigger man’s shadow is a third man also clad in studded leather. “Easy, brother,” he says to the whip-wielding brute. “I think Alexei has learned his lesson.” The two men in
overjoyed and offers to repay the favor. He doesn’t sell them the fake potions. (“Um, they aren’t as potent as they could be.”) Instead, he lets them choose a treasure from the Vistani treasure wagon (area
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
scream again. Standing in the bigger man’s shadow is a third man also clad in studded leather. “Easy, brother,” he says to the whip-wielding brute. “I think Alexei has learned his lesson.” The two men in
overjoyed and offers to repay the favor. He doesn’t sell them the fake potions. (“Um, they aren’t as potent as they could be.”) Instead, he lets them choose a treasure from the Vistani treasure wagon (area
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Nest of the Eldritch Eye
in plate armor, and where a head should be, there is instead a featureless, luminescent orb.
The neutral ghost haunting this area has no memory of its name or existence in life—a fact which pains it
twisted experiments (each uses the gray ooze stat block but is an Undead instead of Ooze). The masses ignore the room’s difficult terrain and attack if approached. N10: Crypt of the Silenced Singers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
cold damage, and its bite attack deals fire damage instead of piercing damage. A hit from the roper’s tendril deals 4 (1d8) fire damage, and a creature takes the same damage each time it ends its turn
while she casts spells from behind a wall of fire. Vanifer doesn’t dissemble, ask for mercy, or try to escape. Instead, she is sly and contemptuous. Halinaxus and Incinerath are arrogant blowhards but
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Nest of the Eldritch Eye
in plate armor, and where a head should be, there is instead a featureless, luminescent orb.
The neutral ghost haunting this area has no memory of its name or existence in life—a fact which pains it
twisted experiments (each uses the gray ooze stat block but is an Undead instead of Ooze). The masses ignore the room’s difficult terrain and attack if approached. N10: Crypt of the Silenced Singers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
here wander the ruins. The power of the air node imbued them with elemental energy, so their attacks deal lightning damage instead of necrotic. They attack any creature that enters the cavern. N6
movement instead of 2. The wind disperses gas or vapor, and it extinguishes candles, torches, and similar unprotected flames in the area. It causes protected flames, such as those of lanterns, to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
here wander the ruins. The power of the air node imbued them with elemental energy, so their attacks deal lightning damage instead of necrotic. They attack any creature that enters the cavern. N6
movement instead of 2. The wind disperses gas or vapor, and it extinguishes candles, torches, and similar unprotected flames in the area. It causes protected flames, such as those of lanterns, to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
cold damage, and its bite attack deals fire damage instead of piercing damage. A hit from the roper’s tendril deals 4 (1d8) fire damage, and a creature takes the same damage each time it ends its turn
while she casts spells from behind a wall of fire. Vanifer doesn’t dissemble, ask for mercy, or try to escape. Instead, she is sly and contemptuous. Halinaxus and Incinerath are arrogant blowhards but