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Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Ordning to embrace Elemental Evil are more likely to serve Olhydra, the Princess of Evil Water. To these giants, water is a cruel and destructive force that finds its ultimate expression in ice
. These cultists of Evil Water often hide their allegiance as long as possible while urging their communities to everincreasing depths of cruelty and violence, but if the cultists’ apostasy is
Monsters
Vecna: Eve of Ruin
. Suffer not their presence; destroy rose bearers on sight.”
—Common saying among the Knights of Solamnia
A black rose bearer is a rotting corpse animated by necromancers on Krynn to serve
black rose bearer bursts into furious violence, attacking indiscriminately.
A bearer’s black rose is an homage to the tyrannical Lord Soth, the most powerful death knight on Krynn, who was once a Solamnic Knight of the Order of the Rose.Poison
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
reclaim its prey by shooting a filament out to capture it again.
Scarce food might draw a group of cave fishers up to the surface, into a shadowy canyon or a gloomy forest that features both native animal
passages or serve as beasts of war. Cave fishers have a natural aversion to fire, since their blood is flammable. As such, Underdark denizens often use the threat of fire when training them.Adhesive
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
AC against that attack and potentially causing the attack to miss.The rarest and most powerful of the draconians are the masterminds—spellcasters and strategists who most often serve as military
of draconians have wings.
When draconians die, they do not go quietly. Instead, their lifeless bodies unleash a last act of magical violence.
classes
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
The Circle of Stars allows druids to draw on the power of starlight. These druids have tracked heavenly patterns since time immemorial, discovering secrets hidden amid the constellations. By
world. Some groups document these observations at megalithic sites, which serve as enigmatic libraries of lore. These repositories might take the form of stone circles, pyramids, petroglyphs, and
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
a member of a cult devoted to an ancient demon who delights in violence and chaos. It just so happens that Rakdos loves a good show, and your highest aspiration is to please the Defiler, the Lord of
to draw your anger or ridicule. You can get away with minor criminal offenses, such as refusing to pay for food at a restaurant or breaking down a door at a local shop, if no legal authorities witness
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
age, and I can’t wait for the day I can retire to my lair to be taken care of by doting fey.
5
I look down upon any being who resorts to violence to solve a problem.
6
Conversing with
. Violence need never be the answer in a multiverse of infinite possibilities. (Neutral)
3
Whimsy. Why waste time on boring, ordinary concerns when the world is filled with fantastic and ludicrous
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
to bear on the world. But he can influence events in the vicinity of any of his shards, drawing power from acts of violence.
The Last War was a boon that allowed Rak Tulkhesh to darken the hearts of
soldiers and civilians alike, whose actions then weakened the overlord's bonds to give him even greater sway over the regions surrounding his shards. The violence seen in Thaliost and other occupied
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
priests draw their strength from the pantheon of elven gods and oversee religious practices in astral elf society. It’s common for them to serve aboard spelljamming ships, not only as emissaries
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
usually gain access to friendly military encampments and fortresses where your rank is recognized.
BALDUR’S GATE FEATURE: CITY GUARD
You may choose to currently serve in either the Flaming
your responsibilities for a month.
Flaming Fist. If you serve in the Flaming Fist, once every ten days, you must report to the Seatower of Balduran for training, and you’re required to take a
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
made to maintain your concentration on divination spells.
Twist of Fate. As an action, you can draw a card from the deck and twist the fortune of another creature you can see within 15 feet of you
creatures of the night. “We may wander amid the shadows,” Mother Luba said. “But we must ever serve as a light to our fellow travelers.”
Some years ago, Mother Luba disappeared into
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Returned palamnites. These Returned led violent lives, existences filled with such pain and hatred that violence now suffuses their deathless bodies. Such makes them exceptionally dangerous to the
, where they serve the vicious will of Tymaret the Murder King (see chapter 3).
Returned have escaped the Underworld and dwell among the living once more, but their second lives are rarely what they
Monsters
Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
. Long ago, a green hag gathered a small army of ogres to serve as her enforcers along the desolate coast she had claimed. The hag found the ogres' simple minds and brutal strength useful, but too often
spell gave the crab folk an insatiable love for silver. When they see it, all crab folk feel an irresistible urge to seize it and carry it back to their lairs. If necessary, they resort to violence to
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
lair to be taken care of by doting fey.
5
I look down upon any being who resorts to violence to solve a problem.
6
Conversing with others is often difficult because I’m so easily distr
Curiosity. I might never be able to experience everything in the multiverse—but it doesn’t hurt to try. (Any)
2
Nonviolence. Violence need never be the answer in a multiverse of infinite
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
for my age, and I can’t wait for the day I can retire to my lair to be taken care of by doting fey.
5
I look down upon any being who resorts to violence to solve a problem.
6
Nonviolence. Violence need never be the answer in a multiverse of infinite possibilities. (Neutral)
3
Whimsy. Why waste time on boring, ordinary concerns when the world is filled with fantastic and
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
’t wait for the day I can retire to my lair to be taken care of by doting fey.
5
I look down upon any being who resorts to violence to solve a problem.
6
Conversing with others is
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Curiosity. I might never be able to experience everything in the multiverse—but it doesn’t hurt to try. (Any)
2
Nonviolence. Violence need
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
pool and forms a hard coating around anything dipped in it. Prying off the hardened metal coating requires a successful DC 23 Strength (Athletics) check. Those who know how can draw metal from the
pools in cube form. A creature might learn the method by casting identify on a pool or by asking Zox. A creature must place one or more of its hands within 1 foot of the pool’s surface and recite the
Kobold
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
erect a railing or a wall that prevents them from falling off the edge — high enough to protect a kobold but low enough to serve as a tripping hazard for a larger creature.
Those of other humanoid
humanoids, but they know that there is greatness within them and they are proud that they were chosen to be the blood-kin of dragons.
Kobolds willingly serve chromatic dragons and worship them as if
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
civilization and untamed nature. But the guild’s drive isn’t only to draw people into a peaceable community: the Selesnya aim to build an army. They aren’t naive; they realize that the ambitions of other guilds
will lead to violence, and they plan to be prepared for it. Despite the guild’s atmosphere of peaceful quietude, many of its members have military roles. The Selesnya NPCs table summarizes key roles
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
nine plus the master of the suit.
2: Draw a Card. Ensure the deck is well shuffled, then draw from the top.
3: Consult a Table. Reference the card’s number to find your result on a table; in the
aspect of the Darklord to wealth, while the four of swords could provide an interpretation rooted in violence. Appendix A details interpretations of the tarokka deck’s cards.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
, cunning, and planning instead of brute force. Phenax and his champions move with purpose, don’t draw attention to themselves, and use misdirection to keep foes guessing about when and where their
upheaval that threatens to turn to violence.
7 A champion (veteran) of Heliod is threatening to torch a section of the polis in her hunt for a Phenax-worshiping oath breaker.
8 Folk go
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
disdain physical violence, viewing combat as servants’ work and preferring to trick foes into dangerous or exploitative scenarios. These dragons collect “baubles” that embody their webs of manipulation
and serve as tools of extortion, such as compromising documents, family heirlooms, and sentimental treasures.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
such places, particularly those that serve as druid groves. Eldath is a goddess of comfort, healing, and calm. Her blessed waters heal the sick, cure madness, and comfort the dying. Most rural places
typically serves as a repository of offerings. If the holy site is a glade, a stream one crosses along the way might serve as the repository, or a prominent bush or tree in the glade might be the place
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
under their iron hooves, gorgons exhale gouts of noxious gas. Gorgons are created by magic-users to serve as guardians. The process for creating a gorgon is labor intensive and dangerous, with one
gorgon’s presence. 2 Keep their back to the gorgon or otherwise act like they don’t see the monster. 3 Offer it a drink of blood, water, or wine. 4 Recite a specific rhyme or sing a certain song. 5
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
gnomes who leave their people to become adventurers often draw upon their closeness to nature and their magical gifts to serve as guides, scouts, or mystics. Living close to nature also makes forest gnomes
likely to take up roles as druids, who serve various forest spirits and deities. Forest gnomes in Faerûn have the racial traits of forest gnomes in the Player’s Handbook.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
from the shadows. When creating a character from the Carrion Tribes, consider the following:
Sworn to an Overlord. Your tribe is devoted to an archfiend. This can serve as the roots of a warlock’s pact
.
Child of a Savage Land. You were born into a lawless realm where violence was the only constant. How have you adapted to life on the other side of the Labyrinth? Are you superstitious, refusing to adapt
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
the Material Plane, hell hounds typically serve cruel masters—such as fire giants and cultists—who appreciate their viciousness, obedience, and fiery characteristics. Hell hounds serve other creatures
trackers and work together well in packs, often employing tricks and ambushes. Hell hounds enjoy hearing prey scream in their scorching jaws and fiery breath. They often go out of their way to draw out the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
Bloodfray Giant Giants in the Cult of Rakdos act as enforcers, bouncers, and sometimes even pillars, holding the mobile platforms that serve as stages for Rakdos performances. Like other members of
the cult, giants thrill to the violence of those shows. Though they can seem entranced by the horror unfolding on the stage, they react quickly and brutally to any interruption of the performance
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Exploring the Ruins Adventurers might come to the ruins of Gardmore Abbey for many reasons. They might be hired by minotaur archaeologists to serve as guards or troubleshooters. They might be hunting
, and potentially pitting them against each other. The minotaurs aren’t aggressive, and their camp can serve as a home base for characters who approach them peacefully. A githyanki delegation based in a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
with Rage, and wade into hand-to-hand combat. Then follow the Path of the Berserker to unleash raw violence. Bard. Perform spells that inspire and heal allies or beguile foes. Then join the College of
, shape-shift, and control the elements. Then join the Circle of the Land to draw on the magic of the environment. Fighter. Master all weapons and armor. Then embody the Champion to strive for peak combat
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Bearded Devil (Barbazu) Bearded devils serve archdevils as shock troops, fighting shoulder-to-shoulder and reveling in the glory of battle. They respond with violence to any slight, real or imagined
, gorging themselves on violence as their infernal saw-toothed glaives carve a path through their foes. A bearded devil is humanoid in form, with pointed ears, scaly skin, a long tail, and claws that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Hollow Warden (Ranger) Draw on the Might of Ancient Wild Terrors Audy Ravindra Hollow Warden Ranger Legends tell that the most ancient and bloodthirsty terrors lurk deep within the old places of the
earth. Hollow Wardens venerate and draw power from such beings, transforming themselves into merciless and monstrous guardians that stalk jagged coastlines, steep mountain crags, and other dark and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
smart as me, and I need to prove that all the time. 3 There’s a rule for everything. 4 If I can’t seize control, I’ll serve in the meantime. 5 I’m a bully who backs down when faced with any sort of
in the direst situation deserve respect. 6 Brutality. Overwhelming violence, and those who can deliver it, are worthy of obedience. Devil Bonds d6 Bond 1 I and my comrades fought well in the Blood
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Blades is a charismatic leader seeking to incite the warforged to violence and thereby to take vengeance against their former oppressors. Although low-level characters might not be prepared to face the
. What do they do? Another way to explore the facets of this issue is to introduce a warforged supporter of the Lord of Blades who doesn’t engage in violence personally, such as a bard who moves among the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
the “Cyre Tower” section later in this chapter). This spy could even serve as a patron for the characters’ expeditions. Levels 5–10. Emerald Claw agents use violence to keep the characters away from
Humanoids and Undead alike. Emerald Claw Knight. Knights of the Emerald Claw command squads of Humanoid or Undead soldiers. As they draw nearer to death, the chill of the grave suffuses their weapon attacks.