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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
fisher filaments can be woven into rope that is thin, tough, and nearly invisible. The creature’s shell is used in the manufacture of tools, armor, and jewelry. Its blood is alcoholic and tastes
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
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
":"Claws","rollDamageType":"slashing"} slashing damage.In the deep sinkholes that serve as laboratories and guildhalls for the Simic Combine, biomancers employ a combination of magic and scientific
(1d12);{"diceNotation":"1d12","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Acidic Skin","damageType":"acid"} acid damage (category 3).
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Armored Hide. The krasis has better natural armor afforded by a shell or
Monsters
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
"} slashing damage.
In the deep sinkholes that serve as laboratories and guildhalls for the Simic Combine, biomancers employ a combination of magic and scientific method to create novel life
","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Acidic Skin","damageType":"acid"} acid damage (category 3).
2
Armored Hide. The krasis has better natural armor afforded by a shell or thick scales, increasing
Monsters
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
succeed on a DC 19 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone.In the deep sinkholes that serve as laboratories and guildhalls for the Simic Combine, biomancers employ a combination of magic and scientific
(1d12);{"diceNotation":"1d12","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Acidic Skin","damageType":"acid"} acid damage (category 3).
2
Armored Hide. The krasis has better natural armor afforded by a shell
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
their shells. An angry ancient dragon turtle is terrible to behold, radiating heat from the shell to boil the surrounding water—and any creatures in it. And even if an enemy wears down the
.
5
A clan of gnomes pays a young dragon turtle to serve as a mobile refueling platform for their fleet of steamboats.
6
A young dragon turtle likes to feast on giant crocodile;giant crocodiles' eggs.
Fire
Magic Items
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
duration of 3 hours. In this form, it will serve you as a bodyguard, lift and carry things for you, act as a test subject for your experiments, or aid you in any other way that its capabilities allow
. The head resembles the shell of a sea creature. On command, the keyrune turns into a category 1 krasis (see chapter 6 for the stat block) that has the Grabber and Stabilizing Legs adaptations. The transformation lasts for up to 5 hours.
Species
One Grung Above
, and blue grungs work as artisans and in other domestic roles. Supervising and guiding both groups are the purple grungs, which serve as administrators and commanders.
Red grungs are the tribe&rsquo
lethargic and compliant. A creature afflicted in this way over a long period of time becomes a shell of its former self and can be restored to normalcy only by magic.
Species
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
-hearted killer, or a visionary in search of meaning.
Living Steel and Stone
Warforged are formed from a blend of organic and inorganic materials. Root-like cords infused with alchemical fluids serve as
their muscles, wrapped around a framework of steel, darkwood, or stone. Armored plates form a protective outer shell and reinforce joints. Warforged share a common facial design, with a hinged jaw
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Shell Shark These impressive creatures, swimming through the sahuagin stronghold in The Final Enemy, are chosen by priestesses of Sekolah to serve as protectors and messengers. The sharks are blessed
in a ritual during which plates of shell and coral are permanently affixed to their bodies. Shell Shark
Medium monstrosity, unaligned
Armor Class 18 (shell plate armor)
Hit Points 32 (5d8 + 10
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->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Living Steel and Stone Warforged are formed from a blend of organic and inorganic materials. Root-like cords infused with alchemical fluids serve as their muscles, wrapped around a framework of steel
, darkwood, or stone. Armored plates form a protective outer shell and reinforce joints. Warforged share a common facial design, with a hinged jaw and crystal eyes embedded beneath a reinforced brow
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
always need metal tools (shortswords make dandy daggers), and they’re delighted by whimsical magical trinkets. For generous inducements, cyclopes could even be hired to serve as bearers, guards, or guides
sun itself on the beaches during the day. Chultans refer to the beast as King Toba. Residual magic from the Spellplague has crystallized parts of its shell. The shell’s magic grants King Toba
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
Living Steel and Stone Warforged are formed from a blend of organic and inorganic materials. Root-like cords infused with alchemical fluids serve as their muscles, wrapped around a framework of steel
, darkwood or stone. Armored plates form a protective outer shell and reinforce joints. All warforged share a common facial design, with a hinged jaw and crystal eyes embedded beneath a reinforced
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Locathah Rising
, conical shell. When startled, she can tuck in her head and pull her tentacles up into the shell protectively, like a strange hermit crab. When the characters peer into these chambers, read or paraphrase
strung across the back of the chamber to serve as underwater beds, and a variety of hooks have been driven into the walls with netting attached to serve as shelving.
Caught up in the netting of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
shell is carved with Draconic runes that spell out prayers to Tiamat, is joined by four ghouls that serve as his assistants. The ghouls gnaw on bones and eye the characters hungrily as Krull negotiates
level (3 slots): banishment, blight, death ward, divination, locate creature
5th level (2 slots): antilife shell, cloudkill, contagion, greater restoration
6th level (1 slot): create undead, true
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
resemble Halaster (see “Stonecloaks”) stand watch on the cavern floor. One is positioned near the tunnel to area 9a; the other is close to the tunnel to area 6a.
The gargoyles serve Halaster. They
.
Fungus. A patch of glowing fungus sprouts from the east wall.
Giant Snail. In the northern part of the cave lurks Haungharassk, a magical snail as large as an elephant, with a shell of gleaming
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Fire Snake Fire Snakes. Salamanders hatch from eggs that are two-foot-diameter spheres of smoldering obsidian. When a salamander is ready to hatch, it melts its way through the egg’s thick shell and
this enmity to their own advantage, stoking the salamanders’ hatred and pitting them against the efreet’s former servants. The efreet suffer salamanders to serve no other master; when efreet encounter
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
them to the Shadowfell, where they are resurrected to serve her yet again. Thus, they consider death to be a temporary condition, and many shadar-kai care little for the physical shell they currently
Servants of the Queen The shadar-kai are bound to the Raven Queen, cursed to forever serve her in the Shadowfell. They dwell in places outside the Fortress of Memories, usually too terrified of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
can be woven into rope that is thin, tough, and nearly invisible. The creature’s shell is used in the manufacture of tools, armor, and jewelry. Its blood is alcoholic and tastes like strong liquor
some folk hunt cave fishers to kill them to harvest their filaments, shells, and blood, others capture cave fisher eggs and rear the hatchlings, which can be trained to guard passages or serve as beasts
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
who serve it—work in the city’s magnificent Council Chamber, which is housed within the shell of a gigantic whelk. However, friction between the Djaynaist and New Janyan factions of the High Court can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
washes through its synapses like acid, clearing away its former personality and leaving it a partially empty shell. This step takes 24 hours. Over the next 48 hours, the illithids rebuild the victim’s
ever since the gray dwarves revolted against them, but consider their brains a delicacy. Duergar serve as a constant reminder to the illithids that any creatures that serve them must be kept dimwitted
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
been enslaved by an aboleth and forced to guard the creature’s lair.
5 A clan of gnomes pays a young dragon turtle to serve as a mobile refueling platform for their fleet of steamboats.
6 A
Shambling mounds grow like an infestation on an adult dragon turtle’s shell and spread wherever the dragon turtle travels.
4 An archmage is helping an adult dragon turtle write a definitive history of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
patterns on the walls. Under the crystal window is a hulking crab (see appendix C) with colored nodules and hollow flutes of beautiful coral growing out of its shell. This creature is a living
instrument. When one of the nodules on its shell is tapped, the motion tickles the crab and causes it to exhale a burst of air through one of its coral pipes, producing a deep tone similar to that of a pipe
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
are the four coral-covered underwater spires that serve as home to the royal family. The shipwrecks have been picked clean, and anyone who lingers in the area sees sharks, whales, crabs, and other
psychic damage. Neither door has a lock. A similar hall stretches northward. The statue at the end of the north hall depicts a male storm giant blowing a pink and blue conch shell. Giant-sized doors to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
guiding both groups are the purple grungs, which serve as administrators and commanders. (Use the grung stat block to represent members of the green, blue, and purple castes.) Red grungs are the
becomes a shell of its former self and can be restored to normalcy only by magic. Water Dependency. A grung that fails to immerse itself in water for at least 1 hour during a day suffers one level of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3
crypt is opened by those who don’t serve the god Zotzilaha. The curse lasts until it is dispelled, and 4d10 days after this tomb has been broken into, every cursed violator receives a visit from either
of jade with cowrie-shell eyes and obsidian pupils. About the corpse’s neck is a jade pendant carved with the face of a humanlike bat.
Creature. The corpse is the body of Tloques-Popolocas, a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
before entering it. A bronze torch glowing with a magical light lies next to the corpse of a bare-chested man with a shield in the shape of a crab shell and a broken shark-toothed sword. Several
floor. The first 40 feet of the climb require a DC 10 Strength (Athletics) checks, but after that, the DC is 15. Corpses. The bodies on the floor include a water cultist (the figure with the crab-shell
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
areas of interest and responsibility), suggested domains for clerics who serve the god, and a common symbol of the god. Each of the gods in the table is described below. Halfling Deities Deity
concentrated effort. Turtle Shell. Halflings cluster together and cover each other with shields, washtubs, wheelbarrows, coffer lids, or anything else that can deflect a blow. Troll Knocker. A few halflings act
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
needles. The woods crawl with needle blights that serve the evil druids of Barovia. If the characters are moving quietly and not carrying light sources, they can try to hide from these blights. Revenant A
the Barovian wilderness, laughing and telling ghost stories. They are searching for graves to plunder or hunting small game. For a price of 100 gp, they offer to serve as guides. As long as these
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
. Soon, they can justify heinous acts within the context of the cult: Human sacrifice isn’t an act of murder, but a freeing of the soul from the limitations of a physical shell; conjuring a whirlwind to
their old lives and embrace a “higher purpose.” Once the new recruits are thus purified, the priests decide whether they are worthy for indoctrination as initiates or would better serve the Howling
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Valin’s service, but she recalls no details of the transfer. The ritual likewise leaves no physical signs behind.
Personality Trait. “I serve my masters in faith willingly, and I let fate and faith
command me.”
Ideal. “I yearn to see the best of all possible futures, so that I can help those futures come to pass.”
Bond. “I faithfully serve Valin Sarnaster, the living embodiment of the divine will
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
, and goblins forced to serve the characters are quick to betray them when the characters no longer have the upper hand. 26. Ducal Quarters This T-shaped hallway has doors to the north and south. Each
creature, and deals 9 (2d4 + 4) piercing damage on a hit. When the characters first arrive, Cinderhild is lying face down on her bed, weeping and wallowing in self-pity. Two female hobgoblins serve as her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
antigravity sphere. L8: Armory The two 20-foot-diameter antigravity spheres in this 30-foot-tall chamber serve as Landro’s hip sockets. Gaps in the floor and ceiling of each sphere grant access to the
the sentinels activate, attacking all intruders. Retrieving the Rod Piece. As long as the graymatter engine is active, the rod piece floating above the engine’s ceramic shell is held in place with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
. The mind flayer raises its hands and the beholder shudders, its eye stalks writhing. The beholder telepathically squeals, “I will serve! I will serve!” (This scene shows the creation of Golcuus the
was surprised to find Illithinoch’s elder brain to be a sickly, paranoid shell of its former self. Uninterested Party. Oshundo claims to care little about the transformation ritual because psychic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
, strong-willed stalwart that defies it or attacks it, an elder brain sends a blast of overwhelming psychic force to crush the upstart’s mind, rendering the creature a thoughtless, drooling shell
domineering tyrants, while others serve more benignly as sages, counselors, and repositories of information and lore for the mind flayers that protect and nourish them.
The ambitions of an elder






