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Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
save DC 15):
At will: dancing lights, friends
2/day each: bane, command, darkness, mage armor
1/day each: tonguesProfessors of shadow wield the linguistic magic of Silverquill College through slicing
wit and debilitating inky shadow. Whether weaving their magic through spoken incantations and scathing insults or through shadows, these teachers break down the resolve of their foes.
The professors
Species
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
Since not all tieflings are of the blood of Asmodeus, some have traits that differ from those in the Player’s Handbook. The Dungeon Master may permit the following variants for your
, choose 1d4 + 1 of the following features: small horns; fangs or sharp teeth; a forked tongue; catlike eyes; six fingers on each hand; goat-like legs; cloven hoofs; a forked tail; leathery or scaly skin; red or dark blue skin; cast no shadow or reflection; exude a smell of brimstone.
Species
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
Since not all tieflings are of the blood of Asmodeus, some have traits that differ from those in the Player’s Handbook. The Dungeon Master may permit the following variants for your tiefling
; cloven hoofs; a forked tail; leathery or scaly skin; red or dark blue skin; cast no shadow or reflection; exude a smell of brimstone.
Half-Elf
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Basic Rules (2014)
Flint squinted into the setting sun. He thought he saw the figure of a man striding up the path. Standing, Flint drew back into the shadow of a tall pine to see better. The man’s walk was
-Elf Variants
Some half-elves in Faerûn have a racial trait in place of the Skill Versatility trait. If your DM allows it, your half-elf character can forgo Skill Versatility and instead take the elf trait Keen Senses or a trait based on your elf parentage:
Halfling
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marauding monsters and clashing armies; a blazing fire and a generous meal; fine drink and fine conversation. Though some halflings live out their days in remote agricultural communities, others form
that, avoiding offense. Standing about 3 feet tall, they appear relatively harmless and so have managed to survive for centuries in the shadow of empires and on the edges of wars and political strife
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
’s lair is known to touch remote areas of the Shadow Marches and caverns below Xen’drik. A region containing a passage to Belashyrra’s lair is warped by its magic, which creates one or
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
the surrounding water—and any creatures in it. And even if an enemy wears down the dragon turtle’s defenses, magical storms manifest to shield the dragon turtle and strike at foes
, though some dragon turtles prefer coastal lairs with easier access to settlements they can trade with—or prey upon. Particularly reclusive dragon turtles seek lairs in even more remote locales
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Intro to Stormwreck Isle
of a shadow creeping across the sea like a shroud, swallowing an island in darkness. Though you dismissed the dreams at first, you began to hear a voice calling you to stand against death’s endless
hunger. Certain of your deity’s wishes, you resigned your post and set out on your quest. Personal Goal: Banish a Shadow of Death. Researching images from your dreams pointed you to Stormwreck Isle, not
Ancient Deep Dragon
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
has taken on a young red shadow dragon as a protégé.
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Two ancient dragon lovers—one ancient deep dragon;deep and one ancient white dragon;white—see each other only
the rest of the lair, this chamber is lit by phosphorescent fungal blooms that give off soft green, blue, and purple light.
Hoard Chamber. The dragon’s hoard is hidden away in a more remote
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
set up an ambush in a remote location. All are fanatically loyal to the queen and fight to the end. If the characters capture and subdue one or more of these assailants, threats and intimidation do
Princess of the Shadow Glass, the elves and fomorians can reveal that the Queen of Air and Darkness sent them from the Feywild to slay the marked characters and steal back The Scrivener’s Tale. The queen is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
lady of fortune” (Tymora) — an indication, tieflings say, that one’s outward appearance and bloodline are less important to the gods than the heart and soul within. TIEFLING VARIANTS
Since not all
tieflings are of the blood of Asmodeus, some have traits that differ from those in the Player’s Handbook. The Dungeon Master may permit the following variants for your tiefling character, although
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
instructive. Like bronze dragons, gold dragons often guard particularly dangerous artifacts as a form of public service, and thus prize clever magical or mundane defenses to keep their lairs safe and
; the central cylinder contains a single gold dragon scale
7 An elaborate atlas bound in wyvern hide, with several remote regions circled and labeled in code
8 A clever clockwork music box
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
the expense of the people they’re supposed to protect. Recently you’ve had dreams of a shadow creeping across the sea like a shroud, swallowing an island in darkness. Though you dismissed the dreams at
first, you began to hear a voice calling you to stand against death’s endless hunger. Certain of your deity’s wishes, you resigned your post and set out on your quest. Personal Goal: Banish a Shadow
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
remote corner of it — without risking discovery by the other aboleths. So Sgothgah fled the abyss, taking with it the juvenile kraken and a number of loyal aquatic minions. It headed for coastal waters
stretch of water where the once-notable port district of a minor city had fallen into decay and corruption. Known as the Styes, the district was only a wretched shadow of what it had once been. But
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
daughter is restored as a potent Returned who now terrorizes the polis.
4 A wealthy noble drives tenants out of a poor part of a polis so he can build a temple to Erebos.
5 The queen of a remote
Shadow MM
2 Two-headed cerberus MOoT
3 Lampad MOoT
3 Nightmare MM
5 Night hag* MM
9 Abhorrent Overlord MOoT
11 Doomwake giant MOoT
11 Nightmare shepherd
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
noble line, but his clan was expelled from its homeland when Bruenor was very young. He grew up working as a smith in the remote villages of Icewind Dale. But Bruenor has a heroic destiny—to reclaim
, Bruenor’s bond is obvious: he aspires to someday reclaim Mithral Hall, his homeland, from the shadow dragon that drove the dwarves out. His flaw is tied to his caring, sensitive nature—he has a soft spot for orphans and wayward souls, leading him to show mercy even when it might not be warranted.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Background Centuries ago, a family living in a remote water mill endured a string of unfortunate events. A malevolent spirit called Shemshime attached itself to the family and caused the “accidents
fixed and the tune plays in its entirety. The missing stanza is as follows: See a daughter grinding grain
Wish the spirit’s time was through
Trap set for the shadow bane
Her millstone killed it true
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
demesne of the lich-king Larloch himself, who has also been called the Shadow King. Threats and Defenses I warn you: do not come to this place. And if you must, do not tarry, for its defenders are
addition to the Shadow King, the Crypt houses several other liches, undead sorcerous vassals to Larloch. He calls upon their power when he has need, but otherwise leaves them alone to conduct the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
essential to many of its defenses and habits. Portions of its lair — especially the remote part where it sleeps — usually aren’t reachable on foot, which makes it harder for its minions to take over the
use such defenses to protect its inner sanctum, allowing it to roam freely through the area while hostiles must dodge or overcome multiple obstacles. Unless its opponents are concealed by fog
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
words that find the tiniest, most invisible cracks in an opponent’s defenses and break them. Silverquill Professor of Shadow
Medium or Small Humanoid (Bard), Any Alignment
Armor Class 12 (15 with
, cure wounds, daylight, mage armor
1/day each: hypnotic pattern, tongues
Silverquill Professor of Shadow Professors of shadow wield the linguistic magic of Silverquill College through slicing wit
Magic Items
Infernal Machine Rebuild
concentration can be concentrated on by a remote user. The Infernal Machine’s effects have a spell save DC of 14 or the attuned user’s spell save DC, whichever is higher.
Summon Monster. When first
foods, hobbies, music, and so forth become unbearable to you.
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Your shadow becomes an undead shadow that shares your alignment and is under your control.
Your shadow behaves disapprovingly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
accepted and in secret wilderness and underground hideaways where it isn’t. Its followers seek “knowledge and conversation with the shadow,” believing true wisdom is found in darkness and loss, both
literally and spiritually. Its adherents most often follow the Way of Shadow, as described in the Monastic Tradition class feature in the Player’s Handbook. The Hin Fist A halfling monastic order from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
the shadow of a high-walled citadel called Exaltation. EXTRADIMENSIONAL SPACES
Candlekeep has invisible doorways to dozens of permanent extradimensional spaces, some as small as a room at an inn and
highest shelves. Continual flame spells light the well-traveled areas, and the Avowed employ driftglobes when visiting remote sections. An intricate arrangement of mounted mirrors lights the upper reaches
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
9. Contested Caves The drow of House Freth maintain a tenuous hold over these caves. Their defenses are tested daily by troglodytes, trolls, and infiltrators loyal to House Auvryndar. 9a. Hidden
used as a staging area for House Freth’s raids into troglodyte territory. Six drow loyal to House Freth (four females and two males) and four shadow demons lurk here. The drow and their demon allies are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
both leaders to discover which has the worthier claim.
8 A bronze dragon fears that a remote library-fortress is no longer the best place to safeguard an infamous tome called the Antitheorem
babysitters who can survive the assignment.
8 An obsessed shadow dragon plots to trap an adult bronze dragon in the Shadowfell until the bronze dragon too is transformed.
Ancient Bronze Dragon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
. Construction began on enormous new creation foundries, hundreds of feet tall, carved into the sides of mountains or secretly nestled within remote canyons. The project succeeded beyond Cyre’s wildest dreams
though a colossus has fallen, its docent nodes and elemental defenses might still be active. The dragonshards that once bound the elemental that powered the colossus’s main weapon might have been
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
expelled from its homeland when Bruenor was very young. He grew up working as a smith in the remote villages of Icewind Dale. But Bruenor has a heroic destiny—to reclaim his homeland—so Bob chooses
aspires to someday reclaim Mithral Hall, his homeland, from the shadow dragon that drove the dwarves out. His flaw is tied to his caring, sensitive nature—he has a soft spot for orphans and wayward souls, leading him to show mercy even when it might not be warranted.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
. If an enemy force does approach, though, these barriers do a good job of delaying any incursion until the goblinoids can rally their defenses. Inside the surrounding bulwark, the goblinoids all have
wherever else they wish, sometimes building them in the shadow of the outer wall but most often scattering them about, seemingly at random. A den typically consists of a hole and a crawlspace big enough
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a2
The Black Lake The darkest and most remote corner of the Glitterhame’s cavern system, the Black Lake is a large, winding cavern filled with water that drains from the Dark Mere through a submerged
another ledge that winds southeast alongside a very large lake, apparently the source of the underground river. The cavern is quite large; the lake’s far shore is lost in shadow, and the echoes of water
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
the unhallowed brink of the Abyss. Rotting shacks, crumbling stone edifices, and derelict streets lie in the shadow of a silvery keep atop a gray hill. An imposing fortress of demonic construction
Blightsteel Keep. At the Razed Altar, she hires the characters to infiltrate the stronghold and report on its defenses. 4 Alorio Nightriddle (chaotic evil, human mage) invites the characters to a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
, characters journey to the Nevervault, a hazardous containment crypt deep beneath the Mortuary for creatures that should be dead but somehow aren’t. The defenses for the vault and several threats within are
the creature trapped within. The contents of the crypts are as follows: Crypt 1. This cracked crypt previously contained a necrichor. Crypt 2. The interior of this tube roils with shadow. Inside is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
Jos’s interest, however; portals are always of concern to the Red Wizards. Adventurers appearing at this remote, secret site also interest him. If Azbara Jos sees the characters or learns of their
supremacy. The bullywugs consider him a constant threat and tremble whenever his shadow passes near. The yuan-ti grant him grudging respect and covet his immense wealth. The lizardfolk honor him and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
; portals are always of concern to the Red Wizards. Adventurers appearing at this remote, secret site also interest him. If Azbara Jos sees the characters or learns of their presence, he arranges a
bullywugs consider him a constant threat and tremble whenever his shadow passes near. The yuan-ti grant him grudging respect and covet his immense wealth. The lizardfolk honor him and wonder why he allows
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Morning looms behind Darkhold to the east, casting a great shadow over the keep from sunrise until nearly midday. Darkhold sits in a cleft in the side of the Gray Watcher, the highest point of permanent
shadow of the keep itself. Now the people of the vale have recently built both an inn, called the Wyvern’s Rest, and a separate tavern, called the Rookery. Some of the locals send to market bales of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
extra hit points. However, adventurers have more resources at higher levels to counteract such defenses, making resistances and immunities less relevant at higher levels. Effective Hit Points. If a
counteract that resistance or immunity, you need to take these defenses into account when comparing your monster’s hit points to its expected challenge rating. Using the Effective Hit Points Based on