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-minded obsession. It conducts its bloody work in silence, then vanishes into shadow and infamy.
Relentless Killers
Relentless killers are fiend-twisted maniacs that arise from mortals who make pacts
with nefarious forces. Such killers’ powers vary depending on their obsessions and the source of their powers.
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures
disadvantage if it can see the rider, ending the condition on itself on a success.Legends told in the courts of Eldraine suggest that the deathless riders serve a warlock-queen, known simply as the Shadow
Queen, who rules from a castle called Dynnistan. It isn’t known whether these legends are based on any true experience or are simply the result of imagination trying to account for a terrifying and
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
gains temporary hit points equal to the damage dealt.Death giant reapers wield massive scythes and wear armor that resembles the carapaces of giant insects. They wield the magic of shadow, which lets
them take on a ghastly appearance and disappear, as well as twist shadow into terrifying bolts of energy that drain the vigor of their victims.
Death Giants
Long ago, a large band of cloud giants
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
the heart, causing those nearby to feel the approach of death. If detected, gloom weavers use their shadow magic to reduce enemies to ghastly corpses.
Shadar-kai
In the gloom of the Shadowfell live
being charmed, and magic can’t put it to sleep.Multiattack. The shadar-kai makes three Shadow Spear attacks. It can replace one attack with a use of Spellcasting.
Shadow Spear. Melee or Ranged
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures
mischievous manipulators who delight in disguising themselves with magic to vex other creatures. Their reasons for deception vary, ranging from harmless pranks to malicious infiltration. When a high fae
regard for mortal values of honor and law, but they nonetheless operate under inviolable rules of their own: gifts must always be repaid, promises must be honored, and outright lies must never be
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
fascinating. They puzzle over creatures that wear armor, carry weapons, use tools, and cook food. When a chwinga encounters one or more such creatures, its curiosity compels it to shadow them for a
attract a chwinga to a particular creature vary. A chwinga might like the way a certain creature walks or the way it combs its hair, or be smitten by its ability to play music or to eat copious amounts of food.
Relentless Slasher
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monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
thoughts, and it can’t be detected by abilities that sense Fiends.Multiattack. The slasher makes two Slasher’s Knife attacks.
Slasher’s Knife. Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +7
silence then vanishes into shadow and infamy. Fixated on a specific individual or type of victim, it pursues its target with single-minded obsession.
Relentless killers are hateful, revenge-obsessed
Dhampir
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Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
to one of the following Domains of Dread (detailed in Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft):
Barovia. In the shadow of Castle Ravenloft, tales flourish of those who love or descend from vampires
lineage option, follow these additional rules during character creation.
Ability Score Increases
When determining your ability scores, you increase one of those scores by 2 and increase a different
Aasimar
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
dark eyes
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Starkly colored hair
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An unusual hue tinting your shadow
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A ghostly halo crowning your head
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Rainbows gleaming on your skin
Creating Your Character
At
1st level, you choose whether your character is a member of the human race or of a fantastical race. If you select a fantastical race, follow these additional rules during character creation.
Ability
Species
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
autognome bears a resemblance to its creator, and most autognomes are programmed to speak and understand Gnomish. The internal components used in an autognome’s manufacture can vary wildly; one
fantastical races. If you create a character using a race option presented here, follow these additional rules during character creation.
Ability Score Increases
When determining your character’s
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Basic Rules (2014)
exhales and a blast of fire roars from his mouth, engulfing his foes.
Moving with the silence of the night, a black-clad halfling steps into a shadow beneath an arch and emerges from another inky
shadow on a balcony a stone’s throw away. She slides her blade free of its cloth-wrapped scabbard and peers through the open window at the tyrant prince, so vulnerable in the grip of sleep
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Unearthed Arcana
Horror Subclasses May 6, 2025
Scream! … for joy with this new Unearthed Arcana document in which we explore horror themed subclasses using the rules from the 2024 Player’s Handbook. This playtest
document presents revised subclasses for the Bard (College of Spirits), Cleric (Grave Domain), Rogue (Phantom), Sorcerer (Shadow Sorcery), and Warlock (Hexblade Patron and Undead Patron) as well as new subclasses for the Artificer (Reanimator) and Ranger (Hollow Warden).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
demons. There are three rules to endings. First, good always wins. Second, evil always returns. Third, the first rule isn’t always true.
—Tarsheva Longreach,
planar traveler
Shadow Demon Medium
Shadow Demon Vestige of Evil Habitat: Planar (Abyss); Treasure: None Lars Grant-west Shadow demons form when exceptionally wicked demons are destroyed and prevented from reconstituting their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Characters of most races are Medium, a size category including creatures that are roughly 4 to 8 feet tall. Members of a few races are Small (between 2 and 4 feet tall), which means that certain rules
of the game affect them differently. The most important of these rules is that Small characters have trouble wielding heavy weapons, as explained in chapter 5. Speed Your speed determines how far you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
weighs down the heart, causing those within its oppressive aura to feel the approach of death. This torment alone is enough to please its master, the Raven Queen, but should it be detected, a gloom
weaver uses its shadow magic to reduce its enemies to ghastly corpses. Gloom Weaver
Medium humanoid (elf), neutral
Armor Class 14 (17 with mage armor)
Hit Points 104 (16d8 + 32)
Speed 30 ft
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
their late teens and live less than a century. Size. Humans vary widely in height and build, from barely 5 feet to well over 6 feet tall. Regardless of your position in that range, your size is Medium
HUMAN TRAITS
If your campaign uses the optional feat rules from chapter 6, your Dungeon Master might allow these variant traits, all of which replace the human’s Ability Score Increase trait
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
Customizing a Horror Horrors share some common body types but vary wildly in other characteristics. A particular horror’s form might incorporate elements that resemble fiendish, insectile, or
reptilian features. To customize a horror, choose a base creature (flying horror, shadow horror, or skittering horror), then roll once on the Primary Features table and once on the Secondary Features table
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Creating a Dragonmarked Character Dragonmarks manifest on certain members of a few species, represented in the rules by variant race options: For humans and half-orcs, a dragonmark is a variant race
. For dwarves, elves, gnomes, and halflings, the dragonmark replaces your subrace. So, if you’re making an elf character, you can choose to take the Mark of Shadow instead of being a wood elf or a high
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
Horrors and Madness Horrors on Ravnica are terror and madness personified. You can represent this reality by using the madness rules in the Dungeon Master’s Guide. Whenever a character fails a saving
throw against the flying horror’s Frightening Screech, the shadow horror’s claw attack, or the skittering horror’s Maddening Presence, note that fact. At the end of the encounter, have each character
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Raven Queen, The The Raven Queen is a being of mystery. Those who claim to have encountered her have described an array of disturbing images: a terrible shadow that clawed at their innermost thoughts
into the gloom. Despite all attempts to demystify her, the Raven Queen has remained enigmatic and aloof. She rules from her Raven Throne within the Fortress of Memories, a mazelike castle deep within
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
crossed swords. But no one was prepared for the disaster that struck in 994 YK. Accounts of the Mourning vary. Some say that a blinding light engulfed the battlefield near the Saerun Road. Others say
Khorvaire; some are treated with pity, others with suspicion or anger. And fear of the Mourning hangs like a shadow across Khorvaire. Could it happen again? Is this how the world ends?
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
29. Laboratory Vanar Freth. A drow mage named Vanar Freth and his summoned shadow demon companion are quietly searching the room when the characters arrive.
Statues. Standing in opposite corners
to the southwest and the floor around it are scorched by fire — the result of a trap set off long ago.
The drow mage has managed to get this far without being detected. Left to his own devices, he
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
shadow; see chapter 7), a rising star in scriptology whose dynamic lectures are practically performance art. This course’s first Exam takes place a short while after the events of the “Mascots Everywhere
!” section and tests students on their knowledge of scrivening and symbology, as expressed in glyph of warding spells. For more information about the rules used for Exams, see chapter 3. Scribing magic is an important field of study at Strixhaven, as sloppiness can have strange effects
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
, a dretch, a glabrezu, a goristro, and a hezrou. The carvings on the south wall depict (from west to east) a marilith, a nalfeshnee, a quasit, a shadow demon, a vrock, and a yochlol. The recessed
half-inch spy-holes for eyes. These holes are detected when the secret door is found. 2b. Pillar Forest Bugbears. Two bugbears hide behind pillars. (Each bugbear is host to an intellect devourer in its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
heart, causing those nearby to feel the approach of death. If detected, gloom weavers use their shadow magic to reduce enemies to ghastly corpses. Shadar-kai Gloom Weaver
Medium Humanoid (Elf
. The shadar-kai has advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put it to sleep.
Actions
Multiattack. The shadar-kai makes three Shadow Spear attacks. It can replace one
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
with private accommodations can carry one-fifth as many passengers. A passenger usually pays 5 SP per day for a hammock, but prices can vary from ship to ship. A small private cabin usually costs 2 GP
per day. Damage Threshold If a vehicle has a damage threshold (see the rules glossary), it’s noted in the table. Ship Repair Repairs to a damaged ship can be made while the vessel is berthed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
House Thuranni The story of the Shadow Schism that sundered House Thuranni from its kindred in House Phiarlan is a tangled knot of mystery. The surface details of the tale seem simple enough. About
the new political powers of Khorvaire, and the division of Thuranni from Phiarlan embodies that new reality. From his enclave in Regalport (in the Lhazaar Principalities), Baron Elar d’Thuranni rules a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
Siberys Dragonmarks Lee Moyer Left to Right: Siberys Mark of Detection, Siberys Mark of Shadow, Siberys Mark of Making
While the people of Khorvaire have a limited understanding of
damage, and manifest the Siberys mark of Storm. A character with ties to House Phiarlan or House Thuranni might represent the Siberys mark of Shadow by choosing the Boon of the Night Spirit. What’s New
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
Shadow monk, can their silence be dispelled? A spell is a spell, no matter its source. When you cast a spell through a feature, the spell is subject to the normal spellcasting rules, unless the feature
type of melee weapon attack. The game often makes exceptions to general rules, and this is an important exception: that unarmed strikes count as melee weapon attacks despite not being weapons. When a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
form. Jhesiyra can exert control over Halaster’s magic gates, keeping adventurers from passing through them if she thinks they lack the might needed to defeat the perils beyond. In terms of game rules
the danger that awaits the adventurers or communicate with them in any other way, for fear of being detected by Halaster. Powerful divination magic can reveal Jhesiyra’s disembodied presence
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
with private accommodations can carry one-fifth as many passengers. A passenger usually pays 5 SP per day for a hammock, but prices can vary from ship to ship. A small private cabin usually costs 2 GP
per day. Damage Threshold If a vehicle has a damage threshold (see the Rules Glossary), it’s noted in the table. Ship Repair Repairs to a damaged ship can be made while the vessel is berthed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
ground. The character is restrained until 1 or more slashing damage is dealt to the snare’s cord. (See the appendix in the Basic Rules for the effect of being restrained.) A character who isn’t
Wisdom (Perception) check to spot the hidden pit. If the trap isn’t detected, the lead character must succeed on a DC 10 Dexterity saving throw or fall in, taking 1d6 bludgeoning damage. The pit’s walls are not steep, so no ability check is required to scramble out.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
closely tied to the distant land of Xen’drik. The following optional rules are a way to explore this aspect of the setting. Optional Rule: Common Languages
Common is the language of the Five Nations
usually speak Goblin.
Goblin is the common tongue of Darguun, Droaam, and the Shadow Marches, along with most “monstrous” creatures in Khorvaire. It was the language of the goblin empire that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
images: a terrible shadow that clawed at their innermost thoughts, a pale and regal elf who exploded into an untold number of ravens, a shambling tangle of slick roots and sticks that overwhelmed them with
questions. She rules from her Raven Throne within the Fortress of Memories, a mazelike castle deep within the bleakness of the Shadowfell. From there she sends out her ravens to find interesting souls she can
Magic Items
Infernal Machine Rebuild
Anything poisonous within 50 feet of you is automatically detected and marked by the image of a small frog that is visible only to you.
A dozen small frogs constantly follow you around, chirping loudly
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