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Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
", "rollAction":"Claw", "rollDamageType":"slashing"} slashing damage. If the target is Medium or smaller, it is grappled (escape DC 16), and it is restrained until the grapple ends. While grappling a
suffering inherent to the shadowy landscape and visit horror on those who stumble into their midst. Each sorrowsworn personifies a different aspect of despair or distress.Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing while in Dim Light or Darkness
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
extradimensional chamber are expelled, appearing as close to the living spell's previous location as possible. Each expelled creature appears in a randomly determined unoccupied space, along with whatever it is
wearing or carrying.
Unusual Nature. The living spell doesn't require air, food, drink, or sleep.A living demiplane is a demiplane spell that has become vaguely self-aware. It is a shadowy rectangle, 5
Monsters
Vecna: Eve of Ruin
, without needing to make an ability check.
Web Sense. When in contact with a web, the kakkuu knows the exact location of any other creature in contact with the same web.
Web Walker. The kakkuu ignores
creature. Hit: The target has the grappled condition (escape DC 13). While grappled, the target also has the restrained condition. A web snare grappling a creature can be attacked and destroyed (AC 10
Monsters
Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Reconstruction"}) days, if at least two of those crawling claw;crawling claws are alive, they teleport to the location of the soul shaker’s death and merge
escape, the soul shaker reforms over the course of days and begins hunting once more.PoisonNecroticConsume Vitality. The soul shaker targets a creature it is grappling. If the target is not a Construct or
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Jump", "rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage.
The boneclaw then teleports up to 60 feet to an unoccupied space it can see. It can bring one creature it’s grappling, teleporting that
re-forms within hours.
In service to its master, a boneclaw delights in causing horrific pain. It lurks like a spider in shadowy recesses, waiting for victims to approach within reach of its long
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
can’t make attacks while grappling a creature in this way.
Spellcasting. The hag casts one of the following spells, using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 13):
3/day each
speaks through the token, the holder can hear the hag’s whisper but not any other sounds at the hag’s location. Similarly, the hag can hear the holder of the token but not the noise around
Monsters
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Damage Transfer. While it is grapple;grappling a creature, the memory web takes only half the damage dealt to it, and the creature grappled by the web takes the other half.
False Appearance. If the
seeds that might be released by a slain memory web.
Memory Web Memories
d4
Memory
1
The location of a powerful magic item
2
A secret betrayal by a beloved public figure
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
the death rune on a prized skull from this grisly collection. Abandoning armor in favor of gloomy robes, the shrouded one uses rune magic to create a shadowy scythe blade at the end of a staff and to
within 10 feet of the location the giant left must succeed on a DC 19 Wisdom saving throw or have the frightened condition until the end of that creature’s next turn.
Shroud of Souls (Requires
Backgrounds
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
: Athletics, Survival
Tool Proficiencies: Navigator’s tools, vehicles (space)
Equipment: A belaying pin (club), a set of traveler’s clothes, a grappling hook, 50 feet of hempen rope, and a
to adapt to zero gravity. Being weightless doesn’t give you disadvantage on any of your melee attack rolls (see “Weightlessness” below).
WEIGHTLESSNESS
In any location where
Spells
Xanathar's Guide to Everything
By gathering threads of shadow material from the Shadowfell, you create a Huge shadowy dragon in an unoccupied space that you can see within range. The illusion lasts for the spell’s duration
frightened creature ends its turn in a location where it doesn’t have line of sight to the illusion, it can repeat the saving throw, ending the effect on itself on a success.
As a bonus action on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Divine Contention
Undead Forces The following undead are present in the gulch: Boneclaw. Near the top of the gulch, a boneclaw (see appendix A) is hiding among the shadowy trees. As the characters move into the gulch
Jump feature, giving them access to most areas of the gulch — and possibly bringing anyone they are grappling with them! You can use this ability to trigger other aspects of the encounter ahead of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
a Huge shadowy dragon in an unoccupied space that you can see within range. The illusion lasts for the spell’s duration and occupies its space, as if it were a creature. When the illusion appears
, any of your enemies that can see it must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or become frightened of it for 1 minute. If a frightened creature ends its turn in a location where it doesn’t have line of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
shadowy recesses, waiting for victims to approach within reach of its long, bony limbs. Once speared, a creature is pulled into the darkness to be sliced apart. Boneclaw
Large Undead, Typically Chaotic
on a DC 14 Constitution saving throw or take 34 (5d12 + 2) necrotic damage.
The boneclaw then teleports up to 60 feet to an unoccupied space it can see. It can bring one creature it’s grappling
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Astral Adventurer’s Guide
envisioned by the spelljammer (or to a random location on the plane if no destination is envisioned). This property is a feature of the ship, not the spelljamming helm. Each time this property is used
an action, the ship’s spelljammer can make one of the following attacks with the ship’s tentacles.
Grappling Tentacles. Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 30 ft., one Huge or Gargantuan target
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.
Web Sense. When in contact with a web, the kakkuu knows the exact location of any other creature in contact with the same web.
Web Walker
also has the restrained condition. A web snare grappling a creature can be attacked and destroyed (AC 10; 10 hit points; immunity to bludgeoning, poison, and psychic damage).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Memories d4 Memory
1 The location of a powerful magic item
2 A secret betrayal by a beloved public figure
3 The details of an unfinished quest
4 A revelation about an impending
Perception 12
Languages —
Challenge 4 (1,100 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2
Damage Transfer. While it is grappling a creature, the memory web takes only half the damage dealt to it, and the creature
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
creature, it can do so by grappling. A Small or Medium creature has little chance of making a successful grapple against a Huge or Gargantuan creature, however, unless magic has granted the grappler
smaller creature depends on the smaller creature’s location, and is left to your discretion. The larger creature can dislodge the smaller creature as an action—knocking it off, scraping it against a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
, provided the creature and the hag are within 10 miles of each other. When the hag speaks through the token, the holder can hear the hag’s whisper but not any other sounds at the hag’s location. Similarly
each of the hag’s turns. The hag can’t make attacks while grappling a creature in this way.
Spellcasting. The hag casts one of the following spells, using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 13):
3/day each: disguise self (including the form of a Medium Humanoid), fog cloud
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
. Suggested Haunts. Some encounter areas suggest ambient haunts specific to that location. Don’t hesitate to save these haunts for the party’s later visits to an area. Creating Ambient Haunts. The
tyrant who wears a skull-faced helmet and frequently lies
18–19 Mara Silvra. A vengeful knight who expects betrayal and tries to expel trespassers
20 The Entity. A shadowy malevolence that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
die spent. You regain all expended dice when you finish a long rest. Hearth of Moonlight and Shadow At 6th level, home can be wherever you are. During a short or long rest, you can invoke the shadowy
teleportation circle is special. Rather than opening a portal to a permanent teleportation circle, it opens a portal to the last location where you finished a long rest on your current plane of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Wailing Battlefield This location is presented on map 8.8. Mike Schley Map 8.8: Wailing Battlefield View Player Version Crumbled remnants of an old battlefield cover the top and sides of this
: Nellik’s Windmill As the smoke doesn’t waft near this location, it’s difficult for the characters to sneak up on it. If the mezzoloth sentry spots intruders (see below), it warns Nellik immediately. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
delight in murder, and nothing pleases them more than causing horrific pain. They lurk like spiders in shadowy recesses, waiting for victims to approach within reach of their long, bony limbs. Once
grappling, teleporting that creature to an unoccupied space it can see within 5 feet of its destination. The destination spaces of this teleportation must be in dim light or darkness.
Reactions
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
regional effects within 1 mile of her lair: Illusory duplicates of the hag appear in random places at random times (but never more than one in any given location). An illusory duplicate has no
her lair: Shadows seem abnormally gaunt and sometimes move on their own as though alive. Creatures are transported to a harmless but eerie demiplane filled with shadowy forms, waxy corpses, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
when it is provided with a lock of hair, a personal belonging, or other object connected to the target. Possession of such an item allows it to sense the creature’s location from as far as a mile away
a Medium or smaller creature it is grappling. If the attack hits, the creature is swallowed, and the grapple ends. The swallowed creature is blinded and restrained, it has total cover against attacks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
equipment it is wearing or carrying, up to 40 feet to an unoccupied space it can see. Each creature within 10 feet of the location the giant left must succeed on a DC 16 Wisdom saving throw or have the
rune magic to create a shadowy scythe blade at the end of a staff and to conjure an aura of tormented souls for protection. Death Giant Shrouded One Huge Giant (Wizard), Any Alignment
Armor Class 12
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
first stop when exploring the distant land of Xen’drik. This book describes the shadowy ruins, sinister organizations, and treasure-laden dungeons of Stormreach. In addition to providing Dungeon
location maps. Dragons of Eberron (3.5E): This supplement delves into the mysterious Draconic Prophecy. It explores the continent of Argonnessen, homeland of the dragons, and describes various new adventure
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
takes 5 force damage if it ends its turn inside an object. At the start of its turn, the hound automatically knows its target’s location. If the target was hidden, it is no longer hidden from the
also in dim light or darkness. Umbral Form Starting at 18th level, you can spend 6 sorcery points as a bonus action to magically transform yourself into a shadowy form. In this form, you have resistance
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Demiplane A living demiplane is a demiplane spell that has become vaguely self-aware. It is a shadowy rectangle, 5 feet wide and 10 feet high, which creeps along flat, solid surfaces and groans softly when
living spell has no surface to attach to. When the living spell is destroyed, the contents of its extradimensional chamber are expelled, appearing as close to the living spell’s previous location as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Wanewort is scrying sees the same creature or location that she does. When not actively being used to scry, the pool’s surface shows a reflection of the moon in its current phase. 13: Armory The wereboar
in charge of the armory keeps it stocked with daggers, cloaks, thieves’ tools, grappling hooks, and other equipment the Moonstalkers don’t want to hide at their homes. The wereboar can usually be
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
Sorrowsworn The Shadowfell’s pervasive melancholy sometimes gives rise to strange incarnations of the plane’s bleak nature. Sorrowsworn embody the forms of suffering inherent to the shadowy landscape
grappling a creature, the sorrowsworn can’t make a Claw attack.
Lonely Sorrowsworn The sorrow of isolation afflicts many creatures that lurk in the Shadowfell, but the need for companionship is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
Fishbone Tavern Any fisher or laborer in the north of the city can provide directions to Fishbone Tavern. None of the NPCs currently at the tavern know the location of Dran Enterprises headquarters
weary disbelief. The interior of the Fishbone Tavern is cramped and shadowy. Only two of the eight tables are occupied, one by two fishers and another by a lone figure in a dark, leather-patched cloak
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Mysterious Visitors The details of this adventure hook assume that your D&D campaign is based in or near Daggerford, a town on the Sword Coast in the Forgotten Realms, but you can change the location
the dark figure standing with sword drawn, fighting off a host of shadowy shapes.
“This man of royal blood fought to protect us, as we protected him. We bore him safely to his home, and he thanked
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
is also an agent of the Zhentarim, a shadowy organization that seeks to exert secret control over the North through wealth and influence. Halia is working slowly to bring Phandalin under her control
windmill, located a few miles south of Phandalin. The windmill is home to a midwife and acolyte of Chauntea (goddess of agriculture) named Adabra Gwynn. For more information on this location, see “Umbrage Hill”.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
. Perhaps it’s not as evil as conventional adventuring wisdom suggests? 3 Bound Fiend. This fiend is bound to a location, either in its true form or as a possessing spirit. Whether trapped in an unbreakable
, local official, or noble. 2 Back-Room Dealers. An exclusive area in an otherwise-ordinary establishment requires a password or token to gain entry. There you meet and communicate with shadowy agents of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
and forms a canopy that hides the ruined realm even from above. The area covered by the mist is a shadowy, muffled region devoid of life, sunlight, and sound. The wall of mist ranges in thickness from
location, and those that spend any significant time near the Glowing Chasm mutate further, becoming more twisted and misshapen than before. Crimson Water. Before the Mourning, a spring in the eastern






