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Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
pursue magic-wielders. These creatures can naturally sense magic via the glowing purple spines on their backs.
A mage hunter is usually in its sentry form, a diamond-shaped drone with a heightened
ability to sense and locate mages. Once it finds a quarry, the mage hunter takes on its arachnoid hunter form and pursues its targets with vicious skill.Shift Form. The hunter folds into its drone-like sentry form or unfolds into its hunter form. Its game statistics are the same in each form.
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Basic Rules (2014)
You have spent your life in the service of a temple to a specific god or pantheon of gods. You act as an intermediary between the realm of the holy and the mortal world, performing sacred rites and
offering sacrifices in order to conduct worshipers into the presence of the divine. You are not necessarily a cleric—performing sacred rites is not the same thing as channeling divine power
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
combined their efforts to protect their ancient empire from a particularly vicious dragon. Stone and hill giants hewed a mighty form from living stone. Cloud and frost giants gathered rare metals, and
fire giants shaped them into flexible joints and plated armor. Storm giants inscribed runes into the inert form to give it the semblance of life. The fruit of these labors was an everlasting guardian
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
between the realm of the holy and the mortal world, performing sacred rites and offering sacrifices in order to conduct worshipers into the presence of the divine. You are not necessarily a cleric&mdash
;performing sacred rites is not the same thing as channeling divine power.
Choose a god, a pantheon of gods, or some other quasi-divine being, and work with your DM to detail the nature of your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
. Elementals instinctively resent being pulled from their native planes and bound into service. A creature that summons an elemental must assert force of will to control it. Bound and Shaped. Powerful
can be shaped into water weirds. The strength of the magic and materials that bind an elemental determines how well the elemental functions in a bound form. Golems are elemental spirits bound to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Scions of Elemental Evil
temple is made of old, durable stones. Windows. The temple’s windows are shaped like arrow slits and shielded with iron bars. Only Tiny creatures can squeeze through them. Each windowsill is 15 feet above the ground outside.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
Bugbear raiders plan an assault. 2+ I: Minotaur Lair A malevolent minotaur prowls this ruined cave. 2+ J: Gnoll Lair Vicious hunters scour this forsaken shrine. 2+ K: Shrine of Evil Chaos A dastardly cult performs unholy rites in this temple. 3
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
rites and offering sacrifices in order to conduct worshipers into the presence of the divine. You are not necessarily a cleric — performing sacred rites is not the same thing as channeling divine power
service. Were you a lesser functionary in a temple, raised from childhood to assist the priests in the sacred rites? Or were you a high priest who suddenly experienced a call to serve your god in a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
rites and offering sacrifices in order to conduct worshipers into the presence of the divine. You are not necessarily a cleric — performing sacred rites is not the same thing as channeling divine power
service. Were you a lesser functionary in a temple, raised from childhood to assist the priests in the sacred rites? Or were you a high priest who suddenly experienced a call to serve your god in a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
traditions. Temples in Faerûn don’t have regular services as such. Group observances in a temple occur only at specific festival times, and priests also go out into the community to perform rites such as
to its favored deity, perhaps a set of wind chimes consecrated to Akadi hung from the high branches of a tree in the garden, or a wooden symbol shaped like the hand of Azuth in miniature displayed on a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
religious rites and festivals. Priests at such sites relate stories of the gods, teach the ethics of their patron deities, offer advice and blessings, perform religious rites, and provide training in
Ioun, goddess of knowledge
N
Knowledge
Crook shaped like a stylized eye
Kord, god of strength and storms
CN
Tempest
Sword with a lightning bolt cross guard
Lolth, goddess of spiders and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
purple spines on their backs. A mage hunter is usually in its sentry form, a diamond-shaped drone with a heightened ability to sense and locate mages. Once it finds a quarry, the mage hunter takes on its
arachnoid hunter form and pursues its targets with vicious skill. Mage Hunter
Large Monstrosity, Typically Lawful Evil
Armor Class 15 (natural armor)
Hit Points 85 (10d10 + 30)
Speed 40 ft
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
vicious villains or terrifying monsters. But in Valachan, the land is the greatest threat, and the domain’s murderous Darklord hones that threat like a weapon. The Trial of Hearts anchors the terror
.
5 The lizardfolk of the lakes surrounding the Anquara Plateau discover a submerged ruin and unleash an aboleth that now holds them in thrall.
6 Beast-shaped treants animate and lay siege
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
vicious dragon. Stone and hill giants hewed a mighty form from living stone. Cloud and frost giants gathered rare metals, and fire giants shaped them into flexible joints and plated armor. Storm giants
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
left, but distorted and often sinister. A mountain on the Material Plane might be replaced in the Shadowfell by a skull-shaped rock outcropping, a heap of rubble, or the crumbling ruin of a once
above the valley of Barovia, which is ruled by Strahd von Zarovich, the first vampire. Borca Amid opulent estates and impoverished villages, two Darklords—the vicious poisoner Ivana Boritsi and the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
world to world across the multiverse. Dwarves of Greyhawk The hill dwarves and mountain dwarves of war-wracked Oerth have endured many centuries of turbulence. Their outlook on the world is shaped
development, armies of gold dwarves returned to drive the drow from the region. At the site that would come to be known as the Great Rift, they shaped the underground canyons and passages to their needs, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
, U-shaped cavern appears empty at first glance, but a sudden tapping draws your attention to the west wall, within which is trapped a black-robed figure with a golden visage.
A mummy dressed in a
dwarf’s Stonecunning trait can prove helpful here.) If the check succeeds, the character can confirm that the stone is neither naturally formed nor hewn, but rather shaped by magic. H35. Mysterious Cube On
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
guarded. Lothar is a capable combatant in his own right and can animate a host of skulls in his collection as flameskulls. To combat larger threats, the Master of Bones relies on a ghoul-shaped stone
staunch souls are nowhere to be seen for fear of the Ditch Beast, a vicious monster that supposedly stalks the area. Seat of the Rat King. Wererats frequent the Ditch, where they receive the orders from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
as well. He later brought these two prisoners to his lab and has been performing magical rites on them, draining their vitality and will to keep them in a state between life and death. Map 3.2 shows
odd-looking construct with an even more oddly placed spigot at the base of its barrel-shaped body. A gnome dressed in garishly colorful clothes sits on a stool nearby, his eyes blank. Another gnome
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
mentions having seen vicious spirits amid the ruins (a reference to the wraiths in area Y5). The otyugh attacks if any creature tries to enter area Y3 before the otyugh has been fed. Treasure. A character
, then attack. Y6: Underground Garden This sanctuary might once have been a garden, but the only color here now comes from three green limestone rocks shaped like tall, wispy spirits. A dried-up
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
truth Tholtz can only receive telepathic messages from the kraken, and such messages are rare and tend to give him nosebleeds. Tholtz’s first mate is Rool (NE male half-orc assassin), a vicious
the furniture is bolted to the floor, including an unmade bed with a squid-shaped headboard, a writing desk stained with ink, an open trunk, a slender wardrobe stuffed with old robes, and a wooden
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
morning rites, as well as all-day observances every Godsday. Sarana, the temple’s Archpriest (Neutral Good), is a middle-aged, human woman wearing a sun-shaped headdress and yellow-and-gold robes. She is
Inn” in fancy silver script, the S shaped like a silver dragon. A more modest sign next to the front door reads, “No metal armor. Shields and weapons must be checked at the door.”
The grand Silver
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
their worldly goods to the cult’s coffers and the hardiness of their bodies to the cult’s emaciating rites. Cultists that survive their initiation usually gain all the things the cult promised — at the
(at will): friends, prestidigitation, vicious mockery
1st level (4 slots): disguise self, dissonant whispers, thunderwave
2nd level (3 slots): invisibility, shatter, silence
3rd level (3 slots
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
perform rites designed to sink ships, cause terrible floods, or summon destructive rainstorms, seeking to make all who live nearby bow to the power of elemental water. Cult lairs usually feature great pools
cult are vicious sea reavers. Many of them were pirates before they fell in with the cult, and they remain eager for blood and plunder. Crushing Wave reavers appreciate the value of stealth and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
behind. Treasure. Tharden wears a cloak of protection, which the Spider overlooked in his haste to explore the rest of Wave Echo Cave. W2: Mine Tunnels Hex Sharpe Ochre jellies are always vicious, but
the mace is shaped like a sunburst and is made of solid brass. The mace glows as bright as a torch when its wielder commands. While glowing, the mace deals an extra 1d6 radiant damage to Undead
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
the bottom, so the two pools are really one U-shaped structure, which Ihanvas can use to move through the room. Treasure. The naga wears a platinum circlet set with sapphires (worth 1,000 gp) and
tow. Part of the deal the Red Wizards struck with the sahuagin involves providing prisoners for dark rites and horrid meals. The magic of the black shrine keeps ten commoners standing around it in a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
the hand-shaped impressions, the impressions begin to glow as the altars activate. From then on, any creature in the room can use a bonus action to say one of the following words to cause its
rites. He was keeper of the tomes of Terbakar, the greatest library in all lands of the golden age.
“Nafik searched, too, for life eternal, and some say he sought to rob the pharaohs of their right
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
symbols involving falcons, dragons, suns, and so forth give way in Chult to leopard-skin tabards, dinosaur-themed heraldry, helmets shaped like snarling panthers or swooping pteranodons, and armor
, fast-moving patrols or as pack animals for larger, longer patrols. The deinonychuses are used for hunting — like dogs, only far more vicious. These animals are well respected by the soldiers of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
patron. Bane’s clerics wield black maces with heads shaped to look like a closed fist. Cult Ranks. Bane’s cultists operate according to strict military hierarchies. The lowest rank consists of the fists
, is hairless, and is covered with bleeding wounds caused by a slashing blade. His face is a skull flayed of its flesh and surrounded by a halo of blood. Bhaal is a vicious bully who enjoys killing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
with etchings of funerary rites in honor of Moradin (150 gp), and an immovable rod. A9. Tombs Gigantic stone doors covered in twin reliefs of dwarven gods in profile loom fifteen feet high. The dwarven
of golden coins and the sheen of steel weapons and armor at the bottom (see “Treasure” below). A stone golem shaped like a 12-foot-tall, 9-foot-wide dwarf patrols the moat by walking along its floor
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
two psionic goblins (see appendix A). These goblins have elongated skulls and are dressed in filthy, haphazard rags. An examination of the bodies reveals that a pair of vicious claws killed the goblins
, but the body is wearing a carved wooden pendant shaped like a unicorn’s head. Mirna Dendrar in area R5 of the Redbrand hideout can identify the pendant and body as her husband’s. Treasure. The nothic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
square chute opens into a small bin. Beside it is a panel fitted with a thin, card-shaped slot and six glass buttons numbered from one to six.
Malfunctioning worker bots stripped these kitchens of
. Shooting Galleries. These target-shooting games are fitted with controllers shaped like laser rifles that emit harmless beams of light. The player assumes the role of a cosmic protector, aiming the weapon at
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
bolted to the wall across from some sort of large glass device hints at the horrid rites that must once have taken place here.
The wall murals can be deciphered with a successful DC 12 Wisdom
a jumbled tangle of old machinery, clockwork parts, piles of broken glass shards, and numerous oddly shaped glass statues. Some of these statues appear stretched, as if still viscous when fashioned