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Amnizu

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

have no personalities or memories; they’re driven only by the desire to commit evil. The amnizus that patrol here drill the rules of the Nine Hells into the new arrivals’ minds and marshal

them into legions. Amnizu (Summoner Variant);Variant: Devil Summoning Some amnizus have an action that allows them to summon other devils: Summon Devil (1/Day). The amnizu summons 2d4

Inspired (Hashalaq variant)

Monsters Eberron: Rising from the Last War

disadvantage on the next attack roll it makes before the end of its next turn.The rulers of distant Sarlona are known as the Inspired. These noble families are said to be bound to celestial spirits

Dreaming Dark has long experience in weaving dreams that can convince mortals to surrender their bodies. VARIANT: QUORI VESSEL The Inspired are vessels for quori spirits, allowing the quori to

Inspired (Tsucora variant)

Monsters Eberron: Rising from the Last War

disadvantage on the next attack roll it makes before the end of its next turn.The rulers of distant Sarlona are known as the Inspired. These noble families are said to be bound to celestial spirits that guide

has long experience in weaving dreams that can convince mortals to surrender their bodies. VARIANT: QUORI VESSEL The Inspired are vessels for quori spirits, allowing the quori to manifest a portion

Sahuagin Baron Legacy

Monsters Monster Manual (2014)

self-styled rulers of sahuagin ocean domains are massive mutant males that grow second sets of arms. They are terrible foes in battle, and all sahuagin bow down before these powerful barons. Way of

driven into a frenzy by the smell of fresh blood. As worshipers of Sekolah, they also have a special kinship with sharks, which they train as attack animals. Even untrained sharks recognize sahuagin

Inspired (Kalaraq variant)

Monsters Eberron: Rising from the Last War

":"Vicious Mockery","rollDamageType":"psychic"} psychic damage and have disadvantage on the next attack roll it makes before the end of its next turn.The rulers of distant Sarlona are known as the Inspired

Dreaming Dark. Such Inspired have to willingly accept quori possession, but the Dreaming Dark has long experience in weaving dreams that can convince mortals to surrender their bodies. VARIANT: QUORI

Inspired

Monsters Eberron: Rising from the Last War

":"1d4","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Vicious Mockery","rollDamageType":"psychic"} psychic damage and have disadvantage on the next attack roll it makes before the end of its next turn.The rulers of

surrender their bodies. VARIANT: QUORI VESSEL The Inspired are vessels for quori spirits, allowing the quori to manifest a portion of their power while the vessel is possessed. An Inspired can

Sahuagin Priestess Legacy

Monsters Monster Manual (2014)

trenches of the ocean, sahuagin view the entire aquatic realm as their kingdom and the creatures in it as blood sport for their hunting parties. The self-styled rulers of sahuagin ocean domains are

female sahuagin are deemed worthy of channeling the god's power, and priestesses hold tremendous sway in sahuagin communities. Sahuagin are driven into a frenzy by the smell of fresh blood. As

Khargra

Monsters Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1

metal shield, the khargra attaches to that armor or shield. While attached, the khargra doesn't attack. Instead, at the start of each of the khargra's turns, roll a d20. On a 10 or higher, the armor or

shield takes a permanent and cumulative −1 penalty to the AC it offers. Armor reduced to an AC of 10 or a shield that drops to a +0 bonus is destroyed. The khargra can detach itself by spending 5 feet

Phantom Warrior

Monsters Curse of Strahd

turn inside an object. Spectral Armor and Shield. The phantom warrior's AC accounts for its spectral armor and shield.Multiattack. The phantom warrior makes two attacks with its spectral longsword

soldier or knight who perished on the battlefield or died performing its sworn duty. It appears like a translucent version of its living self. Task Driven. Although one is often mistaken for a ghost, a

Yuan-ti Pureblood Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

— yuan-ti make perfect courtiers. And, worse for the rest of us, rulers. — Elminster The physical and magical prowess of the yuan-ti empire allowed the former humans to retain their

human society, so they gain influence by controlling enemy rulers — and those close to them — through blackmail, drugs, magic, and the subterfuge of disguised purebloods. From Calimshan and

Rakshasa

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

presented here. Zakya Rakshasa Zakya rakshasas are the bloodthirsty foot soldiers of the rakshasa horde. They are driven to free their fiendish rulers, seeking vengeance against the dragons and those who

with demonic fury, rushing into battle seeking vengeance against those who bound their fiendish masters. Rakshasas are described in the Monster Manual. A martial variant—the zakya rakshasa—is

Dragon Turtle Wyrmling

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

shield the dragon turtle and strike at foes. Creating a Dragon Turtle Use the Dragon Turtle Personality Traits and Dragon Turtle Ideals tables to inspire your portrayal of distinctive dragon turtle

characters, and use the Dragon Turtle Spellcasting table to help select spells for a spellcasting dragon. (Though the Monster Manual doesn’t explicitly include dragon turtles in the variant rules for

Young Dragon Turtle

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

dragon turtle’s defenses, magical storms manifest to shield the dragon turtle and strike at foes. Creating a Dragon Turtle Use the Dragon Turtle Personality Traits and Dragon Turtle Ideals tables

explicitly include dragon turtles in the variant rules for making a dragon a spellcaster, you can apply those rules to these aquatic dragons.) Dragon Turtle Personality Traits d8

Criminal - Baldur's Gate

Backgrounds Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus

Guild took over your family business, ran it into the ground, and burned the building for insurance money. You were driven into crime yourself, but you’ll never work for the Guild. You take

; but what you learn you pass on to the Guild. 4 The inequality of Baldur’s Gate has driven you to take matters into your own hands. You steal from patriars and rich Lower City residents

Genasi Legacy

Species Elemental Evil Player's Companion

, seeing them as accidents. Many feel nothing for their genasi children at all. Some genasi live as outcasts, driven into exile for their unsettling appearance and strange magic, or assuming leadership

genasi in the Realms are descendants of the djinn and efreet who once ruled Calimshan. When those rulers were overthrown, their planetouched children were scattered. Over thousands of years, the

Getting Into and Out of Armor

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)

Armor 1 minute 1 minute Medium Armor 5 minutes 1 minute Heavy Armor 10 minutes 5 minutes Shield 1 action 1 action VARIANT: EQUIPMENT SIZES In most campaigns, you can use or wear any equipment that

Getting Into and Out of Armor The time it takes to don or doff a type of armor or a shield is shown in the Donning and Doffing Armor table. Don. This is the time it takes to put on the item. You

Variant Human: Mark of Sentinel

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

Variant Human: Mark of Sentinel If your human character has the Mark of Sentinel, the following traits replace the human’s Ability Score Increase trait in the Player’s Handbook. Ability Score

number rolled to the ability check. Guardian’s Shield. You can cast the shield spell once with this trait, and you regain the ability to cast it after you finish a long rest. Wisdom is your spellcasting

One at a Time

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules

One at a Time A creature can wear only one suit of armor at a time and wield only one Shield at a time. Variant: Equipment Sizes In most campaigns, you can use or wear any equipment that you find

adventurer tries to wear it as a disguise. Using this variant, when adventurers find armor, clothing, and similar items that are made to be worn, they might need to visit a smith, a tailor, a leatherworker

One at a Time

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook

One at a Time A creature can wear only one suit of armor at a time and wield only one Shield at a time. Variant: Equipment Sizes In most campaigns, you can use or wear any equipment that you find

adventurer tries to wear it as a disguise. Using this variant, when adventurers find armor, clothing, and similar items that are made to be worn, they might need to visit a smith, a tailor, a leatherworker

Ancient Dragon Turtle

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

table to help select spells for a spellcasting dragon. (Though the Monster Manual doesn’t explicitly include dragon turtles in the variant rules for making a dragon a spellcaster, you can apply

The Aurum

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

Shadow Cabinet. The members of this cabal are nobles but not kings; they are powerful industrialists, but not dragonmarked barons. They are determined to become the true rulers of Khorvaire, whether

by binding the current barons and monarchs to their will or by tearing down the current systems and creating something new. In stories driven by action, the Aurum can fund expeditions to exotic lands

Armor and Shields

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)

separates them into three categories: light armor, medium armor, and heavy armor. Many warriors supplement their armor with a shield. VARIANT: EQUIPMENT SIZES In most campaigns, you can use or wear any

ill-fitting when an adventurer tries to wear it as a disguise. Using this variant, when adventurers find armor, clothing, and similar items that are made to be worn, they might need to visit an

Mage

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)

wizard spells prepared: Cantrips (at will): fire bolt, light, mage hand, prestidigitation 1st level (4 slots): detect magic, mage armor, magic missile, shield 2nd level (3 slots): misty step

to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 20/60 ft., one target. Hit: 4 (1d4 + 2) piercing damage. VARIANT: FAMILIARS Any spellcaster that can cast the find familiar spell (such as an archmage or mage) is

Bone Devil (Osyluth)

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)

Bone Devil (Osyluth) Driven by hate, lust, and envy, bone devils act as the cruel taskmasters of the Nine Hells. They set weaker devils to work, taking special delight in seeing fiends that defy

in combat with their claws, bone devils also wield hooked polearms made of bone, which they use to subdue enemies before striking with their venomous tails. VARIANT: BONE DEVIL POLEARM Some bone

Paladin

classes Basic Rules (2014)

Clad in plate armor that gleams in the sunlight despite the dust and grime of long travel, a human lays down her sword and shield and places her hands on a mortally wounded man. Divine radiance

paladins take their work seriously. A delve into an ancient ruin or dusty crypt can be a quest driven by a higher purpose than the acquisition of treasure. Evil lurks in dungeons and primeval forests

Death Dog

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual

, favoring the wounded or infirm. They attack recklessly, infecting as many creatures as possible with their diseased jaws. If driven off, death dogs linger close to their victims, letting infection weaken

their prey before they attack again. Legends tie death dogs to malicious death gods, the underworld, and cursed rulers. These stories are based on the malady death dogs spread. Roll on or choose a result

Cavemouth (Areas L10–L11)

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault

. Schnella refused to leave and died fending off Tockworth’s clockwork defenders. Her restless soul lurks in this building, manifesting as a troublesome specter known as a poltergeist (see the “Variant

anyone who touches or otherwise disturbs them. The mimics are working with a psychic gray ooze (see the “Variant: Psychic Gray Ooze” sidebar in the “Oozes” entry of the Monster Manual)—the “puddle of

Orc Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

festooned with garish trinkets and grisly trophies that hang from hooks and spikes. A war wagon makes a good shield against arrows when orcs besiege an elven fortress, and a heavily modified wagon could

; their loyalty by turning them into slaves. If a tribe is defeated and driven from its lair, the survivors might come under the sway of a strong but dimwitted creature, such as a hill giant or an ogre

Khargra

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1

only when driven by hunger and a lack of safer options. After securing a meal of whatever tasty, refined metal their victim carries, they quickly flee—and will flee before that rather than risk death

within 30 feet of it. Actions Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 3 (1d4 + 1) piercing damage, and if the target is wearing metal armor or carrying a metal shield

Inspired

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

Inspired The rulers of distant Sarlona are known as the Inspired. These noble families are said to be bound to celestial spirits that guide and empower them, but the truth is far darker. The Inspired

mortals to surrender their bodies. VARIANT: QUORI VESSEL The Inspired are vessels for quori spirits, allowing the quori to manifest a portion of their power while the vessel is possessed. An Inspired

Random Encounters

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

flumph offers to accompany them indefinitely. It will not willingly leave the Underdark, however. Gray Ooze There’s a 50 percent chance that this ooze has psionic abilities (use the psychic variant of

zurkhwood case containing 1d4 +3 crossbow bolts 4 A +1 shield (on subsequent occurrences of this encounter, the shield is rusted and nonmagical)

The Great Forge

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

smiths’ art, for those furnaces are driven by the power of Maegera the Dawn Titan — a primordial imprisoned below them. Slumbering within the stone, Maegera exudes an unnatural heat that the dwarves tap

left the day-to-day running of the Great Forge to a pair of experienced smiths: Helgrim Candlewick and Rollo Summergold (both shield dwarf veterans). Great Forge Random Encounters The Great Forge is

Dwarves of the Multiverse

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

types of dwarves. In Faerûn, the two most numerous subraces are gold dwarves and shield dwarves. The dwarves of Faerûn traveled north from the southern mountains and founded an extensive subterranean

kingdoms in the North and the Heartlands, becoming the shield dwarves. Those who remained became the gold dwarves. Gold dwarf scholars point to Abbathor as the cause of this division, claiming that the

Amnizu

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Dis and Stygia. They collect the souls arriving in the form of lemures (see the Monster Manual). Lemures have no personalities or memories; they’re driven only by the desire to commit evil. The

amnizus that patrol here drill the rules of the Nine Hells into the new arrivals’ minds and marshal them into legions. Variant: Devil Summoning Some amnizus have an action that allows them to summon other

Sahuagin

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)

kingdom and the creatures in it as blood sport for their hunting parties. The self-styled rulers of sahuagin ocean domains are massive mutant males that grow second sets of arms. They are terrible foes

, and priestesses hold tremendous sway in sahuagin communities. Sahuagin are driven into a frenzy by the smell of fresh blood. As worshipers of Sekolah, they also have a special kinship with sharks

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