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Species
Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
Shifters—sometimes called “weretouched”—descend from people who contracted full or partial lycanthropy. Humanoids with a bestial aspect, shifters can’t change shape
fully, but they can enhance their animalistic features temporarily in a process they call “shifting.”
Shifters resemble humans in height and build but are typically more lithe and flexible
Monsters
Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
; that mouther is destroyed.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day, or 4/Day in Lair). If the emissary fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.Multiattack. The emissary makes two attacks, using
Lashing Maw or Coagulated Nodule in any combination. It can replace one attack with Unearthly Bile if available.
Lashing Maw. Melee Attack Roll: +14;{"diceNotation":"1d20+14", "rollType":"to hit
Monsters
Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Legendary Resistance (3/Day, or 4/Day in lair). If the emissary fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.Multiattack. The emissary makes three attacks, using Lashing Maw or Invert Flesh
"} Acid damage.
Invert Flesh. Constitution Saving Throw: DC 21, one creature the emissary can see within 120 feet. Failure: 29 (4d10 + 7);{"diceNotation":"4d10+7", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Shifting (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). As a bonus action, the shifter takes on a more bestial form for 1 minute or until it dies. The shifter gains 5 temporary hit points. It can make a
noses, pointed ears, and light fur over much of their bodies. When a shifter fully embraces the beast within by “shifting,” these features become even more pronounced.
Shifter
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Species
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
can’t fully change shape, they can temporarily enhance their animalistic features — a state they call shifting. Each shifter walks on the knife’s edge between the wilds and the
their urge to wander and hunt. A shifter rogue harnesses their own predatory instincts. But shifters can pursue any path or faith.
Shifter Names
Shifters have no language of their own and often live
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Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Shifters are sometimes called weretouched, as they are descendants of people who contracted full or partial lycanthropy. Humanoids with a bestial aspect, shifters can’t fully change shape, but
they can temporarily enhance their animalistic features by entering a state they call shifting.
Shifters are similar to humans in height and build but are typically more lithe and flexible. Their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
hunt. A shifter rogue harnesses their own predatory instincts. But shifters can pursue any path or faith.
The Journey Yet to Come Shifters have a strong presence in the Eldeen Reaches, and they often live among humans and can be found in rural areas across Khorvaire. While they form powerful bonds to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
. Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common. Subrace. The beast within shapes each shifter physically and mentally. The four major subraces of shifter include: beasthide, longtooth, swiftstride, and wildhunt. Choose a subrace for your shifter.
Shifter Traits Your shifter character has the following traits. Age. Shifters are quick to mature both physically and emotionally, reaching young adulthood at age 10. They rarely live to be more than
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
hunt. A shifter rogue harnesses their own predatory instincts. But shifters can pursue any path or faith.
The Journey Yet to Come Shifters have a strong presence in the Eldeen Reaches but can be found in rural areas across Khorvaire, where they often live among humans. While they form powerful bonds to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
. Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common. Subrace. The beast within shapes each shifter physically and mentally. The four major subraces of shifter include: beasthide, longtooth, swiftstride, and
Shifter Traits Your shifter character has the following traits. Age. Shifters are quick to mature both physically and emotionally, reaching young adulthood at age 10. They rarely live to be more than
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
believe the rumors, Chance can arrange and cover almost any sort of contest. Hug a Shifter. Middle and Lower Tavick’s Landing are home to much of Sharn’s shifter population. Middle Tavick’s Landing
has the only official court for the shifter sport hrazhak. Find Refuge. While most of the refugees in High Walls come from Cyre, the district is a haven for anyone displaced in the war, including
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
action, the shifter takes on a more bestial form for 1 minute or until it dies. The shifter gains 5 temporary hit points. It can make a bite attack when it activates this trait and also as a bonus action
Shifter Shifters are tied to primal spirits, which most of them refer to as the beast within. They are lithe of form and have bestial features: large eyes, flat noses, pointed ears, and light fur
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
Shifter John Thacker Shifters—sometimes called “weretouched”—descend from people who contracted full or partial lycanthropy. Humanoids with a bestial aspect, shifters can’t change shape fully, but
they can enhance their animalistic features temporarily in a process they call “shifting.” Shifters resemble humans in height and build but are typically more lithe and flexible. Their facial features
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Shifter Traits As a shifter, you have the following racial traits. Creature Type. You are a Humanoid. Size. You are Medium. Speed. Your walking speed is 30 feet. Bestial Instincts. Channeling the
beast within, you have proficiency in one of the following skills of your choice: Acrobatics, Athletics, Intimidation, or Survival. Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
treasure here, guarded by a monstrous shape-shifter called a mimic. Since then, a trio of impish elementals and kuo-toa fanatics have made the cave their home. You can add monsters, such as Giant
Centipedes, to the cave to make this scenario longer and more difficult, or you can remove the Kuo-Toa Marauders or one of the Steam Mephits to make it easier and shorter.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
hunters, and they also tend to become the spiritual leaders of shifter communities. Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 2, and your Dexterity increases by 1. Natural Tracker. You have
proficiency in the Survival skill. Shifting Feature. While shifted, you have advantage on Wisdom checks, and no creature within 30 feet of you can make an attack roll with advantage against you, unless you’re incapacitated.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
many believe that they are the descendants of humans and lycanthropes. They are humanoids with a bestial aspect; while they cannot fully change shape they can temporarily enhance their animalistic
features—a state they call shifting. Whatever their origins, shifters have evolved into a unique race. A shifter walks on the knife’s edge between the wilds and the world around them. Do they embrace their primal instincts or the path of civilization?
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
change shape, they can temporarily enhance their animalistic features — a state they call shifting. Each shifter walks on the knife’s edge between the wilds and the world around them. Do they embrace their primal instincts or the path of civilization?
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
lower wards, killing any halflings they come across. The gnolls take the halflings’ ears as trophies. 3 A shifter priest of the Devourer wants to crash Skyway by performing a ritual to create a
wererat priest of the Mockery starts a cult in Lower Dura, teaching its followers the arts of assassination. 6 A gargoyle sharpshooter continually finds new vantage points in the upper wards from where it can assassinate targets in the middle and lower wards.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Shifter Shifters are sometimes called weretouched, as they are descendants of people who contracted full or partial lycanthropy. Humanoids with a bestial aspect, shifters can’t fully change shape
, but they can temporarily enhance their animalistic features by entering a state they call shifting. Shifters are similar to humans in height and build but are typically more lithe and flexible. Their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
adults — a shifter and a well-dressed human — talk nose to nose, cradling each other’s faces in a corner of the elevator, absorbed fully in each other and taking no notice of you.
Luna (chaotic neutral
female shifter; see chapter 6) and Vonnie ir’Cardwan (neutral female Brelish human noble) are having a secret date on the lift. This is where they first met, so it’s a frequent rendezvous. They are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
Mimic Shape-Shifter Disguised as an Unassuming Object In their natural forms, mimics are little more than roaming stomachs, their blobby bodies covered with alien eyes and teeth. They can alter their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
of your choice: Deception, Insight, Intimidation, Performance, or Persuasion. Shape-Shifter. As an action, you can shape-shift to change your appearance and your voice. You determine the specifics of
Changeling With ever-changing appearances, changelings reside in many societies undetected. Each changeling can supernaturally adopt any face they like. For some changelings, a new face may reveal an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Wereraven Ominous Shape-Shifter Habitat: Forest, Urban; Treasure: Individual Wereravens are secretive, cautious lycanthropes that seek to blend into society and subtly combat evil. To avoid the claws
, Perception +6
Gear Shortbow
Senses Passive Perception 16
Languages Common plus one other language
Challenge 2 (XP 450; PB +2)
Traits
Mimicry. The wereraven can mimic voices and animal
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Chapter 4: Adventures in Sharn Chapter 3 describes the city of Sharn in detail; the following sections focus on the adventures that can happen there. These adventures can unfold among the tallest
towers of Skyway, in the deepest depths of the Cogs, or anywhere in between. At the end of this chapter is an introductory adventure, “Forgotten Relics,” set in Sharn. Sharn can be a grim place that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
odd feature draws tourists from the higher wards. The proprietor is a shifter named Whiskers. He runs a side business as a fence, buying and selling unusual goods. Rumors say that Whiskers is some sort
of warlock or druid, and that he can see through the eyes of his cats as they wander the city. The General is a headless statue in a small square in Eastbridge. It’s hundreds of years old, and no one
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Mimic Shape-Shifter Disguised as an Unassuming Object Habitat: Underdark, Urban; Treasure: Any Mark Zug In their natural forms, mimics are little more than roaming stomachs, their blobby bodies
covered with alien eyes and teeth. They can alter their color, texture, and dimensions to duplicate inanimate objects of their approximate size. Mimics use their disguises as both camouflage and bait
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
prominent role in your campaign is to apply a draconic twist to any of these events. A half-dragon conqueror acquiring an Orb
of Dragonkind can throw a world into chaos Rise or Fall of a Leader or an Era. A
powerful dragon establishing a new lair in a region can be a singularly impactful event. Likewise, the death of an ancient dragon can cause dramatic changes in the world. The balance of power shifts
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Watch Your Step! As befits the City of Towers, Sharn is also a city of bridges and balconies. These thoroughfares and outcroppings can be extremely narrow or comfortably wide. Although most of them
are bounded by walls or railings, there’s always a chance that during your time in Sharn, you or someone you know will go over the edge. So, how do residents cope with this risk?
Those who can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
work in the ruins of Old Sharn. You can add other documents that could act as story hooks for future adventures. Sergeant Germaine Vilroy (neutral female Brelish human veteran) is restrained and
character can remove the ropes binding the sergeant as an action. If the characters wake up Germaine, she tells the characters to continue pursuing Garra and that she can get help for herself. T5. Lower
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
restrictions on who can govern; if you build up a strong base of support in a ward, you could hold the position yourself! The members of the City Council are quite diverse. Some are crooked, others are
restaurants in Sharn, she fights to maintain tradition but definitely puts the needs of the wealthy ahead of the poor. 6 Shassa Tarr (shifter), from Lower Northedge, represents the interests of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
crypts until their remains can be transported to Aerenal. Shae Lias, Upper Northedge Nightshade An apothecary dealing in exotic herbs and salves, Nightshade is also a tavern specializing in lightly
to be a priest, many believe that Daca is blessed and guided by Boldrei. High Hope, Middle Northedge The Bear’s Rest A modest inn maintained by a beasthide shifter named Leara, who usually gives a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
, the Daask criminals attack as soon as the chase ends, and the warforged aids the characters in battle. The Daask force consists of Hound, a chaotic evil female shifter (see chapter 6), leading three
forces, the characters can still salvage the mission by bringing Coal’s corpse to Sergeant Vilroy, who calls in a favor and gets a member of the Blackened Book to cast a speak with dead spell on Coal’s corpse.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
perfectly, and impossibilities that challenge adventurers of any level can arise. The “Magic in the Dying Domain” section that follows explores the unpredictability of magic in Hazlan, while the
the shape-shifter disappears, slipping in among its would-be captors.
6 An apprentice of Hazlik yearns to explore the bottomless pit known as Gluttonkettle. He needs a test crew for a vehicle
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
The Streets of Sharn The Street Events tables starting with "Lower Sharn Street Events" are filled with random events the characters can witness while they wander around Sharn. You can expand on an
wards, middle wards, upper wards, and Skyway. You can choose results from the tables, or randomly determine what happens, and you can modify results as you please, tailoring the details of an event