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Harpy
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song ends. The harpy must take a bonus action on its subsequent turns to continue singing. It can stop singing at any time. The song ends if the harpy is incapacitated.
While charmed by the harpy, a
successfully saves is immune to this harpy's song for the next 24 hours.A harpy combines the body, legs, and wings of a vulture with the torso, arms, and head of a human female. Its sweet song has lured countless adventurers to their deaths.
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
body disappears in a burst of harmless fire and a cloud of smoke that quickly dissipates.
Magical Servants. Magen make ideal servants. At creation, each is instilled with an instinct to protect
Fiery End. If the magen dies, its body disintegrates in a harmless burst of fire and smoke, leaving behind anything it was wearing or carrying.
Magic Resistance. The magen has advantage on saving
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Fiery End. If the magen dies, its body disintegrates in a harmless burst of fire and smoke, leaving behind anything it was wearing or carrying.
Magic Resistance. The magen has advantage on saving
are constructs. When one is wounded, its blood is seen to have the color and consistency of mercury. They exist purely through magical means. When one is killed, its body disappears in a burst of
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Fiery End. If the magen dies, its body disintegrates in a harmless burst of fire and smoke, leaving behind anything it was wearing or carrying.
Magic Resistance. The magen has advantage on saving
wounded, its blood is seen to have the color and consistency of mercury. They exist purely through magical means. When one is killed, its body disappears in a burst of harmless fire and a cloud of
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
esthetic becomes a nearly mindless entity with an instinct for self-preservation.
Reigar use their esthetics as spelljamming warships. When a hostile reigar in its esthetic encounters another
its acid-secreting tentacles.
Each esthetic is unique in appearance. One might be bilaterally symmetrical (two matching halves, like a humanoid body along its vertical axis), radially symmetrical
Lizardfolk
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
. For example, humans confronted by an angry troll experience fear on a basic level. Their limbs shake, their thinking becomes panicked and jumbled, and they react by instinct. The emotion of fear takes
once been a warrior or hunter, but now the body is just freshly killed meat.
A lizardfolk who lives among other humanoids can, over time, learn to respect other creatures’ emotions. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
uncanny pitch, you recognize Ebder’s voice.
Anyone in area F2 sees that Ebder’s eyes are bulging in terror. As he hums the rhyme’s melody, the rest of his body is paralyzed. He’s cold to the touch
console the child, with little effect. Shemshime’s influence has begun to reach into the world. When Ebder stops singing, roll on the Shemshime’s Influence table to find out what happens next. Haunting
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
the Darklord’s sins cover their body.
5 Every night, the Darklord is the focus of a lavish ball, but during the day he turns into a lead statue.
6 A choir of spirits follows the Darklord
, endlessly singing her sins.
7 The Darklord endlessly cries tears of blood, ink, poison, or molten iron.
8 The Darklord knows how he’s going to die and sees evidence of impending doom everywhere.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
Harpy The cruel harpy uses its sweet song to lure adventurers and sailors to their deaths. A harpy has the body, legs, and wings of a vulture but the torso, arms, and head of a human. Harpy
Medium
ends. The harpy must take a bonus action on its subsequent turns to continue singing. It can stop singing at any time. The song ends if the harpy is incapacitated.
While charmed by the harpy, a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
charmed until the song ends. The harpy must take a bonus action on its subsequent turns to continue singing. It can stop singing at any time. The song ends if the harpy is incapacitated.
While charmed
their deaths, drawing them in close for the harpy to kill and then consume.
A harpy combines the body, legs, and wings of a vulture with the torso, arms, and head of a human. Its wicked talons and bone
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
characters: “That’s the other Mage Tower team! They’re trying to steal your fans!”
The opposing Mage Tower team challenges the characters to a singing contest to win over the student body. This event
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
performing arts and improvisation to produce a new play. The entire student body is invited to participate or spectate as they wish. (For more about the festival, see the “Rose Stage Festival” section
event, read or paraphrase the following: Yodeling, mocking chants, dramatic intonations, baritone singing, and other enthusiastic sounds reach your ears as a rowdy, laughing group of students comes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Barlgura Demon of Instinct and Primal Violence Habitat: Planar (Abyss); Treasure: Any IZZY Barlguras are demons that embody brutality and killer instincts. They ruthlessly hunt creatures that enter
.; Passive Perception 15
Languages Abyssal; telepathy 120 ft.
CR 5 (XP 1,800; PB +3)
Traits
Demonic Restoration. If the barlgura dies outside the Abyss, its body dissolves into ichor, and it gains a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
fairy ring. On a roll of 1 or 2, there are no creatures in the ring’s vicinity. On a roll of 3 or higher, the ring has a swarm of campestris (see appendix C) singing and dancing inside it. Using body
by mimicking words they can hear. The campestris’ love for singing is obvious. Any character who tries to teach them a new song can make a DC 13 Charisma (Performance) check. On a successful check
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation Supplement
underwater for some time before needing to come up for air. Natural Armor. Due to your shell and the shape of your body, you are ill-suited to wearing armor. Your shell provides ample protection
. Survival Instinct. You gain proficiency in the Survival skill. Tortles have finely honed survival instincts. Languages. You can speak, read, and write Aquan and Common.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
constructs. When one is wounded, its blood is seen to have the color and consistency of mercury. They exist purely through magical means. When one is killed, its body disappears in a burst of harmless
fire and a cloud of smoke that quickly dissipates. Magical Servants. Magen make ideal servants. At creation, each is instilled with an instinct to protect itself and its creator, and it follows its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Boo’s Astral Menagerie
to guide it, an esthetic becomes a nearly mindless entity with an instinct for self-preservation. Reigar use their esthetics as spelljamming warships. When a hostile reigar in its esthetic encounters
with its acid-secreting tentacles. Each esthetic is unique in appearance. One might be bilaterally symmetrical (two matching halves, like a humanoid body along its vertical axis), radially symmetrical
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
treated to a terrifying, 7-foot-tall assemblage of human body parts. This flesh golem attacks anyone who isn’t in the company of the Abbot or Clovin Belview. None of the doors leading from the hall are
bones are all that remain of mongrelfolk who perished and were eaten. The survivors beg for food. S15f. Singing and Dancing Mongrelfolk Eight mongrels caper about the wreckage of this bedchamber while
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
wyvern lies on the skybridge, its body scorched by lightning. 4 A curious and friendly cloud giant is surprised to see travelers on the skybridge and asks them at length about recent happenings in the
crouching near one of the draconic statues adorning the bridge, singing to it in a gentle voice. This is Ina (neutral good, human priest), a skybridge tender known as a bonesinger. She tends the magic that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
god’s severed body. So are the dragonborn not, therefore, like the gods themselves? A third origin story posits that dragonborn were the firstborn of the world, created by Io before the existence of
served Io as companions and allies, filling his astral court and singing his praises. The dragons he made only later, at the start of the Dawn War, to serve as engines of destruction. This view of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Flaw 1 I act based on instinct, rarely with a plan. 2 I am cowed by threats, and even preposterous ones make me pause. 3 Deep down, I know I am doomed to anonymity. 4 My natural inclination is to
Body. The demon can float at will as if under the effect of the levitate spell (no concentration required). While it has half its hit points or less, it loses this ability. 17 Immaterial. The demon has
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
shambling mound to seek out new sources of food.
The Weed that Walks. The instinct that drives a shambling mound is its central root-stem, buried somewhere inside its ponderous form. The rest of a
shambling mound’s body shrugs off the effects of cold and fire. Lightning reinvigorates the root-stem, strengthening the shambling mound and bolstering its consumptive drive.
Despite its monstrous form
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
, organic graft onto your body Beasts d4 Desired Offering 1 Fresh meat 2 A soothing melody 3 Brightly colored beads, cloth, feathers, or string 4 An old stuffed animal or other soft trinket
item of great importance to their culture 2 Challenging them to a type of friendly contest, such as dancing, singing, or drinking 3 Recovering something they’ve lost 4 Information on a foe’s secrets
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
. Myconids don’t speak. They communicate telepathically by emitting their rapport spores. As a result, they live quiet lives. Strange music and singing echoes from the large cavern behind the grove, just loud
at the end of every 24 hours, ending the infection on a success. On a failure, the infected creature’s body is slowly taken over by fungal growth, and after three such failed saves, the creature dies
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
body of a dead whale being pulled behind a fishing boat. When you delivered the goods, the corpse suddenly exploded, sending whale meat and whiskey bottles for half a mile. 2 Cart and Sword. You drove a
cart filled with stolen art through the middle of a battlefield while singing sea shanties to confuse the combatants. 3 The Recruit. You enlisted in another nation’s navy for the purpose of smuggling
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
creativity beyond just acting to incorporate singing, rapping, or dancing is encouraged! No matter what approach the player takes to their character’s performance, impressing the crowd also requires a
captain 5 Paranoid wizard 6 Businessperson transformed into a cat 7 Swashbuckling servant 8 Bawdy noble 9 Mage who can’t control their magic 10 Toddler in an adult’s body 11 Adult in a toddler’s body
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
unbridled horses drink from the river.
The mournful strains of an accordion clash with the singing of several brightly clad figures around bonfire. A footpath continues beyond this encampment
. But when the devil Strahd fell upon him, the wizard’s magic couldn’t save him. I saw him thrown a thousand feet to his death. I climbed down to the river to search for the wizard’s body, to see if
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
calls for the crowd to place their bets. 31–34 Three harpies fly through the streets singing a jolly drinking song. Each carries a bucket around her neck, and passersby occasionally drop coins in one. 35
–38 A human woman and a warforged with a silvered body are walking down the street together. They're too well dressed for this district, and are looking around as if lost. 39–42 A Khoravar half-elf in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
and gives them the opportunity to flatter his singing. After these pleasantries, he offers the characters a quest: destroy the lich Ezzat on level 20 and give the lich’s phylactery to Ichthyglug. The
sees them. Ichthyglug can’t leave his cave without Ezzat’s phylactery. If the marid dies here, his body disintegrates into a burst of water and foam, only to re-form 24 hours later. (The characters don’t
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
to automatically cross a sunbeam, which awakens Grandfather Oak. This corrupted treant has several myconids grafted onto its body. Grandfather Oak uses the treant stat block with the following change
the scene, playing the part of a helpful dryad. Read or paraphrase the following: You hear the sound of a singing voice approaching, heralding the arrival of an elderly dryad bearing the features of
Magic Items
Infernal Machine Rebuild
body of the user and trailing behind them. When so attached, the wire becomes invisible, astral, and extends to virtually infinite length.
As long as the wire remains intact, the attuned user can make
, causing those creatures to recall their saddest memories.
08
You have a +1 bonus to Wisdom (Insight checks) involving creatures you can see.
Your body is ghostly and translucent except for your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
of the statue: the head, the wings, the body, or the tail. Once all four sections are improved, the kobolds are satisfied, praise the characters’ artistic abilities, and become Friendly. Treasure. Each
cave appears to hold nine boulders, but three are Galeb Duhr that are singing while rolled up. Their song is quiet but deep and resonant, causing vibrations in the floor. If the galeb duhr notice the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
out that my avocados went bad. What a mess.”
–Digny Vots, Market Ward shopper
Market Ward Encounters d8 Encounter 1 A Transcendent Order instinct (see Morte’s Planar Parade) asks to spar with
defend dungeons on other worlds Great Gymnasium The Transcendent Order’s headquarters is the Great Gymnasium, a temple to body, mind, and spirit, hewed from marble and veined with gold. In addition to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
fixated with a single type or body of water, potentially preferring a deep sea trench, coastline, or river system above all others. Over time, such a resident nymph often becomes connected with their
, groups of oreads might race ahead of the destruction, dancing, singing, and doing what they can to maximize the impending devastation. Honor Among Fey. Hearkening back to some ages-old conflict, oreads
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
+ 2) burying a body that rises as 1 frostmourn* (attitude: 1d4 + 1) in the process
5 2d4 giant goats (attitude: 1d6 + 4) wandering about with chewed tethers
6 1 troll (attitude: 1d10 + 2
to reassemble a small stone building it accidentally demolished
6 1d4 otyughs (attitude: 1d10) in a waste pit where hill giants dispose of feast remnants
7 1 hill giant singing