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Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
ground below.
A piercer is the larval form of a roper, and the two creatures often attack in tandem. A rock-like shell encases a piercer's body, giving it the look and texture of a stalactite. That
shell protects a soft, slug-like upper body that lets the piercer move across cavern walls and ceilings to position itself for prey. With its eye and mouth closed, the piercer is difficult to distinguish
Monsters
Misplaced Monsters: Volume One
a successful save, the target takes half as much damage only. If this damage reduces the target to 0 hit points, the target dies, and its body is reduced to fine dust.
Created by Kenzie C.
Coral
-smelling cloud of gas that surrounds and shields the target. The target has half cover until the gas disappears at the start of Coral’s next turn.
Gift of Speech (1/Day). Coral targets one Beast she
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marked by an easy grace—an elvish grace, Flint would have said; yet the man’s body had the thickness and tight muscles of a human, while the facial hair was definitely humankind’s. All
ground. The dwarf clasped his old friend close for a brief instant, then, remembering his dignity, squirmed and freed himself from the half-elf’s embrace.
— Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Magic Items
Acquisitions Incorporated
glasses.
3
Burning a small piece of the body and looking for shapes in the smoke.
4
A cautious, reasoned, professional guesstimate.
5
Careful measurements. The distance between nostrils
long rest.
Bead of Instant Karma
At rank 3, one of the beads on your occultant abacus channels the power of instant karma, turning the occultant abacus into a rare magic item. As a reaction, you can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
, whereupon each bursts into a cloud of sweet-smelling spores as its body dissolves back into the larger mass of fungi filling the cavern. Read the following to the players when the final creature is
defeated. The creature bursts like an overfull wineskin, releasing a clear ichor and a cloud of dusty spores. The deflating bulk of its body sinks back beneath the shimmering fungal field where you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
curve, you see a woman kneeling next to a body, sobbing as she hunches protectively over the remains. Circling in the air a few feet above her, eight harpies screech and flail at each other.
The
matriarch’s transformation: The woman stands suddenly, turning to reveal a gore-caked mouth and hollow black eyes. In an instant, she is surrounded by a cloud of flapping skeletal birds and her own
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
piercer is the larval form of a roper, and the two creatures often attack in tandem. A rock-like shell encases a piercer’s body, giving it the look and texture of a stalactite. That shell protects a soft
, slug-like upper body that lets the piercer move across cavern walls and ceilings to position itself for prey. With its eye and mouth closed, the piercer is difficult to distinguish from ordinary
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
stand? When it reaches out to grab a character, what does it feel like? Attacks. How does it attack? Does it have weapons, or does it use its body to fight? Does it have sharp claws that rake across
these: What does the way it moves remind you of? It emits the worst smell—what is it? Something falls free and, for an instant, what are you certain it is? Players’ responses don’t need to control the narrative; it’s up to you whether they’re true or just one perception.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
(see the end of this adventure)—attacks. The attack is swift; the creature strafes the town, vanishes among the buildings for an instant, then soars away to the northwest. No matter what methods the
. Bakunawa are sacred in the region, though dragon hunters pursue rumors of them, hoping to sell their body parts for gold or as sacred relics. Characters who help the locals are thanked, but the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
marked by an easy grace — an elvish grace, Flint would have said; yet the man’s body had the thickness and tight muscles of a human, while the facial hair was definitely humankind’s. All the dwarf
a brief instant, then, remembering his dignity, squirmed and freed himself from the half-elf’s embrace.
— Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Walking in two worlds but
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
marked by an easy grace — an elvish grace, Flint would have said; yet the man’s body had the thickness and tight muscles of a human, while the facial hair was definitely humankind’s. All the dwarf
a brief instant, then, remembering his dignity, squirmed and freed himself from the half-elf’s embrace.
— Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman,
Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Walking in two worlds but
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
or poison killed a creature, or explain what that dead body is doing under your bed at the inn. The Occultant Franchise Rank Features
1 Proficiencies and Starting Equipment, Read the Kill
2 Eldritch Occultant, Bring Out Your Dead
3 Bead of Instant Karma, Death’s Omen
4 Bead of Diverted Karma, Correct the Balance
Proficiencies and Starting Equipment As a rank 1
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
laws of nature, and sought instead to use her mind to master the world. The brain of
Baron Rudolph von Aubrecker
constructs a new body Eventually, Dr. Mordenheim became convinced that she could do
repertoire, employing thieves to procure specimens for her tests. This was how she met Elise, a beautiful but reckless body snatcher who was charmed by the doctor’s aloofness and whose spontaneity
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Misplaced Monsters: Volume One
(4d10) force damage and has the prone condition. On a successful save, the target takes half as much damage only. If this damage reduces the target to 0 hit points, the target dies, and its body is
: Stink Bomb Shield. The bubbles transform into a foul-smelling cloud of gas that surrounds and shields the target. The target has half cover until the gas disappears at the start of Coral’s next turn
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
collapses in on itself and ceases to exist the instant before it can shuffle off to some horrible afterlife. When this occurs, the spirit becomes a soulless wraith — a malevolent void trapped on the
plane where it died. Almost nothing of the wraith’s former existence is preserved; in this new form, it exists only to annihilate other life. Bereft of Body. A wraith can move through solid creatures
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
shed by the soul of every living creature. So you have this soul, but you can’t see it or touch it. And when you die, this invisible thing leaves your body and goes to a place you can’t see. And
explosion. As an action, you magically create an orb and hurl it at a point you choose within 150 feet, where it erupts into a sphere of radiant light for a brief but deadly instant. Each creature in that 20
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Karstis. The doll on the floor represents Yarek, the student recently killed by the bone devil in area 48. Each doll incorporates bits of the student’s hair or some other sample from its body (foul
-smelling slime in the case of Cephalossk the mind flayer). Embedded in the stuffed chest of each doll is one of the night hag’s toenail clippings, signifying and enabling her secret power over the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
silver cord — a strike against such an enemy has a chance of severing the silver cord, causing instant death. Knights and their silver swords are inseparable, and a knight will fight to the death to
addition, if you score a critical hit with it against a creature’s astral body, you can cut the silvery cord that tethers the target to its material body, instead of dealing damage.
Dragon Steeds The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
some 12 feet tall, a molydeus has a red-skinned, humanoid body and two heads — one that of a slavering wolf and the other that of a serpent with dripping fangs perched atop a long neck. Molydei might
demon. The demon lord fashions the weapon from a portion of the fiend’s essence, so that the demon and its weapon are forever bound. If the molydeus dies, the weapon dissolves into a pool of foul-smelling
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
time, as though something was trying to siphon it all away. The demiplane expelled Iriolarthas in that instant, trapping the lich in Ythryn, and became a living demiplane (see appendix C). Iriolarthas
lich’s skeletal body turned to dust. FATE OF NETHERIL
The Empire of Netheril arose more than five thousand years ago. Those who follow the Dalereckoning calendar would place the date of Netheril’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
Floral. Flowers bloom from the archfey’s fingertips, and their skin is covered in petals. Their body might have thorns, or they could have vine-like hair covered in sweet-smelling blossoms. 5 Fluid. The
archfey can change body type or transform from one creature into another. 6 Iridescent. The archfey floats off the ground and gazes about with glowing eyes, their body surrounded by a nimbus of light
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
. At the chamber’s center, a thick, foul-smelling mist billows from a shallow pool of brackish liquid. Something large and scaly lies within. Beyond it stands a sculpted pillar and a broad stone table
body, the body is affected by the resurrection spell. A white ghost orchid seed has no effect if consumed.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
This large kitchen is in poor condition. Flies cover foul-smelling messes of several meals stacked on a worktable in the middle of the room.
The kitchen is in shambles. The half-eaten food on the
body of one of Elra’s companions is missing (and can be found in area D27). If Elra is with the characters (see “Meeting Elra” earlier in this adventure), she mourns her dead companions and hopes there
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
psipod is a byproduct of this connection. The residue is sticky and foul-smelling, but harmless. It dissolves after a few hours. Any creature that enters a psipod’s bronze cylinder must succeed on a DC
can survive in this state for the remainder of its natural life, its mind and body nourished by the psipod’s psychic energy. If the psipod is shut down, or if the unconscious creature is removed from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
flight. Half the dragon’s body is submerged in dark water, and the hallway beyond it is completely flooded.
The flooded hallway, which leads to area M6, has partially collapsed. Creatures of Medium
using the scrying spell to monitor the characters and has judged they might be useful in ridding the ruins of the Dragon Army invaders. The gem Demelin breaks is an elemental gem. An instant later, an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
slip on a patch of ice or get bonked on the head by a low-hanging icicle. Vellynne’s snowy owl familiar, if it’s present, senses the mephit’s cruel intent. Söpo and the owl have an instant dislike for
small mountain in the middle of the island. The ghost can’t move more than 200 feet from the place where Nass died unless it takes possession of a host. If it’s forced out of a host’s body when the body
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
proficiency in the Stealth skill, and it has the Chameleon Skin trait: it has advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks made to hide. 3 The creature’s body has been infused with one kind of energy: acid, cold
, fire, or lightning (your choice, or determine randomly). Its melee attacks deal an extra 1d6 damage of that type, and it has the Elemental Body trait: a creature that touches it or hits it with a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
the coffin lies the astrologer’s body. Treasure. A bronze tube in one of the brass jars contains a crudely drawn map of this tier of the ziggurat. Two stars on the map denote the locations of the
Room This acrid-smelling room is littered with decrepit wooden tables bowed under the weight of heavy jars. In the corner, rotten winding cloths fill a stone bin.
This room was used for embalming
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
use one or both of these approaches to roleplay their characters.
Active Roleplaying. In active roleplaying, you speak with a character’s voice and might echo their body language, like an actor taking
, prompting more bandits to spring from the bushes with weapons drawn. In an instant, you’re surrounded—roll Initiative!
Pral and his bandits are brigands, not murderers. A character reduced to 0
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
pours over the cliff at the overlook (area A10) and empties into a larger body of water below. The following locations are keyed to map 2.2. Map 2.2: DM’s map View Player Version A1: Docking Area The
unarmed and unarmored. Their names and descriptions are as follows:
Anaïs Bellefleur (chaotic good tiefling) smokes foul-smelling cigars, has a bellowing laugh, and enjoys ale a bit too much.
Jetta
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
stands open, its stone slab held ajar by the decaying body of a hobgoblin. A crossbow bolt protrudes from the corpse’s chest.
The corpse is that of an explorer who reached the ziggurat several weeks ago
characters enter, read or paraphrase the following text: A shriveled humanoid corpse in blue robes and a brass mask lies in the center of this stale-smelling room. The corpse’s stiff, wrinkled hand
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
a rotten body into the back of a wooden wagon. “If ye need a ride to the Mortuary, there’s room in the back!” he laughs. 7 A thieving musteval guardinal (see Morte’s Planar Parade) snatches a bag
-o’-wisps: devils pawning stolen souls to rule-bending angels, interplanar fences selling stolen modron parts, demodands advertising jars of their liquefied cohorts as instant bodyguards, and the like
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Descent into the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth
overtaking the cave. The cloaked figure is the corpse of an elf adventurer who died here, trapped by the green slime. His body has been partially calcified by the mineral-rich water dripping from the
Three hungry trolls pass the time in their foul-smelling cave This reeking cave is filled with rotting vegetation, bones, pieces of pale chitin, dung, and less identifiable foulness. Three larger
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
to tremble. Thereafter, a section of the wall opens to reveal a window showing the mountains beyond. S52: Garden Maintenance (Green) Acrid-smelling chemicals, gardening tools, hoses, and other supplies
verge.
A ten-foot-wide bridge extends over the lake to an islet enclosure covered with lush foliage. Battered robots litter the edge of the lake near the structure.
This body of water was formerly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
. His body has been partially calcified by the mineral-rich water dripping from the ceiling. Green Slime. Six patches of green slime (see the Dungeon Master’s Guide) cling to the ceiling near the fallen
carries a silvered rapier and wears Bracers of Defense. L9: Stinking Cave Arash Radkia Three hungry trolls pass the time in their foul-smelling cave This reeking cave is filled with rotting vegetation