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Agile. The rat doesn’t provoke Opportunity Attacks when it moves out of an enemy’s reach.
Death Burst. The rat explodes when it dies. Constitution Saving Throw: DC 9, each creature in a
damage.Slinking Vermin Befouled by Magic
Corrupted by a malevolent ex-adventurer’s magic, the rats of Elmshire are mottled and sickly. Their organs glow and bubble beneath their scabby hides as if ready to pop. These pests sometimes gather in squeaking tides, devouring everything in their path.
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
brink of death, it pulls the victim’s body in and traps the creature within its own ribcage. As the victim tries to stave off death (usually without success), the devourer tortures its soul with
creature is restrained and has disadvantage on death saving throws. If the creature dies while imprisoned, the devourer regains 25 hit points and immediately recharges Soul Rend. Additionally, at the
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", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Bite", "rollDamageType":"Necrotic"} Necrotic damage.The most common type of death’s head arises from a person or animal, perhaps the victim of an unjust execution or
Flyby. The death’s head doesn’t provoke an Opportunity Attack when it flies out of an enemy’s reach.Bite. Melee Attack Roll: +3;{"diceNotation":"1d20+3", "rollType":"to hit
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evil act if the victim-to-be is a willing sacrifice.
In the ritual, a living person’s chest is pierced and the heart removed. A seed is pushed into the heart, which is then placed in a tree
. Any hollow or crook will do, but often a special cavity is carved out of the trunk. The tree is bathed and watered with the blood of the sacrificed victim, and the body is buried among the tree’s
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through its pores or spill out from its eyes, nose, and mouth. This blood wafts out from the victim like crimson smoke, which the mist then consumes. The feeding causes no pain or discomfort to the
victim, so vampiric mists can feed on sleepers without waking them. The more a mist feeds, the redder it gets, such that it turns pink, then red, and finally a deep scarlet hue; when sated, it rains blood
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Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
victims vulnerable to their long-bladed knives. When Bhaal’s magic works its power, stab wounds erupt in terrible gouts of blood. Seemingly minor wounds plunge deep into a victim’s body and
rank are the death’s heads, who can take on the skull-faced guise of their deity to terrify their prey. In combat, they intimidate foes by shrugging off the deadliest attacks with ease, showing that resisting Bhaal’s schemes is futile.
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succeed on a DC 16 Constitution saving throw or be stunned until the start of the catoblepas’s next turn.
Death Ray (Recharge 5–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction
":"Death Ray"}. The catoblepas targets one creature it can see within 30 feet of it. The target must make a DC 16 Constitution saving throw, taking 36 (8d8);{"diceNotation":"8d8", "rollType":"damage
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
is teleported inside the devourer's ribcage and imprisoned there. A creature imprisoned in this manner has disadvantage on death saving throws. If it dies while imprisoned, the devourer regains 25
, and the creature becomes an undead. If the victim had 2 or fewer Hit Dice, it becomes a zombie. If it had 3 to 5 Hit Dice, it becomes a ghoul. Otherwise, it becomes a wight. A devourer can imprison
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ensure they can manipulate even the shrewdest opponents.
Abishais
Each abishai was once a mortal who somehow won Tiamat’s favor before death and, as a reward, found its soul transformed into a
responsibilities, such as leading large groups, assassinating targets, and serving in armies. In all cases, abishais are fanatically loyal to Tiamat, ready to lay down their lives if needed.
Abishais stand
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Vecna: Eve of Ruin
over and over again to regenerate beside the victim’s body, no matter how many times it is destroyed.
The impaler pursues its creator’s agenda coldly and efficiently. It has no concern for its own self-preservation, knowing that, for itself at least, death isn’t the end.
impaler is bound to the creature that wielded the ceremonial stake in the ritual that birthed it. As long as the original stake remains lodged in the heart of the ritual victim, the impaler can return
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abishai was once a mortal who somehow won Tiamat’s favor before death and, as a reward, found its soul transformed into a draconic devil to serve at her pleasure in the Nine Hells. Each type of
armies. In all cases, abishais are fanatically loyal to Tiamat, ready to lay down their lives if needed.
Abishais stand outside the normal hierarchy of the Nine Hells, having their own chain of command
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before death and, as a reward, found its soul transformed into a draconic devil to serve at her pleasure in the Nine Hells. Each type of abishai is associated with one of Tiamat’s five dragon
, ready to lay down their lives if needed.
Abishais stand outside the normal hierarchy of the Nine Hells, having their own chain of command and ultimately answering to Tiamat (and Asmodeus, when he
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Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
incapacitate its prey, making it easy to infect that paralyzed victim with eggs. However, they are able to infest any target as needed, and will do so to eliminate threats. Given their need to lay eggs in a
heart, consuming it and killing the host unless they are quickly destroyed. After gorging themselves on the host's body over several days, the maggots emerge as juvenile assassin bugs, ready to
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the Abyss, bent on slaughter and death, driven by unrestrained bloodlust. Whether they’re controlled by more powerful demons or charging into battle for the sake of it, armanites use their
flense the flesh from a victim, and they use them all to carve through their foes. When they’re up against tough formations, they can call on their innate magic to loose bolts of lightning and blow holes in enemy ranks.PoisonCold, Fire, Lightning
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destruction on the battlefield.
Abishais
Each abishai was once a mortal who somehow won Tiamat’s favor before death and, as a reward, found its soul transformed into a draconic devil to serve at her
groups, assassinating targets, and serving in armies. In all cases, abishais are fanatically loyal to Tiamat, ready to lay down their lives if needed.
Abishais stand outside the normal hierarchy of the
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, taking a group of mind flayers with it, and moves to another location to form a new colony. After the death of the ulitharid’s body, a special process transforms its brain into a new elder brain for
the colony.
This process doesn’t work on the brain of an ulitharid that dies a natural death, as such brains are too decrepit to be used. Instead, each ulitharid carries a psionically enhanced
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Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
cables, and its hands are scaly claws.
The gaze of a medusa's glowing eyes causes living tissue to petrify. The transformation is rapid, leaving the victim as a stone statue, usually frozen in a position
undercity like hungry predators.
LUDMILLA, THE TUNNEL VIPER
Ludmilla is the last surviving member of the Sisters of Stone Death, the trio of power-hungry medusas who slew Svogthir, the original
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, echoing from the darkness like a death knell. For by the time those glowing red eyes fix on you, it's far too late to run …
Some adventurers and sages whisper that deep crows were first spawned as
almost any creature. Their preferred attack is a snatch-and-grab that sees a deep crow flying off with a living victim before its companions have any chance of counterattack. Provided the doomed prey
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tasty, refined metal their victim carries, they quickly flee—and will flee before that rather than risk death.
Stealthy Couriers. A number of clans among the dwarves, duergar, and azers have trained
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draws close, the web springs at the creature and wraps it in sticky, cord-like fibers. The web then drains its victim’s memories, sapping the creature’s life force in the process. A memory web
can continue to feed on a corpse’s memories for days after its death.
If a memory web is slain, any memories it consumed over the last day are discharged from its body in a telepathic deluge
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cover up the stink of death.
The first leucrottas came into being alongside some gnolls during the rampages of Yeenoghu on the Material Plane. While many of the hyenas that ate Yeenoghu’s
delightful squeals of a suffering victim.
A leucrotta is so loathsome that few outside of its own kind can stand to be around one for long. Its horrific, hodgepodge body oozes a foul stench. This
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Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
hours.When a gnoll’s ravenous hunger is so great that it craves flesh and blood even after death, it can rise as a vampire to continue its feeding frenzy.
A gnoll vampire is a savage predator
leaving nothing behind but bones, gristle, and the victim’s blood-spattered belongings.
Gnoll vampires are indiscriminate feeders that prefer the flesh and blood of humanoids, including other
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pursue arcane magic are exiled as deviants, and for them no everlasting communion with an elder brain is possible. The road to lichdom offers an alternative way to escape the permanency of death, but
minds are never accepted as part of the collective. For them, death means oblivion.
Lichdom offers salvation and the prospect of being able to pursue knowledge indefinitely. Yet learning the secret of
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somehow won Tiamat’s favor before death and, as a reward, found its soul transformed into a draconic devil to serve at her pleasure in the Nine Hells. Each type of abishai is associated with
, abishais are fanatically loyal to Tiamat, ready to lay down their lives if needed.
Abishais stand outside the normal hierarchy of the Nine Hells, having their own chain of command and ultimately answering
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
the victim of such a curse suppresses the burden for 1 hour. A greater restoration spell suppresses the burden until the victim finishes a long rest. Death usually ends a curse, but the curse returns in
suffering to the curse’s victim. A burden is often reflective of what caused the curse in the first place, twisting the transgressor’s action against them. The burden takes effect immediately, along with a
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The victim’s flesh to rot like a corpse. 5 The victim to itch, as if they had fleas or sand beneath their skin. 6 Wicked symbols to gradually appear on and spread across the victim’s body. Death Dog
Death Dog Two-Headed Spreader of Disease Habitat: Desert; Treasure: None Daren Bader ...and his sorrows will stalk your land like hungry dogs until the seas turn to sand and the sun burns to cinders
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Beginning the Adventure Read or paraphrase the following to the players, adjusting to account for their location in Candlekeep, when you’re ready to begin: You are approached by a decrepit, gray
, his knees buckle and he collapses with the book pressed underneath him.
The dwarf, Buron Sternmettle, is dead—the victim of a sudden heart attack. Because his soul doesn’t want to return, spells
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
.
2 Someone associated with your victim wants revenge — the sort the law won’t provide.
3 Your victim won’t stay dead, having fought their way back from death to take vengeance.
4 Your
prevented a death. You chose not to.
3 Instigator. You’re the architect of someone’s demise, your words spreading death.
4 Liar. You know what happened, but didn’t tell.
Murder Consequences
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
law won’t provide. 3 Your victim won’t stay dead, having fought their way back from death to take vengeance. 4 Your victim was a member of a larger organization, such as the Guild. This organization
refuses to let the killing go unanswered. 5 Somehow, your victim is still alive and knows what you did. Now you’ve got to figure out how to put them down a second time. 6 Your victim’s death ignited a social spark. Now you’re being sought by mobs seeking to bring new justice to Baldur’s Gate.
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Tragedy Ghosts embody the pain and grief that surround death. To build an effective ghost story adventure, present either the ghost or those they haunt as the tragic victims of painful circumstance
heart.
2 The ghost interferes with the romantic life of their victim.
3 The ghost was falsely accused and convicted of a crime.
4 The ghost makes an innocent person appear to be guilty
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body in and traps the creature within its own ribcage. As the victim tries to stave off death (usually without success), the devourer tortures its soul with telepathic noise. When the victim expires
creed of replacing all life with everlasting death. A lesser demon that proves itself to Orcus might be granted the privilege of becoming a devourer. The Prince of Undeath transforms such a demon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
body in and traps the creature within its own ribcage. As the victim tries to stave off death (usually without success), the devourer tortures its soul with telepathic noise. When the victim expires, it
replacing all life with everlasting death. Instruments of Orcus. A lesser demon that proves itself to Orcus might be granted the privilege of becoming a devourer. The Prince of Undeath transforms
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Starting the Adventure Ghouls drag a fresh victim into the depths of Hollow Mine The adventure begins just outside the village of Milpazul, a tiny community a few hours’ journey from the city of San
Citlán. Once the players are ready, describe their characters’ approach to the village. Read or paraphrase the following description: Clouds rush overhead and dust swirls across the road to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
door are the words “Relentless death follows those who disturb the sovereign’s rest.” Burden. Each character that gains the curse is hunted by a wraith that appears at sunset and vanishes at dawn
, pursuing the single-minded goal of slaying the cursed individual. The wraith manifests in an unoccupied space within 30 feet of its victim. Destroying the wraith grants a temporary reprieve; it doesn’t
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Villain
1 A medium who feeds victims to spirits in exchange for power over them
2 The spirit of a long-dead murderer who stalks the same types of victims in death as in life
3 The
haunted home of a cruel patriarch, who refuses to relinquish control of his descendants
4 A priest who marks the unworthy for death at the hands of the cathedral’s hungry spirits
5 A phantom