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Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
embody their ancestors’ mixed elemental nature of Air and Water. After countless ages of isolation—often on one of the Elemental Planes or some hidden demiplane—they retain the barest
, but these parts are transparent enough that the churning vapors of the hulk’s substance are visible inside. Wisps of cloud constantly leak from the creature, as if it might dissolve completely
Monsters
Locathah Rising
visible outside it.
The sphere vanishes at the end of the rest or when Amble leaves the sphere.
Hold Breath. Amble can hold their breath for up to 1 hour at a time.
Spellcasting. Amble is a 12th-level
statistics of the beast, but they retain their alignment, personality, and Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores. Amble also retains all their skill and saving throw proficiencies, in addition to
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
creature either makes one melee attack against a random creature it can see or does nothing if no visible creature is within its reach.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the jabberwock fails a saving
jabberwocks are difficult to come by, because the rare survivors of an encounter with one retain only a confused impression of its parts and not a sense of the whole. Pieced-together accounts
Magic Items
Vecna: Eve of Ruin
chosen creature’s appearance exactly, including its voice. Your size and speed are replaced by the chosen creature’s. You otherwise retain your own game statistics. While in this new form
your true form, you can choose for the crown to be visible if you wish.
Destroying the Crown. If a creature wearing the crown is killed by the creature it is disguised as, the crown disintegrates and is destroyed.
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Species
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
unusual crown, often called an eldercross or a witch’s turn. This living, garland-like part of a hexblood’s body extends from their temples and wraps behind the head, serving as a visible
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If you are replacing your race with a lineage, you retain any languages you had and gain no new languages.
Creature
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
possible. Three anchorites — Flenz, Narux, and Yargath — defend the hill. When not performing rituals in the circle of standing stones, they patrol the surrounding woods, forage for food, and lurk in caves
.
E: Secret Exit. This tunnel slopes up to a secret trapdoor that is plainly visible from the underside.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
exactly, including its voice. Your size and speed are replaced by the chosen creature’s. You otherwise retain your own game statistics. While in this new form, the crown melds into your person and is
actually target you. The only way to reveal your true nature while transformed by the crown is with a Wish spell. While wearing this crown in your true form, you can choose for the crown to be visible if
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Locathah Rising
Dexterity (Stealth) and Wisdom (Perception) checks, and any light from open flames in the sphere isn’t visible outside it.
The sphere vanishes at the end of the rest or when Amble leaves the sphere.
Hold
form using a bonus action on their turn.
Amble’s game statistics are replaced by the statistics of the beast, but they retain their alignment, personality, and Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
hulks are Elementals that embody their ancestors’ mixed elemental nature of Air and Water. After countless ages of isolation—often on one of the Elemental Planes or some hidden demiplane—they retain
, but these parts are transparent enough that the churning vapors of the hulk’s substance are visible inside. Wisps of cloud constantly leak from the creature, as if it might dissolve completely at any
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
turn. They are encrusted with sand but unhindered by it, so they retain their normal speed while in the dunes. For example: The characters enter a numbered square marked “7.” Seven skeletons rise and
defend that square until they are destroyed. Once all the skeletons in a square have been destroyed, that square is cleared of buried skeletons (but other skeletons could still pursue the party into
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
, which then start combat. The light from the fire beetles in area I3 is visible from here but is too dim to awaken the stirges. In combat, the stirges gorge themselves until they’ve drunk the characters
search the dirt floor for grubs.
Two Giant Fire Beetles scrape up the dirt in search of tasty morsels. The beetles keep a safe distance from the minotaur and defend themselves if necessary. They are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
of an encounter with one retain only a confused impression of its parts and not a sense of the whole. Pieced-together accounts describe it as a sinewy, dragon-like creature that can walk on its hind
use all its movement to move in a random direction.
4. The creature either makes one melee attack against a random creature it can see or does nothing if no visible creature is within its reach
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
strike as part of the Attack action on your turn and are holding a kensei weapon, you can use it to defend yourself if it is a melee weapon. You gain a +2 bonus to AC until the start of your next turn
target you hit with a ranged attack using a kensei weapon takes an extra 1d4 damage of the weapon’s type. You retain this benefit until the end of the current turn. Way of the Brush. You gain
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
.
The columns of rock are 200 feet tall and 150 feet apart. Each one has a large copper brazier at its summit. These braziers aren’t visible from below the columns’ summits, but all eight can be seen
terms. The year seemed to drag on and on, and when it finally ended, Alagarthas found himself with only one way to get home: a path that, according to Endelyn, is visible “only in the light of the eight
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
half-drowned ruins of a temple are visible beyond; a platinum triangle gleams on its leaning belfry.
The causeway rises over water that’s 20 feet deep. From it, characters can see the temple grounds
below. One round later, four slimy mummies emerge from the three pits. These lawful neutral Undead seek to defend the temple. They won’t converse with characters, but they return to their soggy tombs if
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
defend the Deans’ Wing from intruders L8. Dean Tullus’s Office A bronze nameplate on the door to this room reads “Augusta Tullus, Dean of Order.” The desk in this office is barely visible beneath heaps
door at the far end.
The portraits here depict past deans of Lorehold and are invested with a measure of their spirits. Any visible creature not part of the Lorehold faculty that enters this hall
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
might be accepted as auxiliary units in the host, if they prove to be capable and trustworthy. Typically, a goblinoid host seeks to retain enough of the population in a conquered settlement for the
. Such an empire might last for generations if the military can continue achieving new conquests or at least claim victories when the goblinoids defend territory they previously took over. If triumphs of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
.
“The devils!” hisses the hag’s disembodied voice. “You must defeat those devils!”
The characters must defend Lulu and Zariel from the six spined devils. At this point, the characters and the
characters’ choice, to assist in battles with devils and lycanthropes Two weeks of rations per character (the rations taste awful but retain their nutritional value) Warnings about other warlords (see
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
high and five feet wide. The surface of the doors is featureless, with no visible handles, except for a rectangular aperture six inches wide by four inches high cut in the center of the left-hand door
is forced open, one of the sahuagin immediately moves toward the west wall to ring the gong, while the remaining guards defend the entrance. If this creature is slain or otherwise prevented from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
ballistae, one per weapon. Hatch. Not visible from the floor of the cavern is an open hatch with a ladder that descends to area 13b. A ballista is a Large object with AC 15, 50 hit points, and immunity
built into the weapon’s stand. A swivel base gives each ballista a firing arc of 180 degrees. The slaadi have been trained to load, aim, and fire the ballistae. They defend the deck against all boarders
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
former trap cover the door to this room and the wall around it. This magical trap was recently triggered by a ghoul, whose outline is visible among the scorch marks. The door is ajar and safe to open
burial chamber. Four skeletal guards with rusty swords surround the distinguished skeleton.
This burial chamber belongs to King Alendria’s honor guard, who defend his kingdom even in death. If the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
The Walking Statues Over a century ago, just one of these eight behemoth statues stood visible at the northern foot of Mount Waterdeep, on a bluff called Gull Leap. Ninety feet tall, it resembled a
around them. Much later, in 1479 DR, the eighth statue — the Griffon — emerged from the Ethereal Plane to defend Ahghairon’s Tower against intrusion. It roosted there for a time before flying to its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
bathhouse to the tower can easily see the shrine. This crumbling stone building must once have been a beautiful shrine. Engraved images of Sune are still visible on the moss-covered stones, her face gazing
down on the path by which the faithful would have approached. Stone doors at the front of the shrine appear to be sealed shut by some sort of thick, clear resin. A faint inscription is still visible
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Prisoner 13
. While confined to her antimagic cell, she is cautious since she can’t rely on her magic tattoos to defend herself. Outside her cell, she grows overly confident and even banters if she’s able to do so
tattooed on one of her agents. A character who examines any visible tattoos and succeeds on a DC 15 Intelligence (Investigation) check notices some of the hidden marks. A character who succeeds on a DC 15
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
. While confined to her antimagic cell, she is cautious since she can’t rely on her magic tattoos to defend herself. Outside her cell, she grows overly confident and even banters if she’s able to do so
tattooed on one of her agents. A character who examines any visible tattoos and succeeds on a DC 15 Intelligence (Investigation) check notices some of the hidden marks. A character who succeeds on a DC 15
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a2
claimed one of the largest caverns as a common room and food storage area. They defend it against all intruders. Characters coming from area 16 might not be able to see everything at first. Floundering
. The females tend the colony’s eggs and raise hatchlings in the southwest cave. Six troglodytes defend the hatchery and fight to the death to defend their young. The chamber also contains two dozen
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Encounter. If this encounter takes place during a blizzard, the dragon is buried under heavy snow, waiting out the storm with her outstretched wings lying flat at her sides. Her rider is visible above the
, crave violence, and fight to the bitter end. The berserkers retain vestiges of their former lives, including the thick clothing they wore as Reghed nomads, but their garments are torn and in need of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
guide characters to Firefinger and Dungrunglung. They’ve also heard stories about an old woman in Mbala who can animate the dead in such a way that the zombies retain the abilities and memories they had
undead but, other than hiring guards to defend Port Nyanzaru, they won’t pay to take effective action against it. His mother believes she’s “recruited” him to keep an eye on the Flaming Fist, but his
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
around the cavern.
Marlos Urnrayle used stone shape spells to create a narrow ledge that hugs the walls of the cavern. This ledge isn’t visible from the cavern floor, and it starts 5 feet below the
activity outside, two duergar take light crossbows (+2 to hit, 1d8 piercing damage) and post themselves at the arrow slits. The other three prepare to defend the room’s only entrance. B6. Yarsha’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
room.
Footprints of several humanoids are visible in the dust, stopping in front of the center cylinder. Shortly after all characters enter the chamber, the corpse (or anything propping the door open
weapons and defend their turf. Combat in this room draws the attention of the guardians in area B12, who send two guardians of Gorm from that room to investigate. The guardians aim to knock the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
spotted. The horrors hesitate to attack those dressed like Thayans but do so if no food is quickly offered. The horrors fight mostly to defend a mound in the northwest section of the cavern, which contains
Gate. A black gate is set into the northeastern edge of the area, not immediately visible from the entrance. Contact Stone. A contact stone is on the wall just north of the black gate. Dungeon State
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
of the well. The will-o’-wisps are the spirits of creatures who owned the trinkets in life. If a character tries to take one or more of the trinkets, the will-o’-wisps turn visible, accuse the
characters and defend themselves. Otherwise, they are harmless. They can’t leave the battlefield. A suit becomes inanimate and collapses in a heap if its helmet is removed, if it is reduced to 0 hit points
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
disadvantage and faces impending loss. The Cliffside Redoubt. The cliffside redoubt is shown in cross-section on this model. The lower entrance, upper bunker, and central chamber are all visible. The lower
attacks in melee while Uvonxu hangs back to cast spells. These spyder-fiends fight to the death to defend Miska. Miska Intervenes. Miska is still trapped within his prison, but the opening is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
-forms a few seconds after it disappears. The secret door can be activated from either side of the wall, but the runes are visible only when viewed from the north. From the southern side of the door, a
occupy this grim chamber, ready for deployment at a moment’s notice. Unless the soldiers have been called elsewhere to defend the vault or perform drudge work, the garrison contains sixteen skeletons
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a2
after she becomes visible. She has a potion of healing, which she uses if her current hit points drop to half her hit point maximum or lower. If two duergar fall in battle, the survivor tries to retreat
). ARUNDIL'S ANIMATED OBJECTS
A century ago, the dwarf mage Arundil animated a number of objects to defend the Foundry against intruders other than dwarves. Many of these creations remain in place today