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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
", "rollAction":"Tightening Embrace", "rollDamageType":"psychic"} psychic damage.The Shadowfell turns visitors around until they become marooned in its twisted landscape. Lost sorrowsworn—often
inherent to the shadowy landscape and visit horror on those who stumble into their midst. Each sorrowsworn personifies a different aspect of despair or distress.Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing while in Dim Light or Darkness
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whenever they can. Their homes are well hidden by both clever construction and simple illusions. Welcome visitors are quickly ushered into the bright, warm burrows. Those who are not welcome are
unlikely to find the burrows in the first place.
Gnomes who settle in human lands are commonly gemcutters, engineers, sages, or tinkers. Some human families retain gnome tutors, ensuring that their pupils
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
. These souls become larvae and spend eternity in this place, which lacks a sun, a moon, stars, or seasons. Leaching away color and emotion, the gloom on this plane is more than most visitors can stand
of the deepest despair in the multiverse. Plane of Gloom At the end of each Long Rest taken on the plane, a visitor makes a DC 10 Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the creature gains 1
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
, this gloom is more than most visitors can stand. The “Shadowfell Despair” rule earlier in this chapter can be used to represent a visitor’s despair. Optional Rule: Vile Transformation At the end of each
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
homes are well hidden by both clever construction and simple illusions. Welcome visitors are quickly ushered into the bright, warm burrows. Those who are not welcome are unlikely to find the burrows
in the first place. Gnomes who settle in human lands are commonly gemcutters, engineers, sages, or tinkers. Some human families retain gnome tutors, ensuring that their pupils enjoy a mix of serious
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
homes are well hidden by both clever construction and simple illusions. Welcome visitors are quickly ushered into the bright, warm burrows. Those who are not welcome are unlikely to find the burrows
in the first place. Gnomes who settle in human lands are commonly gemcutters, engineers, sages, or tinkers. Some human families retain gnome tutors, ensuring that their pupils enjoy a mix of serious
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
immune to the despair that besets all other visitors to that plane. They travel in horse-drawn, barrel-shaped wagons and have no permanent home. The Vistani display their wealth openly as a sign of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
requires no ability checks. With some extra effort, visitors can gather a feast of gigantic proportions, but this magic has its risks: Boundless Bounty. With 2 hours of foraging for the choicest foods
repeat the save after finishing a long rest. Rampant Growth. Seeds, fruits, and cuttings of food-bearing plants from Grolantor’s Larder retain their magic for up to 7 days. If they are planted in that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
House in despair. The cult’s habit of trapping and devouring wayward visitors proved to be its downfall. On one occasion, the cult snared a band of adventurers whom Strahd had lured to his domain to be
house and the nightly debaucheries happening within it. The cult tried to summon malevolent extraplanar entities with no success. The cultists also preyed on visitors, sacrificed them in bizarre rituals
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
confirm that this part of the dungeon resides in the Shadowfell. All color has been drained from this hall, which greets visitors with the stench of death (see “Into the Shadowfell”). The hall’s other
appears, floating 10 feet in front of the double door to the south. It recites the following verse in Common before disappearing: Welcome to Umbraxakar’s lair. A dragon held in the grip of despair
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
decline the guide, they can purchase a map of the city (use the poster map) for 10 gp in any shop that caters to visitors. However, without a guide, the characters might be unfamiliar with some, if not all
adventure surrounds the characters’ identities and the nature of their deaths. While the characters retain vague, surface-level details about themselves, they’re likely to seek more information in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
bidding, masking their intentions behind layers of deception. They lure victims to them by mimicking voices calling out for help, or drive unwanted visitors away by imitating the cries of fierce beasts
. Obsession with Tragedy. Green hags revel in the failings and tragedies of other creatures. They derive joy from bringing people low and seeing hope turn into despair, not just for individuals but also
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
characters try to leave, the ghost-children attempt to possess them. If one of the ghosts possesses a character, allow the player to retain control of the character, but assign the character one of the
flaw: “I’m scared of everything, including my own shadow, and weep with despair when things don’t go my way.” A character possessed by the ghost of Rose or Thorn won’t willingly leave Death House or the
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
common. The best taverns in the Styes would be considered dives in most cities — and its inns are no better. Visitors are advised to bring their own bedding to avoid bugs, and to move the bed in front
clergy are eventually overwhelmed by the region’s emotionally fatiguing problems. Disease, famine, cruelty, and brutality weigh so heavily on the Styes that well-meaning clerics are driven to despair
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
, a ghost, greets all visitors in the lobby (area P1). Dressed in a suit, his hair unkempt, he floats in plain sight most of the time, waving his hands about in gestures of greeting and salutation
faith. Her betrayal eats away at the jealous count. He murders his brother on his wedding day and pursues the bride, who hurls herself off the castle battlements in despair. The count is cursed by the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Strahd’s domain, the village of Barovia is by far the most oppressed. Many of its shops are closed, and the locals have succumbed to despair. It is well known that Strahd desires the burgomaster’s
other visitors. Some will become undead thralls. Others will never rise again. The adventurers’ best hope of defeating Strahd is to learn his secrets, for he is no ordinary vampire. Guided by Madam
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Villains 1d10 The Villain Is … 1 A reclusive noble who uses their vampiric reputation to terrorize their vassals. 2 A vain socialite who made a bargain with a fell power to retain their youth. 3 A
. Gothic Horror Settings 1d10 The Adventure Takes Place In … 1 A lavish garden that siphons life from visitors to maintain its beauty. 2 A ruined cathedral devoted to transforming a prophesied being
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
stone rivals that of the greatest dwarf artisans, yet their structures retain a decidedly elven aesthetic. Though appearing delicate, drow settlements are structurally sound and remarkably resilient
plagues all elvenkind.”
— Nelar Autumnwell,
elf cleric of Corellon Larethian
A drow city is a sprawling metropolis enclosed by high walls. Non-drow visitors must conduct their business outside
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
affects visitors (see “Curses and Magical Contagions” in chapter 3). Layers of the Abyss The layers of the Abyss are numbered based on the sequence of their discovery and cataloging by explorers from
endless labyrinth turns visitors into Baphomet’s prey. Layer 1: The Plain of Infinite Portals This layer is the miserable gateway to the infinite layers of the Abyss. Under a glaring red sun, the rocky
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
a criminal past that comes to light when officials or bounty hunters visit your Bastion with a warrant for the hireling’s arrest. You can retain the hireling by paying a bribe of 1d6 × 100 GP
opportunity, you don’t pay the money and nothing else happens. Friendly Visitors Friendly visitors come to your Bastion, seeking to use one of your special facilities. They offer 1d6 × 100 GP for the brief
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
commoner), calls himself “a wizard of tiny wonders,” but he has been consumed by despair lately because no one seems to like him or want his toys. His fascination for eerie playthings causes most other
who wears a moth-eaten jester’s cap during store hours, more out of habit than to humor visitors. In the past six months, the only paying customer who has set foot in the store is a visitor from a
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
brood mates and a couple of interesting new creations or discoveries. They retain their gnomish curiosity and love of tinkering, now blended with the illithids’ drive for control and experimentation
. They are delighted to meet visitors who are willing to help them acquire a psi crystal or, failing that, help them and the gnome squidlings infiltrate Ten-Towns. In exchange, the gnome ceremorphs are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
plane’s mutability, but it can be terribly disorienting to visitors. The Feywild exists in parallel to the Material Plane as an alternate dimension that occupies the same cosmological space. When
worlds, Zybilna is regarded as a fairy godmother of sorts, granting wishes for the lost, the forsaken, or the betrayed. Sometimes her wishes bring happiness, other times despair. (Prismeer is detailed in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
beacons.” The simple goal of lighting the beacons has been repeatedly thwarted by the perytons, who revel in Alagarthas’s despair. Each time he lights a beacon, the perytons snuff it out, yet
transformation deprived them of speech, yet they retain their theatrical behavior. Appendix D has additional roleplaying notes for Alagarthas. Performing Perytons As Alagarthas related, the perytons
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
and despair until he one day conquers all pantheons. Goblinoids harbor a special hatred for clerics of enemy deities, focusing on them in battle and desecrating their temples whenever they have the
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
and visit horror on those who stumble into their midst. Each sorrowsworn personifies a different aspect of despair or distress. Angry Sorrowsworn Relying on violence to sustain their existence, angry
much damage on a successful one. In either case, the sorrowsworn pulls each of those creatures up to 30 feet straight toward it.
Lost Sorrowsworn The Shadowfell turns visitors around until they become
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
visitors who have interesting items to swap. Life of Leisure. Halflings rarely consider leaving the security of their villages, because they already have all the comforts they could want — food
that the minds of these halflings eventually become twisted, and they turn into cruel, paranoid creatures wracked by misery and despair.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
. Although both deities are ultimately beholden to Maglubiyet, the greater god allows them to retain a measure of their influence over the hobgoblins because their philosophies are in line with his own
where they can hide their numbers and keep their presence secret. Such an arrangement isn’t desirable, because space is usually at a premium. Permanent Visitors. If a hobgoblin legion is looking for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
mortal soul dies, it is drawn to Dolurrh, a place defined by despair and apathy. Over time, memories are leached out of these trapped spirits until only husks remain. Although this seems a bleak fate
ceaselessly howl over floes of thick, blue ice, and frost giants carve great fortresses from glaciated mountains. Unprotected visitors perish quickly, but those who adapt to the cold or protect themselves
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
flattery festered with poisonous vanity in Zalkoré’s mind until she bargained with an erinyes to retain her youth and beauty forever. The erinyes fulfilled the deal by transforming the queen into a medusa
. Colorful parrots and canaries flock to the garden’s great variety of plants, some of which are hostile toward visitors. Finally, brave Chultans sometimes seek out Zalkoré as a sort of jungle mystic
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
dwell in the High Moor and demand tribute several times a year. Secomber has no defense against the Urshani. Its residents give the hobgoblins food, homemade ale, and ore to retain their freedom. The
. Silverymoon is an enlightened place, with a great library, breathtaking temples and shrines, and respected schools of magic, art, and music. Its beauty awes visitors and is the subject of many bardic songs