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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Yuan-ti were originally humans who transformed themselves into serpent folk through ancient rituals. Most yuan-ti were corrupted into monsters by those rites, but some yuan-ti instead became a new
in a variety of ways: a forked tongue, snake eyes, a snakelike nose, or some other ophidian characteristic. However a yuan-ti looks, they have the power to pursue great good or evil in the multiverse
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Yuan-ti Yuan-ti were originally humans who transformed themselves into serpent folk through ancient rituals. Most yuan-ti were corrupted into monsters by those rites, but some yuan-ti instead became
heritage in a variety of ways: a forked tongue, snake eyes, a snakelike nose, or some other ophidian characteristic. However a yuan-ti looks, they have the power to pursue great good or evil in the multiverse.
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Eberron: Rising from the Last War
in a variety of ways. Kalashtar have symmetrical, slightly angular features, and their eyes often glow when they are focused or expressing strong emotions.
Kalashtar can’t directly communicate
.
Kalashtar Quirks
1d10
Quirk
1
You try to understand the motives and feelings of your enemies.
2
You prefer using telepathy over speaking aloud.
3
You feel a strong drive to
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her holy symbol as light pours from it to drive back the zombies crowding in on her companions.
Clerics are intermediaries between the mortal world and the distant planes of the gods. As varied as the
to those chosen to fulfill a high calling.
Harnessing divine magic doesn’t rely on study or training. A cleric might learn formulaic prayers and ancient rites, but the ability to cast cleric
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
, which often manifests as fangs or striking serpents.
Yuan-ti have humanlike forms with a variety of horrifying serpentine transformations. Some have a scattering of reptilian scales, while others
supernatural rites. Roll on or choose a result from the Yuan-ti Transformations table to inspire how yuan-ti obtain their serpentine aspects.
Yuan-ti Transformations 1d6 A Yuan-ti Gained Its Snake
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
neither does he particularly care, so long as the dead meet him with coin. The Athreos’s Villains table suggests a variety of foes that might arise from among the god’s followers. Athreos’s Villains d6
.
4 A group of cult fanatics charges exorbitant prices for funeral rites, threatening to lead the dead astray unless they’re shown proper respect.
5 A priest of Athreos speaks out against healers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Genres of Horror Horror stories span a wide variety of genres. One tale might explore the grotesque, warping flesh and bone into perversions of the living; another might be fantastical and
sections later in the chapter also detail each genre’s core principles, which drive how you develop the Darklord, the domain, and the adventures within. These genres aren’t mutually exclusive. Feel
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
affects them in a variety of ways. Kalashtar have symmetrical, slightly angular features, and their eyes often glow when they are focused or expressing strong emotions.
Kalashtar can’t directly
.
Kalashtar Quirks d10 Quirk 1 You try to understand the motives and feelings of your enemies. 2 You prefer using telepathy over speaking aloud. 3 You feel a strong drive to protect the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
Bound to Spirits Every kalashtar has a connection to a spirit of light, shared by other members of their bloodline. Kalashtar appear human, but the spiritual connection affects them in a variety of
1d10 Quirk
1 You try to understand the motives and feelings of your enemies.
2 You prefer using telepathy over speaking aloud.
3 You feel a drive to protect the innocent
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
patrons for artists or adventurers, or take it upon themselves to teach smaller folk. The Exiles table offers ideas for adventures featuring exiled giants in a variety of such roles. Many giants who wander
secret cult conducting sinister rites in a vast mansion where a giant lives in luxury. 3 A giant takes up residence in a city and demands a huge share of tax revenue in exchange for protecting the city
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
, depicted in a variety of ways in myths told across countless worlds of the Material Plane. These stories have been altered in the telling over the course of thousands of years. In some myths, he is
and Rites. Thanks to his prolonged absence from mortal giants’ affairs, Annam has few priests. On some worlds, he has no priests and his name is all but forgotten. On other worlds, a priest of Annam
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
and for blood. KARTAKAN CHARACTERS
Characters from Kartakass are quick to smile—and quicker to be suspicious of others’ smiling faces. The domain’s population is comprised of a variety of peoples
mentor?
What do you use your talents, work, or travels to hide? Does insecurity or doubt drive you to excel? Did someone best you in your field of mastery? Does a vice, curse, or rumor color your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Insulted satyr revelers (see chapter 6) channel Klothys’s magic to drive a polis’s priests into embarrassing debauchery.
5 An oracle (see chapter 6) knows it is a character’s destiny to serve
free one of those ancient terrors.
Klothys’s Monsters A variety of monstrous creatures might arise in an area as a result of Klothys’s influence, particularly those presented on the Klothys’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
table suggests a variety of foes that might arise from among the god’s followers. Nylea’s Villains d6 Villain
1 A Setessan hunt-leader (Setessan hoplite; see chapter 6) swears vengeance on a
uses magic on fields near the border of the forest, creating animated plants to drive off farmers.
5 A scout has taken to hunting and eating sapient beings. What could have caused this gruesome
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
) maintain that “dead dragons will rule the world entire.” The cult thus creates dracoliches as a step toward achieving that particular vision of a future paradise. Similar rites exist on other worlds
aging accelerates. This wasting can even drive an affected dragon to seek out undeath. The Undead Dragon Adventure Hooks table translates some of these ideas into inspiration for adventures revolving
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Spectator Magic-Bound Beholder-Kin Habitat: Underdark; Treasure: Any Jesper Ejsing Invoking mysterious rites involving four beholder eyestalks, a spellcaster can mold aberrant dreams into a beholder
its post. Should an intruder ignore its warnings, a spectator attempts to drive away the intruder with its magical eye rays. At the end of its service, a spectator might discorporate back into
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
territorial, they use camouflaged scouts to guard the perimeter of their domain. When unwelcome visitors are detected, a tribe sends a hunting band to harass or drive the trespassers off, or tricks them into
taste for humanoid flesh. Prisoners are often taken back to their camps to become the centerpieces of great feasts and rites involving dancing, storytelling, and ritual combat. Victims are either
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
attracts them to civilized areas.
Since otyughs lack concern for anything but food, their nests sometimes accumulate a variety of treasures shed from their victims and mixed among the junk.
Symbiotic
Guardians. Sentient subterranean beings can coexist with otyughs, employing them as garbage disposals. With such plentiful sustenance, otyughs grow fat in their wallows, unmoved by any other drive or
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skills of combat, mastering a variety of weapons and armor. Even so, their martial skills are secondary to the magical power they wield: power to heal the sick and injured, to smite the wicked and the
while you were at prayer? Did another paladin sense the potential within you and decide to train you as a squire? Or did some terrible event—the destruction of your home, perhaps—drive you to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
, fortified 15,000 gp 100 days Trading post 5,000 gp 60 days Carousing Characters can spend their downtime engaged in a variety of hedonistic activities such as attending parties, binge drinking
days equal to his or her current renown multiplied by 10, the character’s renown increases by 1. Performing Sacred Rites A pious character can spend time between adventures performing sacred rites in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
tasks might drive the campaign. Even after a specific franchise task has concluded, the DM can make notes for how that task might tie to future tasks. For the characters running the submersible
, training
Dungeon Master’s Guide (chapter 6): Building a stronghold, carousing, crafting a magic item, gaining renown, performing sacred rites, running a business, selling magic items, sowing rumors
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
traditions. Temples in Faerûn don’t have regular services as such. Group observances in a temple occur only at specific festival times, and priests also go out into the community to perform rites such as
, but they aren’t taken into custody or punished as long as they obey the laws of the city. Some places take this form of persecution a step further, for a variety of reasons. A tyrant might outlaw
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
home, while others feel called to a particular god for a variety of reasons. Individuals often carry or wear a small token of their favored deity: a pendant or a pin in the image of the god’s holy
concern directly competes with that of an established deity. The methods of resolving such conflicts range from friendly dueling festivals or rites meant to emphasize the glory of one god over another
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
steps.
1. Identify the Party’s Goals
The Dungeon Goals table provides common goals that drive or lure adventurers into dungeons. The Wilderness Goals table provides similar inspiration
completed. 5 The villain and two or three lieutenants perform separate rites in a large room. The adventurers must disrupt all the rites at the same time. 6 An ally betrays the adventurers as they’re about
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
their defenses and the security of their homes, no clan is immortal and no stronghold unassailable. Threats to a clan can come from the outside or the inside, and it’s often the latter variety that
dedication to its goals strains the bonds between elements that must work together for the clan to prosper. Feuds between artisans drive wedges between families. Dwarf traders strike deals that fail to benefit
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
use subterranean heat and riches to craft wonders, from titanic weapons of war to delicate works of art. Fire giants have broad frames, skin tones in a variety of rocklike shades, and hair like flame
fire and the half-remembered arcana of dead spellcasters. They rise from the remains of dead magic-users who were reanimated by sinister necromancers or whose magical pursuits drive them beyond death
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
character archetypes, competing factions that player characters can join, and abundant opportunities to develop and drive a campaign driven by the guilds’ schemes and interactions. This book, then, is
of the cards. Chapter 6 presents new monsters and NPCs, again reflecting the creatures seen on Magic cards as well as the nature of each guild. The guildmaster of each guild is detailed in this chapter, as are a variety of guild members.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
thus properly belongs to the Ordning, but others say he formed from Annam’s spilled blood. For a variety of reasons, he is never accorded equal status to the All-Father’s other children. Known as the
Snurre’s hall houses a temple where drow priests lead rites to the Elder Elemental Eye Another popular avenue for giants who turn from the gods of the Ordning derives from giants’ close ties to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Hills have become filled with marauders and monsters. While the Wegwiur battle Iuz’s forces in the Howling Hills, scouts and troops from Furyondy join forces with Highfolk’s defenders to drive out the
Vesve Forest’s evil inhabitants. Central Flanaess Culture The culture of the Central Flanaess is a result of the long imposition of the Great Kingdom’s rule over a variety of peoples living in close
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
now are full-fledged members of Vistani culture (see the “Vistani Characters” sidebar for details). As they travel, members of a Vistani band walk, ride on horseback, and drive ledge wagons, stopping
? Or do you know little about it, having left navigation to others?
How do you feel about being away from your people? Do you enjoy socializing with a variety of people? Did you seek a settled life
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
maintain the colony. Among the variety of humanoids available to the illithids, they have some preferences and tendencies. I wonder what a mind flayer’s brain tastes like.
— Volo
Volo, ye are the
fool of fools. Illithid brains are poisonous, and drive humans insane with a flood of memories at every bite. Er, ask me not how I know this.
— Elminster
Duergar Mind flayers have hated duergar
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
lid caked in crumbling candle wax and rotted offerings. Whatever rites were performed here were overseen by a larger-than-life statue in the alcove to the south, a sculpture depicting the upper body of
and tells his overprotective partner, Callisos, what has happened. Both of the lampads then return to try to drive the characters off. Eidolon. Varyas’s flitterstep eidolon (see chapter 6) dwells in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Dwarves of the Multiverse Like any race, dwarves display a wide array of skin tones, hair colors, and other physical traits. Adding to this diversity, they have a variety of cultural identities from
development, armies of gold dwarves returned to drive the drow from the region. At the site that would come to be known as the Great Rift, they shaped the underground canyons and passages to their needs, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
ward, moving constantly to evade Sigil’s enforcers. Heralds of Dust. The Heralds of Dust are Sigil’s undertakers. They conduct funerary rites for creatures from all places, ensuring their souls pass to
bloodstained amphitheater where spectators place bets and combatants test their mettle. The current heavyweight champion is a bloodthirsty cyclops named Akra. In addition to the typical variety of cheap
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
comprises mystics and sages who safeguard ancient knowledge and rites. These Druids meet within sacred circles of trees or standing stones to whisper primal secrets in Druidic. The circle’s wisest
Druid of this circle might prowl as a great cat one night, soar over the treetops as an eagle the next day, and then crash through undergrowth as a bear to drive off a trespassing monster. The wild is in