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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Amphibious. The grung can breathe air and water.
Poisonous Skin. Any creature that grapples the grung or otherwise comes into direct contact with the grung’s skin must succeed on a DC 12
Constitution saving throw or become poisoned for 1 minute. A poisoned creature no longer in direct contact with the grung can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Amphibious. The grung can breathe air and water.
Poisonous Skin. Any creature that grapples the grung or otherwise comes into direct contact with the grung’s skin must succeed on a DC 12
Constitution saving throw or become poisoned for 1 minute. A poisoned creature no longer in direct contact with the grung can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Amphibious. The grung can breathe air and water.
Poisonous Skin. Any creature that grapples the grung or otherwise comes into direct contact with the grung’s skin must succeed on a DC 12
Constitution saving throw or become poisoned for 1 minute. A poisoned creature no longer in direct contact with the grung can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
’s time to lay eggs and hatch a new brood of young.
These scorpion folk deposit their eggs in warm places out of direct sunlight, often amid a stand of cacti near their present encampment. The
alive. After using their stingers to paralyze victims and their spiked chains to bind them, tlincallis take these captives back to their encampment and tie them to cacti or rock formations. When the
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
easily pick out the dens of criminal activity in a community, although you’re more likely to be welcome in the former locations rather than the latter.
Variant: Investigator
Rarer
hell hound without flinching.
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I enjoy being strong and like breaking things.
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I have a crude sense of humor.
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I face problems head-on. A simple, direct solution is the best path to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
dragonborn race in the Player’s Handbook is the most direct way to reflect a character with dragons somewhere far back in their ancestry. But for players who want to try a more nuanced approach, this
section offers three variant dragonborn race options that can be used to create a character with clear connections to a specific draconic ancestry. When you’re making a new character using one of these races, use the rules under “Creating Your Character” to fill out the details.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
4. Loathsome Limbs Rock Formations. Stalactites and stalagmites fill this area.
Warty Limbs. Six severed troll limbs (five arms and one leg) and a decapitated troll head lie in pools of dark
, the limbs twitch as they come to life and attack, as described in the “Variant: Loathsome Limbs” sidebar in the “Troll” entry in the Monster Manual. Any character who succeeds on a DC 10 Wisdom
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
14. Auvryndar Watch Post Ceiling. The ceiling and floor in this area are uneven, the distance between them ranging from 20 to 40 feet. Three natural columns of rock support the roof.
Scouts. Two
, reins, and stirrups, and have the Spider Climb trait (see the “Variant: Giant Lizard Traits” sidebar in appendix A of the Monster Manual). The drow take the lizards up the walls so they can get a
Yuan-ti Pureblood
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
yuan-ti know they can’t resort to direct attacks in order to reclaim their rightful place in the world. Operating out of the subterranean ruins of their buildings in foreign lands, yuan-ti
can more easily pronounce the name in this altered form. An adopted name of this sort is recognized as a variant of the birth name, rather than a unique name unto itself. A yuan-ti might refer to
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
experience a thing is to truly understand it. Direct and personal experience is the most valuable form of knowledge.
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I see a far more kaleidoscopic reality than you do … or than any of
, one in the rock face just above one tarn and one below the surface of the other tarn. The dragon uses the underwater passage as a secret entrance and emergency exit.
Main Caves. The lair is a complex
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
;green hags in a Green Hag (Coven Variant);coven
When you damage a target that hasn’t taken a turn in this combat, the target takes an extra 3d10 slashing damage from ghostly blades.
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dawn. You gain the following flaw: “When I see wickedness in action, I must oppose it.”
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Beyond the Rock of Bral (silver mind flayer tooth)
2 mind flayer;mind flayers
You gain
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
Contraband One of the cult wagons overturns on a difficult corner or when a wheel breaks on a rock. Of the crates that tumble free, one smashes open, revealing dozens of beautiful items of jewelry
members are angry that people saw the contents of their spilled cargo. Their instructions, direct from Wyrmspeaker Rezmir, were to keep the material secure and secret. Witnesses who show much interest
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
Contraband One of the cult wagons overturns on a difficult corner or when a wheel breaks on a rock. Of the crates that tumble free, one smashes open, revealing dozens of beautiful items of jewelry
members are angry that people saw the contents of their spilled cargo. Their instructions, direct from Wyrmspeaker Rezmir, were to keep the material secure and secret. Witnesses who show much interest
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Gnome Engineers Rock gnome engineers maintain and operate the Scarlet Marpenoth. These gnomes are apprentice wizards (see appendix B), with these changes: The gnomes are neutral good. They are Small
successful DC 15 Charisma (Intimidation) check or a bribe of 100 gp or more can convince a gnome to surrender its master keys, tamper with the engine, or pilot the submarine as the characters direct.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
can direct the characters to the nearby wildernesses where these groups dwell. Heart Delta Heart Delta lies a few miles away from Camp Greenbriar. When the characters visit there, read or paraphrase
, while herds of bison, gazelle, and goats wander the surrounding plains. In the distance, rock formations encircle a broad crater.
The crater at the center of Heart Delta is called the Hollow. Here
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
foundations of creation.
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To experience a thing is to truly understand it. Direct and personal experience is the most valuable form of knowledge.
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I see a far more kaleidoscopic reality than
flowing down toward the lowlands. The lair has the following features:
Entrances. Two cave entrances provide access to the lair, one in the rock face just above one tarn and one below the surface of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
effect based on the grung’s color (see “Variant: Grung Poison”). They also use this venom to poison their weapons. Variant: Grung Poison A creature poisoned by a grung can suffer an additional effect
Challenge 1/4 (50 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2
Amphibious. The grung can breathe air and water.
Poisonous Skin. Any creature that grapples the grung or otherwise comes into direct contact with the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Variant: Customizing Ability Scores At your Dungeon Master’s option, you can use this variant for determining your ability scores. The method described here allows you to build a character with a set
(+2)
Stout halfling (+1)
Rock gnome (+1)
Half-orc (+1)
Human (+1)
Intelligence Measures: Mental acuity, information recall, analytical skill
Important for: Wizard
Racial Increases:
High
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
Running the Encounter Use the following guidance for running and resolving the encounter between the characters’ hammerhead and the githyanki ship. The Battle Begins Using the side initiative variant
nearest creatures. Roll a d20 for the shadows’ initiative, again with no modifier. Alternative Scenarios Some characters might want to resort to options other than direct ship-to-ship combat when the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Underdark are rarely direct, and the characters must follow available passages and their various twists and turns, climbs and descents. Creatures that can burrow through solid rock (such as purple worms
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
dealing damage.
The ooze can eat through 2-inch-thick, nonmagical metal in 1 round.
False Appearance. While the ooze remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from an oily pool or wet rock
is partly corroded and takes a permanent and cumulative −1 penalty to the AC it offers. The armor is destroyed if the penalty reduces its AC to 10.
VARIANT: PSYCHIC GRAY OOZE
A gray ooze that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
final hit points: 10 + his Constitution modifier of +3, for a total of 13 hit points.
Variant: Customizing Ability Scores At your Dungeon Master’s option, you can use this variant for determining
)
Constitution
Important for: Everyone
Racial Increases: Dwarf (+2), Stout halfling (+1), Rock gnome (+1), Half-orc (+1), Human (+1)"}">Measures
Health, stamina, vital force
Important for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
. There, a new modron is created by Primus, with a steady stream of monodrones leaving the Great Modron Cathedral on Mechanus as a result. VARIANT: ROGUE MODRONS
A modron unit sometimes becomes
reconnaissance mission. The march is long and dangerous, and only a small number of modrons returns to Mechanus. “Every 289 years, the entire multiverse goes mad. Like clockwork.”
— Kwint Stormbellow, rock gnome adventurer
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
to the temple by rumors of its bound balor, Pentival and his party were quickly captured. All his friends have succumbed to the magic of the temple and been transformed into black rock, but Pentival
ceremony is underway must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or fall under an effect equivalent to a mass suggestion spell. While a character is under this effect, Phenex can direct them to sit and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
harmless to them but poisonous to other creatures. A grung also uses venom to poison its weapons. VARIANT: GRUNG POISON
Grung poison loses its potency 1 minute after being removed from a grung. A
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Amphibious. The grung can breathe air and water.
Poisonous Skin. Any creature that grapples the grung or otherwise comes into direct contact with the grung’s skin must succeed on a DC 12 Constitution
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
. Schnella refused to leave and died fending off Tockworth’s clockwork defenders. Her restless soul lurks in this building, manifesting as a troublesome specter known as a poltergeist (see the “Variant
anyone who touches or otherwise disturbs them. The mimics are working with a psychic gray ooze (see the “Variant: Psychic Gray Ooze” sidebar in the “Oozes” entry of the Monster Manual)—the “puddle of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
flumph offers to accompany them indefinitely. It will not willingly leave the Underdark, however. Gray Ooze There’s a 50 percent chance that this ooze has psionic abilities (use the psychic variant of
. Each grimlock has sprouted a screaming second head, which has no effect on its statistics. Xorn This creature has been working its way through the rock of the Whorlstone Tunnels, consuming vast amounts
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
expectation. The script is here, but you will direct the whole, rewrite parts, and sit in final judgment on characters’ actions. If you have already taken your players through the first two adventures, be
volcano can be seen, and far to the south a glowing river of molten lava moves sluggishly down a slope and out of sight. The air is hot and smells of heated rock and metal. The ground is covered with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
makes two greatclub attacks.
Greatclub. Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 18 (3d8 + 5) bludgeoning damage.
Rock. Ranged Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, range 60/240 ft., one
.
Direct and Deadly. Hill giants’ ability to digest nearly anything has allowed them to survive for eons without needing to adapt and change.
With no culture of their own, hill giants ape the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
of direct sunlight, often amid a stand of cacti near their present encampment. The eggs are protected by hard shells coated in paralytic poison similar to that produced by their stingers. This poison
captives back to their encampment and tie them to cacti or rock formations. When the sun sets, the newly hatched young emerge from the lair to eat the captives alive. These predators see themselves as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
. Tlincallis deposit their eggs in warm places out of direct sunlight, often amid a stand of cacti near their present encampment. There the eggs lie protected by hard shells coated in paralytic poison
prisoners back to their encampment and tie them to cactus or rock formations. There, victims wait until the sun sets and the newly hatched young emerge from the lair to eat them alive. Prideful Hunters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
Well Cracked horn Kayalithica Flint Rock Mithral spear tip Sansuri Grandfather Tree Electrum nose-ring Guh Great Worm Cavern Broken shield Storvald Morgur’s Mound Gold-plated tooth Zalto One Stone Magic
boulder Kayalithica Raven Rock Magma ring
Bone greatclub
Zalto
Guh
Shining White Porcelain mask Sansuri Stone Stand Frost giant skull Storvald Harshnag’s Map Harshnag knows the names and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
molydeus. Voice of the Master. A demon lord has a direct link to its molydeus and uses the serpent head to communicate its wishes. A molydeus is, therefore, said to utter its master’s will
lord to which it belongs into doing its bidding, or can strand it in the Abyss if the amulet is destroyed. VARIANT: DEMON SUMMONING
You can give a molydeus the ability to summon other demons
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
hulk Drider This creature clings to the ceiling and prefers to make ranged attacks against the party. There is a 25 percent chance that the drider can cast spells (use the spellcasting variant in
, the tunnel branches after 1d6 miles. 5–6 The purple worm is burrowing through the solid rock on a path that intersects with the party’s tunnel. The worm erupts from the tunnel wall behind the party
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
proficiencies, particularly if the dragon spends time in Humanoid form. Spells. The Monster Manual’s variant rule about making dragons innate spellcasters is an easy way to add variety to dragons
druid spells feels different from one who casts warlock spells. You can also give a dragon spells of a higher level than the variant rule allows, but such a tweak might increase the dragon’s