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Lorwyn: First Light
mountains. They sometimes lend their brawn to smaller species who have something interesting to offer in return.
Giants
The giants of the realm of Lorwyn-Shadowmoor are wise, ancient beings wandering
disinterested in the squabbles of boggarts, kithkin, elves, and others. At worst, giants might be wrathful toward smaller folk, seeing them as invasive pests to be squashed.
When a giant in the realm of
Monsters
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
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At will: detect thoughts, minor illusion
1/day each: arcane gate, hunger of HadarAberrant zealots are cultists who have reached out to the powers of the Far Realm—only for something to reach
Aberrant Form. The zealot exudes the chaos of the Far Realm. Any non-Aberration creature that starts its turn within 5 feet of the zealot must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or take 7 (2d6
Species
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
Since not all tieflings are of the blood of Asmodeus, some have traits that differ from those in the Player’s Handbook. The Dungeon Master may permit the following variants for your
, choose 1d4 + 1 of the following features: small horns; fangs or sharp teeth; a forked tongue; catlike eyes; six fingers on each hand; goat-like legs; cloven hoofs; a forked tail; leathery or scaly skin; red or dark blue skin; cast no shadow or reflection; exude a smell of brimstone.
Species
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
Since not all tieflings are of the blood of Asmodeus, some have traits that differ from those in the Player’s Handbook. The Dungeon Master may permit the following variants for your tiefling
; cloven hoofs; a forked tail; leathery or scaly skin; red or dark blue skin; cast no shadow or reflection; exude a smell of brimstone.
classes
Control the Flow of Space and Planar Magic
Gods of the Astral Plane are as lost to time and space as the realm they reign over. The Astral Plane fills the gaps between the planes of existence and is
an important balancing force in the cosmic ecosystem of the multiverse. Practitioners of this domain see the absence of anything as something and consider the Astral Plane as the ultimate destination
feats
Dark Gift Feat (Prerequisite: Ravenloft Campaign)
Exposure to alien horrors like those of the Far Realm has warped your physical form in supernatural ways. You gain the following features
Monsters
Acquisitions Incorporated
largely indifferent elder entity from beyond reality. Tapped into this dark power, the “C” Team's hoardsperson sees all existence as a puzzle to unlock, and he is obsessed by the essential lack of meaning
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Tentacles play a big part in K'thriss's spellcasting, whether wrenching him through the sky when he uses magic to fly, or manifesting in dark, suckered form when he casts spells such as thorn whip. And
classes
Player’s Handbook
Unearth Forbidden Lore of Ineffable Beings
When you choose this subclass, you might bind yourself to an unspeakable being from the Far Realm or an elder god—a being such as Tharizdun, the
Chained God; Zargon, the Returner; Hadar, the Dark Hunger; or Great Cthulhu. Or you might invoke several entities without yoking yourself to one. The motives of these beings are incomprehensible, and the
Monsters
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
: arcane gate, hunger of HadarAberrant zealots are cultists who have reached out to the powers of the Far Realm—only for something to reach back. Steeped in strange energy, aberrant zealots
Aberrant Form. The zealot exudes the chaos of the Far Realm. Any non-Aberration creature that starts its turn within 5 feet of the zealot must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or take 7 (2d6
Monsters
Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
"} piercing damage.Deep within the Ethereal Plane are the demiplanes, miniatures worlds built by powerful archmages and other mighty entities to serve as a private domain. Each demiplane is a designed realm
, built for a specific purpose. Some are fortresses, designed to keep wanderers from the material world away. Others are far more sinister, dark realms where evil dreams take root and become ghastly
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
success.Disgorged from the Far Realm, Gaj are hideous hunters that prey on other life forms. They crawl on six insectile legs and attack with their mandibles. They ambush prey by burying themselves under sand or
silt and lying in wait, lurking in dark caves, or perching on natural stone ledges, where they blend in with their surroundings. Gaj have no language, but they have the magical ability to understand the
Monsters
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
the attacker, it then makes one Slam attack against that attacker.An encephalon cluster pays no heed to an elder brain or its mind flayer progenitors. This grotesque creature shambles through dark
become a gorging menace that can overrun an entire mind flayer colony.
Encephalons
When an illithid colony lays its eggs dangerously close to a Far Realm rift, an egg sac has a chance to mutate into
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
quori's Possession for 24 hours after succeeding on the saving throw or after the possession ends.Quori
Dal Quor is the plane of dreams and is currently dominated by a dark power known as il-Lashtavar
, or the Dreaming Dark. Il-Lashtavar is served by a host of aberrations that are the embodiments of dreams and nightmares — the quori. Because it is difficult for anything to physically travel to or
Monsters
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
brain casts one of the following spells, requiring no spell components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 17):
At will: detect thoughts, levitateThe Far Realm has tainted
and establishes a psychic link with the target. Until the link ends, the elder brain can perceive everything the target senses. The target becomes aware that something is linked to its mind once it
classes
Xanathar's Guide to Everything
find yourself driven to annihilate the undead, to defeat fiends, and to protect the innocent. At times, your heart might also be filled with a longing for the celestial realm of your patron, and a
desire to wander that paradise for the rest of your days. But you know that your mission is among mortals for now, and that your pact binds you to bring light to the dark places of the world.
Celestial
backgrounds
Ability Scores: Intelligence, Wisdom, Charisma
Feat: Sharp Eye or a Dark Gift feat of your choice (see “Feats”)
Skill Proficiencies: Insight and Investigation
Tool Proficiencies
: Disguise Kit
Equipment: Choose A or B: (A) Disguise Kit, Manacles, Shovel, Traveler's Clothes, 3 Vial;Vials, and 16 GP; or (B) 50 GP
You relentlessly seek the truth. Perhaps you witnessed something
Reborn
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Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
sensations or visions of the past to come rushing back.
Rather than sleeping, reborn regularly sit and dwell on the past, hoping for some revelation of what came before. Most of the time, these are dark
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A memory brings with it the voice of someone once close to you. How do they advise you?
5
You recall enjoying something that you can’t stand doing now. What is it? Why don’t
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
encounter.
Variant: Servants of Living Stars
Some stars in the sky are Elder Evils, alien beings of godlike power from the reality-defying Far Realm.
A living portent can be a fragment of these beings
Whisperer. A purple star whose guidance and minions seem to help for a time but whose influence inevitably leads to disaster.
Hadar, the Dark Hunger. A cinder-red dying star that siphons life from its
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Curse of Strahd: Character Options
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Your family has a history of practicing the dark arts. You dabbled once and felt something horrible clutch at your soul, whereupon you fled in terror.
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An oni took your sibling one
You are haunted by something so terrible that you dare not speak of it. You’ve tried to bury it and run away from it, to no avail. Whatever this thing is that haunts you can’t be slain
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
accelerated their passage through life. No quickling lives longer than 15 years.
The mortal realm is a ponderous place to a quickling’s eye: a hurricane creeps gradually across the sky, a torrent of
constantly paces and shifts in place, as though it can’t wait to be off again.
Quicklings have a capricious nature and are always up to something. A quickling spends most of its time perpetrating
feats
Dark Gift Feat (Prerequisite: Ravenloft Campaign)
Something unnatural is always watching you, taking the form of scurrying vermin and other eerie creatures. You gain the following features
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obeyed by the living and the dead. When he first appeared before his people, he adopted an illusion of the form he possessed in life: that of a middle-aged human man with dark hair and a superior
freedom, and his metaphysical violations inevitably reverted to the Dark Powers’ original designs. Nevertheless, Azalin refused to stay a prisoner. His most recent plot culminated in the Hour
Magic Items
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
a force of destruction, or forge something remarkable somewhere the god isn’t welcome.
Hammer of the Forge. This magic warhammer grants a +3 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with it. When
the next dusk.
Destroying the Hammer. To destroy the hammer, it must be taken to the realm of Tizerus, in the Underworld. There it must be coated in clay from the Mire of Punishment. The heat of the
Human
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Basic Rules (2014)
shorter lives that they strive to achieve as much as they can in the years they are given. Or maybe they feel they have something to prove to the elder races, and that’s why they build their mighty
head on the ceiling—good food and good stories in front of a nice, warm fire. If halflings had a shred of ambition, they might really amount to something.”
Lasting Institutions
Where a
Criminal / Spy
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Basic Rules (2014)
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Skill Proficiencies: Deception, Stealth
Tool Proficiencies: One type of gaming set, thieves’ tools
Equipment: A crowbar, a set of dark common clothes including a hood, and a pouch
who seem the fairest often have the most to hide.
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I don’t pay attention to the risks in a situation. Never tell me the odds.
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The best way to get me to do something is to tell me
Monsters
Candlekeep Mysteries
as the immortal heir of Savras’s realm. The Canopic Being came into her possession years ago, and an obsession with the dark rituals therein set the oracle on her present course.
Valin has
the spell, and the spell has no effect and is wasted.
Regional Effects
Valin’s tomb is warped in any of the following ways by the creature’s dark presence:
Food instantly molders
Monsters
Vecna: Eve of Ruin
. He had become a vampire, and Barovia became a Domain of Dread.
Now the Dark Powers keep Strahd trapped in his realm, tormenting him with his inability to escape for all eternity. He spends his days
Zarovich was a prince, a soldier, and a conqueror. His thirst for power never sated, Strahd made a pact with the Dark Powers to become immortal. Meanwhile, Strahd’s evil deepened, until in a jealous
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
an extended, muscular neck; a smiling face framed by long, pointed ears and lank, dark hair; and bat-like wings are furled against his powerful shoulders. He can assume other forms, however, from the
lair lies within the abyssal realm of Hollow’s Heart, a plain of white dust with few structures on it. The lair itself is the city of Zoragmelok, a circular fortress surrounded by adamantine walls
Kalashtar
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Eberron: Rising from the Last War
for any noble cause.
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You are obsessed with Dreaming Dark conspiracies.
Hunted by Nightmares
The virtuous spirits tied to the kalashtar fled from the dream-realm of Dal Quor to escape
kalashtar communities focus on acts of devotion known as the Path of Light. But the dark powers of Dal Quor have their own plans for Eberron. Through the force known as the Dreaming Dark, these monsters
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the entire multiverse. For untold ages, the Dark Powers have bound this harbinger of doom. Unlike the other prisoners of the Domains of Dread, Cthulhu isn’t plagued by ironic torments or
. While the borders are closed, those who enter the Mists surrounding Innsmouth become lost at sea amid inky fog for 3d4 days before arriving once more at Innsmouth.
Something in the Air. Creatures other
Magic Items
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
trapped within it, as does expending all of the coin’s charges. The coin itself rusts from within and is destroyed once the soul is released. A freed soul travels to the realm of the god it
. These coins are then distributed throughout the Nine Hells to be used for goods and services, infernal deals, dark bargains, and bribes.
Axe of the Dwarvish Lords
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Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Seeing the peril his people faced, a young dwarf prince came to believe that his people needed something to unite them. Thus, he set out to forge a weapon that would be such a symbol.
Venturing deep
as the First King. When he became old, he passed the weapon, which had become his badge of office, to his heir. The rightful inheritors passed the axe on for many generations.
Later, in a dark era
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
Characteristics
Members of demonic cults aren’t generally known as the kindest or most mentally stable individuals, so you’re likely to have something in your nature that distinguishes you from the
I’m secretly hoping that I can change the cult from the inside, using my influence to help rein in the wanton violence.
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I own something that Rakdos once touched (it’s seared
Deep Dragon Wyrmling
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
nightmarish cousins of chromatic dragons. The warped magical energy of their subterranean realm gives them the ability to exhale magical spores that instill fear and scar the mind.
Deep dragons&rsquo
servants of my power. (Evil)
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Patience. All creatures might teach me something, and I’m willing to wait and find out what that might be rather than acting in haste. (Good)
Deep
Young Deep Dragon
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
in the depths of the Underdark, deep dragons are nightmarish cousins of chromatic dragons. The warped magical energy of their subterranean realm gives them the ability to exhale magical spores that
creatures cannot be trusted, so I constantly remind my servants of my power. (Evil)
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Patience. All creatures might teach me something, and I’m willing to wait and find out what that might be