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Volo's Guide to Monsters
One useful trick: if ye face bugbears who have severed heads on spikes as trophies, cast a spell to make the heads speak. After that, ye can cozen the bugbears into doing almost anything.
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wandering children unless they clearly have something to gain by doing so. From the viewpoint of the rest of the world, their aggression and savagery are thankfully offset by their rarity and lethargy
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
trophies of victory that orcs brandish and boast about when they return to the den. A loot sack might contain something of demonstrable worth or usefulness, something that’s edible (or used to be), or
something that was acquired at great risk. In any case, once the bragging is over, the loot is eaten, put to use, or otherwise disposed of. The Orc Trophies table provides a selection of items that might
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
glass pane through which a slight breeze passes, causing the curtain to move. When the characters look behind the curtain, read: A black cloth covers something atop a white marble pedestal. Beneath
the black cloth is the severed head of a randomly determined character — an illusion created by Strahd’s consciousness. In actuality, it’s an exquisite alabaster bust of a handsome, middle-aged human
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
powerful member of House Cannith hopes to find something in the Mournland that will guarantee the ascendancy of her branch of the house. 4 A Karrnathi bone knight (see chapter 6) wants to raise up an
undead army from the corpses in the Mournland. 5 A rakshasa works to free a fiendish overlord trapped in a whirlwind of stone and sand somewhere in the Mournland. 6 A servant of the Lords of Dust maintains an extensive collection of severed heads and continues to draw on the knowledge in their brains.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Uni and the Hunt for the Lost Horn
ability to drain Uni’s magic and temporarily detach her horn from her body. If the severed horn is brought within 5 feet of Uni, the horn is restored to her brow and Uni regains her magic.) Where Did
Kelek Go? “Kelek, some more bullywugs, and some wolf-things stepped through that strange portal over there. Kelek said something about using Uni’s horn as a focus in a ritual. We think he’s going to
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raid just as another group returns, laden with severed heads, sacks of loot, and armfuls of food. Warriors also serve as scouts, bringing back detailed reports about the surrounding area so that the
subsist on this sort of prey and booty for quite some time.
War Wagons
Orcs pillage and scavenge wherever they go — everything is loot, and loot is always something to be proud of. In order to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
displayed on severed hands, elegant canopic jars, and the like. Market Clientele The Corpse Market occasionally sees living visitors, though the characters are the only ones present now. If the characters
of warm blood, but perhaps you need something else? Something more ephemeral, like directions? Or knowledge? I’ve been in this city a long, long time.”
Sangora is a centuries-old vampire with sunken
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
chains binding the city to the infernal iron posts sinking into Avernus must be severed, and the city must be returned to the Material Plane. FORGING THE BLADE OF AVERNUS
At some point after the
. If you command the devil to do something it perceives as suicidal, the effect ends and you can no longer use this power of the sword against that devil.
Infernal Recall. As an action, you can use the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
carpeted with humanoid remains in varying stages of decomposition, arranged in a spiral pattern around the cave’s center. An off-key humming comes from a hunched figure working busily at something on
of his severed hands, and it scuttled away through one of the narrow tunnels. (Characters might encounter it in area 13.) Pelek points out that characters can recognize the hand because it was
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Uncertain Origins As with all stories of the ancient past, tales of the origins of the dragonborn are hazy and sometimes contradictory. Each reveals something about the dragonborn in its telling
god’s severed body. So are the dragonborn not, therefore, like the gods themselves? A third origin story posits that dragonborn were the firstborn of the world, created by Io before the existence of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
children unless they clearly have something to gain by doing so. From the viewpoint of the rest of the world, their aggression and savagery are thankfully offset by their rarity and lethargy. Shiftless
who have severed heads on spikes as trophies, cast a spell to make the heads speak. After that, ye can cozen the bugbears into doing almost anything.
— Elminster
Gang Mentality Since bugbears
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
—flapping, severed heads spawned from the Abyss—chasing their prey. Cranium rats scurry through the tunnels, telepathically relaying their findings to their hivemind. Alone, these spies are little more
through a barred grate to the busy street above. As they trim its barbed branches, something shudders within. 5 Three sahuagin emerge from a wide pipe. “Polluters!” shouts one of them, addressing the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
encountered only if the characters are moving about the castle (not resting); otherwise, treat this result as no encounter. You find a discarded toy—something no child could love. The toy has a slogan
. Crawling Claws A mob of severed hands, their mummified flesh black with soot, skitters out of the darkness across the dusty floor. The crawling claws gang up on one party member. During the confusion
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
a severed humanoid hand are placed in the brazier and set on fire (see area E4), a silver flame quickly consumes the brazier’s contents and continues to burn for a tenday. This fire generates heat
feather, and a humanoid hand.
The sarcophagus can’t be opened until a twig, a pinecone, a feather, and a severed humanoid hand are placed in the brazier in the gazebo (area E3) and set ablaze. The lid
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
fight is done, the characters hear noise from the kitchen. As the battle ends, you hear a muffled thumping sound, as if something is striking wood. The sound comes from the kitchen.
The characters
spectacularly long butcher’s knife surrounded by severed fingers. Other equally questionable meats are arranged nearby. A pot on the stove threatens to boil over, its lid rattling. You hear the thumping
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
, they see it’s stuck through the severed hand of a young woman. The characters have no way of knowing this, but the hand was once a crawling claw and was dispatched by a farmer. Sickly Crops. Wheat
the pantry’s floor opens to reveal a 10-foot-tall ladder descending into a darkened cold-storage cellar. The stench of something rotting rises from below. F7: Cellar and Tunnel Shelves bearing root
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
a redcap, Grubba, grab it and run off. Barnabas is too embarrassed to tell Mad Maggie about it, though she suspects something is amiss because Barnabas has starting whistling when he speaks. He
unless the characters have done something nice for her, although if the dreamscape ritual has not taken place yet, she won’t allow the redcaps to kill a character.
Madcap
Redcaps and Madcaps
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Tiny pumpkin-shaped cauldron carved out of bog oak 45 Bar of soap that smells like something memorable from your childhood 46 Piece of orange parchment folded to look like a knight astride a unicorn 47
Nunchaku sized for a pixie or sprite 74 Copper coin with a smiling satyr’s face on one side and a satyr’s skull on the other 75 Severed chicken’s foot attached to a leather cord 76 Collection of baby
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
stopped if the well is covered by something weighing more than 300 pounds. If the water is prevented from erupting, anything being lifted by the geyser plummets to the ground within 5 feet of the base
in the muck. When a bubble touches something edged, such as a twig or a blade of grass, it pops, releasing its gas with a sound of stifled laughter. The gas smells like old cheese. As the characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
between them. Tethyrian soldiers stationed at Fort Beluarian brought their chivalric panoply and pageantry with them, but they’ve combined it with a jungle aesthetic to create something unique. The usual
. For every severed ghoul head the characters bring her, she’ll pay them 20 gp. (She has enough money to cover the reward for up to eleven severed ghoul heads.)
Shilku Reconnaissance. Portyr asks the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
on a raid just as another group returns, laden with severed heads, sacks of loot, and armfuls of food. Warriors also serve as scouts, bringing back detailed reports about the surrounding area so that
can subsist on this sort of prey and booty for quite some time. War Wagons Orcs pillage and scavenge wherever they go — everything is loot, and loot is always something to be proud of. In order to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
, ascertain that something akin to a gelatinous cube has lodged itself in the well. The gelatinous cylinder lurks 10 feet down inside the well and is invisible in the water. It attacks any creature and
to trade for it. Once she has the portrait, her greed might focus on something else in Skabatha’s possession, at your discretion. If Bavlorna feels threatened, or if a fight turns against her, she
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
was later called that). She has no memory of how she got here, but she feels perpetually angry—and it feels like her anger is being fueled by something higher in this tower. She asks if the
with the Shadowfell is severed. Once Wakenreth is cut off from the Shadowfell, the supernatural darkness in area E4 fades, the torch sconces throughout the structure shed bright light, and the walls
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
these words, the goats wait to see if the characters offer them something in return, thereby honoring the rule of reciprocity (see “Rules of Conduct” in chapter 2). The goats are hungry but not picky
Moongrave separates Humanoids from their shadows using a pair of magic scissors. These severed shadows, indebted to the hag for granting them their freedom, have become a minor menace to travelers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
expendable minions present in case the grells beyond the rift get too curious. The goblins erroneously believe the mind flayers have left something of value here, so they’ve been ransacking this room
the end of its next turn.
The denizens of this room are dissecting another transformed nothic that Voalsh killed, more for something to do than any investigative purpose. All three are quick to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
party, a character makes the check with advantage. Z6: Lower Crew Quarters The bunks and hammocks here are empty, and the walls are covered with colorful pieces of wood, each with something written on
Malayuri. Inda uses the deva stat block, except she has a flying speed of 0 feet. Inda’s right leg and wing were severed in an attack years ago. She now uses prosthetics, but her prosthetic wing was






