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of a body. Borcan society widely regards this recluse as an innovator and a genius. In truth, he is neither. Ivan is a wicked and off-putting manipulator who, despite his appearance and intellect
that he’s seen before, the letter appears near that creature at the next dawn. The letter appears in an unobserved but obvious space, such as a bedside table or among gear.
Spies. While in
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"} Poison damage. A Humanoid reduced to 0 Hit Points by this damage rises 24 hours later as a Vine Blight under Ivana’s control unless the Humanoid is restored to life or its body is destroyed
its mind, understanding the meaning of the message.
Spies. While in Borca, Ivana can cast Clairvoyance, requiring no Material components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability. To cast the
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serve as spies or assassins at the command of their leader, a noble patron, or some other mortal or divine power.
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Purity of Body
Hobgoblin
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
Hobgoblins are relentless soldiers that cleave to rigid tactics and orders. I fear their less-predictable scouts and spies more.
— Volo
War is the lifeblood of hobgoblins. Its glories are
they displease Maglubiyet, but the few priests among them do tend small shrines and interpret the body of legends about their gods. Nomog-Geaya’s priests always wield his favored weapons, a
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Mythic Odysseys of Theros
addition, Arasta’s children immediately swarm over her body to protect her, granting her 100 temporary hit points.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Arasta fails a saving throw, she can choose to
those who enter her domain unbidden almost never go unnoticed, for Arasta can sense the slightest vibration along her web hair, and her children act as spies on her behalf.
Lair Actions
On initiative
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
with a beholder that has moved into the dragon’s domain.
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Xorn serve as lookouts and spies for an adult amethyst dragon who rewards them with gems.
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To repay a favor long owed to a
miles of the lair is a conduit for the dragon’s psionic presence. As an action, the dragon can cast the clairvoyance spell, requiring no spell components and targeting any body of water in that
Yuan-ti Pureblood
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with that of snakes, producing a caste-based society of hybrids in which the most snakelike are the leaders and the most humanlike are spies and agents in foreign lands.
Humans Transformed
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body, thought, and emotion. Freed from the limitations of their human bodies, the yuan-ti used their new abilities to conquer new lands and expand their borders.
One Race, Many Forms
The bodies of all
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Across the Fungal Fields Once the characters receive Basidia’s spores and overcome Juiblex’s black pudding spies, they should set out at once for the depths of Araumycos as the rapport takes hold
, whereupon each bursts into a cloud of sweet-smelling spores as its body dissolves back into the larger mass of fungi filling the cavern. Read the following to the players when the final creature is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
. Others warn that it represents a huge army of potential enemies for those who aren’t careful — and everyone agrees that its busy streets are full of spies. Waterdhavian noble families and guilds hold
identities are largely unknown. The public face of this ruling body is the Open Lord of Waterdeep. The current Open Lord, Laeral Silverhand, has held the position for only a few months, and many of the city’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
near that creature at the next dawn. The letter appears in an unobserved but obvious space, such as a bedside table or among gear. Spies. While in Borca, Ivana and Ivan can cast Clairvoyance, requiring
the sensor appears. If a Darklord of Borca dies, that Darklord’s effects end immediately. Those effects resume if that Darklord gains a new body (see Ivana’s and Ivan’s Darklord Restoration traits).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
whale’s pectoral fins and body. Angajuk is famous among Ten-Towners. Most people leave it alone, knowing that the whale is the beneficiary of powerful magic, but uncaring hunters see the whale as a
Auril’s spies. When the whale is submerged, a magic bubble surrounds the boat to protect those riding in it. Angajuk periodically visits an anchorage off the coastline, a rocky arch formed by the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
appendix for more on exorcists. Extractors. Whereas the corpse collectors scoop up any old body lying around the Hive Ward, extractors are tasked with retrieving and safeguarding the bodies of
halfway state between life and death, using their incorporeal talents to serve the faction as liaisons and spies. For more information on remnants, see Morte’s Planar Parade.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation Supplement
payment for its services, requests their help in ridding the palace of monsters.
The merchant princes of Port Nyanzaru are worried about the growing number of yuan-ti spies in their city and fear that
the serpent folk are planning to assassinate them. A map of the Snout of Omgar was found on the body of a slain yuan-ti pureblood spy who tried to infiltrate Merchant Prince Zhanthi’s household
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
began life as people who were stolen from shore or saved from sinking ships and offered a terrible bargain by an undersea power: surrender, body and soul, or drown. Those who submit are subjected to an
can take a form that is fully at home beneath the waves. Spies from the Sea. A deep scion emerges from the depths in service to its underwater master, which is likely a kraken or some other ancient
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
Special Delivery The two agents remain engaged in a constant war of espionage against one another. Even their couriers (both neutral human spies) compete to deliver their respective invitations first
.
25–37 Lynx’s courier arrives and Ursas’s never shows. Lynx’s courier has already murdered their rival and hastily stashed the body, which is easily and eventually found in the area by the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
spies for greater devils and archdevils. They are the eyes and ears of the Nine Hells, and even fiends that despise a spined devil’s weakness treat it with a modicum of respect. A spined devil’s body and
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
. Eventually, the scales become translucent and shimmer in the light, rippling as the dragon moves. The dragon’s horns and spines hover above the body, moving and shifting along the back and tail
surrounding an adult emerald dragon;adult emerald dragon's lair.
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An adult emerald dragon spies on the adult red dragon who killed the emerald dragon’s mate, looking for weaknesses
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
to dwelling in the libraries inside his iron palace. He employs a network of spies and informants to watch over anyone that might threaten him, a measure of his deep paranoia. Dispater has created an
act kills the imp and causes its body to disintegrate before the message can be read. The lord of Dis measures everything in terms of the knowledge it contains and the secrets that can be gleaned
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
queen’s court will not meddle in the affairs of the archfey or their domain. Archfey that do not pledge allegiance to one court or the other can find their domains overrun with Seelie or Unseelie spies
Floral. Flowers bloom from the archfey’s fingertips, and their skin is covered in petals. Their body might have thorns, or they could have vine-like hair covered in sweet-smelling blossoms. 5 Fluid. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
a leader. You serve a sovereign—a national figure or otherwise—and work to achieve their goals no matter the cost. As agents of a sovereign, you serve as diplomats or enforcers, spies or fixers
patron is the head of a country or other national body, they could oversee a powerful private division, a cult of personality, or an elaborate expedition. Also, consider the scale of your patron’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
character’s body such as a lock of hair—that Strahd can use to improve the efficacy of his scrying spell. If one of Strahd’s spies is confronted by the party, the spy attempts to grab some accessible item
encounter occurs on a roll of 15 or higher on a d20. If an encounter occurs, roll on the daytime or the nighttime encounter table, depending on the time, or have Strahd’s spies appear (see the “Strahd’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
keeps all the city’s factions at each other’s throats and out of Horgar’s way. Council of Lairds This advisory body represents the interests of the different clans that have pledged allegiance to the
Thordensonn (jewelers) Council of Savants The Council of Savants is a circle of derro savants who enjoy all the privileges and trappings of a governing body while the rest of their people live in squalor. Only
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
. Most of these mercenaries are Zhents, and where one finds the Zhentarim, one can also find Harper spies. The merchant princes have specific monopolies on all merchandise sold in the city. Characters in
relationships. He is naturally distrustful of everyone. Buying Beasts. Ifan Talro’a employs dozens of merchants throughout Port Nyanzaru who not only serve as his spies but also sell domesticated beasts
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Speakers for the Ancestors The Speakers for the Ancestors are the ruling body of the Radiant Citadel. Candidates are chosen through an election among the diaspora of the people they represent. Once a
citizens of the city. More frequently, she’s legislating in the council or negotiating in a secret corner of the Court of Whispers, trading for information or sending spies on missions.
She has a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
. The shrine contains 1d4 shadow demons as well as 2d4 drow cultists, each of whom has a “second head” (in the form of a severed drow head on a pole) that the cultist has lashed to his or her body
Dalfred and is one of his many spies. She has darkvision out to a range of 60 feet, as well as the Fey Ancestry and Innate Spellcasting features of a drow (see the “Statistical Modifications to Drow NPCs” sidebar). However, she doesn’t have the Sunlight Sensitivity feature.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
distract from their own ineptitude. 3 Is surrounded by power-hungry spies and saboteurs, fueling the villain’s paranoia. 4 Seeks the pleasure of lost glories. 5 Is surrounded by sycophants whose constant
every tree grows from the body of a mummified hero. 6 An empire covered in the watchful religious symbols of an all-seeing deity. 7 A fortress with seven locked gates that seal off the underworld. 8 A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Radiant Citadel
Speakers for the Ancestors The Speakers for the Ancestors are the ruling body of the Radiant Citadel. Candidates are chosen through an election among the diaspora of the people they represent. Once a
citizens of the city. More frequently, she’s legislating in the council or negotiating in a secret corner of the Court of Whispers, trading for information or sending spies on missions.
She has a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
, the crisis created by the Cult of the Dragon is unprecedented. Every resource that can be mustered will be needed in the final showdown against the cult, and the Zhentarim’s network of spies, assassins
figures and questioning the chance of success for attempts to turn or interrogate them. She favors discreet execution, interrogation of the corpse with appropriate rituals, and destruction of the body
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
’ voices, like an actor taking on a role. The players might even echo their characters’ body language. They still need to describe things that can’t reasonably be acted out.
Descriptive Roleplaying
Castle Ravenloft, so I hope it’s beyond Strahd’s spies. And I have heard that Vallaki is well defended, with a wooden palisade and iron gates.”
Russell: “As if such defenses would stop a vampire
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Thieves’ Guild. A disparate convocation of thieves, spies, smugglers, and other scoundrels controls criminal activity in a region of a city. 2 Assassin Society. The network’s livelihood is death
. Members of the society hone their skills as cutthroats, poisoners, body-disposal specialists, and any other profession focused on ending lives. The society is motivated by profit or labors in service to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
: a straw doll with rusty pins sticking into its body, a faceless child molded from clay, and a stuffed monkey with the lower body of a unicycle. The straw doll says, “You need to run away! The Sewn
hags are a frightful lot:
Widow Groat has tarnished gold coins covering her eyes and ants nesting in her skull. The ants serve as her spies, and their presence often portends her arrival. She carries a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
, the crisis created by the Cult of the Dragon is unprecedented. Every resource that can be mustered will be needed in the final showdown against the cult, and the Zhentarim’s network of spies, assassins
figures and questioning the chance of success for attempts to turn or interrogate them. She favors discreet execution, interrogation of the corpse with appropriate rituals, and destruction of the body
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
hawk or an owl. Most serve as messengers and spies, flying over the busy streets or high over the land while carrying or seeking vital information for their masters. Anvilwrought Raptor
Tiny
Body. A creature that touches the hart or hits it with a melee attack while within 5 feet of it takes 5 (1d10) fire damage.
Sure-Footed. The hart has advantage on Strength and Dexterity saving
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
, the crisis created by the Cult of the Dragon is unprecedented. Every resource that can be mustered will be needed in the final showdown against the cult, and the Zhentarim’s network of spies, assassins
figures and questioning the chance of success for attempts to turn or interrogate them. She favors discreet execution, interrogation of the corpse with appropriate rituals, and destruction of the body
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
one’s hair, and learn to dress in a manner that suits the individual’s body, profession, and the climate. Newcomers to the temple must make a Charisma check. Those who score 15 or higher are welcomed as
privately hired security agents patrolling it openly (guards) and undercover (spies). All of them work for the merchant prince Zhanthi, who has a monopoly on the jewelry trade in Port Nyanzaru.