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Returning 35 results for 'spirits of rites defense variant'.
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Dreaming Dark has long experience in weaving dreams that can convince mortals to surrender their bodies.
VARIANT: QUORI VESSEL
The Inspired are vessels for quori spirits, allowing the quori to
disadvantage on the next attack roll it makes before the end of its next turn.The rulers of distant Sarlona are known as the Inspired. These noble families are said to be bound to celestial spirits
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
has long experience in weaving dreams that can convince mortals to surrender their bodies.
VARIANT: QUORI VESSEL
The Inspired are vessels for quori spirits, allowing the quori to manifest a portion
disadvantage on the next attack roll it makes before the end of its next turn.The rulers of distant Sarlona are known as the Inspired. These noble families are said to be bound to celestial spirits that guide
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
surrender their bodies.
VARIANT: QUORI VESSEL
The Inspired are vessels for quori spirits, allowing the quori to manifest a portion of their power while the vessel is possessed. An Inspired can
distant Sarlona are known as the Inspired. These noble families are said to be bound to celestial spirits that guide and empower them, but the truth is far darker. The Inspired are the mortal hosts of
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
. These noble families are said to be bound to celestial spirits that guide and empower them, but the truth is far darker. The Inspired are the mortal hosts of the nightmare spirits of Dal Quor, and
Dreaming Dark. Such Inspired have to willingly accept quori possession, but the Dreaming Dark has long experience in weaving dreams that can convince mortals to surrender their bodies.
VARIANT: QUORI
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
characters, and use the Dragon Turtle Spellcasting table to help select spells for a spellcasting dragon. (Though the Monster Manual doesn’t explicitly include dragon turtles in the variant rules for
they have to say.
3
I think of ships as kindred spirits and like to rub affectionately against their keels.
4
I like to show visitors the vastness of my domain, so they appreciate how
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
You have served the community where you grew up, standing as its first line of defense against crime. You aren’t a soldier, directing your gaze outward at possible enemies. Instead, your
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
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
competitors as they are on the furthering of il-Lashtavar's plans. When they aren't serving in the cities of their nightmare realm, they hunt the dreaming spirits of mortals.
Fearmongers. Their ability
to manipulate the fears of mortals sees tsucoras often sent to Eberron as Inspired (Tsucora variant);Inspired. Nothing keeps humanoid chattel in line like fear, and the tsucoras are the masters of
Entertainer
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Backgrounds
Player’s Handbook (2014)
anger. Your music raises their spirits or captures their sorrow. Your dance steps captivate, your humor cuts to the quick. Whatever techniques you use, your art is your life.
Skill
liking to you.
Variant Entertainer: Gladiator
A gladiator is as much an entertainer as any minstrel or circus performer, trained to make the arts of combat into a spectacle the crowd can
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
explicitly include dragon turtles in the variant rules for making a dragon a spellcaster, you can apply those rules to these aquatic dragons.)
Dragon Turtle Personality Traits
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interested in the shiny baubles people carry than in anything they have to say.
3
I think of ships as kindred spirits and like to rub affectionately against their keels.
4
I like to show
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
, entertain them, and even inspire them. Your poetics can stir the hearts of those who hear you, awakening grief or joy, laughter or anger. Your music raises their spirits or captures their sorrow. Your
occupation or social class that frequents the establishment. This contact is delighted to talk with you, and to listen.
Variant Entertainer: Gladiator
A gladiator is as much an
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
claims the spoils of the cult’s victories.
2
A sapphire dragon is bound by an ancient pact to advise a monarchy on matters of defense—until someone bests the dragon’s security
martial skills by regularly using a horn of Valhalla to summon berserker;berserker spirits to fight.
2
A young sapphire dragon has found a collection of long-forgotten clay golem;clay golems and is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
Undead servants, when restless spirits curse intruders, or when Gath—the Lich-Priest of the Keeper—conducts evil rites that introduce plague into Sharn.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hold Back The Dead
Silverymoon (East) The siege weapon in Silverymoon’s defense zone (see Map 1.4) is a ballista. Imperceptible fey spirits automatically aim the ballista. However, the spirits aren’t strong enough to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
in their duties or cause rites to spin out of control. Such Darklords remain devoted, though, desperately trying to prove themselves or satisfy the object of their belief. Folk Horror Torments d6
speaks prophecies.
3 The Darklord is haunted by the judgmental spirits of their predecessors.
4 The Darklord is the only one who adheres to an ancient faith and desperately works to convert
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
table to help select spells for a spellcasting dragon. (Though the Monster Manual doesn’t explicitly include dragon turtles in the variant rules for making a dragon a spellcaster, you can apply
kindred spirits and like to rub affectionately against their keels.
4
I like to show visitors the vastness of my domain, so they appreciate how insignificant they are.
5
I attack anyone I
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
Ward. Exorcists. When evil spirits and other wicked apparitions rear their ugly heads, the Heralds of Dust deploys exorcists to expel those spirits so the dead may rest in peace. See this supplement’s
departed and chronicle the dead’s deeds in obituaries. Necrologists also research burial rites appropriate to the deceased creature’s beliefs, religion, or cultural background. Recruiters. Recruiters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Mummies Deathless Ancients with Ageless Ambitions Habitat: Desert, Swamp; Treasure: Relics Mysterious rites and mighty faith can tie spirits to their corpses, binding them to their remains for all
classes
Basic Rules (2014)
fierce animal spirits. Others draw from a roiling reservoir of anger at a world full of pain. For every barbarian, rage is a power that fuels not just a battle frenzy but also uncanny reflexes
Rage, Unarmored Defense
2
+2
2nd
+2
Reckless Attack, Danger Sense
2
+2
3rd
+2
Primal Path
3
+2
4th
+2
Ability Score
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
approaches peacefully and shares the following warnings: “Strange witchlights hover over Dragon Barrow at night. The hill is haunted by the restless spirits of the dead.” “Neverwinter Wood has become
overrun with orcs in league with half-orc spellcasters. Deep in the forest, atop a cave-riddled hill, is a circle of standing stones where the evil half-orcs perform their dark rites.” Xanth avoids
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
mortals to surrender their bodies. VARIANT: QUORI VESSEL
The Inspired are vessels for quori spirits, allowing the quori to manifest a portion of their power while the vessel is possessed. An Inspired
Inspired The rulers of distant Sarlona are known as the Inspired. These noble families are said to be bound to celestial spirits that guide and empower them, but the truth is far darker. The Inspired
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
incorporeal Undead attacking the camp’s south gate and soldiers making an organized defense. A moment later, whether the characters are near the gate or elsewhere, three wraiths that look like the spirits of
, eat, and resupply. The soldiers and scholars of the camp are here in hopes of reclaiming Lambakluha and making it safe for resettlement. Their work is slow, as the tortured spirits of the land attack at
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Locathah Rising
in her head and pull her tentacles up into the shell protectively, like a strange hermit crab. Whymsee (Kraken Priest Variant)
Medium humanoid (human), neutral evil
Armor Class 17 (natural armor
next turn.
Shell Defense. Whymsee withdraws into her shell. Until she emerges, she gains a +4 bonus to AC and has advantage on Strength and Constitution saving throws. While in her shell, Whymsee is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Spellcasting table to help select spells for a spellcasting dragon. (Though the Monster Manual doesn’t explicitly include dragon turtles in the variant rules for making a dragon a spellcaster, you can apply
.
2 I am more interested in the shiny baubles people carry than in anything they have to say.
3 I think of ships as kindred spirits and like to rub affectionately against their keels.
4
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
, and elemental galleons — requires a Khyber dragonshard to hold the elemental. Khyber shards are used for phylacteries, planar binding, and other effects that trap or manipulate spirits. Khyber
dragonshards can also be used for necromantic rites. Siberys dragonshards fall from the Ring of Siberys, the ring of crystals that encircles the world. While rare in Khorvaire, there are significant Siberys
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
on two opposing deities or forces), mystery cults (involving personal devotion to a single deity, usually as part of a pantheon system), animistic religions (revering the spirits inherent in nature
. Sometimes a mystery cult is a type of worship within a pantheon. It acknowledges the myths and rituals of the pantheon, but presents its own myths and rites as primary. For instance, a secretive order of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
traditions or land they embody, causing them to fail in their duties or their rites to spin out of control. Choose from or roll on the Folk Horror Torments to determine how these twisted traditions torment
prophecies. 6 Is haunted by judgmental ancestral spirits. 7 Can appear only at dawn and dusk. 8 Has partially melded into a hallowed tree. 9 Is being consumed by fungi. 10 Can no longer commune with their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
engage with the tavern’s patrons while the gnomes’ general attitude is indifferent or friendly learn the following information. Blingdenstone’s ghost problem is getting worse, and there are even spirits
want them out, while others propose an alliance of mutual defense. A merchant from Gracklstugh says there’s an influx of surface-world coins there, but nobody knows where they come from. (See chapter 4
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
disturb their toys, but they fight only in self-defense. Unlike the illusions outside the house, these children know that they’re dead. If asked how they died, Rose and Thorn explain that their parents
the next day. The only way to put the children’s spirits to rest is to put their skeletal remains in their tombs (areas 23E and 23F). The children don’t know this, however. Development If the party lays
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
, and at work. Her followers generally pray at midday, with the sounds of the city forming an appropriate backdrop to their rites, as industry itself is sacred to Ephara. Many aspects of city life and
difficult one from either perspective. Ephara approves of agriculture, a key ingredient for the development of cities, and both gods are concerned with defense of settlements. Even so, Karametra is tied
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
sturdier than the average deep gnome, taking point on any attack. The Stoneheart Enclave Stone is a resilient defense against oozes, making earth elementals the perfect force to combat them. Nomi
business. Svirfneblin Spirits If the characters have not already completed Burrow Warden Jadger’s tasks, doing so convinces Jadger’s ghost to rally the other benevolent ghosts of Blingdenstone and join the battle.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Circle of the Land The Circle of the Land is made up of mystics and sages who safeguard ancient knowledge and rites through a vast oral tradition. These druids meet within sacred circles of trees or
folk. As a member of this circle, your magic is influenced by the land where you were initiated into the circle’s mysterious rites. Bonus Cantrip When you choose this circle at 2nd level, you learn one
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
feet of the Girscamen feel a harmless supernatural chill—an effect of the unquiet spirits haunting the ship. If characters succeed on a DC 14 Intelligence (Arcana or Religion) check, they can tell
restless spirits dwell nearby. T2: Wreck The Girscamen evidently broke in two when it sank. Half the ship is embedded in the trench wall and the coral around it; the rest was lost to the tides. A sizable
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
ninunos, spirits of the dead who have taken on new, dryad-like forms and serve as intercessors between mortals, the gods, and the land. Ninunos watch over their bloodlines, bestowing good fortune on
. In the ancient past, bonesingers oversaw the final rites when great bakunawa died, then infused the creatures’ bones into the magical bridges that unite Dayawlongon as one land. During the days of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
out this category. Other Giant Variations. The unfallen form of fomorians is here, along with a variant ettin (the ettin ceremorph) and two versions of trolls (the troll amalgam and the troll mutate
from giants. Undead Giants. Undead forms of the giants of the ordning appear in this chapter: barrowghasts, cairnwights, firegaunts, frostmourns, spectral clouds, and tempest spirits. Gigantic Animals
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
splendid and anticipated is the Night of the Remembered, a celebration that evolved from ancient funerary rites and draws on the magic of the city. During this night, people can be visited by deceased
Remembered. Known as olvidados, or “forgotten,” these intelligent Undead often take the form of sapient, peaceful skeletons or spirits. Most retain the memories and personality they had in life, but