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Mythic Odysseys of Theros
disconnected from those experiences, choosing to wander the world or brood in haunts they're drawn to in death. They care nothing for morbid reunions with their lost bodies or Returned remnants.
Of the
various types of eidolons, ghostblade eidolons typically arise from fallen warriors and believe they're endlessly embroiled in great battles.
Undead Nature. An eidolon doesn't require air, food, drink, or sleep.PoisonNecrotic; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 2: Dragonlance Creatures
save DC 15):
2/day each: command, detect evil and good
1/day: wall of forceForesworn are the spirits of fallen Solamnic knights who attend to their duty long after death. Armed with spectral armor and
refuse to abandon their undead state until the duty they had in life is fulfilled. For example, a foresworn might be pledged to protect a family’s bloodline from harm or guard a dangerous artifact
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures
/day each: animal messenger, charm person, Tasha's hideous laughter
1/day each: bestow curse, dispel magic
“Taste the sweetness, breath for breath. Keep the balance, death for death.&rdquo
spells take the form of shattering mirrors.
COMPANION CREATURES
Various creatures serve the witches of Dunbarrow. It’s not uncommon to see ravens and bats flitting through the canopy, or cats
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
death. They care nothing for morbid reunions with their lost bodies or Returned remnants.
Of the various types of eidolons, flitterstep eidolons are the most common and wander without purpose.
Undead
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
join the ranks of the warlord’s army, which is mainly made up of mages who helm the ships of the fleet and provide magical firepower, sellswords of various species, and guns for hire in the form
spacefaring giff’s society is organized along military lines. From birth until death, each has a military rank. Promotions don’t depend on time in service but are granted by superiors as
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
You are a member of a teeming horde — one small part of a sprawling organism. Just as you are part of the swarm, the swarm is part of a larger ecosystem, a never-ending cycle of life, death
Golgari, no fear of death or taboo about the dead, just a fierce affirmation of the cycle.
Skill Proficiencies: Nature, Survival
Tool Proficiencies: Poisoner’s kit
Languages
Magic Items
Infernal Machine Rebuild
you use an action to toss one of these stones into the air, the stone orbits your head at a distance of 1d3 feet and confers a benefit to you. Thereafter, another creature must use an action to grasp or
, ending its effect.
A stone has AC 24, 10 hit points, and resistance to all damage. It is considered to be an object that is being worn while it orbits your head.
Vitality. You gain a +1 bonus to death saving throws while this luminous green-and-blue marbled sphere orbits your head.
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
and respect a shaman’s power.
An Uthgardt shaman must possess a sacred bundle to cast spells. A sacred bundle is made up of sticks, bones, feathers, tufts of fur, and stones that have been &ldquo
on an Uthgardt shaman’s tribe, the shaman’s Innate Spellcasting feature gains additional spells the shaman can cast once per day.
Black Lion: chill touch, feign death, revivify
Black
classes
Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn
and murder; and Myrkul, a god of death. While some Rogues of this subclass pledge themselves ardently to those three macabre gods, others are thrust on this path by a curse. Either way, a scion’s
power manifests as various occult gifts, as well as an uncanny talent for striking and terrifying foes.
Scions of the Three are most common in Baldur’s Gate, where the Dead Three lived as
Reborn
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Species
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Death isn’t always the end. The reborn exemplify this, being individuals who have died yet, somehow, still live. Some reborn exhibit the scars of fatal ends, their ashen flesh or bloodless
veins making it clear that they’ve been touched by death. Other reborn are marvels of magic or science, being stitched together from disparate beings or bearing mysterious minds in manufactured
Species
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
avoid detection.
The Houses of Shadow
Leader: House Phiarlan, Elvinor Elorrenthi d’Phiarlan; House Thuranni, Elar d’Thuranni
Headquarters: House Phiarlan, the Demesnes (various); House
Thuranni, Regalport (Lhazaar Principalities)
Elves have carried the Mark of Shadow for thousands of years. The mark’s bearers left Aerenal after the conflict that wiped out the Mark of Death
Giff
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Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
of giff society is organized along military lines. From birth until death, every giff has a military rank. It must follow orders from those of superior rank, and it can give orders to those of lower
refuse to fight other giff, and will never agree to a contract unless it stipulates that they can sit out a battle rather than wage war against their kin. A giff prizes the reputation of its unit above its
Orc
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
gather and celebrate, dwell the followers of Yurtrus, the god of disease and death, and Shargaas, the god of darkness and the unknown. Orcs too weak for battle (because of bodily weakness, malformation
, injury, or age) often join these cults instead of facing daily humiliation, exile, or death.
Serving as the bridge between the two parts of the tribe are the priestesses of Luthic, the orc goddess who
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
primal evil power before other yugoloths or that they come from an epoch before the current manifestation of the planes. Baernaloths refuse to say, but most obsess over secrets and obscene lore regarding
hovering at death’s door.
The challenge rating of a baernaloth is 18 (20,000 XP) when it’s encountered in its lair.
Lair Actions
On initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), a
classes
Player’s Handbook
mercenaries—as Fighters, they all share an unparalleled prowess with weapons and armor. And they are well acquainted with death, both meting it out and defying it.
Fighters master various
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
24. Refuse Pile The characters notice a foul stench as they approach this cave. This chamber used to be a small residential area, with homes dug into the walls at various heights, but no one dwells
here now. The pile of refuse dominates the cave. It contains decomposing matter, including a pair of slimy, partially digested svirfneblin corpses. A successful DC 12 Intelligence (Investigation) check reveals that the gnomes were victims of some kind of ooze.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Ritual Stones Murgaxor’s ritual can’t be completed without five ritual stones, which circle Murgaxor while he performs the ritual. Without the stones, he can’t manipulate the forces of life and death
and would be overwhelmed by their power. See area M6 for more information about these stones. The Ruins of Caerdoon hold many remnants of ancient warfare
Magic Items
The Book of Many Things
various worlds. While it can include fewer or different cards, it frequently appears with a Deck of Many Things as part of a combined deck of sixty-six illuminated cards. The combined deck is usually
unconscious condition, and must begin making death saving throws. Spells and other magical effects that restore hit points have no effect on you until you are stabilized. If you fail three death saving throws
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
the stones presented in the Dungeon Master’s Guide, the following new Ioun stone can play a part in this adventure. Vitality (Very Rare). You gain a +1 bonus to death saving throws while this luminous green-and-blue marbled sphere orbits your head.
Ioun Stone Wondrous Item, rarity varies (requires attunement) Ioun stones (detailed in chapter 7 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide) are named after Ioun, a god of knowledge and prophecy. In addition to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Morte’s Planar Parade
Sigil and the Outlands for details). Outlands Giants d4 Encounter 1 Several cyclopes refuse to let the characters pass through a region where they’re constructing a massive ring of beautifully
carved standing stones. 2 An ettin influenced by the Beastlands has one head with bovine features and one head with lupine features. It desperately needs help finding something both heads are willing to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
on nightspiders. The Ebonsnare is crewed by eight neogi pirates (see Boo’s Astral Menagerie) and twenty commoners of various races and alignments, whom the neogi have enslaved. The neogi also keep
bolts and mangonel stones, forcing it to break off its attack and make for the cover of the asteroids.
The newly arrived space galleons are the Stalwart and the Incorrigible, both under the command
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
went down with the ship, but Devi and two sailors survived by swimming to a nearby island inhabited mostly by wild goats and sheep. Devi then used our Sending Stones to tell me what happened.“I own a
, based on Devi’s description. My ship can get you there in three days.
“Will you help?”
If the characters refuse the quest, Mirel sweetens the reward by offering them free passage on any of her
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Legends of Greyhawk: Secrets of the Free City
Key Plot Points The following information is key to the adventure’s story. Part 1: An Offer They Can’t Refuse. The rogue siblings Caset and Chase find the party and recruit them to help solve the
clues they obtained in the safe house, the characters can check out various people and places to discover the identity of the victim and the hiding place of the murderer. Part 4: Cat and Mouse. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
the king’s fate (he was struck from the bridge and fell to his death). If a creature uses a finger or a staff to trace Halaster’s rune on the surface of either of the standing stones, a gate forms
12. Gate to the Stone Bridge Standing Gate. Two 15-foot-tall standing stones are positioned near the west wall of this 20-foot-high room.
Bas-Relief. Spanning the wall behind the standing stones is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
some places the ground has fused into jagged glass. In others, it is cracked and burned. Broken bodies of soldiers from various sides litter the landscape — soldiers whose dead bodies refuse to decompose
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
monarch, but various factions oppose the union. Trouble is brewing. Bugbear scouts are making incursions into civilized lands and spying on settlements, as a prelude to a hobgoblin warlord’s invasion. A
puppet show in a market square predicts a tragic outcome if two noble houses on the cusp of declaring war on each other refuse to reconcile. NPC adventurers in a city are being murdered in a similar yet unusual manner, hinting at a future threat to the player characters.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
breach in the west wall leads to a dark cave heaped with refuse. Murky water covers most of the floor. Stairs lead up to dry stone ledges that hug the walls. In the middle of the room, more stairs rise
or lowering the nearby portcullis (see area 37). The hole in the west wall leads to a naturally formed alcove. The half-submerged pile of refuse that fills it is a shambling mound, which the cultists
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
horseback is imprisoned and sentenced to death.
4 Help a cult summon a fiend to combat an impending greater evil.
5 Defeat a violent hag who’s protected by everyone in town and called
“grandmother.”
6 Escape an estate after the residents adopt the party and refuse to let them leave.
7 Learn why the characters bear uncanny resemblances to the founders of an underground village.
8 Slay a dragon and, in so doing, prove a character is the prophesied chosen one.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
it and can refuse. The spirit of a dead creature has left the body and departed for the Outer Planes, and reviving the creature requires calling the spirit back. If the creature returns to life, the
revival effect determines the creature’s current Hit Points. Unless otherwise stated, the creature returns to life with any conditions, magical contagions, or curses that were affecting it at death if
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
it and can refuse. The spirit of a dead creature has left the body and departed for the Outer Planes, and reviving the creature requires calling the spirit back. If the creature returns to life, the
revival effect determines the creature’s current Hit Points. Unless otherwise stated, the creature returns to life with any conditions, magical contagions, or curses that were affecting it at death if
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
floor slopes toward an open pit at its center, and is covered in a layer of waste, blood, and viscera.
The temple residents bring their refuse to this filthy chamber, including organic waste from
the various laboratories. The foul debris here is ankle deep at the edges of the chamber, rising to knee deep closer to the center where the floor slopes toward the pit (area 18). Upon entering this
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
U6. Standing Stones A dozen moss-covered menhirs form a near-perfect circle in the spongy earth. These weathered stones range in height from 15 to 18 feet. A couple of them lean inward as if to share
. Muriel knows that the druids visit the circle of standing stones from time to time, and she does her best to avoid them. Circle of Standing Stones This ring of menhirs is one of the oldest structures in
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
discuss how they might reunite and restore Sardior, the Ruby Dragon.
2
A horde of revenant;revenants led by a death knight has one goal—destroying the ancient sapphire dragon who defeated
points. The dragon’s most valuable treasures are stored here and in adjoining caves, and the walls of this central chamber are covered in art depicting various battles—many of which the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Netheril’s Fall: Tales of Terror, Treasure, and Time Travel
Fool’s Needle MIKE SCHLEY Map: Fool’s NeedleView Player Version In the wilds of Anauroch, nestled among the Plain of Standing Stones, a time gate at a place called Fool’s Needle leads to the flying
the sky into the desert floor, narrowing as it descends. The desert’s inhabitants, who named it, say it is a cursed place to be feared and shunned. Their tradition tells that only death awaits those
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
uses the stones in the chamber for cover, but he has no intention of fighting to the death. If this place has been discovered and he can’t swiftly and easily eliminate the intruders, Larrakh tries to
T9. Chamber of Moving Stones If the characters speak to Baragustas in area T8 or examine the door to this area, a Black Earth priest (see chapter 7) named Larrakh hears them. If he does, he quickly