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Mite

Monsters Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1

quickly become a brawl. Heralds of Frustration. Mites are natives of the Feywild that arise when a creature becomes so irritated with a situation or event that it lashes out in violence. That

creature experiences strange dreams the next time it sleeps, then sleepwalks to the nearest tree or other large plant, digs a small hole, screams into the depression, and refills the hole. When it awakes the

Angry Sorrowsworn

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

violence to sustain their existence, angry sorrowsworn—sometimes called the Angry—grow more powerful when their foes fight back. If a creature opts not to attack, though, this sorrowsworn

becomes confused, and its attacks weaken. It also has two heads, which bicker with each other incessantly. Sorrowsworn The Shadowfell’s pervasive melancholy sometimes gives rise to strange

Needle Spawn

Monsters Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1

plant creatures that hail from fey domains wracked by wanton violence. When a needle lord enters a worldly forest, it spreads seed pods wherever it roams. A pod remains dormant until a humanoid dies near

Needle Lord

Monsters Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1

by needle lords—hulking plant creatures that hail from fey domains wracked by wanton violence. When a needle lord enters a worldly forest, it spreads seed pods wherever it roams. A pod remains

thirst for violence and conquest that propels the fey to war. These plants become needle lords—ogre-shaped masses of thorny vines covered with long, cruel needles that pierce flesh. A needle lord

Black Rose Bearer

Monsters Vecna: Eve of Ruin

enough to move to and attack, the bearer attacks an object, with preference for an object smaller than itself. Once the bearer goes berserk, it remains berserk until it is destroyed or its creator gives it

black rose bearer bursts into furious violence, attacking indiscriminately. A bearer’s black rose is an homage to the tyrannical Lord Soth, the most powerful death knight on Krynn, who was once a Solamnic Knight of the Order of the Rose.Poison

Prophetess Dran

Monsters Acquisitions Incorporated

strange creature that had seized his sister, then created a false Auspicia in her stead. Having long attempted to simply make her peace with the loss, she was overwhelmed by the real Auspicia's dramatic

can call on her spells and abilities in times of need, and remains in constant practice with Confessor, her maul. At her core, she believes that the gods help those who help themselves, and that

Allip

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

torments what remains of its mind. In the presence of other creatures, an allip seeks to relieve this burden by sharing its secret. The creature can impart only a shard of the knowledge that doomed it

what spawned this monstrosity. Strange phrases echo through their minds, and weird visions occupy their dreams. The sense that some colossal truth sits just outside their recall plagues them for days

Firbolg Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

wood survive until springtime. In a firbolg’s eyes, there is no greater fault than greed. The firbolgs believe that the world remains healthiest when each creature takes only what it needs

’ presence is marked by an absence of animals and a strange quiet, as if the forest wishes to avoid attracting attention to itself. The faster travelers decide to move on, the better. If these

Boss Augustus

Monsters The Book of Many Things

target doesn’t have. During any night when there’s a full moon in the sky, the target becomes an NPC under the DM’s control and remains so until the night ends. A Remove Curse spell

mean nothing to him now. The violence grates on him, and he no longer empathizes with Delour’s fantasies of revenge. Instead, Augustus secretly longs to end his curse and integrate into society

Mister Light

Monsters The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

his time playing in his room. He collected costumes and liked nothing more than to parade around Umbrage Mansion in strange garments and outlandish makeup. Urmius first met Naeryx Krumple at a family

of the two of us, long ago. Perhaps that streak of violence hasn’t quite left me.”NecroticLightningBlessing of the Raven Queen (1/Day). Witch magically teleports, along with any equipment

Genasi Legacy

Species Elemental Evil Player's Companion

, seeing them as accidents. Many feel nothing for their genasi children at all. Some genasi live as outcasts, driven into exile for their unsettling appearance and strange magic, or assuming leadership

which they are born. The more strange their appearance, the harder time they have. Many genasi lose themselves in teeming cities, where their distinctiveness hardly raises an eyebrow in places

Vegepygmy

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

from the remains left behind when a Humanoid or a Giant is killed by russet mold (see “Russet Mold” below). One or more vegepygmies emerge from the corpse a day later. Vegepygmies

mold and vegepygmies in a peculiar metal dungeon full of strange life. Another story says that explorers found russet mold in a crater left by a falling star, with vegepygmies infesting the forest nearby

Hermit - Baldur's Gate

Backgrounds Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus

While some might think it strange to find hermits in a bustling city, others know that sometimes the most profound solitude exists in the midst of a crowd. Baldur’s Gate holds a handful of

contradictions, fills your hours. 4 You tend to some part of the city’s forgotten history: the unmarked graves in Cliffside Cemetery, the crumbling remains of dead patriar families’ manors, or

Aarakocra Legacy

Species Elemental Evil Player's Companion

beyond — from the boundless vistas of the Elemental Plane of Air. They are immigrants, refugees, scouts, and explorers, their outposts functioning as footholds in a world both strange and alien

back into the air. Those that make it to a world in the Material Plane find it a strange place. They sometimes forget or ignore vertical distances, and they have nothing but pity for those earthbound

Astral Elf Aristocrat

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

elves were among the first creatures to dwell in the Silver Void. As other explorers have reached for the stars, astral elves have had to reckon with violent neighbors and strange visitors. Over the

space that the summoner can see, acts on its own initiative count, and is an ally of its summoner. It remains for 10 minutes, until it or its summoner dies, or until its summoner dismisses it as an action.

Feral Tiefling

Species Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide

stares and whispers, to suffer violence and insult on the street, to see mistrust and fear in every eye: this is the lot of the tiefling. And to twist the knife, tieflings know that this is because a

watch might follow a tiefling around for a while, and demagogues blame tieflings for strange happenings. The reality, though, is that a tiefling’s bloodline doesn’t affect his or her

Juiblex

monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

layer of the Abyss, which is also known as Shedaklah, is a bubbling morass of fetid sludge. The landscape is covered in vast expanses of caustic slimes, and strange organic forms rise from the oceans of

as it remains in the slimy area or until it breaks free. The restrained creature, or another creature that can reach it, can use its action to try to break free and must succeed on a DC 21 Strength

Bugbear Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

indolence offers no clue to how vicious the creatures are. Bugbears are capable of bouts of incredible ferocity, using their muscular bodies to exact swift and ruthless violence. At their core

. Cunning Grankhul is the younger one, and in the stories bugbears tell, he gifted them with stealth but in return he sapped their vigor, so that bugbears sleep in his stead while he remains eternally alert

Morkoth

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

attack roll is rerolled against the chosen creature.Ancient and devious, morkoths are voracious collectors. Each one floats through the planes on a strange, mobile island, amassing the valuables

saving throw. On a failure, the creature has misplaced one possession (chosen by the player, if the creature is that player’s character). The possession remains nearby but concealed for a short

Juiblex Legacy

Monsters Out of the Abyss

in vast expanses of caustic and unintelligent slimes, and strange organic forms rise from the oceans of molds and oozes at Juiblex’s command. Lair Actions On initiative count 20 (losing

remains in the slimy area or until it breaks free. The restrained creature, or another creature who can reach it, can use its action to try to break free and must succeed on a DC 21 Strength check

General Features

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin

General Features The features of Pandesmos Outlook are described in the following sections. Demons The chaos and violence brewing in the area attracts demons. Within 10 feet of the bottom of the

“Tracking Kas” section for how these demons might help the characters locate Kas. Doorway The doorway to Sigil remains open through the end of this adventure. The characters can come and go as they wish

Lower Dura

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

regularly, a gang of bugbears runs a protection racket, and street violence remains an everyday occurrence. House Tarkanan and the Tyrants have holdings in Callestan and other districts of Lower Dura

Chapter 5: Paths of Peril

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

Chapter 5: Paths of Peril When the characters return to Phandalin after their adventures in Wave Echo Cave, they find the town in upheaval. Thievery, vandalism, and violence plague Phandalin—all

perpetrated by a band of goblins, some displaying strange psionic powers. These goblins have been pursuing their goal in the background of previous chapters (see “The Goblins’ Story” below), and their

Gnolls

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual

gnoll demoniac The first gnolls arose from hyenas that fed on flesh tainted by the Abyss. Their corruption and violence delighted the demon lord Yeenoghu, who encouraged their numbers and spread them

across the multiverse. Ever since, gnolls have been the cackling servants of Yeenoghu, existing to cause ruin and to feast on what remains.

Mistlands

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within

Mistlands Even before the Hour of Ascension, western Darkon was a land of magical mysteries and strange creatures. No longer fearing the Darklord’s magic, ancient evils have crept from the shadows to

5) that claims to be the first king of Darkon. Uncertain of what it has unleashed but desperate for salvation, the Eternal Order serves the whims of Darcalus Rex as the strange being grows in power

Carrion Tribes

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

. Child of a Savage Land. You were born into a lawless realm where violence was the only constant. How have you adapted to life on the other side of the Labyrinth? Are you superstitious, refusing to adapt

to this new world, or are you doing your best to learn the ways of this strange realm? Why Did You Leave? You began your life as a servant of darkness. Have you embraced the light? Are you fighting

Death's Head Phalanx

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

brutal tyranny sweeping across Faerûn. He expects to play an important role in Emberosa’s ascension and conquest, and he dreams of ruling what remains of the High Forest once the elves and other forest

denizens are purged and the trees are reduced to ashen spines. Since arriving in Arcturiadoom, however, Doomcrown has developed strange habits. He spends more and more time locked away in his quarters

5. Fountain of Madness

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

pedestal. All that remains recognizable are a pair of clawed stone feet clutching the pedestal’s top. Carved into the walls are seven niches. Water seeps into one niche through a crack in the wall. The two

niches that flank it are empty. Strange, formless sculptures occupy the four remaining niches. The “sculptures” are actually four gray oozes held in magical stasis. They liquefy and attack when any one

Idol Island

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sleeping Dragon’s Wake

Idol Island Rising from the marsh mere yards from Leilon, Idol Island contains the remains of crumbled statues of forgotten human nobles. The settlers claim to hear voices whispering from the island

character must make a DC 13 Wisdom saving throw. On a success, the character is bolstered by the strange dreams and gains inspiration. On a failure, the character gains a level of exhaustion.

Death Tyrant

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual

remains of its magical eyes—orbit its floating, cyclopean skull, while the hateful gaze of its central eye socket stifles life and raises the dead. Beholders typically transform into death tyrants over

years when their dreams fixate on death, morbid apotheoses, or journeys to realms inhospitable to life. Some death tyrants rise from the corpses of slain beholders or result from exposure to strange

Key Plot Points

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves

ruins of Haskasori, they discover its many denizens, including its former king. When Anthradusk returns to his lair, the characters can unleash the egg’s strange magic in the presence of the brass

dragon’s remains to weaken Anthradusk. They must slay Anthradusk to end the threat posed by his foul ritual.

Cliffside

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

hours and wages on. Even though the Sharn Watch has a token presence here, Cliffside remains one of the most crime-ridden districts in the city. This situation is exacerbated by the presence of sahuagin

, who sell their services as guides to help ships traveling to Xen’drik. In fact, the sahuagin rarely initiate violence, but there have been clashes between them and aggressive, drunken sailors.

Adventure Hooks

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase

read at the Tower of the Heavens. Whether the prophecies are real remains to be seen, but the characters are curious or desperate enough to pay a visit. The characters might also be researching

visible wounds. The characters are hired by a mourning family to investigate these deaths and put a stop to them. The characters’ encounter with the cause of these deaths—a strange predator called a

Idol Island

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Divine Contention

Idol Island Idol Island rises from the marshes a few yards from Leilon. It contains the remains of crumbled statues of forgotten human nobles. The settlers claim to hear whispered voices on the

canyon. At the end of the rest, the character must make a DC 13 Wisdom saving throw. On a success, the character is bolstered by the strange dreams and gains inspiration. On a failure, the character gains a level of exhaustion.

Idol Island

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath

Idol Island Idol Island rises from the marshes a few yards from Leilon. It contains the remains of crumbled statues of forgotten human nobles. The settlers claim to hear whispered voices on the

the night, the character must make a DC 13 Wisdom saving throw. On a success, the character is bolstered by the strange dreams and gains inspiration. On a failure, the character gains a level of exhaustion.

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