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Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
influence of the Far Realm affects Humanoids, the resulting creature might be a thing of nightmares. Multitudinous webbed wings sprout haphazardly along this mutate’s body. Its skin becomes clammy and
this transformation to become malevolent prophets and harbingers. Others find magical ways to return to their previous forms.
Mutates
A creature exposed to the strange energy of the Far Realm
Monsters
Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
. The fire ignites flammable objects that aren’t being worn or carried.Changed by days of strange experiments involving draconian blood and exposure to the Spawning Shard, Virruza now looks like a tumescent draconian with warty green skin and an overly large mouth.Acid, Cold, Fire, Lightning, Thunder
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
looks like an oversized, four-armed ape with grayish-tan skin and white fur. Its vicious fangs and claws reveal it to be a monstrous predator.
Girallons are most common in temperate or warm forest
organize members to work together to make a big kill, however. If they succeed, everyone in the group shares the spoils, with the best parts going to those caring for their young.
Girallons’ strange
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
of their former selves. Coral encrusts them. Barnacles cling to their cold skin. Lungs that once filled with air can now breathe in water as well.
Tales provide myriad reasons for these strange
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
, transforming it into a star spawn seer. Whoever the mortal once was largely vanishes beneath the mass of tumorous skin than builds up in strange whorls all over the seer’s body. The mortal’s
hands become bulky, flipper-like appendages able to grasp the seer’s strange staff formed of a blend of flesh, bone, and star stuff.
A star spawn seer is almost always accompanied by one or more
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
you might or might not choose to share.
Although you will undoubtedly find some of this land’s ways to be strange and discomfiting, you can also be sure that some things its people take for
have heard of the strange skyships the Halruaans sail, and a few know of the tales that even the least of their people can work magic.
Halruaans usually make their journeys into Faerûn for
Human
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Basic Rules (2014)
pages were tales of bold heroes, strange and fierce animals, mighty primitive gods, and a magic that was part and fabric of that distant land.
— Elaine Cunningham, Daughter of the Drow
In the
. Human skin shades range from nearly black to very pale, and hair colors from black to blond (curly, kinky, or straight); males might sport facial hair that is sparse or thick. A lot of humans have a
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, ending the effect on itself on a success. After 1 minute, it succeeds automatically. Failure or Success: The dragon can’t take this action again until the start of its next turn.The strange
magic pervading the Underdark twists deep dragons as they grow, so few adult deep dragons look alike. Their skin is usually pitted by fungal growths that spread across the body. Although lacking the
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Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
. Their skin tones cover the full range of human coloration, but also include various shades of red. Their hair, cascading down from behind their horns, is usually dark, from black or brown to dark red
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
Genasi
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Elemental Evil Player's Companion
Genasi inherit something from both sides of their dual nature. They resemble humans but have unusual skin color (red, green, blue, or gray), and there is something odd about them. The elemental blood
, 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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Far Realm Rifts Features The following features are common in each of the three Far Realm rifts. Strange Stone The terrain of the Far Realm rifts appears to be moist stone. If damaged, the stone
seeps a strange gray ichor, like viscous blood. Damage to the stone reverses over the course of an hour. Illumination A strange, green-and-silver illumination suffuses the Far Realm rifts. It emanates
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a reflection, and the feeling gnaws at the back of their minds forevermore.
45–46
The skin, flesh, and hair sloughs off all living humanoid creatures within a 30-foot-radius in a horrific
display of gore, leaving behind only their skeletons and equipment. This doesn’t kill or otherwise harm the affected creatures or change their game statistics. Their flesh, skin, and hair
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reflection, and the feeling gnaws at the back of their minds forevermore.
45–46
The skin, flesh, and hair sloughs off all living humanoid creatures within a 30-foot-radius in a horrific
display of gore, leaving behind only their skeletons and equipment. This doesn’t kill or otherwise harm the affected creatures or change their game statistics. Their flesh, skin, and hair regrow
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reflection, and the feeling gnaws at the back of their minds forevermore.
45–46
The skin, flesh, and hair sloughs off all living humanoid creatures within a 30-foot-radius in a horrific
display of gore, leaving behind only their skeletons and equipment. This doesn’t kill or otherwise harm the affected creatures or change their game statistics. Their flesh, skin, and hair regrow
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simply a reflection, and the feeling gnaws at the back of their minds forevermore.
45–46
The skin, flesh, and hair sloughs off all living humanoid creatures within a 30-foot-radius in a
horrific display of gore, leaving behind only their skeletons and equipment. This doesn’t kill or otherwise harm the affected creatures or change their game statistics. Their flesh, skin, and hair
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reflection, and the feeling gnaws at the back of their minds forevermore.
45–46
The skin, flesh, and hair sloughs off all living humanoid creatures within a 30-foot-radius in a horrific
display of gore, leaving behind only their skeletons and equipment. This doesn’t kill or otherwise harm the affected creatures or change their game statistics. Their flesh, skin, and hair regrow
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or simply a reflection, and the feeling gnaws at the back of their minds forevermore.
45–46
The skin, flesh, and hair sloughs off all living humanoid creatures within a 30-foot-radius in
a horrific display of gore, leaving behind only their skeletons and equipment. This doesn’t kill or otherwise harm the affected creatures or change their game statistics. Their flesh, skin, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sleeping Dragon’s Wake
Viantha Found When the characters find Viantha, read the following boxed text aloud to set the scene: A strange, mystical chanting in a dry, crackling voice and a rank smell come from a small
clearing ahead. At the center of this area, a robed woman with gray, cracked skin and red points of light where her eyes should be waves a wand made of bone in the air.
Viantha Cruelhex is a deathlock
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
inhabitants surrender a particular volume from their library. 3 Investigating strange lights and sounds emanating from a crypt in the dead of night reveals the Emerald Claw experimenting on the corpses
been attempting to inscribe something like a dragonmark in their skin, then reanimating the failed experiments as zombies. 7 While searching for a magic item in Dhakaani ruins across southern Khorvaire
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Heirs to Elemental Power Genasi inherit something from both sides of their dual nature. They resemble humans but have unusual skin color (red, green, blue, or gray), and there is something odd about
their mortal offspring, 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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
Qitru’s Arrival Read or paraphrase the following: You see a strange distortion in space moments before a winged, sharklike creature appears in front of you. It has blue skin, four wings, and a
hiding behind the asteroid has a four giff and four githyanki aboard it. Strange Sigil. Characters who search Qitru or observe her closely notice a strange sigil tattooed on the back of her right hand. A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
. Viktra Mordenheim created or inspired Ludendorf’s greatest innovations. Few voluntarily trek into Lamordia’s wilderness, fearing freak blizzards, starving beasts, and creatures warped by strange radiation
. LAMORDIAN CHARACTERS
Characters from Lamordia are typically direct, skeptical of superstition, and inured to cold. Humans and gnomes are the domain’s primary residents, with white hair and skin
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3
small, metallic, three-sided pyramid. Overhead in the shadow-draped ceiling are inlaid colored tiles depicting a starry sky and forming strange patterns in the areas above the pedestals.
A dark
lime. Any flesh that comes in contact with this lime will take 1 acid damage per round. The lime must be removed from the skin to stop the damage, and can be either wiped off or washed away. Treasure
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
, with lauded scholars traveling to the site to conduct archaeological research. Or maybe its origins are a mystery, your only clues being the strange, oversized objects occasionally found in the
Mark 1 Small, benign motes of elemental energy, like pebbles or water droplets, float around your head. 2 Your skin harmlessly feels blazing hot or freezing cold (your choice). 3 You have a faint
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
corpulent bulk of tumorous skin than builds up in strange whorls all over the seer’s body. Hands become bulky, flipper-like appendages capable of grasping their strange staffs — formed of some blend of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
-and-black veins visibly show through her pale skin. While this discoloration is unignorable, the toxins grant her immunity to poison damage and being poisoned. Her genius and ambition define her
created innumerable unique plants, as well as plant creatures with strange abilities and unflagging loyalty to her. Tyrant Maker. Ivana’s ambition drives her to take on any challenge. She reflexively
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
Personality Trait 1 Strange events and otherworldly creatures don’t faze me. 2 I think in terms of exchange: something for something, nothing for nothing. 3 I speak with an unusual cadence. 4 I
faintly 2 A small lead ingot that has a strange thumbprint pressed into it and whispers when held tightly 3 Two lodestone spheres that chime when they attract each other 4 A smoldering pebble of coal that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
the earth. Stone giants have rugged features and skin with patterns and hues similar to the rock common near their homes. This makes them adept at blending in with their stony surroundings despite
. Those who confine themselves to the Underdark often regard the surface world and its inhabitants as dreams imagined into being by slumbering primordials, strange gods, or other entities. Stone Giant
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
mangrove trees. Twenty feet away, a young man with green skin walks atop the water, speaking softly while slowly circling two churning pillars of glowing green foam.
Tinjhorna the riverine (detailed at
the end of this adventure) is speaking in Aquan and trying to calm a pair of water elementals corrupted by the strange magic afflicting his river. Characters who succeed on a DC 12 Intelligence
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Spawn Hollow Locations Many slaadi reproduce by implanting Humanoid hosts with eggs that transform into slaad tadpoles. In the weird dimension of the Far Realm, however, biology takes strange turns
. This motion is inexorable but takes several weeks; it was a while before the slaadi even noticed it. Although the walls, floor, and ceilings look like tough skin, they are as dense as stone and rot
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Two potions of healing A worthless collection of dead vermin (spiders, centipedes, and the like) in various states of decomposition Pages of lizard-skin parchment held together between two leather
spellbook containing the Tenser’s floating disk and feign death spells. A strange lump of black metal, which Droki intends to deliver to the Gray Ghosts (see below) A scroll in a copper tube and four
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
hopeful beacon to others? Or will you be a source of terror to those who feel the stab of your mind and witness the strange manifestations of your might? As an Aberrant Mind sorcerer, you decide how you
. 4 You were implanted with a mind flayer tadpole, but the ceremorphosis never completed. And now its psionic power is yours. When you use it, your flesh shines with a strange mucus. 5 As a child, you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
impossible to tell which body parts are his, and looking around is a gruesome task that speaks loudly to Buppido’s madness. Pelek recalls that the strange magic that pervades the tunnels animated one
gp, 11 sp, and a damp piece of lizard-skin parchment with the words “Worship Buppido” written in shaky Dwarvish.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
? No one ever found her sword, Leafwarden. It’s probably still in the dragon’s lair.” [True; Leafwarden is in the dragon’s hoard in area L7.] 5 “There’s a strange man in the forest with green skin and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3
golden hair and pale white skin. She radiates a soft silvery light even through her shawl, white as the froth of waves. She is singing a strange melody in an unrecognizable language. After finishing