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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
’t read, and speaks only in gibberish. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. If a creature’s saving throw is
starve. Bheurs use their ability to manipulate weather to batter villages with freezing cold, hoping to instill a despair that turns folk against each other.
In combat, a bheur hag also strives to
Species
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
echo of discovery—but also the desiccation of despair.
Creating Your Character
When you create your D&D character, you decide whether your character is a member of the human race or one of
those suggestions or to ignore them. Whichever scores you decide to increase, none of the scores can be raised above 20.
Languages
Your character can speak, read, and write Common and one other
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
target is overwhelmed with despair for 1 minute. During this time, it can't attack or target any creature with harmful abilities, spells, or other magical effects.
Insanity. Each target must make an
Intelligence saving throw. On a failed save, the target is driven insane for 1 minute. An insane creature can't take actions, can't understand what other creatures say, can't read, and speaks only in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
Verdan Traits Verdan characters have a number of traits in common with others of their kind. Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by 1, and your Charisma score increases by 2
. Age. Verdan reach adulthood at around the age of 24, and it is thought that they might live to nearly 200 years old. However, because no verdan has died of old age since the race’s initial creation
Dhampir
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Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
others embrace the solitude of the hunt, striving to distance themselves from those who’d tempt their hunger.
Dhampir Hungers
Every dhampir knows a thirst slaked only by the living. Those who
raised above 20.
If you are replacing your race with a lineage, replace any Ability Score Increase you previously had with these.
Languages
Your character can speak, read, and write Common and one
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
, passed down through generations, that reflect their fiendish heritage. And some younger tieflings, striving to find a place in the world, adopt a name that signifies a virtue or other concept and
, Chant, Creed, Despair, Excellence, Fear, Glory, Hope, Ideal, Music, Nowhere, Open, Poetry, Quest, Random, Reverence, Sorrow, Temerity, Torment, Weary
Tiefling
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reflect their fiendish heritage. And some younger tieflings, striving to find a place in the world, adopt a name that signifies a virtue or other concept and then try to embody that concept. For some
, Therai
Female Infernal Names: Akta, Anakis, Bryseis, Criella, Damaia, Ea, Kallista, Lerissa, Makaria, Nemeia, Orianna, Phelaia, Rieta
“Virtue” Names: Art, Carrion, Chant, Creed, Despair
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Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
reflect their fiendish heritage. And some younger tieflings, striving to find a place in the world, adopt a name that signifies a virtue or other concept and then try to embody that concept. For some
, Therai
Female Infernal Names: Akta, Anakis, Bryseis, Criella, Damaia, Ea, Kallista, Lerissa, Makaria, Nemeia, Orianna, Phelaia, Rieta
“Virtue” Names: Art, Carrion, Chant, Creed, Despair
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
language, passed down through generations, that reflect their fiendish heritage. And some younger tieflings, striving to find a place in the world, adopt a name that signifies a virtue or other
: Art, Carrion, Chant, Creed, Despair, Excellence, Fear, Glory, Hope, Ideal, Music, Nowhere, Open, Poetry, Quest, Random, Reverence, Sorrow, Temerity, Torment, Weary MET WITH MISTRUST
Ignorant people
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sang from every page. Long into the night Liriel read, lighting candle after precious candle.
She’d never given much thought to humans, but these stories fascinated her. In these yellowed
, striving to leave a lasting legacy. Individually and as a group, humans are adaptable opportunists, and they stay alert to changing political and social dynamics.
EVERYONE’S SECOND-BEST FRIENDS
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Vistani Lore Characters who read the Book of the Raven learn the following information about the Vistani: The Vistani are planar travelers often encountered in the Shadowfell, and they seem to be
immune to the despair that besets all other visitors to that plane. They travel in horse-drawn, barrel-shaped wagons and have no permanent home. The Vistani display their wealth openly as a sign of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
entranced the methodical surgeon. When Elise began showing signs of an incurable wasting disease, it was the first time either woman had felt the pangs of despair. In the months that followed, Dr
rumors of a glowing woman wandering in the icy wastes. Since then, Mordenheim has continued her experiments on the dead and living, striving to recreate her successes and failing every time. Between
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
K27. King’s Hall This twenty-foot-high hall has a dark, vaulted ceiling draped with cobwebs. A low moan seems to travel the length of the corridor as it rises and falls, intoning sadness and despair
characters reach the midpoint of the hall from either direction, read: You hear a scraping sound of stone against stone, followed by the squeaking of a bat. In the direction of the noise, you see the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
D14. Toadstool Patch Your heart suddenly feels cold, filling you with a sense of loneliness that borders on despair. A haunting, melancholy tune played on a flute reaches out to you from somewhere
within a field of oversized toadstools.
If the characters follow the music to its source, read: A slender elf with pale blue skin and black hair sits curled in the shadow of a gray, six-foot-tall
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
others starve. Bheurs use their ability to manipulate weather to batter villages with freezing cold, hoping to instill a despair that turns folk against each other. In combat, a bheur hag also strives to
incapacitated, can’t understand what others say, can’t read, and speaks only in gibberish. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. If
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
saving throw. On a failed save, the target is overwhelmed with despair for 1 minute. During this time, it can’t attack or target any creature with harmful abilities, spells, or other magical effects
, can’t read, and speaks only in gibberish. The DM controls its movement, which is erratic. Pain. Each target must make a Constitution saving throw and becomes incapacitated with excruciating pain for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
K10. Dining Hall The first time the characters enter this room, read: Three enormous crystal chandeliers brilliantly illuminate this magnificent chamber. Pillars of stone stand against dull white
its tone of greatness and despair. Seated at the organ, facing away from you, a single caped figure pounds the keys in raptured ecstasy. The figure suddenly stops, and as a deep silence falls over the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
despair, to let a disease break your spirit as it tries to kill everyone it touches. Well, f*** that. We might not have the magic bullet that puts cancer away for good, but we’re getting there. Your support
thus worthy of cautious respect, if not fear.
Read on and learn that perhaps the derision leveled at these fiends reflects only the fear and trepidation of those who would mock them. And perhaps if
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
kindling in the midst of despair is one obvious reading of these words. However, the reference to fires earlier in the verse doesn’t require that the embers here be positive—this could refer to a new
, destructive fire raging to life after long lying dormant, or perhaps even the hatching of a red dragon’s egg. “Five shall rise to cause a dragon’s fall.” The best way to read this line is as a reference
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Shadows of Sithicus
Encounter 3: In Pieces Give the characters one minute to collect themselves, check on rescued townspeople, heal themselves, and so forth. When that minute passes, read or paraphrase the following
Chittering Disturbance The group must fight two Swarms of Infesting Insects. The other groups’ characters gain Heroic Inspiration. 2 Cry of Despair The group must fight two Harpies. The other groups
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
through the archway, read: Beyond the thundering archway lies a hexagonal chamber whose walls rise 50 feet before tapering to a 90-foot-high apex. Standing in each corner of the room is a life-size statue
was overcome with despair and envy. A terrible fight between father and son ensued, in which Blagothkus slew Eigeron. Blagothkus then retired to his castle to mourn. Eigeron manifests as the spirit
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
ascend to the surface of the Briny Pool in area B22, read or paraphrase the following: The large chamber holding the impossibly deep pool of cerebral fluid is no longer empty. An enormous, floating
characters into despair. If the characters haven’t yet defeated the purple worm in the Briny Pool, it joins the fight against the characters at the beginning of the third round of combat. Refraction
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
punoView Player Version Map 10.2 represents Pangil ng Buwan’s lair. When the characters arrive, read the following description: Charred roots the size of buildings surround an open clearing with a
python. The End of Despair If Pangil ng Buwan is cleansed of the spirit blisters’ corruption, the bakunawa thanks the party for saving it and shares the following information: Pangil ng Buwan recounts the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
, fundamentally good-hearted and striving to help others where she can. Artemis is lawful evil, unconcerned with the value of sentient life but at least professional in his approach to murder.
As an
self-descriptions that are specific about what makes your character stand out. “I’m smart” is not a good trait, because it describes a lot of characters. “I’ve read every book in Candlekeep” tells you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
beacons.” The simple goal of lighting the beacons has been repeatedly thwarted by the perytons, who revel in Alagarthas’s despair. Each time he lights a beacon, the perytons snuff it out, yet
open flame. If Alagarthas is allowed to light all eight beacons by himself, read: Beneath the light of all the beacons, you see reflected in the mirror-like surface of the lake a forest of ancient trees
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
(noncombatant) holding a broken toy. A character can brighten the child’s spirits with a successful DC 15 Charisma (Performance) check or by repairing their toy. On a failed check, the characters record despair
witnessed the characters’ spontaneous resurrection. The Guvners deploy a cadre of Harmonium officers to place the characters under arrest. When you’re ready to end the exploration, read or paraphrase the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
tunnels beneath the warehouse were dug as smugglers’ byways. Later, worshipers of That-Which-Endures (see the sidebar in the “New Race: Verdan” section in chapter 3) excavated chambers beneath the ground
areas in between. When the adventurers enter the warehouse, read: In the areas where the walls and ceiling didn’t collapse, this warehouse contains no crates, no boxes, no barrels, and no wares of any
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
villages with snow and freezing cold, hoping to instill despair that turns the villagers against each other. A bheur hag loves watching unprepared people suffer and die for their mistakes during the
frightened of her for 1 minute. While frightened in this way, a creature is incapacitated, can’t understand what others say, can’t read, and speaks only in gibberish; the DM controls the creature’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
. But even where boulder tossing is concerned, artistry is fundamental to the effort. A stone giant hurling a boulder isn’t only performing a feat of strength but is also striving to display consummate
balance it upright, the writing can be read as the cylinder goes around. The message wraps around the pillar like the threads of a screw, but in two alternating spirals. The first is read from top to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
it comes to Memnor, the wisest policy is the simplest: don’t believe a single thing you read.
—Diancastra
Memnor is an ambiguous figure in the mythology of giants, and the tales concerning him are
cleverer of the two, often outwitting his brother in contests where Thrym’s greater strength might otherwise let him prevail. Their history of competition ranges from striving to outdo each other in