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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
survive with just their wits in situations that would be deadly for other folk. Because of that fact, many lizardfolk myths state that their people were placed by the gods in the Material Plane to guard
level, you choose whether your character is a member of the human race or of a fantastical race. If you select a fantastical race, follow these additional rules during character creation.
Ability Score
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
renders them difficult to locate. These abilities have enabled them to survive for generations among the perils of the Underdark.
Like other gnomes, deep gnomes can live for centuries, up to 500 years
character creation.
Ability Score Increases
When determining your character’s ability scores, increase one score by 2 and increase a different score by 1, or increase three different scores by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Quaggoth For quaggoths, every fight means life or death. They battle with wild fury and do anything to survive. Quaggoth Medium Monstrosity, Chaotic Neutral
AC 13 Initiative +1 (11)
HP 45 (6d8
+ 18)
Speed 30 ft., Climb 30 ft.
Ability Score Mod Save
Str 17 +3 +3
Dex 12 +1 +1
Con 16 +3 +3
Ability Score Mod Save
Int 6 −2 −2
Wis 12 +1 +1
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
are merciless. Most white dragon wyrmlings survive by scavenging, hunting opportunistically, and quickly fleeing foes—including other white dragons. White Dragon Wyrmling Medium Dragon (Chromatic
), Chaotic Evil
AC 16 Initiative +2 (12)
HP 32 (5d8 + 10)
Speed 30 ft., Burrow 15 ft., Fly 60 ft., Swim 30 ft.
Ability Score Mod Save
Str 14 +2 +2
Dex 10 +0 +2
Con 14 +2 +2
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Features of the Astral Sea In the Astral Sea, time is meaningless, and creatures can survive there indefinitely without food or drink. The locations explored within this chapter are a small fraction
traverse the Astral Sea, a vehicle isn’t required. In the Astral Sea, a traveler can propel themself by thought alone. A creature can move in any direction at a flying speed in feet equal to 5 × its Intelligence score.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
DM might call for a Constitution check when you try to accomplish tasks like the following: Hold your breath March or labor for hours without rest Go without sleep Survive without food or water Quaff
your Constitution modifier changes, your hit point maximum changes as well, as though you had the new modifier from 1st level. For example, if you raise your Constitution score when you reach 4th level
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
DM might call for a Constitution check when you try to accomplish tasks like the following: Hold your breath March or labor for hours without rest Go without sleep Survive without food or water Quaff
your Constitution modifier changes, your hit point maximum changes as well, as though you had the new modifier from 1st level. For example, if you raise your Constitution score when you reach 4th level
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Thri-kreen Mantid Psychics and Scavengers Habitat: Desert, Grassland; Treasure: Armaments Thri-kreen are mantis-like wanderers who harness their innate camouflage and psychic abilities to survive
.
Ability Score Mod Save
Str 12 +1 +1
Dex 15 +2 +2
Con 13 +1 +1
Ability Score Mod Save
Int 8 −1 −1
Wis 12 +1 +1
Cha 7 −2 −2
Skills Perception
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
entertain audiences. While some compete merely to survive, others love the thrill of performing—and all gladiators know the importance of theatrics in keeping audiences excited. Roll on or choose an
.
Ability Score Mod Save Str 18 +4 +7 Dex 15 +2 +5 Con 16 +3 +6 Ability Score Mod Save Int 10 +0 +0 Wis 12 +1 +4 Cha 15 +2 +2
Skills Athletics +10, Performance +5
Gear Shield, Spears (3
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
a deadly classroom, and students need an expert guide to survive. (Neutral)
Earning and Losing Piety You increase your piety score to Pharika when you expand the god’s influence in the world in
suffering. Yet, just because someone serves Pharika doesn’t mean they are immune to her whims. Why did Pharika turn her gaze upon you, and how did you survive long enough to earn her approval? The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
surrounded by a series of mechanical devices that function as Ioun stones, which add to its vast knowledge. The enhanced sphinx is a gynosphinx, with these changes: Its Intelligence score is 24 (+7). It
demands that the characters pay the toll to cross: either one character’s Intelligence score permanently decreases by 1, or two characters each have another ability score of their choice permanently
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
can channel cosmic forces of order to gain these benefits: Ability Score Increase. Increase an ability score of your choice by 1, to a maximum of 20. Stasis Strike. Once per turn, when you damage a
benefits: Ability Score Increase. Increase an ability score of your choice by 1, to a maximum of 20. Grasp of Avarice. Once per turn, when you damage a creature you can see within 60 feet of yourself, you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Ambush at the Archway As the characters reach the archway entrance to the village, the character who has the highest passive Wisdom (Perception) score is the first to notice something is wrong
horses and flee the village. Characters can learn about Paloma and the crimes of which she is accused from any defeated bounty hunters who survive the fight (see the “Learning about Paloma” section). One
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
air, and ammunition and thrown weapons stop moving when they enter the shaft. A creature in the shaft has a Fly Speed (in feet) equal to 5 times its Intelligence score and can hover. As soon as the
originated. If the check’s total is at least 20, the character also knows the plant’s properties and effects. The plants can’t survive more than one day outside the gardens on the Material Plane. One
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
human mage) and his invisible quasit familiar. Characters who have a passive Wisdom (Perception) score of 17 or higher notice him. A character who actively searches the room for hidden occupants spots
apprentice of Jakarion, the dead wizard in area X17. After the flameskulls there incinerated his master, the wounded Vilnius retreated here. He eats vermin to survive. The amber golem has been
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Astral Adventurer’s Guide
creatures into thinking they’re breathing? In the Astral Sea, one can never be certain. All that really matters is that a creature can survive indefinitely in the Astral Sea, never aging and never feeling
can move in any direction at a flying speed in feet equal to 5 × its Intelligence score. Astral Sea Navigation One doesn’t need a map to navigate the Astral Sea. Here, all creatures are blessed with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
for their tenacity, agility, crafty ingenuity, and dumb luck, all of which has enabled them to survive in a world overrun with creatures larger and more powerful than they are. Small and Wiry Standing
, Zizzix Goblin Traits Your goblin character has the following racial traits. Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 2, and your Constitution score increases by 1. Age. Goblins reach
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
strongest taboos in illithid society is the idea of allowing a mature tadpole to survive without implanting it into a donor brain. Under normal circumstances, any tadpole that grows larger than a few
within 1 mile of it that have an Intelligence score of 4 or higher. It knows the distance and direction to each creature, as well as each creature’s Intelligence score, but can’t sense anything else
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
or gravity where entropic forces destroy whatever they engulf. Nothing can survive within for long. Only magic items and the corpses of gods and titans can endure inside the blob. Because of that fact
death god. 10 A tarrasque that just died. Blob of Annihilation Gargantuan Ooze (Titan), Neutral Evil
AC 18 Initiative +16 (26)
HP 448 (23d20 + 207)
Speed 30 ft.
Ability Score Mod Save Str
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
weight in performance bonuses. Sign of Success Every rogue has a story about that one big score. With enough ales and a bit of prompting, you can easily be convinced to tell the tale, highlighting all
the drama and derring-do. But the tale is so much better for the telling if you can highlight it with visual aids. You carry a trophy from that big score, which you pull out when the occasion demands
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
things survive the tarrasque’s rampages, and reports of the monster’s devastation are often contradictory, incomplete, or beyond belief. In cases where it leaves no survivors, its calamities might
Initiative +18 (28)
HP 697 (34d20 + 340)
Speed 60 ft., Burrow 40 ft., Climb 60 ft.
Ability Score Mod Save Str 30 +10 +10 Dex 11 +0 +9 Con 30 +10 +10 Ability Score Mod Save Int 3 −4 +5
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
heroic callings. (JASON RAINVILLE) Built to Survive Minotaurs are barrel-chested humanoids with heads resembling those of bulls. Their horns range in size from about 1 foot long to great, curling
Your minotaur character has the following racial traits. These traits are also suitable for minotaurs in other D&D worlds where these people have avoided the demonic influence of Baphomet. Ability Score
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
. The storm giants cultivate 10-foot-tall, 10-foot-wide anemones that can survive out of the water and have hollow cavities within them. The giants use the anemones as treasure chests and for waste
creatures that can’t breathe water aren’t likely to survive for long without the aid of water breathing spells or similar magic.
Doors and Secret Doors. The giant-sized doors throughout Maelstrom
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
don’t recall this arrangement, the Pheres often cite it as justification for their raids. Pheres Renegades Pheres band members survive by working and fighting together, but still some centaurs choose to
, Unsleeping, Daggereye, Silentstep Centaur Traits Your centaur character has the following racial traits. Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 2, and your Wisdom score increases by 1
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
that the adventurers’ drow jailers or pursuers from Velkynvelve (chapter 1) managed to survive to this point in the campaign, and that they have returned to Menzoberranzan in the wake of Demogorgon’s
it passes by. Party members with a passive Wisdom (Perception) score of 17 or higher aren’t surprised by the spiders. Groundskeepers The characters happen upon 1d8 drow commoners tending the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
rolls a natural 20 on an attack roll made with its greataxe, it cuts off the target's head (or one of the target's heads, if it has more than one). If the target can’t survive without the lost head, it
globe do not gain this benefit. 81–90 A gem of brightness appears on the lap of the creature seated in the armillary chair. 91–99 The Intelligence score of the creature seated in the armillary chair
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
two dozen figures burst out of the snow sixty feet away from you. They are spaced roughly ten feet apart and begin advancing in a line.
Characters who have a passive Wisdom (Perception) score of 15
survive, as does Hengar. All three are reduced to half their hit points (rounded down). Everyone else is slain. Bjornhild takes Hengar prisoner and interprets the characters’ escape as a sign that Auril
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
your body
Entwined Existence. Your symbiote is a separate entity with its own physical form bound to yours. It isn’t a separate creature and relies on you to survive. It has Intelligence, Wisdom
, and Charisma scores. The DM sets the symbiote’s abilities or determines them randomly (roll 4d6 for each score, ignoring the lowest roll and totaling the rest). The symbiote can see and hear using
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
would misuse magic. Every test is designed so failure means death. There is no judge, no score, and little chance of surviving a failed test. Magical Acumen. A mage must wield magic with competence
High Sorcery and survive, the organization’s leaders forbid them from continuing to practice magic. Mages who practice magic in defiance of the Conclave are deemed renegades. Members of the robed orders
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
, the honorable Wigglewog, did not survive. I’ve been trapped up here for a while now. Help me. I must tell my queen of the fall of Prismeer!”
If the characters speak in raised voices, Sir Talavar
, two giant constrictor snakes lie together, asleep. Characters who have a passive Wisdom (Perception) score of 15 or higher spot the snakes, which can move through the brambles with no reduction to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
chapter have goals beyond helping the characters survive. Helping guides fulfill their personal goals increases their loyalty.
A particularly loyal guide (loyalty score of 10 or higher) will follow
characters into a dangerous location such as Omu or the Tomb of the Nine Gods. A tenuously loyal guide (loyalty score of 1 to 9) might choose to wait for the characters outside the location rather
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
statistics, with the following changes: The young cloud giants have an Intelligence score of 10 (+0) and Wisdom and Charisma scores of 12 (+1). They have the following skills: Insight +4, Perception +4. They
have a passive Wisdom (Perception) score of 14. They speak Common and Giant. These cloud giants are cartographers engaged in remapping the Sword Coast while searching for ancient battlegrounds and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
when a creature sits on it. Awakened Giant Goats The characters come upon three giant goats, each of which has received the benefit of an awaken spell, raising its Intelligence score to 10 and granting
cave nearby where she can hide, and she can survive there indefinitely by eating moss and lizards. Feenia has a trinket hidden in the pocket of her overalls. She gives this trinket to the characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Divine Contention
with a combined Strength score of 15 or higher must spend an action to heft the boat aside (if they attempt this while the boneclaw is perched on the boat, they need to muster a combined Strength score
they survive this long, the townsfolk get to safety, and the characters can retreat if needed. When the encounter is resolved, count any victories scored so far: The characters scored fewer than
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
crumbled, weed-choked stone cottage with no roof.
Two twig blights hide among the weeds that flank the cottage’s open doorway. Characters who have a passive Wisdom (Perception) score of 13 or higher spot
debris. Several young trees have grown within the ruins.
The overgrowth conceals a deadly threat: two twig blights lurking in the foliage. Characters who have a passive Wisdom (Perception) score of