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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
, any equipment it is wearing or carrying, and any creature it is grappling teleport to an unoccupied space within 500 feet of it, provided that the starting space and the destination are in dim light or
can step from one pool of darkness into another one, using this talent to ambush prey. Sometimes they snatch victims around the throat with their strangling cords and then step away; other times they
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Starting the Adventure The adventure’s default starting location is the city of Baldur’s Gate on the Sword Coast, in the Forgotten Realms setting. However, any large settlement will do. Possibilities
the dead. Victims grow thinner and weaker each day, slowly but steadily sliding toward the death they once denied. When they finally succumb, they can’t be raised — and neither can anyone else
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Volo’s Quest The Yawning Portal serves as the default starting point for this story. One of the first people the adventurers meet there is Volothamp Geddarm. He has just returned from a tour
for Floon leads to the revelation that he was caught up in a case of mistaken identity, and the characters are actually looking for two victims. The intended target was Lord Neverember’s estranged son
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
them with magical powers that allow them to move through shadows with ease. They can step from one pool of darkness into another one, using this talent to ambush prey. Sometimes they snatch victims
around the throat with their strangling cords and then step away; other times they ferry their victims to isolated spots and then leave the hapless souls to the designs of whatever horrors lurk there
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
mobile tactics combining psionics and magic to devastate their foes. They hit hard, setting buildings aflame and killing all in their path, to foster a panic among their victims that cripples any hope
differentiate their language by how they write it. Githyanki write a tir’su clockwise, starting at the top. Githzerai use the same letter symbols but write their tir’su counterclockwise, starting from the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
restraining trap tries to keep its victims in place, leaving them unable to move. Such traps are often employed in conjunction with regular guard patrols, so that victims are periodically extricated and taken
level ranges: 1–4, 5–10, 11–16, and 17–20. The level you choose for a trap gives you a starting point for determining its potency. To further delineate the trap’s strength, decide whether it is a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
victims to isolated spots and then leave the hapless souls to the designs of whatever horrors lurk there. Creatures that are drawn through the shadows by meazels are cursed by the meazels’ baleful magic
. The curse acts as a beacon; sorrowsworn, undead, and other terrors sense where they are located and descend on the stranded victims to tear them apart. Meazel
Medium humanoid (meazel), neutral evil
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
hierophant decides to sow unrest by hiring mercenaries to trouble the region, summoning monsters to the outskirts of town, or starting destructive fires. The hierophant then points to these events as signs of
terrible monster and mighty champions. Initiates do all they can to help the characters prepare to face the monster. Innocent Victims. Several initiates run a hospital on the outskirts of a city, where
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
contempt.
Thessalar The imperturbable artificer Thessalar readily converses with the characters, albeit with a domineering attitude. His starting assumption is that they’ve been sent by Moghadam, and
which tiny insect victims are being sacrificed. Thessalar’s Bargain Thessalar knows about the Infernal Machine components in the temple, and appears to entertain the notion of bargaining with the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
into yuan-ti purebloods or broodguards during these rituals. To undergo the change, prisoners must bathe with snakes in the blood of sacrificial victims while under the influence of temple drugs. The
. Innate Spellcasting. You know the poison spray cantrip. You can cast animal friendship an unlimited number of times with this trait, but you can target only snakes with it. Starting at 3rd level, you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
their victims happen to be in league with devils, so much the better. A casual observer might suppose that two forces of evil bent on exterminating each other would be an advantageous situation for
in a city, they might deal with the threat by starting a fire that not only destroys the cult but burns through several neighborhoods and kills hundreds of innocents. A demon might unleash a plague
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
(Perception) check. These tell the story of the cult of the medusa, starting with the capture of Gloine Nathair-Nathair, long years of sacrificial victims brought before her, and the vitrified statues now
that inhabited the city captured a unique medusa — Gloine Nathair-Nathair, whose gaze could transform victims into glass instead of stone. A cult of the medusa arose to worship the creature, which was
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
easily tear a grown man apart, they love hunting children, preferring their flesh above all others. They use the flayed skin of such victims to make supple leather, and a hag’s lair often shows the signs
place, and gives it an iron token that it can use to confide in her. Over time, “Granny” convinces the child that it’s okay to have bad thoughts and do bad deeds — starting with breaking things or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
berserkers as irredeemable victims of this corruption. Putting the berserkers out of their misery will help make Icewind Dale a safer place. Reindeer Herd Herd of Beasts The characters come across a herd of
Tribe Camp”), where the nomads provide food, drink, and shelter. Reghed Tribes d20 Tribe Starting Attitude
1–5 Bear Indifferent
6–13 Elk Indifferent
14–17 Tiger Hostile
18–20 Wolf Hostile
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
cannibalism to survive. The furriers and trappers are merely the camp’s latest victims, and more disappearances are likely to occur unless the cannibals are dealt with. Aluka gives directions to the camp
(see "Wyrmdoom Crag") Dannika Graysteel, a scholar whom the characters might know from an earlier quest (see “Starting Quest: Nature Spirits”), asks the characters to bring her some white dragon
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
Rakdos
Guild versus Guild Interguild conflict is such a fundamental aspect of life on Ravnica that the player characters’ guild membership is an easy starting point for choosing an adventure villain
replaced a high-ranking member of another guild in order to provoke conflicts.
7 A mind drinker vampire (see chapter 6 for the stat block) is plundering the minds of its victims.
8 Roll on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
difficult to gauge the chamber’s true size. Slumped against one of the columns is a dead man wearing a stone breastplate.
Any creature entering the cave for the first time on a turn or starting its turn
the hook horrors’ previous victims find 17 sp, four pieces of blue quartz (10 gp each), a silver hand mirror inlaid with lapis lazuli (270 gp), and a pearl of power. G11. Elemental Mud Pool A river of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
a drow hang suspended from hooks connected to chains. Blood pools on the floor beneath them. Beetles scurry along the floor, walls, and down the chains and onto the victims, which faintly struggle
wind is so strong in this chamber and the tunnel leading to area N19 that each creature starting its turn in the area must succeed on a DC 10 Strength saving throw or be pushed 10 feet toward area N17