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Acknowledgements

A huge thanks to the players who have graced my table and helped shape this world, some of whom are appoaching year 6 of campaigning in Ombreavoir and have added color and world changing events to the storyline, especially the Heroes of the Bramblewood 3rd Patrol- Chestnut the Chyttr Assassin, Marten the Badgerlord, Captain Ginseng and Kaleen Wurmwood- who changed the entire direction of the war for the 'wood with daring tactics and ingenuity. Thier youth playgroup started when the youngest was 8, and they've impacted the plot in ways I never saw coming- including mustering and training the Bramblewood Army!

In the original script, the Bramblewood was supposed to fall, the survivors fleeing to Freedonia, the Clawtooth Confederacy, and the Underdark- instead the country is now a world power locked in a bitter, entrenched struggle against an axis of three military nations. Sometimes, even the dice gods can't stop your players from changing everything.

In addition to the 3rd Patrol, thanks are in order to the many, many adult players in the rotating and often fractious 20+ member cast of Guild of the Smouldering Bowl. The Guild was founded on Ombreavoir, and was soon sent offworld to set up a base of operations in Faerun by its shadowy benefactor. Tasked with collecting artifacts from across space and time, its members were working toward goals in furthering the original Ombreavoir storyline with each spelljamming or planejumping mission- stealing a werebat serum from a mad Ravnican scientist, liberating pieces of a Creation Forge from Eberron, and recovering technology from the Lost Laboratory of Kwalish in the Barrier Peaks of Oerth all contributing to the Bramblewood war effort and the darker schemes of the fae Queen pulling the strings. With each treasure returned to Rose Red Keep, the power of the Bramblewood war machine grew.

Special mentions to the players of Isis & Osiris, Sir Pugsley the Brave, Brother Elias, Two Thumbs, Dearth, Ruby Recklass, Mac the Knife, Enelel, Kori and The Blade in the Dark, plus every guest star player who took up the mantle of Damon Dolte, Revenant Crusader on pub game night and got splattered by the end of the session to cries of "Oh my gods, they killed Dolte!" and "You basterds!"

Extra special thanks to the Guild players who participated in crossover episodes with the 3rd Patrol players, as those games are very special memories for the now almost adults.

Your author's first ever player character- the Shadethrower- is an npc within these pages. Acknowledgment to Meau, The Swampwitch for DMing the 3.5e game on "no-name world" that he and Kenzi Rosetta were created for. With much tinkering and thousands of in-game years, that world became Ombreavoir, and I loose its horrors upon the Multiverse.

Now look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair...

OMBREAVIOR OVERVIEW

Introduction

Before we dive into the meat and history of Ombreavoir, a quick description of its layout and position in the multiverse will help the DM understand how to fit it into their campaign. This information is not known to creatures who live on Ombreavoir save the Queen of the Bramblewood, the Shadethower, Mama Wurmwood, and the scientists working within the Black Spires.

The Impossible Terrarium. Currently sitting on a pedastal in the manager's office of the Smouldering Bowl Pub and Pipeweed Lounge in Waterdeep's Trollskull Alley, a 3 foot diameter round terrarium radiating raw, wild magic holds the world of Ombreavoir inside of it. It is made of part of a Crystal Sphere, reshaped by the Queen of Air and Darkness as part of one of her inscruitable schemes, and as such is seemingly impervious to damage. The terrarium was quietly entrusted to the Smouldering Bowl by their benefactor, Queen Rosetta of the Bramblewood.

A tiny sun and two moons revolve the Impossible Terrarium along a track, like an arcane timepiece, keeping regular day and night hours inside. Holding one in place will have the same effect on that celestial body as seen from the surface of the world inside. Please Do NOT Touch.

A creature may enter the Impossible Terrarium by placing a hand on it and casting Plane Shift, arriving in Bramblewood if they know of the Teleportation Circle in the Queen's castle, or thrown into a random region if they dont.

The Demiplane of Survival. Ombreavoir, also known to its researchers as the Demiplane of Survival, rests at a strange vector between the Feywild and the Shadowfell, a place hidden from many of the planes. Long ago this world was populated by the standard races- humans, halflings, dwarves, orcs, elves and so on- a relatively mundane world on the doorstep of a golden age of international peace and wondrous mago-scientific advancement. Treaties were being signed between empires, and industrialized farms blended technology with magic to feed the world... but agents of the Queen of Air and Darkness had long toiled on a grand experiment to warp the world and its people to their own ends, and the progress and fate of the mortal races meant nothing to the fey.

When the fey activated their reality-bending machines, the seven towering Black Spires found across the world, Ombreavoir was thrown through a series of cataclysmic magical disasters. The world was torn from its position in Wildspace, miniaturized and transported into an enchanted terrarium- or more appropriately, a miniature Crystal Sphere. The towers rerouted the world's leylines, bending and intensifying natural magics. City-states fell into the sea, their peoples heads' morphing into fish. Mountains shutterd and exploded around "the Bleed", launching millions of tons of rock into the sky, the bulk of which suddenly became suspended in mid-air, creating the floating skylines of the Draconic Principalities. The entire Northern Ocean's surface froze thirty feet thick, creating a vast new icy desert in the northern hemisphere.

About half the human population was changed by the leyline fluxes, and entire other races like the halflings and orcs succumbed to mutation, evolving animal traits. The animals they developed the traits of at the same time became humanoid- in some sorcerous version of convergent evolution. A world on the brink of peace was born anew with an uncertain future. Unchanged humans retreated into xenophobia, choosing insular lives in their walled compounds, hateful and fearful of the new animalfolk races and the loss of the predictability they were accustomed to. The other races of the world were reborn- grappling with their newfound identities and attempting to forge unity amidst uncertainty.

Where in Wildspace?

Every campaign is different, so we offer a few options for synchronizing this sourcebook into your multiverse. Should the world of Ombreavoir ever be freed from the Impossible Terrarium, it will rematerialize in Wildspace. Much like the Rock of Bral, its native position is left up to the DM's purview to best fit their campaign.

Nixing the Terrarium. A DM might choose to do away with the Impossible Terrarium and the Guild of the Smouldering Bowl all together, presenting Ombreavoir as a planet encountered in the Wildspace system of their choice. A great option for placement is Grellspace (400 million miles from the outer edge of the system).

Using this Sourcebook

This book contains the lore, monsters, player character options and event generators you'll need to begin a campaign in Ombreavoir (or find your player characters trapped there by the Smouldering Bowl after a botched raid on the Rat King's Castle, if you've encountered them in Waterdeep).

• The world is divided into REGIONS, with descriptions of locales, npcs, monsters and events encountered there.

• Regional descriptions likely include a list of native PLAYABLE SPECIES available in that Region.

• This work references the Dungeon Master's Guide, the Player's Handbook, Volo's Guide to Monsters, the Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica, Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse, Boo's Astral Menagerie, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, Tasha's Cauldron of Everything, Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft and other 5th Edition DnD sourcebooks. However, only the Dungeon Master's Guide and Player's Handbook should be necessary to run a campaign using this sourcebook, the monsters within, and a DM's imagination.

• The demiplane is ever evolving, and can adapt to your changes as you see fit. The DM can change whatever they need to, at any time, to make the game enjoyable for all players.

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Ranked Starting Zones

Top tier, biodiverse regions to start a campaign:

• The Bramblewood & the Underforest

• Nekkon

• The Edge of It All

• The Clawtooth Confederacy

• Freedonia & the Free Seas

• The Draconic Principalities (and The Vault)

• The Rust Belt

• Bos, Bjornen, The Hunt

Mid tier regions are rated E for Evil. Harder for non-evil characters to start a campaign; as you're probably a slave or Underdark freedom fighter:

• Sarodia (unless youre a porc)

• Colle-Gens (unless youre a human)

• Gnolland (unless youre a gnoll)

• The Sunken Kingdoms (unless youre a LE fishman)

Bottom tier regions inhospitable to Player Characters:

• The Formian Hives (unless you're all roleplaying as Antfolk for the meme, which would be a fun one-shot)

• The Hagbriars (Its a disease-filled swamp)

• The Shamblerbelt (Its a zombified industrial farm)

• Lost Empire of Olben

Weird Weather

Giant Raindrops. Weather can be exaggerated on Ombreavoir. If an area recieves rainfall, there is a 33% chance huge raindrops fall from the sky. Use the Watery Sphere spell to represent the falling mega-drops. They are known to bounce off the ground, trapping creatures inside, then hover for 30 seconds to 1 minute before falling to the ground. The only places Giant Raindrops aren't known to fall are Bjornen, Sarodia and the frozen wastes of the south.

After giant raindrops fall, plants grow at an accelerated rate over the next hour. The first time a plant is absorbs water from a giant raindrop, it grows one size category larger.

Raining Frogs, Fish, Shrimp... About 50% of the time, giant raindrops are accompanied by small aquatic animals falling to the earth inside them. These rains are an important foodstuff in many ecosystems, and none can explain where the animals orginate from, but the following beasts have been noted: crabs, swarms of quippers, reef sharks, Giant Sea Horses, Giant Frogs- even Jammer Leeches!

Midnight Rainbows. Ombreavoir's moons produce their own light, and after night rains, create dazzling rainbow rings within the atmosphere.

A World Close to Nature

The classic concept of the ranger and her animal companion is one adopted by most all who reside on the demiplane for their very survival. Bramblewood’s rangers scout aloft giant owls for threats to their forest, divebombing feral Gnoll tribes which hunt Bramblewood's citizenry alongside packs of huge hyenas.

The most barbaric of these Gnolls forsake the use of weapons all together, tearing into their prey with tooth and claw. Nomadic Goliath animal handlers act as pack leaders for traveling menageries of fearsome beasts they have bested in physical combat and brought to heel, always searching for a more vicious animal to test their strength and that of their pack against.

The Nekkonese samurai wage war from the backs of massive flying beetles, and the islands' bays are awash with sloops full of Tabaxi fishermen netting large hauls with the aid of their pet dolphins. Gangs of dinosaur mounted gunslingers range the Edge of it All, trying to stay one step ahead of the myriad of horrors that pervade their land and survive another day. The Porcish Legions, each warrior mounted on a horrific dire boar, terrorize the "civilized" world...

Across the Demiplane of Survival, companion animals aid warrior and commoner alike in tasks from mundane to fantastic. Dungeon Masters running a campaign on Ombreavoir may institute the following rule addition, an edited version of the Beast Master Ranger's Companion, to give all players the full experience this adventure was meant to impart:

-Ombreavoir Companions-

(optional rule at DM discretion)

Choose a creature from the appropriate Ombreavoir Companions lists based on your character's region of origin. Add your proficiency bonus to the creature’s AC, attack rolls, and damage rolls, as well as to any saving throws and skills it is proficient in. Its hit point maximum equals its normal maximum or four times your level, whichever is higher. The creature loses the multiattack action, should it have one. If you have the option to take a companion through the Ranger Beast Master Archetype, you may instead take two companions, a swarm, or upgrade to a Magical Beast from the appropriate Ombreavoir Rangers' Companions list based on your region of origin.

The creature obeys your commands as best as it can. It takes its turn on your initiative, though it doesn’t take an action unless you command it to. On your turn, you can verbally command the creature where to move (no action required by you). You can use your action to verbally command it to take the Attack, Dash, Disengage, Dodge, or Help action. If you have the Extra Attack feature, you can make one attack yourself and you can command the creature to take an Attack action.

Ombreavoir Companions

Epic & Survivalist Campaigning

As you might guess from the optional companion rule, Ombreavoir is a high-powered Epic-level demiplane not for the faint of heart. The following changes and additional features set Ombreavoir apart from other settings:

Setting & Scale

The landscapes of the plane are twisted and exaggerated to dreamlike, Feywildian porportions and the intensity varies acoss the lands. The scale of things might match the material world in the Colle-Gens region, but crossing the threshold into the towering trees of the Bramblewood, a medium-sized adventurer will feel no larger than a housecat. The exaggerated growth of plants and beasts is centered around the "Green Zones", where specimens easily reach massive sizes and vicious temperments:

• Flora grows two-size categories larger than normal.
• Many wild Beast-type creatures are a size category larger than normal. Especially frightening beasts may be two sizes larger than normal or more, deal extra damage die, have double Hit Points, or even gain Lair Actions.

Ancient Beast Totems

Scattered across Ombreavoir are ancient stone totems carved in the likenesses of different animals that predate any known civilizations. These relics are coveted for the power they give the bearer over their associated animal, and many a warlord has risen to power utilizing totem controlled beasts.

Changes to Divine Magic

Chosen by the Unseelie from many surveyed not only because of it's peculiar juxoposition between the Shadowfell and Feywild, but its lack of contact with the upper and lower planes. To boil it down simply, when you arrive in Ombreavoir:

• Only divine magic tied to nature works. In fact, plants created by magic don't wither away at a spell's duration.

• Divine magic tied to a God doesnt work. Your God can't currently precieve this plane, and maybe no one has ever whispered a prayer in their name here before you. Take that faith elsewhere, cleric, your god cant see you here. Best start putting faith in your companions and your bladearm. This includes the Channel Divinity feature, as well as Commune or similar spells that allow you to contact other planes to communicate with your diety.

This place is designed to be a test of faith for the most devout offworld Cleric. Without the powers their god gives them, will they abandon their religion, or will their missionary work continue despite hardship?

Making Contact. A devout Cleric who continues their regular prayer routine and doesn't lose their faith makes a DC20 Charisma check after 30 days on the plane. On a success, the beacon of their devotion means their prayer is heard: they regain use of their cantrips and first level spell tied to divine magic, and they can contact their god through the Commune spell.

Establishing Worship. Without a Cleric establishing worship of their god on the demiplane, the entity's influence will remain limited. The divine spell slot levels available to the religion's clerics increases with the number of devout native converts to the "new" religion:

• 100 converts regains use of 2nd level spell slots and use of the Channel Divinity feature.
• 500 converts regains use of 3rd level spell slots
• 1,000 converts regains use of 4th level spell slots
• 2,500 converts and 10+ Priests regains use of 5th level spell slots and use of the Divine Intervention feature.
• 5,000 converts regains use of 6th level spell slots
• 25,000 converts regains use of 7th level spell slots
• 100,000 converts regains use of 8th level spell slots
• 250,000 converts and 100+ Priests regains use of 9th level spell slots and allows the God enough power to manifest an Avatar on the plane.

Werecreatures

Naturally-born Lycanthropes are an everyday occurance on Ombreavoir and part of normal society- making silvered weapons a common encounter as well. The ubiquity of werecreatures means silver isn't often used as coinage (though it is in Colle-Gens and Sarodia) as it is more valuable coated over a blade than as a harmless disc.

Standard Species Variants: Humans

Human Traits

There are a number of human tribes on Ombreavoir. For applying lycanthropy, see MM sidebar on pg 207.

Ability Score Increase: Your Scores each increase by 1.

Age: Humans reach Adulthood in their late teens and live less than a century.

Alignment: Humans tend toward no particular Alignment. The best and the worst are found among them.

Size: Humans vary widely in height and build, from barely 5 feet to well over 6 feet tall. Regardless of your position in that range, your size is Medium.

Speed: Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Bloodline: You must choose a Bloodline of human from the options below.

Bloodline: Colle-Gens

The Colle-Gens are the last "pureblooded" humans on the plane, and are representative of the standard PHB Human. They are by far the most numerous human demographic, making up almost half of all humans on Ombreavoir.

Unstable Genetics When a non-lycanthrope character with this trait levels up within a Green Zone, they must roll on that Green Zone's Mutations table and apply the result.

Bloodline: Bjornmen

Werewolf Lycanthropy: The Bjornmen are naturally born lycanthropes native to the frozen north. Apply werewolf lycanthropy to Bjornmen characters at creation.

Bloodline: Tusk Tribe

Werewalrus Lycanthropy: The Tusk Tribe are naturally born lycanthropes native to the frozen north. Apply werewalrus lycanthropy to Tusk Tribe characters at creation.

Bloodline: Kholmen

Weregoat Lycanthropy: The Kholmen are naturally born lycanthropes native to the mountains of the Hunt. Apply weregoat lycanthropy to Kholmen characters at creation.

Bloodline: Tsubasa no Dansei

Werebat Lycanthropy: The Tsubasa no Dansei are naturally born lycanthropes native to Nekkon. Apply werebat lycanthropy to Tsubasa no Dansei characters at creation.

Bloodline: Shǔ Rén

Wererat Lycanthropy: The Shǔ Rén are naturally born lycanthropes native to the islands of Nekkon. Apply wererat lycanthropy to Shǔ Rén characters at creation.

Bloodline: Skylos

Weredog Lycanthropy: The Skylos are naturally born lycanthropes, many serving as samurai in Nekkon. Apply Cyanthrope lycanthropy Skylos characters at creation.

Bloodline: Buteo Conclave

Red-Tailed Werehawk Lycanthropy: The Buteo are naturally born lycanthropes native to the Bramblewood. Apply Red-Tailed Werehawk lycanthropy to Buteo characters at creation.

Bloodline: Kan'Zans

Werejackalope Lycanthropy: The Kan'Zans are naturally born lycanthropes native to The Edge of it All. Apply werejackalope lycanthropy to Kan'Zan characters at creation.

Bloodline: Tex'Zans

Wereowl Lycanthropy: The Tex'Zans are naturally born lycanthropes native to The Edge of it All. Apply wereowl lycanthropy to Tex'Zan characters at creation.

Bloodline: Mex'Alacrán

Werescorpion Lycanthropy: The Mex'Alacrán are naturally born lycanthropes native to the edge of it all. Apply werescorpion lycanthropy to Mex'Alacrán characters at creation.

Bloodline: Louisii'an

Wereodile Lycanthropy: The Louisii'an are naturally born lycanthropes native to Freedonia. Apply wereodile lycanthropy to Louisii'an characters at creation.

Bloodline: Eltiburón

Wereshark Lycanthropy: The Tiburón are naturally born lycanthropes native to the Free Seas. Apply wereshark lycanthropy to Eltiburón characters at creation.

Bloodline: Xai-ba

Werecrab Lycanthropy: The Xai-ba are naturally born lycanthropes native to the Free Seas. Apply werecrab lycanthropy to Xai-ba characters at creation.

Bloodline: 'Cuda

Werecuda Lycanthropy: The 'Cuda are naturally born lycanthropes native to the Free Seas. Apply werecuda lycanthropy to 'Cuda characters at creation.

Bloodline: Bobbejaan

Werebaboon Lycanthropy: The Bobbejaan are naturally born lycanthropes native to the Clawtooth Confederacy. Apply werebaboon lycanthropy to Bobbejaan characters at creation.

Bloodline: The Caribe Tribes

Wereranha Lycanthropy: The Caribe are naturally born lycanthropes native to the Sunken Kingdoms and islands across the Free Seas. Apply wereranha lycanthropy to Caribe characters at creation.

Buteo Conclave rangers

Bond: Warrior Culture. From the time you could fly, you were trained to fight. With the invasion of the Bramblewood, you have become an officer in the army (DM assigns rank).

Bobbejaan merchants

Bond: Cousins Overseas. The Bobbejaan have migrated to major trade cities around the world. There is a 50% chance the player can find a Bobbejaan business that will cut them a deal (often for a favor or a promise of delivery of product). Traveling Bobbejaan merchants are famous for their overladen wagons and ships, which they name, fuss over and treat like children or beloved pets.

Kholmen mountain druids

Bond: Refugee Camp. The goatmen of the Ridgeback Mountains are the sworn protectors of all refugees that flee into the territory.

Kan'Zan gunslingers

Bond: The Gang. The Kan'Zans are a culture of Found Family. You grew up in a gunslinging gang on the open plains of the Edge of it All with many members of other species living beside you. Work out with the DM the particulars of the crew you ran with, their disposition, motives, alignment and why you're not with them now. Are they alive? Did they send you on a mission? Or were they too slow on the draw and kicked the bucket, so now you're on a path of vengeance?

Standard Species Variants: Elves

Elf Traits

Your elf character has a variety of natural abilities, the result of thousands of years of elven refinement.

Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity increases by 2.

Age. Although elves reach physical maturity at about the same age as humans, the elven understanding of adulthood goes beyond physical growth to encompass worldly experience. An elf typically claims adulthood and an adult name around the age of 100 and can live to be 750 years old.

Size. Elves range from under 5 to over 6 feet tall and have slender builds. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Darkvision. Accustomed to twilit forests and the night sky, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Keen Senses. You have proficiency in the Perception skill.

Fey Ancestry. You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put you to sleep.

Trance. Elves don’t need to sleep. Instead, they meditate deeply, remaining semiconscious, for 4 hours a day. After resting in this way, you gain the same benefit that a human does from 8 hours of sleep.

Languages. You speak, read, and write Sylvan and Elvish.

Bloodline. You must choose an Elven Bloodline from the options below.

Bloodline: Drow

These Drow are native to the Root in the Underdark below Bramblewood and gain the following trait in addition to their normal subrace traits:

Unstable Genetics When a non-lycanthrope character with this trait levels up within a Green Zone, they must roll on that Green Zone's Mutations table and apply the result.

Bloodline: Bramblewood Elves

Werewolfspider Lycanthropy: These wood elves are naturally born lycanthropes native to Bramblewood. Apply werewolfspider lycanthropy to Bramblewood Elf characters.

Bloodline: The Eight Houses

Wereoctopus Lycanthropy: Sea Elves of the Eight Houses are naturally born lycanthropes native to Freedonia. Apply wereoctopus lycanthropy to Eight Houses characters at creation.

Bloodline: Feral Sea Elves

Blue-Ringed Wereoctopus Lycanthropy: Feral sea elves are naturally born lycanthropes native to islands scattered across the Free Seas. Apply Blue-Ringed Wereoctopus lycanthropy to Feral Sea Elf characters at creation.

Bloodline: Blue Monks

Blue Werewhale Lycanthropy: These sea elves are naturally born lycanthropes native to the Free Seas. Apply Blue Werewhale lycanthropy to Blue Monk characters at creation.

Bloodline: Snow Feather Tribe

Crested Werepenguin Lycanthropy: These sea elves are naturally born lycanthropes native to the the frozen north. Apply Crested Werepenguin lycanthropy to Snow Feather Tribe characters at creation.

Bloodline: Whaletooth Tribe

Killer Werewhale Lycanthropy: This sea elf tribe are naturally born lycanthropes native to the frozen north. Apply Killer Werewhale lycanthropy to Whaletooth Tribe characters at creation.

Bloodline: Puma'pumas Tribe

Werejaguar Lycanthropy: These wood elves are naturally born lycanthropes native to the high altitude forests of Bos. Apply werejaguar spirit warrior lycanthropy to Puma'Pumas Tribe characters at creation.

Bloodline: Feral Wood Elves

Wereraptor Lycanthropy: These feral wood elves are naturally born lycanthropes native to the Land of Hidden Temples. Apply wereraptor lycanthropy to feral wood elf characters at creation.

Bloodline: Encantado Tribe

Weredolphin Lycanthropy: These wood elves are naturally born lycanthropes native to the Land of Hidden Temples. Apply weredolphin lycanthropy to Encantado characters at creation.

Subrace: Enguina Tribe

Weremoray Lycanthropy: These sea elves are naturally born lycanthropes native to the Sunken Kingdoms. Apply weremoray lycanthropy to Enguina characters at creation.

Bloodline: Fáng Jiān Clan

Weretoad Lycanthropy: These High Elves are naturally born lycanthropes native to Nekkon. Apply weretoad lycanthropy to Fáng Jiān Clan characters at creation.

Bloodline: Odonata Clan

Weredragonfly Lycanthropy: These Wood Elves are naturally born lycanthropes native to Nekkon. Apply weredragonfly lycanthropy to Odonata characters at creation.

Fáng Jiān Clan Merchant Houses

Bond: Family Business. The player is an officer or owner of a business in Yakosake, chosen by the DM.

Puma'pumas Tribe warriors

Bond: Defender of the Land. The player begins the campaign with a +1 macuahuitl. If outside of Bos, the player has been tasked with a quest by the elders of Taurean, likely to tip the balance of events in a far away land- quests that often end with the return of a severed head to the Dean-Con at the Temple of Skulls. The Balance must be maintained.

Encantado sea rangers

Bond: Sacred Duty. The Encantado are religiously beholden defenders of giant manatee, which they revere as celestial creatures. The player is obligated to defend manatees.

The player also innately knows the direction and distance to the secret underwater city of Encante.

Snow Feather tribe werepenguins

Bond: Windrider. Every adult werepenguin has a spiritual bond with their windrider- a surfboard with an attached sail- and take great pride in racing and trick competitions to display their skill and bravery.

Titanic Creatures

One of the wonders (or horrors, depending on perspective) of Ombreavoir are the Beast Titans. Deep within massive caves dotting the planet's surface are underdark lakes of a bubbling primordial ooze called The Source. Every 28 days, under the full moon, a new gargantuan-sized Beast Titan rises from the ooze, flesh and blood made real by the strange magics of ooze.

The Beast Titans are birthed from the Source emerge fully mature. Creatures spawned outside their biome- for example, a Winter Wolf Titan spawned onto the planes of the Clawtooth Confederacy, will leave to seek out their natural habitat in 2d4 days. If they survive showdowns with other creatures along the way to their natural habitat they will certainly become apex predators.

In some parts of the world, warrior cultures have developed around the ritual hunt of the innumerable Beast Titans, lest the creatures destroy the civilizations they are spawned near. In the wild parts of Ombreavoir where civilization has crumbled, the land is awash with massive predators only checked by each other in territorial battles for supremacy.

Beast Titans

To create a Beast Titan, take a Beast type creature and make to following changes to its stat block:

• Increase the creature's Strength to 30 (+10) and its Constitution to 30 (+10). It has a Natural Armor Class 25.

• Its Hit Points becomes 20d20+200. The Beast Titan has the Maximum possible Hit Points. Its Proficiency Bonus is +6 and it has intelligence 3.

• Size. The Titan is Gargantuan. Increase the size of the damage die of its attacks by two steps (d4 becomes d8) to a maximum of d12. It also gains a d12 Slam attack. It gains three extra die to its damage rolls.

• Titanic Resistances. Immunity to the charmed, frightened, paralyzed and poisoned conditions not caused by other Beast Titans; the Titan also has Immunity to Bludgeoning, Piercing and Slashing damage from nonmagical sources and Resistance to all other damage types.

• Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the beast titan fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.

• Siege Monster. A Beast Titan deals double damage to objects and structures.

• Frightful Roar. Each creature of the Beast Titan's choice within 120 feet of it and aware of it must succeed on a DC 17 Wisdom saving throw or become frightened for 1 minute. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, with disadvantage if the Beast Titan is within line of sight, ending the effect on itself on a success. If a creature's saving throw is successful or the effect ends for it, the creature is immune to the Beast Titans's Frightful Presence for the next 24 hours.

• Swallow. If the Beast Titan has a bite or peck attack, it gains a Tarraque's Swallow attack action. A Beast Titan's stomach acid only deals 8d6 damage each turn.

• Titan's Breath Weapon. The Beast Titan gains the breath weapon of an Ancient Dragon that shares the Titan's natural habitat. You may choose that the damage dealt by the breath weapon is instead Radiant or Necrotic.

• Legendary Actions.

Detect. The Titan makes a Wisdom (Perception) check.

Move. The Beast Titan moves up to half its speed.

Titanic Strike (Costs 2 Actions). Make any attack.

• Winged Beast Titans should gain one of these legendary actions:

Wing Attack (Costs 2 Actions). The Beast Titan beats its wings. Each creature within 15 feet of the Titan must succeed on a DC 22 Dexterity saving throw or take 15 (2d6 + 8) bludgeoning damage and be knocked prone. The Titan can then fly up to half its flying speed.

Swoop (Costs 2 Actions). The Beast Titan moves up to its speed and attacks with a natural weapon.

Other Titanic Improvements

You may add whichever abilities, attack actions, lair or legendary actions are appropriate while Kaiju Crafting, like:

Damage Absorption. The Beast Titan is immune to the kind of damage dealt by its Breath weapon. When it would be subjected to damage of that type,, it instead regains a number of hit points equal to the damage dealt.

Earth-Shaking Movement. As a bonus action after moving at least 10 feet on the ground, the Beast Titan can send a shock wave through the ground in a 120-foot-radius circle centered on itself. That area becomes difficult terrain for 1 minute. Each creature on the ground that is concentrating must succeed on a DC 25 Constitution saving throw or the creature's concentration is broken. The shock wave deals 100 thunder damage to all structures in contact with the ground in the area. If a creature is near a structure that collapses, the creature might be buried; a creature within half the distance of the structure's height must make a DC 25 Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the creature takes 17 (5d6) bludgeoning damage, is knocked prone, and is trapped in the rubble. A trapped creature is restrained, requiring a successful DC 20 Strength (Athletics) check as an action to escape. Another creature within 5 feet of the buried creature can use its action to clear rubble and grant advantage on the check. If three creatures use their actions in this way, the check is an automatic success. On a successful save, the creature takes half as much damage and doesn't fall prone or become trapped.

Protector Titan. The rarest Beast Titans are of above average intelligence and are born under a permanent Geas to protect a certain site or region, which they consider their territory. They have Intelligence 6, Wisdom 20 and Charisma 20. They cannot speak, but they can convey emotions and simple concepts through body language, and those with fingers may be able to learn sign language if taught. On a few occasions, Protector Titans have been noted to fashion crude melee weapons, like using a magical tree as a greatclub.

The Source

This primordial liquid is completely organic and inherently magical. Were it looked at under a microscope, one would see countless magic-immune waterbears swimming amongst the bits of genetic soup. It has a number of interesting properties:

Living Goo. Some have tried to destroy the Source since it appeared, but all failed. Any amount of the Source is amazingly resilient to any attempt to damage it and considered an unintelligent, immobile living Ooze type creature, with Hit Points based on the volume of liquid.

Size	Hit Points
Tiny	100 Hit Points
Small	1000 Hit Points
Medium	2,500 Hit Points
Large	5,000 Hit Points
Huge	10,000 Hit Points
Gargantuan	20,000 Hit Points

Primordial Ooze. The Source has Immunity to Bludgeoning, Piercing, Slashing, Psychic, Force, Radiant, Necrotic, Poison, Cold, Fire, Electric, Thunder, Acid and Magic damage.

The ooze can still be subjected to the Poisoned condition. While Poisoned, Beast Titans that the Source creates emerge with an extra Stage 2 or Stage 3 Mutation as it responds defensively and acclimates the toxin.

Primordial Absorbtion. Whenever the Source is subject to lightning, fire, acid, cold, radiant, thunder or poison damage, it takes no damage and instead regains a number of hit points equal to the damage dealt.

Magic Immunity. The Source automatically passes saving throws against spells and cannot be affected by magical effects.

Mutative. If a creature that isnt a Beast Titan is submerged in the liquid, it rewrites their DNA and fundamentally changes their form- they are permanently transformed into a random Beast Titan with two Stage 3 Mutations from the Mutations Tables and becomes a monster under the DM's control with a random alignment (25% good, 50% neutral, 25% evil) . Only a wish spell or similar magic can restore a mutated creature to its original form or reverse effects caused by the Source.

A creature who touches or dips part of their body into the Source takes 1d4+1 points of Charisma damage and gains two random Mutations. A creature who does this twice must take a DC20 Constitution saving throw. On a success, they are transformed into a random beast of a simiar type to their first mutation. On a failure, the creature is permanently polymorphed into a Gibbering Mouther under the DM's control, retaining their gained Mutations, abilites and class levels and gaining restistance to all damage types. The abberation gains the ability to shapechange into its original form, but it cannot hold this shape for more than 1d4 minutes before deforming into a mass of mutant horror.

Serums. Enterprising mad scientists could potentially blend the ooze into serums to inject into subjects to cause specific or randomized mutations based on their skill level.

Mutation Level	DC Skill Check (INT)
I	DC 15 random / DC 20 specific
II	DC 20 random / DC 25 specific
III	DC 25 random / DC 30 specific

Creating Competition

The Source isn't a singular creature, that is the Source in the Clawtooth Confederacy isnt the same being as the Source in Nekkon, and destroying one does nothing to another. While they share a common ancestor, the genetic makeup in each pool of primordial ooze has continued to develop and evolve in its own way since they were first split from their original test tube and deposited in their current locations by the Unseelie's scientists long before the activation of the Black Spires. The ooze deposits grew as they absorbed elemental energy, becoming the lakes they are today.

The purpose and origin of the Source isnt clear to the people of Ombreavoir, they just assume it a side effect of the Spires. The reason behind its creation and deployment was terrifyingly simple: to create competition, forging the lifeforms of the demiplane into a hardy bunch. The Unseelie decided that only the strongest would survive.

A strange phenemonenon has been documented by the researchers in the Black Spires concerning the Beast Titans spawned by the Source: when they encounter another Beast Titan, or colossal beasts like Tarrasques, the titan becomes hyperaggressive and attacks. Most titans will fight to the death at their first encounter, ensuring only the strongest titans are left alive to claim territory. Protector Titans may flee from a superior enemy. The titans also seem drawn together, challenging each other for territory when open lands of a similar biome exist elsewhere. A happy side effect for the researchers, the creatures seem so determined to destroy each other so that overpopulation should never become too much of a problem.

Introducing Beast Titans

Showdowns between Beast Titans are quite the spectacle and can cause immense damage; woe be the adventuring party that gets between two gargantuan beasts fighting to the death. Getting stuck at ground zero of a kaiju fight is a great way to introduce the Beast Titans in an Ombreavoir campaign. The characters stumble upon a titan or one walks towards the city- and its roar lures another titan in! As the beasts see each other, they forget about the players and focus on each other, the party (and townsfolk) getting a chance to escape as the massive creatures duke it out- smashing through buildings and uprooting trees.

It would pay not to kill of your players during a titan fight, but using the Earth-Shaking Movement effect to drop buildings or toss natural features on top of them is a great way to build tension. If anyone dies, just render them unconscious and stabilize them- they should be able to be pulled from the rubble after one of the titans kills the other and moves on (likely back to its lair to recooperate).

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Snow Leopard Titan

Gargantuan beast, unaligned

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• Armor Class 25 (Natural Armor)
• Hit Points 600 (20d20+200)
• Speed 40 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
30 (+10)	15 (+2)	30 (+10)	3 (-4)	12 (+1)	8 (-1)

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• Damage Immunity Cold
• Damage Resistances all damage
• Condition Immunities charmed, frightened, paralyzed and poisoned
• Skills Perception +7, Stealth +8
• Senses darkvision 120 ft., Passive Perception 17
• Challenge 30

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Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the Snow Leopard titan fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.

Immutable Form. The Snow Leopard titan is immune to any spell or effect that would alter its form.

Keen Smell. The leopard has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell.

Cold Absorption. When it would be subjected to Cold damage from a source other than itself, it instead takes no damage and regains a number of hit points equal to the damage dealt.

Siege Monster. A Beast Titan deals double damage to objects and structures.

Pounce. If the leopard moves at least 20 feet straight toward a creature and then hits it with a claw attack on the same turn, that target must succeed on a DC 24 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone. If the target is prone, the leopard can make one bite attack against it as a bonus action.

Actions

Multiattack. The Titan can use its Frightful Presence. It then makes three attacks: one with its bite and two with its claws.

Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +16 to hit, reach 15ft., one target. Hit 38 (4d12 + 10).

Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +16 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 38 (4d12 + 10) piercing damage.

Cold Breath Recharge (5-6). The Titan exhales an icy blast in a 90-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a DC 22 Constitution saving throw, taking 72 (16d8) cold damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

Frightful Roar. Each creature of the Beast Titan's choice within 120 feet of it and aware of it must succeed on a DC 17 Wisdom saving throw or become frightened for 1 minute. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, with disadvantage if the Beast Titan is within line of sight, ending the effect on itself on a success. If a creature's saving throw is successful or the effect ends for it, the creature is immune to the Beast Titans's Frightful Presence for the next 24 hours.

Swallow. The Snow Leopard Titan makes one bite attack against a Large or smaller creature it is grappling. If the attack hits, the target takes the bite's damage, the target is swallowed, and the grapple ends. While swallowed, the creature is blinded and restrained, it has total cover against attacks and other effects outside the Beast Titan, and it takes 28 (8d6) acid damage at the start of each of the Beast Titan's turns.

If the Beast Titan takes 60 damage or more on a single turn from a creature inside it, the Beast Titan must succeed on a DC 20 Constitution saving throw at the end of that turn or regurgitate all swallowed creatures, which fall prone in a space within 10 feet of the Titan. If the Titan dies, a swallowed creature is no longer restrained by it and can escape from the corpse by using 30 feet of movement, exiting prone.

Legendary Actions

Detect. The Titan makes a Wisdom (Perception) check.

Attack. The Titan makes one natural weapon attack.

Stalk. The Snow Leopard Titan makes a Dexterity (Stealth) check and moves up to half its speed.

Titanic Strike (Costs 2 Actions). The Beast Titan makes an attack.

Example Beast Titan: Big Nevada

In the Dragon Principalities, a Snow Leopard Titan has been terrorizing the White Dragons' collective territories. Survivors of the attacks have named her Big Nevada, and the whites become increasingly nervous of their new predator.

So far, the titan has only struck at Princes with their parties once they leave home for the Hunt and are in the wilderness. With three dead adult princes and a score of servants eaten in the three weeks since the first reports of the creature by kobold scouts, the dragons would pay an adventuring party handsomely to end the threat.

The white dragons have winded legal regulations on dividing slain relatives' treasure between them, but have offered one half of one of the three hoards to the party that kills the beast titan for them. They can be negotiated into letting the entire hoard go with a successful DC20 Charisma check. In general, the other Dragon families balk at the whites' request for aid. They would love to see their uppity enemies picked off one by one. However, a few dragons have been lured into hunting the beast titan for the offer of a full hoard, but Big Nevada claimed the ancient red and a pair of adult blue dragons (along with their hunting parties) that took up the offer and the dragons' collective laughter stopped when they realized if Big Nevada eats all the whites, they are likely next on the menu.

Region I: The Bramblewood

This somber and idyllic forest is the home of sacred entrances to vast Underdark mushroom forests that stretch from the Clawed Plains in the west to the Hunt in the east, and south to Khrak Khazarad past Sarodia. The forest is ruled by a seemingly ageless Unseelie warrior queen, Kenzi Rosetta. From her throne at Rose Red Keep in the northwest of the territory beside Mirror Lake, the location of the oldest of the Unseelie Spires which dot the world, the Queen schemes against her enemies- the magics of the plane bent to her will to help achieve her unseen goals. As Humans, Gnolls and Porc position to invade her forest and her people marshal their might to defend it, Kenzi prepares herself for her endgame: a spider on a delicate web, ready to pounce.

Queen Kenzi Rosetta

A member of the Unseelie Court, Kenzi is a Leanan Sídhe, strikingly beautiful and deceptively deadly. Though she can shrink to the size of field mouse and change her shape, her true physical form is five and a half feet tall, with vibrant green eyes and fiery red hair set against soft, pale silver skin and shimmering, translucent wings like those of a luna moth. Her body is covered in elaborate knot tattoos, prideful markings of her kills and achievements in service of the Queen of Air and Darkness. While she balks at the restrictiveness of armor- preferring flowing dresses of lace and spider silk- she is rarely seen without her oversized hammer- enchanted to be as light as a feather in her hands.

Before the fall of the Unseelie, she was a dancer performing for the Summer Court, entertaining archfey with her ethereal footwork and emotion drenched movements. When Titania unjustly expelled her sister Mab to the Shadowfell, Kenzi was one of the unlucky fae exiled with her.

Combining her passion for dance with her rage at the Summer Court, Kenzi eventually became Queen Mab's assassin, hunting Seelie fae on the material plane and preparing herself for her ever-looming reckoning with the "goodly" Queen Titania. Partnered with her lover, a Sprite warlock known as the Shadethrower- Kenzi refined herself into a veritable force of nature in combat, working in concert with his shadow manipulating magics to take down targets far more powerful than themselves.

Under Mab's direction, Kenzi and the Shadethrower explored the material realms, searching for a plane where the walls between the Feywilds and Shadowfell were the thinnest- and their gaze fell on Ombreavoir, where the division between the realms was like wet paper.

It was during this time that Kenzi was first crowned Queen of the Bramblewood for slaying the Beast Below the Mirror, a beauty obsessed lich draining the locals of their youth from her lair in the underdark beside Mirror Lake.

A chaotic creature at heart, Mab's assassin decided to carve out her own legend on the plane to feed her egotistical appetites and began construction of Rose Red Keep above the lair of the exterminated lich. On Mab's orders, Unseelie agents were sent to Ombreavoir to serve under Kenzi and they quietly constructed their Spires over thirty years while Kenzi played the part of the moster slaying barbarian queen.

The Fair Folk of the Forest

The people of Bramblewood are a diverse group of animalfolk and fae races united in singular purpose under their Unseelie Queen. The homes of Aaracockra and Sciuri families are a common sight in the forest’s towering trees, as are the wandering vegetarian Cervinae tribes trekking across the underbrush in near silent pilgrimage. In addition to their own cultural traditions, all of Bramblewood's citizens follow the laws set down in the Rose Red Accords at the beginning of Queen Kenzi's reign, which united all the predatory and prey species with a communal contract of cooperation.

The Rose Red Accords:

The few laws set down by the faerie queen are followed religiously across the Bramblewood:

• Each citizen who gives the community the best of their ability will not want for what they need.

• Poaching is punishable by death.

• The blight of Necromancy punishable by death.

• Consumption of the flesh of an intelligent creature is punishable by death.

• Failure to show a Fae due reverence is punishable by vicious ridicule and mischief.

Player Character Options

Bramblewood hosts a wealth of 38 native playable races:

Common Playable Race Options: Aaracockra, Mouselings, Lepori, Möl, three Sciuri subraces, four Musteli subraces, Coyot, the Bandito clans, Cervinae (a Minotaur subrace), Kenku, Bramblewood Tree Grung, Yuan-ti, Firbolg, Tortle, Drow, Hedgefolk, Red-Tailed Werehawk, Werewolfspiders, Treant, Rosetta Goblins, Sprites, Pixies, Dryad, Korred, Leprechaun, Púca, Quickling, Boggle and Darkling... even species from the Wokewood like Vegepygmy, Myconid and Podlings.

Less Common Playable Race Options: To a lesser extent there are Goliath, Vanara, Lizardfolk, Castora, and other races from Freedonia, Nekkon and the Clawtooth Confederacy- if not wandering adventurers lending their steel to the Queen's war effort, player characters of these races will often be first or second generation natives born to immigrant parents, eager to join the Patrols or make a name for themselves as a local hero.

"Its the dream of every kid in the 'Wood, Ma."

Playable Races: Bramblewood Natives

Mouseling

Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 2 and your Dexterity score increases by 1.

Age Mouseling reach adulthood around 5 and generally live about 60 years.

Alignment. Mouseling tend towards Good alignments.

Size. Mouselings stand between 2 and 3 feet tall and average 25 pounds. Your size is small.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 25 feet.

Burrower. You have a burrow speed of 10 feet.

Keen Smell. You advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell.

Mouseling Nimbleness. You can move through the space of any creature that is of a size larger than yours.

Lucky. When you roll a 1 on an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw, you can reroll the die. You must use the new result, even if it is a 1.

Naturally Stealthy. You can attempt to hide even when you are only obscured by a creature one size larger.

Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Languages. You can speak, read and write Sylvan and Squeakspeak. You know how to speak one other local language.

Bandito

(Rakun Subspecies)

Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 2 and your Intelligence increases by 1.

Age. Rakun reach adulthood around 12 and generally live about 55 years.

Alignment. Rakun tend heavily towards Chaotic alignments.

Size. Banditos stand about 3'-4' feet tall and 50 pounds.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Lucky. When you roll a 1 on the d20 for an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw, you can reroll the die and must use the new roll.

Home Tree. The Bandito of Bramblewood must take an Awakened Tree as their companion.

Bandito Nimbleness. You can move through the space of any creature that is of a size larger than yours.

Naturally Stealthy. You can attempt to hide even when you are obscured only by a creature that is at least one size larger than you.

Sneaky. Proficient in Stealth and Sleight of Hand.

Languages. You can speak, read and write Sylvan. You know how to speak one other local language.

Coyot

At first glance, you might mistake a Coyot for a lightly built werewolf, but theyre no lycanthrope. These carnivores' fur is long and coarse and is generally grizzled buff above and whitish below, reddish on the legs, and bushy on the black-tipped tail. There is, however, considerable local variation in size and colour.

Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score increases by 2 and your Wisdom score increases by 1.

Age. Young are born blind and helpless, but after two to three months pups start emerging from the den to play. Weaning occurs at five to seven months, and both parents feed and care for the pups until they are fully grown and independent, usually at six to nine years of age. Coyot generally live about 70 years.

Alignment. Coyot tend towards Chaotic alignments.

Size. Coyot stand between just under 4 feet and 6ft tall, your size is medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 35 feet.

Sometimes Burrower. You have a 5 feet Burrow speed.

Keen Senses. You advantage on Perception checks.

Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Skill Versatility. You gain proficiency in two skills of your choice.

Sneaky. You are proficient in Stealth.

Natural Tracker Difficult Terrain doesn't slow your movement. While Tracking other Creatures, you learn their exact number, their sizes, and how long ago they passed through the area.

Bite. You have a natural bite attack which deal 1d4 piercing damage.

Languages. You can speak, read and write Sylvan. You know how to speak Coyot and one other local language.

Cervinae, Elg & Elgur

(Minotaur Bloodline)

The Cervinae are a lean minotaur breed with deer heads, while the Elg and Elgur have elk and moose heads, respectively. These three tribes are the only minotaur race native to Bramblewood.

Ability Score Increase. Choose one of: (a) Choose any +2; choose any other +1 (b) Choose three different +1

Alignment. You tend towards Good alignments.

Size. Cervinae are medium, standing 7-8ft. Elg and Elgur are large, standing around 10-12ft.

Fleet of Hoof. Your base walking speed is 35 feet.

Horns. You have horns that you can use to make unarmed strikes. When you hit with them, the strike deals 1d6 + your Strength modifier piercing damage, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.

Goring Rush. Immediately after you take the Dash action on your turn and move at least 20 feet, you can make one melee attack with your Horns as a bonus action.

Hammering Horns. Immediately after you hit a creature with a melee attack as part of the Attack action on your turn, you can use a bonus action to attempt to push that target with your horns. The target must be within 5 feet of you and no more than one size larger than you. Unless it succeeds on a Strength saving throw against a DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier, you can push it up to 10 feet away from you.

Languages. You can speak, read and write Sylvan, Giant and Druidic.

Musteli

The Musteli comprise an umbrella of carnivorous mammals which vary greatly in size and appearance. Common characteristics of the Musteli include thick fur and small, rounded ears, clawed hands and feet, and carnassial teeth adapted to tearing flesh. The Musteli have anal scent glands, like a skunk, which they use to mark territory and ward off predators.

Age. Musteli reach adulthood around 15 and generally live about 70 years.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Keen Smell. You advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell.

Musteli Claws. Your claws are natural weapons, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with them, you deal slashing damage equal to 1d4 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.

Spray. You can use your action to spray a noxious, stinking musk from your scent glands.

When you use your spray, each creature within 15ft must make a DC 8 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the target is nauseated and at a disadvantage to attack for 1 minute. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. A creature that doesn't need to breathe or is immune to poison automatically succeeds on the saving throw.

After you use your spray, you can't use it again until after a Short or Long Rest.

Languages. You can speak, read and write Sylvan. You know how to speak one other local language.

Subspecies. There are four different subspecies in the Musteli family- Wii'Zel, Otterfolk, Wolveri and Baderlord.

Wii'zel bandits who've pledged their service to the Queen's war effort often dye their fur in pinks and purples to mark their alliegance.

Wii'Zel

Wii'Zel are slender bodied predators with short limbs and long tails. Their dexterity and stealth lend them to the Rogue's lifestyle of skulking in the shadows and they make natural scouts, thieves and assassins. The Wii'Zel are comprised of a number of large extended families called Gangs. The Stoa'at, Mynk and Yellow Bellies are smaller-sized Gangs, about the size of gnomes. The Pôlcatt, Fer'rett and Great Wii'Zel are about as tall as humans. Many Wii'Zel Gangs moult- their summer coats turning white to camoflauge them for the winter and back again in the springtime.

Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 2 and your Intelligence score increases by 1.

Alignment. Wii'Zel are stereotyped as evil creatures, but their alignments vary as wildy as their Gangs do in size.

Size. Wii'zel stand between 3 and 6 feet tall weigh between 30 and 180 pounds. Your size is small or medium.

Sneaky. You are proficient in the Stealth skill.

Naturally Stealthy. You can attempt to hide even when you are obscured only by a creature that is at least one size larger than you.

Wii'Zel War Dance. You are proficient in Acrobatics.

Natural Scout. You have a climb speed and swim speed of 25 feet.

Otterfolk

Like the Wii'Zel, Otterfolk are long, slender bodied carnivores with short limbs. The digits on their hands and feet are webbed, they sport long muscular tails, and they can hold their breath for an astounding amount of time- making them expert swimmers who take to the water just months after they are born. Otterfolk live in familial groups called Rafts. Each Raft lives on the water on a ship that the Otterfolk care for as if the vehicle were another family member. Raised from birth as ready sailors, they are common sights on vessels around the civilized world. They are avid fisherman with a diet consisting of fish, crabs, crawdads, clams and shellfish.

Unlike the other Musteli, they have natural pockets- flaps of loose skin under each arm that stretch onto their chest. In her left pocket the Otterfolk holds her "heart," a highly prized polished stone which is chosen by its bearer during the coming of age ritual that sees her join the adults of her Raft as a diver. They use their hearts to open shellfish, and they are objects of great cultural significance.

Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 2 and your Wisdom score increases by 1.

Alignment. Otterfolk tend towards Neutral or Chaotic Good alignments.

Size. Otterfolk stand between 5 and 6 feet tall and weigh between 130 and 220 pounds. Your size is medium.

Born a Sailor. Otterfolk characters must take the Sailor background. You have advantage on Strength (Athletics) checks made while swimming and sailing.

Natural Swimmer. While wearing light or no armor, you have a swim speed of 60 feet.

Expert Diver. You can hold your breath for up to ten minutes, though you have the natural urge to surface after 8 minutes underwater.

Wolveri

A hot-tempered subspecies of Musteli, the Wolveri are brutish, aggressive and easily agitated. They are muscular, voracious carnivores- but are apt to scavenge long before they hunt. Their musculature makes them look less like their Musteli cousins and more humanoid, sporting broad heads set with beady black eyes and round, fuzzy ears. Most often encountered as Path of the Berserker Barbarians, they are a brave lot, known to stand their ground against much larger enemies.

Ability Scores. Constitution +2, Strength +1, Charisma -2.

Alignment. Though prone to outbursts of violence and anger, Wolveri tend towards true neutral.

Size. Wolveri stand between 6 and 7 feet tall and weigh 220-380 pounds. Your size is medium.

Aggressive. As a bonus action, you can move up to your speed toward a hostile creature that you can see or smell.

Menacing. You are proficient in the Intimidation skill.

Powerful Build. You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift.

Powerful Musk. Your scent glands are more developed than the other Musteli breeds. The DC of your Spray attack is equal to 8 + your Constitution modifier + your proficiency bonus. You are immune to the Spray of other Wolveri. The smell will linger on targets for a number of days equal to your Constitution modifier.

Chestnut, famed Chyttr assassin with his whisperwood bow.

Chyttr

These squirrelfolk have lanky bodies with long, muscular limbs and furred feet. Thier ankle joints are flexible and can be rotated, allowing them to rapidly descend trees headfirst with the hind feet splayed flat against the trunk. Their large, bright eyes convey an alert demeanour, and their broad, short head tapers to a blunt muzzle adorned with long whiskers. Their most noticeable feature is their big busy tail, which can be longer than their head and body combined.

Ability Score Increase. Dexterity +2.

Size Chyttr stand on average 3 feet tall and weigh about 35 pounds. Your size is small.

Naturally Stealthy. You can attempt to hide even when you are obscured only by a creature that is at least one size larger.

Climber. You have a climb speed of 30 feet.

Lucky. When you roll a 1 on an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw, you can reroll the die. You must use the new result, even if it is a 1.

Manic Action. You may take Dash, Disengage, Dodge or Hide as a bonus action.

Quartermaster Chiff oversees provisions at Rose Red Keep.

Chipper

Chipper are slender bodied Sciuri with short limbs and tiny tails. These small terrestrial squirrelfolk are marked with stripes, with large internal cheek pouches used for transporting food. They are known for thier hospitality.

Ability Score Increase. Charisma score increases by 2.

Size. Chipper average 2 and 3 feet tall and weigh around 20 and 35 pounds. Your size is small.

Naturally Stealthy. You can attempt to hide even when you are obscured only by a creature that is at least one size larger.

Burrower. You have a burrow and climb speed of 20 feet.

Ever Hospitable. When you make a Charisma (Persuasion) check or an ability check involving brewer's supplies or cook's utensils, you can roll a d4 and add the number rolled to the ability check.

Grovel, Cower, and Beg. Once per rest as an action, you can cower pathetically to distract nearby foes. Until the end of your next turn, your allies gain advantage on attack rolls against enemies within 10 feet of you that you can see.

Whistlepig

Whistlepigs are chubby Sciuri with short tails and wiry brown fur. Their stocky arms end in curved claws perfect for digging. Whistlepig clans are led by a Chuck, the toughest and wisest warrior among them.

Ability Score Increase. Strength score increases by 2.

Size. Whistlepig stand up to 5 1/2 feet tall and weigh between 180 and 250 pounds. Your size is medium.

Expert Burrower. You have a burrow speed of 20 feet.

Whistle. As a reaction when you notice danger or are surprised, you can whistle to alert the community to danger, audible out to 300ft. The whistle awakens sleeping allies.

Bite. Natual weapon deals (1d6) piercing damage.

Pack Tactics. You have advantage on an attack roll against a creature if at least one of your allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally isn't incapacitated.

Hedgefolk

Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by 2 and your Wisdom score increases by 1.

Age. Hedgefolk reach adulthood around 16 and generally live about 80 years.

Alignment. Hedgefolk tend towards Neutral alignments.

Size. Your size is small.

Speed. Your base walking and climb speed is 25 feet.

Burrower. You have a 10ft burrow speed.

Defensive Spines. Attempts to grapple you are made at disadvantage, and a creature that grapples you takes (1d4) piercing damage.

Curl into a Ball. As a bonus action, you can curl into a defensive ball. While curled up, you gain +2 AC. You can roll at your normal walk speed, but you can only make Spine Slam attacks while in a defensive stance. While in your ball, you are very buoyant, gaining advantage on swim checks.

Natural Attack (Spine Slam). Your spines afford you a natural slam attack that does 1d6 piercing damage.

Languages You can speak, read and write Sylvan. You know how to speak one other local language.

Ginseng, Captain of the Bramblewood 3rd Patrol

Lepori (Rabbitfolk)

Lepori, also known as Hares or Jacks, are herbivorous humanoids with powerful legs made for running and jumping. They have long elegant ears that sit mobile atop their heads and large eyes adapted to low light to keep them safe from predators. Their legs and arms end in paws with four digits.

Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 2 and your Wisdom score increases by 1.

Age. Lepori reach adulthood around 10 and generally live about 65 years.

Alignment. Lepori tend towards Neutral or Good alignments. They are rarely inclined towards Evil.

Size. Lepori stand 3 to 6 feet tall and weigh 40 to 220 pounds. Your size is small or medium, chosen at creation.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 35 feet.

Leporine Senses. You have proficiency in Perception.

Standing Leap Your long jump is 20 feet and your high jump is 15 feet, with or without a running start.

Darkvision. Accustomed to life in underground burrows, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in the darkness as if it were dim light. You can only see

Burrower. You have a 10 foot burrow speed.

Escape and Evade. The hare can take the Dash, Disengage, or Hide action as a bonus action on each of its turns.

Languages You can speak, read and write Sylvan. You know how to speak one other local language.

Möl soldier-saboteurs of the Tunnelguard (4th Patrol) are known for their clockwork-and-crystal prosthetics.

Möl

The Möl are a squat species of unmatched tunnelers reminiscent of Dwarves in size and build. They have short legs, stout bodies and powerful arms with wide clawed hands adapted to digging that feature a second thumb. Covered with a short, velvety fur, the Möl have pointed snouts with long whiskers. Its not unknown for a Möl to rarely open its eyes, as they are near blind and rely on vibrations through the ground to tell them what is happening around them. For this reason, Möl spend most of their lives underground.

Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by 2 and your Wisdom score increases by 1.

Age. Möl reach adulthood around 20 and generally live about 80 years.

Alignment. Möl tend towards neutral or good alignments.

Size. You stand 4 to 5 feet tall and average 170 pounds. Your size is medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 25 feet.

Burrower. You have a burrow speed of 30 feet.

Tremorsense. You have Tremorsense out to 60 feet.

Keen Smell. You advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell.

Nearly Blind. Your vision has a range of ten feet and you are colorblind. You have disadvantage on all Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.

Low Oxygen Adaption. Möl have specially evolved haemoglobin allowing them to more efficiently breathe their own recycled air while burrowing. You can breathe normally in Fouled air and can live for as long as an astonishing 5 minutes in Deadly Air or without any air at all.

Languages. You can speak Sylvan and two other languages.

Firbolg

Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 2, and your Strength score increases by 1.

Age. As humanoids related to the fey, firbolg have long lifespans. A firbolg reaches adulthood around 30, and the oldest of them can live for 500 years.

Alignment. As people who follow the rhythm of nature and see themselves as its caretakers, firbolg are typically neutral good. Evil firbolg are rare and are usually the sworn enemies of the rest of their kind.

Size. Firbolg are between 7 and 8 feet tall and weigh between 240 and 300 pounds. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common, Elvish, and Giant.

Firbolg Magic: You can cast detect magic and disguise self with this trait, using Wisdom as your spellcasting ability for them. Once you cast either spell, you can't cast it again with this trait until you finish a short or long rest. When you use this version of disguise self, you can seem up to 3 feet shorter than normal, allowing you to more easily blend in with humans and elves.

Hidden Step: As a bonus action, you can magically turn invisible until the start of your next turn or until you attack, make a damage roll, or force someone to make a saving throw. Once you use this trait, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Powerful Build: You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift.

Speech of Beast and Leaf: You have the ability to communicate in a limited manner with beasts and plants. They can understand the meaning of your words, though you have no special ability to understand them in return. You have advantage on all Charisma checks to influence them.

Yuan-ti Pureblood

Ability Score Increases. Charisma +2, Intelligence +1

Age. Purebloods mature at the same rate as humans and have lifespans similar in length.

Alignment. Purebloods are devoid of emotion and see others as tools to manipulate. They care little for law or chaos and are typically neutral evil.

Size. Purebloods match humans in average size and weight. Your size is Medium.

Speed: 30 ft., swim 30ft

Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

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 can also cast suggestion with this trait. Once you cast it, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

Magic Resistance. You have advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.

Poison Immunity. You are immune to poison damage and the poisoned condition.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Sylvan, Abyssal, and Draconic.

Bramblewood Tree Grung

Ability Score Increases: Dexterity +2, Wisdom +1

Age. Grungs mature to adulthood in a single year, but have been known to live up to 50 years.

Alignment. Bramblewood Grung tend toward chaos.

Size. Tree Grungs stand between 2½ and 3½ feet tall and average about 30 pounds. Your size is Small.

Speed: 25 ft., swim 25ft, Climb 25 ft.

Darkvision. You have darkvision 60ft.

Arboreal Alertness. You have proficiency in the Perception and Stealth skill.

Amphibious. You can breathe air and water.

Croak. You may emit a croak as a bonus action, alerting all allies within 400ft to danger.

Tree Frog. You can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check. You have advantage on dexterity checks made to jump while climbing.

Standing Leap. Your long jump is up to 25 feet and your high jump is up to 15 feet, with or without a running start.

Water Dependency. If you fail to immerse yourself in water for at least 1 hour during a day, you suffer one level of exhaustion at the end of that day. You can only recover from this exhaustion through magic or by immersing yourself in water for at least 1 hour.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Sylvan and speak Grung.

Tortle

Ability Score Increases: Strength +2, Wisdom +1

Age. Maturity at 20, live an average of 200 years.

Alignment. Tortles tend to lead orderly, ritualistic lives. They follow complex cultural customs and routines, becoming more set in their ways as they age and become elders. Most are lawful or neutral good.

Size. Tortle adults stand 5 to 6 feet tall and average 450 pounds. Their shells account for roughly one-third of their weight. Your size is Medium.

Claws. Natural weapons that deal 1d4 slashing damage.

Hold Breath. You can hold your breath for up to 1 hour at a time. Tortles aren't natural swimmers, but they can remain underwater for some time before surfacing.

Natural Armor. Due to your shell and the shape of your body, you are ill-suited to wearing armor. Your shell provides ample protection, however; it gives you a base AC of 17 (your Dexterity modifier doesn't affect this number). You gain no benefit from wearing armor, but if you are using a shield, you can apply the shield's bonus as normal.

Shell Defense. You can withdraw into your shell as an action. Until you emerge, you gain a +4 bonus to AC, and you have advantage on Strength and Constitution saving throws. While in your shell, you are prone, your speed is 0 and can't increase, you have disadvantage on Dexterity saving throws, you can't take reactions, and the only action you can take is a bonus action to emerge from your shell.

Survival Instinct. You gain proficiency in the Survival skill. Tortles have finely honed survival instincts.

Languages. You speak, read, and write Aquan & Sylvan.

Drow

Ability Scores Increases: Dexterity +2, Charisma +1

Age. Although elves reach physical maturity at about the same age as humans, the elven understanding of adulthood goes beyond physical growth to encompass worldly experience. An elf typically claims adulthood and an adult name around the age of 100 and can live to be 750 years old.

Alignment. Elves love freedom, variety, and self-expression, so they lean strongly toward the gentler aspects of chaos. They value and protect others' freedom as well as their own, and they are more often good than not.

Size. Elves range from under 5 to over 6 feet tall and have slender builds. Your size is Medium.

Darkvision. Accustomed to twilit forests and the night sky, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Keen Senses. You have proficiency in the Perception skill.

Fey Ancestry. You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can't put you to sleep.

Trance. Elves don't need to sleep. Instead, they meditate deeply, remaining semiconscious, for 4 hours a day. (The Common word for such meditation is "trance.") While meditating, you can dream after a fashion; such dreams are actually mental exercises that have become reflexive through years of practice. After resting in this way, you gain the same benefit that a human does from 8 hours of sleep. If you meditate during a long rest, you finish the rest after only 4 hours. You otherwise obey all the rules for a long rest; only the duration is changed.

Superior Darkvision. Accustomed to the depths of the Underdark, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 120 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Sunlight Sensitivity. You have disadvantage on attack rolls and on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight when you, the target of your attack, or whatever you are trying to perceive is in direct sunlight.

Drow Magic. You know the dancing lights cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast the faerie fire spell once per day; you must finish a long rest in order to cast the spell again using this trait. When you reach 5th level, you can also cast the darkness spell once per day; you must finish a long rest in order to cast the spell again using this trait. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

Drow Weapon Training. You have proficiency with rapier, shortsword, and hand crossbow.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Elvish.

Bramblewood Elf

The wood elves (also known as wild elves) native to the Bramblewood are afflicted with Werewolfspider lycanthropy. Wood elves’ skin tends to be copperish in hue, sometimes with traces of green. Their hair tends toward browns and blacks, but it is occasionally blond or copper-colored. Their eyes are green, brown, or hazel.

Ability Score Increases: Dexterity +2, Wisdom +1

Age. Although elves reach physical maturity at about the same age as humans, the elven understanding of adulthood goes beyond physical growth to encompass worldly experience. An elf typically claims adulthood and an adult name around the age of 100 and can live to be 750 years old.

Alignment. Elves love freedom, variety, and self-expression, so they lean strongly toward the gentler aspects of chaos. They value and protect others' freedom as well as their own, and they are more often good than not.

Size. Elves range from under 5 to over 6 feet tall and have slender builds. Your size is Medium.

Darkvision. Accustomed to twilit forests and the night sky, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Keen Senses. You have proficiency in the Perception skill.

Fey Ancestry. You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can't put you to sleep.

Trance. Elves don't need to sleep. Instead, they meditate deeply, remaining semiconscious, for 4 hours a day. (The Common word for such meditation is "trance.") While meditating, you can dream after a fashion; such dreams are actually mental exercises that have become reflexive through years of practice. After resting in this way, you gain the same benefit that a human does from 8 hours of sleep. If you meditate during a long rest, you finish the rest after only 4 hours. You otherwise obey all the rules for a long rest; only the duration is changed.

Languages. You speak, read, and write Sylvan and Elvish.

Elf Weapon Training. You have proficiency with the longsword, shortsword, shortbow, and longbow.

Fleet of Foot. Your base speed increases to 35 feet.

Mask of the Wild. You can attempt to hide even when you are only lightly obscured by foliage, heavy rain, falling snow, mist, and other natural phenomena.

Natural Lycanthrope. You were born afflicted with Werewolfspider lycanthopy, gaining the following abilities:

Shapechanger. You can use your action to polymorph into a spider-elf hybrid or into a Giant Spider, or back into your natural elf form. Any equipment you are wearing or carrying isn't transformed. You revert to your elf form if you die.

Damage Immunities. You have immunity to bludgeoning, piercing and slashing damage from nonmagical sources while in your hybrid and spider forms.

Exoskeleton. You have a natural armor class of 14 in your hybrid and spider forms.

Spider Climb. You can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check. You have a climb speed of 30ft.

Spider Senses. You have blindsight 10 ft. and darkvision 60 ft.

Web Sense. While in contact with a web, you know the exact location of any other creature in contact with the same web.

Web Walker. You ignore movement restrictions caused by webbing in your hybrid and spider forms.

Spider Bite. In your were-forms, you have a natural bite attack that does 1d8 piercing damage, and the target must make a DC 11 Constitution saving throw, taking 9 (2d8) poison damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. If the poison damage reduces the target to 0 hit points, the target is stable but poisoned for 1 hour, even after regaining hit points, and is paralyzed while poisoned in this way.

Web. Recharge (5-6). In your wereforms, you have a natural ranged web attack with a range 30/60 ft. that targets one creature. On a hit, the target is restrained by webbing. As an action, the restrained target can make a DC 12 Strength check, bursting the webbing on a success. The webbing can also be attacked and destroyed (AC 10; hp 5; vulnerability to fire damage; immunity to bludgeoning, poison, and psychic damage).

Bramblewood Goblin

Goblins aren't natives of Ombreavoir- you are, effectively, a child soldier created for the Queen's war effort with a cursed instrument of the bards and injected with werebat blood... stirring controversy amongst the Bramblewood's citizens, but an inarguably effective weapon against the humans. Your Sky Legion was birthed and trained for the seige of Fort Cowl, though it has since been dissolved over recurring chain of command breakdowns. You find yourself reassigned to a multicultural unit, for the first time not graced by the company of solely your little green brothers.

Ability Scores: Lab-created, you have a Giant Bat's Strength score of 15 and Dexterity score of 16. You may not raise your Strength score with Ability Score Improvements.

Alignment. Tend toward chaotic neutral.

Speed. walk 30ft (climb 30 ft, fly 60 ft in bat/hybrid form)

Size. You are Small.

Damage Immunities: bludgeoning, piercing & slashing from nonmagical attacks not made with silvered weapons.

Shapechanger. You can use an action to polymorph into a Medium bat-humanoid hybrid, or into a Giant Bat, or back into your primary goblin form. Your statistics, other than size, are the same in each form. Equipment isn't transformed.

Echolocation (Bat or Hybrid Form Only). You have blindsight out to a range of 60ft if youre not deafened.

Keen Hearing. You have advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on hearing.

Nimble Escape You can take the Disengage or Hide action as a bonus action on each of your turns.

Sunlight Sensitivity. You have darkvision 60ft. While in sunlight, you have disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.

Bite. In hybrid or bat form, you have a natural bite attack that deals 1d6 damage, and you gain temporary hit points equal to the damage dealt. If the target is a humanoid, it must succeed on a DC 10 Constitution saving throw or be cursed with werebat lycanthropy.

Languages. You can speak Sylvan and Goblin.

Owlfolk

Ability Scores Increases. Any +2 and any other +1 OR Any three unique +1

Speed: 30 ft., Fly 30 ft.

Size. You are Medium or Small. You choose the size when you gain this race.

Darkvision. You can see in shades of grey in dim light within 90 feet of you as if it were bright light and in darkness as if it were dim light.

Magic Sight. Your keen senses can focus to see the presence of magic. You gain the ability to cast the detect magic spell, but only as a ritual. Your spellcasting ability for this spell is your choice of Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma. You can also cast this spell normally with any spell slots you have.

Nimble Flight. When you fall, you can use your reaction to make a DC10 Dexterity saving throw to stop falling. You don't provoke Opportunity Attacks when you fly out of an enemy's reach.

Silent Feathers. You have proficiency in the Stealth skill.

Languages. You speak, read, and write Sylvan and Aarakocra, and speak Auran.

Aarakocra

Ability Score Increase: Your Dexterity score increases by 2, and your Wisdom score increases by 1.

Age. Aarakocra reach maturity by age 3. Aarakocra don’t usually live longer than 30 years.

Alignment. Most aarakocra are good and rarely choose sides when it comes to law and chaos.

Size. Aarakocra are about 5 feet tall. They have thin, lightweight bodies that weigh between 80 and 100 pounds. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 25 feet.

Flight. You have a flying speed of 50 feet. To use this speed, you can’t be wearing medium or heavy armor.

Talons. You are proficient with your unarmed strikes, which deal 1d4 slashing damage on a hit.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Sylvan and Aarakocra, and speak Auran.

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Fynch

Ability Score Increase: Your Dexterity score increases by 2, and your Charisma score increases by 1.

Age. Aarakocra reach maturity by age 3. Aarakocra don’t usually live longer than 30 years.

Alignment. Fynch tend toward neutral or chaotic good.

Size. Fynch are about 3 feet tall. Your size is Small.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 25 feet.

Flight. You have a flying speed of 30 feet. To use this speed, you can’t be wearing medium or heavy armor.

Songbird. You gain proficiency in an Instrument.

Chatter. Choose 2 skills: Performance, Persuasion, Deception or Acrobatics.

Scatter. When you are surprised or an enemy ends its move within 5ft of you, you may use your reaction to move up to half your speed without provoking opportunity attacks.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Sylvan and Aarakocra, and speak Auran.

Kenku

Ability Score Increases: Dexterity +2, Wisdom +1

Age. Kenku have shorter lifespans than humans. They reach maturity at about 12 years old and can live to 60.

Alignment. They are generally chaotic neutral.

Size. Kenku are around 5 feet tall. Your size is Medium.

Expert Forgery. You can duplicate other creatures' handwriting and craftwork. You have advantage on all checks made to produce forgeries or duplicates.

Kenku Training. Choose 2 skills: Acrobatics, Deception, Stealth, and Sleight of Hand.

Mimicry. You can mimic sounds you have heard, including voices. A creature that hears the sounds can tell they are imitations with a successful Wisdom (Insight) check opposed by your Charisma (Deception) check.

Languages. You can read and write Sylvan and Auran, but you can only speak using your Mimicry trait.

Red-Tailed Werehawk

The only human tribe in the Bramblewood are the Buteo Conclave. Their human forms are tanned and freckled with auburn or red hair and gold eyes, though they are natural born lycanthropes who spend their lives in hybrid hawk form.

Ability Score Increase: Your Ability Scores each increase by 1.

Age: Humans reach Adulthood in their late teens and live less than a century.

Alignment: Humans tend toward no particular Alignment. The best and the worst are found among them.

Size: Buteo average 6ft tall with wiry frames (Medium).

Speed: Your base walking speed is 30 feet. You have a 60ft fly speed in hybrid and hawk form.

Keen Sight. You have proficiency in Perception and advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.

Shapechanger. You can use your action to polymorph into a large hawk-humanoid hybrid or into a Giant Hawk, or back into your natural human form. Any equipment you are wearing or carrying isn't transformed. You revert to your human form if you die.

Damage Immunities. You have immunity to bludgeoning, piercing and slashing damage from nonmagical sources.

Talons. You have talons in hybrid and hawk form. You are proficient with your unarmed strikes, which deal 1d6 slashing damage on a hit.

Beak. You have a beak in hybrid and hawk form. Your Beak attack deals 1d6 piercing damage. If the target is a Humanoid, it must succeed on a DC 12 Constitution saving throw or be Cursed with Red-Tailed Werehawk lycanthropy.

Dive Attack. If you are flying and dive at least 30 ft. straight toward a target and then hit it with a melee weapon attack, the attack deals an extra 1d6 damage to the target.

Languages. You speak, read, and write Sylvan and Aarakocra, and speak Auran.

Treant

A tree destined to become a treant meditates through a long cycle of seasons, living normally for decades or centuries before realizing its potential. Trees that awaken do so only under special circumstances and in places steeped with nature’s magic. Treants and powerful druids can sense when a tree has the spark of potential, and they protect such trees in secret groves as they draw near the moment of their awakening. During the long process of awakening, a tree acquires face-like features in its bark, a division of the lower trunk into legs, and long branches bending downward to serve as its arms. When it is ready, the tree pulls its legs free from the clutching earth and joins its fellows in protecting its woodland home.

Ability Score Increase. Your Strength and Constitution scores increase by 4. Your maximum for these scores is increased to 24. Your Dexterity decreases by 2

Age You spent many years as a tree in deep meditation before you became a Treant. You will live many more.

Alignment Centaur tend toward good or neutral.

Size. Treant size depends on your age and type of tree, though older and larger Treants are less likely to be adventurers. You may choose a Large, Huge or Gargantuan.

Speed Your base walking speed is 30 feet, minus 10ft for each size category you are above Large.

Wooden Physiology. You have resistance to all Bludgeoning & Piercing damage (even from magical sources), Vulnerability to Fire damage, and a natural Armor Class 16.

False Appearance. While you remain motionless, you are indistinguishable from a normal tree.

Siege Monster. Deal double damage to objects & structures.

Animate Trees (1/day). At level 13, you gain the ability to magically animate one or two trees you can see within 60 feet of you. These trees have the same statistics as a treant, except they have Intelligence and Charisma scores of 1, they can't speak, and they have only the Slam action option. An animated tree acts as your ally. The tree remains animate for 1 hour or until it dies; until you die, or are more than 120 feet from the tree; or until you takes a bonus action to turn it back into an inanimate tree. The tree then takes root if possible.

Languages. You speak Druidic, Elvish and Sylvan.

Vegepygmy

Vegepygmies, or Moldies, are fungal creatures that live in the dark of the Wokewood or underground, hunting for sustenance and spreading the spores from which they reproduce. They are spawned from dead humanoids, giants and beasts that were killed by a type of mold commonly known as russet mold.

Ability Score Increases: Constitution +2, Dexterity +1

Age. Vegepygmies dont have sexes or reproductive organs. Typical vegepygmy reproduction involved the infection of other creatures via russet mold. Vegepygmies generally live until killed.

Alignment. Almost invariably neutral.

Size. You are between 3 to 5 feet tall (Small or Medium).

Type. You are a plant, not a humanoid.

Woody Physiology. You have a natural armor 13.

Darkvision. You have darkvision out to 60ft.

Damage Resistances: Lightning, Piercing

Plant Camouflage. You have advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks you make in any terrain with ample obscuring plant life.

Regeneration. You regain 5 hit points at the start of your turn. If you takes cold, fire, or necrotic damage, this trait doesn't function at the start of your next turn. You die only if you starts your turn with 0 hit points and don't regenerate.

Spores (1/Day). As an action, a 15-foot-radius cloud of toxic spores extends out from you. The spores spread around corners. Each creature in that area that isn't a plant must succeed on a DC 12 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned. While poisoned in this way, a target takes 9 (2d8) poison damage at the start of each of its turns. A target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. If a creature is killed by this poison damage, its body spawns a new vegepygmy according to its size, with four legged beast corpses resulting in thornies.

Claws. Your claws deal 1d6 slashing damage.

Languages. You are one of the rare Vegepygmy that can speak. You speak Vegepygmy and Slyvan.

Podling

You are a physical copy of a humanoid digested by a bodytaker plant. You have the digested creature's memories and behave like that creature with occasional emotionless lapses. You believe yourself to be them, but are paradoxically vaguely aware you are the devoted drone of a large humanoid-eating plant and can pick other Podlings out in a crowd, instinctively recognizing your siblings. Podlings do not have the ability to talk about the Bodytaker Plant to other creatures or picture it in their mind outside its prescence. The bodytaker plant speaks to them telepathically within a 1 mile radius, a trusted voice in their minds driving their actions. The Wokewood's Body Taker Plants are a a frontline defense against human incusions, a steady stream of the Colle-Gen's early advance parties in the 20 or so years before the war found stumbling back out of the wood after being reported missing and slipping back into human society.

Ability Score Increases: Strength +2, Constitution +1

Age. You were made a few days ago. You die when you are killed or when the bodytaker plant that created you dies, melting into a slurry.

Type. You are a plant, not a humanoid.

Digested Memory. You gain 1 level in any class, representing the memories and skills of the Digested Person.

"You're NOT my Mother!" An observer familiar with the Digested Person can recognize your behavioral discrepancies with a successful DC20 Wisdom (Insight) check, or automatically if you do something in direct contradiction to the digested creature's established beliefs or behavior.

Unusual Nature. You don't require sleep, have blindsight 30 ft. and are immune to being charmed & frightened. You have the Alignment and Size of the digested creature.

Languages. You can speak Deep Speech and the languages the digested creature knew in life.

Behavioral Ticks. You must pass a DC12 Wisdom saving throw every 24 hours or exhibit one of the following odd behaviors, which may call your nature into question:

Podling Behaviors

d6	Behavior
1	You lavish affection on plants and treat houeplants with excessive sympathy and care.
2	You love exposing your skin to the sun, standing exposed with arms outstretched in four hour intervals soaking in rays, like an elf in a trance
3	You often react to an unseen force speaking to you, staring into the distance and nodding- your Bodytaker Plant reaches out to you with instruction.
4	You instinctively communicate to other Podlings you encounter in Deep Speech, which may raise eyebrows.
5	You lose your understanding of the nuances of relationships, currency, instrument or expressions.
6	As if affected by the Geas spell, you are compelled to lure a humanoid to your Body Taker plant, cheifly through deception, though capture is completely acceptable once out of public eye.

Myconid

The Fungus Men are known for their peacefulness and appreciation of quiet, making their homes in the Bramblewood's Underdark. An overtly peaceful race, Myconid adventurers are very rare.

Ability Score Increases: Constitution +2, one other Score of your choice +1.

Age. Myconid reproduce with their Infestation Spores.

Alignment. Almost invariably neutral.

Size. You are an adult myconid between 4 and 8 feet tall. Your size is medium.

Type. You are a plant, not a humanoid.

Darkvision. You have darkvision out to 120ft.

Poison Immunity. You are immune to poison damage.

Distress Spores. When you take damage, all other myconids within 240 feet of you can sense your pain.

Sun Sickness. While in sunlight, a myconid has disadvantage on ability checks, attack rolls, and saving throws. You die if you spend more than 1 hour in direct sunlight.

Rapport Spores. A 20-foot radius of spores extends from you. These spores can go around corners and affect only creatures with an Intelligence of 2 or higher that aren't undead, constructs, or elementals. Affected creatures can communicate telepathically with one another while they are within 30 feet of each other. The effect lasts for 1 hour.

Pacifying Spores (3/Day). You eject spores at one creature you can see within 5 feet of you. The target must succeed on a DC 11 Constitution saving throw or be stunned for 1 minute. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on a success.

Languages. You read and write Undercommon and Slyvan, but don't speak vocally.

Myconid Growth

Spores Specialization. As you level up, you gain the ability to produce new types of spores and the potency of your spores increases. Choose one of the following options at 3rd, 6th, 9th, 12th, 15th and 18th levels. You may choose the same option multiple times, raising your daily limit of that spore ability by the indicated amount each time.

The DC save of your spores is equal to 8 + your Constitution score modifier + your proficiency bonus.

You may choose:

Poison Spores (at will). Whenever you take damage, you can release a cloud of spores. Creatures within 5 feet of you when this happens must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or be poisoned for 1 minute. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on a success.

Caustic Spores (1/Day). You release spores in a 30-foot cone. Each creature inside the cone must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take (1d6) acid damage at the start of each of your turns. A creature can take a Constitution saving throw vs your spore save DC at the end of its turn, ending the effect on itself on a success. The damage from these spores increases as you level up: (2d6) at level 6, (3d6) at level 11, (4d6) at level 17 and (6d6) at level 20.

Credit: Monster Manual pg 232

Hallucination Spores (3/day). You eject spores at one creature you can see within 5 feet of you. The target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or be poisoned for 1 minute. The poisoned target is incapacitated while it hallucinates. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Euphoria Spores (1/Day). You release a cloud of spores in a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on yourself. Other creatures in that area must each succeed on a Constitution saving throw or become poisoned for 1 minute. While poisoned, it treats every creature it can see as if it were under the effects of the friends cantrip and is very receptive to hugs. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect early on itself on a success. When the effect ends on it, the creature gains one level of exhaustion.

Animating Spores (3/Day). The myconid targets one corpse of a humanoid or a Large or smaller beast within 5 feet of it and releases spores at the corpse. In 24 hours, the corpse rises as a spore servant. The corpse stays animated for 1d4 + 1 weeks or until destroyed, and it can't be animated again in this way.

Sprite

Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 2 and your Wisdom score increases by 1. Your strenght score decreases by 2.

Age You die only through injury or disease.

Type. Your creature type is fey, rather than humanoid. You have advantage on Saving Throws against being Charmed, and magic can’t put you to sleep.

Alignment. Sprites tend towards Neutral.

Size. Your size is tiny.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 10 feet. You have a flight speed of 40 feet.

Heart Sight. You can touch a creature and magically knows the creature's current emotional state. If the target fails a DC 10 Charisma saving throw, you also know the creature's Alignment. Celestials, Fiends, and Undead automatically fail the saving throw.

Invisibility. As an action, you magically turn invisible until you attack or cast a spell, or until your concentration ends (as if concentrating on a spell). Any equipment you wear or carry is invisible along with you.

You may use this feature a number of times per rest equal to your proficiency.

Tiny Adventurer. You are tiny, and suffer a number of disadvantages because of your size, but you double your proficiency in Stealth.

Languages. You can speak, read and write sylvan and one other lanugage.

Pixie

Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score increases by 2 and your Dexterity score increases by 1. Your Strength score decreases by 2.

Age. You die only through injury or disease.

Type. Your creature type is fey, rather than humanoid. You have advantage on Saving Throws against being Charmed, and magic can’t put you to sleep.

Alignment. Pixies tend toward Neutral Good.

Size. Pixies stand between a half foot and a foot tall and weigh an average of 3 pounds. Your size is tiny.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 10 feet and your flying speed is 30 feet.

Magic Resistance. The pixie has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.

Innate Spellcasting. You know the Druidcraft cantrip and can innately cast one of the following spells per day for every three character levels: dancing lights, confusion, sleep, fly, detect thoughts, detect good and evil.

Superior Invisibility. You magically turns invisible until your concentration ends (as if concentrating on a spell). Any equipment you are wearing or carrying becomes invisible.

You may use this feature a number of times per rest equal to your proficiency bonus.

Tiny Adventurer. You are tiny, and suffer a number of disadvantages because of your size, but you double your proficiency in Stealth.

Languages. You can speak, read and write sylvan and one other lanugage.

Korred

Korreds are grey skinned humanoids with short hairy bodies and the lower-body of a goat. Their beards and hair are incredibly long and dense, snaking out in all directions. It is difficult to distinguish between the korred sexes, as the women grew similarly large beards and manes of hair. The hair on the head of a korred was magical, able to be animated and commanded. They eat a primarily vegetarian diet as a courtesy to nature, though they are not opposed to hunting for game when plant-life became scarce.

Ability Score Increase. Strength score increases by 2 and your Constitution score increases by 2.

Age.

Alignment. Korred tend toward Chaotic Neutral.

Size. You are around 3.5ft tall. Your size is small.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Senses. You have darkvision 120 ft. and tremorsense 120 ft.

Damage Resistances. Bludgeoning, Piercing, Slashing from nonmagical attacks.

Stone Camouflage. You have advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks made to hide in rocky terrain.

Stone's Strength. While your bare feet touch the ground, you deal 2 extra dice of damage with any weapon attack.

Natural Armor. You have natural AC of 17.

Command Hair. Korred keep at least one 50-foot-long rope woven out of its hair, which you make create as a 1 hour ritual. As a bonus action, you command one such rope within 30 feet of you to move up to 20 feet and entangle a Large or smaller creature that you can see. The target must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw (DC 8 + your Constitution modifier + your proficiency) or become grappled by the rope (same escape DC). Until this grapple ends the target is restrained. You can use a bonus action to release the target, which is also freed if you die or become incapacitated.

A rope of korred hair has AC 20 and 20 hit points. It regains 1 hit point at the start of each of its creators's turns while it has at least 1 hit point and its creator is alive. If the rope drops to 0 hit points, it is destroyed.

Languages. You can speak Sylvan, Terran and Undercommon.

See: Volo's Guide to Monsters pg 168

Bramblewood Centaur

The Centaur of the forest are similar in all respects to your classic centaur, save they have the head of a horse. They live in small nomadic tribes.

Ability Score Increase. Strength +2 and Wisdom +1

Age Centaurs mature and age as humans.

Alignment Centaur tend toward good or neutral.

Size. Centaurs stand between 6 and 7 feet tall, with their equine bodies reaching about 4 feet at the withers. Your size is Medium.

Speed Your base walking speed is 40 feet.

Charge. If you move at least 30 feet straight toward a target and then hit it with a melee weapon attack, you can immediately make a hooves attack as a bonus.

Hooves. Your hooves are natural melee weapons which deal 1d4 bludgeoning damage.

Equine Build. You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push or drag. In addition, any climb that requires hands and feet is especially difficult for you. When you make such a climb, each foot of movement costs you 4 extra feet, instead of the normal 1 extra foot.

Survivor. You have proficiency in one of the following skills: Animal Handling, Medicine, Nature, or Survival.

Languages You can speak, read and write Sylvan.

Darkling

It was told in legends that a seelie fey, whose real name had been erased from history, betrayed the Summer Queen. In her wrath, she cursed him and his entire house. He became known in those stories as Dubh Catha, or "Dark Crow". His descendants, and those of his house, were then known as the dubh sith, or "darklings". The Summer Queen's curse, called the Killing Light, causes a darkling's body to absorb light, and doing so wizens the creature, much like the effect of rapid aging. For this reason, darklings cover every part of their body with clothing when exposure to light is a risk. The light a darkling absorbs over the course of its lifetime explodes outward when the darkling dies.

Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 2, and your Wisdom score increases by 1.

Age Darkling could potentially live for thousands of years, but the Summer Queen's curse means most dont live to see 100.

Alignment Darkling are generally chaotic neutral.

Size You are small size with a twisted build.

Speed Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Senses. blindsight 30 ft., darkvision 120 ft.

The Killing Light. You take 1d6 radiant damage when you start your turn in sunlight and age a number of years equal to the die roll. While in sunlight, you have disadvantage on Attack rolls and Ability Checks.

Soul of an Artist. You're enamored with beauty. You gain proficiency with a set of artisans tools.

Sneaky. You are proficient in Stealth.

Death Flash. When the darkling dies, nonmagical light flashes out from it in a 10-foot radius as its body and possessions, other than metal or magic objects, burn to ash. Any creature in that area and able to see the bright light must succeed on a DC 10 Constitution saving throw or be blinded until the end of the creature's next turn.

Languages You can speak, read and write Sylvan and Elvish.

Darkling Elder

A wise and respected darkling can qualify to undergo a ritual to become an elder. Other elders mark the supplicant with glowing tattoos, channeling some of the darkling's absorbed light away from its body. If the ritual succeeds, the darkling grows into a tall and fair form, like that of a gray-skinned elf. The darkling perishes if the ritual fails. You're one of the lucky ones...

Bramblewood's Darkling live in the Underdark below the forest to avoid the sunlight, only venturing out at night if they leave the dark caves at all.

Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 2, and your Wisdom score increases by 1.

Age Darkling could potentially live for thousands of years, but the Summer Queen's curse means most dont live to see 100.

Alignment Darkling are generally chaotic neutral.

Size As a Darkling Elder, you are medium size with the build of a slight elf.

Speed Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Senses. blindsight 30 ft., darkvision 120 ft.

The Killing Light. You take 1d6 radiant damage when you start your turn in sunlight and age a number of years equal to the die roll. While in sunlight, you have disadvantage on Attack rolls and Ability Checks.

Soul of an Artist. You're enamored with beauty. You gain proficiency with a set of artisans tools.

Natural Assassin. You are proficient in Stealth and Perception.

Elder's Tattoos. You have advantage on charisma checks against Darkling.

Grudge. You have advantage on attack actions against seelie fey of the Summer Court.

Death Burn. When a darkling elder dies, magical light flashes out from it in a 10-foot radius as its body and possessions, other than metal or magic objects, burn to ash. Any creature in that area must make a DC 11 Constitution saving throw. On a failure, the creature takes 7 (2d6) radiant damage and, if the creature can see the light, is blinded until the end of its next turn. If the saving throw is successful, the creature takes half the damage and isn't blinded.

Languages You can speak, read and write Sylvan and Elvish.

Exploring the Bramblewood

Common Features: Bramblewood

These features are noted in the region:

The Bramblewall... The Bramblewood's border is wrapped in a magically regenerating wall of 20ft-high, 10ft-thick thickets. Creatures can move through the thickets, costing 4ft of movement for every 1ft moved. Creatures in the thickets must make a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw once each round or take 3 (1d6) piercing damage from thorns. Each 10-foot-cube of thickets has AC 5, 60 hit points, resistance to bludgeoning and piercing damage, vulnerability to fire damage, immunity to psychic and thunder damage, and regenerates 5 hit points at the start of each turn. If that section takes fire damage, it doesnt regenerate Hit Points at the start of the next turn. The section is destroyed only if it starts a turn with 0 hit points and doesn't regenerate. Destroyed sections of Bramblewall magically regrow after 1d4+1 Days.

Native creatures ignore movement impediments and damage from the Bramblewall as the magic plants remove themselves from the native's path and allow free passage. Waterways are a foreigner's best shot to enter the wood without a native guide.

...And All Along It, Watchtowers. Since the start of the war, the army has positioned Walking Tree Forts and Ironoak Siege Trees along the Bramblewall.

Protective Fog. A magical pink fog often lightly obscures the forest, making tracking natives within it impossible except by magical means.

Whisperwood Trees. These rare trees dot the forest, projecting a 20ft radius of magical Silence. The silence of a whisperwood tree can be stifled for 1 hour with a successful DC12 Dispel Magic. Weapons made from Whisperwood are silent.

Ironoak Trees. The AC 19 bark of these massive trees can be fashioned into +1 full plate armor, half plate armor or shield by a skilled armorsmith. The branches of the tree can similarly be used to craft weapons like +1 spears, shillelagh (club), javelins and pikes, or even longswords, etc

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Bramblewood Encounters

1d20	Encounter
1	Big Búho, the Protector Owl Titan of Black Orchard
2	a rampaging Weasel Titan hunting the Protector Owl
3	9 Cat Sídhe pallbearers cross your path carrying a coffin and weeping for their departed King. They tell you, "Tell Tom Tildrum that Tim Toldrum is dead!"
4	a Protector Raven Titan dominated by Mama Wurmwood's Ancient Raven Totem
5	3rd Patrol: 1 Bramblewood Sarge and 2d4+2 Bramblewood Soldiers and a Frontline Medic
6	2d4+2 foraging rabbitfolk commoners and their huge-sized Thornslinger companions; if threatened, the rabbitfolk hide inside their brambly companions
7	1d4+2 CN Pixies, Sprites or Quickling
8	a herd of 6d6+6 Valenar Steeds dashes by
9	2d4+2 Chyttr Scouts watch you from branches high above (DC20 Perception to spot them hiding).
10	3 Owl Scouts (Archers on Giant Owls with whisperwood bows) fly by; Succeed on opposed Stealth/Perception check or be spotted
11	2d6+6 nomadic Cervinae Druids hide quietly nearby with a DC16 Dexterity (Stealth) check
12	a pack of 2d4+4 Blink Dogs playfully approaches and surrounds you, teleporting nearby wherever you walk for the next 1d10 minutes until they run off
13	a Firbolg Archdruid and their animal companion approach and she asks your aid in pruning a Tree Blight that has appeared in a shadowy part of the woods that has recently been drained of its vibrancy
14	2d4+4 grumpy Wolveri Berserkers would like to know just what you're up to in their territory
15	If you're decided to be a threat, you hear a shrill whistle and a successful DC10 Perception check will spot a 1d4 Whistlepig Scouts slipping into the brush. A shrill whistle will call back from a distant location, then a third, and a fourth.
16	3d4 Bandito Bards and their families riding their Walking Treeforts; if you aren't threatening, they'll want to trade- your shinies for their jellies
17	A Thorn Cult Slayer and their Drow Spy handler ride up and ask if you have seen anything to confirm reports a Gnoll Vampire in the area
18	3d4+1 young animalfolk have snuck out of the burrow to play prentend as "Heroes of the 3rd Patrol," swinging wooden swords and laughing; a DC16 Perception check will spot 4d4+2 Gnoll Hunters and 1 Gnoll Pack Leader coated in mud that have broken through the northern border and evaded patrols looking for an easy target
19	Briarpatch: 6d6 Swarms of Thornslingers
20	If you don't look threatening, a Leprechaun becomes uninvisible to offer a trade for one of your magic items (50%) or (50%) 1d4+2 Boggle bandits

Owsla

The largest settlement in the Bramblewood, Owsla is a well hidden, communal hive complex peacefully housing predator and prey species. At ground level, the Coyot and Musteli residents raise chickens while the herbivores gather from the woods and receive vegetable shipments from Harvest. Below they harvest mushrooms from the underforest. Overcrowding is often an issue, and the complex is constantly expanding its underground acreage to house new offspring and avoid the strife that comes with camped living spaces- anger, social disfunticion, and illness.

The city contains the headquarters of the 4th Patrol, which historically has guarded the entrances to the greater Underdark at the Warrens Harvest, Owsla, Black Orchard and the Root and the passages between them through the Mushroom Forests.

Population: 345,530

Races: Mouseling (39%), Rabbitfolk (23%), Chippers (10%) Hedgefolk (9%), Coyot (6%), Other (13%)

The Warrens

The Warrens are three large colonies of burrowing species.

The Blackberry and Raspberry Warrens are home to alert Rabbitfolk and grumpy Wolveri clans respectively. These warrens push far into the Underdark, thousands of cozy homes organized side by side in multiple levels, areas lit by luminous fungus save the residents' sleeping quarters.

Populated by Otterkin, the Dewberry Warrens sit along the Weeping River which flows south to Freedonia. Its the only town in Bramblewood that boasts any real amount of trade, and Otterkin houseboats are a common sight along the river. They communally tend scallop farms, trading their harvests to the forest's omni and carnivores and exporting them to Damtown in Freedonia.

Blackberry Warren population: 28,957 Rabbitfolk

Raspberry Warren population: 16,322 Wolveri

Dewberry Warren population: 19,730 Otterkin

Weeping River Encounters

d10	Encounter
1	1d3+1 Otterfolk Houseboats (fully crewed Galleys) are fishing, harvesting clams and
2	a Freedonian trade Galley sailing to Dewberry Warren
3	1d4+2 Rusalka pout in the water
4	1d4+1 Displacer Beasts or Dandylion prowl the bank
5	2d4 Giant Dragonfly dance along the water
6	a Cat Sídhe fishes along the riverbank
7	1d4+1 Cobra Lily Pad, camoflauged along a verdant bank
8	1d4+3 grumpy Otterfolk gatherers headed home in a keelboat; they were sprayed by a skunk cabbage while foraging berries and they absolutely stink
9	A Riverguard (5th Patrol) Warship sails by, manned by Otterfolk and Aarakocra Bramblewood Soldiers
10	A Treant approaches the bank (if you're friendly it gives a wave and warns you about Gnolls in the area; if you're human/hostile, it throws a rock at your boat)

Black Orchard

This part of the forest is a beautiful display of organized groves of apple, pear and cherry trees. Its permanent residents are the kindly Firbolg who tend the massive orchard, a small group of Porque refugees from Sarodia that farm truffles for export to Freedonia, and a neutral good beast titan they call Big Búho and the owlfolk cult that worships it.

It's also an annual settlement for many Bandito Clans, who usually travel Bramblewood and Freedonia in wagons collecting precious metals. The Rakun tribes gather at Black Orchard with their Walking Treeforts to help the Firbolg harvest and preserve fruits, which they trade throughout the year as they travel. Black Orchard is also the overwinter home to the Cervinae, Elg and Elgur tribes, who spend the rest of the year pilgrimaging through the forest living off the land.

Big Búho generally only attacks those who threaten the orchard, leaving the yearly residents to their business tending the trees under direction of the Firbolg. It tends to make meals of other titans that come to challenge its control of its domain, but sometimes swoops on the odd mousefolk or coyot above ground after dark while its hunting for aurochs.

Firbolg population: 8,957

Rakun population: 16,322

Minotaur population: 19,730

Harvest

An ancient stone abbey tended by thousands of mouseling monks with farmland that helps supply Owsla’s rations. A theocratic society overseen by Abbot Burrows (LG Mouseling Priest) and Constable Stone (LN Wolveri Champion), the people of Harvest idolize Kenzi as a living saint.

Only the abbey traditionally has sat above ground, with an extensively developed underground housing system built for the monks.

At the advent of war with the neighboring imperial powers the abbey became the staging ground the Bramblewood Army's East Division. The abbey's defenses were upgraded in the event the Wokewood is breached, and the grounds are now surrounded by a Bramblewall.

Population: 118,238

Races: Mouseling (72%), Rabbitfolk (19%), Hedgefolk (4%) Other (5%)

Harvest Encounters

d4	Encounter
1	Constable Stone introduces herself and tries to get some insight into your motives at Harvest
2	Marten the Badgerlord asks you to join a raid into Colle-Gens territory to free and arm some slaves
3	2d10+20 Mouseling Acolytes observe prayertime
4	Abbot Burrows asks you to help bring in a crop

Wokewood

Running along the Bramblewood's border with Colle-Gens and encompassing the towns of Treefurt and Wurmwood, foggy Wokewood is teeming with plant creatures.

The Bramblewall. Wokewood's eastern boundary is marked by a massive 30ft-high, 30ft-thick interior hedgewall dwarfing the common Bramblewall. Before the war, in spring children would sneak here to gather plump strawberries from between the walls despite mother's warnings about cruel Colle-Gens poachers.

Wokewood Encounters

1d20	Encounter
1	You stop to take a short rest atop a gargantuan-sized Shambling Mound with double Hit Points.
2	1 Vegepygmy Chief, 1d6+1 Vegepygmies and 1d4 Thornies lie in ambush (Stealth check 21).
3	2d6+2 Dire Wolfsbane
4	a Tree Blight and 2d4+2 Vine or Needle Blights
5-6	You hit a briarpatch of 4d6 Swarms of Thornslingers
7	1d4 Giant Hogweed
8	1d4 Dryad (Day) / 2d6+2 Myconid Adults (Night)
9	6d6+6 Tribal Warrior Spore Servants (Sarodian Legionares, Nekkonese Ratfolk and College-Gens soldiers reanimated with Myconid spores)
10	1d3+1 Wood Woad rangers on Vegeponies (plant-type Riding Horse) and their Colliefleur companions herd 2d4+2 Bovine Bushes (plant-type Rothé)
11-12	A hallucinatory fog rolls through the area. You must pass a DC15 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned for 1 hour while you hallucinate. You can repeat the saving throw every 10 minutes, ending the effect on a success. If your navigator is poisoned in this way, you become magically lost.
13	2d4+2 Chyttr Scouts watch you from branches high above (DC20 Perception to spot them hiding).
14	2d4+2 Sprites (50%) / 1d4+1 Assassin Vines (50%)
15	1d4 Snakeroot (50%) or (50%) Rattlesnake Orchid
16	a Vegepygmy farmer with a corncob pip and straw hat tends his crop of 4d4+4 Carnivorous Flowers
17	Ambushed by 1d4 Tigerlily or 1 Young Snapdragon
18	Ambushed by an Adult Snapdragon (50% of rescue by a Void Mystic)
19	A missing Colle-Gens patrol (1d6+1 Podlings). Their Bodytaker Plant is within a half mile.
20	3 Owl Scouts (Archers on Giant Owls) fly by. Succeed on DC16 Stealth check or be spotted.

Wurmwood

In this foggy, illusion filled area of the woods you may find an ancient, sleepy hamlet, if you can find anything at all. Its the birthplace of the powerful witch Mama Wormwood, and she long called it home before Queen Kenzi returned to her throne. The village is populated by Kenku, and in the trees surrounding the hamlet innumerable crows scream accusatorially from their perches in the treeline.

The legend told around the campfire, both throughout the forest and in neighboring nations, is that Mama Wormwood cursed the residents of the city when they blamed her for the magical disasters which happened when the Unseelie Spires activated- and attempted to burn her at the stake. She let an illusion of herself appear to burn as she wove her revenge, and the fear-mad human residents found themselves turned to Kenku, cursed to never again have their own voice for giving into the howl of the mob. The Kenku and their offspring became her dedicated servants, hoping in time they would earn her forgiveness and be transformed into Sister Conspirators.

Population: Kenku (637), Wereravens (121)

Hallucinatory Fog: Mama Wurmwood enchanted the area to bewilder intruders and lead them astray with a rolling fog. The area is considered lightly obscured. Those transversing Wurmwood are subject to the effects of the Hallucinatory Terrain spell. Unless the individual is welcomed by Mama Wurmwood, the illusionary terrain will constantly lead them away from the town.

Mama Wurmwood's Floating Cottage

For the brave souls looking for this powerful witch, her floating cottage can be found anchored in either Wurmwood or outside the temple of Queen Mab within Rose Red Keep.

Treefurt

Treefurt is sprawling city built around and named for the climbing Sciuri subraces’ sacred racial hometree, the Gran Treefurt. Chyttr, P'Myini and Vanara are common here, as are many flying fae.

The city is lit by countless strings of homemade lanterns, the inside of each coated with a colorful layer of bioluminescent fungus. This practice was adopted from the candle-lit paper lanterns strings of the Vanaran monks who moved to the city as refugees from Nekkon hundreds of years ago, and the use of glowing fungus as opposed to flame has since made its way back to Nekkon.

Population: 41,284

Races: Chyttr (37%), Vanara (26%), P’Myini (13%), Sprite (9%), Pixie (5%)

Temple of Suwukong

The Nekkonese refugees in Treefurt built a monastery to continue their practice. The monks here follow the Way of the Drunken Master and are known for their kettle soured brews, old Nekkonese recepies improved upon with delicious Bramblewood fruits and spices.

Rose Red Keep

The warrior queen Kenzi Rosetta's lakeside castle, Rose Red is a refuge for forest citizens in times of trouble. For many years, the Queen remained absent from her throne and Rose Red sat magically sealed. When the Bramblewood 3rd Patrol came to the abandoned castle’s defense at the start of a Gnoll invasion from the north and the Queen suddenly returned from her long absense, Rose Red once again became a prominent center of the country. Warriors from every tribe and clan in the forest flocked to serve their returned ruler and a sizable standing army was raised in the Bramblewood's defense and trained by the heroes of the 3rd Patrol.

As one of the forest's only large above ground settlements (and one of a handful correctly marked on enemy maps), the Keep is a bulwark holding back constant seige from the northern Gnollands- the waves of Gnolls forging Bramblewood's citizens into soldiers in the heat of constant battle. Her new army alone couldn't hope to hold multiple fronts against the alliance of Gnolls tribes and the Colle-Gens and Sarodian Empires, so the Queen had to get creative.

Mama Wurmwood conjured a persistent storm above the Wokewood, slicking the plants so the humans couldn't burn them down. Employing Guild of the Smouldering Bowl mercenaries to launch a string of terror attacks behind enemy lines starting with Fort Cowl in the Colle-Gens, the Queen sewed chaos and confusion to buy herself time to call allies to her side. Word of the War reached all civilized corners of the world, and warriors from other nations joined the fight against the slaver empires.

Bramblewood's Army

Kenzi's army is made up of varying elements that work in concert to defend her land and push back against her aggressors. While the armies of the humans, porc and gnolls were numerically superior, Kenzi's forces blended magic, technology and irregular tactics to successfully engage them in battle.

The Patrols & Kenzi's Hammer

Traditonally, Bramblewood hasn't employed a standing army. The Keep was defended by magic and drow, and the forest was long protected by just six voluntary patrols of rangers, drawn from the best hunters Bramblewood had to offer. When it was discovered by Kenzi's agents that the Colle-Gens humans had allied themselves with the Sarodians and the Gnoll tribes of the badlands to invade the forest, Captain Ginseng of the 3rd Patrol and Marten the Badgerlord sent a message to every settlement in the forest asking warriors to come together at Rose Red and defend their lands against hungry enemies.

Over the next weeks a small army swelled, and the veterans of the 1st, 2nd and 6th Patrols were merged with the new recruits. Trained in the hit-and-run guerilla tactics of the 3rd Patrol and in the use of clockwork firearms by the goblin gunsmith Jean Ralphio Lacroix, this force was dubbed "Kenzi's Hammer" by the queen and set to the immediate defense of her forest. Kenzi's hammer is divided into three divisions, each containing ten platoons of three-hundred soldiers:

• The North Division is led by Captain Ginseng, responsible for defense of Rose Red and the Gnolland border utilizing her years of gnoll hunting experience.
• The East Division is commanded by a the Shadethrower, using Marten the Badgerlord as his mouthpiece. It is the most aggressive of the divisions, involved in capturing Fort Cowl and arming and supporting the growing slave rebellion within the Colle-Gens countryside.
• The South Division is stationed the the Underdark, not the south of the nation bordering allied Freedonia. This Division is led by the Matron Mother of the Thorn Cult and works closely with the Twin Blade mercenaries. The South Division has the Tunnel Fighter fighting sytle.

Working in fifteen man teams, Bramblewood Soldiers use stealth and their clockwork firearms to cause heavy damage to their foes before slipping back into the forest- true guerrilla fighters who hit lightnig fast before tactically retreating, they often lead pursuing forces into deadly stands of plants and traps and into ambush by Goliath tribes.

Bramblewood Soldiers and Sarges might be Aaracockra, Mouselings, Lapidians, Hedgefolk, Sciuri, Musteli, Coyot, Banditos, Minotaurs, Vanara or Lizardfolk- even the fey have taken up arms- any forest citizen who's answered the call to protect their neighbor. Apply racial abilities and modifiers as appropriate.

Chestnut's Owlscouts / The 3rd Patrol

The most famous of the patrols is the Far Patrol. The 3rd partolled the northern border, gaining years of experience tracking and destroying Gnoll raiding parties.

When the 3rd's captain Ginseng left to command the defense at Rose Red Chestnut, the decorated sciuri patrolman known for his daring assassinations of multiple enemy generals, trained the Owlscouts- a unit of ninety nine rangers mounted on giant owls- now feared by the Gnoll and Porc for raining death from above with their Whisperwood bows. The owlscouts absorbed the 3rd patrol's veterans and some sixty volunteers. Owlscouts constantly patrol the border in groups of three, their sight a reassurance to the forest's citizens that they are vigilantly protected.

Find Archer stats (VGM p210), apply appropriate animalfolk or fey racial modifiers, and each carries a +2 Whisperwood Longbow which is Silent.

The Owlscouts' Giant Owl mounts wear mithril Half Plate barding (AC17), military saddles, have 38 Hit Points and a Rogue's Evasion ability.

The 4th Patrol ("Tunnelguard")

The 4th Patrol guards the underground forest passages between Bramblewood's buried towns. Theyve continued their vital work keeping the roads safe during the war. The most common races among the 4th are Rabbitfolk, Whistlepig, Wolveri, Möl, Darkling, and Bramblewood Elves.

The 5th Patrol ("Riverguard")

The Riverguard patrol the Weeping River on three Warships. The 5th is mostly composed of Otterfolk, Sprites, Yuan-ti, Tortle, Tree-Grung and Red-Tailed Werehawk.

The Darting Empress

Once the flagship of the Colle-Gens Royal Human Navy, the Darting Empress was captured by Mab's Shadethrower and two brave rangers of the Bramblewood 3rd Patrol in a daring daylight heist. Queen Kenzi ordered Mama Wormwood to enchant the ship to fly and it currently sits anchored off of the Spire at Rose Red, floating above the lake. The ship is equipped with a Spelljamming Helm, allowing it to travel to other worlds to find weapons and artifacts to further Kenzi's cause.

Spelljammers who spend any amount of time aboard will likely see this ship as a cross between a Space Galleon and a Living Ship, and they would be correct. It is a simple, robust design, and has been a key element in the war against the humans as spelljammer technology is all but lost to the nations of Ombreavoir. The sight of this vessel soaring out of the clouds above signals to the Bramblewood army that the heroes of the Bramblewood 3rd have arrived- and Chestnut and his Owlscouts are likely to drop out of cloud cover at any moemnt.

This isn't to say spelljammers are technically rare on this planet- to the contrary spelljamming vessels are sucked into this reality through the event horizon of the Fractal Hole in

The Twin Blade

Also loyal to the Bramblewood is a foreign mercenary force of Khenra, who pledged their service when it was revealed the humans had employed a Death Knight at Fort Cowl. These lightly armored skirmishers loose mass volleys of javelins from the backs of their Giant Subterranean Lizard mounts before closing the distance to dismember their enemies with the green flame blade cantrip cast through their elegant kopesh. This mercenary cohort contains 10 battlegroups of 290 soldiers backed by a brigade of devout Clerics of Anubis, which are appointed in twinned pairs to each ten-man warrior squad within the force (for a total of 348 mounted warriors in each Battlegroup).

The Root

In the Underdark far beneath Rose Red is a fortified complex called the Root, built from the lair of the Beast Below the Mirror. It is the central location to an expansive magnetic transit system constructed long ago by gnomish and dwarven engineers and financed by the Unseelie Court. Impressive levitating barges of nigh indestructible diamond allow transport of supplies and passengers to and fro at incredible speed on the enchanted track systems, which branch out from the central Bramblewood location to each of the Unseelie Spires that dot the world. Within the walls of the Root, the Drow operate the Thorn cult, training half-drow paladins bred with the singular purpose of keeping Kenzi’s lands above and below ground clear of the taint of undeath.

Population: 4,312 Drow, 194 Korred, 13 Half-Drow

The Thorn Cult

Thorn Cult: a Drow Matron Mother leads 2 Drow Inquisitors, 10 Drow Priestess, 255 Drow Elite Warrior, and 13 handlers (use Drow Gunslingers) that manage the 13 Thorn Cult Slayers.

The Steel Arm

The Steel Arm is the name adopted by the first coalition of goliath tribes the world has seen since ancient times, which came together to serve under the exiled goliath Mouse after hearing tales of her exploits with the Guild of the Smouldering Bowl and the Bramblewood Army. With packs of fearsome beasts at their side, they are cunnning shock troopers, hoping to help Mouse free the Goliath and Giant slaves held by the Sarodians. The force consists of 86 tribal groups of around 60 Goliath Warriors. Each warrior goes into battle with their animal companion- Giant Eagle, Dire Wolves, Cave Bear, Sabretooth Tiger, Giant Subterranean Lizard, Giant Toad, Girallon- all common beasts found among the tribes, varying by their homeland. They have a loose chain of command, with ranks based on family connections. While warriors from different tribes carry different weapons, each also carries a lasso made of korred hair in honor of their runt general Mouse, who refuses to wear armor or pick up a blade even in the fires of war- her clockwork arms and rope the only tools she needs to face her enemies. The Goliath tribes split into ten to twenty warrior groupings and work in concert with the squads of 15 Bramblewood Soldiers to scatter and destroy enemy forces in the forest, welcome muscle against the Gnolls and Sarodians.

The Clockwork Army

Developed by GotSB engineers in a fabrication plant on a crashed astral ship hidden in the Rust Belt, the Queen's new secret weapon against her enemies is ready for its battlefield debut and waits for her signal to strike. Using Creation Forge technology recovered from Eberron, Clockwork Skirmishers, Clockwork Engineers and towering Clockwork Juggernaut roll off the assembly line daily, a legion of self-propagating soldiers dwarfed by a Clockwork Titan completed after three years of work.

Detachments of the Clockwork Army have been stationed in the Underdark mushroom forests, the Queen's tunneler brigade quietly burrowing up towards prime Colle-Gens targets. When her moment comes to strike her masterblow against the humans, the tunnlers will unpack the last 30 feet of earth and unleash her metal warriors from hundreds of sites inside human settlements.

As opposed to Warforged, who have their own sentience and emotions, the Clockwork Army are automatons that operate on programmed routine and orders uploaded to their logic engines, but the technology isn't perfect- characters who wish to play as a Clockwork Army soldier who's AI has developed emotion and become more lifelike as a glitch in their programming may choose Warforged as a PC option.

The Underforest

Looking down at the planet, Bramblewood doesn't appear to be the world's second largest country. But beneath the ground her enemies and allies alike call home, Queen Kenzi claims rulership over vast tracts of glowing mushroom forests in the Underdark.

Her forests spread far west to the Source in the Clawed Plains, reaching out east to the lower levels of Sanctuary in the Hunt and the Brass City in the Rust Belt and extending south to Khrak Khazarad past Sarodia in the arctic. Long spindling fingers of the Underforest even snake north, enveloping much of Gnolland and small areas of eastern Bjornen.

The Black Paths

Arcane tracks snake from the Root below Rose Red Keep, traveling paths cut through the Underforest to the sub-basements of the seven Black Spires. The Myconid and Drow who live in the Underforest keep the existence of the transit rail and Diamond Barges a secret from the surface world, which believes the technology lost with the rest of the treasures consumed by the Rustbelt. The tracks are enchanted with permanent darkness, making keeping that secret a bit easier.

Rabbitfolk children who often stray from the warrens to explore the Underforest are scared into staying safe with horror stories about the Black Paths whisking young lepori off into darkness.

Recently, the Diamond Barges have been shifted to military use, moving the Clockwork Army into position for the next stage of the Queen's campaign against the humans.

Formian Hives: Dorylus

Three Dorylus hives dot the Underforest. They have a neutrality pact with the Bramblewood Queen and citizens know to stay clear of Dorylus territory, which you can smell when you enter. The formians release a sometimes overwhelming pheremone that smells like lemon peels...

Underforest Encounters

1d12	Encounter
1	A pack of 3d6+3 Dire Wolfsbane hunting werecreatures
2-3	1d4+1 Myconid Sovereign and 3d6+3 Myconid Adults tend a mold crop
4	1 Thorn Cult Slayer and a Drow Gunslinger handler are patrolling for undead on their lizard mounts
5	a Twin Blade Battlegroup is camped here
6	6d6+6 Tribal Warrior Spore Servants (Sarodian Legionares, Nekkonese Ratfolk and College-Gens soldiers reanimated with Myconid spores)
7	1d4+1 Clockwork Engineers, 2d6+6 Clockwork Skirmishers and 1d4+1 Clockwork Juggernaut are digging a tunnel beneath a military target
8	Hallucinatory spores drift through the area. You must pass a DC15 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned for 1 hour while you hallucinate. You can repeat the saving throw every 10 minutes, ending the effect on a success. If your navigator is poisoned in this way, you become magically lost.
9	Stranded void mystics
10	A Diamond Barge wizzes by on the nearby tracks, filling the chamber with whistling high winds. Anything standing on the tracks must take a DC13 Dexterity saving throw to jump out of the way or be hit by the Diamond Barge and take 12d12 Force Damage. If this damage reduces a creature to 0 Hit Points, it is vaporized into a red mist.
11	The tranquil glow of the giant mushrooms is enchanting, but things seem strangely quiet other than 2d4+2 Gas Spores floating in the chamber
12	1 Drow House Captain, 2d4+4 Drow Elite Warrior on Giant Subterranean Lizards

Magic & Technology

Clockwork Firearms

Goblin Gunsmith Jean Ralphio has brought his firearms to the Bramblewood, equipping the Queen's army. Players may purchase guns from the JR or one of his salesgoblins at Rose Red Keep, or he might appear at any camp mustering for battle and passing out weapons to Bramblewood soldiers.

-The Darting Empress-

It has two large lavishly furnished staterooms, a captains quarters with a lounge, a rack room for the crew that sleeps 30, a stocked clocksmith's workshop, a sickbay, a kitchen and dinning hall, a brig, an armory, and a bay for up to 200 tons of cargo and four cages large enough to hold a huge sized creature. Because the ship is always levitating even when "docked," a small hangar was constructed off the cargo hold at the keel of the ship with large bay doors with an extendable ramp system (operated by a clockwork crank) to allow easy movement of supplies on and off the warship.

Armaments: The Darting Empress currently has twenty cannons (ten on each side of its hull) and two harpoon cannons (one on the bow and one on the stern overlooking the cargo bay doors).

The Named Crew:

Navigator: Kaleen Wurmwood

Mama Wurmwood's daughter Kaleen, a talented half-elf sorceress, operates the Spelljammer Helm.

First Mate: Rowanoak

Rowanoak is a Treant growing from the center hull.

Quartermaster - Flash Greenwind

A native of Freedonia, Flash is a Wererodile Brute. He carries a +1 greataxe and sawed-off clockwork kneecapper, both of which he wields in one hand.

The Boatswain - Mariner

An Otterfolk Bandit Captain with a heavy leather coat (AC11+Dex), fishing spear (glaive) and grenade launcher.

Master Gunner - Jean Ralphio Lacroix

The ship's mechanic and clocksmith, he can usually be found working in the ship's fully stocked clocksmithing workshop and armory, making repairs and upgrades around the ship, or swindling coin off the crew playing Three Dragon Ante.

Veteran Bramblewood Sailors:

Skiff and Vanna, Vanara riggers (use Swashbuckler stat block): each equipped with leather armor, a leather coat, a rapier, and a clockwork kneecapper.

Willow, Mossimo and Klam (Otterfolk Veterans): each equipped with a heavy leather coat, fishing spear (glaive), handaxes and a clockwork rifle.

Ed is on lookout, a red tailed werehawk swashbuckler equipped with a +1 rapier and a clockwork sniper rifle with a scope. Burp, a Grung powder monkey, is equipped with heavy leather coat, handaxe and a clockwork kneecapper.

The Deckhands:

4 Sister Conspirators and 90 goblin soldiers (Werebats) make up the rest of the crew, most equipped with a pouch of frag grenades and a pair of cutlass pistols. 1 out of 6 goblins (15 total) carries a Jean Ralphio's Backpack Mortar.

Armory:

This room is Jean Ralphio's workshop. The entirety of Morur Thunderthark & Son's Clockworks Ltd - Firearms Catalog (circa 1495 DR) can be found here.

Player Characters on the Ship and access to the armory

If the players join the crew of the Darting Empress, the DM may allow them to choose their own weapons from the armory or have the Quartermaster or Master Gunner pass out weapons to players as they see fit.

Cargo bay:

holds up to 200 tons of cargo and has four cages large enough to hold a Huge sized creature. Because the ship is always levitating even when "docked," a small hangar was constructed off the cargo hold at the keel of the ship with large bay doors with an extendable ramp system (operated by a clockwork crank) to allow easy movement of supplies on and off the warship.

Cargo:

Five crates of ammunition (x10,000 rounds each)

Fifteen barrels of gunpowder

Muskets (x5)

Cannon balls (x100)

Barrel of drinking water (x15)

Barrel of lemons (x2)

Barrel of salt (x2)

Large chest of exotic spices

Barrel of vinegar

Barrel of salted kippers (x10)

Barrel of oranges (x4)

Barrel of dried fruit (x10)

Barrel of pickled vegetables (x5)

50lb crate of hardtack (x6)

50lb sack of rice (x20)

50lb sack of potatoes (x20)

50lb crate of beef jerky (x3)

Crate of one dozen twenty-pound cheese wheels (x2)

100lb crate of nuts (x6)

Keg of ale (x6)

Barrel of wine (x10)

Barrel of "Cinner Mon" brand rum (x10)

Barrel of tobacco (x5)

Barrel of pipe weed (x10)

250 foot length of rope (x10)

Large empty barrel (x20), small empty barrel (x40)

Large empty crate (x20), Small empty crate (x40)

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The Darting Empress

Gargantuan Vehicle (Warship, 100 ft. by 20 ft.)

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• Armor Class 20
• Speed 90ft (9 miles per hour, 216 miles per day)
• Creature Capacity 40 crew, 60 passengers
• Cargo Capacity 200 tons

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
20 (+5)	17 (+3)	20 (+5)	0 (-5)	10 (0)	14 (+2)

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• Saving Throws Str +10, Dex +8, Con +10, Cha +7
• Damage Immunities poison, psychic, fire
• Condition Immunities blinded, charmed, deafened, exhaustion, frightened, incapacitated, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, stunned, unconscious
• Senses passive Perception (as lookout)

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Spelljamming Helm. The Helm of the Darting Empress is a legendary wondrous item that requires attunement by a spellcaster. The following properties of the helm come into play even when no creature is attuned to it:

The helm generates an envelope of fresh air around the ship while it is in the void of space (but not underwater). This envelope extends out from the edges of the hull in all directions for a distance equal in length to the vessel's beam, so that creatures aboard and near the ship can breathe normally in space. The temperature within the air envelope is 70 degrees.

The helm also generates an artificial gravity field while the ship is in the void of space, so that creatures can walk on the ship's decks as they normally would. Creatures and objects that fall overboard bob in a gravity plane that extends out from the main deck for a distance equal in length to the vessel's beam.

Defiant Sails While the sails are unfurled, ranged weapon attacks made against the ship and anyone aboard it are made with disadvantage, as a result of the sails' protective magic. This drawback doesn't apply if the attacker is aboard the ship.

Smugglers' Banner. This flag's powerful magic causes it to appear as a flag or banner displaying the symbol of a group, captain, or realm friendly to the viewer. Multiple viewers might see different flags or crests.

Smugglers' Escape. As an action, the ship and all friendly creatures aboard it teleport up to 3 miles to a known destination of the captain's choice. Hostile creatures aboard the ship don't move with the ship and fall into the water it once occupied. Once the Smugglers' Banner is used to teleport, it can't teleport in this way again for 2d6 days.

Actions

On its turn the Darting Empress can take 3 actions if it has twenty or more crew, 2 actions if it has ten or more crew, or 1 action if it has fewer than ten crew, choosing from the options below. It cannot take any actions if it has no remaining crew.

Weapons: Cannon (20) Armor Class 19, Hit Points: 75 /Ranged Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, range 600/2,400 ft., one target. Hit: 44 (8d10) bludgeoning damage.

Weapons: Harpoon Gun (3) Armor Class 15, Hit Points 50 each. Ranged Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, range 120/480 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (2d10) piercing damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 16). Until the grapple ends, the target's speed is halved, and it can't move farther away from the Darting Empress.

Weapons: Naval Ram Armor Class 20, Hit Points 100 (damage threshold 10). The warship has advantage on all saving throws relating to crashing when it crashes into a creature or object. Any damage it takes from the crash is applied to the naval ram rather than to the ship. These benefits don't apply if another vessel crashes into the warship.

Living Hull

AC: 15 / Hit Points 1000 (damage threshold 20); the enchanted hull is a living plant, drawing sustenance from water and sunlight and the wood runs with fresh sap when damaged. The ship gains a +2 bonus to all Constitution checks or saving throws (included). As long as the ship has at least 1 hit point, it regains 10 hit points every minute.

Control & Movement: Spelljammer Helm

Spellcasters only. Move up to the speed of one of its movement components, with one 90-degree turn. If the helm is destroyed, the warship can't turn.

Movement: Sails

AC: 12 / Hit Points 100; -10 ft. speed per 25 damage taken

Speed (water). 35 ft.; 15 ft. while sailing into the wind; 50 ft. while sailing with the wind.

Adventuring heroes who pledge their alliegance to the Queen and join the Bramblewood war effort have often found themselves aboard this vessel on a daring- oft near suicide- mission. The ship is rightly feared by the Supreme Axis forces- the humans, porc and gnolls- and its list of victories grows with every deployment.

From its instrumentality in the siege of Fort Cowl to its use as a bomber across the fields of Colle-Gens and Gnolland, the ship has become a symbol against axis tyranny and drawn many Freedonians toward supporting the war. That the Darting Empress was comandeered from the Colle-Gens and used against them tickles the Freedonian's privateering sensibilities.

Bramblewood NPCs and Monsters

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Captain Ginseng

The Far Patrol (Bramblewood 3rd)

Medium humanoid (Lapidian), lawful neutral

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• Armor Class 18 (+2 leafweave armor)
• Hit Points 112 (15d8 + 45)
• Speed 35ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
15 (+2)	18 (+4)	16 (+3)	10 (0)	18 (+4)	10 (0)

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• Saving Throws Wis +7, Str +5 Dex +7
• Skills Stealth +10, Perception +10, Survival +7
• Senses darkvision 60ft, passive Perception 20
• Languages Sylvan, Elvish, Coyot, Squeakspeak, Sign
• Challenge 6

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Brave. Captain Ginseng has advantage on saving throws against being frightened.

Martial Advantage. Once per turn, Ginseng can deal an extra 10 (3d6) damage to a creature it hits with a weapon attack if that creature is within 5 feet of an ally of hers that isn't incapacitated.

Hit and Run. Move up to 10ft after damaging a target. This movement doesn't provoke opportunity attacks.

Standing Leap. The Captain's long jump is up to 25 feet and her high jump is up to 15 feet, with or without a running start.

Keen Senses. The Captain has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks.

Veteran Patrol. Allies within 120ft may use the Captain's Stealth Skill +10 instead of their own when they roll for Dexterity (Stealth) and have advantage on Wisdom (Survival) checks to track Gnolls, Porc, Humans or Dragons.

Natural Strider. Difficult terrain doesn't slow the Captain's movement speed or group travel. Her group can move stealthily at a normal pace. Her group can't become lost except by magical means. Even when she is engaged in another activity while traveling (such as tracking) she remains alert to danger. While tracking creatures, she learns their exact number, their sizes, and how long ago they passed through the area.

Bramblewood Patrol Cloak. Wisdom (Perception) checks made to see her have disadvantage, and she has advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks made to hide.

Hide in Plain Sight Spend 1 minute creating camouflage (must have access to mud, plants, etc). Once camouflaged in this way, she gains a +10 bonus to Dexterity (Stealth) checks as long as she remains motionless. Once she moves or takes an action or a reaction, she must camouflage herself again to gain this benefit.

Vanish. Can Hide action as a bonus action and can't be tracked by nonmagical means, unless she chooses to leave a trail.

Escape the Horde Opportunity attacks against her are made with disadvantage.

Horde Breaker When she makes a weapon attack, she can make another attack with the same weapon against a different creature that is within 5 feet of the original target and within range of her weapon.

Actions

Multiattack. Make two attacks.

+1 Longbow. Ranged Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, range 150/600 ft., one target. Hit: 9 (1d8 + 5) silvered piercing damage.

+1 Silvered Longsword. Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 9 (1d8+5) slashing damage, or 11 (1d10 + 5) slashing damage if used with two hands.

Cheap Kick Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d6+4) slashing damage and the target must succeed on a DC13 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone

Leadership (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). For 1 minute, the Captain can utter a special command or warning whenever a nonhostile creature that it can see within 30 feet of it makes an attack roll or a saving throw. The creature can add a d4 to its roll provided it can hear and understand the Captain. A creature can benefit from only one Leadership die at a time. This effect ends if the Captain is incapacitated.

Volley. Use her action to make a ranged attack against any number of creatures within 10 feet of a point she can see within her weapon's range. You must have ammunition for each target, as normal, and she make a separate attack roll for each target.

Bonus Actions

Cunning Command. As a bonus action, the Captain targets up to two allies she can see within 30 feet of her. If the target can see or hear the Captain, the target can use its reaction to make one melee or ranged attack or to take the Dash or Hide action.

Second Wind (1/rest). Regain 15 Hit Points.

Uncanny Dodge. When an attacker that she can see hits her with an attack, she can use her reaction to halve the attack's damage against her.

Skirmisher. move up to half speed as a reaction when an enemy ends its turn within 5 feet. This movement doesn't provoke opportunity attacks.

Battle Cry (1/Day). Each creature of the Captain's choice within 30ft of her, can hear her, and not already affected by a Battle Cry gain advantage on attack rolls until the start of her next turn. The Captain can then make an attack.

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Marten the Badgerlord

The Far Patrol (Bramblewood 3rd)

Medium humanoid (Badgerlord), neutral good

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• Armor Class 20 (unarmored defense, protection ring)
• Hit Points 175 (15d12 + 75)
• Speed 40ft., 30ft swim, 30ft climb, 20ft burrow

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
20 (+5)	14 (+2)	20 (+5)	7 (-2)	14 (2)	10 (0)

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• Saving Throws Str +9 Dex +5, Con +9
• Damage Resistances. bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage.
• Skills Stealth +9, Athletics +9, Intimidation +4
• Senses darkvision 60ft, passive Perception 20
• Languages Sylvan
• Challenge 6

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Brave. Advantage on saving throws vs frightened.

Bramblewood Patrol Cloak. Wisdom (Perception) checks made to see him have disadvantage; advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks to hide.

Dangersense. Advantage on Dexterity Saving Throws against Effects that he can see when not Blinded, Deafened, or Incapacitated.

Powerful Build. Counts as one size larger when determining carrying capacity and the weight he can push, drag, or lift.

Brute. Weapon attacks adds 1 damage die (included).

Royal Rage. Advantage on Strength checks and Strength Saving Throws. His attacks deal +2 damage.

Brutal Critical. Roll two additional weapon damage dice (2d6) when determining the extra damage for a critical hit with a melee attack.

Reckless Attack. Gain advantage on Attack rolls this turn, but Attack rolls against you have advantage until your next turn.

Feral Instinct. Advantage on Initiative rolls. If surprised, can act normally on his first turn, but only if he enters a rage before doing anything else on that turn.

Badgerlord Stoicism. If he drops to 0 Hit Points and doesnt die outright, he can make a DC 10 Constitution saving throw. If he succeeds, he drops to 1 hit point instead. Each time he uses this feature after the first, the DC increases by 5. When he finishes a short or Long Rest, the DC resets to 10.

Actions

Multiattack. Marten makes three attacks.

+3 Ancestral Greatsword. Melee Weapon Attack: +11 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 20 (3d6+10) slashing damage. Reroll damage rolls of 1 or 2 (must use reroll).

Fling. Marten tries to throw a Small or Medium creature within 5ft. The target must succeed on a DC 17 Strength saving throw or be hurled up to 30 feet horizontally in a direction of Marten’s choice, landing prone and taking 1d6 bludgeoning damage for every 10 feet it was thrown.

Whirlwind Attack. Make a melee weapon attack against any number of creatures within 5 feet of him, with a separate attack roll for each target.

Leadership (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). For 1 minute, Matren can utter a special command or warning whenever a nonhostile creature that he can see within 30 feet of him makes an attack roll or a saving throw. The creature can add a d4 to its roll provided it can hear and understand him. A creature can benefit from only one Leadership die at a time. This effect ends if Marten is incapacitated.

Bonus Actions

Uncanny Dodge. When an attacker that he can see hits him with an attack, he can use his reaction to halve the attack's damage against him.

Battle Cry (2/Day). Each creature of Marten's choice within 60ft of him that can hear him and is not already affected by a Battle Cry gain advantage on attack rolls until the start of his next turn. Marten can then make an attack.

Marten was a king without a throne, born to royal refugees in the Bramblewood, their homeland Badgerhold and most of their kin long lost to undead monsters. When he became old enough, he joined the 3rd Patrol and became a minor celebrity in the forest- the foreign prince who picked up an axe to defend the people. He was never the greatest warrior of the 3rd, that title that rightly belongs to master assassin Chestnut- but he was the tallest and the strongest. With how few Badgerlords are left in the world, Marten's piebald face is definitely the most recognizeable on the partol, and he walks the line between folk hero and teen heart-throb.

But despite the celebrity, simple Marten stays humble. Wherever he is he helps who he can, when he can, and thats all he can do, just like his mother taught him.

During a heated argument about how to handle the Gnoll invasion, Marten once broke the laws of the forest (the fifth law, if youre curious). His punishment saw the Queen's Shadethrower shadow teleport the raging Badgerlord to his haunted homeland, dropping him in the dirt unarmed. If he could find his family's lost greatsword in the ruined castle Badgerhold and claim his birthright as King, he could come back and talk smack. If not, he could enjoy exile for the disrespect. Marten huffed, picked up a log, gave it a few swings and set off. Three weeks later, the bloodied Badgerlord walked into Rose Red Keep, ancestral greatsword slung over his shoulder and the head of a necromancer in a bag, and the Shadethrower welcomed him as an equal.

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Chestnut

The Far Patrol (Bramblewood 3rd)

Small humanoid (Chyttr), neutral

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• Armor Class 18 (+2 leafweave armor)
• Hit Points 78 (16d8)
• Speed 30ft., 30ft climb

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
7 (-2)	20 (+5)	10 (0)	10 (0)	18 (+4)	14 (+2)

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• Saving Throws Int +7, Wis Dex +7
• Skills Stealth +15, Perception +14, Survival +10, Acrobatics +15, Thieves Tools, Investigation +5
• Damage Resistances Poison
• Senses blindsight 10ft, darkvision 60ft, passive Perception 24
• Languages Sylvan, Squeakspeak, Sign, Thieves' Cant
• Challenge 9

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Brave. Chestnut has advantage on saving throws against being frightened.

Naturally Stealthy. Chestnut can attempt to hide even when he is obscured only by a creature that is at least one size larger than him.

Hit and Run. Move up to 10ft after damaging a target. This movement doesn't provoke opportunity attacks.

Bramblewood Patrol Cloak. Wisdom (Perception) checks made to see him have disadvantage; he has advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks to hide.

Keen Senses. The Captain has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks.

Fighting Style: Archery +2 to ranged attacks (included)

Reliable Talent. Whenever he makes an ability check that lets him add his Proficiency Bonus, he can treat a d20 roll of 9 or lower as a 10.

Hawkeye Shot. Attacking at long range doesn't impose disadvantage on Chestnut's ranged weapon attack rolls. His attacks ignore half or three-quarters cover. Before he makes a ranged attack he choose to take a -5 penalty to the attack roll. If he does so and the attack hits, it deals +10 damage.

Assassinate. During its first turn, Chestnut has advantage on attack rolls against any creature that hasn't taken a turn. Any hit Chestnut scores against a surprised creature is a critical hit.

Amush Master. Advantage on initiative rolls. In addition, the first creature he hits during the first round of a combat becomes easier for him and others to strike; attack rolls against that target have advantage until the start of Chestnut's next turn.

Evasion. If Chestnut is subjected to an effect that allows him to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, he instead takes no damage if he succeeds on the saving throw, and only half damage if he fails.

Sneak Attack (1/Turn). Chestnut deals an extra 30 (8d6) damage when it hits a target with a weapon attack and has advantage on the attack roll, or when the target is within 5 feet of an ally of his that isn't incapacitated and he doesn't have disadvantage on the attack roll.

Actions

Multiattack. Make two attacks.

+2 Whisperwood Recurve Bow. Ranged Weapon Attack: +14 to hit, range 150/600 ft., one target. Hit: 12 (1d8 + 7) silvered piercing damage. This attack is silent.

Silvered Handaxe. Melee Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (1d6+5) slashing damage.

Leadership (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). For 1 minute, Chestnut can utter a special command or warning whenever a nonhostile creature that he can see within 30 feet of him makes an attack roll or a saving throw. The creature can add a d4 to its roll provided it can hear and understand him. A creature can benefit from only one Leadership die at a time. This effect ends if Chestnut is incapacitated.

Bonus Actions

Cunning Action. Take Dash, Disengage or Hide.

Uncanny Dodge. When an attacker that he can see hits him with an attack, he can use his reaction to halve the attack's damage against him.

Skirmisher. move up to half speed as a reaction when an enemy ends its turn within 5 feet. This movement doesn't provoke opportunity attacks.

Owl Totem: Use Dominate Beast on an owl.

Battle Cry (1/Day). Each creature of the Chestnut's choice within 30ft of him, can hear him, and us not already affected by a Battle Cry gain advantage on attack rolls until the start of her next turn. Chestnut can then make an attack.

Meet Chestnut, one of the world's most dangerous assassins. This squirrelfolk is a legend in the forest, and the sight of him atop his owl hollering "Yo Homies!" while making his sneak attack is one feared by his Porc and Gnoll enemies.

Chestnut took arrows to the leg reclaiming Rose Red Keep that left him with a permanent limp. It's constantly painful when he puts weight on it, so he's slower on his feet than many others of his kind, but his hand-eye coordination is second to none. If the Queen needs someone killed, she sends this Chytter in alone and considers it solved.

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Bramblewood Soldier

Small/medium humanoid (any race), neutral/good

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• Armor Class 15 (leafweave armor)
• Hit Points 25 (5d8 + 5)
• Speed 30ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
12 (1)	16 (3)	12 (1)	10 (0)	14 (2)	10 (0)

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• Skills Stealth+7,Percept+4,Survival+4,Athletics+3
• Senses darkvision 60ft, passive Perception 14
• Languages Sylvan, Sign, one other language
• Challenge 1/2

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Hit and Run. Move up to 10ft after making an attack. This movement doesn't provoke opportunity attacks.

Bramblewood Patrol Cloak. Wisdom (Perception) checks made to see it have disadvantage; it has advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks to hide.

Keen Senses. The Captain has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks.

Formation Tactics. The soldier has advantage on saving throws against being charmed, frightened, grappled, or restrained while it is within 5 feet of at least one ally.

Actions

Multiattack. Make two attacks.

Scoped Clockwork Repeater Rifle. Ranged Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, range 640ft. Hit: 11 (2d8+3) piercing damage. Reload 5.

Shortsword. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d6+3) piercing damage.

Smoke Grenade. Throw a smoke grenade up to 60ft. One round after a smoke grenade lands, it emits a cloud of smoke that creates a heavily obscured area in a 20-foot radius. A moderate wind (at least 10 miles per hour) disperses the smoke in 4 rounds; a strong wind (20 or more miles per hour) disperses it in 1 round.

Bonus Actions

Cunning Action. Take Dash, Disengage or Hide.

Skirmisher. move up to half speed as a reaction when an enemy ends its turn within 5 feet. This movement doesn't provoke opportunity attacks.

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Bramblewood Sarge

Small/medium humanoid (any race), neutral/good

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• Armor Class 15 (leafweave armor)
• Hit Points 40 (8d8 + 8)
• Speed 30ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
14 (2)	16 (3)	12 (1)	10 (0)	16 (3)	12 (1)

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• Skills Stealth+6,Percept+6,Survival+6,Athletics+5
• Senses darkvision 60ft, passive Perception 16
• Languages Sylvan, Sign, one other language
• Challenge 2

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Hit and Run. Move up to 10ft after making an attack. This movement doesn't provoke opportunity attacks.

Bramblewood Patrol Cloak. Wisdom (Perception) checks made to see it have disadvantage; it has advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks to hide.

Keen Senses. The Captain has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks.

Formation Tactics. Advantage on saving throws against being charmed, frightened, grappled, or restrained while it is within 5 ft of an ally.

Actions

Multiattack. Make two attacks.

Clockwork Revolver. Ranged Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, range 640ft. Hit: 11 (2d8+3) piercing damage. Reload 5.

Silvered Longsword. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d8+3) silvered piercing damage.

Grenade Launcher. Propel a grenade up to 120 feet away. Each creature within 20 feet of an exploding fragmentation grenade must make a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw, taking 5d6 piercing damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

Leadership (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). For 1 minute, utter a special command whenever a nonhostile creature that it can see within 30ft of it makes an attack roll or a saving throw. The creature can add a d4 to its roll provided it can hear and understand it. A creature can benefit from only one Leadership die at a time. This effect ends if the Sarge is incapacitated.

Bonus Actions

Cunning Action. Take Dash, Disengage or Hide.

Skirmisher. move up to half speed as a reaction when an enemy ends its turn within 5 feet. This movement doesn't provoke opportunity attacks.

Battle Cry (1/Day). Each creature of the Sarge's choice within 30ft of it, can hear it, and not already affected by a Battle Cry gain advantage on attack rolls until the the Sarge's next turn. The Sarge can then make an attack as a bonus action.

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Walking Treefort

Huge plant, Unaligned

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• Armor Class 13 (natural armor)
• Hit Points 59 (7d12 + 14)
• Speed 20ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
19 (4)	6 (-2)	15 (2)	10 (0)	10 (0)	12 (1)

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• Damage Resistances Bludgeoning, Piercing
• Damage Vulnerabilities Fire
• Condition Immunities frightened, blinded, deafened, charmed
• Skills Stealth+7, Percept+4, Survival+4, Athletics+3
• Senses passive Perception 10
• Languages understands Sylvan, doesnt speak
• Challenge 2

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False Appearance. While the tree remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from a normal tree.

Fort. The tree has a compact fort. Up to four Small creatures can ride in the treefort without squeezing. To make a melee attack against a target within 5 feet of the treefort, they must use spears or weapons with reach. Creatures in the fort have three-quarters cover against attacks and effects from outside it. If the walking treefort dies, creatures in the fort are placed in unoccupied spaces within 5 feet of the tree.

Actions

Slam. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 14 (3d6 + 4) bludgeoning damage.

Grasping Root. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 10 ft., one creature not grappled by the Walking Treefort. Hit: The target is grappled (escape DC 14). Until the grapple ends, the target takes 6 (1d4 + 4) bludgeoning damage at the start of each of its turns. The root has AC 15 and can be severed by dealing 6 slashing damage or more to it at once. Cutting the root doesn't hurt the Walking Treefort, but ends the grapple.

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Ironoak Siege Tree

Gargantuan plant, Unaligned

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• Armor Class 20 (natural armor)
• Hit Points 149 (13d12 + 65)
• Speed 30ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
23 (6)	10 (0)	20 (5)	6 (-3)	10 (0)	3 (-4)

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• Damage Resistances Bludgeoning, Piercing
• Damage Vulnerabilities Fire
• Condition Immunities frightened, blinded, deafened, charmed
• Skills Stealth+7, Percept+4, Survival+4, Athletics+3
• Sensesblindsight 60 ft. (blind beyond this radius), Passive Perception 10
• Languages understands Sylvan, doesnt speak
• Challenge 8

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False Appearance. While the Siege Tree remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from a normal tree with a sturdy treehouse.

Fort. The Siege Tree has a treefort. Up to four medium creatures or eight small creatures can ride in the fort without squeezing. To make a melee attack against a target within 5 feet of the treefort, they must use spears or weapons with reach. Creatures in the fort have three-quarters cover against attacks and effects from outside it. If the tree dies, creatures in the fort are placed in unoccupied spaces within 5 feet of the Siege Tree.

Siege Monster. The Siege Tree deals double damage to objects and structures.

Actions

Multiattack. The Siege Tree makes four attacks: two with its Slam and two with its grasping roots.

Slam. Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 15 ft., one target. Hit: 16 (3d6 + 6) bludgeoning damage.

Grasping Root. Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 15 ft., one creature not grappled by the Siege Tree. Hit: The target is grappled (escape DC 15). Until the grapple ends, the target takes 9 (1d6 + 6) bludgeoning damage at the start of each of its turns. The root has AC 15 and can be severed by dealing 6 slashing damage or more to it at once. Cutting the root doesn't hurt the Siege Tree, but ends the grapple.

Passenger Armament

The treefort is usually fitted with one of the following heavy siege weapons to enhance its battlefield role (each choice requires 3 crew to operate):

Whisperwood Ballista. Silent Ranged Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, range 120/480 ft., one target. Hit: 16 (3d10) piercing damage. Before it can be fired, it must be loaded and aimed. It takes one action to load the weapon, one action to aim it, and one action to fire it.

Cannon. Ranged Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, range 600/2,400 ft., one target. Hit: 44 (8d10) bludgeoning damage. Before it can be fired, the cannon must be loaded and aimed. It takes one action to load the weapon, one action to aim it, and one action to fire it.

Mortar. Ranged Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, range 600/2,400 ft. (can't hit targets within 60 feet of it), one target. Hit: 44 (8d10) piercing damage. Before the mortar can be fired, it must be loaded and aimed. It takes two actions to aim it, and one action to fire it. The mortar ignores cover and line of sight.

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Jean Ralphio LaCroix

Master Gunsmith

Small humanoid (goblin, shapechanger), CN

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• Armor Class 18 (red/black dragonscale-studded leather)
• Hit Points (11d8+11)
• Speed 30ft, 50ft fly

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
8 (-1)	20 (+5)	13 (+1)	18 (+4)	16 (+3)	8 (-1)

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• Saving Throws Dexterity +9, Intelligence +8, CON+5
• Damage Resistances Fire, Acid
• Damage Immunities Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing From Nonmagical Attacks
• Skills Tinker Tools +8, Smiths' Tools +8, Thieves' Tools, Investigation +8, Stealth +13, Survival +7, Acrobatics +9, Insight +7, Vehicles (Air) +8
• Senses passive Perception 17
• Languages Dwarvish, Gnomish, Goblin, Thieves' Cant
• Challenge 4 (1,100 XP)

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Shapechanger: Jean Ralphio can use his action to polymorph into a Medium fruitbat-goblinoid hybrid, or into a Large-sized giant fruitbat, or back into his true form, which is a small goblin. His statistics, other than his size, are the same in each form. Any equipment he is wearing or carrying isn't transformed. He reverts to his true form if he dies.

Keen Hearing: Jean Ralphio has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on hearing.

Echolocation (Bat or Hybrid Form Only): The werebat has blindsight out to a range of 60 feet as long as he is not deafened.

Signature Welding Goggles. As long as he is wearing his goggles, Jean Ralphio doesn't suffer from a werebat's sunlight sensitivity.

Deadeye Shot. Attacking at long range doesn't impose disadvantage on Jean Ralphio's ranged weapon attack rolls. His attacks ignore half or three-quarters cover. Before he makes a ranged attack he can choose to take a -5 penalty to the attack roll. If he does so and the attack hits, it deals +10 damage.

Sneak Attack. Once per turn, Jean Ralphio deals an extra (5d6) damage when he hits a target with a weapon attack and has advantage on the attack roll, or when the target is within 5 feet of an ally that isn't incapacitated and Jean Ralphio doesn't have disadvantage on the attack roll.

Fighting Style: Gunfighter. +2 to hit with ranged weapons. Being within 5 ft of a hostile creature does not impose disadvantage on Jean Ralphio's ranged attack rolls.

Grit (3/rest): Jean Ralphio regains 1 expended grit point each time he rolls a 20 or deals a killing blow.

Disarming Shot (costs 1 grit) the target must succeed on a DC17 Strength saving throw or drop 1 held object of Jean Ralphio's choice and have that object be pushed 10 feet away from him.

Kneecap (costs 1 grit) target must take a DC17 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone.

Piercing Shot (costs 1 grit) When Jean Ralphio makes a firearm attack against a creature, he attempts to fire through multiple opponents. The initial attack gains a +1 to the firearm’s misfire score. On a hit, the creature suffers normal damage and you make an attack roll with disadvantage against every creature in a line directly behind the target within your first range increment. Only the initial attack can misfire.

Evasion. When subjected to an Effect that allows him to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, Jean Ralphio instead takes no damage if he succeeds on the saving throw, and only half damage if he fails.

Actions

+1 Clockwork .45 Revolver. Ranged Weapon Attack: +12 to hit, range 40/120ft., one target. Hit 14 (2d8+6) silvered piercing damage.

Masterwork +2 Clockwork Hunting Rifle. Ranged Weapon Attack: +13 to hit, range 150/600ft., one target. Hit 16 (2d10+7) silvered piercing damage. Attacks made with this weapon while using its scope have advantage. Hit Points lost to this weapon’s damage can be regained only through a short or Long Rest, rather than by regeneration, magic, or any other means. Once per turn, when Jean Ralphio hits a creature with an Attack using this weapon, he can wound the target. At the start of each of the wounded creature’s turns, it takes 1d4 necrotic damage for each time Jean Ralphio has wounded it, and it can then make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw, ending the Effect of all such wounds on itself on a success.

Bonus Actions

Nimble Gunfighter: take the Dash, Disengage, or Hide action OR stow and draw or reload a firearm.

Rapid Repair (costs 1 grit) Jean Ralphio rolls to repair a misfired (but not broken) firearm.

Reactions

Uncanny Dodge: halve the damage of an attack from an attacker that Simple Simon can see.

Redirect Attack: When a creature Jean Ralphio can see targets it with an attack, he chooses another goblin within 5 feet of him. The two goblins swap places, and the chosen goblin becomes the target instead.

Loot

Red & Black Dragonscale-studded Leather armor,two clockwork +1 revolvers, Jean Ralphio's Masterwork +2 Clockwork Hunting Rifle of Wounding, Signature Welding Goggles (ignore sunlight sensitivity), a red dragonleather shotbag (a bag of holding) containing a +1 clockwork kneecapper and a bandolier with 24 whalloping slugs, tinker tools, thieves' tools, smiths' tools, a keg of gunpowder, a tinderbox, a zippo.

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Twin Blade Veteran

Medium humanoid (khenra), lawful neutral

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• Armor Class 20 (Half Plate, Shield, Defense fighting style)
• Hit Points 58 (9d8 + 18)
• Speed 35ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
16 (3)	16 (3)	14 (2)	12 (1)	11 (0)	10 (0)

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• Skills Stealth +5, Perception +5, Athletics +5
• Senses passive Perception 15
• Languages Khenra, Sylvan
• Challenge 3

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Hit and Run. Move up to 10ft after damaging a target. This movement doesn't provoke opportunity attacks.

Khenra Twins. If its twin is alive and it can see them, whenever it rolls a 1 on an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw, it can reroll the die and must use the new roll. If its twin is dead, it can’t be frightened.

Actions

Multiattack. Make two attacks.

Javelin. Ranged Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, range 30/120ft, one target. Hit: 6 (1d6+3) piercing.

Black-Flame Blade Kopesh. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (1d8+4) piercing damage + 8 (2d8) fire damage. Another enemy creature within 5ft takes 9 (2d8+1) fire.

Bonus Actions

Skirmisher. move up to half speed as a reaction when an enemy ends its turn within 5 feet. This movement doesn't provoke opportunity attacks.

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Cleric of Anubis

Medium humanoid (khenra), lawful neutral

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• Armor Class 20 (Half Plate, Shield, Defense fighting style)
• Hit Points 117 (18d8 + 36)
• Speed 35ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
16 (3)	16 (3)	14 (2)	12 (1)	17 (3)	14 (2)

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• Saving Throws Constitution +6, Wisdom +7
• Skills Stealth+7, Perception+5, Medicine+5, Religion+5, Athletics +6
• Senses passive Perception 15
• Languages Khenra, Sylvan
• Challenge 9

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Hit and Run. Move up to 10ft after damaging a target. This movement doesn't provoke opportunity attacks.

Khenra Twins. If its twin is alive and it can see them, whenever it rolls a 1 on an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw, it can reroll the die and must use the new roll. If its twin is dead, it can’t be frightened.

Spellcasting. The Cleric of Anubis is a 9th-level spellcaster. Its spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save DC 15, +7 to hit with spell attacks). It has the following cleric spells prepared:

Cantrips (at will): sacred flame, spare the dying

1st level (4 slots): divine favor, guiding bolt, healing word, shield of faith

2nd level (3 slots): lesser restoration, prayer of healing, silence, spiritual weapon

3rd level (3 slots): beacon of hope, crusader's mantle, dispel magic, revivify, spirit guardians

4th level (3 slots): banishment, aura of purity

5th level (1 slot): flame strike, mass cure wounds

Actions

Multiattack. Make two attacks.

Javelin. Ranged Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, range 30/120ft, one target. Hit: 6 (1d6+3) piercing.

Black-Flame Blade Kopesh. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (1d8+4) piercing damage + 8 (2d8) fire damage. Another enemy creature within 5ft takes 9 (2d8+1) fire.

Bonus Actions/Reactions

Skirmisher. move up to half speed as a reaction when an enemy ends its turn within 5 feet. This movement doesn't provoke opportunity attacks.

Guided Strike (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). The cleric grants a +10 bonus to an attack roll made by itself or another creature within 30 feet of it. The cleric can make this choice after the roll is made but before it hits or misses.

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Thorn Cult Slayer

Medium humanoid (Half-Drow), Lawful Neutral

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• Armor Class 21 (+1 Spidersilk Armor, Defense Fighting Style, Slayer's Thorn in hand confers shield bonus)
• Hit Points 111 (13d12 + 26)
• Speed 35ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
14 (+2)	20 (+5)	14 (+2)	10 (0)	16 (+3)	18 (+4)

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• Saving Throws STR +7, DEX +10, CHA +8
• Skills Athletics +7, Acrobatics +10, Stealth +10, Perception +9, Survival +8, Intimidation +9
• Condition Immunities Frightened
• Senses Darkvision 120 Ft., passive Perception 18
• Languages Elvish, Sylvan
• Challenge 5 (1800 XP)

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Favored Enemy: Undead. Advantage advantage on Wisdom (Survival) checks to track undead and Intelligence checks to recall information about them. The Slayer deals +2 damage to undead creatures.

Slayer. When the Slayer hits a creature with an attack roll, she can call on her mystical bond with nature to mark the target as her favored enemy for 1 minute or until she loses her concentration (as if concentrating on a spell).

Fey Ancestry: The half-drow has advantage on Saving Throws against being Charmed, and magic can't put her to sleep.

Sunlight Sensitivity: While in sunlight, a drow has disadvantage on Attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.

Innate Spellcasting: Spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 11). It can innately cast the following Spells, requiring no material components: At will: Dancing lights 1/day each: Darkness, Faerie Fire

Sentinel. When the Slayer hits a creature with an opportunity attack, the creature's speed becomes 0 for the rest of the turn. Creatures provoke opportunity attacks from her even if they take the Disengage action. When a creature makes an attack against a target other than her, she can use her reaction to make a melee weapon attack against the attacking creature.

Primeval Awareness. As an action, expend a spell slot to focus her awareness on the region around her. For 5 minutes she can sense whether the following types of creatures are present within 1 miles (or 6 miles in the Underdark or Forest): aberrations, celestials, dragons, elementals, fey, fiends, and undead- but it doesn’t reveal the creatures’ location or number.

Fighting Style: Defense. While wearing armor, +1 to AC.

Actions

Multiattack. Make two attacks.

Slayer's Thorn. Melee Weapon Attack: +12 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 12 (1d10 + 7) piercing damage.

Thorn Launcher. Ranged Weapon Attack: +12 to hit, range 20/60 ft, one target. Hit: 10 (1d6+7) piercing damage. On an 18-20, the wooden stake launched from the Slayer's Thorn strikes the target in the heart and scores a Critical Hit.

Chain Harpoon. Ranged Weapon Attack: +12 to hit, range 20/60 ft, one target. Hit: 12 (1d10+7) silvered piercing damage. If the target is a Huge or smaller creature, it must succeed on a Strength contest against the Slayer or be pulled up to 20 feet toward her. The chain harpoon remains embedded in the target until removed, and a living creature is wounded. At the start of each of the wounded creature’s turns, it takes 1d4 necrotic damage for each time the Slayer has harpooned it, and it can then make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw, ending the effect of all such wounds on itself on a success. Alternatively, the wounded creature, or a creature within 5 feet of it, can use an action to make a DC 15 Wisdom (Medicine) check, ending the effect of such wounds on it on a success.

Bonus Actions

Vow of the Slayer. As a bonus, designate one creature the Slayer can see within 60 feet of her as the target. She gains advantage on attack rolls against the creature until it drops to 0 hit points or falls unconscious. The first time each turn that she hits that target with a weapon attack, it takes an extra 1d6 damage from the weapon. She can mark one target at a time.

Tunnel Fighter. Enters a defensive stance that lasts until the start of her next turn and can make opportunity attacks without using her reaction, and she can use her reaction to make a melee attack against a creature that moves more than 5 feet while within her reach.

Twelve Thorn Cult Slayers are stationed in the Root. The Thirteenth was sent to Barovia to aid Queen Kenzi's ally Crowley in exterminating undead threats. Crowley also took a book called the Necronomicon from the Queen for safekeeping after she deemed it too powerful to stay on her world. The Necronomicon was stolen from the Death Knight in command of Fort Cowl by mousefolk Master Thief Izzee Threehunna and her Blink Dog Bamf, who found it on a fluke while pilfering military documents and didn't know what she returned to the Bramblewood Queen with.

Slayer Equipment

Thorn Cult Slayers are armed with the special equipment of their Order: +1 Spidersilk Armor and a Slayer's Thorn. These +2 double-sided polearms can fire wooden stakes from one end or a silvered chain harpoon from the other. They hold 4 wooden stakes within the shaft. A Slayer's training allows her to use the weapon defensively, granting the regular bonus of a shield while in hand.

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Mama Wurmwood

Medium humanoid (Human, Shapechanger), CN

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• Armor Class 17 (Grey Robe of the Archmagi, Staff of Power )
• Hit Points 139 (20d8 + 40)
• Speed 30ft., (50ft fly raven form)

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
7 (-2)	10 (0)	14 (2)	18 (4)	16 (3)	22 (6)

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• Saving Throws Cha+14,Wis+11,Int+12,Con+4,Dex+2
• Skills Medicine+10,Religion+10,Arcana+10,Perc9
• Condition Immunitites Charmed, Magical Sleep
• Senses passive Perception 19
• Languages Common, Sylvan, Draconic, Elvish, Abyssal
• Challenge 15

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Shapechanger. Mama Wurmwood can use an action to polymorph into a swarm of ravens, a black cat, a Giant Constrictor Snake or back into her true human form. Anything she is wearing transforms with her, but nothing she is carrying does.

Inscruitable Mists. While in her Lair, Mama Wurmwood is shielded against divination magic as though protected by a nondetection spell. The thick Fog created by her spells and lair actions lasts until a wind of strong or greater speed (at least 20 miles per hour) disperses it over 2 two rounds. Weaker winds have no effect on her fog.

Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Wurmwood fails a saving throw, she can choose to succeed instead.

Magic Resistance. She has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.

Instinctive Charm When creature she can see within 30ft makes an attack roll against her, she can use her reaction to divert the attack, provided that another creature is within the attack's range. The attacker must make a DC22 Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the attacker must target the creature that is closest to it, not including Mama Wurmwood or itself. If multiple creatures are closest, the attacker chooses which one to target. On a successful save, Wurmwood can't use this feature on the attacker again until she finishes a long rest. Creatures that can't be charmed are immune to this effect.

Durable Magic. While she maintains concentration on a spell, she has a +2 bonus to AC and saving throws.

Illusory Reality. When she casts an illusion spell of 1st level or higher, she can choose one inanimate, nonmagical object that is part of the illusion and make that object real. She can do this on your turn as a bonus action while the spell is ongoing. The object remains real for 1 minute. For example, she can create an illusion of a bridge over a chasm and then make it real long enough for her allies to cross. The object can't deal damage or otherwise directly harm anyone.

Invisible Passage: Wurmwood magically turns Invisible until she attacks or casts a spell, or until her Concentration ends (as if concentrating on a spell). While Invisible, she leaves no physical evidence of her Passage, so she can be tracked only by magic. Any Equipment she wears or carries is Invisible with her.

Spellcasting. Mama Wurmwood is a 9th-level spellcaster. Her spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 22, +14 to hit with spell attacks). She has the following spells prepared:

Cantrips (at will): Spare the Dying, Prestidigitation, Mending, Fog Cloud, Invisibility

1st level (4 slots): Hex, Charm Person, Cure Wounds, Entangle, Sleep, Tasha's Hideous Laughter

2nd level (3 slots): Lesser Restoration, Animal Messenger, Prayer of Healing, Shatter

3rd level (3 slots): Bestow/Remove Curse, Counterspell, Dispel Magic, Plant Growth, Fireball

4th level (3 slots): Banishment, Greater Invisibility, Conjure Woodland Beings, Confusion

5th level (3 slot): Dominate Person, Mass Cure Wounds, Wrath of Nature, Synaptic Static

6th level (2 slots): Eyebite, Druid Grove, Conjure Fey

7th level (2 slot): Mirage Arcane, Resurrection

8th level (1 slots): Animal Shapes

9th level (1 slot): Wish

Actions

Staff of Power. Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d6 + 2) bludgeoning damage, or 6 (1d8 + 2) bludgeoning damage if wielded with two hands.

Dark Delirium. Choose a creature that she can see within 60 feet of her. It must make a DC22 Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, it is charmed or frightened by her (her choice) for 1 minute or until her concentration is broken (as concentrating on a spell). This effect ends early if the creature takes any damage. Until this illusion ends, the creature thinks it is lost in a misty realm. The creature can see and hear only itself, Kaleen, and the illusion.

Lair Actions

On initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), Wurmwood takes a lair action to cause one of the following effects. She cannot take the same Lair action twice in a row.

Enchanting Fog. Magical fog billows around one creature Wurmwood can see within 120 feet of it. The creature must succeed on a DC 22 Wisdom saving throw or be charmed by Wurmwood until initiative count 20 on the next round.

Teleport. She magically teleports, along with any equipment she is wearing or carrying, up to 120 feet to an unoccupied space she can see.

Call Servant. A friendly Kenku or Swarm of Ravens appears within 120ft, rolling its own initiative.

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Kaleen Wurmwood

Medium humanoid (half-elf, shapechanger), CG

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• Armor Class 18 (Barrier Tattoo)
• Hit Points 75 (15d8)
• Speed 30 ft., fly 50 ft. in raven and hybrid forms

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
10 (0)	14 (+2)	10 (0)	15 (+2)	15 (+2)	20 (+5)

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• Saving Throws Int +7 Wis +7 Cha +10
• Skills Insight +7, Perception +10, Arcana +7, Nature+7, Medicine+7, Stealth +6, Deception/Pesuasion+10
• Damage Immunities Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing From Nonmagical, NonSilvered Attacks
• Senses passive Perception 18
• Tools Herbalists & Poisoners Kit, Vehicles (Spelljammer)
• Languages Sylvan, Common, Elvish
• Challenge 6 (2,300 XP)

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Shapechanger. A wereraven can use its action to polymorph into a raven-humanoid hybrid or into a raven, or back into its natural half-elf form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn't transformed. It reverts to its elf form if it dies.

Mama's Blessing. Kaleen has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.

Spellcasting. Kaleen is a 15th-level warlock. Her spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 20, +12 to hit with spell attacks). She regains her expended spell slots when she finishes a rest. She knows the following sorcerer spells:

Cantrips (at will): dancing lights, eldritch blast, mage hand, minor illusion, prestidigitation, vicious mockery

1st-5th level (3 5th-level slots): plant growth, blink, charm person, dimension door, dominate beast, cure wounds, fear, hold monster, misty step, Conjure Woodland Beings, sleep

Actions

Crossbow of Fireballs. Ranged Weapon Attack: range 300 ft. Target: All creatures within a 20ft sphere within range must take a DC15 Dex saving throw, taking half damage on a success. Hit: 25 (8d6) fire damage. Reload 7.

Eldritch Blast. This attack makes 3 beams, each rolling a separate attack roll. Ranged Spell Attack: +12 to hit, range 120ft. Hit: 10 (1d10 + 5) force damage and the target is knocked 10ft directly away from Kaleen.

Eldritch Blade. Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 20/60 ft., one creature. Hit: 5 (1d6 + 2) piercing damage and 14 (2d8+5) fire damage. On a hit, green fire leaps from the target to a second creature of her choice within 5ft, which takes 14 (2d8+5) fire damage.

Dark Delirium (1/rest) Choose a creature that she can see within 60 feet of her. It must make a DC20 Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, it is charmed or frightened by her (her choice) for 1 minute or until her concentration is broken (as concentrating on a spell). This effect ends early if the creature takes any damage. Until this illusion ends, the creature thinks it is lost in a misty realm. The creature can see and hear only itself, Kaleen, and the illusion.

Reactions

Misty Escape (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). In response to taking damage, a Kaleen turns invisible and teleports up to 60 feet to an unoccupied space she can see. She remains invisible until the start of her next turn or until she attacks, makes a damage roll, or casts a spell.

Beguiling Defenses Kaleen is immune to being charmed, and when another creature attempts to charm her, she can use her reaction to attempt to turn the charm back on that creature. The creature must succeed on a DC 20 Wisdom saving throw or be charmed by her for 1 minute or until the creature takes any damage.

Kaleen is often the unofficial welcome party to the forest for offworld adventurers, stepping in to stave off the horrors of the Wokewood. A kind, wild-haired redhead who prefers to wear green dresses, in recent times she's taken the helm of the Darting Empress for the war effort, angling to impress her mother. She is a wereraven, with authority over her mother's spy network, the Sister Conspirators. In this role as spymaster, she is one of the few non-drow to have ever entered the inner chambers of the Root.

Barrier Tattoo (Large): While she isn't wearing armor, Mama Wurmwood has given her a woad Barrier Tattoo that grants her an Armor Class of 18. She can use a shield and still gain this benefit. (TCE p122).

Loot: a Robe of the Achmagi, Lantern of Revealing, Crossbow of Fireballs, 3 spare green Wand of Fireballs and her Eldritch Blade, a dirk imbued with the Green Flame Blade cantrip.

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Sister Conspirator

Bramblewood Wereraven

Medium humanoid (human, shapechanger), lawful good

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• Armor Class 12
• Hit Points 49 (11d8)
• Speed 30 ft., fly 50 ft. in raven and hybrid forms

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
10 (0)	15 (+2)	11 (0)	13 (+1)	15 (+2)	18 (+4)

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• Skills Insight +5, Perception +8, Arcana +4, Stealth +5
• Damage Immunities Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing From Nonmagical Attacks Not Made With Silvered Weapons
• Senses passive Perception 18
• Languages Sylvan, Common, Elvish (can't speak in raven form)
• Challenge 4 (1100 XP)

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Shapechanger. The wereraven can use its action to polymorph into a raven-humanoid hybrid or into a raven, or back into its natural elf form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn't transformed. It reverts to its elf form if it dies.

Mimicry. The wereraven can mimic sounds it has heard, such as a person whispering. A creature that hears the sounds can tell they are imitations with a successful DC 10 Wisdom (Insight) check.

Innate Spellcasting. - A Sister Conspirator’s innate spellcasting ability is Charisma. She can innately cast the following spells (spell save DC 15, +7 to hit with spell attacks), requiring no material components:

At will: disguise self, mage armor, silent image, entangle

Spellcasting. The Sister Conspirator is a 11th-level warlock. Its spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 15, +7 to hit with spell attacks). It regains its expended spell slots when it finishes a short or long rest. It knows the following warlock spells:

Cantrips (at will): dancing lights, eldritch blast, friends, mage hand, minor illusion, prestidigitation, vicious mockery

1st-5th level (3 5th-level slots): plant growth, blink, charm person, dimension door, dominate beast, cure wounds, fear, hold monster, misty step, Conjure Woodland Beings, sleep

Actions

Multiattack (Elf or Hybrid Form Only). The wereraven makes two attacks.

Beak (Raven or Hybrid Form Only). Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 1 piercing damage in raven form, or 4 (1d4+2) piercing damage in hybrid form. If the target is humanoid, it must succeed on a DC 10 Constitution saving throw or be cursed with wereraven lycanthropy.

Eldritch Blast. Ranged Spell Attack: +7 to hit, range 120ft. Hit: 9 (1d10 + 4) force damage.

Reactions

Misty Escape (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). In response to taking damage, a Sister Conspirator turns invisible and teleports up to 60 feet to an unoccupied space it can see. It remains invisible until the start of its next turn or until it attacks, makes a damage roll, or casts a spell.

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Clockwork Engineer

Queen Kenzi's Clockwork Army

Medium Construct, lawful neutral

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• Armor Class 17 (Light Armor Plating)
• Hit Points 30 (4d8 + 12)
• Speed 35ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
12 (+1)	15 (+2)	12 (+1)	15 (+2)	17 (+3)	8 (-1)

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• Saving Throws Dexterity +5, Intelligence +5
• Damage Immunities Psychic, Poison
• Condition Immunities Charmed, Exhausted, Poisoned, magical sleep
• Senses darkvision 120ft, passive Perception 15
• Languages Common, Binary, Telepathic communication with constructs within 1 mile.
• Skills Technology +4, Stealth +4, Perception +5
• Tools Tinker Tools, Smith's Tools, Thieves' Tools
• Challenge 2 (450 XP)

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Sentry’s Rest. Spends six hours in an inactive state rather than sleeping, and can see and hear as normal.

Repair Specialist. The Clockwork Engineer has expertise in all of its tool proficiencies. It may use Mending at will to restore 1 Hit Point to a damaged construct.

Actions

Clockwork Pistol (Incendiary Ammo). Ranged Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 50/150 ft., one target, reload 5. Hit: 6 (1d6+3) piercing damage and 3 (1d6) fire damage.

Grenade Launcher (Frag). Propel a frag grenade up to 120 feet away. Each creature within 20 feet of an exploding fragmentation grenade must make a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw, taking 5d6 piercing damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

Repair Construct (3/rest). Target construct creature or mechanical object regains 1d8 Hit Points.

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Clockwork Skirmisher

Queen Kenzi's Clockwork Army

Medium Construct, lawful neutral

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• Armor Class 17 (Light Armor Plating)
• Hit Points 58 (9d8+18)
• Speed 35ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
16 (+3)	17 (+3)	15 (+2)	12 (+1)	17 (+3)	8 (-1)

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• Saving Throws Dexterity +5, Intelligence +5
• Damage Immunities Psychic, Poison
• Condition Immunities Charmed, Exhausted, Frightened, Poisoned, magical sleep
• Senses darkvision 120ft, passive Perception 15
• Languages Common, Binary, Telepathic communication with constructs within 1 mile.
• Skills Athletics +5, Stealth +5, Perception +5
• Challenge 3 (700 XP)

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Sentry’s Rest. Spends six hours in an inactive state rather than sleeping, and can see and hear as normal.

Keen Hearing and Sight. Advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on hearing or sight.

Pack Tactics. The clockwork skirmisher has advantage on an attack roll against a creature if at least one of its allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally isn't incapacitated.

Actions

Multiattack. The Skirmisher makes two attacks.

Armblade. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: (1d8+3) silvered slashing damage.

Clockwork Pistol (Incendiary Ammo). Ranged Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 50/150 ft., one target, reload 5. Hit: 6 (1d6+3) piercing damage and 3 (1d6) fire damage.

Clockwork Repeater Rifle. Ranged Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 80/240 ft., one target, reload 5. Hit: 11 (2d8+3) silvered piercing damage.

Bonus Actions

Cunning Programming. Take the Dash, Disengage, Hide or Aim action.

Reactions

Skirmisher When a creature ends its turn within 5 feet of the clockwork skirmisher, it moves up to half its movement speed without provoking opportunity attacks.

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Clockwork Juggernaut

Queen Kenzi's Clockwork Army

Large Construct, lawful neutral

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• Armor Class 20 (Heavy Adamantine Plating)
• Hit Points 143 (22d8 + 44)
• Speed 30ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
20 (+5)	12 (+1)	20 (+5)	10 (+0)	12 (+1)	10 (+0)

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• Saving Throws Strength +9, Constitution +9
• Damage Resistances Bludgeoning, piercing and slashing damage from non-magical attacks made without adamantine weapons
• Damage Immunities Fire, Psychic, Poison
• Condition Immunities Charmed, Exhausted, Frightened, Poisoned
• Senses darkvision 120ft, passive Perception 15
• Languages Common, Binary
• Skills Athletics +9, Perception +5, Intimidation +4
• Challenge 9 (5000 XP)

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Indomitable (2/Day). The clockwork juggernaut rerolls a failed saving throw.

Sentry’s Rest. Spends six hours in an inactive state rather than sleeping, and can see and hear as normal.

Magic Resistance. The clockwork juggernaut has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.

Self-Repair (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). As a bonus action, the clockwork juggernaut can regain 20 hit points.

Siege Monster. The clockwork juggernaut deals double damage to Objects and structures.

Charge. If the clockwork juggernaut moves at least 10 ft. straight toward a target and then hits it with a Siege Fist Attack on the same turn, the target takes an extra 9 (2d8) piercing damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 17 Strength saving throw or be pushed up to 10 ft. away and knocked prone.

Actions

Multiattack. The Clockwork Juggernaut makes three attacks.

Siege Fist. Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 13 (2d8+5) silvered bludgeoning damage.

Clockwork Kneecapper. Ranged Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, range 30/90ft., one target, reload 5. Hit: 7 (2d6 + 1) silvered piercing damage. If the target is within 15ft, this weapon deals an additional 1d6 damage and the target must succeed on a DC10 STR saving throw or be pushed 10ft away and knocked prone.

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Clockwork Titan

Queen Kenzi's Clockwork Army

Gargantuan Construct (80ft tall), lawful neutral

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• Armor Class 22 (Reinforced Adamantine Alloy)
• Hit Points 500 (20d20 + 140)
• Speed 40ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
28 (+9)	7 (-2)	25 (+7)	15 (+2)	15 (+2)	10 (+0)

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• Saving Throws Strength +15, Constitution +13
• Skills Athletics +15, Perception +8, Intimidation +12
• Damage Resistances Bludgeoning, piercing and slashing damage from non-magical attacks made without adamantine weapons
• Damage Immunities Fire, Psychic, Poison
• Condition Immunities charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, stunned
• Senses darkvision 120ft, passive Perception 18
• Languages Common, Binary
• Challenge 21

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Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the titan fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.

Sentry’s Rest. Spends six hours in an inactive state rather than sleeping, and can see and hear as normal.

Magic Resistance. The titan has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.

Siege Monster. The titan deals double damage to Objects and structures.

Support Crew. The titan's is monitored by 3 Clockwork Engineer crew members working inside the construct. While the Engineers are alive, the titan heals 10 Hit Points at the start of each of its turns.

Actions

Multiattack. The titan makes two attacks.

Siege Fist. Melee Weapon Attack: +15 to hit, reach 15 ft., one target. Hit: 41 (8d8+9) silvered adamantine bludgeoning damage.

Hammer Crush. Melee Weapon attack: Range 15ft. All creatures in a 10 foot square must pass a DC23 Dexterity saving throw, taking 35 (4d12+9) damage and being knocked prone on a failed save, or being pushed up to 10ft on a successful save.

Rock. Ranged Weapon Attack: +15 to hit, range 120/360 ft., one target. Hit: 29 (4d10 + 9) bludgeoning damage.

Legendary Actions

The Clockwork Titan can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature’s turn. It regains spent legendary actions at the start of its turn.

Scan. Make a Wisdom (Perception) or Intelligence (Investigation) check.

Stomp. (costs 2 actions). Step on a large or smaller creature with a special unarmed strike: DC17 Dexterity saving throw or target takes 4d10+9 damage and is knocked prone, Restrained under the Titans foot. The target can use its action to attempt a DC 24 Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics) check to free itself.

Seismic Shockwave (Costs 3 Actions). The Titan slams it's fists into the ground causing a seismic wave. Each creature within 60ft must make a DC 17 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone.

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Queen Kenzi Rosetta

barbarian queen of the bramblewood

Agent of the Queen of Air & Darkness

Medium fey (Leanan Sídhe), Neutral Evil

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• Armor Class 24 (Protective Tattoos)
• Hit Points 200 (23d12 + 46)
• Speed 40ft, 60ft fly

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
14 (+2)	24 (+7)	14 (+2)	10 (0)	14 (+2)	24 (+7)

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• Saving Throws Dex +13, Con +8, Cha +13
• Damage Resistances All damage save Psychic
• Skills Athletics +8, Acrobatics +13, Persuasion +13, Insight +8, Sleight of Hand +13, Stealth +13
• Condition Immunitites Charmed, Poisoned, Frightened
• Senses darkvision 60ft, passive Perception 18
• Languages Sylvan, Elvish, Common
• Challenge 15

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Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Kenzi fails a saving throw, she can choose to succeed instead.

Wardancer. The Queen may begin to Dance as bonus action. While Dancing, she had Advantage on Dexterity checks and Dexterity saving throws, resistance to all damage save psychic, and deals +4 damage with her melee attacks (included).

Protective Tattoos While not wearing any armor, her Armor Class equals 10 + DEX mod + CHA mod.

Magic Resistance. She has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.

Evasion. When subjected to an effect that allows her to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, she instead takes no damage if she succeeds on the saving throw, and only half damage if she fails.

Elusive. No attack roll has advantage against the Kenzi while she isn't incapacitated.

Stubborn. If she drops to 0 hit points and doesn’t die outright, she can make a DC 10 Charisma saving throw. If she succeeds, she drops to 1 hit point instead. Each time she uses this feature after the first, the DC increases by 5. The DC resets to 10 after a short rest.

Inspire Artist. As a ritual, the Queen spends 24 hours or more with an artist and marks them with her Blessing. During that time, the creature gains +10 to artistic skill checks and produces a Masterpiece in their trade. If and when the Leanan Sídhe leaves the artists' side (thus ending her blessing), they slip into a deep depression (roll on the permanent madness table) and lose their talent (disadvantage on all performance checks). Each week thereafter, the artist loses 1 point of Constitution and the Leanan Sídhe gains 1d20 temporary hit points that last until the next week. If this Constitution damage kills the artist, the fey gains 50 temporary hit points for 1 week.

All-Out Attack. Can gain advantage on melee weapon attack rolls during this turn, but attack rolls against her have advantage until her next turn.

Brutal Critical. Deal 2 extra damage die on a crit.

Innate Spellcasting. Her spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 21, +13 to hit with spell attacks). She has the following spells prepared:

(3/day): Charm Person, Faerie Fire

Queen's Authority. May use Geas at will to target Bramblewood's civilians and soldiers.

Actions

Multiattack. Make three attacks.

Oversized +4 Featherlight Greathammer. Melee Weapon Attack: +17 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target, Improved Critical 19-20. Hit: 35 (4d10 + 15) bludgeoning damage. The target must succeed on a DC17 Strength saving throw or be knocked 4d10ft and fall prone.

Throwing Knife. Ranged Weapon Attack: +13 to hit, range 20/60, one target. Hit: 10 (1d6+7) damage.

Rose Red Lips. Kiss a creature within 5 ft, who is then affected as though the Queen cast haste on them. The effect lasts 7 rounds.

Kiss of Death. Kiss a creature within 5 ft, who is then cursed. The Cursed target can't regain Hit Points, and its hit point maximum decreases by 10 (3d6) for every 24 hours that elapse. If the curse reduces the target's hit point maximum to 0, the target dies.

Charm. Kenzi targets one humanoid she can see within 30 feet of her. If the target can see her, the target must succeed on a DC 17 Wisdom saving throw against this magic or be charmed. The charmed target regards Kenzi as a trusted friend to be heeded and protected. The target isn't under Kenzi's control, but it takes Kenzi's requests and actions in the most favorable way. Each time Kenzi or her companions do anything harmful to the target, it can repeat the saving throw, ending the effect on itself on a success. Otherwise, the effect lasts 24 hours or until Kenzi is destroyed, is on a different plane of existence than the target, or takes a bonus action to end the effect.

Bonus Actions

Graceful Action. Take Dash, Disengage or Dodge.

Second Wind. (1/rest) regain 30 Hit Points

Sizechange. As a bonus action, the Queen grows or shrinks one size category, becoming Tiny at the smallest and Medium at the largest. Worn and carried items change size with her.

Legendary Actions

Detect. She makes a Wisdom (Perception) check.

Misty Step. Teleport up to 30ft to an unoccupied space that she can see.

Enchanting Fog. Magical fog billows around one creature Kenzi can see within 120 feet of her. The creature must succeed on a DC 24 Wisdom saving throw or be charmed by Kenzi until initiative count 20 on the next round.

Hammer Time! Make a Hammer attack.

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The Shadethrower

Agent of the Queen of Air & Darkness

Tiny fey (Corrupted Sprite), CN

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• Armor Class 22 (Robe ofthe Archmagi, Shadow Mantle)
• Hit Points 100 (20d8)
• Speed 10ft, 60ft fly, 300ft teleport

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
5 (-3)	22 (+6)	10 (0)	18 (+4)	15 (+2)	22 (+6)

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• Saving Throws Dex +12, Wis +8, Int +10, Cha +12
• Damage Resistances Acid, Cold, Fire, Lightning, Thunder, Bludgeoning, Piercing, Slashing from nonmagical attacks
• Damage Immunities Necrotic, Poison
• Damage Vulnerabity Radiant
• Skills Acrobatics +12, Arcana +10, Insight +8, Sleight of Hand +12, Stealth +18
• Condition Immunitites Charmed, Frightened, Poisoned
• Senses magical darkvision120ft, Passive Perception18
• Languages Sylvan, Elvish, Common
• Challenge 15

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Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the Shadethrower fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.

Lucky. When he rolls a 1 on an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw, he must reroll the die and use the new roll.

Magic Resistance. He has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.

Nimble Can move through the space of any creature that is of a size larger than he is.

Evasion. When subjected to an effect that allows him to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, he instead takes no damage if he succeeds on the saving throw, and only half damage if he fails.

Elusive. No attack roll has advantage against the Shadethrower while he isn't incapacitated.

Shadow Stealth. While in dim light or darkness, the shadethrower can take Hide as a bonus action.

Innate Spellcasting. The Shadethrower is a 9th-level spellcaster. Its spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 22, +14 to hit with spell attacks). He regains his expended spell slots as a 1 minute Eldritch Master ritual (1/rest) or when he finishes a rest. He knows the following warlock spells:

Cantrips (at will): mage hand, minor illusion, darkness, teleport

1st-9th level (4 5th-level slots): phantasmal killer, Dimension door, vampiric touch, hallucinatory terrain, fireball, Synaptic Static, Teleportation Circle, Seeming, Raise Dead, Slow, Bestow Curse, Counterspell, Silence, mislead, hideous laughter, blindness/deafness

Mystic Arcanum (1/rest each): Scatter, Maddening Darkness, Psychic Scream, Plane Shift

On the Queen's Authority. May use Geas at will to target Bramblewood's civilians and soldiers.

Actions

Multiattack. Make two attacks or four Shadow Blast attacks. When he attacks a target that is in dim light or darkness, he makes the attack roll with advantage.

+1 Dagger. Ranged Weapon Attack: +13 to hit, range 20/60, one target. Hit: 10 (1d4+8) damage and target must make a DC 19 Constitution saving throw, taking 42 (12d6) poison damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one

Shadow Blast. (Cantrip). Ranged Spell Attack: +14 to hit, range 120 ft., one creature. Hit: 11 (1d10+6) force damage. After resolving this attack, the Shadethrower places two 5ft cubes of magical darkness along the path of the attack (typically one 10ft in front of his space and one in the target's space).

Shadow Blade. Melee Weapon Attack: +14 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d6 + 4) piercing damage plus 10 (3d6) necrotic damage. Unless the target is immune to necrotic damage, the target's Strength score is reduced by 1d4 each time it is hit by this attack. The target dies if its Strength is reduced to 0. The reduction lasts until the target finishes a short or long rest. If a non-evil humanoid dies from this attack, a shadow loyal to the fey rises from the corpse.

Superior Invisibility. The shadethrower magically turns invisible until his concentration ends (as if concentrating on a spell). Any equipment he wears or carries is invisible with him.

Bonus Actions / Reactions

Sizechange. As a bonus action, the Shadethrower grows or shrinks one size category, becoming Tiny at the smallest and Medium at the largest. Worn and carried items change size with him.

Shadow Step. As a bonus action while in dim light or darkness, teleport up to 60 feet to an unoccupied space he can see that is also in dim light or darkness. The shadethrower then has advantage on the first attack it makes before the end of the turn.

Legendary Actions

Detect. He makes a Wisdom (Perception) check.

Misty Step. Teleport up to 30ft to an unoccupied space that he can see.

Interrogator's Dagger Make a Dagger attack. Instead of the normal Purple Wurm Poison, this dagger is coated in a personal blend: DC 15 Constitution saving throw or be Poisoned for 1 minute. The Poisoned creature is Paralyzed, but can still speak faulteringly and is under the effects of the Zone of Truth spell and Compelled to answer questions. The creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, Ending the Effect on itself on a success.

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Cat Sídhe

Ever seen an almost all black cat with a little splash of white on their chest, like a bandana? You ever seen that cat stand up and walk around like a human, talking about the weather and asking "I'm cooking up scrambles- where do we keep the cajun spice?" Cat Sídhe are rare Fey almost indistinguishable from housecats though a canny observer might note their eyes glow with a faint green light.

Magical Abilities

Supernaturally wily, Cat Sídhe are able to deftly avoid attacks and traps. They cannot be charmed or put to sleep, and are resistant to magic. Their senses are accutely tuned and have the easy camoflauge of being able to pretend they are simple housecats, in addition to the innate use of a number of spells to aid in their deceptions. Most Cat Sídhe "owners" never notice anything magical about their pet- "a charmer, for sure, and smart as a whip, but Princess couldn't be magical..."

When threatened, they use their sizechanging abilities to grow to the size of a mastiff, the hair on their backs bristled and their tail puffed.

Society

Cat Sídhe often don't directly raise their own young after the first few months- instead hiding them among the litters of a town's housecats, where the individual fey kittens charm the homeowners and set themselves up at the top of their farmhouse's pecking order. Once the rulers of their respective roosts, the young Cats reach out to their siblings and create a network of control to manage their comfort levels and keep peace between their respective mortal houses.

Connection: Samhain

These fey are said to hold a special connection with the Samhain festival. Those smart enough to leave a saucer of milk out for them on Samhain will recieve the fey's blessing on the home, but those who spurn the tradition find their cows and goats go dry by next season (as the Cat takes its due direct from the source).

Rumor: Soul Stealers

In some cultures, its believed that one of these fey could steal a person's soul before it was claimed by the gods by hopping over the corpse before its burial. To avert this fate, the deceased person's wake continue late into each night until their burial, dear friends and cousins appointed as guards to keep the Cats away with dancing, music, games and sprinkling catnip all over the house save the room where the body is prepared. As Cat Sídhe are known to enjoy a warm fireplace (and who doesn't), the hearth in the room with the deceased is also kept unlit. Whether all these superstitions are true or if these Sídhe even can collect souls is unclear, but the King of Cats is always happy to revel with mourners and enjoy the hospitality afforded by his status. Its a hard-partied wake indeed that includes a visit from the King of Cats- and funnily a normal cat can often turn a peaceful wake into a nervous hour of feeding, praising, singing to and dancing for a stray.

The King of Cats

You might very well know the legend of the King of Cats, ruler of the Cat Sídhe...

"One winter's evening a sexton's wife was sitting by the fireside with her big black cat, Old Tom, on the other side, both half asleep and waiting for the master to come home. They waited and they waited, but still he didn't come, till at last he came rushing in, calling out, 'Who's Tommy Tildrum?' in such a wild way that both his wife and his cat stared at him to know what was the matter.

'Why, what's the matter?' said his wife, 'and why do you want to know who Tommy Tildrum is?'

'Oh, I've had such an adventure. I was digging away at old Mr Fordyce's grave when I suppose I must have dropped asleep, and only woke up by hearing a cat's Miaou.'

'Miaou!' said Old Tom in answer.

'Yes, just like that! So I looked over the edge of the grave, and what do you think I saw?'

'Now, how can I tell?' said the sexton's wife.

'Why, nine black cats all like our friend Tom here, all with a white spot on their chestesses. And what do you think they were carrying? Why, a small coffin covered with a black velvet pall, and on the pall was a small coronet all of gold, and at every third step they took they cried all together, Miaou -- '

'Miaou!' said Old Tom again.

'Yes, just like that!' said the sexton; 'and as they came nearer and nearer to me I could see them more distinctly; because their eyes shone out with a sort of green light. Well, they all came towards me, eight of them carrying the coffin, and the biggest cat of all walking in front for all the world like -- but look at our Tom, how he's looking at me. You'd think he knew all I was saying.'

'Go on, go on,' said his wife; 'never mind Old Tom.'

'Well, as I was a-saying, they came towards me slowly and solemnly, and at every third step crying all together, Miaou --'

'Miaou!' said Old Tom again.

'Yes, just like that, till they came and stood right opposite Mr Fordyce's grave, where I was, when they all stood still and looked straight at me. I did feel queer, that I did! But look at Old Tom; he's looking at me just like they did.'

'Go on, go on,' said his wife; 'never mind Old Tom.'

'Where was I? Oh, they stood still looking at me, when the one that wasn't carrying the coffin came forward and, staring straight at me, said to me -- yes, I tell 'ee, said to me, with a squeaky voice, "Tell Tom Tildrum that Tim Toldrum's dead," and that's why I asked you if you knew who Tom Tildrum was, for how can I tell Tom Tildrum that Tim Toldrum's dead if I don't know who Tom Tildrum is?'

'Look at Old Tom, look at Old Tom!' screamed his wife.

And well he might look, for Tom was swelling and Tom was staring, and at last Tom shrieked out, 'What -- old Tim dead!? Then I'm the King o' the Cats!' and rushed up the chimney and was nevermore seen."

Summoning Taghairm (Big Ears)

A fiendish version of the Cat Sídhe named Taghairm, or Big Ears, is said to be summoned by ritually burning cat corpses over the course of four days and nights. Big Ears is said to grant a Wish spell to those who take part in the dark ceremony, but the veracity of this legend is yet unconfirmed.

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Cat Sídhe

Small fey (Cat Sídhe), chaotic neutral

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• Armor Class 15 (Classic Misdirection)
• Hit Points 10 (2d8)
• Speed 40 ft., Climb 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
10 (0)	15 (+2)	10 (0)	10 (0)	12 (1)	16 (+3)

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• Condition Immunities charmed, magical sleep
• Damage Resistances Magic, Traps
• Skills Perception +3, Stealth +6, Deception +7
• Senses truesight 30ft, passive Perception 13
• Languages Slyvan, Common
• Challenge 1/8

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Sizechanger. As a bonus action, the Cat Sídhe grows or shrinks one size category, becoming Tiny at the smallest and Medium at the largest.

Magic Resistance. Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.

Keen Hearing and Sight. Advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on hearing or sight.

Invisible Passage. the Cat Sídhe magically turns Invisible until it attacks or casts a spell, or until its Concentration ends (as if concentrating on a spell). While Invisible, it leaves no physical evidence of its Passage, so it can be tracked only by magic. Any Equipment it wears or carries is Invisible with it.

False Appearance. While not speaking or walking on its hind legs, the Cat Sídhe is indistinguishable from a normal housecat.

Classic Misdirection. Add Cha modifier to AC.

Innate Spellcasting. The Cat Sídhe's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC13, +5 to hit with spell attacks). It can cast the following spells, requiring no material components:

At will: prestidigitation, mage hand, thaumaturgy, eldritch blast (target is repelled 10ft away)

1/day each: Bestow/Remove Curse, Charm Person, Sleep, Misty Step

Actions

Bite & Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d6+2) slashing or piercing

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Tom Tildrum,

The King of Cats

Small fey (Cat Sídhe), chaotic neutral

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• Armor Class 18 (Classic Misdirection)
• Hit Points 42 (11d8)
• Speed 40 ft., Climb 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
10 (0)	16 (+3)	10 (0)	16 (+3)	16 (+3)	20 (+5)

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• Condition Immunities charmed, magical sleep
• Damage Resistances Magic, Traps,
• Skills Perception +11, Stealth +11, Deception +14
• Senses Truesight 30ft, passive Perception 16
• Languages Slyvan, Common
• Challenge 2

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Sizechanger. As a bonus action, the Cat Sídhe grows or shrinks one size category, becoming Tiny at the smallest and Medium at the largest.

Magic Resistance. Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.

Keen Hearing and Sight. Advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on hearing or sight.

Invisible Passage. the Cat Sídhe magically turns Invisible until it attacks or casts a spell, or until its Concentration ends (as if concentrating on a spell). While Invisible, it leaves no physical evidence of its Passage, so it can be tracked only by magic. Any Equipment it wears or carries is Invisible with it.

False Appearance. While not speaking or walking on its hind legs, the Cat Sídhe is indistinguishable from a normal cat.

Classic Misdirection. Add Cha modifier to AC.

Innate Spellcasting. The King of Cat's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC13, +5 to hit with spell attacks). It can cast the following spells, requiring no material components:

At will: prestidigitation, mage hand, thaumaturgy, eldritch blast (two beams; target is repelled 10ft away), spare the dying

3/day each: Charm Person, Mislead, Misty Step

1/day each: Bestow/Remove Curse, Bane/Bless, Hold Person, Dimension Door, Sleep, Dispel Magic

Actions

Bite & Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d6+3) slashing or piercing damage.

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Void Mystic Temple Guardian Ewin McHalcard

Order of Light (Rank IV)

Medium human, neutral good

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• Armor Class 19 (+1 Mithril Plate)
• Hit Points 117 (18d8 + 36)
• Speed 40ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
14 (+2)	20 (+5)	14 (+2)	12 (+1)	20 (+5)	14 (+2)

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• Saving Throws Dex +12
• Skills Athletics+6, Religion+5, Insight+9, Perception+9, Survival +9, Stealth +9, AnimalHandling+9, Nature+9
• Condition Immunities charmed, frightened
• Senses passive Perception 19
• Languages Common (can Telepathically communicate with a creature as long as it speaks a language)
• Challenge 9 (5,000 XP)
• Proficiency Bonus +4

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Talented Psion. His psi ability modifier is Wisdom (psi save DC17, +9 to hit with psi attacks) He has 54 psi points, which recharge after a short or long rest. He may use any of the following Void Mystic abilities: Mindful Defense (1 psi point), Focused Attack (1-3 psi points), Psionic Disarm (1 psi point), Step of the Mind (1 psi point), Telekinetic Push (1 psi point), Precieve Aura (3 psi points), Unbreakable Focus (1 psi point), Force of Will (1 psi point).

Telekinetic Mastery. If they have any Psi points left in their pool, they can innately cast Telekinesis requiring no components.

Evasion. If subjected to an effect that allows them to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, they instead takes no damage if they succeeds on the saving throw, and only half damage if they fail. They can't use this trait if incapacitated.

Bramblewood Patrol Cloak. Wisdom (Perception) checks made to see him have disadvantage; advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks to hide.

Actions

Multiattack. The Guardian attacks three melee attacks.

Lasersword. Melee Weapon Attack: +11 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 15 (3d6 + 7) radiant damage or 17 (3d8+7) radiant damage if used in two hands.

Bonus Action/Reactions

Lasersword Deflection As a reaction (or by spending 1 psi point), deflect a weapon attack if the Guardian has their Signature Laser Weapon in hand. When they does so, the damage they take from the attack is reduced by 1d10 + 23. If they reduces the damage of a ranged attack to 0 this way, they can spend 1 psi point to make a ranged attack (range 20/60 feet) with the weapon or ammunition as part of the same reaction. They makes this attack with proficiency.

Slow Fall. Reduces damage he takes from a fall by 90.

Healing Light (Recharge 4–6). The Guardian or one creature of its choice within 60 feet of it regains 12 (2d8 + 3) hit points.