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Elder Evils

2019-05-26T04:18:04Z

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[[Elder Evils]] can refer to either a 3.5 edition [[Splatbook]] about world ending threats the players may face or a group of powerful entities that are the closest things [[Aboleth]]s have to gods.

==The Book==
The Elder Evils described in the book of the same name are entities with the potential to end the world. The book instructs the DM on how to base a campaign around stopping one of these beings. The book does not describe every detail of the campaigns like most books, but instead gives a general outline of the plot, plus the stats for major enemies the players will encounter, and details of the final dungeon, and what adjustments to make if the campaign is set in [[Faerun]] or [[Eberron]]. Many of them are not stated, as they are too powerful when fully unleashed for the players to stop, but instead only have stats for an aspect of them. Several of them were later adapted to 4th edition by Dragon Magazine as potential sources of power for [[Warlock]]s.

===[[Atropus]]===
Known as The World Born Dead, Atropus is a moon sized undead creature that is as old as creation and desires the end of all life. Atropus cannot be destroyed, but the players can drive it away. As Atropus approaches the world necromancy spells become more powerful and the dead begin to rise as undead spontaneously.

=== Father Llymic===
Father Llymic is an entity from the [[Far Realm]] with a hatred of sunlight that sleeps in an icy prison who wants to remake the world to be more hospitable to itself and its children, which it creates by spreading a plague that turns the infected into creatures like itself. As Father Llymic comes out of his sleep, the sun starts to go out, and darkness spells grow stronger while light spells weaken.

===The Hulks of Zoretha===
The Hulks of Zoretha are five giants made of stone from another world that plan to exterminate all life on this plane to make room for them to repopulate it with their own kind. As they awaken, the moon turns red, causing people to experience uncontrollable rage.

===The Leviathan===
An immense sea monster that will destroy the world if it ever wakes up. As it gets close to awakening, the world is affected by extreme weather.

===Pandorym===
In ancient times, a group of wizards wanted to threaten the gods, so they summoned an intelligent superweapon from another dimension known as Pandorym, but then betrayed and sealed Pandorym away by separating its mind from its body and imprisoning them separately. Pandorym desires to fulfil its contract with its summoners by killing all the gods, and if it is unable to return home after this it will destroy the world too. As Pandorym gets close to being freed, a glyph spread across the sky that interferes with the connections between planes, making many kinds of magic more difficult to use, especially conjuration.

===Ragnorra===
Ragnorra is an entity of corrupted life that wants to remake all life to fit her own ideals of what life should be. She travels between worlds in the form of a red comet, which crashes down on the world and begins spreading her skin over the planet, warping all creatures into aberrations. As Ragnorra gets closer to landing, positive energy spells become stronger but also cause gross blemishes, Ragnorra's spores start to fall from the sky that turn things into swarms of pests, living things gain healing abilities but are slowly corrupted into aberrations, and eventually even the dead start rising as aberrations, while undead are forced to flee unless they are underground.

===[[Sertrous]]===
Sertrous is a powerful [[Obyrith]] that was killed in the distant past, but whose spirit clings to life in his severed skull. Sertrous was the one responsible for revealing the secret that divine magic is possible to cast without faith in a god. He is worshiped by a cult of heretical [[Yuan-ti]] who claim that he is their true creator. As he gets closer to returning to life, encounters with snakes and snake-like monsters become more and more frequent.

===The [[Worm That Walks]]===
The Worm that Walks is an evil demigod named [[Kyuss]] that wants to conquer the world and bring about the age of worms to become a full god. As get gets closer to escaping his prison, the world becomes infested with giant centipedes and other worm-like monsters.

===Zargon===
Zargon is an ancient evil who once ruled over [[Baator]] as the father of the [[Baatorian]]s before Baator was conquered by Asmodeus and his [[Baatezu]]. Although he was defeated by Asmodeus, he could not be killed even by the gods and was imprisoned on the material plane. His horn is nearly indestructible and he will regenerate from it if the rest of his body is destroyed. Now he has given up on reclaiming Baator and wants to conquer the mortal world. As his influence spreads the world is affected by extreme weather.

==Aboleth Deities==
While most [[Aboleth]]s do not worship gods, there are five godlike beings that they pay respects to, which are described in the book [[Lords of Madness]]
* [[Bolothamogg]] (Him Who Watches from Beyond the Stars): A primal force that keeps the multiverse separated from the outer dimensions.
* [[Holashner]] (The Hunger Below): A gigantic centipede squid thing that eats its way through the material plane, leaving behind a black substance that can be compressed into Bilestone, a substance that debilitates non-aberrations.
* [[Piscaethces]] (The Blood Queen): The origin of aboleths. She wanders throughout the multiverse spawning new aboleths. If she were to ever return aboleths would see it as proof that the multiverse isn't infinite.
* [[Shothotugg]] (Eater of Worlds): A mass of liquid that travels between worlds, poisoning and parasitizing them and slowly changing the laws of the multiverse as it does so.
* [[Y'chak]] (The Violet Flame): A pillar of violet flames concealing a form so horrifying it would destroy anyone who looked at it. It encourages mortals to worship evil gods and may be responsible for the creation of many of those gods.

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[[Category:Dungeons & Dragons]]
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Elder Evils

2019-05-26T04:15:10Z

2602:306:B88B:FB60:5CDA:1082:C7C8:F52:

[[Elder Evils]] can refer to either a 3.5 edition [[Splatbook]] about world ending threats the players may face or a group of powerful entities that are the closest things [[Aboleth]]s have to gods.

==The Book==
The Elder Evils described in the book of the same name are entities with the potential to end the world. The book instructs the DM on how to base a campaign around stopping one of these beings. The book does not describe every detail of the campaigns like most books, but instead gives a general outline of the plot, plus the stats for major enemies the players will encounter, and details of the final dungeon, and what adjustments to make if the campaign is set in [[Faerun]] or [[Eberron]]. Many of them are not stated, as they are too powerful when fully unleashed for the players to stop, but instead only have stats for an aspect of them. Several of them were later adapted to 4th edition by Dragon Magazine as potential sources of power for [[Warlock]]s.

===[[Atropus]]===
Known as The World Born Dead, Atropus is a moon sized undead creature that is as old as creation and desires the end of all life. Atropus cannot be destroyed, but the players can drive it away. As Atropus approaches the world necromancy spells become more powerful and the dead begin to rise as undead spontaneously.

=== Father Llymic===
Father Llymic is an entity from the [[Far Realm]] with a hatred of sunlight that sleeps in an icy prison who wants to remake the world to be more hospitable to itself and its children, which it creates by spreading a plague that turns the infected into creatures like itself. As Father Llymic comes out of his sleep, the sun starts to go out, and darkness spells grow stronger while light spells weaken.

===The Hulks of Zoretha===
The Hulks of Zoretha are five giants made of stone from another world that plan to exterminate all life on this plane to make room for them to repopulate it with their own kind. As they awaken, the moon turns red, causing people to experience uncontrollable rage.

===The Leviathan===
An immense sea monster that will destroy the world if it ever wakes up. As it gets close to awakening, the world is affected by extreme weather.

===Pandorym===
In ancient times, a group of wizards wanted to threaten the gods, so they summoned an intelligent superweapon from another dimension known as Pandorym, but then betrayed and sealed Pandorym away by separating its mind from its body and imprisoning them separately. Pandorym desires to fulfil its contract with its summoners by killing all the gods, and if it is unable to return home after this it will destroy the world too. As Pandorym gets close to being freed, a glyph spread across the sky that interferes with the connections between planes, making many kinds of magic more difficult to use, especially conjuration.

===Ragnorra===
Ragnorra is an entity of corrupted life that wants to remake all life to fit her own ideals of what life should be. She travels between worlds in the form of a red comet, which crashes down on the world and begins spreading her skin over the planet, warping all creatures into aberrations. As Ragnorra gets closer to landing, positive energy spells become stronger but also cause gross blemishes, Ragnorra's spores start to fall from the sky that turn things into swarms of pests, living things gain healing abilities but are slowly corrupted into aberrations, and eventually even the dead start rising as aberrations, while undead are forced to flee unless they are underground.

===[[Sertrous]]===
Sertrous is a powerful [[Obyrith]] that was killed in the distant past, but whose spirit clings to life. Sertrous was the one responsible for revealing the secret that divine magic is possible to cast without faith in a god. He is worshiped by a cult of heretical [[Yuan-ti]] who claim that he is their true creator. As he gets closer to returning to life, encounters with snakes and snake-like monsters become more and more frequent.

===The [[Worm That Walks]]===
The Worm that Walks is an evil demigod named [[Kyuss]] that wants to conquer the world and bring about the age of worms to become a full god. As get gets closer to escaping his prison, the world becomes infested with giant centipedes and other worm-like monsters.

===Zargon===
Zargon is an ancient evil who once ruled over [[Baator]] as the father of the [[Baatorian]]s before Baator was conquered by Asmodeus and his [[Baatezu]]. Although he was defeated by Asmodeus, he could not be killed even by the gods and was imprisoned on the material plane. His horn is nearly indestructible and he will regenerate from it if the rest of his body is destroyed. Now he has given up on reclaiming Baator and wants to conquer the mortal world. As his influence spreads the world is affected by extreme weather.

==Aboleth Deities==
While most [[Aboleth]]s do not worship gods, there are five godlike beings that they pay respects to, which are described in the book [[Lords of Madness]]
* [[Bolothamogg]] (Him Who Watches from Beyond the Stars): A primal force that keeps the multiverse separated from the outer dimensions.
* [[Holashner]] (The Hunger Below): A gigantic centipede squid thing that eats its way through the material plane, leaving behind a black substance that can be compressed into Bilestone, a substance that debilitates non-aberrations.
* [[Piscaethces]] (The Blood Queen): The origin of aboleths. She wanders throughout the multiverse spawning new aboleths. If she were to ever return aboleths would see it as proof that the multiverse isn't infinite.
* [[Shothotugg]] (Eater of Worlds): A mass of liquid that travels between worlds, poisoning and parasitizing them and slowly changing the laws of the multiverse as it does so.
* [[Y'chak]] (The Violet Flame): A pillar of violet flames concealing a form so horrifying it would destroy anyone who looked at it. It encourages mortals to worship evil gods and may be responsible for the creation of many of those gods.

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[[Category:Dungeons & Dragons]]
[[Category:Game Books]]
[[Category:Splatbook]]

Flail Snail

2019-05-26T03:58:10Z

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[[File:5e_Flail_Snail.jpg|thumb|right|]]

A monster from the old days of First Edition of [[Dungeons & Dragons]] that old school players have fond memories of... and cringe at as well. Like the [[Flumph]]s, [[Vegepygmy|Vegepygmies]], and the [[Slime|Gelatinous Cubes]], '''Flail Snails''' are ignored for years at a time until some guy at marketing dredges them back up again to generate interest.

Similar to their smaller garden cousins, flail snails are, well, snails. They move really slow, eat plants, and generally, don't pose much of a threat. They are usually found in dungeon and caves feeding on the algae and lichens. Seems simple enough but the snails have means to protect themselves: their flails. These snails have 4 large tentacles that end with a ten-pound mass covered with sharp knobs that deal 1d8 points of damage each, each tentacle having 1 hit die and counting as a separate monster. If all the tentacles are severed the snail dies in 1d3 rounds, emitting a cry each turn that has a 50% chance of having some wandering monster arrive and attack the party.

Aside from their namesake flails, the flail snail also has a brilliantly colored shell that protects the monster with it's 4 AC. The shell itself protects against physical and magic damage, the latter of which has four different effects: 40% of malfunctioning and hitting the closest person, 30% chance of actually hurting it, 20% of doing nothing to it, and a 10% of shooting back at the caster. The shells, however, are very valuable and are used to make 2 shields with the effects for 1d6 months or a robe of scintillating colors.

In the [[Forgotten Realms]], the flail snails were pretty much the same except they ate anything they could fit in their mouths such as vegetation, rocks, sand, and dirt. Their shells could also emit a shimmering light that only made it harder to target their flails.

The snails also had an aquatic variant creatively called the "Sea Snail". Take all of the difficulty of fighting a flail snail, make it 20 feet long, and have it emit a neurotoxin that paralyzes everyone in a 20-foot radius for up to 6 hours. Also, it will summon up to 50 tritons to defend it to the death.

Like all snails, Flail Snails are weak against salt (good luck getting past their mucus) and fear bright lights. They are immune to fire and poison.

==Publishing History==
Flail Snails, like most of the "goofball" monsters in D&D, debuted in the [[Fiend Folio]] for [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] 1e. They were updated to 2e in the [[Greyhawk]] Adventures Monstrous Compendium Appendix, under the header "Snail", which covered the Sea Snail as well.

In [[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition]], only the [[Tome of Horrors]] [[splatbook]] by [[White Wolf]], under their [[Sword & Sorcery]] subsidiary, covered the Flail Snail. They weren't any better off in [[Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition]], as their only appearance was in the online April Fools-themed adventure "Fool's Grove", where the party stumbles upon a secret hiding place for an eccentric gnome dedicated to protecting many of the goofier monsters of AD&D, including the flail snail, [[flumph]], [[carbuncle]] and [[umpleby]].

Like many of the game's other silly monsters, the flail snail came back in [[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition]], in the book ''Volo's Guide to Monsters''.
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Elder Evils

2019-05-26T03:48:09Z

2602:306:B88B:FB60:5CDA:1082:C7C8:F52:

[[Elder Evils]] can refer to either a 3.5 edition [[Splatbook]] about world ending threats the players may face or a group of powerful entities that are the closest things [[Aboleth]]s have to gods.

==The Book==
The Elder Evils described in the book of the same name are entities with the potential to end the world. The book instructs the DM on how to base a campaign around stopping one of these beings. The book does not describe every detail of the campaigns like most books, but instead gives a general outline of plot, plus the stats for major enemies the players will encounter, and details of the final dungeon, and what adjustments to make if the campaign is set in [[Faerun] or [[Eberron]]. Many of them are not stated, as they are too powerful when fully unleashed for the players to stop, but instead only have stats for an aspect of them. Several of them were later adapted to 4th edition by Dragon Magazine as potential sources of power for [[Warlock]]s.

===[[Atropus]]===
Known as The World Born Dead, Atropus is a moon sized undead creature that is as old as creation and desires the end of all life. Atropus cannot be destroyed, but the players can drive it away. As Atropus approaches the world necromancy spells become more powerful and the dead begin to rise as undead spontaneously.

=== Father Llymic===
Father Llymic is an entity from the [[Far Realm]] with a hatred of sunlight that sleeps in an icy prison who wants to remake the world to be more hospitable to itself and its children, which it creates by spreading a plague that turns the infected into creatures like itself. As Father Llymic comes out of his sleep, the sun starts to go out, and darkness spells grow stronger while light spells weaken.

===The Hulks of Zoretha===
The Hulks of Zoretha are five giants made of stone from another world that plan to exterminate all life on this plane to make room for them to repopulate it with their own kind. As they awaken, the moon turns red, causing people to experience uncontrollable rage.

===The Leviathan===
An immense sea monster that will destroy the world if it ever wakes up. As it gets close to awakening, the world is affected by extreme weather.

===Pandorym===
In ancient times, a group of wizards wanted to threaten the gods, so they summoned an intelligent superweapon from another dimension known as Pandorym, but then betrayed and sealed Pandorym away by separating its mind from its body and imprisoning them separately. Pandorym desires to fulfil its contract with its summoners by killing all the gods, and if it is unable to return home after this it will destroy the world too. As Pandorym gets close to being freed, a glyph spread across the sky that interferes with the connections between planes, making many kinds of magic more difficult to use, especially conjuration.

===Ragnorra===
Ragnorra is an entity of corrupted life that wants to remake all life to fit her own ideals of what life should be. She travels between worlds in the form of a red comet, which crashes down on the world and begins spreading her skin over the planet, warping all creatures into aberrations. As Ragnorra gets closer to landing, positive energy spells become stronger but also cause gross blemishes, Ragnorra's spores start to fall from the sky that turn things into swarms of pests, living things gain healing abilities but are slowly corrupted into aberrations, and eventually even the dead start rising as aberrations, while undead are forced to flee unless they are underground.

===[[Sertrous]]===
Sertrous is a powerful [[Obyrith]] that was killed in the distant past, but whose spirit clings to life. Sertrous was the one responsible for revealing the secret that divine magic is possible to cast without faith in a god. He is worshiped by a cult of heretical [[Yuan-ti]] who claim that he is their true creator. As he gets closer to returning to life, encounters with snakes and snake-like monsters become more and more frequent.

===The [[Worm That Walks]]===
The Worm that Walks is an evil demigod named [[Kyuss]] that wants to conquer the world and bring about the age of worms to become a full god. As get gets closer to escaping his prison, the world becomes infested with giant centipedes and other worm-like monsters.

===Zargon===
Zargon is an ancient evil who once ruled over [[Baator]] as the father of the [[Baatorian]]s before Baator was conquered by Asmodeus and his [[Baatezu]]. Although he was defeated by Asmodeus, he could not be killed even by the gods and was imprisoned on the material plane. His horn is nearly indestructible and he will regenerate from it if the rest of his body is destroyed. Now he has given up on reclaiming Baator and wants to conquer the mortal world. As his influence spreads the world is affected by extreme weather.

==Aboleth Deities==
While most [[Aboleth]]s do not worship gods, there are five godlike beings that they pay respects to, which are described in the book [[Lords of Madness]]
* [[Bolothamogg]] (Him Who Watches from Beyond the Stars): A primal force that keeps the multiverse separated from the outer dimensions.
* [[Holashner]] (The Hunger Below): A gigantic centipede squid thing that eats its way through the material plane, leaving behind a black substance that can be compressed into Bilestone, a substance that debilitates non-aberrations.
* [[Piscaethces]] (The Blood Queen): The origin of aboleths. She wanders throughout the multiverse spawning new aboleths. If she were to ever return aboleths would see it as proof that the multiverse isn't infinite.
* [[Shothotugg]] (Eater of Worlds): A mass of liquid that travels between worlds, poisoning and parasitizing them and slowly changing the laws of the multiverse as it does so.
* [[Y'chak]] (The Violet Flame): A pillar of violet flames concealing a form so horrifying it would destroy anyone who looked at it. It encourages mortals to worship evil gods and may be responsible for the creation of many of those gods.

[[Category:Roleplaying]]
[[Category:Dungeons & Dragons]]
[[Category:Game Books]]
[[Category:Splatbook]]