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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
High Hall Although the forces of Avernus are occupied driving back the demonic attack from the River Styx, a few teams of devils have been ordered to infiltrate Elturel, sow chaos among the surviving
citizenry, reap the souls of any mortals they find, and test the city’s defenses. The members of some of those advance teams have noted that the High Hall appears to be the center of the city’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Approaching the High Hall When the characters approach the High Hall, read the following boxed text to describe the scene: This clifftop castle was once the crowning architectural jewel of Elturel
west side of the castle has been reduced to a pile of smashed brick and broken wood. The surviving buildings are blackened by soot. At the center of the castle grounds, the High Hall cathedral stands
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
High Hall Cathedral Three levels make up the High Hall cathedral: the cathedral level (areas H1 through H6), the choir level (areas H7 through H9), and the catacombs level (areas H10 through H17
provided in the “Cathedral Assault” section above, you can adjust the text to describe what is happening in an area and what it looks like during or after a devil attack. HIGH HALL CATHEDRAL FEATURES
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
High Hall Overview The High Hall is a grand alabaster castle dedicated to Torm, the god of courage and self-sacrifice. It houses many of Elturel’s religious and political leaders — or at least it did
when the city was in the mortal realm. Shortly after Elturel was pulled into Avernus, a meteor hurled through the High Hall, collapsing the offices and residences of those who could best organize a
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
Baldur’s Gate has a modest academic community centered around the libraries of the High Hall and the various temples dedicated to gods of learning and innovation. Lecturers, researchers, and
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
communication with Watch officers and officials. Your word carries considerable weight in the High Hall, and most establishments in the Citadel Streets neighborhood are happy to give you and your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
of the city, where the immediate danger is greatest. With or without Reya Mantlemorn to guide them, the characters make their way toward the High Hall cathedral. Once they rid the cathedral and its
catacombs of fiends, the adventurers should be 6th level. NPC survivors cowering in the crypts under the High Hall cathedral urge the characters to locate Grand Duke Ulder Ravengard of Baldur’s Gate
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
35. Rallying Hall This wide hall has a 50-foot-high ceiling that angles down to 20 feet high as it travels north and east. Shouts echo from area 36, the door to which is slightly open.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
A4. Mustering Hall This great hall has a 40-foot-high ceiling supported by four thick stone pillars. A thick layer of dust covers the flagstone floor. In the middle of each wall past the entrance is
a double door. Arrow slits are set high up in the north and south walls, and a small stone balcony protrudes from the wall above the east exit, 20 feet above the floor. (See areas A22, A24, and A25 for details of these features.)
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
X14a. Collapsed Lower Hall The stairs descend to a collapsed hall with a high ceiling and amber-glazed walls glazed. Rubble covers most of the floor, and a path through the rubble leads to an open
doorway. A deathly stench seems to come from there. This ruined area once connected to area X32, but an earth tremor caused the ceiling and walls to collapse. The ceiling here is 25 feet high. Unless
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
3. Boulderfall Hall The ceiling in this hall is 60 feet high, sloping down to 40 feet as it moves toward area 2. Although the ceiling remains level heading eastward, its distance from the floor
decreases to 40 feet on the landing in front of area 4 because of the staircase leading up to that location. Overlooking the hall to the north and south are unguarded 20-foot-high ledges that have no
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
hall is 20 feet high, arched, and lightly obscured by thick webs.
Dead Spiders. Three giant spiders lie dead at various points in the hallway, riddled with crossbow bolts. (Members of the Undertakers
12. Hall of Heroes Statues. Life-size granite statues of human warriors, facing inward, stand atop two rows of pedestals that run through the hall.
Web-Covered Ceiling. The ceiling of this long
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Mad Mage. 23b. Hall of Dead Dragons Ceiling. The 30-foot-high vaulted ceiling of this room is supported every 20 feet or so by thick stone arches.
Skeletal Displays. Standing in the hall are the
original contents. 23a. Defaced Dwarves Light. The walls climb 15 feet, then angle inward to create a peaked, 30-foot-high ceiling. The sloped upper walls have red glowing crystals set into them. These
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
23. Decrepit Dining Hall Two rusty iron chandeliers hang like giant spiders from the 20-foot-high ceiling, their chains attached to winches mounted to the east wall. Beneath the chandeliers stretches
a long wooden table surrounded by twelve high-backed wooden chairs. The furnishings are decrepit and draped in cobwebs.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
29. Foggy Hall The floor of this room is heavily obscured by a 2-foot-high blanket of thick fog. It swirls lazily around the base of a 20-foot-diameter, cylindrical stone column that supports the 20-foot-high ceiling. Rusty iron torch sconces mounted to this central column stand empty.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
Ceilings. Passageways in the hall have vaulted ceilings 30 feet high. Caves, chambers, and rooms are 40 to 60 feet high. Doors. All doors are made of iron plates. A Medium or smaller creature must succeed
gray, and dull brown rock. In some places the stone has been hewn, but in others it appears to have been fused by heat. Map 6.5: Hall of the Fire Giant King - Entrance Level View Player Version
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
F11. Dining and Trophy Hall A second-floor trophy gallery opens up above an oak dining table surrounded by tall-backed chairs on the main floor. Two iron chandeliers hang from the high rafters.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
13. Grand Vestibule Blood. Blood leaks down the walls and across the decor of this once grand hall.
Pillars. Four stone pillars buttress the 30-foot-high vaulted ceiling. The middle third of each
in the east wall stand 18 feet high, a carving of a mighty waterfall spanning their surfaces. Mithral inlays make the carved falls look like they are running with molten metal.
Curtain. A 40-foot
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Return to the Cathedral The characters can make their way back to the relative safety of the cathedral in the High Hall. If they helped defeat the devils that attempted to take the cathedral earlier
, the trip should be uneventful. Alternatively, to keep the tension high, you can roll for random encounters in the western portion of the city (see “More Encounters in Elturel”). An encounter or two while the characters protect Duke Ravengard could make for memorable play.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
1Q. Great Hall The cultists eat their meals and conduct most of their business in this high, wide hall. The eastern end of the hall is used for dining and socializing. The western half is where
contraband hauled in from the Carnath Roadhouse is inspected, sorted, and repacked before being carried to the portal beneath the southwest tower. The tables in that half of the hall are covered with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
X36. Lower West Hall Glistening amber coats the walls and ceiling of this enormous hall like sculpted honey, and dust covers the black marble floor. The vaulted ceiling is twenty-five feet high. Set
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
28. Forgotten Chambers Each of these rooms is heavily obscured by fog and has low piles of dusty gray rubble along the walls. 28a. Hall of Centipedes The walls and floor of this 20-foot-high room
bear carvings of centipedes. The room is otherwise empty. 28b. Empty Room This 10-foot-high room is vacant. 28c. Shadow Assassins Three shadow assassins (see appendix A) lurk in the far corners of this 10-foot-high room. When the door opens, they attack the first character to enter.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
-foot-high crawlway in the east wall is flush with the floor. At the far end of the hall, a rippling, transparent curtain of water fills a stone archway. Beyond the curtain, you see another hallway
31. Reflected Hall A curtain of water separates two hallways that are basically mirror images of one another. When characters enter the first hall, read: Still puddles of water cover the floor of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
domed ceiling. The ceiling above each balcony is 20 feet high. Doors. At night, all exterior doors to the hall are locked and sealed with arcane lock spells. Only Lorehold College faculty members
Kollema Hall Features Kollema Hall is a historic structure dedicated to the respected Strixhaven professor, Magister Kollema—an innovator in the magical study of history. After his death, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
1Q. Great Hall The cultists eat their meals and conduct most of their business in this high, wide hall. The eastern end of the hall is used for dining and socializing. The western half is where
contraband hauled in from the Carnath Roadhouse is inspected, sorted, and repacked before being carried to the portal beneath the southwest tower. The tables in that half of the hall are covered with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
32. Steel-Sheathed Hall The walls of this 10-foot-high corridor are covered in 10-foot-square steel panels made from swords and shields melted together by magic. The vague outlines of these items are still visible in the shimmering steel.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
easily traversable but devoid of significant features or creatures): Building Ceilings. The ceiling of Wiltroot Hall (area W1) is 40 feet high. The ceilings of the observation huts (areas W2, W7, W9, W10
, and W14) are 10 feet high. Building Doors. The doors to Wiltroot Hall (area W1) and the observation huts (areas W2, W7, W9, W10, and W14) are unlocked. Swampy Stinkbrush. The areas surrounding the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
K25. Audience Hall Dim light from the courtyard falls into this great hall through the broken glass and iron latticework of a large window in the west wall. This immense room is a place of chilly
, brooding darkness. Empty iron sconces dot the walls. Hundreds of dust-laden cobwebs drape the hall, hiding the ceiling from view. Directly across from the window stand a set of double doors in the east
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
2. Hall of War Four pillars carved with serpent reliefs support the 20-foot-high ceiling of this large room, in the middle of which is an 18-foot-high statue of a coiled cobra, facing north. Torches
, and to the south is a wide, pillared hall.
Yuan-ti troops muster in this hall before heading into the city. Unless they have been drawn elsewhere, a yuan-ti pureblood named Soakosh (pronounced SOH
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
2. Main Hall A wide hall (area 2A) runs the width of the house, with a black marble fireplace at one end and a sweeping, red marble staircase at the other. Mounted on the wall above the fireplace is
follows the staircase as it circles upward to the second floor. A cloakroom (area 2B) has several black cloaks hanging from hooks on the walls. A top hat sits on a high shelf.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
26. Bent Hallway This 10-foot-high, 20-foot-wide hall is marred by an ancient excavation. At one point, drow sought to expand this level of the dungeon and set slaves to the task of hewing new
passageways. The project was abandoned when Halaster and his apprentices pushed the drow out. 26a. Slamming Doors The first time the characters reach the midpoint of this hall, they hear a double door slam
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
25. Excavation Site Goblins in league with the Xanathar Guild dug a tunnel that connects a dead-end hallway (area 25a) with a partially collapsed hall (area 25b). 25a. Dead Goblin Dead Goblin. A dead
goblin lies on the floor. (A bugbear caved in its skull for falling asleep on the job.)
Tools. Three pickaxes and two shovels rest atop piles of rubble at the mouth of a 5-foot-wide, 5-foot-high
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
. Turning the ring unlocks the secret door and causes it to swing open into area 37. 30b. Family Crypts This arched, 15-foot-high hall is lined with alcoves. Each alcove contains a dusty stone casket holding the remains of a dead Shadowdusk family member, but no treasure.
30. Lower Halls The staircase from tier 2 ends before these halls, which look older than the rest of Shadowdusk Hold. 30a. Shadowdusk Hall House Crest. Set into the middle of the floor is a 20-foot
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
23. Distant Music This 30-foot-wide hallway has a 45-foot-high arched ceiling carved with spiders and webs. Band music can be heard coming from a large chamber to the west (see area 25). The east end
of the hall has collapsed, and a secret door in the north wall pushes open to reveal a hallway that leads to areas 21 and 18b.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
leading to this area notice a 1-inch-diameter hole bored through it a few inches above the floor. This hole allowed the ancient vampire to enter and leave its lair in mist form. 7a. Hall of Retreat If they
are forced to retreat to this hall, Uktarl (area 6) and Harria (area 8) make their final stand here, still blaming each other for their failures. This hall has the following features: Bedrolls. A