You create a magical restraint to hold a creature that you can see within range. The target must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a successful save, the target is unaffected, and it is immune to this spell for the next 24 hours. On a failed save, the target is imprisoned. While imprisoned, the target doesn’t need to breathe, eat, or drink, and it doesn’t age. Divination spells can’t locate or…

Level 9 Abjuration (Warlock, Wizard) Casting Time: 1 minute Range: 30 feet Components: V, S, M (a statuette of the target worth 5,000+ GP) Duration: Until dispelled You create a magical restraint to hold a creature that you can see within range. The target must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a successful save, the target is unaffected, and it is immune to this spell for the next 24 hours. On a…

Maintained by devils, this oppressive layer is the embodiment of prison—the inevitable consequence of challenging the law. With the full power of Daanvi behind it, the Inescapable Prison makes Dreadhold look like a cell in the local sheriff’s office. It’s designed to hold celestials, elementals, and other beings with vast power; there are convicts here from a half-dozen planes of existence .…

This adventure can take place in any coastal region in any campaign setting. The characters begin this encounter in prison with life sentences, which can be just or unjust at their discretion. They’re given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be set free—if they can survive.

The characters wake up in cells, kept alive and imprisoned by their foes for some purpose.

The grim inspiration for all other prisons in existence, Carceri is a plane of desolation and despair. Its six layers hold vast bogs, fetid jungles, windswept deserts, jagged mountains, frigid oceans, and black ice. All form a miserable home for the traitors and backstabbers trapped on this prison plane.

An immobile, Invisible, Cube -shaped prison composed of magical force springs into existence around an area you choose within range. The prison can be a cage or a solid box, as you choose. A prison in the shape of a cage can be up to 20 feet on a side and is made from 1/2-inch diameter bars spaced 1/2 inch apart. A prison in the shape of a box can be up to 10 feet on a side, creating a solid…

One creature that you can see within range must succeed on a Charisma saving throw or be transported to a harmless demiplane for the duration. While there, the target has the Incapacitated condition. When the spell ends, the target reappears in the space it left or in the nearest unoccupied space if that space is occupied. If the target is an Aberration, a Celestial, an Elemental, a Fey, or a…

A devil covered in sharp barbs patrols this open-air cell block. The devil rattles its tail against the bars of the six cages, laughing cruelly at the prisoners. A key hangs around the devil’s neck. The warden of this prison is a masochistic Barbed Devil named Khaos, the Bringer of Pain. Khaos is Hostile toward the characters. When they enter, the devil grunts and points them to the biggest cage…

Daanvi is home to hundreds of layers, and each is a metaphor for a particular aspect of order or civilization. Time is consistent across all layers, though in some, denizens work at all hours, while in others, there are strict regulations about what times certain activities are allowed. Daanvi has its own calendar, but denizens can easily translate it to the standard calendar of Galifar (or any…

Carceri is a sunless plane of despair, of passions and poisons, and of realm-shattering betrayals. Hatreds run like a deep, slow-moving river, and there’s no telling what the flood of treachery will consume next. It is said that prisoners can escape Carceri only by becoming stronger than whatever force imprisoned them there, but that’s a difficult task on a plane whose very nature breeds despair…

Something from your past landed you in prison. Your transgressions might be real or imagined, against a just society or a corrupt one. Regardless of how you became a prisoner, you have learned to survive within your environment. As a prisoner, you’ve had to learn to deal with guards, other prisoners, and the unpleasant environment. Part of that survival was learning to find, craft, or steal small…

Wondrous Item, rare You can take a Utilize action to place these shackles on a creature that has the Incapacitated condition. The shackles adjust to fit a creature of Small to Large size. The shackles prevent a creature bound by them from using any method of extradimensional movement, including teleportation or travel to a different plane of existence. They don’t prevent the creature from passing…

Unknown horrors are entrapped in the ice of Carceri No one can leave Carceri easily. Magical efforts to leave the plane by any spell other than Wish simply fail. Portals and gates that open onto the plane become one-way only. Secret passages out of the plane exist, but they are hidden and well guarded by traps and deadly monsters. And though the River Styx flows between Carceri and its neighbors,…

Content Warning Gothic horror, magical corruption, imprisonment, manipulative villains, substance use.

“Arcane magic is a scourge on all of Etharis, and no mortal can be trusted to practice it without becoming corrupted.” When Montego Valieda unified what would become the Castinellan Provinces into a single nation, one of his first acts was the creation of a religious order that would hunt down arcanists and prevent them from using their powers to threaten the newly formed nation. This order…

So what’s considered a crime in Quickstone, and what are the consequences of bad behavior? In general, Quickstone adheres to the Code of Galifar. Theft, assault, fraud, and murder are all crimes, and they are crimes, whether carried out with weapons or magic; in the eyes of the law, there’s no difference between using Suggestion to trick someone into giving you their valuables and using the…

If the characters spend too long debating what to do with the prisoners, a large caravan bound for Hommlet approaches. The leader of the caravan, a merchant named Bellwether, offers to take the captured bandits to town for imprisonment and trial.

This dirty kitchen features a working stove replete with oil stains, gristle, and the strong aroma of smoke. Alcoves to the north contain meat hooks and large baskets of harvested fungus. Many of the creatures that frequent the Warped Brew are evil carnivores who relish the flesh of the living, so the meat hooks often have intelligent creatures dangling from them. There are three such creatures…

Every Darklord has committed irredeemable acts that attract the attention of the Dark Powers. Yet Darklords are still individuals who, at one point, had a home, childhood, and family. The following sections each examine a different aspect of the Darklord’s life prior to imprisonment.

This room’s occupant placed magical defenses on the room to prevent teleportation effects or ethereal travel from accessing it. A glowing circle of runes covers the floor in this chamber. Parchment covered with cramped writing sits on a desk situated against the north wall, and the splintered remains of a bed are piled in a corner. In the chaos following Belcorra’s fall, someone locked the arena…

“As the years of his imprisonment have elapsed, Count von Zarovich’s appetite for new playthings only grows—though he rarely plays with them for long.” —Dr. Eleanor Fiegel, Notable Vampires The densely-forested valley of Barovia exists in Shadowfell on the Plane of Shadow, one of the Domains of Dread. Barovia serves one major purpose: it is a prison for the dark lord Strahd von Zarovich, an…

A red slaad and blue slaad, along with several slaad tadpoles, burst from a portal on the plane of Limbo Unpredictable slaadi devour and multiply across the Ever-Changing Chaos of Limbo. These toad-like, extraplanar beings embody the endless potentiality of their home plane of existence. While slaadi aren’t inherently evil, their impulses are wild and often destructive. Many are driven to…

Hail, Hail, Cthulhu Awaits Worships: Cthulhu Leader: King-Priest Eeyog-Yah Goal: Free Cthulhu from imprisonment Lair: The village of Innsmouth and the Vaults Initiates of the Cult of the Chthonic Night open their minds to the whispers of Great Cthulhu and seek to free the imprisoned terror from the Domains of Dread. Predominantly composed of Aberrant Cultists and Kuo-toa that dwell amid…

A Northlander’s concept of justice can be hard to define. Relatively few actions are considered crimes. Most involve theft or dishonoring someone’s good name, and “justice” is synonymous with compensation or avoiding a feud, not some abstract idea of right or wrong. Assuming the wrongdoers have not committed an especially heinous crime (treachery, for example), the accused might not be treated as…

Sithicus is known for the following features: Bound to Krynn. Sithicus is a warped reflection of the lands of Krynn. This world and its people, such as kender, are described in Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen. Cataclysmic Fire. Accursed flames blaze amid prominent ruins and turn shadows into monsters drawn from Lord Soth’s past. Living Shadows. Shadows in Sithicus move on their own. Most…