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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
a bridge on a major trade road, terrifying travelers.
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After an unwise attack from a whaling ship, a dragon turtle pursued the ship back to harbor and now attacks any ship that tries to leave
nests in a recessed shelf along the back wall, where the creature can gaze down at the hoard scattered across the chamber floor. Although the lair is mostly flooded with seawater, a layer of breathable
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Basic Rules (2014)
Regis the halfling, the only one of his kind for hundreds of miles in any direction, locked his fingers behind his head and leaned back against the mossy blanket of the tree trunk. Regis was short
might be a wagon jostling along a dirt road or a raft floating downriver.
Small and Practical
The diminutive halflings survive in a world full of larger creatures by avoiding notice or, barring
Monsters
Princes of the Apocalypse
, currents and tides are exceptionally strong and treacherous. Any ability checks made to safely navigate or control a vessel moving through these waters has disadvantage.
Aquatic creatures that have
mortal world to dwell near those points.
If Olhydra is destroyed or banished back to her home plane, the regional effects fade over the next 1d10;{"diceNotation":"1d10","rollType":"roll"} days.Acid, Cold, PoisonLightning; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
;s petrified flesh came back to life as morkoths: tentacled monstrosities brimming with malice and greed.
Morkoths are driven by greed and selfishness mixed with a yearning for conflict. They hoard
without notice. The environment is warm and wet, a subtropical or tropical climate that keeps the morkoth and its “guests” comfortable.
Each island glides on planar currents and is safe from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Nylea as Campaign Villain As a villain, Nylea is most likely driven by transgressions against her realm, whether by mortals or by other gods. She might begin her retaliation by barring all sapient
.
2 Nylea refuses to turn winter into spring unless Karametra agrees to abolish agriculture and yield all cropland back to the forest.
3 When tensions between Akros and Setessa peak, Nylea
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
of the shelf floor ascends through a weed-choked tube that opens into the main chamber. Here, the dragon turtle nests in a recessed shelf along the back wall, where the creature can gaze down at the
its presence, creating one or more of the following effects: Diverting Currents. Underwater currents push unwanted visitors away from the lair. While swimming in these currents, each foot of movement
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
night falls. These thugs bring with them a domesticated axe beak, which they tie to a wooden post outside the Town Hall’s north entrance. Barring the characters’ intervention, the Zhents corner Speaker
cauldron through the snow behind it as the Zhents lead it back to Targos. The Zhents don’t stop until the cauldron is delivered to Speaker Naerth Maxildanarr at the Luskan Arms (see "the Luskan Arms
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
here and there like fangs. All movement in the rift is hampered by this difficult terrain. Due to wind force and eddying currents, attempts at levitation or flying cause movement in a random direction
characters must learn for themselves what lies in store. If the adventurers decide to fall back between forays into the rift, they can use their hidden cave as a base if they have seen to its provisioning.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
dragon.
4 An item stolen from a white dragon’s hoard has been passed down to an adventurer as a family heirloom—and the dragon is coming to get it back.
5 After driving away a white dragon, a
group of adventurers discovered a mighty demon trapped in the ice in the dragon’s lair. Now the ice is melting and the demon will soon awaken—so the dragon must be lured back.
6 A white dragon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
reduced to 30 feet. Roads, paths, and trails twist and turn back on themselves, making navigation in the area exceedingly difficult. A powerful green hag creates one or more of the following additional
1 mile of her lair: Most surfaces are covered by a thin film of slime, which is slick and sticks to anything that touches it. Currents and tides are exceptionally strong and treacherous. Any ability
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
miles of the lair. A downpour occurs once every 2d12 hours, and lasts 1d3 hours. Downpours are so heavy that creatures moving overland travel at half normal speed. Within 5 miles of the lair, currents
dwell near those points. If Olhydra is destroyed or banished back to her home plane, the regional effects fade over the next 1d10 days.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
that resist the town’s volatile nature—nothing remains for long. Most homes and businesses are owned by githzerai, sculpted from currents of instability into ordered redoubts: towers of latticed
Planar Parade), recruits the characters to defend the embassy from an approaching githyanki warship. 3 A merciless githyanki knight arrives in Xaos on the back of a young red dragon. He asks the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
natural phenomenon sometimes causes the ocean currents to form a great whirlpool with enough strength to draw ships down into it. These vessels are torn apart as they are pulled down, and the wreckage
airtight and can’t hold back water. Characters who have a passive Wisdom (Perception) score of 15 or higher spot a secret door as they move near its location. A character can also find it by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
environment. On those same islands, bits of the god’s petrified flesh came back to life, in the form of tentacled monstrosities brimming with malice and greed. Ever since that time, each morkoth has had an
extraplanar island to call home. No Rhyme or Reason. A morkoth’s island has the qualities of a dreamscape in which nature and predictability take a back seat to strangeness and chaos. Upon it is a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
collect along the Tartyx River and reclaiming wayward souls that try to slip back to the mortal world. This means lampads are most often spotted in graveyards, crumbling crypts, and tunnels that bore
the Sea. Sailors across the world claim that naiads know all the secret aquatic routes of Theros. Using this hidden system of currents and arteries, a ship might reach any destination in record time
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
magic. The collision released a storm of chaotic energy and sent countless islands spinning away into the void. Within some of them, bits of the god’s petrified flesh came back to life as morkoths
tropical climate that keeps the morkoth and its “guests” comfortable. Each island glides on planar currents and is safe from most harmful external effects—one could float in the skies of Avernus in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Descent into the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth
warns in a deep, dire tone, “Turn back—this is not the way!” A character who examines one of the faces and succeeds on a DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check notices the glint of a gemstone in its mouth
littered with broken bones. Near the back wall lies a busted skeleton with a horned bovine head splintered with cracks. Two leather sacks brimming with gold rest near the skeleton.
The skeleton is that of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
beside it animates and warns in a deep, dire tone, “Turn back—this is not the way!” A character who examines one of the faces and succeeds on a DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check notices the glint of a
water’s surface is 40 feet below the tunnel’s exit. L5: Littered Cave This small cave is littered with broken bones. Near the back wall lies a busted skeleton with a horned bovine head splintered with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
forces, the subsequent effects range from whimsical to deadly. Eldritch Storm Eldritch Storms When magical currents become trapped amid winds and clouds, eldritch storms can result. Flaywind
5 ft., one target. Hit: 1 piercing damage plus 2 (1d4) acid damage.
Shape-Shift. The mimic polymorphs into an object or back into its true, amorphous form. Its statistics are the same in each form
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Nest of the Eldritch Eye
kill any creature that enters the tunnel. Upon entering the tunnel for the first time, a character who has a passive Wisdom (Perception) score of 15 or higher notices odd waves and currents that suggest
(Perception) check sees the faint outline of a doorway at the back of the tomb. The door is unlocked, swings open with a gentle push, and leads to area N8. N7: Crawlspace The cramped passage is large enough
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
wind currents
7 1 cloud giant of Evil Air* (attitude: 1d4 + 1) terrorizing the skies
8 1 djinni (attitude: 1d12 + 2) examining shattered gargoyle remains
9 2d4 griffons (attitude: 1d10
water elemental myrmidons† (attitude: 1d6 + 2) barring a passage or portal
12 1 leviathan† (attitude: 1d8) swimming through an exceptionally high tide
†Monsters marked with a dagger
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
charming rake and a sore loser.
Wumpus Thistledown (lawful evil halfling) dislikes playing high bets and is condescending.
Barring character intervention, the tournament participants are eliminated in
, Quentin writes a quick letter, slides it into an envelope, and hands it to them with their payment before leading them back to the casino floor. In addition, he gives each of them a handful of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
valuable than it truly is. Only the giver and the receiver will ever know a gift’s true value, and neither of them would ever reveal that a gift is worth less than it appears to be, because to do so would
between families can go on for generations, with fortunes and estates (and the position in the ordning that goes with them) passing back and forth repeatedly. What a parent loses, a child hopes someday
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
skeletons droop from the rigging or lay in tangled piles, and seaweed hangs from the gunwales. The rain renders the entire area lightly obscured, and strong currents on either side of the wreckage pull
, its supplies long gone. One of the skeletons aboard wears a suit of fine scale mail decorated with shell motifs. This scale mail is mariner’s armor. P19a–P19b. Vortexes Strong currents channel water
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
between the towers, barring access from the lava river beyond.
Two erinyes guard access to the harbor, one in each tower. These guards are hostile to anyone attempting to enter or leave the hold via the
protrude from the walls. Two iron chests stand in the back corners of the room.
Six duergar are sleeping here on the stone slabs that serve as their beds. They wear their armor and keep their weapons
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
opens a small vent in the center of the ceiling, and natural air currents draw the fumes out of the chamber in a few moments. Characters to notice the steady airflow. The vent closes again 1 minute
gargantuan stone colossus rises from the lava to its waist, its head thrown back as if in agony. Tears of lava stream down its face, and lava wells from its gaping mouth. Above the colossus’s head hovers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
pool requires DC 10 Strength (Athletics) checks due to the swirling currents. Any creature that fails such a check is swept into the stream. The stream is 4 feet deep, cold, and swift. Any creature
fissures high in the cavern walls.
This chamber is the Temple of the Elder Elemental Eye, the dark force that lies behind Elemental Evil. The ziggurat dates back to ancient times when drow renegades
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
minutes before being magically drawn back into it. Gelida’s Favor. Gelida wants to leave the lair before Challidax finds and destroys her. Moreover, the mephit is done serving other creatures. She
wants freedom from the magic that binds her to the box, or barring that, she wants the autonomy to go where she pleases. Gelida hopes to convince the characters to give her control of the Shield
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
back of her pet killer whale. Dealing with the Giant Lords Ordning or no, Count Vaal, Duchess Tartha, Jarl Hellenhild, and Thane Braxow know better than to defy the storm giants in their own stronghold
quest, she leads them to the meditation cave (area 18) and uses its teleport power to transport them back to the mainland (or wherever else they wish to go). She also allows them to keep the wooden