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Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
resemble piercer;piercers.
Clinging to the ceilings of caverns and large subterranean passages, piercers blend in perfectly with natural rock, dropping in silence to impale unsuspecting foes on the
that misses its chance to kill must make its slow way back to the ceiling. A fallen piercer excretes a foul-smelling slime when attacked, making most predators think twice about eating it.
Piercers
Astral Projection
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
your body prematurely, your companions remain in their astral forms and must find their own way back to their bodies, usually by dropping to 0 hit points.
ends for that creature. If the spell ends and the silver cord is intact, the cord pulls the creature's astral form back to its body, ending its state of suspended animation.
If you are returned to
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
Shapechanger. Baba Lysaga can use an action to polymorph into a swarm of insects (flies), or back into her true form. While in swarm form, she has a walking speed of 5 feet and a flying speed of 30
consider the wereravens a serious threat, but Lysaga has chosen to make them the bane of her existence. After much searching and scrying, she discovered a wereraven refuge at the Wizard of Wines
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
castle like the back of her hand, and she was present for the wedding of Sergei and Tatyana. After Strahd went mad and murdered his brother, she fled the castle and took refuge with the Vistani. Later
Monsters
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
carrying, to an unoccupied space they can see within 15 feet. A creature reduced to 0 hit points by the psychic damage has the unconscious condition and is stable instead of dying.
Spell Refuge. When
back into the ground, freeing all creatures grappled by it, when the Gardener uses this lair action again or when the Gardener dies.
Regional Effects
The Eternal Garden has the following features
Species
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
sensations or visions of the past to come rushing back.
Rather than sleeping, reborn regularly sit and dwell on the past, hoping for some revelation of what came before. Most of the time, these are dark
of Dread (detailed in chapter 3):
Har’Akir. You died and endured the burial rites of this desert realm, yet somehow a soul—yours or another’s—has taken refuge in your
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
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Feature: Rubblebelt Refuge
You are intimately familiar with areas of the city that most people shun: ruined neighborhoods where wurms rampaged, overgrown parks that no hand has tended in decades, and the
Personality Trait
1
Unlike people, the beasts of the wild are friends who won’t stab me in the back.
2
Go ahead and insult me — I dare you.
3
I scorn those who can
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->One-Shot Wonders: Holiday Adventure Pack
Deck the Halls Task 1: The party must hang fir garlands. The ceilings are high and the ladders are rickety; the risk of falling or dropping something is high. Task 2: The party must go to the
scullery to collect the table settings. The room is a mess, and it is a challenge to find matching sets of china. Wheeling the crockery back to the banquet hall requires strength and dexterity to avoid breaking anything.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
throws are all useful indicators. Compare the damage a monster can deal to the hit point maximum of each character. Be wary of any monster that is capable of dropping a character with a single attack
, unless you are designing the fight to be especially deadly. In the same way, compare the monsters’ hit points to the damage output of the party’s strongest characters, again looking for targets that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
time, it stays out of sight. The ooze matches the surrounding stone perfectly and has nothing but time in which to camouflage itself. Compare the ooze’s Dexterity (Stealth) check to the characters
of coins and other treasure items into area 2 every time he gets the chance. His plan is to come back to the castle after the cult leaves and collect his “retirement fund.” Unknown to him, the ooze
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
time, it stays out of sight. The ooze matches the surrounding stone perfectly and has nothing but time in which to camouflage itself. Compare the ooze’s Dexterity (Stealth) check to the characters
of coins and other treasure items into area 2 every time he gets the chance. His plan is to come back to the castle after the cult leaves and collect his “retirement fund.” Unknown to him, the ooze
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Astarion's Book of Hungers
Chapter 3
Adventures with Astarion CLINT CEARLEY The manager of Rat’s Run, Lief Cloudswell, makes it known that the tavern is a refuge for sailors and scoundrels alike Astarion has frequented
inebriated patrons and luring victims into darkened alleys. He’d drag these unfortunate souls back to Cazador’s palace, where the vampire master would feast on the victims’ blood. This chapter provides
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Piercer Clinging to the ceilings of caverns and large subterranean passages, piercers blend in perfectly with natural rock, dropping in silence to impale unsuspecting foes on the ground below. A
chance to kill must make its slow way back to the ceiling. A fallen piercer excretes a foul-smelling slime when attacked, making most predators think twice about eating it. Piercers gather in colonies to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
wrist stopped him dead in his tracks, and before he even realized what was happening, Danica kicked the back of both his knees, dropping him to a kneel.
— R.A. Salvatore, Canticle
Some of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
After the Attack The following sections tie up a few loose ends. Strange Sigils Characters who defeat the githyanki and examine them closely notice a strange sigil tattooed on the back of each
island off the Sword Coast. He plans to turn over a new leaf and hopes to see the characters again once he’s a free man. Damselfly’s Escape After dropping off the extraction force, the damselfly ship is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
below the horizon, Reggaryarva’s throne slowly lowers back into place, sealing the vault entrance once more. J2. Hall of Braziers Jarlmoot’s underground vault is hewn out of rock and has flat, 25
(Dragon). Dropping a dragon’s scale in this brazier summons forth its fire. The characters can substitute some other dragon body part, such as a fang or a claw. Vind (Wind). Blowing air into this
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
curse that prevents its wielder from dropping it. If the blade is pried from its wielder’s grasp, it instantly teleports back into the wielder’s hand. The curse can be ended by casting a remove curse
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Caerwyn and Porphura’s garden, where two new lovers, Juliana and Orlando, have fled to escape their feuding families. Only one path leads into the hidden refuge: a cave with a mystical reputation. After
families are no longer enemies. When they all arrive back on the Material Plane, they might discover they’ve been gone longer than they realized, thanks to the divergent flow of time within the garden.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Astral Adventurer’s Guide
Past and Present The Rock traces its roots back to roughly 170 years ago, when the eponymous Captain Bral established a pirate refuge here. The asteroid became a haven for thieves and cutthroats, and
interest in trying to take over sole leadership of the city. Eventually, the merchants and tavernkeepers who made their livings on the Rock became as numerous as the pirates and brigands who sought refuge
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Locathah Rising
discovering they were both intended for execution and summary transformation into undead warriors in the dreaded Thayan army. On their way out of Thay, they were forced to take refuge on a broken-down
fin that protrudes from the middle of her back. Whymsee is a shorter woman with broad shoulders. Her legs have been replaced with tentacles, and her upper torso is covered in some kind of tough
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
4. Deeper Mines Driven out of the Underdark by rampaging demons, two fomorians have taken refuge in this depleted mithral mine. The duergar are spying on the fomorians to determine whether they
to the invisible duergar. 4b. Something Wicked Two fomorians dumped here by Halaster rest at the back of this 20-foot-high cave. These hideously misshapen giants are new to Undermountain and believe
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
creature’s astral form back to its body, ending its state of suspended animation. If you are returned to your body prematurely, your companions remain in their astral forms and must find their own way back to their bodies, usually by dropping to 0 hit points.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
automatically grabs one of its bands before falling. The creature can use an action to try to climb back onto the engine, doing so with a successful DC 10 Strength (Athletics) check. At the end of its
successful DC 10 Dexterity saving throw. A creature saved in this manner can use its action to try to climb back onto the engine, doing so with a successful DC 13 Strength (Athletics) check. If the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
creature’s astral form back to its body, ending its state of suspended animation. If you are returned to your body prematurely, your companions remain in their astral forms and must find their own way back to their bodies, usually by dropping to 0 hit points.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Back in Vogler After returning to Vogler, Mayor Raven, Cudgel, and Becklin ask the characters to join them at the Brass Crab as Darrett and other villagers tend to the wounded. The Kingfisher
Festival’s levity is abandoned as worried locals seek refuge or mill about the village circle, uncertain how to help. The Brass Crab’s owner, Yalme, had prepared the tavern’s common room for a night of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
with little choice but to seek refuge in the house. The mists stop short of entering the house but engulf anyone outside (see chapter 2, “The Lands of Barovia,” for information on the mists’ effect
of the house are summarized here.
The house has four stories (including the attic), with two balconies on the third floor—one facing the front of the house, the other facing the back. The house has
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
priest of Erebos terrorizes a village, convinced that a particular Returned has taken refuge there.
Erebos’s Monsters Erebos has legions of fallen monsters, heroes, and villains that he can send back
entire family, then publicly turns to Erebos in hopes of being reunited with loved ones in the Underworld.
3 An acolyte convinces Erebos to bring her murdered daughter back to life, but the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
the Underdark. The only path back to the surface goes directly through a shadow dragon’s lair.
3 A young woman seeks heroes to retrieve a family heirloom stolen from her. The woman is actually a
renegotiated, but in the intervening century, the dragon has fallen to shadow.
6 A group of shadar-kai (elves native to the Shadowfell) arrive at a city’s gates, seeking refuge. They are fleeing the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
6. Hallway This hallway slants down sharply toward area 7, dropping 15 feet over its full length. Any character who takes a moment to poke around and succeeds on a DC 17 Intelligence (Investigation
floor in area 4 slides back and a 7-foot-diameter sphere made of hundreds of skeletal bodies rises magically from the floor. This bone boulder tilts toward area 6 and rolls down the sloping hallway
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
6. Hallway This hallway slants down sharply towards area 7, dropping 15 feet over its full length. Any character who takes a moment to poke around and succeeds on a DC 17 Intelligence (Investigation
in area 4 slides back and a 7-foot-diameter sphere made of hundreds of skeletal bodies rises magically from the floor. This bone boulder tilts toward area 6 and rolls down the sloping hallway before
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
etherealness spell, is the exception to this rule. A creature that enters the Border Ethereal from Undermountain is pulled back into the dungeon upon leaving that plane. Magic that summons creatures or
; consequently, he wants one side or the other (or both) eliminated.
Goal 2: Destroy Ezzat. An irksome lich named Ezzat has taken refuge on level 20, and Halaster wants adventurers to destroy the lich and its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
Mechanical Guides Each mechanical guide is programmed to teleport through space and time to the adventure’s set locations, effectively dropping the characters at the start of chapter 3 or chapter 4
its ability scores. Each guide has 6 charges, and regains 1d6 expended charges daily at dawn. Teleporting itself and the party to either adventure locale or back to its home manor costs a guide 1
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
7. Mad Wizard’s Retreat A human wizard, the lone survivor of an expedition to the Underdark, has taken refuge in this 30-foot-high cave. The cave contains the following: Light. Phosphorescent moss
wearing tattered gray robes over black pants sits on a 2-foot-tall toadstool. Her long black hair is tied back with a swatch of gray cloth that matches her robe. A quasit in toad form sits on her knee
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
brought back to life by any means. If the adventurers fail to convince Thunderwing to give up her life, she turns invisible and leaves the cave complex, taking refuge in the surrounding forest. Xanthoria re
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
“Catching Kettlesteam” later in the chapter if the characters try to corner her. Helping Palasha If she is driven from Silversong Lake by heckling, Palasha takes refuge in the river near the Hall of
Illusions. To coax her back to the lake, the characters must perform an act of gallantry, such as helping Candlefoot find his lost voice. If the characters persuade Palasha to return to the lake and