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Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
locks, pluck keys from belts and pouches, clamber up walls, and sneak past guards — playing the perfect daughter by day while cutting loose at night. To hide her identity from those she met, she wore a
. When she throws back her cloak to reveal the costume she has put together, most folk toss their purses and flee. If that doesn't work, she usually needs only to draw her dagger. Of course, some of the
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
body hosts a possessing spirit that shares its memories and replaces your missing appendages with phantasmal limbs.
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In public, you pass as an unremarkable individual, but you can feel the
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
by dealing 15 or more slashing damage to it on one attack. Cutting the root doesn’t hurt the cradle but ends the grapple.
Rolling Hills (Recharge 6);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge
standing stones, a village, or a city on a scion’s back, unaware of the mighty power beneath them. Such settlements can thrive for centuries, as the scion’s magic causes crops to flourish
Ranger
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of steel, cutting down one enemy after another. After tumbling away from a cone of freezing air, an elf finds her feet and draws back her bow to loose an arrow at the white dragon. Shrugging off the
whistles to the hawk that circles high above him, calling the bird back to his side. Whispering instructions in Elvish, he points to the owlbear he’s been tracking and sends the hawk to distract
Orc
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
raid just as another group returns, laden with severed heads, sacks of loot, and armfuls of food. Warriors also serve as scouts, bringing back detailed reports about the surrounding area so that the
haul as much food and booty as possible back to the tribe’s den, every tribe has a sturdy war wagon. Since orcs are poor crafters, most of their wagons are stolen from human or dwarven
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
stored here. A secret door in the east wall can be pulled open to reveal the back of the pipe organ in area K10. Characters can’t pass through the secret door while the organ is blocking it, and the organ can’t be moved from this side.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Nest of the Eldritch Eye
. Read or paraphrase the following: The withered eyeball aims its empty gaze down an alley strewn with rubble. Rats scurry between chunks of old stone and dusty crates. At the back of the alley is a set of
moldering wood boards, propped up just enough to block a dark tunnel leading below the surface.
The boards blocking the entrance to the catacombs can be moved easily, revealing a sloping tunnel (area N1).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
Sigil’s infrastructure, repairing crumbling buildings, ensuring portals function properly, cutting back rampant razorvine, and patching city streets. To most citizens of Sigil, dabus are nothing more
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
standing on the cutting edge of the adventuring business, the brand precedes you. And sure, sometimes the blades on the cutting edge are kind of sharp. But with Head Office at your back, you know you have
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
life of a gnome, whether one is investigating the nature of magic or trying to invent a better back scratcher. Questions about the world fill a gnome’s head: how an insect flies, a fish swims, or a
interest in mechanical devices, the natural world, and magical pursuits; a gnome might seek to invent a new garden tool, collect and categorize every type of butterfly, or develop a new method for cutting gemstones.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
characters approach either bridge, they can make out the initial details of the rift and can see the guards blocking the path. Read the following to set the scene: A rift in the earth divides Elturel into
guard at the center of the bridge, scanning in all directions.
Each bridge is guarded by an infernal force tasked with cutting off any assistance between the east and west sides of the city. Each
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Developments Even if Araumycos survives, its fate is unclear. The entity’s mind has clearly been damaged by both the necessity of cutting away its corruption and the buffeting force of the psychic
wind that followed. Basidia and the myconids offer to meld with Araumycos to try to heal it and guide it back to wholeness. Though not as serious as death, the trauma still causes a significant amount
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
whirlwind of steel, cutting down one enemy after another. After tumbling away from a cone of freezing air, an elf finds her feet and draws back her bow to loose an arrow at the white dragon. Shrugging
whistles to the hawk that circles high above him, calling the bird back to his side. Whispering instructions in Elvish, he points to the owlbear he’s been tracking and sends the hawk to distract the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
whirlwind of steel, cutting down one enemy after another. After tumbling away from a cone of freezing air, an elf finds her feet and draws back her bow to loose an arrow at the white dragon. Shrugging
whistles to the hawk that circles high above him, calling the bird back to his side. Whispering instructions in Elvish, he points to the owlbear he’s been tracking and sends the hawk to distract the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rrakkma
only visible way out is back through the portal. Lighting This area is well lit. The charging Gith Capacitor creates A LOT of light. Creatures/NPCs A star spawn seer and its guardian star spawn hulk are
alive, the adventurers can’t get to the ulitharid or affect it in any way. There is a field of alien energy blocking it off from everything that isn’t the Gith Capacitor. If the adventurers slay the star
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
Upper Central Upper Central is defined by wealth and prestige and heavily patrolled by both the Sharn Watch and private security agents, so crime there leans more toward elaborate heists than back
wrongs done by exploitative nobles, corner-cutting businesses, and government bureaucracies—unless persistent and skillful inquisitives provide them with leverage.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
hunters and traveling merchants. These forays are inspired not only by the raiders’ greed but also by their sinister habit of dragging their victims’ corpses back to the outpost to conscript them as
zombie guards and workers. When the star fell, it crashed into this outpost. The impact collapsed several tunnels, cutting the derro off from both the surface and the Underdark below. The collapse also
Kobold
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
responsible for blocking tunnels to deter pursuit.
Kobolds feel a cool affinity or something like kinship for other members of their tribe, but they are rarely affectionate with each other. Two kobolds
some other convenient way (or, in a cannibalistic tribe, eaten). Kobolds believe that if they die in service to their tribe, Kurtulmak immediately sends each of them back to life as the next egg laid in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
parallel reality. Characters who walk the length of the circular corridor notice that Devlin’s body is no longer present — nor are any companions who waited behind for them. If they step back through the
who dies in the demiplane is trapped by the Soulmonger. Each dawn, Acererak’s magic replaces the mirror tomb with a fresh fabrication. Slain monsters reappear in their original locations, and moved
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
’ appearance and back up their claims with evidence, such as the matching symbols from the cave and Prince Kirina’s or Kedjou’s notes, Uzoma believes them and is outraged. Prince Kirina’s confidence rapidly
for Prince Simbon” section, Simbon speaks out against Kirina, cutting through his excuses. If they didn’t, a character must succeed on a DC 12 Charisma (Intimidation or Persuasion) check to undermine
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
ten thugs blocking her path work for him. Traevus and his thugs are indifferent toward the party but turn hostile if the characters try to force their way onto the Moondancer with Captain Sartell in
of his thugs while the others continue to hold back the mob that has gathered at the docks. If Traevus is defeated, any remaining thugs in his employ lose their will to fight. Some are overrun by the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
see more than 15 feet ahead, exactly as if they were in a circular garden with concentric paths. Cutting through hedges has no effect on how long it takes characters to get from one node to the next
. Alternatively, characters who fly above the maze are shunted back into the real world, emerging above the hedge tangle with their companions nowhere in sight. The only way for them to rejoin the party is to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Astarion's Book of Hungers
him back to his palace for punishment. Hook. Astarion (Medium Vampire Spawn) invites the characters to Rat’s Run to socialize. Astarion then notices several disguised members of Cazador’s “family
) with the characters, Astarion recognizes two Vampire Wardens from Cazador’s palace. The wardens are blocking the public exit to Rat’s Run. Certain that someone from the palace wants to kidnap him
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
see more than 15 feet ahead, exactly as if they were in a circular garden with concentric paths. Cutting through hedges has no effect on how long it takes characters to get from one node to the next
. Alternatively, characters who fly above the maze are shunted back into the real world, emerging above the hedge tangle with their companions nowhere in sight. The only way for them to rejoin the party is to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
or more results in the creature being knocked from the pathway, sliding and falling to the next lower level of the path, and taking an additional 10 (3d6) bludgeoning damage. Cutting the tripwire
triggers the trap. To disarm it, the wire must be disconnected, kept tight, and traced back to the wood panel it holds, shoring up the loose boulder and rocks. Then the boulder must be further supported
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
earlier took a cutting from the shambling mound’s root stem, binding it to her service. If a character uses a speak with plants spell to communicate with the shambling mound, it tells the character that
back. If the root is brought back and given to it, the shambling mound goes on a rampage through the garden, destroying and devouring everything it can while leaving the characters and their allies
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
-looking path, road, or trails occasionally become sharp for 100-foot intervals. Walking on these areas is like walking on caltrops. Small avalanches of rock intermittently fall, blocking a path or burying
creates one or more of the following additional regional effects within 1 mile of her lair: Small avalanches of snow intermittently fall, blocking a path or burying intruders. A buried creature is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Locathah Rising
, one of the kraken priests triggers the ballistae trap, firing both siege weapons simultaneously, while the other casts Evard’s black tentacles, effectively blocking off the entrance to area 10. On the
near the back corner of this chamber. The treasure fills and spills out of a pair of large chests that lay open so the young kraken could take stock at its whim. The combined coins include 50 pp
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
foes, at which point the deep friendships between them forge the kind of fighting force needed to overthrow tyranny and eradicate evil. Harper scouts engaged in charting and blocking off Underdark
passages leading to the surface world have recently brought back the terrifying news of the demon lords’ incursion into the Underdark. Word has spread quickly through their network, and the finest mages in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
a passive Wisdom (Perception) score of 17 or higher glimpse the wee dragon for a second before it turns invisible. On subsequent turns, Otto flies back to Maddgoth’s castle. Otto’s spell replaces all
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
forces. When intruders enter the vestibule, the three driders rush into melee while Althein and Vendrasha hang back to support the driders. The driders and elves fight to the death. Rachazz doesn’t
participate in the fight; it feigns injury and stays out of the way. If the characters look like they’re winning the battle, Rachazz tries to slip out of the tower and report back to the Ruinous Citadel
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
mold. The mold is edible but not nutritious. 13d. Rotting Xorn Carcass Rats and vermin nibble away at the rotting carcass of a xorn that lies at the back of this cave. Seven days ago, the xorn ran
afoul of the golem in area 2 and was mortally wounded. It retreated to this cavern and died here. Treasure. Cutting open the xorn’s carcass reveals an undigested ring of x-ray vision and a lumpy, half
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
stopped. This might have been previously accomplished by attacking the dragons or by cutting off the flow of prisoners to the area. When any of the previous events occurs, the following penalties are
trait kicks in. The portal collapses as the shrieking Dragon Queen disintegrates and is dragged back to Avernus. She will remain trapped there until someone else can recreate the conditions of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
to rotate, instantly cutting off the exits ahead and behind. You can feel the passage sink about five feet as it turns. After a few seconds, it comes to a stop and the grinding abates.
When tunnel
for more information on this weapon), a dungeoneer’s pack, a pouch containing 8 gp, an ivory back scratcher shaped like a dinosaur claw (25 gp), a holy symbol of Bahamut (25 gp), and a red crystal
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
two exits, including an adamantine portcullis blocking a passage to the north. Set into a metal plate above the portcullis is a row of five red crystals shaped like drops of blood.
The adamantine
. Once this duration ends, the portcullis lowers back into place, the crystals go dark, and the wardrobes reappear with their doors closed. Each wardrobe contains a one-way gate to another plane, which






