bad building diffusing covered remain

Trapper

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

any surface made of stone, earth, or wood, masking its presence to any but the most rigorous scrutiny. It can’t change its texture to that of a grassy or snow-covered surface, but it is just

investigate the bones for valuables becomes the trapper’s next meal. A trapper needs to eat a halfling-sized meal once per week to remain sated. Given a steady supply of food, trappers are content to

Pidlwick II

Monsters Curse of Strahd

asked Pidlwick to remain at Castle Ravenloft. One Pidlwick Too Many. Von Weerg was no ordinary toymaker, and he put a little of himself into all his creations, which is to say his works had a touch of

Ideal. “I wish I could make people happy.” Bond. “I would like to find someone—anyone—who isn't afraid of me and who enjoys my company.” Flaw. “When I'm upset, I do bad things.”Poison

Skabatha Nightshade

Monsters The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

. Personality Trait. “When dealing with outsiders, I present myself as a kindly old grandmother.” Ideal. “Children are better off working for me than picking up lots of bad habits

);{"diceNotation":"1d4","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Tiny Claw","rollDamageType":"poison"} poison damage when she hits with a Claw attack. She has advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks, and disadvantage on Strength checks and Strength saving throws. Her statistics otherwise remain unchanged.

Adult Green Dragon Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

. The moss-covered trees grow close together except where winding pathways trace their way like a maze into the heart of the forest. The light that reaches the forest floor carries an emerald green cast

strangely absent, hinting at the presence of an unnaturally hungry predator. If the dragon dies, the rodents and birds lose their supernatural link to it. The thickets remain, but within 1d10

Ancient Green Dragon Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

breath. The moss-covered trees grow close together except where winding pathways trace their way like a maze into the heart of the forest. The light that reaches the forest floor carries an emerald

game are strangely absent, hinting at the presence of an unnaturally hungry predator. If the dragon dies, the rodents and birds lose their supernatural link to it. The thickets remain, but within

Eladrin Legacy

Species Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes

, a time of unfettered energy. Some eladrin remain associated with a particular season for their entire lives, whereas other eladrin transform, adopting characteristics of a new season. When

Everything dies eventually. Why bother building anything that is supposedly meant to last? 2 Nothing matters to you, and you allow others to guide your actions. 3 Your needs come first. In

Claugiyliamatar

Monsters Storm King's Thunder

with a mangled corpse hanging from her mouth. Other dragons rarely remain in Kryptgarden Forest for long, because Claugiyliamatar drives them out. Claugiyliamatar rarely meddles in the affairs of small

acrid whiff of the creature’s poison breath. The moss-covered trees grow close together except where winding pathways trace their way like a maze into the heart of the forest. The light that

Claugiyliamatar (possessed)

Monsters Divine Contention

earned her nickname from her habit of gnawing on old kills, and is often seen with a mangled corpse hanging from her mouth. Other dragons rarely remain in Kryptgarden Forest for long, because

controlled by a green dragon is easy to spot. A perpetual fog hangs in the air in a legendary green dragon’s wood, carrying an acrid whiff of the creature’s poison breath. The moss-covered

Ancient Deep Dragon Legacy

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

rather enjoy the company of people—as long as they remain unaware of my true nature. Deep Dragon Ideals d6;{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Ideal"} Ideal

, they use local settlements—and any competent visitors—as pawns in their struggle. 4 An ancient deep dragon has put the folk of a city to work building the dragon a metropolis to rule

Rak Tulkhesh

Monsters Eberron: Rising from the Last War

as they grow stronger, they gain more influence. Some thirty overlords are bound in Khyber. Two are described here: Rak Tulkhesh and Sul Khatesh, both of whom remain imprisoned and can't take physical

draconic creature twisted by demonic rage. Covered in iron spikes protruding from his bleeding flesh, this overlord looms fifteen feet high at the shoulders, and his wings span over forty feet. While

Triton Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

and worse, so you know you can count on them in a fight. — Brego Stoneheart, sea captain Tritons guard the ocean depths, building small settlements beside deep trenches, portals to the

variety of social institutions, kingdoms, and other customs bewildering. For all their proud culture, they remain innocent of the surface world. The typical triton protectorate is tightly regimented

Golgari Agent

Backgrounds Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

the moss-covered building where I took part in my first reclamation mission. 5 I found something in the sewer that must never come to light. 6 I am forever grateful to the reclaimer who

Verdan

Species Acquisitions Incorporated

became the verdan covered an enormous area. As the verdan fled to the surface world, they emerged in culturally diverse locations. Some found themselves near dwarven strongholds, others near elven

steeped in a culture, the verdan remain on the lookout for oppression and curtailment of freedoms. They understand the need for laws that protect, but they rail against laws that restrict and oppress

Orc Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

for survival in the material world, but to keep Maglubiyet at bay in the conflict on the planes. Her children will remain in her care, and if need be she wouldn’t hesitate to take to the field

more than a few hundred members, because a larger group would need a prohibitive amount of resources to remain strong. As a rule, a tribe is violently hostile toward any other tribe it meets, seeing the

General Features

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver

DC 10 Strength check to force open. The windows of any intact building are 2 feet wide and covered by wooden shutters containing 6-inch wide arrow slits. Creatures on one side of an arrow slit gain

General Features Many of Thundertree’s buildings have crumbled in the years since the town was abandoned, even as nature threatens to swallow what remains. Buildings. A building in Thundertree is

General Features

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

any intact building are 2 feet wide and covered by wooden shutters containing 6-inch-wide arrow slits. Creatures on one side of an arrow slit gain three-quarters cover against attacks from the other

General Features Many of Thundertree’s buildings have crumbled in the years since the town was abandoned, and nature threatens to swallow what remains. Buildings A building in Thundertree is either

Criminal - Baldur's Gate

Backgrounds Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus

Guild took over your family business, ran it into the ground, and burned the building for insurance money. You were driven into crime yourself, but you’ll never work for the Guild. You take

tail and run when things look bad. 6 An innocent person is in prison for a crime that I committed. I’m okay with that.

Sumber Hills

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse

Sumber Hills The Sumber Hills are windswept badlands sparsely covered in dry grass. Many of the hills have exposed rock faces or steep escarpments. While the hills are dry, countless tiny streams

hear “Sumber Hills,” because it’s there that once had rich quarries and good hunting. Some hunting lodges and keeps owned by wealthy Waterdhavians or adventurers remain — and in recent times have

6. Outhouse

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder

6. Outhouse Half embedded in the ice is an empty wooden building with an open doorway. A 5-foot-wide hole in the middle of the wooden floor leads into a 40-foot-deep, 30-foot diameter cistern carved out of the ice, its floor covered with frozen waste.

Dinev's Rest

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

Dinev’s Rest Closed inn At the south end of town is Caer-Dineval’s inn, a drafty old building with boarded-up windows and a crooked weathervane shaped like a rearing dragon. The place has been out of

business for almost a year. Six duergar hide inside the ramshackle inn and remain out of sight until Xardorok’s chardalyn dragon attacks the town (see chapter 4).

Approaching the Cabin

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

climb to a snow-covered walkway that clings to the south side of the structure. The building’s slumped posture and sagging, snow-covered roof, coupled with the broken windows and loose, flapping

the old building can tell that its wooden floors are in poor condition, perhaps even in danger of collapse in one location (see area B4). It’s clear to anyone surveying the Black Cabin that part of the

Encounter 10: Converted Windmill

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

Encounter 10: Converted Windmill This crumbling, two-story stone building was a windmill long before the city rose up around it. The following features apply unless an area description or encounter

states otherwise: Rooms have 15-foot-high ceilings, with 10-foot-high passages and 7-foot-high doorways connecting them. Doors are wooden, closed, and unlocked. The walls are covered with graffiti, and

Half-Elves and Dragonmarks

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

families among the Khoravar by the time their dragonmarks appeared, and they remain pillars of the Khoravar’s diverse culture. The Khoravar ideal of building bridges supports the work of both houses. With

Ancient Dragon Turtle

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

suffer my displeasure. (Lawful or Evil) 5 Preservation. I am the ocean’s steward, tending reefs and waters to ensure that they remain unspoiled. (Lawful) 6 Eradication. The peoples of

rises 80 feet above the shelf. The exterior face of the reef is covered with stinging corals. Reef Hollow. The dragon turtle’s lair lies in a hollow in the reef’s interior that was bored

Outside the Lodge

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons

Outside the Lodge This ancient building has a wood and plaster upper floor over a fieldstone lower floor. Its shuttered windows are all closed. In places, the roof is overgrown with moss. A single

door stands slightly open. Smoke pours from one of three large chimneys. The lodge stands in a forest, among tall pines and in excellent hunting territory. The building can be accessed through the

Adult Deep Dragon Legacy

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

rather enjoy the company of people—as long as they remain unaware of my true nature. Deep Dragon Ideals d6;{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Ideal"} Ideal

that allow them to escape or ambush visitors if the need arises. A well-cultivated lair abounds with Underdark fungi and plants, with the floor, walls, and ceiling covered in carpets of mold and moss

Outside the Lodge

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen

Outside the Lodge This ancient building has a wood and plaster upper floor over a fieldstone lower floor: its shuttered windows are all closed. The roof is completely overgrown with moss. A single

door stands slightly open. Smoke pours from one of three large chimneys. The lodge stands in a forest, among tall pines and in excellent hunting territory. The building can be accessed through the front

Approaching the Lodge

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

and width of any building found in Ten-Towns. The lodge has three tall openings on the east side. On the southern side of the building is a tunnel left behind by a remorhaz that raided the lodge’s

characters, but in case that doesn’t happen, they remain outside to attack any characters who try to flee. (Specifically, the wolves wait in area L1, east of the lodge’s main entrance.) If one wolf is slain, the other flees to avoid a similar fate.

Approaching the Citadel

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus

stinking swamp of blood. The domed top of an alabaster temple pokes through the scab. Many black iron chains of Avernus converge on the building, attaching within the grotesque mound. The exposed

will be absorbed into the Nine Hells and the Sword of Zariel lost forever. She also tells the characters that the only entrance to the citadel is covered by the lower portion of the scab. Yeenoghu’s

Shrine of the Flaming Sword

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

Shrine of the Flaming Sword Shrine of Tempus (god of war) This vacant building stands on the lakeshore and has a crow-haunted steeple protruding from its peak. Unlike the mead hall, which is well

cared for, the shrine’s painted icons of the god of war wielding a flaming sword are chipped and faded, and its spacious interior stands mostly empty except for a long table on which rests a body covered

K28. King's Balcony

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd

K28. King’s Balcony A sculpted stone railing encloses this long balcony, which overlooks Ravenloft’s chapel. Two ornate thrones stand side by side in the center of the balcony, covered with dust and

strung with cobwebs. The thrones face away from the double doors that give access to the balcony. Two Strahd zombies (see appendix D) are slouched on the thrones. They remain motionless until one of

Ileuthra

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons

knowledge, but the dragon is cagey on that point. Seeing good and bad in equal measure among the lesser races, Ileuthra recognizes that helping the humanoids is less a case of deciding whether they are worthy

to remain in the world if the humanoid races are aware of where they are. If the characters agree that all dragon masks will be handed over to the metallic dragons as soon as they are found—including any masks captured after the final battle—his attitude can be improved.

Roleplaying Gnolls and Cultists of Yeenoghu

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

possess. Gnoll/Cultist Physical Features d12 Physical Feature 1 Missing an arm 2 Infested with maggots 3 Fur matted with dried blood 4 Missing an eye 5 Walks with a severe limp 6 Covered in burn

wounds 7 Vestigial twin embedded on back 8 Loud, wheezing breaths 9 Drool is mildly acidic 10 Covered in weeping sores 11 Horrific smell of rot 12 Weapon still embedded in old wound Gnoll/Cultist

9. Temple of the Great Snake

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

9. Temple of the Great Snake This 30-foot-high cavern is dominated by a ruin that contains the following: Carvings. The interior walls are covered in carvings of snakes, fanged maws, and open

that she cannot rest until the Ssethian Scourges are dead. Yoastal can be both friend and foe to an adventuring party. The ghost claims to have once been a cleric of Mask, cursed to remain in

Ileuthra

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat

knowledge, but the dragon is cagey on that point. Seeing good and bad in equal measure among the lesser races, Ileuthra recognizes that helping the humanoids is less a case of deciding whether they are worthy

to remain in the worldin the world if the humanoid races are aware of where they are. If the characters agree that all dragon masks will be handed over to the metallic dragons as soon as they are found — including any masks captured after the final battle — his attitude can be improved.

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