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Monsters
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
13 unless otherwise noted):
At will: dancing lights, mage hand, spider climb (from spider staff), web (from spider staff; save DC 15)
1/day each: darkness, faerie fire, invisibility, mage armor
, magic missile, suggestionThe Spider—a drow mastermind named Nezznar—is searching Wave Echo Cave for the Forge of Spells, a magical forge that was used by dwarves and gnomes in bygone days to
Darkmantle
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Monsters
Basic Rules (2014)
Echolocation. The darkmantle can’t use its blindsight while deafened.
False Appearance. While the darkmantle remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from a cave formation such as a
movement.
Darkness Aura (1/Day). A 15-foot radius of magical darkness extends out from the darkmantle, moves with it, and spreads around corners. The darkness lasts as long as the darkmantle
Monsters
Tales from the Yawning Portal
Echolocation. The darkmantle can't use its blindsight while deafened.
False Appearance. While the darkmantle remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from a cave formation such as a stalactite or
darkmantle can detach itself from the target by using 5 feet of movement.
Darkness Aura (1/Day). A 15--foot radius of magical darkness extends out from the darkmantle, moves with it, and spreads around
Ancient Black Dragon
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Basic Rules (2014)
on the frayed edges of civilization. A black dragon’s lair is a dismal cave, grotto, or ruin that is at least partially flooded, providing pools where the dragon rests, and where its victims can
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Magical darkness spreads from a point the dragon chooses within 60 feet of it, filling a 15-foot-radius sphere
Adult Black Dragon
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Basic Rules (2014)
swamps on the frayed edges of civilization. A black dragon’s lair is a dismal cave, grotto, or ruin that is at least partially flooded, providing pools where the dragon rests, and where its victims
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Magical darkness spreads from a point the dragon chooses within 60 feet of it, filling a 15-foot-radius sphere
Monsters
Princes of the Apocalypse
Amphibious. The dragon can breathe air and water.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the dragon fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Living Shadow. While in dim light or darkness
, the dragon has resistance to damage that isn’t force, psychic, or radiant.
Shadow Stealth. While in dim light or darkness, the dragon can take the Hide action as a bonus action.
Sunlight
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
like to impress visitors by reciting epic poetry.
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The only people I’m interested in are those who know history and those who make history.
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I like to adopt the personas of
residence in a nearby cave, attacking the clan’s herd of giant goat;giant goats.
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An assassin and a young emerald dragon train together to master the art of stealth.
Fire, Psychic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
. Lighting. Unless noted otherwise, the cave is unlit. Its denizens use Darkvision or other means to see. Area descriptions assume the characters have a light source or other means of seeing in Darkness.
Shunned Cave Features The cave has the following features: Ceilings. The cave’s ceilings are 15 feet high. Door. The stone door to area G6 is ajar. Environment. The eastern half of this cave (areas
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
College of Glamour The College of Glamour is the home of bards who mastered their craft in the vibrant realm of the Feywild or under the tutelage of someone who dwelled there. Tutored by satyrs
, eladrin, and other fey, these bards learn to use their magic to delight and captivate others. The bards of this college are regarded with a mixture of awe and fear. Their performances are the stuff of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
Nothic Lair Features The cave has the following features: Ceilings. The cave’s ceilings are 10 feet high. Doors. Doors throughout the cave are made of reinforced wood with iron hinges. Environment
. The cave has mostly smooth stone walls with patches of unworked stone. The smooth stone walls are carved with geometric patterns and indecipherable runes. Lighting. The cave is unlit, and its denizens
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
. The cave’s walls are made of smooth, mortared stones with patches of unworked rock. Lighting. The cave is unlit, and its denizens rely on Darkvision to see. Area descriptions assume the characters have a light source or other means of seeing in Darkness.
Mephit Lair Features The cave has the following features: Ceilings. The cave’s ceilings are 10 feet high. Door. The door to area B8 is made from reinforced wood; it’s closed but unlocked. Environment
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
Hobgoblin Lair Features The cave has the following features: Ceilings. The cave’s ceilings are 10 feet high. Doors. The cave’s doors are made of oak planks bound with iron. They are unlocked
. Environment. The cave is carved from stone. It is scrupulously clean. The hobgoblins keep their areas tidy, and the gelatinous cube in area F2 sweeps up anything in its path. Lighting. The cave is unlit, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
L1. Entry Cave The cave mouth opens into darkness from which a breezes blows, carrying the faint odor of death. Inside is a natural cave, its floor and ceiling uneven. The passage leads to the west
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
Gnoll Lair Features The cave has the following features: Ceilings. The cave’s ceilings are 10 feet high. Doors. The doors to area J2 are made of stone. Environment. Past its entrance, the cave’s
natural rock gives way to crumbling stone blocks and flagstone tiles. Its walls are decorated with painted motifs of grinning demons and marching skeletons. Lighting. The cave is unlit, and its denizens
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
Bugbear Lair Features The cave has the following features: Ceilings. The cave’s ceilings are 10 feet high. Doors and Secret Doors. The doors in this cave are made of sturdy wood planks. The secret
. Environment. The walls are made of rough-hewn stone in some places and neat-fitting stone blocks in others. Stone tiles cover the floor. Lighting. The cave is unlit, and its denizens rely on Darkvision
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
Minotaur Lair Features The cave has the following features: Ceilings. The cave’s ceilings are 15 feet high. Environment. The cave walls are made of hard-packed dirt reinforced with crumbling pillars
and brickwork. Crushed bones lie scattered about the dirt floor. Lighting. The cave is unlit, and its denizens rely on Darkvision or other means to see. Area descriptions assume the characters have a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
Getting Started This cave is connected to cave D via the secret door in area E3 (see map E). If the characters approach from outside the cave, read the following boxed text aloud to begin: This
large cave exudes a strong, sour odor. Half-gnawed hunks of meat from sloppily butchered and charred animals litter the area.
The cave’s occupants are responsible for the mess.
Ogre Lair Features
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
Started To begin, read the following boxed text aloud:
A tunnel made of hard-packed earth leads into darkness. The cave echoes with high-pitched bickering overtopped by a loud, bestial squeal
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Lighting. The cave is unlit, and its denizens rely on Darkvision or other means to see. Area descriptions assume the characters have a light source or other means of seeing in Darkness.
Features
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
17. Abandoned Residences This large cavern mirrors the residential areas of Inner Blingdenstone, except there is no warmth or joy here — only darkness and signs of carnage. Every step echoes against
darkness beyond the range of the characters’ light and darkvision. As characters move toward the apparent source, the echoes become more distant, as though originating somewhere else. Unless the characters
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
visitors by reciting epic poetry.
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The only people I’m interested in are those who know history and those who make history.
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I like to adopt the personas of characters from legend
periods, the waters surge up into the nearest halls and corridors before draining away.
Underwater Cache. The dragon stashes gold and gems in an underwater cave (at the bottom of the map), the entrance
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
reciting epic poetry.
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The only people I’m interested in are those who know history and those who make history.
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I like to adopt the personas of characters from legend.
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I
gems in an underwater cave (at the bottom of the map), the entrance to which lies 40 feet below the surface of the subterranean pool.
Hatchery. The dragon has lovingly arranged the three small
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Descent into the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth
cleft in the mountainside. Stalactites and stalagmites growing at the entrance give the cave mouth the impression of fangs waiting to snap together. The opening is forty feet wide, twenty feet high, and
blackened by soot. Past the stone maw, a wide passage with roughly hewn stairs descends into darkness.
The tunnel slants down to area L1 of the lesser caverns.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
. Then it drops from the ceiling and unfurls, surrounding itself with magical darkness as it engulfs and crushes its prey. Darkmantles are found throughout the Underdark, but they are equally common on
is indistinguishable from a cave formation such as a stalactite or stalagmite.
Actions
Crush. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3) bludgeoning damage, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray. Keen Senses. You have proficiency in the Perception skill. Fey Ancestry. You have advantage on saving
is rich and varied, and their songs and poems are famous among other races. Many bards learn their language so they can add Elvish ballads to their repertoires. Subrace. Ancient divides among the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray. Keen Senses. You have proficiency in the Perception skill. Fey Ancestry. You have advantage on saving
is rich and varied, and their songs and poems are famous among other races. Many bards learn their language so they can add Elvish ballads to their repertoires. Subrace. Ancient divides among the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
Bright Light in interior rooms. Sunlight entering the cave mouth during the day casts Dim Light through cave areas in the upper level. Caves in the lower level are in Darkness; descriptions assume the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
mage) aids them. Shard of Darkness. Once the anhkolox is destroyed, a character who searches the cave finds the source of the fog: a rounded piece of broken black glass. The fog ceases if the glass
is lightly obscured by fog that billows from a nearby cave. If the characters enter, they encounter a wolflike anhkolox (see appendix B). Should the characters battle the monster, Dalamar (neutral elf
Orc
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
gather and celebrate, dwell the followers of Yurtrus, the god of disease and death, and Shargaas, the god of darkness and the unknown. Orcs too weak for battle (because of bodily weakness, malformation
Luthic. He predicts that the war will end with Luthic the only deity standing, as the cave mother ascends to rule her warrior children.
Life in the Tribe
Orcs survive through savagery and force of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Stranger Things
close to Sir Tristan’s castle (they can see the towers above the tree line). Prints in the dirt make it clear that the thessalhydra has come this way often, and the tracks lead into a nearby cave
. Area 1. Entrance to the cave. Some of the cross-planar flowers grow along the rocks here. Area 2. This cave is thick with webs from floor to ceiling. Three giant spiders live here. If the characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
. Sacks and crates of looted provisions are piled up in the south end of this large cave. To the west, the floor slopes toward a narrow opening that descends into darkness. A larger opening leads north
8. Klarg’s Cave The leader of the goblinoids insists on keeping the bulk of the raiders’ stolen goods in his den. The Cragmaws’ plunder from the last month of raiding and ambushing caravans is here
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
south wall that contains a rough-hewn staircase leading down into darkness.
Crammed into this cave are twenty 3-foot-tall ice sculptures that the kobold vampire spawn have made to startle and
cave, read: A deep sigh issues from the darkness. A voice steeped in malevolence and hatred whispers to you in a language reminiscent of Elvish.
The wraith speaks Loross (see the “Loross: The Netherese
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Borderlands Quest: Goblin Trouble
walked in and out of this entrance recently. All clues point you into the darkness of this cave.
What do you do?
The Adventure Hook
An adventure hook is the challenge, opportunity, situation
being carried into a cave by a group of goblins, small people who are often embodiments of recklessness and ruin.
You are now at the mouth of that cave. Several small footprints show that goblins have
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
A Bard’s Muse Naturally, every bard has a repertoire of songs and stories. Some bards are generalists who can draw from a wide range of topics for each performance, and who take pride in their
versatility. Others adopt a more personal approach to their art, driven by their attachment to a muse — a particular concept that inspires much of what those bards do in front of an audience. A bard who
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
dawn to roost in the darkness. Characters who observe the bats and succeed on a DC 15 Intelligence (Nature) check realize there must be a massive cave nearby for the colony to roost in. Characters who
the entrance give the cave mouth the impression of fangs waiting to snap together. The opening is 40 feet wide, 20 feet high, and blackened by soot. Past the stone maw, a wide passage with roughly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
N1), except the tunnel slopes down to area N13. N5: Eastern Boulder Cave Several boulders are scattered about this small cave, and three of them raise their heads to look at you as you enter. Crooked
grins full of rocky teeth appear in their faces as the creatures rumble what might be a greeting.
Three gregarious Galeb Duhr dwell in this cave. They are pleased to have company, and ask in