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Cave Fisher

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Flammable Blood. If the cave fisher drops to half its hit points or fewer, it gains vulnerability to fire damage. Spider Climb. The cave fisher can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on

like strong liquor. Several dwarven spirits include cave fisher blood, and some dwarves, especially berserker;berserkers, drink the blood straight. Cave fisher meat is edible, tasting much like crab

Cave Fisher Legacy

Monsters Volo's Guide to Monsters

replacement filament on its next turn. Flammable Blood. If the cave fisher drops to half its hit points or fewer, it gains vulnerability to fire damage. Spider Climb. The cave fisher can climb

Adhesive Filament. The cave fisher can use its action to extend a sticky filament up to 60 feet, and the filament adheres to anything that touches it. A creature adhered to the filament is grappled

Mite

Monsters Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1

","rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage. Blood Boiling Hex (Recharge 6);{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType":"recharge","rollAction":"Blood Boiling Hex"}. The mite places a hex on a creature it can see

only to replicate in others the emotions that created them. Nettlesome Pranksters. Mites prefer to live underground, seeking out dungeons and cave warrens where they dig a network of hidden burrows

Ancient Sapphire Dragon

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

cannot resist a game of dragonchess—which, I will have you know, my ancestors probably invented. 8 The sight of blood makes me queasy. Sapphire Dragon Ideals d6

without excavation or magic, as the dragon can simply open doorways in walls whenever necessary. The lair has the following features: Disguised Entrances. An otherwise unremarkable cave (shown at the

Adult Sapphire Dragon

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

, I will have you know, my ancestors probably invented. 8 The sight of blood makes me queasy. Sapphire Dragon Ideals d6;{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Ideal

open doorways in walls whenever necessary. The lair has the following features: Disguised Entrances. An otherwise unremarkable cave (shown at the top of the map) provides the main access to the lair

Kobold Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

owner, they are often willing to take the chance of revealing themselves because the potential reward is worth the risk. Dragon Servitors Kobolds believe that they were created by Tiamat from the blood

humanoids, but they know that there is greatness within them and they are proud that they were chosen to be the blood-kin of dragons. Kobolds willingly serve chromatic dragons and worship them as if

Bards

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide

Bards Bards hold a special place of responsibility and respect in the Forgotten Realms. They are bearers of news, gossip, and messages in their travels from place to place, in addition to being

living storehouses of history and folklore. Bards know a great deal, and they tend to be willing to share what they know, or at least barter for it. The arrival of a renowned bard is a special occasion

Cave Fisher

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse

. Several dwarven spirits include cave fisher blood, and some dwarves, especially berserkers, drink the blood straight. Cave fisher meat is edible, tasting much like crab cooked in strong wine. While

some folk hunt cave fishers to kill them to harvest their filaments, shells, and blood, others capture cave fisher eggs and rear the hatchlings, which can be trained to guard passages or serve as beasts

Faction Agent

Backgrounds Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide

knowledge, rather than brute force. Harper agents are often proficient in Investigation, enabling them to be adept at snooping and spying. They often seek aid from other Harpers, sympathetic bards and

to one day rise to the top of my faith’s religious hierarchy. (Lawful) 5 Faith. I trust that my deity will guide my actions. I have faith that if I work hard, things will go well. (Lawful

Cave Fisher

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

behind, rather than attracting the attention of the entire group. Valuable Innards. Nearly every part of a cave fisher is useful after the creature has been dispatched. Its blood is alcoholic and tastes

like strong liquor. Several dwarven spirits include cave fisher blood as part of the recipe, and some dwarves, especially berserkers, drink the blood straight. If they are gathered after being extruded

The Gods of Two Peoples

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide

The Gods of Two Peoples There are no half-elven gods, so half-elves follow elven or human deities of their choosing — although just as many religious half-elves believe that their gods choose them

for rangers, Milil or Corellon for poets and bards, and so forth. Many half-elves worship Sune or Hanali Celanil in appreciation for the love their parents felt for one another, and the two goddesses

Getting Started

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands

The cave has the following features: Ceilings. The cave’s ceilings are 15 feet high. Environment. The dirt floor of this natural cave is stained with blood from past battles. Secret Door. The

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

L2. Guard Cave

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

L2. Guard Cave A round, high-ceilinged cave opens here. It has two narrow exits, one leading north and the other south. A flat boulder sits in the center of the cave. It’s about six feet across

, eight feet long, and three feet high. Dark stains color its top. The boulder is stained with dry blood. Above the eastern entrance, two zombies stand on a ledge 10 feet up. They hold a wooden box full

Cackling Chasm Locations

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

of Yeenoghu (Chyzka) Z6 12 gnolls during the day, 6 gnolls at night Z5. Chyzka’s Cave Painted in blood on the walls of this eight-foot-high cave are pictographs of a towering monster with

Cackling Chasm Locations The following locations are keyed to map 2.4. Z1. Cave Mouth At the south end of the chasm, humanoid skulls are stacked on either side of a cave mouth that contains icy steps

Underground Cave

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

Underground Cave The underground cave was Murgaxor’s (and is now Y’demi’s) private chambers. It contains space for rituals, research, and quiet contemplation. It is depicted on map 6.3 and has the

following features: Map 6.3: underground cave View Player Version Bare Stone. This cave looks naturally formed, but the stone has been shaped and smoothed by magic. The cave walls have shelves built

Minotaur Lair Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands

this labyrinthine cave. A jumble of overlapping hoofprints cover the blood-speckled dirt floor, and scratches mar the walls. A Hostile Minotaur of Baphomet prowls amid the columns, stamping its

dirt around the cave mouth. Pressed into the dirt are the broken bones of the minotaur’s past victims—unlucky goblins, kobolds, and explorers who stumbled on the monster’s lair. Hoof Tracks. A

Cave Locations

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

Chute This eight-foot-high cave is unfurnished and unlit. A hole in the southwest corner is the mouth of an open chute that reeks of blood and filth. If they have not been lured elsewhere, two white

, however. Q6. Slaughterhouse The ice in this cave is stained pink and red with the blood of numerous kills. In the center of the room, beside a stone tray of butcher’s tools, is the flayed husk of an

The Proud Princess

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Stranger Things

tracked. The lair is a cave where the Material Plane and the Upside Down touch. A special plant grows there — a plant whose flowers bloom in both worlds. These flowers can be used to cross between

worlds if you perform a certain ritual. A key component of this ritual is blood from a monstrosity (a type of creature). The thessalhydra is a monstrosity, so it can use its own blood to open a gateway

Leilon Point Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sleeping Dragon’s Wake

supplies lay destroyed on the floor of this hut near the corpse of an old woman lying face down in a pool of dried blood. Manda Gutterpunch ran this shop that serviced the fishers in the village. A

destroyed more property. Seven days ago, some of the fishers in the town took weapons and their boats to Salt Cave to see if the raiders were in the caves. The fishers have not returned. Five days ago

Fortress Badlands Locations (T1-T2)

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

. The sentry posted in the smaller, central tower is a spectator perched atop a mannequin. The spectator’s eye stalks are hidden by a sun hat. The blood mage Y’demi summoned the spectator as a guardian

peryton stat block. T2. Collapsing Cave Gentle, white light emanates from within the mouth of this cave. The mouth is fifteen feet across and ten feet high, but the cave narrows as it deepens. The

Orc Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

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

warriors are commanded to scour the surrounding landscape for any opportunity to spill blood and bring glory to their gods. Often, bands of warriors work on a rotation, with one group heading out on a

2. Light of the Dead

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

2. Light of the Dead The earthen floors of these caves are covered by a 2-foot-thick layer of fog. 2a. Will-o’-Wisp Two columns of rock support the roof of this 15-foot-high cave, the walls of which

are spattered with blood from recent battles between drow and minotaurs. An invisible will-o’-wisp dwells here, the dark essence of a female drow priestess named Z’reska, who was butchered by

Build Your Group

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

Build Your Group Religious orders attract people from all walks of life. It can be fun to play against type—to make a devout character with the criminal or charlatan background, for example

there simply so that Sir Baerdren can keep his eye on her and ensure that she doesn’t sabotage the templars from within? Fixer. The Fixer might work for a religious order for entirely non-religious

11. Kitchen and Pantry

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

11. Kitchen and Pantry Food is stored and prepared here. The blood that leaks from the walls and floors makes little of it appetizing. 11a. Kitchen Fireplace. This 15-foot-high room is warm and

-stained natural cave roughly 50 feet square. The cave contains nothing of interest. Turning the handle on the faucet opens a valve that allows fresh, cold water from an underground stream to pour

Cities and Sites

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

, the source of House Tharashk’s wealth. These fields aren’t as rich as those in Q’barra, but there’s gold to be made by those willing to hunt for shards in the dangerous swamps. Vvaraak’s Cave The

swamps. House Tharashk oversees the City of Stilts, but Marcher clans and tribes come here to sell crafts and other goods or to celebrate religious rituals.

Grisha's Greeting

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

human male kneeling within a circle of burning torchstalk mushrooms in the center of the cave and two ragged figures lurking near a zurkhwood door set into a wall thirty feet distant. The figure in the

circle is praying over a rotting minotaur head but stands when he sees you. He’s a thin human, and his face and arms are streaked with dry blood. “Friends,” he says, “I have heard the call and I hope

4. Deeper Mines

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

should be eradicated or enslaved. 4a. Invisible Spies Silt. The floor of this 20-foot-high cave is covered in a 2-inch-thick layer of fine silt in which can be seen giant-sized bare footprints and smaller

crisscross the cave with enough frequency to imply that their makers dwell nearby. A successful check also reveals three sets of dwarf-sized boot prints, allowing the tracker to follow the prints straight

General Features

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh

near-perfect right angles, and all floors are level (except in the cave portion of cave 60, which has been left natural, and parts of area 19). The uppermost dry level has an eerie, clinical air

other land dwellers. Like sharks, sahuagin are at their most aggressive when their prey spills blood in the water. Their Blood Frenzy trait represents this increased ferocity. Though it can prove a

Lair Locations

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

4. Webbed Tunnels

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

spiders lurk in this 20-foot-high cave. If they hear the characters approaching, they shift to the Ethereal Plane and try to ambush the characters. 4c. Gobbled Goblins Webs. This cave is filled with

that one of the bundles is wriggling slightly. The bundle contains a goblin named Greech, who has been mutilated by spiders and drained of his blood. The goblin has 3 hit points left and is missing his tongue. He tries desperately to bargain for his life using grunts and frantic sign language.

14. Werebat Boss

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

14. Werebat Boss Precious little light reaches this large cave, which is set aside for the werebat boss, a particularly sinister goblin named Mobar. He prefers to remain in hybrid form — his most

with iron-fisted resolve. As a rule, he does not treat with adventurers; he’d rather rob them and feed on their blood. If combat breaks out here, the werebats throughout area 16 investigate, converging

Areas of the Heart

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin

the cave-in can make a DC 15 Strength (Athletics) check. On a successful check, the character clears a passage through the cave-in large enough for a Medium creature to squeeze through. Exiting the

. A character who examines the sludge and succeeds on a DC 13 Intelligence (Arcana) check identifies it as Havock’s blood. A creature that touches the blood immediately takes 10 (3d6) force damage. For

28. Private Chapel

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild

28. Private Chapel The temple’s high priest resides in these small quarters, which contain a bed, personal effects, ceremonial robes, and religious instruments of office. A fireplace along the

fireplace hearth. Two types of offering can be placed in this graven brazier—either a character’s sacrifice of blood (represented by a self-inflicted wound that deals 5 piercing or slashing damage) or a

5. In the Grip of Ghaunadaur

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

Gate to Level 12 At the north end of this 20-foot-high cave are two 15-foot-tall standing stones hewn from black basalt. Carved into the lintel spanning them is a large, blood-red X. The standing

stones form one of Halaster’s magic gates (see “Gates”). When a creature comes within 5 feet of the gate, rivulets of blood begin to seep from the rocky pores of the standing stones. The rules of this gate

Areas of the Cauldron Caves

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

it, but it’s easily reached by climbing one of two flights of crudely carved stairs. On clear nights, moonlight enters the cave through natural fissures in the ceiling. Fresh blood paints the icy

Areas of the Cauldron Caves Map 1.10: Cauldron CavesView Player Version The following locations are keyed to map 1.10. U1. Cave Mouths The characters must climb icy cliffs to reach the three

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