barriers branches diffusing contained remote

Goblin Psi Commander

Monsters Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

of their psionic abilities, goblin psi commanders wield blades of pure psychic energy. They can throw barriers of mental force while toppling foes with a single, mind-splitting burst. Psionic

with other Aberrations, which help them transform in return for their service as shock troops. Regardless, the result is the same: a goblin with unnatural and barely contained psychic power. Psionic

Far Traveler

Backgrounds Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide

few miles from where they were born. You aren’t one of those folk. You are from a distant place, one so remote that few of the common folk in the North realize that it exists, and chances are

hundreds of miles of the Great Glacier and the Great Ice Sea. No one from your nation makes the effort to cross such colossal barriers without a convincing reason. You must fear something truly

Mapping the Chase

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide

barriers to progress or opportunities for mayhem. Characters being chased through a forest by bugbears might spot a wasp nest and slow down long enough to attack the nest or throw rocks at it to

enrage the wasps within, thus creating an obstacle for their pursuers. A map of a chase can be linear or have many branches, depending on the nature of the chase. For example, a mine cart chase might have

Planes of Eberron

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

not a plane is remote or coterminous at a given time depends entirely on the needs of your story. Manifest Zones At certain places in the Material Plane, the barriers between worlds are thin, and

coterminous. When its influence is weak, a plane is remote. The state of a plane can be important for performing epic rituals, creating of eldritch machines, or interacting with extraplanar entities. Whether or

Candlekeep

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

Candlekeep Candlekeep is a fortress perched on a spur of rock overlooking the Sea of Swords. It is reached by a single road, the Way of the Lion, which branches west off the Coast Way. Candlekeep is

price of admittance is a book — specifically one not already contained in the monks’ library. The characters meet with Sylvira Savikas, a tiefling sage who knows the secret to unlocking Thavius

Mapping a Wilderness

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

uneven ground. Valleys and ridges channel travel in certain directions. Mountain ranges present forbidding barriers traversed only by remote passes. Even the most trackless desert reveals favored

The Planes of Eberron

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron

influence. When the influence of a plane is especially strong it is said to be coterminous. When its influence is weak, a plane is remote. These states can be important for epic rituals, the creation of

eldritch machines or interaction with extraplanar entities. There are also manifest zones: places in the material plane where the barriers are thin and where some aspects of a plane can bleed through

House Thuranni

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

twenty years ago, Baron Elar d’Thuranni ordered the assassination of the entire Paelion line, one of the branches of House Phiarlan. Supposedly, he acted to prevent the Paelions from carrying out a

house that is a shadow of its united predecessor, similar in many ways to House Phiarlan. But while spies and assassins are contained within a secret sixth branch of House Phiarlan, separate from the

Therno Lake Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase

, the creature takes half as much damage only. L2: Lake Where a mountain spur divides two branches of the valley, an elongated, V-shaped lake extends across the pass, contained by a dam to the south

Therno Lake Locations The following locations are keyed to map 3.4. Marco Bernardini Map 3.4: Therno Lake View Player Version L1: Beaver Dam A wide dam of mud, logs, and branches blocks this section

Chase Complications

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

ones in this section. Otherwise, improvise as you play. Complications can be barriers to progress or opportunities for mayhem. Characters being chased through a forest by bugbears might spot a wasp nest

and slow down long enough to attack the nest or throw rocks at it, thus creating an obstacle for their pursuers. A map of a chase can be linear or have many branches, depending on the nature of the

Scourge of Worlds

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

presence begins to erode the barriers between their location and the Abyss. It can take a few years for weaker demons to warp their environment, while changes begin to occur around the location of a

foul-smelling tumors instead of leaves as their branches wither and die. Bodies of water in the area become tainted and sometimes poisonous, and the weather might feature extremes of heat, cold, wind

Putting the Planes Together

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

beads on a string. But it’s not the only possible explanation of the river’s course. The World Tree A different arrangement of planes envisions them situated among the roots and branches of a great cosmic

Midgard. Similarly, one vision of the planes where the deities of the Forgotten Realms reside situates a number of celestial planes in the branches of a World Tree, while the fiendish planes are linked by

Forest Shrine

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros

without guardians. Beasts, plants, and nymphs are always on the lookout for intruders. Forest Shrine Adventures A forest shrine is a remote place with inhabitants who are difficult to impress. Simply

weapons hang from the tree’s branches alongside a beehive. South of the tree is a firepit with a few boulders surrounding it for seats. Nearby, a dense, flowering bush shaped as an altar stands

Goblinoid War Camp

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

. If an enemy force does approach, though, these barriers do a good job of delaying any incursion until the goblinoids can rally their defenses. Inside the surrounding bulwark, the goblinoids all have

maintain their own battle gear, but ammunition and replacement gear are kept on hand, as well as other nonperishable supplies. Rather than being contained in a building, these items are on wagons

Adventure Models

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

around them. 3 Hired to guard a caravan heading to a remote mountain town, adventurers find the pass blocked with rockslides caused by stone giants at play. 4 A group of giants (perhaps members of the

finances an expedition to a remote ruin to retrieve giant-made art and artifacts. 4 The characters’ research suggests the last known location of the Axe of the Dwarvish Lords (or some other artifact

Warforged Colossus

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

. Construction began on enormous new creation foundries, hundreds of feet tall, carved into the sides of mountains or secretly nestled within remote canyons. The project succeeded beyond Cyre’s wildest dreams

that information and enabled them to control parts of the colossus as well. The techniques and tools used to create docent nodes were lost in the Mourning. The various branches of House Cannith are

Tier 2 Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves

through a shattered chamber open to the outside. A waterfall pours through the collapsed ceiling and into the misty bog. Butterflies flit through the branches of trees draped in moss and vines, and

immediately. Waterfall. The ceiling once contained a canal that channeled water from the third tier to the second. Now the water falls straight into the room, creating the bog. Treasure. Submerged in the

Headquarters Features

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

more interesting than an old vine-covered wizard’s tower in the woods? Is the headquarters remote or within a settlement — perhaps an old tavern or caravansary the characters can restore? It can be

shoot skyward like a missile. Or a franchise’s headquarters might be contained within a giant statue, which over time gains the power to move farther and faster. A castle or other stationary structure

Scream of the Crop

compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Stranger Things: Welcome to the Hellfire Club

crops, corrupting soil, and spawning awakened plants with a taste for blood. The tree’s evil was contained for a time within Gunthar’s crypt, and farms flourished in a land the vampire had filled with

droplets with purple lattice-like branches sprout from the ground in this tunnel. Their tendrils snake toward the ceiling and intertwine with vines that cover every surface. DM Secret! Don’t reveal

Brimstone Hold Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault

below. Three-foot-high barriers line the causeway’s edges, funneling travelers toward the gatehouse of Vrakir’s imposing fortress. The bridge crosses the lava river at its narrowest point, spanning 300

emblazoned with Vrakir’s symbol—a crown encircling the branches of a tree wreathed in flame—as well his motto, atka ignari (Ignan for “all shall burn”). Two erinyes are stationed on the rooftops of the

Necropolis Locations (Y1-Y9)

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

. These towers were once occupied by mages and contained laboratories, libraries, and living quarters. Now they lie in ruins. Map 2.10 gives you an idea of how the interior of each spire is laid out. Y3

metal masts rise from the arena like gigantic tridents, each one emitting a low hum. The branches of each trident are twenty-five feet off the ground and extend fifty feet into the air. A sport

Locations R - U

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

or barriers, so anyone traversing it is at the mercy of the wind. Suggested Encounter The first time the adventurers approach the midpoint of the bridge, they see a fire giant and a hell hound

these hill giants by surprise. An inn and saloon called the Black Bull’s Tail stands at the intersection where the road branches. Two more hill giants have ripped through the inn’s facade and destroyed

Tomb Locations

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

lights flit between the branches, and at the center of the glade stands a towering banyan tree wrapped in sickly looking vines. A path winds through the glade but disappears when you try to focus

when the trap is sprung must succeed on a DC 20 Dexterity saving throw or take 10 (4d4) piercing damage and have the poisoned condition for 1 hour. Treasure. Contained within the box is a delicate gold

Locations E - H

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

inside the adamantine forge in Ironslag (see chapter 8, “Forge of the Fire Giants,” area 29), the fire primordial is trapped within that forge and likewise contained. If the primordial is released

Well” section). Coldwood Branches of the Icespear River emerge from the heart of the Coldwood, trickling south toward the Silver Marches. The Glimmerwood is so frigid that the ground is covered with

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