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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
in use to knit back together. A Rope of Mending is forever shortened if a section of it is lost or destroyed.
This 50-foot coil of rope can repair itself when cut into any number of smaller pieces. As a Magic action, you can cause all pieces of the rope that are in contact with each other and not otherwise
Backgrounds
Player’s Handbook
, Navigator's Tools, Rope, Traveler's Clothes, 20 GP; or (B) 50 GP
You lived as a seafarer, wind at your back and decks swaying beneath your feet. You’ve perched on barstools in more ports of call than you can remember, faced mighty storms, and swapped stories with folk who live beneath the waves.
Rope of Mending
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Magic Items
Xanathar's Guide to Everything
You can cut this 50-foot coil of hempen rope into any number of smaller pieces, and then use an action to speak a command word and cause the pieces to knit back together. The pieces must be in
contact with each other and not otherwise in use. A rope of mending is forever shortened if a section of it is lost or destroyed.
Backpack
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Equipment
A backpack is a leather pack carried on the back, typically with straps to secure it. A backpack can hold 1 cubic foot/ 30 pounds of gear.
You can also strap items, such as a bedroll or a coil of rope, to the outside of a backpack.
Tabaxi
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
We had a tabaxi come through once, a few winters back. She kept the taproom packed each night with her stories and spent most days napping in a chair in front of the fireplace. We thought she was
of the world beyond their home.
Barterers of Lore
Tabaxi treasure knowledge rather than material things. A chest filled with gold coins might be useful to buy food or a coil of rope, but it’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
contact with each other and not otherwise in use to knit back together. A Rope of Mending is forever shortened if a section of it is lost or destroyed.
Rope of Mending Wondrous Item, Common This 50-foot coil of rope can repair itself when cut into any number of smaller pieces. As a Magic action, you can cause all pieces of the rope that are in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Rope of Mending Wondrous item, common You can cut this 50-foot coil of hempen rope into any number of smaller pieces, and then use an action to speak a command word and cause the pieces to knit back
together. The pieces must be in contact with each other and not otherwise in use. A rope of mending is forever shortened if a section of it is lost or destroyed.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
, Tarto replies as follows: “Get back to the ship. This planet gives me the creeps.”
The characters have no encounters on their way back to the tyrant ship. Once they climb the rope ladder and get back
Back to the Ship Once they’ve bagged the meteorite, the characters can use their sending stone to contact Boatswain Tarto, or they can simply head back to the tyrant ship. If they use the stone
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation Supplement
creature is secured by a rope, it is swept away only as far as the rope allows but still takes damage. A character flushed into area 12 can make a DC 15 Dexterity check to ride a wave back up through one
23. Blow Holes At unpredictable intervals, seawater erupts through four holes in the floor of this 80-foot-long tunnel and then rushes back into area 12, dragging creatures in the tunnel along with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Equipment: Choose A or B: (A) Dagger, Navigator’s Tools, Rope, Traveler’s Clothes, 20 GP; or (B) 50 GP
You lived as a seafarer, wind at your back and decks swaying beneath your feet. You’ve perched on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
to this gaping orifice hangs a winch with a simple rope-and-pulley mechanism that Durnan, the proprietor, uses to lower adventurers down the shaft and (sometimes) pull them up again. Durnan controls
the winch himself and will transport only one adventurer at a time. The trip takes 10 rounds, down and up. The rope is stained with old blood and long enough to reach all the way to the floor of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
homes. Calls of “A rope, a rope!” and “Get a ladder!” fill the air.
Any creature that moves to the sinkhole’s edge without taking precautions, such as lying flat on the ground and crawling forward or
securing themselves with a rope, must make a successful DC 10 Dexterity saving throw or fall into the hole as the ground crumbles further. The bottom of the sinkhole is 30 feet down, but a cushioning
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
5. Portrait of a Mad Mage This room is empty except for an enormous red velvet curtain that covers the north wall. A pull-rope on one side of the curtain allows it to be drawn back. Behind the
Kobold
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
crawl to make progress. In places where a tunnel opens into a chasm and continues on the other side, the kobolds might connect the two passages with a rope bridge or some other rickety structure
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->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
10. Where’s Halaster? This room is empty except for an enormous red velvet curtain that covers the northwest wall. A pull-rope on one side of the curtain allows it to be drawn back. Hanging on the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
sit on. The room is mostly empty otherwise. Standing against the back wall is a wooden pulpit with steps leading up to it. The floor of the temple is composed of dirt. Set into the west wall, north
of the pulpit, is a half-open door, beyond which lies area 5b. 5b. Bedroom and Steeple This back room contains a plain wooden bed where Hiral Mystrum, the village’s acolyte of Lathander, slept. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
, Halfling, and Undercommon. Darribeth has a rope of climbing that belonged to a colleague who perished in the Underdark. She offers it as payment for getting her back to the surface. In addition, if any
wearing tattered gray robes over black pants sits on a 2-foot-tall toadstool. Her long black hair is tied back with a swatch of gray cloth that matches her robe. A quasit in toad form sits on her knee
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
remarks, “I’m sure I’m right but go get a visual to confirm.” Tarto hands you back the sending stone. “Just in case. Now go stretch them legs.”
The characters need to head down to the Hollow Deck of
the tyrant ship to get a good view of what’s slowed them down. As they climb down the rope ladders, they pass through the tyrant ship’s gravity plane before getting a good vantage point at the edge of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
pitons, rope, and a successful DC 15 Strength (Athletics) check for every 100 feet climbed. On a failed check, a character falls 50 feet before they’re caught by their climbing rope, taking 17 (5d6
) bludgeoning damage from the fall. Each cave is empty except for a ventilation shaft in its back wall. Both shafts are 20 feet wide, 20 feet tall, and made of smooth limestone. The east ventilation
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
climb or crawl down the slope. Failure indicates that the character tumbles 40 feet down the slope, taking 9 (2d8) bludgeoning damage. Characters using a rope to descend the slope can do so safely. Dragon
against Frightful Presence likely flee back into the woods, where spiders might be waiting. On the dragon’s next turn, it retreats back to area 2 to await the heroes’ next move.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
climb or crawl down the slope. Failure indicates that the character tumbles 40 feet down the slope, taking 9 (2d8) bludgeoning damage. Characters using a rope to descend the slope can do so safely. Dragon
against Frightful Presence likely flee back into the woods, where spiders might be waiting. On the dragon’s next turn, it retreats back to area 2 to await the heroes’ next move.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
, Ilvara is obsessed enough to cast raise dead to restore them to life (assuming the character’s soul is willing to return). Captured characters are disarmed, their hands bound with spider-silk rope, and
gagged. The drow march them back to Velkynvelve unless Menzoberranzan is closer, in which case Ilvara takes them there instead. The characters will need to come up with a new plan of escape, ideally
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
. The moaning is only the wind. Characters who examine the ceiling can, with a successful DC 20 Wisdom (Perception) check, spot pulleys and a rope that run the full length of the corridor along the
arms and clawed fingers are outstretched in a threatening manner. The mannequin is attached to a rope that runs through pulleys fastened along the length of the hallway ceiling. When one or more
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
sinkhole. Lady Dre decides to stay and figure out a way to get the wagon unstuck—she has rope in the back that might prove helpful. She insists the characters go on ahead. Proclaimer Ward stays to help Lady Dre if they’re both with the party.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
railings. A stone bridge spans the river, ending before an oaken door set into the gatehouse’s outer wall. Mounted next to the door is a bell with a short rope hanging from its clapper.
If the
characters announce their arrival by ringing the bell or yelling over the walls, Corwin makes his way over to assess them from the gatehouse, slides back the heavy wooden bar securing the outside door
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
is a man, flabby and stout of build, in tight-fitting leather armor. His boots are bound with rope just below the pulley, his fleshy hands are tied behind his back, and his head is underwater. He
the cell, enclosed in rusted plate armor. The dwarf’s nonmagical but usable battleaxe lies nearby. K75e. Empty Cell This cell contains nothing of interest. K75f. Dead Wizard Shackled to the back wall
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
from the hanging guard tower across the rope bridge, visible through the locked gate. The cell has some sort of antimagic effect on it (see area 11 for details). Jorlan the drow warrior suffered
Shoor carries it, as another sign of their change in status. It might be a matter of days or tendays before a contingent from Menzoberranzan arrives to take prisoners back to the drow city. Additionally
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Stranger Things
Lair of the Thessalhydra When the characters step out of an oversized flower (like the one they stepped into in the Upside Down), they are back in the Material Plane — home. In fact, they are pretty
don’t bother them, they won’t bother the characters. Area 3. There’s a 20-foot-wide pit. It takes a successful DC 12 Strength (Athletics) check to jump across. Failing a jump without a safety rope tied
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
27. Hidden Demiplane Bas-Relief. Carved into the back wall of this alcove is a shallow niche containing a bas-relief sculpture of a nude, heavyset man playing a harp (see below).
Half a Pole. Lying
transported to a demiplane (see “Demiplane” below). Any nonmagical object anchoring the character to the Material Plane, such as a rope or a pole held by another creature, is sheared or snapped off
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
2. Entrance from the Village Hall Hidden beneath the planks in the back corner of the village hall, this entrance to the ice caves consists of a chute carved with icy stairs descending 100 feet in a
baskets with the pulley and rope in the village hall. This chamber is empty except for three bundles of rolled sealskins sitting where the ladder descends from the chute above to the approximate center
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
a central column of rock before traveling back up. This column supports the cavern’s 30-foot-high roof. The cavern also has these features: Double Door. A double door is framed with carvings of worm
the deepest arm of this otherwise empty cave. A search reveals three backpacks made of woven spiderwebs. Each pack contains a mess kit, 10 days of rations (dried mushrooms, moss, and boiled cockatrice eggs), 50 feet of spider silk rope, and a full water skin made from a lizard’s bladder.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
2. Entrance from the Village Hall Hidden beneath the planks in the back corner of the village hall, this entrance to the ice caves consists of a chute carved with icy stairs descending 100 feet in a
baskets with the pulley and rope in the village hall. This chamber is empty except for three bundles of rolled-up sealskins sitting where the ladder descends from the chute above to the approximate
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Z2. Storage Closet The door to this back room hangs loosely on broken hinges. The cramped chamber beyond smells strongly of sour fish and vinegar. It is filled with discarded ropes, canvas tarpaulins
, and splintered wood from smashed barrels. Renaer Neverember (see appendix B) is hiding here, having slipped free of his rope bonds. The characters can hear his ragged breathing coming from under a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
. M6. Bucket Lift A wooden pulley system has been constructed around a large hole in the floor. A bucket big enough to hold a humanoid is held up by thick rope. Three alcoves next to the lift contain
pulley system. The bucket can hold one Medium creature or two Small creatures at a time. It runs from here to area M7, 15 feet farther down, and back again. It takes 1 minute for the bucket to be lowered
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
” — hollowed-out stalactites connected by walkways, stairs, and rope bridges. The towers are concealed by the thick webs of giant spiders stretched below them, so that only the lowermost parts of the stalactites
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Stairs. These 5-foot-wide stairs are carved into the stone sides of the cavern between several of the cave entrances.
Bridges. Bridges of spider-silk rope connect the walkways to the guard tower