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Monsters
Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
), detect evil and good, fireball, invisibility (self only), wall of fire
3/day each: blade barrier, dispel evil and good, finger of death
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Zariel fails a saving throw
of all kinds crawl over the structure, ensuring that no intruders breach their defenses.
Lair Actions. On initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), Zariel can take a lair action to cause one of
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
conjecture than fact, often referring to otherworldly beings, the mysterious Barrier Peaks in Oerth, and the supposedly related device known as the Machine of Lum the Mad. The best details on the device
soul of the mighty warlord Leuk-o was drawn into the artifact and has become its animating force. The servant has been known to attack or move of its own accord, particularly if doing so will cause
Magic Items
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
defense against the axe, which passes through that spell’s barrier of magical force.
When you hit a fiend or an undead with the axe, cold blue flames erupt from its blade and deal an extra 2d6
regains all expended charges daily at dawn.
Illumination. While holding the axe, you can use an action to cause the axe to glow blue or to quench the glow. This glow sheds bright light in a 30-foot
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
2/day: Mass Cure Wounds (cast at 8th level)
1/day each: Blade Barrier, Divination, Greater RestorationThe medusa can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. It can take only one
with advantage.Sometimes deeply devout people, usually either Humanoids or medusas, dedicate themselves to a cause and are transformed by a deity or magic into hierophant medusas—beings with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
Barrier Peaks. His studies of an ancient, crashed planar craft set him on a path that might have seen him rival Ioun and Heward — until his experiments overtook him, and he became lost to the ages
. All that’s left of his legacy is a single example of his earliest work — the apparatus of Kwalish that is the only way most folk now know his name. It was Kwalish’s foray into the Barrier Peaks that set
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
befriended them with a few sweet fruits and brought them back to the night market. He now bribes his invisible friends with fruit to cause disruptions around Tyenmo Noodles and Xungoon Family Seafood. He
character who succeeds on a DC 14 Wisdom (Insight) check realizes Kasem is trying to keep them from getting involved in market politics. If confronted about this, Kasem insists he just wants them to have a delightful time at the market and departs soon after.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
spy stat block), members of a group called the Ashen Heirs, have interrupted the festivities to antagonize the Brightguard. As they do so, their attempts to stand atop stalls cause booths and tents to
. A character who succeeds on a subsequent DC 14 Intelligence (Nature) check realizes something is burrowing under the square.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
addition, the winds cause creatures in the room to suffer disadvantage on all Strength-based skill checks, including checks made to jump to and from the floating platforms and checks made to climb the
walls. Statue Any character who succeeds on a DC 15 Intelligence (Arcana) check realizes that the statue depicts a nycaloth. A detect magic spell or similar effect reveals auras of transmutation magic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
. The others rest in a state of contemplation, waiting for the time when their services are needed to stave off some cosmic threat to the cause of good. Solar
Large celestial, lawful good
Armor
, invisibility (self only)
3/day each: blade barrier, dispel evil and good, resurrection
1/day each: commune, control weather
Magic Resistance. The solar has advantage on saving throws against spells
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
made with this magic weapon. The shield spell provides no defense against the axe, which passes through that spell’s barrier of magical force. When you hit a fiend or an undead with the axe, cold blue
your feet in your space (as you choose). The axe regains all expended charges daily at dawn. Illumination. While holding the axe, you can use an action to cause the axe to glow blue or to quench the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
no farther falls to the floor inside the curtain. Spell effects that would not reasonably pass through the watery curtain are stopped by the barrier as though it were a solid wall. For example, a magic
missile spell could pass through the curtain to hit creatures on the far side of it, but the explosion from a fireball spell would not get through the barrier. A creature that passes through a watery
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
of unstoppable destruction. Tales of the servant’s origins involve more conjecture than fact, often referring to otherworldly beings, the mysterious Barrier Peaks in Oerth, and the supposedly related
if doing so will cause destruction. Once every 24 hours, the servant, at the DM’s discretion, takes one action while uncrewed. If the servant loses half of its hit points or more, each creature
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
creature is pushed to one side of the barrier or the other (its choice). On a failed save, the creature is pinned under the wall, falls prone, and takes 44 (8d10) bludgeoning damage. A pinned creature is
characters activate the telepathic link, the first thought the aboleth sends is an exasperated, “What now, Gorra?” Once the aboleth realizes it’s telepathically linked to strangers, it wants to know all about
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Hierophant Medusa Sometimes deeply devout people, usually either Humanoids or medusas, dedicate themselves to a cause and are transformed by a deity or magic into hierophant medusas—beings with
, Thaumaturgy
2/day: Mass Cure Wounds (cast at 8th level)
1/day each: Blade Barrier, Divination, Greater Restoration
Bonus Actions
Petrifying Gaze (Recharge 4–6). The medusa unleashes petrifying
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
group. Any character who later spends at least 15 minutes investigating Kedjou’s notes can make a DC 14 Intelligence (Arcana or Religion) check. If the check succeeds, the character realizes the
priest is investigating how to summon powerful creatures and cause them to linger for longer than usual. Pushing Kedjou Characters might challenge Kedjou on his animosity toward Prince Simbon or question
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
throat from which the intellect snares emerged. N2: Throat The great creature’s throat is an organic passage 10 feet in diameter. A distant pulse thrums through the floor, and contractions cause the
requires the following steps: Dangerous Reaction. A character who succeeds on a DC 10 Wisdom (Medicine) or Intelligence (Nature) check realizes that destroying the membrane entirely would force the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
walls, not targeting anyone or anything specifically but looking to cause widespread panic. As townsfolk take cover, Drufi and her two giant bodyguards try to break down the southwest gate and fight their
way inside. While this is happening, a young man named Sirac at the House of the Triad learns what the giants are after and realizes he might be able to save the town. Defense of Bryn Shander The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
openings overlook the snow-covered grounds outside the stronghold.
Unless she has cause to leave the overlook and raise the drawbridge in area O2, a duergar named Urthhild stands guard here, stamping
on a DC 12 Dexterity saving throw or take 7 (2d6) piercing damage from the spikes and be restrained until the spikes are retracted or the barrier is destroyed. The spikes can be retracted only by
Magic Items
Infernal Machine Rebuild
known today. However, its true origins derive from a planar craft that crashed in the Barrier Peaks, for the Infernal Machine once functioned as this craft’s central command console.
Explorers who
preventing it from restoring itself if it is attacked. Alternatively, other combinations of controls might cause the Infernal Machine to teleport its most critical components to some hiding place deep in space
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
can take a lair action to cause one of the following effects; she can’t use the same effect two rounds in a row: Zariel casts major image four times at its lowest level, targeting different areas with
self (can become Medium when changing her appearance), detect evil and good, fireball, invisibility (self only), wall of fire
3/day each: blade barrier, dispel evil and good, finger of death
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
step. The maelephants (see Morte’s Planar Parade) of the Wall Watch patrol Curst’s perimeter: a high, corroded barrier lined with saw-toothed barbs and search towers. The elephantine warders turn their
. Beneath their placid veneer, however, some prisoners seek to cause ruin and strife, such as the conniving burgomaster, who shelters secrets of his own. Others just want to be left alone. CoupleOfKooks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
the gala. If one or more characters are spotted in a restricted area or cause a public incident, a guard approaches them. Roll on the Museum Guards table to determine which guard arrives. Characters in
Intelligence (Arcana) check. If the check is successful, the character realizes the statues can animate. Gemstone Wing. If the characters don’t carefully remove the Murkmire Stone from its pedestal in area V13
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
barrier, which is immune to all damage and can’t be dispelled by dispel magic. The barrier also extends into the Ethereal Plane, blocking ethereal travel. Any creature that touches the barrier for the
first time on a turn takes 40 (9d8) lightning damage. When the barrier appears, read: The shimmering head and shoulders of a woman blink into existence above the arena floor. Electrical currents course
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
approach too close, however, lest you stumble into the invisible barrier — a “force cage,” I am told — that surrounds the tower. Within that barrier lie additional protective wards, as demonstrated by the
own. The gods were once more cast into the mortal realm, this time embodied in mortal beings known as Chosen. The old troublemaker Ao seems to be the cause of it all, though why he chose to cast down
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
parley with the dragon, she agrees to let them live in exchange for returning her eggs to her. Isendraug doesn’t gain lair actions and can’t cause regional effects in the vicinity of her lair
map and succeeds on a DC 10 Intelligence (History) check realizes that it depicts a stretch of the Sword Coast encompassing the islands of Red Rocks, midway between Leilon and Waterdeep. An “X” marks a
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
.
Scroll of the Comet Scroll, legendary
By using an action to read the scroll, you cause a comet to fall from the sky and crash to the ground at a point you can see up to 1 mile away from you. You
. The Ythryn mythallar’s properties are as follows:
While you’re on the same plane of existence as the Ythryn mythallar, you can use an action to cause it to fly in any direction you choose at a speed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
leading down to area Y19j. This barrier was created by a wall of force spell and is maintained by the glowing green crystal set above the doorway (see “Green Crystal” below). As long as this crystal
. Whenever a loud noise is made inside the chamber, the loose crystal flickers. Tremendously loud noises, such as those made by a thunderwave spell or a horn of blasting, cause the crystal to go out for 1d6
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
been here for years. Anyone who examined the thin, gray liquid in the cave entrance realizes that the white powder is residue from this liquid. The corpses are Cyran soldiers who were instantly killed
magical barrier is active, the view port’s crystal is immune to damage. The ceiling is 30 feet high. Broken Control Helmet. The silver helmet once created a magical link between its wearer and the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
imp is perched on the southeast fountain. If the characters look as though they intend to cause trouble, the imp observes them quietly until they enter the bathhouse, then flies to Vanthampur Villa in
realizes that the stench is an indicator of flammable gas in the room. This gas disperses before reaching other areas of the dungeon, and the Dead Three cultists extinguish their torches before moving
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
inspecting the bookshelf spots the fake book with a successful DC 13 Intelligence (Investigation) check. Unless the secret door is propped open, springs in the hinges cause it to close on its own. Beyond the
: Stairs Down Any character standing at the top of this 20-foot-long staircase realizes the chants originate from somewhere below. Characters who descend the stairs and follow the hall beyond arrive in area
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
succeeds on a DC 20 Wisdom (Insight) check realizes that the siege is a ruse to draw attention away from the village’s east gate, where the real attack is taking place. A while back, Worvil Forkbeard told
. Soldiers patrolling the Rauvin Road on horseback are welcome to use the keep as a place where they can rest as well as obtain food, drink, and lodging for their horses. Characters who take up Urgala Meltimer’s quest (see chapter 2) might have cause to pay a visit to Zymorven Hall.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
servants, the butler and his wife’s lady-in-waiting, have vanished without a trace in the past week, so he has good cause to be worried. The baron believes that everyone else is beneath him, and those
to 0 hit points, the creature is disintegrated. Any character who studies the circle and succeeds on a DC 15 Intelligence (Arcana) check realizes that Victor’s circle is horribly flawed and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
lizardfolk worked for free. That threat was the cause of the altercation the characters witnessed. The characters might easily recognize that this situation is a prime business opportunity. If not
sell for 50 gp, but which is worth 100 gp in Waterdeep. More importantly, any character with herbalist or alchemist experience realizes that the algae can be mixed with other reagents costing 150 gp to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
check, the character realizes that the emotion is artificial and illusory. Creatures. When the characters first enter this area, the eight four-armed gargoyles are true statues. After a door other than
pillars, their seemingly dead eyes open wide as if in a state of intense focus.
Silver Pillars. Exuding enchantment magic that dulls will and perception, the silver pillars cause any creature in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
that form the beanstalk’s base.
The tower above is area P51. Zybilna’s quasit, Iggrik, used a potion from his mistress’s laboratory (area P42) to grow the beanstalk and cause the tower to be lifted to
in the middle of this room, its wings partially outstretched. A wall of iron bars stretching from floor to ceiling forms a protective barrier around the chamber’s entrance, keeping visitors separated