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Lich
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, detect thoughts, invisibility, mirror image
3rd level (3 slots): animate dead, counterspell, dispel magic, fireball
4th level (3 slots): blight, dimension door
5th level (3 slots): cloudkill, scrying
see within 30 feet of it. A crackling cord of negative energy tethers the lich to the target. Whenever the lich takes damage, the target must make a DC 18 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save
Valindra Shadowmantle
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Tomb of Annihilation
3rd level (3 slots): animate dead, counterspell, dispel magic, fireball
4th level (3 slots): blight, dimension door
5th level (3 slots): cloudkill, scrying
6th level (1 slot): disintegrate, globe
slots of that level or lower, nothing happens.
The lich targets one creature it can see within 30 feet of it. A crackling cord of negative energy tethers the lich to the target. Whenever the lich takes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
faculty members ask about any strangeness (or missing possessions) in the Deans’ Wing. If Dean Tullus was killed, the masters of Strixhaven cast raise dead to restore her to life. She quickly realizes what
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Shadow of Soth Lord Soth has brought the Cataclysmic flame from beneath Castle Kalaman to the ruins. In chapter 7, characters encounter the fruit of Soth’s efforts to reanimate dead dragons
troops. On the temple’s roof, a figure holds aloft a scepter crackling with familiar violet flame. A moment later, a skeletal dragon scales the temple and unleashes a screech that echoes across the city
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Netheril’s Fall: Tales of Terror, Treasure, and Time Travel
(Arcana or Investigation) check. On a successful check, the character realizes the signs of a nearby time gate. Spellcasters can also seek knowledge about the time gate and where it leads by casting
spells such as Commune with Nature, Speak with Animals, or Speak with Dead. Severe Temporal Effects The closer characters come to a time gate, the stronger its temporal magic swirls, creating even more
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
wagon. The author describes rough roads, days of travel through impenetrable mist and thick forest, crackling fires on cold nights, wolves howling in the dead of night, and ravens pecking at the roof of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
apprentice of Jakarion, the dead wizard in area X17. After the flameskulls there incinerated his master, the wounded Vilnius retreated here. He eats vermin to survive. The amber golem has been
patrolling the hallway outside (area X8), and Vilnius won’t leave this room until he knows the golem has been destroyed. Vilnius is a greedy, treacherous coward. He curses his dead master for leading them
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
spoken in her dead friend Culley’s voice. Kianna shares that she blames herself for Culley’s death at Cradlelace Lake, and when she heard his voice, she thought the gods might be giving her a chance
character who succeeds on a DC 18 Wisdom (Insight or Medicine) check recognizes Kianna is no longer suffering any supernatural effects, but the character also suspects her experiences might have affected her more deeply than she realizes.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
the stone for herself. She now realizes that decision was a mistake. Grinda tells the characters that she gave the stone to her rat familiar and told the creature to stash it in her family’s mausoleum
in the City of the Dead. The mage gives the characters directions to the site and a key to the mausoleum. (They won’t need the key, since the mausoleum is open when they arrive.) Spy in the Sky As the
Kobold
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
lay up to six eggs per year, and an egg matures for two to three months before it hatches.
Kobolds don’t engage in funeral ceremonies; a dead kobold’s body is burned or disposed of in
neighboring tribes that want exclusive claim to a flock of mountain goats might skirmish with each other every few days. Eventually the leader of one warring tribe realizes it is losing due to attrition and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
a few feet away. Maggots feast on the rotting remains.
Any character who succeeds on a DC 15 Intelligence (Religion) check realizes that the hand shape on the back wall resembles the symbol of Torm
Torm can be questioned using speak with dead. Having succumbed to Fazrian’s blood lust, Brythia wishes only to see the planetar redeemed. Treasure The mace is a mace of smiting that belonged to Brythia
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
the keep can stay overnight.” (False)
Inn Features The inn has the following features:
Common Room. The common sleeping area is a large, open room with a handful of stiff cots and a crackling
character who rents a cot. On a 1, the character finds a dead bug on their pillow.
Rent a Room. A private room costs 5 GP per night. Roll 1d4 for each character who rents a room. On a 4, the character finds 1 GP under their mattress. Alejandro Pacheco The Inn’s Call Bell
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
substance formed in sperm whales’ stomachs and typically harvested from a dead whale’s remains. Although it smells foul when initially exposed to air, the scent grows sweet over time. As such, ambergris
Angajuk’s Bell. Scaring him off requires a successful DC 17 Charisma (Intimidation) group check, since he’s dead set on getting his ambergris. If the party’s group check succeeds, Jendren and his fellow
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fated Flight of the Recluse
opens one of the crates, revealing a rack of delicate vials of thin green liquid, which he declares the “essence of intuition.” The rack is a yet another ruse, however; if removed, the remains of a dead
has been in the business of tracking such things for many years. While Kreffik resists the characters’ attempts to disrupt the shipment, he realizes that stopping the characters from disrupting his
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
. Roleplaying Coal After the Daask attack, Coal realizes she mistook the characters for assassins and apologizes. The warforged is soft-spoken and mild-mannered. If the characters ask her about Razor, she
information, Coal encourages the characters to question Alden d’Orien. The warforged then leaves Sharn, believing she is no longer safe in the city. Dead Coal If Coal dies at the hands of Daask
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
leads back to Atagua.
A character who investigates the walls and succeeds on a DC 16 Intelligence (Investigation or Nature) check realizes they’re inside some gigantic creature, though it doesn’t seem
the Hammock of Worlds. D2: Dead End This short tunnel ends in a wall of pallid meat, devoid of the thick chitin covering the other walls.
If a creature approaches what appears to be the tunnel’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
creature accusingly for a moment. This effect is unnerving but harmless. An eye closes and disappears if it takes any damage. L2: Views of Madness Ten stone rods protrude from the back wall of this dead
feeblemind spell (save DC 18). Regardless of the result of this saving throw, the viewer realizes that a tiny, dark hole at the pool’s bottom is a powerful gate to a deeper place in the Far Realm. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Zhentarim The Doom Raiders try to contact evil-aligned or morally ambiguous characters. A flying snake with a parchment tied about its body visits one character in the dead of night. The message
characters want to speak with Tashlyn directly, Yagra can arrange a meeting in the City of the Dead or some other quiet place. By the time the characters see her, Tashlyn has learned the following
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Domains of Dread, its spirit becomes caught in the Mists and can’t travel to the afterlife. If a creature who has been dead for at least 24 hours returns to life by way of a spell or other
supernatural means, it realizes that its spirit is trapped within the Mists, likely forever. Using the rules for “Fear and Stress” from chapter 4, the creature gains a new Seed of Fear. If a being with a soul
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
tiefling says. “I’m Colcook, your concierge. If there’s anything I can do to make your stay more comfortable, please let me know.”
The portal from Fortune’s Wheel connects to the hollow skull of a dead
. Fiend’s Ante. A crackling crimson portal leads to area P4. Shemeshka’s Portal. An unopened, golden portal stands in an empty alcove to the north. This portal leads to Shemeshka’s refuge. This portal can’t
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
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The governor, all of Kalaman’s council members, and six castle guards lie dead here. They are beyond the aid of a revivify spell. The man here is Caradoc (see appendix B), an Undead spirit who has been
possessed. Now, he delights in jumping from body to body, using and disposing of the living as he pleases. Personality Trait. “I might be dead, but there’s no reason I can’t live it up a little.” Ideal
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
down through cracks in the sagging ceiling. Halaster converted this tomb for the elven dead into a series of test chambers that now lie abandoned. 26a. Do Not Feed the Owlbears! Owlbears. Two owlbears
the elf’s chest. The cat is part of the lid’s carving, not a separate sculpture. A character who inspects the sarcophagus closely and succeeds on a DC 17 Wisdom (Perception) check realizes that it’s a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
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
, featuring smooth stone steps and brick walls. Two sputtering torches in wall sconces illuminate the staircase, but the dungeon below is dark.
Map 1.3: Dungeon of the Dead Three View Player Version
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
realizes that it’s not just Sarusanda’s body that’s hurt—her pride is badly wounded too. If unaided, Sarusanda gains 1 level of exhaustion, which she retains until she finishes a long rest outside
teeth chattering, “Occultists? How droll! A better question: where are your manners?”
Sarusanda uses Speak with Dead to commune with a preserved skull she found in this room. The skull belonged to a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
certainty: “The blue-cloaked gnat must be dead.” P4: Grotto It’s a 50-foot drop from the hole in area P2 to the floor of this underground chamber. Even during the day, the fetid grotto is dark
and his alignment is neutral good). When Riffel realizes he has company, he jumps to his feet and draws his spear, but he doesn’t fight unless attacked. He is initially wary of the characters but is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
up the scepter, but admits not knowing for certain that either is harmful. Shrewd Papazotl realizes that the throne is made from the bones of dead Omuans and the skull of Omu’s great minotaur champion
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
tower) and attack. Symbol. The symbol on the floor sheds dim orange light out to 5 feet. A character who sees the symbol and succeeds on a DC 16 Wisdom (Perception) check realizes it looks like an
drone fulfills this order to the best of its ability, and will attack until its target leaves the room or is dead. T6: City Overview In the middle of this room stands a three-foot-tall, circular metal
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
person, detect magic, dispel magic, hellish rebuke, invisibility, major image, speak with dead, suggestion
1/day each: banishment, demiplane, dominate person, fly, forcecage, geas, plane shift
inflicted upon her. Once he realizes that her intentions are benign, Mahadi pretends to be her friend once more.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
the check succeeds by 4 or more, the character pieces together the clues, if they haven’t done so already, and realizes that meenlocks created the moss-covered tunnels. M6. Chamber of Weeping Thick
this moss-covered maze of tunnels, luring them into dead-end caves using hallucinations (such as the sound of someone calling for help). M8. Pools This dead-end cavern opens wide, and the lingering
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
being distantly related to dragons. A female can lay up to six eggs per year, and an egg matures for two to three months before it hatches. Kobolds don’t engage in funeral ceremonies; a dead kobold’s
skirmish with each other every few days. Eventually the leader of one warring tribe realizes it is losing due to attrition and moves its tribe to another area, ceding the contested territory to its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
catches her scent on one of the characters if they’ve been in recent contact with her.
Free-Market Lizardfolk As the party skirts the Mere of Dead Men on the High Road, they come across a
lizardfolk being intimidated and harassed by an unscrupulous Zhentarim merchant and his bodyguards. This part of the High Road runs parallel to the Mere of Dead Men, a swamp full of dangers, pestilence, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
alarmed by this, his efforts to complete the spell growing more crazed as he realizes he’s lost control.
And then, madness! Rifts open in the web of energy around him. These cracks stretch and widen
flayers gather around an enormous brain resting in a pool. The brain is dead. You can hear the illithids’ incomprehensible thoughts as they mourn its passing. One word echoes louder than the others
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
) check hears distant chittering. Light. None. The sunken floor of this huge hall is covered in dead insects, their dried shells shifting and whispering in a faint breeze. Dozens of demonic faces are
filled completely with dead insects along with occasional bones, making it difficult terrain. Pit Traps. Scattered through the room, hidden beneath the blanket of insect bodies, are several pit traps
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
Mortuaries Red Wizards bind and reanimate dead flesh and bone in these halls. 86. Hall of Teleportation The walls of this massive hall are carved with reliefs of humanoid monarchs adorned with jeweled
unguents and bindings used in the creation of the golems. A character who succeeds on a DC 15 Intelligence (Arcana) check realizes that these materials, which weigh 10 pounds, are worth 1,500 gp. Glyph Key
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
sarcophagi contain nothing but dust and bones. The spirits of several dead members of the Cassalanter family are bound to this crypt. They manifest as three dark, vaporous specters plus a ghost that looks
floor, is a 3-foot-deep, 9-foot-diameter stone bowl filled with crackling flames. Three human cultists wearing red robes, devil masks, and wooden holy symbols of Asmodeus kneel before the statue