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Player’s Handbook
You touch a rope. One end of it hovers upward until the rope hangs perpendicular to the ground or the rope reaches a ceiling. At the rope’s upper end, an Invisible 3-foot-by-5-foot portal opens
smaller creatures. Attacks, spells, and other effects can’t pass into or out of the space, but creatures inside it can see through the portal. Anything inside the space drops out when the spell ends.
Human
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build cities to last for the ages, and great kingdoms that can persist for long centuries. An individual human might have a relatively short life span, but a human nation or culture preserves
head on the ceiling—good food and good stories in front of a nice, warm fire. If halflings had a shred of ambition, they might really amount to something.”
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Ancient Deep Dragon
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
attached to their front legs and can fold in close to the body, allowing deep dragons to easily maneuver through relatively narrow tunnels.
Deep dragons often hoard secrets, delighting in knowledge of
or ambush visitors if the need arises. A well-cultivated lair abounds with Underdark fungi and plants, with the floor, walls, and ceiling covered in carpets of mold and moss, or featuring larger
Adult Deep Dragon
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attached to their front legs and can fold in close to the body, allowing deep dragons to easily maneuver through relatively narrow tunnels.
Deep dragons often hoard secrets, delighting in knowledge
that allow them to escape or ambush visitors if the need arises. A well-cultivated lair abounds with Underdark fungi and plants, with the floor, walls, and ceiling covered in carpets of mold and moss
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
weapon the target is carrying or wearing takes a permanent −1 penalty to damage rolls. The penalty worsens each time a target is subjected to this effect. If the penalty on an object drops to
of the following lair actions; it can’t take the same lair action two rounds in a row:
Green Slime. A green slime (see the Dungeon Master’s Guide) appears on a spot on the ceiling that
Juiblex
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Out of the Abyss
a permanent −1 penalty to damage rolls. The penalty worsens each time a target is subjected to this effect. If the penalty on an object drops to −5, the object is destroyed.Juiblex can
Guide) appears on a spot on the ceiling that Juiblex chooses within the lair. The slime disintegrates after 1 hour.
Regional Effects
The region containing Juiblex’s lair is warped by its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
the ceiling can avoid piercer drops by steering clear of the stalactite formations, and attempts to do so are automatically successful. If no such attempts are made, a single piercer drops on the
first light-carrying creature to cross the cavern. Whether it hits or misses, this piercer can’t attack again until it makes the long, slow climb back to the cavern ceiling. After the first piercer drops, avoiding the cavern’s stalactite formations becomes a simple matter.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
K81. Tunnel This tunnel is cut into the Pillarstone of Ravenloft itself. Its surface is slick, and its ceiling is barely 6 feet high. A lingering fog limits visibility to a few feet. Characters who
have knowledge of stonecutting can tell that this passage is a relatively new construction compared to other areas of Ravenloft. The tunnel is 120 feet long, with a stone door at its eastern end. Near
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Arriving at the Grove While many passages lead to Neverlight Grove, most are little more than narrow fissures riven by trickles of water. Only one natural tunnel is fit for relatively easy travel by
every surface — including the ceiling — and illuminates the darkness with brilliantly colorful bioluminescent patterns. On the other side of this exotic forest, the cavern narrows into a ravine. In a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
rope hangs perpendicular to the ground or the rope reaches a ceiling. At the rope’s upper end, an Invisible 3-foot-by-5-foot portal opens to an extradimensional space that lasts until the spell ends
into or out of the space, but creatures inside it can see through the portal. Anything inside the space drops out when the spell ends.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
1. Boxed In As the characters make their way through a 10-foot-high tubular passage, a tremor shakes the area and drops part of the ceiling on them. Each party member must succeed on a DC 13
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
rope hangs perpendicular to the ground or the rope reaches a ceiling. At the rope’s upper end, an Invisible 3-foot-by-5-foot portal opens to an extradimensional space that lasts until the spell ends
into or out of the space, but creatures inside it can see through the portal. Anything inside the space drops out when the spell ends.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Borderlands Quest: Goblin Trouble
the ceiling all along this area. The webs are flammable. Burning them up drops the dead spiders entangled within them. Entangled Spiders. Characters who inspect the ceiling can make a DC 12 Wisdom
for several minutes before the passage turns north and leads up a set of natural stone steps. A group of caverns continues out ahead of you.
The ceiling of these caverns is choked with webs, and the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
buried under a patch of buttery mold. A brass key hangs around its neck.
A patch of green slime (see chapter 5 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide) clings to the ceiling above the entrance and drops on the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
T3. Cage Trap If the party continues east along the tunnel past area T2, they walk into a trap. Read the following text only if a character examines the ceiling: The ceiling consists of square stone
continues down the passage.
Ten iron cages are suspended from chains over the hallway, and the “panels” are the cage bottoms. The true ceiling is 25 feet high, and each cage hangs from 5 feet of heavy
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
relatively regular dimensions. They are known for their unusual rock formations and abundant patches of fungi, and for being suffused with faerzress (see chapter 2). There are currently two factions
features are prevalent throughout the Whorlstone Tunnels.
Ceilings and Floors. The average ceiling height is 50 feet, dropping to 25 feet in narrow tunnels.
Narrow Tunnels. The narrowest tunnels are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
23. Time Chamber Two massive hourglasses occupy this irregularly shaped chamber. Their glass globes are nearly fifteen feet across, with each hourglass rising almost to the ceiling thirty feet
sand of each hourglass. An hourglass has AC 5, 25 hit points, and vulnerability to bludgeoning and thunder damage. An hourglass that drops to 0 hit points shatters, spilling its sand onto the floor
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
6. Frog Lake Pharblex and the bullywugs raise giant frogs in this water-filled cavern. The ceiling arches 30 feet overhead. The floor of the pool drops off suddenly from the shore, with the water
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
yawning pit in the floor that twists down into darkness, and above which a heavy iron hook is anchored in the ice of the ceiling. A five-foot-wide walkway extends around both sides of the pit, connecting
portion of the wall crumbles, and any creature on the walkway must attempt a DC 17 Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the creature is pushed off the walkway into the chute. The chute drops 60
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
6. Frog Lake Pharblex and the bullywugs raise giant frogs in this water-filled cavern. The ceiling arches 30 feet overhead. The floor of the pool drops off suddenly from the shore, with the water
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
yawning pit in the floor that twists down into darkness, and above which a heavy iron hook is anchored in the ice of the ceiling. A five-foot-wide walkway extends around both sides of the pit, connecting
portion of the wall crumbles, and any creature on the walkway must attempt a DC 17 Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the creature is pushed off the walkway into the chute. The chute drops 60
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
23. Time Chamber Two massive hourglasses occupy this irregularly shaped chamber. Their glass globes are nearly fifteen feet across, with each hourglass rising almost to the ceiling thirty feet
sand of each hourglass. An hourglass has AC 5, 25 hit points, and vulnerability to bludgeoning and thunder damage. An hourglass that drops to 0 hit points shatters, spilling its sand onto the floor
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
stabilizes gravity so that creatures stand upright even though the city rests at an angle. This enchantment extends over the enclave in a hemisphere whose ceiling is 800 feet high. Humanoids who
otherwise turn against the victim. Whenever it finishes a long rest, an infected humanoid must repeat the saving throw. On a successful save, the DC for future saves against the arcane blight drops by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
. Then it drops from the ceiling and unfurls, surrounding itself with magical darkness as it engulfs and crushes its prey. Darkmantles are found throughout the Underdark, but they are equally common on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
weapons lie in the wet muck. (Characters forced to fight here can easily recover serviceable melee weapons from the muck and detritus.)
15b. Naga Thrones The north side of the ledge drops away 20
Thrall. Agorra Duskaxe, a female duergar, stands guard just inside the entrance.
Steamer. Water dripping from a crack in the ceiling falls into a cylindrical metal contraption at the center of the cave
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
. The goblins have turned a human skeleton into a marionette and dangled it from ropes attached to the ceiling so that they can make it dance around the room. The goblins chant “Nimraith! Nimraith
surprised. When a bugbear drops to 0 hit points, the intellect devourer inhabiting its skull teleports away to seek a new host. This nonmagical statue has broken into seventeen fist-sized chunks of black
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Constitution saving throw; on a failed save, the creature drops to 0 hit points and is dying. After revealing its ghastly visage, the skull-faced Halaster then turns back around so that only its hair is
who search the rubble at the end of the tunnel find a mostly buried dwarf skeleton with shiny gauntlets and a rusty warhammer. Treasure. The dwarf was an adventurer who was killed when the ceiling
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
occurrence and wet fog a nightly event. As a result, all wood in the place is very damp and difficult to set aflame. Ceilings. Ceiling height varies from about 16 feet at the edges to 32 feet at the center
relatively easy to find due to the crude construction of the place. It requires a successful DC 12 Wisdom (Perception) check to find such a door. Random Encounters On the upper level of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
) The following locations are keyed to map 5.2. Stacey Allan & William Doyle Map 5.2: Maze of Mists View Player Version P13: Welcome Room This octagonal room has a domed ceiling and smells faintly of
magnetic trap within the chamber’s ceiling. Each creature in the room wearing metal armor is pulled up to the 30-foot-high ceiling, as are any metal objects or weapons that aren’t being worn or carried
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
supports keeping an unstable section of a ceiling in place. The trip wire is 3 inches off the ground and stretches between two support beams. The DC to spot the trip wire is 10. A successful DC 15
, the trap triggers. Anyone who inspects the beams can easily determine that they are merely wedged in place. As an action, a character can knock over a beam, causing the trap to trigger. The ceiling
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
5. Trapped Corridor A moss-covered corridor extends beyond the second door. Tree roots hang from the sagging ceiling, and the air reeks of rot and damp. Ahead, a bas-relief carving of a bearded
more. Any creature that passes through the hatch drops into the sluggish underground river, which flows toward area 17.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
blast out of this cramped cell. The walls are scribed with relief carvings showing volcanoes setting cities ablaze. Rows of tiny holes are bored into the floor and the ten-foot-high ceiling. A human
the cells or die trying. A wedge, spike, or similar object can be used to prevent the door from closing. Lava Trap. Molten lava begins pouring from the tiny holes in the ceiling as soon as any
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
. The chamber that opens at the bottom of the stairs is immense. A wide ledge runs along the left wall and drops away to a pit on the right. Many stalactites descend from the ceiling, and the sound of
them, or drops them 20 feet to the guard drakes. If all else fails, the kobolds scramble up their makeshift ladder and attack with their shortswords. Glue Bomb. Each creature within 10 feet of the bomb’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
. The chamber that opens at the bottom of the stairs is immense. A wide ledge runs along the left wall and drops away to a pit on the right. Many stalactites descend from the ceiling, and the sound of
other two toss fire bombs. They do the same thing on the next round. Then they wait a round or two, if possible, while the roper in area 10A drags characters into its tentacles, bites them, or drops them
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
center and 10-foot-high ledges along its walls. Water drips from the stalactite-covered ceiling, which rises to a height of 30 feet in the middle of the cavern. Six naturally formed tunnels lead from
this central cavern to other parts of the cave complex. The floor is littered with broken spears, broken shields, and drops of bat guano. Characters who peer into the cave can see a male ogre bathing in






