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. Human skin shades range from nearly black to very pale, and hair colors from black to blond (curly, kinky, or straight); males might sport facial hair that is sparse or thick. A lot of humans have a
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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Baphomet
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Out of the Abyss
minotaur—considered the greatest gift of the Prince of Beasts.
Baphomet himself appears as a great, black-furred minotaur, 20 feet tall with six iron horns. An infernal light burns in his red eyes
gravity reversal if he’s in the room, although he likes to use this action to land on a ceiling to attack targets flying near it.
Baphomet casts mirage arcane, affecting a room within the lair
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
horror, Juiblex is a mass of bubbling slime, swirling black and green, with glaring red eyes floating and shifting within it. It can rise up like a 20-foot hill, lashing out with dripping pseudopods 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
Adult Deep Dragon
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
nightmarish cousins of chromatic dragons. The warped magical energy of their subterranean realm gives them the ability to exhale magical spores that instill fear and scar the mind.
Deep dragons’ black
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
Ancient Deep Dragon
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
cousins of chromatic dragons. The warped magical energy of their subterranean realm gives them the ability to exhale magical spores that instill fear and scar the mind.
Deep dragons’ black-and
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
Juiblex
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Out of the Abyss
others of its kind. It exists only to consume, digesting and transforming living matter into more of itself.
A true horror, Juiblex is a mass of bubbling slime, swirling black and green, with glaring
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
adventurers and left here. Anyone who inspects the corpse discovers that the basilisk died from wounds consistent with weapon attacks and destructive spells. Two centipedes reside in the corpse. If the
Temple Ceiling. The ceiling is 60 feet high.
Petrified Creatures. Eleven lifelike statues in a variety of poses are clustered together in the south end of the room. (These statues are petrified
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
Najkir Monastery Joshua Raphael The Island Najkir The island Najkir is a rugged, egg-shaped island 6 miles wide and 10 miles long. Persistent fog shrouds much of the island, which has a black pebble
entering the cave and climbing to the monastery’s entrance. A pier allows small boats to dock near the entrance. The monastery has long been a retreat for folk seeking enlightenment. The monks who reside here are peaceful.
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
honored dead. People. The inhabitants of San Citlán typically have skin of light to medium brown, black hair, and dark eyes. Humans and dwarves are the most common folk in the city. A small number of
intelligent Undead known as olvidados (detailed below) also reside here and are fully accepted as citizens. Languages. The language of San Citlán is Citlanés, which is related to Tletlahtolli (the
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
K51. Closet This small, wood-paneled room reeks of mildew and has a ten-foot-high ceiling. Iron hooks line the walls, and a dusty black cloak hangs from one hook in the center of the south wall. The
cloak is ordinary. The witches in area K56 placed it here to help them remember which hook opens the secret trapdoor in the ceiling. The trapdoor can be found after a search of the room and a
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
X36. Lower West Hall Glistening amber coats the walls and ceiling of this enormous hall like sculpted honey, and dust covers the black marble floor. The vaulted ceiling is twenty-five feet high. Set
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
F2. Gatehouse A wooden ladder climbs to a trapdoor in the ceiling that grants access to the gatehouse’s 12-foot-high rooftop. A flagpole in the northeast corner of the roof sports a black banner with a silver falcon insignia.
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
1. Auvryndar Watch Post Ceiling. The concave ceiling of this cavern rises to a height of 20 feet.
Sentries. A female drow elite warrior named Ventrid Xil’talan leads six drow (two females and four
obsidian scarab engraved with the insignia of House Auvryndar (25 gp) and a spider-shaped crystal ring set with a black pearl (750 gp).
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in the middle of it. Friezes along each wall just beneath the ceiling depict five black dragons.
Gouts of acid are meant to rain down from the mouths of the dragon friezes whenever this room is
rotated by the controls in area 61, but the acid compartments in the ceiling are currently empty. Consequently, nothing happens when the room turns. Any character who can get close enough to the ceiling to examine the friezes notices tiny holes in the dragons’ mouths.
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
thick black mud. Ceiling Collapse. A tremor causes part of the ceiling to collapse above one random party member. If the party includes NPCs, be sure to count them as well. The target must succeed on a
them in his visions. The earth prophet gives descriptions of the characters to all cultists in the Black Geode. Ceilings. Cavern ceilings are 30 feet high, while tunnels are 15 feet high. Light. Most
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held high above its head to support the ceiling, forty feet above. A pair of fist-sized black crystals is fitted to the statue’s eyes. The perimeter statues, six in all, appear to resemble naked humans
. This allows the ceiling to slowly descend, clicking loudly.
If the sacred statue is destroyed the two black crystals explode, releasing two allips, as the eidolon is itself released from the
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
the middle of the room.
If the party enters from the west, add: Across the room is another door, this one blocked by a barricade made from the remains of a wooden table.
Five bugbears reside in
this chamber. They are loyal minions of Nezznar. This room marks the front line in the Black Spider’s assault on Wave Echo Cave, and the bugbears are here to prevent ghouls, zombies, or other undead from
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
K8. Great Entry Cobwebs stretch between the columns that support the vaulted ceiling of a great, dusty hall dimly lit by sputtering torches in iron sconces. The torches cast odd shadows across the
faces of eight stone gargoyles squatting motionlessly on the rim of the domed ceiling. Cracked and faded ceiling frescoes are covered by decay. Double doors of bronze stand closed to the east. To the
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
hole in the northwest corner wide enough to accommodate Large creatures. T2. Second Floor The tower’s amnizu commander and a chain devil subcommander reside here. These commanders enjoy having one or
chair is bolted to the floor. The chair’s armrests and legs are fitted with iron shackles.
One corner of the room has gaping holes in the floor and ceiling, through which passes a large iron ladder
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
X4. Overlook A twenty-foot-wide balcony of black marble with a shattered railing overlooks a vast temple. Black marble staircases at each end of the balcony descend thirty feet to the temple floor
. The vaulted ceiling is thirty feet above the balcony. The walls and ceiling are covered in an amber glaze, lending the gloom a golden sheen. A set of amber doors stands closed at the west end of the
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
to the third level. Characters are safe from falling as long as they stay on the landing or the steps. A trapdoor closes off the top of the stairs at the ceiling. The door is latched with a simple
(Perception) check. After the chalk mark is noticed, anyone who reads Dwarvish can correctly interpret it as a warning that powerful undead reside in the room beyond. Adventurers placed the rune here decades
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
area extends under area 22, as indicated on map 16. The rough-walled chamber contains the following: Warriors. Ten githyanki warriors (five females and five males) reside here. If they have not been
three rows of five in the narrower portion of the room. Six round tables, each encircled by five chairs, stand in the wider area.
Secret Trapdoor. A secret trapdoor in the 30-foot-high ceiling leads
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
to poison damage automatically succeed on this saving throw. A creature who succeeds on this saving throw is immune to the effects of the area’s toxic fumes for 24 hours. All creatures that reside in
Unless otherwise stated, room ceilings are 15 feet high and vaulted, and tunnel ceilings are 10 feet high and flat. Lighting Geometric grooves are carved into the outpost’s ceiling and walls. The
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
soon as it sees intruders.
Pillars. The four pillars that buttress the ceiling are carved out of black crystal and inscribed with arcane runes.
Lynnorax fights without fear, knowing that its
40. Lynnorax’s Lair Ceiling. This room has a 40-foot-high, domed ceiling.
Dracolich. Lynnorax, an adult blue dracolich, faces the double door to the east and exhales lightning in that direction as
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
T6. Hovering Stone The tunnel opens into a square room. In the center of it, a black rock about a foot across hovers three feet from the floor.
A normal rock floats here because of ancient magic
that maintains an invisible floor-to-ceiling cylinder that is 10 feet wide. Visible to detect magic (transmutation school), the column enables objects placed and left in it to float where released. The
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are twenty feet away from the tree trunk and pushing a wheelbarrow filled with bodies toward it.
Two black puddings reside within the hollow, petrified tree. Bak Mei uses these oozes to dispose of
your nose. Just off the path is a hollow, petrified tree trunk filled with a viscous black ooze. Black tendrils extrude from the ooze, reaching toward two figures clad in white robes. These figures
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
K27. King’s Hall This twenty-foot-high hall has a dark, vaulted ceiling draped with cobwebs. A low moan seems to travel the length of the corridor as it rises and falls, intoning sadness and despair
. 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
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
to the third level. Characters are safe from falling as long as they stay on the landing or the steps. A trapdoor closes off the top of the stairs at the ceiling. The door is latched with a simple
(Perception) check. After the chalk mark is noticed, anyone who reads Dwarvish can correctly interpret it as a warning that powerful undead reside in the room beyond. Adventurers placed the rune here decades
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
12. Ballroom Pillars and Ceiling. Ten pillars carved with friezes of drow warriors support the 50-foot-high arched ceiling, which is engraved with web-like patterns. Two pillars have toppled at the
far end of the hall.
Monsters. Two of Muiral’s arcane experiments (see below) huddle next to the rubble of the toppled pillars.
Floor. Dusty black marble tiles cover the floor, many of them cracked
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
X5. Temple of Lost Secrets Four black marble columns support the vaulted ceiling of the temple, at the north end of which stands a forty-foot-tall statue of a cowled figure in flowing robes. The
magic missile and fireball spells at characters they can see. The temple ceiling is 60 feet high. Wide, black marble staircases ascend 30 feet to the southern balcony (area X4). The balconies that flank
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searching for the ring and knew about its recent history. He suggested the formation of an alliance between Jarl Storvald and the Black Network, sweetening the deal by offering the frost giant jarl exactly
what he needed: information on the ring’s current wearer, Artus Cimber, and a drop of Cimber’s blood (which the Black Network had in its possession). Nilraun is now waiting for the frost giants to
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
X30. Preserved Library This stone library has twenty-foot-high walls and a thirty-foot-high vaulted ceiling. Covering the ceiling is a fresco that depicts angels being set ablaze in a hell. A black
marble railing encloses a gold marble staircase that spirals gently down a thirty-foot-wide, thirty-foot-deep shaft to the north. Against the gray walls stand six ten-foot-tall, black marble bookcases
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rrakkma
with small depressions at regular intervals. Water rapidly and continuously drips from the ceiling into the center of each depression. Manacled chains bound to the floor are mounted near many of the
depressions. If any of the characters succeed on a DC 10 Wisdom (Insight) check, they determine that victims were originally bound in chains in such a manner that the water dripping from the ceiling would
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
-foot-high domed ceiling. A balcony runs the length of the west wall, fifty feet above the floor. In the center of the balcony, two dark shapes are slumped in tall chairs.
Benches coated with
angelic figures entwined with grape vines. The light from above falls directly on a silver statuette. A cloaked figure is draped over the altar, and a black mace lies on the floor near its feet.
The
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a7
and is able to see the steps, read: The walls of the area ahead are untarnished and gleaming copper panels set between rare woods inlaid with ivory. The ceiling is silver, formed so as to reflect and
, black marble, yellow serpentine, and malachite.
Upon the black marble step is a large, cylindrical key of bronze, hereafter called the Second Key, for all to behold. It has an antipathy/sympathy