before blazing diffusing crawling revealing

Arrival

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak

-wide passageway flanked by forty-foot-high bulwarks of smooth, seamless stone. An iron portcullis covered with rust blocks the entrance. Arrow slits carved into the bulwarks are dark, revealing no hint

. Crawling down a chimney to area A21 or area A23 requires another successful DC 10 Strength (Athletics) check. If this check fails, the character falls 20 feet to the bottom of the chimney, landing in the

Random Encounters (T-Z)

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd

tarnished silver platter with a lid (worth 25 gp). If a character comes within 5 feet of the servant, it lifts the lid, revealing a bunch of moldy scones. The first character to eat a scone gains

inspiration. On later occurrences of this encounter, the platter holds a crawling claw that attacks the nearest character. 2 A silver goblet (worth 50 gp) filled to the brim with wine. A character who drinks

Kianna's Farmhouse Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel

, they see it’s stuck through the severed hand of a young woman. The characters have no way of knowing this, but the hand was once a crawling claw and was dispatched by a farmer. Sickly Crops. Wheat

soul shaker’s evil and the excavations of the crawling claws have spoiled the land around the house. If Proclaimer Ward is with the party, the Proclaimer investigates the crops and grows concerned

Surface of the Sun

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things

time spent under the ceiling’s heat. Each hallway is 15 feet wide and 100 feet long. The ceiling is 50 feet high, and the brick walls are 40 feet tall. Sun Damage The blazing light that fills this

silver orb is a valuable art object worth 500 gp. Oversized Key This gold key is 4 feet long and weighs 100 pounds. One round after it is removed from the sword stand, it comes to life, revealing itself

Crystal Caves Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel

discovers a segment of the stone wall behind the altar easily shifts aside, revealing a passage leading to area C4. Characters who have the Stonecunning trait have advantage on this check. This door is

. A character who searches the southwest ledge and succeeds on a DC 18 Wisdom (Perception) check discovers a segment of the stone wall moves, revealing a passage leading to area C2. Characters who

Dimensional Caverns

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

ancient deep crow suddenly rises up. Its great wings unfurl, its multiple eyes blazing red as it lets loose a caw that shakes the cavern walls. Any character who succeeds on a DC 14 Wisdom (Insight

creature’s savage caw. At the same time, as the ancient deep crow swoops around or a character’s fireball spell catches the edge of the nest, more parchments might dislodge, revealing underlined passages

Merchants' Ward

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation

resembles an unblinking eye, staring skyward. A deity devoted to revealing the truth might seem to have a weak draw in a city of merchants, but Savras was widely worshiped in Chult long before the

guides.” This ritual takes 24 hours, during which Zitembe sees visions of “a jungle city far to the south, enclosed by cliffs and crawling with snakes” and “a black obelisk draped in vines.” He dared

Exploration Example

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook

there. JOHN GRELLO The characters are exploring Castle Ravenloft, and the DM describes the room the characters have entered. Jared (as DM): A blazing hearth fire fills this room with warm

logs in the fire. Jared: As soon as you lift the poker, you hear a grinding sound, and the back of the fireplace slides to the side, revealing a room behind it! Amy: “Uh, folks? I found something

Navigating the Drought Elder

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel

Aberration, revealing a 5-foot-diameter gap in the wall, but it attacks any other creature. Destroying the gibbering mouther leaves the gap in the wall unguarded. D3: Void Striders The structure

runes is etched into the ground. The symbols move, crawling in a circle. Above them hovers a mass of insectile limbs encompassing an alien light. Beyond it, a narrow passage opens into the vast void

Bastion of Takhisis

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen

platform surrounding the lip of the brazier. Four supports crowned by blazing violet flames levitate around the scaffold, holding it aloft. A figure in blackened armor stands atop the scaffold

of Reflected Pasts S25: Lord Soth’s Throne Room Read or paraphrase the following text when the characters enter this room: Sections of this chamber’s walls have fallen, revealing both the open

N4. Wachterhaus

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd

greets her guests here, under the watchful eyes of her dead husband. Here three elegant couches surround an oval table made of black glass. All are set in front of a blazing hearth, above which hangs

oppose the burgomaster, Lady Wachter offers them a warm meal in the dining room as a token of her support and allegiance. N4k. Den Wood paneling, embroidered rugs, colorful furnishings, and a blazing

Lower Deck and Cargo Hold

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh

spear and an oblong shield lean against the wall. The shield bears the symbol of a humanoid skull with spiders crawling from its eye sockets. Two weathered humanoid skulls hang from wooden pegs on the

action is required to open it, revealing the box inside. The blue metal box is made from magically enhanced iron that is impervious to rust and has invulnerability to all damage. It has no lock or latch

Delphi Mansion Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault

secret door to swing inward, revealing a dusty room with several shelves. Lining the shelves are jars, most of which contain harmless liquids. Among these are six specimen jars, each containing one

slaad tadpole. Hiding in the dark corners of the hidden room are two crawling claws. If one or more characters enter the hidden room, the claws start pushing the jars with slaad tadpoles off the shelves

Elven Tomb Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

the nearby woods. The severed hand is a trickier get but needn’t come from a living humanoid (a dead crawling claw would do). Once the brazier is functioning, the heavy lid can be lifted or pushed

point at the top. The snow around the gnomon has melted away, revealing a circle of symbols carved into the stone around it. The symbols depict phases of the moon, suggesting that the circular

The Fissure

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

Intelligence (Investigation) check to recognize subtle details in the stonework revealing the trap’s area. When any creature touches the double doors, including to pick the lock, each creature standing in

. Ten of the feet in the room are stomping feet, the lesser known and smellier cousins to the crawling claw. A stomping foot uses the crawling claw stat block with these changes: Its speed is 30 feet

Zorzula's Rest Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

) radiant damage Storm. 13 (3d8) lightning damage Wind. 13 (3d8) force damage Once the correct sequence has been tapped, the secret door in the wall opens, revealing area Z11. Z11: Vault The stale air in

roaring alight with blazing red fire, charges toward you with a piercing screech. The iron drill is a fiendish auger (see appendix A), a remnant of the ancient duergar mining operation. It attacks

Gibbet Crossing Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

a set of cartographer’s tools, six pints of oil, an illustrated book about ropers, an emerald worth 250 gp, and a lantern of revealing. G5: Showroom This room is empty, but crumbling wall carvings

of tough silk over metal frames. Against the west wall stands a metal cabinet adorned with symbols of coins crawling on spider legs. When the mind flayers attacked, the drow denizens moved the large

Supernatural Regions

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

and unsettling, revealing some element of the environment’s history and putting the character in the place of someone who suffered a grim fate there. 81–85 A coffin or small enclosed space in the region

–10 A mass migration of insects begins, with waves of Tiny bugs crawling over everything in the region. Creatures cannot take a short or long rest in the region for the next 24 hours. 11–15 A swarm of

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