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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
diameter with a ceiling 100 feet high. Like a stomach, it contains the remains of past meals. The dreadnought can’t be harmed from within the demiplane. If the dreadnought dies, the demiplane
the dreadnought dies, its demiplane vanishes, and its contents are released into the Astral Plane.Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rrakkma
. 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
statue.
EXPLORATION
If the adventurers investigate they notice the tops of the statues are oddly flattened, as they were built to have a descending ceiling rest upon them.
SOCIAL
Once released from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
carrion crawler eggs to the hydra in area 21a. The carrion crawlers are not treated well. If released, they are as likely to attack the bullywugs as they are the characters. Wood scraps gathered from
throughout the level have been used to fence off this dry area from floor to ceiling. The gaps between the slats are just wide enough for a melee weapon or a carrion crawler’s tentacle attack. A simple loop of rope keeps the gate closed.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
experimentation. Blue Dial. This dial can be turned to the left or right, and it snaps back to center if released. The blue dial determines which wall crystal is lit. Currently, the crystal under
Crawlway” above), the slime does not accumulate in the room and instead pours into the crawlspace. The lever’s locking mechanism can be released with a successful DC 15 Dexterity check made by a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
L10. Cupboards The doors in this chamber are closed but not locked. When the characters enter for the first time, read: Moths cluster around a lantern that hangs from the ceiling in the middle of a
harmless and always moves toward the nearest light source. Any space that it occupies is lightly obscured. After the swarm has been released, Sowpig emerges from her silk cocoon to ask why she has been
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
this hall are as follows: Chandeliers. Radiant crystal chandeliers levitate near the ceiling.
Paintings. Paintings line the walls. They come in many sizes and have gilded frames.
The hall contains
released and appears in an unoccupied space as close to the shield as possible. On a failed save, the creature takes 31 (7d8) necrotic damage. If this damage reduces the trapped creature to 0 hit points
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
, and psychic damage. The fire elemental goes berserk if released, attacking all other creatures it sees. Inside or outside the furnace, it can be banished using a banishment spell or similar magic, or
trapped inside an iron flask or a similar device. If the furnace is destroyed or the elemental released from within it, the air inside the balloon cools, causing the airship to descend at a rate of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
from the ceiling. Twenty feet ahead, arched doorways lead downward from each side of the hallway. In each arched doorway, an iron door stands closed and partially submerged. You hear a weak cry for help
pit is released suddenly when the trapdoor opens). The triggering character suddenly falls from sight. An instant later, the trapdoor closes, leaving only a slowly dissipating swirl in the water. It
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3
falls off the beam 30 feet to the bottom of the pit. If the crank is released once the secret door is open, it unwinds quickly, pulling the door shut. To prevent this, the lever can be pulled down to
the ceiling directly above the pit, a thin slab that looks like ordinary stonework conceals a sloping tunnel that leads upward. The slab can’t be detected or manipulated from this side.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
its turns. After 10 rounds, the gas valves close and the stone block rises back into the ceiling. Any puzzle cubes still in their cavities are pushed out, and the trap resets. Any character searching
puzzle door and succeeds on a DC 14 Wisdom (Perception) check notices holes in the mouths of the skulls. Stuffing the holes with cloth or wax prevents the gas from being released. Doing so while the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
. These restrictions apply to magic items and artifacts that have properties that transport or banish creatures to other planes as well. Magic that allows transit to the Border Ethereal, such as the
etherealness spell, is the exception to this rule. A creature that enters the Border Ethereal from Undermountain is pulled back into the dungeon upon leaving that plane. Magic that summons creatures or
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->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
tools Primordial Nexus You grew up surrounded by powerful elemental magic. Maybe you lived in a place where the border between the Material Plane and an Elemental Plane was thin. Or perhaps you spent
fresh water fell from above. 4 Your ears are used to the echo of empty caverns, and the bustling noises of the surface are distracting for you. 5 The idea of a space with no ceiling terrifies you. 6 You’re desperate to touch a cloud. You don’t know what it will feel like, but you hope it’s fluffy.
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
sphere of solid granite balances within a secret compartment at the top of the stairs. Finding the compartment requires that a character search the tunnel ceiling and succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom
(Perception) check. The hatch can be jammed with an iron spike or with a successful DC 20 Dexterity check made using thieves’ tools. When released, the stone ball thunders down the stairs and tumbles into the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a4
keyhole on the inside of the door will unlock it. In the room, suspended from the ceiling by unbreakable wires, are nine silvered glass spheres, each about 2 feet in diameter. Unless otherwise noted
hold person and a false key. Sphere 8. The actual key and a silver ring. When the ring is released from the sphere, it speaks to the characters telepathically: “Stop before you put me on. I confer the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
6. Wizardly Wards A trapped hall (area 6a) guards two of Halaster’s vaults (areas 6b and 6c). 6a. Lightning Pillars This two-chambered hall has a 20-foot-high ceiling supported by ten copper-plated
brought within 10 feet of its sister shield in area 9b, the pit fiend is released. It appears within 5 feet of the shield’s bearer or in the nearest unoccupied space. The freed pit fiend attacks any
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
the ceiling of this hall and cracked in two on the floor. The block was released when someone stepped on a hidden pressure plate in the floor. (The trap failed to hit its intended target and no
In the middle of the hallway, crushed beneath a 4-foot-square block of stone that has fallen from the ceiling, is a goblin. Only its gangly legs are visible. (The goblin stepped on a pressure plate
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
succeeds on a DC 13 Intelligence (Investigation) check recognizes the dangerous buildup of necrotic energy that can be released by carefully manipulating the strips of leather armor covering the corpse’s
into an oculorb. L6: Rune Chamber The ceiling of this dead-end passage slopes downward. At its end, the ceiling is only four feet high. An odd, furry ball the size and shape of a coconut dangles from a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
must pass through them to hit its target. The northern and eastern gantries are unlit. The ceiling is 40 feet above the gantries, the floor 50 feet below. The rattling of the bucket chain fills the
room. Four cable towers support the bucket chain as it moves through this area. Hanging in midair, held in place by chains bolted to the floor and ceiling, is the helmed head and upper torso of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
area. 5. Spider Nest The north–south section of this hallway is filled with sheets of webbing (see the sidebar). An ettercap lurks in here, latching onto the ceiling over the door to area 6. Two
Mate’s Cabin The smashed wreckage of a bed, dresser, and desk covers the floor of this room. Thick webs extend from floor to ceiling, making it impossible to clearly see the walls beyond. Hundreds of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
the dial and fills the 5-foot space directly east of the block. Any creature in this area when the gas is released must make a DC 14 Constitution saving throw, taking 44 (8d10) acid damage on a failed
small golden sarcophagus decorated with horned rabbits. A dark shaft opens in the ceiling directly above the barge, while to the south, a corridor is visible through a set of fangs carved into the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
is nothing of particular note here. 13. Guest Bedroom This bedroom has no furniture, but rubbish is scattered everywhere, and webs cover the walls and ceiling. From the doorway, you can see a glint of
stripped of his possessions — in this room. He did not see his attackers nor has he heard any sounds in the house. Now he would like to be released and to join the characters in their mission.
Neither
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
signs of frescoes that once covered the walls here. A half-dozen ruined chandeliers hang from the cracked ceiling. In the northeast corner is a black gate.
Creatures. A vampire spawn keeps watch here
Var (area 10) has a key in his possession. Steel Orb. A magic steel orb is hidden in a recess in the ceiling 20 feet up. Spotting it requires a successful DC 20 Wisdom (Perception) check. The steel
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
15. Temple of Dumathoin This huge chamber has been sculpted to resemble a cavern with a 30-foot-high vaulted ceiling. 15a. Nave Monsters. Eight duergar plus their leader, a half-shield dwarf, half
top of the dais, the altar there released a clay golem that attacked them (see area 15b). Four duergar were smashed to a pulp before Skella realized that their weapons were having no effect on the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
at area H7. H2. Entry Hall The hall is strewn with rubble. Puddles of muddy rainwater pool over the floor and starlings’ nest in the eaves of the arched ceiling. There is a large banquet table bearing
opening onto the breached third floor. H5. Servant’s Quarters Thalivar was tended by his loyal faerie servant, Soapwort, who died when his master accidentally released a menagerie of extraplanar
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
side of the door, about 4 feet above the floor. All doors open into the areas they border on metal casters that move along grooves cut into the stone floor. Gates and Pillars All gates consist of
obscured. Remember that the three-dimensional space in which a seaweed bed appears extends from floor to ceiling, and the seaweed occupies only the bottom half of that space. Thus, it’s possible for a creature to be in the same space as the seaweed without being inside the seaweed.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
surface of the cave — floor, walls, and ceiling — is blanketed in moss and fungi, all in shades of white and soft pastels of pink, violet, green, and pale blue. The diffuse light the mushrooms shed makes
myconid sovereign will temporarily immunize them against the effects of the demon-tainted spores released by myconids under Zuggtmoy’s influence. Basidia will then initiate a rapport with Araumycos while
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
that it can no longer contain are expelled into unoccupied spaces around it. 10b. Flooded Room This laboratory, with a 20-foot-high ceiling, is completely filled with 24,000 cubic feet of salt water
. Any creature that fails the saving throw is knocked prone and takes 5 (1d10) bludgeoning damage. Once the water is released, it fills both rooms to a depth of half an inch. Swept into area 10a with
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
activating. When the sphere is released, all creatures present roll initiative, and the sphere rolls initiative with a +8 bonus. On its turn, it moves in a straight line until it reaches a corner, then
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
. When the dreadnought dies, its demiplane vanishes, and its contents are released into the Astral Plane. Astral Dreadnought
Gargantuan Monstrosity (Titan), Unaligned
Armor Class 20 (natural armor
that enables planar travel, such as the plane shift spell. The demiplane resembles a stone cave roughly 1,000 feet in diameter with a ceiling 100 feet high. Like a stomach, it contains the remains of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
29. King Melair’s Lost Tomb The dwarves have left many surprises here to prevent tomb robbers from reaching their king’s resting place. 29a. Second False Tomb Ceiling. This tomb has a 10-foot-high
, vaulted ceiling.
Sarcophagus. A black marble sarcophagus flecked with gold stands close to the south wall, its lid carved in the likeness of a dwarf king.
Crystal Panels. Ten glittering panels are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
prepared but hasn’t released. The door to the cage is held shut by a simple latch. To catch a paper bird, a creature must reach into the cage and use an action to try to grapple it; if the grapple check
. The room’s 10-foot-high ceiling is made of loose wooden boards laid across rafters. Above these boards, hidden in the top of the turret, is a belfry. The characters can reach the boards by stacking
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
collapse an unstable section of ceiling. The trip wire is 3 inches off the ground and stretches between two weak supports that topple when the trip wire is pulled. The first creature that crosses the
trip wire causes the supports to topple and the unstable section of ceiling to collapse. Each creature beneath the unstable section of ceiling must succeed on a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw, taking 11






