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Volo's Guide to Monsters
crawl to make progress. In places where a tunnel opens into a chasm and continues on the other side, the kobolds might connect the two passages with a rope bridge or some other rickety structure
, designed to collapse under the weight of any creature heavier than a kobold. On occasion, the route through a kobold lair runs along a ledge that borders a cavern or a crevasse, and the kobolds might
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Radiant Citadel
Citadel Defenses The Radiant Citadel’s location within the Deep Ethereal makes it difficult to assault. It keeps no standing army, but its council for defense has contingency plans it frequently
Diamond’s illumination also provides strong protection. It radiates bright light throughout the city and dim light 1,000 feet beyond the city’s borders. This light is akin to sunlight, which many natives of the Ethereal Plane and evil Undead abhor.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Citadel Defenses The Radiant Citadel’s location within the Deep Ethereal makes it difficult to assault. It keeps no standing army, but its council for defense has contingency plans it frequently
Diamond’s illumination also provides strong protection. It radiates bright light throughout the city and dim light 1,000 feet beyond the city’s borders. This light is akin to sunlight, which many natives of the Ethereal Plane and evil Undead abhor.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
opens into a chasm and continues on the other side, the kobolds might connect the two passages with a rope bridge or some other rickety structure, designed to collapse under the weight of any creature
heavier than a kobold. On occasion, the route through a kobold lair runs along a ledge that borders a cavern or a crevasse, and the kobolds might erect a railing or a wall that prevents them from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Walls alone holds more Cyran refugees than Karrnath has allowed across its borders. If you read the Sharn Inquisitive or the Korranberg Chronicle, you’ve heard the endless litany of how difficult life
survived the Mourning did so because they were beyond the borders of their nation. And why is that? Because they were soldiers.
The Sharn Inquisitive talks about starving children and ailing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
continues to make bite attacks against that character on subsequent rounds as it feeds. The carrion crawlers are too stupid and hungry to flee in the face of certain death. Goblin Skull-Hunters Pibble
flee when confronted by adventurers. If one or both goblins are captured, they can lead adventurers to the nearest Xanathar Guild watch post as well as describe its defenses, since they have observed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Locathah Rising
strangeness remains unknown. The Turmish and Thayans are too busy with their conflicts to notice, and so it is up to you brave heroes to travel into the darkening and discover what evil has come to reside so
see the “darkening” up ahead. It’s difficult to see anything clearly within its borders, though you can vaguely make out the outline of a mountain of sunken ships resting on the sea floor, grown over
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
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
, configuration, defenses, and leaders. No ability check is needed to follow the monks’ tracks back the way they came, since the wheelbarrow leaves a deep furrow in the earth. Characters who follow these tracks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Description District The Citadel of the Sun A temple devoted to Dol Arrah, noteworthy for the three blessed griffons that reside there. Hope’s Peak, Upper Dura The Clifftop Adventurer’s Guild An
them with virtuous companions. Highwater,
Upper Dura Ghallanda Hall This proud Ghallanda enclave continues to operate amid the fading squalor of Middle Dura, and has become a tourist attraction. It
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
feed on, while Undermountain’s existing defenses offered an unprecedented level of security. Enemies at the Gates Through methods unknown to the illithids, the githyanki vanguard force tracked the
captive audience reacts. Meanwhile, it continues to use its telepathy to reach out to the Waterdavians in the city above, gathering more information to better realize its version of the city.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
the North reside in the halls of the dwarves. Now, when shield dwarves invoke the name of Delzoun, they are calling upon the glory of all their past accomplishments: every feat of architectural mastery
and their borders remains graven on cavern walls, trail markings, and scattered coins. Some of these realms, and the marks that bear testimony to their presence, are detailed below.
Haungdannar
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
are divided into three types of duty and armed appropriately for the task before them: Alamon. Rugged forces of wanderers patrol Akros’s borders, defending against invasion or attack by monsters that
the vast majority of Akros’s population, the serfs largely reside outside the protection of the Kolophon, laboring to grow the staple crops that support Akros’s citizens and its trade. A relatively
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
an outsider. Based on the complex’s defenses, Laysa believes something valuable is held within. Nikki Dawes Laysa Matulin Some Progress. Laysa’s crew uncovered the complex’s entrance, as well as two
and Vogren are well versed in the religious history of the island. If asked, they provide the following advice: Reciprocity. Powerful nature spirits reside on the island and don’t take kindly to those
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
of blackberry wine and flower blossoms. Eight brightly painted doorways are nestled in the bark at the bases of the surrounding trees.
Twelve pixies reside here during carnival hours. They are
who has the lowest check result, at which point all the remaining characters move to new hiding places and make another check. The game continues until only one character remains hidden; this
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
has fallen under the sway of a young shadow dragon, and their obeisance borders on fanaticism.
4 A young shadow dragon shares a lair with a cloaker; the cloaker leaves the dragon alone but hunts
been summoned from the Shadowfell and forced to stand guard over a wizard’s sanctum.
Adult Shadow Dragon Connections d8 Connected Creatures
1 An adult red dragon continues to serve as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
defenses the Six have set up around the ritual. They might choose a stealthy incursion in the dead of night, to roar straight in aboard a mobile franchise headquarters at midday, or any approach in between
the absence of any breeze. Purple light continues to seep out through roof tiles, shuttered windows, and the closed front door.
Even in daylight, the building is shrouded by shadows, as if every part
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
their defenses and the security of their homes, no clan is immortal and no stronghold unassailable. Threats to a clan can come from the outside or the inside, and it’s often the latter variety that
the clan, and stone carvers start using short cuts that compromise their constructions. If such a decline continues for too long and becomes too severe, the result could be a schism within the clan
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
neutralized by these limitations, Baalzebul continues to ensure that the devils’ bureaucracy runs smoothly. He focuses most of his attention on gathering souls from the Material Plane, a task to which his
. Even if would-be thieves could get around the defenses, they would have figure out how to navigate the complex classification system that marks the precise location of each bit of paperwork stored
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
commander’s eye for defense. They appreciate the solidity of cliff-side caves or stone fortresses, often reinforcing existing defenses with clever traps and bulwarks. At the same time, bronze dragons
the dragon’s grim fate.
After the wars, Fireflash faded from public view, but rumor holds that he continues his lifelong fight against evil, using his legendary skill in aerial combat to assist the Knights of Solamnia.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
touching it. CANDLEKEEP DEFENSES
Attacking Candlekeep would be foolhardy. Although most of the monks are simple scholars, a few are powerful spellcasters. If any trouble occurs, an archmage and 1d4
should not be taken to any place where thousands of mortals reside. It needs to be locked away in an extradimensional space, away from corruptible souls.”
If the characters consider leaving the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
the psychic damage again. This process continues until at least one character succeeds or everyone falls unconscious. Dream 2: Betrayal! Characters who are conscious when the first dream ends proceed
dream. Otherwise, the devils fade away into nothingness and don’t reappear later on. Once the characters make their choice, this dream ends and fades to black as the dream sequence continues with the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
deity’s influence weakened Bhaerynden and left it vulnerable to the dark elves that threatened its borders. That claim might well be true, but shield dwarf scholars point out that those who abandoned
crafters, and that clan continues to rule despite its increasingly autocratic policies. Although the subservient clans continue to perform their traditional roles in the hierarchy, they have largely
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
, to serve as guards on the tribe’s most distant borders or as hunters that wander beyond those borders. As such, the stone giants that are first encountered by outsiders are almost always the least
the chamber inside each stone giant settlement where they “reside.” A dead (or sometimes merely dying) stone giant is carried into the ancestors’ chamber and leaned upright against the end of one of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a1
. To the edge of the niche are two large nests made of hair, dry fungus, and refuse.
Creature. Balsag the bugbear and his two giant rat “hounds,” named Grip and Fang, reside in a natural stone
that of the corridor. No phosphorescent fungus grows in the rift. The corridor continues past the rift, though the opening of the rift has caused it to shift 10 feet to the west. A number of two-foot
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a2
heard by the orc in area 4 and then attempt to flee to area 3. See the “Mountain Door Defenses” sidebar. If the archers are alerted to the party’s presence, they open fire on intruders on the ledge and in
area 2. See area 4 for more information. MOUNTAIN DOOR DEFENSES
The orcs are well prepared for a frontal assault on the Mountain Door. They follow the sequence of activity described below to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
penetrate the foe’s defenses. Murderers carry many javelins with them, which they throw from hiding and wield in melee, and they also carry garrotes to cut off sounds of screaming.
The Host on the March
case, a group of conquered people serves the host best when it continues to produce resources that the goblinoids can use. Only when a settlement offers stiff resistance or has no lasting value to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
acclaim for the school. In the meantime, she continues to enroll young students, keeping those with promise and weeding out the rest. Some of those who failed to make the cut, embittered by their
. Longtime regulars and merchants who reside in the Upper City get most of the prime placements, while those who are less established — or stingy with Hiller’s expected bribes — get undesirable places
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
meantime, she continues to enroll young students, keeping those with promise and weeding out the rest. Some of those who failed to make the cut, embittered by their perceived humiliation, nurse
morning. Longtime regulars and merchants who reside in the Upper City get most of the prime placements, while those who are less established — or stingy with Hiller’s expected bribes — get undesirable
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
from the remains of a wooden table.
Six bugbears reside in this chamber. They are loyal minions of Nezznar. This room marks the front line in the Spider’s assault on Wave Echo Cave, and the bugbears
: a flameskull. This creature was a servant of the dwarves’ human wizard allies, and it continues to act on ancient instructions to prevent any intruders from passing through this area. This
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a2
. Double stone doors lead into a barrel-vaulted area containing several furnaces. The eastern end of the chamber continues into a large, dark cave, from which a cold wind moans. A stream of water
. During the final assault of the orcs, Arundil used his magic to escape the slaughter. He returned to find all his kinfolk dead. Overwhelmed by grief, he tried to repair some of the complex’s defenses
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
Locations M - P Maelstrom The daughters of King Hekaton reside in this undersea fortress, which stands amid reefs and barnacle-covered shipwrecks in the depths of the Trackless Sea. See chapter 10
bridge has been destroyed, and the town’s defenses have been torn down. Within the town walls, now breached in several places, are piles of debris that were once shops, taverns, inns, and festhalls
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
while engaging in telepathic conversation, but they aren’t expecting an attack. The fanatics have told the mind flayers to expect surface cultists, such as the aberrant zealots who reside elsewhere in
brain from bringing its full telepathic might to bear, orchestrating defenses within the stronghold, or responding to anyone other than the fanatics. For all its weakness, the elder brain still
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
. They refuse to leave their woods, guarding relics and ruins of ages past, and they want nothing to do with the world beyond their borders. Arn Forest This stretch of pine trees and muskeg bogs lies on
would-be invaders. If Adbar’s defenses should ever prove inadequate, the dwarves have created a secret evacuation tunnel that stretches for hundreds of miles, connecting to passages that lie under
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
people here are beholden to the mysterious Dusk Circle, a group of druids who reside in hermitages in the surrounding mountains and forest. Folk in Kheldell log, hunt, plant, and harvest when and where
Mirabar and continues for hundreds of miles southward through the Dessarin Valley, meeting the High Road just north of Waterdeep. Many towns and villages lie along the route and depend on the relative
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
and tales. High Marshal Methrammar Aerasumé, the city’s lord, resides in a tall, slender palace on the east side of the city and commands Silverymoon’s knight-defenders. The city’s magical defenses
initiative count, the ghost of another chieftain appears next to the tree. This process continues until four Uthgardt ghosts have been defeated. The ghosts don’t attack members of the Blue Bear tribe. Any






