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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
14. Werebat Boss Precious little light reaches this large cave, which is set aside for the werebat boss, a particularly sinister goblin named Mobar. He prefers to remain in hybrid form — his most
contains 60 gp in a leather pouch, three wooden holy symbols of Malar, a potion of greater healing in a varnished gourd, a pair of dainty slippers, six bleached human skulls, a beautifully carved ivory
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
most are tossing knucklebones, sharpening blades, sewing clothing, carving whalebone, or picking on each other. See “Random Encounters” (above) for guidelines on how the kobolds respond to intruders
possessions of value are a number of walrus tusks carved with draconic imagery, six of which are of sufficient artistry to fetch 200 gp each from a suitable collector.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
respond to intruders. If the characters spend a few minutes searching the area, a successful DC 12 Intelligence (Investigation) check suggests that approximately two dozen kobolds live in this chamber
. Treasure Their only possessions of value are a number of walrus tusks carved with draconic imagery, six of which are of sufficient artistry to fetch 200 gp each from a suitable collector.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
. Your group’s patron might occasionally come to you and give you an assignment. This can be an easy way to get into an adventure. Of course, it’s up to you how you respond to your patron’s demands, and
, and universities are typically highly autonomous. In a player-directed organization, you don’t have a patron because your adventuring party is in charge. You’re the boss; you tell others what to do
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Flee, Mortals! Rule Primer
, summon a lackey or three, buff the boss, debuff the characters, or move the creature into an advantageous position. They’re just a taste of what’s to come. The second villain action provides crowd
control. It typically fires after the heroes have had a chance to respond once or twice, get into position, and surround the villain. This second action helps the villain regain the upper hand. Like an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
books, scrolls, or carved tablets; tapestries or woven “tomes” of embroidered cloth; complex scientific instruments; and religious icons or objects. They are fond of unique and unusual art objects
crystal that gives off eerie sounds when touched, with the tone varying up and down the length of the rod
3 A life-sized human skull carved from a single piece of crystal, including a hollow interior
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
the treasure that Boss Hark has amassed in his short lifetime: 12 gp, 55 sp, and 87 cp (loose) A matching pair of silver salt and pepper shakers (worth 10 gp apiece or 25 gp for the pair) A
bloodstained leather case containing a complete set of thieves’ tools (worth 25 gp) A holy symbol of Silvanus carved from wood and inlaid with gold (worth 25 gp) One magic item, determined randomly by rolling on Magic Item Table A in chapter 7 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
floor between three stalagmites, and the fossilized remains of four stone giants fill alcoves carved into the walls. Harmless bats nest in their gaping mouths during the day and flutter around the
one 500 gp gemstone in its gizzard, which can be retrieved once the creature is dead. Development The Uthgardt in area 15D can hear sounds of combat here. They respond by hurling spears at intruders from the top of the 30-foot-high ledge overlooking the cave.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
carved into the giant fallen tree to one side of it. Two goblins are working in each stall, and the whole enterprise is watched closely by a goblin with a toffee apple head who appears to be muttering
quietly to himself.
Chucklehead This market sells goblin-made candies of all sorts. Six goblins (lawful neutral) work here, two per stall, under the watchful gaze of their goblin boss, Chucklehead
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Q7. Boss Fight Threadbare curtains hang on the east wall of a long hall, in the middle of which a muscular half-orc in dingy robes stands with his foot on the chest of a male human with wavy red
, intending to leave through the double door in the west wall. The mind flayer expects Grum’shar and the intellect devourer to cover its escape. Nihiloor carries a 3-inch-diameter stone orb carved to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
ground leading to a well deep below. Two stone statues stand in the courtyard, rising twenty feet high. Behind them, a forty-foot high edifice is carved into the cliff side, dominated by relief columns
carved with strange, otherworldly scenes.
The left-hand colossus is a bearded human male wearing exotic clothes, but its face is smashed beyond recognition. It holds a balance in its right hand and a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
ground leading to a well deep below. Two stone statues stand in the courtyard, rising twenty feet high. Behind them, a forty-foot high edifice is carved into the cliff side, dominated by relief columns
carved with strange, otherworldly scenes.
The left-hand colossus is a bearded human male wearing exotic clothes, but its face is smashed beyond recognition. It holds a balance in its right hand and a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Gruumsh with 1d3 orogs and 1d8 + 2 orcs 07 1d3 constrictor snakes or 1d4 tigers 08 1 goblin boss with 3d6 goblins 09 1 faerie dragon (any age) 10 1 brown bear or 1d6 + 2 black bears 11–13 1d4 giant
2d10 elk 74–75 1d4 veterans 76–80 An old tree with a wizened face carved into the trunk 81 1d4 wereboars 82 2d4 displacer beasts 83 1d4 shambling mounds 84 1 hobgoblin captain with 3d10 hobgoblins and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
building’s entrance is a double door carved to resemble interlocking hands, and centered above the doorway is a golden pick with a short handle.
Map 5.2 includes an inset map that shows the interior of
entrance. The statue’s right hand is held out, displaying stone-carved rings on every stubby finger. The largest room in the abbey, directly across from the entrance, serves as a place of worship. Low
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
, the guards respond, “Speaker Crannoc Siever has no need for your heathen rituals!” C2. Snowy Courtyard Footprints in the snow lead to various doors along this courtyard’s perimeter, including a tall
roof. West of the double door are two unused merchant stalls with torn canopies. Tucked under some icy stairs in the northwest corner is a slender wooden hut with a crescent moon carved into its flimsy
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
voice from beneath the tree stump. “Has that horror been banished? Is she finally gone? Set things right. Set me free!”
If the characters respond to the voice, the speaker shares the following
conjures a water elemental that resembles Adirohit An intricately carved jade statuette depicting a muscular version of Adirohit, worth 500 gp A waterproof sack containing a length of the finest silk bastra, embroidered with pearls worth 250 gp
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
of Steadfast Stone”). The floor of this cavern is worn smooth, but the walls are rough. A great menhir carved from a stalagmite stands in the center of the chamber, pockmarked with dozens of empty
guarding pose, but doesn’t move or respond. Another earth elemental then emerges from the wall of the chamber and attacks, when it is destroyed, a second stoic galeb duhr appears. This summoning
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
or Large snake could pass through, allowing the yuan-ti’s serpentine pets, as well as abominations and malisons in snake form, to bypass human-style doors for convenience or in order to respond
paved. Fountains, gardens, and carved, freestanding columns are common elements. Six-foot-high walls high divide the community into city blocks or districts, with open arches allowing traffic to pass
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
surrounding the stalk is covered by a carpet of fungi. An eerie luminescence pours through slitted windows carved into the trunk, with the same cacophony of atonal music heard earlier echoing within. A
Queen of Fungi, has carved for herself inside the great mushroom. The general layout is simple enough, with the hollowed stalk of the mushroom making a towering central hall in which Zuggtmoy floats
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
criminal territory as possible. The Xanathar’s bond is its lair, an elaborate cavern complex created by its predecessors, carved out between the twisting sewers of Waterdeep. It almost never leaves its home
; they just know the boss is powerful, dangerous, and doesn’t tolerate mistakes. Although previous Xanathars carefully guarded the facts of their true nature and allowed only a handful of their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
gemstones worth 10 gp each, 15 small gemstones worth 50 gp each, and a black pearl worth 500 gp Three potions of healing, one elixir of health, and a manual of golems (flesh). An ornate wooden case carved
exploration of the mountains, building an ambulatory craft capable of crawling up and down mountainous slopes to travel farther into the Barrier Peaks, and other tasks of your devising. Completing any such
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
village has also partially collapsed.
Nightstone got its name from a massive chunk of obsidian that once stood in the middle of the village square. The obsidian megalith had strange glyphs carved into
and an allied pair of ogres lurking in the caves. The villagers were ambushed, captured, and brought before Hark, the goblin boss. Hark interrogated them, learned of the giant attack on Nightstone
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
scare off anyone plundering the coral. 2. Portal Chamber Anyone that teleports to Maelstrom appears atop a glowing glyph carved into the floor of an alcove in the northeast corner of this rough-hewn
that enters the water. A flooded passage blocked by a lowered portcullis connects the whale’s pool to the sinkhole (area 1). Staircases carved into the northwest and southeast walls lead down to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
are always getting into fights, they don’t pay attention to noise in areas C2 or area C3. However, they’re quick to defend their tower if any intruders appear, or to respond to an alarm raised by the
hall holds six goblins and one goblin boss—a cantankerous fellow named Yegg. Yegg is the primary cook for the Cragmaws, and he berates his assistants as they go about the work of putting food on the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Secretary then hesitates, and the image wavers. “Zhong Yin, I will not be retrieving you as planned,” she says. “I am sorry.”
The image flickers, then vanishes.
Any attempt to respond to
animate statues return to their alcoves and deactivate. Ancient jade statues animate to defend the secret ruins beneath Yongjing S2: Hallway Alcoves A long hallway is roughly carved out of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Island Inhabitants d6 Inhabitants 1 3d10 winged kobolds and 10d10 kobolds 2 1 goblin boss and 8d10 goblins 3 1d6 berserkers and 5d10 tribal warriors 4 1 orc war chief, 2d10 orogs, and 5d10 orcs 5 4d10
Nature reigns on wild islands. The creatures on the island respond to the ebb and flow of the natural world rather than trying to tame the environment. Wild Island Features d6 Feature 1 A waterfall
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
create a bright red magical fluid that is equivalent to three potions of resistance (fire). I4: Raided Memorial Shelves are carved into this room’s walls, their contents swept onto the floor, reduced
stone altar with a flame burning in a depression at its center. Stone double doors lead to the north and south. The door to the north is carved with the image of a frilled, lizard-like creature amid
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
Sense and detect evil and good reveal that this zone is thoroughly desecrated. 26. Temple of Light Glowing pillars brightly light this chamber of white marble. Each pillar is carved in the likeness of a
during the following round. The residents of the other cells take 1d4 + 1 rounds to respond (roll separately for each). The occupants of the cells are as follows: Cell A. A Red Wizard illusionist
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Skytower Shelter Locations Skytower Shelter is a cave complex carved into the northwest face of a 15,000-foot-high mountain. Tunnels are 10 feet high throughout, and the caves are lit by torches. The
this ten-foot-high cave. Nearby, a chute with carved footholds leads down.
The chute is 5 feet in diameter and leads to area S6. Runestone. This engraved stone is one of two sacred stones in Skytower
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
the skeletons as they hiss accusations like “You fly on our backs” and “You soar on our bones.” However, the skeletons don’t understand or respond to anything the characters say. Grasping Claws. Until
once a lounge in an Istarian home. Characters with the Stonecunning trait or proficiency with mason’s tools can tell that after the bas-relief was carved, a less skilled hand excavated it from its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
rowboats are tied off to a short dock. North of the camp is a ridge, built into which is an 80-foot-tall stone statue carved to look like a man with a crocodile on his back. Between the statue’s feet is a
Batiri goblins consisting of two goblins per player character. Leading the group is a goblin boss named Yokka. The goblins wear wooden masks and hide in the foliage north of the camp. They believe the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
through Undermountain and Skullport, which is described in Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage. When the characters find the staircase, read: The walls of this narrow, spiraling staircase are carved with
carved with eyes of all shapes and sizes. Many of the orbs have stone eyelids that open and close at irregular intervals. Characters who succeed on a DC 14 Wisdom (Perception) check notice a ghostly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
). Another thirty to seventy are in the immediate area, close enough to respond within fifteen minutes to the beating of the drum in the barbican. The bullywugs already believe themselves to be lords of the
the castle and rewards with special treatment. In exchange for their work, Borngray pays the tribe in metal weapons that are brought to the castle along with the loot. Meanwhile, the bullywugs boss and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
in the immediate area, close enough to respond within fifteen minutes to the beating of the drum in the barbican. The bullywugs already believe themselves to be lords of the mere, and they act like it
special treatment. In exchange for their work, Borngray “pays” the tribe in metal weapons that are brought to the castle along with the loot. Meanwhile, the bullywugs boss and bully the lizardfolk
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a1
rows of dragon-carved marble columns march the length of the hall, most completely covered in luminescent fungus. The cobbled floor is cracked and stained, and on it sit many small wooden tables. The
or disturbance in the main area draws all the monsters, although those in the northwest chamber respond most slowly. Investigating. The containers on the small tables in the main area hold mashed