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Monster Manual
create sanctuaries apart from the living, whether hidden in cosmopolitan cities or sequestered in ruins where they dwelled in life.
The region containing a vampire’s lair is warped by its presence
, one creature the vampire can see within 30 feet that isn’t a Construct or an Undead. Failure: 14 (4d6);{"diceNotation":"4d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Sanguine Drain
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
environments abundant with life. They share apes’ adeptness at climbing, although few trees can support the weight of these half-ton creatures. The ruins of cities, especially those found in deep
forests and jungles, seem to attract girallons. They see a city’s buildings as a superior sort of forest whose uppermost “branches” can safely support them. The creatures can easily
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
":"damage", "rollAction":"Reduce to Memory", "rollDamageType":"thunder"} thunder damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. A Construct has disadvantage on the saving throw
attack roll, the pledgemage magically enables the attacker to reroll the attack roll. It must use the new roll.Deep in crumbling ruins and piles of dusty scrolls, Lorehold students—first as
Monsters
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
":"damage", "rollAction":"Fortified Pickaxe", "rollDamageType":"force"} force damage. If the target is a Construct or an object, the attack is automatically a critical hit.
Communal Spellcasting (2/Day
buildings, objects, and raw materials, making them phenomenal excavators—and, if the occasion calls for it, sappers and saboteurs. Pechs enjoy sculpting and carving vast networks of tunnels and warrens
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
":"thunder"} thunder damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. A Construct has disadvantage on the saving throw.
Spellcasting. The apprentice casts one of the following spells
new roll.Deep in crumbling ruins and piles of dusty scrolls, Lorehold students—first as apprentices and then as Lorehold pledgemage;pledgemages—study the magic of the past, searching for
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
live on the fringes of civilization in ruins, deserted buildings, or other places that other humanoid races once lived in or built. They tend to be timid and skittish outside their homes and fiercely
Valindra Shadowmantle
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Tomb of Annihilation
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Valindra believes that the Soulmonger is hidden somewhere in the ruins of Omu. She shares this information with the characters even if she suspects they’ll betray her down the road, because in
a lonely tower, a haunted ruin, or an academy of black magic. Alternatively, some liches construct secret tombs filled with powerful guardians and traps.
Everything about a lich’s lair
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Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
adamantine skeleton, creating a grisly colossal construct. Inside the flesh colossus’s chest is a stone sphere infused with spirits from each elemental plane acting as its core.
To this day, some of
these ancient flesh colossi guard abandoned ruins, sites sacred to giants, and lost treasures—and possibly the procedure to create new examples of their kind.Lightning, Poison, Psychic
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
. While Murgaxor isn’t blinded, he can see any creature that isn’t an Undead or a Construct within 60 feet of himself, even through total cover, heavily obscured areas, invisibility, or any
, creating the following regional effects in the Ruins of Caerdoon and the fortress. These effects end 1d6;{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Days Regional Effects End"} days after the
Monsters
Tomb of Annihilation
must be modeled after a beast with a challenge rating of 2 or less. The ice creature has the same statistics as the beast it models, with the following changes: the creature is a construct with
ancient guardian naga, can help him. As such, his search has been focused on locating the ruins of Orolunga, where the naga is said to dwell. Fate has handed Artus a saurial traveling companion named
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
has been hauled away, leaving the outlines of stone buildings visible as collapsed walls. A stone well on the far side of the ruins is filled with rubble. The settlement has been thoroughly ransacked
. Characters who search the ruins find a few crushed dwarf bones and signs of recent campfires, but nothing of value.
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Ishau The coastal settlement of Ishau sank into the sea. Now, the village’s stone buildings sit completely underwater in Refuge Bay, a few miles from shore. Hunter sharks and reef sharks glide among
the sunken ruins, competing with plesiosauruses for the position as top predator — but all of them fear and avoid the vicious sea hags who occasionally scour the ruins for human remains and waterlogged trinkets.
Kenku
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
. They seek out ruins that reach to the sky, though they lack the motivation and creativity to make repairs or fortify such places. Even so, their light weight and size allow them to dwell in rickety
structures that would collapse beneath a human or an orc.
Some thieves’ guilds use kenku as lookouts and messengers. The kenku dwell in the tallest buildings and towers the guild controls
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
General Features Many of Thundertree’s buildings have crumbled in the years since the town was abandoned, even as nature threatens to swallow what remains. Buildings. A building in Thundertree is
either ruined or intact, as shown on the map. Ruined buildings are empty shells with stone walls 5 to 8 feet high. Their roofs are gone, leaving piles of debris inside the walls. The debris is difficult
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
area 7). As the party approaches the ruins, read the following: Gradually, the trail becomes an old, overgrown lane winding between dilapidated buildings choked in vines and brush. Ahead of you, in the
old stone houses, many of which are roofless ruins with interiors open to the weather. Other buildings appear more or less intact. The whole place is eerily silent.
A wooden sign is nailed to a post
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
the buildings previously damaged in the Cobblehook Corsairs’ raid. By the time the storm passes, Respite is in ruins. Rubble lines the streets, and the villagers begin looking for a new place to call home.
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
knucklehead trout, while most of the others spend their days in the forest felling and hewing the trees that are used to construct boats and buildings. Lonelywood’s timber is taken by cart to be sold in other
Lonelywood Founded by a Sembian family from Urmlaspyr, Lonelywood is a quiet town of loggers, fishers, and scrimshanders scratching out a living on the edge of the world. The town’s oldest buildings
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
Chapter 8 – Faunel: Vicious Alliances The gate-town of Faunel is undergoing a rebirth after the previous incarnation of the town merged with the Beastlands, leaving behind only its buildings. Amid
the overgrown ruins of the previous community, factions of sapient animals vie to control the town’s future. When bloodthirsty gnoll hunters arrive in the area, the town’s peace becomes even more
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Omu Encounters Random encounters in Omu can take place in ruined buildings and streets, in the fetid swamps around the buildings, and in the ruined royal palace. Roll a d20 three times per day of
appropriate terrain to see what the characters encounter. Omu Encounters Encounter Ruins Palace Swamp Apes 01–05 — — Baboons 06–10 01–10 — Cannibals 11–15 — — Crocodiles — — 01–10 Dragon, faerie 16–20 11
Yuan-ti Pureblood
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
yuan-ti know they can’t resort to direct attacks in order to reclaim their rightful place in the world. Operating out of the subterranean ruins of their buildings in foreign lands, yuan-ti
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Pantara Lodge The seat of power in Valachan, Pantara Lodge is a series of thatch buildings strung together high in the forest canopy, suspended above the overgrown ruins of a castle reclaimed by the
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
, vine-covered buildings rise above the flooded streets that are now more like canals than roadways. The site is eerily quiet. The ruins have been thoroughly ransacked by the Flaming Fist in the name of
Mezro Nothing about this Chultan city is what it seems. By all accounts, Mezro was destroyed by the Spellplague, and its ruins indicate as much. In truth, the city’s immortal defenders — the barae
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Cerulean Citadel The Cerulean Citadel is the palace of the royal family. The jewel in Jadurai’s crown, it derives its name from the sky-blue sandstone used to construct its outer walls. The octagonal
, ponds, and gardens. Bas-reliefs adorn the buildings, depicting the history, heroes, and legends of the kingdom, some of which remain mysteries to the wisest scholars. The central domed court houses the
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
roofless ruins. Other buildings appear intact. The whole place is eerily silent.
A wooden sign is nailed to a post nearby. It reads: “Danger! Plant monsters and zombies! Turn back now!”
Reidoth placed the sign to discourage treasure seekers from stirring up the monsters in the area.
Ruins of Thundertree Near the place where the Neverwinter River emerges from Neverwinter Wood stands the abandoned village of Thundertree. It was once a prosperous community, wealthy from the work of
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
mystical divination pool, the complex was converted to a crypt only after his death. The crypt looks down over the ruins of the town that grew up around the magic pool to cater to those who came seeking
Diderius’s wisdom. The town once nestled into a canyon between two bluffs, but only a few ruined stone structures and the slab foundations of administrative and temple buildings now remain. Cave
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
dangers lurking there range from ancient traps and Construct guardians crafted by long-dead goblinoids to subterranean monsters that lair in the ruins. Adventures involving the remnants of the Daelkyr
the Gatekeeper druids ultimately drove the daelkyr back and held them in check, the war so destabilized the Dhakaani Empire that it soon collapsed. Ruins of cities and fortifications built during the
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Jadurai This city is thousands of years old. Here ancient structures with the architecture of previous dynasties stand alongside modern buildings. Hardly a month passes without locals rediscovering a
, but the conflict between Ramya and her siblings takes an enormous toll. Sections of the city lie in ruins, and the slums encroach farther every day as misery and squalor consume Jadurai from the inside.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Exploring the Ruins As the characters explore the necropolis, call the players’ attention to any numbered locations their characters can see; these are typically the most intact buildings. Unless the
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
, which consists of forty or fifty simple log buildings. Crumbling stone ruins surround the newer houses and shops, showing how this must have been a much larger town in centuries past.
Phandalin’s
Welcome to Phandalin The frontier town of Phandalin is built on the ruins of a much older settlement. Hundreds of years ago, the old Phandalin was a thriving human town whose people were firmly
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
series of buildings excavated out of cliffs on the Lorehold campus. Ruins and upgraded halls together are now used for research, classwork, and housing. Precarious bridges link one neighborhood of
chasm holds the excavated ruins of an ancient settlement. Several star arches encircle rocky peaks and outcroppings, testifying to the powerful magical energy in the vicinity—energy once harnessed by
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
City Sights As the characters explore the City of Lost Names, use the City Sights table to describe the ruins. City Sights d6 Sight 1 A Humanoid skeleton lies under a fallen aqueduct. It holds a
an adult bronze dragon lie in a heap between two structures. 4 A circular tower pierces a dome like a spear. 5 Vines climb a mural of the kingpriest—a stern man crowned with blazing light. 6 One side of a long fault line has risen 10 feet, shearing buildings in half.
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to new conquests. 2 Capture monsters and train them to fight. 3 Collapse a region into the Underdark so riches can be sifted from the ruins. 4 Construct a giant machine to strip resources. 5 Convince
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
mystical divination pool, the complex was converted to a crypt only after his death. The crypt looks down over the ruins of the town that grew up around the magic pool to cater to those who came seeking
Diderius’s wisdom. The town once nestled into a canyon between two bluffs, but only a few ruined stone structures and the slab foundations of administrative and temple buildings now remain. Cave
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
Arrival in Oztocan As the characters approach the town, read the following: Built on a large flat between two rocky mountains, the town of Oztocan is cradled by the crescent-shaped ruins of a massive
, whoever is carrying the shard of Xeluan feels it drawn downward, as if attracted to something underground. Simultaneously, a small tremor ripples through the town, shaking dust from buildings but
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
ruins—crumbling stone walls covered in ivy and briars—surround the newer houses and shops, showing how this must have been a much larger town in centuries past. Most of the newer buildings are set on
Part 2: Phandalin The frontier town of Phandalin is built on the ruins of a much older settlement. Hundreds of years ago, the old Phandalin was a thriving human town whose people were firmly allied






