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Astarion's Book of Hungers
this damage and then buried rises the following sunset as a Vampire Spawn under the vampire’s control.
Spellcasting. The vampire casts one of the following spells, using Intelligence as the
course it is.
—Astarion on Vampire Infernalists
Vampire Infernalist Lairs
Vampire infernalists lurk in gloomy libraries or ritual chambers, far from the sun’s light. The region
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
presence reveals a glimpse of its otherworldly nature to a creature it can see within 30 feet of itself. The target must succeed on a DC 22 Wisdom saving throw or have the paralyzed condition until
members of the villain’s organization deal poison damage while within 3 miles of the lair, they ignore the target’s resistance to poison damage.
If the villain dies, these effects fade over the course of 1d10;{"diceNotation":"1d10", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Days"} days.Necrotic, Radiant
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
. Characters searching this space find a few old, abandoned bird’s nests. Fortunes of Ravenloft If your card reading reveals that a treasure is here, it’s easy to find, either tucked in a bird’s nest or buried under some dirt in a corner.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Auril’s Everlasting Rime Auril’s decision to live among mortals is explained in appendix C. What the characters discover in the course of the adventure is that she’s unhappy and craves isolation. Her
state, she can be defeated or forced to reckon with her cruel indifference toward life. Anyone who hopes to reach the Netherese city buried in the ice must first visit Auril’s island and obtain The
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
renowned for its sauna, until the dragon turtle supplying the steam escaped and started rampaging through the palace.
6
A millennium ago, a fabled sword was buried at sea with its wielder. Now the
water within 6 miles of the dragon turtle’s lair to 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
If the dragon turtle dies, these effects fade over the course of 1d10;{"diceNotation":"1d10","rollType":"roll
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
reveals that a treasure is here, it’s buried in the barrel of sand. Emptying the barrel or digging through the sand reveals the treasure without the need for a check.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
(Insight) check reveals that the statues once depicted drow. 29b. Wraith This Way This room is deathly cold and contains the following: Undead. A wraith and three specters haunt the room. They attack all
corpse wears a chain shirt, clutches a shortsword, and packs a hand crossbow with 1d20 bolts. Painting Trap. A detect magic spell reveals an aura of necromancy magic around the painting. If anyone
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
is your quest? Over the course of your isolation you became something of a tourist attraction; a gnome merchant used to sell plaster statues of you on your pillar.
2 You spent your life in a
workings of the universe?
4 You’re a librarian. You’ve spent your entire life in the labyrinth of books below Morgrave University. A few weeks ago you stumbled on a secret buried in the vaults
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
confounding curio during short rests or while traveling. Sand-combing adventurers might find an incomprehensible message in a bottle that, when decoded, reveals itself to be a treasure map. The
riddles. A lich might enchant the statues outside her innermost sanctum to ask a magical riddle before opening the way. The strange poem on a tombstone could be a clue to the whereabouts of a buried
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
. Closer inspection and a successful DC 10 Wisdom (Perception) check reveals that the corpses buried there crawled out of the earth. Of the missing corpses there is no sign, but the surrounding fence is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
. Blood runs down the northwestern wall, outlining the hidden alcove. This part of the wall has AC 16, 20 hit points, and immunity to poison and psychic damage. Opening the alcove reveals a cramped space
packed with those Mara buried in her castle’s walls, specifically two boneless (see chapter 5) and the corpse of Dalk Dranzorg. Dranzorg has the statistics of a revenant with one exception: his
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
your card reading reveals that a treasure is here, it is buried in one of the graves. For each grave the characters dig up, there’s a cumulative 10 percent chance of finding the treasure.
Vistani encampment. The gallows stand atop a rotting platform 5 feet high, with wooden stairs leading up to it. Eleven graves are here with blank gravestones. The forgotten people buried here were hanged
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
adventure in the jungles of Q’barra. Or you hunt Emerald Claw agents on the lightning rail, creeping through one train car after another. Or you chart another adventurous course on the war-torn continent of
a heavily armored warforged stands guard Building on the book’s introduction, this chapter reveals how you can create a character shaped by Eberron and its war-filled history. The chapter offers you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
The Relic Lecture During an early Advanced Arcane History course that all the characters are attending, Dean Tullus displays a relic she discovered during a recent expedition. Read or paraphrase the
understanding the truth of the past might we learn lessons applicable to our magic in the present. Take this, for example.” The professor reveals a translucent orb. Within it a coil of green mist endlessly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
. Masquerade Developments d8 Event 1 A student approaches the character and asks them to dance. The student reveals their feelings, those of another student, or some secret to the character during the
are less flattering. 8 The character notices Dean Tullus watching them intently several times in the course of the evening.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
around Red Larch reveals the following rumors. The Mirabar delegation was last seen in the town of Beliard. This information comes from a caravan guard in the Helm at Highsun and an itinerant priest
appeared on a windswept hilltop in the Sumber Hills, a few miles outside of town. The shepherd Larmon Greenboot found them, and he has no idea who would have been buried out there in the last few days
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
create an anchored rope ladder that allows them to easily traverse an access shaft. Assuming they follow this course of action, no ability checks are required to climb the shaft. It simply takes time
. Miken Haverstance
Human Cadet
An apprentice wizard, Miken (MICK-unn) constantly worries about whether he has the right skills to graduate from the Academy. When his nose isn’t buried in a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
settles and buries creatures in it. A creature buried in this way is blinded and restrained and has total cover. The creature gains one level of exhaustion for every 5 minutes it spends buried in the snow
this check three times can’t attempt to dig itself out again. A creature that is not restrained or incapacitated can spend 1 minute freeing another creature buried in the snow. Once free, that creature
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
they wander off course? How do you avoid creating a boring play session of uninterrupted slogging across a rocky wasteland? One solution is to think of an outdoor setting in the same way you think
uneven ground. Valleys and ridges channel travel in certain directions. Mountain ranges present forbidding barriers traversed only by remote passes. Even the most trackless desert reveals favored
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
the dingy is a human youngster in danger. Changing course to save the ship delays the characters’ arrival in Grakenok (see the “Arriving in Grakenok” section). The characters might be traveling close
occupant eventually fade from view and don’t reappear. Whirlwyrm Spotted A giant splash reveals another whirlwyrm (use the giant crocodile stat block) swimming near the characters. If sailing characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
with a successful DC 15 Intelligence (Nature) check, but only from the base of the steps, not from atop the ledge. Likewise, a careful inspection of the path reveals that only the left trail sees heavy
steps; on an odd roll, the character triggers the trap. A character who is actively looking for a trap on the stairs can find the trapped step with a successful DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check. The kobolds and guards know where to avoid stepping, of course.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
with a successful DC 15 Intelligence (Nature) check, but only from the base of the steps, not from atop the ledge. Likewise, a careful inspection of the path reveals that only the left trail sees heavy
steps; on an odd roll, the character triggers the trap. A character who is actively looking for a trap on the stairs can find the trapped step with a successful DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check. The kobolds and guards know where to avoid stepping, of course.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
embezzled gold to his dead wife’s family. Renaer Neverember would be horrified but not surprised to learn the truth. The cemetery is buried in snow, and though some visitors are drawn to its scenic beauty
they learn more about the Brandath family. A day’s research followed by a successful DC 10 Intelligence (Investigation) check reveals that the characters know one such person: Renaer Neverember. If they
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
. An otyugh feeds on the corpses and is presently buried under the heap in the southwest corner. Any character who succeeds on a DC 14 Wisdom (Perception) check spots the creature’s eyestalk poking up
protrudes from the north wall. Any close inspection reveals that its nostrils contain hollow cavities, each one containing a stone lever. A pulled lever locks into place and can’t be moved until it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
god. Each cube weighs half a pound. A detect magic spell or similar effect reveals an aura of abjuration magic around each cube. The puzzle cubes can’t be destroyed by any means. If they’re discarded
, buried, or taken more than a mile outside Omu, they teleport back to their resting places inside their respective shrines. If the characters return to a previously cleared shrine, there’s a cumulative
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
thorns prick the wielder for 1 piercing damage after the attack is made, and this damage is considered magical. Fortunes of Ravenloft If your card reading reveals that a treasure is here, it’s buried
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes’ Feast: Saving the Children’s Menu
Detect Magic spell reveals that a faint aura of enchantment magic emanates from the seeds. Arthur’s Grave West of the house is a small graveyard with three simple graves. The graves lack headstones or any
other way to identify who is buried there. Two of the graves are many years old, but one is newer, the dirt still fresh and heaped in an untidy pile. Plucked wildflowers lie atop this grave; although
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
names eventually repeat). Buried beneath each tombstone is a coffin that either is empty or contains an illusion of Strahd’s corpse. Correct Exit. A character who reads the headstones finds one bearing
their own name. A character can exit this haunted zone by disinterring the empty coffin buried beneath a headstone bearing the character’s name, opening the coffin, and lying in it. Failed Exit. If a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
broke in half during its descent, its bow section gone missing but its stern plunged backward into the seafloor like a spike.
The sandy bed around the wreckage is scattered with partially buried
around the ship, they discover the tip of a stone slab sticking up above the muck and ooze. The rest of the slab is buried. If it is pulled out (requiring a successful DC 15 Strength check), it is found
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
monsters into the tower. Soapwort’s chamber has long since caved in, and his bed is buried underneath a pile of rubble. Characters who spend at least 30 minutes clearing the wreckage discover humanoid
adventurers long ago. Close examination reveals that each statue has a vandalized magical symbol carved into its back. Characters who succeed on a DC 15 Intelligence (Arcana) check identify these as sigils of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
tomes, all of them signed copies of a storybook called Snow Dwarf and the Seven Wights, by Nitch Rackmay. Fortunes of Ravenloft If your card reading reveals that a treasure is here, it’s buried in a random pile of treasure (roll a d6).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
inspection reveals roots sprouting from the ground around its base. These roots are part of the Gulthias tree in area Y4. They wrap around the statue, providing added support and durability. The roots
descendants of the ancient mountain tribe whose members are buried on this hill and all covered head to toe in bluish-gray mud. They have long, tangled hair and wild-looking eyes. To honor their dark “god
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
2. Giants’ Lodge This two-story lodge is partially buried in the ice. It has three possible entrances: the main entrance on the ground floor (leading to area 2A), an ice tunnel that leads to a door
(Perception) check reveals a small pouch hanging from the tooth of a white dragon head mounted on the wall above the empty crates. The pouch contains six 100 gp gemstones. 2B. Sleeping Quarters Each of these
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
1. Amphitheater and Environs The amphitheater once stood at the center of a magnificent city, the rest of which lies buried under the sand. The walls have abundant cracks and other handholds
“Siege Equipment” section in chapter 8 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide. Mystics’ Camp Three tents surround a smoldering campfire southeast of the amphitheater. A search of the camp reveals one empty
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
experience points for the ghost only if they lay Ulrich’s spirit to rest, not if they defeat the ghost in combat. Fortunes of Ravenloft If your card reading reveals that a treasure is hidden in Berez
seek.” Characters who follow Ulrich’s directions end up at area U5. Cellar Buried under rubble inside the mansion is a stone staircase that leads down to an intact cellar. A single character can clear