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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
smaller chases, resolve each chase separately. You can keep all the creatures in Initiative order, but track the distances separately for each group.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
the unignorable, burning eye called Klorr. Thirteen stars orbit this sun-like sphere, one winking out every hour. Each time one of the stars dies, one of the domain’s ruined islands is drawn into Klorr
the hours until their end. Few know how they came to Klorr or when new islands are added to the cycle, only that the Mists closed in and doomed them. Amid the realm’s surreal skies float the ruins of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
burning with a mixture of dried offal and fungus.)
The shacks are made from rocks mortared with mud. The bullywugs found here are busy raising young, mending nets, cooking, or working on other domestic
necessities. They and the giant frogs are quick to respond to calls for aid from area 19. Harmless cave fish swim in the deep water around the island. The pool at the island’s center is closed off by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
centuries. Though most inhabitants reside in the city or the surrounding hills, more stalwart folk brave the Burning Dunes, where kenku scavengers scour the ruins of old civilizations and rocs soar
over adobe settlements like massive vultures. Akharin Sangar has all but closed its gates to the rest of the world. Outsiders often surmise the city-state is full of zealots as severe as the city’s angel
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
Charisma (Performance) checks. If successful, a character realizes that the raiders are making a demonstration of starting a fire, but it’s for show. A few fires are burning around the building, but
they could be extinguished easily. This act of burning the mill is a ruse. Mondath has been informed that heroes are aiding the town, and she wants to lure them into an ambush. More raiders — one
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
) or Charisma (Performance) checks. If successful, a character realizes that the raiders are making a demonstration of starting a fire, but it’s for show. A few fires are burning around the building
, but they could be extinguished easily. This act of burning the mill is a ruse. Mondath has been informed that heroes are aiding the town, and she wants to lure them into an ambush. More raiders—one
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
secret door hidden there on a success. The guildhouse complex’s secret doors have well-oiled hinges, allowing them to be opened and closed quietly. Floors The upper floors, stable loft, and porches are
, rooms and hallways are dimly lit by low-burning lanterns. Guild members carry light sources with them when they descend into the basement, which is unlit. Walls The exterior walls are made of wood. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
. There are ways to resolve these problems, but the answers aren’t always simple or obvious. There can certainly be times when decisions are straightforward. If the Emerald Claw is about to detonate a
you need to repay and, if so, do you need to resolve this in a week or in a year? Did you make a tragic mistake, and if so, is it something you can ever undo? The Regrets table provides a few examples
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
. Trapped Fellow Gricks. Five gricks lurk in the diagonal hallway to the south. They attack all who enter.
Trapped Adventurer. The sound of weeping comes from behind a closed door in the west wall
care. Treasure. The stolen spellbook contains the following spells: blight, burning hands, comprehend languages, darkvision, dispel magic, false life, feign death, gust of wind, invisibility
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Caer Locations (C1-C9) Map 1.4: Keep at Caer-DinevalView Player Version The following locations are keyed to map 1.4. C1. Main Gate Two lowered iron portcullises and two sets of closed wooden doors
abound, and the cultists keep a fire burning in the hearth. Standing outside the door to the speaker’s office (area C9) is a sadistic little klutz (human cultist) named Thoob, whose job is to serve at
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
pursuers to either divide their forces or allow some of the quarry to escape. If a pursuit splits into several smaller chases, resolve each chase separately. Run a round of one chase, then a round of
the next, and so on, tracking the distances for each separate group. Mapping the Chase If you have the opportunity to plan out a chase, take the time to draw a rough map that shows the route. Insert
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
against the pirates because he tried to rescue important books and scrolls from the burning abbey, and a collapsing hall closed a doorway behind him. He was forced to abandon the written works, and he
ran through the burning building to save his spell scrolls and other valuables. As the flames mounted, Odium was forced to retreat to the cellars with his rescued goods. He is a grumbler and annoys
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Gromph’s Outer Sanctum The black marble door to Gromph Baenre’s chambers is etched with silvery runes around its edge and closed with an arcane lock keyed to him. Picking the lock requires a
drow warrior stands behind the desk against one wall. Burning red candles are set about the room in holders made from skeletal hands.
Continual flame spells have been cast on the dozen candles in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
spirit of Macreadus manifests as a giant, floating, spectral head with fire burning in its eyes. Arrogant in life, Macreadus remains so in death. He’s snappy and egotistical, blaming everything but
solid surfaces that are visible on the Material Plane to explore closed-off parts of the cabin; it is bound to the cabin, however, and can’t move more than 30 feet away from it. The spirit can make
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
in themselves. A map of Gorewood and an overview of the locations within this Abyssal realm appear later in this chapter. Depending on your players’ actions, the characters might resolve their final
: Burning Corpse. When the creature dies, its body is reduced to a pile of smoldering embers in the space where it fell. The ashes take 1 minute to cool. Until then, a creature takes 3 (1d6) fire damage when
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
be long delayed as a result, but the portal’s opening on the other plane remains a lurking threat until it is closed. As more demons find and use the portal, the Abyss becomes strongly linked to the
world, and the region’s transformation grows more extreme. The odd but still mundane weather gives way to storms that drop burning embers, or winds that shriek in all directions, seizing living
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Divine Contention
allied troops using spears and bows to fend off a horde of ghouls swarming from the darkness. All along the ramparts, burning torches struggle to provide illumination for your forces. As you watch
. From beyond, you hear the roaring of barbarians.
The anchorites of Talos are using a battering ram to demolish the burning gate. Each time they spot a defender on the wall, the barbarians hurl
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
losing to Karg. When the party arrives, he calls out, “I wanna play dese li’l guys! Hey, puny-bones! Wanna play?” If a character accepts the challenge, resolve the outcome of each game with an
Undercommon, and is blessed by Imix. The blessing grants the minotaur immunity to fire damage as well as the following additional action option: Burning Breath (Recharge 5–6). The minotaur exhales a cloud
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
the east wall stands an overstuffed couch. An rectangular table turned on its side blocks a closed door on the south wall.
Four kenku cutpurses working for Daask hide in two groups of two: one group
: A frantic gnoll is picking up papers from the floor to throw into a burning brazier at the center of the room. Beyond the brazier, Sergeant Vilroy is bound at the hands and feet with rope, lying
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
paint or carvings once adorned the sign have been all but worn away. Inside, the place shows the same lack of care. It’s dirty, ill kept, and in need of a thorough cleaning. Or burning. The place is
several anvils, but the rest of the structure is closed off. Maza Fieldsalder (N female human commoner) took over the smithy a year ago, after the death of her master, Alger Frakk. As the master smith’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
closed wooden chest. In the center of the room is a long wooden table with two wooden benches beside it.
Four lizardfolk appear to be gathering their weapons and readying to leave this area.
There
stacked in wooden racks against the north wall. Three large wooden chests, all closed, line the east wall.
The unlocked chests contain the following weapons: 10 clubs 10 longswords 10 morningstars 7
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
forward. Just get everyone inside. You’ll make it work. Once closed, the door cannot be opened or damaged. Teleportation and other modes of extradimensional travel fail in the Dran & Courtier, and
one of the common room tables, while a young male and female human and an elderly female human sit at another. A fireplace occupies the corner closest to the door, burning brightly, and a chandelier
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
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
no locks, as the salamanders melted them closed. Each manacle has AC 19, 10 hit points, and immunity to poison and psychic damage, or can be broken as an action with a successful DC 18 Strength
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
candlestick with three burning candles provides the room with bright light. The candles, though not fresh, are far from spent.
Under the table is a small wooden box and an unlit bullseye lantern with a
movable shutter over the lens.
On a shelf above the table sit three books. In the northeast corner is a closed wooden wardrobe.
If the characters have avoided alerting the smugglers to their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
, intact stone door leads out to the east.
The fresco on the west wall depicts an enormous red dragon exhaling fire over a forested landscape. Several burning villages appear in distinct scenes
carrying a silver sword. Ozzadraz rests in suspended animation within it. The sarcophagus has the magical property of casting the Sequester spell on any willing creature inside it when the lid is closed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
“HANDLE WITH CARE.” A closed door offers a way into a walled-in area to the northwest. A mechanical lift stands along the south wall to the east, and two iron spiral staircases rise from the
deals 28 (8d6) fire damage to each creature in the warehouse, or half damage to creatures that succeed on a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw. Every creature that starts its turn in the burning warehouse
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
champions of Dhakaan fought fiercely. But in the end, it was the orc Gatekeeper druids who closed the portals to Xoriat and drove the daelkyr into Khyber. The Gatekeepers crafted seals to hold both
, but tunnels also connect its realm to Xen’drik. Adventurers can potentially cross great distances quickly by passing through a daelkyr’s domain. Unfathomable Evil. The daelkyr are utterly alien, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
orange lightning release a deluge of fiery droplets. Any creature caught in the burning rain takes 2d6 fire damage at the start of each of its turns. The droplets ignite any flammable objects that
sites on the same world or on different planes of existence. Unearthly roads allow creatures to cross great distances rapidly, moving from an entrance gate to an exit gate or visa versa. These paths
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
humanoid blood is spilled on any page, Infernal text on that page becomes legible, remaining so until the book is closed. The blood remains even after the text vanishes. Any character with the Ritual
closed. Otherwise, it’s locked shut, and Victoro and Ammalia carry the only keys. When the characters first open the door, read: You are greeted with a wave of incoherent howling, as if opening the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
lock, burning hands, comprehend languages, counterspell, darkvision, dimension door, find familiar, levitate, sending, and unseen servant. (You can replace any of these spells with a spell of the same
. In addition, Ered’s spellbook contains burning hands, knock, and lightning bolt; Havi’s spellbook contains charm person, detect thoughts, and major image; and Savara’s spellbook contains comprehend
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Superiority Die to bolster the resolve of a companion. Choose an ally of yours within 30 feet of yourself who can see or hear you. That creature gains Temporary Hit Points equal to the Superiority Die roll
start, choose three level 1 spells from the Wizard spell list. Burning Hands, Jump, and Shield are recommended. The number of spells on your list increases as you gain Fighter levels, as shown in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
patron. Bane’s clerics wield black maces with heads shaped to look like a closed fist. Cult Ranks. Bane’s cultists operate according to strict military hierarchies. The lowest rank consists of the fists
prepared:
Cantrips (at will): chill touch (see “Actions” below), mage hand, message, prestidigitation
1st level (4 slots): burning hands, detect magic, ray of sickness (see “Actions” below), shield
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
goblins also shout to alert their comrades in areas C4 and area C6 that the castle is under attack. C2: Trapped Hall Doors stand closed to the north and south, with a crumbling mound of rubble
hanging on the walls, and a brazier of coals burning brightly. A large bed stands to the north, and a round table with several chairs stands to the south near the door. Near the table, on the floor, is an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
attack. 2. Trapped Hall Once the castle’s foyer, this wide hall makes a dangerous battleground. Doors stand closed to the north and south, with a crumbling mound of rubble partially obscuring the
space, with thick furs thrown on the floor to serve as carpets, old trophies hanging on the walls, a large bed to the north, and a brazier of coals burning brightly. A round table with several chairs
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
! We’re all trapped, but perhaps we can help each other?”
This box canyon on the plane of Elysium tests the compassion and resolve of those trapped within. Six centaurs who speak Common were exploring
demons emerge, whichever comes first. The portal can be closed early through any of the following means: Closing the Book. A character within 5 feet of the altar can close the book as an action with a






