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Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
False Appearance. While the ice piercer remains motionless on the ceiling, it is indistinguishable from a normal stalactite.
Spider Climb. The ice piercer can climb difficult surfaces, including
resemble piercer;piercers.
Clinging to the ceilings of caverns and large subterranean passages, piercers blend in perfectly with natural rock, dropping in silence to impale unsuspecting foes on the
spells
Elemental Evil Player's Companion
You choose an area of stone or mud that you can see that fits within a 40-foot cube and is within range, and choose one of the following effects.
Transmute Rock to Mud. Nonmagical rock of any
restrained condition on itself by pulling itself free of the mud.
If you cast the spell on a ceiling, the mud falls. Any creature under the mud when it falls must make a Dexterity saving throw. A creature
Baphomet
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Monsters
Out of the Abyss
natures, for Baphomet envisions a world without restraint, where creatures live out their most savage desires.
Cults devoted to Baphomet use mazes and complex knots as their emblems, creating secret
cultists become tainted by his influence, gaining bloodshot eyes and coarse, thickening hair. Small horns eventually sprout from the forehead. In time, a devoted cultist might transform entirely into a
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
want to break the confines of civility and unleash their bestial natures, for Baphomet envisions a world without restraint, where creatures live out their most bloodthirsty desires.
Cults devoted to
cultist’s forehead. In time, a devoted cultist might transform entirely into a minotaur, which is considered the greatest gift of the Prince of Beasts.
Baphomet appears as a fearsome, 20-foot-tall
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
A cult devoted to a Great Old One of the Far Realm seeks an alien monolith that can summon its master, but the site is guarded by an amethyst dragon.
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An amethyst dragon wyrmling is actually
, one in the rock face just above one tarn and one below the surface of the other tarn. The dragon uses the underwater passage as a secret entrance and emergency exit.
Main Caves. The lair is a complex
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
before swapping back.
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A cult devoted to a Great Old One of the Far Realm seeks an alien monolith that can summon its master, but the site is guarded by an amethyst dragon.
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An amethyst
flowing down toward the lowlands. The lair has the following features:
Entrances. Two cave entrances provide access to the lair, one in the rock face just above one tarn and one below the surface of
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
2/day: Mass Cure Wounds (cast at 8th level)
1/day each: Blade Barrier, Divination, Greater RestorationThe medusa can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. It can take only one
a surface such as a ceiling with no way to remain there (for example, sufficient handholds), it falls at the end of this movement.
Regional Effects
The region containing a medusa’s lair is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Narbondel The most dominant feature within the city, Narbondel is a 1,000-foot-tall column of rock that helps support the cavern ceiling. At the same time each day, the city’s Archmage (or a
trained wizards and mercenaries-for-hire 3 Faen Tlabbar Vadalma Tlabbar Fanatically devoted to Lolth 4 Mizzrym Miz’ri Mizzrym Dominates Menzoberranzan’s slave trade 5 Fey-Branche Byrtyn Fey Skilled at
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
characters can use spells such as gaseous form and misty step to move past the iron sheet. Any character who examines the barrier discovers that it slides up into the ceiling. Coiled springs provide
30. Iron Barrier Ahead of you, the face of a snarling minotaur is etched into a sheet of iron that bisects the crawlway. Its eyes have been cut out, letting you see through the sheet, beyond which
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
T6. Hovering Stone The tunnel opens into a square room. In the center of it, a black rock about a foot across hovers three feet from the floor.
A normal rock floats here because of ancient magic
that maintains an invisible floor-to-ceiling cylinder that is 10 feet wide. Visible to detect magic (transmutation school), the column enables objects placed and left in it to float where released. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
M5. Engine Room This area contains the magical workings of the monastery’s engines. This massive chamber is filled with the deafening hum and roar of machinery. Piles of rough rock ore are spread
throughout the area, around which a prisoner work gang toils in the sweltering heat. Smooth metallic columns rise to the ceiling, with open hatches set into their sides at ground level. Haggard prisoners
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
-high, 10-foot-wide rock formation shaped like a huge clawed hand thrusts up from the floor in the west end of the cave. (A secret door is built into the ceiling directly above the claw.)
The claw is
like a tiny bulbous nose. This key unlocks the iron doors of Zox Clammersham’s palace (see area 7 on level 13). The secret door in the ceiling can be reached by anyone who stands atop the rock
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Arrival in Janya As the characters near the seafloor, a pearlescent haze cuts through the darkness. Below they see a shimmering dome of light, a great magical barrier that shelters the city below. As
covered with designs marked by bioluminescent barnacles. People slip through open corridors between buildings, swimming high above the volcanic rock and coral of the seafloor below.
As the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
height from 20 to 30 feet and is covered with stalactites.
Minotaurs. Stalagmites and floor-to-ceiling columns of rock are scattered across the area, the fog flowing slowly around them. Seven
7. Minotaur Caves These caves form the main living area for the minotaurs of the Maze Level. A 2-foot-thick layer of fog covers the floor throughout. 7a. Southern Cave Ceiling. The ceiling ranges in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
barrier to many characters but easily navigated by water-breathing creatures. Obstacles can affect more than one room. A chasm might run through several passages and chambers, or send cracks through
Blade barrier blocks passage 4–8 Cave-in 9–12 Chasm 1d4 × 10 ft. wide and 2d6 × 10 ft. deep, possibly connected to other levels of the dungeon 13–14 Flooding leaves 2d10 ft. of water in the area; create
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
2. Dripping Death Whether finished stone or rough rock, the walls of these 10-foot-high areas glisten with dark, dripping water. Each of these keyed areas holds a gray ooze that pours through cracks in the ceiling to attack any creatures that enter.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Rotten Hall Features Ceiling Cracks Thin shafts of daylight and moonlight spill through tiny rock fissures, forming pools of natural light as shown on map 5.1. A Tiny creature can use these narrow
water is 3 feet deep, with the tunnel ceiling above it varying from 6 inches to 3 feet over the surface. The water is unfit for drinking.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Netheril’s Fall: Tales of Terror, Treasure, and Time Travel
its grandest parks, palaces, and plazas. Outer Platform. The Outer Platform is devoted to dwellings, commerce, and the raucous Coliseum of Karsus. It is surrounded by a wall of magical force that
servants. Underpeak. Gravity inversions allow mages to construct upside-down palaces on the surface of the rock below the city. However, the Underpeak’s cave systems are home to monsters as well as escaped magical experimentations.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
4. Loathsome Limbs Rock Formations. Stalactites and stalagmites fill this area.
Warty Limbs. Six severed troll limbs (five arms and one leg) and a decapitated troll head lie in pools of dark
, sticky blood across the floor.
Bloody Trail. A trail of large, bloody claw marks meanders around the stalactites on the ceiling, then exits to the southwest.
When the characters pass through this area
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Z1. Cave Mouth The open jaws of the wolf’s head form a fifteen-foot-high canopy of rock over the cave mouth, held up by natural pillars of rock. The ceiling rises to a height of twenty feet inside
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
9. Alarm System Sloped Roof. The ceiling is 30 feet high at the northwest end of the cave and gradually slopes down to 20 feet high as the cavern narrows into a passage that leads to area 10
.
Tripwires. The uneven rock floor is dotted with small stalagmites, between which run nearly invisible trip wires made of webbing. These web strands set off hidden rockfall traps.
The driders in area 10
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a4
15. Boiling Lake This boiling lake is several hundred feet deep, extending down to the red-hot rock below, and reaching nearly to the ceiling of the cavern it occupies, 50 feet above the level of the
, above the ledge, near the ceiling of the cavern. Any creature that enters the boiling lake takes 44 (8d10) fire damage immediately and again at the start of each of its turns for as long as it remains in the lake. Map 4.4: Boiling Lake
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
14. Auvryndar Watch Post Ceiling. The ceiling and floor in this area are uneven, the distance between them ranging from 20 to 40 feet. Three natural columns of rock support the roof.
Scouts. Two
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Natural columns of rock support the cave ceiling, the walls of which depict unfinished carvings of lanky stone giants hurling rocks. The cave is otherwise empty. 15b. Gym This cave’s walls are bereft of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Transmute Rock 5th-level transmutation Casting Time: 1 action Range: 120 feet Components: V, S, M (clay and water) Duration: Until dispelled You choose an area of stone or mud that you can see that
fits within a 40-foot cube and is within range, and choose one of the following effects. Transmute Rock to Mud. Nonmagical rock of any sort in the area becomes an equal volume of thick, flowing mud
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Transmute Rock 5th-level transmutation Casting Time: 1 action Range: 120 feet Components: V, S, M (clay and water) Duration: Until dispelled You choose an area of stone or mud that you can see that
fits within a 40-foot cube and is within range, and choose one of the following effects. Transmute Rock to Mud. Nonmagical rock of any sort in the area becomes an equal volume of thick, flowing mud
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Piercer Clinging to the ceilings of caverns and large subterranean passages, piercers blend in perfectly with natural rock, dropping in silence to impale unsuspecting foes on the ground below. A
piercer is the larval form of a roper, and the two creatures often attack in tandem. A rock-like shell encases a piercer’s body, giving it the look and texture of a stalactite. That shell protects a soft
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Fane Features The fane consists mostly of caverns, some improved by magical manipulation of the rock. The northeast portion includes chambers built by the dwarves of Besilmer, so it resembles the
. Only creatures devoted to Elemental Evil are untroubled by the sensations. Doors. Doors are made from stone slabs balanced on central pivots. Opening a door creates two openings about 3 feet wide
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
5. Demon’s Triangle Floor. The earthen floor of this cavern is covered by a 2-foot-thick layer of fog.
Pillars. Three natural pillars of rock support the 25-foot-high ceiling. The fog takes on a
) check recognizes that the paintings on the rock pillars represent Baphomet the Horned King. Madness of Baphomet Any humanoid that enters the area between the pillars or starts its turn there must
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
6. Reflections This swampy cavern has a 50-foot-high ceiling of jagged rock. Rising from the mire is an island of dry rock, upon which are the following features: Ruins and Statue. Amid the ruins of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
1. Boxed In As the characters make their way through a 10-foot-high tubular passage, a tremor shakes the area and drops part of the ceiling on them. Each party member must succeed on a DC 13
Dexterity saving throw or take 5 (1d10) bludgeoning damage from falling debris. Once the dust clears, the characters realize that fallen rock has buried both ends of the passageway. However, a new passage has
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
Valdain Museum features exhibits on magical creatures, from blink dogs and displacer beasts to a great bulette. An enormous dragon skeleton hangs from the ceiling just inside the museum entrance. Sendor
well-preserved specimens of unusual creatures, though he prefers to stuff them himself. Many whisper that the young-seeming elf dabbles in necromancy, and some speculate that he might be connected to the Order of the Emerald Claw. In fact, he is devoted to Sul Khatesh and serves the Lords of Dust.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
L5. Workshop The passage opens into an enormous cavern illuminated by several guttering torches set in sconces on the walls. The floor is uneven, and the ceiling is forty feet up. Three flat boulders
hair juts from the hood, and the figure holds a bone needle threaded with dark cord in its hand.
Farther to the west, a stone stair climbs the north wall, ending near the ceiling. A stone slab like a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
overhead. Patches of glowing fungi cling to the walls and fill the chamber with dim light. Columns of stone support the ceiling, the rock marbled with veins of glittering crystal. Across the chamber, a
Baphomet and Yeenoghu is a maze of passages that grant access to the deeper passages of the Labyrinth. The tunnel you have been following gradually widens until it opens into a cave with a high ceiling
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
columns of rock support the 30-foot-high ceiling.
Statue. In the middle of the cave stands a half-crumbled statue of a princely human clad in plate armor, his sword drawn and at the ready.
A medusa
Monster Manual.
Statues. The main cave has a 40-foot-high ceiling filled with the petrified victims of a medusa that once lived here. The drider has wrapped these statues in thick webs, creating an






