being before devour ceiling remains

Levitate

Spells Player’s Handbook

One creature or loose object of your choice that you can see within range rises vertically up to 20 feet and remains suspended there for the duration. The spell can levitate an object that weighs up

a wall or a ceiling), which allows it to move as if it were climbing. You can change the target’s altitude by up to 20 feet in either direction on your turn. If you are the target, you can move

Piercer Legacy

Monsters Monster Manual (2014)

False Appearance. While the piercer remains motionless on the ceiling, it is indistinguishable from a normal stalactite. Spider Climb. The piercer can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down

Trapper Legacy

Monsters Volo's Guide to Monsters

False Appearance. While the trapper is attached to a ceiling, floor, or wall and remains motionless, it is almost indistinguishable from an ordinary section of ceiling, floor, or wall. A creature

Trapper

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

False Appearance. If the trapper is motionless on a floor, wall, or ceiling at the start of combat, it has advantage on its initiative roll. Moreover, if a creature hasn’t observed the trapper

move or act, that creature must succeed on a DC 18 Intelligence (Investigation) check to discern that the trapper isn’t part of the floor, wall, or ceiling. Spider Climb. The trapper can climb

Piercer (Ice variant)

Monsters 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

that misses its chance to kill must make its slow way back to the ceiling. A fallen piercer excretes a foul-smelling slime when attacked, making most predators think twice about eating it. Piercers

Astral Dreadnought

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

diameter with a ceiling 100 feet high. Like a stomach, it contains the remains of past meals. The dreadnought can’t be harmed from within the demiplane. If the dreadnought dies, the demiplane

the astral mists since the dawn of the multiverse, trying to devour all other creatures they encounter. Covered from head to tail in layers of thick, spiked plates, a dreadnought has two gnarled limbs

Gnoll Witherling

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

their hunger and violent urges. Eventually, they fight among themselves. The survivors devour the flesh of their slain comrades but preserve the bones. Then, by invoking rituals to Yeenoghu they bring

the remains back to a semblance of life in the form of a gnoll witherling. Witherlings travel with their comrades and try to kill anything in their path. They don’t eat and aren’t motivated

Reverse Gravity Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

ceiling) is encountered in this fall, falling objects and creatures strike it just as they would during a normal downward fall. If an object or creature reaches the top of the area without striking

anything, it remains there, oscillating slightly, for the duration. At the end of the duration, affected objects and creatures fall back down.

Levitate Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

One creature or loose object of your choice that you can see within range rises vertically, up to 20 feet, and remains suspended there for the duration. The spell can levitate a target that weighs up

as a wall or a ceiling), which allows it to move as if it were climbing. You can change the target's altitude by up to 20 feet in either direction on your turn. If you are the target, you can move up

Psurlon Leader

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

illithids devour the victims’ brains while the psurlons consume the rest of the prey. Githyanki despise psurlons because of this alliance and attack psurlon strongholds in the Astral Sea

producing a Tiny worm. For the next seven days, the worms feed on the corpse and on each other until only one remains. This worm crawls out of the putrescent remains of its dead host as an adult psurlon.Psychic

Psurlon Ringer

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

the Material Plane, psurlons have been known to work with mind flayer;mind flayers. Together, they collect victims to feed on; the illithids devour the victims’ brains while the psurlons consume

corpse and on each other until only one remains. This worm crawls out of the putrescent remains of its dead host as an adult psurlon.Psychic

Psurlon

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

intended victims. On the Material Plane, psurlons have been known to work with mind flayer;mind flayers. Together, they collect victims to feed on; the illithids devour the victims’ brains while

worms feed on the corpse and on each other until only one remains. This worm crawls out of the putrescent remains of its dead host as an adult psurlon.Psychic

Web Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

their area. If the webs aren't anchored between two solid masses (such as walls or trees) or layered across a floor, wall, or ceiling, the conjured web collapses on itself, and the spell ends at the

. On a failed save, the creature is restrained as long as it remains in the webs or until it breaks free. A creature restrained by the webs can use its action to make a Strength check against your

Antigravity Belt

Equipment

. Activating the Belt. As a bonus action, you can expend any number of the belt’s charges to activate it; the belt remains active for 1 minute per charge expended. You can use a bonus action to deactivate

the belt early, but doing so doesn’t recover any expended charges. When you activate the belt, and as a bonus action while it remains active, you can rise or descend vertically up to 20 feet

Astral Dreadnought Legacy

Monsters Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes

resembles a stone cave roughly 1,000 feet in diameter with a ceiling 100 feet high. Like a stomach, it contains the remains of the dreadnought's past meals. The dreadnought can't be harmed from within

Transmute Rock

spells Elemental Evil Player's Companion

sort in the area becomes an equal volume of thick, flowing mud that remains for the spell’s duration. The ground in the spell’s area becomes muddy enough that creatures can sink into it

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

Bugbear Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

of the bushes and strangle you. If you stray too far from the house at night, bugbears will scoop you up to devour you in their den. If a bugbear cuts off your head, your soul stays trapped inside

. Cunning Grankhul is the younger one, and in the stories bugbears tell, he gifted them with stealth but in return he sapped their vigor, so that bugbears sleep in his stead while he remains eternally alert

Juiblex

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

of the following lair actions; it can’t take the same lair action two rounds in a row: Green Slime. A green slime (see the Dungeon Master’s Guide) appears on a spot on the ceiling that

as it remains in the slimy area or until it breaks free. The restrained creature, or another creature that can reach it, can use its action to try to break free and must succeed on a DC 21 Strength

Adult Amethyst Dragon

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

the air is cool and slightly damp. Glowing Crystals. Large clusters of glowing amethyst crystals grow out from the walls and ceiling, casting dim light in a 30-foot radius. Chimneys. Two chimneys

connect the main caves to the three chambers above. Each chimney appears to continue up through the ceiling of the upper level and down through the floor of the lower level, but the dragon’s

Ancient Amethyst Dragon

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

ceiling, casting dim light in a 30-foot radius. Chimneys. Two chimneys connect the main caves to the three chambers above. Each chimney appears to continue up through the ceiling of the upper level and

;{"diceNotation":"1d10", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Days"} days. The existing abundance of amethysts remains, but new crystals and geodes form at a normal rate.Force, PsychicChange Shape. The dragon

Juiblex Legacy

Monsters Out of the Abyss

remains in the slimy area or until it breaks free. The restrained creature, or another creature who can reach it, can use its action to try to break free and must succeed on a DC 21 Strength check

Guide) appears on a spot on the ceiling that Juiblex chooses within the lair. The slime disintegrates after 1 hour. Regional Effects The region containing Juiblex’s lair is warped by its

Hierophant Medusa

Monsters The Book of Many Things

martyrs’ remains until the martyrs are called back to life to oppose a world-changing foe. 2 Gather the lost shards of a dead god’s petrified body, and reunite them on the altar in the

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

7. Minotaur Caves

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

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

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

Abandoned Temple

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros

than one piece 8 Floating in an unstable parallel reality (SAM BURLEY) Abandoned Temple Adventures An abandoned temple might contain records, special items, and humanoid remains, any

the ancient secrets hidden inside. 3 Retrieve the remains of a dead humanoid from the temple. 4 Kill monsters infesting the temple. 5 Find a replacement for the temple’s current

13. Back Door

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

automatically close and lock. The ceiling here is 10 feet high. The mind flayers use this back door to their fortress as a means of escape, in case the colony is overrun by githyanki or other invaders. 13a

. Treasury Two chests carved from zurkhwood sit atop low stone tables against the west wall of this room. Treasure. The chests contain treasure that the mind flayers use to bribe creatures they can’t devour

Temple Features

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves

Temple Features Unless otherwise specified, the temple has the following features. Ceilings The temple’s passages and rooms are 20 feet high everywhere except area T13, where the ceiling is 30 feet

marked on Map: Temple of Orcus is Difficult Terrain. Skeletal Remains The skeletal remains of the original cultists are marked on Map: Temple of Orcus. Searching a cultist’s remains requires a Search

X3. Empty Barracks

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd

X3. Empty Barracks Shattered bits of wood cover the floor of this frigid, twenty-foot-square room. The ceiling in each of these rooms is 10 feet high. The wood is all that remains of guards’ bunks. A secret door set in one wall of each room can be pulled open to reveal area X2a or X2b beyond.

X39. Plundered Treasury

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd

X39. Plundered Treasury The amber doors that once sealed this great stone room have been smashed, their pieces lying amid crushed bones, armor, and weapons. The ceiling here is 30 feet high and flat

. A 10-foot-square hole in the northwest corner of the ceiling magically forms if the iron chest in area X26 is opened. An amber golem once stood guard here, but it escaped after thieves broke into the

21. Giant Spider Hatchery

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

21. Giant Spider Hatchery Webs. Thick webs fill the corners, shroud the ceiling, and smother the rotted remains of old furnishings. Spiders and Eggs. Four giant spiders guard a large cluster of

24. Collapsed Areas

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

sixteen troglodytes in varying stages of decay. Feasting on the remains are seven drow ghouls that were created by Vlonwelv to devour the dead. The ghouls retreat into the back tunnels when one or more drow enter the room. If a drow is not among those who enter, the ghouls attack.

Psurlons

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Boo’s Astral Menagerie

work with mind flayers. Together, they collect victims to feed on; the illithids devour the victims’ brains while the psurlons consume the rest of the prey. Githyanki despise psurlons because of this

more eggs inside it. These eggs hatch 24 hours later, each one producing a Tiny worm. For the next seven days, the worms feed on the corpse and on each other until only one remains. This worm crawls out of the putrescent remains of its dead host as an adult psurlon.

15. Boiling Lake

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a4

, 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

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

K69. Guards' Quarters

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd

K69. Guards’ Quarters Sickly, yellow lichen covers the ceiling of this cold, damp, ten-foot-wide passage running east and west. Opening off both sides of this passage are ten-foot-square alcoves that

contain rotting cots, rags, and the skeletal remains of castle guards. A deathly silence fills the hall. The yellow lichen is harmless. When one or more characters reach the midpoint of the hall, ten human skeletons leap from the alcoves and attack.

32. Hidden Trapdoor

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd

32. Hidden Trapdoor The staircase ends at a landing with a 6-foot-high ceiling of close-fitting planks with a wooden trapdoor set into it. The trapdoor is bolted shut from this side and can be pushed

open to reveal the den (area 3) above. Development Once the trapdoor has been found and opened, it remains available to characters as a way into and out of the dungeon level.

X38. Haunted Room

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd

X38. Haunted Room This room, once a bedchamber, is littered with broken furnishings. Scattered about the room are the remains of a bed, a wardrobe, two trunks, three tall candlesticks, a desk, a

bookshelf, and several chairs. Torn-up books, old quill pens, and tattered clothes are also strewn about. The ceiling here is 10 feet high. A poltergeist (see the specter entry in the Monster Manual

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