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Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Overheat. When the maschin-i-bozorg is reduced to 0 hit points, its power source overloads, briefly superheating its outer shell. Each creature within 10 feet of the maschin-i-bozorg must make a DC
":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage and has the prone condition.
If the maschin-i-bozorg remains in the prone creature’s space, the creature also has the restrained condition until it’s no longer in
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
worshipers dedicated to Pharika previously hoarded secrets and engaged in dark rituals.
Island of Potent Magic. Although Skathos’s location remains a mystery, stories tell of the island’s
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Hythonia briefly animates creatures that have been petrified by her gaze. Each statue attacks one creature within 5 feet of it, with a +11 bonus to hit and dealing 10 (3d6);{"diceNotation":"3d6
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3
skeletal remains of the losers of a previous game of pelota in this area. Atop the bones rest several figurines and a plaque, all made of jade, and a glistening black ball 1 foot in diameter. Cursed
wall, and the depression in the wall briefly glows orange. After the second such occurrence, the ball will break off its attacks. A sound like that of a trumpet indicates that the game is about to
Delerium Chip
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Constitution saving throw or take 8d6 radiant damage and become blinded for 1 round. The smell of ozone fills the area, and wood transforms into glass.
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Echoes of possible realities are briefly
An extraplanar creature is summoned and remains for 1 hour. The DM either chooses the creature or determines it randomly. It is friendly to the creature who triggered the anomaly.
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Delerium Geode
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Constitution saving throw or take 8d6 radiant damage and become blinded for 1 round. The smell of ozone fills the area, and wood transforms into glass.
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Echoes of possible realities are briefly
An extraplanar creature is summoned and remains for 1 hour. The DM either chooses the creature or determines it randomly. It is friendly to the creature who triggered the anomaly.
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Delerium Massive Cluster
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Constitution saving throw or take 8d6 radiant damage and become blinded for 1 round. The smell of ozone fills the area, and wood transforms into glass.
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Echoes of possible realities are briefly
An extraplanar creature is summoned and remains for 1 hour. The DM either chooses the creature or determines it randomly. It is friendly to the creature who triggered the anomaly.
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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
party, The adult bears chase down fleeing prey. The young bear remains in the cave. area 4 1 stone giant The giant pursues fleeing enemies but otherwise remains here. area 5 2 stone giants The giants
pursue fleeing enemies but otherwise remain here. area 6 1 stone giant If the giant hears the roc screeching in area 2, it investigates. Otherwise it remains here. area 9 2 stone giants, 16 mountain
Delerium Fragment
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Constitution saving throw or take 8d6 radiant damage and become blinded for 1 round. The smell of ozone fills the area, and wood transforms into glass.
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Echoes of possible realities are briefly
An extraplanar creature is summoned and remains for 1 hour. The DM either chooses the creature or determines it randomly. It is friendly to the creature who triggered the anomaly.
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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
hit points, its power source overloads, briefly superheating its outer shell. Each creature within 10 feet of the maschin-i-bozorg must make a DC 16 Constitution saving throw, taking 7 (2d6) fire damage
the prone condition.
If the maschin-i-bozorg remains in the prone creature’s space, the creature also has the restrained condition until it’s no longer in the same space as the maschin-i-bozorg. While
Delerium Crystal
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Constitution saving throw or take 8d6 radiant damage and become blinded for 1 round. The smell of ozone fills the area, and wood transforms into glass.
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Echoes of possible realities are briefly
An extraplanar creature is summoned and remains for 1 hour. The DM either chooses the creature or determines it randomly. It is friendly to the creature who triggered the anomaly.
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Delerium Shard
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Constitution saving throw or take 8d6 radiant damage and become blinded for 1 round. The smell of ozone fills the area, and wood transforms into glass.
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Echoes of possible realities are briefly
An extraplanar creature is summoned and remains for 1 hour. The DM either chooses the creature or determines it randomly. It is friendly to the creature who triggered the anomaly.
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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
villagers tried to protect themselves by sleeping with weapons and taking shifts on watch, but nothing changed. Traveling in groups didn’t help, since a companion might vanish while even briefly out of
inhabitants. They wonder whether it would be worth hiring adventurers to see if anything remains of the village—particularly the platinum ore. Sketched on the back of the last page is a rough map of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
calls “Lefty,” was later animated as a crawling claw. The disembodied hand can play instruments and communicate using simple gestures. If Topolah is in sight, Captain Gargenhale’s posture briefly slumps
come to drive a stake through my heart, you’ll have to return it first.”
After making introductions, the vampirate captain confesses that his flagship and its crew are all that remains of his fleet
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
brilliant as stained-glass windows, and alighting briefly to drop off and pick up excited passengers.
Near the entrance, a small, smiling tree turns your way and beckons you over. A red squirrel clings
an awakened tree (see the Monster Manual), except they can’t speak. An animated tree acts as an ally of the treant. The tree remains animate for 1 day or until it dies, until the treant dies or is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Birth of a Beholder Beholders can produce others of their own kind, but the process has nothing to do with biology and everything to do with psychology. When a beholder sleeps, its body goes briefly
remains unabated. A death tyrant’s paranoia about its enemies tends to be related to how it fears it will be destroyed, and its plans take that fear into account. For example, a death tyrant who imagined
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
the same name once stood near where the town of Daggerford is now. Yvandre knows also that her uncle suffered briefly from a magical malady that produced strange writing on his skin, and which he
shot through with dry rot and crumbles when handled. What remains of the parchment afterward displays writing in Machil’s hand, which reads: “… stairs among the surface ruins of Delimbiyran and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
previous ruler, Tovus Gilaf (lawful evil githzerai zerth), who remains imprisoned somewhere within the fiendish manor. Villigus aims to divide and immiserate the populace with his cruelty, reeling Curst
the characters to free Tovus Gilaf from the burgomaster’s estate. 3 A Mercykiller bloodhound (see Morte’s Planar Parade) arrives in town, searching for a fugitive who looks exactly like one of the characters. 4 The gate to Carceri briefly ruptures, releasing a host of destructive fomorians on Curst.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
to short-circuit and rapidly overheat, frying the electronics within—and Aphelion along with them. As Aphelion fades from existence, the computer briefly sings the following coda in an artificial tone
the skeletons of long-dead crew members. Only one survivor remains. A scientist lies in cryogenic sleep within one of the pods. The pod’s interior is coated in a thin layer of frost, but a character
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Gate, which handles most landgoing traffic, including land-based trade; and Farmers’ Gate, which remains open at nearly all times, but is wide enough only to let one wagon or cart pass at a time. A
down the centuries.
Ruins of these kingdoms are scattered throughout the North, and many present-day cities and towns are built atop their remains, sometimes with their residents ignorant of what lies
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
. Trigger. This trap activates as soon as a non-undead creature enters the hallway, and it remains active while any non-undead creature is within the hall. Initiative. The trap acts on initiative count 20
to make a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw, which ends the frightened condition on itself on a success. Dynamic Elements. The blades and the rune become more dangerous the longer the trap remains active
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
sect of worshipers dedicated to Pharika previously hoarded secrets and engaged in dark rituals. Island of Potent Magic. Although Skathos’s location remains a mystery, stories tell of the island’s magical
Actions. On initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), Hythonia can take a lair action to cause one of the following effects. She can’t use the same effect two rounds in a row: Hythonia briefly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
a demigod. After he ascended to godhood, Raxivort forged a realm called the Black Sewers, within Pandesmos, the topmost layer of Pandemonium. He enjoyed his divine ascension only briefly, though
Raxivort’s location instead point to the nearest xvart. Although the initial rush of enemies against him has subsided, Raxivort knows that the planar powers are patient. He remains in hiding, a wretch of a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
City Celebrations At many times of year, hardly a tenday can pass in Waterdeep without the staging of some rite, race, or rousing ceremony of civic pride. Here I briefly summarize the most widely
existed in a number of forms since the first trade-meets occurred here more than two millennia ago, and an uncountable amount of wealth remains sunken in what has long been known as Umberlee’s Cache. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
fear of what evil they might release into the world. The fort remains sealed today, and guards occupy a fortified encampment nearby to patrol this area and serve as a deterrent to adventurers and
note are located within the borders of Elturgard. I describe three of them briefly here. Berdusk. A large population of artisans drives the activity in the city of Berdusk. Its native nobility, the so
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Several short, iron bed frames are jumbled together in this room. Nothing remains of any bedding. An opening to the south leads to an alcove containing only two long tables and a splintered chair.
To
the west, a door bearing a painted red “X” opens to a long hallway that leads deeper into the crossing.
Ashes and burn marks on the floor indicate past campfires. Remains of wooden chairs in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
briefly with the characters, eventually it loses control and attacks, slamming the characters with pseudopods that manifest from the floor or walls. The characters attack it by targeting the floor or
. The Ooze Master is a sort of lich. If destroyed, he remains in the red pillar but doesn’t regain consciousness. His unconscious form whispers as if dreaming. The Ooze Master dies only if the Phylactery
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Tablets of Fate from the overgod Ao and use them to rule over Faerûn and its gods. They failed and were slain during the Time of Troubles. Since then, a variety of contingency plans they had in place
it up, and creates a skull that includes the resulting dust. So long as the soul remains inside the skull, the skull’s eye sockets burn with cold blue flames. While the skull is intact, Myrkul can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
skulls shattered and caved in.
The bones are the remains of three duergar, ghastly remnants of the illithids’ invasion long ago. A character who studies the bodies and succeeds on a DC 16
to feast on the remains and waste of the illithids’ prisoners; however, the aberrant energy exuded by the mind flayers warped the otyughs and their descendants. Now this mutated otyugh gorges itself
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Iriolarthas and his apprentices retrieved from the bottom of the Sea of Moving Ice. During a routine examination, the spindle briefly became active, dispelled magical effects throughout Ythryn, and
cold have not been kind to them.
Most of the books and scrolls that litter the floor have been ruined by centuries of disuse, but adventurers who search the remains unearth two survivors: a scroll
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
reveals that each one contains what appears to be a 10-foot cube of ice. One of the cubes has a humanoid skeleton—the remains of High Evoker Zadulus—suspended inside it. These blocks of ice are, in
, nothing happened. Through no fault of her own, she had become a statue permanently. Only a wish spell can restore her, and then only briefly as she ages centuries in a matter of seconds. Characters who
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Tour of the Planes Each of the thirteen planes in Eberron’s cosmology is briefly described below, both in general terms as well as by the effects that occur or appear on the Material Plane in
area and the damage might both increase. 4 Devils, demons, and angels duel in the remains of a ruined fortress that serves as a portal to Shavarath. Syrania, the Azure Sky Crystal spires float in a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Hall of Illusions in the Witchlight Carnival (see chapter 1). In the Hall of Illusions, the portal resembles an oval doorway of swirling mist that remains active for 1 minute. While the portal is active
) that is incapacitated and remains so until the nest is disturbed or damaged. Part of the nest overlaps the door, and opening the door disturbs the nest. While the wasps are in the nest, any damage
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
same amount of necrotic damage at the end of each minute it remains in the cage. Doors. If the 800-pound stone block holding these doors open is removed, they magically slam shut. It takes a
successful DC 25 Strength (Athletics) check to force the doors open. A knock spell disrupts the magic briefly, lowering the check DC to 15 for 1 minute. Glyph Keys. The wight and the deathlock wight each have