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Monsters
Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
boxes with simple fittings to elaborate, gilded sarcophagi and reverent, fabric-lined caskets.
Beyond the City of Doors, animated coffins serve similar—albeit less industrial—roles
table presents some contents an animated coffin might contain when encountered.
Animated Coffin Contents
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Contents
1
1d4 swarm of bats
2
1d4 Skeleton;skeletons packed like
Imprisonment
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
spell, you choose one of the following forms of imprisonment.
Burial. The target is entombed far beneath the earth in a sphere of magical force that is just large enough to contain the target. Nothing
. If you cast the spell again using the same component, the target of the first casting is immediately freed from its binding.
Bard
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Classes
Basic Rules (2014)
of song, speech, and the magic they contain. Bards say that the multiverse was spoken into existence, that the words of the gods gave it shape, and that echoes of these primordial Words of Creation
experience earns renown among other bards. Indeed, after telling so many stories about heroes accomplishing mighty deeds, many bards take these themes to heart and assume heroic roles themselves
Kobold
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
earth are strong or weak, are bearing a load or are safe to excavate, or are likely to contain minerals or offer access to water. This ability enables them to fashion secure homes in places where other
roles that protect and sustain the tribe. The strongest kobolds are trained to be hunters and warriors, the most clever are crafters and strategists, the toughest are miners and beast-wranglers, and so
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
Ravnica. The text of the Guildpact spelled out specific roles for each guild within the infrastructure of Ravnica, allowing the city to grow while the guilds coexisted in relative peace. But the true
power of the Guildpact was the strength of its magically binding force, which absolutely prevented large-scale violence among the guilds. For ten millennia, the city grew and flourished under this
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Orcs of the Shadow Marches The orc Gatekeepers played a crucial role in defeating the daelkyr and binding their evil in Khyber, and their descendants continue to maintain the ancient seals and fight
between these outsiders and the native orcs. Certain Marcher clans contain humans, orcs, and half-orcs in roughly equal numbers. When playing an orc or half-orc character from the Shadow Marches
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
M6. Performers’ Quarters The walls of this gloomy chamber are lined with black-veiled compartments that contain makeshift beds. The furniture is sparse: a few wooden tables and chairs, a box of junk
in one corner, and flickering lanterns resting here and there. Five performers occupy the room. Two of them pace nervously while the others weep.
The actors here perform their roles reluctantly and
Orc
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
relieved of their other roles and taken to the lair’s whelping pens, where they are tended to by Luthic’s followers.
Orcs don’t take mates, and no pair-bonding occurs in a tribe
return from a raid.
The gaze of the One Eye brings madness to many an orc.
— Elminster
Roleplaying an Orc
When you’re roleplaying an orc, the following tables contain possible
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
target is entombed far beneath the earth in a sphere of magical force that is just large enough to contain the target. Nothing can pass through the sphere, nor can any creature teleport or use planar
special component used to create it. You can use a particular special component to create only one prison at a time. If you cast the spell again using the same component, the target of the first casting is immediately freed from its binding.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
target is entombed far beneath the earth in a sphere of magical force that is just large enough to contain the target. Nothing can pass through the sphere, nor can any creature teleport or use planar
special component used to create it. You can use a particular special component to create only one prison at a time. If you cast the spell again using the same component, the target of the first casting is immediately freed from its binding.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
the City of Doors, animated coffins serve similar—albeit less industrial—roles. Natural ambushers and tireless sentries, animated coffins guard ancient necropolises, family crypts, and the lairs of
an Undead army. Animated coffins are rarely empty. The Animated Coffin Contents table presents some contents an animated coffin might contain when encountered. Animated Coffin Contents d6 Contents
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
carts are identical, except that the bound elemental in one is suppressed. On the return trip, the roles of the carts and the states of their elementals are reversed. Specialized carts of other sorts
carts that comprise most lightning rail trains. Operation. The vessel’s pilot, a House Orien dragonmarked heir, stands at the helm, high atop the crew cart, beneath the elemental binding struts. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
in the garden. Animal Pens. The pens contain seven goats, five adult pigs (use the boar stat block), and a Small piglet (noncombatant) named Oink, who is beloved by Philomena (see area L4). Compost
earlier took a cutting from the shambling mound’s root stem, binding it to her service. If a character uses a speak with plants spell to communicate with the shambling mound, it tells the character that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Anatomy of a War Band A gnoll war band is likely to contain a variety of gnolls and other creatures, and no two of these groups have the same composition. The gnolls that make up the rank and file
have different attributes and thus different roles in the war band’s assaults. Augmenting the warriors that comprise the bulk of the force are the hunters, specialists in sneaking and attacking at range
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
circle of binding sigils or sealed as a spirit within a gigantic statue, the fiend’s influence drives your group. 4 Guardian Celestial. An angel or another powerful celestial takes an interest in a
unwittingly fell into the patron’s service. The Ancient Being Operative Roles table suggests a variety of parts you can play within an ancient being’s schemes and the backgrounds frequently associated with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
features.)
Braziers. Alcoves in the north wall contain two braziers fashioned from melted-down iron armor and weapons. Each is alight with burning coals that shed bright light in a 10-foot radius and
roles, the arcanaloths learned everything they could about Laduguer’s principles of conduct. To their surprise, Aximus and Exekarus found these principles compelling. Some of the arcanaloths’ favorite
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
, even nations embroiled in bitter conflict will set their differences aside to help contain an outbreak of demons, or to seal off abyssal breaches before these fiends can break free. Signs of
that host is in danger of being dragged to the Abyss with the demon if it is exorcised from the flesh, or if the host dies. If a demon possesses a creature and the object binding the demon is destroyed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
finds one in the lid. It holds a wand of binding that the warden keeps for emergencies. R22. Warden’s Office Prison records are stored here in five locked wooden cabinets along the east wall. The
cabinets contain ship cargo manifests and records of past deliveries, as well as prisoner transfer orders and files documenting the names, crimes, sentences, and commutations of every prisoner who has
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
has several specialized roles required for success in travel and trade: a barterer, an omener, a courser, and preferably a koletra. A barterer negotiates deals between the guros and other traders
, most Pheres herds contain a caller and a tromper. Pheres callers are typically druids or rangers who can draw animal assistance to their herd. Callers often have one or more animal allies at their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
currently enjoying.
Bath and Steam House Avowed and seekers alike use this building as a place to relax. Spacious rooms in the building contain heated pools for respite while engaging in casual
Tomes. The copying and binding of a typical book in Candlekeep’s library generally costs 100 gp or so (double for a translated version), though large books incur an additional charge. The manufacture of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
and 1 foot deep, connect the fountain to the vats. The whole system contains necrotic essence that prepares oozes for binding to undead. A creature that enters the necrotic essence for the first time on
vats each contain one ooze, all of them reduced-threat versions of the creatures (see “Reduced-Threat Monsters” above). Two vats hold black puddings (marked B on the map), one has a gray ooze (G), and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
of basalt blocks and 10-foot-high ceilings roofed with slate. The smaller buildings (area B6a) are littered with ropes and loading hooks and contain stairwells that lead to the hold’s main storage
rooms (areas B19 and area B21). The larger buildings (area B6b) each contain a dozen cots and serve as quarters for the hold’s visitors, most frequently Klax and her traders. If the characters arrive at
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
stench of preservatives with a hint of rot. Flesh golems in their first gruesome stages of assembly are on a few of the tables. Other tables contain only prepared body parts and bones.
A contact stone
) fire damage. Creatures. An efreeti is bound to the smoke at the center of the room. It can’t leave this area or use its powers against anyone outside the room. Binding Smoke. The smoke tendrils form
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
many different people while adventuring. As DM, you assume the roles of these nonplayer characters, whom you can embody through either active or descriptive roleplaying (detailed below). Players also
the item.
Magic Items. Some treasure entries contain magic items, objects imbued with arcane might. Whenever a player character finds a magic item, roll on the Magic Items table in appendix A
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
raw materials, foodstuffs, and liquids) worth a total of 1 gp or less. The named objects magically appear in the chest, provided they can all fit inside it and the chest doesn’t contain anything else
silver gilt on the outer edges. The whole is sewn to a leather binding with strips of sinews, making it quite durable.
A creature with the codicil in its possession has resistance to cold damage
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
the Free League occupy a wide spectrum of roles in Sigil, but they tend toward autonomous ventures, acting as merchants, mercenaries, and even spies for other factions. Indeps keep to themselves and
investors and confuse would-be plunderers. Only the doors themselves matter, for the true vaults lie beyond the portals they contain. Accessible only by account owners, authorized bank personnel, or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
reminded of that). It was once the home of the great prophet Alaundo the Seer, and within its walls were written the Prophecies of Alaundo. Its vaults, it is said, contain hidden knowledge enough to make
. Copied Lore. The copying and binding of a work of nonmagical lore in Candlekeep’s library is generally performed at a cost of 100 gp or so (though quite large books are always more). This
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
her binding (see “The Box”). In the event the characters already have the guardian’s amulet, Gelida simply slumps angrily in her box, muttering about disrespectful thieves. The Box. The metal box
weighs 150 pounds and has an additional 50 pounds of ice inside it. If the mephit hasn’t touched the box for 1 minute, she is magically compelled to return and touch it as swiftly as she can. The binding
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Prisoner 13
moon. Any character who searches the chest for secret compartments finds one in the lid. It holds a wand of binding that the warden keeps for emergencies. R22: Office A heavy desk stands in the
middle of the room with parchment, quills, and ink at the ready. Five heavy wood cabinets line the east wall.
Prison records are stored here in the locked cabinets. The cabinets also contain ship cargo
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
moon. Any character who searches the chest for secret compartments finds one in the lid. It holds a wand of binding that the warden keeps for emergencies. R22: Office A heavy desk stands in the
middle of the room with parchment, quills, and ink at the ready. Five heavy wood cabinets line the east wall.
Prison records are stored here in the locked cabinets. The cabinets also contain ship cargo
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
creatures in area 15. 15. Mustering Hall The walls of this room bear frescoes that depict fire giants forging armor and weapons, marching to war, and binding red dragons in chains. Four basalt pillars
beneath which are several empty casks of ale. Marble shelves on the north and south walls stand bare. Iron doors in the western and southern walls lead to storage rooms that contain stolen crates of rations
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
simple workrooms contain one combat robot and three worker robots programmed to haul, manage, and protect cargo in the adjacent cargo holds (see area S33). The robots are inactive and indifferent
characters’ techniques and gloat about their own martial prowess. Physical Training Androids. The androids fill the following roles: Boxing Android. This android (sentry design) is programmed to train
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
survived, however, as did the magic that binds her here. She can leave this area for only 1 minute at a time before the binding magic compels her to return. Vakketar used to demonstrate the efficacy
more information about the fragment’s properties. Treasure. Each drow thief had a set of thieves’ tools that is still intact. The shelves here contain 5,900 gp, 14,050 sp, a jeweled dagger worth 200 gp
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
players to embrace the roles and enjoy the concept of momentarily placing their NPC’s secret goal as a top priority. Players might be more willing to take this on if you let them know that the scenario
ally and resource.
TWO DRY CLOAKS
Two Dry Cloaks’s wands pulse with magical light, though only two of them have actual useful properties. The first is a wand of binding that glows purple. The second
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
. Learning of Sarcelle’s vision counts as a secret for the purposes of the Power of Secrets rules found in this book’s introduction. C6: Supply Room Stone shelves in this room contain boxes and bags. A few
Waterclock Guild and can’t leave the crypts belonging to that organization, even though Shanzezim believes the Waterclock Guild has been defunct for years. Not quite ready to test the binding to make






