block barrier diffusing contest replaces

Stopping the Ritual

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

Stopping the Ritual If Murgaxor’s barrier and ritual stones are destroyed, Murgaxor loses access to his lair actions. In addition, any creatures or effects brought forth by his lair actions (such as

he crashes to the floor with a wet thump. A rush of air and a concussive blast momentarily replaces all sound. The thrum of magical power is gone. The pitiful, muddy figure on the floor is Murgaxor

Drow Matron Mother

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 20): At will: command, dancing lights, detect magic, thaumaturgy 2/day each: banishment, blade barrier, cure wounds, hold person, plane

;Mothers of Rebellion Some matron mothers renounce Lolth and join the war against their former goddess. Such drow could be of any alignment, and they lose the following abilities in the stat block

Fireside Contests

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Giants of the Star Forge

contest, but each contest is held only once. After hearing a contest’s objective, all the characters who wish to compete in the contest must do so at the same time. Objective. To win a contest, a

character must complete the contest’s objective before the other competitors. The objective for each contest is included in the contest descriptions that follow. Opponent and Conduct. One Fireside giant

Mighty Servant of Leuk-o

Magic Items Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

conjecture than fact, often referring to otherworldly beings, the mysterious Barrier Peaks in Oerth, and the supposedly related device known as the Machine of Lum the Mad. The best details on the device

action, you can command the servant to take one of the actions in its stat block or some other action. When a creature provokes an opportunity attack from the servant, you can use your reaction to command

Random Obstacles

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

Random Obstacles Obstacles block progress through the dungeon. In some cases, what adventurers consider an obstacle is an easy path for the dungeon’s inhabitants. For example, a flooded chamber is a

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

Feasting Orchard

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

feasting tables are lined with merrymakers, and dances spring up at the drop of a hat. Faerie Cake Eating Contest This contest runs repeatedly throughout the evening and costs 1 ticket punch to enter. The

contest table is piled high with small, glazed cupcakes, each filled with a dollop of berry custard. The goal is simple: eat as many cupcakes as you can within 60 seconds. A contestant can swallow a

Harrowhall Features

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things

lit during the day and dimly lit at night. Torches are mounted along the keep’s interior walls, but they aren’t lit. Scrying Barrier. Before putting his necromantic plans in motion, Gremorly placed

runes around the keep’s outer walls that block certain kinds of divination magic. Creatures outside the keep’s exterior walls can’t scry into the keep. However, creatures inside the keep can scry inside it or beyond the walls. This effect lingers even if Gremorly’s ritual ghost trap is dismantled.

M6. Immortality Ritual

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

uses the Oriq blood mage stat block in chapter 7 and has access to lair actions (see “Murgaxor’s Lair Actions” below), which he can use anywhere in the Ruins of Caerdoon. Whirling around him are five

, he can take lair actions. Barrier. Murgaxor is surrounded by a barrier of arcane energy resembling a cocoon of writhing mud. While surrounded by this barrier, Murgaxor and the stones encircling him

18. First Blood

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

circle around Drinrith and the fourteenth male drow, who are engaged in a duel. When Drinrith draws blood or knocks the male to the ground, she either replaces him with a new challenger or orders two

spiders while the contest rages. Treasure. Drinrith wears an obsidian scarab engraved with the insignia of House Auvryndar (25 gp) and a platinum-inlaid helm of black metal molded in the likeness of a spider with carnelians for eyes (750 gp).

Small Stalls

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

Small Stalls Catch the Dragon by the Tail The fair boasts several small stalls, each run by a Witchlight hand (variable alignments; see the stat block earlier in the chapter). Some of the stalls

Dexterity Catch the Dragon by the Tail Wisdom Gnome Poetry Contest Charisma Goblin Wrestling Strength Guess the Number of Feathers Intelligence Outstare the Cyclops Constitution If a

Enhanced Medusa

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild

Enhanced Medusa Like the enhanced sphinx from Lost Laboratory of Kwalish, this creature has been augmented with various technologies from the Barrier Peaks. Specifically, its eyes have been replaced

Living Lanthorn” as a result. The enhanced medusa uses the medusa stat block with the following changes: It has truesight out to a range of 60 feet. It can cast the light cantrip at will. Its

Brains in Iron (The Council)

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild

construct for all time as punishment. A brain in iron uses the brain in a jar stat block with the following changes: It is lawful neutral. It has the construct type. Its size is Large. It has Armor Class

15 (natural armor). It has a speed of 20 feet. If this adventure is played as a sequel to Lost Laboratory of Kwalish, this creature began as the brains in jars encountered in the Barrier Peaks. After

Melee Attacks

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)

. Contests in Combat Battle often involves pitting your prowess against that of your foe. Such a challenge is represented by a contest. This section includes the most common contests that require an action

action to make a special melee attack, a grapple. If you're able to make multiple attacks with the Attack action, this attack replaces one of them. The target of your grapple must be no more than one

Adult Emerald Dragon

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

convinced to defend the school in a contest against a rival college. 7 An emerald dragon invisibly tails a party of adventurers, causing trouble for the heroes so the dragon can watch how they respond

, usually when no one is watching. Often the rocks obstruct the approach to the emerald dragon’s lair, with boulders moving to block narrow defiles, way-markers tumbling off the path, or smaller stones

Ancient Emerald Dragon

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

the school in a contest against a rival college. 7 An emerald dragon invisibly tails a party of adventurers, causing trouble for the heroes so the dragon can watch how they respond. 8 An

dragon’s lair sometimes move of their own accord, usually when no one is watching. Often the rocks obstruct the approach to the emerald dragon’s lair, with boulders moving to block narrow

Melee Attacks

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)

attack replaces one of them. The target of your grapple must be no more than one size larger than you and must be within your reach. Using at least one free hand, you try to seize the target by

smaller than you. CONTESTS IN COMBAT Battle often involves pitting your prowess against that of your foe. Such a challenge is represented by a contest. This section includes the most common

Encounters (F-H)

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

Friends d4 Encounter 1 Awakened tree (coniferous only) 2 Awakened mountain goat (see appendix C) 3 Awakened reindeer (use the elk stat block) with glow-in-the-dark antlers that

might challenge one or more characters to an athletic contest. If the characters accept this challenge, roll on the Athletic Contests table to determine what game the goliaths propose. The goliaths are

Running the Adventure

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

creatures in the adventure can be found in appendix C. When a creature’s name appears in bold type, that’s a visual cue pointing you to its stat block in that appendix. Full information on creatures

. One-Shot (One Four-Hour Session). Give your players an adventure hook, assign them a guide (see “Part 1: Mission to the Barrier Peaks”), and start them at area C1, overlooking the bone devil’s monastery. Then as above, replace the treasury’s brain in a jar with Kwalish for an exciting conclusion.

Shadowfell

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide

of her domain, hunting the most dangerous beasts she can find. When she grows dissatisfied with simpler prey, she draws people into a fatal contest, ensuring that the land remains steeped in blood

a character is already suffering a despair effect and fails the saving throw, the new despair effect replaces the old one. After finishing a Long Rest, a character can attempt to overcome the despair

Specific Spells

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata

the those of the beast form? Polymorph replaces only the target’s character sheet or stat block with the stat block of the chosen form. Other effects, such as other spells, still exist. What kinds of

can dispel the barrier created by Globe of Invulnerability, but not any magical effects that are active inside the barrier. If Dispel Magic targets the magical effect from Bless, does it remove the

Meeting Kwalish

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

Contact The easiest approach is to have Kwalish in area O7 when the characters arrive — an elderly gnome arcane inventor (use the evoker stat block from Volo’s Guide to Monsters) working on his latest

concerns, and he believes that the secrets of the technology found in the Barrier Peaks hold a vast potential to advance knowledge. If questioned, he proudly details his experiments (including with

Graymatter Guardian

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin

graymatter fluid. The animated fluid takes the shape of a tall, lithe humanoid and introduces itself as Landro. This neutral-aligned being uses the water elemental stat block, except it has telepathy out to

antigravity wells and floors—is dispelled. Barrier Dropped. The invisible barrier around Landro disappears. Self-Destruct Initiated. Characters inside Landro must succeed on a DC 14 Dexterity saving

Hirelings

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

. See appendix C for Garret’s stat block. Value to the Party. Garret can draw the maps requested by the Cartophile. He also knows several rumors (both true and false) regarding the Barrier Peaks, and

can earn his release from the coffin along the way — by any means possible. Value to the Party. Originally native to an area near the Barrier Peaks, Ctenmiir has much experience with the initial route

Spellcaster

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

gain the Spellcaster class, a creature must have at least one language in its stat block that it can speak. A sidekick gains the following class features as it gains levels in this class, as

, Persuasion, and Religion. The sidekick gains proficiency with light armor, and if it is a humanoid or has a simple or martial weapon in its stat block, it also gains proficiency with all simple

8. Gray Alchemist

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

tunnel leads to the Darklake Docks. DUERGAR ALCHEMIST A duergar alchemist carries two vials of acid and two flasks of alchemist’s fire. It uses the normal duergar stat block but replaces the Javelin

Courthouse: Summer

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

and two veterans) down upon the characters, whom “Hyustus” accuses of beating the cell block guards to death. These reinforcements have no reason to believe that Captain Staget isn’t who he appears to

their case while he asks questions. A character who tries to deceive Zastro must make a Charisma (Deception) check contested by the magister’s Wisdom (Insight) check. A character who loses this contest

Specific Spells

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium

effects of polymorph have other spell effects on them, or are those game statistics also replaced by the those of the beast form? Polymorph replaces only the target’s character sheet or stat block with the

block of a conjured creature determines the nature of the creature’s damage, unless the spell says otherwise. Can conjure animals summon a swarm? No. Conjure animals summons individual creatures, and

Drow Matron Mother

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse

takes back what she has given. The stat block here represents a matron mother at the height of her power. A matron mother is almost never encountered alone. She is typically accompanied by a drow favored

matron mothers renounce Lolth and join the war against their former goddess. Such drow could be of any alignment, and they lose the following abilities in the stat block: Lolth’s Fickle Favor, Summon

The Village

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons

, sculpted by sea spray and wind. The ridges block the view of the village until characters are 200 feet from the nearest shelter. The first sight that greets the adventurers when they emerge onto the plateau

of white. Twenty structures make up the village, divided between snow-block shelters similar to igloos and double-walled yurts made from sealskin stretched over whalebone frames. Sixteen of these

The Village

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat

, sculpted by sea spray and wind. The ridges block the view of the village until characters are 200 feet from the nearest shelter. The first sight that greets the adventurers when they emerge onto the plateau

shroud of white. Twenty structures make up the village, divided between snow-block shelters similar to igloos and double-walled yurts made from sealskin stretched over whalebone frames. Sixteen of these

6. Main Gate

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons

also keep those within from falling to their deaths, and they block the wind. By Day. Three ogres stand guard atop each gate tower (see area 6B). They can shout for reinforcements, which come from

Strength check, and each action spent turning a crank either half-raises or half-lowers the drawbridge or portcullis. (Two actions are required to fully raise or lower either barrier.)

Drow Matron Mother

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

given. The stat block here represents a matron mother at the height of her power. Matron mother is a strange title for a cruel tyrant, but given what drow consider to be a goddess, perhaps we shouldn’t

barrier, harm 7th level (2 slots): divine word, plane shift 8th level (1 slot): holy aura 9th level (1 slot): gate Sunlight Sensitivity. While in sunlight, the drow has disadvantage on attack

Outside Combat

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

to the number of zombies a death tyrant can animate and control, it can pack its lair so full of undead that there is little space for anyone to walk, creating a shambling barrier of cadaverous

falling block trap. This ray allows a beholder to station its minions in parts of the lair that can otherwise be accessed only by climbing or flying, preventing the occupants from escaping. A

6. Main Gate

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen

also keep those within from falling to their deaths, and they block the wind. By Day. Three ogres stand guard atop each gate tower (see area 6B). They can shout for reinforcements, which come from areas

Strength check, and each action spent turning a crank either half-raises or half-lowers the drawbridge or portcullis. (Two actions are required to fully raise or lower either barrier.)

Outpost Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

on a DC 12 Dexterity saving throw or take 7 (2d6) piercing damage from the spikes and be restrained until the spikes are retracted or the barrier is destroyed. The spikes can be retracted only by

the spikes, but the gaps aren’t big enough for a character to slip through. The barriers of spikes grant three-quarters cover to creatures behind them. Each barrier has AC 15, 18 hit points, and

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