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Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
barrier of magical force around itself that lasts until the start of its next turn. This barrier gives the braxat a +5 bonus to AC, including against the triggering attack, and prevents magic missile
spells from damaging it.A braxat is a towering, warm-blooded carnivore with a thick, articulated shell covering its back, a squarish head topped with horny protrusions, and thick arms ending in large hands
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Monsters
Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
), detect evil and good, fireball, invisibility (self only), wall of fire
3/day each: blade barrier, dispel evil and good, finger of death
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Zariel fails a saving throw
to the stronghold’s wall, the dying remains of those who failed to impress the archdevil. The stronghold, covering five square miles, is surrounded by walls reinforced with high turrets. Devils
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
evil and good, fireball, invisibility (self only), major image, wall of fire
3/day each: blade barrier, dispel evil and good, finger of death
Teleport. Zariel teleports, along with any equipment
’s wall—the dying remains of those who failed to impress the archdevil. The stronghold, covering five square miles, is surrounded by walls reinforced with high turrets. Devils of all kinds
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Frost.First Form
In her first form, Auril appears as a hunched, 7-foot-tall biped with the head of a snowy owl, black talons, cloven hooves, and grayish-white wolf fur covering her body from the neck down
loses all the traits and actions of the old form and gains those of the new form.
A stat block is given for each of Auril’s three forms. These descriptions do not reflect Auril at full power, but
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
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Reckless Steps Difficulty: Easy This puzzle features a word search on floor tiles, which might present a barrier to exploration in myriad scenarios. To cross safely, characters must first uncover
all magic in this room,
Lest reckless steps ensure your doom.
The tiles covering the floor of this room each bear a single letter written in the Common alphabet, making the room a giant word
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Boo’s Astral Menagerie
Braxat A braxat is a towering, warm-blooded carnivore with a thick, articulated shell covering its back, a squarish head topped with horny protrusions, and thick arms ending in large hands with
, though they tend to do so only as a last resort, since the acid dissolves and ruins the flesh they crave. A braxat projects an invisible psychic barrier around itself that enhances its natural armor
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.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3
5. Tomb Stone and Wet Lime The walls of this corridor are wet and slimy. The stucco covering has become saturated with water and is decomposing and sloughing off in spots on the southern wall
, exposing the seams of one of the large stone blocks from which this structure was built.
The tightly fitted stone seals off a tomb. The block is made of limestone, and the entire face of the plug is
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
(use the bullywug stat block). When the ritual was disrupted, his powers dissipated as well. In this state, he no longer poses a threat to anyone. The characters have won!
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
under a covering of snow, but it takes you far enough to see the facade of some kind of temple carved into the sheer mountainside ahead. The front of the structure is fifty feet high and has six
alcoves containing twenty-foot-tall statues. Each statue is carved from a single block of amber and depicts a faceless, hooded figure, its hands pressed together in a gesture of prayer. Between the two
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
jars, many of which contain brains suspended in colorful liquid. Glassware on one shelf has been knocked over, covering the floor in broken glass. Bimbi the flumph (area 17) accidentally spilled many of
the jars here; the resulting alchemical stew mutated three of the brains in this room. The now-floating brains (use the grell stat block) attack any creatures that enter the area. Two helmet-like
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
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a7
high overhead Red, held waist high4
Turquoise, held at shoulder Buff, at feet
Scarlet, held waist high (None)
Pale green, at feet Indigo, held high overhead
1 An illusion covering
a crawlway to area 11 2 This door can be opened by a knock spell or destroyed with disintegrate 3 An illusion covering a crawlway to area 14 4 An illusion covering a crawlway to area 13 The false
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
by holding torches in each of its hands.
Creatures Five neutral human sculptors (use the cultist stat block) originally from the Temple of Moloch are here creating stonework for the tomb. Desperate
to escape, they are working on a secret plan. Eight neutral tiefling muralists are plastering and painting, as well as covering the floor with inlaid tiles. They use the same statistics and respond to
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.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
feet, 9 inches tall and squats instead of standing upright. He looks like a beardless dwarf with patches of donkey flesh covering his face and body. He has one human ear and one wolf’s ear, and a
wears a plain wool cloak. Otto has the Standing Leap feature (see the mongrelfolk stat block in appendix D). His madness is embodied in the following statement: “I am the smartest, wisest, strongest
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
front of the book for her stat block) joined the Avowed, using the book as her entrance gift into the library. She found it in an abandoned satchel near a secluded cave system called the Lykortha Expanse
characters to peruse the book and assures them it’s safe to do so. (The lichen covering the book poses no danger.) She also shares the following information with the characters: Xanthoria was a druid of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Scramblewise 8 Golly Sunnyhill 9 Mimsy Tallgrass 10 Pumpkin Timbers 11 Quarrel Underbough 12 Sybilwick Wimbly Stat Block Craig J Spearing Choose a stat block from the Monster Manual to represent the NPC’s
game statistics. You don’t need to do this if you don’t expect the NPC to engage in combat or use any special abilities (such as casting spells). You can customize the stat block using the guidelines
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
, treant 11 Behir, roc 12 Archmage 13 Jabberwock (WW), storm giant 17 Dragon turtle AWAKENED BEASTS
Awakened Beasts (Beasts that have received the benefits of an awaken spell) are common in the Feywild
travelers, and lost souls trying to find a way home. Use the Domain Visitors table to generate encounters with such folk. Domain Visitors d8 Visitor 1 A ranger (use the scout stat block) searching
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
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
Mokhov Lenk
Human Jeweler
Stat Block: Noble
This elderly jeweler can identify and appraise any gemstone.
Faultfinder. Lenk has a knack for spotting flaws, be they in things or people
travelers secure their valuables. I’ve received a few samples made by local crafters who hope to partner with me in this new venture, but I won’t stake my reputation on shoddy handiwork.
“I need to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
The Sewers at Plaza West Characters heading west of the plaza on a tip they received earlier might look for a sewer grate that is out of place. It takes 1 hour and a successful DC 10 Wisdom
Encounter 1–4 1d4 cultists of Rakdos 5–9 2d4 giant rats 10–11 1 gray ooze 12–14 1 kraul warrior (see chapter 6 for the stat block) 15–18 1 swarm of insects (centipedes) 19–20 1d4 zombies covered in fungus
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Prismari Faculty This section describes noteworthy members of the Prismari faculty. Some of them use a Prismari-specific stat block from chapter 7. Several of them are genasi, who are Humanoids
-student, Nassari famously “turned in” an earthquake, which almost destroyed three campus buildings. The piece received a standing ovation from the mage-student body—and a grumpy thumbs down from the campus
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
ideal, and a flaw), and a stat block. When the giant attack begins, give one NPC to each player and tell the player where the NPC is at the start of the encounter, as noted in the encounter description
to your character, each of you has received a special nonplayer character with ties to the location where the adventure begins. Take a moment to review your NPC’s personality traits and statistics
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
of Ioun, once sacred to the knights who dwelled here. Those who drank directly from the font received visions of the past and future from this god of knowledge. Good characters who drink from the font
many other dangers. The overgrown trees are the den of countless giant spiders and several phase spiders. Among these are deadly ruin spiders (see chapter 21 for this stat block), creatures altered
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
walls and paint them with bright, colorful murals. Other artisans are covering the floor in an elaborate mosaic featuring a distinct winding path of red tiles, some of which cross over a series of
here, constantly mixing fresh pigments to be applied to the plaster walls. A muralist uses the cultist stat block with the following changes: It knows the thaumaturgy cantrip. It has resistance to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Ruins Locations The following areas are keyed to map 6.4. Map 6.4: ruins of caerdoon View Player Version N1. Haunted Watchtower The fortress used to have multiple watchtowers covering all approaches
puts the ruins on alert and activates the necromantic barrier described in area N2. A character who wants to sneak past the watchtower or climb its ladder undetected must succeed on a DC 13 Dexterity
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
Smelting Kalista recently received a cartload of battered and rusted weapons seized by the keep’s defenders. She asks the characters to help melt them down. The disarmament process takes 1 hour. To aid
, bottles, boxes, and other supplies crowd its shelves.
An affable halfling named Ruckus runs this shop.
Dario Jelusic Ruckus
Halfling Shopkeeper
Stat Block: Commoner
The owner of the