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Monsters
Infernal Machine Rebuild
Barrier Peaks. After constructing a new collective body from spare parts, the brains escaped (and now seek revenge against the characters if they did not aid the brains sufficiently during that
operate a new mechanical body. The brains share insights and knowledge with one another, and have typically been taken from creatures that desired to prolong their consciousness — or that were tasked
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
where the barrier between the Material Plane and the Shadowfell is thin, the seeping negative energy drastically alters the ritual’s outcome. The giant’s soul becomes infused with negative
energy and doesn’t disperse into the elements. Rather, it absorbs the elemental energy around it, and its lower body becomes a storm cloud. The resulting tempest spirit is similar in appearance
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
saving throw or be possessed by the ghost; the ghost then disappears, and the target is incapacitated and loses control of its body. The ghost now controls the body but doesn’t deprive the target
until the body drops to 0 hit points, the ghost ends it as a bonus action, or the ghost is turned or forced out by an effect like the dispel evil and good spell. When the possession ends, the ghost
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save DC 18). The rider can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:
At will: command, compelled duel
1/day each: banishment, blade barrier
long rest. If the target's hit point maximum is reduced to 0, its body and everything it is wearing and carrying, except for magic items, are reduced to ash. A creature reduced to ash can't be revived
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Customizing the Puzzle The focal parts of this puzzle are the locks and keys, not the chest. You could easily convert this puzzle to feature any types of locks, be they on doors, cells, books, or
some more esoteric barrier. Beyond the form the locks and keys take, you might also consider adjusting the creatures depicted with each lock to suit your adventures. Just keep in mind that the number of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
Part 2: Monastery of the Distressed Body The known route of Kwalish’s original expedition ends at the series of tunnels leading into the Barrier Peaks, with no sense of how that long-lost company
proceeded. However, recent carvings have been etched into these tunnels in thieves’ cant and Infernal, marking the route to the monastery for new recruits. The markings can be spotted with a successful
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
2/day: Mass Cure Wounds (cast at 8th level)
1/day each: Blade Barrier, Divination, Greater RestorationThe medusa can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. It can take only one
powerful snakelike tails for their lower body, snakes for hair, and a petrifying gaze. The first hierophant medusa was transformed by the power of the Euryale card when that individual was inspired by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Locathah Rising
restless, Wave has a habit of humming tunes that vary from sea chanteys to sacred hymns of the sea gods. Wave zealously desires to convert mortals to the worship of one or more sea gods, or else to
insufficient charges remaining, nothing happens. Otherwise, a barrier of invisible force springs into existence, forming a cube 15 feet on a side. The barrier is centered on you, moves with you, and lasts
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
speaks prophecies.
3 The Darklord is haunted by the judgmental spirits of their predecessors.
4 The Darklord is the only one who adheres to an ancient faith and desperately works to convert
nonbelievers.
5 The Darklord seeks to transform their body into a vessel or gate for the subject of their belief.
6 The Darklord knows the community’s beliefs are false but keeps up the facade to maintain power.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
arrive, read or paraphrase the following text: For the past two days, you have been ascending the steep crags of the Barrier Peaks. Finally, through a dense stand of trees in a hidden dell, you spot a
strange entrance—a smooth, metallic cave exposed by a recent landslide.
The “cave mouth” is an open hatch in the ship’s hull. This curving, 20-foot-wide metal chamber leads from the hatch to area S1
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
following effects: Antigravity Wells. Landro’s ankles, legs, knees, hips, spine, and elbow are filled with magical energy meant to allow the colossus’s body to bend and rotate freely. Creatures and
safely rooted to the floor. Creatures can move across the floor in areas L20–area L28 normally, no matter the orientation of Landro’s upper body. The effects of the antigravity wells and the gravity
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
mechanical body. The brains share insights and knowledge with one another, and have typically been taken from creatures that desired to prolong their consciousness—or that were tasked with controlling a
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->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
smooth dais.
The moonlight barrier around this lunarium’s dais is trapped. When the barrier is touched, it emits a blinding flash of white light in a 30-foot radius centered on the dais. Any creature in
.
The skeletal wolf is a deathwolf (see appendix A) created from the body of a slain Blue Fire Warden. Akaazi ordered the deathwolf to attack any intruders during Teremini’s ritual. If it sees the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
Cavern Encounters The caverns and tunnels of the Barrier Peaks are a treacherous maze that has claimed more than one adventurer. This challenging route might involve cavern encounters that can help
flesh out the characters’ journey to the Monastery of the Distressed Body. Cavern Encounters d10 Encounter 1 A xorn and an umber hulk hunt as a team, with the umber hulk working to herd characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Cyran mages to control the colossus of the same name. On the day of its deployment, the colossus teleported halfway into this mountain, where it has remained since. Unable to wrench its body from
Mount Ironrot, the graymatter engine fell into a despondent torpor that lasted until the arrival of its recent visitors. Brian Valeza Landro Sharing Secrets Landro understands the world by peering into
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
.
Shelves. The curved walls are lined with stone shelves.
Smashed Jars. Hundreds of jars of body parts lie smashed on the floor.
A hobgoblin accidentally set off a polymorph trap and was
a rage, spilling their contents. When the hook horror drops to 0 hit points, it turns back into an unconscious hobgoblin named Jarrk. Despite his recent misadventure, Jarrk is fanatically loyal to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
M10. Treasury This solitary building is set atop a small floating islet within an area of open space punched down through the main body of the monastery’s island. It is held aloft on its own
drawn into the jar, where it remains desperate to be reunited with its body. As with the other brains in jars, this brain can be negotiated with. If a character succeeds on a DC 15 Charisma (Deception
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
body is lost or left behind, the party’s drow pursuers find it. The drow high priestess casts raise dead on the corpse so that the character can be questioned. The character might escape later, or can
new character to the party in the midst of a journey through the Underdark. Convert one of the group’s existing nonplayer character allies — including fellow escaped prisoners from Velkynvelve — into
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
Appendix D: Magic Items The unique magical-mechanical crafting techniques seen in the Monastery of the Distressed Body and the lost city of Daoine Gloine are the basis of a number of unique magic
. Some of these items might be experiments that Kwalish is working on, which can be made available to the characters if they return to the Barrier Peaks. Alternatively, if you’d like to make full use of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
frantically shovel ore into these hatches, which pulse with a deep-red glow. As you watch, a prisoner collapses from exhaustion. Under orders from the overseeing monks, other workers toss his body
desperate to escape the monastery before its engines fail. They can steal a skiff and follow the marked trails out of the Barrier Peaks if left to their own devices.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
them in their new world, but allowed them to develop beyond the reach of Gruumsh, Corellon, Lolth, and other influences for good and ill. In your campaign, you might decide that the barrier formed by
disrupted the Ring of Siberys, or perhaps a disruption of the Ring of Siberys actually caused the Mourning! If contact between Eberron and the wider multiverse is recent and limited, consider the implications
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Giants of the Star Forge
awards the party a potion of flying. Stone Giant’s Resolve Each competitor must sit or stand atop a wooden post beneath a roaring waterfall. If a competitor’s body ceases to be in contact with the
protective barrier as hard as stone. However, a single movement causes the mud barrier to crack, ruining its protection. After the paste is applied but before it hardens, each competitor can take a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
assume that negotiations are automatically successful and only one character needs to offer up a piece of their soul. Kwalish Who? Kwalish is missing, his physical body having been caught up within
might reconstitute his body (with those methods determined by you). Unfortunately, some of his body parts have been installed elsewhere in the city (within other baubles, forming part of the kraken’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
-kreen is the Dawn Mother. Although the giant has long been a stoic guardian of the Llanos, her recent dreams of otherworldly insects have confused and enraged her. Fearing the thri-kreen are to blame
hammock but also leads them to the Silver Tapir Monastery. If the Dawn Mother is calmed or defeated, Cht-Chak thanks the characters and rewards them. If the characters kill the giant, Cht-Chak helps them retrieve the Hammock of Worlds from the giant’s body and directs them to the Silver Taper Monastery.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
Wilderness Encounters Reaching the foothills of the Barrier Peaks takes the characters through a broad range of wild lands — including woods infused with the power of the Feywild. Wilderness
who get in its way. 6–7 Some strange creature has wandered down from the Monastery of the Distressed Body. Such creatures might include an ancient security construct gone mad (use oaken bolter
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Flesh Golem Dead Flesh Given New Life Habitat: Any; Treasure: Arcana Flesh golems are roughly human-shaped collections of body parts bound together by misused magic or strange science. They serve
, including their creators. Flesh golems appear in varied forms. Roll on or choose a result from the Flesh Golem Characteristics table to inspire a flesh golem’s features. The barrier between the mortal
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
wyvern lies on the skybridge, its body scorched by lightning. 4 A curious and friendly cloud giant is surprised to see travelers on the skybridge and asks them at length about recent happenings in the
Lambakluha. The bonesinger has not yet heard of the attack in Kalapang and is horrified if the characters share the news with her. If asked about recent bakunawa activity, Ina says she’s heard a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
Ontharr Frume, a paladin of Torm who shares his concern over the Cult of the Dragon’s recent surge in activity. He has a favor to ask of the characters. “After all you’ve done already for me personally
your way around it now. If the cultists are preparing to conduct another raid, or a large body of them marches away, or if anything substantial is carried into or out of that cave, I need to know. If
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Samira’s Offer Madame Samira Arah Samira instructs any remaining veterans to deal with Jacopo’s body quietly and to alert the other Kings of Coin. She then leads the characters to a small café at
protective guard in response to a recent attack against the family member of another King of Coin. But he slipped past his guardians, intent on reveling amid the March of Vice. Last night, Zenia Ruba
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
Ontharr Frume, a paladin of Torm who shares his concern over the Cult of the Dragon’s recent surge in activity. He has a favor to ask of the characters. “After all you’ve done already for me personally
your way around it now. If the cultists are preparing to conduct another raid, or a large body of them marches away, or if anything substantial is carried into or out of that cave, I need to know. If
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
3. Shrine of the Sea Mother When the characters arrive here, on their own or escorted, read the following to the players: A nine-foot-tall statue stands here. Its body is roughly carved from some
, the archpriest of the Sea Mother. The guards are wary of anyone, including other kuo-toa, due to recent tensions. Ploopploopeen claims a small hovel adjacent to the shrine, where he is attended by four
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
What Next? If the characters are alone, they can notify other members of the Avowed about the death. Acolytes remove Buron’s body, seizing the book with a firmness that makes it clear the dwarf
, it’s off limits to most visitors. The tower has been condemned for years, though the reason has become obscure. No effort has been made to tear it down or repair it. There have been a few recent reports
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
. When the first character enters the room, Muiral becomes visible as he casts a wall of force spell, using the barrier to cut off that character from the rest of the party. He then engages the
. This statue depicts Lolth in her monstrous form, with the upper body of a female drow and the lower body of a bloated spider. From its upraised hands, the statue casts forth stone webs that fan
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Tempest Spirit A storm giant can escape death through a mystical ritual that transforms the giant into a semiconscious storm. However, if the giant performs the ritual in a place where the barrier
into the elements. Rather, it absorbs the elemental energy around it, and its lower body becomes a storm cloud. The resulting tempest spirit is similar in appearance to a djinni and is sometimes mistaken
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
powerful snakelike tails for their lower body, snakes for hair, and a petrifying gaze. The first hierophant medusa was transformed by the power of the Euryale card when that individual was inspired by
lost shards of a dead god’s petrified body, and reunite them on the altar in the medusa’s lair. 3 Maintain a planar crossing from which great power flows while also curtailing the effects of that power