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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
. Upon hearing creatures enter the area, the bandit retreats to warn its confederates in areas 6, 8, and 9. Characters in the room can hear the bandit’s soft, retreating footfalls with a successful DC
break apart if disturbed in any way. Written in blood on the wall, concealed behind one of the shields, is the following message in Elvish: Beyond the pillar forest, the Mad Mage waits. Casting spells behind magic gates.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
rules glossary. Breaking Objects As an action, you can automatically break or otherwise destroy a fragile, nonmagical object, such as a glass container or a piece of paper. If you try to damage something more resilient, the DM might use the rules on breaking objects in the rules glossary.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Rules Glossary. Breaking Objects As an action, you can automatically break or otherwise destroy a fragile, nonmagical object, such as a glass container or a piece of paper. If you try to damage something more resilient, the DM might use the rules on breaking objects in the Rules Glossary.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
with a successful DC 25 Strength (Athletics) check. Since the shop is in a highly visible location, an attempt to break into it is 75 percent likely to be noticed by someone who alerts the City Watch
stolen from the City of the Dead. Losser hasn’t gotten around to animating them yet. Where’s the Stone? Before the characters reach Losser, kenku members of the Xanathar Guild break down the door
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
break cover to aid their allies against the demons. If they do, another demon sortie attacks them 1d4 rounds later. OPTION: PLAYING OUT THE BATTLE OPTION
Rather than focusing on the adventurers
battle to the death, with the only restriction being that they can’t withdraw from the combat. Brief tactical retreats are permissible, but Vizeran’s ritual has filled the demon lords with the rage
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
masthin shoots and dragonshards. The uneasy peace threatens to break down, renewing the conflict between settlers and lizardfolk. An alliance in Q’barra can involve disparate factions, as complex agendas
Waterdeep works because it already has a history with the lizardfolk.
Mystara. Lizardfolk have been discovered in the Blight Marsh of Karameikos. Because the marsh sits on the border of the Five
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
the family at the expense of the other two 2 Deneith Act as bodyguards for a prominent or wealthy person Serve as mercenaries in a lingering border conflict Enforce the law across national borders as
parties keep to the terms of their agreement Break a code used during the Last War 11 Tharashk Track down fugitives Locate a supply of dragonshards Find the bandits who have been preying on house
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
advances to attack in melee. On a successful save, the sahuagin retreats or escapes if possible, temporarily fighting off the influence of the trait. If the sahuagin’s move takes it farther than 30 feet from
side of the door, about 4 feet above the floor. All doors open into the areas they border on metal casters that move along grooves cut into the stone floor. Gates and Pillars All gates consist of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
. If an alarm sounds, the guards drop a heavy wooden crossbar across the double door to the south until Chief Yarb-Gnock gives the order to remove it. A ram or a similar siege weapon is needed to break
accompanying stat block) quickly dons his disguise if someone knocks on the door or tries to break it down, but it takes him 1 minute to do so. While putting on his goblin costume, Spellix makes light
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
6. Undertakers’ Watch Post Several members of the Undertakers gang dwell here in their vampire disguises. If the bandit keeping an eye on area 1 through the secret door retreats here with news of the
fall and break when the door is opened, alerting any bandits in areas 6a, 6c, and 6d. 6c. Uktarl’s Room Bandits. Unless they have been encountered elsewhere, four members of the Undertakers sit around
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
break the psyche of a character who uses or becomes attuned to them.
Resisting a madness-inducing effect usually requires a Wisdom or Charisma saving throw. If your game includes the Sanity score (see
character retreats into his or her mind and becomes paralyzed. The effect ends if the character takes any damage. 21–30 The character becomes incapacitated and spends the duration screaming, laughing, or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
plane. Fleets of rafts and ships lashed together serve as solid ground where nothing else is available. Most natives of the plane never break the surface of the sea and thus ignore these habitations
icebergs can carry these creatures farther into the Plane of Water to threaten ships and islands in warmer seas. The Frostfell, also called the Plane of Ice, forms the border between the planes of Air and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
hazy border. Next Event. After the characters deal with the guards, proceed with event 4. Event 4. Unsettling Calm This event begins with Yael telepathically contacting the characters: A woman’s voice
enters your mind. “Nice work. Take a break. You’ve got an hour before the really bad stuff happens.”
The characters can spend the next hour interacting with Lulu’s memory of Idyllglen. They can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
the party includes one or more members of the Lords’ Alliance, she offers to help them complete their mission. Otherwise, she is unwilling to break her cover. Driders These outcasts perch atop high
ledges or cling to the high ceiling, attacking with their bows while staying out of the range of melee weapons. A drider retreats if reduced to 60 hit points or fewer. Drow Patrol The characters encounter
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
monodrone 19 2d6 quaggoths 20 1d4 shriekers Behir This long-bodied reptile is either prowling a tunnel or resting in a cave when the characters encounter it. The behir retreats if reduced to 80 or fewer
Manual). If the thonot dies, the other quaggoths immediately break off their attack and begin feasting on the thonot’s remains, hoping to gain its psionic power. Shriekers The shriekers sound off when
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
, including Xardorok if he’s present, use Enlarge before joining the fight. If defeat seems likely, Xardorok retreats to area X22 and uses the elevator to make his way toward area X8, where he hopes
is a clean-up crew consisting of a female duergar with a horn and six hulking bipeds, their white fur stained with soot. They are tossing scraps into a cylindrical container. In the twenty-foot-high
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
how secure its bindings, a powerful demon often finds a way to escape an object that holds it. When a demonic essence emerges from its container, it can possess a mortal host. Sometimes a fiend
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
pouch for holding spell components is called a component pouch (described earlier in this section). Quiver. A quiver can hold up to 20 arrows. Ram, Portable. You can use a portable ram to break down
to twice their size. Tent. A simple and portable canvas shelter, a tent sleeps two. Tinderbox. This small container holds flint, fire steel, and tinder (usually dry cloth soaked in light oil) used to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
points or fewer, the wraith retreats to the icy cyst that contains Drakareth’s frozen remains, passing through the interposing walls of ice to reach it. There, it fights to the bitter end. The walls of
ice that separate the smaller cysts from the larger cave are thick enough to be opaque, but characters can break through them. Each 5-foot-square, 1-foot-thick section of wall has AC 13, 18 hit points
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
chromatic dragons to switch sides or break from Tiamat’s cause. Without the help of the alliance against the Cult of the Dragon, the Dragon Queen’s victory might be assured. Using the Lords’ Alliance
truth, Isteval has been drafted by Cormyr to gain insight into what looks to be a war brewing on its western border. Isteval has too much respect for the other delegates to hide this information from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
chromatic dragons to switch sides or break from Tiamat’s cause. Without the help of the alliance against the Cult of the Dragon, the Dragon Queen’s victory might be assured. Using the Lords’ Alliance
truth, Isteval has been drafted by Cormyr to gain insight into what looks to be a war brewing on its western border. Isteval has too much respect for the other delegates to hide this information from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
chromatic dragons to switch sides or break from Tiamat’s cause. Without the help of the alliance against the Cult of the Dragon, the Dragon Queen’s victory might be assured. Using the Lords’ Alliance
truth, Isteval has been drafted by Cormyr to gain insight into what looks to be a war brewing on its western border. Isteval has too much respect for the other delegates to hide this information from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
trap can break it and free the captive. Examples include a bear trap, a cage that drops from a ceiling, and a device that flings a net. Slay. Some traps are designed to eliminate intruders, plain and
defense or a counterattack. A treasure chest, a door leading to a vault, or any other obstacle or container that bars the way to a valuable treasure is the ideal location for a slaying trap. In such
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
compartmentalized pouch for holding spell components is called a component pouch (described earlier in this section). Quiver. A quiver can hold up to 20 arrows. Ram, Portable. You can use a portable ram to break
magnified to twice their size. Tent. A simple and portable canvas shelter, a tent sleeps two. Tinderbox. This small container holds flint, fire steel, and tinder (usually dry cloth soaked in light oil
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Bonus +7
Awakening of the Scion. The cradle is a container for the scion of Grolantor. When the cradle drops to 0 hit points, its body crumbles to dirt and moss. The scion instantly appears in the
, Primordial
Challenge 26 (90,000 XP) Proficiency Bonus +8
Awakening of the Scion. The cradle is a container for the scion of Memnor. When the cradle drops to 0 hit points, its body dissipates into
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
the following phrases in that language: “Nakari will be pleased.” “Too much clay! The wings will break!” “The tail is too long.” The cave inhabitants stop talking if the characters have a light
feet.
A Purple Worm has been drawn to Nakari’s lair by the dragon’s frequent excavation work. The worm bursts up through the floor of the cave when the characters arrive and attacks them. It retreats
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
still alive when its master dies, it stops attacking and retreats to its nest. It continues to fight only if pursued. After the remaining lizardfolk are dealt with, Bimz chooses one character and bonds
pewter container that resembles a pepper pot. Against the desk is set an upright wooden chair, and beside it is a wooden, brass-bound chest.
Against the hull on the starboard side is a padded
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
. If it becomes obvious that the fight is going badly for the cultists, the efreeti retreats to his lair in the fire node (see chapter 5) via area E14. If the characters arrive with salamanders or azers
from area E11, those creatures take up arms on their respective sides. The salamanders and azers attack the efreeti until he retreats, then turn on each other. Survivors might be influenced to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
look for opportunities to push characters off the bridge. If two gargoyles are defeated, the third retreats, flying to area B2 to hide. Chasm Floor. Several skeletons lie broken or half-buried on the
the golem to defend him. He then retreats to the back of the room to cast spells. Miraj turns invisible and flees if death seems imminent. The worktables and shelves hold common alchemical ingredients
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
know about the strange effect in the adjacent receiving room (area G12). Once one roper is defeated, the other one retreats just inside the doorway of the receiving room to gain the protection that
(Athletics) check to shove the door hard enough to break the bar. Qunbraxel rightly believes a passage to Talhundereth is behind the door, so the mind flayer sent grimlocks to investigate. The door
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
southeast exit.
Characters can move around the icicles or break through them, but the entire area is Difficult Terrain. The statue amid the icicles is a Neutral Frost Giant, Enstavva, with the Petrified
intruders. If the party defeats all the wolves, Shabblejaw retreats to area D12 and closes the secret door behind him. Ledge. The ledge bears five mats of brown, dead grasses where Shabblejaw and the winter
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
: Backpack, Blanket, Holy Water, Lamp, 7 days of Rations, Robe, and Tinderbox. Quiver (1 GP) A Quiver holds up to 20 Arrows. Ram, Portable (4 GP) You can use a Portable Ram to break down doors. When doing
. You can tie a knot in it as a Utilize action.
Tent (2 GP) A Tent sleeps up to two Small or Medium creatures.
Tinderbox (5 SP) A Tinderbox is a small container holding flint, fire steel, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
container made of silver, emerald, and amethyst. The process requires at least three mind flayer arcanists and the sacrifice of an equal number of souls from living victims in a three-day-long ritual of
longer incapacitated, and the elder brain can terminate the link at any time (no action required). The target can use an action on its turn to attempt to break the psychic link, doing so with a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
golem that answers to his command. The Ditch The Ditch is Sigil’s only body of water, a reeking morass where locals cast their refuse. Its corrosive waters lie along the rough border between the Lower
who wish to unite their fractured people. CoupleOfKooks “There is no nobler act than creation. Anyone can break something, and many do. It is easy to destroy. But when you choose to turn something
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
the Armory, a foreboding stronghold at the ward’s border with the Lower Ward. Deliberately grown razorvine creeps along the structure’s bladed balconies and lower walls, deterring thieves who seek to
might and reduce them to diminutive statures. Grudges fester in bleak cells, and fights regularly break out between inmates in mess halls and common areas. Particularly dangerous criminals never leave






