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Player’s Handbook
Flame-like radiance descends on a creature that you can see within range. The target must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take 1d8 Radiant damage. The target gains no benefit from Half Cover
or Three-Quarters Cover for this save.
Cantrip Upgrade. The damage increases by 1d8 when you reach levels 5 (2d8), 11 (3d8), and 17 (4d8).
Sacred Flame
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Flame-like radiance descends on a creature that you can see within range. The target must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take 1d8 radiant damage. The target gains no benefit from cover for
Monsters
Locathah Rising
Hearth of Moonlight and Shadow. At the start of a short or long rest, Amble can touch a point in space, and an invisible, 30-foot-radius sphere of magic appears, centered on that point. Total cover
unoccupied space they can see.Change Shape (2/Day). Amble magically polymorphs into a beast with a challenge rating of 1 or less, and can remain in this form for up to 6 hours. Amble's equipment melds with
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
half as much damage on a successful one.The ultimate threat created by the Rogue card, the veiled presence is a Celestial for tier 4 play (levels 17 to 20). This being descends from an Outer Plane to
filled with clever defenses to disorient, weaken, and kill intruders.
The villain’s challenge rating increases while the villain is in this lair:
Veiled Presence. Challenge 22 (41,000 XP
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
. The water’s edge on the map represents the lip of the shelf, which descends to a dark plain twelve hundred feet below.
Coral Reef. The rocky cliff side depicts the contours of a coral reef that
an dragon turtle;adult or ancient dragon turtle access to lair actions, increasing its challenge rating by 1. On initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), the dragon turtle can take one of the
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
.
Underground River. A river flows along the right and bottom edges of the map, providing the dragon with fresh water and an alternative entrance. Originating on the surface, the river descends through narrow
stone to come and go.
The challenge rating of a legendary sapphire dragon increases by 1 when it’s encountered in its lair.
Lair Actions
On initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Sacred Flame Evocation Cantrip (Cleric) Casting Time: Action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: Instantaneous
Flame-like radiance descends on a creature that you can see within range
. The target must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take 1d8 Radiant damage. The target gains no benefit from Half Cover or Three-Quarters Cover for this save. Cantrip Upgrade. The damage increases by 1d8 when you reach levels 5 (2d8), 11 (3d8), and 17 (4d8).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Sacred Flame Evocation Cantrip (Cleric) Casting Time: Action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: Instantaneous
Flame-like radiance descends on a creature that you can see within range
. The target must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take 1d8 Radiant damage. The target gains no benefit from Half Cover or Three-Quarters Cover for this save. Cantrip Upgrade. The damage increases by 1d8 when you reach levels 5 (2d8), 11 (3d8), and 17 (4d8).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Uni and the Hunt for the Lost Horn
Sacred Flame Evocation Cantrip (Cleric) Casting Time: Action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: Instantaneous
Flame-like radiance descends on a creature that you can see within range
. The target must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take 1d8 Radiant damage. The target gains no benefit from Half Cover or Three-Quarters Cover for this save. Cantrip Upgrade. The damage increases by 1d8 when you reach levels 5 (2d8), 11 (3d8), and 17 (4d8).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Sacred Flame Evocation cantrip Casting Time: 1 action Range: 60 feet Components: V, S Duration: Instantaneous Flame-like radiance descends on a creature that you can see within range. The target must
succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take 1d8 radiant damage. The target gains no benefit from cover for this saving throw. The spell’s damage increases by 1d8 when you reach 5th level (2d8), 11th level (3d8), and 17th level (4d8).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Sacred Flame Evocation cantrip Casting Time: 1 action Range: 60 feet Components: V, S Duration: Instantaneous Flame-like radiance descends on a creature that you can see within range. The target must
succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take 1d8 radiant damage. The target gains no benefit from cover for this saving throw. The spell’s damage increases by 1d8 when you reach 5th level (2d8), 11th level (3d8), and 17th level (4d8).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
2. Secret Hallway Empty Frames. Empty mirror frames cover the walls, the floor around them littered with shards of reflective glass (just as in area 1).
Skeleton. An animated drow skeleton clad in
skeleton has a challenge rating of 0 and is worth 0 XP. Treasure The skeleton’s wand is a +1 wand of the war mage.
Ancient Deep Dragon
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
mushrooms and plants in neatly organized displays.
The challenge rating of a legendary deep dragon increases by 1 when it’s encountered in its lair.
Lair Actions
On initiative count 20 (losing
fungi within 6 miles of the dragon’s lair grow faster and cover a greater area than they normally would. Foraging in this area yields twice the usual amount of food.
If the dragon dies, these
Adult Deep Dragon
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
, or featuring larger mushrooms and plants in neatly organized displays.
The challenge rating of a legendary deep dragon increases by 1 when it’s encountered in its lair.
Lair Actions
On
.
Verdant Growth. Vegetation and fungi within 6 miles of the dragon’s lair grow faster and cover a greater area than they normally would. Foraging in this area yields twice the usual amount of food
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
. Sacks and crates of looted provisions are piled up in the south end of this large cave. To the west, the floor slopes toward a narrow opening that descends into darkness. A larger opening leads north
Chimney. A niche in the western wall forms the top of a shaft that descends 30 feet to area 3. See that area for information on climbing the natural chimney. Supplies. The piles of sacks and crates
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
the crowd on foot. Any creature in the crowd has half cover, and any attack that misses the creature because of the cover hits an innocent commoner instead. If Willifort is incapacitated, a raven
, the character spots an iron grate in the street that wasn’t closed properly. Lifting it reveals an iron ladder that descends 10 feet to an underground sewer tunnel. Characters who lower themselves
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
area 4). Crisscrossing wooden beams cover these holes, though the beams are far enough apart that a Small or Medium creature can fit through them without having to squeeze. Two 10-foot-high earthen ramps
features, and it has no effective attacks. Its challenge rating is 0 (0 XP). Tending the pigs are seven mud-covered bugbears and an ettin. The bugbears push the pigs around to make sure the stronger
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
edges of the map, providing the dragon with fresh water and an alternative entrance. Originating on the surface, the river descends through narrow tunnels that eventually lead to the Underdark.
Hoard
other unseen by intruders. The most secure lairs might feature no accessible entrances or exits at all, with the dragon relying on tunneling or shaping stone to come and go.
The challenge rating of a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Divine Contention
inside descends 120 feet to the catacombs below. Characters who search the surface area and succeed on a DC 18 Intelligence (Nature or Investigation) check discern that a nearby saltwater lake has been
tomb have collapsed over the centuries. Areas of loose rubble count as difficult terrain and grant half cover to creatures hiding there.
Wards. The mausoleum is under the permanent effect of a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
other bird of prey. As it descends, however, its unearthly size becomes terrifyingly clear. In flight, a roc’s wingspan spreads two hundred feet or more. At rest, perched upon the mountain peaks that are
grounds. A roc seldom hunts swift or small creatures, and it ignores towns and forests where prey can easily take cover. When it locates a large and slow-moving target such as a giant, a whale, or an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
, walls, and ceiling covered in carpets of mold and moss, or featuring larger mushrooms and plants in neatly organized displays. The challenge rating of a legendary deep dragon increases by 1 when
within 6 miles of the dragon’s lair grow faster and cover a greater area than they normally would. Foraging in this area yields twice the usual amount of food. If the dragon dies, these effects fade over the course of 1d10 days.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
, leaving out the last sentence if the nycaloth is invisible: A sizable desk stands opposite the door in this stuffy study. Cabinets, crowded bookshelves, and maps of the Outer Planes cover the room’s
a gigantic, humanlike figure looming over a broad, circular table. A ladder to the north descends, while a ladder to the south climbs to the floor above.
Two four-armed, insectile creatures inspect
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
and a flagstone floor. The walls are made of rough, mortared bricks. Thick cobwebs cover crates, barrels, and old furniture stacked against the north wall. To the south are a pair of closed wooden doors
shaft descends 60 feet to a flooded cistern 10 feet deep and 10 feet in diameter. Treasure. Any character who spends at least 15 minutes searching the bottom of the well’s cistern finds a holy symbol of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Locathah Rising
in space, and an invisible, 30-foot-radius sphere of magic appears, centered on that point. Total cover blocks the sphere.
While within the sphere, Amble and their allies gain a +5 bonus to
movement
5th level (2 slots): greater restoration, mass cure wounds
6th level (1 slot): conjure fey
Actions
Change Shape (2/Day). Amble magically polymorphs into a beast with a challenge rating of 1
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Kelvin’s Cairn, in the middle of the tundra. Blizzard When the characters get within a couple miles of the sled, a blizzard sweeps down from the north and engulfs them: A blizzard descends on you
they come under attack, the goblins take cover behind the sled and retaliate with ranged attacks. On the goblins’ first turn in combat, one of them blows a horn to alert Izobai, who climbs to the roof
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
enter the first floor of the tower, a cloud giant wizard named Zephyros descends from the second floor (using a levitate spell) to greet them. Zephyros is an eccentric cloud giant with windswept white
) bludgeoning damage if used with two hands. This damage is considered magical. He has a challenge rating of 13 (10,000 XP). Spellcasting. Zephyros casts one of the following spells, requiring no material
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
descends to a dark plain twelve hundred feet below. Coral Reef. The rocky cliff side depicts the contours of a coral reef that rises 80 feet above the shelf. The exterior face of the reef is covered
, dragon turtles don’t have access to lair actions while in their lairs. At your discretion, you can give an adult or ancient dragon turtle access to lair actions, increasing its challenge rating by 1
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
is nothing of particular note here. 13. Guest Bedroom This bedroom has no furniture, but rubbish is scattered everywhere, and webs cover the walls and ceiling. From the doorway, you can see a glint of
light in the fireplace from a small, highly reflective object.
Two swarms of insects (spiders) infest this room. One swarm descends on anyone who approaches the fireplace, and the other descends
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
. The statue is a stone golem with a challenge rating of 11 (7,200 XP) and these changes: The statue is Huge and has 230 (20d12 + 100) hit points. It understands Abyssal but can’t speak. It can climb
an arcane lock spell on these doors, beyond which a stone staircase descends to area 30b. The characters can force open the doors with a successful DC 25 Strength (Athletics) check, but doing so
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
of the roof is gone from the belfry beneath the upthrust spire, but portions of the walls and their arched windows remain. A seaweed-tangled staircase descends deeper into the flooded tower.
Warded
Temple Layers of silt cover the stone floor of the main section of the temple. Tangled mounds of collapsed scaffolding lie toward the east end of this area. The west side is dominated by a circular
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
appendix C) and doesn’t carry a longbow. He has the Spellcasting feature described below. He has a challenge rating of 4 (1,100 XP). Spellcasting. Withers is a 9th-level spellcaster. His spellcasting
scholar’s pack. A manual of golems (clay) lies open on his desk next to a spellbook containing all the spells he has prepared. On the inside back cover of the spellbook is what appears to be a name
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
flying overhead—one guard descends into the tower to alert the rest of the prison while the others stay at their posts. Getting Inside If the characters use the cover Varrin provided, their ship arrives at
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Prisoner 13
flying overhead—one guard descends into the tower to alert the rest of the prison while the others stay at their posts. Getting Inside If the characters use the cover Varrin provided, their ship arrives at
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
keep. Other doors lead to bedchambers, two of which have been destroyed. A wooden staircase in the west wall descends to the main floor. A similar staircase in the south wall climbs to the roof. 14e
. Master Bedroom This room is the only one of three bedchambers to survive the cloud giants’ attack. Tapestries and oil lamps are mounted on the walls, and wolfskin rugs cover the wooden floor. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
a flying speed of 30 feet and can hover while encased in the crystal decahedron, which grants its occupant total cover against attacks that originate outside the vehicle. The pentadrone can’t make
constant motion. One part of the chain descends at a rate of 50 feet per round, wrapping around the giant gear that floats 100 feet below the east balcony, while the other part of the chain climbs to enter






