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9. Complex of Secret Doors

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a7

take 10 (3d6) bludgeoning damage from the falling door. Bolts from Above. Each round that characters are in any of the rooms inside the complex of secret doors, a number of bolts will be fired into

the area from hidden devices in the walls and ceilings, and there is a 50 percent chance that one character, randomly determined, in each such area must succeed on a DC 20 Dexterity saving throw or take 5 (1d10) piercing damage. There is no way to prevent the bolts from being triggered.

Purple Worm Attack

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel

to attack until it devours the devices (and likely the Ashen Heirs holding them) or it is slain. Map 11.1 depicts the area as the purple worm emerges. Stars mark the locations of Ashen Heirs. The

through the square. A character who succeeds on a DC 14 Intelligence (Nature) or Wisdom (Survival) check realizes the Ashen Heirs’ devices are irritating the creature. Unaware of this, the Ashen Heirs

Note-Taking Materials

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

Note-Taking Materials Everyone needs some way to take notes. During every round of combat, someone needs to keep track of Initiative, Hit Points, conditions, and other information. Players often like

are also available if you’re playing online or using digital devices at the table. Campaign Journal Throughout this book you’ll find tracking sheets you can use to make your work as a DM easier. They

Note-Taking Materials

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules

Note-Taking Materials Everyone needs some way to take notes. During every round of combat, someone needs to keep track of Initiative, Hit Points, conditions, and other information. Players often like

are also available if you’re playing online or using digital devices at the table. Campaign Journal Throughout this book you’ll find tracking sheets you can use to make your work as a DM easier. They

Scriptoria Collections Features

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

Scriptoria Collections Features The room has the following features: Map 4.3: scriptoria collections View Player Version Astrolabes. These spherical copper devices were a gift to Director Quenthorne

centermost astrolabe has been corrupted as described in the “Is That Astrolabe Breathing?” section. If any character examines this central astrolabe for 1 round or more, skip directly to that section

Magic Items Awarded by Level

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules

table shows how many items of each rarity are meant to be handed out during each of the four tiers of play. Artifacts are omitted from the table because they are most often used as plot devices in high

it. An adventure usually can include a number of items that’s 25 percent higher than the number in the Magic Items Awarded by Level table (round up). For example, an adventure designed to take

Wizard Gizzard!

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

it are a few strange-looking boxes with funnels protruding from them at an angle. Twenty feet opposite the table, a small bucket rests on the floor. The devices on the table are called wizard

that minute wins the game. To determine how many spheres a character lands in the bucket, have the character make a Dexterity (Arcana) check and divide the total by 3 (round down). If two or more

Games of Chance

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault

. Starting to the left of the dealer and continuing clockwise, each participant reveals one of their die rolls. This step is repeated twice more; on the second and third round, each participant can raise

pays double their bet. Copper Slots These machines, referred to by some casino patrons as “tricky devils,” are simple clockwork devices that accept copper coins. Each machine has a spring-loaded lever

Mummy Lord

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)

ancient empires. The regalia of their terrible rule still adorns their linen-wrapped bodies, their moldering robes stitched with evil symbols and bronze armor etched with devices of dynasties that fell a

row. Each undead creature in the lair can pinpoint the location of each living creature within 120 feet of it until initiative count 20 on the next round. Each undead in the lair has advantage on saving

Awarding Magic Items

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

20. The table shows how many items of each rarity are meant to be handed out during each of the four tiers of play. Artifacts are omitted from the table because they are most often used as plot devices

place in it. An adventure usually can include a number of items that’s 25 percent higher than the number in the Magic Items Awarded by Level table (round up). For example, an adventure designed to

Spaceship Locations, Level 2

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase

violet key card can lower the platform to the area marked on map 7.3 by inserting the card into a card-locked panel on the wall opposite the lift. The platform descends at a rate of 10 feet per round

of handles. Eight binocular-like viewing devices are bolted along the walkway, allowing creatures to observe the garden (areas S56–S60) below. Objects viewed through these devices are magnified to

Lottie's Palace

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

amazing machines, including the clockwork machine room that powers the casino. The machine room behind the fortified metal door controls all the clockwork devices in the casino, including the locked

drink at the bar. Bartender. The skeleton bartender uses clockwork devices to shake rum drinks, peel fruit, blend fruit juices, and create souvenir flattened tokens (at a cost of 3 tokens). A door

Mortuary Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary

conveyance devices ferry corpses from the examination slabs along a set of tracks in the floor to one of four exit chutes. The three chutes in the east wall wind to an autopsy room, a morgue, and

Shortly after the characters enter, a chaotic evil ghost and three specters free themselves from the necrotic slurry and attack. One more specter escapes from the liquid at the end of each round until

The Fissure

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

. The setup of gears and attachments within the orrery makes it clear that six round components are meant to be placed into the device. Characters will not recall seeing any such devices in the shrine of destruction.

rats arrive and attack 1 round later. All the rats are dyed a bright green from trap C in area 3. Treasure. When the final rat dies, it coughs up a humanoid finger bearing a platinum ring worth 20 gp

Hrakhamar

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation

chamber is a working smelter. A rectangular pit in the center of the room is filled with molten iron. Six devices of dwarven design and make, arranged around the pit, siphon off the liquid metal and

lantern is a dancing lights spells cast by one of the mephits to lure the characters deeper into the noxious lair. All of area 8 is heavily obscured. Characters can move 10 feet per round by following a

Daoine Gloine

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

clockwork kraken at the apparatus garage (area O5). The construct’s tentacles are outfitted with local teleportation-field devices (see the earlier sidebar), allowing them to move throughout the city

gelatinous cube with these changes: It is immune to all damage and conditions. Its reach is 10 feet. Each round, the ooze can make one attack against each creature within its reach: a pseudopod attack against

Barn Door Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries

preparations before launch. A secret door hidden in a library bookcase (see area B1) conceals the only route to the tower’s underlevel. The Barn Door will be launched into space by arcane devices

chair is bolted to the dais under the telescope, with an iron lever jutting up from the floor next to it, topped by a perfectly round ruby. A small wooden steering wheel attached to the chair is

Tresendar Manor Dungeon

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

, Patsky might show up to help the characters with useful information at a later date. Ignored or abused, then left to his own devices, the kobold joins up with some other evil gang led by a spellcaster. 10

made each round. All characters have advantage on these checks if someone succeeded on the check in area 7 or the characters examined the failed ritual there. In each round that one or more characters

Lair Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves

the roost and join the fight on Initiative count 0 of the second round (losing ties). D2: Remorhaz Trophy The cave splits into two passages on either side of a huge centipede-like monster frozen in a

), which she doesn’t know exists. Magic Devices. Finkleton had several magic devices, including this box, to which Gelida is bound, and a Shield Guardian. Gelida can’t leave the box for more than a few

Spaceship Locations, Level 1

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase

. At the start of the third round of combat, a combat robot appears in the eastern hallway, sirens blaring. If the cloaker is still alive, the robot quickly moves to slay it. If the characters defeat

that skitters away on tiny hairs if placed on the floor 6 Live concussion grenade that explodes on delivery S6: Security Checkpoint Three intimidating robots sort smooth, featureless devices the

Areas of the Water Temple

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse

round of combat. C8. Ancient Silos There are two of these rooms, both identical. This large room is strewn with crumbling masonry. A dry pit lies in the middle of the floor, ringed by a five-foot-wide

, and each door features a loophole covered by a small iron plate at chest level on a human. A round table and four rickety wooden chairs stand in the middle of the room. There are ten bunks here

Roleplaying a Giant

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

giants. Slaves: Labor-saving Devices It takes a lot of work to build and maintain a fire giant stronghold. Most of that effort comes not from the giants themselves, but from the slaves that they keep

ordinary currency is usually left behind after a raid. Tiny, round coins simply have no worth to a frost giant. Because frost giants can’t stand the heat of a forge, they don’t mine their own metal or craft

Briny Maze Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

Realm from the Briny Maze. If you choose, curious characters might find locations from the previous chapter nearby. Bubbles. The flumphs installed the organic devices that generate the bubbles. The

following round to sense intelligences within the Briny Maze. These experiments have proven that her errant guards aren’t in the Briny Maze. Talking with Ashripask. Ashripask’s guards abandoned her. She tells

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