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Shape-Shift. The ooze shape-shift;shape-shifts to resemble a Medium or smaller Humanoid or Beast while retaining its game statistics, or it returns to its true form. Any equipment it is
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A demon lord looking to cause trouble
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Only itself
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A lich in the area hoping for a distraction
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A greater devil
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An archmage building an ooze army
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Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
shift, silence
1/day each: clairvoyance, darkness, detect thoughts, dispel magic, faerie fire, gate, levitate (self only), suggestionThe drow can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options
, providing protection or advice.A Matron Mother’s Lair
The palace of a drow matron mother is her home and fortress. Sigils throughout the building allow the matron mother to use the following
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
shift, silence
1/day each: clairvoyance, darkness, detect thoughts, dispel magic, faerie fire, gate, levitate (self only), suggestionThe drow can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options
Underdark armies arrayed against the followers of Lolth.
A Matron Mother’s Lair
The palace of a drow matron mother is her home and fortress. Sigils throughout the building allow the matron
Eladrin
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emotional state. For example, an eladrin might shift to autumn if filled with contentment, another eladrin could change to winter if plunged into sorrow, still another might be bursting with joy and become an
Everything dies eventually. Why bother building anything that is supposedly meant to last?
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Nothing matters to you, and you allow others to guide your actions.
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Your needs come first. In
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
building to investigate suspicious sounds. A new shift starts every four hours, and six guards show up at each shift change.
guards are posted on the balcony and one guard patrols around the outside of the building at ground level. A character can avoid the notice of the exterior guards with a successful DC 12 Dexterity
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
culture might have its own array of gods. In most D&D settings, there is no single god that can claim to have created humanity. Thus, the human proclivity for building institutions extends to religion
cataclysmic shift to replace him. With that in mind, consider the role of the gods in your world and their ties to different humanoid races. Does each race have a creator god? How does that god shape that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
revealed to relate to a larger plot in the campaign. If most of your adventures are dungeon expeditions, shift gears with a tense urban mystery that eventually leads the party into a dungeon crawl in
an abandoned building or tower. If you run horror adventures week after week, try using a villain who turns out to be ordinary, perhaps even silly. Comic relief is a great variation on almost any D&D campaign, though players usually provide it themselves.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
replace conflicts that don’t resonate with your players as well as conflicts you’re having trouble building adventures around. Conflict Arcs In the same way you think about character arcs over the
power and capabilities, and they can also be story milestones in the arc of your campaign. The shift from one tier to another is an ideal time to wrap up a campaign conflict and introduce a new one that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
. Encounters in Elturel d10 Encounter
1 Collapsed building
2 Cry for help
3 Ghastly meal
4 Ghoul pack
5 Hateful patrol
6 Imp sales pitch
7 Narzugon cavalier
8 Spouts of hellfire
9 Vrock philosophy
10 Zombie horde
Collapsed Building A quake rocks the city, and a building collapses in the distance. The characters hear cries for help
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
space within the Furygale Repository is a vast, open area filled with discarded magical creations. Elemental forces infuse the structure’s walls and numerous alcoves, the surfaces of which slowly shift
they’re dueling or not. After taking damage in the repository, a creature still in the building is healed to full hit points after not taking damage for 1 minute. Wild Magic. Once per turn, when a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
7). Instructor Minexes is a recent addition to the faculty who is enthusiastic about learning and team-building. Earlier in the week, a load of supply crates failed to arrive at a storage area on
characters’ shift. The characters can easily find out these students’ identities beforehand from Professor Lang (see “Students in Detention”). The students in detention are already there when the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
forms the perimeter of a large hole, while east of the building is a larger wooden structure covered with creeping vines.
As you come a bit closer, the sound of voices suddenly emerges from the shack
don’t dispose of her promptly, she does not hesitate to cut her losses and uses a plane shift spell to leave their company. The two dryads are named Trekaila and Argentia. If the characters free them
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
carved wooden scimitar emblazoned with the inn’s name in red paint on both sides. An inn yard with stables and outbuildings lies behind the building. The Swinging Sword is welcoming and luxurious by the
workers here have to toil flat-out to keep up Thelorn’s long-decreed “dozen spare wagons in stock, ready to go.” No one here is interested in gossiping during shift time. There is a no-nonsense, pride
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
, an eladrin might shift to autumn if filled with contentment, another eladrin could change to winter if plunged into sorrow, still another might be bursting with joy and become an eladrin of spring
forever. d4 Winter Flaw 1 Everything dies eventually. Why bother building anything that is supposedly meant to last? 2 Nothing matters to you, and you allow others to guide your actions. 3 Your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
topple entire forests by trying to live in trees. Others attempting to take over humanoid towns or villages get only as far as the doors and windows of a building, taking out its walls and roof as they
territory where other humanoids live, it rules strictly by terror and tyranny. Its decisions shift with its mood, and if it forgets the title it bestowed upon itself, it might eat its subjects on a whim.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
techniques. Building a new vehicle can occupy a workshop for months while magical energy is painstakingly inlaid into the vessel’s hull. Such work is a complicated task requiring the labor of many
continues to flow along the matrix through the hull, appearing as jagged, snaking lines of living energy that pulse and shift. These conduits of elemental energy take on an appearance associated with the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Seating This outdoor seating area is fenced off and is open to tavern customers and noncustomers alike. The patio doors and the front doors leading into the building are closed except when the tavern is
Room The most crowded area of the tavern is filled with students. At opening hour, the tavern’s seating is arranged neatly, as shown on the map. In short order, though, student patrons shift the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
the building. The tower’s vents are 50 feet from the ground and open into a 10-foot-wide shaft that descends into the center of area A2. This shaft is marked with a dotted circle on map 11.2. A
reuniting them, then use plane shift to catch up elsewhere. Navid might return to Akharin Sangar someday, but without their leader any remaining Ashen Heirs are no longer a threat. Audience with Navid
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
, blade barrier, cure wounds, hold person, plane shift, silence
1/day each: clairvoyance, darkness, detect thoughts, dispel magic, faerie fire, gate, levitate (self only), suggestion
Bonus Actions
her home and fortress. Sigils throughout the building allow the matron mother to use the following lair actions while within it. Any temple of Lolth also functions as a matron mother’s lair while she
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Shift spell, or similar magic, the spell’s caster must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the spell fails and has no effect. On a successful save, the spell works, but
: back straight, arms crossed, and head slightly lowered. Ruins. Except for the mill, every building in Ialos was destroyed on the Day of Mourning. Broken stone and rotten timber lie strewn about the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Masters: Ravenloft Play-Along Pack
shift. A podling might try to avoid suspicion by claiming to be ill or redirect doubt by insisting others are behaving oddly. If confronted with evidence of its plant nature, or if caught tending to a
the Bodytaker Plant Sanctuary table to inspire where such a plant might grow. Bodytaker Plant Sanctuary 1d4 The Bodytaker Plant Grows In… 1 A building converted into a greenhouse. 2 A hidden
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
shift. A podling might try to avoid suspicion by claiming to be ill or redirect doubt by insisting others are behaving oddly. If confronted with evidence of its plant nature, or if caught tending to a
Bodytaker Plant Grows In… 1 A building converted into a greenhouse. 2 A hidden caldera or cenote. 3 An overgrown circle of standing stones. 4 The sanctuary of a ruined cathedral. Bodytaker Plant Huge
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
end at five bells in the morning, one bell in the afternoon, and nine bells at night, respectively. Each shift consists of a priest of Chauntea (NG male or female Illuskan human), four acolytes (NG
roundabout. North of the statue is a stone building with an open front, above which hangs a sign that reads “Earth Mother’s Bounty.” Visitors can buy seeds and cornucopias here. Tasked by the abbot with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
building has fallen into the cavern. Inside the collapsed structure are strewn wooden heads and decaying hats.
A stone golem hides under a pile of shattered wood and feathery hats. Demelin (see
. If a creature fails this check by 5 or more, it gets stuck, is restrained, and risks drowning. A creature can free itself or a creature within reach by using an action to shift the rubble and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
, prepared to ambush the characters. Characters with a passive Wisdom (Perception) score of 16 or higher aren’t surprised when Jamir attacks. If reduced to 20 hit points or fewer, he uses plane shift
the east, this large hall narrows to a raised area with an altar. The north side of the building is a tangle of fallen stone and beams. The south side holds two doors.
The ceiling here is 20 feet
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
conversationalist. Laylee has a curious mind and a talent for tools and building. She serves as Myla’s helper. Mumpo is so audaciously courageous that he stole a copper piece from Runara’s hoard. He’s convinced she
working in the temple recently, she witnessed a ship change course and crash into the rocks to the north (see “Cloister Quests”). Varnoth is indifferent to visitors, but a character can shift her attitude
Magic Items
Infernal Machine Rebuild
Lum. By experimenting with its many controls, he was able to achieve astounding and destructive magical effects in the building of his empire, and so the artifact came to be known as the Infernal
shift position and reset themselves over time. At the end of each long rest of the user attuned to it, the Infernal Machine generates 1d4 + 1 random beneficial properties and 1d4 + 1 detrimental
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
portcullis sits askew in the 40-foot-wide, 30-foot-tall archway that serves as the only entrance to this square building. Characters who pass beneath the portcullis find themselves in a mostly abandoned
the walls of this monumental building, their spires arching over its shattered roof.
This grand academy was a place of study for novice mages, where each one learned which schools of magic would
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
Maverick. She stays behind to slack off for the rest of her shift, but might show up at some later point if you wish. Having decided to make a new life for herself, Dagdra makes an excellent potential
zombies surrounds a dozen Dran Enterprises pirates, who are fighting for their lives. The ship is moored at an old and decaying dock, with a single building visible against a forest of thick trees. In
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
occasionally entering the unmarked building. Locked Door. The door to area T5 is locked. T2: Break Room This break room smells faintly of sweat and greasy food. Scuffed wooden furniture and a large couch
double door leads into the building.
A creature that falls off the balcony can catch the railing with a successful DC 16 Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the creature falls to the ground 15
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
. Toadstools. The toadstools form a fairy ring that acts as a permanent teleportation circle, which can serve as the destination of teleportation magic and spells such as Plane Shift. Though the fairy ring
) There’s a lovely building just here,
With turrets and domes far and near.
’Tis a shame you can’t spy it,
As we urge you to try it.
Solve the puzzle and see it appear!
Palace of Spires
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
closed monastery doors. The plain doors are made of heavy timber with iron studs. A dusty footpath circles the building.
If the characters scout around the other sides of the building, add the
building.
Nobody inside the monastery pays much attention to people skulking around outside, although characters who make a commotion might attract the attention of cultists whose windows look out in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
. In a wood just a few miles west of the city, he came upon a cylindrical stone building, its open doorway revealing stairs leading down into the forest floor. Atop the building, a smaller statue of
portion of the cemetery’s cliff into the river below, causing the remaining bone-houses and markers to shift and lean, while also exposing numerous crypts and tomb-tunnels to the air, prompting a fresh
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
a cylindrical stone building, its open doorway revealing stairs leading down into the forest floor. Atop the building, a smaller statue of Balduran stared back the way he had come. Prevented from
, causing the remaining bone-houses and markers to shift and lean, while also exposing numerous crypts and tomb-tunnels to the air, prompting a fresh rush of grave robbing. Though Baldurians rarely bury their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
eight-hour shifts, with one corporal (gauntlet) and eighteen privates (fists) on duty during each shift. Unknown to her boss, Liara is in league with pirates based out of Jahaka Anchorage and earns a tidy
; their chief duty is rowing the boats back and forth. In case of danger, they can barricade themselves inside the stoutest log building or row out to sea until whatever threatens them loses interest