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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
obsidian statue stands in a raised alcove at the western end of the chamber. Slumped before the statue are two desiccated corpses in tattered garments. Two pairs of alcoves line the north and south walls of
succeed on a DC 16 Wisdom saving throw or be drawn to the statue as though affected by the sympathy effect of an antipathy/sympathy spell. The corpses lying in front of the statue are the remains of two
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
currently standing watch on the walls. A search of the bailey yields the corpses of two dead human guards, both of whom were struck and killed by falling rocks. Characters can enter the keep through the front
and desecration. As in the past, the interests of the elves and Nandars were at cross purposes. A year ago, the conflict came to a head, and the elves attacked Nightstone. Drezlin was among the many
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
and 18 Corpses. The corpses of two duergar (one male, one female) lie sprawled in the center of the room.
Arch Gates. Two stone arches are embedded in the walls, one to the north and the other to the
by the invisible stalkers. His companion came looking for him minutes later and met the same fate. Both duergar wear dull gray scale armor. Their iron shields, war picks, and javelins lie nearby
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
, and hosted morbid banquets to feast on their corpses. When nothing came of these ritualized murders, the cultists’ activities became thinly disguised excuses to indulge their lurid fantasies. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
deep. A nook in the northeast corner contains two corpses preserved by the seawater. The cave’s back wall is flat, with a large opening in the southeast corner.
The flooded cave is difficult terrain
for any creature that doesn’t have a swimming speed. Corpses. Characters can identify the corpses as those of two half-elves who look like siblings. Any character who uses an action to examine the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
Bodies delivered to the Mortuary filter through corpse receiving and shipping, an industrial stretch where corpses are collected, sorted, and shipped off to the next stage of the funerary process. In this
: This underground facility reeks of rotting flesh. Grim-faced workers shuffle between a series of chutes set into south wall, prodding supine bodies with rusty implements. Periodically, corpses tumble out
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
district came early in the Last War. A team of Aundairian saboteurs brought down one of Sharn’s floating towers, and the falling spire struck Godsgate. Buildings collapsed, and hundreds died. Untended
corpses led to infection and disease. The City Council had no interest in sinking gold into Lower Dura to restore the area, and the district was abandoned. Today, the district known as Fallen is strewn
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
25. Prisoner of Darkness The characters are not the only adventurers to have recently explored this level. One of those who came before them has succumbed to the Shadowfell’s despair. 25a. Vampiric
after she was forced to watch Umbraxakar devour the corpses of her slain companions one by one. She stays close to her rescuers, serving as a loyal follower until she is safely out of Undermountain or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
was summoned to the Underdark. Kurr brought with him a pack of hyenas and had them feast on the corpses of his slain victims. This heinous act transformed the hyenas into ten gnolls. Kurr’s pack now
periodically stumble upon the corpses and bones of Underdark creatures slain by his gnolls. The encounter with Kurr’s pack occurs only once. Any subsequent occurrence of this encounter is with a pack of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
, although she doesn’t know it. If captured, she can relate that a short, cloaked humanoid came to her in Neverwinter Wood two days ago, hiring her to bring her pack of jackals to Phandalin and search
pieces. Older humanoid remains were the source of the jackals’ meal. However, no intact corpses can be found among the rubble. Additionally, the walls of the still-standing structures bear a mark in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
over, and various goods (see “Treasure”) are strewn upon the cavern floor amid the slaughtered corpses of giant lizards and steeders. Characters approaching the market see two enlarged duergar chasing a
Yantha stole a valuable gemstone from a duergar merchant and refused to return it. Peebles. The svirfneblin holding the bag is Peebles. He came to Mantol-Derith to investigate rumors of a beholder living
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
: Passage of Death Four duergar corpses are strewn about this curved passage.
Six duergar explorers—two mages and four warriors—came to the Briny Maze a few months ago. The mages were disciples of
Ilvaash who planned to sacrifice their warriors to Ilvaash. Violence ensued, and the duergar killed each other. The corpses are those of the duergar warriors. The two mages now lurk in area B3 as psionic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
learned he was a mercenary hired to attack the manor. He mentioned that his employer was a short, hooded person who sounded like a goblin. Eventually, some thugs came and took Drahkso away. They then
desiccated and skeletal humanoid corpses litter the floor of this small chamber. The stone of the north wall has been etched with intricate runes, but the pattern ends abruptly.
Bodies and Runes. A closer
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
gatehouse faces the river, on the shore of which are four rowboats tied to a wooden post.
Scattered around the fort are piles of charred human corpses and flayed animal carcasses swarming with flies
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The corpses around the fort (map 2.4) are the remains of beasts and undead that attacked the camp. The camp dwellers took meat off the dead dinosaurs and other beasts to feed themselves, leaving the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
instead of a humanoid-shaped vegepygmy. Thornies are less intelligent than vegepygmies, but have greater size and ferocity, as well as a thorn-covered body. Corpses of those slain by russet mold grow
same way russet mold does. No one knows for sure where russet mold came from. One historical account tells of adventurers in a forbidding mountain range discovering russet mold and vegepygmies in a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
bay, never swimming. They did not see the shipwreck during the storm, and know only the that the walkers came from the general direction of the Pit of Hatred. They eagerly give the characters directions
by the slaughter are skulking in this room. Because the drowned ones removed the corpses, the rat swarms have found little to eat. They stream from beneath broken furniture and from behind partitions
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
boiling water. A creature that enters the water for the first time on its turn or starts its turn there takes 7 (2d6) fire damage. In addition, steam renders the cave lightly obscured. Floating Corpses
. The bodies are the boiled remains of svirfneblin that lived in area N5. N3. Oubliette Gore spatters the floor and walls of this windy cave, and the floor is strewn with dismembered humanoid corpses. A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
musings about the cave complex. Characters who examine the pages find a couple of noteworthy passages: “These caves are sacred to the frost giants. The carvings on the wall suggest that the giants came
meat is destined for her stew. Heaped around this block are rusty hatchets and the flayed corpses of the four fishers from Easthaven. The will-o’-wisp is normally invisible when its light is extinguished
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
their own. Treasure. The smugglers came ashore to retrieve several bolts of rare Calimshan silk to take to an interested buyer in the Moonshae Isles. The five bolts are worth 100 gp each. The
and dump their corpses overboard. Chaos of Battle. As soon as the characters attack, Athgar and Sister Foam order the crew to defend the ship. In the first round of combat, two sailors (N human
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
charming, Caradoc befriended and came to serve his fellow knight, Lord Soth, often advising the bold knight about the subtleties of courtly intrigues. Soth made Caradoc his seneschal, and the knight
bother with these days.” He gestures at the corpses about the room, “Do try to contain yourselves better than this lot did.”
Caradoc delights in mocking the characters and disrespecting the dead. As
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
later came into the possession of Netherese wizards, who built similar obelisks of their own. They believed that if some catastrophe destroyed their empire, these obelisks could help restore it
-legged and serene.
Creatures in the dome gain a flying speed of 30 feet and can hover. The corpses of a dozen Netherese apprentices hover around this area, with their hands on their knees and their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
skeletons, many still wearing rusted armor or tattered robes.
Gremorly dumped the corpses of those he killed into the moat. A character who examines these remains and succeeds on a DC 15 Wisdom
to well-known organizations like the Harpers or Red Wizards of Thay, the symbols of those groups can be found among the corpses. Treasure. Gremorly left treasure on the bodies of his victims to lure
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
fluid originates from the upper levels of Landro. L2: Cave Graveyard The corpses of recently fallen human soldiers bearing fine weapons and well-oiled armor lie scattered about this musty cavern.
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been here for years. Anyone who examined the thin, gray liquid in the cave entrance realizes that the white powder is residue from this liquid. The corpses are Cyran soldiers who were instantly killed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
damage. A character who succeeds on a DC 15 Wisdom (Medicine) check removes the skull-tipped chain from the devil without harming it. Roleplaying Alazub. Alazub came to the scab to spy on Trantolox’s
with mutilated devil corpses and gnawed bones. A hole in the floor reveals another dark cavern below this one.
Close examination of the mutilated corpses reveals that they include three bearded devils
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
their remains. These warnings are empty threats. The sarcophagi contain only the mummified corpses of the githyanki. G3: Passage of Stars The floor of this hall curves upward to become the walls and
party of adventurers who came here—a group hired by Ginder Nanik in Arborean Springs to scout the gardens for exploitable resources—and slowly and torturously transformed them into yuan-ti. These
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
named Deena Finkleton who came in hopes of stealing the dragon’s treasure. Gelida was left here to count the coins her conjurer pilfered, but the halfling never returned. Hiding from the Dragon. Gelida
, preferably with his pet. D15: Frozen Corpses Most of this cave is filled with ice. Five human corpses are dimly visible, each frozen deep within an icy pillar. Each corpse has a weapon raised and wears a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
patrol Table I: Outer City Threats d10 Threat 1 2d4 giant rats 2 1 bandit captain and 1d6 bandits demand a “street use” tax 3 1d6 Guild pickpockets (spies) 4 1d4 ghouls picking at corpses left in the
. 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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
order came into possession of a piece of the Orrery of the Wanderer called the rotor of return, and just over a month ago that their search for lore on the rotor came to the attention of the Six. The
, and boards line the walls. Three tall wardrobes and four large chests stand among these materials.
Creatures. Hiding in the wardrobes and chests are four ghouls made from gnome and halfling corpses
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Threats d10 Threat
1 2d4 giant rats
2 1 bandit captain and 1d6 bandits demand a “street use” tax
3 1d6 Guild pickpockets (spies)
4 1d4 ghouls picking at corpses left in the
knight of Oghma vowed to follow the line of the statue’s gaze as far as necessary to learn the truth. His journey was shorter than expected. In a wood just a few miles west of the city, he came upon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
. The Mourning had no effect on existing undead, and a large number of new undead came into being when the cataclysm occurred. Various spirits (such as ghosts and specters) linger near the places
where they died, and the corpses that litter an abandoned battlefield might rise up to continue fighting whenever a living creature comes near. Some of these entities are similar to undead that might be
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
grells in area J3.) The monsters grabbed the goblin corpses as well as Oskar, Cathlette, and Aida, whisking them into this small cave complex. The monsters ate the goblins and deposited the three
Valenzuela Vundru, Grell Psychic Historian’s Pack. Long before the behir or the grells came to this cave, Thorgran Ironquill used it as a base of operations to spy on mind flayers traveling to and from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
when a sudden premonition of danger came to her from her god, Procan. She heard whispers in her mind that led her to this place, and her intuition told her that the skeleton found here was the remains
them. More than a dozen corpses remain to be salvaged from the grotto, waiting for the undead to return. At dawn, Aaron went up and out to search for survivors. Finding none, he remained outside to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
hostilities with the drow have prompted Azrok to call on her for help. Preeta understands the threat posed by the drow and is using animate dead spells to raise drow corpses, creating forces that Azrok can
which the ring rests once belonged to Kressando Rosznar, who came to Azrok’s Hold after failing to make progress in dealings with the Xanathar Guild in Skullport. The young nobleman was looking to set up
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
of sacred gemstones, but the mind flayers took the gems when they vanquished this place’s defenders. The basin is now empty. West Room. Attendants here dressed and armored the prepared corpses. The
fragment that taints the crypt with its magic, these are the only Talhund to remain at rest. Treasure. Each of the fourteen dwarf corpses has a gem worth 100 gp in its ribcage. Any character who steals a
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Legends of Greyhawk: Secrets of the Free City
, removes the crystal ball, and sets it aside. “You came for truth, not theatrics. Well, let me tell you what I see.” The Seer Sees. Calmly, Onella waits for someone to sit down, and once they do, she
they end up there. If asked for specifics, she tells them eight people have vanished without a trace, and two bodies have been discovered. The bodies were mutilated, their corpses frozen solid, with a