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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
kill (“TPK”) need not herald the end of the campaign. Giants and other intelligent creatures are fond of taking prisoners. The first time a TPK occurs, you can have the characters miraculously awaken as
prisoners with 1 hit point each. Give them every chance to escape their captors. If necessary, use NPCs such as Zephyros, the cloud giant wizard in chapter 1, to help them get out of tight spots. With luck, the players will take the hint and be wary of repeating the experience.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Optional Rules: Feywild Magic Tales speak of children kidnapped by fey creatures and spirited away to the Feywild, only to return to their parents years later without having aged a day, and with no
memories of their captors or the realm they came from. Likewise, adventurers who return from an excursion to the Feywild are often alarmed to discover upon their return that time flows differently on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
passageways or consume refuse. Likewise, an ooze can be enticed into a pit trap, where its captors feed it often enough to prevent it from coming after them. Crafty creatures place torches and flaming
that an immaculately clean passageway is a likely sign that an ooze lairs nearby. Slow Death. An ooze kills its prey slowly. Some varieties, such as black puddings and gelatinous cubes, engulf creatures
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
conversation. If captured, however, they agree to lead their captors to area 11 to speak with the drow priestess who commands them. Treasure. Each drow elite warrior wears an obsidian scarab bearing the
. Living on natural stone shelves inside the crevasse are eight quaggoths that serve the drow.
The quaggoths can climb the crevasse without having to make an ability check, as can other creatures with a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
chapter 5) collect in caves along what’s known as the Gnawing Path. The creatures plot to overwhelm Sly-Var and will pass through Toyalis in the process. Members of both communities request exterminators
the shape-shifter disappears, slipping in among its would-be captors.
6 An apprentice of Hazlik yearns to explore the bottomless pit known as Gluttonkettle. He needs a test crew for a vehicle
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Magic Tales speak of children kidnapped by Fey creatures and spirited away to the Feywild, only to return to their parents years later without having aged a day and with no memories of their captors or
throw. Fey creatures automatically succeed on the saving throw, as do creatures that have the Fey Ancestry trait, such as elves. On a failed save, the creature remembers nothing from its time spent in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
legend. These bards are so eloquent that a speech or song that one of them performs can cause captors to release the bard unharmed and can lull a furious dragon into complacency. The same magic that
Inspiration to grant yourself a wondrous appearance. When you do so, choose a number of creatures you can see and that can see you within 60 feet of you, up to a number equal to your Charisma modifier
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Uni and the Hunt for the Lost Horn
free of his captors’ sack through a small hole, Nosey is looking for a way home. Nosey pantomimes his capture and escape, and any character who pays attention to the puppy’s behavior figures out the
incongruously pitched on the crystal floor ahead. Outside the tent, a cooking pot bubbles over a campfire.
The cooking pot contains a foul stew made from worms. Two creatures are here. King Gurgle, a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
strung between them like barbed wire to hinder creatures attempting to cross over. For the effects of sticky webs, see “Dungeon Hazards” in chapter 5 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide. Each tower has a
, Rilna releases the prisoners in areas 18g and 18h, forcing them to fight for House Freth. But the moment the fight turns against the drow, the prisoners turn against their captors. In addition to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
crawling on and around them. The vermin occasionally fight among themselves, but most of these creatures move sluggishly, as if the light has subdued them.
Glowing Pillars. The pillars emit magical
light, which pacifies the vermin and keeps their handlers safe. Creatures. Two Thayan apprentices (see appendix B) are feeding the vermin scraps and pig excrement from buckets. Six Thayan warriors (see
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
This 30-foot-high cavern and the tunnels leading to it are strung with web cables (see the “Web Cables” sidebar). Nine quaggoths creep along the cables, attempting to hide from any creatures that
escape routes are cut off, Talabsyn surrenders and orders the males to do the same, hoping her captors try to ransom her. She betrays any of the male drow in a heartbeat to save herself — and the males
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
skeletal creatures lying on the floor, each one wearing a shiny ring set with a large gemstone. The lock on the door can be opened by a character who succeeds on a DC 10 Dexterity check while using
thieves’ tools, or the door can be forced by someone who makes a successful DC 15 Strength (Athletics) check. The three creatures are wights that spring to attack anyone who enters the cell. The rings
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
a crash that can be heard throughout Ironslag. If they haven’t already been defeated or lured elsewhere, the creatures in areas 12 and 15 investigate the sound, arriving on the northern and eastern
creatures in area 15. 15. Mustering Hall The walls of this room bear frescoes that depict fire giants forging armor and weapons, marching to war, and binding red dragons in chains. Four basalt pillars
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
creatures and objects on the Ethereal Plane sees the hags as spectral figures huddled in the middle of the room. See “The Sewn Sisters” sidebar for more information. Hag Dolls Each hag has created a
the hags by name, lest the hags hear their names being uttered. The dolls were made from the souls of children and want to be free of the captors. The hags are nursing some kind of creature that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a2
, the path opens onto a wide ledge and then doubles back sharply into the mountainside.
Two bestial humanoids in hide armor stand watch on the ledge. They appear inattentive and bored.
Creatures
barred from the inside. Forcing open the barred door is very difficult, requiring a successful DC 20 Strength check. Creatures. If the orcs have been alerted, the orcs in areas 4 and 4a fire arrows until
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
creature must make a successful DC 14 Strength check to free itself or another creature from the net. If the net takes 30 slashing damage, it is destroyed and all creatures restrained by it are freed
and alter the fortress for their sahuagin captors spend their few hours of rest in here. At one time, forty slaves served in the stronghold, as attested to by the forty pairs of chains equally spaced
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
Darkness, the prisoners start another riot and overcome their captors. B5: Inner Yard This empty yard is hemmed in by a rocky cliff on its eastern edge. A flight of stairs has been carved into the cliff face
navigate its 20-foot elevation above the yard. A steel chain ladder coiled in a corner of the efreeti’s mouth can be lowered to allow access for non-flying creatures. Above the carved efreeti face, a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
mechanical constructs, all in various stages of completion. Components and parts are scattered across the tables and the floor. Skittering around in the debris are three creatures that look like oversized
constructs, three figures in custodial uniforms—a halfling, a dragonborn, and a human—are crawling around on the floor as though searching for something.
The insectoid creatures are three
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
him. If taken prisoner, he whines about the failure of his guards to protect him and bides his time, hoping his captors get in over their heads and afford him a chance to escape. If interrogated, he
horror that was fashioned on Avernus. The construct understands Infernal but can’t speak, and it is immune to the following spells: fire bolt, sacred flame, and shocking grasp. The only creatures
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
human skull. D10. Necromites’ Room The creatures here watch area D9 through a crack in the door, and any sign of the characters approaching lets them set up an ambush of sorts. Read the following
the purpose of dispelling it. The ghostly battleaxe can’t be harmed, can’t leave the room, and targets only creatures, acting on initiative count 20. On each of its turns, it moves up to 10 feet and