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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
everlasting guardian.
The ritual to create a wood woad is a primeval secret passed down through generations of forest-dwelling societies and druid circles. Performing the ritual isn’t necessarily an
. Any hollow or crook will do, but often a special cavity is carved out of the trunk. The tree is bathed and watered with the blood of the sacrificed victim, and the body is buried among the tree’s
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Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
immortality. He forged pacts with any entity that would give him more power and delved into any eldritch secret that would prolong his life. He became a devotee of the Dark Powers and tapped into
, but it retains its Tattoo of Osybus trait, and all fire damage it deals becomes necrotic damage. The Tattoo of Osybus now appears carved into the skull’s forehead.
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Priest of Osybus
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Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
more power and delved into any eldritch secret that would prolong his life. He became a devotee of the Dark Powers and tapped into their immortal malice to fuel his apotheosis.
As his power grew, he
deals becomes necrotic damage. The Tattoo of Osybus now appears carved into the skull’s forehead.
5
Priest of Osybus (Spectral);Spectral. The priest now appears wraithlike, and its
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Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
; souls as springboards to his own immortality. He forged pacts with any entity that would give him more power and delved into any eldritch secret that would prolong his life. He became a devotee of the
replaced by that of a flameskull, but it retains its Tattoo of Osybus trait, and all fire damage it deals becomes necrotic damage. The Tattoo of Osybus now appears carved into the skull’s forehead
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Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
his own immortality. He forged pacts with any entity that would give him more power and delved into any eldritch secret that would prolong his life. He became a devotee of the Dark Powers and tapped
flameskull, but it retains its Tattoo of Osybus trait, and all fire damage it deals becomes necrotic damage. The Tattoo of Osybus now appears carved into the skull’s forehead.
5
Priest of
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Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
give him more power and delved into any eldritch secret that would prolong his life. He became a devotee of the Dark Powers and tapped into their immortal malice to fuel his apotheosis.
As his power
damage it deals becomes necrotic damage. The Tattoo of Osybus now appears carved into the skull’s forehead.
5
Priest of Osybus (Spectral);Spectral. The priest now appears wraithlike, and
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
with whom they have alliances or enmities. Their lairs are highly individual. Some are woven from networks of living fungus. Others are built upon the ruins of ancient cities or carved into caves near
lair has the following features:
Connecting Passages. Because a deep dragon lacks a sapphire dragon’s ability to shape stone, add a few connecting passages or secret doors to otherwise
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alliances or enmities. Their lairs are highly individual. Some are woven from networks of living fungus. Others are built upon the ruins of ancient cities or carved into caves near underground lakes.
Deep
features:
Connecting Passages. Because a deep dragon lacks a sapphire dragon’s ability to shape stone, add a few connecting passages or secret doors to otherwise inaccessible chambers, possibly
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. Osybus sought to use others’ souls as springboards to his own immortality. He forged pacts with any entity that would give him more power and delved into any eldritch secret that would prolong
appears carved into the skull’s forehead.
5
Priest of Osybus (Spectral);Spectral. The priest now appears wraithlike, and its challenge rating increases by 1. It gains resistance to all damage
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Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
delved into any eldritch secret that would prolong his life. He became a devotee of the Dark Powers and tapped into their immortal malice to fuel his apotheosis.
As his power grew, he attracted
necrotic damage. The Tattoo of Osybus now appears carved into the skull’s forehead.
5
Priest of Osybus (Spectral);Spectral. The priest now appears wraithlike, and its challenge rating
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carrying out their final orders. The hexed seals, fashioned from carved trinkets and masks, that trap the spirit in its form impart their curse on the creature’s enemies.
Secret. The jinxcraft seals can be washed away with alcohol, hindering and even destroying the bayou beast.PoisonFire
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", "rollAction":"Personality Consumption"} hours later unless its body is burned.Pumpkin heads are scarecrows of straw, sticks, and clothing topped with a carved pumpkin for a head and animated by a fiendish
replaced, often repeating phrases and behaviors that the missing person said or did in life while stalking and killing new prey.
Secret. Pumpkin heads hold a shred of memory from the people they
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takes 5 (1d10);{"diceNotation":"1d10", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Blighted Aura", "rollDamageType":"Necrotic"} Necrotic damage.
Carved Past. As an action, a creature can use a Dagger or
branches, rotting any flesh and digging into the ground around them to spread the blight.
Secret. Carving the Sylvan name of the forest the gloomwood once called home into the creature’s trunk quells its aggression.NecroticBludgeoning, Piercing
backgrounds
Delving into the brittle pages of ancient tomes and weathered tablets carved with blasphemy, you have unearthed secrets of eldritch beings of unfathomable might. Most of their meaning slips like
research what led to your discoveries, and they want what you found.
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When you spoke aloud the first secret word you deciphered, you passed out and woke hours later to find your lips cracked and
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other magical effects.
Runic Sever. If the titan starts its turn within 50 feet of a stone at least 10 feet high and 10 feet wide that is carved with the glyph representing its forgotten creator, the
and “civilized” people, it wants only to turn them to primal savagery or crush them beneath its immense bulk.
Secret. The name of the Wild Titan’s forgotten creator is its undoing
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Ancestral Shame. If a creature that can speak Orc within 30 feet of the reaper takes an action to read aloud the names carved in the stone on the reaper’s back, the reaper takes 20 Radiant
Shroud, the Chained Reaper is a being of hatred and bitterness, striving to cremate all living things in its balefire before binding them in chains of anguish.
Secret. The Chained Reaper carries a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
X2a. Guard Room This empty room lies behind a secret door. The ceiling is 10 feet high. Two arrow slits are carved into the east wall.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
X2a. Guard Room This empty room lies behind a secret door. The ceiling is 10 feet high. Two arrow slits are carved into the east wall.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
wall paneling is carved with elegant images of deer among the trees. Characters who search the walls for secret doors or otherwise inspect the paneling can, with a successful DC 12 Wisdom (Perception
5. Dining Room The centerpiece of this wood-paneled dining room is a carved mahogany table surrounded by eight high-backed chairs with sculpted armrests and cushioned seats. A crystal chandelier
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
41. Drop to Level 10 Hole in Floor. Carved into the floor is a smooth, 10-foot-square stone shaft. (The shaft descends 10 feet before opening in the ceiling of area 3b on level 10, directly above the
huge altar there.)
Alcoves. Six dark alcoves line the walls. (At the back of one is a secret door that opens into a closet, which has another secret door that leads to area 40.)
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
41. Drop to Level 10 Hole in Floor. Carved into the floor is a smooth, 10-foot-square stone shaft. (The shaft descends 10 feet before opening in the ceiling of area 3b on level 10, directly above the
huge altar there.)
Alcoves. Six dark alcoves line the walls. (At the back of one is a secret door that opens into a closet, which has another secret door that leads to area 40.)
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
this place, whose main doors are false and carved into the rock. The savants enter and leave using spells such as dimension door and passwall, while lesser derro access the worship chamber through secret tunnels from the West Cleft.
Halls of Sacred Spells The Halls of Sacred Spells comprise a temple of Diirinka carved into a stalagmite in Northfurrow District. Here, the derro Council of Savants meets and plots, living in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
X7. Secret Scroll Repository Carved into the south wall of this dusty space are cylindrical holes fit for scrolls or maps. The wizards kept magic scrolls here in case the temple came under attack. The scrolls have crumbled to dust.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
wall paneling is carved with elegant images of deer among the trees. Characters who search the walls for secret doors or otherwise inspect the paneling can, with a successful DC 12 Wisdom (Perception
5. Dining Room The centerpiece of this wood-paneled dining room is a carved mahogany table surrounded by eight high-backed chairs with sculpted armrests and cushioned seats. A crystal chandelier
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
this place, whose main doors are false and carved into the rock. The savants enter and leave using spells such as dimension door and passwall, while lesser derro access the worship chamber through secret tunnels from the West Cleft.
Halls of Sacred Spells The Halls of Sacred Spells comprise a temple of Diirinka carved into a stalagmite in Northfurrow District. Here, the derro Council of Savants meets and plots, living in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
X7. Secret Scroll Repository Carved into the south wall of this dusty space are cylindrical holes fit for scrolls or maps. The wizards kept magic scrolls here in case the temple came under attack. The scrolls have crumbled to dust.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
animated armor attacks as soon as it takes damage or a character approaches within 5 feet of it. It fights until destroyed. Oil lamps are mounted on the oak-paneled walls, which are carved with woodland
scenes of trees, falling leaves, and tiny critters. Characters who search the walls for secret doors or otherwise inspect the paneling can, with a successful DC 12 Wisdom (Perception) check, notice tiny
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
northeast wall is carved to resemble a smaller version of the famed statue of Moloch. Alcoves The larger alcove to the south of this area holds a pile of sacred stones for the construction of a powerful
stone golem. This stone supposedly fell from Ogrémoch’s body during the fight against Olhydra that carved out the first of the temple caverns. The smaller alcove holds the golem under construction
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
set of tiles in the floor, and carved into a nearby stone altar is the following inscription:
Brave warriors met their demise foretold.
Their secret kept shall yet unfold.
If crowns placed
correctly on the shrine,
Celestial beds for four of nine.
Solving this puzzle causes a secret compartment in the altar to open, revealing treasure hidden within. The compartment can’t be opened in any other way.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
set of tiles in the floor, and carved into a nearby stone altar is the following inscription:
Brave warriors met their demise foretold.
Their secret kept shall yet unfold.
If crowns placed
correctly on the shrine,
Celestial beds for four of nine.
Solving this puzzle causes a secret compartment in the altar to open, revealing treasure hidden within. The compartment can’t be opened in any other way.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
of iron with carved bone handles. Secret doors are made of stone and blend into the surrounding walls (DC 15 to notice). Secret doors are unlocked and swing open on hidden iron hinges. Rubble Rubble
high. Dim Light Eerie green light emanates from goat skulls embedded in the temple’s walls. These skulls cast Dim Light throughout the temple. Doors and Secret Doors Temple doors are unlocked and made
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
northeast wall is carved to resemble a smaller version of the famed statue of Moloch. Alcoves The larger alcove to the south of this area holds a pile of sacred stones for the construction of a powerful
stone golem. This stone supposedly fell from Ogrémoch’s body during the fight against Olhydra that carved out the first of the temple caverns. The smaller alcove holds the golem under construction
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
X28. Hidden Phylactery The secret door to this room has an arcane lock spell cast on it (see area X27 for details). Behind the secret door is a small, dusty room. Rising from the floor in the eastern
half of the room is a scaly arm and claw clutching a small box made of bone. The scaly arm is merely a carved pedestal. The bone box is Exethanter’s phylactery. If it takes 20 or more radiant damage from a single source, the phylactery is destroyed.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
X28. Hidden Phylactery The secret door to this room has an arcane lock spell cast on it (see area X27 for details). Behind the secret door is a small, dusty room. Rising from the floor in the eastern
half of the room is a scaly arm and claw clutching a small box made of bone. The scaly arm is merely a carved pedestal. The bone box is Exethanter’s phylactery. If it takes 20 or more radiant damage from a single source, the phylactery is destroyed.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Q11. Back Door This hideout contains a secret route to Xanathar’s lair. In the middle of this otherwise empty room is a stone pillar carved with a small symbol: a perfect circle with ten equidistant
area X22 of Xanathar’s lair (see chapter 5). The door is a one-way portal, and it closes again 1 minute after the stone eye is removed from the pillar. Not-So-Secret Door The secret door is plainly visible to anyone who approaches it from the east.