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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
hoard contains that conflict’s most significant artifacts.
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I am constantly aware of a call from beyond this world. I must prepare to answer that call by amassing powerful arms and armor
, the largest cavern serves as the dragon’s sleeping chamber. A raised section studded with sapphire crystals offers a vantage from which the dragon can keep an eye on the chamber’s access
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Balance*
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Beast
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Comet*
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immediately gain the benefits of finishing a long rest.
Cavern. You gain a climbing speed equal to your walking speed. You also gain the ability to move up, down, across vertical surfaces, and along ceilings
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
significant artifacts.
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I am constantly aware of a call from beyond this world. I must prepare to answer that call by amassing powerful arms and armor.
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I secretly look forward to
, particularly art objects that are impressive but not irreplaceable.
Sleeping Chamber. At the heart of the lair, protected behind more thin crystal walls, the largest cavern serves as the dragon’s
Kobold
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sent Kurtulmak to retrieve it. Garl lured his pursuer into a maze-like cavern, then collapsed the exits behind him, trapping Kurtulmak for all eternity. Kurtulmak is a hateful deity, one who despises
, designed to collapse under the weight of any creature heavier than a kobold. On occasion, the route through a kobold lair runs along a ledge that borders a cavern or a crevasse, and the kobolds might
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
. The Wyrmsmith’s lair and the cavern complex the stone giants of Cairngorm Clan call home both connect to these districts.
Merchant Council, the Keepers of the Flame, Clan Cairngorm, the Gray Ghosts, and others
The cavern housing Gracklstugh is split in two by a rift called Laduguer’s Furrow, after the duergar patron god
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
city), the Church of Lolth (based in Arach-Tinilith), Bregan D’aerthe (company of drow spies, mercenaries, and assassins)
The City of Spiders is carved out of and built within a great cavern the
drow call Araurilcaurak, its vault soaring a thousand feet above the stone floor. Drow dwellings and strongholds are carved from massive stalagmites and stalactites, connected with delicate-looking bridges of hardened spider silk and lit with coldly glowing eldritch fires.
Map 15.1: Menzoberranzan
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
21. Hydra’s Lair An underground river widens to form a flooded grotto. To the west, a pebble-strewn bank rises to a door recessed in the cavern wall. Near the middle of the lake, bones cling like a
victims are bound and ferried on rowboats over the deepest part of the river. To call the monster, their captors sound the rowboat bell and hurl the hogtied victim (or victims) into the water. While
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Escape One day, well after I had lost count of how many days I’d been a captive, I was in a small outlying cavern with a few other slaves harvesting a mushroom patch. I was given leave to answer
nature’s call away from the mushrooms, and I lingered long enough in a side tunnel to force my watcher to come and find me. I took the first lash he offered me with his whip, then grabbed the weapon and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
Spindle Cavern If the characters follow the tracks into the cave, read: The fifteen-foot-wide passage opens into a large, rough chamber with a sunken floor. A misshapen, vaguely oblong lump of metal
five-foot-high shelf overlooking the chamber is a massive, yellow-skinned ogre with one cyclopean eye. The ogre yawns and blinks slowly, appearing rather tired.
The cavern is depicted in the Spindle
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Meeting the Governor Governor Isabela Folcarae (lawful good, human bandit captain) receives the characters shortly after they call at her mansion. Read or paraphrase the following text to begin the
can offer the following information: Juliana and Orlando eloped when their feuding families forbade their relationship. The couple fled south and disappeared into the Cave of Echoes, a cavern steeped
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
if they don’t find it on their own. The cavern that opens up ahead looks like a settlement, with tents and crudely built shanties lining its irregular walls. It appears deserted except for a lone
circle is praying over a rotting minotaur head but stands when he sees you. He’s a thin human, and his face and arms are streaked with dry blood.
“Friends,” he says, “I have heard the call and I hope
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
28. House Center This cavern was once the heart of Blingdenstone’s government — a large space with a rocky sphere in its center. The sphere is hollowed out and contains the royal chambers from which
the old kings and queens ruled. All of it has been transformed by the presence of the Pudding King. The walls of this great cavern are covered in slime — dripping, sickening green slime. Echoes of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
petrified cave vermin. Unless they leave the cavern immediately, the characters are accosted by a mated pair of basilisks that call Entémoch’s Boon home. Once the basilisks are defeated, characters can
Entémoch’s Boon This large cavern is located west of Blingdenstone (see the map of Underdark regions and locations in chapter 2) and has always been a closely guarded secret. Most svirfneblin who
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Giant Mushroom Tower The cavern around Yggmorgus is huge, and the giant mushroom nearly fills it from floor to ceiling. You have no clear reference to judge the towering mushroom’s size at this
distance. Thousands of smaller fungi cling to the main stalk, which itself splits into several lesser stalks, each long enough with a cap big enough to be the top of a great tower. The cavern floor
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
and crunches underfoot. When the characters reach the main vault, read: All tunnels seem to lead to a central core — a glittering cavern of ice with jagged walls and icicles the size of stalactites
maneuver effectively. Under such circumstances, the dragon has disadvantage on its melee attacks. Treasure When the characters investigate the hoard, read: The floor of the cavern is carpeted in gold
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
cavern is fed by streams of water dripping down through the rock. The southwest face of the cavern is a 25-foot-high bluff, part of which is area 4. The pool is 50 feet deep, and the island is a
questions that cultists should know (including questions about Neronvain, Chuth, or the stronghold). In this event, the elves call out for help and attack at once. Any fight here draws the creatures in areas
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Geode Locations G1. Hall of the Guardians This cave lies at the end of a twisting, declining tunnel that began in area F13 of the Fane of the Eye. The rough walls of this cavern rise to a vaulted
ceiling hung with stalactites and clumps of slender, luminous crystals that bathe the cavern in a soft, violet light. Passages lead east and west. To the east, the tunnel ascends. The western passage is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Torrents Locations P1. Waterfall Basin The waterfall here can be heard from quite a distance. A loud waterfall pours into this mossy cavern. Wet stairs hug the western wall, climbing higher than the
engraved above the northeast passageway. The stairs descend 5 feet beneath the lake surface, ending at a rough underwater ledge 15 feet above the submerged cavern floor. The stairs ascend to area F8
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
within the shattered remains of a fluid-filled tube deep in Citadel Subterrene. They have no idea how they arrived there.
2 A cavern the characters were exploring seamlessly abuts with Bluetspur
into their minds and emits a telepathic call for help. The map leads to a mind flayer who wants to put the God-Brain out of its misery.
7 A farmer hires the characters to protect his family
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
into thin air for no reason, then return in a fury if the characters try to call her back. If the party manages to converse with Ilda, they might learn that yuan-ti dwell in the innermost parts of the
divination magic, which is how he discovered the mysterious pool in this cavern complex. He excavated these chambers around the pool, and kings and wizards came bearing tribute. When he died after many
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
and crunches underfoot.
When the characters reach the main vault, read: All tunnels seem to lead to a central core—a glittering cavern of ice with jagged walls and icicles the size of stalactites
maneuver effectively. Under such circumstances, the dragon has disadvantage on its melee attacks. Treasure When the characters investigate the hoard, read: The floor of the cavern is carpeted in gold
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
2. Island Chamber This large chamber has a 40-foot-high ceiling set with massive stalactites and smaller stalagmites. A pool with a small island in the southeast corner of the cavern is fed by
streams of water dripping down through the rock. The southwest face of the cavern is a 25-foot-high bluff, part of which is area 4. The pool is 50 feet deep, and the island is a column of stone rising from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Kostchtchie with bloody offerings left on altars of hewn ice. If the demon lord chooses to answer the giants’ call, he hunts and fights alongside them for a time, infecting the frost giants with savage madness
that prevent him from casting spells, Kostchtchie squats in a 10-foot-deep, 80-foot-diameter pool of black tar in a cavern at the bottom of a chasm, his hands chained behind him. His unholy screams and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
air becoming hot and heavy with the scent of sulfur. Glowing vents of magma fill a huge cavern with a dull red glow. From somewhere ahead, you hear a deep, echoing caw, sounding like the call of some
whatever point is convenient as the characters inspect the ruined books or try to skirt past the ancient deep crow’s nest, Raah angrily “wakes up.” A sense of doom pervades the cavern around you as the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
Locations on the Lower Level The following locations are identified on map 6.4. 1. Grand Entry Cavern The entrance to the lower level is obviously meant to be impressive, as its walls bear carvings
along the length of the cavern. Survivors of attacks on the level above will most likely make a stand in the grand entry cavern if they are still in relatively good shape. Secret Exits. The boulders
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
worship Gruumsh and Ilneval occupy the main area of the complex, a large cavern that has the war hearth at its center and a shrine to Ilneval along the perimeter. The focal point of the shrine is a blood
sequestered in a cavern off the main chamber, where they protect the young and supervise food stores. These orcs take control of prisoners brought back from raids, using them as slave labor to dig out new
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
’ surface, a harsh voice hisses from a slit on the cavern wall that was not therebefore.
“State your names and business!” the voice orders in Dwarvish. Other similar slits open, revealing the tips of a
cavern, all of them aiming heavy crossbows at the party. The duergar are hostile, and the guard who spoke follows up on every answer the characters give. One character can take the lead in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
imprisonment and hungry to enslave the living. 36. Dark Water Water can be heard rippling in this dark area before the characters arrive. The walls of this cavern are the same dark shade of blue as
the pool of water that fills the center of the area. Ripples spread across the surface as if the water has been recently disturbed. Around the cavern, narrow alcoves hold enormous globes of blue liquid
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
handle at any moment. She might vanish into thin air for no reason, then return in a fury if the characters try to call her back. If the party manages to converse with Ilda, they might learn that yuan-ti
: Diderius’s passion was powerful divination magic, which is how he discovered the mysterious pool in this cavern complex. He excavated these chambers around the pool, and kings and wizards came
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
with thick seaweed and boulders. The larger cavern on the right is the dragon’s sleeping chamber, while the smaller on the left holds most of the dragon’s hoard. Map 5.5: bronze dragon lair View
Player Version Additional Lair Actions At your discretion, a legendary (adult or ancient) bronze dragon can use one or more of the following additional lair actions while in its lair: Ocean’s Call. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a1
, Protector of the Twilight Grove!” Development. Sometimes the twig blights in area 55 attack the goblins out of sheer malice. Thus, a call from the goblins doesn’t bring all the forces of the cavern down on
this wide cavern. The air is damp, chilly, and redolent with the odors of loam and decay. A layer of earth, mixed with rotting vegetation and the remains of cave animals, covers the floor. Several
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
in the bunks. Characters who enter the room must succeed on a DC 17 Dexterity (Stealth) check to avoid waking the goblins. If awoken, the goblins in the bunks flee and call for help. However, a
cobwebs blanketing the trolleys. The ground is littered with ancient refuse, and open crates filled with dust-covered tools line the cavern walls. Propped against these crates are three skeletons, their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
guard over this cavern. It positions itself around the corner so it can’t be seen until intruders reach the top of the ramp. The empty ice floor of this chamber holds a most unexpected sight. A large
and rituals stolen from the Arcane Brotherhood — which have kept her sealed and helpless in Oyaviggaton, invisible to scrying and unable to use sending to call for help. Before he turns Maccath over
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Having eluded the drow so far, ten grimlocks huddle in the back of this 10-foot-high cavern. They feed on fish from the River Sargauth and fight only in self-defense. 10c. Sea Hag Coven This 30-foot
before the hags return. Since the boy can’t see in the dark, he mistakes the bullying goblin for his jailer, not another prisoner. If rescued, Delvin insists that the characters call him “Del” and gladly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
song coming from the eastern passage. Dwellings carved in the walls of this cavern have been torn asunder by some intense force. Ruins of several dwellings resemble gaps in the walls and piles of rubble
here wander the ruins. The power of the air node imbued them with elemental energy, so their attacks deal lightning damage instead of necrotic. They attack any creature that enters the cavern. N6