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Half-Elf
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Basic Rules (2014)
children. Many half-elves, unable to fit into either society, choose lives of solitary wandering or join with other misfits and outcasts in the adventuring life.
Of Two Worlds
To humans, half-elves look
coloration and features lie somewhere between their human and elf parents, and thus show a variety even more pronounced than that found among either race. They tend to have the eyes of their elven
Human
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head on the ceiling—good food and good stories in front of a nice, warm fire. If halflings had a shred of ambition, they might really amount to something.”
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seek adventure are the most daring and ambitious members of a daring and ambitious race. They seek to earn glory in the eyes of their fellows by amassing power, wealth, and fame. More than other people
Bugbear
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
wandering children unless they clearly have something to gain by doing so. From the viewpoint of the rest of the world, their aggression and savagery are thankfully offset by their rarity and lethargy
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Gang Mentality
Since bugbears aren’t a particularly fecund race, their overall population is small and spread over a wide area. Bugbears live in family groups that operate much like gangs. The
Shifter
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Eberron: Rising from the Last War
weretouched, as many believe they are the descendants of humans and lycanthropes. Whatever their origins, shifters have evolved into a unique race. They are humanoids with a bestial aspect; while they
in blended communities. Their names typically overlap with the names of other cultures in their region. Many shifters prefer to keep their personal names for their friends and use “wandering
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Astral Plane Encounters Planar travelers and refugees from other planes wander the expanses of the Astral Plane. The most prominent denizens of the Astral Plane are the githyanki, an outcast race of
an encounter with one or more wandering angels, demons, devils, night hags, yugoloths, or other planar travelers.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
2. Space Orogs Eyes. The 15-foot-high ceiling of this passage is carved with hundreds of glaring eyes. (Halaster used magic to create the eyes, which are harmless.)
Orogs. Twelve hostile orogs (see
“Space Orogs”) are camped here. Subtract from this number any orogs previously encountered and defeated as wandering monsters.
One of the orogs has 60 hit points and is bigger than the others. Her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
, wandering the wilds as trappers, foresters, hunters, or adventurers and visiting civilization only rarely. Like elves, they are driven by the wanderlust that comes of their longevity. Others, in contrast
get along with everyone, defusing hostility and finding common ground. As a race, they have elven grace without elven aloofness and human energy without human boorishness. They often make excellent
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
spell that deals fire damage, which clears all the webs in the spell’s area. 4a. Wandering Quaggoths Three quaggoths serving as guards for the drow are patrolling this 10-foot-high area. When they
webs. Several 3-foot-long bundles wrapped in spider silk are suspended in the webs.
Strange Face. Spiders have woven a giant, webbed face of Halaster that looks down from the 20-foot-high ceiling
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
, wandering the wilds as trappers, foresters, hunters, or adventurers and visiting civilization only rarely. Like elves, they are driven by the wanderlust that comes of their longevity. Others, in contrast
get along with everyone, defusing hostility and finding common ground. As a race, they have elven grace without elven aloofness and human energy without human boorishness. They often make excellent
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Exemplars of Ambition Humans who seek adventure are the most daring and ambitious members of a daring and ambitious race. They seek to earn glory in the eyes of their fellows by amassing power
to beat a meal in a halfling home, as long as you don’t crack your head on the ceiling—good food and good stories in front of a nice, warm fire. If halflings had a shred of ambition, they might really amount to something.”
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Exemplars of Ambition Humans who seek adventure are the most daring and ambitious members of a daring and ambitious race. They seek to earn glory in the eyes of their fellows by amassing power
to beat a meal in a halfling home, as long as you don’t crack your head on the ceiling—good food and good stories in front of a nice, warm fire. If halflings had a shred of ambition, they might really amount to something.”
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Race to Destruction After the characters despoil the third shrine in the Temple of Elemental Evil, the remaining cult sends a powerful force with a devastation orb from the Fane of the Eye (see
your mind’s eye and brushes aside your wandering thoughts. “Hear me well, fool,” it sneers. “You have offended the Elder Elemental Eye. For your sacrilege, others shall be punished. At sunset the day
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
blossoms and others boasting succulent fruit. The trees shed a sweet, otherworldly fragrance. Wandering around the terrace’s edge is an enormous tree with a humanlike face and a fanged, humanoid skull
Map: The Garden of Everflowing Springs View Player Version A palatial apartment crowns the gardens. Wide arches leave it open to the air, and tattered silks of many colors swoop from the vaulted ceiling
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Wandering Monsters Monsters wander this level in search of food or treasure. These creatures include carrion crawlers, ghouls, giant spiders, goblins, grells, gricks, oozes of all kinds, stirges, and
two attached to the ceiling, approach the party and attack the first adventurers to come within reach of their mucus-coated tentacles. If a carrion crawler paralyzes a character with its tentacles, it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
the DM! Ceilings. All passages are at least 20 feet high, small caves being 25 feet or so from floor to ceiling vault and large caverns anywhere from 25 to 75 feet high (areas 7, 19, and 20 are among
encounter occurs on an hourly basis. At the end of each hour, roll a d12. On a roll of 1, which indicates a random encounter, choose from the following possibilities: Two wandering trolls A fire giant
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
slither around the statue’s base.
Ghost. Wandering through the ruin is a spectral woman wearing a soiled black gown and a featureless white mask (actually the ghost of a slain yuan-ti priest).
A yuan-ti
days. Black Statue Water trickling down from the ceiling falls onto this statue and drips off its daggers like poison. A character who succeeds on a DC 15 Intelligence (Religion) check recognizes the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
alert if it isn’t already. Giant Spider This giant spider crawls along the walls or ceiling. It ignores the characters unless they take hostile action against it, in which case it attacks. Invisible
(your choice of race) are on an errand for their drow mage master when they run into the party by accident. If the characters state that they have legitimate business in Sorcere, the slaves answer
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
) The following locations are keyed to map 5.2. Stacey Allan & William Doyle Map 5.2: Maze of Mists View Player Version P13: Welcome Room This octagonal room has a domed ceiling and smells faintly of
magnetic trap within the chamber’s ceiling. Each creature in the room wearing metal armor is pulled up to the 30-foot-high ceiling, as are any metal objects or weapons that aren’t being worn or carried
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
cascade down either side of the sanctum’s entrance, casting eerie light on the vaulted ceiling. At the opposite end of the sanctum looms a towering statue of a dwarven woman. Cracks race along her arms
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
operate at night. They do take the heads of enemy leaders, but they are no more likely to eat people indiscriminately than humans are. Bugbears aren’t likely to attack lone travelers or wandering
aren’t a particularly fecund race, their overall population is small and spread over a wide area. Bugbears live in family groups that operate much like gangs. The individuals in a group typically number
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
until the trick is reset by shoving the prop back into the coffin, which also contains the jester’s ashes. Ramp. A portion of the ceiling can swing down on a hinge, forming a ramp leading from area
B14 to this chamber. A small handle bolted to the ceiling of this room allows the ramp to be easily raised and lowered by a creature that can reach it. B28: High Priest’s Burial Room Scorch marks from a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
ceiling, two each to your left and your right.
This area is empty, quiet, and peaceful. 21. Blademaster’s Quarters Dark green tiles cover the walls and floor of this room, and the ceiling is tiled
chamber are tiled in a dark green color, and the ceiling is tiled light green. A seaweed bed fills the northeast corner. In the center of the room stands a small table with a small bench beside it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
50 feet, and the cavern’s domed ceiling is 30 feet higher than the water’s surface. The walls are coated with slime but have abundant handholds. A successful DC 15 Strength (Athletics) check is
companion. The matching boot was swept downriver and eventually found by a goblin werebat named Vool (see level 5, area 17). The amulet controls the wandering shield guardian on level 1 (see “Shield
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Biblioplex Locations (B1-B9) The following locations are keyed to map 3.1. All descriptions assume the characters are wandering the Biblioplex during the day. At night, the library is locked and
living tree’s roots, which move occasionally and make the entire place feel alive. The ceiling is covered in painted leaves, which change colors depending on the season thanks to a permanent illusion
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
these caverns are massive, with immeasurably deep water and vaulted ceilings far outside the range of any light. Others are narrow, with only a few feet of space between the ceiling and the surface of
most of these “road signs” are nearly worn away by the passage of time. Such knowledge is something that takes years, if not decades, of wandering the Darklake to acquire.Those without the skill to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
after my father’s death, his great burial place was desecrated by thieves. I was tortured by the thought of his spirit wandering the planes alone forever.”
If translated, the west wall’s hieroglyphs
leads to area P7. P3: West Offering Temple A twenty-foot-tall statue of Amun Sa stands before the north wall of this square room, which rises to a domed ceiling. A few tidy cots lie along the floor
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
tunnels beneath the warehouse were dug as smugglers’ byways. Later, worshipers of That-Which-Endures (see the sidebar in the “New Race: Verdan” section in chapter 3) excavated chambers beneath the ground
areas in between. When the adventurers enter the warehouse, read: In the areas where the walls and ceiling didn’t collapse, this warehouse contains no crates, no boxes, no barrels, and no wares of any
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
the ten-foot-high vaulted ceiling of this dry cellar, the walls of which are lined by a dozen barrels on wooden braces. Half the barrels have brass spigots tapped into them. The room also contains two
waste toward area V30. These trenches are 4 feet wide and 3 feet deep, with arching stone bridges spanning them at irregular intervals. The ledge on either side of a trench is 3 feet wide. Wandering
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
, so the young man leaves her alone. For months, Teocín’s ghouls have killed animals, hunters, prospectors, and others wandering the borderlands so Teocín can study and raise the dead using profane
: Wailing Cavern The wailing wind that gusts intermittently through the mine rises to a continuous howl in this cavern. The elevator shaft in area H1 ends in this cavern’s ceiling, and the elevator cage might
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a4
villagers will have to weigh their fear of White Plume Mountain against their certain belief that the party will never be seen again.) The cave is easily barricaded to keep out unintelligent wandering
does make the cave very uncomfortable, like a hot sauna bath interrupted by blasts of cold air. The ceiling and walls of the cave are slick with the condensed steam that runs down them. The floor is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
prearranged signal. 4. Galley Stores From iron hooks set into the ceiling hang three long strings of sausages, a large ham, and a hunk of meat. Against the hull are three sacks. Set against the bulkhead beside
ceiling above.
In the gloom, you can see three hammocks — one at each end of the cabin slung between the bulkhead and one of the ship’s ribs, and the third hanging across the corner of the cabin from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
ledges or cling to the high ceiling, attacking with their bows while staying out of the range of melee weapons. A drider retreats if reduced to 60 hit points or fewer. Drow Patrol The characters encounter
have transformed into spore servants. They silently observe the party but don’t attack the characters unless threatened. Escaped Slaves A group of 1d4 commoners (of any race) attempts to hide from the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
thick fog clings to the floor, which is covered in putrid waste. The black ceiling is moving. The catacombs fill an area roughly 110 feet east to west by 180 feet north to south, and the floor is covered
in several inches of bat guano. The catacombs are made up of 10-foot-wide arched walkways running between 10-foot-square crypts, which serve as pillars that support the 20-foot-high ceiling. The area
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
highest tier of the step pyramid holds a musty forty-foot-square chamber. Dust and sand coat its floor. Three bronze cylinders, each inset with a small door, span floor to ceiling in the middle of the
from the ceiling. Bright light or any noise louder than a whisper wakes the stirges, causing them to attack. A character attempting to retrieve the gems must succeed on a DC 15 Dexterity (Stealth) check
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
characters encounter. d20 Encounter 1–2 1 chuul lurking in a pool of water 3 1d6 giant spiders clinging to the walls or ceiling 4–5 1 grell floating near the high ceiling 6–9 1d4 gricks hiding in a
across walls and ceilings. Escaped Slaves These slaves have been wandering the Underdark since their escape from Gracklstugh or Menzoberranzan. They are scrounging for food and water. Roll a d4 and






