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Human
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Basic Rules (2014)
reckonings of most worlds, humans are the youngest of the common races, late to arrive on the world scene and short-lived in comparison to dwarves, elves, and dragons. Perhaps it is because of their
shorter lives that they strive to achieve as much as they can in the years they are given. Or maybe they feel they have something to prove to the elder races, and that’s why they build their mighty
Goliath
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physical power. Their spirits take after the wandering wind, making them nomads who wander from peak to peak. Their hearts are infused with the cold regard of their frigid realm, leaving each goliath with
, committed by the goliath. Goliaths assign and use nicknames with their friends of other races, and change them to refer to an individual’s notable deeds.
Goliaths present all three names when
Bugbear
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
; Elminster
Bugbears feature in the nightmare tales of many races — great, hairy beasts that creep through the shadows as quiet as cats. If you walk alone in the woods, a bugbear will reach out
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
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->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->Out of the Abyss
Baphomet and Yeenoghu is a maze of passages that grant access to the deeper passages of the Labyrinth. The tunnel you have been following gradually widens until it opens into a cave with a high ceiling
overhead. Patches of glowing fungi cling to the walls and fill the chamber with dim light. Columns of stone support the ceiling, the rock marbled with veins of glittering crystal. Across the chamber, a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
of other races. They get along with almost everyone, though they might not be close to many. Humans serve as ambassadors, diplomats, magistrates, merchants, and functionaries of all kinds.
Dwarves
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)
of other races. They get along with almost everyone, though they might not be close to many. Humans serve as ambassadors, diplomats, magistrates, merchants, and functionaries of all kinds.
Dwarves
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->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->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a4
(1d12) damage and must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or contract a disease called super-tetanus (see below). The walls, ceiling, and floor of the area between the pits are covered with a
other methods. Ingenuity is required. Super-Tetanus. A creature that contracts the disease of super-tetanus is wracked with pain as its heart races and its muscles spasm hard enough to break its bones
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
his mind and his will. Shedrak is completely mad, considers Karazikar a god, and brooks no defiance or disrespect toward his “divine master.” Slaves One hundred slaves of various humanoid races serve
the beholder. Some were captured while wandering too far from their Underdark settlements, while others were purchased in the slave bazaars of Menzoberranzan. The youngest slaves were born in the Vast
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
and outlook of these people are now shared by members of many races. In particular, lightfoot halflings frequently hear the call of the wild and become rangers, often acting as guides and protectors of
roving halfling bands, and shield dwarves forced to wander far from old clanholds sometimes follow the ranger’s path. Not every prospector wandering far hills or trapper hunting through uninhabited
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->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
at the touch of a child when they are unlocked. While some other races erect statues or build special structures to honor their heroes or commemorate momentous events, the dwarves live and work within
a thief’s wildest dreams. In one chamber, gold foil lines the ceiling of an immense hall, carefully worked with diamonds that mimic the stars at night. In another, jewels are used to form wondrous
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
and attacks the party on sight. It prefers to attack while clinging to the ceiling. Demon Pack This pack consists of a quasit leading 1d4 + 2 dretches. The quasit turns invisible and tries to escape
keep to themselves, feeding on fungi and vermin. The derro have tried to enslave them, without much success. In a weird example of détente, members of the two races have learned to avoid one another
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Bugbears Bugbears feature in the nightmare tales of many races — great, hairy beasts that creep through the shadows as quiet as cats. If you walk alone in the woods, a bugbear will reach out of the
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a7
stone, with a distinct, winding path of red tiles about two feet wide snaking its way south down the corridor. No stonework can be seen on the walls or the ceiling twenty feet above, for some sort of
cement or plaster has been smoothed over all of these surfaces and then illustrated.
The scenes show fields with kine grazing, a copse with several wolves in the background, workers of various races and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
to the smaller races. Its members are all enormous, lumbering brutes, primarily cyclopes, ogres, and giants. The clan’s leadership changes frequently — sometimes daily, since battles for supremacy are
toppling, overrunning, and destroying something larger than them. Trogs. Some wandering hermits, known as trogs, find even the company of a clan to be too suffocating, so they spend their days alone
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
(predominantly cloud and storm giants), but some orders have been known to accept goliaths, firbolgs, and members of other peoples into their ranks. (Goliaths and firbolgs appear as character races in
Adventure Hook 1 Characters arriving in a remote village are greeted by a stern giant who urges them to move along quickly, as the town is under the giant’s protection. 2 A wandering knight of the stewards
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->Princes of the Apocalypse
feet of the ceiling. The following boxed text assumes that the characters can see underwater: Through the water looms a colonnade supporting an arched pediment above a long portico. Behind the
before plunging into the cavernous darkness beyond. Tall, slime-covered columns ascend from the foul water. Each one is decorated with a mosaic depicting elves, dwarves, humans, and other races descending
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->Acquisitions Incorporated
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
other kind. Directly in front of the missing door, the walls, ceiling, and floor have fallen away to reveal a deep sinkhole fissure. Inside the ruin, a hempen rope anchored firmly in the rubble
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
blocks a passage or archway until it is raised up into the ceiling by a winch and chain. The main benefit of a portcullis is that it blocks a passage while still allowing guards to watch the area beyond
inhabited dungeon might have light sources. In subterranean settlements, even races that have darkvision use fire for warmth, cooking, and defense. But many creatures have no need of warmth or light
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
wooden ceiling crossbeams. All the chambers in the lair are brightly illuminated by torches set in iron brackets on the walls, except for areas 22, 26, and 47, which are unlit and dark. The corridors
(noncombatants) latch onto the characters if they’re not discouraged from doing so. 12 2 amphisbaenae*, 1 lizardfolk shaman The shaman tries to flee to the west. If it does so, it races to 20 looking