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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
Tharden, Gundren’s brother, who was killed by the Black Spider. Gundren’s other brother, Nundro, was here as well and is currently the Black Spider’s prisoner in area 20. The dwarves’ supplies are
potentially useful, but not particularly valuable. Open Pit. Climbing up or down the wall of the pit without a rope requires a successful DC 15 Strength (Athletics) check. A character who fails the check
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
ridiculous expressions painted on their faces. The lower area is heavily shadowed. Currently it holds three guard drakes (see appendix D) that are near the end of their training. Being not quite fully
check. If characters bring some raw meat to the ledge, the drakes think they’re about to be fed and advance into the light. If characters enter the pit, either by descending the steps or climbing down
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
ridiculous expressions painted on their faces. The lower area is heavily shadowed. Currently it holds three guard drakes that are near the end of their training. Being not quite fully developed, they have
characters bring some raw meat to the ledge, the drakes think they’re about to be fed and advance into the light. If characters enter the pit, either by descending the steps or climbing down the ledge, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
area 1. Currently, only eight prisoners are in the camp, not counting Leosin. During the day, they are put to work under guard by four dragonclaws (see appendix D). At night, they are shackled to a
. The cliffs have handholds and footholds for climbing, so no die roll is needed under normal circumstances. If characters are in a hurry, a successful DC 10 Strength (Athletics) check is needed to make
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
manned by kobolds, while warriors man the one above. The guards have horns to blow when they must sound an alarm. Prisoners. The cultists’ prisoners are kept at area 1. Currently, only eight prisoners
climbing, so no die roll is needed under normal circumstances. If characters are in a hurry, a successful DC 10 Strength (Athletics) check is needed to make the climb without falling. If characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
common area and courtyard, the ritual is underway to fully activate the statue of Talos, which is currently in the basement. THE RITUAL
Backes (Illuskan human gladiator) leads the chanting in the common
night. When the cultists began grabbing people, she used disguise self to imitate a cultist, and then snuck away here to hide. She thought about climbing out the window but is afraid the fall might kill
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
angled. It empties into the ravine outside and requires a successful DC 15 Strength (Athletics) check to ascend or descend without magic or climbing gear; a character who fails this check by 5 or more
sleeping pallets covered in furs lie on the floor near the northwest wall. A wooden pail is used as a chamber pot, and it is currently empty.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
, there’s no chance they’ll be spotted climbing the tower. During daytime in clear weather, a circling pterafolk spots climbers with a successful DC 20 Wisdom (Perception) check, unless characters have
characters can use a long jump is 15 feet. Climbing into or out of the pit is easy and requires a successful DC 5 Strength (Athletics) check. However, the first character who enters the pit disturbs
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
top at any cost. Characters can climb to the top of the promontory, but the weathered sandstone crumbles easily. It takes a successful DC 14 Strength (Athletics) check to reach the top, with climbing
character. This leaves him free to attack a character who reaches the mesa top. If he does not currently control the orrery, he attempts to regain control. Mutating Goblins. During the fight
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
drow mage named Naxa, who is wearing a Cloak of Arachnida she found here. The cloak allows Naxa to climb on walls and ceilings, and she is currently on the vault’s ceiling. Meeting Naxa. If the
Daggers, a +2 Longbow, three Potions of Poison, and a Potion of Giant Strength (stone). One banner bearing Lolth’s symbol is bordered with a thick silk rope. This is a Rope of Climbing that functions
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
areas of the dungeon. He cannot aid his rescuers, but he will repay them with service. Third Cell. An elf knight is chained to the wall. He is wounded from torture (currently down to 14 hit points). He
barracks is similar to area 5, with eight sleeping bugbears. 7. Chamber of the Bugbear Captain Currently, five bugbears—the captain (a bugbear chief) and four lieutenants (bugbears)—are sitting around
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
to fashion tools, weapons, exoskeletons for hammerers, and other items. They use the excavated stone for furniture and other structures. Currently, there are no duergar working in the mines
open unless the characters closed them in area X13 and X15. The characters need magic or climbing gear to scale the shaft’s rough-hewn walls. Below the shaft is a 5-foot-tall, 10-foot-diameter
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
jar shows what the creature might look like in its later years. Zybilna was the last one to touch the jars, so they currently show images of her past, present, and future self:
The lowest jar
lesser beings. P48b. Characters can reach this chamber by climbing a staircase from area P14b on the palace’s lower level. An enameled white coffer rests on a black basalt pedestal in the middle of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
forced open with a successful DC 20 Strength (Athletics) check.
Illumination. Areas within the cathedral are brightly lit by continual flame spells cast on wall sconces.
Walls. Climbing the
blood, ichor, and torn strips of flesh lashed together with sinew and intestines.
This private chapel is similar to those of area H4. The devils currently rampaging through the cathedral defaced the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
. A knotty-limbed, burly fire giant, King Snurre’s weaponsmith, is working here. He uses the molten lava to heat the items he works. With him are two trolls that serve as his assistants. Currently in
without some climbing). Inside these rooms are rings set in the walls, chains attached to the rings, buckets, heaps of straw, and precious little else. The occupants and other contents of the cells and the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
, see a trove of wealthy city-dwellers and wishy-washy non-priests in their midst, ripe targets for protection schemes, kidnappings, and all manner of other plots. Currently none of the Church’s
with the wider city. Yet by far the largest issue is the gang war currently ravaging Little Calimshan. Seeing the Guild as fundamentally an outsider organization, a Calishite gang called the Right
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
(but missing) gemstone. Climbing the colossus to reach the ruby eye requires a DC 20 Strength (Athletics) check, since the surface has few handholds or footholds. Prying the ruby eye from its socket
magical prison, however, and it voluntarily fails any saving throw if doing so enables it to escape from the adamantine forge. 30. Overseer’s Office The small room west of the Vonindod is currently
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
(Athletics) check. If the characters fasten ropes to the boulder, the centaurs offer to help haul it down for them (no check required). Freeing the boulder clears a path through the rubble. Climbing Out
. Scaling the canyon’s walls without climbing gear or magic requires a successful DC 20 Strength (Athletics) check. The centaurs can’t manage this climb. At the top of the canyon is a golden-barked
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
-priests in their midst, ripe targets for protection schemes, kidnappings, and all manner of other plots. Currently none of the Church’s patients have been endangered, but Mother Aramina is cautiously
-side with wealthy genie-binders. Older isolationists clash with young folk eager for more interaction with the wider city. Yet by far the largest issue is the gang war currently ravaging Little
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
) bludgeoning damage from the fall. Climbing the rough walls requires a successful DC 10 Strength (Athletics) check. Development. If the characters defeat the scarecrows and search the constructs, large
executed when the attack was done to provide permanent undead sentries. The shadows currently linger in area 12, but they move under the door into this area to attack if the characters make any noise or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
menagerie has since become the home of a family of aurumvoraxes—fearsome, eight-legged mustelids that subsist on a diet of precious ores. The den leader is currently away, leaving its playful
: Squealer. This area is the territory of a squealer—a porcine-headed predator unleashed during the crash. The squealer uses the nalfeshnee stat block, but it’s a Monstrosity and has a 30-foot climbing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
(see the “Ash Zombies” sidebar) lurk in the shadows in this building, slumped against the walls or under the bar. When living creatures enter, the zombies groan and stir, slowly climbing to their
) skulking around. However, he is currently most concerned by the fact that a green dragon has moved into the tower (area 7) since the last time he was here. He warns the characters of all these threats
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
the mansion’s brick walls to reach it without the aid of climbing gear or magic requires a successful DC 15 Strength (Athletics) check. Evil Groundskeeper. The yard is looked after by a menacing
where the servants sleep at night. The head butler and head maid have rooms to themselves, but those places are currently unoccupied. The largest of the three chambers is a common room containing six
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
body (currently interred with the Knights of Samular in Summit Hall). Stashed inside the sarcophagus is the body of a dead human knight that the Mirabar delegation was transporting to Summit Hall. The
large chamber consists of loose red earth. A column of natural stone stands near the middle of the room, and a row of sturdy iron bars with a sliding cage door (currently shut) walls off the western
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Layout. The githyanki describe the layout of areas B1 through area B9. They don’t know about the creatures currently lairing in area B3. Mind Flayer Fanatics. The githyanki overheard the musician in area
the dragon.” His bizarre certainty is, against all appearances, entirely correct. The amethyst dragon Lowarnizel currently lairs in the chamber below (area B17). By itself, Shalfi’s digging would be
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a2
to area 37 or 39. 37. The Bladeworks In what was Durgeddin’s smithy and workplace, the duergar are currently engaged in a secret project, hoping to capture a spark of the master smith’s vengeful magic
42 (12d6) bludgeoning damage and ends up in area 50 of the Black Lake level. Climbing down the slippery stone next to the waterfall requires several successful DC 15 Strength (Athletics) checks, or DC
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
weak to pose an actual hazard. Climbing the rough pit walls requires successful DC 10 Strength (Athletics) checks. F3. Wind Prison A stone pedestal in the middle of this cavern holds a glassy sphere
enters this chamber. The cultists avoid the area. Treasure If any character is currently under the blessing of Hendrel Foebreaker (area F10), the shining apparition of a stern dwarf warrior in golden mail
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
beanstalk without needing magic or climbing gear, but doing so requires a successful DC 15 Strength (Athletics) check. On a check that fails by 5 or more, the creature falls. The beanstalk has AC 15
the chapter), known in Prismeer as Zybilna, stands near the cauldron alongside a human cleric named Mercion (see appendix B). Cauldron. Iggwilv’s Cauldron (see appendix A) is currently in its iron form
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a2
normally lairs in the open area east of the doors. These orcs are currently out of the dungeon unless the party spent several days observing the hillside (see “Wait and Watch” above) before entering
that the adventurers might have to deal with later. Treasure. Great Ulfe keeps his hoard in two large wooden chests against the south wall: 440 gp, 1,600 sp, a potion of climbing, and a +1 rapier
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
T16). T13: Dormitory Tower hands sleep in this stark dormitory, which contains only thirteen modest wooden beds with thin straw mattresses. It is currently unoccupied. T14: Lurg’s Room The walls and
walls of this room are smooth, wet, and slippery. A character can climb along the wall to the other side with climbing gear and a successful DC 15 Strength (Athletics) check. On a failed check, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
humanoid skulls and bones piled around it. The top of the altar is covered with dozens of half-melted candles made of black wax, all currently unlit.
If one or more of the black candles on the altar
. Describe the scene to the players as follows: Beyond the hall, a flooded chamber opens up with rough-hewn steps climbing to the south, north, and northeast. The floor buckles up above the water line
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a1
is unable to move. If the check fails by 5 or more, a slab of masonry below the character shifts, dumping the character into a debris-lined cavity. Climbing back out requires a successful DC 10
as a loyal friend. Currently, though, he has no gear. Those who free Erky gain XP as if they defeated him in combat. Manacles. The rusted iron restraints can bind a Small or Medium creature. If the






