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Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
shell protects a soft, slug-like upper body that lets the piercer move across cavern walls and ceilings to position itself for prey. With its eye and mouth closed, the piercer is difficult to distinguish
gather in colonies to maximize the effectiveness of their attacks, dropping simultaneously to increase the odds of striking prey. After a piercer successfully slays a creature, the others slowly creep toward the corpse to join in the feast.Cold
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
object inside the gullet.
False Appearance. If the eye monger is motionless and has its eye and mouth closed at the start of combat, it has advantage on its initiative roll. Moreover, if a creature
within 10 feet of the eye monger. If the eye monger dies, a swallowed creature is no longer restrained by it and can escape from the corpse by using 10 feet of movement, exiting prone.When its large
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures
condition. If the wurm dies, a swallowed creature no longer has the restrained condition and can escape from the corpse by using 10 feet of movement, exiting with the prone condition.Wurms are
length of an Everstalk with their eyes closed and their stomach flattened against the stalk, appearing to be just another enormous vine until a tasty intruder attempts to climb them.
When giants’ prized pets escape Stormkeld, villages fall and new Everstalks rise.
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
. The cone doesn’t function while the eye is closed or while the dreadnought is blinded.
Astral Entity. The dreadnought can’t leave the Astral Plane, nor can it be banished or otherwise
disappears, and everything inside it appears around the dreadnought’s corpse. The demiplane is otherwise indestructible.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the dreadnought fails a saving throw, it can
Astral Dreadnought
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Monsters
Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
way the cone faces. The cone doesn't function while the dreadnought's eye is closed or while the dreadnought is blinded.
Astral Entity. The astral dreadnought can't leave the Astral Plane, nor can it
the demiplane. If the dreadnought dies, the demiplane disappears, and everything inside it appears around the corpse. The demiplane is otherwise indestructible.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
points, and immunity to poison and psychic damage. Closed pods can be opened with a blue or yellow key card. 18a: Western Pods This room’s western door has been destroyed. The corpse of an unarmed
blue door is in the northeast corner. 18b: Central Pods A half-eaten chuul corpse lies near a broken stasis pod in this room. Claw marks mar the walls toward area 18c. 18c: Southern Pods Two
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
sarcophagi are closed and contain inanimate human bones. The third is open, its lid lying broken on the floor behind it. This sarcophagus, which once held the corpse of Drovath Harrn, now appears to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
effects). The room has the following additional features: Cells. Six 10-foot-high cells with arched ceilings are barred with iron portcullises. Lying in the southwest cell is a humanoid corpse clad in plate
corpse to rot. The iron lever operates the mechanism that raises and lowers the portcullises by sliding it along the comb-shaped hole in the floor plate. Depending on how the lever is positioned, it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
63. Gas-Filled Room This chamber is closed off and inaccessible most of the time. The characters can reach this area by reorienting the cogs so that a doorway opens up to area 58. Thick green gas
billows out of skull-shaped nozzles set into the walls of this cramped room. A rotting corpse clad in studded leather armor lies on the floor, mouth open and hands grasping its throat. Wrapped around one
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Boo’s Astral Menagerie
Eye Monger When its large eye and mouth are closed, an eye monger looks like nothing more than a 12-foot-diameter asteroid. When it senses vibrations in the space around it, the eye monger opens its
closed, darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 11
Languages Deep Speech
Challenge 10 (5,900 XP) Proficiency Bonus +4
Antimagic Gullet. Magical effects, including those produced by spells and magic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Astral Plane. When an eye monger’s large eye and mouth are closed, it looks like nothing more than a 12-foot-diameter asteroid. When it senses vibrations in the space around it, the eye monger opens its
)
Senses blindsight 120 ft. while the eye monger’s eye is closed, darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 11
Languages Deep Speech
Challenge 10 (5,900 XP) Proficiency Bonus +4
Antimagic Gullet
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Reeva denied their sister the honors befitting a maharani, dumping Ramya’s corpse into the sea. As they did, a terrible monsoon struck the Harvest Peninsula, bringing with it walls of supernatural mist
that closed around Kalakeri. The storm lashed Kalakeri for weeks, and when it reached its height, Ramya emerged from her watery grave. Reborn with terrifying power, she called upon those who had been
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
K38. False Treasury Resting on the floor of this smoke-filled room is a closed chest surrounded by piles of gold, silver, and copper coins. The fittings and clawed feet on the chest are evidence of
effect of the gas, the witches do not appear. The armored skeleton on the floor is all that remains of an adventurer. His corpse has nothing of value. Secret Doors This room is concealed behind two
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
, slug-like upper body that lets the piercer move across cavern walls and ceilings to position itself for prey. With its eye and mouth closed, the piercer is difficult to distinguish from ordinary
maximize the effectiveness of their attacks, dropping simultaneously to increase the odds of striking prey. After a piercer successfully slays a creature, the others slowly creep toward the corpse to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monstrous Compendium Volume Four
beanstalks—also known as Everstalks—to intrude on their lofty palaces. Beanstalk wurms lie coiled along the length of an Everstalk with their eyes closed and their stomach flattened against the stalk
. If the wurm dies, a swallowed creature no longer has the restrained condition and can escape from the corpse by using 10 feet of movement, exiting with the prone condition.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
on a folded gray blanket, and the slimy, decapitated head of a mind flayer whose headless body has bled out on the floor nearby. The corpse is being feasted on by maggots.
Old Trap. The double door
enough to fit in the box (such as a rat or a lizard) is placed inside and the lid is closed tightly, the box magically transforms it into some other Tiny beast (your choice) unless it succeeds on a DC 15
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
. Three gangly, ghoulish creatures hunch over the coffin, ripping into the corpse inside and feasting on aged flesh.
Three ghouls are devouring the corpse of a former high priest. When they detect the
Ziggurat. The main entrance to—and exit from—the ziggurat (area B57) lies on the next tier down. Its doors have been closed for centuries and can be opened only from the inside. Haunted Tombs. Horrible
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
killer was nowhere in sight. Ignatius Inkblot, the great mind flayer detective, examines a corpse aboard the Concordant Express Murder Suspects The suspects aboard the Passenger Car are as follows
) shortly before the characters came aboard. Murder Victim Characters can examine Quintus or cast spells on the corpse. The following information can be learned by doing so: Examining the Corpse. A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
dance routine featuring the character’s limp corpse as its star. A character can make a DC 14 Charisma (Performance) check to act alongside the puppets. On a successful check, the skeletons applaud, and
corridor with an iron, windowed door. Two levers—a blue lever in the upward position and a red lever turned downward—are set into the walls adjacent to the door. An identical door stands closed at the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
appear to be empty.
In the center of the room lies a human corpse clad in plate mail; a longsword lies by the corpse’s right side, and a large shield covers its legs.
If the characters are
actual quality. Corpse. The remains are those of an adventurer who set out to explore the house several weeks ago. The smugglers slew the heavily armored intruder and left the remains in place to scare
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
rider 9 Trinket 10 Hidden bundle 11 1d4 swarm of ravens (50%) or 1 wereraven (see appendix D) in raven form (50%) 12 1d6 dire wolves 13 3d6 wolves 14 1d4 berserkers 15 Corpse 16 1d6 werewolves in human
Corpse 7 Hidden bundle 8 Skeletal rider 9 1d8 swarm of bats 10 1d6 dire wolves 11 3d6 wolves 12 1d4 berserkers 13 1 druid and 2d6 twig blights 14 2d4 needle blights 15 1d6 werewolves in wolf form 16 3d6
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
a Medium or smaller creature to fit through. Inside, the mangled corpse of a human explorer slumps against a stalagmite. The owlbear in area G5 can’t fit through the crack. If a character seeks refuge
stairs descend to this musty crypt. A closed stone sarcophagus sits at the north end.
A Hostile Wight Lifedrinker rests in the sarcophagus. The monster was once a cult leader who was so wicked in life
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
some rooms at your determination, but they need to be lit to be useful. Doors. Most doors in the dungeon are wooden, and are closed and unlocked. If a door is locked, it takes a successful DC 10
open the door, read: This room reeks of filth and death. The corpse of a dragonborn rots in a rusty cell of iron bars to the north. To the south, a similar cell holds two living prisoners.
The cell
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
area of antimagic, as in the antimagic field spell, in a 150-foot cone. At the start of each of its turns, it decides which way the cone faces. The cone doesn’t function while the eye is closed or while
past meals. The dreadnought can’t be harmed from within the demiplane. If the dreadnought dies, the demiplane disappears, and everything inside it appears around the dreadnought’s corpse. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
sundry equipment scattered about. Guildmaster Deepdelve. A thorough search of the building reveals the corpse of a robed deep gnome named Schnella Deepdelve, the master of the town’s miners’ guild
the rear of the contraption is a closed, three-foot-square steel hatch. Two dead gnomes in armor lie on the floor next to the vehicle and a puddle of oil.
The dead gnomes are two mimics that attack
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
the start of each of its turns, the dreadnought decides which way the cone faces. The cone doesn’t function while the eye is closed or if the dreadnought has the blinded condition.
Astral Entity
within the demiplane. If the dreadnought dies, the demiplane disappears, and everything inside it appears around the dreadnought’s corpse. The demiplane is otherwise indestructible.
Legendary
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
Bard There is nothing I would like to do more than explain to you why I’m standing here with stolen goods and my rapier sticking out of this still-warm corpse, officer. I assure you, I have a
must have closed his eye when he created you.
14 I can see you, but where’s the dragon that pooped you out?
15 You’ve got all the good sense of a mind flayer’s last meal.
16 You
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
right. A swaying mass of seaweed fills the eastern side of the room. Many coffers are set against the north and west walls, their lids closed.
A large group of sahuagin warriors gather near the
. Decay-Filled Cell The water in this is cell is fouled by the rotting corpse of a large sea serpent of some kind. A stone slab along the north wall lies askew and partially broken on the unfinished
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
stands open, its stone slab held ajar by the decaying body of a hobgoblin. A crossbow bolt protrudes from the corpse’s chest.
The corpse is that of an explorer who reached the ziggurat several weeks ago
room.
Footprints of several humanoids are visible in the dust, stopping in front of the center cylinder. Shortly after all characters enter the chamber, the corpse (or anything propping the door open
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
dreadnought’s eye is closed or while the dreadnought is blinded.
Astral Entity. The astral dreadnought can’t leave the Astral Plane, nor can it be banished or otherwise transported out of the Astral Plane
disappears, and everything inside it appears around the corpse. The demiplane is otherwise indestructible.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the astral dreadnought fails a saving throw, it can choose to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
) sprouts from a nearby corpse. 2 Putrice, a night hag, cackles as she fishes a wriggling larva (see the Dungeon Master’s Guide) from a vent underneath a fiend-owned restaurant. 3 Two cranium rat squeakers
a graveyard for the lost: a closed, circular tunnel connected to dozens of one-way, hidden portals scattered throughout Undersigil. At first glance, the Loop appears no different from the tunnels that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
to pour its jug of spores over Krob’s corpse, turning it into a new spore servant. Sounds of combat here bring reinforcements from area X18 (four duergar) and area X20 (four quaggoths). All the duergar
. Only a wish spell or divine intervention can end the permanent madness. Treasure. Each quaggoth spore servant has a jug containing enough of Pleurota’s animating spores to turn one fresh corpse into a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
. Veins of pulsing violet light—the same shade as the flames below—pulse through the stone. A still figure in charred armor sits on the throne, glowing red eyes staring from his closed, crown-like helm
characters until they address him. Soth is a terrifying figure, and his armored corpse crackles with cinders. Once confronted, he speaks little, preferring concise threats like “Submit” or “Die.” If
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
move welcomed by no one — least of all the members of the Watch, who must now stand guard over the site until it can be investigated and closed. A character whose background entails knowledge of the
foreshadowing for later events. See the “A Horse is a Corpse, of Course” section and “The Magic of Convenience” sidebar in episode 2 for more information. Treasure. In her belt pouch, Jelayne carries a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a2
in the north wall of the cavern. Inside you see a short passageway with three small iron doors set into the west wall. The first two are open, but the door at the end of the hall is closed.
The door
and left to starve. Treasure. The suit of plate is too corroded to be of any use, but a search of the corpse produces a small silk purse containing 8 pp and a key that opens the iron door in area 27.