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Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
pictures that float in the air in front of itself and disappear a few seconds later. A creature that can see such a message can decipher it with a successful DC 10 Intelligence (Investigation) check
);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Grasping Ground"}. The dabus causes a 20-foot-square area of ground it can see within 60 feet of itself to sprout clutching appendages made of
Magic Items
Candlekeep Mysteries
Carved from an ogre’s petrified heart, the gray figurine depicts the Demon Prince of Undeath in ghastly detail, clutching his skull-topped wand in one hand and three severed heads by the hair
properties:
Undead within 30 feet of the figurine can’t be turned.
Dead creatures within 30 feet of the figurine can’t be brought back to life.
A creature that holds the figurine while
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
. Vladimir wields a weapon, +2; +2 greatsword with a hilt sculpted to resemble silver dragon wings and a pommel shaped like a silver dragon's head clutching a black opal between its teeth
Turn Immunity
. Vladimir is immune to effects that turn undead.
Vengeful Tracker. Vladimir knows the distance to and direction of any creature against which it seeks revenge, even if the creature and Vladimir are on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
16. Arch Gate to Level 7 Embedded in the north wall of this 10-foot-high cave is a stone arch. Carved into its keystone is a picture of a hand clutching a lit torch. The arch is one of Halaster’s
(see “Jhesiyra Kestellharp”). The first creature to pass through the gate triggers an elder rune (see “Elder Runes”). A creature that passes through the gate appears in area 29 on level 7, in the closest unoccupied space next to the identical gate located there.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
2. Trapped Hall The recessed wall of this corridor has engravings of eight wizards clutching staffs, each staff representing a different school of magic. This hall also has two hidden features: When
a creature enters the trapped 10-foot-square space marked on map 9 for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, the medusa statue in area 3 animates and shoots a magic arrow at the creature
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
Stirge A stirge is a winged pest that feeds on the blood of living creatures through its long proboscis. It uses its proboscis to pierce its victim’s flesh while clutching its prey with hooked claws
, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 5 (1d4 + 3) piercing damage, and the stirge attaches to the target. While attached, the stirge doesn’t attack. Instead, at the start of each of the stirge’s turns, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
clutching a staff.
The stone arch is one of Halaster’s magic gates (see “Gates”). Its rules are as follows: The gate opens for 1 minute when the arch is tapped three times with a staff of any kind
. Characters must be 8th level or higher to pass through this gate (see “Jhesiyra Kestellharp”). The first creature to pass through the gate triggers an elder rune (see “Elder Runes”). A creature that passes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
the arch’s keystone is a hand clutching a lit torch. The arch is one of Halaster’s magic gates (see “Gates”), and its rules are as follows: If a lit torch is brought within 5 feet of the arch, the gate
opens for 1 minute. Characters must be 11th level or higher to pass through this gate (see “Jhesiyra Kestellharp”). The first creature to pass through the gate triggers an elder rune (see “Elder Runes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
Stirge A stirge is a winged pest that feeds on the blood of living creatures, drawing sustenance through its proboscis, which it uses to pierce a victim’s flesh while clutching onto its prey with
., one creature. Hit: 5 (1d4 + 3) piercing damage, and the stirge attaches to the target. While attached, the stirge doesn’t attack. Instead, at the start of each of the stirge’s turns, the target loses
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
figurehead. Each creature and object in the cone must make a DC 12 Dexterity saving throw, taking 21 (6d6) fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. Once a ship uses this
action, it can’t use it again for 1 minute. Storm Giant Figurehead This figurehead depicts a storm giant clutching a thunderbolt. As an action, the ship can activate this item to create a 60-foot cone
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Ranger Rough and wild looking, a human stalks alone through the shadows of trees, hunting the orcs he knows are planning a raid on a nearby farm. Clutching a shortsword in each hand, he becomes a
creature while he readies his bow. Far from the bustle of cities and towns, past the hedges that shelter the most distant farms from the terrors of the wild, amid the dense-packed trees of trackless forests and across wide and empty plains, rangers keep their unending watch.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Ranger Rough and wild looking, a human stalks alone through the shadows of trees, hunting the orcs he knows are planning a raid on a nearby farm. Clutching a shortsword in each hand, he becomes a
creature while he readies his bow. Far from the bustle of cities and towns, past the hedges that shelter the most distant farms from the terrors of the wild, amid the dense-packed trees of trackless forests and across wide and empty plains, rangers keep their unending watch.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Morte’s Planar Parade
sprout clutching appendages made of stone. Each creature of the dabus’s choice in that area must succeed on a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw or take 9 (2d8) bludgeoning damage and have the grappled
-defense.
Symbol Speech. A dabus communicates by creating illusory symbols and pictures that float in the air in front of itself and disappear a few seconds later. A creature that can see such a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
decorated with six framed portraits of a fat, smiling wizard clutching a wand. A thick, brown, wall-to-wall carpet covers the floor.
Game. In the southwest corner, two wooden thrones face an impressive
magic spell reveals an aura of conjuration magic around each framed portrait of Maddgoth. When a creature casts a spell in this room or disturbs the figure in the bed, the six wands depicted in the framed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
by 12-foot-tall stone statues of Halaster Blackcloak, depicted as a bearded, scowling old wizard wearing a robe covered with lidless eyes and clutching a stout scepter with a red dragon’s head at
fireball spell (save DC 22) when a creature lands on the pit floor. The fireball is created using a 7th-level spell slot, engulfs all creatures in the pit, and deals 42 (12d6) fire damage on a failed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
a frost giant or similarly sized creature can wrap its mouth around the narrow end of the horn and muster the breath needed to blow it. Sounding the horn requires an action. Development. If the horn
worth 250 gp and weighs 50 pounds. 2E. Armory This room is in shambles. Weapon racks lie broken on the floor, while others cling precariously to the walls, still clutching old spears and javelins. The giants of Ostoria crafted these weapons, which fall apart if handled.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
railings overlook the temple’s ceremonial hall (area A7). The distance to the floor below is 20 feet. Collapsing Floor. The balcony floors have weakened with age. Any Medium or larger creature that
steps onto a 5-foot-square marked C on the map must make a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw as the floor crumbles and falls away, leaving a gaping hole. On a failed save, the creature falls 20 feet and lands
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
warriors, each wearing a grass skirt and clutching a spear.
A gruesome throne lashed together of bone and strips of skin stands atop the west ledge. A fearsome horned skull surmounts the throne, and small
and bones of slain Omuan warriors, and the skulls of Omuan children are piled around it. The skull atop the throne once belonged to a minotaur guardian of Omu named Karagos. Any creature that touches
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
set into the west, south, and east walls. Each panel is a 6-foot-tall, 3-foot-wide, 1-inch-thick rectangle of golden crystal, carved with the bas-relief image of a dwarf warrior clutching a battleaxe
(Perception) check spots the trap. When a weight of 50 pounds or more is placed on the cover of the pit trap, the cover swings open like a trapdoor, causing any creature standing on it to fall in and take
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
high upon the mountainside. The slope is so steep that a creature falling from this height would tumble almost 400 feet down the mountainside before landing on any sort of ledge. Although there are
crawling out of the darkness and attack. Use the giant spider statistics, with the following changes: Ice spiders have resistance to cold damage. While restrained in an ice spider’s web, a creature takes 1
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
M22. Endelyn’s Room A detect magic spell reveals an aura of abjuration magic on the door to this room. If a creature other than Endelyn touches the door, a hand of force similar to that created by
the Bigby’s hand spell tries to shove the creature away from the door. The creature must succeed on a DC 15 Strength saving throw or be pushed off the balcony, falling onto the Orrery of Tragedies and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
the cylinder. Its body is wet and malformed, its arms and legs are atrophied, and its oversized head drips black goo. The creature is attached to the cylinder by a twisted umbilical cord.
The
cylindrical device is the Soulmonger. The malformed creature floating next to it is an atropal (see appendix D), which feeds on the captured souls of the dead. The atropal attacks any creature that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
the dial and fills the 5-foot space directly east of the block. Any creature in this area when the gas is released must make a DC 14 Constitution saving throw, taking 44 (8d10) acid damage on a failed
wall.
The skeleton of a dwarf sprawls on the floor east of the barge, clad in a tattered yellow turban and dusty chain mail, and clutching a bronze shield.
To unlock I’jin’s sarcophagus, eight floor
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
tight-fitting dress barks orders at the workers while a goblin frantically makes adjustments to her costume using needles, pins, and thread. A tiny creature chained to a hooded lantern on a tabletop is
creature chained to the hooded lantern is Golmo, an unarmed brigganock (see appendix C), accompanied by the ball of light that contains his soul. Endelyn forces Golmo to draw diagrams for various
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
, Yinark. A detect magic spell reveals an aura of divination magic around it. A creature seated on the throne has advantage on Wisdom (Insight) checks. For information on Wyllow, see the “Wyllow” section at
common magic item to which anyone can attune. While holding the staff, a creature can use an action to expend 1 charge from the staff and cause a flower to sprout from a patch of earth or soil within
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
move as if in a breeze, though you feel no such thing.
Creatures. A wraith and three will-o’-wisps guard this chamber. The wisps start out invisible. Clutching Vines. While on the ground, a creature
Chosen creature that is strapped to the shrine. This energy is what powers the Doomvault but, even more, is also what both creates and keeps hidden the Phylactery Vault. The characters will have to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
the southern bridge are unstable. Either bridge collapses if more than 150 pounds of weight is applied to it. A creature standing on a section of bridge when it collapses must succeed on a DC 15
fresco. Any creature within 30 feet of the fresco that can see it must succeed on a DC 12 Wisdom saving throw or be charmed by it for 24 hours. While charmed in this way, the creature can’t willingly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Creature Encounters Keep the party’s level in mind when fleshing out these encounters, and allow the characters to retreat from or avoid an encounter that is too great a challenge. Escape should come
at a cost, however. Characters fleeing their camp to avoid a creature encounter might be forced to abandon food and water supplies, for example. d20 Encounter 1–2 Ambushers; reroll this encounter
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
poison and psychic damage. A creature can use an action to attempt to lift the cart, doing so with a successful DC 15 Strength (Athletics) check. If the dretches destroy the cart, they attack Ella
, and pigs scamper through the town, chased by a demon with the lower body of a great serpent and the upper body of a six-armed gnoll clutching a wicked sword in each of its clawed hands.
The terrified
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
niche on the east wall holds a humble coffin.
If a creature touches the coffin, the lid flips open, and a cheery wooden jester on a spring pops up and does a little jig. The prop then hangs lifelessly
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->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
spoken aloud as an action. Any undead creature that moves within 5 feet of an empowered statue for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there takes 5 (1d10) radiant damage. Each pillar is hollow
and houses an incorporeal undead creature: four shadows and four specters in total. Seven of the undead emerge from the pillars to attack any character who attempts to enter the chapel. The specter
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Hellfire The characters see a charred humanoid corpse in the middle of the street, clutching a silvered longsword in its hand. When any creature moves within 5 feet of the corpse, a gout of hellfire
from fiendish creatures and undead in Elturel, the characters quickly become aware of the threats presented by the city itself.
Falling. Any creature that falls from Elturel’s location high above
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Void card beneath—the only such card in the entire dungeon. A creature that steps onto the Void card is teleported to area 23. 2: Gem This room’s card walls are smooth and resemble the facets of a gem
formation’s light. Gem Formation. The crystal formation doesn’t just change color; it constantly changes from one type of gemstone into another. As an action, a creature can try to carefully remove pieces of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
battered by windblown debris. At the start of each of its turns, a creature restrained by the whirlwind takes 1d10 bludgeoning damage. A creature in the whirlwind can use its action to attempt a DC 20
Strength check. If successful, the creature ends the restrained condition on it, falls 20 feet to the floor, and escapes the whirlwind. A creature outside the whirlwind can attempt a similar check to pull
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
skeleton clutching a berserker axe. The south tomb is empty except for an iron amulet shaped like a smith’s hammer. A cleric of Reorx or a character who succeeds on a DC 14 Intelligence (Religion) check
on a DC 14 Wisdom (Perception or Survival) check can tell this destruction occurred recently and the narrow passage is dangerously unstable. The first creature to pass 5 feet along this passage must