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Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
apparitions and their ilk, exorcists channel the forces of death to preserve the living, commune with the dead, and drive evil spirits back to their graves. They can also fire versatile bolts of necrotic or
(exorcist’s choice).
Admit Entity (Recharge 5–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Admit Entity"}. The exorcist thins the veil of death for a creature it can see within 60
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
pursue arcane magic are exiled as deviants, and for them no everlasting communion with an elder brain is possible. The road to lichdom offers an alternative way to escape the permanency of death, but
their own safety. Once they taste freedom from the colony, some prize their privacy, others seek to commune with similar minds, and still others seek to dominate a colony by elevating themselves to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Unearthed Arcana
spellcasters, and commune with eldritch beings that seek to return from death. This document presents four subclasses for the Monk (Warrior of the Mystic Arts), the Paladin (Oath of the Spellguard), the Rogue
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
commune with the dead through them. A speak with dead spell cast on a death mask causes the face to animate as if it were the corpse of the deceased creature that bore its likeness. The Heralds of Dust
throughout. Death Masks. The walls of the Mortuary are adorned with thousands of death masks imprinted with the faces of Sigil’s dead. Planar magic flows through the masks, allowing spellcasters to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
experimental magic, and to commune with the ocean. Its peace shattered when death giants from the Shadowfell found a lightless river that led into the trench and killed the retreat’s original
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Food and Water
Daylight
Dispel Magic
Feign Death
Glyph of Warding
Magic Circle
Mass Healing Word
Meld into Stone
Protection from Energy
Remove Curse
Revivify
Sending
Speak with Dead
Spirit Guardians
Tongues
Water Walk
4th Level Banishment
Control Water
Death Ward
Divination
Freedom of Movement
Guardian of Faith
Locate Creature
Stone
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Daylight
Dispel Magic
Feign Death
Meld into Stone
Plant Growth
Protection from Energy
Sleet Storm
Speak with Plants
Water Breathing
Water Walk
Wind Wall
4th Level
Locate Creature
Polymorph
Stone Shape
Stoneskin
Wall of Fire
5th Level Antilife Shell
Awaken
Commune with Nature
Conjure Elemental
Contagion
Geas
Greater Restoration
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Walk
4th Level
Banishment
Control Water
Death Ward
Divination
Freedom of Movement
Guardian of Faith
Locate Creature
Stone Shape
5th Level
Commune
Contagion
Dispel Evil and Good
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
, where citizens commune with the dead in joyful festivals, and industrious minds create wonders of magic and technology. Despite San Citlán’s rich culture and magical marvels, economic inequality is
the Trecena—the city’s ruling council—to bring an end to corruption. Outrage recently reached a fever pitch as the city reels from political instability wrought by the death of a high-profile
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
of death to preserve the living, commune with the dead, and drive evil spirits back to their graves. They can also fire versatile bolts of necrotic or radiant energy from their staves to repel a host
Heralds of Dust Exorcist Dauntless in the face of death, exorcists in the Heralds of Dust cleanse hapless creatures and resting places haunted by ghosts, specters, and other malign entities that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Death Curse Understanding how Acererak’s death curse works is vital to running the adventure smoothly. The Soulmonger was activated 20 days ago and remains active until it is destroyed. While the
spells or similar magic. The death curse has no effect on preexisting ghosts or spirits. Meat Grinder Tomb of Annihilation can be played as written, or you can make it even more difficult by running it as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
of a relic of Torm kept beneath the cemetery chapel. The Helm of Torm’s Sight is said to give a worthy soul the ability to commune directly with that noble god. The duke and his guards came to the
cemetery to assess the threat of its undead and to search for the relic, but were waylaid by both demons and devils. When the characters find him, Ravengard is locked in a life-and-death struggle with a demonic force in the vault of ascendance (area G12).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Divination C, M Create Food and Water Conjuration — Daylight Evocation — Dispel Magic Abjuration — Feign Death Necromancy R Glyph of Warding Abjuration M Magic Circle Abjuration M Mass Healing Word Abjuration
Transmutation C Death Ward Abjuration — Divination Divination R, M Freedom of Movement Abjuration — Guardian of Faith Conjuration — Locate Creature Divination C Stone Shape Transmutation — Level 5 Cleric
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Meetings with Sarusanda The characters occasionally reunite with Sarusanda as they explore Death House. Each time you roll this result on the Death House Encounters table, run one of the following
Death House. Séance Robson Michel Sarusanda interrogates a deceased cult member to learn more about the activities in Death House Pungent sticks of incense burn around this room’s perimeter. Sarusanda
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
School Special Aura of Vitality Abjuration C Call Lightning Conjuration C Conjure Animals Conjuration C Daylight Evocation — Dispel Magic Abjuration — Elemental Weapon Transmutation C Feign Death
Antilife Shell Abjuration C Awaken Transmutation M Commune with Nature Divination R Cone of Cold Evocation — Conjure Elemental Conjuration C Contagion Necromancy — Geas Enchantment — Greater
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
, seekers, but The Book of Inner Alchemy has been vandalized. This manual is said to grant untold power over life and death to anyone who can master its secrets … and last night, someone had the
could reach the library. Development If the characters don’t locate any clues or identify the wounds, an Avowed scholar discovers the scrap of white cloth. A commune spell or similar magic can be used
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Abjuration C Banishment Abjuration C Control Water Transmutation C Death Ward Abjuration — Divination Divination R, M Freedom of Movement Abjuration — Guardian of Faith Conjuration — Locate Creature
Divination C Stone Shape Transmutation — Level 5 Cleric Spells Spell School Special Commune Divination R Contagion Necromancy — Dispel Evil and Good Abjuration C Flame Strike Evocation — Geas
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
School Special Aura of Vitality Abjuration C Call Lightning Conjuration C Conjure Animals Conjuration C Daylight Evocation — Dispel Magic Abjuration — Elemental Weapon Transmutation C Feign Death
Antilife Shell Abjuration C Awaken Transmutation M Commune with Nature Divination R Cone of Cold Evocation — Conjure Elemental Conjuration C Contagion Necromancy — Geas Enchantment — Greater
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
awaits the coming of the death god, which it believes heralds the fall of divinity. Until that day, the aboleth humbly obeys Withers (whom the creature refers to by his original name of Gorra) and attacks
communication with the aboleth and it is inclined to speak to them, it can provide information as if the characters had cast a commune spell. (Since they’re not actually casting the spell, this effect is not
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
its ramparts — undead guards in various states of decay.
Arkhan the Cruel has claimed this tower as his base. Here, with the help of a tortle death-priest of Tiamat named Krull, the dragonborn
monument to commune with his goddess, leaving Krull behind. Dragons tore the obsidian rocks of Arkhan’s tower from the fiery volcanoes of Avernus. Fifty skeletons and thirty zombies stand ready to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
high mountain range. Glorium’s rich, rugged shores are speckled with the blood of a thousand battles, shed by folk who revel in skirmishing and welcome death when it comes for them. In Glorium, every
back the alien armies of Gzemnid, a gaseous beholder god. CoupleOfKooks “Glory? Ha! What do any of us know of glory? We’re still alive! You seek a reward that can be attained only in death
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
prophecies. 6 Is haunted by judgmental ancestral spirits. 7 Can appear only at dawn and dusk. 8 Has partially melded into a hallowed tree. 9 Is being consumed by fungi. 10 Can no longer commune with their
Plots to inspire your folk horror adventures. Folk Horror Plots 1d10 Adventure Hook 1 Anyone entering the city on horseback is imprisoned and sentenced to death. 2 A cult requests help summoning
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
storm, slow
7th
freedom of movement, ice storm
9th
commune with nature, cone of cold
Coast Druid Level Spells 3rd
mirror image, misty step
5th
water breathing, water walk
7th
terrain
9th
insect plague, wall of stone
Forest Druid Level Spells 3rd
barkskin, spider climb
5th
call lightning, plant growth
7th
divination, freedom of movement
9th
commune
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
dwells in tunnels near a young amethyst dragon’s lair, and its members telepathically commune with the dragon and any visitors in the lair from time to time.
2 A young amethyst dragon and a
Blades.” Obsessed with observing the world and its creatures, Eldenser developed magic that allows his mind to inhabit the blade of a weapon after his death. He exists now as a draconic shard (described
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
this vantage. The village operates as a commune, with no exports or moneymaking businesses. Villagers grow trees and vegetables, cut wood to heat their homes, raise chickens and pigs, and share their
by the mists. Some of the clergy fell prey to Strahd, while others went mad and either starved themselves to death or turned to cannibalism. The head of the abbey, called simply the Abbot, arrived over
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
alternative way to escape the permanency of death, but that path is long and fraught with barriers. Alhoons are mind flayers who have used a shortcut to attain a lich-like state. Elder brains forbid mind
the colony for their own safety. Once they taste freedom from the colony, some prize their privacy, others seek to commune with similar minds, and still others seek to dominate a colony by elevating
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
next dawn. Rod Pieces Piece Spell
First Commune
Second Arcane Gate
Third Reverse Gravity (spell save DC 18)
Fourth Regenerate
Fifth Find the Path
Sixth
4 Mournland Eberron The control room of a deactivated colossus
Fourth 5 Death House, Barovia Ravenloft The house’s dungeon
Fifth 6 Northern Dargaard Mountains, Krynn Dragonlance
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a7
chamber will demand: “Who dares to disturb the rest of Acererak? It is your death which you have found!” Creature. The false crypt is the home of a false lich that is actually a magically prepared
) inquiring about one of the references in the “Legend of the Tomb.” Note that something so simple as a commune spell will reveal that the demilich has not been destroyed.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
force is their only option for defeating the cult. Death at the Council During the second or third session of the Council of Waterdeep, rumors spread of an aide from Neverwinter who killed an aide from
with dead, or they might use commune to discover the spy. The succubus has gained another victim by that point—a knight of the Order of the Gauntlet who regularly goes to meet her at her slum dwelling
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
force is their only option for defeating the cult. Death at the Council During the second or third session of the Council of Waterdeep, rumors spread of an aide from Neverwinter who killed an aide from
with dead, or they might use commune to discover the spy. The succubus has gained another victim by that point—a knight of the Order of the Gauntlet who regularly goes to meet her at her slum dwelling
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
is their only option for defeating the cult. Death at the Council During the second or third session of the Council of Waterdeep, rumors spread of an aide from Neverwinter who killed an aide from
might use commune to discover the spy. The succubus has gained another victim by that point—a knight of the Order of the Gauntlet who regularly goes to meet her at her slum dwelling in the Field Ward of Waterdeep. This pattern of murder and suicide continues unless the spy’s true identity is discovered.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
miss were it not for the excavation sites and abandoned tents surrounding them.
The Sunward Fortress was once a hermitage for those seeking to commune with Sirrion’s greatest flame: the sun. The
percent chance they are attacked by two red slaadi that fight to the death. Sunward Fortress Features The ruin has the following features: Ceilings. The ceilings in the ruins are 10 feet high. Light
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
can’t penetrate this area, and no light can illuminate it.
Death Dog Medium Monstrosity, Neutral Evil
AC 12 Initiative +2 (12)
HP 39 (6d8 + 12)
Speed 40 ft.
Ability Score Mod Save
Blinded, Charmed, Deafened, Frightened, Stunned, Unconscious
Senses Darkvision 120 ft.; Passive Perception 15
Languages None
CR 1 (XP 200; PB +2)
Actions
Multiattack. The death dog makes two
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
death. Not far away, the characters find another body, and a third, and so on as they scan around the base of the tower. This same fate awaits any character captured by the pterafolk. The rope-and-wood
DC increases by 2 for everyone following behind the climber. If the check fails by 5 or more, the ladder is damaged and the climber falls — quite possibly to his or her death, unless precautions were
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
and laborers, the Gravemakers guard the dead — and Tumbledown — from threats. With so much death concentrated in one spot, undead are a constant problem. Skeletons and revenants regularly claw
, a black gauntlet of Bane, is the cult’s mastermind. He engineered the death of the slaughterhouse’s former owner so that he could take over, figuring that constant blood, offal, and animal screams