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Goliath
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goliath, and fewer still can claim friendship with them. Goliaths wander a bleak realm of rock, wind, and cold. Their bodies look as if they are carved from mountain stone and give them great
battle, at the peak of strength and skill, than endure the slow decay of old age. Few folk have ever meet an elderly goliath, and even those goliaths who have left their people grapple with the urge to
Death Tyrant
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Monster Manual (2014)
. The targeted creature must make a DC 17 Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the creature begins to turn to stone and is restrained. It must repeat the saving throw at the end of its next turn
it contains more trappings of death and decay. A death tyrant encountered in its lair has a challenge rating of 15 (13,000 XP).
Lair Actions
When fighting inside its lair, a death tyrant can invoke
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
the dragon’s mood.
Embodiment of Decay
While generally not malicious, topaz dragons embody decay. They view destruction as a natural means of clearing the way for new creation and growth
’s lair is altered by the dragon’s magic, creating one or more of the following effects:
Crystal Profusion. Natural stone within 6 miles of the lair grows plentiful crystal formations and
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
, dancing and shifting with the dragon’s mood.
Embodiment of Decay
While generally not malicious, topaz dragons embody decay. They view destruction as a natural means of clearing the way for new
surrounding a legendary topaz dragon’s lair is altered by the dragon’s magic, creating one or more of the following effects:
Crystal Profusion. Natural stone within 6 miles of the lair grows
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
A19. Ghoul Den Characters can reach this area by following the naturally formed tunnel from area A17 or by descending the stone staircase from area A24. The door to the north has been smashed open
, and its remains are strewn on the floor. The stench of death and decay grows stronger as the characters approach this room, and they can hear the hisses and snarls of the ghouls that lair here. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
characters for undertaking her mission. She shares the rest of the story she began when she first contacted the characters, along with any information in the “Background” section: The Sleeping Stone
from Atagua into the Ghost Orchid Tepui and attacked Chimagua. The invaders broke the Sleeping Stone and spirited a piece of it away. This put Chimagua into a deathlike slumber. Yarana believes they
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
tentacles pinned and artfully arrayed, their heads tied together and painted with red and blue pigments. The idol reeks of decay, and the broad stone altar below the idol is stained dark with blood
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
D4. Dormitory The passage west from the courtyard becomes a long hallway with a series of stone doors on either side. Read the following aloud the first time a character enters one of the rooms: A
along the far wall. Judging from the smell and the decay, they died close to a tenday ago.
Checking the bodies reveals that they are all robed dwarves, likely the inhabitants of the shrine. Most were killed by the renegade dwarves’ warhammers, although some are rent by long wounds from the oni’s claws.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
faces of eight stone gargoyles squatting motionlessly on the rim of the domed ceiling. Cracked and faded ceiling frescoes are covered by decay. Double doors of bronze stand closed to the east. To the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
stone stretch from west to east. Around each table sit a dozen cast-iron chairs sculpted with web and spider motifs.
Smashed Cabinet. Against the north wall, near the double door to area 5b, is a pile
float about the room, as though weightless.
Fireplace. An immense stone fireplace protrudes from the west wall.
Well. An alcove in the north wall contains a 12-foot-diameter open well. (The well
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
corpses that fill the room to a depth of 6 feet and make the area difficult terrain. As needed, Acererak’s magic draws new corpses here from graveyards across the world, all in various states of decay
protrudes from the north wall. Any close inspection reveals that its nostrils contain hollow cavities, each one containing a stone lever. A pulled lever locks into place and can’t be moved until it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
life-sized stone monument carved in the likeness of a kneeling peasant girl clutching a rose. Although her features are gray and weatherworn, she bears a striking resemblance to Ireena Kolyana
crickets fall silent, and the stench of decay grows strong. You hear the trudge of heavy footsteps through mud and water as bloated gray shapes shamble out of the fog. Seven distended human corpses
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Auvryndar assumed control of it. The cavern has the following features: Ruins. The 30-foot-high cavern is a deathly quiet maze of crumbling stone buildings, many of which have partially collapsed. The
by the ankles are preparing meals under the watchful eye of three male drow guards named Raelphar, Rizryn, and Xebyl.
Furnishings. Stone counters are spread throughout the room. A large cauldron is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
advanced state of decay, he is the founder and oldest “living” member of the Heralds of Dust, a faction rumored to be as old as death itself. Skall generously lingers in this existence to guide souls
exceptions for magic that causes individuals to rise as Undead—a transformation Dusters view as a natural stepping stone on the path to True Death.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
to blend with the surrounding stone. This 5-foot-wide, 10-foot-tall stone door swings into a small chamber. Secret Room. Murgaxor kept alchemical supplies in this unlit secret chamber. Most of the
walls are shelves bearing specimen jars, notebooks, and containers of herbs and alchemical reagents. In the middle of the cave rests a smooth stone slab covered in a rusty stain.
Murgaxor conducted
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
16. Wongo’s Tomb A deep pit opens up at the entrance to this tomb, with a stone sarcophagus resting at the bottom. A snarling monkey-like creature decorates the sarcophagus lid. Beyond the pit, three
treasure chests sit on stone daises. The chest on the left is carved of black onyx, the middle chest is made of rusty iron, and the chest on the right is cast of silver and glistening with frost
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
into a natural cleft in the stone face. Steps are cut into the 15-foot-wide crevice, and scenes of jungle predators, flying lizards, and erupting volcanoes are carved in shallow relief onto the walls in
ways that make creative use of the natural shape of the rock. When the characters reach the top of the steps, read: The stone steps emerge onto the top of the plateau beneath a once grand, but now
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
blends in well amid the floating meat and has advantage on its Dexterity (Stealth) checks. If Ozk notices any non-Aberration, it stops meditating on its own decay and attacks, shouting in Deep Speech that
dead mass of the alien husk. Between their tips hovers a starlike crystal.
Approximately 40 feet from the Drought Elder’s maw hangs the Sleeping Stone shard, twinkling between the being’s two gigantic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
cured with a lesser restoration spell or similar magic. The air in here is moist and sticky. Natural light spills from cracks in the ceiling, and mud coats the floor. Stone workbenches are laden with
skin and a bronze syringe. Lurking in the shadows around him are five slouching humans that reek of decay.
Yuan-ti use this chamber to extract venom from snakes. Xopal (pronounced zoh-PAUL), a yuan-ti
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
been there themselves. The World Is Ancient. Empires rise and fall, leaving few places that have not been touched by imperial grandeur or decay. War, time, and natural forces eventually claim the mortal
heals wounds to something much more rare and impressive, such as a levitating tower or a stone golem guarding the gates of a city. Beyond the realms of civilization are caches of magic items guarded
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
with strange runes and weeping tar-like sap. Stone giant hermits tend these groves and set deadly traps against trespassers. Har-Thelen Har-Thelen is largely abandoned. Its gates stand open, and only a
few noticing the decay of the vaults and archives around them. Merchant’s Slash The Merchant’s Slash trail is littered with the wreckage of merchant and traveler caravans. Some are still occupied by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
T13: Great Statue of Orcus A great statue of Orcus scrapes the thirty-foot-high ceiling of this chamber. The rich smell of incense rises from a large stone brazier at the statue’s base, overpowering
mostly masks the odor of decay that permeates the hall. Nezzarum, a Silver Dragon Wyrmling who knows Common, lurks inside the statue of Orcus. The dragon can gaze out into the hall through the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
the pool, the waterfall, and the stream that feeds them in area A4 has been magically tainted, causing creatures that touch it to rapidly decay. Any creature that enters the water for the first time on
submerging any sort of organic material, recognizes the water’s magical corruption. The detect magic spell reveals that the water has an aura of necromantic magic. A2: Ancient Statue A small stone
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
this area. When all the characters have arrived, read the following: The walls of this hexagonal stone chamber are shot through with pale white veins of faintly glowing jade. A bronze double door
, some in rags, all in states of decay.
Secretary Wei uses this ancient trap to dispose of those she considers a threat to the empire. She now considers the characters such threats, no matter how
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
secret door is hidden.
Altar. What appears at first viewing to be a glistening altar of variegated gray stone is, in fact, a hollow glass altar with three psychic gray oozes sealed inside it.
The
have total cover, their speed is 0 feet, and they can’t attack with their pseudopods. 17b. Temple of Kiaransalee This temple of Kiaransalee, drow god of undeath, reeks of decay and contains the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Dungeon Features The atmosphere and physical characteristics of dungeons vary as widely as their origins. An old crypt might have stone walls and loose wooden doors, an odor of decay, and no light
other than what adventurers bring with them. A volcanic lair might have smooth stone walls hollowed out by past eruptions, doors of magically reinforced brass, a smell of sulfur, and light provided by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
. (Add to this number any troglodytes that fled from area 5 or escaped from area 2.)
Ledge. A stone slope along the east side of the cave rises up to a long ledge toward the south. The ledge is 20
littered with the corpses of twenty-one troglodytes and nine drow, all surrounded by pools of sticky blood and in different stages of decay (suggesting that more than one battle occurred here). The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
. Barrow Entrance Embedded in the hillside south of the circular indentation is a stone door with no visible handles or hinges.
The door is snug and airtight. It can be opened only from the inside (by
a creature in area E6) or by using a knock spell or similar magic. E3. Marble Gazebo In the middle of the gazebo sits an unlit stone brazier, its bowl twenty inches in diameter. The brazier is full of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
graves as evidence of the horrors of the war. In some places, armies that were fighting on the Day of Mourning became stone statues anchored in position. Others were crystallized or reduced to ash. On
soldiers are preserved just as they fell, with no sign of rot or decay. Thousands upon thousands of corpses lie scattered across the field, facedown in the dirt or staring lifelessly at the gray sky. Even
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Steps The steps from level 1 to level 2 are 33 feet long and rise 20 feet. The stone is crumbling from age and decay. Those who try climbing the steps find that, after the first few, the stone crumbles
best source of information in Chult. However, she’s not easy to reach. A massive brick and stone ziggurat rises from the jungle. Two staircases angle up and across the front face, one from the right
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
loose stone about 3 feet above the top of the fireplace that conceals a small cavity. Inside the cavity is a small leather pouch containing two cut pieces of blue quartz (10 gp each). 6. Living Area
.
A character who succeeds on a DC 12 Wisdom (Perception) check finds a stone out of place on the chimney above the fireplace. Removing the stone reveals a hidden compartment. Additionally, characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
, they gently nudge the characters toward the tunnel leading to area L4. L2. Flensing Chamber A sour stench of decay fills your nostrils. Lying on the ice-packed ground is the frozen corpse of a whale
carcass contains a 6-foot-long, 5-foot-wide, 5-foot-tall stone chest half buried under ice. A character must spend 1 hour chipping away the ice before the chest can be opened. It contains more giant-sized
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
-life stone faces are mounted between the arches.
A wild profusion of plants grows on the upper terraces, and multicolored parrots and canaries flit and sing among them. To the north, a dilapidated
roofs fell. The roofs that remain intact have vines and roots hanging down from them. The covered tunnels are only 4 feet high and contain a foot of water. Stone Faces. The four stone visages staring
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
something under the surface.
At high tide, the tunnel is flooded, so visitors must approach by boat or swim. At low tide, walkways formed by the tops of stone columns line the sides of the tunnel, leading
servant. B2: Fungus Farm This fifty-foot-high cavern is a forest of multicolored fungi, ranging from tiny filaments to tree-sized mushrooms. A natural staircase of stone columns along the east wall
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
weathered mosaic decorates the stairwell, depicting dwarves, elves, and humans working together to forge the Realm of Three Crowns. The area reeks of decay, and a few birds fly out of the shaft.
The
. H2. Collapsing Room The walls of this chamber show cracks and other signs of stress from the weight of fifty feet of earth and stone above, but have so far remained standing. The floor is covered in