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Adult Black Dragon
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Monsters
Basic Rules (2014)
Amphibious. The dragon can breathe air and water.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the dragon fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.Multiattack. The dragon can use its Frightful
infest the lair, which is filled with the stench of death and decay.
Lair Actions
On initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), the dragon takes a lair action to cause one of the following effects
Ancient Black Dragon
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Monsters
Basic Rules (2014)
Amphibious. The dragon can breathe air and water.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the dragon fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.Multiattack. The dragon can use its Frightful
the lair, which is filled with the stench of death and decay.
Lair Actions
On initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), the dragon takes a lair action to cause one of the following effects; the
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
disease and decay brings out similar characteristics in the creature’s swampy habitat. Such a wetland becomes gloomy, tangled, and more fetid than it was before. Beneficial qualities of the
environment, such as healing herbs and clean water, become degraded, and swamp gases take on a hint of the catoblepas’s foulness. Animals in the area are more aggressive and liable to be diseased
Goliath
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Elemental Evil Player's Companion
the responsibility to earn a place in the tribe or die trying.
Driven Competitors
Every day brings a new challenge to a goliath. Food, water, and shelter are rare in the uppermost mountain reaches. A
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
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
haunches, tapering in a wedge shape toward the head, and their wings are shaped to propel them through both air and water. A topaz dragon’s psionic power manifests visibly in the gem-like
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, much as a forest fire clears dead wood
Monsters
Princes of the Apocalypse
Amphibious. The dragon can breathe air and water.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the dragon fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Living Shadow. While in dim light or darkness
snakes infest the lair, which is filled with the stench of death and decay.
Lair Actions
On initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), the dragon takes a lair action to cause one of the
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
. Their bodies are wider at the haunches, tapering in a wedge shape toward the head, and their wings are shaped to propel them through both air and water. A topaz dragon’s psionic power manifests
’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, much as a forest
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Amphibious. The dragon can breathe both air and water.
Fabricate (1/Day). The dragon can cast fabricate, requiring no spell components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability.
Legendary
of the following spells, requiring no spell components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 19):
1/day each: antilife shell, bane, control water, create or destroy
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Amphibious. The dragon can breathe both air and water.
Fabricate (1/Day). The dragon can cast fabricate, requiring no spell components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability.
Legendary
following spells, requiring no spell components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 17):
1/day each: bane, control water, create or destroy waterThe dragon can take 3
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
64. Base of the Waterfall Anything that falls from area 17 ends up here. The walls of this grotto are slick with slime, and the air reeks of decay. Filthy water tumbles down from a hole in the
water here is 30 feet deep. Characters who allow themselves to be carried by the current are swept gently into area 65.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Black Dragon Lairs Black dragons lurk in dismal ruins, polluted bogs, or other sites gripped by decay. The region containing an adult or ancient black dragon’s lair is warped by its presence
takes twice the usual time in that area. Foul Water. Water sources within 1 mile of the lair are supernaturally fouled. A creature that drinks such water must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
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, much as a forest fire clears
, clearing the way for new growth and construction. Despite being competent swimmers and making their lairs on seacoasts and in brackish marshes, topaz dragons hate the water. Unfortunately, their favorite
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rrakkma
winds of Pandemonium raged throughout his chamber. He was quite insane, as were all the clergy of this temple, before it collapsed into decay and ruin. Treasure & Rewards The characters find the following treasure. Silver aspergillum (500 gp) Two vials of holy water One vial of acid
, 2 glass vials of holy water, incense that smells strangely of chlorine, and a vial of acid. The acid and holy water are unlabeled and look the same to the untrained eye. Kalak, who is proficient with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
History and Decay Once, the Styes was a marvelous port district. Its magnificent buildings crowned an artificial island that was the centerpiece of a broad bay, held aloft on great oak pilings. Those
. Alchemists fouled the air and water with poisonous concoctions from failed experiments. Sweat-shop manufactories set up in the Styes and all but enslaved their desperate workers. Tanners and millers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
stretch of water where the once-notable port district of a minor city had fallen into decay and corruption. Known as the Styes, the district was only a wretched shadow of what it had once been. But
. Led secretly by one of the Styes’ own ruling councillors — an inhuman creature that calls itself “Mr. Dory” — this cult of Tharizdun has thrived in the decay of the Styes for decades. Through
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
? Perhaps the left path smells of rot and decay, while the faint sound of lapping water comes from the right. These details give players more information to make an informed decision without explicitly
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
the following: The path ends at a clearing before an immense waterfall. It cascades down the tepui’s cliffs into a pool coated with oily, gray slime. Dense mist hangs above the pool.
The water of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
around the chest, which is actually a chest of preserving. This common wondrous item has the following magical property: food and other perishable items do not age or decay while inside it. The chest
components (for the indicated spells): a vial of blood, a strip of flesh, and a pinch of bone dust (animate dead); a clay pot of grave dirt, a clay pot of brackish water, and three 150 gp black onyx
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
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
downstream, a hidden valve in the basin opens and fills the container with 50 gallons of fresh water. Swimming in the water is a tiny emerald fish. Treasure. The emerald fish swims around the basin
until it is scooped out with a successful DC 10 Dexterity check, at which point the fish transforms into an elemental gem (water). The water remains in the basin after the fish is removed and does not
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
waterfall and descending into the water-filled basin. Where the stairs meet the water’s surface, an iron post juts at an angle, and a flat boat is tied to it. Tunnels to the northeast and northwest
channel the water from the pool. Above the pool, a seven-foot-diameter globe of water hovers in midair.
A character who has a passive Wisdom (Perception) score of 10 or higher notices the water symbol
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
The Weeping Paths When the characters leave the Final Steps of Courage for the Weeping Paths, read the following: Beyond the camp, the ash-heavy air closes in. Decay and ruin are everywhere, from the
murky water flowing through the endless swamp to the mildewed vines and the rotting roots of swollen mangrove and banyan trees.
The Weeping Paths is a treacherous quagmire home to malicious spirits
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
clay bottles of various shapes and sizes. Toadstools, snakeroot, and belladonna plants grow among the clutter, fed by water seeping from above. Standing near the plants is a hairless man with scaly
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->Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
a victim unable to act while the catoblepas feasts on its body. Blighted Territory A catoblepas’s nature as a creature of disease and decay brings out similar characteristics in the creature’s swampy
habitat. Such a wetland becomes gloomy, tangled, and more fetid than it was before. Beneficial qualities of the environment, such as healing herbs and clean water, become degraded, and swamp gases
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
their lairs, masking decay with illusion. A lair’s breathtaking gardens, finely decorated apartments, and numerous thralls seem at odds with its remoteness and state of ruin.
Using its intoxicating
other in elaborate contests for the lamia’s amusement.
Vain Predators. Always anxious to gain more wealth and thralls, a lamia uses a pool of water or a mirror in conjunction with a scrying spell to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
vampires. The residents are equally delighted by games, whimsical tales, and bloodshed. Lake of Glass The Lake of Glass moves like water but is as solid as glass. At night, the lake reflects the hidden
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->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
apartments and storefronts rises up on either side of a channel of sluggish, tainted water. The structures down near the waterline are empty and desolate, while the ramshackle additions built over
water of the channel, its tilted surface a hopeless tangle of trash, driftwood, and filth. Scurrying sounds within the detritus suggest the presence of a great many rats.
The trash heaped here make this
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
dust and the scent of decay. These are the ruins of the cities atop which Sharn is built.
Ahead of you yawns a fifty-foot-diameter, ten-foot-deep pit that seems to have been intentionally dug. You
shed contains a small child covered in dust, wearing the once-fine, now-ruined livery of a House Orien. The boy sobs, shrunken into one corner, his face slack. Stale bread, smelly water, a pile of rags
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
, drink, sleep, or breathe. The character’s hit point maximum is reduced by 1d4 at dawn each day, representing the physical decay of the body. No spell or effect can halt or counteract this decay. If the
. Her treasure is hidden in a cistern in the old village. Anyone who moves through the ruins notices the cistern. The opening is 15 feet in diameter, and the shaft drops 15 feet to scummy, black water
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
covers the walls of this tunnel, its bioluminescent glow filling the cavern with dim light. The surface of the water swirls with colorful, faintly glowing spores—perhaps reacting to the movement of
to a flight of natural steps up to area B2. A spore servant octopus lurks in the water and attacks any creatures (other than myconids) who enter the tunnel, regardless of the state of the tides
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
might also come to the world to oppose their elemental rivals from opposite planes: air versus earth or fire versus water. The elemental forces of air are most commonly connected with cloud and storm
giants. Those of earth are typically associated with hill and stone giants. Elemental fire is closely tied to fire giants, and elemental water is typically connected to cloud and frost giants. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
catoblepas feasts on the fresh remains. Blighted Territory. A catoblepas’s nature as a creature of disease and decay brings out similar characteristics in the creature’s swampy habitat. Such a wetland
becomes gloomy, tangled, and more fetid than it was before. Beneficial qualities of the environment, such as healing herbs and clean water, diminish when a catoblepas lives nearby. Swamp gases have a
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
by the passage of water or lava. An aboveground dungeon might be made of wood or composite materials. Walls are sometimes adorned with murals, frescoes, bas-reliefs, and lighting fixtures such as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
the jungle: a hanging garden of exotic beauty. Water streams down the steps between two massive elephant carvings. Beyond them, a broad, flooded avenue runs arrow-straight for more than a hundred feet
before ending at a carving of a tyrannosaurus face. Water pours from the tyrannosaurus’s jaws and flows the length of the concourse to drain down the steps in front of you. Five-foot-high terraces
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
this to try to dupe intruders into announcing their presence. P14f. A cool, fresh breeze flows out from under the door, and a character listening at the door hears tumbling torrents of water. P14g
. The bottom two chests each contain 250 gp. P14h. This area reeks of dead flesh. Bodies in various states of decay lie strewn about the floor. In the center lies the corpse of a human. A shimmering