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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
. Eventually, the scales become translucent and shimmer in the light, rippling as the dragon moves. The dragon’s horns and spines hover above the body, moving and shifting along the back and tail
defenses.
Emerald Dragon Lair Features
The emerald dragon lair shown in map 5.8 is a series of ancient vaults situated beneath a city built in the caldera of a dormant volcano. The vaults fell into disuse
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
scales become translucent and shimmer in the light, rippling as the dragon moves. The dragon’s horns and spines hover above the body, moving and shifting along the back and tail to mirror the
(and more paranoid) dragons employing several layers of such defenses.
Emerald Dragon Lair Features
The emerald dragon lair shown in map 5.8 is a series of ancient vaults situated beneath a city
Magic Items
Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
’s legendary powered armor.
Automatic Defenses. Unless Kwalish deactivates the suit’s automatic defenses, no one can approach the armor without setting those defenses off. Treat the
armor as a shield guardian that has stored a magic missile spell cast using a 4th-level spell slot. When the armor is reduced to 0 hit points, its defenses are rendered inert and it can be safely
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
, the kobolds are usually put to work enlarging their masters’ living area and protecting vital areas of the lair with traps and other defenses.
Some human communities hire kobolds to dig their
lay up to six eggs per year, and an egg matures for two to three months before it hatches.
Kobolds don’t engage in funeral ceremonies; a dead kobold’s body is burned or disposed of in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
specific victims. In rare cases, a crawling claw wreaks mayhem while the rest of its body still lives, with the original creature potentially unaware of its severed hand’s crimes.
Brian Valenzuela
possible for any creature, any living being, to be inherently evil? Such an assertion may itself facilitate the committing of evil acts. By defining a person as evil, we give them free rein to behave as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
marking important events and successes in their lives. But unlike many other dragons, they are just as likely to prize mementos of their defeats and mistakes, believing that such reminders are inherently
instructive. Like bronze dragons, gold dragons often guard particularly dangerous artifacts as a form of public service, and thus prize clever magical or mundane defenses to keep their lairs safe and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
. Unfortunately, they have no means of assuring the slumbering fungal entity of their intentions, and the growing threat posed by Zuggtmoy and the demon lords has roused Araumycos’s defenses. The pastel
, whereupon each bursts into a cloud of sweet-smelling spores as its body dissolves back into the larger mass of fungi filling the cavern. Read the following to the players when the final creature is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Araumycos. Basidia’s rapport spores help facilitate the process, but Araumycos’s sleeping mind isn’t in full control of the defenses of its body, and might interpret the characters’ presence as an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
, and the nature of domains and Darklords all claim part of the answer, but ultimately they reflect aspects of the same cause: nightmare logic. Ravenloft is inherently a vast nightmare. Most of those
genre in all its myriad forms is explored—from moody gothic horror and ghost stories to visceral body horror and mind-bending cosmic horror. Chapter 2 explores how to choose the horror themes that are right for your game, but read on at your discretion.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Adventures in Bluetspur While Bluetspur’s otherworldly hazards and the mind flayers’ defenses can challenge even the highest-level heroes, the domain’s menace proves most pernicious when it intrudes
taken over by an intellect devourer.
6 An inventor requests the characters’ insight into a pill-sized device she extracted from her own body. As the characters examine it, the device projects a map
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
life shift into a new form. Druids of this circle have a complex relationship with the undead. They see nothing inherently wrong with undeath, which they consider to be a companion to life and death
Spores reaction. Fungal Body 14th-level Circle of Spores feature The fungal spores in your body alter you: you can’t be blinded, deafened, frightened, or poisoned, and any critical hit against you counts as a normal hit instead, unless you’re incapacitated.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
throughout the lab can access the armor’s controls given enough time. Even after accessing the controls, though, no one can approach the armor without setting off its automatic defenses. See the
assume that negotiations are automatically successful and only one character needs to offer up a piece of their soul. Kwalish Who? Kwalish is missing, his physical body having been caught up within
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
parallel reality. Characters who walk the length of the circular corridor notice that Devlin’s body is no longer present — nor are any companions who waited behind for them. If they step back through the
. All objects and creatures encountered in the mirror tomb appear real, but they fade away if taken to the real world. The mirror tomb has the same magical defenses as the true tomb, and any character
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
by the spell. Psychic Defenses 6th-level Aberrant Mind feature You gain resistance to psychic damage, and you have advantage on saving throws against being charmed or frightened. Revelation in Flesh
14th-level Aberrant Mind feature You can unleash the aberrant truth hidden within yourself. As a bonus action, you can spend 1 or more sorcery points to magically transform your body for 10 minutes. For
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
. The solution entailed creating a large number of docent nodes and joining them together in a single network distributed throughout the body of the colossus. Docent nodes are modeled after the ancient
though a colossus has fallen, its docent nodes and elemental defenses might still be active. The dragonshards that once bound the elemental that powered the colossus’s main weapon might have been
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
zero. The cloud doesn’t block sound, however.
Defenses. The castle’s crenellated battlements are 10 feet tall and 5 feet wide. Arrow slits are 10 feet tall, 10 feet above the floor, and 5 feet wide
terrain.
Telescopes. Bolted to the battlements are several telescopes that the cloud giants use to spy on the lands below. Each telescope weighs 750 pounds and consists of a 20-foot-long bronze body
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
’ voices, like an actor taking on a role. The players might even echo their characters’ body language. They still need to describe things that can’t reasonably be acted out.
Descriptive Roleplaying
Castle Ravenloft, so I hope it’s beyond Strahd’s spies. And I have heard that Vallaki is well defended, with a wooden palisade and iron gates.”
Russell: “As if such defenses would stop a vampire
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
encounter, characters seeking a missing body must find their quarry among the other dead, whether for themselves, another faction, or an interested party in Sigil. During the characters’ search, the
corpses throughout this area. As an action, a character can inspect a corpse within 10 feet of them, identifying the body with a successful DC 13 Wisdom (Medicine) check. It’s up to you where in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
. Defenses Two defensive turrets decorate the front of this area, looking down over the courtyard. Arrow slits in the walls of each turret offer a view of the ground below, but are too narrow for even
contains an elaborate, upright sarcophagus holding the body of a former high priest of Torm. A sarcophagus can be opened with a successful DC 20 Dexterity check by a character proficient with thieves
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
components unless they are consumed by the spell or have a cost specified in it. Level 6: Psychic Defenses You have Resistance to Psychic damage, and you have Advantage on saving throws to avoid or end the
your body for 10 minutes. For each Sorcery Point you spend, you gain one of the following benefits of your choice, the effects of which last until the alteration ends. Aquatic Adaptation. You gain a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
are unaware they’re being watched. Roll on the Dungeon Scenes table to determine what scene a crystal is depicting at any given time. Dungeon Scenes d4 Scene 1 A beast with the body of a turtle and
present, roll on the House of Liars Defenses table each round at initiative count 0. House of Liars Defenses d4 Event 1 Mocking Winds. A blast of powerful wind that sounds like Shemeshka’s laughter
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
smiled in reply. Although it seemed a genuine smile, I could wring no truth from it. Of the castle’s defenses, I can say little. My tour was limited. But I did note that, while some things on the giants
, bred and trained to defend Darkhold and to obey the Pereghost. Their trainer is a ranger named Grigarr, whose body is pocked with myriad scars from wyvern stings. The man is a greedy wretch who claims he
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
penetrate the foe’s defenses. Murderers carry many javelins with them, which they throw from hiding and wield in melee, and they also carry garrotes to cut off sounds of screaming.
The Host on the March
, behind, and on both sides of the main group. The ravens can distinguish between individuals from a great height and navigate over long distances. Thus, a raven can fly back to the main body when it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC or take 2d10 Psychic damage. Level 10: Beguiling Defenses Your patron teaches you how to guard your mind and body. You are immune to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
Maelstrom’s defenses. At the same time, Mirran confronts the adventurers in area 3, tells them that their request for an audience with Serissa has been granted, and leads them into area 2, where Vaal, Tartha
, Serissa is convinced that they are assassins who have been sent to finish off the royal family. She commands Uthor to marshal all of Maelstrom’s defenses and destroy the adventurers. Serissa also
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
extra hit points. However, adventurers have more resources at higher levels to counteract such defenses, making resistances and immunities less relevant at higher levels. Effective Hit Points. If a
counteract that resistance or immunity, you need to take these defenses into account when comparing your monster’s hit points to its expected challenge rating. Using the Effective Hit Points Based on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
driven out. The city’s only resident is Kwalish, but the inventor has developed potent defenses to defend the entrance to his lab. The following locations are identified on the map below. View
Dexterity check to help the modron open and override the engine. Within the coffin is the jellified remains of a former kenku high priest of Daoine Gloine. Her undead body now powers the kraken, though she
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sleeping Dragon’s Wake
encounter the following four Gnawbones druids in the lair:
Argina Therrow. The leader of the Gnawbones is a tall, thin human in her late sixties who covers herself in green body paint to honor
and believes she might be able to put them to work finding answers for her, especially since they bested her lair’s defenses to reach her. Claigiyliamatar is jealous of powerful female humanoids who get
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
wig, Queen Frupy’s face is a mass of jowls and wrinkles set in the middle of a very large head that seems to grow directly out of her shoulders without the benefit of any neck. Her body is lumpy and
successful DC 20 Dexterity check using thieves’ tools. Trunk 1 is locked. It contains 7,200 sp. Trunk 2 is locked. It contains nothing. Trunk 3 is unlocked and has no defenses. At the bottom is a sack
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a2
corpse of a dwarf warrior in plate armor. Bones lie heaped around the altar’s base, and at its foot crouches the desiccated body of an orc in studded leather.
Creatures. The orc champion is now a
. During the final assault of the orcs, Arundil used his magic to escape the slaughter. He returned to find all his kinfolk dead. Overwhelmed by grief, he tried to repair some of the complex’s defenses
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
and tales. High Marshal Methrammar Aerasumé, the city’s lord, resides in a tall, slender palace on the east side of the city and commands Silverymoon’s knight-defenders. The city’s magical defenses
, the ghost uses the host body to attack other trespassers. If the ghost drops to 0 hit points, it vanishes with a furious scream. In the round after the ghost is defeated, on what would be its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
isn’t transformed.
Psychic Defenses. Unless Lazav is incapacitated, he is immune to magic that allows other creatures to read his thoughts, determine whether he is lying, know his alignment, or know
) 1d8 hours later, unless its body is destroyed. If all the Golgari in the lair die, the regional effects fade over 1d10 days.
Gruul NPCs Like the creatures that fight alongside them, warriors and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
layout and defenses, but he’s not inclined to share information with strangers. As soon as he hears a door to this room being opened, Thinnings ducks into the narrow space under or behind one of the
chamber. Dark vapors rise from the cauldron, and a huge, dragon-like monster is coiled around it. The dragon’s body twitches slightly, and its closed eyelids flutter as it dreams.
Two figures are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
vast swamp, while a red dragon might claim the caldera of an active volcano. In addition to the natural defenses of their lairs, powerful chromatic dragons use magical guardians, traps, and
surroundings. Its wings have a dappled pattern, darker near the leading edges and lighter toward the trailing edges. A green dragon’s legs are longer in relation to its body than with any other dragon