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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
new eggs, which hatch inside the dragon egg’s shell in 1d6 days. The egg hunter hatchlings burst forth 1d4 days later, using the needlelike egg tooth that extends from their heads. They are
voracious, consuming any other dragon eggs in the vicinity if they can. A hatchling matures into an Egg Hunter Adult;adult about twenty days after breaking free from its dragon egg.
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Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
hollow gourd that now sits askew on its shoulders. Eight copper coins are sealed inside the gourd, causing the head to rattle whenever Clapperclaw nods, turns, or shakes its head.
Roleplaying Notes
Despite the loss of its original head, this child-sized scarecrow retains an upbeat demeanor characterized by its affinity for gallows humor. With its long claws and rattling gourd head, Clapperclaw
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
none of its class features or other abilities. The transformation is permanent and can be undone only by a wish spell. Despite appearances, the psurlon ringer is still an Aberration, and other psurlons
corpse in a safe place. As the corpse decays, the psurlons lay one or more eggs inside it. These eggs hatch 24 hours later, each one producing a Tiny worm. For the next seven days, the worms feed on the
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Despite its overall nutritiousness, the bitter grittiness of the mouse tree nut often precludes it from being eaten as a snack by most folk
on stout, gnarly trees that grow in normally unsuitable areas, such as cliff sides or inside ruined buildings.
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
to draw your anger or ridicule. You can get away with minor criminal offenses, such as refusing to pay for food at a restaurant or breaking down a door at a local shop, if no legal authorities witness
throw my weight around to make sure I get my way.
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I enjoy breaking delicate works of art. And fingers, which are sort of the same.
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
capable of flight, and similar objects provoke a great desire for the kenku to acquire the items for themselves.
Despite their lack of wings, kenku love dwelling in towers and other tall structures
. Others strike out on their own in search of the secrets of flight, to master magic, or to uncover the secret of their curse and find a method to break it.
Kenku adventurers, despite their relative
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
grapes from the vineyard are crushed into juice. The sliding wooden doors are chained shut from the inside, and the smaller door is barred shut from the inside. Breaking through either requires a successful DC 20 Strength check.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal
take our chances,” he says, whether he is breaking up a card game that has turned violent or refusing the pleas of adventurers trapped at the bottom of the well who are unable to pay for a ride up
. Despite his stony heart, he is an excellent source of information about Undermountain and other dungeons, provided one can pay his price. Personality Trait: Isolation. It’s a cruel world. All people have
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
spells spilling out of the windows, Despite these persistent magical effects, most folk believe the structure is abandoned. Others think it’s haunted by the ghosts of the Kolat brothers. They’re wrong
, of course. Manshoon posts no visible guards outside Kolat Towers, since he wants others to believe the site is abandoned. The evil wizard and his underlings come and go using teleportation circles inside the towers.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
7. Ruined Storeroom Despite the destruction all around, the northern part of this storage area has survived intact. The eastern wall of this chamber has collapsed into a mass of rubble. To the north
secure resting place. No monsters come this way. Moreover, the storeroom door is in good shape and can easily be blocked or barred from the inside. The contents of the kegs have long evaporated.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
following locations in Waterdeep: The city’s north gate, as seen from inside the city The city’s south gate, as seen from inside the city The Swordmaiden, one of the walking statues of Waterdeep, in the
Undermountain Characters acquainted with Waterdeep can easily recognize the locations being scried upon, since they are all prominent landmarks. Breaking a scrying device’s frame or removing it from the wall destroys its magic.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
conjuration magic around the harpsichord and a smaller aura of necromancy magic emanating from something inside it. Any character who has proficiency with a musical instrument can correctly play the
damage, and the flesh of its hands is eaten away, leaving bleached white (but functional) skeletal hands. Treasure. Hidden inside the harpsichord is a spell scroll of raise dead. Correctly playing the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
crypts less so. Now a priceless treasure of the city, the spyglass of Balduran himself, is yours.
2 With the help of an inside man, you purloined money from the Counting House, the most secure bank
an appropriate entry. Theft: Character Roles d6 Character’s Role
1 Breaker. Force is your specialty, whether your breaking through a wall or breaking bones.
2 Burglar. It was theirs
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
less so. Now a priceless treasure of the city, the spyglass of Balduran himself, is yours. 2 With the help of an inside man, you purloined money from the Counting House, the most secure bank in Baldur’s
Roles d6 Character’s Role 1 Breaker. Force is your specialty, whether your breaking through a wall or breaking bones. 2 Burglar. It was theirs, but all you had to do was reach out to make it yours. 3
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
Lenk doesn’t reveal what’s inside. Cracking the Strongboxes A character can make one attempt to open a strongbox through any of the following means: Breaking the Strongbox. Each strongbox is a Tiny
. Inside, an old human man hunches over a table, peering at an emerald through a jeweler’s loupe.
The jeweler, Lenk, puts down his loupe with a sigh and invites the characters in.
Alexander
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
double door.
The Twilight Rose was shut down by the Brightguard years ago for hosting performances deemed immoral. Despite this, the building’s doors are unlocked. Any character who listens at the
theater’s front entrance or investigates the windows can make a DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check. On a successful check, the character hears a muffled voice within. Characters who spend time surveilling the building see figures furtively open the front door and slip inside once every 10 minutes or so.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
examination of a twig doll reveals something wrapped inside it. By breaking a doll apart, characters can see that it contains a still-beating pig’s heart. Any damage to a heart kills it and causes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
is thick, and there is no risk of the characters breaking through it. Approaching the Ship When the characters get within 15 feet of the ship, read: You hear loud thumping and creaking coming from
inside the hold, followed by the guttural snarls of some creature. The ship is not as abandoned as it appeared!
An ice troll (see appendix C) was chasing a herd of seals when it spotted the abandoned
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
breaking down the door, it enters the temple and attacks the seven wardens (use the werewolf stat block, except their alignments are neutral good) who are trapped inside. The underground temple isn’t shown
to an underground temple. A crumbling stone door separates the monster from the temple’s interior.
The Blue Fire Wardens are trapped inside their own temple. If the characters don’t intervene, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Egg Hunter Hatchling A dragon egg drained by an egg hunter is filled with 1d6 new eggs, which hatch inside the dragon egg’s shell in 1d6 days. The egg hunter hatchlings burst forth 1d4 days later
breaking free from its dragon egg. Egg Hunter Hatchling
Tiny Monstrosity, Unaligned
Armor Class 14 (natural armor)
Hit Points 28 (8d4 + 8)
Speed 30 ft., burrow 10 ft., climb 30 ft.
STR
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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
areas has AC 13 and 4 hit points. Reducing any such area to 0 hit points causes it to crumble away. Windows. Unless the text states otherwise, all windows are latched shut from the inside. As an
action, a character can use thieves’ tools to try to unlatch a window from the outside, doing so with a successful DC 17 Dexterity check. Shattering a window is easy enough, but unless the sound is silenced by magic, all guards within 60 feet of the breaking window investigate.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
prepared before being captured.) Moreover, spellcasting isn’t possible inside the slave pen because of its magical wards (see area 11). Slipping out of manacles requires a successful DC 20 Dexterity
check, while breaking them requires a successful DC 20 Strength check. A character can unlock the manacles using thieves’ tools with a successful DC 15 Dexterity check. The manacles have 15 hit points
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
. You’re certain that hidden dragons and disguised fiends are manipulating governments and that the Mourning was an inside job. And sure, maybe your “library” is a collection of rotting books and old
on the lookout for breaking news. You know your history and you know how to research a story. But if you want to make headlines, you need to be on the scene for something big.
4 You’re on the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
gate hanging from a belt ring. Breaking the gate’s lock and forcing it open requires a successful DC 20 Strength check. Magical Wards The drow have placed powerful wards on the slave pen to inhibit
suppress or negate spell effects that originate outside the slave pen. For example, a creature under the effect of an invisibility spell remains invisible when it enters the slave pen. Creatures inside the slave pen can’t be targeted by any divination magic or perceived through magical scrying sensors.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Breaking the Contract Voiding the infernal contract between Zariel and Thavius Kreeg causes the hellish chains binding Elturel to crumble to ash. This can be accomplished by either killing Zariel or
remain bound to Zariel by the Creed Resolute. Killing Thavius. Characters hoping for a climactic battle against a worthy adversary won’t find one by fighting Thavius Kreeg. Despite the power he now
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
3. Halaster Puppet Both doors to this room are difficult to open because furniture inside has been piled against them. A successful DC 15 Strength (Athletics) check forces open either door. Apart
points or if a successful dispel magic spell (DC 15) is cast on it. Hidden inside the puppet is a flask of alchemist’s fire that shatters as the puppet falls to pieces, causing its remnants to catch
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
20. Dock This stone dock was carved out of the asteroid. Despite its incalculable age, it’s sturdy and safe. Because the dock is built along the asteroid’s gravity plane, creatures can stand on its
inhospitable vacuum of space awaits. Ashtyrranthor Attacks! The adult red dragon Ashtyrranthor patrols the outside of the asteroid, staying inside its air envelope. If the characters stay on the dock for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
permanent the form of the prayer, the more likely it is to be fulfilled. For this reason, some etch their prayers in lead and bury it or hide their prayers inside diaries. Aside from bounty hunters and those
god who metes out punishment that comes as a result of breaking those codes. A judge might favor the worship of Tyr, while a jailor or a headsman is more likely to pray to Hoar.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
fed to the furnaces (most likely due to the characters freeing the prisoners here and breaking the Grand Master’s power) the engines begin to fail over a 24-hour period. When the furnaces stop burning
after that point, the monastery plunges into the valley to be destroyed, along with any creatures still inside it. Creatures. Five monks led by an elder oversee a group of twenty prisoners toiling to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Tale of Vistani Kindness The Book of the Raven is the firsthand account (written in Common) of an anonymous author who, after falling off her horse and breaking her leg, was rescued and befriended by
detailed account of the Vistani way of life, with emphasis on their food and music. Their overland journey is also discussed, albeit from the viewpoint of one who spent most of it inside a covered
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
fed to the furnaces (most likely due to the characters freeing the prisoners here and breaking the Grand Master’s power) the engines begin to fail over a 24-hour period. When the furnaces stop burning
after that point, the monastery plunges into the valley to be destroyed, along with any creatures still inside it. Creatures. Five monks led by an elder oversee a group of twenty prisoners toiling to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
on the inside only.
The warnings Acererak has placed on the obelisk and on the grand staircase (area 7) provide clues to overcoming some of the challenges of the tomb. The obelisk’s clues pertain to
combined Strength of 60 or more can topple the obelisk, breaking it off at the base. Breaking or destroying the obelisk releases a cloud of black smoke that coalesces into a nalfeshnee demon. The demon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
days inside the city before the duergar slavers start taking their measure. Arriving by way of the Darklake Docks is easier and more discreet. If the characters are traveling by boat, Buppido can
Sweltering heat and cloying smoke cling to every corner of the duergar city, spewing from smelters housed inside massive stalagmites and stalactites. These protrude from the cavern’s floor and ceiling
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
19. Giant Spider Den Giant spiders make their home here despite countless attempts by adventurers to get rid of them. 19a. Arachnid Down Clutter. Narrow paths wind between scattered piles of broken
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Armoire. Standing against the south wall is a wooden armoire draped in cobwebs.
Treasure. The armoire contains the skeletal remains of a halfling adventurer who was trapped inside by giant spiders and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
fairy ring. On a roll of 1 or 2, there are no creatures in the ring’s vicinity. On a roll of 3 or higher, the ring has a swarm of campestris (see appendix C) singing and dancing inside it. Using body
we go!” If the creature performing this act is a Fey or has fey ancestry, its effort transports all creatures inside the fairy ring to a remote location on a Material Plane world of your choice. They