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sapphire dragon wyrmling;sapphire wyrmling who left home months before.
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An adult sapphire dragon and a squadron of githyanki have joined forces to locate and destroy a mind flayer colony
open doorways in walls whenever necessary.
The lair has the following features:
Disguised Entrances. An otherwise unremarkable cave (shown at the top of the map) provides the main access to the lair
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scythe. Only a skilled and determined hero can hope to survive single combat with an orc.
Savage and fearless, orc tribes are ever in search of elves, dwarves, and humans to destroy. Motivated by their
Luthic. He predicts that the war will end with Luthic the only deity standing, as the cave mother ascends to rule her warrior children.
Life in the Tribe
Orcs survive through savagery and force of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Reunion in Sigil At the end of chapter 10, the characters learned that Vecna is performing his ritual at a site in Pandesmos called the Cave of Shattered Reflection. At some point after this
potent secrets he has collected. Vecna has already used these secrets to create three demiplanes that are reachable from a small cave network in Pandesmos called Vecna’s Grasp. To reach the Cave of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
The Fouled Stream Adventure for Level 1 Characters Situation. An alien fungus in a cave is polluting the stream that flows past the village of High Ery. The fungus has spawned vile creatures in and
around the cave. Hook. The folk of High Ery are noticing fungal growths on the riverbanks and a layer of scum on the water. The characters might live in the village, or a contact in the Free City of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
30-foot-high ceiling of this cave, the walls of which are encrusted with crystals that catch and reflect light.
Boulders. The floor is strewn with boulders and rubble. Six galeb duhr beholden to
Jarûk hide here, disguised as boulders.
Music. Dissonant music emanates from a smaller cave to the southeast (area 11b).
If the characters attack Jarûk in area 11b, the galeb duhr attack the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
cultists extract enough secrets, the lich plans to weave the ritual alone in the Cave of Shattered Reflection on the plane of Pandemonium. The cave holds the power to harness energy and reveal
sufficient magnitude to destroy Pandemonium and unravel the multiverse. Vecna, with his consciousness preserved inside a magical singularity, can then reknit the multiverse exactly as he wants, sealing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
to become an elder brain. Githyanki want to destroy the illithid colony and any flumphs they encounter. The mind flayers have spawned a neothelid — a worm-like behemoth — to defend their colony and
destroy their githyanki enemies. Right now, the neothelid is trapped behind several wall of force spells (in area 8). The mind flayers have captured many humanoids from Waterdeep and Undermountain, most
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
tasked with carving abstract designs into the roof of this empty cave. To reach the ceiling, Obsidia rides on her brother’s broad shoulders. She is using a chisel to smooth out some of the rough spots
carvings of stone giants. At the foot of each carving is a pile of loose rocks.
Speleosa. Unless she is interrupted, Speleosa the stone giant is sitting in the middle of the cave and using a patch
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
occasional gargoyle attack, however. The myconids provide strangers with food, water, shelter, and safe passage through their small domain. 4a. Melding Cave Most of the myconids live in this cave, the
caves around them. 4b. Friendly Sovereign Sloped Floor. The cave floor slopes upward, reducing its height from 15 feet near the entrance to 10 feet at its north end.
Fungi. Exotic mushrooms sprout
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
) bludgeoning damage as the mouth clamps shut. The mouth similarly damages tools or weapons inserted into it without its permission. L2: Streaked Cave The walls and floor of this cavern are smeared with
blood, and the scent of iron hangs thick in the air.
Twenty stirges hang from the ceiling of this cave. Bright light or any noise louder than a whisper disturbs the stirges, causing them to attack. L3
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
enormous hole in the cave floor like a cork. This hole leads down to the Cave of Shattered Reflection, but the characters can’t bypass the crystals or make their descent until they explore the side
tunnels (areas E2a–E2c) and destroy the demiplanes connected to them. E2: Unreality Tunnels Each of the three tunnels in Vecna’s Grasp connects to a different demiplanar unreality. A tunnel’s walls
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Descent into the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth
clamps shut. The mouth similarly damages tools or weapons inserted into it without its permission. L2: Slate Chamber Alternating blue and gray bands of slate and shale compose the walls of this cave
the creature’s chest.
The figure is a clay golem created by Iggwilv to destroy intruders. The golem attacks any creature that enters the chamber. The golem fights to the death and pursues trespassers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
23. Ezzat’s Phylactery Lich Cave. This room is carved to look like a natural cave with a 20-foot-high, domed roof. Hundreds of pebble-sized crystals (fragments of the Runestone) line the walls
eight magi who possess the power of disintegration and bring them to common purpose. Their combined force can destroy the phylactery.” Other reliable divination spells provide similar advice.
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
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
gold-chased shelves.
Clifftop Path. A second exit from the cave allows the dragon quick access to the lair and leads to a narrow path bordered on the right by a sheer 50-foot drop and on the left by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
would destroy seafaring vehicles that dared sail into it. Directly east of the spire is the opening to a flooded cave.
Characters who explore the area underwater can search the submerged portions of
the coral. They find that the plant life is healthy, and they see long claw marks in the coral leading to and from the flooded cave. Any character who has a passive Wisdom (Perception) score of 14 or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
a Cult of the Dragon Below into the caverns of Khyber, retrieve one (and only one) of a specific variety of mushroom from a cave where twelve crystals glow. 3 Ensure that the villain you are pursuing
sorcerer who is doing the bidding of the Chamber—and wreaking havoc in Darguun in the process. 7 Destroy an eldritch machine, created by a rogue Cannith artificer, that is drawing on the energy of an
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
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
tucked into chests stacked on gold-chased shelves.
Clifftop Path. A second exit from the cave allows the dragon quick access to the lair and leads to a narrow path bordered on the right by a sheer 50
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Encounter Locations The following locations are keyed to the map of the Lykortha Expanse. Map 18.1: lykortha expanse View Player Version L1. Entrance Ahead, a darkened cave mouth beckons from
beneath the forest canopy. Growths of green, brown, and gray lichen cover the cave mouth, and a small stream flows deeper into the yawning darkness.
The character who has the highest passive Wisdom
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
shelf with space enough to land. Beyond, a narrow cave cuts its way into the depths of the flying citadel.
Clystran urges the characters to land swiftly, dismount, and head into the cave before they’re
spotted. He’ll take their dragonnels and lead off any pursuit. He doesn’t know what’s in the cave beyond the landing site, but he urges the characters to move fast and stay quiet, as untold numbers of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
H3. Hall of Rainbows The tunnel opens into a cave fifty feet long, thirty feet wide, and twenty feet tall. Bats chitter near the ceiling, and the floor reeks with mounds of their guano. Colorfully
painted frescoes line the walls deeper in the cave.
The wizards who escaped Zikzokrishka’s wrath used this cave as a scriptorium and hall of records. They recorded what they knew and continued their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Thunderwing into her phylactery. Armed with the information about Xanthoria’s phylactery, the characters must convince Thunderwing to give up her life to destroy the lichen lich once and for all. Here
brought back to life by any means. If the adventurers fail to convince Thunderwing to give up her life, she turns invisible and leaves the cave complex, taking refuge in the surrounding forest. Xanthoria re
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
. Ferryman’s Rest This 20-foot-high cave abuts the River Sargauth and has the following features: Door. An ornate stone door embedded in the northwest wall is flanked by bas-reliefs of helmed dwarves
payment of one coin per passenger. If it doesn’t receive the proper payment, both it and the boat fade away. Characters who destroy the skeleton or use an effect that turns undead against it can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Cave of Echoes Locations The following locations are keyed to map 4.1. Marc Moureau Map 4.1: Cave of Echoes View Player Version C1: Empty Cavern This vaulted cavern is forty feet across and twenty
, charcoal, or paint are faded and illegible. A character who leaves their name or initials in the cave sometimes hears their name whispered among the echoes of the cave. Characters who examine the walls
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
more gruesome by the red liquid dripping from the roots.
You see a cave mouth in the side of the slowly rotating “heart,” and a staircase winding from the cave up to the flattened top where the
from Szass Tam are to seize control of the Soulmonger, if possible, or destroy it otherwise. Valindra created a teleportation circle inside the heart that she uses to travel instantly to and from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
Tools One set of Mason’s Tools One set of Painter’s Supplies Two sets of Woodcarver’s Tools M32: Dock Posts The light in this submerged cavern filters down from the cave above (area M2): Dim Light
: Partially Flooded Cave Three natural pillars of rock support the uneven ceiling of this partially flooded cave.
The water is 20 feet deep in the western half of the area and 15 feet deep otherwise. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
14. Temple Only stone giant thanes are allowed inside this hallowed cave. All other stone giants must remain outside or face certain punishment, by order of Thane Kayalithica and the others who have
rocky island surrounded by gorgon mud (see area 4). The mud, which Kayalithica refers to as the Fjellblod (“blood of the mountain”), oozes into the cave through stone grates in the northeast and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
others. (The puzzle’s answer isn’t included in the journal.) Marthungrim planned to destroy the restless ghosts that haunt the crypt so they could rest in peace. Badly wounded by a creature he
missing miners. She first approaches any character she recruited into the Zhentarim, but she needs the job done regardless. Halia’s Job. Determined to find a site as lucrative as Wave Echo Cave, four
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
needs several moments to recall that the villagers called her Nanny Pu’pu. The hag wants two things from the adventurers: for them to destroy the nest of pterafolk on the south side of the plateau
pterafolk nests in a cave just below the southern lip of the plateau. It can be reached by climbing down the cliff face, but characters who scout the area carefully and succeed on a DC 13 Wisdom
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
leads up to area F2 in the Fane of the Eye. The rough walls can be climbed safely. N2. Deadly Pool The temperature plunges in this cave, which is dominated by a frozen pool. Ice crystals glitter on the
walls, floor, and other rock formations. Snow whirls about on strong gusts.
When the characters first arrive, the temperature in this cave is −30 degrees Fahrenheit. The ice is frozen solid and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
have broken off and lie in the middle of the cave, with the mast pointing toward a shimmering curtain of water to the west.
No Sails, No Rigging, No Crew. The ship’s square sail, rigging, and crew
and gives them the opportunity to flatter his singing. After these pleasantries, he offers the characters a quest: destroy the lich Ezzat on level 20 and give the lich’s phylactery to Ichthyglug. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
destroys it. When the globe is destroyed or leaves this cave, another one rises up out of the water to take its place. P2. Plunging Passage The current moves swiftly toward a small, rocky island that
was defeated in the Temple of the Crushing Wave, the aboleth guards the water portal in area P20. Otherwise, it is here. The slimy water that fills this cave flows through a hole in the east wall
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
descriptions for details. In areas L1–area L4 of the cave network, the ceilings are 15 feet high unless otherwise noted. Graymatter Fluid A steady stream of thin, oily liquid leaks from the graymatter
can’t destroy it. The barrier is broken in compromised sections of Landro (areas L5, area L11, and area L16). Lighting Landro’s interior areas and the adjoining caves are dark. Area descriptions
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Canyon Shrine Aside from the other dangers of the twisting canyons of Phoberos, followers of Mogis openly worship and offer sacrifices to their dark god in these places. Twisting cave systems run
buried amid the shrine’s sacrifices.
6 Destroy the shrine.
7 Negotiate with a group of Mogis’s followers.
8 Convince a young aristocrat who was seduced into joining a cult of Mogis
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
to take her bath. During this time, the cursed spirits of the dryads arise to destroy Red Ruth’s lair as punishment for her crimes. This force consists of two dryad spirits (use the banshee stat
cave, disappearing into her lair without so much as a goodbye. Treasure The dryad spirits have no treasure, but the undead tree has a dead gnome skeleton lodged in a hollow cavity in its trunk. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Mission Requirements and Reward 2nd “Seek out Hlam, a monk who lives in a cave on the side of Mount Waterdeep. Ask him what he’s heard about threats to the city, but try not to annoy him or overstay
your welcome.” Those who climb the mountainside to reach the cave must succeed on a DC 12 Constitution saving throw or arrive with 1d4 levels of exhaustion. Trying to get Hlam (see appendix B) to