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Storm King's Thunder
Nondetection. The cat can’t be targeted or detected by any divination magic or perceived through magical scrying sensors.
Pounce. If the cat moves at least 20 feet straight toward a creature
level or lower, the spell has no effect on the cat and instead targets the caster.Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Bite"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
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Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the spider fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Unusual Nature. The spider doesn’t require air.Multiattack. The spider makes two Web Strand attacks
comes close enough to be detected. The spider then snares the ship before using web strands to catch crew members and reel them toward its snapping jaws.Snare Ship (1/Day). The spider weaves a magical
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Legendary Resistance (1/Day). If the slasher fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Shrouded Presence. The slasher is immune to any effect that would sense its emotions or read its
thoughts, and it can’t be detected by abilities that sense Fiends.Multiattack. The slasher makes two Slasher’s Knife attacks.
Slasher’s Knife. Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +7
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
choose to succeed instead.
Nebulous Thoughts. Magical attempts to read the dragon’s mind or glean its thoughts fail automatically.
Siege Monster. The dragon deals double damage to objects and
tiresome. Trespassers who are detected in a solar dragon’s lair can expect to be met with resistance, followed by hostility, especially if the lair contains eggs.
A solar dragon egg has an obsidian
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
choose to succeed instead.
Nebulous Thoughts. Magical attempts to read the dragon’s mind or glean its thoughts fail automatically.
Siege Monster. The dragon deals double damage to objects and
tiresome. Trespassers who are detected in a solar dragon’s lair can expect to be met with resistance, followed by hostility, especially if the lair contains eggs.
A solar dragon egg has an obsidian
Fraz-Urb'luu
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Monsters
Out of the Abyss
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Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Fraz-Urb’luu fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. Fraz-Urb’luu has
divination magic, perceived through magical scrying sensors, or detected by abilities that sense demons or fiends.Multiattack. Fraz-Urb’luu makes three attacks: one with his bite and two with his
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Fraz-Urb’luu fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. Fraz-Urb’luu has advantage on saving throws against spells and
other magical effects.
Undetectable. Fraz-Urb’luu can’t be targeted by divination magic, perceived through magical scrying sensors, or detected by abilities that sense demons or
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the dragon fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Shift Perception (1/Day). The dragon can cast hallucinatory terrain, requiring no spell components
disguised as a human merchant prince.
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An adult emerald dragon shows an emerald dragon wyrmling how to safely observe Humanoids without being detected.
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An adult emerald dragon keeps a
magic-items
can devise a general line of thought of 25 words or fewer. While you wear this pin, a creature that reads your thoughts detects your preprogrammed line of thought instead. A creature that takes the
Study action while reading your thoughts makes a DC 13 Intelligence (Investigation) check. On a successful check, it becomes aware that the detected thoughts are preprogrammed.
Golden Harper Pin
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
tie up the boat at the base of one of the pillars, they can instead climb to the area atop it (area D2, area D3, area D4, or area D5).
Approaching by Water If the characters row to the observatory, read this text instead: As you round the southeastern tip of the island, you can see crumbling ruins atop basalt columns just off the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
Portal Basics Most portals aren’t always open. Instead, they open at certain times, when a particular condition is met, in response to a command word or phrase, or when a traveler is holding a
when they’re inactive (including to detect magic spells), but they can be detected by the true seeing or warp sense spell (see chapter 1 of this book for a description of the latter). When a portal activates, it typically becomes outlined in light with its destination visible beyond.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
characters reach their destination, instead staying with the boat to keep it under their control and guard the party’s return trip. While they are at sea, as their boat approaches the promontory, the
with them. Navigation and propulsion of the craft is handled by two members of the town guard (guards), who are assigned by the council to sail or row the boat. The guards do not disembark when the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Unsafe Waters The characters have the use of Grynsk’s two rowboats (see the “Rowboat Statistics” sidebar). The damaged one has 36 hit points instead of 50. Three sets of fishing tackle are stashed in
the center of each boat. The lake is covered in ice floes, which make travel dangerous. As the characters row out from Bremen, their boats must steer around 1d4 + 1 ice floes. Any character who
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
are traveling in a boat or raft, their vessel takes 2d6 bludgeoning damage for each successful save; in other words, each rock that misses a character hits the boat or raft instead. Roll the damage
teeth 9 Tight passage 10 Whirlpool Collision This terrain encounter occurs only if one or more party members are traveling by raft or boat, and there’s a strong current. Have everyone aboard the vessel
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
have seen the ship, row ashore and pick the characters up (say in the cave below the haunted house), that takes 15 or 20 minutes. The characters then board the fishing boat, which is rowed out toward the
ship. The journey to the ship takes 30 minutes (20 minutes with more than two rowing), but if the boat is to approach the Sea Ghost from the seaward side, another 5 minutes should be added. The ship
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
Running This Chapter Once the characters decide to visit Seagrow Caves, they have two options for reaching the site: By Boat. Dragon’s Rest has a rowboat the characters can take around the western
little easier than rowing, even though it’s farther because the characters have to walk around the bays instead of rowing across them. The 7-mile trip takes only 2 hours and 20 minutes at a normal
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
New Management The Bargewright Inn depends on regular supply runs downriver by barge from Yartar, but its regular supply boat is overdue. The innkeeper, Nalaskur Thaelond, a Zhentarim operative, is
functions were rearranged to Chalaska’s benefit. This situation leaves Thaelond unwilling to appoint Muruin as his temporary replacement while he travels to Waterdeep. Instead, he prefers to frustrate
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
Running This Chapter Once the characters decide to visit the Clifftop Observatory, they have three options for reaching the site: By Boat. Dragon’s Rest has a rowboat the characters can take around
rowing, and a quicker trip despite the characters having to walk around the eastern bay instead of rowing across it. The 6-mile trip takes only 2 hours at a normal walking pace. Overland. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
adventurers approach, cloaking themselves in darkness as they unfurl and attack. A creature in a boat or on a raft that tries and fails to detach a darkmantle from itself or another creature must
their boat is abandoned so as to lure the adventurers on board before they attack. Roll a d20 and consult the Duergar Keelboat Cargo table to determine what, if anything, the duergar are transporting in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
-mile wide at this point. A gatehouse and keep stand atop a low bluff, but the walls are built to the water’s edge. On the river bank, another low tower guards a boat basin where keelboats are moored
characters entered through the water gate (area K11), three Crushing Wave reavers (chapter 7) provide escort instead. The escort takes the party to the great hall (area K16), where Grimjaw interviews
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
edge of the castle yard leads down to the boat basin and landing. Carved into the bluff is a 20-foot-long staircase. Random Encounters. Characters lingering in the castle yard are likely to encounter
blocks the castle’s water gate (area K11). It only takes one person to operate the capstan, but lowering the chain to allow a boat to pass requires a character to use three actions cranking. Treasure
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
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Nondetection. The cat can’t be targeted or detected by any divination magic or perceived through magical scrying sensors.
Pounce. If the cat moves at least 20 feet straight toward a creature and
lower, the spell has no effect on the cat and instead targets the caster.
Actions
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (1d10 + 3) piercing damage.
Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3) slashing damage.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
should occur to the characters that these goods are the rightful property of the elves they were stolen from. The trunk is protected by a poisoned needle trap, which can be detected with a successful DC
. After another 2 hours, the affected area painfully returns to normal as the victim takes 27 (6d8) poison damage. On a failed save, the effect progresses as above but the victim takes 54 (12d8) poison damage instead.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
the bigger ships alongside each other would be risky), or to travel to or from a pier that is either too small or too crowded to accommodate a larger vessel.
A jolly boat can be lowered into the
gravity plane of a larger ship or object, where it bobs like a boat in water. A jolly boat is too small to support a spelljamming helm, so the crew must use oars to steer and propel it as it “floats” in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
1 (200 XP)
Nondetection. The cat can’t be targeted or detected by any divination magic or perceived through magical scrying sensors.
Pounce. If the cat moves at least 20 feet straight toward a
level or lower, the spell has no effect on the cat and instead targets the caster.
Actions
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (1d10 + 3) piercing damage.
Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3) slashing damage.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
territorial, they use camouflaged scouts to guard the perimeter of their domain. When unwelcome visitors are detected, a tribe sends a hunting band to harass or drive the trespassers off, or tricks them into
the hunted instead of the hunters.
Occasions might arise when lizardfolk will form alliances with their neighbors. These lizardfolk usually learn firsthand that humans, dwarves, halflings, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
kept his treasure in a heavy, locked chest that never left his side. Perhaps it was this heavy chest, suggests Rinaldo, that capsized his boat and sent the man to his sunken grave, or perhaps it was
the fright of seeing his dead wife that caused him to capsize the boat and drown. Either way, Rinaldo is certain that the man’s treasure lies at the bottom of the lake, waiting for some intrepid
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monstrous Compendium Volume One: Spelljammer Creatures
often haunts asteroid belts, lurking among normal asteroids until a spelljamming ship comes close enough to be detected. The spider then snares the ship before using web strands to catch crew members
spider fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Unusual Nature. The spider doesn’t require air.
Actions
Multiattack. The spider makes two Web Strand attacks, uses Reel, and makes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
). Alert Level The Doomvault is an active complex. As effects of the characters’ assault grow more widespread or easily detected, the alert level of the dungeon’s inhabitants rises. This level starts at 0
warrior by the start of its next turn. Instead of allowing the warrior to attack, Var uses the warrior’s actions to cast his spells through it. When Var becomes aware of the group through a dread warrior
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
. Croaking voices penetrate the fog, through which dark shapes appear, resolving into two rowboats. Manning the oars of each rowboat are two bullywugs.
The four bullywugs (neutral) are enjoying a boat
rigging makes such a climb possible.
The vehicle has no form of propulsion, instead relying on the pilot’s ability to navigate air currents.
As long as the balloon or basket has at least 1 hit
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
(area M34). At the midpoint of the staircase, a shallow niche in the south wall contains a wooden box that is actually a Folding Boat and a lit Hooded Lantern. Ronnom Daamos leaves these items here to
), he steps over the wire to avoid it and takes the lantern and Folding Boat. A character can take a Search action to inspect the staircase for traps and make a DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check. On a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
can’t speak
Challenge 8 (3,900 XP) Proficiency Bonus +3
Legendary Resistance (1/Day). If the slasher fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Shrouded Presence. The slasher is
immune to any effect that would sense its emotions or read its thoughts, and it can’t be detected by abilities that sense Fiends.
Actions
Multiattack. The slasher makes two Slasher’s Knife attacks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
over the town through his new servants. Bringers of Woe. If the characters didn’t already fight the Bringers of Woe (see area T7), they fight them here instead. The Bringers show up late for the
chamber floor to levitate stone in contact with it, so the floor’s magic can be detected with detect magic (transmutation school). A moderate impact on the floor, such as a dropped object weighing at
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
of a baleful Vistani curse. More tragically, the nature of this hex is such that I have not borne the brunt of it; instead, far worse, those who surround me have fallen victim to it!
I have related
beset by undead that would have slain me, had not their master—a lich—intervened and spared my life, for reasons that I do not completely understand. He somehow detected me and, with his powerful magic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Areas of the Water Temple C1. Lake Landing If the characters arrive by boat from the stream, read the following text: Firelight shines from a large cavern ahead. The stream opens into a large
instead: The passage opens into a large, dark cavern filled by a subterranean lake. At the east end of the lake, a torch illuminates a stone quay with a ten-foot skiff tied up alongside it. The west end