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Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 15):
At will: comprehend languages, guidance, light
2/day each: dimension door, locate object, mage armor, stone shapeArcane Stasis (2/Day). When
structures and find the safest paths as they search. When confronted, they confound their foes by channeling the stasis of perfect order, creating resilient barriers of force and quashing hostile
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
, prestidigitation
2/day each: dimension door, phantasmal force
1/day each: mass suggestion, sending
Summon Duplicate (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). The reigar uses their talarith to summon a
own. The duplicate takes its turn immediately after the reigar. It vanishes after 1 hour or when it is reduced to 0 hit points.Reigar were once cephalopods similar to octopi. They inhabited the
Monsters
Candlekeep Mysteries
, guiding bolt, shield of faith
2nd level (3 slots): hold person, silence, spiritual weapon
3rd level (3 slots): clairvoyance, dispel magic
4th level (3 slots): divination, dimension door
5th level
energy. Creatures within 60 feet of Valin, including ones behind barriers and around corners, can’t regain hit points until the end of Valin’s next turn.
Whirlwind of Sand (Costs 2 Actions
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a4
the north. The north side of each door has a handle so that it can be pulled open from that direction. These barriers are emergency doors, whose purpose is to prevent the dungeon from being flooded by the boiling lake at area 15, in case of an “accident.”
14. Flood Doors The three doors along the corridor are made of thick metal, their edges flanged so that they overlap the door jamb on the north side and thus can be opened only by pivoting them to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a2
Mountain Door. The Mountain Door comprises the uppermost level of the cavern complex. It is currently inhabited by a tribe of fierce orcs, led by a brutal ogre known as Great Ulfe. The Glitterhame. The
come to the Stone Tooth in search of a reputed cache of Durgeddin’s superior blades and find the stronghold inhabited by dangerous monsters. The complex consists of the following five sections: The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
, corridors, and staircases are lit by continual flame spells cast in sconces. The flames still point toward the ceiling, betraying their magical nature. They give off no heat. Room and Door Heights. All rooms
and passageways are 12 feet high, with flat ceilings and floors unless the text says otherwise. All doorways are 8 feet high and arched; being upside down turns them into concave, 4-foot-high barriers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
centuries House Cannith has helped Breland establish vast foundries that tap this mystic resource. Ashblack and Blackbones are industrial districts, largely inhabited by warforged laborers and
successful tavern in Khyber’s Gate. This bar is a safe haven for all within it, regardless of species or politics; once you make it through the door, you can breathe easy.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3
copper, come crashing down, sealing off the indicated area. These barriers are a foot thick; each has an AC of 15 and 100 hit points. Lifting a door requires a successful DC 25 Strength (Athletics) check
successful DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check notices a narrow band of copper extending from wall to wall. A gap between the copper and the surrounding stone suggests that the metal might be part of a door or a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
barriers to gain access to the tunnel. As with the tunnels between chambers, escape tunnels are usually a steep climb or nearly vertical to make it difficult for non-flying creatures to follow. A tunnel
often inhabited by shriekers, which act as an early warning system. Traps A room not dedicated to some other purpose could be festooned with a variety of traps. In addition to traps that are meant to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
spell or similar effect. Advice from the Spirits Any characters inhabited by the spirits of Unkh or Wongo receive advice when entering this area: Indecisive Unkh is struck by the technological wonder of
a greater restoration spell, but only within 24 hours of it occurring. When characters first arrive, assume the time is 5d10 + 5 minutes past the hour. An invisible locked metal door shields the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
as it remains in this corridor. If taken from the hall, it burns down normally. Advice from the Spirits Any characters inhabited by the spirits of I’jin or Shagambi receive advice when entering this
pathways. Charred Skeleton and Secret Door The charred skeleton points to the arch containing a secret door that slides open to reveal area 81 beyond. Glyph of Warding. Opening the secret door
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
faces or engraved with sigils that reveal clues as to what lies beyond. Stuck Doors. Dungeon doors often become stuck when not used frequently. Opening a stuck door requires a successful Strength
check. Chapter 8, "Running the Game," provides guidelines for setting the DC. Locked Doors. Characters who don’t have the key to a locked door can pick the lock with a successful Dexterity check (doing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
captured in Prismeer, they hear the distant whistling of the calliope and can follow the music to safety. Any barriers or obstacles in their way are magically removed. For example, the lock on a cell
door might spring open on its own, a guard might fall asleep, or a silent, spectral monkey resembling Ernest might appear and reveal the shortest route to freedom. This is a tool to help the characters out of a tight spot and can be used only once per group.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
against each other to reduce the threat of the more powerful monsters. For example, in a dungeon inhabited by mind flayers and their goblinoid thralls, the adventurers might try to incite the goblins
enslave whatever creatures are left. It’s easy to think of a dungeon as a collection of encounters, with the adventurers kicking down door after door and killing whatever lies beyond. But the ebb and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
74. Trial of the Pentagon The door to this area has a pentagon carved into it. When the characters open the door, read: The delicious aroma of spiced meat greets you. At the end of a twenty-foot-long
him to. Advice from the Spirits Any characters inhabited by the spirits of Kubazan or Nangnang receive advice when entering this area: Wild Kubazan urges his host to try the roast boar. Greedy
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
flowchart since each decision point (a branch in a corridor, a room with multiple exits) leads to new decision points. If the characters leave a room by the north door, you check your map and determine it
leads them into the great hall, lined with pillars, where the fire giant king holds court. If they leave by the secret door to the southeast, you check the map and follow the secret tunnel as it winds
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
barriers, which otherwise require siege engines to force open. Gate Guards. Characters who stand outside the main gate and announce their arrival can speak to the guards in the gatehouse. Unless Levistus
double door to the keep, with its unwelcoming row of arrow slits and barred windows on the upper floor. To the east of the double door is a small, single-story building with a slanted, snow-covered
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
44. Vault of the Beholder An invisible beholder lairs in this circular chamber. To enter, adventurers must pass through a locked door. 44A. Eyes of the Beholder The corridor ends in a large door with
a round mirror set into its surface. Ten circular indentations, each about an inch across, surround the mirror.
The door is sealed tight and can’t be opened with ability checks or magic. To open
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Hag’s Hovel The characters’ path takes them into a densely forested area. By following a break in the trees that sends them north and west, they come upon a sign that this area is inhabited: Gnarled
she has taken most recently. The only way into the shack is through the door on the east side. When a character first peers into the room, read: The inside of the shack is in a terrible state of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
. The fog swirls through this cavern, agitated by the dancing of eleven chanting minotaurs.
Offal Pile. Low stone barriers constrain a massive pile of rotting, dismembered body parts.
Altar. Behind
the offal pile stands a crude altar made of minotaur fur stretched over a frame of sinew-lashed minotaur bones. Two poles thrust out of the altar, each with a minotaur skull atop it.
Secret Door. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
each. Advice from the Spirits Any characters inhabited by the spirits of Obo’laka or Papazotl receive advice when entering this area: Cautious Obo’laka advises her host to not disturb the throne or pick
area 53. Secret Doors Behind the statue in the northwest alcove, a secret door leads to area 53. The door is slightly ajar, and any character who searches the alcove finds it. A properly closed secret door in the southeast corner of the room leads to a spiral staircase going up and down (area 26).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
the Material Plane might put a traveler at the door of an archfey’s castle. The Feywild is inhabited by sylvan creatures, such as elves, dryads, satyrs, pixies, and sprites, as well as centaurs and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
tower has three floors and a door on the ground floor. Stairs connect the levels, and only the topmost level is furnished. A continual flame spell in the wizard’s study on the top floor still burns
, as its descriptions contain no mocking observations. Naga Lair. The journal’s author describes a swamp-covered nodule inhabited by skulking nagas who lure travelers to their doom with subterfuge and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
extends off the east balcony. At the back of the west balcony, a staircase descends 10 feet to a landing and a secret door. Advice from the Spirits Any characters inhabited by the spirits of I’jin or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
below. Three-foot-high barriers line the causeway’s edges, funneling travelers toward the gatehouse of Vrakir’s imposing fortress.
The bridge crosses the lava river at its narrowest point, spanning 300
rear tower. Doors. The entrances from areas B1 and area B4 are each protected by an iron double door that stands 20 feet high. The doors are held shut with interlocking iron bars that can be levered
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
well are icy and require climbing gear or magic to scale. O3. Overlook The door opens into a large, nearly empty room. Snow has drifted into the corners, and frost covers the stone walls. Three barred
he moves the lever to trigger a trap. Trap. When the lever is pulled, iron spikes spring out from the floor and ceiling to form barriers across each doorway. A creature in either opening must succeed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
The door opens to reveal a narrow, twisting corridor filled with a rainbow-colored haze.
When githyanki inhabited the outpost, modrons used this corridor to circumvent crowded areas. The corridor is
rubble and the remains of several merchant stalls. On the west side of the court is a wide, sliding glass door.
The sliding glass door leading to the supply room (area S6) requires a Glyph Card to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Talhundereth Locations The following locations are keyed to map 6.3. Mike Schley Map 6.3: Talhundereth View Player Version T1: Temple Entrance The wide cavern ends at an enormous stone double door
. Each side bears the image of a towering mountain with a carved gemstone at its heart. A long roll of cloth props one side of the double door open. A fissure in the wall opens to a tunnel leading west
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
seals each door.
If the duergar hammerers have been defeated or lured elsewhere, add: Loud banging from one cell causes the bar on its door to tremble in its brackets. From another cell comes a gentle
tapping sound.
After its bar is removed, each iron door pulls open to reveal a cramped cell with no furnishings. The tapping comes from the cell of a doppelganger that was caught trying to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
’ pets, but the gnomes treat them more like trusted neighbors. When strangers approach a woodland inhabited by forest gnomes, the gnomes often know about it while such visitors are still miles away
hallways to fool intruders and lead them into traps. (Goblins just can’t pass by a door that calls them names.) Gnomes make excellent librarians and curators. Give a gnome something to catalog and organize, and you’ll have a happy gnome on your hands.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
low. The blob poses the greatest threat when disasters or nihilistic magic-users summon it to inhabited realms. Once unleashed, the blob of annihilation rolls across the land in vast, cosmic gyres
Gate. 5 A Deck of Many Things. 6 A magic key that opens a door in Sigil that no other key and no spell can open. 7 The preserved corpse of an empyrean. 8 The remains of half a kraken. 9 The skull of a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
, Ooze Grottos, Predator Pools, Golem Laboratories, and Temples of Extraction. Zones are also labeled on the map. Areas are identified by numbers. Map 5.1: The Doomvault Dimensional Barriers Magic
secures the dungeon. No spell or trait allows anyone to evade the dungeon’s security. For instance, a wizard might use a dimension door spell to teleport from one part of a zone to another, but no spell
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
tomb through the secret door at area 47D. This tomb is filled with terracotta warriors, kneeling in neat ranks around a polished wooden coffin. Between the warriors, four aisles scattered with broken
“Terracotta Warriors” below). To steal Shagambi’s treasures, characters must move quietly. Advice from the Spirits Any characters inhabited by the spirits of Unkh or Wongo receive advice when entering
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Zorzula’s Rest Locations The following locations are keyed to map 5.5. Mike Schley Map 5.5: Zorzula’s Rest View Player Version Z1: Entrance The towering stone double door before you is free of
ornamentation. Two arrow slits, one on each side of the door and each about 10 feet above the ground, guard the entrance.
The entry door is unlocked but closed and is too heavy to push open except with 1
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
. If an enemy force does approach, though, these barriers do a good job of delaying any incursion until the goblinoids can rally their defenses. Inside the surrounding bulwark, the goblinoids all have
and well-appointed quarters in a war camp. Each of the banners in a legion has its own group of lodges in one of the quadrants of the interior, each one facing the pathway that runs past its front door






