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Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, she instead takes no damage if she succeeds on the saving throw, and only half damage if she fails. She can't use this trait if she's incapacitated
of her station.
In her younger days, Esvele openly rebelled, but that behavior led to locked doors at night and house guards watching her every move during the day. So she taught herself how to pick
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
’t use the same effect two rounds in a row:
Conjure Walls and Doors. Fraz-Urb’luu causes up to five doors within the lair to become walls and an equal number of doors to appear on walls where
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Immutable Form. The marut is immune to any spell or effect that would alter its form.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the marut fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Magic
Concordance is an embassy of pure law in Sigil, the City of Doors. In the hall, parties who agree to mutual terms—and who pay the requisite gold to the Kolyarut, a mechanical engine of absolute
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
, except the damage he takes from sunlight.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Strahd fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.
Misty Escape. When Strahd drops to 0 hit points outside his
coffin, he transforms into a cloud of mist (as in the Shapechanger trait) instead of falling unconscious, provided that he isn’t in running water or sunlight. If he can’t transform, he is
Fraz-Urb'luu
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Monsters
Out of the Abyss
: mirage arcane, modify memory, project image
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Fraz-Urb’luu fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. Fraz-Urb’luu has
’t use the same effect two rounds in a row:
Fraz-Urb’luu causes up to 5 doors within the lair to become walls, and an equal number of doors to appear on walls where there previously were
Monsters
Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
resurrection or wish spell.
Legendary Resistance (4/Day). If Skall fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.
Rejuvenation. If Skall dies, he turns to dust. If his orrery of souls hasn’t
Doors. The Heralds of Dust idolize their ageless factol, whose stoic visage has become the faction’s emblem. Skall can usually be found examining his orrery of souls (detailed in Adventure Atlas
Monsters
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
, he can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. Nafas has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Noble Genie. Nafas doesn’t suffer any of the penalties that
ancient djinni born from the planar winds that blow through the myriad doors of the Infinite Staircase. He’s a timeless force of untold power, a genie made noble by the planes themselves. A cloud
Sailor
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Backgrounds
Player’s Handbook (2014)
Reputation
If your character has a sailor background, you may select this background feature instead of Ship’s Passage.
No matter where you go, people are afraid of you due to your reputation. When
you are in a settlement, you can get away with minor criminal offenses, such as refusing to pay for food at a tavern or breaking down doors at a local shop, since most people will not report your activity to the authorities.
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
background, you may select this background feature instead of Ship’s Passage.
No matter where you go, people are afraid of you due to your reputation. When you are in a settlement, you can get away with
minor criminal offenses, such as refusing to pay for food at a tavern or breaking down doors at a local shop, since most people will not report your activity to the authorities.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
19. Double Door Roulette Double Doors. Seven sets of double doors, six of them at the end of short hallways, stand closed.
Scintillating Pillar. A pillar at the center of the 20-foot-high room has
deep notches cut into it, which pulse with a shifting rainbow of light.
Behind most of the double doors are blank stone walls. Only the southern set of doors holds a path forward: pulling open these
Adult Deep Dragon
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monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
A deep dragon lair might share the same basic structure as the sapphire dragon lair shown on map 5.12, but instead of being formed from stone, it might consist of chambers hollowed out within a fungus
lair has the following features:
Connecting Passages. Because a deep dragon lacks a sapphire dragon’s ability to shape stone, add a few connecting passages or secret doors to otherwise
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
, as shown in the Secret Doors table. You can instead call for an Intelligence (Investigation) check if the challenge involves deducing that a door is present from noticeable clues, rather than
Secret Doors A secret door is crafted to blend into the wall that surrounds it. Sometimes faint cracks in the wall or scuff marks on the floor betray the secret door’s presence. Other than the fact
Ancient Deep Dragon
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
share the same basic structure as the sapphire dragon lair shown on map 5.12, but instead of being formed from stone, it might consist of chambers hollowed out within a fungus network growing near an
features:
Connecting Passages. Because a deep dragon lacks a sapphire dragon’s ability to shape stone, add a few connecting passages or secret doors to otherwise inaccessible chambers, possibly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
18. Hemisphere of Horrors This hemispherical chamber has a 30-foot-high domed ceiling and contains the following: Guardians. Two helmed horrors of dwarven stature wield battleaxes instead of
longswords and stand in front of the doors to area 19.
Quartz Pillars. The room is brightly lit by four quartz pillars.
The helmed horrors won’t attack dwarves, including duergar, except in self-defense
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
characters near the outpost, read or paraphrase the following: Slowly, the mountainous terrain begins to change. Gray gravel darkens to ash-black, and shrubbery becomes dry and sparse. Instead of the brisk
cold of most mountain peaks, the air starts to warm.
Ahead of you rises a tall cliff face, in which is set a pair of forbidding obsidian doors: the entrance to Zorzula’s Rest.
Zorzula’s Rest
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
otherwise impregnable. There is no keyhole on the inside of the doors. Instead, each door has an adamantine wheel in the middle of it that must be turned counterclockwise to slide back the bolts. This wheel
to fall and shatter on the floor. 39b. Secret Tunnel This dusty passage circumvents the adamantine doors to Netherskull’s lair (see area 39c) and is hidden behind two secret doors. The death tyrant
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
relax. If the doors burst open before the temple is evacuated, this scene turns into an ugly melee against Group A. The kobolds in that group prefer to attack unarmed villagers instead of lethal
success. Now they’ve deployed an improvised battering ram. It’s only a matter of time, possibly minutes, before the temple’s main doors crumple under the assault, leaving the people inside helpless
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
. If the doors burst open before the temple is evacuated, this scene turns into an ugly melee against Group A. The kobolds in that group prefer to attack unarmed villagers instead of lethal
success. Now they’ve deployed an improvised battering ram. It’s only a matter of time, possibly minutes, before the temple’s main doors crumple under the assault, leaving the people inside helpless
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Divine Contention
Meeting Gallio Elibro Gallio Elibro is a short-tempered Rashemi human male mage (with the legend lore spell prepared instead of cone of cold). Characters who played the first part of this trilogy
lit by wall lanterns.
Doors. Doors are made of wood and kept locked. A locked door can be opened with a successful DC 10 Dexterity check using thieves’ tools. A locked door can be opened as an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
injured, it sprays tiles instead of bleeding. It is thin in one dimension and can use that fact to its advantage in combat. The creature flies up to the ledge to use its fire breath at range, flying down
Hazard The double doors leading to area 12 are plated in corroded copper engraved to depict a group of wizards peering over a pool of water. The oversized figure of a male wizard at the top of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
speak Loross instead of Undercommon (see the “Loross: The Netherese Tongue” )
91–00 Iriolarthas the demilich, with 1d3 nothics that speak Loross instead of Undercommon trailing behind it (the demilich uses the nothics to open and close doors and clear obstacles, since it can’t do so)
anywhere in the necropolis. Mages who survived Ythryn’s fall but succumbed to the arcane blight (see “Magical Effects” below) became nothics that speak Loross instead of Undercommon (see the “Loross: The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
11. Smithy Characters who listen at the doors to this room hear loud hammering from beyond. The 30-foot-high room is warm and contains the following features: Fire Giant. In the middle of the room, a
, is hostile toward adventurers. He keeps his greatsword close at hand and hurls large metal cogs instead of rocks. Combat in this room can be heard by the fire giants in area 12, who investigate at
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
four shambling mounds made entirely of skulls and bones, with these changes: The shambling mounds are undead. Instead of immunity to lightning damage, they have immunity to necrotic and poison damage
. They are also immune to the poisoned condition. They have Necrotic Absorption instead of Lightning Absorption. The new trait is functionally identical to the old one, except that it affects necrotic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
injured, it sprays tiles instead of bleeding. It is thin in one dimension and can use that fact to its advantage in combat. The creature flies up to the ledge to use its fire breath at range, flying down
) check. Door Hazard The double doors leading to area 12 are plated in corroded copper engraved to depict a group of wizards peering over a pool of water. The oversized figure of a male wizard at the top of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
31. Halaster’s Secretary A nothic is chained to the floor of this otherwise empty room. The nothic’s chain is short enough to prevent the creature from reaching the doors but long enough to let it
from removing the helmet. While the nothic wears its bizarre helmet, all sending spells that would normally be received by Halaster Blackcloak are instead received by the nothic (see “Sending Spells
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
The Blue Wyrm When Iymrith confronts the characters in area 6, read: You hear the crunch of frost under heavy feet as an enormous blue dragon bursts through the main doors of the temple. The great
wyrm pays no mind to the statues here. Instead, it fixes its hateful gaze on you.
Iymrith is an ancient blue dragon (see appendix C). If the characters aren’t with Harshnag when she appears, they must
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3
set of doors carved with a sun symbol.
If the characters approached quietly, they might glimpse the singer. Sitting on the beach in front of the crystalline pool is a woman, young and slim, with long
wall to a set of doors that lead east. Above the ledge, the water is only 2 feet deep, but the area counts as difficult terrain. The doors that lead east have keyholes in them but are unlocked
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
through the ceiling to reach the surface. Secret Doors. Concealed passages connect a number of the tunnels and chambers of the lair. Their secret doors are magical in nature, with the stone at a
within 10 feet of one of these secret doors, the dragon becomes aware of that creature’s presence and location. Each secret door radiates an aura of transmutation magic but is otherwise
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
summoning, instead summon targets from within Sigil if possible or otherwise fail. Effects that summon a specific target from outside Sigil, as with a Leomund’s secret chest spell, fail automatically
teleportation circles, the Lady of Pain prevents spells and other powers from allowing anything to enter the City of Doors. That means creatures and objects from outside in the multiverse can’t be
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Mordenkainen using the Crown of Lies and received Alustriel’s summons to her sanctum in Sigil, the City of Doors. Throughout this adventure, the real Mordenkainen is traveling the multiverse, unaware
lack sabotages the Wish spell exactly as the warlord hoped, allowing him to suggest an alternate course of action: reassemble the artifact called the Rod of Seven Parts and use it to defeat Vecna instead
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
them to spot trouble coming from the sides of the car. The outer doors of the car are locked tight, as is the 10-foot-square skylight in the roof. As an action, a character with thieves’ tools can try
to open one of the doors or the skylight, doing so with a successful DC 17 Dexterity check. The skylight can also be shattered; it is made of thick glass and has AC 13, 27 hit points, and immunity to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
guide spend 1 charge in this area causes all the cage doors to rust with age and weaken, allowing the bears to break free. There is a 50 percent chance that both polar bears also age into undead versions
of themselves that attack anyone in the room until destroyed. Each skeletal, rotted bear uses the polar bear stat block with the following changes: It has the undead type instead of the beast type
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
face of defeat and find reinforcements, they might instead press the attack.
As an optional rule to reflect this ferocity, a sahuagin that comes within 30 feet of a hostile creature that doesn’t have
proper, 30 feet high over the area at the top of the steps). All walls separating adjacent areas are 3 feet thick. Unless otherwise noted, construction consists of plain dressed stone. Doors All doors
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
descriptions assume that the characters have a light source or some other method of seeing in the dark. Doors Doors throughout the temple are made of 2-inch-thick slabs of stone with simple handles a few
feet from the floor. They open and close easily on ancient hinges. Doors and secret doors are unlocked unless otherwise specified. Ceilings Ceilings throughout the crypt are 12 feet high. Unnamed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
about this tunnel. It ends at a pair of heavy stone doors. A character can use an action to push open either door with a successful DC 15 Strength (Athletics) check, allowing access to area J4. J4
. Turn the Gold Key? A large oak chest with silver fittings stands against the wall directly opposite the double doors. A gold key sticks out of the chest’s built-in lock.
The chest is 10 feet long, 5