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Xanathar's Guide to Everything
This spell snatches the soul of a humanoid as it dies and traps it inside the tiny cage you use for the material component. A stolen soul remains inside the cage until the spell ends or until you
destroy the cage, which ends the spell. While you have a soul inside the cage, you can exploit it in any of the ways described below. You can use a trapped soul up to six times. Once you exploit a soul
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Netheril’s Fall: Tales of Terror, Treasure, and Time Travel
City Sections Conch is built around the river, which flows eastward from the Columns of the Sky mountains. It is surrounded by heavy fortifications and divided into three main sections. Brief
dangerous scaffolding. Inside, laborers have little air and light. Riverside. Most Low Netherese families live and work on the river to fish and move goods. Haphazard docks jut into the water, and seedy pubs and warehouses line the banks.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
) Duration: 8 hours This spell snatches the soul of a humanoid as it dies and traps it inside the tiny cage you use for the material component. A stolen soul remains inside the cage until the spell ends or
until you destroy the cage, which ends the spell. While you have a soul inside the cage, you can exploit it in any of the ways described below. You can use a trapped soul up to six times. Once you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
A Brief Distraction While the characters wait to learn more about Murgaxor, they discover some of their fellow students engaged in a game at Firejolt Café (see map 3.2 in chapter 3) on the central
smiling and gesturing outside Firejolt Café.
A familiar face jogs up to you, waving and smiling in relief. “It’s so good to see you! Things have been dire around here lately, but some friends are inside
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Dealing with the Companion The Companion that once warded Elturel against undead is powered by a planetar trapped inside it. Long thought of as Elturel’s savior, the Companion was also its undoing
allying with a supernatural power, see “Breaking the Chains” earlier in this chapter. The Planetar’s Power If the Companion is shattered or unlocked, the planetar inside it is released. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
sits. The master of the pagoda does not speak, and he waits as long as long as it takes for the adventurers to join him. When they enter the pagoda, he gives a brief smile and proffers silk cushions. He
), trapping the poison and the characters inside. He uses Earth Glide to sink into the boulder. With his body safe beneath the ground, his soul jumps into the tea kettle, and he monitors the characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
sits. The master of the pagoda does not speak, and he waits as long as it takes for the adventurers to join him. When they enter the pagoda, he gives a brief smile and proffers silk cushions. He then
poison and the characters inside. He uses Earth Glide to sink into the boulder. With his body safe beneath the ground, his soul jumps into the tea kettle, and he monitors the characters’ escape
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Wisdom saving throw or gain one level of madness (see “Madness” in chapter 2). Characters can discern the shapes of writhing creatures inside each lump. Most of these are humanoids, though a few of the
agony and terror. Inside the pockmark left behind by the burst is one of Xinaya’s drow scouts — or at least what’s left of him. Other than a face, long white hair, and a breastplate, it is impossible to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Site of Judgment The flight to the Pedestal of Judgment is brief, taking approximately an hour by manticore and a half hour by pegasus. The characters draw near to the Pedestal of Judgment shortly
archmage). Each crystal is an immobile, Large object with AC 13, 25 hit points, and immunity to poison and psychic damage. Creatures inside the magic crystals are immune to all damage. A trapped
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
gate, they return to their own world. To test his traps, Acererak crafted a "mirror tomb" and hid it inside a demiplane. This mirror tomb is identical to the real tomb as it stood exactly one year ago
objects teleport back to where they were found. When this occurs, characters inside the mirror tomb witness a strange distortion ripple through the air. Devlin’s Journal When the characters find Devlin’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
becomes a worthless keepsake. SNEAKING INSIDE
The carnival issues fake butterfly wings to every visitor who receives a ticket. Visitors are expected to wear their wings, or at least carry them around
, while inside the carnival. The tickets and fake wings are theirs to keep.
Any character who tries to sneak into the carnival without a set of fake butterfly wings must succeed on a DC 15 Dexterity
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
. Visitors aren’t welcome inside without an escort. Unwelcome to Dendradis When the characters approach Dendradis, read or paraphrase the following text: Ahead rises the Spire, the infinitely tall
scholar
Ascetelis Before the characters depart or the situation with the ferrumachs grows too tense, a third rilmani arrives from inside. Read or paraphrase the following text: Marco Bernadini Dendradis
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
on the affected region. The Zodiac Phenomena table lists effects and brief encounters associated with the constellations of the Sky of Many Things. You can use the effect associated with the zodiac
season changes, with a new constellation rising to prominence. One or more planets align inside a given constellation. Darkness falls on a moonless night. The characters take a long rest. A character
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
or unsettling manner.
4–6 The spirit leaves a brief message, threat, or question, perhaps asking where someone is or suggesting how one might hasten their demise.
7–9 The spirit walks
(area 25)
2 In the tub of the master bath (area 17), facing a mirror smeared with blood that repeats the words “Bloody Mara” three times
3 Inside an empty cask in the wine cellar (area 27
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
undergrowth. Its roof is pierced by the trunk of an immense tree, but its walls are mostly intact. A large, empty doorframe leads inside.
Characters who don’t approach the ruin feel supernaturally
drawn toward the place, as if a familiar voice were calling their name. As characters approach the door, they hear faint voices inside. Read the following text when the characters enter the ruin: The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
encasing each niche is easily broken, allowing access to the fragment inside. Shattering the glass in a niche causes the light in that niche to go dark. Treasure. The jade staff is presently broken into
bonus to initiative. Mornhyld’s spirit requires a host body before it can communicate. While possessing a humanoid, it uses that host to share the following secrets, doing so in the course of a brief
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
react as the city fell. Iriolarthas conjured a doorway to a magical demiplane and stepped through it just in time. As Ythryn settled into its icy grave, all magic in the city became undone for a brief
handful of apprentices who had used their spells in ingenious ways to escape death. Some of those inside tried to flee Ythryn, but glacial ice blocked all conventional routes of escape, and attempts to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
illuminated. The meteorite is 2 feet long, 18 inches wide, and 18 inches tall. It can fit inside the characters’ bag of holding. Creatures Two spectators and six gazers gather around the meteorite. The
much deeper in the mountain and doesn’t appear in this adventure. It doesn’t take the beholderkin long to realize that intruders have arrived. After a brief telepathic conference, the spectators use
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Mistshore: Winter The characters head to Mistshore in search of the man they believe has the Stone of Golorr. En route to that destination, the man had his hire-coach make a brief stop in the Castle
inside, trying to smother his bedridden mother, Marta (N female Turami human commoner with 1 hit point), with a sack she uses as a pillowcase. With tears born of joy and sadness streaming down his
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
. The cold-hearted mortician is trying to locate a key she accidentally dropped inside the golem during a routine grafting procedure. Becoming one of the faction’s undertakers after a failed attempt at
. This drawer is jammed shut. A human commoner—a pasty-faced Herald of Dust named Fruth who fell asleep on the job and was mistakenly pronounced dead—bangs on the door from the inside, begging to be freed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
accommodations for a brief period as reward for a job well done. Such a stay typically lasts for no longer than two weeks per year, during which you maintain an aristocratic lifestyle for no cost. You must defend
. An outcast noble favored by your patron works with you to uphold their family’s interests despite their exile. 6 Outsider Inside. A mysterious entity manipulates a noble family’s fortunes. Through
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
appendix C Timing The party doesn’t have forever to conduct their assault. Saltmarsh and its allies only give the characters a brief period to weaken the sahuagin forces. While you should encourage the
, the party has 30 rounds. After the characters enter the fortress, start a tally of how many rounds they’ve spent inside, encouraging them to act fast before they’re discovered. After set periods of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
waving unimpeded. You become aware you are not alone inside your mind. Somehow, this horror from another world has wormed its way inside you.
Something beyond mortal comprehension exists partially
inside the wall of ice and partially within some distant, horrific demiplane. As this otherworldly entity peers into the cavern, visitors risk losing their sanity to its influence. Any creature that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
folk sip warmed ciders and broths (often laced with herbs for health and to bring on visions) and stay inside. They tell tales of what interested them or was important in the year just done, and discuss
to door, gaining brief entry into the celebrations in exchange for performing a song or a short play. All adopt the guises of fey beings and the supposed rulers of the Feywild, such as Queen Titania
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
slab, where the Heralds of Dust conduct a brief inspection before arranging it to be sent to another area of the Mortuary. Coffin Fitting. Crafters measure corpses for coffins, caskets, and sarcophagi
Version A malicious spirit (chaotic evil ghost) has tampered with one of the crypt’s magical wards, releasing a necrichor (see the appendix) previously trapped inside. The hostile creatures threaten to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
intruders inside. Vidorant. If Vidorant teleports to the vault (see the “Vidorant Arrives” section later in the adventure), she arrives on the balcony, as the interior of the vault is warded against
noble with close ties to Goldenbeard. Locked Door. The door to area T12 is locked but easily unlocked from inside this room. Treasure. The two paintings of night festivals are worth 250 gp each
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
the next dawn. Fates. As a bonus action, you can brandish this card at one willing creature you can see within 30 feet of yourself, granting the creature a brief glimpse of the future. Until the start
, it can’t be used again until the next dawn. Gem. This card holds one 6th-level spell (chosen by the DM). As an action, you can brandish this card and use it to cast the spell stored inside (spell
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
a small creature with spindly limbs, matted fur, and wild eyes. The creature babbles, screeches, and shakes the bars, attempting to reach the lizards inside.
The svirfneblin keep two giant lizards
nothing more than to add this “sky-stone” to their collection. The gnomes are brief and direct in their negotiations. In return for the star, kagu-svirfneblin agree to give the characters the contents of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
, Vlaakith led them to safety on the Astral Plane inside the floating corpse of a six-armed deity. This being’s body long ago calcified into a great slab of rock, its lower half smashed by some ancient
have a great number of permanent structures, and a system of districts in which particular functions or activities are concentrated. TU'NARATH IN BRIEF
Here are some key details of Tu’narath
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
, the Serpent King. A brief account of that experience follows. Ancient and evil, the spirit naga Jarant rules the kingdom by virtue of his personal power and thanks to the aid of the Marlspire of Najara
population of snakefolk live beneath the surface. It is common to find settlements inside the large underground chambers connected by the tunnels, excavations many centuries in age. Marsh of Chelimber I
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
site of their ancestral mound. Most of the Uthgardt holy sites have existed since antiquity, but the fortunes of the tribes that revere them have hardly been static. Following are brief descriptions of
the Uthgardt tribes today.
Blue Bear. The easternmost of the Uthgardt are the Blue Bear — thought destroyed more than a century ago — who have recently emerged from inside the High Forest and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
who succeeds on a DC 20 Wisdom (Perception) check while beginning to open the lid notices that it opens stiffly, with resistance from the inside. Those near the chest have a brief moment of warning
a metallic object, coming from the other side of the opening. The hall outside this place is tinged a bloody red by the light emitted from the lava pool and the flaming gas jets that are found inside
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
spells cast on wall sconces. When Amun Sa was interred, his most loyal priests dutifully locked themselves inside the pyramid’s upper floors. In the brief period between Amun Sa’s death and the collapse
to reviving it might be found inside. Tidings of a Ghost. If the characters recount their experience with the pharaoh’s ghost, Iaseda is skeptical. She jokingly suggests the characters have spent too
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Red Larch Locations Here follow brief descriptions of important locations in town. Buildings shown on the map that don’t have a number and a description are houses, sheds, or outbuildings. They
of the Long Road, just south of the inn’s stable yard, stands what looks like a grand stone mansion. Two wide wooden doors painted with the symbols of many gods stand open day and night. Inside is a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
in their mind’s eye of a female half-elf in a gossamer cape made of mycelial threads. This brief vision is accompanied by a momentary feeling of intense longing and hunger. This event occurs only once
. Alchemist’s Alcove Spiderwebs and mold cover everything inside this room. A rotting wood table and a set of shelves stand along the far wall. Glass jars, a mortar and pestle, and various other alchemical