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Dungeon Master’s Guide
of your prison. You draw no more cards.
Euryale. The card’s medusa-like visage curses you. You take a −2 penalty to saving throws while cursed in this way. Only a god or the magic of the
an ally. As Dungeon Master, you should wait for a dramatically appropriate moment to reveal this enmity, leaving the adventurer guessing who is likely to become a betrayer.
Fool. You have
Magic Items
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
hundred genies, including the physical forms of Calim and Memnon. The genies scream and strain in agonized fury, pressing their belligerent faces against the walls of their crystal line prison
until the next dawn.
Random Properties. The Artifact has the following random properties (see chapter 7 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide):
1 minor beneficial property
1 major beneficial
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
poison and psychic damage. If the altar is destroyed, the shadowy rift collapses, and any creatures trapped in the extradimensional prison beyond are released. They appear in random unoccupied spaces
throughout the room. Extradimensional Prison. Any creature that enters the rift’s space is transported to an unoccupied space in an extradimensional prison that takes the form of a 30-foot-diameter
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
12 Watch room that allows guards to observe those who approach the dungeon 13 Prison for holding captured intruders 14–15 Strong room or vault, for guarding the treasure hidden in the dungeon
Chamber Purpose A room’s purpose can help determine its furnishings and other contents. For each chamber on your dungeon map, establish its purpose or use the tables below to generate ideas. Each
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
was irrevocably insane. She fled, but Halaster dragged her back to Undermountain and trapped her in the Citadel of the Bloody Hand, a dungeon complex under Mount Waterdeep connected to Undermountain
. Jhesiyra escaped her prison when its wards failed during the Spellplague. To hide from Halaster, she magically confined herself in the stones of Undermountain. She now exists in a bodiless state
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
and Gardagig, attempted to kill Krenko in retaliation for the death of their kin. Before they could do the deed, Krenko was apprehended by the Boros Legion and thrown into Sawtooth Prison — near the
legion’s headquarters of Sunhome — to spend the rest of his life behind bars. But someone as well connected as Krenko has ways of shortening his own sentence. Inciting a riot in prison secured him a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a4
27. Luxurious Prison Lavish furnishings and decorations are everywhere in this large room. The floor is strewn with rugs and cushions, and tapestries cover the walls. A hookah as tall as an adult
Blackrazor, a sentient greatsword (see “Sample Sentient Items” in chapter 7 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide), 1,000 ep, 200 pp, four pieces of jewelry worth a total of 11,000 gp, a potion of healing (greater
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Three Moons Vault The Three Moons Vault is a remote dungeon complex in the mountainous outskirts of Lord Soth’s domain. Millennia ago, a chunk of the red moon Lunitari sheared off, broke into
site and carved out a subterranean vault to contain prisoners and treasure. The vault is now under the purview of a servant of Lord Soth and operates as a prison for the overlord’s enemies and a safe house for his underlings.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
lined with a 10-foot-square patch of brown mold. A creature that falls the distance takes 17 (5d6) bludgeoning damage plus damage from the brown mold (see “Dungeon Hazards” in chapter 5 of the Dungeon
and shackles anchored to the floor of a dreary dungeon cell. The painting is 3½ feet wide by 7 feet tall. Thanks to a permanent Nystul’s magic aura spell cast on the painting, a detect magic spell does
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
steps.
1. Identify the Party’s Goals
The Dungeon Goals table provides common goals that drive or lure adventurers into dungeons. The Wilderness Goals table provides similar inspiration
for an adventure focused on outdoor exploration. The Other Goals table suggests location-based adventures that don’t fit neatly into the first two categories. Dungeon Goals d20 Goal 1 Stop the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
dungeon, images of dark cells with iron bars and shackles spring to mind. In the D&D game, the word “dungeon” takes on a broader meaning to include any enclosed, monster-infested location. Most dungeons
controlled by a gang of wererats The Underdark There is no greater dungeon than the Underdark, the underworld beneath the surface world. It is a vast subterranean realm where monsters accustomed to darkness
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
mission in a very specific way. The characters find their path through a dungeon cleared out ahead of them, with mangled monster corpses left in the wake of whatever horror preceded them—but the
their careers—leads to the discovery of an Underdark site where an overlord lies imprisoned. A horde of demons appears and attacks, each one throwing itself on the overlord’s prison when it is slain
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
appear in the “Sigil Gazetteer” section later in this chapter. The planes of existence are detailed in the Dungeon Master’s Guide. Planar Portals Destination
d100 Portal Anchor Sigil Other Plane
infirmary, tattered paper fan 10–12 Sewer pipe Infinite Well The Abyss Celestial blood, demon ichor 13–15 Cell door Prison Carceri Broken key, length of chain 16–18 Open grave Dead Nations Hades
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
love with Yinark, a wizard in league with Halaster, and returned with him to Undermountain. Her happiness faded quickly when the dungeon proved to be a far cry from the woods she called home. Determined
pities him, for the Mad Mage too appears to be trapped in a prison of his own making. Wyllow believes he is no longer human, but an immortal entity composed of pure magic. Thus, she has given up any
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Dungeon Locations Before the characters descend into the dungeon, allow them to advance to 4th level. The following area descriptions are keyed to map 1.6. V20. Cellar The characters might enter this
foodstuffs — enough to sustain the Vanthampurs and the cultists in the dungeon for a month. The crates by the south wall contain candles, oil flasks, incense, and rat traps. Six of the barrels contain
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
characters unsealed the glacial prison holding Tekeli-li. After decades of captivity and starvation, the vampire is once again free to leave the caves and haunt Icewind Dale. First, however, it plans
during an encounter, the vampire turns to mist and withdraws to a safe location in the dungeon. Even when the vampire is not immediately present, its cackling laughter echoes through the caves
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
"Revel's End") and book passage on a ship bringing supplies or convicts to the prison. Ask the Akannathi goliaths (see “Skytower Shelter") to loan them some trained griffons and then fly to the island on
threat to Angajuk, so the whale surfaces only when it must. Via Ship from Revel’s End The prison of Revel’s End has easy access to the Sea of Moving Ice. On the downside, captains who are brave enough
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
heat sources, cold weather gear, or magic to protect them are subject to the effects of extreme cold, as described in the “Weather” section in chapter 5, “Adventure Environments,” of the Dungeon Master’s
with them. When Strahd later murdered his brother Sergei, that pact was sealed with blood. Strahd transformed into a vampire, and the Dark Powers turned his land into a prison. Strahd has returned to
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
Dragon mount 8 192 Sailing ship 2 48 To create a more realistic journey, you can use the Weather table in chapter 5 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide to determine the prevailing weather on a given day
necessary, use the sample ship that appears in Appendix C of the Dungeon Master’s Guide. Where the characters must go to board each vessel depends on the faction that provides the help. The Harpers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
focused on farming and animal husbandry, and which caters to travelers. It is also the site of a large and well-protected training camp for the City Guard, and a prison farm run by the City Watch (called
the Snobeedle halflings. They have a delightful drinking hall and a shop sized for larger patrons, and you can pick your own fruit when it is in season. Undermountain Tales of this legendary dungeon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Tiamat, who is trapped in the Nine Hells. The five-headed queen of dragons believes her escape is nigh, and from the depths of her prison, she commands her kin to go forth and claim the world of Oerth
elemental prince, or an elder god trapped in a dungeon; build a stronghold above or near the dungeon; drive other inhabitants out of the region; and use a special magic item or ritual to free
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
Strength (Athletics) check. Any Medium or smaller creature attempting to do so has disadvantage on this check. B3: Prison Tower A forbidding tower overlooks the yard below, its toothed parapets etched
cruelty. Gruk-Gruk B4: Prison Yard Huge blocks of rough basalt lie scattered about the center of this spacious yard, where ten armored duergar oversee a large number of haggard prisoners. The prisoners
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
outside the globe. While inside a globe, a trapped creature can’t contest for control of the globe. Dungeon State. If the characters free the aboleth, it wanders the dungeon and attacks anyone it runs
, Thaxalia’s hatred for the Red Wizards inspires the beholder to question the characters’ purpose in the dungeon. If they reveal their goals, the beholder suggests an alliance, extolling its plans for revenge
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
royal courts, and aboard seafaring vessels. Nevertheless, the heroes might end up in classic dungeon situations, such as escaping from a prison cell block or searching storm sewers to find a villain’s
to drive the action of a campaign: Evil Cult. Wicked cultists infiltrate a peaceful realm to free an ancient evil entity trapped in a dungeon. Releasing the entity would surely spell the realm’s doom
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
. If a golem is inactive, it is unconscious. If a golem is listed as being a reduced-threat monster, it is because the construct is incomplete. Dungeon State. When these areas are cleared, any golems
. The Red Wizard has a glyph key attuned to this zone. White Gate. The eastern corridor holds a white gate that leads to the Clay Golem Kilns. 88. Black Prison A large stone block on the floor between
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
frozen at all times by the 10-foot-square patch of brown mold growing on the wall behind it (see “Brown Mold” in the Dungeon Master’s Guide). Any creature that touches the pillar of ice is close enough
speaker’s shy, 25-year-old dogkeeper. These servants have decided to mount a prison break. When they hear the blue stone slab open in area C23, they hide. If the characters make their identities known before
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
the ceiling is in Draconic and reads “First, shield thy heart with a wand from the Nether Oak.” This is a passage from the Rite of the Arcane Octad (see "Rite of the Arcane Octad"). Y5. Prison A
prison: A maze of cell-lined corridors fills this area.
All the cell doors, which have arcane lock spells cast on them, are made of iron, with small, barred windows set into them at eye level. Many of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
) sprouts from a nearby corpse. 2 Putrice, a night hag, cackles as she fishes a wriggling larva (see the Dungeon Master’s Guide) from a vent underneath a fiend-owned restaurant. 3 Two cranium rat squeakers
King, presides over the Dead Nations and their undead populace, but his throne is also his prison. The Silent King’s throne bestows a mantle of authority on its occupant, but it demands a grim toll
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
merest edge of Iuz’s realm. Iuz’s evil reign was interrupted by a sixty-five-year imprisonment in the dungeon under Castle Greyhawk. During his absence, the Kingdom of Furyondy and its allies prospered
the demon lord Graz’zt from the prison where she had bound him. Though Graz’zt fled to the Abyss, Iggwilv was weakened and forced to abandon the caverns, but a secret cache of her treasure is said to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
days Lyrandar Airship 1,500 GP/person 3 days Teleportation Circle 2,500 GP Instant Using the guidelines for travel in the Dungeon Master’s Guide, you can think about a sea voyage to Xen’drik in three
. For many years, people considered Mel-Aqat mere legend. Mentioned in a variety of ancient texts, this site was supposedly the prison for a mighty fiendish overlord. Until only a few years ago, most
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
sheets.
Secret Door. A character who examines the east wall and succeeds on a DC 15 Intelligence (Investigation) check finds a secret door that opens to reveal a secret stair (area D21) to the dungeon
mortared stone. The staircase descends 50 feet from the house’s attic to area D22 in the dungeon level. D22: Dungeon Level Access The wooden spiral staircase from the attic (area D21) ends here. A narrow
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
feet high. Climbing into a niche costs 10 feet of movement. Dungeon State. If the otyugh is given a glyph key to the Prison of Filth and told how to use a black gate, it teleports to area 41 and
more of its kind are in the dungeon and receives a general impression of area 42, where more otyughs live. All these otyughs hate the Thayans. Niches. The shallow niches are 3 feet off the floor and 5
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
Daggerdark has turned his ship, the Morkoth, into a floating prison. King Hekaton lies bound and chained within, unable to escape without aid. The ship circles the islands of the Trackless Sea, far from
more information on the calendar of the Forgotten Realms, see “The Calendar of Harptos” sidebar in chapter 1 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide.
This adventure isn’t set at a specific time but is assumed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
it in a stone prison when the rock hardened. Some are buried — except for the head, perhaps, or a hand, which serves as a clear indicator that something lies underneath. Adventurers might even stumble
twisted will, defending the interior of the colossus and giving voice and form to the docent’s otherwise disembodied intelligence. A Deadly Dungeon. House Cannith’s artisans lined the interior of each
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
you disappeared. You remain imprisoned until you are found and removed from the sphere. You can’t be located by any Divination magic, but a Wish spell can reveal the location of your prison. You draw
confront the devil.
In the case of the Rogue card, the enmity is secret and should come from someone thought to be a friend or an ally. As Dungeon Master, you should wait for a dramatically