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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
environments abundant with life. They share apes’ adeptness at climbing, although few trees can support the weight of these half-ton creatures. The ruins of cities, especially those found in deep
forests and jungles, seem to attract girallons. They see a city’s buildings as a superior sort of forest whose uppermost “branches” can safely support them. The creatures can easily
Valindra Shadowmantle
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Tomb of Annihilation
half as much damage on a successful one.With her ability to appear as a living elf, Valindra can easily conceal her lichdom and her association to Thay. She presents herself as a scholarly wizard who
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Valindra believes that the Soulmonger is hidden somewhere in the ruins of Omu. She shares this information with the characters even if she suspects they’ll betray her down the road, because in
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Attack","rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage and be knocked prone.A jabberwock is a solitary, temperamental predator that haunts pristine forests and ancient ruins. Accurate descriptions of
describe it as a sinewy, dragon-like creature that can walk on its hind legs as easily as it travels on all four. Its eyes can emit fiery beams.
Once a jabberwock has chosen its target, it concentrates its
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
ruins. You are part of a savage society that clings desperately to the Old Ways — attuned to nature, full of primal rage, and given short shrift by a world consumed with continuing civilization
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I’m as stubborn as a batterboar.
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I’m so convinced of my superiority over soft, civilized people that I’ll take great risks to prove it.
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I’m easily
Kenku
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
. They seek out ruins that reach to the sky, though they lack the motivation and creativity to make repairs or fortify such places. Even so, their light weight and size allow them to dwell in rickety
kenku, constant attempts to mimic noises can come across as confusing or irritating rather than entertaining. You can just as easily describe the sounds your character makes and what they mean. Be clear
Adult Deep Dragon
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
attached to their front legs and can fold in close to the body, allowing deep dragons to easily maneuver through relatively narrow tunnels.
Deep dragons often hoard secrets, delighting in knowledge
with whom they have alliances or enmities. Their lairs are highly individual. Some are woven from networks of living fungus. Others are built upon the ruins of ancient cities or carved into caves near
Ancient Deep Dragon
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
attached to their front legs and can fold in close to the body, allowing deep dragons to easily maneuver through relatively narrow tunnels.
Deep dragons often hoard secrets, delighting in knowledge of
alliances or enmities. Their lairs are highly individual. Some are woven from networks of living fungus. Others are built upon the ruins of ancient cities or carved into caves near underground lakes.
Deep
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
chapter 6 of this book is a good parallel to the classic adventure, The Village of Hommlet, and the various sites in and around Red Larch can easily be relocated to the surrounding Kron Hills to
Beliard. The city of Verbobonc can easily serve as both Yartar and Waterdeep. It’s the most important city anywhere in the area, and the events described in the “Dark Dealings in Yartar” side trek could
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Evermoors or the Lurkwood — wild regions filled with ruins and monsters. You can choose to narrate as much of the party’s overland travel as you wish, setting up encounters en route. If Eldeth is
still with the characters, she wants to set off for Gauntlgrym as soon as possible. If the characters accompany her, this journey can easily form part of the bridging material between this chapter and chapter 8.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
then have left little more than a few partially collapsed walls and archways to mark the fallen city aboveground, though its underground ruins are better preserved. If you have not yet staged a follow
-up encounter with agents of the Queen of Air and Darkness, an appropriate time to do so would be shortly after the characters enter Delimbiyran. The surface ruins are otherwise bereft of dangerous
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
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
main island body. If you pull the boat ashore on the island, it would be an easy walk up to the top of the cliffs, though there is no obvious bridge from the cliffs to the ruins. Alternatively, you
Yuan-ti Pureblood
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yuan-ti know they can’t resort to direct attacks in order to reclaim their rightful place in the world. Operating out of the subterranean ruins of their buildings in foreign lands, yuan-ti
can more easily pronounce the name in this altered form. An adopted name of this sort is recognized as a variant of the birth name, rather than a unique name unto itself. A yuan-ti might refer to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Traveling to the Gate Tonalli or other locals can easily mark a trail on the characters’ map leading to the Gate of Illumination, a well-known sacred site. The route from the ruins of Twin Gods
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
she provides directions so the characters can easily find the place. If the party pursues this quest, see “Ruins of Thundertree” in Part 3.
know.” She tells the characters that Reidoth recently set out for the ruins of a town called Thundertree, just west of the Neverwinter Wood. The ruins are about fifty miles northwest of Phandalin, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Phandalin, and Qelline provides directions so the characters can easily find the place. If the party pursues this quest, see “Ruins of Thundertree” in chapter 3.
druid doesn’t know.” Qelline tells the characters Reidoth recently set out for the ruins of a town called Thundertree, just west of the Neverwinter Wood. The ruins are about fifty miles northwest of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Nest of the Eldritch Eye
the western ruins of the city. Unless you decide otherwise, the characters encounter no difficulties following the eyeball’s directions to a dilapidated entrance into the city’s western catacombs
moldering wood boards, propped up just enough to block a dark tunnel leading below the surface.
The boards blocking the entrance to the catacombs can be moved easily, revealing a sloping tunnel (area N1).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
opportunities for peril and plunder. The city stands on the eastern banks of the Selintan River. The river flows south from the Nyr Dyv (the Lake of Unknown Depths) down to Woolly Bay and remains easily
. Adventurers drawn to the nearby ruins of Castle Greyhawk have provided a steady influx of cash to the city in the years since. Throughout this section, if a creature’s name appears in bold type, you’ll
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3
easily defended glade with an artesian spring. Most of the city is toppled and almost completely covered in undergrowth. Intruders who enter the ruins will discover that the ancient streets now serve as
, lying somewhere within or beneath the ruins, is a hidden shrine said to be dedicated to Zotzilaha, the vampire god of the underworld. Adventurers who catch wind of the place are likely to find its lure
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Making a Plan Thanks to the party’s initial vantage point on the rim of the crater and the information they learned from Demelin, the characters easily get a general sense of the city’s layout
Spire at the city’s center and find the Dragon Army’s leaders (see “Threshold of the Heavens”). Use the following sections to further detail the ruins as much as you please. This chapter concludes at
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
slay their targets, piercers attempt to squirm away, but they’re easily dispatched by creatures aware of their presence. Piercers are the larval form of ropers. Young piercers seek to move as far from
ropers as they can to avoid ropers’ undiscerning hunger. Many piercers migrate vast distances through the Underdark, often to caverns or buried ruins near the surface. Rule 8: Never trust a stalactite
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
of Kled. The buried city does not have to change much at all; a 5,000-year old dwarven stronghold forgotten beneath the desert sands might easily date back to the Green Age, a time when the world of
Athas would have looked much like the Forgotten Realms. The four Haunted Keeps described in chapter 3 of this adventure are lonely outposts or ruins scattered throughout the badlands under which Tyar
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
fanatics, or malevolent elder entities, you can easily end the adventure at the conclusion of chapter 4. If you do, replace the psionic goblins in chapters 1–chapter 4 with goblins from the Monster Manual
information about the Spider and the lost mine. The clues the characters discovered in Phandalin can lead them to spy on a mysterious wizard at the ruins of Old Owl Well, to seek the advice of a dangerous
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
dangerous part of the ruins by far. A hidden stair—steep, long abandoned, and choked with rubble and undergrowth—leads up the western side of the hill. This secret staircase can be found with 1 hour of
searching and a successful DC 18 Wisdom (Perception) check. Flying creatures can spot the staircase more easily, gaining advantage on the check. Climbing the steps requires no checks, but it takes 1
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
temperate or warm forest environments abundant with life. They share apes’ adeptness at climbing, although few trees can support the weight of these half-ton creatures. The ruins of cities, especially those
found in deep forests and jungles, seem to attract girallons. They see a city’s buildings as a superior sort of forest whose uppermost “branches” can safely support them. The creatures can easily
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
masonry and ruins, as still as any stone sculpture, and delights in the terror it creates when it breaks from its suspended pose, as well as the pain it inflicts on its victims. Animate Stone. Gargoyles
creatures. Cruel Servants. Gargoyles are easily inspired by the cunning of an intelligent master. They enjoy simple tasks such as guarding a master’s home, torturing and killing interlopers, and anything
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
. Roving bands of salamanders battle each other, raid azer outposts, and avoid patrols from the City of Brass. Obsidian ruins dot the desert—remnants of forgotten civilizations. City of Brass Perhaps the
obsidian and basalt jut up from the sea, dotted with ancient ruins and the lairs of powerful red dragons. Torchy’s Built atop a tall basalt crag in the middle of a lava river is an iron-walled tavern that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
layer of vast bogs and quicksand. Cathrys The stench of decay hangs over fetid jungles and scarlet plains. Minethys Stinging sand blows in unending storms, hiding the ruins of the ancient city
frigid realm. Prison Plane Dawn Carlos Unknown horrors are entrapped in the ice of Carceri No one can leave Carceri easily. Magical efforts to leave the plane by any spell other than Wish simply fail
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
beholders withdraw to frigid hills, abandoned ruins, and deep caverns to scheme. A beholder’s lair is carved out by its disintegration eye ray, emphasizing vertical passages connecting chambers stacked on top
of each other. Such an environment allows a beholder to move freely, even as it prevents intruders from easily creeping about. When intruders do break in, the height of its open ceilings allows a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
sacrifices to Dendar the Night Serpent in a sprawling underground temple beneath the ruins of Omu’s royal palace (area 20); the temple is described in chapter 4. The yuan-ti guard the entrances to the
found a worthy attack plan. Vegepygmies Years ago, a meteorite fell from the heavens and created the city’s Great Rift. Stardust rained over the ruins and formed patches of russet mold out of which
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
of the world. Their hut villages thrive in forbidding grottoes, half-sunken ruins, and watery caverns.
Territorial Xenophobes. Lizardfolk deal and trade with other races only rarely. Fiercely
stalked, killed, and devoured. They make no distinction between humanoids, beasts, and monsters. Similarly, lizardfolk don’t like reaching too far beyond their borders, where they could easily become
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
, but it can easily be transplanted — the site and the story alike — into another setting.
Dragonlance. On Krynn, the Doomvault is likely to be the work of renegade wizards, perhaps of more than one
godhood. If it is part of ruins, it could even be the Tower of Istar, which Nuitari took at the end of the Chaos War. Or it might be the same tower, after Mina raised it and the black-robed wizards took it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
them all over the map, and a party can easily wander into an area well beyond their power. If you’d like to steer them toward places that correspond to their level, consult the Areas by Level table
–3rd Village of Barovia 3 4th Town of Vallaki 5 4th Old Bonegrinder 6 5th Village of Krezk 8 5th Wizard of Wines Winery 12 6th Van Richten’s Tower 11 6th Yester Hill 14 7th Argynvostholt 7 7th Werewolf Den 15 8th Tsolenka Pass 9 8th The Ruins of Berez 10 9th Castle Ravenloft 4 9th The Amber Temple 13
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
warforged and airships to the mighty dragonmarked houses, magic is a part of the world and its stories. Pulp Adventure. Whether you’re leaping from an airship or battling demons in forgotten ruins, Eberron
encourages cinematic action and swashbuckling adventure. Neo-Noir Intrigue. Eberron is a world of difficult choices. The line between hero and villain is easily blurred, and even the champions of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
. A carrion crawler roams on the hunt, its tentacles probing the air for the scent of blood or decay. In tunnels or ruins, carrion crawlers scurry across the ceiling as they move toward food. In this
great size, carrion crawlers can also easily set up ambushes by waiting around blind corners for prey to come to them. When facing potential prey or intruders, a carrion crawler lets its poison do the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
High Road, the party can easily get to town. They may also decide to approach from a less conspicuous direction. Either way, they can get to the edge of town without being spotted. When they reach Leilon
. At the center of the ruins, a tall tower, mostly collapsed, rests atop a bluff. The only intact stone building sits at the bottom of the bluff, its white façade bearing the mark of Lathander