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Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
standing stones, a village, or a city on a scion’s back, unaware of the mighty power beneath them. Such settlements can thrive for centuries, as the scion’s magic causes crops to flourish
everything within reach to satiate its hunger. Its powerful lungs can suck food straight into its gullet. The scion uses a great tree to bat foes far into the distance.
Regional Effects
The region
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Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
each swallowed creature and regains 10 hit points.A slumbering scion of Grolantor is often mistaken for a hill, and sometimes people erect standing stones, a village, or a city on a scion’s back
suck food straight into its gullet. The scion uses a great tree to bat foes far into the distance.
Regional Effects
The region surrounding a scion of Grolantor is altered by the giant’s magic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hold Back The Dead
once-fitted stones are uneven. Tough weeds sprout throughout the fortress. Thick brush has grown far closer to the walls than any reasonable defender would permit. The new occupants haven’t had time
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a7
ceiling.
Daylight will enable adventurers to dimly see what appear to be two separate doors at the end of the corridor. The paving stones on the floor 50 feet south of the entrance are unmortared
character can use thieves’ tools to keep the stones from shifting by taking 1 minute and succeeding on a DC 20 Dexterity check. On a failed check, the shims are put in place but they fail when someone moves
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
three gods are a tribe’s raiders and ravagers—often the only part of an orc tribe that its victims ever see.
Deep within the den of a tribe, far away from the war-hearth where warriors
ward off diseases if they are worn.
Don’t stand inside a ring of stones, mushrooms, or any other kind of circle.
Seeing a shooting star before a battle is bad luck. To ward it off, you must
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rrakkma
here. Other Features A large vat of bubbling wax that is kept constantly hot by a magic flame beneath it, is on the far side of the chamber from the hallway. The vat is constructed of porcelain and
collection of pumice stones, some of them covered with dried brown flecks, rest within large metal bowls next to the porcelain vat. This was a purification chamber. Priests would strip naked and use
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
36. Gate to Triboar This room contains a pair of 15-foot-tall standing stones. Lashed to each stone with 50 feet of hempen rope is an inanimate scarecrow, like the ones found in farmers’ fields
staff to trace Halaster’s rune on the surface of either of the standing stones, a gate forms between them and lasts for 1 minute. A legend lore spell or similar magic reveals the way to activate the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
Portal Nexus When the characters step through into the cabin on Dangerous Business, read: The small square cabin’s interior is far larger than its exterior, opening up as an oval room thirty feet
long and fifteen feet wide. Crumpled on the floor before an iron door on the far side of the room, the body of a guard lies in a pool of blood. Standing closed between you and the body, six other oval
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
thinner on the far side of the river, where a light flashes amid a dark ring of standing stones.
The river ranges in depth but is never more than 10 feet deep. Muriel Vinshaw, a wereraven in human
form, lurks amid the circle of standing stones (area U6) and is using a lantern to signal the heroes. In the village proper, fog prevents a creature from seeing any other creature or object more than 120
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Shummrath to retreat to some far corner of Avernus to escape Bel’s wrath. Development If the characters successfully dam the River Styx, they can return to the Mirror of Mephistar to claim recompense
. Rigorath the cambion tells them that Ubbalux must swear fealty to Mephistopheles to escape the standing stones. If Ubbalux does as Rigorath suggests, swearing its undying fealty to Mephistopheles, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
their portalometer, they hear of a site deep in the High Forest not far from the Star Mounds, known as the Moon Glade. The waters of the Moon Glade rest upon an intersection of magical ley lines, tied to
perimeter tower overhead, allowing only a narrow slice of sky to illuminate the pool’s silvery surface. The pool is surrounded by a circle of huge standing stones, all inscribed with strange writing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
far as it can. The giant who was challenged then goes to where the stone landed and hurls it back at the challenger. A challenger who is stronger wins, because the return throw will fall short, but a
giants fight enormous foes (such as dragons) or enormous targets (such as castles), they prefer to hurl stones so large that even a giant must use both arms to lift and throw one. Giants throw just as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
. At the dell’s far edge stands a great rock outcropping that looks vaguely like a satyr’s face. The stones weep a steady flow of water, which spreads into a serene, sky-blue pond. Willows grow along
humanoid bones barely covered by the water. Outcropping Caves Three natural caves open near the top of the 30-foot-high rock formation at the far end of the pool. These crevices might be noticed by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Amethyst Dragon Treasures Amethyst dragons often collect crystals and gems, particularly their namesake stones, in raw, polished, or cut forms. They have less interest in coins and precious metals
, especially those connected to far-off or long-lost cultures, other planes of existence, or other worlds—and of magic items that allow movement between those planes or worlds. The odd spatial nature of
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
; attentiveness to unusual events makes them particularly useful to their sapphire dragon cousins, who hunt down Aberrations and seek evidence of Far Realm incursions into the Material Plane. These gem dragons
, usually when no one is watching. Often the rocks obstruct the approach to the emerald dragon’s lair, with boulders moving to block narrow defiles, way-markers tumbling off the path, or smaller stones
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
events makes them particularly useful to their sapphire dragon cousins, who hunt down Aberrations and seek evidence of Far Realm incursions into the Material Plane. These gem dragons often work
defiles, way-markers tumbling off the path, or smaller stones shifting beneath travelers’ feet to send them tumbling down slopes or into rivers.
Thriving Wildlife. Giant lizard;Giant lizards
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
racial aptitudes to their advantage. Their heritage and their interest in precious stones leads many rock gnomes to become skilled gemcutters and jewelers. Rock gnomes also use their affinity with
even their names and identities for a time. Gnomes who wander far from home are said to have “gone looking for the Ladies.”
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Mhandyvver’s granddaughter Pell (area 13) saw a ghost by an old tomb not far from town. The Tarnlar children (area 7) are telling wild tales about plague out by Lance Rock. Kaylessa Irkell, the owner of
town; an insane necromancer who styles himself a “lord” has taken up residence there. Finally, “The Tomb of Moving Stones” presents an old dungeon-like mine chamber underlying part of Red Larch. This
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
the hill, are the ruins of an abandoned village that was destroyed during the siege. Signs of the siege remain: catapult stones lodged in buildings and heat-cracked stone walls blackened with soot. At
. Their unofficial leader is Tauriano, a mild-mannered professor of archaeology at a far-off university. The archaeologists are unsure how to proceed with their mission; Mekkalath is only the most
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
barrier is riddled with numerous secret holes through — or, more often, underneath — its stones. Knowledge of such secret passages’ locations is jealously guarded, and the hidden ways are used only
sparingly, for the risk of discovery is too great to use them routinely. Nevertheless, if the Old Wall were ever to be seriously tested, its defenders might find it far less impenetrable than it seems. Green
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
12. Old Behir Lair A mated pair of behirs once occupied this corner of the dungeon, but the Stonecloaks killed them. 12a. Bones and Stones Uneven Surfaces. The cavern’s roof and floor are jagged and
once more Awaits the mad one’s doom; Between there and here, heaven’s tears. Evil knocking on the Far Realm’s door. 12b. Treasure Cave This cave contains a hoard left behind by the behirs. Treasure. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
sending stones. The dwarves offer these magic items to anyone willing to kill the ochre jellies in area E5, search the temple for other obvious threats, and make it safe. Eager to resume their excavation
. Finding a secret door requires a search of the wall and a successful DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check. Dazlyn and Norbus have found one secret door thus far, in area E4. The others have yet to be discovered
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
. Magnificent storms spread clouds in a rainbow of colors, creating vistas exhilarating to those brave enough to weather them. The hills yield ancient treasures and a bounty of precious metals and stones
far away. The leonin claim that these visions show not just the present, but even the past and the future.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Orien Lightning Rail The wondrous lightning rail system once linked the far reaches of the Kingdom of Galifar, prior to the Last War. Now the system is divided, split into eastern and western
, has a conductor stone embedded in its underside. A corresponding set of conductor stones laid out in a line on the ground interacts with the stones in the carts to form a rail for the train to follow
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation Supplement
ruins in search of treasure. Most don’t get far before strange sounds and shadowy forms frighten them away.
The tortles built the Typhoon Palace to withstand storms, earthquakes, and the passage of time
stone. Embedded in the plaster are decorative stones, oyster shells, starfish, and branches of coral. Doors are fashioned from thick wood and have no locks. Several areas contain magical wards that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
depending on the mood of those who travel along it. Determining how far one has traveled in a particular amount of time can be a headscratcher. Magical Shortcuts Domain denizens and guides know some
while skipping counterclockwise around a tree 3 Eating a mushroom while gazing at one’s own reflection in a clear pool or stream of water 4 Doing a headstand in a ring of stones 5 Staring at firelight
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
barrier is riddled with numerous secret holes through — or, more often, underneath — its stones. Knowledge of such secret passages’ locations is jealously guarded, and the hidden ways are used only
sparingly, for the risk of discovery is too great to use them routinely. Nevertheless, if the Old Wall were ever to be seriously tested, its defenders might find it far less impenetrable than it seems. GREEN
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
guards.
Standing Stones. The northern part of the cave contains two large standing stones, each of which has an inanimate minotaur skeleton embedded in it.
If a battle erupts here, the drow in area
stones form one of Halaster’s magic gates (see “Gates”). Its rules are as follows: Any creature that touches one of the standing stones is targeted by a maze spell (save DC 22). To open the gate, a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
surface. A dragon dropped great stones on many of the buildings above, and a good portion of the city’s outer wall was destroyed. Most of Sundabar’s military leadership was wiped out when the building they
dwarves remain in the sheltered undercity, and those few who have duties on the surface have taken over the buildings with the least damage, scavenging stones from ruined structures to reinforce those
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
characters pass through. J10: Hooked Stones Alexandre Honoré Evil Far Realm energy has transformed this cloaker into something horrifying The stalagmites and stalactites in this room are all bent as
the power of the Far Realm at their command. I can feel their strength growing!” “Magical stones from the surface will empower the rise of a new mind flayer empire!” “Brains feed the brain pool. What
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
increase. Mirabar is ruled by its hereditary marchion, Selin Raurym, who issues edicts fed to him by the Council of Sparkling Stones. The council is a group of dwarves and some few humans elected to make
with his fellow lords. Thus far, Selin Raurym has proved far more capable than his predecessors at making beneficial decisions for the city, and the council has given him great leeway to speak for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
a toppled monolith form stepping stones to the middle of the pool, where a statue of a stone frog rises above the water.
The shrine to the trickster god Kubazan (represented as a froghemoth
to pursue prey. The shattered monolith is slippery with moss, and the rotted rope bridges sink as soon as anyone steps on them. Any character who jumps across the stepping stones must succeed on a DC
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a2
falls, takes 7 (2d6) bludgeoning damage from falling timbers and stones, and is caught in the river’s current (see “Fast-Flowing Water” above). 52. Nightscale’s Lair When the characters first approach
another ledge that winds southeast alongside a very large lake, apparently the source of the underground river. The cavern is quite large; the lake’s far shore is lost in shadow, and the echoes of water
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Works A standard airship (at least as far as standards have been defined for this relatively new creation) looks similar to an oceangoing ship but is rigged with control fins and rudders rather than
controls the vessel. The helm is typically situated near the rear of the ship, inside the shelter of a wheelhouse. Controlling the vessel (without the benefit of something like the conductor stones that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
-foot-high crawlway in the east wall is flush with the floor. At the far end of the hall, a rippling, transparent curtain of water fills a stone archway. Beyond the curtain, you see another hallway
reveals that its stones and the images on them are illusions. Each alcove contains a plinth bearing a crystal eyeball 1 inch in diameter: a pale purple eyeball to the south and a bright green eyeball to