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Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
effect is triggered, as though Halaster had cast minor illusion in an area. Common illusions include the echo of rattling chains, the distant sound of explosive spells being cast, a dusty cloak or a rusty
helm floating as though worn by an invisible figure, and illusory footprints appearing on a dusty floor.
Silent apparitions of dead adventurers drift through halls and rooms as though they are lost
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
"}. The dragon exhales a pulse of high-pitched, nearly inaudible sound in a 15-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a DC 13 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the creature takes 22
Intelligence as the spellcasting ability:
1/day each: alarm, Tenser's floating diskThe thunderous clash of conflict is part of the very nature of sapphire dragons. Militant and territorial, they defend
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
characters traverse the corridor, a large floating eye surrounded by glowing motes of light appears ahead of them. This is one of Halaster’s scrying eyes (see “Halaster’s Lair”). It studies the characters for a minute or two before disappearing without a sound.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Into the Caves of Hunger When the floating city of Ythryn plummeted from the sky into the Reghed Glacier centuries ago, the impact of the collision (and the resulting heat) drove the city deeper into
through solid ice. The fact that the entire complex is made of ice contributes to its alien atmosphere. The air is often stale, sound behaves strangely, and the tension of moving ever downward wears on the sanity of even the boldest adventurers.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
, they find one of Halaster’s scrying eyes floating in the middle of the chamber (see “Halaster’s Lair,”). It studies the characters for a minute or two before disappearing without a sound.
Treasure A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
resides. Their bodies remain unconscious in suspended animation while they are projected into the Astral Plane. Read the following aloud to the players. You are floating, weightless, adrift. A gray
, silvery light spreads around you like the dawn of a cloudy day, illuminating a peculiar realm. All of you are floating in a silvery haze that shimmers with swirls of color. Objects drift past in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
Walls. The walls and floors on the second floor (areas S8–area S13) and the floating areas (areas S14–area S17) have been weakened by magic, such that each 5-foot-square section of floor or wall in these
action, a character can use thieves’ tools to try to unlatch a window from the outside, doing so with a successful DC 17 Dexterity check. Shattering a window is easy enough, but unless the sound is silenced by magic, all guards within 60 feet of the breaking window investigate.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Night of Terror As dusk approaches, the defenders on Kalaman’s western walls sound an alarm: the Red Dragon Army and its flying citadel draw near. All of Kalaman’s soldiers are called to defensive
. Otherworldly smokes roil from the ruined temple atop the floating island. As it drifts into place above the battlefield, reanimated corpses of ancient dragons circle the ruins, glowing with the same
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (1d10 + 3) piercing damage plus 3 (1d6) thunder damage.
Debilitating Breath (Recharge 5–6). The dragon exhales a pulse of high-pitched, nearly inaudible sound in a 15
a successful save, the creature takes half as much damage and isn’t incapacitated.
Spellcasting (Psionics). The dragon casts one of the following spells, requiring no spell components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability:
1/day each: alarm, Tenser’s floating disk
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
triggered, as though Halaster had cast minor illusion in an area. Common illusions include the echo of rattling chains, the distant sound of explosive spells being cast, a dusty cloak or a rusty helm
floating as though worn by an invisible figure, and illusory footprints appearing on a dusty floor. Silent apparitions of dead adventurers drift through halls and rooms as though they are lost. An
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
suggests a wealth of sensory details: the sight of colorful boats floating on muddy waters, the sound of lapping waves and perhaps singing gondoliers, the smells of fish and waste polluting the water, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
to a calm night. Then shouts ring out, shattering the peace. Someone’s calling for help!
The characters can tell the shouts are coming from the inn’s common room. Following the sound, the
characters find the common room lightly obscured, filled with swirling mist. The haze makes the area feel like it’s full of fog and floating on a stormy sea. Staff and other patrons who’ve stumbled out of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
M6. Prison Cells This area is lined with boxlike metal cells, all built of the same strange materials seen elsewhere in the monastery. Most of the cells are empty, but shouts and a sound of creatures
automatically sliced open with an attack from an elder monk’s force pike. Characters who fall to the valley floor (area C4) from area C1 or area M9 are picked up by a floating teleportation-field device
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
T6: Occult Library Characters who listen at either entrance to this room notice heavy footfalls within and the sound of furniture being smashed. Jodie Muir A putrid stench greets you here—its source
splintered amid the skeletal remains of four long-dead humans in dusty crimson robes. Tall stone bookshelves line deep alcoves to the north, south, and west. Floating in the alcove opposite you, a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
god of misfortune floating at a far-flung edge of the Astral Plane. From here, portals connect to locations across the multiverse. Colcook. Colcook (lawful evil, tiefling assassin) is friendly and eager
as an image in a floating crystal depicts a knight being ravaged by a violet-striped saber-toothed tiger. Several similar drifting crystals display other armed individuals exploring ruins and engaging
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
(1 gp)
96–99 Acorn-sized tourmaline, flawed (10 gp)
00 Acorn-sized tourmaline, unflawed (100 gp)
M3. River Cavern Characters hear the sound of rushing water as they approach this cave
. M5. Underdark Shaft, Level 1 Wooden planks and struts form a walkway along the wall of a seemingly bottomless vertical shaft. A narrow waterfall cascades down the northeast wall, and the sound of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
bristling with attentive, fungal eye stalks.
The rocks floating in this room are the petrified corpses of long-dead beholder demigods. Creatures can leap between two floating rocks by succeeding on
requires a freshly cried tear—a fact characters might learn in area T4. Beholders. Two beholders drift amid the floating rocks. They ignore the modrons but attack any other creature that moves amid
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
creatures are unaffected. The pulse of energy suppresses magical traps throughout the city and causes the floating chamber above Skydock Spire (area Y28) to crash into to the ground, pulverizing it and
. Words spoken by a creature standing on the balcony are magically amplified to sound ten times louder than normal. Y19q. Iriolarthas’s Study This room can be accessed by activating the magic door in area
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
this camp. Each party member has a tiny, glowing, snowflake floating a few inches above them—the symbol of the Frostmaiden, which most Reghed nomads recognize and fear. Members of the Bear Tribe won’t
this camp. Each party member has a tiny, glowing snowflake floating a few inches above them—the symbol of the Frostmaiden, which most Reghed nomads recognize and fear. Members of the Elk Tribe won’t
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
boiling water. A creature that enters the water for the first time on its turn or starts its turn there takes 7 (2d6) fire damage. In addition, steam renders the cave lightly obscured. Floating Corpses
for more information on this drow. N7. The Floating Ones If the nycaloth is alive here, the characters hear a horrid, rasping song coming from the area before they see it. Two humans, an aarakocra, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
tall. Lurking here are three monsters that look like floating brains with beaks. Against the north wall lies a moldy backpack.
Two grells lair here with their leader, a grell psychic (see the
stairs lead down to a large grotto. Wordless burbling echoes from it.
The sound originates from the gibbering mouthers in the next cavern, although creatures in the tunnel are too far away to be
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
splits the waterway north and south. The sound of falling water is louder to the south.
The current pulls to the south of the island toward the waterfall leading to area P17. Characters navigating
dead-ends in a long cavern where only the distant sound of the falls echoes off the walls. Nets divide the cavern, spanning the distance between pairs of stalagmites jutting above the water.
Seven
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
towers closest to the bridge. If the characters approach the gatehouse and give a sound reason for being here, the erinyes open the way (see “Doors” and “Portcullises” below), escort the characters to
feet wide, with wooden decks and iron-plated hulls fashioned to resemble dragon turtles. The boats are magically immune to fire damage and remain cool to the touch, even when floating in lava. Each
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
from the pool’s center is the head of a stone well that gives off an unpleasant, pungent odor. In one corner of the pool stands a tall, dirty, freestanding mirror in an oval frame, and floating on the
, filling the pool to a depth of 3 feet in 1 minute. Treasure. The lily pad floating on the water is a magic item called a bobbing lily pad (see appendix A). Bavlorna is attuned to it currently. B2
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
stepping stones between the floating disk and the middle passage. The pillars are hot when they first rise. A creature that comes into contact with a hot pillar for the first time on a turn or starts its
dance on its surface.
A roper made of molten magma lurks in the middle of the lava pool, peeking up occasionally or rising to the sound of the gong. It has immunity to fire damage and vulnerability to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
characters reach this area without making any sound, they find a single cult fanatic stationed at the stairs. If alerted to the characters’ intrusion (such as by combat in area B1), the fanatic flees
bodies are draped over an altar in front of the statue, and standing over them is a tall, bald man clutching a bloody knife. He is flanked by two robed cultists, and floating nearby is a hideous
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
area.
Dozens of sahuagin here are gathered in small groups or floating in the seaweed beds.
Although the sahuagin are not anticipating invaders, if the characters enter the room without taking
coming within 3 feet of them, causes dozens of them to break open. Three sahuagin hatchling swarms (see appendix C) form and rush to attack warm-blooded characters. The sound of their offspring being
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
the characters as the keep’s new owners. If the characters approach the golem, it frees itself from its plinth with a deep cracking sound and attacks until destroyed. However, if the characters destroy
the following when the characters reach this room: A long, oaken dining table spans this room, and an empty fireplace sits in one corner. Cobwebs stretch across the room’s large window. Floating above
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
pillars for 1 minute. Floating Disk. An opaque, slightly concave, circular plane of magical force, 5 feet in diameter, floats on the northern side of the northern bridge to area 20. The disk can hold
.
Creatures. Twelve unarmed humanoid skeletons wander the area, harvesting plant material in large baskets. As they tear off growths, a crackling sound accompanies an increase in the glow of a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
, the conductor brings the piece to a satisfying close as the sound of ghostly applause rises from the audience and phantasmal black roses rain down on the musicians, who face the audience and bow before
clutch the chamber’s walls, giving it the appearance of a colossal floating crown.
Skydock Spire stands 120 feet tall, and the glass chamber magically floats 30 feet above it. The chamber slowly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
undrinkable. D6. Bloated Corpse Floating face-down in the middle of this flooded room is the bloated corpse of a shirtless male human with knife wounds in his back. The corpse was once a Bhaal
conducts a thorough search realizes that the sarcophagus has a false bottom made of inch-thick plaster. Smashing through this plaster layer reveals a cavity below that contains a human mummy floating in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
a magically lit chamber containing the following: Thorvin Twinbeard (see appendix B), Xanathar’s engineer, is building a large contraption in the middle of the room. Floating nearby is an albino gazer
of the sound amplifier described in area X16.) Displayed against the curved walls are a dozen lifelike statues (the remains of humans, drow, dwarves, goblinoids, and kobolds who defied the beholder
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
captives. The captives are unconscious, although they groan and writhe slowly.
A steady breeze blows toward a passage to the west, while from the east comes the distant sound of running water.
The mist
below this level. The shaft continues upward into darkness.
Three passages lead away from the shaft. A small brass gong and a striking hammer are near the ledge.
The floating disk is made to move by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
corpses lie scattered around the room—individuals still wearing remnants of armor. Floating above them is a skull engulfed in green flame.
Eight of the fallen dwarf warriors are zombies. They rise
northeast.
The sound of pounding surf that gives Wave Echo Cave its name can be traced to this water-filled cavern. The ledge that hugs the south wall is 15 feet above water level. However, when water
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
area P14d. A double door leads to a stone balcony that overlooks the Court of Storms (area P13). Floating 10 feet above the top of the staircase is a banshee trapped in temporal stasis. The banshee
jabberwock like a pet, regularly inviting it into her palace to feed from her cauldron. It continues to visit the palace even now that Zybilna is frozen in time, has fed recently, and is sound asleep