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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
a horseshoe also takes a Magic action.
While all four shoes are affixed to the hooves of a horse or similar creature, they allow the creature to move normally while floating 4 inches above a surface
. This effect means the creature can cross or stand above nonsolid or unstable surfaces, such as water or lava. The creature leaves no tracks and ignores Difficult Terrain. In addition, the creature can travel for up to 12 hours a day without gaining Exhaustion levels from extended travel.
Monsters
Out of the Abyss
Stone Camouflage. The gnome has advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks made to hide in rocky terrain.
Gnome Cunning. The gnome has advantage on Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma saving throws
following wizard spells prepared:
Cantrips (at will): dancing lights, friends, mending, prestidigitation
1st level (4 slots): comprehend languages, detect magic, Tenser's floating disk
2nd level (3 slots
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
they were difficult terrain. It takes 5 (1d10);{"diceNotation":"1d10","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Incorporeal Movement","rollDamageType":"force"} force damage if it ends its turn inside an
, detect magic, detect thoughts, find familiar, Melf's acid arrow, Tenser's floating disk, and thunderwave.Cold, Necrotic, PoisonAcid, Fire, Lightning, Thunder; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
terrain, polymorph
5th level (3 slots): Bigby's hand, geas, wall of force
6th level (2 slots): chain lightning, globe of invulnerability, programmed illusion
7th level (2 slots): finger of death
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
indeed, legends suggest that many unwitting sailors wrecked at sea have mistaken slumbering dragon turtles for solid ground.
Ancient dragon turtles might sleep for years or decades while floating
swimming in these currents, each foot of movement costs 1 extra foot (2 extra feet in difficult terrain), even if a creature has a swimming speed.
Elemental Portals. Crevasses on the ocean floor within 1
Horseshoes of a Zephyr
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Magic Items
Basic Rules (2014)
These iron horseshoes come in a set of four. While all four shoes are affixed to the hooves of a horse or similar creature, they allow the creature to move normally while floating 4 inches above the
ground. This effect means the creature can cross or stand above non-solid or unstable surfaces, such as water or lava. The creature leaves no tracks and ignores difficult terrain. In addition, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Bittergrass Fen Features The fen has features the characters can use to their advantage in a confrontation with the borthak: Floating Boulders. The boulders floating above the stone pillars are held
aloft by ancient druidic magic. Casting Dispel Magic on a boulder causes it to fall and tumble to the ground. As an action, a character within reach of a floating boulder can try to push it, doing so
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Bittergrass Fen Features The fen has features the characters can use to their advantage in a confrontation with the borthak: Floating Boulders. The boulders floating above the stone pillars are held
aloft by ancient druidic magic. Casting Dispel Magic on a boulder causes it to fall and tumble to the ground. As an action, a character within reach of a floating boulder can try to push it, doing so
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
move normally while floating 4 inches above the ground. This effect means the creature can cross or stand above nonsolid or unstable surfaces, such as water or lava. The creature leaves no tracks and
ignores difficult terrain. In addition, the creature can move at normal speed for up to 12 hours a day without suffering exhaustion from a forced march.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
move normally while floating 4 inches above the ground. This effect means the creature can cross or stand above nonsolid or unstable surfaces, such as water or lava. The creature leaves no tracks and
ignores difficult terrain. In addition, the creature can move at normal speed for up to 12 hours a day without suffering exhaustion from a forced march.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
move normally while floating 4 inches above the ground. This effect means the creature can cross or stand above nonsolid or unstable surfaces, such as water or lava. The creature leaves no tracks and
ignores difficult terrain. In addition, the creature can move at normal speed for up to 12 hours a day without suffering exhaustion from a forced march.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
move normally while floating 4 inches above the ground. This effect means the creature can cross or stand above nonsolid or unstable surfaces, such as water or lava. The creature leaves no tracks and
ignores difficult terrain. In addition, the creature can move at normal speed for up to 12 hours a day without suffering exhaustion from a forced march.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
normally while floating 4 inches above a surface. This effect means the creature can cross or stand above nonsolid or unstable surfaces, such as water or lava. The creature leaves no tracks and ignores
Difficult Terrain. In addition, the creature can travel for up to 12 hours a day without gaining Exhaustion levels from extended travel.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
normally while floating 4 inches above a surface. This effect means the creature can cross or stand above nonsolid or unstable surfaces, such as water or lava. The creature leaves no tracks and ignores
Difficult Terrain. In addition, the creature can travel for up to 12 hours a day without gaining Exhaustion levels from extended travel.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
normally while floating 4 inches above a surface. This effect means the creature can cross or stand above nonsolid or unstable surfaces, such as water or lava. The creature leaves no tracks and ignores
Difficult Terrain. In addition, the creature can travel for up to 12 hours a day without gaining Exhaustion levels from extended travel.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
normally while floating 4 inches above a surface. This effect means the creature can cross or stand above nonsolid or unstable surfaces, such as water or lava. The creature leaves no tracks and ignores
Difficult Terrain. In addition, the creature can travel for up to 12 hours a day without gaining Exhaustion levels from extended travel.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Tenser’s Floating Disk Level 1 Conjuration (Wizard) Casting Time: Action
Range: 30 feet
Components: V, S, M (a drop of mercury)
Duration: 1 Hour
This spell creates a circular, horizontal
feet away from it, the disk follows you so that it remains within 20 feet of you. It can move across uneven terrain, up or down stairs, slopes and the like, but it can’t cross an elevation change of 10
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Tenser’s Floating Disk Level 1 Conjuration (Wizard) Casting Time: Action or Ritual
Range: 30 feet
Components: V, S, M (a drop of mercury)
Duration: 1 hour
This spell creates a circular
than 20 feet away from it, the disk follows you so that it remains within 20 feet of you. It can move across uneven terrain, up or down stairs, slopes and the like, but it can’t cross an elevation
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Tenser’s Floating Disk Level 1 Conjuration (Wizard) Casting Time: Action
Range: 30 feet
Components: V, S, M (a drop of mercury)
Duration: 1 Hour
This spell creates a circular, horizontal
feet away from it, the disk follows you so that it remains within 20 feet of you. It can move across uneven terrain, up or down stairs, slopes and the like, but it can’t cross an elevation change of 10
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Tenser’s Floating Disk 1st-level conjuration (ritual) Casting Time: 1 action Range: 30 feet Components: V, S, M (a drop of mercury) Duration: 1 hour This spell creates a circular, horizontal plane of
away from it, the disk follows you so that it remains within 20 feet of you. It can move across uneven terrain, up or down stairs, slopes and the like, but it can’t cross an elevation change of 10 feet
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Tenser’s Floating Disk Level 1 Conjuration (Wizard) Casting Time: Action or Ritual
Range: 30 feet
Components: V, S, M (a drop of mercury)
Duration: 1 hour
This spell creates a circular
than 20 feet away from it, the disk follows you so that it remains within 20 feet of you. It can move across uneven terrain, up or down stairs, slopes and the like, but it can’t cross an elevation
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
: Cyclical System. Each floating island in the void has its own gravity and terrain. The writer posits that their erratic drifting might be part of a larger cycle or system. Easily Avoidable Trap. The
Empty Bridge This location is presented on map 8.3. Mike Schley Map 8.3: Empty Bridge A river of dark water, thirty feet wide, flows around this floating nodule like a ring. A flat stone bridge
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
: Cyclical System. Each floating island in the void has its own gravity and terrain. The writer posits that their erratic drifting might be part of a larger cycle or system. Easily Avoidable Trap. The
Empty Bridge This location is presented on map 8.3. Mike Schley Map 8.3: Empty Bridge A river of dark water, thirty feet wide, flows around this floating nodule like a ring. A flat stone bridge
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Tenser’s Floating Disk 1st-level conjuration (ritual) Casting Time: 1 action Range: 30 feet Components: V, S, M (a drop of mercury) Duration: 1 hour This spell creates a circular, horizontal plane of
away from it, the disk follows you so that it remains within 20 feet of you. It can move across uneven terrain, up or down stairs, slopes and the like, but it can’t cross an elevation change of 10 feet
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Empyrean Iota Empyrean iotas are the thoughts, memories, or indirect attentions of deities personified and given a measure of autonomy. Resembling floating glyphs, motes of color, icons of divinity
move through other creatures and objects as if they were Difficult Terrain. It takes 5 (1d10) Force damage if it ends its turn inside an object.
Magic Resistance. The empyrean has Advantage on saving
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
cobblestones, the cold air with the smell of rain, and a sense of mystery and lurking danger. The climate and terrain of a settlement’s environment, its origin and inhabitants, its government and political
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Empyrean Iota Empyrean iotas are the thoughts, memories, or indirect attentions of deities personified and given a measure of autonomy. Resembling floating glyphs, motes of color, icons of divinity
move through other creatures and objects as if they were Difficult Terrain. It takes 5 (1d10) Force damage if it ends its turn inside an object.
Magic Resistance. The empyrean has Advantage on saving
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
cobblestones, the cold air with the smell of rain, and a sense of mystery and lurking danger. The climate and terrain of a settlement’s environment, its origin and inhabitants, its government and political
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
in an ancient war where thousands of soldiers were annihilated in a devastating magical assault.
8 Gravity does not function as expected in the area, which might manifest as giant floating earth
motes or similar terrain.
9 An enormous tree—possibly the oldest living organism in the world—grows at the heart of the area.
10 A god left a profound impression on the site during an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
into the water around it. The water within 210 feet of the ship is difficult terrain for everything other than this ship. Death Vessel Crafted with materials harvested from the Shadowfell, this upgrade
immune to cold damage but vulnerable to fire damage. The ship can also move at its normal speed over ice of any thickness, floating on the ice at the same depth as it would in water. Living Vessel This
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
in an ancient war where thousands of soldiers were annihilated in a devastating magical assault.
8 Gravity does not function as expected in the area, which might manifest as giant floating earth
motes or similar terrain.
9 An enormous tree—possibly the oldest living organism in the world—grows at the heart of the area.
10 A god left a profound impression on the site during an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
into the water around it. The water within 210 feet of the ship is difficult terrain for everything other than this ship. Death Vessel Crafted with materials harvested from the Shadowfell, this upgrade
immune to cold damage but vulnerable to fire damage. The ship can also move at its normal speed over ice of any thickness, floating on the ice at the same depth as it would in water. Living Vessel This
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Mire of Doubt This location is presented on map 8.4. Mike Schley Map 8.4: Mire of Doubt View Player Version This floating nodule is covered with trees with sheets of moss hanging from the branches
this small island. The sucking mire off the winding path is difficult terrain. Mezzoloths from the Wailing Battlefield made an exploratory attack on this nodule a short time ago, but the nagas
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Mire of Doubt This location is presented on map 8.4. Mike Schley Map 8.4: Mire of Doubt View Player Version This floating nodule is covered with trees with sheets of moss hanging from the branches
this small island. The sucking mire off the winding path is difficult terrain. Mezzoloths from the Wailing Battlefield made an exploratory attack on this nodule a short time ago, but the nagas
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
The Nematode The Nematode is unique among the floating nodules; it is an animate if lethargic creature, akin to a brain parasite on a massive scale, rather than an inert nodule. It is mostly inert
now and functions as terrain. It fully rouses only every few decades. This nodule is tube-shaped with a massive cave at one end. Several heaps of rust-colored moss speckle its slimy surface.
The






