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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
, guardians of the sacred, and counterbalances to the forces of evil.
Ki-rins are an embodiment of good, and simply beholding one can evoke fear or awe in an observer. A typical ki-rin looks like a
reveres and the function each typically performs in service to that god. Some resemble gigantic unicorns; these are often used as guardians. Others have draconic features and tend to be aggressive foes
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Curse of Strahd
academy of black magic. Alternatively, some liches construct secret tombs filled with powerful guardians and traps.
Everything about a lich’s lair reflects its keen mind and wicked cunning, including
grown weak and forgetful. He no longer remembers his name or his spells.Exethanter’s Lair
A lich often haunts the abode it favored in life, such as a lonely tower, a haunted ruin, or an
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
);{"diceNotation":"6d6","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Disrupt Life","rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.A Lich’s Lair
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lich often haunts the abode it favored in life, such as a lonely tower, a haunted ruin, or an academy of black magic. Alternatively, some liches construct secret tombs filled with powerful guardians
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Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
"} bludgeoning damage and is knocked prone. On a successful save, a creature takes half as much damage and isn’t knocked prone.More than mere waterway guardians, riverines are embodiments of particular
from—some are lethargic while others are wild and reckless.A Riverine’s Lair
Some riverines enjoy reverence akin to worship. Their likenesses are cast as statues and housed in temples
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
through the golem’s form.
Dragonbone golems’ resilience and obedience make them excellent lair guardians for their dragon creators, and their supernaturally fearsome presence is a strong deterrent against intrusion.Poison
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
one level of exhaustion.Belashyrra makes its lair in the Citadel of Lidless Eyes deep in Khyber, a site that appears to have been molded from molten stone, chitin, and flesh. Across its warped and
to the Lord of Eyes. It’s rumored that anyone who sits on the citadel’s throne can see through the eyes of any sentient creature on Eberron or in Khyber. If encountered in its lair
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
of several individuals and their offspring, usually led by a dominant adult that also tends to be the oldest member of the group. When on the hunt away from their lair, girallons use roars and body
appearance and attraction to ruins lead sages to believe they were created through magic to serve as guardians for some lost empire. When that empire fell ages ago, girallons turned feral and spread
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
, command, inflict wounds, ray of sickness
2nd level (3 slots): blindness/deafness, ray of enfeeblement, spiritual weapon
3rd level (3 slots): animate dead, bestow curse, dispel magic, spirit guardians
stranger to hardship. Hoping to make a better life for herself, she became an adventurer and sought fame and fortune in Undermountain. Keresta met her end in the lair of a vampire and became a vampire spawn
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
call from beyond this world. I must prepare to answer that call by amassing powerful arms and armor.
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I secretly look forward to adventurers trying to infiltrate my lair. How else could I try
’s lair.
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Powerful infernal creatures have opened a portal in the middle of a city square. The key to closing the portal is a mythical holy weapon that happens to be the pride and joy of a
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
close as he wishes. Closed doors can be magically locked (needing a successful DC 20 Strength check to force open) until Strahd chooses to end the effect, or until Strahd uses this lair action again
Sorrow to absorb damage is suppressed if it or Strahd is fully within an antimagic field.Lair Actions
While Strahd is in Castle Ravenloft, he can take lair actions as long as he isn’t
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Basic Rules (2014)
+ 2);{"diceNotation":"2d8+2","rollType":"heal","rollAction":"Heal Self"} hit points.A Unicorn’s Lair
A unicorn’s lair might be an ancient ruin overgrown with vines, a misty clearing
closed lanterns are unaffected.
Creatures native to the unicorn’s domain have an easier time hiding; they have advantage on all Dexterity (Stealth) checks made to hide.
When a good-aligned creature
Lich
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);{"diceNotation":"6d6","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Disrupt Life","rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.A Lich’s Lair
A lich often
haunts the abode it favored in life, such as a lonely tower, a haunted ruin, or an academy of black magic. Alternatively, some liches construct secret tombs filled with powerful guardians and traps
Valindra Shadowmantle
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Tomb of Annihilation
a lonely tower, a haunted ruin, or an academy of black magic. Alternatively, some liches construct secret tombs filled with powerful guardians and traps.
Everything about a lich’s lair
the meantime, they might weaken some of Omu’s defenses.A Lich’s Lair
Valindra can’t take lair actions in the Heart of Ubtao.
A lich often haunts the abode it favored in life, such as
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
Aasimar are placed in the world to serve as guardians of law and good. Their patrons expect them to strike at evil, lead by example, and further the cause of justice.
From an early age, an aasimar
the chance.
When traveling, aasimar prefer hoods, closed helms, and other gear that allows them to conceal their identities. They nevertheless have no compunction about striking openly at evil. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sleeping Dragon’s Wake
druids revere Claugiyliamatar, calling themselves the Gnawbones. They live in the lair, caring for the cave’s guardians and doing anything else the dragon demands. The druids have been on edge recently
due to increasing undead attacks and the mounting frustration of Claugiyliamatar. Each day more of Ularan Mortus’s undead minions journey through Kryptgarden Forest and attack Claugiyliamatar’s lair
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
powerful guardians and traps. Everything about a lich’s lair reflects its keen mind and wicked cunning, including the magic and mundane traps that secure it. Undead, constructs, and bound demons lurk in
A Lich’s Lair A lich often haunts the abode it favored in life, such as a lonely tower, a haunted ruin, or an academy of black magic. Alternatively, some liches construct secret tombs filled with
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
Mephit Lair Features The cave has the following features: Ceilings. The cave’s ceilings are 10 feet high. Door. The door to area B8 is made from reinforced wood; it’s closed but unlocked. Environment
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
describes additional encounters you can use in the course of the adventure, including a magical hot spring with mysterious guardians at the site of a brass dragon’s death. Chapter 2, “Seagrow Caves
that blue dragon’s grandson has made his lair. There they’ll also find a bronze wyrmling who rejected Runara’s teachings of peace, now held prisoner in the blue dragon’s lair.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Four Elements Difficulty: Hard This puzzle might appear anywhere elementals of earth, air, fire, and water serve as guardians. If the puzzle isn’t solved correctly, one or more of these guardian
force of one of the four elements. Four nine-foot-tall, stone statues of elementals line the far wall across from the closed door. Above the statues is a row of square tiles with triangular symbols
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
is long gone, her lair is anything but empty. Demons, dragons, and other formidable creatures haunt the perilous caverns and the mountains that conceal them, and the archmage’s untold defenses remain
inhabitants. Abyssal rifts—the byproducts of past magical experiments—leak demonic energy into the tunnels, and guardians bound from faraway planes await rescue or defend the caverns from thieves and
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
3H, I, J. Spiders’ Lair The top level of the northeast tower is the lair of five giant spiders. They hunt in the swamp at night and return to the tower to rest during the days, entering through a
their recesses. A trapdoor is closed across the steps from area 2K and jammed shut with two iron spikes driven between the door and the frame. See the description of area 2K for notes about opening the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
3H, I, J. Spiders’ Lair The top level of the northeast tower is the lair of five giant spiders. They hunt in the swamp at night and return to the tower to rest during the days, entering through a
their recesses. A trapdoor is closed across the steps from area 2K and jammed shut with two iron spikes driven between the door and the frame. See the description of area 2K for notes about opening the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
, these animals help the kobolds with pest control and are occasionally used as food. Giant rats and similarly sized lizards are also used as pack animals and guardians. Some tribes train giant weasels to
serve as mounts or guardians, relying on their speed, keen senses, and ability to fit in kobold-sized tunnels. Other tribes use giant bats as mounts and guard animals, but the bats require a lot of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Balhannoth Native to the Shadowfell, the vicious, predatory balhannoth alters reality in its lair to make the place appear inviting to travelers. Once they step inside, the balhannoth springs its
its victims. Useful Slaves. Drow hunting parties and other denizens of the Underdark sometimes venture into the Shadowfell to capture balhannoths. They install the creatures as guardians, protecting passages from enemy intruders and cutting off avenues of retreat or watching over slaves.
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
to undertake a task in a closed-off area of the old city known as Rockblight, where the temple of his god stands desecrated. If the characters agree, he gives them a ruby spell gem (see appendix B
them. They must defeat these servants until the gem awakens three temple guardians, at which point the temple will be cleansed and the characters can leave. Once the characters accomplish this task
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
fortune in Undermountain. Keresta met her end in the lair of a vampire and became a vampire spawn under its command. After Vanrak destroyed the vampire and conquered its lair, he took Keresta under his
enfeeblement, spiritual weapon 3rd level (3 slots): animate dead, bestow curse, dispel magic, spirit guardians 4th level (3 slots): blight, death ward, divination 5th level (1 slot): antilife shell
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sleeping Dragon’s Wake
Arrival As the characters approach Claugiyliamatar’s lair, read the following boxed text aloud to set the scene: A few scattered pine trees stand before a vine-covered cliff. Two large cave openings
guardians created from humanoid remains by Claugiyliamatar, hide behind vines and watch the nearby forest from area C1. If the wood woads notice the characters attempting to enter the cave, they climb
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Dragon Lair Features The brass dragon lair shown in map 5.4 is an ancient ruin located within rough, stony canyons in a desert environment. The lair has the following features: Column Guardians. Massive
for lair sites, but are more likely to make a lair among rocks than to burrow under the sands. Brass dragons like their lairs to be spacious and well lit; many lairs feature windows or skylights to let
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
-rins are celebrated far and wide as harbingers of destiny, guardians of the sacred, and counterbalances to the forces of evil. Ki-rins are an embodiment of good, and simply beholding one can evoke
vary in appearance based on the deity each one reveres and the function each typically performs in service to that god. Some resemble gigantic unicorns; these are often used as guardians. Others have
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
: a beholder guarding a treasure vault (area 44) and an aboleth lurking in an underground lake (area 65). These creatures can’t use lair actions within the tomb, and the regional effects of each
creature’s lair are localized to the levels where they dwell. Despite being the dungeon’s creator, Acererak doesn’t count the Tomb of the Nine Gods as his lair. Consequently, no lair actions or regional
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Hag Lair Actions If a hag is a grandmother, she gains a set of lair actions appropriate to her nature, knowledge, and history. A coven that includes a grandmother can use her lair actions as well
, but the grandmother’s will prevails — if one of the coven attempts this sort of action and the grandmother disapproves, nothing happens. A powerful auntie (or her coven) might also have access to lair
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
Balhannoth Native to the Shadowfell, the vicious, predatory balhannoth alters reality in its lair to make the place appear inviting to travelers. A limited form of telepathy enables a balhannoth to
feed on their fear and despair. Dungeon builders and Underdark tyrants sometimes venture into the Shadowfell to capture balhannoths for use as guardians. Balhannoth
Large Aberration, Typically
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Mind Flayer Augmentations Some mind flayer colonies augment their thralls with nonmagical gear to make them more effective as lair guardians and bodyguards. Two examples of mind flayer augmentations
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
protective guard in response to a recent attack against the family member of another King of Coin. But he slipped past his guardians, intent on reveling amid the March of Vice. Last night, Zenia Ruba
directions to an establishment owned by Zenia’s family, a tavern called the Thornapple, where Zenia is under guard. Zenia’s directions avoid several streets closed by festivities and lead through the
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
, many are captured and kept by unscrupulous folk seeking guardians for their treasures. The remains of Petrified creatures litter the area where a basilisk hunts. These might be mundane creatures or
grounds. There is a 50 percent chance that any of these statues are missing limbs or broken into pieces. Rule 4: No one carves statues of frightened warriors. If you see one, keep your eyes closed and your