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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
the creation of an allip. Secrets protected in this manner range in scope from a demon lord’s true name to the hidden truths of the cosmic order. The creature acquires the secret, but the curse
allip’s choice that the allip can see. Constructs and Undead are immune to this effect.When a creature uncovers a secret that a powerful being has protected with a mighty curse, the result is often
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures
sense (rats only), druidcraft, entangle
1/day each: animal messenger (rats only), stinking cloudWhen ogres first moved into the wilds of Eldraine, they encountered all manner of unfamiliar creatures
nearby settlements, an ogre chitterlord often leads the way, calling rats from the alleys and sewers to harry townsfolk from within the city while the ogres lay siege to the outer walls. Should their
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
desired above all. She told him of a vault of forbidden lore called the Amber Temple, where the secret of gaining immortality was hidden. While Strahd was off exploring the temple, Rahadin handled
, found Tatyana.
Tatyana was Strahd's type—a woman of exquisite beauty and gentle manner. When Strahd returned to Ravenloft, the young woman instantly caught his eye, and Rahadin had the pleasure of
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
worshipers to enact its will beyond the Abyss. The exact nature of the curse that binds Aurnozci to Xulregg is its cult’s most closely guarded secret, fully known only to the faith’s enigmatic
in consumption. Periodically, the Eye of Aurnozci communes with their horrifying master or leads a ceremony of propitiation in the Firehive. In combat, Aurnozci screeches horribly and attacks any
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
, which sometimes leads nearby frost giant;frost giants and white dragons to put aside their mutual enmity to hunt them.
Glittering Hoards
For their treasure hoards, crystal dragons prize diamonds and
spirit of their glacier home. Such worship amuses and flatters the dragon, who keeps the hunters safe and leads them to locations where seals are plentiful.
Crystal Dragon Lairs
Crystal dragons
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
leads nearby frost giant;frost giants and white dragons to put aside their mutual enmity to hunt them.
Glittering Hoards
For their treasure hoards, crystal dragons prize diamonds and baubles that
blinds and secret passages throughout their lairs, allowing them to move easily—and potentially unnoticed.
The challenge rating of a legendary crystal dragon increases by 1 when it’s
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Realm, an ancient amethyst dragon has been corrupted by aberrant influences and now leads a cult the dragon once opposed.
Amethyst Dragon Lairs
Amethyst dragons prefer lairs near water
, one in the rock face just above one tarn and one below the surface of the other tarn. The dragon uses the underwater passage as a secret entrance and emergency exit.
Main Caves. The lair is a complex
Equipment
. Among a local guild of sages from the Coastal Highlands there are those that claim to know the secret of releasing the coil in a less forceful manner. The flower grows on a kind of ivy that links monkey coil flowers together into a lattice that farmers often plant in place of hedgerows.
Species
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
and established House Phiarlan in Khorvaire. These elves are expert entertainers, giving them access to all manner of places and secrets. Known to few, there has always been an elite force of spies and
acting. Baron Elvinor Elorrenthi leads the house from the last of those, the Demesne of Shadow, which is located in Sharn. The hydra serves as House Phiarlan’s emblem.
Lizardfolk
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
smooth-skins is far greater.
Despite their alien outlook, some lizardfolk make an effort to understand and, in their own manner, befriend people of other races. Such lizardfolk make faithful and
aggression toward creatures that they could defeat in a fight and that can’t be dealt with in some other manner. They are aggressive toward prey they want to eat, creatures that want to harm them, and
Species
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
or raw meat
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Cerebral spinal fluid
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Psychic energy
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Dreams
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Life energy
Dhampir Origins
Dhampirs often arise from encounters with vampires, but all manner of
, but dread what would happen if others in your insular community found out.
Darkon. The Kargat, this shattered domain’s secret police, supposedly know the secret of immortality. Perhaps you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Nemesis Their adherence to a sacred oath demands that paladins take an active stance in carrying their beliefs into the world. This activity naturally leads to conflict with creatures or entities
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
proliferation of secret societies and conspiracies in those lands. If your background is as an agent for one of the main factions of the North and Sword Coast, here are some possibilities.
The Harpers
from many walks of life, setting them to tasks that serve the goals of the Black Network but aren’t necessarily criminal in nature. Agents of the Black Network must often work in secret, and are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
The God-Brain’s Torment The God-Brain of Bluetspur is an entirely unreliable cosmic entity, an immortal inflicted with mortality. Although its death is likely still millennia away, this inevitability leads it to hastily indulge all manner of amoral extremes.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
15. Secret Door A secret door here leads to a hallway beyond. The door is unlocked and can be found with a successful DC 18 Wisdom (Perception) check.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Adventurers’ Guild Your group has ties to a network of professional adventurers. These experts share contacts, resources, and leads on all manner of unusual and often dangerous work. Joining such a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata
T9. Chamber of Moving Stones (p. 159) In the “Secret Door” subsection, “leads to the quarry pit in Mellikho Stoneworks (Red Larch, area 18)” is now “leads to a wooden shed in the yard behind Waelvur’s Wagonworks (Red Larch, area 16).”
Kenku
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
. Others strike out on their own in search of the secrets of flight, to master magic, or to uncover the secret of their curse and find a method to break it.
Kenku adventurers, despite their relative
.
Kenku thieves, con artists, and burglars adopt animal noises, typically those common in urban settings. In this manner, kenku can call out to each other while those who overhear them mistake them for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
huge altar there.)
Alcoves. Six dark alcoves line the walls. (At the back of one is a secret door that opens into a closet, which has another secret door that leads to area 40.)
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
slain peryton. One berserker leads the way while the other two carry the dead peryton between them. As the characters emerge from the cave, they see the berserkers on the causeway. More important
, the berserkers see them unless the characters took precautions to leave the cave in a stealthy manner. The berserkers gain no benefit from the Frostmaiden’s fire (see area Q5) while they’re on the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
T9: West Tunnel This L-shaped hall leads from area T5 to a double door into the dining hall (area T7). Secret Door. A secret door in the north wall stands ajar and requires no ability check to spot
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
6. Armory The door to this room is locked from the outside. Across from the locked door is a secret door that leads to area 7. For more information on locked doors and secret doors, see the “General
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
to area 1 on the map, and the secret entrance leads to area 23. Adventurers are most likely to enter the temple as infiltrators or captives. If they’ve forged an alliance with the Red Wizards in chapter 3, they’ll be looking for Zagmira’s spy in the temple harem (area 10).
Getting Inside The two entrances to the yuan-ti temple are located amid the ruins of Omu’s royal palace (see chapter 3, area 20). Map 4.1 provides an overview of the temple. The main entrance leads
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
. Decrease the DC by 5 if the door is made of glass or amber, or if the door is weakened in some manner (such as by rot or corrosion).
Secret Doors. If there are obvious clues to a secret door’s presence
of fog. THE LANDS OF BAROVIA: COMMON FEATURES
Unless the text says otherwise, the following rules apply to doors, secret doors, locks, and webs in these lands.
Doors. A wooden door can be forced
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
shaped like a goat’s rotting head and clutches a ring of keys.
This L-shaped hall leads from area T5 to a double door into the ritual chamber (area T11). Secret Door. Set into the north wall, a secret
door (see “ Temple Features”) leads to the main temple (area T13). Skeletal Remains. See “Temple Features” for more on the skeletal remains here. Treasure. The inanimate skeleton next to the double
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
of warriors in training. The chamber contains the following: Githyanki. A female githyanki knight named Saziq leads six githyanki warriors (three females and three males) in weapon drills.
Training
Equipment. Thirty straw dummies shaped like illithids are arranged throughout the cavern. Racks of ropes and weights line the walls.
Secret Trapdoor. A secret trapdoor in the 30-foot-high ceiling
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
south wall, behind the hanging mirror west of the wardrobe, is a secret door. It can be pulled open to reveal a closet choked with dust and cobwebs and that contains a wooden ladder that leads up 20 feet to another secret door in the tower stairway (area K20). The staircase leads down to area K24.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
of the hall has collapsed, and a secret door in the north wall pushes open to reveal a hallway that leads to areas 21 and 18b.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Door A secret door in the wall of the tunnel that leads south can be found with a successful DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check.
or otherwise make a lot of noise here, the goblin sentries in areas Q2a and Q2b awaken and shoot arrows at them through the arrow slits. The slits provide the goblins with three-quarters cover. Secret
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a7
17. Magical Secret Door This entrance to the remainder of the tomb is on the wall adjoining the stairway that leads down. It can be found by mundane means, requiring a successful DC 20 Wisdom
aura (abjuration). After the magic of the door is identified, a dispel magic or remove curse spell is needed to remove the guard that prevents the door from being opened. Once this is accomplished, the secret door can be opened easily from either side.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
lots of worthless clutter. The halflings haven’t noticed the secret tunnel that leads to the Xanathar Guild hideout; it’s concealed beneath a large flagstone that requires a Strength score of 10 or
higher to be lifted. Development If the characters ascend out of the cellar and enter the Peabodys’ small house, the halflings are initially alarmed but can be easily calmed. Upon learning of the secret trapdoor, they vow to seal it up again but allow the characters to make use of it if the need arises.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a7
wall of solid stone behind the false door hides a secret door, which can be found with a successful DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check. Secret Trapdoor. On the other side of the secret door is a secret
which emerges at area 24. 23A. Knockout Corridor If the characters don’t find the tunnel or choose not to follow it, they move through a door that leads east and then come upon a set of double doors in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
14. Dead End? This 15-foot-high cave extends beneath area 15. It contains the following features: Web Cables. Web cables crisscross the tunnel that leads into this area.
Rock Formation. A 10-foot
-high, 10-foot-wide rock formation shaped like a huge clawed hand thrusts up from the floor in the west end of the cave. (A secret door is built into the ceiling directly above the claw.)
The claw is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
south in the same manner. A cold wind blows from the south tunnel, generated above the subterranean lake the stream flows into (accessed via area 30 or area 39). Numerous barrels, casks, and buckets
within it, and leads back to the underground spring that is the stream’s source. The tunnel to the south is higher, leaving an ample air space along which the brisk wind is channeled. Characters can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
have engineered the access tunnels in such a way that only one known entrance leads to the mine complex, and this entrance is defended by four galeb duhr disguised to look like ordinary boulders and
caverns where the svirfneblin harvest all manner of gems. All the main routes to Blingdenstone intersect near the mine complex’s main entrance, meaning the characters are likely to pass it before






