master stored with only after for for layer

Demonomicon of Iggwilv

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

the Dungeon Master’s Guide): 2 minor beneficial properties 1 minor detrimental property 1 major detrimental property Spells. The book has 8 charges and regains 1d8 expended charges daily

those hours pass, anyone who opens the book’s remaining binding is transported to a nascent layer of the Abyss that lies hidden within the book. At the heart of this deadly, semisentient domain

Aurnozci

Monsters The Book of Many Things

, or half as much damage on a successful one.The demon lord Aurnozci is a wormlike horror of fiery flesh and toxic seepage. In its present form, Aurnozci can’t leave Xulregg, the Abyssal layer

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

Orcus Legacy

Monsters Out of the Abyss

chapter 7, "Treasure” of the Dungeon Master’s Guide.Orcus’s Lair Orcus makes his lair in the fortress city of Naratyr, which is on Thanatos, the layer of the Abyss that he rules

. Master of Undeath. When Orcus casts animate dead or create undead, he chooses the level at which the spell is cast, and the creatures created by the spells remain under his control indefinitely

Alkilith

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

portal to a random layer of the Abyss. Amorphous. The alkilith can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing. False Appearance. If the alkilith is motionless at the start of

becomes a portal to that plane (see “Planar Portals” in the Dungeon Master’s Guide). Alkiliths spring from cast-off bits of the hideous, shuddering body of Juiblex. They gradually become

Demogorgon

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

":"necrotic"} necrotic damage. Cast a Spell (Costs 2 Actions). Demogorgon uses Spellcasting.Prince of Demons, the Sibilant Beast, and Master of the Spiraling Depths, Demogorgon is the embodiment of

long to delirium. As a result, all followers of the Prince of Demons break with reality sooner or later.Demogorgon’s Lair Demogorgon makes his lair in a palace called Abysm, found on a layer

Orcus

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Dungeon Master’s Guide.Orcus’s Lair Orcus makes his lair in the fortress city of Naratyr, which is on Thanatos, the layer of the Abyss that he rules. Surrounded by a moat fed by the

. Master of Undeath. Orcus can cast animate dead (at will) and create undead (3/day). He chooses the level at which the spells are cast, and the creatures created by them remain under his control

Baphomet Legacy

Monsters Out of the Abyss

places to indulge themselves, including labyrinths of the sort their master favors. Bloodstained crowns and weapons of iron and brass decorate their profane altars. Over time, Baphomet’s

’s lair is his palace, the Lyktion, which is on the layer of the Abyss called the Endless Maze. Nestled within the twisting passages of the plane-wide labyrinth, the Lyktion is immaculately

Demogorgon Legacy

Monsters Out of the Abyss

"} necrotic damage. Maddening Gaze. Demogorgon uses his Gaze action, and must choose either the Beguiling Gaze or the Insanity Gaze effect.Prince of Demons, the Sibilant Beast, and Master of the

in a palace called Abysm, found on a layer of the Abyss known as the Gaping Maw. Demogorgon’s lair is a place of madness and duality; the portion of the palace that lies above water takes the

Yeenoghu Legacy

Monsters Out of the Abyss

. Those that ate of great Yeenoghu’s kills became gnoll;gnolls, emulating their master’s ways. Few others worship the Beast of Butchery, but those who do tend to take on a gnoll-like aspect

of civilization on his layer of the Abyss. Lair Actions On initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), Yeenoghu can take a lair action to cause one of the following effects; he can’t use the

Zuggtmoy Legacy

Monsters Out of the Abyss

harmless promises offered by exotic spores and mushrooms, but quickly consumes them, body and soul. Sharing a layer of the Abyss with Juiblex, plus their mutual insatiable hunger, has made the two demon

madness, which is a character flaw that lasts until cured. See the Dungeon Master’s Guide for more on madness. Madness of Zuggtmoy d100 Flaw (lasts until cured) 01–20

Juiblex

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

layer of the Abyss, which is also known as Shedaklah, is a bubbling morass of fetid sludge. The landscape is covered in vast expanses of caustic slimes, and strange organic forms rise from the oceans of

of the following lair actions; it can’t take the same lair action two rounds in a row: Green Slime. A green slime (see the Dungeon Master’s Guide) appears on a spot on the ceiling that

Baphomet

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Baphomet use mazes and complex knots as their emblems. They create secret places to indulge themselves, including labyrinths of the sort their master favors. Bloodstained crowns and weapons of iron and

beast.Baphomet’s Lair Baphomet’s lair is his palace, the Lyktion, which is on the layer of the Abyss called the Endless Maze. Nestled within the twisting passages of the planewide labyrinth

Ring of Winter

Magic Items Tomb of Annihilation

Artus Cimber has kept this item in his possession for over a century. The Ring of Winter is a golden band that resizes to fit snugly on the finger of its wearer. A thin layer of frost coats

the ring. The Ring of Winter is sentient and tries to take control of any creature that wears it (see “Sentient Magic Items” in chapter 7 of the Dungeon Master’s

Juiblex Legacy

Monsters Out of the Abyss

known as the Slime Pits, a realm which Juiblex shares with Zuggtmoy. This layer of the Abyss, which is also known as Shedaklah, is a bubbling morass of oozing, fetid sludge. Its landscape is covered

Master’s Guide for more on madness. Madness of Juiblex d100 Flaw (lasts until cured) 01–20 “I must consume everything I can!” 21–40 “I

Crook of Rao

Magic Items Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

;potentially for the final time. Random Properties. The artifact has the following random properties, which you can determine by rolling on the tables in the "Artifacts" section of the Dungeon Master

years to complete, at the end of which the gate becomes a permanent portal to Pazunia, the first layer of the Abyss. Destroying or Repairing the Crook. The Crook of Rao can either be destroyed or

Demonomicon of Iggwilv Legacy

Magic Items Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

in the “Artifacts” section of the Dungeon Master’s Guide: 2 minor beneficial properties 1 minor detrimental property 1 major detrimental property Spells. The book has 8

pages. If this occurs, the pages reappear after 24 hours. Before all those hours pass, anyone who opens the book’s remaining binding is transported to a nascent layer of the Abyss that lies hidden

Deck of Several Things

Magic Items Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

Stored in a leather pouch, this unique deck contains twenty-two colored cards made of some strong but unknown metal, each of which features a design printed as a mosaic of raised dots. Before you

or at any other point during the adventure. Flames. The Grand Master of the Monastery of the Distressed Body becomes your enemy. The bone devil seeks your ruin, savoring your suffering before

Wand of Orcus Legacy

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

Plane in the stasis of undeath. Orcus allows the wand to slip from his grasp from time to time. When it does, it magically appears wherever its master senses an opportunity to achieve some fell goal

’s desire to slay everything in the multiverse. The wand is cold, cruel, nihilistic, and bereft of humor. In order to further its master’s goals, the wand feigns devotion to its current

Dark Duchess Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

the Captain’s Cabin. The door to area D8 is covered in a thick layer of ice, which the characters need to remove if they want to get inside. Using a miner’s pick or similar tool, a character can chip

Coast takes up most of one wall. This room contains two useful maps: the 6-foot-wide, 6-foot tall map of the Sword Coast hanging on the wall and a map of Icewind Dale stored in a map case that lies

The Infernal Hierarchy

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)

command legions of subordinates. A supreme tyrant, a brilliant deceiver, and a master of subtlety, Asmodeus protects his throne by keeping his friends close and his enemies closer. He delegates most

of sulfurous smoke or dissolves into a pool of ichor, instantly returning to its home layer, where it reforms at full strength. Devils that die in the Nine Hells are destroyed forever — a fate that

The Demonweb Connection

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

The Demonweb Connection Lolth’s personal realm is a layer of the Abyss known colloquially as the Demonweb Pits. Far from being intimidated by their deity’s connection to the Abyss, the drow revel in

but for the summoner’s entire house. A demon is the highest form of slave a drow house can own. There’s no better display of a house’s power than a demon kept shackled as it serves its master, and few

Revel's End Locations (R17-R23)

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

-fifth master switch opens or closes all the gates at once. Flipping one or more switches on the console requires an action. Light Control. A brass dial on the console controls the light level in area

finds one in the lid. It holds a wand of binding that the warden keeps for emergencies. R22. Warden’s Office Prison records are stored here in five locked wooden cabinets along the east wall. The

Areas of the Villa

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

. C21. Master Bedroom The door to this room is locked. The room contains the following noteworthy features: The walls are adorned with nine friezes, each one depicting a layer of the Nine Hells. A four

wardrobes, a small vanity with matching stool, and a storage trunk for valuables. CG8. Master Bedroom. This room has a balcony and contains a large canopied bed, a standing mirror in a gilded frame, a

Ziggurat Locations, Tier 4

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase

the west wall, just big enough for a Small creature to squeeze through. Here, a giant rat has stored its treasures: a corroded dagger, a purse containing 55 gp, and an unhatched ankheg egg. B33

trapdoor to the fifth tier (see area B40) and the ramp to the third tier (see area B27). B34: Master Thief’s Burial Room An elaborate jeweled coffin rests in the center of this otherwise bare room. A

Encounter Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries

bridges rises in the distance. A cloud of spores falls gently from the sky, covering everything in a fine layer of the substance. A tall creature beckons with a smile. Her body’s top half vaguely

huge pool of stagnant water fills this cave. Blooms of glowing green algae drift on the surface while tiny, white bioluminescent fish flit around in the water. The water has a layer of algae that

Locations on the Entrance Level

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6

servants to come to her aid. Treasure. One of the bronze caskets holds 400 cp, and the other one has 300 pp concealed beneath a layer of 100 cp. If the lid of the strongbox is opened by anyone but

thieves’ tools and making a successful DC 15 Dexterity check. Coffer 2 is locked. It contains 200 pp concealed beneath a layer of 500 cp. Coffer 3 is locked. It holds packets of leaves and seeds and husks

Roleplaying a Giant

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

clouds anymore, but most do reside atop high mountains, inside or even above a near-perpetual cloud layer. A select few — those at the apex of the clan’s ordning — claim the last of the ancient cloud

be displayed, and the more ostentatious the display, the better. In a cloud giant family’s home, extravagance is omnipresent. One might boast windows framed in gold leaf, rare perfume stored in vials

Bathhouse Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus

in clean towels. Bottles of perfume stored under the table are used to scent the pools in area D2. Natural light enters through a stained-glass window set into the south wall. During the hours in which

. The necromancer looming over the corpse is Flennis, a female human master of souls and the highest-ranking follower of Myrkul in the dungeon. Use the swarm of rats stat block in the Monster Manual to

Death House Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin

pushes open to reveal a cobweb-filled wooden staircase leading to the attic. D12a–D12c: Master Suite Burgundy drapes cover the windows of this large bedroom. The furnishings include a four-poster bed

anyone enters this room. The cult keeps “relics” in this chamber. These worthless items—human remains, mundane material components for spellcasting, and so forth—are stored in thirteen niches along the

Magical Phenomena

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

. Supernaturally powerful winds—like those from planes such as Pandemonium or Minethys, the third layer of Carceri—can spawn flaywinds. A flaywind is an intense sandstorm, gathering large rocks and other debris in

by eccentric wizards, and blessed groves touched by divine providence, plants can sometimes produce fruit bursting with primal magic. Not every fruit-bearing plant holds this stored magic, but those

Spaceship Locations, Level 1

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase

fungi as both a food source and a warning system. At each end of this corridor grows a 10-foot-wide fungal cluster containing four shriekers. Other fungi grow in a humus layer spread along the length of

600 gp each, two bracelets worth 200 gp and 150 gp respectively, and a jeweled necklace worth 800 gp. The skeleton carries a platinum key card. S19c: Master Bedroom. The furniture in this unremarkable

Command Level

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

Grandolpha’s guards have prepared, but the food has a thin layer of ash covering it that spoils the taste. Grandolpha doesn’t seem to mind, though. She also offers the characters a vile Muzgardt brew

mind master (see appendix C). If he hears suspicious activity outside his room, he shrinks to Tiny size and hides under the bed. The trunk is Durth’s longtime companion, an intelligent mimic that

Spire of Iriolarthas (Y19i-Y19hq)

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

double door. A glowing green crystal roughly the size of a human fist is set into the arch above the doorway. A hemispherical wall of force, its outside coated with a thin layer of ice, covers the shaft

Draconic script, that “Master Iriolarthas opens the door to his study when three or more of his apprentices—or those empowered by the goblet in the House of the Arcane—are seated correctly in the

Random Encounters

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd

without so much as a farewell. They wield light crossbows (+4 to hit, range 80/320 ft.) instead of longbows, dealing 6 (1d8 + 2) piercing damage on a hit. STRAHD'S SPIES As the undisputed master of

more of them succeeds, read: You spot a wolf trap, its steel jaws caked with rust. Someone has carefully hidden the trap under a thin layer of pine needles and detritus. Barovian hunters and trappers

Ziggurat Locations, Tiers 1–3

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase

only a second. Pottery Jars. Near the door stand three 4-foot-tall clay jars once used to put out fires in this room. The first contains sand. The others, which previously stored water, are empty. B8

Humanoids for five days. The five guardians each wear a brass mask of Gorm worth 10 gp. B12: Grand Master of Gorm Irina Nordsol The Guardians of Gorm drum up a musical storm in honor of Gorm, their stern

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