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Returning 25 results for 'mechanical some with only above from for let'.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
, but negotiates for passage if the characters speak to it. The gynosphinx appears to have suffered ancient injuries to its head, which have healed and been replaced by mechanical components. Both the
expedition, the enhanced sphinx was subsequently repaired with magical-mechanical parts — and (unknown to it) programmed by Kwalish to serve his needs and guard this location. The sphinx’s head is also
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
ask the question, pressing the sphinx into a strange loop of logic that forces her to let the characters pass. It’s also possible that the characters might wish to use the enhanced sphinx to ask a
toll. Restoring Old Debts. If the sphinx is slain, the mechanical items that circle around her (functioning as Ioun stones) might all be released. The life force they contain (in the form of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
lizardfolk guards heading out on patrol and monsters potentially breaking free and running amok. When that happens, keep a rough idea of where those guards and monsters might be heading, and let the
. Accustomed to inspiring fear, and having grown somewhat lazy in its guardian role, it is usually content to let foes flee from it rather than pursuing. Each time the characters finish a long rest in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
Acheron Incursion Reaching the gate to Acheron involves following a long tunnel to a massive mechanical lift. So long as the characters are with Major Kalar, the town guards don’t impede them. Read
invaders prepare ever-deadlier attacks. Before Battle The characters can inspect the gate to Acheron or speak to any of the soldiers at the gate. Major Kalar won’t let the characters attune the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
with attack rolls or only to saves? Potent Cantrip affects only cantrips that require a saving throw, such as acid splash and poison spray. Does the 14th-level illusionist ability let you make
narrative intent, however, is that the wizard is reading from their book, but the only mechanical requirement is that the wizard has the spell in their spellbook.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
and in Daoine Gloine (where Kwalish has used the magical-mechanical technology of the craft to set up his new lab). If the characters manage to secure a pair of such devices, you can let the players
impressive bits of technology from the crashed planar craft, teleportation-field devices consist of two matched magical-mechanical rings. Both rings channel the power of teleportation and flight, and were
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
secret agendas that might work against the characters’ interests. You can let the party’s size and the players’ interest in bringing NPCs into their group determine whether more than one of the
and kindly monodrone modron, Gearbox has been sent as an agent of Mechanus to investigate Kwalish’s works and experiments. Its mechanical body has been programmed with several unique utility powers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
fascinated — some say obsessed — with building mechanical wonders. Though they employed magic from time to time, the whole island smelled like sawdust, grease, and freshly scraped metal, as shop after shop
themselves, or mechanical arms that copy what a scribe is writing onto a second sheet of parchment. During my past visits there, I’d seen all of those and more with my own eyes. Were these gewgaws and trifles
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
almost mechanical in nature, and are crafted from repurposed magical-mechanical parts from the planar craft. Large rings seemingly crafted in the same way encircle the devil’s arms and tail. If a monk
Gloine. It offers to let the characters see them as well — in exchange for the “modest fee” of all the characters’ magic items, and one year of service from either the strongest or most intelligent
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
that thing, just put it on the rug there, open it as quietly as ye can, and let me die in peace.”
At that point, the characters hear a strange thump from within the crate. If Mirt is asked about the
, Mister Blip appears at the door: It’s difficult to tell, but the autognome looks worried. His bronze mustache hangs lower than usual, and his mechanical eyes have sunken in their sockets.
“With
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monstrous Compendium Volume Two
study various scientific pursuits to create mechanical marvels. Nevermind Gnome Inventor Brimming with innovative ideas and reckless enthusiasm, the inventors of Mount Nevermind love any chance to
skipping stones. Now, let me present the next stage in automated ascendancy: the cloud clinger!
Where is it, you ask? You’re seated in it! And in just three… two… one…
—Last words of inventor Meeka
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
bamboo or thatch walls with enormous windows to let in the breeze, under broad thatched or tiled eaves. All buildings are richly decorated with paint, ivy, and vivid flowers. Some are painted in
fountain or rain basin. With so much water running downhill, Chultans also make excellent use of water-driven mechanical gadgets. Many buildings have water wheels built into their cisterns. Rainwater
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
spread to his clothes.
Combat can feel very mechanical. I move 10 feet. I make an attack roll. I use a reaction. One way for the DM to encourage more cinematic action is to present a list of
some other benefit. The rogue needs to cross a room full of enemies and wants to swing on the chandelier? As the DM, I’d let them make a simple Dexterity (Acrobatics) check to avoid opportunity
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
winch.
A floor-to-ceiling iron cage in the middle of the room contains an elevator shaft with chains running up and down away from it. The chains are in constant motion, and you hear loud mechanical
, and strange Underdark fare. Lurking next to her is a small mechanical dragon made of a shiny black substance.
Hunched over a hot stove in the west side of the room are three duergar cooks. At the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
on the floor. Four mechanical constructs resembling wolf-sized, dog-headed cockroaches march in a circle around the perimeter of the cylinders.
The constructs are four skitterwidgets (see the end of
the room find a 4-inch-tall mechanical owlbear figurine (750 gp) tucked in the pocket of a leather apron. The key used for winding the figurine sticks out of the owlbear’s back. Using an action to wind
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
frenzied mechanical arms stretch and twist the brightly colored substance into ropes of taffy. Meanwhile, a third worker snips the taffy, wraps it, and sorts it by flavor into one of three buckets
doll smugly. “Kitchen’s cwosed.”
The doll, Bubba Wugga, is positioned in front of the double door and refuses to let visitors enter the kitchen (area C10), per Uncle Nibblecheek’s instructions
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
her parties. Lacking Watch tokens, Nysene’s guests face a night in the Citadel’s cells or worse if they’re caught in the Upper City after dark. They therefore have little choice but to let her and her
unparalleled wonders such as a steam-operated mechanical orchestra, a steam “dragon” powering a heavy engine for moving immense weights, and elaborate orreries and nautical tools. Small cards posted
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
her parties. Lacking Watch tokens, Nysene’s guests face a night in the Citadel’s cells or worse if they’re caught in the Upper City after dark. They therefore have little choice but to let her and her
unparalleled wonders such as a steam-operated mechanical orchestra, a steam “dragon” powering a heavy engine for moving immense weights, and elaborate orreries and nautical tools. Small cards posted
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
room with the statue, read: Inside this room, you can hear loud mechanical noises that seem to come from behind the south wall.
Standing in the middle of the room, facing the double door to the north
to be on Grandolpha’s side, the duergar that support her turn against their kin. If the characters let these duergar fight among themselves, five duergar survive the battle, all of them loyal to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a1
a single keyhole, situated in the rearing dragon’s open mouth.
Dragon Door. The door that is carved to look like a dragon has a mechanical lock as well as an arcane lock spell cast on it. The
lock for 10 minutes, lowering the DCs by 10 during that time. The mechanical lock remains intact if the magical lock is bypassed, requiring another knock spell or the use of the key. The key, which
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
— teaching many of them to read in the process — and then selling the notes directly. Today, Needle prints his broadsheets by the cartload, aided by mechanical scribes purchased from the Hall of Wonders and
breach of contract let the devils haul him screaming into the Nine Hells. Since then, the mansion’s hungry traps and shape-changing powers have lain dormant. Recently, however, a group of cultists
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
cluttered desk find sketches and descriptions of deadly mechanical traps, including a rough sketch of the trap in this room (see “Trap” below). Constantori’s Portrait. The painting that hangs in the
the arrows, but don’t let them hit you. Trust your ears, and remember: a little pressure can be a good thing. Get out alive. Remember, you wanted this. Good luck, grunt.—Dusk
Areas G29–area G33
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
— teaching many of them to read in the process — and then selling the notes directly. Today, Needle prints his broadsheets by the cartload, aided by mechanical scribes purchased from the Hall of Wonders and
devils Kyrix and Valisog. For years Mandorcai upheld his side of the contract by bringing the fiends mortal sacrifices, until an accidental breach of contract let the devils haul him screaming into
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
outside this drop tube shows a flickering image of this deck’s layout. Aphelion might disable the screen or let the characters use it to get their bearings, depending on the computer’s current attitude
finds it. S26: Security HQ (Red) Tooba Rezaei A suit of powered armor
stands in a metal alcove Three intimidating robots—each with thick armor plating, four mechanical arms, and a glowing red eye
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
. If characters come from within the fire temple and act like they belong there, the guards pay them little mind. Characters who arrive escorted by hobgoblins must convince the guards to let them pass
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The depth of the well is about 12 feet. The water seeps up from below through cracks in the well’s floor. E17. Mechanical Room A complex assortment of gears, flywheels, drive shafts, and levers fills