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Returning 35 results for 'mechanical space with only along from for light'.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
obstacles along the way, possibly inspiring the characters to do the same. Using the power of a mechanical guide might allow for the creation of particularly devious traps that can be set across space and
enhanced medusa for Lynx, or the brains in iron for Sir Ursas (see below for more information on both). Each expedition also has its own mechanical guide. You might use the members of the rival expedition
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
Updated Guides As written, the mechanical guides can safely teleport the characters to and from the specific adventure locations. If it fits with your campaign, you might opt to allow teleportation
to other locations in time and space with a successful DC 20 Intelligence (Arcana) check. A failed check causes the characters to be misdirected physically or temporally, as you determine. If the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
-foot-diameter sphere of fire in an unoccupied space on the ground within range. It lasts for the duration. Any creature that ends its turn within 5 feet of the sphere makes a Dexterity saving throw
, taking 2d6 Fire damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one. As a Bonus Action, you can move the sphere up to 30 feet, rolling it along the ground. If you move the sphere into a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
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A light spell cast on the robe or a daylight spell cast within 5 feet of the robe causes you to be blinded for 1 minute. At the end of each of your turns, you can make a Constitution saving throw (DC
11 for light or DC 15 for daylight), ending the blindness on a success.
Robe of Scintillating Colors Wondrous item, very rare (requires attunement)
This robe has 3 charges, and it regains 1d3
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
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
2. Water Room This natural cavern provides fresh water for the temple from the cold and fast-flowing stream along its western edge. The stream enters from the north along a tunnel, and exits to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
7. Forsaken Prison A narrow crawl space leads here from the southernmost pit in the entrance hall (area 3). At the bottom of a 10-foot drop at the end of the crawl space, a miserable cell holds a
vulnerability to magic potions and salves that restore hit points (see “Who Dwells Here?” in chapter 4). Manipulating Time Having a mechanical guide spend 1 charge in this area causes one of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
with mechanical frames into which it slots different lenses. This is the same magical technology that was used to create another artifact, Daoud’s Wondrous Lanthorn. The medusa is nicknamed “Daoud’s
Living Lanthorn” as a result. The enhanced medusa uses the medusa stat block with the following changes: It has truesight out to a range of 60 feet. It can cast the light cantrip at will. Its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
scrap metal.
Builders. Four scaladar (see appendix A) are hauling new pieces of metal to the arch and attaching them to it. The cavern is dark aside from the intermittent light of welding sparks coming
from the constructs’ tail stingers.
Arbalests. A dozen arbalests (use quadrone statistics) flit around the arch. Each arbalest resembles an oversized repeating crossbow with mechanical wings and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Book Description This children’s book is a mechanical curiosity of gnomish design, with a cover made of wood and copper. The front cover bears a faded, hand-painted rendering of a round millstone
. The book is square, eighteen inches along each edge of the cover. A silver music box set into the book’s spine is heavily dented at one end. The book has no pages in the typical sense, but it opens to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
area of smoky haze for 1 hour thereafter. Heat. Duergar have darkvision and don’t need light to see; even so, most rooms are heated by stone braziers filled with glowing-hot coals, and such areas are
. The three levels of the fortress are connected by two mechanical elevators that are continually moving up and down their shafts, except for a 1-minute stop each time it arrives at a floor. One
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Tunnel Features Map 7.1 shows several locations along the way to Illithinoch. The following features are common in these areas. Natural Tunnels The chambers and the tunnel are all rough, natural
stone. Dim Light Patches of pale, phosphorescent fungus illuminate the tunnel and chambers with dim light. Ceilings The tunnel varies between 10 and 15 feet high. Chambers are 20 feet high unless otherwise indicated.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
the space you appear in, and it dissipates at the end of your next turn. A light or stronger wind disperses the smoke.
used again until the next dawn. When you disappear, you leave behind a cloud of smoke, and you appear in a similar cloud of smoke at your destination. The smoke lightly obscures the space you left and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
the space you appear in, and it dissipates at the end of your next turn. A light or stronger wind disperses the smoke.
used again until the next dawn. When you disappear, you leave behind a cloud of smoke, and you appear in a similar cloud of smoke at your destination. The smoke lightly obscures the space you left and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Thunder Step 3rd-level conjuration Casting Time: 1 action Range: 90 feet Components: V Duration: Instantaneous You teleport yourself to an unoccupied space you can see within range. Immediately after
you disappear, a thunderous boom sounds, and each creature within 10 feet of the space you left must make a Constitution saving throw, taking 3d10 thunder damage on a failed save, or half as much
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
Approaching Starglass Waypoint After the characters have resumed their trek and made their way along the canyon for almost a mile, read or paraphrase the following aloud: Arching gently over the
stagnant river ahead of you is a crystal bridge that captures and radiates natural light. The bridge connects to a stone platform set into the canyon wall twenty feet above the river. Graceful stone
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Slippers of Spider Climbing Wondrous Item, Uncommon (Requires Attunement) While you wear these light shoes, you can move up, down, and across vertical surfaces and along ceilings, while leaving your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
28. Private Chapel The temple’s high priest resides in these small quarters, which contain a bed, personal effects, ceremonial robes, and religious instruments of office. A fireplace along the
mechanical guide spend 1 charge in this area causes the high priest to leave for area 29 by way of the secret door, then prepare for a ceremony of blessing.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
(2d6) psychic damage.
Weirdly Pliable. The zealot, along with any equipment it is wearing or carrying, is unnaturally flexible. The zealot can move through any space as narrow as 1 inch without
zealot teleports, along with any equipment it is wearing or carrying, to an unoccupied space it can see within 120 feet of itself, leaving a churning void in the space it left. Immediately after it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hold Back The Dead
Obscured, and the fog can’t be blown away. The fog doesn’t dissipate until the characters defeat the horde’s warlord. Light. This adventure begins on a sunny afternoon, but a thin, magical fog covers
the sky. Although there isn’t any direct sunlight, Bright Light prevails in all areas except in the fog, which is an area of Darkness. Siege Equipment. The fortress has five siege weapons provided by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
party’s progress along the way, in the hope of finally mapping the route to Daoine Gloine, and has specific value to the party in certain areas of expertise. However, each hireling also has one or more
introduction throughout the course of the adventure (as suggested in each NPC’s description below), with each one able to provide a useful next step to help the expedition along. Ctenmiir the Vampire LE
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
General Features Ceilings. Cavern ceilings are 15 feet high. Ceilings in the humans’ chambers (areas 11, 12, and 13) are 10 feet high. Light. During daytime, areas 1 and 2 are brightly lit, and areas
3 and 4 are dimly lit by outside light. All other areas are in darkness unless the area notes otherwise. Sound. The caverns are filled with faint sounds: dripping water, scratching rodents
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
side of the door, about 4 feet above the floor. All doors open into the areas they border on metal casters that move along grooves cut into the stone floor. Gates and Pillars All gates consist of
diameter, supporting the roof above. All archways are 10 feet wide and 10 feet high. Illumination No permanent light sources exist inside the stronghold, since the sahuagin have no need of them. In
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
30. Buried Tower Stairs curve along the wall of this buried tower chamber, rising then halting abruptly at the ceiling. Much of the floor has fallen away, collapsing into darkness.
Centuries ago
one character whose voice doesn’t echo. Instead, a pale amber light ignites in the dark below and something whispers the character’s name from the pit.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
spellcasting ability for these spells. Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness
make a ringed wall up to 20 feet in diameter, 20 feet high, and 1 foot thick. The wall vanishes when the spell ends. The wall’s space is difficult terrain.
Any ranged weapon attack that enters the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Divine Contention
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Shadow Stealth. While in dim light or darkness, the boneclaw can take the Hide action as a bonus action.
Actions
Multiattack. The boneclaw makes two claw attacks.
Piercing Claw. Melee Weapon
(escape DC 14). The boneclaw has two claws. While a claw grapples a target, the claw can attack only that target.
Shadow Jump. If the boneclaw is in dim light or darkness, each creature of the boneclaw’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
cranium rat can shed dim light from its brain in a 5-foot radius or extinguish the light.
Telepathic Shroud. The cranium rat is immune to any effect that would sense its emotions or read its thoughts, as
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Challenge 5 (1,800 XP)
Illumination. As a bonus action, the swarm can shed dim light from its brains in a 5-foot radius, increase the illumination to bright light in a 5- to 20-foot radius (and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
hands formed from solid gold. A wooden flying machine has wings that flap when it becomes airborne. A miniature model of a mechanical dragon turtle has a brass plate affixed to its pedestal that reads
temple, Valetta identifies it as Nim, a nimblewright that was gifted to the temple by a Lantanese wizard. If they describe the incident involving the mechanical bird, Valetta sighs and leads them up a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
this ability, and the creature automatically fails the saving throw against the spell. Teleport. As an action, Malaxxix can teleport, along with any equipment it is wearing or carrying, to an
unoccupied space within 60 feet of the cursed creature, regardless of the creature’s location in the multiverse. The curse of Malaxxix lasts until ended with a Remove Curse spell, a Greater Restoration spell, or similar magic.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a4
2. Riddling Guardian A rather mangy, bedraggled gynosphinx squats in the space where the three corridors converge. A wall of force along the south side separates the gynosphinx from those who
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
carefully taken down to allow movement in that direction. Characters at the three-way intersection can feel air moving along the northern part of the tunnel, suggesting open space beyond.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Boo’s Astral Menagerie
githyanki teleports, along with any equipment it is wearing or carrying, up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space it can see.
Reactions
Parry. The githyanki adds 4 to its AC against one melee attack that would hit it. To do so, the githyanki must see the attacker and be wielding a melee weapon.
). The githyanki casts one of the following spells, requiring no spell components and using Wisdom as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 16):
At will: druidcraft, light, mage hand (the hand is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Morte’s Planar Parade
a d6):
1–2: Astral Step. The githzerai can teleport, along with any equipment it is wearing or carrying, up to 40 feet to an unoccupied space it can see. In addition, its walking speed increases to
difficult terrain for other creatures while the flowers and vines are present.
5–6: Retaliating Light. Multicolored lights surround the githzerai until the start of its next turn. For the effect’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
, teleporting that creature to an unoccupied space it can see within 5 feet of its destination. The destination spaces of this teleportation must be in dim light or darkness.
Bonus Actions
Shadow
Stealth. While in dim light or darkness, the boneclaw takes the Hide action.
Reactions
Deadly Reach. In response to a creature entering a space within 15 feet of it, the boneclaw makes one Piercing Claw attack against that creature.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
that light gain 11 (2d10) temporary hit points.
Fey Leap. The dolphin teleports up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space it can see. Immediately before teleporting, the dolphin can choose one creature
of the dolphin’s next turn.
Bonus Actions
Delightful Light (Recharge 5–6). The dolphin magically emanates light in a 10-foot radius for a moment. The dolphin and each creature of its choice in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
item you infuse serves as the creature’s heart, around which the creature’s body instantly forms. You determine the homunculus’s appearance. Some artificers prefer mechanical-looking birds, whereas
points if the mending spell is cast on it. If it dies, it vanishes, leaving its heart in its space. Homunculus Servant
Tiny construct, neutral
Armor Class 13 (natural armor)
Hit Points equal the