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One Grung Above
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Grungs are aggressive froglike
caste for life. On rare occasions, an individual that distinguishes itself with great deeds can earn an invitation to join a higher caste. Through a combination of herbal tonics and ritual magic, an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
out of thick ice and have hinged iron clamps holding them in place. When the doors are open, they allow access to a 30-foot-wide vertical shaft that descends 220 feet to area X26. X13. Western Gear Room
The following boxed text assumes the characters enter this area by coming up the elevator. If they enter by the north tunnel, adjust the boxed text accordingly: Ascending the elevator shaft deposits
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an orc war band celebrating its recent victory. Silently, he stalks into their midst and whispers an oath, and two orcs are dead before they even realize he is there.
Silver hair shining in a shaft
undead, and to protect the innocent and those who join them in the fight for justice.
Beyond the Mundane Life
Almost by definition, the life of a paladin is an adventuring life. Unless a lasting injury
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
if all goes well, your character will survive to claim rich rewards before embarking on a new adventure. This section covers the basics of the adventuring life, from the mechanics of movement to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
all goes well, your character will survive to claim rich rewards before embarking on a new adventure. This chapter covers the basics of the adventuring life, from the mechanics of movement to the
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
45. Gargoyle Guardians At the bottom of the grand staircase, a resonant mechanical rumbling emanates from a dark shaft opening up in the middle of this chamber’s floor. Four cylindrical stone
pedestals surround the shaft, each ten feet tall, five feet wide, and featuring a tiny slot in its side. Squatting atop each pedestal is a large four-armed gargoyle.
Any character looking down on the room
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
opening appears devoid of life: The entrance to the gem mine is an open tunnel in a hillside. Empty carts are parked near the entrance, next to which a crude wooden sign has been propped up. Written on
have 7-foot-high ceilings. Wider areas tend to have higher ceilings, the average being 12 feet. The mine has no light sources. The most prominent feature of the mine is a wide vertical shaft that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
K59. High Tower Peak If the characters climb the stairs to reach the tower peak, read: The spiral staircase finally ends at a five-foot-wide stone walkway that circles the shaft. In the center of the
tower’s highest floor, a fifteen-foot-diameter hole drops into the cold heart of Ravenloft itself. Cold air rushes up out of the shaft, sending a chill through you. Arrow slits line the walls, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
see one of two things: either a 170-foot-deep shaft (area K31a) or, if the elevator trap has been activated (see area K61), a stone elevator compartment with a secret hatch in its top. The portrait
on the wall depicts Strahd von Zarovich before he became a vampire. Even in life, he was pale. The eyes of the portrait seem to watch and follow the characters as they explore the area. The picture
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
everyone: The dream is as vivid as anything you remember from your actual life. You feel the sweltering sun beating down as you take shelter in the shadow of a tumbledown tower. In the distance, a vast
boar spear that is driven shaft-down into the ground, and whose head is adorned with three crowns. One limb of the spear’s crossguard bears a narrow silver circlet. On the other hangs a crown of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
of the entrance.
The ball of violet light floats to a stop beneath the center of the open shaft, beyond the foot of the stairs. It then hovers there as if waiting for you.
The orb of magical
light attempts to guide the characters up the shaft to Vizeran’s sanctum at the top of the tower. Characters can climb the stairs if they wish, but any creature that steps past the stairs and into the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
patrolling the laboratory section (areas 1 to 23). On a 3–4, it patrols the temple section (areas 24 to 39). There are no fixed mechanics for encounters with the thessalhydra, but feel free to have
as it roams, and feeding that power to the monster as restorative energy. Whenever the thessalhydra is taken to 0 hit points, it stays dead for 1 hour before returning to life with full hit points
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
creature that wades into this fissure or starts its turn there must succeed on a DC 10 Dexterity saving throw or be swept away by the current and dropped into the shaft that plunges thousands of feet
. M5. Underdark Shaft, Level 1 Wooden planks and struts form a walkway along the wall of a seemingly bottomless vertical shaft. A narrow waterfall cascades down the northeast wall, and the sound of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
convinced they don’t pose a threat to the gardens, it becomes Indifferent. Fruit of Life. Zumzn’s trunk forks around a githyanki skull, and a heart-shaped fruit—the fruit of life—grows inside the skull
cured in this way once per day. Once picked, the cherries lose their magic after 24 hours. Sleeping Concoction. The fruit of life is an ingredient of the Burning Circle’s sleeping concoction (see
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
E2. Blood of the Vine Tavern A single shaft of light thrusts illumination into the main square, its brightness looking like a solid pillar in the heavy fog. Above the gaping doorway, a sign hangs
most of his life. Ismark isn’t a typically dour Barovian. He invites the characters to join him, offers to pay for their wine, and asks for their aid in protecting his adopted sister, Ireena Kolyana. If
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
. The final section of the lair is a grand domed temple set with a plethora of comfortable furnishings. Here and there, souvenirs from the silver dragon’s long life are positioned with great care
. Under Temple. A broad shaft in the temple opens into a treasury chamber below, where the dragon’s hoard is arranged in gleaming splendor. Additional Lair Action At your discretion, a legendary (adult or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
X42. Amber Vault A golden marble staircase with a black marble railing hugs the north wall as it spirals gently up a thirty-foot-wide shaft. Lying in the middle of the room are six rotting wooden
gift is the power to raise the ancient dead. As an action, the beneficiary of this dark gift can touch the remains of a dead creature and restore it to life. The effect is identical to that of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
where no one has gone before. The sewers of Fairhaven might be safe today, but if an earthquake opens a new shaft or a group of cultists digs deeper, a previously unknown passage to Khyber could be
as a sword of life stealing from the Abyssal Forest of Khar made of jagged, blackened steel. Shadows trail the blade, and it issues a hungry moan any time it draws blood. Trinkets from Khyber d10
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Oblivium and raised here, knowing no other life. Many of the beholder’s slaves worship it, particularly those born here, their minds warped by the aberration’s charm rays and their lifelong captivity
100 feet from top to bottom. They’re located 100 feet from the edge of the chasm and connected to it by tunnels. Each shaft features side chambers and small caverns, and has rope ladders for Karazikar’s slaves to move up and down them.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
K86 but warded by teleport traps) A barred archway to the east (connecting with area K87) The high tower stair (area K18) or the shaft (area K18a) to the west Each crypt is sealed with a chiseled
thousands of bats. The bats hang here during daytime hours and fly out in the evening through the high tower’s central shaft (area K18a) to hunt at night. They will not attack intruders unless they are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
flesh out your encounter in these ways, go right ahead and finish your creation. Otherwise, take a look at the following sections for some basic advice on adding flavor elements to the simple mechanics
a frenzy. On the other hand, a monster might decide to flee if its spouse is killed, or a mistreated toady might be eager to surrender and betray its master in return for its life. d6 Relationship
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
the tunnel in the Well of Questions (area P18), read or paraphrase: You surface in a tumbling, turbulent pool of water within a ten-foot-square shaft that ascends forty feet from the surface of the
water. The air is damp, and the walls are covered with slimy green moss.
Dim light streams from an archway near the top of one side of the shaft. A narrow, roaring waterfall pours from the archway into
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a4
the mountain, but none of them are large enough to allow entry. Map 4.1 depicts a cross-section of the mountain, showing the lava pool and the shaft of the geyser. The numbers refer to key areas inside
vertical shaft and the beginning of a spiral staircase that leads down. ABOUT THE ORIGINAL
White Plume Mountain, by Lawrence Schick, was originally published in 1979 as an adventure for the first edition
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Araleth Letheranil CG Light, stars, revelations Knowledge, Light Shaft of light
Corellon Larethian CG Primary god of elves Arcana,** Life, Light, War Quarter moon or starburst
Darahl
Common Symbol
Aerdrie Faenya CG Air, rain, fertility, birth Life, Tempest, Trickery Bird silhouetted against a cloud
Angharradh CG Wisdom, growth, protection Knowledge, Life, War
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
amber, a floor of red marble, and a rough-hewn shaft in the center of its ten-foot-high ceiling. Three amber sarcophagi stand in alcoves, and above each sarcophagus floats a human skull wreathed in green
flame. Three flameskulls guard this room. They attack intruders on sight. The shaft in the ceiling is 10 feet wide and 20 feet long, with abundant handholds. No ability check is required to climb it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
, Amun Sa, set forth a record of myself and of my dealings with this world. Our land is rich with green and fertile fields. The River Athis is the mother of our land, giving life with its waters. Athis
: West Storage Silo The corridor opens into a cylindrical shaft thirty feet in diameter whose slick walls drop into the darkness below. A domed ceiling peaks thirty feet above the floor of the hallway
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
shaft in the ceiling climbs 10 feet to level 9, area 41.)
Braziers. Purple flames issue from stone braziers that resemble giant spiders. (Originating from gas vents under the floor, these flames shed
map 10.
Charinidia, Grazthrae, and T’riizlin were priestesses transformed into banshees by Lolth for their vanity. If their prayers are interrupted, they attack, staggering the timing of their life
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
bunk beds line the walls, their sheets crumpled. A dark opening in the west wall reveals an empty shaft framed with a metal truss.
At any given time, 1d6 goblin psi brawlers (see appendix A) sleep
psionic goblins their powers. This refers to the Indigo Sanctum, which is across the bridge (area Z19). The goblins aren’t aware of any more details regarding Ruxithid’s grand plan. Mine Shaft. The gap
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
afflicted with madness, Kurr can’t bring himself to kill any living creature except in self-defense. If the characters spare his life, Kurr can act as a guide, for he has explored a great deal of the
3d6 gnolls. These gnolls came to the Underdark with Yeenoghu. They cackle and scream the demon lord’s name as they tear into their prey. Grells The grells drop from an overhead shaft to feed. Hezrous
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
attack. Rite of Stolen Life Nanny Pu’pu is a worshiper of Myrkul, the Lord of Bones, and knows a ritual of transformation that can turn a dead humanoid into a zombielike creature. Characters who bring
certainly be used in casting evil magic. Nanny Pu’pu is the only creature in Chult who can perform the Rite of Stolen Life. The ritual takes 1 hour to complete and requires three things: a mostly intact
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a2
following details become apparent: The additional runes record the occupant’s date of death and the great deeds the dwarf performed in life. Also carved into these three coffins is a warning that doom awaits
beneath a crude dam of rock and mud in the western wall. The stream disappears into a dark shaft at the cavern’s eastern end. A rough, winding path follows the stream toward the east.
The chamber runs
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
figure dozing in one of the beds is the spirit of Alamar-Vatashi, a soldier who overslept on the Day of Mourning. In life, Alamar-Vatashi was a kalashtar, a Humanoid bound to a dream-spirit called a quori
L10). The helmet loses this effect if removed from this room. L18: Collapsed Antigravity Well Rubble chokes this shaft. A steady trickle of gray liquid burbles through the rubble.
Damage to Landro’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
small golden sarcophagus decorated with horned rabbits. A dark shaft opens in the ceiling directly above the barge, while to the south, a corridor is visible through a set of fangs carved into the
dispelled. The hieroglyphic floor is disabled. After 24 hours, Withers sends 1d4 tomb dwarves to reset the trap. Sphinx Statues Each of these statues depicts a life-size gynosphinx, and all four
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
weathered mosaic decorates the stairwell, depicting dwarves, elves, and humans working together to forge the Realm of Three Crowns. The area reeks of decay, and a few birds fly out of the shaft.
The
-diameter hole bored into it. The wizards, like the dragon, are life-sized. One of them appears to hold a 1-foot-long black wand. This wand is not part of the fresco; it’s an actual iron wand embedded in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
natural shaft into this rocky cavity. A gash in the rock forms a passage to the east, where a familiar, blue-skinned elf in a pale dress stands with a knowing smile on her face.
This chamber is a crooked
form. She explains that, in life, she was one of the elven priestess Isolde’s attendants and was among those who distracted Soth from his quest to prevent the Cataclysm. For her deeds, she’s cursed to






