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Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
horror’s appearance are drawn from the fears of those within 100 feet of it. This might cause a mist horror to take on a form that combines multiple fears when it encounters a group, like a wolf
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Unspeakable Horror (Aberrant Armor);Aberrant Armor. The horror’s body is armored in petrified wood, alien crystal, rusted mechanisms, sculpted stone, or an exoskeleton.
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Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
crystal, rusted mechanisms, sculpted stone, or an exoskeleton.
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Unspeakable Horror (Loathsome Limbs);Loathsome Limbs. The horror’s body boasts spider like legs, many-jointed appendages
that combines multiple fears when it encounters a group, like a wolf with snakes for eyes or a drowned giant that resembles an estranged parent. Mist horrors can’t persist for long outside the
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
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Unspeakable Horror (Aberrant Armor);Aberrant Armor. The horror’s body is armored in petrified wood, alien crystal, rusted mechanisms, sculpted stone, or an
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
might cause a mist horror to take on a form that combines multiple fears when it encounters a group, like a wolf with snakes for eyes or a drowned giant that resembles an estranged parent. Mist horrors
body is armored in petrified wood, alien crystal, rusted mechanisms, sculpted stone, or an exoskeleton.
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Unspeakable Horror (Loathsome Limbs);Loathsome Limbs. The horror’s body boasts
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
mist horror’s appearance are drawn from the fears of those within 100 feet of it. This might cause a mist horror to take on a form that combines multiple fears when it encounters a group, like a
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Body
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Unspeakable Horror (Aberrant Armor);Aberrant Armor. The horror’s body is armored in petrified wood, alien crystal, rusted mechanisms, sculpted stone, or an exoskeleton
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Citadel Subterrene Below Mount Makab stretches the hive-like lair of the illithids. This mind flayer metropolis comprises innumerable interconnected compounds—laboratory vaults, custom prison
within the citadel maddening, like trying to find a specific point within a writhing knot of worms. Locations are inaccessible to creatures reliant upon basic terrestrial mobility or without the ability
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
raised or lowered using an iron lever nearby. If the lever can’t be reached, the portcullis can be forced up or down by characters with a combined Strength of 30 or more, but doing so breaks the mechanisms
. Teleporters Ras Nsi created five magical teleporters (in areas 8 through area 12) that no one else is permitted to use. Each looks like a raised, faintly glowing stone disk with a serpentine glyph carved
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
to an unlocked trapdoor in the roof. 2a. West Towers Two watchtowers flank the entrance to the village, forming a gatehouse of sorts. Each tower contains a winch, and both mechanisms must be turned to
. Treasure. Gwerk’s silver locket is shaped like a fish and contains a painted portrait of a rosy-cheeked male halfling named Larlow. The locket belongs to Larlow’s widow, Taela Summerhawk, and is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
succeed on a DC 14 Wisdom (Perception) check also notice these blocks, which constitute the temple’s outer defenses. Each block is a 40-foot-tall, 40-foot-wide, 20-foot-thick slab held up by mechanisms
lower, sealing off the temple entrance. 2B. Southwest Guard Room This room is like area 2A, but the lever is in the north wall and controls the inner block of stone in area 2.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
decrease by 1. This toll is magically extracted immediately, and manifests as another of the sphinx’s mechanical Ioun stone-like devices. This curse can be removed only by a remove curse spell cast by an
18th-level spellcaster, by defeating the enhanced sphinx in combat, or through mechanisms found in Kwalish’s lab in Daoine Gloine (see area O7). Dock. Created by Kwalish, this structure is built so
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
exposed insides.
4 Parts serving unintended roles, like a body composed of dozens of hands.
5 Perfect features accented by beautiful stitching.
6 Visible mechanisms, bellows, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
shield. Traps are often designed with mechanisms that allow them to be disarmed or bypassed. Intelligent monsters that place traps in or around their lairs need ways to get past those traps without
24d10 Complex Traps Complex traps work like standard traps, except once activated they execute a series of actions each round. A complex trap turns the process of dealing with a trap into something more
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
the shield. Traps are often designed with mechanisms that allow them to be disarmed or bypassed. Intelligent monsters that place traps in or around their lairs need ways to get past those traps without
18d10 24d10 Complex Traps Complex traps work like standard traps, except once activated they execute a series of actions each round. A complex trap turns the process of dealing with a trap into something
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
metal, lined with huge orreries that track and align with the planes and the Ring of Siberys. Planar Observatory Features Map 4.2 shows what a planar observatory might look like. These immense
roofs, or domes that open with the aid of great mechanisms to allow an unobstructed view of the night sky, since the movements of Eberron’s moons are thought to correspond to the shifting
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
there are no mechanisms within it to pick or disarm. The sarcophagus is impervious to damage and spells. The crystal sarcophagus changes color every 6 seconds, shifting through the following repeating
of scintillating colors (see "Spirits of the Nine Trickster Gods"). When Unkh’s spirit manifests, read: Slime pours from the folds of the scintillating robe to take the form of multiple flail-like
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
of it. This might cause a mist horror to take on a form that combines multiple fears when it encounters a group, like a wolf with snakes for eyes or a drowned giant that resembles an estranged parent
Armor. The horror’s body is armored in petrified wood, alien crystal, rusted mechanisms, sculpted stone, or an exoskeleton.
2 Loathsome Limbs. The horror’s body boasts spiderlike legs, many
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
seal off the castle. The gatehouse (area C6) holds the mechanisms that raise and lower the portcullises as well as open and close both sets of doors. Knock spells and similar magic can bypass these
noncombatant named Mere, whom Kadroth found begging for food in Bryn Shander. Mere is frightened of Kadroth and would like to get out from under his thumb but can’t figure out how. The servant knows the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
disrepair. A character who inspects the lift and succeeds on a DC 10 Intelligence (Investigation) check uncovers the lift’s broken mechanisms as well as its former power source: a dull and cracked shard
1st level or higher. The mechanisms in turn can be repaired with a successful DC 16 Intelligence (Arcana) check; if the character has proficiency with tinker’s tools, this check is made with advantage
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
reciting the rhyme, “Neither gleaming sword nor magic tome can soothe the soul like hearth and home.” This rhyme is known to Zorhanna, Eliphas, the winter wolves, and Paliset Hall’s staff. The fey
palatial ballroom. Above the dancing crowd spins a glittering chandelier that appears crafted from equal parts silver and frost. Icicles hang from the vaulted ceiling, sparkling in the light like
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
Conservatory Schedule table). Chandeliers. Simple rope-and-pulley mechanisms allow the chandeliers to be raised or lowered from the mezzanine (area C6). Paintings. The painting above the mantelpiece
Joster who’s allowed to enter this area. Dark curtains cover the windows of this room, which looks like it might have been a chapel, though most of the decor is gone, leaving empty niches and pedestals. A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
defensive post. Holger, a thug, commands the gatehouse. Three more bandits have bunks here. The chain mechanisms are easy to operate. A character has to use three actions to bar or unbar the gate, or to
raise or lower the portcullis. The bandits posted in this area operate the mechanisms to let people into or out of the castle. The stairs in this room descend to area K2. The doors lead out onto the wall
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
with a successful DC 10 Wisdom (Perception) check. If the wire is tripped, a spring-loaded greataxe disguised to look like part of the southern statue snaps across the hallway and makes an attack against
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
to well-known organizations like the Harpers or Red Wizards of Thay, the symbols of those groups can be found among the corpses. Treasure. Gremorly left treasure on the bodies of his victims to lure
30 feet to a second floor that is even with the keep’s battlements. This upper room is filled with levers and pulleys that control the drawbridge and portcullis mechanisms. A creature can use an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
of Dust regulate the flow of these disruptive souls with the Spirit Sump: a magical nexus that attracts bothersome spirits to it like flies to a corpse and flushes them out of Sigil. In this encounter
mechanisms connected to the Spirit Sump’s circular control stations. As an action, a character at a control station can make a DC 14 Intelligence (Investigation) check to repair that station’s pump, doing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Descent into the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth
flap-like ears, another protruding tusks, and a third drooping wattles—all are strange and doleful.
Adrián Ibarra Lugo A ghastly visage outside the entry
caverns portends the dangers within Each
back of the cave is a cranny mostly free of fungus. A black-cloaked figure, motionless, is wedged into the crack.
Originally this was another cultivated fungus farm like area L6, but slime molds are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
entrance and into the unknown. Beside each of these tunnels is a grotesque face carved into the stone. Though each face is slightly different—one has flap-like ears, another protruding tusks, and a third
.
Originally this was another cultivated fungus farm like area L7, but slime molds are overtaking the cave. The cloaked figure is the corpse of an elf adventurer who died here, trapped by the green slime
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
mechanical constructs, all in various stages of completion. Components and parts are scattered across the tables and the floor. Skittering around in the debris are three creatures that look like oversized
the books he has collected. In his warped mind, a few deaths are a small price to pay for success.
Personality Trait. “I don’t like most people, which is why I relish the thought of spending the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
into the mud like a cylindrical stone taproot. Here are the building’s legendary vaults, where the city’s patriars and merchants from across the world store items too valuable to be trusted to lesser
origins, yet everyone knows its power. When properly entreated by Torimesh, the tree’s red bark cracks and curls like parchment. Pulling it carefully away reveals a prophetic scene rendered in bloody
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
fish-like humanoid on the rack. As you watch, a wheel is turned, the victim emits another shriek, and the torturers hiss with pleasure.
Three sahuagin champions are torturing a locathah here (see
feet square, like the others, and a giant eel more than 20 feet long could not be expected to survive long in such confinement. In fact, the eel hastened its own death by vainly battering at the walls
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
looks like a hunter’s den. A stag’s head is mounted above the fireplace, and three stuffed wolves are positioned around the outskirts of the room.
Trapdoor. A character searching the southwest corner
ceiling are 8 feet long. Embedded in the east wall is a wooden wheel connected to hidden chains and mechanisms. A character can use an action to turn the wheel, raising or lowering the portcullis in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
, extending down into the mud like a cylindrical stone taproot. Here are the building’s legendary vaults, where the city’s patriars and merchants from across the world store items too valuable to be trusted
can identify, and Torimesh steadfastly refuses to say anything about its origins, yet everyone knows its power. When properly entreated by Torimesh, the tree’s red bark cracks and curls like
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
of glass statues shaped like pegasi. Folded silk butterfly wings are attached to the roof of the carriage.
Zybilna used this flying carriage to travel to other locations in the Feywild. The
hand and a shield on his other arm. He looks like he was thrown backward through the exploding wall before being frozen in place.
The knight suspended in the air is Strongheart (see area P47), the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
, the relief’s eyes stop glowing, and opening the door again from this area requires the expenditure of more spell slots. The door can be opened from the east side like any normal door. T5: Cave of Seven
just as quickly and plummeting again. This rapid, piston-like movement lasts for 1 minute, after which the ceiling returns to its original height and locks in place until the trap is triggered again
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
and tilts slightly when stepped on, and it can be seen to be detached from the walls. Two oversized iron clamps on opposite sides of the room hold the floor in place. Each of these rusty mechanisms
with dust and cobwebs. An oval canopy bed veiled in cobwebs sits across from two narrow bookshelves. The room smells like a tomb. Manshoon found Duhlark Kolat’s skeletal remains in the bed and