most some with only are faces for lair

Verbeeg Marauder

Monsters Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

used to make a ranged attack or used with two hands to make a melee attack.Verbeeg are giants that resemble oversized humans with gangly limbs and elongated faces. Some have other features that give them

mammalian beasts and allow bears, wolves, worgs, and other predators to lair with them. They catch and keep horses, mules, sheep, goats, and cattle for food and trade.

Lorthuun

Monsters Out of the Abyss

cone faces and whether the cone is active. The area works against the beholder's own eye rays.Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Bite"} to hit, reach

eye ray.A Beholder's Lair A beholder's central lair is typically a large, spacious cavern with high ceilings, where it can attack without fear of closing to melee range. A beholder encountered in its

Hierophant Medusa

Monsters The Book of Many Things

altered by the medusa’s presence, creating one or more of the following effects: Faces in Stone. Stone within 3 miles of the lair takes on subtle shapes that suggest people, animals, and other

medusa’s lair. 3 Maintain a planar crossing from which great power flows while also curtailing the effects of that power as it infuses the world. 4 Seek out a new generation of

Young Deep Dragon

monsters

that flourish in the depths. As deep dragons age, their smooth, serpentine bodies become riddled with fungal rot, particularly around their faces, to imbue their breath with terror-inducing spores

copies of forgotten lore, fungal ingredients for cures or plagues, or maps to lost Underdark locales.Deep Dragon Lairs Deep dragons lair in fungus-encrusted caverns of the Underdark or old, forgotten

Beholder Legacy

Monsters Monster Manual (2014)

the cone faces and whether the cone is active. The area works against the beholder’s own eye rays.Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Bite

. Eye Ray. The beholder uses one random eye ray.A Beholder’s Lair A beholder’s central lair is typically a large, spacious cavern with high ceilings, where it can attack without fear of

Deep Dragon Wyrmling

monsters

fungi that flourish in the depths. As deep dragons age, their smooth, serpentine bodies become riddled with fungal rot, particularly around their faces, to imbue their breath with terror-inducing

surviving copies of forgotten lore, fungal ingredients for cures or plagues, or maps to lost Underdark locales.Deep Dragon Lairs Deep dragons lair in fungus-encrusted caverns of the Underdark or old

Ancient White Dragon Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage and be knocked prone. The dragon can then fly up to half its flying speed.A White Dragon’s Lair White dragons lair in icy caves and deep subterranean chambers far from

the sun. They favor high mountain vales accessible only by flying, caverns in cliff faces, and labyrinthine ice caves in glaciers. White dragons love vertical heights in their caverns, flying up to

Adult White Dragon Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage and be knocked prone. The dragon can then fly up to half its flying speed.A White Dragon’s Lair White dragons lair in icy caves and deep subterranean chambers far from

the sun. They favor high mountain vales accessible only by flying, caverns in cliff faces, and labyrinthine ice caves in glaciers. White dragons love vertical heights in their caverns, flying up to

Death Tyrant Legacy

Monsters Monster Manual (2014)

Negative Energy Cone. The death tyrant’s central eye emits an invisible, magical 150-foot cone of negative energy. At the start of each of its turns, the tyrant decides which way the cone faces

legendary actions at the start of its turn. Eye Ray. The death tyrant uses one random eye ray.A Death Tyrant’s Lair A death tyrant’s lair is usually the same site it held as a beholder, but

Ancient Deep Dragon

monsters

Legendary Resistance (4/Day, or 5/Day in Lair). If the dragon fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.Multiattack. The dragon makes three Rend attacks. Rend. Melee Attack Roll: +12

Lair). Immediately after another creature’s turn, the dragon can expend a use to take one of the following actions. The dragon regains all expended uses at the start of each of its turns. Pounce

Adult Deep Dragon

monsters

Legendary Resistance (3/Day, or 4/Day in Lair). If the dragon fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.Multiattack. The dragon makes three Rend attacks. Rend. Melee Attack Roll: +9

", "rollDamageType":"Psychic"} Psychic damage, and the target has the Frightened condition until the end of the dragon’s next turn. Success: Half damage only.Legendary Action Uses: 3 (4 in Lair

Adventure Summary

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

roaming monsters or the patrols of the rival nations, and perhaps encounter friendly faces as they search for the entrance to the Lost Caverns. Danger-filled caverns await the characters in Iggwilv’s former

lair. Bloodthirsty monsters and the deadly remnants of the archmage’s power stand between the characters and the Witch Queen’s hoard, which is guarded by the greatest of Iggwilv’s treasures—her daughter, the vampire warrior Drelnza.

Wyrmdoom Crag Overview

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

Wyrmdoom Crag Overview Wyrmdoom Crag faces north from atop a snowy mountain slope. The bones of an adult white dragon rest near the entrance to the lair. The goliaths of Wyrmdoom Crag enjoy company

A Medusa's Lair

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things

, creating one or more of the following effects: Faces in Stone. Stone within 3 miles of the lair takes on subtle shapes that suggest people, animals, and other creatures when viewed from the corner of the

A Medusa’s Lair A medusa’s lair is often decorated with the petrified bodies of creatures that raised arms against the medusa or its followers. The lair is typically a rich repository of knowledge

The Master Plan

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh

causeway. The lizardfolk explain that this site is their former lair, and it consists of a series of natural passages and caves honeycombing the interior of the island. You should give players information

about the former lizardfolk lair and the surrounding area, including but not limited to the following details: The lair is a three-level cave system inside a rocky island. Remarkably, the island seems

Wilderness Features

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

expect the characters to explore a monster’s lair, you’ll need to find or create an appropriate map for the lair and stock the lair as you would a dungeon. Monuments In places where civilization

stumble upon. Monuments d20 Monument 1 Sealed burial mound or pyramid 2 Plundered burial mound or pyramid 3 Faces carved into a mountainside or cliff 4 Giant statues carved out of a mountainside

40. Lynnorax's Lair

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

40. Lynnorax’s Lair Ceiling. This room has a 40-foot-high, domed ceiling. Dracolich. Lynnorax, an adult blue dracolich, faces the double door to the east and exhales lightning in that direction as

Story of the Cave

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

frostbite to ravage their faces and bodies to prove their devotion. As a reward for their fealty and their willingness to suffer the cold, the Frostmaiden gave these mad servants a stone brazier that

emits a cold, blue flame. As long as the flame burns, the berserkers can’t be killed inside their lair (see area Q5). The berserkers share their cave with two white dragon wyrmlings, which hatched from

Black Dragon Lairs

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

Black Dragon Lairs Black dragons prefer to lair in swamps and jungles—the more dismal and fetid, the better. Within those environs, they favor ruins for their defensibility and dreary aesthetic. When

mangrove swamp or brave a trap-filled boggy ruin, the experience promises to be a deadly affair. Map 5.2: black dragon lair View Player Version Black Dragon Lair Features The black dragon lair

4. Webbed Tunnels

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

4. Webbed Tunnels Spiderwebs drape across these tunnels, clinging to creatures as they pass until the webs are brushed or burned away. Ghostly faces glimpsed in the webs are actually random patterns

detect intruders, one tries to run to area 5 to sound the alarm while the remaining two attack. On the second round of combat, the clamor attracts the spiders in area 4b. 4b. Phase Spider Lair Four phase

11. Recluse

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

11. Recluse A drider lives here. The sea hags in area 10 use it to guard the “front door” of their lair. 11a. Petrified Prince Maw. This yawning cave resembles the maw of some great fish. Natural

petrified creatures hidden inside them. The creatures include several drow, kuo-toa, and troglodytes, as well as a few dwarf miners and human pirates. All of them are locked in poses of combat, with expressions of fear on their faces.

Getting to the Lair

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

Getting to the Lair Very few members of the Xanathar Guild have access to the beholder’s secret lair. If the characters want to get there, the following factions know where it is and can help them

safest route to the beholder’s lair is a secret staircase in the sewers of the Castle Ward. Any character who belongs to this faction can get this information from Jarlaxle or another source. If the party

Beholder

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

-foot cone. At the start of each of its turns, the beholder decides which way the cone faces and whether the cone is active. The area works against the beholder’s own eye rays. Actions Bite. Melee

the end of another creature’s turn. The beholder regains spent legendary actions at the start of its turn. Eye Ray. The beholder uses one random eye ray. A Beholder’s Lair A beholder’s central lair

Darklake Docks

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

look ungainly, but each can carry tons of trade goods. The characters land at the easternmost inlet if they arrive at Gracklstugh by way of the Darklake, near the Ghohlbrorn’s Lair inn. If they instead

pier. Suddenly, two invisible duergar appear next to him and stab him viciously with glowing swords. The assassins’ faces are masked and hooded. The characters have 2 rounds to distract the two

Introduction

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

speaks of strange, leering devil faces carved in dungeon walls that can devour an explorer in an instant, leaving behind not a single trace of the poor soul’s passing. A bald, stern wizard clad in blue

dared adventurers to enter his lair and recover them. A one-eyed dwarf spins tales of a castle that fell into the earth, and whose ruins stand above a subterranean grove dominated by a tree that spawns

Death Tyrant

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

death tyrant’s lair or guard its treasure vaults. Acting as bait for traps or as combat fodder, zombies keep powerful enemies distracted while the death tyrant moves into position and prepares to

invisible, magical 150-foot cone of negative energy. At the start of each of its turns, the tyrant decides which way the cone faces and whether the cone is active. Any creature in that area can’t

Building a Dungeon

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

yuan-ti, choked by overgrown jungle plants, might feature ramps instead of stairs. Caverns carved by a beholder’s disintegration eye ray have walls that are unnaturally smooth, and the beholder’s lair

. Details bring a dungeon setting’s personality to life. Great bearded faces might be carved on the doors of a dwarven stronghold and might be defaced by the gnolls who live there now. Spiderweb

Lair Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves

Lair Locations Jared Blando Map: Nakari’s Lair View Player Version The following locations are keyed to the “Underground” half of Map: Nakari’s Lair. N1: East Entrance Ethereal music travels up this

grins full of rocky teeth appear in their faces as the creatures rumble what might be a greeting. Three gregarious Galeb Duhr dwell in this cave. They are pleased to have company, and ask in

Ogre

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

from it, bumping, jabbing, or prodding it, laughing, making faces, or simply looking at it the wrong way. When its rage is incited, an ogre lashes out in a frustrated tantrum until it runs out of

caves, animal dens, or under trees until it finds a cabin or isolated farmhouse, whereupon it kills the inhabitants and lairs there. Whenever it is bored or hungry, an ogre ventures out from its lair

Lesser Cavern Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Descent into the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth

of the carved faces is magical. They are immune to all damage and speak a few programmed messages. When a creature approaches one of the tunnels leaving the chamber, the face beside it animates and

warns in a deep, dire tone, “Turn back—this is not the way!” A character who examines one of the faces and succeeds on a DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check notices the glint of a gemstone in its mouth

15. Arcanaloth's Sanctum

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

the statue is a tremendous oak desk, behind which stands a high-backed chair carved with screaming faces (see below). Pneumatic Tubes. Fifteen copper pneumatic tubes span the northwest wall, with a

11f), “Wormriddle” (area 23c), “Kitchen” (area 27a), “Study Hall” (area 39), “Guest Lecturer” (area 42), and “Muiral” (level 10, area 4b). 15b. Arcanaloth’s Lair Bookshelves. Books are packed into

Fallen

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

Fallen The Sharn Inquisitive Dawn of disease You’ll hear warning bells toll tomorrow morning. You’ll see packs of people with their faces hidden by plague masks or strips of cloth. Jorasco

the most desperate people live here, and the forces of the law won’t come near it. As a result, the district has a lot of space available for any cult or secret society that needs a lair. The followers

Verbeeg

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

Verbeeg Verbeeg are giants that resemble oversized humans with gangly limbs and elongated faces. Some have other features that give them a fearsome aspect. Verbeeg craft their own armor and weapons

lair with them. They catch and keep horses, mules, sheep, goats, and cattle for food and trade. Longstriders. Some verbeeg worship gods of nature and help defend the natural world. These even

Goblin Lair Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands

Goblin Lair Locations The following locations are keyed to map D. Marc Moureau Map D: Goblin Lair (DM’s Version) View Without Tokens View Player Version D1: Entrance The walls here are daubed with

with cake-stained faces dance below. A Goblin Boss and four Goblin Warriors are here celebrating the boss’s birthday. The goblins are initially Hostile toward the characters. When the goblins

Lesser Caverns Locations

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

drooping wattles—all are strange and doleful. The carved faces are magical. They are immune to all damage and speak a few programmed messages. When a creature approaches one of the tunnels, the face

beside it animates and warns in a deep, dire tone, “Turn back—this is not the way!” A character who examines one of the faces and succeeds on a DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check notices the glint of a

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