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Candlekeep Mysteries
Miirym fails a saving throw, she can choose to succeed instead.
X-Ray Vision. Miirym can see through solid matter out to a range of 60 feet. To her, opaque creatures, objects, and obstacles within
essence roils with the promise of breath weapons and spells of destruction.
Adventurers who explore the passages beneath Candlekeep might encounter Miirym, who’s more interested in news of
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the dragon fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Spider Climb. The dragon can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without
honeycombs of hidden passages, deceptively thin walls, and secret chambers that allow them to traverse the entire lair without ever being seen by intruders. The best-defended sapphire dragon lairs have no
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Geryon fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. Geryon has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects
passages, spitting oaths of vengeance against Asmodeus and hatching schemes to reclaim his standing from Levistus.
Lair Actions
On initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), Geryon can take one of the
Baphomet
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Out of the Abyss
spell.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Baphomet fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. Baphomet has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical
’s lair is his palace, the Lyktion, which is on the layer of the Abyss called the Endless Maze. Nestled within the twisting passages of the plane-wide labyrinth, the Lyktion is immaculately
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. Baphomet has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.Multiattack. Baphomet makes one Bite attack, one Gore attack, and one Heartcleaver
beast.Baphomet’s Lair
Baphomet’s lair is his palace, the Lyktion, which is on the layer of the Abyss called the Endless Maze. Nestled within the twisting passages of the planewide labyrinth
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Geryon fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. Geryon has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects
the passages, spitting oaths of vengeance against Asmodeus and hatching schemes to reclaim his standing from Levistus.
Lair Actions
On initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), Geryon can take
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the dragon fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Spider Climb. The dragon can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without
older, they continually renovate their lairs, using their tunneling abilities and command over stone.
Sapphire dragons eventually create dizzying honeycombs of hidden passages, deceptively thin walls
Monsters
Divine Contention
Amphibious. Claugiyliamatar can breathe air and water.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Claugiyliamatar fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Innate Spellcasting. Claugiyliamatar
passages within 1 mile of the dragon’s lair. The thickets act as 10-foot-high, 10-foot-thick walls that block line of sight. Creatures can move through the thickets, with every 1 foot a creature moves
Adult Deep Dragon
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A deep dragon lair might share the same basic structure as the sapphire dragon lair shown on map 5.12, but instead of being formed from stone, it might consist of chambers hollowed out within a fungus
network growing near an underground river. Whatever the setup, a deep dragon festoons the narrow, twisting passages between the lair’s fungal walls with magical and mundane traps. A typical
Ancient Deep Dragon
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share the same basic structure as the sapphire dragon lair shown on map 5.12, but instead of being formed from stone, it might consist of chambers hollowed out within a fungus network growing near an
underground river. Whatever the setup, a deep dragon festoons the narrow, twisting passages between the lair’s fungal walls with magical and mundane traps. A typical lair has the following
Geryon (Summoner Variant)
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(3/Day). If Geryon fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. Geryon has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Magic Weapons. Geryon's
ancient fortress, Coldsteel, a sprawling complex that rises from the ice and snow at the center of Stygia. He roams the passages of this place, scattering the ice devil;ice devils and minotaur slaves he
Geryon
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(3/Day). If Geryon fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. Geryon has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Magic Weapons. Geryon's
recently reclaimed his ancient fortress, Coldsteel, a sprawling complex that rises from the ice and snow at the center of Stygia. He roams the passages of this place, scattering the ice devil;ice devils
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
map 5.12, but instead of being formed from stone, it might consist of chambers hollowed out within a fungus network growing near an underground river. Whatever the setup, a deep dragon festoons the
narrow, twisting passages between the lair’s fungal walls with magical and mundane traps. A typical lair has the following features: Connecting Passages. Because a deep dragon lacks a sapphire dragon’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Copper Dragon Lairs Copper dragons prefer dry uplands, hilltops, or mountainous foothills, where they build their lairs in caves, crags, or tunnels. Although sometimes natural, the passages and
walls in the lair can conceal cunning hidden passages or might be stone or clay thin enough for the dragon to burst through them. The narrowest tunnels in a copper dragon’s lair are just barely wide
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Summarizing Travel Instead of checking for random encounters every day, you can skip over or summarize parts of the characters’ journey. Roll 1d6 + 1 for the number of days between encounters, with
: “You’ve been making your way through the tunnels and passages for four days …” before describing the circumstances of the encounter to them. With this approach, encourage players to describe what their
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
investigated and cleared the passages beyond the fissure. If the characters lie about the success of their mission, they risk a fine, imprisonment, or both. The characters must also agree to have all
the goods they found beneath the city inventoried. If anyone later claims to be the rightful owner of any of the loot, a magistrate might rule that the goods belong to the original owner instead of the
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Finding the Way Escaping the Underdark is no simple matter. Characters who try to find their own way out might wander for years without stumbling upon the right series of passages to take them to the
. Instead, the characters’ escape is made possible by a set of conditions that you can implement when the time is right. Blingdenstone The deep gnome settlement (see chapter 6) has the most dealings with the
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
if the adventurers drive off the dragon. Kobold Camp. If the adventurers follow fleeing kobolds, they can find the kobolds’ camp on a nearby outcropping. The kobolds there don’t fight, though, instead
begging the adventurers to help them (as in “Kobold Supplicants” above). Dragon’s Lair. Use the Volcanic Caves map in Appendix B for the dragon’s lair, but close off passages to keep the lair small
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
under the Sleeping Giant connects to Underdark passages. She posits that the magical force that Wheel-of-Fortune senses might be an elder brain, the psychic hub of every mind flayer stronghold. (Gwyn
doesn’t know that the mind flayer fanatics are connected to Ilvaash, nor that the fanatics commune with the godlet instead of an elder brain.) Gwyn believes that Illithinoch must be the name of this
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
that the elemental cults are on the brink of unleashing unthinkable disasters. As an elemental apocalypse grows nearer, the characters discover passages leading from the cult-controlled territory in
confront another of the elemental prophets (again, the prophet they fight depends on which part of the dungeon they explore first). They also find passages leading into the ultimate sanctums of the cults
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
along the river, they see the concave inner surface of the stone skull at area 13. A maze of tiny passages is cut into the walls beyond the niches, and any character who succeeds on a DC 10 Wisdom
green flame. With a shattering crash, the crystal box explodes and the skull levitates into the air.
Nepartak has the statistics of a flameskull but doesn’t speak, instead communicating using
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
with weapons that deal piercing damage target the balloon; those that hurl rocks and use weapons that deal bludgeoning damage target the crew. The characters might instead approach on a flying mount
-high passages and doorways connecting them.
Climbing. Walls of piled timber have many handholds and footholds and can be climbed with a successful DC 10 Strength (Athletics) check. Other sloped and
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Haunted Zones Strahd can twist his domain to suit his whims. Starting when he makes his presence known, certain doorways in the house no longer connect to the rooms they did before. Instead
that partially passes through a haunted doorway—such as by poking a limb or held item into the darkness—is magically pulled into the haunted zone. Haunted doorways are one-way passages. Within the
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
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Much like the true Demogorgon, the ettin’s two heads constantly clash and refuse to speak directly with one another, instead relaying messages through their assigned stewards (housed in areas 36 and 37
or take 11 (2d10) force damage. The wires are self-repairing, and cannot be severed or destroyed. Alcoves Various alcoves and side passages around this area hold a foul-smelling clutter of chickens
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
. This means a creature that falls to the bottom must find a way to ascend at least as far as the lowest tunnel. Hoard Chamber. All three passages eventually converge in the large chamber at the right
green dragon’s lair, in addition to or instead of those described in the Monster Manual: Inviting Whispers. Whispers rustle in the foliage within 1 mile of the dragon’s lair. The words are indistinct
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
, twisting caves, primeval woods, and the maze-like streets and passages of desolate ruins. A minotaur can visualize every route it might take to close the distance to its prey. The scent of blood, the
fervent supplicants that plead for strength and power. Others come to the cult seeking a life free from authority’s chains — and are liberated of their humanity instead as Baphomet transforms them
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
used it for public debates and plays both comic and tragic. Narrow passages and rubble-strewn chambers spread beneath the grandstands. This darkened maze is home to five deinonychuses (see appendix D
fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Summon Swarm (Recharge 5–6). The King of Feathers exhales a swarm of insects (wasps) that forms in a space within 20 feet of it. The swarm
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
entrance gates are similar in design, for ease of maintenance and the training of guards. The ground at your feet has been getting smoother and flatter, a welcome respite from the uneven passages to
didn’t say anything. If Gorglak finds the characters’ bribe appealing, he refuses to accept it then and there, instead directing them to find one Werz Saltbaron in the Darklake Docks and hand the
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
way: Branching passages underground Horizon-obscuring terrain, such as dense forest Obscuring weather, such as heavy rain or fog Traveling at night Traveling at sea while unable to see the sky or any
. The characters encounter one or more Hostile creatures. For example, marching through a burning forest instead of circling around it might prompt an encounter with raging fire elementals. Damage. The
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
understands Deep Speech, telepathy 1 mile
Challenge 11 (7,200 XP) Proficiency Bonus +4
Legendary Resistance (2/Day). If the balhannoth fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Actions
as a guardian in the Underdark might lair in caves near Underdark passages and guard the ways in and out of its keepers’ enclave. Lair Actions On initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Divine Contention
haunted by the grotesque vestige of Ebondeath’s first high priest. This creature squirms along the passages and can be encountered anywhere in the area or in the nearby Vaults of the Uthlords (area E7
/Day). If the dragon fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead. Ebondeath uses its possession ability to jump between party members and turn them against each other. It fights to the end
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
. A balhannoth that has been captured and exploited by drow might lair in caves near Underdark passages and guard the ways in and out of a drow enclave. Lair Actions When fighting inside its lair, a
saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Actions
Multiattack. The balhannoth makes a bite attack and up to two tentacle attacks, or it makes up to four tentacle attacks.
Bite. Melee Weapon
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
chambers.
Chambers and Passages. The various open spaces were formed from flows of lava that crusted over and cooled, with the hotter middle draining away. Where the walls and ceilings are solid
roll. Use a d6 instead of a d4 in the high intensity zone. d20 Encounter 1–2 1 fire elemental 3 1d8 magmin 4 1d3 salamanders (see area W7) 5 Crust break 6 Flame gout 7 Lava rain 8 Smoke cloud 9
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
and later animated by Ogrémoch’s Bane (see “Settlers, Squatters, and Invaders” later in this chapter). They have the statistics of animated armor, except they are elementals instead of constructs
1–3 Patch of brown mold 4–5 Patch of green slime 6 Patch of yellow mold Elemental Vagabonds A dust mephit guides an earth elemental through the caverns and passages of Blingdenstone. If approached
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
Dimensional Caverns When the basement door is opened, read: Instead of a basement stairway, a rough stone tunnel stretches away from the Dran & Courtier, quickly widening to a cavernous space studded
Love; What is Romance?; Men are from Abeir, Women are from Toril; and so forth. Passages on nearly every ruined page are crudely underlined and circled with guano-based pigment. Waking Raah At