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Tunneler. The worm can burrow through solid rock at half its burrow speed and leaves a 10-foot-diameter tunnel in its wake.Multiattack. The worm makes two attacks: one with its bite and one with its
":"damage","rollAction":"Bite","rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage. If the target is a Large or smaller creature, it must succeed on a DC 19 Dexterity saving throw or be swallowed by the worm. A
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Tunneler. The worm can burrow through solid rock at half its burrow speed and leaves a 10-foot-diameter tunnel in its wake.Multiattack. The worm makes two attacks: one with its bite and one with its
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This poison must be harvested from a dead or incapacitated purple worm. A creature subjected to this poison must make a DC 19 Constitution saving throw, taking 42 (12d6) poison damage on a failed
Compendium
- Sources->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Purple Worm Attack As the altercation between the Ashen Heirs and the Brightguard comes to a head, read or paraphrase the following: Stone cracks and people scream as a massive, spiked worm erupts
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The combination of noises from the large crowd and the disruptive vibrations of the boomhailers has enraged a purple worm dwelling deep below the city. It emerges and begins wreaking havoc on Three Sun
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creature remains in the area. Creatures can’t forage for food in this area.
Wormhome. Tunnels within 5 miles of the lair attract all manner of worms and vermin, including purple worm;purple worms
throw or be swallowed by Qorgeth. A swallowed creature is blinded and restrained, it has total cover against attacks and other effects outside the worm, and it takes 16 (3d10);{"diceNotation":"3d10
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","rollAction":"Scimitar of Speed","rollDamageType":"slashing"} slashing damage on a hit.
Poisoned Daggers. Viln carries four daggers coated with purple worm poison (see “Poisons” in chapter 8 of
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use their exoskeletons to fashion shields and armor (though their chitin is too brittle for weaponry). Purple worm;Purple worms are their major predators. The worms swallow entire caravans when they
green, purple-green, and a highly prized yellow‑orange. The largest carrion beetles make a distinctive wheezing sound when their spiracles are stressed; this noise creates a hum when multiple beetles
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Serpents of the Dreaming City draws power from an ancient amethyst dragon, which the cultists keep in eternal slumber with braziers of enchanted smoke.
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A rogue purple worm swallowed a large
foes.
Royal Purple
When first hatched, an amethyst dragon has scales of dull, opaque purple. As the dragon grows, their scales, horns, and wing membranes become more vibrant and translucent. When
Compendium
- Sources->Out of the Abyss
Features The characters encounter the following features in the purple worm nursery.
Light. All tunnels and chambers are dark unless the text states otherwise.
Purple Worm Tunnels. The tunnels marked T1
area 1, a purple worm digs into area 1, then travels through area 3 and creates tunnel T1 to enter area 8. Ten minutes after the first worm arrives, a second purple worm enters through the tunnel in area
Compendium
- Sources->Out of the Abyss
13. Exit Tunnel Characters can exit the worm nursery and return to the Wormwrithings via this purple worm tunnel.
Compendium
- Sources->Out of the Abyss
Encounters d20 Encounter 1–10 No encounter 11 1 drider 12 Drow hunting party 13 3d6 dwarf commoners 14 1d6 ettins 15 3d6 flumphs 16 Grick nest 17 1 purple worm 18 2d6 troglodytes 19 1d4 trolls 20 1 umber
of a purple worm nursery, where they hope to find a purple worm egg as a gift for their matron mother. If the characters have an egg clearly in their possession, the drow party tries to take it
Compendium
- Sources->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Bore Worm Trobriand modeled this 100-foot-long, 15-foot-diameter drilling machine after a purple worm. Unless Trobriand commands it to do otherwise, the worm tirelessly moves through well-worn
rating of 16 (15,000 XP) and is a purple worm, with these changes: The worm is a construct. It has immunity to poison and psychic damage, as well as bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from
Compendium
- Sources->Candlekeep Mysteries
H2. Worm Rubble Rubble from the passage of a purple worm blocks the tunnel, with chunks of stone reaching almost to the ceiling. A character who clambers to the top of the rubble sees that the tunnel
fit through the opening takes one person about an hour, but the noise caused by the work could summon a hungry purple worm. To avoid doing so, whoever is clearing the rubble must succeed on two DC 15
Compendium
- Sources->Out of the Abyss
spend most of their time clinging to the cavern’s 60-foot-high ceiling, but the noise of the purple worms drives them into a shrieking, flapping frenzy. Whenever a purple worm enters the area 8 (whether
1d4 bludgeoning damage. Development When the purple worm that caused the bats to swarm exits the nursery, the bats return to this cave to roost 10 minutes later.
Compendium
- Sources->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
mesa, unleashing dozens of purple worms upon the surface. The aged albino worm Gravedrinker dominates this region. The Orbitoclasts. One of numerous floating rock formations in central Hazlik, it bears
an uncanny resemblance to tools used in performing lobotomies. The Playas. These former lakes have been reduced to quicksand-riddled purple worm feeding grounds. Seething. This region is devoid of life, and its land crumbles away into the Mists.
Compendium
- Sources->Out of the Abyss
are a honeycomb of tunnels spanning hundreds of miles in the northern reaches of the Underdark, carved from the rock by enormous purple worms. A purple worm nest in the Wormwrithings is an ideal place
to find an unhatched purple worm egg. Additionally, Vizeran has heard rumors of a beholder living in the Vast Oblivium, a chasm deep within the Wormwrithings. If the characters didn’t obtain the
Compendium
- Sources->Candlekeep Mysteries
centuries, all the caverns except one have been reduced to rubble as the area fell under the sway of a purple worm. Only a small section of the old cavern complex now remains—the Hall of Rainbows. When the
characters arrive, read the following: The landscape around you bears the scars of a purple worm’s habitation, a complex of caves that collapsed as the worm created its rubble-filled tunnels. You see
Compendium
- Sources->Out of the Abyss
rations, and 2d6 × 10 gp. Zhora and her comrades survived the purple worm attack that separated them from Hanne (see “Voice in the Dark”). Zhora believes that Hanne is dead. Twenty minutes after the
characters first enter the purple worm nursery through area 1, Zhora and her Dark Hunters enter these caverns through the tunnel in area 7, then scale down to the cavern floor. They spend a few minutes
Compendium
- Sources->Out of the Abyss
11 19–20 1 purple worm The giant spider walks on the ceiling and surprises the adventurers unless someone in the party has a passive Wisdom (Perception) score of 14 or higher. If a purple worm
failed check means the party member attracts the worm’s attention. The purple worm attacks anyone it detects in the chamber except the giant spiders from area 11 and the fomorian from area 6. It won’t
Compendium
- Sources->Candlekeep Mysteries
. Long, viscid, rubbery tubes of glistening purple worm dung lie strewn about, giving off their acrid odor. Treasure A creature that spends 5 minutes digging through the dung can roll on the Worm Dung
H1. Cave Entrance As the characters approach the entrance, a horrid stench hits their nostrils. Any Bedine with the party grip their weapons and remark grimly, “Worm dung. Move carefully.” As they
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Challenge 15 (13,000 XP) Adult bronze dragon
Adult green dragon
Death tyrant (in lair)
Mummy lord (not in lair)
Purple worm
Vampire (spellcaster)
Vampire (warrior)
Compendium
- Sources->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
13. Roundabout A bore worm — a metal construct similar in size and shape to a purple worm — hollowed out this donut-shaped chamber as part of excavating the passage that leads down to level 13
. Characters who descend to level 13 encounter the worm (see “Bore Worm”). Once an hour, the bore worm makes its way up the tunnel from level 13 and circles this area clockwise before returning below. The
Compendium
- Sources->Out of the Abyss
7. Entry Chamber This cavern rises to a height of 50 feet and contains many stalagmites and stalactites. A purple worm tunnel leads out into the Wormwrithings through this area, but the tunnel’s
. HANNE'S HELP
Educated by her mother, Hanne Hallen (see “Voice in the Dark”) knows quite a bit about purple worms. If she’s traveling with the characters, she realizes that they are in a worm nursery
Compendium
- Sources->Storm King's Thunder
5. Purple Wormling Nursery Everyone needs a hobby. Iymrith’s latest avocation is raising baby purple worms until they’re big enough to release into the wild. She digs up purple worm nests under the
. Iymrith has converted a 10-foot-deep, T-shaped pit in the middle of the room into a purple wormling “playpen.” The pit currently holds thirty squirming purple wormlings (see appendix C). Although they
Compendium
- Sources->Out of the Abyss
purple worm creates it fifteen minutes after the party discovers area 1 (see the “Worm Nursery: General Features” sidebar). Thus, the characters won’t be able to reach area 8 until the tunnel is formed.
Compendium
- Sources->Out of the Abyss
to shake and rumble. Suddenly, the tunnel floor gives way at your feet.
The tunnel through which the characters travel is directly above area 1 of the nursery. The burrowing of a nearby purple worm
Worm Nursery As the characters near the nursery, they get a view of one of its guardians — and might take an unexpected fall. As you make your way through a long tunnel, everything around you begins
Compendium
- Sources->Out of the Abyss
The Worm Tunnels The nearest purple worm nesting area mapped out for the characters by Vizeran DeVir lies forty-eight miles west of the archmage’s tower. The Vast Oblivium lies some twelve miles
the Underdark, spellcasters won’t have to deal with the effects described under “Faerzress” in chapter 2. The tunnels created by the purple worms are tubular and roughly 10 feet in diameter. A typical stretch of tunnel is 1d6 miles long before it intersects with another tunnel or a naturally formed cavern.
Compendium
- Sources->Out of the Abyss
Voice in the Dark After dealing with or avoiding the troglodytes, the adventurers can continue on toward the purple worm nursery. However, within six miles of the nursery they come across an
Hallen, leads the Dark Hunters — drow explorers who steal purple worm eggs. These eggs are prized by wizards, who use them in various arcane rituals. Hanne was on her first egg run with her mother’s team
Compendium
- Sources->Out of the Abyss
adventurers set off a humming in one of these echo chambers, a distant rumbling can be heard and felt as a purple worm burrows toward the egg chamber, arriving there in 1d4 minutes (see area 8 for details).
5. Echo Chambers These three 60-foot-high caverns, hollowed out and expanded by purple worms, are set around area 8 as a defensive measure. Using their saliva, the worms have created thick, resinous
Compendium
- Sources->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
16. Tunnel to Level 20 At the top of the tunnel that descends to level 20 is an 18-foot-high, ring-shaped cavern created by a purple worm that Halaster disposed of long ago.
Compendium
- Sources->Out of the Abyss
15. Exit Tunnel This purple worm tunnel leads back into the Wormwrithings. Unless they’re being pursued, the characters can safely leave the troglodytes behind when they reach this area.
Compendium
- Sources->Out of the Abyss
11. Spider Nest Giant spiders enjoy a symbiotic relationship with purple worms and are frequently found lairing in purple worm nurseries. The multitude of predators that seek out the worms’ eggs
Compendium
- Sources->Out of the Abyss
10. Slop Cave The floor of this dark, 60-foot-high cavern is covered in a thick layer of viscous purple worm saliva. Consequently, the floor is difficult terrain. As they enter, adventurers notice
Compendium
- Sources->Candlekeep Mysteries
known as the Hall of Rainbows that could contain clues to the golem’s origin. But the Bedine also warn that the cave complex is in the territory of a deadly purple worm. The adventurers travel to the
Hall of Rainbows. After defeating the worm, they discover clues that lead to the ruined city of Azumar. They must navigate the ruins and find the vault where the golem’s master, Prince Hamukai, now
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An adult sapphire dragon lives adjacent to active purple worm tunnels, hoping the threat of the worm will deter treasure hunters