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Tales from the Yawning Portal
surface, then sprinkle the pans with holy water or place a transparent gem worth 100 gp in each pan. The scale remains motionless if it detects nothing, tips to one side or the other for good
This scale bears celestial symbols on one pan and fiendish symbols on the other. You can use the scale to cast detect evil and good as a ritual. Doing so requires you to place the scale on a solid
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
immediately make the save.
If Hythonia sees herself reflected on a polished surface within 30 feet of her and in an area of bright light, she is affected by her own gaze.
Shed Skin (Mythic Trait
cracks, turns a lifeless gray, and shatters! The monster crumbles to dust—but what clatters to the ground isn’t scale and bone, but hollow stone. The sound of rippling coils precedes the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal
requires you to place the scale on a solid surface, then sprinkle the pans with holy water or place a transparent gem worth 100 gp in each pan. The scale remains motionless if it detects nothing, tips
Balance of Harmony Wondrous item, uncommon This scale bears celestial symbols on one pan and fiendish symbols on the other. You can use the scale to cast detect evil and good as a ritual. Doing so
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal
requires you to place the scale on a solid surface, then sprinkle the pans with holy water or place a transparent gem worth 100 gp in each pan. The scale remains motionless if it detects nothing, tips
Balance of Harmony Wondrous item, uncommon This scale bears celestial symbols on one pan and fiendish symbols on the other. You can use the scale to cast detect evil and good as a ritual. Doing so
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
might make occasional nighttime forays up to the surface. Roughly one quarter of the towns and cities in the world have kobold communities living under them, but the kobolds are so good at staying
hidden that the surface-dwelling citizens in the area often don’t know what lies beneath them.
Because the kobolds make sure they stay out of the way of anyone more dangerous than themselves, grow
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Domains of Dread are drawn from worlds hospitable to life. Bluetspur’s scale and impossible geometry induce instinctual anxiety. Gaseous tempests whirl upon the hooked peaks of gravity-defying mountains
dwell underground. Beneath the alien surface, the mind flayers of Bluetspur drift through the howling darkness of their ancient metropolis-laboratory. Within this sprawling installation, the illithids
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Domains of Dread are drawn from worlds hospitable to life. Bluetspur’s scale and impossible geometry induce instinctual anxiety. Gaseous tempests whirl upon the hooked peaks of gravity-defying mountains
dwell underground. Beneath the alien surface, the mind flayers of Bluetspur drift through the howling darkness of their ancient metropolis-laboratory. Within this sprawling installation, the illithids
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
the map on graph paper, a wet-erase mat, or another surface to help your players visualize locations that might have unusual shapes or features. Your hand-drawn maps need not be faithful to the
features) until the characters are able to detect and interact with them. Slopes and Staircases. An arrow on a slope or staircase always points in the ascending direction. Landmarks Not to Scale The poster
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
the map on graph paper, a wet-erase mat, or another surface to help your players visualize locations that might have unusual shapes or features. Your hand-drawn maps need not be faithful to the
features) until the characters are able to detect and interact with them. Slopes and Staircases. An arrow on a slope or staircase always points in the ascending direction. Landmarks Not to Scale The poster
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
subterranean civilization. Whatever she demands, the drow do.
Drow are seldom seen by the surface world. Though they plot to destroy the elves that banished them, they no longer see themselves as
exiles. They are the destined rulers of the darkness, and when Lolth commands them to rise up and destroy their surface-dwelling kin, they will.
Creatures of Darkness. The drow have lived underground
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
subterranean civilization. Whatever she demands, the drow do.
Drow are seldom seen by the surface world. Though they plot to destroy the elves that banished them, they no longer see themselves as
exiles. They are the destined rulers of the darkness, and when Lolth commands them to rise up and destroy their surface-dwelling kin, they will.
Creatures of Darkness. The drow have lived underground
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
, with fingers and thumb held together, cover every interior surface. These handprints mimic the symbol of Bane. Amath and her followers assemble here for worship but sleep elsewhere. When the characters
secure and safe to walk on, enabling creatures to scale the outside of the tower without having to make ability checks. The scaffolding rattles and creaks, however, and any creature that moves on it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
, with fingers and thumb held together, cover every interior surface. These handprints mimic the symbol of Bane. Amath and her followers assemble here for worship but sleep elsewhere. When the characters
secure and safe to walk on, enabling creatures to scale the outside of the tower without having to make ability checks. The scaffolding rattles and creaks, however, and any creature that moves on it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
on a successful one. Brown mold has Immunity to Fire damage, and any source of fire brought within 5 feet of it causes the mold to instantly expand across a surface and toward the fire, creating a new
explosion of a fireball fungus causes other fireball fungi in the area of effect to explode as well. You can scale the hazard for higher levels by adding one additional fungus at levels 11–16 or three
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
on a successful one. Brown mold has Immunity to Fire damage, and any source of fire brought within 5 feet of it causes the mold to instantly expand across a surface and toward the fire, creating a new
explosion of a fireball fungus causes other fireball fungi in the area of effect to explode as well. You can scale the hazard for higher levels by adding one additional fungus at levels 11–16 or three
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
of the full-scale mining operations that can be found in other lands. No large nations or trading consortiums are waiting in the wings to invade and take over the mines of Trielta. They are what a
dwarf acquaintance of mine once referred to as “scratch mines” — close-to-the-surface operations, with decent yield for a small amount of digging, but not worth the construction of “proper” (by which he
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
decorate the walls of the room.
The armillary sphere depicts Toril, its moon, the sun, and other planetary bodies in Realmspace. Any character who has viewed large-scale maps of Faerûn will recognize
out of the way as the surface of the globe peels back to reveal a dark, hollow interior. Inside this cavity is a padded bronze chair with levers built into its armrests.
When a creature sits on the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
waterfall and descending into the water-filled basin. Where the stairs meet the water’s surface, an iron post juts at an angle, and a flat boat is tied to it. Tunnels to the northeast and northwest
engraved above the northeast passageway. The stairs descend 5 feet beneath the lake surface, ending at a rough underwater ledge 15 feet above the submerged cavern floor. The stairs ascend to area F8
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Storm Giant Storm Giant
Huge giant, chaotic good
Armor Class 16 (scale mail)
Hit Points 230 (20d12 + 100)
Speed 50 ft., swim 50 ft.
STR
29 (+9)
DEX
14 (+2)
CON
20
of a storm giant can affect the fate of thousands.
Distant Prophet-Kings. Storm giants live in isolated refuges so far above the surface of the world or below the sea that they are beyond the reach
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
of the full-scale mining operations that can be found in other lands. No large nations or trading consortiums are waiting in the wings to invade and take over the mines of Trielta. They are what a
dwarf acquaintance of mine once referred to as “scratch mines” — close-to-the-surface operations, with decent yield for a small amount of digging, but not worth the construction of “proper” (by which he
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
decorate the walls of the room.
The armillary sphere depicts Toril, its moon, the sun, and other planetary bodies in Realmspace. Any character who has viewed large-scale maps of Faerûn will recognize
out of the way as the surface of the globe peels back to reveal a dark, hollow interior. Inside this cavity is a padded bronze chair with levers built into its armrests.
When a creature sits on the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Storm Giant Storm Giant
Huge giant, chaotic good
Armor Class 16 (scale mail)
Hit Points 230 (20d12 + 100)
Speed 50 ft., swim 50 ft.
STR
29 (+9)
DEX
14 (+2)
CON
20
of a storm giant can affect the fate of thousands.
Distant Prophet-Kings. Storm giants live in isolated refuges so far above the surface of the world or below the sea that they are beyond the reach
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
The Nematode The Nematode is unique among the floating nodules; it is an animate if lethargic creature, akin to a brain parasite on a massive scale, rather than an inert nodule. It is mostly inert
now and functions as terrain. It fully rouses only every few decades. This nodule is tube-shaped with a massive cave at one end. Several heaps of rust-colored moss speckle its slimy surface.
The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a2
maintain an uneasy peace, although skirmishes occur. The troglodytes usually use the old orc tunnel (see area 21) to hunt on the surface and leave the orcs alone. In return, Great Ulfe’s followers rarely
overlooking the stream, about halfway down the passage. Fissures at the back of the cave run 150 feet to the surface, but nothing larger than a stirge can fit through. Six stirges are sleeping in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
The Nematode The Nematode is unique among the floating nodules; it is an animate if lethargic creature, akin to a brain parasite on a massive scale, rather than an inert nodule. It is mostly inert
now and functions as terrain. It fully rouses only every few decades. This nodule is tube-shaped with a massive cave at one end. Several heaps of rust-colored moss speckle its slimy surface.
The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
waterfall and descending into the water-filled basin. Where the stairs meet the water’s surface, an iron post juts at an angle, and a flat boat is tied to it. Tunnels to the northeast and northwest
engraved above the northeast passageway. The stairs descend 5 feet beneath the lake surface, ending at a rough underwater ledge 15 feet above the submerged cavern floor. The stairs ascend to area F8
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a2
maintain an uneasy peace, although skirmishes occur. The troglodytes usually use the old orc tunnel (see area 21) to hunt on the surface and leave the orcs alone. In return, Great Ulfe’s followers rarely
overlooking the stream, about halfway down the passage. Fissures at the back of the cave run 150 feet to the surface, but nothing larger than a stirge can fit through. Six stirges are sleeping in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
. Robes 1 gp 4 lb. Rope, hempen (50 feet) 1 gp 10 lb. Rope, silk (50 feet) 10 gp 5 lb. Sack 1 cp 1/2 lb. Scale, merchant's 5 gp 3 lb. Sealing wax 5 sp - Shovel 2 gp 5 lb. Signal whistle 5 cp - Signet ring
minute), the target takes an additional 5 fire damage from the burning oil. You can also pour a flask of oil on the ground to cover a 5-foot-square area, provided that the surface is level. If lit, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
. Robes 1 gp 4 lb. Rope, hempen (50 feet) 1 gp 10 lb. Rope, silk (50 feet) 10 gp 5 lb. Sack 1 cp 1/2 lb. Scale, merchant's 5 gp 3 lb. Sealing wax 5 sp - Shovel 2 gp 5 lb. Signal whistle 5 cp - Signet ring
minute), the target takes an additional 5 fire damage from the burning oil. You can also pour a flask of oil on the ground to cover a 5-foot-square area, provided that the surface is level. If lit, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a2
; see “Wait and Watch” below for more information. Map 2.1: The Stone Tooth View Player Version Scout the Area Ambitious characters might choose to ignore the path and scale the Stone Tooth’s slopes
otherwise.
Ventilation. All keyed areas contain an adequate air supply. The air is renewed through vents that lead to the surface. These vents are individually too small for any but Tiny creatures to navigate.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Life as a Halfling On the surface, halflings seem to be simple folk, but those who have lived with them or who have had a halfling in their company know that there is much more to the lives of these
svirfneblin mushroom tender in the Underdark, and the scale of a white dragon acquired from its lair. Of course, most halflings’ possessions aren’t so exotic in origin. But even a stay-at-home halfling
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
of prophecies, or work to prepare the world and its peoples for an impending catastrophe of apocalyptic scale. The Seer Assignments table suggests quests a giant seer might lay on adventurers. Seer
with their eager students.
The archetypal giant tutor is a stone giant who is convinced the surface world—the world of dreams—has important wisdom to impart, just as the gods sometimes speak through
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a2
; see “Wait and Watch” below for more information. Map 2.1: The Stone Tooth View Player Version Scout the Area Ambitious characters might choose to ignore the path and scale the Stone Tooth’s slopes
otherwise.
Ventilation. All keyed areas contain an adequate air supply. The air is renewed through vents that lead to the surface. These vents are individually too small for any but Tiny creatures to navigate.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
of prophecies, or work to prepare the world and its peoples for an impending catastrophe of apocalyptic scale. The Seer Assignments table suggests quests a giant seer might lay on adventurers. Seer
with their eager students.
The archetypal giant tutor is a stone giant who is convinced the surface world—the world of dreams—has important wisdom to impart, just as the gods sometimes speak through
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
immediately make the save.
If Hythonia sees herself reflected on a polished surface within 30 feet of her and in an area of bright light, she is affected by her own gaze.
Shed Skin (Mythic Trait
Shed Skin trait: The medusa’s skin cracks, turns a lifeless gray, and shatters! The monster crumbles to dust—but what clatters to the ground isn’t scale and bone, but hollow stone. The sound of