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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
Usually found in a box or pouch, this deck contains a number of cards made of ivory or vellum. Most (75 percent) of these decks have thirteen cards, but some have twenty-two. Use the appropriate
the devil’s allies and followers a few times before being able to confront the devil.
In the case of the Rogue card, the enmity is secret and should come from someone thought to be a friend or
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
, Bhaal, and Myrkul has earned her the title Auspice of the Dead Three.Karas Chembryl’s Lair
Karas operates from a hideout deep beneath the city of Baldur’s Gate. The hideout contains
learns one secret that the Humanoid knew.
If Karas dies or moves her lair elsewhere, these effects end immediately.Poison, PsychicWithdraw. Karas moves up to half her Speed without provoking Opportunity Attack action and takes the Hide action.
Magic Items
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
cover. The Tome of the Dragon contains the secret ritual to transform a dragon or a dead dragon’s body into a dracolich.
To decipher and use the Tome of the Dragon, you must be either a
Equipment
This book contains Xorannox’s collection of dirty secrets about other people: intrigues between nobles, unfaithful leaders, infernal contracts between devils and clergy of good-aligned temples
, and similar misdeeds.
If you study the book for 1 uninterrupted hour, you find a piece of secret information about an important public figure of your choice. You only find information if the GM
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
whom they had spoken. After turning the tower into his secret base, Dzaan visited Easthaven to gather supplies. Although he took the precaution of adopting a magical disguise, members of the local
tower contains a special room that can transform the simulacrum into a real person—or any magical illusion into the real thing, for that matter. If this change occurs, the simulacrum
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
fantasizes about rising to fame and prominence in record time and hopes that plundering the lost Netherese city of Ythryn will turn her fantasies into reality.
The tiefling has the secret support of the
. The book contains the spells Avarice has prepared plus the following additional spells: burning hands, cone of cold, find familiar, ice storm, lightning bolt, rope trick, thunderwave, tongues, wall of fire, and wall of force.Cold, Fire
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
hoard contains that conflict’s most significant artifacts.
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I am constantly aware of a call from beyond this world. I must prepare to answer that call by amassing powerful arms and armor
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Z3. Secret Room This room is hidden behind a secret door that can be found with a successful DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check. When the secret door is opened, the characters can hear the faint sound
of a bell ringing in the offices above them (area Z5). Treasure The Zhents have stashed two wooden crates here. The first, stolen from the docks, contains four wood-framed paintings wrapped in leather
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
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Trait
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I often fixate on specific historical battles or wars and won’t rest until my hoard contains that conflict’s most
, 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 easily accessible entrances or exits at all, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
attacks when a character opens the door to the nursery. The specter resembles a terrified, skeletally thin young woman; it can’t speak or be reasoned with. The bedroom contains a large bed, two end
tables, and an empty wardrobe. Mounted on the wall next to the wardrobe is a full-length mirror with an ornate wooden frame carved to look like ivy and berries. Characters who search the wall for secret
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
37. Secret Room This unlit chamber connects areas 30a and 38c by way of secret doors. The secret doors are readily identifiable and easily opened from inside the room. Xunderbrok If the word
is 4 feet tall and 2 feet wide at the base. Close examination reveals that the top of the cone unscrews to reveal a hollow compartment under the cap. Treasure. The cone’s compartment contains a potion of giant strength (cloud) in a stoppered, J-shaped crystal flask worth 25 gp.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Q11. Back Door This hideout contains a secret route to Xanathar’s lair. In the middle of this otherwise empty room is a stone pillar carved with a small symbol: a perfect circle with ten equidistant
area X22 of Xanathar’s lair (see chapter 5). The door is a one-way portal, and it closes again 1 minute after the stone eye is removed from the pillar. Not-So-Secret Door The secret door is plainly visible to anyone who approaches it from the east.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
grime as to be almost opaque. Quietude rents bedrooms for 5 gp per day. The inn’s cellar contains a secret door that requires a successful DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check to detect. Beyond the secret
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
Bakery Layout From the outside, the bakery (shown on Map: Fill’s Bakery) resembles a giant loaf of bread. The ground floor contains the kitchen, pantry, and storefront. The upper floor has living quarters for Fill and his secret dragon sous-chef, Briochebane.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
walls. If an area contains one or more secret doors, a character searching the walls in that area finds its secret doors with a successful DC 10 Wisdom (Perception) check. Each search requires 1
’ tools and a successful DC 15 Dexterity check. A door can also be broken down with a successful DC 20 Strength (Athletics) check. Secret Doors Secret doors are made of stone and blend into the surrounding
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Z5. Offices The upper floor contains a suite of offices that get little use by the Zhents. The rooms have desks, chairs, and bare shelves covered with dust and draped in cobwebs. Harmless rats
skitter about. Mounted above each office door is a steel alarm bell. The bells are connected by wires to the secret door in area Z3, and they ring loudly when that door is opened. Treasure A character who searches the offices finds an unused paper bird (see appendix A).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
14. Temple Chandlery Torches used throughout Vanrakdoom are coated with a black wax that burns with a purple flame. The cultists of Shar know the secret process of making this wax, which they also
use to fashion their candles. This room contains all the supplies and tools needed to create black wax candles and torches, including flasks of oil, ceramic crucibles, and wooden candle molds. The supplies and tools rest on wooden tables spaced haphazardly about the room.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
above the middle of the floor. 17a. Temple of Ghaunadaur Ghaunadaur, a god of subterranean horrors, is respected and feared by many Underdark races, including drow. This temple contains the following
).
Secret Door. The slime obscures a secret door. Ability checks made to search the walls for secret doors are made with disadvantage until the slime is scraped off the section of wall in which the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
drawn elsewhere, six hobgoblins are rummaging through the sarcophagi.
Secret Door. A secret door in the north wall opens into area 17. (The hobgoblins are unaware of the door.)
The hobgoblins
, searching aimlessly for anything valuable, gang up on foes to quickly take them down. Each sarcophagus contains the desiccated corpses of 1d3 humanoids in scorched robes, lying atop the dust of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
. The southwest edge of the cave borders a 30-foot-deep, yawning pit with nothing in it.
Secret Door. The north wall contains a secret door that swivels on a central axis. The secret door can be seen
hit points do not decrease thanks to its Regeneration trait. If the characters come to the troglodytes’ aid, the fearful troglodytes disengage from combat on their next turn, flee through the secret
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
W13. Magic Item Vault This room has been sealed for years behind its secret door. When the characters open the secret door, describe the room’s features as follows: Hanging on a hook on the far wall
it, or the chest can be smashed open. It’s a Small object with AC 15, 20 hit points, and immunity to poison and psychic damage. Treasure. The garment hanging on the hook is a cloak of billowing, and the chest contains an immovable rod wrapped in a black cloth.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Q9. Private Cellar An innocent halfling family, the Peabodys, brews beer in this cellar, which lies beneath their home on Fishgut Alley in the Dock Ward. Their cellar contains brewing supplies and
lots of worthless clutter. The halflings haven’t noticed the secret tunnel that leads to the Xanathar Guild hideout; it’s concealed beneath a large flagstone that requires a Strength score of 10 or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
wall that contains the nalfeshnee carving has a secret door leading to area 3. The recessed wall that contains the dretch carving has another secret door, which leads to area 4. The dretch carving has
wall. (Halaster artfully placed the skeleton here to help adventurers find the secret door to area 3.)
The carvings on the north wall of area 2a depict (from east to west) a balor, a barlgura, a chasme
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
E5. Temple This area contains five secret doors, including one that opens up into one of the stone pillars holding up the ceiling. A bloodstained limestone altar stands at the far end of the room
second ochre jelly clings to the south wall. Treasure. The secret door in the pillar conceals a cavity packed with dwarf skulls that tumble out when the door is opened. At the bottom of the cavity is an unlocked stone coffer containing 15 gemstones worth 10 gp each.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
17. Flooding Pit The corridor beyond the secret door at area 15 contains three open 10-foot-deep pits. Lying at the bottom of each pit, a number of skeletons are shackled to the walls. In addition
can also make a DC 18 Dexterity check using those tools, cracking open the slab on a success. Creatures The first pit contains four humanoid skeletons. The second contains two umber hulk exoskeletons
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
14. Dead End? This 15-foot-high cave extends beneath area 15. It contains the following features: Web Cables. Web cables crisscross the tunnel that leads into this area.
Rock Formation. A 10-foot
-high, 10-foot-wide rock formation shaped like a huge clawed hand thrusts up from the floor in the west end of the cave. (A secret door is built into the ceiling directly above the claw.)
The claw is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
strung with web cables.
Crates. Dispersed throughout the cavern are ten large zurkhwood crates with mesh screens covering their open tops.
Secret Door. A secret door is set into the floor.
Each
crate contains hundreds of harmless, chirping cave crickets, feeding from a 1-foot-deep bed of bat guano mixed with maggot-ridden offal. The cave crickets are used by the drow to feed the bats in area
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Hall of Horrors A severe, bespectacled academic, Professor Pacali runs the Carnival’s Hall of Horrors. This sizable, sinister tent contains a maze of taxidermic creatures, cabinets of curiosity
, peculiar specimens in jars, and the occasional true wonder. Pacali hides a personal unsettling secret. During his time as a researcher at the Brautslava Institute in Darkon, Pacali was cursed: his worst
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
(Perception) check or automatically by a character probing the cistern with a pole or jumping in. The satchel contains some valuable items (see the “Treasure” section). Secret Door. A secret door is
this area and two are defeated, the last ruffian might reveal the secret door by fleeing in that direction. Treasure The satchel hidden in the cistern is waterproof and contains a potion of healing, a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a7
9. Complex of Secret Doors If someone opens the door on the east wall of area 8, read: The small room beyond the door is empty and appears to have no other exits.
The south wall contains the first
in a series of secret doors. Each of these portals requires a successful DC 20 Wisdom (Perception) check to find and must be opened by hand using a particular method, as follows: A. Pull down and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
trapdoor in area K81 through a one-way secret door into a flooded cell (area K74e). Characters who slide all the way to the bottom are deposited in the cell, but take no damage. The slide contains no handholds and is too slippery to ascend without the aid of magic.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
secret door lies area D9. D9: Secret Room This secret room contains bookshelves packed with tomes describing Fiend-summoning rituals. Trapped Chest. An unlocked treasure chest stands against the
bedroom contains two small, wood-framed beds, a toy chest, and a dollhouse—a perfect miniature replica of this dreary mansion.
Characters who investigate the dollhouse find all the house’s secret doors
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
11. Gas Pocket This section of the underground river contains a buildup of flammable gas that has a rotten odor. If a torch, lantern, or other open flame is brought into the area, or if the secret
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
-foot-wide, 10-foot-high secret door in the northwest wall of the grotto conceals a 15-foot-deep alcove. The secret door is carved from natural rock and disguised to look like part of the wall, and all
the plants around it are dead. The secret door can be detected with a successful DC 17 Wisdom (Perception) check. Characters who inspect the plants around the door and succeed on a DC 15 Intelligence
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
creatures except Undead. Secret Doors and Statues. This room contains three secret doors (see “ Temple Features”), each one located behind a ghoul statue. The area between a statue and a secret door is
on the wall is a symbol of Orcus. Skeletal Remains. This room holds five piles of skeletal remains (see “Temple Features”). The first time someone opens one of the secret doors to the vaults (area T14