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Player’s Handbook
For the duration, you understand the literal meaning of any language that you hear or see signed. You also understand any written language that you see, but you must be touching the surface on which
the words are written. It takes about 1 minute to read one page of text. This spell doesn’t decode symbols or secret messages.
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
than a korred. Korreds can seemingly smell veins of metal and gems. A korred on the surface can feel the rise and fall of bedrock under the earth and where caves are present, and underground it knows
pathways through the stone for miles around. Secret doors set into stone are as obvious as windows to a korred.
Korreds have hair all over their bodies, but the hair that grows on their heads is
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
polished surface within 30 feet of it and in an area of bright light, the medusa is, due to its curse, affected by its own gaze.Multiattack. The medusa makes either three melee attacks—one with its snake
medusa might propose a dangerous quest to fetch some rare ingredient or legendary relic, promising to reward success with a bit of Pharika's knowledge. This information might lead to a cure for a plague, an alchemical breakthrough, or a secret of the cosmos.
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
dragons, but we are superior beings and should not lower ourselves to direct conflict.
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I have no interest in going to the surface world. It’s where one sends one’s servants.
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lair has the following features:
Connecting Passages. Because a deep dragon lacks a sapphire dragon’s ability to shape stone, add a few connecting passages or secret doors to otherwise
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
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
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Underground River. A river flows along the right and bottom edges of the map, providing the dragon with fresh water and an alternative entrance. Originating on the surface, the river descends through narrow
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
dragons, but we are superior beings and should not lower ourselves to direct conflict.
4
I have no interest in going to the surface world. It’s where one sends one’s servants.
5
features:
Connecting Passages. Because a deep dragon lacks a sapphire dragon’s ability to shape stone, add a few connecting passages or secret doors to otherwise inaccessible chambers, possibly
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
creatures in one encounter. Award a party 36,000 XP for defeating Hythonia after she uses Shed Skin.
Hythonia’s Lair
Hythonia makes her lair on Skathos, an island where a secret sect of
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
flowing down toward the lowlands. The lair has the following features:
Entrances. Two cave entrances provide access to the lair, one in the rock face just above one tarn and one below the surface of
the other tarn. The dragon uses the underwater passage as a secret entrance and emergency exit.
Main Caves. The lair is a complex of caves and tunnels; the stone surfaces are smooth and water-worn, and
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
, 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
edges of the map, providing the dragon with fresh water and an alternative entrance. Originating on the surface, the river descends through narrow tunnels that eventually lead to the Underdark.
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Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
, one in the rock face just above one tarn and one below the surface of the other tarn. The dragon uses the underwater passage as a secret entrance and emergency exit.
Main Caves. The lair is a complex
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
For the duration, you understand the literal meaning of any spoken language that you hear. You also understand any written language that you see, but you must be touching the surface on which the
words are written. It takes about 1 minute to read one page of text.
This spell doesn't decode secret messages in a text or a glyph, such as an arcane sigil, that isn't part of a written language.
Monsters
Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
their assumption that any who meet them seek to harvest them for such experiments.
Secret Lairs. Because they are hunted for food or for their skin, jermlaine take care to hide their lairs away from
communicate with such rodents. Underdark explorers know to keep a careful watch when encountering signs of a rat infestation. Those rodents, as creatures of the surface world, are rare in the deep Underdark. Their presence invariably signals the presence of a jermlaine colony.
backgrounds
common scholars of the forbidden, but any character who stumbles onto the dread truths waiting beneath the surface of reality can find themselves walking the path. The secrets you unveil could threaten to
research what led to your discoveries, and they want what you found.
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When you spoke aloud the first secret word you deciphered, you passed out and woke hours later to find your lips cracked and
backgrounds
You have been inducted into a secret society that venerates or pursues power from some otherworldly source. The cultists might serve as minions of an entity they worship, or they may seek to
entire surface with your cult’s sacred text
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A crystal that feels strange to the touch
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A ritual knife stained with blood, sap, or oils
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A set of copper tattoo needles
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An embroidered cloth half mask
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Secret Doors A number of secret doors are hidden in the Donjon Core. A character who searches a wall where a secret door is located and succeeds on a DC 20 Wisdom (Perception) check finds minuscule bumps along the wall’s surface. Pressing these bumps causes the door to slide open.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Secret Doors A number of secret doors are hidden in the Donjon Core. A character who searches a wall where a secret door is located and succeeds on a DC 20 Wisdom (Perception) check finds minuscule bumps along the wall’s surface. Pressing these bumps causes the door to slide open.
classes
Basic Rules (2014)
clump of exotic materials, these surface components barely hint at the expertise attained after years of apprenticeship and countless hours of study.
Wizards live and die by their spells. Everything
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What drew you forth from your life of study? Did your first taste of magical knowledge leave you hungry for more? Have you received word of a secret repository of knowledge not yet plundered by any
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
through the ceiling to reach the surface. Secret Doors. Concealed passages connect a number of the tunnels and chambers of the lair. Their secret doors are magical in nature, with the stone at a
surface of the stone here with a smooth, melted appearance. The lair has the following features: Concealed Entrances. Four sloping tunnels emerge onto the surface among the hills, concealed by brush and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
through the ceiling to reach the surface. Secret Doors. Concealed passages connect a number of the tunnels and chambers of the lair. Their secret doors are magical in nature, with the stone at a
surface of the stone here with a smooth, melted appearance. The lair has the following features: Concealed Entrances. Four sloping tunnels emerge onto the surface among the hills, concealed by brush and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
would go to the surface, and I could remain in his employ if I wished. Freedom and a job? How could I refuse? Mantol-Derith is a hidden place accessed by secret ways. Slaves, such as I had been, are
svirfneblin come to trade with each other and with surface-dwellers interested in conducting business with the deep places. Its location is kept secret — I only know that it is fairly close to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
would go to the surface, and I could remain in his employ if I wished. Freedom and a job? How could I refuse? Mantol-Derith is a hidden place accessed by secret ways. Slaves, such as I had been, are
svirfneblin come to trade with each other and with surface-dwellers interested in conducting business with the deep places. Its location is kept secret — I only know that it is fairly close to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
meaning of any spoken language that you hear. You also understand any written language that you see, but you must be touching the surface on which the words are written. It takes about 1 minute to read
one page of text. This spell doesn’t decode secret messages in a text or a glyph, such as an arcane sigil, that isn’t part of a written language.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
duration, you understand the literal meaning of any language that you hear or see signed. You also understand any written language that you see, but you must be touching the surface on which the words
are written. It takes about 1 minute to read one page of text. This spell doesn’t decode symbols or secret messages.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
meaning of any spoken language that you hear. You also understand any written language that you see, but you must be touching the surface on which the words are written. It takes about 1 minute to read
one page of text. This spell doesn’t decode secret messages in a text or a glyph, such as an arcane sigil, that isn’t part of a written language.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
meaning of any spoken language that you hear. You also understand any written language that you see, but you must be touching the surface on which the words are written. It takes about 1 minute to read
one page of text. This spell doesn’t decode secret messages in a text or a glyph, such as an arcane sigil, that isn’t part of a written language.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Uni and the Hunt for the Lost Horn
duration, you understand the literal meaning of any language that you hear or see signed. You also understand any written language that you see, but you must be touching the surface on which the words
are written. It takes about 1 minute to read one page of text. This spell doesn’t decode symbols or secret messages.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
duration, you understand the literal meaning of any language that you hear or see signed. You also understand any written language that you see, but you must be touching the surface on which the words
are written. It takes about 1 minute to read one page of text. This spell doesn’t decode symbols or secret messages.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Uni and the Hunt for the Lost Horn
duration, you understand the literal meaning of any language that you hear or see signed. You also understand any written language that you see, but you must be touching the surface on which the words
are written. It takes about 1 minute to read one page of text. This spell doesn’t decode symbols or secret messages.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
duration, you understand the literal meaning of any language that you hear or see signed. You also understand any written language that you see, but you must be touching the surface on which the words
are written. It takes about 1 minute to read one page of text. This spell doesn’t decode symbols or secret messages.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
meaning of any spoken language that you hear. You also understand any written language that you see, but you must be touching the surface on which the words are written. It takes about 1 minute to read
one page of text. This spell doesn’t decode secret messages in a text or a glyph, such as an arcane sigil, that isn’t part of a written language.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
duration, you understand the literal meaning of any language that you hear or see signed. You also understand any written language that you see, but you must be touching the surface on which the words
are written. It takes about 1 minute to read one page of text. This spell doesn’t decode symbols or secret messages.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3
16. Secret Door This description assumes an approach from the north. The south side of the secret door is described in area 15. The wall at the end of this corridor has a bas relief sculpture of a
warrior armed with a spear and shield. The shield, which rests on the floor, resembles a sundial, complete with a marker standing out from the wall. Etched on the shield’s surface are runes in Olman
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3
16. Secret Door This description assumes an approach from the north. The south side of the secret door is described in area 15. The wall at the end of this corridor has a bas relief sculpture of a
warrior armed with a spear and shield. The shield, which rests on the floor, resembles a sundial, complete with a marker standing out from the wall. Etched on the shield’s surface are runes in Olman
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
stationed throughout the dungeon to keep surface dwellers from finding their way to Mantol-Derith via this route. If the characters find this secret door and use it to make their way back to the surface world, design and populate the Zhentarim dungeon as you see fit.
1. Secret Entrances Mantol-Derith is hidden behind 10-foot-square secret doors carved to resemble walls of natural stone. A creature within 5 feet of a secret door can make a DC 15 Wisdom (Perception
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
stationed throughout the dungeon to keep surface dwellers from finding their way to Mantol-Derith via this route. If the characters find this secret door and use it to make their way back to the surface world, design and populate the Zhentarim dungeon as you see fit.
1. Secret Entrances Mantol-Derith is hidden behind 10-foot-square secret doors carved to resemble walls of natural stone. A creature within 5 feet of a secret door can make a DC 15 Wisdom (Perception






