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Princes of the Apocalypse
Amphibious. The dragon can breathe air and water.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the dragon fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Living Shadow. While in dim light or darkness
, the dragon has resistance to damage that isn’t force, psychic, or radiant.
Shadow Stealth. While in dim light or darkness, the dragon can take the Hide action as a bonus action.
Sunlight
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Arcana Unleashed
Reaching the Tomb Summarize the trip to the Tomb of the Shadow Serpents with this description: The journey to the tomb is short and uneventful. As you venture further into the forest, the foliage
becomes denser, and signs of folk living nearby or even passing through become scant. Soon, a hillock rises before you, and in its side yawns a gloomy cave maw. This must be the cave mentioned in the message!
The cave opening is area T1, which is described below.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Monstrosities Adult kruthik
Angry sorrowsworn
Astral dreadnought
Banderhobb
Catoblepas
Cave fisher
Chitine
Choldrith
Deep scion
Female steeder
Froghemoth
Giant strider
Sea spawn
Shadow mastiff
Shadow mastiff alpha
Skulk
Tlincalli
Trapper
Wretched sorrowsworn
Xvart
Xvart warlock of Raxivort
Young kruthik
Yuan-ti anathema
Yuan-ti broodguard
Yuan-ti mind whisperer
Yuan-ti nightmare speaker
Yuan-ti pit master
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
cut into the north wall lead down to a lower level.
Four shadow demons hide in the shadows of this cave. They attack visitors who aren’t accompanied by Murgaxor or Y’demi. Characters who have a
passive Wisdom (Perception) score of 17 or higher spot the shadow demons before they attack and aren’t surprised by them. The stairs in the north wall lead down to areas U1 through U4, detailed later in the “Underground Cave” section.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Challenge 3 Archer
Bulezau
Cave fisher
Choldrith
Deathlock wight
Deep scion
Derro savant
Dolphin delighter
Duergar screamer
Flail snail
Giff
Illusionist wizard
Leucrotta
Martial arts adept
Merrenoloth
Neogi
Ogre chain brute
Redcap
Shadow mastiff alpha
Slithering tracker
Swashbuckler
Sword wraith warrior
Trapper
Vampiric mist
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
salamanders 50–51 2d4 umber hulks 52–53 1d10 xorn 54–56 1 young red shadow dragon 57–59 2d4 fomorians 60–62 1d8 + 1 driders 63–65 1d20 + 20 spiders crawling on the walls of a web-filled cave 66–68 1d4 fire
vampire spawn 26–27 3d6 minotaurs 28–30 A 30-foot-tall inverted black pyramid floating 1 inch above the floor in a large cave 31–32 1d10 beholder zombies 33–34 1d4 mind flayer arcanists 35–36 1d6 + 2
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Arcana Unleashed
Tomb Features The Tomb of the Shadow Serpents consists of a mix of rooms with carved stone walls and natural cave chambers. Areas T1, T5, T8, T9, and T10 are cave chambers, while areas T2, T3, T4, T6
, T7, T11, and T12 are constructed from stone. The tomb has the following additional features. Ceilings The ceilings of the tomb’s cave chambers are 30 feet high. The ceilings of stone chambers are 20
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Arcana Unleashed
adventurers who’ve failed Venger’s challenges. Among the earliest tombs Venger built is the Tomb of the Shadow Serpents. It’s situated within a cave on the Material Plane near an intersection with the
Shadowfell, so strange and gloomy environs envelop the tomb. The tomb holds deadly monsters and traps. Surviving the Tomb of the Shadow Serpents is the first step toward earning Venger’s respect.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Cities and Sites The clans of the Shadow Marches primarily live in small towns and villages, their huts raised above the swamps on stilts. The Shadow Marches contain many manifest zones tied to
. Daelkyr ruins linger in these areas, remnants of the ancient war against the goblins and orcs that once dominated Khorvaire. Dragonshard Fields The Shadow Marches hold deposits of Eberron dragonshards
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
his shadow demon in area 29. 1b. Stalactites and Stalagmites This damp, dripping cave contains a veritable forest of stalagmites and stalactites. 1c. Claw-Shaped Cave The drow have hidden supplies in
the deepest arm of this otherwise empty cave. A search reveals three backpacks made of woven spiderwebs. Each pack contains a mess kit, 10 days of rations (dried mushrooms, moss, and boiled cockatrice eggs), 50 feet of spider silk rope, and a full water skin made from a lizard’s bladder.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
warlock of Raxivort
Yuan-ti broodguard
Monstrosities Banderhobb
Catoblepas
Cave fisher
Chitine
Choldrith
Froghemoth
Giant strider
Girallon
Leucrotta
Shadow mastiff
Tlincalli
Firenewt warlock of Imix
Flind
Gnoll flesh gnawer
Gnoll hunter
Grung
Grung elite warrior
Grung wildling
Hobgoblin devastator
Hobgoblin Iron Shadow
Illusionist
Kobold dragonshield
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Hobgoblin Iron Shadow
Meenlock
Orc Claw of Luthic
Orc Hand of Yurtrus
Quetzalcoatlus
Shadow mastiff
Vegepygmy chief
Yuan-ti broodguard
Challenge 3 (700 XP) Archer
Cave fisher
Choldrith
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
in which worshipers make a symbolic journey into the Underworld. The supplicants enter a cave, offer prayers and sacrifices to Erebos in utter darkness, and slowly make their way back to the surface
mourned her lover, Pero. She entered the Winter Nexus, a cave on the edge of Setessa that leads to the Underworld, and played a love song to lure Pero’s soul back to the mortal world. When Erebos saw this
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
, which commences shrieking when any creature that’s not Murgaxor or Y’demi approaches more than 10 feet inside the cave. The shriek is loud enough to alert the spectator in area T1, the shadow demons
Fortress Badlands Locations (T4-T7) T4. Supply Room A jumbled pile of supplies lies on the floor of this open cave and spills into a narrow hallway beyond.
This cave holds what remains of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
pleasing scents 2 A crooked stone tower that has a moon-like orb of light circling its rooftop, which causes the tower’s shadow to move like a clock hand 3 A decrepit mansion that is partially sunk
in the middle of a bog 4 A rocky hill shaped like a sleeping satyr, with its open mouth forming a cave entrance 5 A windmill that walks around on giant crow’s feet 6 A crumbling keep on a small island
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
, yuan-ti broodguard 3 Cave fisher, choldrith, derro savant, duergar screamer, flail snail, neogi, slithering tracker, trapper, vampiric mist 4 Babau, barghest, neogi master, yuan-ti mind whisperer
One 7 Armanite, dhergoloth, draegloth, lost sorrowsworn, shadar-kai shadow dancer, venom troll, warlock of the Fiend 8 Blackguard, canoloth, howler 9 Drow house captain, shadar-kai gloom weaver, lonely
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Arcana Unleashed
heroes! Should you desire fame and treasure, heed this challenge. My Tomb of the Shadow Serpents lies nearby, built within a cave of unrelieved gloom. Seek out the stone doors that bear a serpent
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Threats Sentries. Two male drow elite warriors are hidden behind a natural column of rock to the north.
Eater of Corpses. The cave is full of rotting corpses (twenty troglodytes, nine drow, and five
used as a staging area for House Freth’s raids into troglodyte territory. Six drow loyal to House Freth (four females and two males) and four shadow demons lurk here. The drow and their demon allies are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
–5 Bregan D’aerthe spy 6–10 Cult of “Y” 11–15 Drow foot patrol 16–20 Scroll from Narbondel’s Shadow Bregan D’aerthe Spy See “Duthcloim” for more information. Cult of “Y” Eastmyr has become a haven
. The shrine contains 1d4 shadow demons as well as 2d4 drow cultists, each of whom has a “second head” (in the form of a severed drow head on a pole) that the cultist has lashed to his or her body
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a4
either at the nearest village (about 5 miles from the mountain) or hidden in the Dead Gnoll’s Eye Socket, a small natural cave in the side of a hill about 2 miles from the Plume. There is really no
other shelter available. The villagers know about the cave and may have mentioned it. If the party leaves no guard, they will just have to trust the villagers not to steal their belongings. (Dishonest
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
seem.”
“Kubazan = bravery. Shagambi = wisdom. Moa = ?”
Ras Nsi’s Scouts Five yuan-ti malisons watch this entrance to the city from a small cave carved into the cliffside. A narrow goat track
zigzags up the cliff to their hideout. The group consists of two type 1 malisons, two type 2 malisons, and one type 3 malison. They follow the characters into Omu and shadow them through the streets. Their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
oppressive gloom and shadow.
The main tunnel heads into the mountain, ending at a pile of rubble left over from the cave-in. Secondary hallways branch off to the left and the right. The meenlocks
, and anything beyond 30 feet is in darkness. Cart wheels have carved shallow ruts in the dirt floor leading to the back of the mine, where the cave-in was never fully excavated. Smaller tunnels branch
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Geode Locations G1. Hall of the Guardians This cave lies at the end of a twisting, declining tunnel that began in area F13 of the Fane of the Eye. The rough walls of this cavern rise to a vaulted
characters toward area G6 if he believes them to be cultists and also reminds them of the pass phrase to cross the stone bridge (area G9) safely: “We walk in the shadow of Ogrémoch!” If the characters refuse
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Caves of Hunger Locations (H22-H31) H22. Borehole This cave might contain a psychic haunting (see “Psychic Hauntings”). This thirty-foot-high cave has exits to the north and south. Along the western
and a ceiling lined with dripping icicles. A wisp of steam rises from a roughly circular pool in the northern half of the cave. South of the pool is a shallow crater filled with oversized snowballs
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
26–27 1 hobgoblin captain with 3d10 hobgoblins 28–29 2d4 spectators 30–31 3d6 ghasts 32–33 2d8 intellect devourers 34–35 1d3 Orc Eye of Gruumsh with 2d4 orogs and 2d10 orcs 36–40 A large cave
spawn 90 1d3 cloakers 91 1d4 fire giants 92 1 mind flayer arcanist with 1d6 + 1 mind flayers 93 1d4 dao 94 1d8 + 1 driders 95 1d3 behirs 96 1d4 aboleths 97 1 beholder 98 1 young red shadow dragon 99 1 death tyrant 00 1 purple worm
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3
is strewn with rubble, so it is difficult terrain. Larger rubble piles are 1 to 4 feet high. Any loud noise (such as an explosion, shouting, or fighting) causes a minor cave-in: at the start of each
territory in which these ruins are located. Finally, a crystal sphere, cracked in the catastrophe, has rolled into the shadow of some nearby rubble. It is made of polished quartz, 3 inches in diameter
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
33. Dragon’s Hoard Altar and Rift. Above an altar of black stone in the middle of this 30-foot-high vault floats a 10-foot-tall, dagger-shaped rift of wispy shadow that moans.
Statues. Steps climb
cave with no light sources and no exits. If the cloakers haven’t been released, they attack any creature that appears in their prison. Characters can escape the prison with a plane shift spell or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Arcana Unleashed
Tomb Locations The following locations are keyed to map 1. T1: Cave Entrance When the characters are ready to venture into the cave described in “Reaching the Tomb,” read or paraphrase the following
: Three hulking, wolflike beasts lumber around this wide cave entrance, their red, malevolent eyes peering at you. Gray light flickering from sconces reflects off an obsidian mosaic in a double door at
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
diminution and growth respectively 2A. Dragon’s Ledge A ledge about 30 feet above the floor of the cavern has a cave-like nook at the back. On the elevated area, the female dragon hides and watches. If roused
Cave The place contains some remnants of carcasses, a few broken boxes with spoiled provisions, some split sacks containing moldering grain, casks of wine turned to vinegar, and ale barrels that have
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
characters might discover while exploring the Infinite Staircase. Infinite Staircase Doors d100 Door on the Staircase Destination 01–03 Webbed mouth of a pitch-black cavern Cave in the Demonweb
Plane of Water 99–00 Curtain of slime framed by writhing tentacles Puddle of brine within the folds of a giant brain in the Far Realm Irina Nordsol A cadre of marching modrons encounters a section of the Infinite Staircase engulfed by the Iron Shadow
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
queen A kraken’s cave or bronze dragon’s cavernous lair, filled with ancient treasures A sunken temple of Sekolah, evil god of the sahuagin The Planes of Existence The Abyss. The Nine Hells. The City of
boundaries of the world: A pit fiend’s stronghold on Avernus, the first layer of the Nine Hells A haunted castle in the Shadowfell that serves as a shadow dragon’s lair An elf queen’s tomb in the Feywild A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
repeated mind flayer attacks, a young deep dragon refuses to leave the cave where the dragon’s best friend—an adventurer who won the dragon’s respect and affection—lingers as a ghost.
Adult Deep Dragon
red shadow dragon as a protégé.
2 Two ancient dragon lovers—one deep and one white—see each other only once every hundred years, when they choose targets for a deadly hunting spree.
3 Two
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
, winged kobold 1/4 (50 XP) Darkmantle, deep gnome (Svirfneblin), gas spore, gray ooze, hobgoblin, magma mephit, myconid adult, orc, piercer, rust monster, scout, shadow, swarm of insects 1/2 (100 XP
, giant constrictor snake, gibbering mouther, grick, intellect devourer, mimic, minotaur skeleton, nothic, ochre jelly, ogre, orc Eye of Gruumsh, orog, polar bear (cave bear), quaggoth 2 (450 XP
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Arcana Unleashed
magical academy where five different campuses teach opposing magic philosophies. Similarly, the Tower of High Sorcery in the Dragonlance setting, described in Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
claimed the tenth. Other examples of magical academies in folklore include the Cave of Salamanca in Spain and Domdaniel, a magical school first mentioned in a French continuation of The Arabian Nights.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
command of a nalfeshnee named Trantolox have found the entrance to the Bleeding Citadel but can’t break in (see area S14). A shadow demon has found Yeenoghu’s lost pet, the great demon Crokek’toeck, in
cave narrows to a height of 2 feet, requiring Medium characters to crawl through it. As the characters peer into this 20-foot-wide chamber, read the following boxed text to the players: The floor of