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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Cave Locations The cave’s chambers and tunnels were hewn from solid rock by dwarves long ago. The berserkers carry torches to see where they’re going. Characters without darkvision must rely on their
own light sources as well. The following locations are keyed to map 2.5. Q1. Icy Path An elevated causeway covered with snow winds toward the mouth of the berserkers’ cave. Tracks in the snow clearly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Cave Locations The following locations are keyed to map 4.1. Mike Schley Map 4.1: Wave Echo Cave View Player Version W1: Cave Entrance The entrance tunnel leads into a large natural cavern supported
by a pillar of rock. In the western part of the cave, behind the pillar, are three bedrolls and a heap of ordinary supplies: sacks of flour, bags of salt, casks of salted meat, lanterns, flasks of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Cave of Echoes Locations The following locations are keyed to map 4.1. Marc Moureau Map 4.1: Cave of Echoes View Player Version C1: Empty Cavern This vaulted cavern is forty feet across and twenty
, charcoal, or paint are faded and illegible. A character who leaves their name or initials in the cave sometimes hears their name whispered among the echoes of the cave. Characters who examine the walls
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
Shunned Cave Locations The following locations are keyed to map G. Marc Moureau Map G: Shunned Caves (DM’s Version) View Without Tokens View Player Version G1: Entrance Gnawed bones litter the
ground near the cave mouth, and the stench of blood hangs in the air. The bones belong to the owlbear’s victims, including animals, explorers, and other monsters. The bones bear indentations from the
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only to replicate in others the emotions that created them.
Nettlesome Pranksters. Mites prefer to live underground, seeking out dungeons and cave warrens where they dig a network of hidden burrows
frustration and antipathy build. When adventurers enter the dungeon, the mites go to work to exploit the added chaos. They use their magic to drag visitors into their web of anger and frustration, luring explorers deeper into the site and into situations and locations that promise to yield up the most havoc.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
. Important features about the cave, such as its lighting, appear here. Locations. This section details the cave’s areas and its contents, including any monsters. DM’s Map of the Cave. This map displays the locations of monsters, traps, and treasure within the cave.
Cave Descriptions Each description of a cave has these sections: Getting Started. This section provides instructions for the DM and introduces the cave with thematic read-aloud text. Features
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is set beneath a mountain ridge between two deep tarns, with streams flowing down toward the lowlands. The lair has the following features:
Entrances. Two cave entrances provide access to the lair
, preferring caverns with at least one entrance submerged underwater. They prize locations with a combination of open space, connecting tunnels, and dead ends to make the most of their natural and
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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
. They prize locations with a combination of open space, connecting tunnels, and dead ends to make the most of their natural and magical mobility, using flight and teleportation to navigate obstacles in
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, since food is relatively scarce in such areas.
Partly out of fear and partly because their eyes are sensitive to sunlight, kobolds prefer the security of a cave to living in the open air, and can be
rock outcroppings, creating warrens above the water line.
Kobolds reside most commonly in hilly or mountainous terrain. Such locations usually have natural caves suitable for living space, plenty of
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chosen scenic locations with anything that isn’t food. They often abandon lairs to seek new vistas, so the interiors of their lairs often feel less finished than those of other dragons. Topaz
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Their preference for lair sites frequently brings topaz dragons into conflict with other creatures, since they resent having to share their chosen scenic locations with anything that isn’t food
Weapon Property
The sound of the weapon (typically a firearm) discharging alerts all hearing creatures within a number of feet as specified by the number in parentheses after the loud property. This range is doubled in echoey locations, such as cave systems, and where sound travels faster, such as underwater.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Fortress Badlands Locations (T1-T2) The following locations are keyed to map 6.2. Map 6.2: fortress badlands View Player Version Unless noted otherwise, entryways and ceilings in the caves are 10
peryton stat block. T2. Collapsing Cave Gentle, white light emanates from within the mouth of this cave. The mouth is fifteen feet across and ten feet high, but the cave narrows as it deepens.
The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
Getting Started The Caves of Chaos Map displays all the locations characters can visit in the Caves of Chaos. The player version of this map doesn't reveal the caves' contents or names, only the cave
twisting as if to ward you off. Undeterred, you emerge from the tangled thicket into a stark ravine. Its rocky walls rise steeply one hundred feet or so above. Several dark cave mouths pockmark the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
Minotaur Lair Locations The following locations are keyed to map I. Marc Moureau Map I: Minotaur Lair (DM’s Version) View Without Tokens View Player Version I1: Entrance Bones litter the furrowed
dirt around the cave mouth.
Pressed into the dirt are the broken bones of the minotaur’s past victims—unlucky goblins, kobolds, and explorers who stumbled on the monster’s lair. Hoof Tracks. A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
General Features The Cragmaw cave slopes steeply upward. The entrance is at the foot of a good-sized hill, and the caves and passages are inside the hill itself. Ceilings Most of the caves and
passages have steeply sloping ceilings that create stalactite-covered chambers rising 20 to 30 feet above the floor. Light Areas H1 and area H2 are outside. The rest of the cave complex is dark unless
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Locations in Thither The following encounters are tied to locations marked on the map of Thither. As the characters explore Thither, you can move these locations as needed, putting them in the
characters’ path. Ideally, you should run all three encounters in the following order before the characters arrive at Loomlurch or travel to Yon: Nib’s Cave. The characters meet an old man who offers them
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sleeping Dragon’s Wake
Leilon Point Locations The following locations are keyed to the map of Leilon Point. Farmhouses The families inside the unlabeled buildings on the map of Leilon Point are farmers, fishers, and their
destroyed more property. Seven days ago, some of the fishers in the town took weapons and their boats to Salt Cave to see if the raiders were in the caves. The fishers have not returned. Five days ago
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
General Features The Cragmaw cave slopes steeply upward. The entrance is at the foot of a good-sized hill, and the caves and passages are inside the hill itself. Ceilings. Most of the caves and
otherwise. The boxed text for those locations assumes that the characters have darkvision or a light source. Rubble. Areas of crumbling rock and gravel are difficult terrain (see “Difficult Terrain” in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
where the walls of the ledge meet the walls of the fortress. Five vrocks are perched on the ledge, one each at locations 17a through 17e. These demons were summoned by Drivvin Freth, and they obey only
, alerting all creatures in those locations. The demons then eagerly join any battle that erupts. 17a. Northeast Perch The vrock perched here focuses its attention on the ramp leading up to this area. 17b
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
is relatively scarce in such areas. Partly out of fear and partly because their eyes are sensitive to sunlight, kobolds prefer the security of a cave to living in the open air, and can be found in
outcroppings, creating warrens above the water line. Kobolds reside most commonly in hilly or mountainous terrain. Such locations usually have natural caves suitable for living space, plenty of room to dig
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
Ogre Lair Locations The following locations are keyed to map E. E1: Entrance Flies buzz around the rotting carcass of some unrecognizable beast outside the cave mouth.
The carcass conceals a hidden
stomps out of the cave to investigate. The encounter in that area then occurs here. E2: Ogre Mercenary’s Den Helge C. Balzer Thick, lumpy bearskins cover the floor of this cave, but they’re hardly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
the chapter. Shortly after arriving in Thither, the characters come upon a cave that is the home of a miser who spins gold into magic items. The miser, Nib, can provide directions to other locations
Navigating Thither Using the map of Thither as a reference, describe what the characters see as they forge their own path through the splinter-realm. Named locations on the map are described later in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Cackling Chasm Locations The following locations are keyed to map 2.4. Z1. Cave Mouth At the south end of the chasm, humanoid skulls are stacked on either side of a cave mouth that contains icy steps
-headed flail. Any character who succeeds on a DC 15 Intelligence (Religion) check recognizes it as the symbol of Yeenoghu, the demon lord of gnolls. Z2. Feasting Cave Crude steps lead down to a frigid
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
characters’ search for Kas takes them to several locations, from the Ruinous Citadel, where Miska the Wolf-Spider is in the process of breaking free from his prison; to the Hurricane Tower, where the
characters useful information. The characters’ choices affect where they ultimately face Kas, but regardless, the characters must weaken the vampire enough to banish him with their Chime of Exile. While doing so, they discover Vecna’s location in the Cave of Shattered Reflection.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Hall of Wisdom (T3a-T3e) This winding network of tunnels and alcoves holds Murgaxor’s collection of books, scrolls, and curios, which are heaped on shelves and in niches along the cave walls. This
open cave is strewn with the bones of small birds, reptiles, and wild dogs.
The animal bones are the remains of Murgaxor’s and Y’demi’s past meals. T3B. Southwest Entrance Books and scroll cases are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Vecna’s Grasp Locations These locations are keyed to map 11.1. Dyson Logos Map 11.1: Vecna’s Grasp View Player Version E1: Kaleidoscopic Cavern Characters who use the magic of Vecna’s Link to
enormous hole in the cave floor like a cork. This hole leads down to the Cave of Shattered Reflection, but the characters can’t bypass the crystals or make their descent until they explore the side
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
Seagrow Caves Locations The following locations are keyed to map 3, which shows the layout of the Seagrow Caves. Map 3: Seagrow Caves View Player Version B1: Entrance Tunnel Multicolored fungus
leads up ten feet to a higher cave area in the north. Water burbles down from that upper cave and collects in a large pool. Two small mushroom-like people are working amid the mushrooms near the pond
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
Locations on the Upper Level The following locations are identified on map 6.3. 1. Guardroom Ice Cavern One frost giant keeps watch here at all times to prevent any unauthorized use of the long
combat here and rush to aid his comrade (and vice versa). 2. Guardroom Ice Cave One frost giant waits here on standby guard. On the floor of the cave are a pile of sleeping skins and two bags. The guard
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
the city in an hour or two. Sanctum Locations The building shown in map 12.1 is a large house built in front of a natural cave opening, donated to the Heralds of the Comet by a wealthy aspirant. The
imagery decorates the room’s walls and pillars, and each card from a Deck of Many Things is represented in images that surround the cave entrance in the west wall. Cave. The winding cave is mostly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Cave Locations The following locations are keyed to map 5.5. Map 5.5: bluemaw cave View Player Version F1: Crystal Cave Blue crystal formations line the walls and floors of this cavern, so dense in
F: Bluemaw Cave Bluemaw Cave, an abandoned dragon’s lair, owes its blue hue to its high concentration of blue salt crystals. The characters might stumble across Bluemaw Cave or learn about it from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
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
explorer’s packs, one dungeoneer’s pack, and one scholar’s pack. Secret Door. A character who searches the northernmost end of the cave and succeeds on a DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check finds a door disguised
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
Reaching the Tomb The following locations provide different ways to access Xeluan’s tomb. Ruined Citadel Oztocan’s most prominent landmark is the ruined citadel around which the town was built. A
the caves but avoid them because they’re hard to reach. The characters must climb or fly 200 feet to reach either cave, which is situated in the middle of a hillside escarpment. Any such climb requires
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a4
7. Geysers and Chains The door opens onto a stone platform in a large natural cave. Opposite the entrance in the distance is another stone platform. Between them, a series of wooden disks is
suspended from the ceiling by massive steel chains. The cave floor seems to be covered by a pool of boiling mud.
The ceiling is 50 feet above the level of the platforms. The cave floor is 50 feet below
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
Bugbear Lair Locations The following locations are keyed to map H. Marc Moureau Map H: Bugbear Lair (DM’s Version) View Without Tokens View Player Version H1: Entrance Just inside the cave, a
ogre mercenary (see cave E). The Hostile bugbears fight the characters on sight and can’t be bargained with. Brian Valeza H3: Stairway Stairs ascend north. At the top of the stairs is a heavy log the
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Emerald Dragon Lairs
Emerald dragons make their lairs in caves and subterranean ruins, favoring locations that have been abandoned—and ideally forgotten—by other creatures. They are most
periods, the waters surge up into the nearest halls and corridors before draining away.
Underwater Cache. The dragon stashes gold and gems in an underwater cave (at the bottom of the map), the entrance