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Returning 35 results for 'vaults'.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
9. Vaults These chambers have 15-foot-high, flat ceilings. 9a. Hall of Staffs Mosaics. Tiled mosaics depicting a variety of magic staffs cover the walls. (Hidden behind a mosaic depicting a staff of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
9. Vaults These chambers have 15-foot-high, flat ceilings. 9a. Hall of Staffs Mosaics. Tiled mosaics depicting a variety of magic staffs cover the walls. (Hidden behind a mosaic depicting a staff of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
T14: Secret Vaults Four secret vaults are connected to the main temple (area T13), and two more are connected to the hall of statues (area T4). The vaults are basically identical, but each contains a
Statues table to determine each statue’s form, the Creatures table to determine the guardian of each vault, and the Treasure table to determine the items stored within (see “Accessing the Vaults’ Treasure
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
36. Looted Vaults These dwarven vaults were looted long ago. The heavy iron vault doors have all been warped and pulled away from their frames, and they can no longer be closed. 36a. Teleport Trap A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
X33. Amber Vaults Several of these amber-glazed rooms are located along the periphery of the complex. Each room contains two or more amber sarcophagi (see the “Amber Sarcophagi” sidebar). X33a. Vault
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
36. Looted Vaults These dwarven vaults were looted long ago. The heavy iron vault doors have all been warped and pulled away from their frames, and they can no longer be closed. 36a. Teleport Trap A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
T14: Secret Vaults Four secret vaults are connected to the main temple (area T13), and two more are connected to the hall of statues (area T4). The vaults are basically identical, but each contains a
Statues table to determine each statue’s form, the Creatures table to determine the guardian of each vault, and the Treasure table to determine the items stored within (see “Accessing the Vaults’ Treasure
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
X33. Amber Vaults Several of these amber-glazed rooms are located along the periphery of the complex. Each room contains two or more amber sarcophagi (see the “Amber Sarcophagi” sidebar). X33a. Vault
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and the status it bestowed. Centuries later, the dwarves still search for the axe, and many adventurers have made careers of chasing after rumors and plundering old vaults to find it.
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’s many hidden vaults, where it waits to be rediscovered.
Applicable Artifacts
Name
Rarity
Eye of Vecna
Artifact
Hand of Vecna
Artifact
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
often rely on eidolons, ghostly spirits bound to safeguard a sacred place. Forged from the souls of those with unwavering devotion, eidolons stalk temples and vaults to ensure that no enemy defiles
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Eberron: Rising from the Last War
My family has the finest vaults you can imagine. They forge the locks that secure royal jewels. And I learned to pick those locks when I was barely out of the crib.
—Cutter, burglar and
Kundarak manticore emblem is legendary. The house also provides a special service to those who can afford it: a system of extradimensional vaults, allowing a client to store their goods in one location and
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temples and vaults to ensure that no enemy defiles, damages, or plunders these sites. If an enemy sets foot inside a warded location, the eidolon plunges into a statue specially prepared to house its
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
defenses.
Emerald Dragon Lair Features
The emerald dragon lair shown in map 5.8 is a series of ancient vaults situated beneath a city built in the caldera of a dormant volcano. The vaults fell into disuse
over a century ago when an upwelling from the lake at the caldera’s center collapsed a portion of the vaults and flooded their halls with boiling water and noxious fumes. The stairwell leading
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
(and more paranoid) dragons employing several layers of such defenses.
Emerald Dragon Lair Features
The emerald dragon lair shown in map 5.8 is a series of ancient vaults situated beneath a city
built in the caldera of a dormant volcano. The vaults fell into disuse over a century ago when an upwelling from the lake at the caldera’s center collapsed a portion of the vaults and flooded their
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humankind over the giants in the Dessarin Valley. Gurt’s greataxe was buried in Morgur’s Mound until it was unearthed and brought back to Waterdeep. After laying in the city’s vaults for
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. They then revel in the grand devastation their plotting brought about—looting libraries, plundering vaults, and prying secrets of arcane lore and power from the wreckage.Corruption. The nagpa
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Eberron: Rising from the Last War
, Kaius sealed most of Karrnath's undead in deep vaults, and the Order of the Emerald Claw was disbanded. A few bone knights remained in service to the crown, but most were cast aside — still bound to
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attack.The handsome drow Volluk Azrinae was once Belcorra’s apprentice. He assured his own immortality not by becoming undead, as did so many others within the Abomination Vaults, but by immuring
Belcorra’s retreat (area D8) on the fourth level of the Abomination Vaults, though he might also be encountered wandering the swamps around the Gauntlight .PoisonBludgeoning, Piercing, Slashing
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Teleportation Circles and portals found in the Abomination Vaults require no additional cost to awaken, other portals might require rare items or specific materials as a cost for this spell at the GM
interdimensional opening.
You must make a Charisma saving throw against a DC determined by the GM and varying depending on the location and nature of the portal. In the Abomination Vaults, the DC is 10
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into the sea. Although most locals believe Jaul to be long dead, he’s secretly been residing in the Abomination Vaults for decades. He’s become even more animalistic in that time, and when
the characters encounter him in his lair, he likely attacks with his dire wolf companion.
Jaul lairs in Belcorra’s pavilion (area D14) on the fourth level of the Abomination Vaults. Shape-Shift
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usually be found in area C1 on the third level of the Abomination Vaults. The characters might convince Augrael to accompany them as they explore that level.Poison Consume Flesh. Augrael devours a chunk
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who took efforts to hasten their own deaths, their willingness shaping them into daemonic servants. Their otherworldly senses make them useful for protecting vaults and similar locations on the
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fingers.
Quara spends nearly all her time in Yldaris, a drow enclave on the ninth level of the Abomination Vaults. The characters are likely to encounter her in area I17. Skirmisher. Quara takes the Dash
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, undead. With Belcorra’s return, the Ghost Queen has commanded the Children of Belcorra to muster the monsters that have overtaken the eighth level of the Abomination Vaults, the Farm level, to
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the stars, driven by some unknowable urge to leave the terrestrial realms behind.
Abandoned Domains. The flying polyps once gathered in great cities. They constructed vaults deep within the earth
polyps, owing to their long wars with the elder things and other Mythos entities, kept their vaults isolated from the underdark, volcanic passages, and other paths that intruders could use.
These
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Movement trait doesn’t function until the end of her next turn.
Site-Bound. Belcorra can’t leave the lowest three levels of the Abomination Vaults. When she is destroyed, she re-forms in
’t calm her mind enough to focus for long, even in the face of this existential threat.
Belcorra bedevils the characters throughout the lower three levels of the Abomination Vaults, but the final
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, undead.
With Belcorra’s return, the Ghost Queen has commanded the Children of Belcorra to muster the monsters that have overtaken the eighth level of the Abomination Vaults, the Farm level, to
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fighting circuit, when they in fact plan to warp him into a strange, new form—one he’s unlikely to appreciate.
Murschen is almost always in the sauna (area F22) in Belcorra’s laboratories, the sixth level of the Abomination Vaults.
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urdefhan war champion who leads the largest and most active group of adversaries the characters will face in the Abomination Vaults. His confrontation with the characters is inevitable, because he
Axe of the Dwarvish Lords
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adventurers have made careers of chasing after rumors and plundering old vaults to find it.
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The Axe of the Dwarvish Lords is a magic weapon that grants a +3 bonus to attack and damage
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muster the monsters that have overtaken the eighth level of the Abomination Vaults, the Farm level, to serve as soldiers in her army. The Children are currently under the lackluster command of the spirit
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to face alone. Time and time again, he was forced to flee ever deeper into the vaults, until finally he was cornered in a dead-end cave by an immense otyugh that left him trapped and infected with
Demilich (Variant)
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their quest for power beyond the mortal world. As their patron did, they secure their remains within well-guarded vaults, using soul gems to maintain their phylacteries and destroy the adventurers who
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cults that summoned them have vanished while others slumber in sealed vaults or ceremonial chambers waiting patiently for curious or ambitious fools to free them.
Dangerous Allies. Shoggoths grow more