Dungeon Master's Guide 5e

that figure into the schemes of the Spider Queen.
Lolth's servants also build dungeons amid the webbing,
trapping and hunting Lolth's hated enemies within
crisscrossing corridors of web-mortared stone.
Far beneath these dungeons lie the bottomless
Demonweb Pits where the Spider Queen dwells. There,
Lolth is surrounded by her handmaidens- yochlol
demons created to serve her and which outrank
mightier demons while in the Spider Queen's realm.
The Endless Maze. Baphomet's layer of the Abyss is
a never-ending dungeon, the center of which holds the
Horned King's enormous ziggurat palace. A confusing
ju mble of crooked hallways and myriad chambers, the
palace is surrounded by a mile-wide moat concealing
a maddening series of submerged stairs and tunnels
eading deeper into the fortress.
The Triple Realm. The Dark Prince Graz'zt rules
over the realm of Azzagrat, which encompasses three
ayers of the Abyss. His seat of power is the fantastic
Argent Palace in the city of Zelatar, whose bustling
markets and pleasure palaces draw visitors from across
me multiverse in search of obscure magical lore and
perverse delights. By Graz'zt's command, the demons
of Azzagrat present a veneer of civility and courtly
comity. However, the so-called Triple Realm holds as
uch danger as any other part of the Abyss, and planar
i itors can vanish without a trace in its mazelike cities
and in forests whose trees have serpents for branches.
Death DeJJs. Yeenoghu rules a layer of ravines known
Death Dells. Here, creatures must hunt to survive.
.=:ven the plants, which must bathe their roots in blood,

• are the unwary. Yeenoghu's servants, helping to sate
  eir master's hunger as he prowls his kingdom seeking
  _ ey, capture creatures from the Material Plane for
  lease in the Gnoll Lord's realm.

CARCERI

-:-he model for all other prisons in existence, Carceri

• a plane of desolation and despair. Its six layers hold
  r bogs, fetid jungles, windswept deserts, jagged
  o untains, frigid oceans, and black ice. All form a
  · erable home for the traitors and backstabbers that


• -e trapped on this prison plane.

OPTIONAL RULE: PRISON PLANE
_ -o one can leave Carceri easily. Magical efforts to leave
· e plane by any spell other than a wish simply fail.
:>onals and gates that open onto the plane become one-
y only. Secret ways out of the plane exist, but they are

• -dden and well guarded by traps and deadly monsters.

:-lADES

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• e layers of Hades are called the Three Glooms-
  aces without joy, hope, or passion. A gray land with
  :~ ashen sky, Hades is the destination of many souls


• ar are unclaimed by the gods of the Upper Planes or
  · e fiendish rulers of the Lower Planes. These souls


• come larvae and spend eternity in this place that
  cks a sun, a moon, stars, or seasons. Leaching away
  lor and emotion, this gloom is more than most visitors
  can stand. The "Shadowfell Despair" rule earlier in the
  apter can be used to represent a visitor's despair.

OPTIONAL RULE: V ILE TRANSFORMATION

At the end of each long rest taken on the plane, a visitor

must make a DC 10 Wisdom saving throw. On a failed

save, the creature gains one level of exhaustion, which

can't be re moved while the creature remains in Hades.

If the creature reaches six levels of exhaustion, it doesn't

die. Instead, the creature permanently transforms into

a larva, whereupon all levels of exhaustion afflicting the

creature are removed.

A larva is a miserable fiend that retains the facial

features of its previous form but has the body of a fat

worm. A larva has only a few faint memories of its

previous life and the statistics in the larva stat block.

Hades is crawling with larvae. Night hags, liches, and

rakshasas harvest them for use in vile rituals. Other

fiends like to feed on them.

LARVA

Medium fiend, neutral evil

Armor Class 9

Hit Points 9 (2d8)

Speed 20ft.

STR

9 (-1)

DEX

9 (-1)

CON

10 (+0)

Senses passive Perception 10

INT

6 (-2)

WIS

10 (+0)

CHA

2 (-4)

Languages understands the languages it knew in life but

can't speak

Challenge 0 (10 XP)

ACTIONS

Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: + 1 to hit, reach 5 ft ., one target.

Hit: 1 (1d4-1) piercing damage.

GEHENNA

Gehenna is the plane of suspicion and greed. It is the

birthplace of the yugoloths, which dwell here in great

numbers. A volcanic mountain dominates each of the

four layers of Gehenna, and lesser volcanic earth bergs

drift in the air and smash into the greater mountains.

The rocky slopes of the plane make movement here

difficult and dangerous. The ground inclines at least

45 degrees almost everywhere. In places, steep cliffs

and deep canyons present more challenging obstacles.

Hazards include volcanic fissures that vent noxious

fumes or searing flames.

Gehenna has no room for mercy or compassion. The

fiends living here are among the greediest and most

selfish in all the multiverse.

OPTIONAL RULE: CRUEL HINDRANCE

The plane's cruel nature makes it difficult for visitors to

help one another. Whenever a visitor casts a spell with a

beneficial effect, including a spell that restores hit points

or removes a condition, the caster must first make a DC

10 Charisma saving throw. On a failed save, the spell

fails, the spell slot is expended, and the action is wasted.

CHAPTER 2 I CREATTNG A MULTI VERSE