Dungeons & Dragons Rolling Inferno Miniature

This is a Highly detailed miniature of a Roiling Oil.   

This model was created by Schlossbauer who makes amazingly accurate models of the Monster Manual creatures and provided by Commercial Licence.

In Dungeons & Dragons, a Rolling Inferno is not a standardized creature or spell from the official core rulebooks but is often used as a dramatic environmental hazard, magical phenomenon, or homebrew elemental force. Typically, it refers to a massive, mobile wave of fire consuming everything in its path, evoking the image of a wildfire imbued with supernatural or magical energy. A Rolling Inferno is more than just ordinary fire—it behaves as if sentient, sometimes guided by elemental will or arcane influence, capable of pursuing victims, leaping over rivers, or climbing cliffs in its relentless advance. Dungeon Masters use such phenomena to introduce time pressure, devastation, and epic stakes into an adventure.

In a natural sense, a Rolling Inferno might result from dry conditions, high winds, and volatile terrain, becoming a fast-moving wildfire across grasslands or forests. However, in a D\&D setting, its cause is rarely mundane. It may have been sparked by a malfunctioning artifact, a vengeful fire elemental lord, or as part of a druidic ritual gone wrong. Alternatively, it could be a magical weapon used by powerful enemies, such as the aftermath of a red dragon’s rampage or the siege weapon of a fire giant warband. It might even be a summoned elemental entity—part firestorm, part elemental beast—that exists to raze civilizations to ash.

Mechanically, a Rolling Inferno can be represented in many ways. DMs may treat it as an ongoing lair effect, a roaming lair action, or even an encounter in itself. Characters caught within or too close may suffer ongoing fire damage, risk suffocation from smoke, or need to succeed on saving throws to avoid burning terrain. Powerful magic, strategic terrain use, or high mobility might be the only options for evading or surviving it. Whether as backdrop or threat, a Rolling Inferno serves as a potent reminder that in D\&D, not every foe wears armor or speaks—it may simply burn.

81.26mm tall at 32mm scale.