*Stat blocks for these creatures (except the card drawer) appear in the Monster Manual.

Wondrous Item, Uncommon This box contains a set of cards. A full deck has 34 cards: 32 depicting specific creatures and two with a mirrored surface. A deck found as treasure is usually missing 1d20 − 1 cards. The magic of the deck functions only if its cards are drawn at random. You can take a Magic action to draw a card at random from the deck and throw it to the ground at a point within 30 feet…

Weapon (greatclub), very rare You have a +3 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. Proficiency with a Greatclub allows you to add your proficiency bonus to the attack roll for any attack you make with it. This weapon has the following mastery property. To use this property, you must have a feature that lets you use it. Push. If you hit a creature with this weapon, you can…

Weapon (greatclub), rare You have a +2 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. Proficiency with a Greatclub allows you to add your proficiency bonus to the attack roll for any attack you make with it. This weapon has the following mastery property. To use this property, you must have a feature that lets you use it. Push. If you hit a creature with this weapon, you can push…

When the leader of a villainous order rises as a death knight, their wicked devotees might join them in their cursed existence as death knight aspirants. These followers bear a measure of their leader’s power and serve as they did in life, obediently following the death knight’s decrees and heralding its terrible will. Death Knights Champions of evil, death knights are armor-clad, skeletal…

Weapon (greatclub), uncommon You have a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. Proficiency with a Greatclub allows you to add your proficiency bonus to the attack roll for any attack you make with it. This weapon has the following mastery property. To use this property, you must have a feature that lets you use it. Push. If you hit a creature with this weapon, you can…

Injury Poison A creature subjected to Deathdance must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or have the Poisoned condition for 1 minute. Humanoids automatically succeed on this save. The creature also has the Incapacitated condition while Poisoned in this way, as it thrashes uncontrollably.

Weapon (Any Melee Weapon), Legendary (Requires Attunement) You gain a +3 bonus to attack rolls and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. The first time you attack with the weapon on each of your turns, you can transfer some or all of the weapon’s bonus to your Armor Class. For example, you could reduce the bonus to your attack rolls and damage rolls to +1 and gain a +2 bonus to Armor Class.…

Magic Items for Starting Characters If you’re starting a campaign for characters above level 1, the Player’s Handbook offers suggestions for how many magic items such characters should start with and the rarity of those items. Consider these approaches to determining the items each character receives: DM Choice: Choose items for each character using your own judgment. Player Choice: Let the…

Large Fiend (Devil), Lawful Evil AC 18 Initiative +7 (17) HP 228 (24d10 + 96) Speed 40 ft.

Weapon (greatclub), rare (requires attunement by a Dragonborn) These weapons are made of a scaly metal that radiates draconic elements. You have a bonus to attack rolls and damage rolls made with this magic weapon, as determined by the weapon’s rarity, and it deals an extra 1d6 damage of the same type as your Dragonborn Breath Weapon trait on a hit. In addition, while attuned to the weapon, you…

On the Elemental Plane of Earth, galaxies of gemstones twinkle over vaults of treasure. If dao are there, so is wealth worth hunting. —Gundren Rockseeker, Dwarf Treasure Hunter Genies of minerals and gemstones, dao embody the resolve of rock. Using innate magic, they move through the earth unimpeded, exploring depths inaccessible to most. Dao delight in the treasures of the earth, whether raw…

Wondrous Item, Artifact (Requires Attunement) This treatise, composed by Iggwilv the archmage, documents the Abyss’s layers and inhabitants and is widely regarded as the most thorough and blasphemous tome of demonology in the multiverse. The tome recounts both the oldest and most current profanities of the Abyss and demons. Demons have attempted to censor the text, and while sections have been…

The Lich King Ner’zhul created death knights from fallen warriors and paladins to serve as undead, immortal lieutenants of the Scourge in the Third War. Arthas Menethil was the first of these death knights, and after Arthas became the Lich King, the power of the death knights only grew stronger. (See “ The Scourge ” in chapter 6 for more information.) During the invasion of Northrend, a company…

Death knights are deadly combatants and domineering commanders with grim histories. Some strive to end the curses that doom them to undeath, though their selfish souls eternally shackle them to their fates. Others, like the infamous death knight Lord Soth, brood in dismal ruins for centuries, rousing themselves to action only when something reignites their deathless evil. Death Knights Champions…

In the golden age of the Empire of Dhakaan, bugbear cavalry would lead assaults mounted on worgs or dire tigers. Dolguuls are a brutal mockery of these champions. Formed from a blend of stone and bone, the dolguul has the upper torso of a mouthless bugbear merging into a hunched, eyeless quadrupedal shape with a vicious maw. One of the Dolguul’s limbs ends in a massive blade. The other terminates…

Large Fiend (Devil), Lawful Evil AC 16 Initiative +7 (17) HP 161 (17d10 + 68) Speed 40 ft., Fly 40 ft.