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Returning 35 results for 'Activating'.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Activating a Magic Item It usually takes a Magic action to activate a magic item. The item’s user might also need to do something special. The description of each item category or individual item details how an item is activated. Certain items use the following rules for their activation.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Activating the Engine A successful DC 15 Intelligence (Arcana) check is needed to activate the device by puzzling out its array of gears and levers. It then takes 12 rounds for the engine to “align
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Activating an Item Activating some magic items requires a user to do something in particular, such as holding the item and uttering a command word, reading the item if it is a scroll, or drinking it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Activating an Item Activating some magic items requires a user to do something special, such as holding the item and uttering a command word. The description of each item category or individual item
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Activating a Magic Item It usually takes a Magic action to activate a magic item. The item’s user might also need to do something special. The description of each item category or individual item
magic-items
dragonshards.
Activating a Siege Staff takes 3 Magic actions: one to prime the staff; one to aim it; and one to release the spell. There are several basic models of Siege Staff, each of which serves a different purpose. When activated, it produces one of the following effects, determined by its model:
magic-items
with dragonshards.
Activating a Siege Staff takes 3 Magic actions: one to prime the staff; one to aim it; and one to release the spell.
This model releases focused blasts of pure energy. Developed
magic-items
with dragonshards.
Activating a Siege Staff takes 3 Magic actions: one to prime the staff; one to aim it; and one to release the spell.
This model was typically used to bombard massed troops or
magic-items
with dragonshards.
Activating a Siege Staff takes 3 Magic actions: one to prime the staff; one to aim it; and one to release the spell.
This model amplifies the spells cast by an attuned spellcaster
Magic Items
Acquisitions Incorporated
observations, like a verbal notebook with unlimited space. The whisper jar records as fast as a creature can speak into it, and whispers back words at the same pace they were recorded. Activating the
Equipment
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Activating the Belt. As a bonus action, you can expend any number of the belt’s charges to activate it; the belt remains active for 1 minute per charge expended. You can use a bonus action to deactivate
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
otherwise, a reaction occurs immediately after its trigger. Which action is used to activate a Spell-Storing Item? Activating a Spell-Storing Item uses the Use an Object action. Can an artificer
equipment
armor, even when it has 0 charges remaining.
Activating the Armor. As an action, you can expend any number of the armor’s charges to activate it; the armor remains active for 1 hour per charge
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Adventure Summary The characters begin their adventure by activating the portal to Wisteria Vale, after which they can explore the village and talk to the inhabitants. The locals reveal that Quill
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
to “do business at the lodge” if the characters decide to dawdle at the lodge for many days. Activating any of these portal stones is unlikely without the lore available in distant libraries or in Rath
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
charges. Activating the Belt. As a bonus action, you can expend any number of the belt’s charges to activate it; the belt remains active for 1 minute per charge expended. You can use a bonus action to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
. Such items are permanently lost, having been transported to a secret demiplane whose location cannot be divined. Any amount of ooze that is removed from the pool disappears instantly. Activating the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
than 20 pounds of weight are placed on it, activating the pressure plate underneath and causing jets of poisonous gas to spout from the cracks between the tiles. Any creature above the trapped floor
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Dreamer’s Reach Magic A creature who falls asleep or uses a feature such as an elf’s Trance trait at Dreamer’s Reach can call upon the magic of the place while sleeping, activating one of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
into a flesh-and-blood clone of Dzaan, but activating the chamber requires a life-spark, which the simulacrum does not possess. Krintaas, who also lacks a life-spark, is impatiently waiting for Dzaan to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
“do business at the lodge” if the characters decide to dawdle at the lodge for many days. Activating any of these portal stones is unlikely without the lore available in distant libraries or in Rath
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation Supplement
creatures have disappeared while bathing in the mud pits, but Florrb has yet to figure out the trick to activating them. With a successful DC 15 Charisma (Persuasion) check, a character can help Florrb
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
normal plate armor, even when it has 0 charges remaining. Activating the Armor. As an action, you can expend any number of the armor’s charges to activate it; the armor remains active for 1 hour per
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
the first rank of the marching order is required to notice this trigger without activating the pressure plate. If the plate is activated, the circular mosaic pattern that appears as the sun on the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
array of merchant barges that must be crossed while moving along a busy river. Only by traveling through a sufficient number of these portals can the characters key themselves to activating the portal to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
first rank of the marching order is required to notice this trigger without activating the pressure plate. If the plate is activated, the circular mosaic pattern that appears as the sun on the floor
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. Wedging an iron spike or other object under the pressure plate prevents the trap from activating. A successful dispel magic (DC 13) cast
variations in the mortar and stone used to create it, compared to the surrounding floor. Wedging an iron spike or other object under the pressure plate prevents the trap from activating. Stuffing the holes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
find themselves unable to use the crossing. 5 Mushroom Circle. This fey crossing appears as a circle of mushrooms. The size of the mushrooms and the width of the circle can vary, but activating the fey
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
mascot stat block in chapter 7 to represent them), obeying Dean Tullus’s commands. After activating them, Dean Tullus (lawful neutral human Lorehold professor of order; see chapter 7) joins the fray
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
resemble an eyeball, similar to what one might see at the end of a beholder’s eyestalk. This stone eye is the key to activating the magic portal in area Q11. The mind flayer uses it to return to Xanathar’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3
is triggered. Falling Door Trap. If the characters set off the trap by activating the pressure plate in the floor, they hear a click and then a crash as both portcullises, made of timber bound in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
, but using a magic item doesn’t fall under Use an Object, as explained in the Dungeon Master’s Guide (see "Activating an Item"). In contrast, using a nonmagical item, such as a healer’s kit, is in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
command word for activating and deactivating the cauldron. They also know how to open the trapdoor in area K55. Treasure Each witch carries a potion of healing that she made herself. There is a 30
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
piece powering the graymatter engine falls to the floor, activating the hidden sentinels in area L28 and starting Landro’s shutdown sequence (see below). Shutdown Sequence When Landro’s shutdown sequence
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
lair, and forces intruders to find ways to overcome steep vertical climbs. Also, a beholder’s natural levitation means it doesn’t risk activating any floor-based traps, and therefore it is likely to