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Dungeon Master’s Guide
This candle’s magic is activated when the candle is lit, which requires a Magic action. After burning for 4 hours, the candle is destroyed. You can snuff it out early for use at a later time
;D20 Tests. In addition, a Cleric or Druid in the light can cast level 1 spells they have prepared without expending spell slots.
Alternatively, when you light the candle for the first time, you can
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Player’s Handbook
larger than a 30-foot Cube, and you decide when you cast the spell how the illusion behaves and what sounds it makes. This scripted performance can last up to 5 minutes.
When the trigger you specify
can be activated again.
The trigger can be as general or as detailed as you like, though it must be based on visual or audible phenomena that occur within 30 feet of the area. For example, you could
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’s grip is activated. Once activated, you can cast the cantrip at will using your spell save DC and spell attack modifier. Cantrips cast in this way use the weapon as a Spellcasting Focus and
’s hilt is hollow and can hold up to three Spell Scroll;Spell Scrolls. If the Spell Scroll is a cantrip and is left within the compartment for 1 minute, one of the three clear gems adorning the sword
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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:
Candle of Invocation
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Basic Rules (2014)
This slender taper is dedicated to a deity and shares that deity's alignment. The candle's alignment can be detected with the detect evil and good spell. The GM chooses the god and associated
Neutral good
14-15
Lawful evil
16-17
Lawful neutral
18-20
Lawful good
The candle's magic is activated when the candle is lit, which requires an action. After burning for 4
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stat block or some other action. If you are incapacitated, the turret can take any action of its choice, not just Dodge.
Once the turret has been activated, it can’t be activated again until the
following dawn.
Death & Healing. While the turret has at least 1 hit point, it regains 2d6 hit points if the mending spell is cast on it. If the turret is reduced to 0 hit points, it shatters and
Instant Fortress
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Basic Rules (2014)
is divided into two floors, with a ladder running along one wall to connect them. The ladder ends at a trapdoor leading to the roof. When activated, the tower has a small door on the side facing you
. The door opens only at your command, which you can speak as a bonus action. It is immune to the knock spell and similar magic, such as that of a chime of opening.
Each creature in the area where the
Daern's Instant Fortress
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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
is divided into two floors, with a ladder running along one wall to connect them. The ladder ends at a trapdoor leading to the roof. When activated, the tower has a small door on the side facing you
. The door opens only at your command, which you can speak as a bonus action. It is immune to the knock spell and similar magic, such as that of a chime of opening.
Each creature in the area where the
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identify the spell effect contained within the disk.
There are three elements to a Blast Disk: the trigger, the payload, and the charge. Each effect is selected at the time it is created.
Trigger. A
disk is activated, the user can set a time delay of up to 10 minutes before it releases its effect.
Proximity. 30 seconds after the disk is activated, it can trigger when someone comes within a
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stat block or some other action. If you are incapacitated, the turret can take any action of its choice, not just Dodge.
Once the turret has been activated, it can’t be activated again until the
following dawn.
Death & Healing. While the turret has at least 1 hit point, it regains 2d6 hit points if the mending spell is cast on it. If the turret is reduced to 0 hit points, it shatters and
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identify the spell effect contained within the disk.
There are three elements to a Blast Disk: the trigger, the payload, and the charge. Each effect is selected at the time it is created.
Trigger. A
disk is activated, the user can set a time delay of up to 10 minutes before it releases its effect.
Proximity. 30 seconds after the disk is activated, it can trigger when someone comes within a
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Antimagic Shell. The snail has advantage on saving throws against spells, and any creature making a spell attack against the snail has disadvantage on the attack roll.
If the snail succeeds on its
saving throw against a spell or a spell’s attack roll misses it, the snail’s shell converts some of the spell’s energy into a burst of destructive force if the spell is of 1st level
Flail Snail
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
Antimagic Shell. The snail has advantage on saving throws against spells, and any creature making a spell attack against the snail has disadvantage on the attack roll. If the snail succeeds on its
saving throw against a spell or a spell attack misses it, an additional effect might occur, as determined by rolling a d6;{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Antimagic Shell"}:
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identify the spell effect contained within the disk.
There are three elements to a Blast Disk: the trigger, the payload, and the charge. Each effect is selected at the time it is created.
Trigger. A
disk is activated, the user can set a time delay of up to 10 minutes before it releases its effect.
Proximity. 30 seconds after the disk is activated, it can trigger when someone comes within a
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identify the spell effect contained within the disk.
There are three elements to a Blast Disk: the trigger, the payload, and the charge. Each effect is selected at the time it is created.
Trigger. A
disk is activated, the user can set a time delay of up to 10 minutes before it releases its effect.
Proximity. 30 seconds after the disk is activated, it can trigger when someone comes within a
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stat block or some other action. If you are incapacitated, the turret can take any action of its choice, not just Dodge.
Once the turret has been activated, it can’t be activated again until the
following dawn.
Death & Healing. While the turret has at least 1 hit point, it regains 2d6 hit points if the mending spell is cast on it. If the turret is reduced to 0 hit points, it shatters and
Programmed Illusion
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larger than a 30-foot cube, and you decide when you cast the spell how the illusion behaves and what sounds it makes. This scripted performance can last up to 5 minutes.
When the condition you
illusion can be activated again.
The triggering condition can be as general or as detailed as you like, though it must be based on visual or audible conditions that occur within 30 feet of the area
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Dungeon Master’s Guide
This staff has 50 charges and can be wielded as a magic Quarterstaff that grants a +2 bonus to attack rolls and damage rolls made with it. While you hold it, you gain a +2 bonus to spell attack rolls
.
Spell Absorption. While holding the staff, you have Advantage on saving throws against spells. In addition, you can take a Reaction when another creature casts a spell that targets only you. If you
Staff of the Magi
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This staff can be wielded as a magic quarterstaff that grants a +2 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with it. While you hold it, you gain a +2 bonus to spell attack rolls.
The staff has 50
charges for the following properties. It regains 4d6 + 2 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the last charge, roll a d20. On a 20, the staff regains 1d12 + 1 charges.
Spell Absorption. While
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Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
a battlement atop it. Its interior is divided into two floors, with a ladder running along one wall to connect them. The ladder ends at a trapdoor leading to the roof. When activated, the tower has a
small door on the side facing you. The door opens only at your command, which you can speak as a bonus action. It is immune to the knock spell and similar magic, such as that of a chime of opening
Symbol
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common triggers are opening the object, approaching within a certain distance of it, or seeing or reading the glyph.
You can further refine the trigger so the spell is activated only under certain
When you cast this spell, you inscribe a harmful glyph either on a surface (such as a section of floor, a wall, or a table) or within an object that can be closed to conceal the glyph (such as a book
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Storm King's Thunder
energy when the throne’s powers are activated.
After the fall of Shanatar, the Wyrmskull Throne fell into the clutches of less honorable creatures. A band of adventurers wrested the throne from
expend any charges.
As an action, the creature can expend 1 charge to cast lightning bolt (spell save DC 19) from the throne. The spell is cast as though using a 9th-level spell slot and deals 49 (14d6
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Command Word A command word is a word or phrase that must be spoken for an item to work. A magic item that requires a command word can't be activated in an area where sound is prevented, as in the area of the silence spell.
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
the surface world were a mistake of creation. I will correct that error. (Evil)
Dragon Turtle Spellcasting
Age
Spell Save DC
Spells Known
Ancient Dragon Turtle;Ancient
17
control water, control weather,* fog cloud
*This spell’s casting time is longer than 1 action.
Dragon Turtle Adventures
The Dragon Turtle Adventure Hooks table offers suggestions
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Magic [Action] When you take the Magic action, you cast a spell that has a casting time of an action or use a feature or magic item that requires a Magic action to be activated. If you cast a spell
that has a casting time of 1 minute or longer, you must take the Magic action on each turn of that casting, and you must maintain Concentration while you do so. If your Concentration is broken, the spell fails, but you don’t expend a spell slot. See also “Concentration.”
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Uni and the Hunt for the Lost Horn
Magic [Action] When you take the Magic action, you cast a spell that has a casting time of an action or use a feature or magic item that requires a Magic action to be activated. If you cast a spell
that has a casting time of 1 minute or longer, you must take the Magic action on each turn of that casting, and you must maintain Concentration while you do so. If your Concentration is broken, the spell fails, but you don’t expend a spell slot.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Magic [Action] When you take the Magic action, you cast a spell that has a casting time of an action or use a feature or magic item that requires a Magic action to be activated. If you cast a spell
that has a casting time of 1 minute or longer, you must take the Magic action on each turn of that casting, and you must maintain Concentration while you do so. If your Concentration is broken, the spell fails, but you don’t expend a spell slot. See also “Concentration.”
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
, such as the area created by the silence spell. Consumables Some items are used up when they are activated. A potion or elixir must be swallowed, or an oil applied to the body. The writing vanishes
if it is a potion. The description of each item category or individual item details how an item is activated. Certain items use one or more of the following rules related to their activation. If an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
Spell Sink This device emanates an antimagic field (same effects as the antimagic field spell) in a radius of 1 to 3 miles. The field can be activated or deactivated as an action with a touch by its
controller. The form that the device takes depends on the nature of its creator. The Ashbound druids despise unnatural magic, so a spell sink created by them might be a living artifact, such as a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
magic mouth spell cast on it. When a character passes in front of it, the spell is activated, and the wyrmling whispers the following short verse in the Common tongue: When the dragon dreams its dream Within its rightful tomb, The light of Argynvost will beam And rid this land of gloom.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
rooms, whirling blades, and anything else that depends on a mechanism to operate. Magic traps are either magical device traps or spell traps. Magical device traps initiate spell effects when activated. Spell traps are spells such as glyph of warding and symbol that function as traps.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
details how an item is activated. Certain items use the following rules for their activation. Command Word A command word is a word or short phrase that must be spoken or signed for an item to work
. Spoken command words must be audible and fail to work in areas where all sound is suppressed, as in the area of the Silence spell. Consumable Items Some items are consumed—used up, in other words—when
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
rooms, whirling blades, and anything else that depends on a mechanism to operate. Magic traps are either magical device traps or spell traps. Magical device traps initiate spell effects when activated. Spell traps are spells such as glyph of warding and symbol that function as traps.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
between the queen and the book, as well as between her and creatures marked by the book. That connection was lost when Machil Rillyn used a wish spell to break the mark. When the characters became marked
by the book, that connection activated once more. The Queen of Air and Darkness assumes the marked characters must have the book in their possession—and she wants it back.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Nest of the Eldritch Eye
light before spinning to look in the direction of the cult’s hideout (acting like a compass). A Detect Magic spell or similar effect reveals an aura of divination magic around the eyeball. Casting
it. Following the activated eyeball’s directions leads the characters to a catacomb entrance in one of the still-ruined sections of Neverwinter (see “Into Neverwinter’s Catacombs”).