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Dungeon Master’s Guide
after you roll Initiative, or you can extinguish the light as a Bonus Action.
While holding this weapon, you can take a Bonus Action to alter its form, turning it into a 6-inch rod (for ease of storage
long range of 120 feet. Immediately after you make a ranged attack with the weapon, it flies back to your hand.
Magic Items
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
While inactive, the mobility wonder resembles a metal turtle shell with straps. It is designed to be worn on your back or flank, depending on your anatomy. Once wound, the mobility wonder transforms
into a personal transport device and remains active for 24 hours. While active, the mobility wonder increases your Speed to 30 feet. Other creatures can’t remove your mobility wonder from you unless you allow it.
Magic Items
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
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Mobility Wonder (Common). While inactive, the mobility wonder resembles a metal turtle shell with straps. It is designed to be worn on your back or flank, depending on your anatomy. Once wound, the
mobility wonder transforms into a personal transport device and remains active for 24 hours. While active, the mobility wonder increases your Speed to 30 feet. Other creatures can’t remove your mobility wonder from you unless you allow it.
Monsters
Candlekeep Mysteries
device that controls the elemental cannon. This device, shown in the accompanying illustration, looks like a metal rod with a tip shaped like a bird’s head.Elemental Cannon. On initiative count 20
(losing initiative ties), Zikran uses his handheld device to fire the cannon at one creature he can see, provided the creature is in the basement or on the staircase. Zikran’s target must make a
Magic Items
Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn
resembles a metal turtle shell with straps. It is designed to be worn on your back or flank, depending on your anatomy. Once wound, the mobility wonder transforms into a personal transport device and
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Fey Ancestry. The drow has advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put the drow to sleep.
Special Equipment. The drow wields a tentacle rod.
Sunlight Sensitivity
and three Tentacle Rod attacks.
Demon Staff. Melee Weapon Attack: +10;{"diceNotation":"1d20+10","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Demon Staff"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d6 + 4
Species
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
sensations or visions of the past to come rushing back.
Rather than sleeping, reborn regularly sit and dwell on the past, hoping for some revelation of what came before. Most of the time, these are dark
perfectly preserved remains.
Lamordia. You awoke amid the bizarre experiments of an amoral scientist. They consider you their finest creation or have a task for you to fulfill.
Mordent. You emerged from the mysterious device known as the Apparatus, your body a lifeless shell and your past a mystery.
Aarakocra
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Species
Elemental Evil Player's Companion
back into the air. Those that make it to a world in the Material Plane find it a strange place. They sometimes forget or ignore vertical distances, and they have nothing but pity for those earthbound
it hard not to pluck the treasure and bring it back to their settlement to beautify it. An aarakocra who spends years among other races can learn to inhibit these impulses.
Confinement terrifies the
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
conjecture than fact, often referring to otherworldly beings, the mysterious Barrier Peaks in Oerth, and the supposedly related device known as the Machine of Lum the Mad. The best details on the device
’s origins and operation can be found in the Mind of Metal, a tome of artificer’s secrets that connects the device to the traditions of the lost Olman people, and which was written by Lum the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Morte’s Planar Parade
your choice: Lightning Rod. Lightning damage can’t reduce the creature below 1 hit point. Whenever the creature takes lightning damage, one other creature within 5 feet of it (determined randomly) takes
half as much damage.
Structural Repair (1/Day). After being in continuous physical contact with a nonmagical object for 1 minute, the creature can magically repair the object as though it had cast a mending spell on it.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
meet a tragic end. It serves no other purpose. The device is powered by electricity transmitted through its central element: an 80-foot-tall lightning rod that forms its vertical axis. A creature that
metal arms that sweep back and forth, clicking loudly and rhythmically like the hands of a giant metronome. The apparatus is inlaid with characters from strange alphabets, and smoky wisps in the shapes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
, and immunity to poison and psychic damage. A mask that is reduced to 0 hit points is destroyed and can’t be transformed back into the creature it once was. Each copper rod is a Medium object with AC
either rod renders the device inoperable until it is repaired. The creature holding the lever is a darkling elder (see appendix C) who takes sadistic pleasure in turning other creatures into masks. A
Magic Items
Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
metal bosses adorn the armor in seemingly random fashion. On the back of the armor’s left gauntlet is a rectangular metal box, from which projects a short rod tipped with a cone-shaped red
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
taken over by an intellect devourer.
6 An inventor requests the characters’ insight into a pill-sized device she extracted from her own body. As the characters examine it, the device projects a map
the Apparatus (see “Mordent” later in this chapter). All it needs is a relic called the Rod of Rastinon, which it wants the characters to retrieve for it.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Q21. North Alcove A red velvet curtain hangs in front of an alcove in the northeast corner of this hall. The alcove is empty except for the narrow windows in the back walls. Whenever the characters
part the curtain and leave, the curtain is closed when they return. Only by removing the curtain from its rod can they prevent the curtain from closing on its own.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Toward Web’s Edge Irina Nordsol Alustriel’s Chime of Exile might help the characters defeat Vecna After stepping through the portal, the characters emerge deep in the Underdark in Faerûn. The rod
corridor outside the hidden entrance to Web’s Edge. There is no light source, and the invisible portal back to Sigil remains open.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
middle of the trench — an old magic device once used to lift caravans up into the main cavern of the outpost and back down into the trench. It now lies broken, its magic spent. The duergar and drow
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Arcane Traditions The study of wizardry is ancient, stretching back to the earliest mortal discoveries of magic. It is firmly established in the worlds of D&D, with various traditions dedicated to
their own towers use the division of magic into schools as a learning device, since the spells of each school require mastery of different techniques.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
portal, which leads back to Sigil, can be reopened with a piece of lapis lazuli etched with an eye. The surreal nature of the surrounding desert, forest, and hills, as well as the rapid transition
, but rather by a large magical device or machine. A character who succeeds on a DC 10 Intelligence (Arcana) check recognizes the stone spire in the distance as the Spire that marks the center of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Arcane Traditions The study of wizardry is ancient, stretching back to the earliest mortal discoveries of magic. It is firmly established in the worlds of D&D, with various traditions dedicated to
their own towers use the division of magic into schools as a learning device, since the spells of each school require mastery of different techniques.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Michel A holographic red dragon sleeps next to the final rod piece The walls of this cavernous space are made of faceted, ruby-red crystal. A thin tunnel juts from the back of the cavern and leads
alcove, across from which is a simple work desk covered in papers and books. Mounted on the back wall is the sculpted bust of a smiling red dragon.
The desk is covered with notes about magical constructs
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
, and steam billows out of it.
Nagas. Unless they have been drawn elsewhere, two spirit nagas named Excrutha and Serakath lounge on the floor near the back of the cave (see “The Ssethian Scourges
”).
Chest. A wooden chest stands against the east wall.
The nagas don’t fear death, but they do fear the loss or theft of their rod of rulership and will do everything they can to safeguard it. A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
the characters are looking for a piece of the Rod of Seven Parts, Mercy tells the characters the following about Landro’s unique power source: “I’ve heard tales of an unusual colossus called Landro
powered not by a Docent, but by a device called a graymatter engine that incorporated part of an artifact—perhaps that’s what you seek? The graymatter engine was said to generate a magical barrier
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
first time a creature picks up the Summer Star, its core glows with a golden radiance as bright as a candle flame. Unless the creature drops the device immediately, the light suddenly blossoms, becoming
a 10-foot-radius sphere of incinerating golden radiance centered on the device. Each creature in the sphere must make a DC 17 Constitution saving throw, taking 90 (10d10 + 35) radiant damage on a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Dukes of Aaqa, aarakocra scout the planes in search of temples of Elemental Evil. They spy on malign elemental creatures and then either take the fight to those creatures or report back to the Wind
vaati heroes combined their powers to create the mighty Rod of Law. In a battle against the queen’s greatest general, Miska the Wolf Spider, a vaati killed Miska by thrusting the rod into him like a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
5. Lift Attached to the edge of the barracks platform is a winch-and-basket device consisting of a large swinging arm that carries a thin cord of strong spider silk. The cord runs through a series of
passengers or up to 800 pounds of cargo, then lifted back up to the platform in the same way. It takes 4 rounds for the basket to move between the platform and the floor under normal operation.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
near the weather vane, and if the characters return Pierre to the village, Vatri gives them her Stone of Good Luck as promised. With the mayor’s help, the missing gems easily slot back into the weather
vane. Read or paraphrase the following once the device is restored: The villagers gather around the Storm’s Eye Weather Vane with their gazes cast toward the shore. Peals of thunder shake the ground
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Rod of Seven Parts, Kas mocks them for those specific failures, saying they can’t even dance on puppet strings properly. Kas doesn’t think he has anything to fear from the Chime of Exile, and he’s
initially correct. The characters must reduce Kas to 50 hit points or fewer before they can banish him to Tovag, his Domain of Dread. If the characters banish Kas back to Tovag, a fissure opens in the air
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
in them. Dyson Logos Map 10.3: Ruinous Citadel View Player Version Y1: Drill Field Several bloated spiders with wolf heads move back and forth on the black sand near the citadel’s entrance.
Nine
Jallizanx hangs back to cast spells and hurl venom globes. If the kakkuus are defeated and Jallizanx is plainly losing the fight, Jallizanx teleports away and doesn’t return. If the characters capture
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
escaping his undead existence. However, he can’t grasp even its basic workings and is frustrated by every delay and malfunction related to the device. FOUNDATIONS OF HORROR
Three years after the 1983
release of the adventure Ravenloft, the sequel adventure, Ravenloft II: The House on Gryphon Hill, debuted. The adventure pulled back the Mists on the domain of Mordent, a realm of terrors beyond Barovia
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Bonus Action to alter its form, turning it into a 6-inch rod (for ease of storage) or a 10-foot pole, or reverting it a Quarterstaff; the weapon will elongate only as far as the surrounding space allows
weapon has the Thrown property with a normal range of 30 feet and a long range of 120 feet. Immediately after you make a ranged attack with the weapon, it flies back to your hand.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Bonus Action to alter its form, turning it into a 6-inch rod (for ease of storage) or a 10-foot pole, or reverting it a Quarterstaff; the weapon will elongate only as far as the surrounding space allows
weapon has the Thrown property with a normal range of 30 feet and a long range of 120 feet. Immediately after you make a ranged attack with the weapon, it flies back to your hand.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Collect the materials necessary to create a revolutionary oracular device.
12 Protect an oracle who must deliver bad news to a worshiper who is both influential and unpredictable.
Oracular
, and star charts. Past that is the Shrine of Keranos, where a massive statue of the god is connected to a lightning rod which extends through the roof and 100 feet into the sky. When lightning
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
of the Rod of Seven Parts. As Mordenkainen, Kas claims that the rod is the only way to weaken Vecna to the point where the characters might thwart his ritual and banish the lich-god to Oerth. In truth
, Kas intends to steal the Rod of Seven Parts once he has all the pieces. He plans to whisk the artifact to the plane of Pandemonium, use it to free the demon known as Miska the Wolf-Spider, and kill
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
. A follow-up successful DC 15 Intelligence (Religion) check can then trigger ritual magic that reverses the flood of ooze and sends it back to the Slime Pits. However, if this check is failed by 5 or
characters attempting to activate or reverse the abyssal gate, you can also require that the character wearing the crown and holding the scepter must be in physical contact with the standing arch — making it impossible to activate the gate from inside the apparatus of Kwalish or any similar protective device.