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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
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.
Magic Items
The Book of Many Things
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Balance*
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Beast
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Book
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Bridge
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Campfire
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Cavern
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Celestial
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Comet*
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Construct
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Corpse
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Crossroads
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Beast. You immediately transform into a random Beast with a CR of 5 or lower. Your game statistics—including your ability scores, hit points, and possible actions—are replaced by the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
only surviving creature in the wreck is a cunning displacer beast.
4 The characters find a strange but adorable creature trapped within an abandoned alien installation. The being is a lovable
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
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
of these letters rise from the contraption as it revolves. The whole device hums and crackles with lightning.
Rising from the middle of the mechanism is an eighty-foot-tall copper pole made of eight
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
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
that falls to the floor. “Binky!” shrieks the caged goblin.
Endelyn uses the lightning-powered arcane device in this room to punish those who irritate her. The device has 3 charges and regains all
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
, their prey is smarter than the average moose, and its white hide makes it hard to spot in the snow. What they don’t know is that the moose is using a magic mirror as a scrying device to show it
Huddle sweetens the deal with coin. The white moose is an awakened beast that serves Ravisin, the same evil frost druid who awakened the plesiosaurus in Maer Dualdon (see “Lake Monster”). This druid has
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
arm with a mind of its own 03–04 Wearable blanket with sleeves and a hood 05–06 Small, rectangular device that can record and play back audio of up to 1 minute in length 07–08 Glow-in-the-dark ink
that plays a children’s story about a friendly, three-eyed frog named Swampy 33–34 Compact device that displays the current weather 35–36 Empty metal bottle that maintains the temperature of liquids
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
self-serving beast. The soul of Victoro’s eldest son, Osvaldo, is forever lost and can’t be saved. To allay his guilt, Victoro has forged a plan to win back the souls of his young twins, Terenzio and
, and immunity to disease. He dresses in the latest fashions and walks with a ruby-tipped cane, though not because he needs to. This cane has the magical properties of a rod of rulership. Victoro
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
, icy Fey spirits, or the Sleeping Beast—feel about the land’s exploitation? The monsters that roam Lamordia are lab-crafted horrors or mutated beasts, but use the statistics of creatures from the
the party, asking them to recover the body of a “relative” from the Haifisch, a shipwreck impaled on a spire of ice.
9 The Sleeping Beast is experiencing an increasing number of earthquakes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
magical bridge into another realm of existence. The mythal thrummed in response, the intangible pulse of the old device taking on a new and different note. Sarya ignored the mythal stone’s change and
material component: a small, forked, metal rod (like a tuning fork) attuned to the desired planar destination. The spell requires the proper resonating frequency to home in on the correct location, and the
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
aboard the Lambent Zenith. Though they can recount the ship’s mission and subsequent crash, these sailors know nothing about the rod piece. Z3: Galley and Pantry The sound of sizzling and the smell of
Kycera. Kycera gladly discusses the general history of the Lambent Zenith. However, if asked about the rod piece or the security system, Kycera clams up, suspicious of the characters’ motives. A
Magic Items
Infernal Machine Rebuild
This strange device was once thought to have been built by gods long forgotten and to have survived the eons since their passing, for it is incredibly ancient and crafted by means unlike anything
Machine of Lum the Mad. Yet with Lum’s eventual defeat, his great machine was destroyed.
The Infernal Machine is a delicate, intricate, bulky, and heavy device, weighing some 5,500 pounds. It can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
the instructions or had them translated must succeed on a DC 15 Intelligence (Arcana) check to fire the weapon. If the check fails by 5 or more, the device misfires, dealing 9 (2d8) slashing damage to
Rod. This 6-inch-long black metal rod has a button at the top. Using an action to press the button causes the rod to emit a chirp. Any creature within 30 feet of the rod that isn’t deafened and has an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
on the stairs. Now ready for action, he has cast mage armor, stoneskin, and mind blank on himself. He carries a handheld magic 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. The air elemental and the water elemental obey Zikran’s orders. Given a chance, Zikran brags about his plans to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
of Orcus, a mace-like rod topped by a humanoid skull. He surrounds himself with undead, and living creatures not under his control are anathema to him. Yeenoghu Known as the Gnoll Lord and the Beast
horns and hooves. Demogorgon The Sibilant Beast and the self-styled Prince of Demons, Demogorgon yearns for nothing less than undoing the order of the multiverse. An insane assemblage of features and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
’ stone branches serve as the balcony’s railings.
Archdruid and Friends. Wyllow is here, attended by Crissann, her displacer beast companion, and Halastree, her awakened tree usher. Wyllow wears a
the start of the chapter. The archdruid is friendly toward visitors who have done nothing to anger her. The displacer beast and the awakened tree fight to the death to defend her. Characters who do
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
charged disk that powers the creature, as well as a platinum rod. The disks are of use to the characters as they explore the super-secret basement, and the rods can be claimed as treasure, as noted
characters when it attacks. The buzz saw of doom has AC 17, 50 hit points, immunity to poison and psychic damage, and resistance to all other damage. It can also be deactivated as follows: The device
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
small device—a mere 50 feet in diameter. To attune to this mythallar, a creature must finish a short rest within 30 feet of it, meditating on the mythallar. Up to eight creatures can be attuned to it at
the Ythryn mythallar can sense when the device is being used. A creature attuned to the device can use any of its properties, but only if all other creatures attuned to the device agree to allow it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
: “Dragon!”
Then it comes into view. Pitching this way and that, its scales clanking like steel plates, a black beast draws near the wharf, flanked by reptilian invaders. Flames crackle from the beast’s
who come within 5 feet of the boilerdrak recognize it isn’t a dragon, but a mechanical device. After the baaz draconians are defeated, proceed with the “Fewmaster Gholcag” encounter. Vogler
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
, and deal with the consequences.
A disease that does more than infect a few party members is primarily a plot device. The rules help describe the effects of the disease and how it can be cured, but
. Sight Rot This painful infection causes bleeding from the eyes and eventually blinds the victim. A beast or humanoid that drinks water tainted by sight rot must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
Darkmagic
4 A tiny anvil and smith’s hammer
5 A nonfunctional immovable rod
6 A DIY acupuncture kit
7 A stuffed owlbear toy
8 A diagram for a new war lute
9 A
31 A curved claw from an unknown beast that small children are always frightened of
32 A longsword that can be folded down in 1 minute and hidden in your pocket
33 A living graft of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
metal frame to hold a beaker in place over an open flame, a glass stirring rod, a small mortar and pestle, and a pouch of common alchemical ingredients including salt, powdered iron, and purified water
, or any other device with one or two lenses. When you look through the obviator’s lenses, you use a bonus action to make them function as eyes of minute seeing or eyes of the eagle. Once you make this
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
beast that resembles a bear with three long, fleshy tentacles sprouting from its skull. Each tentacle is topped with a glowing, knobby lump of flesh.
The monster dwelling here is a blazebear (see
liquid that pools around the dais.
Floating above the brain and scattering light across the room is a small, slender object: a piece of the Rod of Seven Parts.
Years after its abandonment, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
was forced to focus. As the beast drew closer, Dalakos sought ways to turn the monstrosity from its path. He worked day and night, but ultimately his plans failed. All that Dalakos knew was destroyed
crafted a miraculous device, one that ultimately laid low the kraken and saved the town. Today, Dalakos resides inside the kraken’s shell, where he works day and night, his heart broken, but his mind
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
attention to what he considers the uninteresting dealings of lesser beings. However, once the characters arrive in Barovia, explore a place called Death House, and find a piece of the Rod of Seven Parts
:
Beast Form. Strahd transforms into a Tiny bat (flying speed 30 ft.) or a Medium wolf (speed 40 ft.). While in that form, he can’t speak, and he retains his game statistics other than his size and speed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
larson, ivan shavrin Cards from the Deck of Many More Things Deck of Many More Things d100 Card 01 Aberration 02 Balance* 03 Beast 04 Book 05 Bridge 06 Campfire 07 Cavern 08 Celestial 09 Comet
Things as depicted in the Dungeon Master’s Guide Aberration. You gain telepathy within a range of 90 feet. Beast. You immediately transform into a random Beast with a CR of 5 or lower. Your game
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
marks that writhe around the pit are a unique magical channeling device concocted by Sgothgah. The two aboleths from the Endless Nadir didn’t recognize it or understand its purpose, which led to their
unholy symbol of Tharizdun that the kraken bears, that energy accelerates the kraken’s growth and fuels its hostility. Normally such a beast would take decades to reach maturity, but Sgothgah’s magic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
monstrous, suggesting a hulking beast with a crown of horns. With your bloody glaive, you carve a swath through a forest of towering zurkhwood mushrooms that stands in your way. The tunnels beyond
weapon capable of reshaping the Underdark itself.
This vision provides a brief glimpse of the Maze Engine, an arcane device located in the heart of the Labyrinth (see chapter 14). Spawn of Yeenoghu
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
and sleek.
Scrying Sphere. The silver sphere is a scrying device that allows Teremini to remotely communicate with Lord Soth, who has a similar sphere in his home, Dargaard Keep. A creature that
delicate rods that move slowly under their own momentum. The device is illuminated by a beam of red moonlight that emanates from a mirror mounted twenty feet up the southwest wall. Twin staircases
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
was held aloft by the Ythryn mythallar (area Y23). Up to eight mages could attune to this device at one time. If all of them agreed, they could use its power to move the city through the skies or
quicksilver (500 gp each), an intricate crystal rod (1,800 gp), Iriolarthas’s fully charged staff of power, a hefty spellbook titled The Incantations of Iriolarthas, and a scroll of tarrasque summoning
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
hold a beaker in place over an open flame, a glass stirring rod, a small mortar and pestle, and a pouch of common alchemical ingredients, including salt, powdered iron, and purified water. Arcana
stirring rod. History. Your training with poisons can help you when you try to recall facts about infamous poisonings. Investigation, Perception. Your knowledge of poisons has taught you to handle those
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
plundered, in the same way that a farmer might look at a rainstorm as a blessing from the harvest god. Frost giants recognize two kinds of loot: rod and kvit. Rod (“red”) plunder consists of living
beaten into submission more than they’re trained. When a frost giant commands a beast to attack, it’s less a command than an acknowledgment to the creature that the giant won’t beat it for satisfying






