been before device carries reborn

Reborn

Species Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

you like it now? 6 A memory carries a vivid smell or sensation. What are you going to do to recreate that experience? Reborn Origins Reborn might originate from circumstances similar to

Death isn’t always the end. The reborn exemplify this, being individuals who have died yet, somehow, still live. Some reborn exhibit the scars of fatal ends, their ashen flesh or bloodless

Zikran

Monsters Candlekeep Mysteries

strong ties to the Inner Planes and the blood of genies flowing through their veins. Like the marids of the Elemental Plane of Water, Zikran is turbulent and unpredictable. 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.Elemental Cannon. On initiative count 20

Gnome Ceremorph

Monsters Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

ceremorph often carries a home-built device that functions as a laser pistol (see “Firearms” in the Dungeon Master’s Guide). This weapon is powered by an energy cell, which enables

the weapon to fire 50 shots. After its last shot is expended, the device becomes inoperable. The energy cell can’t be removed without destroying the weapon.

Reborn in the Domains of Dread

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

Reborn in the Domains of Dread When creating a reborn, consult with your DM to see if it’s appropriate to tie your origins to one of the following Domains of Dread (detailed in chapter 3): Har’Akir

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

Faded Memories

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

Faded Memories A reborn with a phantom limb takes aim. Reborn suffer from some manner of discontinuity, an interruption of their lives or physical state that their minds are ill equipped to deal

. 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, silent stretches. Occasionally, though, in a moment of

Izzet Engineer

Backgrounds Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

sparkles. If you use an arcane focus, it probably takes the form of an intricate device that could include metal gauntlets, glass canisters, copper tubing, and leather straps attaching it to your body

. Izzet Contacts d8 Contact 1 An older relative is a member of the guild’s board of directors. 2 I know a sprite who carries important messages among the guild’s

Meeting Rookledust

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen

various tools and tiny devices she always carries with her. Rookledust talks rapidly and is always formulating new ideas for her next overdesigned contraption. Though many of her creations are

armor asked to purchase her weed-clearing device, but with some modifications to make it resemble a mythical dragon. She agreed. (Unbeknownst to her, the stranger was a Dragon Army agent and the device

5. Lift

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

Ramya's Powers and Dominion

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

Ramya’s Powers and Dominion Reborn as a death knight, Ramya desperately tries to hold on to or retake the Sapphire Throne in a cycle of victory and loss with her equally uncompromising siblings

obsessions shape all of Kalakeri. War Leader. Ramya eagerly leads her troops in battle. She rides into combat upon a war elephant or wyvern and carries the legendary talwar (longsword) and longbow of

Anarchist Outcry

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel

collapse, disrupting trade and imperiling vendors. Each anarchist wears an intimidating mask sculpted to look like an efreeti and carries a device called a boomhailer. These sound-amplifying, clockwork

Anarchist Outcry An ear-splitting crash pierces the air. Five figures wearing snarling, crimson masks clamber atop stalls, each raising a cone-like device to their mouth. Along with an irritating

M6. Prison Cells

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

automatically sliced open with an attack from an elder monk’s force pike. Characters who fall to the valley floor (area C4) from area C1 or area M9 are picked up by a floating teleportation-field device

(see the sidebar) and teleported into one of these locked cells. Creatures. Five monks led by an elder monk guard the prisoners here. The elder monk carries keys to all the cells. The ten prisoners are

8. Sculptors' Workroom

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild

contains a small, unpainted miniature figure representing each character. Each figure is a tiny clockwork device. If painted and kept on hand, the figures secretly animate to help the characters with

carries torches in two hands to provide light for the sculptors. With the other two, it hands out hammers, chisels, and other tools as needed. The girallon challenges the characters unless they bear

M8. Endelyn's Mask Collection

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

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

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

Areas of Mistshore

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

sea chest with a glyph of warding spell cast on it. Grinda carries the key, and the glyph triggers an explosive runes effect (see the spell description in the Player’s Handbook) if anyone other than

successful DC 20 Strength (Athletics) check. Borrowing the Apparatus. Grinda allows the characters to borrow her apparatus of Kwalish on the condition that they first use the device to search the bottom of

M2. Amphitheater

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

Suckling Boar. A young boar with silvered tusks vows to slay the werewolf who murdered his parents. He carries his parents’ remains (a string of sausages) around in a basket. 3 Only Fools Knock Twice

stage is an intricate wooden device operated by four unarmed goblins (neutral noncombatants) in theater masks. Mounted to the rig are a dozen shuttered cylinders, each one with a continual flame spell

Inhabitants

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

ruling over its domain. Long ago, the beholder heard rumors of an arcane device known as the Maze Engine, capable of shifting the gears of reality. During the last Great Modron March, Karazikar

and carries out the beholder’s commands. Formerly an adventurer from the surface world, Shedrak and his companions delved too deeply into the Wormwrithings. His companions became Karazikar’s

Mind Flayers

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

Speech and Undercommon. It retains fragmented memories of its previous life and previous alignment, not to mention a propensity for invention. Laser Pistol. A gnome ceremorph often carries a home

-built device that functions as a laser pistol (see “Firearms” in the Dungeon Master’s Guide). This weapon is powered by an energy cell, which enables the weapon to fire 50 shots. After its last shot is

19. Yuan-ti Temple

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

start. He has advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks made to hide in swampy terrain. In addition to his weapons, Torbit carries one piece of a shattered jade staff (see “Treasure” below). Treasure. The

foot-long piece of jade that Torbit carries was found in the muck. He doesn’t realize that it’s a fragment of a jade staff crafted by ancient yuan-ti that was discarded in Undermountain by Halaster

Sanctum Showdown

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

, little one. Collect the shards from Talhundereth, the Crypt of the Talhund, and Gibbet Crossing, and bring them to us. You shall be reborn greater than you can imagine, and Phandalin shall become ours

of powerful entity or group of entities, posing as gods to accomplish their malign ends. Key. Ruxithid carries a key to his personal quarters (area Z10 in Zorzula’s Rest). Devon Cady-Lee Hostage

The Monastery

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

Master. Wherever they are initially stationed, the monks all gather together if a general alarm is sounded, or to witness an audience in the central abbey (area M3). Each monk is a cultist that carries

appears to emerge from the other ring, no matter how far apart the devices are. The second device has a flying speed of 40 feet, and can be flown remotely under the creature’s control as part of its

Encounter Locations

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

elementals attack. 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

Terror from the Sky

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

bottom. The Helm To enable them to traverse the skies and travel between planes, each githyanki ship is powered by a helm, a magical device in the form of a throne-like chair that converts psychic

astral skiff is operated by a crew of three and carries up to a dozen passengers. The githyanki employ this small vessel, 30 feet long and 10 feet wide, for patrols in the Astral Plane and for quick raids

9. Torture Chamber

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild

cursed with wererat lycanthropy. Andras carries keys that open the concealed door leading to area 23. Prisoners Mack Francache, the neutral wererat leader of Moghadam’s thieves, is the unwilling subject

the controls to this strange torture device, he causes Francache’s lycanthropy to transform the rat into a duplicate of Big Gadai, to the pain and horror of everyone involved. When the rat is in human

Mysterious Passengers

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

skills in return for food or spare coins. 61–62 A warforged leaning on a wooden staff carries on a conversation with the docent attached to its chest. 63–64 A human pickpocket circulates among the

unremarkable farmers are transporting a strange device that bears Draconic runes. 93–94 A cleric of the Sovereign Host seems annoyed and is rude to several pious passengers who ask for blessings. 95–96 An

Diseases

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

which are sometimes transmitted by creatures that dwell in those areas, such as rats and otyughs. When a humanoid creature is bitten by a creature that carries the disease, or when it comes into contact

Acererak

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation

necromantic device called the Soulmonger, then hid it in the heart of the tomb. ACERERAK’S TRAITS Ideal. “Why be a god when I can be a creator of gods?” Bond. “I build dungeons to trap and slay

, Common, Draconic, Dwarvish, Elvish, Giant, Infernal, Primordial, Undercommon Challenge 23 (50,000 XP) Special Equipment. Acererak carries the Staff of the Forgotten One (see Appendix C). He wears a

77. Death God's Nursery

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation

cylindrical device is the Soulmonger. The malformed creature floating next to it is an atropal (see appendix D), which feeds on the captured souls of the dead. The atropal attacks any creature that

adventure) but also frees all the souls trapped within the device. Freed souls travel to the afterlife, and any creature whose soul is set free can be brought back from the dead by magical means. The

Duergar

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

ends in a pincer claw, the other a large hammer instead of a hand. The machine transforms the captive duergar’s pain into energy that powers the device, which is typically used to dig tunnels and repel

magically turns invisible until it attacks, it casts a spell, it uses its Reduce, or its concentration is broken (as if concentrating on a spell). Any equipment the duergar wears or carries is

Spaceship Locations, Level 4

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase

to 2,000 pounds without hindrance. It can carry up to twice this weight, but it moves at half speed if it carries more than its normal capacity. At full charge, a wheelie sled can operate for 24 hours

, after which time it must be charged at one of the plug-in terminals located throughout this level. If removed from the ship, the device ceases to function until returned. S64: Stasis Chamber (Green

Fortress Level 3

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh

, sharpen their weapons, or simply swim lazily around. Most of their weapons have been laid aside, though within easy reach. Treasure. The unlocked coffers here are empty. Each sahuagin carries a

. Development. Sounds of combat in this area are heard by the sahuagin wave shaper in area 57, who joins the battle immediately. Treasure. The unlocked coffers are empty. Each sahuagin carries a pouch with

Revel's End Locations (R17-R23)

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

. The console is a magic device bolted to the floor that resembles a small desk with a slanted top. It is a Large object with AC 15, 18 hit points, and immunity to poison and psychic damage. The

bouts of drunkenness. Treasure. Among the chamber’s furnishings is a locked wooden chest, for which the warden carries the only key. A character using thieves’ tools can use an action to try to pick

Spaceship Locations, Level 2

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase

githyanki are initially indifferent toward the characters and know nothing of the ship’s history. One of them carries a violet key card. If the characters speak with the githyanki, the knight steps forward

here. They are hostile toward all entrants. S34: Viewers An oblong device is mounted to a flexible tube near this scenic overlook. It features two eyeholes fitted with lenses, a forehead rest, and a pair

The Fissure

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

is starting to fear (rightfully) that Caerhan is dead, however, and if the characters treat him kindly, he might be convinced to join them. Gorkoh carries standard goblin weapons, plus three potions

device resembling an orrery housing. The device is battered and falling apart, revealing exposed gears and spokes, and with its exterior pieces and plating scattered across the floor. Splayed on the

Vault Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin

runes to activate the door. V4: Halls Four ghostly soldiers patrol these hallways. Their eyes are red, and each wears spectral, ridged armor and carries a hollowed-out goat horn. The creatures are four

; he carries an iron key that unlocks the doors to areas V7 and area V10. Raising the Alarm. If a wraith spots an intruder or is attacked, it uses its action to blow its horn. Creatures within 100 feet

Spaceship Locations, Level 1

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase

are sprawled on the floor. One carries a key card whose color matches this room’s door. If the door is open or doesn’t require a key card, the skeleton carries a blue key card. 8 A metal box stamped

food. Adjusting the dial changes the temperature of the interior, which can range from 0–350 degrees Fahrenheit. Turning the dial all the way to the left turns off the device. Each box can hold 1

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