been beneath device complete rolls

Rod of Lordly Might

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

This rod has a flanged head, and it functions as a magic Mace that grants a +3 bonus to attack rolls and damage rolls made with it. The rod has properties associated with six different buttons that

on a hit. Button 2. The rod’s flanged head folds down and two crescent-shaped blades spring out, transforming the rod into a magic Battleaxe that grants a +3 bonus to attack rolls and damage

Enucleator Modifications

Equipment

Lord Syuul;Lord Syuul's psionic enucleator can be used to modify the body of any creature inside its tank. The device must be operated by another creature who can manifest a psionic power or who has

proficiency in Arcana. To complete a body modification, the subject must remain inside the tank while the operator touches the metal orbs outside the enucleator for 1 hour. If this work is interrupted

Darkling

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.Dagger. Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5","rollType":"to hit","rollAction

refer to the house’s descendants as dubh sith—“darklings.” Darklings dwell in secluded caverns and chambers beneath the towns of other species. From such enclaves, they quietly ply their trade as thieves and assassins.

Tomb Guardian

Monsters Tomb of Annihilation

takes damage while still at 40 hit points or fewer, the golem might go berserk again. Aversion of Fire. If the golem takes fire damage, it has disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks until the

are stitched together by tomb dwarves and bolted into suits of armor. Once complete, these shambling golems are released into the tomb to hunt intruders.Lightning, Poison; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks that aren't Adamantine

Yuan-ti Broodguard

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Reckless. At the start of its turn, the broodguard can gain advantage on all melee weapon attack rolls it makes during that turn, but attack rolls against it have advantage until the start of its

any time before it runs its course. After the process is complete, only a wish spell can reverse the effect.Poison

Danse Macabre

Spells Xanathar's Guide to Everything

zombie or a skeleton (the statistics for zombies and skeletons are in the Monster Manual), and it gains a bonus to its attack and damage rolls equal to your spellcasting ability modifier. You can

commands, the creatures do nothing except defend themselves against hostile creatures. Once given an order, the creatures continue to follow it until their task is complete. The creatures are under your

Darkling Legacy

Monsters Volo's Guide to Monsters

disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.Dagger. Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Dagger"} to

chambers beneath the towns of other species. From such enclaves, they quietly ply their trade as thieves and assassins. The Killing Light. The Summer Queen's curse causes a darkling's body to absorb light

Headless Iron Golem

Monsters Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

. Headless. It is blinded and deafened, giving it disadvantage on all its attack rolls, and it can't use its Poison Breath.Multiattack. The golem makes two melee attacks. Slam. Melee Weapon Attack

beneath its feet. Iron golems wield enormous blades to extend their reach, and all can belch clouds of deadly poison. An iron golem's body is smelted with rare tinctures and admixtures. Though other

Rod of Lordly Might Legacy

Magic Items Basic Rules (2014)

This rod has a flanged head, and it functions as a magic mace that grants a +3 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with it. The rod has properties associated with six different buttons that are set

battleaxe that grants a +3 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with it. If you press button 3, the rod's flanged head folds down, a spear point springs from the rod's tip, and the rod's handle

Dimensional Loop

Magic Items Acquisitions Incorporated

While attuned to this device, you have a +1 bonus to Strength saving throws, and you have darkvision out to a range of 60 feet. If you already have darkvision, its range increases by 30 feet

attack rolls against you. Once you use this feature of the dimensional loop, it cannot be used again until the next dawn. Fold Space. Choose a space you can see within 60 feet of you (no action

Eldritch Claw Tattoo

Magic Items Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

to appear, pressing the needle there throughout the attunement process. When the attunement is complete, the needle turns into the ink that becomes the tattoo, which appears on the skin. If your

of overcoming immunity and resistance to nonmagical attacks, and you gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls with unarmed strikes. Eldritch Maul. As a bonus action, you can empower the tattoo for

Shard of Xeluan

Magic Items Keys from the Golden Vault

This 1-foot-long shard of obsidian has veins of silver and gold beneath its cold surface. Empowered Magic. While holding the shard, you can use it as a spellcasting focus, and it gives you a +1

bonus to your spell attack rolls. Enhanced Strength. Your Strength score increases by 4 while the shard is on your person. The shard can’t raise your Strength score above 22. Curse. Attuning to

Elder Tempest

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

in the area covered by the storm. The winds impose disadvantage on ranged attack rolls. The winds extinguish open flames and disperse fog. Siege Monster. The tempest deals double damage to objects

tempests assume the shape of serpents that slither through the sky. They drown the land beneath them with rain and stab the earth with lances of lightning. Punishing winds scream around them as they fly

Rod of Seven Parts

Magic Items Vecna: Eve of Ruin

to while it is broken. While holding one piece of the broken rod, you know the general location of the next consecutive piece, as the rod yearns to be a complete artifact. Multiple rod pieces can be

assembled into one piece or disassembled again, each requiring an action, although a partially complete rod doesn’t gain any other abilities. Additionally, while holding one piece of the broken

Young Topaz Dragon

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

temple beneath the waves. Unfortunately, that temple is now the lair of an especially tricky topaz dragon. 5 A topaz dragon is injured and stranded far from the sea, but the dragon is too proud

topaz dragon their monarch, despite the dragon’s complete lack of interest and growing annoyance toward them. Cold, Necrotic

Xardorok Sunblight

Monsters Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.Multiattack. Xardorok attacks twice with a weapon or casts eldritch blast twice. Spiked Gauntlet. Melee Weapon

":"fire"} fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.Xardorok Sunblight leads the Sunblight clan of duergar which, until recently, dwelled in the subterranean depths beneath

Scion of Grolantor

Monsters Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

, unaware of the mighty power beneath them. Such settlements can thrive for centuries, as the scion’s magic causes crops to flourish and livestock to thrive in the surrounding region. An ancient

feet of the scion gain a +7 bonus to attack and damage rolls. Farming Weather. The weather within 6 miles of the scion is always ideal for farming: sunny and warm with occasional showers. If the scion

Scion of Memnor

Monsters Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

creatures who live beneath this cloud often display superstitious and duplicitous behavior, almost unconsciously leaving gifts for “rain spirits” while playing mischievous pranks on each

once by this compulsion. Empowered Cloud Giants. Cloud giants within 1,000 feet of the scion gain a +8 bonus to attack and damage rolls. Mischievous Whispers. Whispers can be heard on the wind within

Cradle of the Cloud Scion

Monsters Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

a constantly overcast sky. Sapient creatures who live beneath this cloud often display superstitious and duplicitous behavior, almost unconsciously leaving gifts for “rain spirits” while

. A creature can be affected only once by this compulsion. Empowered Cloud Giants. Cloud giants within 1,000 feet of the scion gain a +8 bonus to attack and damage rolls. Mischievous Whispers

Cradle of the Hill Scion

Monsters Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

standing stones, a village, or a city on a scion’s back, unaware of the mighty power beneath them. Such settlements can thrive for centuries, as the scion’s magic causes crops to flourish

the scion. Empowered Hill Giants. Hill giants within 1,000 feet of the scion gain a +7 bonus to attack and damage rolls. Farming Weather. The weather within 6 miles of the scion is always ideal for

Wand of Orcus Legacy

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

The ghastly Wand of Orcus rarely leaves Orcus’s side. The device, as evil as its creator, shares the demon lord’s aims to snuff out the lives of all living things and bind the Material

as a magic mace that grants a +3 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with it. The wand deals an extra 2d12 necrotic damage on a hit. Random Properties. The Wand of Orcus has the following random

Triton Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

Ah, the tritons. Imagine if the elves spent a few centuries far beneath the sea, where their arrogance and pretension could grow undisturbed. At least the tritons spent that time fighting sahuagin

arrogant. They see themselves as caretakers of the sea, and they expect other creatures to pay them deep respect, if not complete deference. This attitude might grate on others, but it arises from a seed

Yan-C-Bin

Monsters Princes of the Apocalypse

freezing cold; thunder rolls and lightning cracks; powerful gales bear heavy creatures and objects aloft and hurl them with incredible force; cyclones touch down randomly, obliterating whatever they

beneath the open sky have a five percent;{"diceNotation":"1d100","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Thunderstorm Chance"} chance of being struck by lightning. A creature struck by lightning must make a

Adult Crystal Dragon

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

make their way through it. 6 Remorhaz;Remorhazes infest the glacier beneath an adult crystal dragon;adult crystal dragon's lair, posing an imminent threat to the dragon’s home and hoard

crystals scattered about their lairs glow with gathered starlight, and caves or tunnels beneath the ice and snow provide protected areas for their hoards. They use their burrowing ability to dig

Character Hooks

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

provide the characters with a potion of longevity if they complete a mission for her. Bureaucratic Invitation. Secretary Wei invites the characters to Yongjing for a meeting about investigating the

ruins of the Old City beneath Yongjing. Political Pawns. An agent of the emperor or his family asks the characters to meet with Secretary Wei and aid her in any way they can—thereby drawing the characters into the city’s politics.

Creating a Campaign

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal

broad range of levels. With a little work, you can run a complete campaign using only this book. Starting with The Sunless Citadel, guide your players through the adventures in the order that they are

of your own invention or drawn from another D&D setting, provides the perfect framing device for the campaign. The characters hear rumors of each dungeon, with just enough information available to lead

Appendix 3. Dungeon Master Tips

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rrakkma

action going while remaining fair, this reliquary becomes the essential time keeping device for the adventurers. Whoever is attuned to the reliquary can instinctively tell how charged up the Gith

adventurers complete a rest. The rrakkma can safely complete four short rests and still possibly achieve their objective. If they take a fifth short rest the Gith Capacitor is fully charged, and they fail to

Autumn Encounter Chain

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

complete, the following weather effect is in play. Autumn Wind. Wind whistling through the streets imposes disadvantage on ranged weapon attack rolls and Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on hearing. The wind also extinguishes open fires smaller than a torch flame.

them to the home of a famous painter in the Sea Ward (encounter 10, “Converted Windmill”), beneath which is a tunnel that leads to the Vault of Dragons. Weather Effects Until the encounter chain is

Secret of the Black Cabin

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

holed up in the Black Cabin, where he spent all his time assembling a weather-controlling magical device called the Summer Star, using knowledge he gleaned from a book about Netherese artifacts

. Macreadus’s device was similar in design to a mythallar (see appendix D), but much smaller. Unfortunately for him, it had a serious design flaw. When Macreadus tried to use it three days ago, it malfunctioned

Dimensional Loop

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

Dimensional Loop Wondrous item, very rare (requires attunement) While attuned to this device, you have a +1 bonus to Strength saving throws, and you have darkvision out to a range of 60 feet. If you

Dexterity (Stealth) checks made to hide, and imposing disadvantage on attack rolls against you. Once you use this feature of the dimensional loop, it cannot be used again until the next dawn. Fold Space

Desert Encounters

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

to drag them beneath the sands. 2 The characters spot a lush oasis, but it’s a mirage. A character who studies the oasis and succeeds on a DC 20 Intelligence (Investigation) check recognizes the

characters have disadvantage on ranged weapon attack rolls and Wisdom (Perception) checks. Shortly after the dust storm begins, an air elemental and eight dust mephits materialize from the sands and attack

The Phylactery Vault

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5

. “Hello again,” she says. “I confess that I’m surprised at how well you have persevered. Your actions have significantly disrupted activity in the Doomvault. But the task is not yet complete

. “You have a chance to deal a heavy blow to Szass Tam and the liches of Thay. The black gates have been disrupted, allowing entry into a chamber deep beneath the Doomvault. Accessible only by magic, this

Running This Chapter

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

this adventure’s challenges, you could decide that the fanatics’ ritual is nearly complete, urging the characters to press ahead without resting and resupplying. If this adventure’s threats have

, the characters discover a passage beneath the town that leads into the Underdark and to Illithinoch. They set off through the Underdark to reach the deteriorating mind flayer stronghold of Illithinoch

Tresendar Manor

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

investigate the fallen manor and the dungeons beneath it. Once a small but elegant estate, the ruined building sits upon a hill overlooking Phandalin. Years of neglect had already done considerable

beneath the rubble. Carefully pulling away the rocks reveals a half-orc buried under smashed and still-smoldering masonry. This is Gildha Duhn, majordomo of the Company of the Golden Mongoose franchise

Talking Snakes

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

-ti that are devoted to Dendar the Night Serpent. If the characters complete the quest, Ssura and Y’zleth reveal the following information as their reward: A locked gate beneath the Peaks of Flame

complete a quest for them. Six months ago, a creature with a boulder-like shell (a geonid) entered the shrine and stole an icon of Merrshaulk. The icon is a serpent figurine carved from obsidian. Ssura and

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