been blending designed creatures reading

Crystal Ball

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

items and have additional properties. Crystal Ball of Mind Reading. You can use an action to cast the Detect Thoughts spell (save DC 17) while you are scrying with the crystal ball, targeting

creatures you can see within 30 feet of the spell’s sensor. You don’t need to concentrate on this Detect Thoughts to maintain it during its duration, but it ends if Scrying ends. Crystal Ball

Book of Exalted Deeds

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

that is attuned to the book can release the clasp that holds it shut. Once the book is opened, the attuned creature must spend 80 hours reading and studying the book to digest its contents and gain its

benefits. Other creatures that peruse the book’s open pages can read the text but glean no deeper meaning and reap no benefits. A Fiend, an Undead, or a servant of a god from the Lower Planes

Mobility Wonder

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.

Valindra Shadowmantle

Monsters Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn

disastrous confrontations with enemies of her temporary allies, she’s elected to keep her personal lair secret. Deep within her lair is a hidden reading room where she usually keeps her spirit gem

and using the same spellcasting ability as her Spellcasting action. Apathy. Creatures within 1 mile of the lair that aren’t Undead have Disadvantage on Death Saving Throws and Initiative rolls

Circle of the Forged

classes

What is truly natural? The warforged are living creatures, despite being constructed from wood and steel. Druids who embrace the Circle of the Forged explore the potential of the

warforged form, blending animal shapes with warforged durability. Only a handful of Druids follow this Circle. Did you learn these techniques from a mentor? Are you driven by instinct, still

Circle of the Forged

classes

What is truly natural? The warforged are living creatures, despite being constructed from wood and steel. Druids who embrace the Circle of the Forged explore the potential of the

warforged form, blending animal shapes with warforged durability. Only a handful of Druids follow this Circle. Did you learn these techniques from a mentor? Are you driven by instinct, still

Xill

Monsters Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1

damage.Deep within the Ethereal Plane are the demiplanes, miniatures worlds built by powerful archmages and other mighty entities to serve as a private domain. Each demiplane is a designed realm

, built for a specific purpose. Some are fortresses, designed to keep wanderers from the material world away. Others are far more sinister, dark realms where evil dreams take root and become ghastly

Combat Robot

Monsters Quests from the Infinite Staircase

condition ends on a creature early if the creature takes damage or if another creature uses an action to shake it awake.Combat robots are designed for security or military action. They make able sentries

and are usually programmed to take intruders prisoner before resorting to lethal force. Combat robots signal their pursuit with built-in sirens and flashing lights, warning nearby creatures of their

Headless Iron Golem

Monsters Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

iron golem's shape can be worked into any form, though most are fashioned to look like giant suits of armor. Its fist can destroy creatures with a single blow, and its clanging steps shake the earth

golems bear weaknesses inherent in their materials or the power of the elemental spirit bound within them, iron golems were designed to be nearly invulnerable. Their iron bodies imprison the spirits

Worker Robot

Monsters Quests from the Infinite Staircase

condition (escape DC 15). The robot has two cargo tentacles, each of which can grapple one target. Tractor Beam. The robot casts Telekinesis, targeting only creatures with the incapacitated condition

robots designed to be in public view—such as units that carry out deliveries, repairs, or transportation—have voices that more closely mimic those of their creators. These robots employ

Book of Exalted Deeds Legacy

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

a creature of good alignment that is attuned to the book can release the clasp that holds it shut. Once the book is opened, the attuned creature must spend 80 hours reading and studying the book to

digest its contents and gain its benefits. Other creatures that peruse the book’s open pages can read the text but glean no deeper meaning and reap no benefits. An evil creature that tries to read

Book of Vile Darkness Legacy

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

powder if the book rests on it long enough. A creature attuned to the book must spend 80 hours reading and studying it to digest its contents and reap its benefits. The creature can then freely modify

reading and studying the book, one ability score of your choice increases by 2, to a maximum of 24. Another ability score of your choice decreases by 2, to a minimum of 3. The book can’t adjust your

Helm of the Scavenger

Magic Items Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

This ornate chair is designed to propel and maneuver a ship through space. Passive Properties. The following properties of the helm come into play even when no creature is attuned to it: When

the edges of the hull in all directions for a distance equal in length to the vessel’s beam, so that creatures aboard and near the ship can breathe normally in space. The temperature within the

Vola'khesh

magic-items

This small carved stone is typically bound to a leather strap worn around the wrist or neck. Designed by the Dhakaani duur’kala, the Vola’khesh facilitates communication between elite

’khesh, you can take a Bonus Action to whisper a message. This message is heard by all creatures within 120 feet wearing a linked Vola’khesh. Magical silence, 1 foot of stone, 1 inch of

Nautiloid

Equipment

Built and used by mind flayers, nautiloid;nautiloids are designed exclusively for space travel. They can’t float on water, nor can they land safely on the ground. As an action, a creature

attuned to a nautiloid’s spelljamming helm and in physical contact with the ship can transport the nautiloid and all creatures and objects aboard it to a different plane of existence, at or near a

Book of Vile Darkness (Variant)

Magic Items Keys from the Golden Vault

powder if the book rests on it long enough. A creature attuned to the book must spend 80 hours reading and studying it to digest its contents and reap its benefits. The creature can then freely modify

banished using magic such as the dispel evil and good spell. The banished spirit returns to the book. Adjusted Ability Scores. After you spend the requisite amount of time reading and studying the book

Symbol Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

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

creatures that don't trigger the glyph, such as those who say a certain password. When you inscribe the glyph, choose one of the options below for its effect. Once triggered, the glyph glows, filling a

Glyph of Warding Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

triggers include opening that object, approaching within a certain distance of the object, or seeing or reading the glyph. Once a glyph is triggered, this spell ends. You can further refine the

or drow), or alignment. You can also set conditions for creatures that don’t trigger the glyph, such as those who say a certain password. When you inscribe the glyph, choose explosive

Strahd von Zarovich

Monsters Curse of Strahd

’t up. While outdoors, Strahd can call 3d6;{"diceNotation":"3d6","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Children of the Night"} wolf;wolves instead. The called creatures arrive in 1d4;{"diceNotation":"1d4

card reading in chapter 1, unless he has been forced into his tomb in the catacombs of Castle Ravenloft. Strahd's Tactics Because the entire adventure revolves around Strahd, you must play him

Ezmerelda d'Avenir

Monsters Curse of Strahd

for two years, helping him track down and slay many creatures of the night. But because van Richten could never bring himself to fully trust a Vistana, he kept secrets from her. The two vampire

herself. Tarokka Deck. Ezmerelda keeps a deck of tarokka cards in her wagon (chapter 11, area V1). Although the cards aren’t magical, Ezmerelda can use them to perform a card reading for the

Mechanical Wonder

magic-items Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn

designed to assist with household duties. It vaguely resembles whatever species its creator used as inspiration. An activated domestic wonderuses the Domestic Wonder stat block. The wonder is an ally to you

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

Verdan

races Acquisitions Incorporated

of the goblins were places of terror to the new creatures those goblins became, and the verdan quickly fled to the surface and into the sunlight. When they arrived in the new lands of the surface

discoveries is that their physical forms change as they age, signifying that the mutative power of That-Which-Endures is not done with them. The first verdan emerged from the Underdark as creatures of goblin

Warforged Legacy

races Eberron: Rising from the Last War

designed. Although they were manufactured, warforged are living humanoids. Resting, healing magic, and the Medicine skill all provide the same benefits to warforged that they do to other humanoids

of Thronehold gave them freedom, but many still struggle both to find a place in the post-war world and to relate to the creatures who created them. The typical warforged shows little emotion. Many

Adult Emerald Dragon

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

deceive and disorient. They cloak their own presence so they can observe other creatures without being discovered as they collect information on everything from local cultural practices to

. 8 An emerald dragon has been spying for a villainous cabal, ensuring the villains remain one step ahead of the adventurers. Connected Creatures Emerald dragons generally go out of

Ancient Emerald Dragon

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

disorient. They cloak their own presence so they can observe other creatures without being discovered as they collect information on everything from local cultural practices to supernatural occurrences

emerald dragon has been spying for a villainous cabal, ensuring the villains remain one step ahead of the adventurers. Connected Creatures Emerald dragons generally go out of their way to

Exams

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

characters’ studies include the trappings of academic life—attending lectures, participating in labs, reading textbooks—those everyday academic activities mostly take place in the background. The exam rules presented here are thus designed to help the players keep their characters’ studies part of the game.

Exams

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

characters’ studies include the trappings of academic life—attending lectures, participating in labs, reading textbooks—those everyday academic activities mostly take place in the background. The exam rules presented here are thus designed to help the players keep their characters’ studies part of the game.

Exams

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

characters’ studies include the trappings of academic life—attending lectures, participating in labs, reading textbooks—those everyday academic activities mostly take place in the background. The exam rules presented here are thus designed to help the players keep their characters’ studies part of the game.

Kobold Legacy

races Volo's Guide to Monsters

Kobolds are a lot less cute when they learn how to cast fireballs. — Volo Kobolds are often dismissed as cowardly, foolish, and weak, but these little reptilian creatures actually have a

a perfect world, the creatures would be left alone to dig their tunnels and raise the next generation of kobolds, all the while seeking the magic that will free their imprisoned god (see the &ldquo

Gricks

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)

Gricks The wormlike grick waits unseen, blending in with the rock of the caves and caverns it haunts. Only when prey comes near does it rear up, its four barbed tentacles unfurling to reveal its

hungry, snapping beak. Passive Predators. Gricks rarely hunt. Instead, they drag their rubbery bodies to places where creatures regularly pass, lurking out of sight amid rocky rubble and debris, squeezing

Introduction

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

adventure designed for characters starting at 1st level. By the end of the story, the characters will be at least 5th level. If you’re planning to run through the adventure as a player, stop reading now! If

designed for characters of levels all the way up to 20th. USING THE POSTER MAP The map in the table of contents has the city of Waterdeep with two sides. One side can be shown to players. The other side is for the DM and includes tags marking important locations in the adventure.

Introduction

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

adventure designed for characters starting at 1st level. By the end of the story, the characters will be at least 5th level. If you’re planning to run through the adventure as a player, stop reading now! If

designed for characters of levels all the way up to 20th. USING THE POSTER MAP The map in the table of contents has the city of Waterdeep with two sides. One side can be shown to players. The other side is for the DM and includes tags marking important locations in the adventure.

Gricks

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)

Gricks The wormlike grick waits unseen, blending in with the rock of the caves and caverns it haunts. Only when prey comes near does it rear up, its four barbed tentacles unfurling to reveal its

hungry, snapping beak. Passive Predators. Gricks rarely hunt. Instead, they drag their rubbery bodies to places where creatures regularly pass, lurking out of sight amid rocky rubble and debris, squeezing

Introduction

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

adventure designed for characters starting at 1st level. By the end of the story, the characters will be at least 5th level. If you’re planning to run through the adventure as a player, stop reading now! If

designed for characters of levels all the way up to 20th. USING THE POSTER MAP The map in the table of contents has the city of Waterdeep with two sides. One side can be shown to players. The other side is for the DM and includes tags marking important locations in the adventure.

14. Pool

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

surface clear. A gray ooze lurks in the pool’s shallows, blending perfectly with the dark, wet stone. It feeds on the waste dumped into the pool, along with the occasional creature that finds its way

malevolent. In addition to attacking any creature in the pool, the ooze surges up to 10 feet out of the pool to attack creatures at its edge. When it does so, creatures within 30 feet of the ooze telepathically sense a voice cry out, “Flesh for the Faceless Lord!”

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