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Dungeon Master’s Guide
This magic weapon has 3 charges and regains 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn. While holding the weapon, you can take a Magic action and expend 1 charge to release a wave of terror from it. Each
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
save, you are possessed by the creature, which controls you like a puppet. As a Magic action, the possessing creature can release you and appear in the closest unoccupied space to you. On a
the Dungeon Master’s Guide):
2 minor beneficial properties
1 minor detrimental property
1 major detrimental property
Spells. The book has 8 charges and regains 1d8 expended charges daily
Magic Items
Netheril’s Fall
This hat has 3 charges and regains all expended charges daily at dawn. You can take a Magic action and expend 1 charge while holding the hat to release a magical vortex from it. The vortex fills a 10
Equipment
the device gives the device 3 charges.
As an action while holding this device, you can expend 1 of its charges to cause one of the following effects:
Control. One Construct of your choice within 60
turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.
Replacing the Energy Cell. While the device has charges remaining, its energy cell can’t be removed. Once the device has 0 charges, you can replace the energy cell with a new cell by using an action or a bonus action.
Magic Items
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
hold. The largest mythallars are 150 feet in diameter.
The Ythryn mythallar is a relatively small device—a mere 50 feet in diameter. To attune to this mythallar, a creature must finish a short
;s Guide. If a ninth creature tries to attune to the mythallar, nothing happens.
All creatures attuned to the Ythryn mythallar can sense when the device is being used. A creature attuned to the device
Mace of Terror
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Magic Items
Basic Rules (2014)
This magic weapon has 3 charges. While holding it, you can use an action and expend 1 charge to release a wave of terror. Each creature of your choice in a 30-foot radius extending from you must
has nowhere it can move, the creature can use the Dodge action. At the end of each of its turns, a creature can repeat the saving throw, ending the effect on itself on a success.
The mace regains 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn.
Magic Items
The Book of Many Things
Each of these black leg guards is decorated with a motif of monstrous skulls screaming in terror.
The greaves have 3 charges. While wearing these greaves, you can use a bonus action to expend 1
charge to increase your walking speed by 30 feet, and you have advantage on Dexterity saving throws. These effects last for 1 minute. The greaves regain 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn.
Curse. The
Wand of Orcus
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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
while the wand is attuned to Orcus himself.
Protection. You gain a +3 bonus to Armor Class while holding the wand.
Spells. The wand has 7 charges. While holding it, you can use an action and expend 1
Magic Items
Acquisitions Incorporated
feet high, the orrery housing is a wondrous device imbued with magic of its own, but the power of its six clockwork components makes the artifact even more potent.
The Orrery of the Wanderer was
installed, the artifact has 7 charges. While touching the orrery, you can use an action and expend 1 or more charges to cast one of the following spells (save DC 17): contact other plane (3 charges
Demonomicon of Iggwilv
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Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
charges. It regains 1d8 expended charges daily at dawn. While holding it, you can use an action to cast Tasha's hideous laughter from it or to expend 1 or more of its charges to cast one of the following
spells (save DC 20) from it: magic circle (1 charge), magic jar (3 charges), planar ally (3 charges), planar binding (2 charges), plane shift (to layers of the Abyss only; 3 charges), summon fiend (3
Magic Items
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
telepathically with any creature it can sense within 120 feet of it. Its voice is a deep, hollow whisper.
The shield has 3 charges. You can use an action to expend 1 charge to cast fireball or 2
charges to cast wall of fire from the shield (save DC 21 for each). The wall of fire spell lasts for 1 minute (no concentration required). The shield regains all expended charges daily at dawn.
Anytime
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Netheril’s Fall: Tales of Terror, Treasure, and Time Travel
Hat of Vortexes Wondrous Item, Uncommon (Requires Attunement) This hat has 3 charges and regains all expended charges daily at dawn. You can take a Magic action and expend 1 charge while holding the
hat to release a magical vortex from it. The vortex fills a 10-foot Cube originating from you and lasts for 1 hour. While the vortex is present, its area is Difficult Terrain. You decide a vortex’s visual details when you create it. For instance, the vortex might be multicolored or glittery.
Orc
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
everywhere in the world around them, and the priests of a tribe are entrusted with the responsibility of identifying these signs and omens — both good and bad — and deciding how the tribe should
ward off diseases if they are worn.
Don’t stand inside a ring of stones, mushrooms, or any other kind of circle.
Seeing a shooting star before a battle is bad luck. To ward it off, you must
Magic Items
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
of power (see the Dungeon Master’s Guide) in addition to the following properties.
Animate Walking Statues. You can expend 1 or more of the staff’s charges as an action to animate or
deactivated or if the staff is broken.
Dispel Magic. You can expend 1 of the staff’s charges as a bonus action to cast dispel magic on a creature, an object, or a magical effect that you touch
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Mace of Terror Weapon (Mace), Rare (Requires Attunement) This magic weapon has 3 charges and regains 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn. While holding the weapon, you can take a Magic action and
expend 1 charge to release a wave of terror from it. Each creature of your choice within 30 feet of you must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or have the Frightened condition for 1 minute. While
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Mace of Terror Weapon (mace), rare (requires attunement) This magic weapon has 3 charges. While holding it, you can use an action and expend 1 charge to release a wave of terror. Each creature of
escape from an effect that prevents it from moving. If it has nowhere it can move, the creature can use the Dodge action. At the end of each of its turns, a creature can repeat the saving throw, ending the effect on itself on a success. The mace regains 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
represent the complex interplay of planar and magical realms. Standing two feet high, the orrery housing is a wondrous device imbued with magic of its own, but the power of its six clockwork components makes
the Wanderer are installed, the artifact has 7 charges. While touching the orrery, you can use an action and expend 1 or more charges to cast one of the following spells (save DC 17): contact other
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 (2014)
- perhaps you’re a rogue with the Use Magic Device feature - your spellcasting ability modifier is +0 for the item, and your proficiency bonus does apply. Charges Some magic items have charges that you
items might even be for sale, each with a cost double that of its magic item.
Spells Some magic items allow the user to cast a spell from the item, often by expending charges from it. The spell is cast
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
, this attack doesn’t end that condition on you if you end the turn behind Three-Quarters Cover or Total Cover. Level 13: Use Magic Device You’ve learned how to maximize use of magic items, granting you
the following benefits. Attunement. You can attune to up to four magic items at once. Charges. Whenever you use a magic item property that expends charges, roll 1d6. On a roll of 6, you use the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
on other domains. Taking inspiration from sci-fi horror and tales of alien abduction, adventures involving Bluetspur’s mind flayers might begin anywhere with bad dreams or a stranger’s impossible
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->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
major detrimental property Spells. The book has 8 charges. It regains 1d8 expended charges daily at dawn. While holding it, you can use an action to cast Tasha’s hideous laughter from it or to expend
1 or more of its charges to cast one of the following spells (save DC 20) from it: magic circle (1 charge), magic jar (3 charges), planar ally (3 charges), planar binding (2 charges), plane shift (to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
spirit inside it. The spirit can do nothing other than animate and discharge the wand, which currently has 7 charges. The animated wand has the statistics of a Tiny animated object (see the animate
objects spell description in the Player’s Handbook). As an action, the animated wand can expend 1 of its charges and target a random creature with one of its randomly determined effects. Any such effect
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
shield has 3 charges. You can use an action to expend 1 charge to cast fireball or 2 charges to cast wall of fire from the shield (save DC 21 for each). The wall of fire spell lasts for 1 minute (no
concentration required). The shield regains all expended charges daily at dawn. Anytime during your turn, the shield can choose to radiate an aura of dread for 1 minute. (This is not a power of the shield
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
attunement)
Left to Right: Javelin of Lightning, Mace of
Smiting, Mace of Disruption, and Luck Blade
This magic weapon has 3 charges. While holding it, you can use an action and expend 1
charge to release a wave of terror. Each creature of your choice in a 30-foot radius extending from you must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or become frightened of you for 1 minute. While it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
around them, and the priests of a tribe are entrusted with the responsibility of identifying these signs and omens — both good and bad — and deciding how the tribe should react to them. As a race, orcs
stones, mushrooms, or any other kind of circle. Seeing a shooting star before a battle is bad luck. To ward it off, you must swallow a stone. A tribute of elf ears brings favor from Gruumsh. If you bury
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
expended charges after 8 hours. Pulling the lever expends 1 charge and causes a line of golden lightning, 10 feet long and 5 feet wide, to flash between the two copper spheres. Any creature in this line
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
. When an item’s charges run dry, its magic drains away — or the item might malfunction or explode, with effects determined by you. The “Alien Technology” section in chapter 9 of the Dungeon Master’s
trinket, two successes to operate a force pike or a teleportation-field device, and four successes to operate Kwalish’s powered armor.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
character can convince them to parley with a successful DC 12 Charisma (Persuasion) check. The devils won’t forgive their comrade for his compassion, but the characters could persuade them to release
takes the group to the Tower of Urm. Abyssal Chicken
Tiny fiend (demon), chaotic evil
Armor Class 13 (natural armor)
Hit Points 10 (3d4 + 3)
Speed 30 ft., fly 30 ft. (see Bad Flier below
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
on themselves, a capable guide can see the road through the road and the trail beneath the trail. In doing so, the guide sidesteps the confusion and leads charges safely to their intended destination
. Conversely, a bad guide can easily get an adventuring party into trouble. Use the Feywild Guide Names, Feywild Guide Identities, and Feywild Guide Quirks tables to create Fey guides on the fly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
20 Charisma saving throw. On a failed save, you are possessed by the creature, which controls you like a puppet. As a Magic action, the possessing creature can release you and appear in the closest
following random properties (see “Artifacts” in this chapter): 2 minor beneficial properties 1 minor detrimental property 1 major detrimental property Spells. The book has 8 charges and regains 1d8
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
expend 1 or more of the staff’s charges as an action to animate or deactivate one or more of the walking statues of Waterdeep (see appendix B). You must be in the city to use this property, and you can
walking statue becomes inanimate if deactivated or if the staff is broken. Dispel Magic. You can expend 1 of the staff’s charges as a bonus action to cast dispel magic on a creature, an object, or a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
black sphere holds the demon in place, and appears to be slowly draining away its essence.
The balor Tarnhem is bound here by the magic of Acererak, who has fashioned a device from a sphere of
(area 14), and then set the controls in area 5 to release him. To convince them to do so, the fiend promises anything within his power. As a show of good faith, he can relate how to safely open the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
punishment for being “bad parents.” Ever since then, they have been shunned by their peers (see the “Shadowless” sidebar earlier in the chapter). The characters might have encountered the goblins’ detached
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
bring bad luck on the caravan, but no more than two or three people are persuaded. In minutes, the hunt is on, and the deer herd scatters into the nearby forest and through farmers’ fields. The
believes that a wizard somewhere can release him from the curse, but wherever he goes, people try to kill him for his golden coat. If the characters allow him to accompany them and protect him, he






