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Dungeon Master’s Guide
This robe has cloth patches of various shapes and colors covering it. While wearing the robe, you can take a Magic action to detach one of the patches, causing it to become the object or creature it
(coiled)
Sack
In addition, the robe has 4d4 other patches. The DM chooses the patches or determines them randomly by rolling on the following table.
1d100
Patch
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Bag of
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
rejects you but also places a curse on you, causing you to make D20 Test;D20 Tests with Disadvantage for 24 hours or until the curse is ended by a Remove Curse spell or similar magic. If you’re
rolling on the Moonblade Properties table.
Minor Property. In addition to its aforementioned properties, each Moonblade has a minor property determined by rolling on the Magic Item’s Minor
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
while becoming able to speak Deep 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
Magic Items
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
. When you target a creature with an attack using this weapon, you can invoke the sword’s rune, causing it to flare with crimson light and infusing your attack with bloodthirsty precision. You
then spend and roll one of your unspent Hit Dice and add the number rolled to the attack roll. You can choose to invoke the rune after rolling the d20.
If this attack hits, you can also spend and roll
Magic Items
Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
immune to this effect if it is immune to damage of the weapon’s type, is a shapechanger, or has legendary actions.
Curse. This weapon is cursed, and becoming attuned to it extends the curse to
, you suffer the effect of a polymorph spell for 1 hour, rolling on the table to determine your new form.
Backgrounds
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
joined the carnival to escape a dismal life at home, or maybe you were enchanted by the idea of visiting new places or the dream of becoming one of the carnival’s star attractions. Now that you&rsquo
instrument
Languages: One of your choice
Equipment: A disguise kit or a musical instrument of your choice, a deck of cards, a carnival uniform or costume, one trinket (determined by rolling on the
Monsters
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
at the end of its next turn, becoming petrified on a failure or ending the effect on a success. The petrification lasts until the creature is freed by a greater restoration spell or similar magic.The
dreams of one day reclaiming control of the Golgari Swarm, or at least causing pain to its current guildmaster, Jarad Vod Savo (whose own sister displaced the medusas from their position).
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
’s curse. If the curse is allowed to run its course, an abyssal spirit invades the person’s body, causing a gruesome transformation. Over a period of hours, the victim’s head takes on
away from the body in a fountain of blood, becoming another vargouille, which often then eagerly laps up the blood spilling from its former body. Sunlight or the brilliant illumination of a daylight
Demilich (Variant)
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Monsters
Monster Manual (2014)
its existence.
Few liches seek to become demiliches, for it means an end to the existence they hoped to preserve by becoming undead. However, time can erode the lich’s reason and memory, causing
souls of the insolent intruders to his tomb, magically transferring them to his phylactery.
Liches who follow Acererak’s path believe that by becoming free of their bodies, they can continue
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
dragon’s lair.
6
A moonstone dragon, offended by gifts of gold, is causing nightmares among the local nobility.
7
A powerful spellcaster is forcing a captive moonstone dragon to invade
, conversation.
3
A moonstone dragon wyrmling has convinced a lost white dragon wyrmling that the latter is also a moonstone dragon, cursed by an archfey of winter. The two travel together, causing
Magic Items
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
Innovation is a dangerous pursuit, at least the way the mages of the Izzet League engage in it. As protection against the risk of an experiment going awry, they have developed a device to help
you cast by rolling on the table for the level of the spell slot you expended. If the slot is 6th level or higher, roll on the table for 5th-level spells.
If you try to cast a cantrip you don’t
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
driver can activate this magical device as a bonus action, causing the vehicle to expel a 30-foot cube of opaque smoke directly in front of it or behind it. The cloud is stationary and lasts for 1
. This device needs 24 hours to recharge before it can be used again. Teleporter The vehicle’s driver can activate this magical device as a bonus action, causing the vehicle to teleport to an
Magic Items
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
creature that is transformed by magic, and see into the Ethereal Plane, all within a range of 60 feet.
New Personality. You gain new personality traits, determined by rolling once on each of the
have disadvantage on attack rolls made within the weapon’s radius of bright light.
As a bonus action, you can intensify the sword’s light, causing it to shed bright light in a 15-foot
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
determined by rolling a d8 and referring to the Death Effects table. Death Effects d8 Effect 1 The creature’s corpse turns to stone. 2 The creature’s corpse decays at an accelerated rate, becoming
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
vane. Read or paraphrase the following once the device is restored: The villagers gather around the Storm’s Eye Weather Vane with their gazes cast toward the shore. Peals of thunder shake the ground
, and flashes of lightning illuminate dark clouds rolling in from the sea.
The weather vane’s crossbar begins to twirl, and ribbons of blue-green energy pulse from the whole structure. As the storm
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
. While in Phandalin, the adventurers have the opportunity to interact with the townsfolk, possibly becoming involved in small-town dramas — including a mayoral election. Those events could have a
mysterious magic clockwork device that the characters recognize as part of the magic orrery found under Waterdeep. Investigating where the attackers slipped into the manor’s basement and dungeon, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
first time a creature picks up the Summer Star, its core glows with a golden radiance as bright as a candle flame. Unless the creature drops the device immediately, the light suddenly blossoms, becoming
a 10-foot-radius sphere of incinerating golden radiance centered on the device. Each creature in the sphere must make a DC 17 Constitution saving throw, taking 90 (10d10 + 35) radiant damage on a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Setting the Adventure This adventure takes place in a region with a moderate climate, rolling hills, and winding rivers. The Tower of the Heavens lies far enough from major settlements that it sees
Mountains becoming the Starpeaks. Forgotten Realms. The Tegefed Mountains could be in the eastern half of the Small Teeth mountain range, located in the region of Amn. Greyhawk. You could place the Tegefed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
has legendary actions. Curse. This weapon is cursed, and becoming attuned to it extends the curse to you. Until the curse is broken with a remove curse spell or similar magic, you are unwilling to
part with the weapon. Whenever you attack a creature with this weapon and roll a 1 on the attack roll, you suffer the effect of a polymorph spell for 1 hour, rolling on the table to determine your new form.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
under stony cowls and their arms raised toward the iron disk.
This room is one large timekeeping device. Every day at dawn and at dusk, the wizard statues exert invisible magical force upon the
suspended iron disk, causing it to flip over within its circular frame like a coin. During the day, the sun symbol is visible on the disk’s underside; at night, the disk displays the moon symbol on its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
, causing it to become the object or creature it represents. Once the last patch is removed, the robe becomes an ordinary garment. The robe has two of each of the following patches: Bullseye Lantern
(filled and lit) Dagger Mirror Pole Rope (coiled) Sack In addition, the robe has 4d4 other patches. The DM chooses the patches or determines them randomly by rolling on the following table. 1d100 Patch
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
, causing it to become the object or creature it represents. Once the last patch is removed, the robe becomes an ordinary garment. The robe has two of each of the following patches: Bullseye Lantern
(filled and lit) Dagger Mirror Pole Rope (coiled) Sack In addition, the robe has 4d4 other patches. The DM chooses the patches or determines them randomly by rolling on the following table. 1d100 Patch
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
, becoming nervous, fearful, and impatient. During the first session of the council (or earlier if the characters make efforts to investigate the strange phenomenon), the adventurers are approached by Dala
Silmerhelve—a Waterdhavian noble. Read or paraphrase the following when the characters speak to Dala. “The disturbance that’s been sensed across the Sword Coast is the Draakhorn—an ancient device whose
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
, becoming nervous, fearful, and impatient. During the first session of the council (or earlier if the characters make efforts to investigate the strange phenomenon), the adventurers are approached by Dala
Silmerhelve — a Waterdhavian noble. Read or paraphrase the following when the characters speak to Dala. “The disturbance that’s been sensed across the Sword Coast is the Draakhorn — an ancient device
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
spellcaster. Proficiency Bonus. You add your proficiency bonus to your attack roll when you attack using a weapon with which you have proficiency, as well as when you attack with a spell. Rolling 1 or 20
Sometimes fate blesses or curses a combatant, causing the novice to hit and the veteran to miss. If the d20 roll for an attack is a 20, the attack hits regardless of any modifiers or the target's AC
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
radius. The characters can use this device to counteract Auril’s spell and free Icewind Dale from her Everlasting Rime. Chardalyn
More than a hundred years prior to this adventure, a wizard named Akar
that has become suffused with demonic magic can warp a creature’s mind, causing madness that usually fades away once the contact is broken.
Chardalyn is cold to the touch and readily accepts
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->Storm Lord’s Wrath
were freed to attack Leilon, and the magic of the planar beacon was redirected back into the Material Plane, causing humanoids who looked upon it to become paralyzed. Leilon was quickly overrun and
adventurers called the Swords of Leilon. When the House of Thalivar released its monsters, the Swords fought to cover the escape of the townsfolk. They died, becoming ghosts bound to Leilon’s ruins
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
to run its course, an abyssal spirit invades the person’s body, causing a gruesome transformation. Over a period of hours, the victim’s head takes on fiendish aspects, such as fangs, tentacles, and
horns. At the same time, the person’s ears grow larger, expanding into wing-like appendages. In the final moments, the victim’s head tears away from the body in a fountain of blood, becoming another
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Constitution saving throw. Fiends, oozes, plants, and undead automatically succeed on the saving throw. On a failed save, the creature is magically warped by the ichor, as determined by rolling on the
become wings, giving it a flying speed of 5 feet.
91–95 The target’s body becomes unusually brittle, causing the target to gain vulnerability to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage.
96
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
. Niflheim Gray pine trees blanket rolling hills and rocky bluffs, and thick mists coil around their trunks. Pluton Shriveled willows, olive trees, and poplars contribute to the gloom of this concentration
. Adventurers might pursue a hag, a lich, or another evil spellcaster who comes to Hades to collect larvae for vile purposes. Once they are in the Three Glooms, the adventurers risk becoming trapped by the overwhelming despair of the place.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
deliver orders from General Drakov (likely related to the siege’s climax). As the battle reaches what you determine to be the halfway point, start rolling 2d6 on the Zombie Siege Encounters table and
consult the “Concluding the Siege” section to guide the battle toward its climax. Zombie Siege Encounters d6s Encounter
1 Zombies rip apart a soldier, causing those nearby to freeze or flee
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
work. When the process is warped only slightly, the mind flayer remains gnome-sized and is called a gnome ceremorph. It retains its knowledge of the Gnomish language while becoming able to speak Deep
-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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
, the trap triggers. Anyone who inspects the beams can easily determine that they are merely wedged in place. As an action, a character can knock over a beam, causing the trap to trigger. The ceiling
pounds of weight is placed on the pressure plate, causing the statue to release a 30-foot cone of fire. Each creature in the fire must make a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw, taking 22 (4d10) fire damage






