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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
The rod has 5 charges. While you hold it, you can cast one of the following spells from it: Heal (expends 1 charge) or Resurrection (expends 5 charges).
The rod regains 1 expended charge daily at
dawn. If you expend the last charge, roll 1d20. On a 1, the rod disappears in a harmless burst of radiance.
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
, freedom from the orb, to spread suffering in the world, to advance the worship of Tiamat, or something else the DM decides.
Random Properties. An Orb of Dragonkind has the following random properties
(see the Dungeon Master’s Guide):
2 minor beneficial properties
1 minor detrimental property
1 major detrimental property
Spells. The orb has 7 charges and regains 1d4 + 3 expended
Rod of Resurrection
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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
The rod has 5 charges. While you hold it, you can cast one of the following spells from it: Heal (expends 1 charge) or Resurrection (expends 5 charges).
The rod regains 1 expended charge daily at
dawn. If you expend the last charge, roll 1d20. On a 1, the rod disappears in a harmless burst of radiance.
Magic Items
Vecna: Eve of Ruin
rolls made with it.
Rod Spellcasting. The Rod of Seven Parts has 7 charges and regains 1d4 + 3 expended charges daily at dawn. While holding the rod, you can use an action to expend 1 charge and cast
any of the spells in the Rod Pieces table. You can also use an action to cast Detect Evil and Good from the rod without using any charges.
Ultimate Law. If you are not of a lawful alignment, you
Magic Items
Storm King's Thunder
has two prongs at one end and a molded handle grip on the opposite end.
The rod has 10 charges and regains 1d6 + 4 of its expended charges daily at dawn. As an action, you can grasp it by the handle
The fire giant duke Zalto hired a wizard to craft several of these adamantine rods. Each measures 4 feet long, weighs 100 pounds, and is sized to fit comfortably in a fire giant’s hand. The rod
Orb of Dragonkind
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Magic Items
Basic Rules (2014)
advance the worship of Tiamat, or something else the GM decides.
Random Properties
An Orb of Dragonkind has the following random properties:
2 minor beneficial properties
1 minor detrimental
property
1 major detrimental property
Spells
The orb has 7 charges and regains 1d4 + 3 expended charges daily at dawn. If you control the orb, you can use an action and expend 1 or more charges to cast
Magic Items
Storm King's Thunder
their materials and properties vary.
The Korolnor Scepter is a tapered mithral rod as thick and long as a dwarf’s forearm, with a small platinum knob at the bottom and a rounded disk adorned
Throne, as well as the properties of the scepter itself. The scepter has 10 charges, and it regains 1d6 + 4 expended charges at dawn. Its properties are as follows:
If you are underground or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Rod of Resurrection Rod, Legendary (Requires Attunement) The rod has 5 charges. While you hold it, you can cast one of the following spells from it: Heal (expends 1 charge) or Resurrection (expends 5
charges). The rod regains 1 expended charge daily at dawn. If you expend the last charge, roll 1d20. On a 1, the rod disappears in a harmless burst of radiance.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Rod of Resurrection Rod, legendary (requires attunement by a cleric, druid, or paladin) The rod has 5 charges. While you hold it, you can use an action to cast one of the following spells from it
: heal (expends 1 charge) or resurrection (expends 5 charges). The rod regains 1 expended charge daily at dawn. If the rod is reduced to 0 charges, roll a d20. On a 1, the rod disappears in a burst of radiance.
Magic Items
Keys from the Golden Vault
, Constantori’s Portrait has quietly observed countless conversations and now possesses an unquantifiable amount of lore—everything from criminal conspiracies to secret passwords. The DM decides what
until you command it to stop or until your attunement to the painting ends.
The painting has 3 charges. When a creature the painting identifies as its enemy starts its turn in a space the painting
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Rod of Resurrection Rod, Legendary (Requires Attunement) The rod has 5 charges. While you hold it, you can cast one of the following spells from it: Heal (expends 1 charge) or Resurrection (expends 5
charges). The rod regains 1 expended charge daily at dawn. If you expend the last charge, roll 1d20. On a 1, the rod disappears in a harmless burst of radiance.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
fit comfortably in a fire giant’s hand. The rod has two prongs at one end and a molded handle grip on the opposite end. The rod has 10 charges and regains 1d6 + 4 of its expended charges daily at dawn
Rod of the Vonindod Rod, rare (requires attunement) The fire giant duke Zalto hired a wizard to craft several of these adamantine rods. Each measures 4 feet long, weighs 100 pounds, and is sized to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Parts has 7 charges and regains 1d4 + 3 expended charges daily at dawn. While holding the rod, you can use an action to expend 1 charge and cast any of the spells in the Rod Pieces table. You can also use
an action to cast Detect Evil and Good from the rod without using any charges.
Coupleofkooks When whole, the legendary
Rod of Seven Parts
looks formidable
Ultimate Law. If you are not
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Horn of Silent Alarm Wondrous Item, Common This horn has 4 charges and regains 1d4 expended charges daily at dawn. As a Magic action, you can blow the horn while expending 1 charge. One creature of
your choice hears the horn’s blare, provided that creature is within 600 feet of the horn. No other creature hears the horn. Conceptopolis Horn of Blasting, Immovable Rod, Horn of Valhalla
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Tuning the Rod Regardless of which side, if any, the characters take in this conflict, the characters must pair the second piece of the Rod of Seven Parts to the working Docent in Ialos to continue
the adventure. (A character need not be attuned to the Docent to pair the Docent to the rod piece.) When a character touches the rod pieceto the working Docent, the piece emits a loud, metallic ping
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
another creature to a different plane (such as casting Astral Projection, Banishment, Etherealness, or Plane Shift), the spell slot and components, item charges, or other resources are expended as normal
, but nothing happens. The Rod Piece and Its Guardian The sixth piece of the rod can be found in area T27. The piece is guarded by Rerak, an empowered simulacrum of Acererak designed to harvest souls
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
Ruling Scepters are all roughly the same size and shape, but their materials and properties vary. The Korolnor Scepter is a tapered mithral rod as thick and long as a dwarf’s forearm, with a small
club. You can use the properties of the Wyrmskull Throne, as well as the properties of the scepter itself. The scepter has 10 charges, and it regains 1d6 + 4 expended charges at dawn. Its properties
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
decides. Random Properties. An Orb of Dragonkind has the following random properties: 2 minor beneficial properties 1 minor detrimental property 1 major detrimental property Spells. The orb has 7 charges
and regains 1d4 + 3 expended charges daily at dawn. If you control the orb, you can use an action and expend 1 or more charges to cast one of the following spells (save DC 18) from it: cure wounds
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
things: the annihilation of a particular society or organization, freedom from the orb, to spread suffering in the world, to advance the worship of Tiamat, or something else the DM decides. Random
orb has 7 charges and regains 1d4 + 3 expended charges daily at dawn. If you control the orb, you can cast one of the spells on the following table from it. The table indicates how many charges you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
particular society or organization, freedom from the orb, to spread suffering in the world, to advance the worship of Tiamat, or something else the DM decides. Random Properties. An Orb of Dragonkind
has the following random properties (see the Dungeon Master’s Guide): 2 minor beneficial properties 1 minor detrimental property 1 major detrimental property Spells. The orb has 7 charges and regains
Magic Items
Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
metal bosses adorn the armor in seemingly random fashion. On the back of the armor’s left gauntlet is a rectangular metal box, from which projects a short rod tipped with a cone-shaped red
. It is found with one energy cell attached, containing 2d10 charges.
POWERED ARMOR OPTIONS
Depending on where and how it appears in the adventure, you might wish to modify the features of Kwalish
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Cats of Uldun-dar (ivory cat molar)
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The tooth has 8 charges. As an action, you can expend 1 charge to cast the revivify spell from the tooth. If you are dead at the start of your turn, the
(rainbow-colored donkey molar)
1 unicorn
The tooth has 3 charges. As an action, you can expend 1 charge to touch a creature. The target regains 2d8 + 2 hit points, and all diseases and poisons affecting
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->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
. Unless a ring’s description says otherwise, a ring must be worn on a finger, or a similar digit, for the ring’s magic to function. Rods A scepter or just a heavy cylinder, a magic rod is typically
other material. VARIANT: WANDS THAT DON’T RECHARGE
A typical wand has expendable charges. If you’d like wands to be a limited resource, you can make some of them incapable of regaining charges
Magic Items
The Book of Many Things
they are alive and any conditions they have. If you named an object, you know if it is broken or not. If you named a magic item that has charges, you know how many charges it has remaining.
Maze. You
wearing armor.
Ship. You gain proficiency in three skills chosen by the DM.
Staff. A rare or rarer magic rod, staff, or wand appears in your hands. The DM chooses the item.
Stairway. You can choose to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
charges before his accusers. The angels, although shocked at his impudence, accepted his petition and agreed to hear the bargain he proposed. Both sides, he suggested, would present their case to
definitive judgment. He rebuked the angels for their descent into infighting, but didn’t punish Asmodeus for his evil ways. He did, however, order Asmodeus to forever carry a mighty artifact, the Ruby Rod
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Dragonshard Pool Effects table to determine what happens to the item. An item can be affected by the pool only once; subsequent exposures have no effect. The pool has 4 charges. It expends 1 charge each time an
item is dipped into it. The pool regains all expended charges daily at dawn. Dragonshard Pool Effects d6 Effect 1–2 The item is destroyed. 3–4 The item gains a cosmetic defect such as
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
½ feet on a side.
The chest has 20 charges. A creature can use an action to touch the closed lid of the chest and expend 1 of the chest’s charges while naming one or more nonmagical objects (including
, and they spoil if not consumed after 24 hours. Gems and precious metals created by the chest disappear after 1 minute.
The chest regains 1d20 expended charges daily at dawn. If the item’s last charge
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
(use the bandit captain statistics) who normally charges 10 gp per day. One of the characters can serve as captain to avoid this expense, but that leaves no one with command experience aboard the ship
convince him of the mission’s importance. If he decides to help, Neverember arranges for a galley called the Seabreaker to transport the characters. The Seabreaker’s captain is an uptight albino wizard
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
individual, you know if they are alive and any conditions they have. If you named an object, you know if it is broken or not. If you named a magic item that has charges, you know how many charges it
three skills chosen by the DM. Staff. A rare or rarer magic rod, staff, or wand appears in your hands. The DM chooses the item. Stairway. You can choose to either decrease your number of declared
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
, the spell slot is expended as normal, but the spell has no effect. Instead, the magic is absorbed by the relief, filling it with a number of charges equal to the level of spell slot expended and causing
the relief’s eyes to glow green. Once the relief has absorbed 6 or more charges, the door opens. The door closes on its own after 10 minutes unless it is held or wedged open. When the door closes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
from the maze. If the characters describe the gateway in area B1 that leads to a mind flayer stronghold, Varakkta decides to raid Illithinoch. Despite Varakkta’s superficial friendliness, she remains
is to open a gate, but she’s learned that they’re more deeply connected to the Briny Maze. When she overloads the charge by casting chain lightning into a rod, she can cast detect thoughts the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
fit that creature’s index finger, and warm orange light spills from minuscule cracks that form on its outer surface. The ring has 6 charges left. While attuned to the ring, a creature can expend 1
charge to cast conjure minor elementals (summoning either four magma mephits or four magmins, as the wearer wishes) or fire shield (warm shield version only) from the ring. Once all of its charges are






