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Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
of Horizon’s Edge. The portal is two-way and remains open for 10 minutes or until a creature uses an action to change the puzzle’s configuration. Puzzle cubes don’t function while on
Horizon’s Edge, but a device somewhere in the demiplane allows a cube to function in reverse while the cube is fitted into it.
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
deal.
Endelyn’s obsession with tragedy and hopelessness extends to her own life; she has foreseen her own demise during a solar eclipse. In the depths of her castle, a lightning-powered device
’t change it, but I will do everything in my power to forestall it.”
Endelyn’s Appearance
Endelyn’s emaciated form is hidden under the layers of her elaborate costume. Part dress
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
.
Made from bones as hard as iron, the wand is topped with a magically enlarged skull that once belonged to a human hero slain by Orcus. The wand can magically change in size to better conform to the
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
adaptations of life.
7
I can’t resist prying into anything forbidden, since it must be terribly interesting.
8
I employ a highly technical vocabulary to avoid imprecision and ambiguity
in my communication.
Ideals
d6
Ideal
1
Guild. My guild is all that really matters. (Any)
2
Change. All life is meant to progress toward perfection, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
creature uses an action to change the puzzle’s configuration. Puzzle cubes don’t function while on Horizon’s Edge, but a device somewhere in the demiplane allows a cube to function in reverse while the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
. Heightened Spell When you cast a spell that forces a creature to make a saving throw to resist its effects, you can spend 3 sorcery points to give one target of the spell disadvantage on its first saving
throw made against the spell. Quickened Spell When you cast a spell that has a casting time of 1 action, you can spend 2 sorcery points to change the casting time to 1 bonus action for this casting
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Werewolf Changed by the Ferocity of the Wolf Habitat: Forest, Hill; Treasure: Any Werewolves change from their humanoid forms into fierce wolves or wolf-humanoid hybrids. Werewolves can shape-shift
voluntarily, but many can’t resist transforming during the nights of a full moon. Werewolf Medium or Small Monstrosity (Lycanthrope), Chaotic Evil
AC 15 Initiative +4 (14)
HP 71 (11d8 + 22)
Speed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
. Heightened Spell When you cast a spell that forces a creature to make a saving throw to resist its effects, you can spend 3 sorcery points to give one target of the spell disadvantage on its first saving
throw made against the spell. Quickened Spell When you cast a spell that has a casting time of 1 action, you can spend 2 sorcery points to change the casting time to 1 bonus action for this casting
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
agendas and disposition are unknowable to mortals. As the ultimate mimic, it can change its personality to reflect whatever most appeals to its current victim. Adventures with the Caller The Caller uses
requests they hunt down the Caller. This figure provides their agents with a device that allows the bearers to travel to whatever domain the Caller is currently in.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
to make players much more careful about what they say, which can dampen the atmosphere and discourage humor.
Other DMs let players change their minds freely. This creates a more relaxed mood at the
table, which might slow the pace of the game.
A common compromise is to rule that players can retract or change anything their characters did up until the point they learn the consequences of their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
ruling over its domain. Long ago, the beholder heard rumors of an arcane device known as the Maze Engine, capable of shifting the gears of reality. During the last Great Modron March, Karazikar
playthings for a time, but Shedrak alone was able to resist and withstand all ten of the beholder’s eye rays. Impressed by this feat of extraordinary luck, Karazikar made the human his acolyte after breaking
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
on the characters’ sanity (see “Madness” in chapter 8 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide). At various times in the adventure, characters will be called upon to make a saving throw to resist some madness
). When the effect ends, the creature’s madness level doesn’t change. Any time the creature’s madness level increases, it suffers the effect of the new level. If a creature with level 3 madness fails a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
A2 and area A4), where tiefling cashiers (commoners) in smiling devil masks make change or trade out cash for chips. The casino’s chips are thin, painted wooden disks. Stamped on both sides of every
try to usher them out. If those individuals resist, the guards attempt to apprehend the intruders and take them to the holding cells (area A17). Lights and Music The casino is lit by programmed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
to make players much more careful about what they say, which can dampen the atmosphere and discourage humor.
Other DMs let players change their minds freely. This creates a more relaxed mood at the
table, which might slow the pace of the game.
A common compromise is to rule that players can retract or change anything their characters did up until the point they learn the consequences of their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
can rid an afflicted lycanthrope of the curse, but a natural born lycanthrope can be freed of the curse only with a wish. A lycanthrope can either resist its curse or embrace it. By resisting the
rises, the curse becomes too strong to resist, transforming the individual into its beast form — or into a horrible hybrid form that combines animal and humanoid traits. When the moon wanes, the beast
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Ideal 1 Change. I will metamorphose into every kind of hag and live a century as each, becoming something even greater in the end. (Chaotic) 2 Community. Loneliness is the path to madness. That is why
destroy both of us simultaneously. 8 The ones who looted and burned my home will pay for their offense. Hag Flaws d6 Flaw 1 I am too eager for gossip. 2 I can’t resist flirting with a handsome man
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
, experiencing little or no change in their lives until recently. Now their world is being altered faster than many of the fungus folk can keep up with — as is their world view, twisted by the chaotic
happening and try to resist, but internal strife is alien to the myconids — they will not prevail without outside aid to save them. NEVERLIGHT GROVE: GENERAL FEATURES
Visitors encounter the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
magical bridge into another realm of existence. The mythal thrummed in response, the intangible pulse of the old device taking on a new and different note. Sarya ignored the mythal stone’s change and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
symbolic or direct examples of their past failings and rebuke their old vices in a final, crystallizing act of growth. Funerary masks help the newly dead resist the erosion of memory and identity in the
don’t change. For characters who embrace heroic virtues and live as a beneficial force in the world, they might spend a few hours or days in the idyllic embrace of Ilysia. On the other hand, those who
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
has foreseen her own demise during a solar eclipse. In the depths of her castle, a lightning-powered device called the Orrery of Tragedies clicks and turns day and night, giving Endelyn glimpses of her
during an eclipse. That is my doom, and I can’t change it, but I will do everything in my power to forestall it.” Endelyn’s Appearance Endelyn’s emaciated form is hidden under the layers of her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
oceans. Concentric rings of brass constrain the device, all rotating and bearing their own lesser spheres. One of those spheres has sharp points and appears sunlike. Carvings of tall, headless humanoids
Athas, Victorian London on Earth, or the sun. 06–15 The creature sitting in the armillary chair is touched by an unknown entity and suffers a radical personality change. Work with the player to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
toads lurk in the far corners of the room. They leap forward and attack anyone not accompanied by Wyllow.
Calendar Stone. Set into the floor is a 15-foot-diameter stone device engraved with a
multitude of images.
The device has a circular center 9 feet in diameter, around which are two concentric rings of stone. The center stone is fixed in place. Its engravings depict birds, butterflies, fish
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
. Regardless of its form, the gate isn’t hard to identify; chaos swells around the portal—the eye of a maelstrom of change. CoupleOfKooks “Chaos, much like order, begins in the mind. Refuse its entry into
damage type for another. Roll a d4 for the new damage type, if any: (1) acid, (2) cold, (3) fire, or (4) lightning. This effect can change only one damage type per casting of a spell. Spontaneous
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
ends in a pincer claw, the other a large hammer instead of a hand. The machine transforms the captive duergar’s pain into energy that powers the device, which is typically used to dig tunnels and repel
poison, spells, and illusions, as well as to resist being charmed or paralyzed.
Sunlight Sensitivity. While in sunlight, the duergar has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
create the specialized items you’ll use to produce your effects. If you replace cure wounds with heat metal, you might be altering the device you use to heal — perhaps modifying a tool so that it
wounds, you can cast it using a 1st-level or a 2nd-level slot. Casting the spell doesn’t remove it from your list of prepared spells. You can change your list of prepared spells when you finish a long
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
specialized items you’ll use to produce your effects. If you replace cure wounds with heat metal, you might be altering the device you use to heal—perhaps modifying a tool so that it channels heat instead
it using a 1st-level or a 2nd-level slot. Casting the spell doesn’t remove it from your list of prepared spells. You can change your list of prepared spells when you finish a long rest. Preparing a new
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
defined by the prominent leaders, innovators, and tyrants of the day. These people change the world and etch their signatures indelibly on the pages of history. When they rise to power, they shape the
thing that has been consistently true about the world, which is now no longer true due to this leader’s rise or influence. This is the biggest change that occurs when the new leader takes power and
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->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
magical device Chimagua once used to influence the dreams of Atagua’s people. The power of the Drought Elder has corrupted the stone, forcing Chimagua into a deathly slumber and accelerating the planar
death. If the creature is unaware of the pod’s effects or does not wish to be affected, it can resist the effect by succeeding on a DC 16 Constitution saving throw. Otherwise, it is considered to be a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
these offices find scattered research papers, course notes, and other paperwork and academic bric-a-brac. Treasure. Each office also has a 25 percent chance of having loose change worth 5 gp in a desk
Captain Dapplewing’s time. On the northern wall, a plaque holds the heads of a black and a red dragon, each clearly constructed from metallic crafting supplies. This device is a strange magic curiosity
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
A shipwreck is a plot device that can be used sparingly to great effect, particularly if you want the characters to be washed ashore on some monster-infested island or (in the case of an airship
potential to change the direction of a campaign. It isn’t, however, a particularly good way to kill off characters or end a campaign.
If you and your campaign conspire to wreck a ship on which the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
trap can break it and free the captive. Examples include a bear trap, a cage that drops from a ceiling, and a device that flings a net. Slay. Some traps are designed to eliminate intruders, plain and
effects (an alchemical device that explodes like a fireball). The Deadly entry for characters of 17th level or higher suggests combining a 9th-level and a 5th-level spell into one effect. In this
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
your entire DMing career, or you might change it with each campaign. Offering inspiration as a reward encourages certain types of behavior in your players. Think of your style as a DM and your
example, in a campaign inspired by film noir, characters could have an additional flaw: “I can’t resist helping a person I find alluring despite warnings that he or she is nothing but trouble.” If the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
sprout from your head.
6 Your skin and hair change color each dawn.
Level 3: Otherworldly Glamour Whenever you make a Charisma check, you gain a bonus to the check equal to your Wisdom
Darkvision. While entirely in Darkness, you have the Invisible condition to any creature that relies on Darkvision to see you in that Darkness. Level 7: Iron Mind You have honed your ability to resist
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
the king. The grungs attack and subdue characters who resist. If the adventurers accept, they are taken through the maze to the shrine, where they are received by King Groak. He offers sanctuary and
well-hidden doorway that requires a successful DC 20 Wisdom (Perception) check to spot. The maze’s passages are open to the sky and magically change configuration every minute or so, turning