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Magic Items
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
cover. The Tome of the Dragon contains the secret ritual to transform a dragon or a dead dragon’s body into a dracolich.
To decipher and use the Tome of the Dragon, you must be either a
supplied for the ritual. If the target was a dead dragon’s body, the body reanimates, and the gem is inhabited by an evil dragon spirit from the Outer Planes. The dracolich is under no obligation toward its creators and acts according to its nature.
Monsters
Heroes of the Borderlands
Magic Resistance. The curate has Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Raise the Dead (1/Day). In a ritual that takes 8 hours, the curate touches a creature that has
);{"diceNotation":"2d8+4","rollType":"heal","rollAction":"Healer's Touch"} Hit Points.A curate earns a special connection to the divine through service to shrines and temples. This devotion endows these spiritual leaders with the power to heal injuries, repel evil, and raise the dead.
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
Myrkul and gained a portion of malevolent divine power from each. A scion of the Dead Three might have seized this power in a sinister ritual or had it thrust on them by an evil Artifact or a god’s
malevolent will. In any case, they possess cruelty, bloodlust, and necromantic power in equal measure and serve the Dead Three with their soul.
A Dead Three scion leads cults to Bane, Bhaal, or Myrkul
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
. If the gem is destroyed, Sammaster can create a new one by completing an 8-hour ritual using a gem worth 1,000+ GP, which the ritual consumes, and by expending 5,000 GP.Multiattack. Sammaster makes
, Prestidigitation
2/Day Each: Speak with Dead, Wall of Force
1/Day Each: Create Undead (level 8 version), Disintegrate, Power Word KillProtective Magic. Sammaster casts Counterspell or Shield in
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
: speak with dead.
Deception (+3), Religion (+4)
8
Oracle
Guidance. Ritual only: augury, divination (1 hour).
History (+4), Religion (+4)
gold pieces is 20 times the spell’s level. These components are consumed when the ritual is finished. The magewright knows the following spells:
At will: mage hand, prestidigitation
Rituals
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
: dancing lights, mage hand, message, thaumaturgy
1/day each: augury (cast as 1 action), bestow curse, cordon of arrows, detect magic, speak with dead, spirit guardiansThe Uthgardt are suspicious and
with one foot in the land of the living and the other in the land of the dead. Those who walk the shadowed path between two lands do so because the spirits of the dead compel them. Other Uthgardt fear
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
repeat the saving throw. The effect ends if the second save is successful; otherwise the target is petrified for 24 hours.Stone cursed are spawned through a foul alchemical ritual performed on a Humanoid
that has been turned to stone. The ritual, which requires a mixture of basilisk blood and the ashes from the burned feathers of a cockatrice, awakens a dim echo of the petrified victim’s spirit
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
caught. Sightings soon stopped, and no further evidence of Murgaxor’s presence was found. Offcials assumed he was dead and struck Murgaxor from Strixhaven’s records, as they considered him
use that action again until he finishes a long rest:
Clay Behemoth. A clay golem erupts from the floor in an unoccupied space within 15 feet of the ritual circle. The golem obeys Murgaxor's commands
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
obsessive collectors, each believing that almost anything found—a piece of broken bone, a dead rodent, a handful of dust, or some other worthless item or substance—could be valuable or useful as a
spell component, a ritual object, or a potion ingredient.
Barovian witches use the find familiar spell to call forth familiars. They are particularly fond of cats, though snakes and toads are also common. These animals lurk amid the clutter of the witches' lairs, seldom wandering far from their vile masters.
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
regains 71 (13d10);{"diceNotation":"13d10","rollType":"heal","rollAction":"Exalting Breath"} hit points, and each creature in that area of the aspect’s choice that has been dead for no longer
often accompanied by seven ancient gold dragon;ancient gold dragons who favor disguising themselves as canaries.
In combat, Bahamut’s enemies experience the full force of his justice, while his
Monsters
Vecna: Eve of Ruin
spells, requiring no material components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 22):
At will: Animate Dead (as an action), Detect Magic, Dispel Magic, Fly, Lightning Bolt
master plan is almost complete. He has funneled a significant amount of his energy into weaving his ritual. Therefore, when the characters finally confront Vecna and try to save the multiverse, he is
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
fire clears dead wood, replenishes the soil, and allows the forest to regrow even healthier than before. To this end, topaz dragons use their power to reduce crumbling structures and diseased plants to
dragon egg, and they care for it as if it were their own.
5
A sea hag is on the hunt for a topaz dragon wyrmling, to be used as a component in a fell ritual.
6
A pirate crew keeps a curmudgeonly topaz dragon wyrmling as a beloved mascot.
Cold, Necrotic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
are present when the druids complete the ritual, read: A thirty-foot-tall plant creature bursts out of the statue, sending twigs and earth flying. The creature resembles a dead treant with green
Druids’ Ritual You can allow this event to unfold regardless of whether the characters have visited Yester Hill. Even if the characters don’t experience this event as it happens, they can still deal
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Cleric Spells Cantrips (0 Level)
Toll the dead (necromancy)
Word of radiance (evocation)
1st Level
Ceremony (abjuration, ritual)
3rd Level
Life transference (necromancy)
5th Level
Dawn (evocation)
Holy weapon (evocation)
7th Level
Temple of the gods (conjuration)
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Gentle Repose Level 2 Necromancy (Cleric, Paladin, Wizard) Casting Time: Action or Ritual
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M (2 Copper Pieces, which the spell consumes)
Duration: 10 days
You
touch a corpse or other remains. For the duration, the target is protected from decay and can’t become Undead. The spell also effectively extends the time limit on raising the target from the dead
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Gentle Repose Level 2 Necromancy (Cleric, Paladin, Wizard) Casting Time: Action or Ritual
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M (2 Copper Pieces, which the spell consumes)
Duration: 10 days
You
touch a corpse or other remains. For the duration, the target is protected from decay and can’t become Undead. The spell also effectively extends the time limit on raising the target from the dead
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Gentle Repose 2nd-level necromancy (ritual) Casting Time: 1 action Range: Touch Components: V, S, M (a pinch of salt and one copper piece placed on each of the corpse’s eyes, which must remain there
on raising the target from the dead, since days spent under the influence of this spell don’t count against the time limit of spells such as raise dead.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Gentle Repose 2nd-level necromancy (ritual) Casting Time: 1 action Range: Touch Components: V, S, M (a pinch of salt and one copper piece placed on each of the corpse’s eyes, which must remain there
on raising the target from the dead, since days spent under the influence of this spell don’t count against the time limit of spells such as raise dead.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
) 7 Medium Minor illusion. Ritual only: speak with dead. Deception (+3), Religion (+4) 8 Oracle Guidance. Ritual only: augury, divination (1 hour). History (+4), Religion (+4)
take up to 1 hour. However long the ritual takes, it requires extra material components, usually in the form of dragonshards. Magewright
Medium humanoid (any race), any alignment
Armor Class 11
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
.)
Speak with dead (necro.)
Spirit shroud * (necro.)
Summon fey * (conj.)
Summon shadowspawn * (conj.)
Summon undead * (conj.)
4th Level
Divination (divin., ritual)
Summon
spell’s school of magic is noted, and if a spell can be cast as a ritual, the ritual tag appears after the spell’s name. Each spell is in the Player’s Handbook, unless it has an asterisk (a spell in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Feign Death Level 3 Necromancy (Bard, Cleric, Druid, Wizard) Casting Time: Action or Ritual
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M (a pinch of graveyard dirt)
Duration: 1 hour
You touch a willing
creature and put it into a cataleptic state that is indistinguishable from death. For the duration, the target appears dead to outward inspection and to spells used to determine the target’s status
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Y3. Druids’ Circle Atop the hill is a wide ring of black boulders and smaller rocks that collectively form a makeshift wall enclosing a field of dead grass. Lightning strikes the edge of the ring
not only prevent the statue from being toppled but also allow the effigy to serve as a component in a ritual to create a tree blight (see “Druids’ Ritual” in the “Special Events” section below
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
residents are grave keepers
3 A nation where the residents observe grueling rituals to keep the angry dead appeased
4 A city where the victims of violence can’t cross into the afterlife
until their murders are solved
5 A ship with the same name and lines as a vessel lost at sea a hundred years earlier
6 A realm in which a common ritual allows a living individual to trade
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
effective. If Splugoth is dead and the characters do not control the orrery components, no goblins are summoned. Instead, the ritual resurrects Splugoth from the dead no matter what condition his body is
orrery components fueling the ritual. If Splugoth is dead and one of the characters controls the orrery components, any character on the top of the mesa can use an action to attempt a DC 15 Intelligence
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
can be placed in any location. Wherever the players decide to place the talisman, their characters must travel to that location while Vizeran makes his final preparations for the ritual. Given their
characters might choose to stay with Vizeran during the nine-hour performance of the ritual, whether to guard against treachery or to reclaim Gromph’s grimoire once the ritual is done. If this is the case
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Feign Death 3rd-level necromancy (ritual) Casting Time: 1 action Range: Touch Components: V, S, M (a pinch of graveyard dirt) Duration: 1 hour You touch a willing creature and put it into a
cataleptic state that is indistinguishable from death. For the spell’s duration, or until you use an action to touch the target and dismiss the spell, the target appears dead to all outward inspection and to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Contact Other Plane Level 5 Divination (Warlock, Wizard) Casting Time: 1 minute or Ritual
Range: Self
Components: V
Duration: 1 minute
You mentally contact a demigod, the spirit of a long
-dead sage, or some other knowledgeable entity from another plane. Contacting this otherworldly intelligence can break your mind. When you cast this spell, make a DC 15 Intelligence saving throw. On a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
. A cleric with the Tempest domain succeeds on the check automatically. If the characters manage to get this far without alerting Grannoc, they catch him performing a ritual: Where the lightning bolts
converge, a half-orc wearing hide armor performs an eerie dance while consuming the entrails of a dead possum. Standing around the half-orc are several small twig figures.
The half-orc, Grannoc, is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
ritual, 65 gp component cost), knock (ritual, 40 gp component cost); proficient with thieves’ tools and tinker’s tools. Medium. Speak with dead (ritual, 60 gp component cost). Some mediums use a form of
doesn’t normally have the ritual tag. When converting a spell to a magewright ritual, it can have a casting time of up to one hour. It’s also common for a magewright’s ritual to have an additional
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Contact Other Plane Level 5 Divination (Warlock, Wizard) Casting Time: 1 minute or Ritual
Range: Self
Components: V
Duration: 1 minute
You mentally contact a demigod, the spirit of a long
-dead sage, or some other knowledgeable entity from another plane. Contacting this otherworldly intelligence can break your mind. When you cast this spell, make a DC 15 Intelligence saving throw. On a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
to confirm my suspicion that one of the king’s closest advisers—Charmayne Daymore—is behind this. She has stolen the king’s heart and is using it to power a ritual. Jhaeros is now her obedient puppet
.”
Naevys assures the characters that Charmayne’s ritual affects only people from Ghalasine; outsiders can safely enter the city. She asks the characters to steal Jhaeros’s heart and deliver it to her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
dragon’s hoard to perform some great ritual. The Hoard Magic table suggests some possibilities. Hoard Magic d6 Magical Motivation
1 Create a permanent protective ward covering a city-state or
small kingdom
2 Destroy a large magical ward protecting a region
3 Create a dead magic zone where spells and magic items won’t function
4 Repair the fabric of magic in a dead magic zone
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
T10: East Tunnel This tunnel is littered with the dusty bones of four dead humans wearing tattered crimson robes. One of the skeletons slumps in a corner next to a double door. It wears an amulet
shaped like a goat’s rotting head and clutches a ring of keys.
This L-shaped hall leads from area T5 to a double door into the ritual chamber (area T11). Secret Door. Set into the north wall, a secret
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
, and raise the dead. Curate Medium Humanoid, Lawful Good
AC 12 Initiative +2 (12)
HP 97 (15d8 + 30)
Speed 30 ft.
Ability Score Mod Save
Str 8 −1 −1
Dex 14 +2 +2
Con 14
Perception 14
Languages Celestial, Common
CR 6 (XP 2,300; PB +3)
Traits
Magic Resistance. The curate has Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Raise the Dead (1/Day
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Locathah Rising
Shatterkeel arranged the corpses into orderly lines, so that he might prepare them for transition into one of the living dead. He completed a ritual using a small amount of blood he had obtained from a kraken
relative seclusion.” Gar’s intent, of course, is to use the blood from the young creature in a much larger ritual, to animate what will certainly be a terrifying army of undead to assault the coastline






