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Dungeon Master’s Guide
Strength modifier to the attack roll. On a hit, the Shield deals Force damage to the target equal to 2d6 + 2 plus your Strength modifier, and if the target is a creature, you can push it up to 10 feet
appears, any creatures or objects not fully contained within it are pushed into the nearest unoccupied spaces outside it. The attack or area of effect that triggered the Reaction has no effect on creatures
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
effect.
Comet. The next time you enter combat against one or more Hostile creatures, you can select one of them as your foe when you roll Initiative. If you reduce your foe to 0 Hit Points during that
avatar makes a number of Reaping Scythe attacks equal to half the summoner’s Proficiency Bonus (rounded up).
Reaping Scythe. Melee Attack Roll: Automatic hit, reach 5 ft. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3
Equipment
This backpack-sized device holds a balloon-based parachute. If you fall while wearing this device, you can use your reaction to deploy the parachute. Once deployed, the parachute rapidly inflates
, and you descend 60 feet per round and take no damage from falling. When you are 10 feet away from the ground, roll a d20. If you roll a 5 or less, the parachute gives out, and you begin to fall normally.
Magic Items
Acquisitions Incorporated
that language while attuned to the device.
Time Bandit. At the start of your turn, roll a d6 (no action required). On a 1–3, you slow down time, gaining an additional action on your turn and
While attuned to this device, you have a +1 bonus to Intelligence saving throws. The first time you attune to the chronolometer, you choose one language you don’t know. You subsequently know
Magic Items
Acquisitions Incorporated
While attuned to this device, you have a +1 bonus to Wisdom saving throws, and you can use an action to cast the dancing lights, guidance, or message cantrips.
Portent of the Stars. As a reaction
when a creature you can see within 60 feet of you makes an attack roll, saving throw, or ability check, you make that creature roll a d10 and add or subtract the number rolled (your choice) from the
Monsters
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
":"psychic"} psychic damage, and the target must subtract 1d4;{"diceNotation":"1d4", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Psychic Blade"} from the next attack roll or saving throw it makes before the end of the
.
Psionic Shield. When the goblin or one of its allies within 15 feet of it is hit by an attack roll, the goblin conjures a shield of force. The target of the attack gains a +3 bonus to its AC against the
Magic Items
Acquisitions Incorporated
Also at rank 2, you gain the use of an uncommon magic item taking the form of a pair of spectacles, a spyglass, a monocle, or any other device with one or two lenses. When you look through the
power of the lenses to gain accuracy in combat, gaining advantage on a weapon attack roll (no action required). If that attack hits, roll one additional weapon damage die. This property of the lenses can’t be used again until the next dawn.
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
To attune to this vial, you must place a few drops of your blood into it. The vial can’t be opened while your attunement to it lasts. If your attunement to the vial ends, the contained blood
. The bonus is determined by the vial’s rarity.
In addition, when you roll any Hit Dice to recover hit points while you are carrying the vial, you can regain 5 sorcery points. This property of the vial can’t be used again until the next dawn.
Species
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
, silent stretches. Occasionally, though, in a moment of peace, stress, or excitement, a reborn gains a glimpse of what came before. When you desire to have such a dreamlike vision, roll on the Lost
perfectly preserved remains.
Lamordia. You awoke amid the bizarre experiments of an amoral scientist. They consider you their finest creation or have a task for you to fulfill.
Mordent. You emerged from the mysterious device known as the Apparatus, your body a lifeless shell and your past a mystery.
Backgrounds
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
, evidence from a past case (choose one or roll for a trinket from the Horror Trinkets table after this background), a set of Clothes, Common;common clothes, and 10 gp
Path to Mystery
Your first case
did it set you on the path to investigating other mysteries? Roll on or choose details from the First Case table to develop the mystery that started your career as an investigator.
First Case
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->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Mabaran Resonator Storm Spire
This dread device draws on the power of Mabar, infusing the dead with the malign energy of the Endless Night. While it is active, any humanoid that dies within 2
miles of the resonator reanimates 1 minute later as a zombie (see the Monster Manual for its stat block) under the control of the creature controlling the device.
Master’s Call While this looks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
all warforged within 10 miles of the device and can, as an action, send a telepathic message to them laced with enchantment magic. Such a message can be sent no more than once every 24 hours. A
warforged who receives the message is compelled to follow one command contained within it, unless the warforged succeeds on a DC 12 Wisdom saving throw. The affected warforged breaks free of the command after 24 hours.
Magic Items
Keys from the Golden Vault
the book’s contents, provided that those modifications advance evil and expand the lore already contained within.
Whenever a non-evil creature attunes to the Book of Vile Darkness, that creature
to the book, you can cast circle of death (save DC 20) from it as an action. After you cast the spell, roll a d6. On a roll of 1–5, you can’t use this property again until the next dawn
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Narycrash This backpack-sized device holds a balloon-based parachute. If you fall while wearing this device, you can use your reaction to deploy the parachute. Once deployed, the parachute rapidly
inflates, and you descend 60 feet per round and take no damage from falling. When you are 10 feet away from the ground, roll a d20. If you roll a 5 or less, the parachute gives out, and you begin to fall normally. Narycrash
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
master, which then absorbs the knowledge and experience contained therein. Mind flayers conceive of this oneness with the elder brain as a sacred state akin to an afterlife.
Hive Mind
Elder brains
friendly creature it can sense within 120 feet of it. The target has a flash of inspiration and gains advantage on one attack roll, ability check, or saving throw it makes before the end of its next
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
choose one language you don’t know. You subsequently know that language while attuned to the device. Time Bandit. At the start of your turn, roll a d6 (no action required). On a 1–3, you slow down time
Chronolometer Wondrous item, very rare (requires attunement) While attuned to this device, you have a +1 bonus to Intelligence saving throws. The first time you attune to the chronolometer, you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Lightning Cannon Medium Object Armor Class: 19 Hit Points: 30 Lightning Ball (Requires Aim). Ranged Attack Roll: +6, range 300/1,200 ft. Hit: 22 (4d10) Lightning damage. A Lightning Cannon is a small
, bronze cannon inlaid with arcane runes and mounted on a heavy tripod device. It launches balls of crackling electricity. Aiming a Lightning Cannon requires the Utilize action, then a crew member can take the Lightning Ball action.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
characters make their way through dark tunnels. To determine what the characters encounter, roll on the Underdark Encounters table. Underdark Encounters d12 Encounter 1 Two grells drop on the
Tiny clockwork device that was left behind by a svirfneblin miner. The device produces a miniature flame that can be used to light a candle, torch, or campfire. Using the device requires an action. 6
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Activating the Engine A successful DC 15 Intelligence (Arcana) check is needed to activate the device by puzzling out its array of gears and levers. It then takes 12 rounds for the engine to “align
itself” and activate its magical effect. If an initiative order hasn’t already been established by the time the engine activates, have everyone in the party roll initiative. If the tridrone from “March
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
sparkles.
If you use an arcane focus, it probably takes the form of an intricate device that could include metal gauntlets, glass canisters, copper tubing, and leather straps attaching it to your body
even the lowliest attendant to make friends (and enemies) in laboratories across Ravnica.
Roll twice on the Izzet Contacts table (for an ally and a rival) and once on the Non-Izzet Contacts table
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
opened while your attunement to it lasts. If your attunement to the vial ends, the contained blood turns to ash. You can use the vial as a spellcasting focus for your spells while wearing or holding
it, and you gain a bonus to spell attack rolls and to the saving throw DCs of your sorcerer spells. The bonus is determined by the vial’s rarity. In addition, when you roll any Hit Dice to recover hit
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->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Arcane Portals The crew of the Lambent Zenith used the magic contained within the rod piece to create portals through which the ship could travel across the multiverse with ease. However, when the
portal appears, roll on the Portal Exit table to determine where the portal leads. If the result is where the characters already are, roll again. Any creature or object that passes through an open
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Modron Marches Whether in service to lawful deities or as part of the Great Modron March, modrons travel from Mechanus to spread their vision of law to other planes of existence. Roll on or choose a
a titanic but lost modron device. 6 Remove a forest, mountain, or city before the arrival of a modron procession. 7 Seal off a planar rift or wild magic zone. 8 Wage war with demons, slaadi, or chaotic Fey.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Boilerdrak Large Object Armor Class: 15 Boilerdrak Hit Points: 100 Damage Immunities: poison, psychic This wagon-sized device is designed to look roughly like a dragon. Before it can be used, the
boilerdrak must be lit and aimed. It takes 1 action to light the weapon, 1 action to aim it, and 1 action to fire it. When you use your action to fire it, roll a d20. If you roll a 2 or higher, use the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
, bestowing on each construct an Intelligence of 11 and the ability to understand (but not speak) Dwarvish and Undercommon. Each duergar brain is contained in a glass sphere embedded in the construct’s head
psionic force generator, a magic device that allows the mind flayers to create and sustain the walls of force that enclose area 8. The mind flayers provide the mental energy that powers the generator. If
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
garden is a self-contained ecosystem with an artificial climate controlled by the weather machine in area S54. By default, these areas are balmy and brightly lit. Garden Encounters. When a random
encounter occurs on this level, roll on the Random Garden Encounters table below instead of the Random Spaceship Encounters table. Off the Grid. While the characters are in the garden (areas S56–S60
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
duergar’s pain into energy that powers the device, which is typically used to dig tunnels and repel invaders. Duergar Hammerer
Medium construct, lawful evil
Armor Class 17 (natural armor)
Hit Points 33
turn, a creature that attacks the hammerer can target the duergar trapped in it. The attacker has disadvantage on the attack roll. On a hit, the attack deals an extra 5 (1d10) damage to the hammerer, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
, but it is no help against a spell or other effect, such as fireball, that delivers its damage after a saving throw rather than after an attack roll. Can a rogue use Evasion if they are surprised? The
portion thereof, only once to a roll. Can a thief use the Fast Hands feature to activate a magic item? No. One of the benefits of Fast Hands is being able to take the Use an Object action as a bonus action
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
target within 5 feet of yourself. Apply your Proficiency Bonus and Strength modifier to the attack roll. On a hit, the Shield deals Force damage to the target equal to 2d6 + 2 plus your Strength modifier
-foot Emanation originating from you. When the Emanation appears, any creatures or objects not fully contained within it are pushed into the nearest unoccupied spaces outside it. The attack or area of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hold Back The Dead
Bonus and Strength modifier to the attack roll. On a hit, the Shield deals Force damage to the target equal to 2d6 + 2 plus your Strength modifier, and if the target is a creature, you can push it up
Emanation appears, any creatures or objects not fully contained within it are pushed into the nearest unoccupied spaces outside it. The attack or area of effect that triggered the Reaction has no effect on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
. Specters seek creatures and locations that exude evil and feed on the suffering they inspire. Roll on or choose a result from the Specter Haunts table to inspire where a specter lurks. Specter Haunts
1d8 The Specter Lurks Near... 1 A community afflicted by curses, grudges, plagues, or tragedies. 2 An evil Artifact or a deadly magical device. 3 The lair of a Fiend or an Undead. 4 The place
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
involved? Was it solved? How did it set you on the path to investigating other mysteries? Roll on or choose details from the First Case table to develop the mystery that started your career as an
suffered, even while still being pursued by the law.
6 You survived the destructive use of a magic device that wiped out your home. Members of a secret organization found you. You now work with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Scions of Elemental Evil
Bonus and Strength modifier to the attack roll. On a hit, the Shield deals Force damage to the target equal to 2d6 + 2 plus your Strength modifier, and if the target is a creature, you can push it up
Emanation appears, any creatures or objects not fully contained within it are pushed into the nearest unoccupied spaces outside it. The attack or area of effect that triggered the Reaction has no effect on