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Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
gleaming black alloy of unknown origin, the servant is often described as a combination of a disproportioned dwarf and an oversized beetle. The servant contains enough space for 1 ton of cargo and a
conjecture than fact, often referring to otherworldly beings, the mysterious Barrier Peaks in Oerth, and the supposedly related device known as the Machine of Lum the Mad. The best details on the device
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
hidden, and a shadow dragon’s lair contains a great many secret caches. An ancient shadow dragon might have a hundred or more such repositories secreted about their territory, making stealing from a
7 A pile of loose sheet music representing the lost dirges of a famous shadar-kai bard
8 An exquisitely crafted mirror that drains all color from the reflections of those who look into it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
west and plunges into the gorge, taking 49 (14d6) bludgeoning damage from the hard fall and landing prone. B3. Workshop Frost covers every surface of this abandoned workshop.
The workshop contains a
nothing of interest. B4. Main Room This room contains lingering smells of burnt wood and flesh. You also catch the faint odor of wine. Snow has fallen through holes in the roof, then been pushed into
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Thornwall Keep Veins of bronze-colored ivy cling to Thornwall Keep’s ancient three-story stone tower, the tallest structure in Vogler. From its crenelated roof rises an elaborate device resembling a
talk about the keep, the excavations she’s conducting on the grounds, and the device on the roof—all detailed in the “Vogler Gazetteer” section. The Green Shield After their breakfast, Becklin steps
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Horizon’s Edge Magic In contrast to the other locations described in this chapter, Horizon’s Edge is notable more for the magic and technology it contains than for any magic inherent to the site
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->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
hold stone dishes and tankards. Some of the dishware contains globs of edible gray slime. (The mind flayers use these dishes to bring food to prisoners in area 10.)
Wall of Force. The rubble-strewn
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->Tomb of Annihilation
holding them. Twelve painted figures line each hall, six on the west wall and six on the east wall, directly across from one another. Figures on facing walls are perfect reflections of each other
reveals that its stones and the images on them are illusions. Each alcove contains a plinth bearing a crystal eyeball 1 inch in diameter: a pale purple eyeball to the south and a bright green eyeball to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
contains a small, unpainted miniature figure representing each character. Each figure is a tiny clockwork device. If painted and kept on hand, the figures secretly animate to help the characters with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
of the Realms, including a Netherese demilich. It also contains a mythallar (described in appendix D), a magic item that can raise an entire city into the air and alter the weather in a fifty-mile
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
) lives here. Her ramshackle home contains an unmade bed, an alchemist’s laboratory, a small stove, a coat rack, a table, a stool, a stuffed chair in poor condition, a wash basin, and a locked wooden
Grinda lifts the lid of the chest. Chest. Grinda’s chest contains a heavy iron key that locks and unlocks the Garloth family mausoleum in the City of the Dead (see “Mistshore: Spring” below). D3
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
gemstones to glitter invitingly.
Map 5.2 includes an inset map that shows the tavern’s interior, which consists of a cellar and a taproom. Cellar. The cellar contains crates of worthless supplies
(named after the family that originally distilled it). Taproom. The taproom contains seating areas, including a row of stools next to a low bar made of carved basalt. Hanging above the bar are two soot
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
, this attack doesn’t end that condition on you if you end the turn behind Three-Quarters Cover or Total Cover. Level 13: Use Magic Device You’ve learned how to maximize use of magic items, granting you
reliably. If the scroll contains a higher-level spell, you must first succeed on an Intelligence (Arcana) check (DC 10 plus the spell’s level). On a successful check, you cast the spell from the scroll
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
if the caves were near-perfect reflections of each other. Fey Crossings d8 Fey Crossing 1 Altar. This stone altar might be found atop a lonely plateau, behind a waterfall, inside a cave, or in
. 8 Stone Circle. This circle of stone megaliths contains a fey crossing that is active during equinoxes and solstices. One never knows where a “shortcut” through the Feywild might lead
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
, and helmets, all with icicles hanging from them. The room also contains a padlocked wooden chest in one corner and an enormous, wheel-shaped whetstone in another corner, frozen in position. Standing
. The chest contains two potions of healing (greater) and a rusty iron sphere (iron bands of Bilarro). C4. Mess Hall This room’s ceiling is mostly intact, except for a portion to the south. This room
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
-bound tomes weigh down their sagging shelves. At one end of the room, a small study contains a padded leather chair, a footstool, and a small table — as well as three corpses dangling upside down from
shackles and chains bolted to the ceiling near the north wall. A lantern-shaped device resting atop the table appears to be the source of the music. An old man lies asleep in the chair, his horn-rimmed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
dwarf and an oversized beetle. The servant contains enough space for 1 ton of cargo and a crew compartment within, from which up to two Medium creatures can control it—and potentially execute a spree
device known as the Machine of Lum the Mad. The best details on the device’s origins and operation can be found in the Mind of Metal, a tome of artificer’s secrets that connects the device to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
Arclight Phoenix An arclight phoenix is variously said to be a byproduct of a lightning strike on an aviary, a mishap in an effort to create a translocation device, or a successful attempt to create
) lightning damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. The explosion destroys the phoenix but leaves behind a Tiny, warm egg with a mizzium shell.
The egg contains the embryo of a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
. His stateroom has the following features: The port alcove contains a net hammock and a steel footlocker. A black metal shrine of Lolth covered in tiny spider statuettes stands against one wall. At its
experimental device consists of a pressure-resistant padded suit, made of canvas with iron fittings and iron gauntlets. A fishbowl helmet attaches to the suit’s collar and functions as a cap of water
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Collect the materials necessary to create a revolutionary oracular device.
12 Protect an oracle who must deliver bad news to a worshiper who is both influential and unpredictable.
Oracular
they use in predictions. The center of the shrine contains a massive orrery. Connected to the orrery room is a divination chamber, and situated within this chamber is the sacrifice chamber. These areas
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
deep. A nook in the northeast corner contains two corpses preserved by the seawater. The cave’s back wall is flat, with a large opening in the southeast corner.
The flooded cave is difficult terrain
device of some kind, though no such device is present. Atop this dais is a bronze-scaled dragon wearing a coral crown.
Ashgarlyth, a young bronze dragon, stands on the dais. Characters who enter
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
The door to this narrow room is magically locked from the outside (see area 6e) but pulls open easily from the inside. The room contains the following features: Debris. Broken staffs litter the dusty
opens the chest, as does a knock spell. The chest contains a pair of sapphire earrings (250 gp apiece), an armband made of overlapping gold leaves (250 gp), a random trinket (roll on the Trinkets table
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
be salvaged or read. To determine a particular spellbook’s contents, roll a d6. The book contains four wizard spells of each level up to and including the number rolled on the die. For example, on a
roll of 3, a spellbook contains four spells of each level from 1st through 3rd. Pick spells from the wizard spell list. Magic Mirror. A detect magic spell reveals an aura of transmutation magic around
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
through a magic gate into Undermountain. He then boarded the vessel, stole its spelljamming helm (the magic device that propels and steers the craft), and took the helm to level 23, leaving the captain
secured under heavy cargo nets.
Dead Cook. The hallway leading toward the lower deck’s forward sections contains a third dead orog, this one wearing a bloodstained apron and no armor.
The dead orog on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
skull which is Snurre’s own device, flanked by fire giants with clubs over their shoulders. The northern one of these inlaid giant-images conceals a secret door hidden in the wall; a cresset to the left
gross, her skin covered with bristles the color of her hair. Her little pig eyes, however, are bright, suggesting intelligence unusual in a giant. Her chamber contains a giant-sized bed covered with furs
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
fastened on the north wall inside area 2, on the east side of the gate. Under normal circumstances, it takes 3 rounds to raise or lower the gate, but an emergency device allows the raised gate to be
currently in area 60. The armory contains the following items: Sixty spears Thirty tridents Ten glaives Twenty warhammers The coffers are not locked. They contain seventy-five daggers with scabbards
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a4
device in the wall is triggered that will shatter the glass walls in this area in 1d6 rounds. The safe contains 6,000 sp and one piece of jewelry worth 3,000 gp.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
trapped inside an iron flask or a similar device. If the furnace is destroyed or the elemental released from within it, the air inside the balloon cools, causing the airship to descend at a rate of
successful DC 13 Strength (Athletics) check. Each cabin contains two hammocks (one above the other), a writing desk, a chair, a footlocker, and a porthole. The portholes’ windows are latched shut from the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
70. Armillary Sphere This chamber contains a bronze apparatus centered on a hinged arm. Slowly rotating within the arm is a 10-foot-diameter globe decorated by a topographic map of landforms and
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
place. With each eye that is inserted, the reflections of the characters in the mirror become progressively unhealthier — losing weight, hair, and teeth as they come to resemble undead. When all ten
intruders as described in the “Beholder Tactics” section below. The hall contains one hundred lit candles. While the candles remain inside this vault, they burn indefinitely. If a candle is taken from the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Candlefoot’s voice, so he communicates through mime. If the characters give him a writing implement and some parchment, he can also write out his thoughts. Appendix D contains additional roleplaying
onlookers in their youth; the images grow steadily older, until the mirrors deep within the hall reflect onlookers in their twilight years. As the characters scrutinize their reflections, ask the players
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
armory contains the following equipment: Six ornately carved spears Six tridents, each with a pearl (10 gp) set into the grip end Eight warhammers with a shark motif carved into the head On the floor
at the end of one of the racks is a small metal cage divided into two chambers. One chamber contains a gold-colored fighting-fish. In the second chamber, a bright silver fighting-fish bobs leisurely
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
them how to operate the rope-and-pulley device to get from one floor to the next. The boxed text describing each floor of the tower includes information that Topolah gives during her tour. First Floor
steak with a lunar béchamel.”
The two autognomes (see Boo’s Astral Menagerie), Orwyck 2 and Orwyck 4, pay no mind to guests as they prepare Topolah’s next meal. Treasure. Topolah’s wardrobe contains
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
door opens into a narrow vestibule. Three stained-glass doors in wooden frames lead from it. Two closets flank the front door. The western closet contains Lady Wachter’s outdoor clothes; the eastern
one contains coats and boots that belong to her children. N4b. Staircase A wooden staircase leads up to a balcony. At the foot of the stairs is a landing with three stained-glass doors in wooden frames
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
the situation and clear up any “misunderstanding.” Treasure. One of the crates contains six laser rifles in weapon racks (see “Alien Technology” in the Dungeon Master’s Guide for more information about
laser rifles). Three of the rifles have been partially dismantled and are nonfunctional. The other three are intact, and each one contains an energy cell that allows the rifle to be fired 30 times. An
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
twenty-foot-high cave is polished to a mirror finish, such that you are faced with countless distorted reflections of yourself. Your head spins as you try to keep your bearings.
If Tekeli-li is
in this cave have disadvantage because of the disorienting reflections. If Tekeli-li is here, the gnoll vampire (see appendix C) uses its Frightful Cackle first, then targets enemies with its Sickening






