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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
As a Magic action, you can place this 1-inch adamantine statuette on the ground and, using a command word, cause it to grow rapidly into a square adamantine tower. Repeating the command word causes
a single door at ground level on the side facing you. The door opens only at your command, which you can issue as a Bonus Action. It is immune to the Knock spell and similar magic.
Magic prevents the
Magic Items
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
A wizard named Damara created this orb while devising a way to become a dragon. Aided by a mysterious magician (actually an aspect of Tiamat in disguise), Damara eventually created an Artifact that
it, the orb shrinks to the size of a grape.
Properties of the Orb. While attuned to the orb, you gain the following benefits:
Dragon’s Breath. You can take a Magic action to exhale a 15-foot
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Actions). Velomachus magically summons 1d4;{"diceNotation":"1d4","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Repeating History"} spirit statue mascot;spirit statue mascots in unoccupied spaces she can see within 60
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Velomachus fails a saving throw, she can choose to succeed instead.Multiattack. Velomachus makes one Bite attack and two Claw attacks.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +18
Equipment
This leather bandolier holds up to three Repeating Crossbow Magazines in leather pockets that pop open with the quick flick of a thumb. You can reload a Repeating Hand Crossbow from the bandolier as a single Bonus Action. You can wear only one shootist bandolier effectively at a time.
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
become restrained as shadowy tendrils wrap around it for 1 minute. A restrained target can use its action to repeat the saving throw, ending the effect on itself on a success.
Spellcasting. The
door, dispel magic, fly, invisibilityThough deathlocks exist to serve their patrons, they retain some freedom when it comes to devising tactics and carrying out plans. Powerful deathlocks recruit
Telekinesis
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
grip. A creature lifted upward is suspended in mid-air.
On subsequent rounds, you can use your action to attempt to maintain your telekinetic grip on the creature by repeating the contest.
Object
You gain the ability to move or manipulate creatures or objects by thought. When you cast the spell, and as your action each round for the duration, you can exert your will on one creature or object
Equipment
Tommybows are repeating crossbows that mirror the three types of normal crossbows: hand, heavy, and light. They are composed of vertically-stacked bows upon a crossbow’s chassis, an unwieldy
cost of the item is proportional to the amount of ammunition it can hold (the value in parentheses), with the maximum reload (6) tommybow costing six times its crossbow equivalent’s price
Equipment
Tommybows are repeating crossbows that mirror the three types of normal crossbows: hand, heavy, and light. They are composed of vertically-stacked bows upon a crossbow’s chassis, an unwieldy
cost of the item is proportional to the amount of ammunition it can hold (the value in parentheses), with the maximum reload (6) tommybow costing six times its crossbow equivalent’s price
Equipment
Tommybows are repeating crossbows that mirror the three types of normal crossbows: hand, heavy, and light. They are composed of vertically-stacked bows upon a crossbow’s chassis, an unwieldy
cost of the item is proportional to the amount of ammunition it can hold (the value in parentheses), with the maximum reload (6) tommybow costing six times its crossbow equivalent’s price
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
. Alhoons can extend their existence by repeating the ritual with new victims, effectively resetting the clocks for themselves.
Destroying a periapt of mind trapping consigns those trapped within it to
", "rollDamageType":"psychic"} psychic damage and be stunned for 1 minute. A target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.
Spellcasting. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
Morgrave Conflicts A campaign centered on Morgrave University suggests three significant campaign conflicts: Rival Explorers. Characters can explore the tension between legitimate scholarship and
greed as they undertake expeditions and explorations in competition with rival adventurers. Emerald Claw. Adventures can bring characters into conflict with sinister forces such as the Order of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
conflicts take place among the dragonmarked houses—longstanding rivalries, short-term disputes, and family grudges can define the “intrigue” part of this campaign. Significant rivalries also exist within
some houses.
House Tarkanan. Though it appears as nothing more than an ordinary criminal organization, House Tarkanan—which is made up of people who carry aberrant dragonmarks—can threaten all
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
Sharn Inquisitives Conflicts You can select the conflicts in a Sharn inquisitives campaign from the abundant criminal enterprises that dominate the seamy underworld of the City of Towers. While
, the sinister forces of the Dreaming Dark have infiltrated many places of power within the city. You can replace one or more of these threats with other groups from Eberron: Rising from the Last War—such
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
again on the second night, repeating the same tactics but refining their targets to reflect what they’ve learned of the caravan’s strengths and weaknesses. Oxen are of little use to the bandits except
as food, so they target the beasts this time around, hoping to strand the wagons along the road so they can harry the caravan defenders at will. Use the rhinoceros statistics for the oxen, but remove
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
kill (“TPK”) need not herald the end of the campaign. Giants and other intelligent creatures are fond of taking prisoners. The first time a TPK occurs, you can have the characters miraculously awaken as
prisoners with 1 hit point each. Give them every chance to escape their captors. If necessary, use NPCs such as Zephyros, the cloud giant wizard in chapter 1, to help them get out of tight spots. With luck, the players will take the hint and be wary of repeating the experience.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
reference. You can even add more chapters of your own devising, or which expand on ideas the players generate.
NPCs (nonplayer characters) during council sessions. Others can be proposed by the characters. The adventurers understand that thousands of lives depend on their actions. The characters are among the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
reference. You can even add more chapters of your own devising, or which expand on ideas the players generate.
NPCs (nonplayer characters) during council sessions. Others can be proposed by the characters. The adventurers understand that thousands of lives depend on their actions. The characters are among the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
to add a special trait. You can add a special trait of your own devising or pick up a special trait from one of the many creatures in the Monster Manual. For example, you can create a goblin-spider
Modifying a Monster Once you have an idea for a monster, you’ll need statistics to represent it. The first question you should ask yourself is: Can I use statistics that already exist? A stat block
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
studies the runes and succeeds on a DC 15 Intelligence (Investigation) check realizes their rotation marks out repeating 12-hour cycles, allowing visitors to keep time with the Material Plane worlds
can use an action to manipulate sliding portions of the disk and designate a destination platform. If the creature succeeds on a DC 20 Intelligence (Arcana) check, the disk flies at a speed of 60
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
result is an entity that is capable of devising and enacting the most clever strategies, paranoid at all times about threats to his rule (which certainly exist in the chaos of the Abyss), and
possessed of immense physical power. Demogorgon prefers to meets every challenge with overwhelming force and to ferret out enemies long before they can marshal the strength to make a serious stand against him
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
reference. You can even add more chapters of your own devising, or which expand on ideas the players generate.
NPCs (nonplayer characters) during council sessions. Others can be proposed by the characters. The adventurers understand that thousands of lives depend on their actions. The characters are among the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
, then challenge players to fill in a missing segment. While the symbols in this puzzle refer to the four elements, you might use holy symbols, colors, dolls on a shelf, or any other repeating design to
difficulty of this puzzle, enforce a time factor: perhaps one elemental breaks free at the end of every five minutes of real time that pass until the puzzle is solved. You can also raise the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
rounds, you can use your action to attempt to maintain your telekinetic grip on the creature by repeating the contest. Object. You can try to move an object that weighs up to 1,000 pounds. If the
thought. When you cast the spell, and as your action each round for the duration, you can exert your will on one creature or object that you can see within range, causing the appropriate effect below
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
rounds, you can use your action to attempt to maintain your telekinetic grip on the creature by repeating the contest. Object. You can try to move an object that weighs up to 1,000 pounds. If the
thought. When you cast the spell, and as your action each round for the duration, you can exert your will on one creature or object that you can see within range, causing the appropriate effect below
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Daern’s Instant Fortress Wondrous Item, Rare (Requires Attunement) As a Magic action, you can place this 1-inch adamantine statuette on the ground and, using a command word, cause it to grow rapidly
into a square adamantine tower. Repeating the command word causes the tower to revert to statuette form, which works only if the tower is empty. Each creature in the area where the tower appears is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Flee, Mortals! Rule Primer
poisoned condition instead of spelling its rules out each time, we didn’t want to fill up the pages by repeating long sentences similar to this one: “A target poisoned in this way can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of their turns, ending the effect on themself on a success.”
Save Ends Effects Some creatures have a trait or action that, on a failed saving throw, imposes a debilitating effect for an extended duration. But sometimes a lucky foe can retry their saving throw
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
The Cold War No one knows what caused the Mourning, and the fear of repeating this cataclysm — not the Treaty of Thronehold — is what keeps potential combatants at bay. No one is happy with the
out. Adventurers could find themselves racing through ruins in Xen’drik, trying to destroy a weapon of the ancient giants before the Emerald Claw can claim it for Karrnath and Lady Illmarrow. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Daern’s Instant Fortress Wondrous Item, Rare (Requires Attunement) As a Magic action, you can place this 1-inch adamantine statuette on the ground and, using a command word, cause it to grow rapidly
into a square adamantine tower. Repeating the command word causes the tower to revert to statuette form, which works only if the tower is empty. Each creature in the area where the tower appears is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
Domain Theme A Domain of Delight might have a prevailing theme, which you can determine randomly by rolling on the Domain Theme table. Domain Theme d8 Theme 1 Adversarial. Adversarial
nosy and hungry for gossip. Animated trees use their branches to pick through backpacks when travelers aren’t looking; pixies spy on strangers; and birds eavesdrop on conversations, repeating what
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
site. Plague of Nightmares Many people suffer repeating, terrible dreams every night. A coven of night hags uses dozens of people at Dreamer’s Reach as channels to send the nightmares. The hags use
lead the character to a distinctive mountain. There, the character can use the Star Forge (in this chapter) to create a sentient magic item if they gather the proper materials and defeat creatures from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
deem appropriate. If successful, they are able to retrieve the logbook. Leaving the Asteroid Cluster Once the logbook is safely on board, the characters can exit the asteroid cluster. Once again, the
characters must avoid the asteroids by repeating challenge 3 from the “Journey through Wildspace” section; if the ship was lightly damaged by an asteroid earlier and grazes another asteroid on its way out of the cluster, the ship becomes heavily damaged instead.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
. It depicts either a cluster of arms with no central body or repeating red hand prints. A character who investigates at least two of the farmhouses can make a DC 14 Wisdom (Perception) check. On a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
capitulation of the minotaurs on the Maze Level. Once the minotaurs are subservient to House Freth, the drow will use them to clear out and secure the warrens. To this end, Drivvin is devising a ritual to
now wait for Drivvin’s decision, while doing everything they can to ensure that he makes the right choice.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
area 10) are devising a means of escape using a set of superior mason’s tools hidden there, and that these tools can also weaken the eidolon in the Temple of Moloch (see area 25 in chapter 4). They also
found themselves unable to leave. The sculptors seek assistance to escape the tomb, and provide whatever information they know in exchange for aid. They can relate how the rest of the sculptors (in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
of it that you ask for.
Yet no matter how much of it you take,
You’ll always leave with less than before.
What is it?
The riddle’s answer is “time.” The characters can make as many guesses as
they like. They can try to find clues with the following actions: Search. A character can take the Search action and make a DC 16 Wisdom (Insight or Perception) check. On a success, the character