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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
Repelling Burst attacks. It can also use Force Barrier, if available.
Repelling Burst. Melee Spell Attack: +7;{"diceNotation":"1d20+7", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Repelling Burst"} to hit
Voice from the Past (1/Day). The professor can cast the contact other plane spell to contact a long-dead spirit, using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability.Multiattack. The professor makes two
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
Classes
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
Your innate magic comes from the power of elemental air. Many with this power can trace their magic back to a near-death experience caused by the Great Rain, but perhaps you were born during a
.
Storm sorcerers are invaluable members of a ship’s crew. Their magic allows them to exert control over wind and weather in their immediate area. Their abilities also prove useful in repelling
Classes
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
Your innate magic comes from the power of elemental air. Many with this power can trace their magic back to a near-death experience caused by the Great Rain, but perhaps you were born during a
.
Storm sorcerers are invaluable members of a ship’s crew. Their magic allows them to exert control over wind and weather in their immediate area. Their abilities also prove useful in repelling
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Repelling Blast Prerequisite: eldritch blast cantrip When you hit a creature with eldritch blast, you can push the creature up to 10 feet away from you in a straight line.
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->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->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->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Lord of Blades himself, they can easily encounter a squad of his followers anywhere on Khorvaire. While the Lord of Blades and his minions can be a straightforward foe, it’s also possible to add more
depth to the conflict. Perhaps a squad of warforged attacks a foundry in Sharn. After repelling the attack, the adventurers realize that the owners are mistreating the warforged who work the forges
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->Tomb of Annihilation
Diseases The following diseases can affect giants and humanoids exploring the jungles of Chult. Remember that lesser restoration and similar magic can cure a disease. Blue Mist Fever A magical mist
creeps through the jungles of Chult. Contact with this thin, blue, odorless mist can infect giants and humanoids with blue mist fever. A dispel magic spell destroys the mist in a 20-foot square
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
useful in repelling attacks by sahuagin, pirates, and other waterborne threats. Wind Speaker The arcane magic you command is infused with elemental air. You can speak, read, and write Primordial
Storm Sorcery Your innate magic comes from the power of elemental air. Many with this power can trace their magic back to a near-death experience caused by the Great Rain, but perhaps you were born
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Storm Sorcery Your innate magic comes from the power of elemental air. Many with this power can trace their magic back to a near-death experience caused by the Great Rain, but perhaps you were born
repelling attacks by sahuagin, pirates, and other waterborne threats. What is it with people and the weather?
It’s just the sky weeping and shouting because it’s so far away from me.
Storm Sorcery
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->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->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Deathlock Mastermind Though deathlocks exist to serve their patrons, they retain some freedom when it comes to devising particular tactics and carrying out their plans. Powerful deathlocks recruit
languages it knew in life
Challenge 8 (3,900 XP)
Innate Spellcasting. The deathlock’s innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 14). It can innately cast the following spells
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
repelling the neogi boarding party, especially if they have just fought off the psurlons hiding aboard the derelict nautiloid in chapter 3. Luckily, a patrol from the Rock of Bral happens upon the characters
the Moondancer so that Daar’vik can hail Captain Sartell and ask where the Moondancer is headed. She tells him that the Moondancer is going to the Rock of Bral, and Daar’vik offers to provide an escort
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
knowledge by force and cunning. A mighty wizard with magic worthy of epic tales, she is a monster whose adamantine claws can flense whole armies before any soldier can land a blow on her plated hide
task before her daughters and watches events unfold. Maybe she is trapped upon another plane of existence or is devising magic that could shake the foundations of existence. In any case, she appears in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
A Bard’s Muse Naturally, every bard has a repertoire of songs and stories. Some bards are generalists who can draw from a wide range of topics for each performance, and who take pride in their
could be one of the three described here, or one of your own devising. Nature. You feel a kinship with the natural world, and its beauty and mystery inspire you. For you, a tree is deeply symbolic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
can cast the contact other plane spell to contact a long-dead spirit, using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability.
Actions
Multiattack. The professor makes two Repelling Burst attacks. It can
magic can range from spells tampering with the flow of time itself to concussive blasts that break through old ruins—to sometimes just bashing things with a glowing scroll. Lorehold Apprentice Lorehold
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Weird Magic Over the course of a seemingly endless lifetime, a hag typically discovers or creates several unusual ways to use magic. The weird magic that hags can call upon comes in a number of forms
age and renown might know unique rituals that can temporarily or permanently alter or transform a creature, bring back the dead for a limited time, rewrite memories, or siphon emotions. At the other end
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
, beyond making it clear that he thinks the characters leave much to be desired. If the characters haven’t yet figured out that the enclave is where the component is stored, Flabbergast can fill in the
(see “Dhargun Ironworks” below), he can relay that information as well. Flabbergast can also provide or reinforce the backstory regarding Acquisitions Incorporated’s well-known incursion of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
on yourself at will, without expending a spell slot or material components. Repelling Blast Prerequisite: eldritch blast cantrip When you hit a creature with eldritch blast, you can push the creature
Eldritch Invocations If an eldritch invocation has prerequisites, you must meet them to learn it. You can learn the invocation at the same time that you meet its prerequisites. A level prerequisite
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
drawn into the jar, where it remains desperate to be reunited with its body. As with the other brains in jars, this brain can be negotiated with. If a character succeeds on a DC 15 Charisma (Deception
, Intimidation, or Persuasion) check, the brain warns them of the risks of tampering with the journal (see below). It then negotiates for the characters’ aid, claiming that only it can safely release
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
presented below as places where adventures can happen: Blackfair Manor. Typical of several manor houses and keeps scattered across the Plain of Greyhawk, Blackfair Manor was founded by a distinguished
the Nyr Dyv. Fishing boats crowd the wharves. The townsfolk welcome peaceful visitors—particularly adventurers who can help fend off monsters, bandits, and cults of Elemental Evil lurking in Cairn
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
within me. I will fight against it and the world’s other evils for as long as I can.
9 I’m desperately seeking a cure to an affliction or a curse, either for someone close to me for myself
.
10 Spirits are drawn to me. I do all I can to help them find peace.
11 I use my cunning mind to solve mysteries and find justice for those who’ve been wronged.
12 I lost someone I care
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
dragon can lead it to a lost font of magical power.
4 An adult white dragon, captured by devils decades ago, now serves as a mount for an ice devil.
5 A beholder manipulates an adult white
seek out new mineral veins for sustenance.
8 A clan of winged kobolds treat the air currents and ice slides of an adult white dragon’s lair as an obstacle course. The dragon enjoys devising
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
requires a rogue slipping into a dragon’s den or the local militia repelling an orc attack by refusing to yield, halflings surprise larger folk again and again with their unflappable nature. Happy with
written accounts of their history. Scholars who study their behavior speculate that halflings realize — consciously or otherwise — that the past is a story that can only be retold, not changed, and the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
unrestrained enthusiasm for their endeavors. They epitomize the recklessness of Izzet mages, and some participate as subjects in hazardous experiments—even ones of their own devising. More often
can irritate and alienate their guild mates—and put the vedalken in harm’s way when an experiment goes awry.
SVETLIN VELINOV Goals of the Izzet The Izzet League thirsts for knowledge, cherishes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
Hirelings Any of the following NPCs can join the party as custodians and translators of the materials loaned to the characters by the Cartophile. Each hireling is also charged with chronicling the
secret agendas that might work against the characters’ interests. You can let the party’s size and the players’ interest in bringing NPCs into their group determine whether more than one of the