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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
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
Cube of Force
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Basic Rules (2014)
This cube is about an inch across. Each face has a distinct marking on it that can be pressed. The cube starts with 36 charges, and it regains 1d20 expended charges daily at dawn.
You can use an
minute, until you use an action to press the cube's sixth face, or the cube runs out of charges. You can change the barrier's effect by pressing a different face of the cube and expending the requisite
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->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
floor.
Unseen Servant. Standing silently in the northwest corner is a living unseen servant (see appendix A).
The rusty iron wheel can be rotated a half turn in either direction, squealing loudly
level. Resetting the wheel to its original position reactivates these traps. The living unseen servant doesn’t announce its presence to anyone. If the characters turn the wheel but fail to destroy
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Cube of Force Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement) This cube is about an inch across. Each face has a distinct marking on it that can be pressed. The cube starts with 36 charges, and it regains
1d20 expended charges daily at dawn. You can use an action to press one of the cube’s faces, expending a number of charges based on the chosen face, as shown in the Cube of Force Faces table. Each
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->Basic Rules (2014)
Cube of Force Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement) This cube is about an inch across. Each face has a distinct marking on it that can be pressed. The cube starts with 36 charges, and it regains
1d20 expended charges daily at dawn. You can use an action to press one of the cube’s faces, expending a number of charges based on the chosen face, as shown in the Cube of Force Faces table. Each
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->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->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->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->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->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->Locathah Rising
hit with it, the target takes extra necrotic damage equal to half its hit point maximum. The weapon also functions as a trident of fish command and a weapon of warning. It can confer the benefit of a
cap of water breathing while you hold it, and you can use it as a cube of force by choosing the effect, instead of pressing cube sides to select it. Sentience. Wave is a sentient weapon of neutral
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->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->Monsters of the Multiverse
thinking. For a time, the study of such forbidden texts can be hidden from other illithids and even from an elder brain. Yet eventually, mind flayer arcanists determined to pursue wizardry must flee
. Upon its completion, free-willed undeath is conferred on the mind flayers, turning them into alhoons. Initially, an alhoon can be difficult to distinguish from a normal mind flayer. The most obvious
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->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->Princes of the Apocalypse
stall to the open air.
The round room in the center of the spire serves as a storeroom. It is filled with supplies. Any gear from the Player’s Handbook you want the characters to have can be found
disguises can fool the creatures, but only at a distance. The latches on the stall doors are fastened at multiple points on each door, so it takes two actions to open each door. S2. Front Hall The entrance
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
, Elemental Evil cults, and Iuz and his followers. You can replace one or more of these conflicts with ones of your devising or with ones from the “Flavors of Fantasy” section earlier in this chapter. If you
aggressive chromatic dragon wyrmling. (You can use the adventure “The Winged God” from chapter 4.)
Levels 5–10. The adventurers might face a handful of ambitious young chromatic dragons, without hinting at a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
Deathlocks The forging of a pact between a warlock and a patron is no minor occasion—at least not for the warlock. The consequences of breaking that pact can be dire and, in some cases, lethal. A
devising tactics and carrying out plans. Powerful deathlocks recruit lesser creatures to help them carry out their missions, becoming the masterminds behind vast conspiracies and intrigues that culminate
Magic Items
Infernal Machine Rebuild
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
.
Silver Wire. The Infernal Machine’s great size makes it largely immobile. To make ongoing use of the machine (such as while adventuring), it can be connected to its attuned user by a silver wire
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
are taken to the cells in area M6, where you can create escape scenarios for them of your own devising. Death of the Grand Master. If the Grand Master is slain, the bone devil is revealed to be an
can see that the devil’s horrid leather cloak is crafted from the faces of flayed monks and prisoners, the flesh cured to leather and roughly stitched together. The scepter and crown it bears appear
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
stone “door”—actually a tight-fitting stone slab measuring 3 feet wide, 5 feet tall, and 3 inches thick. Removing or resetting a stone slab requires an action and a successful DC 15 Strength check. Each
area and attack. No more swarms can be formed in that square until the next dawn, when more bats arrive to replenish those that were killed. Teleport Traps Invisible teleport traps are located between