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Dungeon Master’s Guide
This wooden staff is decorated with bird carvings. It has 10 charges. While holding it, you can take a Magic action to expend 1 charge from the staff and cause it to create one of the following
seagull’s cry, an owl’s hoot, or an eagle’s shriek.
Regaining Charges. The staff regains 1d6 + 4 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the last charge, roll 1d20. On a 1, the staff explodes in a harmless cloud of bird feathers and is lost forever.
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
Artifact has the following random properties (see chapter 7 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide):
2 minor beneficial properties
2 minor detrimental properties
Spellcasting. The orb has 6 charges
Staff of Birdcalls
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Magic Items
Xanathar's Guide to Everything
This wooden staff is decorated with bird carvings. It has 10 charges. While holding it, you can use an action to expend 1 charge from the staff and cause it to create one of the following sounds out
cry, an owl’s hoot, or an eagle’s shriek.
The staff regains 1d6 + 4 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the last charge, roll a d20. On a 1, the staff explodes in a harmless cloud of bird feathers and is lost forever.
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
Coming to Baldur’s Gate might seem like a good idea for a spectrum of reasons. Profit, excitement, and cosmopolitan opportunities all present tempting prospects, but rarely does one start on
’s clothes, and a pouch containing 10 gp
Outlander Origins
Foreigners of all kinds come to Baldur’s Gate daily, drawn by countless reasons from countless lands. The Outlander Origins
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Staff of Birdcalls Staff, Common This wooden staff is decorated with bird carvings. It has 10 charges. While holding it, you can take a Magic action to expend 1 charge from the staff and cause it to
cry, an owl’s hoot, or an eagle’s shriek. Regaining Charges. The staff regains 1d6 + 4 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the last charge, roll 1d20. On a 1, the staff explodes in a harmless cloud of bird feathers and is lost forever. Conceptopolis Staff of Charming, Staff of Fire
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Staff of Birdcalls Staff, common This wooden staff is decorated with bird carvings. It has 10 charges. While holding it, you can use an action to expend 1 charge from the staff and cause it to create
hoot, or an eagle’s shriek. The staff regains 1d6 + 4 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the last charge, roll a d20. On a 1, the staff explodes in a harmless cloud of bird feathers and is lost forever.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
Outlander Coming to Baldur’s Gate might seem like a good idea for a spectrum of reasons. Profit, excitement, and cosmopolitan opportunities all present tempting prospects, but rarely does one start
firsthand experience — likely somewhere in the Outer City. Outlander Origins Foreigners of all kinds come to Baldur’s Gate daily, drawn by countless reasons from countless lands. The Outlander Origins table
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Outlander Coming to Baldur’s Gate might seem like a good idea for a spectrum of reasons. Profit, excitement, and cosmopolitan opportunities all present tempting prospects, but rarely does one start
firsthand experience — likely somewhere in the Outer City. Outlander Origins Foreigners of all kinds come to Baldur’s Gate daily, drawn by countless reasons from countless lands. The Outlander Origins table
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Emridy Meadows. A character with the Wayfarer background might know Miklos as a generous man who gives away food and sometimes even lodging to people in need. Reasons to Visit. Adventurers might
visit the Black Dragon Inn for one of the following reasons: Eavesdropper’s Paradise. Many clandestine meetings occur at the Black Dragon. Adventurers eavesdropping on private conversations might overhear
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
positions around the chamber.
“Do you really think that you can defeat my Immortal Lotus style? You are mere worms slithering through the mud on a rainy day. I am the bird, here to feast!”
Bak Mei
. A character who examines the altar can find this compartment with a successful DC 17 Wisdom (Perception) check. It contains a potion of mind reading and a Quaal’s feather token (bird). Bak Mei
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
Discoveries table to determine what a character discovers, or as inspiration for unusual discoveries of your own. Manipulating Time Having a mechanical guide spend 1 or more charges in this area has a 20
laboratory experiments). The bird claims their name is ‘Hector.’
36–45 A small barrel holds a live boggle, bound, gagged, and marinating in their own excreted oil. This is the former partner of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
seen behind a large desk strewn with papers—a huge white owl with the head of an aging man, seated atop a large, ornate bird stand. The figure reads while turning pages with a talon, muttering curses
area causes Stolos to leave and check on the cells in area 10. If Andras and Stolos are both at this location, spending 3 charges results in both transforming back into their original forms. See area 9 for details.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
introduction). 2 Wooden wand with 8 charges. As an action, you can expend 1 of the wand’s charges to cast the prestidigitation cantrip. This wand can’t be recharged. 3 Packet of pixie dust (see appendix A
Feathers “Birds of a feather? How about feathers of a bird? Step right up and guess how many feathers festoon this fiendish fowl!”
A participant gets three tries to guess the number of feathers on one of a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
finding a Crevice of Dusk. Sangora sells information at a higher profit than she sells blood, and she’s full of useful tidbits about the city. She charges 20 gp for each question she answers, but she
Dolindar family was exiled to the Shadowfell for reasons they never shared. The family studied wizardry and knew much about planar gates despite being unable to use them due to a family curse. They were miserable and lonely in life.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
duel, Halaster captured Manshoon and amputated his left arm at the elbow for reasons unknown. Manshoon escaped imprisonment and fled Undermountain, taking refuge in the city above. Attempts to
statistics). Roll 2d10 to determine how many charges the staff has remaining.
Magic Resistance. While wearing his robe of the archmagi, Manshoon has advantage on saving throws against spells and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
exploration of the mountains, building an ambulatory craft capable of crawling up and down mountainous slopes to travel farther into the Barrier Peaks, and other tasks of your devising. Completing any such
find 1d6 + 4 charged cells, each holding 20 charges. These are useful for powering the elder monks’ force pikes, or for temporarily powering a brain in a jar’s canister so it can be detached from the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
is less cooperative than when he was dead, for reasons explained in the “Motive” section below. He offers no possible reasons for why someone would want to kill him. Speaking with the Dead. If a
Ignatius) might want him dead. These reasons are summarized in the Murder Suspects table. Searching the Cabins Characters can search for clues in the passenger cabins and question the modron valet in each
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
divine squabbles. Kruphix’s Favor Kruphix’s champions are less his agents than his charges, and he is loath to release them. Even those who leave his service often find themselves unwittingly aiding his
you, and you might sometimes wish he hadn’t.
Devotion to Kruphix Kruphix doesn’t demand adherence to any philosophy, and the reasons to follow him are as numberless as the stars. As a follower
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
. “Freedom is the power to become a bird, take to the sky, and leave the world behind for a while.” Bond. “The Scarlet Sash means everything to me. I’m honored to be part of this kindness and would die to
with scarlet sashes tied about their waists, and assure the characters that they mean no harm. They assume that the characters have come for one of two reasons: either to loot the chalet or to use the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
it that is casting a spell. If the spell is 3rd level or lower, the spell fails, but any spell slots or charges are not wasted.
There are many reasons to avoid the way of the lich. An impermanent
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
damage the character. Read or paraphrase the following to describe the vision: As if through the eyes of a soaring bird, you see a titanic stone statue standing amid a circle of glowing sigils. A dozen
Dragonshard Pool Effects table to determine what happens to the item. An item can be affected by the pool only once; subsequent exposures have no effect. The pool has 4 charges. It expends 1 charge each time an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
. Part of the roof caught fire two summers ago and has yet to be repaired. The holes in the roof have allowed birds to build nests among the beams, and the floor and tables are speckled with bird
Winterbow (NG female half-elf scout), a member of the Emerald Enclave. She charges 10 gp per day for her services, regardless of the danger. She has noticed more and more hill giants, ogres, and Uthgardt
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
found in Kwalish’s lab in part 3 of the adventure, are two such devices. Alongside countless dead energy cells spread across this area, the characters also find 1d6 charged cells, each holding 20 charges
egg held in the talons of a statue of a large bird The characters become bodiless entities inhabiting the mind of a roc soaring high above a world of your choice. A successful DC 12 Charisma check






