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Spells
Player’s Handbook
Wish is the mightiest spell a mortal can cast. By simply speaking aloud, you can alter reality itself.
The basic use of this spell is to duplicate any other spell of level 8 or lower. If you use it
a reroll of any die roll made within the last round (including your last turn). Reality reshapes itself to accommodate the new result. For example, a Wish spell could undo an ally’s failed
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
willing creature the living portent can see within 30 feet of itself. The target’s hit point maximum and current hit points increase by 7 (1d8 + 3);{"diceNotation":"1d8+3", "rollType":"roll
encounter.
Variant: Servants of Living Stars
Some stars in the sky are Elder Evils, alien beings of godlike power from the reality-defying Far Realm.
A living portent can be a fragment of these beings
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
"}. Momentary warps in reality appear at three different points the Oracle can see within 120 feet of her. Each creature in a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on each point must make a DC 18 Strength
.
The current Oracle is an elderly human named Jadzi. A graduate of Quandrix College, Jadzi has since expanded her studies to encompass all disciplines of spellcasting, tempering the mathematical abstractions she wielded at Strixhaven with benevolent divination and a return to the basics of magic itself.
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
Wish is the mightiest spell a mortal creature can cast. By simply speaking aloud, you can alter the very foundations of reality in accord with your desires.
The basic use of this spell is to
). Reality reshapes itself to accommodate the new result. For example, a wish spell could undo an opponent's successful save, a foe's critical hit, or a friend's failed save. You can force the reroll to
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
primal evil power before other yugoloths or that they come from an epoch before the current manifestation of the planes. Baernaloths refuse to say, but most obsess over secrets and obscene lore regarding
the far-flung past and inscrutable future of the multiverse. Many of these rare scholars of the profane seek to manipulate reality on a grand scale, while others unleash horrific experiments on the
Monsters
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
typically reserves the Wish spell for creatures he deems worthy of its gifts, he isn’t above leveraging that power against formidable threats, rewriting reality to forcibly tilt the scales in his
:
Downdraft. Nafas targets one creature he can see within 120 feet of himself. A downward current of air surrounds the target, reducing its flying speed (if any) to 0 feet until the end of its next turn
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
, green, gray, and death slaadi requires a successful DC 12 Intelligence (Arcana) check. Defusing Slaad Confrontations. Writing short essays about commonly accepted ways to keep slaadi calm during
fireballs and magical flames at its foes.
Death slaadi are rumored to have a stench so bad it can be deadly. In reality, they can cast the cloudkill spell.
Inexperienced scholars and adventurers
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
former assistants turned out to be a Dimir spy. We’re not on friendly terms anymore, but we have a habit of running into each other.
4
A Golgari assassin killed a bitter rival of mine, leaving
An Orzhov banker financed my laboratory’s current work and expects great returns.
8
I have a cousin in the Cult of Rakdos, and we get along quite well.
9
A former attendant from the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
political intrigue, tenuous alliances, and brutal conflicts. Consider these ways to make the Last War a present reality in your campaign: The players create new characters who live during a specific phase of
in a memorable battle? Do they take actions they’ll later regret? Do they make a bitter enemy who comes back to haunt them years later, when the campaign continues in the present day? A magical
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
A nightmare or darkest fear made real Shattering the character’s fundamental understanding of reality Witnessing a person transform into a horrid or unnatural creature When a character makes an
attack roll, an ability check, or a saving throw, they must apply their current Stress Score as a penalty to the roll. Reducing Stress A character who spends an entire day relaxing or in otherwise calm
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
devilish lights in the swamp are nothing but swamp gas, and the current reclusive count is the descendant of the region’s original reclusive count. Many of the domain’s inhabitants are likely
creations of the Dark Powers and the domain is the only reality they know, but what logical and psychological leaps might an outsider need to make to sleep at night?
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
the templar order. Flamekeep is also home to Thalingard, the ancestral palace of the rulers of Thrane and current residence of Queen Diani ir’Wynarn. Shadukar Shadukar is a grim reminder of the cost
of the war. Once known as the Jewel of the Sound, this coastal city was destroyed in a bitter siege against Karrnathi forces. The city has yet to be reclaimed, and it’s said to be haunted both by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
has taken in refugees and created refugee camps. Thrane also accepted refugees but has worked to disperse and integrate them into the general population. Are you grateful or bitter? Do you have family
moot. Even with a criminal background, you might have been a viscount in Cyre; your background reflects your current standing and the resources you can call upon in the present.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
Factions of Sigil On the Outer Planes, belief shapes reality. Cosmic concepts such as law and chaos can imbue true believers with newfound power, and when enough creatures unite under one ideology
. Despite their influence within the city, factions have been erased from the city in the past, and current factions tread carefully to avoid that fate for themselves. They actively recruit new members
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
very foundations of reality in accord with your desires. The basic use of this spell is to duplicate any other spell of 8th level or lower. You don’t need to meet any requirements in that spell
event by forcing a reroll of any roll made within the last round (including your last turn). Reality reshapes itself to accommodate the new result. For example, a wish spell could undo an opponent’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
very foundations of reality in accord with your desires. The basic use of this spell is to duplicate any other spell of 8th level or lower. You don’t need to meet any requirements in that spell
event by forcing a reroll of any roll made within the last round (including your last turn). Reality reshapes itself to accommodate the new result. For example, a wish spell could undo an opponent’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
are gleaming, fruitful places, where dream and reality blur together and where the weary can find rest. I don’t dream because I don’t sleep. I’m always awake so no one can ever sneak up on me.
If
teleportation circle is special. Rather than opening a portal to a permanent teleportation circle, it opens a portal to the last location where you finished a long rest on your current plane of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
can alter reality itself. The basic use of this spell is to duplicate any other spell of level 8 or lower. If you use it this way, you don’t need to meet any requirements to cast that spell
prerequisite for any of your other feats or features. Roll Redo. You undo a single recent event by forcing a reroll of any die roll made within the last round (including your last turn). Reality reshapes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
go, there always appear to be more levels below. Gravenhollow: General Features Not even the current librarians know who built Gravenhollow. All they know is that the library has existed since the dawn
and space, altering the perceptions and reality of all beings within its walls.
Bigger on the Inside. The notion of space works strangely in Gravenhollow. The interior of the library continually
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
can alter reality itself. The basic use of this spell is to duplicate any other spell of level 8 or lower. If you use it this way, you don’t need to meet any requirements to cast that spell
prerequisite for any of your other feats or features. Roll Redo. You undo a single recent event by forcing a reroll of any die roll made within the last round (including your last turn). Reality reshapes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
(halfling) is the councilor for Lower Dura, but it’s common knowledge that her true allegiance is to her family and its criminal empire. The current ongoing conflict with Daask has weakened her family and
seen as a tool of the industrialists who own the foundries there. Members of his family were killed by warforged during the Last War, and Toranak harbors a bitter grudge against House Cannith and the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
Lady of Masks Countess Sansuri is a greedy and vainglorious giant who lives in the clouds, untethered from reality, convinced that she is the victim of a great injustice and surrounded by jealous
reflects her current mood and switches masks as her mood changes. Her inability to pry useful information out of the bronze dragon has made her very unhappy, so she’s wearing her sad mask when the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
virtue. The current Oracle is an elderly human named Jadzi. A graduate of Quandrix College, Jadzi has since expanded her studies to encompass all disciplines of spellcasting, tempering the mathematical
) force damage.
Paradoxy (Recharge 4–6). Momentary warps in reality appear at three different points the Oracle can see within 120 feet of her. Each creature in a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on each
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
than one piece
8 Floating in an unstable parallel reality
(SAM BURLEY) Abandoned Temple Adventures An abandoned temple might contain records, special items, and humanoid remains, any
the ancient secrets hidden inside.
3 Retrieve the remains of a dead humanoid from the temple.
4 Kill monsters infesting the temple.
5 Find a replacement for the temple’s current
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
feed and to unleash their disdain for reality, their many maws dripping with otherworldly spittle. Gibbering mouthers come into being in various unpleasant ways. Roll on or choose a result from the
. Wisdom Saving Throw: DC 10, any creature that starts its turn within 20 feet of the mouther while it is babbling. Failure: The target rolls 1d8 to determine what it does during the current turn:
1–4
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
, such that Azuth, god of wizards, was forced to appear and set things right. He is said to have stitched reality and the Weave back together, but a wrinkle in the fabric remains. To this day, magic
fakes out of cake or paper that are easily crushed when assumed to be real, and so on. As of the writing of this enchiridion, the current mimic is a tankard.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
important records. The current townmaster is a human banker named Harbin Wester, a cheerful and well-liked, but timid leader. Completely intimidated by the Redbrands, Harbin initially claims that they’re
his thirties.” In reality, Iarno created the Redbrands, installed himself as their leader, and took the pseudonym “Glasstaff” to conceal his true identity. (The Redbrands call him that because he
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
: Servants of Living Stars
Some stars in the sky are Elder Evils, alien beings of godlike power from the reality-defying Far Realm. A living portent can be a fragment of these beings’ will. These
within 30 feet of itself. The target’s hit point maximum and current hit points increase by 7 (1d8 + 3), and it gains a prophecy die, a d8. Once during each of the creature’s turns, when it fails an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
unknowable. The Athar are led by Factol Terrance (neutral good, human Athar null; see Morte’s Planar Parade). While many Defiers become bitter, Terrance remains compassionate, pointing wayward souls
Doomguard holds leverage in many interfactional negotiations. The Doomguard bears a long, bitter, mutual enmity toward the Harmonium, and the Fraternity of Order rejects the Doomguard’s philosophy
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
apprentice will honor the laws of their order, no matter the circumstance. To this end, the test confronts an apprentice with bitter moral and emotional choices as well as magical challenges. Illusion and
Reality. Friends, enemies, and loved ones might appear in the test, along with all manner of hazards and puzzles. The applicant has no way of knowing which challenges are illusory and which are real. In
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
relationships within a monster group. Monster Relationships 1d6 Relationship 1 Two monsters have a bitter rivalry; each wants the other to suffer. 2 One monster, bullied by the others, hangs back and flees
’ presence. (Creatures that can’t hear might be alerted by vibrations or other sensory cues.) Once alerted, a creature has several options: Ambush. The creature leaves its current location and takes up a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
cruel, an extreme narcissist who delights in surrounding himself with objects of beauty and luxurious comforts. Beneath this sneering self-assurance lies a bitter being who loathes himself and holds
suspicious of the Cult of Howling Hatred. They believe that the air cultists are mercurial, unreliable, and generally out of touch with reality. The earth cultists respect the strength and ferocity of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Citadel Adbar In the extreme north of Faerûn, near the Cold Wood, lie the Ice Mountains. There, in the bitter cold, stands the eternal fortress of Citadel Adbar, the last great remnant of the
in the warmth of Moradin’s shadow. Given the current state of the surface lands around the citadel, it is no surprise that Adbarran are even more suspicious than usual of caravans and visitors that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
family and clan. Those who live on become bitter and tough, with many leaving Gracklstugh as hermits or adventurers, or turning to crime and a life in the shadows. Members of both the Gray Ghosts and the
, but it already has a foothold through the work of the derro and their savants.
A splinter group of the Council of Savants began worshiping Demogorgon even before the current crisis, and their foul
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
—both in history and in their current form—can be an interesting way to develop a campaign that prominently features giants. Ancient History The history of the giants and these other ancient peoples
decide to create a campaign where the conflicts among the ancients, like the Thousand-Year War between giants and dragons in the Forgotten Realms, are not a matter of ancient history but a present reality






