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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
column of the Deck of Many Things table when randomly determining cards drawn from the deck.
Before you draw a card, you must declare how many cards you intend to draw and then draw them randomly. Any
. The avatar targets only you with its attacks, appearing as a ghostly skeleton clad in a tattered black robe and carrying a spectral scythe. The avatar disappears when it drops to 0 Hit Points or you
Magic Items
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
is set a black diamond whose depths swirl with weird, malignant energy.
Myrkul created the Crown of Horns at the height of his power. When Myrkul was slain by Mystra, he imbued the crown with his
the course of 365 days. During that time, the transformation is purely cosmetic; these cosmetic changes slowly fade if you end Attunement to the crown before completing the transformation. When the
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
resources of the Black Network at its disposal.
Yalah stays abreast of events in the city, keeps a tight rein on her children, and uses her station and her family's wealth to pry secrets from the lips of
she knows the identities and secrets of enough Masked Lords, Yalah is confident that she can bribe, blackmail, or extort her way into their ranks. From there, she plans to effect changes in the
Monsters
Acquisitions Incorporated
relic known as the Black Altar, exposing him to their infinite truths and shocking the drow's hair jet-black. His matching “beard” is actually a slow-growing colony of inert spores that K'thriss
uses the stat block of a poisonous snake with these changes:
It has an Intelligence score of 12 (+2).
It has telepathy out to a range of 30 feet.
Species
Acquisitions Incorporated
turned the color of jade and their blood began to flow black. Their ears grew pointed, and they gained a limited form of telepathy — but at the cost of forgetting their history. The underground homes
-encompassing power of entropy — the force that unknowingly and uncaringly changes order into chaos, and that breaks matter and time down into its component parts so that all can be rebuilt. Some
Book of Vile Darkness
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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
must make a DC 17 Charisma saving throw. On a failed save, the creature’s alignment changes to neutral evil.
The Book of Vile Darkness remains with you only as long as you strive to work evil
darkness. An evil rune might appear on your face, your eyes might become glossy black, or horns might sprout from your forehead. Or you might become wizened and hideous, lose all facial features, gain a
Deck of Many Things
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Magic Items
Basic Rules (2014)
draw a card, you must declare how many cards you intend to draw and then draw them randomly (you can use an altered deck of playing cards to simulate the deck). Any cards drawn in excess of this number
.
Skull. You summon an avatar of death--a ghostly humanoid skeleton clad in a tattered black robe and carrying a spectral scythe. It appears in a space of the GM's choice within 10 feet of you and attacks
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Frost.First Form
In her first form, Auril appears as a hunched, 7-foot-tall biped with the head of a snowy owl, black talons, cloven hooves, and grayish-white wolf fur covering her body from the neck down
form, Auril dies. As long as she has mortal followers who worship her, however, Auril is reborn at full strength during the next winter solstice, with divine power far beyond what is reflected in the
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
from many walks of life, setting them to tasks that serve the goals of the Black Network but aren’t necessarily criminal in nature. Agents of the Black Network must often work in secret, and are
try to help those in need, no matter what the personal cost. (Good)
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Change. We must help bring about the changes the gods are constantly working in the world. (Chaotic)
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Power. I hope
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
settling nearby. The former keep has been reborn as the Sacred Stone Monastery, now home to a reclusive order of mysterious monks (actually earth cultists in disguise) who spend their days in meditation
and rigorous exercises of self-discipline. Few people in the area have heard of the Sacred Stone order. No one in the region knows the truth: the monastery now serves as the surface headquarters of the Black Earth cult and guards access to the unholy vaults of the Temple of Black Earth below.
Magic Items
Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
draw a card, you must declare how many cards you intend to draw and then draw them randomly (you can use an altered deck of playing cards to simulate the deck). Any cards drawn in excess of this number
tattered black robe. It appears in a space of the DM’s choice within 10 feet of you and attacks you, warning all others that you must win the battle alone. The avatar fights until you die or it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
energies to harnessing the astonishing natural resources of their mountain home. The dwarves were then reborn as merchant lords. In the early days of the Last War, Mror miners made an astonishing
, the clan lords joined together to form the Iron Council and to declare the independence and sovereignty of the Mror Holds. One question remained: What had become of the ancient dwarves? The answer
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Elturel. As a sign of favor, she bestows a charm upon each character (see “Archdevil Charms”). Characters who die in Zariel’s service are reborn as lemures from the River Styx. They lose all memories of
their previous lives, and their alignment changes to lawful evil. If a character pleased Zariel with their loyalty in life, she might allow them to keep their memories as she promotes them to an NPC
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a4
11. Spinning Cylinder The stone corridor changes abruptly to a spinning cylinder, apparently made of some light-colored metal. The inner surface rotates rapidly. It is painted in a dizzying black-and
Magic Items
Keys from the Golden Vault
must make a DC 17 Charisma saving throw. On a failed save, the creature’s alignment changes to neutral evil.
The Book of Vile Darkness remains with you only as long as you strive to work evil
appear on your face, your eyes might become glossy black, or horns might sprout from your forehead. Or you might become wizened and hideous, lose all facial features, gain a forked tongue, or some
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
place. He has a collection of black flying snakes that he uses as couriers to deliver messages to underlings throughout the city. Game Statistics Urstul Floxin is an Illuskan human assassin, with these changes: Urstul is lawful evil. He speaks Common and Orc and knows thieves’ cant.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
, which is not subject to the mummy lord’s lair effects. When any water hits the pool, it spreads out and flares with a black light. Any character who received Ilda’s warning (or who remembers the
statues words in area 3) will hopefully declare that he or she looks away from the pool. Otherwise, a character must make a DC 20 Wisdom saving throw against a suggestion spell. On a failed save, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
grasslands and foothills. You can simply declare that the party makes the uneventful journey, or you can offer some reason why they would want to visit Triboar. The town is a good place for them to resupply
that they contact Urlam Stockspool in Triboar. Urlam is always looking for adventurers to help further the Black Network’s cause, and Halia vouches that “his rewards for good service are lavish.” She
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
, which is not subject to the mummy lord’s lair effects. When any water hits the pool, it spreads out and flares with a black light. Any character who received Ilda’s warning (or who remembers the
statues words in area 3) will hopefully declare that he or she looks away from the pool. Otherwise, a character must make a DC 20 Wisdom saving throw against a suggestion spell. On a failed save, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Regarding Dragons Even with the suggested changes to the factions and locations, a key component of the Dragonlance setting is still missing: dragons! If you want to add a draconic influence to the
campaign, consider the following changes and additions. Draconic Influence In this variant, the Dragon Highlords are also interested in the power that the elemental nodes represent. They dispatch
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
, with these changes: The black puddings understand Elvish and Undercommon, but can’t speak. Each pudding has an Intelligence of 14 and the following Innate Spellcasting trait: Innate Spellcasting. The
a single gray ooze with a challenge rating of 8 (3,900 XP) and these changes: The ooze is Huge, with 152 (16d12 + 48) hit points and a Strength score of 18. As an action, it can make two attacks with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
far end of the hall.
Monsters. Two of Muiral’s arcane experiments (see below) huddle next to the rubble of the toppled pillars.
Floor. Dusty black marble tiles cover the floor, many of them cracked
and broken.
Muiral injected two drow prisoners with magic elixirs that forever transformed them into hideously deformed giants with bulging muscles, charcoal-black skin, and long, dirty-white hair
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
carrying spears and ornate jugs. The ceiling is painted to look like a clear blue sky. A small bejeweled cockroach rests atop a sarcophagus of black basalt in the middle of the room. A two-foot-diameter
). The lid of the black sarcophagus bears a name etched in Common: NAPAKA. The lid is sealed with strips of melted lead that can be easily pried away. Once the lead is removed, the lid can be pushed aside
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
when he must do so, and thus is never seen entering or leaving. Manshoon aims to rule Waterdeep and replace the City Watch with Black Network mercenaries that are loyal to him alone. By bribing and
blackmailing the Masked Lords, he hopes to oust Laeral Silverhand as Open Lord and take her place, kill the Blackstaff, reduce the Masked Lords to mere vassals, and declare himself the Wizard-King of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata
. Other Uthgardt fear and respect a shaman’s power.
The sidebar’s name is now “Uthgardt Shaman Tribal Spells” and the following spells have been cut from the sidebar: animate dead (Black Lion), feather
fall (Black Raven, Griffon, Sky Pony), expeditious retreat (Elk), divine favor (Great Worm, Sky Pony), beast sense (Red Tiger), stoneskin (Thunderbeast), druidcraft and plant growth (Tree Ghost). In the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Head Servants The head servants of Cassalanter Villa are members of the cult. These four servants are described below. All appear to be tieflings, though one is not. The following changes apply to
resistance to fire damage. They have darkvision out to a range of 60 feet. They speak Common and Infernal. Willifort Crowelle Willifort dresses in a sharp black suit and wears thin-rimmed spectacles. He’s a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
Created by Chaos When the power of That-Which-Endures mutated the verdan, their skin was turned the color of jade and their blood began to flow black. Their ears grew pointed, and they gained a
multiverse-spanning primordial spirit and an over-god. It represents the amoral and all-encompassing power of entropy — the force that unknowingly and uncaringly changes order into chaos, and that breaks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
top, they vary in height (from a dozen feet to many dozen feet) and substance (from obsidian-like stone to an unknown black metal). None of these obelisks were as powerful as those created by the
Weavers, but they could nevertheless enact great and terrible changes, such as empowering the ritual in this adventure.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
a dome built of black stone is a statue of a snake with closed eyes swallowing its own tail.
Apparition. The ghostly image of an adventurer moves through the area, looking lost.
The ghostly image
on this level, the image changes to appear as that character, even if the character is later raised from the dead. A dispel magic spell that targets the image causes it to disappear for 1 hour. A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
actually an old stone temple built in a rocky vale at the southern edge of the Sumber Hills. It was recently reborn as the Sacred Stone Monastery, home to reclusive monks dedicated to a mysterious “Way
of the Sacred Stone,” which sages across Faerûn have never heard of because it’s merely a cover for the Cult of the Black Earth. The monastery is the surface stronghold of the earth cult, and it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
thirteen dark apparitions appear on the ledges overlooking the room. Each one resembles a black-robed figure holding a torch, but the torch’s fire is black and seems to draw light into it. Where you’d expect
to hinder the characters (see “Endings” below). If the characters leave the dais without making the sacrifice, the cultists’ chant changes: “Lorghoth the Decayer, we awaken thee!” This chant rouses the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
, all covered in dust and cobwebs.
Easel. A wooden easel stands in the northeast corner, draped in a black cloth. (Under the cloth, resting on the easel, is a half-finished portrait of Dezmyr as she
was in life, lying nude on a bed of tentacles.)
Zalthar. Seated in a chair, facing the northern and western doors, is Zalthar Shadowdusk — a death knight in black armor. In his withered hands, he
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
accumulates changes to its form due to interaction with the energies of the Abyss. These long-lived demons often become demon lords, beings of such power that they can hold sway over entire realms within the
best serves the lord’s desires. Of course, keeping control of a layer involves fighting off other demons that are looking to expand their domains. From time to time, a layer changes hands or is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Zhents coin and allows them to use the family’s noble villa as a refuge. In exchange, the house reaps all the benefits that the Black Network offers, including intelligence that its spies have gathered. So
while the Zhents use House Gralhund as a shield, the Gralhunds are using the Zhents to ascertain the identities and weaknesses of the Masked Lords. Orond doesn’t fully grasp how entwined the Black
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
3. Bear Cave This dry cave is tucked under a grassy bulge in the mountainside. The main cave is home to a mated pair of cave bears (use the polar bear statistics) and one cave bear cub (use the black
is a gladiator, with the following changes: Hydia’s alignment is chaotic evil. She speaks Bothii (the Uthgardt language) and Common. She carries three spears. The cave bear cub fights only in self