before body deck charge renowned

Nine Lives Stealer

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

this weapon and roll a 20 on the d20 for the attack roll, the creature must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or be slain instantly as the sword tears its life force from its body. Constructs

and Undead succeed on the save automatically. The weapon loses 1 charge if the creature is slain. When the weapon has no charges remaining, it loses this property.

Deck of Many Things

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

Usually found in a box or pouch, this deck contains a number of cards made of ivory or vellum. Most (75 percent) of these decks have thirteen cards, but some have twenty-two. Use the appropriate

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

Eye and Hand of Vecna

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

your body, devours it, and then takes control of the body like a puppet. If that happens, you become an NPC under the DM’s control. Eye of Vecna Spells Spell Charge Cost

Concentration required), demanding that you commit an evil act. The hand might have a specific act in mind or leave it up to you. Hand of Vecna Spells Spell Charge Cost Finger of Death 5

Orb of Damara

Magic Items Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn

table from it (+10 spell attack modifier, spell save DC 18). The table indicates how many charges you must expend to cast the spell. Spell Charge Cost Disguise Self 0 Fire

DM’s control. The type of chromatic dragon depends on your alignment and personality and is left to the DM to decide. The transformation is permanent, but if the dragon is slain, its body

Deck of Dimensions

Magic Items The Book of Many Things

to use the following properties: Marked Card. As a bonus action, you can expend 1 charge to draw a card from the deck and place it in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of you. The card then becomes

your possession. Shuffling Stride. As a bonus action, you can expend 1 charge to throw a card from the deck to an unoccupied space within 60 feet of yourself and teleport, along with any equipment

Giff Shock Trooper

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

Firearms Knowledge. The giff’s mastery of its weapons enables it to ignore the loading property of any firearm. Headfirst Charge. If the giff moves at least 20 feet in a straight line and ends

within 5 feet of a Large or smaller creature, that creature must succeed on a DC 16 Strength saving throw or take 7 (2d6);{"diceNotation":"2d6","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Headfirst Charge

Centaur Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

Charge. If the centaur moves at least 30 feet straight toward a target and then hits it with a pike attack on the same turn, the target takes an extra 10 (3d6);{"diceNotation":"3d6","rollType

":"damage","rollAction":"Charge","rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage.Multiattack. The centaur makes two attacks: one with its pike and one with its hooves or two with its longbow. Pike. Melee Weapon

Deck of Many Things Legacy

Magic Items Basic Rules (2014)

Usually found in a box or pouch, this deck contains a number of cards made of ivory or vellum. Most (75 percent) of these decks have only thirteen cards, but the rest have twenty-two. Before you

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

Deck of Wonder

Magic Items The Book of Many Things

Created in the image of the Deck of Many Things, this deck of ivory or vellum cards bestows an assortment of minor benefits and penalties on those who draw from it. Most (75 percent) of these decks

. Unless a card states otherwise, as soon as you draw a card from the deck, its magic takes effect. You must draw each card you declared no more than 1 hour after the previous draw. If you fail to draw

Mountain Goat

Monsters Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

Charge. If the goat moves at least 20 feet straight toward a target and then hits it with a ram attack on the same turn, the target takes an extra 3 (1d6);{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType":"damage

","rollAction":"Charge","rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 12 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone. Sure-Footed. The goat has

Deck of Several Things

Magic Items Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

Stored in a leather pouch, this unique deck contains twenty-two colored cards made of some strong but unknown metal, each of which features a design printed as a mosaic of raised dots. Before you

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

Giff

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Firearms Knowledge.The giff’s mastery of its weapons enables it to ignore the loading property of muskets and pistols. Headfirst Charge. The giff can try to knock a creature over; if the giff

people. In Wildspace and the associated ports, giff are most often encountered as spacefaring mercenaries. These troops are renowned for their martial training, and love of explosives and are typically

Burnished Hart

Monsters Mythic Odysseys of Theros

":"damage","rollAction":"Charge","rollDamageType":"fire"} fire damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 13 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone. Heated Body. A creature that touches

Charge. If the hart moves at least 20 feet straight toward a target and then hits it with an antlers attack on the same turn, the target takes an extra 7 (2d6);{"diceNotation":"2d6","rollType

Giff (Gunpowder Keg Variant)

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Firearms Knowledge.The giff’s mastery of its weapons enables it to ignore the loading property of muskets and pistols. Headfirst Charge. The giff can try to knock a creature over; if the giff

people. In Wildspace and the associated ports, giff are most often encountered as spacefaring mercenaries. These troops are renowned for their martial training, and love of explosives and are typically

Centaur Mummy

Monsters Tales from the Yawning Portal

Charge. If the centaur mummy moves at least 20 feet straight toward a target and then hits it with a pike attack on the same turn, the target takes an extra 10 (3d6);{"diceNotation":"3d6","rollType

":"damage","rollAction":"Charge","rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage.Multiattack. The centaur mummy makes two melee attacks, one with its pike and one with its hooves, or it attacks with its

Moonlight Guardian

Monsters Vecna: Eve of Ruin

mithral. They were originally created by a desperate mage on Krynn who drew the Moon card from a Deck of Many Things. The mage wished for a retinue of bodyguards ideally suited to fighting lycanthropes

and other shapeshifting creatures. In response, the Moon card spawned the first moonlight guardian. A moonlight guardian’s body is infused with magical moonlight that the creature can channel

Traag Draconian

Monsters Monstrous Compendium Vol. 2: Dragonlance Creatures

only minimally help to slow a falling traag’s descent. Its metallic scales are coated in a sickly patina. In battle, the draconian can charge its body with vicious fire, burning all in its wake. When a traag draconian dies, its body explodes in a thick, disgusting sludge.

, it subtracts up to 50 feet from the fall when calculating the fall’s damage. Death Throes. If the draconian is reduced to 0 hit points, its body erupts into sludge that fills a 10-foot-radius

Grim Champion of Desolation

Monsters The Book of Many Things

its body crumbles to dust.The champion can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature

, might have been the first person to draw the Skull card from a Deck of Many Things and be slain by the avatar of death. Even Jyn doesn’t know for sure, as that was so long ago that she’s

Deck of Many More Things

Magic Items The Book of Many Things

Over the centuries since the first Deck of Many Things was created, many have sought and failed to replicate it. But some have created new cards. These forty-four additional cards are known

collectively as the Deck of Many More Things. (More information on creating new cards for this deck appears in chapter 2.) Like the Deck of Many Things, the Deck of Many More Things manifests differently on

Giff Legacy

Monsters Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes

Headfirst Charge. The giff can try to knock a creature over; if the giff moves at least 20 feet in a straight line that ends within 5 feet of a Large or smaller creature, that creature must succeed

military uniforms, with gleaming pistols and muskets on display. These spacefaring mercenaries are renowned for their martial training and their love of explosives. Military Organization. Every aspect

Zalthar Shadowdusk

Monsters Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or be slain instantly as the sword tears its life force from its body (a construct or an undead is immune). The sword loses 1 charge if the creature is slain

Gremorly's Ghost

Monsters The Book of Many Things

incapacitated condition and loses control of its body. Gremorly can’t be targeted by any attack, spell, or other effect, except ones that turn Undead, and he retains his alignment, Intelligence

, Prestidigitation 2/day each: Bestow Curse, Dispel Magic 1/day: SlowYears ago, a wizard named Gremorly drew the Throne card from a Deck of Many Things, gaining ownership of a small castle called Sovereign

Grim Champion of Pestilence

Monsters The Book of Many Things

must succeed on a DC 18 Constitution saving throw or have the incapacitated condition until the start of its next turn, as the insects ravage its body. Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the champion

Spellcasting.Aleron was once a tiefling adventurer, but unlike so many victims of the Deck of Many Things, he never drew the Skull card. Instead, when one of his allies drew the card and faced the avatar of death

Eye and Hand of Vecna Legacy

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

would allow him to live on as a lich. Beyond death, he became the greatest of all liches. Even though his body gradually withered and decayed, Vecna continued to expand his evil dominion. So formidable

charges. You can use an action and expend 1 or more charges to cast one of the following spells (save DC 18) from it: clairvoyance (2 charges), crown of madness (1 charge), disintegrate (4 charges

Earworm

Magic Items Eberron: Rising from the Last War

): detect thoughts (2 charges) or dissonant whispers (1 charge). Each time you use the earworm to cast the detect thoughts spell, it sends the information gleaned to the nearest daelkyr, or

’re attuned to it, and you can’t voluntarily end your attunement to it. If you’re targeted by a spell that ends a curse, your attunement to the earworm ends, and it exits your body.

Acererak

Monsters Tomb of Annihilation

fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead. Rejuvenation. Acererak’s body turns to dust when he drops to 0 hit points, and his equipment is left behind. Acererak gains a new body

after 1d10;{"diceNotation":"1d10","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Rejuvenation"} days, regaining all his hit points and becoming active again. The new body appears within 5 feet of Acererak’s

Arkhan the Cruel

Monsters Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus

daily at dawn. Arkhan can cast the following spells from the hand by expending the specified number of charges (spell save DC 18): finger of death (5 charges), sleep (1 charge), slow (2 charges), and

means of freeing Tiamat from her prison in the Nine Hells, but only if the hand doesn't kill him first. The hand is slowly corrupting Arkhan's flesh and decomposing his body on one side. In battle

Orcus Legacy

Monsters Out of the Abyss

with dead. Alternatively, he can expend 1 or more of the wand’s charges to cast one of the following spells from it: circle of death (1 charge), finger of death (1 charge), or power word kill (2

, emulating their dread master. Orcus is a bestial creature of corruption with a diseased, decaying look. He has the lower torso of a goat, and a humanoid upper body with a corpulent belly swollen with rot

Orcus

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

will: animate dead (as an action), blight, speak with dead 1 charge each: circle of death, finger of death 2 charges: power word killOrcus can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options

the dead, emulating their dread master. Orcus is a bestial creature of corruption with a diseased, decaying look. He has the lower body of a goat and a humanlike upper body with a belly swollen with

Deck of Dimensions

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things

charges. While holding it, you can expend 1 or more of its charges to use the following properties: Robson Michel Deck of Dimensions Marked Card. As a bonus action, you can expend 1 charge to draw a

cards create the spell’s portal rings. When the spell ends, the deck reappears in your possession. Shuffling Stride. As a bonus action, you can expend 1 charge to throw a card from the deck to an

Powered Armor

Magic Items Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

or sacrifice hit points to gain one of the following benefits: Emit a force field to gain 2d6 + 5 temporary hit points (1 charge or 5 hit points). Activate boosters to gain a flying speed of 15

feet for 1 minute (1 charge or 5 hit points). Fire arm-mounted laser: Ranged Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, range 120 feet, one target. Hit: 2d6 radiant damage (1 charge or 5 hit points

Yeenoghu Legacy

Monsters Out of the Abyss

option can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature’s turn. Yeenoghu regains spent legendary actions at the start of his turn. Charge. Yeenoghu moves up to his speed. Swat

covered in matted fur and taut, leathery hide, his face like a grinning predator’s skull. Patchwork armor made of discarded shields and breastplates is lashed onto his body with heavy chains

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things

single card from the deck. This quickly became a resource-management puzzle: when the players knew one of their number would be imprisoned by the Donjon card, for example, or have their soul separated from their body by the Void card, how did they proceed?

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons With the publication of the first Dungeon Master’s Guide in 1979, the most recognizable aspects of the Deck of Many Things were established. Here, the names of the cards

Infiltrating the Fortress

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus

ascends through the body of the flying fortress to a 10-foot-diameter, spherical iron cistern directly below the command deck. The pipe is 400 feet long from top to bottom and has access hatches leading to

, 10-foot-square hatch on the flat top of the flying fortress. The hatch is watched by the bone devils that fly above the fortress and leads to a corridor just outside the bridge on the command deck

Heroes of Destiny

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things

wild mages, even if your own powers are different. Key Your spellbook manifests as a deck of cards. Knight Your family of renowned warriors judges you on your martial talents (or lack thereof). Moon

Heroes of Destiny The Sage Destinies table provides narrative ideas inspired by the Deck of Many Things that you can use while developing your character. The entries in this table are geared toward

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