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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
attuned to the book, you can cast the following spells (save DC 18) from it:
Animate Dead
Circle of Death
Dominate Monster
Finger of Death
Once you use the book to cast a spell, you can’t
Archlich;Vecna authored the Book of Vile Darkness. He recorded in its pages every horrid idea, every corrupt thought, and every example of foul magic he came across or devised.
Other practitioners of
Spells
Player’s Handbook
1 foot. If the cord is cut—which happens only when an effect states that it does so—the target’s body and astral form both die.
A target’s astral form can travel through the
spell ends for all the targets if you take a Magic action to dismiss it.
When the spell ends for a target who isn’t dead, the target reappears in its body and exits the state of suspended animation.
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
are attuned to the book: animate dead, circle of death, false life, finger of death, speak with dead, summon undead (appears in this book), vampiric touch. It functions as a spellbook for you.
While
With covers made of skin and fittings of bone, this tome is cold to the touch, and it whispers faintly. When found, the book contains the following spells, which are wizard spells for you while you
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Jiangshi Weaknesses. The jiangshi has the following flaws:
Fear of Its Own Reflection. If the jiangshi sees its own reflection, it immediately uses its reaction, if available, to move as far away
from the reflection as possible.
Susceptible to Holy Symbols. While the jiangshi is wearing or touching a holy symbol, it automatically fails saving throws against effects that turn Undead.
Unusual
backgrounds
Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
lifeblood of a vibrant kingdom. But the war cut those arteries, leaving Galifar dead and House Orien bloodied. While the house’s couriers and shippers still keep goods moving on both sides of the
Bugbear
Legacy
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
. If the brother gods are angry with them, they let the bugbears know with bolts of lightning (Hruggek) or by striking them blind or dead (Grankhul). Bugbears worship their gods simply by preying on
heads of defeated foes, cut away or stitch open the eyelids, and leave the mouths hanging open. The heads are then placed on spikes or hung from cords around a bugbear den. The heads themselves are
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
, Kasimir and his fellow dusk elves stoned Patrina to death. As punishment for depriving him of his bride, Strahd butchered all the women in the dusk elf tribe, and Kasimir's ears were cut off to punish him
more important, he believes that the Amber Temple holds the secret to bringing the ancient dead back to life.
With the characters' help, Kasimir thinks he might be able to find out how to restore
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
her divine spark vanishes. She is dead until the next winter solstice, when she reappears at full health in a cold, remote location of her choosing.
Frigid Aura. So long as Auril has at least 1 hit
heart of the diamond.
If Auril is killed in her third and final form, she is dead until the next winter solstice. While she is dead, her mortal worshipers lose their god-granted spells and abilities
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Icy Doom. When Avarice dies, her corpse freezes for 9 days, during which time it can’t be thawed, harmed by fire, animated, or raised from the dead.
Special Equipment. Avarice wields a staff
. The book contains the spells Avarice has prepared plus the following additional spells: burning hands, cone of cold, find familiar, ice storm, lightning bolt, rope trick, thunderwave, tongues, wall of fire, and wall of force.Cold, Fire
Monsters
Vecna: Eve of Ruin
spells, requiring no material components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 22):
At will: Animate Dead (as an action), Detect Magic, Dispel Magic, Fly, Lightning Bolt
and dream as he started to write his Book of Vile Darkness.
Vecna forged a kingdom on Oerth, but he grew bored with it after several centuries. He started inflicting suffering on other worlds. In
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
historians all participate with passing scholars from Candlekeep in a lively exchange of ideas, debating and collaborating in book-filled halls across the Upper and Lower City. The city is also rife
Proficiencies: Arcana, History
Languages: Two of your choice
Equipment: A bottle of black ink, a quill, a small knife, a letter from a dead colleague posing a question you have not yet been able to
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Ghosts of Saltmarsh
.
Skill Proficiencies: History, Perception
Tool Proficiencies: Carpenter’s tools, vehicles (water)
Equipment: A set of well-loved carpenter’s tools, a blank book, 1 ounce of
Reflection. Muddied water always clears in time. (Any)
6
Hope. The horizon at sea holds the greatest promise. (Any)
D6
BOND
1
I must visit all the oceans
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Basic Rules (2014)
master in your fields of study.
Skill Proficiencies: Arcana, History
Languages: Two of your choice
Equipment: A bottle of black ink, a quill, a small knife, a letter from a dead
, sometimes as a means toward other ideals.
d8
Personality Trait
1
I use polysyllabic words that convey the impression of great erudition.
2
I’ve read every book in the
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
wonderful and important person in the world.
2
The common folk love me for my kindness and generosity.
3
No one could doubt by looking at my regal bearing that I am a cut above the unwashed
masses.
4
I take great pains to always look my best and follow the latest fashions.
5
I don’t like to get my hands dirty, and I won’t be caught dead in unsuitable accommodations
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Curse of Strahd: Character Options
. Sometimes it beckons you in the dead of night.
3
An apparition that has haunted your family for generations now haunts you. You don’t know what it wants, and it won’t leave you alone
. You escaped, but the hag still has a magical hold over you and fills your mind with evil thoughts.
8
You opened an eldritch tome and saw things unfit for a sane mind. You burned the book, but its
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
command, illusory script
2nd
enthrall, ray of enfeeblement, zone of truth
3rd
bestow curse, speak with dead, spirit guardians
4th
blight, death ward
finest pleasures money can buy.
4
No one could doubt that I am a cut above the masses of pitiful peasants that infest the city.
5
I can’t stand to spend a zib more than necessary to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
from the book. If the book is destroyed, the ghost is able to move freely and redoubles her efforts to seek justice for the dead.
her forth. Once she appears for the first time, Sarah (a ghost) reappears whenever the characters speak her name in the presence of the book. The anguished state of the young woman’s spirit is clear
Magic Items
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
.
2
I won’t tell a lie.
3
I enjoy sharing my philosophical worldview and experiences with others.
4
I cut right to the chase in every conversation.
5
I often quote (or
favorite religious hymn that I constantly hum.
2
I must keep a written record of my beliefs and the sins that I witness. When finished, this book will be my gift to the multiverse.
3
I have
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Running This Chapter The characters can return to the sanctum in Sigil to rest and confer with Alustriel and Tasha before they head to the Cave of Shattered Reflection. If the characters don’t return
demiplanes in any order, so read through all three—the “Torment of Kas,” “Neverwinter’s New King,” and “Dead Gods” sections—before running this chapter. Once the characters dismantle the three
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
book contains the following spells, which are wizard spells for you while you are attuned to the book: animate dead, circle of death, false life, finger of death, speak with dead, summon undead
(appears in this book), vampiric touch. It functions as a spellbook for you. While you are holding the book, you can use it as a spellcasting focus for your wizard spells. The book has 3 charges, and it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
, his knees buckle and he collapses with the book pressed underneath him.
The dwarf, Buron Sternmettle, is dead—the victim of a sudden heart attack. Because his soul doesn’t want to return, spells
-bearded dwarf in a custodial uniform carrying a heavy, square tome bound in black leather. The weight of the book causes the old dwarf to wheeze, squint, and clench his teeth. Before he can utter a word
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
any destructible object. Use common sense when determining a character's success at damaging an object. Can a fighter cut through a section of a stone wall with a sword? No, the sword is likely to break
before the wall does. For the purpose of these rules, an object is a discrete, inanimate item like a window, door, sword, book, table, chair, or stone, not a building or a vehicle that is composed of many other objects.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
any destructible object. Use common sense when determining a character’s success at damaging an object. Can a fighter cut through a section of a stone wall with a sword? No, the sword is likely to break
before the wall does. For the purpose of these rules, an object is a discrete, inanimate item like a window, door, sword, book, table, chair, or stone, not a building or a vehicle that is composed of many other objects.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
before marching on the Cave of Shattered Reflection and confronting Vecna. The characters need to travel northwest from Pandesmos Outlook to reach Carapace Ridge. There are several ways the characters
bodies of three glabrezus. The bodies and a blood trail lead northwest. Kas cut these creatures down on his way to Carapace Ridge.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Finding the Book Characters in Candlekeep might uncover this book and the treasure map hidden inside it while researching one of the following topics: The Vistani and other planar travelers Possible
routes into and out of the Shadowfell Alternatively, the book can be delivered to the characters by a raven. Avoiding contact with strangers, it leaves the book in a place where the characters are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3
incarnation. The image says, in Olman, “Command me to answer, and I shall.” The image of a long-dead Olman is superimposed on the character’s reflection. A command spell can cause the spirit to answer
next to its own reflection. This mirror falsely predicts the viewer’s death. The ghostly image takes on the appearance of a monster or a trap from this adventure. The image then assaults and kills the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
of many Material Plane worlds, as a reflection of that primordial story. It begins to explore the connections linking dragons on different worlds, which is elaborated throughout the rest of this book
A Treasury of Dragons This book insists on sorting dragons into little, understandable boxes as if the readers had only 100 years or so to live and their tiny baby-brains could hold only so much
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
buyer’s head. She owns a pair of rusty iron shears that can be used to draw blood and cut hair. After consuming this payment, Olive gains the innate ability to cast the animate dead spell once per day for
12. Dead Man’s Corner A sea hag named Olive Stillwater sells human zombies out of this dilapidated shop. She appears as an old woman covered with snails and barnacles. Olive keeps a dozen human
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Book Description The Price of Beauty is bound in soft green leather, eight inches wide and fourteen inches tall, and set with golden clasps. The book gives off the unmistakable scent of lilies. Set
into its cover is a polished oval mirror with a delicate gold frame styled like locks of hair, which appear to spill down around the face of anyone who looks into the mirror. The book is filled with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
desk has a small book tucked under one of its back legs to level it off. The book is titled Elvish Idioms, and its pages have been cut out to conceal a tiny leather packet containing dust of disappearance.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Elturgardian refugees. You cut a path through these wretched souls, whose wails intensify as the Basilisk Gate closes behind you. The dirt road cuts through the slums of the Outer City, past the walled
brings along an old book of Calishite recipes to trade for admittance into the great library of Candlekeep (see “Entering Candlekeep”).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Spells. While attuned to the book, you can cast the following spells (save DC 18) from it: Animate Dead Circle of Death Dominate Monster Finger of Death Once you use the book to cast a spell, you can’t
Book of Vile Darkness Wondrous Item, Artifact (Requires Attunement) The contents of this foul manuscript are the meat and drink of the wicked. It contains knowledge so horrid that to even glimpse the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
can cut open once the roper is dead. They can also gather up a total of 32 cp and 11 sp scattered across the floor.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Jiangshi When a soul becomes trapped within its corpse, its bitterness can reanimate its body, creating a jiangshi. These vengeful dead stalk their descendants and the communities they knew in life
Weaknesses. The jiangshi has the following flaws:
Fear of Its Own Reflection. If the jiangshi sees its own reflection, it immediately uses its reaction, if available, to move as far away from the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
spending his time in the Biblioplex, where he works as a book clerk, assisting students in finding required texts and shelving returns. He moves silently through the stacks, and he has given more
than one student a scare when they’ve turned around to suddenly find him there.
Drazhomir’s greatest love is poetry. As a member of the university’s Dead Languages Society, he scours ancient literature






