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trinket
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intend to do with your gift once you realize what it is capable of.
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I judge people by their actions, not their words.
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If someone is in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
efreeti named Vrakir has the Book of Vile Darkness. We need you to steal this evil artifact so we can destroy it. This quest, should you choose to undertake it, requires you to infiltrate the fortress of
Brimstone Hold, where the book is kept.
“We obtained a map of the fortress from an informant of ours, an arcanaloth named Nebukath, who works in Brimstone Hold. Nebukath is willing to provide
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
book contains rituals that, in the wrong hands, could be used to summon dangerous extraplanar entities. The book was stolen by a nobleman named Markos Delphi, who might be under the influence of some
profane entity. Four adventurers hired to retrieve the book from Delphi Mansion have disappeared without a trace. We have good reason to believe they’re dead. This quest, should you choose to undertake
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Removing the Rod Closing the portal by removing the Rod of Seven Parts from the stones has the following consequences: Spyder-Fiends Flee. All spyder-fiends flee the citadel, including Uvonxu (see
area Y7), if she’s still alive. Within a few minutes, the spyder-fiends in Pandesmos instinctively realize their general has been sealed away again. They desert their posts to engage in vicious
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
strikes her, she swoops down to the stage (area M2) on her ornithopter of flying (see appendix A) in the closing minutes of a play to steal the show. While plays are being rehearsed in the amphitheater
, she spends her time in area M19, peering down at the Orrery of Tragedies in area M14 and using a quill pen to transcribe its prophecies into a tiny black book. During the eight hours when no plays are being rehearsed or performed, she sleeps standing up inside a glass-paneled wardrobe in area M22.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
deception so they don’t realize the discordance between his childlike affectations and his appearance. If forced to reveal his aged form, he pretends to be confused and employs elaborate clockwork toys
dedicated to the master of the estate’s clockwork tinkering and private decadences. Ivan tempts victims to his home, where they gradually realize they’re trapped in a fun house of childish grotesqueries
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
something called a “straitjacket” instead. If the characters interrupt them, the gnomes realize that the new arrivals might have another solution, so they fill in what’s been happening and ask for any
inventions that serve no purpose, as well as worktables strewn with tinker’s tools. A 10-foot-high ledge overlooks the room, set with a wooden pedestal on which sits a leather-bound book. Treasure. The book
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Using the Maps This book contains a number of interior maps and a fold-out, double-sided poster map. These elements are further described below. Interior Maps Maps that appear in this book are for
don’t recognize these names yet, that’s good! Once they learn in the game where they’re headed, they’ll realize they’ve heard of the location and can head in the right direction at will. The reverse side
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
something, correct yourself and move on. No one expects you to memorize every rule or detail. Even if you don’t realize your mistake until after a game session is over, it’s OK to acknowledge the mistake
at the start of the next session and make adjustments moving forward. What’s New in the 2024 Version?
This is the 2024 version of the fifth edition Dungeon Master’s Guide. Much of the book has been
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
became more withdrawn and secretive, closing Ghalasine to trade and failing to honor his alliances. A powerful spellcaster, Charmayne had become jealous of the king’s passion and warmth. Longing to
anyone born in Ghalasine from entering or leaving the city. As she came to realize the people of Ghalasine didn’t love her as they did the king, Charmayne became filled with rage. She used magic to tear
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
No Time to Lose The day after the characters’ time in the Detention Bog, they’re summoned to a meeting with Professor Verelda Lang in the Biblioplex’s book gardens. (Map 3.1 and chapter 3 provide a
faculty members are powerless against him. But you’re not.”
At this point, the characters should realize that they’re Strixhaven’s only hope to stop this terrible plan. They must face Murgaxor—if
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
who searches the bookshelves for 1 hour can, at the end of that time, make a DC 13 Intelligence (Investigation) check, finding whatever book they seek on a success. Mage Hunters Among the other books
mage hunters break with their allies to hunt specific individuals who catch their attention. With this information, the characters should realize that a pair of mage hunters is after them. Quenthorne’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a4
them as are going in), the door will slam shut behind them. No tools, weapons, or magic available to the adventurers will open the door or prevent it from closing. Only the proper key inserted in the
ring? Will they be suspicious enough to simply leave it alone? If they take time to think about it, they’ll likely realize that the ring must be a hoax. Someone who puts it on can cause it to exhibit
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
the halberds from the suits of armor (or weapons of their own) to wedge open the mouth, preventing it from closing until these obstructions are removed. No ability check is needed to accomplish this. If
, reading a book while sipping wine from a thin crystal goblet. Other items in the cell include a crystal decanter of wine and a bowl of figs on a small table, a gold-embroidered wall tapestry
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
who experience its terrors never suspect its surreal nature; only a few gradually realize that things don’t add up. Whether they do or don’t, the setting’s supernatural features and malicious
how long will that remain certain? The answers are for you to decide. THIS BOOK GIVES CHARACTERS NIGHTMARES
Ravenloft is a setting designed to bring nightmares to life—for characters, not for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
guidelines than rules anyway. Right? Stand up as straight as possible. Being a paladin is mostly about posture, and most people don’t realize that. Evil drow slouch, but in this house, we are turgid
You took another person’s identity to escape the law in your younger days — and quickly came to realize that this person was far cooler than the real you. If anyone finds out your true identity, your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Bedtime Rhyme” later in this book for details). The Hearth From outside, the Hearth appears to be a modest tavern of sturdy construction, with warm light emanating from a pair of small windows on
either side of the front door. Upon entering the establishment, visitors quickly realize that it’s three times more spacious on the inside. The Hearth gained its larger dimensions courtesy of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
moist tentacles. At the same time, blunt stones like teeth emerge from all sides of the cave entrance, and its opening slams shut like a mouth closing.
Anyone in the cavern when the teeth emerge and
an entrance is all but impossible. Spells such as disintegrate and passwall can create an artificial exit, but the characters should quickly realize that the most obvious way out is the 10-foot-wide
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse, and examples of these peoples appear in chapter 6 of this book.) The principle of peace leads the knights to cooperate with other peoples
asks adventurers for help closing a planar portal that is allowing demons to spill across the countryside. 3 A Fiend or Undead hunted by a knight of the stewards poses as human and tells adventurers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
. Others are limited in their ability to affect their borders. For each domain, specifics appear in the “Closing the Borders” portion of the section on that domain’s Darklord. If a domain’s borders are
the Mists table to determine what happens. Mist talismans take ominous forms, and no two are alike. A family’s burned holy book, a battered stuffed toy, a papyrus scroll, or any of the items on the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
humming a melody under their breath—the same tune that’s been stuck in your head since you woke up. After a moment, you realize that you too are humming along.
The characters are humming Shemshime’s rhyme
Smallstone sang it in the hall outside the characters’ room after she heard it from Crinkle. K’Tulah and Ebder share the table with the characters. Ebder is reading from the same book he had last night. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
book lies open on the desk, next to a quill and a jar of ink. This is Ezzat’s journal, a distillation of the lore found in his other books. Any character who reads the journal learns Undermountain’s
writes of wanting to use wish — a spell he does not yet know — to forge an alliance with Jhesiyra, defeat Halaster, and end the Mad Mage’s reign in Undermountain forever. (The lich doesn’t realize
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
antimagic field. The dreadnought can shut off the effect by simply closing its eye, though it seldom has reason to do so. Astral Predator. A remorseless, indiscriminate hunter, an astral dreadnought employs
dreadnoughts to devour planar travelers who were seeking portals that lead from the Astral Plane to the Outer Planes — portals they might use to gaze upon their gods or realize some dream of godhood
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
demons emerge, whichever comes first. The portal can be closed early through any of the following means: Closing the Book. A character within 5 feet of the altar can close the book as an action with a
Book. A Dispel Magic spell cast on the book suppresses its magic for 1 hour. Closing the portal doesn’t return escaped chasmes to the Abyss. Treasure. Amid the bones on the floor is a Cloak of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Tips for New Dungeon Masters Most of this book is for the DM’s eyes only, since it’s full of secrets that your players won’t discover until you run the adventure for them. That said, the adventure
to share such information with them as it becomes apparent. For example, you can describe a creature’s wounds closing up when it regenerates. Characters don’t need to fight a creature to know certain
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
the many buildings and houses of learning in the Conclave of Silverymoon, the great center of knowledge and wisdom that forms much of the city’s southern part. If a map, a book, or a spell exists
thing to come to Silverymoon seeking knowledge of one subject, and find oneself so enraptured by the study that it takes a lifetime to accomplish — or to realize that it was the study, rather than
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
house’s sullen countenance, you hear the edifice actually groan. Only then do you realize the extent to which the house hates what it has become. The Wachter family, once an influential noble line in
based on devil worship and has written a manifesto that she reads to her “book club,” which is made up of the most fanatical group members. Inspired by her words, these zealots have created smaller cults
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
succeed on a DC 16 Intelligence (History) check can recognize one of Iggwilv’s costumes from a woodcut of her that they saw once in a book, where she was identified as “Iggwilv, the Witch Queen of
effect on it. If the characters remove a book from the shelves, they see that the cover, like the spine, has no title. Opening any of the books reveals that its pages are blank apart from the first page
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
book, a calligrapher’s kit, and a silver medallion displaying a lizard’s head with a quill behind it. The medallion is worth 15 gp. T13: Pantry The goods once stored on the shelves in this old pantry
secrets, or forgotten mines. The books are written in Dwarvish. The Granite Ledger. One of the books that the drow haven’t yet touched has metal pages and a cover made of thin plates of granite. This book
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes’ Feast: Saving the Children’s Menu
footfalls from within the barn move toward the main hall. After a moment, Ignis exits the barn through the sliding door, closing the door behind her. If the characters are hidden and Ignis doesn’t spot
on almost every page. A character who searches through these books and succeeds on a DC 15 Intelligence (Investigation) check finds a legible passage scribbled in a book recording Arthur’s magical
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
d8 Encounter 1 A thunder-voiced Mind’s Eye matter smith (see Morte’s Planar Parade) admonishes passersby to realize the power inside themselves. As a demonstration, the matter smith reshapes
, a friendly, lawful good bodak (see Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse; replace with a lawful good revenant if you don’t have that book). Sir Cleave eagerly assists customers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
, comfortable room. In the center is a circular wooden table on which lies a closed book. To one side of the table, an aged lizardfolk occupies a crudely upholstered armchair. To the other side, a plain wooden
never used. The book on the table, Power Politics by Abel Mackie, is written in Common. It discusses the trickier and more devious side of political life. It can be sold for 5 gp. THE COOPERATIVE
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
homunculus nearby. Unless the mind flayer is aware that intruders are active in Illithinoch, Gulguush is sitting at the desk, composing a book of prayers to Ilvaash. The homunculus perches on the back of
favor with the fanatics. Gulguush’s Book. Gulguush’s unfinished prayer book, called Prostrate before the Dissonant Psyche, is written in Undercommon and compiles everything the mind flayer knows about the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
. Though most of the books have fallen apart, one tome—a small black journal with an ornate lock—remains intact. A character who examines the book and succeeds on a DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check notices
triumph without Aidron’s help. You don’t need to encourage one course of action or the other. Make sure the players realize they have a choice, though. You can use Mek and Minn (the kobolds from area
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
to pass off her suggestion as a “helpful” rumor. 19. Luruth’s Tannery This former warehouse reeks with an eye-watering, throat-closing stench that obliterates all other smells within a bowshot of the
strange old book from a passing merchant just a couple of days ago. The book is a beautifully illuminated manuscript written in Dwarvish. Endrith doesn’t read Dwarvish, so he doesn’t know what is in it