before both dead currently random

Mere of Dead Men Random Encounters

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons

Mere of Dead Men Random Encounters The Mere of Dead Men is a place filled with dangerous creatures. Roll a d20 per hour of travel; an encounter occurs on a roll of 18–20. Determine the encounter by

rolling on the table below, or choose an encounter. Mere of Dead Men Encounters d12 Encounter 1–2 Bullywugs (2 or 3 per character) 3 Crocodiles (2 per character) 4 Giant frogs (2 per character) 5

Mere of Dead Men Random Encounters

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen

Mere of Dead Men Random Encounters The Mere of Dead Men is a place filled with dangerous creatures. Roll a d20 per hour of travel; an encounter occurs on a roll of 18–20. Determine the encounter by

rolling on the table below, or choose an encounter. Mere of Dead Men Encounters d12 Encounter 1–2 Bullywugs (2 or 3 per character) 3 Crocodiles (2 per character) 4 Giant frogs (2 per character) 5

Wand of Orcus

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

with it. The wand deals an extra 2d12 Necrotic damage on a hit. Random Properties. The Wand of Orcus has the following random properties: 2 minor beneficial properties 1 major beneficial property

from it (save DC 18). The table indicates how many charges you must expend to cast the spell. Spell Charge Cost Animate Dead 1 Blight 2 Circle of Death 3 Finger of

Book of Vile Darkness

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

a minimum of 3. The book can’t adjust your ability scores again. Tireless Form. While the book is on your person, you have Immunity to the Exhaustion condition. Random Properties. The Book of

Vile Darkness has the following random properties: 3 minor beneficial properties 1 major beneficial property 3 minor detrimental properties 2 major detrimental properties Spells. While

Crown of Horns

Magic Items Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn

The Crown of Horns contains the essence and intelligence of Myrkul, one of the Dead Three. This ghastly crown is a pale silver circlet with four curved bones set around its rim. On the crown's brow

dying essence. Myrkul has since returned to become one of the Dead Three, and the Crown of Horns continues to further his gruesome will by seeking out mortal agents and gradually transforming them into

Death Tyrant Legacy

Monsters Monster Manual (2014)

and whether the cone is active. Any creature in that area can’t regain hit points. Any humanoid that dies there becomes a zombie under the tyrant’s command. The dead humanoid retains its

. The death tyrant shoots three of the following magical eye rays at random;{"diceNotation":"1d10","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Eye Rays"} (reroll duplicates), choosing one to three targets it can see

Simon Aumar

Monsters Thieves’ Gallery

;{"diceNotation":"1d20+6", "rollType":"spell", "rollAction":"Chaos Bolt"} to hit, range 60 ft., one target. Hit: 14 (2d10 + 3) damage of a random type determined by rolling a d8;{"diceNotation":"1d8

with dead (Simon must be holding his deathly token to cast this spell) 2/day each: fog cloud, mage armor, magic missile, spider climb 1/day each: Bigby's hand, major imageSheltering Shield (3/Day

Telescopic Transporter

Magic Items The Book of Many Things

This enormous telescope allows you to view distant celestial objects, including stars, Wildspace systems, and Astral Sea phenomena like the cities of deities or the petrified husks of dead gods

. After spending 1 hour calibrating the telescope, you can attempt to travel to the planet or celestial body at which the telescope is currently pointed. At the end of the hour, make a DC 17 Intelligence

Auril (Third Form)

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

Soul Cage

Spells Xanathar's Guide to Everything

for the sixth time, it is released, and the spell ends. While a soul is trapped, the dead humanoid it came from can’t be revived. Steal Life. You can use a bonus action to drain vigor from

before the start of your next turn, it is lost. Eyes of the Dead. You can use an action to name a place the humanoid saw in life, which creates an invisible sensor somewhere in that place if it

Wand of Orcus Legacy

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

as a magic mace that grants a +3 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with it. The wand deals an extra 2d12 necrotic damage on a hit. Random Properties. The Wand of Orcus has the following random

or more of its charges to cast one of the following spells (save DC 18) from it: animate dead (1 charge), blight (2 charges), circle of death (3 charges), finger of death (3 charges), power word kill

Crook of Rao

Magic Items Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

;potentially for the final time. Random Properties. The artifact has the following random properties, which you can determine by rolling on the tables in the "Artifacts" section of the Dungeon Master

conjured as a result of this effect appear in random unoccupied spaces within 60 feet of you and are not under your control. Extraplanar Reversal d100 Effect 1–25 A portal to

Iggwilv's Cauldron

Magic Items The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

can attune to the cauldron simultaneously, provided they have formed a coven. If the coven disbands, the attunement ends for all three hags. Random Properties. Regardless of the form it takes, the

cauldron has the following random properties: 1 minor beneficial property (determined by rolling on the Minor Beneficial Properties table in the Dungeon Master’s Guide) 1 minor detrimental

Lady Illmarrow

Monsters Eberron: Rising from the Last War

missile, shield, sleep 2nd level (3 slots): blur, detect thoughts, mirror image 3rd level (3 slots): animate dead, counterspell, fireball, fly, lightning bolt 4th level (3 slots): blight, confusion

Emerald Claw, but her motives for founding the order are buried in her past. Lady Illmarrow has no interest in ruling the living. Rather, she seeks to become Queen of the Dead. The Mark of Death

Occultant Abacus

Magic Items Acquisitions Incorporated

throw. If it’s not clear who administered the killing blow, you grant this benefit to a random creature involved in the fight. Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you

within 5 feet of a creature killed within the past 24 hours, you can cast the augury spell. The course of action you inquire about with the spell does not need to have any connection to the dead creature

Ancient Time Dragon

Monsters Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse

Cycle of Rebirth. If the dragon dies, its soul coalesces into a steely egg and teleports to a random plane of existence. The egg is immune to all damage and hatches into a time dragon wyrmling after

civilizations or temples to dead gods and do their utmost to preserve these historical sites. A time dragon’s insatiable desire for knowledge means it’s likely to have more than one such lair. The

Tabaxi Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

result every few days that pass in the campaign to reflect your ever-changing curiosity. Tabaxi Obsessions d8 My curiosity is currently fixed on … 1 A god or planar entity

with, you speak quickly and never pause and others can’t understand you. 9 You are a font of random trivia from the lore and stories you have discovered. 10 You can’t help but pocket interesting objects you come across.

Halaster Blackcloak

Monsters Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

parts restored. His new body appears in a random safe location in Undermountain. Spellcasting. Halaster is a 20th-level spellcaster. His spellcasting ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 22, +14 to hit

helm floating as though worn by an invisible figure, and illusory footprints appearing on a dusty floor. Silent apparitions of dead adventurers drift through halls and rooms as though they are lost

Strahd, Master of Death House

Monsters Vecna: Eve of Ruin

teleports to his lair in Castle Ravenloft. After 1d4;{"diceNotation":"1d4", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Master of the House"} hours, Strahd re-forms in a random unoccupied space within his lair

. Spellcasting. Strahd casts one of the following spells, using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 18): At will: Detect Thoughts, Fog Cloud, Mage Hand 2/day each: Animate Dead (as an

Blackstaff

Magic Items Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

Waterdeep and its Open Lord, currently Laeral Silverhand. Its secondary goal is to help its wielder become more powerful. In the event that the holder of the office of the Blackstaff no longer serves

spirit of that individual becomes trapped in the staff along with the spirits of the previous Blackstaffs. (A Blackstaff whose spirit is trapped in the staff can’t be raised from the dead

Teeth of Dahlver-Nar

Magic Items Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

a random destination, which could be on a different world of the Material Plane. Destroying the Teeth. Each tooth must be destroyed individually by sowing it in the area where the tooth’s story

Cats of Uldun-dar (ivory cat molar) 9 cat;cats The tooth has 8 charges. As an action, you can expend 1 charge to cast the revivify spell from the tooth. If you are dead at the start of your turn, the

Resurrection Madness

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd

Resurrection Madness In Barovia, the souls of the dead are as trapped as the souls of the living. They become caught in the mists and can’t travel to the afterlife. When a humanoid who has been dead

for at least 24 hours returns to life, either by way of a spell or some supernatural means, it gains a random form of indefinite madness brought on by the realization that its spirit is trapped in

A Grim Discovery

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel

revivify spell. Characters who search the alley confirm it is a dead end, and the shop doors along it are all locked. There is no sign of any other creature in the area. The characters currently have

(Perception) score sees a still figure surrounded by spilled gold coins and slumped against the wall, head tilted to stare at them. Characters who investigate find a dead dwarf wearing lavish robes. Nearby

Spaceship Encounters, Level 1

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase

Spaceship Encounters, Level 1 For each hour the party spends on the spaceship, roll a d12. On a roll of 1, an encounter occurs. To determine what the characters encounter, roll on the Random

Spaceship Encounters table. Random Spaceship Encounters d10 Encounter 1 2d10 vegepygmy scavengers and 1d4 vegepygmy thorny hunters 2 1d6 intellect devourers 3 Two combat robots on patrol 4 A helpful

Homesteads

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse

appear on the Random Encounters tables earlier in this chapter. Not even lifelong residents of the Dessarin Valley know exactly where all the outlying farms and ranches lie, and characters traveling

cross country might stumble across lonely farmhouses or outlying ranches anywhere. Since homesteads are permanent structures, make a note on the regional map when the characters discover one at random

27. Rantantar's Wand

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

. Treasure Following the destruction of Rantantar, one of his oldest apprentices, Halaster recovered the dead archmage’s wand of wonder — only to discover that Rantantar had somehow bound his evil

spirit inside it. The spirit can do nothing other than animate and discharge the wand, which currently has 7 charges. The animated wand has the statistics of a Tiny animated object (see the animate

The Adventure Begins

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath

The Adventure Begins The adventure begins as the characters travel toward the town of Leilon. The settlement has been destroyed and rebuilt many times in its long history, and it is currently in an

waypoint between the cities of Neverwinter and Waterdeep, as well as protect travelers from threats originating in the swampy Mere of Dead Men. As the adventure progresses, the characters become embroiled

The Cursed Labyrinth

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Stranger Things

The Cursed Labyrinth It seems like a normal maze with twisting, turning hallways that intersect, but there is no solution to this maze. Its path is completely random, and if you turn around to

retrace your steps, you find that the path has changed behind you. Random Path. Use the first few hallways as shown on the map (above), but when the characters move off the map, use the table below to

12. Hall of Heroes

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

hall is 20 feet high, arched, and lightly obscured by thick webs. Dead Spiders. Three giant spiders lie dead at various points in the hallway, riddled with crossbow bolts. (Members of the Undertakers

placed an elder rune (see “Elder Runes”) on the double door leading to area 16, set to trigger when the doors are opened. Draw from the Elder Runes Deck to determine which rune appears. The elder rune targets a random creature in this hall and within 60 feet of the doors.

The Expedition Begins

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation

steps: Using the poster map, identify the hex in which the party is currently located. Don’t share this information with the players if the party is lost; otherwise, show the players the party’s

” below). Check for random encounters throughout the day (see appendix B). At the end of the day, check to see if any party members are dehydrated (see “Dehydration” below).

Random Events

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

Random Events The adventurers must contend with a variety of events as they lead their forces through the Underdark. Every other day of travel or camping in the Underdark, an event automatically

occurs. Roll a d20 and consult the Random Events table, or choose a suitable event. For the rules on madness, see chapter 2 of this adventure and chapter 8, “Running the Game,” in the Dungeon Master’s

Something Old

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd

Something Old This event can occur if the characters don’t or can’t raise the burgomaster’s son, Ilya, from the dead. If alive, the Abbot learns that Ilya died recently and, in his human guise

wants to raise their son from the dead. He claims that the “gods of light” want the Krezkov bloodline restored. The characters can try to interfere in the raising of Ilya Krezkov. Otherwise, the

10. Staging Area

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

10. Staging Area This cave is fortified with barricades and defended by eight deep gnomes and four cave badgers (see “Random Encounters in Blingdenstone”). There are no earth elementals reinforcing

character for useful information, plus a diamond worth 1,000 gp if they bring back proof that the medusa is dead.

1. Cave Entrance

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver

supplies, you see the body of a dwarf miner, dead for at least a week. The northeastern section of the cavern has collapsed, forming a ten-foot-wide, twenty-foot-deep pit. A sturdy hemp rope is tied off

around a nearby stalagmite and dangles down the side of the pit, at the bottom of which is a rough-hewn tunnel heading northwest and east. This was the campsite of the Rockseekers. The dead dwarf is

Setting the Stage

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

in the Dock Ward. If the Cassalanters are the villains, the stone is left in their family crypt in Waterdeep’s cemetery, the City of the Dead. A halfling necromancer gets to it before the

Cassalanters or the characters do. If Jarlaxle is the villain, the stone is delivered to Fenerus Stormcastle, a lamplighter in the Trades Ward. Fenerus has a criminal history and is currently in trouble with the

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