before both dominate curving rune

Book of Vile Darkness Legacy

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

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

made to interact with non-evil creatures. Command Evil. While you are attuned to the book and holding it, you can use an action to cast the dominate monster spell on an evil target (save DC 18). You

Azorius Functionary

Backgrounds Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

5th dominate person Your magic often takes the form of blue or golden runes floating and glowing in the air in circular patterns or of shimmering azure barriers of magical energy. If you

cast ensnaring strike, for example, the vines created by the spell might appear as rune-inscribed glowing bands that wrap around the target and hold it in place. Suggested Characteristics

6. Annam's Temple

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder

6. Annam’s Temple When the characters enter or peer into this temple, read: Thick frost clings to every surface of this 100-foot-high vaulted chamber. Seven enormous statues dominate the room. The

weight of each weapon and the archway rune associated with each weapon (see “Archway and Runes”). Each statue has AC 20, a damage threshold of 10, and immunity to poison and psychic damage. The statue of

Book of Vile Darkness (Variant)

Magic Items Keys from the Golden Vault

. Mark of Darkness. After you spend the requisite amount of time reading and studying the book, you acquire a physical disfigurement as a hideous sign of your devotion to vile darkness. An evil rune might

-evil creatures. Command Evil. While you are attuned to the book and holding it, you can use an action to cast the dominate monster spell on an evil target (save DC 18). You can’t use this

Book of Vile Darkness

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

your devotion to vile 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

Charisma (Intimidation) checks made to interact with non-evil creatures. Command Evil. While you are attuned to the book and holding it, you can use an action to cast the dominate monster spell on an evil

Glory of the Giants

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

apprentice of Mordenkainen and creator of the spell Bigby’s hand. Though he began his career determined to use magic to dominate and control others, he eventually changed his ways and has worked hard

backgrounds (the giant foundling and the rune carver), and a wide selection of feats. The chapter also includes roleplaying suggestions to help you connect a character of any class to the grandeur of

Ironslag: Lower Level

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder

rune-carved iron ingot embedded in its forehead (see “Treasure”). Although golems normally have elemental spirits of earth trapped within them, this golem holds an elemental spirit of fire. The golem

in the iron golem’s forehead is an ingot of the skold rune (see appendix B). It can be removed only while the golem is deactivated or when it is destroyed. 28. Assembly Hall, Lower Level Pools of

Threshold Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen

stops the island from falling, returns the rune to its original orange color, and disables the console. The experience is startling, but it doesn’t harm the tower or creatures on the island. If the tower

they can pick out large groups of soldiers moving south of the city: Dragon Army forces and the Kalaman troops. T9: Scrying Room Window-like crystal panels dominate the walls of this room, each

Areas of the Sanctum

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

gold amulet inset with a red crystal rune (worth 250 gp). A successful DC 15 Intelligence (Arcana) check reveals that the rune is a symbol of evocation, though the amulet is nonmagical. Vevette’s chest

spells: alarm, alter self, animate dead, antimagic field, arcane lock, blight, dispel magic, dominate monster, dream, etherealness, Evard’s black tentacles, feather fall, fireball, fly, gaseous form

Appendix D: Magic

compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

cover is a gold rune that resembles a stylized eye with a pupil shaped like a candle flame—the sigil of Iriolarthas, a Netherese lich. The book contains sixty pages of brittle yellow vellum. Written on

, banishment, blight, dimension door, Evard’s black tentacles, phantasmal killer 5th level: Bigby’s hand, cloudkill, dominate person, planar binding, scrying, telekinesis 6th level: create undead

Illithinoch Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

ability (spell save DC 16): At will: dancing lights, detect magic, detect thoughts, disguise self, mage hand, prestidigitation 1/day each: dominate monster, globe of invulnerability, invisibility

magic rune in each rift to bolster a larger gateway to the Far Realm in their private ritual chambers. (See the “Far Realm Rifts” section later in this chapter.) Hated Lieutenant. The fanatics

Traveling to Phandalin

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

of a unique necromantic ritual that can turn any creature into an undead creature when it dies. (The characters will see this rune and this magic again later. See the sidebar “The Magic of Convenience

Hoobur do so in ways that aren’t covered by dominate monster. If the characters develop a strong interest in creating undead horses or summoning will-o’-wisps to their service, you can decide to

Nangalore

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

Old Omuan. A character with the Cloistered Scholar or Sage background can translate an Old Omuan inscription with a successful DC 10 Intelligence (History) check. A warlock with the Eyes of the Rune

. Without the steps, climbing the inward-curving wall requires a climbing kit and a successful DC 15 Strength (Athletics) check. The message, scrawled in Old Omuan, states, “True love, faithful general

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