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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
You can take a Magic action to present the rod and command obedience from each creature of your choice that you can see within 120 feet of yourself. Each target must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving
Monsters
Candlekeep Mysteries
device that controls the elemental cannon. This device, shown in the accompanying illustration, looks like a metal rod with a tip shaped like a bird’s head.Elemental Cannon. On initiative count 20
(losing initiative ties), Zikran uses his handheld device to fire the cannon at one creature he can see, provided the creature is in the basement or on the staircase. Zikran’s target must make a
Drow Matron Mother
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Monsters
Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
, resistance, sacred flame, thaumaturgy
1st level (4 slots): bane, command, cure wounds, guiding bolt
2nd level (3 slots): hold person, silence, spiritual weapon
3rd level (3 slots): bestow curse, clairvoyance
attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.Multiattack. The matron mother makes two demon staff attacks or three tentacle rod attacks.
Demon Staff. Melee Weapon Attack: +10
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Fey Ancestry. The drow has advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put the drow to sleep.
Special Equipment. The drow wields a tentacle rod.
Sunlight Sensitivity
and three Tentacle Rod attacks.
Demon Staff. Melee Weapon Attack: +10;{"diceNotation":"1d20+10","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Demon Staff"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d6 + 4
Pole of Collapsing
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Magic Items
Xanathar's Guide to Everything
While holding this 10-foot pole, you can use an action to speak a command word and cause it to collapse into a 1-foot-long rod, for ease of storage. The pole’s weight doesn’t change. You
can use an action to speak a different command word and cause the rod to revert to a pole; however, the rod will elongate only as far as the surrounding space allows.
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Fey Ancestry. The drow has advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put the drow to sleep.
Special Equipment. The drow wields a tentacle rod.
Sunlight Sensitivity
and three Tentacle Rod attacks.
Demon Staff. Melee Weapon Attack: +10;{"diceNotation":"1d20+10","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Demon Staff"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d6 + 4
Rod of Rulership
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Magic Items
Basic Rules (2014)
You can use an action to present the rod and command obedience from each creature of your choice that you can see within 120 feet of you. Each target must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or be
charmed by you for 8 hours. While charmed in this way, the creature regards you as its trusted leader. If harmed by you or your companions, or commanded to do something contrary to its nature, a target ceases to be charmed in this way. The rod can't be used again until the next dawn.
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Special Equipment. Victoro wears a ring of protection and glamoured studded leather disguised to look like fine clothing. He carries a rod of rulership shaped like a ruby-tipped cane.
Fey Ancestry
, spare the dying, thaumaturgy
1st level (4 slots): charm person, command, detect magic, disguise self, protection from evil and good, sanctuary
2nd level (3 slots): augury, lesser restoration, mirror
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
conjecture than fact, often referring to otherworldly beings, the mysterious Barrier Peaks in Oerth, and the supposedly related device known as the Machine of Lum the Mad. The best details on the device
’s origins and operation can be found in the Mind of Metal, a tome of artificer’s secrets that connects the device to the traditions of the lost Olman people, and which was written by Lum the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Pole of Collapsing Wondrous item, common While holding this 10-foot pole, you can use an action to speak a command word and cause it to collapse into a 1-foot-long rod, for ease of storage. The
pole’s weight doesn’t change. You can use an action to speak a different command word and cause the rod to revert to a pole; however, the rod will elongate only as far as the surrounding space allows.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Rod of Rulership Rod, rare (requires attunement) You can use an action to present the rod and command obedience from each creature of your choice that you can see within 120 feet of you. Each target
commanded to do something contrary to its nature, a target ceases to be charmed in this way. The rod can’t be used again until the next dawn.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Mabaran Resonator Storm Spire
This dread device draws on the power of Mabar, infusing the dead with the malign energy of the Endless Night. While it is active, any humanoid that dies within 2
miles of the resonator reanimates 1 minute later as a zombie (see the Monster Manual for its stat block) under the control of the creature controlling the device.
Master’s Call While this looks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Rod of Rulership Rod, rare (requires attunement) You can use an action to present the rod and command obedience from each creature of your choice that you can see within 120 feet of you. Each target
commanded to do something contrary to its nature, a target ceases to be charmed in this way. The rod can’t be used again until the next dawn.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Rod of Rulership Rod, Rare (Requires Attunement) You can take a Magic action to present the rod and command obedience from each creature of your choice that you can see within 120 feet of yourself
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
allows him to command the scaladar. He has put the constructs to work building a device he calls the Simulacrux. This device will, in theory, create a simulacrum of any scaladar that passes through
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Rod of Rulership Rod, Rare (Requires Attunement) You can take a Magic action to present the rod and command obedience from each creature of your choice that you can see within 120 feet of yourself
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
one use.
Pole of Collapsing Wondrous Item, Common
While holding this 10-foot pole, you can use an action to speak a command word and cause it to collapse into a 1-foot-long rod for ease of storage
. The pole’s weight doesn’t change. You can use an action to speak a different command word and cause the rod to revert to a pole; however, the rod will elongate only as far as the surrounding space
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
all warforged within 10 miles of the device and can, as an action, send a telepathic message to them laced with enchantment magic. Such a message can be sent no more than once every 24 hours. A
warforged who receives the message is compelled to follow one command contained within it, unless the warforged succeeds on a DC 12 Wisdom saving throw. The affected warforged breaks free of the command after 24 hours.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
meet a tragic end. It serves no other purpose. The device is powered by electricity transmitted through its central element: an 80-foot-tall lightning rod that forms its vertical axis. A creature that
of these letters rise from the contraption as it revolves. The whole device hums and crackles with lightning.
Rising from the middle of the mechanism is an eighty-foot-tall copper pole made of eight
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Miska Kas returned the Rod of Seven Parts to the citadel and thrust it into the sealed mystical portal that keeps Miska in his prison demiplane, creating an opening. However, the opening isn’t wide
enough for Miska to exit, so Miska is widening it. If he can break free, he can join the battle his forces are engaged in and revel in chaos once again. If the rod is removed or knocked aside, the seal
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Horn of Blasting Wondrous item, rare You can use an action to speak the horn’s command word and then blow the horn, which emits a thunderous blast in a 30-foot cone that is audible 600 feet away
percent chance of causing the horn to explode. The explosion deals 10d6 fire damage to the blower and destroys the horn. Left to Right: Holy Avenger, Horn of Blasting, Immovable Rod, and Horn of Valhalla
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
taken over by an intellect devourer.
6 An inventor requests the characters’ insight into a pill-sized device she extracted from her own body. As the characters examine it, the device projects a map
the Apparatus (see “Mordent” later in this chapter). All it needs is a relic called the Rod of Rastinon, which it wants the characters to retrieve for it.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
feet to the arena floor (area 15a). Two flat stones command a view of the arena and are used as thrones by the nagas. 15c. Steamy Den This cramped, steam-filled cave contains the following: Duergar
”).
Chest. A wooden chest stands against the east wall.
The nagas don’t fear death, but they do fear the loss or theft of their rod of rulership and will do everything they can to safeguard it. A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
either rod renders the device inoperable until it is repaired. The creature holding the lever is a darkling elder (see appendix C) who takes sadistic pleasure in turning other creatures into masks. A
that falls to the floor. “Binky!” shrieks the caged goblin.
Endelyn uses the lightning-powered arcane device in this room to punish those who irritate her. The device has 3 charges and regains all
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
-mechanical device, worked on by a half-dozen servants. With no visible means to move it, the Infernal Machine of Lum the Mad must presumably have the power to teleport itself from place to place. It appears
it to serve as a command unit. Another six cultists then appear with the agent’s secret prisoner to finalize the programming. A door on the far side of the workshop opens, and six more assistants
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
ship under the command of a captain who is friendly toward Mirt and Spelljammer Academy. The characters are then dispatched to a coastal city and told to await the ship’s arrival. Graduation Gifts As a
reward for their heroism, each character can choose one item from the following list as a graduation gift: +1 rod of the pact keeper +1 shield +1 weapon Bag of holding Goggles of night
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
contains a small, unpainted miniature figure representing each character. Each figure is a tiny clockwork device. If painted and kept on hand, the figures secretly animate to help the characters with
small tasks whenever they sleep.
Creatures Under the command of Phenex (area 14), the girallon has been ordered to obey the sculptors as they work, but to not allow them to leave the tomb. The creature
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Yes Ring of warmth Ring Yes Ring of water walking Ring No Rod of the pact keeper, +1 Rod Yes (warlock) Sentinel shield Armor No Shield, +1 Armor No Slippers of spider climbing Wondrous item Yes Staff of
fish command Weapon Yes Wand of magic missiles Wand No Wand of the war mage, +1 Wand Yes (spellcaster) Wand of web Wand Yes (spellcaster) Weapon of warning Weapon Yes Weapon, +1 Weapon No Wind fan Wondrous item No Winged boots Wondrous item Yes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
the characters are looking for a piece of the Rod of Seven Parts, Mercy tells the characters the following about Landro’s unique power source: “I’ve heard tales of an unusual colossus called Landro
powered not by a Docent, but by a device called a graymatter engine that incorporated part of an artifact—perhaps that’s what you seek? The graymatter engine was said to generate a magical barrier
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Activating an Item Activating some magic items requires a user to do something in particular, such as holding the item and uttering a command word, reading the item if it is a scroll, or drinking it
item requires an action to activate, that action isn’t a function of the Use an Object action, so a feature such as the rogue’s Fast Hands can’t be used to activate the item. Command Word A command word
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
he has no other choice. Believing that his superior, Al’chaia, is a tyrant unfit for command, he tries to use the characters to eliminate her. This is true even if the characters are accompanied by
. Urlon won’t accompany the characters, however, since doing so would surely compromise his ability to assume command once Al’chaia is dead. He doesn’t care whether they keep Al’chaia’s magic books or not
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Shield Guardian Device-Controlled Magical Bodyguard Habitat: Urban; Treasure: None An intimidating magical automaton, a shield guardian obeys its master’s commands and protects its master from
danger. When such a guardian is created, the magic that animates it is intertwined with a bonded command amulet. Any creature that has a shield guardian’s command amulet can control that Construct and, in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Eye 33 Hat of Disguise 34 Headband of Intellect 35 Helm of Comprehending Languages 36 Helm of Telepathy 37 Immovable Rod 38 Lantern of Revealing 39 Medallion of Thoughts 40 Mithral Armor 41–42
Items 66–67 Rod of the Pact Keeper 68–69 Rope of Climbing 70 Saddle of the Cavalier 71–72 Sending Stones 73–74 Slippers of Spider Climbing 75–82 Spell Scroll (level 2 or level 3 spell) 83 Staff of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
between them and their enemies. Although matron mothers command great power, that power depends on maintaining the Spider Queen’s favor, and the dark god sometimes capriciously takes back what she has
, thaumaturgy
1st level (4 slots): bane, command, cure wounds, guiding bolt
2nd level (3 slots): hold person, silence, spiritual weapon
3rd level (3 slots): bestow curse, clairvoyance, dispel magic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
device known as the Machine of Lum the Mad. The best details on the device’s origins and operation can be found in the Mind of Metal, a tome of artificer’s secrets that connects the device to the
the servant have total cover from effects originating outside it. The controls within it allow creatures to see outside without obstruction. While you are inside the servant, you can command it by