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Dungeon Master’s Guide
Kas was a powerful warrior who served Vecna and whose loyalty was rewarded with this sword. As Kas’s power grew, so did his hubris. The sword urged Kas to destroy Vecna and usurp his throne
corrupted by the Eye and Hand of Vecna.
Destroying the Sword. A creature attuned to both the Eye of Vecna and the Hand of Vecna can use the Wish property of those combined Artifacts to unmake the Sword of
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
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
stone cracks and turns to powder if the book rests on it long enough.
Whenever a creature that isn’t a Fiend or an Undead attunes to the Book of Vile Darkness, that creature makes a DC 17
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Demogorgon’s purposes in the Material Plane are rewarded with a “blessing” that transforms them into monstrous echoes of their demon patron.
The arms of an echo of Demogorgon
, attacking their allies.Cold, Fire, LightningDiscordant Screams. The echo directs its frenzied howls at one creature it can see within 60 feet of itself. The target must succeed on a DC 13 Wisdom saving
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Thunderous Touch"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 27 (5d10);{"diceNotation":"5d10","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Thunderous Touch","rollDamageType":"thunder
veneration are sometimes rewarded with power, to serve thereafter as kraken priests.
Every kraken priest undergoes a change in appearance that reflects the kraken’s influence, although each
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Resonant Connection. If the banderhobb has even a tiny piece of a creature or an object in its possession, such as a lock of hair or a splinter of wood, it knows the most direct route to that
creature or object if it is within 1 mile of the banderhobb.Multiattack. The banderhobb makes one Bite attack and one Tongue attack. It can replace one attack with a use of Shadow Step.
Bite. Melee Weapon
Monsters
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
., one creature. Hit: 21 (3d10 + 5);{"diceNotation":"3d10+5", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Tentacle", "rollDamageType":"psychic"} psychic damage. If the target is Medium or smaller, it has the
rift. Each creature other than mind flayers within 30 feet of the rift must make a DC 17 Intelligence saving throw, after which the tentacle disappears and the rift closes. On a failed save, a
Monsters
Keys from the Golden Vault
tattoo across her back, filling a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on her. Each other creature in that area must make a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the creature takes 13 (3d8
. When a creature Prisoner 13 can see within 60 feet of herself ends its turn, Prisoner 13 makes one Tattooed Strike attack or uses River Tattoo. She can then move up to her speed without provoking
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
":"damage", "rollAction":"Spiked Chain: Decay", "rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage.
3–4: Grapple. The target is grappled (escape DC 14) if it is a Medium or smaller creature. Until the
along tragic paths for her amusement. The Raven Queen is famously cryptic even to her most devoted followers, however; their efforts are rewarded only with vague omens they interpret as best they can
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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
example of blackest magic he came across or devised. Vecna covered every vile topic he could, making the book a gruesome catalog of all mortal wrongs.
Other practitioners of evil have held the book and
powder if the book rests on it long enough.
A creature attuned to the book must spend 80 hours reading and studying it to digest its contents and reap its benefits. The creature can then freely modify
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
","rollAction":"Many-Tailed Whip","rollDamageType":"thunder"} thunder damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 24 Strength saving throw or be pulled up to 30 feet in a straight line
toward Moloch.
Breath of Despair (Recharge 5-6);{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType":"recharge","rollAction":"Breath of Despair"}. Moloch exhales in a 30-foot cube. Each creature in that area must
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
spells and other magical effects.
Soul Thirst. When it reduces a creature to 0 hit points, the shadar-kai can gain temporary hit points equal to half the creature’s hit point maximum. While the
speed reduced by 20 feet until the start of that creature’s next turn.Multiattack. The shadar-kai makes two Shadow Dagger attacks.
Shadow Dagger. Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +7
Magic Items
Keys from the Golden Vault
example of blackest magic he came across or devised. Vecna covered every vile topic he could, making the book a gruesome catalog of all mortal wrongs.
Other practitioners of evil have held the book and
powder if the book rests on it long enough.
A creature attuned to the book must spend 80 hours reading and studying it to digest its contents and reap its benefits. The creature can then freely modify
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
. These adventurers discovered that the alleged haunting of the house was a ruse devised by a gang of smugglers importing contraband. The adventurers overcame the smugglers in the house, then boarded
their ship and routed the rest of the gang. The smuggling operation quashed, the adventurers were rewarded by the grateful Saltmarsh authorities. But even after the smugglers were routed, a danger
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
treasure is left to your discretion. The key is to make sure the players feel rewarded for playing, and that their characters are rewarded for overcoming dangerous challenges.
Treasure Tables Treasure
Treasure Tables An Individual Treasure table helps you randomly determine how much treasure one creature carries on its person. If a monster has no interest in amassing treasure, you can use this table to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
Talos. When in the caves, however, she is in her chambers praying. Talos has rewarded Gadrille for her devotion with a pet, whom she calls “Tooth-N-Claw.” This beast uses hell hound statistics but replace
.” Swirling Pool Chamber In the center of this chamber is a large roiling boil of water. Gadrille likes to soak in it, feeling the power of Talos course through her when she does. If a creature not favored
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
temporarily serves its creator as a thug, a thief, and a kidnapper that swallows the unwary. Hags have devised a ritual for creating banderhobbs—a hag who knows the ritual might be willing to teach it for
Connection. If the banderhobb has even a tiny piece of a creature or an object in its possession, such as a lock of hair or a splinter of wood, it knows the most direct route to that creature or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
the two-headed Demogorgon and devote themselves to his service. Those who prove exceptionally valuable to Demogorgon’s purposes in the Material Plane are rewarded with a “blessing” that transforms them
Actions
Discordant Screams. The echo directs its frenzied howls at one creature it can see within 60 feet of itself. The target must succeed on a DC 13 Wisdom saving throw or suffer one of the following
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
who pass its tests may be rewarded with a heroes’ feast. Androsphinx
Large monstrosity, lawful neutral
Armor Class 17 (natural armor)
Hit Points 199 (19d10 + 95)
Speed 40 ft., fly 60 ft
roar. Each time it roars before finishing a long rest, the roar is louder and the effect is different, as detailed below. Each creature within 500 feet of the sphinx and able to hear the roar must make a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
bands that sell themselves to the highest bidder. As long as they are rewarded, orog mercenaries gladly serve as elite warriors and shock troops for evil wizards, depraved giants, and other villains
, the orog can move up to its speed toward a hostile creature that it can see.
Actions
Multiattack. The orog makes two greataxe attacks.
Greataxe. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
realm’s starless depths and been subsequently rewarded with extraordinary powers. Instead of heeding an elder brain, a mind flayer clairvoyant listens to the whispers and whims of the voices of the
Multiattack. The mind flayer makes two Tentacle attacks.
Tentacle. Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 21 (3d10 + 5) psychic damage. If the target is Medium or smaller
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3) bludgeoning damage.
A guard drake is a reptilian creature created out of dragon scales by means of a bizarre and grisly ritual
originally devised by the cult of Tiamat, but has spread to other groups that are skilled in arcana and associated with dragons. The cooperation of a dragon is necessary for the ritual to succeed, and a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
temporarily serves its creator as a thug, a thief, and a kidnapper. Birthed by Hags. In the earliest days of the world, a coven of night hags devised a ritual that led to the creation of the first
found in a tome devoted to debased wizardry. Silent and Deadly. When the ritual to create a banderhobb is complete, flesh, spirit, and shadow combine to produce a creature as big as an ogre. The newly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
came across or devised. Other practitioners of evil have added their own input to the book’s catalog of vile knowledge. Their additions are clear, for the writers of later works stitched whatever they
whatever it touches. Even stone cracks and turns to powder if the book rests on it long enough. Whenever a creature that isn’t a Fiend or an Undead attunes to the Book of Vile Darkness, that creature
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Sword of Kas Weapon (Longsword), Artifact (Requires Attunement) Kas was a powerful warrior who served Vecna and whose loyalty was rewarded with this sword. As Kas’s power grew, so did his hubris. The
of Vecna. Destroying the Sword. A creature attuned to both the Eye of Vecna and the Hand of Vecna can use the Wish property of those combined Artifacts to unmake the Sword of Kas, provided the sword is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
pages every diseased idea, every unhinged thought, and every example of blackest magic he came across or devised. Vecna covered every vile topic he could, making the book a gruesome catalog of all mortal
destroys whatever it touches. Even stone cracks and turns to powder if the book rests on it long enough. A creature attuned to the book must spend 80 hours reading and studying it to digest its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a7
that evidently confines some sort of horrid creature (its taloned and scaled hands grasp the bars of its small window). If the plaster and lath beneath this image is broken away, a normal, inward
studied all the way from the entrance to where the path forks toward areas 5 and 6, the individual with such perseverance will be rewarded by suddenly understanding that a message is contained in barely
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
hardships of their existence. Any creature that isn’t a drow is useful only as a sacrifice to Lolth, as a slave, or as fodder for the giant spiders that the drow train to patrol their cities and tunnels
spirits to her in the Demonweb to undergo her judgment. Followers never know when or if they are to be tested. One who claims to have undergone the test and passed it is rewarded with respect and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Nine Hells. Asmodeus rewarded him by elevating Moloch to the rulership of Malbolge. For eons, Moloch ruled his domain, vying against the other archdevils as he sought still greater power. This animosity
(2d4 + 8) slashing damage plus 11 (2d10) lightning damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 24 Strength saving throw or be pulled up to 30 feet in a straight line toward Moloch
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
Nine Hells. Asmodeus rewarded him by elevating him to the rulership of Malbolge. For eons, Moloch ruled his domain, vying against the other archdevils as he sought still greater power. This animosity
creature, it must succeed on a DC 24 Strength saving throw or be pulled up to 30 feet in a straight line toward Moloch.
Breath of Despair (Recharge 5–6). Moloch exhales in a 30-foot cube. Each
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
can sense when any humanoid moves within 5 feet of the bones, and it immediately tries to possess that creature. The target must succeed on a DC 18 Charisma saving throw or become possessed by
the room, Mornhyld’s spirit ends the effect as a bonus action, or the spirit is forced out by an effect such as the dispel evil and good spell. The creature is immune to the spirit’s possession for 24
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
souls from which new devils are spawned. Lords of Tyranny. Devils live to conquer, enslave, and oppress. They take perverse delight in exercising authority over the weak, and any creature that defies
. In accordance with their lawful alignment, devils obey even when they envy or dislike their superiors, knowing that their obedience will be rewarded. The hierarchy of the Nine Hells depends on this
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
prepared but hasn’t released. The door to the cage is held shut by a simple latch. To catch a paper bird, a creature must reach into the cage and use an action to try to grapple it; if the grapple check
of lightning before sitting at her desk to write, granting her flashes of inspiration. The shelves hold thirty bottles of lightning. Any creature other than Endelyn that tries to drink the lightning
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
. Trigger. This trap activates as soon as a non-undead creature enters the hallway, and it remains active while any non-undead creature is within the hall. Initiative. The trap acts on initiative count 20
rising back up to the ceiling in the next 50 feet, and a rune of fear in its final 30 feet. Whirling Blades (Initiative 20). The blades attack each creature in the first 80 feet of the hallway, with a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
should encounter this ally soon after drawing the card—within a few days or even sooner. Grateful Ally Your good deeds shall be rewarded; gratitude becomes guardianship.
This ally is grateful to the
ally wishes to study a particular dungeon, region, or creature. The ally might be a historian, planar explorer, botanist, or zoologist. Because the Knight card usually summons a warrior, a studious
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Card Fortune Comet “Carry a lit flame with you at all times. You will be rewarded with wondrous treasure.” Fates “You are fated to witness a terrible catastrophe. Take solace in knowing there is
person or creature seems to need the characters’ help but is a hungry monster in disguise. This might be a hag disguised as a child, a werewolf in wolf form whimpering and feigning injury by the side of