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Dungeon Master’s Guide
’s authors filled the pages with their own visions of true virtue, providing guidance for defeating evil.
The Book of Exalted Deeds rarely lingers in one place. As soon as the book is read, it
that is attuned to the book can release the clasp that holds it shut. Once the book is opened, the attuned creature must spend 80 hours reading and studying the book to digest its contents and gain its
Monsters
Acquisitions Incorporated
Mechachimera. In addition to defeating the construct in combat, characters can pull out its charged disks to hinder its attacks. With a successful DC 12 Wisdom (Perception) check, any character
fighting the mechachimera notes that each of its heads features a slot from which a charged disk protrudes slightly. A character within 5 feet of the construct who succeeds on a DC 10 Dexterity (Sleight of
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Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
book’s various authors filled the pages with their own vision of true virtue, providing guidance for defeating evil.
The Book of Exalted Deeds rarely lingers in one place. As soon as the book
a creature of good alignment that is attuned to the book can release the clasp that holds it shut. Once the book is opened, the attuned creature must spend 80 hours reading and studying the book to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
. A female githyanki gish (see appendix A) named Vheza sits in one chair, reading a tome.
If Vheza sees intruders, she flees to area 17b with her book and makes her stand there. Treasure. The book
that Vheza is reading is written in Gith and titled The Ascension of Vlaakith. It chronicles Vlaakith the Lich-Queen’s rise to power in githyanki society and postulates that her absolute rulership
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
. Rather than being a scripture devoted to a particular faith, the book’s authors filled the pages with their own visions of true virtue, providing guidance for defeating evil. The Book of Exalted Deeds
wings, keeps the book’s contents secure. Only a creature that is attuned to the book can release the clasp that holds it shut. Once the book is opened, the attuned creature must spend 80 hours reading and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
for defeating evil. Book of Exalted Deeds The Book of Exalted Deeds rarely lingers in one place. As soon as the book is read, it vanishes to some other corner of the multiverse where its moral guidance
it shut. Once the book is opened, the attuned creature must spend 80 hours reading and studying the book to digest its contents and gain its benefits. Other creatures that peruse the book’s open pages
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Strahd’s Enemy Drawn from the high deck, the fourth card in the card reading determines the location of an NPC who can improve the characters’ chances of defeating Strahd. (Some cards offer two
Vistani assassin Arrigal (see chapter 5, area N9c). If the characters mention this card reading to him, he accepts his fate and accompanies them. If the characters succeed in defeating Strahd, Arrigal
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Artifacts. The characters gain a level when they obtain the Tome of Strahd, the Sunsword, or the Holy Symbol of Ravenkind. Defeating Villains. The characters gain a level when they defeat the featured
way of example. Be prepared for the fact that the adventure is exceedingly open-ended—one of the hallmarks of the original Ravenloft. The card reading in chapter 1 and the adventurers’ choices can lead
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
the cavern. It can’t pursue creatures beyond the cavern, because it’s too big to fit through the exit. The characters earn 11,500 XP for disabling or defeating it. Shockerstomper is a Gargantuan
construct with immunity to poison and psychic damage, as well as the blinded, deafened, charmed, frightened, paralyzed, and poisoned conditions. It has a walking speed of 40 feet. Its main body (saucer and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
other visitors. Some will become undead thralls. Others will never rise again. The adventurers’ best hope of defeating Strahd is to learn his secrets, for he is no ordinary vampire. Guided by Madam
Eva’s card reading, they must scour his domain and his castle for magic items that might weaken or slay him, all the while trying to stay alive. Although the adventurers can escape by slaying Strahd, he
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
. Puzzle Book. The book on the reading desk is the puzzle book with the letter L on its spine. Animated Chained Library Animated Chained Library
Large construct
Armor Class 14 (natural armor)
Hit
M12 or break through the ceiling from the attic above area M10. This room is bare except for a bookshelf covered in chains against one wall, a plain wooden bench, and a reading desk built into the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
realization that he no longer has any hope of defeating Strahd or freeing the people of the vampire’s damned realm. The Mad Mage has forgotten his name and the world whence he came. In fact, he doesn’t
know his old friend Elminster of Shadowdale. If Mordenkainen isn’t the party’s ally as foretold in Madam Eva’s card reading (see chapter 1), he declines to join them if asked. With his wits restored, he
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
bottle with a sweet-smelling liquid inside. The bottle holds a potion of mind reading. C19. Student Storage This storeroom is filled with loose parchment, books, and misfiled paperwork. In the center of
search this area find two potions of mind reading tucked into a pouch in one of the boxes. C20. Attic This cramped attic holds oddities considered too strange to display on the manor’s main floor. An
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
lectern, reading a book (see “Treasure”). If Azbara is absent, Rath Modar might mistake the characters for cultists. If the characters play along and attempt to gather information from the Red Wizard
associate figure prominently in The Rise of Tiamat. Defeating or killing them is a serious blow to the cult’s ability to summon Tiamat. Treasure Rath Modar has three spell scrolls (dimension door
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
11. Student Dormitories Each room contains identical furnishings: Pneumatic Tubes. A row of five pneumatic tubes is attached to one wall. These tubes connect to the reading niche (area 6), the
comforts, including silk bedsheets, soft furs from exotic beasts, a bowl of fresh fruit, a censer of burning incense, and a cushioned wicker reading chair. Skrianna’s Diary. Skrianna keeps a diary in her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
present, they are in the midst of a scholarly argument when the characters arrive, but they clam up as soon as others appear. If Rath Modar is alone, he is standing at a lectern, reading a book (see
of Tiamat. Defeating or killing them is a serious blow to the cult’s ability to summon Tiamat. Treasure Rath Modar has three spell scrolls (dimension door, feather fall, and fireball), and he carries a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
character can notice a slight gap beneath the secret door with a successful DC 18 Wisdom (Perception) check. C4. Reading Room This reading nook has the following features: Light pours into this room
the northern wall has a butterfly-shaped, stained-glass peephole. If Victoro Cassalanter (see appendix B) is here, he’s reading a historical text titled The Rise and Fall of Hellgate Keep and taking
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
creator and Ruxithid can command the Construct to cast it. If this fight seems too easy for the party, add two goblin psi brawlers (see appendix A), who rush from Zorzula’s Rest to join the combat in
crudely drawn map of the region on the central table, with messy arrows and scrawled labels reading “Gibbet Crossing,” “Crypt of the Talhund,” and “Talhundereth.” (See the Goblins’ Map handout in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
. To obtain Shagambi’s puzzle cube, the characters must obtain the four bronze spears from the monsters in area 4C and place the weapons in the hands of the four warrior statues. Only by defeating the
construct with an Armor Class of 17 (natural, shield). It has a climbing speed of 30 feet and can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check. It is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
defeating the construct in combat, characters can pull out its charged disks to hinder its attacks. With a successful DC 12 Wisdom (Perception) check, any character fighting the mechachimera notes that
door’s five slots, the door automatically opens into this area and activates the creatures in the next room. 4. Mechachimera This chamber holds a construct chimera, Screve’s crowning achievement before he
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
operation, forcing the wizard to spend time and resources defeating the fiend and replacing slain underlings. K16. Construct Workshop The invisible staircase from area K15 ends in front of a closed door
marble table in a reading nook. A stone staircase spirals up to area K6. Gargoyles. The two real gargoyles are indistinguishable from the inanimate gargoyle statues in the high alcoves. When intruders
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
room. There are small reading desks with cozy scarlet chairs in the corners.
The shelves contain books on Fistandia’s favorite subjects: arcana, natural science, religion, astrology, and planar
successful DC 15 Strength (Athletics) check. Treasure. Sitting on the reading desk is a jeweled letter opener worth 20 gp. Puzzle Book. The puzzle book with the letter R on its spine is on one of the shelves
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
reading “Acont, Prince of Minotaurs.” Two skeletal knights (see appendix B) and a minotaur skeleton stand guard in this room and attack intruders on sight. Brickwork Seals. Each occupied crypt is
the character refuses the offer, the altar emits smoke that coalesces into a hulking figure. This hostile figure uses the clay golem stat block, but it is an Undead instead of a Construct. If the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
area T6, hoping to draw the characters to the false tomb and the other golems waiting there. Canopic Golem Large construct
Armor Class 17 (natural armor)
Hit Points 252 (24d10 + 120)
Speed 30 ft
abjuration and evocation magic to a detect magic spell. Its first ward triggers when any creature that is not a construct or an undead moves within 20 feet of it, filling the area of the well to a height
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
material component of a simulacrum spell. Manshoon can use it to create a new simulacrum if his current one is destroyed. E8. Reading Room This room contains the following features: Delightful warmth
other far corner, Manshoon’s spellbook rests atop a black marble lectern protected by an invisible helmed horror. The construct attacks anyone other than Manshoon who disturbs the book (becoming visible
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
horror that was fashioned on Avernus. The construct understands Infernal but can’t speak, and it is immune to the following spells: fire bolt, sacred flame, and shocking grasp. The only creatures
pursues intruders beyond the room, returning here only after the trespassers leave the villa or are hacked to pieces. Bookcases. Duke Vanthampur abhors reading but keeps a modest library of fine
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
unlocking the tome’s secret lore and believed it could be interpreted in this chamber. Alas, the magical nature of this room doesn’t enhance reading comprehension. Undaunted, Klaudel summoned Jomlus to read
carries on Klaudel’s work, reading and rereading the text the spectator doesn’t understand and repeating its words with a slightly different pronunciation each time. Klaudel’s obsession has become Jomlus’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
bronze horn to warn the hall (see area 2). The giant has four rocks for throwing. If the characters are returning after severely defeating the giants, a ballista (from the arsenal at 10A) will be set up
and two gems (worth 100 gp each). The disguised chest holds a jeweled scepter worth 1,000 gp, three potions (superior healing, mind reading, and invulnerability), and five spell scrolls (zone of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
always looking to hire daring “investigative reporters” willing to investigate rumors of strange happenings or procure proof of corruption by the city’s elite. Even just reading the broadsheet can
dangerously pollute the river, leading a coalition of druids and patriars to construct the Sewer Keep. A series of three towers built into the walls at the western end of the Seatower neighborhood, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
always looking to hire daring “investigative reporters” willing to investigate rumors of strange happenings or procure proof of corruption by the city’s elite. Even just reading the broadsheet can
and let the river carry its problems elsewhere. As the city grew, however, this began to dangerously pollute the river, leading a coalition of druids and patriars to construct the Sewer Keep. A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
reading an eldritch tome written by those who have seen or otherwise interacted with the Far Realm. A Far Realm Incursion with Mind Flayer Nautiloids Far Realm Effects d100 Effect 01–09 A
that cause extra damage. Any creature, other than a construct or an undead, hit by an attack that deals piercing or slashing damage begins to bleed, losing 1d4 hit points at the start of each of its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
the room. The beholder zombie is all that remains of a beholder that arose from the Underdark to challenge Xanathar’s supremacy. After defeating its rival, Xanathar had the corpse animated and
floor. A mangy straw pallet lies on the floor under the bowl. (The fishkeeper, Ott Steeltoes, uses the pallet as a bed.) Dream Nullifier. Xanathar hired a wizard to construct a device that would prevent






