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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
Monsters
Acquisitions Incorporated
bonus action.
Sunlight Sensitivity. While in sunlight, the deep crow has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.Multiattack. The deep crow makes three
resembles a massive version of its namesake bird, this creature is a unique form of avian insect. Seen up close, it can easily be discerned from any other giant bird by its insectoid maw, its four-clawed
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Fist attacks against one random creature within reach. If no creatures are within reach, the giant flies into a rage and gains advantage on all attack rolls until the end of its next turn.
4–5
two Fist attacks against one random creature within reach. If no creatures are within reach, the giant flies into a rage and gains advantage on all attack rolls until the end of its next turn.Bite
Magic Items
Acquisitions Incorporated
While attuned to this device, you have a +1 bonus to Strength saving throws, and you have darkvision out to a range of 60 feet. If you already have darkvision, its range increases by 30 feet
attack rolls against you. Once you use this feature of the dimensional loop, it cannot be used again until the next dawn.
Fold Space. Choose a space you can see within 60 feet of you (no action
Equipment
Lord Syuul;Lord Syuul's psionic enucleator can be used to modify the body of any creature inside its tank. The device must be operated by another creature who can manifest a psionic power or who has
creature in the tank:
Bone Spikes. Bony protrusions sprout from the creature’s skin. The creature gains a +1 bonus to the attack and damage rolls of unarmed strikes and natural weapon attacks
Wand of Orcus
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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
The ghastly Wand of Orcus rarely leaves Orcus’s side. The device, as evil as its creator, shares the demon lord’s aims to snuff out the lives of all living things and bind the Material
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
can spend 1 hour and 10 gp worth of materials to construct a Tiny clockwork device (AC 5, 1 hp). The device ceases to function after 24 hours (unless you spend 1 hour repairing it to keep the device
functioning), or when you use your action to dismantle it; at that time, you can reclaim the materials used to create it. You can have up to three such devices active at a time. When you create a device
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
device, choose one of the following options: Clockwork Toy. This toy is a clockwork animal, monster, or person, such as a frog, mouse, bird, dragon, or soldier. When placed on the ground, the toy moves 5
can spend 1 hour and 10 gp worth of materials to construct a Tiny clockwork device (AC 5, 1 hp). The device ceases to function after 24 hours (unless you spend 1 hour repairing it to keep the device
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
Arclight Phoenix An arclight phoenix is variously said to be a byproduct of a lightning strike on an aviary, a mishap in an effort to create a translocation device, or a successful attempt to create
an elemental creature in the form of a majestic bird. Whatever its origin, an arclight phoenix looks like a bird of prey formed entirely of electrical energy. Lightning fans out behind it as it bolts
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
temple, Valetta identifies it as Nim, a nimblewright that was gifted to the temple by a Lantanese wizard. If they describe the incident involving the mechanical bird, Valetta sighs and leads them up a
incident with the bird, Nim hides amid the clutter in its lair, but it emerges if the characters find their way inside or coax it into unlocking the door. If the characters ask about the other
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
Dimensional Loop Wondrous item, very rare (requires attunement) While attuned to this device, you have a +1 bonus to Strength saving throws, and you have darkvision out to a range of 60 feet. If you
Dexterity (Stealth) checks made to hide, and imposing disadvantage on attack rolls against you. Once you use this feature of the dimensional loop, it cannot be used again until the next dawn. Fold Space
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
adventures. As the characters encounter evidence of Bluetspur’s mind flayers, consider giving individuals access to information they shouldn’t logically possess or granting them advantage on rolls related
to their hidden memories, doled out as you deem appropriate. This might take the form of allowing the character to navigate an alien installation, operate an inscrutable device, or read an otherworldly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
gp each. No two are exactly alike. The smallest ones are 3 inches tall, and the largest ones stand 3 feet tall. When an hourglass runs out, the device pivots around its center, allowing the sand to
placed on the floor, the wound-up bird walks counterclockwise in a 5-foot-diameter circle, completing one circle every 10 seconds. After walking for 30 seconds, the bird stops moving and chirping until it is wound up again.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
the bizarre device called the Apparatus might allow him to escape his torment and reach a more peaceful afterlife. Godefroy’s servants have spent centuries abducting magical geniuses, possessing them
and convincing them to recreate the Apparatus again and again, often with unpredictable or catastrophic results. The magical device has caused all manner of inexplicable teleportations, mergings of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
character. Clockwork Chaos d6 Device Effect 1–2 No devices threaten the character. 3 A contraption that looks like a big set of teeth tries to bite the character (+3 to hit, 1d6 bludgeoning damage on
a hit). 4 A bundle of thrashing cords whips around the character, who must succeed on a DC 10 Dexterity saving throw or be restrained until the end of the character’s next turn. 5 A device fires a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
investigates the spot the figure vanished from finds a number of sizable black feathers, one for each character. They also find a planchette—a device tied to communicating with the dead—decorated with
bird skulls. This item has no magical properties or immediate use but might prove useful as the adventure proceeds. The Mists. The day’s drizzle has grown into a rainstorm, and anyone who looks back
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
in the world. A mouth of Grolantor is revered as a holy embodiment of Grolantor’s aching hunger. Unlike a typical sluggish hill giant, a mouth of Grolantor is thin as a whippet, alert like a bird, and
rolls until the end of its next turn.
4–5: The giant makes one Fist attack against each creature within reach. If no creatures are within reach, the giant makes one Fist attack against itself.
6–7
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
1d8 The Specter Lurks Near... 1 A community afflicted by curses, grudges, plagues, or tragedies. 2 An evil Artifact or a deadly magical device. 3 The lair of a Fiend or an Undead. 4 The place
its turn inside an object.
Sunlight Sensitivity. While in sunlight, the specter has Disadvantage on ability checks and attack rolls.
Actions
Life Drain. Melee Attack Roll: +4, reach 5 ft. Hit: 7
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
and suffers a psychic shock. While suffering this shock, the character has disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks, and must attempt a DC 10 Constitution check to cast a spell. On a failed
down the chute using crampons or some other device to grip the wall. Other characters can climb down only with ropes, pitons, and other climbing gear. The chute descends 60 feet to the roof of area 19
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
holed up in the Black Cabin, where he spent all his time assembling a weather-controlling magical device called the Summer Star, using knowledge he gleaned from a book about Netherese artifacts
. Macreadus’s device was similar in design to a mythallar (see appendix D), but much smaller. Unfortunately for him, it had a serious design flaw. When Macreadus tried to use it three days ago, it malfunctioned
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
automatically sliced open with an attack from an elder monk’s force pike. Characters who fall to the valley floor (area C4) from area C1 or area M9 are picked up by a floating teleportation-field device
greataxe attack is replaced with a shackling chains attack, using the same modifiers but dealing bludgeoning damage. While in sunlight, an immured one has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
requires a successful DC 17 Dexterity check. Two successful tosses earn one roll on the Carnival Prizes table; three successes earn two rolls on the table. Catch the Dragon by the Tail “Prizes! Prizes
flutters around them. The participant has three chances to succeed on a DC 18 Wisdom (Perception) check. Someone who succeeds on the check catches the dragon by the tail and rolls once on the Carnival
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
and suffers a psychic shock. While suffering this shock, the character has disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks, and must attempt a DC 10 Constitution check to cast a spell. On a failed
down the chute using crampons or some other device to grip the wall. Other characters can climb down only with ropes, pitons, and other climbing gear. The chute descends 60 feet to the roof of area 19
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
. In these lands, ecclesiastical positions are dominated by a few bloodlines and preserved over generations. Why do so many celestial things have bird wings and infernal things have bat wings? It seems
Healing Starting at 6th level, the divine energy coursing through you can empower healing spells. Whenever you or an ally within 5 feet of you rolls dice to determine the number of hit points a spell
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
places, surrounded by dead plants, noticeably blackened, and avoided by bird and beast. Humanoids slain by a wight can rise as zombies under its control. Motivated by hunger for living souls and driven by
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 13
Languages the languages it knew in life
Challenge 3 (700 XP)
Sunlight Sensitivity. While in sunlight, the wight has disadvantage on attack rolls, as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
them how to operate the rope-and-pulley device to get from one floor to the next. The boxed text describing each floor of the tower includes information that Topolah gives during her tour. First Floor
This floor houses a modest kitchen where two mechanical gnomes are preparing dinner. Furnishings include an unmade bed, a wardrobe topped with bird nests, and a bookshelf packed with astrological
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monstrous Compendium Volume Two
. The inventor has advantage on initiative rolls.
Actions
Multiattack. The inventor makes two Flying Fangtrap attacks. It can replace one of these attacks with Thunderscream Gadget if it’s available
must succeed on a DC 14 Dexterity saving throw or be blinded until the end of its next turn.
Who among us hasn’t marveled at a majestic bird soaring high above and thought, “I can do better
Magic Items
Infernal Machine Rebuild
This strange device was once thought to have been built by gods long forgotten and to have survived the eons since their passing, for it is incredibly ancient and crafted by means unlike anything
Machine of Lum the Mad. Yet with Lum’s eventual defeat, his great machine was destroyed.
The Infernal Machine is a delicate, intricate, bulky, and heavy device, weighing some 5,500 pounds. It can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
resident tinker gnome, Than, built an elaborate catapult-like contraption on the roof of the keep. A friend of Becklin and Darrett, Than occasionally drops by to fine-tune this device, called a
gnomeflinger—and the noise of Than’s occasional early-morning tinkering—because she sees the catapult-shaped device as a deterrent against attack. DELIBERATE WELCOME
The village of Vogler welcomes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
meal for one of these monstrosities is a too-real threat for those who stumble into their deadly lairs.
Though the deep crow most immediately resembles a massive version of its namesake bird, this
creature is a unique form of avian insect. Seen up close, it can easily be discerned from any other giant bird by its insectoid maw, its four-clawed feet, and the cluster of red eyes that are the most
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Sirens are a kind of beautiful harpy with humanlike bodies, bird wings and legs, and bright plumage in shades of blue, purple, and green. They use the stat block of the harpy in the Monster Manual
Perception 10
Languages Common
Challenge 1/8 (25 XP)
Blood Frenzy. The harpy has advantage on melee attack rolls against any creature that doesn’t have all its hit points.
Dark Devotion. The harpy has
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
, and deal with the consequences.
A disease that does more than infect a few party members is primarily a plot device. The rules help describe the effects of the disease and how it can be cured, but
saving throw or become infected. One day after infection, the creature’s vision starts to become blurry. The creature takes a -1 penalty to attack rolls and ability checks that rely on sight. At the end of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
oceans. Concentric rings of brass constrain the device, all rotating and bearing their own lesser spheres. One of those spheres has sharp points and appears sunlike. Carvings of tall, headless humanoids
rolls a natural 20 on an attack roll made with its greataxe, it cuts off the target's head (or one of the target's heads, if it has more than one). If the target can’t survive without the lost head, it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
assures the characters that the device is airtight and watertight. Bazelsteen asks the characters to secure themselves inside the diving bell while he uses the crane to lower them into the river. Their
, successful checks to bring the bathysphere back onto the barge. After the characters each take a turn, a glabrezu lands on the barge and rolls initiative. On each of its turns, the demon uses its action and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
cylindrical device is the Soulmonger. The malformed creature floating next to it is an atropal (see appendix D), which feeds on the captured souls of the dead. The atropal attacks any creature that
adventure) but also frees all the souls trapped within the device. Freed souls travel to the afterlife, and any creature whose soul is set free can be brought back from the dead by magical means. The