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Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
is set a black diamond whose depths swirl with weird, malignant energy.
Myrkul created the Crown of Horns at the height of his power. When Myrkul was slain by Mystra, he imbued the crown with his
the course of 365 days. During that time, the transformation is purely cosmetic; these cosmetic changes slowly fade if you end Attunement to the crown before completing the transformation. When the
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
resources of the Black Network at its disposal.
Yalah stays abreast of events in the city, keeps a tight rein on her children, and uses her station and her family's wealth to pry secrets from the lips of
she knows the identities and secrets of enough Masked Lords, Yalah is confident that she can bribe, blackmail, or extort her way into their ranks. From there, she plans to effect changes in the
Monsters
Acquisitions Incorporated
relic known as the Black Altar, exposing him to their infinite truths and shocking the drow's hair jet-black. His matching “beard” is actually a slow-growing colony of inert spores that K'thriss
uses the stat block of a poisonous snake with these changes:
It has an Intelligence score of 12 (+2).
It has telepathy out to a range of 30 feet.
Species
Acquisitions Incorporated
turned the color of jade and their blood began to flow black. Their ears grew pointed, and they gained a limited form of telepathy — but at the cost of forgetting their history. The underground homes
-encompassing power of entropy — the force that unknowingly and uncaringly changes order into chaos, and that breaks matter and time down into its component parts so that all can be rebuilt. Some
Magic Items
Acquisitions Incorporated
. But Lottie soon realized that her creation was far more powerful than she had intended. As it tapped into planar magic, the orrery began to manifest the darkness and malevolence inherent to some of the
alignment changes to chaotic neutral, and you are compelled to engage with and explore the most dangerous planar realms.
Master of Travel. While all six components of the Orrery of the Wanderer are
Book of Vile Darkness
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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
must make a DC 17 Charisma saving throw. On a failed save, the creature’s alignment changes to neutral evil.
The Book of Vile Darkness remains with you only as long as you strive to work evil
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
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
from many walks of life, setting them to tasks that serve the goals of the Black Network but aren’t necessarily criminal in nature. Agents of the Black Network must often work in secret, and are
try to help those in need, no matter what the personal cost. (Good)
3
Change. We must help bring about the changes the gods are constantly working in the world. (Chaotic)
4
Power. I hope
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a4
11. Spinning Cylinder The stone corridor changes abruptly to a spinning cylinder, apparently made of some light-colored metal. The inner surface rotates rapidly. It is painted in a dizzying black-and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Monks The fat man straightened his black-and-gold vest, lowered his round head, and charged.
Danica waited until he was right in front of her, and to the onlookers it appeared as if the woman would
wrist stopped him dead in his tracks, and before he even realized what was happening, Danica kicked the back of both his knees, dropping him to a kneel.
— R.A. Salvatore, Canticle
Some of the
Magic Items
Keys from the Golden Vault
must make a DC 17 Charisma saving throw. On a failed save, the creature’s alignment changes to neutral evil.
The Book of Vile Darkness remains with you only as long as you strive to work evil
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 forked tongue, or some
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
legend. But as the queen approached the entrance to Arvandor, she realized what the wizards were doing and brought all her wrath down upon them as the ritual was under way. Because she was by now a
quasi-divine entity, her supernatural rage corrupted the ritual into a phenomenon that took on a terrible strength of its own. By the time the queen realized her error, she could feel the now-twisted
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
the hands of the unworthy (anyone who is not an Avowed). After reading Kandlekeep Dekonstruktion, Stonky realized that one of Candlekeep’s towers—the Barn Door—is actually a flying vehicle powered by
Stonky’s scheme. Further Investigation Characters who offer to investigate the Barn Door are initially denied access, since visitors to Candlekeep are not permitted to enter the Inner Ward. Then a sudden new development changes everything.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
place. He has a collection of black flying snakes that he uses as couriers to deliver messages to underlings throughout the city. Game Statistics Urstul Floxin is an Illuskan human assassin, with these changes: Urstul is lawful evil. He speaks Common and Orc and knows thieves’ cant.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Regarding Dragons Even with the suggested changes to the factions and locations, a key component of the Dragonlance setting is still missing: dragons! If you want to add a draconic influence to the
campaign, consider the following changes and additions. Draconic Influence In this variant, the Dragon Highlords are also interested in the power that the elemental nodes represent. They dispatch
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
, with these changes: The black puddings understand Elvish and Undercommon, but can’t speak. Each pudding has an Intelligence of 14 and the following Innate Spellcasting trait: Innate Spellcasting. The
a single gray ooze with a challenge rating of 8 (3,900 XP) and these changes: The ooze is Huge, with 152 (16d12 + 48) hit points and a Strength score of 18. As an action, it can make two attacks with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
far end of the hall.
Monsters. Two of Muiral’s arcane experiments (see below) huddle next to the rubble of the toppled pillars.
Floor. Dusty black marble tiles cover the floor, many of them cracked
and broken.
Muiral injected two drow prisoners with magic elixirs that forever transformed them into hideously deformed giants with bulging muscles, charcoal-black skin, and long, dirty-white hair
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata
. Other Uthgardt fear and respect a shaman’s power.
The sidebar’s name is now “Uthgardt Shaman Tribal Spells” and the following spells have been cut from the sidebar: animate dead (Black Lion), feather
fall (Black Raven, Griffon, Sky Pony), expeditious retreat (Elk), divine favor (Great Worm, Sky Pony), beast sense (Red Tiger), stoneskin (Thunderbeast), druidcraft and plant growth (Tree Ghost). In the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Head Servants The head servants of Cassalanter Villa are members of the cult. These four servants are described below. All appear to be tieflings, though one is not. The following changes apply to
resistance to fire damage. They have darkvision out to a range of 60 feet. They speak Common and Infernal. Willifort Crowelle Willifort dresses in a sharp black suit and wears thin-rimmed spectacles. He’s a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
Created by Chaos When the power of That-Which-Endures mutated the verdan, their skin was turned the color of jade and their blood began to flow black. Their ears grew pointed, and they gained a
multiverse-spanning primordial spirit and an over-god. It represents the amoral and all-encompassing power of entropy — the force that unknowingly and uncaringly changes order into chaos, and that breaks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
top, they vary in height (from a dozen feet to many dozen feet) and substance (from obsidian-like stone to an unknown black metal). None of these obelisks were as powerful as those created by the
Weavers, but they could nevertheless enact great and terrible changes, such as empowering the ritual in this adventure.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
a dome built of black stone is a statue of a snake with closed eyes swallowing its own tail.
Apparition. The ghostly image of an adventurer moves through the area, looking lost.
The ghostly image
on this level, the image changes to appear as that character, even if the character is later raised from the dead. A dispel magic spell that targets the image causes it to disappear for 1 hour. A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
thirteen dark apparitions appear on the ledges overlooking the room. Each one resembles a black-robed figure holding a torch, but the torch’s fire is black and seems to draw light into it. Where you’d expect
to hinder the characters (see “Endings” below). If the characters leave the dais without making the sacrifice, the cultists’ chant changes: “Lorghoth the Decayer, we awaken thee!” This chant rouses the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
to channel the divination and foretelling powers of the stars. But Lottie soon realized that her creation was far more powerful than she had intended. As it tapped into planar magic, the orrery began
planes. Over time, your alignment changes to chaotic neutral, and you are compelled to engage with and explore the most dangerous planar realms. Master of Travel. While all six components of the Orrery of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
top of the dais, the altar there released a clay golem that attacked them (see area 15b). Four duergar were smashed to a pulp before Skella realized that their weapons were having no effect on the
“Legion of Azrok”). This rare magic item requires attunement. A creature attuned to it gains blindsight out to a range of 30 feet. The dagger has a saw-toothed edge and a black pearl nested in its pommel
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
, all covered in dust and cobwebs.
Easel. A wooden easel stands in the northeast corner, draped in a black cloth. (Under the cloth, resting on the easel, is a half-finished portrait of Dezmyr as she
was in life, lying nude on a bed of tentacles.)
Zalthar. Seated in a chair, facing the northern and western doors, is Zalthar Shadowdusk — a death knight in black armor. In his withered hands, he
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Zhents coin and allows them to use the family’s noble villa as a refuge. In exchange, the house reaps all the benefits that the Black Network offers, including intelligence that its spies have gathered. So
while the Zhents use House Gralhund as a shield, the Gralhunds are using the Zhents to ascertain the identities and weaknesses of the Masked Lords. Orond doesn’t fully grasp how entwined the Black
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
3. Bear Cave This dry cave is tucked under a grassy bulge in the mountainside. The main cave is home to a mated pair of cave bears (use the polar bear statistics) and one cave bear cub (use the black
is a gladiator, with the following changes: Hydia’s alignment is chaotic evil. She speaks Bothii (the Uthgardt language) and Common. She carries three spears. The cave bear cub fights only in self
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation Supplement
. Below the monument is a stretch of sandy beach covered with shells. Black, moss-covered rocks jut from the water like teeth worn down by time. Just beyond these “teeth” are several barnacle-covered
creature withdraws to the northern strait when the tide goes out. It has the statistics of a plesiosaurus, with these changes: The two-headed plesiosaurus has 100 hit points.
It has advantage on Wisdom
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
13. Bear Laboratory Whenever anyone enters this area, a low growling rises from the animals kept here. A number of large, sturdy cages house one pair each of black bears, brown bears, and polar bears
of themselves that attack anyone in the room until destroyed. Each skeletal, rotted bear uses the polar bear stat block with the following changes: It has the undead type instead of the beast type
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
X32. Lower East Hall The walls and ceiling of this great hall are coated in amber that glistens like fresh honey. Dust covers the black marble floor. To the north, the hall has collapsed, leaving a
wall of rubble.
Many amber doors lead from this hall. Standing in front of the south door are three ugly women in tattered black gowns with brooms and black, pointed hats.
An earth tremor collapsed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
19. Spiderwatch Keep Fashioned from seamless black stone with veins of silver running through it, this windowless edifice bears a striking resemblance to a crouching spider. From here, Erelal Freth
(Acrobatics) check.
Cabinet. A slender, glass-fronted cabinet made of black wood and inlaid with silver, web-like tracery stands across from the door.
Hammock. A spider silk hammock hangs to the west
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
immediately uses one of its lair actions, centering the effect on itself. For example, a fallen black dragon and any characters around it might be pulled into a nearby pool of water, and a copper
changes color and is fouled for 1d10 days. Restless Sleep. Any creature that sleeps within 6 miles of the lair is troubled by nightmares for the next 1d10 days. Trembling Earth. An enormous tremor
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
, so you can use them freely to set the tone you want for your adventure. Terrain Changes Plant growth creates difficult terrain, sinkholes appear, and hedge mazes or icy walls limit movement
traveler’s feet. Wilderness Hazards. Any of the wilderness hazards described in the Dungeon Master’s Guide might manifest near the dragon’s lair. Weather Changes Fog, storms, precipitation, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
black, secure the Doomvault. Magic keys allow the manipulation of them. Gate Features. Each gate is a 10-foot-wide circle of runes, drawn on the floor. This circle creates a magical energy field in its
inactive while the key remains within the gate. Therefore, a creature that has a properly attuned glyph key can hold a white gate open for others. Black Gates. The black gates were part of the Doomvault’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
black sphere holds the demon in place, and appears to be slowly draining away its essence.
The balor Tarnhem is bound here by the magic of Acererak, who has fashioned a device from a sphere of
treasure chests in area 13, and how his weapons have been taken to the chapel (area 14) and worked into the altar there. Tarnhem uses the balor stat block with the following changes: While held, Tarnhem