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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
Disadvantage on D20 Tests for the next 72 hours. Draw another card; this draw doesn’t count as one of your declared draws.
Gem. Twenty-five pieces of jewelry worth 2,000 GP each or fifty gems worth
a minimum score of 1). You can draw one additional card beyond your declared draws.
Rogue. An NPC of the DM’s choice becomes Hostile toward you. You don’t know the identity of this NPC
Magic Items
The Book of Many Things
. Unless a card states otherwise, as soon as you draw a card from the deck, its magic takes effect. You must draw each card you declared no more than 1 hour after the previous draw. If you fail to draw
have only thirteen cards, but the rest have twenty-two.
Before you draw a card, you must declare how many cards you intend to draw, then draw them randomly. Any additional cards drawn have no effect
Deck of Many Things
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Magic Items
Basic Rules (2014)
, discard this card, and draw from the deck again, counting both draws as one of your declared draws. If losing that much XP would cause you to lose a level, you instead lose an amount that leaves you
1d4 + 1 (to a minimum score of 1). You can draw one additional card beyond your declared draws.
Jester. You gain 10,000 XP, or you can draw two additional cards beyond your declared draws.
Key. A
Magic Items
Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
draw a card, you must declare how many cards you intend to draw and then draw them randomly (you can use an altered deck of playing cards to simulate the deck). Any cards drawn in excess of this number
have no effect. Otherwise, as soon as you draw a card from the deck, its magic takes effect. You must draw each card no more than 1 hour after the previous draw. If you fail to draw the chosen number
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
veiled presence fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.Multiattack. The veiled presence makes two Blade of Judgment attacks and can use Revelation.
Blade of Judgment. Melee or Ranged
Weapon Attack: +14;{"diceNotation":"1d20+14", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Blade of Judgment"} to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 60 ft., one target. Hit: 10 (1d6 + 7);{"diceNotation":"1d6+7", "rollType
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the champion fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.Multiattack. The champion makes two Leeching Blade attacks and uses Hollow Void.
Leeching Blade
. Melee Weapon Attack: +14;{"diceNotation":"1d20+14", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Leeching Blade"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 13 (2d6 + 6);{"diceNotation":"2d6+6", "rollType":"damage
Magic Items
The Book of Many Things
takes effect. You must draw each card you declared no more than 1 hour after the previous draw. Unless a card states otherwise, if you fail to draw the chosen number, the remaining number of cards fly
this description. Notably, cards from the Deck of Many More Things are more likely to be beneficial, though about a third of them are still dangerous.
Before you draw a card, you must declare how many
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.Multiattack. The medusa makes one Constrict attack, one Final Blade attack, and one Snake Hair attack. Alternatively, it makes two Wrathful
this grapple ends, the target has the restrained condition, and the medusa can’t constrict another creature.
Final Blade. Melee Weapon Attack: +12;{"diceNotation":"1d20+12", "rollType":"to hit
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
card beyond your declared draws. Jester. You gain proficiency in a skill of your choice for the duration of the adventure, or you can draw two additional cards beyond your declared draws. Key. A common
printed as a mosaic of raised dots. Before you draw a card, you must declare how many cards you intend to draw and then draw them randomly (you can use an altered deck of playing cards to simulate the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Things You have Disadvantage on D20 Tests for the next 72 hours. Draw another card; this draw doesn’t count as one of your declared draws. Gem Twenty-five pieces of jewelry worth 2,000 GP each or fifty
+ 1 (to a minimum score of 1). You can draw one additional card beyond your declared draws. Rogue An NPC of the DM’s choice becomes Hostile toward you. You don’t know the identity of this NPC until they
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
you. This enmity lasts until either you or the devil dies. Fool. You lose 10,000 XP, discard this card, and draw from the deck again, counting both draws as one of your declared draws. If losing that
1,000 gp each appear at your feet. Idiot. Permanently reduce your Intelligence by 1d4 + 1 (to a minimum score of 1). You can draw one additional card beyond your declared draws. Jester. You gain 10,000
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
this card, and draw from the deck again, counting both draws as one of your declared draws. If losing that much XP would cause you to lose a level, you instead lose an amount that leaves you with just
a minimum score of 1). You can draw one additional card beyond your declared draws. Jester. You gain 10,000 XP, or you can draw two additional cards beyond your declared draws. Key. A rare or rarer
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
gain the ability to cast Wish 1d3 times. Puzzle Permanently reduce your Intelligence or Wisdom by 1d4 + 1 (to a minimum score of 1). You can draw one additional card beyond your declared draws. Rogue An
some have twenty-two. Use the appropriate column of the Deck of Many Things table when randomly determining cards drawn from the deck. Before you draw a card, you must declare how many cards you intend
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
effect. As soon as you draw a card, its magic takes effect. You must draw each card you declared no more than 1 hour after the previous draw. Unless a card states otherwise, if you fail to draw the
. Before you draw a card, you must declare how many cards you intend to draw and then draw them randomly. Unless a card allows you to draw additional cards, any cards drawn exceeding this number have no
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Cities and Sites The Voice of
Karrnath
Mror Holds: Birthplace of abomination!
It’s been exactly seventy years since the Iron Council declared the Mror Holds’ independence from Karrnath. King
, and it seemed to pulse with its own heartbeat. A guard present at the event said that Soldorak’s axe moaned when the blade came close to him, as if the weapon hungered for human blood.
This is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
3- Very rare 9 Boomerang Shield 1- Uncommon 9 Bow of Conflagration 2- Rare 9 Bow of Melodies 3- Very rare 9 Breastplate of Balance 2- Rare 5 Card Sharp’s Deck 1- Uncommon 6 Clockwork Armor 3- Very
Dealer’s Deck 0- Varies 8 Feywrought Armor 2- Rare 9 Fool’s Blade 3- Very rare 5 Forcebreaker Weapon 3- Very rare 9 Glimmering Moonbow 2- Rare 5 Gloomwrought Armor 2- Rare 9 Grasping Whip 2- Rare 9
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
to the north, Ruin to the east, Gem to the south, and Flames to the west. In the center of the room’s floor, a card depicting the Key glows brightly.
Characters who enter the House of Cards appear
in this room, standing on the glowing Key card in the floor. Key. The Key card in the floor fills the room with bright light. Anyone touching the card knows it can be used to return home; any character
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
. Carved into the monument’s base is an epitaph. The epitaph reads as follows: Marina, Taken by the Mists. Fortunes of Ravenloft If your card reading reveals that a treasure is here, it is hidden in a cavity
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
elegant handwriting bears the item’s name and a brief description: Jeweled Human Skull. The card reads, “Unclear if genuine skull or replica. Found in ancient tomb.” This skull is coated with gold. Large
diamonds are mounted in its eye sockets, and small rubies drip down its cheekbones like bloody tears. (The skull is worth 2,000 gp.) Lost Map of Tishanos. The card reads, “Reportedly from Pirate Queen
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Rogue Stat Blocks This section offers four stat block options for the antagonist created when the Rogue card is drawn. Each is a legendary creature. These stat blocks can represent a new NPC that
Poison Blade attacks.
Poison Blade. Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 60 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d4 + 4) piercing damage plus 5 (1d10) poison damage.
Reactions
Uncanny
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Grim Champion of Desolation Jyn Corvis, a former adventurer, might have been the first person to draw the Skull card from a Deck of Many Things and be slain by the avatar of death. Even Jyn doesn’t
throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Actions
Multiattack. The champion makes two Leeching Blade attacks and uses Hollow Void.
Leeching Blade. Melee Weapon Attack: +14 to hit, reach 5 ft
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
powerful snakelike tails for their lower body, snakes for hair, and a petrifying gaze. The first hierophant medusa was transformed by the power of the Euryale card when that individual was inspired by
). If the medusa fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Actions
Multiattack. The medusa makes one Constrict attack, one Final Blade attack, and one Snake Hair attack. Alternatively
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
destroyed or disgraced houses. Gifted with a sharp mind, a sense of humor, puissant skill with a blade, and a wealth of useful magic items, Jarlaxle infiltrated the city of Luskan, brought a kind of order
to its lawlessness, and declared himself its secret lord. Jarlaxle likes to weave a tangled web of schemes that leave his enemies baffled — the latest of which is a plan to legitimize Luskan by making
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
carvings show a horned rabbit charging a small, feral-looking bear with sharp claws. A cuneiform message is etched above the doors.
The message is written in Old Omuan and reads, “I’jin teaches us
dusty maze. Hidden pressure plates in the floor are located in the positions marked X on the shrine map. If more than 20 pounds of pressure is exerted on a pressure plate, a sharpened axe blade swings
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
decks from their many dangers—especially from the curse imposed by the Euryale card, which Asteria resents as a defamation of her devoted friend. For this and many other reasons, Asteria tracks down
Sending Stones; the other half of the pair is held by Euryale.
Actions
Multiattack. Asteria makes two Radiant Blade attacks and uses Bursting Benediction.
Radiant Blade. Melee Weapon Attack: +11
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
specifically targets the creature that cut the thread. To determine which rune appears, draw a card from the Elder Runes Deck (see appendix B). The shadow curtain disappears when both silver threads are
Door The Draconic inscription on the floor in front of the double door reads, “The shadow is the key.” Carved into the floor above the inscription is a small, 3-inch-deep keyhole that contains no locking
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
N5. Arasek Stockyard This large stockyard has several locked sheds along its periphery and lies adjacent to a roomy warehouse. A wooden sign above the front gate reads “Arasek Stockyard.”
Parked at
sides of the wagon are spattered with dry blood. You also see an inscription on the wagon’s door frame that reads, “I bring you from Shadow into Light!” Rictavio carries the key to the wagon door
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
of fine gravel.
The statue is a petrified and long-dead dwarf. On the frame holding it together, a small, neat inscription reads: Petrified Ironstar (?) dwarf,
found 1459 DR in Red Larch West
or cuts something. The name “Reszur” is graven on the dagger’s pommel. If the wielder speaks the name, the blade gives off a faint, cold glow, shedding dim light in a 10-foot radius until the wielder
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Resources: Zhentarim thugs
Graceful and elegant as a blade, Davra Jassur ostensibly recruits promising new talent for the Zhentarim. But she also deals with internal problems, ensuring those problems
the party, make eight photocopies of the Zhentarim Thug stat card at the end of this chapter. If you don’t want to control these NPCs yourself, you can distribute their stat cards among the players and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Twenty-Two Riddles Here are twenty-two riddles you can use in any campaign. Each riddle’s answer is the name of a card from the Deck of Many Things: In daylight, my gray cloak flies high. At night
, you huddle by my side. I destroy, I dance; I forge swords, I eat plants. Click to see the answer! Flames
I have teeth yet cannot bite. I have no blade, yet I’m worth more to most adventurers than any
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
, and Wisdom and Charisma scores determined by rolling 3d6 for each ability. The orb speaks, reads, and understands four languages, and it can see and hear normally out to a range of 60 feet. Unlike
stolen by Nass Lantomir calls itself Professor Skant. It is lawful good, and it has a Wisdom of 11 and a Charisma of 9. It speaks and reads Common, Draconic, Elvish, and Loross (the dead language of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
reads: “Want to be part of something big? Speak to Davil Starsong at the Yawning Portal.” If the characters seek out Davil, Yagra Stonefist (see “Familiar Faces”) greets them and leads interested parties
in the Dock Ward — three dead so far, each one decapitated by a blade in the dead of night. Look into it, will you? Methinks the City Watch could use a little help.” Characters who spend three
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
that reads, “Bow before no one.” Four bronze statues stand on pedestals to either side of the shield. They depict Chultan warriors: one holding a sword, two with spears, and one missing its face
echoes through your mind: “You will do as I command!”
If the spirit successfully inhabits the character, give the player Papazotl’s card (see appendix F). If the attempt fails, the spirit returns to the amulet and waits for another character to touch it.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
of Netherskull’s life, death, and undeath. Kavil knows that anyone who reads this drivel won’t be fooled, but he’s hoping the deluge of words will impress Halaster while simultaneously discouraging
or fewer, Kavil switches sides and offers information in exchange for his life. He knows one random Undermountain secret, determined by drawing a card from the Secrets Deck (see appendix C), as well as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
gloom flies a rusty blade, followed by another! If more than two flying swords are encountered, the others aren’t far behind. These weapons drift about the castle and attack intruders within range of
K57) 5 Wine cellar (area K63) 6 Torture chamber (area K76) Strahd isn’t actually at that location unless the card reading (see chapter 1) indicates that he is. If the characters ask Rahadin to lead