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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
’s Feather Tokens table. The type of token determines its rarity.
Anchor (Uncommon). You can take a Magic action to touch the token to a boat or ship. For the next 24 hours, the vessel can&rsquo
after flying its maximum distance for a day or if it drops to 0 Hit Points. You can dismiss the bird as a Magic action.
Fan (Uncommon). If you are on a boat or ship, you can take a Magic action to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Quaal’s Feather Token Wondrous Item, Rarity Varies This object looks like a feather. Different types of feather tokens exist, each with a different single-use effect. The DM chooses the kind of token
or determines it randomly by rolling on the Quaal’s Feather Tokens table. The type of token determines its rarity. Quaal’s Feather Tokens 1d100 Token Rarity 01–20 Anchor Uncommon 21–35 Bird Rare
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Quaal’s Feather Token Wondrous Item, Rarity Varies This object looks like a feather. Different types of feather tokens exist, each with a different single-use effect. The DM chooses the kind of token
or determines it randomly by rolling on the Quaal’s Feather Tokens table. The type of token determines its rarity. Quaal’s Feather Tokens 1d100 Token Rarity 01–20 Anchor Uncommon 21–35 Bird Rare
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
help by paying for improved roofs and lamps in your neighborhood, causing the entire community to celebrate your deed.
4
Fueled by alcohol, you faced down a carrion crawler that slunk out of the
and the bugbear became friends.
6
Last winter, you dove into the frigid river to haul out a foundering fishing boat with your bare hands, saving all aboard. Now, everyone on the docks knows your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
driver can activate this magical device as a bonus action, causing the vehicle to expel a 30-foot cube of opaque smoke directly in front of it or behind it. The cloud is stationary and lasts for 1
. This device needs 24 hours to recharge before it can be used again. Teleporter The vehicle’s driver can activate this magical device as a bonus action, causing the vehicle to teleport to an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Clever Beast When a roll on the Lake Events table indicates that the lake monster takes an interest in the characters, read: Ripples disrupt the surface of the lake, causing your boat to bob from
nearby boats. It swims to the bottom of the lake if attacked.
2 The plesiosaurus rams a boat from beneath. (If the characters have more than one boat, randomly determine which one the monster rams
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
items found in the adventure. Because of their power and rarity, the items in this section (or at least those that aren’t cursed) are best suited for characters in a high-magic campaign. Alternatively
trinket, two successes to operate a force pike or a teleportation-field device, and four successes to operate Kwalish’s powered armor.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
.
If the creation of magic items is commonplace in your campaign, a formula can have a rarity that matches the rarity of the item it allows a character to create. Formulas for common and uncommon
- perhaps you’re a rogue with the Use Magic Device feature - your spellcasting ability modifier is +0 for the item, and your proficiency bonus does apply. Charges Some magic items have charges that you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
under stony cowls and their arms raised toward the iron disk.
This room is one large timekeeping device. Every day at dawn and at dusk, the wizard statues exert invisible magical force upon the
suspended iron disk, causing it to flip over within its circular frame like a coin. During the day, the sun symbol is visible on the disk’s underside; at night, the disk displays the moon symbol on its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
and sneak up on them. Taking a boat downriver, landing, and sneaking back is also a viable option. The area atop the cliffs is wooded, but an open field lies below and behind the soldiers’ position
Keep sits the creation of the tinker gnome Than: a people-launching device called a gnomeflinger (described in appendix A). If using the gnomeflinger comes up, Becklin or Darrett suggests consulting with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
have seen the ship, row ashore and pick the characters up (say in the cave below the haunted house), that takes 15 or 20 minutes. The characters then board the fishing boat, which is rowed out toward the
ship. The journey to the ship takes 30 minutes (20 minutes with more than two rowing), but if the boat is to approach the Sea Ghost from the seaward side, another 5 minutes should be added. The ship
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
streets to safety. The patriar repaid your help by paying for improved roofs and lamps in your neighborhood, causing the entire community to celebrate your deed.
4 Fueled by alcohol, you faced
the groin. Later, you and the bugbear became friends.
6 Last winter, you dove into the frigid river to haul out a foundering fishing boat with your bare hands, saving all aboard. Now, everyone on the docks knows your name.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
first time a creature picks up the Summer Star, its core glows with a golden radiance as bright as a candle flame. Unless the creature drops the device immediately, the light suddenly blossoms, becoming
a 10-foot-radius sphere of incinerating golden radiance centered on the device. Each creature in the sphere must make a DC 17 Constitution saving throw, taking 90 (10d10 + 35) radiant damage on a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
. The patriar repaid your help by paying for improved roofs and lamps in your neighborhood, causing the entire community to celebrate your deed. 4 Fueled by alcohol, you faced down a carrion crawler that
bugbear became friends. 6 Last winter, you dove into the frigid river to haul out a foundering fishing boat with your bare hands, saving all aboard. Now, everyone on the docks knows your name.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
radius. The characters can use this device to counteract Auril’s spell and free Icewind Dale from her Everlasting Rime. Chardalyn
More than a hundred years prior to this adventure, a wizard named Akar
that has become suffused with demonic magic can warp a creature’s mind, causing madness that usually fades away once the contact is broken.
Chardalyn is cold to the touch and readily accepts
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
. The overseers of the Pulstein Mine call for aid, believing that strange creatures are causing the quakes to steal the “marrowstone” they’re mining.
10 Scholars at Ludendorf University learn of the
Unbreakable Heart and claim a monster stole it. The characters and dozens of other hunters are sent to the Isles of Agony to recover the device.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Mysterious Magic Many of the strange events that occur in this chapter are a result of Murgaxor Grenshel manipulating Dean Tullus using a mysterious orb. This device, Murgaxor’s orb (see below
, causing it to view all creatures that aren’t also cursed as dangerous monsters for 10 minutes. The cursed creature must use its action each round to make one attack against the nearest non-cursed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Shield Guardian Device-Controlled Magical Bodyguard Habitat: Urban; Treasure: None An intimidating magical automaton, a shield guardian obeys its master’s commands and protects its master from
. Trigger: An attack roll hits the wearer of the guardian’s amulet while the wearer is within 5 feet of the guardian. Response: The wearer gains a +5 bonus to AC, including against the triggering attack and possibly causing it to miss, until the start of the guardian’s next turn.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
hit points, and immunity to poison and psychic damage. In addition to functioning as a normal mirror, each security mirror acts as a magical scrying device, allowing guards in the security office
1d3 security guards (use the thug stat block) to the holding cells (area A17). The cheater is released the next dawn, escorted by security to a boat, advised never to return, and sent upriver.
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->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
character doesn’t spot anything amiss. If the character fails to notice the damaged device, or notices the problem but elects to do nothing about it, a misfire occurs in the “Welcoming Announcement
, this magic has somehow activated early, causing a student the characters know to levitate unexpectedly, stranding them 50 feet in the air, out of reach of any solid objects. The student can’t move from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
and fears the Second Wind might accidentally smash it to flinders or rip it off its moorings. For this reason, he orders Flinch to deploy a jolly boat while the Second Wind remains 100 feet away, its
the Second Wind. Characters can use the six oars aboard the jolly boat to propel it to the docks while Krux stands proudly in the bow, pointing to the dock as if the destination were not obvious
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
trapped inside an iron flask or a similar device. If the furnace is destroyed or the elemental released from within it, the air inside the balloon cools, causing the airship to descend at a rate 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
Armillary Sphere Conjunction table to determine what happens. Once a conjunction effect occurs, the armillary sphere breaks down, causing the levers to lock in place and the hatch to lock shut. The
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
, wind-up clockwork birds from Skabatha) are strewn around the basket. A creature can use an action to wind the key on one of the clockwork birds, causing it to chirp softly and shuffle its feet. If
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Areas of the Water Temple C1. Lake Landing If the characters arrive by boat from the stream, read the following text: Firelight shines from a large cavern ahead. The stream opens into a large
on the edge of the quay or on a boat, reavers attempt to use the “Shoving a Creature” special attack to push a character into the water. (The water is 15 feet deep near the quay.) Eyon prefers to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
The Sea Characters can row a boat for 8 hours per day, or can row longer at the risk of exhaustion (as per the rules for a forced march in chapter 8 of the Player’s Handbook). A fully crewed sailing
A shipwreck is a plot device that can be used sparingly to great effect, particularly if you want the characters to be washed ashore on some monster-infested island or (in the case of an airship
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
blood, and the scent of iron hangs thick in the air.
Twenty stirges hang from the ceiling of this cave. Bright light or any noise louder than a whisper disturbs the stirges, causing them to attack. L3
: River Ledge A ten-foot-long wooden boat is tied to a ledge near the water. Intricate, flowing knotwork carving adorns the sides of the craft, which tapers to a point at both ends. Two oars lie inside
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Descent into the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth
noise louder than a whisper agitates the bats and sends them into a panic, causing a number of swarms of bats equal to the number of characters in this area descend from the ceiling and attack the source
worth 600 gp and weighs 100 pounds), a Spell Scroll of Levitate, and a beaten copper bowl with lapis lazuli handles, which is worth 750 gp. L12: River Ledge A ten-foot-long wooden boat is tied to a ledge
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
built in his forge, nor does he reveal that it has a planetar trapped inside it. Bel also fails to mention that the nine adamantine rods are the keys to unlocking the device and freeing the planetar
demanding, Bel sighs and snaps his fingers, causing the infernal chains to fall off the fire giants. He promises freedom to any fire giant that kills an intruder, prompting the giants to attack the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
slips evidence of smuggling to the guard, causing several popular fishing boat owners to be arrested. 7–10 The Brotherhood’s agents spread rumors that the mine is on the verge of failure and the crown
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
(Perception) check reveals the trip wire and the net. A successful DC 15 Dexterity check using thieves’ tools disables the trip wire without causing the net to drop or the bell to ring; failing the
moving blades that sweep down through a chamber, threatening anyone nearby. Typically, a scything blade trap is activated by manipulating a lever or some other simple device. Kobolds especially like
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Divine Contention
with long fingers squatting over an upturned rowboat. A woman squirms in the mud underneath, trapped by the weight of the boat. You recognize her as Valdi Estapaar, the fisherwoman who sits on the town
with a combined Strength score of 15 or higher must spend an action to heft the boat aside (if they attempt this while the boneclaw is perched on the boat, they need to muster a combined Strength score
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
bolted to the wall across from some sort of large glass device hints at the horrid rites that must once have taken place here.
The wall murals can be deciphered with a successful DC 12 Wisdom
medusa’s shackles were once set here, but were removed and used in the clockwork kraken’s engine at area O5.) Monitor. The window-like device hangs against the wall where the medusa’s shackles were once
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
throw, taking 31 (7d8) piercing damage from its thorns on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one. Roses. The lovely scent of the roses fills the arbor inside the hedge walls, causing a
with the splashes of playful otters. A small boat is tied to a stone jetty along the western shore.
A long, white stone building with a translucent roof and open archways rises from the center of the