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Dungeon Master’s Guide
unoccupied spaces within 300 feet of you and obey your commands until they are destroyed or until the next dawn, when they collapse into inanimate piles of bones and rotting corpses. Once you use this
Darkvision out to 120 feet.
The wand communicates telepathically with its wielder and speaks Abyssal and Common.
Personality. The wand’s purpose is to help satisfy Orcus’s desire to slay
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
abomination is the final stage of a grafter’s transformation—a hulking monster whose corrupted brain is ablaze with desire for treasure. Its abhorrent transformation erases the last
their bodies and minds to emulate the dragons they revere. They collect dragon parts—scales, teeth, skin, flesh, wings, and bones—that they scavenge from around dragon lairs, take from
Wand of Orcus
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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
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Made from bones as hard as iron, the wand is topped with a magically enlarged skull that once belonged to a human hero slain by Orcus. The wand can magically change in size to better conform to the
until they are destroyed or until dawn of the next day, when they collapse into inanimate piles of bones and rotting corpses. Once you use this property of the wand, you can’t use it again
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
dead comrades and arranged their bones into a spirit pole. Characters who explore the compound discover this effigy: A glaive has been thrust into remains of a burned-out pyre. Charred snake skulls
2. Walled Compound Smoke drifts lazily from a walled compound. The gate lies in splinters, and scorch marks deface the buildings. Near the center of the compound is a plaza littered with charred
Orc
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
diplomacy. They care only for satisfying their insatiable desire for battle, to smash their foes and appease their gods.
Booming Birth Rate
In order to replenish the casualties of their endless warring
relieved of their other roles and taken to the lair’s whelping pens, where they are tended to by Luthic’s followers.
Orcs don’t take mates, and no pair-bonding occurs in a tribe
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes’ Feast: Saving the Children’s Menu
Triumphant Return When the characters return to the River Shining Tavern, Kaga and Jacque are relieved to see them, then saddened to learn of Arthur Holrow’s death. If the characters retrieved all
the ingredients, Kaga prepares a feast fit for heroes. Jacque places a heaping plate of Kaga’s Stumblenoodles in the center of the large round table, along with anything else the characters desire (you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
landscape. At the center of the compound is a hill of rust-colored stone that resembles a hand clawing out of the ground, with gaps between the fingers. A jagged wall made of rock, bones, and metal debris
Arrival at the Fort When the characters get within sight of Fort Knucklebone, describe the location as follows: A fortified compound sits atop a low plateau that rises out of a crater-pocked
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
kill something. 21b. Kuketh’s Lair Ledge. A dry ledge 5 feet above the water line is strewn with bones, some with flesh still attached.
Kuketh’s Bed. The eastern end of the ledge contains a pile of
, Kuketh doesn’t honor agreements for very long. Its only consistent desire is to escape from Undermountain and return to the Outer Plane of Limbo. 21c. Secret Vault This cave is hidden behind a secret
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
be heard everywhere on the battlefield, but they have no source. Crumbling buildings, bare trees, blast craters, and jumbles of bones around spears and swords indicate an immense battle. None of the
to have survived its interminable stasis. If the characters realize what’s going on and share that they killed Nellik, the mezzoloths scatter, visibly relieved. Otherwise, the mezzoloths attack. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
webs. Others, the ettercap garrotes with strands of web or envenoms with its poisonous bite. Sylvan Despoilers. Though they dwell in the wilds, ettercaps have no desire to live in harmony with nature
a wood are soon lost in a maze of webs that dangle with the bones and lost treasures of the ettercaps’ victims. Enemies of the Fey. Ettercaps are natural enemies of fey creatures. The foul creatures
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
three tabaxi hunters. Each of these groups can play as much of a role in the story as you desire. They could serve as enemies or as allies brought together by mutual interests. Yuan-ti Yuan-ti offer
territory and are unified only in their reverence of the Great Rift. Even if the vegepygmies could communicate with the characters, they have little desire to work with them. Their chiefs aren’t clever
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
within 300 feet of you and obey your commands until they are destroyed or until the next dawn, when they collapse into inanimate piles of bones and rotting corpses. Once you use this property, you
wand communicates telepathically with its wielder and speaks Abyssal and Common. Personality. The wand’s purpose is to help satisfy Orcus’s desire to slay everything in the multiverse. The wand is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Evereska I would be remiss if I didn’t mention Evereska, but I will be brief for I have no desire to publish all its secrets. I shall endeavor to describe my own homeland in as unbiased a way as I
small compound that includes stables and other outbuildings. The folk who live here year-round are hunters, trappers, gold prospectors, gem seekers, smallholders and their families, and it is they who
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
friendly but humorless groundskeeper of Phaulkonmere, a compound located one block south of Kolat Towers (see chapter 8). Phaulkonmere is owned by the Tarm and Phaulkon noble families. Melannor
Everdawn, a grizzled old champion of Kelemvor, has offered to help the City Guard catch a necromancer who’s stealing bones from the City of the Dead and animating them as skeletons. Sir Ambrose could use
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Locathah Rising
characters enter the chamber, read or paraphrase the following boxed text: Seated on a rough throne made of an odd arrangement of coral, bones, and barnacles, is a man whose right arm has been replaced
desire.
“It has been too long since I’ve had a good conversation. Though your arrival is unexpected, your presence is much desired nonetheless. How can I help you?”
If the characters are peaceful
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
her into the first harpy. The curse worked its magic on the elf’s spirit as well as her body, turning her desire for love into a hunger for flesh, even as her beautiful song continued to draw
right to claim the choicest prizes. When no valuable objects can be found, a harpy takes hair, bones, or body parts to line its nest. A harpy’s lair is usually hidden in remote ruins, where adventurers can discover valuable treasure and magic hidden beneath foul piles of offal.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
typically small and often nomadic. In part, this is a reflection of the desire to keep the woods untouched, but there are ruins here, such as those of Ascalhorn — now called Hellgate Dell — that
remind us of the fallen cities and empires of the past. The High Forest once sheltered three great elven realms beneath its boughs, and the bones of those empires still lie tangled in its roots. Many
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Soon
SYLPHENE
Beloved Daughter
May She Find Peace at Last
The characters can use the shovel in area C4 to dig up the graves if they so desire. Buried six feet under each headstone is a
rotting wooden coffin containing the moldy bones of its occupant, or something more terrifying. The baron’s two daughters, Sylphene and Heluthe, perished at the ages of six and nine, respectively, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
characters and asks them to retrieve its skull from the Bones of the Night (see the “Lower Ward Locations” section) so it can finally be laid to rest. 7 Two githzerai monks approach the characters
Great Foundry shelter the Mind’s Eye. The leaders of manufacturing in Sigil, the Seekers express their desire to reshape the multiverse through their crafts, creating tools and materials that in turn mold
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
of bones, and other macabre paraphernalia lie scattered around the room. An eerie, persistent scratching sound comes from behind the fallen masonry blocking the far end of the room.
This was the
magic to help the raiders learn Therno Lake’s defenses. Secretly, many derro feared the lamia, and they were relieved when the cave-in trapped her here. The lamia hasn’t eaten in days. If the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
aren’t interested in treaties, trade negotiations or diplomacy. They care only for satisfying their insatiable desire for battle, to smash their foes and appease their gods. Booming Birth Rate In order
the world). Females that are about to give birth are relieved of their other roles and taken to the lair’s whelping pens, where they are tended to by Luthic’s followers. Orcs don’t take mates, and no
Magic Items
Infernal Machine Rebuild
bones. You have vulnerability to radiant damage, and you have disadvantage on attack rolls while in direct sunlight.
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You summon a unicorn that obeys your commands. If you give a command that
you desire that could be performed by a prestidigitation spell.
You break out into song whenever you roll a 1 on any die.
41
Your possessions change their state or appearance at the DM’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Foul Nature. Hags love the macabre and festoon their garb with dead things and accentuate their appearance with bones, bits of flesh, and filth. They nurture blemishes and pick at wounds to produce
. However, each of the hags continues to desire more personal power.
A coven consists of three hags so that any arguments between two hags can be settled by the third. If more than three hags ever come
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
) necrotic damage, turning to dust and bones if reduced to 0 hit points. Adjust the following text if the creatures in this room have already been encountered and destroyed. This room has walls of glazed
gift must eat bones or grave dirt to survive. At dawn, if the creature has not eaten at least 1 pound of bones or grave dirt in the past 24 hours, it dies. South Sarcophagus. The vestige within this
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
137 gp. P14n. A trail of platinum pieces starts in the center of the corridor and leads to the west archway, where it ends. The total value of the coins is 152 pp. P15: Grieving Elves Humanoid bones
litter the floor of this room, along with the tattered remnants of adventurers’ clothing. Five elves dressed in similar attire kneel over the bones, speaking solemn prayers in mourning.
The “elves
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Dread Morgan appears as a thin, pale creature whose long, matted black hair is festooned with ornaments made from bones and teeth. Her mouth curves up unnaturally high at the corners, and her
voice and focuses on the business of running the bathhouse. Dread Morgan knows the ritual needed to bind a creature’s desire to a cursed painting, which is recorded on a tiny scroll hidden in a bone
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3
vampire spawn with special qualities (see below). If the characters examine the contents of the tomb, see “Treasure” for details. Any of the items can be lifted off or out if the characters so desire. If
the mask and the pendant are both removed, Tloques starts to awaken. Dust is stirred up into clouds and begins to gather on the bones as they knit back together. His wasted form then sits up and gazes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
components, even if these aren’t essential to the item’s function. 20 Undead. The item incorporates imagery of death, such as bones and skulls, and it might be crafted from parts of corpses. It feels
former owner or that person’s descendants might desire it, or someone might mistakenly assume its new owner is the item’s legitimate inheritor. What Minor Property Does It Have? d20 Minor Property 1
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
dragon bones juts from the head, neck, back, and tail of the mound. Enormous cairns encircle the mound out to a range of a quarter mile. Beneath them lie the bones of revered Thunderbeast tribal
. Skulls, bones, rusted armor, and broken weapons are all that remain of those killed by orc axes and the dragon’s icy breath. Suggested Encounter Eight Zhentarim thugs (LE male and female humans of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
refers to Endelyn’s weakness, as described in appendix B.) The second goat says, “Play to her passions. Stay on script. A cat, a horn, or a shadow ripped.” (This prophecy refers to Endelyn’s desire to
characters a quest to find his true love. Although the characters can try to pair Mudlump up with any creature they deem suitable, his ideal match can be found in the Palace of Heart’s Desire: the fomorian
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
. Empty battlefields are littered with weapons and bones, showing where the legions of the Nine Hells prevailed against invading enemies. The archdevil Zariel rules Avernus, having supplanted her
shells of empty fortresses, and swarms of hungry flies. The archduke of Maladomini is Baalzebul, the Lord of Flies. He is a tall, powerful devil with the compound eyes of a fly. The archduke has long
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
seize control of the town. Stella knows none of her mother’s secrets, apart from her mother’s desire to overthrow the burgomaster. Stella has nothing kind to say about the burgomaster or his son
instead of being poisoned for 1 hour. The iron chest is lined with thin sheets of lead and contains the bones of Leo Dilisnya, an enemy of the Wachter family. Leo was one of the soldiers who betrayed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
to investigate. J6: Behir Den An enormous nest of crushed rocks, reptile scales, and lightning-scoured bones occupies a depression in this cavern’s northwest wall. Resting in the nest is a massive
accompanying stat block) named Vundru. Vundru used to lurk much closer to Illithinoch, where he became infused with minor psychic abilities. He has no knowledge of the Far Realm and no desire to learn more
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Vallakovich has the key to Udo’s manacles. The manacles break if they take 10 damage or more from a single weapon attack. If the characters release Udo, his first desire is to return to his home. Later
furniture and created a study is this dusty, lamplit chamber. Tables are strewn with pieces of parchment, on which strange diagrams are drawn, and a freestanding bookshelf holds a collection of bones
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
with a steady geyser. This pool came to be known as Beorunna’s Well. Uthgardt exploring the cavern for the first time found what they thought were Beorunna’s bones, which actually belonged to a half-ogre
. Uthgar’s followers buried the half-ogre’s bones alongside a relic stolen from their enemies, the giants, and built an altar upon the burial site. When the Uthgardt call upon Uthgar for guidance or






