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Book of Vile Darkness

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

damage unless the creature is a Fiend or an Undead. Destroying the Book. The Book of Vile Darkness allows pages to be torn from it, but any evil lore contained on those pages finds its way back into the

Archlich;Vecna authored the Book of Vile Darkness. He recorded in its pages every horrid idea, every corrupt thought, and every example of foul magic he came across or devised. Other practitioners of

Sailor

Backgrounds Player’s Handbook

, Navigator's Tools, Rope, Traveler's Clothes, 20 GP; or (B) 50 GP You lived as a seafarer, wind at your back and decks swaying beneath your feet. You’ve perched on barstools in more ports of call than you can remember, faced mighty storms, and swapped stories with folk who live beneath the waves.

Demonomicon of Iggwilv

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

. The tome recounts both the oldest and most current profanities of the Abyss and demons. Demons have attempted to censor the text, and while sections have been ripped from the book’s spine, the

general chapters remain, ever revealing demonic secrets. Caged behind lines of script roils a secret piece of the Abyss itself, which keeps the book up-to-date, no matter how many pages are removed, and

Shield Guardian

Monsters Monster Manual

Bound. The guardian is magically bound to an amulet. While the guardian and its amulet are on the same plane of existence, the amulet’s wearer can telepathically call the guardian to travel to

caster’s spellcasting ability. The stored spell is then lost.Multiattack. The guardian makes two Fist attacks. Fist. Melee Attack Roll: +7;{"diceNotation":"1d20+7", "rollType":"to hit

Staff of Charming

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

staff and turn the spell back on its caster as if you had cast the spell. Resist Enchantment. If you fail a saving throw against an Enchantment spell that targets only you, you can turn your failed save

into a successful one. You can’t use this property of the staff again until the next dawn. Regaining Charges. The staff regains 1d8 + 2 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the last charge, roll 1d20. On a 1, the staff crumbles to dust and is destroyed.

Hammer of Thunderbolts

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

feet of it other than you must succeed on a DC 17 Constitution saving throw or have the Stunned condition until the end of your next turn. Immediately after hitting or missing, the weapon flies back

to which you are also attuned, you gain the following benefits: Giants’ Bane. When you roll a 20 on the d20 for an attack roll made with this weapon against a Giant, the creature must succeed

Luck Blade

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

, you can call on its luck (no action required) to reroll one failed D20 Test if you don’t have the Incapacitated condition. You must use the second roll. Once used, this property can’t be

Summon Beast

Spells Player’s Handbook

You call forth a bestial spirit. It manifests in an unoccupied space that you can see within range and uses the Bestial Spirit stat block. When you cast the spell, choose an environment: Air, Land

enemy’s reach. Pack Tactics (Land and Water Only). The spirit has Advantage on an attack roll against a creature if at least one of the spirit’s allies is within 5 feet of the creature and

Summon Celestial

Spells Player’s Handbook

You call forth a Celestial spirit. It manifests in an angelic form in an unoccupied space that you can see within range and uses the Celestial Spirit stat block. When you cast the spell, choose

a number of attacks equal to half this spell’s level (round down). Radiant Bow (Avenger Only). Ranged Attack Roll: Bonus equals your spell attack modifier, range 600 ft. Hit: 2d6 + 2 + the

Summon Dragon

Spells Player’s Handbook

You call forth a Dragon spirit. It manifests in an unoccupied space that you can see within range and uses the Draconic Spirit stat block. The creature disappears when it drops to 0 Hit Points or

type until the spell ends. Actions Multiattack. The spirit makes a number of Rend attacks equal to half the spell’s level (round down), and it uses Breath Weapon. Rend. Melee Attack Roll

Summon Undead

Spells Player’s Handbook

You call forth an Undead spirit. It manifests in an unoccupied space that you can see within range and uses the Undead Spirit stat block. When you cast the spell, choose the creature’s form

). Melee Attack Roll: Bonus equals your spell attack modifier, reach 5 ft. Hit: 1d8 + 3 + the spell’s level Necrotic damage, and the target has the Frightened condition until the end of its next

Summon Aberration

Spells Player’s Handbook

You call forth an aberrant spirit. It manifests in an unoccupied space that you can see within range and uses the Aberrant Spirit stat block. When you cast the spell, choose Beholderkin, Mind Flayer

Psychic damage. Actions Multiattack. The spirit makes a number of attacks equal to half this spell’s level (round down). Claw (Slaad Only). Melee Attack Roll: Bonus equals your spell attack

Yochlol

Monsters Monster Manual

Lash. Melee or Ranged Attack Roll: +8;{"diceNotation":"1d20+8", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Caustic Lash"}, reach 10 ft. or range 120 ft. Hit: 25 (6d6 + 4);{"diceNotation":"6d6+4", "rollType

spellcasting ability (spell save DC 15): At Will: Detect Thoughts, Gaseous Form (self only), Web1/Day: Dominate PersonToxic Escape. Trigger: The yochlol is hit by an attack roll. Response: The yochlol

Succubus

Monsters Monster Manual

attack and uses Charm or Draining Kiss. Fiendish Touch. Melee Attack Roll: +7;{"diceNotation":"1d20+7", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Fiendish Touch"}, reach 5 ft. Hit: 16 (2d10 + 5

an amount equal to the damage taken.Cold, Fire, Poison, PsychicShape-Shift. The succubus shape-shifting;shape-shifts to resemble a Medium or Small Humanoid or back into its true form. Its game

Staff of Birdcalls

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

sounds, which can be heard out to 120 feet: a finch’s chirp, a raven’s caw, a duck’s quack, a chicken’s cluck, a goose’s honk, a loon’s call, a turkey’s gobble, a

seagull’s cry, an owl’s hoot, or an eagle’s shriek. Regaining Charges. The staff regains 1d6 + 4 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the last charge, roll 1d20. On a 1, the staff explodes in a harmless cloud of bird feathers and is lost forever.

Summon Fey

Spells Player’s Handbook

You call forth a Fey spirit. It manifests in an unoccupied space that you can see within range and uses the Fey Spirit stat block. When you cast the spell, choose a mood: Fuming, Mirthful, or Tricksy

number of Fey Blade attacks equal to half this spell’s level (round down). Fey Blade. Melee Attack Roll: Bonus equals your spell attack modifier, reach 5 ft. Hit: 2d6 + 3 + the spell’s level

Dancing Sword

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

. The weapon uses your attack roll and adds your ability modifier to damage rolls. While the weapon hovers, you can take a Bonus Action to cause it to fly up to 30 feet to another spot within 30 feet of

you. As part of the same Bonus Action, you can cause the weapon to attack one creature within 5 feet of the weapon. After the hovering weapon attacks for the fourth time, it flies back to you and

Quarterstaff of the Acrobat

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

after you roll Initiative, or you can extinguish the light as a Bonus Action. While holding this weapon, you can take a Bonus Action to alter its form, turning it into a 6-inch rod (for ease of storage

long range of 120 feet. Immediately after you make a ranged attack with the weapon, it flies back to your hand.

Summon Fiend

Spells Player’s Handbook

You call forth a fiendish spirit. It manifests in an unoccupied space that you can see within range and uses the Fiendish Spirit stat block. When you cast the spell, choose Demon, Devil, or Yugoloth

makes a number of attacks equal to half this spell’s level (round down). Bite (Demon Only). Melee Attack Roll: Bonus equals your spell attack modifier, reach 5 ft. Hit: 1d12 + 3 + the spell

Summon Elemental

Spells Player’s Handbook

You call forth an Elemental spirit. It manifests in an unoccupied space that you can see within range and uses the Elemental Spirit stat block. When you cast the spell, choose an element: Air, Earth

. The spirit makes a number of Slam attacks equal to half this spell’s level (round down). Slam. Melee Attack Roll: Bonus equals your spell attack modifier, reach 5 ft. Hit: 1d10 + 4 + the spell

Teleport

Spells Player’s Handbook

six months, such as a book from a wizard’s library. “Very familiar” is a place you have visited often, a place you have carefully studied, or a place you can see when you cast the

destination in a random direction. Roll 1d8 for the direction: 1, east; 2, southeast; 3, south; 4, southwest; 5, west; 6, northwest; 7, north; or 8, northeast. On Target. You and your group (or the target object) appear where you intended.

Summon Construct

Spells Player’s Handbook

You call forth the spirit of a Construct. It manifests in an unoccupied space that you can see within range and uses the Construct Spirit stat block. When you cast the spell, choose a material: Clay

Multiattack. The spirit makes a number of Slam attacks equal to half this spell’s level (round down). Slam. Melee Attack Roll: Bonus equals your spell attack modifier, reach 5 ft. Hit: 1d8 + 4 + the

Whelm

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

Thrown property with a normal range of 60 feet and a long range of 180 feet. When you hit with a ranged attack roll using Whelm, the target takes an extra 1d8 Force damage, or an extra 4d8 Force damage

if the target is a Construct, an Elemental, or a Giant. Immediately after hitting or missing, the weapon flies back to your hand. Shock Wave. You can take a Magic action to strike the ground with

Moonblade

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

time you throw the weapon, it flies back to your hand after the attack. 81-85 The Moonblade scores a Critical Hit on a roll of 19 or 20 on the d20. 86-95 You can take a Bonus Action to

-75 When you hit with an attack roll using the Moonblade, you deal an extra 1d6 Force damage. Each time the weapon gains this property after the first, the extra damage increases by 1d6, to a maximum

Sword of Kas

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

. Magic Weapon. You gain a +3 bonus to attack rolls and damage rolls made with the sword, which scores a Critical Hit on a roll of 19 or 20 on the d20 and deals an extra 2d10 Slashing damage to Undead

detrimental property Spells. While the sword is on your person, you can cast the following spells (save DC 18) from it: Call Lightning Divine Word Finger of Death Once you use the sword to

Swanmay

Monsters Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn

Scimitar in any combination. Beak (Swan Form Only). Melee Attack Roll: +6;{"diceNotation":"1d20+6", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Beak"}, reach 5 ft. Hit: 7 (1d6 + 4);{"diceNotation":"1d6+4

Attack Roll: +6;{"diceNotation":"1d20+6", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Scimitar"}, reach 5 ft. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4);{"diceNotation":"2d6+4", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Scimitar

Jacko

Monsters Heroes of the Borderlands

Ranged Attack Roll: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Poison Dagger"}, reach 5 ft. or range 20/60 ft. Hit: 5 (1d4 + 3);{"diceNotation":"1d4+3", "rollType":"damage

customers parrot his cheesy slogan: “Jacko always has your back-o.”Cunning Action. Jacko takes the Dash, Disengage, or Hide action.

Aranea

Monsters Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn

(Hybrid or Spider Form Only). Melee Attack Roll: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Bite"}, reach 5 ft. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3);{"diceNotation":"1d6+3", "rollType":"damage

Roll: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Slam"}, reach 5 ft. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3);{"diceNotation":"1d8+3", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Slam", "rollDamageType

Incarnation of Transience

Monsters Lorwyn: First Light

Roll: +8;{"diceNotation":"1d20+8", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Bite"}, reach 5 ft. Hit: 14 (2d8 + 5);{"diceNotation":"2d8+5", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Bite", "rollDamageType":"Piercing

"} Piercing damage. Miasmic Globule. Ranged Attack Roll: +8;{"diceNotation":"1d20+8", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Miasmic Globule"}, range 60/120 ft. Hit: 15 (6d4);{"diceNotation":"6d4

Animated Chained Library

Monsters Candlekeep Mysteries

False Object. If the library is motionless at the start of combat, it has advantage on its initiative roll. Moreover, if a creature hasn’t observed the library move or act, that creature must

succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check to discern that the library is animate.Multiattack. The library makes two attacks. Chained Book. Melee Weapon Attack: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4","rollType

Swarm of Animated Books

Monsters Candlekeep Mysteries

False Objects. If the swarm is motionless at the start of combat, it has advantage on its initiative roll. Moreover, if a creature hasn’t observed the swarm move or act, that creature must

","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Book Club"} to hit, reach 0 ft., one target in the swarm’s space. Hit: 6 (2d4 + 1);{"diceNotation":"2d4+1","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Book Club","rollDamageType

Book of Vile Darkness Legacy

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

the Book. The Book of Vile Darkness allows pages to be torn from it, but any evil lore contained on those pages finds its way back into the book eventually, usually when a new author adds pages to the

even glimpse the scrawled pages invites madness. Most believe the lich-god Vecna authored the Book of Vile Darkness. He recorded in its pages every diseased idea, every unhinged thought, and every

Book of Vile Darkness (Variant)

Magic Items Keys from the Golden Vault

to the book, you can cast circle of death (save DC 20) from it as an action. After you cast the spell, roll a d6. On a roll of 1–5, you can’t use this property again until the next dawn

Vile Darkness allows pages to be torn from it, but any evil lore contained on those pages finds its way back into the book eventually, usually when a new author adds pages to the tome. If a solar tears

Order of Scribes

Classes Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

Magic of the book—that’s what many folk call wizardry. The name is apt, given how much time wizards spend poring over tomes and penning theories about the nature of magic. It’s rare

spellbooks, a wizard in the Order of Scribes magically awakens their book, turning it into a trusted companion. All wizards study books, but a wizardly scribe talks to theirs!

Nass Lantomir's Ghost

Monsters Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

a DC 14 Wisdom saving throw or be frightened for 1 minute. If the save fails by 5 or more, the target also ages 1d4;{"diceNotation":"1d4","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Horrifying Visage"} ×

and headed toward the Sea of Moving Ice, hoping to find a tome called The Codicil of White, a book of magic and lore composed by servants of Auril the Frostmaiden. The Arcane Brotherhood believes that

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