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Dungeon Master’s Guide
benefits granted by the book.
Celestial Calm. While attuned to the book, you have Immunity to the Charmed and Frightened conditions and Resistance to Psychic damage. These benefits become permanent
The definitive treatise on all that is good in the multiverse, the Book of Exalted Deeds figures prominently in many religions. Rather than being a scripture devoted to a particular faith, the book
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
the creature, the figurine doesn’t become a creature.
The creature is Friendly to you and your allies. It understands your languages, obeys your commands, and takes its turn immediately after
of Wondrous Power (Bronze Griffon);Bronze Griffon (Rare). This bronze statuette is of a griffon rampant. It can become a Griffon for up to 6 hours. Once it has been used, it can’t be used again
Spells
Player’s Handbook
You speak a one-word command to a creature you can see within range. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or follow the command on its next turn. Choose the command from these options
.
Flee. The target spends its turn moving away from you by the fastest available means.
Grovel. The target has the Prone condition and then ends its turn.
Halt. On its turn, the target doesn’t
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
Light in a 30-foot radius and Dim Light for an additional 30 feet. This effect doesn’t expend a charge. It lasts until you take a Bonus Action to repeat the command word or until you use another
This prism has 50 charges. While you are holding it, you can take a Magic action and use one of three command words to cause one of the following effects:
First Command Word. The gem sheds Bright
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
This iron rod has a button on one end. You can take a Utilize action to press the button, which causes the rod to become magically fixed in place. Until you or another creature takes a Utilize action
to push the button again, the rod doesn’t move, even if it defies gravity. The rod can hold up to 8,000 pounds of weight. More weight causes the rod to deactivate and fall. A creature can take
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. 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
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Dungeon Master’s Guide
;t be moved by any means. Touching the token to the vessel again ends the effect. When the effect ends, the token disappears.
Bird (Rare). You can take a Magic action to toss the token 5 feet into
speed by 5 miles per hour for 8 hours. You can dismiss the fan as a Magic action.
Swan Boat (Rare). You can take a Magic action to touch the token to a body of water at least 60 feet in diameter
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
As a Magic action, you can throw this staff so that it lands in an unoccupied space within 10 feet of you, causing the staff to become a Giant Constrictor Snake in that space. The snake is under your
control and shares your Initiative count, taking its turn immediately after yours.
On your turn, you can mentally command the snake (no action required) if it is within 60 feet of you and you don
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
As a Magic action, you can place this 1-inch adamantine statuette on the ground and, using a command word, cause it to grow rapidly into a square adamantine tower. Repeating the command word causes
a single door at ground level on the side facing you. The door opens only at your command, which you can issue as a Bonus Action. It is immune to the Knock spell and similar magic.
Magic prevents the
Spells
Player’s Handbook
.” The target does its best to obey on its turn. If it completes an order and doesn’t receive further direction from you, it acts and moves as it likes, focusing on protecting itself.
You can
command the target to take a Reaction but must take your own Reaction to do so.
Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. Your Concentration can last longer with a spell slot of level 5 (up to 10 minutes), 6 (up to 1 hour), or 7+ (up to 8 hours).
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commands even if it doesn’t know the language in which the commands are given. If you issue no commands or give the creature a command that is likely to result in its death or imprisonment, it
on the save. Once trapped, a creature remains in the flask until released. The flask can hold only one creature at a time. A creature trapped in the flask doesn’t age and doesn’t need to
Spells
Player’s Handbook
.” The target does its best to obey on its turn. If it completes an order and doesn’t receive further direction from you, it acts and moves as it likes, focusing on protecting itself.
You
can command the target to take a Reaction but must take your own Reaction to do so.
Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. Your Concentration can last longer with a spell slot of level 6 (up to 10 minutes), 7 (up to 1 hour), or 8+ (up to 8 hours).
Spells
Player’s Handbook
You touch a creature, which must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or become cursed for the duration. Until the curse ends, the target suffers one of the following effects of your choice:
Choose
spell doesn’t require Concentration, and the duration becomes 8 hours (level 5–6 slot) or 24 hours (level 7–8 slot). If you use a level 9 spell slot, the spell lasts until dispelled.
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Player’s Handbook
.” The target does its best to obey on its turn. If it completes an order and doesn’t receive further direction from you, it acts and moves as it likes, focusing on protecting itself.
You
can command the target to take a Reaction but must take your own Reaction to do so.
Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. Your Concentration can last longer with a level 9 spell slot (up to 8 hours).
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Dungeon Master’s Guide
While holding this rod, you can take a Reaction to absorb a spell that is targeting only you and doesn’t create an area of effect. The absorbed spell’s effect is canceled, and the spell
by a spell that the rod can’t store, the rod has no effect on that spell.
When you become attuned to the rod, you know how many levels of energy the rod has absorbed over the course of its
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Dungeon Master’s Guide
has the Restrained condition until you take a Bonus Action to issue a command that releases it. Doing so or missing with the attack causes the bands to contract and become a sphere once more.
A
Spells
Player’s Handbook
You create a Large hand of shimmering magical energy in an unoccupied space that you can see within range. The hand lasts for the duration, and it moves at your command, mimicking the movements of
your own hand.
The hand is an object that has AC 20 and Hit Points equal to your Hit Point maximum. If it drops to 0 Hit Points, the spell ends. The hand doesn’t occupy its space.
When you cast
Monsters
Monster Manual
, the vampire uses Shape-Shift to become mist (no action required). If it can’t use Shape-Shift, it is destroyed.
While it has 0 Hit Points in mist form, it can’t return to its vampire form
. The vampire casts Command, requiring no spell components and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 17). The vampire can’t take this action again until the start of its next
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
of these weapons have faded from the world, their magic lost as family lines have become extinct. Others have vanished with their bearers during great quests. Thus, only a few of these weapons remain
.
Every Moonblade longs for a bearer whose disposition and goals are compatible with its own. If you try to attune to a Moonblade that doesn’t want you as its bearer, the weapon not only
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
using magic, or a place you know through someone else’s description, perhaps from a map.
“False destination” is a place that doesn’t exist. Perhaps you tried to scry an enemy
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and become entombed in a state of suspended animation in an extradimensional sphere. Everything you’re wearing and carrying disappears with you except for Artifacts, which stay behind in the space
an ally. As Dungeon Master, you should wait for a dramatically appropriate moment to reveal this enmity, leaving the adventurer guessing who is likely to become a betrayer.
Fool. You have
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more attuned to its origin, developing distinct powers that reflect its source.
Sorcerers are rare. Some family lines produce exactly one Sorcerer in every generation, but most of the time, the
talents of sorcery appear as a fluke. People who have this magical power soon discover that it doesn’t like to stay quiet. A Sorcerer’s magic wants to be wielded.
Becoming a Sorcerer...
As a
Monsters
Astarion's Book of Hungers
damage if it starts its turn in sunlight. While in sunlight, it has Disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks.
Immobile Restoration. If the vampire drops to 0 Hit Points while it doesn’t
Command.
Claw. Melee Attack Roll: +9;{"diceNotation":"1d20+9", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Claw"}, reach 5 ft. Hit: 14 (2d8 + 5);{"diceNotation":"2d8+5", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Claw
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
damage if it fails, provided it doesn’t have the Incapacitated condition.Hooves. Melee Attack Roll: +6;{"diceNotation":"1d20+6", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Hooves"}, reach 5 ft. Hit: 7
smaller, has the Prone condition.Nimblewright steeds are clockwork mounts that are tireless whether carrying a rider or pulling a coach. A nimblewright steed can become fixated on routes it frequently
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
fungi that flourish in the depths. As deep dragons age, their smooth, serpentine bodies become riddled with fungal rot, particularly around their faces, to imbue their breath with terror-inducing
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Preservation of Knowledge. Books and other written forms of communication with 1 mile of the lair become magically protected and can’t be damaged by nonmagical means.
Restless Sleep. When a
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
that flourish in the depths. As deep dragons age, their smooth, serpentine bodies become riddled with fungal rot, particularly around their faces, to imbue their breath with terror-inducing spores
:
Preservation of Knowledge. Books and other written forms of communication with 1 mile of the lair become magically protected and can’t be damaged by nonmagical means.
Restless Sleep. When a creature
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
hunters with an affinity for lost lore and fungi that flourish in the depths. As deep dragons age, their smooth, serpentine bodies become riddled with fungal rot, particularly around their faces, to
presence, creating the following effects:
Preservation of Knowledge. Books and other written forms of communication with 1 mile of the lair become magically protected and can’t be damaged by
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
Underdark. They are stealthy hunters with an affinity for lost lore and fungi that flourish in the depths. As deep dragons age, their smooth, serpentine bodies become riddled with fungal rot, particularly
;s lair is changed by its presence, creating the following effects:
Preservation of Knowledge. Books and other written forms of communication with 1 mile of the lair become magically protected and can
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
. That Manshoon is dead, and the current Manshoon is one of the original’s many clones. Being a magical copy rather than an original doesn’t make Manshoon any less of a threat, as he’s
;ve outlived their usefulness. Manshoon doesn’t care who suffers so long he’s able to crush his many enemies and force his subjects into paranoid and eager obedience.
History
The
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Astarion's Book of Hungers
, the vampire uses Shape-Shift to become mist (no action required). If it can’t use Shape-Shift, it is destroyed.
While it has 0 Hit Points in mist form, it can’t return to its vampire form
can’t spend Hit Point Dice at the end of the rest and doesn’t regain Hit Points, Hit Point Dice, or spell slots at the end of the rest.
Tenacious Lore. Within 1 mile of the lair, flame
Book of Vile Darkness
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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
made to interact with non-evil creatures.
Command Evil. While you are attuned to the book and holding it, you can use an action to cast the dominate monster spell on an evil target (save DC 18). You
, plus whatever else you choose:
Vile Apotheosis. The book could hold a ritual that allows a character to become a lich or death knight.
True Names. The true names of any number of fiends might be in
Figurine of Wondrous Power
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Basic Rules (2014)
has passed, as specified in the figurine's description.
Figurine of Wondrous Power (Bronze Griffon);Bronze Griffon (Rare). This bronze statuette is of a griffon rampant. It can become a griffon for up
Lions (Rare). These gold statuettes of lions are always created in pairs. You can use one figurine or both simultaneously. Each can become a lion for up to 1 hour. Once a lion has been used, it can't
Magic Items
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
own senses.
Boros Keyrune (Rare). Carved from red sandstone with white granite elements to resemble a member of the Boros Legion, this keyrune can become a veteran (human) for up to 8 hours. In
it is an artificial human.
Dimir Keyrune (Very Rare). This keyrune, carved from black stone accented with steel, resembles a stylized horror. On command, it transforms into an intellect devourer that
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Keys from the Golden Vault
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Condition Immunities. While attuned to the book, you can’t be charmed or frightened.
Evil Presence. The book houses an evil spirit that is hostile toward you. When you become attuned to the
book, the spirit tries to leave the book and enter your body. If you fail a DC 20 Charisma saving throw, it succeeds, and you become an NPC under the DM’s control until the intruding spirit is
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!