book before dawn construct return

Book of Vile Darkness

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

cast that spell again from it until the next dawn. Vile Lore. You can reference the Book of Vile Darkness whenever you make an Intelligence check to recall information about some aspect of evil, such as

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

Demonomicon of Iggwilv

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

at dawn. While holding the book, you can take a Magic action to cast one of the spells (save DC 20) on the following table. The table indicates how many charges you must expend to cast the spell

. 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

Tome of the Stilled Tongue

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

again until the next dawn. Only you can remove the tongue from the book’s cover. If you do so, all spells written in the book are permanently erased. Vecna watches anyone using this tome and can write cryptic messages in it. These messages typically fade away after they are read.

This book has a desiccated tongue pinned to its front cover. Five of these tomes exist, and it’s unknown which one is the original. The tongue on the first Tome of the Stilled Tongue belonged

Vampire Umbral Lord

Monsters Monster Manual

, creating the following effects: Children of the Night. The vampire exerts influence over the animals in its domain. From dusk until dawn, Medium or smaller Beasts have the Charmed condition while

, one creature the vampire can see within 30 feet that isn’t a Construct or an Undead. Failure: 14 (4d6);{"diceNotation":"4d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Sanguine Drain

Cube of Summoning

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

attack bonus) and doesn’t require Concentration, but you otherwise function as the spell’s caster. Once the cube summons a creature, the cube can’t do so again until the next dawn

. Cube of Summoning 1d6 Spell 1 Summon Aberration 2 Summon Beast 3 Summon Construct 4 Summon Dragon 5 Summon Elemental 6 Summon Fey

Staff of the Woodlands

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

discerned with the Detect Magic spell. While touching the tree and using a Magic action, you return the staff to its normal form. Any creature in the tree falls when the tree reverts to a staff

. Regaining Charges. The staff regains 1d6 expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the last charge, roll 1d20. On a 1, the staff loses its properties and becomes a nonmagical Quarterstaff.

Blackrazor

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

with a range of 30 feet. Devour Soul. Whenever you use Blackrazor to reduce a creature to 0 Hit Points, the sword slays the creature and devours its soul unless it is a Construct or an Undead. A

creature’s Hit Point maximum. Haste. Blackrazor can cast Haste on you, after which it can’t cast this spell again until the next dawn. Blackrazor decides when to cast the spell, which takes

Whelm

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

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

condition for 1 minute. A creature repeats the save at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. Once used, this property can’t be used again until the next dawn

Deck of Many Things

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

Temporary Hit Points daily at dawn until you die. Talons. Every magic item you wear or carry disintegrates. Artifacts in your possession vanish instead. Throne. You gain proficiency and Expertise in

guard the place. While your soul is trapped in this way, your body is inert, ceases aging, and requires no food, air, or water. A Wish spell can’t return your soul to your body, but the spell reveals the location of the object that holds your soul. You draw no more cards.

Vampire Infernalist

Monsters 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

serve the vampire’s will. From dusk until dawn, Medium or smaller Beasts have the Charmed condition while within 1 mile of the lair. Drained Essence. Grasping shadows within 1 mile of the lair

Lyre of Building

Magic Items Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

immune to that damage and any further damage of the same type until the start of your next turn. In addition, you can play the lyre as an action to cast fabricate, move earth, passwall, or summon construct (appears in this book), and that spell can’t be cast from it again until the next dawn.

Yeth Hound

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

weapons can strike true. Yeth hounds can’t stand sunlight. A pack hunts at night and seeks to return to its dark den before dawn. If a yeth hound is exposed to natural sunlight, it fades away

hound in the Border Ethereal can return to the Material Plane as an action. Telepathic Bond. While the yeth hound is on the same plane of existence as its master, it can magically convey what it senses

Divine Word Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

You utter a divine word, imbued with the power that shaped the world at the dawn of creation. Choose any number of creatures you can see within range. Each creature that can hear you must make a

fiend that fails its save is forced back to its plane of origin (if it isn't there already) and can't return to your current plane for 24 hours by any means short of a wish spell.

Artus Cimber

Monsters Tomb of Annihilation

, it can’t be used again until the next dawn. Cast compulsion (save DC 15) from the dagger. The range of the spell increases to 90 feet, but the spell targets only spiders that are beasts. Once

this property is used, it can’t be used again until the next dawn. Multiattack. Artus makes three attacks with Bookmark or his longbow. Bookmark (+3 Dagger). Melee Weapon Attack: +8

Rotor of Return

Magic Items Acquisitions Incorporated

, it cannot be used again until the next dawn. Recall Code. As an action, you can set your current location as a point of return locked to the rotor. Anytime thereafter, you can use a bonus action to

teleport to the rotor’s point of return as long as you are within 500 feet of that point. Once you use the rotor of return to teleport, this feature cannot be used again until the next dawn

Book of Vile Darkness Legacy

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

can’t use this property again until the next dawn. Dark Lore. You can reference the Book of Vile Darkness whenever you make an Intelligence check to recall information about some aspect of evil

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

property again until the next dawn. Dark Lore. You can reference the Book of Vile Darkness whenever you make an Intelligence check to recall information about some aspect of evil, such as lore about

Heart Weaver's Primer

Magic Items Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

regains 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn. You can use the charges in the following ways while holding it: If you spend 1 minute studying the book, you can expend 1 charge to replace one of your

This pristine book smells faintly of a random scent you find pleasing. When found, the book contains the following spells: antipathy/sympathy, charm person, dominate person, enthrall, hypnotic

Protective Verses

Magic Items Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

regains 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn. You can use the charges in the following ways while holding it: If you spend 1 minute studying the book, you can expend 1 charge to replace one of your

This leather-bound spellbook is reinforced with iron and silver fittings and an iron lock (DC 20 to open). As an action, you can touch the book’s cover and cause it to lock as if you cast

Fulminating Treatise

Magic Items Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

spells. The book has 3 charges, and it regains 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn. You can use the charges in the following ways while holding it: If you spend 1 minute studying the book, you can

This thick, scorched spellbook reeks of smoke and ozone, and sparks of energy crackles along the edges of its pages. When found, the book contains the following spells: contingency, fireball, gust of

Duplicitous Manuscript

Magic Items Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

spellbook for you. While you are holding the book, you can use it as a spellcasting focus for your wizard spells. The book has 3 charges, and it regains 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn. You can use

To you, this book is a magical spellbook. To anyone else, the book appears to be a volume of verbose romance fiction. As an action, you can change the book’s appearance and alter the plot of

Atlas of Endless Horizons

Magic Items Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

holding the book, you can use it as a spellcasting focus for your wizard spells. The book has 3 charges, and it regains 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn. You can use the charges in the following

This thick book is bound in dark leather, crisscrossed with inlaid silver lines suggesting a map or chart. When found, the book contains the following spells, which are wizard spells for you while

Libram of Souls and Flesh

Magic Items Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

you are holding the book, you can use it as a spellcasting focus for your wizard spells. The book has 3 charges, and it regains 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn. You can use the charges in the

With covers made of skin and fittings of bone, this tome is cold to the touch, and it whispers faintly. When found, the book contains the following spells, which are wizard spells for you while you

Planecaller's Codex

Magic Items Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

focus for your wizard spells. The book has 3 charges, and it regains 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn. You can use the charges in the following ways while holding it: If you spend 1 minute studying

The pages of this book are bound in fiend hide, and its cover is embossed with a diagram of the Great Wheel of the multiverse. When found, the book contains the following spells: banishment, find

Alchemical Compendium

Magic Items Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

it as a spellcasting focus for your wizard spells. The book has 3 charges, and it regains 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn. You can use the charges in the following ways while holding it: If

Acrid odors cling to this stained, heavy volume. The book’s metal fittings are copper, iron, lead, silver, and gold, some frozen mid-transition from one metal to another. When found, the book

Sea Spawn

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

turtle;dragon turtles (morkoths appear in this book; the others appear in the Monster Manual)—all of these and more can mark mortals as their own and claim them as minions. Unlucky folk might

by a kraken (see the Monster Manual) named Slarkrethel. The experience transforms the children into fanatics dedicated to the kraken. They return from the sea as humans, but when they reach old age

Chardalyn Berserker

Monsters Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

these weapons can be corrupted by them. Each day at dawn, roll a d6;{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Chardalyn Weapons"} for each such weapon in the character’s possession. On

the effects of madness, the berserker loses its Chardalyn Madness trait but retains its chaotic evil alignment and other qualities. Further exposure to the demonic magic causes the berserker’s madness to return, however.

Fensir Devourer

Monsters Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

Ysgard: creatures slain on that plane return to life the next dawn. Thus, the giants’ incursion became a part of the eternal battle that rages across the plane. The trolls, whose fundamental

Arkhan the Cruel

Monsters Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus

daily at dawn. Arkhan can cast the following spells from the hand by expending the specified number of charges (spell save DC 18): finger of death (5 charges), sleep (1 charge), slow (2 charges), and

, Arkhan uses branding smite to channel the radiant power of Tiamat into his weapon attacks. If a fight turns against him, he uses the teleport power of the Hand of Vecna to return to his tower with as

Fensir Skirmisher

Monsters Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

Ysgard: creatures slain on that plane return to life the next dawn. Thus, the giants’ incursion became a part of the eternal battle that rages across the plane. The trolls, whose fundamental

Demonomicon of Iggwilv Legacy

Magic Items Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

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. And the book holds more than blasphemies. Caged behind lines of script roils a secret piece of the Abyss itself, which keeps the book up-to-date, no matter

Avarice

Monsters Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

charges), or wall of ice (4 charges). The staff regains 1d6 + 4;{"diceNotation":"1d6+4","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Staff of Frost"} charges daily at dawn. If its last charge is expended, roll a

. The book contains the spells Avarice has prepared plus the following additional spells: burning hands, cone of cold, find familiar, ice storm, lightning bolt, rope trick, thunderwave, tongues, wall of fire, and wall of force.Cold, Fire

Vampiric Mist

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Life Sense. The mist can sense the location of any creature within 60 feet of it, unless that creature’s type is Construct or Undead. Forbiddance. The mist can’t enter a residence

undetected to bleed their victims dry. Vampiric mists, sometimes called crimson mists, are all that remain of vampires who couldn’t return to their burial places after being defeated or suffering

Rod of the Vonindod

Magic Items Storm King's Thunder

has two prongs at one end and a molded handle grip on the opposite end. The rod has 10 charges and regains 1d6 + 4 of its expended charges daily at dawn. As an action, you can grasp it by the handle

and expend 1 charge to cast the locate object spell from it. When the rod is used to detect objects made of adamantine, such as fragments of the Vonindod construct, its range increases to 10 miles.

Shapechange Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

You assume the form of a different creature for the duration. The new form can be of any creature with a challenge rating equal to your level or lower. The creature can't be a construct or an undead

can't use any legendary actions or lair actions of the new form. You assume the hit points and Hit Dice of the new form. When you revert to your normal form, you return to the number of hit points you

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