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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
become beholden to such a master through a bleak bargain, or they might find themselves cursed by one. Once warped into a fishlike form, a sea spawn can’t leave the water for long without courting
backgrounds
Curse of Strahd: Character Options
cold, dark night, and you were unable to stop it.
6
You were cursed with lycanthropy and later cured. You are now haunted by the innocents you slaughtered.
7
A hag kidnapped and raised you
. You escaped, but the hag still has a magical hold over you and fills your mind with evil thoughts.
8
You opened an eldritch tome and saw things unfit for a sane mind. You burned the book, but its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
area. A remove curse spell or similar magic ends the curse on a creature, though it remains susceptible to being cursed again. If cast on the book, the magic suppresses the curse on all creatures for 10 minutes.
Shemshime’s Curse Those who hear the melody of the rhyme find it to be irresistibly catchy, and they hum it over and over again. Such individuals have become cursed. The rhyme acts as a summoning
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
one book that looks out of place among the others. It is a hefty, green-covered tome with a withered frog stitched into its spine. Kissing the frog or stroking it with a moistened finger causes the
frog to croak the book’s title in Elvish. This book is volume 3 of an eleven-book series titled Tales from the Gloaming Court. Endelyn stole this book and its companion (in area M17) from her sister
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Outburst. One of the Avowed is overwhelmed by the curse, and his manic humming causes creepy things to happen. Event 3: Singing Skull. The cursed remains of the book dealer who brought Shemshime’s
them to Crinkle, the Firefly Cellar’s kenku caretaker, who has the book. Shemshime’s Bedtime Rhyme contains the malevolent spirit called Shemshime, and the book holds the secret of how to stop it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
. Any creatures meazels draw through the shadows are cursed by the meazels’ baleful magic. The curse acts as a beacon; sorrowsworn (which appear in this book), Undead, and other terrors sense where they
teleportation leads to the nearest unoccupied space.
Any other creature the meazel teleports becomes cursed for 1 hour or until the curse is ended by remove curse or greater restoration. Until this curse ends
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
cursed with lycanthropy and later cured. You are now haunted by the innocents you slaughtered.
7 A hag kidnapped and raised you. You escaped, but the hag still has a magical hold over you and
fills your mind with evil thoughts.
8 You opened an eldritch tome and saw things unfit for a sane mind. You burned the book, but its words and images are burned into your psyche.
9 A fiend
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
something horrible clutch at your soul, whereupon you fled in terror. 5 An oni took your sibling one cold, dark night, and you were unable to stop it. 6 You were cursed with lycanthropy and later
opened an eldritch tome and saw things unfit for a sane mind. You burned the book, but its words and images are burned into your psyche. 9 A fiend possessed you as a child. You were locked away but
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
light activity, such as reading your Book of Shadows and keeping watch. Cloak of Flies Prerequisite: 5th level As a bonus action, you can surround yourself with a magical aura that looks like buzzing
the end of your next turn. Maddening Hex Prerequisite: 5th level, hex spell or a warlock feature that curses As a bonus action, you cause a psychic disturbance around the target cursed by your hex spell
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
adventure gives glimpses into that world. In time, cursed Barovia was torn from its home world by the Dark Powers and bound in mist as one of the Domains of Dread in the Shadowfell.
This book is
this day one of the most iconic and memorable of all D&D dungeons.
This book includes the original adventure, as well as expanded material developed in consultation with Tracy and Laura Hickman. It
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Complications table. Research Complications d6 Complication 1 You accidentally damage a rare book. 2 You offend a sage, who demands an extravagant gift.* 3 If you had known that book was cursed, you never
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
options in the Player’s Handbook and are more rare in the worlds of D&D than the races in that book are. If you’re a player, consult with your DM before using any of the races here. Many DMs like to
. Goliaths are hulking wanderers who dwell at the highest mountain reaches. Kenku are cursed bird folk, who still pay the price for an ancient betrayal. Dwelling in human cities, they have a sinister
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
listing tide times for the area of coast around Saltmarsh (a total of one hundred miles of coastline is covered) A treatise concerning the demigod Iuz and its minions Inside the third book is a sheet of
in iridescent green silk. A character who makes a successful DC 12 Intelligence (Investigation) check finds a hidden compartment under the table that holds Sanbalet’s spellbook. The book contains all
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Tale of Tragedy and Terror A Deep and Creeping Darkness tells the tale of a mountain village whose residents went missing over the course of several months. The book presents a series of vignettes
named in the book include Mayor Lei Duvezin, a kind and talented dwarf smith named Tormun, and his wife, Blenyss. Seventy years ago, an explosion rocked the platinum mine, collapsing the tunnels and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
. They don’t know it by name, and though they all hum it perfectly, they’re not entirely certain they knew it before today. Unknown to the characters, the cursed tune spread to them when Gailby
Smallstone sang it in the hall outside the characters’ room after she heard it from Crinkle. K’Tulah and Ebder share the table with the characters. Ebder is reading from the same book he had last night. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
the Sharn Council (Bestan ir’Tonn, who also has close ties to the Boromar Clan) and a leader in the Sharn Watch (Warden Maira ir’Talan of the Blackened Book). The Dreaming Dark also commands the
Bonus Actions
Mind Curse. Wisdom Saving Throw: DC 15, one creature hit by the infiltrator’s Mind Blade attack this turn. Failure: The target takes 14 (4d6) Psychic damage and is cursed. While
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
keyed to the Far Realm of alien entities—linked to the comet and opened again. And what emerged, ululating profanities, sang unnameable hungers into an unguarded world.
—From The Book of the Gate
, or star-spawn horror. 3 The experiment of an aberrant manipulator. 4 Part of the life cycle of some other Aberration. 5 A shape-shifter that lost control of its powers. 6 Someone cursed by a cult or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
giants, 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 become
beholden to such a master through a bleak bargain, or they might find themselves cursed by one. Once warped into a fishlike form, a sea spawn can’t leave the water for long without courting death. Sea
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
the second floor is strewn with broken dishes, rotten food, and pages from a destroyed book. The pages are from the journal of Mirabel, one of the inn’s owners. Surviving entries note the following
bones to rise as a Minotaur Skeleton. Both it and Sorvina fight the characters to the death. When the skeleton is defeated, its bones remain intact. Cursed Remains. The skeleton exudes evil magic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
touches the shield becomes cursed with the flaw: “I take no joy or pleasure in anything.” This flaw supersedes any opposing flaw. Casting a remove curse spell or similar magic on the creature ends the
curse on it. Treasure Aximus and Exekarus hide their spellbooks in the folds of their robes. Each book contains all the spells the arcanaloths have prepared, plus eyebite, forcecage, and incendiary cloud.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monstrous Compendium Volume Two
extreme devotion to Takhisis allows him to channel her unholy power on the battlefield, bolstering those under his command while raining cursed fire on his foes. His towering silhouette is often wreathed
creatures in this compendium, you will find several monsters with the Draconic Devotion trait terrorizing the lands of Krynn in the book Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen.
Verminaard
Medium
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
around to give it commands. Treasure. The blue sphere is an Ioun stone (insight) that belongs to Iggwilv. Any other creature that attunes to the Ioun stone is cursed. While cursed in this way, the
succeed on a DC 16 Intelligence (History) check can recognize one of Iggwilv’s costumes from a woodcut of her that they saw once in a book, where she was identified as “Iggwilv, the Witch Queen of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
represent uniform strains virtually identical to each other. Other demons (such as manes) are created from mortal souls shunned or cursed by the gods, or which are otherwise trapped in the Abyss
Demons. The Book of Vile Darkness, the Black Scrolls of Ahm, and the Demonomicon of Iggwilv are the foremost authorities on demonic matters. These ancient tomes describe techniques that can trap the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
here. Gideon’s Testament. The book is a testament written by Gideon in the months leading up to Elturel’s fall. It pontificates about the evil of demons, instructing the reader to be ever vigilant
tome can conclude, with a successful DC 10 Intelligence (Investigation) check, that it’s the work of a madman. Any character who continues to read the book beyond that basic level of understanding must
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
. Licking the spine of a book imparts a taste of the knowledge within, while consuming the tome altogether results in a sugar rush followed by mild cramps and gas. Hag’s Dentures. Uncle Nibblecheek’s dentures
life as a fairy tale, highlighting important events with illustrations geared toward children. Characters who peruse the book learn that Edith visited the cottage when she was a girl, betrayed her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Intelligence (Investigation) check finds a spell scroll of lesser restoration and a book containing rituals for the alarm, find familiar, and illusory script spells. Drawing Desk. Nubs of charcoal and
Skeletons. These giant skeletons were unearthed shortly before the silver in the mine ran out, inspiring talk that the mine was cursed. When Teocín first joined Itzmin here, she drew on the power of Pazuzu
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
check. This cabin contains fifteen watertight crates of various sizes, which hold hundreds of copies of St. Cuthbert and Common Sense, a short book used to explain the tenets of the deity’s faith to
the cult honored Vecna by using a cursed ceremonial dagger to twist the souls of St. Cuthbert’s faithful killed on the Marshal into warriors of the Maimed God meant to assault Saltmarsh. The dagger
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
before dissipating. The creature holding the book when the smoke appears must succeed on a DC 14 Constitution saving throw or be cursed for 24 hours, during which time the creature has vulnerability to
previous owner burned into its umber cover. This book contains the following spells: charm person, find familiar, identify, magic missile, sleep. Spellbook 3 is bound in scaly black reptile hide and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
creature that was plugging the well, she considers this chore complete.) Find the Missing Book. Bavlorna’s Big Book of Bad Blood has gone missing. It contains copious notes on everyone who has wronged her
. She assumes the book hasn’t been taken far and wants the characters to search Downfall for it. (The book is currently in the hands of Gullop XIX, the bullywug king in area D6. If the characters have
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
human man dressed in rich robes sits in an overstuffed chair, reading a book.
The reader is Avalion, a glabrezu in human shape. He greets the characters amiably and offers the hospitality of his study
show her courtesy or at least respect, she lets them pass unharmed. Dying Curse. If the medusa is killed, any character who targeted the medusa with an attack or spell that deals damage is cursed; the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
a large book clad in black leather with the Zhentarim symbol imprinted on the front. Oboth suspects that someone in town knows where the tomb is hidden, or knows some bit of lore hinting at its
DC 15 Wisdom (Insight) check realizes that the giant is suggesting that the party follow the river. Zorkh won’t accompany the characters, for he believes that Deadstone Cleft is cursed. Zorkh has no
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
silverfish destroy one random book or other paper item that isn’t magical. 81–85 One random creature in the region must succeed on a DC 16 Constitution saving throw or become host to a particularly
stat block. Perhaps your adventures take a party to a land where plants speak freely or a cursed realm where petrified souls beg for help. Don’t feel restricted by the options in the Monster Manual or