boons black diffusing compound remaining

Deck of Many Things

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

you fail to draw the chosen number, the remaining number of cards fly from the deck on their own and take effect all at once. Once a card is drawn, it disappears. Unless the card is the Fool or

. The avatar targets only you with its attacks, appearing as a ghostly skeleton clad in a tattered black robe and carrying a spectral scythe. The avatar disappears when it drops to 0 Hit Points or you

Tashlyn Yafeera

Monsters Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

":"damage","rollAction":"Greatsword","rollDamageType":"slashing"} slashing damage if Tashlyn has more than half her hit points remaining. Shortbow. Ranged Weapon Attack: +6;{"diceNotation":"1d20+6

is Master of Arms and Mercenaries for the Waterdeep Zhentarim. In this role, she provides armor, weapons, and training to sellswords on the Black Network's payroll. Tashlyn has established a useful

Champion

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

points remaining. Shortbow. Ranged Weapon Attack: +6;{"diceNotation":"1d20+6", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Shortbow"} to hit, range 80/320 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d6 + 2);{"diceNotation":"1d6+2

white field 6 Dragon skull supported on either side by dragon wings on a red field 7 Yellow chicken foot on a black field 8 Lightning bolt splitting a galley in two on a blue field

Manshoon Legacy

Monsters Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

Special Equipment. Manshoon wears a black robe of the archmagi and wields a staff of power (both accounted for in his statistics). Roll 2d10;{"diceNotation":"2d10","rollType":"roll","rollAction

":"Special Equipment"} to determine how many charges the staff has remaining. Magic Resistance. While wearing his robe of the archmagi, Manshoon has advantage on saving throws against spells and other

Living Armor

Magic Items Eberron: Rising from the Last War

This hideous armor is formed from black chitin, beneath which veins pulse and red sinews glisten. To attune to this item, you must wear it for the entire attunement period, during which tendrils on

to the armor ends, and it detaches from you. The armor requires fresh blood be fed to it. Immediately after you finish any long rest, you must either feed half of your remaining Hit Dice to the armor (round up) or take 1 level of exhaustion.

Lich Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

haunts the abode it favored in life, such as a lonely tower, a haunted ruin, or an academy of black magic. Alternatively, some liches construct secret tombs filled with powerful guardians and traps

, the lich takes half the damage (rounded down), and the target takes the remaining damage. This tether lasts until initiative count 20 on the next round or until the lich or the target is no longer in

Hulgaz

Monsters The Book of Many Things

Nine Hells. The self-styled Tempter corrupts mortals’ souls by offering them tantalizing but ruinous boons. To do so, she directs her entourage of loyal succubi and incubi to the Material Plane

claws, glossy black eyes, and a snakelike tail tipped with a poisonous spike. On the rare occasion when her social graces fail to achieve the desired result, Hulgaz turns her natural weapons on her

Exethanter

Monsters Curse of Strahd

academy of black magic. Alternatively, some liches construct secret tombs filled with powerful guardians and traps. Everything about a lich’s lair reflects its keen mind and wicked cunning, including

remaining damage. This tether lasts until initiative count 20 on the next round or until Exethanter or the target is no longer in the Exethanter’s lair. Exethanter calls forth the spirits of

Arcturia

Monsters Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

lich often haunts the abode it favored in life, such as a lonely tower, a haunted ruin, or an academy of black magic. Alternatively, some liches construct secret tombs filled with powerful guardians

takes the remaining damage. This tether lasts until initiative count 20 on the next round or until the lich or the target is no longer in the lich’s lair. The lich calls forth the spirits of

Valindra Shadowmantle Legacy

Monsters Tomb of Annihilation

a lonely tower, a haunted ruin, or an academy of black magic. Alternatively, some liches construct secret tombs filled with powerful guardians and traps. Everything about a lich’s lair

damage, the target must make a DC 18 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the lich takes half the damage (rounded down), and the target takes the remaining damage. This tether lasts until

Baphomet Legacy

Monsters Out of the Abyss

minotaur—considered the greatest gift of the Prince of Beasts. Baphomet himself appears as a great, black-furred minotaur, 20 feet tall with six iron horns. An infernal light burns in his red eyes

reversed within that room. Any creatures or objects in the room when this happens fall in the direction of the new pull of gravity, unless they have some means of remaining aloft. Baphomet can ignore the

Olhydra

Monsters Princes of the Apocalypse

in the black depths of vast seas or enthroned among jagged reefs. Olhydra waits for the chance to enter the Material Plane through elemental water nodes or when called by the proper rituals. Whether

attempts to leave the area, remaining frightened while within it. On a failure, the creature becomes highly aggressive and remains in the area for 24 hours. While in this state, the creature gains advantage

Deck of Many Things Legacy

Magic Items Basic Rules (2014)

, the remaining number of cards fly from the deck on their own and take effect all at once. Once a card is drawn, it fades from existence. Unless the card is the Fool or the Jester, the card reappears

. Skull. You summon an avatar of death--a ghostly humanoid skeleton clad in a tattered black robe and carrying a spectral scythe. It appears in a space of the GM's choice within 10 feet of you and attacks

2. Walled Compound

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation

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

human corpses. One of the corpses is being torn apart by a pack of wild dogs. The Red Wizards seized this compound as their base of operations in Omu, but yuan-ti attacked and nearly wiped them out

Queen of Air and Darkness, The

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide

, her motivations are as obscure and whimsical as any other archfey’s. She gives supernatural boons and terrible curses with equal whimsy, with little regard for the elaborate customs surrounding gifts

and favors in other courts of the Feywild. Though she is said to have a spectral form resembling a terrifying elf, to the unaided eye she appears as a strange, black diamond, hovering in the air like the slitted pupil of an unseen cat.

Hulgaz the Tempter

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things

them tantalizing but ruinous boons. To do so, she directs her entourage of loyal succubi and incubi to the Material Plane in search of vulnerable mortals. When they find a particularly pitiful soul

garments. For all her majesty, Hulgaz’s fiendish nature is apparent in her monstrous features: bestial claws, glossy black eyes, and a snakelike tail tipped with a poisonous spike. On the rare occasion

Deck of Several Things

Magic Items Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

, the remaining number of cards fly from the deck on their own and take effect all at once. Once a card is drawn, it fades from existence. Unless the card is the Fool or the Jester, the card reappears

tattered black robe. It appears in a space of the DM’s choice within 10 feet of you and attacks you, warning all others that you must win the battle alone. The avatar fights until you die or it

Examining the Trunk

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

Examining the Trunk Characters who examine the mimic and succeed on a DC 12 Wisdom (Perception) check notice that the defeated trunk’s wood and leather has been rubbed with a black, oily substance

. If asked about this, Professor Sharpbeak says it’s likely just a leather conditioner. With no magic remaining in the eldritch balm to reveal the contamination, she has no explanation for why the trunk temporarily turned into a mimic and attacked.

Cult of Zargon

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase

Cult of Zargon Rising from the fetid slime that drowned their former kingdom, the cultists of Zargon revere the horned abomination as a god. These fanatics gather in a black stone temple in the

underground city, where they prepare living sacrifices to Zargon and sow fear among the remaining Cynidiceans. Periodically, the cultists venture up to the tunnels beneath the ziggurat to feed Zargon and

Adventure Background

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves

cargo ships and engaged in minimal bloodshed. Unbeknownst to the locals, a black dragon called Sablewing has seized command of the Corsairs. Sablewing killed the pirates’ leader, as well as any other

crew who opposed the dragon’s violent ambitions. The dragon has instructed the remaining Corsairs to loot nearby coastal settlements, starting with the village of Respite. When this adventure begins

Xanathar

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

subservience or drawn to the beholder by the promise of treasure, food, or power. Treachery within the ranks of the guild is common as servants vie for the beholder’s favor and affection. Such boons are

Golorr from where it was hidden inside its lair, and the beholder is convinced that the Black Network is behind the theft. The beholder is caught up in the unbreakable grip of its own paranoia. It sees

Champion

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse

Dragon skull supported on either side by dragon wings on a red field 7 Yellow chicken foot on a black field 8 Lightning bolt splitting a galley in two on a blue field 9 Two crouching displacer beasts

facing each other on a yellow field 10 Knotted brambles on a green field 11 Red owlbear with a silver crown on a checkered field of black and white 12 Black anvil cracked down the middle on an orange

8. Teleportation Pillars

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

8. Teleportation Pillars Eight black marble pillars stand in a circle near the walls of this 20-foot-high room. A fist-sized yellow sapphire is embedded in each of the five easternmost pillars at a

height of 10 feet, such that all five gemstones face inward. Each of the remaining three pillars, in the west side of the room, bears an empty indentation where a similar gem is meant to be placed. The

Castle Cinis

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault

, with clouds of ash rising toward the black, spherical void that looms above Castle Cinis. The characters have no encounters on their way to the castle. When they arrive at the castle, read or paraphrase

the following: Castle Cinis has deteriorated to the extent that sections of it now float in the air. Ash and detritus rise toward the spherical black void that hovers high above the castle. The void

Matron Mother Quenthel Baenre

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

strands forms a kind of fence around a sprawling compound of structures laid out on the plateau at the top of Menzoberranzan’s great cavern. Dozens of massive stalagmites and stalactites have been carved

and shaped into towers, girded with balconies and walkways, and connected with delicate-looking ramps and bridges. All the compound is lit with blazing light in pale shades of violet, green, and blue

Living Armor

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

Living Armor Armor (any), very rare (requires attunement) This hideous armor is formed from black chitin, beneath which veins pulse and red sinews glisten. To attune to this item, you must wear it

that ends a curse, your attunement to the armor ends, and it detaches from you. The armor requires fresh blood be fed to it. Immediately after you finish any long rest, you must either feed half of your remaining Hit Dice to the armor (round up) or take 1 level of exhaustion.

Against Demogorgon

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

of battle finally die away, the ground before you stained black and red with demonic blood and ichor. In the terrible grip of Demogorgon, even the mighty Orcus looks almost small. Tentacles hold the

players specifically stated they were remaining close to the demon lord. Demogorgon has been wounded during the fight, giving the characters an edge in the battle to come. Apply the following penalties

Bronze Dragon Treasures

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

7 An aquatic howdah made of sharkskin and bearing an emblem of a lonely black tower perched high atop a sea stack 8 A statue of a dishonored elf general, which is surrounded by historical

compound eyes 10 An elaborate clockwork zoetrope that, when activated, displays a moving picture of a bronze dragon fighting a red dragon over a burning city

Sahuagin Baron

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual

. These boons elevate the recipients’ status among their kind, and they become champions or leaders. Sahuagin barons’ blood is infused with profane magic capable of searing their enemies and making these

interposing obstacles. When a sahuagin comes at you, it doesn’t seem to be living until it bites you. Then the thing’s black eyes turn red as hellfire and the waves foam crimson. Then comes the screaming. —Tiguran Maremrynd, A Survivor’s Memoir

Dellmon Ranch

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse

homesteads in the vicinity, Kerbin Dellmon sent out word that anyone could stay at their compound for safety. A number of farmers and ranchers took the Dellmons up on their offer. Every able-bodied

is nearby and heading in the ranch’s direction. There’s not enough time to flee, and everyone is hunkering down to defend the compound as best as they can. Stowal and Branikan are brothers (male shield

Development

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

Development Another tunnel on the opposite side of the cavern heads off in a different direction than where Yeenoghu led his pack. Characters who defeat the remaining gnolls can continue on their way

second component takes the form of a few spatters of a demon lord’s blood. A successful DC 10 Wisdom (Perception) check finds some of Yeenoghu’s black blood on the fallen goristro’s horns.

34. Zalthar's Chambers

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

, all covered in dust and cobwebs. Easel. A wooden easel stands in the northeast corner, draped in a black cloth. (Under the cloth, resting on the easel, is a half-finished portrait of Dezmyr as she

was in life, lying nude on a bed of tentacles.) Zalthar. Seated in a chair, facing the northern and western doors, is Zalthar Shadowdusk — a death knight in black armor. In his withered hands, he

Chapter 2: Elturel Has Fallen

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus

protection to the city for years, now glares down on Elturel like a baleful eye — a black void crackling with lightning. One circumstance has saved the city from being overrun by devils: a massive

remaining citizens of Elturel. Even so, random demons, devils, and other creatures have infiltrated the city. The characters have time to learn about Elturel’s situation and enact a way to save the city

9. Boss Hark's Cave

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder

with Hark Characters can try to negotiate with Hark instead of attacking him. He agrees to release the remaining villagers if the characters do one of the following things (and leave the goblin lair in

needs the new lock for his treasure chest in area 8. Kill the Blob (see area 3). If the characters provide Hark with proof of the black pudding’s demise, he releases all the villagers into their custody.

A Lich's Lair

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)

A Lich’s Lair A lich often haunts the abode it favored in life, such as a lonely tower, a haunted ruin, or an academy of black magic. Alternatively, some liches construct secret tombs filled with

remaining damage. This tether lasts until initiative count 20 on the next round or until the lich or the target is no longer in the lich’s lair. The lich calls forth the spirits of creatures that

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