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Dungeon Master’s Guide
Found in a small container, this powder resembles Dust of Disappearance, and Identify reveals it to be such. There is enough of it for one use.
As a Utilize action, you can throw the dust into the
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Magic Items
Basic Rules (2014)
Found in a small container, this powder resembles very fine sand. It appears to be dust of disappearance, and an identify spell reveals it to be such. There is enough of it for one use.
When you use
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
wooden chest contains cookware, spices, old fishbones, and a mummified toad. A detect magic spell reveals an aura of evocation magic around the toad, and an identify spell or similar magic reveals what
it does. If the mummified toad is tossed into a pot or kettle of water, it disappears and produces a darkness spell that emanates from the container and lasts for 10 minutes.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
the alley followed by eight kobolds disguised as children wearing troll masks. A bugbear named Morga and an intellect devourer hide in a doorway halfway down the alley and can be spotted with a
successful DC 16 Wisdom (Perception) check. When the characters reach Morga’s hiding spot, the bugbear and the kobolds attack. The intellect devourer stays hidden and tries to take control of a character
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Dust of Sneezing and Choking Wondrous Item, Uncommon Found in a small container, this powder resembles Dust of Disappearance, and Identify reveals it to be such. There is enough of it for one use. As
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Dust of Sneezing and Choking Wondrous Item, Uncommon Found in a small container, this powder resembles Dust of Disappearance, and Identify reveals it to be such. There is enough of it for one use. As
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Dust of Sneezing and Choking Wondrous item, uncommon Found in a small container, this powder resembles very fine sand. It appears to be dust of disappearance, and an identify spell reveals it to be
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Dust of Sneezing and Choking Wondrous item, uncommon Found in a small container, this powder resembles very fine sand. It appears to be dust of disappearance, and an identify spell reveals it to be
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
half-inch spy-holes for eyes. These holes are detected when the secret door is found. 2b. Pillar Forest Bugbears. Two bugbears hide behind pillars. (Each bugbear is host to an intellect devourer in its
exceed the bugbears’ Dexterity (Stealth) checks notice the hiding or fleeing bugbears. When a bugbear drops to 0 hit points, the intellect devourer in its skull teleports out to seek a new host
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
emerge from the Border Ethereal and attack them. The hags’ goal is to seize one or more of the skeleton keys, thus preventing the characters from reaching the Soulmonger. If a hag obtains a skeleton key
, it cackles as it returns to the Border Ethereal with it. If two hags die, the third tries to bargain with the characters, offering useful information in exchange for her life. The hag makes the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
companion, until it reveals itself to be a star spawn emissary (see chapter 5).
5 An acquaintance of the characters complains of reoccurring nightmares. The complaints stop when the dreamer is
taken over by an intellect devourer.
6 An inventor requests the characters’ insight into a pill-sized device she extracted from her own body. As the characters examine it, the device projects a map
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
. Manipulating a container or other item without knowing what’s inside or what it does (or without knowing the proper password or technique) is likely to be very dangerous. At best, whatever was held in a
container merely escapes or dissipates. At worst, just about anything can happen, none of it good. A hag always has some potion or amulet that puts the odds in her favor. If you’re lucky, she only wants to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
through the illusion into a chute that slants toward the south and plunges the creature into the pool of gorgon mud in area 4. Prodding the floor reveals the illusion, which can be dispelled (DC 16
storage container. It contains five more sacks of treasure, their contents determined as above. In addition, one randomly determined sack in the rowboat also contains a magic item, determined by rolling on Magic Item Table G in chapter 7 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
shows it to be a cunningly contrived container. Its covering is made of supple leather reinforced with thicker strips of hide. Opening the cover reveals three intricately carved, hollow wooden
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
the empty air. If a character engages the dwarf in battle or conversation, the dwarf attacks. Svirfneblin Lure A homeless deep gnome serves as host to an intellect devourer. It tries to lure one or
more characters to a “secret enclave where enemies of the drow plot to overthrow Menzoberranzan.” A successful DC 15 Wisdom (Insight) check reveals something indescribably odd or untrustworthy about
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
characters are thorough in their exploration. Ned reveals his true colors at an opportune moment. The caverns and contraband below the house wait to be discovered. Access to the sea suggests the use
than simply lining their pockets.
Mystara. Saltmarsh stands on the border between the Grand Duchy of Karameikos and the Five Shires, just inside the edge of the Blight Marsh. The smugglers who use the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
who converse with Zelifarn can make a DC 13 Wisdom (Insight) check. A successful check reveals that the dragon poses no danger to Waterdeep. If no one succeeds on the check, the dragon’s true intentions
. If the characters rid Meloon of the intellect devourer in his skull, Vajra gives the party a wand of secrets. 5th “Xanathar is using intellect devourers to take control of Waterdavians in key
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
from Varkenbluff University. Once the characters arrive at the tavern, read the following out loud: As you enter the Sage’s Quill, soft light reveals mahogany furniture and luxurious carpets. A few
creature within, which will soon be ready to hatch. Containing the Egg. At this point, the only way to keep the egg from hatching is to encase it in a specially prepared crystal container. Dr. Dannell
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
stat blocks). When a host is reduced to 0 hit points, the intellect devourer emerges and attempts to use its claws and Devour Intellect action to gain a character as a new host. A character can regain
head upstairs (see “Upstairs Bedrooms” below). Entering area 4 reveals a most macabre version of the inn’s kitchen. The transformed kitchen’s shelves contain all manner of ingredients suitable for a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
dusty ceramic serving dishes and bowls atop it. A fireplace is in the far corner.
This room was used mainly for dinner parties and family meals. A search reveals ceramic plates, bowls, and teacups with
marks a page with an entry on meenlocks, which includes the following information: Meenlocks are corrupted fey creatures that spontaneously manifest in response to fear in places where the border with the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
dense chunk of coal at its core. The Summer Star has lost its luster but not its magic. A detect magic spell or similar magic reveals a weak, residual aura of transmutation magic surrounding it. The
control the weather. An identify spell reveals the same, and Macreadus’s spirit can freely divulge this information to other spirits. A character who has Macreadus’s blueprints from the laboratory (area B6
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
appear to be swimming upstream, away from the basin. Close examination of these carvings reveals that the fish can be rotated. The first time all the fish are turned so that they appear to be swimming
downstream, a hidden valve in the basin opens and fills the container with 50 gallons of fresh water. Swimming in the water is a tiny emerald fish. Treasure. The emerald fish swims around the basin
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
be hidden to be effective. Otherwise, avoiding the trap is usually easy. A trigger requires a Wisdom (Perception) check if simply spotting it reveals its nature. The characters can foil a pit trap
. In most cases, the check reveals the trap. In other cases, it uncovers clues, but foiling the trap still requires some deduction. The characters might succeed on the check but still trigger the trap
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Maze. A detect magic spell reveals an aura of conjuration magic around the model maze. A creature that touches the maze becomes the target of a maze spell (save DC 15). Once the effect triggers, it
nearby audience chamber (area X18). The bell amplifies sounds underneath it and transmits those sounds to the audience chamber. Scrying Circle. A detect magic spell reveals an aura of divination magic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Punketah, the deck wizard. On a peg behind the door hangs a maroon robe, of no particular value. Examining the boots in combination with a successful DC 12 Wisdom (Perception) check reveals a small
pewter container that resembles a pepper pot. Against the desk is set an upright wooden chair, and beside it is a wooden, brass-bound chest.
Against the hull on the starboard side is a padded
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
. A detect magic spell or similar magic reveals an aura of evocation magic around each one. Any creature that dons a mask takes 9 (2d8) lightning damage. Once this effect triggers, the mask becomes
even if the glass is shattered. Simulacrum Sarcophagus. This ice-carved container weighs 1,000 pounds and begins to melt if taken out of the room. The snow figure in the sarcophagus is part of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
crawls up to the landing and joins the battle. P6. Yngukulub the Devourer An aboleth named Yngukulub the Devourer has allied itself with Gar Shatterkeel and the Cult of the Crushing Wave. Deranged kuo-toa
its manacles and was paralyzed and clawed to death by the ghast in area P13. A search of the corpse reveals a ring with two keys — one that unlocks the gate, and another that unlocks the gate’s manacles
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
the map) screen the temple area from discovery. Making physical contact with these images reveals their illusory nature. Someone who examines either image without touching it can determine that it is
polished floor of red and black hornblende seems to flow between the thin pillars of obsidian that border this area. Each of these pillars radiates an aura of mild fear in a 2-foot radius, and if one is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
is a clean-up crew consisting of a female duergar with a horn and six hulking bipeds, their white fur stained with soot. They are tossing scraps into a cylindrical container. In the twenty-foot-high
contains a large, beating heart. A successful DC 15 Intelligence (Arcana) check reveals that the heart belongs to a red dragon and is clearly kept alive by magic. The forge grants the heart three
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
Level Calder Moore A swirling pool of unruly apparitions stirs beneath the Spirit Sump Unlike cities on the worlds of the Material Plane, Sigil doesn’t border the Ethereal Plane, a hazy realm roamed
creatures trapped here from escaping, but the vault’s magic sometimes falters enough for a prisoner or two, all of which are hostile, to slip out from its crypts. An identify spell cast on a crypt reveals
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
bottom of the kitchen pit discovers a pouch with an Ioun Stone (sustenance) and two dull-gray stones that lost their magic long ago. Digging deeper reveals a copper crock filled with 2,500 gp—the
outcropping runs along the northern border of the garden. A small ravine cuts into the rocks, its floor scorched free of vegetation and dusted with ash.
Gorguth the chimera drank from the Fountain All Heal
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
. In the middle of the room is a low stone table, on the top of which is drawn an illustration that looks something like a map.
Closer inspection of the drawing reveals that it’s an accurate depiction
down, Grandolpha invites the characters to join her for dinner. The main course is a cooked intellect devourer, its brain-body stewing in its own juices. The characters can partake of the feast that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
container made of silver, emerald, and amethyst. The process requires at least three mind flayer arcanists and the sacrifice of an equal number of souls from living victims in a three-day-long ritual of
.
Devourer of Thoughts. An elder brain sustains itself by consuming the brains of other creatures. When the mind flayer servants that guard and tend to an elder brain don’t bring its meals directly to it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
(worth 500 gp each) in another small coffer In addition, a large growth of yellow mold seems to cover the southwest corner of the room. Making physical contact with this image reveals its illusory nature
’ glacial rift and an obsidian box. Inside this latter container is a long, thin chain made of weird black metal and instructions written in Giant (using Dwarvish script) on a sheet of human skin. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
empower and ward their spirit mound. A detect magic spell reveals an aura of conjuration magic emanating from the ground in front of the giant stone raven, and an aura of transmutation magic from
Encounter”). A detect magic spell cast within range of the tree reveals an aura of necromancy magic emanating from underneath it. To reach the relic, characters must dig under the tree and hack away at






