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Monster Manual
it turns to dust if reduced to 0 Hit Points. If the gem is destroyed, the dracolich can create a new one by completing an 8-hour ritual using a gem worth 1,000+ GP and by expending 5,000 GP, which the
ritual consumes.Multiattack. The dracolich makes three Rend attacks. It can replace one attack with a use of Spellcasting to cast Ray of Sickness (level 2 version).
Rend. Melee Attack Roll: +13
Monsters
Monster Manual
it turns to dust if reduced to 0 Hit Points. If the gem is destroyed, the dracolich can create a new one by completing an 8-hour ritual using a gem worth 1,000+ GP and by expending 5,000 GP, which the
ritual consumes.Multiattack. The dracolich makes three Rend attacks. It can replace one attack with a use of Spellcasting to cast Ray of Sickness (level 2 version).
Rend. Melee Attack Roll: +13
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Astarion's Book of Hungers
course it is.
—Astarion on Vampire Infernalists
Vampire Infernalist Lairs
Vampire infernalists lurk in gloomy libraries or ritual chambers, far from the sun’s light. The region
containing an infernalist’s lair is warped by its presence, creating the following effects, all of which happen at the vampire’s discretion:
Diabolic Beasts. Animals in the vampire’s domain
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
gold pieces is 20 times the spell’s level. These components are consumed when the ritual is finished. The magewright knows the following spells:
At will: mage hand, prestidigitation
Rituals
this way. Most magewright rituals take 10 minutes to perform, but certain complex rituals can take up to 1 hour. However long the ritual takes, it requires extra material components, usually in the
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
the same time, a slithering tracker flows into places where a normal creature can’t go and brings its own brand of watery death down on its quarry.
The ritual for creating a slithering tracker
half.The quest for revenge sometimes leads those terribly aggrieved to undergo a ritual whereby they transform into bodies of semiliquid sentience known as slithering trackers. Innocuous and insidious at
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
use that action again until he finishes a long rest:
Clay Behemoth. A clay golem erupts from the floor in an unoccupied space within 15 feet of the ritual circle. The golem obeys Murgaxor's commands
Murgaxor to use it again.
Necrotic Burst. Tendrils of necrotic energy erupt from the ritual circle and lash out at any number of creatures Murgaxor can see within 15 feet of the circle. Each target must
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
tanarukks, using these ferocious warriors to bolster their followers’ strength.
The demon lord Baphomet gladly shares the secret of creating tanarukks with those who entreat him for power; the cult
of Gruumsh has also mastered a ritual for this purpose, and bestows it on those deemed worthy. Whatever process is used corrupts the subject, transforming them into a vicious Fiend.
Although
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
shape resembling a bipedal toad. In this form, a banderhobb temporarily serves its creator as a thug, a thief, and a kidnapper that swallows the unwary.
Hags have devised a ritual for creating
banderhobbs—a hag who knows the ritual might be willing to teach it for the right price. Some other wicked Fey and powerful Fiends also know of the process, as do a few mortal mages.
During its
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
performing a ritual, and it is bound to obey the summoner’s commands for 30 days. During this time, if the skulk is visible, an astute observer might deduce who summoned it, because the skulk assumes
throw themselves into creating bloodshed and mayhem with no regard for their own lives.
After killing a person on the Material Plane, some skulks take up a silent imitation of that person’s life
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
minutes for the heart to melt and the blizzard to form. The blizzard lasts for 8 hours.
A hag or similar creature can perform a ritual that turns the heart into a magical talisman that acts like a
heart to mix with other alchemical ingredients, creating one potion of cold resistance;potion of resistance (cold). It takes 1 hour to create this potion.
Cold
Species
One Grung Above
THIS IS NONCORE D&D MATERIAL
These game mechanics are usable in your campaign if your DM allows them but not refined by final game design and editing.
Grungs are aggressive froglike
caste for life. On rare occasions, an individual that distinguishes itself with great deeds can earn an invitation to join a higher caste. Through a combination of herbal tonics and ritual magic, an
Species
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
creating a hexblood, consult with your DM to see if it’s appropriate to tie your origins to one of the following Domains of Dread (detailed in chapter 3):
Hazlan. The bizarre magic of this crumbling
considered a gift from the town’s patron deity, who is known as Mother.
BECOMING A HAG
Hags can undertake a ritual to irreversibly transform a hexblood they created into a new hag, either one of
Book of Vile Darkness
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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
, 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
the book.
Dark Magic. Several spells of horrific evil of the DM’s design and choosing could be in the book. Spells could impose dreadful curses, disfigure others, require human sacrifice, afflict creatures with crippling pain, spread vile plagues, and so on.
Warlock
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Classes
Basic Rules (2014)
stars overhead, a wild-eyed tiefling chants the mystic ritual that will open a doorway to a distant world. Warlocks are seekers of the knowledge that lies hidden in the fabric of the multiverse. Through
warlocks toward adventure. Creating a Warlock As you make your warlock character, spend some time thinking about your patron and the obligations that your pact imposes upon you. What led you to make the
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
.
Creating a Dragon Turtle
Use the Dragon Turtle Personality Traits and Dragon Turtle Ideals tables to inspire your portrayal of distinctive dragon turtle characters, and use the Dragon Turtle Spellcasting
, including deep-sea trenches or underwater volcanoes.
Dragon turtles are largely unconcerned with the design of their lairs and seldom work to improve them. A dragon turtle’s primary concern when
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
the god Keranos sought to test Nylea’s favorite champion, Renata of Setessa, by creating a beast so deadly that even she would balk at trying to hunt it. When Renata slayed this lion-ram-dragon
shrug off spells cast against them.
Customizing a Chimera
The Theran chimera stat block presents one possible chimera configuration. You may customize these statistics to design your own unique chimera
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
created several demiplanes that offer glimpses of the multiverse he is creating. The characters must navigate these demiplanes to find the key to entering Vecna’s ritual chamber. Once inside, the characters must stop the ritual, which has left the lich-god in a weakened state.
Chapter 11 Summary In chapter 11, the characters must descend into the Cave of Shattered Reflection, where Vecna weaves his Ritual of Remaking. The ritual is nearing its end, and the lich-god has
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
are particularly intrigued by Undead, sometimes keeping them in their hoards as curios.
Creating a Topaz Dragon
Use the Topaz Dragon Personality Traits and Topaz Dragon Ideals tables to inspire your
dragon egg, and they care for it as if it were their own.
5
A sea hag is on the hunt for a topaz dragon wyrmling, to be used as a component in a fell ritual.
6
A pirate crew keeps a curmudgeonly topaz dragon wyrmling as a beloved mascot.
Cold, Necrotic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Chapter 3: Creating Adventures Creating adventures is one of the greatest rewards of being a Dungeon Master. It’s a way to express yourself, designing fantastic locations and encounters with monsters
, traps, puzzles, and conflicts. When you design an adventure, you call the shots. You do things exactly the way you want to. Fundamentally, adventures are stories. An adventure shares many of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
do you as the DM deal with all the possible locations and events that might make up a wilderness campaign? What if you design an encounter in a desert oasis, but the characters miss the oasis because
they wander off course? How do you avoid creating a boring play session of uninterrupted slogging across a rocky wasteland? One solution is to think of an outdoor setting in the same way you think
Magic Items
Keys from the Golden Vault
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 the book.
Dark Magic
. Several spells of horrific evil of the DM’s design and choosing could be in the book. Spells could impose dreadful curses, disfigure others, require human sacrifice, afflict creatures with crippling pain, spread vile plagues, and so on.
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Candlekeep’s great mysteries, unaware of the danger looming behind them.
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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Customizing the Puzzle Consider creating your own map and series of directions to customize this puzzle. By crafting directions that suit locations in your campaign’s’ setting, you can create a
letters, symbols, or short words, depending on the complexity of your design. Raising the Difficulty You can increase this puzzle’s challenge by dividing the map into pieces that need to be separately
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Regional Effects Murgaxor’s ritual wreaks havoc on the equilibrium of life and death, creating the following regional effects in the Ruins of Caerdoon and the fortress, which is detailed in a later
section. These effects end 1d6 days after the ritual ends or is interrupted: Clinging to Life. Death saving throws are made with advantage. Grievous Wounds. Any creature that scores a critical hit
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
features; the two types of design go hand in hand in D&D, and the story parts are stronger in some classes than in others. Druids and paladins have an especially strong dose of story in their design
druid takes the Magic Initiate feat and chooses detect magic as their one spell, can the druid cast that spell as a ritual? A druid’s Ritual Casting requires a ritual to be prepared. The spell from Magic Initiate is known but not prepared.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
take up to 1 hour. However long the ritual takes, it requires extra material components, usually in the form of dragonshards. Magewright
Medium humanoid (any race), any alignment
Armor Class 11
magewright must provide additional material components whose value in gold pieces is 20 times the spell’s level. These components are consumed when the ritual is finished. The magewright knows the following
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
of additional domains that make up the Domains of Dread. Detail and explore these domains in your adventures as you please, or use them as examples when creating your own domains using the guidance in
chapter 2. Not all domains need to be elaborately detailed settings. As the domains in this section demonstrate, creating a simple concept for a Darklord and the horrors surrounding them can be a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
take place. Fashion Design Characters with an eye for design might create an outfit and enter it in the fashion show. Creating an Outfit. To create an outfit, a character must describe the look
the fashion show play out over the course of several weeks. Characters might decide to design their own fashions, model designs at the show, or sell their works at the auction. Other students might get
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
Moghadam A legendary evil human artificer, Moghadam has long sought out interesting challenges for his immense intellect. As such, he considers the design of the Tomb of Horrors to be his masterwork
delights in creating despair, and works on the tomb in the hope that his name will go down alongside Acererak’s in legend. Moghadam competes with a rival artificer named Thessalar, who operates out of a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
poisons detailed in the Dungeon Master’s Guide as a baseline for the effects Ivana creates and combine them with the effects of enchantment and illusion spells to design custom, nonmagical toxins for her
. The following example combines an inhaled poison and the dream spell, creating a tool Ivana uses to manipulate her agents. Ivana’s Whisper (Inhaled). This poison bears a distinct scent and chemical
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
. This chapter offers you, the player, the following tools and choices: Haunted Heroes. Explore your role in creating a tale of terror and how you might design a character that contributes to frightful
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Combat Encounters Design your adventure for one of the four tiers, as set forth in chapter 1 of the Player’s Handbook: tier 1 includes levels 1–4, tier 2 is levels 5–10, tier 3 is levels 11–16, and
2, five 13th-level characters for tier 3, and five 18th-level characters for tier 4. Use that assumption when creating combat encounters, whether you use the encounter-building rules in the Dungeon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Featured Domains The following sections explore some of the most notorious Domains of Dread. Each of these realms is a setting unto itself and might host adventures of your design. These featured
the domain. Domain Focus. For most domains, this final section highlights specific story elements and provides domain-specific tools to aid you in creating adventures around the domain’s Darklord and the horror of their realm.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Tiers of Play As characters grow in power, their ability to change the world around them grows with them. It helps to think ahead when creating your campaign to account for this change. As the
increasingly powerful. This approach also allows you to break your design work down into smaller pieces. Create material such as adventures, NPCs, maps, and so on for one tier at a time. You only need to worry
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
important facet of encounter design. Sample Objectives The following objectives can be used as foundations for encounters. Although these objectives focus on a single encounter during an adventure, using
presence. Complications might ensue if they are detected. Stop a Ritual. The plots of evil cult leaders, malevolent warlocks, and powerful fiends often involve rituals that must be foiled. Characters