both before destroyed contains reveals

Nolzur's Marvelous Pigments

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

This fine wooden box contains 1d4 pots of pigment and a brush (weighing 1 pound in total). Using the brush and expending 1 pot of pigment, you can paint any number of three-dimensional objects and

reveals they’re made from paste, cookies, or some other worthless material. If you paint a form of energy such as fire or lightning, the energy dissipates as soon as you complete the painting, doing no harm.

Bag of Beans

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

This heavy cloth bag contains 3d4 dry beans when found. The bag weighs half a pound regardless of how many beans it contains and becomes a nonmagical item when it no longer contains any beans. If

you dump one or more beans out of the bag, they explode in a 10-foot-radius Sphere centered on them. All the dumped beans are destroyed in the explosion, and each creature in the Sphere, including you

Deck of Illusions

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

This box contains a set of cards. A full deck has 34 cards: 32 depicting specific creatures and two with a mirrored surface. A deck found as treasure is usually missing 1d20 − 1 cards. The

card. Any physical interaction with the illusory creature reveals it to be false, because objects pass through it. A creature that takes a Study action to visually inspect the illusory creature

Iron Flask

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

defends itself but otherwise takes no actions. At the end of the duration, the creature acts in accordance with its normal disposition and alignment. An Identify spell reveals if the flask contains a

Orb of Dragonkind

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

dragons to them, then destroyed the dragons with powerful magic. As the Towers of High Sorcery fell in later ages, the orbs were destroyed or faded into legend, and only three are thought to survive

. Their magic has been warped over the centuries. Their primary purpose of calling dragons still functions, but they also allow some measure of control over dragons. Each orb contains the essence of

Deck of Many Things

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

Usually found in a box or pouch, this deck contains a number of cards made of ivory or vellum. Most (75 percent) of these decks have thirteen cards, but some have twenty-two. Use the appropriate

until they or someone else reveals it. Nothing less than a Wish spell or divine intervention can end the NPC’s hostility toward you. Ruin. All forms of wealth that you carry or own, other than

Mirror of Life Trapping

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

damage, and Vulnerability to Bludgeoning damage. It shatters and is destroyed when reduced to 0 Hit Points. If the mirror is hanging on a vertical surface and you are within 5 feet of it, you can take a

the mirror is shattered, all creatures it contains are freed and appear in unoccupied spaces near it. While within 5 feet of the mirror, you can take a Magic action to name one creature trapped in it

Book of Vile Darkness

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

The contents of this foul manuscript are the meat and drink of the wicked. It contains knowledge so horrid that to even glimpse the scrawled pages invites doom. Most believe the lich-god Vecna the

book eventually, usually when a new author adds pages to the tome. If a solar tears the book in two, the book is destroyed for 1d100 years, after which it re-forms in some far corner of the

Calimemnon Crystal

Magic Items Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn

This immaculately cut sixty-sided diamond fits in one hand, yet it contains an entire genie empire. The Calimemnon Crystal was made by high elf magic to imprison the notorious genie lords Calim and

property 1 minor detrimental property 1 major detrimental property Destroying the Crystal. The Calimemnon Crystal is destroyed if the creature attuned to it casts the Wish spell and wishes the crystal

Crown of Horns

Magic Items Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn

The Crown of Horns contains the essence and intelligence of Myrkul, one of the Dead Three. This ghastly crown is a pale silver circlet with four curved bones set around its rim. On the crown's brow

Common. Personality. The crown contains the essence of Myrkul and exists to spread that god’s will, which is to slay the living, raise the dead, and sow fear across the Material Plane. The crown

Book of Secrets

Equipment

This book contains Xorannox’s collection of dirty secrets about other people: intrigues between nobles, unfaithful leaders, infernal contracts between devils and clergy of good-aligned temples

determines that person has a hidden secret. If you reveal you know the secret to the figure, you gain a +5 bonus on Charisma checks to influence them for 24 hours. After the book reveals ten secrets in this way, it holds no more secrets of use.

Aartuk Elder

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

, sendingAartuks are baleful plant creatures that live to wage war. Beholder;Beholders destroyed their original home world and scattered the survivors across the Material Plane. Aartuk cells can be found throughout

retractable pseudopods that are used to manipulate small objects. The head of an aartuk surmounts a 6-foot-tall stalk that can be extruded from the center of the star. The head contains the aartuk’s

Aartuk Weedling

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

","rollDamageType":"radiant"} radiant damage.Aartuks are baleful plant creatures that live to wage war. Beholder;Beholders destroyed their original home world and scattered the survivors across the Material Plane

. The head contains the aartuk’s sensory organs, including a long tongue that the creature uses as a weapon. An aartuk’s preferred method of attack is to shoot forth its gooey tongue and

Darkweaver

Monsters Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse

can be attacked and destroyed (AC 16; 20 hit points; vulnerability to radiant damage; immunity to bludgeoning, necrotic, poison, and psychic damage). The darkweaver can grapple up to six creatures at a

","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Darkweaver Cocoon Contents"} Category 1 Roll a die. If you roll an even number, the cocoon contains the bones of a Humanoid. If you roll an odd number, the

Shield Guardian Amulet

Magic Items Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

The amulet is a 4-inch-wide disk composed of silver-framed wood, with a rune carved into its face. A detect magic spell reveals a magical aura of enchantment around the amulet. Every shield

guardian has an amulet magically linked to it. A shield guardian can have only one corresponding amulet, and if that amulet is destroyed, the shield guardian is incapacitated until a replacement amulet

Deck of Illusions Legacy

Magic Items Basic Rules (2014)

This box contains a set of parchment cards. A full deck has 34 cards. A deck found as treasure is usually missing 1d20 − 1 cards. The magic of the deck functions only if cards are drawn at

with the illusory creature reveals it to be an illusion, because objects pass through it. Someone who uses an action to visually inspect the creature identifies it as illusory with a successful DC 15

Aartuk Starhorror

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

with plantsAartuks are baleful plant creatures that live to wage war. Beholder;Beholders destroyed their original home world and scattered the survivors across the Material Plane. Aartuk cells can be

houses three retractable pseudopods that are used to manipulate small objects. The head of an aartuk surmounts a 6-foot-tall stalk that can be extruded from the center of the star. The head contains

Iron Flask Legacy

Magic Items Basic Rules (2014)

age. You can use an action to remove the flask's stopper and release the creature the flask contains. The creature is friendly to you and your companions for 1 hour and obeys your commands for that

accordance with its normal disposition and alignment. An identify spell reveals that a creature is inside the flask, but the only way to determine the type of creature is to open the flask. A newly

Demilich (Variant) Legacy

Monsters Monster Manual (2014)

exist. If the demilich drops to 0 hit points, it is destroyed and turns to powder, leaving behind its gems. Crushing a gem releases any soul trapped within, at which point the target’s body re

its skull remains. This “demilich” contains only a fragment of the lich’s malevolent life force — just enough so that if it is disturbed, these remains rise into the air and

Deck of Many Things Legacy

Magic Items Basic Rules (2014)

Usually found in a box or pouch, this deck contains a number of cards made of ivory or vellum. Most (75 percent) of these decks have only thirteen cards, but the rest have twenty-two. Before you

ability to cast the wish spell 1d3 times. Rogue. A nonplayer character of the GM's choice becomes hostile toward you. The identity of your new enemy isn't known until the NPC or someone else reveals

Veiled Presence

Monsters The Book of Many Things

presence reveals a glimpse of its otherworldly nature to a creature it can see within 30 feet of itself. The target must succeed on a DC 22 Wisdom saving throw or have the paralyzed condition until

holding it is destroyed. Each snare has AC 11, 10 hit points, and immunity to poison and psychic damage. Traps. Traps target up to two creatures the villain can see in the lair. Each target must

Blod Stone

Magic Items Storm King's Thunder

This diamond contains the blood of a creature — blood that appears in the form of the blod (blood) rune. While the item is on your person, you can use your action to divine the location of the

blood seeps into the heart of the gem. If the gem is destroyed, the blood evaporates and is gone forever. A vengeful being might use a blod stone to hunt down an entire bloodline. Such stones are sometimes given as gifts to siblings or handed down from parent to child.

Ingot of the Skold Rune

Magic Items Storm King's Thunder

This appears to be a simple ingot of iron ore, about a foot long and a few inches across. Inspection of its surface reveals the faint, silvery outline of the skold (shield) rune. The ingot has the

ingot is destroyed, and the rune appears in silver on the chosen item, which gains a benefit based on its form: Shield. The shield is now a rare magic item that requires attunement. Its magic gives

Mirror of Life Trapping Legacy

Magic Items Basic Rules (2014)

. It shatters and is destroyed when reduced to 0 hit points. If the mirror is hanging on a vertical surface and you are within 5 feet of it, you can use an action to speak its command word and activate

new prisoner. A freed creature appears in an unoccupied space within sight of the mirror but facing away from it. If the mirror is shattered, all creatures it contains are freed and appear in

Orb of Dragonkind Legacy

Magic Items Basic Rules (2014)

lure dragons to them, then destroyed the dragons with powerful magic. As the wizard towers fell in later ages, the orbs were destroyed or faded into legend, and only three are thought to survive. Their

magic has been warped and twisted over the centuries, so although their primary purpose of calling dragons still functions, they also allow some measure of control over dragons. Each orb contains the

Book of Vile Darkness Legacy

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

The contents of this foul manuscript of ineffable wickedness are the meat and drink of those in evil’s thrall. No mortal was meant to know the secrets it contains, knowledge so horrid that to

tome. If a solar tears the book in two, the book is destroyed for 1d100 years, after which it reforms in some dark corner of the multiverse. A creature attuned to the book for one hundred years can

Murgaxor's Orb

Magic Items Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

magic. All cases of the curse end if Murgaxor’s orb is destroyed. Magical Signature. As a side effect of the orb’s curse, the spell detect magic reveals an aura of enchantment surrounding

Orcus Legacy

Monsters Out of the Abyss

until they are destroyed or until he dismisses them as an action. Once this property of the wand is used, the property can’t be used again until the next dawn. Innate Spellcasting. Orcus’s

woven hair. The city contains wandering undead, many of which are engaged in continuous battles with one another. Lair Actions On initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), Orcus can take a lair

Orcus

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

until they are destroyed or until he dismisses them as an action. Spellcasting. Orcus casts one of the following spells, requiring no material components and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability

River Styx, Naratyr is an eerily quiet and cold city, its streets empty for hours at a time. The central castle of bone has interior walls of flesh and carpets made of woven hair. The city contains

Luba's Tarokka of Souls

Magic Items Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

released and destroyed. This reveals a fifteenth soul, a lich, that inhabits the Nether card, which appears only when the fourteen souls are defeated. If this ancient entity is destroyed, the Nether card

random location within 10d10 miles of you and terrorizes the living. Until the released soul is destroyed, it gains the benefit of a weal from the deck’s Twist of Fate property, and both you and the

Dodecahedron of Doom

Magic Items Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

This twelve-sided metal die is 12 inches across and bears the numbers 1 through 12 engraved on its pentagonal sides. The dodecahedron contains arcane clockwork mechanisms that whir and

table to determine the effect: D12 EFFECT 1–2 The dodecahedron explodes and is destroyed. Each creature within 20 feet of the exploding die must make a DC 13

Deck of Several Things

Magic Items Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

Stored in a leather pouch, this unique deck contains twenty-two colored cards made of some strong but unknown metal, each of which features a design printed as a mosaic of raised dots. Before you

identity of your new enemy isn’t known until the NPC or someone else reveals it. Any enchantment spell cast on the NPC at 6th level or higher can end the NPC’s hostility toward you. Ruin

9. Plundered Halls

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

stretch the length of the hall. (The indentations held gemstones, which were stolen long ago.) Alcove. An alcove in the northwest corner contains a rusty pile of armor (the remains of a suit of animated

armor that was destroyed years ago by adventurers). 9b. Rotted Corpse The maggot-ridden corpse of a dead human lies facedown on the floor next to a discarded scimitar, a light crossbow, and a money

Nafas

Monsters Quests from the Infinite Staircase

retains its name, alignment, and personality. The creature also inherits Nafas’s palace and all it contains. If the creature refuses, Nafas gains a new body in 1d10;{"diceNotation":"1d10", "rollType

, can be heard within 3 miles of the lair as fleeting voices carried on gentle breezes. If Nafas is destroyed, all these effects end immediately, resuming when he either gains a new body or is replaced

25. Abandoned Smithy

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

of the mold bears the image of a dwarf’s head in profile, the other an image of a mind flayer’s skull. 25b. Destroyed Forge This room contains a rusty iron anvil and the shattered remains of a stone

25. Abandoned Smithy Characters who listen at the doors to these rooms can easily hear the clanging of hammers striking metal, even though the forge was destroyed and abandoned long ago. The sounds

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