both before driven conjure read

Hierophant of the Comet

Monsters The Book of Many Things

and other magical effects. Thought Shield. The hierophant’s thoughts can’t be read by any means unless the hierophant allows it.Multiattack. The hierophant makes two Herald’s Axe

powerful warlocks with mighty spells at their disposal. They can commune with the alien mind of the All-Consuming Star, blast enemies with beams of eldritch energy, and conjure manifestations of this

Obzedat Ghost

Monsters Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

Actions). The Obzedat ghosts conjure 1d6;{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType":"roll"} indentured spirit;indentured spirits within 60 feet of one of them.The ghosts who make up the Obzedat are

Obzedat function as a unit, driven by their shared desire to accumulate ever more wealth for the guild. In times of disagreement, the eldest of the council exerts his seniority to bend the council to

Symbol Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

Intelligence saving throw. On a failed save, the target is driven insane for 1 minute. An insane creature can't take actions, can't understand what other creatures say, can't read, and speaks only in

Star Spawn Hulk

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

seer nearby. A hulk appears to have little will of its own and is driven to protect its master. Star Spawn The Material Plane represents only one small part of the multiverse. Beyond the best

available for communication. When the signs are right, cultists gather together, read aloud their blasphemous texts, and conduct the mind-searing rituals that guide star spawn into the world. Elder Evil

Arasta

Monsters Mythic Odysseys of Theros

; petty rivalries, Arasta was once one of Nylea’s most beloved dryad companions. Phenax’s bitterness saw her transformed into an arachnid monstrosity and driven into the darkest depths of the

encounter, as Arasta summons her arachnid children to protect her. While she has temporary hit points from this trait, she can choose one of her mythic actions when she uses a legendary action. Read or

Wand of Orcus Legacy

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

spells using 2 fewer charges (minimum of 0). Call Undead. While you are holding the wand, you can use an action to conjure skeleton;skeletons and zombie;zombies, calling forth as many of them as you

to a range of 120 feet. The wand communicates telepathically with its wielder and can speak, read, and understand Abyssal and Common. Personality. The wand’s purpose is to help satisfy Orcus

Hobgoblin

Species Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Hobgoblins trace their origins to the ancient courts of the Feywild, where they first appeared with their goblin and bugbear kin. Many of them were driven from the Feywild by the conquering god

above 20. Languages Your character can speak, read, and write Common and one other language that you and your DM agree is appropriate for the character. The Player’s Handbook offers a list of

Warlock Legacy

Classes Basic Rules (2014)

(such as the ability to see in darkness or to read any language) to access to powerful spells. Unlike bookish wizards, warlocks supplement their magic with some facility at hand-to-hand combat. They

are comfortable in light armor and know how to use simple weapons. Delvers into Secrets Warlocks are driven by an insatiable need for knowledge and power, which compels them into their pacts and

Spawning Trees

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

Spawning Trees Demons beget demons. Where their filth lands, they spawn ever more corruption. — The Cartographer When the characters arrive here, read or paraphrase the following boxed text to the

help them run faster, and they taste like fatty chicken. With your permission, a character who casts the find familiar spell can henceforth choose to conjure an abyssal chicken instead of a raven.

The Infernal Machine of Lum the Mad

Magic Items Infernal Machine Rebuild

of the conjuration school, as follows: 1/day: conjure animals, summon lesser demons 1/7 days: conjure minor elementals, conjure woodland beings, summon greater demon 1/month: conjure elemental

, conjure fey Wish. The Infernal Machine has the ability to bend the nature of reality, with the proper combination of controls recreating the effect of a wish spell (including all side effects). Due to

A Mysterious Dream

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries

. Even characters who don’t sleep have the dream. If the characters don’t rest at the same time, you might decide that only the first character who rests has the dream. Read the following boxed text only

to the players whose characters experience the dream (preferably out of earshot of those players whose characters didn’t have the dream). If all the characters have the dream, read the boxed text to

Location Overview

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak

manticore driven out of the mountains by Cryovain the white dragon attacks the windmill shortly before the adventurers arrive. Read the following boxed text to set the scene: Built on the slope of

3. Watchful Statues

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat

accurately, gaining advantage on Intelligence checks for the next 24 hours. However, the character is also driven temporarily insane for 1 minute. An insane creature can’t take actions or reactions

, can’t understand what other creatures say, can’t read, and speaks only in gibberish. You control the creature’s movement, which is erratic.

Safe by Day

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh

after sunrise, on its normal schedule, but the craft carries no new passengers and departs again quickly unless the characters hail it. (If Raserhill stuck around the island and was driven off or killed

, read: The sultry day is silent except for the sounds of the sea. A lone bird circles in lazy loops in the sky overhead. Eventually it descends and alights on a nearby rock. It’s a gull, and an old one

3. Watchful Statues

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons

understands the world more accurately, gaining advantage on Intelligence checks for the next 24 hours. However, the character is also driven temporarily insane for 1 minute. An insane creature can’t take

actions or reactions, can’t understand what other creatures say, can’t read, and speaks only in gibberish. You control the creature’s movement, which is erratic.

Arrival

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Divine Contention

characters sight the vessel, read the following boxed text aloud: An armored dreadnaught made from metal and bones ploughs through the fog, driven by banks of bonelike oars. Flames leap from a brazier

Prismari Student

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

5th Cone of Cold, Conjure Elemental Consider customizing how your spells look when you cast them. You might wield your Prismari spells with dynamic, gestural movement—as much dance as somatic

athleticism of Prismari performance. Suggested Characteristics. Though the curriculum of Prismari College attracts many outgoing and driven artists, the school has no shortage of shy scholars and

Triton Traits

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

. Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Primordial. SPELL: WALL OF WATER 3rd-level evocation Casting Time: 1 action Range: 60 feet Components: V, S, M (a drop of water) Duration

: Concentration, up to 10 minutes You conjure up a wall of water on the ground at a point you can see within range. You can make the wall up to 30 feet long, 10 feet high, and 1 foot thick, or you can

75. Trial of the Hexagon

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

75. Trial of the Hexagon Carved into the door of this room is a hexagon. When the characters open the door, read: A large, cracked, six-sided mirror is mounted above a stone shelf protruding from the

. Only a character who can see a lever reflected in the mirror can pull it. As this likely puts the lever out of the character’s reach, he or she can cast a mage hand or telekinesis spell, conjure an

Doppelganger

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

intend to impersonate, studying them and probing their minds for secrets. A doppelganger can read a creature’s surface thoughts, allowing it to glean that creature’s name, desires, and fears, along with a

mother’s species until it reaches adolescence, at which point it discovers its true nature and is driven to seek out its kind to join them. Doppelganger Medium monstrosity (shapechanger), neutral

Ending This Chapter

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle

dream. Read this text to the cleric’s player: In your dream, you are once again on the deck of the ship that brought you here, and you see Stormwreck Isle shrouded in darkness, just as it was in your

earlier dreams. As you sail closer, the darkness breaks, and a dazzling ray of sunlight shines down over the island. A gentle plume of white smoke rises up from the island as the darkness is driven away

Barrow Mound

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

Mound Entrance When the characters move to the barrow entrance, read the following: Tall monoliths line the earthen corridor that connects the barrow’s entrance to the burial chamber far within. Motes

, read the following: A crude fieldstone arch forms the entrance to the burial chamber. In three branching alcoves are three scorched altars — one of a tiger, another of an elk, and another of a bear. In

Running the Adventure

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd

presenting a D&D adventure that was as much story-driven as location-based, featuring a villain who was complex and terrifying. Castle Ravenloft, with its amazing three-dimensional maps, remains to

meant for you, the Dungeon Master, alone. We recommend you read the entire adventure before attempting to run it. It assumes that you have the fifth edition Player’s Handbook, Dungeon Master’s Guide, and

Princes and Scorpions

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel

Princes and Scorpions As Uzoma leads the characters through the crowd, they notice movement in the shadows across the street. Read the following description: Shouts ring out at the crowd’s edge as

. A character familiar with conjuration magic recognizes that summoning giant scorpions in such numbers far exceeds the power of the conjure animals spell or other common magic. In the aftermath of the

Circle of the Shepherd

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything

, you gain the ability to converse with beasts and many fey. You learn to speak, read, and write Sylvan. In addition, beasts can understand your speech, and you gain the ability to decipher their noises

inside or outside the aura, each creature of your choice in the aura also regains hit points equal to your druid level. Mighty Summoner Starting at 6th level, beasts and fey that you conjure are more

Falls Clearing

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel

Falls Clearing As the characters approach the series of waterfalls, read the following description: A gradually increasing roar drowns out the rain forest sounds long before the river turns

characters come in peace. If the fight lasts more than 2 rounds, Dukha shifts into his hybrid form and fights alongside the characters until the other weretigers are driven off. If he does so, he resents

9. Quarters of the Kraken Priests

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Locathah Rising

, conical shell. When startled, she can tuck in her head and pull her tentacles up into the shell protectively, like a strange hermit crab. When the characters peer into these chambers, read or paraphrase

strung across the back of the chamber to serve as underwater beds, and a variety of hooks have been driven into the walls with netting attached to serve as shelving. Caught up in the netting of the

Demogorgon Rises!

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

Demogorgon Rises! Although Bloppblippodd falls, the ritual still achieves a terrible success. Read the following: Another sound rises above the burbling cries of the kuo-toa. The dark surface of the

decide how they intend to escape. Escape by Land. Fleeing by land requires dodging terrified kuo-toa, and even fighting fish-folk driven to a killing frenzy against the characters for having drawn this

Mausoleum of Chronepsis

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel

characters are in the walking castle. There’s a boom and the castle sags, as if something heavy just landed on it. When a character investigates, read or paraphrase the following: Coiled atop the walking

the characters a talisman of the sphere and says, “Give this to the one who sees silver.” She explains the characters will understand in time. If attacked or driven off, the dragon is saddened but

Fhenimore and Whymsee

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Locathah Rising

driven from the area, or the characters simply never visited this area of the coral mountain. This scenario also works even if the characters did befriend the kraken priests, but never learned of Gar’s

Legendary Resistance feature to save on the other. Gar takes 28 hit points lightning damage. Round 2. Gar casts conjure animals as a 7th level spell, summoning six swarms of quippers and directing them to

Symbol

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)

. Insanity. Each target must make an Intelligence saving throw. On a failed save, the target is driven insane for 1 minute. An insane creature can’t take actions, can’t understand what other creatures say

, can’t read, and speaks only in gibberish. The DM controls its movement, which is erratic. Pain. Each target must make a Constitution saving throw and becomes incapacitated with excruciating pain for

The Citadel's Destruction

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen

The Citadel’s Destruction If the characters destroy the brazier in area S23, read the following text: With a cacophony of whispered sighs, the violet flames vanish. You feel the flying island beneath

, swallowing the draconians in darkness. Karavarix’s Revenge Before the characters escape, they’re confronted by Karavarix, the first and most powerful of the death dragons. Read or paraphrase the

Idyllglen Events

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

, proceed with event 2. Event 2. Yeenoghu’s Champion This event overlaps with the end of the previous event. When it begins, read the following to the players: A chorus of screams rises up as people, sheep

Garoknul leaves the area or dies, proceed with event 3. Event 3. Madness Reigns This event begins as the previous one ends. Read the following boxed text to the players: Five guards wielding spears advance

Satyr

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros

Satyr Satyrs have a well-earned reputation for their good spirits, gregarious personalities, and love of revels. Most satyrs are driven by simple desires, to see the world and to sample its every

. Driven by instinct and intuition, most satyrs prove unpredictable, following their sense of wonder wherever it leads. Very Odd Indeed Satyrs are known for their eccentricities. Some people spend too

The White Lady Inn

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

what she has to say?” If one or more characters are present when the séance begins, read: Smoke from burning incense clouds the room. Multicolored lamps and silks are hung from the rafters, and the

caves. The cauldron is guarded by an evil hag named Maud Chiselbone and can conjure enough stew to feed a starving town indefinitely (see “Toil and Trouble” below). The White Lady doesn’t remember

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