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the device gives the device 3 charges.
As an action while holding this device, you can expend 1 of its charges to cause one of the following effects:
Control. One Construct of your choice within 60
communicate remotely with each other through the device. Whenever the charmed Construct takes damage, it can repeat the saving throw, ending the effect on itself on a success.
Disrupt. Constructs of
Magic Items
Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn
any, it takes the Dodge action and uses its movement to avoid danger. The domestic wonderis destroyed if it drops to 0 Hit Points.
Domestic Wonder
Medium Construct, Unaligned
AC 9 Initiative -1
. The flying wonderis destroyed if it drops to 0 Hit Points.
Flying Wonder
Tiny Construct, Unaligned
AC 12 Initiative +2 (12)
HP 2 (1d4)
Speed 5 ft., Fly 30 ft.
Mod
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
, drink, or sleep.
The magic that animates an object is dispelled when the construct drops to 0 hit points. An animated object reduced to 0 hit points becomes inanimate and is too damaged to be of much use
attacks with its flailing and stomping roots. It can also use its roots to fling large rocks.
Hut Interior. The hut is a 15-foot-square, ramshackle wooden building with a gently sloping thatch roof. Its
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Named for the warlord who infamously employed it, the Mighty Servant of Leuk-o is a fantastically powerful, 10-foot-tall machine that turns into an animate construct when piloted. Crafted of a
conjecture than fact, often referring to otherworldly beings, the mysterious Barrier Peaks in Oerth, and the supposedly related device known as the Machine of Lum the Mad. The best details on the device
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
duergar’s pain into energy that powers the device, which is typically used to dig tunnels and repel invaders. Duergar Hammerer
Medium construct, lawful evil
Armor Class 17 (natural armor)
Hit Points 33
the hammerer can respond by using its Multiattack with its reaction.
Siege Monster. The hammerer deals double damage to objects and structures.
Actions
Multiattack. The hammerer makes two
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
allows him to command the scaladar. He has put the constructs to work building a device he calls the Simulacrux. This device will, in theory, create a simulacrum of any scaladar that passes through
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
can spend 1 hour and 10 gp worth of materials to construct a Tiny clockwork device (AC 5, 1 hp). The device ceases to function after 24 hours (unless you spend 1 hour repairing it to keep the device
device, choose one of the following options: Clockwork Toy. This toy is a clockwork animal, monster, or person, such as a frog, mouse, bird, dragon, or soldier. When placed on the ground, the toy moves 5
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
can spend 1 hour and 10 gp worth of materials to construct a Tiny clockwork device (AC 5, 1 hp). The device ceases to function after 24 hours (unless you spend 1 hour repairing it to keep the device
functioning), or when you use your action to dismantle it; at that time, you can reclaim the materials used to create it. You can have up to three such devices active at a time. When you create a device
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
basic knowledge of the structure of buildings, including the stuff behind the walls. You can also find blueprints of a specific building in order to learn the details of its construction. Such
sparkles.
If you use an arcane focus, it probably takes the form of an intricate device that could include metal gauntlets, glass canisters, copper tubing, and leather straps attaching it to your body
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Duergar Screamer A duergar screamer is a construct that uses sonic energy to grind rock into dust. Duergar accused of spreading gossip or plotting against their superiors are trapped within one of
these devices, their beards shorn and their ongoing agony channeled into psionic energy that powers the screamer. Duergar Screamer
Medium construct, lawful evil
Armor Class 15 (natural armor)
Hit
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
3U. Observatory The Stargazers converted the top level of the keep into an astrological observatory. The most interesting device they installed was a farseer of Illusk — a telescope-like contraption
. Tuning and focusing the device this way calls for a considerable amount of skill and practice, and the device’s dilapidated condition makes the process more difficult. Both Rezmir and Borngray visit
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
3U. Observatory The Stargazers converted the top level of the keep into an astrological observatory. The most interesting device they installed was a farseer of Illusk—a telescope-like contraption
. Tuning and focusing the device this way calls for a considerable amount of skill and practice, and the device’s dilapidated condition makes the process more difficult. Both Rezmir and Borngray visit
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Lyre of Building Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement by a bard) While holding this lyre, you can cast mending as an action. You can also play the lyre as a reaction when an object or a structure
as an action to cast fabricate, move earth, passwall, or summon construct (appears in this book), and that spell can’t be cast from it again until the next dawn.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
thessalheart construct is a strange magical-mechanical device that struts about like a chicken, and which features a human heart beating madly behind its glass front. The construct always wanders the zone
thessalhydra and another creation of Moghadam’s known as the thessalheart construct. Thessalhydra When the characters first enter the temple, roll a d4. On a 1–2, the temple’s guardian thessalhydra is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
. Sizzling streams of acid flow down the streets. Villagers rush about, shouting for loved ones and struggling to contain the damage.
Near the shore, flames leap from the windows of a low-roofed building
!
The older human is Vatri Whistlebaum (Medium, Neutral Good Commoner), the owner of the burning Morkoth Tavern. The characters might respond by entering the tavern to free the trapped villagers or by working to extinguish the fire.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
likely to respond to threats to the village and its inhabitants. As your campaign progresses, your players’ characters will not only become more powerful but also more influential and invested in the world
. They might be inclined to undertake projects that require more time between adventures, such as building and maintaining a stronghold. As the party gains levels, you can add more downtime between
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Divine Contention
Location Overview The wizard Thalivar built a tower at the heart of Leilon as a laboratory to study the monsters of the cosmos. Using a device called a planar beacon, Thalivar lured his prey into the
tower has been haunted by the ghosts of those who died within. Led by the wizard Gallio Elibro, forces from Neverwinter have recently rebuilt the tower for use as a garrison building. Gallio has repaired
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Khorvaire, the Flotket Alps of Wildemount, or some other mountain range while preserving the plot elements. You can also strip out the story about an evil duergar building a dragon construct and have
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
deliver unrefined ore to the foundry.
Map 5.2 includes an inset map that shows the foundry’s interior, which is one large, open space. The building has no ceiling, allowing heat and smoke to escape
tinker’s tools. L8: Motherlode Tavern Hanging above the entrance of this grimy stone building is a painted wooden sign that depicts gemstones pouring from a flagon. A minor magical effect causes the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
and phase spiders in the keep, using the rules for encounter building in the Dungeon Master’s Guide to create an appropriate challenge. Weaker Construct. The stone golem in area 4 can be replaced with
a clay golem, a shield guardian, or another weaker Construct. Ghostly Allies. When the characters battle the behir, their ghostly allies harry and distract the creature, giving it disadvantage on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
-Towns in search of a rare crystal known as chardalyn. With it, they’re building a mighty construct that will lay waste to Ten-Towns if nothing is done to stop it.
“Our militia captured one of the
speaker’s next task is to prepare the settlement for what will surely be the fight of its life, in the event that Xardorok’s construct attacks Ten-Towns.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Bearded Devil (Barbazu) Bearded devils serve archdevils as shock troops, fighting shoulder-to-shoulder and reveling in the glory of battle. They respond with violence to any slight, real or imagined
(1d10 + 3) slashing damage. If the target is a creature other than an undead or a construct, it must succeed on a DC 12 Constitution saving throw or lose 5 (1d10) hit points at the start of each of its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
, bestowing on each construct an Intelligence of 11 and the ability to understand (but not speak) Dwarvish and Undercommon. Each duergar brain is contained in a glass sphere embedded in the construct’s head
psionic force generator, a magic device that allows the mind flayers to create and sustain the walls of force that enclose area 8. The mind flayers provide the mental energy that powers the generator. If
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
assisted by a girallon. The sculptors (use the cultist stat block) traveled here from the Temple of Moloch under the false promise of fabulous payment for helping construct the tomb. They have since
contains a small, unpainted miniature figure representing each character. Each figure is a tiny clockwork device. If painted and kept on hand, the figures secretly animate to help the characters with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
building bristles with steaming pipes and whirring devices, and it is currently under siege.
Amid clanging metal contraptions, goblins try to breach the structure, impeded by gadgets that spin, snap
character. Clockwork Chaos d6 Device Effect 1–2 No devices threaten the character. 3 A contraption that looks like a big set of teeth tries to bite the character (+3 to hit, 1d6 bludgeoning damage on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Shield Guardian Device-Controlled Magical Bodyguard Habitat: Urban; Treasure: None An intimidating magical automaton, a shield guardian obeys its master’s commands and protects its master from
danger. When such a guardian is created, the magic that animates it is intertwined with a bonded command amulet. Any creature that has a shield guardian’s command amulet can control that Construct and, in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
creatures from the encounter tables for two kinds of giants in chapter 3 have damaged the observatory in their struggle for control of the site, and its energy is building toward an overload. To stop
leading to the observatory. Creatures from the Giant Construct Encounters table in chapter 3, fueled by magical lightning, deny entrance to the turret when the characters escort the gnome there to study.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
business they have at the house on the far side of the village. However the characters respond, Sarusanda says she is also going to the building. “The locals call it Death House,” she says. “Perhaps we
Elisabeth Durst. It’s an open secret that the Dursts use the building to host cultists who venerate the Darklord of Barovia, Strahd von Zarovich. This minor cult occasionally causes trouble, but until
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
at any occupied Tower of High Sorcery and for one night at the home of an organization member. Building a Mage of High Sorcery Character Mages of High Sorcery are typically sorcerers, warlocks, or
Trinkets d6 Trinket 1 An unopened letter from your first teacher 2 A broken wand made of black, red, or white wood 3 A scroll bearing an incomprehensible formula 4 A purposeless device covered in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
the outsider. In Neverwinter, if you want to construct a building, you simply purchase the land and hire workers to build it. In Waterdeep, the Surveyors’, Map-, and Chart-makers’ Guild must first be
and installed any door hinges. If the building is to be connected to the sewers or a city water supply, the Cellarers’ and Plumbers’ Guild must be called upon again to do that work. Want glazed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
Attack on Triboar Thousands of years ago, giants and dragons fought a great battle here, during which the giants unleashed an enormous dragon-slaying construct called the Vonindod. Part of the
construct broke off and was embedded in the ground. Over time, this fragment became buried deep in the earth. Today, it lies under a campground in the heart of town (area T2). Fire giants loyal to Duke
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
holed up in the Black Cabin, where he spent all his time assembling a weather-controlling magical device called the Summer Star, using knowledge he gleaned from a book about Netherese artifacts
. Macreadus’s device was similar in design to a mythallar (see appendix D), but much smaller. Unfortunately for him, it had a serious design flaw. When Macreadus tried to use it three days ago, it malfunctioned
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
, “You shouldn’t have come. Ancient ones, take them!” Four of the statues around the room respond, their eyes flaring with amber light.
The four corner statues animate and attack (use the spirit statue
. Throughout the battle, Tullus clutches the green orb. The wicked mage Murgaxor controls her through this device, but separating her from the orb doesn’t break Murgaxor’s control. When Tullus is defeated or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
marked the glory of Istar, these drones resemble short, stout mantises. They have four scuttling insectile legs and barbed, scythe-shaped arms for carrying and placing building materials. The drones
create a viscous gel that hardens into crystalline mortar, which they can repurpose to restrain attackers. Istarian Drone
Medium Construct, Unaligned
Armor Class 17 (natural armor)
Hit Points
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
powerful, 10-foot-tall machine that turns into an animate construct when piloted. Crafted of a gleaming black alloy of unknown origin, the servant is often described as a combination of a disproportioned
device known as the Machine of Lum the Mad. The best details on the device’s origins and operation can be found in the Mind of Metal, a tome of artificer’s secrets that connects the device to the