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Dungeon Master’s Guide
that is attuned to the book can release the clasp that holds it shut. Once the book is opened, the attuned creature must spend 80 hours reading and studying the book to digest its contents and gain its
maximum of 24. You can’t gain this benefit from the book more than once.
Enlightened Magic. After you spend the requisite amount of time reading and studying the book, any spell slot you expend to
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
While holding this Shield, you can take a Bonus Action to cause it to animate. The Shield leaps into the air and hovers in your space to protect you as if you were wielding it, leaving your hands
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
items and have additional properties.
Crystal Ball of Mind Reading. You can use an action to cast the Detect Thoughts spell (save DC 17) while you are scrying with the crystal ball, targeting
The typical crystal ball, a very rare item, is about 6 inches in diameter. While touching it, you can cast the Scrying spell (save DC 17) with it.
The following crystal ball variants are legendary
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
A Spell Scroll bears the words of a single spell, written in a mystical cipher. If the spell is on your spell list, you can read the scroll and cast its spell without Material components. Otherwise
, the scroll is unintelligible. Casting the spell by reading the scroll requires the spell’s normal casting time. Once the spell is cast, the scroll crumbles to dust. If the casting is interrupted
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
cases, made notations and additions to existing text. There are places where pages are missing, torn, or covered so completely with ink, blood, and scratches that the original text can’t be
divined.
Nature can’t abide the book’s presence. Ordinary plants wither in its presence, common animals are unwilling to approach it, and the book gradually destroys whatever it touches. Even
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Blessings of the Gods. While the oracle is wearing no armor and wielding no shield, its AC includes its Wisdom modifier. In addition, a creature that hits the oracle with a melee attack while within
ability is Wisdom (spell save DC 13, +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Innate Spellcasting"} to hit with spell attacks). It can innately cast the following spells
Monsters
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Multiattack. The tower sage makes two Arcane Burst attacks and can use Starry Radiance if available.
Arcane Burst. Melee or Ranged Spell Attack: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5", "rollType":"to hit
elder sage.
Tower sages are the only folk capable of reading the Books of Prophecy, an ancient set of tomes that hint at future events of grand significance.
Tower Stewards
For centuries, the Tower of the Heavens has been stewarded by dutiful folk who practice two distinct traditions.
Monsters
Princes of the Apocalypse
end of Hellenrae's next turn.
Unarmored Defense. While Hellenrae is wearing no armor and wielding no shield, her AC includes her Wisdom modifier.
Unarmored Movement. While Hellenrae is wearing no armor
and wielding no shield, her speed increases by 20 feet (included in her speed).Multiattack. Hellenrae makes three melee attacks.
Unarmed Strike. Melee Weapon Attack: +7;{"diceNotation":"1d20+7
Magic Items
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
This crystalline blue shield is fashioned from a sapphire dragon’s scale and is created to aid in rooting out the influence of Aberrations. While wielding the shield, you have
resistance to psychic and thunder damage. Also, when you take damage from a creature that is within 5 feet of you, you can use your reaction to deal 2d6 thunder damage to that creature.
As an action, you
Monsters
Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Hold Breath. Sauriv can hold his breath for 15 minutes.
Fading Eyesight. Sauriv has disadvantage on all Wisdom (Perception) checks.Rapier. Melee Weapon Attack: +3;{"diceNotation":"1d20+3","rollType
. Sauriv adds 2 to his AC against one melee attack that would hit him. To do so, Sauriv must see the attacker and be wielding a melee weapon.His appearance betrays his age. His teeth and claws are stained and blunted, his eyesight is fading, and his senses of hearing and smell have lost their acuity.
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Freezing Ray attacks. He can replace one of those attacks with a use of Spellcasting.
Staff of Power. Melee Weapon Attack: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Staff of Power
);{"diceNotation":"1d8+1","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Staff of Power","rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage when used with two hands, and Ringlerun can expend 1 of the staff’s charges
Magic Items
The Book of Many Things
, the restrained condition ends. Once this bonus action is used, it can’t be used again until the next dawn.
Spellcasting. While wielding the shield, you can use an action to cast one of the
This gleaming brass shield bears a relief of the legendary medusa druid Euryale.
While wielding this shield, you gain the following benefits:
Blessing of Euryale. You have resistance to poison
Magic Items
The Book of Many Things
with it. The ammunition created by the bow vanishes the instant after it hits or misses a target.
While wielding this magic bow, you can use a bonus action to enter a semi-incorporeal state until the
start of your next turn. While semi-incorporeal, you have resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage. Once this bonus action is used, it can’t be used again until the next dawn.
Magic Items
The Book of Many Things
While you are wielding this shield, you gain a +1 bonus to AC. This bonus is in addition to the shield’s normal bonus to AC.
Curse. This item is cursed. Attuning to it extends the curse to you
speed is halved. When you roll initiative, treat the roll on your d20 as a 1. You can’t change your initiative by any means.
Monsters
Princes of the Apocalypse
Flaming Weapon (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). As a bonus action, the guard can wreath one melee weapon it is wielding in flame. The guard is unharmed by this fire, which lasts until the end
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
Unarmored Defense. While the instinct is wearing no armor and wielding no shield, its AC includes its Wisdom modifier.Multiattack. The instinct makes three Unarmed Strike attacks.
Unarmed Strike
", "rollAction":"Unarmed Strike", "rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage.The instinct can take up to three reactions per round but only one per turn.
Deflect Blow. In response to being hit by a
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
you can see within 30 feet of you suffers a critical hit while you’re wearing the armor or wielding the shield that bears the emblem, you can use your reaction to expend 1 charge to turn the critical hit into a normal hit instead.
The emblem regains all expended charges daily at dawn.
This emblem is the symbol of a deity or a spiritual tradition. As an action, you can attach the emblem to a suit of armor or a shield or remove it.
The emblem has 3 charges. When you or a creature
Magic Items
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
wielding the war pick, you can use a bonus action to cast the daylight spell, choosing a point on the war pick. Once you use this bonus action, it can’t be used again until the next dawn.
Monsters
Princes of the Apocalypse
, jump, thunderwave
2nd level (2 slots): gust of wind
Unarmored Defense. While the hurricane is wearing no armor and wielding no shield, its AC includes its Wisdom modifier.
Unarmored Movement. While
the hurricane is wearing no armor and wielding no shield, its walking speed increases by 15 feet (included in its speed).Multiattack. The hurricane makes two melee attacks.
Unarmed Strike. Melee Weapon
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
against one melee attack that would hit it. To do so, the noble must see the attacker and be wielding a melee weapon.Nobles wield great authority and influence as members of the upper class
, possessing wealth and connections that can make them as powerful as monarchs and generals. A noble often travels in the company of guards, as well as servants who are commoners. The noble's statistics can also be used to represent courtiers who aren't of noble birth.
Magic Items
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
can use an action to open your mind to the shard, seeing its content in your mind. On subsequent rounds, reading the text or scribing new text on blank “pages” in the shard requires
This polished Eberron dragonshard fits in the hand and stores information similar to a book. The shard can hold the equivalent of one book that’s no more than 320 pages long. A shard can be
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
Dwarven Resilience. The Weevil has advantage on saving throws against poison and resistance to poison damage.Multiattack. As an action, the Weevil can make three melee attacks, two attacks with one
"} slashing damage.Parry. The Weevil adds 2 to its AC against one melee attack that would hit it. To do so, the captain must see the attacker and be wielding a melee weapon.
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
An etched crystal sphere the size of a grapefruit hums faintly and pulses with irregular flares of inner light. While you are touching the crystal, you can retrieve and store information and spells
within the crystal at the same rate as reading and writing. When found, the crystal contains the following spells: detect thoughts, intellect fortress, Rary's telepathic bond, sending, telekinesis
Monsters
Candlekeep Mysteries
Fey Ancestry. Varnyr has advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put Varnyr to sleep.Multiattack. Varnyr makes two attacks.
Cane. Melee Weapon Attack: +3
"} bludgeoning damage.Parry. Varnyr adds 2 to their AC against one melee attack that would hit it. To do so, Varnyr must see the attacker and be wielding a melee weapon.Varnyr is a senior scribe who has spent
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Iron Boots. While moving, the redcap has disadvantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks.
Outsize Strength. While grappling, the redcap is considered to be Medium. Also, wielding a heavy weapon doesn
.
Ironbound Pursuit. The redcap moves up to its speed to a creature it can see and kicks with its iron boots. The target must succeed on a DC 14 Dexterity saving throw or take 20 (3d10 + 4);{"diceNotation
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
","rollAction":"Rapier","rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage.Parry. The noble adds 2 to its AC against one melee attack that would hit it. To do so, the noble must see the attacker and be wielding a
melee weapon.Nobles wield great authority and influence as members of the upper class, possessing wealth and connections that can make them as powerful as monarchs and generals. A noble often travels
Monsters
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
attacker Sildar can see would hit him with a melee attack, he can roll a d6;{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Parry"} and add the number rolled to his AC against the triggering attack
, provided he’s wielding a melee weapon.Sildar is a kindhearted human man of nearly fifty years who holds a place of honor in the famous griffon cavalry of Waterdeep. He is an agent of the Lords
Magic Items
Curse of Strahd
nowhere to be found. To avoid the vampire’s wrath, Khazan told Strahd that the entire weapon had been destroyed.
The hilt, which is sentient, knows that it can never be reunited with its original
hearing and normal vision out to a range of 60 feet. The weapon communicates by transmitting emotions to the creature carrying or wielding it.
Personality. The Sunsword’s special purpose is to
Monsters
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
Suave Defense. While Amrik is wearing light or no armor and wielding no shield, his AC includes his Charisma modifier.Multiattack. Amrik makes three dagger attacks.
Dagger. Melee or Ranged Weapon
torpor (ingested);torpor (see "Poisons" in chapter 8 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide), which the kenku bartender can use to spike drinks when Amrik gives the signal.
Monsters
Candlekeep Mysteries
Fey Ancestry. Faerl has advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put him to sleep.Rapier. Melee Weapon Attack: +3;{"diceNotation":"1d20+3","rollType":"to hit
his AC against one melee attack that would hit it. To do so, he must see the attacker and be wielding a melee weapon.Faerl, a neutral evil wood elf, is proud and cruel. He believes that he must be in
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
Psychic Defense. While the githzerai is wearing no armor and wielding no shield, its AC includes its Wisdom modifier.Multiattack. The githzerai makes three Unarmed Strike or Psychic Bolt attacks
: plane shift (self only), scrying (as an action), slow, telekinesisFuture Insight (3/Day). When the githzerai or a creature it can see makes an attack roll, a saving throw, or an ability check, the
Magic Items
Curse of Strahd
transmitting emotion to the creature carrying or wielding it.
The sword’s purpose is to fight evil. The sword has the following additional properties:
The sword continually sheds bright light in a 15
-foot radius and dim light for an additional 15 feet. Only by destroying the sword can this light be extinguished.
A lawful good creature can attune itself to the sword in 1 minute.
While attuned to
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
","rollAction":"Rapier","rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage.Parry. Yalah adds 2 to her AC against one melee attack that would hit her. To do so, Yalah must see the attacker and be wielding a melee
she knows the identities and secrets of enough Masked Lords, Yalah is confident that she can bribe, blackmail, or extort her way into their ranks. From there, she plans to effect changes in the
Monsters
Keys from the Golden Vault
","rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage.
Leadership (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). For 1 minute, the knight can utter a special command or warning whenever a nonhostile creature that it
can see within 30 feet of it makes an attack roll or a saving throw. The creature can add a d4 to its roll provided it can hear and understand the knight. A creature can benefit from only one
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
Instinctive Reflexes. The conduit has advantage on initiative rolls, and it can’t have disadvantage on attack rolls.
Unarmored Defense. While the conduit is wearing no armor and wielding no
. If the target is a creature, the conduit can choose one of the following additional effects (up to once per turn each):
Incapacitate. The target must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or