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Dungeon Master’s Guide
drawing this card, you can ask a question in meditation and mentally receive a truthful answer to that question.
Skull. An Avatar of Death appears in an unoccupied space as close to you as possible
column of the Deck of Many Things table when randomly determining cards drawn from the deck.
Before you draw a card, you must declare how many cards you intend to draw and then draw them randomly. Any
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
card reading in chapter 1, unless he has been forced into his tomb in the catacombs of Castle Ravenloft.
Strahd's Tactics
Because the entire adventure revolves around Strahd, you must play him
against other members of the adventuring party.
The Vampire’s Minions
Whenever Strahd appears in a location other than his tomb or the place indicated by the card reading, roll a d20 and consult
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
already has iconic random number generators close at hand.
Advantages of Using Cards Whether you’re using The Deck of Many Things card set, oracle cards like tarokka cards or tarot cards, or a deck of
wandering monsters to inspiring whole adventures. But The Deck of Many Things card set and other card decks provide an alternative way to get random results. How is drawing from a deck of cards
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
lever’s right is a card slot. On the lever’s opposite side protrudes a circular mechanism with three interlocking dials, each with a set of alien glyphs around the circumference. The lever won’t budge
unless a yellow key card is inserted into the card slot or the three dials are set to the correct sequence of glyphs. The sequence can be found in the tome Elevator Manual in area 3. Once the elevator is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
some have twenty-two. Use the appropriate column of the Deck of Many Things table when randomly determining cards drawn from the deck. Before you draw a card, you must declare how many cards you intend
to draw and then draw them randomly. Any cards drawn in excess of this number have no effect. Otherwise, as soon as you draw a card from the deck, its magic takes effect. You must draw each card no
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
remotely close or open any door aboard the spaceship that isn’t blocked. It can override the key card requirement of a card-locked door (see the “Spaceship Features” section later in this adventure) to do
so, but it can’t prevent a creature in possession of a key card from opening doors that card can access.
Lighting. Aphelion can illuminate any area of the ship where lights still function
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
some have twenty-two. Use the appropriate column of the Deck of Many Things table when randomly determining cards drawn from the deck. Before you draw a card, you must declare how many cards you intend
to draw and then draw them randomly. Any cards drawn in excess of this number have no effect. Otherwise, as soon as you draw a card from the deck, its magic takes effect. You must draw each card no
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Chapter 15: Throne A character who draws the Throne card from a Deck of Many Things gains ownership of a keep. But how big is the keep, and what are its defenses and layout? What lives in the keep
now, and what must the characters do to secure it? This chapter, intended for DMs, presents Harrowhall, a castle plagued by an evil necromancer, as an example of such a keep. The Throne card doesn’t
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
faith whose sanity hangs by a thread. He has lost someone close to him.
This card refers to Donavich, the priest in the village of Barovia (see chapter 3, area E5). He will not accompany the
Strahd’s Enemy Drawn from the high deck, the fourth card in the card reading determines the location of an NPC who can improve the characters’ chances of defeating Strahd. (Some cards offer two
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
in it, its face depicting the card that affected you 5 A yellowed Humanoid tooth that whispers eerily when placed under a pillow 6 A keepsake from someone you were once close to but who is now your enemy
successful life even more glorious—only to draw a destructive card that changed your destiny forever. Your desperation has driven you to the career of adventurer. You don’t seek out dark dungeons and their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
healing, as well as illness and disease. Glyphs Card Name Represents Master of glyphs Priest Enlightenment; those who follow a deity, a system of values, or a higher purpose One of glyphs Monk
, plan, and scheme Nine of glyphs Traitor Betrayal by someone close and trusted; a weakening or loss of faith
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Void card from a Deck of Many Things. The effort to identify the soul leads the adventurers to Gundra, a retired knight of the Solar Bastion, who long ago gave up searching for the soul. The soul’s
identity is up to you. It might be someone close to Gundra, whose loss prompted Gundra’s retirement. Or it might be the soul Hilarion tried to rescue before founding the Solar Bastion centuries ago
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
den. A statue of a halfling, her brow knitted in concentration, is seated at a stone table before you. She holds her empty palms close to her chest, her fingers cupped slightly. A single playing card
. Behind the Jester, the impassive Fates hang like bats from the sky.”
Puzzle Features The statue speaks whenever anyone approaches, repeating the message each time. The card on the table is a nonmagical
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Membership The Heralds of the Comet is a small, close-knit community. Through the process of severing their ties to the doomed world, members become entirely dependent on the group and its leaders
initiate mentor, who teaches the aspirant the fundamental tenets of the Heralds of the Comet and performs divinatory card readings for them. These readings purport to help the aspirant work through
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Oddlewin’s actions, but they remain connected to his feet. Oddlewin’s Deck of Many Things is a nine-card set containing the Comet, Fates, Fool, Key, Knight, Rogue, Ruin, Sage, and Throne cards. He stole
this deck from a riffler in the Feywild many years ago (rifflers are presented in chapter 21). Oddlewin doesn’t declare the number of card draws when he uses the deck for fortune-telling, so the cards
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
a card from the Elder Runes Deck (see appendix B) to determine which rune waits beyond the doors. This rune targets all creatures in the room with the same effect (bane or boon, determined randomly
doors close, the trap resets so that the next time the doors open, another randomly determined elder rune appears on the wall behind them.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
choose the entries that speak to you or randomly pull cards from The Deck of Many Things card set. One of the most important steps of a warrior’s journey is discovering the reason why you fight. Glory
hope. (And maybe, a little bit, to prove my father wrong.)
Knight Destinies Card Heroic Tie Balance Someone—or something—wronged you in your past. You seek revenge. Comet You’ve been promised an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Harrowing Hunts Domenico Cava A Harrowing Hunt The Grim Harrow keeps a close eye on the planar portals contained in a glass tower within the Gardens of Decay known as Death’s Aperture (see the
powerful but less intelligent ones. On rare occasions—usually when the Skull card has been drawn and the Grim Harrow has a chance to destroy a copy of the Deck of Many Things—one of the grim champions
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
, offering magical trinkets and the opportunity to draw from his Deck of Many Things. But when the Grim Harrow begins to close in, Oddlewin hides the deck among the characters’ belongings and flees, sending
the harrowing hunt in pursuit of the characters. Domenico Cava Jyn Corvis may have been the first person
to draw the Skull card from the deck Redemption. Asteria (see chapter 22) believes the Grim
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
an oval plate of dark glass. A blocky creature clutches a small ceramic card in one of its mechanical hands as it waits nervously by the console.
The creature next to the console, a Modron Duodrone
below (area S6) to move up to defend it. For more information about the console, see “Using the Console” below. Using a Glyph Card (see “Starglass Waypoint Features”), the duodrone retreated to this
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
successful DC 15 Wisdom (Insight) check. The squealer’s lair is an artificial burrow close by. Inside is a red key card, a concussion grenade, and four gems worth 100 gp each. S56f: Dew Drinkers. Three
wreckage. A violet key card still allows passage back up to the levels above. S48: Feed Storage (Green) This storage area reeks of manure. Animal and plant feed are stored here, along with fertilizer and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
specifically targets the creature that cut the thread. To determine which rune appears, draw a card from the Elder Runes Deck (see appendix B). The shadow curtain disappears when both silver threads are
them to swing open, allowing access to area 19. It is this shadow, not the key itself, that unlocks the doors. Unless they are held open, the doors close and lock on their own after being open for 1
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Twenty-Two Riddles Here are twenty-two riddles you can use in any campaign. Each riddle’s answer is the name of a card from the Deck of Many Things: In daylight, my gray cloak flies high. At night
see the answer! Fool
I’m the cosmic paintbrush whose stroke fades fast. From afar I grant wishes; up close I destroy all in my path. Click to see the answer! Comet
Savior of kidnapped nobles and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
Alda Arkin (neutral evil, elf noble), the museum’s curator. During the gala, the curator is unarmed and unarmored. A retired university professor, Alda is responsible for the museum’s close ties to
’ after-hours stations, a master key to the museum’s locked doors, and a pass card that allows Alda to bypass the museum’s alarms (see “Investigating Security Measures” earlier in the adventure for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
determined by the deck’s rarity.
Wade Acuff Fate Dealer’s Deck
In addition, while you’re holding the deck, you can draw a card as an action to expend and roll one of your Hit Dice and add the
four windows, and only you can open or close them. It has a floor and a roof, and it maintains a comfortable temperature inside. The shelter has AC 15, 50 hit points, and immunity to poison and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
, arcane lock spells cause all doors leading to the room (including secret doors) to close and lock. As an action, a character can either try to unlock a door using thieves’ tools, doing so with a
Statues. Characters can keep the statues from animating by staying more than 5 feet away from them. Bypassing Alarms. The curator and guards each carry a palm-sized pass card embossed with the museum’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
rubble and the remains of several merchant stalls. On the west side of the court is a wide, sliding glass door.
The sliding glass door leading to the supply room (area S6) requires a Glyph Card to
tyranny of mind flayers. Treasure. Characters who spend 10 minutes sifting through the fountain’s basin find a Glyph Card and 25 GP in loose coins. S4: Forge Rusty tools hang from hooks on the walls
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
have arrived, Verity asks the last to enter to close the door. To begin this scene, read the following text: The back room in the Brine Widow is well appointed, with a polished wood table, paintings
bright-green trim and are magically locked. Getting into them might require the characters to obtain an employee pass card, which bypasses the magical locks. Security Mirrors. Magical security mirrors
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
noble with close ties to Goldenbeard. Locked Door. The door to area T12 is locked but easily unlocked from inside this room. Treasure. The two paintings of night festivals are worth 250 gp each
elegant handwriting bears the item’s name and a brief description: Jeweled Human Skull. The card reads, “Unclear if genuine skull or replica. Found in ancient tomb.” This skull is coated with gold. Large
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
K57) 5 Wine cellar (area K63) 6 Torture chamber (area K76) Strahd isn’t actually at that location unless the card reading (see chapter 1) indicates that he is. If the characters ask Rahadin to lead
you look back, you see a shadow, tall and still, but nothing of its dimensions that could cast it. If more than one shadow is present, the others are close by but hidden in the darkness. These undead
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
close examination of the work. Kavil won’t start a fight, but he sides with the nycaloths if a battle erupts, which is likely since the fiends have orders to slay intruders. If reduced to 33 hit points
or fewer, Kavil switches sides and offers information in exchange for his life. He knows one random Undermountain secret, determined by drawing a card from the Secrets Deck (see appendix C), as well as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
be tiresome. The first is the Gilded Horseshoe, an old inn to the west of the road that serves fine food and drink, offers comfortable beds, and is close enough to the Ivy Mansion that no one would
them, though this process is likely to take days longer than most travelers can spare. There is entertainment to be had at the Gambling Golem, where cheaters in the card or dice games are tossed out
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
understand his personality and goals. Although Strahd can be encountered almost anywhere in his domain, the vampire is always encountered in the place indicated by the card reading in chapter 1, unless
appears in a location other than his tomb or the place indicated by the card reading, roll a d20 and consult the Strahd’s Minions table to determine what creatures he brings with him, if any. Strahd’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
medallion around its neck. All around the figure are carvings of locusts.
Close inspection reveals that one of the carved locusts is a button that can be pushed. When this happens, the stone block
in! We must stop Acererak!”
If the spirit successfully inhabits the character, give the player I’jin’s card (see appendix F). If the attempt fails, the spirit returns to the horn and waits for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
archmage Hoobur Gran’Shoop. The constructs remain motionless until the adventurers move close or attack. These scarecrows can cut the rope holding them with their claws, but they prefer to remain hanging
most of the other attackers were stronger, nor does he know who hired the attackers. Hoping to learn some magic, Patsky stuck close to the spellcaster, whose name he knows as Hoobur Gran’Shoop