cast which realize

Triton Shorestalker

Monsters Mythic Odysseys of Theros

Amphibious. The triton can breathe air and water. Innate Spellcasting. The triton's spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save DC 12). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material

even realize they've been attacked by shorestalkers, chalking disappearances and deaths up to the innumerable dangers of the sea. Clever, far-ranging people of the sea, tritons live rich lives unknown

Baernaloth

Monsters Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse

Hades, to turn friends against each other and then savor the horror that rises when their victims realize how they’ve betrayed one another. Baernaloths use their wicked power to keep mortally

", "rollAction":"Consume Suffering"} hit points. Discover Secrets. The baernaloth uses Spellcasting to cast detect thoughts. A creature targeted by the spell cast in this way takes 13 (3d8);{"diceNotation":"3d8

Morkoth

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

lair actions: Cast a Spell. The morkoth casts darkness, dispel magic, or misty step, using Intelligence as its spellcasting ability and without expending a spell slot. Hypnotize. The morkoth uses its

failed save, the creature feels an intense urge to use its movement on each of its turns to enter the lair and to move toward the morkoth’s location (the target doesn’t realize it’s

Crook of Rao

Magic Items Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

crook was again lost. Occasionally it reappears, but the famed artifact is not what it was. Whether or not the artifact’s bearers realize its full threat, few risk using the Crook of Rao&mdash

of its charges to cast one of the following spells (save DC 18) from it: aura of life (2 charges), aura of purity (2 charges), banishment (1 charge), beacon of hope (1 charge), mass cure wounds (3

Adult Topaz Dragon

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

Amphibious. The dragon can breathe both air and water. Fabricate (1/Day). The dragon can cast fabricate, requiring no spell components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability. Legendary

realize they enjoy hunting together. 5 A tempestuous marid continually floods the carefully dried-out lair of a topaz dragon. 6 A sahuagin baron attempts to gain the support of other sahuagin

Temple Features

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Scions of Elemental Evil

cultists in and around the temple are Chaotic Evil and fight to the death. The cultists attack if they realize the characters are enemies. The temple’s large size and tall piles of rubble mean the sounds

spilling in from outside. At night, torches along the interior walls cast Dim Light. Rubble. As shown on the map, areas of rubble are Difficult Terrain and can provide cover. Stone Construction. The

No Time to Lose

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

enacted a protection ritual against all spells and effects cast against him by a faculty member. “It gets worse. Murgaxor’s influence over Dean Tullus coerced her into tainting the spell components, food

faculty members are powerless against him. But you’re not.” At this point, the characters should realize that they’re Strixhaven’s only hope to stop this terrible plan. They must face Murgaxor—if

Force Field

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

buildings in their entirety. Nothing can pass through the barrier, including air, fog, rain, and snow. Creatures that don’t realize the field is there bounce off it, with birds especially prone to striking

other. A disintegrate spell or a successful dispel magic (DC 19) spell cast at the field creates a 10-foot-square opening that lasts for 1 minute. Destroying the Force Field A magic rune in area K18 generates the force field. Destroying that rune ends the effect.

Optional Rules: Feywild Magic

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

lost memories. Time Warp While time seems to pass normally in the Feywild, characters might spend a day there and realize, upon leaving the plane, that less or more time has elapsed everywhere else in

agree to subject themselves to a geas spell and complete a quest after the wish spell is cast. Feywild Time Warp d20 Result 1–2 Days become minutes 3–6 Days become hours 7–13 No change 14–17 Days become weeks 18–19 Days become months 20 Days become years

16. Heart of the Mountain

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

phrase in Common: “The gate cannot hide from those it cannot see.” While in this room, dwarf characters can sense the immense weight of the mountain gently pressing down on them and realize

came here to learn secrets and receive divine guidance. While attuned to the room and inside it, a dwarf can cast the divination spell at will. Answers provided by the spell come from an unknown source

Optional Encounter

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

bind Ogruhl can be broken with a successful dispel magic spell (DC 19). If commanded to do so, the golem uses its sapphire heart to cast dispel magic with a flash of blue light. If the players don’t

realize that the golem can dispel magic, you can have the golem do this automatically and the players learn about it that way. If freed, Ogruhl expresses its immense gratitude and eagerly wants to reclaim its ancestral territory. The bravest chwingas come out to bestow a charm on each of the characters.

Mogis's Champions

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

someone who lacks a moral compass. Mogis demands that blood be spilled in his service, preferably the blood of Iroas’s followers. Would-be champions should realize, though, that the god of slaughter

Mogis, you have shown yourself to be a brutal combatant. You can call on Mogis’s favor and cast wrathful smite with this trait. Mogis’s blessing manifest as a blood-red glow around your weapon, causing

Lower Level B10-B13

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

proficiency in the Arcana skill or who succeeds on a DC 15 Intelligence (Arcana) check can interpret the runes to realize that these remains are being collected to fuel a huge ritual at a later date—one

for the characters and ready to fight. If they have not been warned, the gricks remain alert but the cultists are distracted as they try to cast a spell under the cult fanatic’s watchful eye. Familiar

Octopus Attack

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

rowboat to reach the Emperor. Observant players might realize that the octopus is focusing its efforts on the ship. Anyone who leaps overboard or gets into the rowboat is safe from the octopus

character can attempt to drive off the octopus by dealing damage to it. A character can use an action to make a ranged attack or melee attack, or to cast a spell. Assume that any attack rolls hit but are

The Prize

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Borderlands Quest: Goblin Trouble

“magic stick.” She’s bluffed the others into believing she’s a spellcaster, but the glowing staff just has a magical glow and functions as though it has the spell Continual Flame cast upon it. During the

looks like they can get to the bowl. Unfortunately for them, the bowl is too hot to pick up, so they simply try to escape once they realize this. The Forge. The makeshift forge in area 4a occupies

Crook of Rao

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

potential for future victory. In the aftermath, the crook was again lost. Occasionally it reappears, but the famed artifact is not what it was. Whether or not the artifact’s bearers realize its full

can use an action to expend 1 or more of its charges to cast one of the following spells (save DC 18) from it: aura of life (2 charges), aura of purity (2 charges), banishment (1 charge), beacon of

Circle of Stars

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

Circle of Stars What about the dark places between the stars? Don’t you realize that’s where the good stuff is? Tasha The Circle of Stars allows druids to draw on the power of starlight. These

cantrip. You have the guiding bolt spell prepared. It counts as a druid spell for you, and it doesn’t count against the number of spells you can have prepared. You can cast guiding bolt without

Triton

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

poison harvested from deadly sea beasts, these triton assassins slip into shallow waters and strike when least expected. Often, surface dwellers don’t even realize they’ve been attacked by shorestalkers

spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save DC 12). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components: 1/day each: fog cloud, gust of wind Nimble Escape. The triton can take the

Spawn Hollow Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

realize that the mind flayer fanatics placed their bolstering rune before the slaadi arrived and don’t care about returning. The characters can access Spawn Hollow from area X5 in Illithinoch. The

by succeeding on a DC 15 Intelligence (Investigation) or Wisdom (Perception) check. Both passages are protected. The slaad overseer, Chalaag, cast a glyph of warding spell (save DC 12) of the

M2. Amphitheater

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

Island of Death in an Ocean of Tears. Explorers arrive on an island littered with bones. It takes them years to realize they’re all dead. Endelyn Moongrave (see appendix B for her stat block) is not

cast inside it. The flames come in different colors, but they give off no heat. The goblins can swivel these cylinders to focus the lights on different parts of the stage, and they use the shutters

Silverymoon

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide

the city a green cast. Despite its arboreal architecture, Silverymoon is very much civilized, boasting schools of music and magic, a great library, bardic instruction, and temples or shrines to

thing to come to Silverymoon seeking knowledge of one subject, and find oneself so enraptured by the study that it takes a lifetime to accomplish — or to realize that it was the study, rather than

Tour of the Planes

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

moving to a higher plane of existence that mortals can never realize: joining with the Sovereigns, merging with the Silver Flame, or simply rejoining the cycle of life in a new form. That claim

. These spirits might be malevolent or benign. 2 Any necromancy spell of 1st level or higher cast within the zone is treated as if it were cast at a level one higher than the spell slot that was

19. Obo'laka's Shrine

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

has one hand on the cube. It takes a moment to realize that the figure is a statue. The floor mosaic shows Obo’laka (a zorbo) fighting I’jin (an almiraj). Inscriptions in Old Omuan underneath the

puzzle cube trap before touching it, and its magic turned him to stone. If a greater restoration spell or similar magic is cast on Voj, he reverts to flesh, realizes he’s not alone, and attacks anyone

13. Mutated Apprentices

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

. 13e. “Nothic to See Here!” An arcane lock spell has been cast on the western door. Rizzeryl the drow mage (see area 14) can pass through the portal. Other creatures must force the door open with a

of magic, however. Once they realize they’re in the presence of one or more spellcasters, the nothics become slightly more cooperative. They know that several bipedal rat creatures are holed up on the

Feywild

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide

ruler. Some domains are bright and cheery, bathed in perpetual sunlight and awash in colorful wildflowers, while others are gloomy and drab, cast in unending twilight. Most of them change with the

pass normally in the Feywild, characters might spend a day there and realize, upon leaving the plane, that less or more time has elapsed everywhere else in the multiverse. Whenever a creature or group

Ruinous Citadel Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin

realize that the mage is unreasonably preoccupied with her cloak, absently touching it as she chats. If the characters ask Naxa about her behavior, she admits that the cloak isn’t merely a fancy magic

Jallizanx hangs back to cast spells and hurl venom globes. If the kakkuus are defeated and Jallizanx is plainly losing the fight, Jallizanx teleports away and doesn’t return. If the characters capture

Easthaven Town Hall (T1-T10)

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

lanterns cast a gentle glow upon a tall, black object in the center of this room. Although one could easily mistake it for a statue, this object is actually the figurehead of a ship and is carved in

Intelligence (History) check realize that the figurehead depicts Errtu, a balor demon that terrorized Icewind Dale over a century ago. Characters who grew up in Icewind Dale have advantage on this

Example of Play

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide

else agrees.) 2 By asking the players to choose their characters’ marching order, the DM cleverly pivots away from the withered shrubs. The players don’t realize their characters are in danger

. Jared: It’s felled! Mirabella, the last one is running away. Will you let it escape? Maeve: I think Borogrove would be disappointed in us if we let it escape into the woods. I’ll cast Fire Bolt

Factions in the North

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder

cloud giant wizard planning to cast an apocalyptic spell using a large obsidian rock called a nightstone (see chapter 1) as a material component. A fire giant duchess paying hobgoblin warlords to raze

Savage Frontier. As sightings of giants become more common, members of the Emerald Enclave begin to realize something is afoot. Hill giants laying waste to vast tracts of forest, stone giants leveling

23. Fazrian's Court

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

found guilty of the crime of cowardice and sentenced to death. Once judgment is rendered, Fazrian orders Raxxus to step forth, slay the guilty party or parties, and cast their bodies into the pit (see

sword and attacks the guilty. Only a character judged innocent by Fazrian can alter the planetar’s disposition enough to make it realize how corrupt it has become. Such a character can use an action to

Strahd's Enemy

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

elder, who is dead (see chapter 5, area N4o). If the characters cast a raise dead spell or a resurrection spell on his preserved corpse, Nikolai (LN male human noble) agrees to help the characters once he

feels well enough, despite his wife’s protests. Although his family has long supported Strahd, Nikolai came to realize toward the end of his life that Strahd must be destroyed to save Barovia. If the

Morkoth

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse

initiative ties), the morkoth can take one of the following lair actions: Cast a Spell. The morkoth casts darkness, dispel magic, or misty step, using Intelligence as its spellcasting ability and

failed save, the creature feels an intense urge to use its movement on each of its turns to enter the lair and to move toward the morkoth’s location (the target doesn’t realize it’s heading toward a

Supernatural Regions

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

failure, the creature is deafened for 1 minute. 73–78 One character in the region gains the ability to cure afflictions for 1 hour. As an action, they can cast lesser restoration or greater restoration

and over. By the time they realize this, 2d10 hours have passed, during which they have made no progress in their effort to leave. The effect then ends, and each creature must succeed on a DC 10

Lower Ward

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands

d8 Encounter 1 A thunder-voiced Mind’s Eye matter smith (see Morte’s Planar Parade) admonishes passersby to realize the power inside themselves. As a demonstration, the matter smith reshapes

the skulls in his collection and draw on their shared knowledge. For a fee, Lothar can cast the speak with dead spell on any of his skulls, asking questions on the clients’ behalf. He also trades and

Temple Locations T10-T18

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

. Sylvarie’s Curse. Sylvarie Silversong was a devoted priest of Sune who shared her knowledge and uplifted others to help them realize their own worth. Sadly, her devotion to others masked the moon elf’s own

darkness, it sheds dim light in a 5-foot radius. A creature that is attuned to Radiance can use a bonus action while holding the mirror to cast the enhance ability spell, chosing itself and no other

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