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                                                     Magic Items
                                                    Dungeon Master’s Guide
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     daily at dawn. While holding the staff, you can expend 1 charge to cast its spell. If you expend the staff ’s last charge, roll 1d20. On a 1, the staff loses its properties and becomes a nonmagical
                                                
                                            
                                                
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Spell Level
Rarity
Save DC
Attack Bonus
Cantrip
Uncommon
13
+5
1
Uncommon
13
+5
2
Rare
13
+5
3
Rare
15
+7
4
Very Rare
15
+7
5
Very Rare
17
+9
6
Legendary
17
+9
7
Legendary
18
+10
8
Legendary
18
+10
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Magic Items
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                                                     saving throw or take 2d4 Psychic damage.
You can play the instrument to cast one of its spells. Once the instrument has been used to cast a spell, it can’t be used to cast that spell again until
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     from Evil and Good, plus the spells listed for the particular instrument
Anstruth harp
Very Rare
Cure Wounds (level 5), Ice Storm, Wall of Thorns
Canaith mandolin
Rare
Cure Wounds (level
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     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
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    ;Absorption (Very Rare). While this pale lavender ellipsoid orbits your head, you can take a Reaction to cancel a spell of level 4 or lower cast by a creature you can see. A canceled spell has no effect
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    , and any resources used to cast it are wasted. Once the stone has canceled 20 levels of spells, it burns out, turns dull gray, and loses its magic.
Ioun Stone of Agility;Agility (Very Rare). Your
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Magic Items
                                                    Dungeon Master’s Guide
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     regains 1d6 expended charges daily at dawn. While wearing the armor, you can expend 1 charge to cast its spell.
The level of the spell bound into the armor determines the spell’s saving throw DC
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    
2
Rare
13
+5
3
Rare
15
+7
4
Very Rare
15
+7
5
Very Rare
17
+9
6
Legendary
17
+9
7
Legendary
18
+10
8
Legendary
18
+10
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Magic Items
                                                    Dungeon Master’s Guide
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     school of magic. The weapon has 6 charges and regains 1d6 expended charges daily at dawn. While holding the weapon, you can expend 1 charge to cast its spell.
The level of the spell bound into the weapon
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    
Uncommon
13
+5
1
Uncommon
13
+5
2
Rare
13
+5
3
Rare
15
+7
4
Very Rare
15
+7
5
Very Rare
17
+9
6
Legendary
17
+9
7
Legendary
18
+10
8
Legendary
18
+10
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Magic Items
                                                    Dungeon Master’s Guide
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    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
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     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
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Magic Items
                                                    Dungeon Master’s Guide
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     of Wondrous Power (Bronze Griffon);Bronze Griffon (Rare). This bronze statuette is of a griffon rampant. It can become a Griffon for up to 6 hours. Once it has been used, it can’t be used again
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     until 5 days have passed.
Figurine of Wondrous Power (Ebony Fly);Ebony Fly (Rare). This ebony statuette, carved in the likeness of a horsefly, can become a Giant Fly (see the accompanying stat block
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Magic Items
                                                    Dungeon Master’s Guide
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    This pointed hat has the following properties.
Spellcasting Focus. While holding the hat, you can use it as a Spellcasting Focus for your Wizard spells. Any spell you cast using the hat gains a
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     special Somatic component: you must reach into the hat and “pull” the spell out of it.
Unknown Spell. While holding the hat, you can try to cast a level 1+ spell you don’t know. The
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Magic Items
                                                    Dungeon Master’s Guide
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     1,000 GP each appear at your feet.
Jester. You have Advantage on D20 Tests for the next 72 hours, or you can draw two additional cards beyond your declared draws.
Key. A Rare or rarer magic weapon with
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    . The DM can use a different stat block to represent the knight, as desired.
Moon. You gain the ability to cast Wish 1d3 times.
Puzzle. Permanently reduce your Intelligence or Wisdom by 1d4 + 1 (to
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Magic Items
                                                    The Book of Many Things
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    This gilded ring bears a beautiful engraving and is imbued with powers of keen wisdom and foresight. While wearing this ring, you can use an action to cast the Augury spell from the ring. Once you
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     use the ring to cast the spell, the ring can’t cast the spell again until the next dawn.
Six varieties of Sage’s Signet rings exist, each with a different signet (see the table below). A
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Magic Items
                                                    Tales from the Yawning Portal
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    When you drink a potion of mind control, you can cast a dominate spell (save DC 15) on a specific creature if you do so before the end of your next turn. If you don’t, the potion is wasted.
A
                                                
                                            
                                                
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Rarity
potion of mind control (beast);Mind control (beast)
Rare
potion of mind control (humanoid);Mind control (humanoid)
Rare
potion of mind control (monster);Mind control (monster)
Very rare
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Magic Items
                                                    Out of the Abyss
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    A spell gem can contain one spell from any class’s spell list. You become aware of the spell when you learn the gem’s properties. While holding the gem, you can cast the spell from it as
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     the gem.
If the spell is of a higher level than you can normally cast, you must make an ability check using your spellcasting ability to determine whether you cast it successfully. The DC equals 10
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     sight, and allows him to see invisible creatures and objects, as well as into the Ethereal Plane, out to a range of 120 feet.
Halaster wields a blast scepter (a very rare magic item that requires
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     attunement). It can be used as an arcane focus. Whoever is attuned to the blast scepter gains resistance to fire and lightning damage and can, as an action, use it to cast thunderwave as a 4th-level spell
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Magic Items
                                                    Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     speak the command word. The needle turns into ink that becomes the tattoo, which appears on the skin in whatever design you like. Once the tattoo is there, you can cast its spell, requiring no material
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     components. The tattoo glows faintly while you cast the spell and for the spell’s duration. Once the spell ends, the tattoo vanishes from your skin.
The level of the spell in the tattoo
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    Innate Spellcasting (Psionics). The squidling’s innate spellcasting ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 7). It can innately cast levitate at will, requiring no components.
Magic Resistance
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     propel it along whatever surface it’s floating above. Most mind flayers destroy squidlings on sight, so it’s rare to see one or more of these creatures.
Squidlings eat brains for sustenance, just like other mind flayers do, and they don’t care where the brains come from.
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Magic Items
                                                    Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     (Stirring );Stirring (Rare). The Stirring focus has the Slumbering property, and it gains an additional property determined by the family of the dragon in whose hoard it became Stirring:
Chromatic
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    . Whenever you use a spell slot to cast a spell that deals acid, cold, fire, lightning, or poison damage, roll a d6, and you gain a bonus equal to the number rolled to one of the spell’s damage
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     the far-flung past and inscrutable future of the multiverse. Many of these rare scholars of the profane seek to manipulate reality on a grand scale, while others unleash horrific experiments on the
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     while, baernaloths are disturbingly detached, observing their victims’ agony without emotion.A Baernaloth’s Lair
Whether in the hopeless realms of Hades or on the rare occasion they lurk
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Magic Items
                                                    Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     saving throw it makes against the spell.
Mind Crystal (Quickened);Quickened (Rare). You change the spell’s casting time to 1 bonus action for this casting.
Mind Crystal (Subtle);Subtle (Common). You cast the spell without any somatic or verbal components for this casting.
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    These gemstones contain a crystallized bit of spellcasting magic. Different types of mind crystals exist, each with a different single-use effect.
When you cast a spell that has a casting time of 1
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     Skabatha and Bavlorna bedevil Endelyn. Nothing much ever comes of these petty plots and squabbles, however.
SHARED SPELLS OF THE HOURGLASS COVEN
On the rare occasions when all three hags of the
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     Hourglass Coven are within 30 feet of one another, any one of them can use an action to cast one of the following spells, requiring no material components (spell save DC 14): detect thoughts, dispel
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Magic Items
                                                    Storm King's Thunder
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     property, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
Winter’s Howl. As an action, you can cast sleet storm (spell save DC 17). You regain this ability after you finish
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     based on its form:
Cloak. The cloak is now a rare magic item that requires attunement. While wearing it, you have resistance to fire damage, and you have advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks made
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    ","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Witchlight watch"}; on a roll of 3 or 8, Witch can’t cast the spell again until the next dawn), messageWitch, who used to go by the name Naeryx Krumple, spent his
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     as he deals with staff and keeps the carnival running on schedule. A smile on his visage is a rare event, and it fades quickly.
Mister Witch dresses with panache, though in muted tones, and always
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Magic Items
                                                    Out of the Abyss
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    A spell gem can contain one spell from any class’s spell list. You become aware of the spell when you learn the gem’s properties. While holding the gem, you can cast the spell from it as
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     the gem.
If the spell is of a higher level than you can normally cast, you must make an ability check using your spellcasting ability to determine whether you cast it successfully. The DC equals 10
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
                                                    
                                                
                                            
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Jailer (1/Day). The shator can cast the imprisonment spell, requiring no material components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (chaining effect only; spell save DC 18
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     claim. On the rare occasions that shators find themselves on the Material Plane, they manipulate mortal leaders and philosophers, using them as mouthpieces to spread poisoned words and tempt souls toward
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Magic Items
                                                    Out of the Abyss
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    A spell gem can contain one spell from any class’s spell list. You become aware of the spell when you learn the gem’s properties. While holding the gem, you can cast the spell from it as
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     the gem.
If the spell is of a higher level than you can normally cast, you must make an ability check using your spellcasting ability to determine whether you cast it successfully. The DC equals 10
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     bedevil Endelyn. Nothing much ever comes of these petty plots and squabbles, however.
SHARED SPELLS OF THE HOURGLASS COVEN
On the rare occasions when all three hags of the Hourglass Coven are
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     within 30 feet of one another, any one of them can use an action to cast one of the following spells, requiring no material components (spell save DC 14): detect thoughts, dispel magic, finger of death
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Magic Items
                                                    Out of the Abyss
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    A spell gem can contain one spell from any class’s spell list. You become aware of the spell when you learn the gem’s properties. While holding the gem, you can cast the spell from it as
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     the gem.
If the spell is of a higher level than you can normally cast, you must make an ability check using your spellcasting ability to determine whether you cast it successfully. The DC equals 10
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Magic Items
                                                    Acquisitions Incorporated
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     more potent, making it a rare magic item. When you give out a business card stored in your portfolio keeper, you can choose to have the card allow its recipient to contact you through your sending
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     stone as if they had cast a sending spell. A business card loses this power seven days after it has been given out, and no more than five cards can have this power at one time.
You can also use your
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     within 10 feet of Bavlorna uses at least 10 feet of movement to run in place counterclockwise, Bavlorna is overcome by a fit of sneezing and can’t cast spells until the end of her next turn. In
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     against Bavlorna, and Skabatha and Bavlorna bedevil Endelyn. Nothing much ever comes of these petty plots and squabbles, however.
SHARED SPELLS OF THE HOURGLASS COVEN
On the rare occasions when all
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     Rare). This figurine becomes a triceratops for up to 6 hours and can be ridden as a mount. Once it has been used, it can’t be used again until 10 days have passed.
Prehistoric Figurine of Wondrous
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     Power (Jasper Tyrannosaurus Rex);Jasper Tyrannosaurus Rex (Legendary). This figurine, crafted from rare green jasper, becomes a tyrannosaurus rex for up to 1 hour. Once it has been used, it can&rsquo
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Out of the Abyss
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    A spell gem can contain one spell from any class’s spell list. You become aware of the spell when you learn the gem’s properties. While holding the gem, you can cast the spell from it as
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     the gem.
If the spell is of a higher level than you can normally cast, you must make an ability check using your spellcasting ability to determine whether you cast it successfully. The DC equals 10
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Magic Items
                                                    Out of the Abyss
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    A spell gem can contain one spell from any class’s spell list. You become aware of the spell when you learn the gem’s properties. While holding the gem, you can cast the spell from it as
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     the gem.
If the spell is of a higher level than you can normally cast, you must make an ability check using your spellcasting ability to determine whether you cast it successfully. The DC equals 10
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Magic Items
                                                    Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     cold damage.
Deadly Rebuke. Immediately after a creature hits you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction to deal 3d6 necrotic damage to that creature.
Bane. You can cast the bane spell from
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     the shield (save DC 17). The spell does not require concentration and lasts for 1 minute. Once you cast the spell from the shield, you can’t do so again until you finish a short or long rest
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Magic Items
                                                    Storm King's Thunder
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     saving throw or be unable to move any farther this turn.
Stone Soul. You can’t be petrified.
Earthen Step. You can cast meld into stone as a bonus action. Once you use this property, you can&rsquo
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     item, which gains a benefit based on its form:
Shield. The shield is now a rare magic item that requires attunement. While you wield it, you have resistance to all damage dealt by ranged weapon
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    The Book of Many Things
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     regains spent legendary actions at the start of her turn.
Attack. Hulgaz makes one Claw attack.
Charm. Hulgaz uses Spellcasting to cast Charm Person.
Curdle Heart (Costs 2 Actions). Hulgaz sours
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     claws, glossy black eyes, and a snakelike tail tipped with a poisonous spike. On the rare occasion when her social graces fail to achieve the desired result, Hulgaz turns her natural weapons on her
                                                
                                            
                                        





