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Dungeon Master’s Guide
Etched with eldritch runes, this 1-inch-diameter ruby allows you to use a Simple or Martial weapon as a Spellcasting Focus for your spells. For this property to work, you must attach the ruby to the
weapon by pressing the ruby against it for at least 10 minutes. Thereafter, the ruby can’t be removed unless you detach it as a Magic action, the weapon is destroyed, or your Attunement to the ruby ends.
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
an attack while holding the weapon, you can take a Reaction to twirl the weapon around you, gaining a +5 bonus to your Armor Class against the triggering attack, potentially causing the attack to miss
You have a +2 bonus to attack rolls and damage rolls made with this magic weapon.
While holding this weapon, you can cause it to emit green Dim Light out to 10 feet, either as a Bonus Action or
Monsters
Monster Manual
", "rollDamageType":"Piercing"} Piercing damage.Parry. Trigger: The noble is hit by a melee attack roll while holding a weapon. Response: The noble adds 2 to its AC against that attack, possibly causing it to miss.
Monsters
Monster Manual
. Trigger: The bandit is hit by a melee attack roll while holding a weapon. Response: The bandit adds 2 to its AC against that attack, possibly causing it to miss.
Monsters
Monster Manual
"} Piercing damage.Parry. Trigger: The warrior is hit by a melee attack roll while holding a weapon. Response: The warrior adds 2 to its AC against that attack, possibly causing it to miss.
Monsters
Monster Manual
":"damage", "rollAction":"Heavy Crossbow", "rollDamageType":"Radiant"} Radiant damage.Parry. Trigger: The knight is hit by a melee attack roll while holding a weapon. Response: The knight adds 2 to its AC against that attack, possibly causing it to miss.
Monsters
Monster Manual
":"Bludgeoning"} Bludgeoning damage. If the target is a Medium or smaller creature, it has the Prone condition.Parry. Trigger: The gladiator is hit by a melee attack roll while holding a weapon. Response: The gladiator adds 3 to its AC against that attack, possibly causing it to miss.
Monsters
Monster Manual
by a melee attack roll while holding a weapon: Response: The hobgoblin adds 3 to its AC against that attack, possibly causing it to miss.
Monsters
Monster Manual
damage.Defensive Stance. Trigger: The pirate is hit by a melee attack roll while holding a weapon. Response: The pirate adds 4 to its AC against melee attack rolls (including the triggering attack) until the
start of its next turn, possibly causing the attacks to miss.Rally (1/Day). The pirate chooses up to three other creatures it can see within 30 feet. Until the start of the pirate’s next turn, the targets have Advantage on attack rolls and saving throws.
Monsters
Monster Manual
":"damage", "rollAction":"Pistol", "rollDamageType":"Piercing"} Piercing damage.Riposte. Trigger: The pirate is hit by a melee attack roll while holding a weapon. Response: The pirate adds 3 to its AC
against that attack, possibly causing it to miss. On a miss, the pirate makes one Rapier attack against the triggering creature if within range.Captain’s Charm. Wisdom Saving Throw: DC 14, one
Monsters
Monster Manual
holding a weapon. Response: The aspirant adds 4 to its AC against that attack, possibly causing it to miss.Necrotic, Poison
Monsters
Monster Manual
ends.Parry. Trigger: The marilith is hit by a melee attack roll while holding a weapon. Response: The marilith adds 5 to its AC against that attack, possibly causing it to miss.PoisonCold, Fire
Monsters
Monster Manual
the target, or the erinyes uses Entangling Rope again.Parry. Trigger: The erinyes is hit by a melee attack roll while holding a weapon. Response: The erinyes adds 4 to its AC against that attack, possibly causing it to miss.Fire, PoisonCold
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
attack rolls and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. If you hit an Undead with this weapon, you take 1d10 Necrotic damage, and the target regains 1d10 Hit Points. If this Necrotic damage reduces you
to 0 Hit Points, Blackrazor devours your soul (see “Devour Soul” below).
While you hold this weapon, you have Immunity to the Charmed and Frightened conditions, and you have Blindsight
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
Of all the magic items created by elves, one of the most prized and jealously guarded is a Moonblade. In ancient times, nearly all elven noble houses claimed one such weapon. Over the centuries, some
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Every Moonblade longs for a bearer whose disposition and goals are compatible with its own. If you try to attune to a Moonblade that doesn’t want you as its bearer, the weapon not only
Monsters
Monster Manual
MagicParry. Trigger: The death knight is hit by a melee attack roll while holding a weapon. Response: The death knight adds 6 to its AC against that attack, possibly causing it to miss.Legendary Action
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
Equipment. He has a blod stone bolted to a 50-pound iron chain that he wears around his neck.Multiattack. Storvald makes two greataxe attacks.
Greataxe. Melee Weapon Attack: +9;{"diceNotation":"1d20
"} slashing damage.
Rock. Ranged Weapon Attack: +9;{"diceNotation":"1d20+9","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Rock"} to hit, range 60/240 ft., one target. Hit: 28 (4d10 + 6);{"diceNotation":"4d10+6
Monsters
Keys from the Golden Vault
;t be contacted telepathically unless she allows such contact.Multiattack. Prisoner 13 makes two Tattooed Strike attacks.
Tattooed Strike. Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +6;{"diceNotation":"1d20+6
knocked prone.
River Tattoo. Prisoner 13 magically ends any effects causing the grappled or restrained conditions on herself. If she is bound with nonmagical restraints, she slips out of them.Readiness
Magic Items
Princes of the Apocalypse
A mighty axe wielded long ago by the dwarf king Torhild Flametongue, Orcsplitter is a battered weapon that appears unremarkable at first glance. Its head is graven with the Dwarvish runes for &ldquo
;orc,” but the runes are depicted with a gap or slash through the markings; the word “orc” is literally split in two.
You gain the following benefits while holding this magic weapon
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Magic Items
Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Etched with eldritch runes, this 1-inch-diameter ruby allows you to use a simple or martial weapon as a spellcasting focus for your spells. For this property to work, you must attach the ruby to the
weapon by pressing the ruby against it for at least 10 minutes. Thereafter, the ruby can’t be removed unless you detach it as an action or the weapon is destroyed. Not even an antimagic field causes it to fall off. The ruby does fall off the weapon if your attunement to the ruby ends.
Magic Items
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Ancient runes are stitched in silver thread along the hem of this grayish-purple cape.
The cape has 3 charges. As a bonus action while wearing the cape, you can expend 1 of its charges to enlarge
category, you instead become the maximum possible size in the space available.
You have advantage on Strength checks and Strength saving throws.
When you hit with an attack roll using a weapon or an
Magic Items
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
. When you target a creature with an attack using this weapon, you can invoke the sword’s rune, causing it to flare with crimson light and infusing your attack with bloodthirsty precision. You
The hilt of this sword bears a carnelian engraved with the blood rune.
You can add your Constitution modifier (minimum of +1) to the damage rolls of attacks made with this weapon.
Invoking the Rune
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
Multiattack. The fire starter makes two Havoc Hammer or Havoc Flask attacks.
Havoc Hammer. Melee Weapon Attack: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Havoc Hammer"} to hit
":"2d8", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Havoc Hammer", "rollDamageType":"fire"} fire damage. If the target is a creature, magical flames cling to it, causing it to take 3 (1d6);{"diceNotation":"1d6
Magic Items
Storm King's Thunder
This triangular fire opal measures about three inches on each side and is half an inch thick. The ild (fire) rune shimmers within its core, causing it to be slightly warm to the touch. The opal has
much fire to extinguish in that radius.
Gift of Flame. You can transfer the opal’s magic to a nonmagical item — a weapon or a suit of armor — by tracing the ild rune there with your
Magic Items
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
This ivory longbow is inscribed with a prayer to the god Hiatea, the runes of which are entwined with gilded engravings of wheat stalks and deer antlers.
You gain a +3 bonus to attack and damage
rolls made with this weapon. If you load no ammunition in the weapon, it produces its own, automatically creating one magic arrow when you pull back the string. The arrow created by the bow vanishes the
Magic Items
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
This long, whip-like strand of tough muscle bears a sharp stinger at one end. To attune to this symbiotic weapon, you wrap the whip around your wrist for the entire attunement period, during which
time the whip painfully embeds its tendrils into your arm.
You gain a +2 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic whip, but attack rolls made against aberrations with this weapon have
Magic Items
Princes of the Apocalypse
A war pick forged from a single piece of iron, Ironfang has a fang-like head inscribed with ancient runes. The pick is heavy in the hand, but when the wielder swings the pick in anger, the weapon
seems almost weightless. This weapon is immune to any form of rust, acid, or corrosion — nothing seems to mark it. Ironfang contains a spark of Ogrémoch, the Prince of Evil Earth.
You gain a +2
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Displacement. The displacer beast projects a magical illusion that makes it appear to be standing near its actual location, causing attack rolls against it to have disadvantage. If it is hit by an
attack, this trait is disrupted until the end of its next turn. This trait is also disrupted while the displacer beast is incapacitated or has a speed of 0.Tentacles. Melee Weapon Attack: +3
Monsters
Tales from the Yawning Portal
half damage if it fails.
Displacement. The displacer beast projects a magical illusion that makes it appear to be standing near its actual location, causing attack rolls against it to have disadvantage
creature has -2 penalty on all ability checks and saving throws.Multiattack. The displacer beast makes two attacks with its tentacles.
Tentacle. Melee Weapon Attack: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4","rollType
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
other magical effects.Multiattack. The hag makes two Nightmare Touch attacks.
Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Claws"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one
undertaking quests or making bargains with a dusk hag in exchange for its prophecies and visions of the future. But the information gained from a dusk hag often has a way of causing more pain than joy. Like
Monsters
Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
);{"diceNotation":"1d8","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Death Burst","rollDamageType":"poison"} poison damage.
Unusual Nature. The fume drake doesn’t require food, drink, or sleep.Bite. Melee Weapon
save, or half as much damage on a successful one.Fume drakes are mischievous creatures that arise from the lingering magical energy of a dead dragon. They resemble small, legless dragons formed from clouds of greenish smoke. They delight in causing pain and confusion in other creatures.Fire, Poison
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
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Siege Monster. The colossus deals double damage to objects and structures.Multiattack. The colossus makes two Slam attacks and then uses Stomp.
Slam. Melee Weapon Attack: +14;{"diceNotation":"1d20+14
"} bludgeoning damage.
Stomp. Melee Weapon Attack: +14;{"diceNotation":"1d20+14", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Stomp"} to hit, reach 20 ft., one target. Hit: 29 (4d10 + 7);{"diceNotation":"4d10+7
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
object in its possession when it finishes a short or long rest.Multiattack. The giant makes three Prism Staff attacks.
Prism Staff. Melee Weapon Attack: +11;{"diceNotation":"1d20+11", "rollType":"to
. Within their communities, they act as leaders and oracles.
Rockspeakers incorporate crystals and stones into their clothing and embed them in their skin. By invoking the power of their stone runes
Monsters
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Tentacle attacks.
Tentacle. Melee Weapon Attack: +6;{"diceNotation":"1d20+6", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Tentacle"} to hit, reach 30 ft., one target. Hit: 15 (3d8 + 2);{"diceNotation":"3d8+2
breakers look like giant brains with stout legs, and they wear steel armor made from interlocked links of Ilvaash’s runes (knots of tentacles, brains, and jagged lines reminiscent of jaws).Psychic
Monsters
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
Amphibious. The krasis can breathe air and water.Multiattack. The krasis makes two attacks: one with its bite and one with its claws.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5","rollType
.
Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Claws"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3);{"diceNotation":"1d8+3","rollType":"damage","rollAction