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                        Returning 35 results for 'charge curse'.
                    
                
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Tales from the Yawning Portal
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    Charge. If the centaur mummy moves at least 20 feet straight toward a target and then hits it with a pike attack on the same turn, the target takes an extra 10 (3d6);{"diceNotation":"3d6","rollType
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    ":"damage","rollAction":"Charge","rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage.Multiattack. The centaur mummy makes two melee attacks, one with its pike and one with its hooves, or it attacks with its
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     option can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature's turn. Kostchtchie regains spent legendary actions at the start of his turn.
Attack. Kostchtchie makes one melee weapon attack.
Charge
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    . Kostchtchie moves up to his speed.
Curse (Costs 2 Actions). Kostchtchie curses one creature he can see within 60 feet of him. The cursed creature gains vulnerability to all damage dealt by
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
                                                    
                                                
                                            
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Wand of Magic Missiles. While holding this wand, Vellynne can expend 1 or more of its 7 charges to cast the magic missile spell from it. She can expend 1 charge to cast the 1st-level version of the
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     spell. She can increase the spell slot level by one for each additional charge she expends. The wand regains 1d6 + 1;{"diceNotation":"1d6+1","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Wand of Magic Missiles
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Tomb of Annihilation
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    ":"damage","rollAction":"Staff","rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage when used with two hands.
Invoke Curse. While holding the Staff of the Forgotten One, Acererak expends 1 charge from it and
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     targets one creature he can see within 60 feet of him. The target must succeed on a DC 23 Constitution saving throw or be cursed. Until the curse is ended, the target can’t regain hit points and
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Magic Items
                                                    The Book of Many Things
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    These tinker’s goggles have 3 charges. As an action, you can expend 1 charge to shoot a beam of fiery light from the goggles at a creature you can see within 120 feet of yourself. The target
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     curse to you. You can’t remove the goggles or end your attunement to them until you are targeted by a Remove Curse spell or similar magic.
Whenever you use the goggles’ fiery beam and the
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Magic Items
                                                    The Book of Many Things
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     charge to increase your walking speed by 30 feet, and you have advantage on Dexterity saving throws. These effects last for 1 minute. The greaves regain 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn.
Curse. The
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     greaves are cursed, and becoming attuned to them extends the curse to you. You can’t remove the greaves or end your attunement to them until you are targeted by a Remove Curse spell or similar
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Magic Items
                                                    Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     wizard Tasha). Although she was defeated, Iggwilv managed to damage the crook during the battle, infecting it with an insidious curse—and the potential for future victory. In the aftermath, the
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     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
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Magic Items
                                                    Eberron: Rising from the Last War
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     (spell save DC 16): charm person (1 charge), disintegrate (6 charges), fear (3 charges), finger of death (7 charges), flesh to stone (6 charges), hold person (2 charges), ray of enfeeblement (2
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     charges), sleep (1 charge), slow (3 charges), telekinesis (5 charges).
The crown regains 1d6 + 3 expended charges daily at dawn.
Symbiotic Nature. The crown can’t be removed from you while you
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Magic Items
                                                    Eberron: Rising from the Last War
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    ): detect thoughts (2 charges) or dissonant whispers (1 charge). Each time you use the earworm to cast the detect thoughts spell, it sends the information gleaned to the nearest daelkyr, or
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    ’re attuned to it, and you can’t voluntarily end your attunement to it. If you’re targeted by a spell that ends a curse, your attunement to the earworm ends, and it exits your body.
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Magic Items
                                                    Tomb of Annihilation
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     you harm them.
You can wield the staff as a quarterstaff, +3;+3 quarterstaff that deals an extra 10 (3d6) necrotic damage on a hit.
Invoke Curse. The Staff of the Forgotten One has 7 charges and
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     regains 1d4 + 3 expended charges daily at dawn. While holding the staff, you can use an action to expend 1 charge and target one creature you can see within 60 feet of you. The target must succeed on
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Magic Items
                                                    Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     be the victim of a night hag’s curse.
Carrying Soul Coins. To hold a soul coin is to feel the soul bound within it — overcome with rage or fraught with despair.
An evil creature can
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    . A creature carrying the coin can use its action to expend 1 charge from a soul coin and use it to do one of the following:
Drain Life. You siphon away some of the soul’s essence and gain 1d10
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     mote of the Dragon Queen’s power. Carrying and exchanging talons bear unpleasant consequences: Curse. A creature that carries any number of talons is cursed. While cursed in this way, the creature
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     has disadvantage on Intelligence and Wisdom saving throws as its mind is clouded by jealous and selfish thoughts. The curse ends on an affected creature only when the creature no longer holds any talons
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     expend some of its charges to cast one of the following spells from it (spell save DC 16): charm person (1 charge), disintegrate (6 charges), fear (3 charges), finger of death (7 charges), flesh to stone
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     (6 charges), hold person (2 charges), ray of enfeeblement (2 charges), sleep (1 charge), slow (3 charges), telekinesis (5 charges). The crown regains 1d6 + 3 expended charges daily at dawn. Symbiotic
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     power of the Witch Queen Iggwilv (one of the names of the wizard Tasha). Although she was defeated, Iggwilv managed to damage the crook during the battle, infecting it with an insidious curse—and the
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     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
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    . Curse of Lycanthropy. A humanoid creature can be afflicted with the curse of lycanthropy after being wounded by a lycanthrope, or if one or both of its parents are lycanthropes. A remove curse spell
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     can rid an afflicted lycanthrope of the curse, but a natural born lycanthrope can be freed of the curse only with a wish. A lycanthrope can either resist its curse or embrace it. By resisting the
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal
                                                    
                                                
                                            
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 Charge. If the centaur mummy moves at least 20 feet straight toward a target and then hits it with a pike attack on the same turn, the target takes an extra 10 (3d6) piercing damage.
 Actions
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     hours that elapse. If the curse reduces the target’s hit point maximum to 0, the target dies, and its body turns to dust. The curse lasts until removed by the remove curse spell or similar magic
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     necessary number of charges (spell save DC 15): detect thoughts (2 charges) or dissonant whispers (1 charge). Each time you use the earworm to cast the detect thoughts spell, it sends the information
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     while you’re attuned to it, and you can’t voluntarily end your attunement to it. If you’re targeted by a spell that ends a curse, your attunement to the earworm ends, and it exits your body.
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     defaulting on a deal, while another might be the victim of a night hag’s curse. Carrying Soul Coins. To hold a soul coin is to feel the soul bound within it — overcome with rage or fraught with despair. An
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     Soul Coin. A soul coin has 3 charges. A creature carrying the coin can use its action to expend 1 charge from a soul coin and use it to do one of the following: Drain Life. You siphon away some of the
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     curse is ended. Believing they know too much for their own good, he sends a party of yuan-ti to capture or kill them before they leave the city. If the party obtained the Black Opal Crown, they can trade
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     the item for their lives. If Fenthaza lives, Ras Nsi makes the mistake of putting her in charge of the team sent to kill the characters, and she offers the party a deal instead. If the characters
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     or animal form, they gain a devastating goring attack through which their curse is spread. A wereboar infects other creatures indiscriminately, relishing the fact that the more its victims resist the
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     curse, the more savage and bestial they become. Wereboars live in small family groups in remote forest areas, building ramshackle huts or dwelling in caves. They are suspicious of strangers but
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     local Jorasco enclave suddenly manifest strange abilities they never could before — and soon thereafter, a strange curse as well. 5 The Kundarak Bank needs brave adventurers to test their new wards by
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     killed defending their charge from assassins, but manages to force the attackers to drop a clue to the identity of their employer. 8 The characters are hired to protect a crucial shipment aboard an
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     Ravenloft, such as those from a previous Curse of Strahd campaign, make good candidates for being your new character’s mentor or relative. Alternatively, the deed of your characters in past adventures
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     misplaced) magic item. Work with your DM to detail this inheritance and how it can factor into future adventures.
  A knight of the Circle takes up her ancestors’ sacred charge to challenge the dark.
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    ) bludgeoning damage plus 10 (3d6) necrotic damage when used with two hands.
 Invoke Curse. While holding the Staff of the Forgotten One, Acererak expends 1 charge from it and targets one creature he
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     can see within 60 feet of him. The target must succeed on a DC 23 Constitution saving throw or be cursed. Until the curse is ended, the target can’t regain hit points and has vulnerability to
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    . Manipulating Time Having a mechanical guide spend 1 charge in this area taps into the ritual magic Seodra is using to craft the demilich’s skull, causing a random character to age by one year. This effect can be reversed by casting a remove curse spell using a 6th-level spell slot.
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     follows: The gate opens for 1 minute when the mirror is touched with a magic wand that has at least 1 charge remaining. Characters must be 11th level or higher to pass through this gate (see
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     transmutation magic around the helm, which is cursed. Once the helm is donned, it can’t be removed until its wearer dies or until a remove curse spell or similar magic is cast on the helm. Any humanoid
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     of the following spells from the armor, targeting yourself: Jump (1 charge) or Levitate (2 charges). This armor regains 1d4 + 1 expended charges daily at dawn. Bloodrage Greataxe Weapon (Greataxe
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     wearing this armor, you can expend 1 charge to change the number rolled to a 10. The armor regains 1d4 expended charges daily at dawn. Dried Leech Weapon (Any Ammunition), Uncommon This leech has been
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     a defeat that leads to her removal. For now, though, the devils are fighting with a berserker fury under her charge. Zariel leads their offensives herself, and her unyielding resolve coupled with the
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     most prevalent theory holds that her confinement is related to the end of the long war between the dragons and giants, that she was sequestered here by means of a mighty curse levied by a forgotten
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     need, it encourages mortal heroism. Should a deva’s chosen champions carry out their charge, they experience a revelation or the world is changed in line with divine purpose. Roll on or choose a result
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     from the Deva Messages table to inspire a deva’s charge.
 
  Deva Messages    1d6 The Deva Tasks a Mortal with Delivering... 
     1  The corpse of a hero in need of redemption. 
   2  The cure
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     points and a walking speed of 30 feet. It lacks the Charge feature and any effective attacks, giving it a challenge rating of 0 (0 XP). The verbeeg acquired his livestock by robbing travelers on the
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     to dust and tatters. Treasure. Clutched in the chieftain’s left hand is a pearl of power. In her right hand is a +1 wand of the war mage. A curse befalls any creature that removes either magic item or
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    ), fog cloud (1 charge), ice storm (4 charges), or wall of ice (4 charges). The staff regains 1d6 + 4 charges daily at dawn. If its last charge is expended, roll a d20; on a 1, the staff turns to water
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     title page. The tome contains the spells Vellynne has prepared plus the following additional spells: bestow curse, blindness/deafness, false life, find familiar, magic weapon, polymorph, protection from
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     is haunted by Undead because of a cursed item in the house. 15 Creatures from the Feywild enter the world and cause mischief and misfortune among villagers and their livestock. 16 A hag’s curse is
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    , aquatic monsters start attacking the waterfront at night. 19 The ruins on the hill near the village lie under a curse, so people don’t go there—except a scholar who wants to study the ruins. 20 A
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    , learning to use these claws as weapons much as Luthic uses her own. Orc females devoted to Luthic are in charge of fortifying and maintaining an orc stronghold. They help to guarantee the survival of
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     the tribe, and most are skilled in the healing arts. The most powerful among Luthic’s disciples are the claws of Luthic, which can use the Cave Mother’s magic to heal, protect, and curse. Orc Claw of
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     when it comes to running Port Nyanzaru, so unless a meeting is being held to discuss city business, the delay is just a tactic to underscore who’s in charge. If the characters have interesting news
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     is to express disbelief that the death curse has anything to do with Chult. If characters give a compelling argument or make a donation to the church of at least 25 gp, Zitembe agrees to “consult the
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     servants slew them. Gideon then turned them into four minotaur skeletons that attack as soon as any character enters this area. The minotaur skeletons attempt to charge characters, knocking them
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     see any demon within 60 feet of it and ends its turn not having attempted to attack a demon. This curse can be removed with a remove curse spell or similar magic. At the end of each long rest, a cursed
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     energy. A guard’s madness can be cured with a dispel evil and good, greater restoration, or remove curse spell. Guards who are cured of their madness thank the characters and explain that they were
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     is reduced to 100 hit points or fewer.  Left to right: Charge of Zariel and the Hellriders, the war on Avernus, and Zariel’s surrender to Asmodeus Event 7. Zariel’s Arrival This event overlaps with
                                                
                                            
                                        





