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Dungeon Master’s Guide
’s blank pages, which fills with writing detailing the trapped creature’s widely known name and depravities. Once used, this action can’t be used again until the next dawn.
When you
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Spell
Charge Cost
Magic Circle
1
Magic Jar
3
Planar Ally
3
Planar Binding
2
Plane Shift (to the Abyss only)
3
Summon Fiend
3
Tasha's Hideous Laughter
0
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
within the crystal at the same rate as reading and writing. When found, the crystal contains the following spells: detect thoughts, intellect fortress, Rary's telepathic bond, sending, telekinesis
, Tasha's mind whip, and Tenser's floating disk. It functions as a spellbook for you, with its spells and other writing psychically encoded within it.
While you are holding the crystal, you can use it as
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
spell slot or charge expended by a creature in the gullet to cast a spell or activate a property of a magic item is wasted. While an effect is suppressed, it doesn’t function, but the time it
eye and mouth are closed, an eye monger looks like nothing more than a 12-foot-diameter asteroid. When it senses vibrations in the space around it, the eye monger opens its eye and reveals its true
Magic Items
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
Soul coins are about 5 inches across and about an inch thick, minted from infernal iron. Each coin weighs one-third of a pound, and is inscribed with Infernal writing and a spell that magically binds
. 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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Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
spells (save DC 20) from it: magic circle (1 charge), magic jar (3 charges), planar ally (3 charges), planar binding (2 charges), plane shift (to layers of the Abyss only; 3 charges), summon fiend (3
saving throw with disadvantage or become trapped within one of the Demonomicon’s empty blank pages, which fills with writing detailing the trapped creature’s widely known name and
Magic Items
Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
).
Translate any writing you can see in any nonmagical language, to a total of one thousand words over 1 minute (1 charge or 5 hit points).
Fill the armor with air, allowing you to breathe normally in
or sacrifice hit points to gain one of the following benefits:
Emit a force field to gain 2d6 + 5 temporary hit points (1 charge or 5 hit points).
Activate boosters to gain a flying speed of 15
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
of inner light. While you are touching the crystal, you can retrieve and store information and spells within the crystal at the same rate as reading and writing. When found, the crystal contains the
functions as a spellbook for you, with its spells and other writing psychically encoded within it. While you are holding the crystal, you can use it as a spellcasting focus for your wizard spells, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
, delicate parchment, but any attempt to damage the book fails, confirming that it is indestructible. The writing, in Sylvan, on each of the book’s seventy-two pages is in a fine, spidery hand, using
black ink flecked with silver. A detect magic spell reveals that the book gives off auras of illusion and transmutation magic, but an identify spell does not reveal the magical mark it bestows.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
17. Vertrand’s Room Vertrand. A bald, elderly man (Vertrand Shadowdusk) sits at a writing desk to the north, his back to the doorway.
Bed. A simple bed stands against the south wall.
Tapestry. A
tapestry hanging on the east wall depicts noble members of the Shadowdusk family, their features distorted in unnatural and frightening ways. (Close examination reveals that the tapestry has been
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
stone giants, an adventurer used a mirror to trick the basilisk into targeting itself with its own petrifying gaze. It has remained a fixture of this cavern ever since. A detect magic spell reveals an
wand can use an action to expend 1 charge and create orchestral music by waving it around. The music can be heard out to a range of 60 feet and ends when the holder stops waving the wand. The wand
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
shows it to be a cunningly contrived container. Its covering is made of supple leather reinforced with thicker strips of hide. Opening the cover reveals three intricately carved, hollow wooden
cylinders and a linen bag of dry clay artfully decorated with a drop of water. Wooden Cylinders The outside of each cylinder is covered with writing and simple images, apparently telling a story in three
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
supporting characters, breathing life into them. And as a referee, the DM interprets the rules and decides when to abide by them and when to change them. Inventing, writing, storytelling, improvising, acting
mastery and world-building. The D&D rules help you and the other players have a good time, but the rules aren’t in charge. You’re the DM, and you are in charge of the game. That said, your goal isn’t
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
addition, twelve uncut rubies (worth 50 gp each) are being used as pieces for the board game. A successful DC 12 Wisdom (Perception) check reveals that the board resembles a partial map of the temple
, showing areas 1 to 22. Manipulating Time Having a mechanical guide spend 1 charge in this area causes the guards to change shifts, leaving for areas 4 and 5. Spending 2 charges also brings the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
writing and a spell that magically binds a single soul to the coin. Because each soul coin has a unique soul trapped within it, each has a story. A creature might have been imprisoned as a result of
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Soul Coins are about 5 inches across and an inch thick, each minted from infernal iron. Each coin weighs one-third of a pound and is inscribed with Infernal writing and a spell that magically binds a
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 do one of the following: Drain Life. You siphon away some of the soul’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
) check reveals illegible scrawls in the dirt that match the writing in the journal the characters found in Sedgemoor last academic year. Some pests in Sedgemoor, eluding capture, grow to prodigious
table’s cabinet inside the hut reveals a pest mascot (see chapter 7) gnawing on a cracked, strange-looking stone. The pest is one of the mascots the characters must catalog for Professor Sharpbeak, as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
humanoid, but a successful DC 13 Wisdom (Perception) check reveals that the creature is a mix of humanoid and animal bones. The bones do not animate. When either of the first two pits are sealed, the
actual door leading to area 18. Manipulating Time Having a mechanical guide spend 1 charge in this area opens one closed pit at random, or closes one pit at random if all the pits are open.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
wall at the south end of the cave. The arch is not visible from the cave entrance because of the webs concealing it.)
The driders while away the days carving zurkhwood figurines and writing poems on
mountain with a full moon symbol above it. Close inspection of the moon reveals a half-inch-diameter hole in the middle of it. The arch is one of Halaster’s magic gates (see “Gates”). Its rules are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Daehl denies the charge vehemently. He claims that any letter the characters present as evidence is “a clear forgery” until he sees a chance to escape. The cult spy is equivalent to a bandit captain
to dilute the poison among several flagons. (The dilution also makes the poison unlikely to be lethal; Justran is better at making ale than he is at making poison.) A brief investigation reveals that
Compendium
- 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
unoccupied space next to the identical gate located there. Treasure The dwarf that was once Falkir Gravelfist wears a steel helm shaped like the head of a boar. A detect magic spell reveals a faint aura of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
a human skull resting on an open rolltop desk.
Skabatha Nightshade spends part of her day here (see Where’s Skabatha? earlier in the chapter); if present, she is seated at the writing desk and
their magic to drive others to do the opposite of what they desire. All the book’s writing is backward. Pity He’s an Elf is a collection of illustrated short stories about an elf adventurer named Aethyn
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
. The wizard’s headless corpse sits at his desk, which is covered with gore. A successful DC 12 Intelligence (Investigation) or Wisdom (Medicine) check reveals that the corpse’s skull exploded a few
writing is dismissive and arrogant; in multiple places, the writer confidently insists that his magic amulet makes him utterly immune to Ilvaash’s detection. The journal contains the following notes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
a creature. Now, every four years, the ward reveals a new object for its mascot, declaring it to be the mimic. The nature of the object is subject to much speculation and rumor until its unveiling
fakes out of cake or paper that are easily crushed when assumed to be real, and so on. As of the writing of this enchiridion, the current mimic is a tankard.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
winking on its surface, before settling to the ground nearby. 9 A thick, dusty tome, every page filled with tiny, barely legible writing. Careful study of the book reveals it to be a written transcript
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
is in combat identifies a number of silver wires connecting the ranger’s cloak and backpack. If Barbatos is defeated, examining his body reveals that the backpack holds a troll’s still-beating heart
first provides advantage on this check. Manipulating Time Having a mechanical guide spend 1 charge in this area causes all the cage doors to rust with age and weaken, allowing the owls to break free
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
components from the Infernal Machine of Lum the Mad. A successful DC 12 Wisdom (Perception) check made to examine the gems reveals that they are connected to the statue with silver wires similar to those seen
worth 5,000 gp each. Manipulating Time Having a mechanical guide spend 1 charge in this area forces the eidolon to either enter or leave the sacred statue. Doing so causes the eidolon to attack if it is not already in combat with the characters. Statue of Moloch
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
eye and reveals its true, menacing nature. Magic is suppressed inside an eye monger’s gullet, which prevents swallowed creatures from using magic to escape. Eye Monger Large Aberration, Typically
. Magical effects, including those produced by spells and magic items but excluding those created by artifacts or deities, are suppressed inside the eye monger’s gullet. Any spell slot or charge
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Boo’s Astral Menagerie
eye and reveals its true, menacing nature. An eye monger has no use for treasure, but its belly might hold a fair amount of incidental valuables that it can’t digest, including coins, metal weapons
items but excluding those created by artifacts or deities, are suppressed inside the eye monger’s gullet. Any spell slot or charge expended by a creature in the gullet to cast a spell or activate a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rrakkma
Strength check made by someone with a Strength score of 16 or greater, to break it down. Opening the door to this chamber reveals a grisly sight. Three desiccated human corpses are strung up at even
star spawn seer to investigate the complex beyond the portal and make certain the ritual to charge the Gith Capacitor was not interrupted. Playing the Pillars COMBAT
The star spawn manglers take
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
). If the ettin is defeated, examining the pouches around his necks reveals a collection of eyeballs and still-beating dragon hearts. The silver wires connect those living tissues to the ettin’s own
mechanical guide spend 1 charge in this area causes the chickens to lay more eggs, to the delight of the ettin. Both his heads call out for their steward to gather the eggs at once.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
braille-like writing called Qualith, which the mind flayer reads with its tentacles. A non-illithid must use a comprehend languages spell or similar magic to comprehend the writing. The book contains all
shrine almost resembles a lantern, designed to be easily transportable. Contained inside is a black basalt statuette of Lolth in her drow form, strung with cobwebs. A detect magic spell reveals an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Disadvantage or become trapped within one of the Demonomicon’s blank pages, which fills with writing detailing the trapped creature’s widely known name and depravities. Once used, this action can’t be used
cast the spell. Spell Charge Cost Magic Circle 1 Magic Jar 3 Planar Ally 3 Planar Binding 2 Plane Shift (to the Abyss only) 3 Summon Fiend 3 Tasha’s Hideous Laughter 0 Destroying the Demonomicon. To
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
adventurers long ago. Close examination reveals that each statue has a vandalized magical symbol carved into its back. Characters who succeed on a DC 15 Intelligence (Arcana) check identify these as sigils of
possessed, he can crawl freely through the window without being affected. The ruined bedchamber belonged to Thalivar and still contains his bed and writing desk. A journal lies open on the desk next to a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
-tall iron statues of knights on horseback, poised to charge with swords drawn, stand in deep alcoves facing each other. The brazier sits between them.
The two statues are iron golems. Each horse and
, causing the sand within it to fall to the floor. The magic writing on the base of the hourglass reads as follows: Cast a stone into the fire:
Violet leads to the mountain spire
Orange to the castle’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
1 or more of its charges to cast one of the following spells (save DC 20) from it: magic circle (1 charge), magic jar (3 charges), planar ally (3 charges), planar binding (2 charges), plane shift (to
trapped within a magic circle. The fiend must succeed on a DC 20 Charisma saving throw with disadvantage or become trapped within one of the Demonomicon’s empty blank pages, which fills with writing