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Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Grasping Ground"}. The dabus causes a 20-foot-square area of ground it can see within 60 feet of itself to sprout clutching appendages made of
cobblestone hands.
When dabus communicate, rather than speaking or signing words, they create esoteric illusory images and symbols in front of themselves. Scholars have yet to determine the origin of
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
may arise.
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What use is vast knowledge or insight if it is not shared with those who can appreciate it?
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Although some are fascinated by words, I think numbers are the true foundations
of creation.
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To experience a thing is to truly understand it. Direct and personal experience is the most valuable form of knowledge.
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I see a far more kaleidoscopic reality than you do
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
shared with those who can appreciate it?
4
Although some are fascinated by words, I think numbers are the true foundations of creation.
5
To experience a thing is to truly understand it
. Direct and personal experience is the most valuable form of knowledge.
6
I see a far more kaleidoscopic reality than you do … or than any of your selves do, really.
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It is not my place
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
use is vast knowledge or insight if it is not shared with those who can appreciate it?
4
Although some are fascinated by words, I think numbers are the true foundations of creation.
5
To
experience a thing is to truly understand it. Direct and personal experience is the most valuable form of knowledge.
6
I see a far more kaleidoscopic reality than you do … or than any of
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
wherever it may arise.
3
What use is vast knowledge or insight if it is not shared with those who can appreciate it?
4
Although some are fascinated by words, I think numbers are the true
foundations of creation.
5
To experience a thing is to truly understand it. Direct and personal experience is the most valuable form of knowledge.
6
I see a far more kaleidoscopic reality than
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properly. For the typical Wizard, the symbols, words, and equations in a spellbook are a means to an end.
For Bibliomancers, the language of magic is the key to the building blocks of the universe
. This tradition believes that a spell’s formula holds more than the gathering and shaping magical energy, that the underlying properties of reality itself are illustrated through a spell. By unlocking the mechanisms that construct spells, these Wizards can slowly unlock the riddle of the universe.
classes
properly. For the typical Wizard, the symbols, words, and equations in a spellbook are a means to an end.
For Bibliomancers, the language of magic is the key to the building blocks of the universe
. This tradition believes that a spell’s formula holds more than the gathering and shaping magical energy, that the underlying properties of reality itself are illustrated through a spell. By unlocking the mechanisms that construct spells, these Wizards can slowly unlock the riddle of the universe.
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Magic Items
Basic Rules (2014)
property vanishes. Businesses, buildings, and land you own are lost in a way that alters reality the least. Any documentation that proves you should own something lost to this card also disappears
mentally receive a truthful answer to that question. Besides information, the answer helps you solve a puzzling problem or other dilemma. In other words, the knowledge comes with wisdom on how to
classes
Basic Rules (2014)
. Some aspire to become like the gods, shaping reality itself. Though the casting of a typical spell requires merely the utterance of a few strange words, fleeting gestures, and sometimes a pinch or
, muttering a few words of power over them. Closing his eyes to see the visions more clearly, he nods slowly, then opens his eyes and points down the passage to his left.
Wizards are supreme magic-users
Magic Items
Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
adventure.
The Fates. Reality’s fabric unravels and spins anew, allowing you to avoid or erase one event as if it never happened. You can use the card’s magic as soon as you draw the card
answer to that question. Besides information, the answer helps you solve a puzzling problem or other dilemma. In other words, the knowledge comes with wisdom on how to apply it.
The Void. This
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Shattered Reflection, the characters must first destroy these demiplanes, which are the lich-god’s early attempts to remake reality. The demiplanes are harbingers of what’s to come if Vecna isn’t stopped
.” Alustriel and Tasha don’t know the details of these manifested secrets, but they assume the items appear as important objects and bear the lich-god’s symbol: a shriveled hand clutching an eye. To
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Scholars of the Arcane Wild and enigmatic, varied in form and function, the power of magic draws students who seek to master its mysteries. Some aspire to become like the gods, shaping reality itself
. Though the casting of a typical spell requires merely the utterance of a few strange words, fleeting gestures, and sometimes a pinch or clump of exotic materials, these surface components barely
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Scholars of the Arcane Wild and enigmatic, varied in form and function, the power of magic draws students who seek to master its mysteries. Some aspire to become like the gods, shaping reality itself
. Though the casting of a typical spell requires merely the utterance of a few strange words, fleeting gestures, and sometimes a pinch or clump of exotic materials, these surface components barely
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
about 40 feet square, is boarded up and barricaded from the inside. Mad Mary (CN female human commoner) sits in the center of the floor in an upstairs bedroom, clutching a malformed doll. She is lost in
and was passed down to Gertruda. Gadof Blinsky, the toymaker of Vallaki (see chapter 5, area N7), made the doll. Stitched into the hem of its dress is a frayed tag bearing the words “Is No Fun, Is No Blinsky!”
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
metal panel on the north wall. If fewer than six candles are lit when the words are spoken, the lever appears on the south wall instead. These levers exist only in the mirror’s reflection, not in reality
opposite wall. Five unlit candles stand on the shelf, each made of yellow wax and covered with tiny black sigils. Scrawled on the wall above the mirror in dried blood are the words “PIGGY PIGGY PIGGY
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Morte’s Planar Parade
edicts, hurling bricks at troublemakers and subduing them by causing the streets to sprout grasping cobblestone hands. When dabus communicate, rather than speaking or signing words, they create esoteric
sprout clutching appendages made of stone. Each creature of the dabus’s choice in that area must succeed on a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw or take 9 (2d8) bludgeoning damage and have the grappled
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Noble Genie Nafas is a noble genie, a rare type of genie endowed with the power to reshape reality. A word uttered by Nafas can transform a pauper into a prince, return the dead to life, or bring a
those he deems worthy. When Nafas does grant a wish—the greatest gift the djinni can give—he doesn’t twist the benefactor’s words or maliciously interpret their intentions, but his circumstances prevent
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
will root out its corruption wherever it may arise.
3 What use is vast knowledge or insight if it is not shared with those who can appreciate it?
4 Although some are fascinated by words, I
more kaleidoscopic reality than you do … or than any of your selves do, really.
7 It is not my place to interfere. I merely seek to observe, learn, and understand.
8 With a true
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
.
Monodrones can normally relay messages up to forty-eight words long. However, years of wandering have degraded these creatures so that they can speak only a few words or phrases before sputtering off
into clicking and popping noises. Among the words the monodrones repeat are “march,” “Mechanus,” “seventeen” (the number of cycles of the plane of Mechanus that mark the Great Modron March), and “lost
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
by 12-foot-tall stone statues of Halaster Blackcloak, depicted as a bearded, scowling old wizard wearing a robe covered with lidless eyes and clutching a stout scepter with a red dragon’s head at
magic mouth speaks the following words in Common before disappearing: “Welcome to the Obstacle Course! Place all weapons and magic items in the carts for safekeeping. You won’t need them. Hurry! Time
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
as a cloaked woman wielding a dagger in each hand and the other showing Halaster Blackcloak clutching a staff. The statues glare at one another like mortal enemies.
Shadow Dragon Umbraxakar is a Huge
17 (a symbol of guilt) While gifting one of these items, the character must speak sympathetic words to the dragon and succeed on a DC 20 Charisma (Persuasion) check. Other characters can’t help on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
Stage 2: Little Inn of Horrors The Test Market warps reality the moment any character opens a door within the Dran & Courtier. The first time this happens, all the characters find themselves back in
mouths the words, “Be careful.” She then goes back to absentmindedly cleaning the bar.
This is a version of the Test Market where everything has gone wrong. Not What They Seem The figure swinging from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
solve a riddle. The riddle he loudly expounds has no answer; it is simply a series of words that contains a hidden code. “What is NEW when it is made old, brings TROUBLE when first seen by its MAKERS
, yet will never COME closer than it is NOW?”
Valsyx emphasizes the words “new troublemakers, come now” to signal Charnyz. If the characters want the riddle repeated, Valsyx repeats it at an even
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
. Undermine Reality Dread and uncertainty are keys to engaging horror adventures. Horrific experiences or supernatural settings undermine assumptions about what can or can’t happen. Have a character
characters are thinking, feeling, or fixating on. Detail the ways objects could be used violently, words could be lies, and shadows could hide monsters. Ask players what they think is the worst possible
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
commissioned out of appreciation and affection, but defaced it when she believed the general betrayed her. The face is completely destroyed. Gouged across its back in Old Omuan are the words “Forgive me
. Scratched into the floor next to him are the following words, in Old Omuan: “Once a thief, now an ornament!” Urn. The clay urn contains Thiru-taya’s ashes. 5. Hallucinogenic Plants Zalkoré cultivates
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
you own are lost in a way that alters reality the least. Any documentation that proves you should own something lost to this card also disappears. Skull. You summon an avatar of death—a ghostly
receive a truthful answer to that question. Besides information, the answer helps you solve a puzzling problem or other dilemma. In other words, the knowledge comes with wisdom on how to apply it. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
alters reality the least. Any documentation that proves you should own something lost to this card also disappears. Skull. You summon an avatar of death—a ghostly humanoid skeleton clad in a tattered
question. Besides information, the answer helps you solve a puzzling problem or other dilemma. In other words, the knowledge comes with wisdom on how to apply it. The Void. This black card spells disaster
Magic Items
Infernal Machine Rebuild
, conjure fey
Wish. The Infernal Machine has the ability to bend the nature of reality, with the proper combination of controls recreating the effect of a wish spell (including all side effects). Due to
with an unpleasant buzzing that imposes disadvantage on Intelligence checks and saving throws.
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All creatures you speak with automatically believe your words, as if you have succeeded on a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
magic flames for 24 hours. If the brazier is lit, the heat it gives off starts to melt the ice in the chamber, revealing the words of the inscription after 10 minutes. Alcoves. Examination of the alcoves
Annihilation and Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage.
The first group of these magical obelisks was crafted by a secret society of spellcasters called the Weavers. These obelisks could alter reality on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
since they arrived. The goblins tried to block the rift with two lab tables, not realizing that grells from the Feeder Trenches (see the “Rift in Reality” section below) could simply float over the
goblins drank in a recent game of drink-or-dare. Rift in Reality. The rift leads into the Far Realm to a location called the Feeder Trenches. The Feeder Trenches are described in the “Far Realm Rifts
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
skeleton clutching a berserker axe. The south tomb is empty except for an iron amulet shaped like a smith’s hammer. A cleric of Reorx or a character who succeeds on a DC 14 Intelligence (Religion) check
Tomb. Sarlamir’s tomb rests to the east and bears the words “Zanas Sarlamir, Knight of the Crown.” A creature can open it with a successful DC 12 Strength check. Within lie the knight’s animate remains
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
the head of a man kneeling before him.
Out of the shadows step four minotaur skeletons clutching bloody greataxes.
A squad of Baphomet’s minotaurs attempted to overrun the chapel, but Gideon and his
slung over his back crouches among the bodies, writhing in pain. His eyes are closed, and his hands clutch at a gold helm on his head as if trying in vain to claw it off. Unintelligible words spill from
Equipment
objects float around randomly.
05–06
The nearest creature is affected by a Hideous Laughter spell (spell save DC 15) but instead of laughing, they repeat unfathomable syllables and words
each of their turns to end the effect, shaking off the terror and returning to reality.
89–90
Reminiscent of the flames which consumed Drakkenheim in the meteor’s wake, a roaring
Equipment
words. Occasionally, a somewhat comprehensible but totally illogical phrase emerges, such as “...oh time thy pyramids!”
07–08
Time skips a beat. Creatures within 60 feet
end of each of their turns to end the effect, shaking off the terror and returning to reality.
89–90
Reminiscent of the flames which consumed Drakkenheim in the meteor’s wake, a
Equipment
words. Occasionally, a somewhat comprehensible but totally illogical phrase emerges, such as “...oh time thy pyramids!”
07–08
Time skips a beat. Creatures within 60 feet
end of each of their turns to end the effect, shaking off the terror and returning to reality.
89–90
Reminiscent of the flames which consumed Drakkenheim in the meteor’s wake, a