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Vecna: Eve of Ruin
combines the might of a werewolf, the unholy powers of undeath, and the magic of the full moon. Deathwolves are most common on Krynn but occasionally are found in other locations where lycanthropy and
necromancy are prevalent.
To create a deathwolf, a necromancer reanimates the body of a powerful werewolf by conducting a profane ritual fueled by lunar magic. The result is an Undead abomination that
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
spell component, a ritual object, or a potion ingredient.
Barovian witches use the find familiar spell to call forth familiars. They are particularly fond of cats, though snakes and toads are also common. These animals lurk amid the clutter of the witches' lairs, seldom wandering far from their vile masters.
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
. However, wizardry remains a temptation. In the pages of a spellbook, an illithid sees a system to acquire authority. Through the writings of the wizard who penned it, the illithid perceives the workings of
amethyst. The process requires at least three mind flayer arcanists and the sacrifice of an equal number of souls from living victims in a three-day-long ritual of spellcasting and psionic communion. Upon
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
cold damage, the target must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or have disadvantage on its attack rolls until the end of its next turn.Ice trolls have all the meanness and hunger of common
minutes for the heart to melt and the blizzard to form. The blizzard lasts for 8 hours.
A hag or similar creature can perform a ritual that turns the heart into a magical talisman that acts like a
Darkling
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Monsters
Volo's Guide to Monsters
speak of a seelie fey who betrayed the Summer Queen. His true name has been stricken from history, but the stories call him Dubh Catha ("Dark Crow" in Common). So great was the Summer Queen's wrath
that she cursed every member of his house. Other fey refer to the descendants of Dubh Catha's house as the dubh sith-or, in Common, "darklings." Darklings most often settle in secluded caverns and
Darkling Elder
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Monsters
Volo's Guide to Monsters
call him Dubh Catha ("Dark Crow" in Common). So great was the Summer Queen's wrath that she cursed every member of his house. Other fey refer to the descendants of Dubh Catha's house as the dubh sith-or
, in Common, "darklings." Darklings most often settle in secluded caverns and chambers beneath the towns of other species. From such enclaves, they quietly ply their trade as thieves and assassins
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protect their cogs and springs, while others have their workings exposed. No mere automatons, nimblewrights can form rudimentary plans and adapt their routines to account for dangers.
Nimblewrights are
flavor in Calimshan or other areas where they are common. Roll or choose a result from the Nimblewright Tasks table as inspiration for what a nimblewright guard or nimblewright hulk might be doing in
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and clockwork gears. Some nimblewrights bear metal plates to protect their cogs and springs, while others have their workings exposed. No mere automatons, nimblewrights can form rudimentary plans and
whirling pirouettes.
Nimblewrights can serve as interesting background flavor in Calimshan or other areas where they are common. Roll or choose a result from the Nimblewright Tasks table as inspiration for
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springs, while others have their workings exposed. No mere automatons, nimblewrights can form rudimentary plans and adapt their routines to account for dangers.
Nimblewrights are surprisingly
or other areas where they are common. Roll or choose a result from the Nimblewright Tasks table as inspiration for what a nimblewright guard or nimblewright hulk might be doing in a busy public place
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
changes: She has AC 19 (natural armor). She speaks Common and Primordial. She can move across difficult terrain made of stone without expending extra movement. She has the following trait: Treasure
Sense. Seodra can pinpoint, by scent, the location of precious metals and stones, such as coins and gems, within 60 feet of her. Treasure The worktable contains the workings for the jeweled skull of a
Yuan-ti Pureblood
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
cannibalizing their victims, and then performed a sorcerous ritual while writhing in pools filled with living snakes that enabled them to mix their flesh with that of serpents, becoming like the gods in
broodguards and exceedingly rare anathemas have their place in the hierarchy as well.
All yuan-ti can interbreed. Females usually lay clutches of eggs, which are stored in a common hatchery, although
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Spellcasting 1st-level artificer feature You’ve studied the workings of magic and how to cast spells, channeling the magic through objects. To observers, you don’t appear to be casting spells in a
attack roll with one. Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier Ritual Casting You can cast an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Spellcasting You've studied the workings of magic and how to cast spells, channeling the magic through objects. To observers, you don't appear to be casting spells in a conventional way; you appear
one. Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier Ritual Casting You can cast an artificer spell
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
Spellcasting You have studied the workings of magic and how to channel it through objects. As a result, you have gained the ability to cast spells. To observers, you don’t appear to be casting spells
= 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier Ritual Casting You can cast an artificer spell as a ritual if that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
common area and courtyard, the ritual is underway to fully activate the statue of Talos, which is currently in the basement. THE RITUAL
Backes (Illuskan human gladiator) leads the chanting in the common
area as cult fanatics (one for every two characters rounded down, excluding sidekicks) walk back and forth between the common area and the courtyard, making sure the ritual is progressing according to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
take up to 1 hour. However long the ritual takes, it requires extra material components, usually in the form of dragonshards. Magewright
Medium humanoid (any race), any alignment
Armor Class 11
Perception 12
Languages Common plus any two languages
Challenge 0 (0 XP)
Spellcasting. The magewright’s spellcasting ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 12). To cast one of its rituals, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
ritual taking place in area 10, and they try to kill anyone they believe is not a Shar worshiper. They chant the following verse over and over in Common: “Darkness quench the sun. Darkness swallow the
moon. Darkness claim this dungeon and all that dwell within.” Knowing that the ritual in area 10 must not be disturbed, the cultists do everything they can to prevent the doors to that area from being
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
doesn’t normally have the ritual tag. When converting a spell to a magewright ritual, it can have a casting time of up to one hour. It’s also common for a magewright’s ritual to have an additional
component cost in dragonshards, the fuel of the magical economy. A typical cost would be 20 gp for each level of the ritual, but this is only a basic guideline. The point is that the limitations on a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Rary’s Telepathic Bond 5th-level divination (ritual) Casting Time: 1 action Range: 30 feet Components: V, S, M (pieces of eggshell from two different kinds of creatures) Duration: 1 hour You forge a
aren’t affected by this spell. Until the spell ends, the targets can communicate telepathically through the bond whether or not they have a common language. The communication is possible over any distance, though it can’t extend to other planes of existence.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Detect Magic 1st-level divination (ritual) Casting Time: 1 action Range: Self Components: V, S Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes For the duration, you sense the presence of magic within 30
. The spell can penetrate most barriers, but it is blocked by 1 foot of stone, 1 inch of common metal, a thin sheet of lead, or 3 feet of wood or dirt.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Detect Magic 1st-level divination (ritual) Casting Time: 1 action Range: Self Components: V, S Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes For the duration, you sense the presence of magic within 30
. The spell can penetrate most barriers, but it is blocked by 1 foot of stone, 1 inch of common metal, a thin sheet of lead, or 3 feet of wood or dirt.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Detect Poison and Disease 1st-level divination (ritual) Casting Time: 1 action Range: Self Components: V, S, M (a yew leaf) Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes For the duration, you can sense
most barriers, but it is blocked by 1 foot of stone, 1 inch of common metal, a thin sheet of lead, or 3 feet of wood or dirt.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Detect Poison and Disease 1st-level divination (ritual) Casting Time: 1 action Range: Self Components: V, S, M (a yew leaf) Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes For the duration, you can sense
most barriers, but it is blocked by 1 foot of stone, 1 inch of common metal, a thin sheet of lead, or 3 feet of wood or dirt.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
10. Ritual Chamber Purple Flames. Black wax candles set in niches along the walls of this 20-foot-high room burn with a purple flame, filling the room with dim light.
Cult Ritual. Six cult fanatics
black energy run between the pillars and the cloud.
The cult fanatics are named Abberoch, Belora, Liana, Shanzo, Torfiana, and Uzalyn. They are performing a ritual designed to anchor one of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
Cha 10 +0 +0
Skills Deception +2, Religion +2
Gear Leather Armor, Sickle
Senses Passive Perception 10
Languages Common
CR 1/8 (XP 25; PB +2)
Actions
Ritual Sickle. Melee Attack Roll: +3, reach 5 ft. Hit: 3 (1d4 + 1) Slashing damage plus 1 Necrotic damage.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Morte’s Planar Parade
Humanoids Humanoids from across the planes travel the Outlands and number among the most common inhabitants of the gate-towns. Outlands Humanoids d4 Encounter 1 The characters need to find a
wandering priest who alone knows the ritual necessary to open a specific portal. 2 Several gnome mages seek help recovering their walking castle from a band of aggressive, spine-covered lizardfolk
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
, debased their flesh by cannibalizing their victims, and then performed a sorcerous ritual while writhing in pools filled with living snakes that enabled them to mix their flesh with that of serpents
mutated broodguards and exceedingly rare anathemas have their place in the hierarchy as well. All yuan-ti can interbreed. Females usually lay clutches of eggs, which are stored in a common hatchery
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Languages Common
CR 1/8 (XP 25; PB +2)
Actions
Ritual Sickle. Melee Attack Roll: +3, reach 5 ft. Hit: 3 (1d4 + 1) Slashing damage plus 1 Necrotic damage.
Cultist Fanatic Medium or Small Humanoid
10 +0 +0
Wis 14 +2 +4
Cha 13 +1 +1
Skills Deception +3, Persuasion +3, Religion +2
Gear Holy Symbol, Leather Armor
Senses Passive Perception 12
Languages Common
CR 2 (XP
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Locathah Rising
underwater morgue. Most of them are dressed in uniforms common among surface-dwellers traveling at sea.
For the most part, the corpses are unmarred. Some bear the odd bump, bruise, or scrape, but it’s
Shatterkeel arranged the corpses into orderly lines, so that he might prepare them for transition into one of the living dead. He completed a ritual using a small amount of blood he had obtained from a kraken
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
conflicting flaw, is fed by delusions that are difficult for the character to distinguish from reality. Common delusions include the belief that that allies are conspiring to steal the victim’s riches or
Y19) and the Ythryn mythallar (area Y23), one must perform the Rite of the Arcane Octad on the spire’s doorstep (area Y6). To learn this ritual, the party must explore eight locations in the city and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
long passed on to another plane, the ritual fails. The ritual invoked to create a crawling claw works best with a hand recently severed from a murderer. To this end, ritualists and their servants
, exhaustion, poisoned
Senses blindsight 30 ft. (blind beyond this radius), passive Perception 10
Languages understands Common but can’t speak
Challenge 0 (10 XP)
Turn Immunity. The claw is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
wizard’s spell or a ritual bath in dragon’s blood. In all these cases, the result is a creature that combines the essence of a dragon with the form of its original race. Regardless of their origins
typical half-dragon’s life expectancy is twice that of its nondraconic line, so that a half-dragon human might live more than a century and a half. Half-dragons inherit personality traits common to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
until their murders are solved
5 A ship with the same name and lines as a vessel lost at sea a hundred years earlier
6 A realm in which a common ritual allows a living individual to trade
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
of a man whose infidelity caused his scorned wife to cut out the heart of her younger, more beautiful rival and consume it in a ritual intended to forever win her husband’s heart. The ritual succeeded
until the woman’s villainy was exposed. She was hanged for her crime, but the lingering magic of her foul ritual caused the carrion birds that feasted on her corpse to transform into the first
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
Perception 14
Languages Celestial, Common
CR 6 (XP 2,300; PB +3)
Traits
Magic Resistance. The curate has Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Raise the Dead (1/Day
). In a ritual that takes 8 hours, the curate touches a creature that has died within the past 7 days. That creature returns to life with 1 Hit Point. The curate canʼt revive a creature that died of