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Dungeon Master’s Guide
save, you are possessed by the creature, which controls you like a puppet. As a Magic action, the possessing creature can release you and appear in the closest unoccupied space to you. On a
the Dungeon Master’s Guide):
2 minor beneficial properties
1 minor detrimental property
1 major detrimental property
Spells. The book has 8 charges and regains 1d8 expended charges daily
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Campus Knowledge. While at Strixhaven, the guide can’t become lost by magical or nonmagical means. The guide also has advantage on ability checks made to locate creatures or objects at
Strixhaven.
Univocal Speech. When the guide speaks, any creature that knows at least one language and can hear the guide understands what it says.
Unusual Nature. The guide doesn’t require air, food
Monsters
Tomb of Annihilation
must be modeled after a beast with a challenge rating of 2 or less. The ice creature has the same statistics as the beast it models, with the following changes: the creature is a construct with
Guide to determine the hit points of an inanimate object if they become necessary.
A former member of the Harpers, Artus Cimber is the keeper of the Ring of Winter. He found the ring in the jungles of
Magic Items
Tomb of Annihilation
Guide). If it succeeds, the ring compels its wearer to cause undue harm to everyone and everything around it, in a cold-hearted attempt to incur the wrath of enemies and bring about the wearer&rsquo
immunity to cold damage and don’t suffer any ill effects from extreme cold (see chapter 5 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide).
Magic. The Ring of Winter has 12 charges and
Magic Items
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
of power (see the Dungeon Master’s Guide) in addition to the following properties.
Animate Walking Statues. You can expend 1 or more of the staff’s charges as an action to animate or
.)
Destroying the staff would release the spirits trapped inside it, but in that event, Khelben’s spirit can lodge itself inside any one piece of the staff that remains. The piece containing Khelben&rsquo
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Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
in the “Artifacts” section of the Dungeon Master’s Guide:
2 minor beneficial properties
1 minor detrimental property
1 major detrimental property
Spells. The book has 8
possessing creature can release you as an action, appearing in the closest unoccupied space. On a successful save, the fiend can’t try to possess you again for 7 days.
When the tome is discovered
Magic Items
The Book of Many Things
02
Balance*
03
Beast
04
Book
05
Bridge
06
Campfire
07
Cavern
08
Celestial
09
Comet*
10
Construct
11
Corpse
12
Crossroads
13
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Warrior
66
Well
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*Found in the Deck of Many Things as depicted in the Dungeon Master’s Guide
Aberration. You gain telepathy within a range of 90
Monsters
Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
Entropic Aura. Each creature that is not a construct or undead that ends its turn within 15 feet of Ygorl takes 14 (4d6);{"diceNotation":"4d6","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Entropic Aura
;symbol (death only), weird* Spell from Xanathar’s Guide to EverythingMultiattack. Ygorl makes three attacks: two with its scythe, and one with its Entropic Touch.
Scythe. Melee Weapon Attack: +14
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
delve too deeply into forbidden secrets — perhaps at the behest of their guilds’ leaders, or sometimes in defiance of them — might unearth lore regarding the “old gods” of Ravnica. These mysterious beings
, called the Nephilim, grant warlocks the mysterious and maddening powers of the Great Old One. Warlock Subclass Guild The Archfey Selesnya The Celestial* Boros The Fiend Rakdos The Great Old One Any *Appears in Xanathar’s Guide to Everything
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
supernatural gift (see chapter 7 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide) — a charm that allows a character to cast the Galder’s tower spell (see appendix E) once as an action. 3 A treant and a stone golem were
golem finally overcome its foe. 4 A leprechaun (use quickling statistics from Volo’s Guide to Monsters) crosses the characters’ path. If successfully caught without being killed, the creature negotiates
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
know the way, but they are noticeably less willing to go to the settlement because of the fear and shame they feel regarding their lycanthropic affliction. The shield dwarf scout Eldeth Feldrun isn’t
Oozing Temple” in chapter 2) to accompany them, it feels a certain pull toward Blingdenstone, and is curious enough to guide the characters there.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
piercing or slashing weapon. Several of Thessalar’s prized sculptors have been lured away from the temple by Moghadam, his rival artificer, with promises of false payment to help construct the Tomb of
accompanying them to work, but the temple still remains on alert against intruders. See appendix B for Thessalar’s stat block. Who’s Who
Little is known regarding Xagy—except as a partial anagram for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Guide Construct 1 Tanazir Quandrix Dragon 24 Velomachus Lorehold Dragon 25 Witherbloom Apprentice Humanoid 2 Witherbloom Pledgemage Humanoid 4 Witherbloom Professor of Decay Humanoid 7 Witherbloom Professor of Growth Humanoid 7
Creature Creature Type CR Archaic Celestial 18 Art Elemental Mascot Elemental 1/4 Beledros Witherbloom Dragon 24 Brackish Trudge Plant 3 Cogwork Archivist Construct 4 Daemogoth Fiend 10 Daemogoth
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Star Forge, and the fallen star at the forge’s heart is regaining its former magnitude. As the star’s power grows, frequent earthquakes release creatures from the Elemental Earth Encounters and
golem fueled by radiant energy and other creatures from the Giant Construct Encounters table in chapter 3. Guiding Whispers A voice whispers into a character’s dreams, leading the character toward the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
Cult Forces The assailants the cult throws against the characters should be adjusted for the strength of the party. Using foes from the First Attack Cult Forces table, construct this first attack as
a hard encounter using the guidelines in the Dungeon Master’s Guide. First Attack Cult Forces Creature XP Value Dragonclaw 200 Dragonwing 450 Dragonfang 1,100 Half-blue dragon gladiator* 1,800
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
damage rolls made with this magic weapon. The bonus increases to +3 when you use the mace to attack a construct.
When you roll a 20 on an attack roll made with this weapon, the target takes an extra
7 bludgeoning damage, or 14 bludgeoning damage if it’s a construct. If a construct has 25 hit points or fewer after taking this damage, it is destroyed.
Mace of Terror Weapon (mace), rare (requires
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
Cult Forces The assailants the cult throws against the characters should be adjusted for the strength of the party. Using foes from the First Attack Cult Forces table, construct this first attack as
a hard encounter using the guidelines in the Dungeon Master’s Guide. First Attack Cult Forces Creature XP Value Dragonclaw 200 Dragonwing 450 Dragonfang 1,100 Half-blue dragon gladiator* 1,800
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
. Each guide can return to its agent’s manor at any time. Each guide is an unaligned Medium construct with AC 20, 50 hit points, and a speed of 20 feet. It has no attacks, and has a +0 modifier for all
Mechanical Guides Each mechanical guide is programmed to teleport through space and time to the adventure’s set locations, effectively dropping the characters at the start of chapter 3 or chapter 4
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Strixhaven Campus Guide With cheerful dispositions and a knack for walking backward, Strixhaven campus guides lead gaggles of prospective students on tours. The guides’ gold and silver chassis are
, it’s rare for a campus guide to need its own maps, as these gregarious automatons have a gift for finding things on campus, often popping up at the most inopportune times. Strixhaven Campus Guide
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
information on where to seek the next missing components, as well as a special construct guide programmed to transport them through space and time to reach the site.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
temple. Ursas is aware that Lynx has knowledge of other missing components that might relate to the Tomb of Horrors. Mechanical Guide Sir Ursas offers the characters the services of a magical construct
built to resemble a smaller version of the Mighty Servant of Leuk-O, and which is nicknamed Luke. The construct is powered by one of the Infernal Machine components Ursas has collected. If the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
Rumors and Legends Countless legends have arisen regarding the mysterious Barrier Peaks, and those tales circulate constantly among adventurers, explorers, and bards. Rumors specific to Kwalish and
keep a brain alive long after a creature’s death. 46–50 Kwalish never really existed. The inventor who went by that name was really a construct, created by Ioun to walk among mortals and study our
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
locations along the Sword Coast might make an interesting stop for the characters. Each location offers the potential to gain information regarding sites known for planar disturbances or strange magic, or to
other distraction of your design. More information on Candlekeep can be found in the Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide. Mantol-Derith Duergar, drow, and svirfneblin trade and exchange information in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
chapter 3). Xanathar’s Guide to Everything also offers more spells. Cantrip (0 Level)
Booming blade * (evoc.)
Green-flame blade * (evoc.)
Lightning lure * (evoc.)
Mind sliver * (ench
aberration * (conj.)
Summon construct * (conj.)
Summon elemental * (conj.)
6th Level
Summon fiend * (conj.)
Tasha’s otherworldly guise * (trans.)
7th Level
Dream of the blue veil * (conj.)
9th Level
Blade of disaster * (conj.)
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
and phase spiders in the keep, using the rules for encounter building in the Dungeon Master’s Guide to create an appropriate challenge. Weaker Construct. The stone golem in area 4 can be replaced with
a clay golem, a shield guardian, or another weaker Construct. Ghostly Allies. When the characters battle the behir, their ghostly allies harry and distract the creature, giving it disadvantage on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
secrets to achieve goals known only to her. While this might lead to plots involving all manner of amoral science, the doctor’s work includes the following routine abominable operations. Construct
Creation. Dr. Mordenheim can create any Construct or corporeal Undead by working in her laboratory for a number of uninterrupted days equal to the creature’s challenge rating. At the end of the final day
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
binds.
11 Lead an immortal anvilwrought to Erebos’s palace and convince the god to let the construct die.
12 Discover why Erebos is no longer allowing certain individuals to die.
13
their release.
20 Seek out Klothys’s domain and learn from her oracles how you’re destined to escape the Underworld.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
dragon wants to settle (using the sowing rumors activity from the Dungeon Master’s Guide), hoping to get the locals used to the idea. Altared States Characters interested in the strange altar under
Waterdeep can undertake research to study its mysterious runes, which can lead to information regarding That-Which-Endures (see the sidebar in the “New Race: Verdan” section in chapter 3.) Gorkoh the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Dungeon Master’s Guide). 12a. Hell Hounds Ceiling. This hall has an arched, 30-foot-high ceiling.
Hounds. Five hell hounds patrol the hall. They obey the commands of fire giants and attack intruders on
job is to melt down fragments of scrap iron so that Hrossk, the fire giant metalsmith in area 11, can reshape them for the construct in area 15. It’s tedious work, and the fire giants are restless and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
, more powerful self. If a character doesn’t release their lost incarnation, it might make the following chapter more challenging. Let each character decide what to do with their trapped incarnation
. If they decide to release it later, they can do so by returning to the House of Liars or by magical means available in Sigil. CoupleOfKooks “You never stop being a hero. You might take a break, you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
character mounted on a kindori can try to guide it in a particular direction, doing so with a successful DC 15 Wisdom (Animal Handling) check. This check has advantage if the character has some way to
their migration. If the Second Wind is intact and its spelljamming helm becomes operational before then, Krux orders the characters to release the kindori so the creatures can go on their way.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
release the owlbears and the two-headed owlbear to take on the characters, then flee to alert the rest of the laboratory section of the temple (areas 1 through 23). If the owlbears or their two-headed kin
labeled “Distilled Ettin Blood” (worth 25 gp to an alchemist), all used to facilitate the experiments here. Manipulating Time Having a mechanical guide spend 1 charge in this area causes the owlbears
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
tomb. Lynx is aware that Sir Ursas has knowledge of other missing components that might relate to an ancient Temple of Moloch. Mechanical Guide Lynx has pulled a component from her version of the
Infernal Machine and installed it in a magical construct resembling a silvery skeleton with decorative wings, nicknamed Eludecia. (If you connect this adventure to Lost Laboratory of Kwalish, the construct
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
the stone slab in area 2. If approached, the handlers refer characters to Moghadam in area 1. If combat breaks out, they flee to area 2 and release the umber hulks, ordering them to dispose of the
wages for construction workers, signed by Moghadam. Manipulating Time Having a mechanical guide spend 1 charge in this area causes a number of the dwarves to erupt into squabbling, allowing the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
, the shamans release the renders to take on the characters, then one shaman flees to alert the rest of the laboratory section of the temple (areas 1 through 23). If the locathah are freed, they
guide spend 1 charge in this area causes the lizardfolk renders on the tables to devolve back into standard lizardfolk.