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Dungeon Master’s Guide
The contents of this foul manuscript are the meat and drink of the wicked. It contains knowledge so horrid that to even glimpse the scrawled pages invites doom.
Most believe the lich-god Vecna the
remains with you only as long as you strive to work evil in the world. If you fail to perform at least one evil act within the span of 10 days, or if you willingly perform a good act, the book
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
Usually found in a box or pouch, this deck contains a number of cards made of ivory or vellum. Most (75 percent) of these decks have thirteen cards, but some have twenty-two. Use the appropriate
you fail to draw the chosen number, the remaining number of cards fly from the deck on their own and take effect all at once.
Once a card is drawn, it disappears. Unless the card is the Fool or
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
choose to succeed instead.
Nebulous Thoughts. Magical attempts to read the dragon’s mind or glean its thoughts fail automatically.
Siege Monster. The dragon deals double damage to objects and
tiresome. Trespassers who are detected in a solar dragon’s lair can expect to be met with resistance, followed by hostility, especially if the lair contains eggs.
A solar dragon egg has an obsidian
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
choose to succeed instead.
Nebulous Thoughts. Magical attempts to read the dragon’s mind or glean its thoughts fail automatically.
Siege Monster. The dragon deals double damage to objects and
tiresome. Trespassers who are detected in a solar dragon’s lair can expect to be met with resistance, followed by hostility, especially if the lair contains eggs.
A solar dragon egg has an obsidian
Magic Items
Keys from the Golden Vault
The contents of this foul manuscript of ineffable wickedness are the meat and drink of those in evil’s thrall. No mortal was meant to know the secrets it contains, knowledge so horrid that to
in the world. If you fail to perform at least one evil act within the span of 10 days, or if you willingly perform a good act, the book disappears. If you die while attuned to the book, an entity of
Book of Vile Darkness
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Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
The contents of this foul manuscript of ineffable wickedness are the meat and drink of those in evil’s thrall. No mortal was meant to know the secrets it contains, knowledge so horrid that to
in the world. If you fail to perform at least one evil act within the span of 10 days, or if you willingly perform a good act, the book disappears. If you die while attuned to the book, an entity of
Deck of Many Things
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Basic Rules (2014)
Usually found in a box or pouch, this deck contains a number of cards made of ivory or vellum. Most (75 percent) of these decks have only thirteen cards, but the rest have twenty-two.
Before you
have no effect. Otherwise, as soon as you draw a card from the deck, its magic takes effect. You must draw each card no more than 1 hour after the previous draw. If you fail to draw the chosen number
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
12. Wheel Room Hidden behind a secret door is a dusty, 10-foot-high room that contains the following features: Lever. In the middle of the room, a 6-foot-diameter rusty iron wheel protrudes from the
level. Resetting the wheel to its original position reactivates these traps. The living unseen servant doesn’t announce its presence to anyone. If the characters turn the wheel but fail to destroy
Magic Items
Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
Stored in a leather pouch, this unique deck contains twenty-two colored cards made of some strong but unknown metal, each of which features a design printed as a mosaic of raised dots. Before you
have no effect. Otherwise, as soon as you draw a card from the deck, its magic takes effect. You must draw each card no more than 1 hour after the previous draw. If you fail to draw the chosen number
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
M5. Engine Room This area contains the magical workings of the monastery’s engines. This massive chamber is filled with the deafening hum and roar of machinery. Piles of rough rock ore are spread
fed to the furnaces (most likely due to the characters freeing the prisoners here and breaking the Grand Master’s power) the engines begin to fail over a 24-hour period. When the furnaces stop burning
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
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Targets and practice dummies dot this courtyard, which contains a large stable and poles with hanging rings. Cavalry soldiers train atop horseback while guards watch the area from the walls and towers
grunt, he does so.
Shortsighted. Shannik’s plans and actions fail to account for long-term repercussions.
Rumors
“An adventurer is only as good as their gear. Oleira at the trader’s shop is a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Theater Level 9 Bastion Facility Prerequisite: None
Space: Vast
Hirelings: 4
Order: Empower
The Theater contains a stage, a backstage area where props and sets are kept, and a seating area
period, each character who contributed to the concert or production can make a DC 15 Charisma (Performance) check. If more of these checks succeed than fail, you and any other character who contributed to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
gemstones to glitter invitingly.
Map 5.2 includes an inset map that shows the tavern’s interior, which consists of a cellar and a taproom. Cellar. The cellar contains crates of worthless supplies
(named after the family that originally distilled it). Taproom. The taproom contains seating areas, including a row of stools next to a low bar made of carved basalt. Hanging above the bar are two soot
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
creatures who fail to speak the correct passphrase. The current passphrase is “black mask.” Characters are given three chances to utter the correct phrase before Ukurlahmu attacks. Before it attacks, the
question, it always ends its sentences with “… so Ukurlahmu has spoken.” Treasure The armory contains ten suits of scale armor, fifty scimitars, twenty longbows, twenty shortbows, and fifty quivers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
goal, but it’s certainly one way to solve the problem. Acquire the Dragon’s Treasure. The dragon’s hoard contains unimaginable wealth—or perhaps one powerful artifact the characters desperately need
acquire the needed item. Alternatively, a dragon might seek adventurers to recover items stolen from the dragon’s hoard—with a threat that local folk will suffer if the characters fail. Sometimes the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
-foot-wide path in the center of the hall. Each creature in this area must succeed on a DC 10 Dexterity saving throw or take 3d6 bludgeoning damage. Those who fail the save by 5 or more are swept along
aren’t occupied with other duties or rest are found here. At night, the tower’s servants sleep here after the knights have retired for the evening. S9. Knights’ Cells This chamber contains two beds, a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
connections to the aforementioned leaders. Wiggan also writes of his conversion of Bertram, his slow influence of Watson, and the fire witch plan. If the characters fail to uncover this damning
characters fail to keep their word to Javor, the consequences are up to you. A curse in the reverse of the supernatural charms is appropriate. Word of the characters’ duplicity might spread among the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
good faith, he offers them an advance payment of 200 gp. (Even if they try their best but still fail to recover the box, Aubreck cannot afford to pay them anything more.) He says that the ship was
only to Aubreck. It contains all of Aubreck’s deeds and promissory notes, still sealed in waterproof wrappings. The notes are drawn from a lawful good temple that will pay them out only after the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
the howling winds. The swirling sandstorm at its center can be seen and heard from anywhere in the necropolis. The necropolis also contains buried treasures. A character who searches for an hour and
work on them. If the characters antagonize the flameskulls or fail to communicate with them, the flameskulls either attack or flee to alert Helmdar, the storm giant skeleton in area V1.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Using the Maps This book contains a fold-out, double-sided poster map and several interior maps. These elements are further described in the sections that follow. Poster Map The adventure lets you
of Prismeer might, without fail, be awakened by three songbirds at the end of the eighth hour.
The number eight is symbolically important, as this adventure plays with the themes of time and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
sources. Crates stacked around the room are packed with meat, and bear the seal of the Fellowship of Salters, Packers, and Joiners. K2. Dining Room This room contains the following features: Three Zhents
, which contains the following features: If he hasn’t already been drawn elsewhere, a portly halfling stands atop a stool and cooks at an iron stove. A green, ghostly hand floats above a trellis table
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
. Alien Island Story Hooks d4 Story Hook 1 The leader has a spell scroll of true resurrection among its belongings. 2 The island contains a piece of a tablet with instructions on how to open a portal
they spend on the island. If they fail, they gain one level of exhaustion. The DC for this check equals 10 + the number of hours spent on the island. 3 Each day at dawn, the island conjures 2d10 magma
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
to know the secrets it contains, knowledge so horrid that to even glimpse the scrawled pages invites madness. Most believe the lich-god Vecna authored the Book of Vile Darkness. He recorded in its
with you only as long as you strive to work evil in the world. If you fail to perform at least one evil act within the span of 10 days, or if you willingly perform a good act, the book disappears. If
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
half of the arena holds the cooking implements and ingredients needed to prepare the shrimp cakes. The eastern half contains a 10-foot-tall tank of water and several gigantic jagged koi prawns. Steps at
the prepared beans to the woks. Prawn Preparation. The large tank contains four 8-foot-long jagged koi prawns (use the giant sea horse stat block). Participants must slay one of the prawns. Waiting sous
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
devil Strahd” and sends twelve guards to arrest them, seize their weapons, and run them out of town. If the guards fail in their duty, the baron sends Izek to rally a mob of thirty commoners to lynch
the party. If the commoners also fail, the baron summons the twelve remaining guards to defend his mansion, giving characters the run of the town. If the characters get on his good side, he insists
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Cavern will allow the elder giant to end Rihuud’s curse. Trap The tunnel west of this cavern contains a hidden pit (see “Sample Traps” in chapter 5 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide). Debris conceals the lid
also be picked with thieves’ tools and a successful DC 17 Dexterity check. The chest contains a jar of Keoghtom’s ointment and a small leather bag containing 45 gp and 15 sp. The books have pages made
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
glorious history. Few who see it fail to get the message. 13. Harbormaster’s Office Outside of the harbormaster’s office is a bulletin board that provides the names and whereabouts of several wilderness
Nyanzaru The fort contains a winch for raising and lowering an immense iron chain stretched between the fort and the lighthouse. When the chain is raised, no ship can sail into or out of the harbor. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
, revealing a stone-tiled foyer with a 40-foot-high ceiling. The area contains the following features: Braziers. The foyer is heated and dimly lit by two 6-foot-tall, 6-foot-wide stone braziers filled with
shaped like the head of a double-bladed axe. The room, which smells of roses and sulfur, contains the following: Fazrian and Fiend. A hairless, green-skinned planetar with white-feathered wings and eyes of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
a cavern that contains a hot spring, in which they drown themselves. U4. Moaning Cavern The cave is empty except for three ice-covered pillars composed of mineral deposits. U5. Icy Bridge A natural
creature that fails the check falls off the bridge and lands prone on the frozen river below, taking 7 (2d6) bludgeoning damage from the fall. U6. Old Camp This cave contains an abandoned campsite
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
to its leafy canopy, peering at you suspiciously.
Northwind, a Prismeer native, is a carefree treant sapling (see the accompanying stat block). Appendix D contains additional roleplaying notes for
(Animal Handling) check. The carnival’s mood rises by 1 step (see “Tracking Mood” earlier in the chapter) if a character succeeds on this check. If the characters fail to rescue the dwarf, he tumbles from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Book of Vile Darkness Wondrous Item, Artifact (Requires Attunement) The contents of this foul manuscript are the meat and drink of the wicked. It contains knowledge so horrid that to even glimpse the
Darkness remains with you only as long as you strive to work evil in the world. If you fail to perform at least one evil act within the span of 10 days, or if you willingly perform a good act, the book
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
experienced the vision in area 17 recognize this hall as the same one seen in that vision. The hall contains the following: Shadows. The 40-foot-high vaulted ceiling is buttressed by eight stone columns
shadow dragon with items he cherishes and succeed on three separate ability checks to lift his spirits (see below). If they fail more than one such check, they won’t have enough gifts left to turn the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
carcass contains a 6-foot-long, 5-foot-wide, 5-foot-tall stone chest half buried under ice. A character must spend 1 hour chipping away the ice before the chest can be opened. It contains more giant-sized
frozen corpse or leaving a gift, but otherwise expects the characters to withdraw from its presence so it can mourn in private. If the characters fail to calm Norsu or flee from it, the mammoth charges
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
room requires purple-level security to enter and contains paperwork on all academy personnel. Orientation Task: Welcome Pack. Characters can visit reception to collect their cadet-issue welcome packs
chambers are home to the Bridge—the high-ranking officers who run Spelljammer Academy. In addition to the officers’ quarters, this level contains a private banqueting chamber, a library of spellbooks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
until the trick is reset by shoving the prop back into the coffin, which also contains the jester’s ashes. Ramp. A portion of the ceiling can swing down on a hinge, forming a ramp leading from area
fools challenge Zargon and his cultists. All who oppose them fail. If the characters attack Alendria’s ghost, the spirit admonishes them and disappears without delivering the hints above. Secret Door