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Dungeon Master’s Guide
of your prison. You draw no more cards.
Euryale. The card’s medusa-like visage curses you. You take a −2 penalty to saving throws while cursed in this way. Only a god or the magic of the
magic items, are lost to you. Portable property vanishes. Businesses, buildings, and land you own are lost in a way that alters reality the least. If you have a Bastion (see the Dungeon Master’s
Magic Items
Ghosts of Saltmarsh
stone can’t be used this way again until the next dawn.
Curse. This item is cursed. Attuning to it curses you until you are targeted by a remove curse spell or similar magic. As long as you
Ki-rin
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Monsters
Volo's Guide to Monsters
10 feet on a side. The third version creates enough objects made of stone or metal to fill a cube 2 feet on a side, but any materials created in this way last for only 1 hour.
Regional Effects
The ki
farther from the domain of a ki-rin.
Curses, diseases, and poisons affecting good-aligned creatures are suppressed when those creatures are within 3 miles of the lair.
A ki-rin can cast control weather
Deck of Many Things
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Basic Rules (2014)
-like visage curses you. You take a −2 penalty on saving throws while cursed in this way. Only a god or the magic of The Fates card can end this curse.
The Fates. Reality's fabric unravels and
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
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
surrounding magic, from malevolent warlocks to mad wizards, from deadly curses to magical power that draws those who wield it deeper into darkness.
Sul Khatesh is subtler than the Rage of War. She
and revenge. By sharing her power in this way, the overlord perpetuates the image of the evil warlock, inciting fear that strengthens the Keeper of Secrets even more.
Sul Khatesh's chief agent among
Book of Vile Darkness
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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
the Book. The Book of Vile Darkness allows pages to be torn from it, but any evil lore contained on those pages finds its way back into the book eventually, usually when a new author adds pages to the
the book.
Dark Magic. Several spells of horrific evil of the DM’s design and choosing could be in the book. Spells could impose dreadful curses, disfigure others, require human sacrifice, afflict creatures with crippling pain, spread vile plagues, and so on.
Magic Items
The Book of Many Things
draws.
Monster. This card’s monstrous visage curses you. While cursed in this way, whenever you make a saving throw, you must roll 1d4 and subtract the number rolled from the total. The curse lasts
*Found only in a deck with twenty-two cards.
Beginning. Your hit point maximum and current hit points increase by 2d10. Your hit point maximum remains increased in this way for the next 8 hours
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Laying Curses Curses aren’t something to throw around lightly. They should be dramatically appropriate responses to meaningful choices characters make. If every goblin or bandit coughs out a dying
curse, the narrative impact fades. There should always be a way to avoid a curse, and a curse’s effects should clearly arise from wrongdoing. Here are some examples of actions that warrant a curse
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
, you can gain advantage on one ability check of your choice. The stone can’t be used this way again until the next dawn. Curse. This item is cursed. Attuning to it curses you until you are targeted by
Magic Items
Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
space you occupied when you disappeared. You draw no more cards.
Euryale. The card’s medusa-like visage curses you. You take a −1 penalty on saving throws for the duration of the
Gloine (area O7), whichever comes later in the adventure. While your soul is trapped in this way, your body is incapacitated. Divination, contact other plane, or a similar spell of 4th level or higher reveals the location of the machinery that holds your soul. You draw no more cards.
Magic Items
Keys from the Golden Vault
Vile Darkness allows pages to be torn from it, but any evil lore contained on those pages finds its way back into the book eventually, usually when a new author adds pages to the tome.
If a solar tears
. Several spells of horrific evil of the DM’s design and choosing could be in the book. Spells could impose dreadful curses, disfigure others, require human sacrifice, afflict creatures with crippling pain, spread vile plagues, and so on.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Vistani Curses A Vistana, regardless of age, can use an action to utter a curse. The curse targets another creature within 30 feet that the Vistana can see. The Vistana can’t utter another such curse
that was invoked. The Vistana chooses the curse’s effect from the options that follow; other Vistani curses are possible. All such effects deal psychic damage to the Vistani who uttered them when they
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
Boareskyr Bridge Boareskyr Bridge bears the name of a now-vanished realm north and east of the Trade Way. The bridge spans the Winding Water and is a major landmark. Constructed of black granite, it
bears sculpted images of the deities Cyric and Bhaal, commemorating the legendary battle they fought on the bridge during the Time of Troubles. This way station settlement is little more than a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
Boareskyr Bridge Boareskyr Bridge bears the name of a now-vanished realm north and east of the Trade Way. The bridge spans the Winding Water and is a major landmark. Constructed of black granite, it
bears sculpted images of the deities Cyric and Bhaal, commemorating the legendary battle they fought on the bridge during the Time of Troubles. This way station settlement is little more than a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
way the adventure unfolds. The characters can learn the following things from talking with their fellow prisoners, some of who have been captives of the drow for a tenday or two: There are nineteen
Shoor carries it, as another sign of their change in status. It might be a matter of days or tendays before a contingent from Menzoberranzan arrives to take prisoners back to the drow city. Additionally
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
. This shield is cursed. Attuning to it curses you until you are targeted by the remove curse spell or similar magic. Removing the shield fails to end the curse on you. Whenever a ranged weapon attack is
don’t allow you to move this way on a slippery surface, such as one covered by ice or oil.
Top to Bottom: Slippers of Spider Climbing, Shield
of Missile Attraction, and Spellguard Shield
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Monstrous Origins A variety of explanations, from transformative curses to magical experiments, can justify the appearance of a unique individual with unusual traits. In the same way, monsters in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
reinforcements from areas 11b and 11c. If the battle is not going their way, a second whistle brings the quaggoths from area 12b. Treasure. Balryn wears an obsidian scarab bearing the insignia of House
entire drow contingent (including the drow in area 12a) for 9 days. 11b. A Little Privacy Drow. Melith, a drow priestess of Lolth and the leader of this outpost, meditates and prays before a shrine of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
; it was tarnished in a way the Knights of Solamnia from old stories would surely have avoided. When the characters identify themselves, the guards raise the gate’s portcullis and admit them into the
city. Castle Kalaman’s Visitors The gates of Castle Kalaman are closed when the characters arrive, but the guards recognize the characters and admit them. The guards confirm a contingent of knights is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
3rd Defends allies and knocks down enemies, often on horseback Fighter Samurai 3rd Combines resilience with courtly elegance and mighty strikes Monk Way of the Drunken Master 3rd Confounds foes through
a martial arts tradition inspired by the swaying of a drunkard Monk Way of the Kensei 3rd Channels ki through a set of mastered weapons Monk Way of the Sun Soul 3rd Transforms ki into bursts of fire
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Rifflers. The Solar Bastion knows that Fey called rifflers (see chapter 21) often manipulate events to put Decks of Many Things into the hands of mortals. Thus, one way to monitor the location of the
), who seek to use the original Deck of Many Things to destroy the multiverse. Combat Curses and Wicked Magic Decks of Many Things are notoriously resistant to divination magic that would reveal their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
the gods rely on mortals for their existence, rather than the other way around. When this idea gains adherents, Kruphix curses the polis so that no one can speak or read.
4 After a minor
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
. This domain is particularly appropriate for stories that deal with the lingering influence of the past, the oppressive weight of tradition, and the ongoing effects of generational curses. The restless
table when planning adventures in this domain. Mordent Adventures d8 Adventure
1 An alchemist discovers a way to “burn” spirits to provide fuel for magical fire. Several spirits seek the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Mordent Domain of the Haunted Darklord: Wilfred Godefroy Genre: Ghost stories Hallmarks: Ancestral curses, haunted mansions, mist-shrouded moors, vengeful spirits Mist Talismans: Broken jewelry
. They do things “the way they have always been done,” because the old ways offer stability and security in an uncertain world. Beneath that peaceful veneer lies a troubled society trapped in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
glitches across the Outlands. R04M provides the following information: R04M was part of the last Great Modron March. The contingent he belonged to became lost in the Outlands. R04M has deduced that the
’ long-term entrapment. Back to the Outlands Once the characters agree to aid R04M, they’ll need to find a way to reach Gzemnid’s Realm. R04M shares the location of the portal he originally used to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
goblin encourages them to follow him back to the last correct turn. The Goblin’s Riddles Upon meeting the characters (and to discourage them from attacking), the goblin makes it clear there is no way
brew? (Newt) This eye curses you with misfortune. (Evil) This eye brings a temporary calm. (Storm) Roll a one on a six-sided die. Roll another and get the same. Take both together, and what’s their name? (Snake eyes)
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Entering Waterdeep Likely you have already arrived in Waterdeep and borne witness to some of its many wonders. But in case this pamphlet has found its way beneath your worthy eyes in anticipation of
controlled by the Lords of Waterdeep long before you see its walls. If you’ve come from the south by the Trade Way, you’ll have met the City Guard at their post at Zundbridge. From the north by way of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
characters, Ramilir suggests that they speak with one of the Great Readers of Candlekeep: Teles Ahvoste, a scholar who specializes in curses. The acolyte arranges that meeting, then escorts the characters to
) is Candlekeep’s foremost expert on the subject of curses. Born and raised in the magocracy of Halruaa, Teles has always been comfortable around magic but also understands its inherent dangers. If the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
consumed with self-pity. She’s in no mood to fight or have a conversation, so she mumbles and curses to herself, attacking only in self-defense. Both hags’ stat blocks appear in appendix B. The
with Skabatha, and the horrible curses she put on each of them for failing to uphold their end. Magic Mirror. The oval mirror built into one of the bookcases functions like the magic mirror in area B1
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
the end of your next turn. Maddening Hex Prerequisite: 5th level, hex spell or a warlock feature that curses As a bonus action, you cause a psychic disturbance around the target cursed by your hex spell
Hex Prerequisite: 7th level, hex spell or a warlock feature that curses Your curse creates a temporary bond between you and your target. As a bonus action, you can magically teleport up to 30 feet to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
fashion 8 Three inches of height The hags used each character’s lost thing to craft a magic item. By interacting with the magic item in a specific way (as described below), the character regains what
Direction. The character suffering from this loss has trouble figuring out which way is north and where they are geographically. The hag who claimed this prize has since used it to create an orb of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
a First Hunt celebration in disguise. If she finds herself duly honored during the revelry, she blesses the event and might personally participate. If she finds no mention of her works, she curses
hoped to win Nylea’s favor by defending her honor in this way, but she was outraged to be associated with the creation of these abominations. To this day, Nylea offers a boon to anyone who hunts down a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Study action to make a DC 15 Intelligence check, solving the riddle and ending the curse on a success. The curse ends early if the sphinx curses another target.
Spellcasting. The sphinx casts one of the
Spellcasting action. When cast this way, the spell’s range is 1 mile.
Infusion of Knowledge. Whenever the sphinx or one of its allies takes a Study action while within 1 mile of the lair, it adds 1d6 to any
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
could help. She introduces the problem as follows: “Westbridge was badly damaged by earthquakes. I was down that way, and I found half the town gathered in front of the Harvest Inn. Most of them were
. Otherwise, she continues on her way. Arrival in Westbridge When the adventurers reach Westbridge, their reception depends on the manner of their arrival. Direct Approach. Characters who come into
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
farming implements have the same statistics as scimitars. Any character who engages the farmers sees their eyes swirl with crimson, resembling bloody, unshed teardrops. Characters have no way of knowing it
to tend to the wounded. The farmers are known to many in the crowd, prompting confusion over their strange appearance and what caused them to attack. Talk of curses begins to spread. Investigating the