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Dungeon Master’s Guide
While holding this rod, you can take a Reaction to absorb a spell that is targeting only you and doesn’t create an area of effect. The absorbed spell’s effect is canceled, and the spell
’s energy—not the spell itself— is stored in the rod. The energy has the same level as the spell when it was cast. A canceled spell dissipates with no effect, and any resources used to
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
and will stop at nothing to create new clockwork horrors. The time it takes for a clockwork horror to build another of its kind, assuming it has the requisite materials, is approximately ten days
tiny rotating saws mounted at the tips of its forelimbs. A horror can also discharge bolts of lightning from a short lightning rod embedded in its body.
When a clockwork horror dies, the magic that
Spells
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
casting, you tap the doll with a crystal rod, transforming it into a magen clothed in whatever the doll was wearing. The type of magen is chosen by you during the casting of the spell. See appendix C for
rating (minimum reduction of 1). Only a wish spell can undo this reduction to your hit point maximum.
Any magen you create with this spell obeys your commands without question.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Rod of Absorption Rod, Very Rare (Requires Attunement) Conceptopolis Rod of Absorption While holding this rod, you can take a Reaction to absorb a spell that is targeting only you and doesn’t create
an area of effect. The absorbed spell’s effect is canceled, and the spell’s energy—not the spell itself—is stored in the rod. The energy has the same level as the spell when it was cast. A canceled
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Rod of Absorption Rod, Very Rare (Requires Attunement) While holding this rod, you can take a Reaction to absorb a spell that is targeting only you and doesn’t create an area of effect. The absorbed
spell’s effect is canceled, and the spell’s energy—not the spell itself—is stored in the rod. The energy has the same level as the spell when it was cast. A canceled spell dissipates with no effect
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Astral Adventurer’s Guide
class is presented in Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything.) Spells Level Spell School Class 2nd Air Bubble Conjuration Artificer, Druid, Ranger, Sorcerer, Wizard 5th Create Spelljamming Helm Transmutation
Artificer, Wizard Air Bubble Spell Air Bubble 2nd-Level Conjuration Casting Time: 1 action Range: 60 feet Components: S Duration: 24 hours You create a spectral globe around the head of a willing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
spellcaster holding the rod, you can convert energy stored in it into spell slots to cast spells you have prepared or know. You can create spell slots only of a level equal to or lower than your own
Rod of Absorption Rod, very rare (requires attunement) While holding this rod, you can use your reaction to absorb a spell that is targeting only you and not with an area of effect. The absorbed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Immovable Rod Rod, Uncommon This iron rod has a button on one end. You can take a Utilize action to press the button, which causes the rod to become magically fixed in place. Until you or another
creature takes a Utilize action to push the button again, the rod doesn’t move, even if it defies gravity. The rod can hold up to 8,000 pounds of weight. More weight causes the rod to deactivate and fall
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
spellcaster holding the rod, you can convert energy stored in it into spell slots to cast spells you have prepared or know. You can create spell slots only of a level equal to or lower than your own
Rod of Absorption Rod, very rare (requires attunement) While holding this rod, you can use your reaction to absorb a spell that is targeting only you and not with an area of effect. The absorbed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
About Docents Long ago, colossi were powered and controlled by Docents. The techniques and tools to create Docents were lost, but working Docents can sometimes still be found in colossi. The Wizards Three suggest the characters find a working Docent and tune it to the rod piece.
Magic Items
Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
Powered armor resembles a suit of unusual plate armor, with finely articulated joints connected by an oily, black, leather-like material. The armor has been worked to create the appearance of a
metal bosses adorn the armor in seemingly random fashion. On the back of the armor’s left gauntlet is a rectangular metal box, from which projects a short rod tipped with a cone-shaped red
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Nightsedge’s soldiers seized the rod fragment from the peylon tree, the Blue Fire Wardens assaulted the Three Moons Vault. They refer to their attack as the Night of Blue Fire. Teremini, a renegade from
the Mages of High Sorcery’s Order of the Red Robes, foresaw the attack and used powerful lunar magic to create a shroud of transformative red moonlight around the vault. Werewolves that step into this
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
this sanctum, Windfall keeps the final piece of the Rod of Seven Parts, hoping to amplify the rod’s ability to cast Simulacrum with Tiamat’s power and re-create her master’s beloved lost creation: Sardior, the ruby dragon.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
vaati heroes combined their powers to create the mighty Rod of Law. In a battle against the queen’s greatest general, Miska the Wolf Spider, a vaati killed Miska by thrusting the rod into him like a
Dukes.
On the Material Plane, aarakocra create aeries atop the highest mountains, especially peaks near portals to the Elemental Plane of Air. From such heights, aarakocra watch for signs of elemental
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Chain Lightning 6th-level evocation Casting Time: 1 action Range: 150 feet Components: V, S, M (a bit of fur; a piece of amber, glass, or a crystal rod; and three silver pins) Duration: Instantaneous
You create a bolt of lightning that arcs toward a target of your choice that you can see within range. Three bolts then leap from that target to as many as three other targets, each of which must be
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Chain Lightning 6th-level evocation Casting Time: 1 action Range: 150 feet Components: V, S, M (a bit of fur; a piece of amber, glass, or a crystal rod; and three silver pins) Duration: Instantaneous
You create a bolt of lightning that arcs toward a target of your choice that you can see within range. Three bolts then leap from that target to as many as three other targets, each of which must be
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
additional properties. Clap of Thunder. As a Magic action, you can strike the weapon against a hard surface to create a loud clap of thunder audible out to 300 feet. You also create a 30-foot Cone of
. Earthquake. As a Magic action, you can strike the weapon against the ground to create an intense seismic disturbance in a 50-foot-radius circle centered on the point of impact. Structures in contact
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
scorching ray, shatter 9th fireball, wind wall 13th ice storm, wall of fire 17th cone of cold, wall of force Eldritch Cannon At 3rd level, you learn how to create a magical cannon. Using woodcarver’s
tools or smith’s tools, you can take an action to magically create a Small or Tiny eldritch cannon in an unoccupied space on a horizontal surface within 5 feet of you. A Small eldritch cannon occupies
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
how to create a magical cannon. Using woodcarver’s tools or smith’s tools, you can take an action to magically create a Small or Tiny eldritch cannon in an unoccupied space on a horizontal surface
within 5 feet of you. A Small eldritch cannon occupies its space, and a Tiny one can be held in one hand. Once you create a cannon, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest or until you expend
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
depth of 3 feet. The drow in area 11b attack intruders they spot moving through this cave. 11b. Watchers in the Dark Dry land rises gently out of the water to create a broad ledge dotted with 4-foot-high
piles of loose rocks. Two drow elite warriors, a female named Dirzanna Freth and a male named Arachnafein Zaphrorzza, hide behind the rocks. These drow are under the effect of the spirit nagas’ rod of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Arcane Portals The crew of the Lambent Zenith used the magic contained within the rod piece to create portals through which the ship could travel across the multiverse with ease. However, when the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
. Windfall acquired the seventh piece of the Rod of Seven Parts some time ago. She used it to create an image of Sardior, who she believes resembled a red dragon. Windfall hopes to find a way to use the rod
Michel A holographic red dragon sleeps next to the final rod piece The walls of this cavernous space are made of faceted, ruby-red crystal. A thin tunnel juts from the back of the cavern and leads
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
potent secrets he has collected. Vecna has already used these secrets to create three demiplanes that are reachable from a small cave network in Pandesmos called Vecna’s Grasp. To reach the Cave of
dismantle an unreality, a character must find its manifested secret, touch the item to focus the power of their Vecna’s Link into it, and infuse the item with potent magic from an artifact such as the Rod
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
the party about Vecna except his attempts to re-create the multiverse. 4 Sobered by their experiences, the characters passed the time peacefully in the houses Lord Neverember granted them in Neverwinter
them to learn more. As a result, they know everything the Wizards Three tell the party about the planes where the pieces of the rod are located. 6 Hoping to put their experiences behind them, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
. The room’s west end contains a jumble of stones stacked to create a vertical ring about five feet in diameter. A sleek staff—the Rod of Seven Parts—is jammed between two encircling stones like a
, using the Rod of Seven Parts like a wedge to lever the circle large enough to climb free.
A raklupis spyder-fiend named Uvonxu is here along with a phisarazu spyder-fiend bodyguard (for both stat
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
blood, and a small silver rod worth at least 10 gp) Duration: 24 hours You create a ward that protects up to 2,500 square feet of floor space (an area 50 feet square, or one hundred 5-foot squares or
. The whole warded area radiates magic. A dispel magic cast on a specific effect, if successful, removes only that effect. You can create a permanently guarded and warded structure by casting this spell there every day for one year.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Guards and Wards Level 6 Abjuration (Bard, Wizard) Casting Time: 1 hour
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M (a silver rod worth 10+ GP)
Duration: 24 hours
You create a ward that protects up to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Guards and Wards Level 6 Abjuration (Bard, Wizard) Casting Time: 1 hour
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M (a silver rod worth 10+ GP)
Duration: 24 hours
You create a ward that protects up to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
blood, and a small silver rod worth at least 10 gp) Duration: 24 hours You create a ward that protects up to 2,500 square feet of floor space (an area 50 feet square, or one hundred 5-foot squares or
. The whole warded area radiates magic. A dispel magic cast on a specific effect, if successful, removes only that effect. You can create a permanently guarded and warded structure by casting this spell there every day for one year.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
conjuration magic within a piece of the Rod of Seven Parts to create portals that allow the ship to quickly traverse the multiverse. The rod piece was stored below the bridge on the ship’s prow. Emergency
aboard the Lambent Zenith. Though they can recount the ship’s mission and subsequent crash, these sailors know nothing about the rod piece. Z3: Galley and Pantry The sound of sizzling and the smell of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Crafting Magic Items The Player’s Handbook contains rules on brewing Potions of Healing and scribing Spell Scrolls. To create other magic items, follow the rules below. In these rules, “you” refers
in the tools’ descriptions Potion Alchemist’s Supplies or Herbalism Kit Ring Jeweler’s Tools Rod Woodcarver’s Tools Scroll Calligrapher’s Supplies Staff Woodcarver’s Tools Wand Woodcarver’s Tools
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Collect the materials necessary to create a revolutionary oracular device.
12 Protect an oracle who must deliver bad news to a worshiper who is both influential and unpredictable.
Oracular
, and star charts. Past that is the Shrine of Keranos, where a massive statue of the god is connected to a lightning rod which extends through the roof and 100 feet into the sky. When lightning
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
gemstones (create undead); a sliver of wychwood (dancing lights); a pouch of lime, a flask of water, and a pouch of earth (flesh to stone); a patch of wolf fur and a glass rod (lightning bolt); a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Spells Sarya raised her hands and began to declaim the words of a very powerful spell, one of the most dangerous she knew, a spell designed to breach the barriers between the planes and create a
material component: a small, forked, metal rod (like a tuning fork) attuned to the desired planar destination. The spell requires the proper resonating frequency to home in on the correct location, and the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monstrous Compendium Volume One: Spelljammer Creatures
, gathering the precious metals and crystals they need to build more of their kind. Clockwork horrors have no goal beyond replication and will stop at nothing to create new clockwork horrors. The time it
discharge bolts of lightning from a short lightning rod embedded in its body. When a clockwork horror dies, the magic that created it consumes it over a period of 1 minute. Its metallic body and crystal