curses way receive

Deck of Many Things

Magic Items 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

Cursed Luckstone

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

Venom Troll

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

15-foot cube. The troll takes 7 (2d6);{"diceNotation":"2d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Venom Spray", "rollDamageType":"slashing"} slashing damage, which can’t be reduced in any way. Each

wound they receive. Trolls Trolls that are nearly obliterated but survive and regenerate from mere scraps of flesh can display bizarre features. Radically transformed trolls like the rot troll

Deck of Wonder

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

Sul Khatesh

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

Nafas

Monsters Quests from the Infinite Staircase

favor. The multiverse dictates that there must always be a noble djinni to preside over the Infinite Staircase. If slain, Nafas re-forms within days, coalescing from cosmic air. The only way to truly

this role, Nafas sends adventurers to distant worlds to fulfill the wishes of creatures beyond his reach. Adventurers who return to Nafas successful receive gifts as rewards. As a noble genie, Nafas

Acolyte - Baldur's Gate

Backgrounds Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus

the sacred rites? Or were you a high priest who suddenly experienced a call to serve your god in a different way? Perhaps you were the leader of a small cult outside of any established temple structure

an acolyte, you command the respect of those who share your faith, and you can perform the religious ceremonies of your deity. You and your adventuring companions can expect to receive free healing

Dimir Operative

Backgrounds Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

don’t share it. 3 I like to sound mysterious, because wisdom hidden grows deeper with time. 4 I have no patience with people who get in my way. 5 I love hearing about other

met my guild contact, but I receive telepathic messages, usually in my dreams. 5 I’ve never met my guild contact, but I get coded messages from a pattern of street lights and graffiti

Book of Vile Darkness (Variant)

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.

Deck of Many More Things

Magic Items The Book of Many Things

unoccupied space within 5 feet of your new form. You remain transformed in this way for 2d12 days; nothing can alter your form while you’re under the effects of this card, but the Wish spell can end

Speak with Plants without using a spell slot; you must finish a long rest before you can cast it this way again. If you have spell slots of 3rd level or higher, you can cast this spell using them. Use

Curse of Ill-Fated Fortune

spells

This spell curses a creature with lethal bad luck. The target must make a Dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC. Successful Saving Throw. On a successful save, the target takes 3d10

becomes a beacon of bad luck as otherwise harmless setbacks become increasingly dangerous. Objects constantly seem to be placed in the creature’s way. Additionally, the cursed creature has

Curse of Conceited Obsession

spells

This spell curses a creature with an obsessive self-infatuation. The target must make a Charisma saving throw against your spell save DC. Successful Saving Throw. On a successful save, the target

target takes 8d10 Psychic damage and is cursed.Triggering Event.The next time the cursed creature looks into a mirror or reflective surface, the surface cracks or become distorted in some way, and the

Deck of Many Things Legacy

Magic Items 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

Ki-rin Legacy

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

Acolyte Legacy

Backgrounds Basic Rules (2014)

to serve your god in a different way? Perhaps you were the leader of a small cult outside of any established temple structure, or even an occult group that served a fiendish master that you now deny

the religious ceremonies of your deity. You and your adventuring companions can expect to receive free healing and care at a temple, shrine, or other established presence of your faith, though you

Lizardfolk Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

basic principles than those of warm-blooded creatures. Their dismal swamp homes might lie hundreds of miles from the nearest human settlement, but the gap between their way of thinking and that of the

’t scared of a troll; instead, they understand that a troll is a fearsome, dangerous creature and react accordingly. Lizardfolk never become angry in the way others do, but they act with

I Opened the Gate

feats

You didn’t mean for things to turn out this way. You were curious and perhaps ignored a few signs, but it’s hard to take ancient curses seriously. Musty old books say a lot of things, and

Book of Vile Darkness Legacy

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.

Deck of Several Things

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

servants before you can claim the monastery as yours. Vizier. At any one time you choose within the duration of the adventure, you can ask a question in meditation and mentally receive a truthful

Kobold Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

hidden that the surface-dwelling citizens in the area often don’t know what lies beneath them. Because the kobolds make sure they stay out of the way of anyone more dangerous than themselves, grow

abandon this careful approach. First, because of their hatred of gnomes, city kobolds often go out of their way to target gnomes’ houses and shops. Even in such cases, the kobolds’ fear of

Laying Curses

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

Paladin Legacy

Classes Basic Rules (2014)

of the world, but even fewer people can claim the true calling of a paladin. When they do receive the call, these warriors turn from their former occupations and take up arms to fight evil. Sometimes

, paladins are rarely of any evil alignment. Most of them walk the paths of charity and justice. Consider how your alignment colors the way you pursue your holy quest and the manner in which you conduct

Starting the Adventure

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase

Starting the Adventure The settlements nearest to the Lost Caverns are several days’ travel from the Yatil Mountains, though way stations, hunting lodges, and roadside inns dot the roads up to the

mountains. An agent waits to receive the characters at the last of these inns, a miserable joint named the Lazy Bat.

Cursed Luckstone

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

Next Steps

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase

Next Steps The characters now know the locations of two points of interest: the Tower of the Heavens and Cernant Valley. Where they choose to go next is up to them. Either way, they receive an unwelcome visit in the night (see the following section).

Outer City

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer

litters. While smaller neighborhoods such as Tumbledown and Blackgate squat outside their respective gates, the majority of the Outer City runs along the Coast Way as it curves around the foot of Duskhawk

Hill, between Wyrm’s Crossing and the city proper. Residents of these neighborhoods are not technically citizens and receive no representation in the government, nor do they receive the benefit of the

Outer City

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus

litters. While smaller neighborhoods such as Tumbledown and Blackgate squat outside their respective gates, the majority of the Outer City runs along the Coast Way as it curves around the foot of Duskhawk

Hill, between Wyrm’s Crossing and the city proper. Residents of these neighborhoods are not technically citizens and receive no representation in the government, nor do they receive the benefit of the

Languages

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)

contacted creature doesn't need to share a language with the monster to communicate in this way with it, but it must be able to understand at least one language. A creature without telepathy can

receive and respond to telepathic messages but can't initiate or terminate a telepathic conversation. A telepathic monster doesn't need to see a contacted creature and can end the telepathic contact at any

Vistani Curses

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

Goblin Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

the fringes of a society first test its defenses by stealing objects, and if these crimes go unpunished, they begin stealing people. Enslaved creatures receive the worst treatment the goblins can dish

serving as the tribe’s boss, a fiend that has made its way into the world, or an undying lord such as a lich or a vampire. (For more information on undying lord patrons, see the Sword Coast

Languages

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)

contacted creature doesn’t need to share a language with the monster to communicate in this way with it, but it must be able to understand at least one language. A creature without telepathy can

receive and respond to telepathic messages but can’t initiate or terminate a telepathic conversation. A telepathic monster doesn’t need to see a contacted creature and can end the telepathic contact at any

Shield, +1, +2, or +3

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

Monstrous Origins

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

Conclusion

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel

characters leave them with its body, a week later the characters receive a parcel from Paolo with 150 gp and a bakunawa tooth for each character—their cut for assisting the dragon hunters or not standing in their way.

Hint Checks

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

Hint Checks Any character has the option of making these ability checks to receive a hint: Intelligence (Investigation) DC 10. The word “trace” from the Day 3 entry strikes the character as important

don’t represent an efficient way to search an area and deduces the directions must be presenting some sort of message.

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