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Eberron: Rising from the Last War
cure. When equipped with dragonshard focus items, the mark can even draw the dead back from the depths of Dolurrh.
House Jorasco
Leader: Ulara d’Jorasco
Headquarters: Vedkyar Enclave (Vedykar
during the Last War, working with House Vadalis to develop biological weapons and new creatures. A Jorasco heir has to decide if they want to investigate these rumors.
Elf
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Basic Rules (2014)
skill with sword, bow, and strategy.
Hidden Woodland Realms
Most elves dwell in small forest villages hidden among the trees. Elves hunt game, gather food, and grow vegetables, and their skill and
usually limited, though a few elves make a good living by trading crafted items for metals (which they have no interest in mining).
Elves encountered outside their own lands are commonly traveling
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Magic Items in This Book The Magic Item by Name table presents all magic items in this book. Magic Items by Name Magic Item Rarity Chapter Antimagic Armor 3- Very rare 9 Armor of Fungal Spores 1
3- Very rare 9 Boomerang Shield 1- Uncommon 9 Bow of Conflagration 2- Rare 9 Bow of Melodies 3- Very rare 9 Breastplate of Balance 2- Rare 5 Card Sharp’s Deck 1- Uncommon 6 Clockwork Armor 3- Very
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
themselves to the wearer. However, you can decide that a magic item doesn’t adjust its size to fit any wearer. For example, a particular armorer might make items usable only by folk who are sized and
Magic Items Magic items are gleaned from the hoards of felled monsters or discovered in long-lost vaults. Such items grant capabilities a character could rarely have otherwise, or they complement
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
magically adjust themselves to the wearer. However, you can decide that a magic item doesn’t adjust its size to fit any wearer. For example, a particular armorer might make items usable only by folk who are
Magic Items Magic items are gleaned from the hoards of felled monsters or discovered in long-lost vaults. Such items grant capabilities a character could rarely have otherwise, or they complement
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
. The activities you allow might depend on the nature of the area where the characters are located. For example, you might disallow the creation of magic items or decide that the characters are in a town that is too isolated from major markets for them to buy such items.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Random Magic Items Use the tables in this section to randomly determine magic items the characters find in your adventures. The tables are sorted first by treasure theme (as described in the Monster
Manual), and then by item rarity. If an item isn’t associated with a theme, roll 1d4 to decide which table to roll on next: on a 1, roll on the Arcana tables; on a 2, Armaments; on a 3, Implements; and on a 4, Relics.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
hidden weakness. Items. Few things are more enticing than a rare item with magical properties hidden behind a riddle. Items have the added benefit of being portable, allowing the characters to ponder a
inscrutable runes carved onto a cursed bow might hold the key to undoing the weapon’s evil magic. Locations. Mystical grottoes, forgotten temples, and secret hideouts might all be locked behind befuddling
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Creating Sentient Magic Items When you decide to make a magic item sentient, you create the item’s persona in the same way you would create an NPC, with a few exceptions described here.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
can decide whether characters find giant-sized items they need to resize (one way or another) or they find items that were made by giants for smaller allies—or made by smaller creatures using giants
A Note about Size As described in the Dungeon Master's Guide, magic items meant to be worn can fit a creature regardless of size or build. If your campaign features a lot of magic items made by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Treasured Item Some druids carry one or more items that are sacred to them or have deep personal significance. Such items are not necessarily magical, but every one is an object whose meaning
connects the druid’s mind and heart to a profound concept or spiritual outlook. When you decide what your character’s treasured item is, think about giving it an origin story: how did you come by the item
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Random Magic Item Rarity When you decide that a treasure contains magic items, there are two ways to determine the rarity of those items. You can choose an appropriate rarity based on the items
Levels 17–20 Item’s Rarity 01–54 01–30 01–11 — Common 55–91 31–81 12–34 — Uncommon 92–00 82–98 35–70 01–20 Rare — 99–00 71–93 21–64 Very Rare — — 94–00 65–00 Legendary Magic Items for Starting
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Buying and Selling Unless you decide your campaign works otherwise, most magic items are so rare that they aren’t available for purchase. Common items, such as a potion of healing, can be procured
city with an academy of magic or a major temple, buying and selling magic items might be possible, at your discretion. If your world includes a large number of adventurers engaged in retrieving ancient
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
however you like, using the items in “Equipment” for inspiration. You decide how much of a monster’s equipment is recoverable after the creature is slain and whether any of that equipment is still
Gear Monsters have proficiency with their equipment. If a monster has equipment that can be given away or retrieved, the items are listed in the Gear entry. The monster’s stat block might include
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Resolving Outcomes You decide when a player makes a D20 Test based on what the character is trying to do. Players shouldn’t just roll ability checks without context; they should tell you what their
you decide: Is a D20 Test Warranted? If the task is trivial or impossible, don’t bother with a D20 Test. A character can move across an empty room or drink from a flask without making a Dexterity check
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
as much as the standard version of that item. However, the Siberys shards required to make focus items are rare, and it’s always up to the DM to decide what focus items are available in the world.
Dragonmark Focus Items These items harness and expand the powers of a dragonmark, allowing the dragonmarked houses to provide a wide range of useful services. You must possess a particular dragonmark
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
freed, and the following things happen: Lost and Found. Each freed incarnation appears and then swiftly vanishes, dropping one or more magic items (see the “Heroic Equipment” section). The associated
, 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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Gear Monsters have proficiency with their equipment. If a monster has equipment that can be given away or retrieved, the items are listed in the Gear entry. The monster’s stat block might include
. Ammunition and Ranged Attacks A monster that requires ammunition to make ranged attacks carries the necessary ammunition. Equipping a Monster with Other Items You may equip monsters with additional
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
item weighing 1 pound or less (such as a coin pouch or potion) and disappears into the crowd before the theft is noticed. If a character is robbed, ask the player what small items the character is carrying, then decide which of those items was stolen.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
swap out a creature’s armor and weapons, you must decide whether the creature is proficient with its new equipment. See the Basic Rules for what happens when you use these items without proficiency.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
Infuse Item At 2nd level, you gain the ability to imbue mundane items with certain magical infusions. The magic items you create with this feature are effectively prototypes of permanent items
decide to attune to the item later, you must do so using the normal process for attunement (see “Attunement” in chapter 7 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide). Your infusion remains in an item indefinitely
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Noncombat Challenges You decide whether to award experience to characters for overcoming challenges outside combat. If the adventurers complete a tense negotiation with a baron, forge a trade
agreement with a clan of surly dwarves, or successfully navigate the Chasm of Doom, you might decide that they deserve an XP reward.
As a starting point, use the rules for building combat encounters in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
a dragon’s hoard for different such items of equivalent value. Perhaps a sapphire dragon takes great pride in a hoard full of raw sapphires and jewelry featuring sapphires, or a copper dragon might
region
6–7 Coins from a nearby contemporary culture
8–9 Coins from a local contemporary culture
10 Coins from another world
You might decide that all the coins in a dragon’s hoard
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
—werewolves being a prime example. You decide how a spell like Remove Curse affects a creature with accursed origins. For example, you might decide that a mummy was created through a curse and it can be
destroyed permanently only by casting Remove Curse on its corpse. Cursed Magic Items Cursed magic items are created deliberately or originate as the result of supernatural events. Such items are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
tools. If you swap out a creature’s armor and weapons, you must decide whether the creature is proficient with its new equipment. See the Basic Rules for what happens when you use these items without proficiency.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
class and spend them on items from the lists in this chapter. See the Starting Wealth by Class table to determine how much gold you have to spend. You decide how your character came by this starting
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
decide: If having all the characters in a party pass an item around to gain its lasting benefits would be disruptive, the item should require attunement. If the item grants a bonus that other items
column suggests an appropriate bonus based on the item’s rarity. Attunement Decide whether the item requires a character to be attuned to it to use its properties. Use these rules of thumb to help you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Magic Item Rarity When you decide that a treasure contains magic items, there are two ways to determine the rarity of those items. You can choose an appropriate rarity based on the items you’ve given
Awarding Magic Items Awarding magic items is the purview of the DM. You can award a magic item because the story calls for it or the players would be especially pleased to have it. This section helps
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Infuse Item At 2nd level, you gain the ability to imbue mundane items with certain magical infusions. The magic items you create with this feature are effectively prototypes of permanent items
decide to attune to the item later, you must do so using the normal process for attunement (see “Attunement” in chapter 7 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide). Your infusion remains in an item indefinitely
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
NPCs made the challenge easier. (See also “Nonplayer Characters” in chapter 3.) Noncombat Challenges You decide whether to award XP to characters for overcoming challenges outside combat. If the
adventurers complete a tense negotiation with a baron, forge a trade agreement with a guild of surly smiths, or safely navigate the Chasm of Doom, you might decide the characters deserve XP. As a starting
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Characters who come into a lot of wealth might try to buy magic items that make them more powerful. Remember, you decide what magic items, if any, can be bought and sold in a settlement. You don’t have
to provide access to magic items too powerful for the characters. Expendable magic items, like scrolls and potions, are a good compromise; they’re useful but have fewer long-term effects on your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
steeped in magic as Theros. Knowing the difference between port (left) and starboard (right), or a ship’s bow (front) and stern (rear) isn’t necessarily important to legendary heroes, particularly when
journeys is ultimately up to you and the players to decide, but consider cleaving to what the group thinks is fun rather than stretching for unnecessary accuracy (whatever that might mean for a world
Goblin
Legacy
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
cruel in victory, goblins are fawning and servile in defeat, just as in their own society lower castes must scrape before those of greater status and as goblin tribes bow before other goblinoids
might display more than one of these items.
Status Symbols
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Status Symbol
1
Earrings and notches in an ear
2
Rib bones tied into hair
3
A belt made from raccoon pelts
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
example, you might decide that a mummy was created through a curse and it can be destroyed permanently only by casting Remove Curse on its corpse. Cursed Magic Items Cursed magic items are created
, whether as part of their origins or due to their ability to spread curses—werewolves being a prime example. You decide how a spell like Remove Curse affects a creature with accursed origins. For
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Infuse Item 2nd-level artificer feature You’ve gained the ability to imbue mundane items with certain magical infusions, turning those objects into magic items. Infusions Known When you gain this
. If you decide to attune to the item later, you must do so using the normal process for attunement (see the attunement rules in the Dungeon Master’s Guide). Your infusion remains in an item