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Dungeon Master’s Guide
by any means while your soul remains imprisoned.
Adjusted Ability Scores. One ability score of your choice increases by 2, to a maximum of 24. Another ability score of your choice decreases by 2, to
damage unless the creature is a Fiend or an Undead.
Destroying 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
Monsters
Tomb of Annihilation
spells on herself before combat.
Death Curse. Syndra’s hit point maximum has been reduced to 79 by the Soulmonger’s death curse, and it decreases by 1 every midnight. If her hit point
maximum drops to 0, Syndra dies and can’t be brought back from the dead until the death curse has ended (and if her soul hasn’t been devoured). Destroying the Soulmonger is the only way to halt
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
and is cursed until the hag dies or the curse is removed. The cursed creature's hit point maximum decreases by 5 (1d10);{"diceNotation":"1d10","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Nightmare Touch"} whenever
the golden key.”
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“Beware the black horse.”
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“The fish is your friend.”
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“The stairs downward lead to that which you seek.”
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“Look for two crossed swords. There your goal lies.”
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“If you see two crows, turn back. Beyond is death.”
Magic Items
Keys from the Golden Vault
, one ability score of your choice increases by 2, to a maximum of 24. Another ability score of your choice decreases by 2, to a minimum of 3. The book can’t adjust your ability scores again
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
Magic Items
The Book of Many Things
cards you intend to draw and then draw them randomly. Unless a card allows you to draw additional cards, any cards drawn exceeding this number have no effect.
As soon as you draw a card, its magic
, while leaving your hands free.
Celestial. You sprout a pair of softly luminescent, feathered wings from your back and gain a flying speed of 30 feet.
Construct. A homunculus appears in an
monsters
Monster Manual
);{"diceNotation":"3d8", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Draining Kiss", "rollDamageType":"Psychic"} Psychic damage. Success: Half damage. Failure or Success: The target’s Hit Point maximum decreases by
an amount equal to the damage taken.Cold, Fire, Poison, PsychicShape-Shift. The succubus shape-shifting;shape-shifts to resemble a Medium or Small Humanoid or back into its true form. Its game
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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
reading and studying the book, one ability score of your choice increases by 2, to a maximum of 24. Another ability score of your choice decreases by 2, to a minimum of 3. The book can’t adjust your
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Decreasing Power Just as hoard items can grow in power by absorbing the ambient magic of a dragon’s hoard, so too can these treasures fall back into slumber. If no creature is attuned to a hoard item
and that item isn’t in a dragon’s hoard, the item decreases in power by one state every 30 days until it is Slumbering.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Progressing Stages The plague’s progress begins at stage one, advances to stage four, and then either wanes back to stage one or ends when everyone in a community is dead. Each stage can last for
days or weeks, as appropriate for your adventures. Alternatively, if you’d like to have the plague play out more randomly, roll a d20 each day. If you roll 2 or lower, the stage decreases by one. If you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
encircling groups of guards, but they haven’t organized an attack. Nighthill thinks the raiders don’t intend to attack the keep; they seem interested only in loot. The real danger is to the town and to those
people who didn’t make it into the keep before it was cut off. Nighthill wants the characters to slip back into the town and help people who are cut off or harass the raiders. A stealthy group can make it out of the keep and back in again without drawing the raiders’ attention.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
encircling groups of guards, but they haven’t organized an attack. Nighthill thinks the raiders don’t intend to attack the keep; they seem interested only in loot. The real danger is to the town and to those
people who didn’t make it into the keep before it was cut off. Nighthill wants the characters to slip back into the town and help people who are cut off or harass the raiders. A stealthy group can make it out of the keep and back in again without drawing the raiders’ attention.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes’ Feast: Saving the Children’s Menu
bodies were found floating down the river. Concerned, Kaga pleads with the characters to find out what has happened to the homestead and its proprietor, Arthur Holrow, and to bring back the ingredients
cruel villain. CHILDREN IN PERIL
Before running this adventure, check with each player to see if they’re open to playing in an adventure where children are in danger (though the villains intend to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
paths forward blocked by the mist, which disorients them and sends them back the way they came. Those who try to fly above the mist never get where they intend to go, their destination always
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
decreases to 40 feet on the landing in front of area 4 because of the staircase leading up to that location. Overlooking the hall to the north and south are unguarded 20-foot-high ledges that have no
railings or battlements. Giants once stood atop these ledges, ready to hurl rocks at interlopers that passed below. Five niches are carved into the back wall of each ledge. Each one holds an iron sconce
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
wagons they find, loading them with loot. They take the families as slaves and force them to tow the conveyances back to the Iceshield lodges. Some independent-minded squads of orcs decided that the
tending the livestock, but they intend to stay until the food runs out, then move on to the next settlement. The homesteaders, in conjunction with members of the Emerald Enclave and the Order of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
achieve such a summoning, though I am sure he didn’t intend this result. Imbecile!
“I can save you months of research — time we clearly don’t have. The information I found here has confirmed my
theories, and I know how to banish the demon lords back to the Abyss. We can do this only if we work together, if you are willing and daring enough to directly challenge the demon lords. Or perhaps
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Reporting Back When the characters return to where Vogler’s survivors are camped, Mayor Raven meets them. If the characters gained the city’s support, she thanks them profusely. If they didn’t, she’s
eager to brainstorm ways to do so. After hearing that Darrett—and likely some of the characters—agreed to aid Kalaman’s military, Raven says she and the survivors of Vogler’s militia intend to offer
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
recognize any stir caused by the adventurers’ arrival.) The cultists don’t know the adventurers’ plans, but with the Blue Dragon Mask on hand, they don’t intend to take chances. Their preparations
over his shoulder as another figure suddenly dashes out onto the balcony. A flash of blades and spell-fire erupts. Then the figure who spoke pitches his attacker over the railing before dashing back inside.
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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
recognize any stir caused by the adventurers’ arrival.) The cultists don’t know the adventurers’ plans, but with the Blue Dragon Mask on hand, they don’t intend to take chances. Their preparations
over his shoulder as another figure suddenly dashes out onto the balcony. A flash of blades and spell-fire erupts. Then the figure who spoke pitches his attacker over the railing before dashing back inside.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Reckless Hate When the characters defeat a second elemental temple, the offended cult strikes back. Through divinations, spy reports, or visions bestowed by the Elder Elemental Eye, the cultists
, trouble arrives on their doorstep. If the characters make camp outside of town, this encounter occurs when the characters spot the cultist group traveling to a settlement they intend to attack. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
Common, and has an Intelligence score of 10; he otherwise uses the zombie stat block. Bard’s Quest Frody didn’t intend to frighten away the cabin’s proper owners, but his appearance can’t be helped
imparts the following information: Grave Theft. Two halflings dug up his grave in the dead of night and stole his Canaith mandolin (an instrument of the bards). Frody wants it back. (“It was a gift
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
combat more than once, but it keeps coming back. The dragon has concluded that the only way to get rid of the homunculus for good is to forcibly remove it from the castle and trap it elsewhere. If
statistics of a normal violet faerie dragon. Whenever Otto’s relative size decreases, any hit points beyond its new hit point maximum are lost. Whenever Otto’s relative size increases, any damage that Otto has taken remains and is subtracted from its new hit point maximum.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
, and they intend to keep it. Ghald waits and watches to see if the adventurers can be scared away. When he decides conflict is likely, he attacks without warning. This act forces the others to join the
battle. Unferth hangs back and uses his spells to support his allies. If the characters accepted Nareen’s offer to guide them here, and she is uninjured from Haliyra’s attack, she and one of her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
heavily on his bandaged left leg. “I hear that you intend to follow the raiders and see where they’ve gone. I’d like nothing better than to come with you, but in this condition, I’d slow you down. In the
we fought a particularly savage battle against raiders. A few others and I fought our way to the keep, barely. Leosin didn’t make it at all. We went back this morning to look for him, but all we
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal
features of two creature types, the centaur mummy can attack nearby targets with its melee weapons while trying to use its Dreadful Glare against enemies that hold back. Undead Nature. A mummy doesn’t
creature, it must succeed on a DC 14 Constitution saving throw or be cursed with mummy rot. The cursed target can’t regain hit points, and its hit point maximum decreases by 10 (3d6) for every 24
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
decreases to ability scores) might then be usable by their original owners to reverse the decrease. If any of those owners are still alive, the stones might help guide the characters to them, allowing the
party to gain favor by returning the sphinx’s toll to some of those who have paid it. If Mary is with the party, she might seek to keep all the mechanical Ioun stones for herself — and might stop at nothing to get them back if the other characters seize them.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
heavily on his bandaged left leg. “I hear that you intend to follow the raiders and see where they’ve gone. I’d like nothing better than to come with you, but in this condition, I’d slow you down. In the
, after we fought a particularly savage battle against raiders. A few others and I fought our way to the keep, barely. Leosin didn’t make it at all. We went back this morning to look for him, but all we
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
water cascading down its back and shoulders. Upon reaching its full height, the great demon throws back both its heads and roars!
The kuo-toa offerings and the fervor of his worshipers in the Darklake
decide how they intend to escape. Escape by Land. Fleeing by land requires dodging terrified kuo-toa, and even fighting fish-folk driven to a killing frenzy against the characters for having drawn this
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
door is a jittery bullywug with a spear, and behind this guard is a wooden crate with hunting gear piled atop it. Huddled in the back of the hut are four more bullywugs. Tension hangs heavy in the
, the bullywugs attack the characters to prevent them from betraying Illig to Gullop XIX. If one or more characters force their way inside, Illig’s allies try to hold the intruders back long enough for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
whale’s arrival. They wear cold weather clothing and have brought four casks of oil with them. They intend to pour the oil through the hole in the ice, contaminating the water around Angajuk’s Bell and
breaks the morale of the other hunters, who head back to Bremen in defeat. Angajuk takes adventurers on an undersea tour
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
intend to impersonate, studying them and probing their minds for secrets. A doppelganger can read a creature’s surface thoughts, allowing it to glean that creature’s name, desires, and fears, along with a
into a Small or Medium humanoid it has seen, or back into its true form. Its statistics, other than its size, are the same in each form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn’t transformed. It
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
one lacks freedom and the comfort of friendship. When strongheart halflings settle into a place, they intend to stay. It’s not unusual for a dynasty of stronghearts to live in the same place for a
males and females can grow sideburns down to mid-cheek, and both genders plait them into long braids. GHOSTWISE HALFLINGS
Ghostwise halflings trace their ancestry back to a war among halfling tribes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
inheritance if you can make a name for yourself as a hero. Donjon You’re stranded far from home and intend to fight your way back. Euryale A year of solitude gave you clarity and led you down the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
during a blizzard. Characters who intend to pursue her are 60 feet away from their quarry at the start of the chase and must also take to the rooftops or lose sight of her. Vevette was a vicious
. Make a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, you fall prone and slide 10 feet back. 7 A rooftop protuberance such as a chimney or weather vane gets in your way. Make a DC 10 Dexterity
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
decreases by 1, and each character is infested with Zuggtmoy’s spores (see the “Neverlight Grove: General Features” sidebar). Development If left alone, the thralls enact a mock wedding, with a chamberlain
ceremony does, after which the creatures file solemnly back to Yggmorgus. Characters witnessing the wedding rehearsal and the accompanying vision must succeed on a DC 10 Wisdom saving throw or gain one