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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
out new defenses?
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Give me a storied helmet or scimitar over a pile of gold any day.
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No creature can outsmart my defenses—if they do, they obviously cheated.
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Any creature
they win.
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A sapphire dragon’s lair is so well protected that its inner defenses have never been tested. The dragon spreads rumors of the treasures within to attract adventurers who can put
Magic Items
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
A docent is a small metal sphere, about 2 inches across, studded with dragonshards. To attune to a docent, you must embed the item somewhere on your body, such as your chest or your eye socket
.
Sentience. A docent is a sentient item of any alignment with an Intelligence of 16, a Wisdom of 14, and a Charisma of 14. It perceives the world through your senses. It communicates telepathically with
Kobold
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
, the kobolds are usually put to work enlarging their masters’ living area and protecting vital areas of the lair with traps and other defenses.
Some human communities hire kobolds to dig their
magical power than a potion, but they all believe that the tribal sorcerer can figure out how to use any such item they come across. When kobolds sense an opportunity to separate a magic item from its
Goblin
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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
. The goblin can cast a randomly determined 1st-level wizard spell once per day. Intelligence is its spellcasting ability.
Booyahg Wielder. This goblin found a magic item (a necklace of fireballs, a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Docent Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement by a warforged) A docent is a small metal sphere, about 2 inches across, studded with dragonshards. To attune to a docent, you must embed the item
somewhere on your body, such as your chest or your eye socket. Sentience. A docent is a sentient item of any alignment with an Intelligence of 16, a Wisdom of 14, and a Charisma of 14. It perceives the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
Docent Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement by a warforged) A docent is a small metal sphere, about 2 inches across, studded with dragonshards. To attune to a docent, you must embed the item
somewhere on your body, such as your chest or your eye socket. Sentience. A docent is a sentient item of any alignment with an Intelligence of 16, a Wisdom of 14, and a Charisma of 14. It perceives the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
target’s teeth into yellow fangs, or give the target bad breath. When this curse ends, the Vistana it takes 1d6 psychic damage. A nonmagical item in the target’s possession (chosen by the DM) disappears
and can’t be found until the curse ends. The lost item can weigh no more than 1 pound. When this curse ends, the Vistana takes 1d6 psychic damage. The target gains vulnerability to a damage type of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Adventures in Bluetspur While Bluetspur’s otherworldly hazards and the mind flayers’ defenses can challenge even the highest-level heroes, the domain’s menace proves most pernicious when it intrudes
on other domains. Taking inspiration from sci-fi horror and tales of alien abduction, adventures involving Bluetspur’s mind flayers might begin anywhere with bad dreams or a stranger’s impossible
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
below). Docent Wondrous Item, Rare (Requires Attunement by a Warforged) A Docent is a 2-inch-diameter metal sphere studded with dragonshards. To attune to a Docent, you must embed the item somewhere
on your body, such as your chest or your eye socket. CoupleofKooks A Docent Sentience. A Docent is a sentient item of any alignment with an Intelligence of 16, a Wisdom of 14, and a Charisma of 14
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
these riches by exploiting my tenants’ misery, buying up condemned property and renting it out for an exorbitant fee. Granny Nightshade is helping me to make amends. I told her I wanted to put my bad
luster or some amount of golden color in its design. Roll a d8 and refer to the Gold-spun Gifts table to determine each item. (All the items listed in the table are uncommon magic items.) If a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
elements designed to be dropped into your own campaign. And tying those chapters together is a legendary magic item that every player both dreads and longs for: the Deck of Many Things. For decades
has only good cards (or bad ones!) in it. You can do all this without losing the wonder of the deck: its unique nature as a physical object that players—not just their characters—can hold in their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
dessert recipe
Sensational, applause-worthy performance
Haircut or bath
Bad Gifts to Give Fey Item that has outlived its usefulness
Item you intended to get rid of
Half-hearted performance
Cursed, evil, or broken item
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
lays claim to such an item can command the demon to do as they wish.
For this reason, demon lords hide their amulets away and trust no one, not even their followers, with knowledge of the location
. Such a site is usually protected with intricate traps, mindless servants, and other defenses that bring no risk of subversion or betrayal.
If an archdevil were ever to acquire a demonic amulet
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
the house specializes in siege weaponry and defenses, though its most innovative experiments explore the creation of constructed undead—a hybrid of warforged and zombie. In addition to Karrnath, Cannith
house, it can take one of these special forms. Favored in House (Renown 3+). You can purchase one Common or Uncommon magic item at half the usual cost. Recognized in House (Renown 10+). When you take
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
, you can offer to let the character succeed at the cost of a complication or hindrance. Such complications can run along any of the following lines: A character gets her sword past an enemy’s defenses
automatic failure is bad enough. And characters typically make so many attack rolls that they’re bound to roll dozens of natural 1s over time. What might seem like an interesting consequence, like breaking the weapon used for the attack, will quickly get tiresome.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Domain of Dread Parolee Kas uses an artifact called the Crown of Lies to impersonate a powerful wizard and manipulate others into retrieving an item that will allow him to free a demon lord ally
named Miska the Wolf-Spider. Together, the two can defeat Vecna. Kas is attuned to the crown throughout this adventure. Crown of Lies Wondrous Item, Artifact (Requires Attunement) After betraying and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
tomb’s layout or defenses, but they offer advice and magical powers to those they inhabit. Of course, their assistance comes at a price. Trickster Gods Spirit Align. Personality Inherited Flaw Enemy
additional magic item. When Obo’laka leaves the host, all magic items to which the host is attuned are no longer attuned to it. Papazotl (male) LE Shrewd and conniving “I bow before no one and expect
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
gone. Each item a dwarf crafts is a milepost on the path to perfection, a step taken toward mastering a technique. All of one’s works taken together are the physical representation of a dwarf’s
dragon protecting a treasure hoard. Such protectiveness isn’t often called for in the company of friends and family — but just as a parent doesn’t leave a child unattended, a dwarf doesn’t craft an item
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
proficiency, a merchant’s scale, five waterproof belt pouches in which to store creature parts or other tools, and a unique item known as an occultant abacus (sometimes just referred to as an occultant
to you lately.
Eldritch Occultant Starting at rank 2, your occultant abacus becomes an uncommon magic item that can track lives both eliminated and saved. While holding your occultant abacus
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Crime Sometimes it pays to be bad. This activity gives a character the chance to make some extra cash, at the risk of arrest. Resources. A character must spend one week and at least 25 gp gathering
Your victim is financially ruined by your crime. 4 Someone who knows of your crime has been arrested on an unrelated matter.* 5 Your loot is a single, easily identified item that you can’t fence in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
Morgrave’s bad reputation. They seek fame, wealth, and power by plundering the secrets of ancient civilizations and claiming the magic and money they find for themselves. On the other hand, if the
rivalry comes to a head through an unfortunate event. The adversaries acquire a cursed item that possesses or otherwise corrupts them, turning the other group into outright antagonists. Ideally, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
win.
8 A sapphire dragon’s lair is so well protected that its inner defenses have never been tested. The dragon spreads rumors of the treasures within to attract adventurers who can put the traps
the defenses of the dragon’s lair and hoard. Sapphire Dragon Wyrmling Connections d6 Connected Creatures
1 After being robbed by gnomes who had pledged to protect the hoard, a sapphire
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
maintains docks, ships, and fortified harbors on many of the islands in the Sea of Swords, and as such the city is always seeking magical and military support for these defenses. Where other cities
might use such vast mountains of coin as Mirabar possesses on shows of prosperity, Mirabarrens use it for more functional goals, making sure that the city’s defenses are new, that its gates close
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
an amphitheater often revolve around deception. Great performances get audiences immersed in what they’re seeing, lowering their defenses and allowing pickpockets and spies to work. Backstage, the
in such a place. Amphitheater Adventures d10 Adventure Goal
1 Steal an item from an audience member.
2 Find evidence of a crime hidden backstage.
3 Defend a theater being run by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Research Forewarned is forearmed. The research downtime activity allows a character to delve into lore concerning a monster, a location, a magic item, or some other particular topic. Resources
character astray, especially if the object of the research is known to the rival. The rival might plant false information, bribe sages to give bad advice, or steal key tomes needed to find the truth. In
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
tools, while the crafting a magic item activity can cover the construction of the portalometer. The details of the portalometer are left to the imaginations of the players (including coming up with a
of consciousness (or you could even make it a sentient magic item, as detailed in chapter 7 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide.) In that scenario, the orrery’s consciousness might be what the portalometer
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
an outsider. Based on the complex’s defenses, Laysa believes something valuable is held within. Nikki Dawes Laysa Matulin Some Progress. Laysa’s crew uncovered the complex’s entrance, as well as two
Parts, but she agrees that such a powerful magic item could be found within the complex. She isn’t aware of any other location where the rod piece might be. Laysa provides the characters with a rough map
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Aberrant Mind Tentacles, psychic powers, beings from beyond the stars—one person’s bad dream is another person’s good time.
Tasha
An alien influence has wrapped its tendrils around your mind
by the spell. Psychic Defenses 6th-level Aberrant Mind feature You gain resistance to psychic damage, and you have advantage on saving throws against being charmed or frightened. Revelation in Flesh
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
manner of Underdark denizens, this maze forms part of Menzoberranzan’s defenses as well as its underworld — a dangerous place for dark dealings and clandestine meetings. The Dark Dominion is a great
trade a magic item in its possession for the equivalent of 30 days of rations (to determine the item, roll once on Magic Item Table C in chapter 7 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide) 9–10 A trap door near
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
matter of hours for any magic items the characters bring to her. The amount she’s willing to pay is based on the item’s rarity, as shown in the Magic Item Rewards table, and is nonnegotiable. Characters
would be hard-pressed to find anyone willing to spend as much for these items as Obaya is, and she always pays in platinum pieces for ease of transport. Magic Item Rewards Item Rarity
Obaya’s Reward
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
Stat Block: Commoner
One of the Borderlands’ oldest and wisest residents was banished from the keep for crimes she didn’t commit.
Bad Reputation. Xanthe was wrongfully exiled for using occult magic
Point each—to thank them for helping the sprites train.
Treasure. In exchange for the characters’ spirited participation, the sprites reward the party with one magic item; roll once on the Magic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
throughout the lab can access the armor’s controls given enough time. Even after accessing the controls, though, no one can approach the armor without setting off its automatic defenses. See the
additional boon to any interested character, granting the use of his laboratory to craft or summon any item or creature they desire (within any limits you set). However, the price for this service is one
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
attacks of ghouls and ghasts don’t appear to have proficiency bonus added in. Intentional or mistake? Intentional; it’s a ghoul/ghast thing. They’re exceptionally bad at biting, compared to their claw
magical energy that is contained in a magic item or channeled to create a spell or other focused magical effect In D&D, the first type of magic is part of nature. It is no more dispellable than the wind
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
. Alustriel correctly supposes that Kas plans to find Vecna and co-opt the lich-god’s ritual to become the most powerful being in existence. This outcome is as bad as Vecna ruling the multiverse, as far as
, Alustriel suggests the characters use the Chime of Exile to return Kas to Tovag, his Domain of Dread. Alustriel notes that the characters need to significantly weaken Kas before the magic item will work on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
anything in particular to the characters but feel like a bad omen. Lost and Found Prior to the vision, the characters were traveling to Vogler and had stopped to camp or rest near a forested path. After
characters find an item that closely matches the amulet from their visions. As in the vision, the characters might feel inexplicably drawn to the item. If the characters have different gods, they each