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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Rejuvenation. When it drops to 0 hit points, the shard disappears and leaves a Tiny cracked gemstone in its space. The gemstone matches the kind
them to fulfill the dragon’s designs.
A draconic shard is difficult to destroy. Destroying the shard’s spectral form or an object the shard inhabits forces the spirit into the form of a
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leather, carefully tooled in the intricate designs the elves loved. But no elf in the world of Krynn could grow a beard . . . no elf, but . . .
“Tanis?” said Flint hesitantly as the man
-Elf Variants
Some half-elves in Faerûn have a racial trait in place of the Skill Versatility trait. If your DM allows it, your half-elf character can forgo Skill Versatility and instead take the elf trait Keen Senses or a trait based on your elf parentage:
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
. For dwarves, elves, gnomes, and halflings, the dragonmark replaces your subrace. So, if you’re making an elf character, you can choose to take the Mark of Shadow instead of being a wood elf or a high
Bodyguards, mercenaries Shadow Phiarlan
Thuranni
Elf
Elf
Entertainment, espionage
Entertainment, assassination
Storm Lyrandar Half-elf Air and sea transportation Warding Kundarak Dwarf Banking, storage, prisons
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
assistant administering the test, cheating on this Exam is a relatively easy matter; the DCs of the two checks is only 12. Costume Designs A character who showed Dean Tullus their plans for a historical
masquerade costume adjusts their Exam results as follows: If the character failed the Exam, they pass instead. If the character passed the Exam, they ace it instead. If the character aced the Exam, they receive three Student Dice, instead of two.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
; instead of faces they bore only the Orzhov’s black sunburst symbol. Small, ugly, gray-skinned servant creatures attended to their black capes.
— Doug Beyer, Return to Ravnica: The Secretist
Wealth is
twin facades of religious hierarchy and banking operation, Orzhov is an organized crime syndicate with its fingers in businesses across the city. The Orzhov’s original function was both religious and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
struck, the Cassalanters enjoyed a miraculous comeback. Their banking and money-lending business thrived while their competition suffered. The disappearance of their eldest son (and heir apparent
save the souls of Terenzio and Elzerina. A clause in the contract allows them to preserve their remaining (and future) children’s lives by instead paying “one shy of a million gold coins, and the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
O’Connor. (O’Connor’s designs also appeared when Magic: The Gathering drew on the Deck of Many Things for a set inspired by the Forgotten Realms.) Like “House of Cards,” Madness at Gardmore Abbey forced
characters to interact with the Deck of Many Things, but it rewarded them with new powers instead of punishing them and blocking all efforts to escape the deck.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
. “The faster I talk, think, and invent, the faster I can improve my designs.” Ideal. “Not only can I make that, I can make it better!” Bond. “Through invention, we make a more interesting world.” Flaw
was the boilerdrak used in Vogler.) The stranger also hired her to design another device, which he was supposed to pick up today. Instead, the goblinoids showed up and demanded she turn over “the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
component. Even a blast of fire in your hands is a sculpted work of art; elemental forces make grand designs as you hurl spells. These forces might linger on your body or in your clothes as decorative
beset with such an overwhelming sense of ennui regarding my art. Nothing quite captures my attention anymore. 6 Instead of confronting my negative emotions, I channel them into explosive artistic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
four shambling mounds made entirely of skulls and bones, with these changes: The shambling mounds are undead. Instead of immunity to lightning damage, they have immunity to necrotic and poison damage
. They are also immune to the poisoned condition. They have Necrotic Absorption instead of Lightning Absorption. The new trait is functionally identical to the old one, except that it affects necrotic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
accompanying adventurers in the guise of an intelligent magic item and steering them to fulfill the dragon’s designs. A draconic shard is difficult to destroy. Destroying the shard’s spectral form or an object
(1d10) force damage.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the shard fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Rejuvenation. When it drops to 0 hit points, the shard disappears and leaves a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
failed to return. Lynx believes that an expedition should instead be sent to an earlier time in the tomb’s construction, when the missing components are known to be there. She further theorizes that
has been built from one of Kwalish’s old designs.) If the characters possess any missing components, she asks to buy those so that they can be added to the construct as well. See the “Mechanical
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
tiniest movements of your somatic components. When your magic creates or alters creatures, it might briefly surround the targets with shimmering fractal designs or tessellated patterns. A Quandrix
to achieve something mathematically impossible. I must leave a legacy! Quandrix Trinkets. When you make your character, you may roll once on the Quandrix Trinkets table, instead of on the Trinkets
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monstrous Compendium Volume Two
Ember Emperor Ariakas,
Glory to the Dragon Queen’s name! Our designs on Abanasinia unfold according to your plans. This is no thanks to the so-called “adviser” I’ve been saddled with, the dragon
fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.
Special Equipment. In battle, Ember dons magical plate armor custom-forged for his use. While wearing the armor, Ember adds his Charisma
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
contraptions, and his sketches can be found on scores of loose sheets of parchment. He uses his Time Lapse action as often as possible to produce his designs quickly. Skylla. Skylla was treated to a puppet
successful DC 15 Dexterity check. A character can instead use an action to try to break the chain by making a successful DC 12 Strength check. If freed, Golmo takes refuge in the pocket or pouch of one of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
—in the grand scheme of the multiverse, few minerals are as rare as their worth might suggest. They might accept favors or prefer to barter instead. Pickpockets and thieves flock to the ward in droves
can buy, protects the bank and its grounds at all hours. Within, a princely statue of Abbathor oversees the main banking hall. Massive emeralds form his eyes, which glint with every transaction, no
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
.
Tasha
Your group is bound to the designs of an ancient being of tremendous power and influence. You might serve as the creature’s eyes and ears in the world, carrying information back to it. Or
monolith or a specific grave, for instructions. 4 Visions. Your patron doesn’t use intermediaries, instead speaking to you in dreams, omens, or visions. The being appears in your mind as you sleep, taking
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
(Perception) check identifies them as such. When the devil rolls a 20 on an attack roll with a claw, the target is decapitated. (At your option, the attack can instead deal an extra 6d8 slashing damage.) A
discovered Kwalish’s war machine designs and managed to construct it using the bone devil’s exoskeleton. The tiny fiend has kept up this pretense for years, piloting this exoskeleton in the guise of the Grand
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
losses, including those of life and limb. Instead, its plethora of back rooms and antechambers act as de facto offices for the menagerie of shady characters who spend their days drinking here. Ostensibly
-walled fortress of commerce has been a center of trade in Baldur’s Gate for centuries, acting as the primary location for banking and currency exchange. As much a bunker as a bank, the Counting House
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
losses, including those of life and limb. Instead, its plethora of back rooms and antechambers act as de facto offices for the menagerie of shady characters who spend their days drinking here. Ostensibly
of commerce has been a center of trade in Baldur’s Gate for centuries, acting as the primary location for banking and currency exchange. As much a bunker as a bank, the Counting House squats on the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
three Brelish soldiers who were transformed by the strange magic of the Day of Mourning. Use the fomorian stat block for each soldier, except they are Large instead of Huge. The cowardly soldiers make
the saving throw fails by 5 or more, the creature is unconscious for 1 hour instead. The creature wakes up if it takes damage or if another creature uses an action to wake it. Sleeping Ghost. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
weed has a 1 percent chance of instead becoming incapacitated for the duration of the plant’s effect. During this time it experiences terrifying visions of an enormous shark devouring great amounts of
inset with dark stones that reflect the chamber’s dim blue light.
If the characters look into the chamber without interrupting the ritual taking place, read: Glowing symbols and strange designs are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
instead of slashing damage and knows the exact location of its target while the target is within the region. The sword vanishes when it or its target is reduced to 0 hit points. 43–48 One character in
a rest in the region must succeed on a DC 12 Charisma saving throw, or it gains no benefit from finishing the rest. It instead finds strange scrawls, stacked stones, or its belongings arranged in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
himself a priest of Aoskar, the dead god of portals, Fell now walks on the ground instead of floating above it. However, some of the dabus’s magic remains, evident in the indelible designs he weaves
temporary glow or shifting pattern—but some designs function as spell scrolls that burn away once used, singeing hair, fur, or scales in the process. As a devotee of Aoskar and longtime resident of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
instead of monetary. P15: Blessed Dead This room contains fourteen alcoves, each one containing a sarcophagus. The lid of each is carved to depict a pious dwarf priest. A dim radiance emanates from each
door. Pressing the carving of a gemstone on the wall causes the door to swing open. P17: Architect’s Tomb Architectural designs are carved into the walls of this room, showing the chambers and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
. Flowing designs decorate the walls. Lounging against the south wall are two mind flayers, their face tentacles periodically gesticulating.
Two mind flayers named Shalghast and Ulthundul guard this room
incapacitated condition. The chairs are stacked to the side because Voalsh never uses chairs, instead preferring to hover vigilantly on guard against her foes. Treasure. The desk holds an amber
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
, the spell slot is expended as normal, but the spell has no effect. Instead, the magic is absorbed by the relief, filling it with a number of charges equal to the level of spell slot expended and causing
teleported to an unoccupied space in area T20a. If there’s not enough space in that location for the creature or object, it is unable to pass through the portal and is rebuffed instead. Southeast Archway
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
“Womford Rats” section, earlier in this chapter), the genasi and his halfling servant aren’t here. Instead, the master of the keelboat is a bandit captain. Treasure A locked chest in the deckhouse holds 190
’ statistics.) They are enthusiastic converts to the cult, but they would rather be out raiding or fighting instead of stuck in the chapel listening to Drosnin rant about the unstoppable power of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
banking business, one for public appearances, and one for private use. They also own six horses: four draft horses to pull carriages and two riding horses. The horses are kept in stalls that are cleaned
,” causing ten knives to magically rise from the counters and attack. These knives are flying swords that deal 4 (1d6 + 1) piercing damage on a hit. Founders’ Day. Jandar isn’t here. Instead, he’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
elaborate designs pressed into the leather, and his work is popular among Waterdhavian nobles who enjoy horseback riding. Although he hails from a prominent Waterdeep family (the Margasters), Othovir never
instead to stop and drown his sorrows in Triboar. He hasn’t lost his faith in Helm, merely his faith in himself and his superiors. Consumed by self-pity, he sees himself as a victim of “temple politics
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
designs. Xendros sometimes has need for adventurers. She is particularly interested in tracking down an apparatus of Kwalish. If news of one reaches her, she offers magic items to those willing to
Saltmarsh decades ago when his sealed coffin was brought to town by a trader and opened. A cleric of St. Cuthbert confronted him, but she wasn’t able to destroy him. Instead, she trapped him here by






