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Magic Items
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
As an action, you make a few snips with these iron shears and cause the shadow of a Humanoid creature you can see within 5 feet of you to detach from its source. If the creature is unwilling to give
next dawn.
The shadow (variant);detached shadow is rooted to the spot where it was snipped until you use a bonus action to cause it to behave in one of the following ways, either of which is possible
Monsters
Tomb of Annihilation
of its turns.
Inspire (1/day). While taking a short rest, the tabaxi can spend 1 minute singing, playing an instrument, telling a story, or reciting a poem to soothe and inspire creatures other than
itself. Up to five creatures of the tabaxi's choice that can see and hear its performance gain 8 temporary hit points at the end of the tabaxi's short rest.Multiattack. The tabaxi makes two claw attacks
Zombie Clot
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monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
detached clump of corpses at a creature it can see within 30 feet of it. The target must succeed on a DC 16 Strength saving throw or take 16 (3d10);{"diceNotation":"3d10","rollType":"damage","rollAction
marches, zombies might suffer all manner of trauma, potentially reducing them to masses of crawling limbs (see swarm of zombie limbs), infecting them with terrible diseases (see zombie plague spreader), or crushing an entire horde into a single, rotting titan.Poison
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
vapors that coalesce at a point it can see within 120 feet of itself. The vapors fill a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on that point, then vanish. Each non-yugoloth creature in that area must make a DC
.
Afflict Despair. When a creature that the baernaloth can see within 60 feet of itself hits with an attack roll or succeeds on a saving throw, the baernaloth forces the creature to reroll the d20 and use
Lizardfolk
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
other humanoids. Like most reptiles, their feelings largely revolve around fear, aggression, and pleasure.
Lizardfolk experience most feelings as detached descriptions of creatures and situations
hold and controls their actions. In contrast, lizardfolk see emotions as traits assigned to other creatures, objects, and situations. A lizardfolk doesn’t think, “I’m scared.&rdquo
Magic Items
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
minute touching the cauldron with a unicorn’s horn while reciting the poem called “The Witch Queen’s Cauldron” (see the accompanying sidebar), all creatures within 1,000 feet of
time. Destroying the cauldron, sending it to another plane of existence, or touching it with a unicorn’s horn for 1 minute while reciting “The Witch Queen’s Cauldron” ends the
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
you can see within 5 feet of you to detach from its source. If the creature is unwilling to give up its shadow, it can make a DC 15 Charisma saving throw, retaining its shadow on a success. Whether or
not the shadow is snipped, this property of the scissors can’t be used again until the next dawn. The detached shadow is rooted to the spot where it was snipped until you use a bonus action to cause
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
description in appendix A for details), which ends the time-freezing magic throughout the palace. Touching Iggwilv’s Cauldron with a unicorn horn while reciting a poem called “The Witch Queen’s Cauldron” (see
Ending the Story Releasing Zybilna from temporal stasis can be accomplished in one of three ways: Shattering Iggwilv’s Cauldron with a frost brand or flame tongue weapon (see the cauldron’s
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
trapeze.
Eleven shadows occupy the theater. These shadows are Fey, not Undead, and they were created by Endelyn using her scissors of shadow snipping (see appendix A). If Gleam’s detached shadow wasn’t
than the others, once belonged to Hurly the bugbear (see area M5). If the characters disturb the wooden silhouettes enough to make their shadows change position, the detached shadows are revealed and
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
balloon, all three are lurking in the guest room (see appendix C for their stat blocks). Charm’s detached shadow is also present unless the characters destroyed it earlier in the adventure. Like other
forth in the wind.
If Trinket, Bauble, and Charm’s rain cloud balloon (see chapter 2) is tethered to the balcony and the characters have not already seen it or destroyed it, add: An enormous flying
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
approach the ledge are spotted by the creatures frolicking in area 40d: six lava children (see appendix A) and seven magma mephits. See area 40d for details. Treasure A character who searches the
north wall and succeeds on a DC 15 Intelligence (Investigation) check discovers that one of the spider carvings on that wall can be detached. The carving is 6 feet off the floor, weighs 10 pounds, and
Yuan-ti Pureblood
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
their human emotions. Now they view the world from a pragmatic and dispassionate perspective. They understand emotional connections in a detached, intellectual way, and recognize that these feelings in
Trait
1
I see omens in every event and action. The serpent gods continue to advise us.
2
I have very high standards for food, drink, and physical pleasures.
3
I prefer to be alone
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
, she provides valuable clues about Prismeer. For details, see “Catching Kettlesteam” later in the chapter. Thieves of the Coven Each member of the Hourglass Coven employs a thief that visits the
detached shadow of Gleam, a high elf acrobat who wears a crescent moon mask. (Gleam herself has vanished from the carnival. The characters won’t meet her until chapter 4.) Gleam’s detached shadow uses
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
. Like most reptiles, their feelings largely revolve around fear, aggression, and pleasure. Lizardfolk experience most feelings as detached descriptions of creatures and situations. For example, humans
their actions. In contrast, lizardfolk see emotions as traits assigned to other creatures, objects, and situations. A lizardfolk doesn’t think, “I’m scared.” Instead, aggressive, stronger creatures
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
. The heads in the jars are specimens that Halaster has collected throughout Undermountain: goblins, drow, kuo-toa, duergar, troglodytes, githyanki, mind flayers, and other creatures. Although detached
determined by drawing a card from the Secrets Deck (see appendix C). A head can also confirm that Halaster spends a lot of time on this level of Undermountain. Removing a head from a jar or removing a jar from this room ends the magic that animates the head, which immediately dies.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
About the Villa Vanthampur Villa is a stately stone edifice with a detached stable house. Both buildings have sloped rooftops covered with red clay tiles. A 12-foot-high stone wall encloses the villa
gate to the south, and a postern gate to the north. The villa’s wooden doors and lead-framed windows aren’t locked, and the Vanthampurs employ guards to patrol the yard (see area V1). The guards live
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
creates a dancing mote of green flame around a creature it can see within 60 feet of it. The target must succeed on a DC 17 Dexterity saving throw or take 31 (9d6);{"diceNotation":"9d6", "rollType
visitors by reciting epic poetry.
4
The only people I’m interested in are those who know history and those who make history.
5
I like to adopt the personas of characters from legend
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
mote of green flame around a creature it can see within 60 feet of it. The target must succeed on a DC 20 Dexterity saving throw or take 42 (12d6);{"diceNotation":"12d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction
reciting epic poetry.
4
The only people I’m interested in are those who know history and those who make history.
5
I like to adopt the personas of characters from legend.
6
I
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lorwyn: First Light
sunlight.
The village of Lys Alana is home to about five hundred residents, most of whom are elves. Overseeing the village with detached fairness is the elf Perfect Gecoran (Medium Noble). While many
the statistics of Wyvern Poison (see the Dungeon Master’s Guide). He is concerned that someone within his inner circle wants to use the poison to sow chaos.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
the cauldron can’t be used again for 8 days. If you spend 1 minute touching the cauldron with a unicorn’s horn while reciting the poem called “The Witch Queen’s Cauldron” (see the accompanying sidebar
longer frozen in time. Destroying the cauldron, sending it to another plane of existence, or touching it with a unicorn’s horn for 1 minute while reciting “The Witch Queen’s Cauldron” ends the time
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
34. Maddgoth’s Suite The frame of the outermost door has a platinum coin wedged into it (see area 19). The door has a stained glass “M” worked into its design. Anyone who listens at the door hears
portraits magically spring from their paintings, gaining the statistics of flying swords, and remain detached from the paintings thereafter. Replace the wands’ Longsword action option with the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
sought to resurrect a being bonded to the land and capable of bending the Mists to its will. This resulted in the corruption of her order’s sacred pools and unleashed Darcalus Rex, a Necrichor (see chapter
violence while using her high-priced Potions of Greater Invisibility. These magical attacks and Eris’s pompous, detached rhetoric exacerbate tensions in the city while enriching her nearly bankrupt family.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
rest, the tabaxi can spend 1 minute singing, playing an instrument, telling a story, or reciting a poem to soothe and inspire creatures other than itself. Up to five creatures of the tabaxi’s choice
that can see and hear its performance gain 8 temporary hit points at the end of the tabaxi’s short rest.
Actions
Multiattack. The tabaxi makes two claws attacks or two dart attacks.
Claws. Melee
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
breaking an endless cycle of mortality for themselves and others. Alix Branwyn Symbol of the Heralds of Dust The Heralds of Dust—or the Dusters, as they’re commonly called—see death as a spectrum
is a mystery, but Dusters maintain they must divest themselves of passion to progress. Death shows no desire or emotion, and neither should its heralds. Dusters see undeath as a precursor to True
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
associated with particular springs and groves (such as Eldath). Druids revere nature as a whole and might serve one of these deities, practicing mysterious rites and reciting all-but-forgotten prayers in their
Channel Divinity to charm animals and plants. As an action, you present your holy symbol and invoke the name of your deity. Each beast or plant creature that can see you within 30 feet of you must make a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
as warnings, knowing that the basilisk that created them is likely to be nearby. “No one carves statues of frightened warriors. If you see one, keep your eyes closed and your ears open.”
— X the
of the petrified creature, such as its head, is detached. Basilisk
Medium monstrosity, unaligned
Armor Class 15 (natural armor)
Hit Points 52 (8d8 + 16)
Speed 20 ft.
STR
16 (+3
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
makes them ideal leaders, and thus deadly rivals to orc war chiefs, who must be wary of orog treachery. Detached Killers. Wanting nothing more than to hack their enemies to pieces, orogs are a
, the orog can move up to its speed toward a hostile creature that it can see.
Actions
Multiattack. The orog makes two greataxe attacks.
Greataxe. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
forest of fungi, including barrelstalks, timmasks, tongues of madness, and trillimacs (see “Fungi”).
Giant Insects. Six giant centipedes and four giant fire beetles are meandering among the fungi
from the earthen floor. The walls are lined with ripplebark (see “Fungi”).
Sovereign. A 9-foot-tall myconid sovereign stands near the back of the cave. Its bioluminescent cap sheds bright light in a 10
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
punishment for being “bad parents.” Ever since then, they have been shunned by their peers (see the “Shadowless” sidebar earlier in the chapter). The characters might have encountered the goblins’ detached
stone walls, above which you can see the stormy sky. A team of masked goblins is preparing the stage for a play while costumed actors huddle in the wings and recite lines. Lighting is provided by an
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
, Intimidation, or Persuasion) check, the brain warns them of the risks of tampering with the journal (see below). It then negotiates for the characters’ aid, claiming that only it can safely release
with images of air and water elementals locked in furious battle, within which is a Galder’s bubble pipe (see appendix D). A suit of Heward’s hireling armor (see appendix D). Components of value to
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
tail that complete the costume.
If the bugbear’s detached shadow in area M12 has not been defeated, add: This bugbear looks all the more unusual because he casts no shadow.
Performers prepare
in his chair and gazes into a mirror. Reflected back at him is a sickly, haggard version of himself (see “Magic Mirrors” below). He is dressed to portray the green dragon in the tragedy titled A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
a ten-foot-wide, twenty-foot-long hall leading to a brightly lit chapel. The hall is unlit and reeks of mildew. Four doors, two on each side of the hall, lead to adjacent chambers. You can see that
the chapel is strewn with debris, and you hear a soft voice from within reciting a prayer. Suddenly, the prayer is blotted out by an inhuman scream that rises up from beneath the wooden floor.
The
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Morte’s Planar Parade
to painfully reopen. All the while, baernaloths are disturbingly detached, observing their victims’ agony without emotion. Baernaloth Large Fiend (Yugoloth), Typically Neutral Evil
Armor Class 17
, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4) slashing damage plus 17 (5d6) necrotic damage.
Miasma of Discord (Recharge 5–6). The baernaloth exhales gray vapors that coalesce at a point it can see
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Amidor and Gleam This encounter should take place before the characters have their first random encounter in Yon or reach any of the marked locations on the map of Yon. You see two figures standing
defensive pose. The honeybee buzzes more loudly as it flies circles around the two of them.
The creature wielding the rapier is Amidor, and its beloved companion is Pollenella (see the accompanying
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Inspiration to grant yourself a wondrous appearance. When you do so, choose a number of creatures you can see and that can see you within 60 feet of you, up to a number equal to your Charisma modifier
at 3rd level, you can charge your performance with seductive, fey magic. If you perform for at least 1 minute, you can attempt to inspire wonder in your audience by singing, reciting a poem, or