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Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
(roll a d6): (1–2) detect evil and good or (3–6) detect magic. The docent decides when to cast the spell.
Personality. A docent is designed to advise and assist the warforged it’s
attached to. One of the simple functions of a docent is to serve as a translator. The docent’s properties are under its control, and if you have a bad relationship with your docent, it might refuse to assist you.
Monsters
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
spell attacks). He can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:
At will: detect thoughts, disguise self, mage hand, minor illusion
3/day each: charm person, detect magic
curse takes effect whenever the target takes a short or long rest, filling the target’s thoughts with horrible images and dreams. The cursed target gains no benefit from finishing a short or long
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
will: detect magic, druidcraft, speak with animals
2/day each: polymorph, remove curse, speak with plants
1/day: awaken (as an action), plane shift (self only)Skabatha is the oldest member of the
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Personality Trait. “When dealing with outsiders, I present myself as a kindly old grandmother.”
Ideal. “Children are better off working for me than picking up lots of bad habits
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
the following spells, requiring no material components and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 26):
At will: alter self (can become Medium when changing her appearance), detect
. Zariel prefers to create images of intruders’ loved ones being burned alive. Zariel doesn’t need to concentrate on the spells, which end on initiative count 20 of the next round. Each
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
pouch, stitched with images of heroes and whimsical creatures. Where the teeth fall, they bring legends to life.
Using the Teeth. While you are holding the pouch, you can use an action to draw one tooth
telepathy out to 120 feet as described in the Monster Manual, and you can cast the detect thoughts spell at will, requiring no components. You also have disadvantage on Wisdom (Insight) and Wisdom
Rakshasa
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Monsters
Basic Rules (2014)
spell attacks). The rakshasa can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:
At will: detect thoughts, disguise self, mage hand, minor illusion
3/day each: charm person
, detect magic, invisibility, major image, suggestion
1/day each: dominate person, fly, plane shift, true seeingMultiattack. The rakshasa makes two claw attacks.
Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +7
Monsters
Infernal Machine Rebuild
Limited Telepathy. The otyugh can magically transmit simple messages and images to any creature within 120 feet of it that can understand a language. This form of telepathy doesn't allow the
, requiring no components:
At will: detect thoughts
1/day each: command, hold personMultiattack. The neo-otyugh makes three attacks: one with its bite and two with its tentacles.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +8
Ancient Brass Dragon
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be used at a time and only at the end of another creature's turn. The dragon regains spent legendary actions at the start of its turn.
Detect. The dragon makes a Wisdom (Perception) check.
Tail
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Images of Large or smaller monsters haunt the desert sands within 1 mile of the dragon’s lair. These illusions move and appear real, although they can do no harm. A creature that examines an
Adult Brass Dragon
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creature's turn. The dragon regains spent legendary actions at the start of its turn.
Detect. The dragon makes a Wisdom (Perception) check.
Tail Attack. The dragon makes a tail attack.
Wing Attack
;s lair. The tracks lead to safe shelters and hidden water sources, while also leading away from areas that the dragon prefers to remain undisturbed.
Images of Large or smaller monsters haunt the
Zariel
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Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
), detect evil and good, fireball, invisibility (self only), wall of fire
3/day each: blade barrier, dispel evil and good, finger of death
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Zariel fails a saving throw
create images of intruders’ loved ones being burned alive. Zariel doesn’t need to concentrate on the spells, which end on initiative count 20 of the next round. Each creature that can see
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Bad Dreams The characters’ sleep in the slave pen is troubled and fitful, filled with strange dreams and disturbing images. Dark shadows seem to move and reach out toward them as the characters
depths — something far worse than the drow. You need not explain the cause of these dreams and images at this time. Characters can chalk them up to the conditions in the slave pen, or to the aftereffects
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
25. Scrying Pool Behind the secret door, water fills a carved stone font.
Withers uses this font to speak to creatures outside the tomb and contact his tomb guardian. A detect magic spell or
through it. The guardian relies on darkvision to see, so images in the pool are in black and white. The images fade and the scrying effect ends if no character gazes into the water. Unless one of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
18. Devil Pit The walls and floor of this fifteen-foot-square room are cracked and carved with images of terrified humanoids falling. Set into the middle of the floor is a stone bas-relief of a
the ceiling of area 35. Magical darkness fills the mouth and the shaft. A detect magic spell or similar effect reveals auras of evocation and illusion magic within the shaft. A successful dispel magic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
and can cast it at will, requiring no components (roll a d6): (1–2) detect evil and good or (3–6) detect magic. The docent decides when to cast the spell. Personality. A docent is designed to advise and
assist the warforged it’s attached to. One of the simple functions of a docent is to serve as a translator. The docent’s properties are under its control, and if you have a bad relationship with your docent, it might refuse to assist you.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
and can cast it at will, requiring no components (roll a d6): (1–2) detect evil and good or (3–6) detect magic. The docent decides when to cast the spell. Personality. A docent is designed to advise
and assist the warforged it’s attached to. One of the simple functions of a docent is to serve as a translator. The docent’s properties are under its control, and if you have a bad relationship with your docent, it might refuse to assist you.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
dispelled (DC 17). Hidden in plain sight amid the feast on the table is a green copper ewer embossed with images of dancing bears, elks, and wolves. The ewer, like the table, isn’t illusory. A detect
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
information). 2b. Dragon Engravings The walls of this chamber are engraved with images of armored githyanki knights riding red dragons. 2c. Illithid Heads Twelve severed mind flayer heads are mounted on the
east and west walls of this partially destroyed area. A detect magic spell reveals an aura of necromancy magic around each head, which is a Tiny object with AC 5, 3 hit points, and immunity to poison
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
68. Hall of Decay Graven images of rotting corpses decorate this hall, and the floor is littered with tarnished coins, pieces of armor, broken shields, axe heads, and other bits of scrap metal.
All
into area 69. This yawning archway has a keystone adorned with an iron bull’s skull, which bites down on an ivory ring.
A detect magic spell or similar effect reveals an aura of necromancy magic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Docent knows one of the following spells and can cast it at will, requiring no spell components (roll a d6): (1–2) Detect Evil and Good or (3–6) Detect Magic. The Docent decides when to cast the spell
. Personality. A Docent is designed to advise and assist the warforged it’s attached to, including acting as a translator. The Docent’s properties are under its control, and if you have a bad relationship with your Docent, it might refuse to assist you.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
8. Park-and-Ride The duergar searched area 8a for treasure but didn’t find anything of interest. They also failed to detect the secret door to area 8b. 8a. Donkey Dummies Frescoes. The walls are
, paralyzed, petrified, or poisoned. 8b. Arch Gate to Level 9 A stone arch embedded in the south wall is engraved with images of beholders, flumphs, and stirges. The arch is one of Halaster’s gates
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
31. Reflected Hall A curtain of water separates two hallways that are basically mirror images of one another. When characters enter the first hall, read: Still puddles of water cover the floor of
reveals that its stones and the images on them are illusions. Each alcove contains a plinth bearing a crystal eyeball 1 inch in diameter: a pale purple eyeball to the south and a bright green eyeball to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
images of devils waging war against demons.
In forgotten times, archdevils used these twin arches to transport entire regiments to other planes of existence. The arches’ magic has waned
significantly, but there’s still enough magic left in each one to transport creatures to another location in the Nine Hells. Characters who use a detect magic spell or similar magic to examine the arches discern
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3
purple-red stone its forehead. The altar and floor are covered with dust. The walls of the room are decorated with paintings of the sun and moon in motion. Other images show people standing about a
temple making sacrifices of flesh and blood, while the figure of a priest holds the heart of his latest victim above his head.
Trapped Altar. The altar radiates an aura of transmutation magic if detect
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
following spells, requiring no material components:
At will: detect thoughts, disguise self, mage hand, minor illusion
3/day each: charm person, detect magic, invisibility, major image, suggestion
+ 2) slashing damage, and the target is cursed if it is a creature. The magical curse takes effect whenever the target takes a short or long rest, filling the target’s thoughts with horrible images
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
Perception 11
Languages Otyugh
Challenge 7 (2,900 XP)
Limited Telepathy. The otyugh can magically transmit simple messages and images to any creature within 120 feet of it that can understand a language
). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no components:
At will: detect thoughts
1/day each: command. hold person
Actions
Multiattack. The neo-otyugh makes three attacks: one
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
bear Ephara’s face, fashioned thus in the belief that each of her images watches over the part of the city it looks upon. Ephara is strongly affiliated with the daytime, when cities are awake, alive
build a city. Ephara and Nylea are almost polar opposites, and there is no shortage of bad blood between the god of the cities and the god of the hunt. Nylea resents the construction of every
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
seems like a transparently bad idea. What were those giants thinking?
—Bigby
And yet, can we fairly say that the existence of fensirs is “transparently bad”? Some might argue they are a
significant improvement over trolls. At the very least, the diversity of life in the multiverse increased, and new wonders were revealed. That’s only bad if you think a small universe that fits within your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation Supplement
face, which is 12 feet tall and 10 feet wide, represents the sea goddess Umberlee. It radiates an aura of transmutation magic under the scrutiny of a detect magic spell or similar effect. When a
heavy crossbows and 100 crossbow bolts packed in straw Clay urn 1 Empty Clay urn 2 Empty Clay run 3 (painted with pegasi images) Ten 50-foot-long coils of hempen rope (1 gp each) Clay urn 4 (painted with squid images) 10 gallons of dark purple ink
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
rubble from a purple worm’s passage. The brightly colored murals are intact, and detect magic or similar magic causes the magic ink that preserves the work to glow. Any Bedine with the party display
the ruined city depicted in mural F. He is willing to guide the party there. If the golem sees the murals, it looks confused or reacts with vague recognition as it tries to recall images from its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
, and radiant damage. A detect magic spell reveals that the statue radiates an aura of abjuration magic. Any fiend that starts its turn within 15 feet of the statue causes it to flare with radiant
only once while in the memory. I3. Temple of Lathander This two-story, white stone temple carved with images of the sun on its exterior walls is the largest building in the town. Iron shutters cover the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
) and a humanoid (usually a human). Cambions inherit aspects of both parents, but their horns, leathery wings, and sinewy tails are hallmarks of their otherworldly parentage. Born to Be Bad. Cambions
following spells, requiring no material components:
3/day each: alter self, command, detect magic
1/day: plane shift (self only)
Actions
Multiattack. The cambion makes two melee attacks or uses its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
the brewing of potions. A wooden ladder on rollers is attached to a rail mounted above the shelves.
This demilich is all that remains of Branta Myntion, a wizard who fell in with a bad crowd. Her
Futuristic Frogmash, a foul-tasting homebrewed wine. Each label bears Halaster’s rune and the date 1531 DR. A detect magic spell reveals an aura of abjuration magic around one of the bottles. Uncorking this
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
inscribed with images of sea creatures and geometric patterns. At its center, a short platform bears a high-backed, obsidian throne sculpted with stylized images similar to those on the walls. Behind
to preserve sacred knowledge in a secure place. A detect magic spell reveals an aura of abjuration magic around the throne. Lurking Aboleth. In the shadows of the southwest alcove lurks the aboleth
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Ras Nsi does what he must to prevent the Red Wizards or the characters from obtaining all of them. A puzzle cube is a stone cube 3 inches on a side and engraved with images of a specific trickster
god. Each cube weighs half a pound. A detect magic spell or similar effect reveals an aura of abjuration magic around each cube. The puzzle cubes can’t be destroyed by any means. If they’re discarded
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
picking up lots of bad habits.” Bond. “I hate my sisters, but together we are strong.” Flaw. “I forget the first creature I see each day when I awaken.” Skabatha’s Appearance Skabatha appears as a short
save DC 14):
At will: detect magic, druidcraft, speak with animals
2/day each: polymorph, remove curse, speak with plants
1/day each: awaken (as an action), plane shift (self only)
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