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Magic Items
Dungeon Masterâs Guide
can take a Magic action to break the staff over your knee or against a solid surface. The staff is destroyed and releases its magic in an explosion that fills a 30-foot Emanation originating from itself
. You have a 50 percent chance to instantly travel to a random plane of existence, avoiding the explosion. If you fail to avoid the effect, you take Force damage equal to 16 times the number of
Magic Items
Dungeon Masterâs Guide
expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the last charge, roll 1d20. On a 20, the staff regains 1d12 + 1 charges.
Retributive Strike. You can take a Magic action to break the staff over your knee
or against a solid surface. The staff is destroyed and releases its magic in an explosion that fills a 30-foot Emanation originating from itself. You have a 50 percent chance to instantly travel to a
Magic Items
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
hold. The largest mythallars are 150 feet in diameter.
The Ythryn mythallar is a relatively small deviceâa mere 50 feet in diameter. To attune to this mythallar, a creature must finish a short
;s Guide. If a ninth creature tries to attune to the mythallar, nothing happens.
All creatures attuned to the Ythryn mythallar can sense when the device is being used. A creature attuned to the device
Magic Items
Legendary Magic Items
Resembling a small dragonâs horn, this arcane device glows with a hellish internal light when held. As an action while holding this horn, you can invoke a necromantic effect called the
(including you) that has 9 or fewer hit points when it ends its turn in the cloud is slain by the Beckoning Death. A Humanoid killed in this way instantly transforms into a zombie (see the Monster Manual
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
ice, whereupon Auril instantly reappears in her Auril (Third Form);third form, in an unoccupied space within 60 feet of where her second form was destroyed. Her initiative count doesnât change
ice with which to combat foes. These weapons are supernaturally resilient until Auril discards them, whereupon they break and melt like normal ice.
Auril the Frostmaiden
Auril the Frostmaiden is a
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
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Bludgeoning, piercing, slashing, and thunder damage can cause a fractine to break into two smaller fractines, each one autonomous and capable of imprisoning creatures. When a fractine dies, it folds in on
to 0 hit points, any creature in the fractineâs demiplane is released instantly. A released creature reappears in an unoccupied space as close to the fractine (or where it died) as possible. A
Magic Items
Tashaâs Cauldron of Everything
conjecture than fact, often referring to otherworldly beings, the mysterious Barrier Peaks in Oerth, and the supposedly related device known as the Machine of Lum the Mad. The best details on the device
âs origins and operation can be found in the Mind of Metal, a tome of artificerâs secrets that connects the device to the traditions of the lost Olman people, and which was written by Lum the
Staff of Power
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Magic Items
Basic Rules (2014)
(5th-level version, 5 charges), magic missile (1 charge), ray of enfeeblement (1 charge), or wall of force (5 charges).
Retributive Strike. You can use an action to break the staff over your knee or
a 50 percent chance to instantly travel to a random plane of existence, avoiding the explosion. If you fail to avoid the effect, you take force damage equal to 16 Ă the number of charges in the
Staff of the Magi
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Basic Rules (2014)
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Retributive Strike. You can use an action to break the staff over your knee or against a solid surface, performing a retributive strike. The staff is destroyed and releases its remaining magic in an
explosion that expands to fill a 30-foot-radius sphere centered on it.
You have a 50 percent chance to instantly travel to a random plane of existence, avoiding the explosion. If you fail to avoid
Wand of Orcus
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Magic Items
Dungeon Masterâs Guide (2014)
The ghastly Wand of Orcus rarely leaves Orcusâs side. The device, as evil as its creator, shares the demon lordâs aims to snuff out the lives of all living things and bind the Material
imprisoned the heroâs soul and keeps it hidden and well guarded.
Bathing the wand in positive energy causes it to crack and explode, but unless the above conditions are met, the wand instantly reforms on Orcusâs layer of the Abyss.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Legendary Magic Items
Horn of Beckoning Death Wondrous Item, Legendary (Requires Attunement by a Sorcerer, Warlock, or Wizard) Resembling a small dragonâs horn, this arcane device glows with a hellish internal light when
Humanoid killed in this way instantly transforms into a zombie (see the Monster Manual). The zombie obeys the commands of the hornâs creator, the lich Szass Tam. Once you use the hornâs property, it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rrakkma
slots, taking a break after the third combat encounter (most likely Area 7). If youâre running this adventure outside of an event, it is of course up to the DM and players to decide how best to break
action going while remaining fair, this reliquary becomes the essential time keeping device for the adventurers. Whoever is attuned to the reliquary can instinctively tell how charged up the Gith
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
under stony cowls and their arms raised toward the iron disk.
This room is one large timekeeping device. Every day at dawn and at dusk, the wizard statues exert invisible magical force upon the
detect magic spell reveals auras of evocation magic and transmutation magic around the statues, which defy all attempts to move or break them. If a creature attempts to turn the disk manually, the statues
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
man falls from a high bridge, striking the ground near them and dying instantly. Heâs carrying a sealed bag of holding and the badge of an agent of the Argentum, a Thrane agency dedicated to the
package.
6 A delirious street preacher has an apocalyptic vision concerning one of the player characters.
7 The PCs discover a bound-elemental explosive device in their quarters. They have
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
. Retributive Strike. You can take a Magic action to break the staff over your knee or against a solid surface. The staff is destroyed and releases its magic in an explosion that fills a 30-foot Emanation
originating from itself. You have a 50 percent chance to instantly travel to a random plane of existence, avoiding the explosion. If you fail to avoid the effect, you take Force damage equal to 16 times the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Divine Contention
of the ships, but might retreat below deck to eat, rest, or get a break from the light of day. Each ship has six officers: a captain, a first mate, a bosun, a quartermaster, a surgeon, and a cook. Each
, meaning that characters who physically interact with crew members have a chance to notice the illusion. Additionally, any drow character who boards one of these ships instantly takes on the illusory form of a human.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
first time a creature picks up the Summer Star, its core glows with a golden radiance as bright as a candle flame. Unless the creature drops the device immediately, the light suddenly blossoms, becoming
a 10-foot-radius sphere of incinerating golden radiance centered on the device. Each creature in the sphere must make a DC 17 Constitution saving throw, taking 90 (10d10 + 35) radiant damage on a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
passage connecting the keep to the dungeon levels. Shortly after sunrise the day after you arrive in town, you hear a commotion outside. Someone shouts, âHey, stop that!â A moment later voices break into a
others kneel before it.
The object is a devastation orb, and itâs ready to explode. The cultists remove the device from its case and wait for it to detonate. See chapter 7 for descriptions of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
â and incarcerated here, where the monks attempt to break their wills and return them to servitude. Cells. The cells are all repurposed metal containers from the planar craft, and are all locked. A
automatically sliced open with an attack from an elder monkâs force pike. Characters who fall to the valley floor (area C4) from area C1 or area M9 are picked up by a floating teleportation-field device
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
charge, roll 1d20. On a 20, the staff regains 1d12 + 1 charges. Retributive Strike. You can take a Magic action to break the staff over your knee or against a solid surface. The staff is destroyed
and releases its magic in an explosion that fills a 30-foot Emanation originating from itself. You have a 50 percent chance to instantly travel to a random plane of existence, avoiding the explosion. If
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
â tools can pick the lock with a successful DC 20 Dexterity check. A knock spell or similar magic also opens the door. Valetta wonât allow characters to break down the door, but she does permit them to
divination magic around it. If asked about it, Nim tells Valetta that it built this device to find the errant nimblewright and tried to seek it out, only to discover that Nim couldnât leave the temple grounds
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Masterâs Guide (2014)
charge), ray of enfeeblement (1 charge), or wall of force (5 charges). Retributive Strike. You can use an action to break the staff over your knee or against a solid surface, performing a retributive
strike. The staff is destroyed and releases its remaining magic in an explosion that expands to fill a 30-foot-radius sphere centered on it. You have a 50 percent chance to instantly travel to a random
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
charges). Retributive Strike. You can use an action to break the staff over your knee or against a solid surface, performing a retributive strike. The staff is destroyed and releases its remaining magic in
an explosion that expands to fill a 30-foot-radius sphere centered on it. You have a 50 percent chance to instantly travel to a random plane of existence, avoiding the explosion. If you fail to avoid
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
with the terms of the contract written in Infernal. Casting the contract into the River Styx or immersing it in molten magma of one of Avernusâs active volcanoes destroys it instantly. Destroying
Kreegâ). If Thavius dies in the Nine Hells as a devil, he is permanently dead â but this does not break the full terms of Zarielâs contract. Even with the primary signatory dead, the people of Elturel
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
. Tockworthâs workshop (area L9) is located here, but Tockworth herself is taking a break at the Motherlode Tavern (area L8). L7: Foundry The soot-stained foundry stands at the edge of this district
L9b, she casts dimension door and steps through the spellâs magical doorway into area L9b. As she leaves, she says, âBreak timeâs over, Poots!â (The characters have no way to know this, but Poots is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
. Throughout the battle, Tullus clutches the green orb. The wicked mage Murgaxor controls her through this device, but separating her from the orb doesnât break Murgaxorâs control. When Tullus is defeated or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
lock, detect magic, enlarge/reduce, light, mage hand, or protection from evil and good. Retributive Strike. You can use an action to break the staff over your knee or against a solid surface
, performing a retributive strike. The staff is destroyed and releases its remaining magic in an explosion that expands to fill a 30-foot-radius sphere centered on it. You have a 50 percent chance to instantly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
shattered the ordning between the giants to break his âchildrenâ out of their complacency, pitting the six giant types against one another while keeping some semblance of order within each type. In
so doing, Annam has spurred cloud, fire, frost, stone, and hill giants to challenge the established hierarchy and reforge their destiny. All the giants sensed the upheaval instantly, and now the giant
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Poor Devil: Thavius Kreeg If the characters killed Thavius Kreeg in chapter 1, his soul ends up in the Nine Hells, where it emerges from the River Styx as a lemure. Zariel instantly becomes aware of
thin enough to pass between the bars. Only Zariel can unlock Thaviusâs shackles, though a creature can break them with a successful DC 25 Strength (Athletics) check. The shackles can also be attacked
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
)
Traits
Diabolical Restoration. If the devil dies outside the Nine Hells, its body disappears in sulfurous smoke, and it gains a new body instantly, reviving with all its Hit Points somewhere in the Nine
deal with a devil, but theyâre a significant one. Break said deal, and itâll likely be one of these nightmares that drags you down to the Nine Hells.
âSylvira Savikas, Candlekeep Sage
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Masterâs Guide
. Retributive Strike. You can take a Magic action to break the staff over your knee or against a solid surface. The staff is destroyed and releases its magic in an explosion that fills a 30-foot Emanation
originating from itself. You have a 50 percent chance to instantly travel to a random plane of existence, avoiding the explosion. If you fail to avoid the effect, you take Force damage equal to 16 times the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
or choose a result from the Demonic Undertakings table to inspire how a magic-user might employ a hezrou or similar demon. Demonic Undertakings 1d6 The Demon Is Compelled To... 1 Break open a
Abyss, its body dissolves into ichor, and it gains a new body instantly, reviving with all its Hit Points somewhere in the Abyss.
Magic Resistance. The hezrou has Advantage on saving throws against
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
, even nations embroiled in bitter conflict will set their differences aside to help contain an outbreak of demons, or to seal off abyssal breaches before these fiends can break free. Signs of
energy of the most potent spells. When a lucky hero manages to drop a demon in combat, the fiend dissolves into foul ichor. It then instantly reforms in the Abyss, its mind and essence intact even as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Masterâs Guide (2014)
lock, detect magic, enlarge/reduce, light, mage hand, or protection from evil and good. Retributive Strike. You can use an action to break the staff over your knee or against a solid surface
, performing a retributive strike. The staff is destroyed and releases its remaining magic in an explosion that expands to fill a 30-foot-radius sphere centered on it. You have a 50 percent chance to instantly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Masterâs Guide
break the staff over your knee or against a solid surface. The staff is destroyed and releases its magic in an explosion that fills a 30-foot Emanation originating from itself. You have a 50 percent
chance to instantly travel to a random plane of existence, avoiding the explosion. If you fail to avoid the effect, you take Force damage equal to 16 times the number of charges in the staff. Each






