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Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
hold. The largest mythallars are 150 feet in diameter.
The Ythryn mythallar is a relatively small device—a 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 dragon’s 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
until her concentration is broken (as if concentrating on a spell).Auril can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at
instantly knows the locations and health of all other creatures on the island. She knows how much damage each of these creatures has taken, how many levels of exhaustion they have, and what conditions
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
, or its concentration is broken (as if concentrating on a spell). Any equipment the mummy lord wears or carries is invisible with it.The mummy lord can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the
following ways by the creature’s dark presence:
Food instantly molders and water instantly evaporates when brought into the lair. Other nonmagical drinks are spoiled — wine turning to
Magic Items
Tasha’s 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
’s origins and operation can be found in the Mind of Metal, a tome of artificer’s secrets that connects the device to the traditions of the lost Olman people, and which was written by Lum the
Monsters
Princes of the Apocalypse
breaks off a chunk of his body and places it on the ground in an unoccupied space within 15 feet of him. The chunk of rock instantly transforms into a gargoyle and acts on the same initiative count
tremors"} rounds. At first, damage is minor — broken windows, cracked plaster, items toppled off shelves. The longer Ogrémoch remains, the stronger the tremors become. After 5 days, the
Magic Items
The Book of Many Things
they are alive and any conditions they have. If you named an object, you know if it is broken or not. If you named a magic item that has charges, you know how many charges it has remaining.
Maze. You
Disintegrate spell destroys the chains instantly, freeing you. Another creature can also free you by succeeding on a DC 30 Dexterity check using thieves’ tools.
Ring. A rare or rarer magic ring appears
Wand of Orcus
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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
The ghastly Wand of Orcus rarely leaves Orcus’s side. The device, as evil as its creator, shares the demon lord’s aims to snuff out the lives of all living things and bind the Material
imprisoned the hero’s 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 Orcus’s layer of the Abyss.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
middle of the trench — an old magic device once used to lift caravans up into the main cavern of the outpost and back down into the trench. It now lies broken, its magic spent. The duergar and drow
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
-controlling magic device. One of these designs resembles a gyroscope and closely resembles the object found in area B4. B7. Abandoned Bedroom A stiff wind blows through the broken window in the east wall
corners by stiff winds blowing through broken windows. The walls and furniture are scorched black, including a table with the charred remains of a book on it. Next to the table, on the floor amid
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
of the chasm, the base of the fallen tower can be seen, reduced to a broken section of its former ground floor.
Ruins This city once housed the Infernal Machine before Lum the Mad conquered those
follows the lines discovers that they converge at a huge central representation of a massive magical-mechanical device—the Infernal Machine.
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 dragon’s 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 horn’s creator, the lich Szass Tam. Once you use the horn’s property, it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
ice, with no passages leading out. The ceiling is 30 feet high and lined with icicles, and bits of broken ice surround a massive white marble sarcophagus situated in the middle of the floor. The lid
with her. A creature in this tomb that speaks the name “Blagothkus” is instantly teleported to the ground floor of area 17.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
ice, with no passages leading out. The ceiling is 30 feet high and lined with icicles, and bits of broken ice surround a massive white marble sarcophagus situated in the middle of the floor. The lid
with her. A creature in this tomb that speaks the name “Blagothkus” is instantly teleported to the ground floor of area 17.
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
nonmagical objects made of cloth, leather, wood, or metal that enter this corridor instantly decay or corrode to the point of being useless and worthless. Clothing and armor falls apart, shields and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
jars, many of which contain brains suspended in colorful liquid. Glassware on one shelf has been knocked over, covering the floor in broken glass. Bimbi the flumph (area 17) accidentally spilled many of
instantly switch bodies (an unwilling creature can make a DC 18 Wisdom saving throw, causing the machine to fail on a successful saving throw). Each creature retains its personality and memories but
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a7
four rotting sofas, a couple of throne-like chairs, and a jumble of stands, small tables, and vases and urns that are dented, chipped, and broken. Only the rather plain tapestries hanging on the east
Hazards” in chapter 5 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide). If either tapestry is torn down, it instantly turns into green slime and covers a 20-foot-long, 10-foot-wide area of floor when it falls. Note that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
man falls from a high bridge, striking the ground near them and dying instantly. He’s 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->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3
will cause the beak to snap shut instantly. Whatever was inserted into the mouth will be pinned, and the hinge of the mechanism will jam. The hinge can be loosened with oil, after which the beak opens
easily, or the beak (AC 16, 25 hit points) can be broken off by dealing bludgeoning damage to it that reduces it to 0 hit points. If a character’s arm is caught in the beak when the beak is struck, that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
approaching, the duergar turn invisible and enlarge themselves, then ambush anyone that enters the chamber. These duergar have had their minds broken by the mind flayers and fight to the death. 16c. Psionic
psionic force generator, a magic device that allows the mind flayers to create and sustain the walls of force that enclose area 8. The mind flayers provide the mental energy that powers the generator. If
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Trinkets d6 Trinket 1 An unopened letter from your first teacher 2 A broken wand made of black, red, or white wood 3 A scroll bearing an incomprehensible formula 4 A purposeless device covered in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
radius. The characters can use this device to counteract Auril’s spell and free Icewind Dale from her Everlasting Rime. Chardalyn
More than a hundred years prior to this adventure, a wizard named Akar
that has become suffused with demonic magic can warp a creature’s mind, causing madness that usually fades away once the contact is broken.
Chardalyn is cold to the touch and readily accepts
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a4
of glass wall has AC 15, and 20 hit points. The glass can also be broken with a successful DC 15 Strength check. The only exit from the room is the door that leads south out of the bottom tier. It
opens into a corridor that passes under the higher tiers of the room. Breaking Glass. If any of the glass walls are broken, a weak wall of force will activate immediately in front of the door on the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
device called the Soulmonger. The Harpers received their intelligence from a lich, but they don’t know much about the Soulmonger other than its name and general whereabouts. Adventurers willing to
of transformation, becoming a yuan-ti malison. As a yuan-ti, Ras Nsi imposed his terrible will on the evil snake people and became their leader. Beneath the cracked and broken streets of Omu lies a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
the west, but it fell long ago and only a few broken arches of masonry remain. The eastern side of the tower is undergoing repair; from here, characters can climb a ladder to ascend to the scaffolds
and shovels still lie where they fell. Clearing the rubble would take one person a week of hard labor. H9. Thalivar’s Bedroom This chamber is sealed behind rubble. A broken window is the only entrance
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
powered not by a Docent, but by a device called a graymatter engine that incorporated part of an artifact—perhaps that’s what you seek? The graymatter engine was said to generate a magical barrier
around Landro, making it impossible to enter Landro except where the barrier has already been broken.”
If the characters negotiate a deal that the Turquoise Spear finds agreeable, Kalyth tells the party
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
ruling over its domain. Long ago, the beholder heard rumors of an arcane device known as the Maze Engine, capable of shifting the gears of reality. During the last Great Modron March, Karazikar
captured a pentadrone and afterward became convinced the Maze Engine existed in the Underdark. Unfortunately, the modron’s axiomatic mind couldn’t be broken, and it perished rather than reveal anything
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
wrath. Soon thereafter, the delusional gargoyle laid eyes on a drow assassin named Kinyel Druu’giir and was instantly smitten by her. The gargoyle gave her the black gem as a token of its devotion
duergar reinforcements. They attacked the svirfneblin enclave and captured Yantha, triggering open conflict between the two enclaves. With the fragile truce in Mantol-Derith finally broken, the drow
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3
either is disturbed, they both instantly awaken and stand. Oxomoco says, first in Olman and then in an ancient dialect of Common, “You have broken our glorious sleep; for this you must atone.” The two
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Broken Silence For hundreds of years, the world of Krynn has been bereft of those who call upon the favor of the gods. Legends say deities turned away from the world after the Cataclysm, and the
prayers of the few who remember them have been met with silence ever since. But that silence is now being broken. A chosen few hear the call of the gods and awaken to their power. This prelude suits
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
device known as the Machine of Lum the Mad. The best details on the device’s origins and operation can be found in the Mind of Metal, a tome of artificer’s secrets that connects the device to the
instantly and leave behind no remains. This does not destroy the servant permanently. Rather, 2d6 days later, its parts—left arm, left leg, right arm, right leg, lower torso, and upper torso—drop from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
tomb through the secret door at area 47D. This tomb is filled with terracotta warriors, kneeling in neat ranks around a polished wooden coffin. Between the warriors, four aisles scattered with broken
, and any creature arriving there takes 18 (4d8) force damage. Any creature that moves from outside a rune into its space is instantly teleported to area 50. A creature that uses the south rune to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
approach.
Huge chunks of the walls have broken off in here, and the inscription bearing the divination passage from the Rite of the Arcane Octad is missing. With a successful DC 10 Intelligence
plaza, its four broken towers leaning inward. Faded pennants hang above the entrance, frozen stiff. A loud clatter resounds from within the hall.
This market hall once sold relics of arcane wonder
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
The door to this narrow room is magically locked from the outside (see area 6e) but pulls open easily from the inside. The room contains the following features: Debris. Broken staffs litter the dusty
creation. The broken staffs testify to her numerous failures. The intact staff on the table represents her only success to date. Treasure. The staff resting on the table is Wyllow’s staff of flowers, a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
from Atagua. The eggs are easily broken; each has AC 10, 5 hit points, and immunity to poison damage. If they’re destroyed, the energy within dissipates, leaving the closest creature with a fleeting
mouth.
Part of the Drought Elder’s body has been shattered, reduced to a mass of broken chitin islands floating between the two halves of its body. Shattered Path. Five-foot-square chunks of chitin