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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the dragon fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Spider Climb. The dragon can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without
horns and spines shift slightly with the dragons’ moods, bobbing in amusement or flaring with anger.
Art of War
The warlike sapphire dragons devise strategies and ambushes based on their
Monsters
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
, he can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. Nafas has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Noble Genie. Nafas doesn’t suffer any of the penalties that
of twinkling stardust follows Nafas wherever he goes, as evidence of his cosmic might.
No bottle, vase, ring, or lamp can contain Nafas. The genie is bound to the Infinite Staircase itself, anchored
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the dragon fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Spider Climb. The dragon can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without
the dragons’ moods, bobbing in amusement or flaring with anger.
Art of War
The warlike sapphire dragons devise strategies and ambushes based on their ability to maneuver underground. A
magic-items
can devise a general line of thought of 25 words or fewer. While you wear this pin, a creature that reads your thoughts detects your preprogrammed line of thought instead. A creature that takes the
Backgrounds
The Book of Many Things
cards or three-dragon ante cards)
Equipment: A bottle of black ink, an ink pen, five sheets of paper, a gaming set (matching your chosen proficiency), a signet ring, a set of fine clothes, and a pouch
family debts with a fortuitous round of three-dragon ante, you might be Lucky instead. Alternatively, you could use the Skilled feat to reflect whatever trial you endured to secure your new destiny and to model the knowledge and abilities imparted to you by whatever force transformed your life.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Sudden Riches The wealth promised by the Gem card need not appear spontaneously at the characters’ feet. Instead, the card might be an omen foretelling a future event. The Gem Stories table provides
party finds a map in an old bottle that leads to a buried treasure chest filled with ancient coins. 5 The local merchants’ guild, enamored with the party’s exploits, offers to sponsor the characters. 6
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
instrument or artisan’s tools Languages: One of your choice Equipment: A bottle of black ink, an ink pen, a set of artisan’s tools or a musical instrument (one of your choice), a school uniform, and a
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->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
among their ranks. Skill Proficiencies: Arcana, History Languages: Two of your choice Equipment: A bottle of colored ink, an ink pen, a set of common clothes, and a pouch containing 10 gp Feature
Trinkets. When you make your character, roll once on the Mage of High Sorcery Trinkets table instead of on the Trinkets table in the Player’s Handbook for your starting trinket. Mage of High Sorcery
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Proficiencies: Arcana, Nature Tool Proficiencies: One type of artisan’s tools Languages: One of your choice Equipment: A bottle of black ink, an ink pen, an abacus, a book of arcane theory, a school
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->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
instead of fireball. Replace its Fire Ray attack option with a Lightning Ray attack option that deals lightning damage instead of fire damage. On each of its turns, the skull uses its action to electrify
starts its turn in contact with them takes 10 (3d6) lightning damage. Instead of taking damage, the flesh golem regains 10 hit points whenever it starts its turn on the electrified floor. If the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
sometimes be achieved by rewarding positive behavior instead of punishing negative behavior. A hazard can be put to use in an offensive, defensive, or utilitarian capacity. Beholders are skilled at
encourage competition between its upper ranks. An inventive beholder might use an eversmoking bottle to obscure dozens of pit traps in a room, but a more militaristic one might not have a use for it and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
: Intimidation, Persuasion Languages: Two of your choice Equipment: A bottle of black ink, an ink pen, a book of poetry, a school uniform, and a pouch containing 15 gp Feature: Silverquill Initiate You gain
may roll once on the Silverquill Trinkets table, instead of on the Trinkets table in the Player’s Handbook, for your starting trinket. Silverquill Trinkets d6 Trinket 1 A black leather notebook
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
ornate hand mirror, producing a cloud of glass shards that damages creatures like cloud of daggers (a 2nd-level spell). She might instead uncork a bottle of wasps that surround her and stitch up her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Witherbloom College. Skill Proficiencies: Nature, Survival Tool Proficiencies: Herbalism kit Languages: One of your choice Equipment: A bottle of black ink, an ink pen, a book about plant
the Witherbloom Trinkets table, instead of on the Trinkets table in the Player’s Handbook, for your starting trinket. Witherbloom Trinkets d6 Trinket 1 A black bird-shaped mask, trimmed with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
mob, and the third (C) is heaping burning straw against a rear door. All these groups together would overwhelm 1st-level characters, but characters can devise a plan that gets them inside the temple by
minutes (two minutes per side). Group C consists of four cultists and four kobolds clustered tightly around the temple’s back door. Their meager fire produces little flame, instead creating prodigious
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
mob, and the third (C) is heaping burning straw against a rear door. All these groups together would overwhelm 1st-level characters, but characters can devise a plan that gets them inside the temple by
minutes (two minutes per side). Group C consists of four cultists and four kobolds clustered tightly around the temple’s back door. Their meager fire produces little flame, instead creating prodigious
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
: History, Religion Languages: Two of your choice Equipment: A bottle of black ink, an ink pen, a hammer, a hooded lantern, a tinderbox, a tome of history, a school uniform, and a pouch containing 15 gp
falls apart someday. Lorehold Trinkets. When you make your character, you may roll once on the Lorehold Trinkets table, instead of on the Trinkets table in the Player’s Handbook, for your starting
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
: Persuasion, Survival Languages: Two of your choice (Abyssal, Celestial, or Infernal recommended) Equipment: A ring of keys to unknown locks, a blank book, an ink pen or quill, a bottle of black ink, a set
Trinkets table, instead of on the Trinkets table in the Player’s Handbook, for your starting trinket. Gate Warden Trinkets d6 Trinket 1 A tiny vial pendant filled with a drop of honey that glows
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3
. Unlike most other nereids, she is chaotic evil in alignment, and she speaks Olman instead of Common. She possesses an insidious and clever mind, concealed beneath her alien beauty and seeming naiveté
apiece), though water has destroyed the scrolls in them; a silver idol (worth 15 gp), which is actually a bottle holding a potion of clairvoyance; and a pair of gloves of missile snaring.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
your choice Tool Proficiencies: One gaming set of your choice (such as playing cards or three-dragon ante cards) Equipment: A bottle of black ink, an ink pen, five sheets of paper, a gaming set
magical powers represented by Magic Initiate. If you paid off all your family debts with a fortuitous round of three-dragon ante, you might be Lucky instead. Alternatively, you could use the Skilled feat to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
, right spot? An orb turns red!
Right card, wrong spot? Blue instead.
Ten guesses, no tricks, good luck to you.
Guess it right in six or less,
Win an extra prize, woohoo!
Diagram 4.2: Unseen
illustrates one possible hand the ghost might have (Moon, Sun, Skull, and Gem, in that order) and how the game might play out. You can devise alternate solutions by selecting a different hand of four
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Witchlight hand background can roll on this table instead of the Trinkets table in the Player’s Handbook to determine what trinkets their characters possess. The adventure includes a few encounters that
varnished mushroom cap that magically keeps its liquid contents lukewarm 36 Rock that floats and is small enough to hide in your closed fist 37 Tiny bottle filled with rainwater collected from the Feywild
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
The Cellar The following locations are identified on map 2.2. Map 2.2: Haunted House Cellar and Caverns View Player Version 20. Wine Cellar Shoulder-height wooden bottle racks line the north and
who makes a successful DC 12 Intelligence (Investigation) check. This check is made with advantage if the characters followed the tracks that lead to the door. Bottle Racks. The smugglers emptied the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
. You’ll need to devise some sort of ruse to get close to Fenerus. I urge against violence, or you might find yourself locked up beside him.” If the characters ask why Laeral Silverhand doesn’t question
. Jarlaxle could speak to Fenerus himself, but he’s not sure if the courthouse is warded against magic. He can’t risk the exposure, so he sends the characters instead. If the characters refuse to work for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
sites in the Hive Ward. Bottle and Jug Raucous, booze-fueled brawls take place in the back room of the Bottle and Jug, one of the Hive’s most infamous drinkeries. This mass of steel, barbed wire, and
and loves a good laugh at someone else’s expense. Anyone’s welcome in her taproom. A portal to a massive pit-fighting arena rests at the back of the Bottle and Jug, disguised as the door to an always
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
Hands—vie for a single soul in the Outlands. Both teams need players, but the characters can join only one. Alternatively, the characters can join neither and instead influence the game’s outcome from
Rocket produces a slimy eversmoking bottle and gives it to one of the characters. Righteous Hands Win If good prevails, the Righteous Hands celebrate and offer to shake hands with their opponents, who
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
You can get to the action of combat more quickly by using Initiative scores instead of rolling. You might decide to use Initiative scores just for characters, just for monsters, or for both. Initiative
Ogre C: 59
Some DMs prefer to track how much damage a monster has taken, adding to that number as characters deal damage (instead of subtracting from the monster’s Hit Points). Adding is generally
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
choice (such as playing cards or three-dragon ante cards) Equipment: A cracked hourglass, a set of rusty manacles, a half-empty bottle, a hunting trap, a gaming set (matching your chosen proficiency
you make your character, you can roll once on the Ruined Trinkets table instead of on the Trinkets table in the Player’s Handbook. Ruined Trinkets d6 Trinket 1 A rusted scrap of a once-beloved
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Vessel Wondrous Item, Rarity Varies (Requires Attunement) This vessel can be a potion bottle, drinking horn, or other container meant to hold a liquid. Slumbering (Uncommon). As a bonus action, if
Stirring property. In addition, when you would take damage of the type dealt by the breath of the dragon in whose hoard the ornament became Wakened, you can use your reaction to take no damage instead
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Divine Contention
hatch to the stores can only be opened by creatures with a combined Strength score of 18 or more. While hidden in the fog cloud, the cultists abandon the siege weapons and stay below deck. Instead, a
, the defeated war priest is found kneeling in here, praying to Talos through the dregs of a bottle of rum. Having failed her mission, the champion begs her deity’s forgiveness. Fheralai has no fear of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
and the other cadets use the bandit stat block but carry no weapons. Instead, they make unarmed attacks (+3 to hit, 2 bludgeoning damage on a hit). Anyone reduced to 0 hit points by such attacks is
merchant ship surreptitiously slips the merchant a platinum piece. In return, the merchant hands the hobgoblin a small bottle, which the officer conceals in his pocket. It is up to the characters to act on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
each) and sixteen bottles of wine. Fifteen of the bottles contain fine wine (10 gp each). The last bottle is laced with midnight tears, a tasteless poison (see “Poisons” in chapter 8 of the Dungeon
Master’s Guide). This tainted bottle is set aside for guests whom the duke intends to eliminate. V10. Gallery Black curtains are drawn over the windows to the south, keeping this hall dark and cool. Unless
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Mist. The glass bottles on the southwest shelf contain magically captured sounds, including songs, operas, and recorded lectures. Uncorking a bottle temporarily releases its auditory contents into the
library, after which the sound returns to its bottle. Breaking a bottle releases the sound, but the sound dissipates after it plays once. All the bottles are labeled. Sample contents include the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
chemical. As an action, a creature holding a bottle of defoliant can splash the bottle’s contents onto a creature within 5 feet of itself or hurl it up to 20 feet, shattering the bottle on impact. In either
return the lift to the level above. S53: Deadly Plants Exhibit (Violet) This junglelike exhibit is similar in arrangement to area S49 but originally housed flora instead of fauna. Six horrid plants (two
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3
robbers from his tomb immediately, but instead will seek to regain his bearings in the world of the living for several days. He can track down cursed thieves later, or invoke the power of Zotzilaha to
, and anyone who tries to pull the axe from the wall finds it impossible to do so. The weapon is a berserker axe that has a +2 bonus to attack and damage rolls instead of the normal +1. The axe can’t be