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The Book of Many Things
filling books, scrolls, tablets, or stranger archives—such as magical crystals that hold captured memories or the voices of those long dead. You can use this lair and the lair actions described for
DC 15 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, a target’s speed is reduced to 0 and can’t increase. On a successful save, its speed is halved. The target’s speed returns to normal
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Player’s Handbook (2014)
them like they were children’s books. It’s a useful talent, and one that you’re perfectly willing to use for your advantage.
You know what people want and you deliver, or rather
or roll on the table below.
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Scam
1
I cheat at games of chance.
2
I shave coins or forge documents.
3
I insinuate myself into people’s lives to prey on their
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
can tease out their hearts’ desires after a few minutes of conversation, and with a few leading questions you can read them like they were children’s books. It’s a useful talent, and
chance.
2
I shave coins or forge documents.
3
I insinuate myself into people’s lives to prey on their weakness and secure their fortunes.
4
I put on new identities like clothes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
19). The bolted door is easy to open from this side. Documents. The books and papers in the room include copious documents, Loren’s business files interspersed with personal papers. Most are ruined by
age, but any character who success on a DC 14 Wisdom (Perception) check finds the room’s treasure and one of the following documents: Loren’s Will. Loren’s will and death certificate names the four
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
knowledge of languages to translate documents you find, while Krag works with you to catalog the library’s contents. Arcane Seeker The wizard Keledek hired you to help him with a few of his projects. He was
not a kind master, but he paid well enough. You helped him organize a set of ancient books, identify potions, and verify the authenticity of several alchemical recipes. He has since discharged you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
to privately owned books, scrolls, and other documents that aren’t part of Candlekeep’s collection. NPC GENDER AND ALIGNMENT
If no gender or alignment is specified for a nonplayer character in Candlekeep, you can choose that NPC’s gender identity and alignment.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
, while others prefer to increase a low score. Backgrounds and Species from Older Books
Backgrounds in older D&D books don’t include ability score adjustments. If you’re using a background from an older
; increase one of those scores by 2 and a different one by 1, or increase all three by 1. None of these increases can raise a score above 20. Some players like to increase their class’s primary ability
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
increasing one score by 2 and a different one by 1, or increase three scores by 1. None of these increases can raise a score above 20.
Similarly, species in older books include ability score increases
12 13 15 14 10 Adjust Ability Scores After assigning your ability scores, adjust them according to your background. Your background lists three abilities; increase one of those scores by 2 and a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
books, and three paper schemas in scroll tubes. Each book and schema is written in a magically coded language that can’t be read by the comprehend languages spell. Finding a way to read these documents
transport the chest to Droaam from Wroat. If the characters refuse, Garra attacks. Garra is willing to die for Daask and fights accordingly. Garra doesn’t know what is in books or schemas, as these
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
read them like they were children’s books. It’s a useful talent, and one that you’re perfectly willing to use for your advantage. You know what people want and you deliver, or rather, you promise to
chance. 2 I shave coins or forge documents. 3 I insinuate myself into people’s lives to prey on their weakness and secure their fortunes. 4 I put on new identities like clothes. 5 I run sleight-of-hand
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
library, with bookshelves around the walls. Most of the shelves are broken, and in many places they have come away from the wall. The few shelves still intact are empty, but a pile of books rests in the
southwest corner.
The fourteen books in the heap untidily thrown into the corner are covered with cobwebs, vermin droppings, and harmless mold. All are partially ruined but are still legible. Most
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
scroll), detect magic (2 scrolls), dispel magic (1 scroll), false life (1 scroll), identify (4 scrolls), invisibility (1 scroll), lesser restoration (2 scrolls), and nondetection (1 scroll). T5: Documents
try to unlock a safe, which takes 1 minute. At the end of that time, the character must succeed on a DC 17 Dexterity check, or the safe remains locked. The safes are full of documents. Every minute a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
, mysterious-looking objects. The books appear to be registries of purchases, as well as lists of items and people. These documents, created by Faerl, have nothing to do with the cult’s activities but
. South Doors. This double door is unlocked. B2. Arcane Study Bundles of papers, diagrams, scrolls, and books lie scattered on a desk and across the floor of this room, which is lit by two glowing crystal
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
bookkeeping documents. One set of five books, bound in sky-blue leather and trimmed in copper, is of a more sinister nature. These five tomes have old, fragile pages; if the characters examine them, they
Several large bookcases lean against the walls in this cold room, and a high chair and a scribe’s desk sit to the right of the door. The bookcases are loaded with books and scrolls. Four bedrolls are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
, with lore both worldly and esoteric filling books, scrolls, tablets, or stranger archives—such as magical crystals that hold captured memories or the voices of those long dead. You can use this lair
. Each target must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, a target’s speed is reduced to 0 and can’t increase. On a successful save, its speed is halved. The target’s speed returns to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
specializes in military history and is known for his perfect recall of countless battles and historic events. Beyond office supplies, books on military history (all scribed in the tactile lettering that
of books, papers, and knick-knacks. Every shelf and one of the room’s three chairs have similar burdens.
Dean Tullus’s office is messy and unoccupied. Characters who search her desk find little more
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
bloodied and unconscious on a large mattress.
Nur, a Daask gnoll, is burning Garra’s documents as ordered by the half-ogre. Of the documents that remain on the floor, two are of interest. One is a
work in the ruins of Old Sharn. You can add other documents that could act as story hooks for future adventures. Sergeant Germaine Vilroy (neutral female Brelish human veteran) is restrained and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
heaps along the walls. Old books with deteriorated bindings spill their pages onto the dusty floor.
The books here are rotted and worthless, but a character who spends five minutes searching the
library finds a spell scroll of polymorph. S18: Draconian War Room This chamber holds a large table, which is covered by a roughly drawn map of Nightlund along with several other documents and scraps of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
has long since been turned over to storage for items the family has no use for but doesn’t want to throw out. This dusty chamber is crammed with stacks of old books, barrels of broken tools and
descended deep to the Haven of the Red Quill. The guardians almost finished us before the door was opened. Gods, how I wish …” The characters are welcome to take or copy any of the documents, but Taresson
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
and a desk are covered in scattered documents.
Once Captain Dapplewing’s study, this large office is often used for sensitive discussions among faculty members. The decor has stayed the same since
bottle with a sweet-smelling liquid inside. The bottle holds a potion of mind reading. C19. Student Storage This storeroom is filled with loose parchment, books, and misfiled paperwork. In the center of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
his most trusted subordinates. Bak Mei is joined by four Immortal Lotus monks (see their stat block earlier in the adventure). To increase the difficulty of this encounter, add more monks who have just
. Scattered around the Jagged Sanctum are shelves and chests containing a total of ten rare books (100 gp each) and twenty rare scrolls (50 gp each). The backside of the altar has a secret compartment
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
psychic damage, and vulnerability to fire damage. If the box is destroyed, the books within it are thoroughly scorched and rendered unreadable. If Zhong Yin sees the burned books, the scholar momentarily
fears the books are the Mountain Cloud Empress’s diaries but then realizes their true nature. Nevertheless, Zhong Yin encourages the party to prioritize preserving any other historical artifacts the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
spends a minute reading the documents learns the following: Two Dragon Army leaders, Belephaion and Lohezet, work at the Threshold of the Heavens. The passphrase to gain entrance to the Threshold of the
200-pound sack, labeled “Payroll” in Draconic, that holds 10,000 sp. O11: Library Most of this library’s books have fallen to rot, but two desks beneath tall windows stand covered in papers and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
roughly triangular room are filled with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves. Hundreds of books and scrolls were thrown free of their resting places when the city crashed and now cover the floor. Time and bitter
cold have not been kind to them.
Most of the books and scrolls that litter the floor have been ruined by centuries of disuse, but adventurers who search the remains unearth two survivors: a scroll
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
first floor also contains books and scrolls of common value, as well as public documents moved here from Castle Never. The second floor holds sleeping quarters and private work areas for staff and clergy
, portions were spared the destruction of the lava flow, including an underground chamber called the Vault of Tomes. That undercroft contains some of the most rare and valuable books in Faerûn outside
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
.
8 Humanoids are not ready to learn the horrible cosmic truths in the books in my hoard.
9 The prospect of living for centuries more exhausts me.
10 I’m convinced that a version of
druid spells feels different from one who casts warlock spells. You can also give a dragon spells of a higher level than the variant rule allows, but such a tweak might increase the dragon’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
visible weapon tries to enter the library, or if a thief is spotted trying to leave the library with one or more stolen books, the stone-carved bronze dragons flanking the entrance animate and attack
tinged with aquamarine blue. She typically wears a patchwork robe. Abra sits behind a high desk in the main hall. Six open archways lead from the main hall to wings where the bulk of the library’s books
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
open. Increase the DC needed to open it by 5. Temporary Shelter. As part of a long rest, you can construct a lean-to or a similar shelter to keep your group dry and in the shade for the duration of
Activity DC Cover injuries or distinguishing marks 10 Spot a disguise being used by someone else 15 Copy a humanoid’s appearance 20 Forgery Kit A forgery kit is designed to duplicate documents and to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a2
increase his challenge rating to 2 (450 XP): He has 45 (7d8 + 14) hit points. His Intelligence is 14 (+2). He has an additional trait: Spellcasting. Snurrevin is a 3rd-level spellcaster. His spellcasting
duergar guard, the sounds of battle alert the leader, Nimira. She is a duergar with the following changes, which increase her challenge rating to 3 (700 XP): Her AC is 17 (splint armor). She has 52
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
of ink clutter each desk.
During the day, four Sacred Stone monks (see chapter 7) work in this room. At night, they return to their quarters. The books and scrolls the monks are copying from a
these lands in his own image.” Treasure Among the books and parchments are a scroll of dust devil and a scroll of erupting earth (see appendix B for descriptions of both spells). The monks set them aside
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
are things they can do to increase their chances of survival:
Free the great owl from the aviary (area P20) and set it against the jabberwock. Characters toward whom the owl is indifferent can
fill the tall shelves of this grand library. Rolling ladders anchored to rails above the topmost shelves allow easy access to the higher books.
Appearing from behind a bookshelf is an elderly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
nothing of value. S19a: Office. This private chamber contains a desk, simple furnishings, and documents in an unknown language related to the ship’s activities and destination. An unlocked drawer in
, three chairs, and a desk. Books on combat strategy and psychology line the bookshelf. A makeshift laser pistol, haphazardly cobbled together from spare robot parts, lies on the desk. The pistol can