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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
cards drawn in excess of this number have no effect. Otherwise, as soon as you draw a card from the deck, its magic takes effect. You must draw each card no more than 1 hour after the previous draw. If
you fail to draw the chosen number, the remaining number of cards fly from the deck on their own and take effect all at once.
Once a card is drawn, it disappears. Unless the card is the Fool or
Feats
Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn
Origin Feat
You gain the following benefits.
Stand as One. When an ally within 5 feet of you is subjected to an effect that would push or pull it, you can take a Reaction to prevent that ally from
being pushed or pulled. To receive this benefit, the ally can’t have the Incapacitated condition.
Vigilant. When you take the Ready action, the next attack roll made against you has Disadvantage before the start of your next turn.
Spells
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
memory), you can transform the thoughts or memories you read, rather than your own, into a thought strand.
Casting this spell while holding a thought strand allows you to instantly receive whatever
memory, idea, or message the thought strand contains. (Casting detect thoughts on the strand has the same effect.)
Monsters
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
have the stunned condition for 1 minute. A stunned creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.
Spellcasting (Psionics). Qunbraxel
off from any elder brain Qunbraxel considers worthy, the mind flayer hopes to join the Ilvaash fanatics and receive power and insight from the Far Realm.
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.A troll that survives massive doses of poison might transform into a venom troll. Lingering poison infuses the troll’s blood and
wound they receive.
Trolls
Trolls that are nearly obliterated but survive and regenerate from mere scraps of flesh can display bizarre features. Radically transformed trolls like the rot troll
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
. The restrained creature must repeat the saving throw at the end of its next turn, becoming petrified on a failure or ending the effect on a success. The petrification lasts until the creature is freed
immortality that are too powerful to be known by those who lack the wisdom to use them properly. Those who approach a medusa with humility and worthy offerings might receive the creature's favor. The
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Dyrrn fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed
fails and is wasted. The corrupted creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.
Extract Brain. Melee Weapon Attack: +15
Magic Items
The Book of Many Things
have only thirteen cards, but the rest have twenty-two.
Before you draw a card, you must declare how many cards you intend to draw, then draw them randomly. Any additional cards drawn have no effect
. Unless a card states otherwise, as soon as you draw a card from the deck, its magic takes effect. You must draw each card you declared no more than 1 hour after the previous draw. If you fail to draw
Magic Items
Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
have no effect. Otherwise, as soon as you draw a card from the deck, its magic takes effect. You must draw each card no more than 1 hour after the previous draw. If you fail to draw the chosen number
, the remaining number of cards fly from the deck on their own and take effect all at once.
Once a card is drawn, it fades from existence. Unless the card is the Fool or the Jester, the card reappears
Deck of Many Things
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Magic Items
Basic Rules (2014)
have no effect. Otherwise, as soon as you draw a card from the deck, its magic takes effect. You must draw each card no more than 1 hour after the previous draw. If you fail to draw the chosen number
, the remaining number of cards fly from the deck on their own and take effect all at once.
Once a card is drawn, it fades from existence. Unless the card is the Fool or the Jester, the card reappears
Magic Items
The Book of Many Things
cards you intend to draw and then draw them randomly. Unless a card allows you to draw additional cards, any cards drawn exceeding this number have no effect.
As soon as you draw a card, its magic
takes effect. You must draw each card you declared no more than 1 hour after the previous draw. Unless a card states otherwise, if you fail to draw the chosen number, the remaining number of cards fly
Monsters
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
normally follow casting the Wish spell to produce an effect other than duplicating another spell.Multiattack. Nafas makes three Storm Shamshir attacks and uses Create Vortex.
Storm Shamshir. Melee
this role, Nafas sends adventurers to distant worlds to fulfill the wishes of creatures beyond his reach. Adventurers who return to Nafas successful receive gifts as rewards. As a noble genie, Nafas
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Target A target is the creature or object targeted by an attack roll, forced to make a saving throw by an effect, or selected to receive the effects of a spell or another phenomenon.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Target A target is the creature or object targeted by an attack roll, forced to make a saving throw by an effect, or selected to receive the effects of a spell or another phenomenon.
Goblin
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
the fringes of a society first test its defenses by stealing objects, and if these crimes go unpunished, they begin stealing people.
Enslaved creatures receive the worst treatment the goblins can dish
darkvision and the Nimble Escape traits common to all goblins. Each time the goblin casts a spell, there is an accompanying surge of wild magic; roll on the Wild Magic Surge table in the Player’s Handbook to determine the wild magic effect.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
leagues. Travelers with a passive Wisdom (Perception) score of 15 or more receive 1d4 rounds of warning: a deep hum in the ethereal matter. Travelers who can’t reach a curtain or portal leading elsewhere
suffer the cyclone’s effect. Roll a d20 and consult the Ether Cyclone table to determine the effect on all creatures in the vicinity. Ether Cyclone d20 Effect 1–12 Extended journey 13–19 Blown to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Spirits Any characters inhabited by the spirits of Obo’laka or Wongo receive advice when entering this area: Cautious Obo’laka advises against anyone drinking from the fountain. Reckless Wongo
encourages his host to drink from the fountain. Magic Fountain Any creature that drinks from the fountain experiences a random magical effect, determined by rolling a d4 and consulting the Magic Fountain
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Legends of Greyhawk: Secrets of the Free City
hints when thematically appropriate. For best effect, limit these moments to no more than once per part of the adventure. Divine Connections. Divine casters who call upon their powers may briefly feel a
receive a flash of absolute blackness and hear a chorus of mad whispers in place of the expected result. Nature’s Omens. Druids and Rangers might bristle with a fleeting sense that something is amiss
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Blessings A character might receive a blessing from a deity for doing something truly momentous — an accomplishment that catches the attention of both gods and mortals. Killing rampaging gnolls
: Restoring the most sacred shrine of a god Foiling an earthshaking plot by the enemies of a god Helping a god’s favored servant complete a holy quest An adventurer might also receive a blessing in advance of
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Legends of Greyhawk: Secrets of the Free City
hints when thematically appropriate. For best effect, limit these moments to no more than once per part of the adventure. Divine Connections. Divine casters who call upon their powers may briefly feel a
receive a flash of absolute blackness and hear a chorus of mad whispers in place of the expected result. Nature’s Omens. Druids and Rangers might bristle with a fleeting sense that something is amiss
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Legends of Greyhawk: Secrets of the Free City
hints when thematically appropriate. For best effect, limit these moments to no more than once per part of the adventure. Divine Connections. Divine casters who call upon their powers may briefly feel a
receive a flash of absolute blackness and hear a chorus of mad whispers in place of the expected result. Nature’s Omens. Druids and Rangers might bristle with a fleeting sense that something is amiss
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
receive magical healing or if you spend ten days doing nothing but resting. 8–10 Broken Ribs. This has the same effect as Internal Injury above, except that the save DC is 10. 11–13 Horrible Scar. You
die. The wound heals if you receive magical healing. Alternatively, someone can tend to the wound and make a DC 15 Wisdom (Medicine) check once every 24 hours. After ten successes, the wound heals. 17
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation Supplement
location. If the characters kill the slug creature in area 24, the ghost is laid to rest, and the characters receive XP as though they had defeated the ghost in combat. Treasure. When the ghost is laid to
rest, it leaves behind a pearlescent conch shell that weighs 2 pounds. The conch radiates an aura of evocation magic under the scrutiny of a detect magic spell or similar effect. An identify spell
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
don’t work inside the sphere. A creature that attempts to cast a spell or use a magic item or artifact to teleport from the sphere hears a dull fizzing in its head as the effect fails. The exception
an extradimensional space. Any spells cast within such an extradimensional space are subject to the same restrictions as magic cast in the Donjon Sphere. While characters are in the sphere, those who receive spells from deities or otherworldly patrons continue to do so.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
spell or similar effect. Advice from the Spirits Any characters inhabited by the spirits of Unkh or Wongo receive advice when entering this area: Indecisive Unkh is struck by the technological wonder of
the top of each hour. Any creature within 30 feet of the clock when it strikes the top of the hour must succeed on a DC 17 Constitution saving throw or age by ten years. The effect can be reversed by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
receive advice when entering this area: Cautious Obo’laka thinks the salt pentagram could use more salt and encourages her host to add to it. if any salt is available. (Doing so doesn’t break the wards
clay urn containing the skull and bones of a grung (Nangnang’s animal form; see appendix D), as well as a number of valuables (see “Treasure” below). A detect magic spell or similar effect reveals an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Across the Fungal Fields Once the characters receive Basidia’s spores and overcome Juiblex’s black pudding spies, they should set out at once for the depths of Araumycos as the rapport takes hold
characters are in no physical danger but are entering rapport with Araumycos. The adventurers are paralyzed as the myconid spores fully take effect. Even creatures immune to sleep and paralysis are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Journey into Death Those who are prepared for death, or who receive funeral rites, typically have or are given a coin (or similar token of value) interred with their corpse. When these individuals
no further connection to the soul; it is an inert, empty shell. Casting spells on the body that restore it to life simply have no effect.
Any object carried out of the Underworld becomes a real, physical thing in the mortal world, with all the properties and features common to objects of its type.
Magic Items
Infernal Machine Rebuild
full use of the Infernal Machine’s powers, with their effects centered around the user. If the wire is cut—something that can happen only when an effect specifically states that it can
cut an astral projection’s silvery cord—the user suffers a sudden burst of feedback from the machine that kills them instantly.
Any effect of the Infernal Machine that requires
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
must willingly accept the gift to gain its benefits. A dark gift is described to the creature in general terms; its precise game effect isn’t revealed until the creature accepts the gift. For example
functions like a charm (see “Supernatural Gifts” in chapter 7, “Treasure,” of the Dungeon Master’s Guide). A creature doesn’t receive a dark gift if it is being manipulated or coerced, or if it declines
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
. These creatures are especially dangerous in close combat, because poison drips off their flesh and sprays out from every wound they receive. Venom Troll
Large giant, chaotic evil
Armor Class 15
poisoned for 1 minute. On a successful save, the creature takes half as much damage and isn’t poisoned. A poisoned creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
payment of one coin per passenger. If it doesn’t receive the proper payment, both it and the boat fade away. Characters who destroy the skeleton or use an effect that turns undead against it can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
characters receive for defeating a monster and its Proficiency Bonus follow. Some creatures that are created by magic have no CR. See also “Challenge Rating” and “Experience Points.” Traits. The monster’s
attack is against one target unless its entry says otherwise. Saving Throw Effect Notation. If an effect forces a saving throw, the effect’s entry starts by identifying the kind of saving throw required
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
by an antimagic field or similar effect. There is no limit on the number of blessings a character can receive, but a character can’t benefit from multiple applications of a blessing at the same time
. If you choose to award blessings to the characters in your campaign, use the guidelines in the Dungeon Master’s Guide. If a blessing duplicates the effect of a magic item, it requires a minimum piety
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
haunting voices grow too loud to ignore. Roll on the Voices from Beyond table to determine the effect of these voices. Once one of these effects occurs, none of these haunting voices manifest again until
you finish a short or long rest. Voices from Beyond d4 Effect
1 You have disadvantage on the next attack roll, ability check, or saving throw you make.
2 You are deafened by the