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Returning 35 results for 'effect returning'.
Monsters
Infernal Machine Rebuild
has disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks until the end of her next turn.
Immutable Form. Lynx is immune to any spell or effect that would alter her form.
Lightning Absorption. Whenever Lynx
) have been granted to them by their diabolical masters, and are not meant to be claimed as treasure. If either agent is killed in the course of the adventure, their special equipment vanishes, returning to Bel or Zariel.
PoisonNecrotic, Psychic
Monsters
Sleeping Dragon’s Wake
end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. If a creature's saving throw is successful or the effect ends for it, the creature is immune to Lhammaruntosz's Frightful Presence
mad. She leaves on rare occasions to hunt for food, returning as soon as possible. Members of the Scaly Eye still live within the Bronze Shrine, as Lhammaruntosz has ordered them to stay on as her
Monsters
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
next turn. On a failed save, it has the unconscious condition, and on a successful save, the effect ends on it. An unconscious creature is no longer poisoned and remains unconscious for 1 hour, until
itself back where it entered the border, returning to the garden.
Eternal Summer. The climate in the garden is a perpetual, lovely summer, but weather conditions reflect the emotional tone of creatures in
Magic Items
The Book of Many Things
additional cards to keep, returning the other to the deck. The magic of the card you keep takes effect immediately thereafter.
Tree. Your skin immediately becomes rough, like tree bark. Your base AC now
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
green paint. Man-sized demonic statues stand near the base of the stairs.
The heavy carpet near the entryway is stained with the muddy boots of returning hunters. The two demonic statues are gargoyles
restrained (frozen in place) for 1 minute. The creature may use an action on its turn to make a DC 15 Strength check, ending the effect on itself on a success. Each suit of plate armor is mounted on a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
green paint. Man-sized demonic statues stand near the base of the stairs. The heavy carpet near the entryway is stained with the muddy boots of returning hunters. The two demonic statues are gargoyles
restrained (frozen in place) for 1 minute. The character may use an action on his or her turn to make a DC 15 Strength check, ending the effect early on a success. Each suit of plate armor is mounted on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
have no trouble finding a ship that will carry them back to the library. In the meantime, if the characters prevented one or more eggs in the brood pools from being killed, the returning grippli are
light begin rising up around the characters. Any party members who have second thoughts at this point can avoid the effect by succeeding on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw. Party members who don’t resist, or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
blue dragon the party faced in the Hoard of the Dragon Queen. Like any smart foe, Lennithon tries to fight on its terms, not the enemy’s. It stays in the air and uses its breath weapon to maximum effect
paraphrase the following. “The mask, fools! The mask is what I’ve come for. Give it to me, and I’ll leave these crawling ants with their miserable lives. The Queen is returning! Who are you to hope to stop
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
maximum effect. If the characters refuse to face it, Lennithon is happy to wreck the village and murder innocents in an effort to bring the heroes into the open. When the characters face the dragon
, read or paraphrase the following. “The mask, fools! The mask is what I’ve come for. Give it to me, and I’ll leave these crawling ants with their miserable lives. The Queen is returning! Who are you to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
characters can take normal rests outside the dungeon. Doing so has an effect on the alert level. Resting within the Doomvault is risky, because of random encounters and the rising alert level (see below
recaptured or replaced, and new challenges could be set up to foil incursions. Alter the dungeon’s contents as you see fit to account for the returning party’s previous actions and the reactions of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
rolls and ability checks until the end of her next turn..
Immutable Form. Lynx is immune to any spell or effect that would alter her form.
Lightning Absorption. Whenever Lynx is subjected to
” section of their stat blocks) have been granted to them by their diabolical masters, and are not meant to be claimed as treasure. If either agent is killed in the course of the adventure, their special equipment vanishes, returning to Bel or Zariel.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
solution is uncountable, they scramble in circles while screaming in existential terror for a few moments before calmly returning to their positions. Chalkboard The chalkboard is covered with equations
next hour. If the check succeeds, the character discovers a profound equation nestled among the others. Like a key, this equation unlocks something in the character’s brain, with the effect determined
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
disappears while contained in an antimagic field. No other magic has any effect on it. If the skull sees any creature other than the real Halaster in the room, it screams, “You’re not me!” When this
space. (Although the telekinesis effect is magical, the damage it deals is not.) Only when there are no more creatures left to toss about does the ghostly skull cease its assault. When the ghostly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
a powerful villain or a wrongly slain innocent Swearing a vow to refrain from or undertake some action on pain of great suffering Burden A curse’s burden is the effect that causes hardship and
suffering to the curse’s victim. A burden is often reflective of what caused the curse in the first place, twisting the transgressor’s action against them. The burden takes effect immediately, along with a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
a certain area before returning home. Annis hags live in mountains or hills. The terrain is easy for them to navigate because they are the most physically capable hags. Even with her hunched posture
form and seeks to attack, deface, or corrupt it so it has the opposite effect on its viewers. One is more likely to defile the inspiring statue in a town square, making it into a symbol of fear and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
drow to infiltrate Gauntlgrym and trap Maegera in an iron flask. Zalto needs the primordial to ignite an adamantine forge beneath the Ice Spires. Returning Maegera to Gauntlgrym is one way to thwart
effect lasts until the end of Maegera’s next turn.
Smoke Cloud (Costs 2 Actions). Maegera exhales a billowing cloud of hot smoke and embers that fills a 60-foot cube. Each creature in that area
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
fiendish statue unclenches its fists to reveal a marble-sized object in the palm of each hand (see “Treasure” below). Simultaneously, howling winds rise up and fill the room. Returning the lever to its
walls. Statue Any character who succeeds on a DC 15 Intelligence (Arcana) check realizes that the statue depicts a nycaloth. A detect magic spell or similar effect reveals auras of transmutation magic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
as it roams, and feeding that power to the monster as restorative energy. Whenever the thessalhydra is taken to 0 hit points, it stays dead for 1 hour before returning to life with full hit points
. Destroying the construct or claiming all the Infernal Machine components is the only way to end this effect. The thessalheart construct has a telepathic bond to Thessalar, who becomes aware of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Effects d6 Hoard Curse Effect
1 Each affected creature gains 1 level of exhaustion that can’t be removed until the curse is broken.
2 Each affected creature automatically fails saving
. Magic can offer temporary respite, though. A remove curse spell cast on any affected character suppresses the effect of the curse for 1 hour, while a greater restoration spell suppresses the curse until
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
additional cards beyond your declared number of draws. The magic of these cards doesn’t immediately take effect; instead, choose one of the two additional cards to keep, returning the other to the deck
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
to assume that intoxication has the same effect on them as it does on humans.
Humans drink to forget, while dwarves drink to remember. A dwarf deep in his cups is overcome by powerful, vivid
memories of his past, especially events tied to lost kin, great deeds, or monumental failures. When dwarves drink in a group, this effect spreads among them. The clan might joyfully sing of triumph as they
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
realize that the mind flayer fanatics placed their bolstering rune before the slaadi arrived and don’t care about returning. The characters can access Spawn Hollow from area X5 in Illithinoch. The
implanting both slaad tadpoles and warty flesh into the survivor to replicate this region’s strange effect. Chalaag explains its plan in grisly detail while it fights. Into the Vortex. The vortex is about 4
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
similar to those that haunt Nib. As a consequence of these hauntings, the character gains 1 level of exhaustion after finishing a long rest. Levels of exhaustion gained from this effect cannot be
removed until the character ends the haunting by returning the gold. A wish spell ends the hauntings and automatically returns the stolen gold to the cave. A remove curse or greater restoration spell cast
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
spell that lasts for 24 hours on a successful check (no effect on a failure). The campestris aren’t clever enough to answer complex questions about Thither or offer reliable directions, and they speak
neither a Fey nor of fey ancestry, the fey crossing activates only if exactly eight creatures are inside the ring. The fey crossing works both ways, allowing travel to and from Thither. Returning to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
the camp recognizes the character. If characters are wearing Cult of the Dragon regalia taken from the rearguard, the characters have disadvantage on this roll because no one returning to camp at
cantrip. If all else fails, Leosin reveals that he has a hidden knife with which they can cut themselves free. If characters admit they came from Greenest and are enemies of the cult, the effect is the same
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
in the camp recognizes the character. If characters are wearing Cult of the Dragon regalia taken from the rearguard, the characters have disadvantage on this roll because no one returning to camp at
effect is the same as if they’d been recognized. If characters lie to Mondath — claiming they are new recruits and this is all a mistake, for example, or that they are studying the cult before deciding
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
turn to stone and has the restrained condition. The affected target must repeat the saving throw at the end of its next turn. On a successful save, the effect ends on the target. On a failed save, the
would inflict a sudden effect that was intended by its maker to cause harm or inconvenience. If the trap is the effect of a spell, such as Alarm, that trap is suppressed for 10 minutes instead of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
full-fledged demonic incursion takes time to develop. A demon prince might rampage across a world for a few days or weeks before returning home, but that event doesn’t qualify as an incursion. After
incursion runs its course, no vestige remains of the world that existed before — in effect, the realm has become another layer of the Abyss.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
aboleth. These crystals give off dim light that fills the cave. A detect magic spell or similar effect reveals an aura of divination magic radiating from the mosaic. A creature that takes a short or long
statue of an enormous clam. A character who makes a successful DC 20 Intelligence (History) check knows that the clam is the symbol of the aboleth Ogrorlo. A detect magic spell or similar effect
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
become frightened for 1 minute. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. If a creature’s saving throw is successful or the
effect ends for it, the creature is immune to the dragon’s Frightful Presence for the next 24 hours.
Breath Weapons (Recharge 5–6). The dragon uses one of the following breath weapons:
Fire Breath
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end of each of their turns to end the effect, shaking off the terror and returning to reality.
89–90
Reminiscent of the flames which consumed Drakkenheim in the meteor’s wake, a
regain the full amount, it instead suffers 18 (4d8) Force damage. Any spell cast using a spell slot regained from this effect automatically triggers another arcane anomaly.
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throw at the end of each of their turns to end the effect, shaking off the terror and returning to reality.
89–90
Reminiscent of the flames which consumed Drakkenheim in the meteor’s
can’t regain the full amount, it instead suffers 18 (4d8) Force damage. Any spell cast using a spell slot regained from this effect automatically triggers another arcane anomaly.
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each of their turns to end the effect, shaking off the terror and returning to reality.
89–90
Reminiscent of the flames which consumed Drakkenheim in the meteor’s wake, a roaring
regain the full amount, it instead suffers 18 (4d8) Force damage. Any spell cast using a spell slot regained from this effect automatically triggers another arcane anomaly.
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end of each of their turns to end the effect, shaking off the terror and returning to reality.
89–90
Reminiscent of the flames which consumed Drakkenheim in the meteor’s wake, a
;t regain the full amount, it instead suffers 18 (4d8) Force damage. Any spell cast using a spell slot regained from this effect automatically triggers another arcane anomaly.
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end of each of their turns to end the effect, shaking off the terror and returning to reality.
89–90
Reminiscent of the flames which consumed Drakkenheim in the meteor’s wake, a
;t regain the full amount, it instead suffers 18 (4d8) Force damage. Any spell cast using a spell slot regained from this effect automatically triggers another arcane anomaly.
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