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Dungeon Master’s Guide
Archlich;Vecna authored the Book of Vile Darkness. He recorded in its pages every horrid idea, every corrupt thought, and every example of foul magic he came across or devised.
Other practitioners of
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Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
they came to Khorvaire, they battled the champions of the goblin empire. The greatest heroes of those struggles live on after death, known as the patron ancestors. When you became an adult, one of
or clever? Whatever their nature, it’s your duty to follow their example. Is this something you proudly embrace, or do you resist it? Each patron ancestor is tied to many Valenar: do you have a
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
performed a ritual that turned Sovereign Keep into a ghost trap: anyone who dies within the castle walls rises as an incorporeal spirit, trapped within the castle. Then, he waited. When adventurers
came to investigate the seemingly abandoned keep, Gremorly murdered them and trapped their ghosts. But fortune recently turned against Gremorly when a behir entered the keep seeking a nest. It slew
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Storm King's Thunder
require some sort of blood sacrifice, and their effects are usually transformative. For example, some Black Raven shamans know a ritual that allows them to hatch giant ravens from normal raven eggs, and
some shamans of the Griffon tribe can transform themselves into griffons by performing a ritual that requires them to drink copious amounts of horse blood.
UTHGARDT SHAMAN TRIBAL SPELLS
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Hexblood
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Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
youngster is considered a gift from the town’s patron deity, who is known as Mother.
Becoming a Hag
Hags can undertake a ritual to irreversibly transform a hexblood they created into a new hag
, either one of their own kind or that embodies the hexblood’s nature. This requires that both the hag and hexblood be in the same place and consent to the lengthy ritual—circumstances most
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Keys from the Golden Vault
far as to murder her fellow councilor, Regine, while she slept.
As she came to realize the people of Ghalasine didn’t love her as they did the king, Charmayne became filled with rage. She used
magic to tear out Jhaeros’s heart while keeping it alive. She then used the still-beating heart as the focus of a ritual to destroy Ghalasine.Fire
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Candlekeep Mysteries
inspection. For example, the hag could appear to have smooth skin, but someone touching her would feel her rough flesh. Otherwise, a creature must take an action to visually inspect the illusion and
. The covetous hags each knew part of a ritual for crafting magic paintings that could bind mortal creatures with a terrible curse. After agreeing to share their knowledge and work together, they
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
, but it isn’t an interdiction they must often enforce. Illithids brook no masters but members of their own kind, so it isn’t in their nature to bow to any god or otherworldly patron
amethyst. The process requires at least three mind flayer arcanists and the sacrifice of an equal number of souls from living victims in a three-day-long ritual of spellcasting and psionic communion. Upon
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Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
from your lineage has been exposed to the concentrated magic of the moon (or moons) of your world, imbuing you with lunar magic. Perhaps your ancestor was involved in a druidic ritual involving an
eclipse, or maybe a mystical fragment of a moon crashed near you. However you came to have your magic, your connection to the moon is obvious when you cast sorcerer spells—perhaps making your pupils
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Basic Rules (2014)
pact, and how did you make contact with your patron? Were you seduced into summoning a devil, or did you seek out the ritual that would allow you to make contact with an alien elder god? Did you search
life in her hands, a wizened human whispers the secret name of her demonic patron, infusing her spell with fiendish magic.
Shifting his gaze between a battered tome and the odd alignment of the
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Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
from your lineage has been exposed to the concentrated magic of the moon (or moons) of your world, imbuing you with lunar magic. Perhaps your ancestor was involved in a druidic ritual involving an
eclipse, or maybe a mystical fragment of a moon crashed near you. However you came to have your magic, your connection to the moon is obvious when you cast sorcerer spells—perhaps making your pupils
Book of Vile Darkness
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Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
example of blackest magic he came across or devised. Vecna covered every vile topic he could, making the book a gruesome catalog of all mortal wrongs.
Other practitioners of evil have held the book and
, plus whatever else you choose:
Vile Apotheosis. The book could hold a ritual that allows a character to become a lich or death knight.
True Names. The true names of any number of fiends might be in
Magic Items
Princes of the Apocalypse
example, an air node creates a devastation orb of air. The ritual takes 1 hour to complete and requires 2,000 gp worth of special components, which are consumed.
A devastation orb measures 12 inches in
A devastation orb is an elemental bomb that can be created at the site of an elemental node by performing a ritual with an elemental weapon. The type of orb created depends on the node used. For
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Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
a collection of religious texts stuffed into an attic and forgotten when a believer’s patron deity died. In this solitary work, you’ve learned secrets no one else knows.
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You killed
’s Gate. You came here seeking something else, only to learn that the quest that drove you had become impossible to fulfill—its object was destroyed or its purpose was negated by some
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Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
in a show. We’ve been on good terms ever since.
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I came from the Gruul and still have relatives there.
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An Izzet technician provides pyrotechnics for my performances.
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An
Orzhov oligarch has taken an interest in my career, like a patron of the arts.
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Roll an additional Rakdos contact; you can decide if the contact is an ally or a rival.
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A Selesnya healer
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Keys from the Golden Vault
example of blackest magic he came across or devised. Vecna covered every vile topic he could, making the book a gruesome catalog of all mortal wrongs.
Other practitioners of evil have held the book and
choose:
Vile Apotheosis. The book could hold a ritual that allows a character to become a lich or death knight.
True Names. The true names of any number of fiends might be in the book.
Dark Magic
Reborn
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Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
sensations or visions of the past to come rushing back.
Rather than sleeping, reborn regularly sit and dwell on the past, hoping for some revelation of what came before. Most of the time, these are dark
, silent stretches. Occasionally, though, in a moment of peace, stress, or excitement, a reborn gains a glimpse of what came before. When you desire to have such a dreamlike vision, roll on the Lost
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
and from out of the corner of your eye, they came to the Material Plane, urged to spread throughout the multiverse by the conquering god Maglubiyet. Centuries later, they still bear a fey gift for
. These types don’t have rules themselves, but some rules in the game affect creatures of certain types in different ways. For example, the cure wounds spell doesn’t work on a Construct or
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
gain renown with a cult by performing deeds such as those in the Innsmouth Cults Renown table. Innsmouth Cults Renown Deed Renown Gained Slaying an enemy cultist* +1 Despoiling an enemy ritual site
* +1 Participating in a cult ritual* +1 Ritual sacrifice of an enemy or magic item +2 Retrieving alien devices +2 Disrupting an enemy ritual +3 Slaying the leader of an enemy cult +5 *Renown for
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organization. An academy, for example, might not organize particular missions, so you hunt down ancient artifacts knowing that your patron will reward you for bringing them back. You have the freedom to chart
Assignments A more hands-off patron can still significantly motivate your group. Maybe you seek adventures based on what pleases your patron, possibly earning status and rewards within your
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make contact with your patron? Were you seduced into summoning a devil, or did you seek out the ritual that would allow you to make contact with an alien elder god? Did you search for your patron, or
Creating a Warlock As you make your warlock character, spend some time thinking about your patron and the obligations that your pact imposes upon you. What led you to make the pact, and how did you
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“Yer late, elf!” came the rough edge of a familiar voice. Bruenor Battlehammer walked up the back of his dead foe, disregarding the fact that the heavy monster lay on top of his elven
friend. In spite of the added discomfort, the dwarf’s long, pointed, often-broken nose and gray-streaked though still-fiery red beard came as a welcome sight to Drizzt. “Knew I’d find
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
helping the players flesh out the details. For example, if the characters came together to overcome a common foe, the identity of this enemy needs to be determined. If a funeral gathered the group, the
adventurers and also include roleplaying hooks in the form of ideals, bonds, and flaws—things you ought to know. For example, if a player chooses the criminal background, one of the options for the
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
party’s entire campaign. For example, a group whose patron is an academic institution is likely to have a very different story from a group that serves a military. A patron can influence characters
patron. These patrons provide a strong binding element: an individual or an organization that unites a party as a team in service to a greater purpose. A group patron can help set the tone of your
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
How Patrons Work Each type of patron in this section includes the following information: An example of the general type of patron, including information about its organization, headquarters, allies
patron’s background and your characters’ roles in it, including the kinds of adventures and missions you might undertake on its behalf Benefits your group gets from your patron, which might include
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as a launchpad tailored for organizations of your design. For example, the guild group patron could represent the Harpers or the Zhentarim of the Forgotten Realms, the Clifftop Adventurers’ Guild in
How Patrons Work The following sections present several group patron options. The description of each patron provides an overview of the types of organizations the group patron represents, perks of
Yuan-ti Pureblood
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
cannibalizing their victims, and then performed a sorcerous ritual while writhing in pools filled with living snakes that enabled them to mix their flesh with that of serpents, becoming like the gods in
can transform an individual into a more powerful type. The cost and time required to perform the ritual is prohibitive, and as a result most yuan-ti never get the opportunity to undergo such a
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Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
in the shadows. Order agents tend to be proficient in Religion, and frequently seek aid from law enforcement friendly to the order’s ideals, and the clergy of the order’s patron gods.
The
Personality Trait
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I idolize a particular hero of my faith, and constantly refer to that person’s deeds and example.
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I can find common ground between the fiercest enemies
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Spellcasting.Ancient legends suggest that when the gods came to the First World and tried to populate it with their Humanoid followers, a clever dragon fled to the Feywild to hide a clutch of eggs. The magic
of one plane to wander into others.
Moonstone Dragon Lair Features
You can look to other maps in this chapter as inspiration for the scattered parts of a moonstone dragon’s lair. For example
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Power of Secrets The characters can learn two secrets in this chapter applicable to the Power of Secrets rules found in this book’s introduction: Naxa’s Secret. The drow mage Naxa and her sister came
to retrieve a cloak. It isn’t simply a fancy magic item—it’s a key piece in an important ritual they’re planning. The characters can learn this secret later in the chapter in the vault of the Ruinous
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
Elves of Valenar Your people are dedicated to the arts of war. Millenia ago, your ancestors fought an epic war against mighty giants. When they came to Khorvaire, they battled the champions of the
goblin empire. The greatest heroes of those struggles live on after death, known as the patron ancestors. When you became an adult, one of the patron ancestors formed a bond with you. Now it is your
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Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
to fend for yourself.
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A glitch caused you to forget your original programming. You don’t remember who made you or where you came from.
4
You didn’t like how you were being
certain types in different ways. For example, the text of the cure wounds spell specifies that the spell doesn’t work on a creature that has the Construct type. (The autognome is a noteworthy
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
patron and so earn a reward. A university, for example, might not send you on a particular mission, but you might decide to follow leads to an ancient artifact hoping the university might reward you
. Your group’s patron might occasionally come to you and give you an assignment. This can be an easy way to get into an adventure. Of course, it’s up to you how you respond to your patron’s demands, and
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Pact Boon At 3rd level, your otherworldly patron bestows a gift upon you for your loyal service. You gain one of the following features of your choice. Pact of the Chain You learn the find familiar
spell and can cast it as a ritual. The spell doesn’t count against your number of spells known. When you cast the spell, you can choose one of the normal forms for your familiar or one of the following
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Patrons in Eberron Here are the most likely types of patrons for an adventuring group in Eberron. Presented in alphabetical order, the patrons each include an example. Patrons Type of Patron
Example Adventurers’ Guild Clifftop Adventurers’ Guild Crime Syndicate Boromar Clan Dragonmarked House Any dragonmarked house Espionage Agency King’s Dark Lanterns Head of State Prince Oargev of New Cyre