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Dungeon Master’s Guide
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
. The avatar targets only you with its attacks, appearing as a ghostly skeleton clad in a tattered black robe and carrying a spectral scythe. The avatar disappears when it drops to 0 Hit Points or you
Magic Items
Tyranny of Dragons
. You can speak and understand Draconic. You also have advantage on any Charisma check you make against black dragons.
Legendary Resistance (1/Day). If you fail a saving throw, you can choose to succeed instead.
Water Breathing. You can breathe underwater.
Dragonborn
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Basic Rules (2014)
ancestor—bright red, green, blue, or white, lustrous black, or gleaming metallic gold, silver, brass, copper, or bronze.
Self-Sufficient Clans
To any dragonborn, the clan is more important
self-improvement reflects the self-sufficiency of the race as a whole. Dragonborn value skill and excellence in all endeavors. They hate to fail, and they push themselves to extreme efforts before they
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
choose to succeed instead.
Nebulous Thoughts. Magical attempts to read the dragon’s mind or glean its thoughts fail automatically.
Siege Monster. The dragon deals double damage to objects and
shell, shiny black and opaque. When an egg is close to hatching, the shell becomes translucent, allowing the light from the unborn wyrmling’s wings to shine through.A Solar Dragon’s Lair
A
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
choose to succeed instead.
Nebulous Thoughts. Magical attempts to read the dragon’s mind or glean its thoughts fail automatically.
Siege Monster. The dragon deals double damage to objects and
shell, shiny black and opaque. When an egg is close to hatching, the shell becomes translucent, allowing the light from the unborn wyrmling’s wings to shine through.A Solar Dragon’s Lair
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
claws, glossy black eyes, and a snakelike tail tipped with a poisonous spike. On the rare occasion when her social graces fail to achieve the desired result, Hulgaz turns her natural weapons on her
Magic Items
Tyranny of Dragons
Draconic. You also have advantage on any Charisma check you make against dragons that share the color of the mask from which these properties were chosen.
Legendary Resistance (5/Day). If you fail a
damage to a creature, it can’t take reactions until its next turn.
Water Breathing (Black Dragon Mask;Black or Green Dragon Mask Only). You can breathe underwater.
Winter’s Fury (White
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
people don’t realize how much they need me.
3
I’ve seen too many in need. I must not fail them as everyone else has.
4
I stand in opposition, less the wicked go unopposed.
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, sometimes needing to recuperate for a day or more.
5
I think far ahead, a detachedness often mistaken for daydreaming.
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I see morality entirely in black and white.
Deck of Many Things
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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
.
Skull. You summon an avatar of death--a ghostly humanoid skeleton clad in a tattered black robe and carrying a spectral scythe. It appears in a space of the GM's choice within 10 feet of you and attacks
Book of Vile Darkness
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Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
in the world. If you fail to perform at least one evil act within the span of 10 days, or if you willingly perform a good act, the book disappears. If you die while attuned to the book, an entity of
darkness. An evil rune might appear on your face, your eyes might become glossy black, or horns might sprout from your forehead. Or you might become wizened and hideous, lose all facial features, gain a
Magic Items
Keys from the Golden Vault
in the world. If you fail to perform at least one evil act within the span of 10 days, or if you willingly perform a good act, the book disappears. If you die while attuned to the book, an entity of
book, the spirit tries to leave the book and enter your body. If you fail a DC 20 Charisma saving throw, it succeeds, and you become an NPC under the DM’s control until the intruding spirit is
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
tattered black robe. It appears in a space of the DM’s choice within 10 feet of you and attacks you, warning all others that you must win the battle alone. The avatar fights until you die or it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Red Widow Theater The Red Widow is a cabaret known for lively music, provocative dancing, and shady dealings. A gigantic statue of a spider, painted in garish crimson with a black hourglass shape on
poverty and horror outside. But the theater harbors horrors nonetheless: shape-shifters use the cabaret’s intimate spaces to find prey. Though rumors persist of shape-shifting giant spiders that feast on unwitting customers, they fail to depress attendance at the theater’s performances.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
13 Wisdom (Perception) check. Those who fail the check are surprised when two black puddings boil out of crevices in the floor and attack.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
, and black ice. All form a miserable home for the traitors and backstabbers that are trapped on this prison plane. Optional Rule: Prison Plane No one can leave Carceri easily. Magical efforts to leave
the plane by any spell other than a wish simply fail. Portals and gates that open onto the plane become one-way only. Secret ways out of the plane exist, but they are hidden and well guarded by traps and deadly monsters.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
garments. For all her majesty, Hulgaz’s fiendish nature is apparent in her monstrous features: bestial claws, glossy black eyes, and a snakelike tail tipped with a poisonous spike. On the rare occasion
when her social graces fail to achieve the desired result, Hulgaz turns her natural weapons on her victims.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
ritual is disrupted if either of the following occurs: Red moonlight shines on the white crystal, white moonlight shines on the black crystal, and black moonlight shines on the red crystal. A lunar
forces to fend off the dragon Orinix. If the characters fail to thwart Teremini’s ritual, they should fight her elsewhere in the vault so they can retrieve the rod piece. Ritual Duration
The text
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
their nightmares to the great serpent. A yuan-ti malison (Ras Nsi) wielding a flaming sword and wearing a gold crown set with a black opal leads the snake people to a great door to the underworld. The
) check discovers that the black opal in Ras Nsi’s crown is a stone button. If the check succeeds by 5 or more, the character also sees tiny holes hidden among the scales of the Night Serpent carvings
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
, frigid oceans, and black ice. All form a miserable home for the traitors and backstabbers trapped on this prison plane. Layers of Carceri Layer Description Orthrys The River Styx meanders through a
Payratheon. Colothys Deep chasms cut between cruel mountains make foot travel nearly impossible. Porphatys Cold, acidic oceans are fed by constant black snow. Agathys Black ice streaked with red covers this
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
spells. Acererak’s magic and the magic of the amulet of the black skull (see appendix C) are unaffected. Spells that would normally allow creatures to transport into and out of the tomb either fail or
deposit their recipients in area 57. Spells that normally allow one to pass through stone fail, and divination spells cast within the tomb provide false readings. Spells designed to communicate over long
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Conclusion If Wiggan or Bertram somehow survive, they later flee to the Temple of Black Earth to report. The characters might encounter them again there. It’s up to you whether the cult leaders spare
to life after 24 hours to resume his pursuit of the desecraters. He, too, might appear in the Temple of the Black Earth. Further, Uthgardt of the Elk tribe could continue to harass the Nettlebees
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
target that is hit takes 2 (1d4) piercing damage and must make a DC 14 Strength saving throw. Those who fail are restrained and begin suffocating as black vines erupt from their clothes and mouths then
through the conservatory’s windows. The fractures form the word “Uninvited.” Belladonna. Inexplicably, one plant is still alive and flourishing in the room: a belladonna plant with fat, black berries. It can be useful in completing the symbol of Ezra that appears on the door to area 24.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
object or knowledge it guards vanishes. Even if a sphinx is attacked and defeated, a quester will still fail to gain the secret it sought — and will make an enemy of the god that placed the sphinx as a
guardian. Benign deities sometimes grant a sphinx the power to remove supplicants that fail their tests, transporting them away and ensuring that they never encounter the sphinx again. However, those
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
aboard their jolly boat and return to the Second Wind. Have Krux and each character make a DC 21 Wisdom (Perception) check. Those who fail the check are surprised when Big Momma attacks: As the jolly boat
approaches the Second Wind, an enormous jet-black behemoth glides out of the darkness and cosmic dust, its red eye glowing brightly as its jaws open wide. Long, stringy strands of saliva break off
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
39. Arcturia’s Boudoirs Mounted above the double door to these chambers is a 4-foot-diameter, 2-inch-thick disk of black stone upon which is engraved a white symbol depicting a bony human hand. A
to these chambers can escape. 39a. Gold and Black Boudoir Light. The walls and ceiling are painted gold. Mounted to them are black iron sconces with continual flame spells cast on them. These fires
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
following boxed text to the players: Two ornate, black arches dominate the scorched landscape for miles, each one rising two hundred feet into the stiflingly hot air. Every inch of stonework is engraved with
prison-chasm. If the characters fail to pick a destination, determine it randomly. Ask a player to roll a d20 on the poster map of Avernus. The location closest to where the die rests becomes the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
after tomorrow, we will destroy the town of Beliard. You can try to stop us, but you will fail; none shall survive. This is the price of your defiance.”
A new vista forms in your dream. You are
, and two Black Earth guards Three Eternal Flame guardians, two minotaurs, and four hell hounds These cultists are willing to annihilate themselves in the process of carrying out their mission. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
creatures who fail to speak the correct passphrase. The current passphrase is “black mask.” Characters are given three chances to utter the correct phrase before Ukurlahmu attacks. Before it attacks, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
sobering thought indeed! Surely the rewards for success cannot fail to be greater, for the fire giants—and their masters, perhaps?—have more loot for the taking. If the party (or one or more members
keep all the loot they find, plus the possibility of reward from the rulers of the lands being ravaged by the giant bands. And now the adventurers stand before the black and smoking slag hill that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
to a table in the center of the Yawning Portal’s taproom, where her boss waits with drink in hand. Davil Starsong Davil Starsong (see appendix B) is the characters’ primary contact in the Black
need. (More specifically, they provide loans, mercenaries, and other services.) Another Black Network gang has recently infiltrated the city and tried to take over the Xanathar Guild. They failed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Red Robes are expected to wield their power responsibly, represent their order faithfully, and uphold the balance between good and evil in their own actions and the world at large. Order of the Black
Robes Often reviled and feared in equal measure, the Black Robes follow the example of the evil god Nuitari, the black moon of Krynn. A mage of the Black Robes is expected to first further their own
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
characters succeed, the sunny meadow fades to black as the dream sequence progresses toward the next dream. If all the characters fail the saving throw, each character takes 11 (2d10) psychic damage, and
several comfortable black cushions at the center. She orders Lulu to rest on the cushions, which the hollyphant does with a bit of trepidation. Maggie then places two skulls on the circle, noting that she’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
. 61. Bone Room Cracked and decaying bones are piled throughout this chamber. In the northwest corner is a black gate.
Creatures. Three sentient ochre jellies and a wight guard this area. The wight
gray stone is filled with square vats made of the same material. At the center of the chamber, a great fountain spews black liquid that lands in a wide stone pool. Trenches cut into the floor run from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
or Long Rest. Starting at level 17, you can use it twice before a rest but only once on a turn. Level 2: Tactical Mind You have a mind for tactics on and off the battlefield. When you fail an ability
: Tactical Shift Whenever you activate your Second Wind with a Bonus Action, you can move up to half your Speed without provoking Opportunity Attacks. Level 9: Indomitable If you fail a saving throw
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
fail the check, or if the characters open the gates, the guards rouse themselves and stumble forth to confront the trespassers. Otto Belview The gate guards are Otto and Zygfrek Belview, two lawful
black fur trim. Zygfrek has the Darkvision feature (see the mongrelfolk stat block in appendix D). Her madness is embodied in the following statement: “I don’t like the way people judge me all the time.”