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Dungeon Master’s Guide
’s authors filled the pages with their own visions of true virtue, providing guidance for defeating evil.
The Book of Exalted Deeds rarely lingers in one place. As soon as the book is read, it
vanishes to some other corner of the multiverse where its moral guidance can bring hope to an endangered world. Although attempts have been made to copy the work, efforts to do so fail to capture its
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
Magic Items
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
harp that you are worthy, attuning to the harp on a success. If you fail, you can’t attempt to attune to the harp again until the next dawn. Once you have successfully attuned to the harp, the
to a range of 120 feet.
The harp can speak, read, and understand Common and Giant. It can also communicate telepathically with the creature attuned to it.
The harp has a dramatic and pompous
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
Magic Items
Acquisitions Incorporated
Head office grants you the use of a unique item known as an occultant abacus (sometimes just referred to as an occultant), whose beads resemble tiny skulls.
Read the Kill
Also at rank 1, your
finish a long rest.
Ways to Read the Kill
d6
Reading
1
Using a tiny bellows to pump one last breath into a corpse.
2
Reading the entrails with special reading-the-entrails
Magic Items
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
transformation. Your alignment becomes lawful good, and you gain the following traits:
Angelic Language. You can speak, read, and write Celestial.
Celestial Resistance. You have resistance to necrotic and
Zariel by destroying fiends and other evildoers wherever I find them.
6
The Sword of Zariel has chosen me. I shall not fail to wield it justly.
Flaws
D6
FLAW
Magic Items
The Book of Many Things
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
the transformation early. When you revert to your normal form, you return to the same state you were in when you initially transformed.
Book. You gain the ability to speak, read, and write 1d6 + 2
Book of Exalted Deeds
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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
is read, it vanishes to some other corner of the multiverse where its moral guidance can bring light to a darkened world. Although attempts have been made to copy the work, efforts to do so fail to
digest its contents and gain its benefits. Other creatures that peruse the book’s open pages can read the text but glean no deeper meaning and reap no benefits. An evil creature that tries to read
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
for defeating evil. Book of Exalted Deeds The Book of Exalted Deeds rarely lingers in one place. As soon as the book is read, it vanishes to some other corner of the multiverse where its moral guidance
can bring light to a darkened world. Although attempts have been made to copy the work, efforts to do so fail to capture its magical nature or translate the benefits it offers to those pure of heart
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
rarely lingers in one place. As soon as the book is read, it vanishes to some other corner of the multiverse where its moral guidance can bring hope to an endangered world. Although attempts have been
made to copy the work, efforts to do so fail to capture its magical nature or translate the benefits it offers to those pure of heart and firm of purpose. A heavy clasp, wrought to look like angel
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Storm of Destruction As Nisha raises the Riverine’s Shankha above her head and the Shankha Trials conclude, read the following description: Thunder rings out as the sky fills with clouds. From the
crashes on the plaza, each character must make a DC 15 Strength saving throw. Those who fail take 9 (2d8) bludgeoning damage and are knocked prone. Those who succeed take half as much damage and aren’t
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
sublevels View Player Version S1: Tunnels As Clystran departs and the characters venture into the cave tunnels, read the following: The tunnels leading into the foundations of the flying citadel are
characters fail the check, they find the passage leads through a 50-foot-wide, 70-foot-long, 50-foot-high cavern where a lesser death dragon (see appendix B) lurks. It attacks when it notices the characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
Trial by Combat Xedalli asks the characters to serve as her champions. If the characters accept, read: Xeleth sneers. “Very well, sister, since you won’t face me yourself, I, too, name a champion
chapter’s cliffhanger ending depends on who wins the trial by combat. All Hail Emperor Xeleth! If the characters are defeated by the zodar (as described earlier in the chapter) or fail to come to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
extension of its creator, with the two sharing thoughts, senses, and language through a mystical bond. A master can have only one homunculus at a time (attempts to create another one always fail), and
when its master dies, the homunculus also dies. Shared Mind. A homunculus knows everything its creator knows, including all the languages the creator can speak and read. Likewise, everything the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Arrival at Cernant Valley When the party enters Cernant Valley, read or paraphrase the following text: Two giant eagles soar down to meet you, landing in nearby trees that creak gently beneath the
join the fray on initiative count 20 of the third round (losing initiative ties); the elk aid the eagles however they can. Attacking the eagles sours Derwyth’s opinion of the characters, who fail her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a7
2. False Entrance Tunnel If the characters clear the passage on the east side of the cliff face, read: The corridor before you is made of plain stone, roughly worked and mortared, with a 10-foot-high
character can use thieves’ tools to keep the stones from shifting by taking 1 minute and succeeding on a DC 20 Dexterity check. On a failed check, the shims are put in place but they fail when someone moves
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Boo’s Astral Menagerie
opportunity attacks when it flies out of an enemy’s reach.
Legendary Resistance (2/Day). If the dragon fails a saving throw, it can 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 structures.
Unusual Nature. The dragon doesn’t require air.
Actions
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Boo’s Astral Menagerie
attempts to read the dragon’s mind or glean its thoughts fail automatically.
Siege Monster. The dragon deals double damage to objects and structures.
Unusual Nature. The dragon doesn’t require air
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
. Spoken command words must be audible and fail to work in areas where all sound is suppressed, as in the area of the Silence spell. Consumable Items Some items are consumed—used up, in other words—when
they are activated. A Potion of Healing must be swallowed, for example, while the writing vanishes from a scroll when it is read. Once used, a consumable item loses its magic. Spells Cast from Items Some
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
T3. Cage Trap If the party continues east along the tunnel past area T2, they walk into a trap. Read the following text only if a character examines the ceiling: The ceiling consists of square stone
hall, read the following: At the end of the passage is another stone door with an iron pull ring in it. It stands slightly ajar with darkness beyond. About five feet up, the door has a two-inch-wide
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
downstream by the current and wash up on the riverbank far from their destination. When the characters arrive, read or paraphrase the following text: On the south bank of the river stands a simple hut with
them to the island. During the crossing, he uses the opening phrase twice more. If the characters still fail to offer the proper response, Hadley takes them to the outpost (area T1) without further
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
—the game uses to determine whether creatures succeed or fail at the things they attempt during the game (see “D20 Tests” later in this chapter). You roll a d20 whenever your character tries to do
number) in that column. Read across that row for the result. For example, the Trinkets table in “Creating a Character” uses a d100. Percentage Chances Sometimes you might see a rule describing a percentage
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
13: Inner Bailey The sheltered inner bailey is where the keep’s defenders live and practice combat drills.
When the characters arrive at the inner bailey, read the following boxed text aloud
grunt, he does so.
Shortsighted. Shannik’s plans and actions fail to account for long-term repercussions.
Rumors
“An adventurer is only as good as their gear. Oleira at the trader’s shop is a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
25 Strength (Athletics) check. When the characters peer inside, read: Gleaming scimitars, serpent helms, and suits of scale armor cram the racks of this vault. Large bones and horned skulls litter
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->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Arches of Ulloch Only fools step through Ulloch’s gates. They lead to nowhere a wise person wants to go. — The Cartographer When the characters arrive at this location, read or paraphrase the
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->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Burning Sugar As the Sarire sugar mill comes into view, the smell of cooking sugarcane rises on the breeze. Read or paraphrase the following text when the characters are about a quarter mile from the
sinkhole’s crumbling walls requires a successful DC 14 Strength (Athletics) check, but the panicked workers repeatedly fail to escape. A character who investigates the sinkhole and succeeds on a DC 16
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
—the game uses to determine whether creatures succeed or fail at the things they attempt during the game (see “D20 Tests” later in this chapter). You roll a d20 whenever your character tries to do
number) in that column. Read across that row for the result. For example, the Trinkets table in chapter 2 uses a d100. Percentage Chances Sometimes you might see a rule describing a percentage chance of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
tent. This challenge doesn’t have an audience. When the characters enter the tent, read or paraphrase the following text: Seated at the middle of this sizable empty tent is a wizened gnome at work amid
descended the ladder, read or paraphrase the following text: The ladder descends into a dimly lit room smelling of dust and sweet spices. Musty furniture and crates are strewn about the space. A door
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
your first turn in combat, the attack deals an extra 2d6 damage to it. You can use this trait only once per combat. Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Goblin. Goblin Traits Your
can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest. Nimble Escape. You can take the Disengage or Hide action as a bonus action on each of your turns. Languages. You can speak, read, and write
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
tower the characters observe on their ascent. When the characters reach the pinnacle, read the following text: The commander of the Feathergale Knights is a well-built male human in his early fifties
Feathergale Spire (see chapter 2) Doing one’s duty for the realm Hunting and hawking Hippogriffs, giant vultures, and other aerial mounts If the characters mention elemental cults, read the following text
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
or poison killed a creature, or explain what that dead body is doing under your bed at the inn. The Occultant Franchise Rank Features
1 Proficiencies and Starting Equipment, Read the Kill
), whose beads resemble tiny skulls. Read the Kill Also at rank 1, your occultant abacus not only tracks your franchise’s kills, it helps you determine the impact of those kills on the franchise’s fate
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
turn in combat, the attack deals an extra 2d6 damage to it. You can use this trait only once per combat. Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Goblin. Goblin Traits Your goblin character
a bonus action on each of your turns. Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Goblin. Hobgoblin Traits Your hobgoblin character has the following racial traits. Ability Score Increase
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
the revenant. If the characters approach it, it says, “Go away.” If they don’t leave immediately, read: The creature’s grip on the greatsword tightens. “If you have come to destroy me, know this: I
anyone who tries to end his torment.”
Vladimir fights in self-defense. He also rises from his throne and attacks if the characters fail to heed his warning and press him for help destroying Strahd
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
, the characters must succeed on a DC 15 group Wisdom (Survival) check. On a success, the characters locate Red Ruth’s lair at the heart of the woodland (area B3). If they fail, they blunder into one
fail to satisfy them, the three spirits attack. Shambling Mounds. Three shambling mounds arise from the brambles and attack the characters. Thorn Trap. The characters spot a hawthorn staff entangled
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Parade Ambush As the parade nears the jetty, read the following description: Grasping weeds and vines erupt from the cobblestone street beneath the carriage at the head of the parade. The ox pulling
. Guards. The two guards are affected by the poison biza’s breath (detailed in a sidebar earlier in this adventure). They automatically fail their saving throws to end the poison’s effect. The guards