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Returning 25 results for 'library of some and focus'.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
The Firefly Cellar The basement library known as the Firefly Cellar is located beneath the House of Rest. It’s entirely below ground, containing a collection of old manuscripts that focus primarily
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Arcane Focus or a tool as a Spellcasting Focus Craft 5 Armory None Trade 5 Barrack None Recruit 5 Garden None Harvest 5 Library None Research 5 Sanctuary Ability to use a Holy Symbol or Druidic Focus as a
Spellcasting Focus Craft 5 Smithy None Craft 5 Storehouse None Trade 5 Workshop None Craft 9 Gaming Hall None Trade 9 Greenhouse None Harvest 9 Laboratory None* Craft 9 Sacristy Ability to use a Holy
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
finding it can probably be found in Candlekeep. The encounters in Candlekeep focus on social interaction and exploration. The following events unfold here: The characters arrive at Candlekeep, where the
price of admittance is a book — specifically one not already contained in the monks’ library. The characters meet with Sylvira Savikas, a tiefling sage who knows the secret to unlocking Thavius
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
. Typically, a character needs access to a library or a sage to conduct research. Assuming such access is available, conducting research requires one workweek of effort and at least 50 gp spent on materials
, bribes, gifts, and other expenses. Resolution. The character declares the focus of the research — a specific person, place, or thing. After one workweek, the character makes an Intelligence check
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
spellbook. You don’t need to have the spell prepared. Spellcasting Focus You can use an arcane focus (see chapter 5, “Equipment”) as a spellcasting focus for your wizard spells. Learning Spells of
your adventures. You could discover a spell recorded on a scroll in an evil wizard’s chest, for example, or in a dusty tome in an ancient library.
Copying a Spell into the Book. When you find a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
your spellbook. You don’t need to have the spell prepared. Spellcasting Focus You can use an arcane focus (see chapter 5, “Equipment”) as a spellcasting focus for your wizard spells. Learning Spells
during your adventures. You could discover a spell recorded on a scroll in an evil wizard’s chest, for example, or in a dusty tome in an ancient library.
Copying a Spell into the Book. When you find a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
understand Lord Soth’s cryptic goals, he believes the characters’ discoveries are important. The marshal feels otherwise, believing Kalaman’s military should focus on fighting nearby Dragon Army forces
while she and Darrett discuss details, suggesting they visit the castle’s small library and learn what they can about the Northern Wastes.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
scholars and an alcove with a table covered in candles. To the south, in another alcove, stands a crystal sarcophagus.
The library holds the collected writings of Iedcaru’s scholars. The majority focus on
a DC 12 Wisdom (Perception) check notices the perch and door to area W4c, 30 feet above. W2: Library All manner of tomes, scrolls, tablets, and folios cram the towering shelves of this airy library
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
, massive, and rising well above the perimeter structures. About the central keep a garden spirals in rising steps, and those lucky enough to enter the library proper do so by passing around and up through
out on the peninsula where Candlekeep stands. The Great Library Candlekeep is the largest repository of lore and writings in all the Realms (although my scholarly kin in Evereska don’t like being
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monstrous Compendium Volume One: Spelljammer Creatures
away. I think it feeds on magical energy.
This entity has piqued my curiosity. I must learn more. To the library at Starhold!
—Emilou the Charismatic,
Warlock and Scion of Acamar
Fractine
Large
has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Scrying Focus. A spellcaster can use the fractine as a substitute focus when casting the scrying spell or similar magic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
appear anywhere in an adventure: glyphs on ancient dungeon walls, books in a library, files in a royal vault, or tapestries depicting key events. Use such set dressing to share important details
. Summarize what lengthy works say, and focus on the most plot-worthy parts.
Scholarly Expertise. Characters who have proficiency in the Arcana, History, or Religion skill can be fonts of useful
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
is certain the details of the ghost trap ritual could be found in Exploring Arcanum, which he last saw in the keep’s library. The Spellseekers don’t know any other details of the ghost trap ritual, nor
do they know that Gremorly is dead. Patrin knows where the library is and offers to guide the characters to it. He warns them it’s home to a nest of phase spiders, which travel the Ethereal Plane and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
. Obviators are cautious because they know precisely how dangerous any moment can be — and they are dangerous for the same reason. An obviator is like a lethal walking library. And if you were to face
some kind of walking library at some point, Lok would know exactly what to do about it.
Advanced Preparations At rank 3, you gain the ability to declare that you’re totally prepared. This
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
until the effects of Charmayne’s ritual are undone. S5: Library The library might once have been cozy with its large desk, padded couch, spacious bookshelves, and rich woods. Now, the books are ash
contained in each figurine can be turned against Charmayne. Specifically, each figurine can be used as a spellcasting focus once before it turns to ash. When used as the focus for a spell that targets
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
), or they simply laugh away queries about her accommodations, explaining that she’s always in the temple, or in the library, or checking on the rest of the residents—she never seems to sleep! Kobolds
characters like the most and let them be the focus of the characters’ interactions with the kobolds: Agga speaks little and has no patience for nonsense. She keeps the rest of the kobolds organized and in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
come here to rest and recuperate. Under each bed sits an empty chamber pot. M9: Library Freestanding bookcases form neat rows in this room. Narrow stained-glass windows depicting pastoral scenes line
conducting research in this library gains Advantage on ability checks tied to one skill—History, Medicine, or Nature—for the next 24 hours. Spellbook. Any character who spends at least 10 minutes examining
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Library This musty room is situated at the bottom of the main tower, and it has no door on level 1. It contains the following features: A suit of dented plate armor stands in the center of the room
. The genuine chest is unlocked and contains thirteen items, each of which can be used as an arcane focus: two crystals (worth 10 gp each), an orb (worth 20 gp), four rods (worth 10 gp each), and six
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
jeweled earrings worth 150 gp, and 115 gp. If the characters are captured by the cultists and moved to either cell, their belongings end up here as well. B9. Secret Library This small, dark chamber holds a
and three children in a golden urn that he sometimes uses as a focus for his dark rituals. The golden urn mentioned in this journal is the same one that rests on the table. The urn is engraved with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
consequences for the characters in their climactic encounter with her (as described at the end of the chapter). P38. Secret Library A dozen floating candles cast dim, flickering lights over this sepulchral
, windowless library. Ebony bookshelves are filled with volumes bound in jet-black fabric. The books have no titles on their spines. In the middle of the room, a black quill pen rests on a writing desk
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
details.) Raw Oztocanite. Chunks of oztocanite (the giant’s magic-imbued remains) are gathered into crates around the room. A fist-sized chunk of oztocanite can be used as a spellcasting focus that
grants a +1 bonus to spell attack rolls. However, if its wielder rolls a 1 on a spell attack roll while using it as a focus, the chunk shatters and the creature takes 10 (3d6) thunder damage. Giant’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
deeply on your own thoughts. You can take an action to focus your inner mind. This focus lasts for 1 hour. While your inner mind is focused, you can’t take reactions. For the duration, when you make
focus your inner mind when you finish a long rest.
Treasure. Jomlus keeps Klaudel’s belongings in a tidy pile. They include a pair of well-made spectacles worth 100 gp, two spell scrolls of comprehend
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
pillars, their seemingly dead eyes open wide as if in a state of intense focus.
Silver Pillars. Exuding enchantment magic that dulls will and perception, the silver pillars cause any creature in the
) sleeps here. Cell C. One Thayan apprentice (see appendix B) sleeps here. Cell D. Each of these two rooms is a library. An hour spent examining a library’s contents turns up two pieces of lore
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
a talisman that safeguards Kir Sabal and as a focus for meditation. 1F. Training Hall. The aarakocra monks use this hall for instruction in meditation and martial arts. It contains no furniture
). The outer room is a library with a single bookcase holding forty-four ancient books. Na likes to come here and read the books, none of which is magical. They cover most areas of knowledge: mathematics
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
lights flit between the branches, and at the center of the glade stands a towering banyan tree wrapped in sickly looking vines. A path winds through the glade but disappears when you try to focus
crushing—move fast!” “The master of this tomb longs to be free. Wouldn’t you, if you were he?” “Steal not from the library, for it holds trouble.” “Illusions are we, born from a mix of wanderlust and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
the largest library in Chessenta, a center of learning where all nobles aspire to send their children for tutoring. That city is looked on with disdain by the people of Akanax, whose militant contempt
enacted by regional tharchions and bureaucrats, leaving the ruling Red Wizards to focus on magical study and more important arcane matters. For a time, living mages couldn’t hope to advance to