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damage unless the creature is a Fiend or an Undead.
Destroying the Book. The Book of Vile Darkness allows pages to be torn from it, but any evil lore contained on those pages finds its way back into the
book must spend 80 hours reading and studying it to digest its contents and use its Adjusted Ability Scores, Tireless Form, Spells, Vile Lore, and Vile Speech properties.
The Book of Vile Darkness
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Armor, Sickle, 2 Dagger;Daggers, orb;Arcane Focus (orb), Book (occult lore), Scholar's Pack, and 15 GP; or (B) 100 GP
Warlocks quest for knowledge that lies hidden in the fabric of the
multiverse. They often begin their search for magical power by delving into tomes of forbidden lore, dabbling in invocations meant to attract the power of extraplanar beings, or seeking places of power where
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Player’s Handbook
odd jobs and services in exchange for access to their libraries. You whiled away many a long evening studying books and scrolls, learning the lore of the multiverse—even the rudiments of magic—and your mind yearns for more.
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Player’s Handbook
Unearth Forbidden Lore of Ineffable Beings
When you choose this subclass, you might bind yourself to an unspeakable being from the Far Realm or an elder god—a being such as Tharizdun, the
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Player’s Handbook
, including performing music, working magic, and making jests.
A Bard’s life is spent traveling, gathering lore, telling stories, and living on the gratitude of audiences, much like any other entertainer
determine your available spell slots.
Bard Features
——Spell Slots per Spell Level——
Level
Proficiency Bonus
Class Features
Bardic Die
Cantrips
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used across the multiverse.
The closest a Wizard is likely to come to an ordinary life is working as a sage or lecturer. Other Wizards sell their services as advisers, serve in military forces, or
Features table. See the multiclassing rules to determine your available spell slots.
Wizard Features
——Spell Slots per Spell Level——
Level
Proficiency Bonus
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Dungeon Master’s Guide
it longs to be more than mere reference material.
Abyssal Lore. You can reference the Demonomicon whenever you make an Intelligence check to discern information about demons or a Wisdom (Survival
successful save, the Fiend can’t try to possess you again for 7 days (but another Fiend trapped in the book can certainly try).
When the tome is discovered, it has 1d4 Fiends occupying its pages&mdash
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Player’s Handbook
as a Rage. More than a mere emotion—and not limited to anger—this Rage is an incarnation of a predator’s ferocity, a storm’s fury, and a sea’s turmoil.
Some Barbarians
deepest self. For every Barbarian, their Rage is a power that fuels not just battle prowess, but also uncanny reflexes and heightened senses.
Barbarians often serve as protectors and leaders in their
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
sinister manipulators who hoard necromantic lore and gather in cults to share their gruesome secrets. Such secrets often require unsavory experimentation, which these heartless cultists relish
wicked cults that follow their paths of tyranny, murder, and necromancy.
More than any other gods, the Dead Three directly influence Faerûn—and particularly the city of Baldur’s Gate
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
Evasion. If the nimblewright is subjected to an effect that allows it to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, it instead takes no damage if it succeeds on the save and only half
a weapon. Response: The nimblewright adds 2 to its AC against that attack, potentially causing it to miss.Watchful sentries that patrol important sites, nimblewright guards serve as loyal soldiers or
Monsters
Stranger Things: Welcome to the Hellfire Club
work left undone. Scarecrows might serve those who created them or might defend a place, family, or community from threats—whether physical or to their way of life.PoisonFire
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
Evasion. If Karas is subjected to an effect that allows her to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, Karas instead takes no damage if she succeeds on the save and only half damage
shrines to the Dead Three and her research about lore or
Artifacts related to those gods. Only Karas’s most trusted confidantes know her hideout’s location.
Karas extends her connection to the
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
Evasion. If the nimblewright is subjected to an effect that allows it to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, it instead takes no damage if it succeeds on the save and only half
surprisingly dexterous for creations made of animated wood and metal. A nimblewright walks with a flowing grace and fights with whirling pirouettes.
Nimblewrights can serve as interesting background
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
Evasion. If the nimblewright is subjected to an effect that allows it to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, it instead takes no damage if it succeeds on the save and only half
whirling pirouettes.
Nimblewrights can serve as interesting background flavor in Calimshan or other areas where they are common. Roll or choose a result from the Nimblewright Tasks table as inspiration for
Monsters
Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
Phiarlan and House Thuranni, who are primarily elves, combine stealth and espionage with mastery of the performing arts—and dragonmarked heirs augment those skills with shadow magic. This stat block
can serve for an agent of either house.
Even though House Phiarlan agents don’t typically work as entertainers or artists in addition to their espionage activities, they receive extensive
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Astarion's Book of Hungers
course it is.
—Astarion on Vampire Infernalists
Vampire Infernalist Lairs
Vampire infernalists lurk in gloomy libraries or ritual chambers, far from the sun’s light. The region
serve the vampire’s will. From dusk until dawn, Medium or smaller Beasts have the Charmed condition while within 1 mile of the lair.
Drained Essence. Grasping shadows within 1 mile of the lair
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
malevolent will. In any case, they possess cruelty, bloodlust, and necromantic power in equal measure and serve the Dead Three with their soul.
A Dead Three scion leads cults to Bane, Bhaal, or Myrkul
—and often to all three. Sometimes the scion commands a single cult with an uneasy mix of adherents of each god, but a scion might lead separate cults from the shadows, playing them against each other and coordinating their efforts to bring the greatest amount of misery to a region.Necrotic
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Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
direct action when an oblique or hidden action will suffice. Its plans always contain fallbacks and contingencies. One of these contingencies—one the other liches who constitute its new form failed
to foresee—was to assume control of the other liches if Crystal Shard was destroyed and created the multi-lich entity.
Zlan schemes about how to restore and control Crystal Shard’s power
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Astarion's Book of Hungers
durable spawn to serve as watchful guardians. These vampire wardens appear to have the same pallid flesh as most vampires but, through sheer force of will, can shrug off blows that might fell others
tried to play fetch with one of ours. It didn’t go well.
—Astarion on Vampire Wardens
Necrotic
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Tales from the Yawning Portal
DC 20 Intelligence (Arcana or History) check, the character recalls lore that says the duergar made several such whistles for various groups in an age past.
If you blow the whistle in darkness or
under the night sky, it allows you to cast the animate dead spell. The target can be affected through up to 10 feet of soft earth or similar material, and if it is, it takes 1 minute to claw its way to
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
domesticate steeders, particularly duergar. Typically the females serve as steeds in battle, while the males are used as draft animals.
Steeders attempt to tear apart perceived threats—and consider even
Extraordinary Leap. The distance of the steeder’s long jumps is tripled; every foot of its walking speed that it spends on the jump allows it to jump 3 feet.
Spider Climb. The steeder can
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
domesticate steeders, particularly duergar. Typically the females serve as steeds in battle, while the males are used as draft animals.
Steeders attempt to tear apart perceived threats—and consider
Extraordinary Leap. The distance of the steeder’s long jumps is tripled; every foot of its walking speed that it spends on the jump allows it to move 3 feet.
Spider Climb. The steeder can
Circle of Stars
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Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
world. Some groups document these observations at megalithic sites, which serve as enigmatic libraries of lore. These repositories might take the form of stone circles, pyramids, petroglyphs, and
The Circle of Stars allows druids to draw on the power of starlight. These druids have tracked heavenly patterns since time immemorial, discovering secrets hidden amid the constellations. By
Book of Vile Darkness
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Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
the Book. The Book of Vile Darkness allows pages to be torn from it, but any evil lore contained on those pages finds its way back into the book eventually, usually when a new author adds pages to the
the book’s contents, provided that those modifications advance evil and expand the lore already contained within.
Whenever a non-evil creature attunes to the Book of Vile Darkness, that creature
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Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
knowledge of Strixhaven’s extensive lore catalog, cogwork archivists serve as keepers of the university’s various libraries. The archivists’ towering metal frames are equipped with long
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Princes of the Apocalypse
defend dwarves and to serve as a symbol of dwarven resolve. It hates the traditional foes of dwarves — giants, goblins, and, most of all, orcs — and silently urges its possessor to meet such creatures in battle.
knows little more than the desire to face orcs in battle and serve a courageous, just wielder. It disdains cowards and any form of duplicity, deception, or disloyalty. The weapon’s purpose is to
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Player’s Handbook (2014)
The gods of knowledge — including Oghma, Boccob, Gilean, Aureon, and Thoth — value learning and understanding above all. Some teach that knowledge is to be gathered and shared in
tremendous power if they unlock the secrets of the multiverse. Followers of these gods study esoteric lore, collect old tomes, delve into the secret places of the earth, and learn all they can. Some gods
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
, wall of forceSeekers of forgotten lore and lost relics, blue abishais are the most cunning and learned of their kind. Their research into occult subjects gleaned from tomes plundered from across the
before death and, as a reward, found its soul transformed into a draconic devil to serve at her pleasure in the Nine Hells. Each type of abishai is associated with one of Tiamat’s five dragon
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Keys from the Golden Vault
Vile Darkness allows pages to be torn from it, but any evil lore contained on those pages finds its way back into the book eventually, usually when a new author adds pages to the tome.
If a solar tears
the book’s contents, provided that those modifications advance evil and expand the lore already contained within.
Whenever a non-evil creature attunes to the Book of Vile Darkness, that creature
Magic Items
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
The Masked Lords of Waterdeep don this ensemble when meeting with one another. This raiment renders each lord indistinguishable from the others. The ensemble consists of three pieces — a helm
, an amulet, and a robe — that function as a single magic item when worn together, but only within the city of Waterdeep and its sewers. You become attuned to the ensemble as a single item.
Lord
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
, months, and sometimes years after their fateful encounter.
Insidious Lore
An allip might attempt to share its lore to escape its curse and enter the afterlife. It can transfer knowledge from its
contain. If the allip succeeds, it passes from the world—and its terrible secret hides somewhere in the scholar’s text, waiting to be discovered by its next victim.Cold, Necrotic, PoisonAcid, Fire, Lightning, Thunder; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks
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Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
damage.Skeletal knights are powerful Undead that arise to serve even more wicked beings—often death knight;death knights. Those who become skeletal knights were typically virtuous in life but betrayed
their oaths and died in disgrace. Unable to rest, they are now unswervingly loyal to the villains they serve. Should a skeletal knight’s master be destroyed, the knight regains its will and is
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
;{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Disarming Words"} and subtract the number rolled from that damage roll.Dragon speakers are charismatic and persuasive orators who serve as a dragon’s
dragons—as well as to weave magic both subtle and thundering. They use their commanding presence to instill awe and fear into the hearts of friends and foes alike.
Dragon Followers
Dragons boast
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
to serve another powerful creature or might need to gather servants of its own.
Deathlocks
The forging of a pact between a warlock and a patron is no minor occasion—at least not for the
armor, mage hand
1/day each: dispel magic, hunger of Hadar, invisibility, spider climbAn overpowering urge to serve consumes the mind of a newly awakened deathlock. Any goals and ambitions it had in life
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
. They then revel in the grand devastation their plotting brought about—looting libraries, plundering vaults, and prying secrets of arcane lore and power from the wreckage.Corruption. The nagpa
helped avert a war between the gods. She transformed them into the scabrous, birdlike creatures known as nagpas and rendered them able to acquire new lore and magical power only from the ruins of