mechanical score with only across from for letter

Book of Vile Darkness

Magic Items 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

by any means while your soul remains imprisoned. Adjusted Ability Scores. One ability score of your choice increases by 2, to a maximum of 24. Another ability score of your choice decreases by 2, to

Marut

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Concordance is an embassy of pure law in Sigil, the City of Doors. In the hall, parties who agree to mutual terms—and who pay the requisite gold to the Kolyarut, a mechanical engine of absolute

the spirit of an agreement, only the letter. A marut enforces what is written, not what was meant by or supposed to be understood from the writing. The Kolyarut rejects contracts that contain vague

Quickling

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

accelerated their passage through life. No quickling lives longer than 15 years. The mortal realm is a ponderous place to a quickling’s eye: a hurricane creeps gradually across the sky, a torrent of

looking. Tricks of that sort are hardly the limit of their artful malice, however. They don’t commit outright murder, but quicklings can ruin lives in plenty of other ways, such as by stealing an important letter, swiping coins collected for the poor, or planting a stolen item in someone’s bag.

Warforged Colossus

Monsters Eberron: Rising from the Last War

unleashed its mightiest creations: the warforged colossi. These enormous mechanical warriors thundered across Cyre, crushing everything in their paths and leaving ruin behind them. Meant to end the war

otherwise intact. “Karrnslayer” (Colossus WX-31) lost its legs but crawls through the Mournland, using its arms to drag its great bulk across the ground. It is always prone and can’t

Spawn of Kyuss

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

;4) in every ability score, and a speed of 1 foot. While on the target’s skin, the worm can be killed by normal means or scraped off using an action (the spawn can use Burrowing Worm to launch a

solitary spawn of Kyuss travels aimlessly. If it stumbles across a living creature, the spawn attacks with the sole intent of creating more spawn. Whether spawn are dispersed or clustered, they reproduce exponentially if nothing stops them.Poison

Sword of Zariel

Magic Items Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus

radiant damage. Divine Presence. Your Charisma score becomes 20, unless it is already 20 or higher. Feathered Wings. You sprout a beautiful pair of feathered wings that grant you a flying speed of 90

. Ideals D6 IDEAL 1 Charity. I always help those in need. (Good) 2 Faith. I choose to follow the tenets of a particular lawful good deity to the letter. (Lawful

Book of Vile Darkness (Variant)

Magic Items 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

, one ability score of your choice increases by 2, to a maximum of 24. Another ability score of your choice decreases by 2, to a minimum of 3. The book can’t adjust your ability scores again

Deck of Many More Things

Magic Items The Book of Many Things

immediately gain the benefits of finishing a long rest. Cavern. You gain a climbing speed equal to your walking speed. You also gain the ability to move up, down, across vertical surfaces, and along ceilings

): acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder. Expert. Your Dexterity score increases by 2, to a maximum of 22. Fey. A fey crossing opens into the Feywild, and you’re immediately pulled through it

Noisemaker

Equipment

This small mechanical device is a specialty of gnomish crafters. As a Utilize action, you can throw the Noisemaker into a space within 60 feet. When it lands, it makes a loud noise of some kind

, depending on the whims of the creator: a musical clash, a whistling, a whirring, a buzzing, etc. This noise can be heard up to half a mile away. A creature with an Intelligence score of 3 or less that is

Mark of Passage Human

Species Eberron: Rising from the Last War

We get things where they need to go. It doesn’t matter if it’s a letter, a person, or a hundred tons of steel. Whether we have to cross mountains, rivers, or the Mournland itself, Orien

’s most dramatic tool, but Orien also runs caravans and coaches across the length of Khorvaire. Dragonshard focus items ensure that the fastest vehicles are those driven by heirs with the Mark

Guild Artisan / Guild Merchant Legacy

Backgrounds Player’s Handbook (2014)

. Skill Proficiencies: Insight, Persuasion Tool Proficiencies: One type of artisan’s tools Languages: One of your choice Equipment: A set of artisan’s tools (one of your choice), a letter

family) with interests across the region. Perhaps you transported goods from one place to another, by ship, wagon, or caravan, or bought them from traveling traders and sold them in your own little shop

Aarakocra

Species Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

birdfolk. Only when they roost on a branch or walk across the ground is their Humanoid nature clear. Standing upright, aarakocra are typically about 5 feet tall, and they have long, narrow legs that

. Ability Score Increases When determining your character’s ability scores, increase one score by 2 and increase a different score by 1, or increase three different scores by 1. Follow this rule

Book of Vile Darkness Legacy

Magic Items 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

reading and studying the book, one ability score of your choice increases by 2, to a maximum of 24. Another ability score of your choice decreases by 2, to a minimum of 3. The book can’t adjust your

Sage - Baldur's Gate

Backgrounds Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus

historians all participate with passing scholars from Candlekeep in a lively exchange of ideas, debating and collaborating in book-filled halls across the Upper and Lower City. The city is also rife

with opportunities for arcane study, although its masters are dispersed across individual wizards’ abodes and lack concentrated communities. You spent years learning the lore of the multiverse

Triton

Species Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Originally from the Elemental Plane of Water, many tritons entered the Material Plane centuries ago in response to the growing threat of evil elementals. Those tritons spread across the worlds&rsquo

you select a fantastical race, follow these additional rules during character creation. Ability Score Increases When determining your character’s ability scores, increase one score by 2 and

Triton Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

spread across the world’s oceans and established protectorates to watch over deep sea trenches, portals, undersea caves, and other locations where their enemies might lurk. They defeated their

remote even merfolk and sea elves rarely encounter them. Haughty Nobles As a result of their isolation and limited understanding of the Material Plane, tritons can come across as haughty and

Tortle

Species Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Tortles have a saying: “We wear our homes on our backs.” These turtle folk live on many worlds, most often journeying up and down coasts, along waterways, and across the sea. Tortles don

select a fantastical race, follow these additional rules during character creation. Ability Score Increases When determining your character’s ability scores, increase one score by 2 and

Guild Artisan - Baldur's Gate

Backgrounds Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus

Tool Proficiencies: One type of artisan’s tools Languages: One of your choice Equipment: A set of artisan’s tools (one of your choice), a letter of introduction from your guild, a set of

across the region. Perhaps you transported goods from one place to another, by ship, wagon, or caravan, or bought them from traveling traders and sold them in your own little shop. In some ways, the traveling merchant’s life lends itself to adventure far more than the life of an artisan.

Communicate

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron

score of gargoyles, and these flying couriers are a quick way to get a message across the city. If you spot a gargoyle you can flag it down, and it costs 5 gp to deliver a letter or small package.

Communicate Need to get a message to someone? If you’re not in a hurry, the Orien post has boxes across the city; you can mail a letter for 1 cp. Hiring a courier generally costs between 5 cp to 5 gp

Goblin

Species Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

spots in foes larger than themselves and for getting out of trouble. Goblins brought this fey boon with them to worlds across the Material Plane, even if they don’t remember the fey realm they

character is a member of the human race or of a fantastical race. If you select a fantastical race, follow these additional rules during character creation. Ability Score Increases When determining your

Kenku Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

. The kenku lack the talent to improvise or alter a plan, but a wise Master sets multiple plans in motion at once, confident that underlings can follow orders to the letter. For this reason, many

kenku make an easy living serving as messengers, spies, and lookouts for thieves’ guilds, bandits, and other criminal cartels. A network of kenku can relay a bird call or similar noise across the

Deck of Several Things

Magic Items Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

already been claimed, you gain an equivalent hoard. Idiot. Reduce your Intelligence by 1d4 + 1 (to a minimum score of 1) for the duration of the adventure. You can draw one additional card beyond

Kwalish’s lab in Daoine Gloine (area O7), whichever comes later in the adventure. Skull. You summon an avatar of death — a mechanical skeleton (use bone naga statistics) clad in a

Autognome

Species Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

Autognomes are mechanical beings built by rock gnomes. Sometimes, because of a malfunction or a unique circumstance, an autognome becomes separated from its creator and strikes out on its own. An

fantastical races. If you create a character using a race option presented here, follow these additional rules during character creation. Ability Score Increases When determining your character’s

C2. Enhanced Sphinx

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

surrounded by a series of mechanical devices that function as Ioun stones, which add to its vast knowledge. The enhanced sphinx is a gynosphinx, with these changes: Its Intelligence score is 24 (+7). It

, but negotiates for passage if the characters speak to it. The gynosphinx appears to have suffered ancient injuries to its head, which have healed and been replaced by mechanical components. Both the

Communication Services

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

use of gargoyles. Tharashk has several of these creatures in its employ, and these flying couriers are a quick way to get a message across the city. If you spot a gargoyle without a burden, you can flag it down, and it costs 5 gp to deliver a letter or a small package.

Communication Services Need to get a message to someone? If you’re not in a hurry, the Orien post has boxes throughout the city; you can mail a letter for 1 cp. Hiring a courier generally costs

C. Svalich Woods

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd

characters are following the road on foot, the party member who has the highest passive Wisdom (Perception) score notices something: You catch the scent of death on the air. The character can follow the

, Dalvan Olensky, was trying to escape from Barovia with a letter from his master when he was killed on the road by Strahd’s dire wolves. Wanting to return at once to Strahd, the wolves left the body in the

Lost Mine of Phandelver

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder

level to begin Storm King’s Thunder, and Triboar is their ideal starting point (see chapter 2). The trick is to get them from Phandalin to Triboar, which lies east along a trail that cuts across

business partner, Narth Tezrin. Linene has written a letter to her friend, describing recent tribulations in Phandalin, and asks the characters to deliver it. In a note attached to the letter, Linene

Healthy Competition

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild

obstacles along the way, possibly inspiring the characters to do the same. Using the power of a mechanical guide might allow for the creation of particularly devious traps that can be set across space and

enhanced medusa for Lynx, or the brains in iron for Sir Ursas (see below for more information on both). Each expedition also has its own mechanical guide. You might use the members of the rival expedition

Hirelings

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

important in an adventure, and most require little development. When adventurers hire a coach to carry them across town or need a letter delivered, the driver or messenger is a hireling, and the

adventurers might never even converse with that NPC or learn his or her name. A ship captain carrying the adventurers across the sea is also a hireling, but such a character has the potential to turn into

32. Guardroom

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild

32. Guardroom Four lizardfolk renders are stationed here, assigned to watch over the gemsmith in area 31. Corridor The small corridor leading east across from the guardroom dead-ends at a point with

several natural fissures in the floor (leading to the underground lake below), and is used as a privy. Manipulating Time Having a mechanical guide spend 1 charge in this area causes the lizardfolk to

Plea for Help

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd

damp, cobbled pavement glistens as the lights of street lanterns dance across the slick stones. The fog chills the bones and shivers the soul of anyone outside. Yet inside these tavern walls the food

from his tunic a sealed letter, addressed to all of you in beautiful flowing script. He drops the letter on the table. “Take the west road from here some five hours march down through the Svalich Woods

Updated Guides

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild

Updated Guides As written, the mechanical guides can safely teleport the characters to and from the specific adventure locations. If it fits with your campaign, you might opt to allow teleportation

characters claim any missing components of the Infernal Machine, those components can be added to the mechanical guide, providing a +2 bonus to this check per component. You might decide that neither agent

Lady Wachter's Wish

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd

Lady Wachter’s Wish Ernst Larnak (see area N4) begins shadowing the characters. Characters who have a passive Wisdom (Perception) score of 14 or higher notice him doing so. If they confront him, he

that the characters are her enemies, Lady Wachter hands Ernst a bag of 100 gp (taken from area N4q) and instructs him to deliver it to the Vistani camp outside town (area N9), along with a letter from

Clock Tower Bridge

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild

Clock Tower Bridge As the characters make their way toward Banrion’s lair, they come across the ruins of an old clock tower, which make an unusual and dangerous bridge. The trees part to reveal the

ruins of an ancient city. All that remains are worn flagstones covered in moss and lichen, toppled blocks of weathered stone, and a former tower fallen and now lying stretched across a fifty-foot-wide

Communication

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

Communication The Courier’s Guild of House Orien operates a mail service, carrying messages and packages across Khorvaire by horse and the house’s lightning rail. Sending a letter by mail is

instantaneous communication across long distances. Short messages pass from one stone to another one within a network of message stations. The Communication and Security Services table shows typical

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