Search Results
All Results
Characters
Compendium
Spells
Items
Monsters
Vehicles
Forums
Returning 35 results for 'mechanics some with often across focus for lore'.
Other Suggestions:
mechanical some with often across four for life
mechanus some with often across focus for lore
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
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
Classes
Player’s Handbook
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
Classes
Player’s Handbook
Shields
Starting Equipment
Choose A or B: (A) Studded Leather;Studded Leather Armor, Scimitar, Shortsword, Longbow, 20 Arrows, Quiver, Druidic Focus (sprig of mistletoe), Explorer's Pack, and 7 GP
; or (B) 150 GP
Far from bustling cities, amid the trees of trackless forests and across wide plains, Rangers keep their unending watch in the wilderness. Rangers learn to track their quarry as a
Classes
Player’s Handbook
;Arcane Focus (Quarterstaff), Robe, Spellbook, Scholar's Pack, and 5 GP; or (B) 55 GP
Wizards are defined by their exhaustive study of magic’s inner workings. They cast spells of
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
Classes
Player’s Handbook
Starting Equipment
Choose A or B: (A) Leather;Leather Armor, Shield, Sickle, Druidic Focus (Quarterstaff), Explorer's Pack, Herbalism Kit, and 9 GP; or (B) 50 GP
Druids belong to ancient
.
Druids are concerned with the delicate ecological balance that sustains plant and animal life and with the need for people to live in harmony with nature. Druids often guard sacred sites or watch over
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
magic pervading the Underdark twists deep dragons as they grow, so few adult deep dragons look alike. Their skin is usually pitted by fungal growths that spread across the body. Although lacking the
versatile shape-shifting of metallic dragons, deep dragons can assume the form of animals or humanoids and often masquerade as snakes or dragonborn.
Adult deep dragons eliminate challengers with
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
—in malign ways. Cultists who receive orders from their patron god directly are often the most ambitious and most dangerous.Necrotic
Monsters
Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
.
Spellcasting. The artificer casts one of the following spells, using its Tinker’s Tools as an Arcane Focus and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 14):
At Will:
;Burning Hands (level 3 version), Mending, Thunderwave (level 3 version)
1/Day Each: Cure Wounds, InvisibilityDragonmarked artificers of House Cannith (typically human) often
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
Underdark settlements, such as drow cities.
Deep Dragons
Deep dragons slither through the wet and lightless places of the Underdark. They are stealthy hunters with an affinity for lost lore and fungi
works of art and bully, cajole, or steal collections from drow or duergar sages.
Deep dragons are excellent swimmers. They often clash with aquatic Underdark societies, such as kuo-toa. Many deep
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
bound dragons to his service, and learned how to drive dragons across Faerûn into a berserk rage. He considered his intellect beyond morality and became paranoid, resentful, and megalomaniacal
as leader of these disparate zealots, whom he named the Cult of the Dragon. He perverted their fascination with his necromantic lore, revealing that dracoliches were destined to rule Faerûn
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
dracoliches, magically bound dragons to his service, and learned how to drive dragons across Faerûn into a berserk rage. He considered his intellect beyond morality and became paranoid, resentful, and
established himself
as leader of these disparate zealots, whom he named the Cult of the Dragon. He perverted their fascination with his necromantic lore, revealing that dracoliches were destined to
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
they hunt to satisfy their voracious appetites.
Deep Dragons
Deep dragons slither through the wet and lightless places of the Underdark. They are stealthy hunters with an affinity for lost lore and
tomes or works of art and bully, cajole, or steal collections from drow or duergar sages.
Deep dragons are excellent swimmers. They often clash with aquatic Underdark societies, such as kuo-toa. Many
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
deep dragons often spend years sequestered among individualized libraries, fungal gardens, or collections of esoterica. When these venerable terrors venture forth to hunt, they can remake Underdark
hunters with an affinity for lost lore and fungi that flourish in the depths. As deep dragons age, their smooth, serpentine bodies become riddled with fungal rot, particularly around their faces, to
Classes
Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn
land teeming with genies.
Paladins who swear this oath often undertake quests that take them all over the Realms and across the multiverse—including the Elemental Planes. These paladins share
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
patriarch Fzoul Chembryl, House Chembryl and its descendants were scattered across Faerûn. Some members have dutifully continued the family’s dedication to Bane, while others have sought to
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
: Legend Lore (as an action), Sequester
Time-Warping Breath. Wisdom Saving Throw: DC 22, each creature that isn’t currently affected by this breath in a 90-foot Cone. Failure: The target’s Speed
spirit dragon’s personality and outlook are often indistinguishable from that fallen realm’s.
Spirit Dragons
Spirit dragons, sometimes called song dragons, are powerful dragons whose
Monsters
Astarion's Book of Hungers
often believe their immortality will exempt them from any infernal claim to their souls. The archdevil Mephistopheles happily exploits such hubris and proves that even undead aren’t immune to the
can’t spend Hit Point Dice at the end of the rest and doesn’t regain Hit Points, Hit Point Dice, or spell slots at the end of the rest.
Tenacious Lore. Within 1 mile of the lair, flame
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
, from the bog-dwelling hydras known across the multiverse to massive ironscale hydras that lurk in deep wildernesses. Beyond even these exist serpentine horrors born of the whims of foul gods, like the
their own. Often, they steal lairs from other monsters in prolonged, devastating battles.
Vicious Growth. Soon after a hydra claims a territory, it typically buries itself, entering a period of
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
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
patient and pursue several schemes simultaneously, so if one plan goes awry, they can shift their focus to another. Typically, nagpas emerge from the shadows only when they can deliver a finishing blow
Monsters
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
Cunning Action. On each of her turns in combat, Rilsa can use a bonus action to take the Dash, Disengage, or Hide action.
Focus. If Rilsa damages a creature with a weapon attack, she gains advantage
headquarters. In addition to hosting regular public forums in her shop, Rael tacitly oversees the Garden of Whispers, a maze of wood-and-paper screens where people from across the city can buy and sell secrets with Guild agents and each other, speaking through the barriers so as to maintain anonymity.
Monsters
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
heads: black, blue, green, red, and white.
Tiamat deploys abishais as her agents, sending them forth to represent her interests in the Hells and across the multiverse. Some have simple tasks, such as
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
were apprenticed and taught that knowledge is a more valuable treasure than gold or gems. Now you are ready to leave your home—not to abandon it, but to quest for new lore to add to its storehouse
assume roles of greater responsibility and prominence. You might be one of Candlekeep’s own, dedicated to the curatorship of what is likely the most complete body of lore and history in all the
Book of Vile Darkness
Legacy
This doesn't reflect the latest rules and lore.
Learn More
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
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
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
creature referred to in Northlander lore as the Hunter of Men is a sure-footed predator that can be found anywhere except the deep forest, preferring to patrol ledges and cliffs in the mountains. Its
cry resembles a human scream of terror. It often elicits such sounds from its victims, for it prefers human flesh to all other fare.
Crag cats blend in with their surroundings. During winter, their fur
Magic Items
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
monster, Rime's binding ice*
Gem. Rary's telepathic bond, Raulothim's psychic lance*
Metallic. Fizban's platinum shield,* legend lore
Dragon-Touched Focus (Ascendant);Ascendant (Legendary). The Ascendant
-Touched Focus (Slumbering);Slumbering (Uncommon). You have advantage on initiative rolls. While you are holding the focus, it can function as a spellcasting focus for all your spells.
Dragon-Touched Focus
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
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
: RESEARCHER
When you attempt to learn or recall a piece of lore, if you do not know that information, you often know where and from whom you can obtain it. Usually, this information comes from a
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
a ghost dragon haunts the hoard, often forming an attachment to a single priceless object that becomes the focus of the ghost dragon’s Undead existence.
A ghost dragon is a translucent and
Bheur Hag
Legacy
This doesn't reflect the latest rules and lore.
Learn More
Monsters
Volo's Guide to Monsters
Graystaff Magic. The hag carries a graystaff, a length of gray wood that is a focus for her inner power. She can ride the staff as if it were a broom of flying. While holding the staff, she can cast
bheur hag can use a graystaff.
Ice Walk. The hag can move across and climb icy surfaces without needing to make an ability check. Additionally, difficult terrain composed of ice or snow doesn’t
Monsters
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
focus their innate psionic power.
Mind Flayers
Mind flayers, also known as illithids, feast on the brains of Humanoids across the multiverse. They are distinguished by their purple-toned skin and octopus-like heads, from which extend writhing tentacles.
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
of spelljamming ships and attack crew members on deck.
Cooked night scavver meat is a popular offering in taverns across Wildspace.
Scavvers
Scavvers are shark-like scavengers that fly through
space, feeding on whatever they can fit in their mouths. Scavvers are not always aggressive; often they trail behind larger creatures as well as ships and asteroids, living off droppings and discarded
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
allip’s choice that the allip can see. Constructs and Undead are immune to this effect.When a creature uncovers a secret that a powerful being has protected with a mighty curse, the result is often
, 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
Equipment
Combat
Utility
Whimsy
4
6
5
Despite its overall nutritiousness, the bitter grittiness of the mouse tree nut often precludes it from being eaten as a snack by most folk
. However, the mouse tree nut is beloved across the island because of its shell, which is used to make instruments like castanets or a type of flute called a “mouse kisser.” Mouse tree nuts grow
Equipment
Combat
Utility
Whimsy
3
1
2
Nobblewort is a fairly common lichen whose bumpy, knobbly texture gives it its name. You can often see a bundle of nobblewort hanging from the
eaves of many village houses as it is said to ward off bad luck and mischievous spirits. Nobblewort can be found clinging to most deciduous trees across the island.
Sage
Legacy
This doesn't reflect the latest rules and lore.
Learn More
Backgrounds
Basic Rules (2014)
Wizard’s apprentice
8
Scribe
FEATURE: RESEARCHER
When you attempt to learn or recall a piece of lore, if you do not know that information, you often know where and from whom you
You spent years learning the lore of the multiverse. You scoured manuscripts, studied scrolls, and listened to the greatest experts on the subjects that interest you. Your efforts have made you a
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
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