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Dungeon Master’s Guide
This robe has cloth patches of various shapes and colors covering it. While wearing the robe, you can take a Magic action to detach one of the patches, causing it to become the object or creature it
100 GP
09–15
Silver coffer (1 foot long, 6 inches wide and deep) worth 500 GP
16–22
Iron door (up to 10 feet wide and 10 feet high, barred on one side of your choice), which
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
;ve outlived their usefulness. Manshoon doesn’t care who suffers so long he’s able to crush his many enemies and force his subjects into paranoid and eager obedience.
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formative influence.
Manshoon made many enemies and sought to preserve his power by crafting several clones. A magical accident decades ago caused all his clones to activate at once and fight against
Feats
Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
prepared. You can cast it once without a spell slot or spell components, and you regain the ability to cast it in that way when you finish a Short or Long Rest. You can also cast this spell using any spell
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Hospitality
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Warding
Mind Blank
Sentinel
Plane Shift
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Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
the curse to you. Only a Wish spell or the will of Myrkul can remove this curse. As long as you remain cursed, the following properties apply to you:
Bound. You are unwilling to part with the crown
effect is immune to it for 1 minute, after which it can be affected again.
The aura is inactive while you have the Incapacitated condition. You can activate or deactivate the aura as a Bonus Action
Magic Items
Ghosts of Saltmarsh
This long, delicate wooden pipe features a bowl made from smooth river stone. When the pipe is lit, smoke exhaled from it does not dissipate, instead lingering around the bearer. After 10 minutes
, the smoke forms moving shapes that reenact the bearer’s most impressive and heroic achievements for 5 minutes. When this realistic performance is complete, the smoke dissipates. The pipe can’t be used this way again until the next dawn.
Robe of Useful Items
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Basic Rules (2014)
This robe has cloth patches of various shapes and colors covering it. While wearing the robe, you can use an action to detach one of the patches, causing it to become the object or creature it
them randomly.
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Patch
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Bag of 100 gp
09-15
Silver coffer (1 foot long, 6 inches wide and deep) worth 500 gp
16-22
Iron door (up to 10 feet wide and 10 feet high
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
);{"diceNotation":"1d6+2","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Claws","rollDamageType":"slashing"} slashing damage.Duhlark Kolat long ago trapped a magical experiment in this cell: a gargoyle that has been
the towers and the current occupants of the place. She knows that Manshoon resides in an extraplanar sanctum accessible through a teleportation circle that his lieutenants can activate using special
Dream
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Spells
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This spell shapes a creature's dreams. Choose a creature known to you as the target of this spell. The target must be on the same plane of existence as you. Creatures that don't sleep, such as elves
take actions or move.
If the target is asleep, the messenger appears in the target's dreams and can converse with the target as long as it remains asleep, through the duration of the spell. The
Polymorph
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transformed. If it reverts as a result of dropping to 0 hit points, any excess damage carries over to its normal form. As long as the excess damage doesn't reduce the creature's normal form to 0 hit points
speech.
The target's gear melds into the new form. The creature can't activate, use, wield, or otherwise benefit from any of its equipment.
Animal Shapes
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reverts as a result of dropping to 0 hit points, any excess damage carries over to its normal form. As long as the excess damage doesn't reduce the creature's normal form to 0 hit points, it isn't
knocked unconscious. The creature is limited in the actions it can perform by the nature of its new form, and it can't speak or cast spells.
The target's gear melds into the new form. The target can't activate, wield, or otherwise benefit from any of its equipment.
Drow Arachnomancer
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Monsters
Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
Change Shape (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). The drow can use a bonus action to magically polymorph into a giant spider, remaining in that form for up to 1 hour. It can revert to its true
melds into the giant spider form. It can't activate, use, wield, or otherwise benefit from any of its equipment. It reverts to its humanoid form if it dies.
Fey Ancestry. The drow has advantage on
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Storm King's Thunder
Amphibious. Serissa can breathe air and water.
Equipment. As long as she has the Korolnor Scepter in her possession, she can activate the powers of the Wyrmskull Throne.Multiattack. Serissa makes
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
(Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). The drow magically transforms into a Large spider, remaining in that form for up to 1 hour, or back into its true form. Its statistics, other than its size, are
the same in each form. It can speak and cast spells while in spider form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying in Humanoid form melds into the spider form. It can’t activate, use, wield, or otherwise benefit from any of its equipment. It reverts to its Humanoid form if it dies.
Monsters
Tomb of Annihilation
ceases to age and is immune to cold damage and the effects of extreme cold.
Artus wields Bookmark, a +3 dagger with additional magical properties. As a bonus action, Artus can activate any one of the
. While attuned to and wearing the ring, Artus can expend the necessary number of charges to activate one of the following properties:
Artus can expend 1 charge and use the ring to lower the
True Polymorph
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before it transformed. If it reverts as a result of dropping to 0 hit points, any excess damage carries over to its normal form. As long as the excess damage doesn’t reduce the creature’s
other action that requires hands or speech, unless its new form is capable of such actions.
The target’s gear melds into the new form. The creature can’t activate, use, wield, or otherwise
Monsters
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
mesmerizing colors and shapes around itself. Each creature within 15 feet of it that can see it must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw (DC 12 for category 1, DC 14 for category 2, and DC 18 for category
(Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). While underwater, the krasis can use a bonus action to expel a cloud of ink and then move up to its speed. The ink cloud is stationary and fills a 20-foot
Monsters
Ghosts of Saltmarsh
maximum to 0. This reduction lasts until the target finishes a long rest. On a failed save, the target also contracts bluerot (see the “Bluerot” sidebar).
Necrotic Ink (Recharge 5–6). The drowned master
head retain their former shapes, but its legs have split into shadowy tentacles. The drowned master is tethered to a source of powerful magic that prevents it from traveling far. It commands other drowned ones, compelling them to serve as agents in its dark plots.Poison
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
succeed on a DC 22 Intelligence saving throw or take 36 (8d8);{"diceNotation":"8d8","rollType":"damage","rollDamageType":"psychic"} psychic damage and be unable to cast spells or activate magic items
Dungeon Master’s Guide has more information on madness.
Madness of Belashyrra
d6
Flaw (lasts until cured)
1
“I constantly see shapes moving in the shadows.”
2
Monsters
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
this way at a time.
6
Hypnotic Display (Recharge 5–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType":"recharge","rollAction":"Hypnotic Display"}. As an action, the krasis creates mesmerizing colors and shapes
Long Rest). While underwater, the krasis can use a bonus action to expel a cloud of ink and then move up to its speed. The ink cloud is stationary and fills a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on a
Monsters
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
mesmerizing colors and shapes around itself. Each creature within 15 feet of it that can see it must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw (DC 12 for category 1, DC 14 for category 2, and DC 18 for category
Cloud (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). While underwater, the krasis can use a bonus action to expel a cloud of ink and then move up to its speed. The ink cloud is stationary and fills a 20-foot
Morkoth
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
watched, even when they aren't.
Each time a creature that has been on the island for less than a year finishes a short or long rest, it must make a DC 10 Intelligence (Investigation) check. On a
possessions stand out in its perception and are easily recovered.
Entrances to the morkoth's lair have an enchantment that the morkoth can activate or suppress at any time while it's in its lair and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Morte’s Planar Parade
influenced by Mechanus and composed of simple geometric shapes charges creatures that enter the angular canyons it inhabits. It moves only in straight lines and turns only at right angles. 3 Stirges drawn
Beasts Varied Beasts roam the Outlands, with many species being long extinct on Material Plane worlds. Plane-influenced creatures and gigantic or idealized animals from the Beastlands are common
Tiefling
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Species
Basic Rules (2014)
possible sense, they still look human. However, their infernal heritage has left a clear imprint on their appearance. Tieflings have large horns that take any of a variety of shapes: some have curling
horns like a ram, others have straight and tall horns like a gazelle’s, and some spiral upward like an antelopes’ horns. They have thick tails, four to five feet long, which lash or coil
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
filling books, scrolls, tablets, or stranger archives—such as magical crystals that hold captured memories or the voices of those long dead. You can use this lair and the lair actions described for
on initiative count 20 on the following round.
Sudden Stonework. The medusa creates a wall of stone on a solid surface it can see within the lair. The wall can be up to 60 feet long, 20 feet high
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
normally deals 1d10 + 5 damage always deals 10 damage on Mechanus. Optional Rule: Imposing Order At the end of each long rest taken on this plane, a visitor that isn’t lawful neutral must make a DC 10
Mechanus On Mechanus, law is reflected in a realm of clockwork gears, all interlocked and turning according to their measure. The cogs seem to be engaged in a calculation so vast that no deity can
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
short or long rest. Halaster has the following wizard spells prepared:
Cantrips (at will): dancing lights, fire bolt, light, mage hand, prestidigitation
1st level (4 slots): mage armor, magic missile
form is that of a tall, gaunt, male human, but he uses magic to take on many other visages and shapes. No matter what form he wears, the Mad Mage giggles and mutters incessantly. Contrary to appearances
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
some future act of conquest. The march is long and dangerous, and only a small number of modrons returns to Mechanus. ZUZANNA WUZYK The Great Modron March
Great Modron March, The When the gears of the plane of Mechanus (see chapter 6) complete seventeen cycles—once every 289 years—the modron (MOE-dron) leader, Primus, sends a vast army of modrons
Magic Items
Acquisitions Incorporated
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
glasses.
3
Burning a small piece of the body and looking for shapes in the smoke.
4
A cautious, reasoned, professional guesstimate.
5
Careful measurements. The distance between nostrils
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Animal Shapes 8th-level transmutation Casting Time: 1 action Range: 30 feet Components: V, S Duration: Concentration, up to 24 hours Your magic turns others into beasts. Choose any number of willing
carries over to its normal form. As long as the excess damage doesn’t reduce the creature’s normal form to 0 hit points, it isn’t knocked unconscious. The creature is limited in the actions it can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Animal Shapes 8th-level transmutation Casting Time: 1 action Range: 30 feet Components: V, S Duration: Concentration, up to 24 hours Your magic turns others into beasts. Choose any number of willing
carries over to its normal form. As long as the excess damage doesn’t reduce the creature’s normal form to 0 hit points, it isn’t knocked unconscious. The creature is limited in the actions it can
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Morte’s Planar Parade
most common are modrons, mechanical denizens of Mechanus that seek to enforce order on the plane. Outlands Constructs d4 Encounter 1 A tyrannical homunculus rules over the small domain of its long
has been transformed into the walking hive that’s home to numerous swarms of insects (wasps). Quintin Gleim Mechanical dinosaurs roam an orderly realm influenced by the lawful energies of Mechanus
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
being watched, even when they aren’t.
Lost Possessions. Each time a creature that has been on the island for less than a year finishes a short or long rest, it must make a DC 10 Intelligence
can activate or suppress at any time while it’s in its lair and not incapacitated. Any creature within 30 feet of such an entrance and able to see it must make a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw. On a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
in for the long haul of Mechanus bureaucracy, word filters through the administration’s ranks until Aristimus hears about the characters and comes to investigate their intentions after 1d4 hours
Exploring Automata CoupleOfKooks “You think Automata’s straight streets and ticks and tocks are order?! Wake up! The powers of Mechanus don’t want what’s best for you. They want you predicable
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
reconnaissance mission. The march is long and dangerous, and only a small number of modrons returns to Mechanus. “Every 289 years, the entire multiverse goes mad. Like clockwork.”
— Kwint Stormbellow, rock gnome adventurer
Modrons Modrons are beings of absolute law that adhere to a hive-like hierarchy. They inhabit the plane of Mechanus and tend its eternally revolving gears, their existence a clockwork routine of
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
to Nowhere” accompanies the characters, it can instruct them how to activate the Maze Engine without a check and inform them of how long it takes for the magical effect to occur.
Activating the Engine A successful DC 15 Intelligence (Arcana) check is needed to activate the device by puzzling out its array of gears and levers. It then takes 12 rounds for the engine to “align






