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Player’s Handbook
Channel Cosmic Forces of Order
The cosmic force of order has suffused you with magic. That power arises from Mechanus or a realm like it—a plane of existence shaped entirely by clockwork
efficiency. You or someone from your lineage might have become entangled in the machinations of modrons, the orderly beings who inhabit Mechanus. Perhaps your ancestor even took part in the Great Modron
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
Hidden in the dungeon of White Plume Mountain, Blackrazor shines like a piece of night sky filled with stars. Its black scabbard is decorated with pieces of cut obsidian.
You gain a +3 bonus to
Blackrazor. Blackrazor can be destroyed by crushing it in the great gears of Mechanus. Primus, the creator of the modrons, also knows a series of musical tones that Blackrazor can’t stand to hear, causing the sword to shatter.
Clockwork Soul
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Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
The cosmic force of order has suffused you with magic. That power arises from Mechanus or a realm like it—a plane of existence shaped entirely by clockwork efficiency. You, or someone from your
lineage, might have become entangled in the machinations of the modrons, the orderly beings who inhabit Mechanus. Perhaps your ancestor even took part in the Great Modron March. Whatever its origin
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
with a semblance of life. When she wills it to do so, the hut pulls its gigantic roots free of the earth and shambles around like a spidery behemoth, shaking the ground with every step. The hut
floorboards are out of the way, a creature can reach into the cavity and snatch the gem. But if someone attempts this while the hut is alive, the cavity sprouts wooden teeth, becoming a mouth that bites
Monsters
Acquisitions Incorporated
, echoing from the darkness like a death knell. For by the time those glowing red eyes fix on you, it's far too late to run …
Some adventurers and sages whisper that deep crows were first spawned as
almost any creature. Their preferred attack is a snatch-and-grab that sees a deep crow flying off with a living victim before its companions have any chance of counterattack. Provided the doomed prey
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
. Mechanus has no distinct layers. Each turning cog has its own force of gravity pulling toward its center, with structures built on the faces of the cogs. Some of the cogs are like small islands
Mechanus Mechanus is where perfectly regimented order reigns supreme. It consists of equal measures of light and dark, and equal proportions of heat and cold. On Mechanus, law is reflected in a realm
Bard
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Basic Rules (2014)
still resound throughout the cosmos. The music of bards is an attempt to snatch and harness those echoes, subtly woven into their spells and powers. The greatest strength of bards is their sheer
wandering across the land gathering lore, telling stories, and living on the gratitude of audiences, much like any other entertainer. But a depth of knowledge, a level of musical skill, and a touch of magic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
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
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
attempting to snatch up a magic ring that has fallen on the floor. This situation also applies when one of them is trying to prevent the other one from accomplishing a goal — for example, when a monster tries
to force open a door that an adventurer is holding closed. In situations like these, the outcome is determined by a special form of ability check, called a contest. Both participants in a contest make
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
, sizes you up, and nods. “You seem like you’re in a bit of a hurry. What business do you have in Mechanus?”
Aristimus allows the characters to explain their situation. After they do, Aristimus
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->Basic Rules (2014)
attempting to snatch up a magic ring that has fallen on the floor. This situation also applies when one of them is trying to prevent the other one from accomplishing a goal--for example, when a monster tries
to force open a door that an adventurer is holding closed. In situations like these, the outcome is determined by a special form of ability check, called a contest. Both participants in a contest make
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
those of thousands of modrons. If the modrons return home, this data influences the cosmic alignment of Mechanus. Countless modrons across the multiverse then seek to rebalance the planes in
suffer the multiversal glitch the characters experienced. Inconsistent Unless the characters intervene, it takes months for X01 and a much-diminished group of modrons to return to Mechanus. When they
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
innumerable cults of Vecna. They snatch away people and strip their secrets in rituals like the one you stopped. Behind them, the withered form of Vecna gathers the secrets like threads, adding them to a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
. The train’s conductor is its sapient Engine Car, which delivers passengers and cargo to their intended destinations on schedule. No terrain is too rugged for the train. Like the landmasses that make
up Mechanus, the wheels of the Concordant Express are a network of interlacing cogs. A series of mechanical arms rapidly places levitating tracks before the train, while a similar set of arms beneath
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
. The hags are trapped in Barovia, but they like it here. Using their Change Shape action to look like Barovian women — a frumpy mother and her two homely daughters — the hags snatch children, devour
Aarakocra
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Elemental Evil Player's Companion
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Beak and Feather
From below, aarakocra look much like large birds. Only when they descend to roost on a branch or walk across the ground does their humanoid appearance reveal itself. Standing
brightly colored, with feathers of red, orange, or yellow. Females have more subdued colors, usually brown or gray. Their heads complete the avian appearance, being something like a parrot or eagle with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
a wide, smiling mouth. At the column’s head stands a creature that looks like an inverted pyramid held up by six legs. It scuttles like a crab. On each side of its body, an eye is set above a mouth
fellows and trapped here. Unable to find their way back to Mechanus, the modrons have been pressing on (and on), knowing that they must find their way back or be destroyed in the process. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Outer Planes Streamers of noxious gas streaked that crimson dome like dirty clouds. They whirled to form what looked like giant eyes staring down, eyes that were swept away before they could focus
their divine needs. Distance is a virtually meaningless concept on the Outer Planes. The perceptible regions of the planes can seem quite small, but they can also stretch on to what seems like infinity
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
a Celestial and a Fiend arguing in a tavern while sharing a fine bottle of wine. Gate-Towns of the Outlands Town Gate Destination Automata Mechanus Bedlam Pandemonium Curst Carceri Ecstasy
Limbo Outlands Adventures The Outlands is the closest the Outer Planes come to being like a world on the Material Plane. Adventurers can travel easily from one gate-town to the next, making a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Morte’s Planar Parade
Septon Modron Septons are auditors of base modrons in Mechanus, recording the activities in each of the plane’s sectors to ensure operations are in perfect order. They are easily identified by their
seven flexible limbs. CoupleofKooks “You ever notice how certain modrons sort of look like some kind of wacky dice?”
–Morte
Septon Modron Large Construct, Typically Lawful Neutral
Armor Class
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Chaotic Good, Neutral Good Bytopia Lawful Good, Neutral Good Carceri Chaotic Evil, Neutral Evil Elysium Neutral Good Gehenna Lawful Evil, Neutral Evil Hades Neutral Evil Limbo Chaotic Neutral Mechanus
Celestials. The Lower Planes are the home of Fiends. The planes in between host their own unique denizens: for example, modrons are Constructs that inhabit Mechanus, and slaadi are Aberrations that thrive
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
Bad Data The modron leader X01 isn’t just damaged—its mind has been overwhelmed. This is a result of flawed orders X01 received when it left Mechanus during the last Great Modron March, but more so
the gears of Mechanus require major readjustments to restore balance to the planes. Investigating X01 A character who spends 1 minute investigating X01 finds a panel on the modron’s head leaking green
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
Mosaic Mimir The Mosaic Mimir is a mimir (see Sigil and the Outlands) that looks like a human skull made of gold, silver, jade, and onyx. The mimir was badly damaged in the attack on Iedcaru, and it
Great Modron March is a procession of countless modrons conducted every 289 years to collect information about the multiverse and realign the workings of the plane of Mechanus. Untold numbers of modrons
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
target is grappled (escape DC 19). Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained, and the roc can’t use its talons on another target.
At first sight, a roc’s silhouette looks much like any
elephant, a roc dives down to snatch its prey in its massive talons.
Remote and Alone. Rocs are solitary creatures that can live for centuries. They lair in nests made from trees, tents, broken ships
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
cloaked man take something from the body of a dead gnome, then start limping away. He was badly burned and casting glances over his shoulder, like he was afraid someone might be following him. He was
, when she witnessed the following: “I tell you, it was not a man. More like a puppet shaped like a man. A puppet without strings. It was on the rooftop. It hurled something into the crowd below that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
train ticket per character, and an ink pen. The tickets are made from paper-thin sheets of brass and grant passage to Mechanus aboard the Concordant Express. Each ticket is stamped with a boarding
also shares the following information: Configuration. Like most trains, the Concordant Express includes an Engine Car at the front and a Caboose at the back. The number of other train cars and their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
Planar Effects The Concordant Express moves across the known planes of existence by passing through invisible portals only the train’s sapient Engine Car can find. The train’s next stop is Mechanus
the plane. Some effects apply only to creatures outside the train. The train enters a new plane whenever you like. Roll or choose from the options on the table to determine which plane the train is on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
— simultaneously concordant and in opposition. The plane has varied terrain, with prairies, mountains, and shallow rivers. The Outlands is circular, like a great disk. In fact, those who envision the Outer
Outlands is the closest the Outer Planes come to being like a world on the Material Plane. Gate-Towns of the Outlands Town Gate Destination Excelsior The Seven Heavens of Mount Celestia Tradegate
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
, creating multiversal anomalies. Shemeshka planned to eventually release the modrons to Mechanus, where they would skew the workings of that plane. She would then take advantage of the chaos. R04M wants
accessible alley in Sigil 2 The headquarters of a faction, like the Mortuary 3 In a dangerous area, like the Hive or Undersigil 4 An extreme location, like outside Sigil’s ring or in one of the Lady
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
presented in episode 4. Modron in Need The pentadrone Stevie wants to travel back to Mechanus, and the characters could assist by using downtime or franchise tasks to make that happen. Research or
schmoozing might gain information from knowledgeable sages regarding existing portals to Mechanus, or unique rituals that can open a temporary portal. If the characters are successful in helping Stevie get
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
-focused background like acolyte. The gods’ followers come from all walks of life, and any heroic soul might find themselves thrust into the midst of divine schemes.
Whether or not your character is
of the Akroan hunter Arissa. While waiting to claim her second place award, Arissa witnessed a Nyxborn bat-creature snatch an infant from the crowd. The hunter threw her javelin an impossible distance
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Spirits Any characters inhabited by the spirits of Nangnang, Obo’laka, or Shagambi receive advice when entering this area: Greedy Nangnang urges her host to snatch up the gold coins on the wall shrine
the tomb, two on each side of the shrine. Fresco 1. This fresco shows a time when Kubazan used his tentacles to help the Omuans cast down a statue of the god Ubtao: A frog-like behemoth uses its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Blackrazor Weapon (Greatsword), Artifact (Requires Attunement) Conceptopolis Blackrazor Hidden in the dungeon of White Plume Mountain, Blackrazor shines like a piece of night sky filled with stars
next sunset. Destroying Blackrazor. Blackrazor can be destroyed by crushing it in the great gears of Mechanus. Primus, the creator of the modrons, also knows a series of musical tones that Blackrazor can’t stand to hear, causing the sword to shatter.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
a virtually meaningless concept on the Outer Planes. The perceptible regions of the planes often seem quite small, but they can also stretch on to what seems like infinity. It might be possible to
Hades, the Gray Waste of NE Gehenna, the Bleak Eternity of NE, LE The Nine Hells (of Baator) LE Acheron, the Infinite Battlefield of LN, LE Mechanus, the Clockwork Nirvana of LN Arcadia, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
from the dead and become immersed in negative energy, eventually becoming like ghosts. Thieves’ guilds value them as highly effective information gatherers and spies. Many shadar-kai of the
Shadowfell are masters of these macabre techniques, and some are willing to teach this path. In places like Thay in the Forgotten Realms and Karrnath in Eberron, where many necromancers practice their craft, a






