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Spells
Player’s Handbook
triggers include opening that object or seeing the glyph.
You can refine the trigger so that only creatures of certain types activate it (for example, the glyph could be set to affect Aberrations). You can
also set conditions for creatures that don’t trigger the glyph, such as those who say a certain password.
Once triggered, the glyph glows, filling a 60-foot-radius Sphere with Dim Light for 10
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
ability (spell save DC 19):
At Will: Detect Magic, Detect Thoughts, Light, Lightning Bolt (level 4 version), Mage Armor (included in AC), Mage Hand, Prestidigitation
2/Day Each: Scrying, Sending
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
Magic Items
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
instantly complete this transformation.
Cone of Undeath. You can take a Magic action to unleash a wave of unholy light in a 60-foot Cone. Each creature in the Cone makes a DC 18 Constitution saving throw
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
Tomb of Annihilation
This +3 dagger belongs to Artus Cimber. While you have the dagger drawn, you can use a bonus action to activate one of the following properties:
Cause a blue gem set into the dagger
’s pommel to shed bright light in a 20-foot radius and dim light for an additional 20 feet, or make the gem go dark.
Turn the dagger into a compass that, while resting on your palm, points north
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
following properties while attuned to the dagger, provided he has the weapon drawn:
Cause a blue gem set into the dagger’s pommel to shed bright light in a 20-foot radius and dim light for an
Monsters
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
spellcasting ability (spell save DC 17):
At will: detect magic, levitate, light
1/day each: control weather (cast as 1 action), water breathingWhen King Hekaton disappears, Princess Serissa finds herself
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
steps into the room. Magic lamps then activate and provide bright light. Sound. Sound carries well through these rooms and corridors. The sound of fighting or other loud noises in one area can be heard through a closed door in an adjacent area.
General Features Ceilings. Chambers in the dungeon have 10-foot-high ceilings unless otherwise noted. Light. Unless otherwise noted in the area description, areas 14 to 23 are unlit until a creature
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
creature steps into the room. Magic lamps then activate and provide bright light. Sound. Sound carries well through these rooms and corridors. The sound of fighting or other loud noises in one area can be heard through a closed door in an adjacent area.
General Features Ceilings. Chambers in the dungeon have 10-foot-high ceilings unless otherwise noted. Light. Unless otherwise noted in the area description, areas 14 to area 23 are unlit until a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
around the hilt and minuscule runes emblazoned on the flat of the blade. When light hits the dagger, the blade appears to pulse with an inner radiance. The dagger resembles the one that scarred Quill as
a child. To activate the spells imbued within the dagger, the weapon must pierce the flesh of the intended target. After the purifying magic is released, the dagger loses its magical properties.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Bookmark Weapon (dagger), legendary (requires attunement) This +3 dagger belongs to Artus Cimber (see appendix D). While you have the dagger drawn, you can use a bonus action to activate one of the
following properties: Cause a blue gem set into the dagger’s pommel to shed bright light in a 20-foot radius and dim light for an additional 20 feet, or make the gem go dark. Turn the dagger into a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
visitors to reach connecting tunnels high above the floor.
Light. The caverns of Inner Blingdenstone are brightly lit with a mix of bioluminescent fungi, caged giant fire beetles, and magic. The
light from these chambers spills into short connecting tunnels lacking their own illumination, creating areas of dim light. Longer tunnels have their own light, usually magically produced.
Connecting
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Astral Adventurer’s Guide
initiate or escape a grapple. Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of yourself as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You discern colors in that darkness only as
. As part of the same bonus action, you can use this pseudopod to manipulate an object, open or close a door or container, or pick up or set down a Tiny object. The pseudopod contains no sensory organs and can’t attack, activate magic items, or lift more than 10 pounds.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Starting at 8th level, you add your Wisdom modifier to the damage you deal with any cleric cantrip. Corona of Light Starting at 17th level, you can use your action to activate an aura of sunlight that
Light Domain Gods of light — including Helm, Lathander, Pholtus, Branchala, the Silver Flame, Belenus, Apollo, and Re-Horakhty — promote the ideals of rebirth and renewal, truth, vigilance, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
warm, dry, and brightly lit. The source of the light and the heat is a raging fire contained within a bowl-shaped basin in the center of the chamber. Natural gas escaping through holes in the basin
giant. An absentminded giant removed it from the temple (area 6) and left it here. Like the other weapons in area 6, it can be used to activate the portal leading to the divine oracle (area 11).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Will-o’-Wisp Will-o’-wisps are malevolent, wispy balls of light that haunt lonely places and battlefields, bound by dark fate or dark magic to feed on fear and despair. Hope and Doom. Will-o’-wisps
look like bobbing lantern lights in the distance, although they can choose to alter their colors, or wink out completely. When they activate their lights, will-o’-wisps offer hope, hinting of safety
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rrakkma
to wipe psionics from the collective minds of the gith peoples and enslave them once more. To activate the Gith Capacitor, the mind flayers must expose it to the unfathomable energies of the Far Realm
and transferred that connection to a reliquary containing a shard of bone from Zerthimon, the original githzerai anarch. As the Gith Capacitor grows in power, the light from the reliquary grows as well
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
between brass posts spaced 5 feet apart. Earthquakes caused the balcony to collapse in two places—see areas S16 and S17 for details. S14: Abandoned Garden Magical light fills this rectangular room. The
light emanates from three glass domes attached to the ceiling above a five-foot-wide, twenty-foot-long plant bed overflowing with rotting vegetation.
Closer inspection of the plant bed reveals two
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
magical properties. As a bonus action, Artus can activate any one of the following properties while attuned to the dagger, provided he has the weapon drawn:
Cause a blue gem set into the dagger’s pommel
to shed bright light in a 20-foot radius and dim light for an additional 20 feet, or make the gem go dark. Turn the dagger into a compass that, while resting on Artus’s palm, points north. Cast
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
magic spell. Touching a sconce with an open flame causes a spectral fire to appear above the sconce. This flame sheds light and heat like a normal torch, and it burns until smothered. If a sconce is
mist. The archway is a portal that connects the temple to the divine oracle (area 11), allowing instantaneous two-way travel once it is activated. To activate the portal, a giant of the hill, stone
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
to these chambers can escape. 39a. Gold and Black Boudoir Light. The walls and ceiling are painted gold. Mounted to them are black iron sconces with continual flame spells cast on them. These fires
cast the entire room in bright, flickering light.
Carpet and Cushions. Thick, wall-to-wall carpeting with alternating gold and black zigzagging patterns covers the floor, with a few soft, gold silk
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
object, common triggers include opening that object or seeing the glyph. You can refine the trigger so that only creatures of certain types activate it (for example, the glyph could be set to affect
Light for 10 minutes, after which time the spell ends. Each creature in the Sphere when the glyph activates is targeted by its effect, as is a creature that enters the Sphere for the first time on a turn
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
. Embedded in the wall next to the door is a brass panel with four brass buttons arranged in a diamond formation. (A similar panel appears inside the chamber.)
Light. A crystal dome in the ceiling sheds
pale white light, illuminating the whole chamber.
Key. Lying on the chamber floor is a flat mithral key.
The buttons on each brass panel and their effects are as follows: The top button is engraved
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
when placed before a light 6 Glass disks that depict constellations Starry Form 2nd-level Circle of the Stars feature As a bonus action, you can expend a use of your Wild Shape feature to take on a
them as on a star chart. This form sheds bright light in a 10-foot radius and dim light for an additional 10 feet. The form lasts for 10 minutes. It ends early if you dismiss it (no action required
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
gp) that reflects color as a prism does. This crown is needed to activate two of Halaster’s gates: on level 8 in area 18b and on level 11 in area 11a. 11e. Life in Undermountain Stone panels set into
orbs of light arranged like the eyes of a beholder appear in the middle of the room. This spectral display is one of Halaster’s harmless regional effects (see “Halaster’s Lair”) and lasts for 1 minute.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
phrase (“Elf magic!”) causes a pale light to fill the area between the four pillars, ending the following conditions on a creature in that area: blinded, deafened, petrified, poisoned, and stunned
language only. It knows that the caryatids can restore petrified creatures to flesh, having seen them in action, and it has heard Halaster speak the command phrase to activate the caryatids. Its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
object, common triggers include opening that object or seeing the glyph. You can refine the trigger so that only creatures of certain types activate it (for example, the glyph could be set to affect
Light for 10 minutes, after which time the spell ends. Each creature in the Sphere when the glyph activates is targeted by its effect, as is a creature that enters the Sphere for the first time on a turn
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
the tunnel gives way to a landing that offers a view of the citadel’s uppermost reaches. Light from a high window illuminates a set of steps that ascend to a pair of mahogany doors in the tower’s face
Chamber Shifting green, purple, and blue light spills into this room through a single window. Bolted-down tables hold an array of equipment: beakers of alchemical fluid, alembics, cut crystal needles
Magic Items
Infernal Machine Rebuild
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Food doesn’t satiate you, and you must eat double the amount of food you normally eat to avoid feeling hungry.
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You shed light like a torch, as if you were the target of a light cantrip
weapon attack on each of your turns takes 1d4 fire damage at the start of its next turn.
You are blinded while in bright light, and your shadow takes on a monstrous appearance.
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No creature can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
light in a 5-foot radius. Any metal in the item is silver or mithral, rather than iron or steel. 17 Fiend. The item is made of black iron or horn inscribed with runes, and any cloth or leather
Beacon. The bearer can use a bonus action to cause the item to shed bright light in a 10-foot radius and dim light for an additional 10 feet, or to extinguish the light. 2 Compass. The wielder can use
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Necropolis Locations (Y20-Y29) Y20. Tower of Evocation The top of this tower is shaped like an axe blade. Red light shines out from a slender window high overhead.
The tower’s interior is damaged
light dance like fireflies around this thirty-foot-diameter octagonal chamber. A large unlit brazier stands in the center of the room, and eight ten-foot-square alcoves line the walls, each filled with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
are 15 feet high and flat. Light. The lighthouse is mostly dark. Two lanterns full of oil hang within each level on the east and west walls. Window slits stand 3 feet above the floor on each level, at
the center of the north and south walls. These slits are 3 feet high but only a few inches wide, so they’re too small to allow passage or let much more than a little dim light in. Resting at the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
the real world. Don’t let players argue that a bucket brigade of ordinary people can accelerate a spear to light speed by all using the Ready action to pass the spear to the next person in line. The
during combat or while a character is acting in Initiative order. Don’t let players attack each other or helpless creatures to activate those rules. Rules Rely on Good-Faith Interpretation. The rules
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
faerzress and bioluminescent fungi compete with shafts of white light that fall upon naturally formed shelves along the walls as well as a rocky mesa at the center of the cavern. Crudely formed ramps
something down in a small notebook.
The chamber is brightly lit, as if by sunlight. The sunlight is just a natural trick caused by crystal growths reflecting and amplifying the light of the bioluminescent
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
light speed by all using the Ready action to pass the spear to the next person in line. The Ready action facilitates heroic action; it doesn’t define the physical limitations of what can happen in a
helpless creatures to activate those rules. Rules Rely on Good-Faith Interpretation. The rules assume that everyone reading and interpreting the rules has the interests of the group’s fun at heart and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
floor show evidence of stone furnishings long since removed.
Characters who hold bright light sources in this room or make a lot of noise alert the githzerai in area 24c, who remain where they are
six-fingered gauntlet is required to activate the gate but don’t know where to find such an item. (The characters can locate one in area 14b. A character proficient with smith’s tools can also fashion