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Dungeon Master’s Guide
rejects you but also places a curse on you, causing you to make D20 Test;D20 Tests with Disadvantage for 24 hours or until the curse is ended by a Remove Curse spell or similar magic. If you’re
accepted by the weapon and try to attune to it, you become attuned to it instantly, and a new rune appears on it. You remain attuned to the weapon until you die or the weapon is destroyed. A Moonblade
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the giant fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Fire Rune. The giant has a fire rune inscribed on a medallion or some other object in its
possession. While holding or wearing the object bearing the rune, the giant can use its Magma Wave action and Furnace Armor bonus action.
The object bearing the rune has AC 15; 40 hit points; and immunity to
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Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Frost Rune. The giant has a frost rune inscribed on a chunk of ice or some other object in its possession. While holding or wearing the object bearing the rune, the giant can use its Ice Wolves
action and Ice Armor reaction.
The object bearing the rune has AC 16; 40 hit points; and immunity to necrotic, poison, and psychic damage. The object regains all its hit points at the end of every turn
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Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Cloud Rune. The giant has a cloud rune inscribed on a mask in its possession. While holding or wearing the mask bearing the rune, the giant has truesight within a range of 30 feet and can use its
Thunderous Clap action and Negate Spell reaction.
The mask bearing the cloud rune has AC 15; 45 hit points; and immunity to necrotic, poison, and psychic damage. The mask regains all its hit points at
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Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
. When you target a creature with an attack using this weapon, you can invoke the sword’s rune, causing it to flare with crimson light and infusing your attack with bloodthirsty precision. You
The hilt of this sword bears a carnelian engraved with the blood rune.
You can add your Constitution modifier (minimum of +1) to the damage rolls of attacks made with this weapon.
Invoking the Rune
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Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
taking damage, you can use your reaction to invoke the item’s rune, causing the pendant to flash with pale light. The creature then instead drops to 1 hit point.
Once the rune has been invoked, it can’t be invoked again until the next dawn.
A black opal pendant hangs at the base of this pearlescent chain. The sacred rune is inscribed on the back of the pendant.
While wearing this item, you have resistance to necrotic damage
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This triangular fire opal measures about three inches on each side and is half an inch thick. The ild (fire) rune shimmers within its core, causing it to be slightly warm to the touch. The opal has
much fire to extinguish in that radius.
Gift of Flame. You can transfer the opal’s magic to a nonmagical item — a weapon or a suit of armor — by tracing the ild rune there with your
Yeenoghu
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Out of the Abyss
atrocities in his name. Yeenoghu takes pleasure in causing fear before death, and he sows sorrow and despair through destroying beloved things. He doesn’t parlay; to meet him is to do battle with him
, causing them to have advantage on melee weapon attack rolls and causing attack rolls to have advantage against them.
Regional Effects
The region containing Yeenoghu’s lair is warped by his
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
destruction. Gnolls are his favorite instruments, and he drives his gnoll followers to ever-greater atrocities in his name, even imbuing some of their commanders with his powers, which transforms
them into flind;flinds. Yeenoghu takes pleasure in causing fear before death, and he sows sorrow and despair through destroying beloved things. He doesn’t parlay; to meet him is to do battle with
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
dragon’s lair.
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A moonstone dragon, offended by gifts of gold, is causing nightmares among the local nobility.
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A powerful spellcaster is forcing a captive moonstone dragon to invade
, conversation.
3
A moonstone dragon wyrmling has convinced a lost white dragon wyrmling that the latter is also a moonstone dragon, cursed by an archfey of winter. The two travel together, causing
Magic Items
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
The Blackstaff is a sentient, rune-carved staff set with thin silver veins. It is the symbol of office for the Blackstaff, the highest-ranking wizard in Waterdeep. As the rightful owner of the
staff’s charges as a bonus action, causing the target to expend one spell slot of the highest spell level it can cast without casting a spell. If the target has already expended all its spell
Nilbog
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Maglubiyet, this trickster god survives in splintered form as a possessing spirit that arises when goblinoids form a host, causing disorder in the ranks unless it is appeased. Goblins have no name for
this deity and dare not give it one, lest Maglubiyet use its name to ensnare and crush it as he did their other deities. They call the possessing spirit, and the goblin possessed by it, a nilbog (&ldquo
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Descent into the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth
whom are 9th level. Give players who choose from these options time to read over their character sheets before starting the adventure. Premade Characters Name Species Class Cathartic Human Cleric
Dunil Halfling Rogue Ethelrede Human Fighter Flemin Dwarf Monk Rustle Berrydust Gnome Wizard Weslocke Tiefling Warlock Cathartic Fay Dalton View Character Sheet Downloadable PDF Dunil Fay Dalton
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help by paying for improved roofs and lamps in your neighborhood, causing the entire community to celebrate your deed.
4
Fueled by alcohol, you faced down a carrion crawler that slunk out of the
name.
FEATURE: RUSTIC HOSPITALITY
Since you come from the ranks of the common folk, you fit in among them with ease. You can find a place to hide, rest, or recuperate among other commoners
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
Opal of the Ild Rune Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement) This triangular fire opal measures about three inches on each side and is half an inch thick. The ild (fire) rune shimmers within its
core, causing it to be slightly warm to the touch. The opal has the following properties, which work only while it’s on your person. Ignite. As an action, you can ignite an object within 10 feet of you
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
world a better place. But you have no interest in causing suffering or making things worse than they already are. View Character Sheet Downloadable PDF
name. Personal Goal: Get Your Revenge. Someone in the Redbrands nearly got you killed, and you sure would like to know who it was. And then you’d like to take your revenge—on that person, on Glasstaff
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Giant Runes (Area J2) Dod (Death Rune)
Fjell (Mountain Rune)
Krig (War Rune)
Liv (Life Rune)
Vind (Wind Rune)
Wyrm (Dragon Rune)
J3. Curved Tunnel There is nothing remarkable
, causing the gold key to turn back to its original position. The portal closes instantly if the gold key is removed from the chest’s lock. Treasure. The gold key is worth 25 gp. Inside the chest, held in
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
29. Apprentice Portraits Seven tall, framed portraits hang on the walls of this room. Embedded in the wall beneath each portrait is a small bronze plaque bearing a name. A character who examines the
handsome, slender man with thinning hair and a penetrating stare. He wears a plain black robe and many rings on his steepled fingers. Tattooed on his forehead is a tiny black rune. A successful DC 10
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
giants can be persuaded to share it. 6 An agent of the Hidden Rune steals an important artifact and flees to another world, but the adventurers have a chance to follow. There’s a myth behind the name of
Hidden Rune Irina Nordsol Giants of the Hidden Rune explore a ruin
with help from smaller assistants To the giants of the Hidden Rune, the children of Annam are in a temporary state of decline, a
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Frost Giant Ice Shaper Frost giants who master rune magic are known as ice shapers, and their sheer power typically contributes to a meteoric rise in the giants’ ordning. Many of them end up as jarls
, leading their communities, or as advisers to jarls—often the true power behind the throne. They are usually devoted to Thrym. True to their name, these ice shapers manipulate the raw elemental
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
weight of each weapon and the archway rune associated with each weapon (see “Archway and Runes”). Each statue has AC 20, a damage threshold of 10, and immunity to poison and psychic damage. The statue of
Iymrith” section later in this chapter. Giant Statues and Their Weapons Son of Annam God of… Weapon Weight Matching Rune Grolantor Hill giants Bone greatclub 500 lb. Haug Skoraeus Stonebones Stone
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Fire Giant Forgecaller A fire giant who masters traditional rune magic can control the heat of a volcanic environment and conjure raw elemental energy of fire and magma. In a fire giant community
, these forgecallers oversee both forges and the community’s defense, often in Surtur’s name. Some forgecallers prefer to live and work in isolation, seeking the hottest fires in volcanoes’ hearts or the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Giants of the Star Forge
Fire Giant Forgecaller A fire giant who masters traditional rune magic can control the heat of a volcanic environment and conjure raw elemental energy of fire and magma. In a fire giant community
, these forgecallers oversee both forges and the community’s defense, often in Surtur’s name. Some forgecallers prefer to live and work in isolation, seeking the hottest fires in volcanoes’ hearts or the
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Scions of Elemental Evil
Diana Downloadable PDF Equipment Quarterstaff of the Acrobat
5 Daggers
Calligrapher’s Supplies
Cartographer’s Tools
Explorer’s Pack
Fine Clothes
Lamp
Oil (3 flasks)
Parchment (12
Armor Class against the triggering attack, potentially causing the attack to miss you. You can’t use this property again until you finish a Short or Long Rest. Ranged Weapon (Quarterstaff Form Only
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hold Back The Dead
Diana Downloadable PDF Equipment Quarterstaff of the Acrobat
5 Daggers
Calligrapher’s Supplies
Cartographer’s Tools
Explorer’s Pack
Fine Clothes
Lamp
Oil (3 flasks)
Parchment (12
Armor Class against the triggering attack, potentially causing the attack to miss you. You can’t use this property again until you finish a Short or Long Rest. Ranged Weapon (Quarterstaff Form Only
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
invite potential rivals to name the terms of a wager. Those who are foolish enough to issue a combat challenge quickly find these giants’ magical prowess is nearly unmatched. Destiny Gambler Spell
truesight 30 ft. (requires Cloud Rune), passive Perception 19
Languages Common, Giant
Challenge 19 (22,000 XP) Proficiency Bonus +6
Cloud Rune. The giant has a cloud rune inscribed on a mask in its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
its spells; the exception has no effect on how a weapon or a spell functions for others. If a stat block contains the name of a class in the monster’s name or in parentheses under the name, the monster
, and storm giant tempest caller all wield the traditional rune magic of their kind. They are joined by the death giant shrouded one and the fomorian warlock of the dark, giants outside the ordning
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
families. Local Leaders 1d12 Leader 1 Respected, fair, and just leader or council 2 Feared tyrant 3 Coward manipulated by others 4 Illegitimate leader causing civil unrest 5 Powerful monster 6
Barrel and Bucket 16 The Thirsty Crow 17 The Wandering Satyr 18 The Barking Dog 19 The Happy Spider 20 The Witch and Dragon *Roll a separate d20 for each part of the tavern’s name. Random Shops
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Detailed NPCs Flesh out NPCs who play prominent roles in your adventures. You can use the accompanying NPC Tracker to record information as you determine these six elements of your NPC: Name You’ll
need a name for any NPC who plays a prominent role in your campaign. You can pick a given name and a surname from any of the accompanying tables; a name can include options from different tables. If
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
and succeeds on a DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check sees that one of the gears has popped out slightly. If it is pressed, the gear locks in place, causing all the gears to turn and the gate to open for
1 minute. When the gate closes, a different random gear pops out slightly, causing all the gears to lock again. Characters must be 11th level or higher to pass through this gate (see “Jhesiyra
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
saga. Gods of the Ordning Name Alignment Suggested Cleric Domains Symbol Annam LN Knowledge Two hands, wrists crossed, with fingers pointing downward Diancastra CN Trickery Journey rune Grolantor CE
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
Words of the Oracle Etched into the floor of area 11 and hidden under a thin layer of frost is a 20-foot-diameter, mithral-inlaid circle inscribed with the kong (king) rune (see "Giant Runes" in the
Introduction) and the words “Ask Your Question and Know Truth” in Dethek, the Dwarvish script. The kong rune, which is nearly as big as the circle enclosing it, is often associated with Annam the All
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Dzaan Lives! If the rune chamber works properly and the simulacrum becomes a true clone of Dzaan, the wizard thanks the characters for their help and asks them not to discuss what has happened with
others by reading their thoughts. Her weakness is that she’s always looking ahead, never behind her.” “Vellynne Harpell is a human necromancer, as cold and uncaring as the corpses she animates. She’s a withered old fool whose greatest asset—her family name—does her no good in Icewind Dale.”
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
determine the war band’s name, components, and unique traits. The War Band Name table is set up to create two-word names. Some war bands become infamous enough to earn an epithet from their enemies, but
only the most powerful flinds and pack lords bother to name the groups they lead. The War Band Composition table determines how many gnolls and hyenas the band contains. The War Band Leadership table
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
and goals are compatible with its own. If you try to attune to a Moonblade that doesn’t want you as its bearer, the weapon not only rejects you but also places a curse on you, causing you to make D20
, and a new rune appears on it. You remain attuned to the weapon until you die or the weapon is destroyed. A Moonblade functions like a nonmagical weapon of its kind for anyone other than its chosen






