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Dungeon Master’s Guide
until they or someone else reveals it. Nothing less than a Wish spell or divine intervention can end the NPC’s hostility toward you.
Ruin. All forms of wealth that you carry or own, other than
you occupied when you disappeared. You remain imprisoned until you are found and removed from the sphere. You can’t be located by any Divination magic, but a Wish spell can reveal the location
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
your body, devours it, and then takes control of the body like a puppet. If that happens, you become an NPC under the DM’s control.
Eye of Vecna Spells
Spell
Charge Cost
benefits:
Truesight. You have Truesight out to 240 feet.
Spellcasting. The eye has 8 charges and regains 1d4 + 4 expended charges daily at dawn. You can cast a spell on the Eye of Vecna Spells table
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
target doesn’t have. During any night when there’s a full moon in the sky, the target becomes an NPC under the DM’s control and remains so until the night ends. A Remove Curse spell
.
Only a Wish spell can end Augustus’s curse. He has ordered Wanewort, a night hag, to find anyone with access to that spell and plans to offer anything in his power in exchange for undoing his
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
a roll of 1, the character must succeed on a DC 13 Charisma saving throw or become an evil NPC under the DM’s control, unless the character is evil already. This alignment change can be undone
by any magic that ends a curse, but after ten days, it can be reversed only by a wish spell or divine intervention.
A creature wounded by one of these chardalyn weapons can feel a sudden sickness
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
but otherwise uses the wererat stat block, excluding actions that require equipment the target doesn’t have. During any night when there’s a full moon in the sky, the target becomes an NPC
under the DM’s control and remains so until the night ends. A Remove Curse spell or similar magic ends this curse.
Shortsword (Humanoid or Hybrid Form Only). Melee Weapon Attack: +8
Magic Items
Tomb of Annihilation
a Constitution saving throw (using your spell save DC) or be cursed. While cursed in this way, the target can’t regain hit points and has vulnerability to necrotic damage. A greater restoration
, remove curse, or similar spell ends the curse on the target.
The Forgotten One. The bodiless life force of a dead archmage empowers the staff and is imprisoned within it. The rune carved into the
Magic Items
Keys from the Golden Vault
to the book, you can cast circle of death (save DC 20) from it as an action. After you cast the spell, roll a d6. On a roll of 1–5, you can’t use this property again until the next dawn
book, the spirit tries to leave the book and enter your body. If you fail a DC 20 Charisma saving throw, it succeeds, and you become an NPC under the DM’s control until the intruding spirit is
Magic Items
Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
to cast any spell of 5th level or lower, and can use that ability 1d3 times for the duration of the adventure.
Rogue. An NPC of the DM’s choice becomes secretly hostile toward you. The
identity of your new enemy isn’t known until the NPC or someone else reveals it. Any enchantment spell cast on the NPC at 6th level or higher can end the NPC’s hostility toward you.
Ruin
Eye and Hand of Vecna
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), dominate monster (5 charges), or eyebite (4 charges). The eye regains 1d4 + 4 expended charges daily at dawn. Each time you cast a spell from the eye, there is a 5 percent chance that Vecna tears your soul
from your body, devours it, and then takes control of the body like a puppet. If that happens, you become an NPC under the DM’s control.
Properties of the Hand. Your alignment changes to
Deck of Many Things
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ability to cast the wish spell 1d3 times.
Rogue. A nonplayer character of the GM's choice becomes hostile toward you. The identity of your new enemy isn't known until the NPC or someone else reveals
you are found and removed from the sphere. You can't be located by any divination magic, but a wish spell can reveal the location of your prison. You draw no more cards.
Euryale. The card's medusa
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
speed of 25 feet and the Lucky trait. Adding racial traits to an NPC doesn’t alter its challenge rating. For more on racial traits, see the Player’s Handbook. Spell Swaps. One way to customize an NPC
Customizing NPCs There are many easy ways to customize the NPCs in this appendix for your home campaign. Racial Traits. You can add racial traits to an NPC. For example, a halfling druid might have a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
and the Lucky trait. Adding racial traits to an NPC doesn't alter its challenge rating. For more on racial traits, see the Player's Handbook. Spell Swaps One way to customize an NPC spellcaster is to
Customizing NPCs There are many easy ways to customize the NPCs for your home campaign. Racial Traits You can add racial traits to an NPC. For example, a halfling druid might have a speed of 25 feet
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
Special NPCs In this chapter, each player runs not only a player character but also an NPC who has ties to the settlement that the characters are defending. Once you’ve determined where the adventure
begins, make photocopies of the six NPCs corresponding to the location you’ve chosen. These NPCs are gathered in appendix D. Each NPC comes with a brief description, personality traits (a bond, an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
crime. 3 The NPC (or their family) has been threatened with harm unless the NPC does something. 4 The NPC is under a magical compulsion (perhaps a Geas spell or some kind of curse) to behave in a certain
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
character Advantage on their Initiative roll. For example, if a conversation with an NPC is cut short because the Sorcerer is convinced that NPC is a doppelganger and targets it with a Chromatic Orb
spell, everyone rolls Initiative, and the Sorcerer does so with Advantage. If the doppelganger rolls well, it might still act before the Sorcerer’s spell goes off, reflecting the monster’s ability to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
introduce the players to one of the side treks described in chapter 6. The summons could be a verbal message entrusted to an NPC waiting in the characters’ base town. A messenger might brave the wilds to
find the characters at their campsite. Magic might be used, such as a sending spell. Whether the party chooses to respond or continue on their current course is up to the players.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
the Teleportation Circle spell. Recruit: Spellcaster. Each time you issue the Recruit order to this facility, its hireling extends an invitation to a Friendly NPC spellcaster. Roll any die. If the
via your Teleportation Circle. While you are in your Bastion, you can ask the spellcaster to cast one Wizard spell of level 4 or lower; if you are level 17+, the spell’s maximum level increases to 8
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
available in Ten-Towns are summarized below. If an item or spell is not covered here, assume there is no friendly NPC who can sell or cast it. Common magic items cost 100 gp each where they’re
available, except for common potions (such as potions of healing), which can be had for 50 gp. A friendly spellcaster will charge 25 gp for a 1st-level spell, 50 gp for one that uses a 2nd-level spell slot
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
opposite goal. 2 The adventurers become responsible for the safety of a noncombatant NPC. 3 The adventurers are prohibited from killing the villain, but the villain has no compunctions about killing them. 4
adventurers have two different goals, but they can complete only one. 8 Completing the goal secretly helps the villain. 9 The adventurers must cooperate with a known enemy to achieve the goal. 10 The adventurers are under magical compulsion (such as a geas spell) to complete their goal.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
NPC or someone else reveals it. Any enchantment spell cast on the NPC at 6th level or higher can end the NPC’s hostility toward you. Ruin. All forms of wealth that you carry or own, other than magic
or uncommon magic weapon with which you are proficient, or a spell scroll featuring a spell of a level you can cast, appears in your hands. The DM chooses the weapon or spell, which you possess for the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
players some opportunities to return dead characters to life during the lower levels of their progress through Out of the Abyss. A spell scroll of raise dead can turn up among some treasure, either when it
a player character. Drow, dwarf, and deep gnome characters are all easily playable. You can even allow a player to take control of a more unusual NPC until a new character can join the group. This is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
franchise whose members are clearly as cool and capable as the characters. However, she’s an adventurer, not a follower. As such, she’s not suitable as franchise staff but would make an excellent allied NPC
or hired troubleshooter (perhaps after joining another franchise). To use Talanatha as an NPC, you can give her the stat block of a berserker or priest (depending on what use you wish to make of her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
battled the mephits. Miken denies knowing who or what started the fire, but he’s the only NPC cadet who has any magical talent, making him the most likely suspect. A detect thoughts spell or similar magic
enough to cause such a conflagration, nor could it summon the magma mephits. Magical Origin. The fire was likely started by a magic spell—perhaps a spell cast on or near Petty Officer Ryeback’s portable
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
lord. The entries also list signature spells associated with a demon lord. If the monster or NPC can cast spells, you can replace any of those spells with spells from that list, as long as the new spell
is of the same level as the spell it replaces. A typical demon can impart boons to a number of creatures equal to the demon’s number of Hit Dice. In contrast, demon lords have no limit on the number
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
that time rather than calculating it down to the minute. Exceptions include situations like these: Spell Timer. The characters might need to go somewhere or accomplish something before the duration of a
spell or similar effect runs out. For example, they might use the Locate Object spell to point them in the direction of an item they seek, so you need to know how far they get in the 10 minutes the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Strahd’s Enemy Drawn from the high deck, the fourth card in the card reading determines the location of an NPC who can improve the characters’ chances of defeating Strahd. (Some cards offer two
possible results, A and B; in such a case, you can pick the one you prefer or that better suits the circumstances of the adventure.) Strahd senses that this NPC is a danger to him and tries to eliminate
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
bird brings to meet me in Waterdeep as soon as possible.”
The bird waits patiently while the leather parcel is removed from its harness. The parcel contains a carefully folded spell scroll of teleport
characters, the parcel contains two scrolls. If none of the characters can use a teleport scroll, they’ll need to seek out an NPC who can. Just don’t make it too difficult.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
bird brings to meet me in Waterdeep as soon as possible.”
The bird waits patiently while the leather parcel is removed from its harness. The parcel contains a carefully folded spell scroll of teleport
characters, the parcel contains two scrolls. If none of the characters can use a teleport scroll, they’ll need to seek out an NPC who can. Just don’t make it too difficult.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
their previous lives, and their alignment changes to lawful evil. If a character pleased Zariel with their loyalty in life, she might allow them to keep their memories as she promotes them to an NPC
tragedy shatters the hollyphant’s mind, leaving Lulu insane. Roll or choose the specific effects of her madness from the Long-Term Madness table in chapter 8 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide, but this madness can be overcome only by a greater restoration spell or similar magic.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
blessings Hulgaz might bestow. Unlike most blessings, infernal blessings impose both desirable and detrimental effects on the user. Casting the Remove Curse spell on the subject of an infernal blessing ends
cursed character flies into a rage that lasts until dawn; while in this state, the character becomes an NPC under the DM’s control. Blessing of Lonely Genius Supernatural Gift (Blessing) Your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
The characters might have a couple NPC companions around to help them defeat the drow (see “Bidding Farewell”), but if they need more assistance, consider the following options: Having pushed themselves
to catch up to their prey, the drow all have one level of exhaustion. Ilvara and Asha have already expended some of their spell slots. The characters make it to the surface before being intercepted
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
until they no longer have need of it. An object animated by the animate objects spell also qualifies as this key. Beardless Dwarf Most female dwarves are beardless and thus meet the condition. A male
dwarf NPC can be persuaded to shave his beard, either as a consequence of losing a bet or upon receiving some sort of recompense. The characters can also shave a male dwarf they have captured or against
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
tie, no one wins the turn. The first participant who wins three turns wins the game and collects the pot. For NPC participants, the following table shows the average bet and skill modifier to use
depending on the section the NPC is playing in. Cerulean Hall Betting Section Level Average Bet Modifier Amateur 17 (1d4 + 15) talons +4 Intermediate 20 (2d4 + 15) talons +8 Expert 25 (4d4 + 15) talons
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
a better chance of succeeding if the characters refrain from drinking their potions of giant size until after they have infiltrated the lair. It’s best if Hekaton (or Serissa) remains an NPC under
among the players in your group. If your group includes more than four players, not every player will receive a storm giant NPC to play, and that’s okay. Accompanying the giants’ stat blocks are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
invisibility spell or similar magic. A creature traversing stairs it can’t see can move on the steps at half speed without any problem. A creature that moves any faster than half speed must succeed on a DC
the following information about Kolat Towers. An NPC familiar with Waterdeep’s history, such as Mirt or Volo, can also provide this information.
Kolat Towers once belonged to two eccentric brothers