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Quests from the Infinite Staircase
condition (escape DC 15). The robot has two cargo tentacles, each of which can grapple one target.
Tractor Beam. The robot casts Telekinesis, targeting only creatures with the incapacitated condition
, which double as weapons if the robots are threatened or drafted for security purposes. A worker robot’s voice is often utilitarian, programmed to use simple phrases without embellishment. Worker
Magic Items
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
attunement period.
As a bonus action, you can retract the armblade into your forearm or extend it from there. While it is extended, you can use the weapon as if you were holding it, and you can't use that hand for other purposes.
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Demogorgon’s purposes in the Material Plane are rewarded with a “blessing” that transforms them into monstrous echoes of their demon patron.
The arms of an echo of Demogorgon
, attacking their allies.Cold, Fire, LightningDiscordant Screams. The echo directs its frenzied howls at one creature it can see within 60 feet of itself. The target must succeed on a DC 13 Wisdom saving
Monsters
Candlekeep Mysteries
Amphibious. The hag can breathe air and water.
Innate Spellcasting. The hag’s innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 12). She can innately cast the following spells, requiring
no material components:
At will: dancing lights, minor illusion, vicious mockery
Mimicry. The hag can mimic animal sounds and humanoid voices. A creature that hears the sounds can tell they are
Monsters
Acquisitions Incorporated
Customizable Storage. A keg robot can hold up to three types of liquid payload totaling 12 gallons within its hollow, barrel-shaped body. A full keg robot can make one liquid attack per gallon before
the liquid must be refilled. Filling a keg robot takes 2 rounds per gallon. Differing payloads can alter the keg robot's attacks from those presented here.Fist. Melee Weapon Attack: +5;{"diceNotation
Monsters
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
grappled condition (escape DC 16). While grappled, the target also has the restrained condition. The robot has two tentacles, each of which can grapple one target.
Laser Beam. Ranged Weapon Attack: +5
", "rollDamageType":"radiant"} radiant damage.
Grenade Launcher (Recharge 5–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Grenade Launcher"}. The robot fires a grenade at a point it can
Species
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
to nobility or greatness for himself or his house.
House Vadalis breeds and trains beasts for a wide range of purposes. While the house maintains vast cattle ranches and trains horses and hounds, the
Mark of Handling allows Vadalis to work with more exotic creatures as well. Griffons, hippogriffs, and even bulettes can be bred and trained. Even with the Mark of Handling, this is dangerous work
Magic Items
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Weave that can be harnessed for various purposes. For example, Netherese mages used mythallars to keep their cities aloft and empower their magic items. The bigger the mythallar, the more magic it can
rest within 30 feet of it, meditating on the mythallar. Up to eight creatures can be attuned to it at one time; otherwise, the Ythryn mythallar follows the attunement rules in the Dungeon Master&rsquo
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Portraying a deity, even a lesser god such as Auril the Frostmaiden, can be daunting. For roleplaying purposes, the following suggestions might prove helpful:
So long as she has mortal worshipers, Auril
Divine Being. Auril can’t be surprised and can’t be changed into another form against her will.
Divine Rejuvenation. When Auril drops to 0 hit points, her body turns to slush and melts
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
. For roleplaying purposes, the following suggestions might prove helpful:
So long as she has mortal worshipers, Auril can’t truly die (although the characters can rid the world of her for a
Divine Being. Auril can’t be surprised and can’t be changed into another form against her will.
Divine Resurrection. When Auril drops to 0 hit points, her crystalline form shatters and
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commonly abused substance in Sharn. Though dreamlily isn’t illegal if used for medicinal purposes, it’s heavily taxed, and thus most dreamlily is smuggled in and sold on the black market
. Dreamlily dens can be found across the lower wards. Consuming dreamlily causes disorienting euphoria and brings about remarkable resistance to pain. A creature under the effects of dreamlily is poisoned
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
conceals her island in the Sea of Moving Ice.
Roleplaying Auril
Portraying a deity, even a lesser god such as Auril the Frostmaiden, can be daunting. For roleplaying purposes, the following suggestions
Divine Being. Auril can’t be surprised and can’t be changed into another form against her will.
Divine Rejuvenation. When Auril drops to 0 hit points, her body collapses into shards of
Magic Items
Vecna: Eve of Ruin
(see the Dungeon Master’s Guide for options):
1 minor beneficial property
1 major beneficial property
1 minor detrimental property
Perfect Disguise. While attuned to the crown, you can
the chosen creature for the purposes of spells, traps, and other defenses that wouldn’t target the chosen creature.
While in your disguised form, any lies you tell always seem to be true, no
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
you might or might not choose to share.
Although you will undoubtedly find some of this land’s ways to be strange and discomfiting, you can also be sure that some things its people take for
have heard of the strange skyships the Halruaans sail, and a few know of the tales that even the least of their people can work magic.
Halruaans usually make their journeys into Faerûn for
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
planes: Baba Yaga's Mortar and Pestle. These signature tools of Baba Yaga are a single artifact for purposes of attunement. Should the two objects become separated, the Baba Yaga's Pestle;pestle
;appears next to the Baba Yaga's Mortar;mortar at the next dawn.
Random Properties. This artifact has the following random properties, which you can determine by rolling on the tables in the
Magic Items
The Book of Many Things
various worlds. While it can include fewer or different cards, it frequently appears with a Deck of Many Things as part of a combined deck of sixty-six illuminated cards. The combined deck is usually
draw the same card multiple times.
The DM can use the physical cards provided in The Deck of Many Things card set to build a combined Deck of Many Things and Deck of Many More Things, including
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from. At night, occasional motes of white light shoot off from these broken bits.Brewers seek this material for its inherent magical quality, which they can use for various purposes.
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understand and claim its might for their own. Depending on the malevolence of the cult’s patron or the malefic purposes they may serve, cultists could be a force of wickedness or a group of closely
Upper Planes, and paragons of order or benevolence. Many can be overbearing and uncompromising.
Fiend (Demon). Creatures of utter evil and destruction that want to see all worlds and planes burn.
Fiend
Storm of Vengeance
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A churning storm cloud forms, centered on a point you can see and spreading to a radius of 360 feet. Lightning flashes in the area, thunder booms, and strong winds roar. Each creature under the cloud
creature there takes 1d6 cold damage. Ranged weapon attacks in the area are impossible. The wind and rain count as a severe distraction for the purposes of maintaining concentration on spells. Finally
Elder Oblex
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Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
":"Sulfurous Impersonation"} different creatures, each one tethered to its body by a strand of slime that can extend up to 120 feet away. For all practical purposes, the simulacrum is the oblex
Amorphous. The oblex can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing.
Aversion to Fire. If the oblex takes fire damage, it has disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks
Adult Oblex
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Amorphous. The oblex can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing.
Aversion to Fire. If the oblex takes fire damage, it has disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks
until the end of its next turn.
Innate Spellcasting. The oblex's innate spellcasting ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 15). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no components:
3/day
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deploy these powers not necessarily for wicked ends, but for inscrutable purposes that only those who inhabit the world’s coldest and darkest bodies of water can understand.
Rare dread
Amphibious. The dhuthorex can breathe air and water.
Wavesense. The dhuthorex can’t use their Tremorsense outside of water. Multiattack. The dhuthorex uses Frightful Presence then
monsters
Amorphous. The formless spawn can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch without expending extra movement to do so.
Magic Resistance The formless spawn has Advantage on saving throws against
spells and other magical effects.Multiattack. The formless spawn makes up to four attacks, using Bludgeoning Pseudopod or Grasping Tentacle in any combination. It can replace any number of attacks with
Whelm
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Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
throws, and ability checks while you can see the daytime sky.
Thrown Weapon
Whelm has the thrown property, with a normal range of 20 feet and a long range of 60 feet. When you hit with a ranged weapon
attack. If you don’t have a hand free, the weapon lands at your feet.
Shock Wave
You can use an action to strike the ground with Whelm and send a shock wave out from the point of impact. Each
Human
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shorter lives that they strive to achieve as much as they can in the years they are given. Or maybe they feel they have something to prove to the elder races, and that’s why they build their mighty
and conquest, humans are more physically diverse than other common races. There is no typical human. An individual can stand from 5 feet to a little over 6 feet tall and weigh from 125 to 250 pounds
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. While it is extended, you can use the weapon as if you were holding it, and you can’t use that hand for other purposes.
attuned to it. To attune to this item, you must hold it against your forearm for the entire attunement period. As a bonus action, you can retract the armblade into your forearm or extend it from there
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. While it is extended, you can use the weapon as if you were holding it, and you can’t use that hand for other purposes.
attuned to it. To attune to this item, you must hold it against your forearm for the entire attunement period. As a bonus action, you can retract the armblade into your forearm or extend it from there
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
. While it is extended, you can use the weapon as if you were holding it, and you can’t use that hand for other purposes.
attuned to it. To attune to this item, you must hold it against your forearm for the entire attunement period. As a bonus action, you can retract the armblade into your forearm or extend it from there
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. While it is extended, you can use the weapon as if you were holding it, and you can’t use that hand for other purposes.
attuned to it. To attune to this item, you must hold it against your forearm for the entire attunement period. As a bonus action, you can retract the armblade into your forearm or extend it from there
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Into Neverwinter’s Catacombs Several months ago, cultists dedicated to Vecna commandeered sections of Neverwinter’s catacombs for their nefarious purposes. The sect the characters are pursuing is in
moldering wood boards, propped up just enough to block a dark tunnel leading below the surface.
The boards blocking the entrance to the catacombs can be moved easily, revealing a sloping tunnel (area N1).
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Lasting Institutions Where a single elf or dwarf might take on the responsibility of guarding a special location or a powerful secret, humans found sacred orders and institutions for such purposes
. Although some humans can be xenophobic, in general their societies are inclusive. Human lands welcome large numbers of nonhumans compared to the proportion of humans who live in nonhuman lands.
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Lasting Institutions Where a single elf or dwarf might take on the responsibility of guarding a special location or a powerful secret, humans found sacred orders and institutions for such purposes
. Although some humans can be xenophobic, in general their societies are inclusive. Human lands welcome large numbers of nonhumans compared to the proportion of humans who live in nonhuman lands.
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Lasting Institutions Where a single elf or dwarf might take on the responsibility of guarding a special location or a powerful secret, humans found sacred orders and institutions for such purposes
. Although some humans can be xenophobic, in general their societies are inclusive. Human lands welcome large numbers of nonhumans compared to the proportion of humans who live in nonhuman lands.
Goblin
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
appreciation for the finer things!
— Volo
Goblins occupy an uneasy place in a dangerous world, and they react by lashing out at any creatures they believe they can bully. Cunning in battle and
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Beast Masters and Slave Drivers
Goblins know they are a weak, unsophisticated race that can be easily dominated by bigger, smarter, more organized, more ferocious, or more magical creatures. Their god
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. Acererak spread these rumors, relying on combat between Pentival and Tarnhem to weaken them both, after which he could capture and imprison them for his own purposes. Pentival uses the half-red dragon
veteran stat block, but has the form of a gold dragon. He can be found in the chapel of evil (area 14), forced to take part in the evil ceremony there. Though Pentival has been forced to watch his