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Dungeon Master’s Guide (2024)
check, you cast Plane Shift. On a failed check, you and each creature and object within 15 feet of you travel to a random destination determined by rolling 1d100 and consulting the following table
.
1d100
Destination
01–60
Random location on the plane you named
61–70
Random location on an Inner Planes;Inner Plane determined by rolling 1d6: on a 1, the Elemental Plane
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D&D Free Rules (2024)
its normal casting time, and you can’t use this property again until you finish a Short or Long Rest. On a failed check, you fail to cast the spell and a random effect occurs instead
, determined by rolling on the following table.
Any spell you cast from the hat uses your spell save DC and spell attack bonus.
1d100
Effect
01–50
You cast a random spell determined by
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2024)
, freedom from the orb, to spread suffering in the world, to advance the worship of Tiamat, or something else the DM decides.
Random Properties. An Orb of Dragonkind has the following random properties
charges daily at dawn. If you control the orb, you can cast one of the spells on the following table from it. The table indicates how many charges you must expend to cast the spell.
Spell
Charge
Monsters
Monster Manual
effects at random (roll 1d4;{"diceNotation":"1d4", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Cataclymic Event"}):
1: Clinging Flames. Dexterity Saving Throw: DC 23, each creature in a 60-foot-radius Sphere
cloud have the Blinded and Deafened conditions and can’t cast spells with a Verbal component. Dexterity Saving Throw: DC 23, each creature that enters the cloud for the first time on a turn or
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2024)
.
Random Properties. The sword has the following random properties (see “Artifacts”):
1 minor beneficial property
1 major beneficial property
1 minor detrimental property
1 major
detrimental property
Spells. While the sword is on your person, you can cast the following spells (save DC 18) from it:
Call Lightning
Divine Word
Finger of Death
Once you use the sword to
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2024)
roll for a spell you cast against a Fiend, you use the maximum possible result instead of rolling.
Random Properties. The Artifact has the following random properties (see “Artifacts” in
;typically an assortment of demons.
Ensnarement. While carrying the book, whenever you cast Magic Circle naming only Fiends or cast Planar Binding targeting a Fiend, the spell is cast at level 9
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2024)
free from the socket. The hand is a shriveled left extremity.
Random Properties of the Eye and Hand. The Eye of Vecna and the Hand of Vecna each have the following random properties (see Artifacts
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
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2024)
number of charges above 50, the staff explodes as if you activated its Retributive Strike (see below).
Spells. While holding the staff, you can cast one of the spells on the following table from it
, using your spell save DC. The table indicates how many charges you must expend to cast the spell.
Spell
Charge Cost
Arcane Lock
0
Conjure Elemental
7
Detect Magic
0
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2024)
dawn.
Random Properties. The axe has the following random properties:
2 minor beneficial properties
1 major beneficial property
2 minor detrimental properties
Travel the Depths. You can take a
Magic action to touch the axe to a fixed piece of dwarven stonework and cast Teleport from the axe. If your intended destination is underground, there is no chance of a mishap or arriving somewhere
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2024)
cast a spell counts as a spell slot of one level higher.
Halo. After you spend the requisite amount of time reading and studying the book, you gain a protective halo. This halo sheds Bright Light in
addition, Fiends and Undead within the halo’s Bright Light make attack rolls against you with Disadvantage.
Random Properties. The Book of Exalted Deeds has the following random properties:
2
Spells
Player’s Handbook
six months, such as a book from a wizard’s library.
“Very familiar” is a place you have visited often, a place you have carefully studied, or a place you can see when you cast the
destination in a random direction. Roll 1d8 for the direction: 1, east; 2, southeast; 3, south; 4, southwest; 5, west; 6, northwest; 7, north; or 8, northeast.
On Target. You and your group (or the target object) appear where you intended.
Monsters
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
, making one melee attack against a random creature within reach. If no creatures are within reach, it makes a ranged attack against a random creature within range, throwing its weapon if necessary.
Feed
its next turn.
Innate Spellcasting. The master's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 17). The master can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:
At will
Monsters
Thieves’ Gallery
;{"diceNotation":"1d20+6", "rollType":"spell", "rollAction":"Chaos Bolt"} to hit, range 60 ft., one target. Hit: 14 (2d10 + 3) damage of a random type determined by rolling a d8;{"diceNotation":"1d8
with dead (Simon must be holding his deathly token to cast this spell)
2/day each: fog cloud, mage armor, magic missile, spider climb
1/day each: Bigby's hand, major imageSheltering Shield (3/Day
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Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
magical effects.
Innate Spellcasting. Otto’s innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 13). It can innately cast a number of spells, requiring no material components. As Otto ages and
the turn:
1–4. The target takes no action or bonus action and uses all of its movement to move in a random direction.
5–6. The target doesn’t move, and the only thing it can do on its turn is make a DC 11 Wisdom saving throw, ending the effect on itself on a success.
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Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Any creature that attunes to the tablet must make a DC 20 Wisdom saving throw at the end of its next long rest. On a failed save, the creature becomes afflicted with a random form of long-term
madness (see “Madness” in chapter 8 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide).
As an action, a creature attuned to the Black Crystal Tablet can use it to cast eyebite or gate (the portal created by
Magic Items
Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
click whenever the die is cast.
The dodecahedron can be hurled up to 60 feet as an action. A random magical effect occurs when the die comes to rest after rolling across the ground for at least
10 feet. If an effect requires a target and no eligible target is within range, nothing happens. Spells cast by the dodecahedron require no components. Roll a d12 and consult the following
Magic Items
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
This gorgeous jewelry piece, crafted by the wizard Bigby himself, consists of four gold rings attached via delicate chains to a wrist cuff studded with sapphires and diamonds.
Random Properties. The
bracelet has the following random properties, determined by rolling on the appropriate table in the Dungeon Master’s Guide:
1 minor beneficial property
1 major beneficial property
1 minor
Magic Items
Acquisitions Incorporated
While holding it, you can use an action to expend 1 or more of its charges to cast either a green-flamed fireball or a blue lightning bolt at random from it (save DC 15).
For 1 charge, you
cast the 3rd-level version of the spell. You can increase the spell slot level by one for each additional charge you expend.
This wand has 2 charges per day. If you expend the wand's last charge, roll a d20. On a 1, the wand crumbles into ashes and is destroyed.
Magic Items
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
This massive adze is said to have been wielded by All-Father Annam, not as a weapon but as the tool he used to shape the various worlds of the Material Plane eons ago.
Random Properties. The adze
has the following random properties, determined by rolling on the appropriate table in the Dungeon Master’s Guide:
2 minor beneficial properties
1 major beneficial property
2 minor
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
attunement). It can be used as an arcane focus. Whoever is attuned to the blast scepter gains resistance to fire and lightning damage and can, as an action, use it to cast thunderwave as a 4th-level spell
parts restored. His new body appears in a random safe location in Undermountain.
Spellcasting. Halaster is a 20th-level spellcaster. His spellcasting ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 22, +14 to hit
Magic Items
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
hold the fragment of chaos she used to prove her worth to her father.
Random Properties. The helm has the following random properties, determined by rolling on the appropriate table in the Dungeon
half as much damage.
Spellcasting. The helm has 6 charges and regains 1d6 charges each dawn. As an action while wearing the helm, you can expend 1 or more of its charges to cast one of the following
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
leave the Dimir and join this guild, but there is no escaping the Dimir.
8
I chose this guild at random or on a lark.
Dimir Guild Spells
Prerequisite: Spellcasting or Pact Magic class
it might pull shadows or clouds of mist around you as you cast your spells. Using the encode thoughts cantrip described below, you can turn a creature’s thoughts (including your own
Magic Items
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
you and can speak, read, and understand any language it knows (see “Random Properties” below).
Life Support. Whenever you end your turn with 0 hit points, the docent can make a Wisdom
(Medicine) check with a +6 bonus. If this check succeeds, the docent stabilizes you.
Random Properties. A docent has the following properties:
Languages. The docent knows Common, Giant, and 1d4
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
This pristine book smells faintly of a random scent you find pleasing. When found, the book contains the following spells: antipathy/sympathy, charm person, dominate person, enthrall, hypnotic
prepared wizard spells with a different spell in the book. The new spell must be of the enchantment school.
When you cast an enchantment spell, you can expend 1 charge to impose disadvantage on the first saving throw one target makes against the spell.
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
facial features have a bestial cast, often with large eyes and pointed ears; most shifters also have prominent canine teeth. They grow fur-like hair on nearly every part of their bodies. While a shifter
race, typically fall into the same ranges of height and weight that humans have in our world. If you’d like to determine your character’s height or weight randomly, consult the Random
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
portal to a random layer of the Abyss.
Amorphous. The alkilith can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing.
False Appearance. If the alkilith is motionless at the start of
becomes a portal to that plane (see “Planar Portals” in the Dungeon Master’s Guide).
Alkiliths spring from cast-off bits of the hideous, shuddering body of Juiblex. They gradually become
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
target is restrained. The kraken has ten tentacles, each of which can grapple one target.
Fling. One Large or smaller object held or creature grappled by the kraken is thrown up to 60 feet in a random
, sending
2/day each: control weather (cast as 1 action), fly, ice storm
1/day each: arcane eye, chain lightning, feeblemind, foresight, locate creature, mass suggestion, nondetection, power word
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
;potentially for the final time.
Random Properties. The artifact has the following random properties, which you can determine by rolling on the tables in the "Artifacts" section of the Dungeon Master
of its charges to cast one of the following spells (save DC 18) from it: aura of life (2 charges), aura of purity (2 charges), banishment (1 charge), beacon of hope (1 charge), mass cure wounds (3
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
(spell save DC 24). He can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:
At will: detect thoughts, dispel magic, spirit guardians
1/day each: banishing smite, blinding smite
). Each creature within 60 feet of Rak Tulkhesh must succeed on a DC 24 Wisdom saving throw or use its reaction to make a melee weapon attack against a random creature within reach. If no creatures
Magic Items
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
Magic Weapon. The Blade of Avernus is a magic weapon that functions as a vorpal sword.
Random Properties. The sword has the following randomly determined properties, as described in chapter 7 of the
sword against that devil.
Infernal Recall. As an action, you can use the sword to cast word of recall. Creatures transported by this spell appear in an unoccupied space within 30 feet of the current
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
throws against spells and other magical effects.
Innate Spellcasting. Sir Talavar’s innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 13). It can innately cast a number of spells, requiring no
of its turns to determine its behavior during the turn:
1–4. The target takes no action or bonus action and uses all of its movement to move in a random direction.
5–6. The
Magic Items
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
radical new philosophy in his quest to understand fate. He urged followers of his ideology to eschew wealth and seek out all fortunes, good and ill, to unravel the cloth of destiny.
Random Properties
. The lantern has the following random properties:
2 minor beneficial properties
1 major beneficial property
1 minor detrimental property
Precious Fuel. The lantern burns only one source of
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
fourteen cards of the high deck and forty other cards divided into four suits: coins, glyphs, stars, and swords.
Random Properties. The artifact has the following random properties, which you can
deck, you can use an action to cast one of the following spells (save DC 18) from it: comprehend languages, detect evil and good, detect magic, detect poison and disease, locate object, or scrying
Demonomicon of Iggwilv
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Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
how many pages are removed, and it longs to be more than mere reference material.
Random Properties. The artifact has the following random properties, which you can determine by rolling on the tables
charges. It regains 1d8 expended charges daily at dawn. While holding it, you can use an action to cast Tasha's hideous laughter from it or to expend 1 or more of its charges to cast one of the following
Summon Construct
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Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
You call forth the spirit of a construct. It manifests in an unoccupied space that you can see within range. This corporeal form uses the Construct Spirit stat block. When you cast the spell, choose
yours. It obeys your verbal commands (no action required by you). If you don’t issue any, it takes the Dodge action and uses its move to avoid danger.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this