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Candlekeep Mysteries
, dispel magic, identify, levitate, locate object, Tenser's Floating Disk, unseen servant
1/day each: banishment, contact other plane, Drawmij's instant summons, legend lore, locate creature, planar
binding, polymorph, protection from evil and good, scrying, sending, true seeingShield (1st-Level Spell; 3/Day). When the sage is hit by an attack or targeted by a magic missile spell, it calls forth an
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
magic, scrying (as an action)
Spit Acid. The kelubar spits acid in a line 60 feet long and 5 feet wide. Each creature in that area must make a DC 17 Dexterity saving throw, taking 27 (6d8
;shators. They are squat, and their skin drips with a foul-smelling, acidic slime. Kelubars revel in the subservience of others, and they prefer to do battle with words—or at least to send in their
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
material components and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 15):
At will: detect evil and good
1/day each: aid, continual flame, protection from evil and good, scrying (as an
. When faced in battle, archons radiate the full fury of the Upper Planes, bolstering their allies and cowing their foes.Lightning
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
battle prowess, during which prisoners are executed by githyanki knights while young warriors cheer. This cavern has the following features: Scrying Eye. When the characters enter this area for the first
time, they see one of Halaster’s scrying eyes floating in the middle of the cavern (see “Halaster’s Lair”). It studies the characters for a minute or two before disappearing.
Blood. The floor is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
The slaad’s master watches the battle unfold through an invisible scrying sensor like the one created by a scrying spell. If the characters defeat the slaad, a magically altered voice issues from the
the gem to command the slaad to slip aboard the Concordant Express and kill the characters on sight. The slaad loathes being surrounded by modrons on the train and fights to the death. Scrying Sensor
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
active role in thwarting Elemental Evil. Reports from characters who survived the first battle carry great weight with them, and it’s possible that a faction was scrying near the node at just the right
time and saw how the battle unfolded. If the characters need better gear or spells cast on their behalf, the factions get to work. No one wants a second assault to fail for lack of potions of fire
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
power of the characters. Vorpal Shards. Even while keeping the idea that the grand master’s claw shards are from a vorpal sword, you might wish to mitigate their threat of an instant kill by having them
Grand Master’s cloak fly apart into its various faces during battle, attacking as a swarm of bats. Throne Gate. The Grand Master might have long ago figured out how to activate this gate. If things go
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
Chapter 12: Doom of the Desert Upon his return to Maelstrom, King Hekaton is quick to act against the evil that threatens all giants. With the help of his scrying pool, Hekaton figures out where
and when to use them. The characters can quaff their potions before they enter Iymrith’s lair or wait until they are about to engage the dragon in battle. Conversely, one or more characters might
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
(fearing that an all-out battle would likely destroy the village too), they’re interested in talking of little else besides who could be inside. The most popular theories are that Xonthal has returned or has
by brilliantly crafted wishes cast by Xonthal. The tower is impervious to all scrying and divination, and invulnerable against all forms of attack and alteration. Approaching through the maze and overcoming the puzzles designed by Xonthal is the only way to get inside.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
(fearing that an all-out battle would likely destroy the village too), they’re interested in talking of little else besides who could be inside. The most popular theories are that Xonthal has returned or has
by brilliantly crafted wishes cast by Xonthal. The tower is impervious to all scrying and divination, and invulnerable against all forms of attack and alteration. Approaching through the maze and overcoming the puzzles designed by Xonthal is the only way to get inside.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
1/day each: banishment, contact other plane, Drawmij’s instant summons, legend lore, locate creature, planar binding, polymorph, protection from evil and good, scrying, sending, true seeing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
collapses in on itself and ceases to exist the instant before it can shuffle off to some horrible afterlife. When this occurs, the spirit becomes a soulless wraith — a malevolent void trapped on the
doom of living creatures. When they emerge from their tombs to do battle, life and hope shrivel before them. Even if a wraith’s armies are forced to retreat, the lands its forces occupied are so blasted
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
text: A violet star plummets from the sky and crashes nearby, throwing up a cloud of debris. A breathless screech rises from the black-lit dust. An instant later, blackened fangs and violet flame burst
forth in the form of a massive skeletal dragon.
This lesser death dragon (see appendix B) has come specifically for the characters. After its dramatic crash landing, it starts the battle with 160
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Morte’s Planar Parade
-smelling, acidic slime. Kelubars revel in the subservience of others, and they prefer to do battle with words—or at least to send in their farastu minions—rather than fight directly. Kelubar Demodand
magic, scrying (as an action)
Spit Acid. The kelubar spits acid in a line 60 feet long and 5 feet wide. Each creature in that area must make a DC 17 Dexterity saving throw, taking 27 (6d8) acid damage
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Abjuration M Rary’s Telepathic Bond Divination R Scrying Divination C, M Seeming Illusion — Steel Wind Strike Conjuration M Summon Dragon Conjuration C, M Synaptic Static Enchantment — Telekinesis
Conjuration C Chain Lightning Evocation — Circle of Death Necromancy M Contingency Abjuration M Create Undead Necromancy M Disintegrate Transmutation — Drawmij’s Instant Summons Conjuration R, M
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
return with the spoils of war. The githyanki sky ships attack from above in the dead of night, gaining an instant advantage since communities on the surface rarely offer strong defenses against
attacks from the air. Red dragons ridden by knights accompany the vessels, serving as outriders and shock trips to pave the way for the githyanki warriors to descend en masse. In battle, the githyanki use
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
festival. Whenever you please, transition to the “Battle of High Hill” section. Fish Catch Traffic flows steadily from the village circle to the wharf. Here, the fish catch pits amateur fishers
catching it makes a fisher an instant town legend. Benebog can be caught only once. If a character rolls a 20 on the Fish to Catch table after Benebog has been caught, a greater cuirassed carp tugs on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
.
— Battle hymn of the githyanki knights
Githyanki knights are warriors, spellcasters, and scouts of exceptional ability devoted to the unflagging service of Vlaakith. Knights report directly to the queen
silver cord — a strike against such an enemy has a chance of severing the silver cord, causing instant death. Knights and their silver swords are inseparable, and a knight will fight to the death to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
in battle. Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by 1. Radiant Consumption. Starting at 3rd level, you can use your action to unleash the divine energy within yourself, causing a
to unleash the divine energy within yourself, causing your eyes to turn into pools of darkness and two skeletal, ghostly, flightless wings to sprout from your back. The instant you transform, other
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Strahd’s tyranny, but he underestimated Strahd’s hold over the land and the creatures in it. After a battle between the two in Castle Ravenloft, Strahd drove the Mad Mage to the mountains and sent the
3rd level (3 slots): counterspell, fly, lightning bolt
4th level (3 slots): Mordenkainen’s faithful hound, polymorph, stoneskin
5th level (3 slots): Bigby’s hand, cone of cold, scrying
6th
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
anatomy, and he uses the scrying pool in area 25 to study the natural world through the eyes of Omu’s gargoyles. When he encounters the characters, Withers is keen to learn everything he can before
some regret, he finally announces that it’s time for them to die. Withers would rather escape than be destroyed or captured, so he uses his spells to retreat if the battle goes against him, saving wall
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
detection and location that conceals him from divination magic and scrying sensors. Ezzat’s pseudodragon is selfish and doesn’t like sharing its master with strangers. The lich lets the pseudodragon
assistance in battle. If a fight breaks out, Ipses settles atop the lintel of the nearest door and tries to stay out of harm’s way. It has little cause to fear for the destruction of its master as long as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
— the siege of Eston in 895 YK — to the running battle on the Saerun Road that was cut short when the Mourning occurred. Battlefields across the Mournland, both ancient and recent, stand like open
that crawl along the streets, cling to lampposts, and flee from strangers, and living scrying spells that shift and shimmer, displaying distant scenes on their amorphous skin. Eston was renowned for its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
be armed and ready to face them in battle. Escorting the Morkoth are four merrow loyal to Slarkrethel. These creatures swim alongside the vessel, two on each side, and use their harpoons to impale
a chain alerts any Morkoth crew members not already engaged in battle. Each chain has AC 20, 10 hit points, and immunity to all damage except bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from adamantine
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
eyestalk (scrying sensor) protruding from the ceiling directly in front of the double door to the south. A secret door is hidden in the west wall. Blinking Eyes. The blinking eye carvings are slightly
unnerving but harmless. Scrying Sensor. The ghostly eyestalk is a magical sensor that allows one of the apprentice wizards in area X16 to monitor this hall. The eyestalk functions as an extra eye with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
days Lyrandar Airship 1,500 GP/person 3 days Teleportation Circle 2,500 GP Instant Using the guidelines for travel in the Dungeon Master’s Guide, you can think about a sea voyage to Xen’drik in three
empire’s fall, they retain a spiritual and physical connection to the darkness below. Umbragen shadow walkers weave shadow magic to confound foes. Jordan Kerbow Vulkoori and Umbragen drow battle in a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
they can pick out large groups of soldiers moving south of the city: Dragon Army forces and the Kalaman troops. T9: Scrying Room Window-like crystal panels dominate the walls of this room, each
to the north and south.
This chamber’s scrying magic informed the city’s navigators of storms and other approaching threats. The black-robed wizard Lohezet (see appendix B), who hunches over the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
using the scrying spell to monitor the characters and has judged they might be useful in ridding the ruins of the Dragon Army invaders. The gem Demelin breaks is an elemental gem. An instant later, an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Prisoner 13
without being caught by guards. In battle she poses a potent threat, creating blasts of flame and striking with magical force in both melee and ranged combat. She spends her time contemplating the web
targeted by divination spells or any feature that would read her thoughts, and she can’t be perceived through magical scrying sensors. She can’t be contacted telepathically unless she allows such
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
without being caught by guards. In battle she poses a potent threat, creating blasts of flame and striking with magical force in both melee and ranged combat. She spends her time contemplating the web
targeted by divination spells or any feature that would read her thoughts, and she can’t be perceived through magical scrying sensors. She can’t be contacted telepathically unless she allows such
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
unfathomable distance away, two incredible beings composed of stars and crackling magic are locked in the throes of a cosmos-shaking battle while the audience shouts and cheers. A single gate filled with violet
characters’ sight, such as area P1. Winning the Contest. There is a 50 percent chance for either Bowolg or Volsheez to win their ages-long battle, but which of these fantastically slow-moving entities
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
kuo-toa monitor guards the northeast doors. The kuo-toa try to capture victims for their aboleth god (see area P6). Reinforcements. If a battle occurs here, the creatures from area P7 investigate and
crawls up to the landing and joins the battle. P6. Yngukulub the Devourer An aboleth named Yngukulub the Devourer has allied itself with Gar Shatterkeel and the Cult of the Crushing Wave. Deranged kuo-toa
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
armor or carrying unconcealed weapons are turned away. Those who threaten the ship or try to board it are attacked. A battle on the pier frightens off the workers and guests who aren’t aboard. It
also alerts a half dozen city guards patrolling the wharf, who arrive 1d4 + 2 rounds after the battle is joined and fight on the side of the ship’s crew. The adventurers might try to replace one or more
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Domain Spells Cleric Level Prepared Spells 3 Burning Hands, Faerie Fire, Scorching Ray, See Invisibility 5 Daylight, Fireball 7 Arcane Eye, Wall of Fire 9 Flame Strike, Scrying Level 3: Radiance
excellence and courage. Clerics who tap into the magic of the War Domain excel in battle, inspiring others to fight the good fight or offering acts of violence as prayers. Gods of the War Domain watch over
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
impulses that drives many mortals to battle. Fear, greed, hatred—these are seeds that the Rage of War sows in the hopes of producing a bloody harvest. Rak Tulkhesh typically takes the form of a vaguely
bolt, shield
3/day each: chain lightning, create undead, dream, hold monster, mass suggestion, scrying
1/day each: foresight, gate, power word kill, teleport
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Sul