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Arcana Unleashed
This staff is made of polished, interlocking bones. Runes are carved along its length.
Ominous (Uncommon). A skull adorns the top of the staff.
While you hold the staff, you can cast Chill Touch
, shedding Dim Light in a 5-foot radius.
Chattering (Rare). Several skulls fused together adorn the top of the staff.
When a creature you can see within 30 feet of you makes an attack roll, you can take a
Magic Items
Storm King's Thunder
) lightning damage. The bolt discharges from the mouth of one of the throne’s blue dragon skulls.
As an action, the creature can expend 2 charges to cast the globe of invulnerability spell from
the ground and is a massive thing made of polished obsidian with oversized feet — the impaled skulls of four ancient blue dragons. Runes glisten in the carved obsidian, winking to life with blue
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
Gray Wastes of Hades. Their gray, desiccated skin stretches over their bones, and their heads resemble horned equine skulls with ember-like eyes. Sages endlessly debate the nature of baernaloths, and
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Discover Secrets. The baernaloth uses Spellcasting to cast detect thoughts. A creature targeted by the spell cast in this way takes 13 (3d8);{"diceNotation":"3d8
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
high. Dim Light Eerie green light emanates from goat skulls embedded in the temple’s walls. These skulls cast Dim Light throughout the temple. Doors and Secret Doors Temple doors are unlocked and made
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Intelligence (Investigation) check to spot. Cast using a 9th-level spell slot, the glyph triggers the death effect (save DC 20) when any creature crosses over it. After the effect is triggered, ghostly skulls float above the area where the glyph is inscribed.
Magic Items
Acquisitions Incorporated
Head office grants you the use of a unique item known as an occultant abacus (sometimes just referred to as an occultant), whose beads resemble tiny skulls.
Read the Kill
Also at rank 1, your
within 5 feet of a creature killed within the past 24 hours, you can cast the augury spell. The course of action you inquire about with the spell does not need to have any connection to the dead creature
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Arcana Unleashed
This rod is made of intertwined, living plant stems. Budding (Uncommon). Multicolored leaves decorate the rod’s stems, and a few buds cluster near each end. While you hold the rod, you can cast
Druidcraft or Plant Growth (Overgrowth only) from it. Once the rod has been used to cast Plant Growth, it can’t be used to cast this spell again until the next dawn. While you hold the rod, as a Magic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
14. More Scrap Iron Light. Mounted to the diagonal walls at this intersection are four iron torch brackets with continual flame spells cast on them.
Scrap Iron. Heaped in the middle of the
intersection is a 9-foot-high pile of scrap iron.
Double Door. A 20-foot-tall double door blocks the hallway to the north. Leering skulls are carved around the door.
The scrap metal came from level 13
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
forces it to reveal the gate’s command word, which Halaster changes every few days. The skulls are otherwise hostile and refuse to answer questions put to them. 11f. Arcane Locked Doors Muiral has cast
four shambling mounds made entirely of skulls and bones, with these changes: The shambling mounds are undead. Instead of immunity to lightning damage, they have immunity to necrotic and poison damage
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
-ridden skulls. Carved into the lintel above the double door is a sconce sculpted to resemble a skeletal hand, with a continual flame spell cast in its palm.
Monsters. A pair of stalagmites flank the
before the adventurers and have greater invisibility spells cast on them. The drow and their two quasit companions try to remain hidden, allowing adventurers to move into Arcturiadoom ahead of them
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
lost and failed domains—among them, a tower like a blackened rose and a city of skulls—as well as timeless echoes of domains that yet exist. Those cast away amid this orderly apocalypse grow ever more desperate to defy the doomsday clock and the will of a hidden Darklord, the obsessed clockmaker named Klorr.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
in and doomed them. Amid the realm’s surreal skies float the ruins of lost domains—among them, a city of skulls, a realm overrun by dogs, and an array of bloody, iron arenas. Echoes of domains that
exist elsewhere in the Domains of Dread also drift here, including at least one duplicate of Castle Ravenloft. Those cast away amid this orderly apocalypse grow ever more desperate to defy the doomsday clock and the will of a hidden Darklord, the obsessed clockmaker named Klorr.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
determine what treasure is found. If the roll indicates no treasure, the characters find worthless pieces of bone jewelry instead. Goblin, grung, and su-monster skulls are piled around the statue’s base. A
with the power to cast the find the path spell as an action, no components required, by tracing the same path with his or her finger. Once used, this ability goes away. Once the statue has granted this benefit, it can’t do so again until the next dawn.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
tentacles entwining around and through bleached human skulls embedded in the stone.
Slime Pool. In the middle of the floor is a shallow oval pool filled with dark, foul-smelling slime. (The slime
(level 9) a few months ago to serve as her assistant, only to find him too obnoxious to bear. She cast a feeblemind spell on him and gave him to her mind flayer assistant, who promptly forced him to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
and Groin, two argumentative goblins with no affiliations of note, are scouring the dungeon for intact skulls to claim as trophies. Their constant bickering can be heard up to 60 feet away, and they
apprentice, even to the extent of pretending to cast spells. The guardian returned to this level after its wizard master perished while exploring level 4; the shield guardian’s amulet can be found there
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
4. Armory The armory door has an arcane lock spell cast on it. Officially, only Ras Nsi, Sekelok, and Fenthaza know the command phrase to bypass the spell (“white feather”). Speaking the command
25 Strength (Athletics) check. When the characters peer inside, read: Gleaming scimitars, serpent helms, and suits of scale armor cram the racks of this vault. Large bones and horned skulls litter
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3
adorned with skulls, with a gaping mouth wide enough to swallow a horse whole. It is seated atop a huge basin of red-hot coals, more than ten feet in diameter.
Around the statue is a pile of splintered
bones, skulls with cracked pates, and broken weapons. In front of the display crouches a panther, deathly still, facing away from the statue.
To the east the walls are highly polished. They loosely
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
.
The behirs were smashed to a pulp by Halaster’s stone golems, but their skulls and bones are mostly intact. One of Halaster’s stone golems was destroyed in the battle that took place here. Among its
first time a character approaches within 10 feet of the head, the source of the aura becomes apparent as a magic mouth spell cast on it says, in Ezzat’s voice and in Common: Down and down and down
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
skulls are piled around it. The seat of the throne appears to be made of stretched skin and has a metal scepter resting on it.
Shuffling about the sunken portion of the room are three gaunt
and bones of slain Omuan warriors, and the skulls of Omuan children are piled around it. The skull atop the throne once belonged to a minotaur guardian of Omu named Karagos. Any creature that touches
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
(created by magic) plays throughout. Doors to private chambers have arcane lock spells cast on them, and flying swords are mounted on the walls, ready to attack on Wakanga’s command. The occasional
floor rug or hanging rug might be a rug of smothering in disguise. Zhanthi’s villa is decorated with standing suits of gold-plated armor and large potted plants, and the bejeweled skulls of Zhanthi’s ancestors rest in wall niches. Map 1.2: Merchant Prince’s Villa View Player Version
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a7
this devil face is teleported to area 27A. Charred Remains. Strewn near the southeast corner is a heap of charred bones and skulls, plus the crisped and blackened remains of clothing and gear, arms
detecting character will get the vague feeling that the wish spell is involved in the gem’s magic. The gem is actually a cursed magic item. If any character touches it and attempts to cast a wish spell using
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
attack roll it makes before the end of its next turn.
Flameskull Skull Smoldering with Magical Obsession
Habitat: Underdark; Treasure: Arcana
Flameskulls are flying skulls that blaze with magical
for most components.
Flameskulls take various forms, from skulls with humanlike features to ones with fearsome or bestial alterations. Their flames vary in color and grow more intense when they’re
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Arcana Unleashed: Deadfall
Master’s Guide.) Lighting Sconces and braziers with Continual Flame spells cast on them illuminate the sanctum with green-tinted Dim Light. The exception is area Z13, where the green lava’s glow
Skulls JORDAN KERBOW Heroes prepare to confront the sarrukhs who guard an antechamber in Szass Tam’s sanctum. Two curved stairways rise five feet to a double door guarded by two serpentine warriors, one
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
6. Lair of the Mummy Lord These caves form the lair of a duergar mummy lord named Gorka Tharn. Characters who cast spells in these areas or disturb the features of the caverns awaken the mummy lord
moldy skulls (a mix of dwarf and duergar). A few fallen skulls rest on the cavern floor.
Shrine. A small chamber to the east contains a chipped stone altar with treasure piled around it. The wall
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Lower Level B10-B13 B10. Ossuary This dark, dead-end chamber holds a mound of charred bones, desiccated body parts, and skulls scattered across a linen sheet. Strange red-black runes mark the sheet’s
for the characters and ready to fight. If they have not been warned, the gricks remain alert but the cultists are distracted as they try to cast a spell under the cult fanatic’s watchful eye. Familiar
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Grimskalle Locations (G1-G7) The following locations are keyed to map 5.2. G1. Entrance The steps end in front of a double door made from slabs of ice with dragon skulls and bones embedded in them
. Carved into the lintel is a single word in the Dwarvish script.
The skulls and bones embedded in the doors belong to several young white dragons. Giants use the Dwarvish script as their written
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
other exits. Flaming Skulls. Most of the skulls are ordinary skulls with continual flame spells cast on them. However, four of the skulls are actually flameskulls. They attack if the prisoners in area W6
Skulls This chamber sits at the high point of this part of the fire node. Both passages leading into it (from area W2 and area W7) rise toward it at a thirty-degree angle. A bizarre play of multicolored
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
), whose beads resemble tiny skulls. Read the Kill Also at rank 1, your occultant abacus not only tracks your franchise’s kills, it helps you determine the impact of those kills on the franchise’s fate
within 5 feet of a creature killed within the past 24 hours, you can cast the augury spell. The course of action you inquire about with the spell does not need to have any connection to the dead creature
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
the skulls in his collection and draw on their shared knowledge. For a fee, Lothar can cast the speak with dead spell on any of his skulls, asking questions on the clients’ behalf. He also trades and
Bones: Lothar the Old (neutral, human priest). From the catacombs of Undersigil (detailed later in this chapter), Lothar gathers a macabre collection of skulls from various creatures, organizing them
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Ramya Vasavadan Darklord Perpetually Denied Control Camille Alquier “Are you loyal to your maharani? Or are you yet more rebel skulls to add to the Tower of Traitors?”
—Ramya Vasavadan
Ramya
, one creature Ramya can see within 120 feet. Failure: 21 (6d6) Psychic damage, and the target is cursed until the end of its next turn. Until the curse ends, the target can’t speak or cast spells with a Verbal component. Success: Half damage only.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
to the players: A dark tower looms on the horizon, its black spire rising hundreds of feet, its ramparts bristling with charred skulls mounted on iron spikes. The tower’s apex splits into five
and regains 1d4 + 4 expended charges daily at dawn. Arkhan can cast the following spells from the hand by expending the specified number of charges (spell save DC 18): finger of death (5 charges), sleep
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
into them. Ceilings. The ceilings are 10 feet high and gently curved and smoothed like the walls. Light. All areas are lit by continual flame spells cast on wall sconces. Scry-Proof. Any attempt to
inert in front of the northern exit to this chamber. Crude, articulated skulls of badlands wolves are attached to their heads. Both guards reek of death.
Y’demi created these horrifying Undead to guard
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
remains of a Humanoid. Mud-encrusted skulls protrude from the soil, with vegetation sprouting from their open jaws and eye sockets. As an action once per day, Granny Nightshade can raise eight
the pumpkin patch, three fat pumpkins burst open, and a giant poisonous snake slithers out of each of them. Granny Nightshade has cast an awaken spell on each of these snakes, giving it an Intelligence
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
ambassador (see area 21g) has been luring goblinoids into this building and implanting intellect devourers in their skulls. The chamber has the following features: Wreckage. The floor is strewn with wrecked
furniture and broken crates.
Goblins. Feeding on rats in the middle of the room are two goblins and a goblin boss, all with intellect devourers implanted in their skulls.
Brain-Dogs. Two more
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Arcana Unleashed: Deadfall
fiend skulls are destroyed, too.”
Highly educated, Captain Sharlei knows basic details about Zultan. She can share the information from “Zultan’s Sanctum” earlier in this chapter. She also can tell the
yours.”
Zultan cast the Magic Mouth spell on the statue. It triggers when a creature enters the room. The statue depicts Zultan. If the characters haven’t learned about the mage, a character can