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Moonblade

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

accepted by the weapon and try to attune to it, you become attuned to it instantly, and a new rune appears on it. You remain attuned to the weapon until you die or the weapon is destroyed. A Moonblade

functions like a nonmagical weapon of its kind for anyone other than its chosen bearer. A Moonblade has one rune on it for each bearer it has willingly served (typically 1d6 + 1). The first rune grants a

Eye and Hand of Vecna

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

with a weapon held by it deals an extra 2d8 Cold damage on a hit. Spellcasting. The hand has 8 charges and regains 1d4 + 4 expended charges daily at dawn. You can cast a spell on the Hand of Vecna

Concentration required), demanding that you commit an evil act. The hand might have a specific act in mind or leave it up to you. Hand of Vecna Spells Spell Charge Cost Finger of Death 5

Hill Giant Avalancher

Monsters Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

Hill Rune. The giant has a hill rune inscribed on a rock or some other object in its possession. While holding or wearing the object bearing the rune, the giant can use its Stone Avalanche action and

Hill Rebuff reaction. The object bearing the rune has AC 15; 20 hit points; and immunity to necrotic, poison, and psychic damage. The object regains all its hit points at the end of every turn, but

Delver's Claws

Magic Items Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

The back of this weatherworn leather glove is adorned with three large metal hooks shaped like a mole’s claws. Stitched into the glove’s palm is the mountain rune. The glove is

considered a simple melee weapon with the finesse and light properties, and it deals 1d4 slashing damage on a hit. While attuned to the glove, you gain a burrowing speed equal to your walking speed and

Lash of Immolation

Magic Items Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

The handle of this dark leather whip bears the fire rune, and embers dance around the whip’s tail. You gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this weapon, and on a hit, the whip

deals an extra 1d6 fire damage. When you score a critical hit with an attack using this whip, the target also has the restrained condition until the start of your next turn, as fiery bands lash around

Mind Blade Legacy

Magic Items Volo's Guide to Monsters

Mind flayers can turn any nonmagical sword into a mind blade. Only one creature can attune to it: either a specific mind flayer or one of its thralls. In the hands of any other creature, the mind

blade functions as a normal sword of its kind. In the hands of its intended wielder, the mind blade is a magic weapon that deals an extra 2d6 psychic damage to any target it hits.

Conch of Teleportation

Magic Items Storm King's Thunder

This item is an ordinary, albeit rather large, conch shell that has been inscribed with the uvar rune. The conch measures 2½ feet long and weighs 20 pounds. As an action, you can cast the

teleport spell by blowing into the shell. The destination is fixed, and there is no chance of either a mishap or the spell being off target. Anyone teleported by the conch appears in a specific location

Gavel of the Venn Rune

Magic Items Storm King's Thunder

This wooden gavel is small by giant reckoning but nearly the size of a warhammer in human hands. The venn (friend) rune is inscribed in mithral in the base of the haft. Among giants, this item is

within 60 feet of that point deals damage to another creature with an attack that hits, the attacker takes psychic damage equal to half the damage it dealt to the target. Once you use this property

Opal of the Ild Rune

Magic Items Storm King's Thunder

This triangular fire opal measures about three inches on each side and is half an inch thick. The ild (fire) rune shimmers within its core, causing it to be slightly warm to the touch. The opal has

much fire to extinguish in that radius. Gift of Flame. You can transfer the opal’s magic to a nonmagical item — a weapon or a suit of armor — by tracing the ild rune there with your

Keg Robot

Monsters Acquisitions Incorporated

"} rounds and deals 3 (1d6);{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType":"damage","rollDamageType":"fire"} fire damage to any creature that enters the area for the first time on a turn or ends its turn there.This beer

, including the ability to be filled with a variety of substances of use to an adventuring party. Specific models are nominally named for their primary function, including “ambulatory fermenter,” “mobile

Wyrmreaver Gauntlets

Magic Items Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

Originally crafted for ground-bound giant brawlers to fight against dragons and other enormous predators of the sky, these studded gauntlets are engraved with the dragon rune. While you are wearing

these gauntlets, your unarmed strike deals an additional 1d6 force damage on a hit. Additionally, whenever you finish a long rest, choose one of the following damage types: acid, cold, fire, lightning

Sling Bullets of Althemone

Magic Items Mythic Odysseys of Theros

Fulguration. On a hit, this bullet deals an extra 2d8 lightning damage to its target. All other creatures within 10 feet of the target must each succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or take 1d8 thunder

damage. 3 Stunning. On a hit, this bullet deals an extra 1d10 force damage, and the target is stunned until the end of your next turn. 4 Tracking. A creature that takes damage from this

Geryon

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

. The target must succeed on a DC 21 Wisdom saving throw or become restrained for 1 minute. The target can end the effect on itself if it deals any damage to one or more of its allies. Regional Effects

–6). As a reaction when this creature takes damage, it can roll a d10 and subtract the number rolled from the damage. Geryon (Variant);VARIANT: SOUND THE HORN Geryon can have an action that

Geryon Legacy

Monsters Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes

target must succeed on a DC 21 Wisdom saving throw or become restrained for 1 minute. The target can end the effect on itself if it deals any damage to one or more of its allies. Geryon casts the

. If Geryon dies, these effects fade over the course of 1d10;{"diceNotation":"1d10","rollType":"roll"} days. VARIANT: SOUND THE HORN Geryon can have an action that allows him to summon enslaved

Moonblade Legacy

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

hit on a roll of 19 or 20. 91–92 When you hit with an attack using the moonblade, the attack deals an extra 1d6 slashing damage. 93–94 When you hit a creature of a specific

new rune appears on the blade. You remain attuned to the weapon until you die or the weapon is destroyed. A moonblade has one rune on its blade for each master it has served (typically 1d6 + 1). The

Staff of the Forgotten One

Magic Items Tomb of Annihilation

This crooked staff is carved from bone and topped with the skull of a forgotten archmage whom Acererak destroyed long ago. Etched into the skull’s forehead is Acererak’s rune, which is

you harm them. You can wield the staff as a quarterstaff, +3;+3 quarterstaff that deals an extra 10 (3d6) necrotic damage on a hit. Invoke Curse. The Staff of the Forgotten One has 7 charges and

Dullahan Legacy

monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

with advantage. If the attack hits, but is not a critical hit, the attack deals an extra 27 (6d8);{"diceNotation":"6d8","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Head Hunt","rollDamageType":"necrotic

a specific location their battlefield. This gives rise to stories of haunted battlegrounds, ruins, roads, river crossings and other strategic locations where a dullahan continues a terrifying

Returned Palamnite

Monsters Mythic Odysseys of Theros

Fleeting Anger. If another creature deals damage to the Returned, the Returned makes attack rolls with advantage until the end of its next turn. Turn Resistance. The Returned has advantage on saving

. They think and speak and even feel emotions based on their new experiences, but given their circumstances, those emotions tend to be muted. VARIANT: RETURNED KAKOMANTIS Although the dead typically

Ancient Time Dragon

Monsters Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse

creatures have resistance to all damage it deals. On a successful save, the creature takes half as much damage only. A weakened creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending

dragons can create temporal gates connected to specific times and places in the multiverse. Using these, they and allied creatures can travel anywhere in time to affect fate-determining moments or to banish

Spell Scroll Legacy

Magic Items Basic Rules (2014)

copied. Whether the check succeeds or fails, the Spell Scroll is destroyed. VARIANT: SCROLL MISHAPS A creature who tries and fails to cast a spell from a spell scroll must make a DC 10

Intelligence saving throw. If the saving throw fails, roll on the Scroll Mishap table. Scroll Mishap d6 Result 1 A surge of magical energy deals the caster 1d6 force damage per level of

18. Cold Storage

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

rune’s magic lowers the room’s temperature to 0 degrees Fahrenheit. When a spell is cast in this room (including one cast from a magic item), the giant rune flashes and deals 36 (8d8) cold damage to

18. Cold Storage The Melairkyn dwarves used this chamber for cold storage. Halaster has turned it into a trap. The room has the following features: Cold. The room is bitterly cold. Glowing Rune

Rewards

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything

Rewards Adventures in a shared campaign that uses variant rules for gaining levels and acquiring treasure (such as those described below) don’t include experience point awards or specific amounts and kinds of treasure.

Opal of the Ild Rune

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder

Opal of the Ild Rune Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement) This triangular fire opal measures about three inches on each side and is half an inch thick. The ild (fire) rune shimmers within its

ild rune there with your finger. The transfer takes 8 hours of work that requires the two items to be within 5 feet of each other. At the end, the opal is destroyed, and the rune appears in red on the

Star Spawn Seer

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

star spawn hulk;star spawn hulks. Not only is a hulk a powerful combatant, but when a seer deals psychic damage to a hulk, the hulk isn’t hurt, and the effect ricochets off and expands to assault

who serve that cult, including star spawn. The following powers are unique to specific cults; typically a creature has only one. Cult of Atropus, the World Born Dead Gaze of Corruption (Recharge

Chapter 5: Backgrounds

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide

characters in a Forgotten Realms campaign, many of them specific to Faerûn or to the Sword Coast and the North in particular. As in the Player’s Handbook, each of the backgrounds presented here provides

proficiencies, languages, and equipment, as well as a background feature and sometimes a variant form. For personality traits, ideals, bonds, and flaws, most of the backgrounds in this chapter use a thematically similar background in the Player’s Handbook as their foundation.

Claw of the Wyrm Rune

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder

the spell being off target. Anyone teleported by the conch appears in a specific location designated by the item’s creator at the time the uvar rune is inscribed on the conch. It doesn’t allow

Claw of the Wyrm Rune Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement) This dragon’s claw has been covered with a coat of molten silver, upon which has been inscribed the wyrm (dragon) rune. The claw has

Draconic Races

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

section offers three variant dragonborn race options that can be used to create a character with clear connections to a specific draconic ancestry. When you’re making a new character using one of these races, use the rules under “Creating Your Character” to fill out the details.

Hill Giant Avalancher

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

Hill Giant Avalancher Hill giants who master rune magic discover a close connection to the natural forces of earth and stone. Their magic, combined with their size and strength, helps them quickly

Throws Str +9, Con +8, Wis +8 Skills Nature +7, Perception +8 Senses passive Perception 18 Languages Common, Giant Challenge 12 (8,400 XP) Proficiency Bonus +4 Hill Rune. The giant has a

Gavel of the Venn Rune

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder

Gavel of the Venn Rune Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement) This wooden gavel is small by giant reckoning but nearly the size of a warhammer in human hands. The venn (friend) rune is inscribed

surface. The first time in the next minute that a creature within 60 feet of that point deals damage to another creature with an attack that hits, the attacker takes psychic damage equal to half the

27. Mark of Death

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

sarcophagus draped in cobwebs. Its lid is carved to resemble a giant bat with folded wings. (The sarcophagus contains a vampire.) Floating above the vessel is a magic rune that glows as bright as a candle

flame. A character who understands Dwarvish recognizes the glowing, magical rune as a dwarven symbol of death (identical to the one inscribed on the door to area 14a). The first time a creature

Sling Bullets of Althemone

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros

affected by the banishment spell. 2 Fulguration. On a hit, this bullet deals an extra 2d8 lightning damage to its target. All other creatures within 10 feet of the target must each succeed on a

DC 15 Constitution saving throw or take 1d8 thunder damage. 3 Stunning. On a hit, this bullet deals an extra 1d10 force damage, and the target is stunned until the end of your next turn. 4

Build Your Group

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

the house than with the specific roles in the party. Consider some or all of these roles for your characters: Adventurer. Some characters are associated with your patron house because of their

might have a wide range of abilities, particular to whatever needs the House has at the time. Many with peculiar skills or highly specific fields of expertise find themselves in the employ of

1. On Your Mark! Get Set! Go!

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

fireball spell (save DC 22) when a creature lands on the pit floor. The fireball is created using a 7th-level spell slot, engulfs all creatures in the pit, and deals 42 (12d6) fire damage on a failed

Destination 1–12 The teleport trap in area 10 13–18 The teleport trap in area 19 19–20 The teleport trap in area 40c Additional Effect: Elder Rune. The first time a creature triggers this teleport

32. Graduation Chamber

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

stained with pools of dry blood. Altar. An 8-foot-high, rune-etched stone altar is situated in an alcove. It’s topped with a life-size statue of a dagger-wielding githyanki warrior slaying a mind flayer

, and carved out their own kingdom on the Astral Plane under the rulership of Vlaakith the Lich-Queen. The altar conveniently omits any mention of the githzerai, but specific mention is made of Gith

Variant Abilities

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

Variant Abilities When a beholder’s dream-imagination runs wild, the result can be an offspring that has an unusual or unique set of abilities. Rather than the standard powers of a beholder’s central

eye and eyestalks, the creature has one or more variant abilities — guaranteed to surprise any enemies who thought they knew what they were getting themselves into. This section provides several

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