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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
known on many worlds as a sign of death.
Beneficial Properties. While the staff is on your person, you gain the following benefits:
Your proficiency bonus to Intelligence (Arcana) and Intelligence
Monsters
Tomb of Annihilation
Special Equipment. Acererak carries the Staff of the Forgotten One. He wears a talisman of the sphere and has a sphere of annihilation under his control.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Acererak
effect on itself on a success.
Staff. Melee Weapon Attack: +11;{"diceNotation":"1d20+11","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Staff"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d6 + 4);{"diceNotation":"1d6
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
":"Master of the Grave"} hit points whenever it starts its turn there.
Unusual Nature. The skull lord doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.Multiattack. The skull lord makes three Bone Staff or
Deathly Ray attacks.
Bone Staff. Melee Weapon Attack: +8;{"diceNotation":"1d20+8", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Bone Staff"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3);{"diceNotation
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Multiattack. The nagpa makes three Staff or Deathly Ray attacks. It can replace one attack with a use of Spellcasting.
Staff. Melee Weapon Attack: +8;{"diceNotation":"1d20+8","rollType":"to hit
","rollAction":"Staff"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 9 (2d6 + 2);{"diceNotation":"2d6+2","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Staff","rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage plus 24 (7d6
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
lair, and a former shrine to Sune has become a prison for the cursed elf. The main bathhouse looks exactly as Sylvarie built it, and it continues to provide services to visitors. Most of the staff of
the bathhouse are the coven’s wicked minions in disguise, but also here are an undercover Harper agent, a water spirit, and a cursed kobold—all potential allies who can reveal the coven’s malicious machinations. Azirssa, Greensong, and Morganna
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
: Bossy Papazotl urges his host to order another character to walk the length of the circular hall. Wise Shagambi warns her host that the staff held by the fallen wizard might be cursed. Mirror Tomb The
-goat creature in robes sprawls ten feet to the north. It grips a staff tipped with a bronze goat’s head.
The curving corridor forms a perfect circle, imbued with magical gravity that keeps creatures
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
people and cursed them, holding high his two royal implements—the Staff of Ruling (see appendix A) and the star-gem of Mo-Pelar (a Gem of Seeing). He invoked the gods and decreed that if his people
your staff and star-gem from your tomb. Only then will your spirit and the land be healed.” Centuries later, Amun Sa’s spirit still roams the desert, cursed to wander the dunes until he finds mortals skilled enough to overcome the traps and perils in his tomb and put his soul to rest.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
captains and bound them in groups of three, fusing them into undead abominations cursed to fight among themselves for all time. Since the first skull lords were exiled into shadow, others have joined
lord makes three bone staff attacks.
Bone Staff. Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3) bludgeoning damage plus 14 (4d6) necrotic damage.
Legendary Actions
The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
groups of three, fusing them into abominations cursed to fight among themselves for all time. Since the first skull lords were exiled into the shadows, others have arisen, typically created from other
.
Actions
Multiattack. The skull lord makes three Bone Staff or Deathly Ray attacks.
Bone Staff. Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3) bludgeoning damage plus 21 (6d6
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
cursed them and this land.
“With my dying breath, the curse was fulfilled, but my soul was cursed as well. I am doomed to walk these sands until a mortal soul retrieves the implements of my power
from my tomb: my magic staff and the star-gem of Mo-Pelar. Only then will the curse be lifted, freeing my soul and healing this broken land.
“Many have tried, and none have succeeded. If you undo my
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
, Common, Draconic, Dwarvish, Elvish, Giant, Infernal, Primordial, Undercommon
Challenge 23 (50,000 XP)
Special Equipment. Acererak carries the Staff of the Forgotten One (see Appendix C). He wears a
, ending the effect on itself on a success.
Staff (+3 Quarterstaff). Melee Weapon Attack: +11 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 7 (1d6+4) bludgeoning damage plus 10 (3d6) necrotic damage, or 8 (1d8+4
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
Nagpa Long ago, the Raven Queen cursed a cabal of powerful wizards for meddling in a ritual that would have helped avert a war between the gods. She transformed them into the scabrous, birdlike
Actions
Multiattack. The nagpa makes three Staff or Deathly Ray attacks. It can replace one attack with a use of Spellcasting.
Staff. Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 9
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
the statistics of a human noble. His menace manifests in the form of psychological manipulation, making others doubt reality, and causing victims to overestimate his control. Cursed Correspondence. Ivan
. Those unable to escape are eventually forced to don the ludicrous livery of the Dilisnya household staff and become Ivan’s new servants. Closing the Borders. Ivan can close or open Borca’s borders
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
victims to isolated spots and then leave the hapless souls to the designs of whatever horrors lurk there. Creatures that are drawn through the shadows by meazels are cursed by the meazels’ baleful magic
.
Any other creature the meazel teleports becomes cursed by shadow for 1 hour. Until this curse ends, every undead and every creature native to the Shadowfell within 300 feet of the cursed creature can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
the cult honored Vecna by using a cursed ceremonial dagger to twist the souls of St. Cuthbert’s faithful killed on the Marshal into warriors of the Maimed God meant to assault Saltmarsh. The dagger
is hidden somewhere in the wreck. Saltmarsh Story Hook. Eliander Fireborn asks the characters to investigate the matter, offering 300 gp if they neutralize the threat and recover the dagger. Cursed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
voice and focuses on the business of running the bathhouse. Dread Morgan knows the ritual needed to bind a creature’s desire to a cursed painting, which is recorded on a tiny scroll hidden in a bone
jovial voice, and she promotes physical strength and good health. Vile Sazha knows how to create a suitable canvas for the hags’ cursed paintings. This secret is tattooed on her withered arm in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
repurposing cursed or dangerous items as elements of traps or obstacles in its lair, especially if such an item emits an ongoing effect that it can suppress as needed with its antimagic cone. A trophy
treat it as clutter. Circumstances might change the role of a piece of treasure — a staff of the python used to prop up a stone block trap might be given as a gift if the beholder acquires a minion who can attune the item.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
town of cobblestone streets and simple buildings clustered around a colorless hill. Cursed farmlands lie beyond the town. Blightsteel Keep The archlector rules from an unyielding steel fortress on a
and maintains the keep and its staff. It’s an open secret that Alorio covets the throne, but he isn’t above groveling to support his illusion of loyalty. Plague-Mort isn’t the first town founded on the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
an expression of horror. The traveler wears a bag of devouring on a strap. Dryad Spirits. Three cursed dryad spirits (use the banshee stat block to represent them) approach the characters and demand
fail to satisfy them, the three spirits attack. Shambling Mounds. Three shambling mounds arise from the brambles and attack the characters. Thorn Trap. The characters spot a hawthorn staff entangled
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
in that area must make a DC 14 Charisma saving throw. On a failed save, the target takes 26 (4d12) necrotic damage and is cursed for 1 minute. While cursed in this way, the target takes an extra 6
(1d12) necrotic damage whenever the eater of hope hits it with an attack. On a successful save, the target takes half as much damage and isn’t cursed.
(TYLER JACOBSON) Nightmare Shepherd A nightmare
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
. Once it supported a troop of templars, but it was largely abandoned during the war and now maintains a minimal staff. The priest, Mazin Tana, is a faithful servant of the Silver Flame and will provide
, damaged during the war or thought to be cursed or haunted. 10 A shuttered tavern, which is a failed business tied to the family of one of the adventurers. 11 If one of the adventurers is a noble, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
to chronomancy, the art of magically manipulating time. Activating the Obelisk. If the characters retrieved Iriolarthas’s staff of power and Veneranda is with them, she insists that the staff be used
staff’s charges to accomplish. If a creature attuned to the staff uses an action to expend 10 or more of its charges while touching the staff to the obelisk, power surges from the staff and triggers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
express interest in restoring Ythryn to its former glory, he laments, “Many powerful minds have tried.” If the characters mention Veneranda’s plan to use Iriolarthas’s staff of power and the obelisk
studies the star field sees a strange phenomenon: a dark star in a position where no known star exists today. This character now risks being cursed with a foreboding sense of doom. At the end of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Tongue” sidebar), which Professor Skant can translate if necessary. Its words are as follows: “Cursed be those who gaze upon the horror that Drakareth has become. Such promise wasted, lost in this
dead mage’s hands is a staff of charming fashioned out of chardalyn suffused with evil Netherese magic. Anyone who attunes to Drakareth’s staff gains the following flaw, which supersedes any
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
corridor. P14b. A +1 Warhammer lies near a heavy plank door in this clear stretch of corridor. P14c. A tiny ring made of fine silver lies on the floor in the center of this corridor. The ring is a cursed
, and opinions. While cursed in this way, the wearer is unwilling to part with the ring. A Remove Curse spell or similar magic breaks the curse. P14d. Characters who have a passive Wisdom (Perception
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
their agents to sell them algae. As the characters start to hire franchise staff at the end of this episode, this is a perfect opportunity to set up how staff members can conduct franchise business with
can choose a living humanoid within 5 feet of it once per day, making a Charisma check contested by the target’s Charisma check. If the cursed victim wins, the curse transfers to the new target. If
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
and pedicure station with nail files, clippers, and bottles of nail varnish.
The lounge is watched over by two members of the staff, who serve drinks to the guests and perform other mundane tasks
, fruits, nuts, and salted meat. When the characters first enter this area, one scarecrow disguised as a humanoid staff member (see “Coven Minions” earlier in the adventure) is present, sorting supplies
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
residence, attended by a loyal staff and a private garrison of twenty veterans. Moonlord Daviana Yalrannis (CG female Tethyrian human knight) is the master of the tower, charged with its defense and upkeep
. A powerful Harper wizard named Krowen Valharrow (CG male Turami human archmage with a robe of useful items and a staff of fire) also resides in the tower, along with dozens of domesticated tressym
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
(see appendix B), corrupted their souls and cursed them with undeath. For each hour the party spends on this floor, roll a d6. On a roll of 1, an encounter occurs. To determine what the characters
, looking to retrieve his staff and star-gem. Encounter with a Mummy. Five days ago, Uma and her companions cornered a mummy garbed in tattered high priest’s robes near a waterfall not far from here (see
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
Predators exhibit were found. The placards dismiss local legends that claim the excavators were subsequently cursed. Treasure. A character who studies the exhibit and succeeds on a DC 10 Wisdom
cluttered with crystal and silver tableware. Against the east wall, a light-green stone rests atop a marble pedestal.
Two guards patrol this area. Staff members plan to remove the tables and restore the