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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
As a Magic action, you can throw this staff so that it lands in an unoccupied space within 10 feet of you, causing the staff to become a Giant Constrictor Snake in that space. The snake is under your
location. Absent commands from you, the snake defends itself.
As a Bonus Action, you can command the snake to revert to staff form in its current space, and you can’t use the staff's property again
Monsters
Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
Multiattack. The inquisitive makes three Crooked Staff attacks. It can replace one attack with a use of Inquisitive Eye.
Crooked Staff. Melee Attack Roll: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4", "rollType":"to
hit", "rollAction":"Crooked Staff"}, reach 5 ft. Hit: 6 (1d8 + 2);{"diceNotation":"1d8+2", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Crooked Staff", "rollDamageType":"Bludgeoning"} Bludgeoning damage. If
Magic Items
Legendary Magic Items
This walking stick has a brilliant gemstone fitted at the top. This staff has 4 charges and regains 1d4 expended charges daily at dawn.
As an action, you can expend 1 charge from the staff to create
portal can appear on a moving surface, but the effect ends when the two portals move more than 1 mile apart. As a bonus action while holding the staff, you can close both portals (ending the effect) or
Magic Items
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
staff’s charges as a bonus action, causing the target to expend one spell slot of the highest spell level it can cast without casting a spell. If the target has already expended all its spell
The Blackstaff is a sentient, rune-carved staff set with thin silver veins. It is the symbol of office for the Blackstaff, the highest-ranking wizard in Waterdeep. As the rightful owner of the
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
staff; when the ulitharid is ready to give up its life, it attaches the staff to the back of its head, and the staff cracks open its skull, enabling its brain to be extracted. The brain and the staff
are then planted in the ulitharid’s corpse, causing it to dissolve into ichor. This psionically potent slime helps to fuel the transformation of the area into a brine pool for the embryonic elder brain.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Staff of the Python Staff, Uncommon (Requires Attunement) As a Magic action, you can throw this staff so that it lands in an unoccupied space within 10 feet of you, causing the staff to become a
command, such as to attack your enemies or guard a location. Absent commands from you, the snake defends itself. As a Bonus Action, you can command the snake to revert to staff form in its current space
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Staff of the Python Staff, Uncommon (Requires Attunement) As a Magic action, you can throw this staff so that it lands in an unoccupied space within 10 feet of you, causing the staff to become a
command, such as to attack your enemies or guard a location. Absent commands from you, the snake defends itself. As a Bonus Action, you can command the snake to revert to staff form in its current space
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Legendary Magic Items
Hither-Thither Staff Staff, Legendary This walking stick has a brilliant gemstone fitted at the top. This staff has 4 charges and regains 1d4 expended charges daily at dawn. As an action, you can
expend 1 charge from the staff to create two linked teleportation portals, each one appearing on a flat surface of your choice that you can see within 1,500 feet of yourself. Alternatively, you can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Blackstaff Staff, legendary (requires attunement by the Blackstaff heir, who must be a wizard) The Blackstaff is a sentient, rune-carved staff set with thin silver veins. It is the symbol of office
for the Blackstaff, the highest-ranking wizard in Waterdeep. As the rightful owner of the Blackstaff, Vajra Safahr is the only one who can become attuned to it. The staff can, however, choose a new
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
true riches of Fortune’s Wheel: the arcanaloth’s trove of secrets. Staff and Visitors The Platinum Rooms are staffed by approximately a dozen lawful evil tieflings who use the assassin stat block. They
politely mingle amid the gambling areas, facilitating betting and fetching visitors refreshments. This staff is directed by Colcook, Shemeshka’s personal aide, who oversees the Platinum Rooms from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
The Solitaire Cracks At some point before the end of the adventure, the Far Realm entity finally breaks free of the shard solitaire, causing it to crack like a walnut. Here are some suggestions for
, and its presence can no longer be felt. The extradimensional energy released from the stone has the same effect as a staff of power’s Retributive Strike property, centered on the stone itself. The
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->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
you’re a folk hero, did you deal with a thug causing trouble in your favorite tavern—earning you the gratitude of the owner and the enmity of the villain? This is a collaborative process and the goal is
staff member (“The bartender is an old dwarf named Clanky; he’s got a prosthetic arm.”). It might be something about the food, or about events hosted at the location (“Once a week, the local mediums hold
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
from the lost property wagon. In a rare moment of anger, Dirlagraun snatches the ball back with a snarl and a flick of its tentacle, causing Viro to dash away in fright. Unable to leave the younger boy
, Dirlagraun advises against confronting the carnival owners directly. Instead, the displacer beast suggests that the characters sneak into the Staff Area behind the Big Top and spy on them.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
the School of Transmutation. Marambra Nyghtsteel is a striking woman with long auburn hair and an empty, distant gaze. She wears a black robe and holds a staff topped with a rune. A successful DC 10
close …” If the portrait is repaired using a mending cantrip or similar magic, the image appears to come alive momentarily. Within the portrait, Jhesiyra removes the ring from her finger, causing the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
committed to causing trouble. Kettlesteam uses disguise self to assume whatever form best enables her to mingle in crowds. Characters can encounter Kettlesteam in more than one location; if they corner her
staff has been instructed by Mister Witch and Mister Light to ignore them. These thieves possess a preternatural awareness of who is a carnival worker and who is a ticket-carrying visitor. Every night
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
as a cloaked woman wielding a dagger in each hand and the other showing Halaster Blackcloak clutching a staff. The statues glare at one another like mortal enemies.
Shadow Dragon Umbraxakar is a Huge
checks are needed to rid the dragon of his despair, whereupon he dismisses any remaining undead under his command, causing them to vanish and never return. His spirits lifted by the characters’ gifts
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
or delicate movements. A housekeeper named Damien takes care of the cooking and cleaning. He is a constructed commoner and the only full-time staff member in the manor, although some local villagers
have been drafted to serve as waiters during the party in the ballroom (see “Quill’s Party” later in the adventure). Renekor’s presence is slowly warping the demiplane, causing these servants to shift allegiance, becoming loyal and obedient to the beholder rather than to Quill or the Harpers.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
, enabling its brain to be extracted. The brain and the staff are then planted in the ulitharid’s corpse, causing it to dissolve into ichor. This psionically potent slime helps to fuel the
.
Psychic Infiltrators. When an elder brain infiltrates a mind, it alters the creature’s perception and deceives its senses, causing it to see, hear, touch, taste, or feel reality according to the elder
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
anyone into the palace.
A gnome adventurer acquires
the shard solitaire necklace and a key
belonging to Paliset Hall’s head of staff The four winter wolves are soon joined by the two winter
reciting the rhyme, “Neither gleaming sword nor magic tome can soothe the soul like hearth and home.” This rhyme is known to Zorhanna, Eliphas, the winter wolves, and Paliset Hall’s staff. The fey
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
within. The Hourglass Coven’s thieves slip in and out of the tent as they desire, and most of the carnival staff prefer to give the attraction a wide berth, believing it to be jinxed or haunted
causing mischief throughout the carnival and sometimes uses magic to conceal her true form. If the characters agree to help Candlefoot, he performs a few delightful magic tricks for their amusement
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
her workers. The café has a high staff turnover. Hall of Order The Hall of Order is a three-story government building that features three twisting pillars of intricately arranged gears. Inside the
position and has the “impostor” arrested. Serafil’s disheveled secretary beseeches the characters for aid. 3 A chaotic evil quadrone tampers with the street numbers at night, causing widespread gridlock
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
keyhole magically appears on the door’s surface. Turning the key clockwise in the keyhole unlocks both carriage doors and animates the glass pegasi, causing them to stamp their hooves impatiently
tables, dressers, and bunks for the palace staff. Five goblins are frozen in place like statues, caught in the mundane chores of ironing clothes, darning socks, and folding sheets. A row of brass bells
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
missing skulls were taken by kobold vampire spawn and placed in area H20. Terrible psychic trauma lingers in this cave, causing any creature that enters it to feel intensely hungry, even after leaving
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->Curse of Strahd
that they join him in the next festival as special guests and asks that they tell everyone that all will, indeed, be well. The Baroness and Baron Two members of the baron’s household staff have vanished
Grygorovich, father of the wolf hunter Szoldar Szoldarovich (area N2). N3f. Servants’ Quarters This room contains four simple beds and an equal number of plain wooden trunks. The household staff
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
. Thunderwing was Xanthoria’s friend until the druid’s mind became twisted by the influence of Zuggtmoy, causing Xanthoria to conduct grisly experiments on living creatures. Thunderwing is one of
into each other’s eyes. Treasure. Once the undead behirs are dealt with, characters who search the cave thoroughly find Xanthoria’s staff of the woodlands leaning against a wall in the eastern alcove
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sleeping Dragon’s Wake
-headed, rune-covered staff, which is taller than her. She is the current Blackstaff and Archmage of Waterdeep. Lady Aribeth de Tylmarande is a half-elf depicted wearing plate armor emblazoned with
sticks out of the cave floor. When an intruder crosses the bridge, the wood woad pulls the lever. As an action, a creature that can reach the lever can pull it, causing the bridge to suddenly part in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
trellis table has been knocked on its side. A large empty cabinet dominates the back wall. This laboratory has been picked clean by Manshoon and contains nothing of value. K12. Staff Display This room
contains the following features: A half-dozen staffs of various styles are hung proudly on the walls at the top of the landing. A staircase descends to area K8. Staffs. Each staff is different in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
everything inside and outside it, causing the area to appear empty from the outside. From the inside, the mirrors block the eyes of Savras, preventing Valin from looking within. The magic mirrors that
large pile of clear, crystalline gems fills one corner of this room, gleaming in the light given off by the walls. Hovering in the middle of the room are three objects: a six-foot-long staff made of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rrakkma
sacred statue, the eidolon can disappear, causing the statue to become a creature under the eidolon’s control. The eidolon uses the sacred statue’s statistics in place of its own.
Turn Resistance. The
damage; no creature can take this damage more than once per turn. The seer takes 5 (1d10) force damage if it ends its turn inside an object.
Actions
Multiattack. The seer makes two comet staff
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
quick to lose my temper.”
Kettlesteam the Kenku
CHAPTER 1: WITCHLIGHT CARNIVAL
Kettlesteam delights in causing trouble at the carnival. She uses a combination of mimicry and conjured
the two of us, long ago. Perhaps that streak of violence hasn’t quite left me.”
Mister Witch
CHAPTER 1: WITCHLIGHT CARNIVAL
Mister Witch is businesslike and humorless as he deals with staff
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
staircase, causing mayhem in area V1. While it rampages, the creature uses the allosaurus stat block, with these changes: The animatronic allosaurus is a Construct. It is immune to poison and psychic
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
. “I’m quick to lose my temper.”
Kettlesteam the Kenku
CHAPTER 1: WITCHLIGHT CARNIVAL
Kettlesteam delights in causing trouble at the carnival. She uses a combination of mimicry and conjured
staff and keeps the carnival running on schedule. A smile on his visage is a rare event, and it fades quickly.
Mister Witch dresses with panache, though in muted tones, and always carries his magic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
valuables and gear. Some are the fallen members and staff of the Fellowship of the Golden Mongoose. Others are innocent bystanders the operatives of the Six came across as they moved toward the manor from
open with a successful DC 10 Strength check. However, if the check succeeds by 5 or more, the door breaks, causing the character attempting the check to spill into the room and fall prone. When the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
creatures and traps within the pyramid All the maze’s exits, including those in this room Where Amun Sa’s staff and star-gem are kept (areas P67 and area P68, respectively) The mummy lord Nafik (see
pendulum’s rope, causing the blade to sweep down at them. It then attempts to shove creatures into the blade’s path. Pendulum. If the rope securing the pendulum is cut, the blade swings down toward the door