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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Tarokka Deck and Spirit Board Ravenloft has a tradition of adventures featuring setting-specific props and memorable, set-piece encounters. Such atmospheric scenes immerse players in an experience
unique to the Land of the Mist. Two fateful tools used in such encounters are detailed here, the tarokka deck and spirit board. Consider including these mystery-steeped props in your own Ravenloft adventures, or use them as inspiration to create other immersive experiences.
Spells
Player’s Handbook
You call forth an aberrant spirit. It manifests in an unoccupied space that you can see within range and uses the Aberrant Spirit stat block. When you cast the spell, choose Beholderkin, Mind Flayer
.
Aberrant Spirit
Medium Aberration, Neutral
AC 11 + the spell’s level
HP 40 + 10 for each spell level above 4
Speed 30 ft.; Fly 30 ft. (hover; Beholderkin only)
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
a deep appreciation for the culture and art of humanoid societies.
Spirit dragons find even the most commonplace melodies moving. A song written in the time and region from which a spirit dragon
conditions, a spirit dragon wyrmling might hatch from the egg. Left to its own devices, a wyrmling wanders the ruins that the dragon originated from.
Spirit Dragons
Spirit dragons, sometimes called
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
it arose. Spirit dragons share an innate intellectual curiosity, and many have a deep appreciation for the culture and art of humanoid societies.
Spirit dragons find even the most commonplace
minute, it succeeds automatically.Curious and self-confident, young spirit dragons can cause trouble for a region’s other denizens, by either unleashing long-buried evils or misusing scarcely
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
spirit dragon’s primary motivation is to unearth and study the ruins of the ancient realm from which it arose. Spirit dragons share an innate intellectual curiosity, and many have a deep
":"Bludgeoning"} Bludgeoning damage, and the target has the Prone condition. Failure or Success: The dragon can’t take this action again until the start of its next turn.An adult spirit dragon
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
primary motivation is to unearth and study the ruins of the ancient realm from which it arose. Spirit dragons share an innate intellectual curiosity, and many have a deep appreciation for the culture and
action again until the start of its next turn.Ancient spirit dragons have outgrown the petty concerns of the current age. After centuries of studying the culture and beliefs of an ancient empire, a
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
disastrous confrontations with enemies of her temporary allies, she’s elected to keep her personal lair secret. Deep within her lair is a hidden reading room where she usually keeps her spirit gem
Legendary Resistance (4/Day or 5/Day in Lair). If Valindra fails a saving throw, she can choose to succeed instead.
Spirit Gem. If destroyed, Valindra re-forms in 1d10;{"diceNotation":"1d10
monsters
Curse
1/Day Each: Greater Restoration, Raise Dead, Scrying, Spirit Guardians (level 8 version)The mysterious fortune teller Madam Eva shrouds herself in a carefully woven web of lies. Though she
the Land of the Mists. Few can rival her skill at interpreting omens, reading tarokka cards, or taming spirits during séances. While the fortunes she shares might have double meanings, they&rsquo
Adult Deep Dragon
Legacy
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Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
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An adult deep dragon craves the knowledge stored in an aboleth;aboleth's nearby lair.
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A spirit naga desperately wants to claim the key to a mysterious underground door from the hoard
. The poisoned creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.Making their lairs in the depths of the Underdark, deep dragons are
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
not only in strategy and tactics but in the glorification of the warrior's spirit, the basis of an ethos that forges an unbreakable bond between members of a military unit. In combat, hoplites
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Ephara's Shield
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Kindred of the Deep
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Riders of Heliod
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Keepers of Pyrgnos
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The Skysworn
Summon Aberration
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Spells
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
You call forth an aberrant spirit. It manifests in an unoccupied space that you can see within range. This corporeal form uses the Aberrant Spirit stat block. When you cast the spell, choose
, use the higher level wherever the spell’s level appears in the stat block.
Aberrant Spirit
Medium aberration
Armor Class 11 + the level of the spell (natural armor)
Hit Points 40 + 10 for
Backgrounds
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
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Feywild Visitor
Whenever you’re sound asleep or in a deep trance during a long rest, a spirit of the Feywild might pay you a visit, if the DM wishes it. Determine the spirit’s form by
Charlatan
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Backgrounds
Player’s Handbook (2014)
world. But their true selves are sometimes plagued by an uneasy conscience, an old enemy, or deep-seated trust issues.
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Personality Trait
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I fall in and out of love easily, and am
Ideal
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Independence. I am a free spirit—no one tells me what to do. (Chaotic)
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Fairness. I never target people who can’t afford to lose a few coins. (Lawful)
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Monsters
Candlekeep Mysteries
Zikzokrishka hid her phylactery deep within the Scimitar Spires, a mountain range to the east of the necropolis of Azumar. If the characters defeat her, Zikzokrishka uses her phylactery to rematerialize
, having long ago prepared a dragon’s corpse to house her spirit upon its return to the phylactery.Lair Actions. On initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties) whenever she is in the are V3
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live a rough and tumble life that leaves them full of determination and recklessness, either from overconfidence or desperation. In a fight, they channel this strength of character to dig deep and
Score Improvement, Dig Deep
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Down But Not Out
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Shifter
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Species
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Geth’s ancient heritage rose up from deep within him, spreading out from the core of his being. Some shifters manifested terrible claws, others massive fangs, still others astounding speed or
personality: a feline shifter may be cool and distant, driven by predatory instincts, while a shifter with a lupine spirit might be drawn to find and protect a pack. When a shifter fully embraces this beast
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Mist Talismans: Broken holy symbol, religious relic, symbol of the Circle
Aligned Tarokka Card: Torturer
Opposed Tarokka Card: Broken One
Pam Wishbow For the knights of the Shadowlands
by the spirit-stalked Phantasmal Forest. Many knights of the Circle view themselves as inheritors of a legacy of shame. They aspire to the heroism of their storied ancestors and battle to absolve
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
number on both dice, you can ignore the number and choose any effect on the table. SPIRIT TALES
Storytellers, like bards of the College of Spirits, often give voice to tales inspired by some greater
Bard: College of Spirits Bards of the College of Spirits seek tales with inherent power—be they legends, histories, or fictions—and bring their subjects to life. Using occult trappings, these bards
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Spirit Medium After a fateful experience, you believe you’re aligned with spirits and can serve as a conduit for their insights and goals. You have advantage on any Arcana or Religion check you make
to remember or research information about spirits and the afterlife. Additionally, you begin your adventuring career with a custom-made device for communing with otherworldly forces, perhaps a spirit
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Spirit Board Spirit boards are tools to contact and divine the will of spirits or other mysterious forces. Upon placing their fingertips on a planchette set atop the board, assembled users feel
(see chapter 3), and feature half-understood images from their occult studies and Barovian lore. These markings include symbols from the tarokka deck, which carry the same meanings as they do upon
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
, and how they see the world. But their true selves are sometimes plagued by an uneasy conscience, an old enemy, or deep-seated trust issues.
d8
Personality Trait
1
I fall in and out
value.
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Ideal
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Independence. I am a free spirit—no one tells me what to do. (Chaotic)
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Fairness. I never target people who can’t afford to lose a few coins
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
in the art of stone singing can alter the pitch of the vibrations emitted by the individual stones, creating an effect similar to an assemblage of harp-playing bards. When the characters initially
come here, a deep gnome named Garra Songstone is playing the crystals for an appreciative audience of 3d4 deep gnome children (noncombatants).
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
the greatest bards and philosophers to partake in “the Great Dialogue” in the dragon’s mountaintop lair. But only the dragon knows that the Great Dialogue has no end, and no one can
spirit of their glacier home. Such worship amuses and flatters the dragon, who keeps the hunters safe and leads them to locations where seals are plentiful.
Crystal Dragon Lairs
Crystal dragons
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Legends of Dayawlongon Ancient belief states that all life on Dayawlongon is born from the spoken words of a poet goddess—known as Kamatayang-Langit—from which comes the people’s deep reverence for
poetry and song. This is why every community has one or more binukots, bards who serve as living repositories of art, culture, custom, and law. The death of a binukot can result in the loss of
Species
Acquisitions Incorporated
world.
THAT-WHICH-ENDURES
That-Which-Endures is a nameless, faceless, mysterious entity, something between a multiverse-spanning primordial spirit and an over-god. It represents the amoral and all
the color of any verdan’s hair, skin, and eyes can transform from their original jade tones to pale white, deep ebon, or any other shade in between. A verdan’s ears also undergo numerous
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
. Through devices such as tarokka decks and spirit boards, he reveals the histories and intentions of spirits. An overzealous priest detects the undead presence hovering near Rudolph van Richten and
the circle of kind souls in van Richten’s orbit have kept him engaged over the years. Erasmus is a unique spirit. His behavior and rare appearances mark him as a thoughtful, art-loving teenager. He
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata
effect that calls for a damage roll (including Magic Missile) even if the damage roll is not preceded by an attack roll. Which Spell Scrolls can Bards understand—spells from the Bard list only, or
the Cleric, Druid, and Wizard lists, a Bard must have that spell prepared via Magical Secrets for it to count as a Bard spell. For example, if a Bard has a Spell Scroll of Spirit Guardians (a spell
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
, and bards and rogues certainly have a place on the plains. Outlander is a logical background, but you could easily be a bold folk hero, a dashing entertainer, or a clever charlatan. You could even be an
urchin who was stranded in a great city at a young age and adapted to hunting in this stone jungle. Surrounded by Spirits. Fey, fiends, the ghosts of ancestors; these are all part of the spirit world
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
gathered their forces and retreated into shelters deep within the earth, determined to preserve their civilization until the Empire could finally be restored. After thousands of years, their
, or druids. Their focus is on martial excellence, and their spiritual leaders are bards, who tell tales of past glory. Among the Dhakaan, goblinoids work together. Hobgoblins are the strategists and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Coastal Creatures CR Creatures 1/8 Dolphin 1/4 Dimetrodon, tortle 1/2 Skulk 1 Sea spawn 2 Quetzalcoatlus, tortle druid 3 Deep scion, dolphin delighter, merrenoloth, swashbuckler, vampiric mist 5
Kraken priest 8 Canoloth, shoosuva 9 Flind, lonely sorrowsworn 10 Stone giant dreamwalker 11 Balhannoth, morkoth, spirit troll 12 Eidolon, frost giant everlasting one, ki-rin 13 Wastrilith 16 Storm giant quintessent 17 Blue abishai, nagpa 20 Leviathan 23 Elder tempest
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
The Heirs and the War The Last War caused the Heirs of Dhakaan to finally stir and emerge from their deep vaults. They recognize that humanity has been weakened by its self-inflicted wounds. The rise
worship gods, and no clerics or paladins are among them. The Kech Volaar have picked up some of the elven traditions of wizardry, and all clans have bards known as duur’kala (dirge singers), but in general the Dhakaani don’t rely on magic on the battlefield.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Zikzokrishka’s Phylactery Zikzokrishka hid her phylactery deep within the Scimitar Spires, a mountain range to the east of the necropolis of Azumar. If the characters defeat her, Zikzokrishka uses
her phylactery to rematerialize, having long ago prepared a dragon’s corpse to house her spirit upon its return to the phylactery. She relentlessly seeks them out, using all her evil ingenuity to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
College of Spirits (Bard) Call Forth Spirits from Beyond the Grave Ignatius Budi College of Spirits Bard Bards of the College of Spirits conjure legendary spirits to change the world. But such
Inspiration die, you can call forth the powers of a random spirit. To determine the spirit you channel, roll the Bardic Inspiration die and refer to the Spirits from Beyond table. The spirit remains channeled
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour
JUSTINE CRUZ Aberrant Spirit (Beholderkin) You call forth an aberrant spirit. It manifests in an unoccupied space that you can see within range and uses the
Aberrant Spirit stat block. When you cast the spell, choose Beholderkin, Mind Flayer, or Slaad. The creature resembles an Aberration of that kind, which determines certain details in its stat block. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
imparts the following information: Grave Theft. Two halflings dug up his grave in the dead of night and stole his Canaith mandolin (an instrument of the bards). Frody wants it back. (“It was a gift
,” he says.) The mandolin has a name: Golden Axe. Halfling Robbers. The grave robbers’ names were Mackerel and Trout. Frody’s waking spirit could hear the halflings talking to each other as they broke