Dungeon Master's Guide 5e

VICIOUS WEAPON

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ToME. o F

UNDERSTAND I N G

ToME o F CLEAR THOUGHT

CHAPTER 7 I TREASURE

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TEN T ACLE Ron

Rod, rare (requires attunement)

Made by the drow, this rod is a magic weapon that end_

in three rubbery tentacles. While holding the rod, you

can use an action to direct each tentacle to attack a

creature you can see within 15 feet of you. Each tentac ~

makes a melee attack roll with a +9 bonus. On a hit,

the tentacle deals 1d6 bludgeoning damage. If you hi t

a target with all three tentacles, it must make a DC 15

Constitution saving throw. On a failure, the creature's

speed is halved, it has disadvantage on Dexterity

saving throws, and it can't use reactions for 1 minute.

Moreover, on each of its turns, it can take either an

action or a bonus action, but not both. At the end of ea -

of its turns, it can repeat the saving throw, ending the

effect on itself on a success.

TOME OF CLEAR THOUGHT

Wondrous item , very rare

This book contains memory and logic exercises, and i~

words are charged with magic. If you spend 48 hours

over a period of 6 days or fewer studying the book's

contents and practicing its guidelines, your Intelligence

score increases by 2, as does your maximum for th at

score. The manual then loses its magic, but regains it ·..,

a century.

TOME OF LEADERSHIP AND INFLUENCE

Wondrous item , very rare

This book contains guidelines for influencing and

charming others, and its words are charged with

magic. If you spend 48 hours over a period of 6 days or

fewer studying the book's contents and practicing its

guidelines, your Charisma score increases by 2, as d~

your maximum for that score. The manual then loses i·-

magic, but regains it in a century.

TOME OF THE STILLED TONGUE

Wondrous item, legendary (requires attunement by a

wizard)

This thick leather-bound volume has a desiccated

tongue pinned to the front cover. Five of these tomes

exist, and it's unknown which one is the original. The

grisly cover decoration on the first tome of the stilled

tongue once belonged to a treacherous former servant

of the lich-god Vecna, keeper of secrets. The tongues

pinned to the covers of the four copies came from othe:-

spellcasters who crossed Vecna. The first few pages o'

each tome are filled with indecipherable scrawls. The

remaining pages are blank and pristine.

If you can attune to this ite m, you can use it as a

spellbook and an arcane focus. In addition, while

holding the tome, you can use a bonus action to cast a

spell you have written in this tome, without expend in

a spell slot or using any verbal or somatic component

Once used, this property of the tome can't be used agai::.

until the next dawn.

While attuned to the book, you can remove the tonguF

from the book's cover. If you do so, all spells written in

the book are permanently erased.