Monster Lore
This aberration is known for devouring the dreams of mortals and resembles a tapir-like creature.
What is a Baku?
This infamous wizard became a lich, later a god of secrets, and has only one eye and hand remaining.
Who is Vecna?
This sword has a hunger for souls and grants extra necrotic damage when you slay a creature.
What is a Sword of Life Stealing?
She is the current goddess of magic in most official D&D settings.
Who is Mystra?
This is the maximum number a d20 roll can naturally display.
What is 20?
The Tarrasque has this legendary resistance to magic, making it immune to most spells of this level or lower unless it wishes otherwise.
What is spells of 8th level or lower?
This god is said to have created the Tablets of Fate.
Who is Ao?
This deck of cards can cause instantaneous wealth, ruin, or banishment to another plane.
What is the Deck of Many Things?
This school of magic focuses on teleportation and dimensional manipulation.
What is Conjuration?
According to 5e rules, the only skill proficiency that can add to Initiative rolls is this one (if you have the right feat or feature).
What is Stealth via the Alert feat?(or explicitly, “Dexterity (via features)”)
This fiendish lord is known as the Prince of Undeath.
Who is Orcus?
This is the name of the time period when magic became wild and unpredictable after Mystra’s death.
What is the Time of Troubles?
This artifact is required to open the Black Gate in Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus.
What is the Shield of the Hidden Lord?
The 9th-level spell that allows you to rewrite reality itself.
What is Wish?
When making a spell attack in 5e, there are exactly this many circumstances listed in the PHB that can grant advantage without homebrew or DM fiat. Name two.
What is six circumstances — examples include invisible attacker, target blinded, target restrained, target paralyzed, target prone (within 5 feet for melee spell attacks), and target unconscious.
This dragon type is known for having the deadliest breath weapon damage dice in the Monster Manual.
What is an Ancient Red Dragon?
This island prison is where the goddess Waukeen was held captive during the Time of Troubles.
What is Carceri?
This staff contains the essence of a dead god of magic and was destroyed by Elminster to prevent disaster.
What is the Staff of the Magi?
This arcane disaster occurs when a wizard attempts to cast magic in the Far Realm.
What is Maddening Arcana / Far Realm Cataclysm?
In 5e, this is the total number of conditions that can affect a creature, as listed in the PHB and DMG.
What is 15?
These creatures are said to be the “larval form” of demon lords, formed when mortal souls are twisted into pure chaotic evil.
What are manes?
This city was destroyed by the spell Karsus’s Avatar, leading to the fall of Netheril.
What is Karsus’s Enclave / Netheril’s floating city of Karsus?
This axe, once wielded by the dwarven god Moradin’s chosen, can summon an earth elemental once per day.
What is Whelm?
Before Mystra’s current incarnation, her predecessor’s death in 1385 DR caused this cataclysm that shattered the Weave and altered magic across all Toril. Name the event and the goddess who died.
What is the Spellplague, and the goddess Mystra (Midnight)?
This is what happens, in exact rules order, when a creature affected by both Haste and Slow enters an Antimagic Field in 5e.
What is “Both effects are suppressed simultaneously; the creature loses the benefits and penalties immediately, but the Haste ‘lethargy’ still triggers, causing the creature to lose its action on its next turn”?