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This is a time you can either let those shadows swallow you down and keep falling into a hole, or you can use them to your advantage. You can become a champion.

Laura Bailey as Vex'ahlia, Critical Role: Episode 48 (1:32:15)

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To live is to struggle against the void. But it’s those moments of darkness that define the joy of the world around them. Learn from the loss and push forward as a beacon of perseverance, of hope for life after pain.

Matt Mercer, Critical Role: Episode 46 (3:11:12)

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Every Book & Tome in D&D 5E

Before I share some of my own bookish homebrew items, let’s take a look at some of the official books and tomes in D&D 5th edition, many of which are from the recently released Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything. I guess even the greatest wizard in the history of the multiverse began with studying spellbooks, right?

A-Z of Every Book & Tome in 5th Edition

Arcane Grimoire (Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything)

Alchemical Compendium (Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything)

Astromancy Archive (Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything)

Atlas of Endless Horizons (Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything)

Book (Player’s Handbook)

Book of Exalted Deeds (Dungeon Master’s Guide)

Book of Shadows (Player’s Handbook)

Book of Vile Darkness (Dungeon Master’s Guide)

Crystalline Chronicle (Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything)

Demonomicon of Iggwilv (Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything)

Duplicitous Manuscript (Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything)

Elder Cartographer’s Glossography (Acquisitions Incorporated)

Enduring Spellbook (Xanathar’s Guide to Everything)

Fulminating Treatise (Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything)

Grimoire Infinitus (Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount)

Libram of Souls and Flesh (Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything)

Manual of Bodily Health (Dungeon Master’s Guide)

Manual of Gainful Exercise (Dungeon Master’s Guide)

Manual of Golems (Dungeon Master’s Guide)

Manual of Quickness of Action (Dungeon Master’s Guide)

Planecaller’s Codex (Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything)

Spellbook (Player’s Handbook)

The Codicil of White (Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden)

The Incantations of Iriolarthas (Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden)

Tome of Clear Thought (Dungeon Master’s Guide)

Tome of Leadership and Influence (Dungeon Master’s Guide)

Tome of Strahd (Curse of Strahd)

Tome of the Stilled Tongue (Dungeon Master’s Guide)

Tome of Understanding (Dungeon Master’s Guide)

I compiled this list at 2:00am, so if I have missed any, please let me know.

BONUS!

Swarm of Books (Waterdeep: Dragon Heist)

Medium swarm of Tiny constructs, unaligned

Armor Class 12

Hit Points 22 (5d8)

Speed 0 ft., fly 30 ft.

STR       DEX         CON         INT        WIS          CHA

5 (-3)     15 (+2)     10 (+0)     2 (-4)     12 (+1)     4 (-3)

Damage Resistances bludgeoning, piercing, slashing

Condition Immunities charmed, frightened, grappled, paralyzed, petrified, prone, restrained, stunned

Senses Blindsight 60 ft., Passive Perception 11

Languages --

Challenge 1/4 (50 XP)

Swarm. The swarm can occupy another creature's space and vice versa, and the swarm can move through any opening large enough for a Tiny book. The swarm can't regain hit points or gain temporary hit points.

Actions

Slam. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 0 ft., one creature in the swarm's space. Hit: 5 (2d4) bludgeoning damage, or 2 (1d4) bludgeoning damage if the swarm has half of its hit points or fewer.

Stat Block for Dungeon Masters

Stat Block made using The Homebrewery

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Tome of Slaps

*slaps module* this bad boy can fit so mu-

*module slaps back*

The result of a funny conversation in my D&D group chat and 30 seconds of sketching in the Notes app.

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Bought my first official Chessex dice set this week from a gaming store in town.

I like to think they’re reminiscent of the classic Windows BSoD. Perfect for when my D&D brain has a system crash and I’m left scrambling through all my notes.

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[Void Card, 2021]

I’m making replica cards from the Deck of Many Things for my local D&D group as gifts. Here is my first card illustration, based on the official deck designed by William O’Connor. I really love the antique, tarot deck style that he used.

Deck of Many Things (Dungeon Master’s Guide)

Wondrous Item, legendary

The Void

This black card spells disaster. Your soul is drawn from your body and contained in an object in a place of the DM's choice. One or more powerful beings guard the place. While your soul is trapped in this way, your body is incapacitated. A wish spell can't restore your soul, but the spell reveals the location of the object that holds it. You draw no more cards.

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Ring of Frostbite (Cursed)

Ring, uncommon

A simple golden band that resizes to fit snugly on the finger of its wearer. A thin layer of frost coats the outside of the ring, which normal heat can't melt. The ring feels ice cold to the touch and numbs the hand that wears it. While wearing the ring, you suffer similar effects to that of Extreme Cold.

You must succeed on a DC 10 Constitution saving throw at the end of each hour or take 1d6 cold damage.

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[Tentacles, 2018]

Evard's Black Tentacles (Player’s Handbook)

4th-level conjuration

Squirming, ebony tentacles fill a 20-foot square on ground that you can see within range. For the duration, these tentacles turn the ground in the area into difficult terrain.

When a creature enters the affected area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, the creature must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take 3d6 bludgeoning damage and be restrained by the tentacles until the spell ends. A creature that starts its turn in the area and is already restrained by the tentacles takes 3d6 bludgeoning damage.

A creature restrained by the tentacles can use its action to make a Strength or Dexterity check (its choice) against your spell save DC. On a success, it frees itself.