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The Necronomicon

Wondrous Item

Legendary Requires Attunement

Undead Summoning. Reading this text gives you an almost unrivaled knowledge of undead creatures. By using an action, you can summon any undead creature of a challenge rating at least one below your current level with the minimum possible maximum hit points for that creature. After a long rest, you choose a list of undead creatures you wish to have prepared to summon; you cannot summon creatures in which you do not have prepared. Only a certain amount of creatures may be summoned per day and all currently summoned creatures must be of different challenge ratings. All summoned creatures vanish at the next dawn or when reduced to 0 hit points.   The amount of creatures you may have prepared and the amount you can summon per day increase as you level up; those stats go as follows:
Level Summons Prepared Summons per Day
1st 1 1
2nd 2 2
3rd 2 2
4th 2 2
5th 3 2
6th 3 2
7th 4 2
8th 4 2
9th 5 2
10th 5 3
11th 5 3
12th 6 3
13th 6 3
14th 6 3
15th 7 3
16th 7 3
17th 7 4
18th 8 4
19th 8 4
20th 8 4
Creatures you summon consider you to be their master, the author of the book being the only one superior. As a bonus action, any creature summoned will obey any commands given to them by you. If no commands are given in a turn, the creature will continue performing its previous command or will take the dodge action if no previous command was given, or if the previous command has been completed. Creatures summoned by you can be banished as a bonus action, immediately removing them from the current plane of existence.   Destroying the Necronomicon. The Necronomicon can only be used once permission to read it has been explicitly given by its author, Satan himself. If permission has not been granted, and a creature attempts to purposefully read the book, they must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw of DC 20. On a failed save, the creatures mind is tortured as they envision themselves being dragged through Hell. They are incapacitated until the start of their next turn and take 2d10 2d10 psychic damage. If a character has been given permission to read the book, then they must deal at least 500 points of radiant damage within the span of 1 round to destroy it. Only those with permission can make attempts to destroy the tome with radiant damage.

A book whose cover and binding seems to have been made from the face of a long-dead person. The book features many notes and scribbles within the pages, mostly written in Latin. Being a spellbook created by Satan himself, it is one of the most powerful tomes in history due to the amount of information about Undead creatures stored within the tome.

Cost: Priceless
Weight: 3 lbs


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