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Marvelous Marionette

Added 2025-04-15 14:35:06 +0000 UTC

Wondrous item, very rare

A humanoid puppet hangs from the wooden handle of this marionette. It has 10 charges and regains 1d6 + 4 expended charges daily at dawn. While holding the handle and controlling the puppet, you can use an action to expend 1 of its charges to choose a humanoid that you can see within 60 feet of you. That creature must make a DC 15 Charisma saving throw or become charmed by you, as if by the dominate person spell. This version of the spell doesn't require you to mentally give the creature a command. Instead, you must immediately puppet the marionette (as part of expending the charge) in such a way that it resembles the command's intent. The effect ends at the end of your next turn unless you use an action to use this property again, in which case the target has disadvantage on the saving throw; the effect ends early if the marionette is used to charm a different creature.

Each time the marionette charms a creature, the puppet's appearance changes to match it.

Let's see who's really pulling the strings, shall we?