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Tome of Understanding

RarityVery Rare

Price for DM reference

DMG rarity value: 40,000 GP.

Item / variant Rarity Purchase value Basis
Tome of Understanding Very Rare 40,000 GP DMG rarity value.

These are book-based values for setting a purchase price when the item is available, not a promise that a merchant stocks it. Availability and negotiated payment remain the DM’s decision.

Pricing sources: DMG 2024, PDF page 220 — source PDF is not included in this player reference.

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  • Item type: Wondrous Item
  • Rarity: Very Rare

Description and use

Wondrous Item, Very Rare This book contains intuition and insight exercises, 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 Wisdom increases by 2, to a maximum of 30.

The manual then loses its magic, but regains it in a century.

Printed core rules

Source page references in your supplied Dungeon Master's Guide (2024). Open the original PDF at the linked page for complete printed tables and rules; use its wording if the searchable transcription differs.

PDF page 320

Open the original rulebook — PDF page 320 — source PDF is not included in this player reference.

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Weight

Weight per inventory unit: Not fixed / not specified

No fixed weight specified in the supplied item reference; set the actual item weight.

Counts multiply by inventory quantity. Ammunition quantities count individual pieces; other bundle entries and complete packs use the printed bundle weight. Do not add the same contents separately when using a complete equipment pack. See Carrying capacity for character limits.

Curse of Strahd

Original campaign references: Tome of Understanding