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Feats
Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
Dragonmark Feat (Prerequisite: Eberron Campaign, Can’t Have Another Dragonmark Feat)
You gain the following benefits.
Wild Intuition. When you make an Intelligence (Nature) or Wisdom (Animal
Handling) check, you can roll 1d4 and add the number rolled to the ability check.
Primal Connection. You always have the Animal Friendship and Speak with Animals spells prepared. You can cast each
Feats
Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
General Feat (Prerequisite: Level 4+, Mark of Handling Feat)
You gain the following benefits.
Ability Score Increase. Increase one ability score of your choice by 1, to a maximum of 20.
Improved
feet of your mount with a melee attack roll, your mount can take a Reaction to move up to its Speed or take the Attack action to make one attack only (your choice).
Subdue Animal. As a Magic action
Equipment
, depending on the whims of the creator: a musical clash, a whistling, a whirring, a buzzing, etc. This noise can be heard up to half a mile away.
A creature with an Intelligence score of 3 or less that is
creature who the Frightened creature can see or hear can attempt a DC 20 Wisdom (Animal Handling;Handle Animal) or Charisma (Persuasion) check. On a success, the Frightened condition ends on that creature.
feats
General Feat (Prerequisite: Level 4+, Intelligence 12+)
Ability Score Increase. Increase your Intelligence by 1, to a maximum of 20.
Animal Behaviour Expert. You have expertise in Animal Handling checks.
Bespoke Saddles. Creatures you tame gain +1 to their AC, attack rolls, and damage.
Wereraven
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monsters
Curse of Strahd
Mimicry. The wereraven can mimic simple sounds it has heard, such as a person whispering, a baby crying, or an animal chattering. A creature that hears the sounds can tell they are imitations with a
afflicted with lycanthropy. The following text applies to wereraven characters specifically.
A character cursed with wereraven lycanthropy gains a Dexterity of 15 if his or her score isn’t
feats
General Feat (Prerequisite: Level 4+, Strength or Dexterity 13+, Proficiency in Animal Handling)
You gain the following benefits.
Ability Score Increase. Increase your Strength or Dexterity score
feats
General Feat (Prerequisite: Level 8+, Strength 13+, Charisma 13+)
Ability Score Increase. Increase your Strength or Constitution by 1, to a maximum of 20.
“What a beauty!”. You have
Advantage on Animal Handling checks and Advantage on Unarmed Strike;Unarmed Strikes if you would Grapple a beast.
“Crikey!”. Any Large, Medium, or Small beast you are Grappling cannot select you as a target for its attacks.
Shifter
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Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
’s appearance might remind an onlooker of an animal, they remain clearly identifiable as shifters even when at their most feral.
Most shifters resemble a particular kind of lycanthrope. You can
race or of a fantastical race. If you select a fantastical race, follow these additional rules during character creation.
Ability Score Increases
When determining your character’s ability
classes
Player’s Handbook
: Animal Handling, Athletics, Insight, Investigation, Nature, Perception, Stealth, or Survival
Weapon Proficiencies
Simple and Martial weapons
Armor Training
Light and Medium armor and
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Ability Score Improvement
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Extra Attack
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Roving
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classes
Basic Rules (2014)
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Whether calling on the elemental forces of nature or emulating the creatures of the animal world, druids are an embodiment of nature’s resilience, cunning, and fury. They claim no mastery over
animals—the power of tooth and claw, of sun and moon, of fire and storm. Druids also gain the ability to take on animal forms, and some druids make a particular study of this practice, even to the
classes
Player’s Handbook
Choose 2: Acrobatics, Animal Handling, Athletics, History, Insight, Intimidation, Persuasion, Perception, or Survival
Weapon Proficiencies
Simple and Martial weapons
Armor Training
Light
Fighter Subclass
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Ability Score Improvement
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Extra Attack, Tactical Shift
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Ability Score Improvement
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Subclass feature
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classes
Basic Rules (2014)
fierce animal spirits. Others draw from a roiling reservoir of anger at a world full of pain. For every barbarian, rage is a power that fuels not just a battle frenzy but also uncanny reflexes
violated, or a coup that removed you from a position of authority.
QUICK BUILD
You can make a barbarian quickly by following these suggestions. First, put your highest ability score in Strength
feats
General Feat (Prerequisite: Level 4+)
You gain the following benefits.
Ability Score Increase. Increase your Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
Primal Magic. Choose
two of the following spells: Animal Friendship, Entangle, Goodberry, or Speak with Animals. You always have those two spells and the Barkskin spell prepared. You can cast each of these spells without
classes
Player’s Handbook
: Animal Handling, Athletics, Intimidation, Nature, Perception, or Survival
Weapon Proficiencies
Simple and Martial weapons
Armor Training
Light and Medium armor and Shields
Starting
Defense, Weapon Mastery
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Danger Sense, Reckless Attack
2
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Barbarian Subclass, Primal Knowledge
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4
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Ability Score Improvement
3
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classes
Player’s Handbook
Core Druid Traits
Primary Ability
Wisdom
Hit Point Die
D8 per Druid level
Saving Throw Proficiencies
Intelligence and Wisdom
Skill Proficiencies
Choose 2: Animal Handling
.
Druids are concerned with the delicate ecological balance that sustains plant and animal life and with the need for people to live in harmony with nature. Druids often guard sacred sites or watch over
feats
Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
Epic Boon Feat (Prerequisite: Level 19+, Eberron Campaign)
You gain the following benefits.
Ability Score Increase. Increase one ability score of your choice by 1, to a maximum of 30.
Aberrant
Suggested Dragonmark
Animal Shapes
Handling
Control Weather
Storm
Demiplane
Making
Heroes' Feast
Hospitality
Maze
Warding
Mind Blank
Sentinel
Plane Shift
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 2, and one other ability score of your choice increases by 1. Wild Intuition. When you make a Wisdom (Animal Handling) or Intelligence (Nature) check, you can roll a
level, you can target a beast or monstrosity when you cast animal friendship or speak with animals, provided the creature’s Intelligence score is 3 or lower. Spells of the Mark. If you have the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
Wisdom score increases by 2, and one other ability score of your choice increases by 1. Wild Intuition. When you make a Wisdom (Animal Handling) or Intelligence (Nature) check, you can roll a d4 and
, you can target a beast or monstrosity when you cast animal friendship or speak with animals, provided the creature’s Intelligence score is 3 or lower. Spells of the Mark. If you have the Spellcasting or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata
Orc Traits (p. 120) In the Ability Score Increase trait, the text has changed to read “Your Strength score increases by 2 and your Constitution score increases by 1.” The adjustment to Intelligence
has been removed. The Alignment trait has been removed. The Menacing trait has been replaced with the following trait: Primal Intuition. You have proficiency in two of the following skills of your choice: Animal Handling, Insight, Intimidation, Medicine, Nature, Perception, and Survival.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Spider
9 Turtle
10 Whale
Animal Lord Medium Celestial, Neutral
AC 19 Initiative +19 (29)
HP 323 (34d8 + 170)
Speed 60 ft., Fly 60 ft. (hover), Swim 60 ft.
Ability Score
Sage Animal Lord Appearances 1d10 Bestial Shape
1 Coyote
2 Crow
3 Elephant
4 Lizard
5 Mouse
1d10 Bestial Shape
6 Owl
7 Salmon
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Magic Items
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
access to privileged places in its guild’s headquarters and outposts. At the DM’s discretion, a character might be given a keyrune upon attaining a renown score of 25 in their guild
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Gruul Keyrune (Rare). This crude keyrune is cobbled together from bits of rubble, broken glass, bone, and animal hair. One end resembles a horned beast. On command, the keyrune transforms into a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Almiraj Any character with a passive Wisdom (Perception) score of 12 or higher spots 1d6 almiraj (see appendix D) 60 feet away. The almiraj run from any creature that they can see within 30 feet of
them. Any character who successfully traps an almiraj can use an action to make a DC 14 Wisdom (Animal Handling) check. If the check succeeds, the almiraj becomes calm and doesn’t attack the character or run away unless it feels threatened or is harmed.
Actions
Make a Charisma (Deception, Intimidation, Performance, or Persuasion) or Wisdom (Animal Handling) check to alter a creature's attitude.With the Influence action, you urge a monster to do something
Influence Checks table suggests which ability check to make based on how you're interacting with the monster. The DM chooses the check, which has a default DC equal to 15 or the monster's Intelligence score
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
lycanthropy appears as its normal self. Over time, however, many lycanthropes acquire features suggestive of their animal form. In that animal form, a lycanthrope resembles a powerful version of a normal
animal. On close inspection, its eyes show a faint spark of unnatural intelligence and might glow red in the dark. Evil lycanthropes hide among normal folk, emerging in animal form at night to spread
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Orc Traits An orc character has the following racial traits. Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 2, and your Constitution score increases by 1. Age. Orcs reach adulthood at age
the following skills of your choice: Animal Handling, Insight, Intimidation, Medicine, Nature, Perception, and Survival. Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Orc.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Gnome Subrace: Mark of Scribing If you’re a gnome with the Mark of Scribing, you have this subrace, with the following traits. Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score increases by 1. Gifted
comprehend languages, illusory script 2nd animal messenger, silence 3rd sending, tongues 4th arcane eye, confusion 5th dream
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
Mark of Scribing Traits If you’re a gnome with the Mark of Scribing, you have this subrace, with the following traits. Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score increases by 1. Gifted Scribe. When
languages, illusory script
2nd animal messenger, silence
3rd sending, tongues
4th arcane eye, confusion
5th dream
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
penetrates, of vast plains where grains and wildflowers wave in the wind with vibrant life. The plane embodies nature’s wildness and beauty, but it also speaks to the animal within all living creatures—not
necessarily in a fierce, predatory way but with respect to their physical substance and fundamental needs. The spirits of the dead on the Beastlands typically take animal forms or part-animal forms (such
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Bulette Bulettes range under vast territories. They often threaten animal herds, and they can wipe out whole farming communities. Bulette Large Monstrosity, Unaligned
AC 17 Initiative +0 (10)
HP
94 (9d10 + 45)
Speed 40 ft., Burrow 40 ft.
Ability Score Mod Save
Str 19 +4 +4
Dex 11 +0 +0
Con 21 +5 +5
Ability Score Mod Save
Int 2 −4 −4
Wis 10
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
)
Speed 30 ft.
Ability Score Mod Save
Str 11 +0 +0
Dex 12 +1 +1
Con 11 +0 +0
Ability Score Mod Save
Int 13 +1 +1
Wis 14 +2 +2
Cha 12 +1 +1
, requiring no Material components and using Wisdom as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 12):
At Will: Animal Friendship (snakes only)
2/Day: Suggestion
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
30 ft. (snake form only)
Ability Score Mod Save
Str 16 +3 +3
Dex 14 +2 +2
Con 13 +1 +1
Ability Score Mod Save
Int 14 +2 +2
Wis 16 +3 +3
Cha 12
components and using Wisdom as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 13):
At Will: Animal Friendship (snakes only)
2/Day: Suggestion
Bonus Actions
Shape-Shift. The yuan-ti shape-shifts into a Medium
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
races—a reason for the monstrous races to be used in a campaign with care. Bugbear Traits Your bugbear character has the following racial traits. Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by
2, and your Dexterity score increases by 1. Age. Bugbears reach adulthood at age 16 and live up to 80 years. Size. Bugbears are between 6 and 8 feet tall and weigh between 250 and 350 pounds. Your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
, Chaotic Neutral
AC 17 Initiative +7 (17)
HP 82 (15d8 + 15)
Speed 40 ft.
Ability Score Mod Save
Str 12 +1 +1
Dex 18 +4 +7
Con 12 +1 +1
Ability Score Mod Save
Frames 1d8 The Scarecrow Is Made From...
1 Animal furs, bones, horns, and claws.
2 Beehives or wasp nests over a wicker frame.
3 A carved pumpkin atop a body of thick vines
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
threats. Druid Medium or Small Humanoid, Neutral
AC 13 Initiative +1 (11)
HP 44 (8d8 + 8)
Speed 30 ft.
Ability Score Mod Save Str 10 +0 +0 Dex 12 +1 +1 Con 13 +1 +1 Ability Score Mod
spellcasting ability (spell save DC 13):
At Will: Druidcraft, Speak with Animals
2/Day Each: Entangle, Thunderwave
1/Day Each: Animal Messenger, Longstrider, Moonbeam
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Second Wind (1 use) 3rd +2 Improved Critical 4th +2 Ability Score Improvement 5th +3 — 6th +3 Extra Attack (1 extra) 7th +3 Battle Readiness 8th +3 Ability Score Improvement 9th +4 — 10th +4 Improved
Defense 11th +4 Indomitable (1 use) 12th +4 Ability Score Improvement 13th +5 — 14th +5 Ability Score Improvement 15th +5 Extra Attack (2 extra) 16th +5 Ability Score Improvement 17th +6 — 18th +6