back barely defusing continual receive

Half-Elf Legacy

Species Basic Rules (2014)

Flint squinted into the setting sun. He thought he saw the figure of a man striding up the path. Standing, Flint drew back into the shadow of a tall pine to see better. The man’s walk was

friends and loved ones age while time barely touches them. Others live with the elves, growing restless as they reach adulthood in the timeless elven realms, while their peers continue to live as

Archaic

Monsters Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

to warp the fabric of the world around them. Sages who seek out archaics for their knowledge receive confusing and often contradictory answers to questions. If a supplicant successfully unwinds the

tangle, the answer they seek is revealed. In truth, archaics are the reincarnated souls of the oracles of Strixhaven. When an oracle dies, their soul travels back through time to the explosion of magic

Venom Troll

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

wound they receive. Trolls Trolls that are nearly obliterated but survive and regenerate from mere scraps of flesh can display bizarre features. Radically transformed trolls like the rot troll

and uncontrollably fears the plots and ambitions of other deities. Vaprak’s troll worshipers believe this god devours the souls of those who have been cooked or digested (slain by fire or acid). Otherwise, the god spits the soul back into the world to regenerate a new body.Poison

Yuan-ti Nightmare Speaker

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

exchange for power in the mortal world. These priests receive nightmarish visions from Dendar that they interpret as prophecies, and they then use their magic and influence to make these visions come true

the purpose of acquiring more victims and enjoy the company of Undead.PoisonChange Shape. The yuan-ti transforms into a Medium snake or back into its true form. Its statistics are the same in each form

Gladiator Legacy

Backgrounds Player’s Handbook (2014)

a place, you receive free lodging and food of a modest or comfortable standard (depending on the quality of the establishment), as long as you perform each night. In addition, your performance makes

I love. 2 Someone stole my precious instrument, and someday I’ll get it back. 3 I want to be famous, whatever it takes. 4 I idolize a hero of the old tales and measure my deeds

Dragonborn Legacy

Species Basic Rules (2014)

foreign house. The sword at his back was the same, though, the one he had carried since even before he had found the twins left in swaddling at the gates of Arush Vayem. For all her life, Farideh had

to the clan can result in expulsion and exile. Each dragonborn knows his or her station and duties within the clan, and honor demands maintaining the bounds of that position. A continual drive for

Halfling Legacy

Species Basic Rules (2014)

Regis the halfling, the only one of his kind for hundreds of miles in any direction, locked his fingers behind his head and leaned back against the mossy blanket of the tree trunk. Regis was short

, even by the standards of his diminutive race, with the fluff of his curly brown locks barely cresting the three-foot mark, but his belly was amply thickened by his love of a good meal, or several, as

Knight of Eldraine

Monsters Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures

the realm, knighthood is among the highest honors one can receive. Knights of the realm, who are all addressed with the honorific “Syr,” are revered as champions, heroes, and paragons of

: the wildest parts of Eldraine. To that end, they patrol the forests along the Boundary Lands, turning back loggers and hunters—by force if necessary. Though they’ve renounced their

Entertainer Legacy

Backgrounds Player’s Handbook (2014)

but possibly with a circus, at a theater, or even in a noble’s court. At such a place, you receive free lodging and food of a modest or comfortable standard (depending on the quality of the

) d6 Bond 1 My instrument is my most treasured possession, and it reminds me of someone I love. 2 Someone stole my precious instrument, and someday I’ll get it back

Ancient Time Dragon

Monsters Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse

hours or until the dragon’s concentration ends (as if concentrating on a spell). The portal has a front and a back on each plane where it appears. Travel through the portal is possible only by

have horns that are barely more than nubs. As they master the flow of time, their horns grow with branching, rainbow-hued veins suggestive of time’s paths and possibilities. Ancient time

Lizardfolk Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

pity. Born into the world lacking stout scales and sharp teeth, it’s a wonder they have managed to survive for so long. The typical human would barely make it through a day in the swamps. Still

, young ones incapable of protecting themselves but who might prove useful in the future if they receive care. Lizardfolk Personality You can use the Lizardfolk Quirks table to determine a personality

Entertainer - Baldur's Gate

Backgrounds Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus

court. At such a place, you receive free lodging and food of a modest or comfortable standard (depending on the quality of the establishment), as long as you perform each night. In addition, your

me of someone I love. 2 Someone stole my precious instrument, and someday I’ll get it back. 3 I want to be famous, whatever it takes. 4 I idolize a hero of the old tales and

Selesnya Initiate

Backgrounds Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

member you can receive free healing and care at a Selesnya enclave, though you must provide any material components needed for spells. Selesnya Guild Spells Prerequisite: Spellcasting or Pact Magic

Dimir agent. 4 I know a disgruntled Golgari assassin who is ripe for recruitment. 5 I’m friendly with a Gruul centaur who almost joined us a few years back. 6 I once had a heated

Priest of Osybus (Ectoplasmic)

Monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

Humanoid, and a priest can receive each boon only once. Boons of Undeath d6 Boon 1 Priest of Osybus (Dread);Dread. Eerie whispers can now be heard around the priest. Any non-Undead

within 5 feet of the priest, it can turn back into a tattoo as an action, reappearing on the priest’s flesh and regaining all its hit points.

Priest of Osybus (Spectral)

Monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

can receive each boon only once. Boons of Undeath d6 Boon 1 Priest of Osybus (Dread);Dread. Eerie whispers can now be heard around the priest. Any non-Undead creature that starts

the creature is within 5 feet of the priest, it can turn back into a tattoo as an action, reappearing on the priest’s flesh and regaining all its hit points.

Priest of Osybus (Vampiric)

Monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

these boons of your choice before the priest faces adventurers. If you do so, the priest is Undead, rather than Humanoid, and a priest can receive each boon only once. Boons of Undeath d6 Boon

’s mental commands (no action required) and takes its turn immediately after the priest. If the creature is within 5 feet of the priest, it can turn back into a tattoo as an action, reappearing on the priest’s flesh and regaining all its hit points.

Priest of Osybus (Dread)

Monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

receive each boon only once. Boons of Undeath d6 Boon 1 Priest of Osybus (Dread);Dread. Eerie whispers can now be heard around the priest. Any non-Undead creature that starts its turn

can turn back into a tattoo as an action, reappearing on the priest’s flesh and regaining all its hit points.

Priest of Osybus

Monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

boons of your choice before the priest faces adventurers. If you do so, the priest is Undead, rather than Humanoid, and a priest can receive each boon only once. Boons of Undeath d6 Boon

mental commands (no action required) and takes its turn immediately after the priest. If the creature is within 5 feet of the priest, it can turn back into a tattoo as an action, reappearing on the priest’s flesh and regaining all its hit points.

Hapless Soft Ones

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

survive for so long. The typical human would barely make it through a day in the swamps. Still, if other creatures prove useful to lizardfolk, those creatures can trigger a protective response made all

the stronger by their apparent weakness. The lizardfolk assess such beings as hatchlings, young ones incapable of protecting themselves but who might prove useful in the future if they receive care.

Priest of Osybus (Deathly)

Monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

before the priest faces adventurers. If you do so, the priest is Undead, rather than Humanoid, and a priest can receive each boon only once. Boons of Undeath d6 Boon 1 Priest of

action required) and takes its turn immediately after the priest. If the creature is within 5 feet of the priest, it can turn back into a tattoo as an action, reappearing on the priest’s flesh and regaining all its hit points.

First Floor

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder

First Floor The tower rests atop a cloud that feels solid underfoot. An open archway leads to an empty vestibule, at the back of which hangs a thin, translucent blue curtain that flaps in the breeze

. Beyond the curtain lies a 100-foot-high hexagonal chamber containing a giant-sized wooden table and stone chair. Dangling from the ceiling by iron chains are six crystal spheres with continual flame

General Features

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel

General Features The areas in this underground grotto have the following features: Illumination. The glowing jade in area S1 fills that area with dim light. Lanterns holding continual flame spells

or any type of planar travel to leave the Old City; magic that creates such an effect automatically fails. Spells that enable travel to other sections of Old City (whether elsewhere in the secret grotto or back to the Yun dynasty ruins) still function, though.

Encounter 8: Courthouse

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

guards stand outside each of the front and back doors (leading to areas H1 and H6) at all hours. Rooms have 10-foot-high ceilings, with 8-foot-high passages and 7-foot-high doorways connecting them

. Windows are fitted with iron bars that require a successful DC 30 Strength (Athletics) check to bend. Doors are made of iron-bound oak and unlocked. All areas are brightly lit by continual flame spells

Getting the Quest

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

in. “Dang winter wolves say they ain’t givin’ ’em back till the town coughs up a king’s ransom in food and gold. This town barely got enough to feed its own, and there ain’t no gold. Ain’t no one

is stubborn to a fault. She firmly believes that the missing teenagers are dead, and she’s not about to give food to the winter wolves when her own people barely have enough to feed themselves. She

Finding the Book

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries

Finding the Book Characters receive a contract from a mining and exploration group to find out what happened to Vermeillon. Through divination magic, the speculators learned that a book in Candlekeep

holds clues to the mystery. They give the characters another book to use as a means of entrance, which gets them in … barely. The Avowed at the front gates are initially doubtful about the quality or

Conclusion

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel

Conclusion The journey back to the Tinjhorna River is uneventful. The riverine Tinjhorna is enthusiastic to hear about the characters’ journey and thanks them for investigating. When the characters

return to Sagorpur with Amanisha and the Riverine’s Shankha, they receive a hero’s welcome, along with the rewards Plabon and the other trial judges promised. Depending on Adirohit’s fate, only time will tell how the riverine could change the waters of the swamp forest or whether he is lost forever.

Kobold Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

him to grant spells to mortals and for those mortals to receive his favor. Furthermore, kobolds are so frail that a single hit from a human’s weapon can kill one of them, so a tribe has little

some other convenient way (or, in a cannibalistic tribe, eaten). Kobolds believe that if they die in service to their tribe, Kurtulmak immediately sends each of them back to life as the next egg laid in

The Prize

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Borderlands Quest: Goblin Trouble

adjust the last sentences of the first and second paragraphs so the goblins are ready to fight. These two connected rooms have an open door between them and a makeshift forge in the back of the second

“magic stick.” She’s bluffed the others into believing she’s a spellcaster, but the glowing staff just has a magical glow and functions as though it has the spell Continual Flame cast upon it. During the

Buried Treasures

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

one afternoon. The speaker was brought back safe and sound, but Huarwar got separated from the others and didn’t find his way home until the following morning. He had frostbite and could barely walk

. The middle-aged innkeeper, Cora Mulphoon (neutral good human commoner), treats her guests like royalty while trying to conceal the fact that she is barely making ends meet. Cora’s Loss. Cora is

Outcome

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons

Outcome In the morning, after another delicious meal, the characters are ushered back to the audience chamber. Eseldra Yeth is not there. Instead, they’re greeted by Nyh Ilmichh and one of the Red

, the Red Wizard teleports with them back to Waterdeep. If the tally is half the number of non-elven characters in the party or fewer, Nyh Ilmichh states that Tharchion Yeth thanks them for their

Outcome

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat

Outcome In the morning, after another delicious meal, the characters are ushered back to the audience chamber. Eseldra Yeth is not there. Instead, they’re greeted by Nyh Ilmichh and one of the Red

, the Red Wizard teleports with them back to Waterdeep. If the tally is half the number of non-elven characters in the party or fewer, Nyh Ilmichh states that Tharchion Yeth thanks them for their

Chapter 8: Audience in Gauntlgrym

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

Chapter 8: Audience in Gauntlgrym After their escape from the Underdark in chapter 7, the adventurers have time to rest, recuperate, and reorient themselves back in the surface world from which they

were taken. Some three months after their return, they receive a summons to the dwarf kingdom of Gauntlgrym in the North. King Bruenor Battlehammer desires an audience with them regarding their

Conclusion

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse

Conclusion The orcs are slain, scattered, or sent running back to their lodges. Farmers and ranchers hail the characters as heroes and pool meager resources to offer a reward of 25 gp per character

. Members of the Emerald Enclave or Order of the Gauntlet receive appropriate kudos. Those could include renown, if you’re using the optional rule described in chapter 1, “A World of Your Own,” of the

Developments

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

wind that followed. Basidia and the myconids offer to meld with Araumycos to try to heal it and guide it back to wholeness. Though not as serious as death, the trauma still causes a significant amount

of fungal die-off in areas of the creature’s domain, potentially uncovering lost ruins or other hidden sites. In addition to possible victory over one or two demon lords, the adventurers receive one

Conclusion

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel

Conclusion If the characters save Pangil ng Buwan, the bakunawa accompanies them back to Kalapang. Pangil ng Buwan apologizes to the townsfolk, explains the cause of the attack, and promises to aid

characters leave them with its body, a week later the characters receive a parcel from Paolo with 150 gp and a bakunawa tooth for each character—their cut for assisting the dragon hunters or not standing in their way.

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