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of steel, cutting down one enemy after another. After tumbling away from a cone of freezing air, an elf finds her feet and draws back her bow to loose an arrow at the white dragon. Shrugging off the
whistles to the hawk that circles high above him, calling the bird back to his side. Whispering instructions in Elvish, he points to the owlbear he’s been tracking and sends the hawk to distract
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
time, it stays out of sight. The ooze matches the surrounding stone perfectly and has nothing but time in which to camouflage itself. Compare the ooze’s Dexterity (Stealth) check to the characters
of coins and other treasure items into area 2 every time he gets the chance. His plan is to come back to the castle after the cult leaves and collect his “retirement fund.” Unknown to him, the ooze
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
time, it stays out of sight. The ooze matches the surrounding stone perfectly and has nothing but time in which to camouflage itself. Compare the ooze’s Dexterity (Stealth) check to the characters
of coins and other treasure items into area 2 every time he gets the chance. His plan is to come back to the castle after the cult leaves and collect his “retirement fund.” Unknown to him, the ooze
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Recluse Though most giants are social creatures, some live alone by choice or circumstance. They establish lairs in remote places, or they tend ancient ruins or enclaves that were more recently
. Recluses d6 Adventure Hook 1 Adventurers stumble upon a giants’ enclave where a deadly plague wiped out most of the inhabitants. One survivor remains, tending the site and trying to hold back the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
throws are all useful indicators. Compare the damage a monster can deal to the hit point maximum of each character. Be wary of any monster that is capable of dropping a character with a single attack
, unless you are designing the fight to be especially deadly. In the same way, compare the monsters’ hit points to the damage output of the party’s strongest characters, again looking for targets that
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
D8. Holding Cells Rising from the soggy earth is a sturdy wooden hut with an open doorway on one side of it. At the back of the hut are two holding cells. Thick mangrove roots serve as bars, with a
small round door closing off each cell. The floor of one cell is covered with several inches of stinking water. The other cell holds a figure in rags slumped against the back wall.
This hut is round
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
covertly, out of curiosity rather than bloodlust. He’d like to meet them and find out what they’re after. He’ll even bring them back to the ship and trade gems for wine, if they have any. Unless the
-beautiful garden palace said to contain treasure beyond compare. (Bwayes can lead the characters to Nangalore but won’t explore it out of respect.) Treasure The weretiger’s cabin contains enough scavenged
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
signature traits? In the case of a new subrace, what sets it apart from the other subraces of the parent race? Compare the race you have in mind with the other race options available to players, to
twilight realm of the Feywild. Their cities sometimes cross over to the Material Plane, appearing briefly in mountain valleys or deep forest glades before fading back into the Feywild. The elf
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
defend the land from invaders alongside Pangil ng Buwan and formed a deep friendship with the bakunawa. When Lungtian died, the gods brought their spirit back as a dryad-like ninuno. Personality Trait. “I
love for Nimuel makes me feel like my old self.” Flaw. “I compare all mortals I meet to the heroes I’ve known throughout my long life.” The Bakunawa’s Wrath Nimuel introduces Lungtian, then moves on to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
the Underdark. The only path back to the surface goes directly through a shadow dragon’s lair.
3 A young woman seeks heroes to retrieve a family heirloom stolen from her. The woman is actually a
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4 A shadow dragon wyrmling and a shadow demon have become unlikely companions as they compare and contrast their parallel evolutions.
5 Two shadow dragon wyrmlings of different dragon kinds
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
goblins: roll one d20 for all of them, add their Stealth skill modifier (+6) to the roll, and compare the total to the characters’ passive Wisdom (Perception) scores. A character whose score is lower
event that the goblins defeat the adventurers, they leave them unconscious, loot them and the wagon, then head back to the Cragmaw hideout. The characters can continue on to Phandalin, buy new gear at
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
colors. Ulthar and his assistants periodically move tablets, cylinders, and stelae from the Archives of the Present into these rooms. Some of the records here date back to the mythic times of the earliest
. Urmas and Ustova compare notes often to validate their visions. The prophecies in these rooms are limited to the future of giantkind — and the trials still to come for those once-great races — because this is Ustova’s sole interest.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
wouldn’t take much to provoke her into doing so. At one time, Arveiaturace served a wizard named Meltharond, whose frozen corpse remains strapped to a saddle on the dragon’s back. Arveiaturace has
surface, looking like a frozen, desiccated corpse sitting in the snow. If the characters are close enough to touch the corpse, they’re already on the dragon’s back. If they attack or otherwise
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
helps the characters fight the other creatures in an encounter. The friend might be the sole survivor of another adventuring party, a solitary traveler or recluse, or a benevolent monster like a flumph
an encounter occurs, the twin creatures appear in the encounter. If you draw only one twin card, shuffle it back into the deck and form the encounter as normal. The twins could be a pair of displacer
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
seen a goliath, and fewer still to have forged a friendship with one. Goliaths love to compete and keep score, counting up their deeds and tallying their accomplishments to compare to what others
capacity and the weight it can push, drag, or lift.
Shapechanger. The werebear can use its action to polymorph into a Large bear–humanoid hybrid or into a Large polar bear, or back into its goliath form
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Borderlands Quest: Goblin Trouble
retrieved her boot. When you describe the scene to the players, be sure to emphasize Dilly’s limp and injury. This may prompt the players to give her back her boot, and maybe even use magic to heal
d20 and add the number next to Dexterity under Saving Throws. Compare the players’ results to the DC of 12.
Roll a d6. Anyone who got a total of 11 or lower on their saving throw loses Hit Points
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
players using them are comfortable with the fact that you might need to go back and make some changes after seeing them in play. Creating New Class Options Each class has at least one major choice point
an existing feature that can be used as a model? How does the new class feature compare to other features of the same level? Variant: Spell Points One way to modify how a class feels is to change how
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
, which brings the flow of the game right back to step 1.
This pattern holds whether the adventurers are cautiously exploring a ruin, talking to a devious prince, or locked in mortal combat against a
effect might give a bonus or penalty to the check.
3. Compare the total to a target number. If the total equals or exceeds the target number, the ability check, attack roll, or saving throw is a success
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a2
make out a steep, narrow road or track that runs back and forth across the face of the mountainside.
Refer to map 2.1. The characters have several options: follow the path, scout the area, or wait and
higher detects the orcs as they approach. The orcs aren’t likely to notice a hidden lookout; compare their passive Perception scores to the character’s Dexterity (Stealth) check. Four hunched humanoids
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
holy site desecrated. Soon thereafter, their chieftain took them back into the depths of the High Forest, and they have not emerged since.
The Gray Wolf tribe is taboo because of its many werewolf
tribes vanished centuries ago. They were last seen in the vicinity of the One Stone, the ancestral mound they shared with Sky Pony.
The People of Uthgar The Uthgardt trace their origins back to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
in ice. At the back of the deck, a double door made of chitin and iron is tucked under two higher decks, the lower of which has another ballista mounted atop it.
The double door is iced shut but
). Each time a character makes a check, compare the check result to the Figuring Out Alien Technology table in the Dungeon Master’s Guide. N3. Cryogenic Stasis Pods Each of these four rooms contains a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes’ Feast: Saving the Children’s Menu
it toward the fenced-off area above the library. Then, out from the shadows at the back of the loft space staggers Calor, a 6-foot-tall fire giant toddler. He reaches toward his mother, who snuggles
successful DC 10 Wisdom (Animal Handling) check. The buckets and cans can be used to store the milk for the short trip back to Daggerford. 5: Nursery Ignis has used old boards and bits of fence and metal to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
front of the castle gates.
Two goblins occupy each of these two rooms. By taking turns shooting arrows and ducking back, both archers can fire each round at targets outside. When characters enter the
room. It quietly observes intruders that enter the area before dropping down to strike. Compare the grick’s Dexterity (Stealth) check to the characters’ Wisdom (Perception) checks (or their passive
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
shift. A door displaying the Fool card stands on the east wall, and another—showing only the back of a card from the Deck of Many Things—is to the north.
This room is brightly lit by the gem
the formation with a Dexterity or Intelligence check (their choice) using jeweler’s or mason’s tools, or by making an attack with a melee weapon. Compare the creature’s ability check or attack roll
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
gives them back to you. If the heroism spell is cast on a character that is already frightened, does it remove the frightened effect? The heroism spell would suppress a frightening effect that was
compare it to the barbarian’s version. In the monk’s version, you must both forgo wearing armor and forgo wielding a shield if you want to benefit from the feature, whereas a barbarian must only forgo
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
and compare the sizes of an unusually small donkey and an exceptionally large peacock. They ask for a passing party member’s opinion.
Table H: Outer City Denizens d10 Interaction
1
a cylindrical stone building, its open doorway revealing stairs leading down into the forest floor. Atop the building, a smaller statue of Balduran stared back the way he had come. Prevented from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
family of refugees he’s helping. 12 A merchant and gate guard argue over how to accurately measure and compare the sizes of an unusually small donkey and an exceptionally large peacock. They ask for a
Balduran stared back the way he had come. Prevented from entering by a pattern of magical lights he couldn’t identify, the knight raced back to the city to gather additional scholars — yet when he
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
characters from a distance. Compare its Dexterity (Stealth) check result to the characters’ passive Wisdom (Perception) scores to see whether it remains hidden from the party. If one or more
characters spot the creature, read: Through the mist, you see a black bird circling overhead. When it feels your eyes upon it, the raven flies away, but it’s back before long, keeping its distance. The