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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
(harmlessly) remove its horns and use them as weapons. One horn becomes a Lance, +1;+1 Lance, and the other becomes a Longsword, +2;+2 Longsword. Removing a horn requires a Magic action, and the
to 24 hours. The nightmare fights only to defend itself. Once it has been used, it can’t be used again until 5 days have passed.
The figurine has a 10 percent chance each time you use it to
Urchin
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Backgrounds
Player’s Handbook (2014)
I eat like a pig and have bad manners.
6
I think anyone who’s nice to me is hiding evil intent.
7
I don’t like to bathe.
8
I bluntly say what other people are hinting at
better life.
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Bond
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My town or city is my home, and I’ll fight to defend it.
2
I sponsor an orphanage to keep others from enduring what I was forced to endure
Figurine of Wondrous Power
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Magic Items
Basic Rules (2014)
a horn requires an action, and the weapons disappear and the horns return when the goat reverts to figurine form. In addition, the goat radiates a 30-foot-radius aura of terror while you are riding
Steed);Obsidian Steed (Very Rare). This polished obsidian horse can become a nightmare for up to 24 hours. The nightmare fights only to defend itself. Once it has been used, it can't be used again until
Orc
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
serve as a battering ram if a settlement dares to close its gates, blocking the way to the treasures and tasty food that lie within.
A heavily laden wagon that requires the strongest orcs to return it to
everywhere in the world around them, and the priests of a tribe are entrusted with the responsibility of identifying these signs and omens — both good and bad — and deciding how the tribe should
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
a pig and have bad manners.
6
I think anyone who’s nice to me is hiding evil intent.
7
I don’t like to bathe.
8
I bluntly say what other people are hinting at or hiding
.
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Bond
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My town or city is my home, and I’ll fight to defend it.
2
I sponsor an orphanage to keep others from enduring what I was forced to endure.
3
I
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
, green, gray, and death slaadi requires a successful DC 12 Intelligence (Arcana) check. Defusing Slaad Confrontations. Writing short essays about commonly accepted ways to keep slaadi calm during
unexpected encounters requires a successful DC 12 Wisdom (Insight) check. Have each player note their character’s Exam results—how many Student Dice they gained and what skills they used during the test—on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
without his protection and survival skills. Falcon abhors city life, preferring a rustic existence and simple pleasures. His lodge has all the creature comforts he requires, though he never turns down
a good bottle of wine (or even a bad one) from a visitor. Falcon has two retainers: an elderly, world-weary cook named Corwin, and a mute twelve-year-old stablehand named Pell. Both are noncombatants
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Docent Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement by a warforged) A docent is a small metal sphere, about 2 inches across, studded with dragonshards. To attune to a docent, you must embed the item
assist the warforged it’s attached to. One of the simple functions of a docent is to serve as a translator. The docent’s properties are under its control, and if you have a bad relationship with your docent, it might refuse to assist you.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
him requires a successful DC 12 Dexterity (Stealth) check. If awakened, the fomorian shouts out about “killing egg thieves” and “protecting my precious ones,” then fights to defend the nesting area and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a4
shoots, he then warns his lover, the wizard Snarla, to close and lock the shutter over the arrow slit and move to defend the door that adjoins the corridor. They stand ready to engage anyone that
Snarla finds herself in a bad situation, she changes into werewolf form and attacks with desperate savagery, giving her advantage on all her attack rolls. If she is captured alive and made to talk, she
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
Docent Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement by a warforged) A docent is a small metal sphere, about 2 inches across, studded with dragonshards. To attune to a docent, you must embed the item
and assist the warforged it’s attached to. One of the simple functions of a docent is to serve as a translator. The docent’s properties are under its control, and if you have a bad relationship with your docent, it might refuse to assist you.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
say a door requires a successful DC 15 Strength check to be battered down. A fighter with a Strength of 20 might helplessly flail against the door because of bad die rolls. Meanwhile, the rogue with a
easy task around 50 percent of the time. A moderate task requires a higher score or proficiency for success, whereas a hard task typically requires both. A big dose of luck with the d20 also doesn’t
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
. They keep the warriors in line and defend the nursery (area 16). If they are not alerted to the characters’ approach, the two are talking in Draconic, discussing how to best torture new mind flayer
to area 22. The trapdoor is a 3-foot-square stone slab that requires a successful DC 13 Strength (Athletics) check to lift.
The githyanki fight intruders until six or more of them fall. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
below). Docent Wondrous Item, Rare (Requires Attunement by a Warforged) A Docent is a 2-inch-diameter metal sphere studded with dragonshards. To attune to a Docent, you must embed the item somewhere
. Personality. A Docent is designed to advise and assist the warforged it’s attached to, including acting as a translator. The Docent’s properties are under its control, and if you have a bad relationship with your Docent, it might refuse to assist you.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
Naerytar. Rezmir allowed us to keep some pearls, a ring, and a handful of small stones.” Other papers are of less interest; most of them have bad poetry about dragons. The smaller chamber off the main one
fight breaks out in area 12 and four of the guards from that chamber retreat here to defend Mondath, her response is up to you. If the fight in the barracks takes a heavy toll on the characters, she
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
catches all of the drow off guard. The drow rush to defend the outpost from a possible attack. The demons initially buzz past the hanging towers, leaving the walkways and caverns out of range of the
warriors as the demons savagely tear into each other. The drow move to engage the demons and defend the outpost, leaving the characters with an opportunity to escape. You can combine this event with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
. Rezmir allowed us to keep some pearls, a ring, and a handful of small stones.” Other papers are of less interest; most of them have bad poetry about dragons.
The smaller chamber off the main one contains
to defend Mondath, her response is up to you. If the fight in the barracks takes a heavy toll on the characters, she might decide to confront them here. If the attackers plow through her forward guards
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
of fighting it at a distance. Any such attempt requires the pilot to move the character’s ship within 5 feet of the enemy ship. Once one or more characters board the githyanki ship, that ship makes
only one ballista attack each round. The rest of the crew—six githyanki pirates using the bandit stat block, but which are resistant to psychic damage—leave their stations to defend the ship, taking the characters on in combat. See appendix C for the squid ship’s layout.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Ephara’s Champions The god of the polis seeks out those who would defend their cities with the same devotion that she does, fighting against threats both within and outside a city’s walls. The
new city, or perhaps reviving a dead one. One focused on development could go beyond the basics of what a city needs to survive and get into what a city requires to thrive—which could easily lead to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hold Back The Dead
needed. A character can take a Utilize action to lower or raise a rope ladder. Walls. The fortress walls have few handholds, so climbing them requires a successful DC 10 Strength (Athletics) check. Siege
Equipment
Siege equipment includes objects designed to assail or defend castles and other walled fortifications. Most siege weapons require creatures to move them, as well as to load, aim, and fire
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
’ power. Most knights still tried to defend the realm as their duty demanded, but they found themselves beset on all sides, dying to protect people who rejected and persecuted them. Most fled to Sancrist
defend it, even if the knights must change with it? The Oath and the Measure Emblems Top to Bottom:
Order of the Crown,
Order of the Rose,
and Order of the Sword The Knights of Solamnia follow a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
propose plans to keep the Dragon Army at bay. If they don’t suggest using the Ironclad Regiment to defend the town, Cudgel suggests it. As the mercenaries are camped north of the village, bringing
them to Vogler without alerting the Dragon Army likely requires getting rid of the Dragon Army soldiers at the gate—a challenge while the soldiers hold the upper ground. If the characters wish to sneak
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Relics of Besilmer The following items were crafted by the dwarves of Besilmer for their king, Torhild Flametongue. Lost Crown of Besilmer Wondrous item, legendary (requires attunement) This dwarven
it makes. This uses 1 charge from the crown. It has 3 charges, and it regains 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn. Orcsplitter Weapon (greataxe), legendary (requires attunement by a good-aligned dwarf
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
campaign, but a few select gods, goddesses, and otherworldly powers might play a larger role. Abbathor This dwarven deity of greed gets a bad rap. Because seriously, greed is just another form of the
for its own sake. But as a member of Acquisitions Incorporated, you understand further that knowledge is just the first component of any business plan, and that turning knowledge into power requires a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
creatures for scouting or guard duty, or using dimension door to slip away from a deal gone bad. The hard part of that last one is always figuring out which of your franchise mates you’ll bring with you
nightmare of franchise-branded zombies running amok. Still, if things get bad, there’s nothing like a general marketing campaign reminding local folk that necromancy means raise dead. Even if you can’t cast
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
. Typically, a character needs access to a library or a sage to conduct research. Assuming such access is available, conducting research requires one workweek of effort and at least 50 gp spent on materials
character astray, especially if the object of the research is known to the rival. The rival might plant false information, bribe sages to give bad advice, or steal key tomes needed to find the truth. In
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
, but Princess Xedalli stands accused of treason. Are there any who would defend her claim?”
Prince Xeleth is a chaotic evil astral elf aristocrat with a ring of shooting stars. Princess Xedalli is a
Emperor Xeleth!” section. Defending Xedalli If the characters show that they have Xedalli’s ring, they are entitled to defend the princess’s claim to the throne. Prince Xeleth is irritated and tries to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
attacked first, but he blocks the characters’ way and tries to frighten them into returning the way they came. Calming the giant and convincing him to talk requires either a successful DC 14 Charisma
what’s happening there. If the characters are willing to do so, Xocopol offers to travel with them and defend them along the way.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
fortified positions. Gnolls avoid protracted battles if they can, much preferring to slaughter those that can’t defend themselves. Overwhelm the Strong Gnolls attack intelligent prey that is capable of
are dismembered and devoured. The loot that other marauders would scoop up is left where it falls, of no use to a creature that requires only flesh to feed its urges.
If you suspect that gnolls are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
defend that square until they are destroyed. Once all the skeletons in a square have been destroyed, that square is cleared of buried skeletons (but other skeletons could still pursue the party into
Dunes do not pursue characters into water deeper than 3 feet. Seawater does them no harm — they have simply not been ordered to defend that area. Thus, characters who decide to come ashore and then
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
from a city whose rulers sent adventurers to steal from the dragon’s hoard.
8 A gold dragon requires a team of specialists to help break into the infamous Lamentation Vault and acquire the world
flying cloud giant citadel, winning the continued right to dwell there in repeated gambling games.
5 A young gold dragon and an archmage are uneasy companions, bound to defend each other by the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Azuredge Weapon (battleaxe), legendary (requires attunement) Forged by the archwizard Ahghairon, this intelligent battleaxe was crafted to defend Waterdeep. Its current wielder is a former member of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
the goblin stagehands behave themselves. Despite the poor treatment they receive from her, the darklings defend Endelyn and obey her commands without question. Stage. The stage is hewn from solid rock
punishment for being “bad parents.” Ever since then, they have been shunned by their peers (see the “Shadowless” sidebar earlier in the chapter). The characters might have encountered the goblins’ detached
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Aberrant Mind Tentacles, psychic powers, beings from beyond the stars—one person’s bad dream is another person’s good time.
Tasha
An alien influence has wrapped its tendrils around your mind
of sorcery points equal to the spell’s level. If you cast the spell using sorcery points, it requires no verbal or somatic components, and it requires no material components, unless they are consumed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
off bad luck or to bring good fortune. Villages or even families might have superstitions observed by no one else, such as the following:
For a safe journey through a forest, leave a few seeds or a
looks like a plucked chicken, know that Charmalaine is near — and heed her warning. Put a frog under your cap to bring good luck, but not for too long, or it’s bad luck for a fortnight. If you step on a