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Player’s Handbook
mightiest spells change one substance into another, call meteors from the sky, or open portals to other worlds.
Most Wizards share a scholarly approach to magic. They examine the theoretical
Features table. See the multiclassing rules to determine your available spell slots.
Wizard Features
——Spell Slots per Spell Level——
Level
Proficiency Bonus
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
against each other, perhaps to determine who rules a war band or because of extreme starvation. Even under ordinary circumstances, gnolls that are deprived of victims for too long struggle to control
service to Yeenoghu or dedicated to the survival of their kin, gnoll war bands seek to soften up foes with surprise attacks and to leave no survivors alive.PoisonRampage. After the witherling reduces a
Magic Items
Descent into the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth
of colors you choose. If you mimic the colors of your surroundings, your hues continually shift to match your surroundings, and you have advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks until you change your
colors again or the potion wears off.
The potion is separated into seven brightly colored bands of immiscible liquids and has a syrupy taste.
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
and ruin. But for the last few generations, some bands among the tribes were tempted to settle, make peace, trade, and even to build towns. Perhaps this is why Uthgar chose to raise up the totems
among the people as living embodiments of his power. Perhaps they needed a reminder of who they were and from whence they came. The Chosen of Uthgar led bands back to the old ways, and most of your people
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
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Change Shape. The
, modestly give money to charity. They take steps to keep magic items out of evil hands by stashing them in secret hiding places.
Characters as Wereravens. The Monster Manual has rules for characters
Shapechange
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
of equipment, based on the creature's shape and size. Your equipment doesn't change shape or size to match the new form, and any equipment that the new form can't wear must either fall to the ground
rules for the original form, with one exception: if your new form has more hit points than your current one, your hit points remain at their current value.
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
Bands of orphans and runaways band together in the Outer City, running after passersby in ragged throngs to plead for scraps. In the Lower City, urchins are often recruited into the lowest echelons
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3
Change. The low are lifted up, and the high and mighty are brought down. Change is the nature of things. (Chaotic)
4
Retribution. The rich need to be shown what life and death are like in
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Shifters are sometimes called weretouched, as they are descendants of people who contracted full or partial lycanthropy. Humanoids with a bestial aspect, shifters can’t fully change shape, but
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
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
emotions captured in the Feywild in the form of seasons—affinities that affect the eladrin’s mood and appearance. An eladrin’s season can change, though some remain in one season
forever. Choose your season or roll on the Eladrin Seasons table. Your Trance trait lets you change your season.
Like other elves, eladrin can live to be over 750 years old.
Eladrin Seasons
d4
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
, their features almost devoid of detail. It is rare to see a changeling in that form, for a typical changeling changes their shape the way others might change clothes. A casual shape—one created
level, you choose whether your character is a member of the human race or of a fantastical race. If you select a fantastical race, follow these additional rules during character creation.
Ability
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Halfling Rangers Most halflings who revere nature and its raw beauty come from lightfoot stock. Their bands spend at least as much time on the road and river as in village and town, and the role of a
typically prefer Sheela Peryroyl. Those who devote themselves more to the protection of settlements or travelers honor Arvoreen. The few strongheart halflings who become rangers tend to favor those latter two deities.
Species
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
mark of the bargain between hag and hexblood, a debt owed, or a change to come.
Hexblood Origins
A bargain with a hag or other eerie forces transformed your character into a magical being. Roll on
might come to accept over the course of centuries. Once a hexblood undergoes this irreversible ritual, they emerge as a hag NPC no longer under the control of the hexblood’s player, unless the DM rules otherwise.
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
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Control. Everyone is welcome, as long as they follow my rules. (Lawful)
Crystal Dragon Adventures
The Crystal Dragon Adventure Hooks table offers suggestions for stories
winter wolf;winter wolves loyal to a frost giant, intent on convincing the wolves to change their evil ways.
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A lonely werebear enjoys long conversations with a young crystal dragon but doesn
Goliath
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Species
Elemental Evil Player's Companion
mock folk who rely on society’s structures or rules to maintain power.
Survival of the Fittest
Among goliaths, any adult who can’t contribute to the tribe is expelled. A lone goliath has
the one tasked with doing it.
A goliath’s nickname is a description that can change on the whim of a chieftain or tribal elder. It refers to a notable deed, either a success or failure
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
cast ensnaring strike, for example, the vines created by the spell might appear as rune-inscribed glowing bands that wrap around the target and hold it in place.
Suggested Characteristics
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I never change my mind once it’s made up.
Ideals
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Ideal
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Guild. My guild is all that really matters. (Any)
2
Order. The law is meant to ensure
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Glyphs This suit symbolizes faith, spirituality, and inner strength. It is the suit of priests and those who devote themselves to the service of a deity, a higher power, or a heightened philosophy
shouldered alone Five of glyphs Druid The ambivalence and cruelty of nature and those who feel drawn to it; inner turmoil Six of glyphs Anarchist A fundamental change brought on by one whose beliefs are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
questions: Will the rule or change improve the game? Will my players like it? If you’re confident that the answer to both questions is yes, give the new rule a try. Present house rules as experiments
House Rules House rules are new or modified rules you add to your game to make it your own and to enhance the style you have in mind for your game. Before you establish a house rule, ask yourself two
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
questions: Will the rule or change improve the game? Will my players like it? If you’re confident that the answer to both questions is yes, give the new rule a try. Present house rules as experiments
House Rules House rules are new or modified rules you add to your game to make it your own and to enhance the style you have in mind for your game. Before you establish a house rule, ask yourself two
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Language. What gestures did the DM use when describing a scene? How did the DM’s body language change when playing different NPCs? DM Voice. Did the DM use different voices or mannerisms for NPCs? Did
the DM change the pitch or tempo of narration in different situations? Player Participation. Did the players participate in the world-building or make decisions that seemed to send the adventure in an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Language. What gestures did the DM use when describing a scene? How did the DM’s body language change when playing different NPCs? DM Voice. Did the DM use different voices or mannerisms for NPCs? Did
the DM change the pitch or tempo of narration in different situations? Player Participation. Did the players participate in the world-building or make decisions that seemed to send the adventure in an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
is more valuable in the city than gold. Jiangshi haunt the streets of I’Cath, tearing down whole districts and rebuilding them. Tsien Chiang rules the city from the Palace of Bones. By day, she drafts
plans to improve I’Cath. By night, she rules over her people’s dreams. Tsien Chiang’s four supernatural daughters wander the city by day and gather at the Palace of Bones at night. The streets and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Valachan. Losers rot where they fall in the jungle. Violations of the rules are punishable by death. Chakuna closes her domain’s borders while the trial is underway and can change the hunt’s rules on a
Rules of the Trial On the night of certain full moons, Chakuna selects fifteen souls within her domain who she considers worthy prey. She leads the participants to Pantara Lodge, shows them every
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Descent into the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth
combination of colors you choose. If you mimic the colors of your surroundings, your hues continually shift to match your surroundings, and you have advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks until you change your
colors again or the potion wears off.
The potion is separated into seven brightly colored bands of immiscible liquids and has a syrupy taste.
Stephen Andrade Potion of Polychromy
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
’ tactics and stat blocks. Note any special rules that apply to the setting of the encounter. For social interaction encounters, make notes about the nonplayer characters (NPCs) in the encounter—their
personalities, goals, and tactics. For exploration encounters, record any clues or other information the characters should learn, and review any special rules that might come into play in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Optional Rules: Feywild Magic Tales speak of children kidnapped by fey creatures and spirited away to the Feywild, only to return to their parents years later without having aged a day, and with no
the Plane of Faerie, and that the memories of their visit are hazy. You can use these optional rules to reflect the strange magic that suffuses the plane. Memory Loss A creature that leaves the Feywild
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
’ tactics and stat blocks. Note any special rules that apply to the setting of the encounter. For social interaction encounters, make notes about the nonplayer characters (NPCs) in the encounter—their
personalities, goals, and tactics. For exploration encounters, record any clues or other information the characters should learn, and review any special rules that might come into play in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
ambitions. They devote their lives to the pursuit of perfection, and the best come close to realizing that goal. But for all their dedication, dwarves are mortal, which means they are fallible. And that’s
dwarven pantheon. Abbathor is an advocate of change, not stability — an attitude normally regarded with suspicion by dwarves. But in this case, the god delivers his message inside the embrace of avarice
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
zero.” Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything outlines how to run session zero discussions, but in general, use this session to discuss the game’s content, social contract, and house rules, and to create
characters. Reinforce Expectations Make it clear that D&D is a group storytelling game. As the DM, you have a role in crafting adventures and arbitrating rules, but you aren’t solely responsible for how
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
slit for protection, a creature gains three-quarters cover (see the Basic Rules) against outside threats. A Medium character can’t squeeze through an arrow slit, but a Small character can with a
cut from seamless stone. Some of those chimneys can be used to gain access to the fortress.
Doors. Regular doors are made of thick, sturdy oak reinforced with iron bands and fitted with iron hinges
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
, game products, and digital games are assumed to take place. The world is yours to change as you see fit and yours to modify as you explore the consequences of the players’ actions. Your world is
have achieved this degree of consistency, you can provide an occasional change. If the adventurers come back to buy more horses at the stables, they might discover that the man who ran the place went
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
supporting characters, breathing life into them. And as a referee, the DM interprets the rules and decides when to abide by them and when to change them. Inventing, writing, storytelling, improvising, acting
on the aspects you enjoy and downplay the rest. For example, if you don’t like creating your own adventures, you can use published ones. You can also lean on the other players to help you with rules
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
the DM might have you use the travel pace rules below. If you need to know how fast you can move when every second matters, see the movement rules in “Combat” later in this chapter. Marching Order
spot hidden enemies, and which ones are the closest to those enemies if a fight breaks out. You can change your marching order outside combat and record the order any way you like: write it down, for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
martial bands, holding strong in the face of unbeatable odds. It sings of a great yearly competition that crowns the preeminent warrior-athlete in Akros, and—by extension—the world. The majority of
Akros’s inhabitants, though, aren’t members of its martial elite. The famed warriors of Akros have the means to devote their lives to studying and training in the ways of war because they rest atop a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
doesn’t change its statistics or have monetary value, it makes each elemental distinct. Roll on or choose a result from the Earth Elemental Compositions table to inspire an earth elemental’s features
matter. 5 Mounds of sand studded with shells. 6 Rubble or pieces of a ruined structure. 7 Striking striations or bands of color. 8 Veins of iron or other ore. The foundations of our homes, the strength
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
the DM might have you use the travel pace rules below. If you need to know how fast you can move when every second matters, see the movement rules in “Combat” later in this chapter. Marching Order
spot hidden enemies, and which ones are the closest to those enemies if a fight breaks out. You can change your marching order outside combat and record the order any way you like: write it down, for