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Dungeon Master’s Guide
Vecna the Archlich;Vecna was a mighty wizard who, through magic and conquest, forged a terrible empire. For all his power, however, Vecna feared death and took steps to prevent his demise by becoming
3 feet of wood or dirt. Thicker substances block the vision, as does a thin sheet of lead.
Attuning to the Hand. To attune to the hand, you must press it against the stump where your left hand was
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
3rd Filled with a rage that channels the primal magic of the storm Barbarian Path of the Zealot 3rd Fueled by a religious zeal that visits destruction on foes Bard College of Glamour 3rd Wields the
beguiling, glorious magic of the Feywild Bard College of Swords 3rd Entertains and slays with daring feats of weapon prowess Bard College of Whispers 3rd Plants fear and doubt in the minds of others
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
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Barbarian: Path of the Ancestral Guardian, Path of the Zealot
Bard: College of Glamour, College of Whispers
Druid: Circle of Dreams, Circle of the Shepherd
Fighter: Arcane Archer, Cavalier, Samurai
Monk: Way of the Drunken Master, Way of the Kensei, Way of the Sun Soul
Paladin: Oath of Conquest
Ranger: Gloom Stalker, Horizon Walker, Monster Slayer
Rogue: Mastermind, Scout, Swashbuckler
Sorcerer: Divine Soul, Shadow Magic, Storm Sorcery
Warlock: Celestial, Hexblade
Wizard: War Magic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Sending Level 3 Divination (Bard, Cleric, Wizard) Casting Time: Action
Range: Unlimited
Components: V, S, M (a copper wire)
Duration: Instantaneous
You send a short message of 25 words or
different plane than you, there is a 5 percent chance that the message doesn’t arrive. You know if the delivery fails. Upon receiving your message, a creature can block your ability to reach it again
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Uni and the Hunt for the Lost Horn
Polymorph Level 4 Transmutation (Bard, Druid, Sorcerer, Wizard) Casting Time: Action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S, M (a caterpillar cocoon)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour
You
choose that has a Challenge Rating equal to or less than the target’s (or the target’s level if it doesn’t have a Challenge Rating). The target’s game statistics are replaced by the stat block of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Polymorph Level 4 Transmutation (Bard, Druid, Sorcerer, Wizard) Casting Time: Action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S, M (a caterpillar cocoon)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour
You
choose that has a Challenge Rating equal to or less than the target’s (or the target’s level if it doesn’t have a Challenge Rating). The target’s game statistics are replaced by the stat block of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Sending Level 3 Divination (Bard, Cleric, Wizard) Casting Time: Action
Range: Unlimited
Components: V, S, M (a copper wire)
Duration: Instantaneous
You send a short message of 25 words or
different plane than you, there is a 5 percent chance that the message doesn’t arrive. You know if the delivery fails. Upon receiving your message, a creature can block your ability to reach it again
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Polymorph Level 4 Transmutation (Bard, Druid, Sorcerer, Wizard) Casting Time: Action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S, M (a caterpillar cocoon)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour
You
choose that has a Challenge Rating equal to or less than the target’s (or the target’s level if it doesn’t have a Challenge Rating). The target’s game statistics are replaced by the stat block of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
wooden building in the middle of camp. Here the warlord meets with advisors and makes plans for future conquest. Most of the time, a command center also holds elite bugbear bodyguards that protect
for recording “withdrawals” and reporting on inventory to the camp’s leaders. The Block Maglubiyet’s holy symbol is a headsman’s axe, and the block is where it is blessed by feeding it the lifeblood
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Lord of Blades’ Strike Squad While the characters explore Landro, they’re pursued by a warforged named Glaive (see the accompanying stat block). Glaive is a high-ranking commander loyal to the Lord
to the Lord of Blades’ bloody conquest of the blighted region. Among the blades, Glaive is best known for her talent at self-modification. “Glaive” is etched onto the back of her neck-plate. It is the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
True Polymorph Level 9 Transmutation (Bard, Warlock, Wizard) Casting Time: Action
Range: 30 feet
Components: V, S, M (a drop of mercury, a dollop of gum arabic, and a wisp of smoke)
Duration
are replaced by the stat block of the new form, but it retains its Hit Points, Hit Point Dice, alignment, and personality. The target gains a number of Temporary Hit Points equal to the Hit Points of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Animate Objects Level 5 Transmutation (Bard, Sorcerer, Wizard) Casting Time: Action
Range: 120 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
Objects animate at your command
Construct that uses the Animated Object stat block; this creature is under your control until the spell ends or until it is reduced to 0 Hit Points. Each creature you make with this spell is an ally to you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
The Drow The garrison at Velkynvelve consists of twelve drow, five drow elite warriors, a junior drow priestess named Asha (use the priest stat block in the Monster Manual, but add the Fey Ancestry
, Innate Spellcasting, and Sunlight Sensitivity features of the drow stat block), and the outpost’s commander, a senior drow priestess of Lolth named Ilvara. The drow have the assistance of a pack of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
No No Bard, sorcerer, warlock, wizard 3rd Antagonize Enchantment No No Bard, sorcerer, warlock, wizard 4th Spirit of Death Necromancy Yes No Sorcerer, warlock, wizard Antagonize 3rd-Level
uses the reaper spirit stat block. The spirit disappears when it is reduced to 0 hit points or when the spell ends. The spirit is an ally to you and your companions. In combat, the spirit shares your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Animate Objects Level 5 Transmutation (Bard, Sorcerer, Wizard) Casting Time: Action
Range: 120 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
DAVID AUDEN NASH A Brazier
as three. Each target animates, sprouts legs, and becomes a Construct that uses the Animated Object stat block; this creature is under your control until the spell ends or until it is reduced to 0 Hit
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
True Polymorph Level 9 Transmutation (Bard, Warlock, Wizard) Casting Time: Action
Range: 30 feet
Components: V, S, M (a drop of mercury, a dollop of gum arabic, and a wisp of smoke)
Duration
are replaced by the stat block of the new form, but it retains its Hit Points, Hit Point Dice, alignment, and personality. The target gains a number of Temporary Hit Points equal to the Hit Points of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
. The item must appear on a surface or in a liquid that can support it. The gp value of the item can’t be more than 20 times your bard level, and the item must be Medium or smaller. The item glimmers
animate one Large or smaller nonmagical item within 30 feet of you that isn’t being worn or carried. The animate item uses the Dancing Item stat block, which uses your proficiency bonus (PB). The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
functions like a potion of invisibility. The whole cupcake must be eaten to gain its benefit. Ellywick Tumblestrum This gnome bard (“Tumblestrum” to her friends) is in the Feasting Orchard when the characters
through (see “Tumblestrum’s Intervention” in the “Timed Events” section later in the chapter). If she is threatened, she disappears in a flashy yet harmless pyrotechnic display. No stat block for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
gain the Spellcaster class, a creature must have at least one language in its stat block that it can speak. A sidekick gains the following class features as it gains levels in this class, as
, Persuasion, and Religion. The sidekick gains proficiency with light armor, and if it is a humanoid or has a simple or martial weapon in its stat block, it also gains proficiency with all simple
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Eye and Hand of Vecna Wondrous Item, Artifact (Requires Attunement) Vecna was a mighty wizard who, through magic and conquest, forged a terrible empire. For all his power, however, Vecna feared death
inch of common metal, or up to 3 feet of wood or dirt. Thicker substances block the vision, as does a thin sheet of lead. Attuning to the Hand. To attune to the hand, you must press it against the stump
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
suffers a 10-foot reduction to her speed. Treasure. Gum-Gum’s sack contains several muffins, a block of cheese, a cooked chicken, a frying pan, an iron pot, a bullseye lantern, two flasks of oil, a set
abandoned village ripe for conquest while leaving its defenses more or less intact. Kella isn’t alone. The morning after the cloud giants attacked, a flying snake carrying a message from her Zhent
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
respected among them is the death knight Nagaro, a former paladin from the world of Krynn who severed her oath in her pursuit of conquest. While the strategies of other Undead generals in her company have
. 2 The avatar of an evil deity of war (use the planar incarnate [Fiend form] stat block from Morte’s Planar Parade) emerges from the Lion’s Gate to destroy Rigus. 3 A mummy lord in the Crown commands
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
(lawful good strongheart halfling commoner), a self-styled bard kept around to entertain guests, is fond of plucking his fiddle while recounting his tale: that the White Lady’s husband was a miser who
away the other participants. This poltergeist uses the specter stat block, with the changes outlined in the “Variant: Poltergeist” sidebar that appears with it in the Monster Manual. If the group check
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
save DC 14, +6 to hit with spell attacks). He has the following bard spells prepared:
Cantrips (at will): mage hand, mending, minor illusion, vicious mockery
1st level (4 slots): cure wounds
precious metals and stones, such as coins and gems, within 60 feet of her.
Skeemo Weirdbottle Skeemo (see below for his stat block) became the Master of Magic for the Black Network in Waterdeep
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
ignored as he attacks them. Garret Levistusson CN male tiefling bard/rogue The Cartophile’s first choice to join the characters’ expedition, Garret is an untrustworthy bon vivant and magpie. His mapmaking
. See appendix C for Garret’s stat block. Value to the Party. Garret can draw the maps requested by the Cartophile. He also knows several rumors (both true and false) regarding the Barrier Peaks, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
worth of equipment from the following options: barrel, basket, block and tackle, bucket, chest, flask or tankard, jug or pitcher, iron pot, pouch, sack, saddlebags, vial, and waterskin. What a Deal Also
Barbarian Broad belt with a dozen hanging pockets
Bard Lute case
Cleric Hollowed-out holy tome
Druid Made from natural, organic, locally sourced woven fibers
Fighter A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
seeds gently fall, a chatty squirrel scampers along the boughs of the tree, handing dandelions to select passersby.
The tree is Northwind, a treant sapling (see its stat block earlier in the chapter
Intervention. If the characters haven’t found a way to Prismeer by the end of the evening, Ellywick Tumblestrum (see “Feasting Orchard” earlier in the chapter) comes to their aid. The gnome bard appears
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
desert sands, and its people launch a campaign of conquest. Epic Fantasy An epic fantasy campaign emphasizes the conflict between good and evil, with the adventurers on the side of good. These heroic
royal courts, and aboard seafaring vessels. Nevertheless, the heroes might end up in classic dungeon situations, such as escaping from a prison cell block or searching storm sewers to find a villain’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
in pieces that litter the ground. Crab of Cuthbert. The day before the Marshal sank, Clergol of the Viola, a bard and a follower of St. Cuthbert, cast the awaken spell on a crab he named Barnacle
the recovery. If the characters recover the statue without talking to the wizards, the mages attack the characters, demanding the statue be given to them. The mages fight until one of them falls. Iron
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
in slime that prevents anyone from exiting through it. Arrant Quill (see the accompanying stat block) is sitting in a chaise longue, protected by his mind blank spell and occupying his time by reading
is cold and fresh. A hostile roc takes up much of the room and attacks intruders on sight. It’s sustained by magic and is too big to leave the room. If killed, the roc is not replaced. The Bard and the Beholder
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
stat block), but Velkora is a mason and an acolyte of the dwarven god Moradin. Her healing powers would be a welcome resource at the High Hall. All three dwarves speak Common and Dwarvish, and have
". However, characters who plunge into the Styx or the battle raging around the river are likely killed immediately, with their bodies beyond recovery.
Lightning. Lightning from the Companion strikes the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
, read, and write Common. Once a tabaxi bard of great renown, Thaeziagnuz has a case of writer’s block. Piles of crinkled obituaries surround the skull’s desk. The cranky demilich is initially
morgue, a sterile room where Heralds of Dust identify the dead. It is described in the “Hey, Chief!” section and contains no creatures other than the talking skull Morte (see the accompanying stat block
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
have an action readied, you can make an opportunity attack, which causes you to stop readying. Can a bonus action be used as an action or vice versa? For example, can a bard use a bonus action to grant
a Bardic Inspiration die and an action to cast healing word? No. Actions and bonus actions aren’t interchangeable. In the example, the bard could use Bardic Inspiration or healing word on a turn, not
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
cultists stop playing. Frustrated with the mediocre initiates, Windharrow asks if the characters are skilled musicians and if they would like to audition for the band. If a bard character or a character
, carving stone masonry and statuary and flying them through the cavern, reconstructing the city block by block. He resents this duty, but he can’t escape it. If Ahtayir likes the characters or trusts
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
to hear something other than the same tales of conquest Vrakir’s armies always tell. A character who succeeds on a DC 15 Charisma (Performance) check can command Kalimrax’s rapt attention for up to 1
to a stone block that serves as a crude table. Two duergar are always on guard here. They react with suspicion toward the characters, as visitors don’t usually come through this area, and become






