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, Medicine, Persuasion, or Religion
Weapon Proficiencies
Simple weapons
Armor Training
Light and Medium armor and Shields
Starting Equipment
Choose A or B: (A) Chain Shirt, Shield
devotion through prayer and rituals, not through magic. Many mortals claim to speak for the gods, but few can marshal the power of those gods the way a Cleric can.
Becoming a Cleric...
As a Level 1
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Detect Sentience. The brain can sense the presence and location of any creature within 300 feet of it that has an Intelligence of 3 or higher, regardless of interposing barriers, unless the creature
laughterThrough rituals combining alchemy, necromancy, and grim surgical precision, the brain of a mortal being is encased in a glass jar filled with preserving fluids and the liquefied goop of their body&rsquo
Monsters
Candlekeep Mysteries
energy. Creatures within 60 feet of Valin, including ones behind barriers and around corners, can’t regain hit points until the end of Valin’s next turn.
Whirlwind of Sand (Costs 2 Actions
as the immortal heir of Savras’s realm. The Canopic Being came into her possession years ago, and an obsession with the dark rituals therein set the oracle on her present course.
Valin has
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
hundreds of miles of the Great Glacier and the Great Ice Sea. No one from your nation makes the effort to cross such colossal barriers without a convincing reason. You must fear something truly
traditional rituals that are unfamiliar to those around me.
6
Sarcasm and insults are my weapons of choice.
d6
Ideal
1
Open. I have much to learn from the kindly folk I meet
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
coterminous. When its influence is weak, a plane is remote. The state of a plane can be important for performing epic rituals, creating of eldritch machines, or interacting with extraplanar entities. Whether or
not a plane is remote or coterminous at a given time depends entirely on the needs of your story. Manifest Zones At certain places in the Material Plane, the barriers between worlds are thin, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Bard Bards are gifted poets, storytellers, and entertainers who travel far and wide, commonly found performing in taverns or in the company of jolly bands of adventurers, rough-and-tumble mercenaries
, or wealthy patrons. Bard
Medium humanoid (any race), any alignment
Armor Class 15 (chain shirt)
Hit Points 44 (8d8 + 8)
Speed 30 ft.
STR
11(+0)
DEX
14(+2)
CON
12(+1
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
cult’s ranks through macabre rituals, conscripting the dead to serve the cult’s depraved goals. Narthus Medium Humanoid (Human), Chaotic Evil
AC 13 Initiative +0 (10)
HP 22 (4d8 + 4)
Speed 30 ft
Medicine +4, Religion +2
Gear Chain Shirt, Mace
Senses Passive Perception 12
Languages Common
CR 1 (XP 200; PB +2)
Actions
Multiattack. Narthus makes two attacks using Vile Mace or Fateful
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Rip Tide Priest Priests of the Rip Tide cult gather in secret cabals to perform dark rituals that glorify Olhydra, the elemental Princess of Evil Water, as the embodiment of water’s destructiveness
. They believe that using water to kill their enemies, such as through ritual drowning, earns them Olhydra’s favor. Rip Tide Priest
Medium humanoid (human), neutral evil
Armor Class 13 (chain shirt
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Bard Bards are gifted poets, storytellers, and entertainers who travel far and wide, but are commonly found in taverns or in the company of jolly bands of adventurers, rough-and-tumble mercenaries
, and wealthy patrons. Bard
Medium humanoid (any race), any alignment
Armor Class 15 (chain shirt)
Hit Points 44 (8d8 + 8)
Speed 30 ft.
STR
11 (+0)
DEX
14 (+2)
CON
12 (+1
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Proficiencies Choose 2: History, Insight, Medicine, Persuasion, or Religion Weapon Proficiencies Simple weapons Armor Training Light and Medium armor and Shields Starting Equipment Choose A or B: (A) Chain
devotion through prayer and rituals, not through magic. Many mortals claim to speak for the gods, but few can marshal the power of those gods the way a Cleric can. Becoming a Cleric... As a Level 1 Cleric
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
, Persuasion, or Religion Weapon Proficiencies Simple weapons Armor Training Light and Medium armor and Shields Starting Equipment Choose A or B: (A) Chain Shirt, Shield, Mace, Holy Symbol, Priest’s Pack, and 7
Planes. Not every member of a temple or shrine is a Cleric. Some priests are called to a simple life of temple service, carrying out their devotion through prayer and rituals, not through magic. Many
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
shackles Wondrous item No Dragon slayer Weapon No Elven chain Armor No Figurine of wondrous power (bronze griffon) Wondrous item No Figurine of wondrous power (ebony fly) Wondrous item No Figurine of
teleportation Wondrous item Yes Horn of blasting Wondrous item No Horn of Valhalla (silver or brass) Wondrous item No Instrument of the bards (Canaith mandolin) Wondrous item Yes (bard) Instrument of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
the Tome feature You can now inscribe magical rituals in your Book of Shadows. Choose two 1st-level spells that have the ritual tag from any class’s spell list (the two needn’t be from the same list
). The spells appear in the book and don’t count against the number of spells you know. With your Book of Shadows in hand, you can cast the chosen spells as rituals. You can’t cast the spells except as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
Bard Bards are gifted poets, storytellers, and entertainers who travel far and wide. They’re commonly found in taverns or in the company of jolly bands of adventurers, rough-and-tumble mercenaries
Performance Types d10 Performance Type 1 Poetry 2 Singing 3 Bagpipe 4 Flute 5 Dancing 6 Drum 7 Lute 8 Puppetry 9 Mime 10 Acting Bard
Medium Humanoid, Any Alignment
Armor Class 15 (chain shirt)
Hit
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
place to enter it willingly. In their communities they reenact their old rituals and ceremonies, in a pale imitation of the days when they dwelled in the life and light of their now-lost kingdom. When
lead them to where the barriers are weakest so they can then slip across planes to their destination. Once at their destination, the shadar-kai watch and wait, looking for the tragedies their queen
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Brain in a Jar Through rituals combining alchemy, necromancy, and grim surgical precision, the brain of a mortal being is encased in a glass jar filled with preserving fluids and the liquefied goop
Intelligence of 3 or higher, regardless of interposing barriers, unless the creature is protected by a mind blank spell.
Magic Resistance. The brain has advantage on saving throws against spells and other
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
D3. Courtyard This courtyard is open to the sky, and its walls have been carved with scenes of dwarves engaged in rituals, often in pairs, of a friendly or amorous nature. A twenty-foot-tall statue
passive Wisdom (Perception) score of 13 or higher notice that the dwarves are wearing chain shirts under their robes; these characters aren’t surprised when the dwarves attack. Instead of spears and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
statistics of a drow, with the following modifications: Hanne’s AC is 12, or 15 with mage armor. She doesn’t wear a chain shirt. Her Intelligence is 17 (+3). Add Arcana +5 and Investigation +5 to her skills
Hallen, leads the Dark Hunters — drow explorers who steal purple worm eggs. These eggs are prized by wizards, who use them in various arcane rituals. Hanne was on her first egg run with her mother’s team
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
running through these tunnels end at a pair of wooden barriers. Three pillars of black basalt support the ceiling. The bucket chain passes through gaps in the western and eastern walls, its iron
rattling of chains all around them. 12. Dressing Mill Eight orcs work here under the watch of a fire giant. The bucket chain moves from north to south through this room, the iron buckets dangling a few feet
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
influence. When the influence of a plane is especially strong it is said to be coterminous. When its influence is weak, a plane is remote. These states can be important for epic rituals, the creation of
eldritch machines or interaction with extraplanar entities. There are also manifest zones: places in the material plane where the barriers are thin and where some aspects of a plane can bleed through
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
simple pull-chain mechanism in times of danger. This hall is devoid of decoration. A frozen well stands hear a hallway to the east, and three iron cages are pushed against one wall. One contains a
he moves the lever to trigger a trap. Trap. When the lever is pulled, iron spikes spring out from the floor and ceiling to form barriers across each doorway. A creature in either opening must succeed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
page by touching it. Investment of the Chain Master Prerequisite: Level 5+ Warlock, Pact of the Chain Invocation When you cast Find Familiar, you infuse the summoned familiar with a measure of your
ends if you use this feature’s Bonus Action again, if the weapon is more than 5 feet away from you for 1 minute or more, or if you die. A conjured weapon disappears when the bond ends. Pact of the Chain
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
page by touching it. Investment of the Chain Master Prerequisite: Level 5+ Warlock, Pact of the Chain Invocation When you cast Find Familiar, you infuse the summoned familiar with a measure of your
if you use this feature’s Bonus Action again, if the weapon is more than 5 feet away from you for 1 minute or more, or if you die. A conjured weapon disappears when the bond ends. Pact of the Chain
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
barriers, which otherwise require siege engines to force open. Gate Guards. Characters who stand outside the main gate and announce their arrival can speak to the guards in the gatehouse. Unless Levistus
, the guards respond, “Speaker Crannoc Siever has no need for your heathen rituals!” C2. Snowy Courtyard Footprints in the snow lead to various doors along this courtyard’s perimeter, including a tall
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
below. Three-foot-high barriers line the causeway’s edges, funneling travelers toward the gatehouse of Vrakir’s imposing fortress.
The bridge crosses the lava river at its narrowest point, spanning 300
climb the outer walls but is otherwise indifferent to the goings-on in the yards below. B9: Harbor Towers Two mighty towers flank the entrance to the fortress’s harbor. A great steel chain stretches
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
responsible for keeping guard over the gate that separates the entrance from the rest of the lair. The gate is normally closed and down. It is raised and lowered by means of a chain and pulley mechanism
. 2. Guard Post This bare, spartan room has a stone bench along the south wall that continues around the angle to the west wall. A chain-and-pulley mechanism is mounted on the north wall, next to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
. Although some of the dancing is wanton and performed for show, large-scale ring dances in the street for all ages are also popular. All the dancing ends at dusk, after which bards and minstrels perform at
season that lasts a tenday. Among the rituals in homage to the goddess of wealth and trade are these: Caravance (Tarsahk 1). This gift-giving holiday commemorates the traditional arrival of the first
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
, Ooze Grottos, Predator Pools, Golem Laboratories, and Temples of Extraction. Zones are also labeled on the map. Areas are identified by numbers. Map 5.1: The Doomvault Dimensional Barriers Magic
or ethereal creature can’t pass between zones. A detect magic spell can’t penetrate the structure of the Doomvault to sense the dimensional barriers. Magic Gates Two types of magic gates, white and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
that has an Intelligence of 3 or higher, regardless of interposing barriers, unless the creature is protected by a mind blank spell.
Magic Resistance. The brain in a jar has advantage on saving
, shatter*
3rd level (3 slots): counterspell, fireball,* lightning bolt*
4th level (3 slots): ice storm,* stoneskin
5th level (2 slots): Bigby’s hand,* cone of cold*
6th level (1 slot): chain
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
causes wracking pain, paralysis, and disorientation in those struck by it. Flind
Medium humanoid (gnoll), chaotic evil
Armor Class 16 (chain mail)
Hit Points 127 (15d8 + 60)
Speed 30 ft
violent urges. Eventually, they fight among themselves. The survivors devour the flesh of their slain comrades but preserve the bones. Then, by invoking rituals to Yeenoghu, they bring the remains back to a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
who command the consuls. Fist of Bane
Medium humanoid (human), lawful evil
Armor Class 18 (chain mail, shield)
Hit Points 22 (4d8 + 4)
Speed 30 ft.
STR
16 (+3)
DEX
11 (+0
16 (chain mail)
Hit Points 45 (6d8 + 18)
Speed 30 ft.
STR
17 (+3)
DEX
11 (+0)
CON
16 (+3)
INT
12 (+1)
WIS
15 (+2)
CHA
16 (+3)
Saving Throws Wis +4
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
of Force. Transparent, soundproof walls of force separate areas 1, area 2, and area 3. Vocath can pass through these magical barriers, as can creatures that are tattooed with his personal sigil
) and four paintings of space-dwelling fauna (750 gp each). Racks hold ornate weapons and armor, including a suit of +1 chain mail and a +1 greatsword. Vocath is willing to sell these magic items for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
ferocity to best advantage, and helps the ordinary warriors to work together against their adversaries. Orc Blade of Ilneval
Medium humanoid (orc), chaotic evil
Armor Class 18 (chain mail, shield
gateway to the ancestors. Orcs who die having served the tribe well go on to rituals meant to send them to Gruumsh’s realm. As befits followers of a god who doesn’t speak, hands of Yurtrus remove
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
condition for 1 hour. Sildar’s Gear. The equipment piled among the supplies includes a bloody suit of chain mail, a shortsword in a leather scabbard, a heavy crossbow, and an unsheathed longsword with the
emblem of Neverwinter worked into its hilt. The chain mail and weapons belong to Sildar Hallwinter. None of these items is magical, but Sildar is grateful if at least his longsword is returned to him
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
his presence is no longer felt.
Priest of Corellon
Corellon doesn’t expect much from followers — no complex rituals or frequent ceremonies or even regular prayer. Corellon wants them to enjoy life
be with. Stories of Hanali’s romantic adventures among elves and other mortals are perennial favorites when sung by elf bards and poets. In Arvandor, Hanali maintains a hidden pool called Evergold






