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Returning 24 results for 'bards before decrees chief require'.
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Magic Resistance. The clockwork has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Unusual Nature. The clockwork doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.Slam. Melee
attacker.The thick plates of stone riveted onto a stone defender give it substantial protection. Its chief role is as a bodyguard.
Clockworks
Gnomes’ tinkering with magic and mechanical devices has
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
powers they would wield if they were ever unleashed upon the world.
Immortal Nature. An overlord doesn't require air, food, drink or sleep. It also can't die permanently. Upon its death, it reforms
and revenge. By sharing her power in this way, the overlord perpetuates the image of the evil warlock, inciting fear that strengthens the Keeper of Secrets even more.
Sul Khatesh's chief agent among
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
operated openly or secretly, depending on the faction and its goals, as well as how those goals mesh with your own. Becoming an adventurer doesn’t necessarily require you to relinquish membership
knowledge, rather than brute force. Harper agents are often proficient in Investigation, enabling them to be adept at snooping and spying. They often seek aid from other Harpers, sympathetic bards and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
their might, most devils are effectively trapped in the Nine Hells. While other planar creatures use magic to move between planes, devils require either a portal they can physically walk through or a
typically consist of folk who have used rituals to contact devils and pledge their souls to them in return for power. The Lords of the Nine drive most of the soul trade, and the gifts they can offer are determined by Asmodeus’s decrees.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
open until no more movement is detected. Some doors are color coded and require a key card to open. A creature carrying the appropriate key card can open a locked door by standing within 10 feet of the
door and uttering the command word “open” in Infernal. Doors that require key cards to unlock are color coded on map 17.2 and called out in the text. The color of the door indicates the type of key
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lorwyn: First Light
portion of the town. While not an official ruler, the reserved and kind Chief Excavator Ern Barhen (Small, Lawful Good Mage) leads efforts to uncover the fort’s buried chambers. Beloved by scholars as
well as Dundoolin’s common folk, Ern ensures excavators work with the care the ancient documents require. When it’s in Shadowmoor, Dundoolin is called Dundaeron. Reasons to Visit Adventurers might visit
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
firmly in the world by associating the class with a particular race or culture. For example, you might decide that bards, sorcerers, warlocks, and wizards represent the magical traditions of four
. You could break that down still further: bards of the College of Lore could be high elves, and bards of the College of War could be wood elves. Gnomes discovered the school of illusion, so all wizards
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Build Your Group A head of state like Prince Oargev requires a variety of adventurers to do the range of tasks they require. Depending on the kinds of work you do, your party might include some or
Charisma to work in the service of the state. These characters often come from a noble background and bring proficiency in skills such as Intimidation and Persuasion to their work. Bards are natural fits in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
that can be fought. Further, the gods of Theros aren’t omnipotent. Although they are physically and magically powerful, ageless, and all but indestructible, their actions are bound by the decrees of
against a god by mortals would require the assistance of at least one other god, and ideally more than one, to have any hope of success. A group of adventurers might try to convince a group of gods
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
to expel a dybbuk† from a corpse. The exorcist asks the characters to help in dispatch the Fiend. 9 Two bards† in the Heralds of Dust approach the characters and sing a ballad honoring the dead. If the
characters interrupt or otherwise ruin the tune, 1d4 irascible specters emerge from the walls and attack, causing the bards to flee. 10 Three skeleton farmers quietly tend to corpse-white grave
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Unusual Nature. The clockwork doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.
Actions
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit
effects.
Unusual Nature. The clockwork doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.
Actions
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3) piercing damage. If the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
begins to glow faintly. Until it stops glowing 24 hours later, the star sapphire has the properties of a stone of good luck that doesn’t require attunement. Distant Racket Any conversation between the
wicked contraptions. They also hide and guard schematic diagrams for new contraptions in their mine. (The korreds are mistaken. The hag terrorizes the brigganocks and has kidnapped their chief
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
believe that their appearance derives from the primal fear inspired by fiendish creatures, while bards assert that panic, being such a repulsive emotion, is embodied by an equally ugly creature
creatures in the court of a cruel noble or foul necromancer. Should a minor bandit chief or low-ranking acolyte of evil gain the service of these creatures, take care. When the devilkin take notice of such
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
, ceremonial weapons and costumes, human-sized sarcophagi, vases and other pottery from ancient Ostoria, and well-preserved (nonmagical) scrolls with imperial decrees and divine edicts written in Dethek
. Two magic items are displayed here as well. Anstruth Harp. An exquisitely crafted harp sized for a human rests on a shelf. This instrument of the bards was acquired from a human bard who counseled
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
escapades. His chief spy, confidante, and consort is Aazon Talieri (NG male Tethyrian human spy). Jobal trusts him implicitly, and Aazon’s loyalty is beyond reproach. Because of his dealings with
assigns Aazon the task of escorting the adventurers to whichever guides interest them. Jobal doesn’t require payment up front, since all guides in Port Nyanzaru are required by law to pay him a fair
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
in natural stone amphitheaters or bowl-shaped forest clearings. In keeping with Corellon’s chief commandment for everyone to be free, all who attend are allowed to show their obeisance however they
of the god’s love and of the primal elves’ original fluid state of being. Many of Corellon’s chief priests bear this blessing.
The rarest of these blessed elves can change their sex whenever they
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
form. The stat blocks provided here reflect the powers they would wield if they were ever unleashed upon the world. Immortal Nature. An overlord doesn’t require air, food, drink or sleep. It also
sharing her power in this way, the overlord perpetuates the image of the evil warlock, inciting fear that strengthens the Keeper of Secrets even more. Sul Khatesh’s chief agent among the Lords of Dust
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
impress future diners. Great Bazaar The chief attraction of the ward is the Great Bazaar, a vast plaza of shops where anything and everything can be found. Boisterous throngs of shoppers crowd its
, and their efforts require them to maintain intense concentration in the cooperative. As a result, they often assign worthy adventurers to deal with threats at their sources.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
do so. Portcullises. The gatehouse’s portcullises are so large that they each require two winches to operate, one on the second floor of each adjoining tower, and the two winches must be operated
doors at each end are readily visible from inside the hallway and don’t require an ability check to find. B13: Prison Cells The door to this chamber bolts from the outside. Inside, bundles of rags have
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
against dragons — they’re about brilliant wagers won through boldness or deceit, and rival families brought to disgrace and ruin by the same. TWO FACES OF MEMNOR
The chief deity of cloud giants is Memnor
. Some allow trolls to roam free in rarely used parts of their fortresses, serving as perimeter guards of a sort. Trolls require little maintenance, able to survive on the fire giants’ scraps and on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
are sprawled on the floor. One carries a key card whose color matches this room’s door. If the door is open or doesn’t require a key card, the skeleton carries a blue key card. 8 A metal box stamped
toward them. Key Card Access. The door to each drop tube is locked. To access the second level of the ship or return to this level, the characters require a blue key card. Aphelion can override the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
floor. The first 40 feet of the climb require a DC 10 Strength (Athletics) checks, but after that, the DC is 15. Corpses. The bodies on the floor include a water cultist (the figure with the crab-shell
-eyed creature cowers next to the brazier.
The minotaur is Zegdar, chief of the Emberhorn tribe. He has 117 hit points, wears a chain mail hauberk (AC 16), has an Intelligence score of 11, speaks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
subservient creatures to protect their treasures. Queen of Evil Dragons. Tiamat the Dragon Queen is the chief deity of evil dragonkind. She dwells on Avernus, the first layer of the Nine Hells. As a lesser god
an avalanche as it attacks. Overlords and Minions. Blue dragons covet valuable and talented creatures whose service reinforces their sense of superiority. Bards, sages, artists, wizards, and assassins
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
the other hand, the dragon might resent a noble paladin whose ancestor stole a silver statue from the dragon’s hoard three centuries before. King of Good Dragons. The chief deity of the metallic
tricks with good humor. Copper dragons are particularly fond of bards. A dragon might carve out part of its lair as a temporary abode for a bard willing to regale it with stories, riddles, and music. To






