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Returning 35 results for 'bards before direct choose rites'.
Spells
Player’s Handbook
You speak a one-word command to a creature you can see within range. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or follow the command on its next turn. Choose the command from these options
:
Approach. The target moves toward you by the shortest and most direct route, ending its turn if it moves within 5 feet of you.
Drop. The target drops whatever it is holding and then ends its turn
Spells
Player’s Handbook
Until the spell ends, you control any water inside an area you choose that is a Cube up to 100 feet on a side, using one of the following effects. As a Magic action on your later turns, you can
repeat the same effect or choose a different one.
Flood. You cause the water level of all standing water in the area to rise by as much as 20 feet. If you choose an area in a large body of water, you
classes
Player’s Handbook
Plumb the Depths of Magical Knowledge
Bards of the College of Lore collect spells and secrets from diverse sources, such as scholarly tomes, mystical rites, and peasant tales. The college’s
Monsters
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Legendary Resistance (2/Day). If Nafik fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. Nafik has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects
tomb according to tradition. There, they performed holy rites and accepted food and offerings from the outside.
As time went on, Nafik grew envious of Amun Sa. “Why should the pharaoh get to
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expended charge for each hour it spends in direct sunlight and 1d6 + 1 expended charges daily at dawn.
Radiant Absorption. When a creature within 30 feet of you takes radiant damage, you can use your
per charge expended.
Dreamcatcher. While attuned to the suncatcher, you are aware when a creature is using the dream spell to contact you and can choose to end the spell early.
Acolyte
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Backgrounds
Basic Rules (2014)
You have spent your life in the service of a temple to a specific god or pantheon of gods. You act as an intermediary between the realm of the holy and the mortal world, performing sacred rites and
offering sacrifices in order to conduct worshipers into the presence of the divine. You are not necessarily a cleric—performing sacred rites is not the same thing as channeling divine power
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regains 1 expended charge for each hour it spends in direct sunlight and 1d6 + 1 expended charges daily at dawn.
Radiant Absorption. When a creature within 30 feet of you takes radiant damage, you can use
damage per charge expended.
Dreamcatcher. While attuned to the suncatcher, you are aware when a creature is using the dream spell to contact you and can choose to end the spell early.
Rare variant: You
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regains 1 expended charge for each hour it spends in direct sunlight and 1d6 + 1 expended charges daily at dawn.
Radiant Absorption. When a creature within 30 feet of you takes radiant damage, you can use
damage per charge expended.
Dreamcatcher. While attuned to the suncatcher, you are aware when a creature is using the dream spell to contact you and can choose to end the spell early.
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regains 1 expended charge for each hour it spends in direct sunlight and 1d6 + 1 expended charges daily at dawn.
Radiant Absorption. When a creature within 30 feet of you takes radiant damage, you can use
damage per charge expended.
Dreamcatcher. While attuned to the suncatcher, you are aware when a creature is using the dream spell to contact you and can choose to end the spell early.
Very rare variant
Spells
Elemental Evil Player's Companion
You choose an area of water that you can see within range and that fits within a 5-foot cube. You manipulate it in one of the following ways:
You instantaneously move or otherwise change the
flow of the water as you direct, up to 5 feet in any direction. This movement doesn’t have enough force to cause damage.
You cause the water to form into simple shapes and animate at your
classes
Basic Rules (2014)
of song, speech, and the magic they contain. Bards say that the multiverse was spoken into existence, that the words of the gods gave it shape, and that echoes of these primordial Words of Creation
still resound throughout the cosmos. The music of bards is an attempt to snatch and harness those echoes, subtly woven into their spells and powers.
The greatest strength of bards is their sheer
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regains 1 expended charge for each hour it spends in direct sunlight and 1d6 + 1 expended charges daily at dawn.
Radiant Absorption. When a creature within 30 feet of you takes radiant damage, you can use
damage per charge expended.
Dreamcatcher. While attuned to the suncatcher, you are aware when a creature is using the dream spell to contact you and can choose to end the spell early.
Very rare variant
Control Water
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
in the area to move in a direction you choose, even if the water has to flow over obstacles, up walls, or in other unlikely directions. The water in the area moves as you direct it, but once it moves
Until the spell ends, you control any freestanding water inside an area you choose that is a cube up to 100 feet on a side. You can choose from any of the following effects when you cast this spell
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regains 1 expended charge for each hour it spends in direct sunlight and 1d6 + 1 expended charges daily at dawn.
Radiant Absorption. When a creature within 30 feet of you takes radiant damage, you can use
damage per charge expended.
Dreamcatcher. While attuned to the suncatcher, you are aware when a creature is using the dream spell to contact you and can choose to end the spell early.
Rare variant: You
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regains 1 expended charge for each hour it spends in direct sunlight and 1d6 + 1 expended charges daily at dawn.
Radiant Absorption. When a creature within 30 feet of you takes radiant damage, you can use
damage per charge expended.
Dreamcatcher. While attuned to the suncatcher, you are aware when a creature is using the dream spell to contact you and can choose to end the spell early.
Rare variant: You
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regains 1 expended charge for each hour it spends in direct sunlight and 1d6 + 1 expended charges daily at dawn.
Radiant Absorption. When a creature within 30 feet of you takes radiant damage, you can use
damage per charge expended.
Dreamcatcher. While attuned to the suncatcher, you are aware when a creature is using the dream spell to contact you and can choose to end the spell early.
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regains 1 expended charge for each hour it spends in direct sunlight and 1d6 + 1 expended charges daily at dawn.
Radiant Absorption. When a creature within 30 feet of you takes radiant damage, you can use
damage per charge expended.
Dreamcatcher. While attuned to the suncatcher, you are aware when a creature is using the dream spell to contact you and can choose to end the spell early.
races
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Yuan-ti were originally humans who transformed themselves into serpent folk through ancient rituals. Most yuan-ti were corrupted into monsters by those rites, but some yuan-ti instead became a new
.
Creating Your Character
At 1st 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
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Velomachus fails a saving throw, she can choose to succeed instead.Multiattack. Velomachus makes one Bite attack and two Claw attacks.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +18
exploration and discovery through the lens of creating a direct conduit to the past.
She founded Lorehold College to ensure mortals would never forget the lessons of the past. After living for centuries
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regains 1 expended charge for each hour it spends in direct sunlight and 1d6 + 1 expended charges daily at dawn.
Radiant Absorption. When a creature within 30 feet of you takes radiant damage, you can use
damage per charge expended.
Dreamcatcher. While attuned to the suncatcher, you are aware when a creature is using the dream spell to contact you and can choose to end the spell early.
Very rare variant
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Planes, each genasi can tap into the power of one of the elements. Air, earth, fire, and water—these are the four pillars of the Material Plane and the four types of genasi. Some genasi are direct
At 1st 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
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Player’s Handbook
Core Bard Traits
Primary Ability
Charisma
Hit Point Die
D8 per Bard level
Saving Throw Proficiencies
Dexterity and Charisma
Skill Proficiencies
Choose any 3 skills
Weapon Proficiencies
Simple weapons
Tool Proficiencies
Choose 3 Musical Instruments
Armor Training
Light armor
Starting Equipment
Choose A or B: (A) Leather;Leather Armor, 2 Dagger
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Domains of Dread (detailed in Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft):
Har’Akir. You died and endured the burial rites of this desert realm, yet somehow a soul—yours or another’s&mdash
fulfill.
Mordent. You emerged from the mysterious device known as the Apparatus, your body a lifeless shell and your past a mystery.
Creating Your Character
At 1st level, you choose whether your
Spells
Xanathar's Guide to Everything
You perform a special religious ceremony that is infused with magic. When you cast the spell, choose one of the following rites, the target of which must be within 10 feet of you throughout the
races
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
the power of one of the elements. Air, earth, fire, and water—these are the four pillars of the Material Plane and the four types of genasi. Some genasi are direct descendants of a genie, while
others were born to non-genasi parents who lived near a place suffused by a genie’s magic.
A typical genasi has a life span of 120 years.
Creating Your Character
At 1st level, you choose
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
standing national army or a mercenary company, or perhaps a member of a local militia who rose to prominence during a recent war.
When you choose this background, work with your DM to determine which
clothes, and a pouch containing 10 gp
Specialty
During your time as a soldier, you had a specific role to play in your unit or army. Roll a d8 or choose from the options in the table below to
backgrounds
Player’s Handbook
Ability Scores: Intelligence, Wisdom, CharismaFeat: Magic Initiate (Cleric)Skill Proficiencies: Insight and ReligionTool Proficiency: Calligrapher's SuppliesEquipment: Choose A or B
grove. There you performed rites in honor of a god or pantheon. You served under a priest and studied religion. Thanks to your priest’s instruction and your own devotion, you also learned how to channel a modicum of divine power in service to your place of worship and the people who prayed there.
monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
Chardalyn Sense. Zlan senses the emotions of anyone touching a piece of chardalyn within 100 miles of itself.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Zlan fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed
direct action when an oblique or hidden action will suffice. Its plans always contain fallbacks and contingencies. One of these contingencies—one the other liches who constitute its new form failed
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can choose to succeed instead.
Mycelial Form. The Veiled Lady can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check, and can move through a space as
, and saving throws until the end of its next turn. The Veiled Lady dies if it spends more than 1 hour in direct sunlight.Multiattack. The Veiled Lady uses either its Infectious Spores or Shackles of
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
, lightning bolt, sendingSpell Reflection. If the morkoth makes a successful saving throw against a spell or a spell attack misses it, the morkoth can choose another creature (including the spellcaster) it
are tied to a particular place or group of locales, and still others move erratically through the cosmos. Occasionally, a morkoth learns to direct its island’s movement.A Morkoth’s Lair
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can choose to succeed instead.
Mycelial Form. The Veiled Lady can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check, and can move through a space as
, and saving throws until the end of its next turn. The Veiled Lady dies if it spends more than 1 hour in direct sunlight.
Symbiotic Vigour (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). If the Veiled Lady
Eladrin
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races
Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
finishing a long rest, any eladrin can change their season. An eladrin might choose the season that is present in the world or perhaps the season that most closely matches the eladrin’s current
fancy passes with equal speed.
4
Anything worth doing is worth doing again and again.
Summer
d4
Summer Personality Trait
1
You believe that direct confrontation is
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, accessible only to the warforged it is attached to. While the messenger is attached to you, you can take a Magic action to review the data currently stored within the messenger, and if you choose to, change
can release the messenger as a Bonus Action, at which point it flies to its destination by the most direct route possible. Once it reaches the destination it seeks the target individual; if no target
races
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
the power of one of the elements. Air, earth, fire, and water—these are the four pillars of the Material Plane and the four types of genasi. Some genasi are direct descendants of a genie, while
others were born to non-genasi parents who lived near a place suffused by a genie’s magic.
A typical genasi has a life span of 120 years.
Creating Your Character
At 1st level, you choose
races
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
power of one of the elements. Air, earth, fire, and water—these are the four pillars of the Material Plane and the four types of genasi. Some genasi are direct descendants of a genie, while others
were born to non-genasi parents who lived near a place suffused by a genie’s magic.
A typical genasi has a life span of 120 years.
Creating Your Character
At 1st level, you choose whether