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Intellect Devourer
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Monsters
Monster Manual (2014)
Detect Sentience. The intellect devourer 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
intellect devourer has total cover against attacks and other effects originating outside its host. The intellect devourer retains its Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores, as well as its
Spell Sniper
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Feats
Player’s Handbook (2014)
range is doubled.
Your ranged spell attacks ignore half cover and three-quarters cover.
You learn one cantrip that requires an attack roll. Choose the cantrip from the bard, cleric, druid, sorcerer
, warlock, or wizard spell list. Your spellcasting ability for this cantrip depends on the spell list you chose from: Charisma for bard, sorcerer, or warlock; Wisdom for cleric or druid; or Intelligence for wizard.
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
provides total cover. It has AC 17, 30 hit points, and immunity to poison and psychic damage.
Spellcasting. The professor casts one of the following spells, requiring no material components and using
structures and find the safest paths as they search. When confronted, they confound their foes by channeling the stasis of perfect order, creating resilient barriers of force and quashing hostile
Classes
Xanathar's Guide to Everything
their tribes and their allies. In order to cement ties to their ancestral guardians, barbarians who follow this path cover themselves in elaborate tattoos that celebrate their ancestors’ deeds
. These tattoos tell sagas of victories against terrible monsters and other fearsome rivals.
Path of the Ancestral Guardian Features
Barbarian Level
Feature
3rd
Ancestral Protectors
Classes
Xanathar's Guide to Everything
might use a circus troupe as cover for nefarious deeds such as assassination, robbery, and blackmail. Other blades strike at the wicked, bringing justice to bear against the cruel and powerful. Most
weapon skills and magic, these blades either take up work as enforcers for thieves’ guilds or strike out on their own as adventurers.
College of Swords Features
Bard Level
Feature
Classes
Xanathar's Guide to Everything
might use a circus troupe as cover for nefarious deeds such as assassination, robbery, and blackmail. Other blades strike at the wicked, bringing justice to bear against the cruel and powerful. Most
weapon skills and magic, these blades either take up work as enforcers for thieves’ guilds or strike out on their own as adventurers.
College of Swords Features
Bard Level
Feature
Classes
Xanathar's Guide to Everything
their tribes and their allies. In order to cement ties to their ancestral guardians, barbarians who follow this path cover themselves in elaborate tattoos that celebrate their ancestors’ deeds
. These tattoos tell sagas of victories against terrible monsters and other fearsome rivals.
Path of the Ancestral Guardian Features
Barbarian Level
Feature
3rd
Ancestral Protectors
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
.
Attack. Hutijin makes one Claw, Mace, or Tail attack.
Teleport. Hutijin uses Teleport.
Lightning Storm (Costs 2 Actions). Hutijin releases lightning in a 30-foot radius, blocked only by total cover. All
rivals. Other archdevils know how much Hutijin despises mortals and have secretly disseminated the means to call him from the Nine Hells in the hope of distracting the archdevil long enough for them to
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
half masks that cover their eyes. The masks’ runic magic allows these giants not only to see normally, but also to see through illusions, invisibility, darkness, and other forms of magical
trickery.
Years of successful wagers make destiny gamblers so confident in their ability to win any challenge that they invite potential rivals to name the terms of a wager. Those who are foolish enough to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
spell that requires you to make an attack roll, the spell’s range is doubled. Your ranged spell attacks ignore half cover and three-quarters cover. You learn one cantrip that requires an attack roll
. Choose the cantrip from the bard, cleric, druid, sorcerer, warlock, or wizard spell list. Your spellcasting ability for this cantrip depends on the spell list you chose from: Charisma for bard, sorcerer, or warlock; Wisdom for cleric or druid; or Intelligence for wizard.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Infernal War Machine Combat All the warlords described in this adventure use infernal war machines to strike fear into their rivals, fend off demons and other threats, and flee from Zariel’s devil
vehicle rules don’t cover, fall back on the core rules. For example, if a character wants to leap from one moving vehicle to another, determine whether the character succeeds or not with a Strength
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
: Trish Yochum
Graphic Designer: Trystan Falcone
Cover Illustrators: Hydro74, Tyler Jacobson
Interior Illustrators: Mark Behm, Eric Belisle, Zoltan Boros, Christopher Burdett, Paul Scott Canavan
Johnson, Omega “Critical Bard” Jones, Ty Koebernick, Erin Kramer, Dan LaValby, Randy Lenius, Joshua Mendenhall, Connor Miller, Glen Miller, Nick Mitchell, Tim O’Hara, Michele Picard, Bob Pursley, Jeff
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
supporting characters and embellish that NPC as described below. It’s possible for the characters to have two or three rivals at a time, each with a separate agenda. At least one should be a villain, but
the others might be neutral or good; conflicts with those rivals might be social or political, rather than manifesting as direct attacks. The best rivals have a connection with their adversaries on a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
characters could use the crowd as cover for a clandestine meeting or as an audience to rally to action. A simple shopping trip in an agora can turn into an adventure when a thief steals from the characters or
d6 Villain
1 An assassin murders a politician’s rivals then poses the victims in grisly, public tableaus.
2 A group of thugs vandalizes market stalls whose owners don’t pay a weekly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
can also help you create connections among the characters in your party. Those tables describe family relationships, current and former romantic connections, random acquaintances, past rivals, and many
warlock, Rakdos rogue 7 Nature Party. Selesnya druid, Gruul barbarian, Simic wizard or Selesnya bard, Golgari rogue 8 Benevolent Party. Selesnya cleric, Boros paladin, Azorius wizard, Selesnya bard
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
its home, this monstrous bird rivals the oldest dragons in size.
Sky Titans. In the ancient days when giants battled dragons for control of the world, Annam, the father of the giant gods, created
grounds. A roc seldom hunts swift or small creatures, and it ignores towns and forests where prey can easily take cover. When it locates a large and slow-moving target such as a giant, a whale, or an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
cover its surface — some written in Common and others etched in jagged cuneiform.
The tablet is a proclamation from an Omuan queen to her rivals in Mezro. The Mezroans couldn’t read the Omuans’ native
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
has an Intelligence score of 3 or higher, regardless of interposing barriers.
Actions
Multiattack. The intellect devourer makes one Claw attack and uses Devour Intellect.
Claw. Melee Attack Roll
intellect devourer has Total Cover against attacks and other effects originating outside its host. The intellect devourer retains its Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores; its understanding of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
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 is protected by a mind blank
, the intellect devourer has total cover against attacks and other effects originating outside its host that isn’t protected by protection from evil and good. The intellect devourer retains its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Guards and Wards Level 6 Abjuration (Bard, Wizard) Casting Time: 1 hour
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M (a silver rod worth 10+ GP)
Duration: 24 hours
You create a ward that protects up to
can cover up to ten doors with an illusion to make them appear as plain sections of wall. Stairs. Webs fill all stairs in the warded area from top to bottom, as in the Web spell. These strands regrow
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Guards and Wards Level 6 Abjuration (Bard, Wizard) Casting Time: 1 hour
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M (a silver rod worth 10+ GP)
Duration: 24 hours
You create a ward that protects up to
can cover up to ten doors with an illusion to make them appear as plain sections of wall. Stairs. Webs fill all stairs in the warded area from top to bottom, as in the Web spell. These strands regrow
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
against other giants, smaller folk, and even beings from the Outer Planes. Destiny gamblers wear half masks that cover their eyes. The masks’ runic magic allows these giants not only to see normally, but
invite potential rivals to name the terms of a wager. Those who are foolish enough to issue a combat challenge quickly find these giants’ magical prowess is nearly unmatched. Destiny Gambler Spell
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
give an initial focus to the campaign—setting a tone and giving players an initial investment in the story. The player characters may be meeting in a tavern—but it’s their favorite tavern. The bard
your home—what does it say about your character that this place is your home? Friends and Rivals. Who do you know in the district? The DM should work with each player to develop a friend or rival in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
guardians can better fight to protect their tribes and their allies. In order to cement ties to their ancestral guardians, barbarians who follow this path cover themselves in elaborate tattoos that celebrate
their ancestors’ deeds. These tattoos tell sagas of victories against terrible monsters and other fearsome rivals. So ancestors are people who did the procreation thing to make more people before you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
the spikes, but the gaps aren’t big enough for a character to slip through. The barriers of spikes grant three-quarters cover to creatures behind them. Each barrier has AC 15, 18 hit points, and
their hit points move behind the chokepoint (area O5), leaving the ogre zombie to cover their retreat if it comes to that. Well. The well descends 10 feet to an underground cistern. The sides of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Symbol Level 7 Abjuration (Bard, Cleric, Druid, Wizard) Casting Time: 1 minute
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M (powdered diamond worth 1,000+ GP, which the spell consumes)
Duration: Until
dispelled or triggered
You inscribe a harmful glyph either on a surface (such as a section of floor or wall) or within an object that can be closed (such as a book or chest). The glyph can cover an area
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
lives. One blade might use a circus troupe as cover for nefarious deeds such as assassination, robbery, and blackmail. Other blades strike at the wicked, bringing justice to bear against the cruel and
. With their weapon skills and magic, these blades either take up work as enforcers for thieves’ guilds or strike out on their own as adventurers. College of Swords Features Bard Level Feature 3rd Bonus
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Glyph of Warding Level 3 Abjuration (Bard, Cleric, Wizard) Casting Time: 1 hour
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M (powdered diamond worth 200+ GP, which the spell consumes)
Duration: Until
as a book or chest) to conceal the glyph. The glyph can cover an area no larger than 10 feet in diameter. If the surface or object is moved more than 10 feet from where you cast this spell, the glyph
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Glyph of Warding Level 3 Abjuration (Bard, Cleric, Wizard) Casting Time: 1 hour
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M (powdered diamond worth 200+ GP, which the spell consumes)
Duration: Until
as a book or chest) to conceal the glyph. The glyph can cover an area no larger than 10 feet in diameter. If the surface or object is moved more than 10 feet from where you cast this spell, the glyph
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Symbol Level 7 Abjuration (Bard, Cleric, Druid, Wizard) Casting Time: 1 minute
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M (powdered diamond worth 1,000+ GP, which the spell consumes)
Duration: Until
dispelled or triggered
You inscribe a harmful glyph either on a surface (such as a section of floor or wall) or within an object that can be closed (such as a book or chest). The glyph can cover an area
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
physical might with psi-infused weapon strikes, telekinetic lashes, and barriers of mental force. Many githyanki train to become such warriors, as do some of the most disciplined high elves. In the world of
see within 30 feet of you, up to a number of creatures equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of one creature). Each of the chosen creatures is protected by half cover for 1 minute or until you’re
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
, raiding poorly defended settlements and stealing cattle; demand tribute in the form of food or treasure; and destroy territorial rivals (draconic or otherwise). A Chromatic Dragon Arc. The conflict
Greyhawk by the archmage Zagig Yragerne. The newly freed Iuz aims to lay waste to the kingdoms, steadings, temples, and outposts of his rivals. To that end, Iuz’s spies are searching for powerful
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
most epic of all his achievements is chronicled in The Trial of Asmodeus, a play based on purportedly true events as researched by the aasimar bard Anodius. In ancient times, as the Blood War raged
least as Asmodeus views such a thing. Of course, as he sees it, Asmodeus is the only being with the charisma, strength, and insight necessary to shepherd in this ideal future. His rivals are inferiors
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
their place and where they belong. Whether as individuals, families, or entire clans, duergar below other duergar in the social order don’t seek to bring their rivals down through intrigue and deceit
Darklake. Not even the duergar risk drinking water from the Darklake, however, and with clean streams in short supply, the people of Gracklstugh cover this scarcity with Darklake Stout, the signature ale
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Catching Kettlesteam Kettlesteam (see the accompanying stat block) snoops around the carnival under the cover of a disguise self spell, looking to cause trouble. The kenku has stolen the voice of a
characters mention Madryck by name, the kenku ruffles her feathers and lets out a squawk, admitting that she and Madryck are rivals who happen to share the same patron (Zybilna). Each thinks the other is






