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Player’s Handbook
level 5, three beams at level 11, and four beams at level 17. You can direct the beams at the same target or at different ones. Make a separate attack roll for each beam.
You hurl a beam of crackling energy. Make a ranged spell attack against one creature or object in range. On a hit, the target takes 1d10 Force damage.
Cantrip Upgrade. The spell creates two beams at
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
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Taking Fire Damage. Roll 1d20 if you are wearing the helm and take Fire damage as a result of failing a saving throw against a spell. On a roll of 1, the helm emits beams of light from its remaining gems
Eldritch Blast
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
when you reach higher levels: two beams at 5th level, three beams at 11th level, and four beams at 17th level. You can direct the beams at the same target or at different ones. Make a separate attack roll for each beam.
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
(Requires Stone Rune). The giant’s stone rune emits beams of light that form a 60-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a DC 17 Dexterity saving throw. For each creature in that area, roll
. After the giant throws the geode, roll a d6;{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Exploding Geode"}; on a roll of 4 or lower, the giant has no more geodes to throw.
Prismatic Rays
Helm of Brilliance
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Magic Items
Basic Rules (2014)
and take fire damage as a result of failing a saving throw against a spell. On a roll of 1, the helm emits beams of light from its remaining gems. Each creature within 60 feet of the helm other than
, the target takes an extra 1d6 fire damage. The flames last until you use a bonus action to speak the command word again or until you drop or stow the weapon.
Roll a d20 if you are wearing the helm
Gloom Weaver
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Monsters
Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
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Cantrips (at will): chill touch (3d8;{"diceNotation":"3d8","rollType":"roll"} damage), eldritch blast (3 beams, +4 bonus to each damage roll), minor illusion, prestidigitation
1st−5th level (3 5th-level
Star Spawn Larva Mage
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Monsters
Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
attacks). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:
At will: eldritch blast (3 beams, +3 bonus to each damage roll), minor illusion
3/day: dominate monster
1/day
Spells
Xanathar's Guide to Everything
24 hours. Even if the creature can enter the temple, the magic there hinders it; whenever it makes an attack roll, an ability check, or a saving throw inside the temple, it must roll a d4 and
subtract the number rolled from the d20 roll.
In addition, the sensors created by divination spells can’t appear inside the temple, and creatures within can’t be targeted by divination spells
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Charisma saving throw. On a failed saving throw, the creature can’t take reactions until the start of its next turn, and it rolls a d4;{"diceNotation":"d4", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction
describe it as a sinewy, dragon-like creature that can walk on its hind legs as easily as it travels on all four. Its eyes can emit fiery beams.
Once a jabberwock has chosen its target, it concentrates its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
against one creature or object in range. On a hit, the target takes 1d10 Force damage. Cantrip Upgrade. The spell creates two beams at level 5, three beams at level 11, and four beams at level 17. You can direct the beams at the same target or at different ones. Make a separate attack roll for each beam.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
beams at 17th level. You can direct the beams at the same target or at different ones. Make a separate attack roll for each beam.
attack against the target. On a hit, the target takes 1d10 force damage. The spell creates more than one beam when you reach higher levels: two beams at 5th level, three beams at 11th level, and four
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
against one creature or object in range. On a hit, the target takes 1d10 Force damage. Cantrip Upgrade. The spell creates two beams at level 5, three beams at level 11, and four beams at level 17. You can direct the beams at the same target or at different ones. Make a separate attack roll for each beam.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
beams at 17th level. You can direct the beams at the same target or at different ones. Make a separate attack roll for each beam.
attack against the target. On a hit, the target takes 1d10 force damage. The spell creates more than one beam when you reach higher levels: two beams at 5th level, three beams at 11th level, and four
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Ram Large Object Armor Class: 15 Hit Points: 100 Ram (Requires Position). Melee Attack Roll: +8, reach 5 ft. Hit: 16 (3d10) Bludgeoning damage. A Ram consists of a movable gallery equipped with a
heavy log suspended from two roof beams by chains. The log is shod in iron and used to batter through doors and barricades. Positioning a Ram requires three Utilize actions. Then a crew member can use
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Q33. Collapsed Ceiling The roof over this part of the mansion has collapsed, creating a twenty-foot-diameter gaping hole with broken rafters bisecting it. Dark storm clouds roll across the sky
overhead. The floor is piled with rocks, broken tiles, shattered beams, and other debris. Beneath the rubble lie a sagging floor and puddles of rainwater. The ceiling here is 20 feet high, and the rubble is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
emit brilliantly colored, intense beams of light than can sear flesh and inhibit enemies. Stone Giant Rockspeaker Huge Giant (Wizard), Any Alignment
Armor Class 19 (natural armor)
Hit Points 276
its next turn. On a successful save, a creature takes half as much damage only. After the giant throws the geode, roll a d6; on a roll of 4 or lower, the giant has no more geodes to throw.
Prismatic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
. Retrieving the Rod Piece. The rod piece is deep within the hertilod’s gullet. If the hertilod is forced to regurgitate creatures in its gullet, roll a d6. On a roll of 4 or higher, the rod piece is also
book’s introduction. Caved-In Artery. A 10-foot-wide petrified artery leads from this chamber. The artery has caved in, blocking that exit from the chamber. A character who uses an action to dig through
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
there hinders it; whenever it makes an attack roll, an ability check, or a saving throw inside the temple, it must roll a d4 and subtract the number rolled from the d20 roll. In addition, the sensors
, thus blocking ethereal travel into the temple’s interior. Nothing can physically pass through the temple’s exterior. It can’t be dispelled by dispel magic, and antimagic field has no effect on it. A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
Applegarth stands in front of her smoking confectionery, its beams blackened by soot. “Oh dear, what an awful day! Who could have done such a rotten thing?”
Edith’s puzzlement is genuine. She
them further.
Gathering Clues The characters can glean the following clues in or around the ruined confectionery.
Andrew Kolb
Burnt Roll. A character who takes the Search action and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
the weapon. Roll a d20 if you are wearing the helm and take fire damage as a result of failing a saving throw against a spell. On a roll of 1, the helm emits beams of light from its remaining gems
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
the spell is cast and disappears from the helm. Taking Fire Damage. Roll 1d20 if you are wearing the helm and take Fire damage as a result of failing a saving throw against a spell. On a roll of 1
, the helm emits beams of light from its remaining gems and is then destroyed. Each creature within a 60-foot Emanation originating from you must succeed on a DC 17 Dexterity saving throw or be struck by a beam, taking Radiant damage equal to the number of gems in the helm.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
until you drop or stow the weapon. Roll a d20 if you are wearing the helm and take fire damage as a result of failing a saving throw against a spell. On a roll of 1, the helm emits beams of light from its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
the spell is cast and disappears from the helm. Taking Fire Damage. Roll 1d20 if you are wearing the helm and take Fire damage as a result of failing a saving throw against a spell. On a roll of 1
, the helm emits beams of light from its remaining gems and is then destroyed. Each creature within a 60-foot Emanation originating from you must succeed on a DC 17 Dexterity saving throw or be struck by a beam, taking Radiant damage equal to the number of gems in the helm.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
quadruple the duration of a spell by spending 2 sorcery points on Extended Spell. Elemental Affinity improves one damage roll of a spell, not multiple rolls? So with scorching ray, I don’t add my
Charisma modifier to each ray that hits? That’s correct. Elemental Affinity benefits one damage roll per casting of a spell, even if the spell allows more than one roll. So, for example, the feature
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
(3d8 damage), eldritch blast (3 beams, +4 bonus to each damage roll), minor illusion, prestidigitation
1st−5th level (3 5th-level slots): armor of Agathys, blight, darkness, dream, invisibility, fear
Orc
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
serve as a battering ram if a settlement dares to close its gates, blocking the way to the treasures and tasty food that lie within.
A heavily laden wagon that requires the strongest orcs to return it to
have a calm temperament and let insults roll off my back.
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I don’t fear the gods and have no patience for superstitions.
3
I am slow to anger, but when I do become enraged I fight
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
beams, and loose rock to make it look like it has collapsed. A Medium or smaller creature can carefully pick a way through the debris. If someone uses an action to yank out a shoring timber, the
jumble does collapse. Then, a 10-foot section of the tunnel is buried in the heap, blocking passage. Removing the debris takes a few hours of work. Moving Stones. This area was a large storage cellar and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Borderlands Quest: Goblin Trouble
an ability check or saving throw is the number that a player’s roll must equal or exceed to succeed.
For example, if the Barbarian wants to move a heavy boulder blocking the mouth of a cave, that
characters will have scores ranging from 8 (weaker than human average) to 16 or more (strong capability). Each of those scores has an ability modifier next to it. Whenever you make a D20 Test (a d20 roll
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Borderlands Quest: Goblin Trouble
lifting a light object doesn’t require heroic effort, so no d20 roll is necessary.
When the action is somewhere between easy and impossible, trying to do it could lead to success or failure. That’s when
the DM calls for a d20 roll. (See the "D20 Tests" section earlier in this document.) This roll, plus its modifiers, determines whether the character succeeds or fails. What does success or failure
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:
At will: eldritch blast (3 beams, +3 bonus to each damage roll), minor illusion
3/day: dominate monster
1/day: circle of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
wooden beams, and a floor submerged under 3 inches of stagnant water. The cellar contains two dozen empty, rotted casks from the Wizard of Wines winery. Each cask is labeled Champagne du le Stomp
Baba Lysaga, who arrives in her flying skull on initiative count 20 in 2 rounds. The howling skulls also attract the seven scarecrows in the marsh (see “Marsh Scarecrows” above). Roll initiative once for all the scarecrows.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
barrels lie around and underneath them. Refuse covers the dried mud floor, in the middle of which are two 20-foot-diameter circular holes topped with crisscrossing wooden beams held in place by mud cement
. The beams are far enough apart that a Medium or smaller creature can slip between them without having to squeeze. A horrible stench rises from the holes, accompanied by the squealing of pigs (see
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
feet ahead of you, blocking the path. Each has several black-feathered arrows sticking out of it. The woods press close to the trail here, with a steep embankment and dense thickets on either side.
If
goblins: roll one d20 for all of them, add their Stealth skill modifier (+6) to the roll, and compare the total to the characters’ passive Wisdom (Perception) scores. A character whose score is lower
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
supports keeping an unstable section of a ceiling in place. The trip wire is 3 inches off the ground and stretches between two support beams. The DC to spot the trip wire is 10. A successful DC 15
, the trap triggers. Anyone who inspects the beams can easily determine that they are merely wedged in place. As an action, a character can knock over a beam, causing the trap to trigger. The ceiling
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
crossroads near the center of town easily enough. But the beams of purple energy emanating from the establishment are decidedly unusual, as is the presence of frightened townsfolk corralled in a pen
around town is up to them. Each time they investigate a feature noted below, roll a d10. On a roll of 1, a patrol of two nothics working for the Six attempts to ambush the party from the cover of nearby






