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Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
he's tight with Levistus. He rules the roost by sheer force of personality, though it chafes him that Hethyl Arkorran has more respect and influence within the cult. Kadroth doesn't involve Avarice
to do so.
For all his political machinations, Kadroth is a visionary who has so far made the cult stronger through his actions and decisions. He spends hours behind his desk, staring into the burning
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Teleport.
Assault (Costs 2 Actions). Titivilus makes one Silver Sword attack, or he uses Frightful Word.Dispater, the gloomy Lord of Dis, rules from his iron palace, seeming to hide behind its
plots are being hatched against him and that Asmodeus himself seeks to remove Dispater from power. In response, Dispater has withdrawn to his palace and left day-to-day decisions to Titivilus, even
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
changelings develop identities that have more depth, crafting whole personas complete with histories and beliefs. A changeling adventurer might have personas for many situations, including negotiation
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.
Ability
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Crafting Magic Items “Equipment” contains rules on brewing Potions of Healing and scribing Spell Scrolls. To create other magic items, follow the rules below. In these rules, “you” refers to the character crafting the magic item.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Crafting Magic Items The Player’s Handbook contains rules on brewing Potions of Healing and scribing Spell Scrolls. To create other magic items, follow the rules below. In these rules, “you” refers
to the character crafting the magic item. Arcana Proficiency To craft a magic item, you and any assistants must have proficiency in the Arcana skill. Tools The Magic Item Tools table lists which tool
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
results of the adventurers’ decisions. Adjudicate the Rules. You oversee how the group uses the game’s rules, making sure the rules serve the group’s fun. You’ll want to read the rest of this chapter to understand those rules, and you’ll find the rules glossary essential.
the adventurers face. The players decide what their characters do as they navigate hazards and choose what to explore. Then you use a combination of imagination and the game’s rules to determine the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
explore. Then you use a combination of imagination and the game’s rules to determine the results of the adventurers’ decisions. Adjudicate the Rules. You oversee how the group uses the game’s rules
, making sure the rules serve the group’s fun. You’ll want to read the rest of this chapter to understand those rules, and you’ll find the Rules Glossary essential.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Crafting Equipment Using the rules below, characters can make nonmagical items, Potions of Healing, and Spell Scrolls.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Crafting Equipment Using the rules below, characters can make nonmagical items, Potions of Healing, and Spell Scrolls.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Ideas, Not Rules Even though these pages are full of tables and die rolls, they don’t make up a rules system — in fact, the opposite is true. You can use as much or as little of this material as you
desire, and you can make decisions in any order you want. For instance, you might not want these tables to help you decide who your parents and siblings are, because that’s among the information
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Time and Cost Crafting a magic item takes an amount of time and money based on the item’s rarity as shown in the Magic Item Crafting Time and Cost table. Work per Day. For each day of crafting, you
must work for 8 hours. If an item requires multiple days, those days needn’t be consecutive. Assistants. Characters can combine their efforts to shorten the crafting time. Divide the time needed to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
explore. Then you use a combination of imagination and the game’s rules to determine the results of the adventurers’ decisions. Adjudicate the Rules. You oversee how the group uses the game’s rules
, making sure the rules serve the group’s fun. Tutorials in each adventure teach you some of those rules, but you’ll want to reference the D&D Beyond Basic Rules to better understand them. Keep It Secret
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Creating a Magic Item The magic items in chapter 7 are but a few of the magic treasures that characters can discover during their adventures. You can modify these magic items or create new ones using the guidelines in this section. Rules for characters crafting magic items are in chapter 7.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
you take the action. This entry also provides the DC for the action. Craft. This entry lists what, if anything, you can craft with the tool. For crafting rules, see “Crafting Equipment” later in the
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
you take the action. This entry also provides the DC for the action. Craft. This entry lists what, if anything, you can craft with the tool. For crafting rules, see “Crafting Equipment” later in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Laboratory Level 9 Bastion Facility Prerequisite: None
Space: Roomy
Hirelings: 1
Order: Craft
A Laboratory contains storage space for alchemical supplies and workspaces for crafting various
with Alchemist’s Supplies using the rules in the Player’s Handbook and chapter 7 of this book. Craft: Poison. You commission the facility’s hireling to craft a vial containing one application of a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Tools, using the rules in the Player’s Handbook. Craft: Magic Item (Armament). If you are level 9+, can you commission the facility’s hirelings to craft a Common or an Uncommon magic item chosen by
“Crafting Magic Items” section in chapter 7 for the time and money that must be spent to craft the item. If the item allows its user to cast any spells from it, you must craft the item yourself (the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Crafting and Harvesting Poison During downtime between adventures, a character can use the crafting rules in the Player’s Handbook to create basic poison if the character has proficiency with a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
magewright hirelings who are skilled in creating magic items. Crafting Assistants. If you create a magic item in your Bastion using the rules in the Dungeon Master’s Guide, one or both of this facility’s
hirelings can assist you, reducing the time required for the crafting. Craft: Magic Item. When you issue the Craft order to this facility, you commission the facility’s hirelings to craft a Common or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Horror Adventures Creating your own horror adventures is like crafting any other D&D adventure with one exception: your goal is to horrify your players in the most fun way possible. Frightening
toolbox of horror-focused rules also provides options for what sort of grim adventures you might create. At the end of this chapter, a horror adventure puts these methods to use and leads characters on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata
typical D&D session, a DM makes numerous rules decisions—some barely noticeable and others quite obvious. Players also interpret the rules, and the whole group keeps the game running. There are times
The Role of Rules Why even have Sage Advice when a DM can just make a ruling? Rules are a big part of what makes D&D a game, rather than simply improvised storytelling. The game’s rules are meant to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
things they don’t. In a typical D&D session, a DM makes numerous rules decisions—some barely noticeable and others quite obvious. Players also interpret the rules, and the whole group keeps the game
The Role of Rules Why even have a column like Sage Advice when a DM can just make a ruling? Rules are a big part of what makes D&D a game, rather than simply improvised storytelling. The game’s rules
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
: Craft: Adventuring Gear. The facility’s hirelings craft anything that can be made with the tools you chose when you added the Workshop to your Bastion (see above), using the rules in the Player’s
. The facility has the tool required to craft the item, and the hirelings have proficiency with that tool as well as proficiency in the Arcana skill. See the “Crafting Magic Items” section in chapter
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Crafting an Item A character who has the time, the money, and the needed tools can use downtime to craft armor, weapons, clothing, or other kinds of nonmagical gear. Resources and Resolution. In
desired sort. A character can sell an item crafted in this way at its listed price. Crafting Magic Items. Creating a magic item requires more than just time, effort, and materials. It is a long-term
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
characters. Reinforce Expectations Make it clear that D&D is a group storytelling game. As the DM, you have a role in crafting adventures and arbitrating rules, but you aren’t solely responsible for how
zero.” Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything outlines how to run session zero discussions, but in general, use this session to discuss the game’s content, social contract, and house rules, and to create
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
the DM change the pitch or tempo of narration in different situations? Player Participation. Did the players participate in the world-building or make decisions that seemed to send the adventure in an
unexpected direction? How did the DM handle it? Rules Adjudication. To what extent did the DM lean on the rules to adjudicate outcomes? Did the DM adjudicate situations wisely or in ways that made the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
the DM change the pitch or tempo of narration in different situations? Player Participation. Did the players participate in the world-building or make decisions that seemed to send the adventure in an
unexpected direction? How did the DM handle it? Rules Adjudication. To what extent did the DM lean on the rules to adjudicate outcomes? Did the DM adjudicate situations wisely or in ways that made the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
supporting characters, breathing life into them. And as a referee, the DM interprets the rules and decides when to abide by them and when to change them. Inventing, writing, storytelling, improvising, acting
on the aspects you enjoy and downplay the rest. For example, if you don’t like creating your own adventures, you can use published ones. You can also lean on the other players to help you with rules
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
rules help you do this, but when you need to act as referee, try to make decisions that ensure everyone is having fun. Communicate with Your Players. Open communication is essential to a successful D&D
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Adventure Structure Much of the adventure’s action is driven by the clash between the adventurers’ decisions and Strahd’s goals, and the adventurers and the vampire are all caught in strands of fate
appendix B. Chapter 2, “The Lands of Barovia,” provides an overview of the realm and includes special rules for it and its people, including the mysterious Vistani. Chapters 3–15 detail areas that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
Overview A D&D adventure is a collection of locations, quests, and challenges that inspire you to tell a story. The outcome of that story is determined by the actions and decisions of the adventurers
site, Dragon’s Rest, serves as the characters’ home base during the adventure, where they can rest and get supplies between their visits to the other sites. Magic Items and Monsters. Two appendixes describe rules for magic items and monsters that characters might find in the course of the adventure.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
rules help you do this, but when you need to act as referee, try to make decisions that ensure everyone is having fun. Communicate with Your Players. Open communication is essential to a successful D&D
game and keep track of your campaign. These sheets are also available for download in appendix C.
Encounter-Building Assistance. The rules for estimating the difficulty of combat encounters have
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Creating Common Magic Items Normally, a magic item in Eberron is created using the crafting rules in the Dungeon Master’s Guide or Xanathar’s Guide to Everything. But if you have a dragonshard, you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
opportunity to converse with the adventurers before making their decisions as to whether they will support Bruenor’s plans. To play out these meetings, use the social interaction rules provided in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
a bond of loyalty, gratitude, or love. You can delegate decisions about an NPC’s actions to one of the players, especially in combat, but you can override the player’s decisions to reflect the NPC’s
, but they can’t be relied on to make wise decisions or hold up their end in battle. Wallflower Warrior. A wallflower warrior NPC is good at fading into the background, doesn’t usually chat or engage