Search Results
All Results
Characters
Compendium
Spells
Items
Monsters
Vehicles
Forums
Returning 35 results for 'before badly defusing combat regions'.
Other Suggestions:
before body diffusing combat regains
before body devising combat regains
before body dousing combat regains
before body defusing combat regains
before body diffusing combat region
Classes
Player’s Handbook
regions of unspoiled nature, but when a significant danger arises, Druids take a more active role as adventurers who combat the threat.
Becoming a Druid...
As a Level 1 Character
Gain all the
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
False Appearance. If the doll is motionless at the start of combat, it has advantage on its initiative roll. Moreover, if a creature hasn’t observed the doll move or act, that creature must
living doll is a mean spirit that encourages those around it to behave badly toward others. The doll takes pleasure in tormenting the guilt-ridden and despondent, hastening their descent into depression
Equipment
Combat
Utility
Whimsy
14
17
16
It is said that the night thistle came with the Corruption and only grows on the graves of restless spirits. It blooms only on the darkest
night of the new moon, putting forth an eerily skeletal, bioluminescent flower that attracts nocturnal pollinators. Night thistles are only found near and within corrupted regions making it dangerous to collect.
Equipment
Combat
Utility
Whimsy
3
3
3
Used in everything from building material to drinking vessels and musical instruments, bamboo is perhaps the most versatile material on the
island. Patches of bamboo can be found in most places on Obojima, however there are a few bamboo forests in the foothills and mountainous regions where it can grow as thick as a tree.
Equipment
Combat
Utility
Whimsy
17
11
11
The root of the deadly munchanka plant must be handled and processed with skill and care, for it is said that those who have eaten the wrong parts of this plant have been driven mad. Munchanka root can be found in dry, arid regions.
Equipment
Combat
Utility
Whimsy
2
0
0
This russet powder is made from the ground seed pods of the bashu tree. Bashu powder is used commonly by chefs who want to add a spicy yet smoky
flavor to their dishes. Most Obojimans believe that bashu powder also helps alleviate minor ailments like coughs and colds. Bashu trees are found inland in the warm and arid regions of Obojima.
Half-Elf
Legacy
This doesn't reflect the latest rules and lore.
Learn More
Species
Basic Rules (2014)
parents.
Diplomats or Wanderers
Half-elves have no lands of their own, though they are welcome in human cities and somewhat less welcome in elven forests. In large cities in regions where elves and
.
EXCELLENT AMBASSADORS
Many half-elves learn at an early age to get along with everyone, defusing hostility and finding common ground. As a race, they have elven grace without elven aloofness and
Urchin
Legacy
This doesn't reflect the latest rules and lore.
Learn More
Backgrounds
Player’s Handbook (2014)
are not in combat, you (and companions you lead) can travel between any two locations in the city twice as fast as your speed would normally allow.
Suggested Characteristics
Urchins are
life — and maybe get some payback on all the rich people who treated them badly.
d8
Personality Trait
1
I hide scraps of food and trinkets away in my pockets.
2
I ask a lot
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
in combat, Rak Tulkhesh roars in rage as new weapons are spawned from his body, called forth by the Rage of War to slaughter all who dare stand before him.
Khyber Shards. Rak Tulkhesh's soul is
soldiers and civilians alike, whose actions then weakened the overlord's bonds to give him even greater sway over the regions surrounding his shards. The violence seen in Thaliost and other occupied
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
can find passages through the urban sprawl that others would miss. When you are not in combat, you (and companions you lead) can travel between any two locations in the city twice as fast as your
; and maybe get some payback on all the rich people who treated them badly.
d8
Personality Trait
1
I hide scraps of food and trinkets away in my pockets.
2
I ask a lot of questions
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Diplomats or Wanderers Half-elves have no lands of their own, though they are welcome in human cities and somewhat less welcome in elven forests. In large cities in regions where elves and humans
get along with everyone, defusing hostility and finding common ground. As a race, they have elven grace without elven aloofness and human energy without human boorishness. They often make excellent
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Diplomats or Wanderers Half-elves have no lands of their own, though they are welcome in human cities and somewhat less welcome in elven forests. In large cities in regions where elves and humans
get along with everyone, defusing hostility and finding common ground. As a race, they have elven grace without elven aloofness and human energy without human boorishness. They often make excellent
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Quick NPCs An NPC doesn’t need combat statistics unless it poses a threat. Moreover, most NPCs need only one or two qualities to make them memorable. For example, your players will have no trouble
remembering the no-nonsense blacksmith with the tattoo of the black rose on his right shoulder or the badly dressed bard with the broken nose.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Flight to Steel Springs Assuming the characters head to Steel Springs, they arrive as Kalaman’s forces engage the Dragon Army. However, Kalaman received faulty intelligence, and its troops are badly
outnumbered. Rather than joining the Kalaman forces in their advance, the characters find themselves defending a retreat. The adventure unfolds in one of two ways: With Mass Combat. If you’re using
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
telepathically and by changing color to reflect their moods. Flumphs dwell in psychically charged regions or near creatures with psionic magic. They harmlessly feed off psychic energies, but in doing so, they
often encounter dangerous beings such as aboleths and mind flayers. While flumphs generally avoid combat, they often help adventurers in peril. Such help might be of doubtful use, but flumphs mean well
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
independent mount retains its place in the initiative order. Bearing a rider puts no restrictions on the actions the mount can take, and it moves and acts as it wishes. It might flee from combat, rush to
attack and devour a badly injured foe, or otherwise act against your wishes. In either case, if the mount provokes an opportunity attack while you’re on it, the attacker can target you or the mount.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
independent mount retains its place in the initiative order. Bearing a rider puts no restrictions on the actions the mount can take, and it moves and acts as it wishes. It might flee from combat, rush to
attack and devour a badly injured foe, or otherwise act against your wishes. In either case, if the mount provokes an opportunity attack while you’re on it, the attacker can target you or the mount.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
sustains plant and animal life and with the need for people to live in harmony with nature. Druids often guard sacred sites or watch over regions of unspoiled nature, but when a significant danger
arises, Druids take a more active role as adventurers who combat the threat. Becoming a Druid... As a Level 1 Druid Gain all the traits in the Core Druid Traits table. Gain the Druid’s level 1 features
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
concerned with the delicate ecological balance that sustains plant and animal life and with the need for people to live in harmony with nature. Druids often guard sacred sites or watch over regions of
unspoiled nature, but when a significant danger arises, Druids take a more active role as adventurers who combat the threat. Becoming a Druid... As a Level 1 Druid Gain all the traits in the Core
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
spells that completely change the way adventurers interact with the world. Their big, flashy spells are significant in combat — disintegrate, blade barrier, and heal, for example — but behind-the
characters undertake. Adventurers explore uncharted regions and delve into long-forgotten dungeons, where they confront terrible masterminds of the lower planes, cunning rakshasas and beholders, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
Thalivar’s ghost in combat is difficult, so the players are better off finding a way to lay it to rest using the clues in the tower. TOWER FEATURES
The House of Thalivar is an 80-foot-tall stone tower
day.
Doors. Doors are made of wood and are unlocked and badly rotted. They all creak loudly when operated.
Dangerous Floors. Some sections of floor are perilously weak and rotten. If a creature
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
encounter with a dragon needs to involve combat, let alone an all-out fight to the death. Maybe the characters are trying to help a kobold Keeper of Dragons retrieve a wyrmling kidnapped by a gang of
a dragon’s lair is more likely to mean a fight to the death, since the dragon will be less keen on fleeing an encounter that goes badly and more determined to hunt down adventurers who flee after
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Combat Encounter Difficulty Use the following guidelines to create a combat encounter of a desired level of difficulty. Step 1: Choose a Difficulty Three categories describe the range of encounter
. Moderate Difficulty. Absent healing and other resources, an encounter of moderate difficulty could go badly for the adventurers. Weaker characters might get taken out of the fight, and there’s a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Living Doll A living doll is easily mistaken for an inanimate doll or a stuffed animal until it moves. Trapped within each living doll is a mean spirit that encourages those around it to behave badly
Perception 10
Languages Common
Challenge 2 (450 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2
False Appearance. If the doll is motionless at the start of combat, it has advantage on its initiative roll. Moreover, if a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
a matter of fighting over territory, since both dwarves and giants often prefer to live in mountainous regions. But the myths told by both giants and dwarves on some worlds describe the conflict
animosity between elves and giants. Perhaps in your world, elves and giants have coexisted peacefully in separate regions of the world. Or maybe they warred fiercely: an elven thrower (a spear that is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Other Heads of State The head of almost any nation described in chapter 2 could be your patron. For some nations and regions, it’s impossible to speak of a “head of state,” but you might enjoy the
haunt the jungle location. 15 Unite several halfling tribes of the Talenta Plains under the banner of a single leader. 16–17 Combat forces of corruption within the Church of the Silver Flame, both in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Combat Encounters Chris Seaman Otto's conversation with a magic mirror
is an exciting social interaction encounter The following features can make a combat encounter more interesting or
move around, such as chandeliers, kegs of gunpowder or oil, and rolling stone traps. Combat Encounter Difficulty Use the following guidelines to create a combat encounter of a desired level of difficulty
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Initiative Variants This section offers different ways to handle initiative. Initiative Score With this optional rule, creature don’t roll initiative at the start of combat. Instead, each creature
completed their turns. If more than two sides take part in a battle, each side rolls for initiative. Sides act from the highest roll to lowest. Combat continues in the initiative order until the battle
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Narration in Combat Although it’s important that the players understand what’s going on in terms of the rules, the game can get dull if everyone uses only “gamespeak”: “That’s an 18 to hit,” “You hit
badly!” As the characters fight monsters, you can reveal information to help the players make good choices, as described in the sections that follow. Awarding Heroic Inspiration
As discussed in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
and barely fulfilling its duties. The mephit is Indifferent but defends itself in combat. If the mephit sees the characters enter the cave, it peers at them through the arrow slit and whistles like a
remains that way unless they try to spoil its fun, which provokes the hot-tempered elemental to start combat. If a fight breaks out, the mephits in areas B2 and B7 quickly join the fray. B6: Old Barrack
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
you, obscured by the smoke, are two gaunt figures in armor. One clutches a greatsword, while the other holds a struggling, badly wounded Miken Haverstance.
Hallway Features The hallway in the cadet
dead giff’s grenades was primed but not released when the giff died at the bend in the corridor. At the end of each turn in combat, roll a d6. On a 6, the grenade rolls from the giff’s hand and goes off
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Locathah Rising
failed to slay the kraken, it was so badly wounded in the fight that the rest of the sea life around it began to strike at it, taking advantage of its greatly weakened state. Just before passing away
party’s presence and have prepared to surprise them. While the characters are in combat, they retreat from this chamber into area 10 and take refuge behind a coral outcropping.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
with three archmages, one of whom appears to be Halaster. Turbulence is losing badly and has only 3 hit points remaining. Before the archmages can finish her off, the tiefling shouts, “I surrender!” On
unconscious. The first time the adventurers defeat a particular animated archmage statue, they receive XP for it as with any creature defeated in combat. Subsequent victories against that statue don’t provide
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
Character Advancement In this adventure, the characters can gain a level by exploring different regions. After the characters complete at least one encounter in all four regions, everyone in the
, or Indifferent (see the D&D Beyond Basic Rules). Regardless, creatures defend themselves in combat.
Game Trail
You spot a regal elk on the trail beside a dense thicket. Startled by your
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Chapter 13: Building Combat Encounters
When creating a combat encounter, let your imagination run wild and build something your players will enjoy. Once you have the details figured out, use
this section to adjust the difficulty of the encounter.
Combat Encounter Difficulty There are four categories of encounter difficulty.
Easy. An easy encounter doesn’t tax the characters’ resources






