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Species
Basic Rules (2014)
nomadic bands that travel constantly, lured by the open road and the wide horizon to discover the wonders of new lands and peoples. But even these wanderers love peace, food, hearth, and home, though home
. They are inclined to be stout, weighing between 40 and 45 pounds.
Halflings’ skin ranges from tan to pale with a ruddy cast, and their hair is usually brown or sandy brown and wavy. They have
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
cast ensnaring strike, for example, the vines created by the spell might appear as rune-inscribed glowing bands that wrap around the target and hold it in place.
Suggested Characteristics
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
deck, you can use an action to cast one of the following spells (save DC 18) from it: comprehend languages, detect evil and good, detect magic, detect poison and disease, locate object, or scrying
. Once you use the deck to cast a spell, you can’t cast that spell again from it until the next dawn.
Enduring Vision. While holding the deck, you automatically succeed on Constitution saving throws
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Descent into the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth
Iggwilv’s Horn Wondrous Item, Rare (Requires Attunement) You can use an action to blow this horn to cast one of the following spells from it: Arms of Hadar, Fog Cloud, Gust of Wind, or Web. If the
spell requires a saving throw, the spell save DC is 13. Once the horn has been used to cast a spell, it can’t be used to cast that spell again until the next dawn. Potion of Polychromy Potion, Uncommon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Potion of Animal Friendship Potion, Uncommon When you drink this potion, you can cast the level 3 version of the Animal Friendship spell (save DC 13).
Agitating this potion’s muddy liquid brings
bands of stone. Shaking the bottle fails to mix the colors.
Potion of Comprehension Potion, Common
When you drink this potion, you gain the effect of the Comprehend Languages spell for 1 hour
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
rarity and effects. Conceptopolis Ioun Stones Absorption (Very Rare) While this pale lavender ellipsoid orbits your head, you can take a Reaction to cancel a spell of level 4 or lower cast by a
creature you can see. A canceled spell has no effect, and any resources used to cast it are wasted. Once the stone has canceled 20 levels of spells, it burns out, turns dull gray, and loses its magic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
head. Absorption (Very Rare). While this pale lavender ellipsoid orbits your head, you can use your reaction to cancel a spell of 4th level or lower cast by a creature you can see and targeting only
(Legendary). While this marbled lavender and green ellipsoid orbits your head, you can use your reaction to cancel a spell of 8th level or lower cast by a creature you can see and targeting only you. Once
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Noteworthy Features Those familiar with Barovia know the following facts: Barovia is a gloomy realm of valleys isolated by wolf-prowled forests and treacherous mountains. Dense clouds cast the land
Strahd von Zarovich. Strangers are widely viewed with suspicion. Many locals believe Count von Zarovich is a vampire. He dwells in Castle Ravenloft, a citadel from which few return. Vistani bands
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a7
16. Locked Oaken Door The thick wooden door ahead of you is heavily bound with iron bands, and there are several locks keeping it shut.
Aura. The door is found to radiate an aura of abjuration
magic if a detect magic spell is cast upon it. Sounds from Beyond. A character who listens with an ear to the door will hear far-off music and happy singing, obviously coming from the other side of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
pass unseen make them skillful spies and adept at fleeing danger. Imps sent to surveil other creatures relate what they discover to their masters, but they frequently omit important details or cast
take over bands of weaker monsters, or they might pose as helpful spirits and trick influential individuals into pursuing nefarious ends. I can tell you what I know, but wouldn’t you rather I tell you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
beneficial properties Spells. While holding the deck, you can use an action to cast one of the following spells (save DC 18) from it: comprehend languages, detect evil and good, detect magic, detect
poison and disease, locate object, or scrying. Once you use the deck to cast a spell, you can’t cast that spell again from it until the next dawn. Enduring Vision. While holding the deck, you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
the south wall is stone magically rendered transparent from this side only. A successful dispel magic (DC 17) cast on the stone causes it to lose its transparency. If the tomb guardian is prevented from
(2d10) piercing damage from the spikes. The spikes retract when the next room effect is triggered. 19–20 The demon faces spew jets of an incendiary gas that promptly ignites, filling the room with fire
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
fourth word you speak.
3 You have a second set of ears that emerge and retract whenever you are actively listening.
4 You can’t bear to touch anything valuable without wearing gloves.
5
comfortable unless your clothing features garishly contrasting colors or patterns.
8 When you cast a spell, the verbal or somatic component must involve a mild obscenity.
9 Your hair grows
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
they like. They might search for a way out, wake sleeping party members, cast spells, or take other actions. Unconscious ones can do nothing. A character who uses an action to search the ceiling of the
successful one. When the elevator comes to a stop, its portcullises retract. The elevator remains at the top of the shaft until the lever in area K31 is moved to the “down” position. When that happens, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
prosperity, the giants tried to rule the worlds, exploit their resources, and subjugate their peoples. For this sin, the stewards believe Annam cast down the giants’ empires and turned his back on his
know of giants only as raiding bands. Such folks often greet well-meaning knights of the Stewards of the Eternal Throne with fear, to their detriment.
—Bigby
Eternal Throne Adventures d6
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
hoisted into the northernmost of these two chambers, where it’s cast into ingots. Some of the metal was worked into tools and replacement parts on the anvils in the room, but most of the iron was moved to
north wall 20 feet from the door to area 4. The lever is in the down position and can be lifted easily. Doing so extends the walkway across the magma to area 6, if the trap there caused it to retract
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
. Newmy is a lawful neutral ghost who was once a moon elf. She can cast Prestidigitation at will. Newmy isn’t quite five feet tall, and she has frizzy blue hair and pale skin shot through with blue veins
its turn, it takes 5 (2d4) slashing damage for every 5 feet it travels. A character can use an action to pull a lever behind the stone coffin to cause the blades to retract into the floor or to raise
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
babau’s innate spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save DC 11). The babau can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:
At will: darkness, dispel magic, fear, heat metal
Savagery’s gullet. Maw demons appear among gnoll war bands, usually summoned as part of ritual offerings of freshly slain humanoids made to Yeenoghu. The gnolls don’t command them, but these demons
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
slashing damage on a hit (your Strength modifier applies to the attack and damage rolls, as normal). While wearing the claws, you can’t manipulate objects or cast spells with somatic components. Devastation
effects, the spell is cast on the turn that the orb explodes. Fire Orb. When this orb detonates, it creates a dry heat wave that lasts for 24 hours. Within the area of effect, the rules for extreme heat
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
notices tracks or signs of a tapestry or rug having been recently disturbed. Portcullises A portcullis is a set of vertical bars made of wood or iron, reinforced with one or more horizontal bands. It
and make ranged attacks or cast spells through it. Winching a portcullis up or down requires an action. If a character can’t reach the winch (usually because it is on the other side of the portcullis
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
of Fisher’s Delight d20 Fish Color Magical Property
1–10 Green with copper bands This tasty fish provides a day’s worth of nourishment to one creature that eats it. The fish loses this
creature the thrower can see. The target must succeed on a DC 15 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone. The fish then disappears.
15–18 Blue with white bands When released from the hook
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
. The chest contains two potions of healing (greater) and a rusty iron sphere (iron bands of Bilarro). C4. Mess Hall This room’s ceiling is mostly intact, except for a portion to the south. This room
on the stairs. Now ready for action, he has cast mage armor, stoneskin, and mind blank on himself. He carries a handheld magic device that controls the elemental cannon. This device, shown in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
is Wisdom (spell save DC 23). Isperia can innately cast imprisonment twice per day, requiring no material components.
Inscrutable. Isperia is immune to any effect that would sense her emotions or
and good, scrying
6th level (1 slot): word of recall
7th level (1 slot): divine word
8th level (1 slot): antimagic field
Actions
Multiattack. Isperia makes two claw attacks. She can cast a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
person. Examples of the beholder god’s commentary are provided here: When a character misses with an attack. “How can you expect to hit anything with so few eyes?” When a character takes damage. “Cast away
cast a spell. “You beg for power from a weakling! Their pathetic magic is nothing in my realm!” Marching Modrons Thousands of modrons march through the caves, unaware that they’re traveling in an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
operate, and such weapons might be slow to reload or recharge. Headquarters weapons are not particularly effective against small bands of creatures (such as a group of goblins), but they can be useful
generic arcane feature could instead grant any franchisee the ability to cast a specific spell of 6th level or lower, with a limitation of one casting per day. An arcane feature should be something that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
Korolnor Scepter from around Serissa’s neck. On her next turn, she teleports away. If she is unable to cast her teleport spell for some reason, she flees through the circular pool in the floor and swims
offer to cast the spell on Queen Neri and bring her back from the dead. If they make such an offer, Serissa leads them to her mother’s sunken tomb (area 24) or has the queen’s body brought to them. If
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
inside a hollow red triangle.
Patrols. Four bands of hobgoblins patrol Azrok’s Hold. Each patrol consists of three hobgoblins and a hobgoblin captain, who interrogates visitors and demands to see
. Preeta Kreepa Dug out of a mostly collapsed section of Stromkuhldur is a stone hovel in a cave lit by continual flame spells cast in several old cauldrons lying among the rubble. The door to the hovel is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
growl. “Come on, then!” Trapped Door. A glyph of warding spell has been cast on the door, set to trigger when it is opened by anyone other than Manshoon. The glyph, which resembles an ornate letter M
cast on it (DC 19) deals 16 (3d10) force damage to it. The first time damage is dealt to the rune, a red slaad magically springs forth from it and attacks all creatures in the hallway. When the rune is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
: Slate Chamber Alternating blue and gray bands of slate and shale compose the walls of this cave. Rusted weapons lie scattered on the ground.
A hulking, crudely formed figure made of gray clay
dao is scattered over the lake, the cage instantly rusts away. A successful Dispel Magic (DC 18) spell cast on the cage causes it to crumble. Kasdu’ul has had many years to contemplate the cage’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Descent into the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth
clamps shut. The mouth similarly damages tools or weapons inserted into it without its permission. L2: Slate Chamber Alternating blue and gray bands of slate and shale compose the walls of this cave
successful Dispel Magic (DC 18) spell cast on the cage causes it to crumble. Kasdu’ul has had many years to contemplate the cage’s magical construction. She might propose one of these methods to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
svirfneblin. The gnomes cast blur as a last-ditch effort, and their magic soaked into the room, making everything within it harder to see. Attacks against creatures or objects in the room have disadvantage
strange, angled structure, as though a squat tower tipped sideways and fell through the wall. Muddy knobs protrude and retract from its irregular surface in a slow, hypnotic motion. Near the structure, two
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
a sleek red coat. But Ilren is a disguised death slaad who can cast the spell Modify Memory (spell save DC 15) once per day. Ilren is the reason the camp suffers Aberration attacks; the death slaad
room’s ward runes. Redbud moves these roots if the characters eradicate the monsters nesting below. The roots also retract if Redbud is killed or forced to relocate. Z12: Lifeboat Wreck A cot is shoved
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a2
bridge, or at those who hang back to cast spells or make ranged attacks. A character on the bridge who is hit by an attack must make a saving throw to avoid a fall, just as if the character’s
orcs claims leadership of the tribe. If at least half the orcs in the tribe are slain in addition to Ulfe, any survivors abandon the dungeon after the party leaves. They become roving bands of raiders
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
Passage The rebel orcs have piled finished and rough stones against the north side of this door to keep it closed. The wooden door is bound with moldering bands of bronze, and a heavy bronze bolt
, are armed with clubs, axes, daggers, and various cast-off weapons, as well as seven highly prized crossbows. They obtain food from raids, supplemented by fungus they find in a subterranean cave
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
risk getting caught. On their first turns in combat, Draac and Taal cast Evard’s black tentacles spells. The tentacles erupt from the floor in front of the characters, filling the two 20-foot squares
very quiet and still. The southern fringes of the Moonwood are home to small bands of moon elves and wood elves, as well as the rustic homes of a few woodcutters and trappers. Uthgardt and lycanthropes