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Envy

Monsters The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

commands, the lion is pleased and allows them to remain in its presence. Characters who fail to show it deference are instructed to leave the tower at once, and the lion attacks those who refuse.

;s magic from harming one another. When the characters first grace the iron lion with their presence, it demands their obeisance and commands them to kneel before it. If the characters do as Envy

Dark Fantasy

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

and evil are blurred. Choices involve deciding which outcome is least bad. Corruption and suspicion flourish among organizations and individuals. Magic and magic items might be rarer or require a

bargain or sacrifice to use. Antiheroes are common—characters tainted by the world’s evil or those who refuse to be considered heroes.

Speak with Plants

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules

Speak with Plants Level 3 Transmutation (Bard, Druid, Ranger) Casting Time: Action Range: Self Components: V, S Duration: 10 minutes You imbue plants in an immobile 30-foot Emanation with

limited sentience and animation, giving them the ability to communicate with you and follow your simple commands. You can question plants about events in the spell’s area within the past day, gaining

Planar Binding

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook

Planar Binding Level 5 Abjuration (Bard, Cleric, Druid, Warlock, Wizard) Casting Time: 1 hour Range: 60 feet Components: V, S, M (a jewel worth 1,000+ GP, which the spell consumes) Duration: 24

commands to the best of its ability. You might command the creature to accompany you on an adventure, to guard a location, or to deliver a message. If the creature is Hostile, it strives to twist your

Planar Binding

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules

Planar Binding Level 5 Abjuration (Bard, Cleric, Druid, Warlock, Wizard) Casting Time: 1 hour Range: 60 feet Components: V, S, M (a jewel worth 1,000+ GP, which the spell consumes) Duration: 24

commands to the best of its ability. You might command the creature to accompany you on an adventure, to guard a location, or to deliver a message. If the creature is Hostile, it strives to twist your

Speak with Plants

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook

Speak with Plants Level 3 Transmutation (Bard, Druid, Ranger) Casting Time: Action Range: Self Components: V, S Duration: 10 minutes You imbue plants in an immobile 30-foot Emanation with

limited sentience and animation, giving them the ability to communicate with you and follow your simple commands. You can question plants about events in the spell’s area within the past day, gaining

Subclasses

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything

3rd Filled with a rage that channels the primal magic of the storm Barbarian Path of the Zealot 3rd Fueled by a religious zeal that visits destruction on foes Bard College of Glamour 3rd Wields the

beguiling, glorious magic of the Feywild Bard College of Swords 3rd Entertains and slays with daring feats of weapon prowess Bard College of Whispers 3rd Plants fear and doubt in the minds of others

Patron Benefits

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

your expenses are excessive, your patron might refuse to repay them. Equipment. Your group can request access to equipment owned by the newspaper, such as a printing press. With permission, you can use

your identity and identify you as a member of the press, which commands a certain amount of respect. You can often secure an audience with those you want to talk to. Of course, this isn’t a guarantee

Stone Golem

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual

. Roll on or choose a result from the Stone Golem Orders table to inspire the commands a stone golem follows. Stone Golem Orders 1d6 The Stone Golem Follows Orders To... 1 Allow only those

battle with the type of monster that slew the hero it resembles. Exercise discernment when deciding the golem’s appearance, as your creation is likely to long outlive its model. —Manual of

Dominate Monster

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook

Dominate Monster Level 8 Enchantment (Bard, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard) Casting Time: Action Range: 60 feet Components: V, S Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour One creature you can see

this link to issue commands to the target (no action required), such as “Attack that creature,” “Move over there,” or “Fetch that object.” The target does its best to obey on its turn. If it

Dominate Person

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook

Dominate Person Level 5 Enchantment (Bard, Sorcerer, Wizard) Casting Time: Action Range: 60 feet Components: V, S Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute One Humanoid you can see within range

link to issue commands to the target (no action required), such as “Attack that creature,” “Move over there,” or “Fetch that object.” The target does its best to obey on its turn. If it completes an

Dominate Monster

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules

Dominate Monster Level 8 Enchantment (Bard, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard) Casting Time: Action Range: 60 feet Components: V, S Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour One creature you can see

this link to issue commands to the target (no action required), such as “Attack that creature,” “Move over there,” or “Fetch that object.” The target does its best to obey on its turn. If it

Dominate Person

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules

Dominate Person Level 5 Enchantment (Bard, Sorcerer, Wizard) Casting Time: Action Range: 60 feet Components: V, S Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute One Humanoid you can see within range

link to issue commands to the target (no action required), such as “Attack that creature,” “Move over there,” or “Fetch that object.” The target does its best to obey on its turn. If it completes an

Location Overview

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sleeping Dragon’s Wake

Desert. Learning that it longed for its old home, Fheralai kidnapped a local bard, Tarbin Tul, and forced him to regale the ship with songs from its lost homeland. The ruse worked. As long as Tarbin

sings to it regularly, the soul of the ship remains willing to carry out Fheralai’s commands. Since then, the storm lord has kept the dreadnaught beached on the rocks as a staging post for her upcoming invasion of the Sword Coast.

Dragon Dilemma

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves

—Briochebane’s favorite dessert—to coax the dragon into returning to the bakery. Fill stresses that the characters are not to eat the rolls, or the dragon might not heed their commands. If they want their own

, Fill will give each character one free roll. If the characters refuse, Fill asks only that the characters not reveal the secrets he shared with them. Before they depart, the baker mentions that

Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansion

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules

Mordenkainen’s Magnificent Mansion Level 7 Conjuration (Bard, Wizard) Casting Time: 1 Minute Range: 300 feet Components: V, S, M (a miniature door worth 15+ GP) Duration: 24 Hours You conjure

and obey your commands. Each servant can perform tasks that a human could perform, but they can’t attack or take any action that would directly harm another creature. Thus the servants can fetch

Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansion

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook

Mordenkainen’s Magnificent Mansion Level 7 Conjuration (Bard, Wizard) Casting Time: 1 minute Range: 300 feet Components: V, S, M (a miniature door worth 15+ GP) Duration: 24 hours You conjure

and obey your commands. Each servant can perform tasks that a human could perform, but they can’t attack or take any action that would directly harm another creature. Thus the servants can fetch

23. Bottled Genie

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation

refuse her commands. At first, Keshma promises the characters riches in exchange for freedom — the sapphires coiled through her braided hair and the platinum armbands (see “Treasure” below). Such

. At first, she orders the characters to release her. If they refuse, she tries to bargain with them (see “Roleplaying the Dao” below). While trapped inside the bottle, Keshma can’t attack or cast spells

T6: Occult Library

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves

is two zombified ogres that are smashing all the furniture in this room, apparently obeying the commands of a dwarf wearing a red robe. Desks and chairs made of black wood and adorned with skulls lie

Evil Cultist Fanatic)—to destroy everything in this library. Eleith commands two Ogre Zombies to do the heavy labor. The cultist and zombies are Hostile and fight anyone not wearing the crimson robes

T13: Great Statue of Orcus

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves

decides to test them. He issues a random command, determined by rolling on the Nezzarum’s Commands table, and judges them based on their consequent actions. If they fulfill his wishes, he seems pleased

; if they refuse a command, he remains Indifferent toward them. Each time the characters leave the hall and return, Nezzarum issues a new command until he has issued three of them. He never repeats a

Students

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault

scraps of parchment. He plans to become an adventuring bard but hasn’t the courage to tell his parents, who would never tolerate such a pedestrian, dangerous life for their son. Mazia Foulard (lawful good

nobles with an extra skill: Performance +7. The students are friendly but scream loudly and try to hide if confronted by unidentified intruders. They refuse to cooperate with anyone opposed to Sythian

Approaching the Outpost

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

and rejoins the fight. These duergar won’t negotiate, and they refuse to surrender. If the characters capture and interrogate a duergar, a successful DC 14 Charisma (Intimidation) check can convince

the prisoner to divulge the following information: Nildar Sunblight commands the outpost. Nildar is searching Ten-Towns for chardalyn on behalf of his father, Xardorok Sunblight, who commands a

Gideon Lightward

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus

marks the end of all things. But his mind is broken and filled with hatred for those who refuse to follow his commands. Because of his obsession with destroying demons, the characters might be able to

True Polymorph

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules

True Polymorph Level 9 Transmutation (Bard, Warlock, Wizard) Casting Time: Action Range: 30 feet Components: V, S, M (a drop of mercury, a dollop of gum arabic, and a wisp of smoke) Duration

immediately after yours, and it obeys your commands. If the spell lasts more than an hour, you no longer control the creature. It might remain Friendly to you, depending on how you have treated it

Tyger, Tyger

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd

that the half-elf paid them for their silence. After the burgomaster learns that the tiger belongs to Rictavio, he commands his guards to arrest the mysterious bard. If Rictavio thinks the characters

Spells

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things

No No Bard, sorcerer, warlock, wizard 3rd Antagonize Enchantment No No Bard, sorcerer, warlock, wizard 4th Spirit of Death Necromancy Yes No Sorcerer, warlock, wizard Antagonize 3rd-Level

initiative count and takes its turn immediately after yours. It obeys your verbal commands (no action required by you). If you don’t issue the spirit any commands, it takes the Dodge action and uses its

Animate Objects

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules

Animate Objects Level 5 Transmutation (Bard, Sorcerer, Wizard) Casting Time: Action Range: 120 feet Components: V, S Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute Objects animate at your command

this spell if the creature is within 500 feet of you (if you control multiple creatures, you can command any of them at the same time, issuing the same command to each one). If you issue no commands

Animate Objects

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook

Animate Objects Level 5 Transmutation (Bard, Sorcerer, Wizard) Casting Time: Action Range: 120 feet Components: V, S Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute DAVID AUDEN NASH A Brazier

, issuing the same command to each one). If you issue no commands, the creature takes the Dodge action and moves only to avoid harm. When the creature drops to 0 Hit Points, it reverts to its object

True Polymorph

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook

True Polymorph Level 9 Transmutation (Bard, Warlock, Wizard) Casting Time: Action Range: 30 feet Components: V, S, M (a drop of mercury, a dollop of gum arabic, and a wisp of smoke) Duration

after yours, and it obeys your commands. If the spell lasts more than an hour, you no longer control the creature. It might remain Friendly to you, depending on how you have treated it. Creature into

Theater: Spring

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

named Yaliek Iltizmar (N female Rashemi bard; see appendix B), who is also a member of the Harpers. She pays close attention to characters who nose around backstage, then shares any interesting

characters refuse, and makes good on its threat if the characters don’t share the wealth. The faerie dragon doesn’t have a hoard of its own, since it gives its earnings to unfortunate Waterdavians by

Menzoberranzan

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

release her prisoner. If the characters refuse to turn back, Ryzliir kills Aljanor and orders her own force to attack. If the characters leave Aljanor behind or allow him to die, members of the party’s

lizards (see the end of chapter 8 for statistics), and Aljanor rides behind Velgor. Ryzliir commands a force of six drow warriors, twelve bugbear slaves, and sixty goblin slaves. If all the drow are

The Direct Approach

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault

Students?” A character who is a bard (or pretends to be one) can petition Sythian to become a student at Skalderang Conservatory. The character must first prove they can afford Sythian’s tutelage (by

laugh and orders the characters to leave at once. If the characters refuse, Sythian and Joster flee to area C15, where Sythian equips himself with Golden Axe and tries to escape out the window using the

Angels in the Outlands

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel

Angels in the Outlands CoupleOfKooks “If you think you’re prepared for the ultimate struggle between good and evil, the deciding contest between all that is righteous and all that is foul, then to

refuse the Celestials’ gesture of goodwill. If the characters joined the Righteous Hands, Shariel gifts the characters with a prismatic chalice from Mount Celestia that functions as a gem of brightness

Shadrix Silverquill

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

Silverquill Gargantuan Dragon (Bard), Neutral Armor Class 21 (natural armor) Hit Points 363 (22d20 + 132) Speed 40 ft., fly 80 ft. STR 25 (+7) DEX 14 (+2) CON 23 (+6

Actions). Shadrix magically summons 1d4 inkling mascots (in this chapter) in unoccupied spaces he can see within 60 feet of himself. The inklings obey his commands and take their turns immediately

College of Whispers

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything

College of Whispers Most folk are happy to welcome a bard into their midst. Bards of the College of Whispers use this to their advantage. They appear to be like other bards, sharing news, singing

Whispers Features Bard Level Feature 3rd Psychic Blades, Words of Terror 6th Mantle of Whispers 14th Shadow Lore Psychic Blades When you join the College of Whispers at 3rd level, you gain the ability

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