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. Any hollow or crook will do, but often a special cavity is carved out of the trunk. The tree is bathed and watered with the blood of the sacrificed victim, and the body is buried among the tree’s
at once ready to perform its duty. The one who performed the ritual sets the wood woad to its task, and the creature follows those orders unceasingly.
A wood woad has a hole where its heart would be
Bard
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Basic Rules (2014)
a master, following the more experienced bard until you were ready to strike out on your own? Or did you attend a college where you studied bardic lore and practiced your musical magic? Perhaps you
, ensuring that her companions’ words will be well received. Whether scholar, skald, or scoundrel, a bard weaves magic through words and music to inspire allies, demoralize foes, manipulate minds
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Compulsion Level 4 Enchantment (Bard) Casting Time: Action
Range: 30 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
Each creature of your choice that you can see within range
must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or have the Charmed condition until the spell ends. For the duration, you can take a Bonus Action to designate a direction that is horizontal to you. Each Charmed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Compulsion Level 4 Enchantment (Bard) Casting Time: Action
Range: 30 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
Each creature of your choice that you can see within range
must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or have the Charmed condition until the spell ends. For the duration, you can take a Bonus Action to designate a direction that is horizontal to you. Each Charmed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Illusory Script Level 1 Illusion (Bard, Warlock, Wizard) Casting Time: 1 minute or Ritual
Range: Touch
Components: S, M (ink worth 10+ GP, which the spell consumes)
Duration: 10 days
You
write on parchment, paper, or another suitable material and imbue it with an illusion that lasts for the duration. To you and any creatures you designate when you cast the spell, the writing appears
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Illusory Script Level 1 Illusion (Bard, Warlock, Wizard) Casting Time: 1 minute or Ritual
Range: Touch
Components: S, M (ink worth 10+ GP, which the spell consumes)
Duration: 10 days
You
write on parchment, paper, or another suitable material and imbue it with an illusion that lasts for the duration. To you and any creatures you designate when you cast the spell, the writing appears
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
, following the more experienced bard until you were ready to strike out on your own? Or did you attend a college where you studied bardic lore and practiced your musical magic? Perhaps you were a
Creating a Bard Bards thrive on stories, whether those stories are true or not. Your character’s background and motivations are not as important as the stories that he or she tells about them
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
a shimmering door in range that lasts for the duration. The door leads to an extradimensional dwelling and is 5 feet wide and 10 feet tall. You and any creature you designate when you cast the spell
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
a shimmering door in range that lasts for the duration. The door leads to an extradimensional dwelling and is 5 feet wide and 10 feet tall. You and any creature you designate when you cast the spell
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Mordenkainen’s Magnificent Mansion 7th-level conjuration Casting Time: 1 minute Range: 300 feet Components: V, S, M (a miniature portal carved from ivory, a small piece of polished marble, and a tiny
entrance shimmers faintly and is 5 feet wide and 10 feet tall. You and any creature you designate when you cast the spell can enter the extradimensional dwelling as long as the portal remains open. You can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
, following the more experienced bard until you were ready to strike out on your own? Or did you attend a college where you studied bardic lore and practiced your musical magic? Perhaps you were a
Creating a Bard Bards thrive on stories, whether those stories are true or not. Your character’s background and motivations are not as important as the stories that he or she tells about them
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
railings or battlements. Giants once stood atop these ledges, ready to hurl rocks at interlopers that passed below. Five niches are carved into the back wall of each ledge. Each one holds an iron sconce
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Bardic Colleges In addition to the tradition of apprenticing with a master bard, the Sword Coast has some bardic colleges where masters teach students the bardic arts. They hark back to the great
master bard attended each of the elder colleges, seeking to learn its musical and magical secrets. Traditionally, the colleges were attended in the order given above, starting with Fochlucan. That
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
shouts in Dwarvish, “The stew will be ready when it’s ready! Get out, lest ye taste none of it!” If they don’t leave at once, he says, “My eyes are clouded, but my ears and nose work fine. Test not my
into the basin and mix with the blood pooling there (see “Regional Effects”). A stone plug covers the drainpipe in the bottom of the basin. 11b. Pantry Fifty gray sacks rest atop stone shelves carved into the walls of this 10-foot-high room. The sacks contain edible fungi and dried moss.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rrakkma
Area Information Dimensions & Terrain This oddly circular chamber is forty feet in diameter one way and fifty feet in diameter the other. Other Features Statues, carved from a pure white marble
, struck through with veins of a strange blood-red stone, stand at the perimeter of this chamber. A massive humanoid figure, also carved from the strange marble, stands the center of the chamber, its arms
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
1. No Retreat Arch. The north wall is set with a stone arch, its keystone bearing Halaster’s visage whose animated eyes follow any creature that approaches the arch. Carved into the wall above the
and fingers curled like talons, as though ready to leap down and claw at anyone who stands before it (see “Halaster Statue” below).
Frescoes. Six 10-foot-square painted frescoes adorn the walls around
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a2
an underground river, which runs through a corner of the caverns forgotten by the denizens above. The Foundry. Beyond the Glitterhame lies a complex of chambers and passageways carved by Durgeddin’s
succeeded in that mission and advanced to 3rd level were now ready to take on the challenges of a ruined dwarven fortress.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Prismatic Wall Level 9 Abjuration (Bard, Wizard) Casting Time: Action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: 10 minutes
A shimmering, multicolored plane of light forms a vertical opaque
additional 100 feet. You and creatures you designate when you cast the spell can pass through and be near the wall without harm. If another creature that can see the wall moves within 20 feet of it or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Prismatic Wall Level 9 Abjuration (Bard, Wizard) Casting Time: Action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: 10 minutes
A shimmering, multicolored plane of light forms a vertical opaque
additional 100 feet. You and creatures you designate when you cast the spell can pass through and be near the wall without harm. If another creature that can see the wall moves within 20 feet of it or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
young bard three tables over.
Then all the noise is eclipsed by a shout: “Ya pig! Like killin’ me mates, does ya?” Then a seven-foot-tall half-orc is hit by a wild, swinging punch from a male human
whose shaved head is covered with eye-shaped tattoos. Four other humans stand behind him, ready to jump into the fray. The half-orc cracks her knuckles, roars, and leaps at the tattooed figure — but
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
thousand chanting voices. Great sculptures in honor of a multitude of gods gazed across an array of shrines and altars. Priests stood ready by night and day to tend to the spiritual needs of their people
the absent dwarves. They defaced statues, tore down altars, and carved obscenities into the sacred tablets. Anything of value, such as silver or mithral trim, gold icons, and hallowed weapons, has
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Stygian Maze This area’s foyer is carved from glistening obsidian. An austere, fanged man in a high-collared cloak sits at an intricately carved desk, next to which is a simple stone doorway. Behind
them designate a leader. If a character is exploring the maze alone, that character is the leader. The leader then ventures through the maze, making a DC 20 Intelligence (Investigation) or Wisdom
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
sets down his lantern and hides. The following descriptive text assumes this is the case: An enormous chamber with a twenty-foot ceiling has been carved out of the rock here. A lighted lantern rests
workshop carved out by the dwarves of Besilmer thousands of years ago. The dwarves left behind an odd array of pillars, threshold stones, lintels, and carved stone doors. Human miners from the ancient
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
lizardfolk stand in the shadows of the flickering green flames, ready to attack but understanding that the adventurers are a serious threat if they’ve made it this far. At the back of the room, near an
altar carved with the form of a giant, open-mouthed cobra, the comatose Varram has been beaten and bound. Dealing for the Dwarf If the characters have made any mention of their search for Varram
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
this grotto as a lair but feared Batiri goblins had sniffed out its location and were getting ready to raid it. Needle was in the process of moving her treasure to other locations when the goblins
-foot-wide, 10-foot-high secret door in the northwest wall of the grotto conceals a 15-foot-deep alcove. The secret door is carved from natural rock and disguised to look like part of the wall, and all
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
-foot-high ceiling.
Githyanki. Four githyanki warriors stand guard next to the pillars.
Arch. Embedded in the east wall is a stone arch, its keystone carved with an image of a six-fingered
remaining.
Fountain. Embedded in the north wall is a stone fountain with a semicircular basin. The fountain is carved in the likeness of a winged fish with water spouting from its mouth.
The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
set a pair of twelve-foot-tall, ironbound wooden doors. Carved into the arch above the doors is a name: Krezk. The walls that extend from the gatehouse are twenty feet high. Atop the parapet you see
village is under attack and cry out in alarm. Five rounds after the alarm sounds, every able-bodied adult in the village arrives at the gatehouse, ready for battle. Krezk’s militia consists of four more
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
her chest. The caryatids face inward.
Modron. Circling the caryatids counterclockwise is a quadrone with its bow at the ready. It makes clicking and clacking noises as it walks.
Bas-Reliefs. The
walls are carved with bas-reliefs of unicorns and bare-branched trees.
A detect magic spell reveals an aura of abjuration magic around the pillars. Touching a pillar while speaking the proper command
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
lizardfolk stand in the shadows of the flickering green flames, ready to attack but understanding that the adventurers are a serious threat if they’ve made it this far unscathed. At the back of the room, near
an altar carved with the form of a giant, open-mouthed cobra, the comatose Varram has been beaten and bound. Dealing for the Dwarf If the characters have made any mention of their search for Varram
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal
the top of the waist-high lip of the well. The rope that hangs in the center of the well is levered over to the lip by a beam in the rafters, and when those who have paid are ready, they mount the rope
adventuring bands that enter the dungeon. Occasionally, something that strikes Durnan’s fancy can be used to pay a bar tab. Yawning Portal Taproom Curios d20 Item 1 A key carved from bone 2 A small
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
lions to get them ready to accompany Setessans in battle. Here men live and work alongside women, collectively training and caring for the animals that live here. Nessian Wood The vast wilderness of the
Nessian Wood from the east. Ancient Setessans carved an impenetrable fortress into the mountains to guard the pass. Bassara patrols from Setessa still check in on the fortress regularly, and they occupy
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation Supplement
haven’t seen them since. 4 A trail leads from Ahoyhoy to some mud pits in the heart of the jungle. If you bathe in a mud pit for at least an hour, it will fortify you. 5 Carved into the base of the
they hatch, then share their life experiences with the newborn offspring. Not long after it learns to walk on two legs, a young tortle becomes an orphan ready to make its mark on the world. 7 A ship
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
and ready themselves for combat if they detect intruders.
Arch. A stone arch is embedded in the middle of the south wall. Carved into the arch’s keystone is an image of a six-fingered gauntlet.
The
the arms of a merman bas-relief carved above the fountain’s basin, which is filled almost to the brim. The water pouring into the fountain is drinkable. It drains out slowly through holes along the inside lip of the basin.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
yuan-ti, choked by overgrown jungle plants, might feature ramps instead of stairs. Caverns carved by a beholder’s disintegration eye ray have walls that are unnaturally smooth, and the beholder’s lair
. Details bring a dungeon setting’s personality to life. Great bearded faces might be carved on the doors of a dwarven stronghold and might be defaced by the gnolls who live there now. Spiderweb
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
). They sell items from the Adventuring Gear table in the Player’s Handbook that have a price of 25 gp or less, but at five times the price. Rictavio’s Carnival Wagon The colorful half-elf bard
!” Rictavio isn’t ready to unleash the tiger on the Vistani just yet. He feeds it by dropping wolf steaks down a 1-foot-square hatch in the wagon’s roof. A character who climbs atop the wagon can spot the