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Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
explicitly include dragon turtles in the variant rules for making a dragon a spellcaster, you can apply those rules to these aquatic dragons.)
Dragon Turtle Personality Traits
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. Now the sword must be found, and only a dragon turtle remembers where it is.
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A dragon turtle has taken up residence in a subterranean lake, and the steam has been driving other creatures up
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
characters, and use the Dragon Turtle Spellcasting table to help select spells for a spellcasting dragon. (Though the Monster Manual doesn’t explicitly include dragon turtles in the variant rules for
making a dragon a spellcaster, you can apply those rules to these aquatic dragons.)
Dragon Turtle Personality Traits
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Halfling
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Basic Rules (2014)
, even by the standards of his diminutive race, with the fluff of his curly brown locks barely cresting the three-foot mark, but his belly was amply thickened by his love of a good meal, or several, as
communities travel as a way of life, driving wagons or guiding boats from place to place and maintaining no permanent home.
AFFABLE AND POSITIVE
Halflings try to get along with everyone else and are
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
’s Guide for rules on extreme cold). If the climate in the area already features extreme cold, the cold is numbing—creatures in the area without immunity or resistance to cold damage have
, including driving off intruders. But if the cradle dies, the scion within fully awakens.ColdFire, Lightning; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical AttacksEarth-Shaking Movement. The
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
envelops the land within 6 miles of the scion (see the Dungeon Master’s Guide for rules on extreme cold). If the climate in the area already features extreme cold, the cold is numbing—creatures
protects the slumbering scion and follows its subconscious wishes, including driving off intruders. But if the cradle dies, the scion within fully awakens.Cold, PoisonFire, Lightning; Bludgeoning
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
, driving them into the Darkened Depths where they escaped into the crushing pressure and utter darkness. In time, the tritons noticed that their ancient elemental foes had grown quiet. Expeditions to
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
table to help select spells for a spellcasting dragon. (Though the Monster Manual doesn’t explicitly include dragon turtles in the variant rules for making a dragon a spellcaster, you can apply
those rules to these aquatic dragons.)
Dragon Turtle Personality Traits
d8;{"diceNotation":"1d8","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Trait"}
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I speak slowly and deliberately
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
the fact that the driving force behind his visions keeps him so far from the sea. Enemies and Allies The followers of the Crushing Wave detest the Cult of the Eternal Flame. They find the fire
Cult of the Crushing Wave Cultists of the Crushing Wave worship the awesome power of water, from the surging tides and deadly maelstroms of the sea to the raging torrents of rivers in flood and the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Aquatic Crusaders Centuries ago, tritons entered the world in response to the growing threat of evil elementals. Tritons waged many wars against their enemies on the Plane of Water, driving them
into the Darkened Depths where they escaped into the crushing pressure and utter darkness. In time, the tritons noticed that their ancient elemental foes had grown quiet. Expeditions to the depths
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
offers feats for groups that use them. Chapter 2 contains patrons who can become one of the driving forces behind your group’s adventures. Chapter 3 sparkles with new magical options, including
spells, magical spellbooks, artifacts, and magic-infused tattoos—available for both player characters and monsters to use. Chapter 4 holds various rules that a DM may incorporate into a campaign, including
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
surface. Knifepoint Gully near Feathergale Spire leads to the Temple of Howling Hatred. The Dark Stream flows under Rivergard Keep, leading to the Temple of the Crushing Wave. The Ancient Stair
. At least two cultists from any group the characters interact with serve as escorts. Driving the Cults into Retreat The cultists learn and adapt as the characters attack their strongholds. The four
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
bay—an aurora that portends an everlasting winter. Storms bring driving hail and sleet that leaves everything coated in a sheath of ice. Snow piles in deep drifts and blocks all trails leading south
mine for iron. Meanwhile, folk descended from foolhardy and treasure-mad immigrants eke out meager lives in Ten-Towns, which can barely hold back the wind, let alone marauding orcs, giants, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
, with barely a hint of emotion left. He is above the concerns of the living. The only event that occasionally haunts him is the death of Tatyana, but his view of the past is bereft of romance or regret
. In his mind, her death couldn’t have been prevented, and what is done cannot be undone. In life, Strahd lived to conquer. In undeath, he conquers still—not realms, but people, driving good souls 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->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->Out of the Abyss
Steelshadow V, the cultists plan to inflict a curse on the stone giants of Clan Cairngorm that causes them to grow second heads, driving them insane. WHORLSTONE TUNNELS: GENERAL FEATURES
The following
barely 2 feet wide at their widest points. A Tiny creature can move through these tunnels unimpeded, while a Small creature must squeeze to pass through them. Medium and larger creatures can’t fit
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
their late teens and live less than a century. Size. Humans vary widely in height and build, from barely 5 feet to well over 6 feet tall. Regardless of your position in that range, your size is Medium
HUMAN TRAITS
If your campaign uses the optional feat rules from chapter 6, your Dungeon Master might allow these variant traits, all of which replace the human’s Ability Score Increase trait
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
empire of born predators. Early in life, he sought to unite his reckless werebeast family and turn them into tools of his ambition. When they failed him, though, Harkon lashed out, ultimately driving
the lycanthropes to turn on him. The would-be leader murdered dozens but barely escaped alive, fleeing into a nation of humans. In the years that followed, Harkon learned how to blend in with other
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
, a tremor in the planar firmament sends a rogue wave sweeping across the plane, swamping entire islands and driving ships down to the reefs. Life flourishes in the upper reaches of the Sea of Worlds
deeper extents of the plane, where no sunlight reaches, are called the Darkened Depths. Horrid creatures dwell here, and the absolute cold and crushing pressure mean a swift end to creatures accustomed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
beg the characters to spare them, offering to drive the characters to the Red Belvedere in exchange. Driving the Venatrix The following rules are an adjusted, condensed version of the infernal war
machine rules found in Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus. Driving. The helm of an infernal war machine is a chair with a wheel, levers, pedals, and other controls. The helm requires a driver to operate
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
The Balance The demons and the devils both foresee their own versions of the future of the multiverse — a cosmos in which one side or the other triumphs in the Blood War and rules for the rest of
follower might aid in consigning one city to domination by a devil cult while driving demonic cultists from another. For the sake of the Balance, the cosmos must remain in a static state where neither
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
is currently in the up position and has the word “Crush” inscribed above it. Moving this lever to the down position causes the pit’s east and west walls to close together, crushing anything between
it, becoming visible as they do so.
Bunk Beds. Four stone bunk beds are pushed against the long walls of the room.
The arch is one of Halaster’s magic gates (see “Gates”). Its rules are as follows
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Approaching the Fortress To get to Xardorok’s fortress, the characters need to negotiate the Spine of the World. Use the rules in the “Mountain Travel” section to simulate the perils of getting
hewn from the rock leads up along one side of the wall.
The steps leading up to it are barely 5 feet wide and climb 150 feet to a frost-covered shelf that adjoins the main entrance (area X1). Difficult
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
guard.
Five Crushing Wave reavers and a Howling Hatred priest wearing a balloon pack watch the outer camp. (See chapter 7 for the cultists’ statistics and rules for the balloon pack.) The figures
Haayon the Punisher This encounter occurs only after the prophets of the Cult of the Howling Hatred and the Cult of the Crushing Wave have been defeated. Bands of raiders roaming the area, minor
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
; now roll damage,” “11 points,” and “OK, now we’re to Initiative count 13.” Instead, use the rules and your knowledge of the scene to help your narration. If 18 is barely a hit, but the 11 points of
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
islands and driving ships down to the reefs. Any land that rises above the surface of the sea is hotly contested by the few air breathers that live on the plane. Fleets of rafts and ships lashed together
extents of the plane, where no sunlight reaches, are called the Darkened Depths. Horrid creatures dwell here, and the absolute cold and crushing pressure mean a swift end to creatures accustomed to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Astral Adventurer’s Guide
-foot cube Gargantuan 20-foot cube A creature that needs to breathe will exhaust the air in its personal envelope in 1 minute. Since this is barely enough time to get anywhere, most creatures travel
121, and the foul air turns deadly 120 days later. Deadly air is unbreathable. Any creature that tries to breathe deadly air begins to suffocate (see the rules on suffocation in the Player’s Handbook
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
additional lair actions while in its lair: Blinding Sleet. Driving sleet falls in a 40-foot-high, 20-foot-radius cylinder centered on a point the dragon can see within 120 feet of it. Each creature in that
(see the Dungeon Master’s Guide for rules on strong wind). The dragon’s flying is not affected by this wind, which lasts until the next time the dragon uses a lair action or until the dragon dies
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
crawls up to the landing and joins the battle. P6. Yngukulub the Devourer An aboleth named Yngukulub the Devourer has allied itself with Gar Shatterkeel and the Cult of the Crushing Wave. Deranged kuo-toa
was defeated in the Temple of the Crushing Wave, the aboleth guards the water portal in area P20. Otherwise, it is here. The slimy water that fills this cave flows through a hole in the east wall
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Value column of the Fashion at Auction table. If you want to play out the bidding, the opening bid for each design is half of its value. Other students might bid against characters, driving up the
Relationship Encounter If there are students with whom the characters wish to earn Relationship Points, treat the fashion show as a Relationship encounter using the rules in chapter 3. Have players note the results of this encounter on their copies of the tracking sheet.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
grown shoddy with the passage of years. A blazing fire in the hearth barely gives any warmth to the room. You see a man behind the counter, methodically cleaning glasses. Three older women huddle
action in the rules glossary.
Russell: “Yeah, whose seal is it?”
Jared: “The Devil Strahd.”
Amy: “Sounds like a pleasant fellow.”
Jared: “No! He is the vampire lord of Castle Ravenloft and a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
the characters to see Yvandre. Yvandre Rillyn The driving force behind the Rillyn family’s revival, Yvandre (a human veteran) is an iron-willed and accomplished swordfighter as well as a rising
weapons, unmarked crates, and shelves of bric-a-brac. The grimy windows barely allow a view of the city beyond.
Machil’s notes and journals are packed haphazardly into three boxes in this storeroom
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Cyre, crushing everything in their path and leaving ruin in their wake. Meant to end the war decisively, these arcane war machines could pulverize soldiers beneath their feet and incinerate entire
, siege engines, or other weapons of war. Their earliest efforts, which lumbered onto Cyran battlefields in the late 930s YK, were barely more than golems with limited sentience, difficult to command
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
city, patrol its streets, and send raiding parties into the surrounding jungle. Ras Nsi rules over them, but traitorous priests plot his downfall. Salida’s Treachery. One of the guides presented in
barely aware of the kobolds’ existence. Red Wizards of Thay A group of Red Wizards entered the city a couple of days prior to the characters’ arrival. They camped in the ruined compound at area 2, but
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
71. Lair of the Sewn Sisters Green smoke billows out from a bronze cauldron in the middle of this twenty-foot-high vaulted hall. Barely visible through the haze are three rocking chairs, several work
charm on that character. Each doll can bestow its charm once. These charms are similar to the ones described in chapter 7 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide and follow the same rules. Strawbundle’s Charm