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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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A young dragon turtle serves as a mount for a sahuagin baron in exchange for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Divine Contention
Running the Battle This quest is an epic battle involving hundreds of rival combatants. Use the following rules to resolve the conflict.
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
challenge the monarch for the right to rule. The grounds are 20 feet in diameter. Combatants are shackled by one wrist or ankle to a 10-foot length of chain attached to the tree. Each chain has AC 19
, 11 hit points, and immunity to poison and psychic damage. Using an action, a creature can pull a chain free of the tree with a successful DC 17 Strength (Athletics) check. Combat Rules. A trial by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Initiative Initiative determines the order of turns during combat. The combat rules in “Playing the Game” explain how to roll Initiative. Sometimes a DM might have combatants use their Initiative
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Initiative Initiative determines the order of turns during combat. The combat rules in chapter 1 explain how to roll Initiative. Sometimes a DM might have combatants use their Initiative scores
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Alcio “Baron” Metus Alcio was never close to her brother, Baron, even after a Kargat vampire turned them both into undead servants. When her creator was destroyed, Alcio and Baron went their separate
ways. Alcio “Baron” Metus It took Alcio years to learn of her brother’s death at the hands of Rudolph van Richten, a doctor from Rivalis (see “Mist Wanderers” at the end of the chapter). Furious, she
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
single tournament has twelve combatants and consists of three fights with short rests in between. Failure to heed the following rules result in a combatant’s disqualification: All tournament
combatants must wait in area X7 until they’re called to area X6 to fight. During a fight event, no combatant can leave the arena or attack anyone who isn’t a combatant in that event. Tournament Structure Noska
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fated Flight of the Recluse
human’s dragonmark and garb suggests high ranking in House Cannith. If the check succeeds by 5 or more, the character recognizes the human as Zorlan d’Cannith, the Cannith baron that rules Cannith
Baron Zorlan d’Cannith (Medium Cannith Artificer, detailed in Eberron: Forge of the Artificer), his retinue of three warforged bodyguards (Medium Warrior Veterans), and Bastion, his personal warforged
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Noncombat Challenges You decide whether to award experience to characters for overcoming challenges outside combat. If the adventurers complete a tense negotiation with a baron, forge a trade
agreement with a clan of surly dwarves, or successfully navigate the Chasm of Doom, you might decide that they deserve an XP reward.
As a starting point, use the rules for building combat encounters in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
the new political powers of Khorvaire, and the division of Thuranni from Phiarlan embodies that new reality. From his enclave in Regalport (in the Lhazaar Principalities), Baron Elar d’Thuranni rules a
twenty years ago, Baron Elar d’Thuranni ordered the assassination of the entire Paelion line, one of the branches of House Phiarlan. Supposedly, he acted to prevent the Paelions from carrying out a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
adventurers complete a tense negotiation with a baron, forge a trade agreement with a guild of surly smiths, or safely navigate the Chasm of Doom, you might decide the characters deserve XP. As a starting
point, use the rules for building combat encounters in chapter 4 to gauge the difficulty of the challenge. Then award the characters XP as if it had been a combat encounter of the same difficulty
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
the rules glossary for more about Speed as well as about special speeds, such as a Climb Speed, Fly Speed, or Swim Speed. Difficult Terrain Combatants are often slowed down by Difficult Terrain. Low
, you can move a distance equal to your Speed or less. Or you can decide not to move. Your movement can include climbing, crawling, jumping, and swimming (each explained in the rules glossary). These
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
noted in the monster’s stat block. See the Rules Glossary for more about Speed as well as about special speeds, such as a Climb Speed, Fly Speed, or Swim Speed. Difficult Terrain Combatants are often
explained in the Rules Glossary). These different modes of movement can be combined with your regular movement, or they can constitute your entire move. However you’re moving with your Speed, you deduct
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
capabilities. Imps are used as spies and messengers rather than combatants, and they are the infernal agents most often encountered on the Material Plane. Lesser devils rarely command other devils, aside
all. Rules for Everything Devils are evil schemers by nature, but they must operate within the bounds of the Nine Hells’ intricate legal code. A devil’s attitude toward the law is in part driven by its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
adversaries are—how far away and in what direction. Roll Initiative. Everyone involved in the combat encounter rolls Initiative, determining the order of combatants’ turns. Take Turns. Each participant in the
their Initiative count, or Initiative for short. The DM ranks the combatants, from highest to lowest Initiative. This is the order in which they act during each round. The Initiative order remains the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
adversaries are—how far away and in what direction. Roll Initiative. Everyone involved in the combat encounter rolls Initiative, determining the order of combatants’ turns. Take Turns. Each participant in the
their Initiative count, or Initiative for short. The DM ranks the combatants, from highest to lowest Initiative. This is the order in which they act during each round. The Initiative order remains the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
that reason, there's a limit to the number of creatures that can surround another creature in combat. Assuming Medium combatants, eight creatures can fit in a 5-foot radius around another one
miniatures or other tokens, follow these rules.
Squares. Each square on the grid represents 5 feet.
Speed. Rather than moving foot by foot, move square by square on the grid. This means you use your speed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
, unless the particular attack has rules that specify otherwise. Some attacks cause special effects in addition to or instead of damage.
If there’s ever any question whether something you’re doing
chapter.
If the d20 roll for an attack is a 1, the attack misses regardless of any modifiers or the target’s AC.
Unseen Attackers and Targets Combatants often try to escape their foes’ notice by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Running Combat This section builds on the combat rules in Playing the Game and offers tips for keeping the game running smoothly when a fight breaks out. Rolling Initiative Combat starts when—and
and each group of identical monsters, placed in Initiative order in a stack you cycle through A hidden list allows you to track combatants who haven’t been revealed yet, and you can use the list as a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
, initiative is rolled as normal. Then, the first round of combat starts, and the unsurprised combatants act in initiative order. A surprised creature can’t move or take an action or a reaction until its
factor. You can still try to hide from your foes and gain the benefits conferred by being hidden, but you don’t deprive your foes of their turns when you do so. Surprise rules work for two opposing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
should also consider using miniatures. The Player’s Handbook offers simple rules for depicting combat using miniature figures on a grid. This section expands on that material. Tactical Maps You can draw
monster takes up an amount of space different from what’s on the table, that’s fine, but treat the monster as its official size for all other rules. For example, you might use a miniature that has a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
treats visitors as honored guests in accordance with the rule of hospitality (see “Rules of Conduct” earlier in the chapter), but he expects a measure of kindness in return. If a fight breaks out
parchment with words written on it in Sylvan. The message reads, “Find Illig, the Baron of Muckstump, at once. The revolution lives!” Illig is an ambitious noble looking to take Gullop’s crown by force
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
space also reflects the area it needs to fight effectively. For that reason, there’s a limit to the number of creatures that can surround another creature in combat. Assuming Medium combatants, eight
GRID
If you play out a combat using a square grid and miniatures or other tokens, follow these rules.
Squares. Each square on the grid represents 5 feet.
Speed. Rather than moving foot by foot
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
cart filled with stolen art through the middle of a battlefield while singing sea shanties to confuse the combatants. 3 The Recruit. You enlisted in another nation’s navy for the purpose of smuggling
Wealth. Heaps of coins in a secure vault is all I dream of. (Any) 2 Smuggler’s Code. I uphold the unwritten rules of the smugglers, who do not cheat one another or directly harm innocents. (Lawful) 3
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
thirty sahuagin, a sahuagin priestess, and a sahuagin baron lair here. Seaton The folk of Saltmarsh point to Seaton as an example of the fate they want to avoid. For years, Seaton was about twice as
, and cavalry serves as the primary defense point for the region. Duke Marik Feldren (CN male human knight) rules over the town in his capacity of governor of the southern province that includes Seaton
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
urging the combatants as they fight. From the north they hear an occasional scream from the locathah undergoing torture and the raucous noise of the torturers enjoying their pastime. This long room has
save, or half as much on a successful one. Coffer. The coffer is locked; the key to open it is carried by Baron Kepmak in area 42. It can be opened by a character who makes a successful DC 14 Dexterity
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
fighting against a wicked power structure. Criminal syndicates with a heroic bent include the band of plucky outlaws who hijack taxes from the cruel baron and return them to the downtrodden and a hard
, and avaricious members of your syndicate in line with the goals and rules of the organization. 5 Assassination. You dispatch prominent people—the sort who have numerous bodyguards and elaborate
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
bureaucratic empire, or a remote realm ruled by an iron-fisted tyrant. Consider how your settlement fits into the bigger picture of your world or region — who rules its ruler, and what other
Emperor/Empress 2nd King/Queen 3rd Duke/Duchess 4th Prince/Princess 5th Marquess/Marquise 6th Earl or Count/Countess 7th Viscount/Viscountess 8th Baron/Baroness 9th Baronet 10th Knight
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Netheril’s Fall: Tales of Terror, Treasure, and Time Travel
, oversees the coliseum’s operations and approves all combatants bound for the arena. The pitmaster is constantly seeking new and creative contest rules for the coliseum battles, and she often awards
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
in the north wall. (See “Sample Traps” in chapter 5, “Adventure Environments,” of the Dungeon Master’s Guide for the rules on how this trap functions.) The trap resets when the weight is lifted and
flames. Treasure. Tucked under the chef’s hat is an electrum spork with a bejeweled handle (worth 250 gp). Crypt 29 Baron Eisglaze Drüf Opening the door causes the air around you to turn as cold as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
emanating from within. Sleeping in a pile to the north are twelve goblins. Their weapons and shields lie in a heap to the south. The goblins are reluctant combatants, easily intimidated by shows of
”). The keystone of this arch is carved to look like a gold dragon wyrmling, its mouth agape. The rules of this gate are as follows: The gate opens for 1 minute when a gemstone worth at least 100 gp is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
hostile, Lysan and Zastra shout for help and attack the characters. After all combatants have taken a turn, all five sailors in the upper crew quarters (area Z2) join the fight. Talking with Lysan and
traverse. Regardless of the characters’ reaction to this revelation, learning it counts as a secret for the purposes of the Power of Secrets rules in this book’s introduction. Ward Rune. The ward rune is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
releases arena combatants from area X7. Ten human bandits and five bugbears (all members of the Xanathar Guild) guzzle ale and heckle combatants from the bleachers, while two goblins serve up salted rat
while Xanathar watchessilently. Rules for running a tournament are described at the end of this chapter (see “Blood and Fortune”). If a character joins the tournament and wins, or defeats its