before base down create reduces

1. Create a Home Base

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

1. Create a Home Base See the “Settlements” section earlier in this chapter for guidance on building this settlement. A small town or village at the edge of the wilderness serves as a fine home base

in most D&D campaigns. Use a larger town or city if you want a campaign with urban adventuring. 2. Create a Local Region See “Mapping the Campaign” earlier in this chapter for guidance. Draw a map

Control Water

Spells Player’s Handbook

instead create a 20-foot tall wave that travels from one side of the area to the other and then crashes. Any Huge or smaller vehicles in the wave’s path are carried with it to the other side. Any

, the wave repeats on the start of your next turn while the flood effect lasts. Part Water. You part water in the area and create a trench. The trench extends across the spell’s area, and the

Deck of Many Things

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

combat, you have Advantage on Death Saving Throws for 1 year. If someone else reduces your chosen foe to 0 Hit Points or you don’t choose a foe, this card has no effect. Donjon. You disappear

yourself. The knight has the same alignment as you and serves you loyally until death, believing the two of you have been drawn together by fate. Work with your DM to create a name and backstory for this NPC

Tome of the Dragon

Magic Items Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn

requirements to use the tome. To create a dracolich using a Tome of the Dragon, you must have continuous access to the body of an adult or ancient dragon (either living or dead), as well as 80,000 GP worth of

)", "rollDamageType":"Necrotic"} damage to you and each assistant. If this damage reduces a creature to 0 Hit Points, the creature is killed and immediately reanimates as a Zombie under the DM’s

Vampire Warden

Monsters Astarion's Book of Hungers

).Resilient Flesh. Trigger: The vampire is hit by a melee attack roll from an attacker the vampire can see. Response: The vampire reduces the damage it takes from the attack by 11 (2d6 + 4);{"diceNotation

don’t live for long and are inattentive while sleeping or simpering. Monstrous servants are often too unpredictable or simply unreliable. To keep their lairs safe, some vampires create more

Cranium Rat

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

+4", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Bite"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 1 piercing damage.Mind flayers create cranium rats by bombarding rat;rats with psionic energy. If enough cranium

psionic powers. A single cranium rat uses its natural telepathy to communicate hunger, fear, and other base emotions. A swarm of cranium rats communicating telepathically “speaks” as one

Swarm of Cranium Rats

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

, comprehend languages, detect thoughts 1/day each: confusion, dominate monsterMind flayers create cranium rat;cranium rats by bombarding rat;rats with psionic energy. Cranium rats are somewhat smarter than

rat by its mind flayer creators, bestowing upon the swarm psionic powers. A single cranium rat uses its natural telepathy to communicate hunger, fear, and other base emotions. A swarm of cranium rats

Wraith Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

reduced by an amount equal to the damage taken. This reduction lasts until the target finishes a long rest. The target dies if this effect reduces its hit point maximum to 0. Create Specter. The

Tommybow, heavy

Equipment

arrangement that reduces their effective range in comparison to their crossbow counterparts. Reload. Tommybows replace the loading property of their crossbow counterpart with the reload property. The

. Tommybow Value Base Crossbow Reload (2) Reload (3) Reload (4) Reload (5) Reload (6) Range Heavy crossbow 100 gp 150 gp 200 gp 250 gp 300 gp 100/200 ft.

Turtle Dove Dagger

magic-items

From the tip of its thick steel blade to the base of its golden handle, each knife shimmers with a buzz of illusory energy. While wielding a pair of Turtle Dove Daggers, you can create an illusory

Dzaan

Monsters Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

whom they had spoken. After turning the tower into his secret base, Dzaan visited Easthaven to gather supplies. Although he took the precaution of adopting a magical disguise, members of the local

, Dzaan had used a spell scroll of simulacrum to create a copy of himself. This Dzaan's Simulacrum;simulacrum dwells in the sunken Netherese spire, waiting for its creator to return. The sunken Netherese

Tommybow, light

Equipment

arrangement that reduces their effective range in comparison to their crossbow counterparts. Reload. Tommybows replace the loading property of their crossbow counterpart with the reload property. The

. Tommybow Value Base Crossbow Reload (2) Reload (3) Reload (4) Reload (5) Reload (6) Range Light crossbow 50 gp 75 gp 100 gp 125 gp 150 gp 80/160 ft.

White Maw

Monsters Tales from the Yawning Portal

corroded and takes a permanent and cumulative −1 penalty to the AC it offers. The armor is destroyed if the penalty reduces its AC to 10.In their laboratories inside the Doomvault (Dead in Thay

), the Red Wizards experiment with a process to create sentient oozes. The creature they call White Maw is one of their early achievements—a gray ooze of enormous size that has intelligence and

Abjurer Wizard

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

reduces the damage to the protected creature by 26 (4d10 + 4);{"diceNotation":"4d10+4", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Arcane Ward"}, to a minimum of 0, and then vanishes.Abjurers specialize in creating

travel the world searching for esoteric tomes, while others train lesser wizards or collaborate with colleagues to create new spells.

Balm of Shifting Form

Equipment

(Arcana) or Wisdom (Medicine) check can create a recipe for it. Using the recipe, a character can create one dose of balm with 8 hours of work at a cost of 125 gp. Using slime collected from an olothec lair or a dead olothec as a reagent reduces the cost by half.

form, but it can be used to alter appearance and apparent ancestry with ease. A creature using the balm adds double their proficiency bonus to any ability checks they make to create a visual disguise

Wood Woad

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

everlasting guardian. The ritual to create a wood woad is a primeval secret passed down through generations of forest-dwelling societies and druid circles. Performing the ritual isn’t necessarily an

roots. After three days, a sprout emerges from the ground at the base of the tree and swiftly grows into a bipedal form. This new body, armored in tough bark and bearing a gnarled club and shield, is

Devkarin Lich

Monsters Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

, Evard's black tentacles 5th level (2 slots): cloudkill, insect plague 6th level (1 slot): circle of death, create undead 7th level (1 slot): finger of death Turn Resistance. The lich has advantage on

saving throws against any effect that turns undead. Undead Fortitude. If damage reduces the lich to 0 hit points, it must make a Constitution saving throw with a DC of 5 + the damage taken, unless the

Tommybow, hand

Equipment

arrangement that reduces their effective range in comparison to their crossbow counterparts. Reload. Tommybows replace the loading property of their crossbow counterpart with the reload property. The

. Tommybow Value Base Crossbow Reload (2) Reload (3) Reload (4) Reload (5) Reload (6) Range Hand crossbow 150 gp 225 gp 300 gp 375 gp 450 gp 30/60 ft.

False Lich

Monsters Vecna: Eve of Ruin

unoccupied space it can see within 60 feet of itself. It then makes one Death Rend attack if possible. Cast a Spell (Costs 2 Actions). The false lich uses Spellcasting.Occasionally, liches create

nefarious magical copies of themselves to fool enemies, to guard treasure, or for other inscrutable reasons. To create a false lich, a lich binds a shred of its life force to a corpse in a profane

Gem Stalker

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

of it is about to take damage, the gem stalker reduces that damage by 10 (3d6);{"diceNotation":"3d6", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Protective Link"}. The gem stalker then takes damage equal to

create a protective link that can ward other creatures against harm.PsychicCrystal Dart. Ranged Spell Attack: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Crystal Dart"} to hit, range

Bag of Beans Legacy

Magic Items Basic Rules (2014)

from the ground where it was planted. The GM can choose an effect from the following table, determine it randomly, or create an effect. d100 Effect 01 5d4 toadstools sprout. If a

. On a failed save, the creature takes 10d6 force damage from an internal magical explosion. 91-99 A pyramid with a 60-foot‐square base bursts upward. Inside is a sarcophagus containing a mummy

Staff of Ruling

Magic Items Quests from the Infinite Staircase

effects. Once the staff has produced an effect, it can’t produce that effect again until the next dawn. Orb of Lightning. You create a Small orb of lightning in an unoccupied space you can see

lightning damage equal to the total accumulated damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one; the orb’s base damage is 6d6, and if at the end of your turn the orb hasn

Control Water Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

includes a shore, the flooding water spills over onto dry land. If you choose an area in a large body of water, you instead create a 20-foot tall wave that travels from one side of the area to the other

. Part Water. You cause water in the area to move apart and create a trench. The trench extends across the spell's area, and the separated water forms a wall to either side. The trench remains until the

Nightmare Beast

Monsters Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures

":"Disintegration Gaze","rollDamageType":"force"} force damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. If this magical effect reduces the target to 0 hit points, the target is disintegrated

gore them with its tusks, but its most devastating attack is its magical ability to disintegrate foes with its terrible gaze. Powerful spellcasters create nightmare beasts to serve as living siege

Jarad Vod Savo

Monsters Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

(3 slots): blight, giant insect, grasping vine 5th level (2 slots): cloudkill, insect plague 6th level (1 slot): circle of death, create undead 7th level (1 slot): finger of death, forcecage Spore

":"poison"} poison damage to a creature he can see within 10 feet of him. Turn Resistance. Jarad has advantage on saving throws against any effect that turns undead. Undead Fortitude. If damage reduces

Bavlorna Blightstraw

Monsters The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

target. Hit: 17 (4d6 + 3);{"diceNotation":"4d6+3","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Withering Ray","rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage. Create Lornlings (Recharge 5–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6

","rollType":"recharge","rollAction":"Create Lornlings"}. Bavlorna creates one or two 1-foot-tall duplicates of herself, called lornlings (use the Quickling stat block in appendix C). Each lornling appears

Ettin Ceremorph

Monsters Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

: 55 (10d10);{"diceNotation":"10d10", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Extract Brain", "rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage. If this damage reduces the target to 0 hit points, the ceremorph

with the implantation of an illithid tadpole in the brain of a Humanoid host. Mind flayers have subjected giants to this process in an effort to create larger, stronger mind flayers, but those

Pride Silk

Equipment

create such outfits are few and far between, so while pride silk might be expensive as a raw material, outfits made of the cloth are prohibitively expensive for most common folk. One square yard of

pride silk weighs 1 pound and costs 100 gp. An pride silk outfit;outfit made of pride silk weighs 4 pounds and costs 500 gp. If you aren’t wearing armor, your base Armor Class is 11 + your Dexterity modifier while wearing it.

Young Topaz Dragon

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 14): 1/day each: bane, create or destroy waterDecay and despair are bound up in the nature of topaz dragons, thanks to

Combat. I despise most other dragons, but I meet them face to face without resorting to the base trickery I use on lesser creatures. (Lawful) Topaz Dragon Adventures The Topaz Dragon

Gnoll Vampire

Monsters Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

Keen Smell. The vampire has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell. Rampage. When it reduces a creature to 0 hit points with a melee attack on its turn, the vampire can take a

create a passage through the glacier unknowingly release the starving gnoll vampire from its icy sepulcher. For more information about Tekeli-li’s lair, the Caves of Hunger, see chapter 6. Necrotic; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks

Priest of Osybus (Deathly)

Monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

Deathly Boon. It can cast animate dead and create undead once per day each, using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability. Tattoo of Osybus. If the priest drops to 0 hit points, roll on the Boons

next turn. If this damage reduces a Medium or smaller creature to 0 hit points, the creature dies, and its soul is trapped in the priest’s body, manifesting as a shadowy Soul Tattoo on the

Yeenoghu Legacy

Monsters Out of the Abyss

. When Yeenoghu reduces a creature to 0 hit points with a melee attack on his turn, Yeenoghu can take a bonus action to move up to half his speed and make a bite attack.Multiattack. Yeenoghu makes three

flail attacks. If an attack hits, he can cause it to create an additional effect of his choice or at random (each effect can be used only once per Multiattack): 1. The attack deals an extra 13 (2d12

Using the Citadel

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Radiant Citadel

Using the Citadel Fleeing disaster, a family discovers the base of a Concord Jewel—a gateway to the Radiant Citadel The Radiant Citadel links to a multitude of worlds. While the fifteen lands

presented in this book are the best known, you can decide where else the Concord Jewels reach and what connections they create to future adventures.

Using the Citadel

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel

Using the Citadel Fleeing disaster, a family discovers the base of a Concord Jewel—a gateway to the Radiant Citadel The Radiant Citadel links to a multitude of worlds. While the fifteen lands

presented in this book are the best known, you can decide where else the Concord Jewels reach and what connections they create to future adventures.

Putting Out the Fire

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

Putting Out the Fire The fire reduces the confectionery to a pile of smoldering wreckage after 10 minutes unless the characters take action to extinguish it. The characters can put out the fire in

brigade. The group draws water from a nearby well and puts out the fire in 5 minutes. Magic. Water created by the Create or Destroy Water spell or a similar effect douses the flames.

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