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Species
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
with ideas than with people. They form close friendships based on mutual interests or compelling disagreements, and their interactions dwell on their thoughts about those issues rather than their
skilled at not displaying it. Cool rationality guides their actions, they make and follow careful plans, and they are patient enough to do nothing when the ideal outcome relies on such inaction
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
;re exploring neighboring tunnels, defending their homes, engaging with their families, or crafting bold new works. The bonds of friendship and kinship are strong, though navigating the inevitable
carrying. While enlarged, the duergar is Large, doubles its damage dice on Strength-based weapon attacks (included in the attacks), and makes Strength checks and Strength saving throws with advantage
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
manifests as mirth. They bring an emotional intensity to their lives, whether they’re exploring neighboring tunnels, defending their homes, engaging with their families, or crafting bold new works
minute, the duergar magically increases in size, along with anything it is wearing or carrying. While enlarged, the duergar is Large, doubles its damage dice on Strength-based weapon attacks
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
emotional intensity to their lives, whether they’re exploring neighboring tunnels, defending their homes, engaging with their families, or crafting bold new works. The bonds of friendship and kinship
in size, along with anything it is wearing or carrying. While enlarged, the duergar is Large, doubles its damage dice on Strength-based weapon attacks (included in the attacks), and makes Strength
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
passion rarely manifests as mirth. They bring an emotional intensity to their lives, whether they’re exploring neighboring tunnels, defending their homes, engaging with their families, or crafting
Rest). For 1 minute, the duergar magically increases in size, along with anything it is wearing or carrying. While enlarged, the duergar is Large, doubles its damage dice on Strength-based weapon
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
conception of the Izzet League is based on mad inventions, dangerous experiments, and explosive blasts. Much of that perception is accurate, but the league is also involved with mundane tasks of
construction and architecture — primarily in crafting the infrastructure that allows Ravnicans to enjoy running water, levitating platforms, and other magical and technological wonders.
You have a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
nonmagical item on which the magic item is based Spells If a magic item allows its user to cast any spells from it, you must have all those spells prepared every day you spend crafting the item. Time and
Cost Crafting a magic item takes an amount of time and money based on the item’s rarity as shown in the Magic Item Crafting Time and Cost table. Work per Day. For each day of crafting, you must work for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Time and Cost Crafting a magic item takes an amount of time and money based on the item’s rarity as shown in the Magic Item Crafting Time and Cost table. Work per Day. For each day of crafting, you
must work for 8 hours. If an item requires multiple days, those days needn’t be consecutive. Assistants. Characters can combine their efforts to shorten the crafting time. Divide the time needed to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Treasure Because they live underground, kobolds have access to a remarkable amount of earth-based treasures such as metal ores and unpolished gems. They have the basic skill to extract metals found
in their natural state and to polish raw gemstones. Although they don’t create their own coinage, nuggets of raw metals used for trade, bribes, or crafting are commonly found in kobold lairs. Kobolds
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
tend to engage more with ideas than with people. They form close friendships based on mutual interests or compelling disagreements, and their interactions dwell on their thoughts about those issues
they are skilled at not displaying it. Cool rationality guides their actions, they make and follow careful plans, and they are patient enough to do nothing when the ideal outcome relies on such
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
covering other materials, tools, and so on, based on the item’s rarity. Those values, as well as the time a character needs to work in order to complete the item, are shown on the Magic Item Crafting Time
Crafting an Item A character who has the time, the money, and the needed tools can use downtime to craft armor, weapons, clothing, or other kinds of nonmagical gear. Resources and Resolution. In
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
ingenious forms of metallurgy—largely based around volcanic sea vents—and chemical etching, crafting wares that rival those made on land. The endless array of life and unpredictable changes of the sea make
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
, childrearing, and crafting are given to giants based on their physical strength and hardiness.
Frost Giant
Huge giant, neutral evil
Armor Class 15 (patchwork armor)
Hit Points 138 (12d12
most often saved for trading opportunities with other giants more adept at crafting metal weapons and armor.
Rulers by Might. Frost giants respect brute strength above all else, and a frost giant’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
Religion, while a druid or ranger relies on Nature. You must have a minimum skill bonus—your proficiency bonus plus your ability score bonus—in order to develop a schema. You must maintain the minimum
significant amount of time working on it; creating a legendary item can take a year of effort! Magic Item Crafting Time and Cost Item Rarity Work weeks* Cost*
Common 1 50 gp
Uncommon 2 200 gp
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
helps establish the stakes and provides ideas that the DM can weave into the campaign story. The DM might work up a narrative based on the players’ initial discussions, and might ask additional
what part of the staff member’s background makes them good at the task at hand. The DM then describes successive scenes based on checks and roleplaying as the crew members locate a likely target ship
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
relies on 6-second rounds. Minutes. In a dungeon or settlement, movement happens on a scale of minutes. In the Free City of Greyhawk, getting from the Silver Dragon Inn to the wharf takes about 10 minutes
bandit ambush interrupts their journey. The exploration rules in the Player’s Handbook give guidelines for determining travel time based on the characters’ pace. In most cases, it’s fine to estimate
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Event-Based Adventures In an event-based adventure, the focus is on what the characters and villains do and what happens as a result. The question of where those things happen is of secondary
importance. Building an event-based adventure is more work than building a location-based one, but the process can be simplified by following a number of straightforward steps. Several steps include tables
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
. 91 or higher You make a small fortune gambling. You recuperate your lifestyle expenses for the time spent carousing and gain 4d6 × 10 gp. Your carousing becomes the stuff of local legend. Crafting a
any spells that the item can produce. Moreover, the character must meet a level minimum determined by the item’s rarity, as shown in the Crafting Magic Items table. For example, a 3rd-level character
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
Known column of the Artificer Features table. When you choose a plan to learn, you choose it from any Magic Item Plans table for which you qualify; your qualification is based on your Artificer level
. Creating an Item. When you finish a Long Rest, you can create one or two different magic items if you have Tinker’s Tools in hand. Each item is based on one of the plans you know for this feature. If a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Adventure Types An adventure can be location-based or event-based, as discussed in the sections that follow.
Location-Based Adventures Adventures set in crumbling dungeons and remote wilderness
locations are the cornerstone of countless campaigns. Many of the greatest D&D adventures of all time are location-based.
Creating a location-based adventure can be broken down into a number of steps
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
place within the larger framework of the ordning, and each kind of giant has a different way of assigning that place. Cloud giants rank themselves based on wealth, fire giants based on crafting skill
, frost giants based on physical strength, and stone giants based on a combination of artistry and rock throwing. Hill giants give their respect to larger and stronger giants without putting much thought
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
by Challenge Rating table to determine the monster’s Armor Class, hit points, attack bonus, and damage output per round based on the challenge rating you chose in step 1. Step 3. Adjust Statistics
Raise or lower the monster’s Armor Class, hit points, attack bonus, damage output per round, and save DC as you see fit, based on whatever concept you have in mind for the monster. For example, if you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
no skill in crafting. Instead, he relies on his ability as a thief to take ownership of what he wants. Why work so hard to manufacture something when a much easier path to riches lies open? Abbathor
Moradin are responsible for judging and assessing the work of a stronghold’s artisans. They keep great volumes that describe various crafting techniques in detail, and use the guidelines in them to judge
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
same crafting skill. These efforts rarely have any lasting impact, but some have managed to upset the ordning at a local level for a few centuries. Because their sense of the ordning relies on physical
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Airborne and Waterborne Vehicles table in chapter 5 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide). This is a downtime crafting activity requiring one day’s work per raft. An even more makeshift craft might involve a
the water. Some are completely submerged, navigable only by those able to breathe underwater.
Navigation. Without the sky or the stars to navigate by, any successful passage of the Darklake relies
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
feet that resound like smiths’ hammers throughout their smoky halls.
Just as fire giants pass down their knowledge of crafting from generation to generation, their renowned fighting prowess comes not
from wild fury but from endless discipline and training. Enemies make the mistake of underestimating fire giants based on their brutish manner, learning too late that these giants live for combat and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
renown separately for each organization his or her character is a member of. For example, an adventurer might have 5 renown within one faction and 20 renown within another, based on the character’s
campaigns where the gods take active roles in the world. Using this approach, you track renown based on specific divine figures in your campaign. Each character has the option to select a patron deity
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
to gain political influence within the Twelve and over Khorvaire as a whole. To complicate matters, Cannith relies on the dragonshards mined by Tharashk—and Tharashk doesn’t want to lose its best
other motivates them to maintain peace. If the characters belong to a single house, you can adapt this example by using their house as one of the rival factions. Based on that initial assumption, the
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
an advocate for disabled accessibility, inclusion, and representation in media and storytelling. She lives in Los Angeles, CA.
DANIEL KWAN is a Toronto-based podcaster, game designer, and cultural
of indie publications alongside her self-published works.
BRANDES STODDARD designed crafting systems in the video game industry. From there, he resorted to designing and running LARPs, then
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
Proficiency. You gain proficiency with Smith’s Tools. If you already have this tool proficiency, you gain proficiency with one other type of Artisan’s Tools of your choice.
Armor Crafting. When you craft
attack and damage rolls made with the special weapon of your Arcane Armor model. Level 15: Perfected Armor Your Arcane Armor gains additional benefits based on its model, as detailed below. Dreadnaught
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
bold escape from Bel’s Forge. They operate as indentured servants, maintaining Mahadi’s infernal war machines while also crafting wares for sale to visitors. From time to time, Mahadi sends them abroad
the ends, increasing his reach by 5 feet. Elliach’s ears sprouted wings and flew away. Consequently, he is deaf. He relies on lip-reading and hand gestures. Elliach met Mahadi while on the run from debt
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
ruler could be immortal or undead. Aundair and Karrnath, two kingdoms in the Eberron campaign setting, have autocrats with royal blood in their veins. Whereas Queen Aurala of Aundair relies on wizards
and other armed forces. A militocracy might be based on an elite group of soldiers, an order of dragon riders, or a league of sea princes. Solamnia, a nation ruled by knights in the Dragonlance
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
, or crafting bold new works. The bonds of friendship and kinship are strong, though navigating the inevitable outbursts of frustration and despair is not always easy. Similarly, duergar tend to be very
Strength-based weapon attacks (included in the attacks), and makes Strength checks and Strength saving throws with advantage. If the duergar lacks the room to become Large, it attains the maximum size
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
alchemist’s supplies grants additional insight into any chemicals or other substances that might have been used in the area. Alchemical Crafting. You can use this tool proficiency to create alchemical
Brewing is the art of producing beer. Not only does beer serve as an alcoholic beverage, but the process of brewing purifies water. Crafting beer takes weeks of fermentation, but only a few hours of work
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
member of the Emerald Enclave based in Fort Beluarian. The druid travels with a vegepygmy companion named Kupalué, a Chultan word that means “walking weed.” Qawasha often refers to his companion simply
covers up the scaly patches of skin that betray her true nature. Salida is skilled at crafting colorful insults and concocting believable lies to cover her true background. Her wit makes her an