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School of Abjuration
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Player’s Handbook (2014)
The School of Abjuration emphasizes magic that blocks, banishes, or protects. Detractors of this school say that its tradition is about denial, negation rather than positive assertion. You understand
school are sought when baleful spirits require exorcism, when important locations must be guarded against magical spying, and when portals to other planes of existence must be closed.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
20 Intelligence (Nature) check reveals that these are not the marks of normal hunting hounds, but rather ambush drakes (see appendix D). Ceilings. Most hunting lodge ceilings are 8 feet high. Light
. The lodge is not lit except by fireplaces and candles. The interior is dark when the shutters are closed.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
20 Intelligence (Nature) check reveals that these are not the marks of normal hunting hounds, but rather ambush drakes (see appendix D). Ceilings. Most hunting lodge ceilings are 8 feet high. Light
. The lodge is not lit except by fireplaces and candles. The interior is dark when the shutters are closed.
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
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3
I’m eager to explain every detail of my most intricate experiments and theories to anyone who shows the least bit of interest.
4
I assume that everyone needs even the most basic
Everything I do is an attempt to impress someone I love.
Flaws
d6
Flaw
1
I have a rather embarrassing mutation that I do everything I can to keep hidden.
2
I’m more
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
airtight. The gnomes built these crablike contraptions to grip and move other objects, rather like crude forklifts. However, the contraptions are so clumsy that they are useless for delicate work. They are
is designed to hold a single Small humanoid, though a Medium humanoid can fit inside with some discomfort. While in the barrel with the hatch closed, a creature has total cover against attacks from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
detail two ways to head off potential complications before the characters draw their first card. “Customizing Your Deck” suggests strategies for stacking the deck with only cards that will be fun for
your group. Meanwhile, “The Deck as Narrative” discusses having cards foreshadow future events, rather than triggering instantaneous effects, so you can incorporate the effects into your campaign when
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
L3. Parlor The door to area L4 is closed but not locked. This chamber is nestled between walls of twisted roots, through gaps in which you can see the eerily beautiful woodland surrounding you. A
closed wooden door stands opposite the root bridge that leads into this room, in the center of which are four armchairs encircling a small table laid out for a tea service. A painted wooden box three
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Xanthoria’s Defeat Once Xanthoria is defeated, the characters find the last few pages of her notes among her possessions. They detail her growing obsession with undead and her success at turning
. Convincing Thunderwing to give up her life should be handled through roleplaying rather than ability checks, although you can require the characters to succeed on a DC 15 Charisma (Persuasion) group
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
jaws. Rather than chasing prey, they use their supernatural gaze to turn creatures to stone and then consume these victims at their leisure. While basilisks are most comfortable in subterranean lairs
grounds. There is a 50 percent chance that any of these statues are missing limbs or broken into pieces. Rule 4: No one carves statues of frightened warriors. If you see one, keep your eyes closed and your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
M16. Darkling Balloon Dock The door to area M14 is closed but not locked. This tower contains a sparsely furnished guest room attached to a stone balcony. The door connecting them swings back and
warlock (see area M11) convinced them to give it to her, rather than risk other members of the League of Malevolence taking it from them by force.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
School of Abjuration The School of Abjuration emphasizes magic that blocks, banishes, or protects. Detractors of this school say that its tradition is about denial, negation rather than positive
closed. Abjuration Savant Beginning when you select this school at 2nd level, the gold and time you must spend to copy an abjuration spell into your spellbook is halved. Arcane Ward Starting at 2nd
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
The Nematode The Nematode is unique among the floating nodules; it is an animate if lethargic creature, akin to a brain parasite on a massive scale, rather than an inert nodule. It is mostly inert
decide whether to be outside the Nematode or inside its closed mouth. There is no light in the cave once it shuts unless the characters have light sources with them. When the mouth closes, two intellect
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
back favorites from earlier in the campaign for the occasional cameo. Player Favorites It’s often easier to describe people and places that are hostile or frightening than it is to detail a feature
a character’s player directly, but instead consider handing over your narrative reins and letting a player describe the perfect detail. For example, say you have a peaceful village you plan to feature
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
responded with a whoo, then went off into a complicated series of chattering hoots and whoos. Montolio took it all in, weighing every detail. With the help of his friends, particularly this rather
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Kinds of Treasure Use these guidelines in conjunction with the information in the Dungeon Master’s Guide to detail the treasures in a dragon’s hoard. Feel free to swap coins, gems, and art objects in
the Player’s Handbook) rather than coins
2–3 Coins from an ancient culture local to this region, ancestral to the people who live here now
4–5 Coins from an ancient culture in a distant
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
his personality. Baphomet studies every detail of the mazes he creates and exults in the dread that overcome those who become lost in them. He tracks them at his leisure, striking only after the
of Spiders and her brood rarely take part directly in the Blood War; rather, her agents in the Abyss contrive to lure her enemies into throwing themselves into the struggle. Her servitors spy on both
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
talking, and make sure you check in about what every character is doing, especially during periods of exploration and social interaction, rather than focusing just on one player’s character. Sometimes
seeing the people and places they care about threatened or destroyed. Other players gleefully detail a backstory full of beloved NPCs, fully expecting the DM to use those people as bait, tragic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
talking, and make sure you check in about what every character is doing, especially during periods of exploration and social interaction, rather than focusing just on one player’s character. Sometimes
seeing the people and places they care about threatened or destroyed. Other players gleefully detail a backstory full of beloved NPCs, fully expecting the DM to use those people as bait, tragic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
creature’s efforts. In a contest, the ability checks are compared to each other, rather than to a target number. When you call for a contest, you pick the ability that each side must use, deciding
creatures arm wrestle, or if one creature is holding a door closed against another’s attempt to push it open, both use Strength. Ability Checks Ability Used for… Example Uses Strength Physical
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
table entries make more sense for certain items than for others. Some magic items are made only by certain kinds of creatures, for instance; a cloak of elvenkind is made by elves, rather than dwarves. If
you roll something that doesn’t make sense, roll again, choose a more appropriate entry, or use the rolled detail as inspiration to make up your own. Who Created It or Was Intended to Use It? d20
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Yourself
When you’re preparing an adventure to run for your friends, you don’t need to write hundreds of pages describing each location in exhaustive detail. You can run a game with no more written
the creatures inhabiting the dungeon come to that spot to drink. The adventurers might set an ambush at the pool. Likewise, closed or locked doors can restrict the movement of some creatures. A dungeon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
slams the book closed as if to punctuate his question, regarding you for the first time.
Sleepy bullywug guards standing around their monarch snap to attention and ready their weapons.
King
lap—Bavlorna’s Big Book of Bad Blood—in which the hag’s displeasure with her enemies is spelled out in detail. He procured the book from a darkling merchant (see area B10), who stole it from Bavlorna
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
, or you might prefer to pass unseen. You might eliminate your foes in the most public way possible, or prefer to deal with all problems behind closed (and preferably soundproofed) doors. Either way
. Or if you can’t, at least keep the killing quiet. Inquisitive As an inquisitive, your eye for detail and insightful demeanor complement the skills of the more martial members of an Acquisitions
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
Guard
Stat Block: Guard
This gullible recruit spends more time dreaming than patrolling.
Distractable. Bartho is easily distracted from his post because he’d rather be doing anything else.
Sleepy
daydreaming, might involve you pretending to yawn mid-sentence or getting distracted by a butterfly. Perhaps he confides with the characters that he’d rather be doing something else.
Descriptive
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
Viper in the Garden The following sections detail the cause of the disappearances in Excelsior, what information Varrel already has, and other details the characters might gain in their
sunflies (see Morte’s Planar Parade). The sunflies glow in rainbow hues. The door to their cage is closed by a simple hook. If a character opens the sunfly cage, a sunfly hops forward and raises its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
. Ward stays in the field and documents the strange blight rather than joining the characters inside. F2: Porch A large wooden porch wraps around the front and one side of the farmhouse. Its planks creak
ominously when stepped on, but there is no danger here. Closed curtains shroud the windows, but the doors to the interior are unlocked and ajar. Both lead to a musty central hallway. Doors. The doors
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
some regret, he finally announces that it’s time for them to die. Withers would rather escape than be destroyed or captured, so he uses his spells to retreat if the battle goes against him, saving wall
of fire to cut off pursuers when he flees. Journals Withers is a diligent scribe. His moldy journals track the history of Omu and the Tomb of the Nine Gods, and detail the arrival of the atropal and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
creating nonplayer characters in chapter 4 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide to detail the majordomo, giving this individual a vibrant personality and backstory. The majordomo’s goals should be aligned
(sailors for a seagoing franchise, engineers for a giant hollow statue, and so on). Crew do not leave a franchise and cannot perform franchise tasks. They typically run rather than fight back when attacked
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
closed.
The wardrobe contains two items: a pair of old, cracked leather boots with no value or special properties, and a ragged, stained cloak hanging on a peg. The cloak is tooled with a design of
6. 15. Ned’s Bedroom The door to this room is locked. The key to the room has been left rather obviously in the hallway outside the room and can be spotted by someone who makes a successful DC 10
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
the guild’s laboratories. Some vedalken are so obsessive about their work that they like to see to every detail themselves, rather than delegating any task to underlings or assistants. This attitude
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
the others might be neutral or good; conflicts with those rivals might be social or political, rather than manifesting as direct attacks. The best rivals have a connection with their adversaries on a
worried that recent misdeeds will be revealed To add the right amount of detail to a rival you want to create, give some thought to what that NPC is trying to accomplish and what resources and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
your world might worship a patron deity, performing secret missions in that deity’s name. To reflect this cultural detail, you could add Religion to the list of skills that a rogue character can choose
different races or cultures. The bardic colleges might be closed to everyone except elves, dragonborn might be the only creatures capable of becoming sorcerers, and all warlocks in your world might be human
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
move welcomed by no one — least of all the members of the Watch, who must now stand guard over the site until it can be investigated and closed. A character whose background entails knowledge of the
magic spell shows that they are indeed magical, though that magic is of the transmutation school rather than conjuration. Each day, a kindly druid who thinks Jerr is an honest soul gives the gnome a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
repetitive in nature, rather than escalating to greater heights of depravity. The trick to catching such a villain lies in determining the pattern underlying the crimes. Though serial killers are a
characters you need to create, as well as how much detail you need to generate for each one. NPCs unlikely to become involved in combat don’t need full combat statistics, for example, just as characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
large pane of gray glass is drawn closed across an opening above the counter. A sign mounted above the window reads, “Wondrous Wares & Fair Fares!”
The balloon is not made of fabric, but rather appears