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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
outward if a simple latch is turned. When the characters arrive, one cult fanatic and four cultists are searching the floor for Iskander. The cultists quickly realize they can’t defeat the adventurers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
outward if a simple latch is turned. When the characters arrive, one cult fanatic and four cultists are searching the floor for Iskander. The cultists quickly realize they can’t defeat the adventurers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
this trait, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest. Unscarred Origin d6 Origin
1 I was bathed in hydra’s blood as an infant, and my wounds close too quickly to become
fact I didn’t realize until I lost my home and ventured into the world.
6 I don’t know who one or more of my parents is, but my resilience (and other hints) provide clues to their immortal identity.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
of the following characteristics of your choice: Intelligence score Wisdom score Charisma score Class levels (if any) At the DM’s option, you might also realize you know a piece of the creature’s
level, your thoughts can’t be read by telepathy or other means, unless you allow it. You can present false thoughts by succeeding on a Charisma (Deception) check contested by the mind reader’s Wisdom
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Charisma score Class levels (if any) At the DM’s option, you might also realize you know a piece of the creature’s history or one of its personality traits, if it has any. Misdirection Beginning at
, you can use your reaction to have the attack target that creature instead of you. Soul of Deceit Starting at 17th level, your thoughts can’t be read by telepathy or other means, unless you allow it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
who speak Common. When they can’t find work as sellswords, they resort to brigandry and thievery. After spotting the white dragon, they decided to follow it back to its lair. They’re now waiting for it
threaten the characters with bodily harm to scare them away, turning to violence if their threats fall on deaf ears. If the characters try to bribe them, the mercenaries realize that it would be
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
creature can’t make opportunity attacks against you for the rest of your turn. SWASHBUCKLERS AND TWO-WEAPON FIGHTING
The Swashbuckler relies on a good understanding of the D&D rules to realize its
disadvantage on attack rolls against targets other than you and can’t make opportunity attacks against targets other than you. This effect lasts for 1 minute, until one of your companions attacks the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
. Servants of this malevolence gather in the Sumber Hills and spy on the Dessarin Valley, drawn by a force they can’t explain. Dabbling in dangerous lore, these fanatics seek to master elemental magic
and unleash its destructive power everywhere. And they are further along in their plans than most people in the North realize. Four elemental cults grow in power in the Sumber Hills, claiming
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
confronted by obviously more numerous or powerful opponents usually try to avoid battle. But brave, desperate, or devoted creatures might never retreat from a battle. If you can’t decide whether a
behalf of the group. When creatures that are already engaged in battle realize they’re likely to lose, they usually try to exit that battle. A monster is likely to flee if either of the following is true
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
essential mission. Honor Quandary. A character is forced to choose between victory and a personal oath or code of honor. A paladin who has sworn an oath of virtue might realize that the clearest path to
can’t follow both courses, and whichever ally they choose, the other loses respect for them and might no longer aid them.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
phrase in Common: “The gate cannot hide from those it cannot see.”
While in this room, dwarf characters can sense the immense weight of the mountain gently pressing down on them and realize
dwarf. Once a creature gains this benefit, it can’t do so again until the next dawn, and then only after finishing a short or long rest. Mirror Gate to Level 10 The mirror is one of Halaster’s gates
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
Paladin My companions did what!? The screams could be heard from how far away!? When many hear “paladin,” they can’t help but envision a knight in shining armor, helping innocent people in distress
guidelines than rules anyway. Right? Stand up as straight as possible. Being a paladin is mostly about posture, and most people don’t realize that. Evil drow slouch, but in this house, we are turgid
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
Zhentarim mage, Nilraun Dhaerlost. Nilraun was dragged before Storvald and came to realize that the frost giants were searching for the Ring of Winter. As the runes had foretold, Nilraun was also
Cimber’s drop of blood in a rune magic ritual to turn a giant diamond into a blod stone (see appendix B). Unfortunately for the jarl, the item can’t find Artus Cimber specifically; instead, it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
. Through telepathically shared dreams, corruption has taken root deep within the colony, warping the myconids’ normally placid and peaceful nature into something restive and rapturous. A few realize what is
enters it later, must make a Constitution saving throw. The save DC is 8 + the myconid’s Constitution modifier + the myconid’s proficiency bonus. On a successful save, the creature can’t be infected by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
hide the other or serve as convenient camouflage. However, should someone realize the connection between your persona and your true self, your deception might lose its effectiveness. Suggested
persona.
Faceless Ideals d6 Ideal
1 Justice. Place in society shouldn’t determine one’s access to what is right. (Good)
2 Security. Doing what must be done can’t bring the innocent
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
the Mere. Characters who succeed on a DC 15 Intelligence (Nature) check realize the gas is present and understand its danger. A pit of snakes opens to the right of the characters as they pass, and
can escape by using its action and succeeding on a Strength check, DC 10 plus the number of feet the creature has sunk already. A creature that is completely submerged in quicksand can’t breathe (see
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
someone realize the connection between your persona and your true self, your deception might lose its effectiveness. Suggested Characteristics A faceless character usually plays their persona — the
. (Good) 2 Security. Doing what must be done can’t bring the innocent to harm. (Lawful) 3 Confusion. Deception is a weapon. Strike from where your foes won’t expect. (Chaotic) 4 Infamy. My name will
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
chamber. The tranquil surface seems to reflect something odd.
Vecna included this fountain of blood in his unreality to taunt Kas, who knows it’s here but can’t drink from it while chained in area K5
illusionary; Vecna can’t interact with any creature in this chamber, and vice versa. K5: Kas’s Chamber The unmistakable form of Kas sits hunched in the far corner of this dank, stone room. Each of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
feels a profound sense of purpose and gains the benefit of the bless spell. 6 Creatures in the region can’t leave it and find themselves covering the same ground over and over. By the time they realize
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a4
ring? Will they be suspicious enough to simply leave it alone? If they take time to think about it, they’ll likely realize that the ring must be a hoax. Someone who puts it on can cause it to exhibit
(except for fly), and it also acts as a ring of spell turning and a ring of protection. Once the ring leaves the area, however, it has no abilities and can’t talk. Sphere 9. Gems worth 600 gp and a false key.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
din of the tunnel, this chamber seems preternaturally silent—until you realize you are completely deafened in the presence of the fearsome Draakhorn. Carved from the massive horn of an ancient red
creature takes half as much damage and isn’t knocked prone. The horn can’t be turned or aimed at a specific target. If the horn’s sound ceases for more than 1 minute, 1 dragonsoul, 1 dragonfang, and 4
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Intro to Stormwreck Isle
players realize that radiant damage is a way to get around Undead Fortitude. If the players ask whether their characters know anything about fighting zombies, have them make DC 10 Intelligence checks
Perception 8
Languages understands the languages it knew in life but can’t speak
Challenge 1/4 (50 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2
Undead Fortitude. If damage reduces the zombie to 0 hit points, it makes a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
realize that reinforcing Donaar’s self-congratulating sense of draconic entitlement makes it remarkably easy to win his favor. Despite his easily massaged vanity, the dragonborn sometimes shows the
, Donaar causes each creature of his choice that he can see within 30 feet of him to make a DC 13 Wisdom saving throw. On a failure, a creature can’t willingly move more than 30 feet away from Donaar. This
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
din of the tunnel, this chamber seems preternaturally silent — until you realize you are completely deafened in the presence of the fearsome Draakhorn. Carved from the massive horn of an ancient red
creature takes half as much damage and isn’t knocked prone. The horn can’t be turned or aimed at a specific target. If the horn’s sound ceases for more than 1 minute, 1 dragonsoul, 1 dragonfang, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
. Bring forth the zodar!”
The crowd gives out a collective gasp as the guards part ranks to make way for a creature clad head to toe in a suit of obsidian armor. As it floats toward you, you realize the
. If you knew anything about the true nature of Wildspace, anything at all, you would have hidden from it in terror. Pity I can’t destroy your world more than once.”
Here ends chapter 11. All Hail
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
treasure. Development The monsters inside the compound are smart enough to realize that they can’t survive in Goldenfields for long after an alarm has sounded. Those that escape rejoin their comrades
the wheat field and emerge near a random cluster of grain towers (area G4). Once they realize their mistake, they head back into the field and make their way toward the abbey (area G7). Oren Yogilvy
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
therefore not a discrete object. It can’t be moved or damaged, and its magical flame can’t be smothered or put out with water. Any creature that comes into direct contact with the fire for the first
puts out the fire for good. As long as the brazier’s cold fire burns, chardalyn berserkers inside the cave (areas Q3 through Q8, and the tunnels and chutes that attach to them) can’t drop below 1 hit
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
communicate. It simply consumes any prey it finds, then continues its silent patrol. It can’t leave the Astral Plane, nor would it want to. Titans of the Chained God. Tharizdun, the Chained God, created astral
dreadnoughts to devour planar travelers who were seeking portals that lead from the Astral Plane to the Outer Planes — portals they might use to gaze upon their gods or realize some dream of godhood
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
some unresolved task from its life. It might seek to avenge its own death, fulfill an oath, or relay a message to a loved one. A ghost might not realize that it has died and continue the everyday
visible on the Material Plane while it is in the Border Ethereal, and vice versa, yet it can’t affect or be affected by anything on the other plane.
Horrifying Visage. Each non-undead creature within
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
can’t speak
Challenge 8 (3,900 XP) Proficiency Bonus +3
Legendary Resistance (1/Day). If the slasher fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Shrouded Presence. The slasher is
immune to any effect that would sense its emotions or read its thoughts, and it can’t be detected by abilities that sense Fiends.
Actions
Multiattack. The slasher makes two Slasher’s Knife attacks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Morte’s Planar Parade
. They use their breath, thick with the gloom of Hades, to turn friends against each other and then savor the horror that rises when their victims realize how they’ve betrayed one another. Baernaloths
(1d10 + 4) piercing damage plus 10 (3d6) psychic damage. If the target is a creature, it can’t regain hit points until the start of the baernaloth’s next turn.
Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +10 to hit
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
realize that the mage is unreasonably preoccupied with her cloak, absently touching it as she chats. If the characters ask Naxa about her behavior, she admits that the cloak isn’t merely a fancy magic
, drow, and giant spiders are wrapped in these webs. Each is unconscious, has the incapacitated condition, and can’t regain hit points until 8 hours after being freed from the web cocoons. The spyder
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Finding the Nimblewright If the characters can’t pick up the trail after the nimblewright escapes with the Stone of Golorr, they might turn to the City Watch, the City Guard, or a friendly faction
shop and residence.) OBTAINING THE STONE OF GOLORR
The Stone of Golorr possesses an intelligent, alien intellect and has enough prescience to realize that the characters are destined to find it. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
potential for future victory. In the aftermath, the crook was again lost. Occasionally it reappears, but the famed artifact is not what it was. Whether or not the artifact’s bearers realize its full
banish all but the mightiest fiends within 1 mile of you. Any fiend with a challenge rating of 19 or higher is unaffected. Each banished fiend is sent back to its home plane and can’t return to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
possible. Escaping the Mouth. The Nematode doesn’t open its mouth, and the characters can’t force it open from here. The stony teeth and tough flesh are 10 feet thick at the thinnest point, so excavating
an entrance is all but impossible. Spells such as disintegrate and passwall can create an artificial exit, but the characters should quickly realize that the most obvious way out is the 10-foot-wide