before being deciding count repeating

Ability Checks

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

ten times the normal amount of time needed to complete a task automatically succeeds at that task. However, no amount of repeating the check allows a character to turn an impossible task into a

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

Barovia

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

of an immortal overlord. This is the realm of the vampire Count Strahd von Zarovich, whose depravities have doomed him and countless generations to endlessly repeating cycles of obsession and despair

Encounters on the Way

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath

are bolstered by the storm but are weaker when outside it. The edge of the storm expands outward at a rate of 5 feet per round, on initiative count 20. If the myrmidons are within the storm, their

even though they were made of metal. She was almost struck a few times, but she kept repeating prayers to Talos, and she thinks that is the only thing that saved her. She does not want to enter the

Camp Alertness

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen

in the camp, they count roughly one hundred kobolds and a mix of bandits, guards, and cultists totaling about eighty — effectively an unlimited supply if characters get the idea of fighting them all

effect is the same as if they’d been recognized. If characters lie to Mondath — claiming they are new recruits and this is all a mistake, for example, or that they are studying the cult before deciding

Camp Alertness

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons

, they count roughly one hundred kobolds and a mix of bandits, guards, and cultists totaling about eighty—effectively an unlimited supply if characters get the idea of fighting them all. Captured! If

as if they’d been recognized. If characters lie to Mondath—claiming they are new recruits and this is all a mistake, for example, or that they are studying the cult before deciding whether to join

Stage 2: Little Inn of Horrors

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

(2d8) bludgeoning damage and 5 (1d10) fire damage. The trap acts on initiative count 10, repeating this effect each turn until a character uses an action to replace the lid. Even with the lid on, the

Climbing Kelvin's Cairn

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

feet above the party and sweeps down to the base of the mountain 1,000 feet below. The avalanche moves 300 feet on initiative count 10 and another 300 feet on initiative count 0. Fallen Climber You

characters until they return to Ten-Towns, then parts ways with them after deciding that her adventuring days are over. Against one wall, hidden under the shattered remains of a dogsled, is a mess kit, an

Tresendar Manor Dungeon

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

spellcaster put a mark on them (the dragon-skull symbol), then ordered Patsky to lock the creatures in this room. They pecked him before he could escape, and have been repeating the process every time

. Creature. After the first character enters the room, roll initiative. A gibbering mouther wriggles through the portal on its initiative count, but can take no other actions on its first turn. Thereafter

Tomb Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin

repeating message carved in Celestial along the shelves’ edges: “A septet of libations I present to you, But only one will help you escape this tomb. Six drinks are magic; one is mundane. Those marked

. Each time the trap triggers, have the characters roll initiative. The ceiling drops to its lowest point on initiative count 20 of each round, losing initiative ties, until the trap resets. Any creature

Meenlock

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

-year-old person. Alhoons can extend their existence by repeating the ritual with new victims, effectively resetting the clocks for themselves. Destruction of a periapt of mind trapping consigns

and with psionic energy. Lair Actions When fighting inside its lair, an elder brain can use lair actions. On initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), an elder brain can take one lair action to

Briny Maze Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

Varakkta lives here with two githyanki warriors named Kianka and Vazzi. Varakkta is using a spare greatsword rather than her silver greatsword, so her attacks don’t count as magical. She speaks Common

carries on Klaudel’s work, reading and rereading the text the spectator doesn’t understand and repeating its words with a slightly different pronunciation each time. Klaudel’s obsession has become Jomlus’s

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