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Dungeon Master’s Guide
serving you. The entity appears in an unoccupied space within 120 feet of you. It uses the Shadow stat block with these changes: it is a Fey, has a Neutral alignment, and doesn’t create new shadows
. You control this entity, deciding how it acts and moves. It remains until it drops to 0 Hit Points or you dismiss it as a Magic action.
Magic Items
Princes of the Apocalypse
perform a ritual called the Dance of the All-Consuming Fire, using Tinderstrike to create a devastation orb of fire (see the devastation orb description for the time and cost of the ritual). Once you
the following flaw: “I act without thinking and take risks without weighing the consequences.”
Monsters
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
corpse melded to its underside to absorb damage and to strike at prey.
Mutates
A creature exposed to the strange energy of the Far Realm risks developing mutations. Such a creature undergoes a
, though evil forces—such as the mind flayer empire of old—have conducted much research on the topic. For centuries, mind flayers have tried to create armies of mutates to sweep through
Monsters
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
a grotesque window into the virulent refuse the otyugh recently consumed.
Mutates
A creature exposed to the strange energy of the Far Realm risks developing mutations. Such a creature undergoes a
fails, though evil forces—such as the mind flayer empire of old—have conducted much research on the topic. For centuries, mind flayers have tried to create armies of mutates to sweep through
Monsters
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
risks developing mutations. Such a creature undergoes a metamorphosis as the powers of the Far Realm rewrite the fundamentals of the creature’s existence.
Any creature can become a mutate and
have tried to create armies of mutates to sweep through the Underdark. However, their efforts always proved fruitless, and eventually the mind flayers gave up their schemes.
Several common types of
Moonblade
Legacy
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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
appears in an unoccupied space within 120 feet of you. It uses the statistics for a shadow, except it is neutral, immune to effects that turn undead, and doesn’t create new shadows. You control
this creature, deciding how it acts and moves. It remains until it drops to 0 hit points or you dismiss it as an action.
00
The moonblade functions as a vorpal sword.
Sentience
A
Backgrounds
Ghosts of Saltmarsh
table to help determine the theme of your tale or choose one that best fits your character. Alternatively, work with your DM to create your own fishing tale.
d8
Tale
1
Lobster
laugh heartily, feel deeply, and fear nothing.
6
I work hard; nature offers no handouts.
7
I dislike bargaining; state your price and mean it.
8
Luck favors me, and I take risks others
Rogue
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Classes
Basic Rules (2014)
treasure. Creating a Rogue As you create your rogue character, consider the character’s relationship to the law. Do you have a criminal past—or present? Are you on the run from the law or from
an angry thieves’ guild master? Or did you leave your guild in search of bigger risks and bigger rewards? Is it greed that drives you in your adventures, or some other desire or ideal? What
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Darklord an overwhelming threat, doing so risks distancing a rich, versatile villain from the characters. A Darklord is often far from the most physically daunting creature in their domain, but their
to make them vulnerable (topics explored in “The Domain’s Downfall” in chapter 2). A climatic encounter with a Darklord should happen when and how it’s right for your adventures. After all, dread isn’t a factor of challenge rating or character level, but of the suspense your adventures create.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Mutates Sam Burley A creature exposed to the strange energy of the Far Realm risks developing mutations. Such a creature undergoes a metamorphosis as the powers of the Far Realm rewrite the
conducted much research on the topic. For centuries, mind flayers have tried to create armies of mutates to sweep through the Underdark. However, their efforts always proved fruitless, and eventually the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
Construct Forge Level 17 Bastion Facility Prerequisite: Ability to use Artisan’s Tools as a Spellcasting Focus
Space: Vast
Hirelings: 2
Order: Recruit
A Construct Forge is used to create
. Creating new Warforged Titans is illegal under the terms of the Treaty of Korth, which ended the Last War. Violating that treaty risks reigniting open war across Khorvaire.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Creating a Rogue As you create your rogue character, consider the character’s relationship to the law. Do you have a criminal past — or present? Are you on the run from the law or from an angry
thieves’ guild master? Or did you leave your guild in search of bigger risks and bigger rewards? Is it greed that drives you in your adventures, or some other desire or ideal? What was the trigger that led
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Display. One should never take risks or waste resources by using power if one can achieve the same results merely by the threat of power. (Any)
6 Loyalty. I don’t form bonds with those outside my
kindred often. But when I do, I am an unshakable and powerful ally. (Good)
Blue Dragon Spellcasting Age Spell Save DC Spells Known
Young 15 create or destroy water, major image
Adult
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Creating a New Item If modifying an item doesn’t quite do the trick, you can create one from scratch. A magic item should either let a character do something he or she couldn’t do before, or improve
it has several different abilities, but simply deciding that an item is always active or can be used a fixed number of times per day is easier to manage. Power Level If you make an item that lets a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Creating a Rogue As you create your rogue character, consider the character’s relationship to the law. Do you have a criminal past — or present? Are you on the run from the law or from an angry
thieves’ guild master? Or did you leave your guild in search of bigger risks and bigger rewards? Is it greed that drives you in your adventures, or some other desire or ideal? What was the trigger that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Creating a New Item If modifying an item doesn’t quite fulfill the need, you can create one from scratch. A magic item should either let a character do something they couldn’t do before or improve
several different abilities, but simply deciding that an item is always active or can be used a fixed number of times per day might be easier to manage. Power Level If you make an item that lets a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
create cultural touchstones and shape modern philosophies. They also embody the potential of mortals to be more than mere drops in the raging river of fate. Tales of heroes teach that greatness is
greatness typically begin by deciding what heroic archetype they most closely align with and letting that ideal influence their fate. The heroes illustrated throughout this introduction are examples of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
methods and abyssal metals to create an amulet into which part of that essence is ceded. If the demon’s abyssal form is ever destroyed, the amulet allows the fiend to reform at a time and place of
its choosing. Obtaining a demonic amulet is a dangerous enterprise, and simply seeking such a device risks drawing the attention of the demon that created it. A creature possessing a demonic amulet can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
better for everyone. Heroism. You can use inspiration to encourage player characters to take risks. A fighter might not normally hurl himself over a balcony to land in the midst of a pack of hungry
this approach to work, create a list of your genre’s main conventions and share it with your players. Before the campaign begins, talk about the list to make sure your group is on board for embracing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
, they can seldom do so quickly.
Attuned to the magic of their airy domains, cloud giants are able to turn into mist and create clouds of billowing fog. They dwell in castles on high mountain peaks
treasures that bring esteem to a cloud giant’s household. Rather than steal from one another or fight over treasures, cloud giants are inveterate gamblers with a hunger for high risks and high rewards
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
that sweet coin on your own. In your role as the party’s bodyguard, your unmatched training and sense of honor drive you to take untold risks as you put others’ lives before your own. Your heavy armor
is as fearsome as your heavy morals, and your healing ability, bonuses to saving throws, and lack of fear create a trifecta of comfort. Your natural leadership role also comes into play, as the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
changes: it is a Fey, has a Neutral alignment, and doesn’t create new shadows. You control this entity, deciding how it acts and moves. It remains until it drops to 0 Hit Points or you dismiss it as a Magic action.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
120 feet of you. It uses the statistics for a shadow from the Monster Manual, except it is neutral, immune to effects that turn undead, and doesn’t create new shadows. You control this creature
, deciding how it acts and moves. It remains until it drops to 0 hit points or you dismiss it as an action. 00 The moonblade functions as a vorpal sword. Sentience. A moonblade is a sentient neutral good
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
choose one that best fits your character. Alternatively, work with your DM to create your own fishing tale. d8 Tale 1 Lobster Wrestling. You fought in hand-to-hand combat with an immense lobster. 2 It
take risks others might not. Fisher Ideals d6 Ideal 1 Camaraderie. Good people make even the longest voyage bearable. (Good) 2 Luck. Our luck depends on respecting its rules — now throw this
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
, Intimidation, or Persuasion) check, the brain warns them of the risks of tampering with the journal (see below). It then negotiates for the characters’ aid, claiming that only it can safely release
monastery’s power and moved elsewhere. Energy cells might also be used in devices the characters create (see above) or in the powered armor found in area O7. Energy cells cannot be recharged.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
have done. Goliaths love to win, but they see defeat as an incentive to improve their skills. Above all else, every goliath is driven to outdo their past performance, taking greater and greater risks. As
character. A goliath native to Icewind Dale can be a member of the Skytower (Akannathi) clan, the Wyrmdoom (Thuunlakalaga) clan, or another goliath clan that you and the player create together. A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
the Mark, the houses agreed to create an institute for the application of magic—a foundation that would study dragonmarks, along with more traditional forms of magic. Over the centuries, the Twelve has
and better arcane discoveries, but the animosity sometimes escalates to sabotage and researchers taking excessive risks. Mordain the Fleshweaver. Not many personal grudges jeopardize the Twelve, but
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
actions, doctrine, dogma, and policies. On a local scale, a new organization contends with existing power groups, influencing, subverting, dominating, or allying with them to create a stronger base of
campaign to oppose the new organization, or create one from the categories on the table. Decide why they oppose the new group, who leads them, and what they plan to do to stop their rival. 8. Discovery
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
troops fighting elsewhere, and Jallizanx is deciding how to give directions the dim-witted kakkuus can be reasonably expected to convey. When they see the characters, the kakkuus rush into melee while
. The room’s west end contains a jumble of stones stacked to create a vertical ring about five feet in diameter. A sleek staff—the Rod of Seven Parts—is jammed between two encircling stones like a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
fire spreads, it can create an inferno that quickly engulfs creatures, objects, and vegetation. An inferno consists of at least four contiguous 10-foot Cubes of fire. Each of the inferno’s 10-foot Cubes
submerged in quicksand has Total Cover and the Blinded condition and risks suffocation. A creature can pull another creature within its reach out of a quicksand pit by taking an action and succeeding
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
overloaded, those gates will attune themselves to the location where the power of the Chosen is being directed — the vault itself. In order to create that overload, six black gates in other sectors must
to create opportunities for interesting interactions. If combat statistics become necessary, a helpless Chosen has AC 10, has 5 hit points, and makes checks and saving throws with a +0 modifier. If
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
players and the DM. Group Design When selecting a feature, the characters must make decisions together — meaning the players must do the same. Deciding on the features of a headquarters should be a team
to create a map of the headquarters and its surroundings. Chapter 5 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide can help detail both wilderness and urban locations. LIFESTYLE EXPENSES
Whenever characters are in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
silent, turns dark gray, and can’t create any more gems. Gem Shards Attack Roll or Check Total Thunder Damage Gemstone Value 5 or lower 33 (6d10) 10 gp 10–14 22 (4d10) 50 gp 15–19 11 (2d10) 100 gp
can contact the star and ask it questions as if using the Contact Other Plane spell, including all the risks associated with that spell. A character who examines the starlight glow and succeeds on a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Lurks, because uttering its real name risks attracting its attention. Its actual form, if it even has one, is unknown; it’s most often represented as an ooze-like creature with many tentacles or a purple
. Malyk is associated with rebellion because when a wild mage’s true nature is revealed, the individual often has no recourse but to openly attack others and create chaos. Most other drow vie to receive
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
drink at the bar.
Bartender. The skeleton bartender uses clockwork devices to shake rum drinks, peel fruit, blend fruit juices, and create souvenir flattened tokens (at a cost of 3 tokens). A door
evil, and might be talked into partnerships with the franchise. The potential for such deals (and the potential risks in dealing with such powerful entities) is left to your imagination. Taking Leave of