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Dungeon Master’s Guide
attack rolls and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. If you hit an Undead with this weapon, you take 1d10 Necrotic damage, and the target regains 1d10 Hit Points. If this Necrotic damage reduces you
, two other weapons locked away under White Plume Mountain. It wants the three weapons to be reunited and wielded together in combat, even though it violently disagrees with Whelm and finds Wave tedious
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
combat, you have Advantage on Death Saving Throws for 1 year. If someone else reduces your chosen foe to 0 Hit Points or you don’t choose a foe, this card has no effect.
Donjon. You disappear
effect.
Comet. The next time you enter combat against one or more Hostile creatures, you can select one of them as your foe when you roll Initiative. If you reduce your foe to 0 Hit Points during that
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn
Mechanical Determination. If damage reduces the wonder to 0 Hit Points, it makes a Constitution saving throw with a DC of 5 plus the damage taken unless the damage is Lightning or from a Critical Hit
. In combat, the wonder shares your Initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. It obeys your verbal commands (no action required by you). If you don’t issue any, it takes the
Magic Items
Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn
and your allies. In combat, the wonder shares your Initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. It obeys your verbal commands (no action required by you). If you don’t issue
Mechanical Determination. If damage reduces the wonder to 0 Hit Points, it makes a Constitution saving throw with a DC of 5 plus the damage taken unless the damage is Lightning or from a Critical Hit. On
Monsters
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
of its next turn.Unstoppable (3/Day). The death's head reduces the damage it takes from an attack to 0.Bhaal's cultists emulate their deity, carrying out gruesome murders to spread fear and horror
. They are charming and disarming when they wish, but in combat their true, bloodthirsty nature comes to the fore.
Bloodletters. All cultists of Bhaal learn to call upon their god's power to leave their
Blackrazor
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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
reduces you to 0 hit points, Blackrazor devours your soul.
Soul Hunter
While you hold the weapon, you are aware of the presence of Tiny or larger creatures within 60 feet of you that aren’t
together in combat, even though it violently disagrees with Whelm and finds Wave tedious.
Blackrazor’s hunger for souls must be regularly fed. If the sword goes three days or more without consuming a soul, a conflict between it and its wielder occurs at the next sunset.
Monsters
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
; 3–4, purple blossom; or 5–6, snapper saw. This form determines certain traits in this stat block.
False Appearance. If the horrid plant is motionless at the start of combat, it has
damage taken, and the horrid plant regains hit points equal to that amount. This reduction lasts until the target finishes a long rest. The target dies if this effect reduces its hit point maximum to 0.
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
home from fiendish incursions and safeguard those threatened by wicked forces. Archons are skilled communicators, able to speak all the languages of the multiverse. When pushed into combat, they prefer
, and Slashing from Nonmagical AttacksShift Radiance. The archon reduces its Illumination to shed only dim light in a 5-foot radius, or it returns the light to full intensity.
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
this end, duergar warriors fulfill a variety of combat roles, often marrying their fury in battle with their psionic abilities or training dangerous Underdark creatures as mounts.
Denigrated by some
carrying. While reduced, the duergar is Tiny, reduces its weapon damage to 1, and makes attack rolls, ability checks, and saving throws with disadvantage if they use Strength. It gains a +5 bonus to all
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Tips Follow these tips to smooth a combat encounter with a large number of monsters: Damage. Use the average damage specified in a monster’s stat block. Hit Points. If a spell or attack reduces a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Casualties Slaying a ship’s crew reduces the number of actions most ships can take, making the crew a tempting target in combat. Resolve individual attacks as normal, using the guidelines for
Crew in Combat Managing a ship’s entire crew in combat can prove cumbersome, especially as larger ships often host dozens of sailors. Typically the crew is too busy managing the ship to do anything
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
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When you damage a target that hasn’t taken a turn in this combat, the target takes an extra 3d10 slashing damage from ghostly blades.
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reduced by 2d10. If this reduces your hit point maximum to 0, you die.
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Daughters of Bel (green steel pit fiend fang)
1 pit fiend
You can use the tooth to cast dominate monster (DC 18). Once you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Tracking Initiative You can use several different methods for keeping track of who goes when in combat. Hidden List Many DMs keep track of initiative on a list the players can’t see: usually a piece
player responsibility for keeping track of initiative, either on a whiteboard or on a piece of paper the other players can see. This method reduces the number of things you need to keep track of yourself
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
and don’t need to consume any of their rations. They eat well that night, and each character begins the next day with inspiration. Reduced Travel Time. The characters find a shortcut that reduces the
: Encounter. The characters’ failure leads to a difficult combat encounter. Use the card to help you decide what kind of creature is encountered. Exhaustion. The stress of overcoming the challenge
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
. Matches pit two teams against each other: one consisting of creatures enlisted by the casino, the other consisting of casino patrons looking to prove their mettle in combat. Before each match
veterans. The arena matches are divided into three tiers, with victory in a tier granting access to the next one. Victory in a match goes to the side that reduces all combatants on the other side to 0
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Intro to Stormwreck Isle
characters can use Charisma checks (applying Persuasion, Intimidation, or perhaps Deception skills, as appropriate) to get it to accept a lower amount; each successful DC 15 check reduces the amount he
combat. Then play passes to the right. Take the merrow’s turn when it passes around to you.
On each player’s turn, talk through the different actions their character can take, such as attacking with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Intro to Stormwreck Isle
continue up the path and leave the slow, shambling zombies behind. If the characters turn and fight, this is the first combat encounter in the adventure. Here are the steps you should follow to run it
adventurers, Elder Runara comes to their rescue. The characters wake up in a temple in Dragon’s Rest. Runara explains that she heard the sounds of combat and arrived just in time to prevent the zombies from
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Essential Reduction", "rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage. If this damage reduces the target to 0 hit points, it crumbles to dust.Decay and despair are bound up in
beauty of the ocean. (Good)
6
Code of Combat. I despise most other dragons, but I meet them face to face without resorting to the base trickery I use on lesser creatures. (Lawful)
Topaz
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
determines certain traits in this stat block.
False Appearance. If the horrid plant is motionless at the start of combat, it has advantage on its initiative roll. Moreover, if a creature hasn’t
point maximum is reduced by an amount equal to the damage taken, and the horrid plant regains hit points equal to that amount. This reduction lasts until the target finishes a long rest. The target dies if this effect reduces its hit point maximum to 0.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
take 1d10 necrotic damage and the target regains 1d10 hit points. If this necrotic damage reduces you to 0 hit points, Blackrazor devours your soul. Soul Hunter. While you hold the weapon, you are
the three weapons to be united again and wielded together in combat, even though it violently disagrees with Whelm and finds Wave tedious. Blackrazor’s hunger for souls must be regularly fed. If the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Necrotic damage, and the target regains 1d10 Hit Points. If this Necrotic damage reduces you to 0 Hit Points, Blackrazor devours your soul (see “Devour Soul” below). While you hold this weapon, you have
strange kinship to Wave and Whelm, two other weapons locked away under White Plume Mountain. It wants the three weapons to be reunited and wielded together in combat, even though it violently disagrees
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
apprentices. They attack intruders on sight, bombarding them with fireball spells in the first round of combat. The flameskulls pursue intruders that flee, using their mage hand spells to open doors
released and appears in an unoccupied space as close to the shield as possible. On a failed save, the creature takes 31 (7d8) necrotic damage. If this damage reduces the trapped creature to 0 hit points
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
);{"diceNotation":"9d8", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Essential Reduction", "rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage. If this damage reduces the target to 0 hit points, it crumbles to dust.Decay and
the sight of the vast beauty of the ocean. (Good)
6
Code of Combat. I despise most other dragons, but I meet them face to face without resorting to the base trickery I use on lesser creatures
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
concussions are fairly distributed.
— Rosie Beestinger
Stances for Success Part of your martial training as a monk sees you adopting a variety of stances during combat. These stances help focus your
for cooling off on hot days)
8 Broken Bridge — Face down on the ground with knees bent and posterior up (reduces visibility to foes in front, and makes a useful ramp for allies to jump off
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
without brandishing or wearing the symbol of Xanathar. Combat in this room brings reinforcements from area 20b. 20b. Watch Post Barracks Xanathar Guild. Unless they are drawn to area 20a by sounds of
combat, the following creatures are training here: a 7-foot-tall, powerfully built woman with shaggy black hair and pale skin named Nadia the Unbent (NE female Illuskan berserker), five human thugs
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hold Back The Dead
attacks and uses Unsettling Visage if available.
Slam. Melee Attack Roll: +6 (with Advantage during the first round of each combat), reach 5 ft. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4) Bludgeoning damage.
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Senses Darkvision 60 ft.; Passive Perception 8
Languages Understands Common and Giant but can’t speak
CR 2 (XP 450; PB +2)
Traits
Undead Fortitude. If damage reduces the zombie
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
the sky. Whenever the characters are outdoors and become embroiled in combat in the region, one or more knights descend from the sky to help them, provided none of the characters is evil. Each round on
damage. If this damage reduces a creature to 0 hit points, the creature instead has 1 hit point and has the petrified condition until that condition is removed by the Greater Restoration spell or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
exhaustion that can't be removed until the disease is cured. Any event that causes the infected creature great stress--including entering combat, taking damage, experiencing fear, or having a
level of exhaustion. On a successful save, the character's exhaustion level decreases by one level. If a successful saving throw reduces the infected creature's level of exhaustion below 1, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
removed until the disease is cured. Any event that causes the infected creature great stress — including entering combat, taking damage, experiencing fear, or having a nightmare — forces the creature
successful save, the character’s exhaustion level decreases by one level. If a successful saving throw reduces the infected creature’s level of exhaustion below 1, the creature recovers from the disease
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
, a firenewt warrior in combat can become “touched by the Fire Lord,” entering a nearly unstoppable battle rage. Warlocks of Imix command warriors to prove their worth by going on raids to bring back
rebuke, scorching ray
Imix’s Blessing. When the firenewt reduces an enemy to 0 hit points, the firenewt gains 5 temporary hit points.
Actions
Morningstar. Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d8 + 1) piercing damage.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
damage. If this damage reduces the creature’s hit points to 0, it is crushed to a pulp; otherwise, the creature is shoved into the room. The block is impervious to damage and spells. When fully
fully immersed in wine. After 12 rounds, the wine fills the tomb. Use the underwater combat rules in chapter 9 of the Player’s Handbook to handle fighting in these conditions. Visibility within the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
prefer to communicate via telepathy and use their telepathy when issuing commands to their thralls. When an illithid meets strong resistance, it avoids initial combat as it orders its thralls to attack
.
Extract Brain. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one incapacitated humanoid grappled by the mind flayer. Hit: The target takes 55 (10d10) piercing damage. If this damage reduces the target to 0
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
death tyrant’s lair or guard its treasure vaults. Acting as bait for traps or as combat fodder, zombies keep powerful enemies distracted while the death tyrant moves into position and prepares to
damage. If this damage reduces the creature to 0 hit points, its body becomes a pile of fine gray dust.
If the target is a Large or smaller nonmagical object or creation of magical force, it is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
champion jumping into combat when it looks like the characters might fail, a noble helping the party avoid a sticky situation with the law, or someone offering the characters a place to stay. This NPC
character’s backstory, someone the character wronged on a previous quest, or a relative of someone the character killed or brought to ruin. This person might seek revenge in combat or through social sabotage
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
combat, you have Advantage on Death Saving Throws for 1 year. If someone else reduces your chosen foe to 0 Hit Points or you don’t choose a foe, this card has no effect. Donjon You disappear and become
effect. Comet The next time you enter combat against one or more Hostile creatures, you can select one of them as your foe when you roll Initiative. If you reduce your foe to 0 Hit Points during that