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Basic Rules (2014)
longer affected by the spell.
Creature. You can try to move a Huge or smaller creature. Make an ability check with your spellcasting ability contested by the creature's Strength check. If you win the
grip. A creature lifted upward is suspended in mid-air.
On subsequent rounds, you can use your action to attempt to maintain your telekinetic grip on the creature by repeating the contest.
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Spells
Xanathar's Guide to Everything
24 hours. Even if the creature can enter the temple, the magic there hinders it; whenever it makes an attack roll, an ability check, or a saving throw inside the temple, it must roll a d4 and
).
The temple is made from opaque magical force that extends into the Ethereal Plane, thus blocking ethereal travel into the temple’s interior. Nothing can physically pass through the temple’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
studies the runes and succeeds on a DC 15 Intelligence (Investigation) check realizes their rotation marks out repeating 12-hour cycles, allowing visitors to keep time with the Material Plane worlds
can use an action to manipulate sliding portions of the disk and designate a destination platform. If the creature succeeds on a DC 20 Intelligence (Arcana) check, the disk flies at a speed of 60
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Wisdom (Perception) check uncovers a gilded spyglass worth 1,000 gp. A2: Ventricle Chamber Brian Valeza Deep in the heart of Havock lurks a creature called a
hertilod, which has swallowed a piece of
through the area without waking the hertilod by succeeding on a DC 18 Dexterity (Stealth) check. Otherwise, the hertilod wakes when it detects a creature within 30 feet of itself and attacks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
smaller creature. Make an ability check with your spellcasting ability contested by the creature’s Strength check. If you win the contest, you move the creature up to 30 feet in any direction
rounds, you can use your action to attempt to maintain your telekinetic grip on the creature by repeating the contest. Object. You can try to move an object that weighs up to 1,000 pounds. If the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
smaller creature. Make an ability check with your spellcasting ability contested by the creature’s Strength check. If you win the contest, you move the creature up to 30 feet in any direction
rounds, you can use your action to attempt to maintain your telekinetic grip on the creature by repeating the contest. Object. You can try to move an object that weighs up to 1,000 pounds. If the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
must make a DC 16 Wisdom (Perception) check, spotting it if successful. The logbook lays amid debris from the captain’s cabin, all of which bobs in the derelict’s gravity plane. The characters repeat
this check each round until the logbook is spotted. Retrieving the Logbook The next, more difficult task is obtaining the book. While the debris rests in the ship’s gravity plane, it’s not exactly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
15. Wind Tunnel Carved birds soar across the walls of this corridor. Blocking the passage near its northern end is a large adamantine propeller with five sharp blades.
With a successful DC 15
Wisdom (Perception) check, a character discerns that the entire floor of the corridor is a single pressure plate. The adamantine propeller has AC 20, 30 hit points, and immunity to all damage except force
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
. It depicts either a cluster of arms with no central body or repeating red hand prints. A character who investigates at least two of the farmhouses can make a DC 14 Wisdom (Perception) check. On a
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
Ability Checks An ability check is a test to see whether a character succeeds at a task that he or she has decided to attempt. The Player’s Handbook includes examples of what each ability score is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
they like. They can try to find clues with the following actions: Search. A character can take the Search action and make a DC 16 Wisdom (Insight or Perception) check. On a success, the character
notices that Oliekintara’s scarves are covered in repeating, patterned processions of suns and moons, representing the passage of time; the character also notices that Oliekintara’s eyes occasionally
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
magic spell reveals a strong aura of necromancy magic around the circle. A character who studies the circle and succeeds on a DC 20 Intelligence (Arcana) check can ascertain its properties. The check
repeating himself. He attacks anyone who tries to leave the lecture before its conclusion. Nester is an archmage, with these changes: Nester is undead and chaotic evil. He understands Auran, Common
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
disadvantage. A creature hit by the trap has its speed reduced to 0. It can’t move until it breaks free of the trap, which requires a successful DC 15 Strength check by the creature or another creature
adjacent to the trap. Countermeasures. A successful DC 10 Wisdom (Perception) check reveals the trap. A successful DC 10 Dexterity check using thieves’ tools disables it. Crossbow Trap Simple trap
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
from the constructs’ tail stingers.
Arbalests. A dozen arbalests (use quadrone statistics) flit around the arch. Each arbalest resembles an oversized repeating crossbow with mechanical wings and
character can ascertain the arch’s purpose with a successful DC 30 Intelligence (Arcana) check. The Simulacrux is a Gargantuan object with AC 19, 400 hit points, immunity to poison and psychic damage
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Locathah Rising
, blocking them in. If anyone is hesitant to enter, he’ll beckon for them to come forward, asking them to converse with him. In this regard, his demeanor is regal, but gracious and non-hostile. “Please. Come
18 Strength (Athletics) check or Dexterity (Acrobatics) check to free themselves. The sea lions are immune to this effect. A character who successfully casts dispel magic against a 6th level spell
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
there hinders it; whenever it makes an attack roll, an ability check, or a saving throw inside the temple, it must roll a d4 and subtract the number rolled from the d20 roll. In addition, the sensors
, thus blocking ethereal travel into the temple’s interior. Nothing can physically pass through the temple’s exterior. It can’t be dispelled by dispel magic, and antimagic field has no effect on it. A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
characters approach either bridge, they can make out the initial details of the rift and can see the guards blocking the path. Read the following to set the scene: A rift in the earth divides Elturel into
bridge can be activated to produce a radiant energy harmful to fiends and undead. A character touching the bridge who succeeds on a DC 15 Intelligence (Religion) check as an action can speak the proper
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
ten thugs blocking her path work for him. Traevus and his thugs are indifferent toward the party but turn hostile if the characters try to force their way onto the Moondancer with Captain Sartell in
the party and Sartell on as crew, doing so with a successful DC 10 Charisma (Persuasion) check. If Traevus learns that Sartell is the ship’s captain, he orders his thugs to apprehend Sartell, hoping
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
the cracks, and you hear the sounds of shouting and hammering coming from somewhere beyond the wall.
The stones blocking the end of the tunnel can be easily moved to create a 3-foot-square opening
restrained and can’t use its Grabby Hands action or take reactions. A character who spends 1 minute trying to untangle its strings can make a DC 14 Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) check, freeing the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
between two small, stone outbuildings, to either side of which stretches a five-foot-high, three-foot-thick wall of jumbled stones held together with mortar. Blocking the road are iron gates attached
they aren’t awake when the characters arrive (see below). Characters who succeed on a DC 12 Dexterity (Stealth) check can climb over the low outer wall without waking them. If one or more characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Astarion's Book of Hungers
) with the characters, Astarion recognizes two Vampire Wardens from Cazador’s palace. The wardens are blocking the public exit to Rat’s Run. Certain that someone from the palace wants to kidnap him
character makes a DC 13 Dexterity (Stealth) check. If the checks are successful, the wardens don’t notice the group. On a failed check, the vampire wardens notice the group and begin combat. No Safe Spaces
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
-looking path, road, or trails occasionally become sharp for 100-foot intervals. Walking on these areas is like walking on caltrops. Small avalanches of rock intermittently fall, blocking a path or burying
creates one or more of the following additional regional effects within 1 mile of her lair: Small avalanches of snow intermittently fall, blocking a path or burying intruders. A buried creature is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
placed to be phosphorescent mushrooms.
The lights are proper lamps flanking two massive stone gates blocking the tunnel. Before you get a chance to examine the intricate carvings on the gates
interrogation by speaking for the party and making a DC 15 Charisma check (Deception and Persuasion apply; Intimidation or Performance are met with scorn). Depending on how believable the party’s story is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
succeeding on a DC 13 Intelligence (Investigation) check can see through the illusion. If the illusion is detected, all the characters see the gibbering mouthers in their true forms as both creatures
(Insight) check confirms that they are not themselves, as they display slightly warped personalities. The four attack when they or the gibbering mouthers are discovered (use their guard or commoner
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Locathah Rising
remain protective of the area. If the characters want to proceed into area 10 without angering the kraken priests, they must succeed on DC 15 Charisma (Persuasion) check and promise not to harm Fhenimore
, one of the kraken priests triggers the ballistae trap, firing both siege weapons simultaneously, while the other casts Evard’s black tentacles, effectively blocking off the entrance to area 10. On the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
foes, at which point the deep friendships between them forge the kind of fighting force needed to overthrow tyranny and eradicate evil. Harper scouts engaged in charting and blocking off Underdark
guardian by winning a game of chess against the Harper wizard. Zelraun suggests a match after dinner. A chess match takes 1 hour, and the outcome is determined by a best-of-three Intelligence check
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
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
stormy area and does not do so unless a character convinces her with a successful DC 20 Charisma (Persuasion) check.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
feet ahead of you, blocking the path. Each has several black-feathered arrows sticking out of it. The woods press close to the trail here, with a steep embankment and dense thickets on either side.
If
modifier: +6. Check to see who, if anyone, is surprised. The party can’t surprise the goblins, but the goblins might surprise some or all of the characters. Make a Dexterity (Stealth) check for the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
Dexterity check using thieves’ tools to open it. A locked door can also be smashed open with a successful DC 15 Strength check. A character looking for a secret door finds one with a successful DC 15
Wisdom (Perception) check. 1. Cellar The stairway leading down into the cellar shows signs of recent foot traffic. Characters can find these tracks easily. When the characters open the door at the bottom
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
leads back to Atagua.
A character who investigates the walls and succeeds on a DC 16 Intelligence (Investigation or Nature) check realizes they’re inside some gigantic creature, though it doesn’t seem
end, hundreds of saucer-sized eyes with fanged pupils open and begin repeating a random character’s name. The wall is a gibbering mouther controlled by the Drought Elder. It moves out of the way for any
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
searching this chamber for useful fungi and succeeds on a DC 12 Intelligence (Nature) or Wisdom (Survival) check finds 1d6 of these reddish mushrooms, which bear an unsettling resemblance to human hearts
identify with a successful DC 15 Intelligence (Nature) check. If a character moves more than 5 feet into the chamber, six stirges emerge from the nest and attack. Meanwhile, the sprouts flee toward
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
, a successful DC 20 Strength (Athletics) check is needed to push the door open. Each check requires an action. Disable the Statues. A statue can be disabled by blocking the flow of gas from its mouth
Rune of Fear increases the trap’s power. Each successful check on an attempt to disable the rune increases the damage of the blades and the crushing pillars by 5 (1d10) and increases the rune’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
and corn struggle to grow in the fields surrounding the house. Any character who succeeds on a DC 14 Intelligence (Nature) check can tell the plants around this farm are sickly because something’s
wrong with the soil. A character who succeeds on a DC 16 Wisdom (Perception) check notices raised paths through the dirt, like mole tunnels, though no creatures are obvious. Although it’s not evident, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
along the north wall are the remains of three archmagi who tried to meddle in Acererak’s affairs. A successful DC 12 Wisdom (Medicine) check confirms that all three died within the past month and that
Raxyg”; see area 71) within earshot of the fiend, it is stunned for 1 minute. Once the stunned effect wears off, repeating the arcanaloth’s name has no effect on it for the next 24 hours. If killed, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
) check also finds the trap. A character can disarm the trap by making a successful DC 12 Dexterity check using thieves’ tools. The trap triggers if a character walks through the trip wire, or if an
) check to climb out of the pit because of the slick slime and moss growing on its sides. C. Spiked Pit Trap Each of these pits, measuring 6 feet by 6 feet and with a depth of 10 feet, has long wooden






