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Magic Items
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
DM’s control. The type of chromatic dragon depends on your alignment and personality and is left to the DM to decide. The transformation is permanent, but if the dragon is slain, its body
reverts to its original form and the orb reappears outside its body.
Destroying the Orb. If an Ancient Gold Dragon willingly swallows the orb, the orb and the dragon are both destroyed.
Mirror, Steel
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Equipment
A steel mirror is handy when you want to look around corners, signal friends with reflected sunlight, keep an eye on a medusa, make sure that you look good enough to present yourself to the queen, or examine wounds that you’ve received on hard-to-see parts of your body.
Monsters
Princes of the Apocalypse
Earthen Defeat. When Marlos drops to 0 hit points, his body transforms into mud and collapses into a pool. Anything he is wearing or carrying is left behind.
Earth Passage. Marlos can move in
, a creature can avert its eyes to avoid the saving throw at the start of its turn. If the creature does so, it can’t see Marlos until the start of its next turn, when it can decide to avert its
Alter Self
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
action to gain the benefits of a different one.
Aquatic Adaptation. You adapt your body to an aquatic environment, sprouting gills and growing webbing between your fingers. You can breathe
underwater and gain a swimming speed equal to your walking speed.
Change Appearance. You transform your appearance. You decide what you look like, including your height, weight, facial features, sound of your
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
your adventuring career, you can decide whether to tell your companions about your inheritance right away. Rather than attracting attention to yourself, you might want to keep your inheritance a secret
trinket
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An article of clothing
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A piece of jewelry
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An arcane book or formulary
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A written story, song, poem, or secret
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A tattoo or other body marking
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Divine Being. Auril can’t be surprised and can’t be changed into another form against her will.
Divine Rejuvenation. When Auril drops to 0 hit points, her body turns to slush and melts
Frost.First Form
In her first form, Auril appears as a hunched, 7-foot-tall biped with the head of a snowy owl, black talons, cloven hooves, and grayish-white wolf fur covering her body from the neck down
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Divine Being. Auril can’t be surprised and can’t be changed into another form against her will.
Divine Rejuvenation. When Auril drops to 0 hit points, her body collapses into shards of
icicle from her body and hurls it into an unoccupied space she can see within 20 feet of her, where it magically transforms into an ice mephit (see its entry in the Monster Manual). The mephit acts
Sorcerer
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Classes
Basic Rules (2014)
chooses the sorcerer. Raw Magic Magic is a part of every sorcerer, suffusing body, mind, and spirit with a latent power that waits to be tapped. Some sorcerers wield magic that springs from an ancient
;ll choose an origin that ties to a draconic bloodline or the influence of wild magic, but the exact source of your power is up to you to decide. Is it a family curse, passed down to you from distant
Shifter
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Species
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
body and mind. Some shifters believe that these spirits are independent entities, and they may speak of Bear or Wolf as ancestors or guides. Most just see the beast within as a formidable expression
within they physically transform for a short time.
A shifter’s beast within is reflected by the shifter’s subrace. Four subraces are especially common:
Beasthide often signifies the
Hobgoblin
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
they displease Maglubiyet, but the few priests among them do tend small shrines and interpret the body of legends about their gods. Nomog-Geaya’s priests always wield his favored weapons, a
banners, each one made up of a group of interrelated families. Members of a banner live, work, and fight together, and each banner has a separate status within the legion that is reflected in the power of
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Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
sparkles.
If you use an arcane focus, it probably takes the form of an intricate device that could include metal gauntlets, glass canisters, copper tubing, and leather straps attaching it to your body
me with conflicted feelings.
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I helped a minor Gruul chieftain acquire an Izzet weapon.
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Roll an additional Izzet contact; you can decide if the contact is an ally or a rival.
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Magic Items
Acquisitions Incorporated
glasses.
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Burning a small piece of the body and looking for shapes in the smoke.
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A cautious, reasoned, professional guesstimate.
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Careful measurements. The distance between nostrils
. The difference between the index finger and the middle finger. The elasticity of the ear lobe.
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You take a long, careful look, and then decide based on which fellow franchisee has been nice to
Magic Items
Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
possessed by the armor. While possessed, the user is incapacitated and loses control of its body but retains its awareness. The armor uses the possessed user’s statistics (as adjusted by the armor
Power. Powered armor originally required energy cells to fuel it, but was adapted by Kwalish to be fueled by the life energy of the creature wearing it. You might decide that the armor can also draw
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
. However, you might decide that if this is done, the priest’s still-potent magical power allows her to merge with the great ooze and control it — effectively using that titanic creature as the new body she seeks.
High Priest In the ooze-flooded city of Daoine Gloine, the high priest in area O5 might negotiate with the characters for a new physical body. She readily agrees to deactivate the clockwork kraken if
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Borderlands Quest: Goblin Trouble
corpses. Treasure. If the characters actively search the caverns, they find the desiccated husk of a former adventurer who was eaten by the spiders. Next to the body is a torn backpack. The backpack holds
Disadvantage
Some circumstances make it easier or harder to succeed on their D20 Tests. This can be reflected in Advantage or Disadvantage.
Advantage means that instead of rolling the d20 once
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
It Came from the Far Realm What happens to the Far Realm entity is for you to decide. As a thing of pure thought, it might corrupt creatures in its vicinity, transforming them into horrible
Aberrations or zealous Far Realm cultists. Conversely, it might find solace in the body of some creature powerful enough to serve as its new host.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Dark Fantasy Adventure Sites Evil is entrenched and effective in dark fantasy domains, truths reflected by grandiose adventure locations. Their size and grandeur seem out of proportion with the
expanding labyrinth that grows to protect the evil imprisoned at its heart
2 A forest where every tree grows from the body of a mummified hero
3 A magical factory that distills living beings
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Aundair in the arcane arts, but the flexibility of its forces reflected the nation’s ideals. Although the Sovereign Host was the dominant faith of Cyre, the Silver Flame had a significant following
support Oargev and the dream of a restored Cyre, while others prefer to focus on the future instead of trying to reclaim the past. As a Cyran, you should decide whether you hold tight to your national identity, or instead consider yourself to be an expatriate without a nation.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
character’s focus on one aspect of an ability. Among all the things a character’s Dexterity score describes, the character might be particularly skilled at sneaking around, reflected in proficiency in the
skill. When that skill is used for an ability check, it is usually used with Dexterity. Under certain circumstances, you can decide a character’s proficiency in a skill can be applied to a different
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
Appendix A: Random Encounters Characters undertaking this adventure will spend a significant amount of game time on the journey to the Monastery of the Distressed Body and the lost city of Daoine
Gloine. You can help bring those weeks of exploration to life with random encounters — some of which might increase or decrease the length of the characters’ journey, as you decide. Chapter 2 of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Mayastan Sadaar Word of Mayastan Sadaar’s death hits the scholars of Candlekeep hard. At your discretion, the characters can return the scholar’s body to Candlekeep so that she can be returned to
life (perhaps with the characters performing the rites). Alternatively, you might decide that the nature of Valin’s ritual prevents Mayastan from being restored to life even with a resurrection spell
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
The Beast Within Wildhunt Shifter Early in childhood, a shifter forms a bond with a beast within, a totemic force that shapes their body and mind. Some shifters believe that these spirits are
is reflected by the shifter’s subrace. Four subraces are especially common: Beasthide often signifies the bear or boar: stoic, stubborn, and thick-skinned. Longtooth shifters typically have lupine
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
The Beast Within Early in childhood, a shifter forms a bond with a beast within: a totemic force that shapes their body and mind. Some shifters believe that these spirits are independent entities
a shifter with a lupine spirit is drawn to find and protect a pack. When a shifter fully embraces this beast within they physically transform for a short time. This beast within is reflected by the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Resolving Outcomes You decide when a player makes a D20 Test based on what the character is trying to do. Players shouldn’t just roll ability checks without context; they should tell you what their
you decide: Is a D20 Test Warranted? If the task is trivial or impossible, don’t bother with a D20 Test. A character can move across an empty room or drink from a flask without making a Dexterity check
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
. Ingested. A creature must swallow an entire dose of ingested poison to suffer its effects. The dose can be delivered in food or a liquid. You may decide that a partial dose has a reduced effect, such
, tear ducts, and other parts of the body. Injury. Injury poison can be applied to weapons, ammunition, trap components, and other objects that deal piercing or slashing damage and remains potent until
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
creature must swallow an entire dose of ingested poison to suffer its effects. The dose can be delivered in food or a liquid. You may decide that a partial dose has a reduced effect, such as allowing
, and other parts of the body. Injury. Injury poison can be applied as a Bonus Action to a weapon, a piece of ammunition, or similar object. The poison remains potent until delivered through a wound or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
poison to suffer its effects. The dose can be delivered in food or a liquid. You may decide that a partial dose has a reduced effect, such as allowing Advantage on the saving throw or dealing only
resulting cloud dissipates immediately afterward. Holding one’s breath is ineffective against inhaled poisons, as they affect nasal membranes, tear ducts, and other parts of the body. Injury. Injury poison
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
bag, making sure that whatever is inside it is dead. Body Bag The leather body bag can be cut open to reveal an unconscious prisoner, whose identity is yours to decide. It might be Artus Cimber
out of the mist into an underground chapel with black basalt pillars and a polished obsidian altar. Resting on the altar is a leather bag the size and shape of a human body, and which appears to have
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Corellon’s image. You could also play a female character who presents herself as a man, a man who feels trapped in a female body, or a bearded female dwarf who hates being mistaken for a male. Likewise, your
character’s sexual orientation is for you to decide. Height and Weight Race Base
Height Height
Modifier Base
Weight Weight
Modifier Human 4'8" +2d10 110 lb. × (2d4) lb. Dwarf, hill 3'8" +2d4
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
, that knot is undone, sometimes resulting in a surge of magical energy. You can use the Dragon Death Throes table to help you decide what happens when a dragon dies. Characters who slay a dragon are often
dragon’s body might be swallowed suddenly in mud.
2 The dragon uses its breath weapon one last time.
3 The dragon’s body transforms into stone, metal, lava, ice, or mist. Or the body
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
conditions are met. When you begin your adventuring career, you can decide whether to tell your companions about your inheritance right away. Rather than attracting attention to yourself, you might
2–3 A trinket (see “Trinkets” in chapter 5 of the Player’s Handbook) 4 An article of clothing 5 A piece of jewelry 6 An arcane book or formulary 7 A written story, song, poem, or secret 8 A tattoo or other body marking
Yuan-ti Pureblood
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
body, thought, and emotion. Freed from the limitations of their human bodies, the yuan-ti used their new abilities to conquer new lands and expand their borders.
One Race, Many Forms
The bodies of all
another society and wish to be part of it.
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I respect my superiors and obey them without question. My fate is theirs to decide.
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I have an interest in an unsuitable mate, which I can&rsquo
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
adapt your body to an aquatic environment, sprouting gills and growing webbing between your fingers. You can breathe underwater and gain a swimming speed equal to your walking speed. Change Appearance
. You transform your appearance. You decide what you look like, including your height, weight, facial features, sound of your voice, hair length, coloration, and distinguishing characteristics, if any
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
adapt your body to an aquatic environment, sprouting gills and growing webbing between your fingers. You can breathe underwater and gain a swimming speed equal to your walking speed. Change Appearance
. You transform your appearance. You decide what you look like, including your height, weight, facial features, sound of your voice, hair length, coloration, and distinguishing characteristics, if any
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
creature must swallow an entire dose of ingested poison to suffer its effects. The dose can be delivered in food or a liquid. You might decide that a partial dose has a reduced effect, such as allowing
, and other parts of the body. Injury. Injury poison can be applied to weapons, ammunition, trap components, and other objects that deal piercing or slashing damage and remains potent until delivered






