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Classes
Xanathar's Guide to Everything
incompetent combatant who proves frustrating to engage. The drunken master’s erratic stumbles conceal a carefully executed dance of blocks, parries, advances, attacks, and retreats.
A drunken
of the Drunken Master Features
Monk Level
Feature
3rd
Bonus Proficiencies, Drunken Technique
6th
Tipsy Sway
11th
Drunkard’s Luck
17th
Intoxicated Frenzy
Classes
Xanathar's Guide to Everything
incompetent combatant who proves frustrating to engage. The drunken master’s erratic stumbles conceal a carefully executed dance of blocks, parries, advances, attacks, and retreats.
A drunken
of the Drunken Master Features
Monk Level
Feature
3rd
Bonus Proficiencies, Drunken Technique
6th
Tipsy Sway
11th
Drunkard’s Luck
17th
Intoxicated Frenzy
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
components:
1/day each: fog cloud, gust of wind
Nimble Escape. The triton can take the Disengage or Hide actions as a bonus action on each of its turns.Multiattack. The triton makes two urchin-spine
even realize they've been attacked by shorestalkers, chalking disappearances and deaths up to the innumerable dangers of the sea.
Clever, far-ranging people of the sea, tritons live rich lives unknown
Monsters
Acquisitions Incorporated
Champion Challenge (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). As a bonus action, Donaar causes each creature of his choice that he can see within 30 feet of him to make a DC 13 Wisdom saving throw. On a
come to realize that reinforcing Donaar's self-congratulating sense of draconic entitlement makes it remarkably easy to win his favor.
Despite his easily massaged vanity, the dragonborn sometimes shows
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
star spawn hulk;star spawn hulks. Not only is a hulk a powerful combatant, but when a seer deals psychic damage to a hulk, the hulk isn’t hurt, and the effect ricochets off and expands to assault
effect as normal.
Cult of Tharizdun, the Chained God
Tharizdun’s Spark (Recharge 6);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Tharizdun's Spark"}. As a bonus action, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
the Roll When a character makes an attack roll, the two most common modifiers to the roll are an ability modifier and the character's proficiency bonus. When a monster makes an attack roll, it uses
spellcaster. Proficiency Bonus. You add your proficiency bonus to your attack roll when you attack using a weapon with which you have proficiency, as well as when you attack with a spell. Rolling 1 or 20
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Sahuagin Priest Sahuagin priests serve the will of Sekolah or other fiendish masters. They direct and support other sahuagin, and they consider every combatant that falls in battle—whether enemy or
the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 12):
At Will: Thaumaturgy
2/Day Each: Hold Person, Tongues
Bonus Actions
Fiendish Aid (2/Day). The sahuagin casts Bless or Healing Word, using the same spellcasting ability as Spellcasting.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Thieves’ Gallery
fearsome combatant when her ire is up, Holga wields anything that comes to hand—from weapons to snacks. Her unwavering loyalty makes her a fierce defender of allies, particularly her best friend
passive Perception 13
Languages Common, Halfling
Challenge 5 (1,800 XP) Proficiency Bonus +3
Reckless. At the start of her turn, Holga can gain advantage on melee weapon attack rolls during that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
present what seems like an incompetent combatant who proves frustrating to engage. The drunken master’s erratic stumbles conceal a carefully executed dance of blocks, parries, advances, attacks, and
, masterful foe. Way of the Drunken Master Features Monk Level Feature 3rd Bonus Proficiencies, Drunken Technique 6th Tipsy Sway 11th Drunkard’s Luck 17th Intoxicated Frenzy Bonus Proficiencies When
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
ability modifier and the character’s proficiency bonus. When a monster makes an attack roll, it uses whatever modifier is provided in its stat block. Ability Modifier. The ability modifier used for a melee
roll. The ability modifier used for a spell attack depends on the spellcasting ability of the spellcaster, as explained in chapter 10. Proficiency Bonus. You add your proficiency bonus to your attack
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
the +2 bonus for using a light or finesse weapon only once. In the case of spellcasting, apply only the modifier from the highest-level spell. Apply any modifiers for bonus actions to that creature’s
turn, remembering never to apply the same modifier twice. For instance, a paladin casts a 2nd-level spell as a bonus action and then attacks with a shortsword. The paladin takes a -2 penalty for the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
melee combatant. She is more dangerous when she can use magic from a safe distance. She can also use her faerie fire spell to make foes easier for her allies to hit. Skylla
Medium Humanoid (Human
XP) Proficiency Bonus +2
Special Equipment. Skylla carries an eldritch staff (see appendix A) with 10 charges. The staff regains 1d6 + 4 expended charges daily at dawn. If its last charge is
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
realize they enjoy hunting together.
5
A tempestuous marid continually floods the carefully dried-out lair of a topaz dragon.
6
A sahuagin baron attempts to gain the support of other sahuagin
dragon is reduced to 0 hit points or uses a bonus action to end it.
Psychic Step. The dragon magically teleports to an unoccupied space it can see within 60 feet of it.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
creature can’t make opportunity attacks against you for the rest of your turn. SWASHBUCKLERS AND TWO-WEAPON FIGHTING
The Swashbuckler relies on a good understanding of the D&D rules to realize its
bundles a more limited version of Disengage within your attack. This allows you to use your bonus action to fight with two weapons, and then safely evade each foe you attacked.
Rakish Audacity Starting
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
sometimes appear as faded images of whoever they were in life. Some poltergeists don’t realize they’re dead and go through the motions of their past lives. Others are malicious beings or embodiments of
30 feet straight away from the poltergeist.
Bonus Actions
Vanish. The poltergeist gives itself the Invisible condition or ends that condition on itself.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
. Master of Tactics Starting at 3rd level, you can use the Help action as a bonus action. Additionally, when you use the Help action to aid an ally in attacking a creature, the target of that attack can be
of the following characteristics of your choice: Intelligence score Wisdom score Charisma score Class levels (if any) At the DM’s option, you might also realize you know a piece of the creature’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
bonus action. Additionally, when you use the Help action to aid an ally in attacking a creature, the target of that attack can be within 30 feet of you, rather than 5 feet of you, if the target can see
Charisma score Class levels (if any) At the DM’s option, you might also realize you know a piece of the creature’s history or one of its personality traits, if it has any. Misdirection Beginning at
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monstrous Compendium Volume One: Spelljammer Creatures
realize star lancers are reincarnations of the dead god’s most ardent worshipers. When a star lancer dies, its soul instantly returns to the Great Cavern that forms the hollow heart of the dead god
radiant
Senses passive Perception 13
Languages Celestial, telepathy 120 ft.
Challenge 2 (450 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2
Flyby. The star lancer doesn’t provoke opportunity attacks when it flies
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
. Failure: The target has the Frightened condition and repeats the save at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. After 1 minute, it succeeds automatically.
Bonus
is wearing or carrying isn’t transformed.
Meeting yourself is the surest way to realize you’re not as charming as you think you are.
—Someone claiming to be
Lorhirin of Fearchor Keep
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
someone who lacks a moral compass. Mogis demands that blood be spilled in his service, preferably the blood of Iroas’s followers. Would-be champions should realize, though, that the god of slaughter
Mogis, you have shown yourself to be a brutal combatant. You can call on Mogis’s favor and cast wrathful smite with this trait. Mogis’s blessing manifest as a blood-red glow around your weapon, causing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Circle of Stars What about the dark places between the stars? Don’t you realize that’s where the good stuff is?
Tasha
The Circle of Stars allows druids to draw on the power of starlight. These
expending a spell slot. You can do so a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest. If you lose the map, you can perform a 1-hour ceremony
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
. Through telepathically shared dreams, corruption has taken root deep within the colony, warping the myconids’ normally placid and peaceful nature into something restive and rapturous. A few realize what is
enters it later, must make a Constitution saving throw. The save DC is 8 + the myconid’s Constitution modifier + the myconid’s proficiency bonus. On a successful save, the creature can’t be infected by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Intro to Stormwreck Isle
players realize that radiant damage is a way to get around Undead Fortitude. If the players ask whether their characters know anything about fighting zombies, have them make DC 10 Intelligence checks
Perception 8
Languages understands the languages it knew in life but can’t speak
Challenge 1/4 (50 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2
Undead Fortitude. If damage reduces the zombie to 0 hit points, it makes a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
realize that reinforcing Donaar’s self-congratulating sense of draconic entitlement makes it remarkably easy to win his favor. Despite his easily massaged vanity, the dragonborn sometimes shows the
Damage Resistances acid
Senses passive Perception 10
Languages Common, Draconic, Orc
Challenge 3 (700 XP)
Champion Challenge (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). As a bonus action
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
poison harvested from deadly sea beasts, these triton assassins slip into shallow waters and strike when least expected. Often, surface dwellers don’t even realize they’ve been attacked by shorestalkers
Disengage or Hide actions as a bonus action on each of its turns.
Actions
Multiattack. The triton makes two urchin-spine shortsword attacks.
Urchin-Spine Shortsword. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
some unresolved task from its life. It might seek to avenge its own death, fulfill an oath, or relay a message to a loved one. A ghost might not realize that it has died and continue the everyday
knowledge, class features, or proficiencies.
The possession lasts until the body drops to 0 hit points, the ghost ends it as a bonus action, or the ghost is turned or forced out by an effect like the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
can’t speak
Challenge 8 (3,900 XP) Proficiency Bonus +3
Legendary Resistance (1/Day). If the slasher fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Shrouded Presence. The slasher is
ft., passive Perception 16
Languages understands all languages but can’t speak
Challenge 12 (8,400 XP) Proficiency Bonus +4
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the juggernaut fails a saving throw
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
appears in an unoccupied space adjacent to the map’s edge near a random character. 6–9 A stray heavy crossbow bolt targets a random character. The attack has a +4 bonus to hit and deals 7 (1d10 + 2
second successful DC 15 Intelligence (Arcana) check also allows a character to realize that some slaadi can change shape. If Zot and Sotu are reduced to 20 or fewer hit points, they call for aid. If
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
to have survived its interminable stasis. If the characters realize what’s going on and share that they killed Nellik, the mezzoloths scatter, visibly relieved. Otherwise, the mezzoloths attack. The
if attacked. If combat commences, Frevvik takes a bonus action to blow its war horn as soon as it can. If there are any mezzoloth patrols still alive on the island, one pair arrives in 1d4 rounds. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Morte’s Planar Parade
. They use their breath, thick with the gloom of Hades, to turn friends against each other and then savor the horror that rises when their victims realize how they’ve betrayed one another. Baernaloths
Condition Immunities charmed, frightened, poisoned
Senses truesight 120 ft., passive Perception 19
Languages all, telepathy 120 ft.
Challenge 17 (18,000 XP) Proficiency Bonus +6
Legendary
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
(Recharge 6). As a bonus action, the cultist touches a simple or martial weapon or a natural weapon, if it has one. The next creature hit by the touched weapon must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or
, the cultist has telepathy with a range of 30 feet, and it can teleport as a bonus action up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space it can see. In addition, every creature that starts its turn within 5 feet
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
healing. The number of dice in the pool equals 1 plus your Warlock level.
As a Bonus Action, you can heal yourself or one creature you can see within 60 feet of yourself, expending dice from the pool
mind and the mind of another. As a Bonus Action, choose one creature you can see within 30 feet of yourself. You and the chosen creature can communicate telepathically with each other while the two of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
realize that the mage is unreasonably preoccupied with her cloak, absently touching it as she chats. If the characters ask Naxa about her behavior, she admits that the cloak isn’t merely a fancy magic
, chitin, and gnashing teeth presses against the stones from the other side.
The circle of stones shudders, and you realize the monstrous thing contained on the other side is expanding the circle
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
shells rattle in the breeze, and smoke drifts from hut.
A creature shuffles slowly around the hut, hunched over in an animal-like posture. You realize it’s a human woman: impossibly old, crippled by
outside her small hut. The hag uses the flying monkeys to gather food and supplies, but they won’t fight for her. The golem will, however; it erupts from the earth as a bonus action if commanded to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
, History +9, Perception +10, Stealth +6
Senses blindsight 30 ft., darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 20
Languages telepathy 120 ft.
Challenge 11 (7,200 XP) Proficiency Bonus +4
Amphibious
failed save, the creature feels an intense urge to use its movement on each of its turns to enter the lair and to move toward the morkoth’s location (the target doesn’t realize it’s heading toward a