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Fighter

Classes Player’s Handbook

broad ability and extensive specialization makes Fighters superior combatants. Becoming a Fighter... As a Level 1 Character Gain all the traits in the Core Fighter Traits table. Gain the

Proficiency Bonus Class Features Second Wind Weapon Mastery 1 +2 Fighting Style, Second Wind, Weapon Mastery 2 3 2 +2 Action Surge (one use), Tactical Mind 2 3 3 +2

Swift Quiver Legacy

Spells Player’s Handbook (2014)

bonus action to make two attacks with a weapon that uses ammunition from the quiver. Each time you make such a ranged attack, your quiver magically replaces the piece of ammunition you used with a

Hound Archon

Monsters Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse

subdue foes. However, against Fiends, archons are wrathful combatants, manifesting the righteous vengeance of Mount Celestia to strike down the wicked. Each archon’s form corresponds to its place

transforms into any Medium or Large dog or wolf while retaining its game statistics (other than its size and losing its Shining Blade attack). The archon reverts to its true form if reduced to 0 hit points or if it uses a bonus action to do so.

Quandrix Professor of Substance

Monsters Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

properties of growth. Their magic alters and replaces the equations that describe the natural world, including creatures, space, and substance. Through these manipulations, the professors change their size

professor magically alters its physical form until it uses this bonus action again, until it is incapacitated or dies, or until it dismisses the effect (no action required). Choose one of the following

Sensory Stone

Magic Items Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse

longer than 6 seconds experienced by a creature of your choice within 30 feet of yourself, infusing the essence of that experience into the stone. This replaces any sensation already stored within the

stone. Siphon Sensation. As a bonus action, you can draw on the stone’s magic to end the charmed or frightened condition on yourself, destroying the stone in the process.

Strahd von Zarovich

Monsters Curse of Strahd

success. Otherwise, the effect lasts 24 hours or until Strahd is destroyed, is on a different plane of existence than the target, or takes a bonus action to end the effect. Children of the Night (1

them as a bonus action.Strahd can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature’s turn

Nature's Veil

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

Nature’s Veil 10th-level ranger feature, which replaces the Hide in Plain Sight feature You draw on the powers of nature to hide yourself from view briefly. As a bonus action, you can magically

become invisible, along with any equipment you are wearing or carrying, until the start of your next turn. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Proficiency Dice

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

Proficiency Dice This optional rule replaces a character’s proficiency bonus with a proficiency die, adding more randomness to the game and making proficiency a less reliable indicator of mastery

. Instead of adding a proficiency bonus to an ability check, an attack roll, or saving throw, the character’s player rolls a die. The Proficiency Die table shows which die or dice to roll, as determined

Swift Quiver

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)

bonus action to make two attacks with a weapon that uses ammunition from the quiver. Each time you make such a ranged attack, your quiver magically replaces the piece of ammunition you used with a similar

Swift Quiver 5th-level transmutation Casting Time: 1 bonus action Range: Touch Components: V, S, M (a quiver containing at least one piece of ammunition) Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute You

Special Traits

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

Special Traits A cambion linked to a specific devil typically gains any special traits conferred to that devil’s cultists. Some devils grant a unique ability to their spawn that replaces the

Charm. Fury of the Nine. As a bonus action, the cambion chooses another creature that can see or hear it within 120 feet. That creature gains advantage on all attack rolls and saving throws for the next minute or until the cambion uses this ability again.

Teeth of Dahlver-Nar

Magic Items Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

tooth replaces one of your teeth as if you implanted it (potentially replacing another implanted tooth, see below). Each tooth can only be used once. Track which teeth have been used. If a tooth’s

teeth implanted at one time equal to 1 + your Constitution modifier (minimum of 2 teeth total). If you try to implant more teeth, the newly implanted tooth replaces one of the previous teeth, determined

Favored Foe

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

Favored Foe 1st-level ranger feature, which replaces the Favored Enemy feature and works with the Foe Slayer feature When you hit a creature with an attack roll, you can call on your mystical bond

favored enemy and deal damage to it, including when you mark it, you can increase that damage by 1d4. You can use this feature to mark a favored enemy a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus

Deft Explorer

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

Deft Explorer 1st-level ranger feature, which replaces the Natural Explorer feature You are an unsurpassed explorer and survivor, both in the wilderness and in dealing with others on your travels

your skill proficiencies. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses the chosen skill. You can also speak, read, and write two additional languages of your choice. Roving

Melee Attacks

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook

attacks with a reach greater than 5 feet, as noted in their descriptions. Opportunity Attacks Combatants watch for enemies to drop their guard. If you move heedlessly past your foes, you put yourself in

when you teleport or when you are moved without using your movement, action, Bonus Action, or Reaction. For example, you don’t provoke an Opportunity Attack if an explosion hurls you out of a foe’s reach

Sahuagin Warrior

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual

Sahuagin Warrior Sahuagin warriors are vicious combatants that savage their foes with webbed claws. Once sahuagin draw blood, they usually attack until either they or their foe is slain. Sahuagin

itself, using a special telepathy. Actions Multiattack. The sahuagin makes two Claw attacks. Claw. Melee Attack Roll: +3, reach 5 ft. Hit: 4 (1d6 + 1) Slashing damage. Bonus Actions Aquatic Charge. The sahuagin swims up to its Swim Speed straight toward an enemy it can see.

Melee Attacks

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules

attacks with a reach greater than 5 feet, as noted in their descriptions. Opportunity Attacks Combatants watch for enemies to drop their guard. If you move heedlessly past your foes, you put yourself in

when you teleport or when you are moved without using your movement, action, Bonus Action, or Reaction. For example, you don’t provoke an Opportunity Attack if an explosion hurls you out of a foe’s reach

Handling Mobs

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

needs in order to hit a target by subtracting its attack bonus from the target’s AC. You’ll need to refer to the result throughout the battle, so it’s best to write it down. Look up the minimum d20 roll

, their combined efforts result in one of them hitting the target. For example, eight orcs surround a fighter. The orcs’ attack bonus is +5, and the fighter’s AC is 19. The orcs need a 14 or higher to

Avoral Guardinal

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Morte’s Planar Parade

the Outlands to wherever the winds might take them. Solitary scouts and skirmishers, avorals are nimble aerial combatants, able to swiftly dive at foes from the heavens and tear into them with razor

darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 21 Languages Celestial, Common Challenge 9 (5,000 XP) Proficiency Bonus +4 Dive Attack. If the avoral is flying, dives at least 30 feet in a straight line

Hull Upgrades

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh

used again until 1d4 hours have passed. Frost-Locked Hull This upgrade replaces a ship’s hull with supernatural ice drawn from the elemental planes. The hull and the other components of the ship are

its side, and the wood runs with fresh sap when damaged. The ship gains a +2 bonus to all Constitution checks or saving throws. As long as the ship has at least 1 hit point, it regains 10 hit points

Melee Attacks

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)

and attack with a light melee weapon that you're holding in one hand, you can use a bonus action to attack with a different light melee weapon that you're holding in the other hand. You don't add your

ability modifier to the damage of the bonus attack, unless that modifier is negative. If either weapon has the thrown property, you can throw the weapon, instead of making a melee attack with it

Armorer

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

you can retract or deploy the helmet as a bonus action. The armor replaces any missing limbs, functioning identically to a limb it replaces. You can doff or don the armor as an action. The armor

you until the start of your next turn, as the armor magically emits a distracting pulse when the creature attacks someone else. Defensive Field. As a bonus action, you can gain temporary hit points

Melee Attacks

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)

and attack with a light melee weapon that you’re holding in one hand, you can use a bonus action to attack with a different light melee weapon that you’re holding in the other hand. You don’t add your

ability modifier to the damage of the bonus attack, unless that modifier is negative. If either weapon has the thrown property, you can throw the weapon, instead of making a melee attack with it

Making an Attack

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

Action Options

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

makes it easier for melee combatants to harry each other with opportunity attacks. When a creature makes a melee attack, it can also mark its target. Until the end of the attacker’s next turn, any

creature’s space, the mover can try to force its way through by overrunning the hostile creature. As an action or a bonus action, the mover makes a Strength (Athletics) check contested by the hostile

Combat

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium

, initiative is rolled as normal. Then, the first round of combat starts, and the unsurprised combatants act in initiative order. A surprised creature can’t move or take an action or a reaction until its

first turn ends (remember that being unable to take an action also means you can’t take a bonus action). In effect, a surprised creature skips its first turn in a fight. Once that turn ends, the

Spellcaster

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

summarized on the Spellcaster table. The Spellcaster Level Proficiency Bonus Features Cantrips Known Spells Known 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 1st +2 Bonus Proficiencies, Spellcasting 2

4 3 3 3 2 Spellcasters, Left to Right: a Bullywug, a Goblin, and a Tabaxi Bonus Proficiencies 1st-level Spellcaster feature The sidekick gains proficiency in one saving throw of your

13. Giants' Living Quarters

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

Speleosa, the invisible faerie dragon flies into the cavern, becomes visible momentarily as it casts the hallucinatory terrain spell, and turns invisible again as a bonus action. Characters who have

a passive Wisdom (Perception) score of 17 or higher glimpse the wee dragon for a second before it turns invisible. On subsequent turns, Otto flies back to Maddgoth’s castle. Otto’s spell replaces all

Quandrix Scholars

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

, Nature +4 Senses passive Perception 12 Languages Common plus any two languages Challenge 2 (450 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2 Actions Multiattack. The apprentice makes two Exponential Lash attacks

Throws Int +5, Wis +4 Skills Arcana +7, Investigation +7, Nature +5 Senses passive Perception 12 Languages Common plus any two languages Challenge 4 (1,100 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2 Actions

Movement and Position

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook

the rules glossary for more about Speed as well as about special speeds, such as a Climb Speed, Fly Speed, or Swim Speed. Difficult Terrain Combatants are often slowed down by Difficult Terrain. Low

Move You can break up your move, using some of its movement before and after any action, Bonus Action, or Reaction you take on the same turn. For example, if you have a Speed of 30 feet, you could go 10

Movement and Position

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules

noted in the monster’s stat block. See the Rules Glossary for more about Speed as well as about special speeds, such as a Climb Speed, Fly Speed, or Swim Speed. Difficult Terrain Combatants are often

the shortest route. Breaking Up Your Move You can break up your move, using some of its movement before and after any action, Bonus Action, or Reaction you take on the same turn. For example, if you

Fensirs

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

resemble relatively small frost or stone giants. They use armor and weapons similar to what other combatants on Ysgard use in the eternal battle. The transformation that created fensirs left them with an

) Skills Survival +8, Perception +8 Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 18 Languages Common, Giant Challenge 8 (3,900 XP) Proficiency Bonus +3 Death Curse. When the fensir starts its

Specific Spells

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata

Specific Spells Does casting Animate Objects during a Time Stop spell end the Time Stop? No. Commanding the newly created creatures with your Bonus Action does end Time Stop, however. Can you extend

the those of the beast form? Polymorph replaces only the target’s character sheet or stat block with the stat block of the chosen form. Other effects, such as other spells, still exist. What kinds of

Duergar

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse

XP) Proficiency Bonus +4 Magic Resistance. The duergar has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects. Psychic Engine. When the duergar suffers a critical hit or is reduced

) Proficiency Bonus +2 Cavalry Training. When the duergar hits a target with a melee attack while mounted, the mount can use its reaction to make one melee attack against the same target. Duergar

Running Combat

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules

its Initiative score after its Initiative bonus. Advantage and Disadvantage. If a creature has Advantage on Initiative rolls, increase its Initiative score by 5. If it has Disadvantage on those rolls

and each group of identical monsters, placed in Initiative order in a stack you cycle through A hidden list allows you to track combatants who haven’t been revealed yet, and you can use the list as a

Little Oak

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

(–2) Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10 Languages — Challenge 1/8 (25 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2 Displacement. The displacer beast projects a magical illusion that makes it appear

the Story Tracker indicates that the unicorn horn is here, it replaces the wooden horn on the kids’ unicorn costume. The children don’t know that the horn is from a real unicorn. Squirt the Oilcan

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