before both duplicates certain relate

Chapter 2: Dungeon Master's Tools

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything

. The chapter opens with optional rules meant to help you run certain parts of the game more smoothly. The chapter then goes into greater depth on several topics — encounter building, random encounters

, traps, magic items, and downtime — which largely relate to how you create and stage your adventures. The material in this chapter is meant to make your life easier. Ignore anything you find here that

Random Encounters

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase

determine what the characters find, roll on the Random Tegefed Mountains Encounters table, rerolling duplicates. Random Tegefed Mountains Encounters d8 Encounter 1 Three griffons hunt the characters

noticing the characters, the ogre sets the pet boars loose on them instead. 4 Five bugbears ambush the party, demanding the characters give them 100 gp or face certain death. Each bugbear carries 3

Chapter 3: Balance

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things

. You can ensure certain outcomes by stacking the deck with cards placed in a specific order. If you have duplicates of your cards, you can use multiple copies to make a given card more likely to be

Divine Intervention

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros

. If you choose to award blessings to the characters in your campaign, use the guidelines in the Dungeon Master’s Guide. If a blessing duplicates the effect of a magic item, it requires a minimum piety

specific mission. When that mission is complete, they return to Nyx. While certain deities are associated with sending favored animals as their emissaries—such as the stag often associated with

Magic Items

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

, does it require concentration? A potion’s effect requires concentration only if its description says so or if it duplicates a spell that requires concentration. For the hat of disguise, how do I set

and damage rolls only if its description says it does. Every magic weapon can bypass resistances and immunities to damage from nonmagical attacks, but only certain magic weapons are more accurate and

1. The Vault of Chicomoztoc

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3

1. The Vault of Chicomoztoc (Chee-koh-MOZ-tok, the place of seven caves) The poisonous gas is present here, affecting fire and breathing. Relate the following information to the characters gradually

immediately, and spirits of the ancestors animate the creature and it attacks. These beings are constructs, but otherwise function according to the statistics for a certain kind of creature, as noted

Types of Hauntings

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

simply imperceptible to all but one character. They never manifest for the entire group. Haunts may favor appearing for certain characters, perhaps due to Dark Gifts or backgrounds individuals possess

during a long rest, one of them experiences a waking vision that plays out like an ambient haunt. These nightmares gradually reveal details from the “Story Overview.” Relate these specifics to the

Designing Simple Traps

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything

trap. The Damage Severity by Level table lists the typical damage a trap deals at certain character levels. The damage values given assume that the trap damages one creature. Use d6s for damage in

of danger posed by the trap. A spell is a great foundation to use as the design of a trap, whether the trap duplicates the spell (a mirror that casts charm person on whoever looks into it) or uses its

Ascendant Factions

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands

-Mercykillers can gain entry under certain circumstances, such as to present evidence that might exonerate an inmate or visit a low-risk prisoner. Jailers clash with factions that elevate individual

Fraternity of Order both relate to the Seekers, while the Bleak Cabal and Heralds of Dust oppose them. Society of Sensation Who Find Truth Only in Experience Factol: Erin Darkflame Montgomery

Daoine Gloine

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

mechanical effects reproduce the magic of certain magic items: a folding boat, wings of flying, and a bag of tricks (tan) Kwalish’s powered armor (see appendix B and appendix D) The “Alien Technology

-filled arena is populated by a group of shadowy warriors — all of them phantom duplicates mirroring the characters. Roll for initiative as the shadows attack, using the same weapons, spells, gear, and

Upper Palace Locations

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

claim to be the true heroes of the situation, since they trapped Iggwilv in time to save Prismeer from her tyranny and debauchery. They relate memories of Iggwilv’s past, portraying her as a demented

appears, and the creature disappears after 1 hour. See the conjure fey spell description for the creature’s behavior. These conjured Fey are magically created duplicates of creatures whose life essence

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