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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Saving Throw A saving throw—also called a save—represents an attempt to avoid or resist a threat. You normally make a saving throw only when a rule requires you to do so, but you can decide to fail
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->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Saving Throw A saving throw—also called a save—represents an attempt to avoid or resist a threat. You normally make a saving throw only when a rule requires you to do so, but you can decide to fail
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
adaptations of life.
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I can’t resist prying into anything forbidden, since it must be terribly interesting.
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I employ a highly technical vocabulary to avoid imprecision and ambiguity
make a nice sideshow act.
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I left the Selesnya — and a lover — behind when I joined the Simic.
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Roll an additional Simic contact; you can decide if the contact is an ally or a rival.
Saving Throws
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Rules
A saving throw — also called a save — represents an attempt to resist a spell, a trap, a poison, a disease, or a similar threat. You don’t normally decide to make a saving throw
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
Rock and Ruin As an added element of danger and dilemma during the ceremony in the chapel (area 14), each time a character succeeds on a saving throw to resist the ceremony’s power, one of the
worshipers in the pews is overcome and transforms into black rock. If the black rocks from the chapel are brought to the sculptors, you might decide that they can help restore those victims to life using
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
a character and the character has a chance to avoid or resist it. Most of the time, a saving throw comes into play when an effect—such as a spell, monster ability, or trap—calls for it, telling you
what kind of saving throw is involved and providing a DC for it. In other situations that call for a saving throw, it’s up to you to decide which ability score is involved. The Abilities, Ability Checks, and Saving Throws table offers suggestions.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
interesting stories can emerge if you decide to refuse an assignment. Even a patron that isn’t heavy-handed can significantly motivate your group. Maybe you’ll seek adventures based on what pleases your
patron and so earn a reward. A university, for example, might not send you on a particular mission, but you might decide to follow leads to an ancient artifact hoping the university might reward you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Scholarly Missions Decide as a group, in consultation with your DM, what kind of work your group does for the university. Consult the Scholarly Missions table to determine what sort of adventures you
undertake. Scholarly Missions d6 Mission 1 Adventurous Archeology. Your focus is on finding ancient artifacts and bringing back what you can. 2 Arcane Research. Your team focuses on acquiring
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
Introduction
Dragon fire threatens to consume Faerûn! Do you dare oppose the Cult of the Dragon and resist the might of Tiamat, Queen of Dragons? Welcome to Tyranny of Dragons. This book collects
coming of Tiamat. As events unfold, dragons rampage across the Sword Coast, serving at the vanguard of a legion of cultists, fiends, and worse. To oppose these forces, new heroes must rise and resist
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
Introduction Dragon fire threatens to consume Faerûn! Do you dare oppose the Cult of the Dragon and resist the might of Tiamat, Queen of Dragons? Welcome to Tyranny of Dragons. This book collects two
coming of Tiamat. As events unfold, dragons rampage across the Sword Coast, serving at the vanguard of a legion of cultists, fiends, and worse. To oppose these forces, new heroes must rise and resist them
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
Introduction
Dragon fire threatens to consume Faerûn! Do you dare oppose the Cult of the Dragon and resist the might of Tiamat, Queen of Dragons? Welcome to Tyranny of Dragons. This book collects
coming of Tiamat. As events unfold, dragons rampage across the Sword Coast, serving at the vanguard of a legion of cultists, fiends, and worse. To oppose these forces, new heroes must rise and resist
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
as Mordenheim sought to glimpse the secrets hidden in the instant of death. One moonless night, Elise fell into a sleep from which she wouldn’t wake. Bringing Elise to her lab, Dr. Mordenheim worked
rumors of a glowing woman wandering in the icy wastes. Since then, Mordenheim has continued her experiments on the dead and living, striving to recreate her successes and failing every time. Between
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
archery contest, you might decide that the more an attack roll exceeds the target’s AC, the higher the character’s score. The archery target might have AC 11, but it has five concentric rings indicating
degrees of success. So you could decide that an attack roll of 11 or 12 lands in the outermost ring, a 13 or 14 hits the next ring closer to the center, a 15 or 16 hits the third ring, a 17 or 18
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
images that can inspire your mapmaking. Bringing a Location to Life An inhabited adventure location has its own ecosystem. The creatures that live there need to eat, drink, breathe, and sleep
found, and that book also includes tables listing the creatures commonly found within each type of terrain. Using that information, you can decide which creatures inhabit an adventure location within a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
, uncomfortable, and risky; at any point the hag might lose her temper and decide to pull out someone’s fingernails with her iron teeth. Hags look upon younger creatures from the perspective of a
destroy both of us simultaneously. 8 The ones who looted and burned my home will pay for their offense. Hag Flaws d6 Flaw 1 I am too eager for gossip. 2 I can’t resist flirting with a handsome man
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
can rid an afflicted lycanthrope of the curse, but a natural born lycanthrope can be freed of the curse only with a wish. A lycanthrope can either resist its curse or embrace it. By resisting the
rises, the curse becomes too strong to resist, transforming the individual into its beast form — or into a horrible hybrid form that combines animal and humanoid traits. When the moon wanes, the beast
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
, etc.) to assist in its construction, making the shrine more grandiose than it might otherwise be.
Alternatively, if one of the characters worships a different deity, they might decide to invest in a
temple to their god, in which case a temple of some other power might replace the Shrine of Lathander, bringing a new NPC to town to oversee it.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
the tribe.
4 A band of centaurs makes pilgrimages to a gold dragon wyrmling’s lair, bringing gifts of gems and knowledge.
5 A gold dragon wyrmling is fascinated by modrons’ clockwork
flying cloud giant citadel, winning the continued right to dwell there in repeated gambling games.
5 A young gold dragon and an archmage are uneasy companions, bound to defend each other by the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
family. When the villagers continued to disappear, and the others fled, Mayor Duvezin sent her wife, Tifra, and their two small children to Maerin to wait until it was safe. Tifra fell ill not long
source of the disappearances, stop them, and rescue anyone she could. As it happened, she was the last villager taken by the meenlocks. If the characters decide to explore the house, see “Mayor
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
with any creatures still inside it. The journal can be safely opened by the brain in a jar, or with a successful DC 18 Dexterity check using thieves’ tools. Its pages detail how Kwalish continued his
which is worth 750 gp if the characters decide to shop it elsewhere) 515 cp, 11,215 sp, 1,925 gp, and 85 pp stored in various containers and coffers 425 tiny gemstones worth 1 gp each, 44 small
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
Assigning Assets When you’ve noted which assets are fighting against the cult, it’s time to decide how those forces of good attack. The characters are key figures in the allied force marching on the
decide that assassins provided by the Zhentarim should counter the sacrificial prisoners by infiltrating the cult complex and escorting those prisoners to freedom. In that case, you might remind the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
players are experienced, start the campaign at level 3 instead. (See the Player’s Handbook for rules on starting at higher levels.) Bringing the Party Together During session zero, help the players come
years. Despite their different backgrounds and training, they’re already good friends. Tavern Gathering. The characters meet in a tavern over mugs of ale and decide to embark on a life of adventure
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
, robbery, assaulting a citizen, or murder. If they resist arrest, they are charged with hampering justice. See the Code Legal handout in appendix C for the penalties associated with such crimes. Characters
wrest the stone from them during the chaos of the jailbreak. If the characters refuse to play along, the doppelganger cries out in alarm, bringing the full weight of the courthouse garrison (ten guards
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
, it’s up to the characters to decide what they mean. The Prophecy is notoriously difficult to interpret, and a given passage might be fulfilled in different ways (or, possibly, in multiple ways over the
circumstances about.
The currency of favors that defines most patronage relationships is tricky when your group’s patron is a series of vague oracular verses rather than a person. However, bringing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
. You can pay a fine of 10 gp to avoid jail time, or you can try to resist arrest. 11–20 You regain consciousness in a strange place with no memory of how you got there, and you have been robbed of 3d6
× 5 gp. 21–30 You make an enemy. This person, business, or organization is now hostile to you. The DM determines the offended party. You decide how you offended them. 31–40 You are caught up in a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
Sister Foam (NE female human priest), and she’s a good match for the captain in demeanor and ferocity. The captain berates Belle for bringing back useless chum such as the characters, and demands that
the characters thereafter. As the battle continues, you can decide how the rest of the combat goes with regards to additional help. If the characters are winning handily, a few loyalists might escape
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
, outside assistance is essential to the continued defense of the realm. FORT MORNINGLORD
Several years ago, the entire complement of paladins at Fort Morninglord simply disappeared in a calamitous
monastery to Bane and lay in ruins for many years. Now priests of Bane have begun rebuilding it, bringing an influx of wealth and trade, along with the many skilled masons and laborers necessary for such a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
damage a creature. (You can decide whether to allow Tannus to fight to protect himself or others, but should encourage the player running him to think about creative nonattack ways to influence the fight
made to pry information from them. While in the tavern, the dwarves are relaxed and won’t react negatively to a failed Charisma check. However, continued failures result in guards being called. Those
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
detrimental to the success of the mission. The bugbears took over from there, leading the remnants of the horde to Goldenfields, with Lob and Ogg bringing up the rear and blaming one another for their
goblins that are still inside the compound, and they flee back toward the wall. During this time, inexplicably, Lob and Ogg decide to climb over the wall and enter the compound rather than flee, while the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
suggests they end the conflict by bringing him the cloak of the Wyrmdoom chieftain, either by killing Ogolai and taking it from her or by forcing Ogolai to surrender it. Arn aims to use the characters
until after it rolls the d20 before deciding to use the runestone die, but must decide before the DM says whether the roll succeeds or fails. Once the runestone die is rolled, it is lost, and the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
ability determines its ability modifier, as shown in the Ability Scores and Modifiers table in the Player’s Handbook. If you can’t decide what a monster’s ability scores should be, look for comparable
d20 10½ Step 9. Damage Vulnerabilities, Resistances, and Immunities Decide whether your monster has vulnerability, resistance, or immunity to one or more types of damage (see the Combat section of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
blocks the door. Continued pressure and a successful DC 13 Strength (Athletics) check eventually opens the door sufficiently for a character or Borgas to squeeze inside. Dead Eel. The cell is only 20
pouch with 12 sp. Development. Noise of melee here will certainly be heard at the guard post (area 58), bringing two sahuagin champions (see appendix C) and six sahuagin to this area to investigate 3
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
ominous shadow causing widespread panic. Lady Laeral Silverhand dispatches heralds to calm the people and assure them that no harm will befall the city. If the adventurers decide to investigate, they must
Huckers” section in chapter 2). The hobgoblins form a phalanx in the front of the group, with the frost giant behind them and the unruly mob of ogres and goblins bringing up the rear. Even without the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
by tracking down the orc who committed the murder Oppal is accused of. Bringing that villain in might easily clear Oppal’s name — and bring the characters a certain amount of notoriety in the city. But
bring in a last meal. Then once they’re in the holes, it’s up to you to decide how they might pull off a daring escape — including searching for the rumored tunnel from the inside. Oppal’s Info If the