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Saving Throw

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

Resolving Outcomes

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

Saving Throw

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

Simic Scientist

Backgrounds Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

adaptations of life. 7 I can’t resist prying into anything forbidden, since it must be terribly interesting. 8 I employ a highly technical vocabulary to avoid imprecision and ambiguity

make a nice sideshow act. 9 I left the Selesnya — and a lover — behind when I joined the Simic. 10 Roll an additional Simic contact; you can decide if the contact is an ally or a rival.

Saving Throws Legacy

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

Rock and Ruin

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

Saving Throws

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.

Consequences

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

Roleplaying a Hag

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

Lycanthropes

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

Creating Sentient Magic Items

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

Creating Sentient Magic Items When you decide to make a magic item sentient, you create the item's persona in the same way you would create an NPC, with a few exceptions described here. Abilities A

purpose, conflict can arise. When such a conflict occurs, the item makes a Charisma check contested by the wielder's Charisma check. If the item wins the contest, it makes one or more of the following

Courthouse: Summer

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

their case while he asks questions. A character who tries to deceive Zastro must make a Charisma (Deception) check contested by the magister’s Wisdom (Insight) check. A character who loses this contest

More Downtime Activities

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

Random Encounters

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

for was recently arrested and executed for selling stolen jewelry. You can decide whether Ariana’s interest in the characters attracts the attention of a duergar patrol. Subsequent occurrences of this

Dexterity (Stealth) check with advantage, contested by the character’s passive Wisdom (Perception) score. Mad Duergar The characters encounter a duergar afflicted with a form of indefinite madness. Roll a

Wedding Itinerary

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

(Sleight of Hand) check contested by Gorat’s Wisdom (Perception) check. Gorat has disadvantage on the check from the distraction of the festivities — or, if controlled by a character, he could decide to

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

Traveling to Phandalin

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

addition, by earning Carkuss’s favor, the characters might see him when they need good fortune later, if you so decide. If the characters fail at any of these three tasks, one or more of them (at your

can choose a living humanoid within 5 feet of it once per day, making a Charisma check contested by the target’s Charisma check. If the cursed victim wins, the curse transfers to the new target. If

Creating a Monster Stat Block

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

Cave Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

excavated rock faces. This maze of passages is an old section of Wave Echo Cave’s original mine site. Lurking in one dead end is an ochre jelly. (You can decide the jelly’s exact location.) When

, magic missile,suggestion Roleplaying Nezznar. Even though he intends to kill the characters, Nezznar can’t resist being curious about them. Given the chance, he quizzes the characters at length

Tomb Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault

permission to possess one of the characters, leaving it up to the characters to decide which of them should become Rilago’s temporary host. Rilago’s offer to mend the giant’s heart is genuine. If the

characters allow it, Rilago’s ghost uses Possession against a willing character, who forgoes the saving throw to resist the effect. Only then can the ghost leave the crypt and return the shard of

Locations E - H

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder

characters decide to call in the favor, Dral contacts his employers, and High Captain Horix Zoar does everything in his power to give the characters what they want, provided it’s within his power and isn’t

with other Uthgardt over contested territory. Fireshear Long ago, a meteor strike blasted a crater in the frozen tundra near the coast of the Trackless Sea, shearing away tons of rock and exposing rich

Areas of the Water Temple

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse

impressionable, she was lured to the Temple of the Crushing Wave by Gar Shatterkeel’s offer of riches. Bronzefume stays out of sight in the western end of the lake, waiting for the water prophet to decide the

know the answers to the mezzoloth’s riddles in area C28, but resist divulging them to strangers. C28. Caravan Stairs The walls of this chamber are carved with stone friezes. They depict dwarven

Maelstrom Level 2

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder

to make sure they don’t wander. Meanwhile, after a private discussion, Mirran and Nym decide that the adventurers must be eliminated. Nym goes to inform Serissa that assassins have breached

important information about her father!” or “Princess Serissa told you that we were coming, or have you forgotten?” Have the liar make a Charisma (Deception) check contested by the giants’ Wisdom (Insight

Lair Locations

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

characters do not cooperate and resist attempts to take them into custody, their mission ends in failure. The queen immediately orders her followers to hunt down and kill or capture the party — the chance

native language of the lizardfolk. You decide the time required to acquire this new language. (The downtime rules in Xanathar’s Guide to Everything provide some guidelines.) The Nature of the

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