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Curse of Strahd
, modestly give money to charity. They take steps to keep magic items out of evil hands by stashing them in secret hiding places.
Characters as Wereravens. The Monster Manual has rules for characters
piercing damage (no ability modifier applies to this damage) and carries the curse of lycanthropy; see the “Player Characters as Lycanthropes” sidebar in the lycanthropes entry in the Monster Manual for details.
Shapechange
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had before you transformed. If you revert as a result of dropping to 0 hit points, any excess damage carries over to your normal form. As long as the excess damage doesn't reduce your normal form to 0
rules for the original form, with one exception: if your new form has more hit points than your current one, your hit points remain at their current value.
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modifier. Not all characters wear armor or carry shields, however.
Without armor or a shield, your character's AC equals 10 + his or her Dexterity modifier. If your character wears armor, carries a shield
, or both, calculate your AC using the rules in the Equipment section. Record your AC on your character sheet.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
minutes and causes them to sprout little arms and legs. While animate, a cup uses the Scufflecup teacup stat block and does the bidding of whoever animated it. Characters who enter Firejolt Café find
” section in chapter 3.
Scufflecup Rules Each participant fills a teacup with hot tea and places it on the table. The participants then roll initiative. At least one Scufflecup participant is a student who
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Foreword A simple question began rattling around in my head over two years ago as I was bidding farewell to Barovia, dragging myself out of the depths of Maelstrom, and planning a yearlong expedition
. We’ve visited Waterdeep before, but not like this. Clever heroes will respect the city’s rules. Those who get on the city’s bad side are in for a rough time, as the City of Splendors is home to some of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
these rules offers guidelines on adjusting their statistics and creating a new stat block. Using Classes and Levels You can create an NPC just as you would a player character, using the rules in the
need an exhaustive list of equipment. An enemy meant to be faced in combat requires weapons and armor, plus any treasure the NPC carries (including magic items that might be used against the adventurers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
special flourishes that happen when the monster uses an item, and the stat block might ignore the rules in “Equipment” for that item. When used by someone else, a retrievable item uses its “Equipment
” rules, ignoring any special flourishes in the stat block. The Gear entry doesn’t necessarily list all of a monster’s equipment. For example, a monster that wears clothes is assumed to be dressed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
dragonmarked house, it is obliged to remain neutral in the politics of all nations, including its homeland. As a result, Clan Kundarak is no longer represented on the Iron Council that rules the Mror
Holds. However, it wields an influence over the other clans that reflects its wealth and its status in the world beyond the Holds, and the voice of Kundarak members arguing against the use of daelkyr magic carries significant weight.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
bidding, masking their intentions behind layers of deception. They lure victims to them by mimicking voices calling out for help, or drive unwanted visitors away by imitating the cries of fierce beasts
attacks or casts a spell, or until her concentration ends (as if concentrating on a spell). While invisible, she leaves no physical evidence of her passage, so she can be tracked only by magic. Any equipment she wears or carries is invisible with her.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
special flourishes that happen when the monster uses an item, and the stat block might ignore Player’s Handbook rules for that item. When used by someone else, a retrievable item uses its Player’s
Handbook rules, ignoring any special flourishes in the stat block. The Gear entry doesn’t necessarily list all of a monster’s equipment. For example, a monster that wears clothes is assumed to be dressed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Temporary Hit Points and take damage, those points are lost first, and any leftover damage carries over to your Hit Points. For example, if you have 5 Temporary Hit Points and take 7 damage, you lose
those points and then lose 2 Hit Points. Duration Temporary Hit Points last until they’re depleted or you finish a Long Rest (see the rules glossary). Temporary Hit Points Don’t Stack Temporary Hit
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Temporary Hit Points and take damage, those points are lost first, and any leftover damage carries over to your Hit Points. For example, if you have 5 Temporary Hit Points and take 7 damage, you lose
those points and then lose 2 Hit Points. Duration Temporary Hit Points last until they’re depleted or you finish a Long Rest (see the Rules Glossary). Temporary Hit Points Don’t Stack Temporary Hit
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Dexterity modifier. Not all characters wear armor or carry shields, however. Without armor or a shield, your character’s AC equals 10 + his or her Dexterity modifier. If your character wears armor, carries
a shield, or both, calculate your AC using the rules in chapter 5. Record your AC on your character sheet. Your character needs to be proficient with armor and shields to wear and use them
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata
leftover damage after the Temporary Hit Points carries over to the Wizard’s Hit Points. Does the level 14 Illusionist ability let you make something real every round, or just once? Illusory Reality is
Adept feature, a Wizard can cast spells with the Ritual tag in their spellbook as a Ritual without preparing the spell, in addition to following the normal rules of Ritual spells. If a Wizard is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
its Spellcasting or Innate Spellcasting special trait. This tag carries no special rules of its own, but other parts of the game might refer to it. A monster that has this tag typically doesn't require any components to cast its spells.
spell can have special rules or restrictions. For example, a drow mage can innately cast the levitate spell, but the spell has a "self only" restriction, which means that the spell affects only the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
using only the power of its mind has the psionics tag added to its Spellcasting or Innate Spellcasting special trait. This tag carries no special rules of its own, but other parts of the game might refer to it. A monster that has this tag typically doesn’t require any components to cast its spells.
spell can have special rules or restrictions. For example, a drow mage can innately cast the levitate spell, but the spell has a “self only” restriction, which means that the spell affects only the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
covered cook pot, emerging if the lid is lifted or if the specter is disturbed by noises from area 2b. The specter can command four nearby pots and pans to do its bidding; treat these objects as
his pocket dimension. The only item of value Kalabash has is his spellbook, which contains all the spells he has prepared. He also carries around an empty wine flask. Trapped Chest. The wooden chest is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Value column of the Fashion at Auction table. If you want to play out the bidding, the opening bid for each design is half of its value. Other students might bid against characters, driving up the
outfit’s value to its listed price. If you want to make bidding particularly intense, a rival bidder might drive up an outfit’s price to 50 percent more than its listed value before relenting. Fashion
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
white, leathery wings.
A tunnel at the back of the skull leads to Tiamat’s lair. The devils nesting within the skull, the abishai, are believed to carry out her bidding — or perhaps guard over her
also carries a soul coin.
Actions
Multiattack. Torogar makes three attacks: two with his scimitars and one with his horns.
Scimitar. Melee Weapon Attack: +11 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
establish telepathic communication to allow everyone to speak freely. The guards aren’t observant enough to notice. You might wish to consult the social interaction rules in the Dungeon Master’s Guide
Shoor carries it, as another sign of their change in status. It might be a matter of days or tendays before a contingent from Menzoberranzan arrives to take prisoners back to the drow city. Additionally
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
intelligent conversation. They favor the company of such creatures over all others, often to the point of not bothering to gather minions to do their bidding and ignoring worshipers who fawn over them. Brass
A party of bandits stole a brass dragon egg, and now the hatched wyrmling is manipulating the bandits to do the dragon’s whimsical bidding.
5 A lost brass dragon wyrmling was raised by hyenas
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Godefroy’s Powers and Dominion Lord Wilfred Godefroy rules his own personal afterlife. His statistics are similar to those of a ghost, and he is one of the most powerful spectral Undead in the domain
keeping tabs on the living is Alice Weathermay, mayor of Mordentshire. Godefroy manipulates her to pass on information and do his bidding by holding the spirit of her dead husband, Daniel Foxgrove
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
checks made to jump. Fenthaza (see area 5) carries the keys for these bindings. See “Adventuring Gear” in chapter 5 of the Player’s Handbook for rules on breaking, escaping, and unlocking manacles (and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
mountain with a full moon symbol above it. Close inspection of the moon reveals a half-inch-diameter hole in the middle of it. The arch is one of Halaster’s magic gates (see “Gates”). Its rules are
through the gate appears in area 27 on level 6, in the closest unoccupied space next to the similar gate located there. Treasure One drider has a set of calligrapher’s tools. The other drider carries a set of woodcarver’s tools and three carved zurkhwood statues of Lolth (1 gp each).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
types, which have no rules of their own. Aberrations are utterly alien beings. Many of them have innate magical abilities drawn from the creature's alien mind rather than the mystical forces of the world
and mages sometimes summon fiends to the material world to do their bidding. If an evil celestial is a rarity, a good fiend is almost inconceivable. Fiends include demons, devils, hell hounds
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Halaster’s gates (see “Gates”). Carved into the arch’s keystone is a hand-shaped indentation with a sigil representing magic scribed into the palm. Its rules are as follows: Casting the mage hand
Door. A seam in the rock wall reveals a secret swivel door covered with oily troglodyte secretions. Anything that touches the oily door carries the mildly revolting stench of troglodytes for 1 hour or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
bidding, masking their intentions behind layers of deception. They lure victims to them by mimicking voices calling out for help, or drive unwanted visitors away by imitating the cries of fierce beasts
passage, so she can be tracked only by magic. Any equipment she wears or carries is invisible with her.
Hag Covens
When hags must work together, they form covens, in spite of their selfish natures
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
days at least. Layers 45–47: Azzagrat The demon lord Graz’zt embodies manipulation and cruelty, tempting mortals with the promise of appalling delights and decadent luxuries. He rules over the realm of
worlds of the Material Plane and in the cultists who do her bidding on those worlds, but her interest lies only in domination. Lolth’s layer is an immense network of thick, magical webbing that forms
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Astral Adventurer’s Guide
of a ship remains fresh for 120 days. If a ship carries more creatures than its normal crew complement, they exhaust the supply of fresh air more quickly. Foul air is stale and partially depleted. It
121, and the foul air turns deadly 120 days later. Deadly air is unbreathable. Any creature that tries to breathe deadly air begins to suffocate (see the rules on suffocation in the Player’s Handbook
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
character’s AC equals 10 + his or her Dexterity modifier. If your character wears armor, carries a shield, or both, calculate your AC using the rules in the Equipment section. Record your AC on your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
the number of hit points you had before you transformed. If you revert as a result of dropping to 0 hit points, any excess damage carries over to your normal form. As long as the excess damage doesn’t
the same restrictions and rules for the original form, with one exception: if your new form has more hit points than your current one, your hit points remain at their current value.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Lycanthropy The lycanthropes entry in the Monster Manual has rules for characters afflicted with different forms of lycanthropy. The following text applies to wereraven characters specifically. A
Strength and Dexterity. The peck of a wereraven deals 1 piercing damage in raven form (no ability modifier applies to this damage), or 1d4 piercing damage in hybrid form (the character’s ability modifier applies to this damage). This attack carries the curse of wereraven lycanthropy.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
command, carries a potion of supreme healing, which she uses if she becomes grievously wounded. 7a. Arch Gate to Level 15 Light. Torches burn in iron brackets mounted to four pillars that support the 20
Gate. The arch is one of Halaster’s magic gates (see “Gates”). Its rules are as follows: The gate opens for 1 minute if a creature touches the arch with a six-fingered gauntlet. (Such an item can be
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
adventurers’ arrival. Treasure. The drow priestess wears two silver bracelets set with onyx (25 gp each). She carries a flask of wine and the key to the room’s zurkhwood chest, which contains 500 gp. The
demon goddess Lolth in spider form (25 gp) and eight sticks of incense (5 gp each). Each stick burns for up to 8 hours and emits a sickly odor. Thirza carries a spell scroll of gaseous form in a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
in the Basic Rules). Droop knows the general layout of the Redbrand hideout, as well as the location of its secret doors and traps. He doesn’t think to offer up the information, but if prompted, he
interrogates a captured bugbear can pry the information loose with a successful DC 15 Charisma (Intimidation) check. Treasure Mosk carries a belt pouch containing 33 sp and wears an eye patch made of