blade both diffusing correctly resort

Blade Bazaar

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

Blade Bazaar This marketplace is named after the most abundant goods the duergar offer, but the shops here sell almost everything available in the city, along with stalls set up by visiting merchants

unload some of the treasures they might be carrying. Nonmagical weapons, armor, and shields can be purchased in the Blade Bazaar. Merchant Madness Characters who look around the bazaar notice a number of

The Balance

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

demon nor devil can permanently gain the upper hand. Keepers of the Balance sometimes resort to strategies that seem inexplicable to those who don’t grasp the whole situation. A crusading paladin might be

might vie with a great arcanist as both search for knowledge of a ritual that would cripple Asmodeus for a short time. The arcanist correctly believes that performing the ritual would free a world of

Mind Flayer

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)

so alien in construction that non-illithids must resort to magic to discern its meaning. Though Qualith can be used to keep records, illithids most often use it to mark portals or other surfaces with

Intelligence (save DC 15, +7 to hit with spell attacks). The mind flayer has the following wizard spells prepared: Cantrips (at will): blade ward, dancing lights, mage hand, shocking grasp 1st

Maze of Mists

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

axe juts from his chest. The axe is a Berserker Axe. The weapon’s name (“Enduval”) is inscribed into the blade. The axe stops shimmering once it’s removed from the corpse. P14i. Characters who have a

characters don’t answer correctly, she will eat them. The characters need to accept or decline the offer before knowing the riddle. Sphinx’s Riddle. Senenura’s riddle is as follows: “Too much, and you wither

Narration in Combat

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

damage is a bad wound for the enemy, say: “You swing wildly, and the knight brings his shield up just a second too late. Your blade catches him along the jaw, drawing a deep gash. He recoils, bleeding

against a Fire Elemental (a creature that has Immunity to Fire damage), let the players know the spell doesn’t seem to bother the creature at all. Players might correctly guess that a creature made of fire

Merchant Princes

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation

need of gear or supplies must deal through these individuals directly or their consortiums indirectly. The only alternative is to resort to the black markets in Malar’s Throat or Tiryki Anchorage

almost everywhere, but Jessamine has a monopoly on “sanctions” — writs that allow a killing by ordained methods (usually poison or stabbing with a blade). For an added fee, her agents will carry out

Roleplaying Prisoner 13

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

or minor illusion, or even copy it with pen and ink. In any case, a character must succeed on a DC 15 Intelligence (Arcana) check to correctly re-create the tattoo, which requires 10 minutes of study

or drawing. The characters can retry if they fail, at the cost of more time and more risk of discovery. Last Resort. A gruesome but effective option is killing Prisoner 13 and taking her body back

Roleplaying Prisoner 13

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Prisoner 13

or minor illusion, or even copy it with pen and ink. In any case, a character must succeed on a DC 15 Intelligence (Arcana) check to correctly re-create the tattoo, which requires 10 minutes of study

or drawing. The characters can retry if they fail, at the cost of more time and more risk of discovery. Last Resort. A gruesome but effective option is killing Prisoner 13 and taking her body back

Random Encounters in Hither

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

in the muck. When a bubble touches something edged, such as a twig or a blade of grass, it pops, releasing its gas with a sound of stifled laughter. The gas smells like old cheese. As the characters

to drag them down into it unless they can guess the mephits’ favorite food. The answer, of course, is mud pie. Each character gets one guess. If a character guesses correctly, the mephits cackle

Building Combat Encounters

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

. To correctly gauge an encounter’s difficulty, multiply the total XP of all the monsters in the encounter by the value given in the Encounter Multipliers table. For example, if an encounter

their enemies to move around, such as chandeliers, kegs of gunpowder or oil, and whirling blade traps Enemies in hard-to-reach locations or defensive positions, so that characters who normally attack at range are forced to move around the battlefield Different types of monsters working together

Spire of Iriolarthas (Y19i-Y19hq)

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

Strength check. A living blade of disaster is a powerful, annihilating spell given a will of its own. Y19k. Dome The following boxed text assumes that the characters arrive by moving up the shaft from

-radius dome of translucent ice encloses the area around the shaft from which you emerge. At the far end of the hall, two blade-shaped patches of pitch darkness hover in the air to either side of a

Camp Righteous

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation

the check with disadvantage. 6B. Blade Trap The ceiling here is 23 feet high and draped with cobwebs. Each individual that passes through this section of the corridor has a 50 percent chance of

are pressed correctly, the door swings open into area 6E. If wrong squares are pressed, the squares are pressed in the wrong order, or they’re pressed by the wrong people, a glyph of warding on the

Lesser Cavern Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Descent into the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth

blade in Gnomish. Once the golem is destroyed, the sword can easily be freed from its chest. L3: Guano-Covered Cave The floor of this vaulted cave is covered in pungent piles of bat guano. Large leather

hunger. Lludd is hostile toward intruders, but he doesn’t immediately resort to violence. Though he’s selfish and cruel, the behir hasn’t survived this long by attempting to devour every creature that

Lair Locations

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

blade trap. Noticing the trap requires a successful DC 12 Intelligence (Investigation) check. A successful DC 12 Dexterity check is required to disarm the trap. Opening the chest without disarming the

trap, or failing to disarm it, triggers the trap. When the trap is triggered, a scything blade swings up, striking at any creature within 5 feet of the front of the chest. Affected creatures must make a

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