both before decide charm renowned

Enchanter Legacy

Monsters Volo's Guide to Monsters

with spell attacks). The enchanter has the following wizard spells prepared: Cantrips (at will): friends, mage hand, mending, message 1st level (4 slots): charm person,* mage armor, magic missile

with two hands.Instinctive Charm (Recharges after the Enchanter Casts an Enchantment Spell of 1st Level or Higher). The enchanter tries to magically divert an attack made against it, provided that

Sythian Skalderang

Monsters Keys from the Golden Vault

. Sythian casts one of the following spells, using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 14): At will: mage hand, prestidigitation 1/day each: charm person, faerie fire, unseen servant

became a mediocre one instead, despite the help of several renowned tutors. Years later, Sythian resents their efforts, as the money his parents lavished on his education left him with many unpaid debts

Gruul Anarch

Backgrounds Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

Contacts table. Gruul Contacts d8 Contact 1 One of my parents is a renowned warrior in my clan. 2 My sibling has the ear of the clan chief. 3 I have cousins in a

spiritual guidance at times. 5 Roll an additional Gruul contact; you can decide if the contact is an ally or a rival. 6 An Izzet scientist blames the Gruul for the destruction of his life’s

Selesnya Initiate

Backgrounds Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

are added to all of them.) Selesnya Guild Spells Spell Level Spells Cantrip druidcraft, friends 1st aid, animal friendship, charm person 2nd animal

Selesnya contact; you can decide if the contact is an ally or a rival. 10 I have a sibling in the Simic Combine, and we argue every time we see each other.

Enchanter

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

save DC 14, +6 to hit with spell attacks). The enchanter has the following wizard spells prepared: Cantrips (at will): friends, mage hand, mending, message 1st level (4 slots): charm person,* mage

) bludgeoning damage if used with two hands. Reactions Instinctive Charm (Recharges after the Enchanter Casts an Enchantment Spell of 1st Level or Higher). The enchanter tries to magically divert an

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 Throws

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

decide which ability score is involved. The Saving Throws table offers suggestions. Saving Throws Ability Used For… Strength Opposing a force that would physically move or bind you Dexterity

logic, sharp memory, or both Wisdom Resisting effects that charm, frighten, or otherwise assault your willpower Charisma Withstanding effects, such as possession, that would subsume your personality or hurl you to another plane of existence

Crew

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

Crew Unless you decide otherwise, each ship encountered on the sea has its full crew and enough food and water to sustain that crew and any passengers for the duration of the ship’s journey. You can

Salty Beard 2 Ol’ Eye 3 Silver Copper 4 Golden Fish 5 Black Whale 6 Blue Dog 7 Silky Cur 8 Heartless Fingers 9 Drizzly Patches 10 Thirsty Hook 11 Rum Salt 12 Gloomy Rat 13 Handsome Charm 14 Wee Beast 15 Clever Devil 16 Ugly Liar 17 Pretty Angel 18 Lost Blood 19 Mad Maps 20 Poor Mast

Serving Zariel

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus

Serving Zariel The characters might decide after meeting Zariel that they wish to serve her, joining her army and smiting demons in the Blood War. They also might wind up serving her if they fail to

Elturel. As a sign of favor, she bestows a charm upon each character (see “Archdevil Charms”). Characters who die in Zariel’s service are reborn as lemures from the River Styx. They lose all memories of

Tower of Urm

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus

. This archmage of Oerth leads a powerful group of adventurers called the Circle of Eight and has authored several planar tomes. He has also crafted many renowned spells. Mordenkainen takes the tower

here to assassinate Mordenkainen. If they overhear his discussions with the characters, the assassins decide to alter their plans. Both fiends turn invisible and follow the party in hope of an

Heroes of Destiny

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

wild mages, even if your own powers are different. Key Your spellbook manifests as a deck of cards. Knight Your family of renowned warriors judges you on your martial talents (or lack thereof). Moon

a hag, in disguise. Ruin A fortune teller warned that you’re destined to cause great destruction, which you’re trying to avoid. Sage You use a divinatory card spread to decide which spells to prepare

House Missions

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

House Missions Your group and your DM should decide together which house employs you. The nature of the missions you undertake depends in part on the house or guild you work for, but there are

stealing its business. 6 Find a trove of dragonshards for your patron house to use. 7 Recruit a renowned sage to join the house’s team of researchers. 8 Persuade a hostile tribe to agree to a trade

Holidays

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

and attractions each month, and an up-and-coming entertainer or a renowned folk hero might catch her notice. Crystalfall (9 Olarune) During the Last War, saboteurs caused a floating tower to fall into

time indoors with friends, but those who relish the darkness might decide to take to the streets to prey on the weak and foolish.

Death of a Dragon

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

, that knot is undone, sometimes resulting in a surge of magical energy. You can use the Dragon Death Throes table to help you decide what happens when a dragon dies. Characters who slay a dragon are often

seize the dragon’s power. The benefit conferred by this transfer of power is up to you. It might include one of the draconic gifts described in chapter 2 of this book, or a charm or blessing from the

Sailor

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)

: Athletics, Perception Tool Proficiencies: Navigator’s tools, vehicles (water) Equipment: A belaying pin (club), 50 feet of silk rope, a lucky charm such as a rabbit foot or a small stone with a hole

briny grave. Fear and bloodshed are no strangers to you, and you’ve garnered a somewhat unsavory reputation in many a port town. If you decide that your sailing career involved piracy, you can choose

Introducing Characters

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Borderlands Quest: Goblin Trouble

stamina; Intelligence is reasoning and memory; Wisdom is perceptiveness and mental fortitude, and Charisma is confidence, poise, and charm. Each ability has a score from 1 to 20, although your

Initiative order remains the same from round to round for the whole combat. If there’s a tie, I’ll decide which character or creature goes before the other. Attacks. Each character can make attacks

Where to Start?

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory

antlers. 2 Compelling Voice. The archfey has a magical voice that can charm creatures of a certain type (such as Beasts or Fey). This voice might be as soft as a whisper or loud like thunder. 3

magic item that can be used to defeat a powerful monster. As the DM, you decide whether such a gift is warranted. To randomly determine what kind of gift your archfey might bestow on a character, roll on

Area Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Nest of the Eldritch Eye

depicting a blunted six-point crown. A character who succeeds on a DC 10 Intelligence (History) check recognizes this symbol as the crest of the Hallwinter family, whose lineage produced renowned knights

determining which charm their character receives: the Charm of the Creeping Hand if the die roll is an odd number or the Charm of the Eldritch Eye if the die roll is an even number. While in possession of

Decisionist

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

your coin of decisionry and cast two votes. Absentee Ballot Starting at rank 2, if a member of your franchise party is absent, you gain their vote and can decide quite confidently how they would have

use the voting kit to cast charm person (save DC 15). This property of the kit can’t be used again until the next dawn. Decisionists work best when a verdict is unilateral and in direct contradiction

Designing Simple Traps

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

level ranges: 1–4, 5–10, 11–16, and 17–20. The level you choose for a trap gives you a starting point for determining its potency. To further delineate the trap’s strength, decide whether it is a

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

Specific Spells

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

cumulative. If you have temporary hit points and receive more of them, you don’t add them together, unless a game feature says you can. You decide which temporary hit points to keep. As an example

vampire’s Charm ability or a druid’s Wild Shape? Dispel magic has a particular purpose: to break other spells. It has no effect on a vampire’s Charm ability or any other magical effect that isn’t a

Market Ward

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

Presence. The Free League congregates in the Great Bazaar. Although the Harmonium patrols the bazaar’s busy avenues, it’s the members of the Free League who capture thieves and decide whether to turn

The Institute for Intellectual Excellence is a prestigious planar academy. Renowned for the rigor of its curriculum and high expectations from faculty, the institute numbers among the best places to

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

NPCs

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

streets of Suzail, the capital of Cormyr. He came to Icewind Dale to become a knucklehead trout fisher but instead found religion. The misbegotten son of Artus Cimber, a renowned human adventurer, Sirac

talent for negotiation and her father’s charm. As the first woman to serve as Town Speaker of Bryn Shander, and a young one at that, she has much to prove. Ideal: “The people of Icewind Dale are

Redbrand Hideout Locations

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

the southeast part of Thundertree. (If the characters decide to explore the ruins of Thundertree, see chapter 3.) R6: Armory The door to this room is locked from the outside. Across from the locked

divulge this information, since they fear the Spider more than they fear the characters, though a charm person spell might coax the information from one of them. The bugbears also know the location of

Howling Hatred Cultists

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

their old lives and embrace a “higher purpose.” Once the new recruits are thus purified, the priests decide whether they are worthy for indoctrination as initiates or would better serve the Howling

frost, shocking grasp 1st level (4 slots): charm person, feather fall, mage armor, thunderwave 2nd level (3 slots): dust devil,* gust of wind, invisibility 3rd level (3 slots): fly, gaseous form

Roleplaying a Giant

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

benign disposition revere him for his charm, intelligence, and persuasiveness, while those of a more malign bent take Memnor’s self-interest to heart and imitate his trickery. Cloud giants that take a

battle gear in preparation for a final, all-encompassing battle that will decide the fate of the world. If the suspicions are true, these sites are expertly hidden and kept secret even from most fire

Tomb Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries

ability check, attack roll, or saving throw it makes. The creature can wait until after it rolls the d20 before deciding to use the number, but it must decide before the DM says whether the roll succeeds

the mummy lord from re-forming. T8. Antechamber Both doors to this area are locked, and each can be opened with the key charm from area T2. The walls of this room converge in a high peak overhead

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

words. If the party conducts a search without the dryads’ consent, the dryads attempt to charm the characters and command them to return whence they came. The dryads attack intruders who resist their

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