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Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
wit and debilitating inky shadow. Whether weaving their magic through spoken incantations and scathing insults or through shadows, these teachers break down the resolve of their foes.
The professors
focus on words that find the tiniest, most invisible cracks in an opponent’s defenses and break them.
Silverquill Scholars
The scholars of Silverquill College study the power of magic shaped
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
the professor sees another creature within 60 feet of itself casting a spell, the professor can try to nullify the spell’s formation. The creature must succeed on a DC 15 saving throw using the
probability to impede attacks and strike at the minds of their foes with lancing equations that disrupt the opponent’s resolve.
Professors of theory hold that altering the way a person
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
the surrounding water—and any creatures in it. And even if an enemy wears down the dragon turtle’s defenses, magical storms manifest to shield the dragon turtle and strike at foes
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control water, control weather,* fog cloud
*This spell’s casting time is longer than 1 action.
Dragon Turtle Adventures
The Dragon Turtle Adventure Hooks table offers suggestions
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
True Strike Divination cantrip Casting Time: 1 action Range: 30 feet Components: S Duration: Concentration, up to 1 round You point a finger at a target in range. Your magic grants you a brief
insight into the target’s defenses. On your next turn, you gain advantage on your first attack roll against the target, provided that this spell hasn’t ended.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
True Strike Divination cantrip Casting Time: 1 action Range: 30 feet Components: S Duration: Concentration, up to 1 round You point a finger at a target in range. Your magic grants you a brief
insight into the target’s defenses. On your next turn, you gain advantage on your first attack roll against the target, provided that this spell hasn’t ended.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Wrathful Smite 1st-level evocation Casting Time: 1 bonus action Range: Self Components: V Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute The next time you hit with a melee weapon attack during this spell’s
, the creature can make a Wisdom check against your spell save DC to steel its resolve and end this spell.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Aid 2nd-level abjuration Casting Time: 1 action Range: 30 feet Components: V, S, M (a tiny strip of white cloth) Duration: 8 hours Your spell bolsters your allies with toughness and resolve. Choose
Goblin
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
the fringes of a society first test its defenses by stealing objects, and if these crimes go unpunished, they begin stealing people.
Enslaved creatures receive the worst treatment the goblins can dish
goblin is a sorcerer with the wild magic origin whose every casting, including cantrips, is accompanied by a wild magic surge. Use the mage stat block in the Monster Manual to represent this goblin, adding
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Aid 2nd-level abjuration Casting Time: 1 action Range: 30 feet Components: V, S, M (a tiny strip of white cloth) Duration: 8 hours Your spell bolsters your allies with toughness and resolve. Choose
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata
it delivers such an attack. Can spell attacks score Critical Hits? A spell attack can score a Critical Hit. The rule on Critical Hits applies to attack rolls of any sort. When casting a spell that
? Even though the duration of each of these spells is instantaneous, you choose the targets and resolve the attacks consecutively, not all at once. If you want, you can declare all your targets before
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
, and unyielding resolve. They are deliberate and slow to act, careful to consider their plans and gather their strength before beginning any new enterprise. Once earth cultists resolve to act, they
overpower foes with direct assaults, although if they have the opportunity to undermine defenses or attack from below, they unhesitatingly put their skill at tunneling and mastery of burrowing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
it delivers such an attack. Can spell attacks score critical hits? A spell attack can definitely score a critical hit. The rule on critical hits applies to attack rolls of any sort. When casting a
attack rolls? Even though the duration of each of these spells is instantaneous, you choose the targets and resolve the attacks consecutively, not all at once. If you want, you can declare all your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
their defenses and the security of their homes, no clan is immortal and no stronghold unassailable. Threats to a clan can come from the outside or the inside, and it’s often the latter variety that
individuals in a clan to fall prey to occasional bickering and infighting. Abbathor’s influence affects some dwarves more than others, and even those with the strongest resolve can be tempted to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Bigby’s Hand 5th-level evocation Casting Time: 1 action Range: 120 feet Components: V, S, M (an eggshell and a snakeskin glove) Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute You create a Large hand of
remain within 5 feet of it. Grasping Hand. The hand attempts to grapple a Huge or smaller creature within 5 feet of it. You use the hand’s Strength score to resolve the grapple. If the target is Medium or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
target. In addition, spells, special abilities, and other effects can apply penalties or bonuses to your attack roll.
Resolve the attack. You make the attack roll. On a hit, you roll damage
hiding, casting the invisibility spell, or lurking in darkness.
When you attack a target that you can’t see, you have disadvantage on the attack roll. This is true whether you’re guessing the target’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
and debilitating inky shadow. Whether weaving their magic through spoken incantations and scathing insults or through shadows, these teachers break down the resolve of their foes. The professors strive
words that find the tiniest, most invisible cracks in an opponent’s defenses and break them. Silverquill Professor of Shadow
Medium or Small Humanoid (Bard), Any Alignment
Armor Class 12 (15 with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
. All objects and creatures encountered in the mirror tomb appear real, but they fade away if taken to the real world. The mirror tomb has the same magical defenses as the true tomb, and any character
prevent the character from wielding weapons or casting spells. Remove curse, greater restoration, or any other effect that ends a curse restores the character’s original appearance, but only a wish spell can rid the staff of its power to transform those who attune to it.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
inspiration to negate the complication. Characters can create their own complications to shake off pursuers (for example, casting the web spell in a narrow alleyway). Adjudicate these as you see fit
pursuers to either divide their forces or allow some of the quarry to escape. If a pursuit splits into several smaller chases, resolve each chase separately. Run a round of one chase, then a round of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
manner of Underdark denizens, this maze forms part of Menzoberranzan’s defenses as well as its underworld — a dangerous place for dark dealings and clandestine meetings. The Dark Dominion is a great
protect the city from cave-ins. Any character casting earthquake, move earth, or similar magic within the city triggers a reverse gravity spell (save DC 18) centered on the caster, which takes effect
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
found its defenses lacking. An invasion is imminent. The capture of Skullport will give the drow a firm base from which to strike into the heart of Undermountain. What’s next? Waterdeep?” 10d. Water
figurehead stands 8 feet tall and weighs 1,200 pounds. A detect magic spell reveals an aura of abjuration magic around it. Casting dispel magic on the figurehead renders it nonmagical. Unless its magic is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
their homes and businesses. If either fire giant is reduced to 81 hit points or fewer, the giants realize that they have underestimated Triboar’s defenses. They quickly leave the way they came while
adamantine ring can, with a successful DC 15 Intelligence (Arcana) check, determine that it was once part of some kind of enormous construct. Casting a detect magic spell on the fragment reveals a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
professors tweak probability to impede attacks and strike at the minds of their foes with lancing equations that disrupt the opponent’s resolve. Professors of theory hold that altering the way a person
/day each: mage armor, major image, mirage arcane (as an action), Rary’s telepathic bond
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Divide by Zero (2/Day). When the professor sees another creature within 60 feet of itself casting a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
components unless they are consumed by the spell or have a cost specified in it. Level 6: Psychic Defenses You have Resistance to Psychic damage, and you have Advantage on saving throws to avoid or end the
Greater Restoration, Wall of Force
In addition, consult the Manifestations of Order table and choose or randomly determine a way your connection to order manifests while you are casting any of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Superiority Die to bolster the resolve of a companion. Choose an ally of yours within 30 feet of yourself who can see or hear you. That creature gains Temporary Hit Points equal to the Superiority Die roll
with a third weapon, you must break the bond with one of the other two. Level 7: War Magic When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can replace one of the attacks with a casting of one of your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
heart of the shrine. The overconfident visitors neglected to build defenses around the camp, believing that their own strong arms were sufficient protection. A couple months ago, they were proved
them as they emerge. If they don’t, they might at least weaken the shrine’s defenses. Yokka’s band bedevils the party without revealing its presence until the final moment. For example, if no guard is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
two ochre jellies. Treasure. The four cultists each wear a gold mask of Zargon worth 50 gp. B69: Foul Chapel Sconces flicker in slimy alcoves within this ruined chapel, casting an eerie glow on five
impressed by the characters’ foolish resolve, the elder evil might offer to make them minions, lieutenants, or priests—but not before threatening to eat them. Zargon spares those who tremble before
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
, characters journey to the Nevervault, a hazardous containment crypt deep beneath the Mortuary for creatures that should be dead but somehow aren’t. The defenses for the vault and several threats within are
, and immunity to poison and psychic damage. Casting remove curse on the stele or destroying the stele frees the soul trapped inside, which manifests as a specter. For 1 minute, the specter is friendly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Morning looms behind Darkhold to the east, casting a great shadow over the keep from sunrise until nearly midday. Darkhold sits in a cleft in the side of the Gray Watcher, the highest point of permanent
smiled in reply. Although it seemed a genuine smile, I could wring no truth from it. Of the castle’s defenses, I can say little. My tour was limited. But I did note that, while some things on the giants
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC or take 2d10 Psychic damage. Level 10: Beguiling Defenses Your patron teaches you how to guard your mind and body. You are immune to the
: Create Thrall When you cast Summon Aberration, you can modify it so that it doesn’t require Concentration. If you do so, the spell’s duration becomes 1 minute for that casting, and when summoned, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
. Though he is not truly in danger of losing this ability (his resolve is simply shaken), this can provide a roleplaying opportunity for the characters to boost his spirits and strengthen his faith. H5
. Defenses Two defensive turrets decorate the front of this area, looking down over the courtyard. Arrow slits in the walls of each turret offer a view of the ground below, but are too narrow for even
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Casting feature (or the Ritual Caster feat) who spends 24 hours reading the book can master the ritual described within. The ritual takes 11 minutes to cast and requires incense and a vial of unholy water
accidentally offended one another. They have changed into dueling garb and are fighting with rapiers to resolve their differences while onlookers drink wine and cheer them on. C25a. Garden Balcony This
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
when their hunting patrols encounter other beings, they always look for ways to capture their foes instead of killing them. Goblins that run up against the fringes of a society first test its defenses
origin whose every casting, including cantrips, is accompanied by a wild magic surge. Use the mage stat block in the Monster Manual to represent this goblin, adding darkvision and the Nimble Escape
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
couple. They’re fiercely protective of the pair. Breaking the Enchantment. If the characters break the fountain’s enchantment on Argus and Hamish, the two are grateful but ultimately resolve to remain
tomb but leaves its sarcophagus undisturbed, the magic of the palace grants the creature one casting of the Wish spell, fulfilled by the spirits of Caerwyn and Porphura on the creature’s behalf. As the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
captain-general to provide information about Greyhawk’s defenses and local politicians. Sental gives this information to a human Spy (Chaotic Evil) who stays at the Black Dragon Inn under the false
magic item to help them complete a quest. Before giving them the item, Morley asks they return it in pristine condition. Magic Item Identification. Morley can cast the Identify spell at will. He charges 50 GP for each casting of the spell.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
team is on offense. Resolve a tie with a Strength (Athletics) contest.
Step 2. To simulate the ball being passed around, every player makes a DC 15 Dexterity (Athletics) check. If the team on
rises from the goblet’s contents and dissipates in the cold air.
Each window in the auditorium depicts a wizard casting a spell from one of the eight schools of magic. The spells depicted are blade