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Dungeon Master’s Guide
. Legend says Vecna’s destruction came at Kas’s hand, but Vecna also wrought his rebellious lieutenant’s doom, leaving only Kas’s sword behind.
Bloodthirst. The sword thirsts for
Initiative rolls.
Blade of Defense. When you take an action to attack with the sword, you can transfer some or all of its attack bonus to your Armor Class instead. The adjusted bonuses remain in
Monsters
Netheril’s Fall
Disintegration. If the magen dies, it disintegrates into dust, leaving behind anything it was wearing or carrying.
Magic Resistance. The magen has Advantage on saving throws against spells and other
", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Acid Spittle", "rollDamageType":"Acid"} Acid damage.Caldron magen are powerful bodyguards that stretch their limbs and spit acid in defense of those they protect.Acid, Poison
Monsters
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
Suave Defense. While Amrik is wearing light or no armor and wielding no shield, his AC includes his Charisma modifier.Multiattack. Amrik makes three dagger attacks.
Dagger. Melee or Ranged Weapon
signal them to deliver drinks to the table. If he wants poison added to his clients’ drinks, he has a secret sign for that. Hidden behind the bar is a small bottle containing four doses of
Magic Items
Princes of the Apocalypse
A mighty axe wielded long ago by the dwarf king Torhild Flametongue, Orcsplitter is a battered weapon that appears unremarkable at first glance. Its head is graven with the Dwarvish runes for &ldquo
;orc,” but the runes are depicted with a gap or slash through the markings; the word “orc” is literally split in two.
You gain the following benefits while holding this magic weapon
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
Instinctive Reflexes. The conduit has advantage on initiative rolls, and it can’t have disadvantage on attack rolls.
Unarmored Defense. While the conduit is wearing no armor and wielding no
Transcendent Order train to act without thinking, eliminating thought behind action. Conduits react with the cadence of the multiverse. Their sharp reflexes border on precognition, allowing them to unconsciously act before their foes.
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
umber. It takes them days to digest a meal, during which time they attack only in self-defense.
A brown scavver likes to swallow its prey whole. The creature’s stomach is filled with poisonous
always aggressive; often they trail behind larger creatures as well as ships and asteroids, living off droppings and discarded refuse. They can enter the air envelopes of these bodies, so that as
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
to a meteoric rise in the giants’ ordning. Many of them end up as jarls, leading their communities, or as advisers to jarls—often the true power behind the throne. They are usually devoted
to Thrym.
True to their name, these ice shapers manipulate the raw elemental energy of air and water to wield ice in both offense and defense. They summon ice elementals in the shape of wolves, cloak themselves in icy armor, and just as quickly turn that armor into a hail of deadly ice shards.Cold
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
, any creature within the bright light and able to see the snail when this power is activated must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or be stunned until the light ends.
Shell Defense. The flail
and other large mineral deposits. It leaves behind a shimmering trail that quickly solidifies into a thin and nearly transparent layer. This glassy residue can be harvested and cut to form window
Magic Items
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
weapon is searching for a new owner.
Azuredge has a solid steel handle etched with tiny runes, wrapped in blue dragon hide with a star sapphire set into the pommel. The axe head is forged from silver
defense against the axe, which passes through that spell’s barrier of magical force.
When you hit a fiend or an undead with the axe, cold blue flames erupt from its blade and deal an extra 2d6
Monsters
Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
Stone upon Limbo. A powerful being suffused with entropic power, Ygorl delights in the act of unmaking and bringing chaos to any ecosystem it visits. Lesser slaadi follow close behind the lord of
inscribed across the blade, which can reduce living creatures to ash. The lord of entropy also bears a set of obsidian tablets slung about its waist, upon which it inscribes destructive runes. Living
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
You have served the community where you grew up, standing as its first line of defense against crime. You aren’t a soldier, directing your gaze outward at possible enemies. Instead, your
success.
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Ideal
1
Greater Good. Our lot is to lay down our lives in defense of others. (Good)
2
Responsibility. I do what I must and obey just authority. (Lawful
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Basic Rules (2014)
solution is the best path to success.
d6
Ideal
1
Greater Good. Our lot is to lay down our lives in defense of others. (Good)
2
Responsibility. I do what I must and obey just
lay down my life for the people I served with.
2
Someone saved my life on the battlefield. To this day, I will never leave a friend behind.
3
My honor is my life.
4
I’ll never
Monsters
Candlekeep Mysteries
Legendary Resistance (2/Day). If Bak Mei fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.
Special Equipment. Bak Mei carries a staff of striking with 10 charges.
Unarmored Defense. While Bak
shirt and trousers.
Personality Trait. “I judge others by their actions. Words mean nothing.”
Ideal. “Knowledge. The Book of Inner Alchemy will help me leave behind the sins of my
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
temporary hit points per level of the slot.Halaster, the Mad Mage of Undermountain, is the deranged individual behind most of the traps and horrors found in the great dungeon under Waterdeep
casting elder runes on them. Halaster’s gates connect the different levels of Undermountain, thus enabling him to bring new monsters into the dungeon to replenish those that die or escape. Even as
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
behind the life of a soldier for hire, but your skills are undeniably suited for battle, so now you fight on in a different way.
MERCENARIES OF THE NORTH
Countless mercenary companies
defense of others. (Good)
2
Responsibility. I do what I must and obey just authority. (Lawful)
3
Independence. When people follow orders blindly, they embrace a kind of tyranny. (Chaotic
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
Greater Good. Our lot is to lay down our lives in defense of others. (Good)
2
Responsibility. I do what I must and obey just authority. (Lawful)
3
Independence. When people follow orders
life on the battlefield. To this day, I will never leave a friend behind.
3
My honor is my life.
4
I’ll never forget the crushing defeat my company suffered or the enemies who dealt it
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
5th
dominate person
Your magic often takes the form of blue or golden runes floating and glowing in the air in circular patterns or of shimmering azure barriers of magical energy. If you
know a homunculus in the halls of New Prahv who can get things done behind the scenes.
8
I was once summoned to the presence of Supreme Judge Isperia, the guildmaster of the Azorius, who
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hold Back The Dead
Waterdeep (Northeast) The siege weapon in Waterdeep’s defense zone (see Map 1.5) is a small bronze cannon inlaid with arcane runes and mounted on a heavy tripod. It launches balls of crackling
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
distant lands and other worlds. Those who stayed behind used the circle to maintain communication with explorers, helping them pilot their flying ships home. Standing stones form a great circle
inscribed into a flat stone hilltop. The stones bear Giant runes, carved constellations, and strange symbols. On the ground, an enormous circle of Giant runes of power links the monoliths and circumscribes smaller circles of runes. Carved lines throughout the circle link different strings of symbols.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
in the middle row. Removing that painting from the wall triggers an elder rune hidden behind it (see “Elder Runes”). Determine the rune with a random draw from the Elder Runes Deck (see appendix B).
wall behind the curtain are fifteen paintings, each one 5 feet long and 3 feet tall, arranged in three rows of five. Each painting depicts a graduating class of dour-faced Dweomercore wizards. Most of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
inscrutable runes carved onto a cursed bow might hold the key to undoing the weapon’s evil magic. Locations. Mystical grottoes, forgotten temples, and secret hideouts might all be locked behind befuddling
hidden weakness. Items. Few things are more enticing than a rare item with magical properties hidden behind a riddle. Items have the added benefit of being portable, allowing the characters to ponder a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
horrors attack only in self-defense and are more afraid of the giggling, rampaging gnolls than they are of the characters. The gnolls are two chambers behind the hook horrors, reaching this point on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
5. Arch Gate to Level 4 This dusty room is hidden behind a secret door disguised to look like a plain section of wall. Embedded in the middle of the room’s north wall is a stone arch, its frame
gate (see “Jhesiyra Kestellharp”). The first creature to pass through the gate triggers an elder rune (see “Elder Runes”). A creature that passes through the gate appears in area 11c on level 4, in the closest unoccupied space next to the identical gate located there.
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
victories.
2
A sapphire dragon is bound by an ancient pact to advise a monarchy on matters of defense—until someone bests the dragon’s security measures.
3
A sapphire dragon
caverns hold the bulk of the dragon’s hoard, particularly art objects that are impressive but not irreplaceable.
Sleeping Chamber. At the heart of the lair, protected behind more thin crystal walls
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
flank a stone double door engraved with a giant letter H.
If their handles are tugged, the double doors fly open, revealing a stone wall with a giant elder rune carved into it (see “Elder Runes”). Draw
a card from the Elder Runes Deck (see appendix B) to determine which rune waits beyond the doors. This rune targets all creatures in the room with the same effect (bane or boon, determined randomly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Morte’s Planar Parade
Transcendent Order Conduit Members of the Transcendent Order train to act without thinking, eliminating thought behind action. Conduits react with the cadence of the multiverse. Their sharp reflexes
border on precognition, allowing them to unconsciously act before their foes. Transcendent Order Conduit Small or Medium Humanoid, Any Alignment
Armor Class 18 (Unarmored Defense)
Hit Points 97
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
.
Secret Door. Behind a 6-foot-tall wood-framed painting of Halaster hanging on a wall is a secret door that pulls open to reveal a small chamber with a stone arch embedded in its back wall.
Arch
Gate to Level 7 The arch hidden behind the secret door is one of Halaster’s magic gates (see “Gates”). Inscribed on the wall inside the arch is the following riddle in Common: “What appears once in an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
behind the western brazier is a +1 greataxe. Its owner left it there while attending a ceremony in the greater temple, but the oni slew the dwarf and overlooked the axe in the aftermath. The axe has
Dethek runes on it, reading, “A beacon in the dark depths.” The axe’s wielder always knows the way to the nearest passage leading from underground toward the surface, as well as the approximate depth the axe is underground.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
form neat stacks with narrow aisles winding between them.
Arch. Embedded in the north wall, hidden behind the chests and trunks, is a stone arch. Inscribed on the wall inside the arch is a riddle in
minute. Characters must be 10th level or higher to pass through this gate (see “Jhesiyra Kestellharp”). The first creature to pass through the gate triggers an elder rune (see “Elder Runes”). A creature
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
rises from inside the cauldron.
Paraphernalia. Behind the cauldron rests a wooden table cluttered with brewing equipment. The floor around the table is strewn with shattered glass and empty flasks
. Tucked under the table is a wooden crate with Halaster’s personal rune burned into its sides.
Demilich. Floating behind the table is a demilich that looks like a human skull with a jagged crack that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
archway is 40 feet wide and 40 feet tall. Six different runes are carved into it, each one inlaid with mithral, and a glowing mist fills the arch. Niches in the walls on either side of it contain empty
) check find two secret doors behind the frost that covers the west wall. These slabs of stone are 40 feet tall by 20 feet wide, and each pushes open to reveal a chamber beyond (area 5A or 5B). Each secret
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
8. Gong Tower Central to the den’s defense is this 60-foot-tall log tower perched atop an 80-foot-high bluff overlooking the river. A wooden ladder sized for Medium humanoids is lashed to the south
view of the countryside out to a range of 1 mile, though there are hillocks and trees behind which creatures can hide. If the guards spot any unusual creatures approaching the den, or if they come
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Inner Blingdenstone Population: 300 deep gnomes (svirfneblin)
Government: Work collective led by Dorbo and Senni Diggermattock
Defense: Militia, summoned earth elementals
Commerce: Salt
Blingdenstone, omitting the second paragraph if they arrive unescorted. You leave the dark tunnel behind and step into what looks like another world. These aren’t sinister drow caverns or harsh, bare stone
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Force Grey named Meloon Wardragon (see appendix B), but the weapon is searching for a new owner. Azuredge has a solid steel handle etched with tiny runes, wrapped in blue dragon hide with a star
made with this magic weapon. The shield spell provides no defense against the axe, which passes through that spell’s barrier of magical force. When you hit a fiend or an undead with the axe, cold blue
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
4. Gauntlet Blingdenstone’s last line of defense is a wide, winding tunnel behind a gate similar to the one in area 1. Gate Towers Flanking the gate are two stone towers embedded in the cavern walls