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Classes
Xanathar's Guide to Everything
undead, and ease the suffering of the dying. Their magic also allows them to stave off death for a time, particularly for a person who still has some great work to accomplish in the world. This is a
2nd
Channel Divinity: Path to the Grave
6th
Sentinel at Death’s Door
8th
Potent Spellcasting
17th
Keeper of Souls
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
(spell save DC 13):
At will: light, spare the dying
2/day each: command, create food and water, cure wounds, faerie fire, hold person, revivify
1/day: death wardMercion strikes the balance of a
natural leader and a protective caregiver. She has a direct manner that reassures and inspires those around her.
Mercion does not worship a deity, but rather an ideal: that truth gives life to artistry
Classes
Xanathar's Guide to Everything
undead, and ease the suffering of the dying. Their magic also allows them to stave off death for a time, particularly for a person who still has some great work to accomplish in the world. This is a
2nd
Channel Divinity: Path to the Grave
6th
Sentinel at Death’s Door
8th
Potent Spellcasting
17th
Keeper of Souls
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
easily pick out the dens of criminal activity in a community, although you’re more likely to be welcome in the former locations rather than the latter.
Variant: Investigator
Rarer
Investigation rather than Athletics.
Suggested Characteristics
Use the tables for the soldier background below as the basis for your traits and motivations, modifying the entries when appropriate to
Soldier
Legacy
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Backgrounds
Basic Rules (2014)
forget the crushing defeat my company suffered or the enemies who dealt it.
5
Those who fight beside me are those worth dying for.
6
I fight for those who cannot fight for themselves
mistake in battle that cost many lives—and I would do anything to keep that mistake secret.
4
My hatred of my enemies is blind and unreasoning.
5
I obey the law, even if the law causes misery.
6
I’d rather eat my armor than admit when I’m wrong.
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
1
I never raise my voice or lose my temper.
2
I feel the pains and joys of everyone around me, friend or foe.
3
I would rather make a friend than thwart an enemy.
4
I’m
plants of all kinds, and am loath to harm them.
3
A healer nursed me to recovery from a mortal illness.
4
I’ll sing the invitation of Mat’Selesnya with my dying breath.
5
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
.
5
Those who fight beside me are those worth dying for.
6
I fight for those who cannot fight for themselves.
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Flaw
1
The monstrous enemy we faced in battle still
keep that mistake secret.
4
My hatred of my enemies is blind and unreasoning.
5
I obey the law, even if the law causes misery.
6
I’d rather eat my armor than admit when I’m wrong.
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
worth dying for.
6
I fight for those who cannot fight for themselves.
d6
Flaw
1
The monstrous enemy we faced in battle still leaves me quivering with fear.
2
I have
enemies is blind and unreasoning.
5
I obey the law, even if the law causes misery.
6
I’d rather eat my armor than admit when I’m wrong.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Bluetspur, and none who witness them remember. This alien domain etches itself not upon the waking mind, but rather upon the body as inexplicable scars and on the psyche through nightmares. Not all the
, oily spires twist in semi-organic contortions, caustic fumaroles yawn and snap shut hungrily, and above it all hangs a dying red orb. Little can survive this wasteland, which is why Bluetspur’s masters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Way of the Long Death Monks of the Way of the Long Death are obsessed with the meaning and mechanics of dying. They capture creatures and prepare elaborate experiments to capture, record, and
required) to have 1 hit point instead. Touch of the Long Death Starting at 17th level, your touch can channel the energy of death into a creature. As an action, you touch one creature within 5 feet of you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
, destroy the undead, and ease the suffering of the dying. Their magic also allows them to stave off death for a time, particularly for a person who still has some great work to accomplish in the world
.
Grave Domain Features Cleric Level Feature 1st Domain Spells, Circle of Mortality, Eyes of the Grave 2nd Channel Divinity: Path to the Grave 6th Sentinel at Death’s Door 8th Potent Spellcasting 17th
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
, stealing from the rich, freeing captives, and flouting hollow traditions. They prefer subterfuge, pranks, deception, and theft rather than direct confrontation. Trickery Domain Spells Cleric Level
or until you use this feature again. Channel Divinity: Invoke Duplicity Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity to create an illusory duplicate of yourself. As an action, you create
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
hit points, those characters are knocked out rather than dying (see “Knocking a Creature Out” in chapter 9 of the Player’s Handbook). Even if one or more of the characters are accidentally killed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
repairing both materiel and personnel. To aid in their work, Battle Smiths are accompanied by a steel defender, a protective companion of their own creation. Many soldiers tell stories of nearly dying before
other than the defender.
Extra Attack 5th-level Battle Smith feature You can attack twice, rather than once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn. Arcane Jolt 9th-level Battle Smith feature
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
individual’s former personality remains. Grimlocks have shallow depressions rather than eyes. A sixth sense allows grimlocks to perceive their surroundings. Psychic energies from their transformations
linger in grimlocks’ bodies, and they channel these eerie forces into their attacks. Roll on or choose a result from the Grimlock Tasks table to inspire how grimlocks serve illithids. Grimlock Tasks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
else, rather than to a specific individual or the passing influence of emotion or popular rule. Clerics of order are typically concerned with how things are done, rather than whether an action’s results
multiverse. Order Domain Features Cleric Level Feature 1st Domain Spells, Bonus Proficiencies, Voice of Authority 2nd Channel Divinity: Order’s Demand 6th Embodiment of the Law 8th Divine Strike 17th
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
soldiers tell stories of nearly dying before being saved by a Battle Smith and a steel defender. Battle Smiths played a key role in House Cannith’s work on battle constructs and the original warforged
other than the defender.
Extra Attack Starting at 5th level, you can attack twice, rather than once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn. Arcane Jolt At 9th level, you learn new ways to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
such places, particularly those that serve as druid groves. Eldath is a goddess of comfort, healing, and calm. Her blessed waters heal the sick, cure madness, and comfort the dying. Most rural places
of Eldath avoid conflicts rather than attempting to quell them. Those who serve Eldath are happy to preside over peaceful negotiations and to certify treaties, but they can’t force others to engage in harmony.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
tentacles, while others’ stalks bear crustacean-like joints. Even slight differences of coloration in hide can turn two beholders into lifelong enemies. Eye Tyrant. Some beholders manage to channel their
xenophobic tendencies into a terrible despotism. Rather than live in isolation, the aptly named eye tyrants enslave those other creatures, founding and controlling vast empires. An eye tyrant
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
creature can benefit from only a limited number of potions of longevity before continued consumption is likely to age the drinker rather than reduce their age. When a pinch of Dragon’s Blessing is added to a
rule. End of an Emperor The emperor of Great Xing is dying—he just doesn’t know it yet. In a few months, when he next uses a potion of longevity to extend his life, he’ll learn that the imperial supply
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Mercion Mercion strikes the balance of a natural leader and a protective caregiver. She has a direct manner that reassures and inspires those around her. Mercion does not worship a deity, but rather
save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
Spellcasting. Mercion casts one of the following spells, using Wisdom as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 13):
At will: light, spare the dying
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
inevitable effects of aging or the petrification of her medusa children’s victims. Pharika’s Goals To Pharika, Theros is an ongoing experiment and mortals are her agents in carrying it out. Rather than
other’s silent company, and Erebos appreciates her agenda, which ultimately bolsters his realm. Pharika rankles somewhat at the attention Erebos gets from dying mortals, chafing at their tendency to appeal
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
being a defender is core to your identity as a ranger. As a member of Acquisitions Incorporated, you channel your natural proclivity for protectiveness into a razor-sharp focus on the franchise. Pure
profit is never an end in and of itself, but whatever deep-seated personal goals you only ever talk about in the dead of night over a dying fire, those goals need financing. Your role as a defender and a
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
they are more interested in grabbing plunder and food rather than in wanton slaughter. The elderly, children, and any who seem weak or meek enough might escape death. If they leave the population more
. These tenets vary from tribe to tribe, and are often based in events that the tribe has experienced. Here are a few examples:
If a dwarf or a human invokes its god upon dying, you must carry the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
know it, and require no components to cast it. When you cast the spell, the messages are delivered by one of your whispering spirits rather than you or the target’s voice. Your spellcasting ability for
this spell is Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma (your choice when you gain this Dark Gift). Sudden Cacophony. When you are hit by an attack roll, you can use your reaction to channel your haunting
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
heart embodies the pact that grants it immortality. Rather than bearing its heart within its corpse, a mummy lord removes and hides this accursed organ. As long as its heart isn’t destroyed by fire
space within the mummy’s lair. The heart is a Tiny object that has AC 17, HP 10, and Immunity to all damage except Fire.
Actions
Multiattack. The mummy makes one Rotting Fist or Channel Negative
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
suffering from broken bones, lacerations, and concussions, and half of them (rounded down) are at 0 hit points and dying; the rest have 1 hit point each. A character can rush to the building and use an
action to try to pull a Ten-Towner out of the wreckage, doing so with a successful DC 14 Strength (Athletics) check, whereupon the character can try to stabilize a dying commoner or use healing magic to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
a rider to bond with the steeder, a process that begins shortly after the creature hatches. The rider stays with the steeder as it grows to full size, working throughout that time to channel the
beast’s predatory instincts. Deadly Hunters. Rather than spinning webs, steeders excrete a viscous substance from their legs. This goo allows them to creep along walls and ceilings and to grapple prey
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
; characters reduced to 0 hit points by the mimics are stable rather than dying, giving the hag a chance to decide what to do with the unconscious victims. Dragon-in-the-Box. The wooden box with the crank is one
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
with every passing second, and my king is part of it. Or rather, his stolen heart is.
“Ghalasine is slowly being reduced to ash, and its people are dying and can’t escape. King Jhaeros would do
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
Running Glitch Characters Use the guidance in this section when portraying the glitch that affects characters in this adventure. Incarnations Returning After dying, glitch characters return as one of
rather than having incarnations rejoin the party on their own. Incarnations have no memory of how they came to be wherever they’re found. If a character dies during combat, their next incarnation shouldn’t
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Deciphering the Mask Characters curious about the nature of Phenax’s Silence find no grand prize in the Court of Orestes. Rather than great wealth, the seer Orestes vaguely predicted the events that
Underworld once more. By discovering this secret, any Returned could become a god.
6 Phenax is dying, his immortality flawed. Over the ages, he has manipulated destiny and his own bloodline to bring
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
expression rather than its actual reflection. A creature that ingests any amount of graymatter fluid must succeed on a DC 14 Constitution saving throw or experience the following effects: Altered Speech
. Psychic Damage. For each ounce of graymatter fluid consumed, the creature takes 11 (2d10) psychic damage. A creature killed by this damage rises as a zombie 1d4 hours after dying. Invisible Barrier The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
of your Channel Divinity to cast Shield of Faith or Spiritual Weapon rather than expending a spell slot. When you cast either spell in this way, the spell doesn’t require Concentration. Instead the
Ward 9 Greater Restoration, Mass Cure Wounds Level 3: Preserve Life As a Magic action, you present your Holy Symbol and expend a use of your Channel Divinity to evoke healing energy that can restore
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
Spellcasting You have studied the workings of magic and how to channel it through objects. As a result, you have gained the ability to cast spells. To observers, you don’t appear to be casting spells
message
poison spray
prestidigitation
ray of frost
resistance
shocking grasp
spare the dying
thorn whip
thunderclap *
1st Level absorb elements *
alarm (ritual)
catapult *
cure