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Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
, Strongheart casts revivify.
Spellcasting. Strongheart casts one of the following spells, using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 13):
3/day each: command, detect evil and good
good.”
Combat Notes
Strongheart prefers to fight with Steel, his trusty sword. His favorite use of the command spell is to compel a foe to “Yield!” (which has the same effect as
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
.) Strongheart is always on the lookout for courageous heroes who are willing to devote themselves to a good cause. Only good-aligned characters are allowed to join Valor’s Call.
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
level (4 slots): bless, command, create or destroy water
2nd level (3 slots): augury, calm emotions, hold person
3rd level (3 slots): daylight, dispel magic, spirit guardians
4th level (3 slots
Aerenal. They are the most powerful members of the Undying Court who still maintain their physical forms. While many undying councilors spend their days advising the living, some devote years projecting
Magic Items
Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
limbs, with the effect of such loss determined by the GM. If the creature has no limb to sever, you lop off a portion of its body instead.
In addition, you can speak the sword’s command word to
cause the blade to shed bright light in a 10-foot radius and dim light for an additional 10 feet. Speaking the command word again or sheathing the sword puts out the light.
Evil creatures can’t
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Classes
Basic Rules (2014)
any problem, demonstrating a resourcefulness and versatility that is the cornerstone of any successful adventuring party. Skill and Precision Rogues devote as much effort to mastering the use of a
treasure. Creating a Rogue As you create your rogue character, consider the character’s relationship to the law. Do you have a criminal past—or present? Are you on the run from the law or from
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
settlements. Whether it acts at the command of the god Thassa or to sate its own hunger, Tromokratis numbers among the most feared threats in the sea, having no fixed lair and wandering where it will
:
The titanic monster’s carapace cracks, revealing a pulsing, red-purple heart buried amid heaps of blubber and muscle. Fissures run across the beast’s ancient shell, revealing three
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
, government institution, or — certainly — the Guild. This operative will hear you out and, at their discretion, take your information or request up their chain of command. These meetings almost
tail and run when things look bad.
6
An innocent person is in prison for a crime that I committed. I’m okay with that.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
remarkable (and the source of your clerical abilities) and you feel that you’re just beginning to unlock its power. Are you willing to devote your abilities to your house? Or do you think that you may have
your parents must have been tied to Jorasco, but you found a different family: the Boromar Clan, a criminal guild run by halflings. You’ve learned how to heal and how to hurt people. Now you need to decide which path you want to follow.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
story unfolds. Step 2. Identify the encounters you want to run, then figure out how likely it is each encounter will get played, categorizing each one as “definite,” “possible,” or “unlikely.” Step 3
. Carefully review each “possible” encounter. Step 7. Devote any time you have left to creating improvisational aids. Three-Hour Preparation If you have three hours to prepare, add these steps: Step 8. Skim
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
story unfolds. Step 2. Identify the encounters you want to run, then figure out how likely it is each encounter will get played, categorizing each one as “definite,” “possible,” or “unlikely.” Step 3
another hour to prepare, add these steps: Step 6. Carefully review each “possible” encounter. Step 7. Devote any time you have left to creating improvisational aids (see the “Improvising Answers” section in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
and fight at Vizeran’s command. Between one and three suits guard each room and corridor of the tower. If Vizeran is threatened, he uses them to run interference, buying him time to escape or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
16. Blood Baths The iron stench of blood floods this chamber. Along one wall, a row of gore-filled pools sink into the floor. Blood trails and bloody footprints run between the pools.
When they
“Chultan Names” sidebar in the book’s introduction). The blood-drenched yuan-ti keep their weapons at the back of each alcove. If they hear the gong alarm sound, the yuan-ti command their slaves to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
. These raiders move through town without fear, pillaging as they go. As characters travel through the embattled village, they can run into raiders and townsfolk. Use these guidelines to determine if
didn’t attract attention with that move. If the roll is 5 or higher, they run into something; roll a d8 again and check the Chapter 1 Encounters table to see what the characters meet. Chapter 1
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
Adventure Structure This adventure has four parts, each divided into three chapters. Each chapter is designed to be run as a single play experience lasting 2 to 3 hours, with the expectation that a
far. There’s no telling how a session will unfold, since the players have some control over the plot, but the text tries to give you enough information to run the various creatures and encounters. If
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
. These raiders move through town without fear, pillaging as they go. As characters travel through the embattled village, they can run into raiders and townsfolk. Use these guidelines to determine if
didn’t attract attention with that move. If the roll is 5 or higher, they run into something; roll a d8 again and check the Chapter 1 Encounters table to see what the characters meet. STOLEN TREASURE
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
demon sees itself as the rightful inheritor of the cosmos. It is driven to destroy all other living creatures, or at least command their absolute loyalty. In due time, the laws of the universe will
status, and they typically don’t set impossible goals — a lesser demon, for instance, might simply run amok when unleashed into the world, its only desire to spread chaos, but a marilith or other
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
, yet no one can be sure exactly what the illithids are and are not capable of. VARIANT: MIND FLAYER PSION
Mind flayers sometimes devote themselves to deeper study of psionic power, and many excel at
, command, comprehend languages, sanctuary
2nd level (3 slots): crown of madness, phantasmal force, see invisibility
3rd level (3 slots): clairvoyance, fear, meld into stone
4th level (3 slots): confusion, stone shape
5th level (2 slots): scrying, telekinesis
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Running the Siege You have a few options on how to run the battle. Consider the following: You can treat each defender and orc as an individual, and run the combat as a long, complex encounter. If
you do so, the players should control some of the NPCs. You can streamline parts of the fight. The map of the ranch has been divided into specific zones, and you can run regular battles only in the zone
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
protect the path leading to area 16. The water weird can command the pool’s water to erupt like a geyser, effectively lifting the water weird up to the characters’ level and putting them within its reach
Wisdom (Perception) score. If more than half the characters fail the check, the water weird notices them and attacks. If the characters are attacked by the water weird while following Droki, the wily derro realizes he’s being shadowed and makes a run for it.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
With the Red Dragon Army on its way, Becklin Uth Viharin summons the characters to Cudgel’s command tent at the village’s edge. When they arrive, read the introduction to scenario 1 in Dragonlance
, Darrett is reeling from Becklin’s defeat and returns with the characters to Vogler. You can run any encounters from the “Invasion of Vogler” section as the characters escape the village, or you can skip ahead to “The Final Boat” section.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
powers. Any cult might have the following sorts of members. Cultist Cultists devote themselves to their faith’s leaders and otherworldly masters. While this zeal grants cultists no magical powers, it
spellcasting ability (spell save DC 12, +4 to hit with spell attacks):
At Will: Light, Thaumaturgy
2/Day: Command
1/Day: Hold Person
Bonus Actions
Spiritual Weapon (2/Day). The cultist casts the
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
power manifests visibly in the gem-like spines that run in a ridge from the crown of the head to the tip of the tail. These spines hover above a living topaz dragon’s back, dancing and shifting with
charmed in this way obeys to the best of its ability any command the dragon issues that isn’t directly harmful to the creature.
Cancellation. The dragon chooses an active spell of 5th level or
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
dragon’s psionic power manifests visibly in the gem-like spines that run in a ridge from the crown of the head to the tip of the tail. These spines hover above a living topaz dragon’s back
the next round. A creature charmed in this way obeys to the best of its ability any command the dragon issues that isn’t directly harmful to the creature.
Cancellation. The dragon chooses an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Battle Begins This section has no set timeline or specific goals beyond involving characters in Kalaman’s desperate defense. Roll on or choose the encounters you want to run from the Defending the
close, the death dragon has already used its Cataclysmic Breath to kill four Kalaman soldiers, transforming them into zombies. Draconian Assassins While the characters are at the Trade Gate command post
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
aiding Kalaman’s military. She was given command of a force to retake the outpost, but that force is small and inexperienced. Darrett asks the characters to join Raven and support her in retaking the
destroy the fort. Reconnaissance Wheelwatch Outpost lies south of where the streams known as the Gravel Run and the Raiding Rill meet. Read the following description when the characters come within sight
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
the hobgoblins run it accordingly. A war camp might be a permanent settlement that a hobgoblin legion uses as a garrison. The accompanying map depicts one such place, and it can also be used to
. This configuration enables all the goblinoids to swiftly rally and exit the camp en masse to meet an approaching threat. Command Center The camp’s warlord resides in the command center, which is a large
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
all manner of wickedness. Leaders and Followers. Goblins are ruled by the strongest or smartest among them. A goblin boss might command a single lair, while a goblin king or queen (who is nothing more
sleep underground during the day. Like wolves, they are pack hunters, made bolder by their numbers. When they hunt from the backs of wolves, goblins use hit-and-run attacks. Worshipers of Maglubiyet
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Organization 1 Standing Army. A standing army serves as the highly disciplined and structured guardian of a province or an entire nation. Strict tiers of command ensure coordination between branches of the
force of nature, and what it lacks in discipline it makes up in ferocity. It doesn’t have a rigid command structure, instead functioning like a pyramid of smaller armies. Horde commanders owe fealty
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Akros’s inhabitants, though, aren’t members of its martial elite. The famed warriors of Akros have the means to devote their lives to studying and training in the ways of war because they rest atop a
or their family estates and go about the leisured life of aristocrats. Their households are run by a class of servants made up of lektoi who were unable or unwilling to undertake a military career
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
she might be under her command, working off the debt of a bargain for itself or someone else. Favors beget favors, and under duress a hag might speak a magic word to call upon a blood debt from a
the muscle a hag might employ, mercenaries that serve the hag only so long as it benefits them. These creatures run errands and take care of roughing up enemies or patrolling areas that the hag
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
looking to rise in the esteem of Lolth and her house. She considers command of a mere outpost a stepping stone in her ascension. The posting is beneath her, and she treats both it and her prisoners
second thought, showing Asha the foolishness of expecting any reward for loyalty. Asha is ambitious enough to know she could assume command of the outpost if anything was to happen to Ilvara, but not
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
him, so he is weak and at 1 hit point. The goblin leader, Yeemik, is second-in-command of the whole hideout. If he sees that the characters are getting the upper hand, he grabs Sildar and drags him
from a defeated goblin or use a weapon loaned to him by a character. If Sildar joins the party, see the “NPC Party Members” sidebar for tips on how to run him. NPC Party Members
An NPC might join the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
run into the room from area A2, scimitar at the ready. This jackalwere is willing to command the rug to stop if the characters explain themselves. A2. Kitchen This kitchen is small but clean and
room, particularly during and after meals together. The faded rug is actually a rug of smothering friendly to the jackalweres, which defends them if they command it to. If no jackalweres are present in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Undermountain by Halaster. Its task is to prevent intruders from looting the dungeon. It uses telepathy to command the nothics, which serve it out of fear. Rex the Hammer. Rex was the founder and
explorers) that the Fine Fellows would run roughshod over the monsters dwelling within. Boy, was he wrong. Like most villainous groups, the Fine Fellows lacked cohesion. Fed up with his companions
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
maintain their physical forms. While many undying councilors spend their days advising the living, some devote years projecting their consciousness into the Astral Plane, seeking new knowledge to share
:
Cantrips (at will): guidance, mending, sacred flame, spare the dying, thaumaturgy
1st level (4 slots): bless, command, create or destroy water
2nd level (3 slots): augury, calm emotions, hold