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Compendium
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Can you get a Critical Hit on an ability check? Ability checks don’t score Critical Hits. Attack rolls do.
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
;t lost.
If Fireball is on your spell list but of a higher level than you can normally cast, you make a DC 13 ability check using your spellcasting ability to determine whether you cast the spell. On
a failed check, the spell disappears from the scroll with no other effect.
Copying this Scroll into a Spellbook. A Wizard can copy this Spell Scroll into a spellbook. When copied in this way, the
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, the scroll isn’t lost.
If the spell is on your spell list but of a higher level than you can normally cast, you make an ability check using your spellcasting ability to determine whether you
is copied in this way, the copier must succeed on an Intelligence (Arcana) check with a DC equal to 10 plus the spell’s level. On a successful check, the spell is copied. Whether the check succeeds or fails, the Spell Scroll is destroyed.
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
This orb can be used as an Arcane Focus.
While holding the orb, you can take a Magic action to determine whether it is morning, afternoon, evening, or nighttime. This property functions only on the Material Plane.
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Dungeon Master’s Guide
This ceramic jug appears to be able to hold a gallon of liquid and weighs 12 pounds whether full or empty. The jug sloshes when it is shaken, even if the jug is empty.
You can take a Magic action
and name one liquid from the Alchemy Jug Liquids table to cause the jug to produce the chosen liquid. Afterward, you can uncork the jug as a Utilize action and pour that liquid out, up to 2 gallons per
Equipment
As a Utilize action, you can tie a knot with Rope if you succeed on a DC 10 Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) check. The Rope can be burst with a successful DC 20 Strength (Athletics) check.
You can bind
until it escapes. Escaping the Rope requires the creature to make a successful DC 15 Dexterity (Acrobatics) check as an action.
Equipment
It’s up to you to decide whether a character has proficiency with a firearm. Characters in most D&D worlds wouldn’t have such proficiency. During their downtime, characters can use
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communicate in any languages aren’t affected by this spell.
Until the spell ends, the targets can communicate telepathically through the bond whether or not they share a language. The communication is possible over any distance, though it can’t extend to other planes of existence.
You forge a telepathic link among up to eight willing creatures of your choice within range, psychically linking each creature to all the others for the duration. Creatures that can’t
Equipment
You can use a Portable Ram to break down doors. When doing so, you gain a +4 bonus to the Strength check. One other character can help you use the ram, giving you Advantage on this check.
Equipment
It’s up to you to decide whether a character has proficiency with a firearm. Characters in most D&D worlds wouldn’t have such proficiency. During their downtime, characters can use
following mastery property. To use this property, you must have a feature that lets you use it.
Push. If you hit a creature with this weapon, you can push the creature up to 10 feet straight away from yourself if it is Large or smaller.
Equipment
As a Utilize action, you can wrap a Chain around an unwilling creature within 5 feet of yourself that has the Grappled, Incapacitated, or Restrained condition if you succeed on a DC 13 Strength
(Athletics) check. If the creature’s legs are bound, the creature has the Restrained condition until it escapes. Escaping the Chain requires the creature to make a successful DC 18 Dexterity
Equipment
Manacles comes with a key. Without the key, a creature can use Thieves' Tools to pick the Manacles’ lock with a successful DC 15 Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) check.
As a Utilize action, you can use Manacles to bind an unwilling Small or Medium creature within 5 feet of yourself that has the Grappled, Incapacitated, or Restrained condition if you succeed on a DC
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slot of the spell’s level. Then, to determine whether you cast the spell, make an Intelligence (Arcana) check (DC 10 plus the spell’s level). On a successful check, you cast the spell using
its normal casting time, and you can’t use this property again until you finish a Short or Long Rest. On a failed check, you fail to cast the spell and a random effect occurs instead
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Player’s Handbook
time on a turn or starts its turn there makes a Charisma saving throw. On a failed save, a creature can’t speak a deliberate lie while in the radius. You know whether a creature succeeds or
fails on this save.
An affected creature is aware of the spell and can avoid answering questions to which it would normally respond with a lie. Such a creature can be evasive yet must be truthful.
Equipment
A Pole is 10 feet long. You can use it to touch something up to 10 feet away. If you must make a Strength (Athletics) check as part of a High Jump;High or Long Jump, you can use the Pole to vault, giving yourself Advantage on the check.
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Intelligence (Arcana) check. On a successful check, you cast the spell. On a failed check, the spell fails, and the action used to cast the spell is wasted. In either case, you can’t use this property again until you finish a Long Rest.
This cone-shaped hat is adorned with moons and stars. While you are wearing it, you gain the following benefits.
Spellcasting Focus. You can use the hat as a Spellcasting Focus for your Wizard
Equipment
It’s up to you to decide whether a character has proficiency with a firearm. Characters in most D&D worlds wouldn’t have such proficiency. During their downtime, characters can use
Equipment
A Healer’s Kit has ten uses. As a Utilize action, you can expend one of its uses to stabilize an Unconscious creature that has 0 Hit Points without needing to make a Wisdom (Medicine) check.
Monsters
Monster Manual
feet of the cube can pull a creature or an object out of the cube by succeeding on a DC 12 Strength (Athletics) check, and the puller takes 10 (3d6);{"diceNotation":"3d6", "rollType":"damage
Ooze Cube. The cube fills its entire space and is transparent. Other creatures can enter that space, but a creature that does so is subjected to the cube’s Engulf and has Disadvantage on the
Equipment
As a Utilize action, you can throw the Grappling Hook at a railing, a ledge, or another catch within 50 feet of yourself, and the hook catches on if you succeed on a DC 13 Dexterity (Acrobatics) check. If you tied a Rope to the hook, you can then climb it.
Monsters
Monster Manual
4–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Portent"}. Trigger: The cyclops or an ally it can see makes a D20 Test. Response: The cyclops rolls 1d20;{"diceNotation":"1d20
", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Portent"} and chooses whether to use that roll in place of the d20 rolled for the D20 Test.
Monsters
Monster Manual
Spider Climb. The spider can climb difficult surfaces, including along ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.
Web Walker. The spider ignores movement restrictions caused by webs, and
Monsters
Monster Manual
of the necrohulk can take an action to make a DC 15 Strength (Athletics) check. On a successful check, the target is no longer grafted and moves to an unoccupied space within 5 feet of the necrohulk.
, each creature in a 20-foot-radius Sphere centered on a point the necrohulk can see within 60 feet. Failure: 28 (8d6);{"diceNotation":"8d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Spore Bomb
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Player’s Handbook
You attempt to craft an illusion in the mind of a creature you can see within range. The target makes an Intelligence saving throw. On a failed save, you create a phantasmal object, creature, or
other phenomenon that is no larger than a 10-foot Cube and that is perceivable only to the target for the duration. The phantasm includes sound, temperature, and other stimuli.
The target can take a
Equipment
A Lock comes with a key. Without the key, a creature can use Thieves' Tools to pick this Lock with a successful DC 15 Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) check.
Monsters
Monster Manual
until the net is destroyed (AC 10; HP 5; Immunity to Bludgeoning, Poison, and Psychic damage). A creature can take an action to make a DC 10 Strength (Athletics) check to free itself or another creature
stuck (escape DC 11). While stuck, the weapon can’t be used. The target can take an action to make a DC 11 Strength (Athletics) check, freeing the weapon on a success.
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You banish a creature that you can see within range into a labyrinthine demiplane. The target remains there for the duration or until it escapes the maze.
The target can take a Study action to try
to escape. When it does so, it makes a DC 20 Intelligence (Investigation) check. If it succeeds, it escapes, and the spell ends.
When the spell ends, the target reappears in the space it left or, if that space is occupied, in the nearest unoccupied space.
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
While wearing this ring, you are immune to magic that allows other creatures to read your thoughts, determine whether you are lying, know your alignment, or know your creature type. Creatures can
telepathically communicate with you only if you allow it.
You can take a Magic action to cause the ring to become imperceptible until you take another Magic action to make it perceptible, until you
Spells
Player’s Handbook
creature must succeed on a Strength (Athletics) check against your spell save DC to move at all. If it fails the check, it can’t move. A creature that moves out of the wall falls to the ground.
A wall of water springs into existence at a point you choose within range. You can make the wall up to 300 feet long, 300 feet high, and 50 feet thick. The wall lasts for the duration.
When the wall
Equipment
Ability: Intelligence Utilize: Identify a plant (DC 10) Craft: Antitoxin, Candle, Healer's Kit, Potion of Healing
A character who has proficiency with the Herbalism Kit can create a Potion of
Healing. Doing so requires using this kit and 25 GP of raw material over the course of 1 day (8 hours of work).
If you have proficiency with a tool, add your Proficiency Bonus to any ability check you
Equipment
It’s up to you to decide whether a character has proficiency with a firearm. Characters in most D&D worlds wouldn’t have such proficiency. During their downtime, characters can use
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Player’s Handbook
enters the warded area. When you cast the spell, you can designate creatures that won’t set off the alarm. You also choose whether the alarm is audible or mental:
Audible Alarm. The alarm
Monsters
Monster Manual
within 60 feet of the berserk golem, can try to calm it by taking an action to make a DC 15 Charisma (Persuasion) check; the golem must be able to hear its creator. If this check succeeds, the golem ceases
1d6;{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Berserk"}. On a 6, the golem goes berserk. On each of its turns while berserk, the golem attacks the nearest creature it can see. If no
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choose whether the finished clone is the same age as the creature or younger. The clone remains inert and endures indefinitely while its vessel remains undisturbed.
If the original creature dies after
, memories, and abilities, but none of the original’s equipment. The creature’s original remains, if any, become inert and can’t be revived, since the creature’s soul is elsewhere.
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Advantage on any Wisdom (Perception or Survival) check you make to find it.
If the target drops to 0 Hit Points before this spell ends, you can take a Bonus Action to move the mark to a new creature
You magically mark one creature you can see within range as your quarry. Until the spell ends, you deal an extra 1d6 Force damage to the target whenever you hit it with an attack roll. You also have