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Monsters
The Book of Many Things
relocated to Cair Ophidian, a small hideaway in the Outlands detailed later in chapter 22. There, Euryale embraced the quiet life of a gardener, and she spends her time tending to the plants she’s
lasts until the creature is freed by the Greater Restoration spell or other magic
A creature can use its reaction, if available, to shut its eyes to avoid the saving throw. If the creature does so, it has the blinded condition until the end of its next turn.
Magic Items
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
“Artifacts” in chapter 7 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide for details on randomly determined properties.
Luminous. The spear sheds bright light in a 30-foot radius and dim light for an
additional 30 feet. The light is sunlight.
Sun’s Retaliation. When you take damage from a creature within 5 feet of you, you can use your reaction to make a melee attack with the spear against that
Magic Items
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
you makes a saving throw, you can use your reaction to give that creature advantage on the saving throw.
Dragon-Touched Focus (Wakened);Wakened (Very Rare). The Wakened focus has the Slumbering and
until the next dawn. The spells are determined by the family of the dragon in whose hoard it became Wakened. An asterisk indicates a new spell that appears earlier in this chapter.
Chromatic. Hold
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
succeed on a DC 22 Wisdom saving throw or take 22 (4d10);{"diceNotation":"4d10","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Implant Fear","rollDamageType":"psychic"} psychic damage and immediately use its reaction
a form of indefinite madness. Roll on the Madness of Belashyrra table to determine the nature of this madness, which takes the form of a character flaw that lasts until cured. Chapter 8 of the
Feats
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
), or a pest mascot (Witherbloom). Stat blocks for these creatures appear in chapter 7.
When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can forgo one attack to allow your mascot familiar to make one
attack of its own with its reaction.
If your mascot familiar is within 60 feet of you, you can teleport as an action, swapping places with the familiar. If your destination space is too small for you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
can do so even if you also take an action, a Bonus Action, or both. Once you take a Reaction, you can’t take another one until the start of your next turn. The Opportunity Attack is a Reaction available to all creatures. See also “Opportunity Attacks” and chapter 1 (“Actions”).
Reaction A Reaction is a special action taken in response to a trigger defined in the Reaction’s description. You can take a Reaction on another creature’s turn, and if you take it on your turn, you
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Opportunity Attack, take a Reaction to make one melee attack with a weapon or an Unarmed Strike against the provoking creature. The attack occurs right before the creature leaves your reach. See also chapter 1 (“Combat”).
Opportunity Attacks You can make an Opportunity Attack when a creature that you can see leaves your reach using its action, its Bonus Action, its Reaction, or one of its speeds. To make the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
turn or on someone else’s. The Opportunity Attack, described later in this chapter, is the most common type of Reaction. When you take a Reaction, you can’t take another one until the start of your
Reactions Certain special abilities, spells, and situations allow you to take a special action called a Reaction. A Reaction is an instant response to a trigger of some kind, which can occur on your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
turn or on someone else’s. The Opportunity Attack, described later in this chapter, is the most common type of Reaction. When you take a Reaction, you can’t take another one until the start of your
Reactions Certain special abilities, spells, and situations allow you to take a special action called a Reaction. A Reaction is an instant response to a trigger of some kind, which can occur on your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Ready Sometimes you want to get the jump on a foe or wait for a particular circumstance before you act. To do so, you can take the Ready action on your turn, which lets you act using your reaction
before the start of your next turn. First, you decide what perceivable circumstance will trigger your reaction. Then, you choose the action you will take in response to that trigger, or you choose to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
, which can occur on your turn or on someone else’s. The opportunity attack, described later in this chapter, is the most common type of reaction. When you take a reaction, you can’t take another one until
noted on your character sheet. The most common actions you can take are described in the "Actions in Combat" section later in this chapter. Many class features and other abilities provide additional
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
whether the caster must use an action, a reaction, minutes, or even hours to cast the spell. Casting a spell is, therefore, not necessarily an action. Most spells do have a casting time of 1 action, so a
spellcaster often uses his or her action in combat to cast such a spell. See chapter 10 for the rules on spellcasting.
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Casting a Spell When a character casts any spell, the same basic rules are followed, regardless of the character’s class or the spell’s effects. Each spell description in Chapter 11 begins with a
spells require a single action to cast, but some spells require a bonus action, a reaction, or much more time to cast.
Bonus Action A spell cast with a bonus action is especially swift. You must use a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Chapter 9: Dungeon Master’s Workshop As the Dungeon Master, you aren’t limited by the rules in the Player’s Handbook, the guidelines in these rules, or the selection of monsters in the Monster Manual
. You can let your imagination run wild. This chapter contains optional rules that you can use to customize your campaign, as well as guidelines on creating your own material, such as monsters and
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drawbridge over Feathergale Moat and to the keep’s main entrance (area S2). Characters who approach along the floor of the canyon (the Sighing Valley, described later in this chapter) can scale the stone
can enter the spire from the pinnacle or through one of the windows in the courtyard gardens. Two Feathergale knights (see chapter 7) patrol the pinnacle (area S11) at all times, taking flight on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Resolving Interactions The Player’s Handbook provides guidelines for balancing roleplaying and ability checks in a social interaction (see chapter 8, "Adventuring"). This section adds to that
, or Intimidation skill might apply to the check. The creature’s current attitude determines the DC required to achieve a specific reaction, as shown in the Conversation Reaction table. Conversation
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
serves one of the demon lords and turns against the adventurers. If any of the party’s drow pursuers survived from the previous chapter, they might slip into Gauntlgrym and look to slay their quarry
natural reaction to this new stress upon itself, the primordial spawns a trio of fire elementals that attack the Vault of Kings, setting fire to marketplaces and unleashing chaos upon the dwarven
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
mascot (Silverquill), or a pest mascot (Witherbloom). Stat blocks for these creatures appear in chapter 7. When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can forgo one attack to allow your mascot
familiar to make one attack of its own with its reaction. If your mascot familiar is within 60 feet of you, you can teleport as an action, swapping places with the familiar. If your destination space
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
effectively. Light. A light weapon is small and easy to handle, making it ideal for use when fighting with two weapons. See the rules for two-weapon fighting in chapter 9. Loading. Because of the time required
to load this weapon, you can fire only one piece of ammunition from it when you use an action, bonus action, or reaction to fire it, regardless of the number of attacks you can normally make. Range
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
worshiper of Heliod, the spear has 2 randomly determined major detrimental properties. See “Artifacts” in chapter 7 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide for details on randomly determined properties. Luminous
use your reaction to make a melee attack with the spear against that creature. On a hit, the spear deals damage as normal, and the creature is blinded until the start of its next turn. This property
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
might they throw themself into battle, perhaps recklessly or for too long? Record a default reaction on your character sheet so you can respond consistently when shocking events occur. Beyond this
benefits? Ask your DM about the possibility of using the rules for inspiration to motivate fearful character reactions, as detailed in the “Fear and Stress” section of chapter 4. Using this system, a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
fungi (see “Fungi of the Underdark” in chapter 2) 20 A locked iron chest containing 3d6 × 100 gp and a random magic item (roll once on Magic Item Table B in chapter 7 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide
pole a keelboat toward Sloobludop (or away from the town if it has been attacked; see the end of this chapter). If the characters have not been to Sloobludop, the kuo-toa might try to capture them
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
, Runara invites the character to consider how their reaction to the zombies on the beach might reflect their destiny—or not. If the character talks to Runara after having completed one or more of the
same. The Wizard The wizard carries a letter from a colleague about lost knowledge held in the Clifftop Observatory (see chapter 4). If asked about the observatory, Runara says, “Many have sought the
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
properties. The command words are also written in the spellbook found in area 28. Destroying the Mirror If the mirror is destroyed, all creatures trapped within it are released at once. (See chapter 7 of
against them. Prisoners of the Mirror Cell Prisoner Notes Reaction if Released 1 A’tan (CN male Chultan human commoner) Omuan merchant trapped shortly after the fall of Omu; driven insane by his
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
throw, you can use your reaction to give that creature advantage on the saving throw. Wakened (Very Rare). The Wakened focus has the Slumbering and Stirring properties, and while you are holding a
the dragon in whose hoard it became Wakened. An asterisk indicates a new spell that appears earlier in this chapter. Chromatic. Hold monster, Rime’s binding ice* Gem. Rary’s telepathic bond
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
what they were looking for. Landro This unusually large colossus contains the third piece of the Rod of Seven Parts. Landro is described later in this chapter. Veterans’ Camp A crumbling stone bridge
two companions (see the “Cyran Veterans” section later in this chapter). The veterans rest here between expeditions around Mount Ironrot. If the characters meet the veterans here and aren’t hostile
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
might be one of the dragon organizations described earlier in this chapter or a dragon faction similar to those discussed in the next section. Alternatively, any apparently ordinary organization might
might involve dragons directly. People might have only just learned that dragons exist, discovered the enormous wealth stored in their hoards, or learned of a magical reaction that can be sparked by
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
used the power of the Astral Font (see chapter 11) to cast divination. This spell enabled him to determine the whereabouts of his sister’s ring of shooting stars. Prince Xeleth The young solar dragon
base while staying 250 feet away from it. Their weapons open fire on any ship that tries to leave the base. (See chapter 2 of the Astral Adventurer’s Guide for information about star moths and their
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
within 1 mile of you. Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest. See the “Planar Travel” section in chapter 2 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide for examples of
planes enables you to slip through the planar boundaries to lessen the harm done to you during battle. When you take damage from an attack, you can use your reaction to give yourself resistance to all of that attack’s damage on this turn.
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
special forms: imp, pseudodragon, quasit, or sprite. Additionally, when you take the Attack action, you can forgo one of your own attacks to allow your familiar to make one attack with its reaction
. Pact of the Blade You can use your action to create a pact weapon in your empty hand. You can choose the form that this melee weapon takes each time you create it (see chapter 5 for weapon options
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Flee, Mortals! Rule Primer
opportunity attack from a creature whose stat block includes a melee power attack, the creature can use their reaction to make a melee power attack against the creature, rather than making an opportunity
Where Evil Lives. Powers that aren’t in The Talent and Psionics are indicated in a creature’s stat block with an asterisk (*) and provided in the “New Psionic Powers” chapter of this book.
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
reaction. Pact of the Blade You can use your action to create a pact weapon in your empty hand. You can choose the form that this melee weapon takes each time you create it (see chapter 5 for weapon
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
. Blessings As described in chapter 7 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide, the gods sometimes use blessings to reward their faithful servants for momentous deeds. Completing a quest bestowed by the god is an
can use your reaction to gain resistance to that damage type until the end of your next turn. Once you use this blessing, you can’t use it again until the next dawn. Eyes of Nyx (Requires Piety 10
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
picked up various languages in the communities where you plied your roguish talents. You know Thieves’ Cant and one other language of your choice, which you choose from the language tables in chapter 2
Score Improvement You gain the Ability Score Improvement feat (see chapter 5) or another feat of your choice for which you qualify. You gain this feature again at Rogue levels 8, 10, 12, and 16. Level
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
’ base in Ialos (see “Ialos” earlier in this chapter). Mercy and the pilgrims happily travel with the characters, though they hide if violence breaks out, emerging only when it’s safe. If the characters
the characters’ reaction to this revelation or whether they offer to look for Filch, learning it counts as a secret for the purposes of the Power of Secrets rules in this book’s introduction. Cyran