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Returning 35 results for 'charges checks'.
Monsters
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
attacks). This extra damage is of the same type as the weapon's damage type.
Hand of Vecna. The Hand of Vecna has 8 charges and regains 1d4 + 4;{"diceNotation":"1d4+4","rollType":"roll"} expended charges
daily at dawn. Arkhan can cast the following spells from the hand by expending the specified number of charges (spell save DC 18): finger of death (5 charges), sleep (1 charge), slow (2 charges), and
Equipment
powered by an energy cell stored in a compartment on the thigh plate.
Placing a full energy cell in the armor gives the armor 24 charges. A suit of powered armor functions as a suit of normal plate
armor, even when it has 0 charges remaining.
Activating the Armor. As an action, you can expend any number of the armor’s charges to activate it; the armor remains active for 1 hour per charge
Monsters
Tomb of Annihilation
Sunlight Sensitivity. While in sunlight, Withers has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.
Magical Amulet. He wears an amulet of the black skull
with 6 charges.
Spellcasting. Withers is a 9th-level spellcaster. His spellcasting ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 13; +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5","rollType":"to hit","rollAction
Magic Items
Out of the Abyss
Created by the stone giant librarians of Gravenhollow, this nineteen-inch-long shard of quartz grants you advantage on Intelligence (Investigation) checks while it is on your person.
The crystal has
10 charges. While holding it, you can use an action to expend some of its charges to cast one of the following spells from it: speak with animals (2 charges), speak with dead (4 charges), or speak
Magic Items
Ghosts of Saltmarsh
charges. While you bear the charm, you can expend 1 charge as an action to cast the speak with plants spell. For the duration of the spell, you also have advantage on Charisma checks made to influence the behavior, demeanor, and attitude of plants. The charm regains all expended charges at dawn each day.
Magic Items
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Wisdom (Insight) checks.
Arrow of Elemental Havoc. As a bonus action while wearing the helm, you can launch a bolt of searing elemental energy toward a creature you can see within 90 feet of yourself
half as much damage.
Spellcasting. The helm has 6 charges and regains 1d6 charges each dawn. As an action while wearing the helm, you can expend 1 or more of its charges to cast one of the following
Magic Items
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Ancient runes are stitched in silver thread along the hem of this grayish-purple cape.
The cape has 3 charges. As a bonus action while wearing the cape, you can expend 1 of its charges to enlarge
category, you instead become the maximum possible size in the space available.
You have advantage on Strength checks and Strength saving throws.
When you hit with an attack roll using a weapon or an
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
civilization.
Baphomet wields a great glaive called Heartcleaver. He also charges his enemies and gores them with his horns, trampling his foes into the earth and rending them with his teeth like a
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Beguiling Realm. Within 6 miles of the lair, all Charisma (Persuasion) and Charisma (Performance) checks have disadvantage, and all Charisma (Deception) and Charisma (Intimidation) checks have advantage
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
alhoon targets one creature it can see within 60 feet of it that is casting a spell. If the spell is 3rd level or lower, the spell fails, but any spell slots or charges are not wasted.Mind flayers that
trapping, but this is a dangerous proposition. Anyone who holds the periapt gains advantage on attacks, saving throws, and checks against the alhoons associated with its creation, and those alhoons in turn
Magic Items
Tomb of Annihilation
(History) checks is doubled.
You can’t be blinded, charmed, deafened, frightened, petrified, or stunned.
Undead with a challenge rating of 2 or lower will neither threaten nor attack you unless
you harm them.
You can wield the staff as a quarterstaff, +3;+3 quarterstaff that deals an extra 10 (3d6) necrotic damage on a hit.
Invoke Curse. The Staff of the Forgotten One has 7 charges and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
(Investigation) checks while it is on your person. The crystal has 10 charges. While holding it, you can use an action to expend some of its charges to cast one of the following spells from it: speak with
animals (2 charges), speak with dead (4 charges), or speak with plants (3 charges). When you cast a divination spell, you can use the crystal in place of one material component that would normally be
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Cape of Enlargement Wondrous Item, Very Rare (Requires Attunement) Ancient runes are stitched in silver thread along the hem of this grayish-purple cape. The cape has 3 charges. As a bonus action
while wearing the cape, you can expend 1 of its charges to enlarge yourself, granting yourself the following benefits: Your size increases by one category—from Medium to Large, for example. If there
Magic Items
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
-evil creature carrying a number of soul coins greater than its Constitution modifier has disadvantage on its attack rolls, ability checks, and saving throws.
Using a Soul Coin. A soul coin has 3 charges
trapped within it, as does expending all of the coin’s charges. The coin itself rusts from within and is destroyed once the soul is released. A freed soul travels to the realm of the god it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
. The armor is powered by an energy cell stored in a compartment on the thigh plate. Placing a full energy cell in the armor gives the armor 24 charges. A suit of powered armor functions as a suit of
normal plate armor, even when it has 0 charges remaining. Activating the Armor. As an action, you can expend any number of the armor’s charges to activate it; the armor remains active for 1 hour per
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
, you also have advantage on Charisma checks made to influence the behavior, demeanor, and attitude of plants. The charm regains all expended charges at dawn each day. Tammeraut’s Fate
worn around the neck or attached to a belt. This charm has 3 charges. While you bear the charm, you can expend 1 charge as an action to cast the speak with plants spell. For the duration of the spell
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
as a magic quarterstaff that grants a +3 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with it. Altered Outcome. The staff has 6 charges. As a bonus action, you can expend 1 of the staff’s charges to give
breaks the first time it scores a hit and deals damage. On a roll of 10 or higher, the staff regains 1d6 of its expended charges. Watchful Helm Wondrous item, very rare (requires attunement) While you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
a caretaker of their eggs. He regularly checks the eggs, brushes fungus off them, and defends them against predators. Stronk is sleeping on a pile of skins and loudly snoring when the adventurers
protect the eggs. If Stronk is reduced to half his hit points or fewer, he charges into the adjoining echo chamber (area 5) and bellows to summon a purple worm before rejoining the battle. Treasure
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
creatures as their charges. They ward off monsters that threaten them, rebuke hunters who kill more prey than necessary, and prevent civilization from encroaching on rare animal habitats and on sites
adventurers to oppose forces that threaten their charges or to seek knowledge and power that will help them safeguard their charges better. Wherever these druids go, the spirits of the wilderness are with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
directions, and you have advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight. You have darkvision out to a range of 120 feet. You can see invisible creatures and objects, as well as see into the
11 for light or DC 15 for daylight), ending the blindness on a success.
Robe of Scintillating Colors Wondrous item, very rare (requires attunement)
This robe has 3 charges, and it regains 1d3
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
whenever they hit with a melee weapon attack (already factored into Arkhan’s attacks). This extra damage is of the same type as the weapon’s damage type.
Hand of Vecna. The Hand of Vecna has 8 charges
and regains 1d4 + 4 expended charges daily at dawn. Arkhan can cast the following spells from the hand by expending the specified number of charges (spell save DC 18): finger of death (5 charges), sleep
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
of three ability checks. If a character succeeds on two or more of the three ability checks, they win. If a character fails on two or more ability checks, their opponent wins. The Glorium Contests
has been ferrying folks through the portal to Ysgard for years. Passage to the Maelstrom Bkol and the Courier have recently returned from Ysgard and are willing to sail to the portal. Bkol charges
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
. When an item’s charges run dry, its magic drains away — or the item might malfunction or explode, with effects determined by you. The “Alien Technology” section in chapter 9 of the Dungeon Master’s
characters need him), you might ask for successful Intelligence checks on the Figuring Out Alien Technology table from anyone trying to operate magical technology. It might take one success to operate a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
without penalty. A non-evil creature carrying a number of soul coins greater than its Constitution modifier has disadvantage on its attack rolls, ability checks, and saving throws.
Soul Coin
Using a
Soul Coin. A soul coin has 3 charges. A creature carrying the coin can use its action to expend 1 charge from a soul coin and use it to do one of the following: Drain Life. You siphon away some of the
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Cats of Uldun-dar (ivory cat molar)
9 cat;cats
The tooth has 8 charges. As an action, you can expend 1 charge to cast the revivify spell from the tooth. If you are dead at the start of your turn, the
(rainbow-colored donkey molar)
1 unicorn
The tooth has 3 charges. As an action, you can expend 1 charge to touch a creature. The target regains 2d8 + 2 hit points, and all diseases and poisons affecting
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Constitution modifier. A non-evil creature carrying a number of Soul Coins greater than its Constitution modifier has disadvantage on its attack rolls, ability checks, and saving throws. Using a Soul
Coin. A Soul Coin has 3 charges. A creature carrying the coin can use its action to expend 1 charge from a Soul Coin and do one of the following: Drain Life. You siphon away some of the soul’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
, however, gives a character the ability to deal Force damage. The simpler your approach, the easier it is for a character to use the item in play. Giving the item charges is fine, especially if it has
cast a lower-level spell more frequently. Maximum Bonus. If an item delivers a static bonus to AC, attack rolls, saving throws, or ability checks, this column suggests an appropriate bonus based on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
the ram, however, gives a character the ability to deal force damage. The simpler your approach, the easier it is for a character to use the item in play. Giving the item charges is fine, especially if
, or legendary item might allow its possessor to cast a lower-level spell more frequently. Maximum Bonus. If an item delivers a static bonus to AC, attack rolls, saving throws, or ability checks, this
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
weeks in advance and can be costly. Mahadi charges from five to ten soul coins for an exotic request, depending on the difficulty involved in fulfilling it. Consuming a meal at Infernal Rapture has the
same benefits as a heroes’ feast spell, with the added effect that those who eat the food have disadvantage on Wisdom (Insight) checks made against Mahadi. Spa Services. Infernal Rapture offers a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Uni and the Hunt for the Lost Horn
(included above). In addition, your mystical connection to the divine gives you a bonus to your Intelligence (Arcana or Religion) checks. The bonus equals your Wisdom modifier (minimum of +1). (This is
qualify. (This is included above.) Equipment Niko’s Mace Weapon (Mace), Very Rare (Requires Attunement by a Spellcaster) This Mace has 6 charges and regains 1d6 expended charges daily at dawn. While holding the Mace, you can expend 1 of its charges to cast Summon Celestial (+9 to hit with spell attacks).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
introduction). 2 Wooden wand with 8 charges. As an action, you can expend 1 of the wand’s charges to cast the prestidigitation cantrip. This wand can’t be recharged. 3 Packet of pixie dust (see appendix A
Contest A participant must outperform a gnome in a best-of-five poetry contest. Doing so requires three successful DC 15 Charisma (Performance) checks in five or fewer attempts. Someone who wins the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
accompanied in this way, the character has Advantage on checks to notice secret doors. The beetles don’t leave cave I. I4: Minotaur Maze Hazem Ameen Thick columns hewn from brick and dirt form tunnels in
hooves in the dirt and sharpening its horns on the walls. The minotaur charges the characters on sight and fights to the death. No amount of pleading, persuasion, or deceit can slake its bloodlust. I5
Magic Items
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
be aged to the point of decrepitude. In this state, the creature’s speed is halved, the range of its vision and hearing is reduced to 30 feet, and it has disadvantage on all ability checks
with 3 charges. This wand can’t recharge and crumbles to ashes when its final charge is expended. Once used, this property of the cauldron can’t be used again for 8 days.
If you spend 1
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
or fog. A force pike uses an energy cell (see area M10), expending one charge for each successful attack. If claimed as treasure, a pike’s cell holds 2d10 remaining charges. If you prefer not to have
remotely that it could accomplish close up, including making physical ability checks and attacks.
Because they are linked to the planar craft, teleportation-field devices function only in the monastery
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
Heartcleaver. He also charges his enemies and gores them with his horns, trampling his foes into the earth and rending them with his teeth like a beast. Baphomet
Huge Fiend (Demon), Chaotic Evil
following effects: Beguiling Realm. Within 6 miles of the lair, all Charisma (Persuasion) and Charisma (Performance) checks have disadvantage, and all Charisma (Deception) and Charisma (Intimidation
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
. Anyone who holds the periapt gains advantage on attacks, saving throws, and checks against the alhoons associated with its creation, and those alhoons in turn suffer disadvantage on attacks, saving
throws, and checks against the holder. In addition, the holder can telepathically communicate with any sacrificed soul trapped within, and alhoons within the periapt can speak telepathically with the