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Quests from the Infinite Staircase
with it.
A creature restrained by the vortex, or another creature that can reach it, can use its action to make a DC 22 Strength check. On a successful check, the restrained creature is no longer
staircase, Nafas is a benevolent host, welcoming his guests with feasts, musical performances, and charming tales over tea. However, those who abuse the djinni’s hospitality or seek to bind him
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
? Brilliant and charming? Nimble and hardy? Ability scores define these qualities — a creature’s assets as well as weaknesses. The three main rolls of the game — the ability check, the saving throw
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
? Brilliant and charming? Nimble and hardy? Ability scores define these qualities--a creature's assets as well as weaknesses. The three main rolls of the game -- the ability check, the saving throw
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
Arrival at the Bakery When the characters enter the bakery, read or paraphrase the following text: A brass bell rings as you enter this charming bakery. Sunlight filters through small windows
the event. However, a character who listens to Fill’s alibi and succeeds on a DC 15 Wisdom (Insight) check discerns that he’s withholding something. A character can pry more information from Fill by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Charisma Charisma measures your ability to interact effectively with others. It includes such factors as confidence and eloquence, and it can represent a charming or commanding personality. Charisma
Checks A Charisma check might arise when you try to influence or entertain others, when you try to make an impression or tell a convincing lie, or when you are navigating a tricky social situation
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Charisma Charisma measures your ability to interact effectively with others. It includes such factors as confidence and eloquence, and it can represent a charming or commanding personality. Charisma
Checks A Charisma check might arise when you try to influence or entertain others, when you try to make an impression or tell a convincing lie, or when you are navigating a tricky social situation
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
was Knight Caradoc. He was a charming man with a message for the governor. Knight Caradoc entered with at least a dozen heavily armored knights, like something out of a story. While learning about the
knights’ arrival, a character can press a local for more details by making a DC 14 Charisma (Persuasion) check. On a successful check, the local says they were surprised by some of the knights’ armor
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
-high bluffs rise from the river. Characters who succeed on a DC 18 Wisdom (Perception) check notice the island’s rocks look like pieces of an ancient structure. Amanisha (neutral good, human spy) is
unconscious. She currently has no weapons and 5 hit points. Magical healing or a successful DC 20 Wisdom (Medicine) check restores her to consciousness. Characters who look for her trophy from the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
addition to the proficiencies noted below, you can add your proficiency bonus to an ability check to influence a decision being made by a group, assess the popularity of certain customs or individuals
1 Proficiencies and Starting Equipment, Tiebreaker
2 Absentee Ballot, Coin of Decisionry
3 Better Odds, Inspired Decision
4 Charming Misdemeanor, Clandestine Kit
Proficiencies
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
below, you can add your proficiency bonus to an ability check to convince a suspicious crowd of your good (or at least non-evil) intentions, encourage franchise hirelings to work faster, or improvise
Cards of Sending, Improved Rumor Mill
4 Always Hiring, Charming Introduction
Proficiencies and Starting Equipment As a rank 1 secretarian, you gain proficiency with one of the following of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
, and truths hinting at the nature of the Dark Powers. Consider the following plots when featuring the Caller in an adventure: One of the characters’ allies requests they check in on the ally’s brother
. This pious or artistic soul has been convinced by a charming peer (the Caller in disguise) to attend a retreat that is secretly a meeting of the priests of Osybus. An old friend reappears in a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
(Performance) check or by otherwise casting Kopoha’s efforts as charming. If the characters fail to compensate for Kopoha’s boasting, the pixies ask the characters and the empyrean to leave. If the
empyrean safe, perhaps by maneuvering her around the dance floor with a successful DC 14 (Acrobatics or Sleight of Hand) check. If the characters fail at helping Kopoha dance safely, she accidentally knocks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
bait. At the end of each 30-minute contest, participants are given charming but valueless trophies; bragging rights are the real prize at stake. Should characters choose to participate, they find one
, if so, the DC of the Wisdom (Survival) check required to catch it. The character then makes a Wisdom (Survival) check, catching the fish if they succeed and losing it if they fail. A character has
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
(Intimidation or Persuasion) check convinces the guards to let them see Young-Gi. When the guards admit the characters, they escort the characters to the estate’s gardens. Read the following when the
-Mi, and brother of the previous queen, Young-Soo, Young-Gi (neutral, dragonborn noble) is accustomed to wealth and privilege. A life spent enjoying his status has made him charming and personable but
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
possessing a Knight of Solamnia (use the knight stat block) for over a week. Charming but utterly amoral, Caradoc is Lord Loren Soth’s seneschal. He served as the mouthpiece of Lord Soth and his
charming, Caradoc befriended and came to serve his fellow knight, Lord Soth, often advising the bold knight about the subtleties of courtly intrigues. Soth made Caradoc his seneschal, and the knight
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
light weapon or smaller object past the guards. Doing so requires a successful DC 15 Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) check. If the check fails, the guards spot the prohibited item and try to confiscate it
; the character must either talk their way out of trouble with a successful DC 18 Charisma (Deception or Persuasion) check or be attacked. Barred Door. Two iron bars seal the double door to the south
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
carved with eyes of all shapes and sizes. Many of the orbs have stone eyelids that open and close at irregular intervals. Characters who succeed on a DC 14 Wisdom (Perception) check notice a ghostly
darkvision out to a range of 60 feet. A character can ascertain the eyestalk’s function with a successful DC 10 Intelligence (Arcana) check but can’t determine who’s peering through it, or from where
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
successful DC 15 Intelligence (History) check identifies it as a holy symbol of Mystryl (see the “Mystryl” sidebar). Tekeli-li the gnoll vampire assumes hyena form as it sneaks up behind unsuspecting prey
frighten intruders. Each statue is carved in the vague likeness of a kobold, which a character can discern with a successful DC 10 Wisdom (Insight) check. Each ice sculpture is a Small object that weighs
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
feet of a globe and has an Intelligence score of 10 or higher can take control of the globe by succeeding on a DC 10 Intelligence check. As part of its movement and with a successful DC 10
Intelligence check, the controller can direct the globe to move with it, remaining within 5 feet of the controller. A globe’s controller can enter and leave the globe at will. The controller can maintain control
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
charming rake and a sore loser.
Wumpus Thistledown (lawful evil halfling) dislikes playing high bets and is condescending.
Barring character intervention, the tournament participants are eliminated in
9 pounds. A character who examines the display case and succeeds on a DC 18 Intelligence (Investigation) check spots a line of barely visible runes inscribed around the perimeter of each pane of glass
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
(levels 1 to 4), the ambitious assassin is a Humanoid who might be a charming manipulator or a ruthless killer. Ambitious Assassin Small or Medium Humanoid, Typically Neutral Evil
Armor Class 16 (studded
upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.
Actions
Multiattack. The corrupter makes three Whispering Blade attacks and can use Debilitating Touch.
Whispering Blade. Melee
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
coins are an illusion. Physical inspection of the fountain, a detect magic spell, or a successful DC 12 Intelligence (Investigation) check reveals them as such. Scrying Statue. Creatures in the
: Beyond Reality with Bimdom Baffletrick. A charming illusionist in glittery, purple robes, Bimdom Baffletrick (chaotic neutral, gnome mage) performs arcane feats. His assistant is a friendly, white-furred