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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Deafened [Condition] While you have the Deafened condition, you experience the following effect. Can’t Hear. You can’t hear and automatically fail any ability check that requires hearing.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Deafened [Condition] While you have the Deafened condition, you experience the following effect. Can’t Hear. You can’t hear and automatically fail any ability check that requires hearing.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Blinded [Condition] While you have the Blinded condition, you experience the following effects. Can’t See. You can’t see and automatically fail any ability check that requires sight. Attacks Affected. Attack rolls against you have Advantage, and your attack rolls have Disadvantage.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Charmed [Condition] While you have the Charmed condition, you experience the following effects. Can’t Harm the Charmer. You can’t attack the charmer or target the charmer with damaging abilities or
magical effects. Social Advantage. The charmer has Advantage on any ability check to interact with you socially.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Blinded [Condition] While you have the Blinded condition, you experience the following effects. Can’t See. You can’t see and automatically fail any ability check that requires sight. Attacks Affected. Attack rolls against you have Advantage, and your attack rolls have Disadvantage.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
successful check ends the mishap. A mishap with no repair DC can’t be repaired. Remove Exhaustion If the infernal war machine has one or more levels of exhaustion, a creature can spend 1 hour or more
must meet the following criteria: The creature can’t operate the vehicle’s helm or one of its weapon stations while making repairs. The creature must be within reach of the damaged area in need of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
bridges sway and creak when crossed. To avoid making a racket, each creature traveling along a bridge must make a DC 12 Dexterity (Stealth) check. On a failed check, the creatures stationed in the goblin market (area L2) are alerted; they take no action immediately but can’t be surprised.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
for that check unless the bonus is doubled by another feature. If you gain Expertise, you gain it in one skill in which you have proficiency. You can’t have Expertise in the same skill proficiency more than once. See also chapter 1 (“Proficiency”).
Expertise Expertise is a feature that enhances your use of a skill proficiency. When you make an ability check with a skill proficiency in which you have Expertise, your Proficiency Bonus is doubled
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
for that check unless the bonus is doubled by another feature. If you gain Expertise, you gain it in one skill in which you have proficiency. You can’t have Expertise in the same skill proficiency more than once. See also “Playing the Game” (“Proficiency”).
Expertise Expertise is a feature that enhances your use of a skill proficiency. When you make an ability check with a skill proficiency in which you have Expertise, your Proficiency Bonus is doubled
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
bonus to the check, instead of your normal proficiency bonus. Symbiotic Nature. The gloves can’t be removed from you while you’re attuned to them, and you can’t voluntarily end your attunement to them
Hand Thieves’ tools One kind of artisan’s tools of your choice One kind of musical instrument of your choice When you make an ability check using the chosen proficiency, you add double your proficiency
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Charmed [Condition] While you have the Charmed condition, you experience the following effects. Can’t Harm the Charmer. You can’t attack the charmer or target the charmer with damaging abilities or
magical effects. Social Advantage. The charmer has Advantage on any ability check to interact with you socially.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
and water, drawing a feast from within the bag. You shape this meal with your thoughts. You can create the standard bland fare without requiring any sort of check, but you can attempt to create finer
food by making a Charisma check; if you’re proficient with cook’s utensils, add your bonus to this check. A failed check results in a sour and squalid meal. Food Quality Difficulty
Poor No
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Boon of Luck You can add a d10 roll to any ability check, attack roll, or saving throw you make. Once you use this boon, you can’t use it again until you finish a short rest.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
who can’t prove they are who they claim to be. Characters who don’t want to be attacked must succeed on one of the following checks: A DC 10 Charisma (Deception) check to trick the gnomes into thinking
Gnomengarde’s destruction. A DC 10 Charisma (Persuasion) check to convince the gnomes that the characters can’t be shapechangers, as shapechangers would surely take less conspicuous forms.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Astral Adventurer’s Guide
spelljammer with the lowest check result loses the duel and gains 1d4 levels of exhaustion; in addition, their attunement to their spelljamming helm ends at once, and they can’t attune to any spelljamming helm until all levels of exhaustion are removed from them.
by using a second spelljamming helm, a spelljammer duel ensues. Resolve this conflict by having each spelljammer make a Constitution check; if the dueling spelljammers tie, have them reroll. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
check, the spell fails, and the action used to cast it is wasted. In either case, you can’t use this property again until you finish a Long Rest. Conceptopolis Dancing Sword (Longsword), Dagger of Venom, Dark Shard Amulet, Decanter of Endless Water
don’t know. The cantrip must be on the Warlock spell list and have a casting time of an action, and you make a DC 10 Intelligence (Arcana) check. On a successful check, you cast the spell. On a failed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
travel day, the DM makes a Wisdom (Survival) check on behalf of the navigator. The result of the check determines whether or not the party becomes lost over the course of the day. The DC of the check is
based on the day’s most common terrain: DC 10 for coasts and lakes, or DC 15 for jungles, mountains, rivers, swamps, and wastelands. Apply a +5 bonus to the check if the group sets a slow pace for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
10 Intelligence (Arcana) check. If the check succeeds, you cast the spell. If the check fails, so does the spell, 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.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
must be on the warlock spell list, and you must make a DC 10 Intelligence (Arcana) check. If the check succeeds, you cast the spell. If the check fails, so does the spell, 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.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
every 8 hours of work, the creature can make an Intelligence check using its tool proficiency, with a DC set by the item’s rarity. On a successful check, the creature makes 100 gp worth of progress. On
a failed check, no progress is made. For every 10 by which the check exceeds the DC, the creature makes an additional 100 gp of progress. The item is complete when the progress equals the cost of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
. Others spot the message’s presence with a successful DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check but can’t decipher it without magic.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
. Others spot the message’s presence with a successful DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check but can’t decipher it without magic.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
is unaligned and unarmed (0 XP). He has the head of a rabbit. He can’t speak and knows no languages. This poor fellow is a rabbit transformed by Arcturia’s magic into a unique humanoid. The
transformation is permanent and can’t be undone except with a wish spell. Because he’s no longer a beast, speak with animals can’t be used to communicate with him. A character who examines the creature and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
memorization techniques to absorb academic material. During the Studying phase, each character must succeed on an ability check against a DC noted in the encounter. They can use any ability and skill
they wish when making this check, but they can make it only once. For example, one student might make an Intelligence (History) check to pore over their books, while another student makes a Charisma
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
. On a failed check, you learn nothing and can’t study that portal again using this spell until you cast it again. The spell can penetrate most barriers but is blocked by 1 foot of stone, 1 inch of common metal, a thin sheet of lead, or 3 feet of wood or dirt.
(a broken portal key, which the spell consumes) Duration: 24 hours You fortify the fabric of the planes in a 30-foot cube you can see within range. Within that area, portals close and can’t be opened
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
and a DC 20 Intelligence (Arcana) check. On a failed check, the creature takes 22 (4d10) force damage, as the bound elemental power releases explosively. On a successful check, the rune conjures an
earth elemental that remains for 1 hour and obeys the creature. Once a creature has used this property to cast the spell, that creature can’t use this property of any binding rune again until it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
list and have a casting time of an action, and you make a DC 10 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. Conceptopolis Helm of Brilliance, Headband of Intellect, Helm of
Comprehending Languages, Helm of Telepathy
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
lenses, you gain the following benefits: When you make a Wisdom (Insight) check, you can roll a d4 and add the number rolled to the check. As an action, you can use the goggles to examine an object to
identify the aura of the last creature that touched it. Make a Wisdom (Insight) check against a DC of 13 + the number of days since the last contact occurred. On a success, you learn the creature’s type
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
characters faint glimpses of what lies beyond it. The magic of the walls obscures certain features, however, so that secret passages and rooms can’t be seen from outside them. The crystal that makes up the
tomb can’t be damaged by any means available to the characters. Ceilings. Hallways and smaller chambers in the tomb are 15 feet high with flat ceilings. The ceilings in larger chambers are 20 to 30
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
so before you say whether the check succeeds or fails. No more than one Student Die can be rolled per check. After rolling a Student Die, a player can’t roll it again until the character finishes a
, as explained below.
Student Dice Each character gains one Student Die for each Extracurricular they are participating in. A Student Die is a d4 the player can roll and add to an ability check that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
lock with a successful DC 20 Dexterity check. A character using makeshift tools can attempt the same check but has disadvantage. A lock-picking attempt might draw the attention of the guards, requiring
a Dexterity (Stealth) check contested by the guards’ passive Wisdom (Perception) score to carry it off without notice. Each of the guards on duty in the other areas of the outpost has a key to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
Tam’s lich servants.
The phylacteries can’t be harmed while they are protected by the magic of the sepulcher. However, a successful DC 10 Intelligence (Arcana) check made while examining a sepulcher
takes 9 (2d8) necrotic damage. A creature in a dark pool can’t regain hit points. Pedestals. The 3-foot-high pedestals store radiant energy, which is released in the presence of undead intruders. If an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray. Hunter’s Intuition. When you make a Wisdom (Perception) or Wisdom (Survival) check, you can roll a
d4 and add the number rolled to the ability check. Finder’s Magic. You can cast the hunter’s mark spell with this trait. Starting at 3rd level, you can also cast the locate object spell with it. Once
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
but are obvious from the other side. A character who searches a wall for a secret door must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check to notice it. Hieroglyphs. The ancient people of Bakar wrote in
hieroglyphs, symbols representing letters, sounds, and words. A character can translate a passage of hieroglyphs with 10 minutes of study and a successful DC 13 Intelligence (History) check. Passages
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
determine the outcome. A Charisma check can’t deceive or persuade most devils into a bad deal because the fiends are too clever and experienced in deal-making to be fooled. If devils do get involved in a
during deal-making: If a devil attempts to deceive a character at the deal-making stage, the devil can make a Charisma (Deception) check opposed by the character’s Wisdom (Insight) check. If the