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Zodar

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

struggling to find their new role. A zodar can cause speech to issue from the air around it on three occasions in its lifetime. When it feels compelled to speak, it chooses its words wisely. It can

Disembodied Voice. Up to three times in its life, the zodar can cause a message of up to twenty-five words to issue from the air around it. It speaks only when it has something profoundly important

Clockwork Stone Defender

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

attacker.The thick plates of stone riveted onto a stone defender give it substantial protection. Its chief role is as a bodyguard. Clockworks Gnomes’ tinkering with magic and mechanical devices has

number of Hit Dice. 8 Suction. The clockwork gains a climbing speed of 30 feet. 9 Vocal Resonator. The clockwork gains the ability to speak rudimentary Common or Gnomish. 10 Water

Azorius Functionary

Backgrounds Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

exactly what I mean, no matter how many words it takes to communicate the particular nuance I am attempting to convey. 7 I’m very literal and don’t appreciate metaphor or sarcasm

modeled my career after a highly respected lawmage or arrester, but I fear that my role model might be involved in something illegal. Flaws d6 Flaw 1 I’m

Waterdhavian Noble

Backgrounds Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide

family alone, or it could be concerned with another noble house that sides with or opposes your own. Your ideal depends to some extent on how you view your role in the family, and how you intend to

insatiable desire for carnal pleasures. 5 In fact, the world does revolve around me. 6 By my words and actions, I often bring shame to my family.

Mission Briefing

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy

as ever while on board a ship. Spelljammer Academy has no better person to spearhead the training of raw recruits—and Tarto knows it. Never one to mince words (even when those words are directed

training exercise has two optional roles (Captain and Shipmate) and one mandatory role (Spelljammer). A team can have multiple Shipmates, but only one Captain and only one Spelljammer. Try to limit

Bard

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything

Bard Music is the fruit of the divine tree that vibrates with the Words of Creation. But the question I ask you is, can a bard go to the root of this tree? Can one tap into the source of that power

along as oral history, to survive even when no written record remains. It is also the bard’s role to chronicle smaller and more contemporary events — the stories of today’s heroes, including their

Goblin Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

; and the word is part of the name they give to any of its practitioners. A goblin with access to booyahg becomes a member of the lashers and can often rise to the role of boss. “Booyahg&rdquo

. — Elminster Booyahg Caster. This goblin served under a hobgoblin wizard, stole a look at its master’s spellbook, and learned a little wizardry by aping the gestures and words it remembered

Roleplaying

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)

Roleplaying Roleplaying is, literally, the act of playing out a role. In this case, it’s you as a player determining how your character thinks, acts, and talks. Roleplaying is a part of every aspect

Roleplaying With this approach, you describe your character’s words and actions to the DM and the other players. Drawing on your mental image of your character, you tell everyone what your character does

Roleplaying

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)

Roleplaying Roleplaying is, literally, the act of playing out a role. In this case, it’s you as a player determining how your character thinks, acts, and talks. Roleplaying is a part of every aspect

Roleplaying With this approach, you describe your character’s words and actions to the DM and the other players. Drawing on your mental image of your character, you tell everyone what your character does

Build Your Group

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

; they might have been chosen to fulfill the words of a prophecy, because they were born at auspicious times and places, or because they happened to be in a particular place at a certain time. Individual

from an immortal patron, but puts faith in the dreams and inspiration of others, following such omens with an eager heart. This character is under no illusions of having a special role to play in the

Reporting for Duty

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen

stands as you enter. “Thank you for coming. I won’t mince words: we’re in the dark regarding the dangers I fear are fast approaching our gates, and your role will be to change that. But first, you must

up Darrett or his role. If the characters ask about him, she smiles and says she’ll let him tell them himself shortly (see the “Darrett’s Orders” section).

The Role of Rules

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium

The Role of Rules Why even have a column like Sage Advice when a DM can just make a ruling? Rules are a big part of what makes D&D a game, rather than simply improvised storytelling. The game’s rules

D&D. The direction we chose for the current edition was to lay a foundation of rules that a DM could build on, and we embraced the DM’s role as the bridge between the things the rules address and the

Spell Scroll

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide

Spell Scroll Scroll, Rarity Varies A Spell Scroll bears the words of a single spell, written in a mystical cipher. If the spell is on your spell list, you can read the scroll and cast its spell

spell is copied. Whether the check succeeds or fails, the Spell Scroll is destroyed. Conceptopolis Spell Scroll, Sovereign Glue, Slippers of Spider Climbing

Learning by Observing

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules

Learning by Observing One of the best ways to learn how to run a D&D game is to observe other DMs in action. Another DM can give you a solid foundation for understanding the role—as well as inspire

change over the course of the session? Turns of Phrase. Were there any words or bits of narration you really liked? (If so, jot them down.) World-building. What elements of the DM’s world or the adventure grabbed your attention?

Learning by Observing

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide

Learning by Observing One of the best ways to learn how to run a D&D game is to observe other DMs in action. Another DM can give you a solid foundation for understanding the role—as well as inspire

change over the course of the session? Turns of Phrase. Were there any words or bits of narration you really liked? (If so, jot them down.) World-building. What elements of the DM’s world or the adventure grabbed your attention?

Delerium Fragment Legacy

Equipment

or a ceiling), which allows them to move as if they were climbing. Unattended objects float around randomly. 2 The nearest creature is affected by a hideous laughter spell (Save DC 15) but

instead of laughing, the creature repeats unfathomable combinations of syllables and words. 3 Time skips a beat. Creatures within 60 feet experience a palpable feeling of vertigo followed by a

Murder in Baldur's Gate

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus

. Fate gave you the opportunity. You’re a hero, but no one cheered. Roles in the Murder Each character plays a role in the murder, determined by rolling on the Murder: Character Roles table or

choosing an appropriate entry. Murder: Character Roles d4 Character’s Role 1 Murderer. Via a blade, a shove, or deliberate inaction, you took a life. 2 Bystander. You could have

Murder in Baldur's Gate

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer

a hero, but no one cheered. Beth Trott Roles in the Murder Each character plays a role in the murder, determined by rolling on the Murder: Character Roles table or choosing an appropriate entry

. Murder: Character Roles d4 Character’s Role 1 Murderer. Via a blade, a shove, or deliberate inaction, you took a life. 2 Bystander. You could have prevented a death. You chose not to. 3 Instigator

Delerium Chip Legacy

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or a ceiling), which allows them to move as if they were climbing. Unattended objects float around randomly. 2 The nearest creature is affected by a hideous laughter spell (Save DC 15) but

instead of laughing, the creature repeats unfathomable combinations of syllables and words. 3 Time skips a beat. Creatures within 60 feet experience a palpable feeling of vertigo followed by a

Delerium Geode Legacy

Equipment

or a ceiling), which allows them to move as if they were climbing. Unattended objects float around randomly. 2 The nearest creature is affected by a hideous laughter spell (Save DC 15) but

instead of laughing, the creature repeats unfathomable combinations of syllables and words. 3 Time skips a beat. Creatures within 60 feet experience a palpable feeling of vertigo followed by a

Delerium Massive Cluster Legacy

Equipment

or a ceiling), which allows them to move as if they were climbing. Unattended objects float around randomly. 2 The nearest creature is affected by a hideous laughter spell (Save DC 15) but

instead of laughing, the creature repeats unfathomable combinations of syllables and words. 3 Time skips a beat. Creatures within 60 feet experience a palpable feeling of vertigo followed by a

Adamantine Tower

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

too narrow for anything bigger than a Tiny creature to squeeze through. A character can learn the tower’s command words by casting an identify spell on it. The command word to open the front door or

feet in diameter. Several tunnels branch off from the rough-walled shaft at various points, allowing the characters to continue their journey after climbing down. They can move around the tower easily if they wish to ignore it.

The Role of Rules

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata

The Role of Rules Why even have Sage Advice when a DM can just make a ruling? Rules are a big part of what makes D&D a game, rather than simply improvised storytelling. The game’s rules are meant to

perfect world, RAW and RAI align perfectly, but sometimes the words on the page don’t succeed at communicating the designers’ intent. Or perhaps the words succeed with one group of players but not

Bronze Dragon Treasures

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

one-sided bargains from unnerved sailors. Bronze dragons have a romantic view of their role as guardians of justice and prefer treasures that tie into their heroic narrative. Their hoards teem with

natural whorls in the bark that form the words, “For service not forgotten” 5 A dragon-sized drinking vessel crafted from a behir horn 6 Framed blueprints of a siege engine called the Moonhammer

Other Immortal Beings

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

of the Blasphemer.” According to Thausil Kennar, a noted scholar at the Library of Korranberg, these words, translated from an ancient prophecy, foretell the course of recent events in the Eldeen

of the Lords of Dust or the Quori and the Dreaming Dark. Even those without evil motives are often inscrutable—the agendas of immortal beings spanning millennia. What role you might play in an

A World of Giants

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

the world, whose divinely appointed role is to protect and uplift the smaller peoples, and Humanoids live in the realms of giants as valued citizens. Or maybe Humanoids are new arrivals on the world

patrons or adversaries. What’s the role of dragons? In the Forgotten Realms and Eberron, ancient giants warred with dragons for control over the young world. Maybe in your setting, giants won a similar war

Meeting with Vizeran

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

pale violet light brightens before you, revealing an opening in the vaulted ceiling and a spiral stone staircase with no railing, climbing up into darkness. Around the stairs, the light reveals a

command words for the levitation effect. Vizeran DeVir Vizeran DeVir is one of the greatest magical talents produced by the drow city of Menzoberranzan. Unfortunately for him, his rise to power came at the

March to Nowhere

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

much climbing as crawling. At the end of this time, the adventurers emerge onto a shelf 15 feet up the wall of a broad, straight tunnel some 20 feet high. A curious procession of creatures marches along

. Monodrones can normally relay messages up to forty-eight words long. However, years of wandering have degraded these creatures so that they can speak only a few words or phrases before sputtering off

Patron Benefits

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

fulfillment in a particular direction. You stand among the heroes of the present age; surely you have a role to play in the unfolding prophecy. In order for the Draconic Prophecy to work as a patron, one or

more of the characters needs to have access to words from the Prophecy. Your group might adventure to seek out places where the Prophecy is written: mountainsides and cavern walls, ancient text and

Delerium Crystal Legacy

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or a ceiling), which allows them to move as if they were climbing. Unattended objects float around randomly. 2 The nearest creature is affected by a hideous laughter spell (Save DC 15) but

instead of laughing, the creature repeats unfathomable combinations of syllables and words. 3 Time skips a beat. Creatures within 60 feet experience a palpable feeling of vertigo followed by a

Delerium Shard Legacy

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or a ceiling), which allows them to move as if they were climbing. Unattended objects float around randomly. 2 The nearest creature is affected by a hideous laughter spell (Save DC 15) but

instead of laughing, the creature repeats unfathomable combinations of syllables and words. 3 Time skips a beat. Creatures within 60 feet experience a palpable feeling of vertigo followed by a

22. Garrux's Brewery

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

brass plaque bolted to the western door has the following words stamped into it in Dwarvish: “BREWERS ONLY! Others keep out! By order of Garrux, Master of Ale and Provisions.” 22c. Ale Vats Vats. Six

constructed the pit covers so that they won’t open if an object is rolled over them. A character can circumvent the traps by climbing into an empty barrel and rolling down the hall or climbing onto a barrel

The Inverse

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel

The Inverse CoupleOfKooks “The Inverse isn’t a mistake; it serves a vital role. All Automata’s most disruptive elements shake to the bottom. We’ll never be rid of such glitches–and most will never

and the surface have strange angles 30 feet below the surface. There, gravity changes, and creatures descending into the depths start climbing into the Inverse. Eventually they reach a series of

Hexblood Traits

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

. Ancestral Legacy. If you replace a race with this lineage, you can keep the following elements of that race: any skill proficiencies you gained from it and any climbing, flying, or swimming speed

Message. As an action, you can send a telepathic message to the creature holding or carrying the token, as long as you are within 10 miles of it. The message can contain up to twenty-five words

Khoravar

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

will miss some words and subtlety of meaning. As you create a Khoravar character, you have a wide range of options to describe your backstory. The Khoravar Origin table can provide inspiration for it

associated with House Lyrandar or House Medani, but you’re more interested in the role the house plays in supporting Khoravar communities than in the work of its guilds. 10 You ride with the Valenar, hoping one day to prove that you are worthy of taking on a patron ancestor.

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