concerns wearing relevant

City Watch / Investigator

Backgrounds Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide

suit your identity as a member of the city watch. Your bond is likely associated with your fellow watch members or the watch organization itself and almost certainly concerns your community. Your

friends, and I’m slow to make new ones. 4 I’m full of inspiring and cautionary tales from my military experience relevant to almost every combat situation. 5 I can stare down a

Character Creation

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

the armor you’re wearing (see PHB, "Armor and Shields"). For example, in leather armor, you calculate your AC as 11 + your Dexterity modifier, and in chain mail, your AC is simply 16. Unarmored

Dexterity modifier. Natural Armor: 10 + your Dexterity modifier + your natural armor bonus. This is a calculation method typically used only by monsters and NPCs, although it is also relevant to a druid

An Unexpected Offer

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel

An Unexpected Offer After the characters finish their conversation with Aunt Dellie, another local approaches them. Read or paraphrase the following text: A broad-shouldered woman wearing a

winning.” Business Concerns Lady Dre was horrified by the attack, and she wants to make sure no other folk in the Rattle are in danger. Characters who succeed on a DC 12 Wisdom (Insight) check recognize

Cerulean Hall

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin

make Intelligence checks using the relevant gaming set (a dragonchess set, a playing card set, or another suitable set). The participant with the highest total roll wins the turn. In the event of a

is wearing a Medallion of Thoughts, which she uses to scan her opponent’s surface thoughts and stay one step ahead in the match. Nyssa uses a Disguise Self spell to hide the medallion from view. As

Mary Greymalkin

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild

bestow effects more relevant to this adventure, as follows: Donjon. You are instantly teleported to and confined within either the Tomb of Horrors (in area 7) or the Temple of Moloch (in area 10) as the DM

determines. Everything you were wearing and carrying stays behind in the space you occupied when you disappeared. You draw no more cards. Flames. A powerful artificer (Moghadam or Thessalar, at the

Council Meeting

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

your friends and families, but I hope you can understand our reticence to welcome you all through our city’s gates. These aren’t normal times. Marshal?” The governor gestures to a stern woman wearing

.” Kalaman’s Concerns Marshal Vendri goes on to explain that Vogler isn’t the only community in the region to face peril. She shares the following details: Small villages and farms to the south and east of

Court of Air

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries

wall hangings. These adornments vary from deity to deity, but generally include beautiful tapestries telling key stories of the relevant deity or framed, illuminated scriptures discussing and

illustrating the god’s key tenets. LITTLE ONE One of Candlekeep’s guests stands out from the rest of the crowd: a chaotic good ogre wearing a headband of intellect. He’s most often found sitting by himself

Dhargun Ironworks

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

crotchety old dwarf with serious doubts regarding Tannus Thunderwind. However, Amara loves her daughter and is willing to trust her judgment. She carries no weapons at the wedding. Amara’s secret concerns

agendas. However, these secrets can still be relevant factors in the episode. While the characters are in Horn Enclave, they will likely interact with members of the wedding party, and might even be

Walking Castle Locations

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

direction of a relevant work in the collection (if it exists). Treasure. Among the candles in the alcove sits a partially melted candle of invocation of a random alignment that has 1 hour of use remaining

battle in areas W3 or area W6, he transforms himself to look like a wizened gnome wearing the robes and tall hat of a member of the Fraternity of Order. He pretends to be a prisoner and lies to the

Creating a Monster Stat Block

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

extra hit points. However, adventurers have more resources at higher levels to counteract such defenses, making resistances and immunities less relevant at higher levels. Effective Hit Points. If a

monster’s proficiency bonus + the monster’s relevant ability modifier. You choose the ability that best applies. For example, if the effect is a poison, the relevant ability is probably the monster’s

Specific Spells

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

your AC is normally 16 and you have Half Cover, your AC is 18, and Barkskin’s effect isn’t relevant. Is the Chill Touch spell intended as a way of foiling Regeneration? Chill Touch does, indeed, stop

, you must both forgo wearing armor and forgo wielding a Shield if you want to benefit from the feature, whereas a Barbarian must only forgo wearing armor. Does Unarmored Defense work with a spell like

Red Larch Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse

that aren’t relevant to the part of the adventure you’re running now. You can assume that the Believers decide to keep a low profile as long as adventurers are asking questions about the missing

human commoner). She is the fortyish matriarch of her family and a pleasant, sturdy woman. She is increasingly worried about “what’s gathering in the dark” in Red Larch and brings up her concerns with

Gnome Gods

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

personal concerns to embark on a grand excursion or to work together toward a common goal. And according to the gnomes, it is proven that their gods can accomplish the impossible when they band together

, and after escaping and gaining her revenge, she began the practice of never wearing the same face twice, and she follows a different routine every day so no one can predict what she might do. When

Creature Encounters

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

1–10 None 11–12 A humanoid skeleton or corpse clutching a salvageable, nonmagical weapon (your choice) 13–14 A humanoid skeleton or corpse wearing a salvageable suit of nonmagical armor (your choice

of them (their concerns are with the Underdark, after all). If the characters seem intent on reaching the surface, a society member might suggest they look for a guide in one of the Underdark’s larger

Specific Spells

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

AC is 17; barkskin isn’t relevant in this case. Does the blinding smite spell deal extra radiant damage on every successful attack I make while I’m concentrating on the spell, or only on the first

familiar spell to its pocket dimension, can it take any objects it’s wearing or carrying with it? No, the intent of find familiar is that any objects are left behind when the familiar vanishes. This

Dragon Organizations

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

center around goals broader than a single dragon’s territory or concerns. This section discusses several organizations whose plots can unfold across small regions, whole worlds, or even multiple

Draconic Prophecy. Most other creatures are merely pawns in the dragons’ centuries-long schemes, their needs and lives relevant only insofar as they intersect with the Prophecy. The Draconic Prophecy

Crypt of the Talhund Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

Crypt of the Talhund have disadvantage on attack rolls against anyone wearing this armor. P4: Hidden Sanctum Access Rooms This small, empty room bears a heavy stone door opposite its entrance. The stone

relevant set of tools, such as mason’s tools, as well as proficiency with those tools. P7: Reliquary This room’s floor is covered with broken pedestals, shattered glass, and dust. A headless skeleton

Paliset Hall Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault

Zorhanna, but neither sprite dares speak out for fear of inviting the Adulares’ wrath or a stern lecture from Oren, the satyr head of staff. A character can convince either sprite to share their concerns

spacious and nicely appointed. A man wearing a rich-blue coat sits on the edge of a narrow bed. His trimmed white beard darkens at its roots, and kindly wrinkles frame his brow and eyes. “Looking to

Maelstrom Level 2

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder

hearing what the “small folk” have to say. Watching the visitors are two storm giants wearing helms. If Mirran and Nym are attacked, these royal guards rush to the princesses’ defense and cover their

fails, Serissa takes no action against her sisters. The check can be repeated, but only if new and relevant information is brought to Serissa’s attention. 15. Throne Room If the characters approach

Neverdeath Catacomb Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin

into another chamber. Marching around the chamber are five pale, desiccated warriors wearing wicked-looking armor. The cult pressed five wights into service as guards. The wights know the cultists

bears small clockwork components. A hulking, fish-headed creature wearing exquisite silk finery carefully examines the tiny parts. The creature is a marid named Shanzezim. The marid was bound by the

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