conditions reality guard to have role

Deck of Many Things

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

Fates card can end this curse. Fates. Reality’s fabric unravels and spins anew, allowing you to avoid or erase one event as if it never happened. You can use the card’s magic as soon as

magic items, are lost to you. Portable property vanishes. Businesses, buildings, and land you own are lost in a way that alters reality the least. If you have a Bastion (see the Dungeon Master’s

Druid

Classes Player’s Handbook

. Druids are concerned with the delicate ecological balance that sustains plant and animal life and with the need for people to live in harmony with nature. Druids often guard sacred sites or watch over

regions of unspoiled nature, but when a significant danger arises, Druids take a more active role as adventurers who combat the threat. Becoming a Druid... As a Level 1 Character Gain all the

Storm Crab

Monsters Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

":"piercing"} piercing damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 17 Constitution saving throw or have the poisoned and paralyzed conditions for 1 minute. The affected creature can repeat the saving throw at

the end of each of its turns, ending both the poisoned and paralyzed conditions on itself on a success. Water Jet (Recharge 5–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Water Jet

Tashlyn Yafeera

Monsters Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

is Master of Arms and Mercenaries for the Waterdeep Zhentarim. In this role, she provides armor, weapons, and training to sellswords on the Black Network's payroll. Tashlyn has established a useful

City Guard. In that position, she watches over traffic that passes through the gate — and ensures that her associates in the Black Network can come and go freely. Born to a well-off family in Calimshan

Balhannoth

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

roll.Native to the Shadowfell, the vicious, predatory balhannoth alters reality in its lair to make the place appear inviting to travelers. A limited form of telepathy enables a balhannoth to

identify images of places where its prey expects their needs and desires to be met, such as an inn or a temple offering healing. It then warps reality around itself, hiding itself and remaking its

Duergar Stone Guard

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Duergar Resilience. The duergar has advantage on saving throws against spells and the charmed, paralyzed, and poisoned conditions. Phalanx Formation. The duergar has advantage on attack rolls and

inspires works of grand but melancholic beauty, while in others, it manifests as rage. Like many who dwell in the Underdark, duergar must constantly be on guard against the raids and plots of their

Duergar Soulblade

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Duergar Resilience. The duergar has advantage on saving throws against spells and the charmed, paralyzed, and poisoned conditions. Sunlight Sensitivity. While in sunlight, the duergar has

Underdark, duergar must constantly be on guard against the raids and plots of their neighbors. To this end, duergar warriors fulfill a variety of combat roles, often marrying their fury in battle with

Duergar Xarrorn

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Duergar Resilience. The duergar has advantage on saving throws against spells and the charmed, paralyzed, and poisoned conditions. Sunlight Sensitivity. While in sunlight, the duergar has

guard against the raids and plots of their neighbors. To this end, duergar warriors fulfill a variety of combat roles, often marrying their fury in battle with their psionic abilities or training

Duergar Kavalrachni

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

has advantage on saving throws against spells and the charmed, paralyzed, and poisoned conditions. Sunlight Sensitivity. While in sunlight, the duergar has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on

many who dwell in the Underdark, duergar must constantly be on guard against the raids and plots of their neighbors. To this end, duergar warriors fulfill a variety of combat roles, often marrying

Fraz-Urb'luu Legacy

Monsters Out of the Abyss

shoulders. He can assume other forms, however, from the hideous to the beautiful. Often the demon lord becomes so immersed in playing a role that he loses himself in it for a time. Many of the cultists

elaborate fantasies that have no bearing on reality. When I return my focus to the world, I have a hard time remembering that it was just a daydream.” 61–80 “I convince myself that

Staff of Ruling

Magic Items Quests from the Infinite Staircase

don’t have the incapacitated condition. You decide what action the snake takes and where it moves during its turn, or you can issue it a general command, such as to attack your enemies or guard a

staff skyward, producing a fearsome thunderclap. Each creature of your choice in a 30-foot-radius sphere centered on you must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or have the deafened and frightened conditions until the end of your next turn.

Soldier - Baldur's Gate

Backgrounds Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus

military organization you were a part of, how far through its ranks you progressed, and what kind of experiences you had during your military career. Was it a standing army, a town guard, or a village

clothes, and a pouch containing 10 gp Specialty During your time as a soldier, you had a specific role to play in your unit or army. Roll a d8 or choose from the options in the table below to

Prisoner 13

Monsters Keys from the Golden Vault

knocked prone. River Tattoo. Prisoner 13 magically ends any effects causing the grappled or restrained conditions on herself. If she is bound with nonmagical restraints, she slips out of them.Readiness

her role as an agent, so she devised a plan to take power for herself. Over five years she took careful stock of Clan Axebreaker’s wealth and, in one fell swoop, used her network of lieutenants to

Duergar Mind Master

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Duergar Resilience. The duergar has advantage on saving throws against spells and the charmed, paralyzed, and poisoned conditions. Sunlight Sensitivity. While in sunlight, the duergar has

works of grand but melancholic beauty, while in others, it manifests as rage. Like many who dwell in the Underdark, duergar must constantly be on guard against the raids and plots of their neighbors. To

Duergar Warlord

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Duergar Resilience. The duergar has advantage on saving throws against spells and the charmed, paralyzed, and poisoned conditions. Sunlight Sensitivity. While in sunlight, the duergar has

dwell in the Underdark, duergar must constantly be on guard against the raids and plots of their neighbors. To this end, duergar warriors fulfill a variety of combat roles, often marrying their fury in

Nafas

Monsters Quests from the Infinite Staircase

typically reserves the Wish spell for creatures he deems worthy of its gifts, he isn’t above leveraging that power against formidable threats, rewriting reality to forcibly tilt the scales in his

this role, Nafas sends adventurers to distant worlds to fulfill the wishes of creatures beyond his reach. Adventurers who return to Nafas successful receive gifts as rewards. As a noble genie, Nafas

Waterdhavian Noble

Backgrounds Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide

You are a scion of one of the great noble families of Waterdeep. Human families who jealously guard their privilege and place in the City of Splendors, Waterdhavian nobles have a reputation across

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

Soldier Legacy

Backgrounds Basic Rules (2014)

standing army, a town guard, or a village militia? Or it might have been a noble’s or merchant’s private army, or a mercenary company. Skill Proficiencies: Athletics

or deck of cards, a set of common clothes, and a pouch containing 10 gp Specialty During your time as a soldier, you had a specific role to play in your unit or army. Roll a d8 or choose

Balhannoth Legacy

Monsters Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes

well-traveled roads and paths, snatching people who come along. A balhannoth that has been captured and exploited by drow might lair in caves near Underdark passages and guard the ways in and out of a

the following effects; the balhannoth can’t use the same lair action two rounds in a row: The balhannoth warps reality around it in an area up to 500 feet square. After 10 minutes, the terrain

Deck of Many Things Legacy

Magic Items Basic Rules (2014)

property vanishes. Businesses, buildings, and land you own are lost in a way that alters reality the least. Any documentation that proves you should own something lost to this card also disappears

apply it. The Void. This black card spells disaster. Your soul is drawn from your body and contained in an object in a place of the GM's choice. One or more powerful beings guard the place. While your

Triton Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

and worse, so you know you can count on them in a fight. — Brego Stoneheart, sea captain Tritons guard the ocean depths, building small settlements beside deep trenches, portals to the

the tritons’ role as the world’s true protectors. Staunch Champions Despite their off-putting manners, tritons are benevolent creatures at heart, convinced that other civilized races

Adventure Summary

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

, untethered from their lives and memories due to this unprecedented error in reality. During the adventure, the characters discover the city of Sigil and meet the arcanaloth information broker Shemeshka. In

Shemeshka’s role in their plight, recover their memories, and have the chance to stop a plot undermining the stability of the multiverse.

Adventure Summary

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

, untethered from their lives and memories due to this unprecedented error in reality. During the adventure, the characters discover the city of Sigil and meet the arcanaloth information broker Shemeshka. In

Shemeshka’s role in their plight, recover their memories, and have the chance to stop a plot undermining the stability of the multiverse.

Gith

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

endures, and both githyanki and githzerai are dedicated to hunting their ancestral foes. What would become of this multiverse if githyanki didn’t guard the Astral Plane from the illithid menace? What would

reality become if beings of thought ruled the plane of thought? Left to Right: Githyanki Gish, Githyanki Supreme Commander, and Githyanki Kith'rak

Gith

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

endures, and both githyanki and githzerai are dedicated to hunting their ancestral foes. What would become of this multiverse if githyanki didn’t guard the Astral Plane from the illithid menace? What would

reality become if beings of thought ruled the plane of thought? Left to Right: Githyanki Gish, Githyanki Supreme Commander, and Githyanki Kith'rak

Eldritch Machines

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

Eldritch Machines In a Cannith enclave, a team of artificers maintain a creation forge that produces warforged. In the Shadow Marches, druids guard the seals that hold the daelkyr at bay. In the

immense power that are too large to be moved easily. Eldritch machines are marvels of magic and engineering that require special components and conditions to function. For example, a particular eldritch

Stress

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

A nightmare or darkest fear made real Shattering the character’s fundamental understanding of reality Witnessing a person transform into a horrid or unnatural creature When a character makes an

circumstances reduces their Stress Score by 1 when they finish their next long rest. The calm emotions spell effect used to suppress the charmed and frightened conditions also suppresses the effects of

Stress

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

A nightmare or darkest fear made real Shattering the character’s fundamental understanding of reality Witnessing a person transform into a horrid or unnatural creature When a character makes an

circumstances reduces their Stress Score by 1 when they finish their next long rest. The calm emotions spell effect used to suppress the charmed and frightened conditions also suppresses the effects of

Eldritch Machines

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

Eldritch Machines In a Cannith enclave, a team of artificers maintain a creation forge that produces warforged. In the Shadow Marches, druids guard the seals that hold the daelkyr at bay. In the

immense power that are too large to be moved easily. Eldritch machines are marvels of magic and engineering that require special components and conditions to function. For example, a particular eldritch

Confronting the Prince

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

take his role more seriously in the “Support for Prince Simbon” section, Simbon vows to use his influence to reveal Kirina’s goals—this gives characters advantage on this check. If one or more checks

Guild for the shoddy conditions that caused the collapses, conveniently ignoring anyone who points out that the burrowing aurumvoraxes clearly contributed to them.

Confronting the Prince

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

take his role more seriously in the “Support for Prince Simbon” section, Simbon vows to use his influence to reveal Kirina’s goals—this gives characters advantage on this check. If one or more checks

Guild for the shoddy conditions that caused the collapses, conveniently ignoring anyone who points out that the burrowing aurumvoraxes clearly contributed to them.

Izzet NPCs

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica

NPCs table summarizes key roles within the guild. Statistics for these NPCs are found in the Monster Manual unless the table states otherwise. Izzet NPCs Role Appropriate Stat Block Attendant Commoner

Chemister Mage Guard Scorchbringer guard* Magic tester Flux blastseeker,* cosmotronic blastseeker,* counterflux blastseeker,* or galvanic blastseeker* *Appears in this chapter MASTER CHEMISTER

Ability Checks

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook

DM wants dice to play a role in determining an NPC’s response to you. In such situations, the DM will typically ask you to take the Influence action. Pay attention to your skill proficiencies when

thinking of how you will interact with an NPC; use an approach that relies on your group’s skill proficiencies. For example, if the group needs to trick a guard into letting them into a castle, the Rogue who is proficient in Deception should lead the discussion.

Ability Checks

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

element of chance in the situation. For example, your DM can call for a Charisma check at any point during an interaction if he or she wants the dice to play a role in determining an NPC’s reactions. Other

favor by using an approach that relies on your best bonuses and skills. If the group needs to trick a guard into letting them into a castle, the rogue who is proficient in Deception is the best bet

Preparation

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves

: Blight, Twig Blight, Vine Commoner Dryad Green Dragon Wyrmling Guard Mud Mephits Noble Priest Acolyte Scout Yuan-ti Malison (Type 1) Zombie Animals: Constrictor Snake Giant Centipede Giant Venomous Snake

Mastiff Swarm of Insects Venomous Snake Key NPCs Name Role Stat Block Location Armin Whisperwind Lost elf council member Scout (Medium) R4 Darrin, Jherris, Lyrienne, and Rayna

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