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Monsters
The Book of Many Things
and other magical effects.
Thought Shield. The hierophant’s thoughts can’t be read by any means unless the hierophant allows it.Multiattack. The hierophant makes two Herald’s Axe
one world, one for each card in a Deck of Many Things. As a group, hierophants are sometimes called Sages, but each hierophant is also identified with a particular card. When a hierophant dies, the
Magic Items
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
hearing and darkvision out to a range of 120 feet. It can speak, read, and understand Common, and its voice sounds silvery and melodic. Snicker-Snack craves the destruction of evil Dragons and urges
finish a long rest after that happens, you can attempt to regain the sword’s trust by making a contested Charisma check against Snicker-Snack. If you win the contest, your attunement to the weapon is instantly restored. Your attunement to the weapon can’t be restored in any other way.
Species
Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
them. Altered by unbridled magic, a group of gnomes were transformed and given almost supernatural curiosity and fearlessness. These were the first kender.
Originating on the world of Krynn, kender are
follow those suggestions or to ignore them. Whichever scores you decide to increase, none of the scores can be raised above 20.
Languages
Your character can speak, read, and write Common and one
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
buried it under a stone near the palace of Erebos.
Tromokratis as a Mythic Encounter
Tromokratis numbers among the most powerful creatures a group of adventurers might face. If you wish to make an
its hearts are exposed, Tromokratis can choose one of its mythic actions when it uses a legendary action.
Read or paraphrase the following text when Tromokratis uses its Hearts of the Kraken trait
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Alien Mind. If a creature tries to read Dyrrn’s thoughts or deals psychic damage to it, that creature must succeed on a DC 23 Intelligence saving throw or be stunned for 1 minute. The stunned
part of me has become a conscious entity.”
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“My opponents must bow down to a mind flayer!”
6
“Dyrrn and the mind flayers simply want to unite all sentient creatures in collective consciousness. And I receive messages from the group mind!”
Poison, Psychic
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
Everybody’s always trying to get a leg up on somebody in Baldur’s Gate. One group’s con artist might be another’s revolutionary. Or maybe you’re just in it for yourself
can tease out their hearts’ desires after a few minutes of conversation, and with a few leading questions you can read them like they were children’s books. It’s a useful talent, and
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
in starlight. They read these signs as omens, giving them glimpses of what is to come, and they eagerly examine the potential futures of any creatures who come to them in peace.
Crystal dragons&rsquo
and hunters.
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A young crystal dragon has adopted a group of kobold;kobolds and is trying to teach them the value of a good practical joke.
3
A young crystal dragon has captured a pack of
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
the school in a contest against a rival college.
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An emerald dragon invisibly tails a party of adventurers, causing trouble for the heroes so the dragon can watch how they respond.
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An
pit fiend to buy back the soul of a legendary hero.
2
A group of adult red dragon;adult red and adult silver dragon;silver dragons set aside their differences to learn wisdom from an ancient
Sword of Kas
Legacy
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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
its wielder and can speak, read, and understand Common.
Personality. The sword’s purpose is to bring ruin to Vecna. Killing Vecna’s worshipers, destroying the lich’s works, and
wins the contest, nothing happens, and the wish spell is wasted. If the sword loses the contest, it is destroyed.
races
Over the centuries in which humankind proved an unstoppable force in conquering Etharis, humans earned the enmity of most other folk. All who tried to oppose them were met with violence. One group
, however, chose not to contest human ascendancy and instead survived by adapting to human hegemony.
The Era of Expansion did not affect the halflings of Etharis as it did the folk of other heritages
Human
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Species
Basic Rules (2014)
sang from every page. Long into the night Liriel read, lighting candle after precious candle.
She’d never given much thought to humans, but these stories fascinated her. In these yellowed
, striving to leave a lasting legacy. Individually and as a group, humans are adaptable opportunists, and they stay alert to changing political and social dynamics.
EVERYONE’S SECOND-BEST FRIENDS
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
feasting tables are lined with merrymakers, and dances spring up at the drop of a hat. Faerie Cake Eating Contest This contest runs repeatedly throughout the evening and costs 1 ticket punch to enter. The
contest table is piled high with small, glazed cupcakes, each filled with a dollop of berry custard. The goal is simple: eat as many cupcakes as you can within 60 seconds. A contestant can swallow a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
Quest: Chug Champion The tavern’s signature game is a nightly contest called chug champion. Playing the Game To play chug champion, participants—called “chuggers”—line up at the bar and pay 5 GP
Stein
Winning the Game The winner receives 25 GP. Second- and third-place chuggers win 15 GP and 10 GP, respectively.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
of Vogler’s best fishers, Mayor Raven, is in their group, along with a dozen other locals. Read the following description when the characters have their fishing gear prepared and are ready to start
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
you may choose another student from the “Fellow Students” section in chapter 3. Read or paraphrase the following: You hear enthusiastic chanting and clapping. In the library’s main area, students ring
the eastern group of tables. Standing on them are familiar faces, who look like they’re about to burst into song.
One of the characters’ peers rushes from the study area and calls out to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
Exploring Glorium When the character near Glorium, read or paraphrase the following description: Songs and shouts rise over a sturdy-looking town between snowy mountains at the mouth of a bay
Glorium are a hearty lot. Locals can offer directions anywhere the characters want to go, but some might make a good-natured demand for a contest first (see the following section). If the characters ask
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Action Options This section provides new action options for combat. They can be added as a group or individually to your game. Climb onto a Bigger Creature If one creature wants to jump onto another
) check. If it wins the contest, the smaller creature successfully moves into the target creature’s space and clings to its body. While in the target’s space, the smaller creature moves with the target and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Stack ’Em High When the characters arrive at the Rose Stage, read or paraphrase the following: You hear the party before you see it. Laughter, whooping, and shouting waft from the stage as a chaotic
those goofs, covered in pest bait! I don’t know what’s in it, but the pests love it. We’ll give them their snacks—we were just waiting on you. We knew you’d want in on this mascot-stacking contest! The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Dexterity Catch the Dragon by the Tail
Wisdom Gnome Poetry Contest
Charisma Goblin Wrestling
Strength Guess the Number of Feathers
Intelligence Outstare the Cyclops
Constitution If a
Prizes table, or twice if the successful check occurs on the first attempt. Gnome Poetry Contest “Sound the chime, it’s time to rhyme! You bring the poem! We’ll bring the gno-em!”
Gnome Poetry
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
. Read or paraphrase the following text when a character investigates: A group of a dozen lizardfolk cheer as one among them strains, then hefts a barrel-sized boulder over her head. She holds it for a
Semuanya’s Bog In this encounter, a group of lizardfolk petitioners invite the characters to join them in visiting the realm of the lizardfolk deity Semuanya. Use this encounter wherever and whenever
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Contest 8 Corpse 9 Draft 10 Drunk 11 Fire 12 Found trinket 13 Guard harassment 14 Pickpocket 15 Procession 16 Protest 17 Runaway cart 18 Shady transaction 19 Spectacle 20 Urchin Animals on the Loose
factions, families, or gangs in the city; or a struggle between city guards and criminals. The characters could be witnesses, hit by stray arrow fire, or mistaken for members of one group and attacked
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
possible. The contest ends when the majority of one team can’t hold their handstands and either give up or fall over. Resolve the contest using DC 10 Strength (Athletics) group checks: each team
drawn in the snow 50 feet away from them. The first team to roll its boulder across the finish line wins. Resolve the contest with a series of simultaneous DC 15 Strength (Athletics) group checks. With
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
to help you determine a creature’s initial attitude. Characters can shift a creature’s attitude by their words or actions. For example, buying drinks for an Indifferent group of miners might shift
kind gesture at a future date, or challenging the characters to a friendly drinking contest. Ability Checks in Social Interaction You decide the extent to which ability checks shape the outcome of a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
classmates drifting toward Bow’s End Tavern for the reception, including some of the characters’ Friends, Beloveds, or Rivals. When the characters arrive at Bow’s End, read or paraphrase the following
. The event concludes with a student getting ill (see “One Too Many?”)—foreshadowing events later in this adventure—and disgruntled students demanding the characters face them in a magical contest (see “The Challenge”). This challenge works best if it comes from a character’s Rival.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Triumph in a contest of strength or endurance to prove Mogis’s superiority over other gods.
6 Defeat a champion of another god (most likely Iroas, Heliod, or Ephara).
A Mogis Campaign A campaign
eventually allows the characters to perform acts of heroism. Perhaps this means the group swears a vow to Mogis to pursue some collective revenge, or maybe the group understands that just as Mogis watches
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
can move when traveling (chapter 8, “Adventuring”) and fighting (chapter 9, “Combat”). Languages Your character can speak, read, and write certain languages. Chapter 4, “Personality and Background
clans of the same people, but in the Forgotten Realms, they live far apart in separate kingdoms and call themselves shield dwarves and gold dwarves, respectively.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
good greatsword with an Intelligence of 9, a Wisdom of 14, and a Charisma of 18. It has hearing and darkvision out to a range of 120 feet. It can speak, read, and understand Common, and its voice sounds
against Snicker-Snack. If you win the contest, your attunement to the weapon is instantly restored. Your attunement to the weapon can’t be restored in any other way.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
adventuring party. Consider adding one or more sidekicks to round out your characters’ group if there are fewer than four players. As the DM, you can play sidekicks, or players can play them alongside their own
characters. You can read more about sidekicks in Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything. If a sidekick accompanies the characters into later levels, the sidekick also advances in level. This represents a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
and can speak, read, and understand Common. Personality. The sword’s purpose is to bring ruin to Vecna. Killing Vecna’s worshipers, destroying the lich’s works, and foiling his machinations all help
spell and make a Charisma check contested by the Charisma check of the sword. The sword must be within 30 feet of the creature, or the spell fails. If the sword wins the contest, nothing happens, and the wish spell is wasted. If the sword loses the contest, it is destroyed.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
tower the characters observe on their ascent. When the characters reach the pinnacle, read the following text: The commander of the Feathergale Knights is a well-built male human in his early fifties
interview Merosska now, they can do so. He might answer questions on the following topics: The Feathergale Society, an “elite” group of aerial-mount enthusiasts from Waterdeep The origins of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
20c.
If she’s here, Nadia the Unbent stands in the middle of the bloody circle, armed with a 10-foot-pole, and is using it to knock about her underlings in a contest to see who, if anyone, can push
alcoves: The two southernmost alcoves contain secret doors to areas 20b and 20d, respectively. The alcove to the north has an arch embedded in its back wall. Carved into the arch’s keystone is an image of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Locathah Rising
, read or paraphrase the following boxed text: The interior of this ship’s hold has been converted into a war room. Water-resistant nautical maps, crafted with the treated hide of some aquatic creature
these creatures is completely encrusted in barnacles. The other creature’s legs have split into shadowy tentacles, and it emanates a menacing inky aura.
The creatures, respectively, are one drowned
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
of the action during play, describing locations and creatures that the adventurers face with read-aloud text. The players decide what their characters do as they navigate hazards and choose what to
explore. Then you use a combination of imagination and the game’s rules to determine the results of the adventurers’ decisions. Adjudicate the Rules. You oversee how the group uses the game’s rules
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
Reading Ahead As the players familiarize themselves with the character options and adventuring gear described in the Basic Rules, take advantage of the opportunity to read ahead. “The Adventure
described here. For descriptions of rules-specific terms, see the Basic Rules.
Characters. This term refers to the adventurers run by the players. They are the protagonists in any D&D adventure. A group of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
number represents a nightmare. Roll a d6 twice to determine which nightmares win first and second place, respectively. If both rolls are the same number, reroll one die to determine which nightmare
wins second place. To Cheat or Not to Cheat A few moments after the characters enter the racetrack’s area for the first time, an elf in a stylish white suit approaches them and offers them a deal. Read