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Player’s Handbook
power. Some Warlocks respect, revere, or even love their patrons; some serve their patrons grudgingly; and some seek to undermine their patrons even as they wield the power their patrons have given
level 1 features, which are listed in the Warlock Features table. See the multiclassing rules to determine your available spell slots.
Warlock Features
Level
Proficiency Bonus
Class Features
Classes
Player’s Handbook
Features table. See the multiclassing rules to determine your available spell slots.
Wizard Features
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Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
priest of Lolth in an unholy, dangerous ritual in which it is infused with the fey essence of the creator and the fiendish essence of a glabrezu. This ritual rarely succeeds, but Lolth’s
. Before a draegloth is given any duties, it receives instruction in accepting the role set for it and not challenging authority. Most draegloths fiercely resent being given orders, but thanks to their
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
their bodies were damaged by elemental forces. These unusual forms can also be produced and shaped by the ritual magic of evil spellcasters or by trolls’ own practices, as is the case for dire
nature is something of a mystery, but Vaprak is always portrayed as a horrid, misshapen, greenish creature strongly resembling a troll. Vaprak is given to fits of mindless destruction and uncontrollably
Monsters
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
starvation loomed over Nafik and his priests. In a desperate measure, Nafik wrought a haphazard ritual on himself and his fellow priests, transforming them and himself into Undead. Heartless and corrupted
by evil, Nafik now rules over the upper halls of Amun Sa’s pyramid and the priests he sentenced to an exanimate eternity.Necrotic, PoisonBludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical AttacksFire
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
presided over a court that included representatives of every race of giant, from mighty storm giants to lowly hill giants. He used the power of the Wyrmskull Throne — a gift given to him by his wife
him. But in recent years, King Hekaton had become convinced that the age of the giants was past, as evidenced by the growing distance between the giants and their gods. Annam the All-Father didn&rsquo
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
explicitly include dragon turtles in the variant rules for making a dragon a spellcaster, you can apply those rules to these aquatic dragons.)
Dragon Turtle Personality Traits
d8
to leave.
4
The sea around a wizard’s tower is too stormy for ships to sail through, but a resident dragon turtle might be convinced to ferry the characters across.
5
A royal
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
shaped by the ritual magic of evil spellcasters or by trolls’ own practices, as is the case for dire trolls.
Vaprak the Destroyer
Although trolls are rarely devout and seldom ponder spiritual
strongly resembling a troll. Vaprak is given to fits of mindless destruction and uncontrollably fears the plots and ambitions of other deities.
Vaprak’s troll worshipers believe this god
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
vast scale, or if their bodies were damaged by elemental forces. These unusual forms can also be produced and shaped by the ritual magic of evil spellcasters or by trolls’ own practices, as is the
. Vaprak’s true nature is something of a mystery, but Vaprak is always portrayed as a horrid, misshapen, greenish creature strongly resembling a troll. Vaprak is given to fits of mindless destruction
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
characters, and use the Dragon Turtle Spellcasting table to help select spells for a spellcasting dragon. (Though the Monster Manual doesn’t explicitly include dragon turtles in the variant rules for
making a dragon a spellcaster, you can apply those rules to these aquatic dragons.)
Dragon Turtle Personality Traits
d8;{"diceNotation":"1d8","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Trait"}
Trait
Magic Items
Princes of the Apocalypse
A devastation orb is an elemental bomb that can be created at the site of an elemental node by performing a ritual with an elemental weapon. The type of orb created depends on the node used. For
example, an air node creates a devastation orb of air. The ritual takes 1 hour to complete and requires 2,000 gp worth of special components, which are consumed.
A devastation orb measures 12 inches in
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
achieving lichdom requires an arcane spellcaster to be at the apex of power—a significant challenge for mind flayers, given the scarcity of available mentors and training.
Confronting this
amethyst. The process requires at least three mind flayer arcanists and the sacrifice of an equal number of souls from living victims in a three-day-long ritual of spellcasting and psionic communion. Upon
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Teleport.
Assault (Costs 2 Actions). Titivilus makes one Silver Sword attack, or he uses Frightful Word.Dispater, the gloomy Lord of Dis, rules from his iron palace, seeming to hide behind its
, Titivilus has manipulated everyone along his path to power, either to win them over to his cause or to remove them as a threat.
Since gaining his position, Titivilus has convinced Dispater that countless
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
and shaped by the ritual magic of evil spellcasters or by trolls’ own practices, as is the case for dire troll;dire trolls.
Vaprak the Destroyer
Although trolls are rarely devout and seldom
, greenish creature strongly resembling a troll. Vaprak is given to fits of mindless destruction and uncontrollably fears the plots and ambitions of other deities.
Vaprak’s troll worshipers believe
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures
been given dominion over a small aspect of the natural world; there are dukes and duchesses for each of the seasons, and noble archivists track every promise made and broken within the borders of
untamed wilderness. High fae have no regard for mortal values of honor and law, but they nonetheless operate under inviolable rules of their own: gifts must always be repaid, promises must be honored
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
)
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Control. Everyone is welcome, as long as they follow my rules. (Lawful)
Crystal Dragon Adventures
The Crystal Dragon Adventure Hooks table offers suggestions for stories and adventures
decades unexpectedly retires to the Elemental Plane of Air. Monstrous forces immediately move into the area—and might take control of the pass unless the dragon can be convinced to return.
6
Species
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
might come to accept over the course of centuries. Once a hexblood undergoes this irreversible ritual, they emerge as a hag NPC no longer under the control of the hexblood’s player, unless the DM rules otherwise.
considered a gift from the town’s patron deity, who is known as Mother.
BECOMING A HAG
Hags can undertake a ritual to irreversibly transform a hexblood they created into a new hag, either one of
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
they had given him. Ezmerelda witnessed van Richten’s act of mercy and was deeply moved by it.
Van Richten’s Tragic Tale. At the age of fifteen, Ezmerelda, still troubled by what her
threatened to spill her blood. Ezmerelda convinced him that she genuinely wanted to help him find his missing son, whereupon van Richten told her the saddest of tales. He had found his son, who had been
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
table to help select spells for a spellcasting dragon. (Though the Monster Manual doesn’t explicitly include dragon turtles in the variant rules for making a dragon a spellcaster, you can apply
those rules to these aquatic dragons.)
Dragon Turtle Personality Traits
d8;{"diceNotation":"1d8","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Trait"}
Trait
1
I speak slowly and deliberately
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
. (Chaotic)
6
Control. Everyone is welcome, as long as they follow my rules. (Lawful)
Crystal Dragon Adventures
The Crystal Dragon Adventure Hooks table offers suggestions for stories
mountain pass for decades unexpectedly retires to the Elemental Plane of Air. Monstrous forces immediately move into the area—and might take control of the pass unless the dragon can be convinced to
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
others might become professional thieves.
Creating Your Character
If you create a kender character, follow these additional rules during character creation.
Ability Score Increases
When
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
insults are my weapons of choice.
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I keep multiple holy symbols on me and invoke whatever deity might come in useful at any given moment.
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I pocket anything I see that might have some
gains on decadent luxuries faster than I bring them in...
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I’m convinced that no one could ever fool me the way I fool others.
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I’m too greedy for my own good. I can’t
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
with me to pursue my destiny.
d6
Flaw
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The tyrant who rules my land will stop at nothing to see me killed.
2
I’m convinced of the significance of my destiny, and
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
without the boredom. (Chaotic)
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Control. Everyone is welcome, as long as they follow my rules. (Lawful)
Crystal Dragon Adventures
The Crystal Dragon Adventure Hooks table offers
can be convinced to return.
6
A royal heir goes missing while secretly visiting a crystal dragon. The heir’s family, the heir’s friends, and the dragon all want to find the heir, but
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
is learning, but without the boredom. (Chaotic)
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Control. Everyone is welcome, as long as they follow my rules. (Lawful)
Crystal Dragon Adventures
The Crystal Dragon Adventure Hooks
unless the dragon can be convinced to return.
6
A royal heir goes missing while secretly visiting a crystal dragon. The heir’s family, the heir’s friends, and the dragon all want to
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
ruins. You are part of a savage society that clings desperately to the Old Ways — attuned to nature, full of primal rage, and given short shrift by a world consumed with continuing civilization
.]
3
I’m as stubborn as a batterboar.
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I’m so convinced of my superiority over soft, civilized people that I’ll take great risks to prove it.
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I’m easily
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
1
The tyrant who rules my land will stop at nothing to see me killed.
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I’m convinced of the significance of my destiny, and blind to my shortcomings and the risk of failure.
3
Charlatan
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Player’s Handbook (2014)
weapons of choice.
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I keep multiple holy symbols on me and invoke whatever deity might come in useful at any given moment.
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I pocket anything I see that might have some value.
d6
luxuries faster than I bring them in...
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I’m convinced that no one could ever fool me the way I fool others.
4
I’m too greedy for my own good. I can’t resist taking a risk if
Species
One Grung Above
;s scholars and magic users. They are superior to purple, blue, and green grungs and given proper respect even by grungs of higher status.
Higher castes include orange grungs, which are elite
caste for life. On rare occasions, an individual that distinguishes itself with great deeds can earn an invitation to join a higher caste. Through a combination of herbal tonics and ritual magic, an
races
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
of the fey realm has given them an innate ability to perform, to delight, and to resist magical intrusion. While they’re usually found in the Feywild, satyrs do wander to other planes of
member of the human race or of a fantastical race. If you select a fantastical race, follow these additional rules during character creation.
Ability Score Increases
When determining your character
Dragonborn
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Basic Rules (2014)
to another dragonborn clan before seeking aid from other races—or even from the gods.
Dragonborn Names
Dragonborn have personal names given at birth, but they put their clan names first as a
DRACONIANS
In the Dragonlance setting, the followers of the evil goddess Takhisis learned a vile ritual that let them corrupt the eggs of metallic dragons, producing evil dragonborn called draconians
Folk Hero
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Basic Rules (2014)
.
d6
Flaw
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The tyrant who rules my land will stop at nothing to see me killed.
2
I’m convinced of the significance of my destiny, and blind to my shortcomings and the risk of
Proficiency Bonus
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Characters have a proficiency bonus determined by level, as detailed in chapter 1. Monsters also have this bonus, which is incorporated in their stat blocks. The bonus is used in the rules on ability
checks, saving throws, and attack rolls.
Your proficiency bonus can’t be added to a single die roll or other number more than once. For example, if two different rules say you can add your
Triton
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
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
, leaving the tritons vulnerable to deception. With their strong martial tradition, tritons can sometimes be too eager to leap into a fight.
Strangers to the Surface
Given their isolation, most tritons
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
can be placed in any location. Wherever the players decide to place the talisman, their characters must travel to that location while Vizeran makes his final preparations for the ritual. Given their
Awakened can be convinced to help evacuate the remaining inhabitants if asked. The nearby Darklake creates its own challenges, particularly given the presence of ixitxachitl loyal to Demogorgon. Araj