counting relation game to have reflective

4. Reaction Timing

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

4. Reaction Timing Certain game features let you take a special action, called a reaction, in response to an event. Making opportunity attacks and casting the shield spell are two typical uses of

reactions. If you’re unsure when a reaction occurs in relation to its trigger, here’s the rule: the reaction happens after its trigger, unless the description of the reaction explicitly says otherwise. Once you take a reaction, you can’t take another one until the start of your next turn.

Chapter 4: Creating Nonplayer Characters

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

innkeeper, the old wizard who lives in the tower on the outskirts of town, the death knight out to destroy the kingdom, and the dragon counting gold in its cavernous lair. This chapter shows you how

to flesh out nonplayer characters for your game. For guidelines on generating monster-like stat blocks for an NPC, see chapter 9, "Dungeon Master’s Workshop."

Miniatures

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

Miniatures Often, players can rely on your descriptions to imagine where their characters are in relation to their surroundings and their enemies. Certain combat encounters, however, can benefit from

while keeping the easy counting of a grid. Dungeon corridors with straight walls and right angles don’t map easily onto hexes, though. Creature Size and Space A creature’s size determines how much space

The Material Plane

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

the worlds of D&D exist within the Material Plane, making it the starting point for most campaigns and adventures. The rest of the multiverse is defined in relation to the Material Plane. The worlds of

abandoned. The best-known worlds in the multiverse are the ones that have been published as official campaign settings for the D&D game over the years — Greyhawk, Blackmoor, Dragonlance, the Forgotten

Chapter 3: Balance

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things

different from rolling dice? And how can Dungeon Masters make interesting use of those differences? This chapter addresses some of the unique randomizing elements cards can provide, even for a game that

card spread, each card’s intrinsic meaning changes depending on whether that card is upright or reversed (top oriented downward), or where it lies in relation to other cards in a spread. Stacked Deck

Using Miniatures

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

Using Miniatures In combat, players can often rely on your descriptions to visualize where their characters are in relation to their surroundings and their enemies. Some complex battles, however, are

hexagons (often called hexes), which combines the easy counting of a grid with the more flexible movement of using no grid. Dungeon corridors with straight walls and right angles don’t map easily onto hexes

Platinum Room Locations

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

placard above the desk spell out “Bets,” “Submissions,” and “Enjoy Dungeonland!” Dungeonland is a game that takes place on a rocky cluster drifting in the Ethereal Plane. Participants watch a group of

adventurers navigate a deadly dungeon and place bets on whether the adventurers will survive or die. The characters can influence the game by submitting magic items, which appear in the dungeon for the

Madness

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

break the psyche of a character who uses or becomes attuned to them. Resisting a madness-inducing effect usually requires a Wisdom or Charisma saving throw. If your game includes the Sanity score (see

a specific activity over and over, such as washing hands, touching things, praying, or counting coins. 11–20 The character experiences vivid hallucinations and has disadvantage on ability checks. 21

Ziggurat Locations, Tier 5

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase

Guardroom Two disheveled humans in stylized rat masks and red robes trimmed with rat fur crouch over a small chest, chattering and counting coins. In the northeast corner of the room, stairs lead downward

Dice Game. The gamblers are playing an ancient dice game called Madarua’s harvest. They welcome the characters to join in. The buy-in is 5 gp per game. The game’s rules are as follows: Each

Goliaths

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

seen a goliath, and fewer still to have forged a friendship with one. Goliaths love to compete and keep score, counting up their deeds and tallying their accomplishments to compare to what others

, Elanithino, Gathakanathi, Kalagiano, Katho-Olavi, Kolae-Gileana, Ogolakanu, Thuliaga, Thunukalathi, Thuunlakalaga Goliath Player Characters With your consent, any player in your game can play a goliath

Tool Descriptions

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

arise in relation to geographic locations, are familiar to you. Craft a Map. While traveling, you can draw a map as you go in addition to engaging in other activity. Cartographer’s Tools Activity DC

DC Mimic handwriting 15 Duplicate a wax seal 20 Gaming Set Proficiency with a gaming set applies to one type of game, such as Three-Dragon Ante or games of chance that use dice. Components. A gaming

Supernatural Regions

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

bleeding also stops if the target receives magical healing. 47–52 Mirrors and other highly reflective surfaces allow magical transport while in the region. Any creature that touches its reflection in an

, requiring no components but using a mirror or other reflective surface. 59–64 The skin of one random creature in the region becomes silvery and reflective for the next 24 hours. For the duration, that

Redbrand Hideout Locations

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

succeeds on a DC 10 Wisdom (Perception) check hears the villains playing a game of knucklebones. Rattling sounds are followed by shouts and groans, and then a gabble of voices as wagers are paid. If the

the tabletop between them. Two Redbrand ruffians (see appendix A) and two human bandits, all members of the Redbrands, are playing knucklebones when the characters enter. The game isn’t far from

Fane Locations

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

wears ring mail (AC 14). Roleplaying the Giants. The giants, Karg and Maul, pass the time playing a game akin to Tic-Tac-Toe, using rocks of different colors. Maul is frustrated because he has been

losing to Karg. When the party arrives, he calls out, “I wanna play dese li’l guys! Hey, puny-bones! Wanna play?” If a character accepts the challenge, resolve the outcome of each game with an

Upper Palace Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

an alcove on the north wall. Cold, spectral mist hangs motionless in front of the mirror’s reflective surface and covers the floor beneath it. Zybilna brought mortals before this mirror, where they

suspect that Zybilna and Iggwilv might be one and the same, since Iggwilv’s passion for the game is well known to Graz’zt and his underlings. P46. Dressing Room This chamber is a walk-in wardrobe

Illithinoch Locations

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

goblins drank in a recent game of drink-or-dare. Rift in Reality. The rift leads into the Far Realm to a location called the Feeder Trenches. The Feeder Trenches are described in the “Far Realm Rifts

are hundreds of years old, dating from the time of the mind flayers’ domination of the Underdark. When grasped, a crystal replays a short psychic scene in its reflective interior. A crystal takes 10

Chromatic Dragons

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)

surroundings. Its wings have a dappled pattern, darker near the leading edges and lighter toward the trailing edges. A green dragon’s legs are longer in relation to its body than with any other dragon

dragon’s lair serve as the dragon’s eyes and ears. Deer and other large game are strangely absent, hinting at the presence of an unnaturally hungry predator. If the dragon dies, the rodents and birds lose

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