Search Results
All Results
Characters
Compendium
Spells
Items
Monsters
Vehicles
Forums
Returning 35 results for 'culture witness rest'.
Other Suggestions:
cultures witness rest
cultures witness rarest
cultures witness read
cultures witness rush
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
","rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage.
Unsettling Visage (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). Each creature within 30 feet of the changeling must succeed on a DC 13 Wisdom saving throw or
their true identities behind false faces. Their gifts of mimicry allow them to appear as members of any humanoid culture, playing the part of a dwarf one day and a dragonborn the next. Although
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
":"1d8+4","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Quarterstaff","rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage if wielded with two hands.
Summon Swarms of Insects (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest
received several disturbing reports, Queen Ravenovia was forced to banish the midwife from the kingdom. Lysaga never saw Strahd again, but she has succeeded in staying alive to witness the triumphs of
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
Possession (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). The yakfolk attempts to magically possess a humanoid or giant. The yakfolk must touch the target throughout a short rest, or the attempt fails. At
the end of the rest, the target must succeed on a DC 12 Constitution saving throw or be possessed by the yakfolk, which disappears with everything it is carrying and wearing. Until the possession ends
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
Possession (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). The yakfolk attempts to magically possess a humanoid or giant. The yakfolk must touch the target throughout a short rest, or the attempt fails. At
the end of the rest, the target must succeed on a DC 12 Constitution saving throw or be possessed by the yakfolk, which disappears with everything it is carrying and wearing. Until the possession ends
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
witness to a murder but doesn’t want to be found or identified.
2
An emerald dragon seeks heroes to participate in a dramatic reenactment of a legendary battle involving dragon riders
go out of their way to avoid interacting with other intelligent creatures. However, their interest in history and culture occasionally gets the better of them, prompting them to seek some engagement
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
+ 4);{"diceNotation":"1d6+4","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Silvered Shortsword","rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage.
Curse (Recharges after a Long Rest). Ezmerelda targets one creature
":"Curse","rollDamageType":"psychic"} psychic damage.
Evil Eye (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). Ezmerelda targets one creature that she can see within 10 feet of her and casts one of the
Monsters
Vecna: Eve of Ruin
points equal to that amount. The reduction lasts until the target finishes a long rest. The target dies if its hit point maximum is reduced to 0. A Humanoid slain in this way and then buried rises the
.
In Vecna: Eve of Ruin, Kas fools Tasha and Alustriel, two incredibly powerful wizards. In addition to defeating Vecna, Kas desperately wants the wizards to witness and acknowledge his
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
the only witness to a murder but doesn’t want to be found or identified.
2
An emerald dragon seeks heroes to participate in a dramatic reenactment of a legendary battle involving dragon
generally go out of their way to avoid interacting with other intelligent creatures. However, their interest in history and culture occasionally gets the better of them, prompting them to seek some
Magic Items
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
. It desires a wielder who embodies bravery and heroism.
Attunement. The sword allows you to attune to it immediately, without having to take a short rest. The first time you attune to the sword, you
misquote) religious texts.
6
I anger quickly when I witness cruelty or injustice.
7
My praise and trust are earned and never given freely.
8
I like everything clean and organized
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
emerald dragons.
Emerald Dragon Adventure Hooks
d8;{"diceNotation":"1d8","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Adventure Hook"}
Adventure Hook
1
An emerald dragon is the only witness to
their way to avoid interacting with other intelligent creatures. However, their interest in history and culture occasionally gets the better of them, prompting them to seek some engagement with the folk
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
.
Emerald Dragon Adventure Hooks
d8;{"diceNotation":"1d8","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Adventure Hook"}
Adventure Hook
1
An emerald dragon is the only witness to a murder but
avoid interacting with other intelligent creatures. However, their interest in history and culture occasionally gets the better of them, prompting them to seek some engagement with the folk of the world
Feats
Player’s Handbook (2024)
Performance. When you finish a Short or Long Rest, you can give an inspiring performance: a speech, song, or dance. When you do so, choose up to six allies (which can include yourself) within 30 feet
of yourself who witness the performance. The chosen creatures each gain Temporary Hit Points equal to your character level plus the modifier of the ability you increased with this feat.
Yuan-ti Pureblood
Legacy
This doesn't reflect the latest rules and lore.
Learn More
Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
cluster of allied city-states. Conquered neighbors were allowed to keep their leaders and culture so long as they paid tribute, swore allegiance to the victors, and incorporated their conquerors
— yuan-ti make perfect courtiers. And, worse for the rest of us, rulers.
— Elminster
The physical and magical prowess of the yuan-ti empire allowed the former humans to retain their
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
only your tribe’s territory, but also the terrain and natural resources of the rest of the North. You are familiar enough with any wilderness area that you find twice as much food and water as
culture (perhaps even Uthgar himself). Your ideal is a personal choice that probably hews closely to the ethos of your people and certainly doesn’t contradict or compromise what being an
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
vast, sprawling rubblebelts of broken terrain that civilized folk have long abandoned. You can find a suitable place for you and your allies to hide or rest in these areas. In addition, you can find
social niceties. But they do have cherished traditions and values, just as important to them as the different values held by the urban, cosmopolitan culture of Ravnica.
Personality Traits
d8
Triton
Legacy
This doesn't reflect the latest rules and lore.
Learn More
Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
foes when they found them and drove the rest into hiding.
With their foes banished to the deepest reaches of the sea, tritons settled in to watch for any sign of their return. Over time, the tritons
variety of social institutions, kingdoms, and other customs bewildering. For all their proud culture, they remain innocent of the surface world. The typical triton protectorate is tightly regimented
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
investigate in any order. Each crime scene has at least one witness and one potential combat encounter. From these crime scenes, the characters should gather enough clues to point them toward Ruxithid
, the goblins’ leader, without whom the goblins’ crimes would cease. Pursuing Ruxithid takes the characters into Zorzula’s Rest. This section is a traditional dungeon crawl, filled with strange secrets to uncover and dangerous enemies to fight.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
. Bolstering Performance. When you finish a Short or Long Rest, you can give an inspiring performance: a speech, song, or dance. When you do so, choose up to six allies (which can include yourself
) within 30 feet of yourself who witness the performance. The chosen creatures each gain Temporary Hit Points equal to your character level plus the modifier of the ability you increased with this feat.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
rest of Theros. Few have ever dared to attack its famed fortress, the Kolophon, and no attack has ever breached its walls. To the residents of Theros, the Akroans hold near-mythical status: feared
warriors produced by a culture that centers around perfecting the mind and body for war. Their armies have rarely tasted defeat as they expand the borders of Akros, seizing new lands and bounty.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Strahd’s demise, the characters feel drawn to Castle Ravenloft’s overlook (area K6), and there they witness the following scene. Thick clouds fill the sky. Through the chilly morning mists, the land
of Barovia is visible far below. There is peacefulness here. Rest has come to the valley for the first time anyone can remember.
A light flashes behind you. Wheeling around, you see a stately man—a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
enough, they might witness the umber hulks carving out new areas of the dungeon in the blank part of the map. Manipulating Time Having a mechanical guide spend 1 charge in this area causes the umber hulks
to either return here to rest if they are elsewhere, or to depart for the tomb to begin work, opening or closing the stone slab accordingly.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
Ice Hunters The Ice Hunters are nomads that have lived in the North far longer than any other humans. Short, dark-haired, broad-faced, and with light brown skin, they cling stolidly to their culture
tribesfolk to force the rest to obey him out of terror. Using their unsurpassed ability as scouts, they act now as Arauthator’s eyes and ears on the Sea of Moving Ice. Living as thralls, they have no doubt that if they ever leave the iceberg, Arauthator will hunt them down and take horrific revenge.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
challenge of taking on an outcast, but don’t set up one expectation and deliver another. You can establish a monstrous creature as just another culture in your campaign, one that has alliances and
for your campaign. Use them as a starting point for your own ideas. Outcast or Ambassador? Consider how a monstrous character’s native culture views the character. Is the character an outcast, a spy
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
Ice Hunters The Ice Hunters are nomads that have lived in the North far longer than any other humans. Short, dark-haired, broad-faced, and with light brown skin, they cling stolidly to their culture
tribesfolk to force the rest to obey him out of terror. Using their unsurpassed ability as scouts, they act now as Arauthator’s eyes and ears on the Sea of Moving Ice. Living as thralls, they have no doubt that if they ever leave the iceberg, Arauthator will hunt them down and take horrific revenge.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
the gods are worthy of reverence. Such iconoclasts are common among the leonin, but members of any culture can adopt this supernatural gift. The Iconoclast Characteristics table presents suggestions for
protection from evil and good with this trait, targeting only yourself and requiring no material components. Once you do so, you can’t cast it in this way again until you finish a long rest. Wisdom is your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
seemingly idyllic hideaways, the yakfolk rule with iron fists, and for all their learning and culture, they are enormously evil overlords. Yakfolk care for their hapless prisoners only to the extent
)
Possession (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). The yakfolk attempts to magically possess a humanoid or giant. The yakfolk must touch the target throughout a short rest, or the attempt fails. At the end
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
horrors. Inspired by those tales, dwarves of any culture often sing of valorous deeds—especially of the little overcoming the mighty. On some worlds in the multiverse, the first settlements of dwarves
or touching a stone surface to use this Tremorsense. The stone can be natural or worked. You can use this Bonus Action a number of times equal to your Proficiency Bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
forbidding walls separating the Darklake District from the rest of the city stand the docks, markets, and shops where Gracklstugh’s commerce and trade are conducted. The many duergar merchants — along
. At any point during which the characters move from point to point in the Darklake District, they can witness one or more of the following events.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
mortal eyes to witness. Lidia rarely took time to step outside her home and watch the heavens, but now there was no place else to rest her eyes. Tonight the god-forms were vivid, and her heart beat faster
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
hubris. Wood elves tend to be hardier than other elves, more solid and grounded than their cousins. This attitude is reflected in their culture and traditions; wood elves tend more toward physical
, and standing witness to the rise and fall of many elven empires, wood elves see the place of elves in the world differently than moon or sun elves do. Wood elves seek a quiet harmony, not domination
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Changeling Changelings are a humanoid race of shapechangers who conceal their true identities behind false faces. Their gifts of mimicry allow them to appear as members of any humanoid culture
(Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). Each creature within 30 feet of the changeling must succeed on a DC 13 Wisdom saving throw or be frightened for 1 minute. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
subterranean horrors. Inspired by those tales, dwarves of any culture often sing of valorous deeds—especially of the little overcoming the mighty. On some worlds in the multiverse, the first settlements of
stone surface or touching a stone surface to use this Tremorsense. The stone can be natural or worked. You can use this Bonus Action a number of times equal to your Proficiency Bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
land is ruled by Pharaoh Ankhtepot, the immortal intermediary between the mortals and the gods. The pharaoh rules from his pyramid, Pharaoh’s Rest, in the City of the Dead. The people worship a
culture and have survived in an extreme environment. Most of the land’s people have dark hair and a variety of warm skin tones favoring golden to deep brown and black shades, and names with Egyptian
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
. Dwarven history is the focus of her scholarship, but she’s also fascinated with goblin history and culture. This knowledge will help the characters later. Gwyn freely shares her knowledge with the
goblin outpost’s name, Zorzula’s Rest. (This clue can be found either by talking with Ander at Barthen’s Well or by examining the graffiti in the Sleeping Giant.) Goblins’ Purpose. The goblins are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
culture, but they can sometimes seem joyful when at work. They have the typical dwarven appreciation for order, tradition, and impeccable craftsmanship, but their goods are purely utilitarian
rest. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for these spells. Sunlight Sensitivity. You have disadvantage on attack rolls and on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight when you, the target






