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The jagged vertebrae sword of a fishfolk warrior can barely be called a sword. Locals would say it’s better described as a makeshift weapon crafted from a fish skeleton and sea trash. Its poor
vertebrae sword, you can use a bonus action to rake and twist the weapon, breaking off some of the sword’s boney barbs and dealing an extra 1d8 piercing damage. The vertebrae sword can only be used in this way 5 times before it becomes unusable as a weapon.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
you in rare, archaic methods, which draw comments from others. 3 Your teacher is a spy sent to learn your plans.* 4 Your teacher is a wanted criminal. 5 Your teacher is a cruel taskmaster. 6 Your teacher asks for help dealing with a threat. *Might involve a rival
25 gp per workweek. Complications. Complications that arise while training typically involve the teacher. Every ten workweeks spent in training brings a 10 percent chance of a complication, examples
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
the scroll. 4 Due to a strange error in creating the scroll, it is instead a random spell of the same level. 5 The rare parchment you bought for your scroll has a barely visible map on it. 6 A thief attempts to break into your workroom.* *Might involve a rival
spell scroll is a solitary task, unlikely to attract much attention. The complications that arise are more likely to involve the preparation needed for the activity. Every workweek spent scribing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
small dungeon or an encounter (which might involve multiple ability checks or even combat). Let the character of the player who flipped the card be the focus of the day’s events and make any required
ability checks (though another character can help, at your discretion). Whatever choice or challenge you decide the top card represents, the characters’ success or failure while dealing with that situation determines how you read the bottom card.
Yuan-ti Pureblood
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interest of maintaining the strength of their personal bloodline.
The yuan-ti have abandoned their humanity and consider non-serpentine humanoids to be lesser creatures, barely more civilized than
get into places their normal forms couldn’t enter.
Their immunity to poison gives all yuan-ti a tactical advantage in dealing with other creatures. A pureblood serving as a food taster for a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
. Phenax’s servants have a tendency to show up at the most inconvenient times and places. The Phenax’s Quests table suggests a few adventures the god’s champions might involve themselves in. Phenax’s
one of the necropoleis in expanding or dealing with various threats. Plots and schemes are Phenax’s lifeblood, suggesting a complex, shifting campaign full of surprises and twists. For example, a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Dealing with Uldrak Uldrak is a bitter creature who barely remembers his past. Long ago, he learned how to remove his curse, but the solution was so beyond him that he consigned himself to failure
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
rites among the Felhide minotaurs involve devouring those who fell in battle, to remove their shame from memory and fuel the survivors’ revenge. Should another scavenger reach a fallen Felhide before the
, a Ragegore minotaur seems to feel no pain and barely notices wounds that would kill a human. Some Ragegores have been known to fall dead immediately at the cessation of battle, their life sustained
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
or notes). A conflict can be as big or as small as you like, and it’s nice to have at least one conflict that can be resolved quickly. Each conflict should involve the adventurers against some
has a broader reach and represents a greater threat. The threshold of a new tier can also be an opportunity for characters to realize the scale of a conflict they’ve been dealing with—to realize, for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
is a worthy goal, whether it’s done as a means to a greater end or simply to enjoy the disruption caused by radical change. The campaign’s objective might involve determining what Phenax is up to and
thwarting his scheme or, failing that, dealing with the fallout. Whatever the objective, it will require the player characters to confront a being who was clever enough to escape the Underworld
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
representative of the temple. It can be expended to ask the temple for help in dealing with a specific problem, for general political or social support, or to reduce the cost of cleric spellcasting by 50
sect in the temple offers you membership. 4 Another temple tries to recruit you as a spy.* 5 The temple elders implore you to take up a holy quest. 6 You accidentally discover that an important person in the temple is a fiend worshiper. *Might involve a rival
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
the dragon Niv-Mizzet, the Izzet League is a guild of scientists and engineers who build and sustain Ravnica’s infrastructure while conducting wild experiments in magic — efforts that usually involve
barely controlled elemental energy. Orzhov Syndicate. A sinister combination of church, bank, and organized crime syndicate, the Orzhov Syndicate is controlled by the Obzedat, a cabal of ancient
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Getting the Quest The town sits quietly at the foot of Kelvin’s Cairn. A few bundled-up people shuffle between snow-battered houses, keeping their heads down, barely bothering to give you a look as
the characters inquire about a reward for dealing with the thieves, Trovus explains that the town doesn’t have the coin to pay someone to investigate the matter. Most of the valuables in the village have disappeared already, so there’s little left to use as compensation.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
; now roll damage,” “11 points,” and “OK, now we’re to Initiative count 13.” Instead, use the rules and your knowledge of the scene to help your narration. If 18 is barely a hit, but the 11 points of
, boldly proclaim, or hiss the mystic syllables of the spell. Somatic components involve the monster moving its hands (or similar appendages) in graceful patterns, shaping them into angular positions, or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
things they don’t. In a typical D&D session, a DM makes numerous rules decisions—some barely noticeable and others quite obvious. Players also interpret the rules, and the whole group keeps the game
running. There are times, though, when the design intent of a rule isn’t clear or when one rule seems to contradict another. Dealing with those situations is where Sage Advice comes in. This column
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata
typical D&D session, a DM makes numerous rules decisions—some barely noticeable and others quite obvious. Players also interpret the rules, and the whole group keeps the game running. There are times
, though, when the design intent of a rule isn’t clear or when one rule seems to contradict another. Dealing with those situations is where Sage Advice comes in. It doesn’t replace a DM’s adjudication
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
magic here D3. Lonely Crate At the far end of a broken bridge is a mound of earth barely large enough for one person to stand on. A dented metal crate is partially embedded in the mound.
One of the
) fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. Dealing with the Crate. A character who realizes the crate’s orange glow is a bad sign can gently shake the crate to rearrange
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
veteran), a hulking man whose face is almost hidden by a heavy beard streaked with gray. Other than shouting orders at the crew and conversing in low tones with Captain Ortimay, Ruddell barely speaks
guides (see “Finding a Guide”). The harbormaster is a half-gold dragon named Zindar (see appendix D). He’s seldom in this sturdy, airy building, however; most of his time is spent dealing with the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
. An adventure focused on giants as adversaries could involve a sustained battle against giants of a single kind (as each of the individual adventures in Against the Giants did), or it could involve
progression through groups of different kinds of giants (as Against the Giants pitted characters against hill, frost, and fire giants in sequence). Alternatively, an adventure could involve giants of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
different prices to buy or sell every time they are asked about the same items, and insist that the characters dealing with them are the ones changing their terms. A duergar merchant suddenly turns
companions who know the duergar well can guess that these drow won’t want to attract the duergar’s attention to their “lost property.” Doing so would likely involve having to pay the gray dwarves a reward for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
might be compromised. So she addresses the problem by not dealing with it directly, but by trying to encourage her indolent followers to find purpose in meaningful activities that don’t involve plundering
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Demons Spawned in the Infinite Layers of the Abyss, demons are the embodiment of chaos and evil — engines of destruction barely contained in monstrous form. Possessing no compassion, empathy, or
and a day. Demonic Cults. Despite the dark risks involved in dealing with fiends, the mortal realm is filled with creatures that covet demonic power. Demon lords manipulate these mortal servants into
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
cunning of creatures, and they treat all others as inferior. Even so, a hag is open to dealing with mortals as long as those mortals show the proper respect and deference. Over their long lives, hags
. The terms of such bargains typically involve demands to compromise principles or give up something dear — especially if the thing lost diminishes or negates the knowledge gained through the bargain. A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
flooded, with the remains of tables, chairs, and a bar barely protruding above the water’s surface.
Murky water fills this room to a height of 3 feet, making the flooded area difficult terrain for
an oil slick. Characters with a passive Wisdom (Perception) score of 18 or higher notice the oil slick if they can see the water. If flames touch the water, the entire flooded area ignites, dealing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
howls of a young man. Three sputtering campfires fill the tent with smoke, and through the haze you see six Vistani passed out in various places on the dead grass. A barely conscious and shirtless
remaining afterward. Dealing with Luvash. Luvash is unhappy because his seven-year-old daughter, Arabelle, has vanished. She’s been gone for a little more than a day. Because everyone in the camp was drunk
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
Having a character able to speak Deep Crow with the use of a tongues spell or similar magic makes dealing with Raah a lot easier. But if not, don’t be afraid to explore the comedic value of
relationship advice that feels apropos. This might involve roleplaying in more ways than one, as a character takes on the part of a prospective deep crow partner and Raah tries to put the advice into practice
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
behir’s nest includes seven gold feathers worth 100 gp each, 1,520 gp in scattered coins, and a jar containing 4 doses of Keoghtom’s ointment. J7: Scavengers’ Nook This wide cave is barely five feet
; he’s interested only in hunting safely. The grells respect their behir neighbor, which they refer to as a Great Eater. The grells don’t involve themselves in a fight between the characters and the behir
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
reach a steep, snow-covered incline dotted with jagged rocks. Lying facedown in the snow, barely conscious, is a humanoid in bloodstained cold weather clothing.
The figure in the snow is Garret Velryn
part of the chasm. Characters can walk across this ice to avoid area F2 and go directly to area F3. A character can also try to collapse the ice sheet by dealing damage to it. The ice sheet has AC 13
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
any game for a cost of 3 tokens (available from the cashier). You can use any combination of checks and roleplaying you like to represent a character’s attempts to gamble, but each game should involve
year was her turn to host, and she’s regretted every minute of it so far. It’s a lot of pressure dealing with these high-powered undead. Negotiating with the Liches. Lottie (surprised that the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Rod. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d6 + 2) bludgeoning damage. The stonemelder can also expend a spell slot to deal extra damage, dealing 2d8 bludgeoning damage for a
weakness in any form. Therefore, she hates just about everybody, and barely tolerates the other Black Earth cultists. Hellenrae
Medium humanoid (human), lawful evil
Armor Class 16
Hit Points 78
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
action to deal damage to someone who’s moving, do I deny the target the rest of its movement? Dealing damage to a moving target doesn’t halt its movement, unless the damage is accompanied by an ability
first attack is made with a light melee weapon. Shoving a creature is a special melee attack that does not involve the use of a weapon. If a creature is grappled, can it still attack and use its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
. The two bugbears, Jutt and Meff, act as Rasqel’s muscle. Development. If the characters attempt to involve themselves in the altercation, Rasqel rudely orders them to go do things that are possible
that Beshaba sends her favored souls out into the world as a focus for bad luck and calamity, and that dealing with a favored soul of the Lady of Misfortune is a risky situation. Interacting with such
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
Predator Pools The Red Wizards’ plans involve the disruption and control of the Sword Coast’s trade. To that end, the Thayans are spawning an aquatic army. Locations in the Predator Pools are
. The necromancy magic in this pool is intended not to keep it clean but to kill intruders. Any creature that makes an attack dealing radiant damage in this area must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
-dealing sort who knows almost nothing of the current mood and troubles in Red Larch, since he’s so rarely away from his forge. His wife Laefra, who orders metals via the merchants she deals with, hears
chapter 6). 13. Ironhead Arms Three years ago, an old sellsword and caravan guard by the name of Feng Ironhead decided to settle in Red Larch and open a shop dealing in arms and armor, both new and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
-Taya. When Zalkoré is reduced to 63 hit points or fewer, she calls out to her dead lover for protection. The spirit of Thiru-Taya answers the call, appearing as a barely visible 10-foot-tall apparition
her hit points. Once per turn, when a creature within 15 feet of Zalkoré damages her, Thiru-Taya’s apparition unerringly hits the attacker with its spear, dealing 15 (2d8 + 6) force damage to it