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Player’s Handbook
Choose a pile of bones or a corpse of a Medium or Small Humanoid within range. The target becomes an Undead creature: a Skeleton if you chose bones or a Zombie if you chose a corpse.
On each of your
at the same time, issuing the same command to each one). You decide what action the creature will take and where it will move on its next turn, or you can issue a general command, such as to guard a
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
reek is outdone only by the creature’s breath, which issues from a maw that drips fluid corrupted with rot and digestive juices. In place of fangs, a leucrotta has bony ridges as hard as steel
that can crush bones and lacerate flesh. These plates are so tough that a leucrotta can use them to peel plate armor away from the body of a slain knight.
A leucrotta’s stench would normally warn
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
This spell creates an undead servant. Choose a pile of bones or a corpse of a Medium or Small humanoid within range. Your spell imbues the target with a foul mimicry of life, raising it as an undead
creature. The target becomes a skeleton if you chose bones or a zombie if you chose a corpse (the GM has the creature's game statistics).
On each of your turns, you can use a bonus action to mentally
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
Members of the Azorius Senate tend toward a demeanor of cold dignity and a pragmatic, orderly nature. Steeped in the law as they are, their ideals and priorities revolve around legal issues.
Personality
complimented me on my work.
Non-Azorius Contacts
d10
Contact
1
Roll an additional Azorius contact; you can decide if the contact is an ally or a rival.
2
The person who
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Market Investigations Once the characters decide to look into the events at the Tyenmo and Xungoon shops, they’re free to start their investigation. A character who visits one of the shops and spends
business isn’t for outsiders. We keep our issues to ourselves.” During initial investigations, other shop owners refuse to speak about the Tyenmo-Xungoon rivalry or strangeness at their stalls
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Choose a pile of bones or a corpse of a Medium or Small Humanoid within range. The target becomes an Undead creature: a Skeleton if you chose bones or a Zombie if you chose a corpse (see appendix B
creatures, you can command any of them at the same time, issuing the same command to each one). You decide what action the creature will take and where it will move on its next turn, or you can issue a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
undead servant. Choose a pile of bones or a corpse of a Medium or Small humanoid within range. Your spell imbues the target with a foul mimicry of life, raising it as an undead creature. The target
becomes a skeleton if you chose bones or a zombie if you chose a corpse (the DM has the creature’s game statistics). On each of your turns, you can use a bonus action to mentally command any creature
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
undead servant. Choose a pile of bones or a corpse of a Medium or Small humanoid within range. Your spell imbues the target with a foul mimicry of life, raising it as an undead creature. The target
becomes a skeleton if you chose bones or a zombie if you chose a corpse (the DM has the creature’s game statistics). On each of your turns, you can use a bonus action to mentally command any creature
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Choose a pile of bones or a corpse of a Medium or Small Humanoid within range. The target becomes an Undead creature: a Skeleton if you chose bones or a Zombie if you chose a corpse (see “Creature
multiple creatures, you can command any of them at the same time, issuing the same command to each one). You decide what action the creature will take and where it will move on its next turn, or you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
blends horridly with a stench that burns your nostrils. The awful odor comes out of an open, upright barrel in the center of the room.
Warmth issues from a brick oven against one wall, and a crumbling
human bones litter the flagstone floor. Baking in the oven are a dozen dream pastries. Morgantha checks on them every 10 minutes. The staircase curls up to area O2. The barrel holds glistening
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Optional Encounter: Ghost of Pfingston Nezzelech When the characters decide to leave the Daask excavation site and return to the City of Towers, Old Sharn’s ruins reveal one final surprise. The ghost
corner. Upon finding his bones, Pfingston looks amazedly about at the party before fading away. Anyone who assisted him gains advantage on Wisdom (Perception) or Intelligence (Investigation) skill checks for the next 24 hours.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
help you arbitrate issues as they arise. When in doubt, make it up. It’s better to keep the game moving than to get bogged down in the rules. Embrace the shared story. D&D is about telling a story as a
. It’s not a competition. The DM isn’t competing against the player characters. Your job is to referee the rules, run monsters, and keep the story moving. Be consistent and fair. If you decide that a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
issues as they come up.
When in doubt, make it up! It’s better to keep the game moving than to get bogged down in the rules.
It’s not a competition. The DM isn’t competing against the player
their characters. Dungeons & Dragons is about imagination and coming together to tell a story as a group. Let the players participate in the storytelling.
Be consistent. If you decide that a rule
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
foul stench. This reek is outdone only by the creature’s breath, which issues from a maw that drips fluid corrupted with rot and digestive juices. In place of fangs, a leucrotta has bony ridges as hard
as steel that can crush bones and lacerate flesh. These plates are so tough that a leucrotta can use them to peel plate armor away from the body of a slain knight. A leucrotta’s stench would normally
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a7
thin stream of smoke issues from a tiny vent in its brass stopper. On the southern wall stands a granite sarcophagus that appears to be damaged. Flanking the sarcophagus are two large iron chests
inner shell, a few bones, destroyed jewelry (the stones pried out), torn bits of robes and windings, dust, and a broken staff of the magi (evident from the runes upon it). A shattered skull will roll
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
, the floor forms a craterlike depression filled with inky muck. From the center of the pit rises a jagged amber monolith. A faint glow issues from within, backlighting a vague, elusive shape.
The
and don’t leave area 31. Destroying the monolith causes the limbs and the vestige within to vanish without a trace. Whether the vestige is destroyed or released is for you to decide. Mark of the Raven
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
this area: Nervous Unkh suggests that her host leave the tomb at once using one of the teleportation runes, though she can’t decide which rune is best. Impulsive Wongo thinks it’s a good idea to shatter
check. The bones of a kamadan (Shagambi’s animal form; see appendix D) are bound in cloth inside the sarcophagus, along with valuables (see “Treasure” below). Treasure The following treasures are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Plea for Help The characters start their adventure in an old tavern, the details of which are for you to decide. To a party of seasoned adventurers such as yourselves, what you see is but another
damp, cobbled pavement glistens as the lights of street lanterns dance across the slick stones. The fog chills the bones and shivers the soul of anyone outside.
Yet inside these tavern walls the food
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
bag, making sure that whatever is inside it is dead. Body Bag The leather body bag can be cut open to reveal an unconscious prisoner, whose identity is yours to decide. It might be Artus Cimber
), “Mind the bones!” If the characters are searching for treasure, another nothic performs the same actions as above, except it shouts, “Follow the purple trail!”
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
the Red Dragon Army, reducing them to inanimate bones. Any other threats the characters are contending with remain, but the characters have succeeded in their primary mission. Now they must escape the
into darkness. He doesn’t appear again in this adventure, and it will take exceptional coercion for Soth to ally with the Dragon Armies in the future. Escape Routes Allow the characters to decide how
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
issues from a maw that drips fluid corrupted with rot and digestive juices. In place of fangs, a leucrotta has bony ridges as hard as steel that can crush bones and lacerate flesh. These plates are so
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
, a dais stands before a limestone door inscribed with symbols and glyphs that glow dimly. Framing the door, the crystallized bones of a dragon are embedded in the wall, its wings outstretched
the characters, she bargains with them or issues threats to make them use the golem’s sapphire heart to open the door to the vault. If the fight goes poorly for the characters and they helped Ogruhl
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
state of shock. Who could unleash such power? Was this a weapon, and if so, when would those responsible issues their demands? Were the borders of the lingering walls of mist stable, or could they
Mourning? A DM running an Eberron campaign can decide the cause of the Mourning or leave it as a mystery that will never be solved. People in Eberron have many theories about the cause of the Mourning
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
franchise features, paying staff, creating merchandise with proper branding, settling legal issues, and more are all encompassed by the baseline cost for a franchise’s headquarters, a multiplier from
3,000 gp
Large castle or palace 12,000 gp
Some characters might decide to maintain more than one headquarters for their franchise, or to control additional sites as part of the franchise’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
Beast Dens Bones are piled against the western walls of this cavern, forming low mounds.
Creatures. Two adult displacer beasts dwell here with three reduced-threat displacer beasts (see “Reduced
-Threat Monsters” above). Each creature sits atop a different bone mound, and they all attack when it becomes clear that the characters have not brought food. Bone Piles. These 1-foot-high piles of bones
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
and take his power. Instead, Jergal calmly abdicated his throne of bones and allowed each of the three mortals to take part of his divinity. Thus it was that Bane assumed the portfolio of strife, Myrkul
participate for part of the prize. Bane, Bhaal, and Myrkul again fell to fighting, as it was obvious their sport had been ruined, but again Jergal intervened. “Why don’t you allow Lady Luck to decide
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
a pile of bones. 2. Antechamber The scent of warm, humid rot smothers this dismal chamber. Mosaics cover the walls, their colors faded and images scrambled by lost tiles. A thick layer of mud covers
there, but because of the hundreds of stray bones that lie beneath the water—the remains of animals sacrificed to Phenax. More than the dead dwell in Orestes’s tomb, though. Lampads. Two unsettlingly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
made of bones, horns, claws, or teeth taken from enemies
17 Extra horns or spines
18 Elongated, fang-like teeth, or extra rows of teeth
19 Sharpened or serrated scales
20
. Consider these examples: Change Shape. You can decide that a dragon acquires this action at a younger age than usual, particularly if you want to feature a dragon in Humanoid form in your campaign. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
take years, decades, or centuries to come to fruition. A lich is a gaunt and skeletal humanoid with withered flesh stretched tight across its bones. Its eyes succumbed to decay long ago, but points of
of the lich drains from it, leaving only a lifeless corpse behind. Within days, a new body reforms next to the lich’s phylactery, coalescing out of glowing smoke that issues from the device. Because
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
. In this dark comedy, three sailors, shipwrecked in the ocean, cling to a coffin. 4 The Lich King’s Revel. A lich king cannot decide which of his three living sons should rule his kingdom, so he throws
Island of Death in an Ocean of Tears. Explorers arrive on an island littered with bones. It takes them years to realize they’re all dead. Endelyn Moongrave (see appendix B for her stat block) is not
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
-sloping tunnel that descends 100 feet before opening onto area 1 of the lower level (see map 6.4). 11. Cave of Bones This place is the disposal area for unwanted bodies and similar refuse tossed into
the place by the various giants in the upper area. If the characters decide to look through the refuse, it takes 10 minutes to search a 10-foot-square area, and the toads from area 12 come into the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
) necrotic damage, turning to dust and bones if reduced to 0 hit points. Adjust the following text if the creatures in this room have already been encountered and destroyed. This room has walls of glazed
gift must eat bones or grave dirt to survive. At dawn, if the creature has not eaten at least 1 pound of bones or grave dirt in the past 24 hours, it dies. South Sarcophagus. The vestige within this
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation Supplement
human faces and crude jewelry made from human bones and teeth. Chwinga A chwinga (see Tomb of Annihilation) takes an interest in the characters. It attempts to steal something valuable from an
Characters spot the slimy trail of a flail snail (see Tomb of Annihilation or Volo’s Guide to Monsters). If they decide to follow it, a successful DC 10 Wisdom (Survival) check correctly deduces which
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
a human’s eye. The cell doors face a stone pillar. Hanging from a hook on the pillar is a ring of keys. Cells. When the Cassalanters decide to sacrifice humans in their rituals, they lure homeless
sarcophagi contain nothing but dust and bones. The spirits of several dead members of the Cassalanter family are bound to this crypt. They manifest as three dark, vaporous specters plus a ghost that looks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
assaulting the walls of Caerdoon, and their moss-covered bones rest at the bottom of the fortress’s moat. Shield of the Fallen. When a creature not approved by Murgaxor moves within 10 feet of the moat, a
glistening muscle, ashen skin, and yellowed bone. Oily vapor issues from six mouths on the surface of the sphere, which sits pulsing on the ground.
A character who examines the sphere and succeeds on a