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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Creating a New Item If modifying an item doesn’t quite do the trick, you can create one from scratch. A magic item should either let a character do something he or she couldn’t do before, or improve
Max Bonus Common 1st — Uncommon 3rd +1 Rare 6th +2 Very rare 8th +3 Legendary 9th +4 Maximum Spell Level. This column of the table indicates the highest-level spell effect the item should confer, in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
party pass an item around to gain its lasting benefits would be disruptive, the item should require Attunement. Limit Stacking. If the item grants a bonus that other items also grant, it’s a good idea to require Attunement so characters don’t try to collect too many of those items.
Creating a New Item If modifying an item doesn’t quite fulfill the need, you can create one from scratch. A magic item should either let a character do something they couldn’t do before or improve
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
check that uses your proficiency bonus, whereas the other two features activate when you make an ability check that doesn’t use your proficiency bonus. In other words, a check that qualifies for
Reliable Talent doesn’t qualify for Remarkable Athlete or Jack of All Trades. And Remarkable Athlete and Jack of All Trades don’t work with each other, since you can add your proficiency bonus, or any
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
controlling its spectral weapon as a bonus action. That bonus action does not involve casting a spell, despite the fact that it’s granted by a spell, so you can control the weapon and cast whatever spell
, such as healing word, with a bonus action, you can cast another spell with your action, but that other spell must be a cantrip. Keep in mind that this particular limit is specific to spells that use a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
, other than Stealth. If you attack with a shield—most likely as an improvised weapon—do you keep the +2 bonus to AC? Attacking with a shield doesn’t deprive you of the shield’s bonus to AC.
Equipment Does heavy armor reduce Dexterity saving throws or ability checks other than Stealth? If you have proficiency with it, heavy armor doesn’t affect Dexterity saving throws or ability checks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
level determines the gem’s rarity and the stored spell’s saving throw DC and attack bonus, as shown in the Spell Gem table. You can imbue the gem with a spell if you’re attuned to it and it’s empty. To
holding the gem, you can cast the spell from it as an action if you know the spell or if the spell is on your class’s spell list. Doing so doesn’t require any components and doesn’t require attunement
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata
If you attack with a Shield—most likely as an improvised weapon—do you keep the +2 bonus to AC? Attacking with a Shield doesn’t deprive you of the Shield’s bonus to AC.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
princess, who does not reveal her true name, claims to be the only one who can destroy the Queen of Air and Darkness and free the Gloaming Court from that tyrannical ruler. It’s clear that the speaker’s
Tale and tells the characters (truthfully)that she doesn’t know where those ruins are. (She knows that the ghost of the scrivener, whose name was Zyrian, still lingers where the book was found. She
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
The Bonus Doesn’t Stack Your Proficiency Bonus can’t be added to a die roll or another number more than once. For example, if a rule allows you to make a Charisma (Deception or Persuasion) check, you
add your Proficiency Bonus if you’re proficient in either skill, but you don’t add it twice if you’re proficient in both skills. Occasionally, a Proficiency Bonus might be multiplied or divided
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Jack of All Trades Starting at 2nd level, you can add half your proficiency bonus, rounded down, to any ability check you make that doesn’t already include your proficiency bonus.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
, it’s rare for a campus guide to need its own maps, as these gregarious automatons have a gift for finding things on campus, often popping up at the most inopportune times. Strixhaven Campus Guide
, poisoned
Senses blindsight 60 ft., passive Perception 11
Languages Common plus any three languages
Challenge 1 (200 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2
Campus Knowledge. While at Strixhaven, the guide can’t
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Boo’s Astral Menagerie
Astral Elf Star Priest Star priests draw their strength from the pantheon of elven gods and oversee religious practices in astral elf society. It’s common for them to serve aboard spelljamming ships
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 15
Languages Celestial, Common, Elvish
Challenge 5 (1,800 XP) Proficiency Bonus +3
Fey Ancestry. The elf has advantage on saving throws it makes to avoid
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
The Bonus Doesn’t Stack Your Proficiency Bonus can’t be added to a die roll or another number more than once. For example, if a rule allows you to make a Charisma (Deception or Persuasion) check, you
add your Proficiency Bonus if you’re proficient in either skill, but you don’t add it twice if you’re proficient in both skills. Occasionally, a Proficiency Bonus might be multiplied or divided
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
holding the gem, you can cast the spell from it as an action if you know the spell or if the spell is on your class’s spell list. Doing so doesn’t require any components and doesn’t require attunement
. The spell then disappears from the gem. Spell Gem Max. Spell Level Gemstone Rarity Save DC Attack Bonus
Cantrip Obsidian Uncommon 13 +5
1st Lapis lazuli Uncommon 13 +5
2nd
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Jack of All Trades Starting at 2nd level, you can add half your proficiency bonus, rounded down, to any ability check you make that doesn’t already include your proficiency bonus.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
the bonus feat specified in that background. If the background you choose doesn’t provide a feat, you gain a bonus feat of your choice from the following list (these feats appear in the Player’s Handbook): Skilled Tough
Bonus Feats If the DM decides to allow the giant foundling and rune carver backgrounds, all characters in the campaign gain access to a bonus feat. If you select one of those backgrounds, you gain
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Mace of Smiting Weapon (Mace), Rare You gain a +1 bonus to attack rolls and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. The bonus increases to +3 when you use the weapon to attack a Construct. When you
roll a 20 on an attack roll made with this weapon, the target takes an extra 7 Bludgeoning damage, or 14 Bludgeoning damage if it’s a Construct. If a Construct has 25 Hit Points or fewer after taking this damage, it is destroyed.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Mace of Smiting Weapon (Mace), Rare You gain a +1 bonus to attack rolls and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. The bonus increases to +3 when you use the weapon to attack a Construct. When you
roll a 20 on an attack roll made with this weapon, the target takes an extra 7 Bludgeoning damage, or 14 Bludgeoning damage if it’s a Construct. If a Construct has 25 Hit Points or fewer after taking this damage, it is destroyed.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
wearing. Does natural armor cap a creature’s Dexterity bonus? Natural armor doesn’t limit a creature’s Dexterity bonus. A monster is immune to damage from nonmagical bludgeoning weapons. Does it still
attack to make, either an attack in its stat block or a generic attack, like an unarmed strike. Multiattack doesn’t qualify, not only because it’s more than one attack, but also because the rule on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Mace of Smiting Weapon (mace), rare You gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. The bonus increases to +3 when you use the mace to attack a construct. When you roll a
20 on an attack roll made with this weapon, the target takes an extra 7 bludgeoning damage, or 14 bludgeoning damage if it’s a construct. If a construct has 25 hit points or fewer after taking this damage, it is destroyed.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
Crossbow Expert Is it intentional that the second benefit of Crossbow Expert helps ranged spell attacks? Yes, it’s intentional. When you make a ranged attack roll within 5 feet of an enemy, you
fact that the weapon has the ammunition property. The latter property requires you to have a bolt to fire from the hand crossbow, and the hand crossbow isn’t going to load itself (unless it’s magical
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Cloak of Many Fashions Wondrous item, common While wearing this cloak, you can use a bonus action to change the style, color, and apparent quality of the garment. The cloak’s weight doesn’t change
. Regardless of its appearance, the cloak can’t be anything but a cloak. Although it can duplicate the appearance of other magic cloaks, it doesn’t gain their magical properties.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Cloak of Many Fashions Wondrous Item, Common While wearing this cloak, you can take a Bonus Action to change the style, color, and apparent quality of the garment. The cloak’s weight doesn’t change
. Regardless of its appearance, the cloak can’t be anything but a cloak. Although it can duplicate the appearance of other magic cloaks, it doesn’t gain their magical properties.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
average level goes up, the sidekick gains a level. It doesn’t matter how much of the group’s recent adventures the sidekick experienced; the sidekick levels up because of a combination of the
killed outright, it falls unconscious and subsequently makes death saving throws, just like a player character. Proficiency Bonus The sidekick’s proficiency bonus is determined by its level in its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation Supplement
, however; it gives you a base AC of 17 (your Dexterity modifier doesn’t affect this number). You gain no benefit from wearing armor, but if you are using a shield, you can apply the shield’s bonus as normal
orderly, ritualistic lives. They develop customs and routines, becoming more set in their ways as they age. Most are lawful good. A few can be selfish and greedy, tending more toward evil, but it’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Cloak of Many Fashions Wondrous Item, Common While wearing this cloak, you can use a bonus action to change the style, color, and apparent quality of the garment. The cloak’s weight doesn’t change
. Regardless of its appearance, the cloak can’t be anything but a cloak. Although it can duplicate the appearance of other magic cloaks, it doesn’t gain their magical properties. Cloak of Many Fashions
Dread Helm
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata
Bonus Cantrip (pg. 61) The following sentence has been added to the end of this paragraph: “This cantrip doesn’t count against the number of cleric cantrips you know.”
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata
Bonus Cantrip (pg. 68) The following sentence has been added to the end of this paragraph: “This cantrip doesn’t count against the number of druid cantrips you know.”
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
repelling attacks by sahuagin, pirates, and other waterborne threats. What is it with people and the weather?
It’s just the sky weeping and shouting because it’s so far away from me.
Storm Sorcery
Magic Starting at 1st level, you can use a bonus action on your turn to cause whirling gusts of elemental air to briefly surround you, immediately before or after you cast a spell of 1st level or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
Polearm Master Can I add my Strength modifier to the damage of the bonus attack that Polearm Master gives me? Yes. If you have the feat and use the Attack action to attack with a glaive, halberd, or
quarterstaff, you can also strike with the weapon’s opposite end as a bonus action. For that bonus attack, you add your ability modifier to the attack roll, as you do whenever you attack with that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
Ability Checks Are attack rolls and saving throws basically specialized ability checks? They aren’t. It’s easy to mistake the three rolls as three faces of the same thing, because they each involve
if you choose Constitution, the spell’s target doesn’t suffer disadvantage when trying to maintain concentration on a spell, since concentration requires a Constitution saving throw, not a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
. (blind beyond this radius), passive Perception 10
Languages understands Common and Druidic but doesn’t speak
Challenge 7 (2,900 XP) Proficiency Bonus +3
False Appearance. If the blight is
severed by dealing 6 or more slashing damage to it on one attack. Cutting the root doesn’t hurt the blight but ends the grapple.
Bonus Actions
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature grappled by the blight. Hit: 19 (3d8 + 6) piercing damage.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Boo’s Astral Menagerie
secreted by the leech. The shell grows until it’s about 1 foot in diameter. The leech inside is reddish-purple in color, with a body resembling that of a snail. It has a single watery eye at one end
spelljamming helm. It can discharge this magic from time to time as a defensive measure. If the crew of a ship becomes aware of leeches that have become attached, it’s customary for them to try to scrape
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata
Polearm Master Can I add my Strength modifier to the damage of the bonus attack that Polearm Master gives me? Yes. For the feat’s bonus attack, you add your ability modifier to the attack roll, as
, might break the general rule by telling you not to add your ability modifier to the damage. Polearm Master doesn’t have such a rule.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
the answer to a riddle, Dolora calls out the name of the person it’s about unprompted (for example, as soon as the character says “mother” aloud, Dolora calls out “Delia”). Charisma (Intimidation) DC
15. The character frightens Dolora into divulging information. She tells the character that she remembers the names of people she knew. Dolora also reveals that it’s important that their names be