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Magic Items
Dungeon Masterâs Guide
if the target is a Construct, an Elemental, or a Giant. Immediately after hitting or missing, the weapon flies back to your hand.
Shock Wave. You can take a Magic action to strike the ground with
Whelm and send a shock wave out from the point of impact. Each creature of your choice on the ground within 60 feet of that point must succeed on a DC 20 Constitution saving throw or have the Stunned
Whelm
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Magic Items
Dungeon Masterâs Guide (2014)
attack using it, the target takes an extra 1d8 bludgeoning damage, or an extra 2d8 bludgeoning damage if the target is a giant. Each time you throw the weapon, it flies back to your hand after the
attack. If you donât have a hand free, the weapon lands at your feet.
Shock Wave
You can use an action to strike the ground with Whelm and send a shock wave out from the point of impact. Each
Bugbear
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
wild, and the cast-off members of a gang might eventually catch on with a different group.
Left to their own devices, bugbears have little more impact on the world than wolf packs. They subsist by
in the presence of Skiggaret. Talking about such acts might call him back.
Blessings of the Bugbear Gods
Bugbears have no use for priests or shamans. No one needs to tell them what their gods want
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
characters to the stars and beyond, and there might be no coming back afterward! Orientation throws the characters right into the action. To maximize the impact of part 1 of the adventure, you might
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
of colleges, administrators, and faculty, a single person serves as your primary point of contact, someone who has a significant impact on the nature of your relationship with the university
7 A tired senior professor whose only joy in academia is seeing what you bring back from your adventures 8 An eager researcher who wants to come with you on every adventure because second-hand reports are always incomplete and unsatisfying
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
hunters and traveling merchants. These forays are inspired not only by the raidersâ greed but also by their sinister habit of dragging their victimsâ corpses back to the outpost to conscript them as
zombie guards and workers. When the star fell, it crashed into this outpost. The impact collapsed several tunnels, cutting the derro off from both the surface and the Underdark below. The collapse also
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rrakkma
only visible way out is back through the portal. Lighting This area is well lit. The charging Gith Capacitor creates A LOT of light. Creatures/NPCs A star spawn seer and its guardian star spawn hulk are
spawn seer, the field protecting the ulitharid drops with violence, and the psionic impact causes the Gith Capacitor to explode, slaying the ulitharid and star spawn hulk (if it still lives), and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
, service, or sacrifice. Thassaâs Divine Schemes The Thassaâs Divine Schemes tables offers examples of how the godâs whims might have ruinous impact upon the world. Thassaâs Divine Schemes d4 Scheme
1 After a kraken is sighted near an inhabited island, a fleet prepares to set sail from Meletis to face it. In retribution, Thassa pulls the ocean back from the entire coastline, stranding
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
against their patrons. Nyleaâs Divine Schemes The Nyleaâs Divine Schemes table suggests a few ways in which Nyleaâs whims might impact the mortal world. Nyleaâs Divine Schemes d4 Scheme
1 When
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2 Nylea refuses to turn winter into spring unless Karametra agrees to abolish agriculture and yield all cropland back to the forest.
3 When tensions between Akros and Setessa peak, Nylea
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortuneâs Wheel
, a solitary stone archway, provides a frame for the portal you just passed through. Glittering, deep-blue sand spreads before you in all directions. Great impact divots mark the passage of something
portal, which leads back to Sigil, can be reopened with a piece of lapis lazuli etched with an eye. The surreal nature of the surrounding desert, forest, and hills, as well as the rapid transition
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Masterâs Guide
missing, the weapon flies back to your hand. Shock Wave. You can take a Magic action to strike the ground with Whelm and send a shock wave out from the point of impact. Each creature of your choice on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
can point these facts out. The captain also makes it clear that he suspects the ship is likely to sink during the ten days it would take to tow it back to port. Not all of the shipâs visible damage
is due to time and weather. With a successful DC 15 Intelligence (Nature) check, a character can spot impact damage to the shipâs hull that indicates it recently came under attack from a seagoing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
judgments might have a mythic impact on the mortal world and make divine conflicts more severe rather than less. Kruphixâs Divine Schemes d4 Scheme
1 Shadowy forces steal a holy artifact
altercation between the gods, Kruphix declares a new Silence. He refuses to lift it unless the other gods agree to aid him in forcing Klothys back into the Underworld.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
minutes (two minutes per side). Group C consists of four cultists and four kobolds clustered tightly around the templeâs back door. Their meager fire produces little flame, instead creating prodigious
clouds of thick smoke that engulf the back of the temple and blanket the surrounding 30 feet of ground. Everything in the smoke is lightly obscured, and objects or creatures that are seen through more
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
minutes (two minutes per side). Group C consists of four cultists and four kobolds clustered tightly around the templeâs back door. Their meager fire produces little flame, instead creating prodigious
clouds of thick smoke that engulf the back of the temple and blanket the surrounding 30 feet of ground. Everything in the smoke is lightly obscured, and objects or creatures that are seen through more
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
great NPCs of Faerûn in a way that will not negatively impact the story you want to tell, nor steal the spotlight from the characters. The echoes offer characters the chance to receive advice from
of Faerûn in a way that will not negatively impact the story you want to tell, nor steal the spotlight from the characters. The echoes offer them the chance to receive advice from experienced
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
At the Brine Widow Verity Kye (neutral good, tiefling spy) sits patiently at a table in the back room and makes small talk with the characters if they arrive in ones and twos. Once all the characters
have arrived, Verity asks the last to enter to close the door. To begin this scene, read the following text: The back room in the Brine Widow is well appointed, with a polished wood table, paintings
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Masterâs Guide (2014)
time you throw the weapon, it flies back to your hand after the attack. If you donât have a hand free, the weapon lands at your feet. Shock Wave. You can use an action to strike the ground with Whelm
and send a shock wave out from the point of impact. Each creature of your choice on the ground within 60 feet of that point must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or become stunned for 1
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
web, Derwyth realizes Shalfeyâs messengers intended for her to determine the starâs landing place. She tells the characters she saw the star fall and can approximate its point of impact (see the
-toothed tiger in area H7 and the three giant goats in area H6 to back her up. If Derwyth is defeated, news of the battle quickly spreads to Beasts throughout Cernant Valley, who regard the characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
10-foot-square front room that serves as a kitchen and dining area, and a 10-foot-by-15-foot back room where the residents sleep. 4a. Delfryndel Residence This cottage belongs to the Delfryndels, a
giant rock destroyed the back room of the Osstra residence, and two more rocks are embedded in the garden where the family grew wheat. Goblins searched the home for treasure and dumped everything they
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
death. If the shutdown occurs before they acquire a psi crystal, the gnome ceremorphsâ back-up plan is to activate the nautiloidâs self-destruct system (see area N7) before abandoning ship and making
courses through the shipâs veins. Equipment is scattered everywhere, both from the impact of the crash and because of subsequent repair work. Approaching the Nautiloid As you trudge deeper into a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
the jungle: A frog-like behemoth with four Omuan hunters riding on its back finds a small boy in the jungle. The hunters seem elated. In the foreground, a young woman wearing a frog mask holds a knife
archery and twenty brittle arrows in a rotting leather quiver. Each arrow shatters on impact and deals only 1 piercing damage on a hit. Carvings of froghemoths adorn the bracers, which keep the skin of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
Trek To HâCatha After securing the tyrant ship and capturing the cadet saboteur Miken, the characters wait for the hammerhead ship Flighty Foundling to double back and take Miken into custody. Two
, contact me and let me know, then await further instructions.â
Tarto tosses you a satchel. âThis here is a bag of holding. You can use it to contain the meteorite. The impact site is nearby. If the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richtenâs Guide to Ravenloft
bursts. Focus less on senses and more on descriptions of impactâa splash of crimson, who knows where it came from? Split the charactersâ attention. Roleplay other creatures begging, panicking, and trying
back and forth between them. Encourage everyone to watch even scenes their characters arenât in. Keep these split scenes short, and when an exciting event occurs, cut away and make the players wait for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
in a bottle takes 7 (2d6) lightning damage, emptying the bottle in the process. As an action, a creature can hurl a bottle of lightning up to 30 feet, where it shatters on impact. A creature that
appear on the horizon immediately and take 20 minutes to reach the tower, where they alight on the balcony. Each bird waits patiently for a rider to climb on its back. The giant cranes deliver the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
their outer defenses and militia. Lob and Ogg spent the next month lost in the hills, trying to find their way back to Grudd Haug. When they got there, they told Guh about the âbig farm.â Guh
the wheat field and emerge near a random cluster of grain towers (area G4). Once they realize their mistake, they head back into the field and make their way toward the abbey (area G7). Oren Yogilvy
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
-feathered ravens tear into the flesh of the desolate creature caged within. Underneath the bridge is a worg with a rider on its back. The rider, swathed in cold weather clothing, appears to be a rather fat
. The goblin riding the worg is Snubsuk, the courtyard warden. His job is to lock and unlock the main gate at area K2. The worg charges toward intruders, causing Snubsuk to tumble off the worgâs back and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
might eventually catch on with a different group. Left to their own devices, bugbears have little more impact on the world than wolf packs. They subsist by crafting simple tools and hunting and
they donât relish experiencing it. After the madness has passed, bugbears donât dwell on things that were done in the presence of Skiggaret. Talking about such acts might call him back. Blessings of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
, thereâs a 50 percent chance that the swarm disperses.
4. Green Slime Pot. The kobold throws a clay pot full of green slime at the target, and it breaks open on impact. Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to
-square section of wall or floor within 5 feet of the target.
5. Rot Grub Pot. The kobold throws a clay pot into a 5-foot-square space within 20 feet of it, and it breaks open on impact. A swarm of rot
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
) check to jump safely over it. Moving past the rune otherwise deals 5 (1d10) necrotic damage to a creature and teleports it back to the cavern entrance. The runes remain active until disabled. Planar
Actionsâ and âUsing the Componentsâ below for more information. The goblins spread out, with some hanging back to use their shortbows and others pushing forward into melee. KEEPING THE BATTLE EXCITING
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Masterâs Guide (2014)
begins a new era in the selected region. How does this person or this era begin to affect the world? Here are several things to consider when determining the leaderâs impact on the world: Name one
their fallen leader shifts subtly at first and then changes dramatically as they look back or reminisce about the time before. The fallen leader might have been a benevolent ruler, an influential citizen
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Masterâs Guide (2014)
make the class over- or underpowered. Ask yourself the following questions about a feature youâre replacing: What impact does replacing the feature have on exploration, social interaction, or combat
players using them are comfortable with the fact that you might need to go back and make some changes after seeing them in play. Creating New Class Options Each class has at least one major choice point
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
explodes on impact, creating a cloud of black smoke that fills a 10-foot-radius sphere. The area within the cloud is heavily obscured. A strong wind disperses the cloud, which otherwise remains until the
alone on the starboard couch, his feet on the table and his eyes on the room. He keeps the port couch open for clients and employs two bodyguards. Kasharra, a spined devil, perches on the back of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
cruel patron god. The starâs impact caused the idol to topple and shatter. The fragments are worthless. D5: Collapsed Tunnel A short distance down the corridor, fallen masonry completely blocks the
trying to dig a tunnel back to the Underdark. The collapse killed the derro and laid the zombified hunters to rest. D6: Stolen Goods A few crates are scattered around this room, and two immense golden
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
and the regions around their lairs. Hunting dragons typically fly on a more-or-less circular path out to one edge of their territory and back in a day, traveling about 75 miles in total. Young dragons
combine to make that dragonâs influence felt in the natural world for hundreds of miles. In addition to these magical effects, the dragonâs ongoing presence can have a profound impact on the regionâs