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Returning 35 results for 'engage rest'.
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Short or Long Rest). The satyr fires an arrow that magically transforms into a flurry of missiles in a 30-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a DC 14 Dexterity saving throw, taking 17 (5d6
through endless games of skill. Once a threat is overcome, though, satyrs are quick to engage in their favorite part of battle: the victory celebration.
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
":"Tentacle"}. This reduction lasts until the target finishes a short or long rest. The target dies if its hit point maximum is reduced to 0.
Possess Corpse (Recharge 6);{"diceNotation":"1d6
that terrorize mortals on the Material Plane by possessing corpses and giving them a semblance of life, after which the demons use them to engage in a range of sordid activities.
In their natural form
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
or its hit point maximum is reduced by an amount equal to the necrotic damage taken. This reduction lasts until the target finishes a long rest. The target dies if its hit point maximum is reduced to
engage with the world, though; nightwalkers exist to make life extinct, and they prioritize anything associated with the trapped creature for destruction.Necrotic, PoisonAcid, Cold, Fire, Lightning, Thunder; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks
Bugbear
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
wandering children unless they clearly have something to gain by doing so. From the viewpoint of the rest of the world, their aggression and savagery are thankfully offset by their rarity and lethargy
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Shiftless, Savage Layabouts
When they’re not in battle, bugbears spend much of their time resting or dozing. They don’t engage in crafting or agriculture to any great extent, or
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
restrictions (see “Alterations to Magic”).
Arcane Recovery (1/Day). When he finishes a short rest, Halaster recovers all his spell slots of 5th level and lower.
Legendary Resistance (3
short or long rest. Halaster has the following wizard spells prepared:
Cantrips (at will): dancing lights, fire bolt, light, mage hand, prestidigitation
1st level (4 slots): mage armor, magic missile
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
; Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). If Hythonia is reduced to 0 hit points, she doesn’t die or fall unconscious. Instead, she sheds her skin, regains 199 hit points, and moves up to her speed
. After encouraging them to engage in wild rituals, Hythonia began turning her followers to stone, weaving their forms to create a grisly throne made of their petrified bodies.
While the medusa&rsquo
Kobold
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lay up to six eggs per year, and an egg matures for two to three months before it hatches.
Kobolds don’t engage in funeral ceremonies; a dead kobold’s body is burned or disposed of in
the hatchery. If a particularly important or respected member of a tribe dies, the hatchery is closely monitored. The next egg laid is immediately separated from the rest and carefully protected. Once
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
good are all examples of rivals. A rival’s agenda changes over time. Though the characters engage in downtime only between adventures, their rivals rarely rest, continuing to spin plots and work against the characters even when the characters are off doing something else.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Rest Variants The rules for short and long rests presented in chapter 8 of the Player’s Handbook work well for a heroic-style campaign. Characters can go toe-to-toe with deadly foes, take damage to
within an inch of their lives, yet still be ready to fight again the next day. If this approach doesn’t fit your campaign, consider the following variants. Epic Heroism This variant uses a short rest
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
can move on to the next one. You can often gloss over hours of travel with a quick narrative summary (see the “Travel” section in chapter 2 for more advice). Similarly, if a rest period passes
and return to the action as quickly as possible. Expect players to discuss the events of the game, spend time planning, and engage in long conversations in character. You don’t need to be involved in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
area Y7), if she’s still alive. Within a few minutes, the spyder-fiends in Pandesmos instinctively realize their general has been sealed away again. They desert their posts to engage in vicious
the characters if Miska has been sealed or the Rod of Seven Parts is gone. Characters who keep their presence hidden have enough time to take a short rest. If the characters do something more
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
pulquería glance at you curiously.
The dwarves are revolutionaries (veterans) who hang out in the tavern to protect Paloma. They won’t engage the characters unless Paloma or Rufina is threatened. Rufina
characters who are hungry and has a spare room if anyone needs to rest. Characters who chat with Rufina learn the following: The mural was painted by Rufina and is an abstraction of San Citlán’s history
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
works the same as travel on foot, as described in the Player’s Handbook. A creature that serves as a flying mount must rest 1 hour for every 3 hours it flies, and it can’t fly for more than 9 hours per
indicates a non-flying monster, unless the characters are flying close enough to the ground to be targeted by non-flying creatures making ranged attacks. Characters have normal chances to spot creatures on the ground and can decide whether to engage them.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
can move on to the next one. You can often gloss over hours of travel with a quick narrative summary. Similarly, if a rest period passes uneventfully, tell the players that and move on. Don’t make the
players to discuss the events of the game, spend time planning, and engage in long conversations in character. You don’t need to be involved in those discussions unless they have questions for you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Divine Contention
). The sailors are focused on the task of sailing the ship and engage with the characters as little as possible. While the characters are aboard, the drow spend most of their time working on the decks
of the ships, but might retreat below deck to eat, rest, or get a break from the light of day. Each ship has six officers: a captain, a first mate, a bosun, a quartermaster, a surgeon, and a cook. Each
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
starry silver clouds of the Astral Sea.
The ship’s spelljammer need only think about the destination—Doomspace—to travel there. The Astral Sea takes care of the rest, with the ship arriving at the
edge of Doomspace in 21 days. Bonding with the Crew As they travel to Doomspace, the characters can engage with other crew members. Commodore Krux, Grimzod Gargenhale, and Topolah are particularly fun
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
restricted to the Darklake District, and the characters have better luck asking other outsiders for directions rather than trying to engage the duergar locals. They are directed to the Blade Bazaar if
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Icehorn Mountains separate the Demon Wastes from the Eldeen Reaches. A series of canyons known as the Labyrinth further separate the Demon Wastes from the rest of Khorvaire. Due to ancient warding magic
mortal inhabitants of the Demon Wastes include a brutal people known as the Carrion Tribes. Each tribe is devoted to an archfiend, and they engage in endless battles against the Ghaash’kala and the other
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
the temple from area 1 or 23 and behave as you desire.
The temple is a living community. Outside combat, inhabitants move between chambers, feed, wash, rest, and engage in all the villainous deceptions of yuan-ti life. You can use the Temple Reinforcements table to simulate this.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Borderlands Quest: Goblin Trouble
, except Sprika, fire arrows from their Shortbows on their first turn, then move to engage in melee combat. Sprika prefers to lead from the back of the group, stowing her “magic stick” and continuing to use
her Shortbow unless threatened in melee. The giant centipede moves to the nearest character and attacks. Sprika refuses to surrender. If Sprika is killed, the rest of the goblins flee the caves. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
. Choose a target the characters have to travel to reach and allow enough time that the party can get there just in time. The Warning. While the characters rest, the cultists use a dream spell to
Beliard is real. The cultists wait a couple of miles outside of town, staying out of sight until the specified time of the attack. If the characters search the outskirts of town, they can engage the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rrakkma
statue.
EXPLORATION
If the adventurers investigate they notice the tops of the statues are oddly flattened, as they were built to have a descending ceiling rest upon them.
SOCIAL
Once released from
the statue, the eidolon begins a tirade of insults and threats. If the characters engage the creature in conversation while fighting the allips they can learn of the deal the creature made with the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Cannith, lest we forget — are living people with souls, deserving of the same rights as the rest of us. And yet, while philosophical debates rage and street protests grow heated, warforged who inhabit the
. What do they do? Another way to explore the facets of this issue is to introduce a warforged supporter of the Lord of Blades who doesn’t engage in violence personally, such as a bard who moves among the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
is present, and the characters can engage their foe. After one prophet falls, the remaining three prophets retreat to lower levels, leaving their minions to defend the temple dungeons. The characters
characters might be able to rest without attracting attention.) Groups sent up from lower levels of the dungeon include the following: Air cult: Howling Hatred priest and four kenku Water cult: Crushing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
When Elves Attack The characters have time to take a short rest before trouble catches up to them and Captain Sartell presses them into service. At the end of the characters’ short rest, read: The
the Rock of Bral (see chapter 4). The plasmoids, meanwhile, are not great fighters and either flee or surrender if the characters engage them in melee. Questioning the Astral Elves Characters who
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
prevent them from participating in any Extracurriculars or Jobs for the rest of the academic year. The characters immediately lose any benefits from these activities.
Entering the Manor Once the
. Security. If an outside door is smashed or the characters engage in noticeable vandalism, a Silverquill professor of radiance and a Quandrix professor of substance (see chapter 7 for both) arrive at the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
, you’ll have to deal with me—Steel Crane!”
As Steel Crane presses his attack, the monks use the steles for cover and leap between them to engage the characters in close-quarters combat. Red Key. Steel
whip while using it to grapple a creature. Anytime on his turn, he can release a creature grappled by the whip (no action required).
Heal Self (Recharges after a Long Rest). Steel Crane regains 2d8
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
“They’ve all forgotten me” and “I was nothing, I am nothing—soon they’ll be nothing.” To engage with Dae Won-Ha meaningfully, the characters must present evidence that people still remember her
but forget why, leaving them with only pain and quiet confusion. Putting the Gwishin to Rest Once the characters have learned Dae Won-Ha’s story, they can convince her gwishin she hasn’t been forgotten
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
the creature responsible for its creation. Such interest doesn’t indicate a willingness to engage with the world; nightwalkers exist to make life extinct and never to serve living things. Undead Nature
DC 21 Constitution saving throw or its hit point maximum is reduced by an amount equal to the necrotic damage taken. This reduction lasts until the target finishes a long rest.
Finger of Doom
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
granting insight, but also in expressing the awesome fury of the storm. Where others see only chaos and destruction in storms, he sees them as shaping the firmament in ways that challenge and engage
kinfolk scheme and plot while he looks on, stern and inscrutable. Divine Relationships Keranos is neither friendly nor sociable, so his dealings with most of the rest of the pantheon tend to be terse
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
tend to engage more with ideas than with people. They form close friendships based on mutual interests or compelling disagreements, and their interactions dwell on their thoughts about those issues
this trait again until you finish a long rest. Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common, Vedalken, and one other language of your choice. YONGJAE CHOI
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
creature responsible for its creation, which can provide clues as to who the trapped creature is. This attraction doesn’t indicate a willingness to engage with the world, though; nightwalkers exist to
long rest. The target dies if its hit point maximum is reduced to 0.
Finger of Doom (Recharge 6). The nightwalker points at one creature it can see within 300 feet of it. The target must succeed on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Ice, home to yetis, remorhazes, white dragons, and other creatures of cold. The inhabitants of the plane engage in a never-ending battle to prove their strength and ensure their survival. The
the Swamp of Oblivion can’t be found again for at least a century. Now and then, a desperate soul casts an Artifact of power into this place, keeping it away from the rest of the multiverse for a time
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Locathah Rising
they have no choice but to engage in melee combat. When both kraken priests have been reduced to half their hit points, they call for the young kraken to attack the characters. Likewise, if one or
500 gp for the set). Lastly, there is a periapt of wound closure and a gem of seeing amidst the rest of the hoard.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
wizards. His expertise with magic gates allows him to travel far and wide to engage in magical research. He spends much of his time creating gates, moving them around, and casting elder runes on them
Recovery (1/Day). When he finishes a short rest, Halaster recovers all his spell slots of 5th level and lower.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Halaster fails a saving throw, he can choose to