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Backgrounds
Player’s Handbook (2014)
. Additionally, you can forge documents including official papers and personal letters, as long as you have seen an example of the kind of document or the handwriting you are trying to copy.
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a born gambler who can’t resist taking a risk for a potential payoff.
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I lie about almost everything, even when there’s no good reason to.
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Sarcasm and insults are my
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
, as long as you have seen an example of the kind of document or the handwriting you are trying to copy.
BALDUR’S GATE FEATURE: LONG-LOST HEIR
You’re well-versed in the mannerisms and
want.
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I’m a born gambler who can’t resist taking a risk for a potential payoff.
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I lie about almost everything, even when there’s no good reason to.
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Sarcasm and
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
of the fey realm has given them an innate ability to perform, to delight, and to resist magical intrusion. While they’re usually found in the Feywild, satyrs do wander to other planes of
types don’t have rules themselves, but some rules in the game affect creatures of certain types in different ways. For example, the cure wounds spell doesn’t work on a Construct or an Undead
Species
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
or clever? Whatever their nature, it’s your duty to follow their example. Is this something you proudly embrace, or do you resist it? Each patron ancestor is tied to many Valenar: do you have a
Saving Throws
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A saving throw — also called a save — represents an attempt to resist a spell, a trap, a poison, a disease, or a similar threat. You don’t normally decide to make a saving throw
; you are forced to make one because your character or monster is at risk of harm.
To make a saving throw, roll a d20 and add the appropriate ability modifier. For example, you use your Dexterity
Dhampir
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Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
overindulge their thirst risk losing control and forever viewing others as prey. Those who resist might find exceptional ways of controlling their urges or suppress them through constant, molar-grinding
, Humanoid, Monstrosity, Ooze, Plant, Undead. These types don’t have rules themselves, but some rules in the game affect creatures of certain types in different ways. For example, the text of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Saving Throws A saving throw—also called a save—represents an attempt to evade or resist a threat, such as a fiery explosion, a blast of poisonous gas, or a spell trying to invade your mind. You
resist the effect, you can choose to fail the save without rolling. Ability Modifier Saving throws are named for the ability modifiers they use: a Constitution saving throw, a Wisdom saving throw, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Saving Throws A saving throw—also called a save—represents an attempt to evade or resist a threat, such as a fiery explosion, a blast of poisonous gas, or a spell trying to invade your mind. You
resist the effect, you can choose to fail the save without rolling. Ability Modifier Saving throws are named for the ability modifiers they use: a Constitution saving throw, a Wisdom saving throw, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
that class’s training in evading or resisting certain threats. Wizards, for example, are proficient in Intelligence and Wisdom saves; they train to resist mental assault.
Saving Throw Proficiencies Proficiency in a saving throw lets a character add their Proficiency Bonus to saves that use a particular ability. For example, proficiency in Wisdom saves lets you add
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
that class’s training in evading or resisting certain threats. Wizards, for example, are proficient in Intelligence and Wisdom saves; they train to resist mental assault.
Saving Throw Proficiencies Proficiency in a saving throw lets a character add their Proficiency Bonus to saves that use a particular ability. For example, proficiency in Wisdom saves lets you add
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
encounter with the arresting officers of the City Watch. The benefit of this approach is that characters can choose to go quietly or resist. The drawback is that the encounter might devolve into a fight
influence the outcome; for example, a successful Charisma (Persuasion) check might enable a character to bribe an official or sow enough doubt in the mind of a magistrate to have the case thrown out
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
acquaintances, and disguises that allow you to assume that persona. Additionally, you can forge documents including official papers and personal letters, as long as you have seen an example of the
for getting what I want. 4 I’m a born gambler who can’t resist taking a risk for a potential payoff. 5 I lie about almost everything, even when there’s no good reason to. 6 Sarcasm and insults are my
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
on the degree of failure. For example, a character who fails to disarm a trapped chest might accidentally spring the trap if the check fails by 5 or more, whereas a lesser failure means the trap wasn’t
more means she throws the character in the dungeon for such a display of impudence. Degrees of Success A successful D20 Test can have degrees of success. For example, when characters participate in an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
. Heightened Spell When you cast a spell that forces a creature to make a saving throw to resist its effects, you can spend 3 sorcery points to give one target of the spell disadvantage on its first saving
eligible, a spell must be incapable of targeting more than one creature at the spell’s current level. For example, magic missile and scorching ray aren’t eligible, but ray of frost and chromatic orb are.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
. Heightened Spell When you cast a spell that forces a creature to make a saving throw to resist its effects, you can spend 3 sorcery points to give one target of the spell disadvantage on its first saving
eligible, a spell must be incapable of targeting more than one creature at the spell’s current level. For example, magic missile and scorching ray aren’t eligible, but ray of frost and chromatic orb are.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
think about adventures in a domain as explorations of a Darklord’s identity. For example, Barovia’s gothic horror themes include deception, oppression, and predation, all of which are aspects of the
featuring familiar horror settings with a twist to make them more appropriate to D&D or to enhance their terror. For example, characters escaping an alien laboratory in Bluetspur might be stalked by an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
its banks. Any creature other than a fiend that tastes or touches the water is affected by a feeblemind spell. The DC of the Intelligence saving throw to resist the effect is 15. The Styx churns
through the top layers of Acheron, the Nine Hells, Gehenna, Hades, Carceri, the Abyss, and Pandemonium. Tributaries of the Styx snake onto lower layers of these planes. For example, a tendril of the Styx
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
you’re a ranger, was your ancestor a famous blademaster, or a stealthy hunter? Was your ancestor chivalrous or merciless? Bold or clever? Whatever their nature, it’s your duty to follow their example
. Is this something you proudly embrace, or do you resist it? Each patron ancestor is tied to many Valenar: do you have a particular rival who channels the same ancestor, or one who channels a rival of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
their example. Is this something you proudly embrace, or do you resist it? Do you know another elf with the same patron ancestor, and what’s your relationship to that character? Do you know an elf
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
invisible 40-foot-radius sphere of transmutation magic that shrinks all creatures and objects in its area to one-twelfth their normal size. A 6-foot-tall person becomes a 6-inch-tall person, for example
once it leaves the sphere, which is generated by the mithral spindle. No saving throw is allowed to resist the shrinking effect, and nothing short of divine intervention can suppress the spindle’s magic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
character to discover a trap without making an ability check if an action would clearly reveal the trap’s presence. For example, if a character lifts a rug that conceals a pressure plate, the character has
, contain, or drive off any creature unfortunate enough to trigger them. A trap’s description specifies what happens when it is triggered. The attack bonus of a trap, the save DC to resist its effects, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
to discover a trap without making an ability check if an action would clearly reveal the trap's presence. For example, if a character lifts a rug that conceals a pressure plate, the character has
, or drive off any creature unfortunate enough to trigger them. A trap's description specifies what happens when it is triggered. The attack bonus of a trap, the save DC to resist its effects, and the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
monsters in the Monster Manual and mimic their ability scores. For example, if your monster is roughly as smart as a human commoner, give it an Intelligence of 10 (+0 modifier). If it’s as strong as an
Rating table. The table provides the baseline AC for a monster of a specific challenge rating. Feel free to adjust the AC as you see fit. For example, the baseline AC for a challenge rating 1 monster is 13
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
(perhaps away from the table) that you have a group to please, not just one player. Tragic Limits Some players resist getting invested in the world of the game because they don’t want to endure the pain of
example, you could ignore a Critical Hit to save a character’s life. Don’t alter die rolls too often, though, and never let the players know when you fudge a die roll. Visible Die Rolls. Rolling dice
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
minion that it doesn’t want to destroy outright. Fear Ray A beholder uses its fear ray to psychologically torture and interrogate a prisoner until the creature loses the will to resist. Slowing Ray A
to obliterate what it touches). For example, to guard against magical spying, a beholder might use either ray to eliminate all common vermin (bats, rats, spiders, and so on) from its lair
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
perceptions over facts: illusionists, spies, and assassins, for example. Predatory or fierce winged creatures of any kind, even non-sentient monsters that would otherwise resist training, perceive the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
(perhaps away from the table) that you have a group to please, not just one player. Tragic Limits Some players resist getting invested in the world of the game because they don’t want to endure the pain of
example, you could ignore a Critical Hit to save a character’s life. Don’t alter die rolls too often, though, and never let the players know when you fudge a die roll. Visible Die Rolls. Rolling dice
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
example, in a campaign inspired by film noir, characters could have an additional flaw: “I can’t resist helping a person I find alluring despite warnings that he or she is nothing but trouble.” If the
not to favor one style over another. For example, Allison might be comfortable speaking in an accent and adopting her character’s mannerisms, but Paul feels self-conscious when trying to act and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
. You can pay a fine of 10 gp to avoid jail time, or you can try to resist arrest. 11–20 You regain consciousness in a strange place with no memory of how you got there, and you have been robbed of 3d6
any spells that the item can produce. Moreover, the character must meet a level minimum determined by the item’s rarity, as shown in the Crafting Magic Items table. For example, a 3rd-level character
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
groups of creatures. However, its cloudkill is listed under Innate Spellcasting. Because of that, would a paladin’s Aura of Warding resist it? Yes, because cloudkill is a spell, Aura of Warding would be
. For example, a purple worm has the Tunneler trait, so it can drag a grappled creature into a tunnel it creates when burrowing. Conversely, an earth elemental can’t drag a creature into the ground
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
precarious situations when he has an audience, confident that his speed and cunning will see him through danger. He leads by example rather than by dictate.
Alignment. Chaotic evil.
Personality Trait
breeze!”
Ideal. “The pursuit of true love compels me! Never shall I wilt if I have such a cause to champion.”
Bond. “The beautiful Pollenella—a vision in stripes.”
Flaw. “I cannot resist a pretty
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
precarious situations when he has an audience, confident that his speed and cunning will see him through danger. He leads by example rather than by dictate.
Alignment. Chaotic evil.
Personality Trait
!”
Ideal. “The pursuit of true love compels me! Never shall I wilt if I have such a cause to champion.”
Bond. “The beautiful Pollenella—a vision in stripes.”
Flaw. “I cannot resist a pretty face
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
here (for example, characters banging on copper vats or fighting one or more water weirds) alerts the monsters in area C17. C17. Morbeoth’s Workshop The northernmost door leading into this area is
know the answers to the mezzoloth’s riddles in area C28, but resist divulging them to strangers. C28. Caravan Stairs The walls of this chamber are carved with stone friezes. They depict dwarven
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
example, the guards in area 32 have beaten a fighting retreat here), twolizardfolk commoners (see appendix C) reside here, playing a game at the table. These lizardfolk try to avoid a fight, preferring to
characters do not cooperate and resist attempts to take them into custody, their mission ends in failure. The queen immediately orders her followers to hunt down and kill or capture the party — the chance