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Curse of Strahd
perverted its magic, using it instead to animate her wooden hut.
Removing the gem from the hut renders the hut incapacitated. That task is easier said than done, however. The glowing green gem is
failed save, the creature is bitten for 10 (3d6);{"diceNotation":"3d6","rollType":"damage","rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage and fails to obtain the gem.
Poison, Psychic
Monsters
Tales from the Yawning Portal
Focused Conjuration. While Var is concentration on a conjuration spell, his concentration can't be broken as a result of taking damage.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Var fails a saving throw, he
next 24 hours.After failing in an earlier task for the Red Wizards, the lich Tarul Var is sequestered within the Doomvault (Dead in Thay), where he tries to avoid the attention of Szass Tam
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Amphibious. The giant can breathe air and water.
Legendary Resistance (1/Day). If the giant fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.Multiattack. The giant makes two Lightning Sword
for the giant to communicate with a mortal, carry out a short task, or defend their home against aggressors.A Quintessent’s Lair
A storm giant quintessent has no need for castles or dungeon
Demilich (Variant)
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Monsters
Monster Manual (2014)
disturb their lairs.
Demilich
The immortality granted to a lich lasts only as long as it feeds mortal souls to its phylactery. If it falters or fails in that task, its bones turn to dust until only
damage if it fails.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the demilich fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Turn Immunity. The demilich is immune to effects that turn undead.Howl (Recharge
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
training — to pull off a hard task. The outcome of a successful check is usually easy to determine: the character succeeds at whatever he or she set out to accomplish, within reason. It’s usually equally easy to figure out what happens when a character fails a check: the character simply doesn’t succeed.
check; just tell the player what happens. Likewise, if there’s no way anyone could accomplish the task, just tell the player it doesn’t work. Otherwise, answer these three simple questions: What kind of
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Klauth fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.
Special Equipment. Klauth carries a wand of fireballs and a wand of lightning bolts, and he wears a
stone — a task impossible for anyone not as large and strong as an ancient dragon.
Klauth is one of the largest and most fearsome red dragons ever known in Faerûn. Huge but graceful, he
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Working Together Sometimes two or more characters team up to attempt a task. The character who's leading the effort--or the one with the highest ability modifier--can make an ability check with
advantage, reflecting the help provided by the other characters. In combat, this requires the Help action. A character can only provide help if the task is one that he or she could attempt alone. For
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Working Together Sometimes two or more characters team up to attempt a task. The character who’s leading the effort — or the one with the highest ability modifier — can make an ability check with
advantage, reflecting the help provided by the other characters. In combat, this requires the Help action (see chapter 9, “Combat”). A character can only provide help if the task is one that he or she
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Ability Checks An ability check is a test to see whether a character succeeds at a task the character has decided to attempt. The Abilities, Ability Checks, and Saving Throws table summarizes what
character’s skill or tool proficiencies applies. Trying Again Sometimes a character fails an ability check and the player wants to try again. In many cases, failing an ability check makes it impossible to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Ability Checks An ability check is a test to see whether a character succeeds at a task that he or she has decided to attempt. The Player’s Handbook includes examples of what each ability score is
used for. The Ability Checks table summarizes that material for easy reference. Multiple Ability Checks Sometimes a character fails an ability check and wants to try again. In some cases, a character is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
. Nevertheless, devils trade silver to those wishing to eliminate rivals in their path.
Bargain-Basement Death Saves Whenever a character fails a death save in the Nine Hells, an archdevil may
contact that character telepathically and offer its assistance. The character must agree to perform a task for the archdevil afterward. The nature of the task is not revealed until the character agrees to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Grolantor’s Larder Magic The essential magic of Grolantor’s Larder is the abundant growth of food-bearing plants, providing ample food for all who visit. Foraging in the grove is a simple task that
saving throw or be unwilling to leave. A creature who has eaten food gathered from the grove in the last 24 hours has disadvantage on the saving throw. A creature that fails the saving throw can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
check, a character makes no progress and dislodges loose stones that clatter down the crevasse into the magma. If the check fails by 5 or more, the climber falls into the magma. Any creature that
nalfeshnee is bored with its assigned task, although it knows better than to disobey the Horned King. Still, rather than immediately destroying any intruders, it toys with them for as long as possible
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
surprise the raiders in the cave. If the sentry spots the characters sneaking up, or if an attack fails to take the sentry out, the sentry shouts a warning and retreats back to the cave, joining the
characters can tell this isn’t a Cragmaw goblin, but they can’t learn anything more just yet. Psionic goblins who were off task in their search for obelisk fragments made this drawing. It attempts to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
before and gives them a knowing look. Zybilna/Iggwilv is troubled to learn of what has happened to Prismeer and vows to undo the damage the Hourglass Coven has wrought—a task that will take considerable
Resistance (3/Day). If Iggwilv fails a saving throw, she can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. Iggwilv has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects. (This
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
mortal souls to its phylactery. If it falters or fails in that task, its bones turn to dust until only its skull remains. This “demilich” contains only a fragment of the lich’s malevolent life force
instead takes no damage if it succeeds on the saving throw, and only half damage if it fails.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the demilich fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Turn
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal
Tarul Var After failing in an earlier task for the Red Wizards, the lich Tarul Var is sequestered within the Doomvault (Dead in Thay), where he tries to avoid the attention of Szass Tam. Interlopers
be broken as a result of taking damage.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Var fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.
Rejuvenation. If Var is destroyed but his phylactery remains
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
goodly ways. (In reality, the hags wish to capture the unicorn and force her to become their servant and mount.) Bridle of Capturing To help the characters in this task, the three mothers have
vicious kobolds. While wearing a crown, a character automatically fails any Intelligence (Investigation) check made to see through an illusion. An illusion that is touched still has its true nature
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
. Extremiton is also gathering thralls of every race to help defend the colony if the neothelid is destroyed or fails in its task. City of the Mind Extremiton can sense intelligent creatures within 2 miles of it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
room requires purple-level security to enter and contains paperwork on all academy personnel. Orientation Task: Welcome Pack. Characters can visit reception to collect their cadet-issue welcome packs
dining), washrooms, the academy kitchens, and the laundry. Orientation Task: Bunk Assignment. On the characters’ arrival, a giff duty officer assigns a bunk to each cadet and tells them to store their gear
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
built in his forge, nor does he reveal that it has a planetar trapped inside it. Bel also fails to mention that the nine adamantine rods are the keys to unlocking the device and freeing the planetar
magic, hold monster, mirror image, mislead, raise dead, teleport, wall of fire
1/day each: imprisonment, meteor swarm
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Bel fails a saving throw, he can choose to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
it. A creature imprisoned in the phylactery for 24 hours is consumed and destroyed utterly, whereupon nothing short of divine intervention can restore it to life. A lich that fails or forgets to
the destruction of its phylactery means the possibility of eternal death, a lich usually keeps its phylactery in a hidden, well-guarded location. Destroying a lich’s phylactery is no easy task and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a7
then disassembled, requiring 1 minute and a successful DC 15 Dexterity check using thieves’ tools for each hinge, the trap can’t trigger. A failed check results in no progress at the task, but if the
check fails by 5 or more, the trap goes off explosively, blowing the lid open. Treasure. The back pair of pews have 4,000 sp each hidden therein, the next pair have 3,000 ep each, and the pair closest
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
linger beyond the resolution but can then be removed by a remove curse spell or similar magic if the victim succeeds on a DC 15 Charisma saving throw when the spell is cast. If the save fails, it can be
place where it once rested Slaying the head of a dynasty that has long held power in the region Accomplishing a seemingly impossible task, such as raising a castle above the clouds or making the sun cross the sky in a different direction
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
, treasure hunters and theologians sometimes give themselves the deadly task of trying to retrieve something from within the blob. This quest usually ends in annihilation, but occasionally it results
layer of slime on everything that was within 600 feet of it. In 1d20 years, the blob reconstitutes on a random world in the Material Plane.
Legendary Resistance (4/Day). If the blob fails a saving
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
requires that they help it complete a test (see “Test Run 221” below). If the characters perform this task well, Bazelsteen agrees to fully repair their infernal war machines. He also offers one free
fails by 5 or more, the character accidentally drags the bathysphere 2d10 feet across the river bottom, dealing 5 (2d4) bludgeoning damage to all creatures inside it. It takes three consecutive
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
the svirfneblin, and might be a quest set for the adventurers (see “Blingdenstone Factions” later in this chapter). Despite how close the cavern is to Blingdenstone, finding it is no easy task
Entémoch’s Boon; if the check fails, the characters waste a day of exploration searching for it. Finding Entémoch’s Boon allows the characters to make a check to improve the attitude of the deep
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
their power doesn’t fall into corrupt hands; however, she’s only one person, and things slip her notice. Asteria might task the characters with locating a wayward deck and—if it’s in the hands of someone
, Asteria can give the creature advantage on the saving throw (no action required). This trait doesn’t function if Asteria has the incapacitated condition.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Asteria fails
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
some unresolved task from its life. It might seek to avenge its own death, fulfill an oath, or relay a message to a loved one. A ghost might not realize that it has died and continue the everyday
60 feet of the ghost that can see it must succeed on a DC 13 Wisdom saving throw or be frightened for 1 minute. If the save fails by 5 or more, the target also ages 1d4 × 10 years. A frightened target
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
on the floor. Themberchaud uses his breath weapon on any character who tries again, or who attempts to sneak past him and fails. Then he calmly carries on as if nothing happened. A Task for the Keepers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
(Stealth) check. If multiple party members attempt the same task, have them make a group check instead. N2. Wailing Moat Hundreds of voices wail in rage and frustration from a moat of viscid slime that
try to rip out its innards with a DC 15 Strength (Athletics) check. If the check fails, the character is unsuccessful and takes 10 necrotic damage. If the check succeeds, the character takes 5 necrotic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
check reactivates the disabled engine. Whether it succeeds or fails, each check represents 10 minutes of work. The engine can also be destroyed. It has AC 16, 50 hit points, and immunity to poison and
Qaz’arrt. The drow guard the control room and keep the gnomes on task. Lorella sits in the pilot’s swivel chair, which is bolted to the floor and can be lowered or raised to accommodate a Small or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
can revert to their true giant form temporarily and can maintain that form long enough for the giant to communicate with a mortal, carry out a short task, or defend their home against aggressors
(15,000 XP) Proficiency Bonus +5
Amphibious. The giant can breathe air and water.
Legendary Resistance (1/Day). If the giant fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Actions
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
greenery.
Two ruin grinders (see chapter 7) wander this island, unable to continue their assigned task of moving cargo. The ruin grinders aren’t hostile and attack only in self-defense. Before it can be
) check and then expending a spell slot of 1st level or higher to reset the ruin grinder’s arcane matrix. If the check fails, the ruin grinder shuts down for 24 hours. A recalibrated ruin grinder can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
written in pictographic code. Using magic, nothing short of a wish spell can decipher them. Without such magic, Gallio must decrypt them himself using laborious trial and error. The task is highly
save, the creature forgets what it’s doing and moves off to do something else. If it tries to enter the window again within the next hour, it automatically fails its saving throw. When Gallio is