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Returning 35 results for 'focus hold'.
Magic Items
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
-Touched Focus (Slumbering);Slumbering (Uncommon). You have advantage on initiative rolls. While you are holding the focus, it can function as a spellcasting focus for all your spells.
Dragon-Touched Focus
(Stirring );Stirring (Rare). The Stirring focus has the Slumbering property, and it gains an additional property determined by the family of the dragon in whose hoard it became Stirring:
Chromatic
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
probability to impede attacks and strike at the minds of their foes with lancing equations that disrupt the opponent’s resolve.
Professors of theory hold that altering the way a person
Scholars
The scholars of Quandrix College focus on the mathematical principles that govern reality. Through these formulas, they can manipulate properties of matter and space, as well as abstract and conceptual space such as the mind, probability, and the flow of magic itself.Psychic
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
your attunement to it ends. You can use the shard as a spellcasting focus while you hold or wear it.
When you use a Metamagic option on a spell while you are holding or wearing the shard, you can
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
it. It falls off if your attunement to it ends. You can use the shard as a spellcasting focus while you hold or wear it.
When you use a Metamagic option on a spell while you are holding or wearing
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
This silver implement is shaped like a tree branch and is strung with small golden bells. The branch is a spellcasting focus for your spells while you hold it.
The branch has 3 charges, and it
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
falls off if your attunement to it ends. You can use the shard as a spellcasting focus while you hold or wear it.
When you use a Metamagic option on a spell while you are holding or wearing the shard, immediately after casting the spell you can teleport to an unoccupied space you can see within 30 feet of you.
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
, fly, hold person, suggestion, wall of fire
1/day each: dominate person, etherealness, feeblemindLong ago, the Raven Queen cursed a cabal of powerful wizards for meddling in a ritual that would have
patient and pursue several schemes simultaneously, so if one plan goes awry, they can shift their focus to another. Typically, nagpas emerge from the shadows only when they can deliver a finishing blow
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
attunement to it ends. You can use the shard as a spellcasting focus while you hold or wear it.
Roll a d4 and consult the Outer Essence Shards table to determine the shard’s essence and property
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
attunement to it ends. You can use the shard as a spellcasting focus while you hold or wear it.
Roll a d4 and consult the Elemental Essence Shards table to determine the shard’s essence and
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
jewelry) or detach it. It falls off if your attunement to it ends. You can use the shard as a spellcasting focus while you hold or wear it.
When you use a Metamagic option on a spell while you are
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures
embodiment of one of the five virtues the knights of the realm hold as standards of excellence.
The recent invasion of nightmarish creatures called Phyrexians devastated the courts, with much of the
former oaths, the knights of the Verdant Order retain their focus on the five virtues of the courts, so their Knightly Virtue trait remains unchanged.
Magic Items
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
cauldron weighs 80 pounds when empty, and it can hold up to 100 gallons of liquid.
Attunement. Any Humanoid creature that attunes to the cauldron must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or
gallons of wine, it can be used as the focus for a scrying spell. When this spell is cast using the cauldron as its focus, the target of the spell fails its saving throw automatically, and the spell
Amulet
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A holy symbol is a representation of a god or pantheon. A cleric or paladin can use a holy symbol as a spellcasting focus, as described in the Spellcasting section. To use the symbol in this way, the caster must hold it in hand, wear it visibly, or bear it on a shield.
Reliquary
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A holy symbol is a representation of a god or pantheon. A cleric or paladin can use a holy symbol as a spellcasting focus, as described in the Spellcasting section. To use the symbol in this way, the caster must hold it in hand, wear it visibly, or bear it on a shield.
Holy Symbol
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A holy symbol is a representation of a god or pantheon. A cleric or paladin can use a holy symbol as a spellcasting focus, as described in the Spellcasting section. To use the symbol in this way, the caster must hold it in hand, wear it visibly, or bear it on a shield.
Emblem
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A holy symbol is a representation of a god or pantheon. A cleric or paladin can use a holy symbol as a spellcasting focus, as described in the Spellcasting section. To use the symbol in this way, the caster must hold it in hand, wear it visibly, or bear it on a shield.
Bheur Hag
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Monsters
Volo's Guide to Monsters
Graystaff Magic. The hag carries a graystaff, a length of gray wood that is a focus for her inner power. She can ride the staff as if it were a broom of flying. While holding the staff, she can cast
Spellcasting"} to hit with spell attacks). She can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:
At will: hold person,* ray of frost
3/day each: cone of cold,* ice storm,* wall of ice
Lizardfolk
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
hold and controls their actions. In contrast, lizardfolk see emotions as traits assigned to other creatures, objects, and situations. A lizardfolk doesn’t think, “I’m scared.&rdquo
swamps they inhabit are filled with a staggering variety of threats. Lizardfolk focus on survival above all, without sentiment.
Lizardfolk assess everyone and everything in terms of utility. Art and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata
Dueling Is the Dueling feat intended to support using a Shield? Yes. A character with the Dueling feat can equip a Shield or hold a Spellcasting Focus or another object that isn’t a weapon in their other hand.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata
access or hold them, but it can be the same hand used to perform Somatic components, if any. This latter rule holds true for using a Spellcasting Focus, which a spellcaster must hold unless its
isn’t consumed, whereas the diamond required by Raise Dead is consumed when you cast the spell. If a spell’s Material components are consumed, can a Spellcasting Focus still be used in place of the
Yuan-ti Pureblood
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
the snake as the embodiment of the qualities they most appreciated. They developed a philosophy of separating emotion from intellectual pursuits, allowing them to focus their energy on personal
focus on intellectual pursuits. These nobles turned to philosophy and prayer, offering gifts of magic and animal sacrifices to their serpent gods, paying homage to the perfection of the ophidian form. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata
Material (M) (p. 203) The final paragraph now reads, “A spellcaster must have a hand free to access a spell’s material components—or to hold a spellcasting focus—but it can be the same hand that he or she uses to perform somatic components.”
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
. These shrines are calm and peaceful, the air scented with Sarlonan incense. The chambers are open, providing space for martial arts. Labyrinthine patterns engraved on the floors serve as an aid to meditation, while the walls hold crystals that focus and amplify the psychic abilities of the priests.
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
across an expedition that has traveled from Shadowdusk Hold. Shadowdusk Expedition An expeditionary force has been sent from Shadowdusk Hold (level 22) to collect Runestone fragments. The force consists
tentacles that serves as an arcane focus (10 gp), as well as a spellbook bound in mind flayer skin that contains all the spells he has prepared.
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Tiny object (such as a weapon or a piece of jewelry) or detach it. It falls off if your attunement to it ends. You can use the shard as a spellcasting focus while you hold or wear it. When you use a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
handle the material component. For example, a wizard who uses an orb as a spellcasting focus could hold a quarterstaff in one hand and the orb in the other, and he could cast lightning bolt by using the
isn’t consumed, whereas the diamond required by raise dead is used up when you cast the spell. If a spell’s material components are consumed, can a spellcasting focus still be used in place of the
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
to a Tiny object (such as a weapon or a piece of jewelry) or detach it. It falls off if your attunement to it ends. You can use the shard as a spellcasting focus while you hold or wear it. When you use
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
object (such as a weapon or a piece of jewelry) or detach it. It falls off if your attunement to it ends. You can use the shard as a spellcasting focus while you hold or wear it. When you use a Metamagic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
focus for your spells while you hold it. The branch has 3 charges, and it regains 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn. You can use the charges in the following ways while holding it: As a bonus action, you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
casting of the spell. A spellcaster must have a hand free to access a spell's material components -- or to hold a spellcasting focus -- but it can be the same hand that he or she uses to perform somatic components.
component entry. A character can use a component pouch or a spellcasting focus (found in “Equipment”) in place of the components specified for a spell. But if a cost is indicated for a component, a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
substitution. To use a Component Pouch, you must have a hand free to reach into it, and to use a Spellcasting Focus, you must hold it unless its description says otherwise (see chapter 6 for descriptions).
Components MARTINA FAˇ CKOVÁ An aasimar Wizard uses a crystal material component to focus the magic of Cone of Cold A spell’s components are physical requirements the spellcaster must meet to cast
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
by the weapon increases to 3d6. The cone of destructive energy the weapon creates increases to a 60-foot cone, the save DC increases to 18, and the damage increases to 12d6. Dragon-Touched Focus
of dragons’ wings, claws, teeth, or scales. Slumbering (Uncommon). You have advantage on initiative rolls. While you are holding the focus, it can function as a spellcasting focus for all your spells
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
for travelers. The Order of the Gilded Eye safeguards the hold and serves the surrounding community, but their mission has a much broader focus: to guard the world from dangers originating on other
Player’s Handbook) are equally represented among their ranks. Order of the Gilded Eye The monastery and cathedral of Helm’s Hold stands on the edge of the Neverwinter Wood in the North as a safe haven
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation Supplement
Sea Mare The Sea Mare was a merchant ship that fell prey to pirates twenty-four years ago. After the pirates killed the ship’s crew and looted the hold, they tried to set the ship ablaze before
wight that lurks in the ship’s hold. Though she carries no weapons, she guards what’s left of the cargo (see “Treasure” below). Within the flooded hold, amid skeletons picked clean by fish, the characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
Mror Characters As you develop a Mror character or NPC, consider the following. Clan Focus. Is your clan known for mercantile power or martial skill? Are you a noble—even if you’re a few steps
feel about the Five Nations? Do you still hold a grudge for the indignities suffered by your ancestors, or do you feel pity for this broken kingdom? Pride in Possessions. From the wealthiest clan lord to






