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Returning 31 results for 'freeing shield'.
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Monsters
Monster Manual
in a net within 5 feet, destroying the net on a success.Sticky Shield. Trigger: A creature misses the kuo-toa with a melee attack roll using a weapon. Response—Strength Saving Throw: DC 11, the
triggering creature. Failure: The attack’s weapon sticks to the kuo-toa’s shield. If the target doesn’t let go of the weapon, the target has the Grappled condition while the weapon is
Magic Items
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
(incorrectly) that it can break free of the shield if it’s brought to the Nine Hells, for it’s convinced that the shield’s powers are weaker there.
Freeing Gargauth. Casting dispel
evil and good on the shield has a 1 percent chance of freeing the pit fiend, or automatically succeeds if the spell is cast by a solar, a planetar, or an archdevil. A god can release the pit fiend by
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
creates a detention orb when it already has one active, the first orb disappears, freeing the creature inside.Detention drones vary in size, strength, and shape, though most are shaped like some kind of
mechanical animal or plant.
This Construct doesn’t have a control amulet and can’t be controlled like other shield guardian;shield guardians.Poison
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
wizard spells prepared:
Cantrips (at will): fire bolt, light, mage hand, prestidigitation
1st level (4 slots): detect magic, mage armor, magic missile, shield
2nd level (3 slots): misty step, suggestion
spying on the temple for years, but he needs adventurers to help him survive its perils. He thinks that the secret to breaking Strahd's pact and freeing Barovia from its curse might be hidden there, but
Magic Items
Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
armor as a shield guardian that has stored a magic missile spell cast using a 4th-level spell slot. When the armor is reduced to 0 hit points, its defenses are rendered inert and it can be safely
), but doesn’t gain access to the user’s knowledge, features, or proficiencies.
Freeing a creature trapped inside the armor first requires defeating the armor’s automatic defenses
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
shield. The pit fiend believes (incorrectly) that it can break free of the shield if it’s brought to the Nine Hells, for it’s convinced that the shield’s powers are weaker there. Freeing Gargauth
. Casting dispel evil and good on the shield has a 1 percent chance of freeing the pit fiend, or automatically succeeds if the spell is cast by a solar, a planetar, or an archdevil. A god can release the
Magic Items
The Book of Many Things
Pit
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Plant
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Priest
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Prisoner
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Puzzle*
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Ring
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Rogue*
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Ruin*
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Sage*
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Shield
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Ship
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Skull*
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Staff
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Disintegrate spell destroys the chains instantly, freeing you. Another creature can also free you by succeeding on a DC 30 Dexterity check using thieves’ tools.
Ring. A rare or rarer magic ring appears
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
when it already has one active, the first orb disappears, freeing the creature inside.
Drone Patrols Small groups of detention drones patrol the Donjon Sphere looking for escapees or intruders. When
. Drone Patrols d6 Patrol Composition 1–2 1d6 quadrones 3 1d4 suits of animated armor 4–5 2 helmed horrors 6 1 shield guardian
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Strength (Athletics) check to free itself or another creature in a net within 5 feet, destroying the net on a success.
Reactions
Sticky Shield. Trigger: A creature misses the kuo-toa with a melee
attack roll using a weapon. Response—Strength Saving Throw: DC 11, the triggering creature. Failure: The attack’s weapon sticks to the kuo-toa’s shield. If the target doesn’t let go of the weapon, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
Tockworth went ignored, however. A character can use an action to try to convince Ignus to help them, first by impressing on him the importance of freeing Little Lockford from Tockworth’s control and
. Safe. Tockworth has an iron safe on the upper floor of her workshop. Shield Guardian. Tockworth found a way to animate a derelict shield guardian and now uses it to guard the front door to her workshop
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
each: darkness, faerie fire, shield 1/day: Melf’s acid arrow Space Orogs The characters encounter 1d4 + 1 orogs hunting for easy prey. These orogs were raised in deep caverns on H’catha, a wheel-shaped
webs, doing so with a successful DC 20 Strength (Athletics) check. A gallon of alcohol dissolves the webs produced by a single tangler grenade. Otherwise, the webs dissolve on their own after 1 hour, freeing any creatures restrained by them.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
unlock the Companion. Freeing the planetar trapped within the Companion denies Zariel her latest prize — the city of Elturel — and makes her look inept, which is the best Bel can hope for. Gargauth The
pit fiend Gargauth would like nothing more than to be released from its prison and replace Zariel as Lord of Avernus. If the characters possess the Shield of the Hidden Lord, they can free Gargauth as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
over four shield dwarves (commoners). The dwarves have ankle manacles that reduce their speed from 25 feet to 5 feet. When a cart of iron ore arrives, the dwarves transfer it to the bucket chain, to
prisoner pens (area 23), in hopes of freeing the human, dwarf, and gnome workers in those areas. Their path takes them through area 18. A few minutes after the workers in this room stop working, other
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
realization that he no longer has any hope of defeating Strahd or freeing the people of the vampire’s damned realm. The Mad Mage has forgotten his name and the world whence he came. In fact, he doesn’t
. Cantrips (at will): fire bolt, light, mage hand, prestidigitation, shocking grasp
1st level (4 slots): detect magic, mage armor, magic missile, shield
2nd level (3 slots): mirror image, misty step, web
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
contact creatures in this room. Using its telepathy, it tries to trick an interloper into freeing it. Though the other three demons have telepathy, they are not powerful enough to use the ability
robes and clutching an adamantine war pick. A sentinel shield bearing the symbol of Dumathoin rests atop the king’s legs. Characters who sever one of the king’s desiccated hands can use it to open the basalt doors in area 15.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
, illusion, and stealth. Clerics who wield this magic are a disruptive force in the world, puncturing pride, mocking tyrants, freeing captives, and flouting hollow traditions. They prefer subterfuge and
listed spells prepared.
War Domain Spells Cleric Level Prepared Spells 3 Guiding Bolt, Magic Weapon, Shield of Faith, Spiritual Weapon 5 Crusader’s Mantle, Spirit Guardians 7 Fire Shield, Freedom of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Giants of the Star Forge
her hip: six giant-sized iron ingots and a diagram showing how to make a spiked tower shield. The bag also contains 110 sp, 90 ep, 100 gp, and 9 pp. 5: Cracked Runestone Four fifty-foot-tall pillars
takes 25 or more damage from a single attack or effect, in which case it takes damage as normal. Freeing Theldin. Theldin is secured to the anvil by a 100-foot-long adamantine chain attached to a locked
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Knight* 30 Lance 31 Mage 32 Map 33 Maze 34 Mine 35 Monstrosity 36 Moon* 37 Ooze 38 Path 39 Pit 40 Plant 41 Priest 42 Prisoner 43 Puzzle* 44 Ring 45 Rogue* 46 Ruin* 47 Sage* 48 Shield 49 Ship 50 Skull* 51
the chains instantly, freeing you. Another creature can also free you by succeeding on a DC 30 Dexterity check using thieves’ tools. Ring. A rare or rarer magic ring appears on your finger. If you have
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
depicting a symbol representing a deity, the same symbol carefully engraved or inlaid as an emblem on a shield, or a tiny box holding a fragment of a sacred relic. A cleric or paladin can use a holy symbol
as a spellcasting focus. To use the symbol in this way, the caster must hold it in hand, wear it visibly, or bear it on a shield. Holy Water. As an action, you can splash the contents of this flask
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Cleric or Paladin can use a Holy Symbol as a Spellcasting Focus. The table indicates whether a Holy Symbol needs to be held, worn, or borne on fabric (such as a tabard or banner) or a Shield. Holy
Symbols Symbol Weight Cost Amulet (worn or held) 1 lb. 5 GP Emblem (borne on fabric or a Shield) — 5 GP Reliquary (held) 2 lb. 5 GP Holy Water (25 GP) When you take the Attack action, you can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
borne on fabric (such as a tabard or banner) or a Shield. Holy Symbols Symbol Weight Cost Amulet (worn or held) 1 lb. 5 GP Emblem (borne on fabric or a Shield) — 5 GP Reliquary (held) 2 lb. 5 GP
(Athletics) check, freeing itself or another creature within its reach on a success. Each failed check deals 1 Piercing damage to the trapped creature. Ink (10 GP) Ink comes in a 1-ounce bottle, which
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
. Soon, they can justify heinous acts within the context of the cult: Human sacrifice isn’t an act of murder, but a freeing of the soul from the limitations of a physical shell; conjuring a whirlwind to
is from appendix B):
Cantrips (at will): blade ward, gust,* light, prestidigitation, shocking grasp
1st level (4 slots): feather fall, shield, witch bolt
2nd level (3 slots): dust devil,* gust
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
side. The merry prankster irritated, bamboozled, confounded, and exasperated the kobold god while freeing large groups of gnomes from his clutches. When Kurtulmak’s patience wore out after several of
, but also of fire and glass-work and alchemy. Rock gnomes attribute their knack for crafting devices and alchemical objects to Flandal’s superlative skills in those areas. Gaerdal Ironhand The Shield
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sleeping Dragon’s Wake
, freeing itself with a successful DC 12 Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics) check. A creature that can reach the restrained creature can also make this check as an action, freeing the
Baldur’s Gate. Alusair Nacacia Obarskyr is a human wearing plate armor and carrying a shield emblazoned with the image of a dragon. She was a brave knight who served as the regent of Cormyr. Storm
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
hand and a shield on his other arm. He looks like he was thrown backward through the exploding wall before being frozen in place.
The knight suspended in the air is Strongheart (see area P47), the
Eight eyes open, always dreaming
All on the cauldron that is ever seeming.
Freeing Zybilna. A character can use an action to touch Zybilna with a unicorn horn while speaking her true name
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
crimson armor. Each one holds an ornate shield and an intricate glass lance, which is topped with a glowing glass sculpture that resembles a flickering torch.
Characters can cross this hall safely if
four swords transform into ashen flying swords (see the “Ashen Creatures” sidebar). These creatures fight until destroyed. Treasure. Characters who search the armory find a +1 shield, eight +1 arrows
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
pantheon. It might be an amulet depicting a symbol representing a deity, the same symbol carefully engraved or inlaid as an emblem on a shield, or a tiny box holding a fragment of a sacred relic. A cleric or
paladin can use a holy symbol as a spellcasting focus, as described in chapter 10. To use the symbol in this way, the caster must hold it in hand, wear it visibly, or bear it on a shield. Holy Water
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
. Hit: 30 (4d10 + 8) bludgeoning damage.
Shield Charge. The giant moves up to 30 feet in a straight line and can move through the space of any creature smaller than Huge. The first time it enters a
that can undo petrification have no effect on a petrified creature on the giant unless the giant is dead, in which case the magic works normally, freeing the petrified creature as well as ending the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
) check discerns how these shrines and the black gates in this sector work together to shield the Phylactery Vault. The character understands that if the black gates in the Temples of Extraction can be
saving throw or become restrained in the vines. The area becomes difficult terrain. A restrained creature can take an action to make a DC 13 Strength check, freeing itself on a success. Chosen of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
the aberration. Whispered Message. A creature that touches the reef hears a faint message whispered in Deep Speech: “Bend the knee, pearl. The god Ogrorlo, the shield and our protector, rests here
Dexterity check using thieves’ tools can pick the lock, freeing Dalixiateara. If freed, the dragon attacks the hags and rewards the characters who freed her with a cloak of the manta ray from her hoard
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a1
scimitar and a shield, as well as 23 sp and 4 gp in a belt pouch. 4. Tower Shell This circular area is cobbled with cracked granite, upon which sprawl the bodies of four goblins, apparently slain in
gnome lies in the cage, which is almost too small for him. It’s easy to untie the kobolds. Freeing the caged gnome requires either a successful DC 15 Strength check to bend the bars or a successful DC 15






