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Player’s Handbook
itself, but each of the following effects can be dispelled. If all four are dispelled, Guards and Wards ends. If you cast the spell every day for 365 days on the same area, the spell thereafter lasts
contiguous, or twenty-five 10-foot squares that are contiguous.
When you cast this spell, you can specify individuals that are unaffected by the spell’s effects. You can also specify a password that
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
innate spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save DC 13). She can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:
At will: druidcraft, mending, poison spray (see “Actions” below)
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admiration for Grandolpha to foresee her treachery.
Before entering combat, Grandolpha casts stoneskin on herself. Once her duergar;guards come to her rescue, she withdraws from combat and uses her
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
important individuals and locations is entrusted to astral elf honor guards, highly trained warriors who are more than capable of holding their own in combat.
Astral Elves
Long ago, some elves ventured
empower astral elf leaders with the ability to cast spells and summon solar dragons.
Astral elves ply the Astral Sea and Wildspace in ships of their own design. These ships are fashioned from crystals
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
","rollAction":"Far Realm Parasite (Miles)"} miles of where it died. If the lich died inside a magic circle cast to contain Undead, the lich instead reappears as an otyugh with all the lich’s memories
. That parasite bestows undeath upon the spellcaster and causes strange tentacles to sprout from the body. The parasite’s mouth is visible on the lich’s torso, and the parasite guards the
Magic Items
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
1 minor detrimental property
Legend Lore. The Stone of Golorr has 3 charges and regains 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn. While holding the stone, you can expend 1 of its charges to cast the
legend lore spell.
By using the stone to cast legend lore, you communicate directly with the aboleth, and it shares its knowledge with you. The aboleth can’t lie to you, but the information it
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
succeed on a DC 22 Intelligence saving throw or take 36 (8d8);{"diceNotation":"8d8","rollType":"damage","rollDamageType":"psychic"} psychic damage and be unable to cast spells or activate magic items
places where such creatures are willing to live side by side.
Some beholderkin serve Belashyrra as guards and agents, while others spend their lives in deep meditation, pursuing inner visions known only
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
their army in battle centuries ago.
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An ancient sapphire dragon guards the phylactery of a lich who helped the dragon establish a lair centuries before becoming Undead.
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Lolth the Spider
sapphire gemstones, particularly underground.
Stony Sight. Natural stone within 6 miles of the lair is a conduit for the dragon’s psionic presence. As an action, the dragon can cast the
Guards and Wards
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
cast this spell, you can specify individuals that are unaffected by any or all of the effects that you choose. You can also specify a password that, when spoken aloud, makes the speaker immune to
these effects.
Guards and wards creates the following effects within the warded area.
Corridors. Fog fills all the warded corridors, making them heavily obscured. In addition, at each intersection or
Orb of Dragonkind
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Magic Items
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essence of an evil dragon, a presence that resents any attempt to coax magic from it. Those lacking in force of personality might find themselves enslaved to an orb.
An orb is an etched crystal
property
1 major detrimental property
Spells
The orb has 7 charges and regains 1d4 + 3 expended charges daily at dawn. If you control the orb, you can use an action and expend 1 or more charges to cast
Monsters
Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
Denizen of the Mist. During its turn, the fog giant ignores the effects of fog cloud spells cast by it or other allied fog giants.
Keen Smell. The giant has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks
that rely on smell.
Innate Spellcasting. The giant’s innate spellcasting ability is Charisma. It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:
At will: detect magic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
dispelled. If all four are dispelled, Guards and Wards ends. If you cast the spell every day for 365 days on the same area, the spell thereafter lasts until all its effects are dispelled. Corridors
Guards and Wards Level 6 Abjuration (Bard, Wizard) Casting Time: 1 hour
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M (a silver rod worth 10+ GP)
Duration: 24 hours
You create a ward that protects up to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
lock with a successful DC 20 Dexterity check. A character using makeshift tools can attempt the same check but has disadvantage. A lock-picking attempt might draw the attention of the guards, requiring
a Dexterity (Stealth) check contested by the guards’ passive Wisdom (Perception) score to carry it off without notice. Each of the guards on duty in the other areas of the outpost has a key to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
dispelled. If all four are dispelled, Guards and Wards ends. If you cast the spell every day for 365 days on the same area, the spell thereafter lasts until all its effects are dispelled. Corridors
Guards and Wards Level 6 Abjuration (Bard, Wizard) Casting Time: 1 hour
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M (a silver rod worth 10+ GP)
Duration: 24 hours
You create a ward that protects up to
Magic Items
Infernal Machine Rebuild
150 feet but lose all other movement.
You are blinded.
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You can cast the speak with animals spell at will, but can use it to speak with only one animal of your choice.
All animals despise
feels unnaturally tight. Unless you go naked, roll a d4 each time you are attacked and subtract the number rolled from your AC.
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You can cast the legend lore spell three times.
Whenever you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
battlefields. Thuldanin Pitted, hollow cubes are filled with the cast-off machinery of war. Tintibulus Jagged blocks tumble in darkness, holding frozen memories sapped by the River Styx and crystallized into
broken hopes. The spirits here can’t conceive of anyone refusing to obey the will of their commanders. They are dedicated soldiers, forever lacking a cause. A journey into Acheron is a confrontation
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Guards and Wards 6th-level abjuration Casting Time: 10 minutes Range: Touch Components: V, S, M (burning incense, a small measure of brimstone and oil, a knotted string, a small amount of umber hulk
into each contiguous area while you are casting the spell. When you cast this spell, you can specify individuals that are unaffected by any or all of the effects that you choose. You can also specify
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
, revealing themselves to be guards protecting the Prince of Vice.
As bystanders flee the area, the character who has the highest passive Wisdom (Perception) score spots a figure in green and yellow
throwing something toward the cart. An instant later, a cloud of pink ashes bursts from a sachet, striking the two guards. Kala’s Attack The parade route appears on map 5.1. The characters are either at
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Guards and Wards 6th-level abjuration Casting Time: 10 minutes Range: Touch Components: V, S, M (burning incense, a small measure of brimstone and oil, a knotted string, a small amount of umber hulk
into each contiguous area while you are casting the spell. When you cast this spell, you can specify individuals that are unaffected by any or all of the effects that you choose. You can also specify
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
ceilings in the employee-only areas are 20 feet high and smooth. Doors The casino’s interior doors are made of wood. Arcane lock spells have been cast on the doors that lead to the employee-only areas, the
Areas Entering an employee-only area requires a pass card (see “Employee Pass Cards” earlier in the adventure). Security guards who encounter unauthorized individuals in employee-only areas immediately
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
have been cast in areas marked (A) on map 1.2. The museum’s guards and the curator have pass cards that allow them to bypass these alarms, and spare pass cards are kept in area V7 (see “Bypassing
(area V17). The characters have about two hours to prepare for their heist before the museum closes. If the characters don’t immediately go to the Gemstone Wing (area V13), museum guards notice their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
coax magic from it. Those lacking in force of personality might find themselves enslaved to an orb. An orb is an etched crystal globe about 10 inches in diameter. When used, it grows to about 20 inches
and regains 1d4 + 3 expended charges daily at dawn. If you control the orb, you can use an action and expend 1 or more charges to cast one of the following spells (save DC 18) from it: cure wounds
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
stone stretch from west to east. Around each table sit a dozen cast-iron chairs sculpted with web and spider motifs.
Smashed Cabinet. Against the north wall, near the double door to area 5b, is a pile
successful dispel magic (DC 17) cast on a floating object ends the magic on it, causing it to fall. The fireplace’s 5-foot-wide chimney climbs vertically for 30 feet, then ends abruptly. The rest of it caved
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
sees to the inn’s provisioning and handles all the cooking. The sisters cast baleful glances at one another and bicker behind closed doors, but nothing ever comes of their feuds, as evidenced by the fact
that they’ve been running the inn together for more than a decade. Trovus, the dragonborn town speaker of Caer-Konig, partakes of a drink as he guards the Northern Light
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
guards stand outside each of the front and back doors (leading to areas H1 and H6) at all hours. Rooms have 10-foot-high ceilings, with 8-foot-high passages and 7-foot-high doorways connecting them
cast on wall sconces. Cisterns on the roof collect rainwater, which is funneled by pipes down to the showers (area H7).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
, corridors, rooms, and staircases are brightly lit by continual flame spells cast on wall sconces. (The cells in area R17 are exceptions.) In some locations, the magical lights can be dimmed or suppressed, as
noted in the text. Prison Guards. The prison has a garrison of 75 guards (use the veteran stat block) who work eight-hour shifts. Two-thirds of the garrison is off duty and resting in area R19 at any
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
1d6 days and regains all its Hit Points unless Dispel Evil and Good is cast on its remains.
Actions
Multiattack. The naga makes two Bite attacks. It can replace any attack with a use of Poisonous
6 version), Flame Strike (level 6 version), Geas, True Seeing
Guards Sentries and Watch Members
Habitat: Any; Treasure: Armaments, Individual
Guards protect people, places, and things, either
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
the characters to leave town at once or suffer the consequences. If the characters stand their ground, Izek orders the guards to beat them into submission, seize their weapons, and cast them out of
with two town guards. Izek orders one guard to tear down all of the old proclamations while the other posts the following new one: COME ONE, COME ALL, to the greatest celebration of the year:
THE
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
a pit filled with silvery mist. Encased in the stalactite is Mirrk, a female githyanki gish (see appendix A for statistics; see also “Crystal Stalactites”).
Guards. Unless they have been lured
detect magic spell reveals an aura of divination magic radiating from the wall. Any creature that spends 1 minute touching the wall can cast the scrying spell targeting the ulitharid on level 17
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
levels (areas R19 through R23). Seven guards (veterans) are stationed in this surveillance hub. One sits at a console south of the staircase. The other guards watch the prisoners, whom they can
observe through 4-foot-tall, 1-foot-wide arrow slits in the walls. Hanging on the walls between the arrow slits are fifty sets of iron manacles that guards use to bind prisoners’ wrists and ankles. Console
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Prisoner 13
brightly lit with continual flame spells cast on wall sconces. (The unlit cells in area R17 are exceptions.) In some locations, the magical lights can be dimmed or suppressed, as noted in the text
. Prison Guards. The prison has a garrison of 75 guards (use the veteran stat block) who work eight-hour shifts. Two-thirds of the garrison is off duty and resting in area R19 at any given time. While on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
brightly lit with continual flame spells cast on wall sconces. (The unlit cells in area R17 are exceptions.) In some locations, the magical lights can be dimmed or suppressed, as noted in the text
. Prison Guards. The prison has a garrison of 75 guards (use the veteran stat block) who work eight-hour shifts. Two-thirds of the garrison is off duty and resting in area R19 at any given time. While on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
Acheron Incursion Reaching the gate to Acheron involves following a long tunnel to a massive mechanical lift. So long as the characters are with Major Kalar, the town guards don’t impede them. Read
maintain a rigid, watchful formation.
Rigus Forces Rigus’s forces are largely hobgoblin and human guards. Two commanders oversee these troops: Sergeant Gauller. A quick-to-smile, lawful neutral
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
somewhere, these guards are at low alertness. Sloppy mud covers the stone floor of this large chamber. Planks have been laid from the gateway to the causeway entrance to create a 10-foot-wide raised
daytime, bright light is within 20 feet of the open gateway and the open doorway to the causeway. Everywhere else, oil lamps cast only dim light (because the bullywugs never clean them). Stairs lead up to area 2A.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
somewhere, these guards are at low alertness. Sloppy mud covers the stone floor of this large chamber. Planks have been laid from the gateway to the causeway entrance to create a 10-foot-wide raised
daytime, bright light is within 20 feet of the open gateway and the open doorway to the causeway. Everywhere else, oil lamps cast only dim light (because the bullywugs never clean them). Stairs lead up to area 2A.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Brightguard’s mounts, two devas salute the characters and depart for the city—Artavazda has sent word informing these guards about the characters. If the characters are coming to rescue Afsoun, there are
no deva guards present, Laleh’s diversion in the city having drawn them away from the platform. Prison Crystals Thirteen Sangarian commoners are frozen within the gold-banded, green crystals around the