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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
While wearing this belt, your Strength score changes to a score granted by the belt. The item has no effect on you if your Strength without the belt is equal to or greater than the belt’s score
.
Six varieties of this belt exist, corresponding with and having rarity according to the six kinds of true giants. The belt of stone giant strength and the belt of frost giant strength look
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
);{"diceNotation":"4d12","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Lair Action","rollDamageType":"psychic"} psychic damage. Unless the target has immunity to psychic damage, its Intelligence score is reduced by 1d4
each time it fails the saving throw for this lair action. The target dies if its Intelligence score is reduced to 0. The reduction lasts until the target finishes a short or long rest.
Regional
Orcus
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Out of the Abyss
, emulating their dread master.
Orcus is a bestial creature of corruption with a diseased, decaying look. He has the lower torso of a goat, and a humanoid upper body with a corpulent belly swollen with rot
succeed on a DC 23 Wisdom saving throw or descend into a madness determined by the Madness of Orcus table. A creature that succeeds on this saving throw can’t be affected by this regional effect
Monsters
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Creature Sense. The brain breaker is aware of creatures within 1 mile of itself that have an Intelligence score of 4 or higher. It knows the distance and direction to each creature, as well as each
one’s Intelligence score, but can’t sense anything else about it. A creature protected by a mind blank spell, a nondetection spell, or similar magic can’t be perceived in this manner
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
. Hit: 7 (2d6);{"diceNotation":"2d6","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Ray Gun","rollDamageType":"psychic"} psychic damage, and if the target is a Humanoid with an Intelligence score of 3 or higher, it
makes it look like some other creature of its size or smaller (such as a child) or an object small enough to fit in the clown’s space (such as a floating balloon). Maintaining this effect
Monsters
Acquisitions Incorporated
believes makes him look distinguished. Possessed of alarming and asymmetric crystalline eyes, he often wears a blindfold to spare others his visage, seeing through the eyes of his familiar while he does
uses the stat block of a poisonous snake with these changes:
It has an Intelligence score of 12 (+2).
It has telepathy out to a range of 30 feet.
Monsters
Ghosts of Saltmarsh
the kraken’s next turn.Hidden in a deep, dark underwater pit near the Styes, this creature bears the mark of the dark god Tharizdun’s madness. Becoming more independent every day, it
creatures within 6 miles of the lair that have an Intelligence score of 2 or lower are charmed by the kraken and aggressive toward intruders in the area.
When the kraken dies, all of these regional effects fade immediately.Lightning; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks
Magic Items
Keys from the Golden Vault
even glimpse the scrawled pages invites madness.
Most believe the lich-god Vecna authored the Book of Vile Darkness. He recorded in its pages every diseased idea, every unhinged thought, and every
, one ability score of your choice increases by 2, to a maximum of 24. Another ability score of your choice decreases by 2, to a minimum of 3. The book can’t adjust your ability scores again
Book of Vile Darkness
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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
even glimpse the scrawled pages invites madness.
Most believe the lich-god Vecna authored the Book of Vile Darkness. He recorded in its pages every diseased idea, every unhinged thought, and every
reading and studying the book, one ability score of your choice increases by 2, to a maximum of 24. Another ability score of your choice decreases by 2, to a minimum of 3. The book can’t adjust your
Book of Exalted Deeds
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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
capture its magical nature or translate the benefits it offers to those pure of heart and firm of purpose.
A heavy clasp, wrought to look like angel wings, keeps the book’s contents secure. Only
Wisdom score increases by 2, to a maximum of 24. You can’t gain this benefit from the book more than once.
Enlightened Magic
Once you’ve read and studied the book, any spell slot you
Eye and Hand of Vecna
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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
charges. You can use an action and expend 1 or more charges to cast one of the following spells (save DC 18) from it: clairvoyance (2 charges), crown of madness (1 charge), disintegrate (4 charges
neutral evil, and you gain the following benefits:
Your Strength score becomes 20, unless it is already 20 or higher.
Any melee spell attack you make with the hand, and any melee weapon attack made
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
perform them with panache and make them look easy. The wild applause, the screams of the crowds, the mayhem and terror spreading into the streets — this is what you live for.
You’re also
Spell Level
Spells
Cantrip
fire bolt, vicious mockery
1st
burning hands, dissonant whispers, hellish rebuke
2nd
crown of madness, enthrall,
Gnome
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Basic Rules (2014)
Skinny and flaxen-haired, his skin walnut brown and his eyes a startling turquoise, Burgell stood half as tall as Aeron and had to climb up on a stool to look out the peephole. Like most
unlikely to find the burrows in the first place.
Gnomes who settle in human lands are commonly gemcutters, engineers, sages, or tinkers. Some human families retain gnome tutors, ensuring that their pupils
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
You are a scion of one of the great noble families of Waterdeep. Human families who jealously guard their privilege and place in the City of Splendors, Waterdhavian nobles have a reputation across
masses.
4
I take great pains to always look my best and follow the latest fashions.
5
I don’t like to get my hands dirty, and I won’t be caught dead in unsuitable accommodations
Species
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
the passage of time. Some are prone to melancholy, while others might display an absence of feeling. Many look for creative ways to occupy themselves. Whether they choose to live in quiet
’s fantastical races. If you create a character using a race option presented here, follow these additional rules during character creation.
Ability Score Increases
When determining your
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
contradictions, fills your hours.
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You tend to some part of the city’s forgotten history: the unmarked graves in Cliffside Cemetery, the crumbling remains of dead patriar families’ manors, or
contemplative sort of seclusion that allows room for study and prayer. If you want to play a rugged wilderness recluse who lives off the land while shunning the company of other people, look at the outlander
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Demogorgon Ability Score Adjustment: Up to a +4 bonus to Strength, Charisma, or both Signature Spells: Charm person (1st level), enlarge/reduce (2nd level), vampiric touch (3rd level) Demogorgon’s
followers are typically lone killers driven by the whispering voice of their master. His most blessed followers gain the Two Minds of Madness trait. Two Minds of Madness. This creature has advantage on all Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma saving throws.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
score, you can use Charisma for Honor and Wisdom for Sanity. Honor Score If your campaign involves cultures where a rigid code of honor is part of daily life, consider using the Honor score as a means
only a character’s devotion to a code but also the character’s understanding of it. The Honor score can also reflect how others perceive a character’s honor. A character with a high Honor usually has a
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
’t think of anything to look forward to.
Ideals
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Ideal
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Guild. My guild is all that really matters. (Any)
2
Wealth. I will do whatever it takes to
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Contacts
The Orzhov Syndicate operates according to a strict hierarchy built on a network of connections among old, wealthy families. Your family might provide important contacts, while your family’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
break the psyche of a character who uses or becomes attuned to them.
Resisting a madness-inducing effect usually requires a Wisdom or Charisma saving throw. If your game includes the Sanity score (see
Madness In many campaigns, little focus is placed on the mental and emotional impact of the dangers characters face day after day, but sometimes the stress of being an adventurer can be too much to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Belt of Giant Strength Wondrous item, rarity varies (requires attunement) While wearing this belt, your Strength score changes to a score granted by the belt. The item has no effect on you if your
Strength without the belt is equal to or greater than the belt’s score. Six varieties of this belt exist, corresponding with and having rarity according to the six kinds of true giants. The belt of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Belt of Giant Strength Wondrous item, rarity varies (requires attunement) While wearing this belt, your Strength score changes to a score granted by the belt. The item has no effect on you if your
Strength without the belt is equal to or greater than the belt’s score. Six varieties of this belt exist, corresponding with and having rarity according to the six kinds of true giants. The belt of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata
Tower of Zephyros ( p. 33) In the third paragraph after the boxed text, “recovered from the madness” has changed to “recovered from the insanity.” In the sixth paragraph after the boxed text, the
second bullet has changed to “He has an Intelligence score of 18 (+4) and the Spellcasting action option described below.” Zephyros’s Spellcasting trait has been replaced with the following action option
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
The City of the Dead Look to the cliffs to the north of Sharn, and you’ll see a collection of crypts embedded into the cliff face. This is the City of the Dead, the final resting place of the
wealthiest citizens of Sharn. Common folk are cremated after death, but members of the Sixty Families and others with sufficient wealth have their remains interred in the tombs and tunnels of this necropolis
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
green shirt with a high collar and gold filigree trim designed to look like hot peppers. He smiles while shaking his head as he approaches and introduces himself as Kasem Aroon, one of the owners of
doesn’t want to hurt anyone, but he hopes to make life in the market uncomfortable enough that one of the families sells its shop to him for a low price. Kasem’s Tour Upon meeting the characters
Aarakocra
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Elemental Evil Player's Companion
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Beak and Feather
From below, aarakocra look much like large birds. Only when they descend to roost on a branch or walk across the ground does their humanoid appearance reveal itself. Standing
than a few dozen aarakocra live away from the nests of their families. Those that do are usually rangers or fighters, constantly patrolling for outside threats.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
sometimes brought to life by influences from the Feywild, which make them colorful and endlessly blooming, or by Shadowfell energy, which covers them with grotesque burls or makes them look lifeless
. Awakened Tree Huge Plant, Neutral
AC 13 Initiative −2 (8)
HP 59 (7d12 + 14)
Speed 20 ft.
Ability Score Mod Save
Str 19 +4 +4
Dex 6 −2 −2
Con 15 +2 +2
Ability
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
score, which is a number you record on your character sheet. The six abilities and their use in the game are described in chapter 7. The Ability Score Summary table provides a quick reference for
ability scores, determine your ability modifiers using the Ability Scores and Modifiers table. To determine an ability modifier without consulting the table, subtract 10 from the ability score and then
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
New Class Features. Look at your class features table in chapter 3, and note the features you gain at your new level in that class. Make any choices offered by a new feature. Adjust Proficiency Bonus
changes if the new score is an even number. When that happens, adjust all the numbers on your character sheet that use that ability modifier. When your Constitution modifier increases by 1, your Hit
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
their place and where they belong. Whether as individuals, families, or entire clans, duergar below other duergar in the social order don’t seek to bring their rivals down through intrigue and deceit
Empty-Scabbard Killers include a significant number of calassabrak, no longer bound by oath, honor, and duty. THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL
The madness of the demon lords has not reached Gracklstugh in full
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
glistens red in the torchlight. The spectacle is gruesome but captivating; the crowd hates to watch but can’t look away. Soon madness takes them, and they — devils and ogres, acrobats and spectators — are
present, a fiendish madness that comes on suddenly and departs just as quickly, leaving gore in its wake. The carnival, in fact, has a life of its own — and when adventurers face the Cult of Rakdos in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sleeping Dragon’s Wake
Arrival When the characters can see the outside of the shrine, read the following boxed text aloud: The sea splashes on the bottom of a rocky cliff carved to look like a 60-foot-tall dragon with a
(Perception) check. See area B1 for more information. A staircase hidden by bushes at the top of the cliff leads to area B5. A character on top of the cliff with a passive Wisdom (Perception) score of 15 or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
. Point Cost. You have 27 points to spend on your ability scores. The cost of each score is shown on the Ability Score Point Costs table. For example, a score of 14 costs 7 of your 27 points. Ability
Score Point Costs Score Cost 8 0 9 1 10 2 11 3 12 4 13 5 14 7 15 9 Assign Ability Scores Once you’ve generated six scores, assign them to Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
appendix D). It fights until killed. 4 A Barovian lunatic (CN male commoner). If freed, he cackles until silenced or until a calm emotions spell is cast on him. A lesser restoration spell cures his madness
approaches quietly. A character whose passive Wisdom (Perception) score meets or exceeds Rahadin’s Dexterity (Stealth) check hear him. “The master wishes to see you,” intones a grim voice in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
. Her grandfather grew infirm over the years and less able to look out for the family’s interests, and the others—even her twin sister, Louise—seemed oblivious to the threat. It fell to Jacqueline to
families. Expending a fortune, Renier aggressively pursued membership. Finally she was granted an invitation to join the society’s members at their meeting place hidden among the sewers of Pont-a-Museau. But