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Shield Master
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Feats
Player’s Handbook (2014)
harmful effect that targets only you.
If you are subjected to an effect that allows you to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, you can use your reaction to take no damage if you succeed on the saving throw, interposing your shield between yourself and the source of the effect.
You use shields not just for protection but also for offense. You gain the following benefits while you are wielding a shield:
If you take the Attack action on your turn, you can use a bonus
feats
Player’s Handbook (2024)
use this benefit only once on each of your turns.
Interpose Shield. If you’re subjected to an effect that allows you to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, you can take a Reaction to take no damage if you succeed on the saving throw and are holding a Shield.
General Feat (Prerequisite: Level 4+, Shield Training)
You gain the following benefits.
Ability Score Increase. Increase your Strength score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
Shield Bash. If you attack a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Shield Master You use shields not just for protection but also for offense. You gain the following benefits while you are wielding a shield: If you take the Attack action on your turn, you can use a
bonus action to try to shove a creature within 5 feet of you with your shield. If you aren’t incapacitated, you can add your shield’s AC bonus to any Dexterity saving throw you make against a spell or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Shield Master General Feat (Prerequisite: Level 4+, Shield Training) You gain the following benefits. Ability Score Increase. Increase your Strength score by 1, to a maximum of 20. Shield Bash. If
can use this benefit only once on each of your turns. Interpose Shield. If you’re subjected to an effect that allows you to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, you can take a Reaction to take no damage if you succeed on the saving throw and are holding a Shield.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
Shield Master The Shield Master feat lets you shove someone as a bonus action if you take the Attack action. Can you take that bonus action before the Attack action? No. The bonus action provided by
the Shield Master feat has a precondition: that you take the Attack action on your turn. Intending to take that action isn’t sufficient; you must actually take it before you can take the bonus action
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
This item functions as a Pole. While holding it, you can take a Magic action to collapse it into a 1-foot-long rod for ease of storage (the pole’s weight doesn’t change) or cause the 1-foot-long rod to revert to a Pole. The rod elongates only as far as the surrounding space allows.
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
While holding this Shield, you have a +2 bonus to Armor Class. This bonus is in addition to the Shield’s normal bonus to AC.
The Shield has the following additional properties that you can use
while holding it.
Forceful Bash. When you take the Attack action, you can make one of the attack rolls using the Shield against a target within 5 feet of yourself. Apply your Proficiency Bonus and
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
Each of the quiver’s three compartments connects to an extradimensional space that allows the quiver to hold numerous items while never weighing more than 2 pounds. The shortest compartment can
hold up to 60 Arrows, Bolts, or similar objects. The midsize compartment holds up to 18 Javelin;Javelins or similar objects. The longest compartment holds up to 6 long objects, such as bows
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
While wearing this ring, you are immune to magic that allows other creatures to read your thoughts, determine whether you are lying, know your alignment, or know your creature type. Creatures can
remove the ring, or until you die.
If you die while wearing the ring, your soul enters it, unless it already houses a soul. You can remain in the ring or depart for the afterlife. As long as your soul is
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
) or a 10-foot pole, or reverting it a Quarterstaff; the weapon will elongate only as far as the surrounding space allows.
In certain forms, the weapon has the following additional properties
you. You can’t use this property again until you finish a Short or Long Rest.
Ranged Weapon (Quarterstaff Form Only). This weapon has the Thrown property with a normal range of 30 feet and a
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
Long ago, in the Dragonlance setting, elves and humans waged a terrible war against chromatic dragons. When the world seemed doomed, the wizards of the Towers of High Sorcery came together and forged
Magic action to peer into the orb’s depths. You must then make a DC 15 Charisma saving throw. On a successful save, you control the orb for as long as you remain attuned to it. On a failed save, the
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
stone cracks and turns to powder if the book rests on it long enough.
Whenever a creature that isn’t a Fiend or an Undead attunes to the Book of Vile Darkness, that creature makes a DC 17
remains with you only as long as you strive to work evil in the world. If you fail to perform at least one evil act within the span of 10 days, or if you willingly perform a good act, the book
Monsters
Acquisitions Incorporated
complex than merely seeking after adventure. She has long sought for ultimate meaning in the stars, and to seek justification for her belief that her bonds to her expansive family are reflected in the
subjected to an effect that allows her to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, she instead takes no damage if she succeeds on the saving throw, and only half damage if she fails. She
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
of these weapons have faded from the world, their magic lost as family lines have become extinct. Others have vanished with their bearers during great quests. Thus, only a few of these weapons remain
of 3d6. Reroll if the Moonblade already deals an extra 3d6 Force damage on a hit.
76-80
The Moonblade gains the Thrown property with a normal range of 20 feet and a long range of 60 feet. Each
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
finish a Long Rest, if you and the Demonomicon are on the same plane of existence, one trapped creature within the book can attempt to possess you. You make a DC 20 Charisma saving throw. On a failed
the Dungeon Master’s Guide):
2 minor beneficial properties
1 minor detrimental property
1 major detrimental property
Spells. The book has 8 charges and regains 1d8 expended charges daily
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
parents succumbed to their grief, leaving him an orphan. He became a sociopath. Other children ruthlessly mocked him because of his dead family and his missing arm, but he was a large boy and had no
took him into his home. Izek has been loyal to the burgomaster ever since, enjoying the power of his position and the comforts of his master’s mansion. When he isn’t enforcing the
Monsters
Candlekeep Mysteries
Unarmored Defense. While Steel Crane is wearing no armor and wielding no shield, his AC includes his Wisdom modifier.Multiattack. Steel Crane makes three attacks.
Force Strike. Melee Weapon Attack
it to grapple a creature. Anytime on his turn, he can release a creature grappled by the whip (no action required).
Heal Self (Recharges after a Long Rest). Steel Crane regains 2d8 + 4
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Indomitable (2/Day). Tashlyn can reroll a saving throw that she fails. She must use the new roll.
Second Wind (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). As a bonus action, Tashlyn can regain 20 hit
is Master of Arms and Mercenaries for the Waterdeep Zhentarim. In this role, she provides armor, weapons, and training to sellswords on the Black Network's payroll.
Tashlyn has established a useful
Magic Items
The Book of Many Things
until you are targeted by a Remove Curse spell or similar magic. You cannot discard the shield, and remain attuned to it, as long as you are cursed. As long as you are cursed, you are sluggish. Your
While you are wielding this shield, you gain a +1 bonus to AC. This bonus is in addition to the shield’s normal bonus to AC.
Curse. This item is cursed. Attuning to it extends the curse to you
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Cunning Action. On each of her turns, the Black Viper can use a bonus action to take the Dash, Disengage, or Hide action.
Evasion. If the Black Viper is subjected to an effect that allows her to make
who died a century ago, after a long and nefarious career. Esvele Rosznar, a brash young noble, has recently adopted the Black Viper's persona to lead a secret life of crime. Like many other nobles
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Evasion. If the thief is subjected to an effect that allows it to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, the thief instead takes no damage if it succeeds on the saving throw and only
attack that hits it. The thief must be able to see the attacker.Master thieves are known for perpetrating daring heists. They tend to develop a romanticized reputation. A master thief might &ldquo
Magic Items
The Book of Many Things
You can make a ranged weapon attack with this magic shield. It has a normal range of 20 feet and a long range of 60 feet, and it uses your Strength or Dexterity for the attack roll (your choice). If
you’re proficient with shields, you are proficient with attacks made using this shield. On a hit, it deals 1d6 slashing damage. If you throw the shield, it reappears in your hand the instant after it hits or misses a target.
Magic Items
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
resistance to fire damage.
Sentience. The Shield of the Hidden Lord is sentient as long as it imprisons Gargauth. While sentient, the shield has the following properties:
The shield has an
The Shield of the Hidden Lord is of celestial origin and serves as a prison for the pit fiend Gargauth, whose mortal followers revere it as a god. Over time, Gargauth’s evil has warped the
Magic Items
Storm King's Thunder
This appears to be a simple ingot of iron ore, about a foot long and a few inches across. Inspection of its surface reveals the faint, silvery outline of the skold (shield) rune. The ingot has the
any way. Once you use this property, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
Shield Ward. You can transfer the ingot’s magic to a nonmagical item — a shield or
Monsters
Princes of the Apocalypse
Evasion. If Hellenrae is subjected to an effect that allows her to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, she instead takes no damage if she succeeds on the saving throw, and only
end of Hellenrae's next turn.
Unarmored Defense. While Hellenrae is wearing no armor and wielding no shield, her AC includes her Wisdom modifier.
Unarmored Movement. While Hellenrae is wearing no armor
Monsters
Acquisitions Incorporated
disappears if it takes any damage, after 1 hour, or when Jim uses this feature again.James Winifred Darkmagic III is the scion of a mysterious, multiplanar wizarding family. Jim's arcane pedigree has long
following wizard spells prepared:
Cantrips (at will): fire bolt, friends, mage hand, minor illusion, prestidigitation
1st level (4 slots): disguise self, Jim's magic missile,* shield, mage armor
2nd level (3
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
following wizard spells prepared:
Cantrips (at will): fire bolt, light, mage hand, prestidigitation
1st level (4 slots): protection from evil and good, magic missile, shield
2nd level (3 slots
+ 4);{"diceNotation":"1d6+4","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Silvered Shortsword","rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage.
Curse (Recharges after a Long Rest). Ezmerelda targets one creature
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
Evasion. When the chwinga is subjected to an effect that allows it to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, it instead takes no damage if it succeeds on the saving throw, and only
within 5 feet of itself. The target gains a supernatural charm of the DM’s choice. See the Dungeon Master’s Guide for more information on supernatural charms.
Natural Shelter. The chwinga
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
itself on a success.Champions of the dragon queen are often called Talons of Tiamat. They work tirelessly to free their master from her imprisonment in Avernus, and Tiamat grants these pawns immense
their draconic heritage—chromatic, metallic, or gem—something like a large extended family. But for dragonborn champions, this bond is spiritual as much as biological, and they devote
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Gloomwrought and asked Naeryx to help him run it. For Urmius, the carnival was a chance to emerge from under his family’s shadow and become the master of his own fate, but it also meant forsaking his
again until the next dawn), ray of frostLight, formerly known as Urmius Umbrage, belonged to a filthy rich shadar-kai family that haunted a crumbling mansion in Gloomwrought. Although he wanted for
Monsters
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
Grave Magic. When the master of souls cast a spell that deals damage, it can change the spell's damage type to necrotic.
Spellcasting. The master of souls is a 5th-level spellcaster. Its spellcasting
:
Cantrips (at will): chill touch (see “Actions” below), mage hand, message, prestidigitation
1st level (4 slots): burning hands, detect magic, ray of sickness (see “Actions” below), shield
2nd level (3 slots
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
metals and stones, such as coins and gems, within 60 feet of her.Istrid is regarded as the Black Network's Master of Trade and Coin in Waterdeep. The shield dwarf operates an illegal lending operation
dying
1st level (4 slots): divine favor, guiding bolt, healing word, shield of faith
2nd level (3 slots): lesser restoration, magic weapon, hold person, silence, spiritual weapon
3rd level (3 slots
Monsters
Tomb of Annihilation
Evasion. When the chwinga is subjected to an effect that allows it to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, it instead takes no damage if it succeeds on the saving throw, and only
supernatural charm of the DM’s choice. See the Dungeon Master’s Guide for information on supernatural charms.
Natural Shelter. The chwinga magically takes shelter inside a rock, a living
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
re-forms within hours.
In service to its master, a boneclaw delights in causing horrific pain. It lurks like a spider in shadowy recesses, waiting for victims to approach within reach of its long
Rejuvenation. While its master lives, a destroyed boneclaw gains a new body in 1d10;{"diceNotation":"1d10", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Hours"} hours, with all its hit points. The new body
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
subjected to an effect that allows him to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, Jarlaxle instead takes no damage if he succeeds on the saving throw, and only half damage if he fails
succeed instead.
Master Attuner. Jarlaxle can attune to up to five magic items, and he can attune to magic items that normally require attunement by a sorcerer, warlock, or wizard.
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