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Shield Master
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Feats
Player’s Handbook (2014)
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 other
feats
Player’s Handbook (2024)
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
creature within 5 feet of you as part of the Attack action and hit with a Melee weapon, you can immediately bash the target with your Shield if it’s equipped, forcing the target to make 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->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
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
you attack a creature within 5 feet of you as part of the Attack action and hit with a Melee weapon, you can immediately bash the target with your Shield if it’s equipped, forcing the target to make a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Master of Myriad Forms Prerequisite: 15th level You can cast alter self at will, without expending a spell slot.
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
.
Acrobatic Assist (Quarterstaff and 10-Foot Pole Forms Only). While holding this weapon, you have Advantage on Dexterity (Acrobatics) checks.
Attack Deflection (Quarterstaff Form Only). When you are hit by
Equipment
A Holy Symbol takes one of the forms in the Holy Symbol table and is bejeweled or painted to channel divine magic. A 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
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
Initiative rolls.
Underwater Adaptation. A bubble of air forms around your head while you are underwater, allowing you to breathe normally in that environment.
Aquatic Command. Wave has 3 charges and
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
flash of radiance. However, as long as evil exists in the multiverse, the book re-forms 1d10 × 100 years later.
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
Species
Player’s Handbook
Created by the god Corellon, the first elves could change their forms at will. They lost this ability when Corellon cursed them for plotting with the deity Lolth, who tried and failed to usurp
, including worlds in the Material Plane.
Elves have pointed ears and lack facial and body hair. They live for around 750 years, and they don’t sleep but instead enter a trance when they need
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
skull surmounts it. For this to happen, the long-lost hero must first be restored to life—no easy task, given the fact that Orcus has imprisoned the hero’s soul and keeps it hidden and well
guarded.
Bathing the wand in positive energy (such as that which permeates the Positive Plane) causes it to crack and explode, but unless the above conditions are met, the wand instantly re-forms on Orcus’s layer of the Abyss.
Spells
Player’s Handbook
A shimmering, multicolored plane of light forms a vertical opaque wall—up to 90 feet long, 30 feet high, and 1 inch thick—centered on a point within range. Alternatively, you shape the
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
an ally. As Dungeon Master, you should wait for a dramatically appropriate moment to reveal this enmity, leaving the adventurer guessing who is likely to become a betrayer.
Fool. You have
until they or someone else reveals it. Nothing less than a Wish spell or divine intervention can end the NPC’s hostility toward you.
Ruin. All forms of wealth that you carry or own, other than
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
Magic Items
Ghosts of Saltmarsh
This long, delicate wooden pipe features a bowl made from smooth river stone. When the pipe is lit, smoke exhaled from it does not dissipate, instead lingering around the bearer. After 10 minutes
, the smoke forms moving shapes that reenact the bearer’s most impressive and heroic achievements for 5 minutes. When this realistic performance is complete, the smoke dissipates. The pipe can’t be used this way again until the next dawn.
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
master—a person within a few miles who has a hate-filled heart. The soul bonds to that person and becomes enslaved to its new master’s wishes. The boneclaw forms near its master, sometimes
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
hand-to-hand combat. Some protect monasteries; others travel the world seeking enlightenment or new forms of combat to master. A few become bodyguards, trading their combat prowess and loyalty for
Unarmored Defense. While the adept is wearing no armor and wielding no shield, its AC includes its Wisdom modifier.Multiattack. The adept makes three Unarmed Strike attacks or five Dart attacks
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
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
, heroes must reduce each of her forms to 0 hit points one after another. After she’s defeated in her third and final form, Auril dies. As long as she has mortal followers who worship her, however
her divine spark vanishes. She is dead until the next winter solstice, when she reappears at full health in a cold, remote location of her choosing.
Frigid Aura. So long as Auril has at least 1 hit
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
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
. While the two are bonded, the master can sense what the anvilwrought senses, as long as they are within 1 mile of each other.
Fire, Poison
creatures to his most devoted followers so they could mimic his works and invent new forms at their own forges.
Some anvilwroughts are vigilant guardians at holy shrines, others serve as familiars and
Magic Items
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
The amulet is a 4-inch-wide disk composed of silver-framed wood, with a rune carved into its face. A detect magic spell reveals a magical aura of enchantment around the amulet.
Every shield
guardian has an amulet magically linked to it. A shield guardian can have only one corresponding amulet, and if that amulet is destroyed, the shield guardian is incapacitated until a replacement amulet
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
thin cloak of mist forms around her. Blades of ice grow out of her body at odd angles, breaking off before they get too long. When she moves, her body crackles.
In this form, Auril creates weapons of
solstice, with divine power far beyond what is reflected in the stat blocks presented here.
After finishing a long rest, Auril regains any of her forms that were destroyed, provided at least one
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 2: Dragonlance Creatures
Darken Wood in Krynn. The ancient being’s body is wreathed in protective briars, and moonlight dances around the unicorn’s horn. Those who threaten the Forest Master’s lands find
Legendary Resistance (2/Day). If the Forest Master fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. The Forest Master has advantage on saving throws against spells and other
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
boss around smaller, weaker creatures can easily end up in positions of power, surrounded by loyal underlings, sycophants, and would-be usurpers. A plasmoid boss might be the master of a guild, the
the attacker.On occasion, due to some biological anomaly, a plasmoid balloons in size upon reaching adulthood (around the age of twenty years). Plasmoids who use their increased size and strength to
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
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
roll a d4;{"diceNotation":"1d4", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Planar Smithing"}):
1–2: Chains. The matter smith creates spectral bindings around a creature it can see within 30 feet of
itself. The target must succeed on a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw or have the restrained condition until the end of its next turn.
3–4: Magic Shield. The matter smith conjures a floating, spectral
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
":"damage","rollAction":"Slam","rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage.
Crushing Embrace. The boneless wraps its body around a Large or smaller creature grappled by it. While the boneless is
vengeance or at the whims of sinister masters. Slipping through cracks and under doors, these stealthy undead seek to adorn living frames once more, wrapping themselves around their victims and wringing
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
portfolios revolve around fair commerce. Standing 12 feet tall, they are lanky blue beings who dress in elegant robes and have elongated heads and long, spindly fingers.
Mercanes conduct most of their
business in Wildspace and the Astral Sea. To a mercane, commerce can take many forms, from the trading of goods and services to the trading of ideas and information. Mercanes are best known, however






