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Heavy Armor Master
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Feats
Player’s Handbook (2014)
You can use your armor to deflect strikes that would kill others. You gain the following benefits:
Increase your Strength score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
While you are wearing heavy armor, bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage that you take from nonmagical attacks is reduced by 3.
Feats
Player’s Handbook (2024)
General Feat (Prerequisite: Level 4+, Heavy Armor Training)
You gain the following benefits.
Ability Score Increase. Increase your Constitution or Strength score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
Damage
Reduction. When you’re hit by an attack while you’re wearing Heavy armor, any Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing damage dealt to you by that attack is reduced by an amount equal to your Proficiency Bonus.
Medium Armor Master
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Feats
Player’s Handbook (2014)
You have practiced moving in medium armor to gain the following benefits:
Wearing medium armor doesn't impose disadvantage on your Dexterity (Stealth) checks.
When you wear medium armor, you can add 3, rather than 2, to your AC if you have a Dexterity of 16 or higher.
feats
Player’s Handbook (2024)
General Feat (Prerequisite: Level 4+, Medium armor Training)
You gain the following benefits.
Ability Score Increase. Increase your Strength or Dexterity score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
Dexterous
Wearer. While you're wearing Medium armor, you can add 3, rather than 2 to your AC if you have a Dexterity score of 16 or higher.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Heavy Armor Master Prerequisite: Proficiency with heavy armor You can use your armor to deflect strikes that would kill others. You gain the following benefits: Increase your Strength score by 1, to
a maximum of 20. While you are wearing heavy armor, bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage that you take from nonmagical attacks is reduced by 3.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Medium Armor Master Prerequisite: Proficiency with medium armor You have practiced moving in medium armor to gain the following benefits: Wearing medium armor doesn’t impose disadvantage on your
Dexterity (Stealth) checks. When you wear medium armor, you can add 3, rather than 2, to your AC if you have a Dexterity of 16 or higher.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Medium Armor Master General Feat (Prerequisite: Level 4+, Medium Armor Training) You gain the following benefits. Ability Score Increase. Increase your Strength or Dexterity score by 1, to a maximum
of 20. Dexterous Wearer. While you’re wearing Medium armor, you can add 3, rather than 2, to your AC if you have a Dexterity score of 16 or higher.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Heavy Armor Master General Feat (Prerequisite: Level 4+, Heavy Armor Training) You gain the following benefits. Ability Score Increase. Increase your Constitution or Strength score by 1, to a maximum
of 20. Damage Reduction. When you’re hit by an attack while you’re wearing Heavy armor, any Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing damage dealt to you by that attack is reduced by an amount equal to your Proficiency Bonus.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata
Heavy Armor Master (pg. 167) In the second bullet, “nonmagical weapons” is now “nonmagical attacks.”
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
While wearing this armor, you have Resistance to one of the following damage types: Bludgeoning, Piercing, or Slashing. The DM chooses the type or determines it randomly.
Curse. This armor is cursed
, a fact that is revealed only when the Identify spell is cast on the armor or you attune to it. Attuning to the armor curses you until you are targeted by a Remove Curse spell or similar magic
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and attack bonus, as well as the armor’s rarity, as shown in the following table.
Spell Level
Rarity
Save DC
Attack Bonus
Cantrip
Uncommon
13
+5
1
Uncommon
13
+5
Bound into this armor is a spell of level 8 or lower. The spell is determined when the armor is created and must belong to the Abjuration or Illusion school of magic. The armor has 6 charges and
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
While wearing this pendant, you gain the following benefits.
Life Preservation. Whenever you make a Death Saving Throw, you can change a roll of 9 or lower to a 10, turning a failed save into a
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
You have Resistance to one type of damage while you wear this armor. The DM chooses the type or determines it randomly by rolling on the following table.
d10
Damage Type
1
Acid
Monsters
Monster Manual
Telepathic Bond. While the homunculus is on the same plane of existence as its master, the two of them can communicate telepathically with each other.Bite. Melee Attack Roll: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20
+4", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Bite"}, reach 5 ft. Hit: 1 Piercing damage, and the target is subjected to the following effect. Constitution Saving Throw: DC 12. Failure: The target has the
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
Armor Class while holding the wand.
Spells. The wand has 7 charges and regains 1d4 + 3 expended charges daily at dawn. While holding the wand, you can cast one of the spells on the following table
with it. The wand deals an extra 2d12 Necrotic damage on a hit.
Random Properties. The Wand of Orcus has the following random properties:
2 minor beneficial properties
1 major beneficial property
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
This rod has the following properties.
Alertness. While holding the rod, you have Advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks and on Initiative rolls. Spells. While holding the rod, you can cast the
following spells from it:
Detect Evil and Good
Detect Magic
Detect Poison and Disease
See Invisibility
Protective Aura. As a Magic action, you can plant the haft end of the rod in the ground
Monsters
Monster Manual
turn.Dracolich Lairs
A dracolich lurks in a corrupted version of the lair it had in life. The region containing a dracolich’s lair is warped by its presence, creating the following effects:
Sapping Mist
Legendary Resistance (3/Day, or 4/Day in Lair). If the dracolich fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Life Suppression. Creatures within 60 feet of the dracolich can’t
Monsters
Monster Manual
following spells, using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 14):
At Will: Disguise Self, Mage Hand, Minor Illusion 1/Day Each: Hold Person (level 4 version), Mage Armor (included in AC), Major Image
Monsters
Monster Manual
Fiendish Restoration. If it dies, the naga returns to life in 1d6;{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Fiendish Restoration"} days and regains all its Hit Points. Only a Wish spell
following spells, requiring no Somatic or Material components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 14):
At Will: Detect Magic, Mage Hand, Minor Illusion, Water Breathing2/Day
Monsters
Monster Manual
Celestial Restoration. If the naga dies, it returns to life in 1d6;{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Celestial Restoration"} days and regains all its Hit Points unless Dispel
of the naga’s next turn. Success: Half damage only.
Spellcasting. The naga casts one of the following spells, requiring no Somatic or Material components and using Wisdom as the spellcasting
Monsters
Monster Manual
":"Piercing"} Piercing damage.
Eye Rays. The death tyrant randomly shoots one of the following magical rays at a target it can see within 120 feet of itself (roll 1d10;{"diceNotation":"1d10", "rollType
Hit Points.
Legendary Action Uses: 3 (4 in Lair). Immediately after another creature’s turn, the death tyrant can expend a use to take one of the following actions. The death tyrant regains
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
This staff has 20 charges and can be wielded as a magic Quarterstaff that grants a +2 bonus to attack rolls and damage rolls made with it. While holding it, you gain a +2 bonus to Armor Class, saving
throws, and spell attack rolls.
Spells. While holding the staff , you can cast one of the spells on the following table from it, using your spell save DC. The table indicates how many charges you
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
, freedom from the orb, to spread suffering in the world, to advance the worship of Tiamat, or something else the DM decides.
Random Properties. An Orb of Dragonkind has the following random properties
(see the Dungeon Master’s Guide):
2 minor beneficial properties
1 minor detrimental property
1 major detrimental property
Spells. The orb has 7 charges and regains 1d4 + 3 expended
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
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
an attack while holding the weapon, you can take a Reaction to twirl the weapon around you, gaining a +5 bonus to your Armor Class against the triggering attack, potentially causing the attack to miss
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
summons, as well as the requirement for its use. The DM chooses the horn’s type or determines it randomly by rolling on the following table. If you blow the horn without meeting its requirement, the
Medium armor
91–00
Horn of Valhalla (Iron);Iron
5
Proficiency with all Martial weapons
Magic Items
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.
Random Properties. The sword has the following random properties (see “Artifacts”):
1 minor beneficial property
1 major beneficial property
1 minor detrimental property
1 major
detrimental property
Spells. While the sword is on your person, you can cast the following spells (save DC 18) from it:
Call Lightning
Divine Word
Finger of Death
Once you use the sword to
Monsters
Monster Manual
Action Uses: 3 (4 in Lair). Immediately after another creature’s turn, the vampire can expend a use to take one of the following actions. The vampire regains all expended uses at the start of each
create sanctuaries apart from the living, whether hidden in cosmopolitan cities or sequestered in ruins where they dwelled in life.
The region containing a vampire’s lair is warped by its presence
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
magic items, are lost to you. Portable property vanishes. Businesses, buildings, and land you own are lost in a way that alters reality the least. If you have a Bastion (see the Dungeon Master’s
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are set in a row along the haft. It has three other properties as well, detailed below.
Buttons. You can press one of the following buttons as a Bonus Action; a button’s effect lasts until you
height above it.
Drain Life. When you hit a creature with a melee attack using the rod, you can force the target to make a DC 17 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the target takes an extra
Magic Items
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disappears, your Attunement to it ends immediately, and you lose all benefits granted by it. If you die while attuned to the book, an entity of great evil claims your soul. You can’t be restored to life
Vile Darkness has the following random properties:
3 minor beneficial properties
1 major beneficial property
3 minor detrimental properties
2 major detrimental properties
Spells. While
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
roll for a spell you cast against a Fiend, you use the maximum possible result instead of rolling.
Random Properties. The Artifact has the following random properties (see “Artifacts” in
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
Ghosts of Saltmarsh
damage is radiant or from a critical hit. On a success, the drowned master drops to 1 hit point instead.Multiattack. The drowned master makes two attacks: one with its greatsword and one with its Life
Bound Together. The drowned master shares its mind with every other drowned one within 1 mile of it, and can communicate its thoughts and observations to them instantaneously and without limitation
Magic Items
Tomb of Annihilation
This suit of plate armor is fashioned from giant scorpion chitin. While wearing this armor, you gain the following benefits:
The armor improves your combat readiness, granting you a +5 bonus to
to resist the effects of extreme heat (see chapter 5 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide).
Curse. This armor is cursed. Whenever you don or doff it, you must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
must obey the knight's commands until the knight dies or until the knight releases it as a bonus action. The knight can command up to twelve undead at a time this way.
Master of the Pallid Banner. While
ability is Charisma (spell save DC 14, +6;{"diceNotation":"1d20+6","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Spellcasting"} to hit with spell attacks). It has the following paladin spells prepared:
1st level