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Basic Rules (2014)
arches, swooping from spire to spire, soared through the air. Crafted by ancient dwarven metalsmiths, they were strong enough to hold the weight of an army, yet they appeared so delicate that a bird
lighting on them might overthrow the balance. These glistening arches were the city’s only boundaries; there was no wall around Qualinost. The elven city opened its arms lovingly to the wilderness
Species
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
Autognomes are mechanical beings built by rock gnomes. Sometimes, because of a malfunction or a unique circumstance, an autognome becomes separated from its creator and strikes out on its own.
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ability scores, increase one of those scores by 2 and increase a different score by 1, or increase three different scores by 1. Follow this rule regardless of the method you use to determine the scores
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
that can make it difficult to realize certain character concepts. The following subsections address that lack by adding choice to your character’s race, allowing you to customize your ability scores, languages, and certain proficiencies to fit the origin you have in mind for your character.
Customizing Your Origin At 1st level, you choose various aspects of your character, including ability scores, race, class, and background. Together these elements help paint a picture of your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
3. Empty Ceremonial Chamber This chamber resembles a larger version of the entry, with arches meeting at the twenty-five-foot domed peak of the ceiling. A nine-foot-tall wooden platform stands
Intelligence (Investigation) or Wisdom (Perception) check notices which three knobs show the most wear. Pressing those knobs in any order opens the secret door. Manipulating Time Having a mechanical
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
1. Entry Chamber Stairs from the surface lead down to this damp vaulted chamber. The floor is strewn with bones and rubble. The ceiling is supported by arches meeting at the twenty-foot-high domed
and succeeds on a DC 12 Wisdom (Perception) check finds 19 sp and a small ruby (worth 20 gp) inside a lizardfolk skull. Manipulating Time Having a mechanical guide spend 1 charge in this area causes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
K19. Grand Landing Massive stairs rise to a landing twenty feet wide by forty feet long. Stone arches support a ceiling covered with frescoes twenty feet overhead. The frescoes depict armored knights
, each one containing a standing suit of armor covered with dark stains. Each suit of armor clutches a mace, the “business end” of which is shaped like a dragon’s head. Words engraved on the arches above
Magic Items
Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
Kwalish’s lab in Daoine Gloine (area O7), whichever comes later in the adventure.
Skull. You summon an avatar of death — a mechanical skeleton (use bone naga statistics) clad in a
. Increase one of your ability scores by 1 for the duration of the adventure. The score can exceed 20 but can’t exceed 24.
Sun. You gain proficiency in the skill of your choice for the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
Mechanical Guides Each mechanical guide is programmed to teleport through space and time to the adventure’s set locations, effectively dropping the characters at the start of chapter 3 or chapter 4
its ability scores. Each guide has 6 charges, and regains 1d6 expended charges daily at dawn. Teleporting itself and the party to either adventure locale or back to its home manor costs a guide 1
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
toll. Restoring Old Debts. If the sphinx is slain, the mechanical items that circle around her (functioning as Ioun stones) might all be released. The life force they contain (in the form of
decreases to ability scores) might then be usable by their original owners to reverse the decrease. If any of those owners are still alive, the stones might help guide the characters to them, allowing the
Magic Items
The Book of Many Things
feet.
Beast. You immediately transform into a random Beast with a CR of 5 or lower. Your game statistics—including your ability scores, hit points, and possible actions—are replaced by the
stop drawing from the deck, regardless of how many cards you initially declared.
Lance. All your ability scores increase by 1, to a maximum of 20.
Mage. Your Intelligence score increases by 2, to a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
dwarves split into two gangs. A surly, browbeaten lot, they have no interest in who the characters are or what their business at the tomb is. If talked to, they grumble about their poor food and lack of pay
wages for construction workers, signed by Moghadam. Manipulating Time Having a mechanical guide spend 1 charge in this area causes a number of the dwarves to erupt into squabbling, allowing the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Initiative modifier is an Initiative score. Some creatures that are created by magic lack Hit Dice and Initiative information. Speed. Here the monster’s Speed is provided, along with any special speeds
. See also “Burrow Speed,” “Climb Speed,” “Fly Speed,” and “Swim Speed.” Ability Scores. A table provides the monster’s ability scores, modifiers, and saving throw modifiers, all of which are detailed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
. Following the Initiative modifier is an Initiative score. Some creatures that are created by magic lack Hit Dice and Initiative information. Speed. Here the monster’s Speed is provided, along with any special
speeds. See also “Burrow Speed,” “Climb Speed,” “Fly Speed,” and “Swim Speed.” Ability Scores. A table provides the monster’s ability scores, modifiers, and saving throw modifiers, all of which are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
clock faces built into it.
The Overlook’s clocks are mechanical wonders illuminated by magic. They keep perfect time. A hollowed-out central chamber in the Overlook contains Little Lockford’s
Old Lockford, Smoldertown, and Turbine Heights. L12: Security Center A large, rough-hewn cavern in the heart of the Overlook has a floor that rises toward the middle. Scores of lizards—a few of them big
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
in the northeastern alcove.
Shockerstomper consists of a 30-foot-diameter, saucer-shaped platform mounted atop seven mechanical legs. Crowning the platform are three spherical turrets, each with a
legs are disabled. Shockerstomper’s ability scores are as follows: Strength 23, Dexterity 10, Constitution 20, Intelligence 1, Wisdom 1, Charisma 1. Shockerstomper’s Traits Electrified Surface. A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Strength score times 15. "Using Ability Scores" has more information on carrying capacity.
Armor Class Your Armor Class (AC) represents how well your character avoids being wounded in battle. Things
wearing armor or carrying a shield if you lack the required proficiency, as explained in the Equipment section.
Some spells and class features give you a different way to calculate your AC. If you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
sconces or torch brackets. A few even have secret doors built into them. Doors Dungeon doorways might be set within plain arches and lintels. They might be festooned with carvings of gargoyles or leering
it. Sometimes faint cracks in the wall or scuff marks on the floor betray the secret door’s presence. Detecting a Secret Door. Use the characters’ passive Wisdom (Perception) scores to determine
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
creature retains its Hit Dice, hit points, racial traits (but not proficiencies granted by race), and all of its ability scores except for Intelligence. After the first stage of the process, the creature’s
to use humanoids as thralls, since they have a good balance of physical attributes and proper anatomy. Animals, in contrast, require a lot of direct oversight and lack the ability to use tools to help
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
. Approaching the Dock As Krux and the characters make their way to the dock, read: Scores of pelicans, mollymawks, and smaller birds nesting on the asteroid squawk as you approach the rickety dock. At the
mechanical gnomes wearing harnesses tend to the plants. The harnesses are attached to ropes that loop around pulleys affixed to the ceiling, enabling the gnomes to hoist themselves into the air and move
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
— clockwork ants forming signals and signs, messages drawn by mechanical hands, consultation with the trapped mind flayer, and so on. As best he can, Kwalish tries to instruct characters in the methods that
enhanced sphinx (whose machinery he created). This restores to normal any ability scores decreased by the sphinx (see area C2). Laboratory Fight If negotiations break down, or if the characters take
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
new—a transformation worthy of legend.
Most creatures that lack the capacity for rational thought do not have alignments—they are unaligned. Such a creature is incapable of making a moral or ethical
dislikes or fears, your character’s self-attitude or mannerisms, or the influence of his or her ability scores.
A useful place to start thinking about personality traits is to look at your highest and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Uni and the Hunt for the Lost Horn
: Level 4+) Increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. This feat can’t increase an ability score above 20. (This is included above.) Repeatable
Thanks to your travels, you gain the following benefits. Expertise. Choose one of your skill proficiencies with which you lack Expertise. You gain Expertise in that skill. (This is included above
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
adventure. Skull. You summon an avatar of death — a mechanical skeleton (use bone naga statistics) clad in a tattered black robe. It appears in a space of the DM’s choice within 10 feet of you and
own avatar of death. A creature slain by an avatar of death can’t be restored to life. Star. Increase one of your ability scores by 1 for the duration of the adventure. The score can exceed 20 but
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
power and detonate with formidable explosive force wherever they hit. VEHICLE RULES
Battle balloons and mechanical beholders are vehicles, and as such, they have special rules associated with them
. Most pertinently, a vehicle has the six ability scores (Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma) and the corresponding modifiers. The Strength of a vehicle expresses its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
his brow and a spiky black gauntlet on one hand. His crown and gauntlet are made of chardalyn. The ceiling of this hall arches to a height of thirty feet. Stone steps lead up to a semicircular dais
. Loud mechanical noises come from behind the west wall.
Unless they are drawn to area X19 by sounds of combat there, four quaggoths gnaw on bones in this room and attack intruders on sight. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
statistics—including your ability scores, hit points, and possible actions—are replaced by the Beast’s game statistics, and any nonmagical equipment you’re wearing or carrying melds into your new form and
immediately choose to stop drawing from the deck, regardless of how many cards you initially declared. Lance. All your ability scores increase by 1, to a maximum of 20. Mage. Your Intelligence score
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
chamber that holds worn picks, rusty shovels, and two hand carts filled with debris and rags.
The tools were left behind by the workers in the wake of the disaster. Characters who look up see scores of
spontaneously manifested rather than being dug out, there are no scratch marks or signs of excavation on the walls, floor, or ceiling here. The moss muffles all sound, causing a lack of echoes and creating a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
contraptions. Characters who compare those drawings with Stonky’s skitterwidgets can tell where the gnome got the inspiration for his mechanical creations. Navigation Notes. A slip of paper tucked into
bludgeoning damage with their slam attacks, and they lack the Aversion to Fire trait. The golems can’t leave the observatory. Lever. Stonky has placed a glyph of warding spell on the red ruby atop the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
rooftops or extending outward to form massive arches supporting the stonework above.
Horrid Statues. The glass statues that fill Daoine Gloine are the city’s sacrificial victims, forced into intricate
number of the glass statues have been imbued with mechanical-magical power — armatures of the inventor’s own design that animate into ooze-folk. Once the characters enter the ooze to explore the streets
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Rating of 1/4 and that lack a Fly Speed (see appendix B for stat block options). The Rat, Riding Horse, Spider, and Wolf are recommended. Whenever you finish a Long Rest, you can replace one of your
statistics are replaced by the Beast’s stat block, but you retain your creature type; Hit Points; Hit Point Dice; Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores; class features; languages; and feats. You also
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Rating of 1/4 and that lack a Fly Speed (see appendix B for stat block options). The Rat, Riding Horse, Spider, and Wolf are recommended. Whenever you finish a Long Rest, you can replace one of your
statistics are replaced by the Beast’s stat block, but you retain your creature type; Hit Points; Hit Point Dice; Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores; class features; languages; and feats. You also
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
“HANDLE WITH CARE.” A closed door offers a way into a walled-in area to the northwest. A mechanical lift stands along the south wall to the east, and two iron spiral staircases rise from the
real danger on the walkway and the bridge comes from their uneven surface and the lack of a railing. A character who moves no more than 10 feet per turn and devotes all their attention to watching
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
Figurines. The six figurines are floating because they are subject to the tug of the void (see “Castle Features”). The figurines are shaped like tiny humans but lack fine features to distinguish them from
Absorption. (All mentions of acid damage change to fire damage.) In this form, Jhaeros has Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores of 10. When Jhaeros drops to 0 hit points, he explodes in a harmless
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
hide among the weeds that flank the cottage’s open doorway. Make a Dexterity (Stealth) check for the blights, and compare the result to the passive Wisdom (Perception) scores of the characters to
in area 7. His fellow cultists lack Favric’s ambition and flee if he is captured or killed.
If the characters talk to the cultists, Favric explains that they have come to treat with the green
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
Brimstone Hold Locations The following locations are keyed to map 13.2. Map 13.2: DM’s Map View Player Version B1: Bridge A broad stone bridge spans the fiery river, its arches luridly lit from
worth 5,000 gp. B30: Vrakir’s Demiplane On the floor of this otherwise empty room rests an open book, its ancient pages rustling ominously despite the lack of breeze. The flagstones around it are charred






