mechanics shot with only are from for like

An Ongoing Game

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook

An Ongoing Game Sometimes a session of D&D is a complete game in itself (often called a “one-shot”), where you play a short adventure that lasts for just one session. More often, though, D&D sessions

are connected in a longer adventure that takes several sessions to complete, and adventures can be strung together into a larger narrative called a campaign. A campaign is like a TV series, while an

Never Alone

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild

patrolling the laboratory section (areas 1 to 23). On a 3–4, it patrols the temple section (areas 24 to 39). There are no fixed mechanics for encounters with the thessalhydra, but feel free to have

thessalheart construct is a strange magical-mechanical device that struts about like a chicken, and which features a human heart beating madly behind its glass front. The construct always wanders the zone

Roleplaying Sergeant Vilroy

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

known as mercenaries, which is what these blood-soaked hirelings are. While many of these second-rate thugs act like they have the absolute authority of the Sharn Watch, know your rights! These

natures. Germaine is gruff and doesn’t like wasting time. She gives the characters the information she has and tries to send them on their way before they can ask questions about her involvement in the

Roleplaying Sergeant Vilroy

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

known as mercenaries, which is what these blood-soaked hirelings are. While many of these second-rate thugs act like they have the absolute authority of the Sharn Watch, know your rights! These

natures. Germaine is gruff and doesn’t like wasting time. She gives the characters the information she has and tries to send them on their way before they can ask questions about her involvement in the

Key Nonplayer Characters

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen

thieves guild. Secretly, its leaders seek to extend their shadowy fingers into every throne room and ruling council chamber in Faerûn. Like the Harpers, the Zhentarim too are aware that the Cult of the

why Gleamsilver joins the caravan. The Zhentarim’s spies learned that the cult is moving freight northward, and, like the characters, she was tasked with finding out what they’re hauling and where

Residents

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

meditation, transcribing her visions onto stone tablets as she experiences them. Like Urmas, she focuses her efforts on the fate of the different giant communities and clans, sorting through the various

indescribable chaos through Ustova’s visions. All she sees of the future is fire, blood, and death, shot through with signs and portents based upon the natures of the demon lords — the bloody spirals and twin

Worshiping Iroas

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros

. In the myth of Rygyra the Slinger, the soldier never missed when she launched stones from her magic sling. Yet, even so, her every shot bounced off the giant minotaur, Raksolcs Ravage-Soul. As the

shield resounded with the barest metallic clang—like a pin falling on bronze. Opening her eyes, Rygyra discovered that her shield had transformed into a gleaming bulwark—Iroas’s own shield. Enraged

Vampires

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)

Vampires “I am The Ancient, I am The Land. My beginnings are lost in the darkness of the past. I was the warrior, I was good and just. I thundered across the land like the wrath of a just god, but

monster, shot him with arrows. But he did not die. He became a vampire — the first vampire, according to many sages. In the centuries since his transformation, Strahd’s lust for life and youth have

Mind Flayers

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

-built device that functions as a laser pistol (see “Firearms” in the Dungeon Master’s Guide). This weapon is powered by an energy cell, which enables the weapon to fire 50 shots. After its last shot is

. It relies on levitation to keep its body aloft and uses its tentacles like legs, to propel it along whatever surface it’s floating above. Most mind flayers destroy squidlings on sight, so it’s rare

Modifying a Class

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

faith, making them proficient with the quarterstaff and nothing else. You could give them a benefit to make up for the loss of proficiencies—something like the monk’s Unarmored Defense class feature, but

their masters, drawn from the sorcerer or wizard lists. Suddenly, the paladin feels like a different class. Be cautious when changing the warlock spell list. Since warlocks regain their spell slots

Caer Locations (C1-C9)

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

is equipped with a system of wheels that raises the portcullises and opens the outer sets of doors. In the middle of the floor are murder holes through which arrows can be shot or alchemist’s fire

noncombatant named Mere, whom Kadroth found begging for food in Bryn Shander. Mere is frightened of Kadroth and would like to get out from under his thumb but can’t figure out how. The servant knows the

Random Encounters

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

wide, with ceilings 1d8 + 3 feet high. A tunnel follows a straight path for no more than 2d4 × 10 feet before it turns. Rifts. The Labyrinth is shot through with rifts and chasms formed by upheavals in

appears. The manes scour the Labyrinth for easy prey and move like a tide of putrid flesh. Minotaurs These minotaurs roams the Labyrinth, slaying creatures in the name of Baphomet. Monodrone This modron has

7. The Sepulcher of Tloques-Popolocas

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3

like the wind and the night!” Trapped Doors. The doors are locked (DC 15 Dexterity check to pick with thieves’ tools) and trapped. Opening the lock disables the trap. Forcing the doors open can be

chamber cut out of the rock with a veil of calcite and stalactites covering the walls. Buttresses rise from the corners, brown shot through with black, and triangular stone pillars support the high

Magical Phenomena

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

. Supernaturally powerful winds—like those from planes such as Pandemonium or Minethys, the third layer of Carceri—can spawn flaywinds. A flaywind is an intense sandstorm, gathering large rocks and other debris in

a character to recognize a flaywind 1 minute before it strikes, allowing time to seek shelter. A flaywind typically lasts 1d4 × 10 hours. Flame Storm. Sooty thunderclouds shot through with red and

Halls of the Upper Priesthood

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase

the bowls spread their leaves like wings and take flight in all directions like insects. There are fifty flying fruits in all. A character more than 20 feet off the ground—such as one climbing a palm

can shoot down a flying fruit by hitting it with a ranged attack roll; each fruit has Armor Class 18. Once plucked from the air or shot down, a flying fruit becomes inanimate. A creature that eats a

Hive Ward

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands

with a tiny cog for a cap. When placed on a flat surface, the cap rotates like the gears of Mechanus. Golden Gout. Imported from the Nine Hells, this spiced whiskey burns all the way down. Imbibers

often belch a small flame after taking a shot. Swamp Water. Bottled locally by a green hag with six teeth and an infectious laugh, this murky, sour gin causes the drinker to break out in a harmless rash

Lower City Gazetteer

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer

into the mud like a cylindrical stone taproot. Here are the building’s legendary vaults, where the city’s patriars and merchants from across the world store items too valuable to be trusted to lesser

creating soft lawns and thickets shot through with small recesses and tunnels where the old refuse had piled high. This revamped space he dedicated as a public park, arguing that the poor need to feel

Abyssal Prisons

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5

prisms must make a DC 13 Wisdom saving throw at the start each of his or her turns. The first time each character fails the save, a wraith that looks like a shadowy duplicate of that character erupts

gold coffer wrought to look like a sleeping dragon with violet garnet eyes (worth 1,000 gp). The coffer holds 200 pp and a dark, smooth river rock (a loadstone; see appendix A). True Name Box. If

Spaceship Locations, Level 1

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase

pits players against racers at nearby machines or a series of computerized opponents. Each machine looks like a futuristic cockpit, complete with a hovering chair that tilts as its driver navigates an

. Shooting Galleries. These target-shooting games are fitted with controllers shaped like laser rifles that emit harmless beams of light. The player assumes the role of a cosmic protector, aiming the weapon at

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