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Monsters
Monster Manual
creature, the marid suffers none of the spell’s stress. Once the marid has cast it three times, the marid can’t do so again for 365 days.Multiattack. The marid makes three Aquatic Lash attacks
Jet. Dexterity Saving Throw: DC 18, each creature in a 60-foot-long, 10-foot-wide Line. Failure: 31 (9d6);{"diceNotation":"9d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Water Jet", "rollDamageType":"Cold
Spells
Player’s Handbook
for a moment; she shakes her head, and your wish fails.
The stress of casting Wish to produce any effect other than duplicating another spell weakens you. After enduring that stress, each time you
cast a spell until you finish a Long Rest, you take 1d10 Necrotic damage per level of that spell. This damage can’t be reduced or prevented in any way. In addition, your Strength score becomes 3
Classes
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
Monks of the Way of the Long Death are obsessed with the meaning and mechanics of dying. They capture creatures and prepare elaborate experiments to capture, record, and understand the moments of
Classes
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
Monks of the Way of the Long Death are obsessed with the meaning and mechanics of dying. They capture creatures and prepare elaborate experiments to capture, record, and understand the moments of
Wish
Legacy
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
instantly transport you to the presence of the item's current owner.
The stress of casting this spell to produce any effect other than duplicating another spell weakens you. After enduring that stress
, each time you cast a spell until you finish a long rest, you take 1d10 necrotic damage per level of that spell. This damage can't be reduced or prevented in any way. In addition, your Strength drops
Species
One Grung Above
THIS IS NONCORE D&D MATERIAL
These game mechanics are usable in your campaign if your DM allows them but not refined by final game design and editing.
Grungs are aggressive froglike
lethargic and compliant. A creature afflicted in this way over a long period of time becomes a shell of its former self and can be restored to normalcy only by magic.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
circumstances reduces their Stress Score by 1 when they finish their next long rest. The calm emotions spell effect used to suppress the charmed and frightened conditions also suppresses the effects of
Stress Charging headlong into terrifying situations is the stock in trade for adventurers. Among the Domains of Dread, though, periods of respite between harrowing experiences can be rare. Even the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Mental Stress Effects When a character is subjected to an effect that causes intense mental stress, Psychic damage is the best way to emulate that effect. The Sample Mental Stress Effects table
provides a few examples of such effects, with suggested saving throw DCs and damage. Mental stress can usually be resisted with a successful Wisdom save, but sometimes an Intelligence or Charisma save is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Mental Stress Effects When a character is subjected to an effect that causes intense mental stress, Psychic damage is the best way to emulate that effect. The Sample Mental Stress Effects table
provides a few examples of such effects, with suggested saving throw DCs and damage. Mental stress can usually be resisted with a successful Wisdom save, but sometimes an Intelligence or Charisma save is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
.
3 Azalin caused an ongoing conjunction that allows him to walk free so long as Darkon is collapsing.
4 Azalin escaped into his past or drew multiple versions of himself into the present
experiments with the Shroud, a taste of this threat can take the form of damage, stress (see “Fear and Stress” in chapter 4), or a glimpse of the deadly forces lurking beyond. Don’t outright slay characters who encounter the Shroud, but make sure the experience reinforces the threat to all of Darkon.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Narrating the Journey As the adventurers make their way through the Underdark, it helps to improvise descriptions of what they experience to add flavor to the journey. As you do, try to stress two
key points. First, the trek is long and arduous. The party is traveling underground, over incredibly difficult and rough terrain, without any of the comforts of the surface world. Food and water are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Way of the Long Death Monks of the Way of the Long Death are obsessed with the meaning and mechanics of dying. They capture creatures and prepare elaborate experiments to capture, record, and
required) to have 1 hit point instead. Touch of the Long Death Starting at 17th level, your touch can channel the energy of death into a creature. As an action, you touch one creature within 5 feet of you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
effect other than duplicating another spell weakens you. After enduring that stress, each time you cast a spell until you finish a long rest, you take 1d10 necrotic damage per level of that spell. This
from the game. Similarly, wishing for a legendary magic item or artifact might instantly transport you to the presence of the item’s current owner. The stress of casting this spell to produce any
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
effect other than duplicating another spell weakens you. After enduring that stress, each time you cast a spell until you finish a long rest, you take 1d10 necrotic damage per level of that spell. This
from the game. Similarly, wishing for a legendary magic item or artifact might instantly transport you to the presence of the item’s current owner. The stress of casting this spell to produce any
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
another spell weakens you. After enduring that stress, each time you cast a spell until you finish a Long Rest, you take 1d10 Necrotic damage per level of that spell. This damage can’t be reduced or
affect the Lady of Pain in any way, you see an image of her in your mind for a moment; she shakes her head, and your wish fails. The stress of casting Wish to produce any effect other than duplicating
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
another spell weakens you. After enduring that stress, each time you cast a spell until you finish a Long Rest, you take 1d10 Necrotic damage per level of that spell. This damage can’t be reduced or
affect the Lady of Pain in any way, you see an image of her in your mind for a moment; she shakes her head, and your wish fails. The stress of casting Wish to produce any effect other than duplicating
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
campaign. To use House Tarkanan as a recurring villain, you can stress its ruthlessness and emphasize its hatred of the dragonmarked houses. If any of the adventurers have ties to one of the houses
Tarkanan’s quest to discover the secrets of aberrant dragonmarks. Long ago, Halas Tarkanan and the Lady of the Plague possessed marks so powerful that they could destroy cities. Can Thora find a way to
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
. Accustomed to inspiring fear, and having grown somewhat lazy in its guardian role, it is usually content to let foes flee from it rather than pursuing. Each time the characters finish a long rest in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
: Encounter. The characters’ failure leads to a difficult combat encounter. Use the card to help you decide what kind of creature is encountered. Exhaustion. The stress of overcoming the challenge
unable to forage for food and water. Alternatively, they might lose nonmagical equipment, such as a bedroll, a tent, or a pack animal. Restless Night. The characters are unable to finish a long rest before resuming their travels the next day.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
might they throw themself into battle, perhaps recklessly or for too long? Record a default reaction on your character sheet so you can respond consistently when shocking events occur. Beyond this
benefits? Ask your DM about the possibility of using the rules for inspiration to motivate fearful character reactions, as detailed in the “Fear and Stress” section of chapter 4. Using this system, a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
who communicates a wish in a way the marid can understand. If the marid casts the spell for the creature, the marid suffers none of the spell’s stress. Once the marid has cast it three times, the
(2d8) Cold damage.
Water Jet. Dexterity Saving Throw: DC 18, each creature in a 60-foot-long, 10-foot-wide Line. Failure: 31 (9d6) Cold damage. If the target is a Huge or smaller creature, it is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
exhaustion that can't be removed until the disease is cured. Any event that causes the infected creature great stress--including entering combat, taking damage, experiencing fear, or having a
laughter of that particular infected creature for 24 hours. At the end of each long rest, an infected creature can make a DC 13 Constitution saving throw. On a successful save, the DC for this save and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
removed until the disease is cured. Any event that causes the infected creature great stress — including entering combat, taking damage, experiencing fear, or having a nightmare — forces the creature
infected creature for 24 hours. At the end of each long rest, an infected creature can make a DC 13 Constitution saving throw. On a successful save, the DC for this save and for the save to avoid an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Madness In many campaigns, little focus is placed on the mental and emotional impact of the dangers characters face day after day, but sometimes the stress of being an adventurer can be too much to
chapter 9, “Dungeon Master’s Workshop”), a creature makes a Sanity saving throw instead.
Madness Effects Madness can be short-term, long-term, or indefinite. Most relatively mundane effects impose
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
. Furniture, whether by its arrangement or removal, can suggest a specific location. Props can even represent game mechanics, such as tracking hit points with crimson flat glass marbles in clear goblets
-game items are kept away from the play space. Perhaps phones and tablets are permitted as long as they are silenced and used away from the table. Additionally, not everyone is comfortable being
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
, mantra, or relaxation method I use to deal with stress.
10 Nothing is more important than life, and I never leave anyone in danger.
11 I’m quick to jump to extreme solutions. Why risk a
Misdirection. I work vigorously to keep others from realizing my flaws or misdeeds.
7 Obsession. I’ve lived this way for so long that I can’t imagine another way.
8 Obligation. I owe it to my people
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
flesh out your encounter in these ways, go right ahead and finish your creation. Otherwise, take a look at the following sections for some basic advice on adding flavor elements to the simple mechanics
ground can go a long way toward spicing up an encounter. Consider setting your encounter in an area that would provide challenges even if a fight were not taking place there. What potential perils or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
? Does replacing the feature affect how long the party can continue adventuring in a day? Does the feature consume resources provided elsewhere in the class? Does the feature work all the time, or is it
regained after a short rest, a long rest, or some other length of time? Armed with answers to these questions, you can start designing new features that replace the ones you are removing. It’s fine if
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
, and curly white hair she wears in long twists. Black horns rise from her forehead in tight spirals.
“Thank you for accepting my invitation. I’m Verity Kye, and what I’m about to discuss with you
requires the utmost secrecy. I can’t stress to you enough how important it is that you speak nothing of what you hear within these four walls.”
Once Verity gets assurances from the characters that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
teleports away, the citadel vanishes, leaving only a scarred landscape to indicate where it once stood. I couldn’t discern if the githzerai leader was alive, dead, or undead. But the psychic stress in his
mission, the githzerai pay little heed to those around as long as they don’t interfere with the hunt. I studied for a time with the githzerai in Limbo. Their adamantine citadels inspired a spell I created.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
supernatural means, it realizes that its spirit is trapped within the Mists, likely forever. Using the rules for “Fear and Stress” from chapter 4, the creature gains a new Seed of Fear. If a being with a soul
might create ties with long-dead individuals using the Dark Gifts and backgrounds presented in chapter 1. But overall, spiritual stagnation in the Land of the Mists is meant to provide the opportunity
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
on that. And we need people like you, who know how and when to fight, and how and when to keep their heads down and observe. We can’t promise you anything except long days filled with danger and
stress—but what could be better than that, eh?”
Ontharr Frume and Leosin Erlanthar, along with a handful of other concerned leaders and scholars along the Sword Coast, are in the early stages of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
working on that. And we need people like you, who know how and when to fight, and how and when to keep their heads down and observe. We can’t promise you anything except long days filled with danger and
stress — but what could be better than that, eh?”
Ontharr Frume
Ontharr Frume and Leosin Erlanthar, along with a handful of other concerned leaders and scholars along the Sword Coast, are in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
efreeti suffers none of the spell’s stress. Once the efreeti has cast it three times, the efreeti can’t do so again for 365 days.
Actions
Multiattack. The efreeti makes three attacks, using Heated
Points, if it is 5+ feet away from the erinyes for 1 hour or more, or if the erinyes dies. If the rope is damaged or destroyed, the erinyes can fully restore it when finishing a Short or Long Rest
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata
Sneak Attack so long as it fills the normal requirements for that feature. For example, if you have the Sneak Attack feature and cast True Strike with a Finesse weapon, you can deal Sneak Attack
Wish to duplicate a spell of level 0–8, there are no detrimental effects. However, if you do anything other than duplicate a spell of level 0–8, you suffer the stress described in the final paragraph of