minor single with only are from for let

Vampiric Mind Flayer

Monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

dementia and death. The results were vampiric mind flayers, feral atrocities spawned from mind flayer tadpoles infected with vampirism. These specialized but flawed terrors serve a single purpose: to drain

grotesque balm stalls the elder brain’s degeneration but is far from a cure. Vampiric mind flayers are physically and mentally unstable beings. Ghoulish creatures, they let nothing stand between

Simon Aumar

Monsters Thieves’ Gallery

holding, two pairs of sending stones, and a deathly token (see Spellcasting). Wild Magic. When Simon takes 20 or more damage from a single source or takes damage from a critical hit, he must roll on the

Handbook. On a roll of 2 or higher, Simon casts one of the following spells, using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 14): At will: mage hand, minor illusion, prestidigitation, speak

Killmoulis

Monsters Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1

into the travelers' camp and looks through their supplies for tasty treats, but will settle for rations, nuts, and other snacks. If it finds them, it quickly snuffles up a single day's worth of food with

, slipping into camp each night to gorge itself and pay for its feast with its beneficial magic. But if the travelers attack, interfere with, or try to trap the killmoulis, it places a minor curse on the

Naiad

Monsters Mythic Odysseys of Theros

of the following spells using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (save DC 14) and requiring no material components: At will: minor illusion 3/day: phantasmal force 1/day each: fly, hypnotic

, naiads gather to revel in nature’s might. Individual naiads often grow fixated with a single type or body of water, potentially preferring a deep sea trench, coastline, or river system above

Goblin Psi Commander

Monsters Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

): At will: mage hand (the hand is invisible), minor illusion 1/day each: charm person, dissonant whispers, telekinesis Synaptic Rend (Recharge 5–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge

of their psionic abilities, goblin psi commanders wield blades of pure psychic energy. They can throw barriers of mental force while toppling foes with a single, mind-splitting burst. Psionic

Gnome Legacy

Species Basic Rules (2014)

communities. Louder sounds punctuate the hum: a crunch of grinding gears here, a minor explosion there, a yelp of surprise or triumph, and especially bursts of laughter. Gnomes take delight in life

enjoy a mix of serious learning and delighted enjoyment. A gnome might tutor several generations of a single human family over the course of his or her long life. Gnome Names Gnomes love names, and

Changeling Legacy

Species Eberron: Rising from the Last War

was the wind and rain. In the depths of her despair, a lonely traveler took her hand. “I will protect your children if they follow my path. Let them wander the world. They may be shunned and

knowing another like themselves. Others are part of nomadic changeling clans spread across the Five Nations, families who keep their true nature hidden from the single-skins. Some clans maintain safe

Spell Scroll Legacy

Magic Items Basic Rules (2014)

A Spell Scroll bears the words of a single spell, written in a mystical cipher. If the spell is on your spell list, you can read the scroll and cast its spell without Material components. Otherwise

produce an area of harmless cold. 5 The caster suffers a minor but bizarre effect related to the spell. Such effects last only as long as the original spell’s duration, or 1d10 minutes for

Ephixis, Bow of Nylea

Magic Items Mythic Odysseys of Theros

Nylea wields the shortbow Ephixis, the bow whose arrows herald the turning of the seasons. Nylea is quick to let her favored followers borrow her bow, particularly when they intend to use it to

roll of 19 or 20. Blessing of the Wild. If you are a worshiper of Nylea, you gain all the following benefits for which you have the required piety: Piety 10+. The bow has 1 randomly determined minor

Baba Yaga's Mortar and Pestle

Magic Items Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

planes: Baba Yaga's Mortar and Pestle. These signature tools of Baba Yaga are a single artifact for purposes of attunement. Should the two objects become separated, the Baba Yaga's Pestle;pestle

"Artifacts" section of the Dungeon Master's Guide: 2 minor beneficial properties 1 major beneficial property 1 minor detrimental property Properties of the Mortar. The mortar is a Tiny wooden

Forlarren

Monsters Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1

). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:At will: expeditious retreat, false life, minor illusion, prestidigitation3/day each: aid, misty step, Tasha's hideous

would be adequate compensation for her failure. Bifurcated Souls. The divided nature of the forlarren reflects their origin, marking each one as two entities trapped in a single form. One forlarren

Tabaxi Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

on a particularly interesting item when an owner refuses to sell or trade it. Tabaxi Names Each tabaxi has a single name, determined by clan and based on a complex formula that involves astrology

You have a minor phobia of water and hate getting wet. 4 Your tail always betrays your inner thoughts. 5 You purr loudly when you are happy. 6 You keep a small ball of yarn in your

Elder Brain

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

and other magical effects. Telepathic Hub. The elder brain can use its telepathy to initiate and maintain telepathic conversations with up to ten creatures at a time. The elder brain can let those

like a single organism, acting in concert as if each illithid were the digit of a hand. An elder brain considers itself and its desires the most important things in the multiverse, and the mind

Golgari Agent

Backgrounds Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

;s web. (Lawful) 5 Ambition. The time of Golgari ascendance is at hand, and I intend to have a prominent place in the new world order. (Evil) 6 Live and Let Live. Meddling in the

stronger than members of other guilds, isolated as they are from the realities of life and death. RYAN PANCOAST Contacts To the extent that the Golgari Swarm acts like a single organism

Running for One Player

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath

Running for One Player If you’re running this adventure for a single player, you can give that player a sidekick as a secondary character. Let the player choose one of the pregenerated sidekicks that

Running for One Player

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Divine Contention

Running for One Player If you’re running this adventure for a single player, you can give that player a sidekick as a secondary character. Let the player choose one of the pregenerated sidekicks that

Running for One Player

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sleeping Dragon’s Wake

Running for One Player If you’re running this adventure for a single player, you can give that player a sidekick as a secondary character. Let the player choose one of the pregenerated sidekicks that

The Verses

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves

acolyte had dutifully written down the verses of the Awakening Song, Nakari convinced the acolyte to sell her the record for a single copper coin and the promise that she would never let them fall into the wrong hands.

Modifying a Magic Item

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

into a single helmet. This makes the item more powerful (and probably increases its rarity), but it won’t break your game. Special Features and Sentience Chapter 7 has rules for giving magic items interesting histories, minor properties, quirks, and sentience.

rarity into a single item, provided no more than one of them requires Attunement. For example, you could combine the properties of a Helm of Comprehending Languages with those of a Helm of Telepathy

Hit Points

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus

off minor hits. A vehicle with a damage threshold has immunity to all damage unless it takes an amount of damage equal to or greater than its damage threshold value, in which case it takes damage as

damage from a single source equal to or greater than its mishap threshold, it must roll on the Mishaps table (see "Mishaps").

Time Limit

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Descent into the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth

Time Limit As a tournament scenario, this adventure has a strict time limit: a single game session equal to four hours of play. Encourage players at the onset not to dawdle—the clock is ticking! The

every area of the lesser caverns (presented later in this adventure). The characters descend to the greater caverns (see area L16 of the lesser caverns) or leave the Lost Caverns altogether. Let players

Death Must Be Fair

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

the Monsters’ Favor. Rolling dice in front of the players when a situation is especially deadly is one way to communicate that you’re not cheating in the monsters’ favor or singling out a single

and as a fair arbiter of the rules. Provide Fair Warning. Let characters face the consequences of their foolish actions, but make sure you give enough cues for the players to recognize self-destructive

Running for One Player

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak

Running for One Player If you’re running this adventure for a single player, you can give that player a sidekick as a secondary character. Let the player choose one of the pregenerated sidekicks from

School of Illusion

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)

choice. The cantrip doesn’t count against your number of cantrips known. When you cast minor illusion, you can create both a sound and an image with a single casting of the spell. Malleable Illusions

spellbook is halved. Improved Minor Illusion When you choose this school at 2nd level, you learn the minor illusion cantrip. If you already know this cantrip, you learn a different wizard cantrip of your

Orc Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

with orcs tells of confronting a hulking foe that can cleave through a warrior with a single blow, part of a force that can cut down enemies as though they were trembling stalks of wheat before the

scythe. Only a skilled and determined hero can hope to survive single combat with an orc. Savage and fearless, orc tribes are ever in search of elves, dwarves, and humans to destroy. Motivated by their

Joint DMs

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

Joint DMs Two or more DMs can share the creation of a single campaign, working together to maintain continuity from session to session and making sure that each DM’s adventures advance the larger

story of the world and the characters. When players who are also DMs are playing their characters, they shouldn’t let their knowledge of the campaign’s story influence their characters’ actions. Those

Temple Features

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse

. Interior ceilings are 15 feet high except in the central plaza, where the ceiling is 75 feet high. Chasm. The chasm plummets 200 feet. Doors. Single doors are made from stone slabs balanced on central

such treasure. Creatures that own individual treasure have 4d10 gp worth of mixed coins and other minor valuables. Map 4.1: Temple of Howling HatredView Player Version

Creating a Magic Item

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

with properties from another item. For example, you could combine the effects of a helm of comprehending languages with those of a helm of telepathy into a single helmet. This makes the item more

powerful (and probably increases its rarity), but it won’t break your game. Finally, remember the tools that are provided for modifying items in chapter 7, "Treasure." Giving an item an interesting minor property, a quirk, or sentience can alter its flavor significantly.

The Swamp Forest

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel

spirit naga appears and asks where the characters are heading. It offers to give a single character its magical treasure, a pearl of power, if that character is brave enough to let it bite them three

path forward. The treant moves only if the party listens to its hour-long ode to the swamp, or if a character succeeds on a DC 18 Charisma (Persuasion) check to convince it to let the skiff pass. 5 A

Kinds of Treasure

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

and the tables in the “Dungeon Dressing” section of the Dungeon Master’s Guide. Gems and Art Objects The Hoard Gems table and the Hoard Art Objects table under “Creating a Hoard” let you randomly

the Dungeon Master’s Guide, so you can randomly roll an item from those tables. Alternatively, you can use the rarity and category (minor or major) shown on the Hoard Magic Items table to pick an item

Chapter 5: Spring Madness

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

Chapter 5: Spring Madness Xanathar has let its paranoia get the better of it, and the beholder trusts no one. The Stone of Golorr disappeared from its lair while it was brokering a deal that would

have merged the Xanathar Guild and the Zhentarim into a single criminal organization. Although the Zhents didn’t steal the Stone of Golorr, Xanathar believes they did. Once content to merely possess

Demiplanes

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

Gate spell is more reliable, assuming the caster knows of the demiplane. A demiplane can be as small as a single chamber or large enough to contain an entire realm. For example, a Mordenkainen’s

Adventures Demiplanes are limited realities shaped according to the will of whoever created them. Adventures in demiplanes might let characters explore how they would shape reality to suit their desires and ideals, or confront distortions of reality crafted by villains.

Top Card: The Challenge

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things

the edge of the cliff or climb down the ravine to walk along the bottom?”), to make a single ability check (use the Typical DCs table in the Dungeon Master’s Guide), or to navigate their way through a

small dungeon or an encounter (which might involve multiple ability checks or even combat). Let the character of the player who flipped the card be the focus of the day’s events and make any required

Magical Skate-Off

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

wielding is one of several scattered throughout the crowd. These wands are ordinary spellcasting foci imbued with minor magical effects. Strixhaven’s instructors use them to help students practice their wand

-wielding skills. These wands can create minor effects such as little puffs of smoke or crackles of energy, but clever spellcasters can use the wands while skating to perform minor jumps and acrobatic

When Not to Shake It Up

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

, it’s probably not in the DM’s best interest to reorder the world every single time there’s a lull in the action, lest world-shaking events become ordinary. As a general rule, a campaign can sustain up

, tribes, fiefs, duchies, provinces, and so forth as you like. Every significant event shakes someone’s world, after all, no matter how small that world might be. Let unexpected and terrible events

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