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Basic Rules (2014)
Skinny and flaxen-haired, his skin walnut brown and his eyes a startling turquoise, Burgell stood half as tall as Aeron and had to climb up on a stool to look out the peephole. Like most
get the thoughts out of their heads fast enough. Even as they offer ideas and opinions on a range of subjects, they still manage to listen carefully to others, adding the appropriate exclamations of
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
out while still getting decent performance out of the slaves. But humanoids and monsters that are especially capable or that provide unusual services find themselves treated like favored (though
the tribe. If the creature is dimwitted, like a troll or ogre, the lower-class goblins give it obeisance, but before long the upper-class goblins begin to think that whoever can bend the ear of the
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
members. Engage players who like acting by… giving them opportunities to develop their characters’ personalities and backgrounds. allowing them to interact regularly with NPCs. adding roleplaying
Acting Players who enjoy acting like getting into character and speaking in their characters’ voices. Roleplayers at heart, they enjoy social interactions with NPCs, monsters, and their fellow party
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
of play, or both. Consider trying no more than one or two of the options at a time so that you can clearly assess their effects on your campaign before adding other options. Before you add a new rule
to your campaign, ask yourself two questions: Will the rule improve the game? Will my players like it? If you’re confident that the answer to both questions is yes, then you have nothing to lose by
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
, as if they couldn’t write down their thoughts fast enough. Furthermore, the book’s 151 pages don’t all match, indicating that the author kept adding more pages. The book’s stitching is haphazard, and looks like it could come undone at any moment.
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
innumerable cults of Vecna. They snatch away people and strip their secrets in rituals like the one you stopped. Behind them, the withered form of Vecna gathers the secrets like threads, adding them to a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
your players track which monster is which. Once Initiative is rolled, jot down each ogre’s Hit Points and add notes (and even a name, if you like) to differentiate each one: Krag (ogre w/ scar): 68
can sort them by letter, then subtract damage from their Hit Points as they take it. Your records might look something like this after a few rounds of combat: Ogre A: Crossed-out:68 Crossed-out:59
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Monstrous Traits Consider undermining players’ expectations about what a creature is or can do by making tweaks to the traits in its stat block. Adding a sahuagin’s Blood Frenzy trait to a different
monster can help it feel like a bloodthirsty horror, for example. Traits such as a troglodyte’s Chameleon Skin or a doppelganger’s Ambusher can help make a monster feel more sinister as it lurks in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
player, consider adding only story-appropriate spells to the spell list of that player’s character. So why can’t people who use magic do it all the time?
I can disintegrate things whenever I want. Like now. And now. And now. And now … Hey, where’d everybody go?
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Nest of the Eldritch Eye
cultists of the lich-god Vecna. Text that appears in a box like this is meant to be read aloud or paraphrased for the players when their characters first arrive at a location or under a specific
. You’re going to need it.” All monster stat blocks referenced in this adventure can be found in the Monster Manual. You can make the adventure easier or harder, or adjust it for smaller or larger groups of player characters, by adjusting the number of monsters or by adding or removing encounters.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
from the heaving foam. Water streams off the rising crags like rivers crashing down a mountainside. At last the emerging island stops growing in size, although the sea around still tosses your ship
like a drifting feather. Then a huge blast of steam erupts from the waves, and through the drifting, rainbow-crossed mist, you see an immense beak and a milky eye the size of a hogshead cask staring
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
progressively harder, or you can change the flavor of encounters, such as adding creatures from a particular environment. One way to accomplish this is to build two encounter decks. Draw cards from the
has a markedly different theme. You might start with an encounter deck featuring mostly dungeon scavengers, like rats and carrion crawlers, then slowly add in cards from a deck made up of Undead
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
following tools: A whiteboard on a wall or propped up nearby A battle mat you use for miniatures Folded index cards for each character and each group of identical monsters, placed like tents in
monsters act in the fight, although you can hold off on adding monsters to the list until they take their first turns. Tracking Monsters’ Hit Points During a combat encounter, you or a player should
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
rolling a d20, adding any modifiers, and comparing the total to a Difficulty Class, and they’re all subject to advantage and disadvantage. In short, they share the same procedure for determining
success or failure. Despite this common procedure, the three rolls are separate from each other. If something in the game, like the guidance spell, affects one of them, the other two aren’t affected unless
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
Drama You can bring your Domain of Delight to life by adding drama. When the characters show up, they might become swept up in this drama, perhaps even embroiled in intrigue. The drama can be
anything from a petty squabble between Fey settlements to a full-blown fomorian incursion. To determine a worthy conflict, you can roll on the Domain Drama table or choose an entry that you like. Domain
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
prepared using her cauldron of plenty. Maud took the opportunity to season her stew with the ale-soaked anglers before adding their bones to her growing collection. Abandoned Rowboat The characters
caves dot the snowy cliffside. One of these caves is at water level, and the others are elevated twenty to thirty feet above the frozen lake. The wind tearing through these icy caves sounds like moaning
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
whiteboard on a wall or propped up nearby A battle mat you use for miniatures Folded index cards for each character and each group of identical monsters, placed like tents in Initiative order across the top of
aware of the order of play. Players know when their characters’ turns are coming up so they can plan their actions in advance. An open list also lets the players know when the monsters act in the fight, although you can hold off on adding monsters to the list until they take their first turns.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
to look like the upper and lower jaws of a carnivorous dinosaur
4 A battleaxe with its head shaped like the flowing hair of a dwarf warrior
5 A suit of armor made from the discarded
chitin of giant arthropods
6 A pair of boots fashioned to look like the paws of a large feline
7 A sword whose pommel is shaped in the form of a hand, so that you shake the hand when you wield
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
the player characters. Here are some ways to keep the party feeling like heroes, even when the cast of characters grows. Sometimes our paths cross with others’ in the most fortuitous ways, bringing us
the players to have the ally’s character sheet or stat block, you can ask them what they’d like the ally to do and fulfill their requests. The ally might be eager for instruction, dutifully carrying
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
options in the Player’s Handbook and are more rare in the worlds of D&D than the races in that book are. If you’re a player, consult with your DM before using any of the races here. Many DMs like to
consider the implications for their world before adding a new race. Your DM may say yes or no to you using a race or may modifiy it in some way. The following races are detailed in this chapter: Aasimar
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
different names, and like all gods, they are beyond gender.) The origin of Dragon’s Rest is rooted in that animosity. Ages ago, a fire-breathing red dragon called Sharruth rampaged up and down the
schemes. When he refused, Runara killed him, adding one more dragon grave to the island. Runara has grown weary of strife, and Stormwreck Isle’s wounds are a constant reminder to her of the cost of such
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
shares the information in the “Becklin’s Fear” section. The mayor doesn’t like it but grudgingly accepts it’s the only option. If not deterred, Cudgel and Jeyev either ride or sneak out of Vogler to rally
the mayor, Becklin supports them, adding the points here to the argument. If both the characters and Becklin advocate for evacuating the village, Mayor Raven begrudgingly agrees. Characters who succeed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
, a player can simply tell you that an attack hits and how much damage it deals, perhaps adding some narration for good measure (see “Narration in Combat” later in this chapter). In the same way, if you
damage at the same time. You can do the same. Craig J Spearing Adventures requiring stealth, like this infiltration, are ideal for some small parties of adventurers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
use, we consider adding at least one element that can benefit a character more broadly—a bit of mastery that your character brings from one situation to another. The second benefit of Crossbow Expert
property of the hand crossbow if you’re proficient with that weapon. The upshot is that you can fire it more than once if you have a feature like Extra Attack. You’re still limited, however, by the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
injustices and discrimination Game-specific content, such as dangers, monster types, and setting details you might use Specific genres of horror, like those in chapter 2 If you’re not comfortable
adding any of these topics to your game, don’t include them as options, and use them as the starting point for a list of elements that your adventures won’t include. SERIOUS FEAR
Many horror D&D games
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
triggered during the botched disarm attempt. Consider adding similar distinctions to other checks. Perhaps a failed Charisma (Persuasion) check means a queen won’t help, whereas a failure of 5 or
automatic failure is bad enough. And characters typically make so many attack rolls that they’re bound to roll dozens of natural 1s over time. What might seem like an interesting consequence, like breaking the weapon used for the attack, will quickly get tiresome.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
in disguise or remain in the wilderness, for fear of imprisonment or mob violence. Be sure to talk to the group about how such characters can expect the world to treat them. Some players like the
guise. A creative tie between a monstrous character and the rest of the party helps make for a memorable campaign. The Monstrous Origin table gives a number of ideas for adding a monstrous character
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
, Urwin steadfastly denies his father’s accusation. Adding to Davian’s misery, the wereravens have been fending off frequent attacks by Baba Lysaga’s scarecrow constructs. Three weeks ago, during one
against the winery, antagonizing the wereravens like a bad neighbor. Five days ago, evil druids stole the third and final gem and bore it to Yester Hill (chapter 14). The wereravens launched a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
appear entirely ignorant, and I look forward to adding whatever small knowledge you might possess to my collection.”
Creature. Originally wounded in an encounter that nearly destroyed Kwalish’s
decrease by 1. This toll is magically extracted immediately, and manifests as another of the sphinx’s mechanical Ioun stone-like devices. This curse can be removed only by a remove curse spell cast by an
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
that’s ever been suggested. Chapter 3 provides advice on adding new races to Eberron. Here’s a few other ways that you can add something into Eberron with minimal impact on the setting. It comes from
found his way to Eberron from the core cosmology. But the DM can always say “No, there is no version of Gruumsh in my Eberron.” This comes to a critical point. Nothing is set in stone. Like every
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
associated with that focus. Spell Slots. You determine your available spell slots by adding together all your levels in the bard, cleric, druid, sorcerer, and wizard classes, and half your levels
give you spell slots of a level that is higher than the spells you know or can prepare. You can use those slots, but only to cast your lower-level spells. If a lower-level spell that you cast, like
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
settlement, start adding these local features so that it begins to feel a little more like a home base, albeit a temporary one. Let the settlement develop as the need arises. Home Base A settlement
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
. Characters who have resistance or immunity to cold automatically succeed on the saving throw, as do those wearing cold weather gear (thick coats, gloves, hats, and the like). MODIFYING ENCOUNTERS
You can adjust the difficulty of a combat encounter by adding or subtracting monsters. If you need to increase the difficulty of an encounter that has already begun, have enemy reinforcements arrive
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
them all over the map, and a party can easily wander into an area well beyond their power. If you’d like to steer them toward places that correspond to their level, consult the Areas by Level table
as possible or (b) increase the threat by raising a foe’s hit point maximum to the upper end of its hit point range, by adding monsters/traps, or both. Areas by Level Avg. Level Area Chapter 1st
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
doors, disarmed traps, and the like. Events beyond the scope of a single adventure are best recorded in a notebook dedicated to your campaign. Whether it’s a physical book or an electronic file, such a
that you hope appear in future adventures. Update it as the campaign develops, adding ideas as they come to you. Character Notes. Write down the characters’ backgrounds and goals, since these notes