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Dungeon Master’s Guide
if the target is a Construct, an Elemental, or a Giant. Immediately after hitting or missing, the weapon flies back to your hand.
Shock Wave. You can take a Magic action to strike the ground with
wielder doesn’t share this goal.
Destroying Whelm. Whelm can be dissolved in the acidic bile of a recently slain ancient black dragon. It can also be melted down in the forges of the Mightyhammer dwarf clan, but only by the rightful leader of that clan.
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
their bodies and the spines and horns that hover close to their heads and backs. These horns shift with the dragon’s mood: bristling with anger, lying back with fear or suspicion, and rippling
? Can I tell your future for you? Just let me know what I can do for you, okay?
3
Jokes are as valuable as any gemstone and more fun to share.
4
My empathy is a bottomless well. I can&rsquo
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
dreams dusk hags might share with unsuspecting sleepers.
Dusk Hag Prophecies
d10
Prophecy
1
“A red hat approaches with ill intent. Be wary.”
2
“A ship comes on a sea of bones, but treasure
the golden key.”
6
“Beware the black horse.”
7
“The fish is your friend.”
8
“The stairs downward lead to that which you seek.”
9
“Look for two crossed swords. There your goal lies.”
10
“If you see two crows, turn back. Beyond is death.”
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
into a beast form—fox, mountain goat, owl, or wolf—or back into its humanoid form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying is absorbed or borne by the beast form (the druid’s choice
the awaken spell. These druids favor polar bears and reindeer (use the elk stat block in the Monster Manual) as companions, and such creatures typically share the druid’s disposition.
Ice
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
starlight between their bodies and the spines and horns that hover close to their heads and backs. These horns shift with the dragon’s mood: bristling with anger, lying back with fear or
you comfortable? Can I tell your future for you? Just let me know what I can do for you, okay?
3
Jokes are as valuable as any gemstone and more fun to share.
4
My empathy is a bottomless
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
; scales. It glows like starlight between their bodies and the spines and horns that hover close to their heads and backs. These horns shift with the dragon’s mood: bristling with anger, lying back
talk!
2
Are you comfortable? Can I tell your future for you? Just let me know what I can do for you, okay?
3
Jokes are as valuable as any gemstone and more fun to share.
4
My
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
anger, lying back with fear or suspicion, and rippling in side-to-side waves with amusement or joy.
Visions in Starlight
Many crystal dragons study the stars, recording their observations of the night
giant, let’s talk!
2
Are you comfortable? Can I tell your future for you? Just let me know what I can do for you, okay?
3
Jokes are as valuable as any gemstone and more fun to share
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
, chests, backs, and tails. One horn arcs from the back of a moonstone dragon’s skull and another at the tip of the nose; the two horns together form a shape that’s reminiscent of a slender
assist the spellcaster’s nefarious schemes.
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A moonstone dragon that accidentally stumbled through a portal to the Material Plane can’t find a way back home to the Feywild
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
power manifests visibly in the gem-like spines that run in a ridge from the crown of the head to the tip of the tail. These spines hover above a living topaz dragon’s back, dancing and shifting with
the survivors (including the dragonborn ship captain) back to the city they came from.
Topaz Dragon Lairs
Topaz dragons are happiest by the sea. They spend most of their time basking in the
Magic Items
Keys from the Golden Vault
book, the spirit tries to leave the book and enter your body. If you fail a DC 20 Charisma saving throw, it succeeds, and you become an NPC under the DM’s control until the intruding spirit is
Vile Darkness allows pages to be torn from it, but any evil lore contained on those pages finds its way back into the book eventually, usually when a new author adds pages to the tome.
If a solar tears
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
dragon’s psionic power manifests visibly in the gem-like spines that run in a ridge from the crown of the head to the tip of the tail. These spines hover above a living topaz dragon’s back
best accomplish this.
Their preference for lair sites frequently brings topaz dragons into conflict with other creatures, since they resent having to share their chosen scenic locations with anything
Night Hag (Coven Variant)
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Monsters
Monster Manual (2014)
the following spells from the wizard’s spell list but must share the spell slots among themselves:
1st level (4 slots): identify, ray of sickness
2nd level (3 slots): hold person, locate object
humanoid, or back into her true form. Her statistics are the same in each form. Any equipment she is wearing or carrying isn't transformed. She reverts to her true form if she dies.
Etherealness. The hag
Planar Ally
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
creature completes the task, or when the agreed-upon duration of service expires, the creature returns to its home plane after reporting back to you, if appropriate to the task and if possible. If you
are unable to agree on a price for the creature's service, the creature immediately returns to its home plane.
A creature enlisted to join your group counts as a member of it, receiving a full share of experience points awarded.
Gith
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Species
Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
to plunder the Material Plane and other worlds, bringing treasures and slaves back to their ageless realm. At the same time, they hunt down and kill mind flayers whenever possible, as recompense for
pacifists by nature, they share the githyanki’s racial hatred for mind flayers, and from time to time they send out squads to destroy illithid outposts.
If the two races were ever to team up
Dragonborn
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Basic Rules (2014)
foreign house. The sword at his back was the same, though, the one he had carried since even before he had found the twins left in swaddling at the gates of Arush Vayem.
For all her life, Farideh had
give up on something. A dragonborn holds mastery of a particular skill as a lifetime goal. Members of other races who share the same commitment find it easy to earn the respect of a dragonborn.
Though
Gnome
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Basic Rules (2014)
stare, then appeared to go back to sleep.
— Richard Lee Byers, The Black Bouquet
A constant hum of busy activity pervades the warrens and neighborhoods where gnomes form their close-knit
know that most races don’t share their sense of humor, but they enjoy anyone’s company just as they enjoy everything else they set out to do.
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Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
;Selesnya. As a member of the Selesnya Conclave, you are surrounded by people and other creatures who share your worldview and your longing for deeper spiritual communion with the world, and you have a
fervent desire to share the joy you have experienced with Ravnica. Along with the rest of the conclave, you are committed to resisting the ambitions of the other guilds — with military force if
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
NPC Party Members NPCs might join the adventuring party because they want a share of the loot and are willing to accept an equal share of the risk, or they might follow the adventurers because of a
character in his or her own right, not just as a servant that the players can manipulate for their own benefit. Any NPC that accompanies the adventurers acts as a party member and earns a full share
Aarakocra
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Elemental Evil Player's Companion
back into the air. Those that make it to a world in the Material Plane find it a strange place. They sometimes forget or ignore vertical distances, and they have nothing but pity for those earthbound
it hard not to pluck the treasure and bring it back to their settlement to beautify it. An aarakocra who spends years among other races can learn to inhibit these impulses.
Confinement terrifies the
Tabaxi
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
We had a tabaxi come through once, a few winters back. She kept the taproom packed each night with her stories and spent most days napping in a chair in front of the fireplace. We thought she was
stories, artifacts, and lore. Those who survive this period of wanderlust return home in their elder years to share news of the outside world. In this manner, the tabaxi remain isolated but never ignorant
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
to complain humorously about the characters’ terrible choices and bad planning. You can occasionally use this NPC to suggest legitimate courses of action or share insights. Dutiful Assistant. A dutiful
NPCs as Party Members NPCs might join the adventuring party because they want a share of the loot and are willing to accept an equal share of the risk, or they might follow the adventurers because of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
receive an equal share of the XP earned for the encounter. (The characters receive less XP as a consequence.) NPCs have their own lives and goals. Consequently, an NPC should remain with the party
kill Klarg in area 8, promising to release Sildar when they bring back the bugbear’s head. Sildar groggily warns the characters that they shouldn’t trust the goblin, and he’s right. If the characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
), and might eventually catch up to them. It also means the adventurers’ advancement is slowed somewhat, as they must share their XP with an NPC shouldering only part of the adventuring burden. Powerful
account for. Since lower-level NPC party members receive equal party shares of XP, they will gain levels more quickly than the adventurers (the benefit of studying under such experienced masters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
has a strong incentive to do otherwise. At the end of the battle, regardless of the outcome, take back all the special NPCs. For each NPC who survives, give the characters that NPC’s corresponding
Special NPCs In this chapter, each player runs not only a player character but also an NPC who has ties to the settlement that the characters are defending. Once you’ve determined where the adventure
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
NPC as jocular and honest, have the NPC make frequent puns and freely share personal anecdotes. You can further enhance your portrayal of a creature in the following ways. Use Facial Expressions. Your
players laugh or feel emotionally engaged and to incorporate those things into your roleplaying. NPC Portrayals When thinking about how to roleplay an NPC or a monster, consider one or two adjectives
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
characters’ backgrounds, review the material here and decide which additional elements of their backgrounds you want to share with them. A connection to a Saltmarsh NPC or a clue to the Scarlet Brotherhood’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
to you. Every NPC could be a potential ally, enemy, or foil later in the campaign. If the players take a shine to one, bring that character back — or better yet, make the NPC an integral part of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
hand and how to pursue it: Adviser NPCs. A helpful NPC in a social interaction can offer advice and suggestions to the characters. Such an NPC might be the patron who initially sent the characters on
the characters encounter a minion or monster connected to the adventure’s main threat. At the end of the encounter, perhaps the characters find information that gets them back on track. Plan one or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
and self-centered, have the individual act the way you would expect a shallow, self-centered person to behave. The NPC might have off-the-cuff answers for everything, an over-willingness to share
laugh or feel emotionally engaged and to incorporate those things into your roleplaying. Being the NPC Imagine how a character or monster you bring to life would react to the adventurers. Consider what it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
Morak’s Quest Characters who survive the perils of the Dripping Caves and return to Nightstone should advance to 4th level. Once he is safely back in the village, Morak Ur’gray takes stock of the
damage, makes arrangements to deliver news of the giants’ attack to Waterdeep, and urges the characters to undertake one of the following three quests. If Morak died in the Dripping Caves, another NPC
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Treasure Just as they must ensure sufficient supplies for all the NPCs, the characters need to think about how best to share the spoils of encounters and adventures with their followers. Although the
bout of long-term madness could easily lead to obsession with particular items of treasure — especially magic items — with an obsessed NPC willing to steal or even kill to obtain them.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
78. Chapel of Hate Any creature that passes through the mist gate in area 77 emerges from a similar arch set into the south wall of this room. The gate also allows travel back to area 77. You step
, Dragonbait, Volothamp Geddarm, or some other NPC the characters never got the chance to meet. It could also be an NPC who became separated from the party in the course of the adventure. If no suitable NPC
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
Yemi Moonsybil back to town. If either event comes to pass, word spreads quickly that the lost verses of the Awakening Song have been recovered. The townsfolk share the lost verses widely, ensuring
that they’re never forgotten again. The verses’ lyrics tell a story about a previous struggle with harvests. From the details of how the locals solved that problem, Godsbreath’s people coax the land back
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
Red Dragon Mask Wondrous item, legendary (requires attunement) This mask of glossy crimson has swept-back horns and spiked cheek ridges. Its damage type is fire. While you wear the mask, you gain the
following benefit, in addition to those the dragon masks share. (Severin’s stat block incorporates properties from this mask.) Dragon Fire. If you deal fire damage to a creature or flammable object
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
Red Dragon Mask Wondrous item, legendary (requires attunement) This mask of glossy crimson has swept-back horns and spiked cheek ridges. Its damage type is fire. While you wear the mask, you gain the
following benefit, in addition to those the dragon masks share. (Severin’s stat block incorporates properties from this mask.) Dragon Fire. If you deal fire damage to a creature or flammable object