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this way, you don’t need to meet any requirements to cast that spell, including costly components. The spell simply takes effect.
Alternatively, you can create one of the following effects of
result of how you worded the wish. For example, wishing that a villain were dead might propel you forward in time to a period when that villain is no longer alive, effectively removing you from the
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
precious metal. They roam Wildspace in commandeered spelljamming ships, gathering the precious metals and crystals they need to build more of their kind. Clockwork horrors have no goal beyond replication
created it consumes it over a period of 1 minute. Its metallic body and crystal eye degrade rapidly until nothing is left but a small heap of glittering dust.Lightning, Poison
Elf
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Species
Basic Rules (2014)
have been known to retreat from intrusions into their woodland homes, confident that they can simply wait the invaders out. But when the need arises, elves reveal a stern martial side, demonstrating
magic allow them to support themselves without the need for clearing and plowing land. They are talented artisans, crafting finely worked clothes and art objects. Their contact with outsiders is
Wish
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
duplicate any other spell of 8th level or lower. You don't need to meet any requirements in that spell, including costly components. The spell simply takes effect.
Alternatively, you can create one of the
were dead might propel you forward in time to a period when that villain is no longer alive, effectively removing you from the game. Similarly, wishing for a legendary magic item or artifact might
Magic Items
Acquisitions Incorporated
occultant abacus not only tracks your franchise’s kills, it helps you determine the impact of those kills on the franchise’s fate. Over a period of 1 minute, you can study a creature killed by
within 5 feet of a creature killed within the past 24 hours, you can cast the augury spell. The course of action you inquire about with the spell does not need to have any connection to the dead creature
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
spend at least 8 hours of each day engaged in the downtime activity for that day to count toward the activity’s completion. The days of an activity don’t need to be consecutive; you can spread them
over a longer period of time than is required for the activity. But that period of time should be no more than twice as long as the required time; otherwise you should introduce extra complications (see
Species
Acquisitions Incorporated
stature. But they soon learned that their kind were fated to eventually undergo a dramatic, painful, and random growth spurt that sees them transformed to hobgoblin size over a period of days.
At the
steeped in a culture, the verdan remain on the lookout for oppression and curtailment of freedoms. They understand the need for laws that protect, but they rail against laws that restrict and oppress
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Astarion's Book of Hungers
all the tools you need to set adventures in Rat’s Run. The details herein assume your game unfolds prior to the events of Baldur’s Gate 3 and that your players wish to adventure alongside Astarion. However, you can set your game in Rat’s Run during any period, with or without involving Astarion.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
can move on to the next one. You can often gloss over hours of travel with a quick narrative summary (see the “Travel” section in chapter 2 for more advice). Similarly, if a rest period passes
and return to the action as quickly as possible. Expect players to discuss the events of the game, spend time planning, and engage in long conversations in character. You don’t need to be involved in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
can move on to the next one. You can often gloss over hours of travel with a quick narrative summary. Similarly, if a rest period passes uneventfully, tell the players that and move on. Don’t make the
players to discuss the events of the game, spend time planning, and engage in long conversations in character. You don’t need to be involved in those discussions unless they have questions for you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
who need to remain watchful for enemies or danger. Helm is a favorite deity of people who make a living by protecting someone or something, such as bodyguards, members of the city watch, and the guards
stairways during the Time of Troubles, preventing the gods from ascending them and continuing the chaos of that period, until the Tablets of Fate were found. Although his faith has known dark days, worship of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
over a longer period of time and helps to manage the characters’ level progression, preventing them from gaining too much power too quickly. Allowing characters to pursue side interests between
adventures to give characters the time they need to pursue such interests. Whereas days or weeks might pass between low-level adventures, the amount of downtime between higher-level adventures might be measured in months or years.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
party’s mission. At a predetermined signal or after some period of time, the keelboat will return to see if the characters are ready to be collected. COMBAT NOT REQUIRED
The characters are considered
an elite team that can bring back the needed information. They will likely need to fight some of the sahuagin, but must remain quiet as often as possible to avoid becoming overwhelmed. If they can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
the party can move in a period of time; if riding horses or other mounts, the group can move twice that distance for 1 hour, after which the mounts need a Short or Long Rest before they can move at that
the DM might have you use the travel pace rules below. If you need to know how fast you can move when every second matters, see the movement rules in “Combat” later in this chapter. Marching Order
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
the party can move in a period of time; if riding horses or other mounts, the group can move twice that distance for 1 hour, after which the mounts need a Short or Long Rest before they can move at that
the DM might have you use the travel pace rules below. If you need to know how fast you can move when every second matters, see the movement rules in “Combat” later in this chapter. Marching Order
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
assist him.
Willful Navigation. Finding anything in Gravenhollow is an effort of will. Whenever a character seeks a specific location in the library (a particular floor or period of history, for
example), the character must make a successful DC 14 Wisdom check to find that location. On a failure, the character takes a wrong turn and must make additional checks until successful. If led by one of the library’s keepers, characters don’t need to make checks to find the location they seek.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Playing a Temporary Character Playing a new character for a brief period can be fun and liberating, giving the player a chance to experiment with new class features in a low-stakes environment. For
adventurers in their hour of need. Herald of the Comet. The temporary character is an agent of the Heralds of the Comet (see chapter 12), a group that seeks the original Deck of Many Things for its own
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
the city who doesn’t belong to one or more guilds, or doesn’t work for someone who does. As a visitor to Waterdeep, you need to know this, lest you run afoul of “Guild Law.” Guild Law isn’t technically
own flour. Heckling a member of the Jesters’ Guild will result in the offending party being jeered at in public by no less than four guild members for a period of four days. Any ship that unloads its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Expenses table and pay the price to sustain that lifestyle. The prices listed are per day, so if you wish to calculate the cost of your chosen lifestyle over a thirty-day period, multiply the listed price
by 30. Your lifestyle might change from one period to the next, based on the funds you have at your disposal, or you might maintain the same lifestyle throughout your character’s career. Your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Expenses table and pay the price to sustain that lifestyle. The prices listed are per day, so if you wish to calculate the cost of your chosen lifestyle over a thirty-day period, multiply the listed price
by 30. Your lifestyle might change from one period to the next, based on the funds you have at your disposal, or you might maintain the same lifestyle throughout your character's career. Your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
very foundations of reality in accord with your desires. The basic use of this spell is to duplicate any other spell of 8th level or lower. You don’t need to meet any requirements in that spell
consequence as a result of how you worded the wish. For example, wishing that a villain were dead might propel you forward in time to a period when that villain is no longer alive, effectively removing you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monstrous Compendium Volume One: Spelljammer Creatures
, gathering the precious metals and crystals they need to build more of their kind. Clockwork horrors have no goal beyond replication and will stop at nothing to create new clockwork horrors. The time it
discharge bolts of lightning from a short lightning rod embedded in its body. When a clockwork horror dies, the magic that created it consumes it over a period of 1 minute. Its metallic body and crystal
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
very foundations of reality in accord with your desires. The basic use of this spell is to duplicate any other spell of 8th level or lower. You don’t need to meet any requirements in that spell
consequence as a result of how you worded the wish. For example, wishing that a villain were dead might propel you forward in time to a period when that villain is no longer alive, effectively removing you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
can alter reality itself. The basic use of this spell is to duplicate any other spell of level 8 or lower. If you use it this way, you don’t need to meet any requirements to cast that spell
a period when that villain is no longer alive, effectively removing you from the game. Similarly, wishing for a Legendary magic item or an Artifact might instantly transport you to the presence of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
need to be mined out from a corpse that has turned to solid stone or metal.
2 Seedlings of the First World. At the heart of the world (underground, or in a remote area of pristine wilderness
brass or blue dragon, or in a storm-wracked sea cave or inhospitable moorland for a bronze or copper dragon. Gem dragon eggs generally incubate encased in rock or in small caves. The incubation period
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
clerk at the front desk, who informs them that they must schedule a meeting with the magister first, because visitors need her written permission to see him. The clerk says the meeting with the magister
crime can result in a brief period of incarceration until the magister has time to render judgment. In the meantime, characters can try to speak to Fenerus. The characters can try to infiltrate the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
magical rites for the next 7 days. At the end of that period, you gain a special Charm (see “Supernatural Gifts” in the Dungeon Master’s Guide) called a Manifest Charm, which lasts until you use it
. You don’t need to be in the Bastion while the rites are performed to gain their benefit. The effects of the Charm depend on the facility’s linked plane: Daanvi, the Perfect Order. You can expend the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
arrive. A drow house stands alone and forlorn with its back against the west wall of Menzoberranzan’s great vault. Its towers are dark, its walls crumbling and in desperate need of repair. The old
and wards effect for a period of 1 hour (see “Sorcere” later in this chapter). Bregan D’aerthe makes sure that the characters have no hostile encounters as they make their way to the Academy. Once he
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
profile. Otherwise, they too are rounded up and questioned over a period of several days, until the Lords of Waterdeep ascertain their level of involvement in the violence at Gralhund Villa. The
pays characters the remainder of what she owes. Characters who are members of the Zhentarim gain an added benefit for harboring Istrid in her time of need: their renown in the faction increases by 2
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
can alter reality itself. The basic use of this spell is to duplicate any other spell of level 8 or lower. If you use it this way, you don’t need to meet any requirements to cast that spell
a period when that villain is no longer alive, effectively removing you from the game. Similarly, wishing for a Legendary magic item or an Artifact might instantly transport you to the presence of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
adventures building a stronghold. Before work can begin, the character must acquire a plot of land. If the estate lies within a kingdom or similar domain, the character will need a royal charter (a legal
the Player’s Handbook). At the end of the period spent carousing, the player rolls percentile dice and adds the character’s level, then compares the total to the Carousing table to determine what
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
. Over a period of 1 minute, you can study a creature killed by someone in your franchise within the last 24 hours, then grant the character who slew it a d10. Once within the next hour, that character
within 5 feet of a creature killed within the past 24 hours, you can cast the augury spell. The course of action you inquire about with the spell does not need to have any connection to the dead creature
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
. The arcs can blind the elf to this world, but they vanish when the elf enters the next, allowing sight of the elven heaven. Well that’s exactly what happens in Evermeet, and the elf need not be dead
of the first Sundering might echo Evermeet’s connection to the world once the period of calamity ended. Their patience (who but an elf could have such patience?) was at last rewarded, when ships from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
true friendship or grave need. 2 Covetous. The archfey hoards things they consider valuable and uses spies to find more of what they covet. The archfey never leaves their lair for fear that their hoard
it might fade over time. 4 Magic Item. The archfey bestows a useful magic item (such as a crystal ball or an oathbow) but warns that the item will vanish after a specified period of time, which it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
. The poisoned creature must shout loudly or otherwise make a loud noise at the start and end of its turn.
Purple. The poisoned creature feels a desperate need to soak itself in liquid or mud. It can’t
of menial tasks, but mostly they just like bossing them around. Slaves are fed mildly poisoned food to keep them lethargic and compliant. A creature afflicted in this way over a long period of time