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Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the juggernaut fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Regeneration. The juggernaut regains 20 hit points at the start of its turn. If the juggernaut
. The juggernaut doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.Multiattack. The juggernaut makes two attacks. It can replace one attack with Deadly Shaping if it is ready.
Executioner’s Pick
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, she instead takes no damage if she succeeds on the saving throw, and only half damage if she fails. She can't use this trait if she's incapacitated
of her station.
In her younger days, Esvele openly rebelled, but that behavior led to locked doors at night and house guards watching her every move during the day. So she taught herself how to pick
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
level or lower, the spell has no effect on the chimera and instead targets the caster.Multiattack. The chimera makes three attacks: one with its claws, one with its head, and one with its tail. When its
being. As a result, a hungry chimera might appear out of a clear sky to pick off prey nearly anywhere. This threat grows even more significant in regions where magic runs rampant or where portals to
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
You have served the community where you grew up, standing as its first line of defense against crime. You aren’t a soldier, directing your gaze outward at possible enemies. Instead, your
easily pick out the dens of criminal activity in a community, although you’re more likely to be welcome in the former locations rather than the latter.
Variant: Investigator
Rarer
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Ranged weapon, or make an attack roll as part of a spell, an attack has the following structure: Choose a Target. Pick a target within your attack’s range: a creature, an object, or a location. Determine
effects can apply penalties or bonuses to your attack roll. Resolve the Attack. Make the attack roll, as detailed earlier in this chapter. On a hit, you roll damage unless the particular attack has rules that specify otherwise. Some attacks cause special effects in addition to or instead of damage.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
little easier than rowing, even though it’s farther because the characters have to walk around the bays instead of rowing across them. The 7-mile trip takes only 2 hours and 20 minutes at a normal
walking pace. The characters can choose whether they want to walk on the cliffs high above the sea or pick their way among the tide pools at the base of the cliffs. The lower route is available only at low tide (see the Tides table).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Making an Attack Whether you're striking with a melee weapon, firing a weapon at range, or making an attack roll as part of a spell, an attack has a simple structure. 1. Choose a target. Pick a
the particular attack has rules that specify otherwise. Some attacks cause special effects in addition to or instead of damage. If there's ever any question whether something you're doing counts as an attack, the rule is simple: if you're making an attack roll, you're making an attack.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Ranged weapon, or make an attack roll as part of a spell, an attack has the following structure: Choose a Target. Pick a target within your attack’s range: a creature, an object, or a location. Determine
effects can apply penalties or bonuses to your attack roll. Resolve the Attack. Make the attack roll, as detailed earlier in this chapter. On a hit, you roll damage unless the particular attack has rules that specify otherwise. Some attacks cause special effects in addition to or instead of damage.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
1F. Stables The fittest, most ferocious of the giant lizards are housed here instead of in the open stockade (area 2), to protect them against the biting and clawing that goes on in the common
lethargic creatures grow agitated when strangers enter the stables. If characters linger for more than a minute, two of the lizards start lashing the walls with their tails. The others pick up the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
going to play a magical class, consider being a high elf or a variant human with the Magic Initiate feat. Whether you learn offensive cantrips and fight as a wandslinger or pick up a few practical tools
you could wear fine glamerweave and drink the best wine. If you’re a fighter, focus on finesse and Dexterity instead of crude strength. And never miss an opportunity for a clever quip.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
contacts in town. A week of carousing costs 2d10 gp as you lavish money on food and drink for yourself and others. When carousing, pick a single tavern in town to frequent. At the end of the week, you earn
contact, such as the bartender at the appropriate tavern or a specific person you have connected with. Optionally, the DM can instead allow you to declare an NPC as a contact when you meet them
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
the shape of three swirling lightning bolts. The town council sees this strange phenomenon and becomes concerned. Earlier that morning a group of settlers left to pick up supplies at the inn. The
, without the goods they were sent to retrieve. The group is soaking wet, and one of the larger carts is being pulled by one horse instead of two. One of the two soldiers that was accompanying the caravan
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
1F. Stables The fittest, most ferocious of the giant lizards are housed here instead of in the open stockade (area 2), to protect them against the biting and clawing that goes on in the common
lethargic creatures grow agitated when strangers enter the stables. If characters linger for more than a minute, two of the lizards start lashing the walls with their tails. The others pick up the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
them out of trouble in civilized areas but still keeps them rich; they vow to burglarize ancient tombs and monstrous lairs instead of the homes and businesses of the wealthy in civilized lands. Some
rogues have learned it is easier to pick someone’s pocket when you have a royal writ, which is to say many rogues are diplomats, courtiers, influence-peddlers, and information-brokers, in addition to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
else. Thus, why would a character who has the opportunity to acquire one or the other want to gain a tool proficiency instead of proficiency in a skill? To make tool proficiencies more attractive
, consider allowing the character to make the check with advantage. This simple benefit can go a long way toward encouraging players to pick up tool proficiencies. In the tool descriptions that follow
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
instead, skip to the “Vanthampur Villa” section. Having conquered the Dungeon of the Dead Three, the characters should advance to 3rd level before they head off to the Low Lantern or Vanthampur Villa
-level characters). An iron consul with two fists of Bane as bodyguards uses three night blades as scouts and assassins to pick off random passersby. A skull lasher of Myrkul provides magical support
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
. (The real key is in area J5.) After the key is pulled out, a character can use thieves’ tools to try to pick the lock, doing so with a successful DC 20 Dexterity check. A knock spell or similar magic
also opens the chest. Exit Portal. Turning the gold key in the lock doesn’t unlock the chest but instead conjures a 10-foot-square doorway through which area J1 can be seen. The doorway appears on the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
-Level Backstories table contains sample backstories for new characters. Roll on the table or pick your favorite option when working with your players to determine their characters’ backstories. 10th
an adult black dragon. The fight wasn’t going well, and nothingness enveloped the character as the character was about to die. Instead of dying, the character woke up in Neverwinter outside Lord
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
building’s entrance is a double door carved to resemble interlocking hands, and centered above the doorway is a golden pick with a short handle.
Map 5.2 includes an inset map that shows the interior of
this building. A character who examines the golden pick and succeeds on a DC 13 Intelligence (Religion) check recognizes it as the symbol of the Deep Brother, Callarduran Smoothhands, a god worshiped
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
attack. Melody of Precision. If you’re proficient in Performance, you gain a +1 bonus to the attack roll. If you have expertise in Performance, you gain a +2 bonus instead. Melody of Reverberation. The
bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic whip. When you hit a creature or object that is Large or smaller with this whip, you can pull that creature or object 5 feet toward you instead of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
must pick one item at a time to sell. Resolution. A character who wants to sell an item must make a Charisma (Persuasion) check to determine what kind of offer comes in. The character can always opt
not to sell, instead forfeiting the workweek of effort and trying again later. Use the Magic Item Base Prices and Magic Item Offer tables to determine the sale price. Magic Item Base Prices Rarity
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
the area, which Krux is inclined to do unless the characters advise him to circle around the debris instead. If the Second Wind passes through the wreckage instead of going around it, the following
they be destroyed. Scavenging Scavvers. Three gray scavvers (see Boo’s Astral Menagerie) pick at the drifting corpse of an astral elf warrior. Wounding a scavver causes it to dart away. Will-o’-Wisp
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
Encounters in Phandalin When the characters explore Phandalin, you don’t need to keep track of how much time is spent at each location. Instead, imagine that you’re directing an old-style western
homes and businesses. Where do you want to go?” When the players pick a spot, refer to the description in the following section, introduce the NPCs there, and let the interaction begin. The Stonehill
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
was the boilerdrak used in Vogler.) The stranger also hired her to design another device, which he was supposed to pick up today. Instead, the goblinoids showed up and demanded she turn over “the
Army, but she got distracted and instead created this long-distance communication device. She currently has one paired set of fargabs, which she gives to the characters—and, by extension, Kalaman’s defenders.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
themselves. However, she is not convinced they would succeed, and having humanoid allies would reduce casualties for both sides. Attitude. Neutral. If any character is a dragonborn, Tazmikella is instead
cautious. If the party contains any character with a personal reputation for shady dealings (particularly a rogue or bard), she is unfriendly. Concession. Pick one magic item owned by a member of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
enclosed wagon sits in a soggy dell outside Excelsior. It appears to be made more of mold and moss than timbers. Instead of wheels, the wagon rests atop what appears to be six giant, rolled-up pill bugs
, which a character can pick by succeeding on a DC 16 Dexterity check using thieves’ tools. Inside the chest are six bottles that function similarly to iron flasks, but they work only in the Outlands
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
any humanoids that stand against them. After savaging a settlement, orcs pick it clean of wealth and items usable in their own lands. They set the remains of villages and camps ablaze, then retreat
, instead converting ruins, cavern complexes, and defeated foes’ villages into fortified camps and strongholds. Orcs build only for defense, making no innovation or improvement to their lairs beyond
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
themselves. However, she is not convinced they would succeed, and having humanoid allies would reduce casualties for both sides. Attitude. Neutral. If any character is a dragonborn, Tazmikella is instead
cautious. If the party contains any character with a personal reputation for shady dealings (particularly a rogue or bard), she is unfriendly. Concession. Pick one magic item owned by a member of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Uni and the Hunt for the Lost Horn
have the following mastery properties.) Nick. When you make the extra attack of the Light property, you can make it as part of the Attack instead of as a Bonus Action. You can make this extra attack
Hands As a Bonus Action, you can do one of the following. Sleight of Hand. Make a Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) check to pick a lock or disarm a trap with Thieves’ Tools or to pick a pocket. Use an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
instead pick two skill proficiencies for the NPC. The NPC Features table summarizes the ability modifiers and features of various nonhuman races, as well as various creatures from the Monster Manual
20 ft., swim 40 ft.; speaks Bullywug Dragonborn* +2 Str, +1 Cha Breath Weapon (use challenge rating instead of level to determine damage), Damage Resistance, Draconic Ancestry; speaks Common and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
are magically replaced by a pair of soft, fuzzy donkey ears. Moreover, when you try to speak, you instead bray. 2 You gain 1d3 levels of exhaustion. Until the curse ends, these levels of exhaustion
can’t be removed. 3 Spells can’t restore hit points to you. 4 The sound of pixie laughter fills your head while you are awake, drowning out all other sounds. 5 Anything you try to pick up or hold in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
might pick up immediately after the end of the previous adventure, but it might instead begin weeks, months, or years after the last adventure, allowing interim events to unfold while the characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
, Melanora might still be with us today. Instead she lies lost beneath the basalt towers, trapped in hideous service to the ancient powers that dwell in the darkness.
For the full text of Professor
Talbridge’s terrifying account, pick up the latest issue of the Sharn Inquisitive!
Dar Jin This port city is the only legal point of entry for foreigners who wish to enter the Empire of Riedra. All
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
displacer beasts hunting near trade roads recall the frequency and schedule of regular caravans, laying down ambushes to pick off those caravans. Prized Guards and Pets. Intelligent evil creatures favor
it to make a saving throw to take only half damage, it instead takes no damage if it succeeds on the saving throw, and only half damage if it fails.
Displacement. The displacer beast projects a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Borderlands Quest: Goblin Trouble
centipede, however, fights to the death. Vonnet and Dilly. If the characters made a deal with the two bandits, they pretend to engage in combat, but they don’t attack. Instead, they stay back until it
looks like they can get to the bowl. Unfortunately for them, the bowl is too hot to pick up, so they simply try to escape once they realize this. The Forge. The makeshift forge in area 4a occupies