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Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Hill Rune. The giant has a hill rune inscribed on a rock or some other object in its possession. While holding or wearing the object bearing the rune, the giant can use its Stone Avalanche action and
Hill Rebuff reaction.
The object bearing the rune has AC 15; 20 hit points; and immunity to necrotic, poison, and psychic damage. The object regains all its hit points at the end of every turn, but
Magic Items
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
The handle of this dark leather whip bears the fire rune, and embers dance around the whip’s tail.
You gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this weapon, and on a hit, the whip
deals an extra 1d6 fire damage. When you score a critical hit with an attack using this whip, the target also has the restrained condition until the start of your next turn, as fiery bands lash around
Hammer of Thunderbolts
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You gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon.
Giant's Bane (Requires Attunement). You must be wearing a belt of giant strength (any variety) and gauntlets of ogre
power to attune to this weapon. The attunement ends if you take off either of those items. While you are attuned to this weapon and holding it, your Strength score increases by 4 and can exceed 20
Weapon Master
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Feats
Player’s Handbook (2014)
You have practiced extensively with a variety of weapons, gaining the following benefits:
Increase your Strength or Dexterity score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
You gain proficiency with four weapons of your choice. Each one must be a simple or a martial weapon.
Magic Items
Divine Contention
This small metallic object is comprised of rune-covered parts made from different metals, linked together with a variety of gears, bands, bits, and bobs. The metals are all different colors, making
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
in a variety of ways: a forked tongue, snake eyes, a snakelike nose, or some other ophidian characteristic. However a yuan-ti looks, they have the power to pursue great good or evil in the multiverse
during character creation.
Ability Score Increases
When determining your character’s ability scores, increase one score by 2 and increase a different score by 1, or increase three different scores
classes
snatch victory from the jaws of defeat, even when outarmed and outnumbered. Even when they ultimately fail, Pugilists go down swinging.
Pugilists tap into their inner strength in the form of moxie. This
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Down But Not Out
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Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
and inventions. You can find everything you need to play one of these inventors in the next few sections.
Artificers use a variety of tools to channel their arcane power. To cast a spell, an artificer
artificer quickly by following these suggestions. First, put your highest ability score in Intelligence, followed by Constitution or Dexterity. Second, choose the guild artisan background.
The
classes
Basic Rules (2014)
sufficient to defeat whatever threats arise.
A Life of Danger
A barbarian plays an important role as a protector of their people and a leader in times of war. Life in the wild places of the world is
violated, or a coup that removed you from a position of authority.
QUICK BUILD
You can make a barbarian quickly by following these suggestions. First, put your highest ability score in Strength
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Basic Rules (2014)
variety of skills as they do to perfecting their combat abilities, giving them a broad expertise that few other characters can match. Many rogues focus on stealth and deception, while others refine the
.
QUICK BUILD
You can make a rogue quickly by following these suggestions. First, Dexterity should be your highest ability score. Make Intelligence your next-highest if you want to excel at
Magic Items
Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
defeat the next hostile monster or group of monsters you encounter, you have advantage on ability checks made using one skill of your choice for the duration of the adventure. Otherwise, this card has no
already been claimed, you gain an equivalent hoard.
Idiot. Reduce your Intelligence by 1d4 + 1 (to a minimum score of 1) for the duration of the adventure. You can draw one additional card beyond
classes
Player’s Handbook
Paladin’s oath is a powerful bond. It is a source of power that turns a devout warrior into a blessed champion.
Paladins train to learn the skills of combat, mastering a variety of weapons and
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Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
cast ensnaring strike, for example, the vines created by the spell might appear as rune-inscribed glowing bands that wrap around the target and hold it in place.
Suggested Characteristics
Senate is a sprawling bureaucracy, and people in a variety of positions throughout the guild can pull strings to make things happen. Because of the guild’s role in making and enforcing laws for
Book of Vile Darkness
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Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
reading and studying the book, one ability score of your choice increases by 2, to a maximum of 24. Another ability score of your choice decreases by 2, to a minimum of 3. The book can’t adjust your
darkness. An evil rune might appear on your face, your eyes might become glossy black, or horns might sprout from your forehead. Or you might become wizened and hideous, lose all facial features, gain a
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
exuberance with them and learning new languages as they went.
Harengons are bipedal, with the characteristic long feet of the rabbits they resemble and fur in a variety of colors. They share the keen senses
fairy or the harengon in this section, follow these additional rules during character creation.
Ability Score Increases
When determining your character’s ability scores, increase one score by 2
Hexblood
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Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
shades, long hair that regrows if cut, and an irremovable living crown. Along with these marks, hexbloods manifest hag-like traits, such as darkvision and a variety of magical methods to beguile the senses
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When you create a character using a lineage option, follow these additional rules during character creation.
Ability Score Increases
When determining your ability scores, you increase one of those
Lizardfolk
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
aggression toward creatures that they could defeat in a fight and that can’t be dealt with in some other manner. They are aggressive toward prey they want to eat, creatures that want to harm them, and
swamps they inhabit are filled with a staggering variety of threats. Lizardfolk focus on survival above all, without sentiment.
Lizardfolk assess everyone and everything in terms of utility. Art and
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beyond the horizon—makes an adventuring career a natural calling. Every adventure is an opportunity to learn, practice a variety of skills, enter long-forgotten tombs, discover lost works of magic
highest ability score, followed by Dexterity. Second, choose the entertainer background. Third, choose the dancing lights and vicious mockery cantrips, along with the following 1st-level spells: charm
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skills of combat, mastering a variety of weapons and armor. Even so, their martial skills are secondary to the magical power they wield: power to heal the sick and injured, to smite the wicked and the
quickly by following these suggestions. First, Strength should be your highest ability score, followed by Charisma. Second, choose the noble background.
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Deck of Many Things
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-handedly defeat the next hostile monster or group of monsters you encounter, you gain experience points enough to gain one level. Otherwise, this card has no effect.
Donjon. You disappear and become
1d4 + 1 (to a minimum score of 1). You can draw one additional card beyond your declared draws.
Jester. You gain 10,000 XP, or you can draw two additional cards beyond your declared draws.
Key. A
Goliath
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Elemental Evil Player's Companion
individual skill. They have a compulsion to keep score, counting their deeds and tallying their accomplishments to compare to others. Goliaths love to win, but they see defeat as a prod to improve their
Magic Items
Keys from the Golden Vault
, one ability score of your choice increases by 2, to a maximum of 24. Another ability score of your choice decreases by 2, to a minimum of 3. The book can’t adjust your ability scores again
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Mark of Darkness. After you spend the requisite amount of time reading and studying the book, you acquire a physical disfigurement as a hideous sign of your devotion to vile darkness. An evil rune might
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
rune carver. Suggested Characteristics. The Rune Carver Personality Traits table suggests a variety of traits you might adopt for your character. Rune Carver Personality Traits d6 Personality Trait 1
Rune Carver What we call rune magic is the palest imitation of Annam’s creative work. He shaped worlds from the primal elements; we struggle to bind the merest scraps of elemental power into the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Duergar The cruel duergar plot not only to defeat other dwarves, but to cast down the entire dwarven pantheon in revenge for their being abandoned and left to be enslaved by mind flayers. To this
end, duergar train warriors to fulfill a variety of roles. Absence of light results in darkness. So, what results from the absence of good? The Underdark is a place with very little of either.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
to giants runs deeper than fanciful stories. This chapter is for any D&D character who aspires to forge a link to the mighty giants. From sources of havoc-wreaking power to the artful study of rune
following sections present a variety of options for creating characters with ties to giants: “Subclass Option” allows barbarians to explore ties to the nature of giants. “Backgrounds” presents two new
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Hill Giant Avalancher Hill giants who master rune magic discover a close connection to the natural forces of earth and stone. Their magic, combined with their size and strength, helps them quickly
with their ability to defeat and devour their prey as quickly as a torrent of boulders cascades down a mountain, leads other giants to call them avalanchers. Hill Giant Avalancher Huge Giant (Druid
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
halflings have spread the farthest and thus are the most common variety. Lightfoots are more prone to wanderlust than other halflings, and often dwell alongside other races or take up a nomadic life
. In the world of Greyhawk, these halflings are called hairfeet or tallfellows. Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score increases by 1. Naturally Stealthy. You can attempt to hide even when you are obscured only by a creature that is at least one size larger than you.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
halflings have spread the farthest and thus are the most common variety. Lightfoots are more prone to wanderlust than other halflings, and often dwell alongside other races or take up a nomadic life
. In the world of Greyhawk, these halflings are called hairfeet or tallfellows. Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score increases by 1. Naturally Stealthy. You can attempt to hide even when you are obscured only by a creature that is at least one size larger than you.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
Noble Royal and Rich Folk Nobles encompass a variety of people with social influence. They might be rulers, wealthy merchants, callous bureaucrats, or the idle elite. Noble Medium or Small Humanoid
, Neutral
AC 15 Initiative +1 (11)
HP 9 (2d8)
Speed 30 ft.
Ability Score Mod Save
Str 11 +0 +0
Dex 12 +1 +1
Con 11 +0 +0
Ability Score Mod Save
Int 12
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
22. Southeast Storeroom The door frame has an electrum coin wedged into it (see area 19). The room’s features are as follows: Containers. Hundreds of empty chests and trunks in a variety of sizes
minute. Characters must be 10th level or higher to pass through this gate (see “Jhesiyra Kestellharp”). The first creature to pass through the gate triggers an elder rune (see “Elder Runes”). A creature
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
capabilities. It embodies training, experience, and abilities beyond what a class provides. The sections below explain the parts of a feat and list a variety of feat options separated into categories. Your
background gives you a feat, and at certain levels, your class gives you the Ability Score Improvement feat or the choice of another feat for which you qualify. By whatever means you acquire a feat, you can take it only once unless its description says otherwise.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
, frost, fire, cloud, or storm variety (or a creature polymorphed into one of these forms) must take a weapon from one of the statues of the six lesser giant gods and touch it to the appropriate rune on
weight of each weapon and the archway rune associated with each weapon (see “Archway and Runes”). Each statue has AC 20, a damage threshold of 10, and immunity to poison and psychic damage. The statue of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
spells the warlock knows. Does the Eyes of the Rune Keeper invocation work on magical runes? Eyes of the Rune Keeper lets you read any form of writing, including the linguistic meaning of a rune, if any
the conjuring forth of a melee weapon, yet we allow more versatility when it comes to magic weapons. We didn’t want a narrow focus in this feature to make a warlock unhappy when a variety of magic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
realize that the mind flayer fanatics placed their bolstering rune before the slaadi arrived and don’t care about returning. The characters can access Spawn Hollow from area X5 in Illithinoch. The
explosive runes variety in each passage. The explosive runes deal thunder damage. If the glyph activates, Chalaag casts invisibility on itself and investigates. S2: Crystal Pit The floor of this funnel-shaped
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
embodies training, experience, and abilities beyond what a class provides. The sections below explain the parts of a feat and list a variety of feat options separated into categories. Your background gives
you a feat, and at certain levels, your class gives you the Ability Score Improvement feat or the choice of another feat for which you qualify. By whatever means you acquire a feat, you can take it only once unless its description says otherwise.