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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Variant: Customizing Ability Scores At your Dungeon Master’s option, you can use this variant for determining your ability scores. The method described here allows you to build a character with a set
of ability scores you choose individually. You have 27 points to spend on your ability scores. The cost of each score is shown on the Ability Score Point Cost table. For example, a score of 14 costs
Spells
Player’s Handbook
statistics, but the target retains its creature type; Hit Points; Hit Point Dice; alignment; ability to communicate; and Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores. The target’s actions are
target gains a number of Temporary Hit Points equal to the Hit Points of the first form into which it shape-shifts. These Temporary Hit Points vanish if any remain when the spell ends. The transformation lasts for the duration or until the target ends it as a Bonus Action.
Spells
Player’s Handbook
You step into the border regions of the Ethereal Plane, where it overlaps with your current plane. You remain in the Border Ethereal for the duration. During this time, you can move in any direction
or a plane that doesn’t border it, such as one of the Outer Planes.
Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. You can target up to three willing creatures (including yourself) for each spell slot level above 7. The creatures must be within 10 feet of you when you cast the spell.
Spells
Player’s Handbook
Hit Points equal to the Hit Points of the first form into which you shape-shift. These Temporary Hit Points vanish if any remain when the spell ends.
Your game statistics are replaced by the stat
block of the chosen form, but you retain your creature type; alignment; personality; Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores; Hit Points; Hit Point Dice; proficiencies; and ability to communicate. If
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
blood. If the sword doesn’t taste blood on its blade within 1 minute of being drawn from its scabbard, its wielder makes a DC 15 Charisma saving throw. On a successful save, the wielder takes
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Magic Weapon. You gain a +3 bonus to attack rolls and damage rolls made with the sword, which scores a Critical Hit on a roll of 19 or 20 on the d20 and deals an extra 2d10 Slashing damage to Undead
Spells
Player’s Handbook
appearance of structures or add them where none are present. The spell doesn’t disguise, conceal, or add creatures.
The illusion includes audible, visual, tactile, and olfactory elements, so it can
’s area disappears immediately.
Creatures with Truesight can see through the illusion to the terrain’s true form; however, all other elements of the illusion remain, so while the creature is aware of the illusion’s presence, the creature can still physically interact with the illusion.
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
of these weapons have faded from the world, their magic lost as family lines have become extinct. Others have vanished with their bearers during great quests. Thus, only a few of these weapons remain
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Every Moonblade longs for a bearer whose disposition and goals are compatible with its own. If you try to attune to a Moonblade that doesn’t want you as its bearer, the weapon not only
Spells
Player’s Handbook
form can be any Beast you choose that has a Challenge Rating equal to or less than the target’s (or the target’s level if it doesn’t have a Challenge Rating). The target’s game
Hit Points equal to the Hit Points of the Beast form. These Temporary Hit Points vanish if any remain when the spell ends. The spell ends early on the target if it has no Temporary Hit Points left
Spells
Player’s Handbook
sounds outside it are made with Disadvantage. You remain aware of the passage of time and can cast spells on yourself while merged in the stone. You can use 5 feet of movement to leave the stone where
you entered it, which ends the spell. You otherwise can’t move.
Minor physical damage to the stone doesn’t harm you, but its partial destruction or a change in its shape (to the extent
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
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Each card’s effect is described below.
Balance. You can increase one of your ability scores by 2, to a maximum of 22, provided you also decrease another
one of your ability scores by 2. You can’t decrease an ability that has a score of 5 or lower. Alternatively, you can choose not to adjust your ability scores, in which case this card has no
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
Spellcasting.
Cursed Blade. Melee or Ranged Attack Roll: +7;{"diceNotation":"1d20+7","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Cursed Blade"} (with Advantage if the target doesn’t have all its Hit Points
financial recompense. These cunning serial killers and mass murderers remain a step ahead of investigators, at least until the cultists’ zealous bloodlust overwhelms their senses.
Cultists
The
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
Flyby. The star lancer doesn’t provoke opportunity attack;opportunity attacks when it flies out of an enemy’s reach.Horn. Melee Weapon Attack: +6;{"diceNotation":"1d20+6","rollType":"to
innards of one of these dead gods, githyanki xenomancers found a vast cavern containing scores of winged creatures they had never encountered before. The cavern’s denizens used telepathy to question
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Devil’s Sight. Magical darkness doesn’t impede the drow’s darkvision.
Fey Ancestry. The drow has advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put the
-forming in the Abyss, siphoning its essence into themselves.
drow shadowblade (summoner variant);Variant: Demon Summoning
Some drow shadowblades have an action that allows them to summon a demon
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Devil’s Sight. Magical darkness doesn’t impede the amnizu’s darkvision.
Magic Resistance. The amnizu has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical
them into legions.
Amnizu (Summoner Variant);Variant: Devil Summoning
Some amnizus have an action that allows them to summon other devils:
Summon Devil (1/Day). The amnizu summons 2d4
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
.
Regeneration. Geryon regains 20 hit points at the start of his turn. If he takes radiant damage, this trait doesn’t function at the start of his next turn. Geryon dies only if he starts his turn
with 0 hit points and doesn’t regenerate.Multiattack. Geryon makes one Claw attack and one Stinger attack.
Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +16;{"diceNotation":"1d20+16","rollType":"to hit
Monsters
Thieves’ Gallery
owlbear (see the Monster Manual).
Doric can remain in that form for up to 2 hours. She can choose whether her equipment falls to the ground, melds with her new form, or is worn by the new form. Doric
, except she keeps her current hit points, her hit point maximum, this bonus action, her alignment, and her Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores.
Guild Artisan / Guild Merchant
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Backgrounds
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connections might require the donation of money or magic items to the guild’s coffers.
You must pay dues of 5 gp per month to the guild. If you miss payments, you must make up back dues to remain
in the guild’s good graces.
Variant Guild Artisan: Guild Merchant
Instead of an artisans’ guild, you might belong to a guild of traders, caravan masters, or shopkeepers. You don&rsquo
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
that doesn’t affect the weapon’s capabilities.
Molydeus (Summoner Variant);Variant: Demon Summoning
You can give a molydeus the ability to summon other demons.
Summon Demon (1/Day
Shifter
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Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
’s appearance might remind an onlooker of an animal, they remain clearly identifiable as shifters even when at their most feral.
Most shifters resemble a particular kind of lycanthrope. You can
scores, increase one score by 2 and increase a different score by 1, or increase three different scores by 1. Follow this rule regardless of the method you use to determine the scores, such as rolling or
Monsters
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
Iron Boots. While moving, the madcap has disadvantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks.
Outsize Strength. While grappling, the madcap is considered to be Medium. Also, wielding a heavy weapon doesn
been. A redcap’s desire to slay is rooted in its will to survive.
VARIANT: MADCAPS
A madcap is a redcap that soaks its hat in demon ichor instead of blood. Contact with demon ichor makes the
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
);{"diceNotation":"8d6","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Explode","rollDamageType":"fire"} fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
Flyby. The comet doesn’t provoke
. The comet deals double damage to objects and structures.
Unusual Nature. The comet doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.Multiattack. The comet makes one Slam attack and one Spit Fire
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
can’t increase. The curse doesn’t advance while the target is in sunlight or the area of a daylight spell. When the cursed target’s Charisma becomes 2, the target dies, and its head
disembodied Humanoid heads with wings. While most vargouilles roam the planes to curse Humanoids and create more vargouilles, a variant known as the vargouille reflection resides in Undersigil. When a
Monsters
Tales from the Yawning Portal
Assassinate. During his first turn, Obmi has advantage on attack rolls against any creature that hasn’t taken a turn. Any hit Obmi scores against a surprised creature is a critical hit
advantage on the attack roll, or when the target is within 5 feet of an ally of his that isn’t incapacitated and Obmi doesn’t have disadvantage on the attack roll.Multiattack. Obmi makes
Monsters
Princes of the Apocalypse
Assassinate. During its first turn, Ghald has advantage on attack rolls against any creature that hasn’t taken a turn. Any hit Ghald scores against a surprised creature is a critical hit
attack and has advantage on the attack roll, or when the target is within 5 feet of an ally of Ghald’s that isn’t incapacitated and Ghald doesn’t have disadvantage on the attack
monsters
Blood Frenzy. The nosferatu has Advantage on attack rolls against any creature that doesn’t have all its Hit Points.
Regeneration. The nosferatu regains 10 Hit Points at the start of each of
its turns if it has at least 1 Hit Point. If the nosferatu takes Radiant damage, this trait doesn’t function on the nosferatu’s next turn.
Spider Climb. The nosferatu can climb difficult
Monsters
Vecna: Eve of Ruin
attacks.
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Pteranodon. The bone roc doesn’t provoke an opportunity attack when it flies out of an enemy’s reach.
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Roc. The bone roc’s size is Gargantuan, and its flying speed is 120 feet. Its Hit Dice remain unchanged.
PoisonBludgeoning
Species
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
it, giff are drawn to the Astral Plane because, on a deep psychic level, they remain connected to their creator gods, who have just enough divine spark left in them to imbue giff with sparks of their
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Ability Score Increases
When determining your character’s ability scores, increase one of those scores by 2 and increase a different score by 1, or increase three different scores by 1
Monsters
Locathah Rising
unoccupied space they can see.Change Shape (2/Day). Amble magically polymorphs into a beast with a challenge rating of 1 or less, and can remain in this form for up to 6 hours. Amble's equipment melds with
statistics of the beast, but they retain their alignment, personality, and Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores. Amble also retains all their skill and saving throw proficiencies, in addition to
Species
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
additional rules during character creation.
Ability Score Increases
When determining your character’s ability scores, increase one of those scores by 2 and increase a different score by 1, or
increase three different scores by 1. Follow this rule regardless of the method you use to determine the scores, such as rolling or point buy.
The “Quick Build” section for your
Monsters
Tyranny of Dragons
Assassinate. During its first turn, the assassin has advantage on attack rolls against any creature that hasn’t taken a turn. Any hit the assassin scores against a surprised creature is a
target with a weapon attack and has advantage on the attack roll, or when the target is within 5 feet of an ally of the assassin that isn’t incapacitated and the assassin doesn’t have
monsters
unoccupied space next to a creature of its choice that it has previously possessed with its Blood Puppeteering action. This trait doesn’t function if the destroyed necrichor’s remains are
Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution scores.
The possession lasts until the target drops to 0 Hit Points or the necrichor leaves it as a Bonus Action. When the possession ends, the necrichor appears in
Carrionette
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monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
creature must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check to discern that the carrionette is animate.
Unusual Nature. The carrionette doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.Silver Needle. Melee
for 1 hour, after which it gains control of the carrionette’s body. While controlling the target’s body, the carrionette retains its Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores. It
Magic Items
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
next dawn.
The shadow (variant);detached shadow is rooted to the spot where it was snipped until you use a bonus action to cause it to behave in one of the following ways, either of which is possible
vertical surfaces), provided it remains within your sight at all times. The shadow is harmless and unable to be harmed, and it is invisible in darkness. It can’t speak, and it doesn’t require
Noble
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Basic Rules (2014)
authority that title carries. A noble title doesn’t stand on its own—it’s connected to an entire family, and whatever title you hold, you will pass it down to your own children. Not only do
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Variant Noble: Knight
A knighthood is among the lowest noble titles in most societies, but it can be a path to higher status. If you wish to be a knight, choose the Retainers feature (see the sidebar
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
characters, and use the Dragon Turtle Spellcasting table to help select spells for a spellcasting dragon. (Though the Monster Manual doesn’t explicitly include dragon turtles in the variant rules for
refuse to recognize my rule over these waters suffer my displeasure. (Lawful or Evil)
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Preservation. I am the ocean’s steward, tending reefs and waters to ensure that they remain unspoiled