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Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
Ability Scores: Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom
Feat: Mark of Finding
Skill Proficiencies: Perception and Survival
Tool Proficiencies: Choose one kind of Gaming Set
Equipment: Choose A or B
: (A) Gaming Set (same as above), Climber's Kit, Fine Clothes, Hunting Trap, Manacles, 2 GP; or (B) 50 GP
Heirs of other houses lead lives of luxury, but in House Tharashk you learned self
Monsters
Out of the Abyss
components:
At will: nondetection (self only)
1/day each: blindness/deafness, blur, disguise self
Insanity. The Pudding King has advantage on saving throws against being charmed or frightened
equipment he is wearing or carrying is absorbed by the new form. In ooze form, the Pudding King retains his alignment, hit points, Hit Dice, and Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores, as well as
Personality Traits
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, things your character dislikes or fears, your character's self-attitude or mannerisms, or the influence of his or her ability scores.
. They should be self-descriptions that are specific about what makes your character stand out.
Personality traits might describe the things your character likes, his or her past accomplishments
Hydroloth
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Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
, requiring no material components:
At will: darkness, detect magic, dispel magic, invisibility (self only), water walk
3/day each: control water, crown of madness, fear, phantasmal killer, suggestion
this hydroloth's Steal Memory for 24 hours. On a failed save, the target loses all proficiencies, it can't cast spells, it can't understand language, and if its Intelligence and Charisma scores are
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
spellcasting ability (spell save DC 16):
At will: darkness, detect magic, dispel magic, invisibility (self only)
3/day each: control water, crown of madness, fear, suggestion
Steal Memory (1/Day
proficiencies; it can’t cast spells; it can’t understand language; and if its Intelligence and Charisma scores are higher than 5, they become 5. Each time the target finishes a long rest
Backgrounds
Ghosts of Saltmarsh
how you survived a particular battle. Every arrow and bolt missed you. You slew scores of enemies single-handedly and led your comrades to victory.
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Stowaway. For days, you hid in the bilge
who rarely lose composure on the battlefield. Marines who leave the service tend to work as mercenaries, but their combat experience also makes them excellent adventurers. Though they are self-reliant
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Step 3: Determine Ability Scores To determine your character’s ability scores, you first generate a set of six numbers using the instructions below and then assign them to your six abilities
. “Playing the Game” explains what each ability means. Generate Your Scores Determine your ability scores by using one of the following three methods. Your DM might prefer you to use a particular one. Standard
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Step 3: Determine Ability Scores To determine your character’s ability scores, you first generate a set of six numbers using the instructions below and then assign them to your six abilities. Chapter
1 explains what each ability means. Generate Your Scores Determine your ability scores by using one of the following three methods. Your DM might prefer you to use a particular one. Standard Array
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
House Tharashk Heir Calder Moore Ability Scores: Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom
Feat: Mark of Finding (see “Dragonmark Feats”)
Skill Proficiencies: Perception and Survival
Tool Proficiency
of luxury, but in House Tharashk you learned self-reliance from an early age. What your young house lacks in resources, it makes up for in spirit and determination. Tharashk has a destiny to fulfill
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Shapechange Level 9 Transmutation (Druid, Wizard) Casting Time: Action
Range: Self
Components: V, S, M (a jade circlet worth 1,500+ GP)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour
You shape-shift
; personality; Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores; Hit Points; Hit Point Dice; proficiencies; and ability to communicate. If you have the Spellcasting feature, you retain it too. Upon shape
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Shapechange Level 9 Transmutation (Druid, Wizard) Casting Time: Action
Range: Self
Components: V, S, M (a jade circlet worth 1,500+ GP)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour
You shape-shift
you retain your creature type; alignment; personality; Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores; Hit Points; Hit Point Dice; proficiencies; and ability to communicate. If you have the Spellcasting
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Magic Jar 6th-level necromancy Casting Time: 1 minute Range: Self Components: V, S, M (a gem, crystal, reliquary, or some other ornamental container worth at least 500 gp) Duration: Until dispelled
replaced by the statistics of the creature, though you retain your alignment and your Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores. You retain the benefit of your own class features. If the target has any
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
you set your character apart from every other character. Your personality traits should tell you something interesting and fun about your character. They should be self-descriptions that are specific
character’s interests and disposition. Personality traits might describe the things your character likes, his or her past accomplishments, things your character dislikes or fears, your character’s self
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Magic Jar 6th-level necromancy Casting Time: 1 minute Range: Self Components: V, S, M (a gem, crystal, reliquary, or some other ornamental container worth at least 500 gp) Duration: Until dispelled
replaced by the statistics of the creature, though you retain your alignment and your Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores. You retain the benefit of your own class features. If the target has any
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
, invisibility (self only), water walk
3/day each: control water, crown of madness, fear, phantasmal killer, suggestion
Magic Resistance. The hydroloth has advantage on saving throws against spells and
loses all proficiencies, it can’t cast spells, it can’t understand language, and if its Intelligence and Charisma scores are higher than 5, they become 5. Each time the target finishes a long rest, it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
spells, requiring no material components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 16):
At will: darkness, detect magic, dispel magic, invisibility (self only)
3/day each
spells; it can’t understand language; and if its Intelligence and Charisma scores are higher than 5, they become 5. Each time the target finishes a long rest, it can repeat the saving throw, ending the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Shapechange 9th-level transmutation Casting Time: 1 action Range: Self Components: V, S, M (a jade circlet worth at least 1,500 gp, which you must place on your head before you cast the spell
trait. Your game statistics are replaced by the statistics of the chosen creature, though you retain your alignment and Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores. You also retain all of your skill and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Shapechange 9th-level transmutation Casting Time: 1 action Range: Self Components: V, S, M (a jade circlet worth at least 1,500 gp, which you must place on your head before you cast the spell
trait. Your game statistics are replaced by the statistics of the chosen creature, though you retain your alignment and Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores. You also retain all of your skill and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
dislikes or fears, your character’s self-attitude or mannerisms, or the influence of his or her ability scores.
A useful place to start thinking about personality traits is to look at your highest and
self-descriptions that are specific about what makes your character stand out. “I’m smart” is not a good trait, because it describes a lot of characters. “I’ve read every book in Candlekeep” tells you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
beautiful 20 Exceptionally ugly Abilities You don’t need to roll ability scores for the NPC, but note abilities that are above or below average — great strength or monumental stupidity, for example — and
3 Greater good Might 4 Life Pain 5 Respect Retribution 6 Self-sacrifice Slaughter d6 Lawful Ideal Chaotic Ideal 1 Community Change 2 Fairness Creativity 3 Honor Freedom 4 Logic Independence 5
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
the spell save DC for disguise self ? Does the wearer have to be a caster? Use your spellcasting ability modifier to set the DC. If you don’t have a spellcasting ability, use your proficiency bonus to
someone. A rogue with the Assassin archetype that attacks a surprised target using a vorpal sword scores an automatic critical hit if the attack roll is successful, but unless the attack roll was a 20
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
, and Charisma scores. The DM sets the symbiote’s abilities or determines them randomly (roll 4d6 for each score, ignoring the lowest roll and totaling the rest). The symbiote can see and hear using
symbiote’s commands. If you take damage that is not self-inflicted, you can repeat the saving throw, ending the effect on a success. Roll or choose from the Symbiotic Agenda table to determine the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
past comrades may think you’re dead. 4 Juggernaut. No reasonable explanation can explain how you survived a particular battle. Every arrow and bolt missed you. You slew scores of enemies single
excellent adventurers. Though they are self-reliant, marines tend to operate best in groups, valuing camaraderie and the companionship of like-minded individuals. Marine Personality Traits d8
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Evasion 1d8 7 +15 ft. 8 +3 Ability Score Improvement 1d8 8 +15 ft. 9 +4 Acrobatic Movement 1d8 9 +15 ft. 10 +4 Heightened Focus, Self-Restoration 1d8 10 +20 ft. 11 +4 Subclass feature 1d10 11 +20 ft
smaller. You move the creature with you until the end of your turn. The creature’s movement doesn’t provoke Opportunity Attacks. Level 10: Self-Restoration Through sheer force of will, you can remove
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Evasion 1d8 7 +15 ft. 8 +3 Ability Score Improvement 1d8 8 +15 ft. 9 +4 Acrobatic Movement 1d8 9 +15 ft. 10 +4 Heightened Focus, Self-Restoration 1d8 10 +20 ft. 11 +4 Subclass feature 1d10 11 +20 ft
creature’s movement doesn’t provoke Opportunity Attacks. Level 10: Self-Restoration Through sheer force of will, you can remove one of the following conditions from yourself at the end of each of your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
creature retains its Hit Dice, hit points, racial traits (but not proficiencies granted by race), and all of its ability scores except for Intelligence. After the first stage of the process, the creature’s
. This sort of thrall makes a perfect spy, since most would never suspect its true nature. A thrall can be restored to its former self through a combination of spells and ministration. The thrall must
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
iron spider is a Large unaligned construct that stands 7 feet tall. It has AC 19, 80 hit points, and immunity to poison and psychic damage. Its ability scores are as follows: Strength 18, Dexterity 10
creates 200 feet of web cable, the spider can’t produce any more cable until the next dawn. The iron spider exists solely to produce web cables. It has no attacks and no instinct for self
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
in any way they desire. The character retains their ability scores and class features, but changes their racial traits if applicable. Youth. A character who bargains for youth has their age reduced to
the temple to challenge the coven, but she became a withered husk of her former self as she arrived (use the commoner stat block for her current state). Now trapped here, she is especially fearful of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
self, a tiny sphere of smooth stone, or a puddle of fresh water (your choice).
Actions
Magical Gift (1/Day). The chwinga targets a humanoid it can see within 5 feet of it. The target gains a
a long range of 60 feet, it deals 1d4 cold damage on a hit, and it scores a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20. If you score a critical hit with the snowball, the target is blinded until the end of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
death. If the shutdown occurs before they acquire a psi crystal, the gnome ceremorphs’ back-up plan is to activate the nautiloid’s self-destruct system (see area N7) before abandoning ship and making
to bury its immense bulk in the snow.
Two carrion crawlers, Vorryn’s trained pets, scuttle through the snow near the ship. Characters who have passive Wisdom (Perception) scores of 11 or higher are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
wings wrapped tightly around their bodies so that they are easily mistaken for icicles. Characters who have passive Wisdom (Perception) scores of 13 or higher can distinguish the mephits from the
scores of real icicles that festoon the ceiling. The ice mephits are tasked with guarding the cave but do not enter melee combat willingly. An ice mephit’s preferred tactic is to use its action to fly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
encountered shadar-kai in the world have seen, or heard tales of, a dark fortress, a mysterious figure surrounded by gaunt servants, and scores of seemingly sentient ravens. Most folk who have heard of
in these moments of obeisance to her that the Raven Queen recalls a fragment of her former self. VECNA'S OBSESSION
One evil mind is fixated on wresting away the Raven Queen’s power: the archlich
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
section presents a collection of villains from the introductory adventures and side treks in chapter 6. Drannin Splithelm Drannin is a self-serving dwarf who has always felt that, due to his heritage
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Languages Common, Sahuagin
Challenge 7 (2,900 XP)
Assassinate. During its first turn, Ghald has advantage on attack rolls against any creature that hasn’t taken a turn. Any hit Ghald scores
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
whisper a harsh word about him. Groak wants to be seen as a visionary and a romantic, and he loves to hear stories of the outside world. However, he threatens anyone who dares to question his inflated self
of Truth. The ritual happens at night. Fires are lit throughout the village, whereupon scores of common grungs enter the lake and watch the shrine. King Groak dons ceremonial garb made from reeds and
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
, and Wisdom and Charisma scores determined by rolling 3d6 for each ability. The orb speaks, reads, and understands four languages, and it can see and hear normally out to a range of 60 feet. Unlike
up to two melee spell attacks with the blade, each one against a creature, loose object, or structure within 5 feet of the blade. On a hit, the target takes 4d12 force damage. This attack scores a