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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
the mountain rather than built from fitted stonework.
Two dwarf guards stand watch atop this stony shelf. Instead of spears and shields, they carry warhammers that they wield with two hands (1d10 + 1
bludgeoning damage on a hit). Without shields, they have AC 14. Whether or not the guards are present depends on how quietly the characters approach: If the characters trigger the trap in area D1 or
classes
Basic Rules (2014)
of nature itself or from a nature deity. Many druids pursue a mystic spirituality of transcendent union with nature rather than devotion to a divine entity, while others serve gods of wild nature
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Similarly, a druid uses such woods to make other objects, such as weapons and shields. Yew is associated with death and rebirth, so weapon handles for scimitars or sickles might be fashioned from it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
—these are the foes of the King’s Citadel, rather than pickpockets and burglars. Of course, many of these greater threats might be beyond the capabilities of the typical Citadel agents. Much as the
made up of these four divisions: The King’s Dark Lanterns gather intelligence and engage in covert operations. The King’s Shields protect the royal family and its closest associates. The King’s Swords
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
“civilized” folk for a short time — but occasionally, a strong hand or a skilled warrior can be culled from the bunch. While this event is going on, Yartar is overrun with visitors it would rather not welcome
Shields of Yartar, a mounted force of guards who police the town, keep order, and chase off the Uthgardt raids that occasionally menace the lands nearby. The Shields are housed in the Shield Tower, a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Adjudicating Areas of Effect When the characters are fighting a large number of monsters, it’s not always practical to use miniatures on a battle grid or some other visual aid. So how do you
-foot 30-foot-radius — 20 *Use this column for Cylinders, Emanations (using the size of the Emanation rather than its radius), and Spheres.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
. There, the rogue finds a small rock that looks like a grinning face, but otherwise you encounter nothing out of the ordinary.” The trick is to focus on a few details that reinforce the desired mood rather
of flowers in an elven forest. In addition to evocative language, visual aids can help set the scene for the characters’ travels. Image searches on the Internet can lead you to breathtaking landscapes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
combatants, and lesser kuo-toa live in fear of them. Kuo-toa Gear. Many weapons of the kuo-toa are designed to capture rather than kill. Nets are common, though some carry pincer staffs (also called
mancatchers) designed to trap and immobilize foes. Kuo-toa warriors also treat their shields with a sticky goo that catches incoming weapons. In general, kuo-toa don’t like the weight of armor on their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
are small folk, and that they fashion their homes by digging down and living within rather than building up and living above. Like the badgers and raccoons that are often their companions, they live
of ways in which forest gnomes use illusions to have fun is nearly limitless. A few examples: visual enhancements to a mythic tale told by an elder, new and interesting sounds, and false doors and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
the players: Large iron burial urns are positioned reverently throughout this hall, each engraved with a noble coats-of-arms from the city of Elturel. Polished swords, lances, and shields hang from
and transformed into fiends. One of Zariel’s generals, Olanthius, killed himself rather than embrace tyranny. Zariel raised him as a death knight to ensure his loyalty. The knights’ souls are cursed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
colorful wicker shields mounted beside trophies of battle. Among them hangs a magic tapestry adorned with a scene of charging warriors. Its image changes after each battle, reflecting any newly fallen
their treaty shattered, a death tyrant attacks the gate-town. 3 A frost giant jarl learns of the entrance to the World Tree within Serpent’s Rise. Rather than attack Glorium, he sets out to find the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
. For those who subscribe to the idea that Yondalla actively shields her worshipers from harm, this phenomenon is easily explained — she looks out for their homes just as she protects their lives
closer to their goal. Rangers who have encountered halflings or lived among them know of this effect, and they learn to trust their other senses and their instincts rather than relying on sight. A typical
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
easier to run with visual aids, the most common of which are miniatures and a grid. If you like to construct model terrain, build three-dimensional dungeons, or draw maps on large vinyl mats, you
rear arc makes attack rolls against it with advantage. Shields apply their bonus to AC only against attacks from the front arc or the same side arc as the shield. For example, a fighter with a shield on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata
Shields, cover, and other modifiers to AC? The target of Barkskin has an Armor Class of 17 if its AC is lower than that. This means the target effectively ignore any modifiers to its AC—including any armor
resumes if it has not expired or been removed. Can you use a Shield with Mage Armor? Mage Armor works with a Shield. Shields are grouped with armor in the equipment rules in the Player’s Handbook, but
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
floor is covered with pelts, and the walls are hung with tapestries and trophies: two shields, an axe, four swords, a flail, and a hammer. All these items are sized for giants. A ledge on the south
. 10B. East Arsenal. The eastern wing has another supply of throwing rocks, five massive clubs, nine fire giant helmets, two chain shirts, eight shields, and eight studded leather jacks—all giant-sized
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
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The galley has advantage on all saving throws relating to crashing when it crashes into a creature or an object. Any damage it takes from the crash is applied to the naval ram rather than to
wooden shields around its perimeter that provides half cover for Medium creatures and three-quarters cover for Small creatures behind it. Longship
Gargantuan vehicle (70 ft. by 20 ft.)
Creature
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Door 9 Dominate Person, Modify Memory
Level 3: Invoke Duplicity As a Bonus Action, you can expend one use of your Channel Divinity to create a perfect visual illusion of yourself in an unoccupied
of your Channel Divinity to cast Shield of Faith or Spiritual Weapon rather than expending a spell slot. When you cast either spell in this way, the spell doesn’t require Concentration. Instead the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
blood oath to protect its secret location. Any ship that sails within visual distance of the anchorage is attacked and chased, if necessary. The Brazen Pegasus (see “Harbor Ward") has a good chance to
over lost revenues and spilled blood. He’d rather seek lost treasures and magic items, but not by digging into ruins and tombs; instead, he’ll happily pursue adventurers across jungles and oceans to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
castle; it’s too inaccessible, lying deep in the swamp. But if that unlikely event ever happened, he knows that the swaggering bullywugs would desert rather than fight an organized enemy. The lizardfolk
, spears, daggers, shields, and metal-tipped arrows have been turned over to them. The lizardfolk are much better armed at this point than they let on to either the bullywugs or the cultists. When the time
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
, lying deep in the swamp. But if that unlikely event ever happened, he knows that the swaggering bullywugs would desert rather than fight an organized enemy. The lizardfolk, on the other hand, can be
, they endure — and stockpile weapons. Borngray has only a rough idea of how many lizardfolk are in the tribe all together, and he hasn’t kept close count over how many swords, spears, daggers, shields
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
halfling gods are viewed as folk heroes — mortal beings who ascended to divinity, rather than divine entities who descend from their realms to influence the world. Because of this outlook, halflings
concentrated effort. Turtle Shell. Halflings cluster together and cover each other with shields, washtubs, wheelbarrows, coffer lids, or anything else that can deflect a blow. Troll Knocker. A few halflings act
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
. Open chests in the middle of the room contain suits of leather armor. The most unusual items in this armory are the shields — they are made of beaten copper and fashioned into the shape of horseshoe
crab shells.
The room contains twenty spears, ten shortswords, five scimitars, five light crossbows, four hundred crossbow bolts, two hundred arrows, fifteen suits of leather armor, and eight shields
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
end that spell, so you might not want to take them and keep the spell going instead, so as to continue benefiting from the cold damage it delivers. How does barkskin work with shields, cover, and
jump distance on your turn, unless you take the Dash action, which allows you to leap the full 45 feet. Can you use a shield with mage armor? Mage armor works with a shield. Shields are grouped with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
choose, as long as their way of contributing combines with the others to form a grand display of reverence. Such a gathering has the atmosphere of a festival rather than of an organized worship service
pause and reflect rather than allow his emotions to rule him. Corellon can be resplendent with joy or shaking with anger, but a word or a look from Sehanine is enough to check or subtly alter
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
and shakers of Sigil or burn away detritus within the ward—engulf the innocent. Rather than maintain a single base of operations, the Hands of Havoc operate out of warehouses strewn throughout the
into his visual rebuses. Fell’s Tattoos is a modest, oblong shack down the street from the Smoldering Corpse Bar (detailed below). A pearl lightning bolt above the door marks the parlor’s entrance
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
creatures can move across. However, a creature that moves across the floor takes 2 (1d4) Psychic damage for every 5 feet it moves, as the visual dissonance of moving across an abyss tears at the creature’s
monsters fight characters wearing circlets. Their damaging actions deal Psychic damage rather than the type the creatures depicted would normally deal, but they are otherwise fully real as far as the
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Legends of Greyhawk: Secrets of the Free City
sidebar below link a clue to a specific person or location. It can be helpful to give each player a token or other visual reminder at the start of this part of the adventure so they remember they have this
still frowned upon, and murder is not tolerated. NPCs typically aim to subdue rather than kill, and they surrender if reduced to half their starting Hit Points or fewer. Characters who openly and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
action to raise or lower the drawbridge or the portcullis in area 1. 3: Armory This room is filled with shortswords, crossbows, shields, and maces placed here by the folk who owned the keep before
the characters what brings them to the keep. Patrin explains that he and his colleagues sought a book called Exploring Arcanum, known to be in the possession of a necromancer named Gremorly. Rather
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Legends of Greyhawk
embodiment of the saying, “You have to watch the quiet ones.” She’s polite to her elders but breaks the rules the instant their backs are turned. She’s driven by curiosity rather than malice.
Inn of the
lead to the rooms on the upper floor.
The walls are decorated with banners, broken lances, and shields, all adorned with the quartered arms of Furyondy and Veluna. Above the hearth hangs a painting
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
the lava and destroy it, rather than let it fall into the hands of his enemies. 7. Torture Chamber At the midpoint of the east–west corridor, steps lead down to the south, ending at a cluttered room
out of visual range, 50 feet high at its lowest point and well over 65 feet where it vaults upward in the center. 9. Giants’ Worship Area Each pillar radiates a sense of unease and insecurity in a 5
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
containing 20 bolts Two shields A suit of splint mail A bottle of Oil of Sharpness V28: Royal Quarters A grim iron throne and an iron statue of an intimidating knight stand in the middle of this room
. Both look out a window at the courtyard to the southeast. Fastened to the throne’s headrest is a mirror that seems to draw light in rather than reflect it.
On the rare occasions when Lord Soth
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
a simple tune.
This temporal lobe is a repository of musical memories. Here, music takes the form of ephemeral shapes that echo for days. The virtuoso Shalfi Lewin (see area B9) left this visual
Varakkta lives here with two githyanki warriors named Kianka and Vazzi. Varakkta is using a spare greatsword rather than her silver greatsword, so her attacks don’t count as magical. She speaks Common
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
to be the easternmost extent of the Spine of the World, rather than being mountain ranges in their own right. The difference is academic, since all three areas have soaring peaks, permanent snowpack
Cockatrice inn is a low-walled, poorly built oval stone keep in the heart of the village. It features a central yard covered by a rickety roof made of old shields and bits of rusted armor, pounded flat
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
while he arranges for suitable rewards. He commissions jewelers to craft mithral medals (one per character) shaped like shields, and he also drafts a signed letter of recommendation and presents it to
Icespear family have proven fruitless. The town has survived for several seasons without a governor — no one in town wants the power or the burden. Visitors who would rather not endure the bland food and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
caught skulking in the area a few days ago. Eight lizardfolk are here now, including the leader of the tribe, a warrior with 36 hit points named Tornscale. They are armed with javelins, maces, and shields
. Bronzefume prefers to attack boats rather than people. Given a choice between attacking a character and damaging a boat that character is on, she opts for the boat. Destroying a small skiff takes up
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
25 ep, a dagger in a scabbard, and a leather whip. The officer carries the key to the chest and he wears a silver collar (15 gp). 6. Armory Shields of all sizes hang on the walls here, with javelins
minister’s favorites: The Politics of Power by Lucia Domici (5 gp), another rather obscure work dealing with the shiftier side of politics. The Triumph of Diplomacy by Tyrons Scroot (5 gp), a history