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Lizardfolk Warden

Monsters Heroes of the Borderlands

"} Poison damage.Lizardfolk wardens draw on primal magic to protect nature’s boundaries. These territorial guardians lurk in wetlands and jungles, surfacing from murky pools to track down

trespassers and drive them out. Wardens wield weapons and shields fashioned from the husks of giant beetles, snapping turtles, and other mighty creatures. When these tools fail them, they channel the forces of nature to augment their natural attacks with poison saliva.

Ssurran Defiler

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

hand is invisible) 1/day: invisibility (self only)Ssurran defilers can lay waste to the plant life around them and draw vital energy at the same time from other creatures that are caught in the area

. Ssurran Ssurran are lizardfolk who have adapted to life in arid climates and in Wildspace. You can use the lizardfolk stat blocks in the Monster Manual to represent them, in addition to the variants described below.Necrotic

Heward's Hireling Armor

Magic Items Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

bonus to AC. In addition, the armor’s animated straps can assist with the drawing and sheathing of weapons, such that you can draw or stow two one-handed weapons when you would normally be able

to draw or stow only one. This armor also has six pockets, each of which is an extradimensional space. Each pocket can hold up to 20 pounds of material, not exceeding a volume of 2 cubic feet. The

High Fae Mage

Monsters Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures

among the fae, magically negotiating themselves advantages in battle. Like many high fae, these mages draw power from the latent energy found throughout the wilds of Eldraine. However, high fae mages

, embodying the natural splendor and danger of the wilderness. High fae have no regard for mortal values of honor and law, but they nonetheless operate under inviolable rules of their own: gifts must

High Fae Kindguard

Monsters Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures

operate under inviolable rules of their own: gifts must always be repaid, promises must be honored, and outright lies must never be spoken (though misdirection and riddles are always welcome). To

of Eldraine. They draw power from motes of light found throughout the wilds, and they use their innate illusory magic to power and embellish their various weapons. The high fae are ruled by Talion

High Fae Impostor

Monsters Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures

regard for mortal values of honor and law, but they nonetheless operate under inviolable rules of their own: gifts must always be repaid, promises must be honored, and outright lies must never be

one another. Most high fae remain secluded deep within the wilds of Eldraine. They draw power from motes of light found throughout the wilds, and they use their innate illusory magic to power and

Air Genasi

Species Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Air genasi are descended from djinn, the genies of the Elemental Plane of Air. Embodying many of the airy traits of their otherworldly ancestors, air genasi can draw upon their connection to the

At 1st level, you choose whether your character is a member of the human race or of a fantastical race. If you select a fantastical race, follow these additional rules during character creation

High Fae Noble

Monsters Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures

untamed wilderness. High fae have no regard for mortal values of honor and law, but they nonetheless operate under inviolable rules of their own: gifts must always be repaid, promises must be honored

other complex games of wits against one another. Most high fae remain secluded deep within the wilds of Eldraine. They draw power from motes of light found throughout the wilds, and they use their

Armor Class Legacy

Rules

modifier. Not all characters wear armor or carry shields, however. Without armor or a shield, your character's AC equals 10 + his or her Dexterity modifier. If your character wears armor, carries a shield

, or both, calculate your AC using the rules in the Equipment section. Record your AC on your character sheet.

Artificer

classes Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

one type of Artisan’s Tools of your choice Armor Training Light and Medium armor and Shields Starting Equipment Choose A or B: (A) Studded Leather;Studded Leather Armor, Dagger

Point Die, proficiency with Tinker’s Tools, proficiency in one skill of your choice from the Artificer’s skill list, and training with Light and Medium armor and Shields. Gain the

Ranger

classes Player’s Handbook

Shields Starting Equipment Choose A or B: (A) Studded Leather;Studded Leather Armor, Scimitar, Shortsword, Longbow, 20 Arrows, Quiver, Druidic Focus (sprig of mistletoe), Explorer's Pack, and 7 GP

Ranger Traits table: Hit Point Die, proficiency with Martial weapons, proficiency in one skill of your choice from the Ranger’s skill list, and training with Light and Medium armor and Shields

Cleric

classes Player’s Handbook

, Medicine, Persuasion, or Religion Weapon Proficiencies Simple weapons Armor Training Light and Medium armor and Shields Starting Equipment Choose A or B: (A) Chain Shirt, Shield

, Mace, Holy Symbol, Priest's Pack, and 7 GP; or (B) 110 GP Clerics draw power from the realms of the gods and harness it to work miracles. Blessed by a deity, a pantheon, or another immortal entity

Cleric

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook

Cleric Traits table: Hit Point Die and training with Light and Medium armor and Shields. Gain the Cleric’s level 1 features, which are listed in the Cleric Features table. See the multiclassing rules in chapter 2 to determine your available spell slots.

Proficiencies Choose 2: History, Insight, Medicine, Persuasion, or Religion Weapon Proficiencies Simple weapons Armor Training Light and Medium armor and Shields Starting Equipment Choose A or B: (A) Chain

Cleric

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules

and Medium armor and Shields. Gain the Cleric’s level 1 features, which are listed in the Cleric Features table. See the multiclassing rules in “Creating a Character” to determine your available spell slots.

, Persuasion, or Religion Weapon Proficiencies Simple weapons Armor Training Light and Medium armor and Shields Starting Equipment Choose A or B: (A) Chain Shirt, Shield, Mace, Holy Symbol, Priest’s Pack, and 7

Tools

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules

you take the action. This entry also provides the DC for the action. Craft. This entry lists what, if anything, you can craft with the tool. For crafting rules, see “Crafting Equipment” later in the

chapter. Variants. This entry appears if the tool has variants, which are listed. Each requires a separate proficiency.

Tools

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook

you take the action. This entry also provides the DC for the action. Craft. This entry lists what, if anything, you can craft with the tool. For crafting rules, see “Crafting Equipment” later in the

chapter. Variants. This entry appears if the tool has variants, which are listed. Each requires a separate proficiency.

Paladin

classes Player’s Handbook

: Athletics, Insight, Intimidation, Medicine, Persuasion, or Religion Weapon Proficiencies Simple and Martial weapons Armor Training Light, Medium, and Heavy armor and Shields Starting

Character Gain the following traits from the Core Paladin Traits table: Hit Point Die, proficiency with Martial weapons, and training with Light and Medium armor and Shields. Gain the Paladin’s

Rest Variants

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

Rest Variants The rules for short and long rests presented in chapter 8 of the Player’s Handbook work well for a heroic-style campaign. Characters can go toe-to-toe with deadly foes, take damage to

within an inch of their lives, yet still be ready to fight again the next day. If this approach doesn’t fit your campaign, consider the following variants. Epic Heroism This variant uses a short rest

Chapter 9: Dungeon Master's Workshop

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

magic items. The options in this chapter relate to many different parts of the game. Some of them are variants of rules, and others are entirely new rules. Each option represents a different genre, style

Chapter 9: Dungeon Master’s Workshop As the Dungeon Master, you aren’t limited by the rules in the Player’s Handbook, the guidelines in these rules, or the selection of monsters in the Monster Manual

As a Multiclass Character

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

skill list, and training with Light and Medium armor and Shields. Gain the Artificer’s level 1 features, which are listed in the Artificer Features table. See the multiclassing rules in the Player’s Handbook to determine your available spell slots, adding half your Artificer levels (round up).

Proficiencies

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

Proficiencies Armor: Light armor, medium armor, shields Weapons: Simple weapons Tools: Thieves’ tools, tinker’s tools, one type of artisan’s tools of your choice Saving Throws: Constitution

multiverse. If your Dungeon Master uses the rules on firearms in the Dungeon Master’s Guide and your artificer has been exposed to the operation of such weapons, your artificer is proficient with them.

Armor Class

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)

a shield, or both, calculate your AC using the rules in chapter 5. Record your AC on your character sheet. Your character needs to be proficient with armor and shields to wear and use them

Dexterity modifier. Not all characters wear armor or carry shields, however. Without armor or a shield, your character’s AC equals 10 + his or her Dexterity modifier. If your character wears armor, carries

Druid

classes Player’s Handbook

Traits table: Hit Point Die and training with Light armor and Shields. Gain the Druid’s level 1 features, which are listed in the Druid Features table. See the multiclassing rules in chapter 2

, Arcana, Insight, Medicine, Nature, Perception, Religion, or Survival Weapon Proficiencies Simple weapons Tool Proficiencies Herbalism Kit Armor Training Light armor and Shields

Handling the Cards

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things

, as well as the number of cards they intend to draw. Otherwise, the deck’s magical powers lie dormant. Anyone who identifies a deck learns this about the deck in the process, per the rules for

Handling the Cards The Deck of Many Things has the power to transform anyone who draws from it, but to trigger its effects, the individual handling the cards must state their desire to draw from it

Druid

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules

, Medicine, Nature, Perception, Religion, or Survival Weapon Proficiencies Simple weapons Tool Proficiencies Herbalism Kit Armor Training Light armor and Shields Starting Equipment Choose A or B: (A

, which are listed in the Druid Features table. As a Multiclass Druid Gain the following traits from the Core Druid Traits table: Hit Point Die and training with Light armor and Shields. Gain the

10. Royal Armory

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

the south alcove is one of Halaster’s magic gates (see “Gates”). Its rules are as follows: Standing within 5 feet of the arch and imitating the moves of the dancing dwarves carved into it causes the

Weapons The racks contain a total of twenty suits of dwarf-sized scale mail, twenty battleaxes, twenty war picks, and twenty steel shields emblazoned with the symbol of Dumathoin. All the equipment

Druid

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook

training with Light armor and Shields. Gain the Druid’s level 1 features, which are listed in the Druid Features table. See the multiclassing rules in chapter 2 to determine your available spell slots.

Shields Starting Equipment Choose A or B: (A) Leather Armor, Shield, Sickle, Druidic Focus (Quarterstaff), Explorer’s Pack, Herbalism Kit, and 9 GP; or (B) 50 GP Druids belong to ancient orders that

Ranger

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook

Light and Medium armor and Shields Starting Equipment Choose A or B: (A) Studded Leather Armor, Scimitar, Shortsword, Longbow, 20 Arrows, Quiver, Druidic Focus (sprig of mistletoe), Explorer’s Pack, and

Point Die, proficiency with Martial weapons, proficiency in one skill of your choice from the Ranger’s skill list, and training with Light and Medium armor and Shields. Gain the Ranger’s level 1

Ranger

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules

in one skill of your choice from the Ranger’s skill list, and training with Light and Medium armor and Shields. Gain the Ranger’s level 1 features, which are listed in the Ranger Features table. See the multiclassing rules in “Creating a Character” to determine your available spell slots.

, Athletics, Insight, Investigation, Nature, Perception, Stealth, or Survival Weapon Proficiencies Simple and Martial weapons Armor Training Light and Medium armor and Shields Starting Equipment Choose A

Lizardfolk Warden

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands

Lizardfolk Warden Reptilian Guardian of Nature Lizardfolk wardens draw on primal magic to protect nature’s boundaries. These territorial guardians lurk in wetlands and jungles, surfacing from murky

pools to track down trespassers and drive them out. Wardens wield weapons and shields fashioned from the husks of giant beetles, snapping turtles, and other mighty creatures. When these tools fail them

Heward's Hireling Armor

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

named hireling armor. While wearing this armor, you gain a +1 bonus to AC. In addition, the armor’s animated straps can assist with the drawing and sheathing of weapons, such that you can draw or stow

two one-handed weapons when you would normally be able to draw or stow only one. This armor also has six pockets, each of which is an extradimensional space. Each pocket can hold up to 20 pounds of

Chapter 3: Bestiary

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

variants of the monsters discussed in chapter 1. This chapter is a continuation of the Monster Manual and adopts a similar presentation. If you are unfamiliar with the monster stat block format, read the

introduction of the Monster Manual before proceeding further. It explains stat block terminology and gives rules for various monster traits — information that isn’t repeated here. As with the

Parleying with Monsters

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

offering, like food, can calm some hostile monsters, and sapient creatures often prefer to talk than to draw weapons. If the adventurers try to parley with a monster, you may improvise the encounter

or use the social interaction rules in the Dungeon Master’s Guide. Consider granting the characters advantage on any ability check they make to communicate with a creature if they offer something it

Use an Object

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)

Use an Object You normally interact with an object while doing something else, such as when you draw a sword as part of an attack. When an object requires your action for its use, you take the Use an

and your character’s ability scores. See the descriptions of the ability scores in chapter 7 for inspiration as you improvise. When you describe an action not detailed elsewhere in the rules, the

Paladin

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook

Shields Starting Equipment Choose A or B: (A) Chain Mail, Shield, Longsword, 6 Javelins, Holy Symbol, Priest’s Pack, and 9 GP; or (B) 150 GP Paladins are united by their oaths to stand against the

traits from the Core Paladin Traits table: Hit Point Die, proficiency with Martial weapons, and training with Light and Medium armor and Shields. Gain the Paladin’s level 1 features, which are listed in

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