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Glyph of Warding Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

spell save DC to be found. You decide what triggers the glyph when you cast the spell. For glyphs inscribed on a surface, the most typical triggers include touching or standing on the glyph, removing

runes or a spell glyph. Explosive Runes. When triggered, the glyph erupts with magical energy in a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on the glyph. The sphere spreads around corners. Each

Firbolg Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

’ presence is marked by an absence of animals and a strange quiet, as if the forest wishes to avoid attracting attention to itself. The faster travelers decide to move on, the better. If these

of friendship with them, as long as the outsiders vow to safeguard the forest. If the settlers clearly display evil intentions, however, the firbolgs martial their strength and magic for a single

Azorius Functionary

Backgrounds Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

5th dominate person Your magic often takes the form of blue or golden runes floating and glowing in the air in circular patterns or of shimmering azure barriers of magical energy. If you

complimented me on my work. Non-Azorius Contacts d10 Contact 1 Roll an additional Azorius contact; you can decide if the contact is an ally or a rival. 2 The person who

15. Standing Gate to Level 17

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

form a magic gate (see “Gates”). Its rules are as follows: If an arrow or a crossbow bolt is shot between the standing stones, the gate opens for 1 minute. Characters must be 14th 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 that passes through the gate appears in area 8b on level 17, in the closest unoccupied space next to the identical gate located there.

Arcane Archer

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything

Arcane Shot options to that arrow. You decide to use the option when the arrow hits a creature, unless the option doesn’t involve an attack roll. You have two uses of this ability, and you regain all

eye rays. That’s why I stay indoors all the time. Besides, the sky is totally overrated. Arcane Archer Features Fighter Level Feature 3rd Arcane Archer Lore, Arcane Shot (2 options) 7th Curving

8. Operation: Eat Them All

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

creature that enters its cave. It lacks the intelligence to distinguish one kind of prey from another and feeds indiscriminately. Tunnel to Expanded Dungeon. If you decide to expand the dungeon southward

standing stones topped with a lintel, carved into which is a symbol of an arrow. The standing stones form a magic gate (see “Gates”). Its rules are as follows: If an arrow or a crossbow bolt is shot

Hidden Shepherds

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

firbolgs’ presence is marked by an absence of animals and a strange quiet, as if the forest wishes to avoid attracting attention to itself. The faster travelers decide to move on, the better. If these

of friendship with them, as long as the outsiders vow to safeguard the forest. If the settlers clearly display evil intentions, however, the firbolgs martial their strength and magic for a single overwhelming attack.

Curses

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

, whether as part of their origins or due to their ability to spread curses—werewolves being a prime example. You decide how a spell like Remove Curse affects a creature with accursed origins. For

example, you might decide that a mummy was created through a curse and it can be destroyed permanently only by casting Remove Curse on its corpse. Cursed Magic Items Cursed magic items are created

Glyph of Warding

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

against your spell save DC to be found. You decide what triggers the glyph when you cast the spell. For glyphs inscribed on a surface, the most typical triggers include touching or standing on the glyph

aberrations or drow), or alignment. You can also set conditions for creatures that don’t trigger the glyph, such as those who say a certain password. When you inscribe the glyph, choose explosive runes or

A Note about Size

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

giants, you might decide to tweak this rule. Consider these two options: Everything Fits. Perhaps the ancient giants of your world lived among creatures of varying statures, and as such, they took great

can decide whether characters find giant-sized items they need to resize (one way or another) or they find items that were made by giants for smaller allies—or made by smaller creatures using giants

Curses

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

—werewolves being a prime example. You decide how a spell like Remove Curse affects a creature with accursed origins. For example, you might decide that a mummy was created through a curse and it can be

detailed in “Magic Items”. Narrative Curses A curse might manifest during an adventure when a creature’s violation of a taboo warrants supernatural punishment, such as breaking a vow, defiling a tomb, or

Glyph of Warding

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)

against your spell save DC to be found. You decide what triggers the glyph when you cast the spell. For glyphs inscribed on a surface, the most typical triggers include touching or standing on the glyph

aberrations or drow), or alignment. You can also set conditions for creatures that don’t trigger the glyph, such as those who say a certain password. When you inscribe the glyph, choose explosive runes or

48. Shagambi's Tomb

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation

this area: Nervous Unkh suggests that her host leave the tomb at once using one of the teleportation runes, though she can’t decide which rune is best. Impulsive Wongo thinks it’s a good idea to shatter

48. Shagambi’s Tomb Each character who teleports into this tomb from area 47C appears atop a randomly determined teleportation rune (see “Teleportation Runes” below). Characters can also enter the

Silent Sound Lighthouse

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

SHIP! OR IS IT … ? If the characters make a deal with Belle Mare and succeed in taking the Tortured Tortle, how they benefit is up to you. Before you decide to allow the Tortured Tortle and its crew

, and both wear ornate collars of silvery metal. Each stands within a square scribed onto the floor, ten feet on a side and edged with runes. The rune-marked boundaries appear to push the creatures back

The Harpers

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

unbeatable, you can decide that Zelraun, ever the gracious winner, loans the shield guardian and amulet to the party on the provision that the characters vow to redeem themselves with a rematch upon

Far Realm Explorers

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

, inimical to mortal life and sanity. If the characters decide to explore the Far Realm further, they would be well advised to seek out one of the Far Realm’s few safe harbors. Examples of these

interlocked links of Ilvaash’s runes (knots of tentacles, brains, and jagged lines reminiscent of jaws). A brain breaker uses the stat block of an infected elder brain (see chapter 7) with the following

Franchise Downtime

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

characters want to arrange for someone else to watch over the young dragon, finding a suitable guardian might require research. Or the characters might decide to sow positive rumors in the area where the

Waterdeep can undertake research to study its mysterious runes, which can lead to information regarding That-Which-Endures (see the sidebar in the “New Race: Verdan” section in chapter 3.) Gorkoh the

Random Tricks

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

permanent effects that can’t be dispelled; others are temporary or can be neutralized with a dispel magic spell. You decide which is which. Trick Objects d20 Object 1 Book 2 Brain preserved in a

jar 3 Burning fire 4 Cracked gem 5 Door 6 Fresco 7 Furniture 8 Glass sculpture 9 Mushroom field 10 Painting 11 Plant or tree 12 Pool of water 13 Runes engraved on wall or floor 14 Skull 15 Sphere of

Paladin

classes Basic Rules (2014)

while you were at prayer? Did another paladin sense the potential within you and decide to train you as a squire? Or did some terrible event—the destruction of your home, perhaps—drive you to

for the lesser of two evils, and sometimes the heat of emotion causes a paladin to transgress his or her oath. A paladin who has broken a vow typically seeks absolution from a cleric who shares his or

Sylvira Savikas

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus

apart. Inside the box is a stack of nine chain-linked plates, each three inches on a side, cast of dark iron, and stamped with Infernal runes. Anyone who understands Infernal can translate the runes as

escape the shield there. Sylvira leaves it to the characters to decide what to do with the shield. A small part of her is relieved if the characters decide to take it with them, as she knows the evil

Abyssal Prisons

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5

hall are scorched. Cracks in the panels reveal bare stone. Three mystic circles have been scribed in the floor, each edged with rough runes. Locked Doors. These steel double doors are locked. Tarul

orb is part of the mystic circle trap. Mystic Circle Trap. The circles are magical but misleadingly so. A successful DC 15 Intelligence (Arcana) check reveals that hidden among gibberish runes are

Level 2: Replicate Magic Item

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

created item requires Attunement, you can attune yourself to it the instant you create it. If you decide to attune to the item later, you must do so using the normal process for Attunement. When you

cursed* Varies Goggles of Night No Manifold Tool† Yes Repeating Shot† Yes Returning Weapon† No Rope of Climbing No Sending Stones No Shield, +1 No Wand of Magic Detection No Wand of Secrets No Wand of the

Anatomy of a War Band

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

Pack Lord Most war bands are led by pack lords. These champions of Yeenoghu curry their lord’s favor with living sacrifices. They mark their hides with bloody runes, which sometimes grant supernatural

springs into action, its blades and teeth turn it into a whirling dealer of death, able to dash from one target to the next as though it had been shot from a bow. Gnoll Witherlings A war band might go for

11. Eye of Annam

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder

, obscured by frost (see the “Words of the Divine Oracle” section). The teleportation archway looks much the same as it does when viewed from area 6, except it bears no runes, and it can’t be activated

, the characters see Blagothkus’s flying castle hovering nearby, its towers casting long shadows over the village. What happens if the characters decide to pursue Blagothkus is beyond the scope of this

Designing Simple Traps

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything

level ranges: 1–4, 5–10, 11–16, and 17–20. The level you choose for a trap gives you a starting point for determining its potency. To further delineate the trap’s strength, decide whether it is a

for healing. A deadly trap might reduce a creature to 0 hit points in one shot, and leaves most creatures hit by it in need of a short or long rest. Consult the following tables when determining a

Dungeon Characteristics

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5

black, secure the Doomvault. Magic keys allow the manipulation of them. Gate Features. Each gate is a 10-foot-wide circle of runes, drawn on the floor. This circle creates a magical energy field in its

of runes and clear quartz fragments is set into the floor. Within the circle, a luminous white mist shimmers, obscuring what lies beyond. Thereafter, you can shorten the description of the gates

Areas of the Temple

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

a human’s eye. The cell doors face a stone pillar. Hanging from a hook on the pillar is a ring of keys. Cells. When the Cassalanters decide to sacrifice humans in their rituals, they lure homeless

when one or both magic items are removed from the sarcophagus, it asks, “Do you vow to use these items to defeat the forces of darkness?” An answer in the affirmative is sufficient to lay the ghost to

1. Jarl's Lodge

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder

Dhaerlost (NE male Illuskan human mage with a wand of fireballs), who believes that the frost giants are his best shot at obtaining the Ring of Winter. He tries to remain close to Storvald, but the

the Ring of Winter for himself and doesn’t trust other Zhents to help him get it. Unless you decide otherwise, the Krigvind returns after the characters obtain the conch but before they have time to

Example Simple Traps

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything

the dungeon, the portcullis closes off the dungeon entrance, which is hundreds of feet away, meaning that adventurers don’t know they are trapped until they decide to head for the exit. Trigger. A

to activate. A successful dispel magic (DC 15) cast on the runes destroys the trap. Net Trap Simple trap (level 1–4, dangerous threat) Goblins, with their propensity to enslave their enemies, prefer

Skytower Shelter Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

dictates that he cannot draw first blood. Thus, he tries to goad characters into wounding him first. S5. Shrine of Mind and Spirit An eight-foot-tall stone inscribed with runes stands in the middle of

until after it rolls the d20 before deciding to use the runestone die, but must decide before the DM says whether the roll succeeds or fails. Once the runestone die is rolled, it is lost, and the

Haven Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries

anything short of a wish spell. Opening the door requires fitting the three key runes carried by the haven’s stone golems (see below) into the three indentations on the door. Any character who has

of which use the mummy stat block but are lawful neutral. The scholar mummies are wrapped in funeral robes set with purple-glowing runes of oath-binding, recognized as such by any character who has

Wedding Itinerary

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

damage a creature. (You can decide whether to allow Tannus to fight to protect himself or others, but should encourage the player running him to think about creative nonattack ways to influence the fight

double doors set into the other three walls. Every surface of the walls, floor, and ceiling is exquisitely carved with runes and bas reliefs depicting dwarves at war. Grand pillars shaped like stone

Ruinous Citadel Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin

section sees faint Abyssal runes in each chamber. A character who understands Abyssal can read them as Drill Field, Guard Hall, Planning Chamber, Vault, and Miska’s Prison Hall. Tower of Mystery. The

havoc across the multiverse. The characters might encounter him if they return to Pandesmos, or you might decide Miska is present somewhere else in this adventure. Sealing Miska Away. As an action, a

Threshold Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen

constructs. To the southeast, an array of runes pulses on a console. In the middle of the south wall stands a small door and, to the west of it, a larger double door. In this room, workers would charge

might make good on his word to leave, or he might ambush the characters later—he’ll decide after seeing how they fare against Belephaion. Scrying Mirrors. Lohezet has manipulated one of the mirrors to spy

Locations on the Upper Level

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6

the place by the various giants in the upper area. If the characters decide to look through the refuse, it takes 10 minutes to search a 10-foot-square area, and the toads from area 12 come into the

and other humanoid bodies. 21. Ice Cavern A warning carved into the icy floor in Giant with Dwarvish runes clearly shows that this place is to be shunned. Ten feet beyond where the passage turns to the

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