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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Variant Rules A shared campaign might use some variant rules to handle certain aspects of the game. The Adventurers League, for instance, has variant systems for gaining levels and acquiring treasure
. These “house rules,” presented below, serve as a sort of common language, ensuring that the rewards all characters receive are equivalent no matter what kind of adventure a character experienced.
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
have no personalities or memories; they’re driven only by the desire to commit evil. The amnizus that patrol here drill the rules of the Nine Hells into the new arrivals’ minds and marshal
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
Acquisitions Incorporated
): light, sacred flame, thaumaturgy
1st level (4 slots): cure wounds, guiding bolt, sanctuary
2nd level (3 slots): lesser restoration, spiritual weapon
3rd level (2 slots): dispel magic, spirit
and unexpected return to the world. Through all that time and currently, Prophetess has maintained a challenging relationship with her faith.
Though retired from active service to her deity, Prophetess
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
flame, thaumaturgy
1st level (4 slots): command, inflict wounds, shield of faith
2nd level (3 slots): hold person, spiritual weaponMultiattack. The fanatic makes two melee attacks.
Dagger. Melee or
he's tight with Levistus. He rules the roost by sheer force of personality, though it chafes him that Hethyl Arkorran has more respect and influence within the cult. Kadroth doesn't involve Avarice
Monsters
Candlekeep Mysteries
the wizard’s spell list but must share the spell slots among themselves:
1st level (4 slots): charm person, witch bolt
2nd level (3 slots): alter self, suggestion
3rd level (3 slots): dispel
magic, glyph of warding, slow
4th level (3 slots): blight, polymorph
5th level (2 slots): dominate person, seeming
6th level (1 slot): Otto's irresistible dance
For casting these spells, each hag
Candle of Invocation
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Magic Items
Basic Rules (2014)
This slender taper is dedicated to a deity and shares that deity's alignment. The candle's alignment can be detected with the detect evil and good spell. The GM chooses the god and associated
druid in the light whose alignment matches the candle's can cast 1st- level spells he or she has prepared without expending spell slots, though the spell's effect is as if cast with a 1st-level slot
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
flame, thaumaturgy
1st level (4 slots): command, inflict wounds, shield of faith
2nd level (3 slots): hold person, spiritual weapon
Icy Doom. When the cultist dies, its corpse freezes for 9 days
","rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage.The Knights of the Black Sword are a secret society of cultists devoted to Levistus, the archdevil who rules Stygia, the sixth layer of the Nine Hells, from the
Variant Human
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Species
Basic Rules (2014)
If your campaign uses the optional feat rules from the Player’s Handbook, your Dungeon Master might allow these variant traits, all of which replace the human’s Ability Score Increase trait.
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
, message, minor illusion, prestidigitation
1st level (4 slots): detect magic, mage armor, magic missile
2nd level (3 slots): flaming sphere, knock, scorching ray
3rd level (3 slots): counterspell
, fireball, fly
4th level (3 slots): banishment, fire shield
5th level (2 slots): Bigby's hand, Rary's telepathic bondFire Bolt (Cantrip). Ranged Spell Attack: +6;{"diceNotation":"1d20+6","rollType":"to
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
explicitly include dragon turtles in the variant rules for making a dragon a spellcaster, you can apply those rules to these aquatic dragons.)
Dragon Turtle Personality Traits
d8
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
making a dragon a spellcaster, you can apply those rules to these aquatic dragons.)
Dragon Turtle Personality Traits
d8;{"diceNotation":"1d8","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Trait"}
Trait
Monsters
Sleeping Dragon’s Wake
, mending
1st level (4 slots): charm person, detect magic, expeditious retreat, sleep
2nd level (3 slots): darkness, invisibility,suggestion
3rd level (3 slots): dispel magic, protection from energy
4th level (2 slots): dimension door, stoneskinMultiattack. Lhammaruntosz can use her Frightful Presence. She then makes three attacks: one with her bite and two with her claws.
Bite. Melee Weapon
Criminal / Spy
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Backgrounds
Basic Rules (2014)
than most people to the world of murder, theft, and violence that pervades the underbelly of civilization, and you have survived up to this point by flouting the rules and regulations of society
; specifically, you know the local messengers, corrupt caravan masters, and seedy sailors who can deliver messages for you.
Variant Criminal: Spy
Although your capabilities are not much different
Dhampir
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Species
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
their lineage.
Dhampir Origins
d8
Origin
1
You are the reincarnation of an ancestor who was a vampiric tyrant.
2
Your pact with a predatory deity, fiend, fey, or spirit causes
lineage option, follow these additional rules during character creation.
Ability Score Increases
When determining your ability scores, you increase one of those scores by 2 and increase a different
classes
Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
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).
Artificer Features
—Spell Slots per Spell Level—
Level
Proficiency Bonus
Class Features
Plans Known
Magic Items
Cantrips
Prepared
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
to regain spell slots of 6th level or higher. Gritty Realism This variant uses a short rest of 8 hours and a long rest of 7 days. This puts the brakes on the campaign, requiring the players to
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
classes
Player’s Handbook
table. See the multiclassing rules to determine your available spell slots.
Cleric Features
——Spell Slots per Spell Level——
Level
Proficiency Bonus
, 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
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
table to help select spells for a spellcasting dragon. (Though the Monster Manual doesn’t explicitly include dragon turtles in the variant rules for making a dragon a spellcaster, you can apply
those rules to these aquatic dragons.)
Dragon Turtle Personality Traits
d8;{"diceNotation":"1d8","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Trait"}
Trait
1
I speak slowly and deliberately
Hexblood
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Species
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
youngster is considered a gift from the town’s patron deity, who is known as Mother.
Becoming a Hag
Hags can undertake a ritual to irreversibly transform a hexblood they created into a new hag
player, unless the DM rules otherwise.
Creating Your Character
At 1st level, you choose whether your character is a member of the human race or of one of the game’s fantastical races
classes
Player’s Handbook
.
Gain the Ranger’s level 1 features, which are listed in the Ranger Features table. See the multiclassing rules to determine your available spell slots.
Ranger Features
;
—Spell Slots per Spell Level—
Level
Proficiency Bonus
Class Features
Favored Enemy
Prepared Spells
1
2
3
4
5
1
+2
Spellcasting, Favored Enemy, Weapon Mastery
2
2
2
classes
Basic Rules (2014)
spells relies on devotion and an intuitive sense of a deity’s wishes.
Clerics combine the helpful magic of healing and inspiring their allies with spells that harm and hinder foes. They can
.
Creating a Cleric
As you create a cleric, the most important question to consider is which deity to serve and what principles you want your character to embody. The Gods of the Multiverse section
classes
Player’s Handbook
Sorcerer’s gift. So too might the gift of a deity, exposure to the strange magic of another plane of existence, or a glimpse into the inner workings of reality. Whatever the origin, the result is
Gain the Hit Point Die from the Core Sorcerer Traits table.
Gain the Sorcerer’s level 1 features, which are listed in the Sorcerer Features table. See the multiclassing rules to determine
classes
Player’s Handbook
, individual Druids gain their magic from nature, a nature deity, or both, and they typically unite with other Druids to perform rites that mark the passage of the seasons and other natural cycles
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
classes
Player’s Handbook
level 1 features, which are listed in the Paladin Features table. See the multiclassing rules to determine your available spell slots.
Paladin Features
—Spell Slots per
classes
Player’s Handbook
level 1 features, which are listed in the Warlock Features table. See the multiclassing rules to determine your available spell slots.
Warlock Features
Level
Proficiency Bonus
Class Features
Eldritch Invocations
Cantrips
Prepared Spells
Spell Slots
Slot Level
1
+2
Eldritch Invocations, Pact Magic
1
2
2
1
1
2
+2
Magical Cunning
3
2
3
2
1
3
+2
classes
Player’s Handbook
, proficiency with one Musical Instrument of your choice, and training with Light armor.
Gain the Bard’s level 1 features, which are listed in the Bard Features table. See the multiclassing rules to
determine your available spell slots.
Bard Features
——Spell Slots per Spell Level——
Level
Proficiency Bonus
Class Features
Bardic Die
Cantrips
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
underbelly of civilization, and you have survived up to this point by flouting the rules and regulations of society.
Skill Proficiencies: Deception, Stealth
Tool Proficiencies: One
always occur in shady venues.
Variant Criminal: Spy
Although your capabilities are not much different from those of a burglar or smuggler, you learned and practiced them in a very
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Spellcasting As a conduit for divine power, you can cast cleric spells. See chapter 10 for the general rules of spellcasting and chapter 11 for the cleric spell list. Cantrips At 1st level, you know
Casting Spells The Cleric table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your cleric spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these spells, you must expend a slot of the spell’s level or
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.
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
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.
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, a Cleric can reach out to the divine
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Spellcasting As a conduit for divine power, you can cast cleric spells. See chapter 10 for the general rules of spellcasting and chapter 11 for the cleric spell list. Cantrips At 1st level, you know
Casting Spells The Cleric table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your cleric spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these spells, you must expend a slot of the spell’s level or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Rewards Adventures in a shared campaign that uses variant rules for gaining levels and acquiring treasure (such as those described below) don’t include experience point awards or specific amounts and kinds of treasure.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
it uses its spells. With this variant system, a character who has the Spellcasting feature uses spell points instead of spell slots to fuel spells. Spell points give a caster more flexibility, at the
cost of greater complexity. In this variant, each spell has a point cost based on its level. The Spell Point Cost table summarizes the cost in spell points of slots from 1st to 9th level. Cantrips
classes
Player’s Handbook
Features table. See the multiclassing rules to determine your available spell slots.
Wizard Features
——Spell Slots per Spell Level——
Level
Proficiency Bonus
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Point maximum both increase by the appropriate number for the new level, and the character gains access to additional abilities and spell slots (if appropriate) without regaining any that are already
expended. Variant: Training to Gain Levels As a variant rule, you can require characters to spend time between adventures training or studying before they gain the benefits of a new level. This