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Spells
Player’s Handbook
Wish is the mightiest spell a mortal can cast. By simply speaking aloud, you can alter reality itself.
The basic use of this spell is to duplicate any other spell of level 8 or lower. If you use it
a reroll of any die roll made within the last round (including your last turn). Reality reshapes itself to accommodate the new result. For example, a Wish spell could undo an ally’s failed
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
Fates card can end this curse.
Fates. Reality’s fabric unravels and spins anew, allowing you to avoid or erase one event as if it never happened. You can use the card’s magic as soon as
magic items, are lost to you. Portable property vanishes. Businesses, buildings, and land you own are lost in a way that alters reality the least. If you have a Bastion (see the Dungeon Master’s
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
prey. A gazer might follow the folk in its territory, noisily mimicking their speech and generally being a nuisance, until they leave the area, but it flees if confronted by something it can’t
kill.
Gazer (Familiar Variant);Variant: Gazer Familiar
Spellcasters who are interested in unusual familiars find that gazers are eager to serve someone who has magical power. Unless its master is
Monsters
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
been. A redcap’s desire to slay is rooted in its will to survive.
VARIANT: MADCAPS
A madcap is a redcap that soaks its hat in demon ichor instead of blood. Contact with demon ichor makes the
creature even more psychotic, causing it to brood over irrational hatreds. A group of madcaps will sometimes band together over a shared hatred of something, such as music, creatures with curly hair
Monsters
Acquisitions Incorporated
largely indifferent elder entity from beyond reality. Tapped into this dark power, the “C” Team's hoardsperson sees all existence as a puzzle to unlock, and he is obsessed by the essential lack of meaning
and purpose in the structures of so-called “reality.” Still, all things considered, he is most often polite and affable. Because after a long adventuring career, he understands that he can't afford
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
encounter.
Variant: Servants of Living Stars
Some stars in the sky are Elder Evils, alien beings of godlike power from the reality-defying Far Realm.
A living portent can be a fragment of these beings
Wish
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
Wish is the mightiest spell a mortal creature can cast. By simply speaking aloud, you can alter the very foundations of reality in accord with your desires.
The basic use of this spell is to
). Reality reshapes itself to accommodate the new result. For example, a wish spell could undo an opponent's successful save, a foe's critical hit, or a friend's failed save. You can force the reroll to
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
, if available, to move as far as its speed allows away from Belashyrra.
Rend Reality (Costs 3 Actions). Belashyrra rips at the bonds of reality in its immediate area. Each creature within 10 feet of
Belashyrra must succeed on a DC 22 Constitution saving throw or take 19 (3d12);{"diceNotation":"3d12","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Rend Reality","rollDamageType":"force"} force damage and gain
Sailor
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Backgrounds
Player’s Handbook (2014)
distant line of the horizon, but the time has come to try your hand at something new.
Discuss the nature of the ship you previously sailed with your Dungeon Master. Was it a merchant ship, a naval
Master will determine how long it takes to get where you need to go. In return for your free passage, you and your companions are expected to assist the crew during the voyage.
Variant Sailor: Pirate
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
larger prey. A gazer might follow the folk in its territory, noisily mimicking their speech and generally being a nuisance, until they leave the area, but it flees if confronted by something it can
’t kill.
Variant: Gazer Familiar
Spellcasters who are interested in unusual familiars find that gazers are eager to serve someone who has magical power. Unless its master is strict, a gazer
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Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
the bottomless depths. Your first love is the distant line of the horizon, but the time has come to try your hand at something new.
Discuss the nature of the ship you previously sailed with your
the Gray Wavers—the Flaming Fist harbor guards—and have a sense of how to operate the city’s mechanized cranes.
Variant Sailor: Pirate
You spent your youth under the sway of a
Criminal / Spy
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Backgrounds
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; 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
who seem the fairest often have the most to hide.
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I don’t pay attention to the risks in a situation. Never tell me the odds.
7
The best way to get me to do something is to tell me
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
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visitors the vastness of my domain, so they appreciate how insignificant they are.
5
I attack anyone I notice taking from the sea’s bounty without offering something in return.
6
I think
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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
insignificant they are.
5
I attack anyone I notice taking from the sea’s bounty without offering something in return.
6
I think of sailors’ songs as their “water speech&rdquo
Entertainer
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Player’s Handbook (2014)
establishment), as long as you perform each night. In addition, your performance makes you something of a local figure. When strangers recognize you in a town where you have performed, they typically take a
liking to you.
Variant Entertainer: Gladiator
A gladiator is as much an entertainer as any minstrel or circus performer, trained to make the arts of combat into a spectacle the crowd can
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
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
attention to the risks in a situation. Never tell me the odds.
7
The best way to get me to do something is to tell me I can’t do it.
8
I blow up at the slightest insult.
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: the Upper City, the Lower City, or the Outer City. This is the district where you conduct most of your business. Whenever you need information about something in one of that district’s
your district.
Variant Guild Artisan: Guild Merchant
Instead of an artisans’ guild, you might belong to a guild of traders, caravan masters, or shopkeepers. You don’t craft items yourself
Species
Acquisitions Incorporated
.
Reality is a descent into chaos punctuated by brief flashes of order, whence we arose and so imagine it to be the norm rather than a distant outlier. That-Which-Endures held entropy back for a mere instant
world.
THAT-WHICH-ENDURES
That-Which-Endures is a nameless, faceless, mysterious entity, something between a multiverse-spanning primordial spirit and an over-god. It represents the amoral and all
Deck of Many Things
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Magic Items
Basic Rules (2014)
property vanishes. Businesses, buildings, and land you own are lost in a way that alters reality the least. Any documentation that proves you should own something lost to this card also disappears
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
performance makes you something of a local figure. When strangers recognize you in a town where you have performed, they typically take a liking to you.
BALDUR’S GATE FEATURE: BACKSTAGE PASS
You
occupation or social class that frequents the establishment. This contact is delighted to talk with you, and to listen.
Variant Entertainer: Gladiator
A gladiator is as much an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
card changes, either because of a revelation the villain receives about the character or because the deck reshuffles reality to spin the character’s actions into something harmful. The Rogue card’s
created by the reality-altering power of the deck. Turncoat. The villain is someone the characters know and have had positive dealings with. The villain’s attitude toward the character who drew the
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
notice taking from the sea’s bounty without offering something in return.
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I think of sailors’ songs as their “water speech” and try to converse with them by humming
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
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
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
break something, to force your body through a space, or to otherwise apply brute force to a situation. The Athletics skill reflects aptitude in certain kinds of Strength checks. Athletics Your Strength
hazards while scaling a wall, or cling to a surface while something is trying to knock you off. You try to jump an unusually long distance or pull off a stunt midjump. You struggle to swim or stay afloat
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
break something, to force your body through a space, or to otherwise apply brute force to a situation. The Athletics skill reflects aptitude in certain kinds of Strength checks. Athletics. Your Strength
hazards while scaling a wall, or cling to a surface while something is trying to knock you off. You try to jump an unusually long distance or pull off a stunt midjump. You struggle to swim or stay afloat
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
. Uncertainty, paranoia, and blurred lines between reality and fiction also shape psychological horror stories. In your adventures, this might take the form of unreliable information. Characters might experience
monster is a stand-in for something people fear, what do your favorite monsters embody? Can your adventures accentuate that? Why might a character think everyone around them is lying to them? Might this be
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
, something creepy with something cute, dead with alive, threatening with welcoming. Mix details together in unexpected ways, the more unnatural or off-putting the better. Rationalize and Normalize
creations of the Dark Powers and the domain is the only reality they know, but what logical and psychological leaps might an outsider need to make to sleep at night?
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
or to define what could be? The perspective of substance emphasizes physical reality. In this view, math is embodied in the natural forces of the multiverse, waiting to be discovered by those with the
intellectual fortitude to delve into those secrets. Quandrix mages who embrace this view use magic to bring numerical concepts to life, creating or altering physical reality out of mathematical
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
appearance, handling the item is enough to give a character a sense that something is extraordinary about it. Discovering a magic item’s properties isn’t automatic, however. The identify spell is the
what happens. You then say the character jumps unexpectedly high. Variant: More Difficult Identification If you prefer magic items to have a greater mystique, consider removing the ability to identify
Yuan-ti Pureblood
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
;t suppress.
5
I respect and emulate a great hero or ancestor.
6
An enemy destroyed something of value to me, and I will find where it lives and kill the offender.
Yuan-ti Flaws
can more easily pronounce the name in this altered form. An adopted name of this sort is recognized as a variant of the birth name, rather than a unique name unto itself. A yuan-ti might refer to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
the Monster Manual, you might be at a loss when it comes to finding the perfect creature for part of an adventure. Feel free to tweak an existing creature to make it into something more useful for you
, perhaps by borrowing a trait or two from a different monster or by using a variant or template. Keep in mind that modifying a monster, including when you apply a template to it, might change its challenge rating.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
beard and purple toga — in reality, a clay golem that Diderius used to receive favored guests in this area. The golem has been imbued with castings of magic mouth. When any character first approaches it
depart.” Diderius was not a greedy wizard, and he accepted even meek offerings from the poor in the town. As long as each party member places something more valuable than a clay cup in the treasure pile
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
unmolested. If threatened by three or more enemies, it tries to summon 1d6 mezzoloths, 1d4 nycaloths, or another ultroloth (see the “Variant: Yugoloth Summoning” sidebar in the “Yugoloths” entry in the
Monster Manual). Xindulus won’t negotiate with adventurers unless they offer it something immensely valuable, such as a legendary magic item or an artifact. Secret Door. A fresco that depicts dwarves
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
beard and purple toga—in reality, a clay golem that Diderius used to receive favored guests in this area. The golem has been imbued with castings of magic mouth. When any character first approaches it
depart.” Diderius was not a greedy wizard, and he accepted even meek offerings from the poor in the town. As long as each party member places something more valuable than a clay cup in the treasure pile
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
very foundations of reality in accord with your desires. The basic use of this spell is to duplicate any other spell of 8th level or lower. You don’t need to meet any requirements in that spell
event by forcing a reroll of any roll made within the last round (including your last turn). Reality reshapes itself to accommodate the new result. For example, a wish spell could undo an opponent’s