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Wish

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

wish for something not included in any of the other effects. To do so, state your wish to the DM as precisely as possible. The DM has great latitude in ruling what occurs in such an instance; the greater

Podling

Monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

occasional lapses. An observer familiar with the digested creature can recognize the discrepancies with a successful DC 20 Wisdom (Insight) check, or automatically if the podling does something in direct

replaced by a podling can often tell something’s amiss. Roll on the Podling Behavior table to see what unusual habits a podling might demonstrate. Podling Behavior d6 Behavior 1

Wish Legacy

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

be made with advantage or disadvantage, and you can choose whether to use the reroll or the original roll. You might be able to achieve something beyond the scope of the above examples

Outlander - Baldur's Gate

Backgrounds Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus

table provides ideas for how your character might have come to Baldur’s Gate. d10 Origin 1 Someone stole something precious from your people. You tracked the thief to the city

your friends, family, and homeland in one fell swoop, and were given little choice but to strike out on your own. 6 A peddler once brought something astonishing to your homeland—a Gondan

The Frightened condition says “while the source of its fear is within line of sight.” Does that mean you have Disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks even if the source is imperceptible but you have a clear line to its space?

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata

you have a clear line to its space? No. If you can’t see something, it’s not within your line of sight. Speaking of “line of sight,” the game uses the English meaning of the term, which has no special meaning in the rules.

Customizing the Puzzle

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

Customizing the Puzzle “Chimera” might not be the password but rather a reference to something or someone else in the tavern. Characters who solve the puzzle and succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom (Perception

) check might notice another patron wearing a cloak pin shaped like a chimera, or spot a shield emblazoned with a chimera hanging on a wall that conceals a secret door. Only after speaking to the

Headwater Pool

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel

mangrove trees. Twenty feet away, a young man with green skin walks atop the water, speaking softly while slowly circling two churning pillars of glowing green foam. Tinjhorna the riverine (detailed at

the end of this adventure) is speaking in Aquan and trying to calm a pair of water elementals corrupted by the strange magic afflicting his river. Characters who succeed on a DC 12 Intelligence

Outlander

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

provides ideas for how your character might have come to Baldur’s Gate. Outlander Origins d6 Origin 1 Someone stole something precious from your people. You tracked the thief to the city

homeland in one fell swoop, and were given little choice but to strike out on your own. 6 A peddler once brought something astonishing to your homeland — a Gondan clockwork, shimmering cloth of gold

Outlander

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer

tales of its many wonders. 6 A peddler once brought something astonishing to your homeland — a Gondan clockwork, shimmering cloth of gold, a trained speaking bird, or some other small wonder — and told

provides ideas for how your character might have come to Baldur’s Gate. Outlander Origins d6 Origin 1 Someone stole something precious from your people. You tracked the thief to the city gates

Adventuring

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium

extradimensional space, the two of you aren’t on the same plane of existence. How do I tell if something in the game is magical? For an extensive discussion of this topic, see the question “Is the breath

line of sight.” Does that mean you have disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks even if the source is invisible but you have a clear line to its space? No. If you can’t see something, it’s not

Dealing with the Banshee

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

speaking with the banshee makes the check. If that player roleplays the encounter well, allow them to make the check with advantage. If any character has Sister Garaele’s silver comb and presents it to

the Harpers to resume their search. The characters might instead choose to ask Agatha about something else—for example, the location of Cragmaw Castle, the location of Wave Echo Cave, the identity of

Manticore

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual

, manticores enjoy speaking with those they’re about to devour. Sometimes they make agreements with their prey. Roll on or choose a result from the Manticore Negotiations table to inspire what a

Let a group navigate its territory unharmed. 5 Let someone pretend to slay it in battle. 6 Scare or threaten someone. 7 Serve a creature as a steed until the sun sets. 8 Try to locate something from its

Dealing with Agatha

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver

speaking with the banshee makes the check. If that player roleplays the encounter well, allow him or her to make the check with advantage. If any character has Sister Garaele’s silver comb and

instead choose to ask Agatha about something else—for example, the location of Cragmaw Castle, the location of Wave Echo Cave, the identity of the Black Spider, or Hamun Kost’s question about Old Owl

Wish

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

Wish 9th-level conjuration Casting Time: 1 action Range: Self Components: V Duration: Instantaneous Wish is the mightiest spell a mortal creature can cast. By simply speaking aloud, you can alter the

. You might be able to achieve something beyond the scope of the above examples. State your wish to the DM as precisely as possible. The DM has great latitude in ruling what occurs in such an instance

Roleplaying

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

things that can’t be reasonably acted out. Going back to the example of Chris roleplaying Tordek above, here’s how the scene might play out if Chris used active roleplaying: Speaking as Tordek, Chris

in real life. If you can offer NPCs something they want, threaten them with something they fear, or play on their sympathies and goals, you can use words to get almost anything you want. On the other

Lord of Blades Campaign Themes

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

dead land of Cyre continue to fight as if the war had not ended, launching raids out of the “dead-gray mist” to the neighboring lands — including, of course, Thrane. Proclaiming allegiance to something

warforged of a major city while speaking about the many abuses leveled against warforged. Especially if one of them is a warforged, how would the characters react to this individual? The Lord of

Roleplaying

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

things that can’t be reasonably acted out. Going back to the example of Chris roleplaying Tordek above, here’s how the scene might play out if Chris used active roleplaying: Speaking as Tordek, Chris

in real life. If you can offer NPCs something they want, threaten them with something they fear, or play on their sympathies and goals, you can use words to get almost anything you want. On the other

Wish

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

Wish 9th-level conjuration Casting Time: 1 action Range: Self Components: V Duration: Instantaneous Wish is the mightiest spell a mortal creature can cast. By simply speaking aloud, you can alter the

. You might be able to achieve something beyond the scope of the above examples. State your wish to the DM as precisely as possible. The DM has great latitude in ruling what occurs in such an instance

Interesting Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron

, it’s not something she offers as a standard service. The Drunken Dragon is a legendary watering hole. While the service is slow and the food is modest at best, it has the widest selection of beverages

addition to the speaking stone, this outpost specializes in translating exotic texts and providing legal services to adventurers in trouble with the law. Josilian Tarli d’Sivis is one of the best

Components

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

spellcaster can’t cast the spell. Verbal (V) A Verbal component is the chanting of esoteric words that sound like nonsense to the uninitiated. The words must be uttered in a normal speaking voice. The words

them, the goal is to create something that’s easy to say and that doesn’t mean anything in the real world. Consider this method: take the name of the spell, keep only one instance of each of its letters

Components

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

nonsense to the uninitiated. The words must be uttered in a normal speaking voice. The words themselves aren’t the source of the spell’s power; rather, the particular combination of sounds, with

If you’d like to say a spell’s Verbal component, you may make up the words. However you make them, the goal is to create something that’s easy to say and that doesn’t mean anything in the real world

Roleplaying

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

distraction that allows a character to get close enough to the NPC to steal something from the NPC’s pockets. Intelligence. An NPC’s speech is so full of obscure references to a particular area of knowledge

that the characters can’t use the information they receive until they interpret those obscure facts. Or the NPC refuses to give a direct answer, speaking only in vague hints that the characters must

Estate Gardens

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel

Phoenix District meets the Haetae District. The characters might learn about Young-Gi from Chin-Hae at the Tea Shop or by speaking with Kun Ahn-Jun. Four guards at the gate to Young-Gi’s estate

downplayed her achievements, he knows much about her past. He’s not eager to reveal it, though. Young-gi Personality Trait. “Thank you for speaking to me. I promise you my full attention.” Ideal. “There is

Matriculating from the Schools of Magic

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

reserve some spell slots before the rest of the party has been made sufficiently invulnerable? Hey, that’s what potions are for. Conjuration The ability to make something from nothing is the greatest

know that the speaking softly part is entirely optional, contractually speaking. When your franchise needs firepower, you bring the damage and spread it in flashy, dramatic fashion. This works out

Roleplaying

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

air with one hand while speaking in a deadpan monotone, while an archmage might express her displeasure by silently rolling her eyes and massaging her temples with her fingers. Engaging the Players

something to do during a roleplaying-heavy game session, consider one or more of the following approaches. Appeal to Player Preferences. There are in-game activities that players enjoy more than others, as

Dao

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)

something to gain, preferably treasure. Among the genies, dao are on speaking and trading terms with the efreet, but they have nothing but scorn for djinn and marids. Other races native to the Elemental Plane

Wish

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

Wish Level 9 Conjuration (Sorcerer, Wizard) Casting Time: Action Range: Self Components: V Duration: Instantaneous Wish is the mightiest spell a mortal can cast. By simply speaking aloud, you

choose whether to use the reroll or the original roll. Reshape Reality. You may wish for something not included in any of the other effects. To do so, state your wish to the DM as precisely as

Wish

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

Wish Level 9 Conjuration (Sorcerer, Wizard) Casting Time: Action Range: Self Components: V Duration: Instantaneous Wish is the mightiest spell a mortal can cast. By simply speaking aloud, you

choose whether to use the reroll or the original roll. Reshape Reality. You may wish for something not included in any of the other effects. To do so, state your wish to the DM as precisely as

A: Wrecker's Edge

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

. Dalamar is curious about the adventurers’ motives and whether they align with his. Speaking with him reveals the following information: Dalamar is part of a contingent of Silvanesti elves. The ship is

long before being sent here, and he believes something of magical value might be hidden in the region. He wants to find it swiftly, return to his people, and continue working toward joining the Mages

Stone Giants

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

the seeking of treasure or ale, that they forgot how to live in any other way but in pursuit of it. That’s what stone giants do. — Elminster Speaking Stones Although they are unsurpassed masters of

incorporate runic letterforms, for example). Stone giants also make extensive use of the carved word through “speaking stones.” A speaking stone is an upright stone cylinder into which writing is carved

Courthouse: Autumn

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

can happen no sooner than highsun on the following day but can be persuaded to move up the time for a bribe of 10 gp or more. There are alternatives to speaking with the magister, if the characters

stolen gold. In either case, she insists on trying something before letting him off the hook: after taking a short rest, she has Fenerus brought to her courtroom and questions him about the stone

Blade Bazaar

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

odd things: A duergar merchant can’t stop insulting customers when they are trying to sell something, but becomes a picture of politeness when they want to buy. A number of duergar merchants give

invisible in the middle of a transaction, but keeps speaking as if nothing has happened. A duergar merchant threatens to kill the characters as a haggling technique, then denies ever saying so. A duergar

Bodytaker Plant

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

The podling often reacts as if some unseen force is speaking to it, staring into the distance or nodding. 5 The podling often communicates to other podlings using Deep Speech. 6 The

successful DC 20 Wisdom (Insight) check, or automatically if the podling does something in direct contradiction to the digested creature’s established beliefs or behavior. The podling melts into a slurry when

Castle Locations

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

chamber. The tranquil surface seems to reflect something odd. Vecna included this fountain of blood in his unreality to taunt Kas, who knows it’s here but can’t drink from it while chained in area K5

is open to speaking with them, though he is bored by any topic of conversation that doesn’t involve his own predicament. As long as he is shackled, Kas’s speed is 5 feet, and he is unable to leave

Hopene'er Asylum

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh

before responding to them. Eventually, Brey agrees to allow the characters to enter and asks them to wait in a bare foyer while he fetches Trantor. Speaking with Trantor When Trantor first meets the

that they are multiple depictions of a tentacled creature something like a squid or octopus, but determining further details is difficult. With a successful DC 13 Intelligence check, a character

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