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Variant Rules

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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.

Shield Guardian

Monsters Monster Manual

it, and the guardian knows the distance and direction to the amulet. If the guardian is within 60 feet of the amulet’s wearer, half of any damage the wearer takes (round up) is transferred to

the guardian. Regeneration. The guardian regains 10 Hit Points at the start of each of its turns if it has at least 1 Hit Point. Spell Storing. A spellcaster who wears the guardian’s amulet can

Transport via Plants

Spells Player’s Handbook

This spell creates a magical link between a Large or larger inanimate plant within range and another plant, at any distance, on the same plane of existence. You must have seen or touched the

Rary's Telepathic Bond

Spells Player’s Handbook

communicate in any languages aren’t affected by this spell. Until the spell ends, the targets can communicate telepathically through the bond whether or not they share a language. The communication is possible over any distance, though it can’t extend to other planes of existence.

Sending

Spells Player’s Handbook

sender if it knows you, and can answer in a like manner immediately. The spell enables targets to understand the meaning of your message. You can send the message across any distance and even to other

, a creature can block your ability to reach it again with this spell for 8 hours. If you try to send another message during that time, you learn that you are blocked, and the spell fails.

Wind Walk

Spells Player’s Handbook

action to begin reverting to its normal form. Reverting takes 1 minute, during which the target has the Stunned condition. Until the spell ends, the target can revert to cloud form, which also requires

a Magic action followed by a 1-minute transformation. If a target is in cloud form and flying when the effect ends, the target descends 60 feet per round for 1 minute until it lands, which it does safely. If it can’t land after 1 minute, it falls the remaining distance.

Ioun Stone

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

. When you take a Magic action to toss an Ioun Stone into the air, the stone orbits your head at a distance of 1d3 feet, conferring its benefit to you while doing so. You can have up to three Ioun

;Absorption (Very Rare). While this pale lavender ellipsoid orbits your head, you can take a Reaction to cancel a spell of level 4 or lower cast by a creature you can see. A canceled spell has no effect

Earthquake

Spells Player’s Handbook

Difficult Terrain. When you cast this spell and at the end of each of your turns for the duration, each creature on the ground in the area makes a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, a creature has

the Prone condition, and its Concentration is broken. You can also cause the effects below. Fissures. A total of 1d6 fissures open in the spell’s area at the end of the turn you cast it. You

Find Steed

Spells Player’s Handbook

from this spell, the steed is replaced by the new one. The steed resembles a Large, rideable animal of your choice, such as a horse, a camel, a dire wolf, or an elk. Whenever you cast the spell, choose

Initiative count, and it functions as a controlled mount while you ride it (as defined in the rules on mounted combat). If you have the Incapacitated condition, the steed takes its turn immediately

Quaal's Feather Token

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

after flying its maximum distance for a day or if it drops to 0 Hit Points. You can dismiss the bird as a Magic action. Fan (Uncommon). If you are on a boat or ship, you can take a Magic action to

yourself. The token disappears, and a floating whip takes its place. You can then take a Bonus Action to make a melee spell attack against a creature within 10 feet of the whip, with an attack bonus of

Symbol

Spells Player’s Handbook

feet in diameter. If you choose an object, it must remain in place; if it is moved more than 10 feet from where you cast this spell, the glyph is broken, and the spell ends without being triggered

. The glyph is nearly imperceptible and requires a successful Wisdom (Perception) check against your spell save DC to notice. When you inscribe the glyph, you set its trigger and choose which effect the

Glyph of Warding

Spells Player’s Handbook

) to conceal the glyph. The glyph can cover an area no larger than 10 feet in diameter. If the surface or object is moved more than 10 feet from where you cast this spell, the glyph is broken, and the

spell ends without being triggered. The glyph is nearly imperceptible and requires a successful Wisdom (Perception) check against your spell save DC to notice. When you inscribe the glyph, you set

Biha Babir

Monsters Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn

saving throw, she can choose to succeed instead. Wishes. Biha Babir knows the Wish spell but can cast it only on behalf of a non-genie creature who communicates a wish in a way Biha Babir can

understand. If Biha Babir casts the spell for a creature, she suffers none of the spell’s stress. Once Biha Babir has cast it three times, she can’t do so again for 365 days.Multiattack. Biha

Amnizu

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

, requiring no material components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 19): At will: command 3/day: dominate monster 1/day: feeblemindInstinctive Charm. When a creature

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

Drow Inquisitor

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

(spell save DC 18): At will: dancing lights, detect magic, message, thaumaturgy 1/day each: clairvoyance, darkness, detect thoughts, dispel magic, faerie fire, levitate (self only), silence, suggestion

. Variant: Demon Summoning Drow Inquisitor (Summoner Variant);Variant: Demon Summoning Some drow inquisitors have an action that allows them to summon a yochlol. Summon Demon (1/Day). The drow

Variant Human Legacy

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.

Star Spawn Seer Legacy

Monsters Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes

throw or be incapacitated until the end of its next turn. Psychic Orb. Ranged Spell Attack: +11;{"diceNotation":"1d20+11","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Psychic Orb"} to hit, range 120 feet, one

target. Hit: 27 (5d10);{"diceNotation":"5d10","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Psychic Orb","rollDamageType":"psychic"} psychic damage. Collapse Distance (Recharge 6);{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType

Leprechaun

Monsters Quests from the Infinite Staircase

the following spells, requiring no material components and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 14): At will: Mending (as an action), Prestidigitation 2/day each: Invisibility

roll to use, potentially turning the failure into a success.Leprechauns are manifestations of the Feywild rules of hospitality and reciprocity. These rules infuse leprechauns with a deep connection to

Young Dragon Turtle

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

) Dragon Turtle Spellcasting Age Spell Save DC Spells Known Young Dragon Turtle;Young 13 fog cloud Dragon Turtle Adventures The Dragon Turtle Adventure Hooks table offers

Drow Shadowblade

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

creature takes an action to shake it. Spellcasting. The drow casts one of the following spells, requiring no material components and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 13): At

-forming in the Abyss, siphoning its essence into themselves. drow shadowblade (summoner variant);Variant: Demon Summoning Some drow shadowblades have an action that allows them to summon a demon

Jump Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

You touch a creature. The creature's jump distance is tripled until the spell ends.

Molydeus

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

point maximum to 0. This transformation can be ended only by a wish spell. Wolf Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +16;{"diceNotation":"1d20+16","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Wolf Bite"} to hit, reach 10

following spells, requiring no material components and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 22): At will: dispel magic, polymorph, telekinesis, teleport 3/day: lightning boltThe

Grung Wildling

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

":"poison"} poison damage. Spellcasting. The grung casts one of the following spells, using Wisdom as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 12): At will: druidcraft 3/day each: cure wounds, spike

gold. All grungs secrete a substance that is harmless to them but poisonous to other creatures, and sometimes that substance has a special effect based on the grung’s color (see “Variant

Ulitharid Legacy

Monsters Volo's Guide to Monsters

Creature Sense. The ulitharid is aware of the presence of creatures within 2 miles of it that have an Intelligence score of 4 or higher. It knows the distance and direction to each creature, as well

as each creature’s Intelligence score, but can’t sense anything else about it. A creature protected by a mind blank spell, a nondetection spell, or similar magic can’t be perceived

Balloon Pack

Magic Items Princes of the Apocalypse

levitate spell for 10 minutes, targeting yourself and requiring no concentration. Alternatively, you can use a reaction to deploy the balloon when you’re falling and gain the effect of the feather

fall spell for yourself. When either spell ends, the balloon slowly deflates as the elemental spirit escapes and returns to the Elemental Plane of Air. As the balloon deflates, you descend gently toward

Shield Guardian Amulet Legacy

Magic Items Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

The amulet is a 4-inch-wide disk composed of silver-framed wood, with a rune carved into its face. A detect magic spell reveals a magical aura of enchantment around the amulet. Every shield

its enemies or to guard the wielder against attack. If an attack threatens to injure the wearer, the construct can magically absorb the blow into its own body, even at a distance. A humanoid that

Kadroth

Monsters Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

Dark Devotion. The fanatic has advantage on saving throws against being charmed or frightened. Spellcasting. The fanatic is a 4th-level spellcaster. Its spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save DC

11, +3;{"diceNotation":"1d20+3","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Spellcasting"} to hit with spell attacks). The fanatic has the following cleric spells prepared: Cantrips (at will): light, sacred

Fraternity of Order Law Bender

Monsters Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse

Multiattack. The law bender makes three Arcane Burst attacks and uses Power of Authority or Spellcasting. Arcane Burst. Melee or Ranged Spell Attack: +8;{"diceNotation":"1d20+8", "rollType":"spell

to be made with advantage or disadvantage.Members of the Fraternity of Order find and exploit loopholes in the laws of the multiverse. Law benders are magistrates who skirt the rules of probability

Dragon Turtle Wyrmling

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

Vargouille Reflection

Monsters Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse

can’t increase. The curse doesn’t advance while the target is in sunlight or the area of a daylight spell. When the cursed target’s Charisma becomes 2, the target dies, and its head

tears from its body and becomes a new vargouille reflection. Casting remove curse, greater restoration, or a similar spell on the target before the transformation is complete ends the curse and

Shield Guardian Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

travel to it, and the guardian knows the distance and direction to the amulet. If the guardian is within 60 feet of the amulet's wearer, half of any damage the wearer takes (rounded up) is transferred to

the guardian. Regeneration. The shield guardian regains 10 hit points at the start of its turn if it has at least 1 hit point. Spell Storing. A spellcaster who wears the shield guardian's amulet can

Dhampir Legacy

Species Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

others embrace the solitude of the hunt, striving to distance themselves from those who’d tempt their hunger. Dhampir Hungers Every dhampir knows a thirst slaked only by the living. Those who

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

Inspired (Hashalaq variant)

Monsters Eberron: Rising from the Last War

Dual Mind. The Inspired has advantage on Wisdom saving throws. Suggestion (3/Day). The Inspired can cast the suggestion spell (spell save DC 13), requiring no material components. Innate Spellcasting

(Psionics). The Inspired's spellcasting ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 13). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components: At will: mage hand, vicious mockery

Inspired (Tsucora variant)

Monsters Eberron: Rising from the Last War

Dual Mind. The Inspired has advantage on Wisdom saving throws. Fear (1/Day). The Inspired can cast the fear spell (spell save DC 13), requiring no material components. Innate Spellcasting (Psionics

). The Inspired's spellcasting ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 13). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components: At will: mage hand, vicious mockery (see “Actions

Mercane

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

Mercane Telepathy. The mercane can communicate telepathically with any other mercane it knows, regardless of the distance between them.Multiattack. The mercane makes three Psi-Imbued Blade attacks

mercane until the end of the target’s next turn. Spellcasting (Psionics). The mercane casts one of the following spells, requiring no spell components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting

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