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Returning 35 results for 'starting of inspire blade'.
Monsters
Astarion's Book of Hungers
Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.Multiattack. The devil makes two attacks, using Infernal Blade or Confounding Ray in any combination.
Infernal Blade. Melee Attack
Roll: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Infernal Blade"}, reach 5 ft. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3);{"diceNotation":"1d6+3", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Infernal Blade
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
makes two Radiant Blade attacks and uses Bursting Benediction.
Radiant Blade. Melee Weapon Attack: +11;{"diceNotation":"1d20+11", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Radiant Blade"} to hit, reach 5 ft
., one target. Hit: 9 (1d8 + 5);{"diceNotation":"1d8+5", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Radiant Blade", "rollDamageType":"slashing"} slashing damage plus 13 (3d8);{"diceNotation":"3d8", "rollType
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.Multiattack. The medusa makes one Constrict attack, one Final Blade attack, and one Snake Hair attack. Alternatively, it makes two Wrathful
this grapple ends, the target has the restrained condition, and the medusa can’t constrict another creature.
Final Blade. Melee Weapon Attack: +12;{"diceNotation":"1d20+12", "rollType":"to hit
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
gaming set, vehicles (land)
Equipment: An insignia of rank, a trophy taken from a fallen enemy (a dagger, broken blade, or piece of a banner), a set of bone dice or deck of cards, a set of common
instinct proves a useful starting point when determining who might take a bribe, who might turn a blind eye to a crime, or who might have criminal connections. You can also use this sense to get a
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
by Undead, sometimes keeping them in their hoards as curios.
Creating a Topaz Dragon
Use the Topaz Dragon Personality Traits and Topaz Dragon Ideals tables to inspire your portrayal of distinctive
young topaz dragon engages in repeated aerial battles with a young gynosphinx to determine territory. Both of them are secretly starting to enjoy the bouts.
2
A young topaz dragon found and ate a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Path of the Zealot Some deities inspire their followers to pitch themselves into a ferocious battle fury. These barbarians are zealots — warriors who channel their rage into powerful displays of
divine power. A variety of gods across the worlds of D&D inspire their followers to embrace this path. Tempus from the Forgotten Realms and Hextor and Erythnul of Greyhawk are all prime examples. In
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
rope bridge and pools of green slime Terrain features that provide a change of elevation, such as pits, stacks of empty crates, ledges, and balconies Features that either inspire or force characters
and their enemies to move around, such as chandeliers, kegs of gunpowder or oil, and whirling blade traps Enemies in hard-to-reach locations or defensive positions, so that characters who normally attack at range are forced to move around the battlefield Different types of monsters working together
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Monster Alignment Alignment can help you determine how a creature behaves in your game in two simple ways. Starting Attitude A creature’s alignment can help you determine the creature’s attitude in
Handbook offers a table of brief personality traits linked to alignment that can inspire you in playing an NPC or another monster in your game.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
produce flame cantrip. Starting at 3rd level, you can cast the burning hands spell with this trait. Starting at 5th level, you can also cast the flame blade spell with this trait, without requiring a
material component. Once you cast burning hands or flame blade with this trait, you can’t cast that spell with it again until you finish a long rest. You can also cast either of those spells using any
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Adventures with Gith Characters might be drawn into conflicts involving githzerai and githyanki in various ways. Roll on or choose a result from the Gith Conflicts table to inspire adventures
Gith or Zerthimon. 8 Tasked with returning the blade of a fallen githyanki knight to the knight’s people.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
. Characters traveling from the Radiant Citadel arrive near the Ruisenor Peaks, a few hours travel from Milpazul. You can use the “San Citlán Gazetteer” section at the end of this adventure as a starting point
to detail the region however you please. Eberron. San Citlán might appear between the Blade Desert and Endworld Mountains in eastern Khorvaire, a location that might lead you to add more elves and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
might inspire your character’s backstory, starting from the moment that character was born. If you’re a DM, this zodiac can inspire countless adventures themed around prophecy and fate, or it could be a
starting point for a zodiac of your own creation. Many Stars, Many Worlds
In the settings of D&D, most stars in the night sky are suns, planets, or other distant objects, all of which exist in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Starting at 14th level, whenever you use a Blade Flourish option, you can roll a d6 and use it instead of expending a Bardic Inspiration die.
lives. One blade might use a circus troupe as cover for nefarious deeds such as assassination, robbery, and blackmail. Other blades strike at the wicked, bringing justice to bear against the cruel and
classes
Player’s Handbook
Weapon Proficiencies
Simple weapons
Tool Proficiencies
Choose 3 Musical Instruments
Armor Training
Light armor
Starting Equipment
Choose A or B: (A) Leather;Leather Armor, 2 Dagger
magic attempts to harness those words, which transcend any language.
Anything can inspire a new song or tale, so Bards are fascinated by almost everything. They become masters of many things
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Personalities To customize the lizardfolk in the lair, use the personality traits, ideals, bonds, and flaws from the character backgrounds in chapter 4 of the Player’s Handbook as a starting point
“Raised by wolves” trait in the outlander background, roll again. In addition, you can use the Lizardfolk Quirks table below to determine a personality quirk for a lizardfolk character or to inspire a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Class Features When you gain a new level in a class, you get its features for that level. You don't, however, receive the class's starting equipment, and a few features have additional rules when
eldritch invocation Thirsting Blade doesn't give you additional attacks if you also have Extra Attack. Unarmored Defense If you already have the Unarmored Defense feature, you can't gain it again from another class.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Swashbuckler You focus your training on the art of the blade, relying on speed, elegance, and charm in equal parts. While some warriors are brutes clad in heavy armor, your method of fighting looks
, if you make a melee attack against a creature, that creature can’t make opportunity attacks against you for the rest of your turn. Rakish Audacity Starting at 3rd level, your confidence propels you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Swashbuckler You focus your training on the art of the blade, relying on speed, elegance, and charm in equal parts. While some warriors are brutes clad in heavy armor, your method of fighting looks
bundles a more limited version of Disengage within your attack. This allows you to use your bonus action to fight with two weapons, and then safely evade each foe you attacked.
Rakish Audacity Starting
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
monstrosities, and grim settings into your own horrifying creations. This chapter explores how to create a Domain of Dread, starting with defining its Darklord, the villain at the domain’s heart
. Descriptions of various genres of horror also provide details to guide and inspire your creations. Tarokka and Random Tables
This section provides random tables compatible with the tarokka deck (see
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Proficiencies Choose any 3 skills (see chapter 1) Weapon Proficiencies Simple weapons Tool Proficiencies Choose 3 Musical Instruments (see chapter 6) Armor Training Light armor Starting Equipment
plane of existence. Bardic magic attempts to harness those words, which transcend any language. Anything can inspire a new song or tale, so Bards are fascinated by almost everything. They become
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
”) Weapon Proficiencies Simple weapons Tool Proficiencies Choose 3 Musical Instruments (see “Equipment”) Armor Training Light armor Starting Equipment Choose A or B: (A) Leather Armor, 2 Daggers, Musical
harness those words, which transcend any language. Anything can inspire a new song or tale, so Bards are fascinated by almost everything. They become masters of many things, including performing music
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
walking speed on the ground or a floor. Merge with Stone. You know the blade ward cantrip. You can cast it as normal, and you can also cast it as a bonus action a number of times equal to your
proficiency bonus, regaining all expended uses when you finish a long rest. Starting at 5th level, you can cast the pass without trace spell with this trait, without requiring a material component. Once you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
the iron they were starting with. Hammering, refining, and careful polishing gave the metal the strength and sleekness necessary, and diligent sharpening added wicked edges to many of the blades I
the strength of his new blade. It broke, as I expected, but did the job well enough. The duergar didn’t seem to be angry that the apprentice lay dead at my feet, but it was only a short time
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Astarion's Book of Hungers
from the Contract Loopholes table to inspire a loophole an astute reader might discover.
JOHN TEDRICK Harvester Devil
Contract Loopholes 1d6 The Contract Is Void if the Signatory … 1
magical effects.
Actions
Multiattack. The devil makes two attacks, using Infernal Blade or Confounding Ray in any combination.
Infernal Blade. Melee Attack Roll: +5, reach 5 ft. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
inspire followers, protecting their people and guiding them to fulfill the medusa’s divine purpose. The Divine Purpose table offers suggestions for motivations. Roll on the table, or use the entries as
). If the medusa fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Actions
Multiattack. The medusa makes one Constrict attack, one Final Blade attack, and one Snake Hair attack. Alternatively
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
3rd level, you learn how to inspire your allies to fight on past their injuries. When you use your Second Wind feature, you can choose up to three creatures within 60 feet of you that are allied with
regardless of the skill proficiency you gain from this feature. Inspiring Surge Starting at 10th level, when you use your Action Surge feature, you can choose one creature within 60 feet of you that is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
. Note this number on your character sheet. You’ll fill in other numbers connected to these proficiencies in step 5. Choose Starting Equipment Your background and class both provide starting equipment
write just the first letter of your size). Imagine Your Past and Present Let your character’s background and species inspire how you imagine their past. That past fed into the character’s present. With
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
justice delivered by thunderbolts. In the pantheons of seafaring people, gods of this domain are ocean deities and the patrons of sailors. Tempest gods send their clerics to inspire fear in the common
Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity to wield the power of the storm with unchecked ferocity. When you roll lightning or thunder damage, you can use your Channel Divinity to deal
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
DECISIONRY
Inspired Decision Starting at rank 3, whenever a serious franchise vote is taken and the result goes the way you voted, you can inspire the rest of the franchise team with a brief speech
1 Proficiencies and Starting Equipment, Tiebreaker
2 Absentee Ballot, Coin of Decisionry
3 Better Odds, Inspired Decision
4 Charming Misdemeanor, Clandestine Kit
Proficiencies
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
step 5. Choose Starting Equipment Your background and class both provide starting equipment. Any coins that you gain at this step can be immediately spent on equipment from chapter 6. In addition, you
first letter of your size). Imagine Your Past and Present Let your character’s background and species inspire how you imagine their past. That past fed into the character’s present. With that in mind
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
injustice, defend innocents, and inspire hope. She believes everyone deserves a chance to write their own story on their own terms, and her deeds have inspired countless heroic tales. Even after so
Sending Stones; the other half of the pair is held by Euryale.
Actions
Multiattack. Asteria makes two Radiant Blade attacks and uses Bursting Benediction.
Radiant Blade. Melee Weapon Attack: +11
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
, cone of cold Hexblade’s Curse Starting at 1st level, you gain the ability to place a baleful curse on someone. As a bonus action, choose one creature you can see within 30 feet of you. The target is
use your Charisma modifier, instead of Strength or Dexterity, for the attack and damage rolls. This benefit lasts until you finish a long rest. If you later gain the Pact of the Blade feature, this
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
importance. Roll on or choose a result from the Weretiger Wards table to inspire what a weretiger defends.
Weretiger Wards 1d4 The Weretiger Protects A...
1 Legendary weapon or symbol of
yield to blade alone. It takes strength, honor, and sometimes a little more.
—Delmair Rallyhorn, weretiger
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
ideas for how you might use the Heralds of the Comet to drive the action of an entire campaign. Heralds as an Adversary Use these ideas to inspire adventures that feature the Heralds of the Comet as
hierophant decides to sow unrest by hiring mercenaries to trouble the region, summoning monsters to the outskirts of town, or starting destructive fires. The hierophant then points to these events as signs of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
forgotten the details of earlier adventures. Starting a New Episode. In an episodic campaign, the start of a new adventure doesn’t necessarily have any connection to the end of the last one. The action
table to inspire a link from one adventure to the next. The table suggests things you can do near the end of one adventure to lead characters into the next one. Adventure Connections 1d6 Adventure