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the farthest reaches of Wildspace and the Astral Sea, even visiting worlds of the Material Plane from time to time, to study and catalog creatures it has never encountered before. Friendly contact with
sapient creatures can bring the xenomancer’s diplomatic skills to the forefront, while hostile contact becomes a test of the xenomancer’s survival skills.
Sometimes a xenomancer’s
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Player’s Handbook (2024)
one of the following skills: Arcana, History, Investigation, Nature, or Religion. If you lack proficiency in the chosen skill, you gain proficiency in it, and if you already have proficiency in it, you gain Expertise in it.
Quick Study. You can take the Study action as a Bonus Action.
Backgrounds
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
embody the might of giants. You are used to moving through a world much bigger than you, and that is reflected in your skills, attitude, and perspective on life.
Skill Proficiencies: Intimidation
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After you had a series of strange dreams as a child, your superstitious parents sent you to study with a powerful but aloof storm giant oracle.
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While playing hide-and-seek with your friends
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
. Choose one of the following skills: Arcana, History, Investigation, Nature, or Religion. If you lack proficiency in the chosen skill, you gain proficiency in it, and if you already have proficiency in it, you gain Expertise in it. Quick Study. You can take the Study action as a Bonus Action.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Study [Action] When you take the Study action, you make an Intelligence check to study your memory, a book, a clue, or another source of knowledge and call to mind an important piece of information
about it. The Areas of Knowledge table suggests which skills are applicable to various areas of knowledge. Areas of Knowledge Skill Areas Arcana Spells, magic items, eldritch symbols, magical
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Uni and the Hunt for the Lost Horn
Study [Action] When you take the Study action, you make an Intelligence check to study your memory, a book, a clue, or another source of knowledge and call to mind an important piece of information
about it. The Areas of Knowledge table suggests which skills are applicable to various areas of knowledge. Areas of Knowledge Skill Areas Arcana Spells, magic items, eldritch symbols, magical
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Study [Action] When you take the Study action, you make an Intelligence check to study your memory, a book, a clue, or another source of knowledge and call to mind an important piece of information
about it. The Areas of Knowledge table suggests which skills are applicable to various areas of knowledge. Areas of Knowledge Skill Areas Arcana Spells, magic items, eldritch symbols, magical
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
had an aptitude for it? Do you have a natural talent, or did you simply study hard and practice incessantly? Did you encounter a magical creature or an ancient tome that taught you the basics of magic
? What drew you forth from your life of study? Did your first taste of magical knowledge leave you hungry for more? Have you received word of a secret repository of knowledge not yet plundered by any
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Boo’s Astral Menagerie
survival skills. Sometimes a xenomancer’s research requires that a specimen be captured and imprisoned (to study its behavior) or killed and dissected (to study or harvest its insides). Many xenomancers
Githyanki Xenomancer A githyanki xenomancer travels to the farthest reaches of Wildspace and the Astral Sea, even visiting worlds of the Material Plane from time to time, to study and catalog
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
Tarak Before coming to Dragon’s Rest, Tarak was a criminal, but he has since devoted himself to the study of herbs and medicine. He is usually unarmed, but he keeps several daggers hidden in his cell
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INT
12 (+1)
WIS
14 (+2)
CHA
16 (+3)
Skills Deception +5, Insight +4, Medicine +4, Nature +3
Senses passive Perception 12
Languages Common, Draconic, thieves’ cant
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
hard study and some measure of natural talent that most troubadours and jongleurs lack. It can be hard to spot the difference between these performers and true bards, though. A bard’s life is spent
magic set bards apart from their fellows. Only rarely do bards settle in one place for long, and their natural desire to travel — to find new tales to tell, new skills to learn, and new discoveries
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
hard study and some measure of natural talent that most troubadours and jongleurs lack. It can be hard to spot the difference between these performers and true bards, though. A bard’s life is spent
magic set bards apart from their fellows. Only rarely do bards settle in one place for long, and their natural desire to travel — to find new tales to tell, new skills to learn, and new discoveries
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Necromancer Wizard Spellcasters across the multiverse pursue magical power through the study of arcane texts. Some travel the world searching for esoteric tomes, while others train less experienced
wizards or collaborate with colleagues to create new spells. Necromancers study the interaction of life, death, and undeath. Some necromancers dig up or purchase corpses to create Undead servitors. A
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who study its ebb and flow to expect the stalemate to continue. A different view is put forth by the archmage Tzunk, who notes that Maglubiyet has never faced a foe as ferocious and protective as
battle skills.
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I always appear like I am about to kill everyone around me.
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I love a good brawl.
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I drink the blood of monsters to consume their power.
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I chant orcish war
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
18. Study This circular room is obviously a library or study, its walls lined with bookshelves that extend from the floor to the gently domed ceiling twenty feet overhead. A wheeled ladder is
) check. The door to the spellbook study (area 20) is opened by shifting a book at floor level. The door to the observation room (area 19) is located 10 feet above the floor. It is opened by positioning
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
18. Study This circular room is obviously a library or study, its walls lined with bookshelves that extend from the floor to the gently domed ceiling twenty feet overhead. A wheeled ladder is
) check. The door to the spellbook study (area 20) is opened by shifting a book at floor level. The door to the observation room (area 19) is located 10 feet above the floor. It is opened by positioning
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
fascinated by a particular type of story or field of study, and it learns all it can about that topic. It bears a unique sigil on its forehead that suggests the type of knowledge that fascinates it
Skills Arcana +4, Religion +4, Stealth +5
Resistances Necrotic, Psychic, Radiant
Senses Darkvision 60 ft.; Passive Perception 11
Languages Celestial, Common
CR 1 (XP 200; PB +2)
Traits
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
.
Ability Score Mod Save
Str 10 +0 +0
Dex 16 +3 +3
Con 10 +0 +0
Ability Score Mod Save
Int 12 +1 +1
Wis 14 +2 +2
Cha 16 +3 +3
Skills
himself as a different Humanoid of approximately his height and weight. While Jacko is disguised, a creature that takes the Study action to inspect Jacko’s appearance can make a DC 13 Intelligence
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
require assistance in their writing workshops—the inklings provide endless ink—or by lonely students hoping for company as they study. However, inklings can just as readily support mages in combat
14 (+2)
INT
6 (−2)
WIS
7 (−2)
CHA
11 (+0)
Skills Stealth +5
Damage Immunities psychic
Condition Immunities blinded, charmed, deafened, exhaustion, prone
Senses
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
had an aptitude for it? Do you have a natural talent, or did you simply study hard and practice incessantly? Did you encounter a magical creature or an ancient tome that taught you the basics of magic
? What drew you forth from your life of study? Did your first taste of magical knowledge leave you hungry for more? Have you received word of a secret repository of knowledge not yet plundered by any
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Relic Sloth For long expeditions, Lorehold mages often employ relic sloths to haul adventuring equipment and excavated artifacts—so long as their study isn’t in any particular hurry. Relic sloths
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WIS
12 (+1)
CHA
8 (−1)
Skills Perception +3
Senses passive Perception 13
Languages —
Challenge 2 (450 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2
Actions
Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Eccentricity Endless hours of solitary study and research can have a negative effect on anyone’s social skills. Wizards, who are a breed apart to begin with, are no exception. An odd mannerism or two
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Githzerai Psion These powerful psions oversee githzerai sanctuaries, study enigmatic planar events, and lead rrakkma—hostile forays into mind flayer colonies to slay illithids and uncover secrets of
Mod Save
Str 12 +1 +5
Dex 18 +4 +8
Con 15 +2 +2
Ability Score Mod Save
Int 19 +4 +8
Wis 18 +4 +8
Cha 14 +2 +2
Skills Arcana +8, Insight +8
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
. A sage might have made a lifetime study of the Draconic Prophecy. These characters are often clerics, druids, warlocks, or wizards, and typically proficient in skills such as Arcana and Religion.
—perhaps someone familiar with lore about the immortal but not directly inspired by it. Agents typically have proficiency in skills such as Arcana, History, and Religion. Innocent. Some characters have no
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
, and dramatic performance. Students from other colleges often take Silverquill courses to improve their communication skills, learning to speak and write more effectively about their primary field of
study. Silverquill and Prismari see overlap in the area of performing arts, with Silverquill emphasizing verbal performance and Prismari focusing more on dance and other forms of movement. Radiance and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
capabilities. Consultant. Sometimes skilled individuals end up working alongside inquisitives for a time. Such Consultants might work for a newspaper, study an esoteric field, or write crime fiction for a living
. Investigator. Investigators piece evidence into a coherent whole that explains a mystery. This character combines a high Intelligence score with proficiency in skills such as Investigation, Perception, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Archmage Archmages are powerful (and usually quite old) spellcasters dedicated to the study of the arcane arts. Benevolent ones counsel kings and queens, while evil ones rule as tyrants and pursue
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Speed 30 ft.
STR
10 (+0)
DEX
14 (+2)
CON
12 (+1)
INT
20 (+5)
WIS
15 (+2)
CHA
16 (+3)
Saving Throws Int +9, Wis +6
Skills Arcana +13, History +13
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
might. Then swear the Oath of Devotion to emulate the angels of justice. Ranger. Weave together martial prowess, nature magic, and survival skills. Then embody the Hunter to protect nature with martial
sinister powers. Wizard. Study arcane magic and master spells for every purpose. Then embody the Evoker to create explosive effects.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Tower Sage Tower sages are mages who study astrology and support the leader of the Tower of the Heavens, the elder sage, in divining the future. When tower sages are initiated, their arms are
Points 22 (5d8)
Speed 30 ft.
STR
10 (+0)
DEX
10 (+0)
CON
10 (+0)
INT
16 (+3)
WIS
14 (+2)
CHA
16 (+3)
Skills Arcana +5, History +5, Insight +4
Senses passive Perception
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
. As creatures of both precise elemental study and rebellious expression, art elementals can both wreak elemental destruction and emotionally captivate the creatures around them. Art Elemental Mascot
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CHA
15 (+2)
Skills Performance +4
Damage Resistances cold, fire
Damage Immunities poison
Condition Immunities poisoned
Senses passive Perception 10
Languages understands the languages
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal
Necromancer Necromancers are specialist wizards who study the interaction of life, death, and undeath. Some like to dig up corpses to create undead thralls. A few use their powers for good, becoming
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STR
9 (–1)
DEX
14 (+2)
CON
12 (+1)
INT
17 (+3)
WIS
12 (+1)
CHA
11 (+0)
Saving Throws Int +7, Wis +5
Skills Arcana +7, History +7
Damage Resistances necrotic
Senses
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
have high Intelligence and Charisma scores, as well as proficiency with water vehicles and the Intimidation and Persuasion skills. First Mate. This specialist keeps the crew’s morale high by providing
supervision, encouragement, and discipline. A first mate benefits from a high Charisma score, as well as proficiency with the Intimidation and Persuasion skills. Bosun. The bosun (or boatswain
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lorwyn: First Light
seeking mastery over their own skills or a quiet place to study are welcomed here, no matter who they are or where they are from. A small congregation of rimekin created the settlement’s first buildings
solitude, artisans of Ice Forge share their knowledge and work together to hone their skills. The forge’s creations are each as unique as their creators, often letting the smiths express something new
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
trap when it comes to recognizing students. However, her organizational skills are somewhat lackadaisical. The café always serves coffee and tea, which costs 1 cp per cup. The sandwich of the day
magically enhanced to amplify the professor’s lecture and minimize the disruption of side conversations. While a class is in session, each hall holds a professor and up to thirty students. B8. Study Area
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Mage Mages spend their lives in the study and practice of magic. Good-aligned mages offer counsel to nobles and others in power, while evil mages dwell in isolated sites to perform unspeakable
11 (+0)
INT
17 (+3)
WIS
12 (+1)
CHA
11 (+0)
Saving Throws Int +6, Wis +4
Skills Arcana +6, History +6
Senses passive Perception 11
Languages any four languages