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Jarund Elkhardt

Monsters Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

strengthen the bond between them. Mjenir believes that the only way to break Auril's spell is to slay the goddess in her home, but Jarund believes that his warriors aren't strong enough to accomplish that task alone.

Juiblex

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

layer of the Abyss, which is also known as Shedaklah, is a bubbling morass of fetid sludge. The landscape is covered in vast expanses of caustic slimes, and strange organic forms rise from the oceans of

as it remains in the slimy area or until it breaks free. The restrained creature, or another creature that can reach it, can use its action to try to break free and must succeed on a DC 21 Strength

Juiblex Legacy

Monsters Out of the Abyss

in vast expanses of caustic and unintelligent slimes, and strange organic forms rise from the oceans of molds and oozes at Juiblex’s command. Lair Actions On initiative count 20 (losing

remains in the slimy area or until it breaks free. The restrained creature, or another creature who can reach it, can use its action to try to break free and must succeed on a DC 21 Strength check

Resolving Outcomes

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

you decide: Is a D20 Test Warranted? If the task is trivial or impossible, don’t bother with a D20 Test. A character can move across an empty room or drink from a flask without making a Dexterity check

the DC? Based on how hard you think the task should be, set the DC as follows: 10 for an easy task, 15 for a moderately difficult task, or 20 for a hard task. The sections that follow offer advice on

Ability Checks

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

a Check To... Strength Lift, push, pull, or break something Dexterity Move nimbly, quickly, or quietly Constitution Push your body beyond normal limits Intelligence Reason or remember Wisdom Notice

ability check represents the task’s difficulty. The more difficult the task, the higher its DC. The rules provide DCs for certain checks, but the DM ultimately sets them. The Typical Difficulty

Ability Checks

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

a Check To... Strength Lift, push, pull, or break something Dexterity Move nimbly, quickly, or quietly Constitution Push your body beyond normal limits Intelligence Reason or remember Wisdom Notice

ability check represents the task’s difficulty. The more difficult the task, the higher its DC. The rules provide DCs for certain checks, but the DM ultimately sets them. The Typical Difficulty

Franchise Tasks as Narrative

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

an Acquisitions Incorporated campaign, franchise tasks are about creating narrative. As such, to make those tasks a part of the campaign story, the DM and the players can work together to break tasks

down into distinct scenes using the following guidelines. Establish Goals When the characters select a franchise task, the players share their goals for that task with the DM. Having clear motives

Interacting with Objects

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

character can wrench the lever into place. The DM sets the DC for any such check based on the difficulty of the task. Characters can also damage objects with their weapons and spells. Objects are immune

immune to effects that require other saves. When an object drops to 0 hit points, it breaks. A character can also attempt a Strength check to break an object. The DM sets the DC for any such check.

Interacting with Objects

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

character can wrench the lever into place. The DM sets the DC for any such check based on the difficulty of the task. Characters can also damage objects with their weapons and spells. Objects are immune

immune to effects that require other saves. When an object drops to 0 hit points, it breaks. A character can also attempt a Strength check to break an object. The DM sets the DC for any such check.

Haunted Zones

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

Zone To leave a haunted zone, a character must perform the task specified in the haunted zone’s “Correct Exit” section. The “Failed Exit” section describes how creatures that don’t perform the required

task are eventually forced from the haunted zone. Finding the Correct Exit. A character who casts Detect Evil and Good or Find the Path or who has truesight sees a faint aura around an object related

Drow Crews

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Divine Contention

). The sailors are focused on the task of sailing the ship and engage with the characters as little as possible. While the characters are aboard, the drow spend most of their time working on the decks

of the ships, but might retreat below deck to eat, rest, or get a break from the light of day. Each ship has six officers: a captain, a first mate, a bosun, a quartermaster, a surgeon, and a cook. Each

Domain Theme

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory

costumes of scintillating hues. 6 Lackadaisical. The creatures here are easygoing. No one is in a hurry, and no task is greeted with a sense of urgency. 7 Musical. This domain abounds with music. Frogs

, toads, and insects break into multipart harmonies that sometimes crescendo into a symphonic rapture of melodious tweets, trills, chirps, and whistles. Fey in this domain are just as musically inclined

Converted Windmill: Summer

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

members of the cult whom he couldn’t trust to keep quiet about the stone. Arn and Seffia would be horrified to learn that they failed in so simple a task; they try to correct their mistake by killing

Vaelle Lurval if she’s with the party (see “Mausoleum: Summer”). Devils’ Arrival As characters try to break into the cult fanatics’ apartment, three spined devils arrive. The devils fly to the tower

Juiblex's Lair

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

oozing, fetid sludge. Its landscape is covered in vast expanses of caustic and unintelligent slimes, and strange organic forms rise from the oceans of molds and oozes at Juiblex’s command. Lair Actions On

creature is stuck as long as it remains in the slimy area or until it breaks free. The restrained creature, or another creature who can reach it, can use its action to try to break free and must succeed

Juiblex's Lair

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

oozing, fetid sludge. Its landscape is covered in vast expanses of caustic and unintelligent slimes, and strange organic forms rise from the oceans of molds and oozes at Juiblex’s command. Lair Actions On

creature is stuck as long as it remains in the slimy area or until it breaks free. The restrained creature, or another creature that can reach it, can use its action to try to break free and must succeed

Scribing a Spell Scroll

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything

spell scroll is a solitary task, unlikely to attract much attention. The complications that arise are more likely to involve the preparation needed for the activity. Every workweek spent scribing

the scroll. 4 Due to a strange error in creating the scroll, it is instead a random spell of the same level. 5 The rare parchment you bought for your scroll has a barely visible map on it. 6 A thief attempts to break into your workroom.* *Might involve a rival

Juiblex

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse

shares with Zuggtmoy (who also appears in this book). This layer of the Abyss, which is also known as Shedaklah, is a bubbling morass of fetid sludge. The landscape is covered in vast expanses of caustic

creature, or another creature that can reach it, can use its action to try to break free and must succeed on a DC 21 Strength check. The slime lasts for 1 hour or until it is burned away with fire. If

Mister Witch

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

that it would break down often. Naeryx helped with the repairs and found that the work gave him a sliver of joy. When the old keeper died years later, Naeryx replaced him. The wealthy family that owned

while the carnival is being set up or taken down. Once the process of packing up or unpacking the carnival begins, it can’t be stopped until the task is complete. When the watch is used to pack up or

Meeting Kwalish

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

by a remove curse spell cast by an 18th-level spellcaster, by defeating Kwalish and reversing the process using his machines, or by completing a separate task for the inventor. Just a Bit of Trouble

enhanced sphinx (whose machinery he created). This restores to normal any ability scores decreased by the sphinx (see area C2). Laboratory Fight If negotiations break down, or if the characters take

How to Play

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

resolve those actions. Sometimes, resolving a task is easy. If an adventurer wants to walk across a room and open a door, the DM might just say that the door opens and describe what lies beyond. But

the door might be locked, the floor might hide a deadly trap, or some other circumstance might make it challenging for an adventurer to complete a task. In those cases, the DM decides what happens

Areas of the Air Temple

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse

Wheels” below). After completing one revolution, they stop and await further instructions. The commoners are cultists on the brink of becoming initiates. The priests lash these cultists to break their

power of the horn, the summoned djinni was obligated to complete a single service or task. Torhild tasked the djinni with the daunting task of keeping the palace quarter in good repair – a task he has

Star Forge Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Giants of the Star Forge

using either mason’s tools or the Sleight of Hand skill. Failing the check causes the runestone to break. Alternatively, any character can remove the cracked runestone and replace it with the stone

alive, they might appear (at your discretion) and interrupt this task. Otherwise, it’s safe to assume Theldin and the characters can complete the task with about a half hour of work.

Random Encounters

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

party, saying “Down with Primus!” in its own language over and over. Its alignment is chaotic neutral, and it can only follow one simple task at a time. Quaggoths These quaggoths are hungry and attack the

Manual). If the thonot dies, the other quaggoths immediately break off their attack and begin feasting on the thonot’s remains, hoping to gain its psionic power. Shriekers The shriekers sound off when

77. Death God's Nursery

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation

Struts. One way to destroy the Soulmonger is to break any of the three adamantine struts that suspend it above the lava. Each strut is a Large object with AC 20; 100 hit points; immunity to bludgeoning

recognizes the phylacteries for what they are. Destroying a phylactery is no simple task and often requires a special ritual, item, or weapon. The phylacteries here are all unique, and discovering the

Super-Secret Basement

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

replica duodrones, activated by the door opening, are tasked with maintaining circuits in this room, which have become badly corroded over time. Their second task is to remove intruders who attack them

replica tridrones and one replica quadrone, whose task is to bring a modron charging station — the two metallic walls — back online. These replica modrons look exactly like their true modron

A Detour to Neverwinter

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

Either on their way to Neverwinter or while in the city, the characters might want to dig around a bit to find out more about what exactly they’re getting into. They might also assign a franchise task to

it more like, “This is a task from Omin, so we’re going to drop everything and do it TODAY!!!”) — Rosie Beestinger The Stable Quiver When the characters arrive in Neverwinter, they find themselves

Wreck of the Marshal

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

and psychic damage. The chains are rusty but solidly locked. A character can pick the lock with a successful DC 15 Dexterity check using thieves’ tools. A character can break the chains with a

Cargo The door to this area is locked. A character can pick the lock with a successful DC 15 Dexterity check using thieves’ tools. A character can break the door open with a successful DC 12 Strength

The Infernal Machine of Lum the Mad

Magic Items Infernal Machine Rebuild

, you drop one object you are holding (DM’s choice). 40 A group of small forest animals appears and follows you everywhere, singing and dancing. These magical creatures can perform any task

you desire that could be performed by a prestidigitation spell. You break out into song whenever you roll a 1 on any die. 41 Your possessions change their state or appearance at the DM’s

Example Complex Traps

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything

be at the end of the hallway to attempt the check, and only one creature can work on this task at once. Once a creature attempts a check for this purpose, no other character can do so until the end of

and psychic damage) or making a successful DC 20 Strength check to break it cracks the statue and increases the Poison Gas damage by 5 (1d10). A successful DC 20 Dexterity check using thieves’ tools, or

N3. Burgomaster's Mansion

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd

. Lydia has assigned these women the task of stitching children’s costumes and weaving together a wicker sun for the Festival of the Blazing Sun. Lydia assumes that the characters are here at the

Vallakovich has the key to Udo’s manacles. The manacles break if they take 10 damage or more from a single weapon attack. If the characters release Udo, his first desire is to return to his home. Later

Gods of the Orcs

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

to rid them of most of the flesh, and then use a ritual punch to break out the bridge of the nose and leave the skull with a single eye. Orcs that appreciate the strength and ferocity of a foe might

indirectness, because orcs are meant to take and do what they want through straightforward assault and brutality. Nonetheless, when the chief seeks the aid of Shargaas to accomplish such a task, the

Reghed Nomads

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

understanding of gods and spirits, and the fact that both men have lost their sons serves to strengthen the bond between them. Mjenir believes that the only way to break Auril’s spell is to slay the goddess in

her home, but Jarund believes that his warriors aren’t strong enough to accomplish that task alone. Jarund Elkhardt Medium humanoid (human), neutral Armor Class 14 (hide armor, shield) Hit

Locations in Saltmarsh

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

determine the nature of an available task. d6 Task 1 Guard a mining shaft that was recently attacked by duergar from the Underdark. 2 Escort supply wagons moving to and from Saltmarsh. 3 Explore a

table below to determine the nature of an available task. d6 Goal Foes Location 1 Recover stolen goods Goblins Hool Marshes 2 Apprehend a wanted criminal Wild beasts Hool Marshes 3 Rescue a captive

People of Phandalin

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

don’t know. Rocks and sheep? Oh, and a couple of very private festhalls. I can’t tell you the number of times … Wait, why are you writing this down? Did Dran send you? Well … I’m on my lunch break! Yes

whatever else you can think of. Tracking down and defeating Stuuzant is no easy task, however. She is friends with a pair of dire wolves, and is mostly successful at covering her tracks after her

Hive Ward

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands

often belch a small flame after taking a shot. Swamp Water. Bottled locally by a green hag with six teeth and an infectious laugh, this murky, sour gin causes the drinker to break out in a harmless rash

caustic, gelatinous ooze. Portions range from bite-sized nibbles to bottomless portal buffets worthy of a giant’s appetite. Grease Pit Grub. The following are some of the vendors one might encounter in the

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