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Netheril’s Fall
magen casts one of the following spells, requiring no Material components and using Wisdom as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 15):
At Will: Mage Hand, Mending, Prestidigitation
1/Day Each
: Disintegrate, Move Earth, Stone ShapeTerran magen are equipped with magic to help them perform laborious physical tasks. These magen commonly perform household handiwork and build infrastructure.Poison, Thunder
Monsters
Tales from the Yawning Portal
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Cantrips (at will): fire bolt, mage hand, prestidigitation, shocking grasp
1st level (4 slots): burning hands, detect magic, mage armor, shield
2nd level (3 slots): blur, scorching rayDagger. Melee or
":"damage","rollAction":"Dagger","rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage.The Red Wizards have a number of helpers that supervise tasks in the Doomvault (Dead in Thay). Thayan apprentices have a measure of spellcasting ability, and many strive to become full-fledged wizards one day.
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Secret Expertise. The hand has one of these additional skills: Acrobatics +6, Animal Handling +5, Arcana +5, Athletics +4, Medicine +5, or Performance +5.Dagger. Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +4
","rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage.
Pixie Dust (1/Day). The hand sprinkles a pinch of pixie dust on itself or another creature it can see within 5 feet of it. The recipient gains a flying
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Secret Expertise. The hand has one of these additional skills: Acrobatics +6, Animal Handling +5, Arcana +5, Athletics +4, Medicine +5, or Performance +5.Dagger. Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +4
","rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage.
Pixie Dust (1/Day). The hand sprinkles a pinch of pixie dust on itself or another creature it can see within 5 feet of it. The recipient gains a flying
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
following spells, using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 20):
At will: disguise self, mage hand, minor illusion
2/day each: charm person, dispel magic, greater invisibility
heads: black, blue, green, red, and white.
Tiamat deploys abishais as her agents, sending them forth to represent her interests in the Hells and across the multiverse. Some have simple tasks, such as
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
easily manipulated into serving their more forceful brethren. Having purpose forced upon them, these Returned perform simple, artless tasks with middling efficiency. Their one virtue is their
work well together, sharing the unified goals of overcoming their foes and getting back to the task at hand.
Returned have escaped the Underworld and dwell among the living once more, but their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
Part 2: Academy Orientation Spelljammer Academy’s newest cadets are given an extensive orientation. With an assigned list of orientation tasks at hand, the characters have a chance to visit various
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Tying Knots The rules are purposely open-ended concerning mundane tasks like tying knots, but sometimes knowing how well a knot was fashioned is important in a dramatic scene when someone is trying
to untie a knot or slip out of one. Here’s an optional rule for determining the effectiveness of a knot. The creature who ties the knot makes an Intelligence (Sleight of Hand) check when doing so. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
Franchise Tasks as Narrative Franchise tasks can be an exciting, story-rich part of a gaming session. Over time, franchise tasks and character downtime activities can expand the story of a franchise
and add depth to the characterizations of its NPC staff members. The successes, failures, and complications of franchise tasks might even become pivotal moments in the campaign. As with all aspects of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Modron Duodrone Duodrones can perform two tasks at once and often oversee monodrone work groups. They are slightly more skeptical of strangers than monodrones are. Modron Duodrone Medium Construct
or Ranged Attack Roll: +3, reach 5 ft. or range 30 ft. Hit: 4 (1d6 + 1) Force damage. Hit or Miss: The blade magically returns to the modron’s hand immediately after a ranged attack.
Julie Dillon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Netheril’s Fall: Tales of Terror, Treasure, and Time Travel
Terran Magen Terran magen are equipped with magic to help them perform laborious physical tasks. These magen commonly perform household handiwork and build infrastructure. JOHN TEDRICK Terran Magen
components and using Wisdom as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 15):
At Will: Mage Hand, Mending, Prestidigitation
1/Day Each: Disintegrate, Move Earth, Stone Shape
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
be undertaking random but mundane tasks, while at other times it acts out your darker impulses, threatening or even attacking other shadows. With effort, you can bend this shadow puppetry to your will
watched, my shadow makes threatening gestures or creeps toward people.
4 My shadow’s movements mirror mine incorrectly—when I raise my left hand, my shadow moves its right.
5 My shadow
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal
Thayan Apprentice The Red Wizards have a number of helpers that supervise tasks in the Doomvault (Dead in Thay). Thayan apprentices have a measure of spellcasting ability, and many strive to become
(spell save DC 12, +4 to hit with spell attacks). It has the following wizard spells prepared:
Cantrips (at will): fire bolt, mage hand, prestidigitation, shocking grasp
1st level (4 slots
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
eye out for thieves and other miscreants, and perform other miscellaneous tasks as Mister Witch dictates. A few also work part-time as performers and attractions. Although they travel to many worlds
Witchlight hand background don’t learn magic as part of their upbringing, but they can choose to account for this by selecting a spellcasting class.) Witchlight Hand Medium or Small Humanoid, Any
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
Enclave depends on whether the party successfully claimed the two components held by Dran Enterprises, or whether they watched the mind flayer Szorrulax vanish with the components in hand. Moreover
franchise, they can assign two franchise tasks to be run by staff in addition to any personal downtime activities they wish to engage in. If those downtime activities or franchise tasks involve
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
his mark to find his prey. A human artificer touches a creation forge and the symbol on her hand flares as the eldritch machine rumbles to life.
Each of these people possesses a dragonmark, a symbol
etched on the skin in colors more vivid than any tattoo. This sigil is a source of mystical power. A dragonmark enhances the user’s ability to perform certain tasks. The Mark of Making guides the hands
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
ending before a towering stone throne, upon which sat an iron statue taller and wider than two men. In one hand it clutched an iron sword, in the other, a feather whip. We should have turned back then
. Ageless Guardians. Golems can guard sacred sites, tombs, and treasure vaults long after the deaths of their creators, carrying out their appointed tasks for all eternity while brushing off physical
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
mark to find his prey. A human artificer touches a creation forge, and the symbol on her hand flares as the eldritch machine rumbles to life. Each of these people possesses a dragonmark, a symbol
etched on the skin in colors more vivid than any tattoo, magical power made flesh. A dragonmark enhances the user’s ability to perform certain tasks. For example, the Mark of Making guides the hands of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
lawmages craft one-eyed homunculi to perform menial tasks in Azorius buildings. These homunculi use the statistics of a regular homunculus except that they are wingless and have no flying speed. Sphinxes
judgment is a gynosphinx, as described in the Monster Manual, but it is an Azorius spellcaster with the following wizard spells prepared: Cantrips (at will): friends, mage hand, message 1st level (4
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
foot. Bands consist of loosely related individuals, and when bands meet, membership frequently shifts. Lightfoot halflings typically excel at tasks related to travel — be it navigation, handling pack
animals, foraging, sailing, and cartwright work — having tried their hand at all such things before or learned from other lightfoots met during their journeys. Lightfoot halflings are highly social
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
, named for the dinosaurs ridden by halflings in the Talenta Plains.
Assignments. The Boromar Clan doesn’t pay you, but it might assign you to particular tasks. Sometimes these are tasks someone has
the Boromar Clan, you are protected from other members of the clan. No one in your syndicate targets you for their own criminal operations. (Of course, the same is expected of you.) On the other hand
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
contains a small, unpainted miniature figure representing each character. Each figure is a tiny clockwork device. If painted and kept on hand, the figures secretly animate to help the characters with
small tasks whenever they sleep.
Creatures Under the command of Phenex (area 14), the girallon has been ordered to obey the sculptors as they work, but to not allow them to leave the tomb. The creature
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Tracking Time If tracking the passage of time is important during exploration, use a time scale appropriate for the situation at hand: Rounds. In combat and other fast-paced situations, the game
principles to track the passage of hours, such as when characters disguise themselves with a Seeming spell for 8 hours to infiltrate a stronghold. In this case, it takes a lot of small tasks—or something like a Short Rest—to occupy a full hour.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
might also call for a Strength check when you try to accomplish tasks like the following: Force open a stuck, locked, or barred door Break free of bonds Push through a tunnel that is too small Hang on
attacking with a melee weapon such as a mace, a battleaxe, or a javelin. You use melee weapons to make melee attacks in hand-to-hand combat, and some of them can be thrown to make a ranged attack
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
might also call for a Strength check when you try to accomplish tasks like the following: Force open a stuck, locked, or barred door Break free of bonds Push through a tunnel that is too small Hang
with a melee weapon such as a mace, a battleaxe, or a javelin. You use melee weapons to make melee attacks in hand-to-hand combat, and some of them can be thrown to make a ranged attack. Lifting and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
time before they meet Burrow Warden Jadger, a ghost from the time of the drow invasion. If the characters recovered Pelek’s severed hand in the “Whorlstone Tunnels” section of chapter 4, they can lay
about who he is and what happened to him. After gaining any sense that the characters are seeking information from the svirfneblin, he asks them to perform two tasks involving laying other svirfneblin
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
. The Acrobatics, Sleight of Hand, and Stealth skills reflect aptitude in certain kinds of Dexterity checks. Acrobatics. Your Dexterity (Acrobatics) check covers your attempt to stay on your feet in a
see if you can perform acrobatic stunts, including dives, rolls, somersaults, and flips. Sleight of Hand. Whenever you attempt an act of legerdemain or manual trickery, such as planting something on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
. The Acrobatics, Sleight of Hand, and Stealth skills reflect aptitude in certain kinds of Dexterity checks. Acrobatics Your Dexterity (Acrobatics) check covers your attempt to stay on your feet in a
see if you can perform acrobatic stunts, including dives, rolls, somersaults, and flips. Sleight of Hand Whenever you attempt an act of legerdemain or manual trickery, such as planting something on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
patron’s behalf. Consider some or all of these roles for the characters in your party: Chameleon. A master of disguise, sleight of hand, and deception, the Chameleon can perform the work of the
cloak or disguise one’s appearance), and proficiency with skills such as Deception, Performance, and Sleight of Hand all greatly benefit the Chameleon. Bards and rogues, as well as characters with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
are a trap, meant to weaken the intellect and disturb the nerves. Pay them no heed. 4 Begin only those tasks you will finish. Strike only that which you will kill. Githzerai Ideals d4 Ideal 1 Faith
strive to duplicate. 2 Menyar-Ag hand-picked me for my duties, and I will never betray the trust he showed in me. 3 Vlaakith and her toadies will be defeated, if not by me then by those who follow in my
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
carries out its tasks properly. Wreathed in Flame. The fire wreathing a flameskull burns continually, giving off bright light that the creature controls. It uses those flames as a weapon, focusing them to
somatic or material components to cast its spells. The flameskull has the following wizard spells prepared:
Cantrip (at will): mage hand
1st level (3 slots): magic missile, shield
2nd level (2 slots
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
commoners trained to perform a handful of tasks or stunts. (Performers have proficiency in the Performance skill.) They’re kept in the dark about most things, but they’re not oblivious. With a successful DC
seen him in a rowboat.” “The sailors communicate with each other using odd hand signals.” (Members of Bregan D’aerthe use Drow Sign Language.) “All the sailors have an aversion to sunlight.” “Have you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
kill to survive, never for sport. Sleepless. Thri-kreen don’t require sleep and can rest while remaining alert and performing light tasks. Their inability to sleep is thought to be the reason why
Wisdom. The thri-kreen can innately cast the following spells, requiring no components:
At will: mage hand (the hand is invisible)
2/day each: blur, magic weapon
1/day: invisibility (self only)
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
STR
18 (+4)
DEX
16 (+3)
CON
17 (+3)
INT
14 (+2)
WIS
15 (+2)
CHA
12 (+1)
Saving Throws Str +8, Dex +7
Skills Perception +10, Sleight of Hand +7, Stealth +7
Senses
the Moonstalkers alongside his friend Augustus. Delour’s honeyed words and calculating mind make him dangerous. He can smile and shake someone’s hand while simultaneously plotting to ruin that person
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
right hand of the guildmaster — or even becoming the master yourself! Your status in your guild is measured by your renown score. As you increase that score, you gain the opportunity to advance in the
will use to judge whether you earn an increase in your renown score. The various ranks within the guilds describe the range of tasks you might perform, from testing experimental Izzet weaponry to leading