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Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
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squadron of attendants. Through a combination of natural talent, calculated political moves, and fortunate accidents, Mizzix has now risen to the highest position in the Izzet League’s court, occupying a seat of the Izmagnus.
Artificer
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Classes
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
and inventions. You can find everything you need to play one of these inventors in the next few sections.
Artificers use a variety of tools to channel their arcane power. To cast a spell, an artificer
might use alchemist’s supplies to create a potent elixir, calligrapher’s supplies to inscribe a sigil of power, or tinker’s tools to craft a temporary charm. The magic of artificers
Criminal / Spy
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Backgrounds
Basic Rules (2014)
.
Skill Proficiencies: Deception, Stealth
Tool Proficiencies: One type of gaming set, thieves’ tools
Equipment: A crowbar, a set of dark common clothes including a hood, and a pouch
sold the secrets you uncovered to the highest bidder.
Suggested Characteristics
Criminals might seem like villains on the surface, and many of them are villainous to the core. But some have an
Rogue
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Basic Rules (2014)
Signaling for her companions to wait, a halfling creeps forward through the dungeon hall. She presses an ear to the door, then pulls out a set of tools and picks the lock in the blink of an eye. Then
. QUICK BUILD You can make a rogue quickly by following these suggestions. First, Dexterity should be your highest ability score. Make Intelligence your next-highest if you want to excel at
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
type of gaming set, thieves’ tools
Equipment: A crowbar, a set of dark common clothes including a hood, and a pouch containing 15 gp
Criminal Origins
Criminals are pervasive in Baldur
different context: as an espionage agent. You might have been an officially sanctioned agent of the crown, or perhaps you sold the secrets you uncovered to the highest bidder.
Suggested
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
, perhaps, by the tinker gnomes of Krynn.
Quick Build You can make an artificer quickly by following these suggestions. First, put your highest ability score in Intelligence, followed by Constitution
armor, medium armor, shields, thieves’ tools, tinker’s tools. Spell Slots. Add half your levels (rounded up) in the artificer class to the appropriate levels from other classes to determine your available spell slots.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Working Together Sometimes two or more characters team up to attempt a task. The character who's leading the effort--or the one with the highest ability modifier--can make an ability check with
example, trying to open a lock requires proficiency with thieves' tools, so a character who lacks that proficiency can't help another character in that task. Moreover, a character can help only when two or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Working Together Sometimes two or more characters team up to attempt a task. The character who’s leading the effort — or the one with the highest ability modifier — can make an ability check with
could attempt alone. For example, trying to open a lock requires proficiency with thieves’ tools, so a character who lacks that proficiency can’t help another character in that task. Moreover, a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
: armor, weapons, skills, saving throws, and sometimes tools. Your proficiencies define many of the things your character can do particularly well, from using certain weapons to telling a convincing lie
character of that class, including how to assign your highest ability scores, a background suitable to the class, and starting spells.
Hit Points and Hit Dice Your character’s hit points define how tough
Magic Items
Infernal Machine Rebuild
checks made using thieves’ tools or tinker’s tools.
Any metal object you wield or wear is covered in a thin layer of oil that drips occasionally and leaves your fingerprints everywhere
using this property, but the increase is lost when this property ends.
Whenever you roll a 1 on an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw using your highest ability score, you take 1d4 psychic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
House Exterior The decrepit house sits on the highest ground in the area. Around it, a stone wall has crumbled in many places, exposing the interior grounds. An ornate metal gate lies open at the end
gardening tools and a tangle of weeds are all that remain. A single rosebush near the gate has overgrown the wall and choked out most of the other plants. A character who succeeds on a DC 10 Intelligence
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
. Skill Proficiencies: Deception, Stealth Tool Proficiencies: One type of gaming set, thieves’ tools Equipment: A crowbar, a set of dark common clothes including a hood, and a pouch containing 15 gp
very different context: as an espionage agent. You might have been an officially sanctioned agent of the crown, or perhaps you sold the secrets you uncovered to the highest bidder.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
vacant, and it is available to the characters if they don’t mind sharing the space. Next to it is Tarak’s cell, then Varnoth’s. The fourth cell is Myla’s, cluttered with junk and tools. The fifth and
and discuss various works. Many of the kobolds visit as well, but mostly for the quiet; only Myla could be described as studious. A5: Temple of Bahamut The highest point of the cloister is crowned by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
and his followers specialize in luring wizards and sages into making compacts with the Nine Hells. Of all the Lords of the Nine, he has the lowest quotas but the highest standards. He harvests the
, limited to why they have come together. Some of the most skilled but most gullible former wizards of the Material Plane now toil eternally in Cania, alone except for their books, their tools, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
, but some require key cards to enter (see the “Key Cards” section). Trim on each door matches the color of the key card needed to open it. Locked doors can’t be bypassed with thieves’ tools, though a
possess the key card required to access the next lowest (or highest) level of the ship, it can exit the drop tube on the nearest level its key card allows access to. Key Cards Throughout the spaceship are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
. Skill Proficiencies: Deception, Stealth Tool Proficiencies: One type of gaming set, thieves’ tools Equipment: A crowbar, a set of dark common clothes including a hood, and a pouch containing 15 gp
very different context: as an espionage agent. You might have been an officially sanctioned agent of the crown, or perhaps you sold the secrets you uncovered to the highest bidder.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
Blastseekers While chemisters focus on inventing new tools, weapons, and other devices for the guild to use, the role of a blastseeker is to put those devices to work. Despite the name, not all such
accidents, Mizzix has now risen to the highest position in the Izzet League’s court, occupying a seat of the Izmagnus.
Galvanic Blastseeker
Medium humanoid (any race), chaotic neutral
Armor Class 13
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
human priest), currently the highest-ranking official in the temple. While engaged in her divinatory studies a tenday ago, she foresaw the arrival of both Mayastan Sadaar and the party, but she does not
using thieves’ tools, or forced open with a successful DC 25 Strength (Athletics) check. The shed holds unused gardening equipment and has a hidden trapdoor that can be found with a successful DC 18
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
marching against a rival lord. Demon lords only rarely elevate demons to the highest ranks, fearful of inadvertently creating rivals to their own power. Abyssal Invasions. Wherever they wander across the
performing ever greater acts of depravity, furthering the demon lord’s ambitions in exchange for magic and other boons. However, a demon regards any mortals in its service as tools to use and then
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
conditions, the one who met the most conditions will suffice. Alternatively, the characters can engage in a contest of Charisma checks (highest wins) to determine whom Bimz bonds with. Treasure. A
silver jug on the table contains wine and is worth 25 gp. The chest is locked and can be opened by a character who succeeds on a DC 12 Dexterity check using thieves’ tools. The key to the chest lies
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
inspection, have each character make a Wisdom (Perception) check. Whoever rolls the highest notices a suspicious event. On a nearby dock, a hobgoblin academy officer supervising the unloading of a
requisition voucher to purchase additional equipment from any of the following sources: The Armor, Weapons, Adventuring Gear, or Tools tables in chapter 5 of the Player’s Handbook The Equipment Packs
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
highest tier of the step pyramid holds a musty forty-foot-square chamber. Dust and sand coat its floor. Three bronze cylinders, each inset with a small door, span floor to ceiling in the middle of the
twenty crossbow bolts, six flasks of oil, and a set of smith’s tools near a small foundry. B3: Secret Room This room can be accessed via two secret doors in the hallways bordering it. When the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
a field of blue flaps from the highest boughs of the Salted Glade. Dreadnaught Dreadnaught is a heavy warship covered in scorched iron plates laid over coal-colored wood. No portholes or oar slits
slaves to clean and repair his magic automatons. Dreadnaught's crew includes twelve automatons (animated armor) brought to life by Vigr’s magic. Various tools, weapons, and implements (flying swords) flit
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
usually at the highest elevation inside the lair and accessible only through a long vertical tunnel. Here, the beholder rests and plots. The room typically contains a nest of sand or cloth bedding and
the beholder’s favorite pieces of sculpture. Vestibule Beyond the lair entrance lies the vestibule. Rather than being sculpted with tools or eye rays, the entrance and the vestibule are left in their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
provides advantage to any characters’ ability checks made to interact with the monastery’s Grand Master. Secret Agendas. Steal the highest-valued object from the party without getting caught; convince
Xanathar’s Guide to Everything), to cast the light cantrip at will, and to grant other characters advantage on Dexterity checks made with thieves’ tools and on ability checks made to identify or operate
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
of the water. J2. Storage The smell of tar permeates this cluttered cabin, which contains the following features: Barrels of tar are secured with nets to the starboard wall below mounted tools. Against
, magic missile, misty step, Rary’s telepathic bond, sending, shield, suggestion, thunderwave, water breathing, and web. Locked Trunk. A successful DC 20 Dexterity check by a character using thieves’ tools
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
books. Each bookshelf is outfitted with a ladder on a rolling track to enable people to reach the highest books. Shelves that take up the entire southwest wall hold not books but eighty wide-necked glass
locked and can be opened with Victoro’s golden key. A character can pick the lock by succeeding on a DC 18 Dexterity check using thieves’ tools. The desk drawer contains thirteen sealed scroll tubes, a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
feet high, with 6-foot-high doorways connecting the chambers. Depth. The sea floor is 40 feet below the surface of the water. The Marshal’s highest point is 5 feet below the surface of the water. The
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Large object with AC 19, 27 hit points, and immunity to poison and psychic damage. If a door in the cathedral is locked, it can be unlocked with a successful DC 17 Dexterity check with thieves’ tools, or
windows are covered by defensive shutters that are latched from within and swing outward on iron hinges. A successful DC 17 Strength (Athletics) check or DC 15 Dexterity check with thieves’ tools opens
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
chest with a successful DC 15 Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) check using thieves’ tools. Secret Door. The south wall holds a secret door to area B46. The outline of the door is visible here. Treasure
drawer with a successful DC 13 Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) check using thieves’ tools. It contains a Potion of Poison. The other drawers contain only aged writing supplies and boring municipal
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
of their Ships when they ascend to leadership. The captains are the highest authorities in Luskan; they and the members of their Ships conduct themselves as a sort of nobility, albeit one that isn’t
city’s docks and activity occurring thereupon. Among the most profitable of the merchandise that passes through the port are weapons and tools from Ironmaster, and ambergris for the perfume trade
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
than one character succeeds on this save, the one who rolled highest is the one who catches it. If the flask shatters, its contents evaporate instantly. Only one such flask can be created, after which
that can be ended with a successful dispel magic (DC 18). The chest has a built-in lock, the key to which can be found in area P11. A character using thieves’ tools can try to pick the lock as an action
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
the formation with a Dexterity or Intelligence check (their choice) using jeweler’s or mason’s tools, or by making an attack with a melee weapon. Compare the creature’s ability check or attack roll
cage’s lock with a successful DC 20 Dexterity check using thieves’ tools. A character who succeeds on a DC 20 Strength (Athletics) check bends the cage’s bars enough to escape. Treasure. The chain
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
destruction. Trees must be felled and stone cut to build a house, and the house must eventually burn, rot, or wither away. The highest-ranking Doomguard members aside from the factol are the doom lords, who
Axioms but know few of them. A being who masters all Axioms can rule the multiverse. Factol Hashkar (lawful neutral, dwarf Fraternity of Order law bender; see Morte’s Planar Parade) is the highest
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes’ Feast: Saving the Children’s Menu
safe can be opened with a successful DC 15 Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) check using thieves’ tools. It contains 500 gp and ten gems worth 100 gp each. The key to the safe is buried with Arthur. Ignis
hang in bunches from the highest branches. A Detect Magic spell reveals the trees carry a faint aura of enchantment magic. A character investigating the greenhouse who succeeds on a DC 17 Intelligence