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Monsters
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
Suave Defense. While Amrik is wearing light or no armor and wielding no shield, his AC includes his Charisma modifier.Multiattack. Amrik makes three dagger attacks.
Dagger. Melee or Ranged Weapon
Vanthampur of Baldur’s Gate. Amrik loves to exchange pleasantries over drinks before conducting business. He has trained Laraelra’s staff to recognize a variety of innocuous hand gestures that
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Dexterity saving throws while standing within 5 feet of an ally wielding a shield.
Sunlight Sensitivity. While in sunlight, the duergar has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom
neighbors. To this end, duergar warriors fulfill a variety of combat roles, often marrying their fury in battle with their psionic abilities or training dangerous Underdark creatures as mounts.
Denigrated by
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
Folk Hero Origins
Folk heroes might rise from a variety of circumstances, or their origins might be a secret as they do their work anonymously. If you wish, you may roll on the Folk Hero
, unless you have shown yourself to be a danger to them. They will shield you from the law or anyone else searching for you, though they will not risk their lives for you.
BALDUR’S GATE FEATURE
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
endeavor. Faerûn has a wide variety of knightly orders, all of which have a similar outlook concerning their actions and responsibilities.
Though the term “knight” conjures ideas
family, similar to an order of monks. Although there are organizations, such as the Knights of the Shield, that use the trappings of knighthood without necessarily being warriors, most folk of Faer
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Armor and Shields D&D worlds are a vast tapestry made up of many different cultures, each with its own technology level. For this reason, adventurers have access to a variety of armor types, ranging
separates them into three categories: light armor, medium armor, and heavy armor. Many warriors supplement their armor with a shield. The Armor table shows the cost, weight, and other properties of the common
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
9. Vaults These chambers have 15-foot-high, flat ceilings. 9a. Hall of Staffs Mosaics. Tiled mosaics depicting a variety of magic staffs cover the walls. (Hidden behind a mosaic depicting a staff of
area 9b. 9b. Diabolical Shield Hanging on the west wall of this otherwise empty 15-foot-high room is a steel shield cast in the form of a scowling devil’s face wreathed by bronze flames. A detect magic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
mountains to the west, south, and east shield the interior from the sea and from the view of sailors. The rivers are so sluggish that it can be difficult determining which direction is upstream and
can find welcoming civilization. The rest of the peninsula is a breeding ground for bloodsucking, disease-bearing insects, monstrous reptiles, carnivorous birds and beasts of every variety, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
on the Trinkets table in the Player’s Handbook). Each trinket costs 2d10 cp. Gems for All, a shop with a variety of gemstones, all worth 50 gp or less. Heath’s Hot Drinks, a stall offering cups of
tent bursting with dozens of arcane foci and spell scrolls, including scrolls of comprehend languages, detect magic, feather fall, find familiar, mage armor, magic missile, shield, and unseen servant (25 gp each).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Armor and Shields D&D worlds are a vast tapestry made up of many different cultures, each with its own technology level. For this reason, adventurers have access to a variety of armor types, ranging
separates them into three categories: light armor, medium armor, and heavy armor. Many warriors supplement their armor with a shield. VARIANT: EQUIPMENT SIZES
In most campaigns, you can use or wear any
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Dwarves of the Multiverse Like any race, dwarves display a wide array of skin tones, hair colors, and other physical traits. Adding to this diversity, they have a variety of cultural identities from
types of dwarves. In Faerûn, the two most numerous subraces are gold dwarves and shield dwarves. The dwarves of Faerûn traveled north from the southern mountains and founded an extensive subterranean
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Shields Starting Equipment Choose A or B: (A) Chain Mail, Shield, Longsword, 6 Javelins, Holy Symbol, Priest’s Pack, and 9 GP; or (B) 150 GP Paladins are united by their oaths to stand against the
Paladin’s oath is a powerful bond. It is a source of power that turns a devout warrior into a blessed champion. Paladins train to learn the skills of combat, mastering a variety of weapons and armor. Even
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Mail, Shield, Longsword, 6 Javelins, Holy Symbol, Priest’s Pack, and 9 GP; or (B) 150 GP Paladins are united by their oaths to stand against the forces of annihilation and corruption. Whether sworn
that turns a devout warrior into a blessed champion. Paladins train to learn the skills of combat, mastering a variety of weapons and armor. Even so, their martial skills are secondary to the magical
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
and introduces an additional requirement: the spell on the scroll must be on your class’s spell list for you to read the scroll. A spell scroll can be named in a variety of ways: spell scroll , scroll
shield if you are holding the shield without taking an action to don it? Yes, but only the magical +2, which says you gain it when holding the shield. You gain the shield’s base AC bonus only if you use
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
poorly to changing circumstances. They can’t read, speak, emote, or communicate in any way except to nod, shake their heads, or point. Still, skeletons are able to accomplish a variety of relatively
complex tasks.
A skeleton can fight with weapons and wear armor, can load and fire a catapult or trebuchet, scale a siege ladder, form a shield wall, or dump boiling oil. However, it must receive
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
creature fails a saving throw, the creature suffers a harmful effect. When an ability check equals or exceeds the DC, the check succeeds. As a DM, you have a variety of flourishes and approaches you
character manages to get her sword past a hobgoblin’s defenses and turn a near miss into a hit, but the hobgoblin twists its shield and disarms her. A character narrowly escapes the full brunt of a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
” — a heraldic device often borne on a shield, worn as a cloak pin, or affixed to a helmet. Others throughout the city, even foreign dignitaries, are permitted to retain only up to sixteen armed
yourself in a bustling city, you’re likely to spot a wonderful variety of folk. You hear words in languages utterly foreign to you, and you smell dishes both delectable and strange. Waterdeep is the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
to mask his efforts to shield his smuggling operation. Personality Traits. Gellan loves to play the role of the foppish dandy. He enjoys fine wine, good food, and the latest fashions. He is a patron
Sample Events d20 Event 1–6 A group of suspicious fishers question outsiders about their business in town. 7–10 Gellan Primewater imports a variety of exotic flowers that he uses to decorate the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
, with different patterns often relating to the wearer’s lineage. Eastern cuisine pairs rice and potatoes with a variety of meats, especially seafood. Eastern Flanaess and Its Neighbors The Duchy and
proximity of the Nyr Dyv, the Cairn Hills, and the Shield Lands means the Urnst lands can’t ignore the rising threat of Iuz or the politics of the Free City of Greyhawk. At the same time, Nyrond stands
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
speculation about Lantan’s development of smokepowder weapons and greater willingness to blend magic with machinery. Indeed, Lantanese traders have reportedly offered many shield guardians in private
, the Nelanther. Here, all manner of seafaring or sea-dwelling creatures live, from lizardfolk and minotaurs to orcs and ogres, with a smattering of humans and others thrown in for variety. Where some
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
, the dwarves see their gods as exemplars who blaze a path for their lives to follow. Dwarven deities exist in a wide variety, with a few common across many worlds. They are collectively known as the
to the enemy. The two axes he wields embody his attitude, since he forsakes the added protection of a shield for the chance to deal more damage to his enemies. Clangeddin’s priests are warriors who
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
; home to barge dwellers Perrenland Voorzitter Yrenda Schwartzen (human) Fiercely independent confederation of canons Pomarj, the — Lawless peninsula; home to bandits and marauders Shield Lands, the
Vesve Forest’s evil inhabitants. Central Flanaess Culture The culture of the Central Flanaess is a result of the long imposition of the Great Kingdom’s rule over a variety of peoples living in close
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
original sign, an enchanted wooden shield. Painted black, the circular shield displayed an image of a curved silver saber gripped by a pale, slender arm. An enchantment on the shield caused glimmering
the shield’s only magic, and that it did exactly what she intended it to do: draw in business. Still, it appears that there’s more to the shield’s story, for recently both Aurayaun and the shield
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
original sign, an enchanted wooden shield. Painted black, the circular shield displayed an image of a curved silver saber gripped by a pale, slender arm. An enchantment on the shield caused glimmering
the shield’s only magic, and that it did exactly what she intended it to do: draw in business. Still, it appears that there’s more to the shield’s story, for recently both Aurayaun and the shield
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
, in Balduran’s case, a glass casket containing all that lingers from the city’s vanished founder: the age-cracked remnants of his cloak, longsword, shield, and favorite spyglass. High House of Wonders
Shield, a secret society tied to the Shield of the Hidden Lord. This shield recently disappeared from the crypts under the Hhune estate, and Kaddrus is assisting efforts to get the shield back and punish
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
, in Balduran’s case, a glass casket containing all that lingers from the city’s vanished founder: the age-cracked remnants of his cloak, longsword, shield, and favorite spyglass. Mike Schley The High
connection to the Knights of the Shield, a secret society tied to the Shield of the Hidden Lord. This shield recently disappeared from the crypts under the Hhune estate, and Kaddrus is assisting efforts to get
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
3 (700 XP)
Suave Defense. While Amrik is wearing light or no armor and wielding no shield, his AC includes his Charisma modifier.
Actions
Multiattack. Amrik makes three dagger attacks.
Dagger
drinks before conducting business. He has trained Laraelra’s staff to recognize a variety of innocuous hand gestures that signal them to deliver drinks to the table. If he wants poison added to his
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Giants of the Star Forge
pieces of rusty armor, and a variety of oversized trinkets clearly made for giants. Two massive figures toil at the furnace.
Two cinder hulks (see the appendix) loyal to Brimskarda stoke the forge
her hip: six giant-sized iron ingots and a diagram showing how to make a spiked tower shield. The bag also contains 110 sp, 90 ep, 100 gp, and 9 pp. 5: Cracked Runestone Four fifty-foot-tall pillars
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
rage. Like many who dwell in the Underdark, duergar must constantly be on guard against the raids and plots of their neighbors. To this end, duergar warriors fulfill a variety of combat roles, often
Kavalrachni
Medium Humanoid (Dwarf), Any Alignment
Armor Class 16 (scale mail, shield)
Hit Points 26 (4d8 + 8)
Speed 25 ft.
STR
14 (+2)
DEX
11 (+0)
CON
14 (+2
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
appear to be empty.
In the center of the room lies a human corpse clad in plate mail; a longsword lies by the corpse’s right side, and a large shield covers its legs.
If the characters are
serviceable and fits a Medium creature. The longsword and the shield are in good condition. An explorer’s pack, lacking the rations and water, is under the corpse. Development. The smuggler in area 21 is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Connected Creatures The encounter tables in this section include a variety of monsters grouped according to themes that might flavor a giant enclave or encounter. Combined with the encounters from
companions and beasts of burden—perhaps using deinonychus as hunting hounds or herding triceratops like cattle.
Domesticated dinosaurs might have a variety of trappings—markings, brands, harnesses, collars
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
arms and armor. Directly across from the fireplace, eight shields are mounted on the wall. Treasure. One of the shields on the wall is a +1 shield. The brass jar on the mantel of the fireplace might
, and other clothing hanging on pegs. A thick chain (for the chief’s cave bear) is set into one wall. An old shield and some of the chief’s well-used weapons lie on the floor near one of the corners. 9
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Tablets of Fate from the overgod Ao and use them to rule over Faerûn and its gods. They failed and were slain during the Time of Troubles. Since then, a variety of contingency plans they had in place
who command the consuls. Fist of Bane
Medium humanoid (human), lawful evil
Armor Class 18 (chain mail, shield)
Hit Points 22 (4d8 + 4)
Speed 30 ft.
STR
16 (+3)
DEX
11 (+0
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
large contingent of its City Guard here, using a nearby barracks as the base for outriders who infrequently patrol the road north as far as Amphail and south to Waterdeep. Yondral Horn (N male shield
charge to cast conjure minor elementals (summoning either four magma mephits or four magmins, as the wearer wishes) or fire shield (warm shield version only) from the ring. Once all of its charges are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
represents a typical member of the rank and file, though weaponry and armor can vary.
Soldier
Medium humanoid (any race), any alignment
Armor Class 18 (chain mail, shield)
Hit Points 16 (3d8
, resistance, sacred flame, thaumaturgy
1st level (4 slots): command, detect evil and good, ensnaring strike, sanctuary, shield of faith
2nd level (3 slots): arcane lock, augury, calm emotions, hold person
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
. Presiding over the crammed shelves is Entharl Danthelon, a neutral good male shield dwarf commoner who claims to have been an adventurer once himself, as evidenced by the magical flying axe that guards his
Stonyeyes contains a variety of rare creatures both mundane and magical, from an aged cockatrice and two wing-clipped hippogriffs to an owlbear. Always on the lookout for new attractions, he happily pays