The condition can be as specific or as elaborate as you choose, but the DM must agree that the condition is reasonable and has a likelihood of coming to pass. The target can also spend 5 feet of movement to automatically escape from nonmagical restraints, such as manacles or a creature that has it grappled. Effectively, the spell expands to fill the slot it is put into. It does not include leg protection beyond simple greaves that are attached with leather straps. Even a treasure for the ages made by halfling hands. If the contest results in a tie, the situation remains the same as it was before the contest. Each background in this chapter includes six suggested ideals. Your class gives you a variety of special features, such as a fighter’s mastery of weapons and armor, and a wizard’s spells. A ranger of the Enclave might be hired to lead a caravan through a treacherous mountain pass or the frozen tundra of Icewind Dale. They’re good folk, they care for each other and tend their gardens, and they have proven themselves tougher than they seem when the need arises.”, Humans. An attack roll against the creature has advantage if the attacker is within 5 feet of the creature. A simple, direct solution is the best path to success. A stable creature that isn’t healed regains 1 hit point after 1d4 hours. If the ranger has 14 current hit points and has a hit point maximum of 20, the ranger regains 6 hit points from the druid, not 8. Each class gives proficiency in at least two saving throws. Personality traits are small, simple ways to help you set your character apart from every other character. A creature with darkvision can’t see through this darkness, and nonmagical light can’t illuminate it. When you take the Hide action, you make a Dexterity (Stealth) check in an attempt to hide, following the rules in chapter 7 for hiding. An invisible creature can’t be seen, so it can always try to hide. Think about how your character does or does not conform to the broader culture’s expectations of sex, gender, and sexual behavior. If this damage reduces the target to 0 hit points, it is disintegrated. Beginning when you select this school at 2nd level, the gold and time you must spend to copy an evocation spell into your spellbook is halved. Although they can be haughty, elves are generally gracious even to those who fall short of their high expectations—which is most non-elves. The age entry notes the age when a member of the race is considered an adult, as well as the race’s expected lifespan. Dwarven kingdoms stretch deep beneath the mountains where the dwarves mine gems and precious metals and forge items of wonder. The target drops whatever it is holding and then ends its turn. Weapons with special rules are described here. While climbing or swimming, each foot of movement costs 1 extra foot (2 extra feet in difficult terrain), unless a creature has a climbing or swimming speed. Scale, Merchant’s. If your concentration is broken, the spell fails, but you don’t expend a spell slot. And watch them go! The pack also has 50 feet of hempen rope strapped to the side of it. If you play out a combat using a square grid and miniatures or other tokens, follow these rules. Or did the god choose you, impelling you into service with no regard for your wishes? Chain Shirt. It takes four times longer to convey such a message than it does to speak the same idea plainly. You might even have stolen your gear. To be readied, a spell must have a casting time of 1 action, and holding onto the spell’s magic requires concentration (explained in chapter 10). Finishing a long rest reduces a creature’s exhaustion level by 1, provided that the creature has also ingested some food and drink. If a creature would be surrounded on all sides by the wall (or the wall and another solid surface), that creature can make a Dexterity saving throw. It might be possible to find someone willing to cast a spell in exchange for coin or favors, but it is rarely easy and no established pay rates exist. The crea.ture’s location can be detected by any noise it makes or any tracks it leaves. You scoured manuscripts, studied scrolls, and listened to the greatest experts on the subjects that interest you. As normal, you can’t increase an ability score above 20 using this feature. See chapter 10 for the rules on spellcasting. Besides Moradin, for example, the dwarf gods include Moradin’s wife, Berronar Truesilver, and a number of other gods thought to be their children and grandchildren: Abbathor, Clangeddin Silverbeard, Dugmaren Brightmantle, Dumathoin, Gorm Gulthyn, Haela Brightaxe, Marthammor Duin, Sharindlar, Thard Harr, and Vergadain. Until the start of your next turn, any attack roll made against you has disadvantage if you can see the attacker, and you make Dexterity saving throws with advantage. When you make a ranged attack, you fire a bow or a crossbow, hurl a handaxe, or otherwise send projectiles to strike a foe at a distance. If you are returned to your body prematurely, your companions remain in their astral forms and must find their own way back to their bodies, usually by dropping to 0 hit points. Tika Waylan is naive and emotionally vulnerable, younger than her companions and annoyed that they still think of her as the kid they knew years ago. Case, Map or Scroll. When a monster makes an attack roll, it uses whatever modifier is provided in its stat block. Ideals encompass everything from your life goals to your core belief system. The creature is also within a magical aura that reduces all damage by 5. This situation also applies when one of them is trying to prevent the other one from accomplishing a goal—for example, when a monster tries to force open a door that an adventurer is holding closed. Necrotic. You touch a willing creature. A creature that drinks this vial of liquid gains advantage on saving throws against poison for 1 hour. They write very little, so they don’t have a rich body of literature. By spending 8 hours in study, you can exchange one or both of the spells you chose for different spells of the same levels. Most of them live up to the worst stereotypes of the class, making a living as burglars, assassins, cutpurses, and con artists. When I see something valuable, I can’t think about anything but how to steal it. You might want to tweak some of the features of a background so it better fits your character or the campaign setting. If a spell or other effect deals damage to more than one target at the same time, roll the damage once for all of them. When you cast a spell with a casting time longer than a single action or reaction, you must spend your action each turn casting the spell, and you must maintain your concentration while you do so (see “Concentration” below). You create three glowing darts of magical force. The first thing I do in a new place is note the locations of everything valuable—or where such things. This appendix deals with one pantheon, that of the Forgotten Realms. Some call up blasts of fire or lightning. I can’t keep a secret to save my life, or anyone else’s. The DM might call for an Intelligence check when you try to accomplish tasks like the following: Wizards use Intelligence as their spellcasting ability, which helps determine the saving throw DCs of spells they cast. To determine the nature of your scholarly training, roll a d8 or choose from the options in the table below. On a success, it can use its reaction to move up to its speed so that it is no longer enclosed by the wall. Describe the assistance you seek, and roll percentile dice. Some fighters feel drawn to use their training as adventurers. A dart deals 1d4 + 1 force damage to its target. Casting this spell to restore life to a creature that has been dead for one year or longer taxes you greatly. Lizardfolk, most druids, and many humans are neutral. Rarely do they operate in the open, but on rare occasions they must, because there is no other choice. You always have these spells prepared, they don’t count against the number of spells you have prepared, and you can cast each of them once at 3rd level without expending a spell slot. They are yellowish-bronze in hue, with black hair and dark eyes. Rogues devote as much effort to mastering the use of a variety of skills as they do to perfecting their combat abilities, giving them a broad expertise that few other characters can match. The kit has ten uses. Drawing on the subtle weave of magic that permeates the cosmos, wizards cast spells of explosive fire, arcing lightning, subtle deception, and brute-force mind control. Some of these features allow you to increase your ability scores, either increasing two scores by 1 each or increasing one score by 2. You live in a small cottage in a middle-class neighborhood or in a private room at a fine inn. A creature takes 20d6 fire damage and 20d6 bludgeoning damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. “Knew I’d find ye in trouble if I came out an’ looked for ye!”. For every ability check, the DM decides which of the six abilities is relevant to the task at hand and the difficulty of the task, represented by a Difficulty Class. You have disadvantage when you use a lance to attack a target within 5 feet of you. If you lose concentration, such a spell ends. On your turn, you can use a bonus action to regain hit points equal to 1d10 + your fighter level. Each time you gain a level, you gain 1 additional Hit Die. The starting equipment you get from your class includes a collection of useful adventuring gear, put together in a pack. Your accommodations might be a room in a flophouse or in the common room above a tavern. Your Charisma (Deception) check determines whether you can convincingly hide the truth, either verbally or through your actions. If you’re lucky, she’s got kin—a daughter or granddaughter, maybe—who’s got hands and heart as good as hers. Tika is a young woman determined to prove that she’s not just a kid any more, and her name makes her sound young and ordinary. At Higher Levels. An area of dim light is usually a boundary between a source of bright light, such as a torch, and surrounding darkness. If it succeeds, it is no longer restrained. Did you get extra help from a mentor, perhaps because of your exceptional dedication? It’s like they stepped out of a wonderful dream. Vehicle Proficiency. Will they walk across the dangerously weathered drawbridge? When a spellcaster casts a spell using a slot that is of a higher level than the spell, the spell assumes the higher level for that casting. Without the full training that a beginning character receives, you must be a quick study in your new class, having a natural aptitude that is reflected by higher-than-average ability scores. A creature takes 3d8 thunder damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. of copper or 1 sq. By the same token, if a feature or effect allows you to multiply your proficiency bonus when making an ability check that wouldn’t normally benefit from your proficiency bonus, you still don’t add the bonus to the check. For example, a key is hidden beneath a set of folded clothes in the top drawer of a bureau. Most people shy away from this kind of freedom. Imploring your deity’s aid requires you to use your action. Armor protects its wearer from attacks. Nature. All existence is suffused with magical power, and potential energy lies untapped in every rock, stream, and living creature, and even in the air itself. A turned creature must spend its turns trying to move as far away from you as it can, and it can’t willingly move to a space within 30 feet of you. Not that there’s anything wrong with the barons and soldiers—you have to admire their conviction. Once you’ve chosen a deity, consider your cleric’s relationship to that god. More than other people, humans champion causes rather than territories or groups. Gems, Jewelry, and Art Objects. They are not opposed to civilization or progress, but they strive to keep it in balance with the wild. The material body you leave behind is unconscious and in a state of suspended animation; it doesn’t need food or air and doesn’t age. The creature is incapacitated (see the condition), can’t move or speak, and is unaware of its surroundings. This cost represents not only the price of the silver, but the time and expertise needed to add silver to the weapon without making it less effective. There’s no winning and losing in the Dungeons & Dragons game—at least, not the way those terms are usually understood. The most fundamental tasks of adventuring—noticing danger, finding hidden objects, hitting an enemy in combat, and targeting a spell, to name just a few—rely heavily on a character’s ability to see. This spell immediately ends if you cast it again before its duration ends. Every fighter can swing an axe, fence with a rapier, wield a longsword or a greatsword, use a bow, and even trap foes in a net with some degree of skill. Your DM might allow additional training options. The organization is always on the lookout for powerful items, expressly to keep them out of the hands of evildoers. If the condition isn’t met before the spell ends, the activity isn’t performed. Monsters also have this bonus, which is incorporated in their stat blocks. You carry a noble title, and your family owns land, collects taxes, and wields significant political influence. Creatures that can’t be charmed are immune to this spell. For example, a creature has resistance to bludgeoning damage and is hit by an attack that deals 25 bludgeoning damage. It lasts for the duration. Or you might be more interested in an unconventional character, such as a brawny rogue who likes hand-to-hand combat, or a sharpshooter who picks off enemies from afar. Once a spell is cast, its effects aren’t limited by its range, unless the spell’s description says otherwise.