As to the chill, it’s a lot like the feeling one imagines one would get when the wizard-ball team one is coaching (most likely as part of a community-service plea bargain) wins the big wizard-ball game and several of one’s star wizard-ballers dump a whole big cooler full of ice, ice demons, water elementals, salt …
Role of the Bard In a standard adventuring party, bards usually land in the support category. Being support means that most of your abilities empower your allies and debuff your enemies. Support classes require a more subtle hand to play since they don’t do well hacking away in the middle of a fray, and they …
Disrupt Spell. When a creature casts a spell requiring at least 1 action to cast, the spellhound use its reaction to make one bite attack against the creature. If the spellhound hits, the creature must make a concentration check to successfully cast the spell. The spellhound must see the spellcaster and be within 5 feet …
Leaders, Organization, and Goals The Harbingers of the Yawning Void accept any and all creatures into their ranks, so long as they carry the darkness in their hearts and yearn for entropy. However, the solid rank and file of the cult are the satarre. Leading these satarre are a handful of powerful individuals, mostly potent …
Mountains 1d10 Challenge/Encounter 1 2 hill giants hurling stones and yelling insults. 2 2d4 bereginyas (see Tome of Beasts) eager to inflict harm. 3 Avalanche/Landslide. A rumbling sound is the only warning before a mass of snow and/or rock hurtles down the mountainside. All creatures must make a DC 14 Dexterity saving throw. On a …
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It’s a new month, and everyone’s gaming! So here’s a vault-tastic set of wallpapers for your computer, your smartphone, or whatever electronic device you’ve got. This month, we’ve got a piece from Vault of Magic (artist Tomasz Chistowski). Let’s go exploring, adventurers! Please, click on the image you want to download to expand it into …
The very instant you notice it, the menacing sheet of sparkle-paper seems somehow almost magnetically drawn to you. Moments later, the fluttering sheet begins slapping against your shins like a hungry kitten who thinks your pockets are maybe—just MAYBE—stuffed full of ham and two-day-old salmon. Against all good judgment, you pick up the mysterious sheet …
Holiday Celebrations The ratatosk are a joyful race who use any excuse to hold a celebration, party, or feast. Where other faiths, such as worshippers of Perun, have days honoring specific saints, every single day of the squirrel-folk seasonal calendar is marked by a holiday. The subjects of these holidays vary from obviously important to …
Fascinated by Goblins. Inbar is captivated with goblins and their culture. She knows they pose a danger to more settled societies, especially in the remote reaches of the north where they can gather in numbers. Part of her fascination comes from the relative rarity of seeing a goblin in her homeland, and part from her …
Player Benefits First, let’s focus on the player benefits. Focused Attention There’s something really special about practicing being the hero of your own story. I love that 5E gives us the chance to be brave and daring, to set risk aside and go after what we truly want, answering destiny’s call. A chief benefit for …
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Their organization is not very hierarchical. They usually work together in covens of three. A coven will be associated with three other covens which gather each new moon to perform rituals, exchange knowledge and conduct covenant business. Each group of four covens has a superior who guides them, bringing the total number of the group …
Fiend Slayer. The chamrosh’s attacks are treated as magical against fiends. Additionally, it has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects originating from fiends. The chamrosh’s bite attack deals 6 (1d8 + 2) piercing damage. Protective Stance. When a creature the chamrosh can see attacks a target other than itself that is …
The Gyrfalcon Repository Built of whitewashed sandstone, this compound stands on a lonely plateau in the arid hills southwest of Corremel in Nuria Natal. The repository is about an hour’s walk from the main trade route. A prominent domed building rings a central garden decorated with statuary of the birds that give the place its …
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We’re starting things off with one of the most beloved classes: the barbarian. The barbarian has existed through many editions of the game for a good reason—they hit real hard, and when they hit, it hurts real bad. When I introduce new players to 5th Edition, I often recommend picking the barbarian as their first …
One way to handle this problem is to vary the ways in which your traps are detected, such as using traps that are obvious or using natural hazards. This adds variety, allows the optimized PC to occasionally be surprised, and allows a trap that can be located by multiple skills to involve other characters in …
MONSTERS ON THE PROWL Tome of Beasts 2: Lairs is now available on Fantasy Grounds! Savage beasts mauling a mountaintop temple. A river tomb of lurking horrors. A shrine infested with hungry undead. Inside, you’ll find these adventures and 11 more! Created for the 5th Edition of the world’s first roleplaying game, these 14 standalone, …
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