Dungeon Master's Guide 5E

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COMBAT ENCOUNTER DIFFICULTY There are four categories of encounter difficulty. Easy. An easy encounter doesn't tax the character ...

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:ncrease the difficulty of the encounter by one step ":-a m easy to medium, for example) if the characters 2.·;e a drawback tha ...

86 \ CHECKING FOR RANDOM ENCOUNTERS You decide when a random encounter happens, or you roll. Consider checking for a random enco ...

••• •• SYLVAN FOREST ENCOUNTERS d12 + d8 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Encounter 1 displacer beast 1 gnoll pack lord and ...

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CHAPTER 4: CREATING NONPLAYER CHARACTERS NONPLAYER CHARACTER IS A NY CHARACTER controlled by the Dungeon Master. NPCs can be ene ...

go T ALENT In one sentence, describe something that your NPC can do that is special, if anything. Roll on the NPC Talents table ...

BON D In a sentence, summarize the people, places, or things that are especially important to the NPC. The NPC Bonds table offer ...

time to give it a bit of background, a distinctive quirk of appearance, and especially an ideal, a bond, and a flaw. As an examp ...

p ro tecting lower-level NPC party members and to p rovide healing when this protection fails. ADVENTURER NPCs If you don't have ...

94 contacts for beginning adventurers, a nd characters are likely to secure more helpful contacts over th e course of their adve ...

o1LLAIN^1 S METHODS d20 Methods Methods 12 Murder (d10) Agricultural devastation (d4) 1 Assassination 1 Blight 2 Cannibalism 2 C ...

VILLAIN' s SECRET WEAKNESS Finding and exploiting a villain's weakness can be very gratifying for players, although a smart vill ...

H ANNEL DIVINITY: TOUC H OF DEATH :illrt ing at 2nd level, the cleric can use Channel Divinity destroy another creature's life f ...

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CHAPTER 5: ADVENTURE ENVIRONMENTS ANY D&D ADVENTURES REVOLVE around a dungeon setting. Dungeons in D&D include great hal ...

beholder·s disintegration eye ray have walls that are unnaturally s mooth, and the beholder's lair might include vertical shafts ...