#xanathars guide to everything

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Dwarf Sleeping

Art for Xanathar's Guide to Everything.

Art by Chris Seaman

[honourablejester]

I’m just browsing some of the common magic items in Xanathar’s Guide to Everything, and quite a few of them delight me, for much the same reasons as the trinket tables. Not necessarily because they’re useful, but because they’re quite evocative of setting and character. These feel like … things that would be knocking around your world, and things that certain characters (or NPCs) would be drawn to.

Like. If you’re in a campaign/setting with a lot of intrigue, a combination of the Clothes of Mending (magically mends itself to counteract wear and tear), the Perfume of Bewitching (lasts an hour, gives advantage on all charisma checks, and does not alert people they’re being influenced by magic), and the Veteran’s Cane (transforms into a longsword on command and then becomes nonmagical) all feel like an excellent courtier/spy kit? Your clothes are always pristine, a dab of your perfume or cologne makes people ever so much more amenable to you, and if all else fails you have a weapon to hand even if technically they weren’t allowed on the premises. Create a persona as a somewhat unsteady dowager or a dignified ex-military person, and set about your missions.

I would also be quite fascinated at the thought of an NPC seller who specialises in such items. The perfume in particular. That dingy little shop that all the right gentlemen and women are … knowledgeable of. Perhaps they have other wares. Poisons, perhaps? In a setting with intrigue, definitely an opportunity to create something of a fixer/broker sort of character, someone who sells useful little items to gentlefolk in need.

The Tankard of Sobriety is also an interesting little character detail. You simply can’t get drunk off whatever you drink out of it. (You can still be poisoned or drink acid out of it, it’s not protective in those senses, you just can’t get drunk). That’s a fascinating little thing for someone to have. And, again, it might just be because the Perfume made me think intrigue, but that would be such a useful information gathering tool. You gently encourage your targets to get drunk around you, and you’re tossing back exactly the same stuff as well, so they don’t suspect, but you’re staying fully compos mentis while they descend. I feel like this would be a really good little item for a crime lord sort of NPC to have? Their little way of keeping control while attending fraught meetings and the like.

On a much less delicate and more rough and tumble sort of level, I also quite enjoy both the Rope of Mending and the Pole of Collapsing. The rope you can cut up however you want and then say a command to knit it all back together, though any missing pieces will be lost. The pole you can collapse down from 10ft to 1ft with a command for easy stowing, and expand back out with another command. Interestingly, it’ll only expand as far as the space allows, which gives me distinct Sun Wukong vibes. I wonder if you could use it to arrest your fall down a narrow shaft? Anyway. I like this pair of items because they just feel like the sorts of things a pragmatic explorer would have.

And then there’s interesting little items like the Charlatan’s Die and the Candle of the Deep.

The die requires attunement, and it’s that quintessential cheaters tool of a loaded dice, in that it lands on whatever number you want it to land. So it’s a sophisticated cheater’s die in that you can tailor it to whatever number fits the situation, so it isn’t just perpetually rolling sixes. You can rig every roll as you please, to win, to lose, to be one short of what you need. It’s a great tool for a gambler who likes to play the players as much as play the game, as they can tailor any series of rolls to build drama or lessen tension as they require. It allows a lot more psychological manipulation of what is meant to be a game of chance, so it’s a telling sort of item for a good cheater to have.

And the candle is quite practical, being just a candle that burns underwater, but also just so good for when you want spooky Innsmouth underwater rituals to sea hags or dark gods to be happening in your world. An altar set with these in the middle of a flooded temple dungeon, their eerie light flickering under the murky water, is just a wonderful bit of set-dressing to throw in, and a nice bit of a thing for players to salvage. Possibly at some risk, if they’re taking them off an active altar.

Also, they run down just like normal candles, so I’m delighted again that there’s likely someone out there selling them. A dockside chandler that supplies all your salty ritual needs.

Like, these are all just great little character or setting building details. Interesting things for players to pick up and play with, and potentially informative little things to watch an NPC use or find in their possession.

Low level magic items are potentially a lot of fun. Heh.

[henchmaxxing]

Thank god I passed my fuck-off big engineering test and dont have to look at boring tables anymore (support reactions and column stiffness) and can instead look at the cool fun tables (magic items and xp thresholds)

[super-amogio-64]

Please, Mr. Everything was my father. Call me Xanathar’s Guide to

[i-only-eat-four-leaf-clovers]

I can't express how much I hate doing this

like I love everything BUT this

[anachronistic-cat]

looked it up cause i was thinking about how fun it would be to just. not go down, and then stumble over and die as soon as combat ends, and zealot barbarians are op actually.

not just the level 14 rage beyond death feature, but even the level three thing of not costing material components to be resurrected is insane

[morningstar58]

actually I agree with this one frfr

[lesfir]

So patch 8. At the beginning of Bg3 I was just going to look at the developer notes that relate to this pale precious star. (well, still is)

But I did feel the special magic of the world of Faerûn. And the creation of characters with that lore. So this addition with the new classes is very inspiring. I beforen read about the druid of the stars in DnD5. Because the star druid can see the future by Omen. I think it's funny for not first run. Like a headcanon.

Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

I'd like to get a feel for Waterplane and Warlock Otherworldly Patrons someday. Because I have an idea for Mysterious Mischievous Fish.

But Hexblade, its connection to darkness I think fits the mood of Act 2 more. After all, we barely explore the element of water in BG3. The emphasis on a certain magical artifact and rules has always to me made magic more real and believable.

Also the shadow sorcerer looks very interesting! (rich goth kid)

Imagine you're about to take a bite and drink blood for the first time in your life. And this Tav is a Shadow Sorcerer Quirks

Xanathar's guide to everything

:з here I have something similar to bat-angel

[ccadaver]

Btw here's some Dungeons & Dragons books for free

Link here, it's got:

Player's Handbook

Dungeon Master's Guide

Monster Manual

Monsters of the Multiverse

Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

Volo's Guide to Monsters

Xanathar's Guide to Everything

Tasha's Cauldron of Everything

Explorer's Guide to Wildemount

Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide

Eberron Rising from the Last War

[kindlingkeen]

If Jason were a DND character, what do you think he'd be? (class, alignment, backstory, etc.)

Anon, say what?

Your ask and my answer don’t actually involve owlbears, but I just really like them, lol. And the scene above is my favorite part of the DnD movie.

First of all, Jason would definitely be a home brew character in a game where the player is friends with the DM. 😉 Jason is so complex, it’s impossible to slot him neatly into all of the DnD rules (he definitely wouldn’t be optimized, lol, but boy would he be fun to play).

Alignment is the easiest - he’s definitely chaotic good. He acts as his conscience directs, with little regard for what others expect (PHB 5th Ed). He doesn’t care about laws but he has a strong sense of justice, and he’s willing to do whatever is necessary to achieve what he thinks is right.

For his class, he’d start out as a Rogue, he relays on skill, stealth, and his foes vulnerabilities to get the upper hand in any situation, he has a knack for finding the solution for just about any problem (PHB 5th Ed). At level three he’d take the thief subclass. But, after level 8 (read: his death in Ethiopia) he’d multi-class. Here’s where it get’s complicated, and I can see it going a bunch of different ways. My partner and I came up with half a dozen options talking through this last night, but these are my two favorite:

Option 1: He’d multi-class as a dex-based Vengeance Paladin. He’s sworn an oath of vengeance to set right that which has gone wrong, his own purity is not as important as delivering justice (PHB 5th Ed). At surface level, this might sound like Bruce’s class, but the key here is that a Vengeance Paladin is willing to sacrifice even their own righteousness to meet out justice upon those who do evil.

Option 2: He’d switch his subclass to assassin (home brew, remember), and he’d start taking levels as a dex-based Fighter with the Samurai subclass, his resolve is nearly unbreakable, his enemies have two choices: yield or die fighting (Xanathar’s Guide to Everything).

In either option, he’d dual wield finesse weapons skinned to be his kris and a handgun.

I think he’d have a custom backstory, something centered around being a foundling given his history of atypical adoptions, first by Bruce and then Talia.

Answering this was oodles of fun, anon, thanks for the ask!!! 💙

[erotetica]

May or may not have Xanathar’s Guide to Everything + several 5e campaign books

On this G Drive file

[ashmcgivern]

Slaying Adatok: The Paragon of Shatterpeak, is available now for free!

"Slaying Adatok: The Paragon of Shatterpeak" is an unofficial dragon-slaying Dungeons and Dragons 5e adventure for Level 20 players. Players will venture into 4 unique lairs where they will de-power The Barrier protecting the peak of Shatterpeak Mountain. Once they climb to the mountain's top, they will get to face off with Adatok the Paragon, the Amethyst Greatwyrm.

This adventure includes a two pdfs (one normal and one print-friendly), battlemaps and art for each of the 7 unique locations and custom tokens for every named monster and NPC. As a Dungeon Master you shouldn't have to do any extra legwork to find assets to play your adventure!

This adventure assumes that you own the following sourcebooks.

Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

Dungeon Master's Guide

Player's Handbook

Monster Manual

Xanathar's Guide to Everything

If you played this adventure, please tag me on social media (@AshMcGivern) and let me know how it went. If you enjoyed it, consider leaving a tip! Either way thank you so much for playing!

Download it here from Ko-Fi!

[cagemasterfantasy]

Dnd 5e (source) books for @doodl3 as a thank you for editing for me

Players Handbook Dungeon master's guide Monster Manual Volo's Guide to Monsters Xanathar's Guide To Everything Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes (Tome of Foes was dedicated to dnd artist William O'Connel who passed away during devlopment of the book at the age of 47) Tasha's Cauldron of Everything Fizban's Treasury of Dragons Mordenkainen's Monsters of the Multiverse Bigby Presents Glory of the Giants (please forgive me this was the best one I could find) (also please forgive me for not including the book The Book of Many Things I couldn't find a pdf for it)

Now for the different dnd settings

Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide Guildmasters Guide to Ravnica Eberron -Rising from the Last War Mythic Odysseys of Theros (you're really going to love that one as that introduced Satyr as a playable race) Van Richtens Guide to Ravenloft Astral Adventurer's Guide Boo's Astral Menagerie (if you love space you are going to love the previous 2) (Also sadly I couldn't find a good version for Sigil and the Outlands, Turn of Fortune's Wheel or Morte's Planar Parade :( I tried I really did)

(Enjoy these 3 adventures though) Strixhaven A Curriculum of Chaos Dragonlance - Shadow of the Dragon Queen and Light of Xaryxis (with the third one you need to use Astral Adventurer's Guide and Boo's Astral Menagerie)

thank you so much for editing my book. :) @doodl3

To any other adventurer including you who stumbles upon this please enjoy. May your story go far and wide and your dice rolls be even higher.

[zyana-wyvern]

Dream Walker ❉ Fey Speaker

Druids who are members of the Circle of Dreams hail from regions that have strong ties to the Feywild and its dreamlike realms. The druids’ guardianship of the natural world makes for a natural alliance between them and good-aligned fey. These druids seek to fill the world with dreamy wonder. Their magic mends wounds and brings joy to downcast hearts, and the realms they protect are gleaming, fruitful places, where dream and reality blur together and where the weary can find rest. Source: Xanathar's Guide to Everything

[thehomelybrewster]

I just want to share a spell with y'all that I can't believe people don't make fun of it. That being Skill Empowerment, a 5th-level transmutation spell for artificers, bards, sorcerers, and wizards, found in Xanathar's Guide to Everything.

It gives a creature expertise in a skill it already has proficiency with for its duration, which requires concentration from the caster.

Sure, expertise is nice to have... But sacrificing a 5th-level spell slot for it, with concentration, is such a bad deal! And the class selection is so random. Bard is perfect, but why artificer & sorcerer & wizard? I'd have given that to cleric and maybe ranger, too?

Enhance Ability already exists and it's better in every way. It's available earlier (it's a 2nd-level spell after all), it gives advantage (statistically a +5 to rolls), and it applies to all ability checks using an ability score! Give your rogue Cat's Grace and they'll benefit for both the stealth skill and the sleight of hand skill!

And the best part is that you can even upcast Enhance Ability to give more creatures that same benefit. By using a 5th-level slot, you can target four creatures with it, and not just one.

Enhance Ability is legendarily bad, a useless little segment in a very useful and good 5e book.