Monsters and Villains
This creature, famous for its 10 eyestalks which shoot deadly rays, has been a D&D staple since 1975.
What are beholders?
Don’t be fooled by its name. This setting is well-known for its iconic locations such as Waterdeep, Neverwinter, and Baldur’s Gate
What is the Forgotten Realms?
In previous editions, your character had a race and a class. Now it also has one of these to define its place in the world.
What is a background?
This class, once a subclass of the fighter, is a skilled tracker, hunter, and wilderness survivalist.
What is a Ranger?
With the ability to remove 10,000 XP or destroy all your magical items, only the most foolhardy would draw a card from this legendary deck.
What is the Deck of Many Things?
These vicious mutated hyenas, spawn of the Demon Lord Yeenoghu, now sow chaos and destruction across the lands
What are Gnolls?
Looking for airships, warforged, and other steampunk bullshit? You’d best head to this setting, first released for 3rd edition.
What is Eberron?
Introduced as a core part of character advancement in 3rd edition, these areas of special training and specific talent are optional game elements now. And you have to trade in an ability score increase to get one.
What are Feats?
This class was the only spellcaster that used Intelligence, until the introduction of the Artificer in Wayfinder’s Guide to Ebberon
What is a wizard?
If you tear this bag, you’ll have to travel to the Astral Plane to get your loot back.
What is a Bag of Holding?
These powerful undead, holed up in castles and keeps, used to be able to remove character levels from players.
What are Vampires?
This setting was inspired by Roman and Greek mythology, and was first introduced as a Magic: The Gathering plane in 2013.
What is Theros?
DAILY DOUBLE!
In the earliest editions, you’d make one against Rods, Staves and Wands. In 3rd Edition, you’d make a Reflex one. Nowadays, you just make a Dexterity one of these.
This particular form of spellcasting differs from all the others; in that the limited amount of spell slots it offers are all the same level.
What is Pact Magic?
Hold this foot-long iron bar, click a button, and now it levitates perfectly in place.
What is an Immovable Rod?
These virtuous dragons could use their breath to blast cones of cold, but they prefer to make friends with the lesser races instead.
What are Silver Dragons?
Released in 1991, this setting features a harsh desert world, where civilization has retreated to city-states controlled by god-like Sorcerer-Kings.
What is Dark Sun?
While it hasn’t been that way for a long time, some people did prefer when the lower this statistic was, the better.
What is Armor Class?
If you want to play this class and use a sword, you’ll have to make do with scimitars.
What is a druid?
Thirsty? Best not take a drink from this flask, which could house a number of interplanar creatures.
What is an Iron Flask?
This archmage turned lich turned god was ultimately destroyed by his own lieutenant. Now, only his hand and eye remain.
Who is Vecna?
Though not published until 1975, this setting predates Dungeons & Dragons by several years as the setting for David Arneson’s personal fantasy wargames.
What is Blackmoor?
Though relegated to a condition and a damage type in 5th edition, back in the day, this particularly nasty attack could instantly kill you if you didn’t have a cure on hand.
What is Poison?
This feature gained by barbarians and monks lets you add an additional modifier to your AC, so long as you’re not wearing armor.
What is Unarmored Defense?
This legendary sword once granted a +5 bonus to all attacks. Nowadays, it’s only +3, but its bonus radiant damage against fiends or undead will surely make up for that.
What is the Holy Avenger?