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Action Options

This section provides new action options for combat. They can be added as a group or individually to your game....

DMG · 2014
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Adamantine Weapons

Adamantine is an ultrahard metal found in meteorites and extraordinary mineral veins. In addition to being used to...

XGE · 2014
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Alien Technology

When adventurers find a piece of technology that isn't from their world or time period, the players might understand...

DMG · 2014
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Alternatives to Epic Boons

You might decide to grant one of the following rewards to a 20th-level character, instead of awarding an epic boon....

DMG · 2014
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Automatic Success

Sometimes the randomness of a d20 roll leads to ludicrous results. Let's say a door requires a DC 15 Strength check...

DMG · 2014
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Cleaving Through Creatures

If your player characters regularly fight hordes of lower-level monsters, consider using this optional rule to help...

DMG · 2014
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Customizing Ability Scores

At your Dungeon Master's option, you can use this variant for determining your ability scores. The method described...

PHB · 2014
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Customizing Your Origin

At 1st level, you choose various aspects of your character, including ability scores, race, class, and background....

TCE · 2014
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Diagonals

The Player's Handbook presents a simple method for counting movement and measuring range on a grid: count every...

DMG · 2014
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Downtime Activity: Building a Stronghold

A character can spend time between adventures building a stronghold. Before work can begin, the character must...

DMG · 2014
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Downtime Activity: Buying a Magic Item

Purchasing a magic item requires time and money to seek out and contact people willing to sell items. Even then,...

XGE · 2014
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Downtime Activity: Carousing

Characters can spend their downtime engaged in a variety of hedonistic activities such as attending parties, binge...

DMG · 2014
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Downtime Activity: Carousing

Carousing is a default downtime activity for many characters. Between adventures, who doesn't want to relax with a...

XGE · 2014
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Downtime Activity: Crafting

You can craft nonmagical objects, including adventuring equipment and works of art. You must be proficient with...

PHB · 2014
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Downtime Activity: Crafting a Magic Item

Magic items are the DM's purview, so you decide how they fall into the party's possession. As an option, you can...

DMG · 2014
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Downtime Activity: Crafting an Item

A character who has the time, the money, and the needed tools can use downtime to craft armor, weapons, clothing, or...

XGE · 2014
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Downtime Activity: Crime

Sometimes it pays to be bad. This activity gives a character the chance to make some extra cash, at the risk of...

XGE · 2014
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Downtime Activity: Gaining Renown

A character can spend downtime improving his or her renown within a particular organization (see "Renown" in chapter...

DMG · 2014
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Downtime Activity: Gambling

Games of chance are a way to make a fortune—and perhaps a better way to lose one. Resources This activity requires...

XGE · 2014
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Downtime Activity: Performing Sacred Rites

A pious character can spend time between adventures performing sacred rites in a temple affiliated with a god he or...

DMG · 2014
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Downtime Activity: Pit Fighting

Pit fighting includes boxing, wrestling, and other nonlethal forms of combat in an organized setting with...

XGE · 2014
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Downtime Activity: Practicing a Profession

You can work between adventures, allowing you to maintain a modest lifestyle without having to pay 1 gp per day (see...

PHB · 2014
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Downtime Activity: Recuperating

You can use downtime between adventures to recover from a debilitating injury, disease, or poison. After three days...

PHB · 2014
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Downtime Activity: Relaxation

Sometimes the best thing to do between adventures is relax. Whether a character wants a hard-earned vacation or...

XGE · 2014
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Downtime Activity: Religious Service

Characters with a religious bent might want to spend downtime in service to a temple, either by attending rites or...

XGE · 2014
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Downtime Activity: Research

Forewarned is forearmed. The research downtime activity allows a character to delve into lore concerning a monster,...

XGE · 2014
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Downtime Activity: Researching

The time between adventures is a great chance to perform research, gaining insight into mysteries that have unfurled...

PHB · 2014
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Downtime Activity: Running a Business

Adventurers can end up owning businesses that have nothing to do with delving into dungeons or saving the world. A...

DMG · 2014
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Downtime Activity: Scribing a Spell Scroll

With time and patience, a spellcaster can transfer a spell to a scroll, creating a spell scroll. Resources Scribing...

XGE · 2014
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Downtime Activity: Selling a Magic Item

Selling a magic item is by no means an easy task. Con artists and thieves are always looking out for an easy score,...

XGE · 2014

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