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"The Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game is about storytelling in worlds of swords and sorcery. Like games of make-believe, D&D is driven by imagination. It's about picturing a crumbling castle in a darkening forest and imagining how a fantasy adventurer might react to the challenges that scene presents. In this fantasy world, the possibilities are limitless.",
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" {@comic That's a really poetic o-o-opening, Morty, and it's all kinda mostly true, but the theater major who wrote that forgot to mention...} "
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"{@comicH1 POWER, morty!}",
"{@comic The most {@i important} part of D&D.}",
"{@comic People play this game because they want limitless power and treasure and to act like a complete badass all the time.}",
"{@comic I-I-I mean, honestly, it's the {@i illusion} of power, Morty. We play games to distract ourselves from the reality that the universe is an unfeeling, uncontrollable s***storm and everything we do is {@b {@i {@comicH4 MEANINGLESS}}}, but fine, fine. That's just a b-b-*BURP*-baseline assumption we have to make because this is a human game for human people.}",
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"{@comic W-w-we're not playing {@i Glabbins & Gunchins} with a buncha Bloofians, now are we? No, no we're not.}",
"{@comic Dungeons & Dragons is a portal gun to {@b {@i {@comicH4 INFINITE IDEAS}}} and {@b {@i {@comicH4 INFINITE POWER}}} without n-n-needing to be a genius like me who built one, Morty. It's not as {@i good} as a portal gun, but it's also a lot {@b cheaper} and doesn't require unstable energy sources to operate.}",
"{@comicH1 it's good stuff.}"
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"Dungeon Master (DM): The castle stands among the trees, the crumbling ruins of seven round towers jutting up from it like broken teeth. An archway littered with twisted shards of rusted metal gapes open at the top of a short flight of steps. Two of the towers, speckled with dark arrow slits, loom beside the entryway, and a dark hall yawns beyond.",
"Phillip (cleric): Let's send the rogue up ahead to look in and make sure it's safe.",
"Amy (rogue): OK, I'll move to the side and sneak along the wall of the tower until I can peer in through the entrance."
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" {@comic What kind of cleric sends somebody in to die for them, anyway? He's totally complicit, Morty.} "
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"Unlike a game of make-believe, D&D gives structure to the stories\u2014a way of determining the consequences of the adventurers' actions. Players roll dice to determine whether their attacks hit or miss and whether their characters can scale a cliff, roll away from the strike of a magical lightning bolt, or pull off some other dangerous task. Anything is possible, but the dice make some things more probable than others.",
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"{@comic Calculate probabilities all you want, Morty, but don't get caught up in it, because the minute you do, those dice are gonna p-p-{@i punish} you, Morty. Fate is a fickle mistress.}"
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"DM: All right, Amy, let's see how sneaky you are. Make a Dexterity check.",
"Amy: With my {@skill Stealth} skill, right?",
"DM: You bet.",
"Amy (rolling a {@dice d20}): I'm pretty sneaky\u2014that's a 17.",
"DM: OK, there's no sign that anyone notices you. And you're looking inside?"
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"When you play D&D, you take on the role of an adventurer: a skilled fighter, a devout cleric, a deadly rogue, or a spellcasting wizard. (The character sheets included in this set describe five heroes to get you started.) With some friends and a little imagination, you strike out on grand quests and daring adventures, testing yourself against an array of challenges and bloodthirsty monsters.",
"One player takes on the role of the Dungeon Master, the game's lead storyteller and referee. The DM is in charge of the adventure, which appears in the adventure book, while the characters navigate the adventure's hazards and decide where to explore. The DM might describe the entrance to a ruined castle, and the players decide what they want their adventurers to do. Will they boldly stride up to the fallen gate, or try to sneak up in case anyone's watching through those arrow slits? Circle around the castle looking for another entrance? Or cast a spell to cloak themselves in invisibility?",
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"{@comicH3 Yeah and no.}",
"{@comic Being a Dungeon Master is all that stuff, but it's a lot {@i more} than that.}",
"{@comic {@comicH1 playing d&d is good, but running it is a total power load, morty!}}",
"{@comic Y-y-you get to be a {@comicH3 god}, Morty. You control the h-h-horizontal and the vertical. Y-y-ou tell the players what's going on and then you entertain their asses with your {@i brilliance}, Morty. You get a little taste of what it's like to be {@comicH3 me}, all the time. I'm your teacher now. School can't help you here. School is a {@i prison}. Ninety-two percent of races in the universe don't even believe in schools\u2014because they know. They already know.}",
"{@comic Anyway, the point is, the Dungeon Master is in charge, and since I don't want that balding little turd from the {@b cartoon} messing with us again, that means {@comicH3 I'm} in charge. O-o-or if you're reading this book right now, which you are if you're seeing these words, th-th-then {@i you're} in charge! {@b {@i {@comicH4 YOU}! }}I totally just {@i deputized} you by the power of Greyhawk, or whatever it is.}"
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"{@comic This is a book for {@comicH3 new players} so they don't want to blow your mind, Morty, but stuff can get wild. Literally, if you can imagine it, it can be in your game!}",
"{@comicH3 I'm talking about owlbears, Morty! }",
"{@comic Th-th-that's an owl mixed with a bear! And they lay eggs, Morty! {@b {@i {@comicH4 OWLBEAR EGGS}}}! You crack open one of those and a giant beak-faced heap of {@comicH3 goop} comes out. I-i-it's delicious on toast. You've gotta try it.}",
"{@comic Anyway, that's just the tip of iceberg. Take a gander through the Monster Manual sometime and get a glimpse of what these sick designers come up with. It'll blow your mind, Morty.}"
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"The DM determines the results of the adventurers' actions and narrates what the characters experience. Because the DM can improvise to react to anything the players attempt, D&D is infinitely flexible, and each adventure can be exciting and unexpected.",
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" {@comic {@b {@i {@comicH4 \"UNEXPECTED\"}}} i-i-is the key word there, Morty. Your job as the DM is to mess with player expectations.} {@comicH1 mess them up real good.} {@comic Set 'em up and then tweak their nipples, Morty. You're not winning until someone cries. It's about the journey, not the destination.} "
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"There's no winning and losing in D&D\u2014at least not the way those terms are usually understood. Together, the DM and the players create a story of bold adventurers who confront deadly perils. Sometimes an adventurer might come to a grisly end, torn apart by ferocious monsters or done in by a nefarious villain. Even so, the other adventurers can search for powerful magic to revive their fallen comrade, or the player might choose to play a new character. The group might fail to complete an adventure successfully, but if the players had a good time and created a memorable story, they all win.",
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"{@comic Th-th-that makes for a nice sales pitch, but it's horse poop, Morty. Life is all about \"winners\" and \"losers.\" Captain Drama-Pants here doesn't want to admit that when his character dies, he's a loser, but he is.}",
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"{@comic Lemme make this really clear: {@b {@i {@comicH4 THE DUNGEON MASTER IS THE WINNER BY DEFAULT}.}}}",
"{@comic B-b-being in charge and messing with your friends makes you {@comicH3 top dog}, dawg. After that, it comes down to who gets the most phat loot, experience points, and who rolled the best.}",
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"{@comic I-i-if creating some compelling narrative about your m-m-motivations for saving your brother the Prince of Pituitary who was taken by rabid rust monsters gets your rocks off, well then whoop-de-doo for you, but i-i-in the end it all comes down to {@b {@i {@comicH4 POWER}}} and {@b {@i {@comicH4 CONTROL}}}. Y-y-you've got it, or you don't.}"
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"If this is your first time playing Dungeons & Dragons, start by reading the rest of this chapter. It tells you the most important rules you need to play the game.",
"Someone needs to be the Dungeon Master for your first play experience. Since you're reading this, you're a good candidate to be the DM. (If one of your friends knows how to play D&D already, you might want to ask that person to be the DM and help you learn the game.) Once you've read this chapter, take a look at the first few pages of the adventure book. That will help you understand the role of the DM and the basics of a D&D adventure.",
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"{@comic Thanks, book. I'm gonna show Morty and everyone else how Dungeon Mastering {@i really} works.}",
"{@comic {@b {@i {@comicH4 D&D RICKTH EDITION}}} takes the b-b-*BURP*-basics and blows them out a demon lord's turdhole.}"
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"From there, look over the rest of this book. You don't need to memorize everything before your first game, but it helps if you know where to find the rules while you play. Then get familiar with the adventure, and you'll be ready to gather your friends together to play.",
"Each player chooses one character from the {@adventure five options included|RMBRE|0}. It's up to the players to turn these bare-bones characters into people by giving them names, describing their appearance, and bringing them to life while playing through the adventure. If you have more than five players, it's OK for two players to use the same character, as long as they make the details of the character distinct; one cleric might be a jolly woman named Sefris, while the other is a severe man named Albric.",
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"{@comic Using the same character as someone else is kind of a dick move, but I get it. A non-genius human mind can only handle so many options, and f-f-five is all they put in this box, so go with what you've got, right? It's probably easier to just get rid of one of your friends.} {@b {@i {@comicH4 {@b {@i {@comicH2 LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP ARE}}} B-B-*BURP*-{@b {@i {@comicH2 BIOLOGICAL BULLS**T}}}}}} {@comic Also, I might just be editorializing at this point, but {@i who names a character Albric}? Use the real name of somebody at the table. What are they gonna do about it?} "
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"The game uses polyhedral dice. In these rules, the different dice are referred to by the letter d followed by the number of sides: {@dice d4}, {@dice d6}, {@dice d8}, {@dice d10} (the 0 on the die represents a 10), {@dice d12}, and {@dice d20}. For instance, a {@dice d6} is a six-sided die.",
"Percentile dice, or {@dice d100}, work a little differently. You generate a number between 1 and 100 by rolling the ten-sided die twice. The first roll gives the tens digit, and the second gives the ones digit. If you roll a 7 and a 1, for example, the number rolled is 71. Two 0s represent 100.",
"When you need to roll dice, the rules tell you how many dice to roll of a certain type, as well as what modifiers to apply. For example, \"{@dice 3d8 + 5}\" means you roll three eight-sided dice, add them together, and add 5 to the total.",
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"{@comic There's only one set in here, so that means they're {@comicH3 mine}. Get your own dice. That way you can blame {@i them} for all your shortcomings. Tell your friends to get their own set, too.}",
"{@comic If you start sharing dice, people will start expecting you to share everything. You gotta nip that in the bud, or the next thing you know, you'll wake up in an alley without a kidney.}",
"{@comicH1 You can never have too many dice, Morty!}"
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"The D&D game consists of a group of characters (controlled by the players) embarking on an adventure that the DM presents. The adventure is the heart of the game. An adventure unfolds as a story that the DM and the other players tell together using the material in the adventure book, in another published adventure, or in a setting of the DM's creation. The DM sets the scene at the start, giving the adventurers a reason to get involved. They are the protagonists of the story. The players control what they do, and the DM controls the monsters and people the adventurers meet. {@highlight The DM also decides how the world changes as a result of the adventurers' actions.}",
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"{@comic Ha-HA! It's right there in the rules, Morty! The DM decides! Suck it, everyone else!}"
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"Play of an adventure unfolds according to this basic pattern:",
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"The DM tells the players where their adventurers are and what's around them, presenting the basic scope of options available: how many doors lead out of a room, what's on a table, who's in the tavern, and so on. The players can ask questions to make sure they understand what their characters perceive.",
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"{@comic {@comicH3 Don't let players trick you, Morty.} Players constantly ask questions as a way to try and make stuff happen that you didn't intend. Are they spending too much time investigating that stupid dark corner in the tavern? Now there's a tentacle monster in it.}"
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"Sometimes one player speaks for the whole group, saying, \"We'll take the east door,\" for example. Other times, different adventurers do different things. One adventurer might search a treasure chest while a second one examines an esoteric symbol engraved on a wall and a third one keeps watch for monsters. The players don't need to take turns, but the DM listens to every player and decides how to resolve those actions.",
"Sometimes, resolving a task is easy. If an adventurer wants to walk across a room and open a door, the DM might just say that the door opens and describe what lies beyond. But the door might be locked, the floor might hide a deadly trap, or some other circumstance might make it challenging for an adventurer to complete a task. In those cases, the DM decides what happens, often relying on the roll of a die to determine the results of an action.",
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"{@comic {@b Here's an extra tip: if you're the DM, you can roll your dice behind a fancy screen and lie like crazy about the results.}}",
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"{@comic {@b Y-y-you don't want to be obvious about it, Morty\u2014like, try to pretend that you actually rolled that number\u2014b-b-but if you want a certain outcome, just lie like crazy.}}",
"{@comic {@b They can question you about it, and they don't have to like the answers. That's on them.}}"
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"Describing the results often leads to another decision point, which brings the flow of the game right back to step 1.",
"This pattern holds whether the adventurers are cautiously exploring an ancient ruin, talking to a devious prince, or locked in mortal combat against a dragon. In certain situations, particularly combat, the action is more structured and the players (and DM) do take turns choosing and resolving actions. But most of the time, play is fluid, adapting to the circumstances of the adventure.",
"Often the action of an adventure takes place wholly in the imagination of the players and DM, relying on the DM's verbal descriptions to set the scene. Some DMs like to use music, art, or recorded sound effects to help set the mood, and many players and DMs alike adopt different voices for the various adventurers, monsters, and other characters they play in the game. Sometimes, a DM might lay out a map and use tokens or {@highlight miniature figures} to represent each creature involved in a scene to help the players keep track of where everyone is.",
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"{@b {@comic Miniatures and maps are fine, j-j-just don't get carried away, Morty. One time I got really drunk and grew actual miniatures of creatures and characters and put 'em in a little dungeon together because I thought it would be more realistic and save time, but}}",
"{@comicH1 IT WAS A F***ING DISASTER! }",
"{@b {@comic The tiny characters whined because they didn't have food and they were starving, and the little monsters just started shedding and barfing everywhere.}}",
"{@b {@comic It was a real mess.}}"
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"This set is a complete Dungeons & Dragons experience, enough to provide hours of play. You can even play through the adventure book multiple times. You might be surprised at how differently things can turn out! But one of the most rewarding things about D&D is that it provides the opportunity to create characters, and even worlds, of your own.",
"For tools and other products to help you make your own characters, visit {@link DungeonsandDragons.com|https://dungeonsanddragons.com}. There you will find the basic rules of the game for free. Those rules tell you how to create your own character to supplement or replace the characters in this set, as well as how to advance a character beyond 5th level.",
"If you want to create a greater variety of characters or populate your adventures with other monsters, check out the fifth edition {@book Player's Handbook|PHB}, {@book Monster Manual|MM}, and {@book Dungeon Master's Guide|DMG}. These advanced rulebooks introduce you to the vast multiverse of D&D and invite you to create unique characters and worlds within it."
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"{@comic {@comicH1 DAMN, MORTY!}}",
"{@comic It's only chapter 1 and these wily sons of b****es are already going for the upsell. Capitalism at work, Morty.}"
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"Round down whenever the game requires you to halve a number. For example, {@highlight if you halve 15, you get 7.}",
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"{@comic L-l-leave it to Wizards of the Coast to reinvent {@b {@i {@comicH4 MATH}}}!}",
"{@comicH1 JEEZ.}"
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"Six abilities provide a quick game description of every character's and monster's physical and mental characteristics:",
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"{@b Strength}, measuring physical power",
"{@b Dexterity}, measuring agility",
"{@b Constitution}, measuring endurance",
"{@b Intelligence}, measuring reasoning and memory",
"{@b Wisdom}, measuring perception and insight",
"{@b Charisma}, measuring force of personality"
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"Is a character muscle-bound and insightful? Brilliant and charming? Nimble and hardy? For each of the six abilities, a character or monster has an {@b ability score} to measure it, typically ranging from 3 to 18. An adventurer can have a score as high as 20. A monster can have one as high as 30.",
"The most important function of an ability score is providing an {@b ability modifier} that usually ranges from \u22121 (for a score of 8 or 9) to +4 (for a score of 18). This modifier applies to ability checks, saving throws, and attack rolls, as explained in the next few sections.",
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"{@comic {@comicH1 here's what you really need to know about these abilities, morty:}}",
"{@comic {@comicH3 STRENGTH:} How to hit stuff}",
"{@comic {@comicH3 DEXTERITY:} How to keep from being hit by stuff}",
"{@comic {@comicH3 CONSTITUTION:} How to survive getting hit by stuff}",
"{@comic {@comicH3 INTELLIGENCE:} Good for arcane stuff}",
"{@comic {@comicH3 WISDOM:} Finding stuff}",
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"If multiple situations affect a roll and each one grants advantage or imposes disadvantage on it, you don't roll more than one additional {@dice d20}. If two favorable situations grant advantage, for example, you still roll only one additional {@dice d20}.",
"If circumstances cause a roll to have both advantage and disadvantage, you are considered to have neither of them, and you roll one {@dice d20}. This is true even if multiple circumstances impose disadvantage and only one grants advantage or vice versa. In such a situation, you have neither advantage nor disadvantage.",
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"To make an ability check, roll a {@dice d20} and add the appropriate ability modifier. You use your Strength modifier for a Strength check, for example.",
"If the total equals or exceeds the DC, the ability check is a success. Otherwise, the check is a failure, which means the character or monster makes no progress toward the objective or makes progress combined with a setback determined by the DM.",
"Often, the adventure book tells the DM what kind of check a character can make, the DC of the check, and what happens if the character succeeds or fails. Since characters often try unpredictable things, though, the adventure book also provides advice to help the DM decide what kind of ability check and DC to use in a particular situation.",
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"Both participants in a contest make ability checks appropriate to their efforts. They apply all appropriate bonuses and penalties, but instead of comparing the total to a DC, they compare the totals of their two checks.",
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"A Dexterity check might, for example, reflect a character's attempt to pull off an acrobatic stunt, to palm an object, or to stay hidden. Each of these aspects of Dexterity has an associated skill: {@skill Acrobatics}, {@skill Sleight of Hand}, and {@skill Stealth}, respectively. So a character who has proficiency in the {@skill Stealth} skill is particularly good at Dexterity checks related to sneaking and hiding.",
"Sometimes, the DM might ask for an ability check using a specific skill\u2014for example, \"Make a Wisdom ({@skill Perception}) check.\" At other times, a player might ask the DM if proficiency in a particular skill applies to a check. In either case, proficiency in a skill means a character can add his or her proficiency bonus to ability checks that use that skill. Without proficiency in the skill, the character makes a normal ability check.",
"For example, if a character attempts to climb up a dangerous cliff, the Dungeon Master might ask for a Strength ({@skill Athletics}) check. If the character is proficient in {@skill Athletics}, the character's proficiency bonus is added to the Strength check. If the character lacks that proficiency, he or she just makes a Strength check.",
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"You can't hide from a creature that can see you, and if you make noise (such as shouting a warning or knocking over a vase), you give away your position. An {@condition invisible} creature can't be seen, so it can always try to hide. Signs of its passage might still be noticed, however, and it still has to stay quiet.",
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"{@comic Have you ever got a {@i paper cut} in the webby part between your fingers, Morty? It's the most painful thing in the universe. No one can even {@i see} it, but it still b-b-*BURP*-{@i burns}, Morty. Paper cuts can happen at {@b any} moment, and when they do, you've just got to keep it together. The world's a dangerous place, Morty. I can't believe they didn't mention that Constitution's how you keep your s*** {@comicH3 locked down}.}",
"{@comic Drinking! Look, I kn-kn-know the D&D people don't want to glorify drinking in a game for 13-year-olds, but y-y-you're {@b {@i {@comicH4 14}}}, Morty. Also, this is the theater of the mind, or whatever, so it's not {@i real} drinking\u2014but trust me, you're gonna love that too.}"
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"When there is any question whether you can calm down a domesticated animal, keep a mount from getting spooked, or intuit an animal's intentions, the DM might call for a Wisdom ({@skill Animal Handling}) check. You also make a Wisdom ({@skill Animal Handling}) check to control your mount when you attempt a risky maneuver.",
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"{@comic S-s-some players think they're {@i animal whisperers}, Morty. Don't let them befriend animals in your game. It always starts with one {@b wolf} or {@b squirrel}, then, next thing you know, you're tracking a f***ing {@b {@i {@comicH4 MENAGERIE}}}, each one with their own character sheet. {@i N-n-no pets}!}"
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"{@comic There's no meaning to any of this, Morty. Not D&D, not life, nothing. So here's how you deal with this:}",
"{@comic Tell them that there's something {@i fishy} going on, but refuse to elaborate, no matter how high they roll.}",
"{@comic {@comicH3 OR }}",
"{@comic Grab a random scrap of paper from behind your DM screen and scribble a symbol on it, just seriously {@comicH3 anything}, then surreptitiously slide it over to them.}",
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"{@comic That Insight stuff I mentioned earlier goes {@comicH3 double} for Perception, Morty.}",
"{@comic Some players just can't stop staring and listening and sniffing instead of {@i doing}. It can't all be that interesting, but they're gonna try anyway.}"
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"In most cases, you need to describe where you are looking in order for the DM to determine your chance of success. For example, a key is hidden beneath a set of folded clothes in the top drawer of a bureau. If you tell the DM that you pace around the room, looking at the walls and furniture for clues, you have no chance of finding the key, regardless of your Wisdom ({@skill Perception}) check result. You would have to specify that you were opening the drawers or searching the bureau in order to have any chance of success."
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"To make a saving throw, roll a {@dice d20} and add the appropriate ability modifier. For example, you use your Dexterity modifier for a Dexterity saving throw.",
"A saving throw can be modified by a situational bonus or penalty and can be affected by advantage and disadvantage, as determined by the DM.",
"A character sheet indicates a character's saving throw proficiencies. As with skill proficiencies, proficiency in a saving throw lets a character add his or her proficiency bonus to saving throws made using a particular ability score. Some monsters have saving throw proficiencies as well.",
"The Difficulty Class for a saving throw is determined by the effect that causes it. When a spell allows a saving throw, for instance, the DC for that save is determined by the caster's spellcasting ability and proficiency bonus.",
"The result of a successful or failed saving throw is also detailed in the effect that forces the save. Usually, a successful save means that a character or monster suffers no harm, or reduced harm, from an effect.",
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"{@b 2. Establish positions}. The DM decides where all the characters and monsters are located. Given the adventurers' marching order or their stated positions in the room or other location, the DM figures out where the adversaries are\u2014how far away and in what direction.",
"{@b 3. Roll initiative}. Everyone involved rolls initiative, determining the order of combatants' turns.",
"{@b 4. Take turns}. Each participant in the battle takes a turn in initiative order.",
"{@b 5. Begin the next round}. When everyone involved in the combat has had a turn, the round ends. Repeat step 4 until the fighting stops."
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"If you're {@quickref Surprise|PHB|3|0|surprised}, you can't move or take an action on your first turn of the combat, and you can't take a reaction until that turn ends. A member of a group can be {@quickref Surprise|PHB|3|0|surprised} even if the other members aren't.",
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"The DM ranks the combatants in order from the one with the highest Dexterity check total to the one with the lowest. This is the order (called the initiative order) in which they act during each round. The initiative order remains the same from round to round.",
"If a tie occurs, the DM decides the order among tied DM-controlled creatures, and the players decide the order among their tied characters. The DM can decide the order if the tie is between a monster and a player character. Optionally, the DM can have the tied characters and monsters each roll a {@dice d20} to determine the order, highest roll going first.",
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"The most common actions you can take are described in the \"{@book Actions in Combat|RMR|1|Actions in Combat}\" section later in this chapter. Many class features and other abilities provide additional options for your action.",
"The \"{@book Movement and Position|RMR|1|Movement and Position}\" section later in this chapter gives the rules for your move.",
"You can forgo moving, taking an action, or doing anything at all on your turn. If you can't decide what to do on your turn, consider taking the {@action Dodge} or {@action Ready} action, as described in \"{@book Actions in Combat|RMR|1|Actions in Combat}.\"",
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"You can take only one bonus action on your turn, so you must choose which bonus action to use when you have more than one available.",
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"You can also interact with one object or feature of the environment for free, during either your move or your action. For example, you could open a door during your move as you stride toward a foe, or you could draw your weapon as part of the same action you use to attack.",
"If you want to interact with a second object, you need to use your action. Some magic items and other special objects always require an action to use, as stated in their descriptions.",
"The DM might require you to use an action for any of these activities when it needs special care or when it presents an unusual obstacle. For instance, the DM could reasonably expect you to use an action to open a stuck door or turn a crank to lower a drawbridge.",
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"{@comicH1 \"AW HELL NO, SON!\"}",
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"{@comic because that's really what it is.}",
"{@comic Some evil spellcaster tries to set something off when you're standing right there and you get to say {@i \"AW HELL NO, SON!\"} and do your thing instead.}",
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"In combat, characters and monsters are in constant motion, often using movement and position to gain the upper hand. On your turn, you can move a distance up to your speed. You can use as much or as little of your speed as you like on your turn, following the rules here. Your move can include jumping, climbing, and swimming, as described in {@book chapter 3|RMR|2}.",
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"You can break up your movement on your turn, using some of your speed both before and after your action. For example, if you have a speed of 30 feet, you can move 10 feet, search for a trap door, and then move 20 feet.",
"Similarly, if you take an action that includes more than one weapon attack, you can break up your movement even further by moving between those attacks.",
"If you have more than one speed, such as your walking speed and a flying speed, you can switch back and forth between your speeds during your move. Whenever you switch, subtract the distance you've already moved from the new speed. The result determines how much farther you can move. For example, if you have a speed of 30 and a flying speed of 60 because a wizard cast the {@spell fly} spell on you, you could fly 20 feet, then walk 10 feet, and then leap into the air to fly 30 feet more.",
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"{@comic If you got a wizard to cast the {@i fly} spell on you, then you should {@i never set your feet on the ground until that spell expires}.}",
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"You can {@b drop {@condition prone}} without using any of your speed. {@b Standing up} takes more effort; doing so costs an amount of movement equal to half your speed. For example, if your speed is 30 feet, you must spend 15 feet of movement to stand up. You can't stand up if you don't have enough movement left or if your speed is 0.",
"To move while {@condition prone}, you must {@b crawl} or use magic such as teleportation. Every foot of movement while crawling costs 1 extra foot. Crawling 1 foot in {@quickref difficult terrain||3}, therefore, costs 3 feet of movement."
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"You can move through a nonhostile creature's space. In contrast, you can move through a hostile creature's space only if it is at least two sizes larger or smaller than you (creature sizes are detailed in the adventure book). Whether a creature is a friend or an enemy, you can't willingly end your move in its space.",
"If you move out of an enemy's reach, you provoke an opportunity attack, as explained later in the chapter.",
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"When you take your action on your turn, you can take one of the actions presented here, an action you gained from your class or a special feature, or an action that you improvise. When you describe an action not detailed elsewhere in the rules, the DM tells you whether that action is possible and what kind of roll you need to make, if any, to determine success or failure.",
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"The most common action to take in combat is the {@action Attack} action, whether you are swinging a sword, firing an arrow from a bow, or brawling with your fists.",
"With this action, you make one melee or ranged attack. See the \"{@book Making an Attack|RMR|1|Making an Attack}\" section for the rules that govern attacks.",
"Certain features, such as the Extra Attack feature that the fighter gets at 5th level, allow you to make more than one attack with this action.",
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"{@comic Just imagine for a second that you're {@u not} a 14-year-old weakling with crushing anxiety and low intellect. This is roleplaying, remember? Okay, so imagine that you're cool like your character is supposed to be cool, and then {@b {@i {@comicH4 DESCRIBE THE COOL THINGS YOU THINK THEY SHOULD DO}.}}}",
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"{@comic Pretend you're cool, roll a big number, paint a gorgeous word-picture, and watch as your friends cheer... over a stupid {@b die roll}! It's ridiculous, but it's also kind of beautiful, you know?}"
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"{@comic \"Disengage\" is also w-what I do whenever Jerry starts talking.}",
"{@comic Just stare at his left eye or right nostril or whatever, and let your eyesight lose focus. Unwrap your mind from the world.}",
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"When you take the {@action Dodge} action, you focus entirely on avoiding attacks. Until the start of your next turn, any attack roll made against you has disadvantage if you can see the attacker, and you make Dexterity saving throws with advantage. You lose this benefit if you are {@condition incapacitated} (as explained in {@book appendix A|RMR|4}) or if your speed drops to 0."
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"You can lend your aid to another creature in the completion of a task. When you take the {@action Help} action, the creature you aid gains advantage on the next ability check it makes to perform the task you are helping with, provided that it makes the check before the start of your next turn.",
"Alternatively, you can aid a friendly creature in attacking a creature within 5 feet of you. You feint, distract the target, or in some other way team up to make your ally's attack more effective. If your ally attacks the target before your next turn, the first attack roll is made with advantage.",
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"First, you decide what perceivable circumstance will trigger your reaction. Then, you choose the action you will take in response to that trigger, or you choose to move up to your speed in response to it. Examples include \"If the cultist steps on the trapdoor, I'll pull the lever that opens it,\" and {@highlight \"If the goblin steps next to me, I move away.\"}",
"When the trigger occurs, you can either take your reaction right after the trigger finishes or ignore the trigger. Remember that you can take only one reaction per round.",
"A spell must have a casting time of 1 action to be readied, and holding onto the spell's magic until you release it with your reaction requires concentration (explained in {@book chapter 4|RMR|3}). For example, if you are concentrating on the {@spell web} spell and ready {@spell magic missile}, your {@spell web} spell ends, and if you take damage before you release {@spell magic missile} with your reaction, your concentration might be broken.",
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"{@b 1. Choose a target}. Pick a target within your attack's range: a creature, an object, or a location.",
"{@b 2. Determine modifiers}. The DM determines whether the target has cover and whether you have advantage or disadvantage against the target. In addition, spells, special abilities, and other effects can apply penalties, bonuses, advantage, or disadvantage to your attack roll.",
"{@comic 2A{@b . Describe your attack in a cool way}. Why are you even playing this game if you're just going to be your normal, boring-ass self?}",
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"{@comic 3A.{@b Curse your luck}. When you roll like s***, and trust me, you will sometimes, curse the polyhedron gods who look down and laugh at your misery. We all do it when the dice go to hell. This time, it's your turn. But lucky for you, this is a great time to use those fancy cuss words you learned online.}",
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"When you make an attack, your attack roll determines whether the attack hits or misses. To make an attack roll, roll a {@dice d20} and add the appropriate modifiers. If the total of the roll plus modifiers equals or exceeds the target's Armor Class (AC), the attack hits. Each character's AC is shown on the character sheet, and each monster's AC is in the monster's stat block.",
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"When you make a spell attack, you add your proficiency bonus to the attack roll.",
"{@comic {@b Hidden Bonus}. If no one is looking, add something like +1 or +3 to your roll\u2014depending on how much you think you can get away with. Never pull this when I'm the DM, though. If I catch you cheating, I'll saw your hands off and attach them to your butt so you clap every time you fart.}"
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"If the {@dice d20} roll for an attack is a 20, the attack hits regardless of any modifiers or the target's AC. This is called a critical hit, which is explained later in this chapter.",
"If the {@dice d20} roll for an attack is a 1, the attack misses regardless of any modifiers or the target's AC.",
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"When you attack a target that you can't see, you have disadvantage on the attack roll. This is true whether you're guessing the target's location or you're targeting a creature you can hear but not see. If the target isn't in the location you targeted, you automatically miss, but the DM typically just says that the attack missed, not whether you guessed the target's location correctly.",
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"When you make a ranged attack, you fire a bow or a crossbow, hurl a handaxe, or otherwise send projectiles to strike a foe at a distance. A monster might shoot spines from its tail. Many spells also involve making a ranged attack.",
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"Used in hand-to-hand combat, a melee attack allows you to attack a foe within your reach. Most creatures have a 5-foot reach and can thus attack targets within 5 feet of them. Certain creatures (typically those larger than a human) have greater reach, as noted in their descriptions.",
"You can make a melee attack without a weapon by making an {@b unarmed strike}: a punch, kick, head-butt, or other forceful blow. You add your proficiency bonus and Strength modifier to the attack roll. On a hit, it deals bludgeoning damage equal to 1 + your Strength modifier.",
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"{@comic In real life, it can be fun to punch someone in the squishy bits or jam an elbow in their eye, but {@i not} in D&D.}",
"{@comic Killing monsters and enemies is a time-honored tradition, Morty.}",
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"You can make an opportunity attack when a hostile creature that you can see moves out of your reach. To make the opportunity attack, you use your reaction to make one melee attack against the provoking creature. The attack interrupts the provoking creature's movement, occurring right before it leaves your reach.",
"You can avoid provoking an opportunity attack by taking the {@action Disengage} action. You also don't provoke an opportunity attack when you teleport or when someone or something moves you without using your movement, action, or reaction. For example, you don't provoke an opportunity attack if {@highlight an explosion hurls you} out of a foe's reach or if gravity causes you to fall past an enemy.",
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"There are three degrees of cover. If a target is behind multiple sources of cover, only the most protective degree of cover applies; the degrees aren't added together.",
"A target with {@b half cover} has a +2 bonus to AC and Dexterity saving throws. A target has half cover if an obstacle blocks at least half of its body. The obstacle might be a low wall, a large piece of furniture, a narrow tree trunk, or a creature, whether that creature is an enemy or a friend.",
"A target with {@b three-quarters cover} has a +5 bonus to AC and Dexterity saving throws. A target has three-quarters cover if about three-quarters of it is covered by an obstacle. The obstacle might be a portcullis, an arrow slit, or a thick tree trunk.",
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"A creature's current hit points (usually just called hit points), can be any number from the creature's hit point maximum down to 0. This number changes frequently as a creature takes damage or receives healing.",
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"When attacking with a {@b weapon}, you add your ability modifier\u2014the same modifier used for the attack roll\u2014to the damage. A {@b spell} tells you which dice to roll for damage and whether to add any modifiers. If a spell or other effect deals damage to {@b more than one target} at the same time, roll the damage once for all of them.",
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"For example, if you score a critical hit with a dagger, roll {@dice 2d4} for the damage, rather than {@dice 1d4}, and then add your relevant ability modifier. If the attack involves other damage dice, such as from the rogue's Sneak Attack feature, you roll those dice twice as well.",
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"{@comic Notice that there aren't any critical fails here in the rules. That's because the math is {@i completely ridiculous}.}",
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"The types are acid, bludgeoning, cold, fire, force, lightning, necrotic, piercing, poison, psychic, radiant, slashing, and thunder.",
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"{@comic No saving throw.}",
"{@comic No resistance.}",
"{@comic Hits the character right in b-b-*BURP*-breadbasket and makes 'em fold over like Jerry after realizing his marriage was a meaningless sham.}",
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"If a creature or an object has {@b resistance} to a damage type, damage of that type is halved against it. If a creature or an object has {@b vulnerability} to a damage type, damage of that type is doubled against it.",
"Resistance and then vulnerability are applied after all other modifiers to damage. For example, a creature has resistance to bludgeoning damage and is hit by an attack that deals 25 bludgeoning damage. The creature is also within a magical aura that reduces all damage by 5. The 25 damage is first reduced by 5 and then halved, so the creature takes 10 damage.",
"Multiple instances of resistance or vulnerability that affect the same damage type count as only one instance. For example, if a creature has resistance to fire damage as well as resistance to all nonmagical damage, the damage of a nonmagical fire is reduced by half against the creature, not reduced by three-quarters.",
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"When a creature receives healing of any kind, hit points regained are added to its current hit points. A creature's hit points can't exceed its hit point maximum, so any hit points regained in excess of this number are lost. A creature that has died can't regain hit points until magic, such as a {@spell revivify} spell, has restored it to life.",
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"{@comic It's all just those little HP numbers goin' up and down, up and down.}",
"{@comic Y-y-y-you don't have to worry about pulling groin muscles, or plugged sinuses, or cranial deterioration from experimenting on your own b-b-brain, or liver damage from the drinking, o-o-or the emotional toil on your soul from abandoning your family multiple times across infinite dimensions... it's... it's just a number.}",
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"Most DMs have a monster die the instant it drops to 0 hit points, rather than having it fall {@condition unconscious} and make death saving throws.",
"Mighty villains and special nonplayer characters are common exceptions; the DM might have them fall {@condition unconscious} and follow the same rules as player characters.",
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"{@comicH3 The universe doesn't care about any of us, Morty.}",
"{@comic I-I-I {@i checked}! I-I-I searched for a really long f***ing time to see if there was any point to any of this at all, and the honest answer is...}",
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"{@comic Death just {@b happens}, Morty. The whole thing is just cells changing states. Composing and decomposing. {@b Over and over}. }",
"{@comic Th-th-the sooner you {@i accept} that, Morty, the sooner you'll see why we play games... w-w-why we distract ourselves from the {@b meaningless} reality of entropic f-f-forces acting all around us.}",
"{@comicH1 everything's a game, morty; but here you get to be a god.}",
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"{@comic A god your mom created\u2014and {@i I} created your mom, so what does that make {@b me}, Morty?!}",
"{@comic {@comicH3 I'm your} grandgod, {@comicH3 Morty!}}"
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"Roll a {@dice d20}. If the roll is 10 or higher, you succeed. Otherwise, you fail. A success or failure has no effect by itself. On your third success, you become stable (see below). On your third failure, you die. The successes and failures don't need to be consecutive; keep track of both until you collect three of a kind. The number of both is reset to zero when you regain any hit points or become stable.",
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"You can use your action to administer first aid to an {@condition unconscious} creature and attempt to stabilize it, which requires a successful DC 10 Wisdom ({@skill Medicine}) check.",
"A {@b stable} creature doesn't make death saving throws, even though it has 0 hit points, but it does remain {@condition unconscious}. The creature stops being stable, and must start making death saving throws again, if it takes any damage. A stable creature that isn't healed regains 1 hit point after {@dice 1d4} hours."
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"{@comicH3 I'm up! I'm up! I'm up!}",
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"{@comic Oh yeah,}",
"{@comicH1 D&D RULES, DAWG!}",
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"{@comic Did I already say the part about me being your {@i grandgod}? Well, that hasn't changed, Morty, {@b and it never will}!}",
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"Over the course of an adventure, the characters might travel across wide areas, on trips that could take days. The DM can usually summarize this travel without calculating exact distances or travel times: \"You travel through the forest and find the old ruin late in the evening of the third day.\" Characters can walk about 24 miles in a day.",
"{@comic I call it \"Saddle Talk,\" the transitional story bulls**t that happens in between combat, XP calculation, and loot hoarding.}",
"{@comic Give your players some Saddle Talk time and they can pretend they're doing their own super-angsty cable show drama while you prep the next encounter.}",
"{@comic Don't go overboard, though, or you'll hear about how \"our game should totally be a movie\" for the rest of your life.}",
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"\u2014"
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"\u2014"
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"50 gp",
"{@dice 1d10} piercing",
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"{@comic It's kinda funny the first time one of your players says they're gonna pick up a trout and slap a bad guy with it, but don't encourage that, Morty.}",
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"{@comic Summer is {@b right}, Morty.}",
"{@comic Damsels in distress and chainmail bikinis are a thing of the {@comicH3 past}. Bad tropes gotta die off, Morty.}"
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"5 lb."
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"7 lb."
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"\u2014"
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[
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[
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"\u2014"
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"\u2014"
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"5 lb."
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[
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[
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"3 lb."
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[
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"10 lb."
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"\u2014"
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"\u2014"
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"8 lb."
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"\u2014"
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"\u2014"
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"10 lb."
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"\u2014"
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"20 lb."
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"{@comicH1 LOOK AT THIS, MORTY!}",
"{@comic The D&D designers {@i know} that keeping track of basic spell components is ridiculous, so they include this grab bag of dollar store crap to magic s*** up with.}",
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"{@comic Got stuck in a pile of bird crap and my pecker was never the same.}"
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" {@comic {@i Anything} can be a torch, if you try hard enough.} {@comic Actually, you don't have to try that hard.} {@comic {@b {@i {@comicH4 IT'S FIRE, MORTY}.}}} {@comic Even {@b you} can figure this one out.} {@comic {@b Literally} humanity's first invention, Morty.} "
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"Most spells have ranges expressed in feet. Some spells can target only a creature (including you) that you touch.",
"Other spells, such as the {@spell shield} spell, affect only you. These spells have a range of self.",
"Spells that create cones or lines of effect that originate from you also have a range of self, indicating that the origin point of the spell's effect must be you (see \"{@book Areas of Effect|RMR|3|Areas of Effect}\" later in the this chapter).",
"Once a spell is cast, its effects aren't limited by its range, unless the spell's description says otherwise.",
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"If a spell specifies that the material component is consumed by the spell, the caster must provide this component for each casting of the spell.",
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"A spell's description specifies its area of effect, which typically has one of four different shapes: cone, cube, line, or sphere (each illustrated on the DM screen). Every area of effect has a point of origin, a location from which the spell's energy erupts. The rules for each shape specify how you position its point of origin. Typically, a point of origin is a point in space, but some spells have an area whose origin is a creature or an object.",
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"The DC to resist one of your spells equals 8 + your spellcasting ability modifier + your proficiency bonus. This number is on the character sheets for the cleric and the wizard, and in the statistics for a monster that casts spells."
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"Some spells require the caster to make an attack roll to determine whether the spell effect hits the intended target. Your attack bonus with a spell attack equals your spellcasting ability modifier + your proficiency bonus.",
"Most spells that require attack rolls involve ranged attacks. Remember that you have disadvantage on a ranged attack roll if you are within 5 feet of a hostile creature that can see you and that isn't {@condition incapacitated} (see {@book chapter 2|RMR|1})."
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"The effects of different spells add together while the durations of those spells overlap. The effects of the same spell cast multiple times don't combine, however. Instead, the most potent effect\u2014such as the highest bonus\u2014from those castings applies while their durations overlap.",
"For example, if two clerics cast {@spell bless} on the same target, that character gains the spell's benefit only once; he or she doesn't get to roll two bonus dice.",
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"{@b Abjuration} spells are protective, often creating barriers or warding off trespassers. {@b Conjuration} spells transport objects or creatures from one location to another. {@b Divination} spells reveal glimpses of the future, the locations of hidden things, or visions of distant people or places. {@b Enchantment} spells affect the minds of others, influencing or controlling their behavior. {@b Evocation} spells tap mystical sources of energy to create a variety of effects, including blasts of fire and channeling positive energy to heal wounds. {@b Illusion} spells deceive the senses or minds of others. {@b Necromancy} spells manipulate the energies of life and death. {@b Transmutation} spells change the properties or physical form of a creature or object."
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"{@comic Ignore most of this, Morty.}",
"{@comic The only two schools of magic you need to worry about are {@i evocation} and {@i necromancy}, blowing s*** up and messing with the dead\u2014preferably at the same time.}"
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"{@comicH1 50+ SPELLS}",
"{@comic are too much for your {@i tiny} mind to handle, Morty, so I went through and rated them so you'll know which ones are gonna get you m-m-{@comicH3 mad killz} and which ones your {@i dad} thinks are cool.}"
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"Light {@comicNote Ok}",
"Resistance {@comicNote Ok}",
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"Thaumaturgy {@comicNote ok}"
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"Cure Wounds {@comicNote YES}",
"Detect Magic {@comicNote OK}",
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"Healing Word {@comicNote YES}",
"Inflict Wounds {@comicNote YES, HURT}",
"Sanctuary {@comicNote JERRY SPELL}",
"Shield of Faith {@comicNote OK}"
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"Aid {@comicNote JERRY SPELL}",
"Augury {@comicNote JERRY SPELL}",
"Hold Person {@comicNote OK}",
"Lesser Restoration {@comicNote OK}",
"Prayer of Healing {@comicNote YES}",
"Silence {@comicNote OK}",
"Spiritual Weapon {@comicNote YES, HURT}",
"Warding Bond {@comicNote JERRY SPELL}"
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"Beacon of Hope {@comicNote JERRY SPELL}",
"Dispel Magic {@comicNote JERRY SPELL}",
"Mass Healing Word {@comicNote YES}",
"Protection from Energy {@comicNote JERRY SPELL}",
"Revivify {@comicNote OK}",
"Spirit Guardians {@comicNote OK}"
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"Dancing Lights {@comicNote JERRY SPELL}",
"Light {@comicNote OK}",
"Mage Hand {@comicNote YES}",
"Prestidigitation {@comicNote YES}",
"Ray of Frost {@comicNote YES, CHILL}",
"Shocking Grasp {@comicNote YES, ZAP}"
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"Charm Person {@comicNote JERRY SPELL}",
"Comprehend Languages {@comicNote JERRY SPELL}",
"Detect Magic {@comicNote OK}",
"Feather Fall {@comicNote Yes}",
"Identify {@comicNote OK}",
"Mage Armor {@comicNote YES}",
"Magic Missile {@comicNote YES, Poke}",
"Shield {@comicNote OK}",
"Sleep {@comicNote Meh}",
"Thunderwave {@comicNote Yes, Rumble}"
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"Darkness {@comicNote OK}",
"Flaming Sphere {@comicNote Yes, Burn}",
"Hold Person {@comicNote OK}",
"Invisibility {@comicNote YES}",
"Misty Step {@comicNote OK}",
"Spider Climb {@comicNote OK}",
"Suggestion {@comicNote JERRY SPELL}",
"Web {@comicNote OK}"
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"Dispel Magic {@comicNote JERRY SPELL}",
"Fireball {@comicNote Oh Hell YES}",
"Fly {@comicNote YES}",
"Lightning Bolt {@comicNote YES, Big Zap}",
"Protection from Energy {@comicNote JERRY SPELL}"
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]
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"Presented in alphabetical order, these spells are used by characters and monsters in this set.",
"Some of the spells cause {@b conditions}, including {@condition charmed}, {@condition deafened}, {@condition frightened}, {@condition invisible}, {@condition paralyzed}, {@condition prone}, {@condition restrained}, and {@condition unconscious}. Consult {@book appendix A|RMR|4} to learn a condition's effects in the game.",
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"{@comic This is for theater majors and Jerrys. Don't worry about divining the future when you play D&D, Morty. The story will find you when you start killing.}",
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"{@comic If you really wanna charm someone, do what everyone else does\u2014get rich and buy their loyalty.}",
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"{@comic Everyone speaks it and translations are crystal clear. Jerrys want to talk through a battle or \"parlay\" their asses out of conflict. Never do that.}",
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"{@comic {@comicH3 Pure Jerry.} This is life or death combat, not a f***ing {@b rave}.}",
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"{@comic Not as good as blasting monsters, but it has its place. Getting the drop on some sucker and gutting 'em is pretty sweet.}",
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"{@comic Anything that helps you find more magic loot is fine by me.}",
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"{@comic You'll float safely to the ground, while those suckers are tearily planning your funeral.}",
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"{@comic This is {@b the} classic {@comicH3 pyro-bomb} and it's beautiful, Morty. Chuck this into a room of monsters and get out the marshmallows.}",
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"{@comic If you need this spell to make your ability check, maybe you just shouldn't do that thing you're doing? Stay in your lane, Jerry.}",
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"{@comic Awwww yeah, {@comicH3 God Bolt}. Give 'em that radiant damage where the sun don't shine.}",
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"{@comic You can just utter a word to yourself and you feel quantifiably better, Morty! Your life's essence goes back up! Who needs a long rest!}",
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"{@comic Stopping some dingus in their tracks is aight. Not as cool as lighting them on fire, but maybe that's step two.}",
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"{@comic Learning what magic loot you just pulled off the corpses of your vanquished foes is a worthwhile investment.}",
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"{@comic Drop eldritch vengeance on your enemies and then VORP right outta sight. {@b Classic}.}",
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"{@comic If you're stupid and didn't pick up fireball, then you better grab this. Zap, Crackle, Pop, b*****s!}",
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"{@comic Push stuff around.}",
"{@comic Trigger a trap from a safe distance.}",
"{@comic Mess with your friends.}",
"{@comic Pick your horse's nose while riding said horse.}",
"{@comic {@b I-I can keep going.}}",
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"{@comic Notice this spell's most {@b important} feature, Morty: {@comicH3 NO ATTACK ROLL.}}",
"{@comic It hits and hurts. Simple-dimple. Little glowing arrows of death at your command, and nobody can do s*** about it.}",
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"{@comic Smart clerics hold this spell in reserve until their party members pay up. These heals don't come cheap.}",
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"{@comic Perfect for ripping a big nasty fart and then moving elsewhere for maximum deniability.}"
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"{@comic That 10-minute casting time is a {@i buzzkill}, but when your crew's doing the downtime thing, it gives you something to occupy yourself with so you don't have to participate in their campfire bonding rituals.}",
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"{@comic I bet at first glance you figured I'd call this as a Jerry spell, but it's {@i not}, Morty. Prestidigitation is {@b awesome}! It doesn't take up any spell slots because it's a cantrip. That means you can use it {@b constantly}... and you {@i should}.}",
"{@comic Everywhere your wizard goes, they'll have glittering teeth, musky magic cologne, a warming glow, and their own personal soundtrack. Clean clothes, too. The other members of your party are gonna shamble into town smelling like ass while you get to be Slick McDick, Wizard Supreme.}",
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"{@comic Don't waste third level spell slots on protecto-trash. Kill your enemies fast and you won't even need defense.}",
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},
"{@comic This is it, Morty, the third of the holy triumvirate of low-level wizard DPS. It's a song of ice {@b and} fire {@b AND} lightning.}",
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"{@comic Wait, the material component for this is \"a miniature cloak\"?}",
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"name": "Shield",
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"collapsed": true
},
"{@comic The spellcasting equivalent of a {@b jockstrap}: useful in the right circumstances, but way cooler if you can do your thing without needing it\u2014and eventually it'll need a wash.}",
{
"type": "statblock",
"tag": "spell",
"source": "PHB",
"name": "Shield of Faith",
"page": 59,
"collapsed": true
},
"{@comic I dunno, I kinda respect this.}",
"{@comic A cleric who takes 10 minutes to {@status concentration||concentrate} on how much they love their god so {@i you} can get punched harder. That's pretty metal.}",
{
"type": "statblock",
"tag": "spell",
"source": "PHB",
"name": "Shocking Grasp",
"page": 59,
"collapsed": true
},
"{@comic Like shuffling your feet on a carpet just before slapping some sense into a goblin.}",
{
"type": "statblock",
"tag": "spell",
"source": "PHB",
"name": "Silence",
"page": 59,
"collapsed": true
},
"{@comic I like busting this one out on enemy spellcasters and then throwing up the universal sign language for \"Oops! Guess you're f***ed!\"}",
{
"type": "statblock",
"tag": "spell",
"source": "PHB",
"name": "Sleep",
"page": 59,
"collapsed": true
},
"{@comic A spell that requires me to tiptoe around the battlefield is not my style, Morty. Like, I get that it can be useful, but it still just feels like a stopgap.}",
"{@comic It's not {@i full} Jerry, but it's also not rushing into my prepared spell list either.}",
{
"type": "statblock",
"tag": "spell",
"source": "PHB",
"name": "Spider Climb",
"page": 60,
"collapsed": true
},
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"type": "inset",
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"{@comic I enjoy throwing spells down from above while walking on the ceiling. I'm man enough to admit it.}"
]
},
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"type": "statblock",
"tag": "spell",
"source": "PHB",
"name": "Spirit Guardians",
"page": 60,
"collapsed": true
},
"{@comic Crazy ghosts that zap monsters for you?}",
"{@comic That's f***ing cool.}",
"{@comic It's more hands-off than my typical \"crush your enemies, see them driven before you\" approach, but I definitely see the appeal.}",
{
"type": "statblock",
"tag": "spell",
"source": "PHB",
"name": "Spiritual Weapon",
"page": 60,
"collapsed": true
},
"{@comic There's {@i nothing} as demoralizing as being hit by a big ol' {@comicH3 ghost schlong}.}",
{
"type": "statblock",
"tag": "spell",
"source": "PHB",
"name": "Suggestion",
"page": 60,
"collapsed": true
},
"{@comic Here's a {@b real} suggestion: don't take a spell that requires 10 minutes of arguing at the table to figure out if it worked or not.}",
{
"type": "statblock",
"tag": "spell",
"source": "PHB",
"name": "Thaumaturgy",
"page": 61,
"collapsed": true
},
"{@comic This spell wants to be prestidigitation for clerics, but it's definitely on the weak side. Here's some harmless tremors for you\u2014*FAAART*}",
{
"type": "statblock",
"tag": "spell",
"source": "PHB",
"name": "Thunderwave",
"page": 61,
"collapsed": true
},
"{@comic Let this baby fly when the bass drops, Morty. Trust me. The crowd will go {@i wild}.}",
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"type": "statblock",
"tag": "spell",
"source": "PHB",
"name": "Warding Bond",
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"collapsed": true
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"type": "inset",
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"type": "image",
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"{@comic Here's a better idea: How about I {@i don't} link my life force to somebody else? I don't know or trust any of these clowns.}"
]
},
{
"type": "statblock",
"tag": "spell",
"source": "PHB",
"name": "Web",
"page": 61,
"collapsed": true
},
"{@comic I'm not here to tell anyone {@b where} and {@b when} they should blow their personal sticky load, y'know? Th-th-that's a personal choice.}",
"{@comic Everybody needs to make their own decisions.}"
]
}
]
},
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"Conditions alter a creature's capabilities in a variety of ways and can arise as a result of a spell, a class feature, a monster's attack, or other effect. Most conditions, such as {@condition blinded}, are impairments, but a few, such as {@condition invisible}, can be advantageous.",
"A condition lasts either until it is countered (the {@condition prone} condition is countered by standing up, for example) or for a duration specified by the effect that imposed the condition.",
"If multiple effects impose the same condition on a creature, each instance of the condition has its own duration, but the condition's effects don't get worse. A creature either has a condition or doesn't.",
"The following definitions specify what happens to a creature while it is subjected to a condition.",
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"name": "Blinded",
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"source": "PHB",
"name": "Charmed",
"page": 62
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"type": "statblock",
"tag": "condition",
"source": "PHB",
"name": "Deafened",
"page": 62
},
{
"type": "statblock",
"tag": "condition",
"source": "PHB",
"name": "Exhaustion",
"page": 62
},
{
"type": "statblock",
"tag": "condition",
"source": "PHB",
"name": "Frightened",
"page": 62
},
{
"type": "statblock",
"tag": "condition",
"source": "PHB",
"name": "Grappled",
"page": 62
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"type": "statblock",
"tag": "condition",
"source": "PHB",
"name": "Incapacitated",
"page": 62
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"type": "statblock",
"tag": "condition",
"source": "PHB",
"name": "Invisible",
"page": 62
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"type": "statblock",
"tag": "condition",
"source": "PHB",
"name": "Paralyzed",
"page": 62
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"href": {
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"type": "statblock",
"tag": "condition",
"source": "PHB",
"name": "Petrified",
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"type": "image",
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{
"type": "statblock",
"tag": "condition",
"source": "PHB",
"name": "Poisoned",
"page": 62
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"type": "statblock",
"tag": "condition",
"source": "PHB",
"name": "Prone",
"page": 62
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"type": "image",
"href": {
"type": "internal",
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{
"type": "statblock",
"tag": "condition",
"source": "PHB",
"name": "Restrained",
"page": 62
},
{
"type": "statblock",
"tag": "condition",
"source": "PHB",
"name": "Stunned",
"page": 62
},
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"type": "image",
"href": {
"type": "internal",
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{
"type": "statblock",
"tag": "condition",
"source": "PHB",
"name": "Unconscious",
"page": 62
},
{
"type": "image",
"href": {
"type": "internal",
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"height": 371,
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}
]
},
{
"type": "section",
"name": "{@comicH1 APPENDIX B: WHAT IS THE F***ING POINT?!}",
"page": 63,
"id": "1bc",
"entries": [
"{@comic {@comicH3 Okay, Morty.} Maybe it's just the vodka and the tranquilizers talking, b-b-but I think we've reached a critical moment in your D&D education. Y-y-you've internalized a lot of the key features, and you're tingling with anticipation of the adventures to come.}",
"{@comic That's good, that's real good. Now your grandpa Rick's gonna blow your tiny mind and teach you the {@b deepest} and {@b darkest} part of D&D...}",
"{@comic {@b {@i {@comicH4 NONE OF THIS MATTERS}.}}}",
"{@comic What?!}",
"{@comic YEAH.}",
"{@comicH1 the rules don't MEAN S***.}",
"{@comic I know what you're thinking. You're thinking,}",
"{@comic {@i \"Why the hell did I just go through over sixty pages of dice and rolling and systems and spells and whatever else if none of it matters?! Why do millions of people play this weird nerdy game and invest themselves in it if none of it matters?!\"}}",
"{@comic Y-y-your brain is focused on the game as it is, instead of the game as it {@b could} be, Morty. I-I-I told you at the start that D&D is a {@i portal gun}, and I meant that, even while I was taking potshots at Wizards of the Coast and their corporate overlord bean counters.}",
"{@comic People don't live heroic lives, Morty. They trudge through their feeble existence wishing they had some kind of b-b-b-*BURP*-bigger role in the universe.}",
"{@comic {@comicH3 That's what D&D really is, Morty.}}",
"{@comic It's a weird little place where everyone gets to gut goblins and blast bugbears and be kinda sorta awesome for a little while. Sometimes it's weird and annoying but when it works, Morty, when it really {@b works}, and your players are putty in the palm of your hand\u2014their hopes and dreams hanging on your every word and a roll of the dice....}",
"{@comic That's why we do this, get it?}",
"{@comic You know I-I-I'm not a fan of {@i bureaucracy} o-o-or {@i systems}. I don't do {@b absolutes}. Neither should you.}",
"{@comic I can teach you D&D Rickth Edition and make it {@b obvious} what you {@i should} be doing, but in the end you're gonna do it your own way. You're gonna screw it all up and make a mess, and then start over and then screw it up in new and different ways.}",
"{@comic Good.}",
"{@comic {@comicH3 Roll the dice. Get stupid.}}",
"{@comicH1 entertain yourself. entertain your friends too.}",
"{@b {@i {@comicH4 THE REST DOESN'T MATTER}.}}",
"{@comic The rest is just corporate branding and nostalgia, sucking face with nihilistic attention-seeking edgelords in search of the mighty dollar.}",
"{@comic Yeah, I said it.}",
"{@comic {@comicH3 Truth bomb barr}*uuuuurrrrp*{@comicH3 age!}}",
"{@comic Ready to see how a {@b master} crafts a memorable dungeoneering experience, Morty? Keep a hold of your butt cheeks and take a peek at the {@b adventure book}:}",
"{@comicH1 {@adventure the lost dungeon of rickedness: Big Rick Energy|RMBRE}}"
]
},
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"type": "section",
"name": "Credits",
"entries": [
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"type": "list",
"style": "list-hang-notitle",
"items": [
{
"type": "item",
"name": "Lead Designer",
"entries": [
"Kate Welch"
]
},
{
"type": "item",
"name": "Adventure Designers and Rulebook Commenters",
"entries": [
"Ryan Hartman, Adam Lee, Ari Levitch, Jim Zub"
]
},
{
"type": "item",
"name": "Adventure Developer",
"entries": [
"Ben Petrisor"
]
},
{
"type": "item",
"name": "Playtest Coordinator",
"entries": [
"Bill Benham"
]
},
{
"type": "item",
"name": "Editors",
"entries": [
"F. Wesley Schneider, Jeremy Crawford, Dan Dillon, Scott Fitzgerald Gray, Christopher Perkins"
]
},
{
"type": "item",
"name": "Art Directors",
"entries": [
"Kate Irwin, Shauna Narciso, Richard Whitters"
]
},
{
"type": "item",
"name": "Graphic Designer",
"entries": [
"Emi Tanji"
]
},
{
"type": "item",
"name": "Cover Illustrator",
"entries": [
"Troy Little"
]
},
{
"type": "item",
"name": "Illustrators",
"entries": [
"Eric Belisle, Conceptopolis, Wayne England, Randy Gallegos, Troy Little, Brynn Metheney, Ryan Pancoast, Steve Prescott, Richard Sardinha, Ilya Shkipin, Matt Stawicki, Autumn Rain Turkel, Kieran Yanner"
]
},
{
"type": "item",
"name": "Cartographers",
"entries": [
"Kate Welch, Richard Whitters"
]
},
{
"type": "item",
"name": "Original Rulebook Designer",
"entries": [
"Jeremy Crawford"
]
},
{
"type": "item",
"name": "Original 5th Edition Designers",
"entries": [
"Jeremy Crawford, Mike Mearls, Christopher Perkins, James Wyatt, Rodney Thompson, Robert J. Schwalb, Peter Lee, Steve Townshend, Bruce R. Cordell"
]
},
{
"type": "item",
"name": "Original 5th Edition Editors",
"entries": [
"Chris Sims, Michele Carter, Scott Fitzgerald Gray, Kim Mohan"
]
},
{
"type": "item",
"name": "Based on the Griginal D&D Game By",
"entries": [
"E. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson"
]
},
{
"type": "item",
"name": "Producer",
"entries": [
"Dan Tovar"
]
},
{
"type": "item",
"name": "Project Manager",
"entries": [
"Bill Benham"
]
},
{
"type": "item",
"name": "Brand Manager",
"entries": [
"Shelly Mazzanoble"
]
},
{
"type": "item",
"name": "Production Services",
"entries": [
"Cynda Callaway, Kevin Yee, David Gershman, Jefferson Dunlap"
]
},
{
"type": "item",
"name": "VP, Franchise & Global Brand Strategy",
"entries": [
"Nathan Stewart"
]
},
{
"type": "item",
"name": "Director Licensing & Publishing",
"entries": [
"Liz Schuh"
]
},
{
"type": "item",
"name": "Franchise Creative Director",
"entries": [
"Mike Mearls"
]
},
{
"type": "item",
"name": "Licensing Manager",
"entries": [
"Hilary Ross"
]
},
{
"type": "item",
"name": "Marketing and Communications",
"entries": [
"Bart Carroll, Pelham Greene, Greg Tito, Anna Vo"
]
},
{
"type": "item",
"name": "Product Specialist",
"entries": [
"Christopher Lindsay"
]
},
{
"type": "item",
"name": "Game Designer",
"entries": [
"Dan Dillon"
]
},
{
"type": "item",
"name": "Senior Graphic Designer",
"entries": [
"Trish Yochum"
]
},
{
"type": "item",
"name": "Associate Producer",
"entries": [
"Lea Heleotis"
]
}
]
},
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"type": "image",
"href": {
"type": "internal",
"path": "book/RMR/152-ram-condition-stunned.webp"
},
"width": 321,
"height": 508
}
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