Increasing Saving Throw DC - A Compendium

[Langsley]

Lastest Update: Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica


Will write later for newer people/ because not everything is 100% intuitive.


Methods
·Increase Ability Scores
·Increase Proficiency


cLv6 bardLore
·Additional Magical Secrets: Grab any CC spell

cLv10 Bard
·Magical Secrets: see above

cLv9 rogueATrick
·Magical Ambush (spells only): if caster is hidden, disadv on all saves

cLv3 Sorc
·Metagmagic - Heightened Spell (spells only)

cLv6 sorcShadow
·Hound of Ill Omen (spells only)

cLv6 sorcWildM
·Bend Luck

cLv2 wizDiv
·Portent

sLv1 Bard/Cleric/palVengeance
·Bane

sLv2 Artificer/Sorc/Wiz
·Enlarge/Reduce (disadv StrS)

sLv3 Bard/Cleric/pal(Conquest,Oathbreaker)/Wiz
·Bestow Curse

sLv5 Cleric/Druid/palOathbreak/lockUndying
·Contagion

Ioun Stone of Mastery
·+1 Proficiency

Attunement: Sorc/lock/Wiz
Robe of the Archmagi
·+2 DC to spell saves

Attunement: lock
Rod of the Pact Keeper
DC of warlock spells += rod rarity Lv


Level 3(pts.) Exhaustion: Disadv on all Saving Throws
Paralyzed: fails Str & Dex
Petrified: fails Str & Dex
Restrained: Disadv Dex
Stunned: fails Str & Dex
Unconscious: fails Str & Dex



Starvation[PBH 185]
Gain 1pt/day for everyday without food beyond 3+Con

Dehydration[PBH 185]
·[1gallon/day/2gal on a hot day] else DC 15 ConS; 1pt
·+2pts if Exhaustion Lv >= 1

Sleep Deprivation[XGE 78]
·Everyday without long rest, DC 10 ConS, else +1pt

Cackle Fever[DMG 257]
·Targets humanoids; gnomes are immune
·+1pt max; can't be removed until disease ends

Sewer Plague[DMG 257]
·targets humanoids; DC 11 ConS or infected
·delivery method: animal bite, infected meat, or general filth contact
·Post-infection:
·1d4 days later, +1pt.
·After that, DC 11 ConS after Lrest; +1pt on fail, -1pt on succ

Swimming[DMG 116]
·end of every hour, DC 10 ConS, else +1pt

Chases[DMG 252]
·for every dash over 3+Con dashes, DC 10 ConC


Extreme Cold[DMG 110]
·temp < 0°F, DC 10 ConS every hour, else +1pt
Emtreme Heat[DMG 110]
·temp > 100°F && no water, ConS every hour, else +1pt
·DC==5 for the first hour, +1DC every hour after
·creatures wearing medium/heavy armor or heavy clothes have disadv on the save
Frigid Water[DMG 110]
·Time in water before effect takes place == Con
·DC 10 ConS every minute after, else +1pt

Optional Rule: Psychic Dissonance[DMG 59]
if Lrest on a plane opposing a creature's good/evil alignment
·DC 10 ConS, else +1pt

Optional Rule: Mad Winds[DMG 62]
While in Pandemonium
·DC 10 WisS every hr, else +1pt

Optional Rule: Vile Transformation[DMG 63]
While in Hades
·DC 10 WisS, end of Lrest, else +1pt


Ring of X-Ray Vision[DMG 193]
·Using the ring more than once before Lrest incurs DC15 ConS, else +1pt

Sorc/lock/Wiz
sLv4 Sickening Radiance[Conc10min] - ConS
·1pt/rd
·Exhaust pts only last until end of spell


sLv2 Bard/Cleric/Druid/Sorc/Warlock/Wiz
·Hold Person - WisS on humanoid

sLv5 Bard/Sorc/Warlock/Wiz
·Hold Monster - WisS on creature; no undead

sLv6 Warlock/Wiz
·Flesh to Stone - 3 ConS

sLv7 Sorc/Wiz
·Prismatic Spray - 3 ConS

sLv9 Wiz
·Prismatic Wall - 3 ConS


Special Martial Ranged Weapon
Net
· Can only atk once with w/e action being used
· onhit && <= Large Size
· DC 10 Str || 5s dmg [Net AC:10] to free self

Adventuring Gear
Manacles: 15 HP
·DC20 Dex/Str to escape; DC 15 w/ Thieves' tools proficiency

Feat: Grappler Feat

sLv1 Druid/Ranger/Wizard
·Snare - DexS

sLv1 Druid
·Entangle - StrS

sLv1 Ranger
·Ensnaring Strike - StrS

sLv2 Sorc/Wiz
·Maximilian's Earthen Grasp - StrS
·Web - DexS

sLv3 Oath of Ancients Pally
·Channel Divinity: Nature's Wrath - Dex/StrS

sLv4 Wiz
·Evard's Black Tentacles - DexS

sLv4 Druid/Sorc
·Watery Sphere - StrS

sLv5 Druid/Wiz
·Transmute Rock - Str/DexS

sLv5 Druid/Ranger
·Wrath of Nature - StrS

sLv5 Sorc/Wiz
·Telekinesis - Cast vs Str Check

sLv6 Sorc/lock/Wiz
·Mental Prison[Conc] - IntS

sLv6 lock/Wiz
·Flesh to Stone[Conc] - ConS

sLv6 Druid
·Bones of the Earth

sLv7 Sorc/Wiz
·Prismatic Spray - DexS

sLv7 Druid/Sorc/Wiz
·Whirlwind - StrS

sLv9 lock/Wiz
·Imprisonment - WisS


Monk Stunning Strike

sLv8 Bard/Sorc/Warlock/Wiz
·Power Word Stun - < 150hp

sLv9 Bard/Sorc/Warlock/Wiz
·Psychic Scream - IntS


sLv1 Bard/Sorc/Wiz
·Sleep



Keravath
Naanomi
Snowbluff

for finding stuff I missed

[Keravath]

Cleric cantrip Resistance - though it increases your save rather than the DC.

Arcane trickster - Magical Ambush - disadvantage on saves from spells cast by trickster when hidden from targets. Great for hypnotic pattern etc ... though it will also get pretty nasty with my newly acquired Staff of the Magi on an Arcane Trickster/Warlock multiclass.

[Bjarkmundur]

Would you allow two players to cast a wisdom-save spell at the exact same time (ready action) in order to overwhelm the opponent, giving him a disadvantage to saves against the second spell?
It's not efficient, uses resources and takes some tactical thinking, which is basically the formula for gaining advantage.

M a g i c a l F l a n k i n g

[JakOfAllTirades]

The Bestow Curse spell can be used to cause disadvantage on saving throws using one ability score for one minute (concentration required), if the target fails a Wisdom save.

[Naanomi]

A handful of magic items directly increase spell DC

[BloodSnake'sCha]

Added to bookmark.

Thank you for sharing :)

[Snowbluff]

Exhaustion gives disadvantage on saves at level 3.

Shadow Sorcs can summon a hound that causes disadvantage on saves versus the sorc's spells.

Robe of the archmagi increases them by 2.

Rod of the Pactkeeper increases them by 1/2/3 for warlock spells only.

[Naanomi]

Ioun stone of Mastery as well