List of features and items that affect saving throws

This is a comprehensive list of all sources of effects that directly affect saving throws.

General information

• A source can cause different effects as part of its mechanic, but this article lists only the saving throw related portion.
• Items listed in this article do not include mundane gear pieces of common quality and basic enchanted versions thereof.
• If a condition is incurred by a singular source (for ex. a class feature), this article lists that singular source. Otherwise only the condition is documented.
• For conditions caused by gear-exclusive passives and actions, the gear item takes pecedence over the passive or action in the list.
• Proficiency, Advantage, and Disadvantage do not add to the saving throw rolls directly, but modify them in a special way. See the corresponding mechanics pages for full information.

Bonus to saving throws

Class features

• Shield Master (Feat) - Dexterity saves +2 when wielding a shield. If a spell forces you to make a Dexterity saving throw, you can use your Reaction to diminish the effect's damage. On a failed save, you only take half damage. On a successful save, you don't take any damage, even if you normally would
•  Bardic Inspiration - Target of  Bardic Defence gains a 1d6 bonus to the next save
•  Combat Inspiration -  Valiant Defence grants the caster a 1d6 bonus to the next save
•  Aura of Protection - All allies in a 3 m / 10 ft radius around the Paladin with this aura gain a bonus to saves equal to the paladin's Charisma modifier
•  Magic Awareness - All allies in a 3 m / 10 ft radius around the Wild Magic Barbarian gain a bonus equal to their proficiency bonus to saves against spells, for 1 turn

Spells

•  Warding Bond - Saves +1

Items

All saves

• Safeguard Shield - Saves +1
• Cloak of Protection - Saves +1
• Ring of Protection - Saves +1
• Jhannyl's Gloves - Saves +1
• Moon Devotion Robe - Saves +1
• Helm of Balduran - Saves +1
• Absolute's Warboard - Saves +1 if the wielder has the Brand of the Absolute
• The Protecty Sparkswall - Saves +1 while being imbued with  Lightning Charges
• Defender Greataxe - Once per round on wielder's first attack, use Defensive Attack to reduce this weapon's enchantment by 1 and increase saves by 1
• Bonespike Boots - Saves +1 when not wearing armour or holding a shield
• Flame Enamelled Armour - Saves +2
• Armour of Agility - Saves +2
• Emblazoned Plate of the Marshal - Saves +2
• Corellon's Grace - Saves +2 when not wearing armour
• Viconia's Priestess Robe - Saves +2 while under the effect of Shield of Faith
• Dark Justiciar Helm - Saves against melee attacks +1 while being obscured. Constitution saves +1
• Dark Justiciar Helmet - Saves against spells +1. Constitution saves +1
• Sword of the Emperor - Saves against spells +2
• Flawed Helldusk Helmet - Saves against spells +2. Constitution saves +1
• Helldusk Helmet - Saves against spells +2
• Gloves of Soul Catching - Soul Catching: Gain a +5 bonus to the next saving throw after an unarmed hit, if Soul Catching Prowess was chosen ( Recharge: Per turn)
• Cerebral Citadel Gloves -  Charm or  Frighten a target to gain a 1d4 bonus to saves for 3 turns. Strength saves +1
• Phalar Aluve - Phalar Aluve: Sing grants all allies within 6 m / 20 ft radius a 1d4 bonus to Charisma, Wisdom, and Intelligence saves for 5 turns ( Recharge: Short rest)
• Robe of Supreme Defences - While concentrating, add wearer's spellcasting modifier to saves

Strength saves

• Hellrider's Pride - Strength saves +1
• Gloves of Heroism - Strength saves +1
• Luminous Gloves - Strength saves +1
• Gloves of the Growling Underdog - Strength saves +1
• Dark Justiciar Gauntlets (Uncommon) - Strength saves +1
• Gloves of the Automaton - Strength saves +1
• Gloves of Battlemage's Power - Strength saves +1
• Dark Justiciar Gauntlets (Rare) - Strength saves +1
• Blackguard's Gauntlets - Strength saves +1
• Unwanted Masterwork Gauntlets - Strength saves +1
• Dwarven Splintmail - Strength saves +1
• The Reviving Hands - Strength saves +1
• Legacy of the Masters - Strength saves +1
• Gauntlets of Hill Giant Strength - Strength saves +1
• Helldusk Gloves - Strength saves +1

Dexterity saves

• Covert Cowl - Dexterity saves +1
• Helmet of Arcane Acuity - Dexterity saves +1
• The Graceful Cloth - Dexterity saves +1
• Dark Justiciar Boots - Dexterity saves +1
• Slinging Shoes - Dexterity saves +1
• Boots of Persistence - Dexterity saves +1
• Boots of Psionic Movement - Dexterity saves +1
• Helmet of Grit - Dexterity saves +1

Other saves

• Helmet of Smiting - Constitution saves +1
• Holy Lance Helm - Constitution saves +1
• Seemingly Gleaming Ring - Charisma saves +1
• Tyrannical Jackboots - Charisma saves +1
• Cerebral Citadel Armour - Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma saves +1 if infested by a mind flayer tadpole
• Circlet of Psionic Revenge - Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma saves +1 if githyanki (or disguised as one)

Conditions

•  Happy - Saves +1
•  Anointed in Splendour - Saves +2 (received at Stormshore Tabernacle)
•  Volo's Guide to Monsters - Saves +2 (bestowed upon the party at The High Hall after completing Rescue Volo)
•  Bless - Target gains a 1d4 bonus to saves
•  Resistance - Gain a 1d4 bonus to saves
•  Bliss Spores - Gain a 1d6 bonus to saves until the next long rest (bestowed upon the party after completing Defeat the Duergar Intruders)
•  Rapture - Gain a 1d6 bonus to saves until the next long rest (see Naoise Nallinto page for further details)
•  Loviatar's Love - Wisdom saves +2 for 3 turns when at 30% hit points and lower
•  Fetcher's Favour - Gain a 1d4 bonus to Charisma saves (bestowed upon the party at The High Hall after completing Find Mol and gaining her as an ally)

Penalty to saving throws

Class features

•  Boar Companion - All creatures within the  Kick Up Muck area suffer a -2 penalty to Dexterity saves
•  Wolf Companion - Target of  Infectious Bite suffers a -1 penalty to Constitution saves. Target also suffers disadvantage on Constitution saves

Spells

•  Find Familiar: Rat - Target of  Infectious Bite suffers a -1 penalty to Constitution saves. Target also suffers disadvantage on Constitution saves

Items

• Seemingly Gleaming Ring - Wisdom saves -1
• Gloves of Baneful Striking - On a weapon hit, the target suffers a 1d4 penalty to saves against wearer's next spell, for 2 turns
• Phalar Aluve - Phalar Aluve: Shriek incurs a 1d4 penalty to Charisma, Wisdom, and Intelligence saves of all enemies within 6 m / 20 ft radius, for 5 turns ( Recharge: Short rest)

Conditions

•  Bloodless - Saves -1
•  Bane - Target suffers a 1d4 penalty to saves
•  Slowed - Target suffers a -2 penalty to Dexterity saves
•  Reverberation - Target suffers a -1 penalty to Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution saves per remaining turn of the condition
•  Mental Fatigue - Target suffers a -1 penalty to Wisdom, Intelligence, and Charisma saves per remaining turn of the condition

Proficiency in saving throws

Class features

•  Resilient - Increase an ability by 1 (max 20). Gain proficiency in that ability's saves
•  Transmuter's Stone: Constitution - Proficiency in Constitution saves
•  Iron Mind - Proficiency in Wisdom and Intelligence saves

Items

• Helmet of Autonomy - Proficiency in Wisdom saves
• Elixir of Dwarven Resilience - Proficiency in saves until making three successful saves or until a long rest, upon consumption

Advantage on saving throws

Races

• Elf - Advantage on saves against being  Charmed
• Drow - Advantage on saves against being  Charmed
• Half-Elf - Advantage on saves against being  Charmed
• Halfling - Advantage on saves against being  Frightened
  • Strongheart Halfling - Advantage on saves against being  Poisoned
• Dwarf - Advantage on saves against being  Poisoned
  • Duergar - Advantage on saves against illusions and against being  Charmed and  Paralysed
• Gnome - Advantage on Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma saves

Class features

•  Lucky - Gain 3 Luck Points that recharge after a long rest, which you can use to gain advantage on the next saving throw, one point per throw
•  Frenzy - Advantage on Strength saves
•  Rage - Advantage on Strength saves
•  Rage: Bear Heart - Advantage on Strength saves
•  Rage: Eagle Heart - Advantage on Strength saves
•  Rage: Elk Heart - Advantage on Strength saves
•  Rage: Tiger Heart - Advantage on Strength saves
•  Rage: Wolf Heart - Advantage on Strength saves
•  Patient Defence - Advantage on Strength saves
•  Countercharm - All allies in a 9 m / 30 ft radius around the Bard gain advantage on saves against being  Charmed or  Frightened, for 3 turns

Spells

•  Heroes' Feast - Advantage on Wisdom saves
•  Protection from Poison - Advantage on saves against being  Poisoned
• Mage Slayer (Feat) - Advantage on any save against a spell that was cast within the melee range at you. Enemies you hit have disadvantage on concentration saves

Items

All saves

• Shadeclinger Armour - Advantage on saves while being obscured
• Shar's Spear of Evening - Advantage on saves while being obscured
• Chancer's Carcanet - Expend a Reaction to make a save with advantage ( Recharge: Long rest)
• Shelter of Athkatla - Advantage on saves against spells
• Viconia's Walking Fortress - Advantage on saves against spells
• Orphic Hammer - Advantage on saves against spells
• Armour of Moonbasking - Advantage on saves against spells, even while being in Wild Shape
• Veil of the Morning - Advantage on saves against Undead attacks and spells

Constitution saves

• Spidersilk Armour - Advantage on Constitution saves
• Barkskin Armour - Advantage on Constitution saves
• Dark Justiciar Half-Plate (Rare) - Advantage on Constitution saves
• Steelwatcher Helmet - Advantage on Constitution saves
• Moon Devotion Robe - Advantage on Constitution saves
• Dark Justiciar Half-Plate (Very Rare) - Advantage on Constitution saves
• Armour of Landfall - Advantage on Constitution saves
• Amulet of Greater Health - Advantage on Constitution saves
• Drunken Cloth - Advantage on Constitution saves while being  Drunk

Dexterity saves

• Acrobat Shoes - Advantage on Dexterity saves
• Ketheric's Shield - Advantage on Dexterity saves
• Elven Chain - Advantage on Dexterity saves
• Gontr Mael - Celestial Haste: Advantage on Dexterity saves for 5 turns ( Recharge: Long rest)

Other saves

• Balduran's Giantslayer - Giant Form: Advantage on Strength saves for 10 turns ( Recharge: Short rest)
• Elixir of the Colossus - Advantage on Strength saves, upon consumption
• Aberration Hunters' Amulet - Advantage on Intelligence saves if githyanki (or disguised as one)
• Amulet of the Harpers - Advantage on Wisdom saves
• Blackguard's Plate - Advantage on Wisdom saves
• Selûne's Spear of Night - Advantage on Wisdom saves
• Fey Semblance Amulet - Advantage on Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma saves
• Silver Sword of the Astral Plane - Advantage on Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma saves if githyanki (or disguised as one)
• Ring of Mind-Shielding - Advantage on saves against being  Charmed
• Elixir of Peerless Focus - Advantage on Concentration saves and on saves against being  Charmed, upon consumption
• The Mighty Cloth - Advantage on saves against being  Restrained

Conditions

•  Enlarged - Target has advantage on Strength saves
•  Hastened - Target has advantage on Dexterity saves
•  Haste Spores - Target has advantage on Dexterity saves
•  Gaseous Form - Advantage on Constitution, Dexterity, and Strength saves
•  Githzerai Mind Barrier - Advantage on Intelligence saves (received in the Mind Flayer Colony)

Disadvantage on saving throws

Class features

•  Eldritch Strike - Target suffers disadvantage on the next save against the caster's spell
•  Nature's Wrath - Target suffers disadvantage on Dexterity saves

Spells

•  Contagion: Filth Fever - Target suffers disadvantage on Strength saves
•  Bestow Curse: Strength Disadvantage - Target suffers disadvantage on Strength saves
•  Contagion: Seizure - Target suffers disadvantage on Dexterity saves
•  Bestow Curse: Dexterity Disadvantage - Target suffers disadvantage on Dexterity saves
•  Otto's Irresistible Dance - Target suffers disadvantage on Dexterity saves
•  Find Familiar: Frog - Target of  Bufotoxin suffers disadvantage on Dexterity saves
•  Evard's Black Tentacles - Target suffers disadvantage on Dexterity saves
•  Flesh to Stone (the 3 stages before  Petrification) - Target suffers disadvantage on Dexterity saves
•  Contagion: Slimy Doom - Target suffers disadvantage on Constitution saves
•  Bestow Curse: Constitution Disadvantage - Target suffers disadvantage on Constitution saves
•  Bestow Curse: Intelligence Disadvantage - Target suffers disadvantage on Intelligence saves
•  Bestow Curse: Wisdom Disadvantage - Target suffers disadvantage on Wisdom saves
•  Bestow Curse: Charisma Disadvantage - Target suffers disadvantage on Charisma saves

Weapon actions

•  Weakening Strike - Target suffers disadvantage on Strength saves
•  Heartstopper - Target suffers disadvantage on Constitution saves

Items

• Risky Ring - Disadvantage on saves for the wearer
• Jagged Spear - On a hit with this spear, targets suffer disadvantage on saves for 2 turns if they fail the DC 10 Charisma save
• Gauntlets of the Warmaster - Targets have disadvantage on saves against wearer's manoeuvres and weapon actions
• Rhapsody - While at +3 bonus from Scarlet Remittance, consume it to inflict disadvantage on saves upon hostile creatures against wielder's spells ( Recharge: Long rest)
• Hollow's Staff - Targets have disadvantage on saves against wielder's necromancy spells
• Staff of Cherished Necromancy - Targets have disadvantage on saves against wielder's necromancy spells
• Drakethroat Glaive - Targets have disadvantage on saves against wielder's dragonborn breath weapon
• Reaper's Embrace - Disadvantage on Dexterity saves for the wearer while Reaper's Rigidity is toggled on
• Sharpened Snare Cuirass - Targets have disadvantage on saves to resist wearer's  Restraining attacks and spells
• Shield of the Undevout - Enemies have disadvantage on saves to resist wielder's spells or actions that inflict  Fear
• Oil of Diminution - Target suffers disadvantage on Strength saves for 2 turns if they fail the DC 11 Constitution save
• Tadpole Elixir - Disadvantage on Constitution, Wisdom and Intelligence saves, upon consumption
• Faltering Will - Disadvantage on Wisdom saves until long rest, upon consumption
• Resonance Stone - All creatures in a 9 m / 30 ft radius suffer disadvantage on Wisdom, Intelligence, and Charisma saves

Conditions

•  Burden of Time Aura - Beasts and non-Elf Humanoids in a 3 m / 10 ft radius around He Who Was suffer disadvantage on saves
•  Reduced - Target suffers disadvantage on Strength saves
•  Feverish - Suffer disadvantage on Strength saves
  •  Filth Fever - Suffer disadvantage on Strength saves
•  Sea Plague - All creatures in the area suffer disadvantage on Strength saves
•  Ensnared - Target suffers disadvantage on Dexterity saves
•  Entangled - Target suffers disadvantage on Dexterity saves
•  Enwebbed - Target suffers disadvantage on Dexterity saves
•  Shocked - Target suffers disadvantage on Dexterity saves
•  Encrusted with Frost - Target suffers disadvantage on Dexterity saves
•  Maimed - Target suffers disadvantage on Dexterity saves
•  Restrained - Target suffers disadvantage on Dexterity saves
•  Muddy - Target suffers disadvantage on Dexterity saves
•  Constricted - Target suffers disadvantage on Dexterity saves
•  Shadow-Cursed Vines - Target suffers disadvantage on Dexterity saves
•  Command: Grovel - Target suffers disadvantage on Strength and Dexterity saves
•  Hideous Laughter - Target suffers disadvantage on Strength and Dexterity saves
•  Prone - Target suffers disadvantage on Strength and Dexterity saves
•  Bleeding - Target suffers disadvantage on Constitution saves
•  Arcane Hunger - Gale suffers disadvantage on Constitution saves
  •  Greater Arcane Hunger - Gale suffers disadvantage on saves
  •  Severe Arcane Hunger - Gale suffers disadvantage on saves
•  Heavily Encumbered - Suffer disadvantage on Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution saves
•  Dazed - Target suffers disadvantage on Wisdom saves
•  Stricken With Blinding Sickness - Target suffers disadvantage on Wisdom saves
•  Rotting - Target suffers disadvantage on Charisma saves
  •  Flesh Rot - Target suffers disadvantage on Charisma saves
•  Harrowed - Target suffers disadvantage on Wisdom and Charisma saves (the aura emanates from the Echo of a Lost Love)

Automatical failure on saving throws

Spells

•  Hold Person - Target automatically fails all Strength and Dexterity saves
•  Hold Monster - Target automatically fails all Strength and Dexterity saves

Items

• Drow Poison - Target automatically fails all Strength and Dexterity saves
• Crawler Mucus - Target automatically fails all Strength and Dexterity saves

Conditions

•  Downed - Target automatically fails all Strength and Dexterity saves
•  Paralysed - Target automatically fails all Strength and Dexterity saves
•  Sleeping - Target automatically fails all Strength and Dexterity saves
•  Stunned - Target automatically fails all Strength and Dexterity saves
•  Lethargic - Target automatically fails all Strength and Dexterity saves
•  Knocked Out - Target automatically fails all Strength and Dexterity saves
•  Confused Stupor - Target automatically fails all Strength and Dexterity saves
•  Befuddled - Target automatically fails all Strength and Dexterity saves

Other

Class features

•  War Caster: Concentration - Advantage on Concentration saves for spells
•  Dungeon Delver: Perception - Advantage on Perception checks made to detect hidden objects and on saves made to avoid or resist traps

Spells

•  Beacon of Hope - Targets have advantage on Wisdom and death saves

Items

• Ring of Evasion - When the wearer fails a Dexterity save, they can use their Reaction to succeed it instead
• Gibus of the Worshipful Servant - Advantage on Concentration saves
• Wizardsbane Oil - Target suffers disadvantage on Concentration saves
• Family Ring - Death saves +2
• Absolute's Talisman - Advantage on death saves if the wearer has the Brand of the Absolute
• Tarnished Charm - Reduce the DC of wearer's death saves from 10 down to 5
• Karabasan's Gift - Target suffers the effects of paralytic poison and automatically fails all Strength and Dexterity saves
• Essence of Ether - Suffer the effects of sophorific drug and automatically fail all Strength and Dexterity saves, upon consumption

Conditions

•  Blood-draw Sickness - Suffer a -1 penalty to all dice rolls until long rest (inflicted on a character who has had their blood drawn by Araj Oblodra)
•  Mystra's Benevolence - Gale gains advantage on Concentration saves until long rest (see Balthazar's Experiment for details)