Human, Male, 44 (Commoner) Finely dressed Phidus makes money collecting and trading rare artefacts on behalf of wealthy clients.
Ketgrinn are catlike Fey spirits who delight in puzzles, riddles, and bargains. They have large, bright eyes and too-wide grins that gleam starkly even in shadows. Ketgrinn are tricksters and spies, often sent by those they serve to steal the voices of a rivalโs minions to sow chaos and confusion. Secret. Ketgrinn canโt resist a puzzle or riddle, and a difficult one can send a ketgrinnโs mindโฆ
A Rare or rarer magic weapon with which you are proficient appears on your person. The DM chooses the weapon.
Skilled hirelings include anyone hired to perform a service that involves a proficiency (including weapon, tool, or skill): a mercenary, an artisan, a scribe, or the like. The pay shown on the Hirelings table is a minimum; some expert hirelings require more pay. Untrained hirelings are hired for work that requires no particular proficiencies; they include laborers and porters.
Armor (ring mail), legendary You have a +3 bonus to AC while wearing this armor. This armor is leather armor with heavy rings sewn into it. The rings help reinforce the armor against blows from swords and axes. Ring mail is inferior to chain mail, and it's usually worn only by those who can't afford better armor.
Make a Deal with the Lower Planes Your pact draws on the Lower Planes, the realms of perdition. You might forge a bargain with a demon lord such as Demogorgon or Orcus; an archdevil such as Asmodeus; or a pit fiend, balor, yugoloth, or night hag that is especially mighty. That patronโs aims are evilโthe corruption or destruction of all things, ultimately including youโand your path is defined byโฆ
Realityโs fabric unravels and spins anew, allowing you to avoid or erase one event as if it never happened. You can use the cardโs magic as soon as you draw the card or at any other time before you die.
Armor (ring mail), very rare You have a +2 bonus to AC while wearing this armor. This armor is leather armor with heavy rings sewn into it. The rings help reinforce the armor against blows from swords and axes. Ring mail is inferior to chain mail, and it's usually worn only by those who can't afford better armor.
Phidus offers to pay the party 410gp, earnings from a recent sale of an antique vase. A rusty Necklace of Adaptation hangs around the Harpy leaderโs neck, and can be removed if they fall in combat.
Level 5 โ 6 Adventure. Thrilling. Delivery. Coastal Town. Residents of a port town are faced with an ultimatum โ return a newly hatched Bronze Dragon Wyrmling to its home or face the wrath of its furious mother. The party are hired by the regretful merchant who bought the stolen egg and now desperately wants to make amends with the dragon.
Type: Heavy Armor Cost: 30 GP Weight: 40 lbs Armor Class: 14 Strength: -- Stealth: Disadvantage This armor is leather armor with heavy rings sewn into it. The rings help reinforce the armor against blows from swords and axes. Ring mail is inferior to chain mail, and it's usually worn only by those who can't afford better armor.
Coming out ahead, whether in games of chance or in life-or-death contention, fills you with resolve and vigor. You gain the following benefits. Bet Big. If you don't already have it, you gain Heroic Inspiration whenever you succeed on an ability check made against another creature, when you reduce a creature to 0 Hit Points, or when a creature fails a saving throw you forced it to make. If, inโฆ
Type: Adventuring Gear Cost: 5 SP Weight: 1 lb A Tinderbox is a small container holding flint, fire steel, and tinder (usually dry cloth soaked in light oil) used to kindle a fire. Using it to light a Candle, Lamp, Lantern, or Torch โor anything else with exposed fuelโtakes a Bonus Action. Lighting any other fire takes 1 minute.
You alter the appearance of a set of nonmagical clothing that isnโt being worn by someone else. You determine the color, styling, decoration, and form the clothing takes, though you canโt generate clothes worth more than 15 GP. For example, you could transform a tattered Robe into Fine Clothes, or vice versa. At the end of the spellโs duration, the altered clothing returns to its original form.โฆ
Armor (ring mail), rare You have a +1 bonus to AC while wearing this armor. This armor is leather armor with heavy rings sewn into it. The rings help reinforce the armor against blows from swords and axes. Ring mail is inferior to chain mail, and it's usually worn only by those who can't afford better armor.
Type: Simple Ranged Weapon Cost: 5 CP Weight: 1/4 lb Damage: 1d4 Piercing Properties: Finesse, Thrown (range 20/60), Vex Proficiency with a Dart allows you to add your proficiency bonus to the attack roll for any attack you make with it. This weapon has the following mastery property. To use this property, you must have a feature that lets you use it. Vex. If you hit a creature with this weaponโฆ
Fenrikyn are warped worgs and winter wolves, altered by the influence of Fenris, the Great Wolf. Fenrikyn roam the cold forests and the hills of the Northlands, devouring all that they encounter. Generally solitary, fenrikyn have been known to gather into small packs or to take over a pack of wolves or worgs. Though they despise most living things, they reserve their greatest enmity forโฆ
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Dreaming Dark Infiltrators are spies sent to gather intelligence. They plant psychic seeds in their minds of their foes that enhance the infiltratorsโ combat prowess against those enemies.
As is their nature, feathren enjoy experimenting with names and playing with the combinations they can make with them. Feathren are given a name at birth thatโs used as a first name but give themselves new surnames as they grow. Throughout a feathrenโs lifespan, they may go through as many as twenty surnames: some may last for years, while others are kept for mere weeks. These names are typicallyโฆ
Weapon (dart), very rare You have a +3 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. Proficiency with a Dart allows you to add your proficiency bonus to the attack roll for any attack you make with it. This weapon has the following mastery property. To use this property, you must have a feature that lets you use it. Vex. If you hit a creature with this weapon and deal damage toโฆ
Ez dโAvenir first encountered monsters among her manipulative family, the Radanaviches, who posed as Vistani to prey on travelers. Among their foul deeds, the Radanavich family kidnapped Erasmus van Richten, the son of Rudolph van Richten (detailed in Ravenloft: The Horrors Within) and sold him to his death at the hands of the vampire Baron Metus. In the brief time Ez knew Erasmus, the youthโฆ
Type: Martial Ranged Weapon Cost: 50 GP Weight: 18 lbs Damage: 1d10 Piercing Properties: Ammunition, Heavy, Loading, (Range 100/400), Two- Handed, Push Proficiency with a Heavy Crossbow allows you to add your proficiency bonus to the attack roll for any attack you make with it. This weapon has the following mastery property. To use this property, you must have a feature that lets you use it.โฆ
Type: Heavy Armor Cost: 350 GP Weight: 65 lbs Armor Class: 17 Strength: 16 Stealth: Disadvantage Also called tvifold brynja, the rings of this chain mail are doubled, so each pair is passed through by four pairs of other rings. It is very heavy and bulky.
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