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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Character Options The campus of Strixhaven draws a student body from across the world—or many worlds. With your DM’s permission, you can create just about any Strixhaven character you can imagine
, drawing on player character rules from the Player’s Handbook and other D&D books. This chapter adds to that wealth of options with the material in the following sections: “Race Option” presents the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Character Backgrounds Your character’s background is a collection of characteristics that represent the place and occupation that were most formative before your character embarked on a life of
score above 20. Feat. A background gives your character a specified Origin feat (described in “Feats”). Skill Proficiencies. A background gives your character proficiency in two specified skills
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Character Origins This chapter describes the two components of an adventurer’s origin: background and species. Together, these elements suggest your character’s early experience and family origin
before taking up the adventuring life and learning the capabilities of a class (described in “Character Classes”).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Character Creation The Mists of Ravenloft drift across worlds, sowing fear and abducting unsuspecting souls. These forces don’t claim individuals at random, though. The fear of innocents, the turmoil
nightmares. This chapter explores how to create a character prepared to face the horrors of Ravenloft, while also forging ties to the haunted pedigrees and grim fates common to the Domains of Dread
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Character Backgrounds Your character’s background is a collection of characteristics that represent the place and occupation that were most formative before your character embarked on a life of
score above 20. Feat. A background gives your character a specified Origin feat (described in chapter 5). Skill Proficiencies. A background gives your character proficiency in two specified skills
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Character Species When you choose your character’s species, you determine whether your character is a human or a member of a fantastical species, such as dragonborn or gnome. The peoples of the D&D
span, members of all species reach physical maturity at about the same age. Your character can be any age that isn’t beyond their species’ normal life span. Parts of a Species A species includes the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Character Species When you choose your character’s species, you determine whether your character is a human or a member of a fantastical species, such as dragonborn or gnome. The peoples of the D&D
span, members of all species reach physical maturity at about the same age. Your character can be any age that isn’t beyond their species’ normal life span. Parts of a Species A species includes the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
Character Advancement At the end of each of the adventure’s parts, everyone in the party receives enough experience points to advance 1 level so that they are at the level they should be for the next
chapter, as shown in the Character Levels table. Characters who finish the adventure advance to 9th level. Character Levels Part Character Level 1: Seeds of Destruction 5th 2: Terrors of the Void 6th 3: Chaos in Doomspace 7th 4: Saviors of the Multiverse 8th
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Character Creation In fairness, the giant had just been awakened. Still, not everyone would be able to bring down a brute twice the size of a city temple, even if it was in a stupor, so I guess I am
of what makes your character a hero. Drawn together by fate, three heroes—centaur, leonin, and
human—pit themselves against sirens in the Dakra Isles
(Chase Stone)
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Character Classes Character class provides a character’s most exciting capabilities. This chapter offers twelve classes—all summarized below. Barbarian. Storm with Rage, and wade into hand-to-hand
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Character Advancement The Levels of Undermountain table lists the dungeon’s levels and the character levels for which they’re designed. It’s okay for characters to enter a dungeon level that’s
, and return to the dungeon once they’re higher in level. Levels of Undermountain Level
Name
Character Level
1
Dungeon Level
5th
2
Arcane Chambers
6th
3
Sargauth Level
7th
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Character Creation From the folk hero dreaming of liberating their people from a tyrannical blue dragon’s reign to the idealistic acolyte who imagines purging the world of Tiamat’s corruption, many
chapter is for any D&D character who hopes or fears that they might one day face a dragon. But this chapter is also for the bard who has made a lifelong study of dragonsong, the cleric devoted to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Character Advancement When the characters arrive at the flying citadel, they advance to 11th level.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Character Advancement The characters must be 20th level when this chapter begins.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Character Creation Before starting any of this book’s adventures, consult chapter 2 for guidance on making Strixhaven characters and uniting those characters in a group.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Character Advancement The characters should be 4th level when the chapter begins. The characters gain a level when they defeat Nezznar the Spider.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Character Advancement The characters should be 19th level when this chapter begins. The characters gain a level after they learn the location of Vecna’s Ritual of Remaking.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Character Hooks Consider the following ways to involve characters in this adventure: Dream Message. A character suffers nightmares of a radiant snake fighting a massive, crumbling centipede. They
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Character Hooks Consider the following ways to involve characters in this adventure: Friends of Afsoun. A character knows the famed actor Afsoun Ghorbani, head of the Silent Roar, or is connected to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Character Advancement The characters should be 3rd level when the chapter begins. The characters gain a level when they confront King Grol and learn the location of the lost mine of Phandelver.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Character Advancement The characters should be 18th level when this chapter begins. The characters gain a level after they navigate Pandesmos Outlook and arrive at Carapace Ridge, where the war between the forces of Kas and Vecna rages.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Character Backgrounds The Player’s Handbook contains character backgrounds that are well suited for this adventure. If your players are having trouble fleshing out their characters’ backgrounds with
details about the Sword Coast region, share the suggestions from the Character Hooks Tied to Backgrounds table with them. Character Hooks Tied to Backgrounds Background Character Acolyte The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Character Advancement The characters should gain a level when they reach area H39 for the first time, regardless of the route by which they get there. Thus, if they were 8th level at the start of this chapter, they will be 9th level when they enter Ythryn for the first time.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Character Advancement This adventure assumes the characters are 1st level when it begins. The First-Year Level Advancement table summarizes when the characters gain levels during the adventure. First
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Character Advancement This adventure assumes the characters are 4th level when it begins. The Second-Year Level Advancement table summarizes when the characters gain levels during the adventure
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Character Hooks Appendix A presents two new character backgrounds that players can select with your consent: the anthropologist and the archaeologist. In addition, the Player’s Handbook and the Sword
Coast Adventurer’s Guide contain a number of character backgrounds that are well suited for this adventure. If your players are having trouble fleshing out their characters’ backgrounds, share the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Character Hooks Consider the following ways to involve characters in this adventure: Bargaining for Life. The characters need life-extending magic. Secretary Wei hears of their plight and offers to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Character Traits As the players choose backgrounds for their characters, they can use the following tables to help determine their characters’ personality traits, ideals, bonds, and flaws. Players
can use these tables instead of the ones that appear in the Player’s Handbook, or they can mix and match them. If a rolled result doesn’t make sense for a character, the player can roll again or choose
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Character Hooks Consider the following ways to involve characters in this adventure: Call of the Storyteller. Via a mutual connection, the characters receive a plea to come to Kalapang from a binukot
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Character Options When you make your D&D character, you have an array of options in the Player’s Handbook to create the sort of adventurer you want. This chapter adds to those options, making it
possible to realize even more character concepts. If you combine these options with those in Xanathar’s Guide to Everything, the possibilities for your characters become vast. Here are the options
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Character Advancement If you want to use story-based level advancement, the characters receive experience points for achieving the following milestones rather than defeating monsters: Escape the Maze
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Nonplayer Character A nonplayer character (NPC) is a monster that has a personal name and a distinct personality. See also “Monster.”
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Nonplayer Character A nonplayer character (NPC) is a monster that has a personal name and a distinct personality. See also “Monster.”
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
Character Death Epic threats and stakes can result in epic deaths. The Dungeon Master’s Guide has advice on how to handle character death in your game, but epic adventures pose unique challenges
campaign become an unrelenting endurance test. Even in low-difficulty and medium-difficulty encounters, a character can die from a series of bad rolls. But epic heroes deserve meaningful deaths, so
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
Character Level This part of the adventure is designed for characters of at least 4th level and assumes that each character has earned at least 2,700 XP. If the adventurers skipped too many of the