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Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
components and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 12):
At Will: Friends, Silent Image
1/Day: Hold PersonAraneas are reclusive shape-shifters. An aranea’s natural form resembles
humanoid-spider hybrid form, or back into its true spider form. Its game statistics are the same in each form, except where noted. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn’t transformed.
Cloud Giant Smiling One
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Monsters
Volo's Guide to Monsters
(spell save DC 15, +7;{"diceNotation":"1d20+7","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Spellcasting"} to hit with spell attacks). The giant has the following bard spells prepared:
Cantrips (at will): minor
has advantage on the attack roll.
Change Shape. The giant magically polymorphs into a beast or humanoid it has seen, or back into its true form. Any equipment the giant is wearing or carrying is
Magic Items
Acquisitions Incorporated
.
Class-Based Living Loot Satchel
Class
Satchel
Barbarian
Broad belt with a dozen hanging pockets
Bard
Lute case
Cleric
Hollowed-out holy tome
Druid
Made from natural
transfer any amount of your franchise funds back to your satchel with a successful DC 15 Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) check.
Secret Satchel
As a rank 3 hoardsperson, your living loot satchel gets an
Monsters
Sleeping Dragon’s Wake
rating no higher than her own, or back into her true form. She reverts to her true form if she dies. Any equipment she is wearing or carrying is absorbed or borne by the new form (Lhammaruntosz's choice
Bahamut, which the dragon can use to commune with the deity.
In recent decades Lhammaruntosz has retreated inside the shrine, becoming reclusive due to a attack by a disguised demon which has driven her
Tabaxi
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
We had a tabaxi come through once, a few winters back. She kept the taproom packed each night with her stories and spent most days napping in a chair in front of the fireplace. We thought she was
result every few days that pass in the campaign to reflect your ever-changing curiosity.
Tabaxi Obsessions
d8
My curiosity is currently fixed on …
1
A god or planar entity
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
a bridge on a major trade road, terrifying travelers.
3
After an unwise attack from a whaling ship, a dragon turtle pursued the ship back to harbor and now attacks any ship that tries to leave
, though some dragon turtles prefer coastal lairs with easier access to settlements they can trade with—or prey upon. Particularly reclusive dragon turtles seek lairs in even more remote locales
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
within 1 mile of you. Any fiend with a challenge rating of 19 or higher is unaffected. Each banished fiend is sent back to its home plane and can’t return to the plane the Crook of Rao banished it
the years, this curse has spread within the crook, threatening to violently pervert its ancient magic. If this occurs, the Crook of Rao, as it is currently known, is destroyed, its magical matrix
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Identify Level 1 Divination (Bard, Wizard) Casting Time: 1 minute or Ritual
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M (a pearl worth 100+ GP)
Duration: Instantaneous
You touch an object throughout the
learn whether any ongoing spells are affecting the item and what they are. If the item was created by a spell, you learn that spell’s name. If you instead touch a creature throughout the casting, you learn which ongoing spells, if any, are currently affecting it.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Identify Level 1 Divination (Bard, Wizard) Casting Time: 1 minute or Ritual
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M (a pearl worth 100+ GP)
Duration: Instantaneous
You touch an object throughout the
learn whether any ongoing spells are affecting the item and what they are. If the item was created by a spell, you learn that spell’s name. If you instead touch a creature throughout the casting, you learn which ongoing spells, if any, are currently affecting it.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
40. Empty Room This room is swept clean but is currently not in use. A secret door in the east wall pushes open to reveal an empty closet with another secret door at the back of it.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
abandoned. Some wander the world, hoping to learn as much of its ways as they can; others are hermits who seek spiritual enlightenment in solitude. Some reclusive giants enjoy their solitude, while others
are desperately lonely or eager to find a settlement where they can live among their own kind. The Recluses table offers adventure hooks you can use to launch an adventure with a reclusive giant
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
trainer — perhaps a retired adventurer or champion who is willing to serve as a mentor. The trainer might be a reclusive wizard or haughty sorcerer who owes the queen a favor, the knight-commander of
absentminded bard whose plays and poetry are known throughout the land. A character who agrees to training as a reward must spend downtime with the trainer (see chapter 6 for more information on downtime
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
. Eventually, the scales become translucent and shimmer in the light, rippling as the dragon moves. The dragon’s horns and spines hover above the body, moving and shifting along the back and tail
what others have said back to them to make sure I have remembered it correctly.
2
I might not like you, but I will endeavor to treat you with respect, if not kindness.
3
I like to impress
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Embarrassment Almost every bard has suffered at least one bad experience in front of an audience, and chances are you’re no exception. No one becomes famous right away, after all; perhaps you had a
that a performance can go wrong are as varied as the fish in the sea. No matter what sort of disaster might occur, however, a bard has the courage and the confidence to rebound from it — either pressing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
sands of the desert, steals the eggs, and brings them back to her lair. When the eggs hatch, she confines the wormlings here and feeds them a healthy diet of meat so that they grow up big and strong
. Iymrith has converted a 10-foot-deep, T-shaped pit in the middle of the room into a purple wormling “playpen.” The pit currently holds thirty squirming purple wormlings (see appendix C). Although they
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
cleric. Or perhaps Tazmikella’s stolen magic item is not something currently possessed by one of the adventurers, but she recognizes an ancestor of a party member as the sweet-talking bard who stole
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Raise Dead Level 5 Necromancy (Bard, Cleric, Paladin) Casting Time: 1 hour
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M (a diamond worth 500+ GP, which the spell consumes)
Duration: Instantaneous
With a
survival—its head, for instance—the spell automatically fails. Coming back from the dead is an ordeal. The target takes a −4 penalty to D20 Tests. Every time the target finishes a Long Rest, the penalty is reduced by 1 until it becomes 0.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Raise Dead Level 5 Necromancy (Bard, Cleric, Paladin) Casting Time: 1 hour
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M (a diamond worth 500+ GP, which the spell consumes)
Duration: Instantaneous
With a
survival—its head, for instance—the spell automatically fails. Coming back from the dead is an ordeal. The target takes a −4 penalty to D20 Tests. Every time the target finishes a Long Rest, the penalty is reduced by 1 until it becomes 0.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Spells Well, darn. Whatever could have happened to the spells Mordenkainen’s Bountiful Back-Patting, Heward’s Hot Air, and all the rest? I’m sure I submitted the spells they insisted I include herein
Conjuration Yes No Druid, Ranger 2nd Tasha’s Mind Whip Enchantment No No Sorcerer, Wizard 3rd Intellect Fortress Abjuration Yes No Artificer, Bard, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard 3rd Spirit Shroud Necromancy
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
initially correct. The characters must reduce Kas to 50 hit points or fewer before they can banish him to Tovag, his Domain of Dread. If the characters banish Kas back to Tovag, a fissure opens in the air
behind him and pulls him through. Visible within the rift is a smoky, red-tinged skyline full of mountains. Kas’s Secret. As Kas is pulled back to Tovag, the characters’ links to Vecna flare. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
opens the doors without first removing or disabling the runes, they take thunder damage as per the spell. A window at the back of the inn on the second floor is open (see “The Upstairs” below). A
common area and courtyard, the ritual is underway to fully activate the statue of Talos, which is currently in the basement. THE RITUAL
Backes (Illuskan human gladiator) leads the chanting in the common
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
:
Fewer than twenty goblins currently dwell in the lair.
Their leader is a bugbear named Klarg. He answers to King Grol, chief of the Cragmaw tribe, who dwells in Cragmaw Castle. (The goblins
messenger told him that someone named the Black Spider was paying the Cragmaws to watch out for the dwarf Gundren Rockseeker, capture him, and send him and anything he was carrying back to King Grol
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
, guards the cellar. He hides in the northwest storeroom, ready to jump out and scare away anyone who heads for the stairs. Not eager to commit murder, Roscoe allows retreating characters to flee back
into the hostel, which caters to a mostly halfling clientele. With none of the other Shard Shunners currently present, the characters are greeted warmly by staff and patrons, who point them in the direction of the nearest bathhouse.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Seeds of Fear Aside from supernatural sources of dread and monsters who strike terror in their victims, fear is subjective and often quite personal. A battle-hardened warrior and a reclusive scholar
stumbling back from a horrid event, consider giving the character inspiration for their fear-focused reaction (see “Inspiration” in the Player’s Handbook). Once a character gains inspiration in this way
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Staff of Charming Staff, Rare (Requires Attunement by a Bard, Cleric, Druid, Sorcerer, Warlock, or Wizard) This staff has 10 charges. While holding the staff, you can use any of its properties: Cast
Enchantment spell that targets only you, you can take a Reaction to expend 1 charge from the staff and turn the spell back on its caster as if you had cast the spell. Resist Enchantment. If you fail
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
take more than a few hours. While Frody waits, he performs his favorite music to an enrapt crowd outside My Left Boot. If there’s a bard or another musically inclined individual among the player
before returning to the arms of her weeping parents. As the crowd disperses, locals pat you on the back and shoulder and congratulate you on a quest well done.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
, after parting with it back in the theater. She doesn’t willingly divulge who has the stone, though the characters can pry the information from her using a charm person spell or similar magic. If the
-coach shortly thereafter. One of them is a bard named Agorn Fuoco, the other a woman unknown to Lady Haventree. Both Remallia and Vevette know that Agorn spends time around the dangerous dockside neighborhood of Mistshore. Next Encounter Proceed with encounter 2, “Mistshore.”
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Resurrection Level 7 Necromancy (Bard, Cleric) Casting Time: 1 hour
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M (a diamond worth 1,000+ GP, which the spell consumes)
Duration: Instantaneous
With a touch
neutralizes any poisons that affected the creature at the time of death. This spell closes all mortal wounds and restores any missing body parts. Coming back from the dead is an ordeal. The target
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Resurrection Level 7 Necromancy (Bard, Cleric) Casting Time: 1 hour
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M (a diamond worth 1,000+ GP, which the spell consumes)
Duration: Instantaneous
With a touch
neutralizes any poisons that affected the creature at the time of death. This spell closes all mortal wounds and restores any missing body parts. Coming back from the dead is an ordeal. The target
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Staff of Charming Staff, rare (requires attunement by a bard, cleric, druid, sorcerer, warlock, or wizard) While holding this staff, you can use an action to expend 1 of its 10 charges to cast charm
spell that targets only you, with or without the staff’s intervention, you can use your reaction to expend 1 charge from the staff and turn the spell back on its caster as if you had cast the spell
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Staff of Charming Staff, Rare (Requires Attunement by a Bard, Cleric, Druid, Sorcerer, Warlock, or Wizard) This staff has 10 charges. While holding the staff, you can use any of its properties: Cast
Enchantment spell that targets only you, you can take a Reaction to expend 1 charge from the staff and turn the spell back on its caster as if you had cast the spell. Resist Enchantment. If you fail
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
the cell, enclosed in rusted plate armor. The dwarf’s nonmagical but usable battleaxe lies nearby. K75e. Empty Cell This cell contains nothing of interest. K75f. Dead Wizard Shackled to the back wall
. Hanging Bard Pounded into the roof of this cell is a rusted iron pulley, strung through which is a rope that is tied to one of the crossbeams of the barred door. Dangling upside down from the pulley
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
path. As the DM, you can decide where the characters encounter each of these groups. These encounters are meant to be run separately, although running two encounters back-to-back with no chance for the
, have some of the foes withdraw or have some NPC survivors assist the characters. Most of the survivors currently in the cathedral are preparing for a last stand in the main crypts (area H16), so that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
prestidigitation to blow your hair back, making it look like you have the speed and grace of Corellon themself. Cutting Wit and Wicked Barbs When others pick on you about being a bard, you need only remind
Bard There is nothing I would like to do more than explain to you why I’m standing here with stolen goods and my rapier sticking out of this still-warm corpse, officer. I assure you, I have a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
whose ideologies have since entered a period of decline. The following are three examples of minor factions currently in Sigil. Free League Who Prize the Individual Foremost Factol: None Headquarters
have and redistribute the hoards of greedy tycoons to the poor and needy. A common superstition in Sigil holds that any gift to the Ring Givers comes back to the donor tenfold.






