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The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
coming for you.”
Flaw. “My friends would say I’m inflexible. The truth is, I like things done a certain way.”
Combat Notes
Mercion counts on her armor to protect her as she
.) Strongheart is always on the lookout for courageous heroes who are willing to devote themselves to a good cause. Only good-aligned characters are allowed to join Valor’s Call.
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Tortles have a saying: “We wear our homes on our backs.” These turtle folk live on many worlds, most often journeying up and down coasts, along waterways, and across the sea. Tortles don
’t have a unified story of how they were created, but they all have a sense of being mystically connected to the natural world. Carrying their shelter on their backs gives tortles a special
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The Tortle Package
Yondalla relate to tortles most of all.
Tortles believe that night and day watch over them and other creatures. The moon is the eye of night that watches over them in darkness, and the sun is the
our homes on our backs.” The shells they carry around provide all the shelter they require. Consequently, tortles don’t feel the need to root themselves in one place for too long. A tortle
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
powerful backs, and some have long patches of hair on their chins and cheeks. Their legs end in heavy, cloven hooves, and they have long, tufted tails.
Creating Your Character
At 1st level, you
, Ooze, Plant, Undead. These types don’t have rules themselves, but some rules in the game affect creatures of certain types in different ways. For example, the cure wounds spell doesn’t work
Species
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
’s superiority proven), the insult is forgotten—along with the vanquished foe.
Pride and Self-Reliance
Few leonin devote themselves to the service of the gods. Centuries ago, the leonin
adversaries—incredibly clever and well-prepared to play a long game but ultimately doomed to lose their games.
4
I’m certain every bad thing that happens can ultimately be blamed on the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
Treaty of Thronehold gave them freedom, but many warforged struggle both to find a place in the post-war world and to relate to the creatures that created them. The typical warforged shows little emotion
. Many warforged embrace a concrete purpose—protecting allies, completing a contract, or other pursuits—and devote themselves to this task as they once did to war. However, there are warforged who
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
; scales. It glows like starlight between their bodies and the spines and horns that hover close to their heads and backs. These horns shift with the dragon’s mood: bristling with anger, lying back
are the most common materials they use in the construction of a lair, crystal and other precious minerals feature prominently in certain areas. In this way, crystal dragons’ hoards literally
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
dragons’ scales. It glows like starlight between their bodies and the spines and horns that hover close to their heads and backs. These horns shift with the dragon’s mood: bristling with
certain areas. In this way, crystal dragons’ hoards literally become the fabric of their homes.
Crystal Dragon Lair Features
The crystal dragon lair shown in map 5.7 is the home of a dragon who
Species
Acquisitions Incorporated
easily portable. It is not unusual to see individual verdan or whole families trooping along the roads of the world with their tents and belongings strapped to their backs.
Even when they are happily
When a verdan character gains an ability score improvement at certain levels, that increase can be tied to a physical mutation at the player’s determination. A boost to Strength might be
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
. Carefully review each “possible” encounter. Step 7. Devote any time you have left to creating improvisational aids. Three-Hour Preparation If you have three hours to prepare, add these steps: Step 8. Skim
each “unlikely” encounter. Step 9. Create a new encounter designed to appeal specifically to one player, or alter an existing encounter to relate to the goals and motivations of that player’s character. Over the course of several sessions, do this for all your players and their characters.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
another hour to prepare, add these steps: Step 6. Carefully review each “possible” encounter. Step 7. Devote any time you have left to creating improvisational aids (see the “Improvising Answers” section in
player, or alter an existing encounter to relate to the goals and motivations of that player’s character. Over the course of several sessions, do this for all your players and their characters.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
. The chapter opens with optional rules meant to help you run certain parts of the game more smoothly. The chapter then goes into greater depth on several topics — encounter building, random encounters
, traps, magic items, and downtime — which largely relate to how you create and stage your adventures. The material in this chapter is meant to make your life easier. Ignore anything you find here that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
difficult to know this for certain, because those who favor her rarely make their inclinations known. Leira is the patron of illusionists and liars. She receives little regular worship except from
prayer before making an important decision when they fear being deceived. Some folk perform a swirling motion with a finger behind their backs when telling a lie as a way of beseeching her for aid. Her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Gauntlgrym. His descriptions of life in Ironmaster confirm much of what I’ve heard of the place, and so what I relate to you now is truth as solid as Moradin’s anvil. The dwarves of Ironmaster don’t want
Ironmaster’s only secret, however. My friend Storn wielded two silvered axes, as befits any devote follower of Clangeddin Silverbeard, but when I returned to him an axe he had thrown in the heat of battle
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
made of stone. Every jar is made for an individual, inscribed with Qualith and artwork that relate the mind flayer’s accomplishments. Often a mind flayer’s funerary brain jar is created long before
knowledge. Different elder brains have different interpretations of what this state consists of and how to achieve it. Elder brains and illithids that devote themselves to Ilsensine sometimes pursue ways
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
exempted certain creatures and objects from its shrinking effect. The spindle itself is unaffected, as is Maddgoth’s homunculus. Faerie dragons are also immune to the shrinking effect, and there might
booming, bear-like roar. Qurrok likes physical challenges. He neither shies away from combat nor backs down from a fight unless his mother, Speleosa, commands him to. FALLING FROM MADDGOTH'S CASTLE
If a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
perpetually clogged with some amount of planar refuse, but sewage rarely backs up enough to flood well-to-do wards. Kuo-toa, troglodytes, and other aquatic folk live in the Drowned Nations, as do land
pour into it. However, after repeatedly passing the same doom-filled messages scrawled onto its walls, travelers often begin to panic. The Loop isn’t beholden to the laws of time or space. At certain
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Akros’s inhabitants, though, aren’t members of its martial elite. The famed warriors of Akros have the means to devote their lives to studying and training in the ways of war because they rest atop a
to have transformed into a pillar of fire and vanished into the wind, but until her death is certain, the lektoi are reluctant to name a new monarch. Anax and Cymede have no children, so the king’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
superiority proven), the insult is forgotten—along with the vanquished foe. Pride and Self-Reliance Few leonin devote themselves to the service of the gods. Centuries ago, the leonin worshiped the same gods
play a long game but ultimately doomed to lose their games.
4 I’m certain every bad thing that happens can ultimately be blamed on the gods, but I roll my eyes at each new twist of fate and try to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3
1. The Vault of Chicomoztoc (Chee-koh-MOZ-tok, the place of seven caves) The poisonous gas is present here, affecting fire and breathing. Relate the following information to the characters gradually
immediately, and spirits of the ancestors animate the creature and it attacks. These beings are constructs, but otherwise function according to the statistics for a certain kind of creature, as noted
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
simply imperceptible to all but one character. They never manifest for the entire group. Haunts may favor appearing for certain characters, perhaps due to Dark Gifts or backgrounds individuals possess
during a long rest, one of them experiences a waking vision that plays out like an ambient haunt. These nightmares gradually reveal details from the “Story Overview.” Relate these specifics to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
Ideals: Logic, greed (“I’m certain we can come to an agreement that all parties will favor. But if not, we have other means of settling the issue.”) Interaction Traits: Polite, mercantile, ruthless
. The Black Network backs any plans that increase the likelihood of defeating the cult. Any and all alliances are fine, as are any outcomes that add to the council’s strategic resources. Rian doesn’t
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
Ideals: Logic, greed (“I’m certain we can come to an agreement that all parties will favor. But if not, we have other means of settling the issue.”) Interaction Traits: Polite, mercantile, ruthless
. The Black Network backs any plans that increase the likelihood of defeating the cult. Any and all alliances are fine, as are any outcomes that add to the council’s strategic resources. Rian doesn’t
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
Ideals: Logic, greed (“I’m certain we can come to an agreement that all parties will favor. But if not, we have other means of settling the issue.”) Interaction Traits: Polite, mercantile, ruthless
. The Black Network backs any plans that increase the likelihood of defeating the cult. Any and all alliances are fine, as are any outcomes that add to the council’s strategic resources. Rian doesn’t
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
seen the earthmote believe it’s actually the petrified heart of the god Ubtao, and they consider it sacred. Priests of Ubtao used to travel here on the backs of flying dinosaurs to seek visions
Thay (where her phylactery is safely stored), to deliver reports to Szass Tam and pick up new instructions. Characters who explore the Heart of Ubtao are certain to meet Valindra. She’s considered the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
somehow weave new souls for her followers, in the way that Moradin forges new spirits for dwarves? Only those entities know for certain.
Ghaunadaur This entity is most often referred to as That Which
birth of gods can never be known for certain. Keptolo Keptolo shows the way. Feed the vanity of your mistress, and all her treasures shall be yours. Be careful whom you offend, and keep an expendable
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
. Monsters and fiends serve it, as do certain secretive cults. The myths of a dualistic religion usually predict that the good deity will triumph in an apocalyptic battle, but the forces of evil believe
rather than from a specific nature deity, some clerics devote themselves to ideals rather than to a god. Paladins might serve a philosophy of justice and chivalry rather than a specific deity. Forces and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
work camp to the castle on their backs and in their canoes. Second, they tend the giant lizards that are used to drag or carry especially heavy loads through the mere. Third, they do most of the
certain, however, Voaraghamanthar and Waervaerendor intend to keep playing it safe, stick close to home, and guard their secret. Voaraghamanthar and Waervaerendor are not a true faction in the mere
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
their backs and in their canoes. Second, they tend the giant lizards that are used to drag or carry especially heavy loads through the mere. Third, they do most of the hunting, fishing, and gathering
solitary dragons. Rezmir is working hard to persuade them that they could gain great power by revealing their secret at the strategically correct moment. Until Tiamat’s return looks more certain, however
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
-Mercykillers can gain entry under certain circumstances, such as to present evidence that might exonerate an inmate or visit a low-risk prisoner. Jailers clash with factions that elevate individual
Fraternity of Order both relate to the Seekers, while the Bleak Cabal and Heralds of Dust oppose them. Society of Sensation Who Find Truth Only in Experience Factol: Erin Darkflame Montgomery
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
dragonmarks that appear on the skin of certain Humanoids on Eberron as manifestations of the Prophecy. These marks reveal nuances of the Prophecy to those who can understand them and lend symbolic weight to
dragons share a common territory and hoard, live under a strict code of discipline, and devote themselves to a common goal. Their most notable feature, though, is their practice of carving arcane sigils of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
. Young stone giants practice tirelessly, hoping to prove themselves worthy of assisting the tribe’s best carvers. A stone giant master carver might devote years to finding the best stone before
delving into Ostorian ruins that have been sealed for millennia. The less obvious one is that certain portents, if confirmed to be true, would indeed bring about the return of Annam, upending the giants
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
blasphemous to aspire to anything higher or lower. 4 Though I can never rise above my clan’s position in the ordning, I can be a leader among my clan. 5 My own kind have turned their backs on me, so I
accept is in the form of livestock and crops, but this isn’t their only source of food. Cloud giants are avid gardeners. Almost all cloud giant strongholds devote space to a garden that produces
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
information it has in exchange for its life. Ahooshathan can relate the following points: Far Realm Rifts. The rift here is one of three leading to different Far Realm locations. The fanatics put a
large enough for a human to recline in. Six hideous, monocular creatures with spines on their backs lounge in pods.
Six nothics who were once mind flayers lair here. Each has a fringe of tentacles
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
their destination on the backs of hippogriffs. If the characters impress upon him the urgency of their mission, Lord Cavilos commands his fellow knights to fly the characters where they need to go, then
. A wooden hangman’s scaffold stands in the center of the marketplace, and on certain nights, when clouds obscure the waning moon, luminous ghosts wander around it, going about the business of the