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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
Species
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Memories table to inspire its details.
Lost Memories
d6
Memory
1
You recall a physically painful moment. What mark or scar on your body does it relate to?
2
A memory brings
itchy straw stuffing inside you.
Reborn in the Domains of Dread
When creating a reborn, consult with your DM to see if it’s appropriate to tie your origins to one of the following Domains
Species
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Distant kin of giant owls from the Feywild, owlin come in many shapes and sizes, from petite and fluffy to wide-winged and majestic. Owlin have arms and legs like other Humanoids, as well as wings
, consult the Random Height and Weight table in the Player’s Handbook, and choose the row in the table that best represents the build you imagine for your character.
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
height or weight randomly, consult the Random Height and Weight table in the Player’s Handbook, and choose the row in the table that best represents the build you imagine for your character.
Tortle
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Species
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
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
.
2
A Boros soldier gives me gifts in exchange for information about other clans’ movements.
3
I once caught and released a Dimir spy.
4
I consult with a Golgari shaman for
joined the Cult of Rakdos.
9
A distant relative is trying to recruit me into the Selesnya Conclave.
10
I stopped a Simic biomancer from trapping wild beasts to perform vile experiments on them.
Species
Acquisitions Incorporated
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Reality is a descent into chaos punctuated by brief flashes of order, whence we arose and so imagine it to be the norm rather than a distant outlier. That-Which-Endures held entropy back for a mere instant
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
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Distant cousins of giants, the first firbolgs wandered the primeval forests of the multiverse, and the magic of those forests entwined itself with the firbolgs’ souls. Centuries later, that
determine your character’s height or weight randomly, consult the Random Height and Weight table in the Player’s Handbook, and choose the row in the table that best represents the build you imagine for your character.
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
The saurian lizardfolk are thought by some sages to be distant cousins of dragonborn and kobolds. Despite their resemblance to those other scaled folk, however, lizardfolk are their own people and
character’s height or weight randomly, consult the Random Height and Weight table in the Player’s Handbook, and choose the row in the table that best represents the build you imagine for your character.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Further Suspicions Use the Magister’s Masquerade as an opportunity to heighten the characters’ suspicions about Dean Tullus. After her welcome announcement, Dean Tullus grows distant. In the course
Tullus moves through the crowd, letting her hand drift across the backs of those she passes. The dean faces a bookshelf and momentarily examines something she’s holding. Green light from an unseen source
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
. “I’ve a mind to know about the rumblings and rumors about goings-on in the depths outside my city. If ye relate to me what ye know, we can talk about what ye might want to do next.”
King Bruenor
answers questions from the characters if they have any. However, if asked about his overall plans, he says simply that he must consider all the information presented to him and consult with advisors
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
History and Myth When storytellers relate the history of Theros, they always speak in the most general terms. An event of just ten years past happened “many years ago,” and the founding of Meletis in
the distant past happened “many, many years ago.” In Theros, history transforms into myth more quickly than it does in other worlds, becoming generalized, vague, and moralistic. And because the gods
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
of fog, you see a white fortress on a hill above a great city. The city appears quite distant, maybe a mile away. The fog obscures all detail, but you can hear what sounds like the echo of a church
this part of the wall of fog, that person might relate an ancient legend about it. According to the mountain folk of Barovia, there was always a wall of mist near Yester Hill, even before the deadly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Scholarly Missions Decide as a group, in consultation with your DM, what kind of work your group does for the university. Consult the Scholarly Missions table to determine what sort of adventures you
mechanical engineering, it was just the beginning of new scientific fields you now explore. 6 Exploration. Khorvaire is a vast continent, and areas beyond the heartland of the Five Nations are poorly charted. Your focus is on understanding the wilder places of the world, as well as distant cultures.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
the siege with zombies approaching Lekar’s walls. The characters might pick off distant zombies or enact plans to destroy dozens at a time. The characters’ strategies are likely successful, but the
horde soon begins overwhelming defenses nearby. Once the characters defeat a few zombies, roll 1d6 and consult the Zombie Siege Encounters table. The event rolled unfolds within sight of one of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
options in the Player’s Handbook and are more rare in the worlds of D&D than the races in that book are. If you’re a player, consult with your DM before using any of the races here. Many DMs like to
are curious cat folk, who have journeyed from their distant homeland in search of interesting treasures and lore. Tritons are guardians of the ocean depths, who sometimes join people on land in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
left to you to choose, depending on the story you want to tell. Consult the Secrets of Phenax table, which presents several options for what divine secret Varyas’s eidolon might relate. The veracity
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
temple. Ursas is aware that Lynx has knowledge of other missing components that might relate to the Tomb of Horrors. Mechanical Guide Sir Ursas offers the characters the services of a magical construct
travels with the characters, and can magically teleport them to either the Temple of Moloch or the Tomb of Horrors, transporting the party to either location in the distant past.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
, Tavick’s Landing offers a host of opportunities to enjoy food and entertainment from distant lands. Or you might find yourself here for one of a few specific reasons, such as: Take a chance. The
you can participate in the Sacrament of the Blood or consult with a priest. It’s also the best place to find a skilled necromancer, or to hear rumors about the latest schemes of the Order of the Emerald Claw.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
where they want to go. Most portals exist in distant locations, and a portal’s location often has thematic similarities to the plane it leads to. For example, a portal to Mount Celestia might be
into further adventures as they chase down a key item, scour old libraries for commands, or consult sages to find the right time to visit the portal.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
deceive since childhood. You’ve been involved in dozens of schemes and feuds, and you’re likely still tied up in a few of them (consult the Zil Schemes table). Even if you have a good heart and noble
controlling stake in a distant dragonshard mine, but the mine was abandoned centuries ago due to “problems.” Kobolds? Aberrations? There’s only one way to find out.
9 Your family is facing
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
points along its mind-bending circumference, imprisoned creatures might spot their own backs or torchlight in the distance. Rarely, through determination or sheer luck, creatures do escape the Loop
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
tomb. Lynx is aware that Sir Ursas has knowledge of other missing components that might relate to an ancient Temple of Moloch. Mechanical Guide Lynx has pulled a component from her version of the
Guides” section below for information on Eludecia’s statistics. The construct travels with the characters, and can magically teleport them to either the Tomb of Horrors or the Temple of Moloch, transporting the party to either location in the distant past.
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
abundance of adamantine among the Ironmaster dwarves and of my friend’s innocence about the wider world. Apparently, the dragon-worshiping humans of the distant island of Tuern have long given raw
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
islands so distant, characters won’t be able to reach the Morkoth on the backs of griffons, hippogriffs, or similar creatures, since the mounts have nowhere to land and rest when they tire. Dragons don’t
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
troves of both knowledge and wealth. Cullen Cole Elemental airships aid archaeological expeditions to distant lands Journeys to Xen’drik A voyage from Sharn to Stormreach—the most accessible
of House Phiarlan suggest a connection between the ancestors of that house and Bazek Mohl, leading scholars to believe that the Mark of Shadow might relate to the shadow magic of this place. Mel-Aqat
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
Blue Bear scouts and 1 Uthgardt shaman (see appendix C) bearing news from other Blue Bear clans 91–95 1 stone giant carrying a sack of nonmagical, human-sized weapons and armor collected from a distant
. For every hour that passes during the characters’ exploration, there is a chance that other creatures pay a visit to Deadstone Cleft. At the end of each hour, roll d100 and consult the Deadstone Cleft
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
a portal that leads where they want to go. Most portals exist in distant locations, and a portal’s location often has thematic similarities to the plane it leads to. For example, a portal to the
overwhelming number of such item-keyed portals. Learning and meeting a portal’s requirements can draw characters into further adventures as they chase down a key item, scour old libraries for command words, or consult sages to find the right time to visit the portal.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
the mural, three wizards wearing curious hats flee toward a distant series of caves. An inscription below the painting is accompanied by a rough map.
The inscription reads: “Here the dragon returns
correctly requires a successful DC 14 Wisdom (Survival) check. If a Bedine is present to consult, the check succeeds automatically.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
space on one of the last merchant carts out. They took what they could fit on their backs, and they left their other possessions behind and hid their valuables in order to return and claim them later
after their arrival in Maerin and passed away three weeks later. The children remained there for a time before being sent off to the care of distant relatives. Mayor Duvezin was determined to find the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
audience with Manistrad can find her here when she’s not working at the mine. She sometimes has need for adventurers to help keep the mining operation secure. Roll a d6 and consult the table below to
; otherwise, several dwarf clerks work here during the day, logging deliveries at the docks to be transported to the mine and arranging for the processed ore to be loaded on trade ships bound for distant ports
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
inside the wall of ice and partially within some distant, horrific demiplane. As this otherworldly entity peers into the cavern, visitors risk losing their sanity to its influence. Any creature that
cracks form along its surface, and the alien entity withdraws into its distant demiplane, never to return. As it withdraws, its dominate monster spells end. H32. Mirrored Cavern Every surface of this
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
. Emerald Enclave You don’t need to consult with others in the Emerald Enclave to know that the werewolves are upsetting the natural order. For balance to be restored, they must be eradicated. It seems the
named Kiril. The werewolves come from a distant land called Barovia. The Lords’ Alliance has no information about it. The werewolves worship a deity called Mother Night. The werewolves leave and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
magic items, spellbooks, gear, and the like. Additionally, you can consult with the faculty of your academy as the experts in various fields. Training. Because you’re associated with the academy, you
personal gift. 5 Spectral Fragment. A haunted piece of the academy’s collection compels you to complete its secret research. 6 Distant Observer. A mysterious sponsor encourages your research from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
in search of a meal. Curiosity. This galleon belonged to the mage Mordenkainen, who dispatched it to a distant shore in search of treasure. The ship sank in a mysterious and especially ferocious storm
during the day or night (equal chance of each); roll a d20 again and consult the appropriate table. The Azure Sea table includes entries for several of the most notorious pirate vessels that are