bad bringing diffusing care relatively

Young Deep Dragon Legacy

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

skin, especially around the head and neck. Their wings are attached to their front legs and can fold in close to the body, allowing deep dragons to easily maneuver through relatively narrow tunnels

things in life by bringing me delicacies like clams or aboleth flesh. 6 I might be willing to exert myself to take out a mind flayer. Those disgusting creatures must be stopped. 7 I dream of

Topaz Dragon Wyrmling

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

than my own, for no one else can compete with me. 2 If my offspring can’t care for themselves, I’m not sure they’re worthy of my attention. 3 The sea is beautiful and I

Creatures 1 Moved by pity, a giant eagle continues bringing food to an abandoned topaz dragon wyrmling, despite the wyrmling’s attempts to eat the eagle. 2 A pseudodragon who is

Urchin Legacy

Backgrounds Player’s Handbook (2014)

I eat like a pig and have bad manners. 6 I think anyone who’s nice to me is hiding evil intent. 7 I don’t like to bathe. 8 I bluntly say what other people are hinting at

or hiding. d6 Ideal 1 Respect. All people, rich or poor, deserve respect. (Good) 2 Community. We have to take care of each other, because no one else is going to do it

Deep Dragon Wyrmling Legacy

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

wings are attached to their front legs and can fold in close to the body, allowing deep dragons to easily maneuver through relatively narrow tunnels. Deep dragons often hoard secrets, delighting in

. 5 While the petty squabbles of other creatures bore and irritate me, I might hear out those who demonstrate an appreciation for the finer things in life by bringing me delicacies like clams or

Hermit - Baldur's Gate

Backgrounds Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus

a frivolous lark. You’ve maintained a solitary vigil outside the cavern entrance ever since. 2 You crossed the Guild in a bad way. Fortunately, its members think you’re dead. Less

a patriar’s scion in an illegal duel. The family swore revenge, and you fled to the slums rather than risk bringing their wrath down on your kin. 6 You aren’t originally from Baldur

Orc Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

for survival in the material world, but to keep Maglubiyet at bay in the conflict on the planes. Her children will remain in her care, and if need be she wouldn’t hesitate to take to the field

diplomacy. They care only for satisfying their insatiable desire for battle, to smash their foes and appease their gods. Booming Birth Rate In order to replenish the casualties of their endless warring

Criminal / Spy Legacy

Backgrounds Basic Rules (2014)

. (Evil) 5 People. I’m loyal to my friends, not to any ideals, and everyone else can take a trip down the Styx for all I care. (Neutral) 6 Redemption. There’s a spark of good in

. 4 I have a “tell” that reveals when I’m lying. 5 I turn tail and run when things look bad. 6 An innocent person is in prison for a crime that I committed. I’m okay with that.

Selesnya Initiate

Backgrounds Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

member you can receive free healing and care at a Selesnya enclave, though you must provide any material components needed for spells. Selesnya Guild Spells Prerequisite: Spellcasting or Pact Magic

conclave has a deeper connection to the Worldsoul than I do. 6 I’m trying to atone for the life of crime I led before I joined the Selesnya, but I find it hard to give up my bad habits

Urchin - Baldur's Gate

Backgrounds Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus

a pig and have bad manners. 6 I think anyone who’s nice to me is hiding evil intent. 7 I don’t like to bathe. 8 I bluntly say what other people are hinting at or hiding

. d6 Ideal 1 Respect. All people, rich or poor, deserve respect. (Good) 2 Community. We have to take care of each other, because no one else is going to do it. (Lawful

Ancient Deep Dragon Legacy

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

attached to their front legs and can fold in close to the body, allowing deep dragons to easily maneuver through relatively narrow tunnels. Deep dragons often hoard secrets, delighting in knowledge of

While the petty squabbles of other creatures bore and irritate me, I might hear out those who demonstrate an appreciation for the finer things in life by bringing me delicacies like clams or aboleth

It's Just Business

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

. What better way to think of the big bad monster at the center of a web of even bigger and badder plans than as the CEO of a megacorporation, using every resource to dominate the market? What is an

these hired helpers to prominence for their importance to the campaign story. And, of course, for comic effect. When the characters are relatively low level, an Acquisitions Incorporated style of play can

Adult Deep Dragon Legacy

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

attached to their front legs and can fold in close to the body, allowing deep dragons to easily maneuver through relatively narrow tunnels. Deep dragons often hoard secrets, delighting in knowledge

While the petty squabbles of other creatures bore and irritate me, I might hear out those who demonstrate an appreciation for the finer things in life by bringing me delicacies like clams or aboleth

Urban Bounty Hunter

Backgrounds Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide

take a trip down the Styx for all I care. (Neutral) 6 Redemption. There’s a spark of good in everyone. (Good) d6 Bond 1 I’m trying to pay off an old debt I owe

things look bad. 6 An innocent person is in prison for a crime that I committed. I’m okay with that.

Vladeska's Powers and Dominion

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

, the Talons are terrifying. Their numbers are relatively few, but they’re organized enough to oppress Lekar’s ragged survivors and enforce Drakov’s totalitarian laws. In the face of zombie hordes

executions serve the greater good and impose necessary order, but make it clear that zombies aren’t the realm’s only monsters. Only Bad Decisions. There is one simple truth in Falkovnia: the dead are

Criminal - Baldur's Gate

Backgrounds Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus

everyone else can take a trip down the Styx for all I care. (Neutral) 6 Redemption. There’s a spark of good in everyone. (Good) d6 Bond 1 I’m trying to pay off an

tail and run when things look bad. 6 An innocent person is in prison for a crime that I committed. I’m okay with that.

Hermit

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus

where to go in the Lower City and Outer City for anonymity. In these slums and alley camps, you can get a damp bed and a bad meal, but also a degree of privacy and no questions asked. Living here

. 2 You crossed the Guild in a bad way. Fortunately, its members think you’re dead. Less fortunately, maintaining that deception might require you to stay in hiding until you actually are. 3

Hermit

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer

where to go in the Lower City and Outer City for anonymity. In these slums and alley camps, you can get a damp bed and a bad meal, but also a degree of privacy and no questions asked. Living here

crossed the Guild in a bad way. Fortunately, its members think you’re dead. Less fortunately, maintaining that deception might require you to stay in hiding until you actually are. 3 You study the

Bring It to an End

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide

. 3 The actions of the adventurers or a villain result in a cataclysmic event that the adventurers must escape. 4 The adventurers race to the site where a villain is bringing a master plan to its

whether to pursue a fleeing villain or save an NPC they care about or a group of innocents. 10 Just when the characters think the main threat is defeated, it transforms into a different monster or a more powerful form.

The Hunt for Food

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder

The Hunt for Food Chief Guh has driven away all the other female hill giants in her clan and taken their husbands as her own. She tasks her many husbands with bringing her food, and she doesn’t care

Keranos's Champions

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros

prophecy, or bringing vengeance down on the storm god’s enemies. He uses his champions as agents of change to bring about a great epiphany, as instruments of vengeance against those he feels have wronged

prophecies, potentially drawing in secrets of the other gods or of reality itself. It is relatively easy for a mortal to lose Keranos’s favor because the god is quick to anger and doesn’t suffer failure

Lords' Alliance

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)

cold and rain, waiting for battle while hunger gnaws at their bellies? Many wish to reap the rewards of a good harvest, but few care to remove the stones and till the fields for planting. “The Lords

’ Alliance fights the things that the shopkeeper in his bed has never even heard of. We remove threats before the town mayor even knows about it. We make bad things go away. That’s what we’re good at.” Rameel Jos

Fensirs

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

resemble relatively small frost or stone giants. They use armor and weapons similar to what other combatants on Ysgard use in the eternal battle. The transformation that created fensirs left them with an

odd quirk to their regenerative powers: their regeneration doesn’t function in sunlight, and in fact, sunlight can turn these creatures to stone. Bringing trolls to a place where nothing ever truly dies

Devilish Work Crew

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus

Krikendolt into their care if they offer the right price. Krikendolt knows Avernus well, so he makes a good traveling companion and guide. The characters can cure Krikendolt of his disorder using a

takes the group to the Tower of Urm. Abyssal Chicken Tiny fiend (demon), chaotic evil Armor Class 13 (natural armor) Hit Points 10 (3d4 + 3) Speed 30 ft., fly 30 ft. (see Bad Flier below

Protanther

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat

Protanther Male Gold Dragon Protanther is the leader of the council. A former King of Justice — a royal title among the gold dragons — he does not care for humanoids, particularly humans and elves

. Though he sees both good and bad in the lesser races, he believes that their capacity for attaining great power despite their physical limitations makes them dangerous. For all their capability

Protanther

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons

Protanther Male Gold Dragon Protanther is the leader of the council. A former King of Justice—a royal title among the gold dragons—he does not care for humanoids, particularly humans and elves

. Though he sees both good and bad in the lesser races, he believes that their capacity for attaining great power despite their physical limitations makes them dangerous. For all their capability, humanoids

Failed Merchant

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

Failed Merchant Maybe you come from a long line of merchants. Perhaps you were an entrepreneur. Regardless, your ventures ended poorly. Whether it was because of outside influences, bad luck, or

venture involves earning enough to take care of their family. 4 If I take care of my possessions, they’ll take care of me. People come and go, but a weapon or a wand is something you can always rely

Dao

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)

of Earth. These mazeworks are continually expanding as the dao delve into and reshape the rock around them. Dao care nothing for the poverty or misfortune of others. A dao might grind powdered gems

confines of magic gemstones or iron flasks. Unfortunately for the dao, their greed makes it relatively easy for mages to cozen them into service. Dao Large elemental, neutral evil Armor Class 18 (natural

Aberrant Dragonmarks

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron

carries it might have severely burned or even killed a loved one. Imagine having the power to cast charm person but being unable to control it and having people you care about suddenly becoming slavishly

persecution of innocents; but most feared the aberrants and stood by as the houses hunted them down. Ever since the War of the Mark, aberrant dragonmarks have been few in number and relatively week

Arrival at Korth

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fated Flight of the Recluse

it to the dock. As the crew finishes securing the ship, a nearby cargo lift activates, bringing a platform up to the ship’s dock level. On the platform are a human and four warforged. Hints of a

. Baron Zorlan doesn’t care who receives payment; as long as he takes delivery of the cargo, he is content to leave his payment on the dock for whomever wants to fight over it. In fact, he takes an

District Garrison

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh

realize what the party is up to, they immediately suspect the characters are out to make them look bad. In that case, they become surly and tight-lipped. All the militia guards have been assured by

superiors and fellow guards, and she doesn’t need any more trouble in that area. If she’s reassured that the characters aren’t trying to make the militia look bad, Jute gives a frank account of her

White Plume Mountain

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a4

, and discovered the system of old lava-tubes that riddle the cone and the underlying strata. With a little alteration, he thought, these would be perfect for his purposes. The area already had a bad

Underneath inverted ziggurat. That garnered, think not that you’re done For now you’ll find you are caught I care not, former owners brave What heroes you seek to hire. Though mighty, I’ll make each

Horror Characteristics

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

beyond the mysteries of death, the world, or the Mists. 11 Sanctuary. I know the forces at work in the world and strive to create islands apart from them. 12 Truth. I care about the truth

. 10 Spirits are drawn to me. I do all I can to help them find peace. 11 I use my cunning mind to solve mysteries and find justice for those who’ve been wronged. 12 I lost someone I care

Adventures

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

characters take the Darklord’s situation from bad to worse, whether as fanatical supporters or tragic victims? Write down three types of characters who are aligned with the Darklord and three who

innocents. 6 The Darklord possesses the body of someone the adventurers care about. 7 The Darklord possesses the body of one of the adventurers. 8 The Darklord invites the adventurers to a negotiation, promising nonviolent solutions to a conflict.

Townmaster's Plight

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

following snippets of conversation from the crowd: A halfling woman complains, “I thought the Redbrands were bad, but at least they never smashed the bar. Who does that?” A human miner shouts, “The

inside. Harbin is frazzled, with flushed cheeks and dark bags heavy beneath his eyes. Harbin tells the characters the following: “I understand that they’re angry, but do they expect me to take care

Part 1: Goblin Arrows

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver

arrive early to “take care of business.” You’ve spent the last few days following the High Road south from Neverwinter, and you’ve just recently veered east along the Triboar Trail. You’ve

how their characters are traveling. Who’s in front, and who’s bringing up the rear? If the characters are escorting Gundren’s wagonload of supplies, then one or two characters need to be driving the

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